Wishes.
I would 1 might approach the*
A* the moon draw* near tha olonA,
With BtiU and statelv oonrtsav,
Claar ayad and volamn broirad .
But whan thair meeting ivimon, bar fao*
In hi* deep bread doth hide,
Tha heaven* *ra * ill. in aolamn Joy
Tha world ia glorified.
1 Would I might ap<iroaah tie*
A* mnmo. ewift * float.
Nnryriee*. arith it* vnddan Joy,
A wandarar in a boat ;
Tli a aordid wall* of lifa fall down
Bafora that clarion clear,
A paawng rapture. oft recalled.
Whan day* grow blank and drear
1 wonM 1 might approach thee
A* braaaaa. fraah and pnra,
Unsighted, breathe on fevered lipa,
A lid throbbing temple* enra ;
Afioy and lore, and liealthftil hoj^a,
Tint noma choeeu heart
And enter. softly welcome there.
And.never mora depart.
Tom.
Yea. Tom'a tha beet fallow that ever you knew.
Jnat liatan to thi* :
When the old mill took fire, and the flooring
fell through.
And 1 with it, halpleee, there, fnll in my new.
What do you think tny eye* eaw through the
Are,
That crept along, crept a ong, nigher and
nig bar.
But Bobtn, my baby boy. langbing to *ae
Tha ahimag ? He muat hare come there after
ma,
Toddled alone from the cottage without
Any one'* mieatng htm. Then what a about -
Oh! how I ahouted: "For llaaran'a aake.
man.
bare title Robin !*' Again and again
They tr.ed. but tha Are bald them back like a
wall.
I could hear them go at it, and at it. and call
" Never mind. baby. *ti *ull ltka a man.
We're coming to get you aa fast as we cian."
They could not see him. but I could, he eat
Still on a beam, hia little straw bat
Carefully placed by bis aides and hi* eras
blared at the Same with a baby's urpnee.
Calm and unraneciou*. as nearer it crept.
The roar of the Are above moat have kept
The sound of his mother's voice shrieking his
name
From reaching the child. But I beard il. It
came
The axes went faster. I saw the sparks fly
Where the mac. worked like tigers, nor nun led
the heat
That scorched them-when, suddenly there a;
their feet
The great beams leaned in—they saw him
then, crash,
Down came the wail! The men made a dash—
Jumped to get out of the way—and 1 thought
" All's up with poor little Robin." end brought
Slowly the arm that was least hurt to hide
The sight of the child there, when swift at my
my aide
Some one rushed by and went right through
the flame
Straight as a dan—caught the child—and then
came
Back with him—choking and crying, bat
saved 1
Saved safe and sound '
Oh. how the men raved.
Shouted, and cried, and hurrahed! Then
they all
Boshed at the work again, lest the back wrall
Where I was lying, aaay from the Are,
Should fali in and bury me.
Oh, you'd admire
To see Robin cow, he's as bright as a dime.
Deep in some m.s.-hief, too, most of the time ;
Tom. it was saved him. Now, lan tit true
Tom's the beet fellow that ever you knew *
There's Ho bin now —see, he's strong as a log—
And there comes Tom, tot
Yes, Tom was our dog.
Consul ho Frutisnrf irooison.
HORATIO'S FIFFY CENTS.
Farmer Brown was a very respectable
man. He bad some oddities*, but they
were harmless ot.es, and people who
knew him best rather laughed at them
than feared them.
The farmer bad two sons, Marcos, a
good, steady boy, who worked with his
father on the farm, and Horatio, who
was jnst home from college, and was
considered "handsome" and "smart"
by all the neighbors.
Mrs Brown had been dead some years,
and her sister, Miss ErminetU Griggs,
better known as "Aunt Ermy," was
housekeeper and general manager of all
the " men-folks " on the farm.
Aunt Ermy was a very industrious
woman, both with her hands and with
her tongue, and could do more and
Ray more in a given time than any other
woman in the village of Tusrulum. She
knew it, and was proud of her " gift."
As she was also a woman who always
knew •' what was what," and could give
it to you in a nutshell, her opinion of
the family was of course }H?rfectly relia
ble, as well as pithy ar d concise.
"You see, Horatio is smart, but he's
lazy. Here he's been t' home 'most two
months, and heie he is, n-adin', and
fisbin', and huntin'; that's what 'Rati<r
does. And brother aint very patient,
and naterally he don't like that kind of
doin's. He's awful disappointed, and
gets angry at 'ltatio ; bat 'Ratio takes
it as cool as a cowcomber, and brother
get* angrier and angrier, and things
aint as they'd orter to lie. Now look at
Marcus ; be aint perticular handsome to
look at, but ' handsome is as handsome
does.' That's what I say I"
And what she said was true. Marcus
was very " handsome" in all his doings,
and Horatio was, indeed, very lazy.
When his father asked bim what he in
tend* <1 to do with all his learning,
Horatio would look very wise for a little
while, and answer :
"I really don't kDow, father. * I
haven't d'-cided yet. lam studying na
tare just now."
Then be would bike his gun or his
fishing line and saunter away, as if
nature had an appointment with him,
and he had just recollected it. And Mr.
Brown went back to his work, trrnta
bling to himself, and sometimes it made
him j-etulant even with Aunt Ermy and
with Marcus, who had done nothing
wrong.
Things were bad enough in the sum
mer. but in the autumn something hap
pened which made them still worse.
One bright, cool morning, when Horatio
was on his way to the woods to kill
part idgrs, he saw a gr at cloud of dust
rising from the middle of the road, and
oomit g rapidly towards him. Then he
saw a r*d cow, and the next instaut, in
the th'cki st of the dust behind, he saw
a girl holding fast to the cow's tail, and
running with all her might
" Why, that's Guzena Hartman," he
said to himself. Then he paid alond :
" Z-i a, what are yon doing ?"
" I am having a ride I" she answered,
laughing merrily, and showing all her
little teeth as she flew out of sight
But Horatio could not forget her.
Gazema's red rhc-eks, her flashing eyes,
h* r curly brown hair flying in the wind,
were liefore him all day, and saved the
lives of many little birds.
" How she has grown, and how bright
and pretty she is! 'Having a ride,'
inde< .11 How handsome she would look
in a fine carriage !" And he had a great
man) other thoughts on the same inter
esting subject.
After supper he asked his father:
"What is Hartinan doing now? Does
he get on well with his little farm ?"
" I don't know," answered Mr.
Brown, gruffly. " I have enough to do
minding my own business. I don't med
dle with other people's."
Horatio did not make any reply; but
as he had no business of bis own to
mind, he thought he would " meddle "
just a little. " Hartman is a worthy
man if he is a Dutchman, and it would
please him to be noticed in a friendly
way. People ought to be kind to each
otlicr in this hard world 1"
The very next morning Horatio took
the trouble to go to Hartman's farm, to
be kind to his neighbor. Gazena was
not visible, but Gazena's father, short
and stout, stood at the gate, smoking his
pipe.
"Good-morning," said Horatio, kind
lv. " How do you do ?"
""Do pretty well," answered the
farmer.
" Fine morning," said Horatio.
KKED. KITRTZ. Kditor and Proprietor.
VOLUME IX.
Mr. Hartman looked round to see how
fine the morning was, but he reserved
his opiuiou.
" 1 hope Mm. Hartman is well."
"Yes, yen, pretty well," answered her
husband. " She's very biasey. Wears
all very bissey. And now Igo to vork
in mine field. Ooot-day."
A few days afterward the young man
went again to the little farm and pre
settled some birds to Gaaeua's father.
" 1 ahot them myself," he exolaiued.
"So! t uefer kill to lcedle ptrds,"
said Mr. Hartman, regretfully.
Then Horatio kindly offered to carry
them into the house.
"Neiu, uein, 1 do .lat miueself," said
the farmer. " Mine vife, ahe's very,
very biasey always She rants no
strange peoples rout d. Our place is
not a pig one, and 1 ilk. * to lif by mine
self."
Horatio understood tliat delicate hint,
and retired politely. Ue was provoked,
but he did not tell his noighK>r so. The
father of such a daughter must be hu
mored if he was hluut.
As for G ozena herself, Horatio could
not understaml her at all. When she
happened to meet him, she gave a lit
tle nod, s shy look, and a merry smile,
but she uever spoke to hun, or stopped
long enough for him to sjveak to her
more than a monosyllable or two. She
always seemed to be in a great hurry
" very biasey," as her father said.
At last, one evening, he met her at
one of the ueighKtrs, and insisted upou
walking home with her. And as he was
not sure that he would ever have such a
good chance again, he decided to make
the most of it.
" I have Ken trying to sjxwtk to you
for the last five months," he said.
" Why Jo yon run away from me so f"
"Oil, I don't know; it's such fun!"
answered Gssena, laughing.
" It's not fun to me," said Horatio.
"It makes me feel very unhappy. Do
you dislike me f"
" No, I don't care anything aK>at
you. It's only the fun," said Gazena,
too frankly.
" But won't you feel sorry for me, and
try to like me f" asked Horatio.
" Like you!" she said. " What do
you want me to like you for I"
" Because—because—you know you
will like somebody sometime, and get
marned "
"No, never I" interrupted Galena.
" I don't want to get married. 1 am
going to lie a nun, and work on the
farm."
" No, you won't," said Horatio.
" You will get married, and—aud 1 want
you to marry me."
Gazeu.t stopped suddenly, looked up
at him with flashing ryen. " You are
a bad boy ! Don't yon know you
shouldn't talk so to me ?" she said, hot
ly and fast. Then she ran away and
left him alone on the road.
Soma owl must hare heard this con
versation, and told the story, for Annt
Ermy said to Mr. Brown the next even
ing : "So we're goin'to have a weddin".
I s'pose they'll have to come and live
here."
" Who is coming to live here?"
" Why, haven't you heard ? "Ratio
has proposal to 'Zeua Hartmau. Of
course she'll have him."
Farmer Brown was so angry at first
that he could not speak. But he got
over that in a few minutes, and spoke
his mind pretty freely to his sou. " 1
won't have it! "he said. " You sba'u't
bring a Dutch girl into this bouse where
you mother has lived—not while 1
live!"
" Who said I would ?" said Horatio,
quietly enough; and he too was very
angry and disgusted with everybody,
Galena included.
When Mr. Hartman heard the story,
it mate him laugh, and he only said :
"Vat? Gif mine daughter to von lazy
man ? Not mooch!"
Garena did not langh at all. She cried
every night when she was safe in her
bed. " Oh, what bad people they are !"
she mid. " i wish I could get a chance
of speaking my mind to somebody !"
She hail her wish. One afternoon she
met Farmer Brown an he was going to
his fields. They were alone on the road
and he spoke first.
"Look here, my girl, yon had better
be careful what yon do. You are not
wanted at my house. You understand?"
Gazens's face turned ml, then white,
bnt she answered bravely : " Farnn r
Brown, I aiLt your girl, so yon needn't
call me so. And I don't want to live
with proud folks, and work for my has
band. We are as good an yon be, my
father is!"
And away she ran.
Farmer Brown wan so surprised at
this speech that insb-ad of going to his
fields, he went home and went to bed,
declaring that he was Gek and should
die. That was away he bad. It was
one of his oddities.
When he was more than ordinarily
troubled aWut his affair", he always
thought he was going to die. Some
times he made a few last remarks, then
took a dose of rhubarb, ami then—the
next morning be was an well as ever.
80, when Aunt Ermy called out :
"Come iu quick, boys! Your father
thinks he is dyin'!" the boys went into
the house without hurrying very much.
They had seen the ir father in the same
condition la-fore.
The scene was quite impressivo. Mr.
Brown lay on his lied, dressed in his
Sunday clothes, his head propped up
on several pillows.
"CJome here, boys," ho said, in a
weak voice. "lara going to die for
good this time, and I want to speak to
yon."
The boys stood by the bed, and Aunt
Army sat down near the patient, who
spoke thus:
"Ermy, you have been a good sister
to me, and it is my wish that you should
stay here till yon die. Yon ib-ar, Mar
cos? Take good care of her. The
bouse is yours, my sou, and the land ;
the whole farm i* yours, Is-eause you
have been a good and dutiful son.
Horatio, oome hero. I haven't much to
say to yon. Here are fifty cents. Go
and buy a rope to bang yourself with."
Horatio took the fifty cents with very
faint thanks. If he had any doubts be
fore, he was certain now that his father
was not going to die. He did not even
stay to see. He put on his hat and
marched out of doors in a transport of
mingled wrath and mortification.
Alone in the open air, he begnn to
plan what he should do. He would go
to a large city, and become a great
preacher, a great lawyer, a great "
"No, I won t," he said, stopping sud
denly. " I will stay here and work. I
will lie a great farmer, and marry Gaze
na Hartman! Then we shall see who
will buy a rope and hang himself 1 Ahal
I will keep that filty cents for good
luck " (taking ont the coin and holding
it up in his fingers). " There, that's
settled."
He went back to the honse and to his
room, slept a few hours, got up very
early, made a bundle of his clothes,
and left the house before any oue was
awake.
At broad daylight Farmer Brown got
up, well and strong as ever -of course.
But it was some time before he discov
ered that his son was gone.
The next day the whole village of
Tusculnm was all a-buzz with great
news. 'Ratio Brown bad left his father's
house and had gone and hired himself
for a year to Mr. Maynard, of West
Farm I Wasn't it queer < Aud how long
would it last ?
It lasted a whole year, to begin with.
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
Then it was said that Farmer Maynard
found 11.'ratio ao handy tliat he had
hired him for another vear, and |*aid
him gtnxl wages, all of which was true.
During the first and even the secoud
vear Horatio was not once seen in Tus
cutum. But one bright day, when Mr.
Hartman was enjoying his after dinner
pipe, surrounded bv liis women folks,
there was a knock at the door tliat
startled Oazoita.
"Ooom in," said Mr. Hartman. And
Horatio came in.
Oa&ena blushed rosy red. Mrs. Hart
man stared, and her hustiand took the
pi|te out of his mouth. But ticfore he
had time to speak, Horatio said:
" Mr. Uartmau, 1 have oome to see
vou on business. 1 have worked hard
for two years, and am now a pretty god
farmer. 1 have saved all mv wages, and
Knight forty acres of wotslland and a
yoke of oxen. Now I have a plan for
making money out of my trees, and by
next year 1 intend to buy forty acres
more and make more money. If I sue
c:>ed, will you give me your daughter—
if she is willing t"
'• Now look %hat a good boy I" said
Mr*. Hartman. " He works hard two
years, and no mother, nor no home, aud
he says nothing, but is good and true
all by himself. Now 1 like that; tliat's
very good. 1 take him. and you take
him, father, and our 'Zona, she take
him, too. She looked htm two years
past when he go away, and she cry so to
break her heart, 1 kuowed it then. Now
you take him, father."
Two such loug Hjteoohcs overpowered
Mr. Hartman. lie " took" Horatio^
Then Mrs. Hartuiau remeinliered that
her chickens hail not yet had their din
ner, and Horatio was left alone with Ga
zena and his dozing new papa. Gaseua
ha<l not said a word all this time, and
had triisl to Took as it she was some
where else, very far away. How she
felt, was what Horatio wanted to know,
for he did not much admire this Dutch
way of courting. So he turned to the
young lady, and said : " Gazena. will
yon come out on the porch with me I"
Gazena got up obediently aud went
to the poicb, but she looked down at
some tin pans that were drying ill the
sun, as if they were novel objects, and
both new aud interesting.
Horatio Ux>k courage, and said what
he htul to say as well as he could say it :
then he waited for Gazeua's answer.
" I will do as father and mother say,"
she answered; "but there's one thing :
1 have never Ken ugaged before, and 1
don't want to be engaged now. So, if
you don't mind, I'll be a nun, as I stud
1 would, till—till"—
Horatio did not miud, and was quite
willing to let her lie a nun one year
longer. It was decided that he wonld
come every other Sunday to set* his litt
tie nuu, and that it was all to be a secret
in the family.
" Because," said Gazena, "I don't
want people to talk alout it, and look
at me as if they had never seen me be
fore. "
Horatio was very happy, and worked
harder than ever. He cut down his
tree*, and burned the timl>er to make
" black salts," which he sold at a good
price iu the city. With that money he
bought forty more acres of woodland,
an 1, early in the spring, he sowed
wheat on his cleared laud. Then he
hi ed from Farmer Maynard a small
cottage, with orchard and garden to
matcn. It was quite a pretty little
place.
" It will do very well to begin with,"
said Horatio, " ami in two or thr<>e
years we will build a house just as we
want it."
" Yes, indeed," said Mrs. Hartman,
"you begin small UJ yon grow lug, but
you begiti big ami you grow .small; ex
eept Tou 1< very rich, and it is not
everybody who can."
But now something was the matter
vr itli Oaxena. She did not look as happy
ts might have been exj>eoted. No, she
did not object to the cottage; it was
large enongh for her. Yes, she was will
ing to give up Wing a nun, and June
was a very pretty month to be married
in. But—
" I will tell yon what it is," she said,
one evening, to Horatio. " I was sancy
to your father onoe, ami I am sorry for
it, though it was the truth I told him.
I don't want to live with proud folks to
l-ok down on me; but I don't like to
marry a man that hasn't any father,
when his father is living."
" Yon mean that you want mo to
make it up with my father?"
" Yes, 1 mean just that. Now please
go and tell him, and make peaoe—that
will bring nn happiness. It will W so
right and nice 1"
Horatio promised that he would go,
and he weut the next afternoon.
It was more than three years sinoe he
had left his home. He had sometimes
seen his father riding past the West
Farm, but they hail never met face to
face, or spoken to each other.
" Let him alone," Farmer Brown had
said to Aunt Ermy, when she had pro
posed to go and see Horatio. " Let
aim alone, and don't bother."
But when the wedding was talked
aWnt, Annt Ermy could restrain her
self no longer. " Marcus, I suppose
you have heard that your brother is go
ing to IM married ?" she said, one day
after dinner, addressing her nephew,
but intending her speech really for her
brother-iu law.
"Well," said Mr. Brown, "what of
it? It don't hnrt us any, does it?"
"No, but—yon see be has taken that
Gaxena."
"Of course lie has. Why shouldn't
he? She is the pluckiest little girl I
ever saw !" and Farmer Brown begun to
laugh.
Suddenly, while he was laughing, the
kitchen door opened, and Horatio walk
ed in. They stared at him for a mo
ment; then he said :
" Well, father, how nlmtit that fifty
cents
"All right!" answered his father. " I
never got so much out of fifty cents in
all my life I"
"I declare!" said Aunt Ermy, advanc
ing upon Horatio with open arms. Thus
peace was made and sealed.
The Brown Hartman wedding was the
event of that summer. Every body in
Tusculum rememls-rs it to this day, and
says there never was a handsomer bride
groom nor a prettier bndo.
Gnzena really looked very pretty —
"beantifnl"—Horatio said. And Mr.
Hartman gave her away as if he knew
that it is not every father who has such
a daughter to give away.
After a substantial dinner at the
honso of the bridegroom's father, the
newly married pair took a short wedding
trip as far as their little cottage, whi?h
Farmer Brown nail Ismglit and present
ed to his daughter Gazena.
Banger Signals,
On some of tho French railway lines
an arrangement for giving danger no
tice is in vogue as follows: The signal
man when ho turns the disk sends an
electric current in tho direction of the
oo ning train to a bar placed between
th i rails, and when tho engine reaches
tue spot, a metal brush placed between
the wheels sweeps the crossbar, the cur
rent passes to the engine, and, by
means of an electro magnet, presses
upon a lever which opens the steam
whistle, thus making it virtually auto
matic. From its simplicity, this ar
rangement is regarded as preferable to
most, at least, of the other devioes for
this purpose.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1870.
FORCED LA lit) It IX EG* FT.
Rait Plrtare el Ibr %%* the !*aor t*ri>le
bullri .
The Egyptian Fellaheen and the JKHT
generally are liable to force 1 labor
first, at the public works, such as rati
ways, the repair of dykes, the making of
canals, the construction of bridges; and
secondly, on the estsbvi and at the
sugar manufactories of the khedive.
For the first of these the |K<ople receive
no payment, and keep themselves; for
the second ttiey keep themselves for
fifty days, and afterward occasionally re
ceive a few dry, gritty rusks a day, and
a small nomiual payment, which, how
ever, in uiauy instances, and especially
iu remote place*, is either altogether
withheld or paid only iu part. 1 have
the word of the Kurojteati sii|>enuteii
dent of one of the largest of the kite
dive's sugar works that no payment has
been made during his term of office, a
period of several years, to any of the
jHHU'Ie employed.
W hat takes place is this : Some huu
drtxls of hands are wanted at one of
tlie khedive's estates or works. Ail
order is issued. A steamer with sol
diers on In mid is sent up the Nile, tow
iug several huge ttargesof iron or wood,
tt anchors opposite a town or village,
and soon hundreds of men, boys and
girls, many of tender age, are seen hur
rying and lieing driven down to the
river bonk, clutching such small bags of
tiread or fragments of rusk as tlicy can
collect in haste, and accomj>auied bv
their parents, friends, wiv-s and chil
dren. who rend the air with their shrill
screams and lamentations, for tlu-y well
know that many a dear face will never
be secu again. Neither tlie only sons of
widows nor of blind and aged jiarents,
nor the fathers of helpless infants are
spared. The despot requires them —the
bastinado and the prison are the cost of
refusal.
The whole crowd are rapidly swept
into the larg< s, where, without regard
to age or Mi, they are packed together
like herrings ill a lsurrrl. The steamer
and the bargee then start with their liv
ing freight, many of whom will never
return to their home* from the dietant
sugar or cotton estate to which they are
conveyed. During the process of t 1 eir
being driven on board and during the
voyage no more account of the oecu
pants of the barges is taken than of
wild hearts. Arrived at tlie scene of
their labors, an incessant grind of toil
ensues. There is no Friday rest, no mo
ment's s[>ace allowed for recreation.
Both sexes lalH>r under the eye of task
masters armed with stick*, whips, kotio
latshes, wtiicli ure freely and needlessly
applied to the often naked and at all
events only oue-shtrted backs of those
poor " free " laborer*. 1 have myself
seen little, tender, emacisbs! girls stag
geriug under heavy hud* of earth, who
have been lashed each time they ascend
ed the high bank at which tin y were at
work, and even prodded in the naked
breast* with sharji paltnsticks. 1 have
seen them sinkiug upon the earth, hunt
ing under their loads
No sort of shelter is provided for
these unfortunates, though the nights
of au Egyptian winter can Is* very
ix>ld, and a single shirt is their only gar
ment. Many have uot even this. Ou
the tilthy floor of the sugar factory, or
ou tin* bare stubbly ground of the cane
field, where they cease working, there
they lie down to take their scanty rest,
and are succeeded on the instant by
other gangs awakened to relieve them.
Thus night and day the work goes on
without intermission, and the ISM crew
of servile Europetii speculator* and
the cringing parasites of the little Egyp
tian court who prey ujtotl the klledive,
and the consuls general who love to
sp<wk smooth things, and (look's tour
ists, and the r**j>orti-rs of the English
" dailii**," lift up their hands in fulsome
admiration, and proclaim to the world
tliat so many more |*nind of sugar have
been produced in Egypt in this than in
the previous years. These people for
get to pnx'hum also how much blood- -
and that human blood- ha* been ex
pended iu its refinement and elabora
tion !
An English friend visiting ono of the
khedive's sugar factories a few days ago,
observed a man at work loaded with im
mense iron chains. On inquiring the
reason, ho was informed that the jxxir
wretch had boon detect -d sticking a few
inches of sugar cane, and wan according
ly condemned t<i work in chains for live
days and nights without sleep, and with
out leing allowed to stop to eat.— h\rr<
nightly lievino.
Cenlcnu'al Traveling Sulla
What shall we wear to the Centennial?
is the query of numerous correspondent*.
The suit for the journey to and from
Philadelphia is more especially the ob
ject of inquiry, as the dress worn in the
Centennial buildings will naturally lx>
just what the wearer would use at home
on semi-dross occasions—costumes of
wool and Rtlk, or all silk, or, as the sum
mer advances, of batiste or gronadiue.
At present ladies do not undertake a
journey of any length without a travel
ing clonk, and this cloak is so large and
so completely protects and conceals
everything beneath it that the traveling
dress has come to tie an item of aocond
ary interest. These cloaks are made at
present of light cloth, serge or water
proof, while for the summer they will
l>o fashioned of linen and of a heavy
Ijonisine (twilled silk) of English manu
facture, as light and sujierior of its kind
as is the English waterproof. The
shnpes are loose Ulsters, or else cape
cloaks, or circulars with hoods. They
oost from sl2 to $24. They are
abundantly supplied with jKiekets, are
trimmed with substantial braids, having
strong ivory buttons, and may lie looped
in various ways to shorten them into
very nice looking overdresst* when
necessary. Vague indistinct plaids of
dark hrown, gruv and maroon are the
colors most use*). Tho garments with
sleeves are preferred for traveling cloaks,
as it is necessary to nse the arms often
in traveling, and circulars without arm
hole* confine the arms in a clumsy way.
Tho round hat and long scarf veil are
bought w>th referenoo to tho color of tho
eloak.
AH for the dress tienoath the cloak, it
in no well protected that ladies who do
not wish to carry much luggage venture
to wear one of their l>est Hinln, Hticli an a
black nilk continue, or any other fabric
that will endure crushing and look
fresh afterward for general wear. Above
all otherH the thin, light, wool nrmnres
and do begin, either plain or striped,
trimmed with muuy rows of wool braid,
are commended for service at any thne
during the nix montha of the Exposi
tion. These should lie made up in n
light and simple manner, such as a
Hoiteuse polonaise, for Philadelphia in
a warm city, ami light clothing will bo
desirable. The skirts of such dresses
should be short, or cine arranged so
that they can tie easily shortened to clear
the ground when walking. Batiste and
gingham suits will tie made in the same
compact fashion to wear at midsummer.
OtrroF DEBT. —Asa Scotch officer wis
handing a summons to a oollier, he said :
" It's a curious thing that ye haud mo
comin' to ye see often ; can ye no get o'
debt f" "Getonto* debt, Mr. Turubill ?"
said the knight of the black diamonds ;
"'deed it takes a' my time and wit to
get into't. 1 am astonished how ony
body can Lao leisure to warstle out of it."
IX Till: MAIX Itni.BIXH.
Nir* iroM Ihr Nrifllt •( a I • rr*ioti4ki
aw Ihr
Mexico not yet lieiug tu order, *n
pushed ou to the Netherlands, where
our attention was ikton attracted by a
native spinning wheel for oottou, taiKlela
of • dwelling boose, and thatched farm
house, sample* of WIMxl, • raised UlSp
for the blind at Amsterdam, and a uitxlel
fating house. Our would hardly have
looked for dissected cattle; vet there lay
ltoforr tin a lit mm* of a oow who had died
of the plague, the windpipe of a aeooud
viotim to the name poet, a gullet, tlngh,
etc. A pyramid of sulphate of ammo
nia, yeliH'ijKHleß ami pi;e were worth
looking at.
Hto JANHI HO
diaplayed ourioun hamwtx-ks aud a fae
nniitr of crown jewelry, while Brazil,
with it* case of bright turtle aud insects
of every hue, many of them net an
jewels, neemed to say : " lniok at tin,"
auti we did long enough to obnerve a
breastpin aud earrings made of throe
humming birds' hi ads.
BE DO II'M.
The red, yellow and black flag tloutetl
over its treasures, aud conspicuous ou
euteriug itn com part men t wan a case of
rags and waste pa|H<r. Jt at whet shall
we nay alnuit itn Brussels laoc, whoae
splendors would have ravished a society
telle. It far exceeds iu beauty all my
expectation*. A beequif ami overnkirt
tlinplayed over yellow nilk, which color,
by tlie way, did uot allow itn rtchnena to
advantage, was of exquisite fineness;
parasol and cushion covers, flouncing
half a vtird iu depth, made one'n eyes
water; even the likeuean of the queen of
llelgium wan surrounded with a wreath of
lace flowers of great beauty. A traveler
declare d that in Brussels itself he had
seen no exhibition of laoo that equaled
this.
SWITZERLAND,
1 fancied, could hardly surprise us with
model cottages, yet u large farmhouse,
with an apiary attached, and the whole
affair a musical box, was quite novel.
It also made a flue display of machine
embroidery in silk lace imitation. Two
large maps, one a geological and the
other a topographical surrey, would in
terest the scientist and engineer but a
large ebony cabinet, richly paint* d,c >uld
l>e (letter npprec ated by the minority.
I expected to lie quite llllpreKStsl with
the dimensions of tlie Mam building, as
it covers twenty acres, and in in aiae
1,880 fix-t l>v 4<4, but on the contrary
found myself quit*- prepared for it.
r liases.
I hastened to examine the rolie* from
the liue ile Bivoli, and any passionate
lover of dree* could be quite satisfied
with a white silk and tulle toilette having
a train de]iendmg from the shoulders at
the Imok, and reselling -well, not quite
an far an from Calais to Dover. But at
any rate the mortal who dounvd it would
need a small salon to herself, and re
quire no l'alx-1 to nay "I'ix-t off," ami no
richly embroidered too. The display of
rugs was noticeable, one e>|xx-ially,
representing a skating scene. The black
lace was very fine, and we should have
lingered over the white had we not just
stejijHxl out of Belgium.
OUUT BRITAIN
next claimed our nttentiou, and we ex
claimed at the lx-auty of a carveil oak
chest ma<le from the oak l>eatus of Salis
bury cathedral. At litis point m the
building two spiral staircases mviU- a*
pirtng spirits to a bird's eye view of the
scene outside. But instead of ascending
tlu-ae we entered a tajxistried room
labal •• Boyai Sehool of Art Maadle
work," and noticed a fire screen wrought
by the Princce* Christina. A dumb
waiter was a black In-ar standing on its
hind legs aud holding a salver lietween
its forepaws. In a case of embroidered
Usikmarks the most conspicuous was
the badge of the " Ancient Order of
Foreeters," reminding one with its
archery scene of bold Robin Hood.
INDIA.
Shut your eyes aud on o|x-ning them
you find yourself transported to India,
ami before yon lies a case in sculpture
from the tomb of Anaravati. lint we
are weary and linngry ; let ns pass
through the hall and wend onr way to a
building on the right, iuvitingly called
" Department of Public Comfort,"
where wo will find rest and refreshment,
comfortable sofas and chairs, toilet
apparatus, hot coffee and eatables. But
then
EOTPT
is just here, and thst case of embroider
ed trappings is so gorgeous we forget
fstigue and enter the department. Aud
such a table cover we will not soon see
again. Beside these stands the bust
of Pharaoh Baniases ll.—and we al
most shudder at the crocodile fourteen
feet in length, lyinfj ontstretolled, even
if it is stuffed. We cannot stop for s
I view of Cairo, for just here is on em
hroiderod undershirt, velvet jscket, and
other articles from the 1 uizanr of Cairo.
SWEDEN
has stationed so many generals around
its compartment we almost fear to enter;
but thou they are only waxen, coui|>t
ing with the famous Jarley. The living
exhibitor looks in his nuiform so like the
" shams," aud is so often taken for
them, he Hays, that I can imagine his m
gardmg himself as quite a humbug.
But yonder, do look over there at a
group of five figures standing around
a stage lying upon tlie ground. Hurely
if we sjHiak to them they will reply in
Hwodish. No less lifelike is another
group, consisting of a clock maker,
seated before a 'table, on which lie his
instruments with other figuree regarding
him. And yet another man is driving a
reindeer, seated himself in an uncom
fortable looking sledge. The bnffdo
rolies from Stockholm are striking. But
who would have looked for such ex
quisite silver work in far off
NORWAY,
yet here it is, unsurpassed by any coun
try, even famous Italy. And what a cti-
I riosity of a sledge is here, made in 1625,
' and retained in the possession of one
family until INTO, when it was purchased
for this Extunition. If yon have sixty
Norway dollare to spnre (how much is
that!) yon can own it yourself. And iul
joining it stands the Norway national
vehicle, inteuded for "own." Here is a
little schoolroom, with its desks, etc.;
aud over all theee treasures floats the
standard,'red with blue fiom. "Call
yon tell me what this is?" I asked of a
foreign exhibitor. ",A coppt r buoy, so
constructed that as it sways to and fro
in the water it strikes a fog liell." "And
it was made iu Norway!" "Oh, no!
no I you travel so fast that yon have
reached It'dy," lie replied. Bather I
thought Italy has donned her seven
leagued boots and stepped up alongside
of Norway. Perhaps she came ii> this
Norwegian man-of war which is exhibit
ed here to show the Norway, metal.
Those knots were tied by machine when
the metal was cold. But wo must tear
ourselves away, and after needed rest
and refreshment we crossed the grounds,
I passing up Belmont nvcuue to
THE WOMEN H PAVILION.
The question of what woman can do is
partly solved in this Exhibition. At
| any rate, wo see here she lias made a
1 pretty clook, has invented a life pre
serving mattress, the model of which
you will find in a tank, with dolls jter
<Misting the resound ones, has oostrlvnd
a look Imrrel cover, and a most con
venient work table. The lady from
Keutneky, who has taken the portraits of
Mr. Gladstone, Bright, and others njMMi
white silk with black and white sewing
silk, is s most ingenious creature. It is
difficult to tielleve the specimens liefore
you are any sort of uoedie work. 1 wss
quite interested in s case of birds and
animals sporting about a tree, specimens
of worsted work. And here is a stamp,
excavated from Hid on in IR7'A—it la 'J.UOU
years old, aud this cushion liefore us is
a reproduction of an original jatlteru.
Very pretty is the seal from Beloit Col
lege, surrounded by a motto, in each
letter of which is wrought a miniature
fiag. Luuk, too, at the Iteautiful
carvings some from tlie School of IV
sign at Cincinnati, and a licdatead
wrought by two young ladies. A model
smoothing iron, heated by gas, and ei
hibited by a doll, must delight the
youngsters ; and in the next ease is a
patent stocking and glove darner, also
exhibited by dolls. The old English
knotting work is revives), and Martha
Turrey is certainly an adept in maiking
with indelible ink.
A Centennial I'npleasantness.
Au incident of the inaugural day is
raising quite a little breeze in social
circles in New York, where it is now be
ing investigated. After the Presidential
party had paused into Machinery hall
the crowd which hail gathered to wit
ness the proamnion was momentarily
augmented, all eagerly awaiting the
throwing open of its doors to the public.
The clock in the hall showed that the
appointed hoar of one had arrived.
It could be aeeu that the machinery
had been set in motion, and the people
grew more and more impatient at the
delay. The throng grew so dense and
the crash so fearfnl that the guards were
powerless to foroe them back, and tlioae
in front who would gladly have got out
were unable to do so. Tightly wedged
in, the mass of humanity swayed liack
and forth like the helpless writhings of
some huge monster, utterly trampling
out every vestige of grass, crushing
down the shubliery and flowers and
crushing the ornamental fence aronnd
the plot into kindling wood. Finally
one of the gates was opened, and the
crowd, taking this for the signal for
their admission, pressed forward, when
a certain New \ork general of militia
sprung upon the stejia and attempted to
sjx-sk to the crowd. His words could
not lie heard, but his manner was j>er
foctly intelligible and evidently meant
that he was very angry.
The crowd took offense at his manner
at once, and their mood changed from
good humor to indignant sarcasm, es
pecially when the general drewhis sword
frantically and bramshed it over his
head, uttering something which was
drowned in derisive yells, lie ordered
tlie Philadelphia tron|<ato charge oa tlie
defiant citizens. The troopers went to
work with a will, striking right aud left
with the fist of their sabers, to the great
detriment of silk hats and theenoonrsge
ment of bumps of a nun phrenological
character. tu this bloody work the
general joined con arnore, and one of
ins victims hapjx-ned to be a gentleman
of high social standing -and a memtx r
of the Union la-ague, of which organi
zation the general is also a member.
Tins gentleman has since ooniploiurd
l> the League of the treatment he re
ceived and much indignation against
tlie general has U-eu expressed both in
that laxly and in social circles. The
general claims that he was justithxl iu
using the force employed on the occa
sion, while hi" fellow leaguer and other'
who were similarly used declare that it
w:ia brutal aud inexcusable, as they were
void of offense except in Ix-ing unable
to " fall back," when so ordered,
through the living wall behind them.
The matter is likely to le made the sub
ject of ale ague committee investiga
tion, and strong predilections iu favor
of the expulsion of the general from
the rights and privileges of the club
house arc freely expressed by nicni!xrs.
A Revolutionary Hero.
Marblebead, Mass., has ha 1 a private
centennial, dedicating a monument to
Captain Mugford, the hero of one of the
boldest ex| loits of the early day* of the
Revolution. Captain Mugford wa born
in Balem, but liail lived at Marblebead
siuce childhood. When he was twenty -
aeveu, he was impressed on board a
British aioop-of war, but n-leasisl at his
mother's demand. While nboard, how
ever, he overheard talk about the ex
pected arrival of n powder ship in Nau
tasket roads. He applied to General
Ward for the command of the cruiser
Franklin (four gutis and fifty Urns), got
her after much importunity, and with
twenty-one men set sail. He soon en
oonutered the British sloop Hope (six
guns, 360 bms and seventeen mm), and
although the enemv's fleet lay not far
off, attacked, boarded, carried her, and
took her inbi Boston. Bbe had alxmrd
1.501) 1 xir re Is of powder, 1,000 carbines
and other army supplies. Then he set
sail again, but with the tide against him,
anchored for the night. Daybreak
showed him thirteen launches from the
British fleet rowing towards him. He
sunk five before they oonld get along
side, but was mortally shot in learing
off tlie rest. "I am a dead mail," he
said to his lieutenant: "do not give up
the vessel; you will lie able to leat
them. If not, cut the cable aud run
ashore." He died a few minutes after
tho vessel was ran ashore, and the
launches made off. The British lost
seventy men in the fight, and Mngford's
was the only death on the American
side. His laxly was buried with great
stab' at Marblohead.
Saiibu' Bit) Houses in 1T741.
An important snd interesting adjunct
to the meeting house in some parts of
the country was the " Bablm' Day
house." Comfort, being carefully shut
out from the mix-ting house itself, was
only thus rudely provided for in such
subordinate structures. The Bal-ha'
Day house was a family affair, generally
Comprising but a single npartment, jx r
haps llfbx'ii feet square, with windows
and a fireplace. It was very plainly and
sparsely furnished. Chairs for tlie old
people aud benches for the children
sbxxl round the walls, and a table in the
oeiib-r might hold the Bible and a few
religious Ixxiks, while at one side shelves
contained dishes for cooking aud eat
ing. Bonn-times the Habba' Day house
was mounted nlxive a shod, within which
tho horse could l>e sheltered. A group
of such cabins standing alxmt the meet
ing house added uot a little b> the pic
turestiuenosH of tho spot, aud their use
conduced greatly bi the oouvenieuco anil
comfort of BuliiMith worship, especially
in winter. Tho family ablo to kiwp a
Habba' Day house drove directly tliityor
on Babbath mornings, warmed them
selves up by a hot llro without and—
quite likely—l>y a hot drink within, and
here spent tluvtitormiasion, w, th further
wholesome regards for tho wants of the
inner man. The better class of the
Habba' Day houses were whitewashed,
some of them double; aud to the truth
of history it must be said that between
Babbatlis they occasionally furnished the
wild young men of the parish with se
cure haunts for unseemly carousals,
TKKMB: S~.OO a Year, in .Advance.
A TKBRIHLK EXPERIKXCE.
A H'hsl* f * will v Hltte* bv a Mul D*
Uralb •( a Utile Olrl.
For a long lime we have had no such
terrible story of hydrophobia to report
us that which comes to us from Newara,
N. J. The fsmiiy of Mr. Louis Hor
lutgi'ii consists of Mr. and Mr*. Mor
liagt-u and seven children, six girls and
one boy. The dog that bit them was a
black rtptlx about three years of age, u
jd in the family and with whtoh the
children were accustomed to play about
tile hause and yard. A few weeks ago
the dog suddenly di appeared and it
was thought that he had beau stolen,
but in a few days thereafter the animal
returned, much to the delight of the
children, who gleefully ran in to tell
their mother. It was noticed, however,
that he acted in a strange manner, biting
and snapping at every one who came
near htm, wluch action; were attributed
at first to his having been ill treated
during his absence.
Charles Horhsgm, the only son, a flue
lad of fifteen, attempted to pacify the
animal, when it seized one of the fingers
of his right hand in its mouth and bit it-
Blood Sowed freely from the wound for
a few moments, but Charley gave the
matter no further thought. The Spits
then took refuge iu the stable at the rear of
the lot, and as Henrietta, a gill of
twelve, was running through the place,
the animal suddenly sprung upou her
from its hiding place, and bit her in the
right heel, inflicting a severe wound.
Henrietta ran limping and crying into
the hoove and told her mother of what
had occurred. About five minutes after
ward the Hpitz ran yelping from the
stable, snapping at everything in his
way, and liefore Maggie, s little girl of
ten, could OHOA|W into the house, the
rabid animal had bitten her in the left
ankle.
Mrs. Morhagen hastened out to nee
what was the matter, when the dog
sprung furiously upon her and bit the
fingers of Imw right hand. The Bpitx
again ran into the stable and bit Mr.
Borhagen'a horse on the legs, and alao
bit another dog that was kept there to
watch the premises. Mr. Borhagen,
who chauotxi to be home at the time,
becoming alarmed at the dog's actions,
though not sus|x*oting that it was mad,
endeavored to secure it so as to prevent
its doing further harm. He had almost
auooeeded in putting a collar and chain
about its neck, whin the dog furiously
sprung ujieu him aud bit him in the left
wrist near the thumb, inflicting a wound
which bled profusely. After much trouble
he succeeded in tying the Spitx to its ken
nel, but during tlie night the animal
continued to grow worse, frothing at the
month and showing other symptoms of
hydrophobia. The next morning the
brute was found lying dead outside of
its kennel. It* month was covered with
fosm, and its glassy eyes protruded from
their sockets, while tLe sides of the ken
nel showed marks of the rabid animal's
teeth where it had gnawed the boards in
its agony and death struggles.
None of the family, however, felt any
apprehensions regarding the wounds in
flicted by the dog, or manifested any
signs of illnniM until Henrietta began
Bo oomplain of drowsiness. Later the
same evening she told her mother that
the had severe |aiiis in her head, sides,
back and legs, aud the parts were rubied
with liniment, the mother thinking per
haps that she had taken oeld. Ah ut
midnight she again awoke with a start
and complained of the pains in her
!inibs. Bbe had several spasms during
the night, and tossed wildly about upon
her bed. At early dawn, when the
father was obliged to leave borne and at
tend to his express business, he bade
his wife go at once for a doctor. Dr.
Voegler was called, and, after examining
the child, said that be needed assistance,
when Drs. 11l and Korm-man were tarn
moned. A consultation was held, and it
was decided to cut out a piece of flesh
where the child was bitten, in hopes of
sariDg her life. Medicine was given and
everything jxissiblc done by the physi
ctana to alleviate her sufferings. Daring
the following moruing she appeared to
be somewhat bettor, and was at intervals
quite rational, bnt toward noon she was
seised with another violent spasm.
Then she relapsed into a troublous
sluml>er, accompanied with stertorous
breathing, and would occasionally start
up in the wildest manner, screaming in
agony, aud clutching at the bedclothes.
Then she would make a noise like the
barking of a dog, and moan and talk in
a wild, incoherent, delirious way. Mr.
Horliagen, upon returning home in the
afternoon, was terribly distressed at his
daughter's condition, and called other
phyriciaus to see the child. At seven
o'clock that evening Henrietta was
seized with another violent spasm, and
it Ix-osuie neix-ssary for her father and
mother to hold her in the lied. Bbe
biased her head from side to ride, threw
her arms about and ahnddered from
brad to foot when water or other liquids
were applied. The sjiasms became more
frequent dnring the night, increasing in
violence nutil half past two o'clock in
the morning, when death relieved tho
child of her sufferings.
The wonnils of the oilier members of
the family were cauterized and every
lliing done to save them. The second
dog bitb n went mail and was shot. It
is hoped that none others of the
family will suffer.
The I*cft Wing
John Tobias hail anything but a
pleased look as ho limped out of his cell
into the Detroit police court. He got
drank in his shirt sleeves, and it was
hard b> b>U whether he hail more mud
than shirt on his back. His collar was
thrown open in an artistic manner, re
vealing an Adam's apple about the size
of an inkxtand aud a good deal of leather
colored throat.
" Yes, I observe," mused his honor, as
he gave the prisoner s looking over.
" Got drank, laid down to rest your
knees and your apjHwrance is all that
could be desired."
" Don't pile it on to me, judge—l was
in tho army," pleaded John.
" Name the army."
" The left wing,'' replied the prisoner,
hesitating for a moment.
"The left wing of what army I l '
" I say it was the left wing."
" What army f"
" The left wing."
His honor leaned hack, and slowly
said :
"John Tobias, you are lying to me!
Yon can't look me square iu the eyes,
and your spinal column is crooked out
of sliajxi. You were never in the army
at all, aud the left wing you say yon be
longed to was the great wing left at
home Ix-hiuil the soldiers."
" Didn't I go to war!" demanded
John, bristling np considerably."
" No, sir."
"Well, I oome mighty near it,"
growled the prisoner.
" Not half as near as 1 shall oome to
locking yon up for sixty days," quietly
replied tlie court. " Return to the cor
ridor by this door, lean np in some
corner, and don't l>e ugly when the
Maria drives arouud."
AN INDEX. —An index has just been
prepared for the ten first volumes of
Scrihuer's Monthly. It is stated in the
preface that the illustrations of these
ten volumes have oost the magazine
nearly one hundred thousand dollars,
aud that a very inuoh larger sum has
been paid for literary contributions Mud
editorial work.
NUMBER 24.
THE LIVE NTOCK DIHPLAT.
Thr liklklilM .1 l ull. i Ttthm Plu. m
ik. Urnuto—rr^iiiMui
i.r H.
The grounda for the Centennial lira
stock display am within 2,000 feet of
tbo maiu entrance, and am situated be
tweeti the two onief thoroughfares, via.:
Belmont a venae and Forty Aral street.
They comprise thirty-Ave acrea, and are
on the line of the Pennaylvania railroad.
The looation, therefore, afford* superior
advantages for the reoeipt ana delivery
of annuals. A ntig one-third of a mile
in circumference will be provided and
740 stall* are being erected. Theae are
14x14, and ao arranged that after the
horae ahow, which oomea off Aret (from
September 1 to 14 inclusive), the atalla
can be divided into atalla 7x14 for the
celtic which are to be ahown September
11 to October 4. Hie atalla can again be
divided ao aa to be 7x7, for abeep, a wine
and goat*, which will be exhibited from
October 10 to 18. The oomraiaaion will
farniah ooepa and atteudanoe apon pay
ment of 91 on each bird of the gailina
oeoaa division and 92 on each pair of
the aquatic division. The poultry will
be exhibited from October 27 to Nov. 6.
A* the cattle ground* were formerly
the Philadelphia drove yards the a apply
of water ia ample and ua arrangement*
for taking away the manure excellent.
Ofßoea for the attendants, with hay and
grain barracks, are being provided, and
a very large hotel adjoin* the yard*.
•' The international feature ha* been
better worked up at their Exhibition
than at any previous one; " ao aay* at
leaat Profeaaor Archer, one of the Kbg
iiah oummiaaioaero who ha* attended all
the previoo* world'* fair*. In confirma
tion of thnt I might state that the Cen
tennial oommiamon from Canada ha*
made official requisition for space in the
international stockyard for the exhibi
tioc of one hundred and fifty head of
neat cattle, seventy five sheep, seventy
five twine and 300 ooopa of poultry. In
addition, a firm of shippers proposes to
pot on a special steamship to fetch cat
tle from Europe. This ship will not
undertake to run fast, but rather to
make the trip as comfortable for the
animals a* possible by running slow or
even turning tail to the storms if de
sirable. Ail the railroads offer free
return transportation on live stock; but
it is likely that most of the foreign ex
hibits will be sold on the ground, like
secretary of the treasury ha* amended
the late order, wluch interdicts the im
portation of cattle, which waa issued to
prevent the introduction of contagious
diseases, provided the animals have
been examined by a competent veteri
nary surgeon and certified to be free of
disease. This certificate most-be in
dorsed by our eon ml at the port of
shipment, and the animals must be in
tended for exhibition or breeding.
The list of priare runs high op into
the thousands, as first, second and third
prizes will be awarded to the best of
every recognised breed in each of the
competing lists, sweepstake prises alone
excepted. For instance, cattle will com
pete in herds. This constitutes a class.
Now, *s there are nine recognised breeds
of cattle- vix. : shorthorns, Holsteina,
Hereford*, Ayrshire*, Devon*, Guern
seys, Brittamea, Kerry* and Jerseys—
there will be three times (first, second
and third primes) nine or t weuty -seven
prixee in the class of herds. For bulls
alone there are three classes—viz.: bulls
three years and over, over two yean and
under three, over one year and under
two. As each of the three classes has
nine breeds and throe prises few each
breed we have (three times nine times
three) eighty-one prises for bulls. Of
cows there are four classes, according
to age, and, therefore, 106 prises.
There are also sweepstake prises both
for bulls and for cows. Fat and draught
cattle have five classes, via.: The best
fstted steer and the fattest cow, the most
powerful yoke of oxen end the moat
rapidly walking yoke of oxen, the most
thoroughly trained yoke end the moat
thoroughly trained team of three or
more yokes of oxen. Breeding homes
have sixteen classes; speed hdrses four
classes; walking horses one class;
matched teams five classes; asses for
breeding four classes; sheep thirteen
classes, and goats the same; swine twelve
olasees; dog* ten classes and poultry
two clainee. The latter are to be exhibit
ed in pairs of one year and over as one
class and under one year as one class.
Th'y include chickens, turkeys, ducks,
geese, swans, pigeons, Guineas and orna
mental birds. In thi* division it ia easy
to see that the number of prizes will tie
immense, as awards will be made few
superiority to every recognised breed.
If there are fifty breeds of chickens and
two clause* (over one year and under one
year) and three prise*, we would have
fifty (breeds) multiplied by two (clasae*),
multiplied by three (prises first, second
and third), or three hundred prises for
chickens alone. Ducks and pigeona of
the recognized breeds are very enmer
ons, and so it is plain that, as each breed
competes only with others of its own
breed, the swards in the live stock sec
tion will, as I said, run up into the
thousands. Living fishes will be dis
played in both fresh and salt water
aquaria, and swards will be made for the
largest display of fish of all specie*.
The aqnorial exhibit will, no doubt, be
the largest ever made in this country,
and perhaps the soologioal garden may
secure the whole.
As the officers of the bureau of agri
culture are determined to leave nothing
undone to make the lire stock display
the crowning feature of the Agricultural
department it is obvious that they have
an onerous work on hand. A cardinal
object of this exhibition is to promote
improvement in breeding stock, and
visitors to the Exhibition will have the
great advantage of seeing animals
brought, not only from America, but
fromEurojM?.
Too Much Work.
All work and no play sent a man to
the lunatic asylum In Davenport, lowa,
lie was a workman in a factory, and his
iuduatry during ten years oonld not
easily have been increased. He was at
his bench early and left it late. No
amusements broke the monotony of his
daily life. He scaroely knew of any
thing outside of the factory and ms
home. It is not wonderful, therefore,
that his mind had room for morbid fan
cies. He imagined that his foreman
was plotting to kill him, and that the
whole world, excepting his daughter,
war. in the conspiracy. He made the
girl stay constantly with him as a de
fender. Next, he liarricoded himself in
his house, and from that mimic strong
hold he was sent to the asylum. The
moral points to tho wisdom of recrea
tion.
An Extensive Work.
.Should a ship oanal bo out across the
Isthmus of Darieu at its narrowest
point, it would be thirty two miles long,
and would require a ship tunnel 125
feet high and seven miles in length
through solid rock. A vessel going
from New York to San Francisco would
save ten thousand miles of sailing, and
oonld afford to pay a toll of $3,000. In
the one item of wages, a clipper ship
of 1,500 tons burden would save $2,000
at least It ia estimated that the work
would oost $100,000,000.
He is the happier and the more gener
ally useful man who is good ia many
things and great In nothing.
A Sleep jr HMI.
"Mag I atag ma to aiaap I
With gaaM# worth, tn aoaaa ewaa* alnmbar
Rodhjai kma peat aa waa shady atep
Mag* to tha aUeaea la hi* noonday lni*ora.
" Htagl ftvarsiaga
Wbaa gaatly it Aevajbatweae *oft bank* of
And tha ha* Biortoura, aad tha enekoo Uiiiga
Hl* faint Hay sitMte, twaeo tb* golden
" Mng! Oh, dlftnart ten# I a
I *lnk' beneath aooto agsart's charming
waod t
I yield, 1 move, 17 soothing U*i** Mown,
O'er twilight abores, into th* dreaming
land!
!i.n m .. 1 "
Parts and Paarfea.
If men would aet good examples, they
might hatch better habit*.
The man who make* himself ridicu
lous prevents many others from becom
ing aa
When drinking interfere* with a man'a
business the common way is to give up
business.
The paaaengars in a Philadelphia
streetcar the other evening were talk
ing in aii languages.
"The difference between ingenious
and ingenuous is illustrated by the dif
-1 farenoe between can do and can did."
The new forts around Paris are to be
after the generals who labored
ao hard to retrive the faults of Napoleon
UL, in the war of 1870.
Many persons look upon others aa
they would look through the panes of
their windows—not noticing either, un
less a blemish or a Aaw appears.
A Paris landlord levied on a tenant's
wooden lag for debt, and the question
was whether the property was personal,
tools, household effects or real.
There are $1,000,0(10 worth of shoe
pegs made yearly in the United Htaiea,
most of them in Massachusetts, re
quiring 100,000 cubic feet of white
birch.
There are said to be in St. Louis
county, Mo., unmarried females who
own property worth an aggregate of
518,000,000. Go West! young man, go
Weal I
They say that if a bee, wasp, or hornet
atinga, it to nearly always at the expense
of life. Thus a slanderous tongue will
ultimately damage ita possessor more
than its victim.
Professor Dynamic—" Can you giva
ms an example of bast causing expan
tion, and cold contraction I ' —" Tea,
air; the days are long in an mmer and
abort in winter."
It is unkind at this season of the year
to laugh at a man who baa splashes of
whitewash on his back, soot on his noee,
a frown 00 his brow and a length of
stovepipe under each arm.
It ia said that California ia well suited
far the domestication and breeding of
the ostrich, and it is quite probable that
an effort will be made to raise these
valuable birds in that State.
It ia observed that there are few
thing* that will make a man carry hi*
head ao atraigntasto ha+v> a ragged neck
binding on bia shirt, with plenty o
starch on it, well ironed in.
A Western editor met a well educated
farmer recently, and informed him that
be would like to have something from
bia pen. The farmer aent him a pig
and charged him $9-75 for it.
An employee who doesn't have his
hands washed and his coat on, ready to
strike for home aa soon aa the clock be
gins to strike twelve or mx, ia not enter
prising enough to work by the day.
Here ia a soliloquy of a Parisian ine
briate, addseaaed to his hat, which had
fallen off : "If I pick you up, I fall;
if I fall you will not pick me up—then I
leave you." And he staggered proudly
away.
Those old soakers never lack for sign
meet. Lately on* replied to a temper
ance lecturer Ire the following : "If
water rote the sole* of your boots, what
effect must it have on the coat of your
stomach I"
Large orders have been received in
England for steel rails for foreign mi
ned*, and works which have been
closed during several months are about
to be put in operation again in conse
quence.
David Belvut. of Philadelphia, aged
twenty-four, used a raxor to pare a com
on hia toe, mid caused the corn to bleed
freely. He wss taken ill, tetanus or
lockjaw ensued, and death resulted in
three day*.
An agricultural journal advertises a
new washing machine under the bead
ing, " Every man bis own washer
woman," and in ita culinary department
my* that "potatoes should always be
boiled in cold water."
In Clarke county, lowa, there ia said
to be a boy who eats hay like an ox and
has a singular appetite for raw vege
table*. lie dislikes bread or oookad
food, desiring rather to live on the raw
productions of nature.
" Whan women make bread," said
Quia, moralizing over an underdone bis
cuit at the breakfast table—" When
women make bread, a curious phenome
non often results; you And a little dear
bringing forth a little dough."
A grumbling oar driver said to a pass
enger : " Ton always want me to stop
when you get off." "No, sir," said
the passenger, who had no jumping
notions. *' 1 don't care what vou do. I
only want the ear to stop. You can go
on."
Infant prodigy—"Mamma, do you
suppose Dr. Proeey rehearses hia ser
mons at home I" Fond mother—"No,
dear, his fervor in preparing them ia
spontaneous, and Smart boy—"Oh,
then, he does not practice what be
preaches."
To encourage tree pla&ting in the
several counties of lowa, the Chicago
and Northwestern railway offers a pass
to Chicago and back for the farmer and
hi* wife in each county who duriDg the
year plant and keep living the greatest
number of beta
This ia the roughest conjugal experi
ence on record. In a Brooklin divorce
suit the husband, who waa a superinten
dent of a horse car line, alleges that his
wife is employed as a " spotter," and
that through her influmoo he was turn
ed out of hia berth.
Seventeen men who bad left oomfort
abli homes in Wisconsin to hunt gold
in the Black Hills, applied on a recent
night at the polioe station at 8L Paul
for lodging, having walked from the
Hills after three months vain
hunt for gold, of which they saw not a
grain.
When Marc Anthony threw himself
upon the " dear remains " of his loved
Cmsar, in a Pittsburgh theater the other
evening, he struck the " corpse " fair in
the stomach, which had the effect of
doubling it up with a grunt, that rather
detracted from the solemnity of the oc
casion.
The Germans have no idea of losing
Metx. A garrison of 12,000 men is
maintained there, and the magazines of
ammunition and stores are sufficient to
maintain 40,000 men for three years.
To the seven forts already in existence
that have been enlarged, four new ones
have been added.
A Paris woman has perfected a now
method of picking pockets. She enters
an omnibus with a very pretty and
beantiful dressed baby, seats herself
close to the likeliest passengers,aßd works
under cover of baby's ample drapery.
After succeeding she pinches the baby,
so that it cries fearfully, and she leaves
the omnibus suddenly to buy candy for
it.
A wag, who had wrapped h piece
of cloth having the word " centennial"
on it around an egg and then boiled it
so that the word appeared plainly on
the shell, sadly deceived a Portland
(Oonn.) farmer, who took it out of a
nest where it had been nlaeed. and ex
hibited it at the offloe of a local news
paper M a wonderful manifestation of
the hen's intimate knowledge of the
history of the United States.