The Flight of Time. Tim* p#*rea*t The friend* that loved, the friend* that bleat. And ieavoa us weeping on the shore To which they can return no more. Time aneeds awav, away, away ; No ra;lc in the sloe* of day. • No winds a!,-ig the hills can flee 80 swiftly or so smooth as he. like tiorr ateed. from stage to stage. He bear* us on from youth to age, Tlicti plunge* in the fearful sea t)f fathomless eternity. UveN Beliet I believe if 1 were dead And yon should Kiss my eyelid* w here 1 lie Colsl, dead and dumb to all the world conUuna, The fold* si orb* would Opou at thy breath, Ami, from the exile in the isle# of death. Life would come gladly hack along my vein*. I believe if I were dead. And yon upon my lifeless heart should tread Not knowing w hat the poor clod chanoed U be— It would Sud sudden pulse beneath the touch Of him it ever towed in life so much. And throb aga-.u. warm, tender, true to thee. I believe if m my grave. Hidden in woody depths by all the wave*. Your eye# should drop some warm tears of regret. From every aalty iw-od of your dear grief Home fair, sweet bltMsoin wv thou hut tua. I b®liev So*®, jmrv ami tnv®, 1* to the tout a awwt, immortal drw Tliat pern* hf® s petal* IU the hour of du*k. The waiting angUt too and recognise The nofa crvwn Jewel lov® of j®r,hi. When life fail* from u* Uk® a withered ha*h A SLEIGH BELLE. Harold Brown's sleigh dashed merrily up to Harold Brown's dour, ami at that moment ;shc was the soul of punctuality) out came Harold Brown's oulv sister—a little woman wrapped iu shawls ami veils and worsted things from hi a I to loot. "Come along, sis," he shouts; and then, without waiting for her "to come along, "he jumps from the sleigh, reaches the top of the stoop in t!mv strides— he's a tall, broad shouldered, dark skinneil, blue ejeil young fellow—catches her up in his arms as though she were only a bundle, and in the twinkling of an eve ahe is snugly stowed awav among the bufTal. > rv>l>es. Crack goes tlie whip. " G'lang, Ned !" cnos HarohL " Ned " teases h;s head and paws the ground an instant to get the aleigh bells ringing properly, and off they " Are you warm ?" asks Harold of the bundle at his side. "Almost smothered," answers the bundle, in an indistinct voice with a slight lisp. ' That's right, my darling," says the bruther, who adores his pretty .young sister —the only one left him of fonr. " I ahould tear my hair in wild d*spair if you caught col& Miml you don't, for if you but sneeze once, be it the tiniest •aeeze that ever was, tamae von go." "Never fear, Har," rejoins the obedi ent small woinan. " I promise, upon my word and honor, n<4 to sneeze. I'll choke tirst Ah ! here we are," she con tinues, as they turn into Fifth avenue and take their place a: the end of a line of sleighs, big an 1 little, the largest of which stands unoccupied before the hand some and brilliantly lighted house of Albert Lee, merchant and millionaire. " Yea, and here are all the rest," savs Harold, adding, with a slight inflection of acorn, " excepting the Lee pe .pie. Of course it's the Princess Alberta who is keeping as all waiting "—forgetting, in the most manlike manner, that he hail only that moment arrived himself. "She never was ready when she was a little girl, and I suppose she hasn't reformed in that particular, now she's a big one." "Big!" repeats the voice from the muffl-ma, " whv, she isn't a bit larger than I am. ** '' "W U, sLe's a year ■ ilder, anyhow, and ought t. > know bettor," replies Har old; " bat I haven't the sli: litest doubt sue's shipping to dirt with w unjust you are * She's not haughty she's not acornful—she's lovely ! She came to me herself vesterday afternoon —and I happen to know ali the others ha {written invitations—and begged we would join her sleighing party. ' It's to be a real old fashioned afTa-r,' she said, ' and I want my real old fashioned frien Is to oome. "Extremely condescending," iuterjio lates Harold. " And as for her name, she had nothing to say about that, as you, if you have one grain of common sense, must be aware —no more than you did alKuit yours. And sbe'd mtber be called ' Bertie,' a great deal ; only her papa insists U;MJII ' Alberta,' and consequently, like a go 1 daughter, she m.vsts upon 'Alberta' too. He wanted a lroy when she was liorn, to be called ' Albert' —that's ai own name, Jon know ; and when a girl came instead, e said no girl should interfere with his plans, and he named her 'Alberta,' which is almost the same tiling. And it's just well he did, for he never had another child, girl or boy." " Pity the bov hadn't come," grumbles Harold " For shaine, brother !" exclaims the little woman, partly unfolding the veil that hides her dimpled chin and rfxy mouth, that she may speak with greater effect. " How can you wish that th<*re waa a'great stupid young man instead of that dear sweet girl? for she is a dfar sweet girl, though you, I can't for tljp life of me we why—neither can Fred— choose to be angry with her." "I didn't wish for 'a great stupid young man ' in her place," explains Har old, with a short laugh. " Tliat he would necessarily have been ' great ami stupid' only feminine logic can prove; its beyond me. But if ' Albert' had eome first, and Alberta, by some other name, second, she wouldn't have been an only child, as she is now, petted and indulged in every whim and fancy, until she imag ines herself a queen and all the world her slaves." " You said ' a princess' a few moments ago," says Cora, demurely. " And perhaps she wouldn't be smiling on that grinning idiot, Dan Van Rens selaer—they say she's going to marry him, his fortune equaling her own, anil his great-great-great-great-srrandfather having been one of the very first Dutch men that landed on these shores—and turning away from the fellow she has known from her infancy, and who has— Whoa, Ned, keep still! "Why the deuoe FIIKD. KI'UTZ, Kditor and I'roprictor. VOLUME X. I don't she and her trruu mnke their ap jvonnuuv *" They vhui't make their app.xuwiue, and Com liegius t,, talk agcun, "Harold, you wrong Alberta ; indeed you n why you sliotilvl accept it for the blessed truth any more than you do the thousand and one idle reports tluit are always rivaling about. And Harold, if you really love her, why don't you tell her en ? Fml told me the moment he found out. But there ! 1 shan't bilk any more ; it's no use." " It is not," declares Harold, with em phasis ; " for unless, by some unforeseen turn in the wheeled fortune, she becomes is jsH'r as myself, ami 1 don't believe the whtvl contemplates any such turn. 1 >hall never -p. ak ot love to Miss Albeit* Lee." " Kiivie, obstinate, w retched lv>y !" scolds- the little sister; "I w.ish my hands of yon. If you insist upon lemg unhappy, Ive so. X. >t anotln r w, .rtl d > you hear from uie to-aight, for my breath is all frozen on mv veil, making it stiff an the con trary, wv big brother, I'm go.ug to sneeze." " My darling," cries the big brother, fumbling in bis gr. at ont pocket, " IVc another sky, or mcou. or cloud, or wluit ever you call it— b tight it as 1 came along for fear " "liar,'' interrupts Ck-rn, solemnly, "if you wrap another thing alont me, i veu if it be tin; finest go-ts.uuur, 1 shall cause to brathe;" and she twines the veil she had unfolded sl>out the lower part of ht r face again, and relapses into silence. "Here she is—and time, I think." says Harold, his iilue eyes flashing with no pleasant light, us a laughing party ran down the steps of Che Lee mansion raid cr iwded into the empty sleigh. "Aud, thunder and Mars! that infernal L>.ui Van Rensselaer is at her hide, tilling, Xwi !" savagely. Vihl ii* av th *y all start, laughing, singing and alioutiag us only young people sleigh riviing on a tine moonlight night can laugh and sing and shout. An hour's ride, and then a stop of on or two at an old fashioned hotel for a dance (the sole music for which was furnished hy a very old violin) and u supjver. At the supper mi enormous turkey pre. ided, fi.mk.Hl br crisp salmis, broiled quads, and the various pies of tin l c -un ity; but h >, the turkey, didn't pr. -ide long, for lie was soon reduced to mueh less than n skeleton; and then the sleighs were brought from the stable, and the heads of the horses tupie l homeward; and the good natured landlady and the red haired ciuunbermaid, anvl 1 an Van Ileussthier and his claims hod all they could do in the way of searching f.>r ar ticles of wearing apparel, and he lping 00 jackets, and holding shawls and cloaks, and tying veils, for at least tift. ee min utes. " Hurry up," nt length alma's some one fri>m outside, " if you want to get to the city before the mo >n turns her back on us;" and down stairs they go pell mell, li lter-skeltcr, ami jump and tum ble, and are lifted into th" sleigh > again. Harold Brown grasps his own particu lar charge from the group as they reach the roadside, and carefully seating her in his ale -h, heaps the heavy robes around her and springs in himself. Hundreds of silvery Itells jingle to gether in pleasant discord, and away th -y speed for home once more. " How- lovely she looked to-night!" liegins likro'.d, after a five minute® si lence. " Yon needn't speak, t .av 1. After ; that warm room and the dance ami the supper, it is more necessary tlinn ever that you should be careful. All I ask of yon is to listen. As a listener vou can't !e surpassed, although as a talker, like rartst women, yon are apt to get things a little*, confused. Hut don't go to sleep, for that is an insult I can't and won't stand. Did yon ever see sneh hair ? ] spun gold ; And how eharminglv she ] wears ill part in a wreath id>out her , pretty head, and part floating free over her pretty shoulders. Blondes! There's j only one blonde in the world, and that's A!b rta Lee. Her skin is like the snow with the moonlight on it; and lieing 1 beautiful because she is so fair, I sup pose it wouldn't be fmr in me to even dream of her turning Brown. Hi, Xed ! , (i sid heavens ! the intelligent brtife Inward that dreadful attempt at a joke, and tried to run away. 80-0-0, old fel- , low 1 I won't do it again. An I she never spoke to me, Cora, Ami vet ■ wbeu we weie Isiy and girl together I've f stolen many a kiss from thai sweet red ( mouth unreproved, and she used to call | me 'My Harold.' Let me see—that , must have been eiglit year a ag'o. And | then, as She grew older, she grew more shy; but I was 'Harold' still, often , 'dear Harold," until her father, who , shows what an idiot he is, in spite of j his yours, by encouraging that greater f idiot, Van Rmsselaer, made that lueky f hit 111 Wall street, nnd th" whole family j went abroad to lenrn how to plav the t aristocrat to humble friends at home. It's true I didn't go near her to-night. There were too many around her. ' The rose that all are praising is not the rose forme.' And the dance I should have liked to have danced with her, the ilunCe 1 we danced together in the 'long ago," c she gave to Louis Vance, the very man 1 I came near knocking down one even- a ing at her house for taking her picture J from her album aud putting it in his 1 breast pocket, with some silly, spooney 1 remark about his heart. How her moth- a er glared at me as I snatched it from 1 his hand! and she said, with a cool 1 drawi ; • Pray, Mr. Brown, what is it to r you ?' Deuce take her lovely, exasperat- r ing, bewitching impudence! Hlie well t knew what it was to me, the golden t haired lily-white little hypocrite! I r suppose she'll marry that Van Ileiisse- i ' —and he muttered something which f didn't sound like a blessing between liin s teeth—" or some of his set, not one of t whom is worthy to hold her fan, ' the t bonnie wee thing,' as our old Scotch r nurse used to say"—breaking off with n what in a woman we would call a hysteri- t cal laugh. " I say, sis, are you asleep ? 1 lou needn't sav a word, my butterfly; c j uafwhake your head.'' n Th# worsted things and veils that s formnd- the butterfly's coooon moved [ THE CENTRE REPORTER. slowly mill with diflintUy frum side to Mill'. " All right, dear. 1 feii an though I must talk of hor to-night, ami to whom I can I talk hut you, my darling' my >' little sister, who bus never withheld hor , love tuid sympathy fn.au uu>, God bless , hor ' Hut, C'ora, if any p.xir follow hml i hivoil you all hta lifo long, mid you hiul a led hiui to IH'IIOVO for many yovira that II you returned hta affection, and thon, I growing riohor, a* ho, through uo fault t of hi> own, grow jHxirer if you turnnd r away frotu huu mid smiled upon those 0 who wotooulv Iria auj'oriora in woaltli - ami jm-ilion, I'd disown you. Mouao of , my lifo, 1 would indood ! •• Huttuij'jHiao tho * jHHir follow ' novoi t told his love wlion wo mot after a long 1 separation I" whispers tho " mouse of < hia lifo." i •• In words, you moan ? Pshaw ! then are a hundred ways in which a man tolls t hia love, ami a woman kliowa every one ? of thorn by heart." t " Hut mipjiosi'," in another faint whi— r jwr, "that when alio returned from t abroad, she found huu a matt so much less manly than the youth alto hiul left that ho could too] to Indievo that be r cause he had lnvoiue poor, an the world ' gov*. she could forgot tho happy, happy t days they hail ajmnt together, and and - oaroil for eaoli other ? Supjmse that he r lent a readv oar to silly rojmrta alsiut I her —oue, for instatice, that she was en i gngivl to bo married to * that idiot Van r lietis-elaer ?' " I "Cora!" r No reply. 1 " Cora, I any !" t Perfect silence. "You tormenting little thing"—ahak -1 ing her gently with las strong right hand ' - why don't you answer uie ? I won't give vi-u a kms for a week if you don't. There's something uucanny utiout you. Where's your Imp? You had one a 1 short time ago; you know yott did. ' Cora!" "My name is Alberta, please, air;" } and the veil that had hidden her face ilew aside, and a long tri-ns of golden hair floated out and brightened tho night. • ' The n-ins fell from Harold's hmnls. 1 Alberta caught them skillfully. '• " "Pis well," she said, "that in those I by-gone days you taught me how to drive." For Vne moment her lover giuied at ' her in opeu-t rod wonder. Then he gasped: "(treat heavens ! what a fool!" "Thank von. Mr. Brown," said the fair oue, with a smile. " Not you. Alberta thunder and Mars ! uo, but me. myself to be so near and vet so far. What a consummate "- "Skip the h:ird words ; there isn't the slightest need of litem," interrupted Al berta. mischievously. "Corn thought she'd like a ride in the big sleigh, and I hadn't the heart to refuse the child. Hope I haven't intruded. Mr. Ilrown? And now, a.-, we're turning into our street, you'd better take the reins again." "Alberta—Bertie - sweetheart, sav something kind to me liofore we part," he pleials, grasping both the reins and the little hands that hold them. " What si a!l I say, Mr. Brown ?" He bends his head and ls>ks earnestly in her face. "S.v ' Harold ' first." " 'Harold,' "she rvjieats, with a saucy smile, and then wresting her liatuls away, she sink- 1 ack and leans her hea 1 on his shoulder, which droop* t i meet it, ami goes on in a softened voice : " I'm not en : igisl to Han Y.ui H *tiss-laer, whom voa, with charming consistency, call an idiot for being in love with roe ; and my pupa, who is the dearest and best papa m the whole world, in spite of your iiu pcrtinent remarks about lorn, care* noth ing for we.dth and jsa.u i n, compared to my hujiptncss ; and I myself, 4 lilr-white little hypocrite' t. the contrary, haven't the slightest objection to turning Brown, my Harold," "God bless yott, dearest!" "Yes, vex, but don't kiss nic just now. please. We're at our own door, and the light of tjie street lamp is falling full nj ou us, and there's dear old anxious papa jieeping out, trying to catch a glimpse of h.s only son and heiress. "Good night," "good-night," resoim ed from every side as each particular -h i h started for that juutieular plain to whidi it- particular partv Imlonged, with the exception of the sleigh in charge of the home railed Ned. That remained in front of the dwelling •>f the " princess," while its happy ow ner, with Cora, his iittl- sister, who ha I sud denly appeared at his n le, < n one arm, and Alberta, his pretty - veethc&rt, on the other, ascended the nu. ' le steps. " I'aj a." caHed out Alberta, as they entered the hall, "Mr. Harold Brown has be -n behaving in a dren-Iful manner. He lias caih'd me all sorts of names, abns'si me m st shamefully t >my face, actually shaken me, and, worst of all, de c!arsl be wouldn't kiss me for a week. He ml John t >l'* k after Ned poorh irse, lie isn't to blame and then I demand that you demand an explanation."— Harper'* ll" < kty. Hon a Woman Orders a (host. .Ilohokus writes : During our married life my wife lias insisted thnt we couldn't keeji house pr perly without a large chest, for bed clothes and odd traj. La-t week I took the dimensions from her, questioning as follows : " flow long?" " Well, say ten feet," and she held her hands about a yard njiart. " How wide ?" "Well, pretty wide, say six feet," measuring it on her apron. " How deep?" "Oh, have it deep, 1 guess eight feet will be about right." Bridget arrived while we were at tea "Sure, sir,"said she, "that Ryan, the storekeeper, is here wid a small barn on a sthono liont. He's torn down both the gate posts drivin* in. I think it's n ehist he calls it, and he says where'lyez have it ?" I've succeeded in proving by the origi nal mem. of measurements that there was an error somewhere. The "chist" has a window in it, and contains the cow, calf and one bale of hay. Wife says she is going t < llnd a man that knowH how to build a chest and not make it large enough for n cattle barn. A f'nc of Medical Skill. Just now medical men in Paris are busy discussing a curious ease which has come under the observation of the learned I)r. Vemenil. The doctor hml n lad brought to him for treatment at the H> ispit-id de la Pitie, who hml swallowed by accident a dose of caustic potash. The terrible escharotic produced so tight a constriction in the gullet that no food would jiass down into the stomach. Death from inanition must have been the result hiul not Dr. Vemeuil courageously resolved to perform the dreadful opera tion known as gastrotomy. On the twenty-sixth of July, accordingly, he cut right into the lad's stomach, and inserted into it an elastic tube, through which food could be injected. In this way soap, fine chopped meat, mashed vege tables and drink were administered. On the tenth of September the young man recovered his health and spirits. He was able to go about and help the servants in the hospital, and seemed to have as much life and energy as lie hail before the acci dent. Between the eighteenth of August and the fourteenth of September he gained ten pounds in weight, while be ing fed through the hole in his stomach, CENTUM HALL, CENTUM CO., I\\„ THURSDAY. MARCH 1, 1877. n<.ininc citvssiioi'ri io I fit* irtil %ul l*taitlr Irwin iht* (•# i rtiiHi-ul NM NNMH t \tn ii 11 * I ukt lu \gi i> uU i rr. The qn.Mi. i whether the Wiwtiiu HtatcM-wud Tcrritori.-# sre to Imi pc.phd l>v grasshoppers to the lehiMoii of the H 'lot.. until, is oil.* of #>ui.* int. rest, write# V H. Packard, Ji , to the /W --bunt In the year 1875 it i# said that 11>,( t(Nt settle]# li It tlji Statu of Knlisiis, driven out Iy grasshoppers, the offspring of awnrm# which the tear lu-forc travel. <biu ■>n of the University of Km ■ is, near lit.tilder City, Colorado, travele 1 a lils t.uicc <•! at .out six hundred miles to east ern Kansas and Missouri. Though the swarm was tirst olwrvisi at Roulder. it was then on its way from the north, ami may have ort of Wy uning it*• or miles northwestward •t, and aci*r*i# with tire .wstward course t.f the hs'usl swarms. The relation# between the aver age direction of tlie wind# ami the ui rraturns of the locusts have not heen suf ficiently studud. We need luore light. Indeed, if we would intelligently study I ic causes of tlie rxivivi> iiumms and migrations of the locust we would ex imine the meteorological features of the Western country, ascertain the js-r...is of .Irouth and of undue rainfall, the average direction of the wind f.ir tin* different months, in order to learn how far they ■ irresj."!!.! witii the phenomena of locust life. That than are cycle# of dry and hot seasons recurring at irregular#inter val*, whil# the gemml average may re main nearly the same, century uft.*r c.-n --tnry, is supported, though it may be vaguelv, by unserved facts. K i tl;t* question nn> •, can the w. at her ' :glial bur. an after a while pr.sliet the coming of seasons of undue heat and •Iryiv-sa, and couacqtieaUy can we pre dict locust year# ? it docs not item un reasonable to Where tliat we shall ill Uic roitrsa of time bcnblt to for> t.*ll with a good degree of certainly locust inva s: li#, and he able to provide against the 1-isses thus incurred. It will In* seen by the reader that in studying the habit# of the locust the observation# < f the meteorologists ami entomologist# must go h'iu.l in hand. The govcrument has provided a w.ll organized c-.rjm of weather ol .servers, and we submit that a f* we cup.'ei't entonio! ..r.sts siiotild t die the fluid jmd.-r gi ivenrhe lit ausptpes. Mot only should the border State*, ck pet-.ally Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, Min nesota and lowa employ entomologists, following tin* libera! policy of Missouri, which fi*r eight years lias had a State entomologist, wh we reports h-ve pn.visl of incalculable practical value to the peo ple of that State, hut the habit# of the locust new! tirst of all to be thoroughly studied in the Territories, )mrticularly in tho.-e of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, I Hikotn. Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and the new State of (Vilorn 10. A com mission < f entomologists should IH> ap tw.iiitod t . make a thorough study of the locusts in the Territories inentiomvl. It would seem that the recommendations made nt the recent meeting of W.*#teni governor# at Omaha to tlie eff.iet that an appropriation be pirns.a 1 by Congress, nn.l a commission be attachisi to the ex isting United Stales geological and geo graphical survey of the Territories (Haydcn'#), is the most feasible and economical method of securing the speediest and best results. I#*t its for a moment h#>k at the losses . sustained in the United States from the , attacks of insects. The annual agricul tural products of this country h_v the i Inst census amounted in value to 82,500,- • 000.000. Of this amount we in all prob- ] ability annually lose upward of 8200,- OOO.fMMt from insects alone at least were it not f<>r the ntt:u'ks of insicts our | agricultural prinlncts would realize so j much more. Prof. Riley avers that the losses during 1874 in Missouri from lo- , costs exceeded $15,000,000. 'i'his Would make the basses in other parts of the i West at least twice ns much mom, or ( SIS,(MtO,OtK) in all. The estimated nionev . loss occasioned hy the clinch hug in Illj- , aok in 1864 was over 878,000,000; in | Missouri in 1874 it is . stimab-d by l>r. 1 Riley to have been $10,000,000. The j average annual loss to tlie cotton crop j from the attacks of the cotton armv , w .rin alone ia estimated at $50,000,00t). , Adding to these the losses sustained by the attacks of about a thousand other' species of insects which nffeet our cere als, forage and field crops, fruit trees and shrubs, garden vegetables, shade 1 and ornamental trees, a# well ns our ' hard wood ami pine forests, and stored ' fruits, and it w ill not be thought an ex- ' aggeration to put our annual losses nt 1 shout $200,000,000. i If the jwv.ple of this country would < only look nt this annual depletion, this i absolute waste, which keeps her agricul- ' turnl community poor, and which drags ' her backward in tlie race wit n the conn- f tries of the old world, they might see the j • necessity of taking effectual preventive 1 measures in restraining the ravages of ' insects. With care and forethought, < based on the observation of facts by ' s ientiflc men, we believe Ihnt from SSO,- 1 000,000 to 8100,000,000, or from one- < quarter to one-half of this annua] waste ! could he saved to the country. And the i practical, most efficient way is for the ' States to co-operate with the general 1 government in the appointment of sain- j' ricd entomologists, and of a United < Ktates commission of entomologists, who 1 should, perhaps, combine the results of ) the State officials and issue weekly hub !' ■ letins, perhaps in combination with the 1 i reports of the weather signal bureau, as < totheconditionaof the insect world, fore- < warning farmers and gardener# from • week t■ week A* t<> what enemies should be guardi it iigtuusl, and wiiul preventive | and r-n dial ni.■aMiti-a should le adopt •*>l. rin* i'th*r signal bureau, first siizgt sti il ami in ■*! il by tin* late 1. A l.uii hant, w.is not in titutel without ridicule ' Hint OJIJX -ttluli, lyit it linn SUM*.I millions to our t*immn*rwi mill agriculture. Tin* lUWUtdUMIuI* of (til entomological (Will* tiiiisiou iiiul ilio appointment of SIM.* en tomologist*, would involve Oouiparativcly 1 little eX}H'lltM *. Another Indian 1 ight. General Nelson A Miles lias lia.l lUl* other severe tight With the litdiaus, MILL has ganmd uiiotlier signal victory over theni. The Indiana consisted of bunds of the t'hevi lines nii.i Ogullalaa, under the lcudi rship of CrazV Horse, |id UULII lli red lietwei II (Rttl lili.l NHI lodges. General Miles' command left his p<*st ou the twenty-seventh day of December, and proceeded nji Tongue river, deter mined to tiud tin* village of t'razy HiW, which lie knew to lm liM'utevl in tin* vi cinity of Wolf tnouutiuna. His c*un llialld consisted of rive COWpSUjcH of the Fifth Fulled Stat, - iufuntry and two companies of the Twenty-accond infan try, and iiutnher. d ulsiut HtMl righting men. Through laek of traii*|*irlntioii General Miles was eonqielled to employ u Moiitnnw ox train thai happened to la* at the lst to lmiis|s>rt his supplies. I liis train h<- seat out three days in ad- Vance of tin* departure of the Itmlli ootii maud, under charge of Maior t'harlra Dickey, with two companies of the Twenty second infantry and one of the Fifth infantry. Alt r overtaking the train, with the balance of the command tb-iioral Miles abandoned the wagons and ilrove las oxen, lit orvler to have them at lutlld to assist lll 'ptlllitlg Ida train up the steep hills and through the deep canyons. At the time of leaving the jsst there was a heavy aunw ou the ground, and ■evert* ahums, with intensely wkl weather, obtained during the whole [H-riixl of the exjiediti. n. The move ment of the troops, was necessarily tedious, ami the hril*lupseiidur*d were, of course, very great. Still there were no obstacles that could for a moment daunt or deter (ieneral Mill-. He had fully determined t<> hunt Crazy Hoi-e tu his retreat uiuoniUn* fastness.-* of Wolf mountains, ami after rimliug him to whip hitn, lb* lias smvet sled in both. Afti*r proceeding some sixty miles up Tongue river he discovered sign* of re cent Indian encampments, ami pushing on he struck their full force on the seventh of January. On the evening of thai day quite a heavy skirmish look place, and on lit* e gltUi the Indians, to the uumWr of I, Out) warrior*, well srimsl and plentifully supplied with luiuuuui tion, appeared on his front; thev guv* every indication of Iwing eoiiftileiit of their ability t-> anmiiilate the troops, tieneral Miles ntt.s*l.* they never ouc*c e>i.teuiplat* d ilcfist. For more tluui live hour* the h..ttle raged an terrible a* ever was witnessed uu a battlefield. A heavy au*w st.*r:n pre vail .*1 during a portion of the tight. The following is u list of the kilhsl and wounded : Killed: t'or|sinil Augustus llathls'iie, of Company A, Fifth infantry; Frivute liiittn, of t ot:q iinv (', Fifth infan try ; Private Bernard, <>f Tw<*ntT+wm.l infantry ; Private Mel'uuu, of Twenty* second infantry. Wonndisl : Private K denlmrg, of (tonipauy A, Fifth infati try ; Private D.mha, of (' •uipaitv H, Fifth infantry ; Private Daily, of < *ui pany D. Fifth infantry ; Private Dia mond, of Company D, Fifth infantry;; Corporal Tliomas ltchm, *bans on First stn*et in that city. The institution was formerly in charge of the Black Cap Si-tors, who refused to retire until threatened with legal prises*. A year later Mrs. Keith and her infant daughter were kidnapped, and Conducted by one Eovegrow to the Mount Hope lunatic asylum, where the mother was forcibly detnimsi for seven years, being mourned as dead by her relatives. She finally regained her liberty through the interference of Archbishop Hendricks, and returned to her father in New York. In search of health she went to Williaiusburgh. Ya where ih** was again kidnnpied, and eon fined in a lunatic asylum for eighteen years. She \v*is finally liberated bv a military commi—ion, iqqNiineal by Major (b neral Hancovk, by whieh she Was pronounced sane. Even then she was detained on various pretexts for some months, but was finally restored to her brother It. Selby Sanxay, who had been informed of her existence. The lady who is said to have undergone this terrible < experience is now living in East Twenty eight street, in New York city. Haw We Take Cold. Getting wet, and wet feet, oeetipv a very serious place in the list of colds; ami there i- no doubt (lint damp and cold applied to the general surface is the most cfiieiont means of producing chill and vital ilepri -ion, with congestion of the internal organs. It is neeeasarv that cold be combined with moisture to pro duce this effect. Even if all the clothes on the body are w. 1, no harm will come so long n*i they nre kept warm; and tins suggt at* the very great value, to all per sons liable to exposure to wet. of light waterproof overalls. They may either be put on to keep (]„, underclothing dry; or if the underclothing IHIH become wet, either by weather or by perspiration, they may be put on to prevent too rapid ev J* irate HI ami consequent reduction of temperature, especially when the person is about to remain still after getting warm with exercise. In this variable climate, therefore, schoolgirls, governesses, shop and factory girls, and all women whose occnivatiuUH call ujMin them do bravo the weather, ought to carry with them com plete waterproof mantles, made as light as possible, but extending from the neck to the ankles, whieh ean be put on or not as required; and boya and men, similarly ' exposed, should carrv waterproof over alls. " I A MUM'S MURK. How 1 M***t to utilise liumau labor, and lit tlio * IBHI time to produce tin* imut fatigin*, is olio of those interesting prob- Ifiiw iti industrial mishiuiies which every inventor of machines baaed oil man JMiWcr u H Uioti't Is culled tipoU to con sider, IIIHI to which ovory employer of null for tin* nukt* of their brute muscular strength is obliged to give mum- utten lion. It is u eumnutt error to believe that, iu or.br to |iruilttc u given amount of work, a man always expends u given amount of ami teiit in working in Is.tli rosea lieing equal. Hut on the other hand, during the periods of sliwolute work regularity is a necessity, a foot cl.arly shown by tiie government of soldiers on long uiarehes, where the drum to which the feet keep time is a wonderful agent for repressing fatigue, simply bi*euuHe it iiuures regu larity of motion. So also iu rowing in * long ruv experience lius pruxed the ad vantage of a chs-kwork regularity uf stroke with a brief lu.n thing apeu Ik*- tweeu m*h pull. In fact it np|M-itr that men will naturally full into tins cadence, as witness the blows delivered bv labor ers Willi sledge hammers upon rock drills, Olid tile {lecutiar tuned "lillll" which each will aspirate as his implement falls, or the tendency which sailors hare to break into a cadence.! singsong when pulling a standing haul on a rope. A more curious instance iu this regard is found HI the power of dancing ; nothing but the repeated rests and the regular luoveim t will explain the ability of women, t-i whom ordinarily a walk of s luile ill length 1- a Severe tusk, to dlUlCe during a per .xt of five or mx hours, and this at a time when nature is most ex hausted, owing to deprivation of sleep. Ihe Ix-st appliealii >n a mull can make of his powttr ;s through his leg*, fur the luusch ■* if those tin-miters we not unit absolutely but relatively stronger than those uf the arms. Iu other wor.la, after work, th> fatigue produced in Udh sets of muscles bring equal, the leg' muscles will 1 nVe J- rtormed mote useful Sol sir tiuui tiio<*- of the anna. And further, the lu-ai 11 ui mutate a natural movement the l-lt< r do we apply iln- power, there fore a walking niotiou of the legs, ut a velocity equal to that of on ordinary giut, and applied to levers, is probably the im-sf efficacious application of human force for steady work. A to the absolute j*vwer of a man ex- UMWD M |S>unils Ui IK* lifted or in rinii- Lir term*, exact dulu arc obvious!v im jKe*iblc, even for on average individual. An interesting series uf experiment* were ixmduct lon Uiis subjf—t some time ago in France, and these, we 1 .clicve, give a fair aporoximation. The heaviest load a man of strength rn enrry for a short dis tance is placed at HIH jMiu'. i- All a man .an carry lutbiiualiy -a* a soldier hi Lnaj a walking .ni krtcl ground i* 132 ■h, i.J lit • 1 an xtreiae licld, We sir mid judge. Or h<* can cu ry an aggre gate f I..MN jsiunds on 3,200 fvt as a day's work, under like rircnmtaure. 11 he ascend ladders suhlk raised 3,2t<0 f.et high. With regard t<. the effort ami vol s-ity winch a null cau produce by nulling or pushing w.tii 1. i* arms, it iiaa S>< f* vi i fliiit. under the moat favor able eirctinistances and for continuous w ik, an effect ctcee un-r from 26 4 to 33 pounds raised fnun I.H t> 2 1 feet j>cr second r..nnot liegiMUeil, and Una is equal to about i horse jsiw.-r, ItciiiarkaMe ( ores, fen. A. J. lleoautitou'a theories con cerning the influence of blue and sun light tijxui life and disease arc attracting much utfentum. \ corn*]* indent of the Chicago frifiu n* has recently striven to renew public interest in the matter by relating soiuc the remarkable cures which have been wrought by means of blue glass. For instance, two old friends of Oeii. PleiHsioi' HI w ERA offiirted with rheumatism in the fort arms, from their elbow joints to their finger ends, so se vere nt time* that tliey were unable to hold pen* Thcv obtained a piece of blue glass and set it up loosely m one of their windows. For three days they i xr.-d tln-sr arms aiul behi them iu the ass.K-iut.sl blue ai.d sunlight for thirty minute . Each .lav brought them rc !uf ami ut the n.l of three days the rheumatism had disappeared. A little child that had, from its birth, scarcely anv use of it* legs, wo* taken to play .lady ill a room where blue glass formed a portion of one of the windows, fu a very abort time it obtained the use of its legs, MI J learned to walk aud ntu without difficulty. The oorresjKin.lent give* page frniu his own experience. " A hi.lv of inv family, nlsiut six w. eks ago, hi! a violent hemorrhage of the lungs, Mid for ten days raised more or less blood daily. She was very much weakened by the loss of blood, ami con siderably frightened withal. I obtained some blue gloss and placed it in the win dow where ahe was in the habit of sit ting. the blue gloss constituting one-half of the lower sash of the window. Tin* lady s it d-ely in the fisKoeiat.Hl lights, al lowing the blue mvs especially to fall upon the nerves of the b:iek of the uerl for uls>ut an hour a dav. The sccono day, the sun's rays being unusually strong, she got t.wi much blue glass, snd at night felt peculiar sensations in the hack of the nock. among the nerves, and on unpleasant lnllnes*. in tlie head. These sensations w-.re off next day, and since then she lias not remained so long at a time under the blue glass. ltut from the llrst she l*gtin to grow strong er, her face soon gained its mitunil full ness. and in n week she was to all ap t poaraneee aa well ever. Of course she WHS not cure 1 of the trouble in her lungs in so short n time, but the sore ness in her ehest lias passed away and she begins to feel well again." Another Italy who had lost her hair snt under ghts and regained it. Another —but a paragraph, like all other good things, must e une to an end sometime. The Troop* In Washington. A U' raid dispatch says: Anticipat ing a request for information from the special committee on the use of the army in certain of the Southern States us to why troops were concentrated in Washington, it is understood the Presi dent has instructed tho secretary of war to answer that in November last, when the order WHS given for troops to come here, there wua grave apprehension lest the negro population of the District of Columbia, then represented to lie in great destitution, should attempt a raid on the treasury building and otherwise endanger the peace of the citizens of Washington generally. That there was great political excitement growing out of tho Presidential vote, and the exi gency demanded tlie presence here of nn armed force which was brought here at very little extra expense over that cf transportation, and that on the whole s change of station had been beneficial to the troops. Any political intent is dis claimed for the order bringing the troops to this city, TERMS: ©'2.00 a Year, in Advance. A grlt-iilt ural Prospect*. t The fitmiit forsmd to the HT-IUMHI it of spring an that which must brighten ur tlvkut lii( pmp(4l (rf a favorable b*r y vest. Tim i>|>c ration* of agneulture arc U so varied, wv an exchange, and dt-jwmd * an much on condition* of the weather, ' >f taut anxiety regarding the planting see ] r sou ia always justifiable. I'he passing j * winter ia l*uig regarded a except dually | c severe by tho** tug engaged iu (arming. t Intense cold, heavy aiiuwa and raiua, i diwtruetive tl l* and viiih ut gales, have 1 * utatked ila prngrean and lent to it* hia- ■ - tory a very and intercut in view of tin* i . luaa uf tide along the C.xtat and the (ir- t * v notation caused uu the Ohio and other - river*. The season haa presented to j * meteorologists one of thuae instance* of i Midden and extiwordmary ronip*u*liou* - by wlueli nature adjust* Ilia utui canned by Otir political uncertainties and j the difficulties that arose out of the que* i turn of cheap trannjiortation. 1 Now, however, a more cheering proa pect present* itself, for, after the severe 1 winter, we are pivtty certain to enjoy a 1 tine spring aeaa.ni, extremely favorable for farming operation*. The heavy | ' snows liave brought to the soil important ' chemical addition* which cannot fail to r increase it* fertility. It lia* also blank ctC.l the face of the country eastward of the Mississippi with a good nun-C<>iuet iug covering, by which radiation of heat lia* 1 icon checked and vegetation conse quently protected from the deatmctive effect* of the intense cvdd. The larva: of the gnox.li. .pp.-r and potato bug have lieen proliabiy destroyed in the region* where these insert* are inoat destructive. Although a paragraph ia lieing exten sively copied from a Western jmper to the effort that an exjicriuieutal thawing of aotue masses of earth haa proved that the grasshopper egg* have not been on stroyed by the recent ocv.-rew. hi, no un favorable deducti. m* can be drawn from the fact, if it is a fact, bccatiac the condi tions of the alleged test were peculiar to it and wrill not attend the natural and j very gradual thawing out of the soil dur- i ing the o timng spring. It is jxiasible j tlint mmie regions thickly covered with ' •now may ilavelop a graa*ho|p*r crop, | but Uic great imi of the northwest ami i w. st lis* not been an covered during this ' winter, Our pohlical doiilita are on the 1 eve of laving dissipated by constitutional j means, and there cau lie no question i aland the early settlement of Use trans- 1 puliation problem on a la*i* satisfactory t" ail parte* interested. With them j checnug consideration* before n we look ! forward to renewed activity in the fields, which wrill lie rewarded with abundant Imrvesta when tlie year grows older. huining a itunk. The first national lawk id Franklin, Johnson oouiitv, Indiana, ha* closed its doors, the cashier, lUchard T. Tayhir, | hav ing absconded after along aeries of forgeries, which have nearly alwwrbed < the entire capital 2,ooo short, and the lppoKiiion is tliut ho discounted tbaiu a. d n*ed tlie money, a* many foreign 1 makers have lately lxwvu wntiug licre maiuug in.ruirie* alvont the bank. Hi* brother, Elmer Taylor, who i* assistant oasliier of the Inuik, iweiveil a letter from him cxplniu ing tliat the affairs of the bank were in a worse condition than one would imag ine; that he liad U>eu forcing balance* and deceiving the iw.uk examiners for a long time, and had lieen paying divi dends to •ttorkboidera without earning them. He took with hf.u the general ledger, iu which all the account* of tlie bank were kept, and tiierefor it ia lm iHxisible to tell the ivunhtioii of tlie liauk. The biuik in tlie fiftieth national Ismk in the Tinted States and the second in tins State, and had u capital of $132,- tklOamla surplus of SIB,OOO, making a total of $130,000. The deuosita were unibftbly a few thousands less. The itank is owned by rich farmers of the county, whci know little nliout banking biißtnese, and Taylor has lieen onaluer and geiiei.d manager of it siiK'e 1870, and had almost unlimited control of its affairs. He is alsvnt thirty-two years of age and has always stood high in the community. He leaves a wife and one child Is'liind him. He had good habit*. It is thought that he ha* IHIUI otieratiug largely in Chicago liiargijis. and tin* u supposed b> 1> the cause .if hisibiwiilaU. It is expected that he has aliaorlxsl tiie entire capital of the bank, and a* he wa* not required to give bonds the farmer stockholders w ill have to stand the lo*s. It is feared that an examination will re veal that some of the bunks uf this citv will h**e by his dcfal.-utuma, as the liauk ha|k-. but mostly connected with trade, and in which *'com mercial credit " is everything, tlie clergy man in question prefaced his discourse with these words ; " Itefore commencing my sjqwftl to your purses, mv friends. 1 w ill mention n case of conscience which has been put to me this morning by an esteemed member of this congregation. He is, lie says, to all appearance a rich man, but in reality is on the verge of bankruptcy. He would wish to put his $5 note in the collection plate as usual; Imt would it be honest, lie neks, seeing that what money lie has left is, in fact, his creditors', and not his own. I have advised him. dear friends, not to give; and if any of you are in a similar un happy plight, I also say: *Be jnst before you are generous.' Those in good circumstances will, on the other hand, give according to their means." It is said that so many s.*> notes were never seen in the collection plate before as on the occasion of that sagacious appeal. TURK ABOUT. —"Going into partner ship with Jones ! I should hare thought you'd had enough of partnerships, after Brojrn." "Ah, vou see, when we first became partners, Brown had all the ex perience, and I all the money. Now, Jones has all the money, and I've all the experience." NUMBER ft. I' " "" 11 ''' * Fashion Koln. Pltufii m the rage. Ki- ' petnung lireaktaat of Ash and fruit, they went to church "to avoid scandal," aa I they said. In the afternoon they were escorted bv Mr and Mr*. Swart to a tavern, where their daughter lived. I Toward evening they called upon one of Mr. Swart'* neichUum. Hi* name was Jean Vigue. He *m the first male child boni Ui New York, of European | parent*. The date .if hie birth, aocatd j tog to these traveler*, must have been lfilf, the verv earliest period of white < settlement. ilia mother owned a farm . near Wall and Pearl street*. He wa< at till* time in poaaaaaisn of the old homestead, ami kept an ancient vrind } mill niualiutlj at work upon the hill liack of hi* house. He was a brewer, aa well a* a former ; and he was one of the great burgher* of the city. He filled the oflioe of achepeo in 1653. in 1655 and in 1656. He left no children; hut the deaceadant* of hi* *i*tara are scat tered through the country. Power of Sympathy. At the union depot at Toledo, say* a loco] pHjK-r, a coffin lay on a baggage truck waiting to he put on to Lake Sbon train No. 8, alien it ahould go out It wo* directed to Parma, Mich. It eon- I fanned the remain* of the son of a woman i who, in one short year, had luat every near relative she possessed on earth— husband, daughter and two son*. This wo* her lost sou, who had jut* died in CiactansH. She had been summoned to h'" i' a hen he was suddenly taken ill, . _ui just arrived one hour after lie breath ed hi* last, calling vainly in the agonies of ileath for hi* mother. At time* the realization of her terrible grief and loneli ui'o* woiUd weigh down on her with such uultearahle force that *he would almost grow wild with anguish. She pared the d<*r of the dejxit impatiently, and finally walked out and stood over the coffin, wringing her hands and moaning with grief. Another woman *aw her and came to her side. Titer were utter strangers, but sorrow made them sinter*. "Do not give way to your griet ao completely, ' said the strange lady to the poor woman. *' How can 1 Igip it?" Haiti alie, almost fiercely. *• It is well enough for you to *ay so, but vt hat do vou know almut suf fering ? This was ail I had." " Ah. inv dear woman," said the stran ger, taking her by the hand, "I know what sorrow ia. Ijast week I Imried all I hud on earth." Almost instantly the poor woman *toj - tied her weeping, grasjwd lier comforter'* i fiand eagerly, ami walked awray from the i coffin with lier into the waiting-room. , " I will learn to l>ear it," said she ; but , I did not lieiieve that in this wide world . there was one human being called to auf- , fering like mine." , That Caught Him. A handsome boy boarded for a year , in a Nashville hotel, and conducted a , sewing machine agency. He was active • and Buccessful in business, and a pet of the women, with whom he was fond of itssociatmg. His youthfulneae insured him more freedom with the mthan would have been accorded an older beau; but - one day lie hugged and kissed a chain bermuid, and was complained of to the , landlord. At this point in the story the ] pronoun "he" must 1h changed to \ "she," for the offender confessed to j being a woman in boy's clothes. She t said that, being compelled to earn her own living, she learned by experience „ that her sex wns a detriment. So she , took to tr users, and in that guise she , not only did better in business, but wns f able to bamboozle the women. - A Change. When yon feel disgusted because the i street cars are cold and your office chilly, t says a city paper, imagine yourself a i fanner out watering * drove of stock in 1 a creek five miles from home, with the j ice twenty inches thick, the snow two v feet deep, the mercury clear down in the c boots of zero, the wind blowing like as 1,000-horse fanning mill from the north- a east, and every animal in the crowd try- c ing to horn you in the back because you r don't drop holes fast enough. • a Heats of Interest. Why is i beautiful woman like m Hoa printing pram? Because *U make* n good impression. Hie product off becawwi ui the United flutes is 20,000,000 pound* annually, ' wortli at least *6,010,000, while the pro duct ofhoney Is ..rth marly $9,000,000. The Michigan salt wells have produced l.m.'m Iwrreis, or 7,818,15 bushel* •fir.® MI increase of l.bM.ft*) buahela, or 380,474 barrels, over bet year's pro ductions. According to the London driy and ZZ A'oty Oattftc recruiting liss lieen so brisk, owing to general depression in all timlea, that no fewer than 80,000 young men enlisted last year, 4 A thrifty young woman in Boston got np s handsome aubwripon for the letter owrtor on the route, ami then married hun, and need the fund to defray the t x (a-uses of a wedding tour, Paris - of SSO, the t object being, of counw, to raise tbs grade of equine stock. „ A lew year* ago Australia imported a cargo of rabbits for the purpose of free ing the pasture from noxious weeds ami •• frightening mischievous auimab from the grain dekb. It b now importing 5 wasMds for the destrurtiuti of the rab bits. 1 Thb spell of putitioal weather recalls a saying suslo- it manifest Uiat tram all parties the Conawvatives have curried .iff the t prize at the elections to the German Reichstag. The parties hostile to the f empire represent 188 votes, while its de fenders and supporters are 194. Hie Yankee facility for getting the liest of cimnnstanees reoeivea an apt il , lustration in die fact that the captain of s schooner which wsa solidly frozen in tlie Mystic river, in Massachusetts, b 1 lies hauling her with the ice taken out in making a channel, and will sell it at a ■ good profit in Florida. "Bay, Fat, suppose walau was to corns along now, and sec loth of us hers, which do you suppose be would take— *>ou or me*"" " Ob, faith, yer In nor ! . lie*.! take me." "How sot" "Weil, w," said Pat, " be'd take me now, be cause he wouldn't be sure of me when he came again; but he'd be sure at ran Hi any tunc, and could afford to wait" Hie outlook for the shoe and leather trade during the current year b unusual ly encouraging. In Maksachusetta, last rear, this industry was larger than ever before in the history of the trade, the nhifxtit-uto from Raton expending those tor 1875 by over 70,000 caw*. and those < 4 1874 by 130,000 cases. Tin total re ported shipments for 1876 are 1,521.305 emmw w The pointa in a Saratoga county (If. Y.) hive atory are thai Prank w* dis carded by Luxa in otobors to the dying injunction of her mother; that they part ed at the gate of the cemetery; that s he gradually pined until at the point of death; that alio sent lor Frank, but he sac on his death bed with few; and lliat thev .Bed on the aaae day, awl their Unites were airaattmieoujdy carried through the cemetery gate vtwn they itad parted. Hi- farmers, who usually complain that tlicir class b denied adequate rep i-aentauou in legislative belies and that the hiwyetw monopolize all power and honor, liave no cease for each complaint iu Maine at leant A majority trf the member* are farmers, merchants and manufacture!*. There are only two lawyer* in the Senate and nine m the House. Seven senator* out of the thirty one and seventeen representative* out of 151 are college graduate*. Some sheep belonging to a farmer named Beed having been stolen in the neighbor!* >ud of a colberv village in Ilhrltam, England. wiiile the thief was till undiscovered, a local preacher, having a collection to make, thought he would turn the event to a good account ; io he saai; "We have a collection to nake thb morning, and for the glory of (bid. whichever of you stole Mr. Seed's sheep don't put anything on the plate !'* (Mf course everybody joined iu the eol iecbon. Apples being so abundant this season, the sheep may be treated to a feed once a week. There arc thine of our domestic i.uimais who feel tlie change from green i'lod to dry so sensibly as the sheep, artd they need a feed of turnips, apples, csb liage or something of that kind quite often. Thb prevents eostivenem or istretches, MI ailment entnmou to sheep in thb country but unknown in Great Britain, where turnips are fed daily. Salting theep b jnite as important in the w inter season as m any other. Indeed, all auimab should have access to salt daily. Wheu Uie carl of CarLialc, then Lord Morpeth, was in 1844 traveling in this <->untry, he called one dgy upou Mrs. tblkUt Lawrence, wife of tlie later min ister to England Mrs. Lawrence, •iiuiewhat moved by so* aristocratic a v wit alien, summoned her two sons Bige low Lawreuoe and Abbott Lawrence, Jr., in order to present them to her visitor. " Yonr lordship," she said, • • allow uie to present to yon my uona, A below and Bigvt "—then conscious that something wna wrong, she added, hasti ly : *" I beg yonr pardon. Bigot and Abelow 1" Mr. Thnrlow M eed gives in the remi niscences of Vanderbilt the following : On one occasion it geaUem.au called on the commodore to propose for one of lib • laughters, and commenced, by the most t ager and vehement protestations, to as sert that he was not actuated by any de sire to obtain her fortune, but was ani mated bv the sinoereet and purest affec tion, and inspired by admiration for her jiersonal and mental beauty; and when, to emphasize-these protestations, he was aUiut to renew them again, the commo dore stopped him, raving, quite quietly ; "I did not know she had any fortune." Luck Followed Him. One of the chief purchasers 'at the Meuzies book rale iu New York, was quite a new collector whom history is curious. Years ago lie took it into* his head that he would take to farming on Long Island, and set out to find a desira ble farm. He went on a tour of inspec tion, carrying with him a shovel with which he dug up ground and then had it aualyzed. However, not tliuliug aught to his taste on Long Island, he determin ed to go to Rhode Island, and there pur chased a farm for $20,000, on which he expended $20,000 more, and then, ap {*vrently tired of it, rented the ground for a few hundreds a year, and with the small remnant of lib fortune went to Cal ifornia ; there he made a lucky hit, and not long since returned to the East to make the agreeable discovery that during lib absence the city of Providence had, providentially for him, been steadily ad vancing toward his farm, which had be come immensely valuable. Presently he sold off sßo,ooo*worth, and then, arriving at the conclusion that he had let it go too cheap, he had the rest surveyed and laid out in streets kid lots, Be has now sold altogether $906,000 worth I