In the Long Ago. OooL salt air. and ths whit* wave* breaking Restless. eager, along th* strand, An evening sky and a snnset glory Fading over the sea and land. We two aitttng alone together, Hide by aide, in the waning light; Before ns the throbbing waete of wwtra. Behind us the sand heaps, drifted whit*. Ship* were sailing in the distance, Down to the lands where the sun has gone. The rough, freeh wind blew o'er our faces. And the shadow* of night crept slowly on. It ie a dream that 1 remember Home ghoet of a hope that will (Mine no more, W* two sitting alone together, Hand in hand on the ocean shore. Woman. An angel wandering cnt of heaver, Ai d a I too bright for Kden even. One* through the paths of Paradise Male Utminons the auroral air. And walking in his awful guise Met the Eternal Father there - Wh<\ when he saw the truant sprite. Hauled love through all those ho were of light The while within hie entranced apt 11 Our Eden aire lay slumbering uaar; God saw and salt it :• not well For man shine to linger here— Then took that angel I y the hand * And with a kt* it* brow tie pressed. Ai d ohiepering til his mild command. He laid it near the tleepet's breast. With earth enough to make it hnniau He chaiued its witij. and called it Woman. And if perchance some stains of rust Upon her pinion, yet remaiu, 'Pis hut ths mark of God's own dust. The earth mold of that Eden chain, —T. f? Rrud THE MOTHERS STRATAGEM. One sunny mc-ruing, a few Tears ago, J*n Kammerick came np from the cabin of his barge which 1m men were slowly working through a lock near the quaint and ancient city of Autworp—and set his huge feet upon the deck. His first act was to bellow ferociously at the good uatured follows who were doing their best to get the barge through without even so much as scraping the fresh paint on her side-; his next was deliberately and cruelly to kick a small boy who was lying on his back, and looking up at a carTed wooden figure whose grotesque head grinned from a side rail. Many of the loungers along the banks of the hack knew old Jan Kammerick for a mean and cruel Flemish boor, who maltreated his wife, his children, his bargemen, and who sometimes fiew into such terrific fits of auger that be thrashed his own sides with his round fists. No one in Antwerp—not s market woman on the shore of the Scheldt, nor a bargeman on river or canal—liked the choleric and brutal Jan Kammerick; many times the wretch had narrowly escs{*\l a ducking at the hands of a mob because of his cruelties; and on this occasion, seeing the poor child who was kicked begin to cry and to crawl away toward a refuge under a pile of rope, every one shouted; " Jan Kammerick ! Jan Kammerick 1 you are a mean, bad mac, and no one will be sorry when you come to harm!" or "Jan Kammerick! you shall be com plained of to the judge of the district 1" The women shook their fists at him, and the men muttered that the boy must be taken away from his cruel father and cared for. Kammerick's poor wife, who was washing her pots and kettles on deck, looked as if she in wardly sympathized with the people on ahore; bnt she trembled, and dared say nothing. Jan was in such a dreadful temper that the cries of the people on shore made him more furous still. "It's none of your busihess," he shouted. "how much I pound and kick thia Lrat! He is good for nothing bnt whitt i g and breaking knives. If he craves any more of his padding facet oat of my boat rails I'll send him adrift. Then yoa will have what yon want! Then, neighbors, yoa will have a pauper on your hands; and when yon feed him in your kitchens be will carve doll pnppeU oat of your table legs." Then he vanished down the hatchway, followed by the maledictions of the by standers "If I were yon," one of them to the boy. " I would run away." The barge went on through the locks, and the boy still crouched in his corner. Tne tears yet dimmed his eyes, but he had aLrea ly forgotten his bruises. There was no resentment in his heart toward his wretched father. His miud was fill ed with a thousand beautiful and fan tastic images—delicate fanc.es which he now and then sought to embody in bite of wood thit he laboriously cirve i with clumsy knives or chisels. He longed to be free from the rn.'e work which he was compelled to do njou the barge, and to study, that be might become a great sculptor in wood. When the barge passed near some of th curiously adorned old houses of whiih there sr< so many in Antwerp—houses whose roofs, whose arches, whose doors were richly and profusely adorned with carv ings of birds and foliage, of bea-U ami dragons, of mystical figures from my thologies, or comical transcripts from every day Dutch life—he studied them carefnlly and witn deep adoration. He had never been allowed to go into the streets, and look at them for hours at a time, as he could have wished to do ; for old Jan, who plied to and from a little village on the banks of the Scheldt, at some distance from Antwerp, would never allow his child to go on shore daring his tri weekly visits to th city. He yearned for a sight of the grand churches of which his mother had told him—cathedrals in whose solemn still ness he ooold stand undisturbed all the day long, drinking in beauty at every pore. The harshness an l hardship of his life, the Ix-atings of las unnatural father, would have ls-en as DOthing to him if he could have been allowed to learn some thing of art. Cut old Jin not only refused to allow Liin to work, but bad thrown into the river many beautiful imag<*s of saints, of birds, of dragons, which the child bad curved by stealth when the bargeman was not near, and had then offered to the boor, asking him to sell them and buy tobacco for himself with the money. " No child of my shall waste his life over such mummeries," said old Jan. While the boy wai musing bitterly on his Jot, his mother, who had finished washing her pots and kettles, came to him, and while she wruug ont her dish cloth with her lean and blistered hands, ihe said, ill a low voice : "Jan, boy, yon are small and feeble, bnt you are now thirteen, and I think yon would be brave and resolute. The good soul down stairs " (she always call ed Father Jan good soul, because she knew that he was an old brute) "the good soul has ma le up his mind that you are to be a bargeman, and he is stern, as you know. Now—do not speak —we must try a new way to get you launched in the world. " (Here the mother's tears began to fall fast, and alia thought of the beatings which she might receive if ehe carried out her plan.) "My child, you must leave u; you must run away r FItED. KURTZ, Kditor mid Proprietor. VOLUME IX. Tho boy's eye* diihi'il; ho rows and limped toward hia mother. •' Nevwr !" he said. " 1 cannot loavo you uiotlietkin I Leave you with that rnau I" " Listen, child !" alio said. "Wo will try a little* way which tho giKnl thai has put into my head. Von will l>e a genius, my sou—ono of thoae great people who can express just what they waut to say. You will cairo out your thought* iu wood —iu stone, perhaps. Tonight, whou tho Itaige ato( near tho lock, 1 will make an errand for your father on aliore. I will give you a few piece* of mouey out of tlio sum which we had saved* for Berths'* dowry, aud you shall tly. Your father will not liuut for you; hi* heart is hard, and he will ay that he is glad you are guue." The boy looked at his mother with wonder iu hia eye*. But there was no longer auy aigu of tears iu tliem. A uow tire lit them up. "Go," aho continued, "to Gaaker Willems, iu the little street near Bt. Andrew's. There take a ohamler, aud may God lie with you ! Now and then, perhaps, I may come to see you. But it is better that 1 should uot, and that your father should think you gone -way, uo one kuows when*. But —aud now listeu *rue*tly—in a year from this day, toward suuset, I will bring your father to Saint Andrew's church. It was (here that he tlrst saw me, twenty years ago, there by the great carveu pulpit, w Inch you, poor child, have never seen, but which will delight your eye*. Jan, oue year is uot a long time but you have already done much, aud perhaps, befoie twelve mouths have passed, you will have doue a uoble work. Meet us, th n, by the pulpit in St. Audrew's church iu a year from this day, at the sunset hour. Bring with you some delicate carving as au offering to him, aud at the same time say that you wish to return to us. Perhaps his heart will have been softened by your absence;" and the good little mother almost smiled, aud looked very wise through her tears. " Motherkin," said Jan, " I will obey you." Then the poor child begun to tremble at the thought of going out alone into the worl But his courage came to him finally, aud he kissed his mother again and again. " If anything dreadful happens I will let you know," said she, "but father Jan must not hear from you, uor see you, until a year from this day." "Farewell, then, mothvrkin," said the child; " farewell for a long, long year. By the carved pulpit in Saint Andrew's, in a twelvemonth !" They took their farewells theu anil there, lest old Jan should suspect them, if they were crying toward evening. At uightfall, as the barge approached the lock again, after its station near a market all day, the mother went on shore to get a pail of clear water; old old Jan folioweil her, storming and threatening, as she knew he would be cause supper for the worxmen was not ready. The boy took the little bag of clothes and the money which his mother had prepared for him; as the loat grazed the si le of the look he jumped out, and was speedily lost to view in the crowd. Two hours later, he had Iteen received at the house of Gasker Willems, iu the little street n ar St. Andrew's church. He aiept in an old carven bedstead. wh'*te headboard was a pictured history of the destruction of Pharaoh's host, whose feet were griffins' claws, whose curtain posts were lovely angels with uplifted laces. A year brought sad changes to old Jan Kammeriek. At first when he learned of his sou's flight, be ascribed it to meddlesome neighbors, and his rage knew no bounds. He stoutly in sisted that he would never try to bring back the vagabond wood haokr. He would not hear the boy's name spoken. Sometimes, when he saw that the moth er looker |>aler than was her wont, ami that she wept silently when she was polishing her pots and kettles, his con -cience smote him. Bnt he would never have been really sorry if misfor tune bail not come upon him. One of his bargemen, whom he had once leateu, scuttled the barge and fled. Jan and his wife had a narrow escape from drowning, and. Lad it not been for friendly aid, would have lost all their pots and kettles. Young Jau had been •ant away to Brussels by the good Gas ker Willems, a few days before this, and knew nothing of it nntil many days f erward. He was busy with his art. in which he made a*toni*hiug progress. The next misfortune wb ch befell old Jan wa the loss of his little house on the ii&nks of the Scheldt. A fire burned •ut the interior, sud cracked the stoue walls. Old Jan had not money enough to rebuild it. Then his limlm l>egaii to fail him; they shook and trembled The neighlxirs said: "It is because he kicked and I teat his son !" Ard old Jan himself Itegan to be very much of their opinion. He had now only a small I large; was obliged always to live in it, and was very poor and discouraged. Sometimes his heart was softened towurd his patient wife, and he would sav: " You will le the first to be killed by my (toverty. It would have been bettor for you if I never bad seen you in Bt. Andrew's church." Then she would answer: " No, in deed I Onr fortune is yet to come out of that church, Jan." Bho said this so often, and with such emphasis, that one day he looked at her curiously and said: " Why, Anneken, what do you mean ?" " To-morrow," she answered, "we shall see. Jan, it is many years since we have taken a holiday. We are as good as th rest of the world; let us live our youth over again; let tis stay in Autwerp, and at sunset to morrow let us visit St. Andrew's church, and stand by the carven pulpit where " " Stuff!" the old man was saying, when the mother put her hand upon his month. He no longer threatened or beat her; his punishments had sobered him; his h art almost yearned for his lost son. " By the carven pulpit," continued the mother, " where we may say a prayer for our lost son." " Well, if yon will have it so, An neken," he answered, almost gently. • • • In the Netherlands there are many churches filled with rare and exquisite carvings, with altar pieces, shrines, pnl pits, choirs, vestries, fonts, and sacris ties laden with a wealth of intricate work, done in wood by skillful hands; and in Antwerp tbo richest specimens of this curious lairor are to be found. In the great cathedral of Bt. Jacqnes, where Peter Paul Ilubeus, the painter, lies buried, there are hundreds of rich and fantastic carvings, ont of which the fancies of the elder artists peer curi ously at the prosaic present. Some times the birds are a little too odd to be real, the dragons are almost too funny lor a cathedral, aud the flowers and leaves are not conxtrncted strictly in ac cordance with botany; but, on the whole, you feel that if things in nature are not like those in the carvings, they at least ought to be—so charming, so droll, so satisfactory are they I In St. Andrew's church,of which young Jan's mother had so many tender memo ries, stands a large carven pulpit, of a peculiarly daring design for artists who work in wood. It repr sento a rooky crag near the seashore. Just beneath the crag liae a fishing boat, in which THE CENTRE REPORTER. Uu>l tlio figure* of tho Apostle* An drew ami IVter. Behind thorn, ou tho right, thoir fishing lie'* hang ii|>on a tree Tho |HM|ICN aro looking earnest IT at a figure of tho Savior, which stand* iu au attitude a., if beckouiug them; an if saving : "Follow iuo, and I will mako ye tishcrs of men." Two of tho cleverest art ml* in tho Netherland* gave much timo and talont to tlua de lightful i-arving. Van Hool did tho foliage, tho nolo, tho rooka, Vau Gbeel tho figures of tho apo*Ue and tho Sa Th>r. Tho lattor figure sceui* to ha*o genuine itiapiraUoii in it; tho eculptor ha* wronght marvelou*ly. bringing ef fect* out of atublioru WHHI rarely ob tained before. Wlion ovouing light— last ray of tho declining miu, reflected through tho ataiuod gla*e* of tho church, an I softened to tho delicacy of auuimor twilight—fall* goutly IIJKIU tin* group, tho sacred tlgnroa seem to have all tho auprouio dumb of marble—uay moro, thoy ap|>oar to live! 80 thought tho goodmothor Auuokou, aa on tho appoiutod day. ono vour from tho timo whou alio had aout forth hor child into tho world to giro goniua scope, and to e*cu|> irom hia hard ho*/tod father, alio led tho fooblo and uow quite aubdued old Jan Kammerick into 8k Andrew' church. Aatheoouplo camo iu view of tho pulpit, memories, endearing and eolemu, camo to thorn; tho sjwvUr* of tlioir vani*hed youth roao up livforo them, uot in mocking shape, but aa good spirit*, come to cheer thom ou tho path of life. Old Jan remembered how he had aeeu tho fair maideu standing near tho pulpit with ber hands foldod ami hor eyee closed in prayer, aud how ho had sworn to win hor a* his wifo. Ho was glad ho had ooino into tho church, and thou—ho thought of hia acu. At that moment there was a joyful cry from the mother, and young Jan, won derfully improved in voice, iu mauuer, and in health, rushed into her arms. A hundred kisses, and a half a hundred words sufficed for them ; for the good little mother hail kept herself informed of all her sou's progress, through the medium of old thinker Willems. But the father was astonished beyond meas ure. He stepped back, trembling ; and, shading his eyes with his hands, he looked long at the youth. "Hey day, sou!" he cried; "we thought we had lost you! But here you are l>ack again, aud uo word of repent auoe I" Old Jau tri< d to lie severe, but his voice softened at every word. " Father," said the youth, "I bring you a peace offering." Just ttieu l tanker Willems came hob bling up, bearing a large box, which he placed npon the cathedral floor. Young Jau opened it. and took from it a piece of wood carving. * "Quickly!" said (tasker Willems, after he hail been greeted ; " look at this before the beadle sees us, for it is time when many stroll into the church. Quickly, and then let us ail go 10 my bouse." Young Jan stepped to a point nest the pulpit, where the light still fell with some sharpness, aud held up tile rarving. Theu the astonished parents saw that it was an exact reproduction, on a tiny scale, but done with surpassing finish, '{ the pulpit before which they sto.nl at that instant. But this was not all. In front of the miniature pulpit, stood a maiden, with eyes downcast, aud hands folded iu prayer; aud near her, watch ing her reverently, with parted lijs and expectant air, was a brave young barge man, exactly like those one may see every day on the Scheldt. In this carv ingolil Jan and his wife saw the story of their first uioeiiug told, as the mother hail so often told it to her son. " Father," said the youth, "this, and another like it, have beeu my year'- work. The fellow to this hi* Ix-en .-old to a prince for a largo sum of money ; and the prince wishes to help im> to -tudy until I can help myself more. But ( shall not need him ; ami neither moth er nor y -u will ever work more, for the prince's bounty, with my future work, will be enough for us all. Father, will you t-ike my off> ringf" Old Jan flowed his head, and took the carving. He set it down upon the ra thedral floor, and took his sou to his arms. " I was an old brute," lie said ; " how did I ever lieoome such a so mud re! f" On the way to danker Willems", where the party took supper, the good moth er told the husband of her stratagem to help ber child. Old Jau said but thia: "A good wife i-i a good thing; but 1 have not merited one !" Gasker Willems, who was bringing up the rear with the carving in his arms, said : "Say rather that yon have merited nothing like the ret of ti* ; but that God is good, aud moves in mysterious wavs ; and that your tough heart could onfy have txen softened by the strata gem which He seut into the mother's mind !" " Well, well!" said old Jan, " I must try and get grace enough to thank Him properly."— St. NicffAat. Mind Your Own Business. When you first begin life make two resolutions, and stick to them : First, to mind your own business; second, to let the business of other people alone. Those people who are always meddling with the affairs of others are a nuisance, and ought to be legally abated like any other nuisance. We would rather live near a soap fat boiling establishment or a p troleum re finery than near one of them. If yon belong to that class of nuis ances we pity yon, for your life is an nn e&ny and unsatisfactory one. You can never be happy, becanse it is utterly im (lossible that you can ever fiud out everything that is going on i i your vi ciuity. What is it to you if your neighbor does bring home a brown paper pmckage and a covered basket ? Yon will live jnst as long if you never know what they contained. It is none of yonr business. Suppose Mrs. B. has a new bonnet, how does that concern yon f Your life, liberty and sacred honor are in no way injured by the fact. Suppose she did pay 810 for it. The money did not come ont of your pocket, and conse quently it is none of your business. What if the minister does call on Ann Eliza Smith twice a week 1 Why exer cise yonr brain over it? What if lie is courting her) Dot him court away. Sup pose she has an awiul temper and pow ders her face, as you say he does, her temper will not trouble you. Don't be forever poking yonr nose into everybody's business. If one young lady "cuts out " another young lady it is nothing to you. n isn't making love to you nor any of your folks. What if they do have thiee pairs of stockings apiece over at Squire Hill's. Haven t they a right to) As long as you don't do the washing it need not trouble you at all. If Hill's shirta are three inches longer then common, don't excite yourself about it. If you hadn't been watobing the clothesline you never would have known anything about it, and " where ignorsnos la bliss, 'tit folly to be wise.'' CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., LA.. THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1870. the Jains of India. Tho Jam* of tho Pact Indie* aro very peculiar iu tlioir idea* of animal life. Thoy constitute, pcrhapn, tho most c*r comparison, in point of architecture ami spaciousness, with many of the Hindoo temple*. The Jain who, as ho |t*Me* aliiug tho city aired or country road, tluda a wounded Is-ast or hiril, is iui|>ellod to take it up tender ly, to carry it home and minister to it, or to oouvey it to tho Piujrapob This institution l* conducted much as are human hospitals. The four logged pa tieut is kept and nursed until it is cured ; or, if its injuries are permanent, the hospital is its residence for life. Konadolol's brief and picturesque uo oouut of a visit to the rwjrapoi is curt ous and amusing : " Yon go, in the tirst place, into a largo court surround ed by aheds, iu tho midst of which are kept a number of oxen. There is uuth mg more curious than this assembly of sick quadrupeds, Home have bandages over their eyes ; others, lame or in a helplens condition, are comfortably stretched on clean straw. Their attend ants rub them down, and bring the blind and parah xod their food. From this court we pass into another of less extent, containing dogs and cats in the same pitiable oocditiou. A little further ou is an luclosure resei veil for bipeds. Aged COWS spend their hves peaceably in comi>auy with bald vultures and bux cards tliat liave lost their plumage. At tho other oud of the court a heron, proud of his wooden leg, strutted about in tho rniiist of blind ducks and lame fowls. All the domiwtio animals, and those that dwell in the viciuity of man kind, have here their representatives. Hals are to be seen in great numbers, and display remarkable tameuess ; mice, sparrows, parrot.-*, peacocks, aud jackals, have their asylum in this Jam hospital. However ridiculous this institution may seem, it is yet an example of the kind ness and humanity of these people, whose charity would not allow any be ing created by the Almighty to suffer ; and are can forgive what appears to us an übstinty to those men who can boast that they have covered India with th ir * dhaminnaia-i ' for jHior travelers, aud have enriched tho hospitals by their princely donations." Made lu Egypt, Egypt furnishes an illustration of her own somber architecture. There were many plaster casts of Egyptian aculp ture, queer brass ornaments, old armor, unfamiliar Eastern products. The sen timental eIYWt was marred, however, by tue cards of prices affixed to many arti cle*. A sti'l greater departure of my mind from retrosjiective thought, a cor respondent says, was caused by what 1 saw iu one of the glass cases. The arti cle to which 1 allude is lalsded: " Night .Shirt—priii', S7O Sold to Miss Ord way." The privilege of selling any ar tide on exhibition is accorded by the maUHgers, tho ouly restriction Is mg that a delivery to the purchaser cannot be made lie'ore the dote of the show and that the regular duty mat be paid. MIHS Ordway'a night shirt is beautiful, peculiar and open t . bjeotion for ue in this changeable rliui itc. The t< iturr is like a web, so slight that it will inter pose no barrier to sight or oold. M >a quite* will reach Lctween the threads and bite Miss Ordway if they are not too polite. Every br< y thou sands of women. Miss Ordway, I learn by inquiry, is a beautiful girl of Head ing, Ta. Transfusion of Itlood. Frank Gray was stabbed in the neck by Thomas Kerwin. at George town, Colorado. Ho bled so that it was not believed he oonld live, and lay in a semi unconscious state. The attending physicians determimsl, as a last resort, to try the effect of transfusing blood into his system. Kerwin, who stablied Gray, agreed to supply the blood, and the experiment was made. The poor fellow seemed in the very grasp of death before the operation com menced. Physicians oould detect no pulsation whatever at the wrist; his bauds aud feet were oold an .1 clammy, like those cf a corpse; the eyes hail only a vacant stare, l**trnying no intelli gence ; and when spoken to ho api>oarod entirely unconscious of the import of the words spoken to him. BIIMNI was drawn from Kerwin'a arm and kept at the temperature of the body by immersing the howl containing it in water, the temperature of which was regulated by a thermometer. The flbrine or clot was then carefully re moved, an incision made in a vein of the right arm ami the blood forced into the incised vein through a small syringe. About four ouucea of the blood drawn from Kerwiu's arm were injected into (iray's and in a short time the pnlse was quite perceptible, the extremities re sumed their normal coudition and be cume warm, consciousness returned, and although he did not attempt to speak he evinced a knowledge of what was said to him and replied to queations by maunal sigus. The strength given him by this acoeaaion' ofbloodj p rohably pro longed his life some hours, bnt abont one o'clock the next morning he breathed his last. BIIQUI>AB EPITARA. —On a tombstone at Bhutostmry, Mass., is the following epitaph, dated 1793 : Hie Jsent Johannes Straw, Who forty year* followed the law i When be died, the devil cried " I oka, give a* year paw' A Haiti out! king. Amoricau rich men are of all race*. Girard was French; llopkiu* wa* Pug li*li; Jacob Barker wa* Yankee; tho Liv iugntouoH were Hootch; the Barrotia were Spanish; Antor wa* a German; and Stewart, Irish; Vunderbill suit Garrison were Dutch, of Holland stock. Com modore Vauderhllt, without going far from home, and merely improving the ceutury's great op|>ortuuitiea a* they lie gun and consolidated in tho wuU-rs of New York, gamed a gigantic fortune. He took to the water in chihlhtsst, arose iu tin* infancy of steam navigation, and lived the whole |striod actively tirlweeu the eras of Hols-rt FulbU and George M. Pullman, between the stage coach and the |wince oar. The extent of rail roads in America iu the oomtuodore's eighty second year of age is 75,000 miles; the earliest American locomotive engine builder, Peter Coojier, is still alive. A tnuu has just jtasaed iu eighty hours from New York to Han Francisco, or leas time than was commonly required to go from New Yotk to Waahmgtou wheu Yanderbilt beguu steamboatmg. There are in 1h76 HO.OOO miles of rail toad in North America, and 1H4.U00 in the world. The heir of the Ptolemies has failed as the owner of a railroad and a realm, aud hissultau is defamed. India is full of British railways, and so was Polynesia. Length of days and opportunity count vastly in the returns of a merchant's life. The sti amhoat was invented in the sight of Vauderbilt's birthplace, ou Stalon island, and he saw and protwbly knew Hubert Fulton. Up to that time he had been a mere waterman and aloop captain, sailing no further tliau New Brunswick, on the Haritan, or Shrews bury, or Kingston. His knowledge of the waters led him to IMI employed by the steam boat rivals of Livingstone and Steveus as earlv as 1816. He was more properly a product of Long Island than of Stateu island, and of New Jersey than of New York. It is fourteen miles from Hlaten Inland to New Hrunswick, six miles to New Y'ork, one mile to Kite alietbport, and eight miles to the UJHUI ocean. Within these limits the young Yanderbilt ki.ew every shoal, current, and sounding. He was lieanlrs i..t !li geut, bold and athletic; so he was nu mediately needed when capital and in ventloli were prepared with the steam boat. Eluat>elb|M>rt wan the eud of the main road across New Jersey to New York, rucks *nd marshes intervening above that |>oiut ao that no road was tit for travel beyond it, wheu Wan lung ton, proceeding to New Y'ork to !• maugur ated, took a barge from Killatwth jmiut to the first cwpiul. The man who ad ministered the oath to Washington ou tliat occasion introduced Fult>u and the stoainlioat to America. " Vauderbilt's confidence was seeu in his driving," say* one who knows him " He was so hiind be conld hnrdly see the hair on his horse, aliti yet he rode out every day, iieing several times thrown iuto the road. H<< had just sense enough to believe that if he kept the middle of the road people would get not of his way. That * the oourso he took IU all thing*; he never turned out un less oomjw-lled to." The grandeur of Vanderbilt's finan cial transactions was shown in his Har lem corner at the clow of the war. The was selling at forty m the market, par at fifty. If there were 70,000 shares it required only £1,800,(KM) to buy the whole stock. At par Vanderbilt Co. ts'Ught up the whole stock, while the "shorts" offered sixty. Having got the stock, it went up gradually to SIBO, at or alxrat which figure the broker* and their principal* had to settle or break, making a profit to the Vanderbilt ix*>i of say uine millions, or nearly tliree times the whole amount of the invest :uent. One of his greatest days was late in December, 1868. He had purchaeial or controlled alwiut 180,000 shares of New York Central stock. Getting tee gether a quorum of directors in night session, they declared a dividend of eighty |>er oent. and announced it next morning. The stock almost instantly jum|>ed from 120 to 165, and the short interest had to pay over five millions of dollars to the commodore's coterie. His great age befriended him; for he made the balk of his fortune after he was sev enty years old. In a Bay's l'oeket. A teacher's letter contains the follow ing: A noise one day breaking the silence of the schoolroom, the offender was swiftly brought to justice, aud his sjxHtl confiscatciL Another minute, anil another noise from the same delinquent —this time a file. Reflecting that •conomy of time might be useful in the case, I desired Master George to bring me all he had, and reluctantly there was poured forth such an nnending stream of treasures that I dispatched an assist ant for the saucer of a flower pot in whicii to place them. A list is in order: A rubber liall gnawed at ouo side, fonr yards of twine, throe peewoos, two slate pencils, a piece of soap, a copper, six board muls, a pickle, a fishhook, a ban, a letter which hail once been pink, bat now, alas ! —five lozenges, a top, a doll's | Ixxit with the handle in it, a gold stnd I weepingly confessed to be " My mam mio's," a patent lock, key attached, a piece of gum with tooth impressions, a leaf from a speller round a treacherous piece of tar, two kite-knobs, n scissor, a watch kev, a pipe Ixiwl colored and scented after the latest epicun-an style, a shoestring, a whistle, four scarlet beans, an inch doll, two bobbins, an Irishman's jackknife, a lampwtck, three pieces of raiulxtw coal, five jacks ones, a photograph, a tuck hammer, a ring, a skillet leg, a metal toe, a rabbit's tail. Total, sixty-five I Floating. These plain directions from the San (aria.t, if remembered, mny Have the life of one Mho fall* into deep water, even if he has not learned how to swim : Men are drowned by raising their arms above water, the nnbnoyed weight of which depresses the head. Other animals have neither notion nor ability to act in a sim ilar manner, and therefore swim natu rally. When i man falls into deep wat er, he will rise to the surface, and will continue there if he does not elevate his hands. If he moves his hands under water, in any way he pleases, his head will rise BO high as to give him free lib erty to breathe; and if he will use his legs, as in the act of walking for rather walking op stairs), his shoulders will rise above the water, so that he may use ' 'he less exertion with his hands, or ap ply them to other purposes. Floods in Switzerland. Caatern Switzerland is suffering se verely from floods caused by heavy r tins and melting snow. The canton of Thurgnu, which ia entirely inundated, is 384 square milea in extent, and has about 95,000 people. The serious dam age the railroads have suffered is one of the worst effects of the mountain tor rents. elnoe it will retard the aid that is •ant to the homeless. Tin: I Mil AM Will Tkr Ftakl .Ilk lb. kla.i HM.b.4 I r..k A ll..l>.r*i. I •■•lci-.Tk. Miasm fr.- *ar4 lor SH.iialr Klsklla#. An important battle ha* been fought at the head waters of Koaebud creek, be tweeit the hostile Sioux, uumlan< 'i,500, uuder Sitting Bull of the North, and the column uuder the command of Brigadier Geueral George Crook, cum (Mined of I.HOO mounted soldiers. The tight lasted five hours, an I resulted in the Jiscouifiture of the savage*, although uot before .hey had inflicted on the triMipn * loan of ten killed and twenty wounded. Ou their own aide they aac rillued by the bold attack which they made about oue hundred warrior* and an equal number of ponies, but thereby saved for the tune beiug their village, which, according to the guide, lay a di T snce of ouly MIX mile* from tho battle field. Details of the battle arc given as follows ; The troops left the camp early in the morning and had inarch* d about ten mil-MI up the valley of the creek, when a sudden halt wa* made at a wild *ignal of the friendly Snakes, with the troop* galloping up and shouting: " Sioux I Sioux !" at the name time nhot* were ttrtvl rapidly beyoud the low hill* bur dcring on tlie stream. Tin* Huakra and Crows, numbering 250, with the troope ooald not be kept back but ilanlirsi forward at once against their ancient enemy, charging the Bioux, luid on the first ouaet made them rapidly recede. Then ensued a desultory tight for half an hour, the troops in the val ley being delayed from rendering sup jKirt by the necessity of saddliug their animals. Captain Kane's infantry com pany was the first to advance to the mat of the ridge north of the valley and there ojasued fire. Seeing the Crows and Snakes pressed back by the masses of Sioui and dying before them—a high, steep ridge being peopled by them, and their tire deadly—the infantry charged directly up the narrow backbone, stop ping at every crest to level a volley af them, but saw them retire only to hold against them still higher points beyond. The Sioux had taken a magnificent iHMUtion on the stream, commanding the ravines through which the troops would prolwhly have {i*saed, and where they might hate been slaughtered like sheep .tefore a charge could have been made. The conflict was almost s hand to hand fight, the Sioux confident in their large uumtH'rs and the position which they held. At a moment when the advanced line of troops hail gained a decisive ad vantage and the soldiers were eager fur a charge, an order came from (ten. Crook to fail lack and connect with the right of the line, so as to concentrate and make a general advance. This movement was disastrous. Tiie Sioux heUlall the highest ground, and from several points swet t the lower ridge in our rear with a terrible eufilad mg fire which pressed tOe line of retreat. As the cavalry retreated slowly on foot and nkirmtshtug, the Sionx ramie re pealed charges ou the flank and were re pulmxl by the resolute courage of the men, who, although principally recruits, *4ood their ground as bravely as veter ans. lu forming a junction with the main ootnui.nl a wide hollow must be crossed, which was swept by a raiu of tire from the bluffs, and the Sioux were already preparing to charge from both end*. Th y made every exertion to keep tlic command divided, and their fight mg at this moment was masterly. Colonel K yall sei.t to General Cr*>k to ask support, lut before an infantry cotn|>aiiy took position to protect the retreat tie was pressed back so that his men fouud themselves suddenly in the hollow, the Sioux charging upon them on two sides and a dropping fusillade cutting them dowu. Nine men arte killed here and twenty wounded. Captain Henry was horribly wounded in the head. The infantry, taking posi tion behind the west incline of the ri.lge, opened Are. At this moment Captain llaudail, seeing the peiil of the cavalry, set the Crows and Snakes at full speed into the hollow and the iat tor fongl't the Sioux nobly. One of them, after Captain lleurv had fallen, stood and protected him until the sol diem made a dash and bore him off. Sergi-aut Von Moll Separated in the n treat from hi* oompany, and, surrounded by Sioux, was rescued by Old Crow, single handed. A* soon as the junction of the line was effected the Sioux begau to yield, and the infantry, under Majors Burrows and Burt, drove them at last from the high oone which they had held so long. The Snakes caused their flual flight ami pursued a party of four Biotix two miles, killed them all and took their soalps. At one o'clock the firing had ceased, and the wholecommand followed in pursuit; but after moving three mihw forward the country apjicarcdso danger ou* that General Crook determined to fall liack to the point where the battle begun. Meanwhile the Crows were counseling on a bluff about the circumstance* of the light, and expressing the belief that the soldier* had not promptly snp portod their first advance against the Hionx (which was true), and had deter mined to return home. The ammuni tion, only one hundred round* to the man, was half exhausted, anil General Crook concluded to return to the camp and make another advance after giving rent to the troops, meanwhile hoping to conciliate the discontented Crows. In this he did not succeed. Tliey left for their village, which they fear the Hionx tiave visited during their absence. The Snakes still remain, but their steadfast uess cannot be relied on. Some of the minor incidents of the fight were horrible. A small squad of cavalrymen, acting as a rear guard on the march, wore ordered to hold a point ou the left. Th Hioux surrounded them and shot them in the face, ouly two escaping. Private Richard Bennett's body was disemlHiweled by the savages and the hands and feet cut off. The troops behaved gallantly in res cuing their dead and wonnded. A corporal of T oonijany, Third cav alry, made a gallant charge to rescue a comrade from the scalping kuife. The Hionx only obtained one scalp, while the friendly Indians captured thirteen of the Sioux, who dragged many of their dead from the field behind their ponies. < leneral Crook reports nine white men killed and fifteen wounded in the Third cavalry, two wonnded in the Second cav alry, three wounded in the Fourth in fantry, and Captain Henry, of the Third cavalry, severely wounded in the face. The Uss of the Indians cannot be es timated, but thirteen dead lashes were left on the field and many had been re moved. How ToCHTKTAi.Ltns FKOTT. —l'ickont the tiuest of any kind of fruit, leave on their stalks, beat the whites of three eggs to a stifi froth, lay the fruit in the l>eaten egg with the stalks upward, drain theni and lieat the part that drips off again, select them out one by one and dip them into a crap of finely powdered sugar; oover a pan with a sheet of flue paper, place the fruit inside of it, and set it in an oven that is oooliug; when the icing on the fruit beoomes firm pile them on a dish and set thsm in a cool place. TKHMB: a Year, in Advnnoe. A lotted Execution. Nnar Clermont Mills, in Hartford county, Md., Almira Street, the young est daughter of Roger Street, wa* mur dered by Christian KloUt, a youth from the Maryland house of refuge. The Mr> . (* are oue of the largest and most respected familin* in Hartford county. MUM Street wa* seventeen years of age. Her ls>dy ww iouud at the foot of the cellar stairs of the bouie about half pa*t seven o'clock, with the head nearly severed from tho body, aud an ax, with which the deed is supposed to have lweu committed, lying near by covered with blood. The victim had been en gagaged preparing breakfast and had gone into the cellar fur some thing, when she was attacked by the young man with the ax, who dealt her re|eated blows, sa was shown by several gashes left ou the neck of the corpse. Before the arrival of the sheriff and State's attorney, Klutz confessed the crime and aaid he had no motive for killing Miss Street, but that he com milted the murder ont of pure wicked tMMß. A rope was procured and Klotx was taken to the wood*, about one hundred yards from the house. The rope was placed around hi* neck, the end of the rope WM thrown over the limb of a tree and he wa* polled np from the ground. Home pcreon* in the crowd objected to hanging him and he wa* cut down be fore he wa* strangled. Klotx, seeing that death wa* inevitable, asked for a gnu that he might shoot himself. It was then suggested by him that he might just a* well hang himrelf, and be agreed to do so. He climbed the tree unaided aud placed the rope around hia nook. He then asked it it wa* properly ad justed. Upon being informed that it was, he ©oolly tied the end of the rope around the limb on whiah he ast and saying "good bye," let himself drop. (iranite In Shirts. A letter in the London Mvnrtary Ga vtte aays : 1 was walking along the canal tMinks in the town of Bolton a abort time ago and my attention was called to a barge load of a pearly white substance. On examination it proved to be china clay, aud in my innooenoe I asked where the porcelain works were located, as I take great interest in such manufactures. My inquiry was received with loud laughter, and I was informed the kaolin was consigned to Messrs. , a well known firm of notton spinners. Apropo* nt this little incident, and somewhat of a commentary thereon, let me ail J that a gentleman who professes to be ultra religious told me the other day that an eight-pound shirting now never oontaius more than six pounds of cotton, and on my asking him if he traded in this fsah ion he piously added : "We must go with the stream." Perhaps the mar-Am Utf (sewing machines) are not aware that the frequent breaking of their n< edles ia mainly caused by the resist ance and friction of this mineral adul teration, which i found in abundance in almost all the cotton they sew. Geolo gists tell us that china clay i* deoom posed granite; no wonder, then, that it should be gritty and break needles. It alao makes eminently unhealthy the oc cupation of the mill hands, a fact which I r--commend to the special attention of the society of the protection of women and children. Manchester, Manchester ! this chins clay adulteration will be thy death! The Tree Question. Notwithstanding the heal of India, there i, incredible as it may appear, a daily growing demand for fuel in that country, and it ia suggested by the In dian agriculturist* that some law abonld tie framed for counteracting the effects of the wasteful destruction of trees for burning and constructive parpoaes. In some countries the laws enforce the duty of planting trees. In Japan every per son who cut* down a tree is requited to plant another in its stead, while in Bis cay a land owner ha* to pu*. down two plants for every tree he may fell. In Java a fruit tree i* planted on the birth of each child, and is carefully tended a* the record of his or her age. In the dis trict* of Aximghur and Goruckj ore the late Mr. H. C. Tucker greatly encour aged the cultivation of trees by suggest ing to the laud holders that tbey should plant six trees on the occasion of every marriage and two trees on the birth of every cliUd. Hueh a practice, if en forced by law or encouraged by advice, would commend itself to the population of India, whose natural taste* incliue them to it, and in the end lead to bene ficial results, especially if the mors valu able deseriotion of timber trees were cultivated. The Battle of Waterloo. Sixty-one y< ar* ago on Sunday, June 18, 1815, the Emperor Napoleon at tacked the Dnke of Wellington at the Belgian village of Waterloo, on the very same ground where a large French division hail been cut off from the main army by the Duke of Marllxirough on August 17, 1705. The allied force* numbered 67,664 men with 156 guns. The Euglish r< sistod the tierce French onslaughts from ten a. n. till five p. m., when 16,000 Prussians reached the field, increasing by seven o'clock to 30,000 with 104 guns, with Field-Marshal Bluaher at their bead. The French were completely routed amid immense car nage ; so fierce was the struggle that the allied armies had nearly 23,000 men placed Aor* de combat. The changes since that day are great. But few of the surviving veterans graced the Waterloo banquet with their presence in London. Not only the principal actors in that great historical tragedy are long since gone, but a second French empire and another Napoleon have been over thrown. Let us hope, too, the world has grown a goixl deal wiser and better. A New Industry, The employment of corn cobs for fire lighters has given rise to quite a consid erable trade in France, one of the estab lishment* for manufacturing them—that of La Hociete des Alhanettes Landaisos, in Paris—employing a large uumber of workmen to produce the immense quan tity of the article demanded, these light ers being employed with advnutoge and economy liotli in private housea and for lighting furnaces. In one of these pro cesses, they are first steeped in hot wa ter containing two per oent of salt peter. and, after being dried at a high temperature, are saturated with fifty per cent, of resinous matter. By another process, the cobs are immersed in a mixture of niity parte of melted main and forty parts of tar, after which they are taken out and allowed to dry, and then subjected to a scVxrad operation, which consists in spreading them out oa a metallic plate heated to a temperature of 212 deg Fall. They are finally as sorted acoording to sUto, sod tied <* bofidlee for the frads. NUMBER 29. A Beautiful Lovs Htory. The youug lady waa Mia* Mary M. Cochran, of Boston. Hhe ia a remarka bly fine looking per eon. apparently twenty one or twenty two year* erf age. Hhe waa eery rtytishly drraat*l, ami pre am tod a moat iutoreatiug appearance. It stem* that two years ago thia apring MiwCuolimj, accompanied by her moth IT and a number of frienda from Boston, went to Enrope to apeud the aammer. During a brief Uy in Carlarohe, Ger inauy, Miaa Cochran became acquainted with a young German named Char lea A. Brandenburg. He waa a young man of great ability, well educated, and of re spectable parentage, although they were qutto p our. The many noble qualities of heart and bead completely won the heart of the young American, and abe fell desperately in love with him. Thia feeling waa mutual, and during the in ter* lew this young man related tbe con dition of things at hia father's boose. The family waa in tbe hands of a cruel house owner, who not only owned the small house in which they head, but waa also proprietor of tbe nulla ia which the father, son, and brother earned their scanty pittance. On acootiut of aome difficulty, which ocean*J aome years before, this man, whoa* name was btoin man, cherished a deadly hatred against tbe Brandenburg family. Bo deep waa thia hatred that be would do everything in his power to keep them down, al though aome of the greatest improve mante in hia mill had been made by the elder Brandenburg. He so exercised hia authority that they were kept in pov erty, and every effort they made to net tor their fortune waa overthrown by the relentless land owner. At last Charles, the eldest son, determined to coma to Americ , and try to do something to help himeali and family in this country. Bach waa the stale of affairs when she knew him first and loved him. Two month* after they plighted their tooth, and Brandenburg nailed f n America Boon after Mue Cochran returned to I Boston. A correspondence was kept up for over a year following their aepara tion. Then the young German, who had been working in New York, and Phila delphia set out for the West and the let ten came leas frequently, and finally there were none at ail. f luring all this time the young lady remained true to her first love. When she heard no mor* of her lover she waa alor-at crazy, and aa the time grew on, ber suspense be came almost insupportable. At last, about two weeks ago, she learned through a roundabout way that the ob ject of her affection waa in Indianapolis. Hhe determined to ascertain the truth of the report. Bo ahe and ber mother left Boston for Indianapolis. Hhe was bound to find ber lover, and it he cherished the same sentiments as he did two year* ago, when they last met, and seven months ago when ahe re ceived her last letter, there would be a marriage. The wish waa gratified, and the young O tuple, who loved each other devoted! >, are now united for life.— Toledo Btade. An Indian Lover. It seem* that something more inspir ing than his pay as a aoont ha* induced the half-breed Kanaka to offer his servi ce* to the government and join the ex pedition agaiust the Sioax Indiana ; and quite a romantic story is afloat concern ing the motive* which prompt him to rink capture, and certain torture and death if caught. From various sources it ha* been gleaned daring the past five years, that in Craxy Horae's Tillage there was a cap tured white girl, now grown into beauti ful but untutored womanhood. Indeed, so young was she at the time of her cap ture, that she appear* to have no knowl edge of her situation, and no reoollec tutu of her past She is respected and even reverenced by the Indiana to such an extent, that none of the young men of the village are permitted to beoome her suitors ; and she remains m°> pure a* when she was born from the embrace of father and mother. DoutHleas she won ders at her fairer complexion, more del icate physiognomy and softer hair, nev er having seen a whit r-en or wtman since; but it ia thought she attributes the possession of these to supernatural interposition, whereby she was created a princess among her people, in which belief she is encouraged by their unre mitting attention and re*jwet. She ia called Fetah Ban, or the White Cow. Such is the singular history of this unfortunate young woman, for the truth of which Frank Gruard vouches. More over, he confesses that her beauty and gentleness first won his d miration, and subsequently, as his cupidity progressed, the warmest attachment and devotion, which were in a measure reciprocated. To him she owes the only revelahon of her condition ; but they were either in explicable, or else she scorned to receive them. Frank was, however, untiring in his affection and seal for ber welfare, and before his escape, made as many a* twenty unsuccessful sttempts to carry her off. laud winter he led the troops to what was supposed to tie Craxy Horse'a village, but it is believed now by most of the officers who participated in the campaign and fight, that it was that of Ltitile Big Man—the instigator of al most a massacre at the Black Hills coun cil last year—and hia band of renegade Cheyenne* and Bionx. The three aeouta will set out on their mission as soon as it is dark, and will travel only at night. To Restore Drowning Persoas. 1. Lose no time. Carry ont those di rections on the spot. 2. iicmore the froth and moons from the mouth and nostrils. 8. Hold the body, for a few seoonds only, with the bead hanging down, so that the water may run out of the 1-ugs and windpipe. A Loosen all tight articles of clothing about the neck and chest. 6. See that the tongue is pulled for ward if it falls back into the throat. By taking hold of it with a handkerchief it will not slip. 6. If tho breathing has ceased, or nearly so, it must be stimulated by pres sure of the chest with the hands, in imi tation of the natural breathing; forcibly expelling the air from the liiugs, and al lowing it to re-enter and expand them by the elasticity of the ribs. Remember that this is the most important step of all. To do it readily, lay the person on his back, with a cushion, pillow, or some tlrm substance under the shoulders; then press with the flat of tho hands over tho lower part of the breast bone and the upper part of the abdomen, keeping up a regular repetition and relaxation of pressure twenty or thirty times a min ute. A pressure of thirty pounds may be applied with safety to a grown per son. 7. Rub the limbs with the hands, or with dry cloths, constantly, to aid the circulation and keep the body warm. 8. As soon as the person can swallow, give a tablespoonful of spirits in hot water, or some warm tea or coffee. 9. Work deliberately. Do not give up too quiokly. Suoeess kas rewarded the efforts of hours. * float of lateral. London thieves onrry a pfee# at oai ia their pocket, believing that it five* them good lint Of the 117 young women ia the Michi gan University only four have taken to (he legal profession. A Cherokee husband and wife, aged ninety-five and ninety-two, died within an boar of eaoh other. Mexico offer* 900,000 to eny one whe will eetehlieh a woolen factory there with e capital of 9100,000. Man may learn wisdom from a poetage stamp. ft Htieka to Ha legitimate baat ness. L-ttor* profit by it. In Beth ( England) abbey is to be seen the following: { " Here MM Ann Mann, She tired eu old aatd and died an aid Mann." Forty wren million pine made daily in the 'United Ktatos, and yet if a man want* one he baa to torn tbe honae Bp aide down to get it The ft rat prime in EngUak composition at tbe Hopkins grammar school in New Harm, Conn . lias leeu taken by Bpea onr Laiaon, a Ohineae lad. An English doctor aaya that aterong, passionate lore will bring on heart die eaae, and it therefore stands u* all ia hand to lure mildly and with a good deal of lethargy. The very last cariosity spoken of is lhe paper* ia a wheel that came off a dog a tail when it waa a waggin'. Tbe man who discovered it has retired from public life. * • Hhooting affray* have beoome com moo in Dallas, Texas, and the rffemmerotef nays that " the gentle bosa of the ballet rivals the bee that bambleth and the mosquito that hummeth." A divorced woman, whoee children had been taken from ber in Northamp ton, Maes., baa sever 1 times attempted to drown herself, and a guard is kept over ber night and day. A circular from a wholesale stationer, recently failed, aaya that having eettled with bu creditors at fifty per emL, he is in a position to offer customers un precedented bargain*. Tlie newspapers generally oommend the consideration of Um Indiana |tn lie men who, when hie wife'* health (ailed, bought tier a oewax half a pound lighter than the old one, to *pht wood with. A faoulj of eight peraonawu* patented to deatbin Lonou., n. 0., b* strychnin* which a fanner had pot into pen. He had loot meat several time*, and took that wa/ of poniahing the thiwvea. Richard Grant White aays there ia no each thing m "in our midst;" bnt wa would hkc to know where be would lo cate the pain that makea paregoric a popular beverage among the young. In Ave Bute* the law at hanging be* now been abolished. These are, with lite date* of their abolition, as follow* r Michigan, 1t46; Rhode Island. 18(2 Wisconsin, 1858 < lowa, 1872 ; Main*. 1876. Aunt EUwood, a motherly old oolorad woman of Boston, responds to a soldier who aaka the nomber of her children: ♦•I have three, hooey, that I has to scuffle far—and three as oan scuffle far themselves." Of the font teen tunnels between Ism Angela* and Caliente, Gal., the Ban Fer nando ia the largest, Iwing mora than a mile and a quarter in length. It will be oompbtej by the end of July at a oont of 85 *IO,OOO. The Spaniard drink* little bnt water, but Urn bulk of the aoooulent vegetable* and fruit eaten by hia is •urpnsing; half a pound of bread, an ordinary soup plate Ailed with stew, and a pound or two of grape*, would be no mora than an average meal. A neighboring fit can boast of one of the beet boy* in the world. Ha aits on the back porch and watches the birds and aings: "There ia rest for the weary," while hia moth or breaks her baek'prodding around in the onion bed with aaaeakufa. •' My acm," said an afleotiaaate moth er to her son, who lived a little way from her, and expected in a abort time to get married, "you are getting very thiu." "Yea, mother," he replied, "I us, and when I come next I think you will see my rib." The desert of Sahara cover* shook 2,000,000 square miles. Moot of it i* about 1,500 above the sea level, but a portion covering 126.000 square miles ia below the aea feed, and a project far inundating it from the Atlantic ocean is neriously talked of. In Shetland, which is the part of Scotland whence Shetland ponies origin ally came, aome of the minister* live on 8100 a year. They are expected to baas hardy aa the poniea, and to live as cheap ly. One minister, who ha* a wife and four children, gets about 8185. A Kansas City man rot angry with a banker of that place for demanding a heavy discount, and when the banker asserted it was "business," replied : " Business? Business! You ait here all day ypd rob a man barefaced before hia back, and call that buainaaa It ia a well authenticated (sot that clean cuffs have an unaccountable tendency to secrete themselves somewhere in the im mediate vicinity of the elbows, whila dirty owe exhibit a willful and exas perating determination to remain ob trusively in the vicinity of the knock tea. Circumstantial evidence: " Circum stances alter eaeaa. yon know." remark ed a Scotch lawyer to an old farmer client " Terra true, air," replied the fanner, "and case* alter circumstanosa as wed; for, man, I mind when ye wera young and had but few oases, your cir cumstances werna ower braw." Oeorge G. Whittaar. an old man of seventy, rode into Biddeford, Me., the other dav, attired in the regimentals which he used to wear to "general train ings" fifty years ago. Some rode boye threw atones at hi* boras, the old man was thrown ofl, and received injuries from whidfche shortly died. Erwin Darin was a San Franoiaeo •took operator in 1888; Balskon canned hia failure; he went in penury to London and operated; is mid to hare financiered so as to produce the Heraegonnan war; has retained rich to California; thinks the Sntro tunnel will mre the Comntoek; he will attack Flood and O'Brien for su premacy. Howerer doctors may differ as to the proper methods of treating diseases, all seem to agree as to the importance of the proper regulation of diet as a sani tary preventive. The extreme warm weather admonishes to eat sparingly of meat and other beating articles of food, and to substitute, as far as possible, good fresh vegetables and fruit, milk and bread. T e banns of Daniel SaUirw and Bliss Gribbon were twine published in a Toledo church, and at each assembly far a wedding Daniel was absent, putting Miss Gribben to shame and astonishing the guests. His excuse was a presenti ment that they would not lies happily together. After his last offense she sued him for breach of promise, and got a verdict of 810,000. When a man, says an exchange, has been paying devoted attentions to the lady of his choioe for about two years, and she suddenly writes to thank him for all his kindness and to say that aha has given her hand to another, it is the eminently proper thing for the rejected lover to write a most oordial letter of congratulation. It don't mean much, but it reads well in the family rinds. St. George, Utah, where Brigham Young dedicated a new Mormon temple, has a population of 1,500 souls. It is located in almost a desert, and was built on the strength of a special revelation from the Lord to Brigham. The temple is a huge, ungainly looking structure, without the least pretension to beauty, and the estimated cost is $6,000,000, to raise which oppressive tithing s have been oolleoted from the faithful. A man working in a weO in Lock land, Ohio, was covered with a fall of stones. Although imprisoned, he was unhurt, and could talk to those who set about res cuing him. A new peril appeared, how ever, in the rise of the water in the welt Slowly the doomed man was submerged, and tne exertions were redoubled to get him out; but the water reached his face and drowned him before he oonld be saved. His prayers and strugglce to escape wore pitiful