Tt# Ship. Th wind erias out t th* water* : " However (hit thing '*\.oa, I do not know, Rut 1 find it sc- Ws are but the stare* of man. " The pigmy hui!.!* him a monster Bv the nnglit of hi* puny hand ; It came* thing* Like a •< a gull'* wings ; He ride* it from land to land. "He catche* my breath to waft him Aa he dance* over your wvs ; The wound* yon feel Of the mighty keel And the wind and *ea are *lira*." Onr Baby. Our baby—l wonder much if she know* She ia to na all *o dear 1 Now can *he thmk, do you vuppoee ? Se* bow delighted ahe laugh* and on 1* When mother or nurse i* near. Our baby's a wonderful child, Pm *nre, Do you know what *he did to-day ? Why, when mother put her down ou the floor, She crawled right out at the open door. As if elie wa* going away! Our baby - ahe'a only eight month* old Bui if 1 take great care. She'* given me in my arm* to hold ; She ha* Ave teeth, and like akein* of gel t Are her tiny look* of hair. Our baby is ao very dear to na. We pet her ail day long. Till old nurse eays. " Dear me what a fu*e There'll be nothing left if yon kiss her thu* But 1 am quite sure nurse M wrong Our baby—l know you would love her 100. She has such * winning way ; For first she seem* with her eyes of blue TV) be looking at you quite thiough and through. And then she will am.!e tuid (day. A PRISON ON THE MOUNTAIN. TW >1 Ml Kewarkable • >ll Pul laulla. I) A >•*■! aa4 Ua MrartrUl E(Nto-Tk Tarrikl* Park Otto-la ■malll af Ikt Prtataara. Among the mountain* in the extreme northwestern corner of the State of New York is located Clinton prison, the smallest of the three penal institutions under State control, but in a>m< rosjwvts much the most interesting to the ob eer\-ant viator. It is by no means easy to get to Dounemara, the little town or hamlet which hae sprung up around the prison gate. By divers ways of care and l>oata, through many delays, an noyances and vexations, one gets to Plattsburg. Thence one must drive six hen miles to reach Donncmara. This comparative iuaccecvdbihtr is the real rea*>n why convicts dread Clinton prison more than either Auburn or Sing Sing. They like to see tht ir friends now and then; to feel that they are within easy reach of their former homes, and not that they are practically exiled. Hence the constant petition* from prisoners here to the inspectors for transfer to the oth< r prisons. But the discipline 1* re is not, as it hat often been represented by such petitioners, more severe than elsewhere. In some respects it is even more indulge nt, necessarily so from the character of the industries in which the men are employed, and though their work may be harder, it is certainly better calculated for the development of what ever manhood the men may possess than ar< such petty aTooatious as shoemaking and shirt irwmng. Clinton prison is situated upon the aide of a mountain. Before it lies a pretty little valley shut in on every side bv mountains, the rugged outlines of whicL are at this season softened by dense foliage of varied hues. But iu winter time this mu&t be a very bit ak and cheer'.cea prospect. Ten thousand acres of land in the immediate vicinity are the projxwtr of the State. Twenty live acres are inclosed for prison purposes by a stockade of heavy planks twenty feet in height, and njxm this wall, at ten points, are posted look-out stations, where guards sit all day long with re penting Winchester ntles in their hands, revolve rs in tht ir belts, and loaded mus kets by thtir sides, to frustrate any bold endeavor* at oeftipe. When the old log stockade was standing, prisoners not in fre jnently managed tv shLu up to the top, drop over on the outer side, and es-Mpe to the forest. But the smooth planks are much more difficult to climb, and few make the attempt. Besides, Capt. Herwerth, sergeant of the guard, ha- awakened a spirit of emulation in , niark-uiauship among his mn, and the couvicti naturally are shy of tempting towar 1 themselves th" demoustratiou of - such skill as the guards frequently din play in their target practice. Even should a prisoner reach the wood* his chances for getting away are barely even. But should ho ini-sa friendly aid. he will be liable to wander alxrat in the dense forest until hunger drives him back to the prison, until somebody picks him up for the sake of th- reward for his recap ture, or until sheer aocident brings him back to his point of de;>arture. It is related that upon one occasion, some months ago, a couple of convicts, who secreted themselves in the big mine until after dark, managed to get over the wall and struck out into the forest. They traveled hard all right, through close thickets and over rocks, and iu the gray light of morning found themselves just beneath the prison wall, having strug gled along in a circle on the mountain side throngh all these weary hours. In ■hear disgust they stumbled around to the gate and voluntarily gave themselves up. TLe distinctive peculiarity abont tliis prison is tuat it is fbe only • ue iu this country—or. indeed, with a single ex ception, in the world—wherein the miniug an 1 manufacturing of irou is carri-d on. Within the prison walls are now two mines, oue In-longing to Messrs. Watson A Co., of I'lattsburg—to whom the Shits pays a royalty of one dollar per t in on all separated ore from it—the other lielonging to the State exclusively. The first of these has been worked with varyiug regularity for fifteen years past. In 1803, tlie owners having demanded an increase • f their royalty from seventy five cents to one dollar per ton, which the prison authorities refused to pay, the mine was permitted to fall into di*- nse and 811 up with water, so that when, in 1871, under a new regime, its rework iug was determined upon, three months' steady pumping were required to empty it sufficiently to permit of the rcsiunp tion of mining operations. So rapid and constant is the infiltration of water, up to the present time, that an eight horse power steam engine is kept at work, day and right, rnnning the pumps in this and new mines, yet in one part of the old mine the flood is six feet iu depth, and sometimes increases to ten. To enter the old mine, one descend* by a rugged and reacheroos path into a Jit tome tuirtv feet in depth, and not ess than eighty feet in diameter at the top. lu the side of this pit toward the mountain opens the mine. It seems an enormous cavern. The sides are a hun dred feet apart, the roof thirty feet in height, and the length of this great ex cavation something more than fourteen hundred fe< t. Huge columns of ore and rock are left to support the roof. The dropping and plashing of water, the slow and regular creaking of the rude pump ing machinery, the hollow echoes of voices afar in the depths, all have a mournful effect The gloom of the dis tance is flecked by the little red lights of the miners' lamps, flitting to anil fro, not seemingly larger than glowworms, and a* uncertain in their illumination. At certain hours blasts are tired, and the echoes are like rapidly repeated thunder, or the successive discharges of a number of large camion. The air is cold and damp, but pure, having nothing of the closeness pertaining to such mines as are worked by shafts, drifts and galleries—a ooal or a silver mine for instance. All the men working here are oonvicts, but one cannot but be impressed, at sight of them and of their fellows in the mills, with the idea that such labor as that in which they are here employed has hod a subtle effect in elevating them 1 1, KMD. Kl ' inVi, Ktlitor ami I'roprietor. VOL. VIII. [in the scale of manhisvl. It turn hard enod tlieir lunacies, imbued thorn with it oouaciousueMi of masculinity, taught thorn by tln-ir conflict with ttio sullen inertia of nature's resistance to man'* efforts muck more self reliant* and rtiniintiKw of honest, vigorous than all tlioir previous lives had known. At you moot thorn, thoy look yon | squarely in tho oyo, uot furtively glancing at you witli tho lurking, am -X lug, ovil look which you will encounter ' at every step iu tlio Sing Sing laundry ' ami among tho idle villain, at Auburn. There mi. U> uo doubt that it improves J rnon'a moral, to l<>rtatit an element of the discipline of the Al bany jiemteutiary is not even attempted here. To enforce it would la* almost, if uot quite, impossible, unless there were as many keej*ers as there are convicts. While the men on " tours " of latnir iu the mill are waiting for the smelting of the ore, the serving of the hammer or the rolls, or in the various mining pro cesses wherein arduous toil is broken by moment* of necessary relaxation, there is no restriction npou either eonversa 4 ion or employment by tie pri**>n' r* ■ ■[ th- ir li-L-ure in small work for them*elves. Some of the convicts are quite skillful in the making of horse hair jewelry and -mall carvings, by the sale of which to visitors they often manage to save up sometimes considerable sums aga-nst the ■lay of their discharge. A* f.r as it is practicable the keepers seek to repress criminal or demoralizing reminiscences and communications, but comparatively little restraint ran las directly exercised in this wiv under existing conditions. The lightest punishment in use in Clinton prison is the "yoke " —a collar of iron with three outwardly curved prongs reaching above tb head, ami weighing some fourteen pounds— which is worn by the culprit as many hours or •lavs a* necessity seems to demand. The " paddle " is sometimes employed upon peculiarly refractory fellows, ami it is the experience of the ki-t-jn-rs ami guards here that although this punishment is never severe enough to do the prisoner any serious injury, they never liave to paddle the same man twice. Tne " cat o' niiie tails," formerly used, is still kept upon •■xhibition, but is said to lie never •implored. Of course the murderous and atKiminable dark cell, the " humani tarians' " diabolical choiis> of torture, is the b-avie.t penalty for serious infrac tions of discipline. There are six dark Cells in this prison, two of which, at the time of the writer's recent visit, were occupied by men who had ls-en incur derated there for nine days. These un fortunate wretches had ls-en found in possession of H skeleton key by which thei v mid have la-en enabled, opoortu nity occurring, to pass throu'u the kitchen, and possibly thence to escape by scaling tlie stock a)e. 1 hey would not tell who had ma le the key for them, and were consequently doomed to eon flnement here until they w mid confess. In such crises it is the rule, when the victim of the eel] is once more able to walk and work—he luiving succumbed t<> the fearful pressure lai'.h mind and laxly, aud ls-en let out in time to save him from actual death in the cell—pi trammel him with a heavy ball ami chain, weighing twenty or tweiitv-tlve pounds, which is tlienceforlh his con stunt companion by both day and night, sometimes for amny mouths. Not unfreqnently this added infliction drives prisoners to the most ing> nious devices for freeing thems*lve from the gulling burdeu ami Pi attempting the most desperate measures for escape. H-avy rivets fasten the strong bands of iron about their ankles, but these tliey are cunning enough to saw out aud re place by others of lead, which may tie quickly cut through at an opportune mo meut, ami sometimes they even suw the anklets so deeply that they may easily be broken, the ent being Ailed up with bread crumbs covered with rust. Not a little ingenuity is occasionally displayed by the oonvicts in making for themselves, from their blankets, coarse suite of clothing resembling those of the Cana dian woodeboppors in the neighlxirhood. All such suspicious manifestations of skill are, however, punished severely. Every intelligent officer in the prison coincides in the opinion that the dark cell is, of all punishments, the most in human ami permanently injurious, while it is at the same time the one least con ducive to moral reformation. They say that it ruins the physical and blights the mental condition of those subjected to it. A term in the dark cell, long or short, according to the individual strength of the victim, inevitably re duce* him to such a weak and abject condition that from sh er lack of strength or will to oombut he finally HUCCUOIIM, but his submission has behind it nothing of moral conviction. It has come upon him like a disease, and when he regains bis normal vigor, if he ever does, lie will be at least asliad as ho ever was lie fore. When a man is oonfined in the dark cell he is allowed but a gill of water and two ounces of bread per diem, noth- THE CENTRE REPORTER. nig cl*e. Tin* 1* not iu itself quite so severe a punishment as it would seetu. For the first two days he will suffer with hunger and thirst. Then his bowels i-eane to act. He tsvomo* almost torpid, phywioally, and is iu a great degree un conscious of the prtHViS of stiiivatlon which i* going on. He may endure agony from thirst, for mental condition* may supervene to bring ou an intense fever, but he is no longer hungry. The damp, penetrating cold of hi* stone eofliii chill* the very marrow iu hi* tames. Hi* whole frame aches from con tact witli the unyielding stones, for he has no other bed or seat than the rtoor. Hut lungs are lvoisotied and hi* stomach sickened by tlie fonl air. Worst of all , to endure are tlie deathly silence and op pressive .lark lie**. To liirn it seeius as if he were aloue iu a world immersed iu eternal night, ami often superstition or a too vivid imagination jieoplea thickly with pluuiUmi terror* the iiujetiotrahle gl.-otn. Again and again prisoners iu these hideous dungeons, upon beiug al lowed once more to come forth, have l-eell seen to fall ou their kueee, wee|>- itig with joy at sight of the light. The ordinary prison arrangement* here are all good enough. There are five hundred and forty eight cells of fair *iae, big enough to hold two men in each if necessary. There i* a chapel capable of accommodating six hundred persons, where once a month a priest conduct* lloman Catholic aervi.-es, and tsriiw a mouth a Protestant chaplain, wht>e name 1 have mislaid, holds forth. Tlie convict* have a fair choir of their own. The kitchen is geK-J and tlie prisoners are well fed. The prison i* estimateil a* giving, directly ami indirectly, employ ment ami maintcnamv- to not lea* than one tlu-usaud J-A-KOII* outside the walls, and it is very doubtful if oue tenth of them live half so well Ly their honest labor as the convicts do inside. One fact indicative of tlie good fare and healthful surroundings of the convicts here is that the average uuml-er in hos pital is ouly ten out of a population of from 238 to 6A<\ and of those ten, a large proportion are merely temporarily disable*! by accidents in the mines or mill. Humming up tlie results of our ob servations of this prison, it appears that the convict who honestly emh-avors to conform to the requirements of a very ienient discipline ami is not too far cursed witli lnherieut laziness to do mau ly work, may lire hen- at h-ast a* well a* at either Sing Sing or Auburn, and is likely to derive much greater 1-onefit than at either of those plan-* in perma nent physical ami moral improvement, so far a* that may lie affect* l by his avocation*, lly i\>uq*iriaou with tile All-any js-mti-ntiary this is a continual Christina* for the prisoner. The one grand defect remain*, however, that it* system afford* almost unlimited fucih ties for the criminal education of the young by older ami liardcned convict*, who choose to avail themselves of the opportunities afforded to spread tln-ir own utter demoralization among those *urrouudiug them. This evil seems in separable from the unclassified congT-- gate system, except where the merciless rigor of the Albany penitentiary disci pline is in vogue, ami aflords the most powerful argument in favor of the intro duction here of the Croftou *ystem. Should an experiment in thi* direction lw deemisl advisable, it i* easy to see in what way onr three great State prisons might readily la- made available, with little other cliange than in their respec tive organization* of discipline, ami un til tin*, or something uearly akin to it, i* done, it i* useli s* to talk of or hope for the reformation of our i-ongregate prisons from their present character, that of mere colleges of crime, or to dream of any beneficial effect, through their agency alone, in the reduction of our average of criminality.—-Vetr York Sun. Tlie New I'IIKH h (•tin. An English comwpondcnt says: The uiwe of tho jx>r " Woolwich Infant," which, from its wv iff lit of thirty five tons, wa- thought to be u flne child, lias Ixx-n utU-rly out out of joiut l>y that " uew arrival, " the eighty oiu*-t<>n gun. I bis in by far the buye-t in the world, ami has just l*x-u proved a gr-at enc coss. The shot, or rather the flat-beaded projectile which has now taken tlm place of the cannon ball, weighs 1258 ]w>unds, plus the gas clnvk, which weighs fifteen pounds, and is elevated to the mouth of the guu l>y a hydraulic apparatus, aud it takes twelve men to ram it home. It ••an throw a shot sit mib-s, if desired, but 4,000 yards i taken as the furthest range at which it will tie serviceable, ami at that ilistance it may be justly re marked that " where it hits it makes a hole." The gun is twenty-seven feet long, twenty-four fe< t inside, six feet thick at the breech, fourteen and a half inches at the bore, and weighs, with its carriage, lit) tons. The charges of pow der varied during the experiments from 170 pounds to 230 pounds. But the most effective was found to lie the 220- pounda charge. The object was to dia .•over the amount of force possessed by the projectile; so the butts, comjiosed of sand sixty feet thick, with seventy live feet of earth to back it, were only 200 feet away. The shots penetrated from forty to forty-seven feet iu the sand. Burning pebbles of powder (for, as yon may sup pose, it is of ooarsish gram) were pro pelled over the butts, aud " a large and perfect smoke ring ascended from the muzzle and shot up vertically in the uir, retaining its form and continuing its rapid flight for nliout a minute, and •muring a sustained noise, similar to that of a shell. In the course of the pro ceedings, while attempting to withdraw the crusher gauge from the powder chaudier, the extracting rod came apart in the gun. To get it out a volunteer crept in at the muzzle, and after a fifth trial, and having la-en half blinded and half suffocated by the gases remaining iu the bore, lie succeeded. This was very lib-rally seeking the bubble reputa tion in the cannon's mouth. The ex periments are considered to have de cisively settled tin- question of armor versus guns in favor of the latter. Such a shot would go through anything tliat floats—twenty iuche* of iron with lan-k --ing, for instance—at tho comparatively short distauco of a mile, as though it were cardboard. A Phenomenon. The Lynchburg Republican says; We recently saw on the farm of C. B. Claiborn, Esq., in Amherst county, a large wallint tree, with wide spreading branches, and of luxuriant growth,a Inch presents a phenomenal! in the ncieuoe of dendrology hitherto unknown to us. Alont a quarter of a century ago, as tra dition has it, a hole was cut through the trunk of this tree, in which a beam was inserted to l>e used in prising tobacco. The beam was subsequently removed, uud in the lapse of time the hole closed np, and now barely a trace of it remains. The heart of the tree was, however, de stroyed, ami the trunk l>eeatne hollow from the ground to where the bratichvH began to spread out. The tree bears an nually a large crop of walnuts, of good size and fine appearance, but no kernel has ever been found in any of tbem since the trunk of the giant tree became hol low—a phenomenon that demonstrates the fact that heartless trees, like heart less men, cannot bring forth good fruit. CENTRE HALE, CENTRE PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1875. Spontaneous Uomhustion The origin of many tiros is ju*tly at tributed to s|viiitaneoiis combustion by those who have twrefully iuviwtigated the general subject. Many m*t*iu-.-* have recently Ixen made public which indicate plainly in what way many "mysterious" conflagration* may have originated. Not long ago a fire occur red at Marshall, Michigan, in a store where drugs, medicines, paints, oil, etc., were kept IU large quantities. It chanced that It was extinguished, ao that tliveitl gallon into the cause of it was possible. And it wa* evident that it originated in a box of ahaviugs that had been satu rated with hftaced oil, turpentine, and the leakage of )>srr.-ls. Tlie character of the COUlhllKtlon was such that there m-ellled no reanotl to doubt the elCltllig cause Rag* U*sl to oil niachlUerV ale a fruitful cause of fires ; when le/t iu a heap, the Ulterior will often become charred, and |>erha|a, after a while, will liegiu to smoke, and a alight current of air will fan it into a blaze. I; i* well known that firs will often originate )U large quantities of bituuiitiou* t**d if it l* wet. Many kinds of dress good* are now charged with different nubntaiuvn to increase their weight, and some of these Hutxilauce* are exctiotliugiv in fiamuialtle, and make the good* liable to spontaneous combustion. A few years ago a large fire occurred in a warehouse iu New York city. At first the tire seemed very mysterious, ami the geueral impression was that it must be the work of an iucendiary. lint a careful investi gation proved it to be a case of spontane ous combustion, originating in a case of silk twist tightly {sacked, with two lay ers of thick |enwl to 1-e present with hi* friends on one occasion ud during Nfr. Corwin's sddresn, when he was in the mi-l-lle of the sentence, called out: "I say, Corwin, what do you think of your partv, tako it as a whole?" " T-m " rnaile n-i nq-iy— when the man rejwated it. Mr. (,V>rwiu stopped in hi* sjxwch, and we sliall never forget the at-noiuuir** of that conntecance—people laughed la-fore h< lia-1 said a word—then drawing himself up to his full stature, he roared out: " l>nl any one hear an as* bray !" and then n-laxing hi- Nti'rnui-m with a sort of a jerk, he drew hi* month ami let go that smile of his, and such a r--ur of laugLti r that followed frem hi* audi tors we have never since hoard—but it did not stop In-re, at least every ten minute* throughout the next two lioiir* he would ask the sum-- question " Did any one hear an a** bray f" [Hiinting a moral each time with the expn s- iou or drawing a com(Mirison in som- wny. The Laugh ami the atti-ntiuii of nil tun cd uj—-ii the questioner, ami before lie wa* through Willi hi* a-hire** we saw the fellow and hi* friend* quietly aie-.tk away, ami-1 the jeer* of the js-ople. Deaf, Dumb and nftnd. Among the youngest of the inmates at the institution of the deaf and dnmb in New York city, says the Krprmt, ia a lsy, a congenial deaf mute, who waa last vear sorely afflicted with a mall pox, which left him totally blind. Under the advantages of previous instruction in the sign language the jwtieut in*truaton now teach him t>oth to read and write, and all, a* in the ease of the great won der of the world, 1 antra Kndgmau, whose hiatory will be remembered, by the magnetism of touch. Knowledge is imparted by feeling, and feeling by hold ing the taiy'ri hand, aud spelling letter by letter whatever information through the palm* of the hand. What is thus received by feeling is written upon the black Ixiard, in not very straight line* it is true, bnt with correctness and constant improvement, ami intense gratification. Wonderful, indeed, *re the ways of Providence -first, in this triple di*i>cu nation of added blindness to the loss of speech uud hearing, and now, as it were, in at b ant the niorul if not material reetoration of sight to the blind. More than forty years ago we were deeply im pressed with the life, animation and hope exhibited by the blind, deaf and dumb Ijnnrn Bndgman, who grew to woman's e-statc, with all her afflictions, contented and happy. The sight at the time waa a very touching one, and never forgotten by na. The case at Fan wood ia equally impressive, and all of may Ik> thankful that the State not only pro vide* a home, but iustrnction, for such sufferers. Vicissitude* of Mining. There in nothing more difficult in thin world of difficulty thau to persevere against adverse fortune. We suppose that the gold mini's have a thousand stories of the lottery of the lode—bote is one which we find ill the corrosiiondonoo of the Kan ma City Nurtt: About two yenrn ago two young men had between them nhout S4OO, " the savings of a long sjiell of work." They were offered a half interest in a gold mine at Central City, Col., if they would sink it thirty feet deejier. U|>on each aide are the "Veto" and other paying lodea, hut those Ipul goial mads to the mills, and furnaces of wealthy oom|>anies. More over, the mine M difficult of acooss; it was necessary to carry the ore in gunny socks for a considerable distance ; then to pack it upon ronlea ; and thus, bv the time it reached the mills, the gold* in it would not pay espcoseit The young workers when they hud spent nil their ready money became discouraged and abandoned the oontraot. This year two new speculators came, atid undertisik to go on with the work u|Km the same tcrma. They had not sunk more than two feet in this abandoned claim when they struck ore worth $2,000 j>er ton. The feelings of their unfortunate prede cessors can lie imagined. Purchaser and Non-Adiertlser. A man who was too mean to advertise land he wanted to sell put a written notice in one of the hotels the other day. A man who was inquiring for a snudl farm was referred to the written notice, when he replied : " I can't buy land at a fair price of any man who dooa his ad vertising in that way. He'd steal the fence, the pump handle, and the barn doors, licfore ho gave up possession." IX THE EAR WK*T. Hlrh Xrw Tsrfcsr* Nslltaa ifcrlr t bllarss ■ S Is Mle-.-ltus" Ksria*. A member of a New York iiu|ortiiig firm rew>ntly said : Each of my young •-at sons is the owner of a square mile of laud iu Victoria colony, rllli* county, Kaiiaus. The Victoria river lliiws m-ar uiy *ou' farms, and in or eases tlieir natural fertility. The virgin anil, UJHIU which buffaloes have hi rdeil for many year*, i* in the moat pruduriive quarter of the colony, sixteen fi-et thick, and m tin- least fertile, three feet, and black aa ink. Owing to its boa* mean, due to its richness, the earth has to lie tilled with plows drawn by uiules. Fertiliser* will ii.-t In- uiH-eiwary tin-re for fifty year*. My Isiys raise "WHI" ooru, "alfslta," ivair*e graa* for the stock, and mtUet, principally. la-t year gra*diop|erw devoured their cropa, but tht* year my Isiyn have neouri-d far more corn, alfalfa, and millet than I-Teu the old settlers, the ooru harvest amounting to thirty bushel* per acre, and the alfalfa I sung uiowial three times. My sous have twelve hundred sherp, recently pur cha.-w-d at a slock sale in Puebla. Groat corral* iuclotw these aheep, and a herder, aided by two Scotch sheep -logs tlist 1 im|-<>rt< obtain a fine class of horses through Flodeu. My boys' neurht>ora, for the must i*rt, are the younger sons of English uoliti'Uieu. Reiug unable to put llii-tr sous into the army, the navy or the church, these noblemen have os Üblislied them in Kansas, at an exjx-nse of about $13,000 per man, choosing to si-e them growing old as tillers of th mnl ratcer tlian as fixturas in lauiks or insurance ho lid-e, or tradesmen's shops. Mr. Grant sella land to dtwrviug young men for eight or t u dollars an acre, j-erinittmg them to j-sy for it when they can, charging tliem interest at the rate of six percent, jwr annum. My boys an- unmarried, and have ouly two arr vi nls, a man ami his wife. The man attends to the bones and doe* the heavy work abont the bonne, and LL* wife ta cwok, chamlH-rmai-1 au-1 damo of tLe poultry yar-1 They work in the field when they have reason t*. and when thov lisve not they -lon tlie pink, mount their horses collect tln-ir -log*, ami joui th- ir neighbor* in a Jock-rabbit hunt. St. Louia lx-ing only a day's nde from tliem, my buys have a large ami aivx-asi bit- market for all their wan a. In ten years they will ls> independent. My outlay iu establishing tliem was only SltvX-0 ; uud, 1 assure you, that I deem it \vi 11 sjH-nt money. If my lnvv* hml *tanl here they would liare Iww n ui some bank or iu*urancr offliv, fixed fur life, with some 81,200, 81.300 or $2,(110, un able to stipp-irt a familv, and exjH*i d to tlie ilsnger of forming ivel nsbita. 1 bey are liappy ami Would n-t return to New York. % Young men without mean* bad not go to Kansas. If tlvir fathers, I undo* <>r brother* con give thorn money j enough to buy a farm and stock it, thru l~t them have for Kansas at uUOe. ; Three or four young men t-ak.ll every day j to ask my a.1% nv al-.ut going to Kansas, and I tell them jilat what I have told , vou. Each f the meinlter* of a New York dry good# firm luo> purc-liased a square luile of hutd near tuy boy*' for hia 1 run. The .-Ideal of the hell a expectant • it aged thirteen, and tiiey will take port- | seasiuu of their pMlwtt iu a few year*, j It la already stock) a with sheep. Vic-, totia colony ia alwut to have an Epiaoo j pal church, and leing only eight or ten miles from Fort Haya, ia not anbjaet to ' the attack* of Indiana An Odd State of Affair*. The trial of John Camber, in Omaha, j for murdering James Thompson. makes j public an odd state of a family'* affair*. Thompson hoarded with Oatnberg, and 1 not only loved Mra. CamUrg, hut for- ! hade her to abow auy affection for her I husband. She declare* that she waa in duced to obey by fear, Thompson liav ing previously killed two men, and lie nig apparently willing to kill more. One day Thompson, upon aeeitig her kiaa her huaband, stabbed liiiu in the face. Af tor that ahe wan more ciroumapeet, Tliompaou continuing to board with the family. Later Thompson commanded her to elope with him, and ahe waa obe dient, although ahe awi-ar* that ahe went without wanting to. Cauiherg aearehed them <>nt, and at Length, one evening, Htivxl at the window of a prairie farm house, looking in at them. The night maddened hi in, and lie killed Thomjaxm with a rifle shot. lie waa acquitted, and hi* wife, relieved of her unpleasant lover, will return to her home. Very Funny. The following story ia told a* a re markable instance of the appreciation of humor. A (lermaii soldier waa or dered fifty lashes for aotuc alleged act of inaubordination. Fritz, disciplined to silence, wn* fixed to triangl 4 * in the proscnoe of hia company. Whan tlie Hrat laalica fell upon hi* nuked ahotUdera the worthy follow, instead of diaplayiug I evidence* ol distress, burnt out into a tit of uncontrollable laughter. The exe cutioner, regarding this manifestation aa by no meiuia complimentary to hi* akill, j laid on with redoubled ardor. Bat the more he laid on the more Fritz laughed. When cut dowu lie atill found great dlf Acuity in restraining bin nurth, and in- I diilged in loud intermittent guffaw*. The officer in command of the company, with a curiosity natiirnlly excited, ap prooohed the bleeding wretch and in quired the canoe of the mirth. "Why," replied Fritz, breaking into a freah fit of laughter, "I'm the wrong man !" The Reason, lYrhap*. A lad al>ont eight year* old, whose parent* live on Oaaa avenue, 1> trait, waa standing at the gate crying and howl ing in a voice loud enough to bo beard urouud the block. " Oh, don't take on *o," aaid a mnn who waa passing. The IMIJT paid no heed to him, tunl the man continued : " I didn't bawl that way when 1 wo* a b<>y." , " Well, you didn't expect yonr mother to give yon a piece of pie iin noon a* alio opened the door—o-o-h I nobbed the lxiy. Inrompeteiice, " Did you ever break n yoke of fonr yenr-ohl steers ?" naked n farmer d deal of other experience in the world." "No other exp ticnoe," aaid the granger, "could qualify you, young man, for trying to handle that girl," and the Rad youth departed. That must have been a funuy a* well a* bibuloua old man who said "be oould not drink water because it <af of bread. " (Mi, dear, Mr. Truflloa," the child aaid, with brim mmg eyea, aa ahe took the liaif of bread; " mamma ia getting lietter, and she nays she owes so much to She bleaae* yim, indeed ahe doss. " That's one of the things I've been doing," ho aaid, after the uhild had gone. " You are giving the suffering family bread," 1 queried. " Yea." " Have you any mora csaea like that!' " Yea, three or four of them. I give theui a loaf a day, enough to feed them." " And you take no pay f" " Not from tliem." "Ah ! from the town f" " N'o; here," aaid Truffle*, laying hi* hand on hi* breast. "I'll tell yon," he added, smiling. " One day, over a year ago, a poor woman came to me and asked for a loaf of bread, for which ahe could not pay—ahe wanted it for her poor, auf fenng children. At first 1 hesitated, but finally 1 gave it to her. ami aa her blessings rang in my ears after ahe had gone, I felt my heart grow warm. Times were hard, and there wan a gwod ileal of suffering, an.l I found mysrlf wiahuig, by-and bye, that I could afford to give away more bread. At length an idea struck me. I'd stop drinking and give that amount away in bread, adding one ar two loaves on mv own account. I did it, and it's been a blessing to me. My heart lias grown bigger, and I've grown Lietter tu every way. My sleep ui sound and sweet, and my dreams are I pleasant. And that's what you see, 1 suppose." A le*on for <>lris. China is making a contribution to fe male literature. A volume has reo-titly lieen published there called " A Book for Oirla" It is written in veras and ountaius advioe and suggestions to women from the time they art- l>orn until their become grandmothers. Every line is characteristic of the jxsutiou occupied by women in China. Nothing is said about intellectual development, and the duty of complete submission to the wills of their masculine relati v.w of every grsde is constantly impressed upon them. The book opens with suggestion# oonoerniug early ruung, suitable morning toilettes, and proper female occupations. Then follow warnings against idleness and f<>olish csmvemstion. " A maiden muM learn to guard her tuugue," For each year of her life there is a jarticular le# s>u. "At mveu year# learn to imitate thoee who are grown np. At eight and nine, love your older and younger brothers aid HISWH, divide your food with theui, and do not lie angry or ja! ous if your share is lee# than theirs. At toil be industrious, learn from your mother, and do not leave the house with out jwrmissiou. At elev.n year# you are grown—attend to making the tea, oook- , ing the rice, aud fill np your leisure tune with knitting." Then folk>w direr turns regarding th>< gnat aim of ext-t ejior tuart ingc. To th" obedience ex ercised t-war.l parent# aud relatives shall IM) added submission to s hnstuwd. After this come practical sud economical rules atiout cooking and clesfilinras Humility is enjoined. " The huabaud is to the wife as hiaveil is to the earth. Your feet are Itotind so that you shall not leave the house and wander foolishly about in search of vain amusement. Then come suggestions toyoang mothers, rules for walking, resting, sitting ami sleeping. " When thy daughters are grown, see thai they marry well, aud are obedient to their husband* and submis sive to bis relatives." With surh views in regard to the education of women, a glimpse of the position* they occupy in other ciniutriea might well a*t msh the inhabitants of the Celestial empire. To Oblige a Friend. Mr. Keyaer dropped in at Statesbury's store the other day, and after some pre liminary conversation he said: " Jim, are yon fond of apples!" "Well, yes, if they are good," re sponded StaUwbury. " Well, Jim, how are you on climbing a fenota, a fence about eight fret high 1 How are yoll on climbing it all of a sud den I" " I dtumo. I might get over oue if I was excites! about something." "Yea. And, Jim. you ain't much Afraid of dogs, are you ? You don't skeer much when you see a dog kinder coming at yon, aavage like t How would it strike yuu now if such a dog as that was to grab you by the l<n a eon pi • of tradesmen in the Trougatc of Glasgow. A respectable apothecary mused Fife had a placard in ni* wiudow, printed in large letters: " Ears pierced by A. Fife," meaning the operation to which yonng ladies submit for the sake of wearing earrings. Fife's uext door neighbor was a spirit dealer, mimed Drum, und these two shopkeepers were, for sonic cause or otbeT, on bad terms. Tom and his friemls struck on an expe dient for reconciling tlcm. They pro curred a long deal board,and piiinti d on it, in flaming capitals, this iucription from "Othello": " The spirit-stirring Drum—the ear-piercing Fife." This they Dailed one night over the eontigu ous doors, to the great annoyance to Drum ami Fife, ami the greut amuse ment of every one else jo Glasgow. TVrmN : J?iQ.OO a Year, in Advance. The Prehistoric ( DUtxaUc* of America. The mysterii >ua solitudes of tlie great West, those trackless wastes of dn by man we are compelled tu tssse our specu lations ou such jMMitive evidenoaa aa are furnished bv the work of human hands. Time and the operation of natural causes efface all tracea of human existence ex cept those which oau roaiat decay or withstand the ar-tiou of the ejrmecta. Even such indestructible objecta may be buried beueatb tlie shifting desert sands, as in Egypt and Syria, or overwhelmed by volcanic eruptions, as at Pompeii and Herculaueum, or lost in tht denths of dense forests which have grown from the seedlings scattered by tha winds among the ruins uf prehistoric cities, aa in New Mexico and linuul. The evi dences living preaeut that a civilization once existed m the midst of this conti nent, the skill of the arrhmolofiat can alone determine its antiquity by com paruion and inference. A condition of aivUisaiiou may be reasonably inferred when we find order, symmetry and orna ment combined in the structure and arrangement of ansient remains. The first two rbararteristia* indicate design and intelligence governed bv customs which have grown into laws for general guidance, while ornamentation indicates taste, a certain degree of luxury and popular education, which created general appreciation of the beautiful in form and color. To these may be added the significance traceable in all works that have emanated from peoples who lived in communities and adopted material forms in the expression of their religious sentiments. All these conditions of evi - deuce are found in the remains on which we liaae our theory of the existence of a i prehistoric civilization in America. In • >rder to form an estimate of the antiquity of this civilization we are again, in the I abaeure of historical record, forced to ' ajiecnlate on its soaroe, duration aud j relative progresa with regard to that of | known peoples. The degree of civiliza tion attorned by the early inhatiitants of Egypt and India can be readily under- j stood as shared by peoples maintaining an intimate intercourse with them, and as likely to differ, or rather to follow another course, when the means of in tercommunication ceased. If archi tectural remains furnish any clew to do* period we may call attention to a similarity IwtgMtt tin war best works of j Egypt and those of the prehistoric peo- i ph-s of America. The same crude mas siveneas of construction is common to , both, evidencing the dawning knowl edge of the principles of the mechanical : sciences among peoples [Hiseeexxl of ex traordinary powers of |*roeptk>n. If i we succeed in establishing the early con nection between the inhabitants of Europe and America, and trace their origin to a common source, the task of tracing the progress of the prehistoric j civilization of the latter race loss# much of its difficulty. We can compare its fate with that of one of a hightw order of development in Europe, and attribute its ultimate dast ruction to similar causes. • The Devil Fish. In Conception lay, near Portugal ' cove, two flshennen, while out iu a small . boat, were attracted by some object moving in the water near them. Their j first impression seems to have been that it was a large sail or the dfbrin of a • wreck. The men rowed toward it, and, j when near enough, one of them struck it with his gaff. Immediately it showed signs of hie, and reared a parrot-like U-ak, with which it struck the Ind-tom of the UxU violently. It then shot out from about its head two huge, livid ; arms, and began to twine them about . the boat. One of the men then seized j an ax, and striking the arms aa tliey lav ! across the gunwale of the boat, severed tiiem from the body. The creature then moved off, surrounded by an inky cloud, which was caused by the ejection of a black fluid. It is one of those srma that now is preserved in aloohol, and which has been described by Mr. Harvey as follows; It measured nineteen feet, is at a pale pink color, and entirely cartilaginous, tough and pliant as leather, and Terr strong. It is bat three inches and a half in circumference, except toward the ex tremity, where it broadens like aa oar to six inches in circumference, and then Ujiers to a pretty fine point Tbs under surface of the extremity is oovered with suckera to the very point. Fired there is a cluster of >mall suckera, with fine, sharp Wth round their edge*, and with a membrane stretched across each. Of three there are about seventy. Then come two row# of very large suckers, the movable disk of each an inch and a quarter in diameter, the cartilaginous ring not lying denticulated. Three are twenty-four in number. After three there "is another group of suokers with denticulated edges, similar to the first, about fifty iu numlier. Along the under surface about fifty more small sucker# are distinguished at intervals, making in all about one hundred and eighty suck ' ers. The men estimate that they left at least teu fret of the arm attached to the body of the fish, so that its original length mnt have been thirty-five feet. In describing the breathing organs, as well a* those designed for ejecting the 1 inky fluid, the writer states thst con netiod wit h the body is a funnel, through which tliH water is ejected nft-r the ex trication of its oxygen by the breathing organs. This funnel runs the entire length of the body. It serve# another purpose; when the water is forcibly ' ejected by the reaction of the surround ' jug medium, the fish mores backward ' with grret swiftness, while the forward ' motion ia accomplished by the move - incut* of ita tail. There ia a second fuunel. through which the inky fluid wliich it secretes is ejected when the creature wishes to escape from its pur suers. The French Vintage. It is needless to say, says a Palis cor respondent, tliat the wine crop is the most important of all in France, its valne largely exceeding that of all kinds of grain. In ordinary years it is estimated at considerably over two milliards of fnmcs. For twenty years its exportation alone lias had a mean value of two hun dred and fifty millions of franca, and in 1872 France sold three hundred millions' worth of her wines. In addition to this there is sixty millions' worth of brandy. The vintage contributes three hundred anil fifty odd millions to the budget of the Htnte, besides paying large sums in octroi tnxes to the towns in which it is consumed. From these estimates one can readily oompreheud the genaral in terest taken in the annual vintage, for a superior wine crop means national pros pew ty. When the vintage is poor, the whole country is pinched ; when it is good tlio entire nation feels at ease. NO. 45. .NOT ON THK HIM,*. Piirklii a Hal aad lia flvtsSvO Oweer A Jell* (HO Ueotlvmao'a JotlUr Tarwod la Atflrr, Who that haa ovor witnessed Hrr matin's trick* will fail to imagine tin* effect of tho following some on a Han Francisco aud ion or: A| a theater in Han Francisco waa en acted aa inn)>inthg comedy which waa ! not down on tho programme, bat which l enlivened tlie aialtenoo ha moat won dt rful maaiw-r. Herrmann, thu magician, 1 apfieara, and performs Ida dexterous | Uicka for tho edification of the audience. One of hi* moat aniuaiiig ventures ia the demolition of a "ping ' hat, borrowed from aume good nalurad spectator, and ita subsequent wonderful restoration to lU owner. There mm a jolly-looking old man waled near the ataga with a •ww mlk hat, which he very readily loaned to the professor. When llerr explored the inside of the hat and brought forth an egg, the jolly old fellow laughed quite heartily, ana when the facetious magician again explored the prolific interior of the hat sod brought forth in aome mysterious manner two rabbits, the jolly old fellow grew quite hysterical, and lua face became of a livid hue. Herrmann handed the hat to his female assistant, with inatruotioaa to Imiah it for the gentleman. Tha *Mirt ant retired with tha burro wedhsi, and eichanged it for an old one, with which the trick waa to be concluded. In the meanwhile Hermann waa engaged in performing some other impossible feat, j slier which ha ospiad the hat on the lit tle table. He directed his male assistant to return tha bat to tha jolly old gentle man. The assistant, on hia war to the gentleman's scat, stumbled, and, to the dismay of the profeaaor, audience, and jwrtieularlT the jolly old gentleman, who waa perfectly aghast, fall ou tha hat and crushed it into a shapeless blank lamp. The unfortunate assistant sheepishly returned the disordered tile to bis mas ter and retired in a moat disconsolate manner. The profeaaor apologised very humbly for the accideot to the owner, j whose * jollity had seriously departed, j and who looked quite aavage, and Spun iar 1 to do all in nia power to restore e hat To cheer the spectator* he exe cuted a trifling diversion with a hand- < kerchief He rolled it into a small ball and pretended to throw it to Uw> owner in the gallery, but it mysteriously din appeared. The t*gici*n assumed a look of surprise, and approaching the owner of the luckless bat, who bad not abated hia ferocity a jot, said: " Too have thatj handkerchief, sir." The man surlily de nied the charge, whereupon the profea aor applied hia capacious hand to the man's uoae and slowly unfolded to view the hand kerchief. The spectators roared, but the man, whose forbearance had been sufficiently tried, he thought, raised i hia cane and dealt the astonished Herr mann four or five heavy blows about the shoulders. The theater resounded with orb* of " Put him out." "Bounce him," and " Hiff him once for luck. Perfuse," aud there was mooh excitement for a time. Herrmann took the matter very coolly, however, and regaining the stage took the battered tile and saying: '* 111 give yon vour hat, sir," began tearing it into stripe. He rolled the pieces into a package, and arpruaching the man, re- > marked: "Heres Tour hat, sir; eery much obliged, sir. The man mdig nantly refused the bundle, and H< rr . rn.au IJ transferred it to tbn bands of an assistant, whom he directed to hold it above his head. He then discharged a pistol at it and a hat waa perceived flying across the upper part of the the* ter. The bundle turned out to contain an apoplectic doll, and another shot dis ouarged toward the flies brought down the gentleman's hat unhurt and shining. The professor paused a moment before he returned the hat, and in a load voids said: "If you stay bare for two minutes after I give'vou your hat, I'll put you out, r." the man received his hat, but nettled back in hi* seat with the evi dent design of remaining. The profes sor leaned over and clutched the portly man by the coat, and there was an ani tuated'struggle, which was enlivened by encouraging remarks from the " gods iu the gallery, such as "fckck it to the old duffer, Herrmann," " Give him one for me," etc- A police . ihoer oaiwtel with the theater interfered. an complete, and during all this time no public worship or festival in Poorer is allowable. It is, however, not surprising that the temple is a little out jof repair, for it was built by Rajah Auangabliima Deva, of Orisaa, in the middle of the twelfth century, and during the last seven hundred years not a trowel has been laid upon it for the purpose of repair. The dome is composed of im mense blocks ol stone, not kept together I by omen! or mortar of any kind, but made fast bv an elaborate process of dovetailing, the slabs being arranged in horixontal layors narrowing toward the end, eovend by a bilge headpieoe carved and ornamented. Too SfTfre Mudj. It haa been pretty aooorately aacer tuined that girls are uotaa a role a© able, constitutionally, to bear study as bovs are, and that the efforts of severe study will in most instances be detrimental. This has been found to be the case in America more than in Eaglaud. Not long ago there was brought Is"fore the commissioners of insanity in San Fran cisco a\oung girl whose mind was dis eased to an extent that rendered her committal to the asylum inevitable. The reason assigned was the evil above alluded to. The girl had been devoted to her studies. She had endured the "cramming" process until her mind gave way, and although, according to the Hohool reports, "highly distinguished in her olaaaea," she is bo-day a helpless lunatic from the effects of this unnatural and wretched method of subjecting youthful minds to a torture which must inevitably result in severe mental im pairment. It is every year lieooming more evident that, if the old order (}f things is to be revolutionized, it will not answer to do so without taking greet pains to And oat what are the nature and limits of the education which the mind of an average girl will bear without in jury to mental and bodily health. MOM IM ron. The enlehratad song of Moody end flaukey, "Hold the Fort," which be- OHW W> popular with the OMMMNI on tho other ddf is given Wo*. It to tho notae Oftig which attained onch renown in imhlia that when on actor nu tho introduced o sneer at Mood,? tho galleries burst into tho chorus aud tho ■rowda below took it up and nog tho whole hymn before tho actor waa al lowed to proceed. Tho following wo tho worda m fall : Ho, ■ if ecowsdss! aao tha signal Waving to tho My I fhSnfavoomanta oow appanrlng. ▼Maty Is Hgfc I •Bold tha fort, for I aa ooatag." JMW Ugnsis sOll. Wavs tha anawor haah to baa van, "By Thy grass** tIL" ■aa tt. wlghty boat ■draootoy, ■as** Mating on | Highly mm aronad oaf sttng. Oooraqa s)wnw goo* 1 Hold tha (art. Me. Ho# tha glorious banner waring! Haor tha tramps! Mow! la aor loafer'* nana wall triaaaph Ovw arary foo t Raid tha fart, ate. Flaraa and long tha battta rsgat, Bat aw halfi ta naar ; * (inward outam oar gnat CVaamandw, Ommw t way ooauttliflt bMf! * Hold thm fatt, *O. Items of Interest. A newspaper man is Like a partridge, never shot at till he rises. A man who given n dinner may bo en tertaining and yet be very stupid. The tuogne at tha wise uaeth knowl edge aright, and ia aa choice an silver. Four wild pigeons and seventy-five men with guns passed north, Hatnrday afternoon. A Frenchman has refused 2,000,000 franca bequeathed to him by his brother, because hia brother bad led a wicked Ufa. The Intrr-fJeran intimates that bane ball haa foaad its level, now that tho ouovicfci of Auburn bsvo formed a hall dab. There was a wadding in Johnstown, HL, the other day, and an hour after warda the. bride eloped with an old lover. The eyoa of all the Levy* ia the world are turned to Paris, where the well known publisher left 17,000,000 francs, bat DO wilL A Brusbear editor offers a reward at 5 for the beat treatise ou " How to u*k Out-dour Life Attraetivw for the Mosquito." A popular writer, apeak mg at the ocean tekr*ph. wonders whether tho news transmitted through the salt water will bo fresh. reports that a distinguished engineer believe* that the tunnel between France and England can bo oompleted for f50,000,000 Ono of the darkest momenta in a boy's life ia when he auddeuly redacts that he has just swallowed a does of oaetoc oQ ui> conditionally. Willie waa disputing with hia sister. " It is true," be said, firmly ; " for mother said so, and if she asy* so it is so, if it ain't so." A retired oobool master scteuaes hia paamon for aagiiqg by saying that, from oouatant habit, he never leek quite him self utiles* he's handling tho rod. Bee hunter* in Michigan have been unusually sucoosafnl this year, aud the supply of wild honey in the market ia greater than for many years. Emerson, in a late poem, apeak* at '• brave men who work while others deep." alluding, probably, to the attach ea of daily taonflhg journal*. Tha making of suet batter baa no boon run into the ground, but has ran into lard o strongly that public taste has gone back to the old faahiooed eh am. The Pittsburgh, (Ps.) Commerda think* a rotming hare is s good case of rabbit transit. Very likely. We have known many an heir to be fast and hair that wasn't.* A new iioUl elevator has beea iuvent ed by a Boston man, which olmatea UM necretritv of stoanj and insures aboolnte safety. "ft in ran by being wound op , like • clock. A lot of land ui London wan recently let at a rate which would make iU wil ing waive £775. f*W, or *3,375,000 an •ere. This would be almost exactly 989 a square loot. A men newer know* what it is to feel alone in the world until he has grabbed a nickel in a show-cere window, and dis covered that it ia fastened to the lower surface of the glare. Wetberafield, Conn., sometimes called Onion town, derived its uickaame from the fact that a church ball hung in 1775 waa paid for bv contributions of oniooa from the parishioner*. . "Six feet in hi* bools!" exclaimed Mr*. Partington, "what will the im pudence of this world Come to, I woodr. vVliv they might as wU tell me the man had six heads in his bat" A man in Keokuk was kicked by a mole, the other day, and badly injured. When some of thane who want to bis assistance proposed taking him to a pharmacy, be faintly exclaimed; "Phar macr sake, take me anywhere oat of the read of the mule." By the beat grinding a miller gets from a bushel of wheat from twelve to four teen pounds bran and aborts, one and a half to two pounds middlings (never more than twoj one pound waste, no second grade Dour, aad forty-three to forty-five pounds in the fine floor. Well, ma chcric. my eighty-six year* have taught me this, that duty mast be the rule and affection the sweetener of our IrveSL There is a retributive justice in thia world—we get what we give—if we make to suffer, weahall be made to suffer. The one who loess most is hap piest A young man who wore * pair of very dirty glorea to a party, explained hoc ostlr and promptly as s reason for doing en was that the smell of benzine used in i cleaning gloves urns very disagreeable. Thus mil an unselfish man saonfioe his personal appearanoe for the comfort of others. Mr. Hermann, the magician, has been assaulted in Ban Francisco for pretend ing to extract a cabbage from the end of an old gentleman's nose. The assaulter was the old gentleman, who appears to have been provoked in the first place by Mr. Hermann's pretended demofixliment of his hat | The latest smugglers' trick at San Francisco was the introduction of twen ' I tv-flve boxes of Hroee, the Interior filled with Havana cigers aad fine playing i cards. Among recent seizures were I i eighty-five boxes invoiced as oil, but oonUming 825,000 worth of opium, and 1 a quantity of ale barrels containing SB,- • 960 worth. Theodore Bod inc. nged thirty, was as ewting in thrashing ui Jainua, N. T. Ha was stooping, in the act of cleaning the floor, when a oMI of wire fell from overhead. One end if it caught about I hit* neck and the other end in the machine, and lie was drawn headlong into the jaws of the thrasher, mangling (lis head fearfully, and resulting in his instant death. A scamp has been " doing ' the peo pis of Steuben county, N. 1., by selling what he termed " an exotic, an importa tion from northern Tartary, the aniae tree of Scripture!" Theae desirable plants were sold for the modest sum of .seventy-flvs seuta. , They grow abund ! antly throughout Connecticut, and ooaid be Imught for one cent each. But anise oil is expensive. " " Why, Bill, what's the matter with von? you look down in the month." | "Well, Pete, I guess if jmM been through what I have, youd too." " What's the matter !' " Well, vou know Sarah Snivfela, don t you, Pete!" "Yea." " I discarded her last night." "You did! What fori" "Well, I'll tell TOO ! she said aba wouldn't mar ry me, and I'd discard any girl that would treat me in that way."