WAS IT L? Up the morning the light biwesea •hirer. The no ft clou.tleU flit o'er the ekv ; Who ran in her mirth by the nrer 1 Wee it 1 ? Wee it 1 f Whoee voice rang out. a* clear end gey. A* the joyone breath of the wakening day, Who cheered the dog to the flashing leap W here the pehblee ehoue and the banka were steep , Who ley on the daisies to wntoh the lerk Pose ite twinkling wingt in the greet blue arc. Who laughed et the brown here# .letting by ? Wee it I? Wee it If Iu the auneet the lithe wtllowe quiver. The twee Unl ia flooding the eky j Who loitered of old by the river ? Wee it If Wee it If Who watched Uie bine forget-me-not* gleam. And the water liltee float on the tioem' Who binahed ee a strong arm drew them near And a low roe 1 * wbiepered oloee etui dear, How fair the waveu flowere would ehow, "Mid the golden bra, da in the ball room's glow ' Oh! the happy alienee hushed aud ehy. Was it I ? Wee it 1 ? The blank loe band* crackle and ehirar, As the pale wintry aun lights the eky ; Who elands by the cold sullen river ? Is it I? Is it If With heir that ia touched by the fallen anew. And a atop that was eager, long ago ; Ah ine! aince then ita faltering lived Has followed the train of beloved dead And bee learnt the watcher's cautious way*. And must needs go softly alt its days, And memory owns, with a patient sigh. U waa I ? It waa I ? —All Tkt )'■ A'fwwd. MyConvict Acquaintance. He was rather a slight built man of ahout five aiul thirty, tolerably well dressed, and having a foreign, tanned look about the face that told of residence abroad. He waa my right hand neigh bor in the row of the pit of the Olympic Theatre during the performance of "T he Ticket-oi Leave Man," and he had draw n my attention to himself by the intense eagerness with which he had been list ening to the dialogue, as his eyes seemed to devour every situatiou Iu the clever drama. More than once I heard him utter a faint sigh, evidently unconscious that he was heard; and at ln*t. when the hero Is hemmed in by difficulties, and prosecuted by the black shadow of his own character, which follows hitn wherever he goes, ui.r neighbor rested hts hands upon the partition which sep arated us from the stalls, bowed his head and remained unmoved for quite half an hour. And this during oueof the must inter esting phase- of the drama. I saw at a glance that this was no ordinary plav-goer, but one who for some reason w as evidently deeply moved by the Action enacted before linn ; and l" tried to respect bis emotion, which showed itself every now and then by a convulsive heaving of the shoulders. At last he turned a sallow, haggard face towards me, and rose from his •oat. "Will you let me go by?" he said. "I mmt get out of this." I let him pass me. and after a mo ment's hesitation, followed him into the fresh air and it was well 1 did so, for the poor fellow gave a lurch a* soon as he wits outside, and would have fallen If I had not caught his arms. A few minutes alter* ards, 1 had led him down into the strand, where in the retired box of a well know 11 coffee room he revive! under the Influences of a . little cold spirit and water, and gave me a feeble smile. "1 am very thankful to you," he -aid, rising. "Good Night, i am spoiling your evening's entertainment." "If you take my advice," 1 said, "you will t quite still for another hour. You are not detaining tue, for I have seen the piece before, aud only dropped in to refresh my memory. It seeuied to move you." He looked at me sharply. "Yes," be said after a pause, and speaking with intense bitterness —"It is so true 1" "I suppose it is," I said vaguely. "I have heard so." "Suppose —heard!" he said excited ly. "Man, it is a fact dressed up in the form of fictiou. I kuow it to my sor row." "Indeed!" "Yes," he said in an undertone, as he rose once more—for his excited manner had made a shabby looking old pressman look up from his jiaper. "Y"es, I know, and 1 could prove it all. Good night, sir, and thank you. Yours was the first act of kindness I have encountered for many a long day. Perhaps 1 should not have received it if you had known that I was a tieket-of-leave man myself." I must confess to giving a start; and he saw it and smiled. "I don't see why the fact of vour having been in trouble should \ave precluded my affording you help," I said. "But it is the custom," he said bitter ly. "Too can't touch pitch without being defiled." "1 object to being ruled by your old proverbs on principle," I said. "Half of them are bosh, and a lot more are of the most ixmtemptibly selfish tendency. If the pitch touching theory held good, there would be no Christianity. I say you can touch pitch without being de filed. You may make yourself look black, but pitch is a good, honest, whole some vegetable guin and does not want' black guarding." "You are a philosopher," he said, half sneeringly. "Not I," 1 said. "We profess here in London to be a Christian people, and I was trying for once in away to act like one." "Christians!" he exclaimed, bitterly. "Well, yes—that's what we make a great parade of being; but I'm afraid we are very bard on any one who has climbed over the palings—very hard indeed on a man; and as to woman, poor wretch ! it would have been better for her if she had not been born." He stood staring at me, hesitated, then waived his hand, as in token of farewell, and was passing me to go; bat I caught his coat in my hand. "Sit down, man," i said; "you look faint. Come, join me tn a chop and a glass of stout. You see, I want to act like a Christian, but you won't let me." He hesitated still; then he glanced down in my smiling face, and once mors took his seat, to half cover his face with his hand, remaining silent; while I ordered some supper, took out a cigar— offered him one, which was refused— and then began to smoke. " And so yon are a ticket-of-lcave man, are you?" 1 said, in a low tone; but he started, and glanced round, with a frightened, half hunted look. There was no one heeding us, though; and his eyes sought mine once more. "Yes," he said, "I was sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude, and 1 served five, when they let me free, and I tame back. I had better have stayed." "I suppose it is hard to get on with out recommendations?" I saitl. "Hard? Man, it's next to impossible. Look here, sir, you have sought this out; you have lead me on to speak, or God knows I would not have said a word. You see here a man driven to desperation—broken hearted, despair ing—without a friend to turn to; set free to get an honest living, but dis trusted by everybody, and dogged by the police. Why, supposing 1 got a decent post, I am bound to go to the police officers to have iny ticket signed at intervals, and if 1 did not, I should be taken before a magistrate. "I will not ask you to believe me— how can I expect you to, when I say I was innocent of the crime for which I suffered ? It is the cry of every crimi nal, from the mnrderer down to the boy who pilfers from a till. You will tell me 1 was tried by a jury of my owe countrymen, before a judge, and had impartial treatment. Yes, I grant all that; but I am innocent all the satne. Do you wish to hear more ? Shall I go?" "More? Yes. Go? Why?" "You are sitting face to face with a returned convict." "I'm afraid that I've sat face to face with a good many respectable members of society who ought to be convicts un relented. Go on, man. We shall have the chops here soon." His face worked as he looked at me, and his voice had a good deal altered, as he went on: "It was an embezzlement case for which I was tried," he said at last. "I was one of the clerks in a large I.an- FRED. KURTZ. Editor and Proprietor VOL. IX. cash ire cotton house, and there were de falcations discovered. "fl by they pitched ujwwi me, I never knew ; hut one morning 1 was called into (lie private room of the dun and questioned respecting certain amounts and could give no explanation; there had been a certain amount of cooking In the Lnvks, and in a couple of years, by the professional accountant's *how - lug, about three hundred pounds were missing. "Fancy being suddenly called from your desk to go smiting into a room, exjweting words of encouragement — the announcement that you are promot ed. or vour salary raised —and then to he smhlenly charged with embe*le rneiit. "1 was completely stunned. 1 know I fall cold ami damp, and 1 suppose 1 flushed and then looked |ale — sign* which those present Interpreted to uioau guilt. 1 faltered aud grew con fused, too, in answering questions—in short, I was completely overcome; and at the eud of an hour 1 ** being taken to the police station, stunned, over powered by this sudden charge. "Before we reaches! the pollce station though, the light had come; for pass ing a newspaper office, thens in large letter* UJKVU a bill were the three suc cessful horses of the I>oneasier St.lx-gcr, and they were neither of theiu the runner* that John had backed. "I shall weary you with my long story. Let It suffice that there was ex amination after examination, and to my horror my brother was placed in the witness box to confront me; and he did so quietly, aud without a shade of emo tion, save at the last, when he broke down, ami the magistrate told him that his display of feeling wa* wo*t credita ble to hiin. "1 was astonished to see how a net was closing lu round me—innocent won!* and deeds now *eemed to have suddenly taken a guilty color; and at last, to my horror. I was committed for trial, bail being refused. "John came to see me then, and faces) me trembling in the prison; but I turned my back itpou him, and would not speak unless he came to me a* a suppliaut. "He came again, this time begging me le hear him. "I saw it all in a flash; he had been losing again. The race was three days before, but 1 took no notice of such mat ters, being a bookworm, while John was gay, and had sporting tastes. This was it. "I shivered as I thought of it all. and •eemed to see mv mother's agony when she heard of it, as she must before many hours were over. She worshipped John, who was a Ane, handsome young fellow, and idolized bis young wife. John was two years older than I, but my junior in the counting-house; and 1 groaned In the bitterness of my heart as I thought of the agony it would bring upon those two women, when they hesrd of his disgrace. "I say disgrace, for I had not a doubt now. 1 knew him to he the culprit, and in my misery I forgot my own sorrow, longing the while for an oppertunity to warn him of his danger. *Ned, Ned. old fellow,' he cried, sob bing like a child, '1 did it—l own I did it, but I can't acknowledge It. Ned, it w ill break our mother's heart, and EUau will despise me. Oh, this cursed gam bling.* 'And weakness,' I said bitterly, as I realized it all—everything that tie had said, and knew it to he true. 'Go back to them, John,' 1 said; 'I will never bo tray you. Tell Mary— "I could say no more, but sat on my bench, blind, "choking, and half mad. ••But, there, 1 need not go Into the store of my love. I bore it all, and never unclosed my lips. 1 took the credit to myself, as I was accused, of being the thief who had robbed his employers: for I knew that if I opened my lips, I should be in effect my mother's murder er, and the blight upon the happiness of John's young wife. " 'lt will be a lesson to him,* 1 said, 'l'm of little consequence In the world; and as to Mary, she will forget me.' "My trial came on, and 1 was sen tenced, as I told you ; the bitterest trial of all being to see John stand there, calm and unmoved, one of the witness es bv whose words I was condemned. "f parted from mr mother, leaving her deceived. Why should 1 ahatter the idola ahe worshipped? And in bitter mockery her words, urging repentance for my crime, fell upon my ears. Mary the woman I loved, I did not see, but she wrote and told me ahe did not be lieve me guiliy, and would wait. "It was her promise that enabled me to bear up during the time I was at one and another of the convict prlaona, till the day I stood leaningover the bulwark of the transportship which was bearing me down the Channel away to Van Dieinen's I.and—a convict. "I thought my heart would break, as I leaned there In the tight, half-gro tesque convict garb, my close cap drawn to my eyes, my face cleanly shaven, and my hair cut short. It was so hard to believe that I was the same man, com pelled to associate with a set who were nine-tenths ruffians, with scarcely a redeeming trait. "And there was the soft, blue sea and across it the gravand ruddy cliffs of the Cornish coast. Land's End would soon be in sight, for we were close to the Lizard, and soon we should be out upon the open sea. "'Good-bye,' I muttered, with my hands firmly clasped—'good-bye home— mother—Mary. Brother, you, have been to me like Cain, for you have taken my life.' "f did not move, but stood watching there till we were ordered below, and the next morning home was far astern. "At the end of five years, after the hard toll of a convict In the colonies, 1 was back here in England, a broken man. The hope seemed crushed out of me, and I expected nothing now. Still, my heart beat high, as with a little money, my own earnings, 1 was, after the usual preliminaries, set free, with plenty of advice as to avoiding my former evil course, all of which 1 heard patiently, before setting off for the north. "I arrived to find my mother was dead; my brother had sailed with his wife for America two years before. "I had one more hope—my greatest. Hail Mary kept her word? "God bless her! she had; and was toiling on and waiting patiently for my return. Sir, can you wonder at my emo tion as I sat and saar that realistic piece to-night? It was as If the writer had known my life. 1 could not bear It, and you know, I came away." "Wel! ? ' "Well! well, I am a ticket-of-leave man. 1 ran not get employment; an<! when I <lo 1 can not keep it. God help me, 1 have a hundred time* been nearly driven into crime; and but for the thought that the who waited Ave yearn through evil report la waiting still, 1 should—pish! why should 1 worry you ?" "There's such a thing as patience In the world," I said quietly. "Patience!" "Yes; ah, yes chops. You are faint." The hot plates were thrust down before us at this moment, and my newly acquired friend, after a little forcing, partook of his supper. We parted that night an hour later— he with a card In his pocket, I ruminat ing upon the truth of the word of cer tain people who gave me birth—that I had a natural tendency for getting into bad company. I had an idea that night that my ac quaintance would And that the tide had turned in the morning; and I believe he did And that to be tne caae, for he is now in the employment of one who knows his story, and is getting on. "But. my dear air," 1 said to his sm- THE CENTRE REPORTER plover one day, "von surely are not •ti.Ti a flat as to believe that alory ol liia about his Innocencef** "Friend Grav," he said, button-holing me, "I never trouble myself about It. All i know is that t never had my hook* kept so well before; that his sweet, pale-faced subdued little wife l an angel, and llist I kicked aw arehouse mau out of my office for telling me I had A lickrt-of-leave man in my employ. If voitr acquaintance tot is me after this, may tiod forgive him tor my part I wUI." •'You feel comfortable In your own mind, llieu, sbuut w hat you are ilolng ?" 1 said "IVrfectly, my deai buy, and so do you," And, do you know, I think my old commercial friend is quite light. raising sa* Us Isss, The employment of felt for other pur jH'iu*s than h-Us, which uv was tie- 1 scribed in a recent iiuiuber, ha* created several other branches of industry. The most common product* are felt* in flat layers like cloth, and the moat usual mode of manufacture is a kind of w ad ding thy mean* of a machine similar to that used for the same purpose In cotton mills) and to submit this to the felting prove**, often felling several layer* to gether ao as to obtain great thickness. With improved niiwlerii machinery, such wadding may be made of considerable dimension*. A special and peculiar article of this kind, and of great com- | parative value. Is the felt used for the covering of the hammers of pianoforte*. The tiesi material for this purpose i* de rived from the wool of sheep tound ou- Iv in Hungary. They are called the j Ksterbaiy tlwlt; arid the wool given a more elastic felt, resistlug belter the cutting effect of tbe strings, which soon wear other kinds of felt away. These telts come in the trade iu elongated pie ces, very thick at one end and quite thiu at the other, so as to suit the re quirements, which are that the hammer striking the tuts* strings should be cov ered with thick felt, the substance be ing gradually diminished for the higher tones, so that the hammers striking the strings producing high tones have s very thin covering. The pianoforte maker* have then only to cut those fblts into strips to have ail the needed as sorted degrees of thickness. It being s first requisite of the pianoforte, and iu fact of every other musical instrument, to attain equality of tone, avoiding sud den changes iu power when passing j from one tone to another of the scale, j Other felts are manufactured Into carpets, and printed with figures, form ing the so called rugs, and others, well known, are blankets aud material* for cloaks, women's skirts, socks, slippers, insoles for boo* and shoes, etc. bome kinds of flue felt* are saiurati*d with varnish or paint, and change*! into a material not unlike patent leather; this is used tor the shades of caps, by car riage makers, etc., being much more tenacious snd elastic than pa*tel>uard, In which the fibers are not interlaced, and ara only held together by a simple ad has:en or'ifliaamd by great praasur* during the process of manufacture. We must also mention the use ol roofing, for which purpoae it is satura ted with asphalt urn, coat lar, pitch, or other equivalent waterproof material; aud feit is also used in shipbuilding, a a layer below the copper sheeting, and on steam cylinders, conduits, aud boilers as a non-conductor of heat, for which purpose it is often prepared with variou* ingredients, intended either to make it lews combustible or to increase ita capacity for retaining heat. A mod ern industry of this kind sprang up dur ing the late war. Contractors, !u order to increase their gains, had blankets and even soldiers'clothes made from felts of which the hair wu not of the proper ; kind, but consisted of the offal of wool en factories, fillers too short to be spun, but which, by felting, could lie made to hang together and form an apjiarentiy woven fabric; which, however, soon showed it* true nature by it* lack of strength. This material ha* obtained the name of shoddy; and while felt made from the proper kind of hair, of sutflcl ent length, it as strong a# anv good woven fabric, this shoddy, or felt made ! from unsuitable kinds of hair and hairs of insufficient length, is comparuthely worthless. Unfortunately thousands of dollars have been made In this disgrace ful way before the nature of the deceit became known. Waa*a Who are f We Ever Tewng- Action Is the secret of Immortality, and now that women are entering the active fields, they will cease to become old; they will remain young, like men. There was a lime whe women only lived five years—from eighteen to twenty three. Before that they were "chit*;" after," they were talked of pityingly, as "old maids." Married women were supposed to be out of the world alto gether, to have no Interest for any one but their husbands and their children, and with the natural perversity of hu man nature, when a woman ceases to have an interest for any other person than her husband, she quickly ceases to have an interest for him. The time ha gone by when women ceased to he interesting because they had passed girlhood. Womanhood ia founu to be as much richer, much finer, and more attractive, when It is devel oped and employed, as summer than spring, or manhood than boyhood. Who stops to think whether George Elliott (Mrs. I>ewes Is young or obi? Who cares for noted women until they are old, or at least until they have pas sed their youth, for it Is their experi ence and the use to which they put It, which makes them wort h know log. Early Inßoeueea. There can be no greater blessing than to be born In the light and air of a cheerful, loving home. It not only In sures a happy childhood —if there is health and a good constitution—but it almost makes sure a virtuous and hap py manhood, ami a fresh young heart in old age. We think it every parent's duty to inake their children s child hood full of love and of children's proper joyousness; and we never see children destitute of them through the poverty, faulty temiiers, or wrong notions or their parents, without a heartache. Not that all the appliances which wealth can buy are necessary to the free and happy unfolding of childhood In body, mind, or heart—quite otherwise. God lie thanked; but children must at least have love inside the house, and fresh air and good play, and some good com panionship, outside—otherwise young life runs the greatest danger iu the world of withering or grow ing stunted, or aour and wrong, at least premature ly old and turned inward. Very read of Candy A few days ago, says the Ottmnwa (Iowa) Courier, a young gentleman and lady from Sigourney were passing hy a candy store in this city, when they observed a huge stick of candy hanging In a window as a sign. She remarked to her cooijranson that she was fond of candy. lie, to have her refuse and Ix-g his pardon, proposed to huy a stick for her, provided, he might le allowed to select It and she would agree to carry it home herself. The proposition was agreed to and the stick, weighing be tween twenty and thirty pounds, was bought, paid for and the lady undertook to carry It home. he got along with the task very well for a short distance, but accidentally let It fall, breaking it in two. Determined not to be overcome by such trifles she picked up the pieces, and with one under each arm she Anally reached home with her prize, and now lias eandy sufficient for the whole neigh borhood. For pluck and sweetness we can commend the Sigourney girls. CENTRE HALL CENTRE CO., I'A.. THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1870. torero Burrs of *oo*raaUß , s rail The eigne and onieue I ihell brleAv relate without paving mtieh attention to their chronologic order. Very little eUe than theeo onieue and the iiieane adopted to avert their consequences la ieeurded from UVI3 to 15131. An army went to the province of Ainellan, per ished with cold and by failing tree* and rock*; aud a comet with three heada, I |>erha|Mi the one already mentioned, hung over Auahuac. Then a wonder ful pyramidal light appeared In the east, reaching from the earth to the *ky, visible tor forty day*, or as aome say, for a whole year, in all juirta of the country, from midnight till morn ing, very similar according to the de scrim ion to the aurora boreali*. Nera huatpili was *o affected by theae signs that he gave orders to discontinue all hostilities. Au Interview was held be tweoii him and M oolemma, aithougli for some time they had uot been on sneaking term*. Nerahualpill *aw clearly in tlie strange omen* the sp proa.hlng end of the empire and hi* own death, hut waa re*ignei to the de cree of fate. Monteruma ou the con trary, instead of resignation, felt oulr anger, and is said to have strangled many of iti* sorcerers for their unfavora ble Interptelation of Die sign* and their failure to avert evil omens. At last a game w as agreed UIKMI lietween the two monarch* to decide w ho*e interpreta tion should tie accepted, and to show how little liu|M>rlauce he attached to his wealth and |*>wer, Nerahuaipilt is said to have wagered on the result hi* king dom against three turkey cock*, lie woo the game; hut still Mooter uma was not disposed to yield to the fate*, aud still persecuted his magician* ill the hope to effect a more favored prog nostication. Hut In vain. The magi oian* alt agreed with the Tertucsn monarch. About the same time the tower* of lloltrilopochtli'* temple took Are in a clear uiglil w lthout apparent cause and were reduced to aaiies In *pile of all ef fort* to extinguish the tlame* and an other temple was ei on Are by light ning. This was the temple of the god of tire and was now burned for the second time. In this period. In the reign of the second Monteruma, Bras *eur put* the story of a mysterious ae rial Journey of tlie two kings to the ancient Artec*. There are accounts of the resurrection of I'apanlxin, a sister of Monteruma, who brought back from ihu land of\he dead toher royal brother au account of the new iwople who were to occupy tlie land, and of tlie new re ligion they would bring. This lady is said to have been the first Mexican to receive tlie rights of Christian baptism, aud the priest* took pains to send a duly authenticated account of her mi raculous resurrection to Spain. The intimate connection of this tale with the religious prejudice* of the invader* renders it unnecessary to *eek even a foundation in truth for the report. In 1 joy, as several author* say, the waters of the lake became violently agitated without wind, earthquake or other natural cause, and, lu consequence, tlie city was inundated. The fisheruteu of the lake caught a large bird like a crane, wearing a round traii*|utrent crown, through which Monteruma saw the star*, though it was in the daytime, and alo many people that approached in squadrons, attired like warrior* and seemingly half men. half deer. The bird disapiK-ared before the sorcerer* con iti satisfactorily interpret thl* strange thing. Ih-üble bodies! and dou ble headed men also were seen, and, on being brought before tlie King, sud denly disappeared, and the aatne thing happened with men who had no Anger* and toe*. In 1511 armed men were seen righting in the air, and a bird ap peared w hoe head seemed human ; and a large -tone pillar fell near oue of the temples, no one knowing whence It came. An earthquake and a deluge at Tasopan are reported. At TecuUima a most ferocious aud horrible beast waa captured. A female voice was several times heard bewailing the fate of her children. At Tlascaia a bright light and a cloud of du*t arising from the summit of a mountain caused the peo ple to fear the very end of the world was coming. The sorcerer* of Cuetlirhttoo alio saw many wonderful vision*; but among the people outside of Anahuar the fearful phenomena and the pre dicted coming of a foreign people were lean terrible than to the Artec*, for with their terror wu mingled hope of relief from the Artec yoke. A wild hare invaded a king'* garden, but he would not allow the animal to be killed, for in the aame manner, he raid, would a strange people presently invade hU country. Certain writer* give a long and detailed account of Montezuma's suffering*. It seems that he waa not content with hi* own dream* and omens but instructed hit subject* to re|x*rt to liitn ail liteir viaiona. At laat he waa ao distracted that he determined to hide himself from impending calamitie* In a cave, but was deterred from such a course try a series of smiematural events more absurd, if possible than those that have been narrated.— Iknu-mfl'i .Vabee Rictt. . Why the TeMh Bwaj. The cause* of the decay of teeth have hitherto beeu a matter of doubt, but the investigation of la-ber ami Rotteu steln throw conslderalde light on the problem. Tbey recognize constitution al differences in teeth, rendering some more sensitive than other* to the influ ence# that favor decay. Tlieae Influen-, ence* are not so much internal or vital, as external and chemical. Decay begin* at the surface, and there It must be checked if at all. It i chiefly caused by acids, ami by a certain fungus, the />p tolhriz buccalit, found ahundamltly In the mouth. Under the mlcroacope the fungus ap[>ears as a gray, finely-granu lar mass or matrix, with filament* deli cate and stiff, which erect themselves above the surface of tills granular sub stance, so as to resemble an uneven turf. The fungus attains It* greatest sire in the interstices of the teeth. Ail acids, Imth mineral and vegetable, act promptly on the teeth. Various acids are taken with food, or in medicines,or are formed in the mouth itself by some abnormality In our secretions, which should lie alkaline,or by an acid fermen tation of particles of food. But acids alone will not account for all the phe nomena of caries In the teeth. They play a primary and principal part mak ing the teeth porous and soft, in this state the tissues having lost their nor mal consistency, fungi perpetrate both the canaliculi of the enamel and of the dentine, and by their growth produce softening and destructive effect# much more rapid than the action of aclda alone can accomplish. Bowdltch, In examining forty jiersona of different professions, and living different kinds of life, found in almost all of them veg etable and animal parasites. The para sib* were abundant In proportion to the neglect of cleanliness. The means ordinarily employed to clean teeth hail n* effect on the parasites, while soapy water appeared to destroy them. We may remark that it is several years since attention was first called to this fungus of ttie mouth and Its possible In fluence in causing the teeth to decay, but the Investigations of anil Rot teustein appear to have settled the ques tion beyond a doubt. The "moral" la, that if we would preserve our teeth we must keep them scrupulously clean, and we must use soap as an Ingredient In our dentifrices or in addition to them. It Is not necessary to employ any of the so-called "dental soap*. ' W'c have found by experience that the Imported white castile soap, which Is probably the purest soap in the world—a fact worth remembering In other connec tions—is quite tasteless, or at least has no unpleasant taste. Rub the wet tooth-brush over a piece of this soap be fore dipping it Into the dentifrice you use, and you have the moet perfect combination Ir thorough cleansing <• lite twlh #IHI destroylug the obnoxious fungus. We uiuuie. uf course, that the denllfrh-e Itself la not on one that Injure* the teeth, as man) uf those In common use do. l.laalir* Ma*| • Hi la swiaaarra To na, much of the difficulty ircini due to the fuel that most writer* have signally erred In exalting the iinpor tauce of the agent above the principal, the aubordiuate above the master. t om nierce I* to be performed; lu adjust ment* are to be made by the partii-a to it, and the requisite machinery for Ihoae adjustment* should Ims forthcom ing, whether it be in lite forui oi money, of check*, of bill* of exchange, of pro miaaory note*, or of clearing-houar*. Very many writer* have advocated the placing of an arbitrary limit upon the volume of money, either that of the quantity of gold or silver which can le retained in a country, or of a fixed amount of circulating note*; but none with whom we are acquainted have propoeed to limit in auch manner any other of the mean* of payment. Why do thia 1 Why not apply thia lg --latative interference to all the form* of the machinery, and extend It to check*, hank loan* and dej-oslu, nromlaaory note*, bill* of exchange, and clearing hou*ea? Commerce being the princi pal, and it being thought desirable to place a clog upon It, why not logically and consistently place that clog in op eration throughout f It ia believed Im {•oasible to aaalgu any reason for thia diacriuiinaUon against money, and in favor of the other appliance* for seiile meail, * kleh h*a It* fen*rt*Uee la *ev sound principle: but that it la the mere outgrowth of the sclfifline** of the few who have ao long governed the many, either through legislation in which tbaae many have hail no voice, or bv the creation of a public opinion In which the voice of the people baa been made to go against their own bet interest*. I.uniting the machinery for making the adjustment* ol the great am! powerful would not for one moment be tolerated by tho*e who hold the jxmer; while to limit that of the many who are weak, to retain and consolidate the power of thwse who are already strong, i* of of course ea*y, and I* defended a* not only right but beneficent. In the dis cussion, as well a* In the legislation which follows it, com mere*, and e*j>c lally that among the great body of the people,—really the great commerce,— I* overlooked and ignored; empirical legislation la applied to the |M>pular lu- j •trumeut of this commerce, and a* a consequence poison is absorlwd at the j very root*. We have, therefore, a* one of ttie result*. In every so-called civil- ; ixed country, an abnormal condition of society, alio* Ing millionaire* on the one hand and pauper* on the other, —the richer the millionaire*, the poorer ami the greater the number of the pati]wr*. Tkt Atlantic for Starch, #la A cold I* simply a developer of a dl ease.) condition, which may hav been latent or requiring ouly some favoring condition to hurst out into the flume of j disease. That this ia usually the cor- j reel view of a cold a* a disease-pro- j ducing agent, under all ordinary cir- I cutustauce*, may be made plain by re flection upon per*onal experlence t even j to the must ordinary utiderslanding. | When the human body la at It* prime, I with youth, vigor, purity and a g<**i i constitution on ku able—no degree of i ordinary exposure to cold gives rite to any unpleasant effect*. Ail the ordi nary precaution* against nobis, cough* and rheumatic i>alii* may be disregarded j and no ill effects ensue. But let the blood become Impure, let the body be- i come deranged from any acquired dls- ! order, or let the vigor begin to wane, and the Inflrmltle* of age be felt by oc casional derangements In some vital part, either from inherited or actual abuse* and the action of cold will ex cite more or lea* disorder of some kind, and the form of this disorder, ot the disease that will ensue, will l>e deter mined by the kind of pre-exl*ting blood Impurity, or the pre-existing (suit of these organic process**. Ft follow* j from these facts *od consideration* that . the secret of avoiding these unpleasant 1 consequence* thought to spring wholly from the action of cold upon the body I has very little dependence upon expo- j sure, but a great deal upon the impure and weak conditiou of all the vital pro- ; ce**en. In other words, with an average i or superior constitution and Intelligent observance of all tlie laws of health, men and women could not take cold If they wanted to; thev might be exposed to the action of cold to a degree equal to the beast of tlie Held, and with like impunity. But in case of persona with feeble constitutions, and who disregard, knowingly, or otherwise, the condition* of healthy existence, no degree of care will prevent the taking cold, as it i* termed. They may really live In house* regulated with all the precision of a hot-house, they may cover themselves with tlie ttuwt highly protective cloth ing the market provide*, and yet will take cold. I don't think the roututn|>- tive person Uvea, or ever will live, even If kept lu temperature at#olutely uni form and clothed In aw holly faultless manner, in whom Die well-known signs of one cold after another will not be ap|tarei!t. But, on the other hand there are those who, like the late Sir Henry Holland, of good constitution and living In accordance with the laws of health, may travel, as he did, from the tropics to the Arctic again and again, clad only In an ordinary dress coat, and ycl scarcely know what It i* to have a cold or alcaiiess of any kind. The truth I*, to avoid taking cold from ordinary, or even extraordinary exjrosure, the vital processes must be made strong enough to ri*e above the untoward Influence of external conditions.— Tht Sanitarian. The AwlBt I tllM of Hvsleo In Mexico the Hpaniarda found all that deserved the name of civilization on the northern continent. There was organized power, there were home* to fight foi ; there were the wealth, dis tinction of caste, and highly developed religion which are to some extent com parable with the details of our own polity. The Conquerors first swept all this civilisation out of existence, an.) destroyed every trnee of it they could discover. Theii they gave moat glowing description* of it. The few relics they left for our Inspection and criticism are aa meagre as those of some forgotten people, the remnant* of whose huts and feasts are dredged from a mountain lake. In the popular mind tiwlr de scriptions are combined with the dis covery of highly sculptured ruin* In Guatemala and other countries south of Mexico, and It is by adding together all the conjectures to which the sight of these carved atone* give rl*e, and all that la reported of the Mexicans, that the popular notion of the Aztecs has been formed But thl* la rank confusion, for the sculptured building* of ("open and Pal enque were the work of another and probably a preceding race to the Na huaa, of whom the Aztec* were part. The fact that a previous people had better house* than the Mexicans, built grander cities, and faded out la-fore the kingdom of Mexico wa* founded, of course offers a flue field for speculation. Galaxy. •■Bill**. Nothing on earth can smile hut human beings. Gem* nmy flash reflected light, but w hat Is a diamond-flash compared with an eye flash and a mirth-flash? A face that cannot smile is like a hud that cannot blossom, and dries upon the stalk. Laughter is day and sobriety Is night, and a smile Is the twilight that hovers gently between both, and is more bewitching than either. A tls; la (Us Wd. I want to tell you about our day In the wood nutting; Jim, and Kate, aud Hick, and I—only Jim'* name isn't Ji'ii, nor Kate'*, Kate, nor flick's IKck; and mine Isn't Alice, for that matter. You see, If I should call us all by our names, Auntie and all of us, the people around here might see the newspaper, and know tuore than 1 care to have them know. You w<- Jim is my cousin, older Uian I, ami Kul la it schoolmate from tl e vllinfr, iiiil Dick— well you'll Ami out w holHck la before you are through my latter. You know I told you lliat iny aunt objected to my going Into company, and I a*ke<l your advice about It. I'm wait ing now for an answer to iny questions, but, lii the meantime, 1 think vou'u like to bear alxitil our day In the wood Jim aaked me to to. lie said he'd get up the buggy and stun and ret Kate for cmtpdHg fur un>. (I know IMck la awful aweet on Kate, but that's none of my business—be la two years older than I am,} and then we'd go on toward the Point, where there waa a world of all sorts of iiuu, and wild grapes, and we'd have a splendid time. Jim aaked his mother If I might go. Auntie nev er refuaea Jim anything; so I put on a stout print dress, thick-toied hoot*, and a nig hat; gathered up amoks, ami luncheon, and basket*, and blanket shawls in case of it* turning cold, as It often t'ora at this time of the year, and away we went lor the village. We found Kale, with her sleeves rol led up, wash'ug fur dear life; but a she w as nearly done, her mother kindly volunteered to finish, and she made a hasty and suitable toilet, and away we went. You all know what these autumn days are iu iowa. A* yet there is no butch of the dreamy Indian summer. But there i something inexpressibly sweet, and full, and ripe, and rich—;lf that la not piling on the adjectives,) in these days. 1 sometime* think one could a • must live by inhaling this autumn ai , without any more palpable food. There is the odor of dying Aowera, and taste ofripenlug fruit, and the malnousap e ' •cent of matured leave* floating in the air. I love them ail. I think Jim and Kate felt all this as well as myself for they were very quiet during the ddw to the woods. Hut when we were once in the woods, the very spirit of fndle seemed to pus ses* u. We were noisier than a tribe of Indian* on feast night. Jim climbed tree- like a boy of ten. Kate and 1 ran races as we had not done since we were in the juvenile class at school. There were nut* In plenty though there hail been hardly frost* or wind* enough to bring them to the ground. Hut Jim was nimble, and be took a long pole to reach with and the black walnut* came pouncing down alum us. The hickorv nuU, especially the shag harks were mure difficult to get. But we had aw hole day brfore us, and score* of tree*, and au we found all we could carrv. The leave* of all the trees are begin tug to turn—nume ever mi slightly; the oak leaf just a darker green, and more waxy looking; while llie maple is tak ing on its autumn color# in all the shinies from pale pink to deepeat flame, and brownest bronze, the colors that make it the delight of poet* and romance writers. We gathered great quantities of the mu*l beautiful of these leaves to pree*. And there U no end of hardy, deep colored autumn Aowera. We gathered these 100, 111 large beautiful coquet*. Jim called this work "fooling," and just like girls. The solid work o." nut ting suited hi n better. Hut Dick—where does he ooine in? Ob, I'm coming to him presently. I was awav alone down by the creek and I had )u*t found a place where the ground was strewn w itli beautiful, soft shell hickory nuts, and 1 *ai bending over Irving to All my basket before Jim and Kate found me, when some one lifted mv hat from my head and sent It spinning Into the nearest tree. You hateful, saucy boy," I said, keep ing straight on picking, up the nut*. "Get that hat, and do not Interrupt me. I'm working for a wager." "Why didn't you let me know you were coming out here to make a day of it ?" "Why should 1 let you know, more than auy of the rest of the jieople up at the village? Stand away and don't bother.** "I shan't stand away nor get your hat till you tell me why you dldn I let me know you were coming." "Because—because —1 told Jim to tell you." "All right. Miss Alice. Here's your hat 4 and i'ni your servant for the rest of the day." There, didn't we have a splendid time in the wood ? GIKI. AUCK. RsltsßSt AallsslhiM A party of sailors from an American man-of-war, lying in a Mediterranean port, about thirty years ago. engaged in one of those sanguinary brawls so dear to every seaman's heart. Their enemies were sn equal number of for eign sailors—French, Stanl*h, or Ital ian, I now forget which, though the story came to me direct, one remove, from the American Commander. The offenders w ere called up for explana tion, and stood before the officer, a row of six hull-dog*, battered and cut and bruised to their heart's content. There w as no evidence® of a guilty conscience, how ever, among the whole lot. They all felt that they had been upholding the honor of the" American flag, and of their own sacred profession. Their chosen spokesman touched his hat, and seemed to concentrate the conscious In nocence of the entire party In his own |ier*oii as he said: "We couldn't help It, ver honor; it warn't our fault. We was slttin' Uiar peaceful as kittens. And them forrin chaps come In—what calls themselves sailors —and the lubbers had their Jacket* buttoned Inside of tlie o'the scat o' th'r trowsers!'? A look of scorn told the rest. The Commander beat a hasty retreat, and Jack eseajied his punishment. Any English or Amer ican citizen who harbors a feeling of international aversion will do well to examine his prejudices carefully In the interest of his reason and his manhood. He w 111 find that the vitality of his aversion spring from s habit, on the part of his neighbors, of his buttoning their Jackets inside the sests of their trow so rs, or from some othej reason quite as consistent with his own digni ty as a utan —quite as Inconsistent with tiie fact that he Is not a child, or the hy pothesis that he is not a lunatic. The t'elllc D;ln| owl Iw Iretwwd It Is very probable rhat the use of the Celtic tongue will eventually die out. It Is by no means so much In vogue with the rising generation as It was with the former. There are but few persons now, even among the old, who really "have no English " as the phrase goes; although many will pretend that this Is the case for purposes of their own. 1 believe, also, that tbe peasant* would by no means wish their su|eriors to learn their speech- Nevertheless, they will express approval and admiration of any efforts made In this direction. Both Protestants and Romanists mutilate and distort the Saxon language in the most wonderful manner. They are as fond of long and difficult sounding words as the negroes are said to be. They are even ingenious enough to mount polysyllabic terms, on the spur of the moment, when memory fails to bring forth any compound sufficiently startling. "Oh, Sir. you gave us a very fine allegation to-day," a respectable man said to his clergyman once. Now, it the time had not been Immediately after morning service, there might have i been some difficulty in discovering that the subject of commendation was a ser- Terms: $2 a Year, in Advance. mon. A maid servant on cm invasion airily called a troublesome child "the inoat ooclmtaaUcal boy aha had evar seen in her life," as the greatest term of reproach she could think of, and the uuue woman described a Fenian gnther lug aa "a wonderful triangle of people." Then, when one of the gentry waa 111 In a country neighborhood, tltere were many inquiries made a* to whether he would be likely "to intercede," mean ing were there hope* for hla recovery. A dlepenaary becomes an "expenaary," the excise service "the OUUlde." To expect is to "Inspect," and vice versa. A cy press-tree la a "cypher," a surplice a "cy press," an Inn "an end," and ao, ad Infinitum. The staple malady and cause of death In Ireland la a pain or atitcli in the heart; but Lite peasant* also suffer occaalonally from "a great impression," and a "fluency on the client." The moat grateful heart can And no richer or more elegant mode of expressing thankfulness for some favor done than u> wish the patron "a blanket of glory in Heaven."— Argotp. frssas'i Male—a-A rprl* sf Use After General Greene's retreat across the Yadkin, be waa Joined by General 11 uger near Guilford, and continued bis oourae until be had placed the I>an between his force and fxirda CornwallU and Haw don who were In pursuit, t'dk 11 w mills raised his standard at Hills borough, North Carolina, and was Joined by the Tories In response to a proclama tion Issued by him. To cheek the de sigus of the loyalists, Greene on the Inth Feb., 1781. ordered IJeuteoaat colonel Lee and bia Virginia legion, Captain Oldham with his veteran com panies of Harylanders, and General Andrew Pickens, with the Mouth Caro liua militia, u> recroaa the l>an, gain the front of CornwallU, and cat uIT some of hU linee of communication. I'hls was promptly and quietly done. Learning that Tarleton with hU legion had passed up the Ilew river, a move ment In pursuit was made. The great eat secrecy being necessary, as the enemy were not aware of the Ameri cans' return to North Carolina, It was determined to assume the character of a roe u for cement to Tarleton. Circum stances favored this rmse, and while In the vicinity of Tarletoo, a chance led the Americans to a new adventure. On the X&Ui of February they were met by two young countrymen, well mounted, who, on being accosted by the Ameri cana in the character of loyalists, an nounced themselves as scouts from a party of Tories, in search of Tarleton'a camp. They were conveyed to Colonel Lee; who, being informed of their character, took theneodiul precautions, and assumed the part of Tarleton. He received the loyalist aoouts with great cordiality, and their information with satisfaction. One of them, under eeoort. was sent to Colonel Pyle, in com mend of the Tortee—with a request to htm b> draw hit troop* on the aide of the road, In order that the weary column might pas* to iu encampment without deUy. Hie other messenger was detained by Lee. When the bead of the American column came within sight of the Tories, It baited, and Lee advanced to meet Colonel Pyle, who, at the head of four hundred well-mounted and well-armed men, had formed on the right aide of the road, and, with the greatest defer ence. awaited the approach of hU sup posed friend. The Americana then passed along In front of the Tories, and Lee, who waa on the extreme right, waa in the act of taking Pyle by the hand, when a Are on the extreme left of the Tories gave notice of diaoovery. The ever greens worn in the hats of Sickens' militia were recognized ea the hedge of republican ism, sod an immediate Are waa opened on Kggleston's cavalry In the rear of the American column. It was immedi ately returned; the rasa was patent, and. in a second, the engagement waa general. It was short, but bloody. The surprise of the Tories, and the dexterity of the Americans; the unfavorable position of the one. the nervous prepara tion of the other, (lid not long leave the reault doubtful. N'loety of the Tories were killed on the spot, and nearly all were wounded, while not one man was lost to the Americans. Those who were able to escape found shelter with Tarle ton, who was only a mile distant from the scene of slaughter, and who eras so much affected by the tale* of the fugi tives, that be hastily recrowed the Maw, and, with all speed, returned to Hills borough. While, of course, prepared for the worst, it does not appear that lre expected so sudden a development of battle. He states that his design was to pass In front of the enemy, place it under control of his own force, and then make known his actual character, "with a solemn assurance of the enemy's perfect exemption from Injury, and with tbe choice of returning to their homes, or of taking a more generous part, by unltiug with tbe defenders of their common country against their common foe." However, the God of battles seems to have ordered otherwise. The terrible carnage, as Marshall says, "In a great measure broke the spirits of the Tories In that part of the country, and Intimidated many who were dis posed to lake up arms in support of the royal cause. Some who were actually on' their way to join the British stand ard, returned. In order to wait the issue of events, before they went too far to recede." _ Tbe oldest Tebeeee-rtpee In tbe TsvM. There are some remarkable objects to be met with amongst the relics of North American antiquity, but none are more curious than the stone tobacco-pipes which have been discovered in the mounds formed by the early in habi tants of the continent. They are un doubtedly. the oldest things of the sort In the world. There Is something about them, however, more interesting than age. "These pipes," remarks one writer, "are unique In form, and are carved out of hard, ornamental stone, in which their bowls are hollowed and their tubes drilled with perfect skill, and the bowls themselves are sculptured Into the forms of birds, animals, and human heads, In a manner quite unapproacha ble bv any but civilised race*.' This is Information which must re joice the heart of every smoker. Is It not gratifying to know that the use of the gentle weed was thought so much of by races now hidden in the mists of antiquity, that they exhausted all the resources of their ingenuity and artis tic skill upon the construction and or namentation of the needful apparatus? It may be added, that elaborately carved pipes continue to be made by the North American Indians in the present fay. Some tribes devote most ot their attention to the ornamentation of the bowl, others to that of the stem. Occasionally the bowl is adapted for the Insertion of two tubes—a conveni ent arrangement, whereby two smokers may inhale the fumes of the tobacco at the same time. lis* f n fort a net* El**st An elephant had been endeavoring to rive the bole of a knotted oak with nts trunk, but the tree closed upon that member, detaining it and causing the hapless elephant intense pain. He shook the forest with his trumpeting and all the beasts gathered around him. "Ah, ha, my friend, said a pert chim panr.ee, "you have got your trunk checked, I'see." "My children," said a temperate camel to her yonng, "let this awful example teach you to ahnn the bole." "Does It hurt you much?" said a compassionate gnu: "Ah, it does; it does; it must; I have been a mother myself." And while they were sympa thising with him ths unfortunate ele phant expired in great agony. Moral —The moral of the above is so plain as to need no explanation. Talk is cheap. NO. 13. fwtnur Om err Uorum.—l am going to tell 70a • story a boat • bora* whose name is Ton, and who la fond of children. 1 know he would like to give you a long ride } tor. when he baa • land of chil dren behind bin. he pucka up his earn, and trwta off in tine style. I Last aawaaer. he took Bertie, Howie. 1 toll la, Kama, Annie, end Charlie, and Charlie's awaa. en a picnic-party to the wooda 1 thought aoue of the children would be tipped out of the carriage before we got there; but old Ton carried then all safely. The* had a flue una gathering tenia, and playing; then tbcy sat down and ate their supper, spread on the glass, with Ton standing near. The* gave bin cake end ginger- bread, which be ate just to pteaar then; Mid. before we cane hone, they triumed his barnaaa with I earns. One day, when Toaa waa standing in bis stall, be felt something tickling bis legs. He looked around, and there stood a little girt, who waa brushing the dies off from bin Ha stood per fectly still and did not kick, as some homes would burs dona. Bat it eras a rash thing for u little girl to do, and her mother told ber not to go near a borers beats again. Now 1 an going to tali you about a hme who was fond of strong drink. Yea. be loved whiskey sod brandy. One day. bis msster bad occasion to drive bin a long distance. Coning bone, they were caught in a heavy shower . The horse tort cold, and had a chili. He waa pot in bis warn stable and well rubbed; and then bis master gave bin some whiskey, which be tort with a grant relish. After that, bis master noticed, that, wben driven any distance, this boras was always tick. He would paw, shake, leak his tail, and cot up many aatios; but liquor always cured bin very soon. —so soon, that the aeca on the farm if'gan to think be was playing a trick. So one day when be began bis ca pers. the j watcbedhim, unseen by him. When the aoaa were near bin, he seemed in great distress: but. when they were out of sight and hearing, ho would stood quietly, and aat his oats like any sensible boras. His master, co vi need that he waa playing sick, gave bin a whipping, and after that be was a strong "cold water hone." Tkt /erealer of tir H keelhorrtrw.— Itutiue a great nan to do a little thing Who do you think invented that very simple thing called a wheelbarrow 1 Why, ao leas a nan than Leonardo da Vinci. And wbo waa be f He was a musician, poet, painter, architect, sculptor, physiologist, engi neer, natural historian, botanist, and inventor, all ia one. He wasn't a "Jack a j'i tradessud master of none," either. He was a real master of many arts, and s practical worker hits ides W beo did he live f Somewhere about the time that Co lumbus discovered America. And where was be bora f In the beautiful city of Floteoee, ia Italy. Perhaps some of you amy feel a lit tle better acquainted with him wben I tell you that it was Leonardo da Vina who paiutcd one of the grandest pic tures in the world,—"The Last Sup per,''—a picture that has been copied many tines, and engraved ia several styles, ao that almost every one has an ides of the arrangement and position at the table of the figures of Oiur Lord and his disciples; though 1 am told that, without oeeiog the painting it self, no one can form a notion of how grand end beautiful it is. And only to think of the thousands of poor, bsrd-workiag Americans who really own. in their wheelbarrow, an original "work" of Leonardo da Viad. —A Sickota*. Hkootimg Lawner*.—"One day when I vuti the < nkney Islands," said the wild duels ia oee of our coo vera*uoiit, "1 saw an islander walking along with a run upon hi* shoulder aad a game bag io his bud. He was met by a Cip of travelers from England, who just landed. • 'What wort f cried ooe of them to the islander. 'What spurt hare 700 had this morning f "'Well, nothing very great,' an swered the man civilly enough. 'l've only shot a brace of lawyers this morn ing.' "'Whatf screamed the travelers. 'What' lulled two lawyers, and talk about it aa coely as if you had only bagged a couple of birds !* And so 1 have,' laughed the islan der. There ia a bird hero a sort of puffin, that we Otkaey folks always call lawyers. Why, you didn't think I meant men. did your "And," continued the wild duck, "while the travelers thought it a dreadful thing to kilt a lawyer when the lawyer was a men, they thought nothing at all of it when the lawyer was a bird. Just as if a bird's lift wasn't worth aa much to it aa a man's life to him. Humph! Very queer, 1 think." And with this the wild duck dived suddenly to catch a Utile perch that be fancied for bis dinner. Very quest world this. altogether. Wonder*.—Lewinbeck tells of an in sect seen with a microscope, of which twenty-seven millions only equal a mite. Insects of various kinds may be seen in the cavities of a grain of sand. Mold is a forest of beautiful trees, with branches, leaves and fruit. Buttertiiea are fully feathered. Hairs are hollow tube*. The surface of our bodies ia covered with scales like a fish ; a single grain of sand would cover one hundred and fifty of these scales, and yet each scale covers five hundred pores. Through these narrow openings the perapira tioo forces itself, like water through a The mites take five hundred steps a second. Each drop of stagnant water contains a world of animated beings, swimming with aa much liberty aa whales in the ecu. Each leaf baa a colony of insects grating ou it, likecowa in a meadow. Keep up.—Never be east down by trifles. If a spider break his thread twenty time* be will mend it again. Make up your mind to do a thing and yon will do it. Fear not if trouble cornea upon you: keep up your though the (lay be a dark one. Mind what yon run after. Never be content with a bauble that will burst or fire wood that will end in smoke or dark uess. A rem Stery. There was one old fox which for a period of several years had continually evaded the fleetest and keenest-scented hounds, the scent Invariably being lost in the vicinity of a bouse situated in tbe woods and far removed from any habi tation, and which was used as a store house for pells. At last one day the hounds started the old fox, and away he went in the direction of the house with a pack of young hounds In full cry after him, hut on nearing the hounds ne dis appeared, leaving the hounds and hunters non-plunged as usual. While the hunters were gathered in and around the house, discdlsing the frequent mys terious disappear nee of t>e fox, an old veteran hound came limping up, and entering the door set up a vigorous barking, and tried to jump up on the wall. Hia singular action attracted tbe attention of the hunters, and an ex amination was made, the old fox was found suspended by his tail to a nail in the wall, keeping perfectly still, and looking, unless closely observed, like tbe pelts with which the walls were hung. This plainly showed that the fox, when too closely pressed, had taken refuge in the house, and hung himself up on the nail by hts tall, which was the reason for the dogs always losng the scent at that particular place.—ifesse River (Wet.) Reveille. RVB EH IMF. —A hundred pounds of flour costs 111 In the Black Hills. —Tb Aral mater works Is Texas art being established at Austin. —Ths United States consumed 3,000- 000 bushels ol peaaufr last year. —For savers! years lows was the banner Granger fksts, but It lost seventy-live loos! granges last year. —Car loads of latinon are every day shipped East from California. The < ail torn la salmon la coarser than that of Malus, —Edward C. Marshall, ths only liv ing child of Chief Justice Marshall, Is a clerk In the Interior Department at Wssblngtor. —Si 1 teen thousand two hundred and eighty-eight patents wars issued In the United States but year, an increase of 3,<MW over 1874. —Mr. Caleb Cushlng becomes, bv the death of Jtsverdy Johnson, the oldest Cabinet Minister living in paint of years and appointment. —ln Richland county, Wisconsin, the farmers have built a wooden rail way, si statu miles long, coating only three thousand dollars a mite. —The astronomers say there will be another total eclipse of the moon August 3ft, 1339. Ladles and gentle men prepare your smoked glasses. —Don. Butler's Dutch Clap canal baa now twenty fate of wafer In It, and en ables vessels 10 save seven miles in passing up and down James River. —J. B. Phillips, of Orwsll, Ob la, Is making a cheese which wilt not be com pleted until the 30tb of May, whan it Is expected to weigh 33,000 pounds. —A bill has been introduced in the New Jerser Legislative requiring rail road companies to pay the funeral ex |<euse* of all persons killed upon their —lt is calculated that ths shrinkage In the value of foreign Government bonds on the London mock Exchange Mm been 1388,000,000 In the last four years. —Cardinal McCloskey la negotiating for the purchase of Le Grand Lock wood's mansion In South Norwalk, Ct. with the intention of coo verting It into s Romish college. —The Municipal Register of 1t74 gives Jau.UUD as the imputation of Boston, but Meaars. Sampson, Daven port A Co., according to a recent count only figure up 341,813. —One of the most striking objects at the Centennial exhibition will be a col umn of eaal one hundred feet In bright to be transported to Philadelphia in sections fSrom Tennessee. —George B. MeCartee, Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at Washington, baa resigned. Hating spent a year's appropriation in eight months bis shop tt closed. —A Parte Ky.) young lady will Mod to tbe Centennial a poker bub toned front a revolutionary gun barrel. Nothing could be bettor calculated to stir up tbe Area of patriotism. —Mr. Bayard Taylor baa accepted tbe position of aa editorial errltor on tbe New York Tribmm, and will commence •aork aa soon aa bte lecture engage ment* for tbe eeaaon will permit. —There are Itt driving parka ia tbe United Slate*. The value of the pro perty held by tbeee associations te wti mated at H.QOO.IW). and that of tbe boreee entered In aeitijrleyear $18,000,- •00.* —Hie late Reverdy Johnson leaves IS children, about SO grandchildren, and Mverai great-grand children, nearly all of whom were present at tbe anni versary of bte golden wedding la Xov. 18, IW. —Tbe sound portions of tbe old Kim of Boston Common will be made Into furniture for tbe City Hail of Boston, and various specimens will be eent to tbe various historical societies of tbe country. —Twenty thousand salmon eggs, taken from tbe Columbia River, ia Oregon, have arrived safely in Auck land, Xew Zealand, and been deposited in waters titers carefully prepared for tbelr reception. —The Swiss exhibit at tbe On ton tenntel erlil be small, but complete and well classified. Among manufactured articles watches will occupy tbe Am rank, but tbe show of lacas will excite special admiration. —The united ages of a family of In persona, two stater* and three brothers, named Seabohl, whom homestead is at Baptistown, Hunterdon county, N. J., amounts to 373 rears. Their agm respectively ate £3, St, 79, TV and 40. —Sharon hail a banquet la Frisco re cently. There were dowers and plan is and music, staging-bird#, wine and rich viands, and at each guest's piste was the bill of fare, engraved upon a heavy plate of solid silver, and costing over 440 each. —There was a good blubber crop last year. The average catch of whaling reuse.!# engaged in the Arctic see amounted t 1,384 barrels of whale and walru* oil, and 14,900 pounds of whale bone, the largest average for any sea son si no# 1866. —Nine bushels and one-eighth 1a all the wheat crop averages per acre in the United States, and only about ten or eleven ma the fertile prairies of the West, whUe in old England it avera ges twenty-eight bushels per acre by ! thorough tillage. —A man is serving out s year in the Wisconsin State Prison who was con victed of robbing the mails of twenty live cents. Since lie has been confined there the letter has been returned from the dead-letter offiee, with the twenty five cents inclosed. —The Cincinnati "Commercial" thinks that the government can save nearly $1,000,000 by reducing the sala ries of postmasters ia the smaller cities and towns. There are arore than two hundred postmasters In the country who receive s salary of more than S3OOO I each. —According to the latest returns re ceived by the Adjutant-Oeoeral, and by him transmitted to Congress, the aggregate organised militia force of the State of New York ia 19,413; in New Jersey, 8,838; in Pennsylvania, 14,638. The grand aggregate of all the States ia 89,863. —Governor Bagley, of Michigan, urges upon every citisen of hia State who owns a piece of ground, whether it be large or small, to plant upon it on the 16th of April next, a tree which shall be venerated in the distant future as one planted by patriotic hands dur ing the Centennial year of the repub lic. —Dr. J. H. Funk, of Boyertown Berks county, who has probably the largest collection of bees ID Pennsylva nia, reports that the present weather la death to them. He fears that already more titan half of his honey-producers have died front starvation, the mild weather having caused them to make way with their winter's rations earlier In the season than usual. —The statue of William H. Seward, by Randolph Rogers, is finished, ana will be shipped in time to reach here in May next. It coat $2&,U00 which amount was subscribed by some gen tlemen of this city, among whom were George J. Forrest, William 11. Apple- , ton, Jerome, Schell. and others. The statue Is described as being one of Mr. Rogers's best productions. —The report on the geology and re sources of the region of the thirty-ninth parallel, from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, by Mr. Dawson, says: "From what I could learn, I be lieve that at the present rate of exter mination twelve or fourteen years will see the destruction of what now re mains otjthe great northern band of buffaloes, and the termination of the trade In robes snd pemicatt, in so far as regards the country north of the Mis souri River." The ItershMt ef Vealee. A Venetian merchant who was lol ling in tbe lap of luxury was accosted upon the Rialto by a friend who bad not seen him for many months. "How ia this," cried tbe latter, "when I last aaw you your gaberdine was out at el bows, and now you sail in your own gondola,' 1 "Tme," replied the mer chant "but since then I have met with serious losses snd been obliged to com pound with my creditors for ten cents on the dollar." Moral— Composition is the life of trade.
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