Told In Confidence. Vow youH never. never tell him ' Preenng star now glittering furthest, fairest on the winter sky ; If he woo me, Not yoor coldest ornel my Or MB or may Be found more chill end sUll to him then I. Sweet you'll never, never tell him ' Wnnn red roeee lifting yoor ehy feeee to the manner dew,: If he win me, Blush your eweeteet in hia eight For hie delight. But I own be M aweet, ae eweet ee yon ' When Ihe Cows Come Home. When klingle klangle, klingle. Far down the dneky dingle. The oowe ere coming home. Row aweet end oleer, end feint end low, The airy (inklings oonie end go. Like ohimuiga treni the far-off tower. Or peltennga of en April shower That makes the daisies grow, Ko-iing, ko-leng, koHugn-Hrigle, Per down the darkening dingle. The oowe cvme slowly home. And old-lame friends, end twilight play*, And starry nights and annuy days, Oooas trooping up the nusty ways. When toe cows come house. With jingle, jangle, jingle, Soft toliM that eireeUy minjjlfr. The oowa are coming home, Malnue and Pearl and Fkinmel, lHKaiup. lied Koee, and i"? retch eo Sohell. Qoeeu Beat, and Sylph, and Spangled hue, Aoroee the fields I hear her '' 100-oo " And clang her uleer bell; 00-UOR, golang. geiinglodiugta. With feint, far eounde that mingle, The cv* conic akvely home. And mother-eouge of long-gone veara. And baby )oy and ehildieh fear*. And youthful hope* and youthful tear*, Whan the eowe come home With ring la, nag la, ruagla, By two* and thnca awl Hugia, The cow* an cornice bom* Through violet air we m tha town. And the summer inu a-ahpping down. And the maple in tha hazel glade Throws down tha path a longer shade. And tha hiUs an growing brown; To-ring. to-rang, tonugiantigle. By threes and four* and stogie, Tha eowa coma slowly home. The same sweet sound of wordless psalm. The earns sweet Jane day net and calm The'aame tweet small of buds and halm Whan the cow* come home. With tinkle, tackle, tinkle. Through fere and penwmile, The eowe an coming home. A-loitering m the checkered etream Where the eon-ray* glanoe and gleam Clanaa, Teachbioom and Thaha Fnilha Stand knaa deep m the creamy iiher, In a drowsy dream: To-ltnk, to-iank. toliuklehnkla, Oar banks with batter cups n-t winkle, Tha oows coma slowly home. And np through memory's deep ravine. Coma the brook e old song and its old-time sheen. And the crescent of the silver quean. Whan the oowa come home. With kiiogle, klangle, klingle. With 100-00, and moo-00, aad jingle, The oows are coming home; And over then on Merlin hill, Bounds the plaintive cry of tha whip-poor will. And tha dewdrope ha on tha tangled vines. And over the poplars Venus shines. And over the silent mill, K.o-ling, ko-lang. kolinglelingle. With ting-e-iing ai d Jingle, The oows come slowly borne. Let down the ban; let in the train Of long-gone songs, and floweis. and rain, Tor dear old times oome back again Wben the cows come borne. C\rutian WteA.'y. LOSING THEM BOTH. The dearest little rosebud of a girl, with cheeks where a pink flush came and went, and blue eyes, with long, golden brown lashes, and hair thai waved without the aid of pins or irons. I always thought her name was the moat suitable that oould have been dbosen for her, though the only wonder is that old Farmer Budd did not name his only daughter Deborah, or Rebecca, or ttarah Jane. lioNsnna had fortunately been her father's grandmother s name, however, and so came a Rime Budd into the world; for Mrs. Budd hail made the Anna a middle name instead of part of the first, and dropped it. When I begun to like Rose Budd so much that I seriously thought of pro posing to her, Hiram" Roper liked her too. He was five years older than I; a plain man of twenty-nine, with faint scars on his face, and a bald spot on the middle of his head. A poor man, studying medicine late in life, because he had not been able to study in his yontti, only hoping for his diploma in a year, with the practice all in the future; and I, at twenty-four, had the Moss wood estate for my own, and money enough to live on comfortably. There could be no comparison drawn between us, 1 fondly hoped, that would not be favorable to me; and I cnoUy, though politely, took my place before him, and cut him out on all oocasions with Rose bud . I, young and ricfi and handsome, and, as I suppose i, elegantly dressed ; he, plain, poor and shabby, looking ten years older than he really was. What chance had he against me ? And so he slipped quietly into the background and I made love to Rose bud, and one day kissed her on the cheek, and told her life would not be worth having to me if I could not win her; and she said nothing, but out blushed all the roses, and let me kiss her again. After that we walked bodily arm-in-arm through the village, and friends teased me, and the other beaux dropped away, and one ilay I gave her a ring to wear on her left hand forefinger. Two weeks from that day I went to London on business. I intended to stay a week, hut I was so successful that I remained longer; finally I went into business in the city, and begun to know people. I visited st the houses of wealthy merchants, and met their wives and ilaughterH, and by degrees !>egun to understand that, though my Rosebud was very fßir and sweet, she was not a hot-liouse flower. In other words, her dress was not like the dress of s fashion able belle ; her manners were homespun, her education poor. Bhe was very good —excessively good, but not an elegant lady. Then, too, she sent me notes in big buff envelopes, and used little "i's" for the personal pronoun, which should have honored by the capital "I." And Farmer Badd, with bis uncouth coats and wonderful hats and long strag- ! fling beard and hair, wa - not the sort of ather-in-law that I should admire; and there was Miss Hannover. Perhaps that fact was the most powerful one of all the workings of my disenchantment; for Mies Hannover was beantifol, all millinery and upholstery; and Papa Hannover was called Pricoe Hannover by bis friends, and had his dinner table set for forty every day, and wore a for tune in diamonds on his bosom, and made friends everywhere he went by his lavish gifts, and was the greatest stock gambler in London. Pupa Hannover had smiled on me, and counseled me how to invest, and had dined me with his daily forty friends, and had said : " Violette, love, this is Mr. Markman, one of those country gentlemen of whom we are trying to make city men." And Violette had smiled radiantly upon me. Bines then how many tete-s-tetes had I not had with her—how many rides f I was learning to dance with her, and I' had forgotten to write to Roeebnd for ! FREE). KURTZ. Editor and Eropriotor. VOLUME IX. two weoa*. Then came en anxious lit tle nolo on thin blue jsepcr, lieginuing thne : •' I>*au HasHt—-1 take up my pen in baud much trubhled lu my mind re garding you i know yon would write if you were not sick. Oh, Henry, if you are nick do UllygratT and let father come up and see you. Henry i will not write I any more until 1 hear from vou—i am too trubbled in my mind. tVe are all 1 well and iu tlie hopes Uiat you will enjoy the imme bhwwiug* i remain • Tours truly, Rosa BCDD. "P. fct.—lV> let oa come if you are sick, iam so truboled iu my mind. 1 hastened to reply, the awful dread *of Mr. Rudd'a fatherly care hanging over me, so to speak, by a single hair. I wrote to Hosts but how! I shall uot copy that cowardly letter here. When it was in the box I did try to ttsh it out again, but it was too la:e. It had gone, and its teraiiuation: "Tlianks, Miss Budd, for vonr friendly anxiety con certiiug my "health; 1 am sure Mr. Biuld does not shared," was perhajw the word of all the liues by which I told her, not iu frank, honest words, but iu a mauuer that uo woman could fail to understand, that I did not ehooee to remember that we were betrothed. After that uo more letters in yellow envelopes muie to trouble me, and 1 jtatd attention to Vue Hannover, and invested my money according to Han nover's advice. And days and weeks and mouths rolled by, and if a thought of my little Rosebud, fading because the sunlight of my love was withdrawn from it, crossed my mind, 1 drove it away with a sign. 1 could not help it, 1 said; it was fate. Kate meant me for Miss Hannover, for Violette, and we had met —that was all. No, not quite all; one day—l remember it was the day af ter a splendid ball, and 1 called on Yio lette, whose escort 1 had l>eeu the night before—one day I made this latter state ment to Violette Hannover, and she, having heard it, bestowed on me her most aristocratic stare, and asked me if I did not know that she had been en gaged to Mr. Twentyplum for six long months. " And be married next week, Mr. Markham," added she. "So you see you must be mistaken about fate." " And you have only been flirting with me?" I said, bitterly. "Do you know that you gave me reason to hope every thing from you ?" " I know it is time for me to dress I for a drive," said she. "So you must say good afternoon; and don't look so ridiculously tragic, Mr. Markham. I hate scenes." Aud I felt that I deserved it all, as I went for the last time down the steps of i the Hannover mansion. In a fortnight Violette was Mrs. Twentyplum. In a month Mr. Han nover was a bankrupt—one of those who take a foreign trip with plenty of money in their pockets, while others lie crushed beneath the fragments of their broken branches st home. My money went with his. I had come to London with a moderate competence. I hail in.-reaa-d it by speculations until I was absolutely wealthy. Now 1 found myself suddenly almost poor. There remained to me only the Moss wood property, which must be turned i into a (arm, and I myself must leave my 1 hope of being one of the city million aires behind me, and become a plain farmer—a man of the same social status as Rosebud's father, without his com fortable knowledge of money in the bank to comfort me. However, with the bursting of the bubble fortune, the circle which gather ered about Hannover hail been seeming ly scattered to the winds, and people knew that Miss Violette hail jilted me aad also that my money was gone. The city had tost many of its charms, and 1 wrote to the old womau who hail kept the house at Mosswoml for-my father until his death, to make it ready for my return. Then selling the furniture of my liachelor rooms, ami packing my smaller belongings in. a few trunks, I started homeward. I must go back to Mosswood and be come a farmer. I should find Rosebud fading gradually away, of course, aud yet I knew she would be prettier than ever. How she had loved me—how un grateful I hml lx*n for that love. Now i would make amends. I would write as many repent-rat letters as were neces sary, and she would, of ooorse, forgive me. No woman ever forgets or ceases to leve anv man she ever has loved, you know. Yes, after a little maidenly" re sistance, Rorobud would bloom for me again. I vas* sure of this as the train bore me oiivard. as I was that the moon would rise that night. There is no adage more true than the one that declares that misfortunes never come alone, but always in troop*. Often, of ow"tse, one bring* the other. In my caie, t anxieties that had troop ed so thickly about me made me ner vous, and so led to a severe accident. Having alighted at a certain station, I delayed my return to the carriage* until they had started. I remember running after them, and then—what do 1 remem ber then ? Darkness, dreams, pain, an awakening in s little room, with white curtains, and a toilet table, and a vision charmingly dressed. The same one say ing, slowly: " Yes, yce, yes ; I think he'll do." And understanding this was my old friend, Hiram Roper, I asked : " How did I come here f" trying to sit np, and failing in the attempt. "Well," said Hiram, "wife and I were at the station, ami I saw you were a good deal hurt, and we brought you on. You kDow this is my house." "Yours i" said L " And you are mslfriiil, and in practice, 1 suppose!" " Yes," said Roper. "Oh, yes ; get ting on famously. And you've hail a bad time, but you'll be on the right soon. Come and b 11 him be will, Rosebud." And there—yes, there was Rose. After I had ruminated on the fact a f r. house! Dhlnl you kuow I hi* wife before? Dear util follow, ho is— the Itoat husband woman ever had, I'ia turn—and, Mr. Maxkhaiu, 1 know now that 1 uevar really loved you ' I don't know whether that was true or not, but it did not matter. She did not love me then, and does not uow; and I had lost her. 1 live alone at Moaewood uow, an old bachelor, with a limp and thedyspepsia, and she and a bouquet of little "blossoms flourish over the way at Dr. RojHr's. Some time, perhaps, 1 may marry. Miss Flint would have me, and so would the Widow Wiggins; but what ever 1 may gather to wear over my heart it will not be a rosebud. 1 threw that away long ago, and Roper picked it up, and it makes his life fragrant. Ouiu Pro Quo. Friend Zedekiah Broadback, residing iu a thriving Pennsylvania town, was a staid, stanch, and proper man. Ho was a just man, though zealous iu the accumulation of substance, and careful of his property. One ilay Zedekiah re turned to uis home from a distant farm, and was informed by his serving woman that a large, fierce dog, belonging to the village lawyer, had stolen from the pantry a fine leg of mutton. •' Art sure it was the dog belonging to the man of law, named Didymus I" " Yea, verily, my master." "Alas! and 1 had set apart that piece of flesh for a feast, to be given eveu unto my friends. 1 must set* the worldly man, and gaiu restitution, if it be possible." Aud Zedekiah set forth for the office of the lawyer. Ou the wuy ho reflected. He called to mind the story of the rnau's bull which had gored a neighbor's ox, anil he resolved to profit thereby. En tering the office of the man of law, he said : " Frieud Didymus, 1 wish to ask thy opinion upon a critical case." "I will listen," answered the lawyer, laying aside his book. " Suppose, friend Didymus, that my dog, even my faithful Towser, had gone into my neighbor's pautry, aud stolen a leg of mutton, and had eaten the same, what ought 1 to do!" " Why, friend Zedekiah, the thing is plain. You must pay for thething which your dog stole." " Know, then, friend Didymus, that thy dog, that ferocious beast which thou callest Tiger, liath stolen from my pan try a leg of mutton, of the full and just value of five shillings, that beiug the sum which I paid for it iu lawful money." " If that is the w," said the lawyer, taking out his purse, "I suppose I must par for it." l"he Quaker took the money, and was about to depart, when the lawyer de taiued him. "Tarry yet a little, friend Zedekiah, for of a verity I have further to say unto thee. Thou didst enter ray place of business, and cruve my legal advice upon a critical case. I gave it thee. My charge therefor is nine shillings." " Buret v, friend Didymus f" " Ave, it is even so." " Alas ! tbeu I must pay thee. I have touched pitch, and have been defiled " Summer Bonnet-. Summer bonnet*, says a fashion jour- Mai, are close shapes and real capotes, with or without curtains. The flaring halo brims are not found among late im portations. A superabundance of trim ming spoils some of the most expensive models. The Beuoiion or necklace, looped in front below the chin, is atxuit to be introduced for those who do uot li>e strings tied a* the throat, and yet Like a dressy trimming iu front. This is made of the silk of the trimming, fringed with grasses and flowers. One very effective Benoiton is of cardinal silk, fringed with berries aud gilded leaves; the bonnet is the stilish rongh straw. Brood strings of white crepe lisse edged with a fluted frill are shown for the bonnet* of very young ladies, who, Parisians think, should not wear luce. Strings and streamers of cream colored lace are beautified by having a laind of black iusertiou dowu the cen ter. The Charlotte Corday Ixinnet* are abo imjxirted for summer. Rose pink and cardinal are associated together for trimming black chip bonnet*, notwith standing they are dark enough for win ter. Black tulle bonnet* are made plain on the fi&me, and edged with gold sou tache. The trimmings are short black ostrich tips and antique ribbons of white atnped gauze. Others have scarfs of black tulle dotted with gold. A key of red gold andcut steel is a favorite ornament on black bonnets. There are also crescent* of silver that look hand some enough for a brooch to be worn at the throat The Mexicaine gauze* are very popular abroad for bonnet trim mings, but do not And much favor here. •Some plain ecru net is used a* a scarf for bonnets. Ivory white 1* used with pale bine or rose pipings. Darker cream color is contrasted with dark car dinal or with black velvet. Wnen white chip bonnets are not found becoming, the entire front i* faced with black vel vet, and dark flowers of becoming color are used for face trimming. The cream colored chip bonnets remain moat liked for dress hats, a* they suit with any toilette. Tneir garniture is cream color ed silk, two ostrich tip* of the same shade, cream colored lace, and two long streamers of cream colored ribbon hang iug low !>ehind. Two soft puffs of silk inside the front make a pretty face trimming for traveling bonnets. His Punishment. The death of Rubenstpin, found guilty of the brutal murder of the Joung Jewish girl and sentenced to be angod, is not altogether a surprise. There was much about the conduct of the man since his arrest proving that he had broken down utterly either under the Hense of guilt, the terror of punish ment, or the consciousness of innocence wronged. His prayers, fastings and con tinual despair must have destroyed the mind if the body had failed to give way. His life in prison has been to him worse than death in any shape; and as no other end than the gallows seemed prob able, it is well for him that he pnssed away by natural means. The public is not so eager for an execution that it will regret the condemned man's quiet death, if, as seems to be clearly estab lished, the case was not one of suicide. All the effect of punishment as a means of watning has lieen gained in the ter rible spectacle of Hubenstein's agony. Retributive justice could scarcely have a more startling vindication or one bet ter fitted to impress and affect the popu lar imagination.— New York World. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1876. KKMTOKISU A filth AT HKA. Aa Aaarrlraa Hekrae al llaaalaa lb. M alar al ikr Ilia, k **a lata ik. I urlu. Mr. H|>aldiug, an American, proposes to reverwe a natural psooea* which ha* tieen iu action for Uiouaauda of years, and, in his opiniou, has produced the present distribution of the human race iu Europe. It is a question of turumg the waters of the Black aea iuto the Caa piau, aud tilling that great inland losiu I to the depth which obtained at a remote period. At present the Oaapiau sea, aud, through kindred influence*, the sea of Aral and lake Italkanli are losing Uitur waters, aud the vast regiou which belongs to their system is LxH-ounug a deaert. According to Mr. H(>aldiug, this deterioration was probably the cause of the great migrations which history re cords. Vast multitudes came forth from Uie uukuowu east beoaune the laud* of their birth were no louger aide to sup port them; by loug wars Uiev obtained possesaiou of the whole of Europe, which, with its more fertile soil aud lea* warlike population, invited conquest. The region to which the American engi neer calls attention is a great basin de pressed below the level of the ocean. The lowest parts are occupied by the t'asoiau sea, which receives, beanie* smaller tributaries, the two great river* Ural and Volga, which drain a large pro portion of the oentral regions of the Uiwsiau empire. These river* have for ages dc|K"sitel in the Caspiau the soil of the regions drained by them. The dimensions of the sea have couaequeuUy become contracted, and the Inittom of wliat remain* of it has la-en raised until very large areas are becoming uuuavi galde. By reasou also of the diunnutiou of the water space available for evapor* tiou, the surrounding regions are be coming sterile wastes, aud commerce diminishes notwithstanding the up proach of civilisation. The only mean* of arresting this im placable action of nature is to restore to the Caspian it* ancient laxly of water*, and consequently its ancient depth and area. Thi* i* to Is? done by cutting a channel which shall bring into it the waters of the neighboring Black sea. The projector would make a gnat cut ting, connecting the two sea* upou one level. It is to lie premised that the Caspian is considerably lower than the Black sea and the Mcditerraneau, and, therefore, a continuous flow from the latter into the former would ensue utvm a communication 1-eing made, Mr Spalding anticipates not only a natural but a political revolution from this arti ficial cataract. The force of Uie water acquired bv the plunge would effect a deep exoAvutiou, aud in tlie end would not only till Uie ba*m of Uie Caspian to the level of Uie Black sea, but would form a magnificent harbor in the for mer, unassailable by an enemy, and cer tain to become the emporium of the commerce of Uuasia and western Asia. The author enter* into calculation* as to the movement of the water through such a channel, and determines that at the end of forty year* from Uie begin ning of Uie work the levels of the two seas would be ao nearly uniform that navigation of the new channel could begin. This time could be shortened to at>urt twenty live years if, upou the compleUou of the work already de scribed, the operation were to tie re peated by connecting the Don and the Volga. The obj-et of this latter work would be to bring the waters of the aea of Azof to swell the volume discharging into the Caspian, the current of the Don beiug reversed. Mr. Bpaldiug mentions a similar work performed in America bv cutting the ridge of lime stone which separated Uie water* of the Chicago river from thoae of the Illinois liver. " The result wa* that the current of the Chicago was reversed, and it now discharges it* water*, a* well as thoae of lake Michigan, into the Illinois, and through that via the Mississippi river into the gulf of Mexico, instead of iuto the gulf of St. Lawrence." The Chinese as Mechanic*. While it is a well knowu fact that the Chinese have very little of the spirit of invention or originality, they are skill ful aiul IDK<'UIOU mutators auil oopjista. As iiu instance in point, it is related that some years sine**, on the arrival of an American clipper ship at Hong Kong, the captain, Warning of the wonderful imitative skill of the Chinese painters, employed one of them to copy a beauti ful oil {tainting of the vessel, which had accidentally Ix-en torn a few inches acro-s its "faca, the rent having been sewn np. lu due coarse of time the copied printing came home, a perfect imitation in all respects, even to the sewn gush in the original. Any me chanical trade which does not require originality of taste or design tlicy pick up with surprising facility. The manu facture of cigars IU New York city may 1m said to have passed entirely into their hnnds, several thousand being employed iu this branch of industry aloue. Orig iually knowing nothing about boot and sboe making, they have made such rapid strides in this trade that no other class of workmen are able to compete with them. At such low wages do Chinamen perform this kind of work, that in no place on this continent ire boots and shoes sold so cheaply sa in Han Fran cisco. As carpenters, manufacturers of furniture, and workers in all kinds of wood, they have crowded out ail army of white laborers, who would otherwise now lie employed at good wages. With all the uses of the sewing machine they have becornn familiar, willingly and un tiringly working at one twelve and often fourteen hours without cessation. If there is any branch of mechanical in dustry for which there is a public de mand, John is sure to have a hand in it, working at snch figures that no white man can possibly compete with him. The trades or professions with which they do not interfere are so few as to be easily enumerated. In all the depart ments of servile laltor, as house servants, cooks, serubltors, gardeners, porters, tbey crowd out the Caucasian, leaving thousands of the latter unemployed and suffering for the actual necessaries of li.e. Useful Hint. Scene in Paris.--Madame X. has re cently engaged a waitress, who has been particularly recommended for her hon esty and other good qualities. On com ing home the other day, she found that her deak, in which she was in the habit of keeping money, hadlieen opened and a hundred franc note abstract™!. Madame X. told her bualiand, and ho instructed her what share to take in the dinner conversation, by which he thought the money conld be quietly re covered. At dinner, in the presence of the waitress, Madame X. said to her husband : " Have you seen Mr. Dorand this morning?" "No, my dear, it is impossible to see Mr. Durand just at present." "Why so?" "His morn ings are now passed in the criminal court, on acoonnt of the recent thefts perpetrated by his cook. Unfortunate girl, to steal one hundred francs, and in r tnru be certainly condemned to the galleys." "To the galleys ?" asked his wife. " Oh, yes; for that matter, I have heard of persons being guillotined for loss than that." Nothing more was said at dinner; bat one hour later the bank note was found returned to its proper place in the desk. An Firltlng Bare. The Hau Francisco ChrtmMe toll* the following story of *ll engineer: It wiia four year* *go last wiutor. Iwu 00m lug down with * tram boded with oatUe. Th* weather had teeu lnul for work*, Mint the Atiow lay deep, but wa* molting off faat in th warm weaUier that had lasted nearly a work. The ground wa* saturated, and 1 noticed that thing* looked shaky on tho mountain. 1 wa* finding my way along carefully, think uig tlio track might spring, a* the I**l wa* wot and "loppy, when juat aa I got around tho point of Una ridgo, 1 looked up, and it *oomod to mo Uial tho whole mountain above mo had broken looao. For hundred* of foot wide tho hiiiaido wa* in motion, and charging down ou me. Tho slide started a hundred yard* UIKIVO the truck nndwaaooming right down ou ue liko lightning, ltocka, tree* anil HUM w drift* plunged down tho face of Uie mountain with a thundering roar, and seemed Ivent on overwhelmiug us and burying ua in the canyon thouaanda of feet below. I wa* never #0 clone to death liefore, although I have had my aha re of |>eriis ou the road. For a mo ment I wa* stupe tied, the danger wa* ao great and escape ao hojiele**, hut ouly for a moment I determined not to die without an effort, but clap|>ed on all ateam, while the brake* were thrown off at Uie name time. You can aee for your *elf that the giade i* heavy hern, and can lielieve that we made fact time. The engine seemed to know her danger, and to gather heme If for an effort. She leaped, quivering and snorting, down the grade 111 the maddest race I ever *aw. Down came the avalanche liko lightning directly upon us, throwing up eloUila cf dying auow and splinters and rock, and away tlew the old engine like a thing of life and Ix-autv, a* she was, dragging the car* like the wind down the grade after her, abreast of the slide. But it acetued doomed to be ail iu vain. The avalauche came faster every moment. It was almost upon ua. The rocks begun to bonnd against the cars and over them, and the train was hidden iu a cloud of snow, ltut we were tlyiug through the sir now; the wheels seamed never to touch the rail, and just aa 1 was giving up hope the engine rushed past that point of land just hack there where the little ravine oomea down. This turned the current of the slide, ao to speak, a little, and na* our salvation. The engine rosin d past Uie point JUt aa the slide reached the track, and a lug pine, uprooted iu the edge of the avalanche, fell across the next car to the laat one and crushed it. The track was swept nway like a cobweb in a g*l\ and the coupling* of the cars broke and the cars fell into the chasm left iu the wake of the slide, and were carried down to tlx- river, a thousand yards below. What there is left of tiiem he* there yet. The jerk wade the engine and train jump UlO track, hut she kept on her feet, aud we got off with a few brumes. That I account one of the greatest dan gers I ever had in my twenty yearn of railroading. Chinese llulldlng Propensities. The Virginia City (Nev.) AWrryw-wr *av* : The Chinese quarter at the city i* being rapidly rebuilt. Tin* wtu of Coufuciu* work like beaver*. They are busy early anil late, and both under ground and on the surface. In th<-ir I -art of the town the Celestial* have kept pace with the march of rebuilding ui that |>art of the burned dintrict which ia in tlie hand* of the white*. In ordiuary time* no one ever hear* of a Chine* carpenter, but now all are rarjx-nter*. One would auppoae that "John," the manner in which hi* eye* are set in hi* head being considered, would never In able to aaw a plank square aero**, yat he manage* to make all manner of joint* and U-vei*. When a house much ahovo the ordinanr aire i* to le built, they precipitate themaelrea upon it ia boat*. They go at it much a* they act ab-ut tunneling through a mountain. They ► warm like ant*, and like ant* each i doing aomething. When a large building i* la-tug roofed by tliem, it aeema, at a little distance, to be covered witli a flock of giant crow*, each pecking with all bin might, and squawking with ail hi* "main." When a Chinaman i* excited and i* mailing thing*, he ia very un happy nnle** allowed to "give tongue." To Muhlenlv cut one of them abort when in full vocal blast would be aa difficult a* to aiionoo a donkey when in the midst of hia bray. We have hinted at the underground iabora of the Mongolian*. It may be neoeanary to explain that once John Chinaman ha* come into poaaeaaion of a piece of ground, he not unfreqnently build* l>oUi up and down. He ha* an innate love of Kubterranean den* and cave*. In Chinatowu, aa it ia being re built, the underground apartment* are likely to be even more abundant than in Chinatown a* it ia. In the "bomb proof* " and other hole* they are dig giug and building, and they will have their gambling and opium den* down l>elow the sunlight, underneath the ground. Sorrow by the Wayside. A family from southern Kansas, con sisting of a husband, wife and three children, passed through Waco, Texas, in a covered wagon, and the following sail chapter in their history was related ty the man. He stAted that they left Kansas on the first of March, with the intention of joining a nnmber of fam ilies formerly from Kansas, who are now living in Brown oonnty. They traveled rapidly, aud met with no mis haps nntil one Hunday morning, when their little Italic, aged abont eighteen mouths, was suddenly taken ill and died. The grief of the poor mother on the death of her child knew no ttonnda; in fact, she Iteoame tempor arily insane, and when her husltand wished to bnry the body of tbo infant ahe clutched it wildly in her arms and fled from him and hid herself in the woods, where she remained over night along with the corpse. It was not until nearly noon on the following day that he found her. Hhe was so completely exhausted by that time that he hail but little difficulty in taking her back to the wagon. Hhe was induced to take some nourishment, and soon afterward fell asleep. While she lay sleepiug the lit tle oorpso was placed in a roughly oon strneted box, and the father and chil dren buried it under a live oak tree by the roadside. The mother slept several hours, and awoke with her mind re stored. Hhe assisted her hustiand in building a fence around the lone little grave, and theu, with many backward glances, the afflicted family pursued their weary journey. John Chlnnman. John in California is himself opposed to more immigration from China. He says: "Heap Chinaman no money. Heap Chiuaman no worke. All China men no want mom Chinamen. Flifty tousan Chinamen go homo then China man make heap money. Flifty toiuian Chinamen conic then Chinaman gittee two bittee one day. China company he flotchce too many. Alle same too mauy Chinamen like too many Melican men. No workee, no money. Cliina company Hay two bitee one day, Chinaman say no. China company say fletcheo ten tousan. Chinamen like Melican man keepe Chinaman home. Rich Chinaman wanteo heap Chinamen. Poor China men no likee." TIIK WASHINGTON MADHOUSE, A Mai bar Tall. Iba n.a eiorr al bar Maa I aaflaarf la Iba Aarlaai. Mr*. Van Kuru testified before the ('ougroMMoual investigating committee that ahe liail txmli a real Jen t of Chicago since 18M. Bhe bail a aon in the gov eminent aajium who was seventeen wiu-u he went there. lie waa sent from the navy. Bhe aaw her aou aoou after he we* aelit there, but oouhi Nichols for many day*. Bhe doe* not <* >uaider her aou iuaaae. lie ia eptlep tie. Bhe had an interview with Dr. Nichols, and told him ahe wanted every care taken of her aon, which waa prom laed, the doctor saying he would take a father'* interest in him. Bhe left Waah i ingtuu in the full belief of that prom ise. Bhe went there a second time to aee her aon, but not intending to take him away. Thi* waa after the great tire in Chicago. Bhe had always written, hut seldom obtained any answer. Her I joy's (tension was stopped, and on writing to the pension office she was in formed that it had been asserted that her boy had I tee n abandoned by his friend*, not having lieeu supplied with any clothing. The wituooa said ahe then oarne to Washington and went to aee her sou at the asylum, and after waiting two hoars and a half saw him. Bhe hardly knew him. He was s haggard old man. He screamed : " Dearest mother, take me out of this horrible plaoe." He made complaints of bad treatment, and his head was literally alive with vermin. He had just been bathed, and was drip piug with cold water. Thi attendant said the pants just removed were cov ered with vermiu. Dr. Morell was proa out at thi* time, and aaid he had noticed the vermin the day before, and was very sorry for it. On tier return she went to Admiral Porter and to the secretary of the navy. The latter was absent from the city. The surgeon general of the navy came to her and said he would write to Dr. Nichols. He received s reply, which he read t<> wituea*, acknowl edging the vermin, but denviug all else. Witness was accompanied by a lady of Washington, Hiss Jenny De liar, who was present the whole time witness con versed with Dr. MorrelL Her son went to the asylum in 1869 and left in 1873. W itneaa |iaid a visit to the pension office, but Genera) liaker was abseut. Bhe went the next day and the oommis aiouer had returned. He wished to ex cuse himself, beiDg very tired, having come from a long journey. An appoint ment was made for the next day, which wa* kept. General Baker did uyt give her any satisfaction. The next day witness was told her ietUWs had been sent to Dr. Nichols bv s clerk of the name of Pryor. Gen. liaker aaid it was not possible, but on confronting Pryor with tlie commissioner he aokaowladged it. The commissioner *aid many bills were sent by l>r. Nichols amounting to several bundled dollars. Witness said she would never jy one cent of it. Bhe succeeded *t last in convincing Gen. liaker, who sent a physician to the asylum who proved tiiat her son was in that horrible condition. Gen. Baker said if witness did not take hjm out st once be would. He also said lie would send a elerk over to the asylum to aee how many boys wen- there, as it was no place for them. The pension of her boy ia SSO a month. At the time it wa* k< pt back by Dr. Nichols it was $35. The witness aaid she had received all the pension due her as guardian of her aon, having established her chum in the pension office. The trouble with Gen. Baker was about the )>eusion, it haviug lieen sua(>eiided by I>r. Nichol*' repre sentation tliat no clothing had been sup plied. Gen. Baker said Dr. Nichols thought witness hail accompanit d a gentleman to California, when in fact witness wa* in company of Sivretary Hrislow and bis family. It was in Sep tember Unit the boy was taken out of the asylum. Witness saw a letter from Dr. Nichols to Burgeon Gem ml Bcale of the navy. Witness went on to say that Uio mat trees on which her aon lay was rotten with the rain which came through the j roof. His body wa* covered with bruise*; it was 'quite black. He had lieeu put in a strong room, and they had placed s strait jacket on him. Her son told her this, and the attendant* also; and Mr. Anderson and his wife told her that Dr. Nichols only cauie through the wards once a week—namely, on the Babbath; that he cared more for the pigs and dog" than he did for the patients. On witness demanding to see her eon's room, Dr. Morrell objected, saying it was against the rules, but Afterward con sented. Bhe found there no books or pliers, which she had liberally supplied him with. The witness then said, addressing the chairman, that during her stay in Wash ington she was called ou by a man fre quently to know how much money she would take to leave the city. She did not know the man's name. She also bad a statement from a man that two pa tiruts hail lieen killed, one a white and one a colored man, and that both were put into one coffin. How Wlrl* are Made Pretty. The Hindoo girls are graceful and ex quisitely formed. From their earliest enildbood they are accustomed to carry burdeua on their beads. The water for family use is always brought by the girla in earthen jars, carefully poised in this way. This exercise is said to strengthen the muscles of the back, while the chest is thrown forward. No crooked backs are s>on in Hindostan. Dr. Henry Spry, one of the company's medical officers, says that " this exercise of carrying small vessels of water on the head might lte advantageously intro duced into our boarding schools and private families, and that it might en tirely snpersede the present mschinery of "dumbbells, backboards, skipping ropes, etc. The young lady ought to lte taught to carry the jar, as these Hin doo women do, without ever touching it with her hands." The same practice of carrying water leads to precisely the same results as in the south of Hpain and in the sonth of Italy as in India. A Neapolitan female peasant will carry on her head a vessel fnll of water to the very brim over a rough road and not snill a drop of it, aud the acquisition of tnis art or knock gives her the name erect and elastic gait, and the samo ex panded chest and well formed back aud shoulders. Mr. I'enn's Treaty. " The Great Spirit"—snch were Wil liam Penn's own words on the occasion of his treaty with the Indians—" who made yon and us, who rules the heavens and the earth, aud who knows the inner most thoughts of man, knows that 1 and my friends have a hearty desire to live in peaoe and friendship with you, and to serve yon to the utmost of our power. Onr object is not to do injury, but to do good. Wo are here met on the broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that no advantage may be taken on either side, but all shall be openness, brother liood and love. I would not oomjiare the friendship now sought to a chain, since the rain might rust it, or a tree fall and break it; but the Indians shall be es teemed by us as the same flesh and blood with the Christians, and the same as if one man's body was to lie divided in two parts, aud, as such, the ground should be occupied as oommou to both people." TERMS: #2.00 a Year, in Advance. A MI'KDEKKK** CONFESSION. Tba TraaAr la iba Halm ala I barrb la Maalaa-Plaar I aalraalaa Iba MarAar ml Uilla Mabal Vaaaa-Alaa. Ibal ba *111.4 Mtaa HrlAa.l l^aaAreaaa. Thomas W. Pipor, the aeston of the Warreu avenue church, Boston, who u under sentence of death for the murder of the flve-jeer old child, Mattel Young, in the belfrv of the church, startled hu counsel, Kdward P. Brtrtru, who waa in consultation with him regarding the mo tion for a new trial, by oonfcaatng the murder, and furthermore that he wan the murderer of Bridget Isuidrrgau at Dorchester ou the night of Deo. A, 1873, for which crime be haa been long under aiicion. Piper'a full confession waa e public and caused much eacite menL Any doubts a* to its truth were swept a war by the atatemeut of hia counsel. Mr. Brown aaid that he would not prow the motion for a new trial, in view of the oonveraation he had with Piper Piper dooUn* that ho had no motiw for these twinies, particularly the mar dor of the fluid. Mid cannot understand how ho came to commit thorn. Ho aay that he haa hitherto lied to blind hm counsel, knowing that ho ooold not got their aid if I hey for a moment behaved to hia guilt He haa of late been rapid IT breaking down in health and strength through hia great mental agony, and it ia thought that it allowed to eaoape the gallows he could not live six week*. Hia execution ia aet down for the twenty aixth of Mav. In hia oonfeaaion of the murder of &fabel Young, lhper aaya: " 1 took the bat from the lower room before or about the commencement of achool to kill aomebody at that time. I carried it up into the auditorium, but during the session of Bunday-achool, took it from tb auditorium and carried it to the belfry. After the dose of achool I aarne down eLmra and opened the doora. Then I went up again at the time I Bent away the boya who were playing in the vestibule. After the boys had gone out, and I waa still in the vea tibuie, the little girl came up staire, and I induced her to go with me into the belfry. There 1 (-truck her with the club two or three timea, and she fell where the blood waa found. Then 1 picked bar up and carried the body to the place where it waa discovered." Piper's confession of the murder of Bridget Landregan, on Dec. 5, 1873, waa equally explicit. He waa under the influence of whisky and opium, and de liberately prepared a club to kill some one. He saw Bridget on the street, and followed close behind her. He aaya : "I struck her; immediately she fell down, and 1 struck her again. While 1 was stooping over the body I saw a man coming, ao I started uu and ran away. I got over the fence and went along to ward the railroad. While I was climb ing uu the bank at the railroad somebody called out to me, and 1 then turned back, took a roundabout course, and got borne. On the way home it occurred to me that I had a knife in my pocket which might be reoognixad in some man ner. and ao 1 threw it away." The Budget Lsmdregan case had long been wrapped in the deepest mystery. The girl was a domestic of good repute, and while returning to her mistress' house at about nine o'clock at night from a visit to some friend*, waa clubbed to death at a part of Dorchester known as Up ham's corner. Several persons were arrested on suspicion, Piper being one of them, hot sufficient evidence could uot tie obtained against any of the prisoners, and each was discharged soon after examination. It was for this murder that Thomas Cahill, who went soon after the murder to Ireland, was extradited and brought to this country by the detective*. He was a former sweetheart of tlie girl, but no case could be made against him, and be was discharged only to return to Ireland to lie murdered himself there. It is now almost certain that Piper was the assailant of Mary Tynan on July 1, 1874. lie confesses that be at tempted to kill her. Bbe was found one night in her bed insensible and horribly mangled. She was taken to the hospital and recovered.) ) She is now an inmate of a lunatic asylum. A lover of here named Colby was arrested for this as sault, but the girl refused to tell what she knew, and he was discharged. Piper says he waa prompted to the murder of Mabel Young and Bridget Landremn by the use of stimulants, under the influence of which be bad an insane desire to shed blood. The Boston Earning Herald ssvs : "There is s feeding sbroad among lawyers, detectives and the public gen ■ orally, that the contradictory statements now put out by Piper are the result of coo] reasoning on his part, and of such ingenuity as he is possessed of, in order to throw doubt upon his sanity in gen eral, or else to show that he has an un controllable mama for blood for whioh be is not responsible, and a change in his statement, either in the oonfeaaion of more murders, or the denial of all, would not at this moment astonish the community." In Ihe Olden Time. In the olden times, says a veteran, aU traveling was done by stage coaches. The mail coach wonld take a whole day, and sometimes more, to go fiom Balti more to Annapolis. Three days from Baltimore to Philadelphia was rather a qnick trip. There were inns at regular intervals along the road. Yon paid $lO for yonr passage, and you spent fully $lO more before you reached TOUT des tination for meals, lodging and inciden tals. Hupplies came into the city by immense mountain wagons. I have seen at the Marsh market two hundred of these tremendous wagons of a morning, none of your twopenny affairs, like they have now, but great big concerns, with canvas coverings, like houses on wheels. During the war of 1812 we were block nded and almost starved here in Balti more. We hadn't a manufactory of any kind. The manufacture of outton was started during the war. In my young days people were not only sociable bnt hsuest. Everybody knew everybody else. Yon could go to IMHI and leave your front door open with perfect security. It is not like it is now. We hail about half a doaen watch men in the city for show—Dutchmen who oonldu't understand a word you said and yon couldn't understand them. I have always taken a deep interest in politics. In 1800 I walked three miles to the polls and pulld off my hat to hurrah lor Thornm Jefferson. Romance In the Kitchen. The Napanee (Canada) Standard has this story : Miss Jennie Marshall, the fortunate heiress of $1,000,000, married the object of her affection, A. M. Brown, and started for England to olaim the Iwqnest The cause of her leaving Eng land was to avoid a hateful marriage, and. having come out here was content to live as a servant, rather than live in afflnenoe by bartering away her better nature. Mi. Browu was not aware of the possibility awaiting his inamorata, but that need not oanso all the yonng men of Napanee to "pile on the agony" in tho back kitchens on Sunday even ings, unless they are willing to take the cliauceß, which are abont one in ten thousand. Better " marry for love and work for money," as the ancient adage lias it By her marriage Mrs. Browu forfeits a part of her fortune. NUMBER 22. FLANTIJfti SHADE TREKS. Utto AlftM frm mm Baaert— Wbat ttlaS f Trw M IM. Mr. B. O. Northroo, the efficient sec retary of the board of education for Connecticut, has caused to be distrib uted among the schools of the State a circular suggesting tree planting along highways sod In the villages as a good oeuteunial move. Mr. Northrop speci fies in his circular the elm, maple, ash, white oak, and walnut, with the oondi tiona that the trees should be not lees than nine feet in height. This height ia undoubtedly requisite for street plant ing, but within incloeorws aad protected positions a smaller tree will serve; and, from the larger chance of securing good rootlets, will make, verv likely, a more vigorous growth than the larger ones. To the list we rbouid add, without hesitation, the American linden (or baas wood) as being cue at our finest shade trees—when planted npon rich alluvial soil For gravelly and dry soils the hard maple will prove the bast sub ject for transplanting. In moist, low ground, the elm and red maple are most desirable. The oak and walnut are very impatient of removal from-the forest; sinJ to a aertain degree, also, the ash. If taken from a nursery, however, where the tap root has been severed by such transplanting, all will thrive. It is a very common practice in re moval of maplea to out the top squarely off some una feet above ground—an amputation which the maple bears very well; but in such event one or two strong leading shoots am apt to start from the top, and, growing vary evenly in strength, expose the tree to great risk of splitting asunder si some future time. I This danger can be remedied by cutting away all bnt one leading shoot, which will after a time come to cover wholly the old place of excision. A single lead ing shoot, moreover, prevents that busby growth which is often urged ; against the sugar maple, aa giving too dense a shade. Mnplca should be planted at least thirty feet apart, and elms fifty W> sixty, for fair and fall development. Ia view of the difficulties attending the remov&l of the oak and walnut, we should not advise the boys to cope with these for roadside planting. The sixe requisite for such a poaitiou will involve a prun ing of limb* and roots that will almost certainly result in their dying. Smaller ones, however—of say an inch diameter at base—may with due care be estab lished near the homeatoad, and will prove a charming memorial of the cen tennial year. filM State* lirklarrj, The United States collodion of ma chinery in Machinery hall on the Cen tennial grounds ooeup.es, as might be expeeted, three times the area of the foreign, and ia a Lao in a more forward condition. To cite the machinery ia to make a catalogue. Of late yean the mating of special machines for limited, well defined duty has been carried to a great extent As in tbe division of wore among men, the machines hsve been so circumscribed in their range of duty that a piece at wood, as for a sash for instance, is cut cut planed, tenooed or mortised, as the case may be, each stage of advancement in a separate ma chine, so that the lumber goes in, aa one may say, at one door and cornea out at tbe opposite in its perfected condition, whatever it may be. Each article to be manufactured has its set of machines— sash, blinds, door, furniture of various kinds, wheels, tuba, casks, clotht spins, shoe pegs, brush backs, scythe snaths, handles of many kinds, are specially provided for, and in some cases whole factories are devoted to a special article. From the largi machines which deal with the framing timbers of bosses and railway oars to thoae which make the parts of pianos, there is a wide but well populated territory. From Sew Hamp shire to Illinois, from Michigan to the Ohio they oome, and within the limits mentioned, perhaps, there is s nearer equality in tbe representation of East and West than in any other department of the Exhibition. There is scarcely any heavy Western machinery for work ing in metal; an exception may bo made in favor of some shears and punches from Winconan; whereas in wood work ing the statement of tbe Wertern con tribution might be simply repeated to describe the Eastern. lae West sends machines for sawing, planing, matching, molding, paneling, joiuiog, mortising, ten on i tig, dovetailing, polishing of lum ber; so does tbe East. The various machines for working on the parts of wheels; the hubs, spokes, felloes sad rims, would make a long list in them selves. There are steam engines of various kinds and sixes from as many as thirty firms in New York, Pennsylvania. Mary laud, Ohio, lowa, Illinois, Vermont and Massachusetts, I *-sides those from Eng land. Scotland, Canada, Belgium Sweden aud Brazil. The printing machines of Hoe, Bullock, Campbell and Waiter are exhibited, and also presses from France. Machinery of every kind and description is to be seen here. 1 Shrewd Trick. An adroit swindle was perpetrated in Pari* the other day. A well dressed man, who jaaaed as I family emperor. It layout There la somebody I mset selebrsto ; Alcan tara, yon tra my clam' Hyrtsnesl old Top Knot, U abatl bo yo ■ Ob I I on woadof f®l 1 DttiNO 1 am from ttao wn of m, bstirred ttlo to> my boot taps. DttlM lb# boot Jotoo tbat owsabes through ray arUrtal rysUen. Aorta, aptoon. vsnaosra, probosota, red ablet and anapsaden. All severally divtaa. to* so tho Dokmi* married ; for MO tbo oartb. air, Ay, universe were oonMivod and purtnrtaiod; for mo tbo ptaatoainroa and tbo lAthyoaao rn, and tbo ornttborbynobao dloportod tbos aairaa tor tbo aorty dawn of tbo Silurian *** | for MO Heed tbo tooc line of bolty food foP lowa* tram ***•" aad Ooin ton to Uio daya of Andrew Jackson. I am tbo oatoona at ail tbaoo thing a. 1, swathed to glorlooa rod flannel, Uj foot troad oo oootinonU; my bo ad often UtoooTooloooao tbo angola. I, Walt, of Oamdoo, How Joraoy, am a ratbor big tblng! Hay yooflto aoof too/ Walt and nolo/ /Vdrof Rally onporor, yoo'ro bit tt protoooly 1 *ou an toothlooa, Inert, btltooa, yellow ao saffron, OMBorodo. Wby atog at you. yoa Infectious old poten tin. Wbon tboro to Watt to oolobrato In rtraoa. Watt, tho romarkabto K nemos To tbo onporor or any othor follow. o ' Items at Interest. Beggars are flocking to Philadelphia ; is crowds. Candidates fear the unknown man moat, whoever he may be. IWore arithmetic araa inn® ted people multiplied on the face of the earth. Peraona will reixein from evil apeak j tag when peraona will refrain from evil hearing. "I would not for any money," aaya Jean Paul Biobter, "have had money in my youth." Metro be, a converted thief, ia a very aueoaaafui revivaliato in the Mshratta eountry, India. The ability to make money ia a talent; the ability to keep it ia two ; the ability to uaeit wiaeij and well ia tea. There ia an artwaian mill in Prairie du China 717 feet deep, which yields 80,- 000 barrels of wader daily. At last the use of the graaaboppar ia determined. He to to be pulverised and aent to Paris tor fish bait * A BicUian waa found lying in a New Orleans street with a dagger driven to the hilt into his bead through one of his eyes. As soon as the novelty wears off a man never wakes s baby up for the purpose of bearing it langh. The " rinking " and "spelling bee " epidemic in England ia there called " the foot aad mouth disease." Whoop Dong and Chi Bing are drum ming op members for a secret society in California. Object: "Melissa man M. Q." A soldier twenty-<>nb and a half feet high and weighing thirty tons has gone to the Octennial. He was cut from Rhode Island granite quarry by a sculptor. A petition ia circulating in McKinney, Texas, and numerously signed, asking the Legislature to peas a law to punish horse thieves as follows; First offense, whipping post ; second, whipping and branding; third, hanging. Dr. Beaedikt, of Vienna, who has just eon eluded the examination of a number of brains taken from rabid dogs, to of the opinion that the poison remains latent for some timd in the brain, and eventually breaks out in certain parts of it Tbe grave in which Samuel Hanse was buried recently in Eldred, Pa., is still left open. His body at the funeral looked to some as though alive, and so, sa the local newspaper expresses it, they resolved to "give the ohl mans chance should he revive. A Syracuse exchange says; It is said that men are going about tbe country taking pictures of children in public schools at twenty-five cents apiece, ostensibly for exhibition st the Centen nial. Pay w> attention to these travel ing " artists," they are humbugs. A swindler advertised in the Boston newiggpsrt that he had money to loan on bond and mortgage, and informed applicants that they moat deposit a ram to pay for searching the title of their property. He saeorMte, large amount of money in same ranging from fire to twenty dollar*, and then fled. A bleat of one thousand keg* of pow der was recently fired in a mine in Ne vada county, California It loosened np reedT for washing about 3(10,000 cubic vard* of earth. The bank was over two hundred feet in height, and the mass was raised bodily four feet. The ex plosion was a complete success. There are in New York State 1.022 cheese factories. These factories stand for 450,900 cows, or 160,965,000 pounds of cheese, or quoting cheese at twelve cents per pound, for $19,315,800. Cheese manufactured in private diaries amounts to $3,219,900. Total cheese interest at the State, $22,535,100. It is figured ap by a newspaper- man that there will be eighty thousand articles on exhibiiion at Uie Centennial. Wherefore, if a person who visits the Centennial wishes to see every article, he must devote five hours a day for five months to the job, giving one-half min ute to the examination of each object. Two young gentlemen were discussing whether or not etiquette demands that a voung lady, upon parting at the gate or door, shall aak the young man to call again. "Oertainly it ia," urged one. " Oertainly it isn't." said the other. " I go to see a young lady who knows what politeness requires, and she never asks me to call again." Two drunken hunters m Nevada saw a Chinaman washing gold dust in a creek, and made a target of him with their rifles. One fired and missed. "You always ought to aim above the- mark wheh it's so far off," said the other. " See how Ido it." He was correct in his theory, and succeeded in his illustra tion. The Chinaman was struck and wounded. A traveler overtaking an old Presby terian minister, whose nag was much fatigued, quizzed the old gentleman upon his "turn ont." "A uice horse yours, doctor, verv valuable beast that —but what makes him wag his tail so, doctor f" " Why, as >ou have asked me I will tell you. It is for the same reason that your tongue wags so—a sort of natural weakness." When Chief Justice Holt, of England, who had been somewhat of a graceless scamp in his youth, recognized an old acquaintance in a prisoner brought be fore him, he cautiously questioned him as to what had become of his old com rades. He supposed that he was not recognised by the prisoner, but the re ply oonvinoed him to the contrary: "They arc all hanged, my lord, except you and L" An applicant for the position of teach er in the Aylmer (Canada) puMic schools Sens his application thusly : " Dear ir having seen yonr notice iu paper and as my schools Gives up on the 15th and weaohing to take another on yous will please oblige by Letting ine Know by Return mau As to my certificate i hold a Grammar school pas for ontaoto which is Equal to a first pins a pins certificate and Good Reference is needed. In the practice of turning card cor ners, the upper left hand oorner denotes " visits," and is used for an ordinary call; the upper right hand corner turned down means ••felicitation," and is for a visit of congratulations ; the lower left hand oorner, "conge," represents a fare well call, and the lower right hand cor ner, " condolence," expressing desire to sympathize with bereavement The rule most generally understood is the torning of one end of the card, which denotes a wish to see the ladiee .oj the family.