The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, August 09, 1877, Image 1
Outward Honnd. Floating, flostmg, from dawn to dnak. Till the Marl? twilight dies. And the mists doit up from the sapphire ra And elond all th sapphire skies. Floating. flouting. while golden itara Seem to float ia a see overlie* t. And starry lights from a e* below Glow orange, and purple, and rod ; Till wa seem floating out from the aea of life. The teimpent* of psiwion. the etorm - wmdi of ■trife - Out into strange. mysterious ipaee, Till God ah all find na a landing plaee. Drifting, drifting to land* unknown. From a world of love and owe. Drifting away to a home untried And a heart that la a ailing there. Oh ahip ! aail awiftlv Oh, waters deep ! Rear roe aafe to that haven unknown— Safe to the tender love that wait* To lie forever my own , Till we drift away from the ea of life. The tempe*t* of passion, the atorm-wind* of strife. Out to a haven, ont to a ahore Where life ia love forvvermore. A rersinn Story. In Persia, in olden time, livedS great king. Whose name w as Shah Noshirwati: "Twos hi* custom, whenever he heard • good thing. To say " Zeh !" and hi* treasurer then would fling A purse tff the fortunate man. Tlii* king, when ont hunting on on# flue day, Saw an aged man planting tree* ; He rode np. and #aid " With your hair w> gray, Don't you think you are throwing your tun* away? You'll never eat food from there.'' •' For thn o-aoore year* 1 h*veealeu weat food From trees that I did not ow ; And would it not be bae ingratitude If I took no thought of posterity'* good, And paid not the deht I owe V " Zrh, zh !" said the king ; and the treasurer straight To the old man a purse hath thrown. "See. see ! for good work* it t* never to late ; God hath given me fruit without uoeding to wait. Before ail my trees are sown." "Zeh. aeh!" onoe again , ere the word was said, Another purse flew on it* way. "Till God placed the crown on your majesty'* head. * Wu such a strange thing ever heard of, or read, A* to reap two crop* in one day !" " Zeh. xeh ■" yet again, and a third full purse To the old man'* hand fall* nigh ; Rut the king iu his horse * flank drive* his spurs. Nor waiu for more answer in prose or in verse. Lest the wit of that old man, so prompt, so tense. Should drain his full treasury dry. BY THE SUMMER SEA. " How pale you are, Ninon J Wbat ails TUU? Yon have not been yourself these three weeks au.i more," observed Camilla Kenwiek to her prtite, dark eyed maid. " Heaven ! it is von who are n>t your self," returned Ninon, as she nervously a.! justed a spray of delicate, wax-white bmls in the rich, black hair of her hand some mistress. " You talk all day to M. Antoine Chariot, and all night you nioan in your dreams of Ralph—nothing but Ralph—madam ; and in the morn ing the pillow is wet with the tears you haTe shed in your dreams. Your cheeks are always too hot or too cold, and—par don me—your temper is just the same of late, is it for the little quarrel, and do yon love Raoul so well ?" Camilla Kenwiek sighed and stirred nneasily in her luxurious dressing-chair of rosy velvet, as Ninon uttered Ralph's name in the Freach rendering with a pretty, te der, Frenchified lisp. The girl drew back with a gesture of admiration. "Look, madam—at yourself—in the mirror," she cried, with mercurial de light, seeing how her deft duties had enhanced the witclieres of a creature fairer than a Circe. '' Your eyes are " "Black, Niuon," interrupted the lady, laughing ; "black, and nothing more." " They are like two black pools reflect ing two evening stars," continued the vivacious French maid. " You are a sad flatterer," said Camilla Kenwiek, not wholly pleased with the fulsome admiration of the girl whom she had made a petted favorite. "I am latter satisfied with you alien yoti cate chise me." " Are yon, madam ? Heaves! I am glad it is so, for I have something in my heart that must be said." " What, Ninon ?" inquired Camilla, starting, as 'he toyed with her boqu t of cameliae and white rosebuds; " what is it r The tiny face of the little French maid grew ]*llid, and the lithe, dainty form quivered; although her voice was brave and full of melody. " Madam, dee-ar madam, please let Antoine Chariot know that you are a wife. Why will you take such an unfair advantage of the blunder of the hotel clerk who registered you as ma lemoiselle instead of loves you, when he finds himself de ceived, he will kill you or himself. I know him." " You call him Antoine. Yon certainly speak as if vou knew him," answered Mrs. Keuwlck, with slight hauteur. " Who and what is he ?" " A French professor of music from New York, who is stopping at Wild Rose Cliff for a few weeks of rest," said Ninon, with s pitiful* assumption of in difference. "You know more than that, Ninon," said Camilla.angrily and fearfully; " and you shall tell me what it is." Ninon was silent. Camilla clasped the slender wrist of the girl with a cruel clutch. " Speak !" Bhe demanded. " I will," said Ninon, " if you will let me go and face me honestly, as one woman should another." Mrs. Kenwiek dropped her hand in stantly. " Yon h~ve lieen a good girl, Ninon, and I will give yon your way," she said, gently; "we all know that M. Chariot is a professor of music. What more is he?" "He was my promised husband in France," said the girl, weeping; " the wedding day was fixed, the marriage set tlements made, and everything else necessary was arranged, when nv father, who was s merchant in Paris, failed, and died-by his own hand. Then I kni wit was my expected do vcr, and not me, that Antoine loved, for he fled, and I never saw him again until he came here to Wild Rose Cliff." "But yon loved him?" queried Camilla, startled. " I loved him so well that I followed him across the ocean " answered Ninon. " I love him still with just that same in tense, jealous, passionate love, with which Raoul loves yon, my lady. 0 mailame, trifle not with Antoine, yon do not care for him, and to Antoine a slight ed love would be death. To yon an l Roonl it would be werse thau death ! Yon know it; for you weep for your hus band all night long, though it as but a little thing that parted yon; and do you think Raoul suffers less than you ?" " Stop, Ninon !" said the lady authori tatively, her proud face as colorless as the flowers she h< Id. "Pardon!" returned the girl; "but must yon break hearts as the only pas time that will ease your trouble. See, your sister—for you have called me 1 sis ter,' my mistress, many times, kneels to you and begs you to give back her An toine, her lover." The little maid was on her knees, and her dark curls trembling from out her pretty cap, half hid the round, infantile face that reddened and paled swiftly as she pleaded far him who hod ignored her. " Get up, you silly child," commanded her beautiful mistress sternly; "does Mr. Chariot know of your presence here ?" "No, madame," answered Ninon humbly as she rose; " but you will tell him to-day, will yon not—to-day when you meet him by the sea ?" "Certainly, if you desire it, Ninon," responded Mrs. Kenwiek smiling. " And now bring me mv wraps, I hear him asking for me in the hall below." Pre-eu .y the maid returned bringing a shawl of soiue misty, pale-roee fabric FRKD. KURTZ, Kditor and Proprietor. VOLUME X. y that alio wound m oriental fashion alnui the royally graceful form of her turn tress, who immediately went down t< uut't Anionic I'luuloA He wivs n Imufisonie man of that dark fiwuiiattiig eort of iH'iiuty occasion all; aeon iu old Spanish portrait*. hi form feature atnl Roaring, he a at nno grave and jnietio, fasUdioua, passional and *i 11-bred. "Ah. M. Chariot ! so early ?" obaerr ed Camilla, giving him her delicate, roe; linger tips " How (xntld I be late," he reajnuidev in the purest English, "when I enjo; so much cur hour* by the sweet, **• sea. Wilt you iviuo dowu to the head with me * Ihe auuaet ta charm lug." She smiled aa alio went with luui. hu her heart waa heavy and fearful iu hei Uauu. She was nervously tq>prelieuaiv< of the denouement of her summer pan time. "Not there, Camilla," aanl her ail mirer as she would have drawn bin among the rauka of prvmiouadera, " hu here, ttt tlna sweet green nook, for 1 havi something to aav U you. ' He seated her v\a a moaay boulder it the ahailow of a steep cliff grown thick h over with sweet brtar and pink will r wea. " I can guess what it ia, my friend,' ahe replied serenely, but with a keen in warvl thrill that was half pain and hal! vanity; "you have heard sometliing oi the tableaux we are to have in honor ol my husband's coming. You wish to heJj aits-you are wry kuid." " Your hutlmnd, Camilla !" ho cridl " who but 1 who love vou can ever la that?" • " Surely you should have known I ait married," responded the woman, hei heart heavy with dread, her eheeks bias ing, as she held forth one dainty hand ou which glittered her wedding-ring. For a moment—one ominous moment —he gaxed at her steadily, searvhmgly, aud then his reproaches hurst forth in a hurricane of fierce, scathing words. " I see how it is," he exclaimed; '' you have made me your dupe—my love the toy of your idleness aud amusement. The stain of murder is on your fair, false hands, and all the waters of yonder sea can never wash it away. To wish you future happiness would be a mockery and blasphemy. Farewell!" He dashed up the cliff with madness on his livid visage. She heard him crashing through the thorny wild ruee-buahes, then above the plash of the sunset sea, she heard a dull, plunging sound and a great agonized err. There was a brief confusion among the promenaders on the silvery beach, there were inquiries and unsatisfactory explan ations, and a futile attempt at rescue. In vain! The hungry undertow must have borne away its prey. And whiter than the face of the drowned could ever lie, were the checks of Mrs. Camilla Kenwick as she went back alone to Wild Rose Villa. She called Nmon and told her of what liad happened. "Don't touch me," cried the girl, aghast; "there is blood ou your hands, madarne." That night her maid could not be found, and the next morning Ralph Ken wick came. Camilla was alone in her room—hei attitude that of utter misery— her eyes fixed mournfully on the sea. What was iu lier heart only Heaven could know. "She is grieving over our quarrel," thought her hnsbaud, with a thrill of teuderest pity. " Dear soul! I was a wretch to talk to her as I did. Camilla!" She turned her beautiful head toward him with a dreary movement, and her piteous, unsmiling face seemed aged and haggard. "You have come," she said in slow and bitter tones; "you have oome, I suppose, to tell me that yon hive ar ranged everything for our final separa tion. Have yon found your mouth of freedom so sweet I" "Heaven forbid, my dear wife!" he answered, ear estly. " What you are pleased to call a ' month of freedom ' has been a month of wretched loneliness and remorse for the hasty, angry words that hurt you so, and that I never meant. And, Camilla, I should sooner contem plate suicide than a ' final separation ' from you Both are impossible, what ever I may have said. The fair woman shuddered, reraemlier ing him who lay in his suicidal sleep be neath the smiling aummer's sea. "Y< >u said that you hail eeaaed to love me; that you wen- glad to get me out of your sight, and vou hoped it might be forever," sliesi>f, emphasizing every word. "Is it possible a man and gentleman -ran say anything so cruel un less he means it ? It would lie far more merciful, Ralph, for you to steadfastly abide by those words now. than to per suade me to forget and forgive them, and then just as I begin to iielieve anew in yonr love anil kindness, to rejieat them on the first trivial occasion. I hail rather have a small ici.dfast love upon which I can cling and rely, than a not stormy passion thut brings one day a surfeit of caresses and the next a tornado of senseless vitnperali m." Ralph Kenwick flushed painfully and guiltily. Hut hot, hasty teajier had l>een his bane always, and none knew it better than he. " My dear wife," h? pleaded humbly ; "if you will trust me again I will try to conquor this fanlt that haa made oar wedded life so unhappy. I can't be a s lint all at once; but i think if yon will bs patient with me, my darling. I may be worthy of yon after a time. Will yon not come to me again, and lie once more my own loving, forbearing wife ?" " I can not," she cried in on agony of emotion; "they tell me there is blood on my hands." " What do yon mean, Camilla ? have I driven you mad, poor soul, by my in justice?" She crept into his arms then, broken and we'pin(o bitterly, gasping out the tragic story and fatal ending of her sum mer flirtation. " Poor child!" he whispered, caressing her tenderly ; " poor child, the blame was mine after all. Yon were too bean-- tifnl to be left alone in sn.th a mail and bitter mood withont my protection. Never speak nor think of M. Chariot again. Come with me to the beach, and let the breeze from the surf bring buck your spirits." "I hate the sea," she said; "the sight and sound of it will accuse and accurse me so long as I shall live." He kissed her, and, arm in arm, they went forth, crossing Wild Rose Cliff on the farther side, and strolling op the beach toward where a fisher's hut and a ruinous boat-house arose in a dark jag ged mass against the blue-green waves, with their fringe of foamy surf. "What a picturesque picture," ob served Ralph, pointiug toward the spot where on the sand in the foreground they saw a boat drawn np and overturn ed, and setting upon it a petite form, a scarlet shawl draped about her shoulders, her dark hair flying in the wind and a lover reclining at her feet. "Why, love, isn't she yonr maid, Ninon ?" asked Ralph, giving Camilla his glass. The fair woman gazed through it with eyes wrilil with eagerness. " It is she, indeed," she cried; "and that is Antoine Chariot with her. He is save l. Oh, my Ralph, once more I can look in your dear face." Impatient with their hearts and foot steps as thev traversed the silvery space of distance between them and the two THE CENTRE REPORTER. w ho seemed too happy to hear or care foi their coming. Presently Niuon looked up, her pretty infantile face radiant as a star. "0, monsieur! O, dear madame •' she ejaculated. "It was the old fisher man who swum into the *e* and brough out my Ant->ine. And oh, my madame he loves tue he doea. Indeed. It wits id a mistake alnrnt his not caring for me tt France. We are to be married now. An you glad, madame ? ' Ninon's volubility ended iu a wlns|>ei that Camilla only heard. "I am very glad, Ninon," she an swensl. Hut she was thankfully, reverently happv, when she learned tnat Autoiiw Chariot hnd not intentionally fiung hiui self into the sen. In his paasionati haste he had oaught his f*>t iu a trailiuj. vine, and accidentally fallen over tin cliff. In a ft w weeks Camilla lost her maid for Ninon waits! back to lor own lamny France with her husband—Autou eChar lot. And Camilla ami Ralph Kenwick, ii all the jovous, peaceful wedded love thai came to them in after days, never forgol the trouble and romance ended so hap pily by the Summer Sea. The Little that lie llad iu Hank. Amoi g the *ubsord>er to Audubon'i magnificent work on ornithology wiu John Jacob Astor. He was always ready to cmvuruge such w.irks, and he put his name dowu upoti Audubon's book foi one thousand dollars. During the pro greaa of the work, which proved to lw more expensive than bad been at first anticipated, Mr. And til >Oll often fount! himself obliged to call upou his generous patrons for assistance; but he ditl not call upon Mr. Astor until the letter-press and the plates hiul been delivered. When the filial delivery bad lieeu made, how ever, he culled upou the great merchant for his thousand dollars. "Ah, Mr. Audubon," said the owner of millions, "you come iu a very bat! time. Money is scarce and hard, ami 1 have everything snugly aud tigbly in vested." And so the ornithologist called, time after time, and was often put off. It was not because Mr. Astor did not wish to pay, but it was from the stroug desire, growing stronger with his years, to keep ins pnqiertv iutuct, and see it increased,, When he had paid away a hundred tlani saud dollar* for a really benevolent pur j>ose lie felt good, aa a man feels good who lias got rid of an aehing tooth. It was onlv the wrenching away of the money that hurt him. At length A minis >u called the sixth time. Mr. Astor had commence.! to be moan the low-ebb condition of his cash iu hand, when he caught a disapproving look from his sou William, who happened to lie present. " Rut," said the old man, after a pause, "I suppose you want your money, and, really, I should like to let yon have it. I uiav have a little iu bank William have we any money in bank " Evidently John Jacob hat! expected his son only to answer a simple yes; and it may he tint William 11. thought his father wished to know something of the bank account. At any rate, lie was just fresh from tap cash-ou-haud page of the ledger, and lie answered: " Y'es—we have a little over s hundred thousand in tlia Bank of New York; eighty thousand in the City Hank; nine ty thousand in the Merchants'; ninety eight thousand four hundred in " " That'll d<, William I That'll do f I guess, Mr. Audubon, William can give you a check for the money." Water as a Harrier Against lma*iun. The protection of a narrow strip o water between two countries is clearly howrn in the movement* of the present war. The little Danulie river, half a uiile wide, has bald the vast armit-s >f Uuesia at hay since the 28 i of April, and may hold them atdl longer, as hut a mare i traction lias thus far nucctsslcd in CIMOS ;ug it lint for this river the Knsssaus would long ago have swept everything north of the liaikan mountains, and Wen well on their way to Adnanople hv this time. A narrow strip of water and a strong fleet may make even a eomparn tiveiy weak |x>wrr almost invulneraide. It is nest to ircqsmsible for any power, however strung, to concent rate it* forces, material of war, and sustenance, and cross such a strip of water, eitlier by bridge or by vessels, so as to strike one decisive blow, and, if it croase* in drib lets, there in danger of being destroye 1 in detail. The security of England rest* more upon the i.arrow strip of water that separates her from the continent than upon any other i-ircumt-tanee. She has never Win successfully invaded since tlie eleventh century. Spain made the attempt w.th her urmameut, and France sought to put a pretender upon her throne, but bar 800 year* she has been aide to repose secure from foreign invasion. Her island lias never lmen mvaged like the continent. Her soil has never been traversed by formgn armies. Her battlefields have only l>een tlie scene of civil strife. Even when the Dutch had control of the ciiaunel and Van Tromp was sweeping the seas with his broom, all they could do was to I>otu fa ard towns. They eouhl make no land ing of tr<v)j>s. The little channel ami her powerful fleet are such an absolute protection that she needs no stanuing army like France, Germ.my, Russia and the other continental powers.— Chicatfo Trif'unr. Value of a Timely Word. A great deal of harm is done through - forgetfuluess. A little thoughtfnlness and care with respect to others would often save them from great deal of suffering, and aid them in their work. A man is discouraged in consequence of the difficulties h meets with. An en couraging word may be ali Uuit is neces sary to revive his energies, and to can e him to persevere. That word were easily spoken. There are those who are perfectly willing to speak it, but they do not think of it. They are busy witfc their own work. The discouraged one aiuks into d> eper despondency, not through their lieartlessness, but their want of thoughtfnlness. A young mun is exposed to temptation. He is about to take a step from which a little in fluence of the right kind will save him. There nre nnmbera among his acquaint ances who .could exert that influence, lint they do not s'-e his duger, or nre so busy that they must leave him to the cure of his other friends. He takes the step, and it leads to his ruin. A little ' effort rightly put forth would have saved hiuu Kurt* Worth Iteinemliering. A queen lee lays from 10,000 to 30,- 000 eggs in a year. It is estimated that uo less than two I hundred different species of caterpillars feed upon the oak. The slower tlie growth of the onk the more durable the wood. Bees, beetles, dragon flies, gnsts spiders, etc., have minute uiiimalculm upon their bodies. There has been so much rain in lowa that the grasshoppers wear India-rubber boots. The roe of the perch, only half a pound in weight, has been found to con tain 280,000 eggs. The larva of the silkworm weighs, when hatched, about 1,060t1i part of n grain previously to its first, metamor phosis ; it increases ninety-five grains, i or 9,500 times its original weight. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1877. CAITLKE F SISTOVA. 110%% the ItuMlMHa l-uri itl ibrlr W ut A< r ihr In Ifeir Ffr •( n Mm*? TurkUli lire. Details of the crossing of the Danube [ at Sunmtzu, opposite Biskirs, ore given by a eorreepou.ient of the L<iiuh'M /<n/y j ,V< wi who wan an eye-witneo* of the i enterprise. Diagiunr< divinioti had the (Mutt of honor, and won ex|K*eU<d to make a flatting on the Turkish side by early uionuug. l'rmce Miorwki's divisnui wu* to make a night march from l.iwaa and la* in p<Mitioii at Nmiuitzn to follow its sister division across iu the event of the hitter's suereaa. In the , event of failure, it was to take up the . fighting, and force u passage ut all i hazards ; for the Archduke Nicholas had auuouuctHl that lie would have no , denial. The river hud to lie crossed at Simnitaa, e>wt what it might. With the I darkness (len. Druguniroff began liis dispositions. The first work was to plant iu mmjc emplaivineiits a row of field gnus all along the edge of the data to .sweep with fin* the oppiwite banks. This was while his infantry was beiugl marched over the fiats down into the cover of the willow w**L The dark ness and tlie obstructions were both so great that all waa not n-aiiy till the first glimmer of dawn. There was no bridge, but a number of river lsts capable of holding from fifteen to forty men each. These were drugged ou earrisges thn nigh the mud, and launched in the darkness from under bouglia of tlu* willow trtw-s. The loat put oft' singly, mwtng Heroes, for the Utile cove, and later a little steiuu tug waa brought into requiatluMi. For once the Turks had U"t spent thg night-watcheu in heavy sleep. Tlu-ir few *amiou at once oja nnl fire on the Isiats, on the liid<leu BIHSMW among the willows, and ou the columns marching acn*** tin* fist. Nor was this all. From the tlojiea als>ve the cove, there came at the lsata a smart mfautrv fire. The Turkish riflemen were hol|- tug the landing place, tieueral Yolchine had not experience ami credit in Cau casian for nothing. His boat was end ing. The Turkish riflemen were in jMniition about fif r vwrdafr>>i the ahore. He lauded liia handful, and bade them lay down in the mud. One or two were dowu instantly with bullets. He opeued a skiraitolung fire to cover the landing l*>uta that followed. One bv one these landed Uieir freights, who fol lowed the example of the first lisU load. At length enough hail aeeumuluteiL Young Skobelufl wan there, a host in himself. At .'ii, Yolchine luule his men fix bayonets, stand up and follow their • ■ftLvrs. There was a rush and a cheer that rang louder in the grvy dawu than the Turkish volley that answered it. That volley waa u-*t in vain, but the Turks did not wait for cold steel. Yol ••liuie's skirmishers followed bun dogged ly some distance up >n the slope, but for the time con Id not pr.-ss ou far from Uie base. Rusily, yet slowly, the craft moved to and fro from the shore. The Russian guns had at once opmed when the Turkish fire showed there was no >rpri.se, but, however heavy a fire may l>e, it will n**t all ut oin>e crush another lire. The Turkish shells kept falling m the water, whistling through the vrtllows mil bursting nmoug the columns on the ti its. One shell, from a mountain gun fell into a boat containing two guua, their gunners and the commandant of a battery Tim boat was sw amp da" once, and all <n l*oard p'rishtsL This -is the < iily serious iiisu'alty, but numerous Russian soidiers were falling on laith sides of tlic river. Nevertlielcos the ■.vurk went steadily on, am' wou after seven o'cltwk, Yolchine's brigmle, n ltusaian battery, aud Oen. Dnigimiroff, iiad crossed Die rivT. The ground thus ~"aiual wa held until rc-enfonvuieut arrived, and Sistova was cuptureil. A luet r Mistake. Dominic B. Batnine w a paymaster in the navy. Just belt ire Secretary It d>e •.>n wan retired, B it 'in" was stationed at N'e* York. Having made np his quar terly accounts, quite a bulky package, he concluded not to rink their tnuuunia aiou by installments, but packed the en tiro linagel of papers 111 u brandy box. It no happened that the word " brandy," which aan markwl on the ii I of the Ik>x which once contained the oricinnl fluid packages, wnn lint effaced; ami, thus marked, the box arrived by express in Washington, directed to the secretary of the navv. When the attention of Secre tary Ilooeann wo* directed t<> it, he seems to iiave concluded that nomo friend had nhipped him a cane of "Old l>tard." "Muse," said the secret dry, add n-asing his dignified messenger, " take tliat box . of brautiy up to my house and put it in the wine-cellar. " Mum* did ua he was dia*ct ed, and the Ihx wan consigned to the vaults. When Secretary Thompson came in an chief of the navy department, he found that ltatoine's accounts were one quarter liehiud. The h-]iartnient indul ged him for awhile, under the liclief Unit he was pressed and had not time to make tliem np. After waiting many days, it , wan deemed beat to advise him of Ins de linquency, ami he was accordingly noti tlod. In due course of mail Ra'oine re- i plicl, "I wilt my quarterly accounts to , the department two mouths ago." Then I began a wild search for the missing > apers. Clerks limited through the de partmejit high and low, hut did not thid them. Again thodepartment telegraphed Ilatoine that his acnonuts oouJti not lie found, and mcanwhJe entertained a faint suspiciou that he hod been engaged in some "crisiked" transactions ami was }>ur|>ose.ly withholding them. A few days since, Rntoine ennie to this city in high dudgeon. The search for the missing . papers was resumed, but the hunt was ! lruitlesa. A day or two ago, one of the , officers said: " Batoine, in whit shnje did you scud the papers? ' Butoino re plied. "I forwarded sneak in a brandy box." This was a clue. Secretary Robeson was asked if it might not have been jxmsible that lie sent the Imx to his house tlirongh mistake. He thought '• not, hut invited u search through his cellar. The search was mn<le, and in a very little while the identical box of j papers was found. Seven Men Killed In n Coal Mine. A shocking disaster occurred recently in a coal mine at Wheatland, Pa., by i which seven men were suffocated and n ' number seriously injured. The coal from the Brookfielil mine is hauled out 'by a locomotive engine. On the morn ing of the disaster the managers of the ' mine ordered anthracite cool to lie burn ed in the engine furnace instead of soft !ooal, wlifch had liecn heretofore useil. About eleven o'clock the engine passed into the mine slope. After being in a short time the men in charge of the en gine became suddenly affected by the gas from the hard coal, causing them to 1 fall to the ground in a senseless condi tion. The engineer maunged to make his way bock to the mouth of the hank, and gave an alarm. A large number of men rushed into the hank toreseue their comrades. One after another they paw ed in, but were ulmost immediately over- f come by the gas, and they, too, fell in sensible. After several hail thus fallen a gang was organized to rescue those who went in last, and squads 'of four or live {Hissed in until they camo to a fallen i comrade, when they would take him in their arms and cany him out to the open air. In this way thirtv-six men were brought out, seven of whom wore either dead before reaching the ukWWi of the hank or died immediately after. FA KM, GARDEN AND IIOUNEHOLD. EIXINOUICAI. HIXJNUK OAU.— Three ggc. one cupful each of Hour aud sugar, three teaspMiufuU baking piwvler, one quarter pint milk, salted and flavored to taste, mode thin. It is nice for jelly cuke or straw berry cake. FOIU*KI> MUX. —Take breail-cruml** (dry breail grutad is us good), odd one tlard as much chopped auet, thyiue or other herb to taste; salt and pepper; lieat up eggs enough to wet it too paste; stuff your riiaat, fish, or fow l with it, or lav it in the pan among the gravy, ILKKF HTKAK ROAHT. —Take a nice thick beef-steak, p*p|>er ami salt one side well, make a nice storting of bread crumbs, seasonings, and onions, wet with egg; lay tins over the steak, and roll Up like a " roly-pily" pudding; tie with a hit of cord. Hake likw any other roast. CaHtMrr Pi nuixu.— One-fourth piuud butter ami one and a half pounds granu lated sugar beaten to a cream; add the | well 1 >e*toll yolks of five eggs; one-half cupful milk; then half poind of flour, with the whites of five eggs; lastly, half poind of seeded a ml ehop|>ed raisins, with u quarter of a poind of well-waalied ami dried currants; the fruit must he floured l>efure mixing; use a buttered mold or floured l>ag; boil three hours; tlieu plunge quickly into cold water; turn it out at onoe to prevent sticking; serve hot with sweet sauce. Bkkky PruniNu.—One pint of milk; two eggs, well heateu; a very little aalt; one-fourth teaapsmful soda; one-lialf teas|KMOifal cream tartar; slowly aild flour enough to make a thick batter; at the lout aiid one pint of any kind of ber ries, well sprinkled with flour; boil one hour ut s well-buttered mold, or, if you have no mold, a floured cloth will do; after the puddiug boa boiled hard for one hour, remove it from the pit and dip it quickly into cold water, and as quickly turn it out; this will prevent stickiug; serve at once, for it soon be come* heavv. To CutAJI PxritKHAXailSOS.—Find blow the dust oft' with the bellows. Divide a white loaf of bread of eight days ol>] into eight parts. Take the crust iuto your hand, and beginning at the top of Uie paper, wipe it downward in the lightest manner with the crutnh. Do not crista or go upward". The dirt of the pu|>er and the crumbs will fall to gether. You must not wipe alaive a half a yard at a stroke, aud very lightly, and after doing all the npper part go rouud again, beginning a little above where you left off Put one or two ml pepper* or a few pieces of charcoal into a pit where ham, cabbage, ct<\. is boiling, and the house will not be filled with an offensive odor. CAMXBD Coax.—To every six quarts of corn take one ounce of tartaric ncnl dis solved in ladling water,"* cut the ooru from the cob, and put in sufficient wa ter to cook; pnt the acid in while the corn is cooking; when d.me, seal air tight in tin cans or gloss jars. To pre pare for the table, p>ur off tlo- tour wa ter and save u; put in enough fresh wa ter to cook it; to every quart of corn add t oue small t cusp sinful of soda and let it stand a few minutes Iwfore cooking, while cooking pnt iu a tonspMUiful of sugar; if the ecru turns yellow there is too much soda; pnr back some of the sour water until it tnms white agaiu; when nearly done season with salt, errain, and butter, same as fresh corn, ''tn quart cans are preferable to glass jars. talrrraltaa tlrdlml ARHEXIO IX lhsKAßit.—The admuustra tiou of arsenic in disease, according to Dr. Griffith, in Thr London Medical /V* tt, siiould never la* resort<4l to where there is a feverwh state of the system—a quick ptilae and a hot skin judicatiug that it ahotild not be employed. It should lie given ahrtly after uieals, ami never on an empty stomach; it almuld not tie given in the solid form, nor in in creasing doaes, but, ns a rule, five minims of Fowler's solution should lie the maximum dose for an adult; the dose should IM* diminished, or the ad ministration aU*getlier ix-ased. on the occurrence of pain m tlie epigastrium, nausea, or irritation of the eyelids. AncouoL AND IxaAxrrr.- -A corre spindent of Thr Journal of Mental ' .Science, Dr. Donald, writing from Guinea, states with regard to tlie etiology of insanity in tlmt colony, that it is mit found to be depending in any way on, or moditb-d by, the nature of the climate, but tkat one of tlie moat fertile causes of the ranladv is iutemp*rauco; this is more . particularly the case nmoug Creoles and Portuguese, alooiiol Wing traceable, in uiauv instoncea, as the direct agent Dr. Donald stab's that, among the lower clauses, mm is mostly used, and fre quently, in the form of higliwinea, mm forty over nreof, so that it can easily le understood that this in time scrioualy interferes vyith Ixxlily health, and, acting i a* apoiiaiu, eveutualiy produce* cerebral j lesions. ACTION or TOBACCO OX THE SYSTEM. Home year* ago tlie French government ' directoil the Academy of Medicine to in ! quire into the influence of tobacco ou the human syatom. The repirt of the commission appointed by the aciulemy state* that a large nttmWr of the dis eases of the nervous system and of the heart, noticed in the coses of those affected with parolvaia or insanity, were to be regarded as tlie sequence of exces sive indulgence in the use of this article; and it is remarked that tobacco aeetna primarily to act upon the organic nervous system, depressing the faculties : and influencing thn nutrition of the body, the circulation of the blojd, and the ! number of red oorpuoeles in the blooiL Attention is also called to the bad diges tion, bennmlied intelligence, and cloud ed memory of those who use tobacco to excrea. • • MEDIC AX. USES or GLYORBIXE.— Among tlie various uses for which glycerine haa been found especially valuable aa a medicinal agent, is that of RSHI for infants; when raised by hand ' they can be kept compariitively free, it is said, from many of the ills to which they are liable, by the substitution of from fottr to six drams of glycerin* for the amount of sugar usually mlded to the cr<snn, milk, or water cousUtutiug their dii. In eases of draft*ss, too, of adults, from deficiency, accumulation, or hardness of the cerumen, glycerine is alleged to lc one of the best remedial agents— intniduocd into the canal by ' means of raw ootton saturated with it. It is also claimed to lie the only known agent, which will preserve vaccine lymph 1 for any considerable time withont de terioration; it has boon found extremely useful in numerous skin disease*, nnd its scrviccahlenc**has been satisfactorily ■ proved in connection with all the various substance* used locally in diseases of the eyes, qxeept nitmtc of silver, which lutter it doootnpises. Itnrirutin* U'hrnl. From present njipearanei-s the ooming harvest promise* to be a wet one iu many ' sections of the country. Henv-y and con i tinned rains during the laHt fortnight ore reported, and they have done Boino damage in oerbiin localities, prostrating the ripening crops and injuring tlie corn. Many of onr readers will remember the ' wet si'ason of 1875, when so many thou- j sand bushels of wheat were badly injured ;or totally destroyed by the ooutiuuoii wet weather during and immediately after harvest, and none desire to repeat I the experience this year, especially in ' view of tlie remunerative price* which this cereal promises to oouiimuid. It la to guard against lons from this cause, as much us IH wimble, Uiat we call attoutiou to the auiijeet uow. From preotial ex nmuiatiou of different fields of wheat in the shock, we know that very iniu-h of Uie great loss in 1875 was due to btnl or cart-less bunting and allocking. Kheavcs ami shocks well liouud and put up will stand quite a lengthy spell of wet weather without much injury, out loone sheaves iuid shocks offer no resistance to the rain, nnd are soon saturated. The differ cnix* was notably apparent iu aiijomiug fields we examined, in which the wlieat hail lieeu lioiidlwd aud put up in the two wttva referred to. 11l biudiug, aheavee should not lie mode too large. Smaller sheaves make a better shock every way. The ahock can lie put together more auugly, aud a more sheaves can tie put iuto it, a b-ttei circulation of air ia provblcd for, so Uiat, should Uie rain {tenetrato, it will dry out quicker. Aim to make Uie sheave* of such a size that two iff them made into caps will effectually cover the other ten of the dozen. A great deal haa been written about the proper time to cut wheat. What ever difference of opinion Uiers may le aajto tlie quality of early or late* cut w nsat, all are agreed that ripened wheat will not stand wet weaUier like that cut earlier. For any purpoae, ezcapt for seed, we would cut it jnat after Uie gram ha* passed into the doughy state. It make* brighter, plumper grain*, bettor floor, and there ia a decided gain iu quantity. But the point we wish to make here, is that Uie earlv cut wheat, well bound and shocked, will stand much longer than Uie ripe, during wet weaUier. Most farmers understand, well enough, Uie importance of careful work in the wheat field, hut many do the work, or permit it to be done, in a careless manner, nevertheless. In favorable seasons care leas work will do, hut the grain which may be secured in one unfavorable sea son, by proper care, will pay for all ex tra trouble incurred during a great many dry aoaaoti*, when it ap|x\ars like labor thrown away to go to any extra pains to secure the crop from injury.— Practical t Former. t'rflina YWU ("Metis. In some localities it ia difficult to gat I chicks through the first two weeks after Uiey are hatched; for the liUle com ! plaints of tin* early period are often . more numerous aud critical than at any ! other period of their live*. Feed is the i first consideration, and pure water a I great essential for them from first to last • AN ■cluneal is the one article of chicken diet which ho* lieeti the main dependence for generations; hut some experiment* wiUi n•••, lait year, eunvincea na that i fur vouug chicks it is equal to anything, if not superior to everyUiing else. : Brood* bit upon nee alone, all livjd and grew finely on a single handful at a feed, for the hen and her brood. An infenor quality, known to Uie trade aa broken . nee, is just aa good for feed, and it takes so litUe for a feed that the expense ia no greater in the Northern Htates than , i ooru meal, while in the Boatli it will be the cheapest feed known.— Poultry World. _____________ thought* for Saturday Night. lie tliat lends to all shows good will, bat little sense. . Assurance and intrepidity, nnder the white listinrr of accming modewtT, clear the way to merit that would otherwise lie discouraged by difflcnltiea. No eomjMuiy ia far preferable to Inni, because we are much more a]K to catch tlie vices of others than tlieir virtues, aa disease is for more contagions tliau health. For the bout at people relations in crease with the years. For the virions inconveniences increase. Inconstancy ia Uie defect of vice; the influeuce of habit is one of the qualities of virtne. No man is defeated without some re sentmeut, which will he continued wiUi obstinacy while he lielieves himself iu Uie right, ami asserted with bitterness if even to his own conscience he is detect ed in the wrong. It np|*e*r to be among the law* of na ture tlj.it the mighty of intellect should be pursued and Cooped by the litUe, as the solitary flight of one little bird ia fol lowed by the twittering petulance of many smaller. There is nothing more to l>e esteemed Uian a rnanlv firmness and decnsioo of character, f like a person wlio knows his mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what ia to he dane in given circum stances and doea it. If this life ia unhappy, it is a burden to na, which is difficult to bear; if it is in every reepcet happy it is drevifnl to he deprived of it; so that in eiUier case the result ia Uie same, for we tnust exi at in anxiety and apprehension. The love of trnUi is a bow of peaee, ready for every concussion Uiat is honest, firm against every compromise that ia not It is the noblest sUmnln* to in quiry; anient to seek, yet patient to ex amine; willing to communicate, but more willing to receive; contemptuous of pettv curiosity, but passionate for knowledge. Living Eighteen Honrs With a Broken Neck. A Gentleman named Miller, residing at Uie corner of Park and John streets, Syracuse, N. Y., and aged abont sixty years, was engaged in picking cherries at a neighbor's near by, and while so do ing a limb broke, and he fell to the ground, a distance of only ten or twelve feet, striking on his shoulder and the back of his head. This ooourred about ' ten o'clock in the morning. Miller was taken to his residence, and Dr. Whedon was called. When the doctor reached the house ami made on examination, he found that Miller hail suffered a disloca tion of the neck at tb* lse of the brain, and ut the upper part of the spine. He could hear and understand, but could not speak. I)r. Whedon, on further ex amination, found that when the moil's head nnd neck were pulled into the natu ral position, he could not only under stand und hear, hut could talk as well. For ftlsint two hours the neck remained in its dislocated condition, and most of the time persons were employed in hold ing the neck and head in taxation, Uie mental faculties being in tlieir natural state- Doctors who visited the house ' during the afternoon declared Uiat not in toe history of the country has such a ease ever happened liefore. A dressing, consisting of bondages and weights, was applied to the patient's head to keep the neck extended. Tlie injured man died about four o'clock the next morning, and previous to his dentil he became paralysed in his right side. He lived eighteen hour* < wiUi a broken neck ! < From the Bank to the Poor House. ( ttoswell O Peek, aged sixty-two, who < has just died "at East Haddam, Mass., 1 hnd a oheckered career. He was at one ' time connected with a New York bank, ' by whose failure many of his townsmen ' suffered, and then he established and < WHS proprietor of the Granite luuik. I Soon after the failure of th.iß enterprise J he became an inmate of the almshouse. 1 One day he went to New York, and earne I home a*few day* later the owner of the 1 j largest aud best farm in town. This he ' ; managed extravagantly, and reverses and 1 ; litigation soon took it out of his hands. I When he died lie was about to go once | ] ' more to the almshouse. 1 1 TERMS: 5'2.00 a Year, in Advance. AMONG THE UNKNOWN DEAD U hal ■ Mrrerirr Maw *md w*a TIS Is a Hssr *i lbs New Icrk Hsr*s Over I.IUU Hilln KkSSM-S os lbs .ttarM* Wlaba la tb Fast Msvra Iran. Knn July 'A4, 18(k5, to Julv H, 1877, 1,761 bodies were received at the morgue iu New York mid recorded aa unrecog nized. The record* are not *0 kept a* to show at a glance Uie number subse quently recognized by friend*; but it is •nitlimit*i tlmt nt least three-quarters re main unidentified The'relative num ber of recognition* has perceptiblv in ere sand since 18(19, when Warden firen uati established the practice of taking pictures of the bodies. There are two classes of pictures at the morgue; th<xie <A missing per-sun* and those of Uie unrecognised deaoL Tlie first class are pinned or pasted in what ore called the deaenptiou l**>ks, and are brought iu by fnetnla. They ore pinned over the deaeripboua to aid the morgue superintendent in identify ing the l**lu, should they be brougfit in. A great many person* go to the morgue to inquire if the bodies of mmaing friends have lieen brought there, but o*.ly a few consent to have deaerqiUons revirded or to leave pictures. Since December 15, 1887, only abont 900 descriptions have lieeu taken down. Near many of these descriptions are pin holes and dabs of mucilage, showing that pictures have been removed. Only ten pictures at present remain in the books. This is because in most rosea the missing person* return from some escapade, and their tro fearfui friends hasten to reclaim the pictures. The bodies of less than a third of those re ported as missing are brought to the morgue. Besides pictures, there are to tie aeen in the description books bits of cloth similar in kind to some part of the clothing worn by the peraoua sought for. * The other class of picture* are those of the unrecognized dead, takes after they are brought to the morgue. They arenot kept in album*, but are tacked up againat a wall and protected by glass doors, which abut over them. This wall i u directly IU front of five alanting mar ble alalia, on which the unknown dead are placed for recognition. The door is usually unlocked; in the summer time . it is leh open. To the children of the neighborhood the morgue ia an old story, but buys from other porta of tie city often gather about the door or veer iu through the low window at the liodiea. I Usually visitors exhibit more horror 1 while looking* at the photographs than when inspecting the bodies on the slabs. There are HO pictures left on the wall. Each is affixed with two tacks, one at the top and one at the bottom. On the back of each has been written its his tory. In several case* a name ia men tinned as that of the supposed original. One of the pictures is supposed to be that of Daniel Peterson, a negro. The I body was picked up in Thompson street, , after the Eighth Ward, or . "Jeff Saunders," riot, on Ju'.v 21, 1875. Evidences of the mode of death of a great many are visible in the picture*. There is a photograph of a fair-faced giri, who was found froseu iu the water off Whitehall street, on January 19,1875. She is supposed to have been thrown overboard from a ship by two sailor*. The jpjM-arunoe of a roue around his neck show* how sn intelligent looking man committed suicide in Central l'ark. in June, lHti®. The appearance of a gun-shot wound iu the head shows how another nought his death in the same park, on July 96, of the same year. Sot all tlie bodies of unknow n persons brought to the morgue are photographed. Some of them are found in rooms, the other occupant* of tlie house* not know ing their names or antecedents, but being well emragfa acipiaiuted with them to establish their identity should friends come to inquire after litem. (it hers are found dead in the street, and.are re eugmxed by poiicemeu a having iteeu lnoujor lroqueuiuig certain portions of tlie city. Pictures are taken only where there is a uecesaity for taking them, a* where there is suspicion of crime, or when it is likely that the friends live at a distance and iwnnot ar rive at tlie morgue within the seventy two hour* pre*rril>ad by law for expos ug unreoogniacd bodi**. When a body ia recognized by means of a picture .'or otherwise, the picture ia given to the friends, together with the clothing and other effects. Tlie number of the body is given them, and they can then go to Potter's Field and recover it On the i head of each coffin ia creased with a sharp steel instrument the number given the occupant at the morgue. There ia a anspicion that in many case* the dead man has friends, who, either because they are too poor to bury hira. or because they are unwilling to in cur the expense, remain away in order that their proper task may be performed by the citv. The assistant superintendent says that during his stay at the morgue he had several people who were troubled with tumors come and sak permission to rub f them with a dead man's hand. They were permitted to do so on the ground that their tgith in the remedy might possibly effect a cure. Most of those who come for this purpose make a cross on the tumor with the fore finger of the dead man. Music In the Ruvdan Arm;. There in only one l*and to each division, and it affords music at inter vals, but tlie spirits of the men are cheered on the way by their own songs, in which they give vent to their en thusiasm with a good-will and melodious expression which is quite enlivening. At the head of each battalion are three drummer*, and in the van are generally a score or more of good singer*. First one strikes up a aolo, whose not un pleasant air is listened to in silence, anil then the company in unison ahd < harmony take up the choru*, the drum- 1 raer* fining in, while the refrain swells i along the whole line in a manner which is emphatically warlike and grand. Some nines where the musical elemeut ia strong and solo singers rare, a soldier i with tlie clarionet plays the solo, then i all the others, with the drums, take up , the chorus. The songs are often very , spirit-stirring, and the lieartine*.* with , which they ore rendered tells how deeply ] the feelings of the meu have bcn stirred | ami the spirit in which they are march- | ing to meet the enemy. This singing is , maintained through the march, and the | effect is an pleasing ss it is inspiriting. ] — | Behind the Scenes in New Tork. , The attention of the Society for the i Prevention of Oruelty to Children, in ■ New York, was recently called to the i cane of three little sisters, aged rcspee- j1 tively seven, fonr and two and a half vests, | who were found to l>e utterly destitute < and starving. They hail begged a piece I of moldy bread, which, divided among them, made their supper on the precoil- t ing night, and on the following day, < when discovered they had not touted food. < Singularly enough their parents are not < drunkards. Their father, a hiid carrier, l has been unable "to obtain work, ami } their mother'is sober, bat ont of health, t Tliiß family has for weeks been living by i t begging and lying out at nights iu lain- i tier yardH when the weather was. not so i warm, and on hot nights ou the grass \ wherever a convenient spot could lie 1 1 found. The j>oor little ones presented a 1 c pitiable sight, and when a meal was <- placed before them ate ravenously. f NUMBER 28. HISTORICAL <KOBHIM.K. niarma Cimmh ' iha lltMbr ava*w< ■a4 grirallM UMlawr • ilfuwhr. On tba are of the creasing of the Dau tibe by the Ruaaiau troops, some dirt' aloua of which are at ill on the northert: I >niik of Ue nw, tiie itititar WotsKrn Matt, a special German pajwr, recalled that nineteen tune* within the Laat bun dred yearn the Uua*iau foroea har* errMue*<i the Danube with hoatile intent, without including the prevent passage •>! tha rircr. Threw tiuieo the passage *a effected at Turtukai, three tunes at Hir aora, and other three tidies at lamaila. Twine the rirer wan crossed at Klador*, twice at Galatx, twice at Ibraila, while • •uce only were tr u brought acroaa at Guaobal, once at Tiernavoila, ouee at Hiliatria and once at Batunora. The first .•cession on which the Russian forma crowd to the right hank of the Danube was during the campaign of 1773. An armiatice had bean arranged in 1773, but peace could not be nonduded. Accord ingly, by esprmaa deaire of the Kuipreaa Catherine, it waa determined to tasa the UiiMiau army acroaa the rirer. The Turka had strongly garrisoned the for treaaee of Ku.uhuk, Hiiiatn* and Hehunda, had parted troop* m obaerra tiou at every point of passage, aad held strong reserves in readiness in the rear. Xevertheleaa, General Huraroff fuooaed ed in transporting ?00 man acroaa the rirer at Turtakai during the night be twean the ninth and tenth of May, 1773, defeating and putting to flight 4,000 ir regular troopa htatioued there. On the tweutr seventh of the same month, Hu laroff waa followed by General Weis mann; while at the aame tune General Potemkin aucoeeded in capturing Hmo ra and in establishing there a aeoond passage acr aa the rirer. Screened br Lhcae detachments, the main Bosnian irmy, under General Bumanaoff, croaaed the Danube at Goaobal, about twenty Linle. la-low Kdiatria, ami advauoei|te* the attack of thia latter fortress. FJ - > -Sort to take it waa, howerer, in rafli; ual, disheartened by hia want of success, the Hummuui general fell back again icroaa the rirer. la the autumn, however,at the earneat instance of the empress, he lecrossed to the right bank and penetrated into Bul garia so far a* the Italians, la the fol lowing year, 1774, the Danube waa again crossed by Russian forces, this time early in April, by Kamienaki, at Ismail a During the same month Oeoeral Buvaroff effected a passage at Tjeroa roda, and General Gialioff crossed over in the vicinity of Hilistma. The next at tempt to carry Russian forces across the Danube was made by Milomkmtrh, who sought to capture Giurgevo by storm, in March, 1809. The attack fai ed, as did also a like enterprise un dertaken by Prneororaki agmmat lb rails. Still the emperor Alexander insisted that the river should be crossed, and, ac cordingly, General Isajeff paaaed over j to the right bark at Kladova to aiaiet , the Servians. This latter place waa stormed. Again the assault waa unsuc cessful, and again the Ruaaiaua were fain to fall back to their own aide of the stream. In the imuu while Proaorovaki had been superseded in Ilia command cm the lower Danube by Prince Bagration; and this latter auooeedad, in August, 1809, ui crossing the river near Galalc. and the Turks offering no rwa: stance, (xwaessed himself of laaktcha, Tulteclia. Match in, Huwova, and tlually also of Is tus Its. Hilistria, cm the other hand, withstood every attempt to capture it until, owing to the difficulty of providing mlwistcuce for the beateging tpqpw, it Iterame neomsary, late in the year, omx more to withdraw the Russian army across the Danube. At the opening of the campaign in the following year, 1810, the new commander-in-chief of the Rus sian forces. Count Kamienaki 11., con veyed his army of 25,000 men and seventy-two guns across (he river at llinstvs lietweeu the tenth and four tecuth of May. On the tweuty-fifth of the same mouth General Haas cruaaed in Ixiais at Tnrtukai, and seised that town; ami on the thirtieth Count Zakatto also paused over the river to die nortli at Widdin. Iu the two following years, 1811 and 181*2, the Russian armies con stantly crossed and rnrruaied the river. Hirsova, strongly fortified and garriaou ed by the Russians, served them aa a tftr dr-ptmt ou the Turkish aide of the nver, and a bridge waa also established and maintained at TurtukaL At the outset of the campaign of 1828- *29 the Russians, crossing the Pruth in three columns on the seventh of May, reached the Danube on the eighth of June. The Third corps was to cross the river at Satunovo to the eastward of Isaktcha: the Seventh corps waa U, pass over at Ibraila; while the Sixth, trsvers ing Wallachia. was to cross the Danube in tlie neighborhood of Turtukai. The Hixth ootpx arrived at the river without having e j.v untered any serious opposi tion .n its passage through Wallachia; but every effort made by it to effect a passage across the Danube at Tortukai was in vain. The Third corpa waa more successsfnl at Satunovo, mid on *Le eighth of June a bridge waa established there; while the Seventh corps, having been delayed by the necessity of besieg ing and capturing Ibraila, did not suc ceed in crossing the river until after the capitulation of that place on the seven-1 teenth of June. The history of the passage of the Danube during the Busso- Turkish war of 1853-6 is well known. On the twentieth of March. 1854, 12.000 Russian troops were assembled at Tluaila under the command of Gortsahakaff hitn- Hclf; 21,000 mere were at Galstx, under Lnders; and 14,000 wore at Ismaila, un der Ctschakoff—-all in readiness to cross the river. On the twenty-first of March the last named general succeeded, de spite unfavorable weather, in crossing the Kilia arm' of the Danube in boats from Ismaila. On the twenty-third General Laden' troops were transported to the right hank from Galats, while Gortschakoff,having established a bridge of boats, moved his force across on the twenty -sixth of Maroh. Bank of England Note*. Few of the persona who handle Bank of England notes ever think of the araouut of labor and ingenuity that is expended on their production. These notes are made from pure white linen cuttings only; never from rags that liaxe r been worn. They have been manufac tn.ed for nearly two hnndred years at the same spoto-Laverotoke. in "Hamp shire, sud by the same family, the Por- , tills, who are descended from some French Protectant reifngees. So care-' fully ia the ]iaper prepared that even the number of dips into the pulp made by i each workman is registered on a dial by machinery, and the sheets are carefully counted and Ixxrked to each person through whose hands tliey pass. The printing ia done bv a most curious pro cess in Mr. Cog's department within the bunk building. There is an elaborate arrangement for securing that no note all all lie exactly like any other in exist ence. Consequently there never was a duplicate of a Bank of England note, ex cept by forgery. Accordiug to the city press, the stock of paid notes for seven years iR about 94,000,000 in number, and they till 18,000 boxes, which, if placed ' side by side, would reach three miles. The notes, placed in a pile, would be eight uiiles high; or, if joined end to end, would'form a ribbon 15,000 miles long; their superficial extent is more then that of Hyde Park; their original value was over 815,000,000.000, and their, weight over 112 tons. la tin Hbowea A girl fatal so apm window, ;y Waging i la gashing dioww tb* nnurc; rata wna earth- L ward winging. Hh* n><! • bird, bar rate tha sweat r-minder A warbiar raged, ttia rata tbe ban that ekwa confined bar. rhng on, though down ha otaaad, contact with good awdaawv 1 Rather lhaa ftw, la twaaat Iha atorw, aad fall fur aw. Items of Internet, A wood many man are in the beat of health whan they are out of spirit From 1794 to 1978 there were 8,046, 888 ailrer dollar* coined. None were made between 1806 and 1886, and none in 1868. A iielie, juat from Vanaar OcUege, when tchf by the waiter that tlu-r hud no gooeebenlse. exclaimed: "Wliat baa happened to the goose 2" Everything in a name. The amall paths id Fairmount perk are called foot path*! while the very large path on the other aide of the rirer (• called a tow path. "How many children nave youf asked one friend of au old acquaintance. • " Well, 1 hare ire, but they were eating cucumber* when I left home and they may be all doubled up now." "Do thoae belle sound an alarm of fire V aaul a atnuiger, tbe oilier Sunday, as tlie church bell* were calling together the womhipera. " Tea," waa the reply, " but the fire ia in the next world." A audden draught of hoi air paaaed tli rough a cotton field and peach orchard in Weetere Texas a few day* ago, acoreh tng and killing ererr green thing it tonclied for a apace of one hundred yards long. Another day has come and gone, leer ing as all older and wiser, but aa yet no communications here bean received in dicating that any one has discovered a man who can dnhk out of a spring with out getting the end of hia nose wet. Seller* of liquor in Oregon are not re quired, under a new law, to be licenced ; bat every drinker must per 65 a year for a license, and whoever sella to an un licensed person may be imprisoned. The names oi procurer* of licenses are to be published every six months. The amall boy hat two prime objects in view in getting a "fighting cut" to his hair in warm weather. One is to show hia vigilant father that he hasn't been in swimming; and the other, beeanee he can lie in bed fire minutes longer in the rooming; be doesn't hare to comb his hair. Men here been somewhat cynically defined aa a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion ia shrewd to detect thoae who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her at tention*. Society ia very swift in its instincts, ar * if yon do not belong to it, resists and sneer* at yon, or quietly drops yon. Thia ia what is juat killing enterprise in the Black Hills: A paragraph in the tolegrmphic colnmns of a daily paper issue* na that one " tea stamp mill baa just cleared up $7,000 worth of gold," rod the paragraph fallowing tells aa bow the " road agents have juat cleaned mt a stage, robbing all the passengers and asking $7,000 from the treasure box." At thiA rate it is very evident it would take about four or fire ten stamp mils to keep even with the rood agent*. It is related that the late General Mm C. Breckinridge had a son (Cube!) ipon hi* staff, and at the terrible charge •( tbe Kentucky Brigade at Morfrees joro', chose him to carry aa order to a us toot part of the line, saying in reply a a remonstrance that he would not lirert any officer to face a danger from •hicfa h* would spare a member of hia iwn family. Tbe bor galloped safely 1 h rough a storm of ballets, delivered be order end returned unhurt It in ww announced that he is to marry next aontb the daughter vf Lloyd Tevia, low reputed the richest man in Oali ornia. Met Temper sad (teak Artieu. As as instance of what hot temper and raah action can accomplish to rum a Ufa, aa affair that occurred at Sharon, i Pa., is one of th beat illustrstkma. A young lady, Miaa Kate McGibery, was out driving alone, and when on State street she desired to get ahead of a , wagon. She called out to the driver to torn aside au that she (Mold pass. He was a deaf, uifirm old man. named Bell, and at first did not hear what she said, but after a second or thirl call did aa re quested. Mimnderatanduig Mr. Bell's delay, the young lady on her arrival at home told her father that the old man had tried to frightep her haraa. Mr MeOilvery is v,-ry irapetamia, ami thii made him an angry that he started down , town to find Mr Bell. He met him in front of a store, and, without warning, knocked him through the window, cut ting his bead badly tluragh not seriously. Mr. Bell was removed to his residence, and his son Richard was *> maddened bv his father's condition that he de , terramed to pomal< his assailant. He found him in front of the very store where the ftrat aaaault had been made, and picking up a two-pound brass weight be hurled it at Mr. MeGilvurv's head, fracturing the skulk The wounded i " died in a few houra Miss Kate, , the innocent cause of air the trouble, . has loat her reason, and ia now a raving maniac, though her physician has slight hope* that she may recover from the shock. Young Bell was taken in cus -1 * T ' m Dea't Berry a beat Yourself. To retain or recover health, persons should be relieved from anxiety concern - ing disease. The m *"-t has power over the Ixklv—for a person to think ne has a disease will* often produce" that disease. This we see effected when the mind ia intense lv oonceutrated upon the disease of an other. We have seen a person seasick, in anticipation of a voyage, before reach ing the vessel. We have known people to die of cancer in the stdmach, when they had no cancer in the stomach or any other mortal disease. A blindfolded man, slightly pierced ia the arm, has fainted and died from believing he was bleeding to death. Therefore persons should have their minds diverted as ranch aa possible from themselves. It is by their faith that men are saved, and it is by their faith that they die. As a man thinketh, so is he. If he wills not to die, he can often live in spite of disease; and, if he has little or on attachment to life, he will slip away as easily as a child will fall asleep. Men liv-e by their minds as wc'l as by their bodies. Their bodies have no life of themselves; they are onlv receptacles of life—tenements for their minus, and the win has much to do in continuing the physical occupancy or giving it up. A Perplexed Exeeutor. A very* singular will oase'was lately brought to the attentiou of the probate court at Springfield, Mass. A man died leaving 1 ia property one-third to his wife, om -third to his child, and tha other tliird to a child then unborn. The unborn party proved to dc twins, and the executor is sorely perplexed as to ; whether he sliall divide thg third, giving ' each of the twins one-sixth of the estate, or whether lie shall carry out the testa tor's purpose to serve all the' children alike oy giving them and the widow each I one-fourth,-or whether, again, he ahall give the widow her third and divide the other two-thirds among the three ohil-. dren, The case being wholly without , precedent, in this State, the court gave the executor no advice, and the conun drum is to be brought in aome way be fore the supreme ooort. Gbsve and Racy.—A gentleman of Hartford, Conn., who keeps a good team, often invitee his friends to ride with him. Ou a recent occasion be invited a young _ lady. After they were seated iu the car riage he asked her," as usual: " Where would you Like to go? She replied; •• Oh, auywhereyou please." "Well," said he, " I will take you either to Cedar Hill Cemetery or to the Charter Oak Trotting Park." Her rejoinder waa; *• Hir, yoqr offer is both grave and racy."