The Careless Word. ' IVas bat * word. a oorelss* word. As thistle down it seemed ss light; It paused s moment in the sir, Then onward winged its flight. Another tip caught np the word. And breathed it with s hearty stteer ; It gst tiered weight as on it sped. That can>lne word, in Its career Then rumor canght the flying wont. And bnsy gossip gave it weight. Until that Utile word became A vehicle of angry hate. And then another page of life With horning, scalding tears was hlnrred ; A toad of care was heavier made. Ite added weight, that careless wont. That careless word, oh ! how it scorched A feinting, bleeding, quivering heart' 'Twos like s hungry (Ire. that searched Through every tender, vital part. How wildly throbbed that aching heart ! Ileep agony its fountains stirred ; It calmed, bat hitter satiee maik The pathway of that careless word Two Yolces. A voice oame down from Uie far white hills. And crept like a thonght along ; The world woke up from its dream of anew To the sound of the Machine* song. A stray lost bird In the wind-blown sky, A stray lost flower by t'te snow ; And a wandering brvv k .w two set free To seek where the violet* grow. All fresh with tie hreslh of the mountain rises*, The song of the mountain rills. The voice sped on throvgh ibe city ways And over the sunlit hills. And still se it went the pulse of life With s dream of change beat high ; While over all the changeler* stars Burned on in the watchful sky. " The world te wide, and the labor am all. In the reach of all the crown ;* And over the hopee and Lhe Uright-winged dreams The sua of pnug went down. • see* 81ow and solemn from the forest Whence all my*terie# have btith. Speaking in the flow of rivers, Oame the eecor.d voice to earth. AU the world grew etill before it. Idle fell the toiling hand ; Ae the ml leaves of the maple Drifted brightly thrvugti the land. And the stream of hfe e< t deeper Through the channel of the year ; lhrwn among ite wrecks were ?iee|twg Many a hope and many a fear With the sun the turds went southward. Bright a ings glanc.ng m its teams ; Clowe beside, on viewless pinions. Fled an airy host of dreams. " Wide the world, ft* tabor endless. Farther off the distant crown." Over all the bruken vi-otss Slow the autumn son went dolrn. —AUat il. Pm-ry. THE PASSING CLOUD. " Do yon want me to get anything for yon iu town?" Andrew Thurston spoke ve. v calmly, and a chanoe visitor might have thought that he spoke kindly. He certainly spoke deferentially ; but his lips were compressed, and there were lines UJHIII his brow which were not usual. Ordi narily he would have said, as he drew on his gloves : " Now, my love, what can 1 get for von in town ?" and he would have spoken gaylv and frankly, with sprightliness and sparkle. For they had beeu married not a year yet, and only the day before Andrew had declared that they would never outlive their honeymoon. " Doilie," he had saiJ, with a kiss, "when we cease to love we shall have ceased to live; for life could be nothing without love." But now a olou 1 had come—very small at first—not bipger than a man a hand—but yet a cloud. Doilie had never complained of fatigue and weariness; and yet she was far from robust. On this particular morning she hail risen with an aching head ; bnt she did not tell of it. She did not smile as was her wont, and her husband asked her what was the matter. His question seemed to imply that her manner hat! fretted him—there was almost an accusation in it—and she replied, rather shortly : "Nothing." " But there most be something. What is it i" This, to the wife, rendered over-sus ceptible bj htr headache, seemed a dis puting of her word, and she answered : " I tell yon—nothing." " But, Dollie, yon wouldn't act so if there was nothing the matter." "Act how?" demanded the wife, flashing under this direct charge " What hare I done t" What could the hneak—to speak upon his liosom, where she could hide her face—but she dared not trust her voice now. She knew she would cry if she spoke, and she wonld not have her husband see her do thst if he were angry with her. Bat he did not come to her. He turned away withont another word and was gone. Andrew Thurston knew that his wife must have heard his question, und as she did not immediately answer, he al lowed his auger to express itself in a slam of the door as he went out. He pulle d on his gloves very vigorously and step| -d off with measured and majestic stnd- *. But not long so. The fresh morning sir fanned his brow with acool ing influence-, aud he begnn to think. He missed something. For the first time since ho had been married be was going away from home without nis wife's kiss. Surely a cloud had arisen upon the domestic horizon, aud some thing very much like a storm had come npou their peace. He was nnhsppy; and the more he meditated the more un happy he became. "Dollie was to blame," he said to him>* If. But this did not heal his wound. •• I may luivo l>en hasty," he ac knowledged, after farther reflection. •'But still," he assured himself, "ahe irritated mo." Thns he reached a point very far from soothing or satisfactory in its in fluence. He was forced to acknowledge that he bad allowed himself, in a mo ment of irritation, to apeak hastily and unkindly. When he entered the train lie took bis seat alone, in a far corner, and pulled his hat down over hia eyes. He did not wish to converse. When he reached his office he was moody and tacitu-u very unlike the Andrew Thurston whose wont it was to oome in with smiles and Cheerful salutation. A little thing it Vae, to be sure, but it gave him great pain. A mote is a tiny jmrti.'le, but it becomes a thing of pain ful moment when it is lodged in the eye; and the heart that is made tender with a devoted, living love is as sensible to motes as is the eya Hitherto, the car- FKED. KURTZ. Kditor and Proprietor. VOLUME IX. rent of Andrew's love had flowed on ut ! broken and untroubled, and this inana iug of otistruction hod produced a tin buieiuv as destructive of peace ami hsj piuesa, for the time, * tlieiigh the ver fountain of love itself hod been brokei up. An he sat alone in his office he picke< np a paper, and nought to overcome hi ! unhappy thoughts by reading. II eonhl not tlx lits utind upon the threa of a long article, iw he read the ahor paragraphs, and at length his eye catigh the followtug : j "Where there has been nifftunde! standing between two near ami dea , frier.da, resulting in mutual unhappi nees and regret, the one who lovve moot j and whose sense of right and duty i , strongest, will make the first advano j towards reconciliation." Andrew Thurstou droppad tlie jajn' 1 and rose hi his feet It was a* though i voice from heaven had spoken to him i "I do not love the most," he sotilo I quised; "but 1 am the strongest am ! should show my love by my works." He looked at bis watch. It was al most noon. It was not his custom t< • return home till cveuiug; but be coul. i not remain as bear the burden throuifl j the other hoars of the day. And h< ; marveled, and he pat on his hat am drew on liis gloves, how even the re solve to do this simple thing hod let tin i sunlight into his souL • • • • • Dollie Thurston, when she knew tha her husband had goue —Ink! gone with out a word or a kiss—had gone witbou giving her time to recover her strickei j senses—sunk down and wept; aud ii was a long time before she could clearli thiuk or reflect. She had been left olout oloue with pain and sorrow—and sin j was utterly miserable. Hhe blame] herself for not having called her bus band to her; and she blamed him foi not having come of his own accord. Tc her it seemed as though the death of joy had come. Hhe had never known suck misery before. By-and-bye, when sin could thiuk, she woudered if her has bond would smile upou her if she should offer him the first kiss, and speak the first word of love. She would try it. ll would be terrible if be should refuse her; but she could uot live so. The hours passed and the young wife sat like one disconsolate. She thought uot of lunch—she hod uo appetite. Hhe only thought, could the warm sunshine ever come again 1 Did her hnsbaud love her less thou she had thought ( There she sat, with pale cheeks and swollen eyes, when she heard the onter door opened, and a step in the hail. She started up to listen, thinking that, ivrbaps, her senses might have deceived ler, when the door of the sitting room was opened and her husband entered. His eyes filled with tears when he saw how pale and grief stricken his wife looked, and, with open arms, he moved toward her. " Del lie—my darling ! Don't let ns be unhappy any more ! He had been thinking on his way home what he should say when he met her ; and he had framed in his mind a speech of confession which he would make, but he forgot it all when he saw her, and hi* heart spoke as it would. The words burst from his lips lovingly, prayerfuUy, beseechingly : " Dollie ! my darling I Don't let as be unhappy any more!" She eame to bis bosom and twined her arms about his neck ; and for the kiss that was missed in the morning they took many now ; and they wept no more apart, bat wept together. Th.it was all. The cloud had passed and tbey experienced the exquisite thriU which all true hearts can feel when s wrong has been made right and when the warm joy beams drive away the dark shadows of sorrow and regret. It was a life lesson to them both, and they promised themselves that they would pay heed to its teachings. Fishing Fleet Destroyed. A iKsastrons accident is reported of the fleet of French fishing boots annual ly sent from the ports of the Normandy com! to the fishing grounds of Iceland'. This disaster will, undoubtedly,strength en the belief iu presages aud omens en tertaiued by the kind hearted aud cour ageous, but rather superotitouß, popula tion of the villages along the seashore of France. They will rememlier the ac client which occurred at Boulogne some mouth* ago, just on tho occasion of the sailing of the tw<> pioneer bouts of the fishing fleet. Most of the inhabitants were crowded upon a drawbridge to wit news at a nearer distance the soiling of the two vessels, hen suddenly the bridge gave way, and some persons were drowned. This was a Imd omen: and now we learn that the Emms, of Dun kirk, has been wrecked on Uie coast of Scotland. Besides, the crew reported that six other I'renab vessels engaged in the Ice land fishing trade have been lost, and it is feared that tins whole fl-< t has leea destroyed. We hoi* that this latter fact will not be confirmed; bnt it must be admitted that of late disaster-* to the Frerc-h fishing boats which h uve peri odically for the fishing grounds have lie come more freqnr-nt than formerly. The cause is to lie partially found in the fact that the French government has not known how to protect th-- rights of the French fishermen in the Newfoundland waters, aud those men, constantly trou bled in their fishing basiiie.is, ha v- been compelled, iu larger numbers than be fore, to go cruising on the more danger ous coasts of Iceland. Learning lo Swim. Aft the season for swimming in just at hand, it may l>e opportune to say that Captain Webb, who is on the topmost wave of his profession as a swimmer, thinks that the bent place to biwh a very young child to swim ui u large puddle in the saud at low tide. The child, like a puppy, will begin by puddling. If yon throw a cork into thh water, yon will see the pappy ran in np to hia depth and give a short bark, and the chances are, especially if there is a grown np dog that can swim to set him an example, that in a day or two he will take his plunge of his own accord, and very proud he will be of his tlrst success ; only here, agaiu, don't overdo it. As soon as the puppy has been in, walk away and call him, and ho will be more anxiona to go into the water another time. Now treat your child like your pappy. Entincc him to go in, and if yon can get some older child who can swim to go in with him, all the better ; but let the child do juat as he likes. Get two children to play at splashing one an other ; they will enjoy the fun, and gradually getting excited, will venture n deeper and deeper. Lapland Babies. Lapland mothers are not in the habit of staving at home with their babies. The Lapps are a very religious people, and take long journeys to hear their pastors. As soon as the fkmily arrives at the little wooden church, and the rein deer are seenred, the father shovels a snug little bed iu the snow, and tho mother wraps the baby in skins and de posits it therein. Then the father piles the snow around it, and the dog is st on guard, while the parents go decorously into Hie church. Often as many as thirty babies may be seen laid away in the mow about a church. THE CENTRE REPORTER. The Agricultural Building, Within the imniflßM Agriculture buildiug ou the CoutoaaiaT ground are exhibited all the nrooossra, mi chinery, and product* of the farui, th orchard, the garden, and the fisher front a score of uatiau*, and from th four quartern of the globe. Ou th whole, this department of the Kthibi lion may U< oouaiderod it* monk sinking and ori iual feature. There have beei gieat displays of oirt, manufacturer and machinery before, but never aucl an exhibition of industries that fee. the world. Two-thirds at leant of th door occupied bv United State exhibitors. Throe fourths of all tin uiaohiutM and sbowoanea were iu poni lion ou the opentug day. Something o the luxury and variety of taste in tie installation of exhibits, so prominent ii I the Main building, is to lot oeeu here many of the eases I wing of extreme ele gancw ; and in the arrangement of arti elea to attract attention there in oftei skill and taste shown that almost amouu to genms. Take for example the (Ron center fisheries exhibit In a tank fioa models of the fishing craft of 177(5 OIK those of 187t5 ; projecting into the wa ei in a /ae tttnile in miniature of the whar . of a century ago atui one of the whar of to-day, with men and women engage, in panning the fish, and on cue Hide oi the tank, ou shelves and frames, art shown all the implements, nets, etc. uae.l in securing the finny tribes. Tht long row of aquaria tsirderiug the east em wall of the building, coutaiuiug tht food fishes of lake, river, and sea, will repay careful inspection. Halt watej is brought daily from the ocean for tht murine fishes. Several States are pre paring admirable collective exhibits ol grain, grasses, and other farm products, but none except lowa have made much progress. The cotton exhibit is not a quarter no large as it ought to be. Of wool, there promises to lie ou excellent display when it is all in sbajie. Some coses are now up which show fleeces under glass, and have on their tope stuffed specimens oi sheep of the breed that furnished the wool—an admirable idea. The seeds men are of course on hand. Many of them deserve praise. There is a very fine exhibit of grain in the sheaf. A spacious area is closely packed with the cases of the tobacconists. Nearly all the lumbermen show odorous boards and huge sectious of tree trunks. The makers of fertilizer* are well represented, and, with a commendable regard for the olfactories of visitors, they provide air tight and smell tight cases for their articles. The show of native wiuee from Cali fornia, Ohio, and central New York is calculated to moke foreigners think that the problem: "Will the future American drink wiue 1" is already set tled. The extent of the industry will surprise nine tenths of our owu people if they wiirtake the trouble to look into its statistics. A brilliant show is made by the rival starch makers, who have secured places on the grand aisle. One has a gorgeous Moorish pavilion, and others are glorious iu gilt and glasv The manufacturers of wnat we Amen ions coll crackers, and the English name "biscuits," makes flue show, and no do the spice grinders—one firm display i'.ig its articles iu a twenty-feet-high m-xlej of its five story factory. Of hams, . r.:s, canned fruit* and vegetables, pn-muv. d meats, and a great variety f other Leu perishable food preparations, there are quantities and quantities. International inhibitions. International exhibitions daU from the y ar 1851, when the first .structure !-vr erected for an vxpoM'.iuu of the in dustries of all nations was opeurd in London on the first of May of that year. Previous to tins time the idea of one nation inviting others to a competitive exposition of it* products had not been entertained, or certainly not enoouraged. The dailv average number of visitors to the exht* ition at Soy dam dnriug the 141 days it remained open was 42,831 ; the gr.-ate-t number visiting it in one day was 109.915; the greatest number present at anv one time in the building was 112,224. Financially, the enterprise was Hutcessful Iwyond nil expectation. V balance remuint-d after oil expenses hail I wen paid of aliont nine hundred thousand dollars. The second British exhibition was held in 18(52. It was opened May 1, 18(52, and closed the fir-tt of November >( the same year. Of the 22,000 xhibi tors, 1,700 were native or colonial, and iho remainder foreign ; as in 1851 one half of the bnilding was reserved to Hug land and her vast colonies. The total number of visitors was 0,117,450. The first international exhibition bold in France was in 1855, and it was simply the xpansion of the national cxpoaitinnn which bad been held regularly since 1791. The last exhibition we have to con sider is that held at Vienna three years igo. Like the French it was a govern tneut enterprise. Misfortune seemed to attend it from the first. It was not nearly ready at the tune fixed for the opening ; the number of visitors fell far below what was expected, and a heavy fiuancial loss was the result The prizes to exhibitors were awarded on the eighteenth of August ; nine diplomas of honor were awarded the United States, liesiden a utimlter of medals. The exhi bition closed Nov. 1, on which day it was visited by 139,037 persons. The total number of visitors was reported at 7,254,000. Size of Countries. Groeoe is about the size of Vermont. Palestine is about one-fourth the size of New York. Hindustan is more than a hundred times as large as Palestine. The great desert of Africa lias nearly the pros nt dimensions of tho United States. The rod sea would reach from Wash ington to Colorado, and it is three times as wide as lake Ontario. The English channel is nearly as large as lake Superior, The Mediterranean, if placed across North America, wonld make sea naviga tion from San Diego to Baltimore. The Caspian sea would stretch from New York to St. Augustine, and as wide as from New York to Rooheater. Great Britain is about two thirds the size of Hindustan ; one-twelfth of China, mid < n<- twenty-fifth of tho United States. The gulf of Mexico is ahont ten times the size of lake Superior, and about as large as the sea of Kamschatka, bay of Bengal, Cliina sea, Okhotsk or Japan sea ; lake Ontario would go in each of them more th in fifty times. The following bodies of water are about the same size : German ocean, 1 Slack aea, Yellow sea ; Hudson bay is ratber large. The Baltic, Adriatic, Persian gull, and /Egeon aea, half as large, ami somewhat larger than lake Superior. _ CENTENNIAL BADGES. — The badge adopted by tho Centennial commission, worn by each of its members, is made of gold, and consists of an American eagle grasping iu its talons a horizontal bar, npon which are the letters U. 8. C. CJ. An escutcheon is suspended from the bar, and the badge is worn in the center of a blue silk ribbon, at the top of which is the name iu gilt letters of the btate to which the commissioner be longs, CENTRE HALL, CENT A IIAKBIMaKIt OF I'FAI'K. KdlltrUl Tttuuihia bv ibr (>. trMiilnl Kkblbllla~\UII ihr I.pmmn bf I f I Awn! tlx* ringing of boll., tin* thun ' der of cannon, tin* blare of trumpets, ; the military display of regiment* of sol- I diery And Ut* enthusiasm of a great city, i tin* IVlitenmal Exhibition vrw formally I o|n*ntxl by tlx* President of tin* Citltod SUU. All tin* high officers of tin* gov : runiont, tin* President ami hut cabinet, the Senate, House hik! supremo court, the foreign ministers, tin* governors of various States, took port ill the cere monies. Ami, an if to a terest iu this international fair. If the Centennial Kxhibition wen* | simply a show of waxes and fabric* it would be useful. Civilization becomes j more am! more a question of peace, and j peace is confirmed by nothing so much as tli.-ho comparisons o! national imtus : try and skill. lu the ol.leu times the | comity of nations was shown in the iu ' terctuuige of pnuoely visits, the retinue i of oue sovereign displaying its splendors jat the court of another. All that the j people saw of their neighbors was ou I oocasional |>ageant. Itiit iu our day* j the people, wlio are sovereigns, exchange these visit*. Instead of a royal meet ing on the Field of tlie Cloth of Hold, i where rival princes vied with each other j in tlie brilliancy of their trappings, in stead of a sumptuous carousal at Pomp i ton Court, or a tournament at White ! hall, wre have the artitiers of Kngland and Franc*, of Russia and Spain, unjr, even of far China and Japan, coining to the graceful palace on the woody Schuylkill banks to exchange rivalries, to show tnaukuid bow far they have fail ed or succetded iu the do veto pom Kit of ' civilization; for those men whose works I are now spread b*fore us in tin* Con ton - 1 nial Kxhibition are the true king a. To j tlieni we owe the comfort and re;>oae of i our daily existence. They have torn out j the depths of tlie earth, they have pierced the subtle mysteries of the skies, they have traced paths in the midst of the sea and over the menu tain summits; j they have put the universe under tlis cipliue, that we may live a wiser and gentler life. When we compare their achievements, which find expression iu a hundred 1 forms in the lift* of the humblest, with the glowing deeds which historians j record and which some foolish painter emblazons on canvas, how much higher they ore! We are not indulging illusious sa to this Kxhibition being "a harbinger ' of universal i**ne*." We wish it oould la*. The skill which built it, and which fashioned its million* of object*, may go out to iMitl** again, for lh< re are many questions, unhappily, awaiting i battle. But every such display is an other step to peace. These friendly con tests will determine new friendships uud I strengthen old once, and buid the j nations closer and closer together. Take, for instance, countries like Ja;*au and China, who are here in fervent competi- j tion with our own lalxirers, ami the fact is full of emphasis. Japan, which twenty years ago was only a gougraphi- ! oal i ame about which hovered (lark i memories of cruelty and superstition ] —Jajmi. f*r instance, which t. If the imagination ia strongly moved by trophies which tell of the glory of Sesostris and Alexander, by remnants of age* and races which j have failed from the memory of man, it { is no less impressed by Iht* freeh glory of countries like Australia and Canada ' and California, only vestordsv the borne of tbo savage and to day standing breast to breast with n* in all tin* essentials of a refined civilization. Which lesson will bo the most instructive to the phil osopher f That whieh he h*arns within the gloomy portals of tho khedive's palace, over which the brooding Sphinx nits in sad, questioning silence, or tlist which yonng Australia obtrudes upon him in the mountain of gold which tolls of her wealth, or the photographic pano rama which tolls of the wonders of her new world I For the Centennial Exhibi tion lias a high use in this, that within the four walls of its main palace we have every phase of civilization. It is the nineteenth century, with its post nnd the promises of its future. As the mind follows the flags of the great nations of Europe it recalls tlie hundred battles in whieh, even during onr centenary, they have wnved in vic tory and def*at—the hundred Imttles from Jemroapes to Sedan. Rut in spito of th*se dark memories hero, under the central towers of tho numi palace, they unite in friendship and peace. It was a liappv thought to bring together, iu the very heart of the Exhibition, England and France, Germany and tho United States. It seems only yesterday when two of these nations wore at sword*' points, and here, under the flag of America, they meet in peace. If we dnrod to indulge a romantic and un availing boi*e, which at all events is in keeping with the day, it i*t that the ties which bind the genius of theao mighty nations together to-day—which brings England and America, Germany and France into the friendly strife of indus try against industry—may never be broken, and that the prayer for peace which the reverend prelate offered at tho opening may bo blessed to one and to all.— New iurk Herald. The ttoTcrnment Clerk*. It is remarked of the female clerks in the Washington departments that they might set np au aristocracy of their own if they chone. Widows or daughters of army and navy officers of the highest raDk, daughters and granddaughters of former members of th" cabinet, aenatoia, supreme court justices and Presidents are to be found among them. The grand daughter of Thomas Jefferson has a clerkship. The danghter of Audrew Jackson Donaldson (tho adopted son of Androw Jackson) wss bom in tho White House and educated in Berliu, aud is now a clerk in the Post Office department. The daughter of Chief Justioo Taney is, or was, a clerk in some government but rean. aud so was the daughter of Robert J. Walker, formerly secretory of the treasury. These are bat a few instances where names might lie cited. A Stick of Oysters. But I have brought you hero to havo some oysters. Will you havo a stick, my tb-ars I Yes, a stick of oysters I In Fu-Chow the jiassing refreshment trade is supplied, not from cans aud kegs, but from a atick, a bamboo stick, upon which the oysters, all in their shells, are set fast. In fact, they grow UDQII this stick. At the proper time thcee bamboo rods are thrust down into the oyster beds; aud the baby -oyster s all babies always want something to hold by while they are growing, you know—attach themselves to these rods. When the oysters are mature, the rods are taken up and brought into market. A moot dainty and appetising way, I think.—Wide Awake. IE CO., PA., THUI TIIK DIMIOYKItY 01 AM FBI (A. Hhdr PrtvUat !• ibui f | |irU llrr 4 •iMhibua, The chapter of pre-Columbian voy ages iu Wiii, C. Bryant's new history of the Hinted HUteH is new and interest iug. The suthora trace the legendary history of viiyage* to America by the Welsh, the Norsemen and the Chinese. " We have devoted these earlier chap ters," say the authors, "to periods whn h, in previous histories of the Uni ted Htatos and of America, have either had no place at all or have l>ecu dis missed iu s jisgt'oi a paragraph. Should it ever lie poMiihle to penetrate the mys tery and darkness which shrouded one half the world almost ns completely as if it hud lieeu another planet, from the tune of it* creation to u thousand years after Jesus Christ, such an addition to human knowledge would be of iuesti limbic value ai. tl intense interest. Mod ern science lias uuly begun to read this story of races and of civilization that long since disappeared, leaving uo otber rtxxml than those relies which till re cently have lie'U either overl>okeil or misunderstood. " What point in time or what degree of knowledge may be thus reached by future discoveries and deductions from them in s field as yet but little explored it would be rush to hazard even a guess. But it is well to know what ground there is for presuming that it is {tossible to learn suything of that prehistoric pe riod. And still more in actual his tory, even though its records be olsv-nre and mi|>erfect, or only traditions re duced to writing; even though the pe riod of which we can gain only snch im perfect information be, in some resjxvta, legendary and romantic, we may, uever tbelees, profitably and properly go fur ther back thou tha ordinary starting point bv five hundred years. " Hitherto the legitimate (ximmeuce menl of American history lias been held to be toward the end o'f the fifteenth century, and all tieyund fabulous or in *erutabic. But there were l*ld men and skillful sailors before t'oiumbas. Ever sinoe men sailed npou the sea or po* s.->ised a liU-ratnrt) there have been gliui|*es, sometimes transient or iilu sory, at other timt a distinct, of a tnys tart OU. world in the Western ocean, the subjtvt of curiou. conjecture, of vague prophecy, .ud oftener, |>erh.|M,' nan is < suppo.v-,1 of atti inptixl discovery. ' Though there was no j-crnianeul ia-cu- i lation and no jH>-itive rtniognition of - this as a new quarter of the globe till i tho Cidnmbian era, the real or suppjaed ' apprisichtvi t > it* pt*<-H.ion for Utc 500 j p.evious years np]>cal a* much hu man sympathy and are it* jwrtment to humau progress as tlie mythical period, of the histories nations of the old world. "From discoveries made without de sign and in ignorance of their r.-sl char acter we are lot, m the gradual progress of event* and the slow advance of knowledge, to that later time when the ocean was traversi-d with s distinct and intelligent purjMw and with anhesiUt ing faith. The Northmen, the Welsh, the Venetian*—assuming their narrative* to be wholly or partiaiiy true —while they were certain that they hod sailed into unknown sea*, aud were east upon as si T UTI i* autl tUu:gr> jirvjili* beyond the accredited limit* of Uie in lisbitcd world, also believed, no doubi, that they had only reached the further shares of the outlying islands whence they came. The notions as to the shape and the extent of the earth were at tlmt period so vague, even among the learn ed, am! the art of navigation was so lit tle developed, that thy was uot much *|>eculntiou a* to the possibility of pcue- Iratiug U-yund the known limit* of the continent and oat of the aocnstonnxl tracks of slop*. All that mariner* dared to do was to creep along the coast from headland to headland, with a fair wind, to go to places frequently visited." The authors are of tie opinion thai "Columbus, like the navigator* of Prince Henry, meant to find a new route to the Fast, only iu a fresh direction; and he died in the belief, after four voy age-- to the new world, that theoouutries he had readied were literally the West Indie*—the coasts of Asia approached from the west. Th** difference lietweeu him and those who by chance crossed the Atlantic liefore him was, that lie, impelled by a fervid religious faith and by conclusions drawn from scientific study, hod boldly sought to explore the unknown on which tliey hail only been igncranlly driven." Ilod for tlie Farmers. Potato bngs are ravaging Long I aland farmers' hot bed*. Duties, the parent* of the potato bugs, that had slept in the beds All winter, awoke on the appear anoe of spring, and settled on thin ten der growth abont them. They laid their egg* on the softest leaves. From the egg* were hatehed potato bngs, and thej begun to devour the leaves on which they were hatched. Taking the reporter to hi* hot tied*, wherein were egg plants, a Flatbnsh farmer uprooted a plant, whose leaves were pierced and withered, and peppered with bngs, and said : " Bee how lively they are ! The potato bog eats a farmer ont of house and home, until it gets to be a perfect beetle. Then it dives into the earth, and stays nine days, probably getting ready to lay. When ready, the beetle comes ont of his hole, And lights upon the youngest plants. On them it lays eggs, and then bobs away. Last June the (tootles came ujHtn us, and caused thousands of dollars' loss by breeding upon the plants in the hothouses. I had egg plants enough to yield two hun dred pounds of seed, that 1 was to sell to s Philadelphia seedsmau for SBOO ; but the potato bngs ate all but S4O worth. They couldn't hurt the potato shoots, Itecause they were sbont a foot high. The beetles hung around all snmmer, crawling and jumping in the sun, and in the fall burrowed in the earth. Farm; era are setting out onlv half as much potatoes as usual, ans are terribly afraid. In plowing, wo turn up lots of beetles. The grouud is full of them, and as soon as real warm weather comes they will begin to hatch."— Sew York •Sun. A Murderer Baptized. Burr Beggarly, the Tennessee mur derer, was iiaptized iu the jail yard. The officiating minister said it was a solemn occasion. The man had resolved that tho brief remainder of his life would be spent in trying t" undo tho sinfnl life of the past. The hymn, " Alas, aud did my Savior bl id I" was given out, and jn*t as the setting of the sun threw the jail yard into shadow, Burr stopped into the |.o] that had been provided, and was baptized. Imme diately after coming out of tho water, Beggarly began shouting with fervor. He exclaimed: "Oh, if you want to liud me when I am dead, come up; don't go down there. This body has got to lie hung, and the worms will eat the flesh, but they eau't hurt my soul. Thank Go i I've found him, and I ain't afraid of death now." AN AnvEiiriaiNo LAWYKK.—Tho law yers of Ireland are iudiguant at a bar rister who advertises in the newspapers. Tho ancient etiquette of the legal as of the medical profession is to starve rather than publish one's business in the same oolnmn with announcements of dry goods and grooeriea. 81) AY. JUNE 8, 187(>. The Horticultural Department. The grounds of the Horticultural de iMtrtuitiul of the Exhibition embrace forty acre., in the midst of which i Horticultural hall. The wall, embrace an area of ueariy two oity acres, each of '2OO feet square. The ground, are laid out in walk., 1 sir dors, miniature lawns, flower boil, and ornamental gardening. Tho space allotted to exhibitors ami occupied is a trifle over eight acres. The walks, roods aud passageways are substantially mode, mostly paved with asphalt, aud collectively they reach a distance of two miiea. lloth foreign aud domestic exhibitors present large dis plays of flowers, plants, forest and orna mental tree, among which are choice new species front China and Japan. In some special line. England is excelling all others. France, Germany, Nether lands and Cuba are well represented. The decorative ground embrace, a parterre or sunken garden, so planted as | to .bow oorjiet, bedding, ribbou aud geometric gardening. Here all kind, of j bulb, suited to the season are in bloom, j others are to bloom in the future, and ! ; the vast extent of this plauting is to be gathered from the statement that their ; uumber is over 5,000. A* a part of the decoration are to be seen fountains, statues, kiosks, summer booses, rustic seats, dumps of evergreens and all such ; adornment*, place I with due regard to the rules of landsostie gardening, aud as such are worthy of study by amateurs and professionals. The hall itands on an artificial eleva tion, ornamented by artistic terraces which are reached by flights of marble steps. At a distance the chief object connected with the ball aud being s | art of it are the glass oonorrvstories on the sides. The structure is divided into several dejisrtmeuts for the exhibitor*. The architecture is iu the Moresque style, of the twelfth century, and the ' principal materials are iron and gloss. On the north and south sides are the conservatories, four in number, each 30 xIOO feet, The beating is done hi hot j water in a most effective manner, and one which will attract great attention from those interested in heating aiqiaratu* for propagating purposes. The main hall is 80x230, ornamented by a handsome marble fountain, sur rounded by choice tropical plant*, and near by is a grove of oranges and lemous, loaded with ripe fruit, intermingled with statuary and works of terra-ootta i and porcelain. Prominent citisens of Philadelphia have contributed largely from their houses of rare ikl choice plants, as have also the joint library committee of Congress and the Agri cultural de|iartm<*uL The number of exhibitors occupying the grounds enriouK ; the deer's tongue, with young haves grow ing out of old ones ; theoeououiA fuuxus, from Africa, a sugar plant ; draco na, a rare decorative plant, blood red ; Dutch pipe plant, which is gorgeous ; a maranthnm, from the Amazon river, sel dom seen ; Livingstone palm, from Africa; Maiden lons hair feru. N < ar the north entraiiou are spoctuieua of oof fee, tea and auger plants. On the gmnnds is s large collect ion of roses from Paris, uotiible from the fact that manv varieties are budded on single stocks of the native wild rose of Europe. It is said that the French will be likely to excel all other nations iu rosea. JU no great di tanoe is s large plauting of American tea roses, now coming into bloom, and all old and new sorts are presented. Americ* will make the best show it is able to make. A Warning to Country Girls. A young girl named Il< ttie Hall left the town of Sayres, Pennsylvania, to oome to New York city in seam* of em ployment. In tbo cars she was accosted bv a strange man, who inquired her name, where nlie had oome from and whither she was going. The man introduced her to two fash ionably dressed young girls, by whom ho was acconi|>aniod, and soou ingrati ated himself into her confidence. He invited her, on their arrival at Jersey City, to come to his house, whore he said she might lisve a home until she had procured employment. Tho women who accompanied him pressed her to accept the invitation, and her money being nearly exhausted, Bhe finally con sented. Tho party tlion proceeded to Groone street, and shortly after the nnfortnuato girl discovered that aha had Ixvn en ticed to a house of proatitntion. She requested permission to leave, bat tho mail ordered tbo doora to bo locked aud threatened, with an oath, to break her head if aho attempted to oaoape. Hho waa forced into anbmiaaiou and mined. Bbo wu closely watcliod by tho man and hi* wife, tho proprietors of the establishment. A boat eleven o'clook at night, while coming down stairs, she noticed the hall door standing open, and, notwithstanding the ctoldness of the the night, rnshed out into the street iu her acauty attire, determined to effect her escape." The attention of an officer was attracts by her short skirts and tin sel. Hh. rushed wildly from one side of the street to the other, aud he arrest ed her. At the station house she told the aliovo story to the captain. Hettie, who is an interesting looking young girl aliout eighteen years old, was taken to a police court, where the justice, after hearing her pitiful narrative, issued wsrrauto for the arrest of every inmate of the house. The officers arrested the man, his wife, Kix girls, two oolored cooks aud one man. The prisoners were arraigned lief ere n justice, who at once begun a thorough investigation. A Business llule. A personal friend of tho late A. T. Stewart says that he once remarked to that gentleman : " Mr. Stewart, I have ofteu wondored what will become of your great mercantile interests when you pass away, for uo one who has the means to carry on such a business would invest it in dry goods in these days." "Oh," said he, "my business does not depend on any one man; it depends upon a principle—to buy aa cheap as I can, and to sell as cheap aa I can. The rest takes care of itaelf." TERMS: 82.00 a Year, in Advance. Fashion Notes. There is a marked effort to popularise gilt embroidery and bnud, but as yet It is seen only on the new bouse jackets. A decided novelty in summer dresses is furuished in thoseuutuposed of Indian cambric, with the front* checked and the harks striped. iiuuneU of coarse straw, known e* " peasant's straw," are fashionable. The long Haxoti glove, without but tons, are adopted for demi-tutlet. Knitted silk purses are again revived. For summer, fine thread gloves, either ecru or white. Hmall cheek, and stripe, rule this season iu aiLk and woolen, as well a* in cotton goods. Nothing has been introduced to take the place of the almost indispensable block suit m> long worn for street pur poor*. Hubiria is the name of a new model for a close fitting gwbrielle style of pol onaise. Rolled gold jewelry is every year more extensively patronised. Jackets, cut by pattern ont of the tiiece lace, now made in close imitation of real lace, are largely taking tlie place of the woolen ones, as they are uot only lea. expensive, but can be fitted to the figure with greater precision than the ready made ones. Novslties in ornament are offered in white coral, carved couch shell, and in smooth oval pebble stones of dark slate color. New veil, are Men made of ecru, net, with chenille dot*. The shapes of the bonnet* are rather .mailer than list year. Morning wrapper* are now made of cream colored aaahmere, trimmed with cream woolen lace and aardinal red rib bons. Muslins will be confined to house wear entirely, and for the country in July and August. The block grenadine# checked with gold and silver threads find but few pur chasers. A desire for matching is observable in all the details of the toilet. Ladies who can afford it have a hat, parasol, gloves, stockings, etc., to match each suit. Iu silks there are a great variety of tissues this spring. The Parisian, whatever ber station, never ha* a huge number of toilet* at one tune, which account* for ber always being dressed in the fashion. Home of the new bonne - * look like evening caps or headdresses, as they are composed of a garland of flowers and of a ruche of lace. It is the fashion at the present time for ladies to paint or etch menn and guest cards fur their dinner parties. Polouaisss, partly of black cashmere and partly of black silk, are mostly readily sold, as black promises to re main the dress for the street. Now that all the booflisat effect in draperv is produced lower down on the skirt, long, slender bustles that slope larger as they dcaoend instead of pro jecting suddenly below the waist are worn. White silk, richly rvppcd, is largely used fot wedding dreu*. French hand made lingerie, a fashion jouiiiol says, is largely imported this nca*ou, both iu simple, inexpensive gar ment* and also those very elaborately trimmed. Thus it is possible to buy for $2.25 a nightdreM of French percale of liglit quality made up by band, witli cluster* of tiuy tucks iu the yoke, and neatly stitched collar and cuffs. This thin jsTcsle loses it* sloxiness after lie iug washed—the goods are imported un hinudried—and is quite heavy enough for sleeping gowns. By adding a little of the Smyrna linen lace now coming into fashion for trimming under clothing, this is made into s very nretty garment. For $2.90 ore heavy Ma.la jH llam gowns for winter use. The pri ces incri'seo upward to sl2 or sls for elaborately tnnimcd gowns, with three rows of embroidery separated by clus ters of tucks extending the whole length of the front. Yoke gowns are still preferred. A neat fashion is that of laving the yoke fullness in three box plait* in front, with three similar plaits iu the back, like the plaited waists ones so popular. Those are sold in nice American muslin, with s nest ruffle of Hamburg work around the neck and wrist*, for $1.75. With domostie muslins at their pres ent low prices, expert needlewomen can emuiy supply themselves with on abund nee of underclothing. The beau tiful light muslin known as Frait of the Loom now sells for nine or ten cents a viird, while the heaviqf Wamsutt* and New York Mills cost bat twelve and one half cents a yard. *' Looking for a Job." When Arthur Wayne swung around in front of the desk and remarked that ho was looking for a job, tho justice re plied : "That's too old and it's too late. You might have put in such ou excuse a month ago, but 1 can't receive it now. The grass is np and growing, the honey bet* is kiting around, and the music of the hand organ makes the song of the morning lark dwindle to a single note, ttpriug is here. Arthur Wayne, glorious, big Injun spring. The vagrant season hits closed. Whips sail up and down, red-painted rooking chairs may la* seen ou the ferry hosts again, and I'll put you behind tlie l*ars for a chronic loafer." •'Will von put me in prison f" asked the offender. •' I will." •* Will yon let mo get a drink first f" •'No, air." •* May 1 send oat and bay a bo logna f" •• No, sir." " May I borrow some tobacco of some one f" •• No, sir." " May 1 go to the post-office f" •• No, air." •'Will you send me up for three months f" ••I will." "That's more like it—l knew I'd earrv my point," growled the prisoner, aud he meekly sat down en a plug hat which some one had let! in the corridor. An Exciting Experience, Mill river, above the tipper dam, at Leeds, Mass., was the theater of an ex citing scene, in which Joseph Bbeam, su|x>rii:tcudcut of the silk mill, was the leading actor. He was in a boat teach ing his eight-year old boy to row, when he discovered that his little girl of three Jears, who hail Won sitting iu the stern, ail disappeared. He at ouco dived into the with r, and, snatching the child, swam to.the shore, although encumbered by an " overcoat and rubber boots. Arriving at the bonk, ho was compelled at onoo to drop the girl, throw ofT extra clothing and swim after the boat, which was drifting toward the dam. Seeing that he was not gaining on it, he called to two men coming down the railroad track to save the boy. This they wcie able to do by the boat's drifting within reach of the shore. By thi - time the father, who was in the middle of the river, was taken with cramp and would doubtless have perished but for the timely discovery of an upright stake, to whioh he olung until rescued by the meu who had secured the boat ana boy. NUMBER 23. THE tEMTENNUI EXHIBITION. I Tkr H MSerawl !Hiilrr Hall-Tko Ursat Virion at Its AIIEIMIMM. Machinery hail ia 1,860 feet long and I 860 feet wide; it covers about fourteen acres, and ooat *642.800. On i nu ring the edifice at the western end th<* sight is picturesque sod irupree I sive. Almost every aort of machine in ; < sistcucn, from a looumotivo to s paper j folder, is io active operation. The per ; sous employed to work them are now fairly started in their tasks, and the | prospect of aht mouths in the building ! seems to make them fed at borne. Tin i central object of interest is the msgnifl j oeut engine, which furnishes the motive | power for ail the machinery that is not •elf propelling. It consists of an im mense fly wheel, thirty feet in diam eter, two fact in thickness, and fifty tons in weight, caused to revolve at the rate of thirty -six revolutions a minute by the piston rods of two cylinders; and ao si lently does it perform its work thateveu : when close beaide it yon can bear the lowest tones of your companion's voice, j Below it is the main abaft, which by gear wheels six feet in diameter eon nects with eight lines of shafting, each j 635 feet long, running lengthwise under the roof, and communicating their mo tion by leather belts to the various ms obinery on the floor. This machinery is of the meet inge nious sud various description, and con sists of apparatus used in milling; in working metal, wood and atone; in spin ning, weaving, felting and paper mak- : ing; in sewing and the manufacture of clothing and ornamental objects; in typo setting, printing, stamping, emUswuig, book making and paper working; in producing and tranamitting power; in ' pumping, hoisting and lifting by by- 1 draulic and pneumatic torn*; in manu facturing locomotives aud railway roll 1 ing stock; in preparing agricultural im plements; snd in aerial, pneaaiatic and 11 water transportation. While saunter ing I along the aiales uue oau wiinsaa the pro- < ocas of rock drilling, of well and shaft I boring, of coal cutting, of electroplat ing, of planing, sawing, veneering, 1 grooving, mortising, tonguing, cutting, 1 molding, stamping and carving; of j drilling, slotting, turning, punching and coming; of dressing, shaping and pol ishing; of rolling iron, grinding glass, casting metals, and riveting, nailing, [( bolting and tacking Uiem by steam ; of manufacturing silk, cotton, woolen and ; linen goods, rope and twine, paper and felting, india rubber goods, mixed fab rice and wire doth; of preparing and , working leather, watches, , and pipes for smoking; of printing, em- i, bossing snd lithographing, type oasitng , and sun- typing, bookbinding and pa per folding; of generating power by { boilers, water wheels, hydraulic rams, Ktoam, air. gas and electro magnetic en- ] gioea, aud of transmitting it by shaft ing, belting, cables, gearing and screw propellers; of lifting and moving liquids and solids, and moving and oomprea* ' ing air or gas; of extinguishing firs and osoapiug from it; of manufacturing soda ' water, bottling it, and corking the bot : ' ties; of diving for the recovery of sunken ! treasure*; of matinfaotaring looomo j lings and snow plows, wheels, tares, axles, and springs, switches, torn tables and water crunra, great railways and bone oars; of grinding jpi*. nfln ing sugar, making candy, preparing to bacco, oil, spices and fancy goods, and brewing beer and diKtilling liquors; of boikling nupensnt bridges, transport ing cables, sending luallooa boats and wuling T essoin, and dually of transport ing telegraph cables snd railway brains, snd of steering and propelling ship* and steamboat*. Indeed, it is not too much to HST that an extraordinary lifetime might be spent in examining the appar atuK, the processes snd the result* pre sented in Machinery hall. The vast structure, with the exception, perhaps, of some of the persons who are visiting it, does not contain s single object not interesting or instructive. The Government Batiding. The building devoted to the exhibits of the United States government ia more nearly complete in its features than any other on the Centennial ground*. And the display 1* a much more creditable one than could have been ex pected. A prominen' feature in it is a branch of the Philadelphia post-office, wherein are received and aent regular mails with the precision which ha* made oar ;*ostal service the most effi cient in the world. Near bv, machinery in full working order, for Hie manufac ture of envelopea, attracts all passers. It is worked by a woman, and the en velopes there 'made bearing a Centen nial memento in one corner, are sold at the post office window. The department of agriculture makes a "good showing of the products of the country. The pa tent office and the Smithsonian Insti tute contributes an amount of curiosi ties which would set liarnuot up in the museum business again. The ord nance departmentexhibita, in addition to cannon, guns and ammunition of all kinds and calibers, the machinery with which they are made, and hen* may be witnessed the process of making gnu stock*, rilling gun barrels, and the manufacture of metallic cartridges. Near by, a group of wax figures exhibit the various styles of uniform* worn by onr soldiers since the daya of '76. borne elaborate work by government engi neer* is exhibited by tbst department. Among those is s perfect model of the nuder rock-and water operations of General Newton at Hell Gate. From a glance id this, one can get a complete idea of how he intenda to blow up the the bottom of the East river. The ex plosion in Jersey City the other day was but a side show to what General Newton's circus promises to be. One of the very interesting features in this building is the exhibition of lighthouses, in practical working order and by models, by the lighthouse board. The signal bureau has also on exhibition the machinery and parapher nalia pertaining to its peculiar service. Onr national fish commissioners also make a very interesting exhibit of fishes peculiar to our lakes and rivers, to gether with the various contrivances with which they are captured. There is also a splendid collection of sea mam malia, including staffed walrus, seals, sea lions, casts of whales, etc. In short, the exhibit in the government building gives a very fair glimpse of the scien tific experiments, investigations and re search made by the government for the information and protection of our peo ple. The English Navy. A Parliamentary return of " the reli gious persuasions of the royal navy, and also of the royal marinec," states that of the seamen, 22,816 belong to the Church of England, 1,150 are Presbyterians, 2,675 belong to the other Protestant de nominations, and 3,866 are Roman Catholics. " Jack Tar "is a stout Con servative. The religions classification of the marines is as foliows: Church of Eagland, 2,545; Presbyterians, 462; other Protestants, 1,295; Roman Catho lics, 986. The return also gives the number of chaplains employed on Her Majesty's ships, with their pay and al lowances, and a list of ministers of every denomination employed in the home ports, on foreign stations and among the coastguard man. Tbt Mysterim. OOM cm mr mttim'a brsaal, a AHIM. I WSJ*. linidiitg m teeath | Tb*o, af and *m), lay atmdtaiag and wpt At (A* dark mytMry of daatb. WM7 and Mk and won with *ll uarvH, •pent with tho strife Oli. mother, let at waap eper thy brew-i At Un and mystery of Ufa f - W. V. BowriU. Item of latere**. A oomd aaata heraalf in * church pew in NNB motion* j • man with one. Over lift,ooo,ooo are Invested in var ious enterprises of the grangers in the j United Mates. - A Pennsylvania man own* * farm in which be oau fell a tree m that it will i lie in three counties. Think alt yon eaa of the good quali ties of others: ferret and seep concerning their bed qoaJiUtsi.; What place I* ao ragged and ao homely that there te no beauty If yon only hare a sensibility to beaaty ? Never trust him who flies into a pas sion oa being donned, tint make him | my quickly if there is any virtue tn the Of the 85,000 dead-bead tickets issued to the Oentenniai, 54,000, will go to ootn mon people and the other thousand to editor*. A Mexican girl living at Tncaoola has three wall developed arms. She can do up her hair without cramming her mouth full of hairpins. • Lots of able-bodied young ladies whose parents haven't got a spoonfnl of horse radish in the house am out all day hunt ing fur trailing arbutus. The weariest and most loathed worldly life that age, ache, penury and imprison ment ma lay on nature is a paradise to what we fear of death. The drees coat has been called the swallow tail, the steel pen, the claw hammer, the spike tail and the nib, and now it la called the tack raiser. A young lady who bad no time to spare feu- making garment* for the poor has been engaged three weeks embroid ering a bla ket for her poodle dog. The Chinamen of Gold Hill. Nevada, are petitioning the authorities for a poli tic school, in which they and their chil dren may leant the English language. That was a good Detroit buy who told hi* father that if he would buy him a pony be would let him have the use of it when it waa too rainy for good boysto be out. Topic : Geological discussion. Prin cipal—"Was it colder or warmer a hun dred years ago then at present I" Pupil (honestly)—"l really don't reooliect, air." True courage ia cool and calm. The bravest man have the least of a bullying, brutal insolence, and in the very ti uie of danger ate found the moat serene and free. Ban Franmseo has adjourned her schools for want of mooev. The chil dren now go around throwing atones at heathen Chinese to their nearta' eon tent. " Ah, doctor, I'm out again ; let ma thank you my dear fellow." Doctor— -44 Bat,' nonsense, I never came to see you while you wew iIL" " Wall, that's why I'm thanking you." A teacher asked una of the little boys in her school : *' Where does the ran rise f ' Great was har astonishment aa the little fellow, with a wise look, answered : 44 In Boston, ma'am." With a sigh of relief we announce the (act that during the past week no candi date for the Presidency has been accus ed of murder, forgery, burglary, or ar son. Them is life in the old land yet. Sterne says in his Koran : I t ever drink—l cannot do it on equal terms with other*. It coats them only one day, bot me three ; the first in sinning, the ascend in suffering and the third in pen ting aniuEow church by teducifig hi* salary to (£2OO pr yaw, bat be look, the motion kindly and replied: ** Why, I lived through last jew on $75 in cash and a A from Michigan has beeu a drk in government warrior in Washing ton for the hurt sixteen years, and be brags that be baa had to change bis po liUcai and religious views bet two ban died and eight times. Qod baa fixed npon the earth two gate* which lead to heaven. He has Elaord them at Hie two extremities of fe ; one at ita beginning, the other at its end. The find ia that of innocenoe, the second that of repentance. Discarded ulsters make exoelient wraps for parlor stoves daring the rammer of retirement to the woodshed. The Lifter, poker, shovel and other small at tachment* can be put in the pockets, and the hood may be drawn over the nrn. A little neglect may breed a great mis chief ; for want if a nail the shoe was lost; few want of a shoe the horee was lost; and for want a borae the rider was lost, being overtaken and slum by the enemy; all for wast of a little care abont a horseshoe nail. A poor Frenchman, whose wife aroused him from sleep with a cry : " Get np. Baptists, there is a robber in the boose !** answered sensibly : " Don't molest him ; let him explore the house awhile, and if he should find anything of value we will take if away from him. ' At a recent Western baby show the ladies arranged all the wee morsels side by side, covered their fsees, and re quested the fathers to pick out their own. One proud parent came forward and grabbed s pair of kicking little feet. One foot belonged to a girl, the other to a boy. The clarionet is not a solo instrument. By an advertisement in a Belgian paper it is shown what it must accompany: Wanted, in a mirror factory, a little clarionet player, who would be able to act is second leader, conduct at the piano, drive the car of the firm, and take a hand in the oat-door affair*. Dealers in trees assert that experi enced men buy small, thrifty trqes, while thoee who are just starting are anxious for the largest ones to be had. Thoee who are to set trees the coming season will do well to learn from the ex perience of thoee who, at considerable lose to themselves, have demonstrated that m*n frees are the ones to buy. The iron prow of the old steamer Now Jersey is lying at the Pennsylvania rail road "company's yard at Perth Amboy, N. J., and is to be sent to the Centennial exhibition in a few days. When she first came from England ahe was known as the B, H. Stevens, but was recharter ed as the New Jersey. She was the first steam veeael that crossed the Atlantic, and no smaller steam vessel has crossed it np to this day. Says the Ogdensborg Journal: Some men have a great propensity to trade. An honeet fanner of a neighboring town paid us for four years' subscription and stopped his paper, because wo would not trade the amount, while he could get cash for his butter and eggs any where on the street. In lees than aweek after he commenced to trade with a pat ent right man and is ont 6750. Moral: Don't stop your paper. The following statement of the cost of the " big gnus " of Europe is from the London Engineer ; The eighty-one ton gun has oosi $75,000, and ttio price named for the " Newcastle infauts," of one hundred tons, for the Italian navy, is $120,000 each. The cost of the Krupp monster will be $150,000 or more. The latter will send a ball weighing abont 2,300' through the air. It costs $125 every time time the eighty-one ton gun is fired. Mrs. Livermore thinks women should be allowed to vote, because, aa she says in the course of a logical argument : " When the Roman Marius was victori ous, the Norse men and women besought him to protect their virtue ; but he said: 'To-morrow von shall be given up to my soldiers.' That night the mothers submitted to their daughters thp alter native— 1 Death or dishonor t' and be fore morning they had all met death at their own hands."