Same Hay.
44 Some day,' 4 w ur, and turn our evr
Toward the fair hill* of Para ' so.
Borne day. some time, a nwaot new rw
Bhall blossom. flower-like, m< ach l>real.
Borne time, ecroe day. c.nr i vs shall
The faces V.ept in men, rv
Bome day their hand* aliall rla)> out hai >1
Juat over in th morning lands.
Some day onr ear* shall hoar the song
Of trinmph over sin *.id sroiiy.
Bomedai, sims lime, t-.c ot, ! mu yet.
Bat we shall wail and uoi forget
That aom. da* all hee *Mnga ahall lis,
And rest Is .nto to >> and me.
Bo wait, my friend, though rear* move alow.
The happy time will come we know.
Would Wake 1> Hl* Wind.
I wish he would make up hi* mind ma.
For I do not care longer to wait;
I am sure I have hinted unite strongly.
That I thought shout changing my state ;
For a sweetheart he's really so backward,
I can t bring him out, though 1 try ;
I own that he's very good tempered,
But then he's so dreadfully ahv !
Vfheu I apeak about loveui a sot tags.
He gives me a look Of ;
And if 1 but hint at a marriage,
He blnshes -put* up to his eyes.
I can't make him jealous —l've tried it -
And tie no nee my being unkind
For that is not the way, I am certain.
To get him to make up his mind
I've sung him love sonnets hy doceua,
I've worked him both slipper* and tnee.
And we're walked out by moonlight together .
Yet he never attempts to propoar '
You must realty ask hi* intention.
Or aome ,her beau 1 must find ;
For indeed 1 won't tarry much longer
For one trbo can't make up hie mind.
THE MIDXIHHT ROBBERS,
Last night—yesterday Using my sev
enteenth birthday—wc had a little muni
cal jartv.' The people gotic, we, having
eaten uj> all tlie sandwiches and a box of
presemd cherries, repaired to our re
spectivo bedchambers, Terv tired, very
yawuy, and rather cross, as i* the way of
odd jxxiple afler too prtdotigod u sjieil of
their fellow-creatures society.
44 Susannah will lock up," said jatjm,
somewhere below his second stu>L
44 Very well," gaped mamma ; and the
door shut.
Now I suppose I was too much excited
to fall asleep easily, and for the last
three days I have been puaaling my
brains to find out how I had I utter have
my new silk uiade. I don't care about
basques, mid bustle skirts are my abomi
nation ; anvbow, sleep I could not get. I
turned ami twisted, and sat up aud lay
down. No ;it was uo good. At length,
however, 1 dozed off; but through my
slumbers .amr noises, strange grating
noises, as of rtower-pots I wing moved, or
a fire being raked oat. I took no notice.
I knew that Susannah did always rake
the fire out Ixjfore she went to tied, so I
BUJl posed she was jwrforming that au
gust ceremony. But lie fore Kmg three
tremeudous bangs at the hall door fairly
woke me up. I listened. Was the hoase
on fire i A minute, and scroop went a
window.
44 Who's there 1" bawled papa
Botaebody growled something. A
policeman, I th ought, and shook all
over.
Then Susannah opened her door and
came running down stairs. Maria would
sleep through a railway accident.
" What is it?" said Aunt Jane, coining
oat of her room, which is next to mine.
"Oh, don't yon trouble, 'm," answer
ed Susannah ; "you go to bed. I'll see
to itand hurried on. I lay and
quaked. For a while all was quite still
—so still that I felt impelled to get up
and listen ; but harely had I reached the
door when quite frightful sounds be
sieged my ears—sounds a of people
scuffling, mingled with screams.
" Policeman !" I yelled. " Police
man—murder—fire !" Anything yon
like to mention.
Out dashed papa; out dashed Aunt
Jane.
"For goodness' sake,' cried mamma,
"don't go down like that; you'll be
killed to a certainty. Why, you haven't
even got a poker !"
I flew to the fireplace.
"Here," I said—"here, papa!" and
thrust out the familiar implement.
But he was gone.
I caught a glimpse of tin- tail of Aunt
Jane's red flannel dressing-gown as it
whisked round-the turning. Our stair
case is a wonder. It seems to have
wriggled out of the mind of the architect
who designed this tenement much as a
worm will out of a pea.
" What ever is the matter 1" demanded
I of mamma, who seemed fit to drop.
" He's run through the garden !**
screamed Susannah. " Oh, the rascal !
Policeman 1"
"Good gracious gasped mamma.
Through the hall hire a large and
helmetetl person in blue, and out at the
garden door. Out tore Susannah.
Whether Aunt Jane joined in the chase
I am not sure; but she ha* got bron
chitis.
"Spring your rattle!" roared paps,
who seemed to have secreted himself,
from feelings of modesty possibly, in
the pantry.
The policeman sprung his rattle ac
cordingly, and having done so, seemed
well satisfied. At all events, he speedily
came back again.
" Have you got him 1" inquired papa.
"Lor, no, sir," says Susannah (who,
I may here mention, is our cook); " 'e's
gone arf a mile by this time. E- f this
young man"—
"My dear woman," broke in otir
guardian of the peace, "is there no male
person in this bouse, that you mast
needs go and willfully endanger your
precious life I"
"lor, yes," replied Susannah,
"there's master, ain't there f"
" Then," said the policeman, " I con
sider it was your duty to let him come
down and see what could he done."
"Of coarse, of coarse," said papa,
coming out of his retirement, and seem
ing to knock down a wine glow. Mam
ma groaneil, and clutched my arm dread
fully as she heard the smash. " You
presume this man effected an entrance
through the kitchen window, police
man ?"
"Presume!" exclaimed Susannah,
who is a west-country woman, and as hot
as a live coal. "I fo%-id the rascal
'addled up be'ind the door. 'E'd opened
the window and pinned up the blind,
and I make no doubt wn looking about
for a knife just to cut all our throats.
" Very likely," said the policeman.
" There's some desperate bail charac
ter* about. Why, only last night as I
was"—
" Hadn't you better make a thorough
search fir the wretch ?" here came in
Aunt Jane. '• He may have got under
the shed."
" What shed, miss ?" inquired the
policeman.
"Why, the tool-shed at the end of the
garden, to be sure."
Aunt Jane detests being called "miss,"
and can't "abide a blockhead."
"My dear Jane," interposed papa,
" how oouid this good man know that ?
If "you will wait a minute, police man, I'll
go and get on some clothes and come
with you."
" Very good, sir," said the policeman;
and up stairs papa came, looking more
singular perhaps than ever he did in his
life before. His appearance, however
being rather picturesque than elegant, I
will here draw a veil.
No sooner was he in sight than mamma
became hysterical.
"Oh, Hotspar," cried she, "the sil
ver f" and fell back on my shoulder with
such weight that I took up a sitting po
sition on the floor.
"Jane," called papa, " come and see
to these two foolish creatures. Get up,
you donkeys. Why, the fellow's gone!
There's nothing to be frightened at now.
I and the policeman are going to scour
the neighborhood."
"Help mamma," I panted; "*he is
dying!"
"Indeed, Jane," said mamma, "I
knew it would coma to that, sooner or
later,"
KItKD. Kl T l!'rZ. TCditor niut Proprietor.
VOL. VIII.
44 We11."' said Aunt Jane, who had just
male her ajipearwnee, 44 ami what in the
world is all tins about t Juat get up at
once, Amelia' 44
44 Mamma's hysterical,' 4 I nd. 44 Has
the man taken anything f 44
44 Wo duu't know."
44 lbrt the silver's safe !"
44 Yee," said jajv* ; 44 at least it was
five minutes ago."
" Thank God!" said my mother, ami
took a tn-sh lease of life.
Much mheved, 1 summoned courage
to get a shawl and a pair of slippers, ami
crweji tiowu stair®. The gas was lit in
the passage aud itining r\xim. I coald
lu ar vons-s iu the kitchen. Afraid of
the sound of my owu feet even, 1 listen
ed a little to assure myself that uo new
alarm oeed lie apprehended, ami tins
was what I overheard :
Policeman 44 There's nothing lad
mire more than sjiirit anywhere."
Susannah 1 don't kuow much about
spirit. I wish 1 knew what was come
of that there latchkey. If that's gone
'twill be a pretty job."
Policeman— 44 1 mippoee, now, yon'iu
got a fairisli place ("
Susannah— 44 That I 'ave l' 4
Pohcemau — 44 But you're not the only
one."
Susannah — 44 Bless you, no ; there's
Maria, she's the 'oust< tuaid ; and Jem,
'e cleans the knives aud shoes."
Policeman— 44 1 see. Well, you're a
wonderful gixxl jiluekisl un, any'ow.
Blowtsl if I should 'avo cared to do
what yon did ! '
Susannah— 44 1 dare say not. You
diilu't sell iu a great urry to come
when I called you. 1 thought YOU d
'ave jumped iu at the window. You'd
'ave caught 'un then."
Policeman—Not I. "E's be*-n at this
sort of game for the last seven years.
I'liat's a nice 44
But here an eldritch screech rang
through the house.
It wus 1! Mouton, the cat, liad
takeu advuntage of my abetractiou to
mount the balusters tnd jump on to my
shouliler. The sluvk was terrific. I
shook like a jell v.
4 Bless tne ! x * cried Aunt Jane,
'' w bat's the matter now t"
44 1 tell you," bawled jaj>a, hurrying
down, on vengeance Iwut, 44 1 won't
have such folly. Go off into the diuiug
rooni and shut the door, or to bed, which
vou like ; but—but In-have voarself like
a rational creature, or not another new
gown do you have for the next ten years.
And now, jKilkvnuui, b> the chase."
" I do wish," said Susauuah, as tliey
set off. " that they'd 'ave lt mo go
along with 'em. I'm sore I eould g t
over the fences a vast deal easier than
master, and as for seein' in the dark "—-
"Oh no, Susannah," 1 said, "don't
yon leave ns on my account. What a
mercy the man didn't hurt von! Did
you try to catch hold of him i"
" Lor, y<, miss; seized is ooat, and
tried to tear a hit out with all my might.
I'd 'ave clawed 'is face well, if 'e'd at
tempted to lava fingercn me ; bat when
'e looked that soared, the coward—well,
some'ow, I couldn't mialest 'im."
"No, to tie sure not," said mamma,
who had just shivered herself down.
"It is all for the best. We ought to IK
verv thankfuL"
Aunt Jane vowed that she'd buy a re
volver to morrow, and practice shooting
a* a mark two hours every morning, ami
—Susannah discovered that she knew
the man as well as she knew me.
"Why, air," said she, washing her
hands, when papa and til • policeman
bail returned to shake their hi ads and
lament the uselessnossof their endeavors
(they hail trampled down gixHlnwß
know* how many cabbages, smashed a
v-ucumU-r frame, and upset a Ixe In ve
il 1 Indulging to our neighbors— to no
earthly purpose)—"why, sir," said
Su atuiah. " I'm most certain 'tis that
man who used to work at Ma* m's, the
oil shop."
"You dou't say so!" said papa
"That man—why, I thought he was
uncle to the milklxiv!"
"So he is, sir," said the policeman,
j " And that boy, sir, *s nothing much to
-qieak of. I hear tliat his master's very
doubtful of him. We expect to give hiin
a night's lodging before long."
" Dear me," said mau-.ma; "why it
aeems that the air teems with thieves !"
" I shouldn't much care a!* >ut the
iir," remarked Aunt Jane ; it's the earth
I'm concerned with."
Whereupon we all felt bound to laugh;
and the policeman, saying that we
should " liave some one down " in the
qioming, I nicked out into the pas-age
to have a little private conversation with
Susannah about the man who used to
work at Mason's, the oil shop, and thence
into the street. A little while, and we
were all ill bed again, and the house
done np as tight as a drum or a sardine
tin.
Today, from the first pis p of dawn,
i. ., half-flast nine a. m., when I woke,
till now, four o'clock in the afternoon,
Susannah has been "giving particulars."
First came two ileieotivcs, "wonderful
fine men both," she tolls me, but the
one with a Roman nose is most to her
task-; then the owners of the cabbages
and the cucumber frame and liee-hive,
the hitter a stout little old gentleman in
black and a "hovel hat, ami a tremendous
passion. Pajia weut and hail it out
with him; and having spluttered and
blustered away till they were tired, they
made it up, and finally set off, arm in
arm, to search for footsteps. One was
found on an ash-heap, and immediately
covered up with a im-ket, as if it was
alive and would run away. Bines- th n
the bell and knocker have had a stifflsh
time of it. Jem, our boy, was given
the first numtier of f\amy Folk*, and
told to sit in the hall on purpose to play
porter, Maria declaring that her legs
would snap under her if she had much
more mnuing. Let a rnan own but n
potato, he must needs set off here fiost
haste to know if the thief could have
fled over it. When the List ring came—
it was the thirty-second; I counted
them—l said to Aunt Jane : " What in
the world can this man have come
about?"
" My dear," said she, " be is the proud
possessor of half a Brussels sprout."
Decemlier 2.—Nothing is known.
Busaunsli has Ix-en confronted with the
man who works nt Mason's. Bhe says
he is not at all like what she thought,
and not the h-ast like our burglar. The
Roman-nosed detective calls every two
hours, aud seldom stays less than one.
December 3.—This morning the
Itoman-Dosed one came to take Bnsan
nah to see a man who was painting a
house in Camplx-11 terrace. It occupied
three hours. lias evening the fish was
a shapeless wreck, owing to this orna
ment of bis native land naviug come in,
just as dinner should have been served,*
to ascertain the precise color of our
burglar's coat.
Decemlier A.—Tim milklioy has been
arrested. We are all agog. We feel
so certain something will lie found out
now.
December s.—Nothing has lieen
found out; but this morning, after
mamma had ordered dinner, Busannnli
informed her that she should like to
leave at Christmas, if she could make it
convenient.
" Leave!" said mamma, looking
astonished. " Why ? '
"Well, 'm," simpered Susannah,
" I'm going to be married."
"Indeed!" said mamma. "I hope
you hare made a good choioe."
"I think no, 'm," was the smiling
answer; " leastways, so far as I can
jndfl*."
THE CENTRE REPORTER
** Ami who in it t" inquired my moth
er. " Not the liakftr?"
"Lor, no, "m," *nl Susannah, get
tiug quite red. 44 The baker, indeed!"
44 lit toll TOO, mother," AAID I, sagely
—I wu Itwitiiug Mouton to lxg for a
eoeoanut droj> by the tiro "it's the
Roman ihwil detective. Now isu't it,
Susannah t"
Susannah smiled.
So if our burglar did nothing else—a
tuxjienuy bit and four jawtege stamps
worn *ll bo got ho has contrived to rob
us of our *xk.
L
Church Debt*.
Tlii way in which diireb edifices sre
built nowaday*, says Dr. Holland of
Seribntrr't Monthly, really u> vena ita tee a
uw formula f ikhliistiun. How would
this read < "Wo dedicate thi* edifice
W Til or. our Lord and Muster; wo give
' ft to Thee and Thy cause and kingdom,
subject to a mortgage of one hundred
and fifty thousand dollar* ($150,000).
We lieoueth it to our children and our
children'* children, a* the greatest boon
we mn confer on thorn (subject to the
i mortgage aforesaid), ami we trust that
: they will have the grace and the money
to pay the mter<*it and lift the mortgage.
Preserve it from tire and foreclosure,
we pray Thee, and make it abundantly
useful to Tbyaalf—subject, of course, to
tlie aforesaid mortgage. "
The offering of a structure to tlie
, Almighty, as the gift of an organization
i of devotees who UaTe not paid for it,
and do not owu it, strikes tlie ordinary
miud as a very strange thing, vet it is
safe to say tliat not one church IU twenty
is built iu America without incurring a
debt, larger or smaller. A more com
modious and a more elegant building is
wanted. A sulwcriptiou is made that
will not more than half cover its cost,
and money enough ia borrowed t> com
plete it. The whole property is niort
gaged for all that it will curry, the finan
cial authorities are saddled with a float
iug debt which they can only handle ou
their personal resjiossihility, and then
come taxation for interest, auillcieut to
keep the church always in distress.
This sort of church enterprise is so ooui
mon tlmt it luts become common plana.
The cliildreu of this world do not build
railroads with capital stock paid in, but
they build them with bonds. * The chil
dren of light really do not smua to lie
less wise in their generation, in the way
in which thev build their churches. In
deed, we tlnnk the latter can give the
former several jaunt* and l*ut them;
for the jaying success of a churcii de
iends more upon contingencies tlian the
success of a nulruod, and its lx>nds really
ought not to sell for more than titty
Cents on the dollar 44 flat."
If we seem to make light of this sub
ject, it is only for the purpose of show
ing how uWurd a position the church'**
have aa-umed in relation to it. It is not
a light sul >Jpet ; it is a very grave one,
ami one wuich demands the immediate
and persistent attention of all the church
es until it shall be properly diapaetxi of.
In the first place, it is not exactly a
Christian act for a laxly of men to con
tract a debt which tie y are not able to
pay. It i< hardlv more Christian to re
fuse to |>uv a debt which they know
they are a bio to discharge. It can hard
ly le regard.vl as a generous deed to bo
.jneatb a debt to succeeding generations.
The very foundations of the ordinary
church debt are rotten. They are rotten
with pisir morality, jxior financial policy,
nd personal and sectarian lauity.
Does any one snpjKiae that tin-*- cxpeu
-ive and debt laden churches were erect
ed simply for the honor of the Muster,
and given to Him, subject to mortgage!
The results ot Luilntng churelie* njx>n
such au unbound b.t-is are Imd enough.
The first result, perhaps, is the extin
guishm.-ut of all church lienelic-uo*.
l*he church debt is thea|xi!ogy for deny
ing all ap|M-als for aid, from all the
greater and smaller chanties. A church
sitting in the shadow of a great debt, is
" net at home" to caller*. They Jo not
pay the debt, but they owe the money,
and tin y are afraid they shall be obliged
to jMy it. The heathen must take care
of themselves, the starving must go
without bread, the widow and the father
less must look to the God of the widow
and the fatherless, the si. k must pine,
and the |>oor children grow tip in vaga
bondage, liecanso of this awful church
debt. All the meanness in a church
skulks Ix hind the debt, of which it in
tends to pay very little, while all the
nobleness fx>ls ri ally JSST, la-cause it is
conscious that the debt is to be paid, if
paid at all, by itself.
Mow wall Jackson.
Rev. Florence McCarthy, of Chicago,
who knew Stonewall Jack*on intimately,
has given sonic jiersonal incidents of
him. He seys: One c<>mical peculiarity
of Jackson was his talent for going to
sleep. When I lived in Lexington it
was a well-known fact tliat the major,
notwithstanding his punctilious attend
ance at church, had never heard Dr.
White preach. About the time that the
second hymn was sung he invariably
went to the land of nod, whence he re
turned only when aroused by the last
hymn. It was -aid that this habit was
tue eflect of di ease, and could not lie
helped. It billowed him all through
life, and I saw him yield to it once in
the army. On one Sunday, somewhere
in eastern Virginia, I rrmrnilmr attend
ing a preaching service in front of Gen.
Jackson's headquarters. The general
oat at the preacher's right hand on a
backless camp stooL As the sun was
very hot and there was no shade, he held
his cap in his right hand lietween his
head and the snn, his reverence not per
mitting inni to place it on his head, as
many others did theirs. With his hand
elevated in that way, he ja-acefully
glided off into dreamland and slept with
out moving hia arm or nodding otfoe,
until the noise of the closing exercises
startled him into consciousness again.
The truth is, Gen. Jackson always look
ed an if he were asleep ; and even when
walking he had the appearance of a som
nambulist.
It was said that on ona occasion a
numls-r of the cadets of the Virginia
militury institute, of which Jackson was
a professor, mounted the barracks at the
hour when Jaekson had to walk under
the eaves of the house, and dropped
brickbats in front of bim as he walked
along, endeavoring to see bow near they
could come to his head without hitting
it. As this trick was played at the im
mediate risk of killing the innocent pro
fessor, it would hardly be lielii-ved that
the cadet* would practice it, unless the
reader was first informed that these ca
dets were generally reckless, riotous,
irresponsible, and unscrupulous des
peradoes. It is saiil that they succeed
ed admirably in making all the bricks
graze Prof. Jackson's nose. But to their
utter surprise the major did not look up,
nor around, nor quicken his pace at all.
He possessed such extraordinary nerve
and determination that he treated the
whole performance with icy contempt.
A Man Who Does hot Laugh.
An English traveler, Mr. ilartshorne,
gives an acconnt of the Weddas, a wild
tribe which lives in the interior of Cey
lon. These Weddas are about five feet
high, live on water and roast monkeys,
and are, he reports, incapable of laugh
ter. After trying every way to make
their chief laugh, and failing, he asked,
in amazement, whether they ever
laughed. " No," replied the Wedda ;
" why should we? What is there to
laugh at ?"
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO.. PA., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 14, 1875.
A lake Captain.
Tlie Cleveland /etufur gives the fol
lowing brief sketch of tlie life of Caj>taiu
Scott, the owner of tlie sunken utonmer
Ki|tuuox: Captain Uwight Scott, who
went down with the ill fated jvpunox,
was aUmt fifty three years old, amtoaiue
to this city from Couueoticut when a
little more than tw<nty years of age.
For several y<ars after oouuug b> Cleve
land he followed the trade of a pamb r,
and did mneh iu the way of jaunting
veuinela. In this btisinesa he was no sue
cceefnl that twenty years ago lie was able
to purchase an interest in a vessel,
which lie then rej>*irel ami named Uur
eruor Cusluuau, ui honor of a governor
of Counectieut by tliat nauio, with whom
he lived WIMHI a Isiy, ami wloni< memory
he held in the higtieet esteem. Cajitaiu
S<stt, in ailditiou to the Cuslimau and
Equinox, was formerly owner of the 0.
I>. Caldwell and the Ironside, which wns
blown tij> marly three v<-ar ago at Buf
falo. Iu the management of tluwe ves
sels he sjielit the greater part of the time
since LvVi, always sailing willi theiu
when ou the lakes, ami sjieudiug his
winters either at his residence on Cove
avenue, in Uockport, just beyond the
city limits, or in lietroit. He ** not a
profewsioual lake ivijitaui, ami never at
temjited to command a vernal, but re
ceived the title of 44 Captain" from bis
love for the water and bis long connec
tion with the truflic of the lakes. He left
Cleveland at the opening of navigatiou
last sjirtug, since when he has not visit
ed his home. His business was between
Saruia and Chicago, ami was of a gen
eral character. Caj>tain Bc>>tt was a
widower, and had but one child, Min
uie, a young lady in b-r nineteenth year,
who weut down with the ill-fated vessel.
She was a student iu the convent at De
troit, where she eutered three years ago,
remaining then for only a year. At the
exjiiratiou of this time she returned
home ami jmaaed a year iu the Cleveland
oonveut, when she went l>a<-k t> Detroit
and remained till the close of tlie school
year ui July. She theu joined her
lather ou the lakes for the juirjxise of
jstssing her vacation, as was her wout.
She was accoutj>ani< d bv a daugbier of
Capl. Scott's stepson, who now resnlra
at the reaidenoe near the M<-lnc Houae.
This young lady was fifteen years old,
and was about to enter the Detroit oon
veut with her elder oomjaunoa. lk-th
were laditsi of rart> endowments of heart,
and niiud, and leave many in this city to
lament their sml and untimely end. f 4 < r
son.dly, D tright Scott was a genial,
whole-soulevl geiitlvman, who enjoye,!
the company of friends and acquain
tancee, ami jwMeeaaed a natural love for
the water.
I)rtrlt Free I're** Cirrrary.
A Chicago ch rgyman *y be never
wn no familiar with Satan an when ruling
over a cobble* touo puVcturnt.
'• rw iwlvertiidilg {my I" Well, you
jn*t atlrertine the opening of a free lunch
e.HtabliKhiuent aiiil w.ut reeulu.
mil, which of late jeers have been
very ac&roe in Connecticut, are this year
ei|HcttHl to be vury plentiful.
The moral of the f-.alure of the Cali
fornia lUuk tun to lie: Don't try to
sprea.l yoiinwlf over too many egg*.
When they cutcli a man gathering
Delaware peaclie* at mhluight they ore
*erve Whatever guoti truita he has in him
by rhootiiig half a pint of aait into hia
lega.
A beautiful S-m Francisco girl baa l*v
cooio a maniac. the ivxult of " cram
ming" fur li*r school nhihitiuo. 11*r
U*t school reeds: " Highly dis
tiuguislusl in her clasae*."
Tlere i* one town in New Eugbuid
tliat claims to Is- entirely happy and
good. It is Eaton, in New Hampshire.
There is not a physician, doctor, lawyer,
drinking saloon or pauper in the place.
Ih' guarded in your conversation.
There ore times when yon may freely
express your opinion on apolitical can
didate, hut you had letter wait until his
friends are over in the next county
visiting.
If there is anything that will cause the
belated night-wander r to hasten homo
and take his scolding like a man, it is
to pans a beer saloon, and catch the soul
harrowing strains: " Darling, I am
growing old."
New Cure for Hay Fever.
A Reading (Pa.) physician has just
tried a novel treatment for hay fever—
animal magnetism—and, to his own
surprise, as well as that of his jsitient,
atforded relief in a few minutes. The
ease lias not been entirely cured, though
the severity of the disease has been
greatly mitigated. The first symptoms
appeared alstut three week* ago in the
patient, who is a man alswt thirty-five
years old, and when his nostrils ami re
spiratory organs were so seriously affect
•d that he nearly suffocated, the laying
on of hands by the physician oansed
entire freedom in breathing, and every
indication of the disease to tlisap|sar in
ten or fifteen minutes. A reporter
asked the doctor how he could reooncilc
this mode of treatment with the theory
that hay fever was caused by the initia
tion of spores, and he replied tliat the
only explanation he could give was
that the magnetic influence strength
ened the affected organs and enabled
them to throw off and resist the disease
oansed by the presence of |K>llen. That
the peculiar and mysterious agent—aui
mal magnetism or "odie force," as
Hichcnliach, the German chemist, calls
it—relieves tho jsitient afflicted with hay
fever, the doctor is certain, bnt he is not
so snre of his explanation as to how it
does it. In the treatment he applies his
hand to the bank of the neck of the
patient, to hia chest, forehead, etc , mid
makes tho usual downward passes in
front of the person. The patient is still
nnder treatment, and what the ultimate
result will he, a perfect cure or not, ia
yet to be ascertained.
The Golden Eule.
A few <lny* ago a gentleman of Now
York city, says the Tribunr, mwired by
mail a check for five hundred dollar*, j
He deposited it in liis bank, and went
down into the street, there to t>e met
by a rumor that sent him back in haute.
Just twenty five minntes had elapsed.
The teller's little door WM shut. The
money was gone. Had it been stolen I
Was the bunker a swindler? No, he
hail failed.
About the same time, a merchant re
ecived a large quantity of good* one
day near the close of business hours. He
made some commonplace excuse for
not making immediate payment, and
promised to send n check the next morn
ing. Tho first announcement of the
morning was that he had failed. He
had the good*, but the real owner was
without nis check. Was tho merchant a
thief? Ought he to have gone to jailf
Not at all. He had merely suspended.
He was nnable to meet hia obligations.
Two young men were recently brought
into one of our ixilice courts on a charge
of stealing shoes from a store. They
ware decent in appearance, and it was
believed by some that they had been
driven to crime by want. Had they I
failed, or had they suspended ? Or was
it l>ecauso they were unable to meet ]
their obligations ? Not at all. They
were thieves—common thieves—very
common thieves. They were sent to the
penitentiary for two months.
The Ha*at*r<> at Woody Brook
Tht two hundredth anniversary of the
Imttle of ltl.Hi.ly Mr.s.k was celebrated
I>V the Janiple of KnoeX iv.illltv, Mtl->nu
cfiusetta Hi.- buttle of Itkvnly Hrook
occurred during King Philip'* war; in
foot it wan j.r.-t i.i.Hy the Ix-giiiutug
111.' strife l*tweeU tlr New Kuglolid <> -
- and that crafty lu.liau monarch.
History tclla iw that Maenos'.it, the g.sal
.•hi. f of th WuiujiauoagH, ami lt
friend of the whit.- won, had two anna,
Wamautta (called Alexander) and Meta
rem (called Philip). Philip wan by na
turn ambition* ami jealous. 11 > watched
with<iitrit*t the iiierHOuiug jn.wor of the
white man; and while a mere buy ls-gan
to |ir.|uU.' hia plana for a cou.n-rted at
tack by tlit. Indiana upon the New Hug
land settlor*. lie waa often auapectetl
of tMwriug ill will to the colonist*, al
though ho always prufaMml the warmest
afTootiou for thom. Maonasoit died in
IW7, ami Alexander, who aftor hia fath
or'a .loath lieoame chief of tile Warn
jtauoaga, diet in Ififiil, whon Philip suc
ceeded to tlio dignity of sachem. J u*t
two huudro.l years ago hia plana for th
extermination of tlio Knghshiuou had
boon aliuoat perfected. Ho intended
that all tho Indian tribe* of Now Kng
latid nhould niako a concerted attack
ujn.ii thorn m lA7ti. Hut hia confidential
adviser, a "praying" Indian uani.nl
Saunauiou, betrayed hia jilana to tho
Kngliah, and waa raahly killed by aoiuo
young warriors; so Plulij. had Uotliing
to do but to precipitate affairs ami t>ogiu
tho wur lx fore hia allioa woro prepared
for it. Philip'a allioa woro tho Nip
mucka, tho Agawama, tho Nouotuoka,
tho S.juakhoagM, tho Pooomtucka. Oil
tho first of Hepteiuber tho aottlomont of
Oeerfield waa attacked; moat of ita
housoa wor.< burned and 1.1.nnl waa ahod.
Northtiold waa afterward abandoned,
and l>eartlehl waa loft tho " frontier"
northern sottl. inont On tho twelfth of
SojitomtH-r tho Indiana made a second
attaok on tbia village and burned mora
liotiaoH, and tlio then all wont to
llodley. Tho tlol.la of IWrtlold, how
ovor, wore covered witli ri| n-tonl grain,
and Cajitaiu Thouiaa Lalkrop, acooin
jauii.nl bv forty six young men, "tho
fiowwr of fcaaex," wont out to bn.rv.wt tho
wheat. While resting near aome wild
grujn. viuoa thoy wore attacked by six
hun.tr.nl Indiana, urrn.nl with rifle*,
laithrup waa kill.nljat tile first allot, and
iijyrtfe ad lua ouJßpant.ms fell before the
Cajitain Moacly, who had
romaiti.nl at tho Uadloy gamaou, haatou
ou.nl to tho aput with seventy men and
fought the Indiana for five hour*. When
it waa all over sixty white men lay dead
by tho aide of a hi.sal covered stream of
water, which tho suriivoranamed Moody
Brook. King Philip'a war continued
far into tho next year.
Co-operatire Farming lo Lnglantf.
The English lals>r movement is turn
iug to aouie extent toward eo-o{*r*Uve
fanning, and several aocietica have ls-en
organised, with constitutioua and by
laws somewhat complicated, but still
with wise pro visions. It aeetus now tliat
a co ojMirative farm was organized ro
long ago a I*3U, aud its success is a de
cided encouragement for other*. The
caac is tliat of a Mr. liordoo, living in
Suffolk, at no great distance from una
don, at a place .ailed Arlington, who at
the time mentioned called hia lalsuvrw
together and proposed tliat they ahoitld
take aixtv scree at moderate rent and
farm it on the co-operative plan. That
tlicy might have capital he advanced
£4UO for tea years without interest, but
em'h laborer was to invest as a guar
antco of good faith. .Alter overcoming
some difficulties, mostly on account of
the disinclination of the ltd ore r* litem
selves, tlie {>lsn was put iu operation, and
at the eloeo of the tell y-ars tlu-J had
saved enough to pay the £4OO. As the
nuuils-r of oo operator* was fifteeu, they
made ultoiit sld a year, Itosulea the regit
iar wages {mid them. This is certainly a
suinll sum, and yet there are manv labor
ers even in America who do not have so
much at the end of teu years. After
that five more member* came in. and
three more farms were taken and worked
with money borrowed at two and a half
js-r cent., and tliey hired eight 1 lauds in
addition. A dairy is uttuchod, which is
conducted by the manager s wife, who
receive# £lO a vear, or about £1 a week.
The rules are simple. Meetings are
held four times a year for settling ac
counts. * One provision is that coal is
bought in bulk at wholesale and de
livered to the members at cost, and other
supplies are furnished in the same war
at a co-operative store. The farm now
consists of l:u acres of rather light land,
though there is fair pasturage. The
stock kept consists of six hones, sixteen
cows, 110 sheep, pigs, poultry, and a
few fatting bulb* ks. Many of the mein
bcra have quarter acre allotments at
tached to their cottages, for which they
jay a rent of three pence a rod, or £2 in
acre, free of all taxes and charges. This
is only $2.50 for the ground, but, as
these allotments are dug over with the
syuidc, and highly fertilised, the yield is
sufficient to support a small frugal
family. Tho lalturcrs have no desire to
immigrate, and thev have remained on
the place, unless they hava died, until
the present, that is forty five years, and
they protest against all strikes. It is
trne they are poor and humble, but
they feel contented, and so happy even,
that they wish tlie laliorors of every
parish were as well aituated.
How to Wake Up.
A medical writer does not approve
of the old doctrine which formerly was
instilled into the minds of children—
that they should spring ont of lied tho
instant they are awukc in the morning.
He says up to eighteen years old every
child should lie allowed to rest in lied,
after the sleep is over, until they feel as
if they would rather get np than not. It
is a very great mistake for persons old
or young—especially children, or seden
tary persons—to bounce out of lied at
the moment they wuke up; all the in
stincts shrink from it, and fiercely kick
against it Fifteen or twenty mhmtes
s|M>nt in gradually waking up, after the
eyes are opened, and in turning over
aud stretching the limbs, do as much as
good sound aleep, because the operations
set the blood iu motion bv degases, tends
ing to equalise the circulation; for dur
ing aleep tho blood tends to stagnation,
tho heart beats feebly and slowly, find to
shook the system by bouncing up in an
instant and sending tho blood in over
whelming quantity to tho heart, causing
it to assume a gallop, wLere the iustiuit
before it was a ereep, is tho greatest ab
surdity. This instantaneous bouneing
ont of Issl as soon as the eyes are open
will lie followed by n weariness long
before noon.
Helping Your Neighbor,
In certain parts of New Jersey, if a
man wants to move his family and
effects, he makes a moving ; his wife
works hard, bakes cakes and pies and
bread, etc., dresses chickcu., and in fact
gets ready for a feast ; then they invite
twenty or more to come with their
teuniK. All go to work, atul move the
family in a very short time, each hiking
a loath When they get to the house,
they put up the stove aud some of the
women go to cooking tho meat and
vegetables, while the rest set the house
in order ; then after that they have their j
dinner, for they think a good deal of
eating down there. To wind up with,
perhaps, they will have a frolic.
THE BOY IX CHI K( 11.
M. Mail! Ttlli the tlrseWtr Akasi Ik* (gill*
H,> ma nmmdrnt.
lie waa playing at tlie gaU* M 1 Went
past, and I heard his father uail out.
44 Boy, you want to gallop in here and
get ready for nns-ting 1"
44 Shi f" briefly replitsl the tad.
44 Shi! I'll shi you. young man. if
you don't trot iu here lively J You'd lie
as laid aa Jeaae Poiueroy II loft without
a father for three months I"
" I would, hey f"
" Nil mini, ymuig iittu —it' time you
were getting ready for church 1"
Tim minister wo* giving out hia text
when the boy and inn father came iu.
There waa i* malderable improvement iu
the lad'a looks. Hta tuur had lieeu
greased and com lied, he had on hi* Hun
day Jacket, and there waa a religious
look ID hia eyes aa he fell into the pew.
I ought to have listened oloaely to the
aertnou, but I did not. The boy and hia
father were in the j>ew next ahead, and
1 couldn't help but watch him.
He got along very well for the first
ten minutea. Then he aaked hia father
what time it was. and when the {talent
replied with a warning tdiake of the
head tlie boy cast around him for aume
thing to interest his mind. The preach
r nettled down to hia discourse and the
bov settled down to bis plan of wearing
away the coming hour. He reached
over and got hold of hta father's ailk
hat, and waa Lryiug to remove the Ixuid
when the parent took it away and bent
over and wblnjtered:
"Boy, if you don't pay attention to
the preacher 1 *ll break your neck when
we get home !"
The lad fixed hiaeyeaou the clergyman.
He aaw that the good man had auburn
hair, blue eyes, tlorid complexion, and
waa well dreeaed. He heard him make
use of such worda aa " fortuitous,"
" unexampled," and "repellant," and
without being aide to tell whether they
referred t* a new kind of string beana or
the gospel of Christian light, he reached
out and seeurcd hia father's aaue. He
punched at several files, wrainincd the
silver h<-ad into hia mouth until he
turned purple in the faoe, and finally
reached over and jabbed a women under
the left shoulder. Hia father then
grasped the cane, laid it away, and wins
jtered :
"Young man, I'll tan the hide ofTn
you when we get home!"
The words were iutended to make the
boy ] sty strict attention to the Istiauoe of
the sermon. He straightened U|l, looked
at th preacher again, and tried hard to
understand the discourse. The good
man was trying to explain the difference
between theoretical and practical Chris
tiauity, and in two minutes the lad's
eyes were flied on the chandelier*. He
counted the uumlwr of burner# over and
over again, and forgetting himself for an
instant be began to sing. Hia father
gave him a kick and leaned over and
w his pens. 1 :
"Ob! boy, I'll make you huuo> the
minute * get into the house!" Know
ing that liia father would keep his word,
but yet hoping to break the force of the
pcMmectivc " peeling " by being real
good fr the ni xt half hour, the lioy
faced the clergymail og.tin. He knit his
brow* ami plainly showed bis dderwuM
t ion to understand aud in ten st htmaelf
iu all tliat was said. The g>-.l uian was
drawing a parallel, and a dozen of tlie
church mruil* r* wens half aalecp. It
was discouraging, aud after two or tlirce
minutes the loy got hold of a bit at
paper, wadded it up, stuffed it into his
mouth, aud chewed it awhile, and then
balancing the wad on his thiuub. he ele
va Us I it ten feet towanla the celling.
The law of gravitation applies topa|>Ar
wads aa well as to iron weights. Tliia
one came down iu a short time, aud, as
luck would have it, it struck tlie bald
{•ate of the lutlf asleep sexton. The vic
tim gave a start of alarm, whirled qoick-
Jy around, and the boy's father pinched
him savagely and whispered:
"Oh! I'll fix you for this! Just let
me get you bome once !"
I couldn't nee how the boy waa to
blame. He couldn't understand one
word iu ten of the sermon ; he aaw a
dozen ruen around him asleep ; it was a
hot day ; he wo* a nervous Ikv and used
to moving around, and bis own father
hail been gazing out of tin-window in an
absent way for a quarter of an hour. Ho
made a last grand effort. He braced hia
nerves, shut his t<-eth bard, and ant as
erect as a new hitching {* wo. The cler
gymnu seemed to look right at tlie l*y
as he uaud twenty big words iu snocx s
aion, and the Iml gave it up. He o{nxl
the pew door, aud was trying to entice a
small dog to come in, when his father
awoke and whisjiensl:
" You wait —oh, you just wait!"
The exercises closed just then, and the
boy walked home behind his parent to
get a dressing down for not having the
mental caliber of a full grown man, and
for not sitting still and going to aleep
like hia father.
A I'M for If.
The city of London has ai last com
pleted a system of drainage tliat was de
cided on near!,, twenty years ago, and
has la-en iu construction for over seven
teen years, costing over twenty-two mil
lions of dollaia. The sewage of a section
of the metropolis, covering an area of
about one hundred and tweuty square
miles, is now carried away to the Ger
man ocean i* an admirable manner. Hut
still London is not content. A new
problem has been presented by the very
effectiveness of the new system, and tliat
is the utilisation of the enormous amount
of the ls-st kind of fertiliser which is
now wash si in the ocean's vast exponas.
That is no idle question either. The
waste of sewage is robbing the agricul
tural industry of one of its strongest
props. Experiment* with the sewage in
a number of instauoea have given the
most cheering result*. Upon a farm of
thirty acre*, for the year ending March.
1875, the receipts were s<so6 for 939.96
expended. Tim Earl of Warwick, who
lias need the sewage of Leamington on a
farm of four hundred aorea, and applied
it to all kinds of crops, has results that
seem almost fabulous. Eighty-two tons
of mangolds to an acre is one statement,
and five crops of rye grass iu a season is
another. The profits are also very great.
This is a question that does not iuterest
I/<>ndon alone, bnt applies to every large
city in this country as well.
The Difference.
(ieti. Sherman has written s letter to
Col. John A. Batter, syllogizing for
using the word " tight," in referring to
him in his " Memoirs," and saying that
lie has instructed his publishers to sul>-
Mtitute " enthusiastic " for it. He adds:
" I did not suppose my rapid sketch of
early events in California would attract
so much notice. As you well understand,
I do not offer my " Memoirs " as a his
tory, but rather as a picture of the conn
try at that date, when you were all in all.
Folsom and I were youngsters then, as
compared with you ami Mason, and we
looked up to you a veterans and i
models." It must be gratifying to Col.
Butter to have the correction made in
this way. Some people would rather
have the original term, however offen
sive, remain, than to have it empliasized
ly a formal correction advertised all
over tho country, as this is sure to be,
and read by ten times as many jieople as
will ever see the original phrase. GOD,
Hherman has giveu s new meaning to j
•• enthusiastic."
Tormß: S2IOO aIT ear, in .Advance.
ALE ABOUT BITTKBH
Ak laarailsßilm Ikl* Tk<-* Arr (Tkn I*-
laarlss* Wkal I* H*(lr Ikaa BMlsr*.
Some time ago, the l>oar>l of health in
the city of Boston oattaed to be iuatitu
ted a cuetniual exjuuiuatiub of many of
the artielea of (suisumjitien offered for
sale iu the stores The inquiry waa in
trusted to Mr. W It. Nichola, whoae re
jswt at the date of jmbiioatiuu was ueoea
aariiy incomplete from the mauflhaeut
time tliat had beeli allowed him fur tls
uiveatigatioii, which, however, ia still
going on. Hot, ao far as it went, it
•hows thenncnaaitv fur a much closer at
tontion to the of adulteration,
aud to Uie great value of the truth re
sjiecting itlieiug made known. There
are probably few things among articles
of oommmjition, whether luxuries or
iiei'iinsariea, wtueh are aokl in aWdute
purity. And, although some of the
articles employed for adulteration are
liarmless enough, others are exceedingly
prejudicial to health.
On this occasion, says the New York
71mr, we ahall confine ouraelves to one
subject only. From the great numls-r
and various kinds of * 4 bitten " which
are advertised, two things are made tol
orably certain—first that the sale of these
mixtures ia highly profitable; and next,
that the consumption of them is very
cousiilerable. To what exteut Mr.
Nu-hols examined into the nature of this
article, we are not yet made very certain.
But he ajqiears to have investigated it
sufficiently to enable him to indorse
all that had l<eeu jireviotjaly said about
it by l>r. (iibbuus at a meeting of the
State Medical Society ot California
That gentleman tella us that, in the con
•suction of them, there is little else than
fraud, and the remark, strong though it
be, is not unwarranted by what he adds
concerning their manufacture. Bad
whisky ajijM-srs to be the basis of al
most all of them, aud the bitten are
made of any herbs that hajijwn to be
most convenient to the maker's harnla
The |irofita m the sale of theae concoc
tions are said to be five hundred per cent,
above the cost of material.
It is not funy to asoortwo exactly who
the pNHiiii an- who uitri Uuar pnjwn
bona. Man v Uk<- tin-in medicinally M
tunic*, and itt that capacity they art
used r*ry freely. Other* take them aa
appetiser*, or iu the early morning, to
atuothrr the effect* of a previous night's
debauch. Theae are not temperance
people. But, again, it is well ascertained
that very many people who do profess,
and with sincerity, to be total abstainers,
have recourse to bitters becauae they
And they do them good. Out of twenty
varieties of the bitters most frequently
used, only one was found to Ire free
from alcohol, and that one has the
smallest sales. One sample contained as
much as fifty nine per oeut. of pure alco
hol. another had forty -ail, another forty
two, and ao an, the proportion varving
in all.
We advise everybody to avoid the
use of bitters, unless the constituents of
the particular article used are well
known. Ami there are only three or
four kinds of which that can be naitL
A plain solution of gentian, such as our
grandmothers used to make, or of the
rind of Seville oranges, ought to answer
every purpose.
I bri-dma* Festivities.
From aii article in Appletons' " Aui*r
lonn Ctyoopndia," revised edition, en
titled " fhiiKtiuas." are select a*follow*:
The oommun custom of decking the
house* and -J>iircbe* at Christmas with
evergreens is <Wived from ancient l>rnid
practice*. It wan an old belief that
sylvan apinta mi#lit flock to the ever
gnx'ua. and remain unniiijied by front
till a milder season. The holly, ivy,
rosemary, lwr, laurel, and mistletoe,
furnished the favorite trimmings, whidi
were not removed till Candlemas. In old
church calendar* Chriatman eve ia mark
ed, Trtnjtia < x*>mantur (the temple* are
adorned). Holly and ivy still remain in
England the most esteemed Christmas
evergreens, though at the two umvsrai
tios the wiudowa of the college chapel*
are decked witli laurel. It WHS au old
English su]M<rstitiou, that on Christmas
eve the oieti were always found on tlieir
knees, as in an attitmto of devotion, ami
that after the change from old to new
style, tbev continued to do this only on
the eve of old Christmas day. This was
derived from a prevalent me<liieval no
tion tliat au ox and an ass, which were
present at the nativity, fell on their
knee* in a suppliant posture, a* apj>ear*
from ntimerons prints, and from the
Latin poem of nannaxaro, in the six
eenth centurv. It was an ancient tra
dition, alluded to by Shakespeare, that
midnight spirits forsake the earth and
go to their own confines at the crowing
of the cook. The Christmas celebration
in England have lost their primitive
Itoisten us character, th* gambols and
carols are nearly gone by, and family
reunions and evergreen trimmings are
nearly all that remain of th* various
rough merriment* which used to mark
the festival. The last memorable ap
jniintment of a lord of misrule was in
1627, when he luxl come to be denomi
nated "a gracd captaine of mischiefe."
The Arabian Horse.
The Emir Alxl-el Kader, in his " Ob
servations on the Horse," says: If you
wish to go very fast, choose a horse with
high wither* and small flanks. The
tail should lie thick enough to All the
space between the thighs." • "The tail
resembles the vail of a girl betrothed."
The eye of a horse should incline laxily
toward tlv> nose, like that of a man who
squints. "It resembles the eye of a
coquette who trie* to peep from under
her veil." The ears should resemble
those of au antelope, the nostrils should
be large, the fetlock joints small, the
forelitek thick. "In the time of ilauger
raonnt a horse whose forehead ia cover
ed with thick hair." The oavities inside
the nostrils "hould be eutirely black; if
tliey are partly white, tlie horse ia ouly
of medium value. The hxfs should te
rounded, and on the interior like the
hollow of a drinking cup; the frog* firm
and drv: the fetlocks thick, resembling
the dark plumes hidden under the wing<
of the eagle, and, like them, they become
block in the heal of the hatUe; the hoofs
firm. " They walk on their hoofs as on
the stones of* a stagnant water covered
with moss."
•' When my horse goes for an object
lie makes a noise resembling that of the
wing* of a flying eagle, and his neighing
resembles the plaintive tones of the
nightingale. His neck is as long and
grueeiul as that of a male ostrich. His
eye is black as night and full of fire. Iu
elegance he resembles a picture hanging
on the walls of a palace, and he is as
PtAtely as the palace itself."
The old emir was evidently poetical as
well as warlike.
Imagine Ills Feelings.
While a Detroit ferry-boat was crowd
ed a hat belonging to one of the Indies
blew off and alighted in the river. Many
}>ersoua cried out in alarm, and a young
man who was selling for a chance to do
something heroic imagined tliata woman
had fallen overboard, and he dropjxxl
his hat and soumxl into the water. He
got the lint, and after a great deal of
trouble the deck hands got him, and as
they palled hiiu oa deck and tore his
coat tails oft', and rolled his vest up un
der his chin, and scraped his back on a
plank, a hundred people remarked:
" Haw ! haw I haw I'
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NO. 41.
The Penalty of HUeur*.
In prison* fur women aheolute ailenas
■' "MP a portion of the puutshmi-nt. Any
fatoHon <f this enforced dumbness to
pantohed. Evuj during rocmn-
merely a promenade is
tit* yard, it isHtarbidden to the prisoners
to eotiununtcste with eodb other. The
groattwt :*vur that oo Is- conferred on
them to to rc-store to them, if but for a
moment, their UU-rty of wpeweh; yet, it
to said, they rarely fail to abuse the
privilege.
As an instance, it to uolabvl tiist when
M. Bailie, the director of the moat im
portant of the Praneb prison*, was, in
IH6B, invited to the fete* at
be was quanttadsd by tl)e rmprs— re
speetuig curtain details retotiva to th*
irgatotkiu* ot the estabitokment of which
he was the director. Og learning the
rule of enforced silence the empress said,
pityingly: " Poor women! that to a
severe punishment. I desire that your
sojourn here and my oo users*liuc with
yon should be of some senrios to them,
and 1 request you to permit your prison
ers to converse freely far twenty-lour
hour*." Of course M. Bailie was obliged
to give orders to that effect. At ooee *
number of private ouu venation* were
organised. But one hour later the con
versations ware changed into arguments.
Ones and screams matnsdad, heads
grew bat and all tbeae unhappy crea
ture*, habituated to eibsnoe, become
drunken with their own words like a
usually sober man whom one glass of
wine intoxicates.
They disputed, they quarreled, they
struck each other, they Aung the earthen
vessels at each other's bead. It became
neoeasary to summon the turnkey*, and
they were saluted with cries of " Vive
to Kepuhlique." "That we have been
permitted to talk," the prisoners bad
said among each other, "Ma sign that
great events have taken place—the em
pire must have been overturned and the
republic proclaimed. Let us salute this
new revolution." if was bard to per
suade them Napoleon 111 still occupied
the throne of France, and that it waa to
the intervention of the em proas that they
owed the favor which they had just
abused. j**..-
A Blast Against Car Peddlers.
Would any other people In the world
quietly bear to have every tea minute*
a hidnoua /"tag's Ikiingm spread over
their laps, a package of nasty "prise
candy " given to their charge, a paper of
pceuuta or pop-oarn thrust into their
hands, ' ivory that grows an tieea " put
under their noaes—but why go on with
the catalogue f Everybody who travels
knows the nuiaaaee; every lady who
takes a fleering nap in a ear has been
rudely awakened by a greasy novel
flung upon her boaom; every gentleman
has been blackguarded for allowing his
precious package of prise candy to drop
upon the floor. I once beard, mys
Bayard Taylor, the gentle protest of a
lady, but the young ruffian answered:
" You needn't be afraid *f 'em—they
won't bite yon!" In fact, ainee the fel
lows are licensed by the railroad com
panies, tliey have a certain pi "lection,
and consider themselves jus tilled in their
treatment of passengers, who must be
bullied into buying. lam not snrpriaed
at them; but trie abject submission of
their victims as an ever-renewed marvel.
A Singular Woman.
Madam Jnmel waa a remarkable
woman, and her life a romance. Btrong
will and decision marked her character.
She was accustomed to visit the spring*
in a chariot with eight burnt; and oooe
going to Saratoga and failing to find ae
o >mmodatioiia, she boaght a bona* and
all it contained in xacuy ten minute*
after her arrival. Having n<> children
of her own, and loving little one* dear
ly, she adopted a voting relative a* tier
daughter. This lady afterwards mar
ried Mr. Nelson Chase, who had been
the groomsman at the marriage of
Madam Jnmel with Aaron Burr. Mr.
Chaae became the heir to Madam Jn
mel's immense estate, on Manhattan
Maud, and be ia now the owner and oo
cnjiaiit of the ancient mansion and its
lands. The original Morris domain con
sisted of several hundred acre*, bat th*
present remnant of the prqpertv con
tains but about one hundred. \Vithin
the last few years Mr. Chase was called
upon to defend the title to his inheri
tance, and newspaper readers are fami
liar with the extended legal conflict
which followed.
Opposed to Wooden Parearat*.
The Journal of the Societo of Aria
objects to pavements of wood, and very
rationally, because that material ia porous
—composed, in fact, of bund leu of fibers
—and therefore absorbs and returns wet
very freely, foul wet especially. The
fibers of the wood being aecemarily
placet! verticallv, the upper ends fray
out, are abraded, lwm like painters'
brush stump*, and are about aa per
manent]* dirty; or they break up like
the wooden handle of a chisel which has
lieen often struck with an iron hammer,
or a wooden mallet when need upon an
iron chisel At all times wood is wet ox
lamp, more or less, except diking con
tinued very dry weather, and its si rue
tnre is snch that it admirably adapts it
to receive and hold, and then to give off
in evaporation very foul matters, which
taint the atnfbspbere and consequently
injure health. Absolute cleanness and
dryness are prime conditions in pave
ment—wood is the extreme contrary of
this; it is necessarily dirty soon after
use, and is almost continuously damp.
The Best Disinfectants.
There are three powerful disinfectants:
carbolic acid, but its smell is objectiona
ble, chlorine and i>ermjuiganato of pot
:i*h; these last two are tpiite expensive.
These disinfectants act by combining
with deleterious substances and render
ing them barmlts*, while antiseptic*
prevent and arrest the decomposition of
animal substances. The most common
and availalile ilisinhvtant and deodor
iser is copperas, crude copperas, sold by
druggists at a few cents a pound, under
the name of sulphate of iron; one pound
to two gallons of water, to be used as
often as necessary to render all odors im
perceptible, acting at the same time aa
an antiseptic, deodoriser and disinfect
ant; and tf instantly thrown over what
passe* from the body in cholera, is ane
of the cheapest and best means known
for preventing its oommnnicatian to oth
ers. The only perfect disinfectant, how
ever, is habitual cleanliness and thorough
ventilation; next to that is a dry heat of
two hundred and fifty degrees. '
breatness.
" Father," asked a Vicksburg boy at
the dinner table the other day, "areyou
a big man t"
"Well, I dunuo," musingly answered
the ]>arent. " Why I"
" 'Cause 1 heard some men talking
over at the hotel, and they said yon were
one of the biggest men in town."
'' Well, I suppose I do stand pretty
high," replied the parent, looking
pleased and consequential.
There was half a minute of sUenoe,
and then the boy added:
" They said it was a wonder how yon
tarried your feet around!"
The boy can't understand yet why he
should have received a box on the ear
which made his head roar for two long
i hours.
■ lll 111 1 . -"
Dm Blameless I4.
8* atMtnd * Mhl bnbhle of f*m* .
I It Bfl***d upward MM) broke
H lmn4 drwwn of a worM wttbort hlsms,
It vsmsksd Int whn bo wok*.
Bat oat of th* tmbht* • prertoi. M*r
Fstl ouft an b. furor fx) band j
la 4 tb* nMiory of th* dma n> d*r
*a a (IttpM of th. HtMooioar box)
. *I. I mi! • '
It mm of later**!.
Nevadn to ovwutin with rabbit*.
Sport un the St Lawweoe Shouting
the rapid*.
Quill* from Han pinion* of one room
often sprnwht tto 'pinion* of nnotbr.
One thousand dollars given to th*
poor of Mow York to about a lining
apiece. :<,
A phflenapher present* the following
, general deductions from hi* observation*
i at • picnic:
Say what yon will against narrow
skirts, It to cosier for a tody and gentle
man to walk under otto umbrella than it
tuted to be.
Alitor f* nam while vs amy,
Old Utne to still a-flyfag ;
And (B* eaoM Aawer tbet radk* today.
To-morrow will U dying.
William Doudioan, of Lafayette, Intl.,
lied the day after hi* wife, apparently
Moialy from iirwf. He waa Ulirty-oxi*
and dbe waa twenty-nine.
Bevenwd saucers, with piotaree paint
-*d qn them, are npw worn m breastpin*.
The aim of the porcelain to limited only
by th* ahoaldem of the wearer.
Milwaukee to called the beer capital of
America. It to a city of 100,000 Inhabi
tants, and daring the month of June
etmaamed 38,827 barrel* of toger beer.
The young mm whom panto have
bent the mat nwwtaleeely lorn by thorn*
to the one who to the moat urgently
solicited to climb trees and fix awing*.
A man called on a dilatory debtor and
politely said: "If yea will pay me the
amount of my bill immediately, you*ll
oblige me; if not I shall have to oblige
you.
He*. Mr. Donkey oayatbat Queen Vic
toria to such " just a pleasant, womanly
imdy as we ace every Habbaih in the
used earner of our Methodist church in
Ameriea,"
According to the census there are 17,*
306 more females thou males in Boston.
And still we are not happy l—Boaton
Asef.
The Mnaoaic authorities of low* bare
tended that dancing in the lodge-room
is inrniirttnt with the good of the
uZUft
It to easy enough to imitate Josh Bill
ing* —thus: Daunt karrey egg* in your
ctwttoto pocket. Eg* axnt good after
they've bin rot an awhile.
About 96,000,000 feet of log* have
hem rafted down the Penobscot river,
Maine, this season, and the booms ate
now clear far the Ant time in eighteen
rears.
The girl who will By in terror to the
arms of her eaoort at sight of a toad,
will, if she happens upon a make by
herself, deliberately catch it by the tail
and jerk it* head off.
The tote Mr. Singer, of sewing,
machine fame, used to diem each one of
hto meet servants in s different livery,
and on on* ormarion he undertook to
drive six hemes three abreast.
Mary had a iritis lamp
Twa flUad with iwwiaa
And Mart dosu tits chimney bks
And lab U>ri earthly soma.
GODS to BMI bar fstbsr, who draw bis gun to
bhß by the muzzla.
There ! we knew the day would come
some ttae. As Englishman has been
sentenced to three months in jail for
stealing an umbrella on a rainy day.
And now—if we could only And the
liound that played us the same trick a
while ago.
Some burglars, upon entering a boose,
blew out the lights and tied the occu
pants in different parte of the room.
One took it to heart sadly, and exclaimed:
" Oh, I'm undone i I'm undone !** Upon
which another replied: "Then come
and undo me."
The Colorado beetle, the advent of
which has been ao much dreaded in Eng
gitnd, has not yet mads its appearance
in thai country, nor elsewhere in Eu
rope. The unpmwientedly wet weather
in July has been very destructive to the
potato crop in Britain.
An officer in the army laughed at a
timid woman because she was alarmed
at Um noise of a cannon when a aalute
waa fired. Ho subsequently married
that bnM woman, and six months after
wards he took off his boots in the hall
when be came in late at nights.
" Nobody rides over tbepotatoes that
wav, my good woman." Tnis waa what
a French peasant near Basse tot said to a
lady on horseback, who, to get ont of the
son a little, rode serosa a field in the
shadow at aonae tree*. But he didn't
know it was the empress of Austria.
Thar* one* waa a tuas in lb# food kmg ago
When 'twas modrwtfr saul "she's two suing*
to har bow."
Bui the Portland girl thinks Ha hardly th*
l'niea* sli* can my 'Tra two beaux on th*
etnng."
*• A dollar is a large price for a water
melon," aaid a purchaser to a vender of
this fruit, as he was paying for one the
other evening. "Ton wonldn think
so, mister," aaid the dealer, " if yon had
net on the f enoe with a shotgun in your
hand every night for three weeks, watch
ing the patch."
Colfax has faith in woman's ability to
keep a secret. He nays: " Out of all
the sixty thousand women who have be
longed to the Daughters of Rebecca, be
bad never known one to break faith;
and be protested against the miserable,
worn out. *to root yped theory of the world,
that woman cannot keep a secret"
Polly Ooe, a colored woman, has just
died at Somerville, Tenn., aged one hun
dred and fifteen. She waa a cook in the
American army during the war of 1812.
She helped make the brick and saw the
lumber for the oourt-bouaee at Somer
ville, Covington and Brownsville. Co
lumbia, Ga., pretends to have a negro
one hundred and twenty-five yean old.
The discovery of a Chicago woman is
how to eat a peach at the table graceful
ly. Cut the peach open iu Hie middle,
mid remove the pit Hold one of the
halves in the left hand, and use a spoon
to scoop out the pulp and carry it to the
mouth. Thus the fingers are not soiled,
and the bother of feeling is avoided.
No patent upon this device has been ob
tained.
The banks of the Connecticut river are
being protected in places where the car
rent washes them avnav, by covering
them with matting. Ilie mats are wo
ven about two feet thick, and sixty feet
long by fifteen wide, of underbrush; and
are towed into position, sank so as to
extend from above high water mark to
below low water mark; and covered with
stones and gravel.
The Davenport (la.) Gafftt says that
two women have been traveling through
that State selling oorseta. "Indeed,"
adds that journal, " their anxiety to give
ladies s perfect fit and the insignificant
reward they asked for their services ex
cited suspicion. Now not a lady in lowa
will admit that she has bought corsets
in six mouths, while the two peddlers
have resumed male attire and occupy a
a dismal oell in jail."
The mistress of a summer boarding
house in an interior town, finding her
self one day quite at leisure, in conns
quanoe of the absence of her patrons on
an excursion, repaired to a neighbor's
for a chat " I snould think you would
feel lonesome to have four boarders away
BO," said her neighbor. "Well," she
replied, "I do feel kinder lonesome,
but it's a oood lonesome. It seems as it
did when I was fast a widder."
.The Boston Globe wants something
explained: The south shore, in the
vicinity of Black rook, has of late been
visited with an innumerable host of
moths, commonly called millers. They
took possesion of rooms, which were
•coeeible by the windows being left open,
in such numbers that it was the work of
•lays to get rid of their presence. Their
origin is a mystery, bnt they entered
rooms facing north in such flocks that it
is a theory that they came in from the
sea. In one small room 860 were killed,