Dying Summer. On taway hills in faded splr-dor drest. Of rusty purple and of tanuehsd sold. Now like some F.asiem monarch sat and eld. The discrowned enmmer lieth down to reel 1 A mournful miet hangs o'er the net low plain. O'er waterv meads that elide down pine-clad height*. And wine-red wood* where eon* no more de lights ; But only wounded bird, cry out in jwin. A pallid glory lingers in the *ky, Faint soon to of wilding flowers flout in the air, All nature's voices rmuumr in <!ss|sdr— "Was summer crowned eo lata—so scon to die?" But, with a royal eni.'e. ktie whispers "oease. If lifs is Joy and triumph. destii u peaoe Asking. He stole-from my Mim a rose ; My cheek was tta color the while ; But. ah. the aly rogue ! he well knows, 11 ad he ask'd it, I must have eai i no. He uiatch'd from my lips a soft kisa . I tried at a frown 'twas a smile ; For. ah. the sly rogue 1 he koowa Una Had he asked it, 1 must hare said twi That "asking " In love's a mistake ; It puts one in mind to refuse; "Tie best not to ask. but to take . For it esris one Ihe need to say no. Yet. stay this is folly I'tc said. Some thine* should he ssk'd if dsarred : Sly rogue ho|<e* my promise to wed ; Wheu he asks ms I will uot say no. THE COMEDY OP ERRORS. Shew las Hew la Old Mall teas* a Wife it Sea He I ran ki per led llaa. One of the puxxlinest things I know* on for a stranger is the way they has in England of namin' their strsvU. Yon gate into the street yon wants, and afore you've gone a doxen blocks you find it's changed its name and you're in an entirely different street. Thus oue and the same street will sometimes have three or four different names afore you've gone the whole length of it 1 mind a funny blander I made once in consequence of thia, though, arter all, it turned out all right, jist as if I'd a kept my right (eckonin'. When 1 u*\l for to be goin' reglar into the Liverpool packets, out of oue ship and into another, it so happened that 1 come for to be shipmates with a chap as were called Dick Oetrom, tliree or four v'Tsg'-s one arter another, and wo got for to lie chums like. Dick were one of those steady chaps ; didn't never go outo no sprees, always boarded to the Sailor's Home wheu he were in New York, and went to church Sundays. Dick were a pretty good sort of a chap and a tiptop smlormau aa well, and so we got to tw chnmmiea, tuniin' iu and out together at sea, and weariu' each other's dunnage. The both of us come in the John It. Skiddy, and then both shipped agin in the New World. I expect Dick were the bash fullest chap along of wimmin that ever stood on two legs. Sailors ain't given much that way, sir, and it were a wonder, seein' as he'd been so long in that trade, that he hadn't a got over it, but you see he never vrent round like the rest of us, and would tarn the color of red huutin' if any of the gals at the boardin' house said nnythm' to him, and that was the way they come for to call him " Bashful Dick." Soon as supper were over Dick would top his boom and sail barge and mine of us know'd where he weut to, and we supposed he either went aboard or else to some gosjiel shop to hear a bit of preachin", anyway his way wer'n't our way, and we didn't trouble ourselves about it. While we was in Liverpool that time in the New World, we sot the riggiu' up fore and aft, and me aud Dick was up iu the foretop one day—Saturday it were— a seizin' off the topmast riggin', when all of a sadden Dick says to me: "Tom, I've an idee of gittin' spliced." Well, if he'd a told me he'd au idee of j ampin' oat of that top, I wouldn't have bean more astonished. " All right, my lad," says I, "if so be as you gits the right kind of a lass. You'd better be sure she's seaworthy afore von ships." " She's too good for me, I'm afewred," says Dick. •' That I'm an re she aiu't," savs I. " Where does she hail from an 1 how on artfc did you ever come athwart her hawse f" "She lives here," "sys Dick, "and I've la-en cruisin" off and on in her wake for a couple of year* or s>o. and I've been a aivin' up till I've got SSOO in the bank at home, and that a enough I think for to gii spliced on." " Five hundred dollars," says I ; " why, it's a fortiu, it's more than ever I had in my life at one time, and I've been spliced for years. When is it to come ofl i if it'll be any help to you, I can giv yon the mark and number of the cbap as spliced me, and he's a man as will do the job neat and cheap." '* Well, as to that," says Dick, " I ain't said notliiu' to her about it as yet. I thought I would last v'yage in the Skiddv, but every time I went there sometiiin' tnrued up, and I oonldn't jist git to it, and since I've been here this time I've gone there lots of times detar miDed to say somethin' about it, but the fact is, Tom, I can't do it, and there's the truth aliont it. You've seen me in many a gale of wind, and you know that where any man can go I can go, and that I ain't !a*t at any thin' them times ; but alongside of a vitamin, Tom, I'm not bin' bat a haby. Sot but what I can take care of one, Tom, if I'm once spliced to her, and she needn't I* afeared of want iu' for anythin' so long as I have my health • but it's jist as I tell you, Tom, when I comes to the p'int of speakin* about it, I always think I'll wait till next time." Well, I thought the thing over a while, and then I says: " Dick, my flower ; it's clear that you can't do this thing by yourself, and as yoa and I has been ship mates for so long, I don't mind lendin' yon a hand in this here business, pro vided when I sees the craft, I judges her all right. To-morrow is a Sunday, and to-morrow arternoon I'll rig up, and yon shall giv me her mark ami number and I'll go np and see her and fix this thing for yon in a jiffey. Ton see havin' been one v'yage to lani, myself, I can do it as easy as jumpin' overboariL" " Tom," says Dick, "this here were jist what I were a-goin' for to ask you to do f-r me." Well, sir, next mornin' arter we'd washed the decks and had breakfast, I went over in Waterloo road, and paid threejienoe for s shore-shave, and then I put on a pair of blue cloth pants aud a white shirt, and I borrowed a red plush vest from a chap named Billy Small, and put Dick's frock coat over that, and with a high hat which I borrowed from the third mate, I jist looked equal to any thin'. The sailin' directions 1 got from Dick were to stand up Mortimer Btreet to the bead of it, where it is (Tossed by Rinoon street, turn round Rinoon street, go about three blocks to No. 65, and ask for Mrs. Lee. Well, I kept my reckonin' all straight till I come to Rinoon stroet, and then it struck me that Dick hadn't said which way to turn ; but remember in' that the rule of the road were always for to port your helm, I sheers around to the right at a venture, thinkin' I'd soon git a true dejiarture by the numbers. For the first block there weren't ne nnmliers; there were a vacant place, and a factory, and what not, but when I oome to No. 25 en the next block, I were glad I had made a lucky land-fall, and were sure I were right. Of oonrse then all I had for to do were to follow along till I got to No. 65. It were a nice little two-story brick house, and as I ringed the hell I couldn't help wonderin' how ever Dick had fetched up in sich moor in's as these. There were a nice little lass opened the door, and when I asked her if Mrs. Lee were at home, she said she were, and asked me to walk in. "What name shall I say?" says she, as I went into a snug little parlor on the right of the hall. " Well, miss," says I, " as she don't know me, the name don t matter; tell her it's a friend from a peiliclar friend, F"1 {KIX lv 1' HI 1 /, LMitor ami Proprietor. VOL. VIII. w would like l> see her on uuportunt hniinMß." " Yea, air," says she, and I thought to myself if the mistress is as luce as the maid, I don't wonder at Hick, and then 1 thought of what I'd promised old nep tune the And time t croased the line, " never hi kiss the maid if 1 could kiss the mistress, unless 1 liked tue maid the best," and worn(fred if 1 should like the mistress as well as 1 did the maid. Presently there come int-> the room as ueat a little craft aa one woukl wiali to meet in a day 's sail. Fine tlgurehead, good smooth how, able bodv, and clean run. all shqvdispe and Bristol fashion fore and aft. " Did von wish to ace me f" she siud, and 1 didn't wonder at Dick gittin' in the doldrums, for I wer'u't much better myself. You see 1 thought it would be a easy thing for to do, but now that it had got to lie done 1 didn't hardly know what to say. "The fact is, inarm," sava I, a-standiu' up before her, and I wished I were a hundred miles away, " l)ick Ostrom, whom I s'pose you kuow well, is a chum of mine, me and him havin' now been shipmates off and on for over a year, and put Dick, inarm, to a weather eariu' m a gale of wind, and there ain't none better, as any body'll say as has ever tieeu shipmates with him, but alongside of a woman, marm, as uo doubt you have obmrred, Dick are as skoerv as a colt, and so yon see, marm, havin 1 long e'eu a'rnoet worshipped the ground you stand on, he never couldn't git hia courage up to the stickiu* p'int for to tell yon so, and so 1 bein" his chum, vuluu teered for to come and let you know how the land lav, and that Dick, havin' saved up a good bit of money, were williu' for to be spliced, if so be as how it were agreeable to vou, marmand I wiped the sweat off my brow and were glall it were over. Well, she looked kind of confound, but I seen that she weren't displeased, tiud she says: " I suppose I know the gentleman you speak of, havin" uotictsl him iu meetin'." Oho; thinks I, there's were Dick come across this craft. " But," says she, " this js so sudden, so eutirt lv un expected, that really I am not prepared to sav nnythin'." " He'll" never come near you agin, marm," savs 1, "unless he thinks he has some little sight; may I tell him that he mav come up and see yon to morrow uiglitf" " I shall tie home to-morrow night," says she, " and of course I'm always glad for to see mv friends." *• Talk enough, inarm," says I, for I considered the business as gixxl as set tled, and 1 bid her good artern<xin, she letting me out of the door herself. Well, I goee dowu and sees Dick, and I says : " It's all right, old chap, and you re a mightv luckv fellow; all you've gut to do is to haul alongside as soon as ever you like, and the widder's yours, and -ke'll Ixi expectin' you to morrow night." But Dick were too much in a hurry to wait for the next night, and away he goes that same evtnin' as happy as a young porpus. I turned in mayhap about ten o'clock that night, and were jut droppiu' off to sleep when I were woke up by Dick. " I don't want to strike you in your bunk," says he. " but git up and put on your pants, and come out ou deck, ami we'll have this out here and now." " Avast," says I, "there's some mis take here, and I ain't a going to tight till I knows what it's for, and anyhow I ain't a-goin" out on de>-k for to tight, 'cause the watchman will call a police man and we'll both le locked up iu less than uo time ; so wbatcver's the trouble, it'll keep till mornin' and then if I've done anythiu' agin you, we'll go down to the north shore, and tight it out pleasant." Some of the rest of the chaps had got waked up. and they took my part, and jist told Dick th-ro mua'n't lie no fight iu' there, aud them and he agreixl for to 4>ut it off till mornin', " and then," nay* he, " I'll larn you how to fool a ship mate." Well, he goes out on deck and I hcerii him a walkin' there ami waited a spell, aud then I went out and I says : " Now, chnmmie, what's this al! alxiut (" fJays he : " You never went near tliat woman, and have made a fool of me." " Avast!" says I, "who says so ? " She says so," says he. "Then,', says .1, "with all due re spect, anil I'm *£rrv to say it of sich a nice oreeter ah i appeared to be, she tells a thunderm* lie. 'Taint no use, Dick, for me and you to fight over this t .ing, I'll go np with yon to-morrow, aud if I don't convince yon that she lies, don't never call me shipmate agin. She aint worth stoppin* out of Ix-d for ; go turn in and take your rest like a man." Well, sir, next night we goesuptogeth er, and when we gits to the top of Mor timer street, instead of portiu', Dick starboard**!. " Hold hart 1, old fellow ; right your helm says I, " that aint the way." "Yes it is," says he, "this here is Kincon stm t, t'other way is Douglass street." " I don't care what you call it, - ' say* I, "this here's the way I went, and at No. 65 I found Mrs. Iy e, and a mighty nice body she is." " That's Douglass street," says he, "aud you went all wrong." "I found Mrs. Dee, and so I went all right," says I. " And now we must go and explain to her how this misUko oc curred." Well, it were a long time afore I could git Dick to go, but at last lie did, and we was let iu by the same tidy little lass that had opened the door the day liefore. We didn't have to wait long afore the widder coma down, and if I thought her charmin' the day Wfore, yon mny jist believe me, sir, she were perfectly lie wilderin' this evenin', with all her kites aloft, and every one of 'em puliin'. 1 seen at once that she'd hever sot eyes on Diek afore, so 'twas clear she hail thought I come from somebody else, so there were a blunder all round. Of coarse, I had to be the Spokesman, and I up* and I tell* her the whole story, poor Dick sittin* there lookin' as sheep ish as you please, and the comical si<l of it struck her so that she hurst into laughter. Well, she insisted on our bavin' a gloss of wine, and she told us she kind of cottoned to us, 'cause her first hus band hod l>eon a sailor, bavin' liecn mate of a ship ont to Liverpool, and she aaid we must always come and nee her whenever we oome to Liverpool. " Mind, now," says she to Dick as we was goin' away, "when you oome up the street don't always turn to the left; oome and see me sometimes." Well, sir, the other Mrs. Lee kept a public house, but weren't it odd that both numbers should be 65 ? I went in the California trade artcr I got back, and I weren't in Liverpool agin for near two years, but one day a-goin' along old Hall street who should I meet but Dick Ostrom. Well, he were delighted to see me and insisted that I should go home with him and see his wife. "I managed it arter all, old chap," says he, "and thanks to you." But when I got to his house and found that his wife was my Mrs. Lee, I thought be had much to thankful for. Atlanta, Ga., is said to have more doctors than would be needed if a pesti lence was raging, and more lawyers than oonld be employed if every man were plaintiff or defendant in a suit at law. THE CENTRE REPORTER. A king Without any Nonsense. lion. E. D. Helton wrtUn to the \iil uaukrr il'infoiuoi km follows An wo returned to the western front of the pal kM| tiro King of SwihU'u and aouieof his friend* were standing on the porch, He recognised Mr. Daiufrldt, from acr*w Um wide graveled walk, lor lifting his list to him ; whereupon Mr. I>. n cused himself to us, and proceeded to pay his res pools to the king. The king in s sensible and friendly wsy extended his hand cordially to his '• Superintend out of Agrioultme ami Commissioner of the American F.X|hwiUoii. " They 0011 versed for a little time, wheu the two de scended the stairway, and Uvkuued us to approach. What ! was the king going to greet us strangers f He shook hands with us in the same cordial way tliat the governor of Wisconsin would greet a citiseu calling upon him at the capital. He speaks English fluently, and asked how we were pleased with our {ouruey iu Sweden, etc. Heplyuig to lis inquiries, 1 took an early opportu nity to thank him for the part his gov ernment was taking in our Contemn d exposition. He replied that, iu cotiaid eration of the nurut>er of Swedes who had gone to America, and the friendship borne our government, it was but proper that Sweileu should take part in the ex position. 1 said to him that hia person al presence in America wonld lie cor ilially welcomed by unr people. He replied that that time could not now lie, and expressed regret that in his earlier life he had uot accepted the opportunity of visiting the new world. Hut he inti mated that it was jmesible that he might aeud one of his sons. Thus our conversation ran on. Wheu he said: "May I have the pleasure of introducing you to the queen f" Oertaiuly. Why not f Heiug here at the king's palace at Drottingholm, on this exquisite after noon, and upon the invitation of the king himself, why uot lie introduced to the queen f The king leads the way through the palace from its went front to the lawn upon the east front, where the royal familv and their guests are en joying themselves in the shade of the palace. The king directs a servant to invite the queen to join them, when a sweet faced woiuan, dressed with charm ing taste, approaches, and we are intro duced to the of Sweden. She could S|ieak English, though uot as well as the king. She and my wife held some conversation, while the king brought his minister to Washinton, Mr. Steven sou (at present spending some time in Sweden), and introduced him. Oscar 11., the present King of Swe den, is the gramlaou of licruadoUe, and has lieeu upon the throne but three or four years. He is a uiau about forty-six or seven years of age ; is tall and well fonued. He is represented as a very atmtemions and temperate man in his habits—settiug an excelleut example to his subjects in his private character. So far as I can judge, his reign give* satis faction to the people, and all goes well here in Sweden. ofar as the government is concerned. There are four sons, aud the crown prince is now a boy of some seventeen years of age. Jack in the Pulpit. WHO CAN OOfST THE STILUS f Did you ever try to oonnt the stars I I umsl to try to do so myself, but some how I always fell asleep liefore I could get through, and when 1 woke up I could not tell where I left off. I'm told, though, that it has !>cen done, and that there are only alxiut eight thousand visi ble to the naked eye. Don't they make a great show for a uutntier uo larger than that 1 But the raven tells d that his master, the astronomer, suvs that those we can see with our eyes alone are but a very trifle compared with the numl>er that he can see through his telescope. He says, for instance, that there are eighteen milliont of stars in the Milky V\ ay. Now it's of no use ! I can't even think of such a numlier as that. My head isn't big enough to hold them. OROWINO MOCNTAINa. Yon wouldn't think it, '..at I'm told it is actually so, tliat very high mountaius increase in size every year. This is owing to the great quantities of scow which fall npon their tops. Some of this snow slowly melts and ruusdown the mountain sides; but much remains, and so the mountains grow higher, year by vear, as each season's snow falls upon tliat left there the year before. THE MEAN-ISO OT "IIURKAII." Who can tell the meaning of "hur rah?" Jack used it just now a thoughtlessly, considering its true sense. The pretty school ma'am says it originated among Eastern nations, where it was used as a war-cry, from the belief that all who died in battle went to heaven. "To Paradise!" (Jlurrag.') men shouted to one another, by WHY of en couragemeiit, in the thickest of tne fight; and so, in time, came onr word " hur rah !" which means almost anything you choose, so that it lie of good cheer.— St. Xichota* for October. linn,a.i saliva Kills Snakes. The M irirtta (da.) Journaf was told by a gentleman the other day that human spittle was as deadly to (Kiisonons snakes as their bites were deadly to man. He *ays thai while picking np a bundle of Rtra-.v and trash under bis arm, while cleaning a field, a ground rattlesnake, four feet long, crawled out from it ami fell to the ground at his feet. He at once placed his heel npon the linod of the snake and spit in its mouth. Shortly afterward the snake showed symptoms of inactivity and sickneas, and he picked it np by its tail and carried it to the house and showed it to his wife, telling her he had spit in its mouth, ntul that it was poisoned. At the expiration < J fif teen minutes the snake was dead. To further experiment, ho earae across a blowing adder (snake), which ejected from its month a yellowish liquid. Ho caught it and spit in its month, and it died. He caught another blowing, aud it refused to open its month. lie spit U|>on a stick and rnhbsd the spittle npon the adder's nose, and it died. Afterward he came across a blaeksuake, regarded as not poisonous, and lie caught it and spit iu its month. Instead of the spittle killing the blacksnake, a* it did the poi sonous reptiles, it only mode it stupidly sick, from which it recovered. Tina conclusively shows that |s>isonous snakes have as much to fear from the spittle of man as inau has to fear from their bites. A Phenomenon Fx plained. The sight of a swarm of bees suspend ed from the branch of a tree, and so heavy sometime* as to l>end it, is s sur prising one, and the observer naturally asks how so great a weight can be sup ported, without apparent fatigue, by the few scores of bees that are fixed to the inferior surface of the branch. Accord ing to Dr. Bourgeois modem science es timates the amount of weight which can lie supported by means of a vacunm (of which the sucker on lice's foot affords an example) at one kilogramme thirty grammes per square centimeter. Now the sucker of a bee's foot, magnified six ty diameters, represents a snrfaoe of more than a centimeter. Each bee hav ing six feet, it will therefore be poeeible, rigorot sly, for ten bees to support the weight of one kilogramme. Thus, the phenomemon in question may be ac counted for. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1875. A Sepoy Narratlie. On* ilav, in nufl of tiicv inclosed build intra near Lucktiow. * groat uuiubnr of prirtoucrs went takou, li.-iuly ail Hepoy*. After tin l tight thoy were all brought in to liie officer commanding tuy regUiMiit, and in lint morning the order oaiue that they should all t>o allot. It chanced that it wait my turn to command the firing jmity. I asked the prisoners their liauiee and regwueut. After hearing soui* live or aii, one B*<|ioy aaid he lielonged to tlie regiment, whieh was thai my aoti had lieeu IU. lof course aekisl him if he had known my eon, A nun tee ltam. He answered that tliat was his owu uauie ; but this being u very eom moii name, and having always imagined tliat my sou, as 1 had never hoard from him, mu*t have died of the Seiude fever, it did not at first strike me ; but when he informed me he cauie from Tillowee, my heart leaped in my mouth. Could he be my sou f There was no doubt of it, for lie gave my name as his father, and he fell down at my feet, imploring my pardon. He, with all the other men in the regiment, Itad mutinied, and had gone to Luckuow. Once the d*-cd was done, what was he to do I Where was he to go, if he had ever beeu inclined to escape I At four o'clock in the day the prisoners were all to Is- shot, and I must be my sou's executioner! Huch is fate ! t weut to the Major Saheb, and request ed I might t>e relieve*! from tliis iluty u a very great favor ; but he was very angry, and said he should bring ine to a court martial for trying to shirk my dutv ; he would not lielieve 1 was a faithful servant of the Kuglish govern ment—he was sure my heart was in reality with the mutineers he would hear me no longer. At last my feelings as a father got the I tetter of me, and 1 burst into a flood of team. 1 told him I would shoot every oue of the prist>nem with my owu hands if he ordered w<>, but 1 confessed tliat one of them was my son. The major declared wliat I urged was only an excuse to get off shooting my owu brotherhood. Hut at last his heart seemed touched, aud he ordered my unliappy sou to tie brought Iwfore him, and questioned him very strictly. I shall uever forget this terrible aoene; for oue moment I never thought of ask ing his life to lie spared that he did not deserve. He Ixieuiue convinced of the truth of my statement, aud ordered mo to lie relieved from this duty. I went to my tent, bowed down with grief, male worse by the gil*-* and taunts poured on me by the Sikhs, who de clared I was a renegade. lu a short time I hoard the deadly volley. My sou hail received the reward of mutiny. He showed no fear, but I bad rather he bail beeu killed in ftght. Through the kind ness of the major 1 wart allowed te jier form the funeral rite over my misguided sou—the only ot:e of tlie prisoners over whom it wurt performed, for tlie remain ing Isslies were all thn>wn to the jackals and vultures. I had not heard from my son since just after my return from slavery. 1 ha*l uot seen him since I weut to Cabtsil, aud thus I met him again, untrue to his salt, iu opeu rebel lion against the master who had fed his father and himself. Hut enough—-more is unnecessary. He was not the only one who mutinied. (Lib-rally lu> was not alone when he mutinied.) The major told me after ward tliat he was much blamed by the other officers for allowing the fuueral rite to lie performed on a rebel. Hut if good deeds wipe away sins, which I have heard in me Salubs lielieve as well as we do, his niw will be very white. Had fortune never attends on the merciful. May my major soon become a general. Take a f 'brw. There are four little girls in Mi!wan ke*- 4 the AVIM says, two of them daugh ters of a South->idw filu-rm*ii, Otic the daughter of a (terman earyx-t weaver, ami thp other a lassie named " Annie," who are employed by a wrtain well known and wealthy b'bacco dealer to pick up whatever may lie found iu saloons, on the stns-ts and iu the gut ters, at one cent for every ten pieces, weather large or small. Kvery cigar stub and discarded " quid " is picked up, no matt* r how dirty it may tie, no matter who has used it, or where it is found. These are us* d in the mannfac tur- of " choice " Havana cigars and pa|icr chewing tobacco. The longer ami lietter "stumps " are unrolled aud used for the f.irmer piirjxme, while the •' quids," short stumps, and <iakel and rotten " tips " are made into chewing toliacoo. There is nomethiug delectable in a contemplation of all this. These children make good wagon at the liusi Uflnn; tlieirjiay ranges from eighty cents b> 81.50 per day. When a Large and well soaked lump is found the little ras cals divide it. aud by so doing make fif ty |*-r cent, on their " find." Macaulay's Tribute to his Mother, Children, look in those eyes, listen to that dear voice, notice the feeling of even a single touch that is bestoweo on yon by that gentle hand. Make much of it while yet yon have that meet pre cious of all good gifts, a loving mother. Head the unfathomable love in those eyes, the kind anxiety of that tone aud look, however slight your jaiu. In after life you may have friends, and lond, dear, kind friends ; but never will yon have again the inexpressible love aud gentleness lavished upon yon which a mother lestows. Often do I High, in my struggles with the hard, uncaring world, for the sweet, deep security I felt when, of an evening, nestling in her bosom, I listened to some quiet t le, suitable to my age, read in her untiring voice. Never can I forget her sweet glances cast npon me when I appeared asleep : never her kiss of peace at night. Years have passed since we laid Iter lw ride my father iu the old churchyard ; yet still her voice whispers from the grave and her eye watches over m as I visit spots long since hallowed to the memory of my mother. Lynch law. In Ohio a number of farmers, infuria ted at tho murder of a young girl in the woods, Inrnke open a jail, took out of it the man accused of tho murder, and hanged him. Tho poor creature had l>een accused by hia wife ; he solemnly denied, in hia laat momenta, having committal the murder, and smarted that hia wife charged liini b<-cause alio was insanely jal<>n* of him. Now it turna out that tho man waa innocent. Unfortunately he ia dead. Unfortunate ly the men who in violation of law hang ed him are all mnrderera, who ought to l>e hanged in th-ir tuni. Unfortunately they will all have the nnpleaaant con ae.iouaneaa, for the reat of their lives, that they are munlererw—not a comfort able thought to moat of them, probably. It ia aoaroely neoeaaary to pursue the thought further. Lynoh law ia alwaya wrong ; but this ia not all; nine timea ont of ten the men who take tho law into their own handa hang the wrong man. Keeping Ice. Families taking ioe in (rammer usual ly wrap flanuel about the cake to keep it from melting. I found, by experiment during the poet summer, says a corres pondent, that Jhe same amount of ioe lasts nearly twice as long if paper is used instead of flannel. Both paper and flannel may be used with au eqnallv good result, and it does not made much difference which is next to the ioe. A strategic Wasp. A New (trkaui correspondent says : Not long since, while reading beneath the shade oi a fig tree, our attention was attracted by u peculiar Luid aud shrill btiXXUig sou tid, as of aoine one of the b<s< family in ilistress. Licking in the direction of the noise we olmorved quite close to us a dirtdauber, or builder, oue of the sjsicies if wasps so well kuowu for the eylindrieal ess.** of mud whieii it builds uuder cave* and on sheltered walls, which It stuffs full of certain worms ami spiders f*ir its young. Ttiis wasp hud half of Its Irtsly slid head down til*'hole of the equally well kuowu doo dlebug, a worm whieh children pull out of their holes by b-aaing the.u with a straw until they grasp it with their strong nip|iers and hold ou till they are thrown out. It was evident at s glance ttint the wasp liad gone down the hole of the doodlebug, autl tliat the doodle bug soon had him iu his strong grip at grt-at disadvantage and where the wings of the wasp wore of uoadvuulng*' to him only t> make a u<>iae whieh might alarm Ills adversary. The oontost laste*l full two miuubsi, when finally tin- dirUlaub er came out with a jerk. He tlew but a few inches from the hole, lit upon the ground, rubbed his beeu, and fairly danced with paiti. In a few moments he recovered from the effects of his wounds ami Imgau making short circles over tlie hole, evi dently roconuoiteriug and laying his plana. Presently, lighting at the mouth of the hole, he tried the earth all about the entrance with the skill of an engi neer, and selecting that whieh wa driest he liegau b> scratch like a dog with his for*- fe*-t, throwing the dust rapidly Imck ward into the hole. We watchM with in b-ns*- interest, and could not but ad mire his pluek and deb-nuinatiou, for we iiuagiue tliis throwing of dust ou tha head of his adversary was oidy to pro voke him to a fresh light. Every now and theii he would sb>p aud aud take a cautious peep down the hole to observe the effect of his operations. We ei jsH-ted every moment to see him descend and make another attack, but it statu lieoom* manifest that such was not his intention, an*l it gradually dawned upon us that he had a strategic mode of at tack based iijsiu the soundest principle* of philosophy, reason and a thorough kuowle Ige of his a*lv*-rsarv and of tlie means h<- was using to render his resist sue*- futile and make bim an easy cap tive. By throwing flue dust into the hole the doodlebug would eoou be smothered, as it was necessary that he should have free air, uuleaa he climbed upward, as he woaid do. Whenever the worm worked upward to get his head above, the flue dust fell behind and below him, and thus slowly closed up his hole, un til, blinded with dust, he poked his hood out at tlie Uip. This won the point aimed at, and tlie moment he abowed his head alsive, the wasp pounced upon him, seised him by the neck, drew lum up, gathered him in his arms and flew tiff iu triumph, though the worm was much the largest of the two. Struck with amusement at the sagacity, scitaioe, skill aud engineering ability of the *lirt dauber, we carefully aoiuitied tin- hole, aud found that in Stie course of five minutes this rensuuing ii-aect had filled iu five indie* of dust alui put his for midable adven*rt completely st his mercy. tmriUh Workiugmeu. An English re-view, speaking of the workiugtuen *if the old world, says: There is no saving aiming the workiug classes. The trw*liti*<ual picture of the English tar of a century ago, whose ec centric extravagance hue lieen the source of inexhaustible laughter for several generations, would is- no unfitting rep resentation of the more prosperous sec tion of the Hritisli workmen of the pros eiit lay. Much has indeed ls*en done in the din-oti* >n of thrift by t!i great Iw'liefit societies, but their action has lax n greatly checked by the fact tliat even the best of them are based upon sta tistics wluch do not command the confi dence of those qualified to form an opinion of their stability. It is littlo bi the ere.lit of past governments tliat alight legislative assistance baa beeu afforded to thu only greet effort which luis been made liy the workingrnen of F.ugland to raiac themselves js rmanently aliove the influence of psuperiom. The life of a collier, of a Loudou journeyman tailor in th- season, or even of au agri cultural laborer in the Im* districts, is one of more or less lavish expenditure; and the idea of joining a Ix-nefit societv, mncli hies ! laying by money, but roreiy enters th< uiiud of these men. They have no oiiject in doing ao in this coun try. A man who succeeds by his own thrift in providing himself with a little income in case of sickness or old age, is no lietter off than tin- man who ban led the life of a jovial British workman, aud who, in his hour of need, draws from tlie parii-h jiay table in all probability at suit the name income which tlie other lias denied himself many a luxury and enjoyment to pmrure. The advsuiage to a country of n large number of small hoards is aimost incalculable, as the re cent history of Franco clearly shows. It is not too much to nay that the folly and extravngiiuceof Imperialism plunged that country into misfortunes from whieh the thrift of the working class extricated her. There ai e no such hoards in England. If we hnd an in demnity to pay, we should have to moke hard bargain with those capitalists in whose hands the wealth of the coun try lsacnnmnbiting with geometric s|Med. Is there a single working man iu Kug lsnd who holds consols? Tloth Jackets. Hraul and bias silk bands trim most oloth jackets, yet many imputed gnr ments are covered with embroidery. The Louis XV. jacket with a vest sewed iu is a popular design for the wraps of young ladies and misses. These ore made in diagonal, basket-woven, mid in stein***' cloths. Brown is the eolur preferred ; then comes black, blue, mid green ; the merchants all announce these colors in the order given, but conclude by Raying green will lie the mot stylish "color of all. The French sack with a single seam down the back, quite short behind and long in front, will lie a popular garment. The double-breasted F.nghsli jacket will not lie abandoned. Embroidered cloth jackets, embroidered in France, ami their shape outlined, hut not made up, cost from 818 upward. Some have wide Dulnian sleeves. Others aro so long in front and so short behind that they de serve to lie called domi-polonaiaM. Long sack cloaks of silk lined with fur or* more shnpely than those of Inst wiub-r ; they vary iu length, but the longer they are tho batter style they are considered. There are also many short jackets of silk lined with fur. To Sell. Robinson, of Winnebago county, Illi nois, turned out to hear ex-Henatoi James R. Doolittl* aay tlint a married man ought to huve two votes, tiecause hr always represents at least two in the in t*irrtt of good government, and has had more experience than a single man in governing human society. Tlien Robin son went home, and BH lie kicked ovei the last batch of bread ho was heard tc remark thut now a man could sell his vote to both candidates without going back on his party. A I/rhMin la Life. : J William H. Wood, president of the i Greenfield (Indiana) Manufacturing ■ j company, a leading business man of I j Hancock county, registered at the Union Depot dining hall, Indians) mil*, requost i* ing tliat he might lie given a room itn- . t- mediately, as lie was not feeling well. He was shown to a room, aud from tliat II time until eight o'clock iu the evening t was soeu alxiut the d(iot and about the 1 city viaiting various insurance com i panics. 11*- secured several policiea of * lusurauce ou his life, ami in favor of his i j wife and children. Tlie next known of - * ! htm was the following morning, 1 let ween t eight and nine o'clock, when he was dis i txivered in his room suffering from opium i {Miisoiiiug, and soon after eipirod. It - 1 seems that he deliiierately took the f poison, first inditing s letter which ex < phoned the reason of his taking off. lu tins letter he set forth that h WON t ruined financially, and tliat U> stave off * the fatal day lie had forged a Large i amount of pajier then iu the hanks. He l h*l used the names of h*s father, 1 faliter-ui law and leading cttiaeua. This |iu)ior was c*itiling due and he could not * meet it. lie cuucluded his letter as * follow* : ; i r | "1 am too brave to run away aud leave my wife and three children uever i to kuow what has become of me, and I to drug out a life of miaery and longing to see and I liehold what dare uot and can * not without suffering the pangs of au I ! outraged law that would confine me for l the remainder of a long life iu prison , - walla. O < tod, may my sad fate warn { t any and all who ahall hear of my tor * ritile emliug that tlie first ilebt made , - lays the roo*{ to ruin, that indebtedness i - 1 begins to bring ou crime, core and anxiety, all tlie social and m irsl aenti r ments of tlie bent of minds. I earnestly i i ask of all that 1 owe anything to to wait ; with |i*tieune and not sue my nurvtiea, i r' as mv affects and insurance, if properly 11 i handled, will pay all my indebtedness. , * 1 earnestly ask a generous public to di- 11 * j vide its substance by paying liberal i i prices for all my property. I liave | i I Islsired hard for the town of Orweuficld i * and its moral good. Will you not do i i something to make what 1 have accuinn j < - lated bring such prior* that none shall i j suffer, but all, both thooe who bold , i forged security and those who have only i * my own nam*-, may realise what is just ly theirs 1 My good, true wife lias al- , < - ■ ways been a pleasure to me, aud begged jme uot to speculate as 1 have dime. O, , - that 1 hod taken her counsel. Bhe has , * lieen my solace in affliction, my oumfurt i * in our mgrried life, and in no way is she i j to be sentenced or scorned for my mis i deeds and misfortanes. My dear rhil , lreu, Lord (iod, srho doeat all things , well, bless them and make their lives - pl< arsut aud reconcile them aud their * mother to my fate." Courtship la Ureealoatf. i There is something exceedingly melau r choly in the accounts which are given of 1 the custom of courtship in Ore*'nland. i OeneraUy woaieu enter UJHIU th<- bleased , crtiat*- with more wiihugn*os and leas so - licitude tlutu nx-n. The wmunu of , (in-eiilaud arc an exception to this rule, p. A Oreeiiliuider, having fixed his aff*-*- 1 tious uj*uii some female, acquaints his - ' parent* with th** i-tate of bin heart. They * apply to the )*arenta of the girl ; ami, if tlie ]iareiiU are thus far atrreed, the uvxt proceeding is to op |wiin t two feoialo ue gigiatora, whose duty it in to broach tlie subject to the jouug lady. This i a ' inatb-T of great tact and d* licocy. The ' lady amtwasatlom do not shock the ? young lady to whom Uiy are sent by any sud*leu or abrupt avowal of Ui< awful subject of tlieir iniasioa. Instead ? of doing this, tliey launch out in praise* ! of the gentleman who seek* her hand. Th*y speak of tlie splendor of his bouse, the sumptuuurt&osK of his furniture, of his courage and skill iu catching seals, , aud other accomplishment*. The lady, pretending to be affronted even st these h rcmoti- hints, runs away, baring the ringlet* of her liair as she retire*, while the *uulinsha*lreMsrs, having gut the con t sent of her parvnt*, pursue her, take her 1 hy fifoc to tho house of her destined ' hiinliand, and there leave her. Oom ; jielle*l to remain tlietW? she ait* for days u with dislwvelod hair, silent and deject | i <*d. refusing every kiu*l of sustenance, r till at last, if kind entroatitw do uot pre vail, she is oomp**lh-d by force, and even ' by blows, to sutimit to tlie detested u union. In some cases, Greenland wonw-n s faint at the proposals of marriage ; in others they fly to the mountains, and ' only return whon ooiuiielhxl to do so by ' liunger and oold. It one cuts off her ■. hair, it is a sign she is determined to re * I Hist to the death. The Greenland wife u is the slave of her hnabond, diximed to a life of toil, drudgery and privation. The M Batata j A Paris eorreepondent writing to the j y 1 New York 7Yme* says : M. Thiers has r gone to Ouehv, in Hwitoerland, where j he will receive a visit frtim Prince e UortscluxkofT as soon as tho latter ha* li completed his ' i*in cure "in theviciui ~ ty. The treatment of general debility , by grapes is by no means new here, but v it will probably appear a novelty on your j side of the ocean. At certain towns in u Switr.*'rlnnd grape* are grown solely as A miHlicine, aud the vineyards are put to I, no other use. Instead of drinking water, as at ottier places, the patient is ~ sent out to eat grapes, and must nick M them himself from the vines. Where i. the doctor ordinarily instructs the I jiati*ut to drink stiuiany glasses of water, lie is here instructed to eat just so many bunches of gra]K's, and no more. It is assumed to lie dangerous to go beyond the doctor's prescription n single grape. As strung*- as it may appear, invalids ex . periere*' tho best of g<i*sl off*-ts from ' j the " roisiu cure," or at least think they *l>, aud go away very well satisfied. ' Another |H>pular treatment is found at I the mud baths of Schualbach slid <ith*r j k places, where the patients are immersed " in soft black mud no to their china, and *] remain in the hanlt for some honrs. | Most of them have a floating table ' liefore them upon which they keep j \ Ixjoka, cigars, or refr*linieuts, aoconl ing to the text*-* of the (atient. After remaining two or three hours iu the mud '! one is washed off with a hose pipe ami put into a tepid bath, after which one [j is naturally suppose*! to f****l s groat deal . better. If he does not, the operation is continnod the next morning, and is re fiented until the pstient is cured or tired. e ■ II l'nuishinent of Criminals. There in one punishmeut permitted in ~ j the Alliany penitentiary, says a visitor, namely, tlie dark cell or dungeon. Capt. J Pilabnry lias so great a respect for lnw ' , tliat as* loug as he is legally restrained k from corporal punishment he will not ■ employ it secretly, but it is with great : relnctance and only where it is posi tively necessary that he should do so, i that he resorts to the dark cell as a i- ; menus for the coercion of unruly con ir victs. H)x>aking with tho weight of d many years of experience, he declares e the tiark ctill the most inhuman and inju i- rious of all forms of pnniahment known d in penal institutions. It breaks men ! n down physically, he says, with fearful i • rapidity and certainty and is exoeeding ■r ly liable to destroy their mental orgaui o rations. The " cat " or " paddle" is i would do infinitely less harm and be g j more radically effective as moral per suasives. Term*: S-i.OO a "Vear, in Advance. A WtM'H f.I'IHOIIK. a i iwbw kwswM r>awu isra • vate ablr lllmtwi ss* hi* wlls a Mavtaa Mulw>. A Paris correspondent tells the follow iug touching story : The sad case of the insanity uf Mow. Ie Duo, wife of the well known chemist who has achieved such a wonderful thing in diamonds, is attracting much attention. The story is as follows : M. Le Due is a chemist whose hobby hss lieen diamonds for years. He wan in moderate circum stances, yet with a fair) prospect before him when he married the daughter of a well known silk dealer. Hhortly alter i the marriage M. Le Due oummeßoed ex perimenting on charcoal, believing that be could discover the secret of creating diamonds from it He worked night and day on this hobby, and, of ouurne, •fient all tbe means lie had and all he ouolil borrow to carry on his experi ments. His family more than once was ! in very straightened circumstances, and his father in law diacovering that all the money he gave his dangbter was bunded over to her hnslsuid to continue the es ijerimenta, endeavored to induce her to leave him and return to her home. The chemist had imbued his wife with his strange infatuation and she would not leave. M. La- Due discovered after aeveral years, wliat others had discovered be fore, the fallacy of hia attemjita, but he also made a discovery of no alight importance, that be could harden crystal to about the con sistency of diamonds and plate these crystals with real diamonds. His pro ocas waa similar to that of eiectrotyping, the battery being used, and the diamond dust or diamond chipping* from dia monds being used as copper is, the re sult being that the crystal was diamond iasd, if 1 may use the term. He made some of these mock diamonds, and takiug them to a broker the chemist was delighted to And that his work was taken for the real jewel. M. La Due's father in-law died a few years ago and his wife inherited some two hundred thousand francs. Thia she turned over to her hnsliand willingly, and it was de voted to the laboratory. The poor woman waa as folly carried away aa tbe chemist, and her desire that be should succeed, with her fear of failure, and with failure that her children should suffer from poverty, worked seriously upon Iter mind. Of late she has evi dently suffered mnch, but she kept her grief from her husband, and hoped for the best. When the chemist finally succeeded in his scheme and turned out stone* that even the broken believed to be real dia monds, be rushed with the glad tidings to his wife. She partook of hia ioy, yet her mind had been so strained that the blow, joyous as it was. was too much few her, and" she, after listening to the ex clamations of her husband, broke out into an unnatural peal of laughter, which was followed by tears and oriea. It was evident that she was insane ; that she had suffered too much, and reason luul deserted its throne. At times her mania was of a quiet kind, but often it was of the in oat violent description, bunting forth into terrible expressions of rage. On several occasions she at tempted to take the life of her youngest child, declaring that all their property was gone and only poverty stared them in the face, and it became neoessarv to remove her to a private madhouse, whefe she is now confined, subject to the moat terrible raring*. Poor M. I* Ihw! On the very day that he became famous in Paris has this terrible affliction befallen him. A Swindle, of Conn*. Notwithstanding the feel that every lottery or gift concert scheme revolts iu fraud, lotteries still reign supreme in the United State*. They rw up in a day. take in thousands nf dollnn of the hanl earned monoj of the people, a drawing in held, and* the result ia—a swindle. The result is the same whether the lot terv be in aid of a public library, becked Bp by the leading ®en of a State, or for some saylnm. Some long-headed ras oal steps in and reaps the benefit, and the purchasers of tickets art* swindled. It would seem as though peqpls who are so anxious to bite at the tempting baits offered and to get rich in a day would learn in the course of years, but they do not appear to The last lottery dodge is the Female Humane Association lottery of Alexan dria. It was advertised all over the country and thousands of tickets were •old. It WHS ascertained that the ar rangement of the drawing had been in trusted solely to parties from New York, who make it their business to be en gaged in all these schemes, and that all the ntoney obtained from the sale of tickets, eioept some 16,000 or SB,OOO, had been left in New York, and wa* not subject to a draft of the officers of the association. The parties present ap pointed a committee to proceed at once to New York and endeavor to recover such of the money as could be obtained. It is believed that not a single dollar wa* >irawu by any bona fide ticket holder, but that the whole of it has been re tained bv New York sharpers. About half a million dollars' worth of tickets were in this lottery. Now for the next scheme and the next grand swindle. The Emblematic Eagle. The Kim scans, says Arplstons' " American Cyclopaedia,' revised edition, were the first who adopted the eagle as the symbol of royal power, and bore its image as a standard at the head of their armies. From the time of Marina it was the principal emblem of the Roman republic, and the only standard of the legions. It was represented tritb out spread wings, and was usually of silver, till the time of Hadrian, who made it *f gold. The double-headed eagle was in use among the Rysantine emperors, to iudicato, it was said, their claim to the empire both of the East and the West ; it WHS adopted in the fourteenth century hy the Herman emperors, and after ward appeared on the arms of Russia. The arms of Prussia are distinguished by the black eagle, and those of Poland bore the white. The white headed eagle is the emblematic device of the United States of America, is the badge of the order of the Cincinnati, and is figured on coins. Napoleon adopted the eagle for the emblem of imperial France ; it was not, however, represented iu heraldic style, but in its natural form, with the thunderbolts of Jupiter. It was disused under the Bourbon*, but was restored by a decree of Louie Napoleon (January 1,1862). A lame Defense. A lauie defense ia letter than none, oc caaioually, but a aailor in Montreal re cently made a sad mistake in tbia parti cnlar. He was charged with larceny, and, when questioned on the subject, in formed the court that he had evidenoe to offer in his defense. He called, aa hia first witness, a boy, a member of the crew, who testified very frankly that he had seen the prisoner attempting to open the box from which the money had been taken ; the audience laughed, and the priaener seemed equally amused. The magistrate inquired of the prisoner if he tiad any other similar evidenoe to ofler, and he naively replied that he had two other witnesses who would swear the same thing (laughter). Con viction and sentence were no longer de layed. NO. 43. A TAN BAKU BHtSKAHU. TU* Hu Whs TMMMMS HI. MMk • Tfcal lis I'mM K.I rrhklt SIMM BSI Nwwt law N.MO. The Youths' < \imjjanloti tolls the story of a uutod individual, Herman Hetutel, a shoemaker, who, in the early part of this century, lived in Alsaoe. About the year 1889 be name to the United Hub*. and settled in Hew Or leans, where he opened a shoe shop. Beimel cared nothing for whisky, gin, brandy or rum. Kven his national beer bad no charm for him. He drank no alcohol at all. The beverage whose taflto enthralled him, and in imbibing which be am mod at length to find his only pleasure, was bark tea —the ten water in which he stooped his hides 1 It became a passion with him, and Hetmel, the tan yard toper, loved his peculiar dram ae well as any pot-bouse disciple ever loved lu Hut the visible effects were much tar dier thai i in the case of the alcoholic drunkard. People had no particular re mark to make on his appearance, unless perhaps some one wouhl venture to hint that instead of a red nose be had a yel low one. The invisible effect* reported themselves (to the man himself) quite soon enough for his comfort. Not only did his stomach grow tough, but his gullet did. The hardening pro cam extended all the way np his caao phagus and into his mouth. His throat dried and ettffened like ao ptd boas pipe; the glands of his palate puckered ; his tongue seasoned into a mere piece of animated India rubber. At last he could toatc nothing at all He ato enormous quantities of food, but it gave him do satisfaction beyaad know ing that it filled him fulL Me ate his dinner as be would make a shoe. In fact, he was about like a shoe himself now. He had been tanning himself into a man of leather—and be knew how it felt better than he could toll anybody. You think that a man ia hit condition, and so well aware of the cause of it, would try to reform ; would break away from hie strange habit, and by absti nence repair his ruined sense of taste. But reform in his case waa something easier said than done. Heimel seemed aa incapable of mas tering or mending his habit aa if be had been born with it, and every day be went bark to his beloved tan-wafer: Htill ua oat ward signs at injury to his health and vitality appeared. Be lived, a miracle of vigor ami endurance ; and ao far from being discouraged fr alarm ed at the nsdly uncomfortable results of bis intemperance, he rather grear proud iff them, and made a parade of his tough Unas, giving all the credit of it, of course, to his daily draughts of oak and sumac. It occurred to him that be oould ex ploit a little with his invulneraUe throat and stomach, and he began to take pleasure in doing this for the amuse meat or astonishment of his family and neighbors. He drank quantities of pung ent and poisonous medicine, and took whole box.* of pills at once, just to show how perfectly his KTstem was proof against their effects. Then be swallowed small stones, bits of iron and aula, but tbey gave him no incouveimi,. From this he gradually psawi to more difficult practices, and emulated the feats of men like Carlo Benedetti, the sword swallowrr. Dressing hides and making shoes grew too dull and alow for him. Why oould he sot go upon the Stage and coin a fortune out of the monstrosity be hail made limine If t The idea onoe suggested, he was not slow to art npou it nrimel quitted hi* boauMM, put on hi* beat clothe*, ud advertised himself an "The Groat Ataer ican Ostrich." . He was now a man in middle life. The war of the rebellion, which I woke oat aboat this time, interfered with hie freedom of travel in tliia country, and be went to Europe. Of coarse be carried with him, or took care to keep within roach of, hie daily supply of tannin. Year afU-r rear he " exhibited ** in the cities and villages of the continent. It was hard work, however, and he became tired of it. lie returned to America, and settled down once mote at hi* old tannery in New Orleans. Hut Herman Heimel was no longer the stoat, lusty German of other day*. The strain to which be had subjected his constitution told severely upon him, snd worse tbiui that, his excessive drinking of tan water had hardened the tissues and closed the pores of his system so that it bad no power of renewal. It could only waste and wear away. He grew haggard and thin. His com plexion, and, indeed, his whole akin, turned the color of trunk leather, and wrinkled into hard, callous folds. His flesh continued to fall away, and the nerves decayed, till he betrayed no feel ing of the severest pinch, and could suf fer the deep prick of a pin with little pain. His very hones perished (receiv ing no material to rebuild themselves), and finally grew so small and ao supple that tin y could be bent like s tough stick. Herman Heimel was a skeleton of leather. He is 'living yet (or at last amounts) in the city f Now Orleans. Bat it is only a living death. Now and then skill ful' surgeons come and inject the warm blood of some healthy animal into his veins, and this is his only support. If he is conscious of his condition, no mia erv can be greater than his. Such is the story of the tanned tanner, or the tan-vat drunkard. How far his appetite may have been pure mania, we have no room to speculate. Far his fate he certainly could blame no one but himself, and his case (though perhaps without a parallel in kind) is but another warning against the danger of yielding to exoeaa, or to nunatural appetites of any kind. She Knew the Women. At one of the railroad depots in De troit, the other day, a lady walked np to the ticket window and smilingly said : " 1 know just how women are, and I don't propose to bother any one. An swei me a few questions, and IH ait down and say nothing to no one till train time. How far is it to Grand Rapids f What's the fare ? When does the train leave? When do we arrive theret Where do they check baggage I Which track will t&e train start from f How can 1 get to Muskegon from Grand Rapids ? How far is it ? What's the fare ? l>o I change cars t Is there a palace coach on the rood ? Shall I get a lay-over ticket I Can I check my bag gage clear through ? Is there a conduc tor on this road named Smith ? Do yon allow dogs iu the passenger cars ? and can a child ten years old go for noth- flaviug been answered, she kept her promise to sit still, and the depot police man never had the least bit of trouble in seeing her off.— Frrf /Yew. A singular Case. A most singular iustanoe of " natural surgery " is reported in a Manchester (New Hampshire! newspaper. Two or three years ago a gentleman sustained an injury in his bock, which was called a partial dislocation of the spinal column. The lower limbs were paralysed, and the case pronounced incurable by the physi cians. A few weeks since the gentle man had a very severe fall, which nearly proved fatal; but when he reoovered from the shock he found he oould use his limbs, and now he can walk a mile and work aa other people do. Probably the fall replaced the dislodged part with out injuring the spinal marrow. TW Baby Rhew. Tb* Kakm (Ouoada) Ttmm psrpe tmsaa tha faUowtng on tbs Im behy show: Twmy fear hablM All ilk row, Twsmty-foat MMM aim on bow ; 1 -Twsaty-tanr ifAdies tafepy w dams, A show of live Utw BOM of your thun#. I 4 rkkm of m t n g m \ m i <Smi IIUIo liiwHr ItMM of laterooU Harrowing to the sole—page. Board wages-Directors' (m*. To bo grant in to bo ntamderetood. Wbol men going down want—checks. Headache is the name of a poet office to Miehigaa. A barber's epitaph : Ho dyad and made no aign. "ATistiamnnissaady togowhereduty nails, bo should go borne. The height of impudence ia mid to bo the length of book agent Teachsca in Tommmmwo are hereafter to he paid aalariea without distinction of sex. A French priest haa refused two mil lions of francs bequeathed to bim by bo brother because toe brother bad led a aidud life. Haling baa broken out again in Har vard, and many at thisyrer's freshmen have been most cruelly and disgracefully maltreated. Find dam Chinese botela have rained the price of board to twenty-eight oenta p<* day, and tonriata altoold make their arrangements accordingly. A young woman, who found herself at Hatidwich, 111., without money, obtained two debars wherewith to proceed to Chicago by pawning her glaea aye. •' I>o they ring two balls for school r ■aid a father to his ten year-old daughter who attends the high school. " No, pa, they ring one bell twins," she replied. In Breefam, Mass , five million sewing machine needles wet* made ia the two manufactories last year. Tbey turn out at present twenty thousand needles a 'l*7 • Mr. Bmith, of IM Crosse, announces that one of the Bmith family was in the garden with Adam, but that jealousy lias prevented s liters from mentioning the A Pultney (N. T.) girl put in a lively ton hours' work the other day. Bh* nail ed in that time 900 driving 10,000 nails and handling 3,000 pieces of wood. Hiss Hulrtt, the Chicago towyer, will oot move in a divorce case, believing, ss she says, that " any woman who will marrv a an ought to be forced to live with "hun." Captain Richard Ring, the Texas cat tle king, has a field of sixty thousand acres within one fence. He recently filled an order by telegraph for 2fi,oGo beeves. Many a woman who is too feeble to peel a deern potatoes for dinner will walk four miler pasta rival's houae to display a new drees, and prance back borne like a three-year-ohl filly. A shopkeeper in England calls him self " I coxing glows maker to her majesty." It ia only a few years since an old Edinburgh sign waa taken down : " Breeches maker to her majesty." The King of Holland ia not a miser The other day, when a laborer stopped the royal carriage from getng in the river, the king handed him forty oent* and smiled a smile worth thirty-five oenta more. Two antique chairs, one formerly in the posamtoo of L*us XVL. and the other brought from Venice in the seven teenth century, were sold at Boston a few days ago, the farmer for $13.60 and the tatter tor $17.30. A panther runhed into a bedroom in* bonae a few mib* from Willi*, Tex., •ad earned off baby in hi* month, bat the twelve -year-old sinter followed and acreamed o luntily tb*t the brute dropped the yonngater only slightly in jured. A ib of onertz rock wee recently ■hipped float toe Greene mute, Kend*, containing more then two aqneie feet, through which there WM e streak eboat four inchee wide thet wee nearly or quite <mr-keif gold. Hie piece wee mtuneted to be worth et leant $1,500. A sertooa CMS of poisoning has oo cnrred in Sheffield, Caned*. A tin of Nora Scotia lobeter* wae opened on Saturday night, baft they were not eaten nnpl Monday night The person* who ate of it—Joseph Butler. a cutler, and six member* of hi* family—all shortly afterward became very ill, and three of them are in a critical condition. The Sturgeon Bay (Win) Expositor aaya: A. J. Sibley ha* rigged him a boat with aada, decked it over forward, with oomfortable quarter* for hi* family, and ia about to atart for Florida or aome other place. He ie going to Green Bay np the Fbx river and the canal to the Wisconsin river, down the Miaawaippi river, and throngh the Gulf of Mexico to Florida. A St. Louis doctor wrote a proscrip tion for a lady who was slightly ill, call ing for "asyphon of carbonic arid," meaning a large syphon bottle of soda water. The intelligent druggist con strued " carbon 10 arid "to mean " car bolic acid." and took "syphon" to be the Latin for "two ounoes, and, acting on his conviction, burned a hole in the patient's stomach. IV smallest Bible in the world, just produced by the Oxford University Prima, is printed on a tough India paper of extreme thinness and opacity, meas ures four snd one-half iacn.e by two and one-fourth inches, is one and one-half inches thick, sod weighs, bound in limp morocco, has than three and one- half ounoes. It can be sent through the British post for a penny. The editor of the Alabama Slate Jow- % nal is now Sam Bard* fnd be wants it understood that his paper will admit no long contribution whatever, and " per sonalhr ahorive articles will be charged at the rate of 1100 per line." He states that he 4 ' has been connected with jour nalism, directly and indirectly, since 1845, snd has learned at last what not te put in the columns of a newspaper. The girl who sold wax flowers at Long Branch, and was ever searching for her " long lost father," like the unfqj"tun*t<- female in the phr, has found him at last through the kinasees id a gentleman at one of the hotels, who escorted her to the depot, where the " long lost father " -too!! waiting to receive " her stamps." The game, although very transparent, ; deceived a great many charitable people. A now swindle is being played in the central part of the State. A well dressed man stops at a farmhouse and engages accommodation for a drove of sheep and a man who drives them. The sheep and drivers are to come along the next, day. The pretended agent stops over night, has the best the house affords, and slips off the next morning without paying his bill The sheep and drivers never ap pear, of course. Legrand and De Gas met in the Paris Bourse. " I promised to oape you—l do so," said Legrand, and he struck De Gas across the face with a walking stick. " And I promised to shoot you—l do so," responded De Gas, drawing a re volver, firing at Legrand, and woundiDg him in the head. They were wealthy broken, and their encounter was the re sult of a quarrel, in which they had made the threats that were subsequently ful filled. When a Nevada photographer wants to make a good picture, he puts the sitter in his place, pulls out a navy re -1 volver, cocks it, levels it at the man's head, and says: "Now jist you sit perfectly still, and don't move a hair ; i put on "a calm, pleasant expression of i countenance, ana look right into the mnMle of tins revolver, or I'll blow the top of your head off. My reputation as an artist is at stake, and I don't want no nonsense about this picture." It is claimed for the Dominion of Canada that it ranks third—at lowest, fourth—in importance among the ship owning countries of the world. The list of vessels exhibit a total of 6,930, measuring 1,258,363 tons. Of these 634 are steamers, 236 ships, 546 barks, twenty-five barkentines, sixty-two brur=. 542 brigantinee, 8,785 schooners, snd 1,100 smaller vessels. Four hundred and ninety-six new vessels, measuring 190,756 tons, were built in 1874.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers