A SUr Behind tho Cloud.
No m.ttvr bow <l.rk the night;
No m vHnr how black the cloud. met be;
I'p in the shrouded sky,
Hid len from watching eye,
Glitter? t *tar for me.
B.lvery bright and clear.
Out in I lie fleld* of fadeleee bine,
H^edlee* of elond and rain,
F .rive* of death and pain.
Golden ei are in their eilent ephere
Twinkle and burn for yon.
Bummer and winter the same;
No matter if elorm cloud* .urge ami roll
lake wavee on the frentied eea;
a In heaven * bright gallery
Twinkle and glow, with a quenchless flame,
Theee type* of the eon!!
No matter how dark thy life,
No matter how gloom? thy watch may be
'Mid eorrow, and pain, and rare,
bull watching thee everywhere
Back of the curtain of earthly etrtfe
Twinkle* • star for thee }
The Homeless.
Out of sight—
In Ui.Vh.ilow. of night,
Where the light
Of the lamp* of th* .treet falls dimly
From the Blare
Of ths herd who would dare
At her tatter* to Jeat unseemly.
Falter* the homvlvss one.
Bitter ta*k
Alma from the crowd to aak .
Charity 's mask
I* bright at the ° 1 ere fashion'a reigning.
i\id and stark.
In the Kha.lc and the dark.
The pauper may die, not worth the diadamlng .
lhty the homeless one 1
To be dead -
To be laid in the bed
Where the head
Finds a re*t with the earth for a pillow ,
Or to leap
In the eea. where your sleep
Would be lolled by the plash of (he billow ;
Thoughts of the homeless one
Looking white.
In the shadow* of night.
With the fright
Of lite tneer d the jeer, her poor heart is
beating
Let her die *
Not e word—not a sigh .
Gay women pass by ; not a motion or greeting
Dreams of the homeless one !
So to the end
Will be ever; the friend
Will lot lend
Aha .J to aid, a word to console thee.
You msy die
On the street, 'neaih the sky .
They'll place thee among the humble and
'•sly—
End of the homeless one '
CARTOCJCHE.
The Story of the Noted Parisian Ban
dit—A Long Criminal Career.
l.cuis Dominique Cartcnche, the son
of a respectable, well-to do wine seller,
was born at Prris in October, lfitM.
Anxi' iis to secure for his son a higher
po.-iti u than he himself occupied, the
fatli- r sent him to the college of Cler
m<u.t; bnt his native instincts soon as
petted themselves; he ran away and
joir.id a party of gypsies. He was
ad1 1 t-sl as a child of the band, and his
new friends formed the most sanguine
ant cqwtiona as to his future. Bold,
crafty, and inventive, he was nimble as
an aj"-\ pliant as an acre hat. To an un
conquerable love of wandering, of pleas
nre, aud of idleness, he united a remark
able ability to endure, when necessary,
privation and fatigue. After he hail re
mained three years with the gypsies,
they were abruptly ordered by the
Parliament of Rouen to quit the pro
vince, and, as Cartouche was sick at the
time, they left him behind. On his re
recovery, he found himself alone and
friendless in the streets of Rouen, with
out a single sou in his pocket.
lly g d lack he fell in with ar. uncle
who f<tl, olotlnd him, aud sent him
home, thereby affording him another
op;>ortunity for pursuing an honest
career. \ domestic life, however, had
no cliarms for the ex gypsy. After a
few mouths' tranquility he decamped
from the fraternal mansion one moon
light night with his father's money box
under his arm. He was then about
seventeen years of age. Pocket picking
wis th first branch of his fntnre indus
try to which he devoted his talents. He
formed a partnership with one Gaguis.
and, between them, they were reaping a
rich harvest, when one nnlucky evening
Cartouche's comrade was arrested aud
transmitted to Marseilles.
This misiiiivi-ntare led oar hero to
turn Lie tal< ut-> in another direction, and
he b-ok to dice and oards. Haunting
the 1 >etter hells, he used the skill ac
qnired among the gypsies to such par
pose that suspicions w re awakened, and
M. Cartonche was kicked into the street
and debarred forever from that branch
of industry.
B -comc at lost an lshmaelite, his hand
against every one, sod every one's hand
against him, it became his # mutant care
to impart to the skilled desperate baud
rallied around him an organiza
tion and discipline approximating as
clow ly as possible to the military ; he
appointed lieutenants, sergeants, sen
tries, rallying and passwords, and spared
no dttsil to insure perfection of the in
strumeut under his control. This com
pleted, the campaign opened with night
skirrab hing. Thus, some three or four
of the l>*nd wonld pounce upon ai un
wary citizen, whom a blow on the head
from a loaded blu Igeou reduced to tern
porary silence. When the victim re
gained sufficient Onnacionsneas to give an
alarm, the troop was at s safe distance,
arranging the next affair. Paris was
regularly apportioned into districts,
one of which was allotted each night to
some particular detachment of the hood.
It WHS in 1720 that the terror inspired
by Cart mche's hand reached its climax.
They In Id virtual possession of the capi
tal, *ttq>ecial]y by night Their depre
dations wereoondncted with the military
order and precision so mnch inculcated
by their great leader. A party would
assemble before some rich mansion.
Then some huge fellow—very frequent
ly oue Simon Onoe, a brawny ex porter
—would offer his gigantic shoulders as
the base of a living pyramid, which,
formed of the lighter and more agile
members of the gang, speedily reached
the lower windows. Some panes were
adroitly removed, the apartments enter
ed, and the most attractive objects r*e
gan to glide down a chain of ready hands
till the pillage was complete.
The gang banted noble game. In
September, 1720, tbey invaded the resi
dence of the Spanish ambassador and
nearly stripped the chamber of the am
bassadress, seizing a magnificent pearl
necklace, a brooch with twenty seven
large diamonds, a rich table service of
gold, and the lady's entire wardrobe. In
the Palais Royal, then occupied by the
regent, they stole two of hia silver flam
b< aux. At the Louvre Cartouche's
brother possessed himself of the sword
and mantle of the Prince de Soubise,
while the regent himself was robbed one
night on having the opera. Here, how
ever, the hingh was on the other side, as
purposely, to deoeive the robbers, he
had caused his sword hilt to be richly
chased —in steel.
Now that the inconvenience of such a
6tate of things began to be felt in the
very highest socitty, government set it
self seriously to the task of reform. One
Hay. morning in 1721 some laborers
came upon the body of a murdered man.
It pro veil to be that of an obscure poet
named Vergier. What cooJd possess
any one to kill a poet, and so poor a one
at that, was a pnzzle, till some suggested
it was the regent's work. Philippe
d'Orleans was black enough, iu all con
science, but rumor painted him in still
deeper colors. In a series of rhymed
philippics he hsd been branded with
every oonoeivable crime. What more
natural, said the public, than that he
should employ Cartouche's band to
w reek his vengeance on the poet who
bad held him np to ridicule and shame.
To be sure, Vergier was not the one who
bad written the verses in question, bnt
the Cartouchians oould hardly be as
sumed to be familiar with such gentry
FRED. KURTZ, Krfitor and l'^ropriotor.
VOLUME IX.
iu starving i*h>le, and in thoir seal hi ex
ecute thoir nut-tor * orders had misUuieu
the man. Stories such at these circu
lating through Pari* caused the regent
to IvoaUr himself, aud the authorities
lotiilly demanded Carton olia; hut, of
cam mo, it war much easier to ask for htm
than to got him.
Another murder now occurred to aild
to the public agitation. Cartouche and
his lend were carousing at a cabart-t,
when they got iuto an altervatiou with
some workmen at an adjoining table. A
row ensued; * words and pistol* were
freely use*!. The police rushed in. aud
one of them. Monde lot, fell dead from
a shot fired, it was declared, by a female
Cartonchiau named Manon la Hoy. It
t* at least ocrtail that tiiis dtstinguisheil
lmly always carried arms, and equally so
that when, some time afterward, she was
arrested, she intrenched herself behind
her In—i and for half an hour kept the
whole |H*mc of police at bav. The
murders of Vergier aud Mondelot
brought the name of Cartouche proiui
tiently before the public. Henceforward
every audacious crime was laid to his
charge. Desperate attempts were made
capture the formidable thief, but his
dexterity aud akillfuluees in changing
his ivietume stood him good friends.
The louse, half-fitting cloak, blue on
one side, red on the other, and capable
of being reversed iu a moment of time,
owus him for a godfather. The police
would be in hot pursuit of a man iu red,
who fled like a deer around a corner.
When the pursuers followed on his
tracks he hail disappeared, but they en
countered a sedate individual iu blue
-trolling quietly toward tbem, who had
seen the aforesaid man in red dart iuto
a neighboring house or disappear dowu
some other street.
On one occasion the police, hearing a
row in the house of a pretty little lemon
ade seller known as Margot the Nun,
made a deseut. They fonud a little
man, half drunk, tearing around the
room, firing pistols right and left, to the
admiration of a mixed company of both
sexes. He was arrested, and after a
while represented himself to be an hon
est chocolate seller who hail unfortunate
ly taken a drop to much. He was allow
ed to go after depositing one hundred
livres and a gold snuff bo* as security
for his reappearance. No complaint
was made against him, and, in a few
days he aalled at jHilioe headquarters and
reclaimed his property. It was Car
touche.
In December, 1720, he was captured
and confined in Fort I'Eveqne, bnt in
spite of the terror inspired by this re
doubtable robber, so alight were the pre
cautious taken for'gnaniing him that he
three months later effected hia escape.
The authorities roused themselves to
unusual efforts for his recapture, and
hereupon an odd incident occurred. As
the officer of the criminal eonrt was nt
tering the usual proclamation with the
sonud of trumpet and ontcry, calling
upon Cartonche to appear within eight
days and answer the charge of murder,
and hail come to the words "111 the
king's name we do command the person
called 'Cartouche'"—
" Present, Cartonche 1" shouted a
voice in the center of the crowd, that
turned the whole body, archers, trum
peters, citizens, and ail, into a frenzy of
rage and agitation. It was Cartouche
himself, bnt he hail vanished.
Two persons now entered into a sol
emu league and covenant to pursue the
impalpable robls-r without rest or re
spite till he sbrmld lie slain or taken;
these were Hurou and Pepin, bold and
clever officers in the service of the po
lice. The chase opened ill for our hero;
Huron tracked him so hotly as to ex
change pistol shots with him, by whiclf
Cartonche was said to have been seri
ously wounded. It is oertaiu that, either
to escape this persevering foe, or to re
1 cover from his alleged hurts, he disap
peared for three entire months from
criminal history, and the police exalting
I ly assured the public that he was driven
from the capital. They were soon made
painfully aware of his return.
A very large reward was now set on
his heal, and Huron and Pepin again
devoted themselves to their task. The
zeal of both these offi -era proved fatal
to them. The former had one evening
tracked Cartonche to a notorious roblier
haunt. Findiug themselves likely to be
I surrounded, the band, like wolves at
bay. turned suddenly npon Huron and
hia followers. The officer received sev
eral pistol shots, anil was then cut down
by Cartonche himself. A few days later
the robber chief, while taking a quiet
stroll with Madeleine Beaulien.a woman
tielonging to the gang, perceived Pepin
at bis heels. Turning suddenly on their
pursuer, Madeleiue attacked him with
large stones, while Cartouche ran him
through the body.
A regular organized attempt was next
made, under the direction of aii aide
major of the Gardes Francais, who
selected ninety of his best men and sent
them in various disguises, bnt well
armed, in quest of the single robljer
chief. At this critical period of his
fortunes occurred what was known as
the affair of the Hotel Desmareta.
Nicholas Dewnaret*, nephew of the
great Colbert, died on the sixth of May,
at his hotel in the Rue des Petit-
August ina This wealthy residence
Cartouche resolved should be thoroughly
pillaged. A chosen liand, commanded
by their chief in person, forced an en
i trance, and were busily at work in the
rich saloons when one of their lookouts
announced the approach of an absolute
army of police. The daugcr signal had
hardly been given liefore the enemy ap
peared. A fierce fight commenced—
from room to room, from stair to stair.
The robbers fought stoutly, bnt their
ammunition failed, and they were over
; borne by unmlicr*. Cartouche escaped
j by a chimney, gained the roof, and de
scended at some distance in the garret
of a good nattiri'd meclian ic, to whom
be represented himself as a man pur
sued by his merciless creditors. His host
| sympathized with him, provided him
with a disguise, and onoe more ho broke
throngh the toils.
The regent now doubled the n ward
and offered a free pardon to any one, no
matter how gnilty, who should lietrav
his chief. Distnn-t now spread through
the band, and two mnrders of suspected
traitors qnicklv followed. Jtut the hoar
of retribution was at hand. One
| Duchatelet—next to Cartouche, the
most ferocious of these hitman tigers—ac
knowledgedto himself that the game was
nearly np. Plunged, as he was, in the
; deepest and deadliest crime, he saw but
one chance of Rafety, an/1 that was to de
nounce his chief.
He made a bargain with Prkom, the
aide-major of the Oardee Francaiaea,
procured a promine of pardon from the
regent, and then oonducted a picked
body of men to the robber'a lair. Car
touche waa taken so completely by sur
prise that he was secured almost without
a struggle, although he had six loaded
pistols ready to bis hand. He was oon
ducted to the Cliatelet, and the process
advanced quickly. Duchatelet, certain
qf reprieve, confessed without hesita
tion to certain burglaries and murders,
in which Cartouche hail taken part.
Notwithstanding this, the latter stoutly
protested his innocence, and denied his
identity, calling himself one Jean Bour
guignon, a countryman.
The robber chief had been placed in
one of those horrible subterranean dun
geons destroyed in 1780 by the humane
command of Louis XVI. He had a
companion in trouble who had formerly
worked as a stone mason; together they
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
succeeded iu making a breach iu the
wall of their cell, thence following a
ditch connected with the sewerage of the
pruon, thoy broke iote tiie collar of a
neighboring houee. llero, however,
fortune ceased to befriend tbem ; tktr
touch* was rearrested while endeavor
iug to leave the house and plnoed in
cloaer custody than before.
Ilia trial wont forward with mux
arnplod rapidity, and on Nov. "26, 1721,
Oartouolie and four of his companion*
were ordered to be broken on the wheel,
after having lieeu previously submitted
to the question ordinary and extraor
diuarv, with tlie view of extortiug con
f.wuona. The;>roors vrrtxtf relating to
Cartouche reports the application of
the question in the form uf the boot*.
Theae were wooden frame* fitted to the
ligs, uito which wedges of increasing
*iae were forcibly driven until the leg* of
the sufferer were reduced to a pulp.
On the application of the first, second
aud third wedge, answered that he wan
innocent. At the fourth answered
that he knew uot what they were speak
iug of. At the fifth, that he was iuuo
oeut— was dying. At the sixth, that he
hail done all that was required of him ;
luul done no wrong ; wa* dying. At
the seventh, was innocent— no aooom
plioca. At the eighth and last, was in
nocent.
Although ho thus refused to confess
under torture, ho became ixinimuuii*-
tivo ouough when ho reached th soaf
fold, protesting, however, as much to
his credit, that ho had ucvcr rubhed a
church, although i>ftou iucited so to do
by Duchatelet. lie alwolved hia owu
family with especial earnestness from
auv sliare iu hia misdoings. Ho re
frained from denuueiatioua, even of
those who had deserted or betrayed
him, excepting only Duchatelet, toward
whom he eviuoed intense scorn and
hatred. But in revcuge he wua unsjmr
iug iu respect to the spies and receivers
of the guug, whom he denouueed by the
score. He avowed himself the head and
chief of the numerous band, so long the
terror of the capital, an assertion amply
continued by the confusion and ludiaci
plino which on his decease became sud
denly iH'roeptible in the ranks of crime.
To the last two questions addressed to
him, whether any person of condition
belonged to his band, and whether he
hail ever accepted bribes to murder, he
replied empliatically iu the negative.
Cartouche's was the tirst of a long
series of executions; for several mouths
the Place de Greve saw some unfortu
nate wretch hanged or broken. His
name and memory seemed to engender
robbers, and it was a long time before
the effects of that powerful impulse,
which, by carefully organizing it, he had
given to crime, had passed away.
Notes on the Fashions.
The handsomest Centennial mittens
are in black lace, with thumlis but no
lingers, are three quarters long, and
have tliree frills of lace on the arm.
Fashionable ladies have different jioirs
of colored stockings for every suit,
being very particular that the color
should match that of the suit or its trim
mings.
Handsome sashes are of soft silk.
Those of blue or cardinal red are bro
coded in silver; those of white or black
iu gray, aud tho-e of piuk and cherry iu
gold.
Lisle thread gloves in all the Quaker
shades are finished like lUlhriggnu
stockings, with "regular" seams; they
are long enough to re.ich half way to
the elbow, and are both plaiu and 0100 -
ed.
A pretty way of making the skirt of a
dress is to have the front breadth and
two side gores trimmed in any way that
may suit the fancy, bnt the back
breadth has no trimming, and is ma ie
into a large double lx>x plait or watteau.
An ecru colored chip ha', the "jaun
ty" shape, has a crown trimming of ecru
and pink silk bows, with corn silk lace
wound between them and an <cru os
trich tip a.iinng over the crown. The
full trimming consists of piuk and tea
roses embedded iu ecru lace.
An elegant wrapper is made of pale
bine cashmere. The skirt is gored and
quite plziin except in the back, where it
has a large doable tmx plait extending
from the waist. The waist is a loone
fitting jacket, trimmed with blue silk so
as to simulate a vest.
A sack for a child is of light brown
cloth; it is cut very long, and is corded
with dark brown silk; across the two
b.u*k pieces is a side plaiting about two
hands deep; above the top of this is a
plaited band of silk, with a IKIW and
en<ls, thus forming a narrow sash. It
has a " Byron " collar, fastened in front
with a brown lilk bow.
An elegant costume is a black silk
skirt, with two rows of knife plaiting.
The overskirt is of soft brocaded black
silk, profusely trimmed with plaiting*
of black silk, and a black silk side
pocket. The waistcoat is of black silk,
with jackot of brocaded silk. The plait
ings and sleeves are of black silk.
A very handsome hat is of white chip,
having the crown entirely covered with
an ecrn colored grenadine scarf, tied
in the Itsck into two long ends. Where
these are tied is fastened a largo bunch
of flowers. The front of the hat is
faced with black velvet, which color
shows to advantage tlio delicate tints of
the flowers which form the fall trim
mings of the hat.
A handsome suit is of plum colored
faille, and cream colored silver brocade.
The skirt is of the plnm faille, having a
row of lox plaiting, headed by a shir
ring. The {xilonaiso is of the brocade,
having a box plaited rushing of the
plnm-colored faille, under which is sew
ed a heavy mesh fringe. On one side is
a plnm colored pocket. The sleeveH are
of the plum colored, with cuffs of the
silver brocade.
A handsome suit has a black velvet
skirt and sleeves. The skirt has one
deep velvet flounce. The overskirt is
of ecru cashmere laoe; it has an apron
front, and deep loops, and ends in the
hack; the lace edging which is used as a
finish is sowed on with a cording of ecrn
colored silk. The sleeveless jacket is
mode of the lace with A silk IKIW on the
back at the waist; the velvet sleeves have
also a fall of lace at the waist, with a
loosely tied bow of silk on tlio outer
seam.
Never Bel Out.
The perennial nature of suits in oh an
eery lia-s been a stock topic for British
wit from time immemorial. When Handy
Andy, in that incomparable colloquy
w th hia mother after ho had married
the rich farmer's daughter and ah had
boon stolen from him by a patty of
strapping farmer lads and married to
hor former lover by a " hedge priest,"
threatened to pnt the whole party in
Newgate, hia mother eagerly enjoined
him to put them in chancery instead,
" for peoplo Homotimca get out of New
gate, but I h&ar they never get out of
chancery."
An insurance agent happening to meet
a lion asked him if he would insure his
life. " No," responded the monarch of
the forest, with a resounding roar, "nor
yours." Thus saying, ho tore the un
happy man to pieoes, and fed on his
damaged cheek and other more jienetra
ble portions.
Moral. —There is such a thing as
being instant out of season.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY. APRIL 27. 1870.
THK HUFAT CFNTFNMAI..
t. latrrssllsa llm-rlpll." .1 Ihc Mala
H.IIS.i ■*■•! lis I siwrlln..
It was only lant May that the work of
erecting the columns lor the mam build
ing ou the Gentonutal ground* was lie
gun, and now a magnificent edifice has
been completed, covering over twenty
acrtwt of grouud, using nearly 8,000,000
pound* of irou iu its columns and
girders, 7,000,000 feet of luuilier, four
tuiltui of water piping, ami requiring tlie
services of an army of 8,000 mechanic*
aud laborers. Hucb work is unpre
cedented.
The building is in the form of *
parallelogram, extending east and west
1,880 feet in length, and north and
south 464 feet iu width. The south
front ia on Belmont avenue, s wide road
way extending through the central por
tion of tiie grounds. The larger portion
of the building is one story in height
ami shows the main cornice upon the
outside at forty five feet above the
grouud, the interior height Imm ng
seventy feet at the lanterns in the roof.
At the center of the longer sides, or
fronts of the building, are projections
416 feet across, and in the center of the
shies are similar projections, '216 feet
across. In these projections, iu the
renter of the fonr sides, are tlie main
entrances, which are provided with
arcadre npou the ground floor and cen
tral facades, extending to the height of
uinety feet. They are ornate and im
posing. The oast entrance is also the
eastern boundary of the grounds. Here
w.U tie the carriage concourse and the
prineiital approach to the exhibition for
visitors in carriages. The south en
trance, at the Kim avenue aide of the
structure, will be the principal entrance
from the street cars, the ticket offices, as
st all the gates, being under covered
ways, within the arcade or vestibule.
The main portal, on the opposite, or
north side, communicates with the pas
sageway to the art gallery, and the main
portal on the west front, at Belmont
avenue, fronts machinery hall, the
second largest exhibition building.
Upon the corner of the main building
are four towers, seventy five feet high,
surmounted by a spire at each angle of
the towers, and lietwreu the towers and
the central projections, or cutmnoas, u
lower roof, twenty four feet to the cor
nice, breaks the uniformity.
In order to obtain a central feature
for the building, as a whole, the roof
over the central part for I*4 feet s pi.are
lias been raised above the surrotludi g
portion, and four towers, forty eight
feet square, rising to 120 feet in height,
with spires thirty feet higher, haxctx* n
introduced at the comers of the elevated
roof. Innumerable flagstaff*, with
small flags and |M>unons of all nations,
surmount the roof at these towers nud
al<mg the eaves, and the effect is gay
and brilliant, while the many windows
with which the walls of the buildings
are pierced make it appear light and
graceful.
The foundations of the building are
piers of masonry and the superstructure
ia oomiHieed ot wrought iron columns,
which support wrought iron roof tru*
eft. lengthwise of the building the
columns are twenty-four feet spurt.
There are 672 cclumu* in all, the short
est being twenty-three feet and the
longest 125 feet in length. The build
ing Whig a temporary construction,
both columns and roof trumea are so
designed that they can easily be taken
down for re erection elsewhere. The
aides of the building, for the height of
seven feet from the ground, are
finished with brickwork, with panels W
tweao the columns, and above the f'Vcn
feet with glazed sash. All the corners
and angles of the building, upon the ex
terior. uro concentrated by small gulran
ised in n octagonal turrets, which ex
tend above the roof and are surmounted
by (lag-tuffs, or at other places, by the
national eagle, uncle of galvanized iron,
gilded. Tho national standard, with
appropriate emblems, is platvd over the
c liter of each of the four main en
tranced. Surmounting each of the side
! entrances is s trophy showing tho na
tional colors and the coat of arms of the
country occupying that part of the
building. Variegated bricks and tiling
are introduced iu tho vestibules of the
four main entrances, aud the ornamen
tation over tho arches of the entrance
way* is rather original. Mr. Henry
Peltit, the engineer and architect. wi*h
ed to avoid, a* far as possible, following
the antique, and to have the decoration
peculiarly American. Instead of folia
lions of tho classical acanthus we see
the not leas Wantifill forest leaves of
: our own country. Mr. Pettit mado a
collection of tho foliage found ill Fair
mount park and tho exhibition ground*
itself; and the capitals, the wreaths ami
the scroll work over tho arches of the
j jw>rtals are of the leaves of the fern, the
rhododendron, or mountain laurel, the
, oak, the maple, and thn familiar forest,
tree* of America. Tho walls of the
building are painted brown, and the or
namentation i* in gold and bright colors.
The areas covered by the main build
ing are as follows;
A Fable.
Sfwar# F**i. Act**
Oronml floor 872.330 20 03
Upper floors, in pro Jor lion* 37,344 .85
Up|>er floors, iu towers 2f>,314 .60
Total 936.008 21 47
The g neral arrangemer t <>f the ground !
floor shown a centra! avenue, or nave,
120 feet in width, and extending 1,832
feet iu length. It is the largest avenue
of that width ever introduced into an
exhibition building. On either side of
this nave there is an avenno one hundred
by 1,832 feet long. Between the nave
ami side avenues are aisles forty-eight
feet wide, ami on the other side of the
building smaller aisles twenty-four foot
in width. In order to break the great
length of the roof lines three cross ave
nues, or transepts, have l>een introduced,
of the same widths and iu the same rela
tive positions to each other as the nave
and avenues running lengthwise—name
ly, a central transept, 120 feet in width
by 410 feet in length, with one on either
sido of one hundred feet by 410 feet,
and aisles between of forty-eight feet.
The intersection of these avenues and
transepts in the central portion of the
hnilding results in dividing the floor into
nine open spaces, free from supporting
columns, and covering in the aggregate
an area of 416 square feet. Four of
those spaces are one hundred feet square,
four one hundred feet by 120 feet, ami
the central space, or pavilion, 120 feet
sqnare. ic intersections of the forty
eight feet aisles produce four interior
courts forty-eight feet square, ono at
each corner of the central space. The
main promenades through the nave and
central transept are each eighty feet in
width, and those through tlie center of
the side avenues and transepts tlfteen
feet each. All other walks are ten feet
wide and lead, at either end, to exit
doors. Louvre ventilators arc over the
O'Uitral nave and each of the avenues,
and Hkylights are in the roof of the cen
tral aisles. Bmall balconies or galleries
of observation huvo been provided with
fonr central towers, at different heights,
and they will form attractive points of
observation. One of the towers will
have an American steam elovator, croet
od by an exhibitor, to carry visitors to
the top.
The spaoo in the main buildiug as
signed to the nations that have request
ed it is as follows:
ityuars :roi.
Italy 8,167.0
Norway 6,897.0
BwsSon 17,765.8
Austria. India and other 0u10ii10a..... 34,070 N
Canada . 34,070 s
ureal Itrnain 1t,77(i I
Franco and oulunloa .. 43. Sll 6
Hwltaerlaiul. 6,tV6.H
1 18.358 S
(Irani 6.8U7.0
N oilier Landa 18 480.0
Moilou 6,504 8
Chili and ArgeiiUue repuhllo 6,(117 6
Poru 1,463 6
Orange Free State 1,087.8
Jepaa 16.666 8
China 7,804.
Denmark '4,610.
Turkey ". 8.0X4.
Kgypt 6,0X1.
Tuiita 3,015.
Sandwich talauda 1,674 5 :
Portugal D.NW.ft
Spain 11. '453.
Hunaia.... .... .... 11,00-4.8
Austria and Hungary '44.070.8
Herman empire 37,706.5 j
United Hia lee of America 187,708.8
There are other nations whose assign
ments of space have not yet Iwmmi issued.
The revised and corrected list of tlie
countries represented by national com
missioners shows the names of thirty
seven nationalities, a larger number
than have ever beeu represented at any
previous world's fair.
Under the classification system that
has been adopted, the foliowiug depart
ments are assigned to the main building.
Department I Mining and metallurgy, which
include* ?
Pirat- Minerals, ores, building atones and
mining products
Second Metallurgical products
nurd Mine eugUieeriug, models, majia and
•ccllous, tools and machinery.
DnperUueul IL Manufactaras. which tn
citldre .
i'irt Chemical.
Second Ceramira, inHtery, porcelain, etc.
I'hAil Glaaa and glassware.
Fourth Kurunuie and objects of general
u in oonatrucltuu end in dwelling*
fifth Vartw and woven goods of vegetable
or mineral materials
S.ilh Woven and felled good a of wool and
cultures of wool.
Seventh mlk and silk fabrics and mixtures
in which ailk la the p: edomuiaUug material.
Eighth —Clothing, jewelry aud ornaments,
traveling equipments.
Ninth npar, blank books and stationery.
Tenth Military and ua-al urnameule, ord
nance flioanna and apparatus of hunting and
Ashing
eleventh Medicine, surgery, protbeele.
Tavlfth - Haidware, edge tools, cutlery.
Kurteeiilh India rulibt-r goods and manu
factures.
four.c-nlh Carrlapcw, vehicles and a.-cee
eonee.
Department 111 KlucaUou and science,
l'.ral K.luraUonal ayau-mr, methods and
hbrariee.
Second InatituUona and organiiationa.
Third v-ioutitio aud philosophical inalru
mente and methods.
f :rth f iigineenng. architecture, charts.
ma|va and graphic repteseulaUous
Fifth Pbyakal, social and moral oondiUoc
of man.
Th" following figur. a, giving the di
mensions of tho nnuu building from
me -<iin<menU taken from center to ren
ter of supporting columns, arc not ea-ily
remembered, but they will be found |
useful for reference.
rvw •
I,i gih of building.... l.ww
Width of building 464 j
Central avenue or uave.
Uiigtli ....1,834
Width I JO
Height to too of supporting ouluffii.s.. . % 48
lUighl to n Jgc of loof 7 -
CVniral traueept.
lxugth 41C
Width l*>
Height to too of aaIHM 48 |
Height to ridge of roof 70
Side avenuea.
length 1.832 '
Wi.lt I 100
Height to tup of eolumua 4.8
Height to the ridge of touf 68,
K de transepts.
l ength 416
tttilta 100
Height to tup of oolamns 1.8
Height to ridge of roof 65
Central aisles.
tx>nglh at east end 744
I.nj gih at west end . 674
Width 4-
Height to roof 30
Side aisles.
I.e.igth at east cuJ 714
I.Migth a: west end 673
Width '44 j
Height l-> roof S4 I
Central space or pavilion.
Ground plan (square) 12.7 ;
Height to top of supporting oolumus 72
Height to ridge of roof 'X.
Tower over oourts.
Ground plan (square) . 4S
Height to roof IJU i
Corner towers.
Ground plan (square). 24
Height to roof 76
Considering tho size of tlii* structure,
it* coat lias been very cheap. Mr. Dob
bin*. the contractor, will reooive for it
$1 ,(>OO,OOO. One day a number of carpet
manufacturers wore going through tho
building arrranging for their display.
Mr. Pettit asked one of them what it
would oust to oar]H>t twenty acre* of
ground with tlie beet carpet. "About
32 a square foot," was the reply. "Then
thi* building coat lea* to build titan yon
would charge to carpet the earth it
cover*," he replied, after making a littlo
calculation. '' The price paid for thin
building per horizontal foot was about
gl.Kl
The Mission School Scholars.
When the Lawrence mills were on fire
a number of years ago— l don't mean on
fire, but when the mill fell in, says Mr.
Moody, the evangelist, in one of hi* ser
mon*—the great mill fcl' in, and after it
had fallen iu, the rninn caught fire.
There w* only one room left entire, and
in it were three mi*-ion Sunday school
children imprisoned. The neighbors
and all hand* got their nhovol* aud pick*
and crowlvars, aud wore working to net
tho children free. It came on night and
they had not yet reached the children.
When they were near them, by some
mischance a lantern broke, and the ruin*
caught fire. They tried to put it out,
but they could not succeed. They could
bilk with the children, and even passed
to them ome hot ooffoe and *ome re
freshment*,and encouraged them to keep
up. But, alas! tho fl&mea drew nearer
ami nearer to thi* prinon. Bnperhn
man were the effort* mado to rescue the
children; the men bravely fought back
tho flame*; bnt tho fire gained fresh
strength and returned to claim its vic
tim*. Then piercing ahriekH arose when
the spectator* saw that the effort* of tho
; firemen woro hopeless. The children
! saw their fate. They then knelt down
and commenced to sing the little hymn
we linvo all I>oon taught in our Sunday
| school days : "Oh 1 how sweet—let
others seek a home below which flames
j devour and waves overflow." The flames
hod now reached them; the stilling
smoko began to pour into their little
room, and they licgan to sink, one by
one, upon the floor. A few moments
more and the flre circled around them
and their souls were taken into the
bosom of Christ. Yes, let others seek
a homo below if they will, but seek ye
the kingdom of God witli all your hearts.
A ' rst Experience.
A young lady abruptly turned the cor
ner and very rndcly rau against n Iniy,
who was small and ragged and freckled.
Stopping OH HOOII AS alio could alio turned
to him and said: " I beg your pardon.
Indeed, lam vory sorry." Tlio small,
ragged and freckled boy looked np in
blank amazement for an iustaut; then,
taking off abont threo-fourths of a cap,
ho l>owed very low, smiled until his face
became lost in the smile and answered :
" You can hov my pardingand welcome,
miss; and yer may run agin me and
knock me clean down an' I won't say a
word." After the young lady passed on
he turned to a oornrado and aaid, half
apologetically : "I never had any one
ask my parding, and it kind o' took me
off my feet."
J ark.<>n' Yl.lt to New York.
The visit, in 18.13, of Andrew Jackson,
tlicu I'realdent of the United Htates, to
New York city, and the fact that ho had
ou two occasions a narrow oacapr from
death, is still rememlxirtwl. The I'resi
dent mounted and rode out of the castle
gate, intending first to review the trooixi
on the battery. He was followed oluaely
by bu suite, and Isdiiud them came the
civic prooeasiou. lie rrooaed the bridge,
aud had gone about twenty feet beyond
it; then, with the weight of tboae who
followed, the beams and j**rt* beneath
it gave way, and the whole structure,
together with the ticket houses and
their crowds and the head of the proces
sion, fell iuto the water beneath. Among
those who went down weredeneral Cass,
Major Donelaon, Colonel Karle, Ogden
Hoffman, Esq., Alderman Monroe,
Messrs. illoodgood aud Benjamin Hwan,
aud other notable citixena. Fortunately,
the water wss only waist deep, and no
one was materially injured.
Major Jack Downing, who was then
the funny man of the day, wrote ai fol
lows of the visit and the disaster :
" Dkah Cm olk Josh i'a—Here we are,
among au ocean of folk*, and outtiu' np
pers a* high a* a cat'* track. I sjioae
you'll see by the papers how we all like
to got drowned goiu' arrow a little
bridge between the Castle and the Gar
den. It was * peaky narrow shake for
me aud the President. lie was riiliu'
over on a grate flue bona, an' I was
walkin' along Hide of him and try in' to
clear the way a little, for Uiey crowded
on ua so there was no gittin' along and
hardly a chance to breathe. Wheu we
got nnder the arch we stopped a bit for
the crowd to clear away, when all to
once 1 heard somethin' rraali. Hays I:
' General, you'd letier go ahead. I'm
afeard there's mischief broke loose.' At
that be gov his hoes a lick an' pushed
threw the crod, hut we hadn't got more'u
a rod before crash went the bridge bo
hind us all in a heap an' two toll house*
on top of it, and a* many a* a hundred
folks all splanhed into the water, all
mixed up together, one on top of 'tother.
The President looked over hi* shoulder,
and, seein' I was safe behind him.
called out for Mr. Van Huron, an' asked
me to run an' see if he was hurt. I told
him he had forgot himself, for Mr. Van
Huron wasn't in the eomjvony, but Mr.
Woodbury and Mr. Cass were iu for it,
for I could see them flounderiu' about iu
the water. ' linn, major,' said the Presi
dent, ' tun and give them a lift. Take
Woodbury firt. You know I cannot
spare hint.'
" Ho there was a narcel of ua tuk liMd
an' went to haulm of 'em out of the
water, like so many drowned rata. We
got Vrn all out alive, except a few young
things they called dandies, an' they
looked so after they got wet all over that
we couldn't make out whether they
were alive or dead. Ho we laid 'cm up
to dry and left 'em, and I went on to
help the President review the troops on
the Battenr, aa they call it, an' a grand
place it ia, too. In haute, your iovin'
ueffu, Majuh Jack Dowxiko."
(ondueting Work In Church.
A Chri-tiAU convention of mini tor*
ai. I laymen a-scmhlej at the hippo
drome In New York. Delegate* from
oh lurches in various part* of the oountry
were present, and the building was invar
ly filled. After the services had lieen
opened by ringing and prayer, Mr.
Moody announced the first subject for
discussion a* "Evangelistic Services,"
aiid explained that there were three way*
of conducting GoJ's work in church :
First, proclaiming tho Word of God ;
second, by wor-Liping him by goiug
to the I. ird's table, and third, oy teach
ing the Gospel. The chief element no
cv**ry in properly conducting revival
set rices wa* common *eu*c. More life
was necessary to fa rviooa, a* sometime*
great apathy existed, and tlie whole
worehipof G kl drifted iuto a bnriuo**-
liire *jrt of groove. Tlie tbwipel must
In- preached well, and when tlie preach
ing was not efficient ringing should lie
retorted to. Miubb ra wasitHl too much
time in telling w hat could he told in
five minute*. Hecteriaiiiiui should le
droppeJ, and a -pint of true religion
should prevail. Mr. Moody tlieu au
uotino-d that he was ready to answer
any qucriioi.* which theaa*emblv would
put to him on the subject. Trie first
quiriion proposed wa*: "Would yon
alrie Urtinc of revival in * communi
ty whi-r < the re was no s]M-cial interest
mnnifested for it I" Mr. Moody re
plied : "Yen, certainly, no barm can
follow." Another question was:
" Wh*t would you do with a miuistor
who preached almost the same sermon
and offered the name prayer* on all oc
carions, and at that take* up a oonplo of
hours, almost netting his auditor*
asleep f" Mr. Moody said be would
canon with a man, and, if that did not
make a change, he would take measures
to get another na*b>r. The next qne*
lion wa* : "What po*tnre or position
i* mo*t miited for jirayer* I" Mr. Moody
replied that any pieition wa* acceptable
to the Ixird, provided that the heart wa*
lin prayer. The question of prayer
meeting* wa* then taken np, and the
discussion wa* joined in by agnvt uum
lwr of delegates, several advocating that
the whole services should be conducted
by ministers, while Mr. Moody said that
he believed in member* taking part in
the proceeding*. A great many good
thoughts are evoked by allowing mem
liers of a congregation to speak
! and to pray. A good many prayer
meeting*, as at preaent oondueted, were,
however, an abomination in the right of
| God and man, a* sectarianism and pet
ty jealousies pervaded them and the
| Lord's workwa.i neglected.
To Catch the Fools.
An enterprising firm iu Marion, Ohio,
issues a circular which sets forth its
readiness to transmit on the receipt of
one dollar a lsdtle of some sort of secret
mucihigc, or powerfully condensed hair
oil, from which one hundred Don nils of
No. 1 butter may be mode without fur
ther cost and without the slightest in
tervention on the part of the cow. In
fact a herd of cows are delineated upon
the circular, and repr vented as standing
around a printed placard of the firm,
which they are regarding with erect tails
and other signs of astonishment.
Whether they rejoice nt the prospect of
escaping the attentions of the daily
milking maid, or tremble at the thought
that henceforward their utility is to be
restricted to the single particular of
leef, does not cl ally ap|xur from the
expression of their countenances, which
may mean anything; but they are ob
viously agitated with violent emotions.
Perhaps they are wondering whether
there are nny fools in the world who will
take such n low view of butter as to send
their money to the firm and try the con
tents of the bottle. No intelligent cow
would put faith in any suck assumption.
The nnimal is too well assured of its own
fixed I'iid invariable relation to the phe
nomena of dairy products. And yet it
is quite likely that there are such fools,
and that they send their dollars to the
iniqnitons and beguiling firm in suffi
cient number to justify the continued
issuance of their swindling circulars.
They are of a sort, however, who might
bo brayed iu a mortar without getting
the oorrect theory of butter; and so nuy
effort to guard them from their folly
would doubtless be thrown away. The
oouutry is full of schemes of this sort,
but not iuauy of them arc so transparent
as this.
TEHMS; 82.00 a Year, in Advance.
4 LIFF PIITUKE.
Tk. m.r> mf m H'rau irk* kt< M
(JiMMW.
Th 11 woman of whom we *|**k went
to I'hiladeliihia to lay in stock ; who
kecpa a small dry g>ds and trimming
store in a thriving town. Hb wont ont
to look at the Centennial buildings, at
the d<*|mrliur-(it for wumwi'i work, for
which women alone hate paid ; ahe aaw,
too, eotne of the executive committee of
her own ax at work. Noticing her
wistful face, one of the busy ladies aaid :
! " (Jan yon not do aomethihg for na ir.
your own town f Women of intelligence
and patriotism ought to come to the
frout now to help their oountry." " I
aan do nothing," replied the viaitor, " 1
am not a woman who aan oome to the
front. My daughter ia at work for yon,
however,' ahe added, with a alight glow
of pride. Hhe went home with a bitter
aetiso of humiliation. Hhe was born,
ahe thought, a generation too aoon. If
ahe were a voung girl now, what aaroerw
were open for a woman of ability—and
ahe knew ahe had ability. There were
chauoee now on every aide to develop
oneeelf and to help other*. But it was
too late for her. Hhe ritual die a ahe
had lived—nothing and nobody. There
ia a plenty of such morbid maundering
among woman nowaday*. Mr*.
White, let ua aay, went home to her
village and her shop. It waa a ahop
where ahe aold the plaineet of wane—
ahe had neither money Ut buy the pic
turca or bric-a-brac for which her aoul
longed in the city, nor cuatomera to
whom ahe could aell them : the village
waa an isolated one, where the flropa
and goaai|V supplied subject* for all
mental exercise. Home day perhaps
facts and thoughts from this wider outer
world would penetrate its dull atmoe
phere, but not while she lived ; she had
too nearly run her course for that.
The history of the woman was this.
Hhe ha<l great beauty when a girl; not
mere prettineaa, but a rare absolute
beauty. Hhe had also a nimble receptive
intellect, of quite a* good caliber aa
those of the women who have made
themselves public name and poaition;
in short she begun life with good capi
tal. But opportunity was wanting to
use it Her besuty made her the belle
of the county. Hhe married a well-to
do farmer, who Lost his property by mis
mausgemeut, died and left her with a
house full of healthy, headstrong boys
and girls to feed, clothe, educate, and
bring np rationally and piously. Hhe
did not sit down to sew; the netnlle was
too small a tool for such a weighty work.
Hhe opened a dairy, a laundry, a vegeta
ble garden. As one staff broke down
ahe tried another, finally settling {down
' in the ahop which ahe now owns, which
is the largest in the county.
In the meantime ahe has had a tough
struggle to bring the children along and
np, for she was resolved that they should
rise above hex own standing ground.
There was one son, whom she sent to
college, and who begun to drink ss aoon
as she had him at work attending the
lectures at Philadelphia. Twice the
poor woman crossed the mountains and
ransacked the great city to find him in
some deu of misery; for more than a
year ahe kept him under her own eye
t-Tery moment, while the poor wretch
fought the devil of drink, nursing him
tenderly as though he were still a baby,
with agony of aoul to which the paina
of his birth were nothing. The )>oy
conquered at last He ia now the lean
ing physician in his native place, a man
of great force and stability of eliaracier,
and he ia fond of telling hia boys how
that all ho is he owes to hia mother.
There was the oldest girl, too, who
had spinal complaint, and for jeers lay
a hopeless cripple in the little chamber
over the shop. Everybody in the vil
lage mmemlwrs how ilaiutv and cheer
ful a place the little chamber was, and
how, no matter what drudgery or anxiety
waited for the poor mother outside, she
never entered its door but with a smil
ing face. Everybody know* the hard
work and saving and stinting she prac
ticed for year* to ednoate the other chil
dren—to g.ve a son a start in Kentucky,
and buv a danghb-r a house and outfit
when she was left a widow. They are
nil married or happily aettled now.
The poor cripple, after hier years of pain,
is at rest iu tlie green hillside. The
mother lives alone, with such grand
children as can be spared to her now
and then. ITw youngest girl went as
a teacher to Ohio, then entered a college
where both sexes were admitted; dow
she is in New York city earning her liv
ing by drawing, writing for one or two
weekly lepers, etc. It i* she who is
working for the woman's department of
the Centennial. Hhe is a brilliant talk
er; ahe glances over tlie current sub
jects of the day in a light touch-and-go
way, which lie wilder* her mother with
tlie profundity and extent of her knowl
edge. "If she had hul Betty'si hanoe!"
she thinks, she too might have played a
great and worthy part in life.
There are many women of her age
and class who have this morbid discon
tent, jnst now. But tlie Jadge who
shall weigh her work and her danghter's,
and that of each and all of us, has other
scales than ours.—AVtc York 7Vi6tow.
A Whisky Bunch Changed the Weather.
The widow O'Flaherty was rich, and
she was known far and wide for her be
' novolenoe and deeds of charity. On a
cold and stormy evening in January she
summoned her servant man to her pres
onoo, and told him to load np thewhoel
barrow with wood and take it over to the
widow Wilaby's shanty to keep herself
ami the three dear little children from
freezing. " But," said she. "stop a bit
and make me a gloss of whisky punch
before von go." That boiug done, and
the punch having been disposed of. the
kind hearted widow countermanded the
order, remarking that the weather had
moderated and changed ao much that
there was no immediate danger of anj
one freccing thai night. Moral. —Chan
ty ia sometime* like a weathercock, sub
ject to changes.
A Deabtful Storv.
Mr. Howard, of Pandas, Canada,
took home a strange cat which had been
presented to him by a friend, and dur
ing the evening, after his little boy had
been put to bed, the attention of "Mr.
and Mrs. Howard was attracted by a
strange noise proceeding from the bed
room. whither they at ono proceeded,
and found to their horror that the cat
was lying on the little boy, with it
month covering the mouth of the child,
who was laboring under great distress.
The cat was at once driven off, and not
a moment too soon, for the little fellow
was nt almost his last gasp, and was
with difficulty restored to consciousness
by the application of writer, which was
dashed on his face. This should be a
warning to parents to keep an eye on
their cats as well as their ohildieu.
A tiood Time.
It is a good time to reoall some of the
excellent advice long ago given by John
Adams : " But let us take warning, and
give it to our children. Whenever
vanity and gayety, a love of pomp and
dress, furniture, equipage, buildings,
great company, expensive diversions,
and elegant entertainments, get the bet
ter of the principles and judgments of
men or women, there is no knowing
where they will stop, nor into what
evils, natural, moral, or political, they
1 will lead us."
NUMBER 17.
Gee. < uster'a Towtimony.
General George A. (Juater, when ex
nmincd by the oommitteo on expend*
turns in the War department, testified
that ba bail bean in command at Fort
Abraham Lincoln lor throe year*. Ha
aaid: J. A. Dickey wan pool trader; 1
room red a letter from the secretary of
war, dated January 5, 1874, stating that
the President had been informed that
Dickey bad introdnoad liquor into the
fort and that the place wee really bald by
a dialoyal man named Wilaon; i investi
gated the subject and foand that Dickey
had not nolatnd the internal revenue
law, bat bad introdoced liquor in the
Indian Territory by military authority ;
1 reported to the secretary of war that
Dickey was not a fit person to bold the
ixjaL On May 2, 1874, 1 received a
letter from the secretary of war, atating
that Hubert C. Hrpa bad been appointed.
Wilaon, who was a partner of Dickey,
published a letter written to A. C. Lay
ion, in which ba aaid be waa satisfied
that the secretary of war waa in (created
with Hipe in the post traderabip ; his
letter, which "was published, waa sent to
the witueaa, aooompanied by one writ
ten by .Secretary Belknap, in which he
brauded the accusation aa a lie; Bipc at
one time made a written complaint to
the secretary of war, mating that no offi
cer ought to have a right to buy or bring
any goods to the poet except through
him; I forwarded Bipe's letter to Secre
tary Belknap and received in reply a
circular which aaid that no one had the
right toaell goods bat the regular puat
trader ; the secretary of war also added
that the circular waa plain enough to be
understood and meant what it aaid ;
Captain Poland, one of the officer*, had
protected against Bipe'a prieea and had
introduced goods, bat thia WM atopped;
after the ltelknap exposure I aunt for
Hipe and asked him what he had been
paying to hold his poet; he aaid ha esti
mated his profits a 115,000 annually ;
one-third of it was paid to General lied
rick, of lowa, and one-third to Geoeral
Bioe, in Washington; out of his profits
of $15,000 he only received $2,600; be
aaid lie did not know bat that he under
stood a portion of it went to the secretary
of war; llaymond subsequently aaid that
he had paid Grant SI,OOO for getting the
place; the witness said that Thumb, the
trader at Fort Peck, was about to be re
moved when be obtained aome affidavits
showing that Orvil Grant and the Lay
ton brothers were mixed op in Indian
frau'is; General Caster aaid an object of
General Belknap's visit to the frontier
was to perfect arrangements whereby
whisky ooold be brought across the
border at a reduced rate, and increased
advantages given to post traders. Gen
eral Comer related various instances in
which grain bad been stolen from the
government, post traders taking it into
their mores.
Ilot Pudding.
The student* in one of the oolleges
being ooustantly annoyed by the noo
turnal and inquisitorial visits of a pro
feasor, who suspected then of playing
cards, one evening prepared a kettle of
mash—otherwise called "hasty pod
ding"—and by the time it was boiled,
had seated themselves around the table
in the attitude of card playing, waiting
patiently for the well known footsteps
of the professor. It was no sooner beard
than a large outside pooket of one of
them was filled with hot hasty padding,
and all were seated as before. As soon
as the professor had opened the door,
the student who was loaded with the
mush made a sudden sweep over the
table with his hand, as if to gather up
the cards, and, with another motion,
apparently put them in his pocket con
taining the mash. These movements
oonld not help being noticed—as they
were intended to be—by the professor,
who, considering them as a pretty strong
evidence of guilt, broke oat with the
following:
" Well, young gentlemen! I've
caught TOU at it at last, have If"
"Why, yes, sir; we are all here."
"Sol see you are 1 And you have
been playing cards, too!"
" So, sir; it's not so!"
"It isn't, hat What have you got
in your pocki-t, young man I"
" Hot hasty padding, sir I"
"Hot hasty padding, ha I Hasty
pudding, have yon f I'D hasty pudding
yon i" said the professor, at the same
time thrusting his hand, half-way to the
ellrnw, in the hot hasty pudding.
The dolorous looks, the, shaking of
fingers, the groanings and capers of the
professor, are better imagined than da
scribed.
A Kobherj Frost rated.
Last May a man giving hi* name aa
Major Koliins arrived at Clramberaborg,
Pa. He represented himself as a
wealthy Bouthern gentleman, and, bj
hm fine social qualities, won the esteem
aud confidence of a large uumtior of the
solid ritisens of the town, among them
the cashier of the First National bank.
One night Rollins called on the cashier
with a friend lie introduced na Johnson,
who, he said, desired to make a deposit
ot *30,000 until morning. The cashier
accompanied the men to the bank, and
while he was placing a package contain
ing $30,000, which arrived by express
after {tanking hoars, in a private safe
with Johnron's bogus deposit, the men
made a desperate assault on the cashier,
gagging him and seising the thirty
thousand dollar package. As they were
going toward the front door to esoape
the Itauk ofiicer partially removed the
gag and gave an alarm. An inmate, who
had been np stair*, come to his rescue,
locking the front door to cut off their
retreat Rollins drew a pistol on him
and commanded him to open the door.
The man refused, aud the robbers made
their exit by ar. ar door. Iu going
down the steps Kolluis fell, and a mau,
who had Wen in the buihliug, jumped
on him and hold him until assistance ar
rived. The stolen money was all found
on liim. Johnson had meanwhile es
caped on a horse stationed on the out
side. The next morning he was cap
tured about twenty miles from Cham
bersburg. Both are iu jail.
Force of the Wind.
The force of the wind when traveling
at high velocities is capable of producing
the most extraordinary effects on ex
posed objects, such as' buildings, trees,
animal*, and even bodies of water. Iu
March, 1875, a series of destructive
tornadoes visited North and South Caro
lina and Georgia, and Sergeant Calver,
of tho signal service, was ordered to in
vestigate their character and effects.
Among other remarkable instances of
wind force he reported that "a rock
weighing eighteen thousand poin ds and
having thirty-fivo square feet of exposed
surface was moved 6even feet." "A
pine log, weighing twelve hundred
pouuds aud with thirty five square feet
of exposed surface, was carried a quar
ter of a mile." " A pine board was
driven through a telegraph pole." "A
bale of cotton weighing five hundred
pounds was carried a quarter of a
mils." Tho sergeant observer calcu
lates the following degrees of force for
the relative velocity of the wind:
Pressure, 26.9 pounds per square foot
of exposed surface, velocity, 73.3 miles
per hour; 30.5 pounds, 78.1 miles;
77.7 pounds, 124.6 miles. He further
estimates that some of the results could
not have been produced by a wind
traveling at a less velocity than seven
hundred miles an hour.
Told in CmMmm
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FrMategWat now guttering furthest. fairseto*
tb t
If he WOoJXM,'
Not row ooideet cruel ray
Or o o my
Be found>ore>hUl sndHtmwflilm.than t
Iwar you'll ae*er,;ne**r toil him !
Wm rod 11moot lining jww oh y fsoee to the
If be win ms.
Blusbtyoor sweatee* la hit tight
For hi* dahght,
Hit ImoUmsweet,msweet•• yon
Itemi'of Interest.
Motto "for the Arab*—Dp and Be
douin. „
An empty pocket isj'nu Aignjof an
empty head.
A man moat take the chances if be aa
find them.
Look <rat for dntnkan pigs when ale
cornea in hogsheads.
Justice is heavy when it takes twelve
men to bring in a verdict.
The fleet at Port Royal is going to
thoroughly test Georgia ooel.
The patient printers who wait for their
pay may be called Job printers.
England has spent $1,000,000,000 on
her navy githin the last eighteen year*.
Mrs. HamcCßeechcr Btowe made sl,-
300 from her orange grove in Florida
last rummer.
Thirty -seven companies on the Kenne
bec river, Me., have boused 800,500 tons
of ice.
A hopeless ease—The full-grown
young atan who calls bis mother his
maw and his father hie pew.
The Norwich town dock lies stopped
tnd the bands are thrown oat of em
ployment, the Bulletin says.
A single vessel left Mobile e few days
sgo en route to Liverpool with 6,287
bales of oottoo worth $411,405.
General Sheridan's arms are said to be
so long and his legs so short that be aan
gather catnip without getting red in the
A match dealer has started a new
brand, called " Centennial matches."
Instead at a hundred he only pate 76 la
|he box.
A Boston journal says that New York
spends $2,000,000 a year for flowers
alone, and for plants and fruits $3,000,-
000 more.
Professor (to Freshman)—" What ia
a cards 7" Freshman (after much reflec
tion)—"A round, straight line, with a
bole in the middle."
The sand remedy for chapped hands
ia to rinse them well after washing with
soap and dry them thoroughly by apply
ing meal or hoe powder.
One of the easiest and beet wars to
expand the chest is to here e good large
heart in it It saves the oost of gym
usttira
There ia economy in traveling on the
fast mail trains. Yon make what you
eat go a great deal further in a given
length of time.
The oost of the St. Louis whisky trials
was $66,684.85. The result: Two men
in jail, and two men ooovioted, not sen
tenced and at liberty.
Messrs. Moore A Oopestake, of Lon
don, have divided £35,000, or $175,000,
among their employees in proportion to
the Length of their service.
" Oh, why does the white man follow
my path t" asks Lo. Why, to establish
post trader-ships, at course, and ali you
poor whisky a. $3 a quart.
It is very convenient just now to
brush up the acquaintance of all your
Philadelphia friends. They will no
doubt be pleased to see you.
Stephen Palmer, a sexton at Go! hill.
England, was interred and smothered
by the caving in of one side at the grave
that be WM engaged in excavating.
The Chicago Tuna wants to know if
"we fellows whose grandfather* fought
in the Revolution are not going to
have our expenses paid to the Centen
nial?
One of the leading 'dentists of New
York gets from S2O to $l5O for filling a
tooth, and for cleaning and filling a set
of teeth he has been paid as much M
$2,000.
The momentous question—AaguatOK:
" Now, Emily, do yon love me. or do
you not f" Emily—" Well, if I My I
don't, shall I have to return your pre
sents f"
A lazy fellow falling a distance of fifty
feet and escaping with only a few
scratches, a bystander remarked that be
WM "too alow to fall fast enough to
hurt himself !**
"About this time look out for colds.'
But it i* not neoeaaary. The man who
cannot catch a cold without looking- out
for it hasn't enterprise enough to enecse
if be should catch one.
"Mamma, don't you want some nice
candy f" said a shrewd little child.
"Yes, dear, I should like some."
"Then, if you boy some, Til give you
half !" lisped the politic girl.
Little do the boys imagine that while
tbey are attending school and striving
to store their minds with useful infor
mation, bold, bed men in New York are
raising the price of firecrackers.
In former day*, when a Chinaman was
pushed into the mud bya San Francisco
hoodlum, he would say: "You Chris
tian, me heathen; good-bye," Now
John cracks back with a elungshot, and
the sport seems to be peaeing sway.
A minister at Neenah, Wis., has re
tired from the pulpit and established
tiimself on a farm some miles distant
from the town, where he advertise*, in
the village paper, "marriages will be
speedily performed at all hours."
"My poem is rather lengthy," she
said, " and may be vou won't have room
for it this week." the editor yawned
and replied : "Oh, yes, we could find
room for it if It was twelve times as long
—our stove is a large one, you see."
He is seated at a table at a reetanranl.
Before him is an immense plate of pan
cakes. "It is singular," he muses,
"they say appetite comes with eating.
Two cakes, no appetite ; three, four,
five, six, still no appetite. Decidedly,
I'm very sick."
Ttobert Williams "an old white
man," stole a mackerel worth sixteen
cents in Richmond, the other day, and
received as punishment six lashes and
one hour's imprisonment. The oonfiue
ment cost the State ninety cents.
A school speaker used the word
abridgement, bnt immediately pulled
up aud remarked that as some of the
younger scholars might not know its
meaning he would say that it was a
synonym of epitome. The members of
the infant class were affected to tears.
A lawver in a California court bad a
dispute "with the judge on a law point,
and the judge made out a commitment
against the lawyer for twenty-four hours
in the county jail for contempt. The
constable was averse to serving the
papers, so the lawyer took himself under
arrest, went to jail, got out within an
hour on a writ of habeas corpus, and
sued tho judge for damages.
In England, marriage with a deceased
wife's sister is still illegal, whereas the
colonifd legislatures of Australia have
sanctioned it, and the respective enact
ments received the royal assent The
anomally having therefore arisen, that
issue by such marriages, while legitimate
in the oolouies, is considered the reverse
in the homo country, a law is under con
sideration in Parliament to obviate the
difficulty.
One of the newspaper romaucista in
Paris invented an appropriate story for
Shrove-Tuesday, the twenty-ninth of
February. It appears that a fast young
man about town negotiated a loan from
a money-lender. "My terms," Baid the
speculator, "are forty per cent for the
vear." The bill was drawn for a small
amount, plus interest, and the lender,
referring to his newspaper, thoughtless
ly filled in the date Feb. 29. When the
money had been paid the Shylock dis
covered that ho would have to wait four
years for his money at the modest
interest, for such a loan, of ten per cent,
per annum.