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<wou strong by hoitet-t
toil, even if that gain of strength l-e
i UJHIU com pulsion.
Tho oi a. takon from tho mine* in
j first roaaUvl in three huge kiln*, thence
w \-aasi-d through an eighteen stamp
mill, ao|iarat<sl by water from tho rook,
I ami when dry i* woltisl in oharooal fur
uaooo, hammered into bloom* beneath a
huge trip liainmer, ami finally shaj-ed a*
desire*! by the rolls. From sixty to
eighty men are ooustantlv employed in
those mills ami redaction works m gangs
if that number, each of which works
I twelve hours and thou gives place to
j others. There is also a large machine
shop in another department, employing
from twenty to forty men, wherein all
i the machinery iu use about the prison is
made or repaired as occasion demands.
Out behiud the main mill building is
a huge pile of charcoal, hauled in here
from the twenty-eight kilns in which it
has beeu burned in the forest. The
keepers say that on the night of No rem
ber 7, 187 4, tins enormous pile of char
oval—or oue equally large, in the same
location—took fire accidentally from
starks emitted by the mill smoke stacks.
The fire raged furiously, sweeping away
a very large portion ol the stockade ou
two ai'iles of the enclosure and burning
down oue of the guard posts, which was
uot deserted by its heroic occupant uu
til it began to sink under his feet, and
to save his life he hail to spring outside
the line. To save the prison from that
total destruction which at oue time
seemed imminent, one hundred and
sixty convicts were let out of their calls,
and called to assist in checking the
flames. The night was dark, the excite
ment great, the keepers few in number,
and the barrier hitherto confining them
was in great part destroyed, yet when
all dangc r was past and the mru were
called to return to their cells not one was
missing, not one had availed liimself of
the extraordinary opportunities for es
cape. They were even heard conversing
together, while fighting the fire, and
wtying to each other: "Well, he'd he a
mean fellow who would take advantage
ola time like this to run away." Yet
among these convicts were some con
demned for life—there are thirty such
in the prison—and many incarcerated
upon long sentences. Some of the very
men who resisted the temptations to
escape offered ty that occasion have
since made desperate attempts to gain
their liberty, when all chances seemed
against them, but when they liad the ex
citemeut of matching their cunning and
courage against their keejmn.
The preservation of that hediooa and
depressing silence whioh is so iinj><>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 |<aper and one layer of oil
cloth between the case and the goods,
thu* sutirely excluding the air. The
giHsl* had evidently been lmeked while
tiaUip, and the intense heat of the
weather made tlie conditions favorable
for combustiou. Those who were skepti
eal in regard to this origin of the fire
were entirely oouviooed when a fin
broke oat s second Lime, wliirh was
tra. xl dirvctlv to another case of *ilk
twi-t. Many kinds of goods when close
ly packed are exjswed to s|K<ntaneous
combustiou. BJ*-CIAI care may well K
taken in warehouses, factories, and iu
all place* where the heat developed by
lonic slow procem of oxidation is con
fluid and compressed. Iu such case* a
U-mperwture may be reached which ren
ders s|w)ntaneou* nmibn*tiou p<suble.
A Story of Tom Corn In.
It was well known of tlie " wagoner's
boy," as Tom Corwin wa* familiarly
called, that he wa*, during his speeches,
very obliging and willing to answer all
quei-tioiis pr-i]Hiiiudcd him dnnng his
speeches, provided they were a*ked at
the proper time; bat tln-re were always
many rude men who were usually present
when he sjHike who differed from him in
their views, ami they would often make
it a point to lie impudent.
Oue of these fellow* hap|>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<<d, takes isirc of thmu. Twelve
rams, of tin- merino variety, blend tint
charscteristii-s of tho Hootch and trie
Kansas sheep, and the result of the alii
auce in a superior animal. The short
homed cattle of England flourish in Vic
toria.
Mr. George Grant, uwurr of almost
the uiitire ouuiity, lately IKJ light Fhslsu,
the half brother ot Tbocsby, who won
tlie Derby two year* ago, and $300,000
in one Tear, fur $16,000, and the gentry
about Mr. Grant art- buying all the re
tired racing mares that they can find,
hoping (*> 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 <jf a
chap who wanted to marry hi* dnnglxtcr.
" No, I never did," waa tiie meek reply;
"but I liave rode a mule iu a. circus,
and hml a gia>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 <<y*tea so of
' sinnere siiioo the flood."
llew Irufße* Did It.
1 returned to Aahville after an ah
nonce of three yeara and fouud Truffles
grown fat and Jovial, with a fad* the very
mirror uf peaon and anif wtuficUoii.
Truffles *w the village l-aki-r, and he
was not like this when I went away.
"Trufllea," said I, "how is it I You
have improved."
"Improved ! How I"
"Why, in every way. What have you
lieen doing t"
Just thell a little girl came in with a
shattered sliawl ami liarefooUst, to whom
Truffle* gave a l<>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<<g t"
" Why, 1 wouldn't let it, of course."
" Well, Jim, I come around to aak
yon a favor, as a friend. Jim, I've just
1 bought a new dog, a sorter bull-terrier,
and the man said that he'd fly at almost
anybody, and hold on until he was dead.
Now, 1 have an idea the feller was lying
to mo, aud I thought maylw if you'd
come around and help me give that dog
—well, give him a kinder trial trip, I
might And out alxnit him."
" What do yon mean by a trial
1 trip f"
"Why, I thought I'd see if yon
wouldn't go into my garden and pretend
to steal apples, and I'd sick this dog on
you, and then we'd sea if tliat man mis
represented tire facta to me."
"Certainly I won't."
" Oil, eomo on, now—just to try him!
You may lwvc all the apples you can
' carry off with you."
" Why, you must be crazy."
! " Won't go t Not to oblige a friend f
Not to ascertain the value of what may
j be a splendid lighting dog I"
1 "Of course I won't."
" Oh, very well, then, don't; but the
first time I see you anywhere near my
place I'll try him on you, anyway.
don't mind a man being disobliging, but
when he's ornary mean the way you are,
' lie disgusts me.
Mr. Koymw is still looking for a js-r
--eou for his iot to experiment on.— Mas
Ailchr.
An Old-lime Joke.
When about seventeen, the jioet
Campbell, together with a couple of
friemls, played a joke ii|M>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 d<aert
and mountain, of deep wooded valley
and rulhtig prairie which are embraced
within tlie Territoriea bordering on the
Mexiaau frontier, say* tlie Now York
Jlerald, are slowly yielding up their
secrets to the scientific explorer.
Htrsnge as it may seem, there are many
hundrt*b of thousamls of siiuara mi lew
of our gatiuiial domain which are as yet
a terra in. vyulia, 110 far as our knowl
edge of their physical geography is con
cerned, and It is to special explorations,
such as those of the Hay-leu snrvey,
that we are indebted fur any information
we IXMWW of the topographical details,
geological atruriures, flora and fauna
and etltuology of these wild region*.
Regarding their early occu|iatu>n 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<l lod the
unfortunate man out. On his way out
some person punched liim in the neck,
and immediately be was surrounded by
a crowd of fifteen or twenty of the aadi
en<w, who pummeled him in a moat un
merciful manner. After a struggle, be
succeeded in regaining the street, and
the scenes were relates! and laughed over
by groups in front of the tn eater until a
la'te hour.
A Heathen Temple.
Juggernaut, nji the Pali Mall Oe
welit, seems to be in a bad way in India
owing to the ihlapidation of his pagoda
at Pooree. An immense block of stone
fell the ether day from the centra! dome
of the temple. It is fortunate that no
one was killed, for the stone, it is stated,
is ten feet long, five broad, and four in
depto, and Wlong* to the inner cornice
of the temple. The damage m imper
oeptibln to the eye, owing to the intense
darkness in the interior of the edifice,
out the fall of the stoue is a serious mat
ter for Juggernaut for thin reason: there
is, it seems, a prophecy that when the
first shone is unfastened the temple shall
not stand. The repairs, it is estimated
by the Oriaks, will take at least fourteen
years k> 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."