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|<a
dore, whit, its distant ttttiiUD of the
colonel's niece, Ctotne ami went to Uie
atatiou as much as it pleased him. He
was a very rich prince, ami maintuiuoil a
uiaguifloeiit but questionable establish
tuent alut ten miles awav. lie never
omv, despite his instinct, mistrusted
Uie little Indian blissl in her veins, al
though he well know that Anglo Indian
blood la by no means of the most trust
worthy kind. At the same time he
knew how faithful can U Imiiau ser
vautaof low caste, when they are tioaU-d
properly, ami he was oue of the few
Kngltaltnieu who treated his native ser
rants with absolute propriety ; for it is
astonishing how **>n the Kurojw<an de
generates into a tltful employer when lie
reaches India. Two or three of las ser
▼ants then kept a very fair watch upou
the coining* and goings of tins luxuri
ous satrap.
It was the fatal of May, and Kerr
had tioeu laughed at tlie last tune at
mesa ooucerumg his mistrust of the ua
Uvea—fur he felt that he could do no
good, and that he might be obliged by
another serpent who might be more
mischievious than his predecessor---
when a servant came to him and said
that the Sahib Harwdore had met the
mem Mihib, Miss Klfrida, ou the
previous night at the end of the shrub
iH-ry beyond the colonel's bungalow,
nud that they were to meet again there
tliat night. *
lie laughed, ami thanked the servant,
but he turned very pale as he remenil er
ed that ahe hail been strangely cold
and distraught when he had called that
day.
Then, for the first time, he mistrur ted
her mixed blood. Was it possible that
she felt any sympathy with the di-Whct
ed Indiana ? And then he remembered
how he him9eif often defended the
Spanish race, to whom his mother
partially belonged, although he knew in
ilia heart that the Iberians are not a
valuable race in the history and welfare
of modern Europe.
Did he watch her 1 Ah, yea! Love
is like bad breediug ; when it is be
trayed, or is supposed to be betrayed, it
makes us act meanly.
He saw them meet, marked him kneel
to her, noted her distress, and lo ! alter
a time, she seemed to consent They
moved away together, and almost im
mediately after the tramphng of a oouple
of galloping horses was to be heard.
"Colonel!—Colonel! lend me your
hunter. Euuit i.idu, will von I"
It was Kerr calling through the
dead of the night outside the colonel's
house.
" Are you mud i" asked the colonel,
putting ins head out letween the blinds
and the jamb of the window.
•' No ; I want to save myself and
you from madness. Muv 1 take Eu
inemda /"
" Yes; but "
He ' gone before tlie colonel could
say any more; and Is fore the gallant • >l<i
man could put him-* If tu order to make
such a public appearance as was only
Iwuuing in a colonel, he heard his friend
galloping sway. For despite the colo
nel's ridicule of Kerr's warning concern
ing the natives, be kept his Is stcharger
saldled every night, 111 event of a dis
turbance.
Kerr felt for his revolver, which hud
never left him since the discovery of the
dead serpeut, and he set out upon his
chase. He knew the horse under him,
aud calculated that he should overtake
them iu twenty minutes. The moon
was shining magnificently; the wind WHS
towar.l* htm, aud from them; all ooudi
tious in his favor.
What were his thoughts as he sixsd
after her 1 He never afterwards asked
himself, but this one conviction grew
strong upon him—that if her mixed
blood had takeu her back to the Hrah
aiins, he wonlil save her English honor
by shooting her down. This was his
<>ne 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 y<u would have
done it for tuy honor's sake. I never
loved you more than then, and saw the
moonlight on your imie face; and I saw
tliat you dare uot kill me, traitress a
y<si tb >ngtit 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,
<xu*pcts, ]>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 |<a|H*r which seemed very bright
when exposed to view in the rear room,
lighted from the top of the paper-hang
er's store, has a dark, not to say a dingy,
appearance when placed upon the walla.
Ho with the ftiroittire-oovcriugs. 80 with
, aluio.it uvery arti'le of furniture. It
require* a person with a very experi
-1 e ced eye to imagine the difference be
: tweeu ttie look of tilings in a shop and
their ap]>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<v-t
wail papers for drawing rooms are those
with very i>: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, #wU<rn, and northeastern
'i shore* >f the VietorM Nlyanaa. AI
1 give* tlurtv seven observation* of l>ay,
, inlet* and creek*, minutely explored,
' with a view to ili<trriuitt thtir rrltiD
*, t> 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|<al feeder of the lake and
. Uie cxtremest source of the N lie vet dia
Olj
covered.
'j Stanley depict* graphically many in
ctdeots of hi* expedition. He hail *ev
'* era] conflicts with the treacherous slave
, doolrr* on the lake. ()u one ocoa-ion he
. wan ut tucked by one hundred native*
[ armed with sjw-ars, in thirteen canoes,
who were repulsed after a severe light.
* Three native* were killed. He arrired
at Mtesa's liiintlug camp at M*a vlira
April It, where ho wan received with
great ceremony ainl cordiality by the
king.
In Stanley'a honor the king directed
'* extraordinary festivities and display*.
One feature of the display wa* a navrJ
review on the lake of eighty four canoe*
* manned by 2,V>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* b<x>k 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|H<cteJ a poor,
weak woman like her to Here Mr.
Harlow aiMilngctirally ami promptly re
marked tlmt ho would tell tho UUMtuitil
I to— "Tho tiuMiiiitii 1" replied Mia.
j Harlow, with a shudder; " tlio tinsmith!
Come, Sauiantlia ami Hertrnm," alio
cried, hastily humlhug theui up in a
shawl, "collie, let lis go to the jsior
house; your father in going to wants all
hin substance in riotous tinsmiths. Jolui
Sneillker llarlow," she cried, addressing
herself to him. " what lie you a tliiuk
tug oft The tinsmith Would charge you
a dollar if he'd charge you a cent, liere
1 am. toiling ami uioiluig from morning
till night, week iu and week out, from
year's eml to year'# eud, at. 1 if I talk
<if upending a dollar 1 In ver hear the
loot of it. ltut you—oh ! you can go
and throw away your" Here Mr.
liarluw Murrendcred ut indiscretion ami
promised to put up that stove on Hiui
ilu.
Farly on the morning of the sacred
day the Harlow household was disturbed
ly HUl'h Ull*CCU*toUled UOlSe a* th*
pounding of pl|x<*, the rustling of wx>t,
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<y no tueana
favorably, on hi* raetbotl of comluoting
operation*. At last, being aggravated
beyond bounds, Mr. Harlow gave the
eiUow a sharp blow horitontally. A au
|xudtxi at *vs pipe ofTera comparatively
little r* *> 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 <KM and Hikhs,
40,750,000 Mahometans, and 9,250.000
Buddhists, Jama. Jowa, Bai-sees, Hrali
mora, Hill-men and Christians. Of tite
Christian* there are not quite 900,000,
and of these 250,000 are Kuropeaua.
The greater jKirtiou of the Christians
are 111 Madras. There are not lean
twer.tr three distinct languages spoken
in India, exclusive of the almost innu
me mi 4e dialect* of the rarioua hill
triU-a. The variety of autre ia bewil
, ilariog; in the north wait provinces not
lens than 307 distinctive castes of Hin
dot MI are specified. and in Bengal the
imuibrr of caste* ie 1,000. Of British
born subjects, excluding the army aiid
nary, there are only 59.000 resident in
Intlia; and the Americans number only
940. Taking the population a* a whole,
the numtier of male* is about enual to
the females, hot among the iughrr
i ietew the feinalea are ui a minority—a
circumstance due to the fart that the
praoiioe of female infanticide still pre
vails to a great extent. In regai dt> > 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<wed that they give a fair
test of the lot of goods, and they pay
duty accordingly. Having lies Anges
in his power, the broker, having a lot
of ttfteeu or twenty 1 nales just arrived,
would say: " Colonel, send NOB. 4 ami
12 to the appraisers," and it would be
done. Now, by coilnaion on the other
aide, Xua. 4 and 12 would contain sim
ply cotton goods, and all the other bales
Mik goods. The whole lot would pay
duty as cotton goods, of course, and as
the duty is high on silks, the govern
nn-nt would be defrauded out of a large
stun.
How long this work was earned on ia
not known, but it ia known that millions
of dollars' worth of silks were on the
market below rates. Indeed, the lead
mg New York merchants declared that
they outiid not import ailka, the smug
glers had the market to themselves to
such au exteut H. B. Clafllin, the great
merchant, through his buyer, purchased
over half a mill inn dollars' worth of
the ailka.
lies Anges, the tool of others, suffers
imprisonment for his crime. He is peas',
having secured nothing out of his ill
gotten gains, and must languish in prisun,
wuile those who profited by the frauds
will revel in their wealth, and aoon look
for new aids in their work of swindling
Uncle Sam. When the frauds were fin
ally discovered, and a prison stared him
in the faoe, poor Iks Anges wrote to his
persecutors as follows: "No further
communication, verbally or in writing.
You are followed, and so am I. Let
everythirg go to the devil. Lxport all
ymi can, out let me alone U> 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,
an<s that here in the great republic of
America we were making a great ado
over the centennial of our birth as a free
republic. The people of Iceland he
found to lie the liappicst and most moral
of nnv he lid visited. At the capital
of the little republic (the population of
the whole island number* only 70,000)
they found pleasant homos surrounded
by beautiful flower gardens. In the dis
tance, lookiug north from the little
town of 17,000 inhabitants, could be
sen the white, snow-ooaled mountains
with herds of thousands of sheep graz
ing at their ease. Iu tlie town there was
s jail, bnilt many years ago, but its only
inmates so far had been the jailer and
his wife, the people believing so thor
oughly in freedom that none of tbem
would do anything for which they could
be put in jail. The lecturer described
the visit of the party to the interior,
when they stood near to the months of
the hot (b-yser spring* and saw the
white peak "of old Mount Hecln, sixty
miles away. The real birthplaoe of re
publican independence, a small oasis in
the middle of a black desert of lava,
was also described.
Occupation of New Houses.
It is possible to avoid danger from
dampness of new houses by passing air
through them rapidly enough to prevent
its becoming saturated yith moisture.
Air which contains no watery vapor is
neither pleasant nor wholesome. It
should le two-thirds saturated; and if
this proportion bo not much exceeded
no injury eau arise from such vapor
I only, and there seems no reason why, if
: it lie derived from a damp wall, it should
be injurious if not in exooss—that is, if
tho air bo changed rapidly enough to
prevent it becoming too damp.
Oregon has a new town called Pay Up.
It is said to a good plAoe for aettlemeat.
NO. 48.
A Fine Old KngtJah e*tleaun.
Her* in a "personal" of "a fine old
English gentleman, all of the olden
time "-—the l>uke 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
3<l>aratua 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
<m a native of Bosnia, where he had
been in charge of a parish, bat obliged
to dee for his life. His story throws
much light on the savage nature of the
life led in Bosnia both ov Slosh-ma and
Christians. One day during the harvest,
when he was rmpkmng some twenty
men to ret it in, and lie was just about
to have nis dinner, a Moslem appeared
in the yard, armed to the teeth, and
asked for one of the workmen The
care inquired what he wanted him for.
"To shoot him," waa the reply; "he
lias stolen an apple and cursed tav
bouse." The core told him to be on
and seek his remedy in a law court.
Thereupon the Moslem quietly cocked
his gun and fired at the cum, who only
inst escaped bv s quick movement be
hind tiie window, took down hin gun
in turn and shot the aggressor dead.
But now the cure's Mood was up, and,
calling his men together, be bade them
make a bonfire. I"ben stripping the
Moslem, he rubbed him all over with
lard—the greatest possible indignity for
a Moslem—and pitched the bcify into
the tire. Of course be had to fiy for his
life, and the parish was obliged to pay
s fine of 15,000 dnosts to the man s
family. As may easily be supposed,
tlii* cure is one of the most energetic
supporters of the relwlliou now, and I
shall not 1* surprised to bear that he
lus become one of the loaders.
Want Some Nifro-fihrerine !
The Laramie (Wj. T- r.) Sun of recent
data says : About ten days since the
engineer of a freight train, near Bryan,
hoard s terrible cracking noise, and
thought something must be wrong with
tus engine. The train was stopped,
when it was discovered that wwnMhing
was leaking from the car, near the engine,
and that the loud reports were caused by
the wheels passing over drops of the
fluid which tiad fallen upon the track.
The car was opened, and a number of
large tanks found upon the inaide
labeled " Glycerine." The horrible
truth then burst upon the train mu that
they were hauling a whole oar load of
thai terrible explosive compound, nitro
glycerine. The car was shlo-tracked
and left at Granger, where a apur track
was built, and the oar run out npon it
away from the mam deck. It will re
main there, and the citixens and railroad
officials are alike at a loss to know what
to do with it The car is consigned to
some firm in Ban Francisco, but the
shippers cannot be found, although the
company have made most stringent
efforts to discover them. The owners
are respectfully requested to come for
wrad, prove property, and take it away.
A Little tirala.
A Nottinghamshire farmer, writing to
a local paper, says : In September of
last year, while vowing some seeds in
my garden, I accidentally dropped a
grain of com among them, at least so 1
surmise, for I soon observed a blade of
corn spring up. and as I noticed that it
grew very rapidly, I had the curiosity to
protect it, and gave it every chance of
coming to perfection. The result was
as follows : The number of ears on the
root was sixty-three (forty very larwe),
and though some grains were pici [fid
away bvoue of mi bt ui, the number of
grains left wheu counted was 8,044. I
have the root of corn, which I dug up,
and am fully convinced that all was the
production of one grain. I leave your
readers to make their own calculations,
supposing every grain of wheat could be
made equally productive. I have often
had the curiosity to notice the produc
tion of one root of wheat when growing
in my fields, but never found more than
twenty-eere to one root
A Lofty Signal.
The erection of a signal on the sum
mit of Monut Shasta by the offlcers of
the coast survey has been successfully
accomplished. The altitude of the sig
iial—which is A hollow cylinder of gal
vanized iron, twelve feet high and two
and one-half feet in diameter, surround
ed by a ooue of nickel-plated copper,
with concave sides, three feet high and
three feet in diameter at the baae—is,
according to the observations taken by
the members of the coast survey, 14,
402 feet—forty feet less than the alti
tude given by the State geological sur
vey. The nickel-plating of the signal is
a brilliant reflector, and will, from six
to nine A. M. and from three to seven
p. M., reflect the sunlight in such a
manner that the reflection can be
seen from the valleys and the mountains
from which the summit of the mountain
is visible. It is believed that it can be
used for observations at a distance of
one hundred miles, and possibly further.
From one and a quarter acres of
sorghum, labam Wilson of Eoscinsoo,
Miss., made 157Jgallons of fine molasses.
Itom of Inforwi.
Now dri| lb* fhamels from Uieir nm
m*v tatr.
Men who fish for aampliments don'l
NA< how ilirtjr the water MV
'Lb* Ureal KasWnii folw '.ng r'/nrnWi-1
at ail i'i|*nw ul lor ornU tin *1
trips.
A girl being iwnwt of trifling with
h*r l<var'* feeliags replied : " 1 p-*d
" Uujui and milk feeUrsl* and " *j>-
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.