1 Have Sought Thao. Lava, I have sought for the* long vaart In vain O'sr wastes of barren land and oar tha main . But now thy leva my sweat, aball make U plain. Tia not the cms! voiee of yesterday That bids thee *tay ! In anmtaer aira the awallowa homewatil fly ; They aeek their happy nesta -so fain wonld I— ha flower, in rainless summers droop and die, Bo have I pined through many a weary day, To bid thee *t*y. I hear tha feet of angels down the weet, And in my hear: a yearning half eipr.Miit ltida tnee remain—my .weal, my wedding gneat: 71M peat is passed—l hail the dawning day. Ah, darling, "stay! Re Still! Tia better far to .peak no word at all , Than murmur all iho changing heart may feel' The.weeteat wo .ls m%y eometimee taste like gall And soft hearts turn to citadels of steel! The silent then ate .sfeel too, for anoh Will uever say too little, nor too much. 'Tia better far to leave thy thoughts nneoined In wools, for theu they cannot be purloined. Nor iniied with baser metal, thus to be Palmed ou the public a false currency ! A thought unspoken never loeee poeer Outspoken, it may perish in an hour ! Thy heart i. thine own castle. Look the gate! Ti. tetter far if it be desolate To be sole wilne t of its empty shrine! And if Tis p-xmlcd by a world of thine. Let ti be snout t Who can understand The language spoken in tliat mystic land t If thou must speak, of oiherw .peak but good, Aa of thyself. Let this be understood If thoo canst n't of them a good recall Twere better far that thou didt not apeak at all! Be atill! The silent are the wisest ; such Will never say too little, uor too much ! THE STORY OF A RING. It seamed to ue the moat nnfortauate position in the world. 1 had arrived, about ton minutes be fore, at the house of an aunt whom I hail never aeeu, and who eras sick. I was to be her uurse and companion. Her servant hail shown me into this wretched trap, as I now called it, in anguish of spirit, though it was really a pretty, cheerful little rem, opening by a curtained arch from the parlor, in forming me that the housekeeper would be there immediately to conduct me to my aunt. And here was I, an utter stranger, assisting at a lovers' q carrel. Two persons had entered the room an instant after I hail seated myself. It was twilight, and the limps were not yet lighted. I was wholly invisible, and they evidently imagined themselves to possess the solitude befitting their con versation. "The farce may as well end here," had said a woman's voice at the moment of her crossing the threshold. " For my part, lam weary of the play. I no longer love you, and I will not pretend affection merely to feed voor vanity, which is as limitless as your imperti nence in persisting in attentions that yon see I detest." 11 was the most intolerably proud voice that could be imagined. " I still love you, and von know it. And 1 have far too mnch faith in your former professions to credit the words put into your month by the anger of an unfortunate moment. Ton arc utterly mistaken in your supposition. My love for you is always " Your love for me ! Your love !** with an accent of angry acorn that de fies description. " Never dare to men tion to me again a word that you cannot comprehend. It is an insult to me to hear it—an insult that I will not endure. And to care your apprehension of my repentance, let me tell yon that I, who know the meaning of thus word that you utter so glibly—l love some one else." She stepped swiftly to the window and threw it open. There was an in stant's silenoe. There was audible the rustle of her sleeve as she tossed some thing from her with force. " I have thrown your ring away," he explained, with a twnchalaner in extra ordinary contrast with her former vio lence. " I threw it toward the cistern. Poesibly it has slipped through some crevice or other, and gone down into the water. I hope so. In that case it is impossible that the sight of it can ever again insult me with the remem brance that I have worn it. Permit me to wish yon an exceedingly good even- ing!" It was easy to imagine the mocking reverence of the courtesy she now swept him; then she was gone. Immediately after, and silently, be also left the apart ments They did not go too soon, whoever they were. A cold perspiration damp ened my forehead; I really trembled. The vehemence of the feelings engaged, the certainty felt by the actors of their complete isolation, and mv own inno cent guilt in overhearing, all quite over powered me. Half a miunte did not elapse after the last sound of the gentleman's footstep* before the parlor door again opened, and a prm little woman entered, with a lamp in her hand. She looked in all the corn, ra, as one might search for a dropped pocket handkerchief, and at last |>erceived the new comer. " Ah, miss, I have kept you waiting quite a time, to be sure ! Bat your sunt took a sudden notion to put mustard draughts on her ankles—though Dr. Rich irdaon had just gone, and he never thought of ordering them ! —and have 'em t-be must. And I supposed you'd be o mfortable here." . " Quite comfortable, thank yon. The servimt said yon won).l come presently.' "Well, yon'd best have some tea be fore you see yonr aunt She told me to give yon some. I shall try to find som thing yon like; though what with all these people living about the house that have got no business here—this company, I mean—l don't know whether I am on my head or feet." I received the refreshments she brought me gratefully, after which I was conducted to my aunt's room. Or Moderation for the feelings of other j>eople was Dot one of the old lady's characteristics, and after a few disparaging remarks on my personal ap pearance, I was dismissed for the night. The sun was just risen next morning when I took courage to step outside and look about me. The grass was very wet with dew, but how it sparkled in that fresh light! All at once I stopped and stared about me. There, glitter ing in the grass, lay a ring. I stood like one fascinated, gazing at it very foolish ly, for I knew well what ring it was. Presently I heard some one calling far off, and not stopping to think, I picked the ring np, and ran back to the honse, all trembling. At breakfast I endeavored to discover the hero and heroine of Last evening's dram i. '1 wo of the ladies were sisters, tall, languid blondes, very lieautifnlly dressed, and very dainty. They trifled elegantly with their knives and forks, and carried on airy summer morning flirtations with two gentlemen, who were each dark, and, like the ladies, dressed witlwre a little too exquisite. The third lady, Miss Huntingdon, was a little person, with soft, pleasant, viva cious manners, in whose conversation was always a concealed sarcasm. But it was far too indifferent and too good natured to belong to the lady of last night. Besides, her sweet mocking voice was as different as possible from the deep, passionate tones that had so thrilled me. And of the four gentle men present, certainly not one all re sembled the portrait I had painted for my hero. I was puzzled, and felt sadly guilty again as thought of the ring lying all silently there in my pocket, and carrying everywhere with it a story which I knew and had no right to know. Day followed day, and the days melted FKED. KURTZ. Editor and 1 •ropriotor. VOLUME IX. gradually into weeks. When tho novelty of mv position .M over, it proved not nearly so terrible as it had seemed t first. Annt Ague* mid many harsh tilings, but she did not moan thorn all, and tho goodness of hor heart compen sated in somo measure for tho a*|>entie* of hor tongue. I saw a groat doal of Dr. Kiohardsou. Ho sras more than kind. Ho thought my lifo loroaomo and joyless, and brought mo many books that 1 had longed for, and interested himself in lit tlo things that happened, talking with mo ofton, and alaaya loaviug mo luq*- pier than ho found mo. lint thoro was au< thing that troubled mo tntich. I sometime* faucied -and with unaccountable di-tress—that in l>r. Richardson I had discovered tho uwuor of tho ring. Certain touos of his Toils' piorood mo liko a suddou pain, thov oar nod mo back so vividly to tliat uufortn uato hour in tho dim tittle* alcove. Yot whon I looked into his face again, and into his oyoa, so content, so frankly hap py, this imagination rnoitod into a sweeter droani. Hut it roturuoit again and again, and always with doopor pain. Tho visitors I found on my arrival woro long rinoe gouo. Miss Huutiug don lived in tho neighborhood; and it would, perhaps, be proper to my that wo were oeoom* quits' intimato, hail not all tho talk and revelation been on hor aido. I, for my part, had hail no ad vouturoo, and it soomod U mo not intor oouug to offer thoorios to one who oould narrato facta. One day she upbraided me for my want of confidence, but I really bait nothing to tell, until at last I bethought myself of the story of the ring. " How very curious I" cried Miss Huntingdon, when I had ended, her brown eyes opened wide. " l)o let me see it I shall certainly know it if 1 have ever seen it before." 80 I took it from the case where it lay glittering, and put it into her hands. And it was with a strange foolish pang that I saw her examine it. and heard her chatter concer -ling it. She looked at it with unfeigned interest. "It is really beautiful," she said, "and most uncommon. No, there is not one among my acquaintance that 1 have ever seen wear such a ring. It is the oddest thing ! And it all happened the evening yon arrived I" She had turned quite away from me, and was looking out of the window. 1 could not see her face at all. " Miss Huntingdon," I said, gravely, with an emotion which 1 concealed as well as I was able, " will yon answer me a question trnthfnlly I" " Any question that a friend should ask, I will answer truthfully." She did not turn toward me as she spoke. "Well, then, was it not you yourself who threw this ring away I" Now she did turn, and looked me frankly in the eyes. "Truthfully, it was not L" " Thank yon—oh, thank yon !" Why did" I furtively kiss the ring I Why, if she hail said " Yes," would I, in torn, have thrown it passionately away r Ah ! the reader guesses. It was perhaps a fortnight after that I sat alone at my window watching tLe snu set beyond the hills, white with snow, but seeing it as one sees in a dream. All my thoughts were wai d. ring to ward a happy hour last evening, when Dr. Richardson bail asked me to be his wife. From thence the days fled by like a dream. They were so happy, but so short—that was all 1 had to complain of ; and they too rapidly brought near a day that I longed for and yet dreaded. And—it is a sad confession—for the first time in my life 1 looked at myself nfteD in the mirror. It seemed as if 1 had suddenly grown almost pretty. There was a piuk color in my cheeks; my pale eves had darkened and bright ened. One day—think how foolish ! —1 really leaned over and kissed my own lips; it seemed so delightful to lie a lit tle handsome that L felt grateful to the mirror. " Do not yon wish I were beautifnl !" I said, one afternoon, to Dr. Richard son, with a wistful longing that he should tell me be thought me so. We were standing near the open door of the parlor, just as he was taking leave. " ludeed I do not," he answered, frankly. "I love yon just xs yon are." That was pleasant, bnt not what I wished to hear. " But do not you wish I were as hand some a—as Miss Huntingdon, for in stance!" I persisted.. "Think how bright and laughing her brown eyes are ! And what a gypsy color rises in her cheeks when she is excited ! She looks aflame sometimes." " She does indeed," said Dr. Richard son, smiling; " bnt I am not a salaman der. I have no wiflb that yon should resemble her. Miss Huntingdon is too " "Too excellent tor this world I" cried that lady's laughing voice outside. She had just entered the ball, and stopped a moment at the parlor door. " G KKI afternoon. Dr. Richardson. Is the pa tient np stairs better to-day t lam on my way to see her. I shall not take yon with me, Agnes, in order to earn Dr. Richardson's good opinion over ngnin— for onoe be had a gtsxl opinion of me." Bbe looked np at him sidewi.se aud Unghed. Sho was wonderfully pretty this afternoon—all sparkle and glow. There was an instant's, bnt only an instant's, odd constraint in Dr. Richard son's manner; then he said, quite gravely : " Yon have not forfeited my good opinion, Miss Huntingdon." " The truth is. Dr. Richardson," said Miss Huntingdon, her faoe all lighted with siucy, inward laughter—"the tnith is, yon owe me a debt of grati tnde deeper than yon can ever repay. Tell me now, frankly, if it were not for me would yon tie at this moment the happy man yon are ?" " Frankly, I would not." Dr. Richardson was very wious Even Miss Huntingdon seemed to veil some feeling nnder her gay manner. I was troubled. " Why do you two talk in riddles J" I asked. "Do yon not both know that I have no talent for guessing f" "At least yon shall not cultivate it just now, dear," said Miss Huntingdon. " Dr. Richardson will tell yon when 1 am gone. I must go to your aunt It does her good to scold me." She turned away and moved a step or two, and then looked back with a changed face. "Agnes," she said, wistfully, "would yon mind kissing mo ?" " Mind kissing you ? What a ques tion 1 But yon are not going away immediately ?" " Oh, I don't know. Perhaps I had better bid you good-bye now. She kissed me twice. "Good-bye!" she said. Absolutely the spark in her eyes was quenched in dew! "Agnes," she said, with an odd sort of half laughing seriousness, "if you shonld ever come to think that Ananias was a moral cbaraoter in comparison with myself, it would be impossible for you to love me any more, would it not? But let me assure you, my dear, that some stories are told with the best possible inten tions." Then she left us. " What cau she mean, dear ?" I asked, turning in wonder to Dr. Rich ardson. He led me to the chair I had quitted, and placing me there again, stood before me. " Agnes, she means me to oonfeas to THE CENTRE REPORTER. iwu something that you uood novor isvo known. And yot, iwrhajai, it is bottor that you should. Hue ruoans that 1 ouoo loved hor." Ho wont on talking for a fow minute*, but Ido not know what ho said. My hands woro cold, and objects Iwfore my oyoa wore blurred. Hho hail deceived i .e. It was to hor aud to him t had listened that evening so long. Ho had loved her. I, who hoard him declare it, know tho depth at siucerity in the voice that told her so. Had he sought my love as a solace for the wound that alio hail inflicted f Friend aud lover were both to fail mo ? " Have you nothing to say, Agueo t Why do yott not answer me ?" " Wait for me one moment," 1 re plied, hearing my voice, but hardly re coguiziug it. "I will answer you when 1 returu." I left him abruptly, going slowly up stairs, my heart feeling broken. I got the ring, aud came down agaiu, not trembling at ail, quite quiet, with that dreadful calm which aocepta despair Iu the blind jealousy of the moment it seemed impossible tlist he could r< ally love me, liaviug once loved her. •* It is usual, 1 believe," 1 said, with some sort of a smile, "to break an en gagement by returning a ring. Would you like that ours should be broken so f This is your ring, is it not t" " What do you mean, Agnes f Where did you get this ring!" cried Dr. Rich ardson, iu great surprise. " 1 was iu the alcove there the night that Miss Huntingdon threw it away. I found it in the garden next moruuiß. I heard all that vou both aaid. She has deceived me. She said, when 1 asked her, that this ring was never hers. Aud you have deceived me; you told me tliat you loved me." Iu &uother moment the sob in my voice wonld have given place to miser able childish tears. Hut Dr. Richard son folded me iu his arms and kissed me, laughing. That oomfor ed me more than anv words could have done. " Poor trusting little one!" he cried. " The whole world is in conspiracy against von, is not it I 1 shall play mv rofe to tine end, however, and /wy that 1 love you forever. And cannot you for give Miss Huntingdon f Is not she right when she says that I owe my hap piness to her ? And she may have told the story that grieves yon for the pur {Rise of making us happy. Cannot you forgive her?" Yea When he had talked to me an hour or two, paitieularly when he had reassure,! me as to the grounds upon which I held his love, I freely forgave her. Sitting there in the delicious twi light, with that dear voice sounding so lovingly in my ears, whom and what could I not have forgiven I And then, in the dusk, I heard her light footstep on the stair, and the rustle of her dress. "Come in, dear Miss Huntingdon," I cried, " and let me kiss you once more. I have your ring on my finger, and love yon more than I ever did in my life." And we have been friends all our days until now. The Moon a Bead World. Among the illusions swept away by modern science TH* the pleasant fancy that the moon was a habitable globe, like the earth, its surface diversified with seas, lakes, continents ami islands, and varied forms of vegetation. The logians and savants gravely discussed the probabilities of its being inhabited by a race of sentient Itciugs, with forms and faculties like our own, and even propounded schemes for opening com uiunicat'on with them, in case they ei 1 -.ted. One of these WAS to construct on the broad hnrbland* of Asia a series of geometrical figures on a scale so gi gnntic as to l>e vi ible from our planetary neighbor, on the sup|>sitiou that the moon |>e<iple would recoguixe the ob ject, and immediately construct similar figures in reply, extravagaut ml absurd as it mui appear, but the discussion was kept up at intervals, nrtil it was dis covered that if there w# re people in the moon they must be able to live without breathihgor eating or drinking. Then it ceased. There can lie no life without air. Beautiful t<t the eye of adi-Unt obaerver. the moon is a sepulchral orb—a world of death and silence. No vegetation clothes its vast plains of stony dermis tion, traversal by monstrous crevices, broken by enormous peaks that rise like gigantic tombstonesinto space; 110 lovelv forms of clond float in the blackness of its sky. The daytime is only night lighted by a rayless sun. There is no rosy dawn in the momiug, no twilight in the evening. The nights are pitch dark. In daytime the solar Ix-ams are lost against the jagged ridges, the sharp {mints of the rocks, of the steep sides of profound abysses: and the eye sees only grotesque sha|M's relieved against fan fas tie shadows black as ink, with none of that pleasant gradation sud diffusion of bght, none of the subtle blending of light and shadow, which makes the charm of a terrestrial landscajie. There is no color, nothing but dead white and black. The rocks reflect passively the light of the sun; the craters and abysses remain wrap{ied in shade; fantastic {teaks rise Hke phantoms in their glacial cemetery; the stars ap|>eiir like sjiota iu the blackness of space. The moon is a deal world; she has no atmosphere. The Claimant Again Mr. Guildford Onslow arul Mr. An thony Iliddntph visited Arthur Orton, the Ticliborne claimant, in Dartmoor prison, the other day, and in the even tug they addressed n small pnblic meet uig. Lord Rivers was absent, from in disposition. Mr. Bidilulph said he was more convinced than ever that the claim ant was hit cousin, and in France, Oermany, and America there was a con firmed belief that a frightful miscarriage of justice had lakeu place in the Ticli borne case. Mr. Guildford Onslow said the claimant, in his degradation, still retained the manner of a true-born gen tleman and the pride of the Tichborne*. The home secretary hod refnaed Mr. Biddnlpb an extension of time in his visit, and he (M. Onslow) promised that he should bring this cruel treatment bo fore the constituents of Mr. Cross in Lancashire, in the hope that they would rememtior it agninst him at the next election. The claimant was in far I sitter health than ihey expected to And him ; for on the last visit it looked as if all hope hail left him. A great change for the better had come over bira, and be was in good health and tranquil in mind, not only in his knowledge of his innocence, but that bis friends would work till he was released. There was no donbt that at the next general elec tion the Tichborne question would be made a hustings cry, and he believed the result would lie the release of the claimant. Novel Jewelry, Thomas Jefferson's great-granddaugh ters, who reside, in comparative j>ov erty, in Florida, have contributed to the Centennial several lieautiful sets of flsh scale jewelry. The material used is tho large scales of certain fish found in Southern waters. These are bleached and then fashioned into the charming brooches, earrings and necklaces now displayed in the Women's pavilion. In beauty of design and finish they rival the airy filigree work of the Swedes or Italians. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., l\\.. THURSDAY, JUNE 21), 1870. The Chinese Question. The ant i Chinese questiou on the Pa ciflo coast has in all likelihood lieen given more prominence than it deserved. Those who uarticijaite iu It are general ly of the brawling class, small politi ciaiia anxtoua to curry fuvor with la borers and artuans whose apprehen sions, esjsvially in a time of commer ctal depression, are always easily aroused, autl aeunation mongers eager to accept the offered opportunity to write up •" China town " nguin aiui invent a few details to suit the t ccusioli, and be hind them all is tlie hoodlum element on the alert for anything which prom ises a riot slid .at occasion for pillage. In the midst of the turmoil raised by these agitators it is mt easy for the voioe of common sense to l*e heard, and principle is very apt to I*< swayed or Silenced by prejudice. Nevertheless, we venture the prediction that if the respectable citiaeua of California ootlld be polletl they would, by au overwhelm iug majority, declare that the present antt Mongolian crusade is aa undesirable as it is unjust. The Bix Oompaniea have, in the.rap i>eal to the President and people of the United States, mode IUI ffeotivr pro-on tatiou of a strong i-iiv, it might have lieen bettered if tli<" MgtHTK had ehiurn to go more into detail. Tliero is, for m stance, not the slightest fear that the Chinese iwi ever become so numerous an appreciably to affect our social or }H> litical institutions. Granted that the same rate of immigration which the hiHxllnuia effect to aouaider a source of danger lie maintained for a century, with allowance for increase by n.itural causes, our Chimme population m PJ76 would only be B,(KM,000 a against how many millions of whitest Beside*, the anti Chinese argument debuts itself, for iu the same breath that it is urged that the Celestial* pour iu here by myriads it is also charged against them that they doii t come to stay and la- Americanized, but as s> n as they have made a little money take it and them selves h> nil* to the flowery kingdom. The positions are inconsistent, and till the Culiforniau* elect to stand ou one we must reject both. The economical considerations of the question hardly merit serious attention. If the Chines*- pay tlnir t-x> *, rents and fares, and earn and purchase that which they wear and consume, the cotumuu ty must be a gamer. If they work for less wages than other people, then there is a saving of capital which wid tlud other investment* and open new flel_. of industry. Inasmuch as the most rabid denunciations of the Chinese come from people who do not work xeept when menuctd .by starvation, the Chinese hare rather the better of the argument. So with the moral and social features of the question.* The prison statistics of California and San Francisco show the average of crime among the Chinese to be lower than among the r< *t of the population. If their residences are pub lie nuisances, why are not the nuiaanccs slutted by those charged with preserv ing the public heallli and morals I Are they auy worse than ncrar of' the qusr teiji frTqueiittvl by other foreign resi dents? Whenever those who now so loudly declaim against Chine*" immi gration are able to answer such ques tions as thine, it will lie time to allow them to take the next step and show cause for excepting one part cular js-o nle from the operation of our laws and competition in our market*. It is by uo mi-ana flattering to our na tional pride that in tin ceut ntual year such a discuisiou as this should le waged, aud that alt the courtesy and cogeqcy t-hould Is* displayed on the side of the uncivilized heathens.— „V> • . £ Time*. The Saltan's Downfall. The tragic fat** Abdul Ar.:' inq st* renewed interest to the story of las full Irotn power. The incident* which at touded hi* overthrow and imprison ment appear to tie as follows : The u bl ister* assembled at the residence of the grand vizier, and di*cn*ed the state of public affairs. They concluded tb it un -lem some radical nun*urea wen* adopt**! general rebellion u:.d a total ooliapse of the state would result. A resolution wa adopted embodying tli.se views, and a petitiou to the sultan was drnwn np praying him to abdicate in order to save the country. The sultan received the ]M'tition with affected composure, and said ho would consider the matter. There was , great pin-nlar domourtra tiou in" the street*. The trade guilds, headed tiy the softs*, marched to the sultan'a palace, tiunpposod by the null turv, who were evidently disaffected. The crowd cheered for Murnd and de manded the downfall of Atkiul Aziz. In the meantime Munul having been re leased from his own house to which he had been confined by the sultan was conducted to the mosque and as Bultan Munul the Fifth. Boon after this, Buleiman Pasha, aocnnqiauiod by soldiers and ofilcers, informed Abdul Aziz that the nation had deposed liirn, and lie should surrender the palace to his suc cessor. The attitude of the troops con vinced Aziz that resistance was UDJSH sible. Accordingly he with his family, . ousehold, and nifty -three boats filled with women left the building, ami were conveyed under escort to the Tcheragau palace. Immediately after bin overthrow re ports were current that the sultan had been murdered. His fate created deep concern in the royal courts of Europe. Queen Victoria took stejm at once to lie assured of hia personal safety. The anx iety was allayed by a telegraphic circu lar from the porte wherein >t was stated that the ex-sultan would tie treated with the oonaiderntiou and honor due to his ¥ arson. The pnvilion belonging to the cheragau palace, on the Boephorns, had been assigned him as a residence. Thia building is a wooden structure, with a tine platform built ont before it to the water's edge. Despite the offi cial assurance rumors have latin current that the ex-sultan would lie sent to Asia Minor, where it would tie out of his power to disturb the government. It may have been fears of tins step, as well as the hostility of the new vizier, which led Alslul Aziz to oommit suicide. The leading iucideuts of his career, in brief, are as follows : He was the s<m of a san guinary despot and was born in 1880. He ascended the Ottoman throne iu 1861, and for several years gave promise of being a wise and prndjnt rnlor. He failed, however, to carry out the reform ho initiated and allowed the state to drift into insolvency and disorder. Dur ing his reign there wore revolts in Ore to uid Herzegovina. The wcaknens ho lie trayed in dealing with the latter caused the disaffection which resulted iu his fali. His death removes all pretext for not recognizing his successor on the ground of informality. It was understood that Bervia would refuse to pay tribute to Bill tan Mnrad until that question was settled. VICISSITUDES OF LlFE. —Billy Man ning, the negro minstrel, died in Chi cago at the ago of forty-two. lie com menced life on a cauolboat, then drove an omnibus in Cincinnati, and at about the same time appeared on the stage as an amateur performer. He took to negro minstrelsy and was so thoroughly successful that he accumulated a for tune. But he squandered all of it and left his widow penniless. Health Maxim*. The olutervauce of the following sani tary regulations would doubtleaa pro long many a life: 1, The first step toward the reduction of diseases is, lieginuiug st the begin ning, to provide for the health of the unborn. If the intermarriage of dia coses were considered ill the same light as the intermarriage of poverty, the hereditary transmission of disease would Ito at au end iu three, or at most four generations. '2. (ircatcrcare than is ut prrscitt uiaui fested ought to l>e taken with women who ure about to become mothers. 3. In meeting the uncontrollable causes of dis.-a.-e, tlie K|ecial iuilut noe of season deserves particular atteutiou. In Septeuils-r it is right to a<Ul to the clothing, and to commence a little ex ixss of food; iu aumun r, not ouly to re duce the clothing, but to eat less food than iu winter. 4. The ttest un-aus of preventing the -.picad of communicable diseases ia, jx-r feet and iustaut isolation of the infected, and removal and purifying of all cloth iug and Ixnlding which have been in contact. 5. The mortality among person* of al --vanoed life is I lest prevented by provid ing against sudden vicissitudes of heat and cold. 6. The true danger of every form of mental exercise is the addition of worry. 7. Physical training, while it should be moderately encouraged, should Ie secondary to mental training. H. The combination of mental aud physical fatigue is extremely injurious. Long journeys < sell day to and from the sphere of profession or business, are hurtluL •J. The passions should be held in subservience to the reasoning faculties. lu. fo escape the evils arising from the use of alcohol there is only one |>er feet course, to abstain from alcohol alto gether. 11. The use of tobacco in every form is a habit better not acquired, and when acquired is belter abandoned. 12. Indulgence iu narcotics—opium, chloral, chlorotiyne, ulesinthe—is an en tire de|*rture from natural law and a certain means of embittering and short cuing life. 13. A man's food should be selected so as to insure variety without success. The auinuut of fiuid tak U should not exceed an average of twenty four . per diem. 14. Air charged with offensive sub Stances should Is- excluded from rooms, and the aveiuge u mperatureof th* room should la* about sixty degrees Fahren heit. 15. A certain amount of is**t and re creation is essential in any occupation. Id. Enforc d idleness by those who have acquirid wealth i* always an error so long as the health is good. 17. The natural durationa l sleep is eight hours out of the twenty four; best taken from ten o'clock until six. IH. 1 r as should fit loosely, should lie light, warm, and porous; should tie throughout every part of th< clothing, upper and under, friqueutly changed aud kept clean. 19. Perfected action of the skin can nnlv lie obtained by thorough ablution of the whole liody, which should lie ]>er lorrnod once in every twenty-four hours. 20. The diseases armiug from irrita tion and moral contagion are liest avoid ed by removuig the young and impres sionable from the aourcea of danger. 21. Automatic phenomena of disease are Iv*st removed by introducing into the sufferer's daily life such amusements a* will keep him from thinking too much of himself. Maxim* of the Chinese. It i* the rich who want most things. Great souls have wills; others only feeble wishes. When a song gives much fame virtue give* very little. All is lost when the people fear death less th.iu poverty. 11c who lets things be given to him is not good st taking. Who is the greatest liar. He who ■qienk* most of himself. The court is like the sea—everything depends upon the wind. One forgives everything to him who forgives himself nothing. The tree overthrown by the wind lias more branches than root*. ltooeive your thoughts a* guest* and treat your desires like children. One never needs one's wits so much n* when one lias to do with a fool. For him who does everything in it* proper time one day i* worth three. He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. A fool never admires himself so much as when he hn* committed some folly. The less indulgence one has for one's self the more one may have for other*. Towers are measunsl by their shadow, and great men by those who are ei vious of them. At eourt people sing that they may drink; in a village people drink that they may sing. The dog iu the kennel barks at hi* flea*, but the dog who is hunting does not feel them. We mnst do quickly what there is no hurry for, to lie able to do slowly what demands baste. The truths that wo leaat wish to bear are those which it is most to our ad van tagc to know. What a pleasure it is to give ! There would be 11 > rich people if they were capable of feeling this. the way to glory is through the pal aee.To fortune through the market, to virtue through the desert. Who is the man most insupportable to us? He whom we have offended and whom we can approach witli nothing. The prison is shut night and day, yet it is always full; the temples are always open, ami yet you find no one in theui. The rich find relations in tho most remote foreign countries; the poor not even in the bosom of their own families. Whoever makes a great fuss about doing good does very little; he who wishes to be seen and noticed when he is doitig good will not do it lonp: lie who mingles humor and caprice with it will do it badly; he who only thinks of avoid ing faults and reproaches will never ae quirt* virtues. Displays at the Exposition. The following stated displays will Is* held during the Centennial exhibition, the dates having been recently revis>d : Parly gram I •utter and rtieeao. .June 26 to July 6 Karly summer vegctablea June 20 to It Honey Juno 20 to 21 Kaspbern a aiul blackl*rrie* July .2 to 8 Southern pomologlcal product*. ..July IS to 22 Melons Aug. 22 to 26 l'eaches Sept. -I to 9 Northern |K>mologlcal products Kept. 11 to 16 Autumn vegetables. Kept. 19 to 23 Cereals Kept. 25 to 30 Potatoes and feeding root# .Oct. 2 to 7 drapes Oct. 10 to 14 Autumn butter and cheese Oct. 17 to 21 Nute Oot. M to Nov. 1 Autumn honey aud tn Oct. 23 to Nov. 1 Mowing machines and hay rakes. June 15 to HO Heaping July 5 to 15 Horses Kept. 1 to 14 Dogs Kept 1 to 8 Meat cattle Kept. 21 to Oot. 4 Hwine Oct. 10 to 18 Kheep Oot. 10 to 18 Poultry Oct. 27 to Nov. 6 Cashlou Note*. black hats will be worn ouly for deuii toilet. Perfumed hats are a novelty attempted in l'aris. .Saturday morning weddings are again in vogue. Milk* are ruinously low, say the mer chants in Loudon. Fancy millinery silks command a bet ter price than dress silks. Hustles nre so small at present that they are iu voiced " invisible." The fashionable fancy work for sum mer resorts will be lace making, (Quaking grasses are mingled with all the bonuet trimmings in London. Violet wood fans are novelties intend ed to take the place of sandal wood ones. I'earl gray failles, trmimed with fitsrt ed gauze and with Hpauish blonde, are very popular. Oohl and silver tlirea.U are introduced into all the embroideries of evening dr uses in Paris. Bridesmaids wear gauze dresses trimmed to correspond with the bridal dress of repped silk. English round hats with broad brims are worn by the ultra fashionables for promenade costume. Hilver saubu-he is used by French modiste* for trimming silver gray camel's hair costumes. None but very handsome women, with small aud regular features, can wear the hair iu the French twist style. The *abilers of wedding dresses are made of heavy repped silk covered with seed jiearl aud chenille embroidery. Fashionable dressmakers say that every lady is ordering a black grenadine suit for wear at the summer resorts. French or Italian chip of the palest shade of rreani is tiie fall dress midsum mer bonnet for Newport and Saratoga. All the bridesmaids of Mile, de Itothscliild* wore, st the wedding in I'aris, dresses of blue silk and blue gauze. The large, long, or square pocket, in evitable on all costumes, is now placed back of the left hip and rather low down. a There is a tendency to revive high coiffures. The French twist, worn very small and high, is to replaoe the Greek coil. The brims of the English round hats are ro'l.-d instead of being closely pressed against the sides of the crown, as last season. Very dressy liats from Virot's are turned up only on one aide, and have a coquettish face trimming of velvet Isoida and flowers. Kdurilloo of To-day . The New York 7hari, editorially commenting on education, says the old theory tliat students could not study too much, even if their health suffered, has lveen prove,! fallacious, as no amount of culture will compensate for ruined con stitutions. It advocates the sulmtitu tion of French and German for Latin and Greek; denying the assumption that the dead classic* strengthen and invigorate the mind more than the standard literature of the day. It as sert* that the chief defect* of educa tion, ju*t now, are in method and in discrimination. Teaching is s rare gift. Not one in a hundred well instructed persona can mast* r it. They mav liave abundance of knowledge, without any clear notion of how to impart it ; the talent for taking in aud the talent for giving out being in no wise kindred. Teachers, fur the most part, become such from circumstances rather than froui fituea*; more by accident than r*- flection. They adopt sonic old system without examination, ami for no other reason than that it has been used before. Tbev judge all their pupils alike, mak ing little or no allowance for individuali ty, difference of capacity or tempera mental bent. Consequently, a mere routine is established, and instruction goes on from day to day, from week to •week, from month to month, after the manner of a steadily ground organ which plays half a doxen fixed tunes. The aptitude or inaptitude of the pupils for certain branches is not taken into ac count, They are all taught the name thing, at the same time, in the same wav ; and each must do the ls-st he can, under conditions generally unfavorable. Education heooma a mere formula, which is mechanically gone through with. What they* should reason out they learn by rote; what is designed to develop their thinking faculty gets to ' lie a matter of memory ; and so the sole object in view is continually and abso lutely detested. Ilabit*. The most universal cause of dyspepsia is eating too often, too fast, and too much. The general rules should be : 1. Eat thrice n day. 2. Not a.i atom between meals. 3. Nothing after two o'clock but a slice of cold bread and butter and one •nip of hot drink. 4. Spend half an hour at least in taking each mi al. B. Cut up all meats atul hard food in pea aizial pieoes. f. Never eat euongb to cause the slightest uncomfortable sensation after ward. 7. Never work or study hard within half an hour of eating. The most universal aud infallible in dication that a person is becoming dyspeptic iH some uncomfortable sensa tion coming 011 uniformly after each meal, whether that be in the stomach, throat, or anywhere else. The forma tiou of wind in the stomach, indicated by eructation, belching, or other wise, demonstrates that dyspepsia is fixing itself in the system. Then there is onlv one course to pursue, and that is infallible : eat less aud less at each meal nutil no wind is generated and no uncomfortable sensation experienced in any part of the body. No medicine ever cured confirmed dyspepsia ; eating plain food regularly aud living out of doors industriously will cure most ease*. A Remarkable Kgir Story. Mr. A. D. Warren, of Worcester Mass., has a remarkable production in the egg line, which is attracting much attention aud causing considerable dis cussion. Mr. Warren is a well known poultry fancier, and his game bantams have attracted a great deal of attention. A day or two siuce he notioed that one of hia hens was in trouble, alio having the appearance of liaving had an egg broken in her. Hhe was accordingly killed and opened, when a perfectly formed egg, us large as a goose egg, was discovered. This npon being put iu the scales was found to weigh four and three fourths ounces. The egg was then blown, aud after the white and yolk had Inseu forced out it was found that inside was a seoond perfectly form <•<l egg, which was also blown, and found to contain a yolk and white in their proper proportions. The only differ ence lx>twoen the outer shell and the shell of an ordinary egg is that it is ex ceedingly brittle, aud has to lie handled with the utmost care to prevent its breaking. The hen was but two years oil, and weighed, before the egg was ' removed, two and one half pounds. TERMS: B'i.OO a Year, in Advance. ( HMKDIAI, COKKKsiIFMHCM'K. Aactrelaarai If all Kairlia KiblMl laws The Aaaartaia Uulltaa I kalrt, Mr Agricultural Hall begin* to iMoue form and comeliness, though many latxes are still unopened, and many sec tions arc yet incomplete. Here are tru acres devoted to a display of the pro ducts of tiiti soil and the implements used in its cultivation, aud in prejmriug all that is of earth fur humau use. Here, are the various forma of food in its uatu ral or prepared shape, vegetable and animal giving one a vivid idea of bow mankind doth live. The foreign exhibit, in this hall, oc cupies much sjiaoe, and much of it ia of a superior character, each oouutry gen erally showing its characteristic and best productions. Several countries are not Jet ready to exhibit their good*. Hu sin as a large space filled with unopened l ilea. Bpain aud Portugal are each in a chaotic state. Brazil has a large aud creditable ex hibit of her staples, of which she ex ports, of coffee, 9111,000,000 ; sugar aud cotton each over 915,000,000 ; hides, 93,000,000 ; India rubber, $5,500,000, and of tobacco nearly $1,000,000. Bhe also exhibits 300 varieties of wood, many of them very valuable for cabinet and ornamental work. Portugal has a large pyramid of oork and cork wood near the center of the mam aisle. Also a good showing of seeds, grain, beans, in whioh ahc takes the lead, nuts, fruits, wines, silks, etc. Sweden exhibits wheat, rye, oats, barley and the grasses iu stalk and in jars, superior leather, and samples, pre served in glass jars, of all the kinds of fish abounding in her waters, making the beet exhibit of fish in the hall. Her plows have taken many medals at national fairs. llermuda shows large sized potatoes, onions and tomatoes, grown in the open air, bananas, plantains, yams, limes, co coa nuts, cocoa and sweet potatoes. Jamaica exhibita oranges, shaddocks of the shape and color of oranges, but very much larger, pineapples and mangoes. Canada, on our north border, has a good collection of grains, seeds, fruits, salt, flax, conserved meats, tongues, roast fowls and all kinds of roast meat, flsli, etc. A large collection of butter flies and stuffed birds. Also a fall and creditable assortment of agricultural implements—reapers, thrashers, cultiva tors, etc., etc. —including potato diggers, and plows of euornioua length of beam and bandies. Great Britain and Ireland have a large space assigned them in this . h part men t bnt their agricultural exhibit is small and is not yet in ahsjie. The prominent articles displayed are bottled fruits, table jellies, canned meats, wool and its sub stitutes, from Liverpool, wire cloth and mining wire, sheep shears, edge tools, china ware, plain and gilt, tiles, scour ing bricks, mill stones and road locomo tive and wagon. Italy's chief exhibit, st present, in this hall, is wim-s. She makes amends for defects hereby decorated porcelain vases go t rare jewels in the MUD build ing, and by a magnificent display of paintings and sculpt tin* in Memorial hall, and especially in the annex to Me morial ball, which ia the gem of the whole Expotuliou. Its extent and beauty surprise and delight till who aee it. Un pntentious in exterior, it dwarfs, by its excellence, its most imposing neighbor. The United States surpass all other countries in agricultural machinery. lowa, which has three hundred varieties of apples, seventy-five varieties of corn —sixty-fpur in the ear of so large a ante that nineteen ear* fill s bushel bosket— eightT varieties of wheat, rye, oats and lair ley; sixty varieties of grass, s, thirty of grass seed, two hundred of vegeta blew, and one hundred and sixty varieties of wood, besides minerals, sand and ochers in the annex to the Main build ing. She lias thirty five samples of soil, six feet deep, in large glass cylinders, from as many counties, in the four sec tions of the State, which show, at a glance, its amazing fertility and produc tiveness. Just south of this is the Aquarium, consisting of a long series of tanks iu which large fish and small fish, eels, crabs, terrapins and horseshoes disjHtrt themselves, to the great amuse rnrnt of gaping crowds. A great convenience—pronounced by some a great nuisance—ia the rolling chairs, withont which large numbers could not see, or but partially sec, this Exposition. Even persons in ordinary health get tired out long before they have made the rounds of the principal buildings. It is within bounds to say that the aisles within and walks without exceed fifty mile*, and though it ia not neoessarv to traverse them all to see the princital sights, and get a good general idea of the Exhibition, yet those who have but little time to spend here, find it an agreeable change, when their limbs fail them, to drop into a chair and he wheeled wherever they list There are eating and drinking places in abundance, on the grounds, where one can get refreshments at a reasonable price, but to show the indisposition of the Centennials to shave the visitors, there is but one.liarlier shop in the whole grounds, and as 1 bail some trou ble iu finding it, I will state that it is in the Telegraph building, north of the west end of the Main building. 8. M. B. His Deep Sympathy. A man with long hair and a red nose entered a New York saloon one Snuday, reached out his hand to the proprietor for a shake, and feelingly observed : •• Mir, you have my sympathy, and, believe me, sir, all free-born Americans will svmpathize with you." •' Yes, the Sunday law will hurt us bad, replied the saloon ist. '• It is base tyranny—it is nothing more nor less than downright anarchy it is enough to chill a freeman's blood !" exclaimed the stranger. "I will now take a little sip of your >est whisky." " No drinks put on the slate," quietly remarked the saloon is t. '• I ht tliat this Sunday law will mnw the grass to grow iu the streets of Now York!" shouted the loug haired man. •' Hut I will stand by yon. As awn as I sample yonr Iwst brandy I'll go out aud get up an indignatiou meeting." " Cash down," Raid the I >ar keeper; "yon hid soakers haTo beaten me out of hundreds of dollars." The man felt in all his pockets, looked under the lining of his hat, and barked to the open door, where ho halted and growled in a deep bass voice : " Dare but to open this door the millionth part of a hair's breadth next Sunday, aud I'll soend millions of dol lars to put yon in the cooler 1" A Tramp's Ride. Michael llvan has ridden irom Chi cago to Ban Francisco for nothing and made a dollar on the road. From Chi cago to Omaha he rode under the head light of the engine, and from Omaha to Reno part of the time stowed under the baggage of some Germans who from time to time provided him with food and water, anil part of the time on a coupling of a freight car. At Reno he bought from an immigrant the unnsed piece of hia ticket for sl, bnt having an opportunity to sell the oonpou for $2 he did so aud "beat" his way onward to Ban Francisoo, which he reached after being ejected from the cars a score of times. NUMBER 20. (jiggling (lirla. A holy writer give. Ibo following well merited remark* on what ato terra* "giggling girla": The Te to*. Per; hap* you don't know them by that name." Well, then, auggaat a better. They are the Halt of oar aoaiety, in one sense ; girla of good minda—mind* that will to good if they aurvive the giggling age ; girla of good families, well dreeaed, imlita, and fine looking, but poasnaned of the inaene idea that they moat laugh upon all occasions, whether there ia any thing to warrant it or not—else ttoy are not jolly, gay girla, and lively company. A bevy of them aame into a public library one day. One had just tod an ad venture, which waa to to recited. She drooped into a chair, bent over, and held her aides, and they ail chorused in. They hadn't heard it yet; but of course it would be awful funny when it was told. Hbe was coining up tto atreet when she stepped on a rotten plank —te to ! to ! chorus, te to! —and down ato went. Oh, dear I—te he ! he I —and her foot got tangled—full chorus, te be ! be! lie'—and a man came along with a horrid check shirt on—ha! he! he!— big chocks ; perfectly horrid I—bet— *nJ helped her op—be ! be 1 he f Then a waving of the bodies back and forth, and a grand te be ad libitum, all to getlicr. They were splendid girls!—l speak sincerely. Bat what an exhibi tion ! I saw an old grsybeard take a book be didn't want and harry sway. Then another girl took it op, and sani her book was m> comical she just bowled over it—he! be! They mast all read it —they would laagb so. As if that was tbe end and aim of s girl's existence Whan s man is amused he laughs with gosto, and then straightens his face till the next time. And it has aome mean ing. But the perpetual grin or giggle is detestable. At a lecture recently 1 saw six young ladies seemingly oouvulsed with laughter for five minutes or more at the accidental dropping of a paper of candies over the floor. 1 think I can go into a social parlor and select the groups of married ladies from those of the girls—not by their faees nor by their dresses, bat by the amount of giggling done. Matrimony subdues the snickerar. Ivory. To furnish the ivory which is im ported into England alone, 50,000 ele phants have to be killed every year. Tbe best ivory oumes from Zanzibar, the pro duct of" the African elephant; it is opaque, soft, easy to work,- and free from cracks and other defect*. That from Ambrix, the Gaboon river, and south of the equator,sl called "silver gray it remains white, and never be comes yellow, as is tbe case with the Asiatic ivory ; it is, therefore, tbe most valuable of any ivory in the market. Tbe tusks from Statu are translucent, and be ing soft grained, are preferred for orna mental work. The foam! tasks of the mammoth* found in the Arctic regions and Siberia, form a not inconsiderable amount of tbe ivorv trade; some of these tusks are in as fine a condition for working as the very best of modern ivory, which is very remarkable, m aome of these elephants or mammoth* have ' l>een preserved in an ice crust, and have remained imbedded for unknown ages, probably since the glacial peridQ—some 150,000 years ago. If this is so, it goes to show that the change of temperature took place rapidly in s then tropical elr tnate, where these animals previously flourished, and overtaking them sud denly, and covering them with an ioe crust, were the causes of their perfect preservation. I/ising a < udomer. The following very Parisian story is told by an exchange : A wealthy bach elor, who breakfasts every morning in one of the moat fashionable restaurants of the Boulevard dee Italien*, is, or rather was, very attentively served by a waiter whose palm be generally cro-eed. Of oourac the wealthy hacbelor always had the same neat, a neat by the window looking on the ever animated boulevard, hot platen, dishes served promptly, bat not too fast; in fine, Benedict had an excellent servant. Bat, daring the last week, Benedict had been unable to get the excellent servant; another servant hangs around him, and trie* his beat to supply all hia wants, still the new face is not the old face, and • in.' annoys Bene dict most is, that be oocaskMiallv catches glimpses of the old servant, who gives him moat sorrowful planers. Benedict lias examined the matter, and lias di covered that his old servant is addicted to gambling. One evening, having lost all his money, he staked hia best cos tomer—Bentsiict —and last him. Pet* lUrds in the Woods. A writer from Florida says : We wit nessed a novel snd beautiful sight s few days ago at the farm of Mrs. Hildreth on the North river, about two milea above the city. Mrs. Hildreth, in the course of a few months, haft succeeded in taming the wild birds that fly about the plsoe. While we were in the house Mrs. Hildreth went out to the door and called to the birds, which were then, in the middle of the day, in the adjoining forest in a few m.mients a dcaen or more bluebird* and mocking birds came firing aromul her. She then came into the bouse and handed each of oar party a raisin, which we were requested to hold oat in our fingers. We remained still for a few minutes, when the birds hopped in at the door, flew upon our hands and picked the raisins from onr fingers. We were astonished, and oould not help wondering the more when we were informed that none of these birds ha-1 been caged, bnt 'were thus tamed by the gentleness and art of this lady. How to Treat Children. To gain obedience, yon must first set yourself to deserve it. Whatever yon promise your little one, however small the thing seems to yon, and whatever trouble it costs you, perform it. Never let the doubt once enter that innocent mind that yon soy what yon do not mean, or will not act up to what you say. Make as few prohibitory laws as you possibly can, but, onoe made, keep them, lu "what is granted as in what is denied, compel yourself, however weary or worried or impatient, to ad minister always even-handed justice. This is a eystem much more likely tc soenro your child's real affection than all the petting Rnd humoring so generally indulged in, to give pleasure or save trouble, not to your little ones, but to yourself. tloiiig to the Bad. About eight years ago Emmet, before then a negro minstrel, started oat as a " Dutch" comedian,aud won popularity and a fortune in a play called " Fritz. He is said to have made $150,000 iu live years, as his ability to draw large audi ences enabled him to dictate terms with managers. Drunkenness was one of the results of his success. During his last engagement in New York city he was often peroeptibly iu toxica when on the stage. A letter in the Ban Francisoo Pout says that on the stage of the opera houf-e in Melbourne, Australia, he was recently so drunk that he fell while try ing to dance, and soon afterward fell asleep in the midst of a scene. The stage manager roused him and led him behind tho soenes, and the audience de parted in disgust. UHM r litwut. Short of atone* —tto nu with but one shirt Tto matt who makes himself ridton loos prevents many others (ran becom ing no. Ton can't M enough in on* work U I wit a whole year, MM yon oau't artvwr tiae on thai plan alitor. An old maid, speak iug of manias?*, aaya il is like any other disease—white there's Ufa there* hope. The difference between Quera totb and Bhakespser* (a,* that one wan a wonder and tto other a Todor. * Man of force and industry eveiy where will tall you that it in the hardest thing in tto world to do nothing. Until to measure* himeelf by others, the eelf made man ia never quite certain whether or not to ia well made. The life at a rich old Imctolor ia a aplendid breakfast, a tolerably flat din* oar, and a moat miserable anppar. A conundrum that toa never been aatiafaetorily answered—How many bootjack* doaa it take to kill a oil A clergyman, who Uvea on tto sea shore, aaya to likes calm Sundays, be cause to is opposed to Sabbath break er*. Tto Boston Globe nominates Honesty for Vine-President. We respectfully decline, aaya tto Norriatown Herald. Tto girla of Fulton county, liL, had a stoep shearing match tto other day, and tto winner sheared thirteen sheep in two hour*. An English settler in OapeCokmy. South Africa, toa in four yean cleared fl if.,000 by raising ostriches and selling their feathers. Matilda Beandry, of Oohosa, N. V., f 150 to her lover, became insane upon learning that she could obi g t it took, and died in an asylum. A neighboring tanner notifies the pub lic that parties leaving their hides will have them thoroughly tanned and dreea ed in a satisfactory manner. A Miss Htewart, of Hamilton, On tario, has recovered §7OO damages from a lover, who forsook tor after an en gagement of twenty*** years. A Baltimore 1017 gave a y">g I* 1 ! * verdict of SII,OOO again* Joseph A. Faraa, a well known Baltimormu, for breach of promise and seduction. New* baa been received that three Frouctj Catholic miseioueiim, sent oat by ait Algerian society, awe beheaded the iaat of Jan nary, while on the road to Tim boot 00. An examination of a large lake re oratly discovered aome forty miles went of Laramie. W. T., disefcwed a thick layer of aotobato of magueaia in a pure, state at tbe bottom. Only six persona haw been banged in Connecticut daring tbe laat thirty y mi*, and only two of these for offense* com mitted oat of prison, the other four having tn ordered prison officers. Beading, Pa., has sixty building asso ciations, whose joint receipt* are about $60,000 a month. The rapid and sub stantial program of the caty is ascribed by a local paper to their operations. A machine has been invented, after a study of ten years, for making seamless pstx-r boxes.' It rolls tbern from the pulp, snd will make 600 an bow, no matter whether they are large or small, round or square. A lady, who lately returned from Europe," was waited upon by a friend who had alao been abroad, and who pre ferred this request : " Oaa you give mo a marquis' card 1 I can give yon two vis county in exchange," A Cleveland councilman noted in favor of putting new seats in., the oouncil chamber, because, as he said, " when a chair slipped from under a member tbe papers said be was drunk." He wanted chain that wouldn't slip. , Custom house officers are stationed at every door of tbe Exhibition buildings to see that n > dutiable article# are car- * ried -uwav. This make# a good deal of trouble /or visitor* with bundles—the result of previous shopping. When air balloons were first discov ered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it The philosopher answered the question by ffltrkT > 'g another. 44 What is the use of a new-born infant I It may become a main " being tried far assault and \*t iery in Virginia City, Nevada, when asked by the judge if be had anything to say byway of defense, replied: ** Well, yonr honor, I saw Irat little of the fight', aa I waft underneath moat of the time." A contemporary, apropos of recent events, gives the following asge hint : Advice to public men : Bo conduct your private business correspondence that yon shall not be frightened half oat of your wits when there a chance of its being made public. Visiting magistrate (to pauper lunatic) Well, William. you have been here nearly ten years; I suppose you would like to be iiiecfaarged 1* P. h Beed no. sir; TOO don T think I am so cruxy as ail >'*. do yon f I'm very comfortably thank your honor !" A bankrupt astonished the judge and everv one else in the Cambridge county court in England by suddenly drawing forth a bag with 800 sovereigns and handing it to the judge for safe deposit. He said he had no faith in the trustee, and had, therefore, secreted the gold. • Well," said the captain, " before yon can be a sailor yon most be able to make three ends to that piece of rope. TrrnU ' "All right," said the young ster. " here i one end, here is another, and (chucking it overboard) there is a third." The captain thought be would da An Ohio editor says of a contemporary who had assumed the part of a mummy in a dramatic performance: He was obliged to put a little animation into himself to oome up with the character, and to wtr more recent linen ; bnt that was about ail. Nature had admirably qualified him to act the part. A stupid young man, supposed to be crack brained, who was slighted by the girls, very modestly asked a young lady "if she would let him spend the even ing with her." " No," she angrily re plied, "that's what I won't" " hy," replied he, "you needn't be so fussy ; I didn't mean this evening, but some stormy one when I can't go anywhere else." Flora Temple'* time baa frqjuently been beaten. The following is a list: Goldsmith Maid. 2:14: American Girl, 2:164; Luis. 2:16}; Occident, 2:16}; Gloetw (dead), 2:17; Dexter, 2:175; Net tie, 2:18; Red Cloud, 2:18; Lady Thorn, 2:18}; Lucy, 2:18* Judge Fullerton, 2:19; George Palmer, 2:19k Bodine, 2:19}; Oamora (dead), 2.19J; Flora Tem ple, 2:19}. A writer in the London Gardener has accidentally discovered that two boxes of geranium and caloeolarit-s, which stood in his window, the window being always open to full extent, top and bottom, kept his sitting room free from flies, while every other room in the neigh borhood was swarming with them. He thinks the discovery ought to encourage winter gardening. The word " derrick ' is an American ism, aud vet it had its origin in Eng land. Early in the seventeenth century, when the office of hangman iu England wua no sinecure, one Derrick held the place, and among Puritans and cavaliers alike, his name became associated with the gallows. The Puritans brought the word hither, and gradually it. was ap- I plied to hoisting cranes by a very nat ural process of metonymy. The word appears only in American dictionaries. The following specimen of English, "pore and undefiled," is from the Liv erpool Time* : A doctor was lately summoned to a cottage at Harwood, in Teasdale, and found a boy in need of his services. "Patout your tongue," said the doctor. The boy stared like xu owL' "My good boy," said the medical man, " let me see yonr tongue.'l "Talk English, doctor," soul the moth er; and then, turning to her son, she said: " Hoppen thy gobbler and<Twd out thy lolike." The boy's tongue wa| out in a moment." I
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