Spting and the Robin.
A robin wbm flitting
KWHT from the <*ooth.
And. on a bush sitting.
Ho opens hi. month ,
• Ho "pes nary ro*e*.
Ho foolo nsry cpiing ;
iR to tnhorooloaio
In trying to sing.
Catarrh sod bronchitis,
KhenmatMa and oh ilia.
And touts larrgiUo
To finish his ills.
Ho hositslos. lingers.
Woops. shirors sod sighs,
Twigs his noss with hit Angara.
Keels oTsr and diss.
Fading, Changing, lting.
Everything bosnnfnl, darling, most fads ;
Tho roso and tho lily, tho pride of UIS field.
And mirtla. which hidst ths rods marks of lbs
iptds,
Where lov'd ones are sleepiug, wiQ sil bars
to yield
To times bnsy gleaner, who gathers the
leaves
And unopened buds in ths forest and plain.
To oarefully bind them in bandies and
sheaves.
And carry them off to return not again.
Everything beautiful, darling, muse change ;
The woodland, 'he meadow, and eoerse of
the stream ;
Those eeenee now familiar, ere !eug will eeeci
strange,
And only be thought of as seen in a dream.
Or picture# of memory long hung away,
And faded by age. or the dost of the peel .
Each moment of pleasure refuses to stay.
The rotes of the sephyr is lost in the blast.
Everthing beautiful, darling, most die,
And that which increase* will rarely de
crease ;
The sturdy old oak as a dust heap will tie,
Tbelong and the singer will both have to
let there is a hope that each beanlifnl thing—
Though not in this life— wtli have beuqg
The hoaii. kk* tk* ivy. to loved oo* sill
otteg.
When fallen, and creep to *truit;' ahor.
Erir) Uuu£ beautiful, darling, mast fade.
Mut obaug* (ltd muat die, be it never eo
grand ;
And nothing endureth that ever n mad*.
Pos time has the day in hia own cunning
band.
The cpuit immortal he homUeih not,
lie build*. though, and erumblea ta dwelling
of day;
When everything earthly. and tune ia forgot.
The apuit will laugh at the thought of
SAVED.
A TEMPERANCE SKETCH.
The following CUM of delivaranoe
from the power of a drunkard's appetite
were related at a meeting for the iutem
perate in the Hippodrome, New York.
A middle aged man, of gentlemanly ad
dress, aroee and said: I ha to known
what it is to be a prosperous, even a
wealthy man, a church member, and an
active worker in the church of Christ.
Bat the curse of intemperance seized
me, held me, till it took my money, my
frieuda, and my reputation. I at first
neglected to go to church on communion
Sundays, then altogether. Lower and
lower 1 sunk, till suddenly brought to
bit senses by the death of my little boy,
a child ten years of age. How I loved
that boy no wyrds can tell 1 I was not
happy one moment with him out of my
sight. I could not take a journey un
less I could have the child go with me.
On one journey in a steamer, our boat
collided with another vessel, and we
were obliged to run into port. Hardly
had we reached land when my boy was
seized with illness. 1 summoned his
mother, aud together we htmg over hia
bed. and watched his young life while
it passed away rem us. Before he died,
when be could o longer speak to us, he
lilaccd his han in mine, folded one of
us own little nands over both, and with
the other pointed upward.
When he was gone, I partially re
formed. I changed my outward life.
I tried to serve God with half mv heart.
I became diligent in business; I pros
pered; my friends came back; money
flowed in npou me; I trusted in my own
power to stami, and then—and then—l
fell! Once having tasted the poison, I
was forced to go on, and little by little,
with ever increasing speed and force, I
weut downward, till a second time,
home aud health, friends and money all
gone, I was a hopeless drunkard. In
this condition I was persuaded by a sis
ter, wbo, through all, bad loved and
prayed for me, to tnme with her to one
of Mr. Mo sly's meetings. His preach
ing touched my he .rt, and started my
tears, but I was very careful not to let
my sister see tbetn. After the meeting
she would not let me go till she hfci in
duced Mr. Moody to speak to me. I
was reluctant, but when he approached
and asked me if I was a Christian, I
took courage and replied; "A very bad
Christian, indeed." Yet there awoke in
my heart the desire to be again a man,
and I persevered in coming to the meet
ings till, at last, I found what it was to
really have freedom from sin through
the m rcy of God. lam free now, be
cause he that is " free in Christ, is free
indeed."
He sat down, and there came forward
a young man with a fair face, and an
abundance of brown, curly hair. His
story was a sad one of prolonged strug
gle and repeated failare, and the bitter
anguish of remorse. He begun to drink
at the age of fifteen ; at twenty-one he
was a hopeless drunkard. His father
and mother never ceased to pray for him.
Hie wife, after he had one, never would
give him up, but these were bis only
friends. And be did all a man could
do to break their loving hearts. In the
army all his evil habits became con
firmed. and he had been enslaved by
them all his life, except one interval of
two years and seven months. And this
period of reformation was brought to an
end by the advice of a physician, at
whose suggestion he resorted again to
the use of stimulants. Soon he could
not live without them, yet such was
his at.gni-h of spirit at finding himself
again nnder the dominion of the tyrant,
that he took every vow, joined every
society, even took an oath to alietuin be
fore a magistrate. All was of no avail.
He broke them all when be saw ihe enp
—nothing could n strain him in the
presence of temptation. Twice he
would have taken his own life, but that
his wife liad stayed his band when the
knife ha<l almost touched his throat.
He said: I need not dwell on what
was. Let me hasten to tell whence
came my deliverance. On Thanks
giving dsy I went out in the morning,
and by dinner time had had so many as
six or seven drinks. Went home in a
condition in which I could only eat, and
after eating, s'eep. I slept on the sofa
till toward evening, then sauntered forth.
After a short visit at the house of my
brother-in-law, I went out, not knowing
or caring whither, having no definite
purpose, except to drink at every corner
on my way home. At one place the bar
tender said : Fill up the g ass, its
Thanksgiving day, yon know." And I
filled it up, and wont staggering on. An
unaccountable impulse turned me back
several times that night wheu I would
have taken a certain direction, and my
steps wandered on and on, nntil I came
to the great building where Moody and
Haukoy were holding their meetings. I
drew nearer and nearer. conflict
was going on in my mind, and it seemed
as if God and satan fongbt together for
my s- >uL I oonld not go away; I oould
not enter. Anil when at last I was en
abled to rush U> the entrance, it was
more as a maniac might have gone there
than like a reasonable man. Onoe in
side, the lights, the throng, the chorus
of a hy inn—they were singing—all help
ed to sober me.
And when the hymn oeased, and Mr.
Moody called out: "la there in all
this throng any poor sinner who is so
lost that he cannot help himself ? Let
him come forward here and we will ask
KUKTZ. Kditor and Propriotor.
VOLUME IX.
God to help him." I aaid: "That's
me, that mcsaage is for me "—and down
the long aisle, pushing my way through
the crowd standing there, 1 almost ran
to the foot of the platform and seated
myself. When the invitation rang forth
again I tried to rise, but tho people
near me, seeing mv condition, took tun
i by the arras aud held me down, wins
! oaring: "Sit still; sit still, you're
| drunk." Druuk ! Yes, 1 knew It, but
j I had heard the voice of God, and when
: the invilattou came sgaiu 1 couldn't sit
! still, and 1 broke away from those who
1 held me, and rose. Ah, what an hour
I followed ! What prayers and tears and
strngglea ! And at its oloee, some one
asked me if 1 would pray an hour after
! my return home, for, if I would do so, I
| might know that at the same hour many
hearts were praying in their own homes
. for me. As we were about to separate,
, one good Christian said: '' Why go
, home to pray for this soul ? Let us
, pray now and here." And we stared.
I and* they prayed for me and 1 prayed for
Saalt, and I was able to come to
risk, and just as 1 was—yes, drunk as
' I was. he took me. And from that glad
hour when 1 went home to my wife with
the good news of my stns forgiven, He
has kept me; He lias shown in me His
power to save " to the uttermost"
When he had oiaaed, s young man
arose and said: 1 was a drunkard from
my boyhood— a wreck before I reached
the age at twenty one. My mother
uevex ceased to prav for me, and to urge
me to reform. When 1 was under the
influence at dnuk, I would get as far
sway from home as possible, and stay
away until my money was all gone, and
sick, broken and helpless, I would seek
my father's house. During these ab
sences, my mother's letters would follow
me, whenever she knew where I was;
and when I returned she always wel
corned ine aud nursed me back to health.
Here is oue of her letters, said he (.and
be drew from his pocket and read to the
audience a tender letter from his mother
to her dear boy, begging him to come
home, telling him now she loved him
and waited for him, and wanted to see
him begin again). In answer to some
such appeal, he did seek his home one
night, after having been on a debauch
of weeks, in which he had fallen as low
as intemperance could bring him. He
came at night; he watched the windows
till the lights were out; he approached
and rang aad waited, and soon a step on
the stair and the door was opened, and
his mother held him in her arms—
"dose to her heart, as if I had never
gone astray."
That night, he continued, with a voice
husky and broken, she nursed me as she
had nursed me many times before; but
on the morrow she was not at my bed
side. When I asked for her, they said
that she was ill; and when I crept from
my chamber and confronted the phvsi
ciaus, aud l>egged them to tell me that
1 hud not murdered her, they replied : i
" There is not a shadow of hope." Then
my heart broke, and I pleaded with
God, with many tears, to spare her only
until her boy could repent. And God
was merciful to me. He did s]>are her.
and He did teach me repentance. 1
knew the way. I had been well taught.
I knew that help was in Christ and
Christ alone. And I sought and found
that help, and have lived to see my
mother's heart made glad by the answer
to her prayers.
He called upon the mothers whose
tearful eyes were lifted to his face to
work on ami pray ou and love on, until
their wandering boys shoal J come
The Pre-ident's Salary
The following is the message of Presi
dent Grant relative to vetoing the bill
for cutting down the salary of the Presi
dent of the United States :
To TKB SENATE OF THE UNTTEI> STATES : :
Herewith I return Senate bill No. 172,
entitled " An act fixing the salary of the
President of the United States," with
ont my approval. lam constrained to
this course from a sense of duty to my
successors in office, to myself and to
what is due to the dignity of the poei
tion of Chief Magistrate of a nation of
more than 40,000,000 of people. When
the salary ot the President of the Uni
ted States was fixed by the constitution
at 825,000 per annum we were a nation
of but 3,000,000 of people, poor from a
long and exhaustive war, without com
merce or manufactures, with but few
wants and those cheaply supplied. The
salary must then have been deemed
small for the responsibilities and dignity
of the position, but justifiably o from
the irnjKiverished condition of the trens
ury and the simplicity it was desired to
cultivate in the republic. The salaries
of congressmen under the constitution
were fixed at $6 per day for the time ac
tually in session, an average of atxiut
120 days to each seasior, or $720
ler year, or less than one thirtieth of
the salary of the President. Congress
men have legislated on their salaries
from time to time since, until finally
they have reached $5,000 each per an
nam, or one-fifth that of the President
liefore the salary of the latter was in- |
creased. No one having a knowledge of
the cost of living at the national capital
will contend that the present salaries of
Cougreasmi-Q are too liigli, unless it be
the intention the office one en
tirely of honor, when the salary should
lie abolished, a proposition repugnant to ;
our republican ideas and institutions. I
do not believe the citizens of tbia repub
lie desire their public servants to serve
them without a fair compensation for
their services. The sum of $25,000 does
not defray the expense* of the Executive
for on" year, or has not in my experi
ence. It is now one-fifth in value what
it was when fixed by the constitution in
supplying demauds and wants. Having
no i>ersoual interest in this matter, I
have felt myself free to return this bill
to the House in which it originated
with my objections, believing that in
doing so I meet the wishes and judg
ment of the great majority of those who
indirectly pay all the saluries and other
expenses of the government.
U. 8. GHANT.
Executive Mansion, April 18, 1876.
The Boston Belfry Murder.
Thomas W. Piper, condemned to be
execated on the twenty sixth of May for
the murder of Mabel Young in the I*l
- of the Warren avenue eharch, Bos
ton, made a sworn statement that she
received the injuries that c used her
death from the trap door falling upon
her head, and that he was frightened
leat be wonld be accused of mnrdering
her, and therefore he denied all knowl
edge of the matter, trusting that his con
nection with it would not be discovered.
Jv&i WAIT. —" Young ladies have the
privilege of saying anything they please
during leap year," she said, eyeing him
ont of the oorner of her eye with a sweet
look.
His heart gave a great bound, and
while he wondered if Hhe was going to
ask the question he bad so long desired
and feared to do, answered :
"Yes."
" And the young men must not re
fuse," said she.
" No, no. How could they ?" sighed
he.
" Well, then," said she, " will you"—
He fell on his knees, and said: "Any
thing you ask, darling."
" Wait till I get through. Will you
take a walk, and not come here so
much?"
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
FAiblon otrs.
Turlaui* ami white straw sailor hah
will be must worn by school girls fron
tan wars up to ansae* in their teens.
Tse wool tie I tog* ami ollior suits wort
by young girls are made with tiasquei
thai button behind and lung drop aprons
Brown, gray and dark blito remain tin
colors most in favor for young folks.
Tho low sonh ti.nl around the hips am!
fastened ttoiuud tn a Urge bow is tuadi
of wide gros grain riblKtn, ami worn witl
pioue prunv-as dr.ware by very stual
girls. Their laoc caps are of close capoU
sliajto, trimmed with ribU.u to motet
the sash. The stockings are of aimihu
color.
The burnous overakirt has a long
i wrinkled apron, trimmed with bowt
down the middle and two bias Isolds ol
silk. There is usually a o*m down th
middle of this apron- -a thing that would
not hare been permitted in the coetumei
of a few years sgo.
Cambric and print dresses for school
and general wear are blouse waists but
toned belaud; this waist is sc{>arate froui
the skirt, with ends extending over the
hips, and instead of a belt a drawing
string is }<asaeil around the waist.
l>eep wide round frills turned down
and around the neck, are made of tho
new lace braids, and worn by small chil
dreu, both girls and boya; price gl .'iS.
There are also broad Puritan collars oi
Irish cord lace that imitates antique de
signs; price fcl.
What are called "basket snittugs " are
the flue woolen stuffs used by Parisian
dr.vssmakers for the dresses recently irn
{H>rted for girls. TtaA colore are cream,
pale blue, and French gray in small
raised squares, all of one color. The
trimming is merely kilt platting and silk
facing.
The oriuoesae style is adopted for the
ptoue dresses of small girls, while larger
girls have overekirts that are merely
aprons shirreil to form s fun behind, and
the basques are box plaited, with a row
of insertion between the plaits. A Ham
burg ruffle edges the basque and over
skirt; two such ruffles are on tho lower
skirt.
To brighten up the dark ilromea worn
for bouse toilettes are collarettes of
plaited lisse finished with pearl edging.
The most dressy ones are made of the
new cream colored crepe lisse trimmed
with folds of pale tinted China crape
going around the neck, aud held by
long looped bows of gro* grain ribbon.
The inevitable crt am color lias found
Its way iuto lingerie, and instead of
snowy white linen collars and cuffc, a
novelty is cram tinted cam brio for tnis
purjxae, with the corners wrought with
scarlet, blue, brown, gray or black, done
in washing wools to represent Greek
squares, or a vine cluster of flowers in
tho corners of collars or oufK
Valor of lHvipllne.
Gen. Geo. A. Custer, in his war
memories, thus describes the confusion
at the flrst battle of Hull Hon:
The value of discipline was clearly
t-botrti in this crisis by observing the
manner of the few regular troops, as
contrasted with the raw and ttndisci
plined three moutlis' men. The regular
soldiers never for a moment o-an-d to
look to their officers foi orders and iu
st ructions, and in retiring from the
A- Id, even amid the greatest ilisorder
aud confusion of the organisations near
them, they |>rserve.l their formation,
and marched only as they were directed
to do.
The long lines of soldiery, which a
few minute* liefore La.l bts-n bravely
confronting and driving the enemy, sud
denly lost their e ihoeion and lavam*
one immem-e nuts* of fleeing, frightem d
ii-Atures. Artillery hotxw wt re cut
fiom their tract-*, mid it was no unusual
fight to see three meu, perhaps la-long
n g to differeut regiments, riding the
fame horse, and making their way to
the rear as faat on the dense mane of men
moving with them would permit. The
direction < t the retreat was toward
Ontreville, byway of the Stone bridge
crossing, and other fords above that
i,iut. An cocanional shot from the
• i.emy's artillery, or the cry that the
Hiark Horse cavalry, so dreaded in the
first months of the war in Virginia, were
coming, kept the fleeing crowd of sol
dier* at their best sf>eed. Arms were
thrown away an being no longer of ser
vice in warding ofl the enemy. Hereaud
there the State colors of a regiment, or
]s rha|>s the national standard, wonld lw<
seen lying on the ground along the line
of retreat, no one venturing to reclaim
or preserve them, while more than one
full set of baud instruments could be
ol>(rved, dropped under the shade of
f me tree in rear of the line of battle,
and where their late owners had prob
ably iieen resting from the fatigues of
Il.e tight when the panic seised them
and forced them to join their comrades
in flight.
Population and Area of Brazil.
Hy a partial census of the population
of Brazil, the home of the Emperor Dom
Pedro, now visiting the United States,
IL ide in 1872, it was estimated that the
entire number of inhabitants was 10,-
The naml>er of s<]nare miles
contained in the tweuty provinces of the
empire is 3,27.1,320. In 1850 the nam-
If r of slaves held in the country was es
timated at 2,500,000, but after the law
for their gradual emancipation was pass
ed in 1871, this numlier gradually de
creased. Aooordin? to an official return
published in May, 1874, there were at
that time only 1,016,262 slaves distribu
ted over the whole empire. The popu
lation of Brazil is mode up of an
agglomeration of many races. While it
remained a oolony of Portugal, but few
women accompanied the immigrants to
Konth America. The earliest European
settlers intermarried and mixed with
Indian women, and &ftorwnrd an exten
sive intermixture of race occurred with
the Africans who were brought into the
ooantrr as slaves. In the northern prov
iuoes the Indian element prefKinderates,
while in Pernambuco, liahia, Bio do
J ineiro, and Minns, the negroes are
numerous. At the sea|>orta the chief
part of the population is of Earopean
descent. •
The London Plague.
What was the nature of the plague in
London in 166(1, and has any sickness
like it been known since r asks a oorre
sj>ondent of Noah't Sunday Time*, to
which qnery the following reply is
made : The plague is an aggravated
contagions fever, characterised by an
eruption of carbuncles and buboes, en
demic (and frequently epidemic) in
Egypt, Hvria and Turkey, and through
out the f£ast. Before it last appeared in
London, in the years 1663 1665, it usually
visited Great Britain every thirty or
forty years. Marseilles lost nearly half
its population by it in 1720, au<l Moscow
in 1771 "72; and oertain points in the
kingdom of Naples, as late as 1815 *l6,
suffered most severely from it; sinco
that time it hns been utmost unknown in
Western Europe. The celebrated "black
death," which ravaged all Europe in the
middle of the fourteenth century,appears
to have been the " plague."
GAVE HP HIS ALE. —The Portsmouth
(N. H.) Chrcniale prints this statement:
Mr. John W. Gerrish is said to have
sucoecdcd in ridding himself of 150
pounds of superfluous weight within a
year, simply by turning his last tumbler
of ale bottom np about a year ago.
CENTRE HALL, CENT
Some Senators' Rites.
A Washington letter to tho Ciuciuuati
Oaacttc says : Let me tell you of some
wivai 1 know, whose hunbauils ait
gravely in the senatorial hall, and whose
ismnteuanciw mh"Ui to express so much
dignity and wisdom that one, in looking
at them, would couaider them far alnive
the paltry littleness of every day life.
" Why don't you go to Mrs. Blank f" I
said to a sewing girl soliciting me for as
sistance after a month's illness. "Hhe
will do something for you, as yon have
sewed for her so long, and she likes you
ao much."
"Oh, Miss Gleaner," the girl re
C"ed, "you are a heap happier aud bet
off than she, if she is a senator's
wife, and wears diamouds aud velvets.
Hhe never has a ceut to apeud herself.
Her husband buys everything, and
grumbles over the way the money goes,
lie visits the kitchen to see no waste is
guiug on, and he comes up where I am
two or three times a day, when he's
home, to see how I am getting ou with
my sewing. Hon,, time, 1 get so soared
like I ruu and hide when 1 hear him
coming."
"Probably he is iutcreetod in the
dress reform movement," 1 said.
"And Mrs. Blank," continued the
girl, " never has the enjoyment of so
much as 86 at a time for her private
spending money, although, of courae,
her husband like# to see her dreaa well,
but he buys all the dresses !"
Home time ago there was a l*le.
fragile-looking little lady, the more mis
cranio half of a Solon, and her pallor
was heightened b\ her constantly wear
ing green, which is only becoming,
you know, to persons with color and
koaltliful tinge of complexiou. " Why
do you, my dear Mrs. Holou, wear green
so much?" asked an intimate friend.
"It makes tou look like a corpse."
" Oh, Mr. Holou likes it. and you
know he always buys all my dresses for
me. I have never even purchased a
gingham since our marriage."
Another kuows that her husband's of
fectious are alienated from her, since
yearn have marked her brow with wrin
kles and scattered snow flakes over her
hair. Hhe knows that h< r husband has
a " new, new love," and yet she keeps
"her heart's proud jwiu superbly still,"
and is to her lord the name quiet, un
selfish, uncomplaining woman abe has
always been. "Some day," she thinks,
"he will rememlw-r all that I have Ixen
to him, and he will grow wearied of the
purchased wiles of this strange woman.
I can afford to wait." Are not her
white hairs a crown of glory I
The lontlurutal loagres*.
The Continental Congress of 1774 was
distinctly a legislative Ikklt, each of the
thirteen cotoui"" having contributed its
most representative luen. It was not a
Urge gathering, and it twcame WT
small as the times grew stringent Their
movements were watched with consid
erable interest on every aide. Kngland
was then the mistress of the world. She
was not only the only mistress, hut she
wo* alone in her conquest.
The Southern delegates to Congress
bad a rather weary journey through the
wilderness at that time. In 1774 travel
ers between Baltim< re and Philadelphia
were oouipdUxl to hire guides to show
'hem the way. Baltimore was then a
village of eighty houses, and there were
few settlements along the coast.
The first mooting of the Continental
Congress was in Carpenter's hall, Phila
delphia. It took the Boston delegates
nineteen >lgy* to reach the Quaker City.
The delegate* walked from the niy
tavern, where tiny assembled, in pow
dered wigs, knee breeches and buckled
shoe*, to CAr|x-nU r's hall. The address
of Tatrick Heury will never LefnrgoUen,
and wlien he piisihumed himself as not
belonging to any i"articular Bute, but
as an American, he struck the keynote
ot the newly born nation. The gran
d'-ur and simplicity of this ilrst Con
tinental Congress elicited the admira
t:o iof the greatest minds of the day
Ft >r fourteen years in all Uie Continents I
Congress governed tho United Htales.
It was, in fact, President, Cabinet and
Congress—a kind of Venetian Senate
withont a doge. It made war and con
cluded |x<aor ; it n])|>oii)t<"d, promoted
and degraded generals ; it sent aud re
ceived amliasaadora ; it gave ns decimal
currency. Sever was a government
more defective and yet more successful,
and having fulfilled its mission, it be
came nnMuitnble and insufficient; aud
when the country Iwcamo ripe for an
other better organized government, the
Continental Congress quietly and wisely
went out of existence.
Tho members of this Congress were
freqnently tested dnnng the Revolution
ary war by allurement* of wealth and
office. John Reid was offered £IO,OOO
to help undo independence. Hi* re
ply was, in simple words : " I sni not
worth purchasing; bnt, such as I am,
the king of Great Britain is not rich
enough to do it."
F.ffrct* of Business Repression.
One of New York's eminent physi
cians said to a friend of the ExprtM that
the very worst eases among his male
patients were men of business with no
other physical illness than mental suffer
ing. The past was full of lossea, the
proncnt not encouraging, the future all
uncertain, and the effect had so preyed
npon them that they could not find rest
of body or peaoo of mind. Many have
lost all their earnings for ton and twenty
years in the shrinkage of values aud the
expenses of business. The labors and
accumulations of years had all gone to
gether, and resulted either in real or
threatened bankruptcy, anil with only
the most gloomy forebodings for the
time to oomo. While tho general iu
rreaae of wealth from 1850 to 1870 was
very great, and in the latter year was
more by 233 i>or cent, than twenty year*
before, no man can begin to realize what
the depreciations have l>een since 1872.
Bat it is the effect npon peculiar persons,
especially upon those of a sensitive
nature, whose credit* have lieen impaired
and who can neither hope nor rally,
which is so alarming. When physician*
report so many of their cases to lie the
result of nervous depression, occasioned
by business, the record is a sail one for
both the country and maukind.
It Was He.
A man forty years old, and as long as
a rail, w at into one of the banks of
Detroit to get the cash on a thirteen-dol
lar check, drawn by a party living in
Nankin township.
" You will have to be identified," said
the cashier, as he looked at the cheek,
" I'm the man," was tho reply.
" But I don't know who you are."
" But I do."
" Yon must bring somo one here who
know* you."
" Don't I know myself I" exclaimed
the check tenderer.
" But I muit know you. Ton may be
Tom Jones for all that I know."
"You must bo a ooiiHarned fool to
think I'm Rome one elael" growled the
man in response.
" You must be identifloil," observed
the cashier.
" That's my name, I tell ye, and this
is me, and if this bank gets mo riled I'll
lick the whole crowd of you over behind
the railing 1"
The cashier wouldn't pay, and the man
oouldn't And any one who knew him,
and at noon he was waiting " f<>r the
feller who sassed him to oome out."
IE CO., PA., THURSDAY. MAY 18. 1870.
THE HKLFKY MURDER.
Ths ( HiraaMl hhinr. t*tser, Trill** fcla
Ni#rr at IS* TvrrlM* Affair.
The lioatou Journal mtvs: Thomas
W. I'iper, who lie* in the (Suffolk coun
ty jail. condemned to death for the mur
der of Mabel Young in the lelfry of the
Warren aveuue Baptist church, ha*
yielded st Jat so far as to confess that it
was he who tlrst kuew of the death of
the child. Hitherto he has douied posi
tively that he hail any knowledge of the
occurrence until told of it by others;
but now, in contradiction of his oft-re
itested asset tions made under oath at
both his trials, and repeated in the must
solemn manner at the very moment of
hi* sentence, he comes forward with a
stisnge story of the little gtrl'a acciden
tal death in which he claims fur himself
entire innocence.
Piper's story was told in the presence
of Mrs. Brown, of hi* counsel, the Rnv.
Dr. E. 0. Eddy, of the Tabernacle Bap
tist church; au officer of the jail, and a
young man who was employed to take
notes of what the condemned man might
say. His story of how he oocupied the
time ou that fatal Huinlay afternoon is
the same as that told byjiitn when testi
fy tug in his offn behalf un to the time
when he wcut up stairs to prevent the
boys who were iu the vestibule from en
tering the audience room. From that
poiut it differs from everv other state
uieut which be has made Litherto. He
said that some complaint had beau
made of the lack of Iresh air in the au
dience room, and that to remedy the
trouble he went up to the belfry to open
the trap door, and thus secure a through
draft, as he had done more than once
before. He took witli him the hat
stick, which played so important a part
of the trials, and, having raised the trap
door, pia .>ed the stick under it as a sup
port.
Returning down stairs, he reached the
gallery flour and there met little Mattel
Young, who was coming out of the organ
gallery. Noticing the direction whence
he had come, she asked: "What's np
tnere I" He answered that that was the
Itelfry, and something was said about
the pigeons. In a moment she asked
permission to go up, and he told her
that she might do ao if she wished. Hhe
started up the stairs and he remained
where he was. Boon, however, he re
mctnemltered the way in which he had
left the trap, and feariug that in getting
iuto the belfry she might injure herself,
he hurried up after her. When he reach
ed the top of the stairs lit* worst fears
were confirmed.
The tat stick had been knocked out,
the door had fallen, and there lay the
little girl caught Is twceiithe heavy door
aud the edge of the floor. Piper took
the child out to place lu r ou her feet
She moaned, but was unconscious. He
hud her uu the floor, and after a mo
ment's pause to collect his faculties
started down stairs with the intention of
making a fall statement of tho occur
rence. On the way he met the Mimes
Knight Alice and Jennie, who testified
at the tiials, entered into conversation
with them, and while standing with
them conceived the idea of keeping the
whole occurrence a secret Acting on
this resolution, he went about his usual
occupation*.
In the Pott of 1 tec. 8, 1875, the fol
lowing appears as Mr. Avery's presenta
tion of the case:
The child, he argued, could have
been killed by the falling of the fifty
pound trap upoo her. He argued also
to show that perha)>a tHover went up
there to get the young pigeons, and that
the child straying up there might have
been pushed aside by him without any
evil intent, a* she i detecting him,
and perhaps the door fell upon her then
and he retreated.
Piper lias no hope of a commutation
of his death senteuce.
A Fisherman's Bedding.
Along a certain portion of the coast
of Scotland, when a young couple agree
to fpt married, the nearest relations of
both parties meet to ratify the contract.
This is an occurrence of great rejoicing.
The women appear in full toilet, and a
sort ot feast is prepared. The marriage
ceremony is usually performed by tho
clergyman of tho district at the resi
dence of the bride. After the religious
rites are ooneluJed, a contract is signed
by both parties amidst a cloud of wit
noases. The bridegroom wears his Sun
day suit, and tlie lady is adorned with
tho conventional veil.
The marriages of these peoplo take
place, almost without exception, on Fri
day, and the celebration* attending the
event continue until the dawn of the
Sabbath puta an and to further hilarity.
On the first night of the dancing the
women are attired in white muslin
gowns, with their necks and arma ex
poaed, the latter adorned with any quan
tity of gIa.HR bead* and ornament*. The
men ore in their shirt sleeve*, with gor
geous bloo waists, ornamented with
brass buttons, ami wearing every variety
of hat and cap. Their throat* are muf
fled with enormous neck-handkerchief*,
which they persist in wearing in spite of
the heat. When the entire night has
been passed in dancing, and daylight
ap)>eara, a rush is made through the
town to the fntnre home of the newly
married erronle. The musician, armed
with lus fiddle or liagpipe, as the case
may lie, leads the procession, the bride
and groom oorne next, and the rest of
the party follow on behind.
Scotland abounds in singular mar
riage enstoms. One of the most re 1
markahle is called "creeling the bride
groom." In some comities on the day
after the wedding, while the marriage
feast still continues, thojiridegroom had
a creel, or basket, filled with stones
firmly fastened upon his back. Willi
this incumbrance he was compelled to
run about the neighborhood followed by
his friends, who would not allow him
to remove it until his wife came after
him and either kissed him or nnfasteued
the creel. It sometimes happened that,
as relief depended upon her, he liad not
to run very far; but if the lady was
either very Wahfnl or very sportive he
had to carry his load a considerable dis
tance. The custom was very strictly
enforced, for tho friend who was last
creeled had charge of the ceremony, and
ho was naturally anxious that the new
bridegroom should not eeca]>e.
A Riotous Island.
Barbadoes, the soene of the late riots,
in which a large nnmlier of person* were
killed, is the most eastern of the Carib
heo islands, and the earliest settled of
the British possciwuonß in the West In
die*. It has a population of about 150,-
000 poople, of whom only atiout 17,000
are white. In 1810, and again in 1825,
there were formidable negro insurreo
tions in the island. The capital, Bridge
town, is one of the gayest and hand
somest towns in the West Indies. It
has about 20,000 inhabitants, and is a
strong military post Riots have oc
curred throughout the island. Planta
tions and bouses have be< n sacked, ani-
mals destroyed, and an enormous de
struction of property taken place.
A Br.rNDKn.—According to the New
York Herald the railroad companies
have made an extraordinary blunder in
reducing their passenger rates to and
from Philadelphia during the Centen
nial onlv twenty-five per oent. Negro
minstrel troops and opera and theater
companies can got better terms any
time of tho year.
A Story of A. T. Stewart.
A short tune liefore the late war broke
ont, the late A. T. Btewart entered into
a out tract for ths building of hut house
ou Fifth svenue and Thirty fourth
r treat. The gentleman who made the
estimate which became ths basis of the
agreement made what he supposed was
a safe and even large allowauoe for any
rise in the prior of labor and all kinds
of materia'.*. Hut the price of labor and
material advanced far Myoud the wild
est expectation long before the house
I wan completed, in fact before its erec
tion was fairly liegun, aud the oontrac
tors became financially embarrassed.
Mr. Htewart would not release them
from their legal obligations, but entered
into a supplemental agreement with
them by which he was to advance the
money, and they were to go on with the
work, being held liable to the amount
j that the house might eot above the
contract price. The result was that the
contractors became indebted to Mr.
Htewart tu the amonut of a great many
thousand dollars, and after very valuable
quarry property had passed over to him
in part extinguishment of his claim, he
brought an action for the recovery of
over 830,000 mure. Two of the con
tractors were supposed to be the wealthy
men of the concern ; against those he
obtained judgment by default. The
third jmrtuer was the Imilder, aud he
' was male the defendant in the action.
Mr. Htewart had sworn to hi*complaint,
and this would have made it necessary
to have the answer sworn to. There
would have been no trouble in swearing
to a good answer ; bat it was hoped that
the action might be compromised, and
it was feaml that a sworn answer would
put Mr. Htewart somewhat ont of hnmor
for compromise. Delay was resorted to,
and throngh the good nature of Jndge
Hilton many extensions of time were
granted. Finally it was stated that it
was a matter of pride with Mr. Htewart
to get judgment, since much had been
said about mm relative to thia transac
tion, and that now he wished to be vin
dicated by obtaining judgment. It was
understood that if the defendant would
consent to Mr. Htewart s judgment he
would give a release within oue week
without charge. This exceeded expec
tation, because several thousand dollars
had been offered in compromise. To
Mr. Stewart it watt a matter of pride ;
to the Imilder it was a matter of flnan
ctai existence. Hie condition was ac
ceded to. Mr. Btewart obtained a judg
ment of 83d, "JC against the builder,
and the builder had the judgment
against him satisfied gratuitously within
a week.
Made Them Shake.
When John Brougham, the actor, left
Burton's theater in Sew York city, it
was whispered that Mr. Burton had no
very friendly feelings toward his old M
seriate. The frequenters of the theater
were very fond of Brougham. Borne
time after Brougham's withdrawal from
the Chambers street comjany, a farewell
benefit was given. The play was "John
Bull;" Mr. Burton as Job Thorn bury,
Mr. Brougham as I>*unis Bulgrudderv.
The houw was crowded from ths foot
lights to the dome. Mr. Brougham's
api<caranoe on the stage was the signal
for a perfect ovation. lie was hailed
with cheer after cheer. When Burton
oatue on, and the two actors stood fooe
to face, the cry went forth :
'' Shake bauds*! Shake hands '"
Burton tried to go on with his part;
but he was interrupted ly a repetition of
the cries. The actors stood silent, but
the uproar in the house continued. Mr.
Brougham then came forward, and char
nct'-ri-tioallv spitting on his hand, held
it forth to feurton, saying :
" Dlirop it there !"
Burton bung back and looked sternly
at the audience. The cries of " Shake
hands" redoubled. Burton saw that the
house was determined to lie obeyed, and I
heat last gave his baud—not with the
very beat grace. Brougham shook it
witn a will, amid the enthusiastic cheers
of the spectators. The play went on.
Burton was in no humor for gagging
that evening. He played his part ad
mirably, stuck to the text and indulged
in no fooling. When the curtain fell on (
the piece Brougham was the first called
out He made one of his characteristic
iqteoches, gave rent to his emotion* on
moving again among the "old familiar
scenes," and retired from the stage amid
ahonta of laughter and applause. Bur
ton was then called out It was some
time before he answered the oall. He
evidently did not relish a compliment
rn Koorui. At last he appeared before
the curtain. He moved with a stern
dignity which did not fail to impress
his audience. He bowed stiffly, and was
about to withdraw immediately, when
he wns stopped by calls for s speech. In
response to these ctlls he allndod to the
separation between Mr. Brougham and
himself. Mr. Brougham, he said, had
thought he could do better "on his own
hook," and had a perfect right to try.
He liad heard with regret that Mr.
Brougham had gone off the track a lit
tle, but he hoped he should not burst
his boiler, etc.
The Indian Bureau Bill.
The bill passed by the United States
Ilonse, transferring the Indian bureau
to the War department, by a vote of 139
yeas to 94 nays, provides that after the
first of July next the secretary of war
shall exercise the supervisory and appel
late powers, and possess the jurisdiction
now exercised and possessed by the
secretary of tho interior in relation to
Indian affairs; thai he shall, from time
to time, make details of army officers to
administer the aflnirs of the Indian
branch of the War department; that the
oommanding officers of geographical de
-Iartment* shall be e-r officio in charge of
Indian affairs in their department*, and
shall make details of officers, inclnding
officers on the retired list, to administer
the affairs of the Indian service, and that
the inspector-general of the army shall
discharge the duties of inspeetoi of In
dian affairs. The act is not to lie con
strued to authorize n increase in the
nomlicr, rank, pay, or allowances of
army officers. All contract* for Indian
supplies and transportation are to be
made in the same manner and at the
same time, where practicable, as those
for the army. All religious denomina
tions are to enjoy n free and equal right
to erect and maintain chnreh and sohool
buildings on Indian reservations. Indi
vidual Indians who have adopted the
hnbit* of civilized life may beoome citi
zen* of tho United Statce without for
feiting their right to their share of the
tribal property.
The Silret.
The New York Herald says: Ten
thousand dollars in silver were paid ont
in one day at the sub treasury in re
demption of etirreucy to that amonnt.
At this rate it will be qnite a week be
fore the coin will be seen by the horse
oar conductors. A week later it will be
seen sporadically in tho lager beer Fa
loons. In another week it will drop in
the plate at the chnrches; in a month it
will bo at thi corner groceries; next it
will reach the bootblacks, and in three
months people will be oomplaining that
the confounded thing is wearing holes
in their pockets, and then people will
put away a million or two of paper cur
rency, just as people during the war
kept silver dollars under glass cases.
Never satisfied !
TERMS: 5'4.00 a Year, in Advance.
ASI AURARIA* MURDER.
Ths lairaSs* Vtnlas Kseapas, Sal his Drtvsr
Is luiuili Kill#*.
Mr. Bridges, the intended victim in
the oaae to which we refer, says the
Loudon 7 km**, ia the land agent for
some property umt Mitahalatuwa, a
plane on the border between Limerick
aud Cork, and not far front Tipperery.
He had some time ago made himself un
popular among a certain class of the
tenantry by attempting to raise rente, by
serving evictions, and worst of all, by
taking s lease on b<a own account of a
piece of land from which another mau
lied been evicted. It was about eighteen
months ago that he waa first shot at, but
he was only slightly wounded, end being
e man of greet courage, kept his ground,
in every sense of the word, afterward,
and even under the provisions of the
Peace Preservation act, recovered com
ixmsation for the outrage. That be has
been swam for some time of the danger
to which n* lies been sinee exposed, may
lie gathered from the fact that he has
not only gone about constantly armed,
but has also been attended in general by
a body guard of four armed police. He
bed, indeed, good prtma facte reason
for being cautious His late assailant
was at large', and waa known to be some
where in the neighborhood, bat owing
to some rut*understanding between the
constables of the three border counties,
in any of which he might be found, he
hail not been apprehended by any of
them As Mr. Brtdgea was riding home
from Mitcheiatown, where he had been
collecting rente, the next important at
tempt on his life was made, and made
under cirrumi-taucw* ao peculiar as to:
deserve special remark, even in Ireland.
, Mr. Bridges' whole party, lucludiug the
ilriTt-r of the oar, waa five in number;
two wore police, and at iaaat four carried
firearms. They were on the queen'*
highway. It waa atili broad daylight;
but the part of the road which tney
were JSMUUIIK waa lined on both aidea by
hedge* thick enough to shut out a view
of anything beyond them, and the road
i tee If, too, just at thia place dipped
nhghtlv. Hudilenly there came the re
iHjrt of a gun from behind one of the
hedges. The charge, which waa prob
ably intended for Sir. Bridges himself,
struck bin driver and killed him.
The confused aoene which followed ia
described in somewhat different way* by
tboee who took part in it. The filing
went on. Shots came in quick saooas
tion from both aides of the road, and
Mr. Bridges waa wounded in the bead
Hcverely, U not fatally. One of the two
constables who were with Mr. Bridges
now sprung over the lodge from which
the first shot had come, and, finding a
man behind it with a blunderbuss in his
hand, aeiaod him and handcuffed him.
His companion, Urn active or leas enter-
f -rising, failed to make his way over the
hedge on the other aide, bat, seeing two
men behind it, fired at them, and re
oeived their fire in return. The men ran
off, but the constable followed, and dis
covered them sheltering tbemaeivaa be
hind a hay* tack, and again exchanged
•hota wi:h hem, but to no purpose. On
his return to his own partv be found
that no further attack had been made
upon them. The casualties which had
already occurred www, however, not
slight One of the five hail been killed
outright; another had been badly
wounded, and, of the three remaining,
one only had escaped altogether unhurt
An inquest on the unfortunate oar
driver was held. The police were in no
doubt as to the aide of the road from
which tb< shot that killed him had
come, and they www equally certain that
no one else was discovered there except
the man whom they had hard cuffed and
secured, and in whose possession a
blunderbuss, recently discharged, had
been found. The jury, however, were
unable to agree upon a verdict There
had been a good deal at wind the day in
Juestion on the highroad between
litchelstown and Cork, and there had
been a good ileal of smoke, too, from
the repeated discharges of firearms. It
waa difficult, under such perplexing cir
cumstances, to arrive at the exact truth.
The jury, in the words of one of their
own unmbrr, did not wish to saddle on
any one man the crime about which they
were inquiring, and thev limited them
selves, accordingly, to the very aafc as
sntion that the death bad been caused
by a gunshot wound.
Prehistoric Man.
Borne late discoveries of osve dwell
ings near Thavngen, in Switzerland, are
valuable as allowing methods of com
parison Itetween the Troglodytes and
those who made their dwellings on piles
sunk into the Swiss lakes. Had the
lake habitations Iteen occupied at the
same period of time as the caves, some
evidences of connection would undoubt
edly have been found, but the contents
of this cave points undeniably t
period contemporaneous with the re
moter Troglodytes of Franoe. Among
the remains of animals, the mammoth,
rhinoceros, cave bear, lion and reindeer
suffice to warrant this conclusion, while
the handiwork of these cave dwellings
bears a marked resemblance to those
discovered in IKslogne, at the same
time differing moat markedly from the
oldest specimens fonnd in the Bwiss
lake villages. Such rude designs traced
in bone as has been found in this Bwiss
cave, show quite a fair appreciation of
art Borne surprise has been expressed
at the truth and freedom expreiuied in
these designs, appertaining as they most
to so remote a period of man'* history,
hut when we consider how our own
children take pleasure in exercising this
faculty of imiution, it ia not astonishing
that some crude artistic power should
exist together with a very low amount
of cultnre. Prehistoric discoveries seem
to strengthen the idea of a slow and
continuous progression from higher to
lower forms of art and industry.
Cash TS. Credit.
Scene—A butcher's shop. Time—
Nine A. M. Enter Mr. Smith, a credit
customer, in a hurry.
Butoker (coldly).—Good-morning, sir.
What will you have to-day I"
Mr. Smith.—You can send me a good
roasting piece and two steaks; also a
supply of vegetables.
Butcher.—Anything more?
Mr. Smith.—Yes, you may send a
ham. Send 'em early, and charge 'em.
Butcher enters the order in his book,
the beef at twenty eight cents and the
stoak at thirty ornta—other things in
proportion, and remarks to himself: I
wonder when I'll get pay for these t
last month's bill ain't settled yet. Guess
I'll put it down heavy for him, anyhow,
to pay me for waiting so long.
Enter Mr. Jones, a cash customer.
Bnteher (warmly).— Glad to see yon,
sir. How was yon suited with that mut
ton venter day ?
Mr. Jones.—Very well, indeed. What
have yon got to-day that's good ?
Bnteher.—l've got some turkeys, sir,
but they're only middling, and if yon'll
wait till Saturday I can get yon some
thing real nioe, and at a low figure.
Mr. Jones.—What are you asking for
steaks and roasts to-day?
Butcher. —Steaks, twenty-five cents;
roasts, twenty-two cents.
Mr. Jones.—All right; send me the
same as last Saturday—ten pounds.
(Takes out his pocketbook and pays the
money, having thns saved not less than
one-fourth of Smith's money.)
NUMBER 20.
Barney Williams, the Aetor.
The Sun telle us that Barney Wil
liams, the actor, lately deceased. was
fifty-two years at age and that bia real
name was Barnard Flaherty. He was
twrn in Cork on tha nineteenth of Jane,
1824. Hie father was a sergeant in the
British army, and after his death Mrs.
Flaherty and her two sons and three
'laughters immigrated to New York.
Bernard was then rix years of age and
ran errands for Washington market
dealers, and subsequently became an
errand boy in a printing offloa. In 1886
be ran errand* for the management of
the Franklin theater, and in time be
came en usher at (6 e weak. Doriag
hia employment in the theater be learned
e number of comic songs and danoee,
and in them be soon exhibited himself
in ealoona.
In 1860 Barney was in a New York
theatrical oompeny, and Joe Jtflmos
was the low comedian. His first wife,
Maggie Lockr<-r, whom he first knew as
a young ballet girl of the Bowrey
theater, was deed, end be be
gun to admire the pretty Mrs.
Mostayer, a widow. Barney was also
impressed by her, bat both were too
aby to offer themselves, and aaithar
knew the other's feelings. One even
ing Joe aaked Barney, as they were
dressing for the stage, to make Mrs.
Meetayer an offer on hia behalf.
Barney was staggered, bat he heroiaaDy
resolved to abide by the lady's deeieioo.
He fulfilled his teak between the first
and second acta at the first pieoe, saying.
" Mr. Jefferson baa commissioned me to
offar hia heart and hand." "I am
sorry," aaid aha, aa her face clouded
with mingled regret at the necessity of
rendering Jefferson unhappy, and tha
seeming indifference of Barney. " I
respect and admire Mr. Jefferson, but I
can never become hie wife." "Then
will you have met" eagerly inquired
Barney. "I will," aaid aha, hiighten
ing up aa Barney aetead her hand. A
clergyman was sent for, and tha oouple
were married between the second and
third acta.
Barney Williams waa a well known
actor in this country, and made a grt<*i
success in England and Ireland. But
years ago symptoms of paralyms begun
to show themselves, and in 1073 Barney
woke one morning and ooukl not open
hia left eye. An irritation of the spinal
nerves at the baee of the brain also gave
him much trouble, and though
science relieved hia afHictaona, he waa
frequently compelled to eeaae acting
through relapses. The cause of hia
death waa a paralytic fit. He leaves one
child, a daughter, Maria Kathleen, aged
thirteen. He was buried in Or see wood
cemetery. The property left by Mr.
William* is valued by his lawyers at
about $500,000.
The Western Farmer's Pest.
Mr. Hill, the Greeley (Colorado) Sun
tell* a*, alwmya MOWS A large area of
land. Hi* bopefolneaa prompta the
Rowing, and hia oombativeneas prompta
him to fight and save. About fourteen
rear* ago Mr. Hill had all hia money in
vested in hia firat crop. The young
grate hoppers oommeneed to eat the
wheat aa it oame in sight. There were
piles of them trying to cross thr ditch.
Bo vast was the number that moat men
were discouraged, and lost their crops.
Mr. Hill now commenced to run water
around hia crop, and, when the hoopers
swam across, he took a sharp spade and
cut the bank of the ditch smoothly on
the side next the crop and soon had the
pleasure of seeing millions of the de
stroyers swept off into the creek. When
other millions succeeded in reaching the
wheat he patiently drove them back into
the ditch. In this way, watching and
fighting with all his enemies, he con
quered st last Mr. Hill said be felt i
paid for hia work, for he made $4,000
thai year, getting twelve cents a pound
for his wheat
In late year* Mr. Hill fought the
grasshoppers with fire. He and bis
men would pat a belt of strew ten feet
wide terow a field, and, with long poisa,
to whioh were attached long pieces of
mttalin, drive the hoppers Into the
straw. They could be driven oply from
nine o'clock to three. Once in the straw
they remained quiet Two men then
drew a line of fire along the aides of the
belt of straw, and consumed every one.
They were destroyed in such numbers
that they could be in donble
handful*."
One year Mr. Hill bad a patch of 1,600
cabbages, upon which the hoppers fed
in great uumbers, until the cold weather
came. The ground was full of eggs.
Upon examination it seemed that the
average number that each grasshopper
deposited was twenty-seven. There were
eggs enough to bring forth a brood that
would have eaten up the whole farm.
Mr. Hill commenced to experiment with
the eggs. Placing them in the direct
rays of the mm, he found that it required
only a short time to hatch them. Con
cluding that if they could be kept oooi
they would never hatch, he plowed them
all under, and never heard of them
afterward. They probably all rotted.
He is confident that we are going to be
able to manage the young grasshoppers
hereafter.
A Carious Wager.
The following aneodote illustrates the
truth of the proverb anent the slips be
tween the cup and the lipe: A few years
before his death, the Emperor Nicholas
of Rusm sent a looking-glass of rare
size and beauty, with an <>uil*aagy, to the
empress of China. The looking-gbus
had to be carried all the way from St
Petersburg to Pekin by human hands.
Despite the immense distance which had
to be performed in this manner, the
looking-glass safely reached China; but,
in the meantime, difficulties had broken
out between Russia and China. The
Son of Heaven neither admitted the em
bassy, nor did be accept the present. A
courier was dispatched to oh Peters
burg, who asked the emperor what waa
to be done with the looking-glass. The
emperor replied that it should be car
ried back by the same route, and in the
same manner. When he gave this order
the Grand Duke Michael happened to
be present, and offered to lay a wager
with the emperor to the effect that the
looking-glass would be broken on the
way back to St Petersburg. The em
peror accepted the wager, and the bear
ers of the looking-glass received strin
gent orders to be as aareful as possible.
If they should break it on the road, they
would be severely punished; but if they
should bring it back safely, they would
receive a handsome reward. Tney car
ried it back with the most incredible
care, forty men bearing it by turns, and
safely reached St. Isaac's palace in St
Petersburg with it—where the emperor
stood, with his brothers, at the window
of the palace, and laughed at having won
the bet But on the staircase of the
palace one of the carriers slipped his
foot and fell down, dragging several of
his companions after him, and the pre
cious looking-glass was broken into a
thousand pieces. The grand duke,
therefore, won his bet
AN Arrucnxo MEETING. Sarah
Steele, a young woman, has been com
mitted for trial in England on a charge
of bigamy. Both husbands attended m
court, and on being confronted with her
first partner, Sarah threw herself into
his arms, and said: " Alec, ia that you ?
They told me you were banged in Glas
gow years ago. '
Itmi of lateral.
Egyptian woman aw old at t*#"
aw.
The Immigration from Iwiand for If
will ba th smallest since 1861. It *
only 51.402 teal year.
Hot teas than twelve thousand worn
ar* eoploysd in tba flow trade in t
department of tha Loirs, France, aloi
Baaaia contains 12,318,668 children
batwaon seven and fourteen year*
only sixty-nine par cent. attr
Whom a rich man becomes poor It
bat }tu* that ba abonld ba oat by I
Ear acquaintances wbo dang to him
Iter daya.
Tba March oointgr of tha Sao Fra
I eiaoo miut amountad to (3,808,(10
against 82,642,000 in the oorraaondii
month of teat year.
A woman and bar daughter, the latt
only twelva year* okl, both reeling wil
I intoxication, were aaan in the atraota <
Virginia Oily a faw daya ago,
"Laugh and grow fat." aaya 11
proverb. If yiga could only laogl
now, what a saving the thrifty farmi
oouid make in oorn and potaU* .
The habit of exaggeration, like drun
drinking, beoomee a slavish neoeaaitj
and they wbo practice it paaa their liwa
in a kind of mental telescope, throng
whoae magnifying medium they 100
npon themselves and everything aronn
(hem.
Sow mneh better it te to always pa
Sor bill a promptly. Tradeemen do nc
e to call "for that little aooonnt
any more than their customers like t
ba donned, and it te far better to pa;
them without the necessity of a bin
from them.
In Philadelphia aeven school* Levi
enrolled jcarlv two thousand beys ii
societies for the protection of animate
They have badges and banners, r.n
trained to march to theaonnd of milil r]
mode, and have annnal meetings at tin
music bail.
We've suspected for aome time pari
that measures would have to be taken Ui
check the alarmingly rapid growth oi
the Smith family. And hew now, sure
enough, a Pennsylvania man proposes
to exhibit at the Centennial a " Smith
roller sod crasher."
A oow belonging to Bites Davis, of
Vermont, "atelive skeins of Mr*. !).'
carpet yarn, eU knots in s skeio, the
same being hong cm a clothes line to
dry," and they don't know whether it is
best to keep the cow M a oow or to weave
bar np into carpets.
There era glasses and glasses.
"Why," said s husband to hi* wife,
"are you alwaya looking in the glass t"
"Because, my dear," was the answer,
"the glass I took into enables me to im
prove my personal appearance; the one
roe look into only degrades you."
A partridge Haw through s window in
a house in north Greeobush, N. Y., end
striking a sewing machine near the win
dow, broke it, and fell to the floor dead.
Upon examination it was fonnd that the
head of the bird was crashed into a
shapeless mass, probably by its contact
with the glass in the window.
Illnaaa prevented Mia* Adelaide Neil
aoc from appearing at a London theater
the other evening, and with much fear
and trembling the manager permitted a
young American girl, just finishing her
studies for the atage, to take her part.
Bha did it so well that the Londoners
Like bar nearly as well as Neiteon.
Borne people seem to be extremely
sensitive. At oaa of the churches in
Norwich, according to the Bulletin, one
Sunday the minister read the prayer for
a person in deep affliction, ami a man
who had just been married got np and
went out He aaid be didn't want pub
lic sympathy obtruded on him in that
way.
An old lady living in Saagerties, N.
Y., while suffering from s severe head
ache, fell asleep with a bottle of smell
ing salt* in ber hand. In the morning
die awoke with a blister on ber thumb,
which had covered the mouth of the bot
tle. In a abort time inflammation
arose, gangrene set in, and death fol
lowed.
A safe deposit vault just oomplct ! in
London is deemed invulnerable. It ia
sunk forty sir feet in the ground, with
walla of brink and concrete six feet
thick. Inside this structure is the safe,
three feet thick, made of fire brick and
undrillable iron. The metal doors
weigh four tons each, and are swung by
hydraulic power.
A well known Paris dentist, residing
is the fashionable quarter, has been ar
rested, and ia in Maaaa prison, accused
of having for years past, whil < drawing
and cleaning teeth, introduced alow poi
son into rich patient*' mouth* at the in
stigation of their heirs, and thus com
mitted many murder*. Two hundred
witnesses are said to be subpoenaed.
A eon pie were recently married at
Waynesboro, Pa., the bride being seven
tj-five sad the groom seventy-one. The
latter had never been married before,
and he was so overcome that be fainted
at the conclusion of the ceremony,
which incident led the newly married
wife to exclaim : " Poor fellow, I have
feared all along that he couldn't stand
H."
The foreign missionary work by Prot
estant Christian* is *ommerited as fol
lowa : There are 1,559 station*, 2,132
missionaries, and 1,537,074 native con
verts. The ananal expense is over 85,-
500,000. Great Britain is doing more
than half the work, the United States
about a quarter, Germany stands next,
and other countries are accredited with
very little.
Brethren," said a speaker, 41 when I
waa a boy I took a iiataoet and went into
the woods. When I found a tree that
was straight, big and solid, I didn't
touch that tree ; but when I found one
leaning a little, and hollow inside, I soon
had him down. So when the devil goes
after Christians, he don't touch those
that stand straight and true, but takes
those that lean a little, and are hollow
inside."
A New Orleans merchant was induced
by a woman, who told a pitiful story of
poverty, to give her sl4 with which to
bury her dead husband. Before giving
the money heVent to thejhouse and saw a
discolored corpse that he thoaglit ought
to have been buried days before. In
his hurry to get away from the place he
forgot his umbrella. When he returned
for it he found the corpse sitting np and
counting the 814.
Dr. Moreno and hie wife of San Fran
cdsod had quarreled, and he was anxious
to make up. He told her to kiss him in
token of reconciliation, and she refused.
He knocked her down, and commanded
her again to kiss him. She still refused,
and received another felling blow. He
continued to beat her until she could
not have kissed him if she wished, as
her injuries are such that site is not ex
pected to recover.
Dr. Payer's opinion is that, if sys
tematic returns were kept the annual
number of deaths from snake bites (ex
clusive of all doubtful cases) in India
would be found to exceed twenty thou
sand. A larger proportion of women,
it seems, are bitten than men, showing
that the women of the working clashes
in India are busier than their lords in
the fields and other-places where snakes
are to be met with.
Finney, the great revivalist, was pass
ing an iron foundry when the works
were ia full blast, and heard a workman
swearing terribly. "Young man," said
the revivalist, addressing the swearer,
44 how hot do you suppose hell is ?"
The workman reoognioed his questioner,
and placing his arms akimbo, and look
ing bim squarely in the face, said :
"Well, Mr. Finney, I suppose it's so
hot that if somebody brought you a
spoonful of melted iron you'd swear
'twas ioe cream."
An ingenious fellow has invented a
new way of getting his liquor. He put-)
two pint bottles in his coat pocket, one
full of water, the other empty. Then
he goes into a saloon and asks for a pint
of gin, handing out the empty bott!e.
When he gets the gin be puts the bottle
ia bis pocket, and tells the barkeeper to
"hang it np." Barkeeper naturally
objects, and demands the cash or the
gin. The man reluctantly hands him
the bottle of water, and goes ont mat
taring about " some folks being so con
founded particular."