Son*. There U lor# for mo in store In the notes that round mo rinjt; I would give thorn *ll. and mo** Once again to be*, him aing. Gently whispered in mmo oar. Loving words the hour l<*guiie, Cheap 1 hold tliom : thi* won* door, Onoe again to ore him smile. Hmilo for amilo nor oigli for aigh (lave he. though I lovod him well I would bid the world go by Onoe to hear him aay farewell. Chicken*. •'I didn't r any* Chip. •• Too did r say* Poop, " How do you know t—jom wore faal asleep." " I araa under mammy'a wing, Btrotohlng my laga like anything. When all of a auddeu I tamed around. For close beside ma 1 hoard a wound ■ A little tip, and a little tap." " Fiddle-de-dee ' You'd had a nap. And, whan you were only half awake, Heard an icicle somewhere break." •• What'a an icicle ?" *' I don't know ; Booster telle about ice and anow, Something that lan't aa good aa mea<, That drop* down on you and makaa you squeal." " Well ! a wallow Rooster's (also, I beg '■ And think you didn't ooina out of au egg ! I Udl you I heard the old shell break. And the first small noise you ever could make ; And mammy orvxvtled, and puffed her hreast, Aud pushed us further out of the uset. Just to make room enough for you ; And there's your shall - I say it's true Chip looked over his shoulder then, And there It lay by the ok! gray hen Half an sgg-ehaU. ctupped and brown. And ha wae a ball of yellow down. Clean and chipper, and smart and spry. With the pertast hill and the hlackest eye. " H'u !'* said ha with a Utile perk. " That is a wonderful piece of work ' Peep, von silly ! dont TOO eee That shall isn't nearly aa tog as uie? Whatever you say. miss, I declare 1 never, never, never could get in there !" " You did !" aaya Peep. " 1 dslu't 1" says Chip With that he gave her a horrid nip, ADd Peep hegau to dance and pack, And Chip stuck cut his wings and neck. They pranced, and struck, sud oapered about. Their Ices turned In and their wings spread out. A* augTT as two small chick* could be, Tul Mother Dorking turned to see. Khe cackled and clucked, and called in vaiu At it thay went with aught aud aiam Tlli, al last, lha old hen used her beak. And Peep and Chip, with mauy a squeak. Staggered off ou either aids With a vary funny skip sad atr.de. ** What dreadful uonaause "' said Mother Hen, When aha heard the story told again ; " You're bad as the two-leg* that don't have wing a. Nor feather* nor combs— the wrelcned Clung* ! That * the way they tight and talk Fee what ian l worth a mullein stalk. What does it matter, I'd like to know. Where you came from, or where yon go ? Keep your temper aud earn your food ; I can't scratch worms for a fighting brood. I won't have quarrels —I will have peace: I hatched cat chickans, ao don e be geeee "' Chip scratched his ear with his yellow claw, The meekest chicken that ever you saw ; And l'sep in her feathers curled one leg. And said to herself—"But he was an egg !" —Host Terry Cool*, in AS. .YicAoul*. A DRAMATIC STORY. The .Vfaaaer la WhicS aa lajared Man dented Ac-ream* wit* the lleasermdaea. A gentleman who has lately returned from a visit to Dallas, Texas, tells a story which is rather dramatic and may be true. The story was told to him by an old hunter, who had become domesticat ed and was lounging about one of the Dallas hotels. " I could tell you a good many queer stories, stranger," said the old fellow, in conversation with the gentleman, "but I don't know of anv that 'ml be more likely to kind <>* strike you than au ex perience of Stun L"ng's in Harrison county, years ago. Texas wuz a tough place then; yon kin bet on tliat!" And then the old fellow told the story, which can scarcely be as graphic in print aa in his terse idiom: Years ago Harrison county, in Texas, was the haunt of about as desperate a gang of ruffians as ever infested any dis trict west of the Miw-iaxippi. Their "nnin ber was so great and their organization so complete that they set the but haif administered law at defiance, carrying on. a career of during crime with impuni ty and making the region an undesirable place of abode for ail honest citizens. Ostensibly hunters or horse traders, the desperadoes mads stock stealing their chief occupation, never hesitating to commit a murder when necessary for their safety or for the execution of any of their rascally plans. The controlling spirit in this desperate organization aas a giant named 4>iok Keddett, who, from his exceptional ferocity and daring, ex ercised almost despotic control over his followers. A special pride of this man was in his extraordinary skill in the use of the rifle, no one of the hand lieing able to compete with him in what was at that time considered the chief accom plishment of a Western mau. It was a favorite practice with the band to congregate at some one of the few small stores scattered through the country and there engage in shooting matches, and it wus u|K>n one of these occasions that Sam Long, the banter al • ready mentioned, chanced to be present. Long was a quiet, modest fellow who lived with his wile and child in a small cabin in the neighborhood and who made hunting his constant occupation. He never appeared at the store save to ex change skins and furs for provisions or ammunition, and was widely and favor ably known for his sobriety and honesty. Upon the occasion jnst referred to wbeu Sam Long chanced to come while the desperadoes were engaged in oneof their shooting matches, it was demanded that he should take a part in the sport The hunter hesitated at first but finally, not wishing to incur the ill-will of the ruffi ans, consented, His skill with the rifle was known to be some-thing remarkable, and the desperadoes were not greatly surprised when he defeated them all save the captain of the band. This man hail not engaged in the sport, hat when Long nad vanquished all tne others he came forward with the assurance of an easy vic tory. The shots were made, and, to the surprise of all, Long gained the day. The rage of the leader of the ruffians knew no bounds at thus being deb ated in presence of his followers, and, although refraining from any violence on the spot, he intimated darkly to the huuter that he would yet " get even with him." Loug paid little attention to the threat, and soon afterward returned to his cabin. At just dusk, some days later, Bam Long having oome in from a long hunt, was lying on the floor of hii cabin and playing with the child, while his wife was getting supper. The wife, busy with her cooking, asked Long to go to an adjacent spring and bring some wa ter, a request which he promptly com plied with, leaving his gun ia the house, a somewhat unusual course with him. He had reached the spring and was just stooping to fill the pail he carried, when he was borne down by an attack from behind, bound securely and dragged some yards into the woods. When he recognised his assailants he knew what to expect He had fallen into the hands of the Beddett gang, and the leader was about to "get even." Long was stripped and bound to a tree by order of the captain. A supply of hickory switches was obtained, and then the cap tain took one of them up and began the whipping, announcing, with an oath, that no man oould beat him or his men at shooting and stay in the oountry. The sufferings of the victim were terrible. The flesh was cut from his back in strips FHED. KURTZ, Kditor and Proprietor. VOL. VIII. by the blown, and when tho leader of the ruffian* hud gratified hin rage, otliern of the iiatid continued the punishment. Hut one man tunoug tlie Dumlwr nbowrtxl any tuorey aud hi* assertion* that Loug luul b*x>n punished enough were re wired with dcrimen. Finally the hun ter fainted under the miu. and the rnf flaiia, having satisfied their grudge, de puted, leaving the object of their spite still bound to the tree, lu tin* noaitiou he was found by hi* wife, who tiad be come alarmed for hi* safety and who, searching for hitn, had Iwvti attracted to the spot by a faint moaning. She a* MsUsl hun to roach the cabin, which he diil with difficulty, and then nurned liuu faitlifullv to recovery. It wra* week* l>efore lie was well enough to move about. Scarcely had Loug recovered from hi* wounds when his cabin was found do serted, and member* of tho K-xldett Iwuid, thinking lliut ho had tied tho country. Insisted opoiily of what Uioy had douo. At tho same time, thoy be came ladder than over iuthe commission of crime, always huutuig or travoling lo geth.-r iu a company of MAween tweuty and thirty, and defying attack from any quarter. One day, as they worn en gaged on a hunt, a member of tho band became sejvamte.l from U e rest m the excitement of Uie chase. He was found, lvitig dend, shot in the left eye. A few day* later, one of the ruffian*, riding alone, was killed. Again the bullet was found to have entered the left eye. but uo trace of Uie slayer could be discov ered. A week or two |*utaod, and an other of the desperadoes was shot, the fumie terrible accuracy L iug exhibited iu a sliot in the left eye, proving all the allot* to lie from the same source. The roblwrs txvame alarmed and kept always together in their raids, but there was uo escaping the death which seemed always to be lurking near them. One after an other fell, until ten* men had died, each one pierced in the eye. The wo-xls were scoured by the terrified men in vain. On oue occasion, when a member of the I land was killed, the shot had been heard, and once a gaunt figure was seen run ning through the woods, but pursuit failed to overtake him. Accustomed to face danger as the desperadoes were, and possessed as they were of a brutal courage, they trembled before this mys terious danger. It could uot bo faced, and it could not be averted. The result was that some of the band deserted and tied tin- region. There re mained only the captain and four of the more r solute of his followers. These five hunted and made their raids to t gether, and for some time esoqxai harm. It chanced that among the five was the man who had endeavored to xave Long at the time of the shipping from so severe a torture. This man one morn ing ventured out in the woods without his commies. He was walking slowly along, looking for game, when the hrowu barrel of a nfie projecting from a bush beside him checked his course. A tall, lank figure rose from the bush, and the startled man recognized Sam Long, the hunter. Long raised the rifle, then low ered it " You're the man who said a good word for me, an' von may go, bad a* you are. I won't take your miserable life. Go!" The man needed no second invitation to go. He hurried to the ou%p and told his story. The captain and the other three men started out in pursuit of Long, and but two men accompanied Dick Reddett when he returned ! The third man had fallen, shot tu the ere, and no search of the underbrush revealed the hunter. The next day another man was killed in camp, and again the hunter escaped. On the next day the two re maining men fled the country, leaving the fleroe Reddett alone. The leader of the desperadoes dared not remain where he was. He knew he was the man whom Long sought aUve ail other*. Concealing himself until night, he mounted h s horse and fled for the near est point on the Arkansas river when* it would lie possible to take passage on a steainlioat. Two days later he reached a small landing in the woods on the banks of the river, where the *t<-auier stopped for |>asengers, when there were any to take. He learned from the ooou |ut in the distance. She would round a |x.int in a moment or two, anl lie waited ex pectantly. As suddenly as though risen from the ground, a lank flgurc stood Ixv fore him and the muzzle of a rifle peered in his face. The terrified des|H-rr.ito lyal no difficulty in recognizing the man as the one lie hail injured. With the rifle still held steadily upon the face of the startled Reddett, Long hissed ont: " I've got you ! You whipped me ! Whipped me like s dog! I swore I'd kill you liefore I call myself a man again, and I'm goin' to do it ! I've cb-aned out your band, and now it's your turn ! Oh I've got you I Thank God, I've got you!' The ruffian in abject fear pleaded for his life, groveling at the feet of the hnu er. He clung to his words as a drown ing mau clings to straws. The boat was very Dear. Should she round the point in time he would le saved ! Already her smoke stacks showed through the brush, when the hunger pressed the trigger, the sharp report rang out, and Reddett fell dead, shot to the brain through the left eye. Ixuig slipped away in the woods, and when the boat stopped , in response to the signal, they found a dead man, but no one eise. Harrison county was rid forever of the worst gang . of ruffians in the Southwest. " An' that, stranger," said the old man in the Dallas hotel, "is a true story of the way Ham Long settled accounts with the blackguards." On the Beach. A l>eautiful young lady was walking arm in arm with a young man an evening or two ago, into whose? eyes she would sweetly smile. " It's a lovely evening," said the fair one. " Yes," replied her attendant.. They were silent and walked on. " It was a lovely evening yesterday," said the beautiful girl as the came round again. " Yes," meekly answered the young man, evidently at a loss what to say. They caine around a third time, and it was his turn now. "I hope it will be a lovely evening to morrow," said he. " So do I," said she. The eavesdropper arose, looked off on the water, from which the tints of the setting sun bad not yet gone, aud won dered whether all beautiful women were like this one. ALL LOST.—A flock of one thousand two hundred sheep were destroyed through a strange accident recently, near the Ban Jose mission, California. The flock were passing along the edge of a steep precipice when the leader lost his footing and fell over the declivity. The rest of the sheep, possibly suppos ing this was in the usual wav of busi ness, jumped one by one after their leader and were killed 011 the rocks below. THE CENTRE REPORTER.. IIOKKOItS OF A TEXAS PRISON'. I'atl. Kmsr 'a Merer!— The PwaUSwiral. ml ihr Midair |H IwlulfJ—Tfcr Well. Inn t'rll KM* Ikr " llwrae." About a year ago, say* a Washington dispatch, a }>erumptory order was issued by Chief Clerk Crosby, acting secretary .if war, for the iiuiueiliate removal of one hundred and sixteen military prisoner* from the State penitentiary at Hunt* rille, Texa*, to Fort LMVenwurth. Fx pueurm of the management of the Texas penitentiary gave rise to a report that this removal was caused by cruel and liarharoun treatment of convicts at that place. Inquiry at the war department lias confirmed that rejiort. Last year, in April, an inspection of the peni tentiary was made by Capt. 0. D. Emoty, acting jmlge advocate on (leu. Augur's staff. He found the ventilatiou of the cells very tunl, anil tlie food insuffi cient in quantity and deticieut in variety. The moat striking part of hi* report relate* to the punishments resorted to for enforcing obedience. Three of them are described at length—the dark cell, the "stocks," and the "horse." The darT cell is a low, dark, oven like iu cloanre, barely high enough to allow the convict to sit erect on the door, and with no opening for light or air except the grated floor. The " stocks" are made by cutting three holes in a lioard, stand ing ou its edge, and fastened between two Htakea. The central hole receives the neck of the convict, and those on each side his wrists. After tlie man has been placed in tlie stocks, it is customary to raise the tsiard ao as to bring tlie con vict upon his toes, lesviug it so. In raising it it would often lie jerked up with such force as to eudlinger the prisoner's neck. Convicts were often left in the stock until they became in sensible. The " horse " surpassed the others, and was comparatively a now in vention. It was introduced about uin months before Oapt. Emory's visit. It consists of a post six or eight feet high. About four feet from the ground there was driven into it a |eir of iron or wood ; an inch iu diameter and a foot or two long. Refractory oouvicts were placed astride of tins peg with their back* to ward the post. Their hands were tied Iwhind them to the jsist and their feet the same, so that they could not change their position or obtain any relief what ever. The effects of this punishment were horrible. Cant Emory examined one man who luul been permanently ruptured while "riding theliorae, and others who were suffering acute disease produced by the same cause. More than six hundred of the >nvict were employed by railroad contractors and on plantations belonging to the les sees of the penitentiary and other* at the time of Capt. Emory's visit. Their treatment was generally cruel. They were overworked, and if they either died witlnn a few mouths or broke down their places had to lie tilled by fresh gang*. They were insufficiently clad, and were obliged to work at shoveling in the winL-r, sometime* with only one *hoe, sometimes with no shoes at all. Their food was cooked in Houston and transports! to them in open cars, and much of it was spoiled Iw/ore it reached them. Finally they were punished by means of the "horse" and by whipping. Convicts who bad returned from two or three mouth* of service on the rail road were examined by Capt- Emory, and their condition found to l>e horrible. It is not tit to l>e described. Hut ant doubt a* to the inhnmauity of their treatment would lie dispelled by an ex animation of tlie mortality record*. These show tliat twenty-eight death* oc curred in the institution within nine months prior to Capt. Emory's visit. In twanty-Uinw case* the disease of which tney died wa* contract-si whi'e tliey were at work on the railmgda No record of ttio*e who died in the railroad camps were moeessible. The leasees of the institution were Ward, Dewey A Go., ami they were re sponsible for this horrible cruelty. The penitentiary was leased before the pres ent State administration came into power, and one of the leesse* was tlie ' collector of custom* of the port of Gal vet,ton. When the order for the removal of the military prisoners wa* issued, efforts were made to iliduom the war de jwirtiueiit to onuiibrmjiud its orders. The United States military prisoners were, however, nt onco removed to a place where thev ore treated with some degree of humanity. In spite of the rebuke thus given to the lease, *, there i* rovwu to believe that the management of the jienitetitinry has not yet l>een reformed, and at lea-t a thousand convicts there are still habitually subjected to the cruelties described. He Farmed It. He was A stogy-looking man. one eye swelled shut, one finger Iwdly bitten, coat torn down the back, hat gone, and his good eye having a wild look. He was a farmer, and he had come in with some produce, sold it for cash down, and sold his cash for whisky. 'Found in au alley,ugly drunk,"said the court. " Well, I feel mean enough a out it, rerlie ! the prisoner. " Wanted to have a good time, eh i" "Yes." " And I guess yon had one! Yon look pretty, you do, Mr. Itarnls)! You look nice to go borne to your wife and children." " I mad a fool of myself." " And I'm glad to hear yon own the corn. You were as ugly as a Malay when the police brought yon in, but as you are all banged up, re|enU'ut and forty dollars out of pocket, I'm going to let yon go home." " Much obliged." •• Is yonr wife an innooent minded woman, Mr. R*ml>o? That is, docs she always believe everything you say ?" " Yes, sir, most always." " Well, now, when yon reach home yon tell Iter that you were down to the "ferry dock to sec the little steamers can ter lawk and forth over the foaming bil lows, when four tugs and a propeller ran into yonr bows and almost stove you to pieces." " Yes, sir, I will." " And she'll believe it t" "She will." " Well, go out. Put l>eef on your eye, salve on your finger, run your faoe for a hat, and when you come to Detroit again see if you can't keep from making a fool of yourself."— JFtrmt Free Prttni. Anls Recognizing their Relative*. Huber, the younger, one day, took an ant*' nest to populate one of those glass contrivances which he used for making his observations, and which consisted of a sort of glass bell placed over tlie nest. He set at liberty one part of the ants, which fixed themselves at the foot of a neighboring chestnut tree. The rest were kept during four months in the apparatus, and at the end of this Hubcr moved the whole into the garden, and a few ants managed to esca]>e. Having met their obi companions, who still lived at the foot of the chestnut tree, they recognized them. They were seen in fact, all of them, to gesticulate, to caress each other mutually with their antenna?, to tuke each other by the man dibles, as if to embrace in token of joy, and they re-entered together the nest at the foot of the chestnut tree. Very soon they came in a crowd to look for the other ants under the bell, and in a few hours our observer's apparatus was completely evacuated by the prisouera. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., l'A., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER -J, 1875. About Patent Medicines. The A i/iern-rtn Affrtrutturiat is doing gixst work in exposing the hunibitg* offered to the (leople ill various guises. In a late nutidior it says: Our objection* to isiUnit medicines are several, bill first and mainly lieoause they are secret. We object to" taking or giving anything wliaU'ver, the comiiositioii of which is not fully kuown. We would Lot tfuat a dumb animal or a iilant witli an uiikuowii drug, much less a human being. Those medicine* may lie divided Into two clues es : those which (HMIWWB really active pro(erties and have a issutive effect when administered; and those which arc practically inert, or consist of some stimulant or tonic, and act more upon the imagination through the remarkable circulars which accompany tlieni than by virtue of any medicinal agent they con tain. This last class sre the worst swindles, as tliey give a stuff tliat Cost*a mere trifle for a'liigh price, but mauy of Uiem are so nearly nothing that tlie harm they do is more to tlie pocket than to the system. The whole class may lie net dowu as worthies* trash, and ill tlie mam arc agents to draw money from tlie nervous, timid, and credulous, for the lienefit of a few iguonuit pretenders, who, with their flashy diamonds, fast horses, and fast life generally, are a sail blotch upon our civilization. A* to the other class, those medicines which have some potency, we object to these l>c oause tliey are powerful, and tliuso who use them are working in the dark. Mor phine is a useful remedy, but should al ways be given knowing tliat it is mor phine, aud just as ihuig< roua as it is use- | ful. Not one mother in a hundred would apply a solution of morphine to the mouth of her teething babe did she know that it was morphine, but mix it npwith sugar, and call it aomcttody'a " soothing syrup," it is used without a question, aud thousand* of little white gravetdouos all the way from the Atlantic to the Pa cific attest its MO thing power. Certain worm lozenge* were once popular, and their ailvertisemcnt was lnd<-d ••Chil dren Cry for Them," and hundred* of parents who would have been horror strickeu hail their phnueiau* prescribed a dose of calomel, fed their children on these lozenge*. The writer, at a public lecture, exhibited tlie quantity of calo mel he had separated from a I*>X of thivx- lozenges, aiid ha.l tlie satl*fa*tion of rhtx'king their sale iu that city. Now while we do not deny tliat in some cases these remedies may be useful, we em phatically and wholly object to them ou account of tlivir wvsrecy. They may be hurtful, and are always needle**. \S hen we say poedlesw, we mean in the secret form in which they ore put up. Xuue of this active class of secret nnxlicities contain anything of any tnniicinal value tliat is uot toW found at all decent drug stores, or which is not al the command of every one. A Mas*ariui*rttH Horror. Krwlnick i\ Towns, of lVtmlumi, Maw , ft well-to-do farmer, diap|>aared, and bis bmthfr-in law, H. J. Frost, mud that lis had gone to California, and that, though h left quire unexpectedly to hi* friends, be (Frost) had known of hi* in tcntiou* for some Uine ; aim > that To WHO had left hi* property in hi* (Frost's) oare. This story aii* readily believwd ty iwt of the townspeople, though some who hml hrard of a fierce quarrel between Towns ami Frost had suspicions Uiat all wo* not right, and that the missing man wa* th victim of foal play. Tim* mat tern wont along for nearly a mouth. The suspicious elite] tamed against Frost were lulled, except in the miuda of a few, though hi* actions liave been re garded a* singular iu aome respect*. A few days ago, a mighUir baring some business at tliat place weut durirtg the absence of Front to the burn, and seeing the grarel ap|t-ar.-d fresh took a crow bar and pierced the earth aome distance, and on examination a few human hairs ami hit* of clothing were discovered. Keeping the matter quiet, except to one or two tnwtcd partioa, a watch was set upon tha movement* of Frost, a hen he was almost detected iu the act of moving the dissevered portion* of the Ixsly. Thereupon the party surrounded the house, ami the selectmen of the town and Sheriff Bothwrll, of liar re, were sent lor. I'pon the arrival of the au thorities a demand for admittance to the house was made, and Mrs. Frost adj mitted them. T!w> house was searched mid Frost was found hidden behind an old-fashioned loom under the rtsif in the attic. He made no reaiatanoe, hut asked tho prot ction of the officers, as lie feared violence from the people. He was taken to llorre for safe looping. A coroner wiis not tied of the affair. and immediately took mea*ur>e to find the other [tortious of the body, ami to hold an inquest. The upper portion of the trunk of the IMKIY, including the head, arms and chest, was found in n sack buried in a cornfield near where the other sack was buried. The leg* have not lieen found. At the inqucnt Mrs. Frost, wife of the snpjmaed murderer and sister of the murdered man, gave her testimony, which strongly implicated the accused, and he was fully committed to awmt the action of the grand jury. A Vermont paper tells this story: In a Sunday school, on a recent Sunday, a young man—we won't call his name, as ho is unusually modest —mode his ap pearance, probably the first time for years that he hod been in such a place, and was invited by one of the teachers, a deacon, to take a seat with his class. In the course of the lesson the question came up: " Who were the Sodducees I" No one in the class answered it, and finally the teacher turned to our friend and said: "Brother, can't you tell us who the Sadducees were P Well, we suppose no question could lie asked by mortal lips but what the individual re ferred to would have some answer ready. This, however, was a poser, as his ac quaintance with Scripture personages is not very extensive. However, after a moment's thought, he replied: "Idou't exactly know, but so far as I can recol lect they were a hard set of ducks." The good deacon pondered a moment, and then clutching the meaning of the slang phrase, replied: " Y.-s, brother, I be lieve you are right; they were a hard set." Itcscntfng an Injury. Savage nations have curious idea* of revenge. An unintentional wrong pro vokes ang)>r a* readily as a deliberate in jury, ami may incite retaliation. A case of thin Bort happened recently on the iHTrdoro of Assam. Just acroee the fron tier of Aasaui livee a wild tribe of Dow las. They are very suspicions of their English neighbora, and are constantly on the lookout for insult or eiicroach meut. A party of British subject* pass ed the border, partly for an exploring tour and partly for business purposes. Unluckily one of thetu lnul the whooping cough, and communicated the disease to the natives. It spread among them ex tensively, and not a few coses were fatal. They resented the misfortune as a will ful wrong, and would not lie persuaded that it was accidental. Determined on revenge, they mustered a strong war party, and made a raid over the border, inflicting all the injury in their power on individuals and villages under British protection. It is thus possible that a war may come from a case of whooping cough. A Hard Set. THE qi'EEX OF THE GYPNIEH. ( fctlSrea •( Ik* rr*otis gatlieri*! at the gyp*y encampment on the old Cove mail just beyoml the King* county peiutentiary, to attondthc corona tion of the king and queen, who reivutly came from England to be the hauler* of tlie Iribc of wanthtmrs tliat every few years spread their Touts on liolig ishuid. There were, says the New York Aim, ! only two families iu tlie encampment near Brooklyn, but about forty wagons were expected fmm Jamaica, Hempstoad, and Flushing, and from New Jersey, and all of these were to choose their king aud queen. Uriah Wharton, a half- ' breed, lias been king of the trilie for uiany years, but a ohort time ago lie left with his family to go off alone. He is nearly seventy years of age, and lias leeu in this country twenty five year*. He gave up the leadership liecause he was so old, and the gypsy families were to meet tc attend the marriage of their new lung and queen. The husluunla of the families —tlie Bo# wells and the Sparrow* —were off trading horses. Sparrow's wife was in the city tolling fortunes, and Mr*. Bos well was in charge of tlie throng of bright, funny gypsy children who were frolicking around on the gross. Khe *aid tliat Jie was very much disappointed tliat the other fami Ilea luul uot arrived, because tliey were lonely. Young Wharton, a stalwart sou of the former chief, arrived early in the ilay, ; expecting to meet the other families there, but lie supposed that they had leeu kept sway hy the threatening rain. Mrs. Boa well looked every inch a gypsy fortune toller. Hhe wore long Egyptian earring* and other antique jewelry. She said that she had been seven year* iu this country, and had traveled fmm Maine to Georgia, ami around to Illinois and lack. She pointed with pride to her iloughtor Hevira, a beautiful girl, who was making bright eves at the youug men. Hhe wore a coral necklace, with her name on the gold clasp, and on nearly every finger there was a jeweled ring. Her drees was much soiled, but her feet were covered by bright theatrical shoe*. Hhe was full of mischief, aud was trying to make her lovrr, Wharton, jealous. Hhe said that she liked Wharton 1 s-tter than any American sheerer saw. If she married a white man lie must be a splen did, handsome man, with plenty of money, and he must have a large park with a tout in it, for her to live in. " I won't live in a house," said idn-. " I was five years at school at Eppmg lorest, near Loudon, but I loved to be outdoor* more than I did to lx- inside. A nurntwr of gypsy girl* were there with me. I will never go into a city to live, because my mother and my sisters could not live with me. They could not stand it. I have some objections to Wharton ; he doesn't drink, and isrich, but be will play quoits. Them he is, at it now. Why won't he. go into hi* tout and mad - r< *d poetry and nice thing*.' The orgauist of l)r. Egg lesion'* church and his betrothed Lady fneud went up to liave the eX|>ectatit bride'a fortune told. Hevira took her behind the tont and first said that she was very lieentiful ; then she told her of tlie line of life along the center of her luuid, and how few mark* there ware ou it, allowing tliat *lie luul led au easy life. She would le marrn*! MMQ, and to sonic one not far of!. Then the young miws came fmm behind tha tont and blashingly said tliat she had tieen told of sometliing tliat b*rt of I slay and Mollendo, Peru. The move ment wa* headed by Arevala, one of Pierola's officers of the Talisman expe dition. They attacked the town of Inlay and robbed the custom house, getting SSOO or S6OO. After having informed the half awakened donixeiia of tho place that Pierola was iu force at Are pupa, and that the downfall of President Par do was imminent, the adventurous band took up their line of march to Mollendo, the nearest port to the south, and the coast terminus of the Art-quip* railway. By this time the ranks of tlie invaders had been increased, and when they sur prised Mollendo at seven o'clock 111 the morning, they numbered nearly sixty effective men". Taken nuawar.-s. the few goudnrmcs stationed at Mollendo found it imjMissible to offer a combined front to their unwelcome visitors, and after receiving and returning several j musket shots the town f -11 into the hands of the attacking party. Arevalo, however, only delayed long enough to couflscato all the arms and ammunion iu Molleudo, and then oblig.nl the Rtntion master to put uti a special train for Are qnipa. When Arevalo arrived within a few miles of Arequipa ho was met by a small force of iwilice and mounted guards, who speedily ronb-d his follow ers. wounding him and making him prisoner. Arevalo died of his wounds. The country in general oontiune* quiet. The friars of a convent in Arequipa were actively concerned in the revolt. Some forty conspirators were captured in the monastery, and the bishop of tho diooose has been applied to to close the iustitntion. I'ig Iron. The production of pig iron in the United States last year amounted to 2,689,413 tons, as compared with 2,868,- 278 tous in 1878, and 2,864,558 tons in 1872. The following Slates made more iron in 1874 than iu 1873: Maine, Ver mont, Maaeaolinsetts, New York, Vir ginia, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, \\ est Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio and Michigan. The following States mode less iron in 1874 than in 1873: Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Missouri. The greatest increase in 1874 occurred in the miscel laneous bituminous coal aud coke dis trict in Ohio; the greatest decrease iu 1874 took place in Lehigh, Pa. A Novel Case. A French foundling asylum has set up a novel claim lately. One of its prote gee, whose mother was dead anil whose father had abandoned it, inherited a for tune from a relative of the mother. At once the father claimed the custody of the child, the mother's relatives claimed it, and the hospital claimed the right to hold the child and administer the for tune ; bnt the law gave the child to a guardian chosen by the relatives of the mother. A Crusoe Colony. Recent revelations liave exciUsl on in tonse and growing interest in tlie fate of the fifteen or twenty men who, more than a quarter of a oentury ago, chartered tlie scluHJiier Floriud* and set soil for Uie golden shores of California. For twenty six years the families of tlie a.l venturers have mourned them as lost. The last new* of the Florinda was re ceived late in Hie year RMtt, from Kio Janeiro. Hhe lunl pat in at that port some Ume previous, aud then prooeed<*l ou her way, baking badlv, it was said. A vessel toiU'liing At Bio Janeiro shortly afterward reported having spoken tho Floriiula in the Pacific, just beyond Gape Horn. From tliat time forward nothing more was ever heard of the Floriuda, aud it tiecame an accepted theory that she had been cast away and her crew lost aomewhere on the southern Pacific coast. No tidings reached the families of the ill fated argonauts, and twenty six years alip|M*l by without a waif or whisper to disturb the melancholy con viction which lnal sealed the record of their lives. Their cliildreu have grown to manhood aud womanhood with out the knowledge, with scarcely the memory of a father's love. The hopes that clustered around them have long ago been transferred to that other world in which they were believed to lie. Hueh is the storv a* it ha* passed current all this time with the general public and with the greater number of the relatives of the Floriiula company. At first, of course, there were doubts aud fears and expectations, mure or loss reluctantly resigned for certainty, but to this con clusion all eventually came, and the loss of the schooner with all on board has fully a quarter of a century lieen regard ed as a fact about which there could be no sort of question. The unfortunate men liave teen as utterly given up as though their burial* had taken place in presence of the whole community, ami to have told any of their families thai they were still Jive would have beeu to ask them to believe that the dead liod arisen after twenty five years of sepul ture, and walked forth once more among the living. However, precisely this projioaiUoU lias, ill effect, been male. The strange and startling statement lias transpired thai Harmon Jones and his fellow voy agers were not lost, but are now olive ou some uiuueloas and undiscovered island in tlie lower Pacific. About a mouth ago a friend of Mrs. Harmon Jones read in an English pajer an account of some British vessel having beau driven out of her course in a storm and mghted an un known island. Much to the surprise of the crew the island turned out to be in habited. and, still more astonishing, by men who spoke the English language. The rest of the aUrv, as given in the pa| r referred to. IS that the castaway* told the ship's company tliat they were the Florinda jiarty who had sailed from New Urinous in 18411 for California, thai thev had l***u wrecked on tlie island, and luul dwelt there evwi since, it being then more than twenty-five years that they luul not seen a human face or a sign of the world from which they were iso utterly eliminated. The paper gave the name* of several, all of whom are know to liave been of the Florinda a crew, and in many other waya. according to the version of Mrs. Jones' Jnend, the identify of the party was established, aa none tint themselves could have estab lish*-d it It was fnritier stabs! that the iiritndi Tcani offered to take the men on board, but tht y deoltned, saying they ltml I wen lost for a quarter of a century; that they knew not in what ailoation they would find Die farailh"* they hod left, and that they preferred staving and • •uding their ilay* there rather than ven -1 tore back to such a doubtful anil un certain future. Thi* ia|ier was four months old when Mr*. Jonee' friend saw : it, and the events narrated were described ■ as having manured four months previous |to the issue of the paper. It is nine mouths, then, since the island was dia covt-red by tlie British vessel, and at that Ume all, "or nearly all, of the Florinda party appear to have teen alive. Scarlet Fercr lYeveatable. For xime month* past, *gj* tlie j Oneida (\rt-uJar, the scarlet fever lias IKVU circling about in this region; first to the liouth of us, then went, tlwn north. When it fir*t appeared onr otora ex plaiaed to UH the neocsaary precautions in regard to it. unit since that time we hnvo a one what we oouhl, not only to rejwl tin- aiiMW from oar own home, bat slso to protect oar workmen and neighbors from it. We liavo ourselves escaped it altogether, ami the experience | of little hamlet near us in which nuuiy of onr hired workmen live deserves to IM< report* >a. The children of several families took the disease, and it seemed to be expected as a matter of course that j it would have a "run" through every . family in the neighborhood. But just at tliat time wo were appealed to, and Dr. Cragiu and some others went over and attended a meeting which had been rolled to consider the matter. We re commended them hi close their school until the disease hsd entirely di**ppe*r ed, and to iaolalo every child which then had it or which might afterwards take it. To sustain this advice the community offered to let any of our workmen whose children had scarlet fever stay at home ami take care of them, their wages to continue as if they worked. The peo ple accepted this plan and it ha* been very successful. The disease was sum marily choked out so that there is no longer any fear of it there. It still lingers, however, in some neighborhoods more remote from us, where the inhabi tants take it as it Comes, mafing no effort to prevent it. They do not seem to have the slightest idea of resisting, exeept to drug the sufferers in the old- i fashioned way. One woman witli whom the writer talked said she gn.-ss.Hl her children were going to have it, as they . were " gruntin' 'round putty lad. ' She was eloquent in her praise of the systematic mourning another mother had jx-rformed whose children hail re cently died of scarlet fi-ver. Oocaaion ally that seem* to tie tlie main care—to mourn to the admiration and envy of the neighbor*. I'nseaworthy Dresses. The Cleveland Isadcr does not be lieve tho "pin-back" dr**sses are de sirable for ladies who ei|xx-t to make a son or lake voyage. It mentions the oaae of a yowng lady who entered a strnet car on the way to take an exeursion steamer for a lake picnic. After her departure two boys held a conversation as follows : " I say, Joe, they'r goin' on the 'scunion." A nod from the fat boy. •' It's grin' to be rough, you Va tI" A nod and chuckle from tlie fat tx>y. " It'll shake "em up like sixty, won't' it, Joe I" A nod, a chuckle, and a grunt from tho fat boy. "What la-ats me is, how in thunder she'll get over it. Bho can't lean over the gunwale in that there single-barreled stovepipe no more'n if she was one o' them 'Gyptian mummies they tell of. It's too bad to spile that git-up, but I tell you, Joseph, anyhow you can fix it, the pins hex got to fly." Then the fat lx>v weut into a paroxysm of noils, chuckles and grunts, and his delighted companion was obliged to alap his back to keep him from choking. A fiery charger—A summer hotel keeper. Term*: 52.00 a Year, in Advance. CHOLERA AND FLOOD*. Kirrlns Irmm Ifcr Neearae-A Oswsfall ml Hmlm I ■rwwlMl far UramilMM. A terrible calamity has twfallen Da maaeua. For mauy weeks it liaa be-u kuown that a disease, suppoacd to be cholera, was at work in Jtamath, ami spaamodie attempts at ourdoini and iiuanuituisa were made. A man died in the Christian quarter, aftor a few hours' illness, with al! the symptoms of cholera. A woman was attacked and died about Hie middle of tha same afternoon. Dr. l'atterwou saw the woman, and, I am told, theisms the mm to be una of cholera. One or two other isas worn reported on the same day as baring oc curred in the Moslem quarter. There can be little doubt that the scourge hue reached Damascus, ami after a terrible year of Hyruut fever aud ague, it is likely to find many victims. The cludera is sanl to be a local kind, not Indian cholera; but whatever may be its •}ax-tea, it ia sufficiently deadly, aa the victims only survive at most ton hours from the time they am attacked. Thorn ia intouae alarm in the city, and all who am are preparing to flee. Many am getting rmdv to go to Zahley or llastaJya, or BlutLu, or riaidcnaya, aud even those whose creed is a kind of fatalism seem to have come to the conclusion thai it is dnaimhle to aeek higher latitudes and I letter air than those of Damascus. Tin- first of June was a day long to be mmembered in Damaacaa. The wind blew fiercely. The sky Lxmme aa aack un-nts seemed marshalled and arrayed ;in stormy strife. As (maaiou aomctunea seeks relief in toara, ao the thunder riven elouda pottml out tormuta and deluged the laud. The French diligence * tart-*1 in the aftornuou, and tried to brave the storm, but it was driven back by the rising flood, and succeeded in reaching the company'* offices, not with out peril, but twiore the bndgOß were swept awray. The river aproad over the fielda like an angry deluge and awept before it all ulnrtaeiea. The Dummor bridge and the company'a bridge both gave way before it, and it overthrew the place at *EI- Werdayan and otlmr oppos ing structures. It raged around the government offices and through the houses and abop* and atoms, doing im mense injury to property, and acme aay that many human beings oh*, were swept away. It swept into the office* of the road company, doing much damage to (he barley and fodder of the moles, and as the whole place was under water, the animal* had to be removed to the Mey -Un The priaouecw had alao to be taken from the malefactor'a prison to nave them from drowning like rata. Tlioae who were within the city aought for dry places and those who were without were oldigwd to remain there. The diligence from Beyrout waa obliged to atop at the elevated station Kl-Haniy. The post was passed into town by tha high path, and the paaaougv-ra rode into the city on the following hy. No ancli flood has been in the (dace in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Training the Indian*. Buffalo Bill, who traveled with a party of Indiana, tells ua of his first expon ent* with the red men M actor*. He says : On the first night we opened at Leavenworth, we had no rehearsal and wheat the hour arrived we knew no more what the Indian* would do than the audience. But I went behind the scenes and told them to go out and do their heat At the pi Ten signal they went hooting and yelling on the triage and commenced a war dance. They had three trash scalps, which they bad cap tured from another tribe a few day* be fore, and as Utey progressed in the dance they grew excitea, flouittbtd their toma hawk* and knives, and flung the scalps into the air, cutting at them with their wcapous aa they demanded, and licking them with their tongues whenever they could get them in their hands. At length they got worked up to such a pitch of excitement that, forgetting for the time where they were, they leaped over the orchestra and ran yelling and whooping up and down the amies. The audience was so frightened that most of them ran out of the house, and we were rather soared ourselves, as we did not know how the thing would eml. Two of us ran out on the stage and shouted and gesticlated until we were tired, with out effect, when oue of the squaw* came ent and told ns to let them nave it out or they might do some damage. This was the last night we gave a performance without a rehearsal, for the Indians told us they thought they were to do just as they had done. •singular Death bj StanaUaß. The death of Mn. MftlU.iv, of Watling ford, Ct, wee caused in e singular men tier. Eleven veer* ego she accidentally * wallowed e eolntion of potash, which canard erosion and inflammation of the oesophagus, ending in nmttenl oon striciiou end lessming of its caliber at e point about two inahea above the *u jerior end of the stomach. Chi account of this stricture she wss compelled to exercise great caution in eating, as but a small monthfnl of food well chewed would pass it. She claimed to have swallowed a cherry-stone about two weeks before hex death, which she be lieved lodged in the narrowest portion of the (esophagus. From that time till her death no food could enter her stomach, and she died of starvation. The examination after death showed that she was right in her conjecture, #>r the cherry stone was fouud closely Ailing up the tube, so that nothing could pass ' it. A RidlrnloH* Scene. A ridkmloua neon© occurred in the British House of Commons on the night when the subject of the Prince of Wale*' visit to ludia van debated. Mr. Newde gato, wlui with Whalle* aud one or two others, in also on the aide of the laughed at, va* making an exceedingly solemn speech, the burden of which wan against the extravagance royalty imposes upon the nation, and, desiring to emphasize a remark, indulged in a striking gesture. Before him sat another honorable gen tleman, who, according to the etiquette of the British Parliament, had lus hat on, showing that he did not sympathize with the orator of the moment This hat WAS a white one, and received all the force of the striking gesture, being forced down over the wearer's head. The effect was disastrous, making the ■peaker the victim of uproarious laugh ter, which killed his speech. Their Diamonds. It is not generally known that the Mexican women of the wealthier classes use as ornaments, on extraordinary oc casions, live tire-flies, which in the dark emit a bright phosphorescent light. They belong to the family of leaping or springing beetles, aud are called by the Spanish cucujo. They are kept in ele gant little cages, and fed on slices of sugarcane and bathed twice a itay, either by the ladies themselves or by their maids. In the evening they are put into little sacks, shaped like roses, and attached to the ladies' dresses. The light these little bugs emit surpasses in brilliancy the reflection of the purest diamonds. NO. 35. My Pet Monkey. My monkey h s UwuUful little aai iu*i, with tiny delicate hwdt, bat it vw very mischievous, u a gr*t many little :, boys mud girl* an. My brother had j brought it uvf m a present to me, end I named it Jeanette. I ni obliged to [ keep my pet up stairs in one of the gar rata, because slm m o destructive Unit j I *u afraid to let br sleep in my bed- , room, but every day Jeanette wae al- ; lowed to oome down to dreasrt, and aba alwaya bad a cbair next to mine, and ab 1 toted to crack ber nuta, and aometimea, | when aba waa in a vary amiable mood, j aha would offer ma una, and if I would not take it aha need to be offended and would not eat any more herself. It happened one day when abe waa at deeaert with ua all that abe suddenly cot into a bad tamper beoauae 1 pretended to take one of the nuta off ber plate; aba took up her plate and threw it at ma It miaaed me and fall on Ute floor. Of I oourao it waa amaabed to atoma, and aa i it waa rather a pretty one my father wae j angry, and be got up and tried to eateb my pal; but Jrauette thought that abe would have a little fun, ao aha ran up > and down fur about an boor until I i < might her, but I waa obliged to band j her over to my father, who whipped ber j until it made me cry; but Jeanette, mvohxl to enjoy it, and ran up to the : top of the curtain* ae tf nothing had happened. 8o we let ber remain there, j and took ne notice, until it yu time to j go to bad, when I tried all I#ould to g* j her down from her parch; but nothing would paraunde ber to ease, ao my ' father aatd: " Maw mind, U bar atop there U>-night I am mm abe wont do any barm again fen a Long time after my ! whipping." Ho I want to bad, baring lucked the door ao that my poor little monkey could not get out Mow 1 will tell you wbat abe did. Xn the cupboard wua a box of arrowroot which my uncle had sent to ua aa a proa ant When it waa light Jfoaattte got down from her perch and ftaind the box of arrowroot; mm put ber Ipada into it i ami sprinkled it ull over tbf room, and { when the box waa empty Am abut tha i cupboard, got up again to bar perch, and want to sleep. I came dogn about cix o'clock to let my priaouer out. when, to my great surprise, I found the room all t over while, jaat aa if it bad beau enow* ing, and there uua my monkey looking m tnnoeeni aa if nothing had naitpened. I want to op* the cupboard, and there I found the tin qui* emj>tjr. Wall, I did not know bow to eateb my naughty [*at, ao I thought 1 would nit down and | pretend to be selsep. la* down and j presently felt something pulling at my dram, but I would not take any notice t*cauar I knew it wae Jcamffto ; I watt ad, and abe pulled again ; (lading that would not answer, abe jumped on my knae and put bar little a una around my nock. Thau I caught la*, and abe looked ao eorty beoauae the knew I should scold, that I waa obkged to for give her, and 1 am aura you would bare dime the same. j Aa Operation by PkjsieiatH Wbu da | not Adiertise. Since the academy of medicine at F.raasnlle, LmL, expelled a veteran pby kicmu few regularly advertising, the : Joarnat, at that place, triesto carry oat the rule in spirit by excluding the ir- J regular advertising, in repotting a case aa follows: ■ j There waa an operation performed the other day—a surgical operation—and if w did not hare a wboieso* dread of the academy of medicine before our i ,-yea, we would report the isiw in fuiL It was an amputation of the leg—the lower tart-about half way between, where the shoe stops and the garter be gins. The patient waa *ak, and could not afford to loae any blood; die aeedtsl all she bad to Iwgin the buameaa of bv ing again, ao the doctm (members of the Drake medical academy, coua.Hpn*ot ly cannot be named j agreed solemnly < that she ahouhl not iuee any at aIL Dr. —— (are are writing according to the I "code" now, no we can't name him) , produced a sort of robber strap, which looked Like the doctor's suspender*, sewed end to end. l>r. —■ (a member of Drake miylkml academy, m we cannot mention names ) held the leg up while j Dr. (we dont poena to be personal. , tint it w* neither of the other doctors) strapped the rubber on. This dime, Dr. i who, being a mernhe* of Drake medical academy, cannot allow the use j 'of his name) put something el m cm, ! while Dr. —-(who is nameless because a member of Drake medical academy) . took the rubber strap off. A physician waa present (belonging to Pnlke medi cal academy, we withhold hia name) armed with a knife, and began to cut. He waa ably assisted by a medical gen tleman of this city (unmentionable here, as he holds a memlwrsliip in Drake medical academy). The arteries were taken up by Dr. (who belongs to i Drake medical academy, and is thereby •' nameless here furevermore") in a . moat skillful manner. When our re porter left the patient was doing welL ( ; The whole operation was reiy creditable i to tlie doctors (who, being members of the Drake academy of medicine, cannot liare their names in print). A Child's Prayer. She was hardly able to talk plainly, iind a policeman had to give her his hand to assist her up the steps into the j central station. " Did you put my mother in jail 1" she asked, aa she pushed her pink ; sun bonnet back and looked from one to another. I They hadarrestedared-faoed, tangled haired* woman, who fought the officers and made use of foul language. Mo one dreamed that the child wae hers, but it ( was. The little thing waa so innocent and pure that they didn't want her to ' even see the iron burs, but the mother heard her voice, called to her, and tbey opened the corridor door. The child grasped the iron door, looked into the cell, and cried oat: " Why, mother, you are in jail!" The mother crowded back, ashamed of herself, and the child knelt down on the stone floor, clung to the iron bars of th door, and prayed: J " Now I lay me down to sleep, and I hope my mother will be let out of jail !"* The men had tears in their eyes as j they gently removed her, and when the woman came into oourt the next morn ing to be tried his honor whispered to her to go home and try for that child's sake to be a mother instead of a wretch, i —Detroit Free Frcsa. A Lessen for AIL Two young men, friends, left Wor cester, Mass., for New London, Conn. They drank a quart of liquor on the train, and were both drunk when they reached their destination in the evening. They staggered from the cars to a wharf, where, without a word of quarrel, one killed the other with a pocket knife, took his watch and small storeof money, and returned, in the evening, to Wor cester. In the pocket of the murdered boy was a letter from his mother. This alone saved the body from being buried as unknown, and led to identiflcation. Then the officers of the law fallowed the clew and soon stood before the youthful murderer with evidence of his guilt. And the poor wretch oould only cry out: "Bum did it!" This is only one of the occurrences that are daily preach ing total abstinence in the newspapers and the courts of justice. fiesta of Intercut. The acale of good breeding—B mU 11 is reported that several horses were reoautly made deaf by lightning at Lan 4MMHHESg It T E y $ $ ___ Otttaftff* pwpUi drank 16,0*>0,000 glasses of lager beer during the year coded August lib The bur wop ot Connecticut will amount to 887,000 ions, worth f7,Of"Y 000 or pt,000,000. " Je-amns, did ye ever saw a moose killed t" " No, Auyimit'i*, but Tv.< saw a buck shut." if A Minnesota worn** killed eight.*-* bustadsof grasshopper* 1U cme Week, and §fi ; Not king mm bo said in fteror of soor ing, ami not <■ person three will acknowledge that be does snore. people will have no difficulty in' gutting shmff well if they alwaya keep two bear* in the bouse—bear and > fstVMfi * ,T . f " Do you like eodflah balls. Mr. Wig gtosl" Mr. Wiggins, butatngly-" I nwdlv don't know " I don't roeolk** •*- tendingottose---.- , .4 ,1 Omacripttou exitta in Germany ; but tamecripta can't buy Uwmnclvea off from athtary service, M tn France, and this makes a big military ttMmencn. Dulnth doesn't want amy mote real ea tate A floating iidaod waa washed .shore thmeltoUnr day, bat the so thorities had it towed out again. The gentle cittnawa d De Hoto, Mo., i have 1 sewed reeoluttotw declaring that they will hereafter hang every Wee thief they can lay their hands on. The monument of General John Stark at Manchester, N. H.. has been no de famed by memento hunters that a new ■ ,ue will probably have to be erected. "Ah, yea; the West is not entirely ! to the vaet maatmj ot nature," : remarked a Bosbmian. "It fttniiahea , the pork to flavor our beana with, you | know." By meant testa it has bean dmnon ! dieted that a train weighing KSO.OOO i pounds, and moving at the rat.- of Ofty two milea an how, can be stopped with in 280 yard*. " Puta" and • odhi" may be proper lv defined thus : Yon put your money in L hand, of a broker for Cjwrpose of n: and call for the profits in i vain. I In the wnatry, now. Maud Midler is raking hay ewaywhet*. And the judge, j riding down, iom not aae her at all, but ia figuring on his chances for a lenonu- UStIOU. I never plane much reliance on a man who w d waya toUiM what he would have done had be been them. I fc* noticed that somehow thia kind of people never | John, I wish you'd done that door," aid m irritahie father to hia ton. IYour laother moat be Moulding aome bodv at the other sad of the hall, there * j aach a draft from that quarter." i The fiddler of a aaiaetxel company ma away the other day m debt to the mana- K, who declared that he bad fellow for a fiddler, but ha bad tak ! m the part of a haae vWhtttt. Did yon ever meet Alrwo Brown of Tbgteb If you mm* ddj never will. Be wm found out Wett, hanging to a limb, the otLer day, and a to hia coat read : " He stsde hams. 80 great ia the rapacity of wuifiah. bses, and pkkawl in lake George that TfIMS 70,0or8a,* trout pUced tu thea* water* by Bath Green, acsiwly one m a tbommnd wiU oome to maturity. A young man in Lanoatter Pa,, seat a dollitoa firm in Sew York who adver ttoed a receipt to prevent bad drmm*. He iHgnd a small slmof papery m which was printed: "Don* go to sleep. A suffering wife baa come to the con clusion thtt it earner tor a man to thaai to bring in the kotoiiegs or put up a clothes liue. An awful fate km overtaken a Texan lawyer. The Bonham Emterprue aaya : Joe Duprwe made his first speech reeent lv, assisting Capi. Sims in the psoeecu tmuTf Ale! Rodger* The jury senten ced him to be banged. New J*ev is the State for tow taxes. ' Ber whole indelde.fnem oataule ber war debt ia only ber rcmsin mg war debt only WtflfMOO. < xcws of eanapta over expenditures iaet ymr waa 1^817.27. Ilia noticed, but not explainable, that the party who mampulttce the " boas ' fid.fle In an orobeetra is invurubly 1 add-headed, and that if tbs big drum in a band is a wary big drum, it is always i powuded by a abort, fat man. The Froetwumna of lowa are very much exexei-ed over a receot decision of the grand master that dancing in the lodge rooms ia ineooeiatent with the good of the craft. Two saboedinato offi (vi* haw been deprived of thrii pom i tiaua tor acting in violation of the de ctaaon. A newly arrived family v*e tatelj g ing at a shop window tn Bockport, 111. Little giri—"Oh, mscima! is that a 'en!"' —" No, my child, that is a howl- Fatter —"No* my wife and daughter, that ia neither a'en or* howl, but* is a beagle, the hemblem luou for amatenri to accept money for their services. Tho writer knows several peisons who go out to parties and mug pf fearionaUy, one of them being a barrister, another in the civil service* and a third the owner of a vine plantation. Tha host sends a check next day, with a line to the following effect: "My dew Mr. So-and-So : A thousand thanks for your kindness lat night. You were simply charming, and we all were ao obliged to you. Yours, sincerely, Party Giver." One of these singers recently attended a aoiree given ! by the lord mayor of a provincial town. He was on the point of leaving when the lord mayor stopped him (he had not said a word "to him the whole-evening) and addressed him as follows : "'Err, young man, tliis five-pound note ! is for what you have been adoing for to amoose us," People and Saloons. The Milwaukee city directory for the II present year contains 33,760 names, being an inmease of 2,760 on last year. Allowing a ratio of three and a half to one, the city new has a population of I ' 118,160. The directory classifies tho 1 various industries in iwhieli business ! : men are engaged under 451 heads. Of these the saloons are most numerotc, 1 there being in all 978. Hfctail grocers 1 , rank next in order, to the number of 419. There are eighty-three dry-good < ' dealers and forty nine dressmaker . 1 Physicians and surgeons foot upseventy nine, and lawyers eighty. There are t sixty-seven milliners, sxty-four painters, and sixty-five tailors.