Ton Know How II I* Yonraeir. An old farmtionee with meadow wide. And sweet with olover on aaeh aid# ; A bright eyed boy who kicked from ont Tha door with woodbina wreathed about, And winhaa hi* one It onght all day " Ob ! if 1 ootiM but fly away From Una dull -|*>t the world to aaa. H >w happy, happy, hap^y, How happy I would be t" Amid tha oity'e oonatant din, A man who round the world haa bean la thinking, thinking all day long : •• Oh ! if 1 ooeld only traoe once more Tb# flnld path to the farmhouse door. Tna old green maadowe oould I aee, ll.iw happy, happy, happy, How happy 1 would he !" Mis* Flipp at the Centennial. Oh. Mim Flipp, of New York city, lately went to aee the ebow That , held in Philadelphia thia aaaaon, aa yon know; And the thing* thai danteel aaw and heard, tha thing* ahe learned and fait. Would All an anchorite with joy, or bean of Nero molt. 1 heerd her tell her deareel friend about it ail one day, And 1 beg to tell the etory in Iter owu aweel girlish way. " 1 saw, oil, Boey ' let. of thing*. The trip was, eh ' *o fin*— 1 a-or* my ecru polonaise with whit* embroid ered vine. The loveliest machinery, eo grand, you knew ; and then 'Twa* fun to ee them working it—the** lovely, dirty men. My cavaher wont wild with rag* beeaoe* 1 watched them ao : The** nobby fellow* a!war* are ao joaloua, dear, you know. Ttie flue art gallery, they say. i* nice a* it can be ; Hut really there wa* euch a crew J 1 didn't try to *ee In the Japanese dej-artinenl I bought ui* such a fan ! 1 wonder how they ever learned to make thing* in Japan. Aud, oh ! the way I roahed around, on foot, dear, and ou chain, Wu fearful, for iu such a place moel every body stare*. 1 didu't mind, becauee it's only every hnndred year* , Centennials corns, and no on# care* bow J tut one girl appears (So ancle said). Bat ooe can't help one s feel ings. after all. Whet; one's feather all get limpey and one's pu!T get njuetr.d eo small. Bat it really is, when all is doue. a satisfac tion, dear. To have been at the Centennial. and not seeoi green and And then the et-ks and dowers, and lovely iaee—oh, my ! They make yon and. because you see, they're awful hard to bay. To see them does expand the rniud, and give you new ideas: I'm going to oopy me a dreee that's shown by Madame Speers ; I'm going to get a bonnet, too, made Just like one 1 saw A perfect darling ! just a mass of roeee. lace and straw. I saw a real live Turk one day ibat didu t like to look), All dreeed in sword arid trowsers, like a {go to** in a book. Ton needn't go abroad, they say, for all the world is there ; And really I do feel as if I'd been most every where. There's everything on earth to see -suih Jew elry and lace ! 1 mast say the Centennial is jast the sweetest place. 1 went to the Trvu Frrrrs, and had, oh 1 such a heavenly time With Mr. K. and Harry 8.. who really turna ont priqie. Booh lovely cream! although they charge they say— Which doesn't matter much to girls, as we don't hare to pay. Ob, mercy on us ! I must go. But I'm glad I've seen the show, And told you all about it, and the things yoa oagtit to know." lUuar. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Bt T. S. ARTHUR. "Ihd you see that i" said Mrs. Jones to her fri* ml Mrs. Lyon, with whom she was walking. "See what I" " Why, that Mrs. Todd didn't speak to ma" " No. I thought she spoke to you as well as to me." "Indeed, then, she didn't." " Are you nre I" "Sure. Can I beliero my own eyes J She nodded and spoke t.> yon; but ah< didi.'t as much as look at me." " What in the world can be the reasjn, Mrs Junes f" '• Dear knows 1" 41 1u i oertiinly mast be mistaken. Mrs Todd would not refuse to speak to one of her old friends in the street." " Humph 1 I don't know. She's rath- r queer sometimes. She's taken a miff U something, I suppose, aud mean* to cut my acquaintance. But I "hall not distress myself about it. She isn't all the world." "IIve you done anything likely to offend her ?" asked Mrs. Lyon. • Me?" returned her companion; "no, n>t that I am aware of. But certain people are always on the look out for som< thing or other wrong, and Mrs. Tod l i" one of that kind." " I never thdnght so, Mot. Jones." "S ie Is, then. I know her very well." " I'm sorry,"said Mr. Lyon,evincing ago -d deal of concern. " Hadn't you bett-r go to her iu a plain, straight-for ward way, and the reason of her con duct t This would mak" all be clear in , a moment." " G • to her, Mrs. Lyoa !" exclaimed Mrs. J iocs, with ill-concealed indigua- i tion. " No, indeed—that I will not. Do you think I would demean myself so much ?" " I am not so suro that by se doing you would demean yourself an you say. There is, clearly, some mistake, and such a oo irse woul l correct all false impres nions. But it was only a suggestion, thrown out for your consideration." •'Oh, no, Mrs. Lyon !" replied Mrs. Jon< s, with warmth. '' You never find me cringing to people, and begging to know why ihey are pleased to cut my ac quaintance. I feel quite as good as any body, aud consider myself of as much consequence as the proudest and Lest. Mrs. Todd needn't think I care for Le-r acquaintance. I never valued it a pin." Notwithstanding Mrs. Jones' perfect indifference toward Mrs. Todd, she con tinue-1 to talk about her pretty much after this fashiou. growing more excited all the while, during the next half honr, at the cloje of which time the ladies parb-d company. When Mrs. Jonca met her husband at the dinner table, she related what had happened daring the morning. Mr. •Tones was disposed to treat the matter lightly, but his wife soon satisfied him tliat the thing was no joke. " What can be Mrs. Todd's reason for such conduct?" he asked, with a se rious air. '• I can't tell for my life." " She most have heard some false re port alajut you." " It's as likely as not. Bat what can it be?" " Something serious to cause her to take so decided a stand as Bhe seems to have done." Mr. Jones looked grave and spoke in a grave tone of voice. This made mat ters worse. Mrs. Jones' first idea was that Mrs. Tod - had heard something that she might have said about her; and that wonnded pride had caused her to do as she had done. Bnt her husband's remark suggested other thoughts. It was possible that reports were in circu lation calculated to injure her social binding, and Mrs. Todd's conduct to- Krd her was not the result of any pique. FRED. KTJRTZ. Ktlitor and 1 ropriotor. VOLUME IX. " It was crrtaiuly Ntraugo and uuac countable," she said, in nii|t to lior huatiand's last remark, .(making m * thoughtful tone. "Would it not lie the fairest and ln*l wr (or yon to go and aak for an ex plana! ion f" "No, I can't do that," replied Mm. Jones, quickly. "I am willing to l>e*r undeserved contempt, and unjust cen sure, but I will ueTcr humble myself to any oue." For the reel of the day, Mrs. Jonea' thought* all (lowed iu oue channel. A hundred reason a for Mr*. Todd's strange ixinduct were imagined, but nope seem ed long satisfactory. At last she re membered having spoken pretty freely about the lady, to a certain individual who was not remarkable for his discre Hon. " That's it!" ahe said, rising from her chair, and walking nervously across the door of her chamber, backward and for waril, for two or three times, while a burning glow suffused her cheek. " Isn't it too bail that words, spoken in confidence, should have been repeated! 1 don't wonder ahe is offended I ' The idea was retained for a time, and then abandoned for some other that seemed more plausible. For the uext two weeks Mrs. Joucs was very unhap py. She did not meet Mrs. Todd dur ing that period, but she saw a number of her friends, to whom either she or Mrs. Lyon ha 1 oommuuicated the fact al ready stated. All declared the conduct of Mrs. Todd to be unaccountable; but several, among themselves, had shrewd suspicions of the real cause. Oouversa Hons ou the subject, like the following, were held: " I can tell yon what I think about it, Mrs. S. You know Mrs. Jones is pretty free with her tongue t" " Yes." " You've heard her talk about Mrs. Itoiir " I don't remember, uow." " I have, often. She doesn't spare her sometimes. You know, yourself, that Mrs. Todd has queer ways of her own." " Sht is not perfect, certainly." " Not by a great deal; and Mrs. Jones has not hesitated to say so. There is not the least doubt in my mind that Mrs. Todd has heard something " " Perhaps so. But she is very foolish to take any notice of it." "So I think. But you know she is touchy." In some instances, the conversation assumed a grave form: " Do you know what has struck me in this matter of Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Todd I" says one scandal loving person age to another, whose taste ran parallel with her own. " No. What is it I" eagerly a-ks the auditor. " 1 will tell you. But you mustn't speak of it for your life." " Never fear me." The commuuication is made iu a deep whisper. " Bless me !" exclaims the recipieut of the secret "It surely cannot be so!" " Tbeie is not the least doubt of it 1 had it from a source that cannot be doubted." " How in the world did von hear it I" "In away not dreamed of by Mrs. j "No doubt Mrs. Todd has heard tin same." " Not the least in the world. But , don't you thi- k her to blame in refusing to keep Mrs. Jones' company, or eveufc j speak to her f" " Certainly I do. It happened a long time ago, and no doubt poor Mrs. Jone* has suffered enough on account of it. Indeed, I don't think she ought to Is blamed in the matter at all. It was her : misfortune, not her fault." "So I think. In fact, I believe she is just as worthy of respect and kind ness as Mrs. Todd." "No doubt of it in the world ; and from me she shall always receive it." " And from me also." In this way the circle spread, so that before two weeks had elapsed there were j no less than twenty different notion* held about Mrs. Todd's liehavior to Mrs. Jones. Some talked very seriotish about cutting the acquaintance of Mrs Joues also, while others took her side ; and threatened to give np the acquaint i ance of Mrs. Todd. Thus matters stood, whan a mutual friend, who wished to do honor to eom visitors from a neighboring city, sent out invitations for a party. Before these invitations were dispatched, it was seriously debated whether it would do to invi e both Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Todd, considering how matters stood between them. Tlie decision was in favor of letting them take care of their own difficnlti<. "If I thought Mrs. Todd woakl la there I am sure 1 wouldn't go," said Mrs. Jones, on receiving her card of invitation. " I hardly think that would be acting wisely," replied Iter husband. " Yon are not conscious of having wronged Mrs. Todd. Why, then, should you shun her ? ' " But it isso unpleasantto meet a per son with whom you have been so long a tiniate, who refuses to speak to you." "No doubt it is. Still we ought not to go out of onr way to shun that per son. Let us, while we d not attempt to interfere with the liberties of others, be free ourselves. Were I in your place, I would not move an inch to keep out of her way." " I have not your firmness. I wish I had. It was only yesterday that I crossed the street to keep from meeting her face to face." . " You were wrong." "I can't help it. It is my weakness. Three times already have I pnt myself about to avoid her ; and if I could frame any good excuse for staying away from this party I certainly should do so. I would give anything for a good sick headache on Tuesday next!" " I am really aahatned of von, Ellen ! F thought you more of a woman?" raid Mr. Jones. The night of the party at length came round. During the whole day preoed ing it, Mrs. Jones could think ft noth ing but the unpleasant feelings she would have upon meeting with Mrs. Todd, and her "heart was in her month " all the time. She wished a dozen times that it would rain. Bnt her wishes availed nothing. Not a cloud to be seen in clear blue firmament from morniDg until evening. "Oh, if I only had some good excuse for staying at home 1" she said, over and over again, bnt no good excuse offered. Mr. Jones saw that his wife was in a very unhappy state of mind, and tried his bent to cheer ber, bnt with little good effect. "It is no use to talk to me, I can't help it," she replied to his remonstrance, in a husky voice. "I am neither a stock nor a stone." " There's Mrs. Jones,"said one friend to another, on seeing the lady they named enter Mrs. 's well filled par lors. "Where is Mrs. Todd?" asked the lady addressed. "Bare enough! where is she?" re plied the other. " Oh, there she is in the other room. I wonder why it is that she does not speak to Mrs. Jones," "No one knows." "It's very strange." "I'll tell von what I've heard." " What?'' "That she's jealous of Mrs, Jones.'' THE CENTRE REPORTER. " Kidiculcus !" | " lan't it f" " I doti't lielievo a word of it," "Nor I. I only told you what I had heard." " There must le some other reaaou." "And doubtless ia." Meantime Mrs. Jouea found a neat in | a corner, where she ensconced herself, | witli the determination of keeping her place during the evening, that she might avoid the unpleasantness of ooni ing in contact with Mm. Todd. All thin, of course, was very weak iu Mrs. Jones ; but she liad uo mdejxuident strength of character, it must t>o owned. " Poor Mrs. Jouea I How cut down she looks," remarked a lady who kuew all about the trouble that existed. " I really feel sorry for her." " She takes it a great deal too much to heart," was the reply. "Mrs. redd might refuse to siieak to me a doaen times if she liked, 1 wouldu't titeak my heart. But where is she I" " In the other room, us gay and lively as ever I saw her. >See, there she in ! ' " Yen, 1 nee her. Hark ! You can hear her laugh to here. 1 must con fess I don't like it. 1 don't believe she has any heart. She must know that Mrs. Junes is hurt at what site lias done." " Of course ahe does, and her manner is meant to instill her. Seeing the disturbed and depressed state of Mrs. Jones' mind, two or three of her friends held a consultation ou the subject, and finally agreed that they would aak Mm. Todd, who seemed pur (xwely to avoid Mm. Jouea, why ahe acted toward her as she did. But be fore they could find an opportunity of doing so, a messenger came to say that one of Mm. Todd's children had been taken suddenly ill. The lady withdrew immediately. Mm. Jones breathed more freely on learning that Mrs. Todd had gone home. Soon after she emerged from her place in the comer, and mingled with the company during the rest of the evening. Ou the followiug morning, three la dies, personal friends of Mrs. Todd, met by appointment, and entered into grave consultation. They had undertaken to find out the cause of offense that hadoc curred of so serious a character as to lead Mrs. Todd to adopt so rigid a course toward Mrs. J nes, and if possi ble to reconcile matters. " The sickness of her child will be a good excuse for us to call upon her," said outp "If he is better, we cau in troducc the matter judiciously." " I wouder how she will take it f" suggested another. " Kindly, I hope," remarked the third. " Suppose she does not J" " We have done our duty. " True. And tliat iMUScioosnees ought to be enough for us." " She is a very proud woman, and my fear is that, having taken an open and . decided stand, she will yield to neither argument nor persuasion. Last night she over acted her part. While she care fully avoided coming iu contact with Mm. Jones, she was often near her, and on such occasions talked and laughed louder tlian at any other time. I thought, ouce or twice, that there was something of malice exhibited in her conduct." To this one of the ths-s iwe-iitett. Hut the other thought differently. After some other discussion, and an lnefft ctnal attempt to decide which of them should o|>eu the matter hi Mm Todd, the ladies sallied forth on their errand of (xxice. They found Mm. Todd at h< -me, who re ceived them iu her usual agreeable manDer. " How is your little boy I" was the drst -question, after the first salutations were over. "Much bettor than he was last nijht, I thank yon. Indeed, he is quite as well as usual." " What vras the matter with him, Mr*. Todd ?" "It i hard to tell. I found hiui witii a high fever when I got home. Bnt it subsided iu the course of an hour. Chil- ; dreu ofteu have such attacks. They j will be quite sick one hour, and ap|>ar ently well the next." •' I am very glad to hear that it is nothing serious,' said one of the indie . J " I was afraid it might have been croup or something as bad." There was a pause. " It seemed a little unfortunate," re marked one of the visitor- , " for it de prived yon of au even i<g's enjoyment.' " Yes, it docs spptar so, but no doubt it is all right. I suppose you Lad a very ple&saut time I" "Ob, yes. Delightful!" "I hadn't seen half my friends when I was summoned away. Was Mrs. Wil liams there I" "Oh, yes.' "And Mrs. Gray f" "Yes." "And Mrs. Elder?" " Yes." " I didn't see either of them." " Not a word about Mrs. Jones," thought the ladies. A light running conversation, some thing after this style, was kept up, with occasional pauses, for half au hour, when one of the visitors determined to come to the point. " Mrs. Todd —a-hem !" she said in one of the pauses that always take place in uninteresting conversation. The lady'it tone of voice bad SO changed from what it WHS a few mo | raents lrefore, tliat Mrs. Todd looked up 'at her with surprise. No less changed was the lady's oonntcuanoo. Mrs. Todd was mystified. But she was not long in : doubt. " A hem! Mrs. Todd, we have come to—to—as friends—mutual —friends—to ! ask you " The lady's voice broke down; but two or three " a hems I" partially restored it, j and she went on : " To ask why you refused to—to — speak to Mrs. Jones?" " Why I refused to speak to Mrs. Jones?" said Mrs. Todd, her cheek fiualiing. " Yes. Mrs. Jones is very much hurt al>ont it, and says she cannot imagine the reason. It lias made her very uu bappy. As mutual friends, we have ! thought it our duty to try and reconcile matters. It is on this errand that we have called this morning. Mrs. Jones says she met you for the last time about two weeks ago, and that you refused to speak to her. May we ask the reason ?" "You may, certainly," was calmly re plied. Expectation was now on tiptoe. "What, then, was the reason ?" " I did not see her." "Why? Didn't you refuse to spoak j to her?" " Never in my life. I esteem Mrs. Jones too highly. If I passed her, as you say, without speaking, it was be cause I did not see her." In less than half an hour Mrs. Todd was at the house of Mrs. Jones. What passed between the ladies need not bo told. THE UTMOST OF SCIENCE. —A Paris soene : There's a crowd on the street around a man who has fallen in an apo plectic fit. The doctor arrives. All make way for him. He feels the suffer er's pulse, plaoes his ear to bis heart, and says that the man is dead. "Ah 1" exclaims a bystander ; "if the doctor had only arrived sooner." The man of science smiles, and replies: "He is dead I I, myself, could have done nothing mors! CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, OCTORER 12, 1870. TIIK I'KAIKIF BUFFALO. Tb# <ira4aal Kmllartlwa *1 aa Aalmal ibal | Oar# Kemwr* lb* '*sila*al. A paragraph in the Bt. Paul /Sonr<-r /Vrs* and TnMtnr announces th fact that a Arm in that city have iu store i something like I'i.OOO buffalo roU-s, which were preparing for the markets of r the United .States. The traffic in buffalo - robe* formerly pawtcd Uirough St. Paul iu bulk to Chicago, New York, aud other Pastern cities, where they were over hauled and prepared for market. I | Major F. ii. Eastman is the collector 1 of robes for the Bt. Paul house, aud ho i secures his collections personally from ■ j the original sources of supply, the prin cipal oue beiug Fort 1 teuton. From this ! iH-mt the robes are shipped by boat to i i Bismarck and thence to HI. Paul and i from St. Paul to Ohioago and New York. The buffalo ranges are becoming an uuaily more circumscribed, and their ul timate exhaustion is merely a question iof time. Formerly the bison roamed all over the North American continent; while now, according to Major Eastman, this aui at can only lie found iu alsuit thrtxi localities. One herd ranges along the headwaters of the Arkansas and I'latU- rivers; a smaller oue browses among the Big Horn mountains aud the valleys and plaius iu tliat region, while the great mass make their home north of the Missouri and spread themselves to tile Saskatchewan and west ward to the , liocky mountains. Formerly, too, it was supposed that the buffalo spent the winter ou the plains of Texas and the southwest, but latterly the buffalo have changed their habits, and the immense herds north of the Missouri stay there 'aU the year round. There seems to l-e no difficulty iu securing forage iu the north during the winter, for buffalo | killed in January are as fst as at any other aeaeou, while the meat is uiu>-h better in winter than iu summer. The buffalo, with their feet aud horns, scrape the snow from the prairies and eat the dried grass with a relish. Major East man nays that domestic cattle in Mou- , tana . Iso run wild, and live through the winter unprotected and uniwisl fur, aud in the spring arc found in cum(btratively good condition. The theory of those most familiar with the subject is that the buffalo aud the ludian will (-erish together. Though the ludian is in cotmtaut pursuit of this noble game, the buffalo never avoids lib savage jiersecutor. On the contrary, the ludian will et-tabliahhis camping ground and then actually drive the buffalo to j withm a abort distance of his wigwam before be kills him, thus avoiding any extended transportation of the raw bides to the place win re they are dressed by the squaws. Now, ou the other hand", the buffslo, like the Indian, seems to have an instinctive aversion to the white man, aud wbeu the immigrant wagon and the railroad car shall }x>ple the West and Northwest, the bnffalo will seek new and more inaccessible fields; and, fiually, when he is surroundixi on all sides, he will lie down and die, and we'll have uo more buffalo ry'^s- ( , dflc range, ir inti .lay there is scaively a buffalo to be se-u west of the Kooky m"UUtains. But it if admitted that it may be a long while U f.-re the last buffalo shall pas* in his robe, for a vast rat g- of country spree '" out between the Missouri river aiid the HaskaU'ln wan, which Pt a natural feeiliug ground for the buffalo, and then is no peroepublo diminution of the pro ' digious nerd tliat roams over this space. 1 There are collected annually at Fort Benton alone aUmt 120,000 robes, nor ly all of which are taken from the gre;d northern herd, and yet the ludiaus aud traders tlud no greater difficulty now in getting them from their original own en t hau they did years ago. llKea.se* of fhe Ear in School*. The paper of Dr. C. J. Blake. read before the American Social Boituicc AwHMUntkou. on the method by which toaoln rs should uaoertain debet* of heir iug in their pupils, call* attention to tin IM •. TIADOC of recognizing the existence . > chew among school children for . am special provision in the way of education must A made. This wi s shown by the fact that onto' 8,715 ! coses of car disease, acoou)|<auied by ltn pairment of hearing, '2,175. or twenty live per cent., were children und< r fourteen yearn of age, these statistic* Aiug taken from children in public j schools; also that in about twelve per cent, then- was an existing aural disease art enable to treatment. In the opiniou of the writer the seriousness of theoou , dition of schools in this respect was not great enomrh to justify the r>ort to an additional department to the schools. The instruction of partially deaf chil li W>n in n school set apart for them was objectionable and unnecessary for a nnmber of reasons, bqt if they be re tained in tho schools wiili other children, it became neoeisary to rale them accord ing to degree of individnal disability, in order thai proper allowance might A inaile for their defective hearing. To this end a careful examination sbonld be made iu each ewe, to determine the de gree of deafness as tested by the dis tance at which the voice of the teacher can be heard in ordinary conversational tone, and again by the pronunciation of consonant tones. These testa oonld A made by the toucher, and the following directions for making them were given: The teacher should always occupy, in testing the different oasis, the same po sition, preferably the rostrum or seat usually occupied by Lira in school hours, fie shonld speak m the same tone of voice used in the schoolroom exercises. The child to be tesbsl should la* placed in front of the teacher and at the ex treme limit of tho furthest line of Heats, ami gradually advanced toward the teacher at certain intervals, the test* Aing repeated until a point in reach" d at which the child cau hear distinclly. This point should determine the niaoo the chihl Hhonld occupy in tho senoul rooni. The ears should lie tested sep arately, the ear to be tested being turn<d toward the teacher, while the other is artificially closed. The child should Is) required to repeat distinctly tho words as he hears them. Tho jiaiier strongly recommends the establishment of a med ical supervisor of schools; the post to bo occupied by a competent physician who bail made tho matter of school hygiene a study, and bin whole time to be devoted to tho dntios of his position. At a most exclnsive ball at the sea side, a yonngdrnggist's clerk approaches one of the fairest and most aristocratic of the ladies and hnmhly rxiliuta tbe favor of a quadrille. The lady in*|>oots him critically from his tie to his boots, and taking her card, says: "I never, monsieur, dance with peo ple whose names are not preceded by a tie. What name shall I inscribe? Monsieur f" " M. Peroxido do Manganese, made moiselle." DOCTORS MCBT CRASH TO DIFFER.— Among the desirable things considered in the recent international medical con gress at Philadelphia was the suggestion, urged by Dr. Beguin, that measures A taken to establish uniformity in " the means of practice, of observation and of reoorda in physio"—matters in which the most perplexing diversity now pre vails. KATN AHO A Itlt THE ANHLEY. and all the young buck* just kept coming until 1 thought they had some way of getting from the ice chest to the hold again and were keeping np an unbroken fr.uk* in 'trr^ 1 Mi, "then Unie breaks ix-came more frequent and of greater duration, and, after a while, they came in single individuals and in more of a hu*ry, for the hold was get ting hot. and later tin y came slower and had lea* hair on theni, and the last one looked sick, didn't aeeiu to car- whether he got anywhere or not, and as he puAts'd me he cast a look of soorti and Mtliuw, as if to My : " loa fellows think you're smart ; you ought to be aahanx-l," and, to tell* the truth, 1 was. I felt the same impulse to save its life that actuated Pocahontas on an bistort on occasion, and, from au association of id- as, I named this rat John Hinith. And now th- y wrro s'l in the chest and the bole plugged. We called a council of war as to the best way to fin ish them. The engineer wanted to carry ont ib-signs ami turn the stoam on them and cook them alive, but the " old tuan" wanted "some fun." He had a couple of imported Scotch terriers, full blood ami long hair, aud here was just audi a chance to try their mettle ON he loug hail yearned for. Ho he raised the lid on top, dropped them in, aud closed the door with the remark' "do for 'cm, boy." Then he took out his watch. They must have went " for 'em," for the sotuid* that followed were a mixture of yelps, howls, ami tiny squeak*, min gled with a rattling, surging sound, a* though the life within waaoombiucd and trying to knoek out first one end of the chvt ami then the other. The "old inan " would sing out at intervals: "Go for 'em, boys!" Then be would wink at us, shut one eve, double himself up, nod raise his right leg as though he was in an ecstacy of eujoymcnt. At length all inside became quiet, and he looked at his watch again. " Six teen and a half minutes," said lie. " Now, men, let us turn the chest over and count the rats, for I think them pups have knocked the spots off of our former records." His Mark. A" Oeeaalss *ra*tu with lal*r*el far Twa nrsirh Trrrl.r* as* lh*lr Owaer. Iu lHsti, ou board the steamer Ashley, says a correspondent, we were ao over ran with rats tliat we were in danger of having the whole freight list to pay for. l)ur cargo consisted almost entirely of bacon and flour, aud they had perforated this iu every direction. Aa a last ex |>erimeut to get rid of them we had the entire Usui carried ashore, and then commenced a grand rat hunt. The ani mals all took to the hold, and among her innumerable salt boxes and under the dunnages found shelter, ao that but few could be dislodged aud killed. It tras iu this emergency that the g<-uiua of the chief engineer shone forth with daxxliug brilliancy. " Let's," said he, " turn steam iuto the hold aud run 'em out." Thia being ngreed ujmu, while he was raising steam iu the boiler the rest of us went around stopping up their places of egress, and sUip|K*l them all except one hole which came through the drck a fct feet from the ice chest, 'lhe ioe chest was a favorite resort of the old rodents, for in it was kept the delicwcitw of the table. Pies, fruit and choice cakes were always there. 1 sup|>one the rats looked on this place as a sort of free Saratoga. At all events they would pat in a few hours of every night there, and this might represent their seasons. The ice chest was about eighteen feet square, with the opening at the top—that is our opening; they hail theirs through the tiaok, close down to the deck. This we also left open, and this arrangement left the rats only oue hiding place on the mam deck. BUnuu Ik-ing ready, aud a cock opened to admit it iuto the hold, 1 took my sta tion where I could see the " varmints " as they defiled from their untenable cover to oue they thought more proaiuuug —and it was a study for n saw null man. A* the steam filled the hold, they commenced their line of march ; first came a venerable looking old chap, one on whose bead the frosts of many wuitela had settled. lie passed along Willi a measured guit, slowly moving his head from side to side, as though he said ; "Boys, I'm afraid you've got us this time," and he seemed to if as tonished that uo missiles were hurled after him, but was allowed to enter the ice chest unharmed. During hia march another—not a sister—kept his head out the deck hole, watched his progress, and when he aaw htm safely housed, out he came, too, ami made the march unuiulostcd. This seemed all they waited for ; they then poured out in oue unbroken stream, and they were all there— The *ife bur t*l>o fir-v *nul.° d that day ; fhe fair, blonde bride of jr*t*r eve , The a£e l aire . (he matron gray. Wo turned it ovnr, the lid flow open, and a whole floor of rata came pouring out like boos from au upturned hive. We had to clear the track until they all escaped, and when we looked in the box those dogs were in more pieces than ever dogs, not made into sausages, were before. They looked as though they had been dead n month, aud only one solitary rat kept them com|Hiny—and it was John Smith. A w Peril. At London, Mr. J. Morton, the aero nnnt, accompanied by Mr. Tanner, made j a most successful asoeut, and soon at- j taiuod an altitude of 8,0(10 feet, at which height they passed over the east of London into Kent, crossing the Thames no less than threotinios. Upon arriving near Kltham they descended in a large meadow, and were just in the act of let ting off the gas when a tre men dons Al lowing was heard, and, on lookingfintlie direction wlienoe the sound prooeeded, a large bull wnw seen rushing wildly toward them. Mr. Tanner, fully reoog nixing the danger of the situation, with great presence of mind immediately seised the two remaining hags of liellast, and threw then, bodily ont of the car. The balloon rose, but only jnst in time to esca|>e tho horns of the infnriated unwind, who, upon seeing the balloon snsi>eiided over him, turned his atten tion to the bags of Hand, the contents of which he soon scattered in all direc tions. In his attack his horns came in contact with the grapnel rope, aud the ! jerk releasing the grapnel, set tho bal loon free, but, at the same time, threw Mr. Morton, who was attending to the rope, ont of the car. Fortunately, ho succeeded in dntchiug the netting, aud, with Mr. Tanner's assistance, was lmnled | into the balloon Afore it hail Rsceudau many hnudred feet. Tbe aeronauts sailed away about a mile, when they | found a safe haven. A Professional Opinion. A witness for the prosecution in a mnrder oase was thus questioned by bis honor: " Yon say you saw the man ahot at and killed t" " Yes, sir." " You said, I think, that tho charge strnck the deceased, on his body, Atween the diaphragm and the duode nnm ?" Witness—" No, sir, I didn't say no snoh thing. I Mid he was shot between tks hogpen and the woodhouss " THE MIVVfNOIA Hit lb A Ml*. The sun at the MM* ASalr wtlh u Kaalara Tribal* ia Waalara l aaraaa. It ia a remarkable pieoe of brigand age, reddened by the murder of a very heroic young cashier and followed by an extraordinary man hunt on the |>art of an enraged imputation, about the pro 3r-ss of which we have b< en publiabmg etailixl accounts. It was about two o'clock in the afternoon of Hept. 7th tliat the party of eight lirigauda—atai wart, handsome, finely dressed, and mounted u splendid steeds—made their ii | -pear ance in the Minnesota village of North Held. Two or three of them, dis mounting on the outskirts of the town, sauntered sboot the principal street for s little while, to " take the lay of the laud," as they say out Wash The in habitants of the quiet village were at teuding to their irdiuary affairs, while uow and then some individual who no ticed the strangers |iaased a remark about their attractive appearance. In a few minutes the entire gang of brigauda rushed through the village at full gallop, brandishing their weapons, yelling and euraiug, and firing their revolvers in all directions. They lit leant startled the place which they had expected tu strike with terror, l'tiey haule ! up near the bank, which three of theiu entered armed to the teeth, while the other five rude about ill front of it to prevent any interference with the operation* of thuae who had been detailed to the immediate work of plunder, Hushing into the bank, the three brigands sorting upon the counter, at which three clerks were engaged, cov ered them with their revolvers, warned them to keep quiet under penalty of death, and then ordered the cashier, Hey wood, dose to whose head one of them held a long, narrow barreled pis tol, to open the bank safe. Not a few instance have occurred, within recent years, in which bank oaahitrs, under cir cumstances more or leas similar to three, have opened the safe, permitted it to be plundered, and thus by cowardly moans preserved their lives. Hut lleywood was matte of stern, manly oturf. He first told them he could not open it; then made a desperate attempt to secure one of the brigands in the vault which he had entered; then finding himself overcome, offered defiance and resolute ly refused to prove false to his trust by acceding to their demands. They did not wish to kill hun till he let them into the safe, which they could not open, but knocked him down, drew a big knife across his throat,, dragged hita across the fioor to the safe, which they again ordered him to open; but again refusing, a shot was fired at him aa the last effort of intimidation, By this time the plunderers were getting alarmed by the knowledge that the citizens had been aroused, and hearing from their confederates outside, "The game is np," they gave it up in desperation, bnt not till one of them, tprtona e>v"i' ~i the o<w, ueiioerate aim and fired the shot which killed the heroic cashier. i v * - 1 -"*other clerks had bc-ti <xl in Uylng i~ .)*, oat the third one got away in safety. The outside brigands had not had everything tUeir own way while this tragedy within the liauk was going on. The alliens hastily getting hold of such weapons as were ready to their bands, had opened fire upon them in a desultory way, had killed two of tbem, wounded one, and killed the horse of another. It was then that warning was given to the plunderers IU the bank, who tben*u|>on rushed out, joined their three living con federates, including the wounded one, and made off at full gallop, balked in their scheme and diminished by one quarter of their number. Then l>egan the hot pursnit of the fugitive brigands, in which at the out set four hundred people, armed with rifles, shotguns, pistols and knives, took part, which wss confusedly prowvutud for ten days, and was still in progress at the hour of our latest advices from hit. Paul. On the evening of the day of their depredations, a party of fourteen of the mounted pursuers overtook them, tint the six brigands turned upon their adversaries, showing fight, put them to flight, and then made off to the dense woods themselves. On the same < vrn ing another party of pursuer*, number ing forty, got within an hour's chase of thorn, but the swift holers of the bri gands carried them beyond danger. Tlie half dozen fugitives divided into two parties, three brigands in each [arty. One of three parties baa never been traced ; bnt the other, in the course of the first night, took refuge in a dense forest, fall of heavy thickets, swamps, and hiding place*. Through this they have been hunted, day and night, by bodies of puisuers, that have risen to nnarly s thousand in number, and have (teen joined by police and militia. The pursuit has boon close and intense. Sometimes they have l>oen on the heels of the brigands, who, hpwever, have al ways been able to elude them by audacity or akili, unless indeed some of the suspicions persons already under ar rest form part of the gang. The full details of this remarkable hunt have : shown it to bo one of the most excitable incidents in the history of Western brigandage. Hey wood, the gallaut cashier of the Northfield tank, who proved faithful unto death, should lie kept in memory in some worthy way, so that liis action shall lie held np as uu example to others, aho may fill places of trust in times of danger.— New York Sun. Making Yonng Horses Ont of Old Ones. A very interesting case, illustrating to what extent the dumb animals are tor tured to gratify tA nvarioo of unfeeling sjieenlatons and showing a new system of swindling tbe government, was tried in St. Ismis recently. Some time ago Mr. Jos. Wolfort, a horse trailer, was arrested on the ciiarge of cruelty to ani mals. He wss charged with " bishop iug " horses, which was deecrilied as A iug a process of filiug the teeth of old horses down, to make them look yonng aud the animal marketable. The horse is tied securely in his stall in snob away that it oautiot move its head, a gag of wood or iron is then placed in his mouth and a " twitch " placed ou its nose. A man with a large rasp or file then files the tooth to the necessary site, and then Ares cavities in them, winch are col ored black with nitrate of silver or caus tic, so that the teeth look i atural. The name " bislioping " is derived from Bishop, the man who is Haiti to have in vented tbe crnel practice. Tho pain to the horse, in many eases, is saia to A excruciating, and cases are cited where they have died nuder the treatment. Revenue Receipts. The receipts from internal reveune for the United States for the mouths of July aud August, 187 C, are nearly 8714,000 greater than those of the same months last year. Commissioner lianm considers thisaii evidenoe of the revival of trade throughout tho oonntry, and Alieves, from the ontlook as shown by tbe collections in varions districts, that the receipts for the present fiscal year will amount to nearly 810,000,000 more than the amount estimated. A large numAr of distilleries which hail been stopped for some time Ave resumed operations, and at one in Baltimore Gen. Ranm was told that the orders for whisky were 600 barrels in excess of tbair supply. TERMS: ©2.00 a Year, in Advance. ■■■■■ ■ ~!■ .! A iTm" In. .1 H.l.' II i 11. ' The Yellow Fever. The Savannah A'euw deoonliea the ap pearauoo of the oily, where the yellow . fever la raging, as desolate indeed. Ail who oould get away have left the city, . the streets are deserted, and the general gloom ia only relieved by the ligbta which here and there glean from the chamber windows of the sick. At seven o'clock the thoronghfaree present the ap|Hiuianoe of miduight; nothing but the alow tramp of the policeman on Ilia beat, or an occasional hurrying footstep, as some one seeks relief fur the sick, disturbs the solemn stillness that retgna throughout the length and breadth uf the town. The benevolent association ia working night and day, bat Ha ineana are almost gone and it haa been forced to ap|Hl fur oontributioua from abroad. The preaideut of the ttavaunab Chris turn Association has also made an appeal to kindred associations throughout the oountry. " Everything which sustains life," says the address, " or can promote the comfort of the suffering, such as money, food, nourishment sad care, is needed to relieve the unwaiiif wants of our suffering poor. There an- fully two mouths, lung, dreary mouths, viewed from our standpoint, through which we will have to oouibat the fell de stroyer. We feel assured we will not appeal in vain, and in proportion as the Lord has prospered and blessed your communities so do unto us in oar Lour of sunt distress. The Southern express company, the railroads, and, we trust, steamer* coming into Bavannah will transport all articles for relief free of oust. We pray you take prompt action in this matter and forward to the Ha v arm ah Christian Association or tuO. N. Hauasv, president, such supplies and contributions m yon oan collect, and add your prayers to your charities in behalf of a suffering people. Money, poultry, eggs, meal, flour and such articles as are the necessaries of life will be grate fully received aud distributed where they are most needed." The disease, ao far as reported, has not made its appearance in any of the cities or towns contiguous to Hsvannah. Cliarleabin, Augusta, Atlanta and other communities have been liberal in for warding supplies to the stricken people of Ha van uah. Unpleasant Arrivals. Smyrna was throw into s state of excitement nut long since by the arrival in the town of about seven hundred vol unteers, chosen from the Zeybeen of on their way to the neat of war. A* they marched through the town they were followed by a large mob oi their co-religionists, who enlivened the sjkjc tacle by drawing their knives and play fully poking them at the ribs uf any "giaours" they happened to meet, at the same time uttering the most horri ble threats aud occasionally knocking some of them on the head with their yatashsea. One elderly Armenian gen tleman was severely wounded in the !?!i ,y iS3. W Q<4 merchant vs. car nod home in a very precarious state with a frightful cut on his head. On passing by a crockery shop sevwral of the volunteers aud their friends entered the establishment aud smashed all the ware they ceutd lay bold of. The pro prietor and but shopmen while the work of destruction was going on prudently retired into a loft, where they remained in aeclnaion until the visitors had taken their depaftura. In the ranks of the volunteers were recognised " many noted brigands," aud bnt for the fact that in the basara all the shops were closed there osn be little doubt that there would have been a general plun der. On their arrival at the barracks, the volunteers were told to deliver up their weapons, which they at first re fused to do, saying " they won Id rather lose their hoods." They were, however, at lost persuaded to give up their yata ghans and pistols, and by latest ac counts they hail not actually killed any Udy, but the prospect of the arrival of 1,500 more volunteers in the town was not looked upon a* pleasant. EceeutrlciUw of the Buffalo. The winter of 1871-*72 was nnnaually severe in Arkansas. The poods and the smaller streams to the north were all froien solid, and the buffalo were forced to tbe rivers for water. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fc railroad waa than iu process of constraction, and nowhere could the peculiarity of the buffalo be better studied than from its trains. If s herd waa on the north side of the track it would stand stupidly gating and without symptom of alarm though the locomotive passed within one hundred yarils. If on the south aideof the track, even though at a distance of one or two miles from it, the passage of a train set the whole hen! in the wildest oommo tion. At its full speed and utterly re gardless of conseqnonoes, it would make for tbe track on its line of retreat. If the train hapjiened not to be in ita path it crossed the track, and stopped, satis fied. If the train was in tbe way each individral buffalo went at it with the desperation of despair, plunging against or between locomotive and car, joet as tbe blind madness chanced to take them. Numbers were killed, but nun - tiers still pressed on to stop and stare as soon as the obstacle was passed. After having trains ditched twice ic one week, conductors learned to have a very de cided re j>ect for the idioayncraaes of the buffalo, and when there was a pos sibility of striking a herd "on the rampage " for the north aide of the track, the train was slowed up and some times stopped entirely. The Insane, Tho Mtntor is a little paper edited and printed by the patients of the Ala bama insane hospital at Tuscalooea. Moat of the articles relate to tho treat ment of the insane. One article, enti tled •• Insane Responsibility," contains this passage: "It would benefit all in sane persons, even the inmates of hospi tals, to know that they are amenable to tho laws of tbe land. Many a time we have hoard inmates say: * If I cut, born, or kill, nothing can be done to me. They say lam insane. That gives :ue a loophole for escape, let me do what I may.'" Mention is made in one number of the paper that the superintendent not long since called a jury of the patients to decide whether one of their number was a thoroughly sane jxjrson or not. All but one agreed that he was. Tho dissentient saw one evidence of insanity —tho subject of inquiry was s believer in spiritualism. 8o it seems that the standard of sanity in hospitals is more 1 exacting than outside of tnpm. A Substitute for Gunpowder. A substitute for gunpowder has l>een invented in Englaud, in the shape of pa per impregnated with a chemical combi nation of chlorate of potash, nitrate of potash, prussiate of potash, and chro rnate of }M>tash, oonpled with a little powdered charcoal and tinder. The par er is rolled around these latter in the desired siaes for cartridgee. Tho ad vautages offered are that no danger of explosion exista exoept from actual oon taet with fire; the interior of the arm is not soiled, less smoke and less rebound are made than with gunpowder, and lose damage takes place from humidity. Very satisfactory trials hsye been made of ins new material. NUMBER 41. . 2 THE 11ABVKMT FEHTffAL*. Il* ih* Utraaw Akwu New Vrk I tl*. kreu ik*lMri *f a KtailHk Harvest. Every year wheu the harvest in in 1Im German peopla a boat Maw Turk hold a harvest gathering oa Union Hill, Mow Jersey. At these gatbn ;. K the ftwti vals of the Fatherland are m, bilged in. At the fasti ml thia year the chief event of the day wm a rural tmkucg is PlsttdeuUcb country dyl* the bride groom being Alfred Dehmek* a new* dealer of Hoookaa, and Minnie Kouig, a blooming Mid, born in Philadelphia, j bat for earn tune residing on her | father'* farm in Jersey. Three gaily j leoorated wagon*, ooutaming the bridal party, and a aet of liouarhold furniture, made the nitnut of the ground* pre-1 aeded by a band of innate and a meaaen- ' gar uo horseback, dreaaed In a velvet. ouat with ailver button*, velvet knee ' breeches, top boot*, and a "tiff bat orna mented with ribbona and gold lace. j Thia muaarmger waa the 44 Wedding la va ter," and, MI in the old country, sum moned the guests. ilia bona- was deco rated with ribbon* and the two made a gay speatacle. In the bridal party were the parents of the groom and bride, the gruomameu, Gap* Avery and Mr. liner' kopf, and twelve bridesmaid* with cap* of gold cloth and velvet bodioaa in the North German country fashion. The ; bride waa similarly attired. The bride groom waa dreaaad aa a German farmer, t : in velvet ooet and breaahea and a three cornered bat decorated with flower* and nbbona. Tbe Iter. lir. F. L Schneider, of tbe Lutheran church, a resident of i New Turk, waa the officiating clergyman. The nuptial tie wwa adjusted in front •, of the North German farm house, a red, j, high-roofed structure bail! is exact inu- , taflon of tbe German article. A real | wedding ceremony was performed in the , same bouse at tbe festival last year, and , a bouncing boy livea to-day to serve aa a reminder of it. The bridal couple stood on a platform befora the house. 1 A table aet with flower* and bearing ! two candlestick* which oosld not be lighted on account of the wind, stood ' beside them. The clergyman preached a abort ser mon, tbe bridal pair ant>. r<d question* about the same as those in vogue hare, • i and they were pronounced man and 1 wife. The twelve brideemaiJa kissed 1 the bride, and friends and relatives I proffered their congratulations After aiuging by the Lyra Hinging Society of ] Hobokeu and the Jersey Schnetscn ' Lirdertafel tbe party entered the farm house, and a banquet, dancing, singing, i and muaic followed. The president of 1 the Plattdeutach Association gave the 1 bridal couple fifty dollar* Gapt. Avery I gave a complete" kitchen outfit, and a ' dock was presented by some other t friend. Mumeroua minor gifts were re- i OnivedL The interior of tbe farmhouse was a one of the moat interesting spectacles on | the grounds. The mam wm tin. i hung like a porch to reoeive toe smoke. < Overhead was a partial oailing of wood, . between which and flic rafters waa a j store of hay. At one side, separated from the room only by a paling, were t stalls for the horse and cow. Hani < and sausages hung from the beam* and , brightly scoured pewter diab*-* adorned , tbe warn. Tbe kitchen opened into two • mom* in one of which was a bug* old faahtoutd peat stove, that was imported ' from German/. The festival lasted ( four days. There waa a real christening in tbe farmhouse. On the harvest day last year fifty thousand perrons were on the grounds The attendance waa fully as . large this year. Tbe whole country around was filled with gayly decorated wagon* and team* emblematical of the bountiful harvest. The Age of a Tree. The American Journal of Science and ArU says : Every one knows that very young trees in a nursery are apt to oome*rather earlier into leaf than full grown trees of the species. But this is explained by the nearness to the ground and consequent higher temperature. The oompaneou should be made between the oldmt available trees and otb well developed trees of moderate age. )L Alpb. De Candolle CUM wi observation* of this kind to be made in two old botanic gardens, namely, those of Paris and of Pisa ; and the results were nega tive—in the Paris cases no difference ; in the Pisa cases, an old gingko and an old walnut tree leafed earlier than young trees of the species, while the old tree of bores ohestnut, •aphora, linden, and patrloumia were later than the young trees. A very full series of cases, of different species, would be needed for the elimination of individual peculiarities, often great in this respect. But M. IV Candolle is able to refer to better data, vis.: to the case in which the date of coming into leaf of a horse chestnut tree has been carefully recorded for sixty-eight yesrs and another for fifty seven years, both at Geneva. Of course any differences doe to age would be small in comparison with those due to climate, vet they might be expected to be sensible in the long series of years, if ago really made any difference. But the figures do not bring to view any ten dency to either earlier or later leafing with "the advance of years. The Fall Term. The publu! schools opened for the fall and winter season, and every child in Detroit felt happy for mi hour or two, if not longer. A boy going down Second street from the Oass school at noon met a boy going up from the Por ter street school, and the Oass boy called out: , •' Hain't school bully though f " Too bet I" was the prompt reply. " How's vour teacher t" •' Nicest person yon ever saw. I snapped six paper wads this forenoon and never got licked once !" • Jußt like mine," called the other. • When she saw me sticking a pin into a boy she smiled and smiled, and I be lieve she's got a heart like an angel." Those lads may meet a week later, and when they oompare notes the first one will remark: •• I'm licked regularly three times a day, and for nothing at all." •' Soam I," will be the mournful echo of the other. Printing Office Secrets. A properly conducted printing office in as much a secwl society u ma sonic lodge. The printers are not uuder an oath of secrecy, but always feel them selves as truly in honor bound to keep secrets as though they had been put through triple oaths. An employee in a printing offioe who willingly disregards this rule in regard to printing office secrets would not oidy be scorned by his brethren of the craft, but would lose his position in the offioe a" once. We make this statement becau <e it sometimes happens that a communication appears in a newspaper under an assumed signa ture which excites comment, and various parties try to find out who is the author. Let all bo saved the trouble of question ing the employees or attacheos of the printing office. They are " know noth ings" on such points as these. On snch matters they " have eyes and ears, but no month, and if they fail to observe this rule, let them be pat down as dis honored members.— Exchtuiff*, > The Se.Pt Hep* • Mtftl we kaow est anything; 1 saw hat arast thsa good sh*u .fall At lam—far off—at last, to aD— And aay wtatsr ehangs to sprtag. Bo iwm my dream | bat what am 11 Aa Infant orytag la (ho night- An tafaei crying far too light And with na language hot a cry. mm tt lahnu " Excuse m* Mr," waa tsa remark of a burglar caught opening a safe. Fxamo saya: Distrust lair aomph x toned women with wide mouths. I A Han Fnunniac<> man died of heart , disease at the wedding of bis dang^u.r. There la a law in Wwoonmo that when a man dice without hefrt his property goeato the Bute school food, j Tha contract lor the wire for the large ed'lng. oLtbe Etft Biv.-r bridge will amountto over f1,000,000. Hie Bessemer auti-cewifck vessel for eaoaaiiig the English channel ia a failure, ' and bee been add to be broaeti up. "Wake up hare and pay your lodging," aasd a deacon, aa be uudgud a sleepy | stranger with u contribution box. Tbe principal ooontriea of Europe owe about i17,k00,000,000, exelnaive of the unsecured paper cum-urnoa and borne ' debts. .Speaking erf a politician, an exchange asyw that his mouth waa put on warm and all ran over the lower pert of hia face ) before it art. Fifteen million nine bundled thousand hectolitre* of barley (430,046,*J0 gal j kma) are oonaomed annually in Germany for beer brewing. , Aa apiteph in the old oburebyard at Bedlingtoti, read*: Foama and •ptiapha ara bat stag j Bar* Uaa fiohact Baraaa, Uaal a enough. Tbe fanner ahould sow hia P'* keep bis U's warm, hive hia B'* kill off the J'* remember what he o** take care of tbe V* pay all be O'* teach his wife nut to T and take hia E'* Pari* it aeem* has ateam street oars *jm don't frighten the horaa* aeet forty parson* run ten mike an hour, can be stopped within fire feet by a brake, turn sharp cornet* and coat but §4 a day day fur fuel and attendance. Three men belonging to Tenmgtor, in Norfolk, England, armed a little boy, took off hia boots, tied hia bands and feet together, and flung him into a wasp neat. The little fellow waa frightfully stung, ami his assailants were only fined. Lillie White, who had been reported ae attempting to commit suicide, has a card in the Virginia City okraa<ei* my ■ mg : 44 While fully realizing the vani ties of thia world, i am in no hurry for another, aa it might be a case of getting out of the fryingpan into the fire.' An Arkanaa* man thoughtkealy art some spring guns in his poultry yard, nd the next morning in the rising sun he rubbed hie spectacle# and stared in speech tees amazement at eighteen candi dates Kitting cm the front fence picking bird shot out of their thirty-aix lege. " Poach man," said an outside passen ger to one who was driving at a furious rate over one of tbe most mountainous roads in the north of Scotland. 44 have you no consideration for our liven and limbs f" 44 What are your lives and limbs to ae ?* was the reply. 44 I'm bo hind time I" A crazy man waa tied fast in a wagon for trauKportatian to Bkmntviil* Ky. Be yelled o loudly that the frightened horses ran away, throwing out the two keepers and breaking an arm of each. Then the lunatic seised the nam, con trolled tbe horae* drove alone to the asylum, and delivered himself up. A London woman with a babe in br arms provoked her husband so much that be aUed a knife at bar. It killed '*** * tflL.n— —" IT two inohc* deep into faMai I "7"--rr*— — dental death," and sere*4y repremand ed the nx-ther for having aggravated her husband. A boy mid to bis mother the other morning: 44 M* I bad the beaatifoWt dream last civ hi yon ever aw. I dreamt that 1 wouldn't go to school, and that you went out into tbe yard and cut a good long switch ; but ju*t as you were going to give me an awful dmmitt* the world came to aa end Didn't I get off easy, though." A northern lowa farmer offend a tramp his daughter and half his farm for three days' work in the harvest field. The tramp wavered a little at first, but then the color of tbe girl's eyes didn't suit, and be tbongbt tbe farm laid a little too low, so be declined the propo sition, stole a heme atrap and went on hia worklee* way. The u amber of entriea is the dog show at lh<- Centennial is as follows : Anieri mn, 561; Canadian, 15 ; English sod Irish • xliibitors, 546 ; making a total of m. The large majority of these are imported, or domestic English and Irish aetur* bu-d out of celebrated kennel*, Gordon setters, and pointers over and under fifty pounds' weight It was evening. Three of them were killing a cat One of them held a lan tern, another held the cat, and the third jammed the pistol into the cat 's ear and tired, shooting the man in the hand who the oat and the one with the lan tern was wounded in the arm- The oat left when it sew how matters stood, and thM ill-feeling was engendered. Oerrier pigeons have been pat fo an ingenious use by a physician on the Isle 'of Wight After visiting his patients in eaeh the doctor writes oat his prescriptions, sillies one to the leg of s pigeon, and tends the bud home. Thus the prescriptions are made up at once, and the medicines are dispatched speedi ! ly to those living at a distance. And I farther agree that I will re sign my position and withdraw from said schools whenever requested by said board of education or the superinten dent of wed schools, and will ask for no reason why such request was made. Such en agreement is signed by every tewoher in the public schools of Cairo, lIL, the idea being to help discipline. During recent improvements of a jail at NewHavea, Conn., there was fonnd between the rear walls of two tiers of oells s wire, firmly secured, one hundred and fifty feet long. Attached to it was a pan, which was evidently used for car mnß articles from cell to cell, or else as a kind of gong to convey warnings of the approach of the jailer or bis assist ants. . John Anderson, the first man who as cended the great South Dome in the Tosemite valley, California, lives alone in a small house neer the saddle of the dome. He is hard at work constructing s staircase of a thousand steps up the dome. He hopes to have an elevator running in time, and is also working on a model of a steam car that shall carry passengers up the almost perpendicular walls. • I always did love to gaze on the children in their sports,"said Potter, as he pensively contemplated a crowd of urchins ; "I am carried back to " Just then the baseball came over his way and tried to get into his vest pocket aud doubled him up. When his breath came back he shouted : " Ton young ragamuffin, you, if I catch yon playing ball on the street again I'll get the polioe after you.' Patient to his doctor—"And it is ready true that 1 shall recover ?" " In fallibly," answers the man of medicine, taking lrom his pocket a paper full of i figures. " Here, look at the statistics of your case; you will find that one per cent of those attacked by your malady are cured." " Well," says the sick man, in an unsatisfied manner. " Well, yon are the hundredth person with this diseaso that I have had under my care, and the first ninety-nine ate all dead. An old gentleman went oat to shoot partridges, accompanied by his son. The gun was charged half-way np to the mnzxle, and when at last the old gentle man started some birds, he took a rest and biased away, expecting to fee some fall, of course ; bnt not so did it hap pen, for the gun reooiled with so ranch force as to "kick" him ov r. The old got np, and while rubbing the sparks out of his eyes, inquired of his sob ; " Dick, did 1 point the right end of lbs gnu to tbs birds f"
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