Twitch n Gantly, Tim*. Touch ua gantly, UB ! I<*t n* glnta Kiowa thr atrnm Oentlr, a* w somen me* glida Through a qniet itraaun Ilnmble voyager* kr* wa. Husband, wife and children thr**. (On* to kwt, an knß*l. fled To the acure overhead.) Tonrh n gently, tima! We've not proud nor tearing wing* Onr ambition, our content, Ida In timpla thing*. Hnmhla Toragtre are we, Oar life'a dim nnaonndad IM. Becking only amic oaliu olima : Touch tu gently. gentle tima 1 iiMdato fVaakw. How the Li *\es Ramp Down, I'll I*ll TOO how lb* leaven camadowti : The great Use lo lua children aaul. •• Tou're gelling weepy, tallow a.,d Brown. Tea. rary eieepy, little Red ; U is quite lima you want to bed." " Ah !" begged each silly, leaf, " Let tta a little longer a: ay ; Rear father tree, behold onr gt laf. Tie soch a plea.-ai I day Wa do uot aant to away." So, juat for one mora nt.-rry day. To the great iree t! e leaflet* clung. Frolicked and ilanoi and had Utair way, I'pon the aulttniu lurries awitug. Whispering all their spoils among— " Perhaps the groat tree will forget And let us stay until the pmtg. If sre all beg and coax and fret.'' But the great tree did uo such thing ; Hs enuiod to hear thair a htspsnng. " Come, children, all to bed, ' he cried , And ere the leave* could urge their prayer Ha ahook his head. and far and wide. Fluttering and rnstimg everywhere Down sped the leaflets through the air. I saw them ; on the ground titer lay, Qoldea and red. a huddled swarm. Waiting Ull ore from far away. White hedcK tbee upon her arm, Shoukl come to wrap them safe end waini. a The great hare tree looke>l down and smiled. ** Oood-aight. dear It'.lie leaven.' he eaid ; And from below each eleepy child Bephed •• Good-night." and murmured •'lt is so nice to go to bed." THE TIMELY WAKMNG. A Tale el lifta-IUT. Throughout 1 856_and the early part of 1857, the terrible mutiny in India bad been brewing. The apparent cause, the greased cartridges, was the pretense. The real motive was the widespread conviction, induc-d by the rapreeenta tiona of chiefs, Brahmiuic priests, and the aristocratic aurrouudiuga of both, all desirous of a return to their old power, that the pr-*tige of the English was overthrown- that they could not hold their own in India. "I tell you," siid Dr. lame Kerr, "that I was not twice a medical officer to a county jail for nothing. I know the assassin's lace and aspect. I have seen too much of them to l>e mistaken, and 1 maintain that, since the business in the Crimea, the chiefs and their mili tary followers about this province have been visitilv changing for the worst." "Why, Kerr, " and the old colonel, a good easy soul, who had grown to look upon India as a second fatherland, "if I did not know you to be a brave man, I should *v that you were Kerr by na ture as well as by name." " Why," continued Dr. Kerr, " I can even 9ee tlie change in Jungpadore. His countenancv has podtivelv changed within the last three mouths." "What! do you mistrust even poor Jungpadore?" urgej the colonel; " and when yoa know, U>\ that he is a sort of coosin of Elfrida's 1" " I really can't help it," said Kerr. "I must speak my mind; and I firmly believe that we are qnietly living on a volcauo. As fc> Jungpadore being your niece's cousin, he is a long way off, and the further the better. By all the laws of mixed races, she has only one-fourth of Bruhmiu blood in her veins. Never ;he teas, I maintain that there is danger m the air. I can smell it." "Oh. oh!" cried two or three voices. " There, Kerr, do give us a little oeace! Yon had better doctor yonreelf, idt tliis subject of disaffection is one tthick is driving you half frantic." Well, TU say no more, but I shall not think the less." Next morning at daybreak Kerr was np with the snn, and had pnton a riding suit laid out ready for hitn, and was g.e i-jg out for his morning gallop, when suddenly he saw a uewlv-arrived copy of the Laucef, and knowing it would con tain a certain article for which he was waiting, ho gave np the thought of his ordinary morning ride, and dropped heavily, as be romeniliered afterwards, upon a cano-bottomed sofa, and Ix-gan to read. He did pot move for an hour, so inter ested was he in what he was reading ; and it was only when he hail finished the article, that—the eagerness with which he had read it having bathed his forehead in perspiration—lie put his hand in his jacket-pocliet for his hand kerchief. In a moment he was on his feet, and bad flung off the jack -1. H had felt something slimy in the pocket, and, with the ordinary Auglo- In-lian's presence of mind in reference to serpents, had rid himself of his jacket Nothing mover!. He tamed over the jacket with cau tion, but no movement was to be dis cerned. He inverted it, and out fell a very ■mall, dead serpent. In a moment he said : " Pat there ! It is an aidon-sa ; they are never found out of the jungle ; they never come into houses. I am a marked man. I have talked too much of my suspicion*, and they have tried to get me out of the way. 1 must have lain on it and killed it. Had I put my hand in my pocket, I had been a dead man by this ! The most venomous of all! Put there, I am prepared to swear ! Bat by whom ? Not by one of my own servants, of that lam sure, Jjorne one has been here." He called a servant. " Yalbab, did any visitor come for me last night after I went out ?" " No, Sahib Doctor. Oh, yes, one visitor. Sahib —the noble Baradore Jnng|>adore. He stopped little minute here, and him go away." "That's my man!" thought the doc tor. "He brought it in a pal or tube, ]>erbsps prepared to remain stupefied for hours, but always able to bite, though not to move. Now what will the e< lonel say ?" He hunted np the oldoolonel, and told his tale. Colonel Fraish looked very serious for some time, and then cheering up, he said: "I should prefer to think that this particular scamp of a serpent was a wanderer, and of his own accord visited you, aud found your jacket more cam fortaLle and civilized than tlie wild jungl'." " Yon are incorrigible," said ths doc tor. " Don't say anything about this to Elf J." " I won't, for I don't think she will lose her lover by treachery. Though, by Jove, you had a very narrow escape J" But Kerr was not convinced. That wonderfnl instinct which some men pos sess, which warns them that danger is yet near, was liis ill the highest degree. Perhaps, too, he had something in him of the Spanish blood of his mother, who had insisted upon his first name being the Spanish equivalent of his father's name, James— this not unoommoa name being pronounc-'d lame in that lan guage. and spelt by this lady in Eng lish, as it was uttered. Possibly it was that souse of mixed blood in himself v hich made bira fall in love with Elfrida Map Won; for all men and women of mingled nationalities know that, to some extent, th--y are looked upon by thor oughly -bred English people as some thing below themselves. They were but waiting for the com pletion of Elfrida'* nineteenth birthday, "K 1C I * KTZ, TCtlitor and 1 Vopriotor. VOL. Villa when tlicy wire to Ist married. Both were orphans, ami an }M*or as ,lob. Not oue won! said James Kerr of the sor pent found iu his jVH-k.l, but ho kept a sharp lookout after Itaradore Jung|n the Kurojwlne fixed idea. A thousand others fiit t*l throngh his brain, but he never recalled one. The sole awful deter mination was to save her from herself by death. Ten minntee, and pulling rein for a moment, he heard the tramping bef re him. He now proceeded with eantion. He never once thought of the wild ani mals of the night, to whom he gave fair chance as he shirked the road, that his horse's hoofs might make less noise in the undergrowth and tangle of weed. At la*t he saw them, anil he found his right hand trembling rouud his revol ver. Never once did he halt or !<>*• sight of them. At last they left the high mad, ami turned iato tie- jungle. He calculated that he hail ridden ten mi' -s from the statiou. They turned off where the towers of one of tin no strangely de sert--.1 temples rose white and l-autiful in tin- moonlight He crept along, holding his horse's head low, and driggmg the nnwilliug creature aft r him. Th instinct which led him to lielieve that they were at I lie temple was confirmed by the monoto nous sounds he heard of Brahmins' voices. He crept to windward, and to a rent in the wall—a rent formed by a huge tree which had split the marble, ami which formed a magnificent shade. He experienced a strange perfume, but he was so intent upon watehing hie affianced wife, that his senses were not on their guard. By getting into the saddle, he was enabled to see over the temple. There assuredly she was, and apparent lv assisting at some strange sacred rib-. How long this lasted he never knew; but when he saw tliem kneel before her, when he marked her raise her right liaod, then the couvictiou came U|sm him that she was in league with the rou tine* re, and that it was time for her to die. Hi* hand had not for one moment abandoned the revolver, with which ho wa.H an admirable shot. Lot ho eould not uiovo hia hand. And then only he i-ouipri-bemh-d why no spy of thoae in the temple had discovered him, for they had avoided the deep shadowed tree, knowing it to be a manzanilla, one of those strange growths which are popu larly supposed to cause death to those who stand umWUiem, but whose pew* is oely to cr<*at' torpor and partial inac tion of the brain. What was to bo done? He knew his horse oouhl not l*e under the influence of the jsiison tree; that if he were spurred h would remove him out of the influence of the drowsy perfume; but the noise uf the plunging horse would have put the Bcahmins on their guard. To warn the station—this was his great de sire, the hope and end of his life. Al ready Elfrida had passed from his mind. And there he remained, not daring to move, and conscious that every moment he was loss and less master of himself. How long did ho wait between life and death? He never thoroughly knew. It must have been quite an honr. At last the temple was empty, and the footfalls of the priests died away at a point furthest from the road liack to the station. By this time his lower limbs were be coming as torpid as his arms, which now hung by his side. The revolver still at his waist was abandoned for the first time since he bad set out on his work of retribution. He could not speak, and it was only by a horrible effort that he pinohed the horse's flanks. The crea ture oooprehendsd, and, giving a low r | -l / -NJ f \ !HE CENTRE REPORTER neigh, lie staggered round and stumble< from out the shadow of the |>oi-tou tree In a moment the influence of th< deadly perfume began b> >liiuinish Who lim. not felt life rrturtl, or seen it as death passes by and abandons hi prey I First, lie felt Ins breast heave then his Auger* moved, his arms, hi knees ptca*e,l his horse's ribs, and a last his ham! fell upon the reins. Now liack to warn the F.uglish ! Oh The fresh night air soon male the Mom course through his veins. On, on, on He has forgotten Klfrida by this tune as, with all true men, patriotism ha overcome ami killed love. To save hii fellow couulrymeu tlist is his ' soli thought. Suddeuly. almost as he notice* tha the mare Kumenitla is failing in hei pane, he hoars galloping behind. OIK horse clearly, ami several lurther ofY He knows, or thinks tie does, that he ii pursued. The lights of the cuutomncuL: are uot far ahead now twinkling out iu he elimlst a hill, now vanishing as tin roml siuks. The hoofs la-hind are draw uig nearer. Now the more distant art as loud as the Ar*t heard, and thw*e art noisier still. His horse is failing, am show* signs of distress, and utters a low, moaning cry. AN for a moment he stops, the noise ol the hoofs tvehiml increase* with awful rapidity. He is conscious death is lie hind him, atul feeling that the horse if spent, probably from his suffering undei the poison tree, he turns his head to the jungle, determined to Aght from behind the bush. As he does so, the lioofn come on with lightning speed. A mo ment, and he is iu the jtiugle ; as the horse comes 111 sight, he hoar* a voice: •• lame ! lame ! Save me !" It is Klfrida ! She is yards away in a moment, and on come her pursuers. Oh, his hand is steady ami faithful enough now! King ! and the hwdiug borwman is out of the saddle, and being dragged on by his horse. Ping ! and the liorse of the mxtiud ri lor id hit and stumbling. That is enough for Indian courage, and the three or four who remain, sup poaiug an aiubusowds lias sprung upon them, turn and Ace. Th" second horse man is on the ground, his lioi*e fallen upon him. Never a moment stops laiur K< ri His hor*e, a little recovered even by hi* inoim utary rest, poshes ouward, and soon passes a liorse and n.ler on the ground—the rider motionless and power IONS, the horse plunging, and every mo ment di-Agiiring the il>-*4 man, on* of whose feet was still in u stirrup. Hl< strange instinct tells him it is ltanulore. On i: is his wearying h<-r-*-, and it is as he reaches the cwntoutuelit that he sees her before him, the uien turning out at sound of shot, and the drums call ing to arms. Iu an instant, before he cau sjv. ak, she -ries out : " It w-as to save you all. I have th'-ir plans. Tht y thought I wa a sibyl--that I could predict for them. A mutiny is rije— but we are -ale, ami we shall waru all India. I saw you through the gap in the wall, my lanie saw your wavering hnd striving b grasp the pistol. Ah ! yon could hav.- kill-si me. thinking my mix-sl blood was treasonable—killed nie, when 1 was try ing to save you ! Hut yngtit nie, because of your low for me." He never told her that the friendly poiaoo-tree saved her life. "Quick!" she said ; "to my uncle it i. for to rnunov, and mm mast ride to-nigbt As every one know*, the English in India wre not saved entirely from bloodshed, but, the moo-acri-s have Is-en '•xaggerated, especially tht at ("awn pore But the alacrity with which the English met the attempt to destroy them, of which Elfrida Mapleson'a brave :icti.>n is an example, saved the English in India, n doubt. But Sittle remains to be said Klfridaand lame were the happier for the mistrust* and the agony through which they had passed. Exactlv us only those who have nearly died of thirst know the im measurable value of oold wnt r, so only tbn*o who have passed through tlie fire of agony can properly weigh and acer tain the value of love, and trust, and ut ter faithfulness. l urnShing a House. A d*!j married young couple, just alioal taking and furnishing a bonne, an- I 1 ticipate a greit deal of pleasure in the choice and selection of their furniture, aper hangings, etc. Bth ! 1H ing persons of giod tu-.te, they never for one momeut imagine that anything tint the most complete miiwiu will crown their clioiou; hut it very often happens that tin* carpet winch lnokau very handsome in the shop is of much too Uric a juttem for a small room, ami the |earaiico when put in a house. It has become the fashion lately to adopt nnrovereil oak floors, and thev are very nice m sitting rooms if they are kept thoroughly milisked ; and if there are several handsome mats and rugs atxmt there need l> no regular carpet put down in summer. A carpet in win ter is wanner ami more snug, but a mar gin might lie left all round the edges of the rooru of polished oak. A dining-room is very handsomely pa pered with a dark crimson or green flock, with rep curtains to match, v-ith a Grecian border in red or gre n and gold silk. A Turkey carjs-t is always nicest, but any carpet of rie.h dark hues and a quiet pattern is suitable. The pretti:de gray or buff grounds, with gold stirs or Jtrur de /// on them. For bedroom papers iionecau Is* prettier than French grays or neutral-tinted grounds, with elegant trails or sprays of flowers and groups of many-ooiored 1 inls all over them. Curtains of cre tonne to match look best, though some prefer a contrast. Carjtets for liedroomn should always lie of a pattern, and there should never be a lack of comfort able easy chairs and sofas. What He Wished. The other day when a resident of De troit went home to dinner, says the Fret. Pre**, his wife asked bim why he sent a stronger to the house after his Sundsy suit. •'I didn't," he bluntly replied, i "But a young man called and said so, and I gave him the clothes," she : said. There was a painful pause, and she | continued : " You can't blame me." "No, I can't" he replied, "bnt wish yon and I knew enough to last us ! over night." , | Bhe didn't est any dinner, of courie. "Coal Oil Johnny," who became : wealthy in the petroleum excitement, j and subsequently spent his monev in j reckless extravagance, is working a* a 1 railroad hand in lowa. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, DECEMRER 2, 1875. •d' TIIE AFRICA* FX I'I.OIU TIOMS. #. j A *.*.!. .f k.< (Maal.v, Ih " Herald - A. Ciffwilnl t u IMm. '• Stanley de*oriles fully in the letter* just received from lutu In* survey nf the ' southern, #wUf the VietorM Nlyanaa. AI 1 give* tlurtv seven observation* of l>ay, , inlet* and creek*, minutely explored, ' with a view to ili the main body of water, mnl to ex dude Ike powilhlily of their opening to j otlier lakes or *1 cam*. Ho fully ex lubit* tunl demo stratee the unity of t tin* magnificent ilieet of water. He " *ny: "Living* itio wait wrong IU ro portmg tlmt th Victoria Niyauxa oou k sisted of Are iknt. Hpeke correctly state* that the \ ictori* Nivanza is one T lake." S|>eke'a two island* aro proved by Ls Stanley 'a observations to be jentnulas. "" 1 One innervation furtlier confirms the great importance of the river bhimeeyu " as the prinoi|O men. On the nccoiid day, in addition to the naval maneuver* j there were race*, iu which eighty four f canoe* were engaged, each pro J wiled by f thirty uarmaeu, the kiug leading the . fleet personally in the preaenoc of a greut throng of s]cciator*. Among the onlooker* were the tlirre hnudrcd wave* 'of the king. On the third day there wa* bird shooting and target practice by 1 3,000 troops. On tin- fourth i!y they re turned to MtcW* capital. 1 i This king ha* '2,000,000 subject*. Stanley praises hi* great intelligence, and depict* him a* a ruler whose domin [ ion afford* the le*t augury for the p. hie civilization of Africa. 1I is a Mus sulman, but j our correspondent regard* hi* conversion to (.'hristninly us|o**iLue, f and suggest* this lalmr as a tie Id for , missionary eff, >rt tliat is capable of af fording very brilliant riemlt*. I'ictureixjiie axvuiits are given of the • richness and beantjr of the country. There are valuable geographical note* ' tu further illustiatiou of the map, itt eluding aouudiug* <>f the Ntvatiaa and au explanation of the White Nile als*v- H||k>u fall*. Taken together with the 1 tt'-r*. previously ree.-ir.il this coaiph t< a the account of the grand di*w* .very that , it h* lxx*ii .Stanley'a g sx! fortune to make through the go d will of tviug 1 1 Mu-Mk Hie llahit of Heading. Tin* following, from Sarilmrr *.V -tfA /,V. contain* some very suggestive • thought* : " i liave no time to read," is r the common complaint. ami e*jx*iaily • of women whose occupations are such a** r to prev.-ut ooutinnou* bk perusal. • They 1., ui to think because tln-y cannot devote a* much attention to lx*-k* a* th y art. eomp. ilcl te dv< t. t ■ their avi-cation, that they cannot read auv thing. Hut this is a great mi take. It ' i*n t the Haiku we flntali nt a xittiug • which always do U* the next gixal. | Thoae We devour iu the ixl.l 111- luelit*. i half a dozen | ag<*e ut a time, * 't ti give ua mote aatiafaction, ami are tn*-re thor ! oughly digested than tln** we moke a : particular effort to read. Tlw • n who • have made tin ir mark in th" w* rid have r 1 generally Ixx'ti the men who Iwv* in boy • luxxl fonne.l the habit of r. aduig .t i every available moment, win tin r f< r live mninb-a or five hours. 1 It ia the habit of reading rath- r than < the time at our command that h- !p*> us 1 on the n*a< 1 tb learning. Many cf the ! cultivated jx>rxoax, who** name* hnvi I Ixx'U famous ax atn.lentx, have given only two or three hour* a .t*y t<> their lxxik*. If we make ami of spare minutes ; iu the midst of our work, and n-ad a lit tie, if but ft page or paragraph, we | shall find our brain ijuicl.ened ami our toil lightened I>t just so tunch increased ' satisfaction as the lxxik give* us. N.'tli ing help* us along the monotonous daily t round so much as fresh and striking . ! thoughts, to be considered while our > j ban.ls are busy. A in w idea from a , volume is lik oil which reduce* the i ' friction of the machinery of life. What r we rememlx r from brief glimpse* into i hooks often serve* as a stimulus to ac 1 : tiou, and Ixxsuno* one of the most i , precious deposit* in tin* treasury of our , | recollection. All knowlevlge is made up >; of small juirts, winch would mx-m in*ig l ! uitlcant in themselves, but which, taken t ; together, are very valuable weapons for , j the mind and substantial armor for the - ' soul. " ltcad anythuig continuously," , says Dr. Johnson, "and yon wdl le . ! learned." The mid minnb'S which we j J are inclined to waste, if carefully availed t of, will, in the long rnn, make golden hours and golden days that we shall ever j l>o thankful for. What Coolness Bid.* Tlie folliiwring incident is related in a Continental pajier as having occurred in Prussia : A switch tender had just taken his place to chnnge tie- track, in ord-rto turn a train which waa in sight, so as to prevent a collision with another train from an opposite direction. At this critical moment, on turning his head, he discovered his little boy playing on the track of the advancing engine. He might spring to the rescue and remove him safely, but then lie would not have tune to turn the switch, arid hundred*of lives might lie lost through his neglect. In an in-tant his resolution was taken. "Lie down!" he shouted to his IM-T, and the cliiM, happily accustomed to ols-dienoe, promptly threw hiui-clf on the ground, and the whole train tliun tiered over him, tlie passenger* little dreaming how much their safety had cost that father. The trembling man rushed forward, fearing to find only n mangled corpse, bnt no words can ex press his joy at seeing his child alive and unharmed. The next day the em peror sent for the man and preecnted him with the medal of honor for his heroism. Who are Creole*l Before I came to New Orleans, snvs a correspondent, I had an idea that n Creole was a half-breed of some race, Cuban or Spanish, or French, I didn't exactly know which, ami I think the Northern ]HH>ple have the same notion, and will be grateful if I correct them before they come down here ami show their ignor ance, as I did. A Creole is u native Louisianian. Any one who is born here is a Creole, just as nny one who is born in Indiana is a II nosier, and in Ohio a Buckeye. They don't have dark, pen sive eyes and romantic hair; t ey don't niton verandas with their fingers against their cheek and a shapely arm bare to the elbow resting on the balustrade ; and they don't look off into tho gardens of orange trees and bananas and drooping palms, with alligators crawling over the walk. It is a base misrepresentation, this idea ; but I was sorry to bare my romance shattered when I found it out. Putting I'p Store. Tb Chicago IYibuir says: Mra. Ilarlow had long urgni Mr. Harlow t>> have thn stove |ut up. Slm uMuri'il ' him that there wim such draughts in the house that the inrpnbi rone on tin' floors, that Hutusiithu had caught her .1.-nth of cold, ami little Bertram's lung* w re ill gestml, iukl th doctor's lulls n tiultl t them out of house and homo, and that , if ho had had tho spirit of tt tmui tlio stove would have Iwejl Up ru'Sith* Perhaps, though, ho -x|Ht, tin* rattling of step ladder*, the l>uui|> ing of stoves, tb< suppressed swearing of Mr. Harlow, am! tli* bv no means Bupprmcwxl scolding of liia spouso. Finally, Mr, Harlow got tin* stovo up, a brick ami two clupa wrr ing for tilt* missing log, bo erected ttlxiut llvr length**.! I*l JX*from thw lawk, ami ho n.jxmlotl five other lt-iigtlia from the chimney am! ceiling. Keinafn ct hnt one elbow to connect those two perpendicular ant! horizontal ay atom a. Mr. Harlow had by this time become both perspiring ami profane ; when the acrid aoot got into tna to* and rua.lt them smart h liad rubl* d it out with hot hand*. which wore covered with tit ; he h ul out his finger* Sevan time* with sharp edge* of stove pipe and pinched them seventy time* aeveu be tween jouit*. Mounting ou a obair, p seed ou four liricka, placed on a wash iuard, placet! ou a tub, placed on a table Willi OU abort leg, w bleb was eked out vtitb a acrubbiug bru.ih, Mr. Harlow e*-saved for none time to tit the elltow. Mr*. Harlow, meanwhile, t< *.>. l below, commenting audibly, but l Lauoe, >u I Mr. Harlow lost bia balance. The game leg of the table ipjx-.l from off the scrubbing-brush, the tub al l frutu the *able, tlie wu*h l*aar>l tilted from the tub. tin- brirka fell from the washboard. the chair tumbled from the Iwu ka, and Mr. Har low descended from the chair like Lu cifer fuliuig from heaven. For a few moment* lb*- i.t ue-pin-re was fi!l<*d with Mr, Harlow, 1 .ricks, ao.it, washltuarvls, chair*, pr. >fiunty, tuba, table*, and shriek*; tlif-11 there was a dreadful al ienee. About nineteen apiar* yard* of oarjx t mi re ruined, and the circumjacent to *m* w< re a sight for a hon*rkix|M*r's eve. lianily iiad Mr. Harlow risen and be guu to take stock of his nuineronw ga-ln-s iUi-1 ahiu-' i- us, than Mr*. Harlow's voice roe ■ anxiously demanding : "John Snodik< r Harlow, lave you Is-nt tlial elbow AH cute'n shape I" " No," loar el Mr. llarlow, "but, by the jumping, ten-Uxsl JeboMpliat, 1 will," and, suit Use action to the word, he flattened it Ixiyoiid a!i recognition on the comer of the piano. * * Then ho went out, and drawing a revulvi r on the tiusnuth, or 1- red him t-- l-o round by daybreak on Koadty, at i h • In Ancient I.aw. It might sremto be taking a back ward step in this more refined age, says an exchange, t" r<-adopt any old provincial laws. Hut certain!/ in many section* of our country some • f them might be re vived, in a modi! d f- rm, to tlie great Wnofit of the community. For exam pie/in 1719 New Hampshire passed a law not wholly inapplicable to the pre* ent times. It provided that "idle per *en or l-it< ri rs " should l*e put to work by tlir public authorities. The law read as follows: " Aud if any p< rs-m or perwoua fit and able to work shall refuse so to do, bnt loiter on, misspend his or her time, wander from place to place, or other wise ini'onb r t homed v*, aud 1-e thereby convicted before one or more of his majesty' justice* of the |* ace, Mich lw-rson or persons shall lie sent to the houan of eorreotiop, and nt their entrance lw whipped on the naked bock by the master of such house, or sueh others as he shall procure, not excieeibng ten lashes, ami In- then kept to hard lalxir until lie or she shall be discharged by said justice," etc. A well-enforced law, similar ill spirit to the above, modified to suit enlight ened times, would soon rid the country of tramps ami vagabonds,thin the ranks of beggars, diminish the 11; '"eg crowds around hotels, shops aud village post offices; and society would bo vastiy im proved. It is marvelous how many lazy folks there are in the world—people who stand around with their hands in their pockets, forever iu the way of the busy multitude. For in America it is the multitude who are busy, and the lnry ones seem more numerous than tle-y r ally are, only because they are so perpetually in tho wnv of those whose hands are full of work, and to whom time is money. Mow to Advertise. The New York F.xprt**, in an article on the various ways of advertising a-lopted, says: Filially, the mode of advertising bv dressing up old men in grotesque nttire, only raises a laugh at the poor old fellows and their employ ers. One of the latest instance* of this sort of thing is the dressing up of u half dozen of men in rubber coots, inscribed with large letters, and with opened rub lier umbrellas hold aliove their In mis, marching them, in solemn procession, nt intervals of some ten paces, along our thoroughfares. The only use of alt this is to give a few days' employment to brokcu-down men and boys. Advertis ers, look to your interests, and use the columns of the newcpA|s-r* to announce to the pnblic the opening of your goods nnd tho cheapness of your war-*. Waste no money on perishable means of catch ing the eye of the puhlie, but go into newspapers which tlie people search eagerly for what is new Tmnr.li.—lt is staled that about seven thousand acres are cleared of timber each week day in tho United States. Of the annual crop seventy-tlve million dol lars' worth goes to fuel, snd twice as much to fencing. Tho looomotivs in North Amerios consume no less than seven hundred thousand cords, or five hundred txcran a year. GHANOEM. —There are in the Domin ion of Canada 267 subordinate grange# of Patrons of Husbandry. TIIK l'K*sr* OF IMlIt Willi VUN.H3ll.tiaH fraiilr. The ft rut regular and complete census of India which IIHN ever been Ink I'll w lie in IM7I. British IIIIIIH, including the feudatory HlntiW, wan found to have I an area of 1,450,744 square nil ton, or ■IMHII one third tii ttii'H of the I .States, and its population was 238,830, 958, or alxiut MI UUIMI ius large to- that of the United Slates. There are in In !iu vast tracts of foret and waste land, NO that the average dMHtj of population in the inhabited districts IN rreatrr i-vmi than woiiht be indicated by the above figures. lu Bengal the average is 397 persons to the quare mile ; for the Not thwont pruriuiM 430, and for Onde 468. The population jx-r square mile in liii'tl Britain ami Ireland, taken to Hither, in only 265. Therefore, it will U' readily imagined how crowded Imliu IN. Calcutta, with IU suburb, llowrali. which is to Calcutta what lirooklyu la to New York, ha* M 95,000 inhabitants; Bombay his 644 000; Madras, 398,000; and Lurk now 285,000. British India hue 140,500,000 Hin > the oorujwtioua of the people, it appear* that 1,256,000 pcraona are employed in the government service; 620.000 are en- t gaged in religions or charitable ooeupa tiona, inrtnding *49 Christian priests or ministers; 90,000 are devotees and re ligious mendicants; 10,000 astrologers; five wizards; 465 " devil driver*;" lffil,- ( are engaged in education, literature and >eielior, of whom 518 are poets; SI,OOO lawyers; 75,000 doctors; 218,000 " Line artists," under which head are in cluded musicians, acrobats, wrestlers, Huake-cliarroers and tuoukey-dar-eer*; and only one *' speech-maker " in all India. The agriculturists number 87,500,000; 950.000 are engaged with elephants, camels, horses and cattle, or get thtir living by hunting; Ihe commercial clasws number 3,441,000, and the artisans H,747,000. There are only twenty-two gamblers, five pigeon flyers, forty nine spies, 361 thieves, ami thirty rogu< H and \agalKu.l*—all iht-se being the voluntary de.Nigiiatioiis <•{ the jK-rsoiie so elasaol. There r> , however, Do lees tliall 103,000 jK-m.'iis whom- occupation is dtwcrilwd as •' guewta." Like a Friiiee. H'>w many children who squander precious money m selfish gratification, might do with it what this young Fi< neb prince 'did, aud lie vastly happier tliau they now are : \Vhcn Charles X. of France was a boy, he wus plsi mg in s room where a j>eas nut of Auvergue was scrubbing the fl-or. Anvergnat si a use. 1 th< Count d'Artois (his title at tliat time) Willi talis of his country, and the prince told him he was i- 'try lie was poor, and had to work so hard. "Ah," sail the man, "my poor wife ami five children often go supjwrloas to bed 1" " Well, then," replied the prince, with tears in bis eyes, "von njusl let me manage for you. My governor, every month, gives me some j>ocket money, for which, after all, 1 liave no occasion, since I w ant for nothing. \on ••hall take this money and give it to your wife and children ; but IKS sure not to mention a word of the matter to a living soul, or you will be finelv scolded." The honest peasant told the prince's governor, however, and the latter told him to take the money aud asy nothing about it. So when the Count d'Artois received hi- allowance,, nt the end of the month, he slipped tlie whole sum slyly into the hands of his protege. The same evening, the governor had a child'* lottery for the Wnefit of the voting princes ; and each of the brothers was | rompt to hazard, but the Count d'Arbns ke|t unconcernedly aloof. The tutor feigned surprise nt tins uuu*u*l prudence, but the little count wouldn't relieve his curiosity ; then his brothers teamxl him, until finally his childish pa tience gave way, luid he cried out : " Yes, it may be very well for you ; Cut what would yon do if, like me, yon ad a wife aud five children to support r" fare of Canary Birds. I will give you a few hints how to the canary in health. To Iwgin with its food, which should be simply canary s ed mixed with about one four of rape-seed, give occasionally a shoe of sweet apple or a little bit of boil ed corfot byway of a treat, fresh chick weed, groundsel, or watercress; and above all give it plentv of clean water ; canaries are such bath-loving little birds. In their native wild state tliey ore always flitting in and out of water, aud it is cruel to deprive them of snob a whole some pleasure ; and when they are moulting do not forget to leave a' iron nail in their bath. He also very parti cular atiout keeping the cage clean. with plenty of fine sharp sand iu it. Do not leave it in a cold room in winter time, and SIHJVO all do not hang vour pet s cage by a draughty window, for there is nothing more likely to make them sickly and ill. Canaries are sticli tender, warmth-loving little birds, thatthoy aoon cease singing, and die, if these simple directions lie not well attended to. A japanned or a plain tinned cage is the best and easiest to clean ; the eommou colored cages are dangerous, as the birds areaat to pick off the paint and kill themselves. What He Knew About I obsfers. An agent of one of onr great express companion, stationed in the VV f st, was very fond of lobsters, indofd, and a while since laid in with one of the offi cers of tho company at the Boston end of the line, to forward him a small con signment of the crastaoeous animals. The order was promptly attended to, and a good champagne lmm]>er, well iced, was soon m route, knowing his great fondness for them. The expectant agent ♦virefnlly instrneted his elork to l>o on the watch for t.heir arrival, and report their coming. In duo time the package made its aiijrearanee one evening, and on Iwing liberated the lobsters began crawling about qnite vigorously. Now the clerk hatl never seen any of the crea tures but boiled ones, and the dark col ored specimens now meeting his gaze nnswerod very poorly his ideal of this edible, and he forthwith pitched them overboard and reported at headquarters that the lobsters were all spoiled, for they were all black. TttrraH j J®l~.oo a Yenr, in Aclvunoo. < TKTOM-110l HK FitAt'lttt. A l*or OMrrr t'M-d m T.l la SsliUt ■he I Bllrd sulci luicrsMrii-Kiaw a Unset User ■ I'rlHi. Col. Ilea Augna, a New York euatom lioune officer, was found guilty of fraud uml sentenced to ftne and imprisonment. The story of Col. lies Auges ui peculiar one ; yet his career i* n<4 unlike that of othera who live boyoud their means lie wss S'l i fficer ia the English service, Slid it is now claimed that he was a de faulter there. He name to the Culled HLatca during the war and obtained a commission as an officer of colored troops. After the war Ctcn. Hanks, in whose command he was, secured a j>o*i tiou for him as inspector in the New York custom honae, at a salary of 11, 500 per yenr. He waa so well liked that he was soon promoted to the position of deputy collector, with au advance of salary. Il<- now moved from his modest iMiardiug house on Washington square to New Jersey, and built him a house. Atwiut the custom house was a broker who hail formerly been au uiapector, but had tweu discharged, and turned broker, made friends with CtJ. lies Anges, and loaned him money to finish and furnish his house. It wail not long before the broker had the officer in hia puwer. When a lot of goods are imported oar tain I wins or packages are sent to tLr appraiser for examination. AH these pack ages are taken indiscriminately from the lot it is sopp try and save myself for the future." It a ILK too late. Ihe net had taken him iu and his life was ln-ucefortb to be only a vwk, and hi* young and loving wife must suffer with liitu. Small Farms A correspondent writing of farm* ♦ *ys: A man who i* wholly unacquain ted with farui life, or oz>- who ha* had hut wrv littli* experience on a farm. Would find it iiapoNsible in moat case* to make a very g.Kxl living on a place of twenty to thirty acre*, no matter where located, A German or au irishman with A family of children old enough to work out of door* could live on alotit twenty acres witli suitable buddings, if paid for, even if ignorant of farm life; aud anch a place to le profitable should emhraoe the moat of A regular fartn huaineaa in • email way; Lot Americana with familiea aorustomod to a more refined and a lea* toilsome life should be wry careful how they enter on anch a risky huaineaa. I kn.iw a Herman who recently bought a forty acre farm in New Jersey, paid $!,- odh "down, and gave a mortgage for $3. !oh. He kH'ps no help, hi* wife work ing regularly in the fields with him; and at rr.r.d time* tliey both take hold and provide enough, such as it is, to eat, and thua they manage to live and pay their intercut, and in time may pay off the mortgage. Hut no American and hia wife will pursue such a course. Consequently otir native citizens should not go upon a farm without understanding folly what thoy are nlxmt. If w man understand* farming, aud haa money enough to |*y for twenty five or thirty acre* of good 1 land, well provMod with the necessary buildings, and located near mime large town or city, and has a family accustomed to l>o economical, I think it would de to risk the purchase; but he ahonld not only have enough money to pay for the place, Vint also enough to stock it well and to purchase the neeeeaary farm im plements, and then have J2OO or S3OO over for contingencies. Tlie scores of poor |Mople who are made to believe by fiaalnug advertisements that with from S3OO to S3OO oaah they can purchase twenty acres of wild laud, ran in debt for it and pay for it out of one or two of the first crops, should be s warning to men in future seeking rural homes. A Desert Republic. Dr. Hayes, in a late lecture, gave his listeners n very mten-eting description of Ins visit to lodani last year. He said it aeomod strange to him to know that the principle of civil and religions lib ertv IUKI flourished on that cold island, anuke of Portland, one of the oldest and wealthieat purl* now liv ing. H owna immensely valuable prop erty in leitidon, and hta inaorne in at Inset SB,OOO a day. He haw a peeaion for aolitude. Though be ha* two fine houaee in Cavendish square, few I*>n i loner* have ever net eyea upon hi in. Even at W*lleek abbey, where be paaaee moat of hia time, he livee ao muah alone that he will not have any aerrauU to wait npon him at dinner, but haa an 3aratua by which the table la lowered irough the thaw to the kichen when it want* rrlpeniahing. N*<4 that it often needs this, for the duke bee only two meal, a day, at one of which half a a chicken la servol, and at the other meal the other half. Ooaaefoualiy h* haa vim to re at Welbeck, but he never aeea thcin, though they may be in the hooae ft* weeka at a tun*. Wlwo he drive# out be t* conveyed in a vehicle hung round with curtaina, ao that no lody can aee in, and it ia drawn by fox Lilliputian puttica. The approaches to the abtwy are aubtarrauean, and them are fifteen mih-a of tuunela oo the eatale, all well ventilated, and many of them lighted day and night, and adorned with sculpture#. There is a splendid stable, where fifty huntera are kept, though the duke never hunt*. He haa a gallery of glanti and iron a mile long, where they may exercise in all weather*. The duke is now oonstruetingthroe enormous sub terranean libraries and a subterranean church, ami it haa token the workmen { three year* to etc*vat* the ground. Hut that upon which the duke moat pride, himself ia hia moaeum. It ia construct , d largely of glass, and lighted by cban- j debet*, each weighing a ton. It haa' token ten Tear* to fix the glass alone, iind now the picture* are loing bung. j They are very choice, as they ought to i be, seeing that the duke some time ago made a huge bonfire of paintings which he did not think good enough, though . they oust many thousand pounds. He j haa never beeu married, and it ia tup pound haa never been in low*, and as be ! is sevcutv five now, be ia not likely to j be. The TurkUk A correspondent of the Manchester Eng.) Guardian writes from Mtasek a* follow* : At Sviniar I ni heartily re ceived by the com, M. Edward Jalosirh, who, however, not having been long in his present post, mud ill most of the tune, ni not sble to toll me moch. But, prr contra, there was s stalwart priest from a neighboring village who - fl* bailor twttd" are uu uie rage in mnsylvsma. Thorn in grant complaints of adultera ted guano among the farmer* of aoutF • max Star Joragjr. The Bev. )L Hugh, Metbodias preach er of Vermont, occasionally deliver* bis friDooi hi wrss. A Keu&ttriT Wtft tZTG iS&tlw I UM happy pnaaaaaor of a wifojnearly 1 ibne inches tailor. For aoma raaaos skeleton* for the med foal schools, tumally quoted at SBO, oao now be had for $36. Tba appU crop haa boon ao large in England that cider sails for a peutiy a qtuut at country inn*. A ticket was taken the other day on . the Maine Central railroad which was ; burned fifteen year* ago. Lady to waiter—" Don't put that foe ! into tbe goldet with your fingers '" Waiter—"lair, ma'am, I don't mind, j my bands are very warm." A Penney Iranian named Wingart oat i his toe off because of an aching corn, ' and then hung himself because of the 1 aching of the amputated toe. The increase in the number of the in- I nana committed at Haa Francisco the j present yea* ia twenty-five per cent over j the corresponding period last year, i "I stand upon the soil of freedom:** , cried a stump orator. "Ho," exclaimed j his shoemaker, " yon stand in a pair of ! boots that have never been paid for." Franklin used to urge business men to ; sd verHae, but if a merchant prefer* playing checker* and sitting with bis I feet o?j the counter it's hia own business. The polios of Washington have dis ' covered that au average of ten graves are robbed each week in that city ; but , they haven't discovered who robs them. The original hemlock fog foundations of Long wharf at Beaton were un*rtb od a few day* ago, and found to be as solid as when first put down, 164 year* ago. Sewing baa been taught in the public j sehuci* of Boetou for twenty-three* years, and it is now discovered that it ia illegal j to expend public money for that pur , pose. Said a pompous fellow, browbeating i hia auditors : " I have traveled around j the world." Iteplfod a wit of the Adii [ soman school: "So haa the aane I hold in my hand, but it ia only a stick for all that." "John Henry," arid hia wife, with atony severity, " I saw yon comiug out of a saloon this afternoon." "Wall, madam," replied the obdurate John, "yon wouldn't hare me stay in there, would you f" Wedding journeys are DO longer the style, written invitations are considered once mora wry elegant, and wadding cards w*re leaned at Loekport the other day with the significant in titra tion : "So praaanta." A remarkable troupe were photo •graphed at Henniker, X. H., one day lately, consisting of a great grwU-grand motuer, great grandmother, mother and daughter. When a man haa been hard at work ia an obscure wav for years and at length achieves sucoaaJPbiae-tanth* of his ac quaintances insult him by offering con gratulations on hia " lack." A haras race has been run at Houston, Texas, to run twelve hours, or till one should quit At the end of forty-eight mil's, made in four hours and thirty ruinates, one r-fvmcd to go any farther. Mother Stewart, a leader in the Ohio temperanoe cruaede of two years ago, has induced a large number of mothers to notify saloonkeeper* not to sell liquor to their wast. Tfi* law compels obedi ence to such notice*. The rMMoo whv e woman requires • iarg- wallet for tb transportation of a twenty-five oabt ahinplaster i m deeply wrapped ia mystery as the reason why • dog always tarns aroond three times when he gets np after a rap. An honest resident of Bkowbepaa. Me., who had been attending a crowded meeting of his fellow townsmen, was as tonished, on reaching home, to find another man's watch and chair, dangling from a button at the back of his coat. " What did the doctor say ailed your son, Mr*. Smith*** f" *' H' said the poor boy had two buckles on his lungs" replied "Mr*. S. "Two buckles, h ! Well, that's dreflnl. I always tbonght he looked like a strapinag young man." During the seven years of the exis tence of the New York foundling aslum 6,500 children have been rewired into it, and about 1,000 mothers liave been sheltered. There are now about 1,450 children under the care of the institu tion. Inhabitants of the planet Mars can make the tour of the world there dry shod or in forty days if they have accom plished rapid transit. The laud is not divided ofl in islands as with us, the amount of water being barely enough to form lakes. Numerous experiments have been eon ducted in India for the purp. ise of dis covering a trustworthy cure for the lute of the cobra. It ia announced that Dr. Short* of Madras hniwsaeeensfullT treated several oases this summer with liquor poUmue and brandy. A fashionable woman's clothes weigh twenty-four pounds, exclusive of hat. furs and rubbers, while a man's outfit hardly goes over fifteen ponuda. This is a free country, however, and any woman m a* liberty to carry aa much as a mule nan draw if she wants to. The authorities of Santiago. Chili, imued an ordinance making it obligatory upon every owner or occupant of a house either to clean, paint or whitewash the fronts, and to display the national flag, for the anniversary of independence which occurred September IS. From the Seunng MacXiiu Journal we learn that there were a old, during the year 1874, 602,074 sewing machines of different American makes, and that since 1853, when the first sewing machines were made, up to the end of 1874, there have been ia the aggregate 3,785,908 made and sold. In 1870 Russia produced 480,000,000 bushels of wheat ; Trance, 286,000,000 ; and the United Bhes the same as France. Russia exported one-eighth <>f her grain, the United States one-fourth, and France none. The United States, however, grows an enormous amount of corn, which the other countries do no:. " I suppose I can buy everything in New York," said a Chicago woman to an acquaintance she met in Broadway. "Oh, no I you can't find some things even in Paris. For iuatanoe, I arrived at the dignity of a grandmother yester day, and at onoe went out to get 'an old liulr* bonnet,' but uo such article was for sale." The city of Berlin has but one steam ilra engine, tire rest being old-fashioned hand machines, and the water supply is inadequate. Recently an ixhmense new hotel was burned, and water was brought in barrels and pumped feebly to the second story where there was no fire. At length a heavy rain extinguished the flames. An editor says ; Wo started out to shoot a squirrel the other day and six men camo up and paid their subscrip tions. They thought we were out col lecting. But if they had waited to ob tain the squirrel's private opinion of our skill as a marksman, their fears would not have got the better of theft usual cool judgment. Tho late eeoentrie Marquis of Water ford offered a railway company £5,000 it they would allow him to witness the ex citing spectacle oi two engines dashing into one another at full speed from op posite directions on the samd line ; but the company could not see the matter in a sporting light, tod the oiler was re spectfully declined.