The Cnild TtaltnUU
H* had plavwd for hta lordship'* Isvsa.
He had played for her ledvahtp'a whisi.
Till the poor WtUs head we. heavy
And l he ptxir little brain would awiro
And the face grew peaked and eerie.
And the large eye* strange and bright
And they aaid- -too late—'' He ia wear y'
He shall rest for, at least, to-night 1"
Bill at dawn, when the birda were waking,
Ae they watched in the silent room.
With the eonnd of e .trained cord breaking
A eomething snapped In the gloom.
'Twas a string of hie violoncello.
And they heard him stir in hi. bed
" Make room for a tired little fellow,
Kind Godwaa the leal that he eaid
Scandal.
When cannibal savages after a light
Make a leeat of the bodies of those they
hare beaten.
The grisly repaid yield, a ke nor delight
Prom the knowledge that every unfortunate
wight
Would hat* deemed it the deepael di.gaa e to
be eaten.
7 hough the custom ta fast dying cut in Fiji,
Aa the inllueuoe of Western exempt, in
crease.
In cirtltaed eountnee jou oft, > may see
A circle of friend, tn the highest of glee,
All biuuly picking some neighbor to pieces.
And the beet of it is the neighbor is not,
A. in t.lande barbedu\ a person deceased .
Hta flesh has been baked in no caldron, or
pot;
They d..u*t even trouble to serve them up hot .
For the victim still live® n the midst of the
feast.
Some good net tired friend p'raps, may make
htm .war.
Of the nature of these hungry monsters
employ nit 1.1 ;
And. though in reply he may stoutly declare
That tr.eh vivisection won't hurt htm a hair.
Tec he writhe* at the thought of their
fiendish enjoyment.
Still ote comfort remains In the tales of
r*
No j\.<u.e vengeance i. left for the rteum.
He ie cooked and otfa. ct. IWit tn Europe he's
free
To e ek saur faction . and romeumee we see
Tt a be wounds in exchange fo T the wound,
which hare p;.eked htm.
Then bw>re, Mrs. Smith; beware, lovely
Mir. Rr.<*u;
You: g Jones, whisper ncthirg that Isn't
quite true;
lie a little more carvfu! of other*' rei> " n.
For 1 l.ompecu ti yonder news 1s- .at down
W.tb Mi- Green, and ;* quirt > ou;ii-g up
pos .* Briy drta.
THE BETTER WAY.
Ont evening, as the twilight was dusk
ing into deep r shades. Farmer Welton
stood :n his dis ryard with a gun in his
hands, and saw a dog o> >ming out of his
shed. It wa. not his dog, for his was of
a light color, while this was surely black.
The sheil alluded to was open iu front,
with double doors, for the passage of
carts ; and the shed wa a part of a con
tinuous structure connecting the barn
with tlic house. Around back of this
shed was the sheepfohL
There bail beer: trouble upon Farmer
Welton's place. Dogs hail been killing
his sheep)—and some of the very beet at
that. He hail declared, in his wrath,
that he would shoot the first stray dog
he found prowling about his premises.
On this evening, by chance, he had
been carrying his gun from the house
to the bam when the amine intruder
ap>p>eared. Aye, and in the barn he
had been taking the skin from a valuable
sheep that had been killed and mangled
with tigerish ferocity.
8o when he saw the strange dog
ooming through bis shed, he bronght
his gun to his shoulder, and with a
quick, sure aim, fired. The dog gave
a leap and a howl, and whirling around
in a circle two or three times, he bounded
off in a tangent, yelping painfully, and
was soon lost to sight.
•' Hallo! What's to pay now, Wei
ton ?"
** Ah—is that you, Frost ?"
" Yes. Ye been shooting something,
haven't ye f"
" I've shot a dog, I think."
" Y-e-s. I seed him scoctin' off. It
was Brackett's, I reckon,"
Before the farmer could make any
forth-r remark, his wife called to him
from the porch, aud he went in.
Very shortly after ward a boy and a
girl came ont through the abed as the
dog had come. Down bsck of Welton"s
farm, distant half a mile or so, was a
grist mill, with quite a settlement
around it, and the pteople having occa
sion to go on foot fr<>m that section to
the 'arms on the Lulls could cut off a
long distance by W<-1 W<-1 ton's lot
The lioy and girl Were children of Mr.
Brackett. Wheq- they reached home
they were met by*.*saiiine of dire con
fusion. Old Carlo, the grand old New
foundland dog—the loving and the
loved—the true and the faithful— hail
come home shot through the head, and
was dying. The children threw them
selvtson their shaggy mate and wept
and moaned in agony.
Mr. Brackett arrived just as the dog
breabied Lis last. One of the older boy
stoo l by with a lighted lantern, for it
had groan quite dark now, and the
farm r saw what had happened.
" Who did this 1" he asked, groan
ingly.
John Welton did it," raid Tom
Frost, ooming np at that moment.
" He's bee n kiein' sheep, and I guess
he's pot kind of wratbv."
" But IT,Y dog never killed a sheep
never ! Re's been reared to care for
sheep. How came he down there!"
"He went over to the mill with Sis
and me," said the younger boy, sobbing
as he sp>oke ; " and he wu running on
ahe&l of ns toward homo. I heard a
gun just before we got to Mr. Welton's,
but, oh! 1 did not think bo could have
shot poor Carlo." -
Mr. Brackett was fairly beside him
self. To aay he was angry would not
express it. -Be bad that dog—it
had tieen tbe#hie' pet of JBs household
• for years. fLihrally boijHk with hot
wrath and indignation, nMptart. d for
Welton's. v*
John Welton and Poter w-.u-kett bad
been neighbors from thfe earliest
days, and they had been friends, too.
Between the two families there badtiecn
a bond of love and good wyj, and
spirit of frap rnsl lufTxggnrd
had marked their
farm- rs were hard working men, with
strong feelings, and positive character
istics. They belonged to the same reli
gions society and sympathized in poli
tics. They had warm discussions, but
never yet a direct failing ont. Of the
two Weltou was tho more intellectual,
and perhaps a little more tinged with
pride than was 1* neighbor. But they
were l>oth hearty men, enjoying life for
the good it gave them.
Mr. Welton entered hia kitchen, and
stood the empty gun np behind the
door.
" What's the matter, John t" his wife
asked, as she saw his troubled face.
"I'm afraid I've done a bad thing,"
he replied, regretfully. " I fear f have
shot Brackett's dog."
" Oh, John!"
" lint 1 didn't know whose dog it was.
I saw him coming out from the shed—it
was too dark to see more than that it
was a dog. I only thonght of the sheep
I had lost and I fired."
"I am sorry, John. Oh, how Mrs.
Braek.tt and the children will feel.
They set every ibing by old Carlo. But
yon can explain it."
J " T -a, 1 can eiplaiu it."
k Half aD hour later Mr. Weiton was
Aing to his barn with a lighted lantern
band. He was thinking of the
unfortunate occurrence, and
sorely worried and perplexed.
Hat would his neighbor sayf He
there might be no trouble. He
Hrefleeting w^eD " r - Bracket!
FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME IX.
appeared before him, coming p quick
Iv and stopping with au angry stamp of
tii> foot.
Now, there may lie a volume of electric
influence even in tlie stamp of a foot,
and there waa aoch au iuflucnco in the
stamp which llrackoft gave; and Wei ton
felt it, and braced himself agaiusl it.
There was, moreover, an attuoaphere ex
haling from the presence of the irate
man at onoe repellaiit and aggravating.
•• John Walton, you have ahot my
dog 1 " The words were biased forth
h.dlv.
•• Yea," aaid Walton, icily.
•• How dared yon do it t"
" I dare ahoot any dog that comes
prowling about my buildings, especially
when I have hail my sheep killed by
them."
" But my dog never troubled yi ur
sheep. aud you kuow tt!"
" How should I kuow it ?"
" You know that he never did harm to
a sheep. It w isn't in his uature. It aas
a mean, cowardly act, and you shall suf
fer for it."
" 15rackett, you don't kuow to whom
yon are talking."
"Oho I We'll find out. Don't put
ou airs, Jobu Weltou. You ain't a sautt.
I'll have satisfaction if 1 have to take it
out of your hide ?"
*' Peter, you'd better go home and
cool off. You are making yourself rulicu
loos. "
Now, really, this wits the uukindeet
ont of aIL Not *ll the mad words of
Bracket t put together wore so h*ri as
this single sentence; *nd John Welton
put *ll the bitter sarcasm iu his com
maiivl into it.
Brackett broke forth into * torrent of
invectives, and then turned away.
Half an hour later John Walton *o
knowledged to himself that ho had not
done exactly right, llad he, in the out
set, in answer to Brackett's drat out
burst, told the simple truth—that he had
shot the dog by mistake; that he was
sorry, and that he was willing to do any
thing iu his power to make amends—
had he done this his ueighbor would
probably have softened at onoe. But it
was too late now. The blow had been
struck; he hail been grossly insulted,
and he would not hack dawn.
Mr. Brackett was not so reflective.
He only felt his wrath, which he nursed
to keep it warm. That night he hitched
his horse to a job wagon, and went to
the village or a barrel of flour. Having
transacted his store business, he callen
upon Lahan Pepper, a lawyer, to whom
he narrated the facts of the shooting of
his dog.
Pepper was a man anxious for fees.
He had no sympathy or soul above that.
'• You say your dog was in company
with two of your children I"
" Yes."
" And this p>assage over Mr. Welton's
land and through his shed had been
freely yield d by him as a tight of way
to his neighbors I"
" Yes, eir, ever since I can re mem
ber."
• Then, my dear sir, Welton is clearly
liable. If you will come with me wi
will step iuto Mr. Garfield's and have a
suit oo meneed at onot.
Mr. Garfield was the trial justice.
All this happened on Friday evening.
On Saturday it hail become noised
abroad in the farming district that
there wa; not only serious trouble be
tween the neighbors Welton and lliack
ett, but that they were going to law
about it.
Oa Sunday morning John Welton
old his wife ho should not attend
•tinrcb. She had no need to ask her
'a as band why he should not go out. She
knew lie was unhappy, and that h
oonld not bear to meet his old neigklxir
in the house of God while the dark
•Joud was upon him. X r did she wish
to meet either Mr. or Mrs. Brackett.
So they lx>tb stayed at home.
Peter Brackett was even more miser
tble than John Welton. though perhaps
16 did not know it. lie held in close
lompanionship the yery worst demon
t man can embrace—the demon of
wrathful vengeance—and in order to
aaintaix. himself at the strain to which
he had net his feelings, he was obliged
to nurse the monster. He did not at
)md church on that day, nor did his
wife. Two or three times during the
calm, beautiful Sabbath, as he glanced
oyer toward his neighbor's dwelling, he
found himself beginning to wifh thai
he had not gone to see John Welton in
such a heat of auger ; but h put the
wish away, and nursed back his wrath
On Monday, toward noon, the consta
ble came in from the village and read
to John Welton an imposing legal docu
ment. It was a summons issued by
Win. Garfield, K*q., a justice of the
peace and quorum, ordering the said
John Welton to appear before him at
two of the clock on Wednesday, at bis
office, then and there to answer the com
plaint of Peter Frackett,, etc. The offi
cer read the summons, and left with the
defendant a oopy.
It was the first timo John Welton had
ever been called upon to face the 1 w.
At first he was awe stricken, then be was
wroth. He told himself that he would
fight it to the bitter end. And now he
tried to nurse his wrath, and became
more unhappy than tiefore.
On Tnesdav evening Parson Burely
called upon Mr. Welton. The good
man had btard of the trouble and was
exceedingly exercised in spirit. Both
the men were of his flock, an 1 he loved
and resjw cted them. He sat down alone
with Welton, and naked him what it
meant.
" Tell me calmly and candidly all
abont it," he said.
After a little reflection Mr. Welton
told the story He knew the old clergy
man for a true man and A whole heart A1
friend, and he told everything just as he
understood it.
" And neighbor Brackett thinks, even
now, that you Fhot the dog, knowing
that it was his?"
" I suppose so."
"If you had told him the exact facts
in the beginning, do you think he would
have held his anger ? '
This was a hard question for John
Welton, but he answered it manfully.
" Trnly, parson, I do not think he
would." *
" Were yon ever more unhappy in
your life than you have been since this
trouble came I"
" I think not."
"Aud, if possible, neighbor Brackett
is more uuhappy than you."
" Do yon think so ?"
" Yea. He is the most angry and re
vengeful."
A brief pause, and then the parson
resumed:
" Brother Welton, with you are need
ed but few words. You are more a man
than Brother Brackett. Do you not be
lieve he has a good heart ?"
" Yes."
" I wish you could show how true and
good your heart is."
" Parson!"
" I wish you could show him that you
possess true Christian courage."
" Parson, what do yon mean ?"
" I wish you bail the courage to meet
and conquer him."
" How would yon have Ae do itf"
"First, conquer yourself. lou are
not offended ?"
" No. Go on."
And thereupon the good old clergy
man drew up his chair and laid bis
hand upon his friend's arm aud told
him just what he would have him do.
He spoke earnestly, and with tears in
his eyes.
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
" Brother Weltou, have you the heart
aii.l oournge to do thin I"
The farmer anee and took two or
throe turns across the floor and Anally
■aid;
" 1 will do it"
On the following day, toward the
middle of the afterntKUi, Peter Rruckett
stood in the doorway with hie head
lieut. lie wa* thinking whether he
ahould harness his honte and tie off lie
fore utuner, or whether he would wait
uuttl afternoon, lie ooold uot eveu put
his mind to ordinary chorea.
•• I wonder," he said to himself, "how
the trial will come out t 1 '|kw Wei
tou'll lure old Whitman to take his case.
Of course the offlow'U be crowded. Tom
Frost says it's noised everywhere, and
that everybody'll be there, l'lague take
it' 1 wish "
His wediUtious were interrupted by
approaching stejis, aud on looking up
ue beheld neighbor Walton.
"Good morning, Peter."
ltrackett gasped,and dually answered:
"Good morutug," though rather
crustily,
Weltou went ou, frankly and plows
tilth:
"You will go to the village to-<lay t"
•' I a'pose so."
"I have beeu summoned by Justice
ttarflehl to be there, also, but really,
Peter, I dou't want to go. Oue of us
will tie enough. Garfield is a fair one,
and when he knows the facts he will do
what is right. Now, yon can state them
as well as 1 etui, and whatever his do
Cision is, 1 will abide by it. You can tell
him that 1 shot your dog, and that your
dog had done me no harm."
" Do you acknowledge that old Carlo
uever harmed you—that ho never trou
bled your sheep?" inquired ltrackett,
with startled surprise.
" It was noU-bis nature to do harm to
anything. 1 am Mire he would sooner
have saved one of rnv sheep than have
killed it."
"Then what did you shoot him fori"
" That is what I am coming at, Peter.
You will tell the justice that I hail lust
several of my sheep—killed by dogs—
that I had just be-u taking the skin
from a valuable wether, that hail been
so killed and mangled—that 1 was on
my way from my house, with my gun in
my hand, when I saw a dog come out
from my shed. My first thought w*
that he hail come from my aheepfold.
It was almost dark, and I could not stn
plainly. Tell the justice that 1 hail no
idea it was vour dog. I never dreamed
that I had ft red that cruel shot at old
Carlo until Tom Frost told me f"
" How f You didn't kuow it was my
dog I"
"Peter, have you thought so hard of
me as to think that I could knowingly
and willingly have banned that grand
old dog. I would sooner have shot one
of mv oxen."
"Bat you didn't till me so at first.
Why didn't you i"
"Becauseyon came up so—so—sud
den!? "
" Oh, pshaw !" cried Brackett, with a
-tampi of his foot, "Why don't yon
spit it out as it was? S.y I came down
on you so like a hornet that you hadn't a
chance to Think. I waa A I lamed fool,
that's what I was."
" And I was another, P. ter; if 1
hadn't lx n I t-hoiil.t have told yon the
troth at once, lu-ti a 1 of fl*riug up. But
we will ondend.and it now. You can
* o the justice "
"Jisttee t>e hanged! John, hang i*
all! What's the naef Here, let us end
From her wunjow Mrs. Brackett had
seen the two men come together, and
-he trembled for the re-ult. Bv-nnd
bye she caw her husband, as though
flushed and excited, put out his hand
Mercy! wa he going to strike bis neigh
bor I She was reaoy to cry out with
iffright, the cry Is ing almost npion her
lips, when she behold a scene that called
forth r- j 'icing instead. Aud this wa
what she saw: •
She saw these two strange mm gmp
one another by the baud, anil she saw
big bright tears rolling down tlieir
checks, and she knew that the fuirful
storm had passed, and that the warm
sunshine of love and tranquility would
come again.
Ah* utilities.
The Xorthwcsh Advocat'
regards the custom oL dsuiju; g h< tilths
ami-vindicating one's jiyjvia. l ' uco as
absurdities. It says: it
be an honor 4o a gentlemau |f u>
have a oompany aronnd a dinnmjgt'V;
fill their glasses with wine, when his
her name is mentioned at a particular
moment, and drain them simultaneous
ly f They drink one's health professed
ly. The act really promotes the health
of uo one. Physiologically it cannot
have that < fleet, but rather the coutrary,
in the mass of cases, while it can hardly
tie recognized as a religious ex-rcise, in
which the wine drinking is n kind of
libation, or sacramental accompaniment
of a prayer for the welfare of the person
named. Fashion rnhders it possible to
do what is simply ludicrous. 'Wins, at
a large dinner party, a gentlemau will
send word bv a waiter bmi lady at a dis
tant part of the table that he would like
to drink wine with her. Perhaps she ir
on the same side with himself, so
that he cannot well sec her motions. Ac
cordingly ho relies on the waiter to tell
him whon she has her glass in hand and
is prepared to exchange compliments,
and at a given signal, having asked :
"Is she reidy?" swallows his wine f
And then both feel quite complimented
and indebted to one another I
But how would it seem, wero a alight
change maule in the cuatom f Is-t it lx
supposed, that tho master of cere
monies should aaj : " I propo.en that
wo should oat tho health of tho lovely
Miaa Smith, tho quoon of beauty and
that, thereupon, each should take n bit
of roast !*• i, or a morwl of turkey, on
tho top of hia or her fork, and, at a
given signal, ail the bits should simul
taneously lo convoyed to their mouths,
with a general iutercluingo of smirks.
Or when the dessert and fruit conies on,
suppose a gentleman to send word to a
lady that he proposes that they eat one
another's health in a slice of orange, fn
these cases there woul 1 lie a compliment
of the personal attention, and the actual
taking of something nutritious and
healthful ; hut to drink one's health in
a glass of ordinary wine—in three in
stances out of fonr, n compound of
whisky and poisonous drugs—is a very
contradictory proceeding.
Wearing the Breeches.
Mr. Merriwether paused at the gate,
as he adjusted bis continental oilcloth
coat and gave his torch the proper slant
over his shoulder, to shout to his neigh
bor across the way : "It is a time tint
demands miy; men of nerve and intelli
gence and courage, meu of clear ideas
and pnro convictions, and the citizen
who stands idly waiting when the coun
try calls him is heartless and negligent
and unpatriotic." And then Mrs. Mr
riwether's voice was heard flouting over
the front fence like the song of a bird
in the night : "Krastns Merriwether !
If yon go off withont splitting up wood
enough for tho kitchen stove, I'll do
some haymaking in that oarrotty hair
o'yourn that'll make you wish this conn
try never had a President." And it is
just such chilling influences aa tliesa that
shut ao many of our beet ma J out of ac
tive public life.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1870.
Autumnal Disease*.
The season of fever*, says Uie New
York lias set in all over the
country: yellow fever iu the Boulh,
typhoid in oue directum, malarial of
different type* in others. A few nights
of sharp frost would doubtleaa clear aud
clean the air of them, but in the mean
time it liehoovtM every mau to look to
hut own health aud that of hi* family.
I'hystciau*, as a rule, ouuocru them
selves but little with preventive tueas
arcs, and in fact neither do the average
American* who axe their patients. In
thtiory ww alt are convinced th*t each
disease has a rational account to give of
its origin, but we act as if we held the
old doctrine that they came by the viai
tatiou of tlod and not from a defective
drain pipe or rotttiig garbage in the
cellar. There ia but little danger of
yellow fever in the Northern citien.
The season is far advanced, the quarati
tine is strictly enforced, and, the surest
safeguard of all, the popular dread of
the disease in no great that wherever it
appear* rach man liecomen a health
officer. There are commoner forma of
fever from which we have reason to ap
preheud ranch more danger. Tho in
tense heat of June and July has told
upou every man and woman who rtv
mattied in the citien during tin me
mouths. It has lfMSt'Uod their stock of
vitality to an exceptional degree, and in
consequence rendered them susceptible
to poison jus intluenoea iu the air. In
this mouth there are always malar ions
fogs arming from the decomposing
vegetable matter in low lying meadows
and gardens—a danger which nothing
but the early frosts will cure. The chief
preventive measure* Ui lie adopted are
to protect the body by flannel next the
akin, never to go out in the morning
without a full meal, alld to keep the dl
geetive organs in healthy condition and
the miud cheerful.
Typhoid fevers are communicated, ou
tho contrary, by conveyance of annual
secretion*. At this n<unn every house
holder should look U> the condition of
dram* and water pip on hi* premiaea,
and not ltd squeamish delicacy hinder
him from reporting nuisance* on the
premise* of h>s m igubor. It in amazing
to what pollution of the air, in thou
sumptuous dwellings, churches, steam
and horse cars, Americans will submit
in silence. There in another class of
fevers which originate in decaying vege
table matter, damput as, and the poison
generated by btul ventilatiou in over
crowded bouse*. If every reopectable
man would see that the laws o! health
were enforced in hi* own neighborhood,
there woxhl lie little fear from tin*
especial m-~*sengrr of death. In case of
attack from fever, the usual course is to
apply all domestic remedies before call
ing in a physician. The headache,
languor, etc., appear so slight a series
of symptoms that it is natural the whole
family pharmacopoeia of pills, draughts
and stimulants should lie tried before
outside assistance is summoned. Tbe
truth is, however, that the remedies for
each kind of fever widely differ, and
the home practice too often give* the
surest hi lp to the dis> aae in its fatal
work.
Our advice, then, to re idem i-, in
brief, to keep the fever out of their
houses, but after it is once into leave
the fight with it to nioic skilled ha -d*
than their owu. In no eouiitry, too, is
ibe matter of disinfection so neglected
us iu our own. The patient Is ing dead
or cured, his friends leave the disease to
go oa its way unchecked, while wiih
iue priv.nttlop of disinfecting bedding,
clothes, walls, etc.. it might U> stopped
diort. A frt e iv-1 of carte die arid or chlo
ride of lnuo is ls-u. ti.-tul in aver a b<iu*c
where there is no illness. Hut best of
all is fresh, cl> an air, and plenty of it.
These counsel* are hackneyed beyond
question ; but tlmt they are needed is
proved by the fact that eight out of h u,
even of cultured families, disregard
them.
A Bungling Execution.
Fraucia Ept was hanged at Coehoch n,
Ohio, for the murder of Abraham
Wertheioier on the twentieth of Jov< in
tier la-t. Ept, w!ui was born in Oer
many, was tuirty threii years of age.
At J" eoisely one o'clock r. u. the fatal
trigger was tonclxd. and Kpt • Usly
fell ix /H t nnd a half ; bnt tie fall (lid
not brak his neck, or even cause
•trangiilation, the knot having slipped
to the front, so that he was held by the
back of his neck. A local paper, de
scribing the terrible work, says : The
noose aiippi <1 aroumi in suou a Diniin' r
that it- knot was ov.r the hanging iu >U'N
■ chin, and the fall not Laving broken hi
f (Mick, but merely for a moment stunned
nimV ho wn-i now, amid the agony of
d earn..crying. for relief. "Let me go,
let me g*cf he shouted in Oi rman.
"Oh, have 'mercyon me, oh, have mercy
on me! Oh, o<*d, the Father, have
mercy on me ! Oh, let me go, let mo
go! Oh, Mother of God, help me.!
Father Epping, cut the rope and let mc
go 1" Crioa of horror sprung from the
audience, while the sheriffs and Fattier
Epping ran b> the odge of the soaffobl
platform. "Khoot him and pnt him
oat of his misery," suggested a by
stander. "Oh, i-hoot me, shoot mo!"
i ejaculated Ept, who was now fully scuai
ble ; " I was ten yeara a soldier; shoot
me, and don't hang mo like a dog J*
" I'nll li m up 1" said one of the sheriffs.
Two strong men mixed hold of the rope
and dragged the dangling victim, hand
over hand, to the platform, Mere he
was placed in n chair, while his cries,
moans, and pleas for mercy would have
melted the heart of a stone. " Courage,
my son," said Father Epping ; " think
| of the sufferings of our Bedeemer, aud
be a man." "Oh, Father Epping, for
God's nako cut the rojio and save me,"
prayed the qnivering wretch. Thus he
cried nutil the trap linil been readjusted,
I and then ho wan again lifted on to it.
I Now his nerves were unstrung, as well
they might bo, and he was almost as
limp as a rag. Ho never ceased beg
ging for mercy, and, in the midst of
his cries, the trap was sprung, aud this
; time the work was effectively done.
What he Found.
A country gentleman was in the habit
of cutcriaimug his friends almost
weekly, and discovered that regularly
some small article of plate was missing,
a caster top, a Halt spoon, a napkin
ring or something of the kiud. He HUS
pcoted his servants, aud to inuke sure
one night, when the guests La 1 as
i gambled, be said :
" I toll you what! Let's do without
m rvauts to night and wait on ourselves I"
The odd suggestion was greeted with
applause and peals of laughter. The
servants were turned out ; the meal was
seasoned with sparkling sallies at the
expeuse of the clumsiness of this or
that guest, and when they had all gone
tho host took stock and discovered that
two thirds of tho spoons had gone too 1
In the mouth of February, 1819,
Thomas Wildoy and John Welch, two
Englishmen, then residing in Baltimore,
Md., inserted in the Baltimore Ameri
can an advertisement in tho following
words: " Notice to all Odd Follows. A
few meftiliers of tho Society of Odd Fol
low.! will lie glad to meet their brethren
for consultation npon tho subject of
forming a lodge. The meeting will lie
held on Friday evening, tho secoud of
March, 1819." This was the first lodge
formed in the United States.
Odd Fellowship.
lu the May of Adiltv.
" I*. 11. A.," tho writer of a letter in
the New York .Son, asked.'
"11 ow is a laboring matt to get his
living the coming winter I Crop* have
ooiuo iu so pour Uiat buckwheat, the
matu food of the poor class of iieople iu
thia section in winter, will lie worth
from fll to fll.'JU; aud yet what few
business men here intend to do business
this oomiug winter say they shall reduce
wages to 81 per day. Now, 1 would like
to know how* laboring man can pay S3O
per year rent for the poorest house, and
jierhapa sls more for firewood, fl.'ifi
per bushel for potato**, eighty to ninety
cents per bushel for corn, and wheat
$1 .AU |ier bushel, and clothe u family of
Ave or six little children <"
This is a haul state of things, which
is not allaved by the fact that millions
of human beings will survive this winter
in Europe under conditions far harder
than those depicted. Many an agrioul
tural laborer in England, where the
wages are higher than iu some other
countries, and where, moreover, families
! of even eight and teii children are uot
uncommon, has to get along on three
.lobars a week, ills house coats him at
; leant s'if> a year, even inferior parts of
' meat ha cannot get at leas than twelve
cent* a pound, bread is somewhat iieari
j than here, the garden where he can
| rain- vegetables doe* not average one
elgb'll of an acre, and fuel costs him al
least fcio. Yet he Uvea, and rears cliil
dreu. The French aud lielgian peasants
live ou less, and live better, iu aome re
! spects, and yet actually saves, liecsuse
skilled 111 economy, and knowing how to
turn every atom of food to account
The people of this country have been so
wasteful iu times of plenty that a hard
time-fiuda them unable t<> meet it. "P.
i H. A." would las astonished were he to
ta*tc the nourishing, savory broth which
a French peasant can make out of bones,
* morsel of meat, vegetables, herbs, and
such dry scrape of bread as an American
housewife would throw away. A glance
at a poor man's garden in this country
t will, nine tunes out of teu, ahow how
little he and his wife know how to turn
it to account for the taljje. With laud
I no cheap a* it is hen-, a French peasant
I would be living in clover. A very large
i pro|>ortiou of the Judn as in tin country
regions to which "P. 11. A." alludes
arises from ignorance of that domestic
economy which hard Union have taught
♦be people of other countries.
The Late James Lick.
Janus Lick, the philanthropist, died
in Ban Francisco. He had been sinking
for aome time, aud death resulted from
the mere decay of nature. His career
iu the world of commerce was singularly
successful. He was boru at Fredericks
i bnrg. Pa., iu 1796. Ho was engaged in
oommetctal pursuits iu South America
from ltfil to 1847, when he weuttoGali
foruia and invested in real estate and
, other enterprises, which resulted in the
accumulation of a great fortune. In 1874
I he assigned £1,000,000 from his estate
to trustee* for various public and
philanthropic purposes, including
$700,000 for a telescope and other ap
paratus at Lake Tahoe, $300,000 for a
school of mechanical arts in Owliforoia,
£150,000 for public monuments and
1150,1*10 for public hsth* in Sacramento,
g! j" ' ' for a monument to Francis
Scott Key, Uie author of the "Star
Spang!. d Banner," and other large
sums b> various Iw-nevoh-ut aoctrtiea in
San Francisco. Tue M-IMAIOD of suit
able person* to guard ttw m- vast chart tier
hat always tieen a source of trouble aud
ai.eavin.-a* to Mr. Lick. Hiiiee thu last
chauge iu the truate* s of his charitable
fund tie- d'-ccfeiM d has frequently ex
prr*e*od InisiK-if Ix-tU-r satisfied with the
condition of flairs, but has manifested
considerable concern at not hearing
from hi* son, John Lick, of Fredericks
burg, Lebanon county, Pa., to whom
IHIUI letters and telegrams had Ixetiscnt
requesting his rtwiguatiou an one of the
trn*te *. All the rest of the old board
have tendered their resignations, though
they have not yet t*en confirmed by the
, court.
The trustees nay the business is in
-uoh shajie that no complications can
ensue in carrying out Mr. Lick's de
signs, though ih'-re is some fear that the
action uf John Lick implies his inten
tion of ooiiteatiug quitter* in the courts.
The total Valne of the trust fund is erti
mat- d at about $.1,000,000.
A \heeky Man's Projected flslt.
A gentleman of Philadelphia ha* re
ceived the following Utter, which ex
plains itself :
Troubles never come singly, and now
I am going to ask a particular favor, and
sincerely hope yon may. not think
strange of it. The plain fact* of the
case am: lam out of fund*, and would
like to ask a small loan—a men' trifle—
•o I may get rid of my hotel bill, pay
for some pictures, a pair of Units, etc. I
would like to have say $lO. though 1
might get along with sll6 if yon could
g< tme a pass over to your city. Now,
this may seem like pressing matters a
little; but I always did believe in keep
ing up appearances; it givi<s one credit, j
you know. My friends, including 8.,
are away—this is my reason for writing
*o yon.
If I got over to your city, and if it
suit* nie, I will mnken short stay at yonr
owu home for say it oonple of weeks or
so. Now I hope this'will be altogether
Convenient and agreeable., if *i<>t, don't
heaitatc to lie candid. lam not tine of
the kind to feel linrt.
My mother-in-law, wife and two boys
will join me in Philadelphia, and if it
would make no difference to you or yonr
family they will make their stay at your
home with nie. My mother-in-law
being somewhat of ail invalid, doea not
breakfast nutil eleven A. u , and then
requires attention which can't lie hail
except where she may feel perfectly at
home.
I thought liest to mention these little
matters so you may not feel annoyed.
Awaiting a favorable reply, I am very
truly yonrs.
P. B. I have heard of yonr hospi
tality, aud I hojie shall find in yon a
brother. I feel anxious to be in yonr
city during the visit of the Chicago con
sistory, which I think will lie almut tlii*
time.
A Terrible Onslaught.
A terrible onslaught was made upon
the Catholic Christians at Ning-Kuoh
Fu, in the province of Nganhnwy,
China, when a crowd of about 1,000
soldiers aud ruffians, under the guidance
of officials, hurst into a chapel during
service timo and brained members of
tho congregation. The men entered
tbe chapel, interrupted the servioe,
forced the officiating priest upon his
kneos, aud demanded that ho should
cease promulgating the i.octriuo of the
T'ien chn sect. The priori declined to
make the promise, whereupon a
of indeeeruiable uproar ensued, during
which frigbtfnl outrages occurred. The
priest was tortured and eventually put to
death, being hacked to piooos ; a little
child whom he had adopted was torn
limb from limb, and tin corpse of au
othcr father was taken from its grave
and brutally ill-used. Tie members of
the iuland mission hav all left the
neighborhood, aud the lb man Catholics
have new a guard around their house.
Tho chief conspirator was a military
mandarin named Wu, wh.~> has openly
expressed his malignant hatred of the
Christian religion.
The Mln-at Nupply In England.
The liondou Time* > ays : The wbnat
unw this your is the (iiiuluiiui of a
history full of alarms and surprises.
Mr. (laird tolls it very pleasantly iu all
its bearings aud consequences, and re
minds us, by the contrast, of the
mysterious and gloomy tone with which
the staiT of life was always disouaend a/i
late as thirty years ago. Iu aome re
* poets the present state of things far
sur|nuiet-s the direst predictions of that
day. We are dependent upon foreign
ers to an extent never then imagined.
While the average consumption is about
twenty three million quarters, or, as the
customs' returns state it, one hundred
million hundredweights, during the last
harvest year we have imported -
happily, it seems, somewhat in excess of
our wants—sixty-three million hundred
weights, or not far from two thirds of
our whole consumption.
Half of this came from the United
Htates, and HO much of our wheat sup
ply depends, therefore, not only uu the
good will of that country, but still mure
immediately on her commercial state,
which is very variable. The profit it
self has to be nicely calculated, and iu
Mr. (laird's opinion the prices which
have lately urevailed yield little or no
profit. Such a fact is slowly apprecia
tod, but when tbu American f'xmers
have once acted upon it and stopped
supplies, it takes time to reverse that
movement and meet a rising demand.
Five per centum of our wheat imports
come from British India—where we have
lately had to feed a famished popula
tion. A good deal comes from Turkey
and Egypt, which, Mr. (laird observes,
will have to send us wheat because they
both want money aud can no longer get
it by simply borrowing. He suggeats,
however, that in present circumstances
Turkey cannot be depended on for any
considerable supplies. France la too
much iu our own condition to be sure of
s|suiug us wheat when are happen to
want it; in fact, if she has not to
compete with us in the open market,
that is altout as mnch as can now be ex
} tec ted. She has had a poor harvest of
other grain and produce, and may want
all her own produce aud more. The
wheat crop of Canada is much lower I
than usual.
Here, then, is the rery state of things
which a generation ago was prophesied
as the last |*if-e of our national decline
and fall. When all the world, includ
ing onr jealous rivals, found us de
j>endent on-them for more than half of
our daily bread, they had only to pnt
their head* together and destroy the
proud nation that had so oppressed and
insulted them. The consummation has
oume. It find* us year by year growing
lea* wheat, and the foreigner growing,
if not alMwilutcly more, at least more
than jxiys him.
Uuw a Bird Flics.
I he most prominent fact about a bird
is a faculty in which it differs from
every other creator* except the l-at and
insects—ita power of flying. For this
purpose the bird's arms end in only one
long, slender finger, instead of a lull
buid. To this are attached the quills
and small feathers (coverts) on the tip
jsir side, which make up the wing.
Observe how light all this is ; In the
first place, the none* are hollow ; then
the shafts of the feathers are hollow,
aud, finally, the feathers themselves are
made of the most delicate filaments, in
terlocking aud clinging to one anothei
with little grasping hooks of micro
oopic fineness. Well, how does a bird
fly i It seems simple enough to de
scribe, and Vet is a problem that the
wisest in such matters have not yet
worked out to everybody's satisfaction.
This explanation, by the l>nke of
Argyle, appears to be tbe last : An
open wing forms a hollow on its under
aide like an inverted saucer ; when the
wing is forced down, the upward pres
sure of the air caught under this con
cavity lifts Uie bird up, much ss you
lift youra If up lietween the parallel
bar* iu a gymnasium. But he could
never in this way get ahead, and the
hardest quod ion in still to lie answered.
Now, the front edge of the wii g, formed
of the bones and muscles of the fore
arm, is rigid and unyielding, while the
hinder margin is merely the soft flexible
end* of the feather* ; *J wneu the wing
is forced down, the air under it, finding
this margin yielding the easier would
rush out here, and, in so doing, would
Itcnd up the ends of the quills, pushing
them forward ont of the way, which, of
course, would tend to shove the bird
ahead. This process, quickly reisiated,
results in the pheuoineuoti of flight.
Hie of Countries.
(Jrecoe is atxint the sine of Vermont.
Palestine is about one-fourth the siae
of New York.
Hindustan is more than a hundred
times as large as Palestine.
The great desert of Africa has nearly
the present dimensions of the United
.States.
The Red sea would reach from Wash
ington to Colorado, and it is three times
as wide as Lake Ontario.
The Knglish channel is nearly as large
as Lake Superior.
The Mediterranean, if placed across !
North America, would make sea naviga
tion from San Diego to Baltimore.
The Caspian sea would stretch from
New York to St. Augustine, ami is as
wide as from New York to Roche* V r.
(treat Britain is about two thirds the
size of Hindustan, one-twelfth of China,
and one twenty-fifth of the United
1 States.
The gulf of Mexioo is almnt ten time
ths size of Lake Superior, and about m
large as the sea of Kamschatka, 1 ay of
R. ugal, China sea, Okhotsk or Japan
sea. Lake Ontario would go iu eaoh of
them more than fifty times.
The following tiodies of water are
about the same size: German ocean.
Black sea, Y'ellow wa; Hudson's bay is
rat lor larger. The Baltic, Adriatic and
.¥.?> an seas, and the Persian gulf are
half as large, and somewhat larger than
Lake Superior.
A Horrible Tragedy.
A horrible tragedy occurred on the top
floor of No. 201 West Twenty-third
street. New York. Julius Blank, aged
thirty eight years, a native of France,
by occupation a professor of music, shot
his wife Mary, aged twenty-eight years,
iu the hood with a large revolver, inflict
ing a mortal wound. He then caught
up his little child, Amelia, aged three
and one half years, ami placing the
deadly weapon close to her heed, fired,
causing almost instant death. Beforu
the child had expired he ended the ter
rible deed of bUxxl by blowing out his
own brains. The noise of the pistol
slut attracted the attention of neighbors,
who rushed m only to find the child auil
father lying dead IU {tools of blood and
the motlior unconscious and dying.
Within ton minutes a police surgeon was
on the scene, but nothing could be done
for the only surviving member of the
fatmi family. Her wound was fatal,
i She was, however, quickly removed by
an ambulance to a hospital.
The causes thnt ltd to the terrible
crime ami the details of the tragedy arc
unknown. No person could be found
who wituessed the shooting, oud only
surmises of insanity afford an assignable
cause. The father and murderer was
> totally blind, and supported bis family
by giving music lessons.
TERMS: 02.00 a Year, in Advance.
Lionising Itank Rubber*.
The St. I'aul papers do uot like the
idea of bank robbers being Lionised aa
they are. One of them says :
•'Boh" Younger seems to have been
a big man during his Madelis receptions,
and the ladies who showered bouquets
aud sympathy upon the blood* bandits
dwelt tenderly upuu "Bobs" sweet
voice and winning smiles, and wept at
his mention of his dead mother and liv
ing sister, would do well to preserve a
small portion of their sympathy and
tears, perhaps, for the mother* and
sisters, aud wive* aud children of good
citiaeus shot down and butchered in
cold blood by this precious gang of out
laws within the jiast few years. Don't
let's have any sickly sentimentality
over these vampire* just because they
are caged at last and their bloody work
en led. " Bob's " voice may be full of
melody, his face manly, his smile at
tractive aud his bearing courteous, but
hi* hands aud the hands of his asaoci
at h are steejwtd in the blood of Oount
leas victims, an I if they could -lie a
thousand deaths justice would hardly be
np| waited. North field and Made lis did
a brave aud noble work, covering them
selves with glory aud conferring honor
upon the Bute. Now don't -et the aim
t'ietous " slop over ' with team and
xniqueta for these outlawed wretches.
" Hob" and his brother will kindly
" forgive " the woman whoae son was
the bearer of information that led to
their capture—they will •' forgive"
everybody just now.
Hob would "forgive" them if they
would give lam his revolver* and turn
lam lot tee again. There ought to be
too much good common sense in Min
nesota to lionize this most Tillauoua
band of highwaymen, and we hope to
hear no more ot it. It is hardlv proba
ble that Northfield and Faribault people
will oontinue this shower of sympathy
and bouquets. They have had • taste
of the James and Youngt-r metal before
"the Bi'maiy of their dead mother and
living sister r ' had overtaken them, aud
there are two home* in mouraiagai a
consequence.
What he Will Ike.
The late Mr. James Lick's sou and
heir, John Lick, is described by the
Philadelphia 'l\me* aa a tall, raw boned
man, about fifty year* old—if his long,
stringy, iron gray btmrd, wrinkled, care
worn features, and generally smashed up
appearance meant anything—dreused to
look his beet—and hi* best vu a coun
try Iwaver hat, a suit of well brushed
black, made by ttie village tailor, and a
pair of shore from a freshly imported
♦• box " of shoe* from the manufacturers.
At Philadelphia, ou his way to the Cali
fornia, he said to the reporter : "I am
going to start to-night from here, and
am only waiting now for a friend of mine
who has just oume on from there. Re
in going back with me. Wa-al, the way
things is I don't want to say what I'm
going to do. He was my father and
wav about cigbtv-one year* old. lam
his only i ail i. He has one sister living.
' Did I firht read of the death in the
newspaper*;' Oh !no ; 1 have a pocket
full of telegram* here, but I won't an
swer tb< ui. 1 know v hat I'm going to
do " And here Mr l.ick showed that
he had a good ileal of lirmnem of char
acter, aud could, in the way of bargain,
cavil on the ninth purt of a hair. The
reporter found this "one trustee who
refused to resign ard nllow his father to
make a rearrangement of the trust" bent
upon foiling him in (lie matter of the
important answer the question :
"Do you m mi to it* mpt to break the
deed and will f" II tv„* no use. He
would cot answer liter flatly or by In
direction.
lt< markable Ktcim
At the head of Csbin creek, *v a
eimwpondent witli Gen. Crook'* com
man J, a furiona and remarkable storm
assailed u. Lite heavens were suddenly
transformed (rum a serene to an augry
stud menacing aspect. The WITH! broke
1. ><■, ncil rain WM burled from the
ci tide in huge drops. The snn waa just
setting, and, despite the dark mood of
nature, there waa an asnre disk of the
t-ky in the west suffused with a golden
tinge. While it was yet glowing, ba.b
tone as largo n walnuts dropped like
bullets, cutting leavw and twigs from
thetnes iu au instant, and then amid
the deafening roll of the thunder and
the fitful give of the lightning, two
gnat route appeared in the clouds, and
the moou and ad Ben stars looked down
out of their upper chamber into the
gloom. The strange phenomenon lasted
a quarter of an hour—sunlight, star
light, moonlight, rain, bail, wind and
lightning, all displayed at the same mo
ment, A faint rainbow formed before
the lingering reminiscence of the sun
was gone from the wast. Then the f-ky
assumed a consistent blackness, and the
storm grew in wildness until jt reached
a passionate climax of giant tears, liquid
and congealed, more violent than evar,
and then subsided.
Homed Men in Africa.
A }>*i>er bv Captain J. 8. Hay, on the
horned men of Africa, was read at the
reoent meeting of the British Associa
tion. He also exhibited sketches of two
Africans with horns. Mr. Hyde Clarke
snid it wra ' very difficult to assign any
rcasou for the appearance of the horns,
but there was no d< >ubt that Captain Hay
had seen them. One way might be that
they hail Ixv-u inserted or inoculated
into the face; but Captain Hay informed
thcin that it waa the object of the parents
to remove the h lnu . which he regarded
as s natural growth. One suggestion
was that this was a class of malforma
tion, of which there was a memorable
example in the case of the " porcupine
man." who had homy plaits on various
parts of his laxly. He had not beard
from anybody any sufficient explanation
with regard either to its being a natural
phenomenon arising at birth or its being
artificially produced in the manner to
which he'lnid referred. It was remark
able that the horns were peculiar to the
male sex. The subject was very ob
sou re and had not been sufficiently in
vestigated by anthropologists, because
there were groat prejudices to taking it
up.
The Inland of Forea.
Toe Japanese mission that lately visit-1
ed Core* reports the houses qf tbe j
poorer classes as being but six or seven
feet high. Halt fish, tobacco, and Ptnpv
sandais are the chief staples of local. E
trade; the housoa devoted to govern
ment purposes are of brick, and of
mean construction. The walla of the
town are composed of brick, earth and
atones, and the highways are wretched.
The inhabitant* wear nndyed clothing,
and a very long sleeve i a mark of mi
perior rank. The hats are broad britn
mini, ami tied uudcr the oliiu with aoord
or ribbon. Etiquette requirea that they
ahould be kept on the head during salu
tations. The bair is worn long, and fas
tened on the top of the head by pins. \
The dress of the women resembles that
of Europeans, but the members of the i
mission did not aie any. The soil, is
generally poor, and an old tree is rarely
seen. All trees reaching a suitable size
are cnt for firewood. The only mines
worked are those ol iron, but otbe r of
copper, gold and silver exist. The
j horses are exceedingly small, and the
j rnnii? articles of exportation are the.
I skins of oattle and pigs.
NUMBER 4J3.
A School iteration Decided.
The aupreme court of lilinoi* baa
rendered a decision of great inteieat in
connection with the public aobool*. A
girl in Winnebago oounty belonged to a
olaaa that waa required by the rule* to
atudy bookkeeping. Her parent* did
not wiah her to poraue that atudy, and
refuaod to provide her with text book*.
They were notified that they mart do eo,
or the girl would be expelled. Return
iug to uie achool without the book*, ahe
wu* ejected. Upon thi* anil waa brought
agaiurt the principal and director* for
tree)tea. The jury in Uie court below
found for the pUuitiff, and aairaartl the
damage* at $136. A motion for a new
trial wa* made and denied, and the case
waa appealed to the aupreme court.
That court ha* jurt rendeied a dactaion
affirming the judgment. Several point*
are diaauaaed and tia—iid upon in the
opinion, but the chief one 1* thia : The
achool law of lliinoia declare* that
urthogntpby, reading in English, pen
manship, arithmetic, Engliah grammar,
modern geography, and the history of
the United State* shall be taught in the
public schools, but to thia section ia
added a proviso thai nothing thereiu
contained ahall prevent the teaching of
other and higher branch**. The rea
aoning of the court ia that it waa the de
sign of the law fixrt to secure to every
child inatruetiun in the btangheaenum
orated, and that while ofln studios
may be introdnoed they cannot be made
compulsory.
Who Introduced Them I
Potatoes, it is aaid, were first intr.i- j
ilaond into Europe by Bir Waiter
Raleigh ; bat the fact is by no moans j
proven. It Menu very strange, if he ,
did introduce the jtotato into Ireland
or England in 1584 or 1586, that John 1
(h-rarda, who waa at that time gather- •
ing material for hia great work, " The
Historic of Plan tee," published a doom
year* later (1597), was not aware of the .
fart, for be gives a Ago re and dmcrip- !
tion of the Virginia potato, hot not a
word a boot Htr Waiter Raleigh being ita
introducer. The famous German bota
niat, C lamas, obtained aome potato
tubers while residing in V lenna in 1388,
from the governor of Moos, in the
province of Hainaolt, who procured
them from an attendant of the Pope'a
legate, bat none of thaae men mention ,
Bir Walter Raleigh, and they bad prole- i
bly no knowledge of him or hia Virginan
enterprise. Of courae it ia of no par*
tiruiar importance to na whether Bir
Walter Raleigh or aomebody eke has
the honor of bt-iug the first to carry the
potato to Europe, bat we mention the
above facta in history to show npoo
what alight foundation honors are be
stowed, especially if Use recipient hap
pens to be a person of mark.
*
Barkas waa Wllllag.
In a trial of a divorce aaae recently in
the supreme court of Miohigan, the fol
lowing letter to the judge wae introduc
ed in evidence, forming a unique piece
of documentary testimony. The name*
of parties are omitted:
Jackson I'ihson, June 11, ]B?fi. j
Hon. Jri*i Corn sank-
Dear Sir —l take the opportunity to
inform yon that I had a subpoena served
on me to tie in court on the twnty-eeo
ond of June, this month; that my wife
baa applied for a divorce. I don't know
I <>n what grounds she has applied, but I
I hope and trust from the bottom of my
■ heart that your honor wih be kind
} enough to grant it to her, aa 1 am posi
tive that we never could be reconciled
to each other again, as (rod knows 1
I never had a day's hi ok from the first of
I >nr acquaintance. Although lam here
' in prison, wearing the convict's stripes,
it would make me a happier man to bear
that we were divorced than few me to
have a pardon anut to me for my liberty
from this prison.
Praying that roar honor will grant it
bar, Beepectfnlly and trulv yours,
Jackson, Mich.
roiled Slate* Carrenfy.
The amount of United States national
hanh circulation redeemed, retired, and
surrendered from Jan. 14, 1875, to Oct
'l, 1876. is $46,483,471. Amount issued
between tbe same UW, |16,881,675,
showing a decree ><• of national bank cir
culation of $29,607,896, leaving .he
amount of national bank notes outstand
ing on Oct. 1 (not including the circula
tion of tbe national gold banks, $2,099,-
! 190) $322,263,554. Tho amount of
j greenbacks deposited from June SO,
j 1874, to Oct 1, 1876 (including $3,813,-
675 previonaly deposited for the purpose
;of redeeming the notes'of insolvent and
liquidating Iwinke). $64,503,866. Amount
of circulation redeemed by the treasurer
1 tct ween the same dates, $42,462,912,
leaving on depowl with the treasurer on
Oct. 1, 1876. $21,860,943, for the par
pose of retiring the national bank notes
outstanding. Amount of greenback*re
tired under the act of Jan. 14, 1875,
$13,505,260, leaving outstanding on
' Oct. 1, 1876, $368,494,740.
A Little Tee Past.
A favorite programme with tbe hotel
dead beat is to hand a large a<wled en
velope, stuffed with paper, to the clerk
and ask him to take oare of those " three
hundred dollars for a few day a." The
game has been played at one of the
Detroit hotels, and the clerks were on
their guard. A looking old man
registered at the same hotel a few days
afterward, and after dinner ha handed
the day clerk an envelope marked
i " 180," and asked that it be put in the
I safe.
"Ton can't pky that trick on me, mis
ter I" replied the clerk, and be tore the
. package id two. As be held up the
onda his eyes began to bulge out. He
iiad tore eighteen new $lO dollar bills
in qalf, and lie had insulted the owner.
One reason why he wasn't at hia poet the
i haiatice of tho nftcrnoon was because he
was pastiug those bills together.
Currency Outstanding.
The following ia a statement of the
United States currency outstanding at
; this date:
Old demand notes 986,73340
i Usual-tender notes—new imnie. 36.H8H, 103 00
I.(tal-tender notes—sstiss 1869 317.671.753 60
! Leg si tender uotee- eeriee 1674 59,630.421 00
Leyal-tsndor not en—settee 1875 64,881.464 00
One-year notes of IS3S 80,016 00
Two-year notes of 1868 18 550 00
' iXwo-jesr coupon note# of 1883. 24.650 00
Compound interest notes 323.240 00
Fractional currency, Ist issue.. 4.294 740 93
Fractional curreno), 2d issue... 3,116 873 47
Fractional currency. Sil issue . 3.065.301 22
Frao. cur'y, 4th issue, Ist series 4,033,127 55
Krac. cur'y, 4Ui issue, 2d seriee. 1 060,081 10
Free cur'y, 4th issue, 3d series. 1 601,884 85
Frao. cur'y, 6th issue 12,636,359 70
A (iuNTtnors Man. -The custom in
! some post office* of forwarding unpaid
letters and appealing to the reoeivu for
repayment in a little poster pasted on
the backs of the letters was initiated in
Newark, N. J. A benevolent gentleman
saw a bundle of unpaid letters to for
eign addresses, took pity on their far
away owners, and not only paid their
postage, but, fur years afterward, the
postage of all such letters. Ha paid for
the letters twenty years, including at
the last domestic letters in hia charity,
and kept hia name a secret.
Items f litnwt,
A Rw<l minor staked the saving* •(
jMti on (MO, tort, Mid than killed him
nit
Inquiring mind (wading)-" It my
hem, ais, 7 Hl* remain* wore taken to •
their but renting place." Why doth*/
any ' hi* remain* —WMn't ha all there!'
The Corpus Ohrinti (Ten*) 7Hm*
hen been studying hamnn nature. It
egya i
To tree, I* human.
To pay nm <hru>a.
The family tree of n Tame family
show* a branah on which several man
b*e have been mug (or borrowing
homes.
A yoong poet of the realistic eohool
write* : "Time marahee on with the
*low, measured tread 1 4 a man working
by the day."
Rice culture in Louisiana employe
30,000 people on 1,900 plantations: pro
i dneee a crop worth §8,000,000, end de
velops baetneea to the extent of §lO,
000,000.
In 1793 the flnrt canal* of the United
HUUm were built in Massachusetts.
Tbeee were abort one* on the Connecti
cut river, one being two mile* long and
the oilier three.
Another instance of the beauty of go
ing to law baa just transpired at Perth
Amboy, N. J., whore it curt a man SBOO
to get a $49 verdict against a railroad
oompany.
A Western chap, in describing a gale
of wind, say* : A white dog, wl ile at
tempting to weather the gale, waa caught
with his mouth open, and turned com
pletely inside out.
The old mania for Persian eats with
long tails has again broken out among
the Daimioo of Japan. An enterprising
captain of a merchant vessel sold three
a abort time ago for $8,900.
A granite block weighing thirty tons
wa* recenUy taken from the quarries
near Halioweii, Vie. Another block
weighing forty toos issoon to be brought
out. It will require forty oxen to move it.
The French minister of finance latrty
caused to be opened two boxes which
were supported to contain document* of
no value. They were fall of jewel*,
which had been packed away since the
Commune.
A Boston Kmst girl utilised the
telegraph wwe tUmt passed over the flat
roof of the booae far * clothes line, and
every Monday the b iys had a deeply
Ktcntittc vnnMOt aa to what mil-id the
chemicals.
A close fisted man invited a friend to
dinner, and provided only two n.utter,
chops. Upon removing the cover he
mod: "My friend, we have a Lenten
entertainment; yon mm your dinner be
fore you." T*ki % the two chops upon
hia own plate, hia Friend replied: " Tea,
but wbero is yonr dinner i
Father Beekx, the general of the So
ciety of Jeans, whom aome have re
ganic-d aa the possible snooseaor to Pope
Puis, was born at Sinhem, Belgium,
February 8, 175*5. Hia father, a poor
grocer, died when his son wae very
voung, and hia mother had to sew and
wash to bring up her five sons, of whom
the goners! waa the oldest.
The late Major Hunter, who, when
young, had charge of tbe island of St.
Helena, stated that the most marked pe
| coliariiy in Kspoleoti's appearance waa a
lightness of skin over the face, and es
pecially the forehead, producing the ef
fect of statuary. Ibis he had only ob
served in one other person in the coarse
: of his life.
A person who was looking at a house
the other day aaid ha couldn't afford to
pay ao much' rent. " Well, look at the
neighborhood," replied the woman.
" Ton can borrow flatirona next door,
coffee and tea aerone the street, flour and
Eon the corner, and there's a big
af wood belonging to the school
i right across the alley f"
The Rev. Mr. Spooncr (tenderly to
eligible widow)-—" How bountifully em
blematic ia this of the relations of man
and wife. Bee how the graceful ivy,
womanlike, dings for support to the
stalwart oak. Ah. dear madam, a bus
hand's fond protection " Widow—
"And aupposui' the boak ia too little
and tbs hivy too big—what then, Mr.
Bpoonerl"
Mrs. Womb well died recently in Lon
don, Mod t ighty-nine. She TO mar
ried brc vary young to the originator
of traveling menageries. Mr. Womb
well died in 1851. and from that date
nntil 1846 hia widow carried on the
undertaking success!oily. In the latter
year the externa v<- collection was divided
into two menagerie*, and presented to
two of her nieces.
"It i impo^ible! '* nakf I to a French
' peasant lad wh- wa telling me a tough
story about a miracle working chair in s
n. igliborirg church. " There's nothing
imp wribie, he answered, "but a stick
with bat one end; and if yoo go to
Chartnw yon 'll see it." "See wfaatf
the stick, or that there's nothing else im
posaibU-1" he replied. "Neither; but
j you will see Chartree."
A canons calculation has been made
in the printing ofßoe of a Pans news
paper. Assuming that a good oomposi
tor isndles 24,(*<0 letters a day, and that
Iho iand moves one foot with each letter
in taking and setting the type, it will be
1 seen that bis hand travels 48,000 feet, or
nearly ten mile* a day, and in the coarse
of a year, excluding £nudays, travels ful
ly the distance from Paris to New York.
At FossvilK Cal„ lives old Mr. Foes,
; a noted stage driver of the Pacific coast.
. Be has retired from bunineaa, having
grown rich, and now keeps a refresh
ment saloon on the stage road. He has
a collection of whips given him by dif
ferent weoeiationa and friends, which
bang on racks in hia hall as trophies.
One of them, given him by tbe late Mr.
i Balaton, is valued at 110,000, and is
i mounted with gold and richly set with
i jewels.
Old Deacon Sharp never told a lie,
but he used to relate this: He was
i standing one day besides a frog pond
and saw a large garter snake make an at
tack upon an enormous lug bullfrog.
The imake seined one of the frog's hind
i legs, and the frog, to be on a par with
i his saakeship, caught him by the tail,
! and both oommenoed swallowing one
another, and continued this oarnivorous
operation until nothing was left of either
i of them.
In the London divorce court, lately, a
; woman prayed for dissolution of her
marriage on the ground that she was in
sane at tbe time it took place. She was
' then so prostrated with grief at the loss
of her husband as to lose her reason,
and s in a much humbler station of
life than herself persuaded her to marry
him. She has since been in an asylum,
but was now sane. The evidence being
perfectly satisfactory, the marriage was
; dissolved.
Two-thirds of the willow for the manu
facture of v iUowware in the United
States is imported from Europe nta cost
of $5,000. The cultivation of the wil
i low is contemplated by some Americans,
they thinking that by cultivating su
perior grades of basket willow they can
make a profit of $l5O per acre. A manu
facturer asserts that fully 5,000 articles
i are constructed from willow shoots—
clxairs, sofas and baskets being the most
common.
i The Turkish restaurants at dinner
1 time are a wonderful sight. The guests
squat round a mat, the host brings in a
whole sheep and tears it open with his
hands, whereupon the guests seize upon
the rice, with which the interior of the
animal is stuffed, and after kneading it
in their Augers into balls till it is quite
brown, they put it into their mouths,
the flat cakes of horrible, indigestible
maim, bread supply the places of nap
kins, and are then eaten.
Buffalo Bill said rooentiy to a reporter
of the Philadelphia Press: " Ouster's
charge was not mad or ill-timed. Ous
ter charged when, had he been sup
ported as he (ought to have been, ne
would have wou a glorious victory. He
was not supported. Beno stood inac
tive when only a ridge separated him
from Ouster when the latter was being
butchered. Beno is to bhune, and I
bold bis* so*. Benteeu wanted to go and
sapport Ouster, but Beno ranked him
and he was powerless. The command
was not in the hands of the proper men.
They are too old, and lack the dash and