V iinth. Child with tin* butterfly, Boy with tho ball, VowUt with tla mm,lon Still I am all. Wisdom of manhood Keep* (he old Joy ; Conqwwvd ilhiKiona liOave mo a boy. Falsehood and lta*nos* Toaoh mo hut thia : Earth still is beautiful. Being is lil iss, 1 ivlii to my temple* Hoary may cling ; TIR hat as daisii S tin meadow s of spring. Riyont Tbyior. A Fragment. I*Hg years agonc. in chlKlhood'a dawn, 1 hoard a mystic lay ; Still o'er my awl its Pillow* roll As if it tiw to-day. A phantom fleet, it* weird notes beat A fairy minlstre** ; With rhytlumo swell they rose and fell In wondrous melody. Vet if. to hear. 1 l liu rer entranced when they cauie tu de -I.* or their wares, Mary took their com j ..menta calmly, ami had a ready tuuik* for them all. without departing from the it net dignity of her ways, and we felt no s alow of coming evil, until matters l*e g i to look serious with the ouc-anned p -tuuui. I'ssi- same postman had delivered our 1 t : r> r-gularl v f--r the last two years, always in the same business like way, never lingering fur H moment, never bv any possibility smiling or exchanging a word with either of ns, ami yet we look e.l tUKin him quite in the light of a friend, and speculated atxmt las history, as lonely women w ill about those with whom they come in contact. He hatl lw u in the army ami had lost an arm ; this was all we knew about him, except did he w.is evideuly a German, and quite good 1- okiug—not to say sch >larly in his aspect. " Were you aware," asked Hruuhilda one morning, " that Miss Murphy speaks Genuan ?" " Speaks German!" I repeated, in amazement. "And pray how did you find it out ?" " By hearing her address the jxistman in that tongue," was the reply. '• 1 shall nip this in the bud," said 1, - ver* ly. But presently letter thoughts a. le to me. I remeiulere>d my own youth, and I remembered CrauforvL where Miss Mattie, after the death of an old lover, softens to Martha and allows " follow ers." A week or two passed, and I was at tending to my preset ea one day in the kitchen—it was a pleasure to do any thing in May's kitchen, everything looked > immaculately clean, almost ;setiiul, I thought—and I approached the subject uppermost in my mind by saying, carelessly : "So, Mary, you know German, it s - mis. How does that happen ? Mary's pretty face was overspread by a rosy cloud as she replied, in a low tone: " I picked it up myself. I ha 1 some German books once." Then she sat down and cried, verv tu-h t<> my bewilderment; and present ly site exclaimed: '* I should like to 101 l you somttliiiifr, Miss Darliiigforu; I ahull teel better when T >U know all." " I hope," said I, w.tli a vague expec tation of dreadful developments, " that ' all' is not very bail, Mary ?" The flush deepened on the prettv face, but for answ-r she t- k from her liosom a black riblxw t i which was fastened a plain gold ring. I dr.ipped my preaervis in amazement; the girl looked so young. " \ou are a widow, then ?" said I, with a feeling of tender pitv. •' p, r ehil.l 1" *• I don't know whether I am or not," was the reply, with a fresh burst of tears, '* an I that is what troubles me I turn • i to my preserves again, with a ■ mi it', as 1 thought of the good loukin r Gern_Ji p tnuui. " >FKs Dwttngfor.l," continued tl e girl. more composedly, "I want t teii you everything, and I am sorry now th t I di.ln't do this at first. But I felt tlu.t it wo ah I !>■ against me, and I hail to g f a place. I hive a boy six years old " "In the name of wonder," I exclaim ed, '* how old ar - you yourself ?" "lam twenty-five," she said, a little proudly; "ant Mr. Blnmrnthal pr >ni ises t > take care of Willie; be wants me tr let him pay his board now." II re I sat down hard in a chair t col lect myself, people haia otherthings liesides greatness thrust upon them; ar i I saw that I was destined to prove u mint unwilling Ivenefactress to the one-armed postman. V\ hr is it, 1 thought, bitt rlv, that if one ever does happen upon that rari avis, a moilel si-rvant, all the p.w ers of darkness seem leagued together to spirit her away ? " Where is your child ?" I asked, with a strong effort. " I have put him to lioard a little way out of town," replied the girl, sadly. " He is with a friend of mine, who takes good care of him; and I always go to see him on mv afternoons out; but I do miss him so !" And here she broke down aga n. "Rut what does it all mean ?" I con tained, for iny sympathies were getting dreadfully worked upon. "Why are you not living with your husband, if he is alive? or why do you not know jt if he is dead? Just tell me the whole story, Mary, from beginning to end." At this point Brunhililn, who always scents a romance from afar, appeared upon the scene. and gracefully estab lished herself upon the kitchen dresser. "Seven years ago," said Marv, " when I married William Murphy, I thought there was no one like him In the world; and I should think so yet if he hadn't nearly worried the life out of me. Rut I shall always believe that his mother was to blame for it all. She was that jeahms of Will that it sometimes see mill as if she would like to scratch my eyes out. We lived with the old people for a year or two; but after little Willie was bom I had no peace at all for his grand mother, who insisted on having her way with him, and I naturally thought that I had a right to mine. " The old people hail money, and lived very comfortably, and Will and his father carried on a coal yard together; but Will fell into bad company, and took to drinking, and his father and mother were so bitter toward him, it drove him to desperation. You see, they were peo ple who had always been respected, and they couldn't liear the disgrace; and many's the night I've sat up watching for Will, so that they shouldn't know when he came in. I tanglit myself German, byway of amusement, on those lonely evenings. Some one gave the books to Will, and I had always been fond of study at school. •' After awhile we left the old people, and moved into two rooms of our own; and I worked hard at sewing and knit ting and anything I could get to support us. Will did not improve, though he was never unkind to me; and one morn ing a boy brought me a crumpled note from my husband telling me that he had gone to California, and that he would never come back unless he came a Bober man, aud with money to support me and our boy. His father had been harder with him than ever, and he said he was FRKD. KURTZ, I Alitor ami IVoprirtor. VOLUME X. sick of it nil, and •* ho wis of iu iw to us, ho would not stay to !>*• I disgrace. I o.'ivo never l.< iirvl ft'oiu him siuce. " \\ til's uiothor e.nnc to mo itittl said that she should look Upoil tho Imy us horsuoii. anil wo must go homo with hor .it once. Hut I put hor off, to gain a httlo ttmo; for I was young, yon s> o, and hnuHßUtt, and I was afraid that alio had tho power to toako is go; and when she loft mo. 1 jtist piH'kal nty cloth* and Willif 's, and wont oft to tho d<-p. t, and oamo to h - I had this fnett I It* tug nonr horo \*o nasi to go to aohool to- gether and slto got two a place ttt a store. Hut I couldn't pay my board and Willie's and olollio is loth out of that; and tiually 1 isuiolutlnl to loavo tho Uy with Kit* 11, and got a pl.us at s. nio . "And uow 1 ihut't know whothor Will ts living or dotal; but 1 o*in't hoip think uig that tf ho w.,s living ho would ha*o written to mo and *ont mo soiuo uiottoy, for ho always lo*ed tno." It struck Mary > uitdiouoo that li- had a vor* strange way i>t showing lus lovo; but tiiou tho* worn old mattU, and cxuild not expect to midorstaiid sttoh mat tors. Mary presently pr**dnoed a phot graph, which was just tho opposite uf what we < xpeeted; for hor Sw.et Wtlham was a tine, man!* lin king voting follow. aud we felt drawn to him at once. Hit! then we felt drawn to the jtostmau t s , ami it w,ss ahsvilutcl* ei utial to tin latu-r's hajipitirss that niunlxr n< should have d< parted fi -t.i tins terns trial scene. Until there w s sufficient evidence of this, however, there was rea *oll ti fear an ELnwU Ardcu (/eooociNCNt; and O assurcil M .ry that it was |MlSl lively wrong fur her to gi*o Mr. Hlu mcuthal auv encouragement. It was probably *iw;ug t> this disin terested mivuv that we were honored by a regular call fr**m otir hitherto taciturn friend. We were near!* its much sur prised to hear hitu speak as tie mgh we !ial known him to b*- dumb; and when he propounded the somewhat startling tjnesUou "*f 1 ilnl not think the man who had married Mary ought to be dead by this our time," t did appear as though—if the person in question had a due regard for the fitness ~f tilings—h* would lx*; but the point at issue was not so much whether he ought to l*e in whether he was. Mr. Bluun uthsd, however, simply iu tended to expr* ss lus firmly grounded oj tr.ou that William Murphy was dead, ami that his widow wouKl show her good s, by abandoning h*-r present powition of niaid-of-all-w rk, and 1 **•*•, m uig Mrs. BluUKuthal without delay. It seemed imp 'ssible t*> e-c.vince hiai that Califviniui was not out * f tiie world, mid that travelers did occasionally return from that bourne. His own views of the region was* evidently embodied in the L-- lief that petple who went there becaus*- they could nt live here, * !ide*l by giving up tiie attempt at livit g altogether. He was certainly very much in love; ami it would l>e an excellent match for Mary, even if he h.t l not the r* gillation amount of liud*s and iK'lougiiigs. Brnuh; Kla was quite curried away by the postman's ehHjucuoe and good hniks. "I Indit ve tie isriglit," said she, when he had gone; "it is not at all probable that Mtirphv is living, or he wonkl certainly have written to his u ;*-." Adding, witii her usual happy disregard of logic. " And why should two lives be s; ■ 11 *i with this uncertainty alnrnt a man who, after all, isn't worth if ?" I Is-gun t*> entertain a private opinion that Herr Blum* i.th.d k*-p*t back our let ters from mail t<> mail f*• pitie*i; ntid ;t seemevl little satii*faction either in living or dying. But one morning *o?iiething happened. Mary reccivctl a lett r fr ai h< r mother in-law, that came through her friend Ellen, in whirti she was sb-ruly suni m*>ne*l to attend li*-r hushand'a funeral, lie had diisl of f* *er m a hospital, aii 1 the remains, by his own dying request, ha I I**-.n s* ;it on fr n S.m Er:uiciiv-o t-> I**- laid in the family burying ground. The poor little widow was m arly lx*- si'le herself at this news; an i jt was ss much ax we could g* t her ami th*' Ixrv *iff projx'rly. She promised faitli fauy to return f*> ns- uothir,she de clared, would induce h*-r t-* remiun witii old Mrs. Murphy; but it w.w with heavy hearts that w c saw her depart. I am sorry to say that onr Teutonic (Mistman, mst* a i of sharing his inamor ata's sorrow, was evidently in a state of confused bliss—n*>t much to be wnndcr *si at, perhaps, in the existing stat* of tilings ; but somewhat inc*nircnicDt in its results, as we w* re constantlv favored with letters never intended for us, while • >ur rightful e rreauondence wandered els-wh''n'. We tgnn with the astounding an nonncement that our < irf> rant hand maid' n was no happy that she scarcely knew h -w t. write t<> n- People hare different idea* of happi ness ; but it reallv seemed to us tiiat a slight degree of nnhnppincsH would have been more becoming in Mis. Murphy just then. We went on with the letter in a sort "f blank amazement, and read that, on the writer's arrival at the Murpliy man sion, the first person she enc, mr.tered was the deceased himself. As may be conjectured, he had never been dead at all, although he had been very ill with fever in a hospital, and fancying himself living, he had made the request to have his remains sent on to his parents. The occupant of the next cot had died, and the two became Somewhat mixed up ill the minds of the officials—hence the mis take, which, although inconvenient, was cheerfully borae with for the sake of seeing th lost son walk in alive and w ell. Clothed in his right mind, too ; for he hail long ago deplored his evil ways, and his industry and self-denial had accumu lated a nice little sum for the purchase of a cozy home nest. Thither wife and child were to be taken at once ; ami Mary wrote joyfully that she never knew how much she loved Will until she saw him stand ing before her at his father's door, when she had supposed him to lie dead. Not a word of pixir Carl Blumenthal, except to say that Will was so good, he did not blame her or Mr. Is. in the least, and would certainly shake hands with the latter should he chance to meet him —only, he was very glad that lie got home when he did. We rejoiced, of course, in .Mary's joy ; but, if the truth must be told, we wen very sorry for ourselves ; and as to poor Mr. Blumenthal, he was scarcely to be thought of at all—his future stretched before us such a gray, dismal blank. We broke our dreadful news to him in fragments, giving him a morsel at a time as we thought him able to swallow it. After a long period of silence, the de serted German shook his head sorrow fully, and said : " That one little woman she have a dreadful smile " (poor fellow, he meant "irresistible "), "and .he speak German like to break my heart. She should not ought to with her husband not dead." Evidently he could not divest himself THE CENTRE REPORTER. i of tho idea that Mar* was in t. me **** to blame for Mi Murphy * uii*-xpvt* .1 apixxtraiu-**. lirtttihiidii wtual!* cried I n -'Vinpnthv, i and took a melancholy pleasure in tun lung to the door for our letters. Hut such i the ingratitude of human nature, that she was probably compared, some what to her disadvantage, with the lost one. About six ni nth* cl.lsped, when We vme da* encountered our blighted frieuyl with a fair haired httl> woman dingiuc to bis arm and lookin very happy She was evident'*- (lerman, and as evidently lus wife ; and lie subsequently liiforiueti us that alio una tui old sweetheart who had followed him from home. She had armed just at the right time, to act as a poultice f>r the wounds intlicted b* "that one little woman " with the "*dreadful smile." This arrangement naturally "mad* things comfortable all around, with tlie exception, perhaps, of two lone women who had lest a treasure that Ootlitl Hot Is* replaced. , Fashion Notes, Net mittens are revived. Tilleul is a leading cult r. Foulards ale fashionable. F'ull tires* demands the bonnet. White chip is declh.uig in favor. I Vnu-.sai.son sty!*s are coming in. Bonnet trimmings are not elaborate. Yellow and til,, til are leading colors. Mittens are all at once very fashionable. The old I'tukiui straw braids are re vived. Open, law-like straws are coining in vogue. Leghorn straw bonnets are most sought for. M itularin is oue of the new shades of yellow. Hough straw twists are preferred for round lints. M s'tihgl ? blue is the j [Hilar shade of this color. Shawls of every kind w.ll he much worn tins spring. Yellow Italian straws are the first choice in bonnets. Some mittens are of white, other* of black or colored hi e. Persian khenna is IUI instantancons, iinsh irons hair dye. The newest Linnet rihlsms are woven with [ihisli effects. Tdleul, or linden green, is a pale tint of yellow ish grot u. All sluuh s -f gray are so u in the .1, beiges and vigogin The fashionable color, tilleul, is very trying to tiie complexion. All or,ental fuhri. s are \. iv fashion able at the moment m Paris. Ycsii*,- • > the new* st shade of red. It .s a brilliant fhimc color. Straight curtain hands are *• >-i , i, most of the Leghorn botmets. Square crowns for l>, iim ts art mm called for than (minted one*. Shot camel's hair g**dx are made with smooth surfaces this ... n. II mild hut are Wort; only for shop!m I', traveling and demi-toilet. The dry g *xls countcra are gay ' bright with new- ,k -s fabrics. Some of the pe real pa have light gray, drab, tilleul and white grounds. ( juntrrfclt t oiii. Tliere is a large ••• ,t of c > mtcrfeg c >in .n ir ihiti n, tin New York A says, judging from the < •...plaints of people engaged in all hr inches of lnis>- iiCKs, Tie counterfeit- .re of all dcuom illations, b ginning with a tive-is-u nickel an I en ling w th the t:iyl • doll Only a few of the latter arc in genera! ciruulati, ii. 11 df tlollara, howe*er. are handled by everybody, and UJR o tin the cnimferfeit-rs have exerts*! tin" highest art. Tinne ar. at present e un terfeitsof f -urortived !fe: 'lit -llli-lan . wh'.eh elo • ly r*s t nihlc the genuim sp ver half tk liar. The most dangerous o these is cmee.h 1 to !• ma le nf glaas, ail venal over by some jir s-ess, which makes the eonnterfeit -iinilnr i'i appear ance an I fe ling to the go*, runient coin. Silonn 1. *[wrs sn* that it is exce. ling!* ilifli 'ult to detect the fraud, particularly as the ring is jierfect. In an ujitown barro-'Tis onr> was tak* :i fr >m a customer, and the fact that it w icounterf' it jsiint ed org to him. The lairkeeper then ga*<- him change, saying : " We get tlii seglass hail ilollniH in every day, and they are so go si that with our rust*-mem we sel dom say anything, as they pass out with out ihfKeulty." The counterfeit quarters arc exceedingly numerous, and are well calculated to deceive (xxiple who are not used to handling (-"in. The stage lines and the street cars without conductors snffi-r considerably fr >m the abundance of count rh ;t ci'in, as passengers can slip bad money into the I sixes in jm*- nu nt of fares without discovery. The h'ssi sin consi'qucncc are RO serious that the advisability of taking out the Isixes ami employing conductor* is under con sideration. Excitement in Nova Scotia. The qu Aii>ll of precedence having arisen between certain queen's eouuaei, an affidavit was rend in the supreme court of N'ova Scotia, setting forth that the seal attached to thi- commission of queen's counsel appointed by the local govenuneiit, was not the great seal of the province, but the old seal which was or dered to be returned by the imperial government in 180!). 'flte premier of the local goveniment admitted tle gov ernment had bis n using the old seal. The court expressed astonishment at such contempt for her majesty's author ized ami expressed opinion, and said that all acts requiring the great seal done since 18T.9 were totally void. This state of affairs leaves Nova Scot in to-day without a parliament and without a government, with all grants of mar riage licenses, consequently marriages, and all commissions since lKi'.',) totally void. The greatest excitement prevails in consequence. The chief justice, afti r intimating that it would require im perial legislation to rectify the matter, adjourned the court f r ten days f<>ru full inquiry. A Hash Bet. A Rochester man, according to the Sunday Hi mid of that city, bet five dollars the other day that he could put a billiard bail in his mouth. If lie had been a newspaper man no one would have taken the let, but being another kind of hairpin, the V was planked. Sure enough, the feat was accomplished, but tne performer could not get the ball out. Physicians were sent for. The most attractive lialies in town were put vin-a-vh with the victim, but they couldn't attract worth a cent. Sam 1 i it dreth. who lias the reputation of drawing the biggest ball ever held in Rochester, was called in ; he couldn't conduct satis factorily. Finally the doctors tried again. One got a loadstone, another took a eiie-rious instrument and caromed on the two tonsil i; he then made a cush ion shot on the larnyx, and tried to pocket tiie ball in the hronchials. After some skillful play, with several scratches, he nursed the ball out. That whale of prophetic billiard spheres, now swallows coJfish rotundities. CENTRE HA EE, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, MARCH k"., 1877. ( Idliesc t iHilles in Culm. The Loudon Atfhinfio/ / en ic, Com menting upon Hit report of a Sjtueial commission apisuiiti'd b> liiv*stignt the eouditloll of t liticsc is * die* 111 t'llba, Nl \ H ; One sentence in ti,"Commissioners're purl supplies ati'iiible intimation : "Of the more than I Ill.tXIO t'llitle e who sailed for Cuba, upward of lti.tHMi dad during the Voyages W illi a few exix-ptloiis the Culu'Ul It Jit test l mony of the witnesses be.ira evideiieu to an amount of suffering endured on the passage which almost surpasses belief. The wretched creatures were confine I m the holds ;wi re beaten without mercy. Hi some e.is, seven unto,lt ith ; were sttji phed with bid fissl and uisullieient water ; were shut uj 111 handsst cages, or chained to iron posts ; some were " kicked to death by the sailors," mi l *' other* on the (mint of death, but not dead, Wvr<-thrown overboard." No won der, then, that UUIUIHUS stnight relief in suicide. Oue witness saya: "tweiit* men" (his fellow passengers) 41 east them s, Ives overlsmrd i ght jumped over board, states another: and opium lent its aid to rid sotue of the sufferer* of their misery. "On arrival, what happens to the coolie?' asks the Chiucse government. "On binding, replies Il ieh-Sltiuuig ehin, " four or tlve foreigner* on horse back, armed with whips, hsl like u herd of cattle to the barracoous to lv sohl. " These men were then taken to the mark* t, and **, r*> to sub mit t i tli atineut winch U> Chinaluen, whose a, use of decency is k*s ti, was (xxuihally abhorrent. They were obligixt to remove their clothing, so that their persons might h< examined and their pri>-s tixxi. "This covere*l us with shame," say fifty-two p*tit s- nera. After the cvi*l-nee bim lit f 'rward as to th*- way in which the coolie* arc tivat *sl during the various stag, s of tlieir immigration until they reach the sugar r other plantations of the island, the ques tion" IX> i-mjilovi r- treat coolies kind ly V s*minis like a mockery ;hut i* might at least have Iks-u suppose i that self int*'rest would have induced the masters to keep th* work auv g* ~.i f>r the immigrants. Tli-y ar*- unA rft !, overworked and treated with great bar barity. Ma ze arid bananas form the staple f,Hsl allotted to tlit . Many stated that, ouitr. * to the regu lations which limit tin* hours * f lnl** i t<> twelve out of the twenty-four, tin y w, r, made t*> work from f, tir in the morning until midnight. Sunday brought them in* relief, aud any attempt to rest was punished by merciless tigging. Abun liant * vuh'uee is furnished that the mur der of iSHilii-s wu-s not at all infri qu* lit, and oas*s of Kiii**ide by hnngtng, by jumping into sugar caldrons and by tak ing opium, were of e mi moil iHvurrene*-. Tlics*' stah uicnts ajqavir s> incrxxlibl** that we naturally tt for tL• ir cotiffrm atiou or refutation to th*' st.it'.stics fur nish* 1 by lb** commissi eo-rs, ami from these **.• learn that out of 111.H81 e.*U* s who la iuhsl in Cuba during the twenty y.-ars ending J s 7.'i, died in th* island. Th--*'tigure • speak for them selves. til l it I-Jixim : ! e said that ln liniiities aria ug from old ag- lunl any - thing to d* with tins high nitcof mortal itv ; for, according t *th< exMnmissiouera, . e mlies wer*< a!! v •• •m* u. The fact, therefore remains th it during the twenty years nh ,*.• nan. *l, marl* fifty per centum of the _*■ ting MM pita ral v Tigurooa Qht'nemen who landed in Cuba succumbed t the i ff* el* of the cruel tri-otmeut to which they wer** suh jected. A tliscr's Fate. When the g *verum*-nt ii*-i;ri-. ! . to !~>r row a large sum of toon-y from the im meiinclv wealthy i i- er, 1". s.-ne, he n-- fused tiie I*NUI m th*' plea *-f |ioverty. Ih'srin;;, how.ver, tl ! some , f his mn-hlsira, among whom he was *,ry unpopular, would n-jsirt hit iinineii " wealth to th* g.v<>rnmen. lie applind lus ingenuity to discover some t ffi-ctual way of hiding his gohl, sli' Uid th * institute a m arch :sr<*rtatn tin? truth r faint*- lir he attached a spring lock, so that ■>n shutting it would fasten of it . gnn to en,elude that the miser had tied with his gold tot- une part where, unknown, he cm Id he free from the hands of the government. Home time panned on; the house in wbieli lie had lived was s Id, and workmen were busily engaged m its repair. In the progress of their work they met with the door of the secret eave, with the key in the lock outside. They drew bach the door, and descended with a light. The first object upon which the lamp reflect ed was the ghastly Is sly of Fescue, the miser, and scattered a 1 tout him were heavy bags of gold and ponderous chests of untold treasure; a candlestick lay be side him on the floor. The worshiper of mammon had gone into his cave to pay his devoirs to his gold il g<*l, and be came a sacrifice to his devotion. Spitz Venom. TiVo cases of hydrophobia are rejsirl ed from Stolen Island, and in lioth the victims were bitten by Spitz dogs. In one case it is rejtorted that tlie dog was not rabid, and lie appears to have been only irritable in the other. Jleforo the great increase now noted in the fre quency of these accidents it was thought that society paid sufficiently for the aHHCR a \irus capable of causing hydrophobia while the anima himself is to all appearance in a normal condition. Persons who care for the liven of their little children should take notice that the number i f onaeH reported is now large in which tins dog, while himself apparently not mud, has canned hydrophobia bv his bite. They have not, therefore, 111 regard to this specie*, even that slight assurance of safety which, in regard to other dogs, ia derived from the warning of evident sickness in the animal himself. \< ' Jo; - /.* //< mid. Lire Insurance Policies. A bill was presented in the New York State Senate regulating the forfeiture of life iiiaurauee polieies. It deelarea that no life iiiMurunce company whose net surplus as to policy holders shall lie less than #1,000,000 shall have power to declare forfeited any policy hereafter issued by reason of non-payment of annual premiums or interest or any por tion thereof, unless a notice in writing stating the amount of premiums or in terest due and when due 011 sueli policy and the place where said premium may lie paid shall have boon sent by the com pany to the party insured, at least thirty days before the premium becomes due. I. VItIM \ V\l> HOI s| 1101.1 l 11 iIII * ii IH'III Wiilk. Kill* *Soi l' I tot >K Perhaps tlir is nt• 1111 tt'iit'hs in wtiieh tliw are alwrttyi so many beginncra, as funning, MM tbfNi, lit t lit r ii. w at tlir business ui ui <>l.l I mini ut it, should make u praetio* I of noting things an tin \ oft-at to hint, tiff. Now it is u in*w f.sl.it i plant, i>< .nit* iit-w variety of wheat oi corn, it in'w t*io- . of some domestic Mii 11ml. or ii iif# tool. It is well to try any promising "nowliy in u small way, nt ilrst, to t. s' Its Vithle. If smvesstul, it is afterwards easy to add t• tin* toek. 1)IUINH, l'!i e i- in> l*tter film than the |'ii -fill to dig drams. Tin Jttnuarv thaw, which was very general, lias tilittl the low ground with water, and flowing Witter is tin' best Jtossilile lfVfluig instrument. The narrower the drain is made, so that a tiiau fan work easily in it, tit* rhe;q*r may the work lie ilotie. When water is flowing in tin drain, lay tin* tiles from the head down wards. rin re is no danger then of ob structions entering I hem. Tin t !. I draining e m hardly ever lie l.Mt than it now is. lo.i-ir is very low, and tin ate wiio lino HUjUoVe intllU to lUiikf, iui.l have the IUOUCT, or see their wav dearly to repay it, if Ixirrow ed, is mi 1 have no I letter ojiportuuity than the jut st*jit. SraNtn.sit WATKK. A very liujsirtaiit work is to let off' any wat* r that accumu lates ujs n the surface. This require* constant attention, ami the use of tlie ho. or aahovt I. \S In -liter tin if is a eroji in the gr mid or m t, it is equally uss*- sary to do this thoroughly, else the soil is soaked ami dries very slowly. The amount 1 st through water remaining tijstti In*his, wonltl eacli year buv for t very fur; er who jiemiits it, a g<**l |m |s*r rtJnl more books than he coul.f Well study in a year. ltarnynrvls, "|>eeially, sliouhl be freed frtun water; tin* wash from the roofs ah .uld Is* i .irr.til t>fl I* f >reit has soukix! through tlie manure and dissolved out idl the Valuable parts of it. Livk Btvs k. When the coat is shed ding, the list of the Curd, ttr a suiisith currv eoinb, should not IK* neglerti-d. There is then an irritation of the skin, which is allayed by t rn-hitig or carding; Isftit t, tin* list-, his'r is remov.'l and d*w s not rub .tl onto tin cloth**. A tea*)* sinful of sulphur tlaily, t> every luunud, for a week or two, would t>e helpful. V Hitix, As the warm weather corn* on. If wild ticks become acti x >, and iiinoy the imimals gn-ativ. A nnxtur* of t .pud j. srl - of Lard ami k< rosene oil, put on tlie back mid brisket t.f cows, calves and afcee|. will havea gtssl effort. SPIUN.I WHI VT. In the districts when* t •- cr..p sticveeds, that is, north of a line ilrawu fnm ltosten, to the s mill si r. of letke Erie, ami thence twti. Shu!!, n pi . i ji-, with th >rough ham w mg, 1. itvr .* whatever small clods may r- :n.- ii . ft. r tlie harrowing, ujs.n tlie surf a., m the b. ~t juepamtioji. Where sttine stiuiul itiug fertiliser is umlivl, use 1"M |M minis of snjM-rj'hosphate of lime, or !'jwuiuds of guano, jer urn*. —A*l onuditioii. Itnssl mares, at least, should have ns much ex ercise a this. Horses kej>{ in stables shouhl be well currietl ami brtialied. A sharp curry comb is a nuisance in a stable, and innki s many nervous horses fraction* and irritable. The aharp teeth may easily be rnblied down with a tile or a wliet-sl m . To clean a curry ooroh, tlij* it into as 'utionof e tjiira.iii sal-soda, rinso it about, a short time, and then wash it in In t water. Win n the tswit U"gui* to sin 1, a pint oi litis etsl *ake meal may be given daily to each horse. FATTKNINO (',mt.R A change of f.ssl will be of great help in quickening the ajv petite of stall fed cattle. A jint of mo lasses, mixed with a feed of cnt straw ami meal, will lie taken very rem lily. This may be pi vt n once n day, and one to two ounces of salt with an alternate feed. H.siti-', sliced ami sprinkle*! with either oett m or linseed cake nieal, will be very h althfuL A few apples will be useful IsitWeen meals. A JMiUtld of tUt .il siirrtsl in the drinking water will help, itv varying tin* food in this wav one ran hardlv overfee.l fattening storV o as to jiall tin* ajijMffitst. Agriculturist. Ilotittwt it- I It-It**. 1,1 MON ('HI'.RSEI'AKRH, —Take half a jKiuudof butter, one jMiuml of loaf sugar, six cgps, tin* rind of two lentous ami juice *tf three : jnit all uitti a small lined saucepan. lveeii stirring th* mixture over the lire till all is dissolved ami it begins to thick* n ; then put it into sninll jar;-, an 1 Ke. ji in a dry place. When made into elits'seeakes, line some patty pans with ptsnl jmlF paste, rather more than half till them with the mixture, iiinl bake for about a quarter of an hour in n brisk oven. Qrnr.N or IVIMUMOS. Soak a pint of bread entmlm in (toiling milk, ami tin yolks of four eggs, Well beaten, and sttgnr to taste. Hake ill a pie dish ; when colli, spread jiun over the top, ami over that t!n* whites of four eggs, beaten to n stiff froth, with four teasjHKinfuls of white sugar; put into the oven, ami bake a very light brown. Flavor with essence of vanilla or lemon. I'OTATOR.H A I,A MAITEF. II'HOTKI,. Slice cold boiled pot-utoea a quarter of tin inch thick, and put into a saucepan with four or five tablesjioonfula of milk, two or three of butter, i*p|>er, salt and some chopped parsley ; neat quickly, stirring all the time, unt.il ready to boil, then stir in tin* juice of half a lemon. This last ingredient entitles tln* dish to a for eign title. Pour into a deep dish and serve very hot. lern Arri.rs. —Pare and core one dozen large apples ;ttll with sugar, mixed with a little butter ami cinnamon or nutmeg ; hake till nearly done. 0001, ami, if possible without breaking, put the ap ples on another dish. If not possible, pour off the juice ; have some icing |>re parcd ; lay it on the top and sides, mid , set into tin* ttvoii aft w niiiiiit- t> browi slightly. Serve with crrmii. CHKI SIC OMI i.rrrK (irut** some rul , old cheese, and, having nuxtsl the omc , lette as usual, sto ill the flits***! With it I swift turu or two of tin* wrist, ami ui the same tunc some chopped pnrslov am! thyme. If it is btateii a long time tin . cheese will separate the milk from tin eggs. t'lOt.k at once. Huvt Itt Sntr llttttiilr. If a fount l were t* have the best fa Oil 1 ties for saving hin manure. With tin leant jsts.-ible Joss of miiuioiiiu, 1 woiiltl any, h t him have a manure cellar under Ins cattle stalls, into which their thing is daily thrown; ami the floor of the stall so constructed us to allow all tin* urine of tin* spick to run down ami la- units! with it. This cellar would have to be under a burn limit on a side hill, so as to admit of backing in a wagon to en rev tin* IMII- Aflits to the tit Ills. A pump Would lie necessary near by, with liwse to saturate tin* muuitre oceanainuHy t* Imeteii tletwim poaitioti. Hore manure, esjawially, would 1- liable to M-noim injury if nut kept wet. The next lwt plan t> k'*-j manure is umler a sh-d, iilc*l up muiijiaetly with tin top of tlie heap u little concave, so as tti In ltl wat*r, Mi*l idlow it to run down ami dampen till whole heap. Water is highly necessary in the *l-eompositio|i of luauute heap-. Aii excavation n the mkl lie of the bartivur I, sjx , r * ight f--t stpmre, ami of the sume d* | tli, in which u pumjt is jdnci-1, to carry tluough hot-t --or troughs tlie liquid manure of till- VBTil to the heap under the slir l, wotthl ie a good thing. A plutioriu txuud be made over the well hole, to Consist of slats two inches wide, and just fart-Bough apart to allow the liquid* of the yard to run through it; *>r the shed manure tuny la wet t nee in two weeks frt HI a |minp not faraway; or the water f nm the r**ff of the biu ti ulid sllisl may Is* so e>'lldueted u|stu the muiiure as n> require m> other wetting; but the otutductoli alioultl le uusle to 1* removed when the heap is wet enough. The Indian Tribes of Maine. Tlie Augusta ( Me.) Juurnnl say,-: Tin* ri'Uinaiits ttf two Indian tnln-s continue tie- w.litis of the State—the Peuobsi'ot ami Passamaqiitsltlv. Tin* jast vesr theie has las-n -X|K*tnlsl for the ttrst muuiHl trils' gl,kt*.Ol. The census of the trils* slews tin* tmnilier to Is* 41c. At the annual •!<- \ tin, held the first of N'*Vl:iils*r, Tomer Atl .ui was elttt-lt-1 govini .r; S.nd Neptuu*-, lu-uteuaut governor; ami Sab.itt:s llaiui, *lt-legate U* tin* legislature. A larger vote wan east than at Jiieviotis eh-etioim, maliv ja*rti**l puUng m the election whohnve m former \ . s-efruim-1 from v.'tmg, mid tin* iu dier.tions an that a much itlt-nsiuiU r stati* *'f polltieal feeling pi,.vails than for sev eral ytors J tost, Titere has 1 sen less *h ui.uiit for labor, and ctmse*jiieutly a low er ri of wages has jirovi!ed among the trdw for the jslst y t nr. Sales of Iwskets, **te.. Nt stimiiicr re- rt* have ls-*ut less in quantity ami in price than in any pre vious reasons. No |>i t\ale-it diseases liavt raged among the trdw during the \t ar, ami tiieir condition s s niilr,in*Twll* ami physically have remain.-1 about the name, 'lite exjM-nibtures the past year for the Pasanmotpjtshly trdje were J4,- Hlk'i.ffH. Oioio has be * ui* scan-,*, an.l but very few call gum their 1 rdihood by huutiug. Tnl-*> UIIUIIM I suits '.tVimide-t ami 24b f. iitaies. A* sp< ni si it* a treaty mode * i'.h tin- .iiff, i,ui s eti. ns of the trilie, dated Febrtiarv *ißth, IH.V2, njsm the d nth ttf John Fnuicia (then gover nor of t! at js.rti. u of the trd** living at I'leasant Point ) a role t1.,. whole trds. slituikl be taki'U, and the nui 'ority sluatld decide wh* ther to elect auotliec givemor at Pleasant Pointer t • ls< content with the one living on the Indian township. Tl i*. ofHee having Issimie va *.uit by the death of John Francis, the trds* decided to elect another govertmr at Phasiuit I' nut, md have made ch'ice of Selniore Fnuicia. They have also, in accordance with the pit*#: si* ma <>f the treaty, chooen Peter S**lmor. lientenant-guvx-nmr at Pleasant Point. A tr-at < ejijaT bode. N< vl ti th* tain met cougliNnerate slMitis the P* wabie lode as a yielder of copper. The iiotiw ire the tjui* ev nml Franklin. Tlie |a:n of tln- former has been inark*sl bv n c.ri* s of i roNjH-r>)u- yi-ars, and in isTfi its jiro ilnet was the larg* et ever obbuned in any twelve months injure. The t,huncy is now tlie ihepest uuue work*s| >n the lake, ami its l*sl,* at the lowest point wrought is as rich as it ever was in its uj>iM-r level*. The Franklin, not withstanding the mine was badly disabled two years ago from th<* treatment it received at the hands of the tributers, who for some time had operat, d it, afforvled more eop- JM r in JNTI'I then it ever dul I adore. o*nu piirutively npeakiug.' this mine is slinl low. and it haw a gissl stretch of lisle. Th *UWw* of the hid ns Fry* since its re vival shows that tlie portion of th. Pewabie dejmsit it is working is *vq*able of Ix iug mined profitably under judi cious management. llarring unfors,s>n aceiiieata and draw bucks, the coming twelv*. mouUis the Franklin w-ill do l>et t* r tliMi it li'l in ISTtI, and with the hirg*. amount of virgin ground there is (Msiuoiiucnlly available for years—the mine, as long as it is ki-jd on the right track, is n pennanency—one of th* solid industries of the district. The company, owing to tlie tattered nml torn condition tin* underground and surface <>( tlie mine wen* left in by the tributers, has been obliged to expend large sums of money in repairs, etc. TJie working plant above ami below is in first-class shiqw The Fnuikliu mill one of the licst on tlie lake. With copper at anything like n fair figure dur ing the next year, th** results of the mine in 1*77 will no doubt meet the ajj*rolm tion of its stockholders, as will as those who have a heart in the progressive de velopment of the mining interest of this district.- /*•< rtai/r l.ukr Mi nitty < Ja- Z' (ti. K New Hair Restorer, The Itritich consul at Nieolaieff, South Russia, rejK'rts to the foreign office the discovery of a new hair restorer. He say ; In the sttminer rav attention was drawn t<> several case* of sudden bald ness of bullocks, cows and oxen and the loss of tails and manes among horses. A former servant of mine, prematurely bald, whose duty it was to trim my* lanqis, had a habit of vvqnng liis petio leiini IM'SIIH nred hands in the s**antv locks which remnine*! to him, and after thre*. months'of lamp trimming exjH'ri *ne*. his dirty habit procured for him a much finer head of black glossy hair than lie ever possessed before in his recollection. I subsequently tried the remedy on two retriever sjwniels that had become suddenly bald, witli won derful success. My experience induced mo to suggest it to the owner of several black rattle and horses affected as above stated, ami while it staved tlie sjireiul of tlie disease among animals in the same sheds slid stables, it effi-cted a quick and radical cure on tin* animals attacked. The jietroleum should he of the most refined American qualities, rubbed in vigorously and quickly with the jailni of the hand, and applied at intervals >f three days, six or seven times in all, ex cept in the case of horses' tails and manes, w hen more ajiplications may be requisite. TKRMB: a Year, in Advance. ii A Sad IHlcr. Uu Friday night, March 2, oooti after '■ ••ight o'clock, when tlm m-utry ii S". 12, t Kqiuui lkttdi, " N. J., William Miller, li| name, hat) Ml ' the station hull**- Ui p.iti.il hi* ln-ut along '' the Im*i'li, he noticed l*ni! a ijuurter of u mile fruw Ule aliutv ii dark object, *' which he at mice concluded woe a vet-wl. Miller, seeing that the vi *el, if atirh it via*, was a| (in •aching too tteai allure, *. t ■ iff hi* hand signal to give notice of th t proximity "f • linger. He receive*! a r- I ply signal from the VMMfll, he naya, and r tuilOixhaU'ly itutol for the station to lllllMter the eleW, which WIUI oft tint V, ! prepared to lend tt helping hale! to the , ilmtroaaetl uiaruiet *. Miller wua obliged to cover tut much e|"ce ua two mile* lie fore he reached the lioUHe where the t crew were ui waiting, alnl by the time he, with the other life anver* and tlie uecewutry apparatus had returned to the hjMii from where the signal lta>l been ween, over an hour liad Itoen cou*mued. tin hi* return no venial wan visible ; through the black night. The rain was descending,"the sky was full of iingrv clouds and the night wa* til.'.-vl with darkness. Eager eves attemjitel to Jienetrute the dark nuns in the direction where an liufoltiuiate vessel Wiut stlji |s isi to Ire, hut Ho objeist Wasto be dis s ivrurd. I'robably the ship hud paaaed tm out of the danger, thought the mirf , men. At any rate they decided to await tlie break of morning liefore trying to learn if a Vermel liad iieen stranded. With the morning light came the revelation that a enstt of some kind had run ou the shore and there became a total wreck. From tlie beadi where Mil ler had liecn on tlie watch a very small portion of the vessel's reinaiiis ootild Is win. Part of her bow, with the bow l spit still attacheti. und purtioua of her , forward rigging and chants were firm ui ■ the sand; but the hull, which had jtrU-e that the depreciation in the vwlae of silver as compared with gohl is not tine to the iti mwsd production ■ f the former, but chiefly to the demonet: znU< u of silver by (term any, tlie United States, and otlier countries, and tlie consequent closing of mints agtpust silver, ui led by a diminu tion of the Asia? ,c demand for silver, und by enormous exaggerations of the actual and pr..sjsvtiv< yield of the Neviaia sil ver mines. I.> I the United States re store the double standard, and this ruin ous dcmonrtiraUon of silver—tlie cause of the present distress throughout tlie world—-will lie checked. The supply of gold is diminishing: I--sides, no metal is mi ill-suited to !• a sole measure of values. Alter refcrnng to the llussisu, Brazilian and English experiences witv paper cunvuey, the oonuaimiuuera scii they have lieen able to amve at only one conclnaiou—that resumption in tins country is not practicable under the cir cumstance* until the existitif laws mak ing gold the sold meUlfio legal tender are rrpftlftL Both the debt paying metals are found umier < ir own rtag; both an" needed, and in tlie full*t measure, to accomplish the task. If silver flow* in fforn Enrope, ao much the 1 letter; that will mean a revival of business and au era of solid prosperity. Senator Bogy and Hepresintative Wil lard recommend fixing the silver stand ard at 15j; Mr. (iroealieck and Repre sentative Bland at 15 98-100. the present standard, until after an international conference. Representative Gibson and Professor It •wen, of Cambridge, rejnirt in favor of a single gold stuudard, restricting the use of silver as money to small coins, with the present, or n slightly increased, legal tender limit. Senator 11.unwell Iwlieves in the use of silver as money, but wants it restored by :ui international convention of the commercial countries, and thinks separate action by the United States would lo unwise, if not disas trous. The Army Bill. The following is the text of the section of the United States Army Appropria tion bill which waa the subject of irrecon cilable difference Is'tween 'the lbmse of Representatives and tlie Senate, and which. leiug adhered to by the House, cauaisl the failure of the bill; Srcrtov 5. That no pail of the money appropriated by this act, nor any money heretofore appropriated, slihlUh' apples! to the pay, snlisislcmv or tranaportatiou of to-ijis used, employed, or to 1 em plovisl in support of the claim of Prune.* T. Nicholls or of 8. It. Packard to 1m) governor of the State of Louisiana ; nor shall any of the money 1m applied in snp|*irt of the claim of the two Inslies claiming to be the Legislature of said State, presided over respectively by L. A. Wilts and I-oui* Hush ; nor of the two Isaliea claiming to !*• tlie Legisla ture of s lid State, presided over by U. Antoine and Michnid Halm ; uor in supjiort of the claim of Thomas (*. Man ning and associates to tlie supreme court of said State ; nor in HiipjKirt of theeiaim of John T. Ludeling and associates to be the supreme court of said State ; nor in aid of the execution of any process in the hands of the United States marshal in said State, issiusl in aid of and for the support of any such claims, nor shall the army, or anv portion of it, lie used in support of the claims, or pretended claim or claims of any State government, or officer thereof, in any State, nutil such govermcnt shall have been duly recognized by Congress. Any person offending against any of the provisions of this act shall be doemod guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con viction thereof shall bo imprisoned at hard labor for not less than five uor more than ten years. Prance. According to the Ih bat*, the census which has just lu'cn taken shows that there are at present in France seventy three towns with a population exceeding '20,01K) inhabitants, 108 with a popula tion of 10,000 to 20,000 inhabitants, 309 with a population of f,(KK) to 10,(KK) in habitants, 249 with a population of 4,000 to 5,000 inhabitants, ami 581 of 3,000 to 4,000 inhabitants. NUMBER 13. I'tiHf, tin* Hliiger. Addiua Pitti, who i* now creating soiucthiag of u woiiMiitiou in Europe on umiuiil of h**r wiieratiou from Iter hus band, the Mnr. |in* de Cuux.i* now thirty ►i v iiniii of age, Kin* WKslsiro of Italian parent* at Madrid m 1 M.'l (according to li*r bii*grapher). Her mother, Mxbiae I Will I'utti, wa tlu* prim* tloinw of tin; < irutiii TheuU-t of Madrid, and soon after Alleluia's birth slu* removed to Milan. Kh* lor,l four daughter*, Clotilda, Alitalia ( Mr*. KtritkoM*li) ( Ctirlol.Ui aud Alleluia. Ktrunge to mi*, Madame Jiarili I'alti w">u after giving lurth to Adehus com pletely lf Manchester ami Mr. Cisrta gave away the bride, Vapolvou aud the upre lined Uieir influence to bring alaiut the marriage, and it was through them that it was aecompludied. lie wan of an aristo cratic family, but poor as poverty itaeif. Patli was wealthy and ambition*, and the new union gave her an undisputed entrance to the inagie cirrle of tie French court- No happiness could !e ex|M*ctcd to result from auch a marrtag*, in which the write, on the 'lie hand. k* light a title, and tlie husband, on the other, a fortune. Bite could well afford to pay 100,(MM) francs in order to get rid of the marquis. When she married the marquis oue-thinl of her future earnings was to go to her jwrs* mallr and two-thirds were to go to the joint aeoHiut of heraelf and the marquis after having paid their expense*, the marquis to accompany her on IK r musical trip*. A Victim to the Opium Habit. Tlie following particulars of the sui cide of M. M. Wisliard, late suiieriuteu ib'iji *d the Sildien*' Orphans' Home, at Kuightstown, lud., are gleaned from tlie New Orleans Timet: With erect 1 tearing and deliberate luovemenli*, he entered the St. James Hotel and straightway sought one of the closets, from which lie emerged wounded to the death. He first cut his throat with a penknife aud then iusertiug 11 pair of scissors into the wound, vainly attempted to sever tlie main artery to lictter consummate the end,but before he accomplished his purpose he fell ex hausted <0 tlie floor. Here lie was found still breathing. A stretcher was impro vised and the man was lwirue to the iios pita], but ere many squares bad Itccti traversed he breathed his last. Upon his jM*mn waa found tlie following let ter, written in a bold, firm hand : My own true name is M. M. Wisliard. lab* superintendent Orphans' Home, Kiiightstowu, Ind. lam paying deal for my sin. Opium ia the iwuae of it all. Write Dr. Hmuuuuan someone, ideas**, when I am gone. CUsl only knows how I have fought this terrible iiabit, but whenever it gets hold of the system, it is ts> lute. lam exporting every mo ment to be arrested and taken to jail, where I shall never come out alive. Ovid pity the opium eater. Am almost past going now. In the inside of the sheet, evidently written while nerving himself to tlie des jH*mU* deed, was the following : Oh ! that 1 had lw*eu wise in the day of this visitation. I haven faint liois*of torgivniewa. I then Itegan to fight it witli the desperation that almost crazc*i mo, and w lieu nearly well, would lwcoiue discouraged and go back again. My dear family ia my regret. Oh ! that 1 had beeu wise in time. No mail ever had a dearer family than 1 had. A bet ter wife ami children no man ever saw How cruel I have beeu. If through Jesus' blood. Although I have lecn n great sinner, I was so much inbxicatel Cv 58 quad rillions 382,000 trillions of ikdlars. If we w en* to t ike this sum as a capital and use its yearly inbwest (four }H*ri"eut) tlieu the income tax we would have to imy at tlie rate of one per ceut. won I*l !*. 4NO qiiatlriUkma 598,320 trillions of dollars. If we |>aid the tax colbct*r this sum iu silver he would need 3,000,- StOjOOft.OOO, OOO,OOO ivigonii for its trans (sirtation. Fnvideil the whole of the eartli's surface, both land and water, were *eople 1 as closely as pmsible we aliouki have but tlie twivmilliootii part of the dr vers required, aud the Hue of wagons would have the length of eight trillions -142,000 billions of miles, Tlie wjwvd of light is 102.000 miles per sec ond, and it would take 759,000 years to reach the eolleetor, l*egitming at the far thest wagon on lx th sidte. statiom**! himself in the center of the line. Again n robbery could be committed on the hitiTlermost wagon which would not be discoveri-d till the 24,780 th generation of (hx collectors. If, on the oontrary, iu sbwwl of using the iuterest on the capi tal (tlie bulk of which, by-the-bye, would be equal iu gold to 44 globes) this capital were distributed among the jieople of the earth, each one of its 1,000,(KM),000 of inhabitants would receive about 1,200 trillions of dollars to live on, and could every second use 152,000,000 for 88,096,- tKH) years without reselling the bottom of his purse. Join the IrourlaiN. A gentlemau of Eustport, Mi)., on li s way home the other evening, was startled, bv an outcry, ap})ar>ntly from some one' Wing assaulted. The words '' Let me alone; you cannot have mv money; take that!" were head. Following up the cry, the gentleman, with several others who had joined him, descried, through the gloom, a man running. Overtaking him, they found a persou considerably iu liquor, who stated that a man had tried to roh him. Going back to the place of assault, they discovered that the innocent cause of the drunken man's fear aud desperate efforts of resistance w 11s a post, which he ran against in the dark and imagined that ne hail been stniek. Moral—Join the ironclads. Km* of Interest. Inquiring Rmdn We know of • mtnui saint of the ilance, without it ia Hfttnt Vitua. Why is blind-man's-buff like sympa thy ? Ilnanw it'a a fellow feeling for fellow creatine. A jmlitieian in Waahingtou hiw be come roam-eyed trying to keep hi* eye , <>n the main chance. At tlie end of 1877 it ia intimated that tiie It look Utile will have a population of from 30,000 tuH^OOj. Ia not prayer a atudy of trutli, a aidl j of the aool into the unfauml infinite ? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something! It ia an old praotiee in Cambridge shire, England, village* to apriukh with rliaff Uie doorwtep of a bonwe Iwlonging to a man suspected of heating hi* wife, •'hail lieiug the remit id Uiraahing. " What do yon get from iialine?" nak ed the medical pndeaaor. "We get—*- eea taking noma ?" quietly asked the profeaaor. Among the many uaelrea and cnmlier aotne appurtenance* of the nineteenth century tliat will go down to posterity, ia the man who lap* hi* apoon with hi* tongue, and then dips it in the augar. There are in Omneeticut, New Jersey and New York, hat manufactories which, if rtiu at their full capacity, could easily make in two inonllia all the aoft hata tlie country won Id demand in the next six mouth*. "• Why, my dear fellow," whinpered a friend, " I did not know you were ao badly maltreated in the affair." " Nor 1 neitlier," nobbed the victim, "till I heard my lawyer a telliu' the jury all ulajut it!' Hie latest mte to which paper ia put ia that of a protector of aliip'a bottoma. Experiment* aliow that when a cement <•' waterproof paper ia employed, it ia the beat and cheapest material for pro tecting iron. Tlie Japanese U>ilct mirror aliow* a woman to see all aiifll of her head at once; but what ia needed in this country ia a mirror which will deceive her into thinking that a last year's bonnet ia on# of the latest style. l>r. Rrowu-Hequard says that coughing may be prevented by pressing on the nerves of the lips in the neighborhood of tlie nose, by preasing in the neighbor hood of tlie ear, and by pressing very luud on the top of the u*outh_ Since the disclosure of the fact tliat an old apple woman of New York had a large I miik account, her survivor* of the trade now appeal to public sympathy by can! : "My anviuga are no more ; I in vwtcd in an insurance company.** Brown, meeting J one*, hi* friend, and seeing hnu look very miserable, said: " Hullo, old man! Why, rou've a face just fit for a funeral!" " Ho I ought to Lave," replied Jones, " consideruig I'w just ttal an execution in my house. " A New Bedford justice of tlie. peace recently married a couple in what i* sup posed to be the quickest turn- on record. " Did you come to be married ?" he ask ed. " Yea." "Oo out, you are mar ried," and they went out wondering!*. When you try to carry home a heavy article, von should take every advantage at it Hume men who can carry "a jug of whisky home when it is kept in tlie jug, require Uie aid of two policemen when they attempt to carry it Inane inside 'em. The oldest duke in Ureal Britain ia the Duke of Portland, aged aeveoty •eveu; the youngest, the Duke of Mont nae, aged twenty-five. The oldest tnar quia ia the Marquis of Donegall. aged eightv; the voungeat, Uie Marquis of Cannieci, aged five. I>avid Dudley Field dwu't like to bacco. Entering a committee room the other ilay lie found a reporter smoking. "Young wan," said he, "throw away that cigar; smoke ia offensive to roe. I'd juat as soon a man would spit in my face as to smoke where I am." " What a horrid young one," said a lady in a low tone to her companion, at the baby ahow. Then approaching Uie child the same young lady exclaimed in the presence of Uie mother: " Oh, Uie aweet darling prettiest one we've seen yet!—Uie little preciou* darling 1' A temperance Military colony lias tieeu organised in Fresno county, Cal. The mettibera pledge themselves to pre serve Uie sanitary condition of Uie colonv by maintaining the purity of the air, IN sell or make DO intoxicating liquor*, and to lieiong to bo secret or ganization. It ia claimed that over tire hundred commercial traveler* of New York. Bos ton, and Philadelphia have formed a hotel league, and have mapped out one hotel in each city and town of the coun trv at which to stop when "on Uie road," with Uie view of sec tiring special rates ami cheap accommodation*. Out West no man'* ambition has lieeu fully satisfied tuitil lie haa been miatakeu ou Uie train for a commercial traveler. Then the radiance Uiat streams from a contented soul illumines Ilia grateful, happy face, and as lie looks around it sc-ms to him that all the bright world hikes it* sunlight through bine glass. A gentleman in Han Francisco, whose Chinese cook left him. was unable to re tain any of the numerous "John* " for over a day, until he induced one of them to explain that some apparently mean ingless strips of ml paper on the kitchen v .ill contained Uie Chinese inscription: " I loss woman long time tongue. Murhee jaw, jaw." About six months ago a young man in Rock Island voluntarily escorted an old lady home from a church sociable. Last week she kindly died and left him $4,000. Ami now the old women of Hock Island are fairly besieged with heaux, and the prettiest girl in town lias to walk home aloue every time if there is an old woman in the congregation A pleasant instance of true generosity •lid its reward, occured at a suburban town recenUy. A woman who supported two children by hard work was asked by a fellow worker in Uie mill to aid in mak ing up a purse for a poor woman. Though having only sixty cent* left to carrv herself and children through the week, she gave twenty-five ccnta, and a little later Uie poaon returned and told her Uiat she was the one for whom the purse was intended, and handed her $25. Don't work too hard, says Hmidgkins. Don't work so hard that you can't go home at night and jaw around if your supper isn't ready, aud have strength to kick Uiings around, and get up after supper, feeling renewed strength, and go down town and play billiards till one o'clock, and come home and sleep till iiine. No, don't work too hard. It is best to have a little pleasure as well as work in Uie world, ami besides work breaks down the constitution. The Cincinnati Enquirer prints the following bit of history in answer to Uie inquiry of a subscriber: The expression: " Pull down your vest," was first heard iu this country in 17t53. A New Eng land deacon named SpiLkins had a vest which was too short for liim. When in n heated debate or controversy his vest would work up under his chin. People who were listening to his discourse would interrupt him, and tell him to pull down his garment, and in this way the expres sion came into use as a means of check ing bores. A Photographer's Advice. An English photographer makes the following suggestions: "When a lady sitting for a picture wonld compose her . mouth to a blond and serene character, * she Hliould, just upon entering the room, say ' bosom? and keep the expression into which the mouth subsides until the desired effect in Uie camera' is evident. If, on the other hand, she wishes to as sume a distinguished and somewhat noble bearing, not sitogestive of sweet ness, she should say 'brush,' the result of which is infallible. If she wishes to make her mouth look small, she must say ' flip,' but if the mouth be already too small and needs enlarging, she must say 'cabbage.' If she wish-a to look mournful, she must say • kerelmuk ;' if resigned, she must forcibly ejaculate ' s'cat.' "