Afloat. MT IW* keep tune to halt * rhyme. Thst slij a sivl fliJee r from me ; Aciowi ray mind, lik r iHe wind, A lost tVoiifrtit t-ii. iihltrilT. Adream, kitoat, my little boat And 1 alone ute*; mt to sea ; One ranisluxt year, U l.wl and deal ! Yon reset tlie lutle txat for tne. Ati ! who can aiug of anything With none to litu lovingly? Or wlio can tiuie tlie oare to rhyme When left to row alone to eea V —JfiuoheCA Sfu<irt Phtlyn, The Reaper*. The reaper* bend their lnety hack* ; Tlieir eounduig wokle* away ; At evwry atroke the goldeu eea Reoedee to give them way. The heavy ear* fall bowing down, And nestle at their feet. Such will, anoh work, an their'* perforce Must win—must homage meet. So oareleee of fatigue they go. So true, eo steadily, The admiriug traveler on the road Leans o'er the gate to see ; With marvel of the soon-fallen breadth The lontlgiiig goeetpe UiU ; But the reeper* labor for ua all; Ti* need they ahould work wall. Ere the greet euu that borne above Shall cximeon in the west. And the ohildran'e poppy roeegaya fade. And they Ue down to reel. Each gulden epeer that upward pouile Shall fall upon the field. And the farmer dram a sparkling glass, Rejoicing o'er the field. Ply, bonny men. your sickles bright. And give the people bread! At every conquering stride you take Ou want and woe you tread Drop, heavy ears, and give the strength Too gathered from the plain, Tliat men may rise refreshed and firm, And do great things again ' God hi ess the hands, all hard and brown. That guide the cleaving plow, That cast abroad the ahimug eocd. And build the wealthy mow ! They rear the bread our children eat; lis by their toil we live . Hurrah ! give them the loodeet cheer That grateful hearts can give 1 .. . ■ a i THE BANE PRESIDENT. i'rsa revertv te f*r AwMtll* *f -Wra Hera law-Tk* Bssk eft allfarala Nslk. ta bel William C. Kalalaa—Tbe Kaar- raaaa Aoytratlsa* aa* Deaiti** tf Hot*. From mate of a Mississippi steamboat to litW of on© of the largest banking in -tuutions in the world—undoubtedly the largest in this Western half of the world—seems a transformation ibuxling and dramatic. But it was a gradual one. In this instance, as in all others, it was no royal nwd that led to positiou and power. The climb was a hard one and kail its different stages and halting places; by no single bound was the height reached. Different indeed the fall. Yesterday, looking up, m-n won dered ; to day, looking down, they stand aghast. For one of the adventurous who then stood with feet seemingly lirrn planteil high np the hill, which so many aspire to climb, now lies a crush ed and shapeless mass at oar feet. Less far indeed from top to bottom than from Inittom to top ; for the one journey years are necessary, for the other a single urinate suffices. It is very hard at just this point to refrain from preaching, i Bnt I will. The corpse found floating and drifting about the bay of San Fran cisco has been dragged ashore, and if you can look upon it without learning something, all that the ghastly lesson conveys, indeed, a sermon would but be thrown away. William C. Ralston was the most rest less and ambitions man I ever knew, and among restless and ambitions men my lot has principally fallen. As already hinted, his l>egiuning was an obscure one. The precise details of his early life I do not remember, and will not endea vor to repeat, though I have hail them from his own lips. But unless I much mistake, the banks of the Mississippi river were the only banks with which he had to do prior to immigrating to Cili-! forma in the early gold days, and with these he had to do in the capacity of mate—some say deck-hand only—of a stern-wheel steamer. To the conqrarattve lownees of this starting point, may we not attribute that aspiring ambition which led to a fall i For you may have noticed that men born to a "middle station in life plod always ia it contentedly, while those bora in the lower levels are scarce ever satisfied till they have climbed to the top of the social shaft. It does not exactly follow that those who start on the top ronnd of the ladder are uneasy till toey have climbed to the b> >ttoni, bnt it is very | frequently the case. In this matter society is like the outran, that which breaks loose from the Irattom struggles up, and g<x&l ship* which are launched and expectod to swim on the snrfoo- go dowu if accident kiux-ks a hole in them. Little by little, Mr. Ralston got on. But the more he got on the longer were hi* strides. Most men set for themselves a point in life at which to rest when reached—at least they any they will rest at it; he never did. The only point where he projxiaed to stop was when he had gotten a* far a* be conld go, and this programme carried with it very few limitation*, a* you can well imagine. Nothing short of all could satisfy the man. As in business, so with pleasure. For pleasure in itself he did not really care—indeed, I much doubt if he knew what it was. Lavish surrounding* con tributed little to hi* happiness, but be maintained tlie establishment of a prince. How it was afterward, wtien railroad* came to be built, I do not know, but in the day of my knowledge he was whirled to hia country seat by relays of horses at tbe close of each day's business, with all the speed and more of style than any two railroads oould furnish. For horses, as horses, he cared very little, and abont horses, as horses, he knew less ; but his stables were full of the most famous of goer*. For wine, he had no inordinate fondness, I thiuk, bnt down in hia cellars you found brands which are commonly supposed to !>e reserved for the tables of royalty alone. His "hospitality " was marvelous ; but I do not know that any one can say he wax hospitable. Go to him with a ietter of iatrodu<-tion—or without one, if yon hap)>en to be an eminent editor, prize-fighter, lawyer, theologian, or a memlx-r of any one of the learned professions—and he insisted upon yoa making his house your home while you stayed, furnishing yon with horses, steamboats, palaoe cars, or any thing else yon wanted to go with when you went. Invited down to his country seat, you were at liberty to remain as long as you pleased, and perliaps you would not see your host more than once daring your visit. The whole ranche and all at cou- taine.l were at your disposal, however, ami if a man could no- enjoy himself with such freedom of range i.s this, the fault surely could be but his own. I I have heard it said that the Bau<t of California allowed him $25,000 a year wherewith to entertain Eastern visitors. A rain, I have heard it stated that no •limit was fixed, but that a carte blanche was given him to entertain valuable visi tors as ho pleased, and that at the end of the year he drew for the total expense incurred. If you ask me which of these t&ori'-s I believe, I reply, without the least hesitation, neither! You have heard of the Bank of Cali fornia, of which William C. Ralston was E resident at the time of his death, per ans. Do you know what it was ? No ? Well, the Bank of California was Wil liam C. Ralston. At the time of its or ganiz itiou he was cashier only, it is true, lmt if you suppose that the president of n bank is auything loss or is meant to be anything more tlina a respectable llgure b '"ail, you know less about banks in gen cial, .mi New York banks in particular, KKKI). KURTZ. Kditor tuul Proprietor. VOL. V 111. than ouo would sup}***- |x nobble iu this age *■£ general enlightenment. As cashier, Willmiu C. Ralatou ran Urn (rank. As president he run th bank. The I sink he always was, mul whon the bank uo longer wo*. ho died—by suicide, some SAT —imtur.illy enough, sV I. Here you have the whole history of the lrank in s nutshell. As for the directors or trustees, ull, they wore g.xxl men and rich men, undoubtedly ; and as such they, in common with other ikiokbold em, will now have ail jpivirtuuitv of performuig the tlrst retU duties which the honorable situation of stockholder or director makes imperative, via., paving in a handsome assessment to make their stH\k gvsHl. Thus the end crowns the work, and perluqw some day the day of dummies will be done. It may tie complained that I liavo writ ten too much about an individual and too little about an institution. Hut it was necessary to tell what the one was in order to explain the workings of the other. The I lank of California was restless and ambitious, in direct resjKnuw to the characteristic* of its founder. The two pulses lieat together. As a synonym for strength, its name on the Pacific coast long ranked next to Lliat of the Hank of England. As a power, the Bank of Kngland was but a country schoolinaxtor iu ixuupariaon with this most despotic cab {>h —looallv considered, I mean. The Bank of Oaliiornia either controlled, or meant ultimately to gain , the control of every tiling on the coast. It was at any time ready to contract to take all the quicksilver, all the cattle, or all the wool that the country produced. A small slice of a valuable mine would not be touched at any price But go to it with a controlling interest to dispose of, and you could name your own terms —that is to any, if William 0. Kaistou wan toil it Anything thai he wanted, from a Congregational charch to s mountain in the uttermost wilderness of Nevada, the Bank of California was will ing to buy or take on deposit It was a power in politics, a mighty eugiue iu elections, a Colossus lx-*triduig the Btab* as well as the mastodon of the rnunioqrality of San Francisco ; admit tedly it controlled the courts, but still its restless arms were outroadn-d for fur ther conquest. (Again 1 tind it very hard to refrain from moralising. I'll do it though, or perish nobly in the attempt) If you deem such a monopoly as the Bank of California actually was (to say i nothing of what it threatened to lueoiae) detrimental to the morals of a commu nity, iujarions iu the highest drgne to the welfare of a Btate, 1 11 not quarrel with you. But if you think such a monopoly has ever reared its head, or gone on breathing for any comfortable length of time, without getting bowled down at the good Lord's earliest leisure, you're less devout than I, and we'll say nothing more al-out it, for fear of getting into a theological disputation, s sort of cudgel play that should be avoided in August. It never seemed to me that William C. Ralston lid business for the pur;* .-X- of making money, exactly. He did busi ness mainly for sake of >k>ing busi ness, and this, to my Blinking, is not the legitimate end of business doing. If the excitement alone is wanted, why not gamble! Why do business unless you do it with a money success in view I If it's to come to the same thing at last, I, for one, had rather lounge than seize the greasy reins of commerce in my mad grasp. Sooner far would I go charioteer - mg through the world in an ox cart than driving a random tandem. So with pleasure. If there's no fun in it, I don't want any. (As for lagging a nine-pound gnu over the fair face of creation, a swampy swale lielow and n blistering July sun above, with a chance ]erhaps of getting one woodcock, bnt more of a certainty of getting none, no more of that for me.) The man who doesn't like drinking for its own sake is a fool to get drunk, and why should one who's not i foud of riding take the risk of a broken neck, simply because liis next-door neighbor jogs round on horseback ? William 0. Ralston did not caw enough aliout money to keep it after it was made. What wedded him to his work was the excitement attendant uj>u making im mense trades and moving millions. As for keeping the money he male, that , never entered his mind—he scattered it ' broadcast on every side. It was aa though a man should pump away for dear life and all the while have nothing but a bottomless vessel to hold his pumping* —yes, as though one should pump away, with clang and noise, but have never a valve iu his punrp. Men do this some times, for exercise. But exercise is not work. One must have a serious purpose in view, or even the swinging of dumb bells avails not. And if I had not reso lutely resolved to refrain from {minting a moral, I wonld say right here that the want of a worthy ptirjxwo is just the hole in which William C. Ralston and his bank went under. But I prefer tliat each reader should apply the great ethical blister, which I have so gener ously spread for himself. Ploce it where it will do the most good, please. William C. Ralston was not a bail man in reality. True, he did wry many things which are commonly esteemed bad; bnt I do not thiuk that he put much heart into them. There was little j of earnestness or vim alwiut any of his dissipations ; seeing another person tlo s thing he thought it was the thing to do, and there must be fun in it. He never wanted to lie counted out ou any thing. In a very similar way he dul much good. Bo did the Bank* of Cali fornia. It encouraged many praise worthy enterprises, developed valuable industries, lent its shoulder frequently ! to public improvements, where a bank conducted on prudent principles would not have lent a finger. On one occa sion it even lent money to roe—is there need to say more! Then again tbu Bank of California gnve aid to some schemes most ou'rageonsly corrupt. But nature in her own way turns most mal feusances to good. Ido not know, how ever, that in such cases n credit mark I goes down in the book to the account of individual or institution, nnlesa good was intended. JOHN PAUL. He was Excluded. A curious issue has been made up in Chicago for a court and jury to pass i upou. A prominent Methodist named Brown lias sued the pastor of his church, laying the damage at 850,000, for ex eluding him front the communion table. The reputed reason for the excommuni cation is that the geutlcroan is not a projter person to partake of the elements lof the eucharist. One Sunday, after the regular services, the Rev. Dr. Iteming announced that the congregation were I invited to partake of the sacrament with the exception of Ira Brown, who wonld ; be excluded from the sacramental table. Mr. Brown was not present, bnt was soon posted by his friends, who called at his house to tell him what hail transpired. The newH came unexpectedly upon ■ him. but after he recovered from his surprise he called upon the Rev. Dr. Deming to talk over the mutter with him. | When he arrived there he inquired of | Mr. Deming by what authority he hud j declared his place vacant at the sacra ! mental altar. Mr. Deming stated that it | " was by the aithority of the Lord of Hosts." Mr. Brown said that was S enough for him, and on the following morning he consulted a lawyer and com menced an action for libel against Mr. Deming, laying his damages at the re spectable sum of 850,000. THE CENTRE REPORTER THE TORPEDO. Thr Orlru* tmr i Kr -ri. .1 hr I atlrd ait Air* IM I air tit M l'i ri# W r. As a standing army or a huge navy arc tilings not consonant with the ideas of the ixxiple of the Putted States, ami as she lias many ports that a powerful tl<-ct in ease of war could iKunbard and caji ture, atUmtiou has Usui largely turned to defense in the toipedo. and this sy tern is lx-ing brought to perfection as uearly a* jxwsible. Bwaiity at Cook island some expert meats wore made with the torpedo. Ihe programme was, tlrst, for the irou-olad torpedo boat, under command of Lieu tenant Barbour, to blow up an old ixraxt survev schooner of alxiut 100 tons by means of a submerged torpedo on tlte cud of llie prow of Uie Alarm ; then to riddle the wreck by means of the tiat ling guns mounted ou the rail of the Alarm and to prevent the imaginary foes from climbing on lxrard. After tni* it was intended tliat tlie N ma should heave alougside and with a Harvey torpedo de molish what might remain. U|x>u being signaled, says a re|xirt, the Alarm turned almost as easily as though slie had Ixxm u|x>u a pivot, and tuado for the objet of attack. Ihe old hnik was alxntt 100 feet long, and had a toimag>> of eighty five tons. All eyes were turned toward the Alarm, whose '.uaasive prow, armed with a seventy live pound torjHslo, was making slowly for the schooner, slower and akiwer she went, approaching the hulk aa though cerbuu destruction awaited her, but in a few seconds a volume of water w*e> hurl ed into the air some two hundred feet, speckled with H|ars and timlx-re, which immediately began to fall pell-mell into tlie harbor, like tiie descending sparks of a spent sky-rocket The schooner had ilisapjxrared, aiul tiiere remained id her but chips and splinters, literally re duciug her to toothpicks. The old schooner was no more. A gurgling commotion ensued, and the lower por tion had settled to the bottom hojx-hras ly crippled. But the Alarm was not done with her. She was still to all in tents and purposes an enemy, whose men might clamber on lxrard and seek re venge. So she backed off and let fly her terrible fifteen pounder, which was supposed to final I v demolish the impro viseil rafts made !>y the enemy's drown ing sailors. Then she started her rapid Galling guns, which were niounttxl ou her rail, and 250 Iralls were rattle,! uaiong the supposed struggling men in the water and on the filiating tunlx-re. It was a real war scene. The Alarm was enveloped in smoke. Still tlie thunder of the (.ratlings reverliexuted from the neighlniriiig hills until the last strng gling wretch was aupjxjeixl to have been sent to his eternal rest beneath the wa ters of the harlxir. Before the siuoke had cleared awav up came the Nina to the rescue, and Is fore the schooner's debris had fairly Ix-cn scattered bv th** mlc alie hurl .1 ag-.unxt it a Harvey, which caused a frightful commotion, and, as it was snpjsrscd, put an end forever to the enemy. Now the Despatch, tlie Isiat with the visitors, turned round and came close alongside to view the wreck, and while so doing another spar torjsxio was exploded bv the Nina as a warning not to approach too ck>w. Signals w ere then exchanged with the Alarm, aaking, *• Uhall I mud l>ot ?" ti which an affirmative reply w as sent, and noun after Admiral l'orter re turned in hi* Isiat to the Despatch. Scarcely had he Ixs n rwivi-d when the Alarm announced that she was going hi tire another round of tlatlingH. Scarcely lial the party recovered from their sur prise, when Commander Barbour gave them s thorough shaking up. He ran out ou the submerged iron spar of the Alarm a genuine old seventy-five jviund er (Ts'tieath the wati-r aud quite unacen bv th' visitors on the Despatch of course ). On the atarlioard side he run out a fifty, aud on the jx>rt side a twen- - tv-five jxiund torpedo. Gradually tUe 1 Despatch grew nearer and nearer, and, like an unsuspecting victim, was right on the ram, when thris- huge columns i.f water tlew up iu front and on either side of the Alarm, followed by a terrible eon enssion, showing that the three had Ixsui exploded at almost the same in stant. The Despatch fiiuU* staggenil nruler the attack ; bnt the Alarm was deluged by these thris* inverUxl water sjmuts, for the wat-r run out of her afterward as though she lnul just return ed fmm a risit to Neptune. This was at least a retribntion for the insult to some extent, and so the i*a|tain ordered Engi neer Harris to show the iron " heeL" Chicago's Brain Elevator*. Chicago is the biggest grain mart in the world, and handles about 90,000,000 bushels annually. How this vast amount is received, stored, and shipped, is the subject of an interesting aitbdq in the Cliuwigo Tim' t. The first stivun sli-vator was estalilished in the spriug of IH4X, with a cujiacity of 100,000 bushels. To day Chicago has eighteen steam eleva tors, with a combined capacity of 15,- . 350,000 bushels, nr more tlian the product of 1.000,000 acre* of tim fertile cheat producing laud* of the cofitineut. Their isips'-ity varies all the way from 200,000 buahels to 1,500,000. 'Hie entire cost of the eighteen elevators now in operation was ulmut 85,000,000, exclu sive of the grounds on which tliey stand. Add for this 81.000,000, and the result shows £0,000,000 investeil in this indus try. Two firms handle more than one half the grain tliat pa* 1 -*"* through | Chicago. They control eight of the eighteen elevators, and last year tliey together delivered over sixteen million bushels of wheat, seventeen million bushels of corn, four million bushels of nnta. aud over two million bushels of rye aud barley. A Couple of Monkeys. In Paris quite a commotion was created by ths entrance of a very aiugu lar party. It consisted of two tiny cava f hers mounted upou exquisite little [ {Hiniea. One of these small riders was a 1 andsnme boy alsmt seven years of sge, and tbe other was a largv monkey strapped to the saddle of his steed. A j aarvant in livery followed on horseback at the distance preaerilxxl by etiquette. I Finding that this Atrango cortege wns attracting a crowd, the poliec interfereil, ' and the young gentleman and hia com panion were forced to return homo. On inquiry being made it was found tlrnt the Iwy was the only aon of a Portu guese connt, at present residing in Paris, a terribly spoiled child, to whom hia parents can refuae nothing. Conse quently, when lie took it into his ln ad to take hia monkey, which is hia special list and companion, out riding with him, he found no one bold enough to oppose hia whims. That duty wna reserved for the {Kilic Thrilling Proof of Affection. When a oonple of excuraionists were strelling through the market at Detroit, tbe girl looking longingly at the fruit, f and the young man, after a struggle 1 with himself, purchased aeveral plums - and divided with her. t "Doyon doubt my love, Milly?" ho f asked, as they chewed at the fruit, s "Noap," she replied, her mouth J; j " plum " full. " Because," he con tinned, " if Ididu't . love you I wouldn't lie around buying - boss plums at five cents apieoe, would If " She seemed satisfied. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., I > A., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, iß7~>. THE KKELY MOTOR. I I'.wr ilaul HOHMI .an.l. ml I'mmmdm I'OMirr la l*r *•"• , lurh-.No tmmmml 111 la l'irl 11. Not withstanding the fact that the .Vcif-fib/fi- .iinrrifitH dtx'larws the Krx'ly i motor a humbug of the !ir*t wutsk, we still hear of it auii of what it jmpo#ox h | Jo. The grand principle of the motor ; i ix of course a secret, aud it l* said by I I'rof. kecly will remain so until tlie dix | 1 oovery -for it is claimed to I*> n dia- j i ' ixivery rather tliau an Invention -w so i secured by letUira jraUmt that it will l* - i pr>Ux.'txl. It is xuld that the power ia simply water, anil in the rough ix the xameux if you t*x>k a barrel full of water I mid, running a pij>e nj to the Neoond i story window f it building, tln< lower < end of tlie pqx lxung iu the bnrrol. If < Vol! then fill the pi|x< with water the i pt<raxur i* ao great that it will burst the i Irarrvl luto jiiectia. Anylxxiy mil try i the experiment and thus ltluxtruU- tlie i power of water. _ I A rejxirU'r lately viaite.l Prof. Keely i and found him confident ami sanguine ' ax ever. Hi* machine shop or laboraU>rj I is iu the Iraxcincut of hia h>ue 111 Phila i dt-lphta, and it is said that engineer*, wheu they oome in here, are puzzled by i tha strange forma of the apparatu*. tiie I chief purpose of which ia strength. Pro 1 fmxnr K<*-ly {x'iut''d U a "generator," i an enormous egg xhapul moos of irou in I a corner (I think it mut liave Ixx-n i thirty-five inches long bv twenty inches iu diameter across), and said It had a hollow of the capacity of a gallon and a ■ half in its ivuh-r. All the rvit of it was I solid iron. It had Ix-eu discarded lx- I cause it wo* not strong enougb to im- i nriaou and hold in chock the force he I Lad invented. He direote.l my attenti-m | to a " mnltiplioator," or regulator of the force— piece of meclianuim alxiundiiig with heavy iron chamber*, with wall* *f 11 great thickness aud connecting lulx-s of I xmall txire and heavy bnora circumfer ence, aud said that hail been discartied I likewise. " Every tube of ihnt machine buret here one rooming while 1 wax i standing right here in the room. There i have Ixx-n seveu explosion*nine*- I tx-gun i tlieee eifx-rinieuta, and I haven't got a scratch from one of them. I've lxx-n i very fortunate." Touching with hi* foot several pieces of iron weighing from 200 to 500 pound* rach, he applied to them all the stigma tliat tliey " wouldn't stand pressure " There were flanges , and screws, Ix-ut and useless, tliat it i wvmeil ax if nothing but the power of nitroglycerine could ever liave de formed. What is tlie force that curl* up iron in this wayf" I askxl. " Well, sir," said Mr. Keclv, with i his eves in the air, and slowly formula i ting nia reply, "it's a force obtained from tlxi hlranvtiou of the Lxtt-ut jiower ' iu water. The {TVXVMIS of liberation i* practically instnubuieoiis. It trars the ; water, so to speak—ileootn{xvie it* jrar ticlex. The force is stronger than any ~ heretofore known. The only trouble lion been to get an apparatus strung enough to contain and cimtrol it." "Don't you aso any olicnih*als or . other known scientific agents I" "Nothing whatov<r. The motor is not an invention ; it i* a discovery." Of course I didn't axk Mr. Kex-ly to explain all alxut the pnxxvw of gem-rat ( ing hi* "force," but it must lx- the si in pleat cremt conceivable. All he wants, in thr first place, is on iron cylin der with capacity from a thimbleful to 1 five gallons, according to the quantity of f ireehe into gem-rote, ltnt tlie wollx j of thi* cylinder innxtlx- of extraordinary , tlueknexx ond density. Some of his ex- j poriments have ri-xiilUxl in tlu- *-|iora tion of tLug<ra connecting Uie two hsdviw of the cylinder or, when this has not occurred, in the wasting of water and ' force through the sweating pores of tlie ' iron wall*! Tlie utmost force which j Mr. Kocly has been able togouerab- with , safety has registered a pressure of 16,- j i 000 potimls to the square inch. When ! it i* oolisidenxl that steam boiler* are usindlv tosbxi at 300 pound* to the square inch, and run at a pressure not oiteji exi-ctxling 130 pounds, the requw J it.- strength of the K'x-lv mobu Ixiiler or generator, even for this pressure of | 16,000 jx.niuls, may lx estunab-d. Bnt s this pressure by no means denotes the ] fall and fearful extent of Mr. Keely's forci-, which is practically illimibible. i lie box now in prix-eax of construction | a generator com posed of metal* of ptob | ably rofficieut *tn-ngth and denaity b>; enable him bbrat the value of his inven- | tion. Tbe heaviest gauge of force power ' ' hitherto mode wns manufactured for the i gTcat Dnpont gumxjwder mill*, at j Wilmington. It register* b> the aquare j inch 23,000 pound*. The gauge just made for the Keely' motor by Thomas Khaw of Fhiiadolphia, and which ha* lxx-n on exhibition several Java, will rig istor to tin- square inch 54,000 jxiunds. Prof. Kix-ly claims that there i* iu humbug about his discovery, but that u will do all it represents —that is with a few quarts of wab-r, aud with no ex ]iens<-, nn anything from a sewing ma chine to ail ex{irosa train—that it will supply power to run any mill in the country. In an affidavit he says : I now publicly a**erttliut I have produced ! the results which many persona have , *<*u in the precise manner bcrebfore xtited, to wit.: the intrixluction of at ' iuos]iherio air inbmy machine, a limib-d quantity of natural wnter direct from the hydrant at no greater tlmn the ordinary hydrant pressure, and the macliinn itself, which ia aimtdy a mi-c.hauical structure. With these throe agents alone, unaided by any and every chemical eom]x>und, heat, "electricity, or galvanic action, I , have prrxluMxl, in an inappreciable , j period of time, by a simple manipulation r of the machine, a vaporio *ul>*t*mH', at , one expulsion,' of a volume of ton gal lons, having an elastic energy of ton thousand pounds to the square inch. , This I solemnly assert, and am r<-ady to j verify by my oath. i ■ Hnw Opinm 1* Smoked. The pipe in which tho Chin one smoke ! opium has a stem probably two feet long, made of cane such as certain flsh ' ing rods are mode nf ; alxmt twenty k inches from the mouthpiece, which is au 1 iueli in duiineb r, is Thi* a{>- ' jH-ars b> l>o made of Ixixwood, and is not unlike a small low coffee ctip, large at • the top,and atwUL at tbe bottom, writh a ' tight c<rver fitting *in ft. In the center | of this cover is a small hole. The opinm is not {mt in the pi|>e, as might lx- snp • j pdMkl, but in a little wad on the top of 1 the cover over tlie hole. Tlie smoker, H takes a long needle and on the end of it ( gather* from the little jars a piece of ! o{>inni tin* size of a Ix-an. This lie holds over the lamp, and thus melts and burns ■ it until it is of the proper consistency. H Then he places it over the hole in the r cover ef the pipa, and with his needle punches a hole throagli it, which joins the hole in the oovrr. Then lie light* it aud smoke* away. When it is gone he e repeats tho proooss. • The Crop*. s Full harvest* at home give great im portation to the crop reports from o abroad. Gable disjratohe* report a bettor i yield in England and on the continent li than was anticipated earlier in the sea son ; but still, says the New York t Herald, there is a deficiency in lx>tli g ' quality and quantity, and it is likely " there will be a great demand upon this I country to supply Europe wtth broad. AYouieii aa Voter*. A goiiklemaii from t'beyonne, Wyo nimg Territory, who has ,l'Votil aomo time fi> gathering the detail*, give* u the following interesting fact* on th practical working* of woman auffrnge in the Territory : The moat interesting ftu-ts are in re gard to ladies a* jurors. Good and evil are strangely mingled in the new Terri torns, and Wyoming contains a large pro|MirUou of intelligent and eininelitly religious mid goo-l women ; it was hoped, therefore, that great gisxt would result from placing them on juriea After a few trial*, liowevir, the sysU-m xvaa quietly abandoned, and has never lxH-n revived. The r*Mun* for tin* are many. First is tbe fact tliat so few women are eligible. The following classes are, from the necessity of the ease, exempt : All nursing mother* ; all nppriiai'bing a condition of maternity ; all the delicate, nervous, or hysterical ; all who from temporary physmal condi tion ore not fit for sitting on a long trial; all of notoriously Ixnl character, and all who are exem{t from tbe same causes tliat men would lie. Tbese clssi-s in elude nine-tenths of tbe whole sex. When to these are added those who have aiok or very young children, who need frequent care, it seems that all Wyoming has no more than a hundred women, at any tune, fit for jury duty. The system, therefore, was given up, not as a failure exactly, but as utterly impracticable. Another difficulty presented Itself. When a jury, ooasistuig of men and women, (five of the latter,) was long de tained and locked up for several hours, the resulting inconvenience was so great, and thw exjwnso so much increased, that both sexes were heartily sick of the cx iieriment. The general result i* saiil to lie that laitli the friends and foes of woman suffrage arc disapisunted, as tn-ither the good nor the evil predicted has come to {lass. One good is clauneil tliat there is lietter oriier at the polls than formerly. If any other benefit lias n suited, it is not ap{on-nt yet. (Some complain tliat the i*t of nuiniug for office lias vastlv increased, as the oandl dates liave to Kring out their Lnly sup jHirter* iu carrisge ; but the ladies, in tlieir conventions few week*sincenuani monsly reaolvtsl against it, declaring themselves " as aide to walk to tlie poll* n* to church or market." A few' fights have rvwulted from challenging the vots of ladic*. The first ladv whose vote was challenged at lsarauiie droppel her bal lot aud indulged in a good cry, wb. re II|MIU her escort sailed in and malc it hot for her challenger. After a few fights on thi* subject challenging ladle* was, by common consent, dtaeonuutMn], • and in that {strticuiar at least tin y have an advantige of the men. Aa to the effect of suffrage on the lailies tin-re arc almost a* many <>ptni<>Uß as then' are jiecple in Wyoming. The majority, however, dedare themselves unable to sac aiiv cliange. As far as can be known tiie htdn-s divide their vote between parties much as men do, rather more, {s-rliaps, voting for per sonal friends. To MUU up, tiie opinion of the l**t informed is tliat womau suf frage in Wvoming ha* rcsutUsl in rnak ing everything jtod a* it was beiure, only a little more *>>. Abduct lug and Marrjlug an llclrrn Last spring Mrs. Guimaraez, widow of a wealthy Sjsuuard, who bequ<>nthed her au estate of over a million dollar* and an almost princely income from roy- ( allies ou all the mahogany and other valuable timlx-r exported from certain districts of Brazil, went hi Oswego county, N. Y., from Bio Janeiro. Ib r family ctmsiahwl of her ail<q>ted dntigh ter, Jessie, a girl of great jwrsonal Is-nu tv, whom Mrs. Gmiliar* z adoptol at the age of four years, anil who now is about sixteen, and n Soutli American girl, still younger, whom she brought with her to educate. Mrs. Gnimarnt-z 1 was a native of Oswego county, and adopted Jessie, who also is her niece, during tlie whom, as well as herself, the child was n pet. For several years Jcsuie has lux-n *ciit Nortli, and has \'i*iteil her mother's relative* in the town of New Haven, O* wi>go county, where lives a family named Simmons, and anotlu-r named Calkins, whom she also visited. One day the Simmon***! visited Mm. | (iuimanw-z, and Jessie was (lennitted to | go home with them. Jefferson Simmons i* station kc jier at Sand Hill, n small i station on the Rome and Oswego rail , roa.L Calkins, whose wife is a cousin of Mrs. Guimaraez, ketqxi a petty grocery l at the same place. It is alleged that | ,T<ssie wa* iu Calkins' store, ami lie a*k jml her Ui drink some pop. She drank one glassful, after which she claim* to have become unconscious, in which con ditiou she was token into a carriage by Frank Calkins, sen of the storekeeper, who drove to Holinesville, three miles distant, ami there a minister marriiwl him to the girl, after which ho drove lutck to Hand Hill and left her at Sim mens' house. Jessie say* that the first thing alio recolle**!* after drinking the pop is being in Mrs. Simmons' house and hearing young Calkins telling Mrs. Simmons that thoy were married. She has au indistinct recollection of riding along a road in the interval of unooo- BciousueK*. The evening of the marriage voung Calkins went to Oswego, told Mrs. Giiimnraex that Jessie had inarrieil him and tried to r coon oil* her to tlie match. The following moi hug Jessie returned, acoompaniod by her friends, and related her story, alleging that she hal IHNMI drugged. On the afternoon of the same day Mrs. Guimarnez started with Jessie for Illinois, intending for the present to leave her with her {Mtrents, who live somewhere in that State, and procure a divorce at once. The friend* of the girl allege that it was a job put up by the Colkiusce, who knew Mrs. Guimaraez's affect ion for Jessie, and that alio would be tbe sole heir to her wealth. Calkins has lieen employed as a traek hand on the Rome and Oswego lailroral. Itorr krttpp and lit* GIIII*. The Philadelphia iVrw any* : Hcrr Krttpp, tho famous cannon founder of Germany, is to exhibit one, if not inoro, of his breech-loader* in onr Centennial exhibition. He has juxt astonished tlx' British government by a positive re fusal to sell one of his great guns to England. Tin on dit is that his refusal was conveyed in language more frank than courteous, lx-ing to the effect that " lie wns willing to contract for tlie arm ing of as many forts and ships a* Eug land wanted, at home or abroad, but he must decline to part with M|>erimeu* for ex|x-rimental pur|xws." Jt look* ox if Herr Krupp fancied his tireach-loaders might IM- imitated at Woolwich. Would Certainly he Called. It was the same old lady who was seen walking up and down the street in Vicks burg while the 1 >oat was taking on freight. She was ticketed for New Orleans, and the first night alxrard the boat she opened her stateroom dx>r just Iwfore retiring, stuck her nose out and yelled : "ilapting!" capting!" "What's wanted, madam!" inquired that official as he approached tie door. "I'm a lone woman, cnpling, as you well know," she squeaked, "and if this boat blows up 1 depend on you to call me !" He agreed, aad she slept soundly and peacefully. FKallTlNfi FOR TIIKIU LIVER. Three V.aa* l.lrl* tllarke* ht • Mark tkeer while Mewlsa Arrwa • ChaS. Threw young women, residing near the Big Bunk l'ond, in Hhoholw town slop, Fw, started to go lierryiug. Tlnrv ware obliged to cross tlie |mjU>l to raSU'li the wissis. Before entering the liost tliey Maw souietliing in the distance swmimiug iu the water. Thinking it was a dog, they |suduo further attention to it. but started ou their way scows the {loud, wliioh is alsmt two miles wide. After rowing for several huudred yards, the girl who was pilutllig tlie lioad euaw tliat wluit tliey first thought to lisa dog swimming in the water was a buck, which was coming directly toward theui. Having a clumsy {our of o*rs, it was some Ume before the Lsjat could lie turned, ami theu tlie doer hail rem-lied to within a few yards of Uietn. The girl* tiecame greatly terrifleri, for the deer was fast gaining on th.-ui, and from the way it snorted and plungwd, tliey were salisthxl it meaUit mischief. While the one rowed with all her might ihe othet two |H*ddl<wl, thus aoiuewiuU increasing thear |MWHI ; but the deer was slowly gaining on them, and knowing they could not reach the shore before being overtaken, tliey cased rowing to pre {•are for the inevitable I rattle. Wlien the deer, snorting and {dunging, had reached to within a few feet of the boat, it stop|ed for a moment. Then it made a sudden {'lunge, aud as its head struck tlie aide of tlie boot tbe brave girls brought dowu their raised {raddles upon it with ituoh force as to drive it under water. The girls again raised their only weapons, aud aa the bead rirae to the" surface they again brought their ]raddles to I war U|KJU it with the same result. When the deer again raised from the water it seemed to reoliae that tills was hi lw the death struggle, and its eyes gleamed like lailla of Are. It made a lunge, and threw its fore feet over tlie side of the boot, near the oar locks. This nearly oapsised the eiuuisy craft, and threw Maggie Jordan, the oldest of the three, into the water ; butaa she fell she taught the edge of the boat, and was hauled ill by one of tier oom|niona. Then the heroine at the oars, as she felt the animal's breath in her face, raised a {raddle and struck for her life, and as . the blow fell across the deer's head, the bhssi started from its nostrils, aud it sank track helpless and atwmuigly death but rtaxllv only stunned. The girls then starhal for tlie shore, leaving the Jeer struggling Iwtwcwn life and death in the water. Reaching the shore, one of tlie girls ran to a small log cabin, an t-iglitti of a mils distant, in which lived a family by the iiiuuo of Iterger, and told what had ooootmL Mr. Ik rg<-r seized his rifle and w-nt to the poud, where lw found the wonderful deer Vet struggling in the water, a few rods from the ahore. He towed out to it, and seized it by the antlers, cut it* throat, and then towed the laxly to the shore. The ikvr was the largest ever killed in the neighbor hood, weighing 227 pounds. A Wealthy Tramp. A Kansas City jraper say* that a* Mr. Anthony Mitbeney was coming in from his work on tlie Midland road, ho over took an old man near the fbur unle bridge, in Uie K*w Ixittoma. Ho ap |X'are,l to lx- Xtaggerilig along under tlie inflneoce of lupior, and, from his rsggixl 1 and dirty condition, Matbeoey at one* iraiue to tiie ootielusuiu that the old fol low wras n tnunpiug csimiug into Kansas City for relief. He {*tv<-d by him without *|x-Aking, and thought no more alxmt it. Next day, when lie started I rack to hi* work, be was some what surprised to find tlie old man lying upou the side of tlie nulnrad track, in s helpless and apparoDtlv dying couii tion. He approached him, and on in ' qniry found tliat be was quite tick, ami liad Ixx-u lying out iu tin open air all night, and was unable to walk. He pave his name as Align* McGregor, aud tliat he wax on his wsv from Fort Dodge to Kanxas City. Mr. MatbAey oama in and procured tbe assistance of an ex , press driver, and brought the old man to his house near tlie water works, ami left him with his wi.'e. He maintained a stolid silence until night, but ate a hearty meal, thus showing that it wax a want "of food rather than sickness which h*d caused him to fall by the wayside. But he was t<*> far gone fur foixl to re vive him at ouoe, ami when night came on he wax dangerously ill, so ill tliat medical aid was deemed necessary. When he was offered a lied he declined it, and positively refused to take off or allow lus dirty rag* to be takeu off his bodv. He slept upon a blanket on the floor, and under no {x-rsuasion would be take off his boots. The old man lxung un able to help himself, however, gave up ami ordered his lioots token off. To the surprise of every one present, be took from his lx*>ta between two and three thousand dollars in greenbacks, nicely wrnp|xxl up in oil paper, anil nwxl a* pad* for his sore and blistered feet. In explanation, the old man said he had been a soldier in Uie United State* artnv for the last twenty year*; hail nerved in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. He had recently been dixehurgisl from McKenzie's regiment, in Arizona, and started from Fort Ihxlge, Kan., abont two w*'ks ago, to walk to Kansas City. He sayx he is going home to Glasgow, Scotland, and tliat be has Wn afnud of Iwiug roblxxl on bis way borne. He is closo and jw nurious, and says he could not afford to ; pny so much for railroad faros. He was, after great difficulty, persuaded to de posit his long-hoardixl wealth, ami take drafts on New York for the amount de |xi*ited. He is very suspicious, and un nsnallv reticent altont his own affairs. Ho paid MaUiency libentUy for the can- Lrat .wixl up.m iiini, ami {ro}xw>a to 1 , continue bis journey east OH soon as his 1 health will jx-rmit linn to move. • ™___ Swallowed Spectacle*. A Paris correspondent writes : An other rival to the man who swallowed a fork last year has just come to limid. A poor fellow named Venet has been ad mitted to the hospital here on account of I' having swallowed a pair of s{*-ctaeles. It npp<-nrx ho {wvrtook ona day rather freely of a dish of mushrooms, aud hav- ; ing reason ta suspect after having eaton tlicm that they were poisonous, he at tomptod to bring on a fit of vomitiug. Not succeeding in his first effort, he re newed hi* sttompt by thrusting hia spec tacle* down hi* throat. A gasp, a gulp, and down went tlx- spectacle*, and there thoy remain at the proxout. As tlie frames are of silver, no danger of jxiison is apprehended, but the {HKr fellow's condition is nevertheless a desjx-rato one. Base Ball. Chicago will invest 83D.IMN) iu the now niue next year; Cincinnati, 820,(K)(); St. Louis, 820,000; and Ixniisville is going into the business to the amount of 820,- 000. Cleveland, too, encouraged by the lively state of things at present, has arranged to form an association with a capital of BF2,(MM), to engage a nine. Over 8100,000 will be invested in base ball stock, and iu the stock companies of Boston, Hartford, New Haven, New York and Pliiladclphia, not less than : $300,000 will bo found employed in run- j uiug professional base ball clubs iu 1876, | Term: $2.00 a Year, in Advance. AFTER AN EARTHQUAKE. la lbs Hslss r lbs riss 111* sf I'arsis Is lbs Msesbllr ml I slssibls. The 'lay after the terrible earthquake in Cueuta, nays a lixral psjx r, jraopls flocked in on all si-hra, armed with im pleiuenta for digging ami mules to carry the plunder "away. Merchant* who at temptetl to And and recover their safes tiad to prooend revolver in hand. The , ullage of the ruins went ou for five day*, during whi' h time Uiose oamlits aunt away some fifty mule loads of the gtxxls of the unfortunates that lay liuried under tlie ruins of what had been the flue city of Cueuta in the republic of Colombia. The streets and lane* oiuoug the ruins were covered wiUi all kinds of gmxls aud merchandise. In one plane 1 MJ zee of wins had been ojieued, the con Cunts drunk, and the bottles scattered around; in other places cbanduller*, silk trimming*, furs aud furniture. In another were to be seen tins of rau'dintra, salmon, oysters, etc., all in ouuftunon, and all more or less covered with mud. In th- midst cf all this there ware some i people of this unfortunate city setting off Chinese crackers, drinking wine, surrounded by dead txaiiea, aud shout ing : "Now the rich are pour, aud the pour rich." Ail this was accompanied Willi the clamors of the living, the groans of the wounded, and the cries of those buned alive, who begged to be bellied out from under the ruins of their fallen houses. Home pious old woman would come into view with tier lap full of stolen articles, murmuring : " What s terrible misfortune," and then iumlemug home to count the beads of her rosary and take an inventory of the valuables in her posneaaion. Tbe whole scene smell of the wfemai regions, and seemed a foretaste of the day of judgment. And so )mused several days ; those who could, left, and thuae who could not, did the best that wnx possible under the ctrcum stances. The very aid sent to tbe un fortunate the robbers managed to share, aud little of it fell to the lot of tint really diraerving. The chief of the national force stationed there abandoned his post The Colombian Guard, as it was called, mutinied ; and after robbing what it "OUId dissolved and deserted. Even the alcalde took to flight and left the robber* masters of the lives and goods of their unfortunate fellow citizen*. la fine Cueuta is now only a natna for a horrible heap of ruins, with its daad inhabitants, killed by the hundred during the due aster, putrifying under them, and send ing forth s sickening stench. Brutal Keeper*. There seem* to tie very little doubt that the unfortunate man Couolly, who died at the New York penitentiary, was to all intents and pur|* *•* murdered by hi* keejier*. His legs aud the lower irart of his body were covered with livid lifwises, and ou of hia great toe nails • was tors off. It is plain that injuries of this kind could not have been caused by a succession of accidental falls, aa pre tended by tlie deputy warden. Keejier Fallon declares that OonoL'.y was sub jected to the most brutal treatment by keepers Geary, Reese and at hers, and testifies *i<ecifioally to a number of out rages committed upon tlie unfortunate prisoner, which are revolting to every House of humanity. Tbe fact that the victim wo* half-witted, if not positively an idiot, deprivira hia murderers of the last semblance of au excuse for their brutality. Tbe commissioner* of chari ties anil oorrectiou must investigate this case thoroughly, and take care that the guilty ore punished. It is not the , first case of the kind which has occurred. Keepers of an inferior class think that tbe only way to keep tbe outlaws in their charge under subjection is to make an example of some feeble prisoner who is unable to defend bunaelf. By beating and overworking a mau of this kind they hope to intimidate more unruly and un manageable prisoner*. Thi* process they call mazing a market of a num." Their theory is, of course, founded on ' the grossest ignorance cf human nature and s naturally brutal disposition. In discriminate tyranny incites men to re volt, and if ever "a general uprising should occur among the Black well's Island convicts, we shall not have far to look for the cause. As Good a* She is Bcautlfiil. An exchange has received from Carth age, Ma, tbe following glowing descrip tion of a rustic beauty: " I have board a great meny both male and female spoakind of Pretty faora and loVj'ly women But the Prettiest far I Ever Beheld is amonge our Carthago fair 1 >anghtera She has dark Chestnut brown hair a fall white Brow and the Hand somest Eyoe I ever saw so mild and gen tle is those Dreamy gray cyee Hutch Rosy Chicks and full Coral lips the For feet Picture of helth She is as God formed her with out Paiut or Ponder She is as Perfect as woman ever was She is not ouly Pretty (for Beauty a lone is worth But little) But she is Good and Industrious this noble Girl has made her own living for meny year* anil no one con say might against her she does not sew for a living, neither does she make lints But alio simply dixw House work alio can turn licr luuid to eny thing about a house C<Hiking washing iorring scrubbing or Milking Chiming or sew ing or fancy work my wife said alio never saw a more Perfect laxly in her life She K<x a Bout her work for more *ch<xwful tlwn those Porlar ornimeuts and wall flower* go to the Piana She all way* 1 welooms with a smile she keeps the house cheerful with her cheerful noise singing But with all her Cbeerfulneas there is some tiling about her lnvly face that shows a sad Grave look as though some Cruel knife had Poareed tlie true Pure henrt I will not give her name ahe ia a inmate of the house of —— aud is mutch Beloved bv all the fainoly they treat her a* they do their own Daugh ter aud she has the Noblest of Blood in her voiuH." Ancient Jewish Tradition of Lilltfti. Lilith wax Adam's first wife, like a bird, with the fair, evil face of a woman. Immediately on ber creation and intro duction to our first parent the two begun to fight. She said: " I will not give way." Adamsnidlikewi.se. Lilith said: "We are equal. Wing formed of the same clay." An argument, by the way. for the superiority of Eve, who was not so formed. In short* liethur would oliey the other. Then Lilith uttered the holy name and fled away through tho air. On Adam's supplication three angels were sout to bring her back. These three wen- Sf.noi, Sanscnoi and Sammun geloph. Tbey found her amiilst the mighty waters of the Red sea, iu which ] ( >ng after Busiris and his Mempliian chivalry left tlieir floating oaroamea and broken chariot wheels, and said: "If you will return, well; if not, a hundred of your childreu sliall die daily." Lilith, with more than half a woman's touder ness, and with all a woman's obstinacy, naturally preferred the latter alternative. Tlie celestial messengers in divine indig nation sought to drown her; butshecried: " Suffer ni to depart, for I am created but s>r the destruction of children." She had power over tliem for eight days if male, but if female for twenty. Then the angels made her swear by the name of the liviug God that as often as she should see them or their names or I pictures inscribed on amalets, a babe | should be spared. NO. 39. Home Hard WOMU. Millibars sad dressmakers, say* anei change, lurve sent mors husbands and vivos to Uie divorce outlets Lima all other human beings combined. They are the frmt aowsra of domestic unhap j lianas. As a class, tlioy ere ua worthy of the least respect, for they ssidom at toinjit to do Imaineae on Inmost priori piss. I'erlisps none of Uu-ir customers know or cmr wbetlier, in dealing with thorn, they get the full valus of tboir money or out; sad, rwlyiof upon this state- of things, the bonnet staler and dressmaker almost invariably become cheat* They go or send over to Pahs sod grt one or two bonnets as pattern* (which they contrive to smuggle through the custom house), cad thru they get them imitated at a very cheap rate. All these bonnet* they anil to eager custom era m the " real, imported article," aud of oourae uo one is oooteut now with aaythiug of home make. In the matter of dress, it is much the same. The ma terial itself, even though it be of the fliMwt silk to be bought, costs little in comparison with the bill for " trim niings." That will generally range any where from S4O to gl&0, and no doubt many of our fair readers oould show us bills for much larger sums than either of these. That wonderful " tie back " ar rangement, which is now thought to be WJ becoming to ladies, cannot be the cause of those fimrmuui charges for to "trimming," for people bed . per them before thej began to " tie beck. The truth u, tbet whatever mav chance to be the fsail ion, the (lmwmaiuir aooo makee it the vehicle of extortion—oot to ate the ugly word robbert. We bear of failure* in every trade but her*. She nonet bete aluioat a beggar, and afUr a few year* abe drive* a abuwv carnage, aaya a New York paper, and fling* the dual of Fifth aveuue is the fade of the people whom ahe haa largely helped to rate. Italian Brigandage. The Court of Aaaixaa at V iter bo, in Italy, has lately had to deal with a cm* of brigandage of more than or Unary ce lebrity. It involved the murder of a country gentleman, the father of Sign or Kama, a well known deputy, who was captured by the band lately tried when driving near Orrieto in the spring of 1874, and carried off to the mountain*. Hignor Paina rnoeiyed a letter aoon afterward informing him that Lua fath-. er'a ranaom waa fixed at £4,000, and that the money muat be delivered at a cer tain apot by a fixed date. It waa acot, but by mistake to the wrong plane ; and the brigands, having observed a party of gendarmes moving in the vicinity, thought a trap waa being laid for them, and ordered the youngest of the band at once to blow out the braina of their prisoner, who waa a man of aeventy years of age, and could not be forced off in the hurried retreat they designed They gave out publicly that the murder waa" designed aa a special example of their justice ; and this tioast, following auch an act, caused so effective a pursuit to be undertaken by the authorities that the gang waa at last, after many escapes, fairly hunted down. The actual mur derer lias got off with impriaoameot lor life, on the ground of his extreme youth and hit having acted under compulsion. But the leader, who WM formerly in the Papal gendarmerie, was condemned to be executed. On hearing Iris sentence he sprang OTCT the dock, precipitating himself Tike a tiger an the accomplice who had turned approver. But the po lice mastered and manacled him, and it is now devoutly hoped that he in his turn will tie made an example of the prompt justice he profeaaed to execute on his unfortunate captive. An Earlj Kellgioas Lottery Scheme. The high repute in which lotteries were held by our ancestors is shown in an advertisement in the Commercial (burant of Hartford, Conn., Monday, October .19. 1801, as follows : yoawirs xExruro-aocsß LOTTEST. {ln two classes.) The Preebstorian Meeting Hcue* u> Nor wich. firm eoctaty. hiving been the last winter dartroTed by m ineeodwv. the Ran. Legisla ture of due State, in Mat last, granted nud Society e Lottery to enable it to rebuild the name. acnata. i Claea firm | 4. SOO Tickets at Two Dollars, *9.600. Prueee from *4 to *SOO. (Claea Second.] Prixee from *4 to *SOO. | No two blank* to e prise.) Prixee to be paid in euty day* and if not demanded in alt months, will be ap plied to the purposes of a Lottery. The object of this lottery, and the scheme to advance ft. are each aa to engage the attention both of the • per illative adventurer and thoee who. from principles and duty and benevolence, are disposed to con Ui bate to the beet interests of society, while the former hae a fair hope of increasing hi* money from the unusual number of high prixee, and the multiplication of chances in hi* favor. The latter will posses* an excellent occasion to dispense their aid in a work incalculably useful to a Christian com munity. A Boiling Lake. There is , lake of boiling water in the island of Dominica, lying in the moun tains behind Roseau, and in the valleys surrounding it are many solfataraa, or volcanic sulphur vent*. In fart the boiling lake is little less than a crater filled with water, through which the pent-up gase* find vent and arc ejected. The temperature of the water ranges from 180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit throughout the whole extent. The } mints of actual ebullition change from time to time. Where the active actum take* place the water is said to rise two, three, and sometimes four feet above [ the main surface, the cone often divid ; ing so that the orifices through which the gas en,-ape* are three in number. This violent action of the cones causes a Sneral disturbance over the whole sur je of the lake. Though these cones ; :ipieiir to be sp>cial vents, yet the sul- I phurous vapors arise iu nearly equal 1 density over the full extent of the lake. ■ There seems to be in no ease any violent i action of the escaping gases, such as de- I foliations or explosions. The water is of it dark gray color, and is highly charged with sulphur. As the outlet of the lake 1 is rapidly deepening, it is believed that j soon the' water must be dsawn off, after j which it will assume the character of a j geyser, or sulphurous crater. Food for Lean Women. If any one wishes to grow fleshy, a pint of milk taken before retiring at night will cover the scrawniest bone*. Although now-a-ilays we see a great many fl.wliy females, yet there are many lean and lank ones who sigh for the fash ionable measure of plumpness, and who would be vastly improved in health and appearance oonld their figure be round ed with good solid flesh. Nothing is more ooverted bv thin woman than a full figure, aad nothing else will so rouse the ire and provoke the scandal of one of the "clipper builds" aa the consciousness of plumpness in a rival. In cases of fever and summer complaint milk is now given with excellent results. The idea that milk is feverish lias exploded, and it is now the physician's great reliauoe in bringing tlirough typhoid patients, or those in too low a state to be jby solid food. It is a great mistake to scrimp the milk pitcher. Item* af Interval. Amu falls into an error when be falls oat with his wife. Peru will pay tiff bnr debt with guana •—Moat for scant. Por Uiiu jiutipla to set suddenly f*i~ Htep on a Italians pool and cotne down plump. Massachusetts expects to foot ap 1, - 000 inhabitanta by iha onnmwi now ton g taken. Mwaet are the nnea of diversity. They keep a fiddler from constantly playing on one string. Buffalo haa deemed that no mio > i •! woman shall be a teacher in an j of it* public schools. Lawyer* here a clear majority in UH Indiana Senate, and faraem a qnoram in the HoOM. Ed mood About oalla Frauoo a aiok sol dier of Ood needing to be cured through the lapee of time. In apite of grasshoppers, Minneaota will be able to aell Oft,(WO,000 buabeia of grain thia season. There haa not been any one hanged in lowa for a great many yean, and there in complaint about it Eastern Switzerland i afflicted with the loeoet plague, and nearly all the grain haa been destroyed. The African locoat haa apuean d this Rimmar to Germany, and hud waete the crops on tt Berlin and AnhaJt railway. An editor aaya he cannot he independ ent when he is obliged to oollect h/a own sobaeriptiona in a town wbweev. i; body keeps a dog. The reward of learaing grammar to found in being constantly shocked by the oonrareaiiou of those wbo bare not | learned to talk by rule. School vacation is now over, and the good boy may be aeen tested on the fence nibbing reain on hi* hand* to toughen them against the ferule. In St. Petersburg bread i* three time* aa dear aa to Pari*, and every other eats We, from butcher's meat downward, is nearly doable aa coatly aa it waa year* ago. Seth Green aaya that editor* can mover be aucoeaaful fishermen. They get dia oouraged after a few minutes and throw down the rod to write au abusive article on the finny tribe. " Never mind, sonny. The rain makes boy* grow," remarked a Ma*-' chnsetta tramp the other day, wb-u he took a ailk umbrella awaj from a lad in the midst of a rain storm. During the last fifteen months eight hundred and eight families of Xeunou ite immigrants, numbering four thou sand eight hundred and forty-four rar aona, have settled to Manitoba. Three months ago the Montana paper* would have stated that a borae-dmler had been invited to a bempeo-neektio aoaaWe; now they say that the eaitoeii* have put a pull-back crart-t on him. A subaeriber writes to an editor to the Wert: " I don't waut your paper any longer." To which the editor renlisa: '• I wouldn't make it any longer u you did ; its present length suits me very wdL" "Did my moustache trouble yon, iharr said Nogg* * sweetheart, after giving her a hearty osculation. " No, sweet; considering the stoe and strength of that mustache, I felt rather down in the mouth." A my pretty Sunday-school aoog is the one "entitled: " Put your armor on, my boys." Thaw Is, however, a young ladv who doaant like to bear it. -Sh. says it sounds like " Put your arm around ma, boys." The technical name of " hanks." op phed to sketoa of worsted yarn or other thread, it supposed was derived from one Hsnk'W" de Brabant, a Flemish weaver, dyer, or fuller, who settled to York, England, to 1731. A Parttogtonisn juryman, to Vermont, recently informed hie fellow-jurymen, with great gravity, that "no external isMiiilisin being visible, he would vote to the defensive." No attempt was made to change his decision. "Mv son," said a stern father to a W>TPD Tear-old hopeful, "I must disci pline yon. Your teacher say* yoni am tht worrt boy to the school." "Well, papa," was the reply, "only yesterday she told me I was just like my father. Humility ii the bttlourk of wisdom. Socrates, whom the oracle—that i*. the naiUd opinion of tin? world in which he movod—pronounced to be the wisest DMD, was content with the title of a lover, rather than a professor of wisdom. An exchange says: "A Chicago chemist, owing to the non-payment of his fee, refuse* to return the stomach of a ■*" sent to him for analysis." A .Jwmmt with such principles is capable of turning or returning the stomach of any man. An artificial spoutiag bath of sulphur water of the same temperature aa the springs of Rollioame, at Viterbo, was prepared in the Vatican for the use ol the Pope, who had the rheumatism, but who recovered before the bath was ready. •• Figures will lie," said a" young married friend to our reporter this morn ing, " and don't you bet on the'flgure of a woman until you know by actual ob nervation just w'hat you haw to sustain your judgment, lis, sir, I know that figures will lie." Yesterday, when a 'soman fell down near the city hall, a man, leaning against the fence, waved his hand and remarked : " Zhete's where shay have vantage. Fi fall down folks thav 1 m shrank Women fall down an' folks shay she ought*r sue she city for ton thousand sollara. There is a youth in Pennsylvania who ought to have the prise aa a champion wrong-speller. They gave him "irre oondkble" to wrestle with, and he writhed ont the following: reckonaileable." Anybody eon sjwul a word correctly, but it require* genius to be thus ingeniously and ideally errone ous. A recent advertisement contains the following startling information : If the gentleman who keeps the shoo store with a red head will return the umbrella of a young lady with the ivory handle to the slate roofed grocer's shop, he will hear something to his advantage, as the same is the gift of a deceased mother now no more, with the name engraved upon it. During the prevalence of the recent flood on the Wabash river in Indiana, two young men were carried away by the water, and were saved from drown ing only by climbing np on the limbs of an overturned tree which had stuck in a narrow channel. Here they clung for a day and a half. When they were taken off, they passed the following night at a house wnere twenty-four families were quartered. Three months ago a discharged conduc tor was killed by an express messenger, while the former was trying to rob his car. Decently, #4,000 was paid by the conduc tors' mutual benefit Maociatioii to the conductor's widow, her husband haying been a member in good standing. She is an excellent woman, in poor circumstances, and the asaociation paid the money without raising any question as to the way her husband met his death. A Chicago gentleman invited a number of friends to dinner, and they aooepted the invitation, but none of them appeal' ed, and the dinner was spoiled. Accord ingly he sued them for the value of the viands wasted through their lack of courtesy. The lower court gave him judgment for the amount claimod, but the superior tx'bunal reversed the deci ! sion, remarking that if the principle first affirmed were correct the risk of accept ing invitations would be very serious, indeed. A lady residing in Laushigburg, N. Y., hailed a passing car, with her little son, the other day, to see him safely on the horse-oar for a trip to Troy. He stepped on board and scrambled for the front of the oar. As he was going his mother said : " Why, aren t you going to kiss your mother before you go • The little fellow was so delighted at the prospect of a ride and in such a hurry ' that he hastily rejoined, looking back excitedly : "Mr. Conductor, won t you kiss mother for me I" And of course the ' passengers couldn't help smiling.
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