To-Morrow. 0 thou to-morrow I Mystery' 0 day that evar now before ! What hast thine R i leu liaml In atore For mine, to-morrow. end for me ? O thou to morrow ' whal hast thou In store to make me hear the now V 0 day m which we shall forget The tangled troublse of te-day ! 0 day that laughs at duns at debt " O day of promises to pay ! O shelter from all present storm ' O day in which we shall reform. O safest, beet day for reform ! Oouvenient day for promisee ! Hold beck the shadow of the storm. O blessed to-morrow'. Chiefeet faeod. Let not thy mystery be lees. Bat leed us blindfold to the end. —dkVigwM Ifdier. The World's Fair, IS"6. Oolumhia, puisxlad what she should dityHyt f true hunae-aiake on kt-r Oenteuiual day. Asked Brother Jonathan : he eoraiceed hie head, Whittled awhile reflectively, and said : Your own invention and own waking, too ? Why, any child oouUl tell you what to do : Show 'em TOUT civil service, aud explain How all men loss is everybAiy's gam , how your now patent to increase your reuu By (ayiug quarters for collecting cents . Show your ehott cat to citre flaaiK-tal ills By making paper ivdlars current bills . Show your new bleaching prvveee cheap aisl brief. To wit: a jury choeen by the thief. Show your State legislatures, show your rings Aud challenge Europe to produce such things Ae high officials sitting half in sight To sliare the plunder and to fti thine* right; If thai dou't fetch her. why, you only need To show your latest style iu martyrs Tweed . She'll liud it hard to hide her spiteful tears Al each advance in one poor hundred years." —J. A Zauni. THE SOL TRKAM'KK. Atlemet te Fled aa Old Bsreaaser's i.eld. I had a certain amount of appnsuatiou for Ailricu tiraab. He wa* a iiandnomo young man. some ten yean my junior, of cheerful disposition and winning man ner. Our manager in the insurance office, I Uiink, had singled him out for preferment, so when Adrien had a slight attack, of some pulmonary disease, Adneci was sent to the W<st Indies f.ir the winter to look up the business of a ahip which had been wrtvktxl oq one of the islands. On AdruuTs n turn 1 onticdd the uau was ehangeil. His persomu ap}>earainv was imi*rx>ved, but he seemed to have lewt his flow of spirit** and wus moodv at times. As iu liis younger days I hail been his mentor, aud the recipient of many of his boyish trouble*, I had no hesitation in asLing him what was the matter. His name 1 bail often taken libertiis with, dropping the double a, and calling hini plain Grab. "Adrien Grab," 1 said, "what ail* you i" "Graab or Grab," he replied, "it is all the same to me. We accept the name according to the circumstances. When the family was needv, we were Grabs." "You have uot," I inquired. " been brooding like an owl over the mysteries of your faiuuv-trea of late, have yoO i" " l'ea, I have." he replied, though with a smile. " I fancy you have laugh ed at me many a time alout it. But you must listen to it again, for I want vour advice. lu 1742 albs Giaab came Wo \ te New York from the Went Indies, sail- | ed here in hi* own ship, laden with to bacco, rum, and sugar." " AaJ were neith<-r biilors, nor but obers, norcurrif-ru, Imt grand gentlemen. You have often told me that Iwfupe. Weil, you, Adrieu Graab, are fourth elerk in an insurance office. That is positive. What then!" " They were De Graabs then. When I was in Cnracoa last winter, attending to our business, I met an offshoot of the family, or rather one of the parent stock. He was the master of many miles of sugar-canea, acres of pine-apples, and grov<s of cocoa-nuts and bananas. He had the family tree in all its details, not only the root but the uppermost twig. The departure of a portion of the family froai Cunuxsi to Martinique had been noted. That was in lTllfi; but all traces of this branch, after that, had been lost to him. This planter's name was Claes van Graab, and he let me into the secrets of the family. Ido not know if he was proud of it, but, by George ! I am ; for I think it was the brightest plume, the gaudiest feather, that ever ornamented the De Graab helmet." " A. sorry hat 1 have seen their repre sentative wear sometimes," I inter rupted. " Laugh aa you please ; we were free booters, sir; buccaneers, filibusters in the old time. TkediM known Graab —h"> was Claes Graab—was on® of Monthar's men, and many a Spanish galleon has my ancestor helped to plun der. One Graali—it seems be wn§ the fre*>>otor' sun—vrnat back to H Jland in and founded a family there.. In M van Graab's house, at (,'uruca. there 1i the copy of a picture of him, the ginal of which hangs ia the Hague, floe lie re, do you notice this little pendu lons apeudage to ror earf" " This is too absurd ! You recall, Adrii'B, the huckh-beny and my long lod brother," I exclaimed, out of pa tience. "As I lire, that portrait showed, un der a stately ruff of Mechlin lace, old Claes, with just such a family ear Aurelia saw it." " Who is Aurelia?" I inquired. "Claes van Graab's daughter. But no De Graab ever slid into tin- infinite abyss of nothing all of a sudden. It was a hurricane first that crippled the De tiraubs of New York and devastated their plantation. Then, in revolutionary vines, they showed bad judgment and aided with the king. Next, the insur rection of the slaves, in the French West Indies, beggared them. Graab then, I suppose, did sink into Grab. We have been drifting ever since." The man was getting melancholy. Now, I had heard Vdrien tell me as much as this fifty times before, save the find ing tif a possible relative in the West Indies. '• Nonsense, my good fellow. It is th okl story, only instead of end ing with a lafigh, as yon use to do, yon now close your narrative with a whine." " I have never told you all. That old Dub-hman in Curac<>a gave me a positive intimation of a treasure, which I have followed up." "This is pitiful stuff," I exclaimed. " When Dumas died, all Monte Cristo was swallowed up, and the last gold Img buzzed out of existence with Edgar Poe." "It is not romance. When I was a child, when asking my father for things he coukl nofcnfford to purchase, he would my : ' When your ship is found.', A sunken ship lias been one of the family legends. Claes van Graab has the most authentic proofs that such a treas ure existfll In lii'lO the Sol, from Car thagenato Lisbon, laden with ingots of gold and silver ami pieces of eight was captured, and taken in tow by a ship an ancestor or mine commanded. Off the island of Curacoa the prize sank, with all her treasure. That such was the fet is evident, because at the close of the seventeenth century William Phipns planned a scheme fof the finding of the Sol. In 174T), one hundred and more years after the losapf the Sol, an attempt was made to rescne the treasure. Class van Graab's grandfather was ruined in the endeavor. The family now in Curacoa have kept every reoord. Claes van Craab told me that twenty years ago, when there was some mighty convulsion of the laud and sea—some submarine earthquake—the spot where that ship, the Sol, had been wrecked was exposed for an hour or more, and then sank again. As if to tempt us there has been an up heaval just over the very spot. Seme times in the surf of the Carribeun sea 6mall fragments of coin—gold pieces, worn thin and abriided—are washed on shore. Here is one," and Adrien ! drew a tarnished bit of metal from his pocket. " More that that. van Graab, at lost assured that I am of his stock " "UM aiMMat," 1 interrupted, " and FRKD. KXTKTZ. Kditor ami Proprietor. VOL. viir. the daughter—will she acknowledge the . kinship--doe* she urga the recovery of tin* fantastic treasure i" • • Yea—even more than her father. 1 liave received a letter from Curacoa urg ing iuv coming to the island." "WUI Claw Mui (Iraab furnisli tlie meansf" I inquired. "If there i* a million dollars Uier*>, even if uot al a-.iy gnat depth tinder water, it will cost a million to get it out" The ship sank iu rooky bottom uot ou a coral reef thers may l** a waah of sand over it" " la, tlien. this i'unwxia planter, to drop from tlie imaginative to tlie prac tical, willing t*> ri*k hi* money m the enterprise t" " Wliat he will do Ido uot know. He bids me coiue to him. 1 should suppose he was a man of large means. 1 regret to say, however, that no draft noooiu panted his commands. Go to him 1 must and will. There i* a vessel up for Curaco*—she leaves iu a w<*-k. 1 would like to sail m her." " And give up your i*oeup*tion hate 1 It is the height id folly. Have you money enough for your ex|*uia>al" " Hardly. By selhug my trinkets, ray watch, 1 will still want SSO. Will you loud it to tue i" " You may perhaiw Ih> useful to your relative, if such a thing as relationship is possible. You can have the money. Return it at your leisure." Adrian left for Curacao within tlie ten days. Some three months afterward 1 received a kind letter from the vonug man inclosing me the borrowed money, and with it came the gift of a case of native birds. Adrieu'* letter was fonr tifths full about the Sol treasure, and tlie .<tlier fifth was about Aureliu van Graab. Until the next sugar crop was made. Claps van Graab would do nothing. It was fully eight months before any more tunings i-aiue from t'uracoa. This time the crop liad I sen sold. The planter was putting in new machinery, and the money was wanted for a Killieux apparu tua. Adrieu was suj*>ri;itende!it and general manager, with a iwtlary of $.1,500. Little or nothing was said aWut the Sol. A small package came to me, too, eon taiuing a bit of old gold. 1 was in structed by Atlneti to have a ring made with the gohb and*3 was to have a (*-arl set m it. The sixe of the ring indicated a feminine finger. When the ring was finished it was to be returned to Cura coa. Adrieu hoped when u- xt he wrUe me "to be Aurelia's huslumd. Adrian s-iit me, too, one hundn-d weight of chocohite aud a lsig of very wonderful coffee. Claims van Qraab's health was feeble (so said the latter), an>l Adrieu had entire chargw of his business. I lost sight of Adrieu for fully five years, wheu one day he burst into tlie oftije. Everylnidy, even the old mtiiia ger, was glad to sts him, and congratu lated him on hi* good looks and hi* for tunes. Our president deigned to i utrou lxe him. When we were alone, ue said to me ; "I am here for machinery." " More sugar works?" I inquired. "No;it is for the Sol business. Au relia was an heiress. My poor old father in law must have all his life put asnle large sums of uiouey for the purpose of finding this Sol treasure. His will, if not positive hi regtml to this wretched business, at least indicates tliat an effort must lie made." " The Sol bamneaa a wretched one ? Wliy, Adrien, you have changed your tone. I congratulate you on being less visionary than you used to be." "Aurelia is ambitious, and lias renew ed the question of the wreck. Sin- urge the research. I would to God tiiere hod never been any gold or silver sunk in that treacherous sea. My wife dreama of titles, the purchase of an old estate in the Netherlands, believes we have claims to the rank of the old van Gmabs, which wealth would purchase. , Colonial life has no charms fur my wife. We are very rich ; no fortune on the island equals hers." I noticed something of chagrin in his manner. " For God's Rake abandon this gold hunting if it is distasteful to you. Have you no children I" " Alas, none DOW. The terrible cli mate was too much for the poor little child we had. The loss of onr son has clanged my wife's character. She is more determined thm ever to find tin treasure. My word is pledged. The en gagement ring you had made for me wiis beaten out of a bit of gold washed adiore from the wreck. Before we w-re mar ried I had promised Atindia to ses k the Sol. It seems that for two centuries those Curacoa van Graabs have brooded over the buccaneer'a plunder until it ha* become a family taint. But to business. I have $200,000.t0 upend. Should we lose it, sugar will -mako it up again in a few years. 1 have made explorations, {•ersonal ones. Last year a wrecking oomjiony sent me some of their mod ex pert hands. J went down with them. I am familiar with diving apjiaratUK. We have pretty nearly sati-fied oiirs. lv.-N as to the exact spot There arc triicon of ship's timbers, eaten by tlie worms. A dozen piecee of gold win, worn thin by abrasion, rewarded our toil. Can yoii doubt now that the Sol is no myth ? We liave hooted the old Dutch ami Spanish archives. It was not a million of dol lars' worth of silver aud gold that went down in the Sol, but six millions. Grop ing for millions some tw.-nty fathoms under water is terrible work." "I should think so, Atlrion," I re plied, " es|>echdly as iu your younger ■ lays your lungs were never oviwtroug." " Pshaw. The southern climate has restored rne. lam getting used to an amphibious life. If the money is found, my wife will have her for my self, it will ho some good work of clnM-it v I shall found. Now, would vou mind", my old friend, helping me I My absence from New York has been so prolonged that 1 am ignorant of many tilings. A life of somewhat an indolent character has dalied, perhaps, my energy. Will yon act for mo | It may occupy your afternoons. let me assure you, if 1 do not presume on ytrar kindness, that 1 should be glad to offer you any remu neration you would think*suitable." The projsisal was so kindly male that I accepted the position of agent for Adrien. Machinery was built, a tug was purchased, and a contract made with a company who were to send out to Cu racoa competent persons acquainted with submarine work. When all was ready and the last bill paid I declined an ur gent appeal on the part of Adrien to ac company him. De Graab left, and my labors ceased when the profiler Aurelia De G. steamed out of the Narrows. I waited after that for months and months. The managers of the wrecking company could only inform me that the propeller and hands had arrived in safety at Cu racoa. At last I received a Hhort note from Adrien. Usually ho wrote the neatest of hands; now the words were scrawled and difficult to decipher. It read as follows: " Found ! I have just fut at Aurelia's feet an ingot of gold, ts weight is eighteen pounds. It must have weighed double that 2. r 0 years ago. Poor Aurelia! I never told you there had l>een a passing cloud between us. Her love has returned. The work under the eca is terribly trying. I dare not trust the men out of my sight. It is a delirium of wealth which ia like to craze me. I shall write: you again. Our suc cess is now beyond a doubt, and only a question of time." It was with a fever ish anxietv that I watched for another letter, Most a year passed and no tid ings came. At last, iu an insignificant newspaper paragraph among the aoouty TIN; CENTRE REPORTER fragments of new* gleaned from Sotilh Auicrtrau *mm, I read thi# : '• The Jv>i exi>odiltou iu .iiri'li of trnuuiv Hliip, a/G-r a uto-rf brilliant ojwn iug, has (torn abandoned. The party iuv retonuui vi. I'mmtun." So it ended. 11M close at Uii* drain* ran 1h belter understood by transcribing a leltrr Adrieu'* wife seut un " 1 mu alone now in tliw world Adrien mDO more Kvni the poor eon solution of seeing hi* remains ha# In-en denied uie. 1 uevtir can have peace agum on earth. The ingot of gold I*' gave m 1 **'tnl you. Hw crucifix , luttale of It. With whatever l* left of the gold have uiaasea mud in the citj where he was born for the re|H>ae of hi* Willi. Tlie crucilis send to mi', lu ray agony praying before it, 1 will ask pardon for uiv sins, for it w 1 who killed my hit* I mini. " Running a \ew.pa}Hr. By wo me uuacot mutable misapprehen sion of facts, there i* a large chut* of jwople in the work I who think that it coats little or nothing tti rtin a newsjiaper, 1 rnitl if they buy a copy of the newsboy, when too far fn>m the office to come ami bog one, they are regular patron.* and entitled to uilhlttltixl fitvor.H. Men cull . every day at newspaper offices G> get * copy of the daily pa|* r, ;u.*t from the press, for nothing, who would never dream of tagging a |H>ofcetlimidkerohief from a dry goods atore, or A piece of candy from a confectioner, ex 4 upon the • pic* of old aoqitaiutaiiae, having bought something once liefore. One p*p<r is not much, but a hundred a day amount* to something in the course of time. But thi* is a email drain compared with the free advertising a newspaper i* expected to do. Some men who have |*ud two dollara at an early jieriod of life for an advertisement worth four or five, appear to think they are stockholders m the e* • tabh.liment for etemitv. They demand the publication of all marriage*, arid funeral notice*, olutuaruw and family epiaxlra, for the next forty y* a**, gratis. i Speak of jay and thev grow indignant. '• Dou't 1 patronise yourj>a(ei f" " Yes; but you receive tlie worth of your money for what you pay." "But." aav* tfie patron, " it will not cost you anything to put this iu," which i* jut as ridio ulou* it* to a*k a man to griud your ax on his grindstone, ami graciously t<4l turn it won't cost liim a cunt. It take* money to run a newspapers* well a* any other buiuc; no paper will succeed financially that carries a dead head system Any mention of the peo ple's affairs that they are anxious to ur in print i* worth paying for; and wheu printed is gem-rally worth a* much as any other in vestment of the same amount The newsjiapor bamneiw i* very ex acting on all connected with it, ai;il the pay in comparatively small; the proprie tors risk more money for smaller profits, ami the editors and n |irt r< and prin ters work harder ami ch< up. r than the ame number uf men in any other pro feHsiou requiring tlie given amount of intelligence, training and drudgery. The life lion its charms ami plcßwiit us Mociati >ll% scarcely known t<> the out side world; but it has its earne.-t work and anxieties and h<mr* of exlmnsti.m, which also ore not known to those who think the buuueaa all fun. Tlie idea that uewspaperdom is a charmed circle, where the favored member* live a life of ease and fr<e fr>Bi care And go to th<- eireus ut night on a fp-e tick* t and to the springs on u free pa-s in the summer, is an iihw which we desire t > explode par tnu'.arly ami tlieor. ti *nliy. Business is buxiuuas, and tin- journal that auoeeeds is the one that is run on a square htisi neas footing, the same as Woking or building bridges, keeping a hotel or running a livery stable.—Ju> mphis Aiaiainhc. His Father's Occupation. Preliminary to admit-ion to the public schools of St. Louis, answer* ar<> reouir ed to a list of questions, some of whiah are at tiim-a too much fcr the intelligence of the uutledgcd citizens of the "futnn great city of the world," us witness the following ; A fri-md of mine, Miss J , teacher of one of the primary classes, catechised >i littl- raguumflhi a short time sinew witii the foil iwing re.snlt: " What is your father's n ime f" " Don't know." " lon't know your father's name t" *' No." " Well, what do the neighbors cull liimf" " Don't call him liothiu". They don't see him. He aiu't never h0.. 'oept nights." "Then," as a bright idea occurred to her, 14 wliat does your mother cull hiint" " Why, she calls him '<> l i fool !" At this point her research-* into the secret history of tliat family ceased. On another occasiou a little candidate grappled snoynasfgHy with every qm-a tion on the list uatd the one, " What i* y>>ur father's occupation f was pro pounded, when he WUH forced to admit that he did not know what that word meiitit. " 1 mean, what dots he do ?" said Mis J _. "On : ho buihl.s fires." "Ah ! he's a janitor, then?" "I don't know wliat that means, neither." " Wliv, a janitor in a man that builds flr<*, ami Hwt|* out, and takes care of a building." " I guess he ain't that kind, then, cos he don't sweep none." " Doesn't he? Well, where dies lie build fires I" " I don't know," said the little fellow, very emphatically, and in a tone lietray ing considerable irrit.ition ; "lie's dead." A Man Dies of the Hiccough. About one of the most singular cases of death that ever came within our province to mention is that of Milton W. Blair, of Louisa county, lowa, who died in California of the hiccough. Mr. Blair was an old merchant of Louisa county, but has not bun engag.-d in business for a number of years He has been re siding near Morning Hnn since retiring from business. Lest fall he was attacked with a fit of hiccoughing, which con tinued for some weeks, with scarcely any intermission, Becoming alarmed at the long continuance of the spell, Mr. li. came to Burlington to consult with a doctor, who, after treating him a while, declared he could give him no relief. From this city he proceeded to Chicago, and consulted the Iwst medical authori ties there, who did all in their power, but coufd not relieve him. By their ad vice he went to California, accompanied by uin sister, thinking that the change of climate would help him, remaining in that Htate to the time of his dentil, hic coughing almost continually, and having but few intervals of rest. The continued strain and distress wore him to n mere shadow of his former self, and recently his sister telegraphed to friends and relatives in Burlington ami Louisa coun ties tliat he was dead, and she was bring ing Lis remains on for burial " Better put on your overcoat," aha said, as he was starting for down town, "it will surely rain before night." " Not a bit, my dear." But look at those driv ing clouds !" " Oh, pshaw, that's only flyiug scud." " Very well," she rejoin ed, " bnt you'll find it will be sky ing flood before dark." CENTRE HALL. CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER !>, 1875. ORIGINAL BRIGANDS. Tkft l.rti ItUrli Hull •**! A|*P*IMI OW 4gran In I mrrp Ovt Ibrlr %%rlk. Burglars entered the residence of Mr. Thomas H. Bedell, on the Greek road, lies! l'oughkecpme, N. during u thunder storm, and stole a olm-k, a sofa bottom rvicking clour, fancy uouameuta from ihe maiiU-I*. silver uapkiu rings, a silver cake Itaaket, ami other things. They also cut all the tassels from the curtains and left a note lie hind demand iug SSOO te be loft at u pliux* they would a|Ks-ify or they would destroy all the building* on tue phtoe. Mr. Bedel! a brother found a letter writti-n on the juige of u ledger thrust under the front door of his house which informed him that there was a band calling themselves a 1 mlid of rubber*! five in miuilwr, who ha*l visit* d his brother, but the captain thought lct not to disturb the family, but to levy a Git of ud if they saw fit to pay they would molest them no further. If. however, hi* brother should refuse, tlie biUltl would do all the hurtn tluy could to hi* (tenant or pnn>- erty. The letter then coutiumsl as fol lows : "Now we know you are the interested, lieing u relation, and retpuiet you G srs him at once, and it will Is* G> your in G-rest to as*l*t liim, should lie need such assistance, for your own safety. We ,vun<- lu-re U> atteud the nuvx, uu<i shall l*-ave here as soon a* we get tlie money call**! for. The suiu called for is a small amount and must la* paid thi# Momlsy evening. There is no aIG-niative, it is only a choice bctwoati money and life, for our veugauoe l* swift and sure. We are no block mailers, l>ut gt>e those whom wv visit a chance G oluaise. Now, if you do this as requested- -Umt i*. we desire you to visit your friend, make ai rangements, and visit us in the road just north of the powder-house ala>ve Mor gan lake; there is a building U. n* which ustsl to be a alaughler-house ; meet u* Uierv ut precisely i-leWli o'ulK'k. You will uot t*e harmeit and may rest as hirn-d never to be again troubled ; we make you as much itiierewted as him and exjvvt not to Iki di.*ap)toiuG-d, u*> no tricks or treachery, we are fully prepared and never failed or outwitted. We make him pay lluW and aak you to assist. Should tie find the tax will Is- rou-w-il uud ainfiher vi*it will l>e :uk*. lie will show you how we work. "At a certain place the hand viiuted a wealthy family, levied a tax of sl,l>*J on him. In* refum-d to iioticw our delUal. L Wo paid hull a second visit, he paid g2,(k*J and was glad U> do it. tdlie luorv at a!K>thr time we dmiaudeil some tuonev, the person refused, and pub lishixl the \isit after ls*ing r*xju*t.G-l G> keep silent, which so inorU*<d the t>aud that they burned a large Intra filled with grain, killed aoiuo taluable stock ; but this saldota hajipens ; we say to you keep this a secret, nhonld you comply with our demand lav a sheet in your w-i xt window this N1 <ml*y afternoon. We use you as our agent and as such exempt you from any Gix. Should the moiiey b*i (mill, but klm>ul*l you and him fail the tlimg will IK* differvat. We d<*~ ir' the money, we within tire* and ten* bill- and tnor** but genuuie, it is the rap Gun who writes this and our home far in the Sollthwi-xt. Y'outk, ets. "We will cauti >n you further not to, h*r your wa sake*, try any trick*, a* ire prepared with a largo force. Re member M eleven o'clock, between the corner anJ the old building near the powder house, upon hearing a a ladle lay the money, which mu*t !*> doue up in a good MZ. .1 wlntu paper. in the mid dle of the r<>od, and drive off a* soon a* possible. "(Signed) THE CXITAIM. "I*. S. Do not fail to put out the doth." Mr. Rolrll put the matter in the lumd* of the jxihee. thinking no more of the threatening h-tt r. N or there he *.> to place the package of money, the roxi dence of Mr. William Bearddey wie roldw-d of one hundred pounds "f butter, thirty pounds of pork, jiillow ease*, etc, A < hiueoe Itinera). A Siiigajxire oorr<-*|x>nderit in writing of a Chinese funeral, nays: Just before leaving town 1 w,i* delayed by an im tuerise Chinese funeral proceswion, which ' occupied a long time in |xixxuig and blocketl up the strix-t. 'l'lie first party was i-onifMMXsl of men carrying twinners and playing ou gongs, life* and various I nauii'less musical instrument*. The sound* produce I were strange and weird hut not very di*cordaut, and the nombi nation of color-. made by wariag la tiers of every shape and hue was et.ved mgly brillimit and shoivy. The hearse • was gorgvx'nolv • roam ented with curtail) ! > hanging* of blue and gold, and the cof tln witli embroidered work of the same materia!. A apecitd guard attended the hearse, aud various in.sign in were held up in front ; and a large multitude of friend* and retainers followed, all earrr mg lilue and white tinibrellos, so that it , seemed as if the whole Chinese popu lation had tune d out on the DOWUHI. Bringing up the rear were a troop of hired mourners ilrawst completely in white, with sliei'ts thrown over tileir heads, and lield exteudiug in front. Their wailing ainl crying were piteous, until we reinenilwred tliat they were paid for it. The main procession was followed hy n line of empty carriage* to bring back many who were walking ont 'of respect for the dead. Wlule walking along a street, upon another occasion, I happened to piew a hcune where there had evidently jnst lasm a death. A long rod cloth wits stretched across the door way, nnd a Chinese ceremony was going on before a little altar raised in frout of | the h on.se. (license was burning in , abundance, ami offering* were making of fruits, rice and large cocoiuiut*. ur Haul Hoods. Many of the new wool goods, a fashion . i journal say, are brvderie, as the French say, with wrought figures that look like embroidery or brocade. Some of these are all woo!, but the most elaborate have silk, satin, or velvet figures. There are gray grounds of wool cloth with silken figures of brown ; heavily twilhsl blue wool stuffs are overlaid with black satin 1 ttgnres ; gray-blue grounds have flgun-n of lighter shade. Jjea* striking than these are soft drah stuff* of fine twilled wool overlaid witli intricate tracery of the same shode or with bio* piids, or ! else little diamonds or small checks. Caslirqeree, serges, and raerinoes arc staple gisids, and apt to remain in fashion while costumes are worn, as they ' require soft flexible stuff* for drajierieH. In selecting those for the coming season the reader is a<l vised to choose very dark HhadeH of quiet colors. Camel's fiair in invisible plaids, and the strijied limotis one of last year, are provided for service able winter costumes. Those I'ln*. Speaking of General C. A. F,vans, who was lately relieved of a number of pins which had lieen knocked into him by a Millie ball during the war, the Chronicle and Sentinel of Columbia, H. 0., adds; It ia a credit to liim to say that he mails I his famous memorial address, which I breathed love and forgiveness, while those hostile pins were in his body. A fnan that can forgive his enemy with a handful of pins working abont bis body ia a Christian. France keeps a ship of war at Ajaecio constantly at the order of the Pope, iu MM he should d MII S to leav# Rows. ARONO THK WlltKF RATH, The I'Mt \V reirhe, Wke lluel the Mleer Kreeu. "What i ii ' wharf rat' and whiw is lit* to Iki found I" 1 oak"*! WW tiny of Ui 'lil aud -xjeriouoed police captain who had aaeu twenty year*' aervirvi wearing the blue uniform, unit wan will acquaint " <t with all the habits atul huuntn of tlx* outcnntn nlnt criminal classes. "A ' wb.tr/ rat,'" li answered, "in aoim-thing entirely iliffereut from all others of thiwti who "U'fy or evade tlie law. llin homo in on the docks, ami ha n only to Ik' found on the moat lonely and hunt frequented city pier*. How he liven and gets hi* fmxl and clothing is to any one who does not know the gTi-nt eity a eurioiia problem, and a aUrllitig i fin-t when analyaed. You liaio often Hirolled along Uio docks, perhaps, at -orly morning I" " Oivamotiully 1 have viaited hoiue of the docks at an early hour to get a hreath of frenh air ou n summer morn ing," I answered. "Well," he continued, "if you go early enough you may nee here and them a wretched looking man in soiled cloth mg alee i ung behind a hay bale, a pile of bricks, or a alack of lumber. lint hair will Im< full of atraw or hay, and liin fmx and akin ore of tin- color of clay, aullen •ind destitute of any high expression. Oivufuoaally you see an overgrown boy • >f the same'descnotion, hut tic scamp in not yet filed inennhcally ui his fa<v of d gradation and indifference to all things human and divine, IYrhj>* you may timl some of lh-se |ieople tiahing off the end of a wooden BlrUlgpieOU, or off Slime schooiit-r, but that is all pretense, and serves as a cover for theft or houness. Master* of vessels, schooner* and light ers have to watch carefully for these fellows, or they wall steal and get away with their plunder quicker than a light ning flash. ' ' 1 Are they in any way connected with lbs class known as river lliiuvea I" 1 aak-d. "It is a fact that the majority of the river tlnevea— the most skillful and ex pert among them—are recruited from the dock or wharf rate. Of course, audi men as the ltay Knige burglars, who were shot, do nut and could Dot have belonged to this class. ThoSe fellows were bold aud determined men, who al ways fought for a heavy stake, and tliey would despise themselves if tliey W"*re found ly mg out all night merely to *e care a piece of old junk, a coil of rope, or even a piece of old iron, copper or block lead. I believe tllt these an* the things taken principally by the dock rate, aa they are < asy to cuhv al, and shipmaster* or ahtpowners do not rare to go to UUlnxs-isary trouble to prose - cute in coses when* the loss only amounts ; ui detached uuftainva of from fifty cent* to five dollars. On the llast river side, around Hurling slip and in tliat neigh tsirhood, there an- to lie found crowds of wharf rats, weather Ix-aten old fellows who have done nothing since txiyh<x>d hut (deep ou dock* and hang an mud like "hark* for any eatable offal in the dMMTaI pio<-appli-H, gra|Ms, ■•ranges or • ilher fruit tliat may Is- oast aside ou the dis-k* from coasting or West India vea kU." " Can nothing W doue with these fal lows I" 1 inquired. "Cm they nut la put til some use iu HUUM'ty i" " Notlung iwn daw with tlo m whatever. They are a hopeless, shift less lot of wretches, whose utb-r inxig ntficauoe pr vents the law from dealing too aoven-ly with thctn, and they are so •lirty, reckless ami lazy as well as dis honest tliat tliey are fit for nothing ; a* one of those told me himself one day 111 a fit of deajHur, only to bo made manure of. I snpjxise tlint there may Is- prob ably 2,500 or 3,000 of these fellow*, boy* and meu, who come under the head of dock rats in tlna city. When want* r comes they oanuot sleep ou tlie docks as a matter of raum', and then tliey have Ito seek shelter in the police station house*, wondering from one to another, night aft r night, without hojie or care for anything, lhit it is strange th.vt even iu midwinter, if you should choose to walk down hi the river fronts, you will find some at these rats luuigmg around, liaunting the phe- where he Bjieinl* his summer vacation, for it is mention all the year around to him, and proliably some cliaritutily disposed woman on s , canal tmrit, or siime mate of n coasting or foreign schooner will give him a pn-oe of bread and meat and some potatoes for doing an mid chore, such as *wi<e|iignp j the deck, or the like, or for going to market t > get some meat or other provi k.>na far a voyage; that is, if the dook rat will bike to the work, which he gen erally doe* not. I could cite numerous instance* when* g**l Isiys, who Were wont to be regular i iu their attendance on school, and olshU- ' ent to father and mother, have born ruined finally by their lieittg sciluced by older and more vicious companion* to • visit the docks to idle nwy a day, and ! finally to sjx-nd night aft r night sway , from tln-ir homes, and at last they turn • nit to lie nothing but confirmed young blackguard* and hardened thieve* and criminal*. And for that reason I am greatly iu favor of the truant law, which make* it compulsory for children to at tend school, and thus they are kept awav from the dock* and the depravity of these assis-iatii'iiH and bad company. | I found in a boy's pocket one night, and who hod onlylweii nbsent from klkmil a ' few days for the first time in his life, S2OO in $lO bills, which he had taken out of a drunken man's pocket* who hnd gone to sleep on th< ilock iu a stupor of • unconscitmsnt w. I took him home to hi* parents, and found the man wlio ownel the money. The lal was only eleven years of age, and hod Ix-en in dnced to rol> the drunken man hy a con firmed wharf rat older than himself, who ran off frightened, while the smaller I*>Y took the money. None of these dock rats ever bathe ; and as their live* are spent in the neighlMirhiMMl of so much water, they have no excuse for lack of clmnline'Vi. JVr-tr York T< try ram. Personal Influence. We have tlm following illustration of |>er*omil influence and personal devotion in the history of the Napoleonic cam- • paigriM: When the al'ieil army entered France, a company of ]Milish soldiers forming a part were engaged in the pillage of private property. A grnv liaired old man remonstrated against their action, saying : " When I was a soldier the rights and property of peace ful citizen* were respected." 'flie Polish soldiers rudely demanded : " Who are you that dares to reprove ns?" The old man answered : "I am Kosciusko." Immediately every cap was off, and on their knees they lagged the pardon and blessing of that conquered hero wliose misfortunes in the cause of his country, even more than his valor, were embalmed in every Polish heart. Mail Itch. In Tipiiecanoe county, Ind., ens hun dred and forty animals died in great agony of this malady. It is a cuta neous disease, affecting the head and neck mainly, anil causing the animal to rub the affected parts against trees and fences to obtain relief, but the pain in- 1 creases until the animal Vieoomes raving, refuses food and dies. No remedy is stated in the report. A strong decoction of tobacco juice, rubbed in with a brush, has always proved an effectual remedy where we have seen the disease prevail, though wo have knowu melted lard ami sulphur assd with effect. \ lightning and Howe of Its Kffeet*. The last two motitlis have been re markable for the number of immune who have I* en killed or injured during than by lightning Statistics in regard to this I mint axe not complete, but those tliat isve lieeli gathered show alsrtlt one jier sou each day struck hy this subtle and 1 powerful agent in various pari* of the Union, aliout half as many iLaving been killed a* tiave I men merely injured. 1 >nalh hy lightiuug is not at any time no rare an occurrence as it is commonly thought to le, but electrical disturb aiices during the present summer have beeu greater alnl more frequent than usual. The heavens have beeu at war with the earth with water and fire, and have Hin-o-eded iu doing much injury to their old antagonist. Flood*, htirricanes, and cyclones, hail and lightning have wrought uncommon di-aster, and, iu not predicting the immediate destruction of the world, persons of s prophetic, seventh seal, and Millente tendency have not shiwri themselves fully aware to the i op|M.rtuiiitim of the time. The " freaks of lightning" has become a common phrase, no other force than electricity ever la-ing guilty of such enormous and wonderful yet common departure* from their ordinary workings with such ter rific e fleet. If it were possible for gravitation to iudulge iu such freaks ■ if there were ixsuutcal storms ui which the worlds *it sent whirling thr<nigh on the nislaut, knocking their heails together, and tlieu the ciMimical sky should clear off, the uebul roll awav, the central Muu shine out and all be lovely again— if this we juMHible we should have to ark homes in Mr. Proctor's "Otlier Wortda than Ours " for tmace and quiet- Unas. LightliUig cau never W counted on to act iu anv given way ; souietinms it apjmam as a ball of fire rulliug along tin- ground and exploding with a trrrific uoine or going quietly into the earth ; sometimes it hovers and flashes close to the earth or water ; again, in a zigzag line it leap* from cloud to aloud or di rectly to the earth ; nu-Uuies a man is -truck aud uo lightning w seen ; some time* it touches * man and gently melts his watch, doing no other harm ; anon it strike* a house, runs down the chim ney and, finding nothing of mure im portance to do, luudlv sends a poker fly ing through the window, nu-lts a copper kettle aud then runs down a rat bole. Its favorite maneuver is to tear off the sole of a watt'* boot OO lis passage to the < arlh. It lias a peculiar effect in hastening the decay of animal tisaue, and not infrequently the person who is killed by it is almost instantly so far pu- Irefal that he ha* to be buried at once. It is mud. though with what truth w know not, that in the eye of a person struck and killed by the discharge there is always a peculiar spot on the eyeliall, produced by the extrsvszatiou of blood caused by the sudden expansion and rupture of minute blood vonaela It was rrnce snppoMil that wighlMinng treos were NowelttnoH ph<it< graph*l ou tlie Imhlv of the person struck, but recently it h:u ben shown that tlie appearance <>f tie tree i* but the <x>Uimou abonxa tiou of electricity which every ou* who ha* noticed a highly charged Leydeu jar has Mi 11. o the elcctrwity canape* into the air or lick* arotnid to the tinfoil on the outride. The same effect may Iw obtained by diachargmg lightning over a *h"-tt of gtaea on which sUam has lawn ooude'.iiM-d. The safest place dur mg a thutid< r storm is in tl- center of a room, and if one i* very uervoti* he may 1 put tumbler* under the leg* of the chair on which he sit*, for electricity always necks the path of the least reMtanoe. The Story of hi- I<ovc. it has l>eell publinhed in some of tlie umuerous biographies of ex Preaidenf Johnson tliat his first love affair was | one of flirtation upon tln> part of the { lady in question, and tliat her treat i tneiit of Mr. Johnson was abith-r disap pointment to lum formany year*. Kuch ; do not hapjwu to be tlie facts Only so late a* the Sunday before lie died, says • sui exchange, in after dinner convents-, tion witli his m>u ainl lus tirivate secre- : tary, Mr. Juhnson Jctailei the circnm- ' Htaiices attending the affair as follow*: 1 After nearly serving out hi* j*i>retitioe- i ship st Raleigh, he vi*it-d and eugagesl at jiWirney work at I .aiireus Courthouse, | Soutii Carolina. Whil* here he met and lovod a hand Mime and accomplished ' lady of exix-llent family. She returned 1 In* affection with equal warmth and they livame eiigg*l to fe married. When , the subject aa* brought to the att ntion of her parents th*y objected to the match, on account of Mr. Johuson's youth and povertv. He immediately went to the yming lady, stated the result , of his proposition, and said to hor that tlie only course left to them was to part and drop the whole matter as completely as though it had never leen. f lTi this proposal the lady did not seem well dis posal, and she "told Mr. Johnson that she hail every confidence iu him, aud was willing to intrust her life and their mutual fortunes to his cam H believed that honor demanded tlie course he had indicated, ai.ii lie so aud. He feared hi* motive* might lc misconstrued, awl this was someUiing his priile could not brook. And thus they parted. Mr. Johnson was, indeed, disappointed, but | not by any action of the lady whom hi* j i had addressed. He met her only onoe j after, in 1H55, on a subsispient visit to j Laiirciiß Courthoiw, when oho was the | uiotlii r of an interesting family. So j . much for the truth of history. Inlrodiicing Yellow Fever. The Pension)la correspondent of the j Atlanta tfrrald writes as follows, con i corning the ravngca of the yellow f'ver j t Fort Harrnncas : The dii>"a*e haslvsin • definitely ascertained to have hnd its origin from the bnrk Von Moltke, whicli put into the imrt in <listrens, ln-r creV Ix'ing down with the fever. She, it sivni*, ns is customary, was Ixmrded ' while out of sight of land, by a pilot, j and by him brought over the bar. I>i- j covering yellow fever on Isiard of her, j lie slipped off and went ashore, and | ' ther.ee proceeded to his house, im : mediately a.ljoining Harmuena. Having ! leen in close contact with the siek crew for a nunilier of hours, he of course car ried the disease to the land in liia cloth j ing. As soon a* it was ascertained that : he had been on lx>ard the Von Moltke ' he was straightway sent to quarantine, ■ where lie will remain until frost comes. ! Seven 1 Joke on his lloy. A member of the class of 1875 at j Harvard College returned from the sea j shore to his home iu the suburbs of Huston a night or two ago, and while ho j was enjoying the pleasure* of the home j circle hii father stole unobserved from the room, and taking lii* position under one of the windows pnswded to play upon a lorrowed cornet the well known mr so dear to tho hearts of all Harvard men. Instantly the youth was fully aroused, the gas was turned up, pre paration for a collation begun, ami an abundant welcome extemporized for the supposed company of classmates who were secreted about the grounds. A | search for them, however, was unsuc cessful, and the paternal impostor was at length detected just as he hail l>eguu serenade number two. To eall a woman a piano, is deemed an actionable slander in Canada —proba- bly because it seem* to imply that she's 1 fori*. Term*: 02.00 a Year, in Advance. THE AMATEUR ENGRAVER t Or. Ikf MraAiaa I* aa AtirrdMam. A few year* ainca the writer of the fol lowing sketch was one of tlie <eliturs alitl proprietor* of a daily aud weekly new l*|e-r, pul'lnthed in one of tlie large town* m western New York. Among tlie numerous patr -um of the pafwr waa a man whom I ahalt dearrilia as Levi Lapp, a carjienter by tmle, and a vary clever man in his way, Imt aa the sequel shows, entirely unacquainted with the art which claims lis it* sinning lights Hie names of GutteiiWrg and Pa*t. Having ixuiniderable itigeuatty as well as buauasM qualiLiea, Mr laipp had re cently purchased the right to nuuiufae turi- a |latent pump, vliidi he was very desirous of introducing to the public through the columns of our ja|>er. In other words, he wanted to advertise it, and, in the course uf conversation about the pnoe and other details, mentioned to me that he would like s cut of his new pump inserted as a 1 leading to his adver tisement. I replied, " Very welL" and immediately asked, " Hsve you the out here t" He reut>eil, " No, but 1 have got one *1 my house, aud will bring it in." Hf mud to aie: " Now y<tt can p*H in my cut, and do ao at unw, for 1 wish to ] aro it tb prmt iu y<ur pwx-r. * " Whero u your cut t' 1 *k-d. " Ou tltc bul." he rrplind, With all the anriouautwa of a j*st captain. I then told hint that it wotid require* | block of wood cat by an engraver ui the >dni)M4 and likena** of a pump ; that tlua wwm caitr>d a cut or engraving, and that it would have to be uand ui th- press in oouncctiou with the typea, to make up such an advertiacment übe desired. I ' told him who oonid do the and the p reliable expctiae—aunw fifteen or twenty dollar*. A bright idea appeared k> influence Mr. law>, aiul he informed 1 me that he ' thought lie could do the job jnmxetf, and nave just ao much outlay. I told him if ' Ha could it would ■ uit me equally aa well; but 1 thought he would find it a trifle difficult. We ae panted, ami I Haw no more of Levi Lapp for several weeks. In fact, I | had forgotten all about the matter. One .'Doming, bright and larly, aa I waa busy at the desk, in came Mr. happ m a groat I blunter and hurry. H ouiSLiy explain -d iiiniAelf, ami mud he had lua cut flu -1 lahed, and had brought it as a heading to his advertiaemeut. 1 mud —" Very well ; where is it t" Me answered —" Downstairs." Without giving the matt, r a moment's thought, I said to him : " Bring it up." And he instantly left the room for that purpose. Hu. liack was hardly fumed, b <w eviv, lieforr the thought struck me that be had rather a huge engraviug for a ] jwr of lnmUvl sine like ount And call lug hi the foreman to see if 1 was not correct in my opinion, 1 turned again to the dusk. The foreman waa back in an instant, and I was soon aware that Levi Lapp'a bright idea had grown into giant propor tion*, and tliat the engravu g or cut he had brought for our press was no leaa than a veritable wood pump of full aire, even to the pump-log, chain, crank and water-spout. Lapp was proceeding to bring his ] " extended cut" into our establishment, but at thai very moment waa deterred from executing his plan hj llie ah<>uta and laugliter of the entire ririntiug office fori*, including the devil himself, who ntood at the window making m< rry at hi* experae. I The true condition of affair* alowly j dawned upon Mr. L*pp'* viaiou ; and j when informed that be hadtaade a much larger " cut" than the present condition I of the art preservative wouid justify, he ' hurriedly replaced hi* " migraving ' on the wagon that brought it, to our door, and drove off, evidently making a great er impmimoti in this way than the pump could, by any possibility, &ve made iu our limited establishment. ! Halo Around the Sun. Newspapers printed in Syracuse, Utioa, Schenectady and TVoy, X. Y., in Hut hunt, Vt., and Laemiiu N. H., make 1 mention of a remarkable hul" around the sun which was seen ou a lake Huiulay. The Syracuse Journal thus descrilH* it : Shortly after teu o'clock a complete luminou* circle around thx* sun, of the colors of the raintiow, was seen, and at tlie name time, in the oast a segment of a brilliant rainbow, with another scarcely less distinct in the south, and, directly overhead, several concentric rings like their counterpart, the main circle about I the sun, were also visibfc*. This phe- j nomenon continued in mch brilliancy for alxmt half an hour, ami for an hour J the halo alwut the sun was distinctly, though lees brilliantly, viable. During a part of the time, the sun's disc ** traversed by a vertical liand of white, and the circle around the sun inclosed j an elliptical band of white whose ex treme length extended from one inner I aide to the other of the eifeks northerly | and southerly. With the aid of a sniok.d ghiKs these various bows were , distinctly to lie seen, but to the naked eye the spectacle was oppressive. The IHIWS in the east and south were in oppo sition to the ring abont the sun (like the ordinary raiubow), but only a small part of either of the arches were visible. Exportation* of Wheat. The quantities stated below are the number of bushels of wheat exported from the United States to all foreign j countries. The years end June 30 : vw Bmaksli. iSu ..." ... 8. (WilllS 1 1860.... tlM.l4*' 1861 * 51.338.UTi7 ISS-J 97,886 079 1868 - 88,100.414 1*64 33.6*1.7)2 i JB6-, . 9.937.153' 1W.;.,: 6,579,101 I 1*67 - 146 *ii i 186* ....... 16. M 0,699 I IMI ;;;; 17,557,*30 I*7o 5C.5*1,115 I*7l .. 34..301,900 1*73 ' 36.439 o*B 1*73 59.9n4.335 1*74 71J139.928 j*7s S#oo,ooo The quantify stated for 1875 is partly estimated. Ity the official rr]K>rt of the bureau of statistic* of commerce and navigation the exports for the eleven months ended May 81 were 47,28*2,589 bushels. _____ lie of Hood Cheer. A mnn who acquires a luibit of giving way to depreasiou is on the rood to ruin. When trouble comes upon him, instead of rousing his energies to combat it, he wiiakrns, and his faculties grow dull, and his judgment becomes obscured, and ho sinks iu the slough of despair. And if aiiylxidy pulls him out by main force and places him on solid ground, he stands dejected and discouraged, and is pretty sine to waste the means of help which have lieeu given him. How dif ferent it is with the man who takes a cheery view of life even at its worst, and faces every ill with unyielding plnek ! He may be swept away by an overwhelm ing tideof misfortune, but ho bravely struggles for the the shore, and is ready to make the liest of the help that may be given him. A cheerful, hopeful, coura geous disposition is an invaluable trait of character, and should be assiduously cultivated. Miss Agnes Livingston, the oldest daughter of the explorer, has just marri ed a brewer—Alexander Uruee. NO. 36. KU.A* HIYIKU BEE*. It*w k u i> it. ui il fcs ; UMa'i IN It. Tht- old gentbuiMi'a name uHiltla, and thai of hlfl eldest m ia George ; hi* wife> name is Matilda, atui hi* thr- pretty daughters are named Helen, Alton and B*a* , there i* a little Htl*, too, and an older boy whose name la too queer to mention. The bees had alighted in a great Ima oh. mi larg* a* a hall bushel measure, on the limb of a poach tree m the vara. . You all know how it i* done. A table ia placed under the overhanging limb, mj treed with a clean white cluUt, and the ' hive placed thereon. Then one u! the bo/a, on. thai i* good fur nothing viae, ia rent into the tree with a aaw to aevar the limb ; the limb come* down *lowly and ready, and the old garni below, dreaaed in a great coat, biuskakin gloves, cowhide boot*, and a bad quilt tied around bu head and fam, elyly manipulates a twig from the teae, and* in two minutes baa safety ABWttl j every bee to Miter the hive,during all ofi * which time Mali tie and Hateu and Alice and Hume pound the bottom* out of just t four tin paun, little Hilas does hi* prrt tieat yolluig. while the bov with the queer name i* iust old enough and aharp enough to ahpVx-hind the bouse and wait for the thing to aome to a point. That ia the way :t ought to hare gone off , but that um'lthe war it did. Bliss. the eider, wa* very comfortably bundled up fur so warm a day, and be had hie suit well arranged, oulv he forgot to tie strings around the bottoms of hie punt* 1 *lh bees had settled on the limb of a peach tree, and BOae. when hia tobk and white cloth and hive were all ready, commanded : I •' how, Gwovge, grab that old runty aaw and climb ; 1 guoae you run rt thai * auall limb off easy enough. George was just home from a six month* 7 term at school. and he fall a great tend* lie we for bis father, and woaid have gone through a patch U Una the barefoot to please the aid gent, and yet he had a particular dread for thej •' bomaree end' of a bee, Mid partial larly of such a crowd of them. But 1M obeyed, and began to fiddle away u j tiouslr upon the particular limb. One „ little bunch of bee* dropped off and wen* regod ; another and another smalt bunch dropped, and the prospect rermed good, when Buddeidv an <44 honey - maker, who bad been in the business before, soared upward. George abut ap one eye quark, gave one terrific surge on the old rasty j aaw, got out of that tree at one jump, and hia anxious mother oaugh* one glimpse of him as be flew around th s corner of the hern twenty roda away. Hot poor old Stia*! The beea came down, and he thought the bunch wa* as lug as a haystack now. They did cot go into the hive, but they went through hi* overcoat and bad-qtuH a* if these had only been mosquito bars, and they climbed up the uiaide at his pants logs, and the old gent danced aa he had never t , danced before ; and he alapped hia leg*, a* he never allowed any one else to alap them, and hi* voice towered high above the clatter of the tin pane aa<l the shrieks of little Hi la* a* he veiled : M Throw water on me 1 throw water oo t me ! soak me, wet me down I" lie rolled three or four time* over in the gran*, and sprang op, shouting " Slap me! (dap me! Can't you d*p met" in the midst of which little Silas crept np Ixdnnd hi* iufuriated pa and dealt lum a Lively one with a ahingfe ; bat poor little Silas landed the next ( second against the milk house, for hia pa j took him and hi* ahmgle for a thousand been, and gently brushed them off. O, the agony of that three minutes' jig. He apjwwled to his wife. "Matilda, for Heaven'* sake, bring me another pair of breeches, won't yon 1 But these things dent last alwajm, any more than any other bawpimwa, Mid after a few minutes the old gent came limping out of the cellar with the t breeched on that Matilda brought him, feeling much easier, but certainly much fatigued, just as George got lock from , the barn and the boy with the queer name slipped around the corner of the house. Both boy* were very anxious to know how matter* stood and naked ; " Did you git em hired, pu V j < But the old man was too mad to, answer or even look at his boys. He j turned to little Silas and said : " Little one, you meant all right, and I'm sorry I coned you so; next time | don't slap so hard." Then to hia wife : " MatiUla, to you 1 , owe everything. Accept my heartfelt gratitude. We ll take no more stock in bees. I have made up my mind, and it's settled. May our quiet, peaceful farm homo never ha so stured up again, > Seems to me I never had so much of life crowded into s few short minutes be fore. Hun after the cows, now, boy*; be off, for it's almost dark." • The French Zouaves. Those regiments serve in Africa and nowhere else. They may, in thv event of war—■ wa* the case in the Italian , and the Franco-German campaigns—he called upon to take the field elsewhere, hut only for a season. So soon aa peace 1 is proclaimed Lbey have a right to de mand lieiug seat bark to Algeria. The men are nearly all volunteers. The offi cer* oan exchange with their comrades in the tine corps, but as a rule it is found that hi *ll ranks those who make the best soldiers for Algeria are of little or no use in home garrisons, and g< naralty reek ere long to return to the wilder life of Afrioa. Tn the ranks of these French Algerian corps are to be found a class of volunteers who *hun service in Fiance, but who make the very beet scldiem for the work they have in Africa. There are | men who have failed iu life— youug men of good (amity who have run through their means, who cannot Jig. who are ashamed to beg, and would be almost more ashamed to enlist in a regiment serving in their native laud. Aa a mat-, ter of course a certain portion of these men go from ld to worse; but as rule they reform, throw all their energies into their new career, and after some Tears obtain commissions in the army, j Very few year* ago there wss iu the French service no fewer than two mar shals, six generals of division, ten gen erals of brigade, and aome sixty colonels who had gone through this ordeal.— t /Voter's Magasin*, t The Turf. The free for-all race at Rochester, N. Y., brought out Goldsmith Maid, Loin, Nettie, and American Girl. The betting was four to one on the Maid, and, with her out, fifty dollars to forty dollars on American Girl against the field. Lulu. broke up badly on the scoring. The first heat was won by Goldsmith Maid in ! 2:154, *ith American Girl, who had the lead at the half, a good second, Lulu third, and Nettie fourth. The second, heat was wou by Lulu in 2:164, beating the Maid by half a length, amid the t wildest excitement, Nettie third, American Girl fourth. The third heat was won by Lnln in 2:164. Bh® crossod the wire a length and a half ahead of the Maid, Nettie third, American Girl just saving her distance. The fourth heat and ruoe was won by Lnln in 2:17, lead ing the Maid by a head only, American Girl third, Nettie last. These are the beet four consecutive heats on rooord. The Louisiana census makes the pope-' lalioii of New Orleans 206,090. M Hem* of Interest. A sardine factory has been started * Bsstport, Maine The sardines will be manufactured frem young herring. The feet is watt grewUincd that there are im'* held in Europe over #260,000,- 000 Of bonds. <4' A thousand flashes of lightning were counted tn'at hour during 8<" .t storm on the 7th of July t Oenovj, Switzerland. Bathing in ttowk* I* getting to lie a ! sea-side fashion. But keen otnwrm* notice that tba mask *m Nmounto a liandsome figure. Why Is s church bell more affable than a etrareli organ t Ben***" <>n will go when It is tolled, and the other will be "blowed" finfi. The MM Harmon rnnnnN 1 it-ty j passing threagh Glimsg i are deecrtbed i so dirty, mgged, asd mwittypnddlc aged j nam and ttouiim. f Wh*|Qnw< after Tf" naked a tt-ach sr of aaw-': j-uptl who was learning the alphabet, Bo ftesired lb* bewild. ring ! rt:jply : " Y.m da—to w* 'idea. „ The man who msfiw ahoed feake in a IJhicago re*tui*t was so un entitled ill bM tvfisinrea tlutth* r# ivwl a , Ksiaiy i4*m par weak during the sea- MO, [•[ , , f A father hxs fllcl a notic under the Adair law *i|h the olrk of ChiilMxitbe, Ohio, warning saloon keeper* not to aell . hqndr* to bis daughter and ] |wil gty&v. A servant girl In Philadelphia, who never had an offer of murriagt- before, I ha* had sixteen aiaoe *hn fell le-ir to gtiO.OOO a month age. Lore ia mighty ; so is oaah- HnanlUwf ia all the surroundings of s family mansion, pays richly in many way*, in good health, moral el. vation, personal comfort, and dollars sad w nts Umidtii, A dMsndoot old man In New Orleans, njx/Ti hearing his tarn asy that work ■•** scares and poorly paid, went out of the • bouse sad shot himself, so as to remove one harden. Acoording to the JbUfr-Ocean tiers are 25,0(jU young men in Chicago who otai't afford to many. And we ve no doold tlist 45,000 youug women are all the happier on that account. Why is the letter R very unfortunate Because it is uhrey# i trouble, wrett h edneni, and miatwy, ia ths beginning of riot and nun, and is never found in i pesos, iuOMfatt, OX love. The Baste® editor aaid ho wrote as plain as could be, " TV sacred Vavens around, him ahine," when the blasted printer wnt and made tt. "The seared hyanaa around him shine!" Late .advices from the Handwhicli island* state that whisky, onium and .vmcnbfeitg.-sre <*rrying off the |kj|!.- iaUn ao rapidly that aativw will be few and fhrtortween in a abort time. tn Britain, a thonaandyear* ago, there I were two tuuiis of eurreoey ; known ax ' '* hviug money " and " dead m.mey," the former ouaauttng of alavre and oat i tie and the latter j qgocs of metal. There ia aoentenmal bed rope. Cha-. Crosamao, of Brunswick, Me., has it. It i* rna.lv of whale's sinew*, and has never "been taken out of the bedstead since it was first art up, a hundred years ago. He was a mean man wtio, when a>iked far has money or hi* life, requested the burglar to take the life of hi- wife, as Mba could not paanlitylive if he died, i but ha amid worry ana* without her. A migmtory sheep maw in Beatrice Neb., haaa floek of eight hundred ahivp. Hia home ia on wheels, and with hia family he moves from place to place, wherever be can find good grazing land*. " There's SWk) of hard-earnf-l money in that draaa," aaid Smith, a* be watch ed Mr*. H. mmrnig akiug, before him. " Which explains, remarked hiafri.-nd, why money ia ao tight." Smith wept. Mip Joseph Cuater of Worcester, Penn., stnng by a lee. fied a tew day* after, her arm dwelling to the ahoulder, and * vsUowiah liquid bt-ing diaeharg.-d from it tfi several piaoes where it brc.su out. The sugg.-etu u of a fear that Stanley Lave been canght and eaten byu cannibal, nrowkee fnm the Louis ville (\mrier-Joamat tba reaponae that nobody eares what tmppeusto a canni bal.'' . . Tba kiat by dertruction of crops through the n-oewt fioqfis and rains m the United States will amount to about the same a* the km by the Chicago fire; in round numbers, two hfindred tailliotu* of dollars. The Mffwankee circuit court has done something of whk-b it aa? well be proud, having cheerfully cuasente-d to ahaagw the name of Mr. Charles Ignatius Syt )vej'aukltcww*, of that city, to Charles Ignatius FhgeL The United Stales Centennial com mittee has resolved to refuse space to private exhilutors whose government., like those of Russia and Italy, have ue clmt-J to take official recognition of the mtematinnal erhibition. The fTanrmt Farmer says the question now to be heard on all side* is: *' Where <mn *e f?Pt tn feed ottr own to t" The Vrree thai haws gone through the season'a work oc graaa food are ia better oooditton than they were last year by grain. Another instaare of the decline of ' British justice is fdtmdhi the fateof an ErigHsftrnun who reasntly appropnatel : another auk UOilwella on a miuy day, and haa, ainoa been aentenoe.l to three month* imprisonment by a London There an over 2,700 varieties of applea known by over 1,800 names, 2,200 of pears, 200 of cheiriea. 150 of plums, 300 of our native grspea, fifty of currant*, eighty of nspbrrius, and thirty of blackborrieo, according to a counting up of wautebody. Mary Saffurd-Blake, in a letter from Halt Lake, ssvs: 1 met with a woman phvrician here-who i* doing a thriving practice. The specialty here in medical practice Ims always beeu entrusted to women. Now % elm* of twenty-five girla an- studying metUcine, preparatory to a more complete course. Twenty-six years ago when a Bohemian Jew wished to stop at the mining towu of Pritbram, in Bohemia, he ooul.l atop Urn two bourn only. He oouhl not stay longer without obtaining official periuiM aton. At present thure is in the town a well-oonduoteil Jewish congregation, which has the good will of the christian i mid onto i i Ckealcal COBStltnents of the Brain. Some interesting investigations recent ly made by M. Gofiley into the chemical 1 constitution iff the brain, show that th<> human cerebral swbstiTwe contain* about eighty per cent, of water; and that two albuminoid matters. anr jweseut, one not. differing from albwunyi ami soluble iu water, whilo tlu> ofii&t i? insoluble, and ' for this the invPstigutOr propos<>s the name of ceplmline. The fatty eulwtaucc ! of the brain, hte finds, is formed prin cipally of chplasteria, lecithin and cere bin, also oleiu and margarin, aud the organ contain* likewise certain salt . some soluble in water -and in alcohol, other* soluble to water an I not in alcc- I hoL During decompeeition, the oere bral pulp furnishes acid products, among which are oleic, uiargaric, phos pho-glyceric atid phosjmoric acids. • ' ■ ' *"* * Crops and Floods. The damage done to the crops by the late floods amounts in many cases to i half their valuer 'ldaNew York Herald aaya; la it not tiigo that some w cou sidered plau were adopted by the nationul , government to tvanedj fhe oril which iu most eases is tho resnlt of defective | drainage or a badly constructed system .of levees ? The increased value of th > crops would sopu pay t " e outlay. Ta* Hoiuanw las are AsTwrn.— It having been chsig-1 that the txr<l of dirsctork of the State Homeopathic asylum for the insane, at Middlotomi. Ni Y., designed to change the treotmevl there to allopathic, the boaiil, at a me< t ing held, Fletcher Harper, from New York, mesiding,. adopted a draft of s a circular, deiiviug. tlip. accusatiou, c* - . -oniihriil ns 1/ .. t i '
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