Bracking the Hewa. Oh, iov*, it fit* Mm bikr mor*. For tb *Ur* o'r n* thill fliokar, mar* Bright thin when In the moonlit glen We lit 'neith the grind old ircemore. And murmared in the twilight'* mellow chirm, Wordi thit now tUn to tire my epirit o*lm. Naught, deir, but lore, thill weiry ne ; rviy drown thit look to eenon*. Let thy wirm cheek* glow And thy bnihe* flow To thoee peeMonitc eye* imperion* ; And eclipe* the tender, envied flower* thit reel Treamloa* on thit snowy, innocent hreitt. Oh, chMts end fiir Mi* Millorr 'Keith heaven* bejeweled gill err. Pri/ let me tell Thit ill i* well. Tour father'* pleteed with my sili> y. Ami I'm the hippiest mortal, deir, on eirth. A diamond ring ? I wonder whit one'* worth ? The Season*. " When tpring come* linghing By nle and hill. By wind-flower walking And daffodil - Sing, *tar of morning. Sing, moruing akica, Sing blue of *pecdwelt. And my hire'* eye*. " When conic* the *nmmr, Fu!l-l**v*d and alrag, And gay bird* godp The orchard long— Sing hid, nrret honey That no bee ai| ; Sing red, red rose*. And my love'* hps. " When intnmn Matter* The leave* again. And piled *htave* bury The broad-wheeled run - Slug flute* of harvest Where men rejoice; Sing mood* of reaper*. And my love'* voice. "Bat when cvmic* winter With hail and storm. And red Are roaring And ingle warui— Sing first sad going Of Mends that part ; Then atng glad meeting And my lovi's heart-'" —Austin lk>bem. . OVER-REACHING.' It w* a grand and stately-looking mansion, surrounded by extensive grounds. 80 much could be seen in the moonlight. But the entire front of the house was dark. At the back, only two window* in the upper part, beside the basement, showed n light. • % , The room within was Urge am} lux urious. An ample grate at ofAT side held ft bed of glowing coals, and t£m a low couch near it an old man lfty. By the gray pallor of hi 9 still handsome face, his sunken eyes, his stillness, he was very ill, perhaps dying. A woman was the only other occupant of the room, and she was young and very beautiful. She was in full evening dress, a violet velvet, made low and richly trimmed, and on her white neck and arms were jewels. The eves of the sick man watched her as she a'towly paced the room, her velvet dress trailing the carpet, a look in her face 'hat he could not read. It was a strange sight—the woman in her gala attire, brilliant with beauty, glittering with gems ; the man with his pinched and sunken face, on which death's gray shadow seemed already set, watching her. She never looked at him, and, in spite of her youth and loveliness, there was something harsh and forbidding in her countenance. The sick man mo veil uneasily on his conch. •• It is very strange, Virginia, that James does not return," he said, " I am sure he has been long enough to go to town and back twice." "I should think so," the woman an swered, still without looking at him ; " but perhaps he did not find either of the lawyers at his office, and he may be waiting to see Mr. Jndd." In a moment more aome one knocked softly npon the door of the sick room. " if it's James I want to see him," said the man on the couch. James came in, a low-browed, snllen lookiug fellow, and stood crumpling his bat in his hand. " Did you find Mr. J add ?" his master asked. " No, sir ; but I left word." " Why didn't yon go for Mr. Leeds ? " I did ; but he wasn't st home neither. Mr. Jndd 'll be back to-night They wa- expecting him every minute. I told 'em to send him as soon as he come, cause yon didn't know as you'd live till morning." Virginia Aubrey glided forward. "Yon didn't send any such word as that, did you, Robert ?" she said to her husband. " I think yon are better to night I am sore you will live weeks yet I begin to hope you may get well again, you are so much better." The sick man shook his head. " I shall never see the morning again, dear, I am onlv keeping np on stimnlants now. I can't hold out mnch longer." "Do let me send for the doctor to come back, Robert " " Doctor* can do me no good, yon know that It i* not a doctor that I want, but a lawyer. It is very strange they should be away. Have yon told me the truth, James ?" he asked the man suddenly. " The truth, sir ?" questioned the man in a stammering voice, while he stole a furtive glance at nis mistress. Virginia Aubrev put her hands behind her and showed him a roll of notes. " Why don't you answer, James ?" she said, impatiently. " Have you told your master the truth or not ?" " The truth, of coarse. Why would I tell him anything else, and him a-dying ?" "You can go," said Mr. Aubrey. " Send Rufu9 here." As James departed the sick man turned to his wife. " I don't know why he should ; bnt James looked as if he was lying. It can't be that any one here wants to keep me from seeing a lawyer ?" A strange whiteness crossed Virginia Aubrey's beautiful face. " I should hove not, dear. What ob ject oould they have ?" The sick man was silent. Fifteen minutes passed. Suddenly Mr. Aubrey spoke again— " Virginia, why doesn'tJßnfus oorae ?" "I will see," said his wife, calmly, and rang the belL It was James who answered it. " Where is Rnfus ?" she asked him. " I dunno! It's like he forgot. I told him." " Go at once and tell him again." James departed, and returned in about ten minutes. "Rufus," he said, " has been drink ing—says he'll oome when he gets ready, not afore." The sick man groaned. " Go and send Martha here, James," aid Mrs. Aubrey. " She won't come either," moaned her husband, in a failing voice. " No body comes. Tiiov nave all deserted my daughter Blanche. I knew she never liked my marriage, but I didn't think she would refuse to oome and see me when lam dying. Virginia, why are you dressed so? To see me die?" - , Virginia Aubrey turned aside her head a moment. Her eyes gleamed evilly, 'lhen she came and knelt by his oouch, twining her lovely arms about him. " You asked me to put on this dress. Don't you remember, dear ?" she said. " You told me to dress just the same as if you were well. Yoa did not want to be reminded of your sickness by my at tire, you said, and yon told me to put on this very dress." "Yes, yes. I remember now. You're a dear, good girl, Virgie, always humor ing my whims. You've been a good wife to the old man—unselfish and de voted. You never married me for my money, as Blanche said. lam satisfied of that now." •' How could you' ever doubt me ?" murmured the lovely kneeler FRED. KURTZ. Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME X. " 1 don't kuow but I iliil. Ami- -and, | Virgiuia, darling, I've something town -1 foes. You kuow tint I made my will soon after w << were married, ami gave yon in oat of my property ?" " Yes, iar; YOU tnld inc. 1 thought tt was not right then. 1 had tnuoh rather yon had given it all to Blanche, Then she could not thtuk inch dreadful things i of me." "You are an angel; hut listen to me, 'my sweet, 1 wi* dreadfully jealous of you afterward. 1 was jealous of you and Harry tlames," Virginia started slightly. " You never had any reason," she said. "You loved him once"— "Never!" cried Virginia. " My darling, do you believe Mr. Judd will oouie to-night ? Soiue one must go for him or LH*IS again; my streugth is failing. lam sure 1 sliall not last till morning." The face of the young wife whitened again. "Robert," she said, "what do you want with a lawyer? IX> you wish to alter your will ? IX> you want to leave TOUT property to your daughter Blanche ■ instead of me?" "Oh, u0,.n0," he groaned. " What then ?" Is it anything you want altered in it? I will obey your wishes, dear, as implicitly as if you had had a lawvet write them out for yon." " Angel! angel!" " BionVhe never liked me, but I will do hth jwfCkd. all the saiuej" Yirgiuia said. "Send for Mr. Leeds. I know Judd j is not coming," said the husband. Virginia shuddered. "You do want to make*a new will then ?" she said bitterly. > ' "I did make one— l WHS jealous of > you and Gaines. I thought yon hail made it up between you to waij until I 1 was dead, and then marry and an joy my money; so I made a new will secretly, " aud gave everything to Blanche. 1 wish 1 I liadn't I want to alter it now. Send ! 1 for the lawyeis again. Virginia, do j - aeud" > But Virginia hail already flown to the ' ) bell at the first intimation of this terri ble truth which *l* hail never guessed. The ready James, her own tool, made r his appearance once more. Mrs. Aubrey Btepjxnl out and put her i hands npon him. " Take the fastest horse in the stables. I and ride for yonr life after the first lawyer you can find. If vou get him here ' in time you shall have a hundred pounds ; yourself. ■ " James stared at her. " Do you mean it this time ?" II "I mean it I have made an awful, mistake. I shall lie a Ix'ggar if the law -1 ver doesn't get here in time to make a . will. Flv!" " I will I'll have him here in forty minutes by the clock. The old mau > won't die tiiat soon," James said, as he dashed away. Virginia Aubrey masked herdeceitfil face in sweetness again, and went back i to her dying lm-band. He seemed sleeping. She elided into the next room and swiftly relieving her velvet dress, put on a soft, unristiing wrapper of merino. " It would never do to l>e seen in a dress like that at such a time," she muttered. Then she went and sat down where ' she could watch the sick man's livid , face and the clock alteruatclv. An hour went by, and no lawyer. Why did not James come back ? James was lying by the roadside, about i . a mile away with a Dmken leg. He bail taken the fiercest horse in the stable, and not being much of a rider, 1 hail been thrown. Virginia Aubrev stole ont of the room at last—she couhl endure suspense no longer—aud sent another man after Lawyer Jndd. It "was nearly morninsr then, and day was breaking us the lawyer at iust rode up to the door of Aubrey House. But he was too late. Virginia, going hack to her husbaiul after she hail dispatched a second mes senger for Mr. Judd, was struck by the singular stillness of the room—that awful stillness which we who have ever been in a room with the dead know is 1 like no other. She went straight to the bedside and touched the quiet face on the pillow | with her hand. He was dead. The woman shut lu-r teeth hard to 1 keep back a seriam, ami went to search ing the house for that second will of 1 which he had told her. But she could not find it. She was still searching when the law yer arrived. The day of the fnneral came. Robert Aubrey was buried with due pomp and ceremony. His young and lovely widow—lovelier than ever in her deep mouraiag—sat in , the library after all was over. The first will, which gave her every- j thing, was in her possession. She sat prepared to produce it if no 1 later will appeared. Blanche Aubrey came in weeping, and recoiled at sight of her. " She never sent me word when poor papa lay dying, and she knew it days before ; and papa died thinking me a cruel, wicked girl," Blanche said to Mr. Judd, who was beside her. The lawyer conducted Blanche to a seat, and bowed to the others in the mom. Then he proceeded to open a paper he 1 ] held in his hand. Virginia turned cold. It was the second wilL It gave everything to Blanche. In thwarting her husband at first in his wish to make a will Virginia Aubrey had overreached herself. Laughter. Anyone who can laugh at will is cer- : tain of a favorable reception in society— particnlarly when the weather is muggy. ] Laughter is a social virtue, a prudent acouinDlishment, an open letter of intro -1 daction. It is not necessary to bo funny in order to be able to laugh. Some men laugh like potatoes, without knowing it. ; Their face* are sculptured cacliiunations. i The permanent grin, however, palls upon ■ the eye, and at lust begins to wear ont , j one's jocularity, and to look as solemn aud hideous as the dismal sphinx. Laughing is good by virtue of its snd- j ' ili nness. It is in it* unexpected appeals to the nerves that its power chiefly lies. I It does a thoughtful person good to be - taken by surprise, and to be tickled into I a hearty laugh against his will. It ' makes him feel as he would after having [ been electrified. It awakens him, force* 1 blood to circulate, make* him open hi* , eye*, look about him and talk. The > greatest mystery of laughing i its com municativeness. Set one or two going, I and the whole circle, although they know . not why, fall into the vein. You laugh , at laughter, and laugh the more because you know the less of what you are laugh . mg at. Much potency i* there in the association of ideas, and laughing is ? divisible into a great many modes. > ; ■ - A DISAPPOINTED LOCAL. —The Corpus 1 Christi Timet *ay* : Our local reporter waited four hours the other day to see a 3 Mexican fisherman fall overlxmrd, who - had gone to sleep with his feet hanging 1 over the edge of one of the wharves. - And that astec cuss didn't fall after all, j but roused himself, pulled in hi* line 1 with a ted pound redfish on it, hollered whoopee 1 and started up the street to " sell the fish for a quarter. And life is full of just such disappointments. THE CENTRE REPORTER Thoughts fur Saturday Night. All nhiloaouhy lies in two word* "sustain " ami "abstain." Ho who tiuds jtleaaure in vice, aud pain iu virtue, ir. a novice iu both. Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are retched. Roohefouoanld says wo have uioro in dolenoe in the uiiud than in the IHHIV. j Seueou says that malignity generally drinks the greater juutof its own poison. A gissl word is an easy obligation, but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs notion?. Judge thyself with a judgmeut of sin cerity slid thou wilt judge others with a I judgment of charity. Friendship is like those aueieut altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum. There are falm-tussls that represent trutli so well that it would Ik< judging ill not to be deceived by them. , Deceit and falsehood, ahutever oou venieueee they may f> >r a time promise 1 or produce, are, iu the sum of life, ob -1 staclea to happiness. Men love lietter lsviks which please i them than those which instruct. Since I their euuui trouble* them more than their ignominy tliey perfer l<t>ing amused to being iuforiued. , If you have talents industry will iiu i prove them; if you have iiHHlcrate abili- I ties industry will supply the deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well directed labor; nothiug is ever obtained without it. | An intelligent class can scam* ever be, as a class, vicious; never, as a class, in dolent The excited menial activity ope rates as a counterpoise to the stimnlus of ! sense and appetite. A dull uiau is so near a dead man that j he is hardly to bo ranked in the list of | the living; and as he is not to be buried wliilst he is half alive, so he is us little to l>e employed whilst he is half dead. When we have practiced good actions awhile they become easy, and when they become easy we begin to take a pleasure in them, and when t-.ev please us we do them frequently. Form, then, the habit of doing good. Hardening in the California Tales. A Stoektor (Cal.) exchange says: The market gardens of the tale lands l bordering on the San Joaquin river,both above and below Stockton, are rapidly coming into formidable competition with ■ the gardens of the Santa Clara valley, j for* the trade of supplying the San Francisco markets. Tlie profits of tule gardening seeui enormous when one hears of the almost fabuloits produc tiveness of this laud. For instance, Joseph Hale, whose ranch is on Ilolmrts island, bordering tbe river, but a few rniUy above Stockton,informs us that last year lie sold 3130 worth of string l>ouu from oue-eigßth of an acre of ground. Another piece of ground containing u few acres was sought for by some par ties who desired to rent it, ami offered 'to pay S4O an acre for a year's reut. He refused, however, to reut the land for that sum, and put it into onions, pota toes, etc. From one aud a half acres of ' onions he gathered 440 sacks, weighing tweuty-sev- u tons. Some of these sold for $3 a sack, some for $1.50, aud some for less. The whole netted aliout S7OO, which was considerably more profitable than to rent his land for S4O an acre, i He had in all twenty-five acres of onions, : beans and potatoes last year. The levee around tbe inland had uot been com pleted when the flood came, covering all the land but almut ten acres of onions, j From these he sold $2,200 worth of mions. netting an nverage of $220 an i acre. This year he has dug and wild an acre of new potatoes which brought him SSS, and tlie laud has been replanted to sweet potatoes. From the eleventh to the thirty-brat of last month he sold $237 worth of "warden truck," and one could no more Uul where it came from than he oonld tell if a few roses had been picket! from a full rosebush. Three years , 1 ago his neighbor, Mr. Horeo.sold SI,BOO worth of onions from four acres of ground; and the next year, from the same piece, he sold $2,000 worth. On the Sardine ranch, below Mr. Hale's, j there was mined and sold last year SBOO worth of string beans from twe acres of ground. The Island of Java. It is as strange that more travelers do not visit Java for its beau'y, as that more do not visit Canton for its (xditical and social interest. Newer scone* cannot be found. From the moment of embarka tion upon dirty steamers, crowded with Dutch 1 ulies in bare feet and native dress, to cross a sea that is covered with a lot of floating palm trees from the Sumatra river, to that of disembarkation in that lovely tropical forest, dotted with houses here and there, which is called the city of Batavia, nil is fresh,even to the exjierienced traveler's eye. "Hie system of the Dutch; the afternoon stillness of i Bnttenzorg Palace, a sort of tropical Versailles; the great rumbling ooaches drawn by six pied rats of ponies upon | levels, and dragged bv eight great tawny buffaloes up tlie hills; tlie deafening screaming of the beetles; the tree ferus ofSandanglava; the "walking flowers "or pink-orchid insects, feeding on live but terflies, which they will not take dead—all these tempt tbe traveler to linger over de scriptions of things which cannot be de scribed. The Dutch statistics are eloquent as to the nature of the country which they occupy. Java is not large, but within its limits 300 people every year are eaten by camivora, 200 by the crocodiles, 100 killed by the rhinoceros, 500 killed by lightning, while 100 die by snake bites, and a varying number bv earthquakes and volcanic action. Tlie traveler jour neying under Dnte.h protection along tlie well-known roads is safe against most of the accident* which destroy the natives of the land; but the hospitalities by which he is surrounded, combined witk want of knowledge of the language, pre vent him from making observations upon the nature of the Dutch rule which are of any worth. " All Upside Down," A regiment quartered at a certain town in Scotland had among thein an exjiert gymnast, who taught his brother subalterns how to walk across the liar rack room on their hands. While en < gaged one evening the door ojtened ami the colonel, a stern disciplinarian, entered the room, looked attentively at the inverted company, shook his head gravely and departed without uttering a word. An order to be on parade next morning was the least punishment ex pected for this breach of discipline. Borne days passed, however, and no notice being taken, it was thought an apology and explanation should be i offered' by the prime instigator of these uneoldierly movements. A reference l>elrig made to the memowble night the colonel amazed tlie intended apologist by exclaiming : " HUBII, sergeant, I would not have anybody kuow it for the world ! Tbe fact is, I had been dining out with an old brother officer who had server! with me in India, and 'pon my life , I bad no idea the wine could have had such an effect upon me but when I came to see if you were all right in your quar ters I could have sworn that I saw you all upside down." CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY,- AUGUST 30, 1877. T.IK BATTLE OK PI.EINA. Tk. UrwlMl llaiilr ml the Kar**an War - Vlr NiwU.AtM) ItlMMrMlll llolea.rd i l.ll>,i ( Imrira at a Maaalaa t'ariaa. Tho Now York JUrtUd baa a (nil ami > graphic mxxnuit of the groat Russian defeat at l'lovus, from whioh wo take the , following thrilliug pu*ag* : Two brigades of Ruaaiun infantry wore in the Baluoro valley lieluud the gnus of General TehekofTa brigade the Thirty-atvoinl division on the right, the First brigade of theTliirtieth diviniou ou the loft. The loading IhUUliuuh wore t. ordered to adtauce over tho ridge to attack. Tho order wua hailed witl glad cheers, for tho infantry men had Won ehuting i at their inaction, and tho liattaliouH, with awift step, etioam.al forward through the gleu ana up tli© steep idaipe belaud, ' marehiug in company ooluinutt. The nile oomuanies led tho way. The Una- Man artillery had afforded active aupport ! to this movement by flnug with increased ' rapidity over the heads of the advaooing infantry. It win. maiutaiued with auoh vigor that > it completely covered the column when tho infantrymen had uroasml the creel and were Joaceuding tho *lo|>e and , ' crossing tlio intervening valley to the aa . aaull of the Turkish position. Just bo . fore reaching the exeat the liattaliona , deployed into line at tho double quick, and crossed in tins formation, breaking to pass through the intervals between the gnus. I The Turkish shells whistled through them as they advanced in line, suil the men were already shun in great num bers, but the long, undulating line tramps steadilv over the stubbles and crashes through the undergrowth on the descent. Beyond, the skirmishing line is thrown ont in advance. The fighting line retains tlie formation for a time, until under the combined in fluences of the impatience of the men and their rapidly thinning ranks, itbreaks i hit) n ragged spray of humanity and surges on swiftly, loosely and with no close cohesion. The supports are close up ami run up into the flghtiug hue in dejiendeutly and eagerly. It is a verit able chase of flghtiug men, unjielled by a burning desire to get forward and come to close tptar.ers with the enemy, who is tiring at them from behind fhe shelter of the cpaulmeut. Presently, all along the face of tlie advancing infantrymen burst forth flaring volleys of musketry fire. The jagged line springs forward through the maize fields, gradually assuming a concave shape. A Turkish position is ueared. The rolling of rifle Are is inces sant, yet dominated bj tlie fiercer and louder turmod of the artillery utx.vr. The ammiuhtiou wagons gallop up to tlie camion with fresh fuel for the tire. The guns redouble the energy of their tiring, the guuners work like de mons The crackle of the musketry Are rises into a sharp peal. Tlie clamor of the hurtafla of the flghtiug mcu comes back to us on the breeze, making tlie blood tingle with the exciUmicut of the fruv. Away on the left a village is on fire, the dark smoke rising from amid the surrounding vineyard* in a black pillar against the sky." The white smoke of | the battle rolls up in heavy clouds and , curtains iu the picture of war tliat u before u*. The fell fury of the battle has entered on its maddest paroxyiam*. Tlie sup ports that hod remained behind, lying inst under the crest of the sh|w% are i pushing forward over tlie brow of the i lull. Tho wounded begin to trickle oack over tlie ridge. We can see the dead and the more severely wounded lying whore they fall on the stubble and amiil the maize. The living wave of fighting men is pouring over them, ever on and on. The gallant gunners hi the right and to the left of u* stand to their work with a will on the shelf-swept ridge. Hie Turkish cannon fire l>qgiu* , to waver in that earthwork over against u*. More support* stream down with a louder cli.er into the Russian flghtiug line. Suddenly the disconnected men of the advanee elose op, and are together again in a atrorg line. We can discern ' the officer* signaling fof the concentra tion by the waving of tlieir swords. Tlie distance from the Turkish line is alioutoue hundred yard*. A fierce, hoarse shout reaches us, but nlready the rush lias liegun. With the speed that only comes in the last desperate moment of closing on a bitter foe the Russians spring for ward. The wild dash is headed by the colonel of one of the regiments of tlie Thirty-second division. The Turks fa the (belter trench bold ' their ground. Tlie Iwiatliiig line of bay onets is close upon them, hut the sons of Islam, with Uer blind reliance on Kismet, look fate is the simp© ©f the armed Muscovite steadily in the ft ice. Tlicv lire ©temttly and witli ternhto effect into tfm advancing forces. ( The horse of the gallant colonel who is bailing tlie charge goes down, bnft the colonel is on his feet in a second Ami. waving his sword, lends his men forward on f<sit. It is only for a few paces. • lie ; staggers and falls. I heard afterward I tliftt he was killed. We can hear the sound of wrath—half howl, half yfflb— with which men, liayonet* at "the charge," rush on to avenge him. They have not long to wait. It is hut a four yards now to the Turkish works, uud these are soon traversed. Jn an instant they are over tho parapet and in nrunug the Tnrks like an avalanche. The car nage is seen to l>© terrible. It is lmnd to hand and breast to breast. Tlie tush which carried the Russians tn swoops nil liefore it Not many Xhrks get a ehance , to run sway from the gleaming bayonets swayed by muscular Russian anus. ThA j outer edge of the first position is won. About six o'clock the Turks pressed forward a heavy mnss of infuntry to re capture tho position. Hero ScltAckoskoy took a bold step, sending two batteries down into tho first position he had taken to keep tho returning Turks in cliegk. It was in vain. The Tnrks wens not to be i denied, and in spite of the most de termined fighting by the Russians had reoccupied their second jsisitiou In-fore seven o'clock. 'Che First brigade of tlie Thirty-tTUi division had early Inclined to the left, where the towers and liouscs of Ph-ms were visible. It was rash, for the brigade WHS ex|>osmg its right flank to the Turkish cannon mounted astride of the ridge, IhU the goal of Fievqa was a keen tomptntifin. There wan no thor oughfare, however. They would not give up and they could not succeed. They cliargcd again uud again, and when, fr<tm sheer fatigue, they could charge no longer, they stood nod died, : for tney would not retire. Tlie reserve* carne np, but only to swell the slaughter. Then the ammunition failed, for tho carts ho<l boen left far behind, and all hope vanished. Kven the most san guine could see no bright spot iu tlie ! gloomy outlook. ' • Within ten yean, no less than 12,000,- i 000 acres of of forest have been cut down i or burned over in the United States, i Much of the timber is used for fuel, , twenty-five cities being on record ss consuming from 5,000 peres to 10,000 i acres each. Fences nse up much tiin : ber, and railway sleepers require the i product of 150,000 acre# per annum. ! The amount of pine and lumber timber vet standing in tlie forests of the timber States is estimated at 225.000,000 feet, The sum of $144,000,000 is invested in i the timber industry, employing 200,000 I men. fS , A llera ef the Chicago Kioto. A late Chicago pajier has the follow ing: 1 luring tlie recent riots there were ' many illßtaucos of individual bravery which almost rise to the dignity of bero ' istn. A good ninny who shared in sup -1 pressing the revolt distinguished them ' selves bv their personal achievement*. The potion of tlie Twelfth street station * sjMike iu tlie liigliest praise uf the euu * duet of Oeorge Emerson during one of ' the fights at tlie viaduct. 1 It will lie remembered that the first ' serums outbreak occurred st and in the ' vicinity of the Hoisted street vmduet on ' lust \Voduesdsy evening. When vio lence and bloodshed seemed imminent, > word was dispatched to th Twelfth I street station, aud Lieutenant Callagltau 1 with eightceu men hastened forward to ' qndl and disjierae tlie rioters. An utuiii ■ bus of the Went Twelfth street line, driv ' en by Emerson, was taken to convey the uilloers as rapidly aa possible to tlie 1 scene of the disturbance, Emerson brave ' lv offering his services ami promising to I drive wherever they might wish to go. He drove down Hoisted street to within 1 one block of tlie viaduct, w hen he turned 1 I east to Uuiou street. Thence he drove, ! undaunted by the gathering mob before ' him, directly upon tlie tracks. Tiie vehicle was observed, and as soon its it was seen to coutain police officers it be -1 • came the object of a fierce attack. Blimes ■ in showers were bnrled against it. The ! horses were struck and became almost 1 unmanageable. Tlie roof of the stage was broken in, the sides were battered as if they hud IHWII the work of vollcv* 1 i of musketry. The officers, so hot was tfic assault, were obliged to uliandotl the ' omnibus with all speed, and endeavor to 1 make a aland against their assailants 1 ' upon the ground. Then the bloodshed and violence already chronicled begun |in earnest. Emeraou might easily have 1 driven away out of the reach of danger, hut be heroically remained at his post, telling the officers that he would wait to ' oouvev them latck to the station. He iiad escaped injury thus far, though ' the stones ami missiles had fallen thick 1 around him. While the policemen were battling with the mob be occupied his seat, with reins in hand, endeavoring to quiet his frightened horses. The (Kilioe at first drove the mob to tbe southern 1 part of the track and out upon Fifteenth street Emerson now seemed secured ugaiust danger, us he was out of the range of bullets and atone*. The mob rallied, however, after beiug driven across the track, ami turned and drove the police men before them back over the track they had just traveled. Ememon saw that the rabble wonhl be upon him again in an instant, but he remained firm at his post The police were forced past him and north on Union street He found himself in the very center of the angry mob. They turned upon and stoned him until he fell headlong and insensible to the ground. Then some miscreant fired a bullet through oue of his onus. Others cut the lines and traces and stouing tlie horses started them into a run-sway. Mr. Emerson, bleeding and umxiuoeiotis, lay when# ha fell for some time, tlie rioters having proceeded on their chase after tlie police. He was discovered l>v an expressman when quiet was restored with his hands graspiug tlie Em ieces of the reins. He'was conveyed to im home, where for some time it was r not thought that he would survive his injuries. He recovered slowly, however, ami on vesterdav was able to leave his . Ih>l ' The Chief Justice'* Wetting. About three weeks ago Chief Justice Horton of Kansas csme to Ijesvenworth from Topeka, and tlesirons of reaching Atchison that night, ooncluded to try ami make tlie train across the river on the K. C , St. Joe andC. it. nod. The river was at it* highest, and the ferry (tout hail o*aaed running for tlie night Thinking tliat the trip could easily be made in a skiff, he visited the levee and engaged a aon of one of the Ixwtmeu to take him cross, lint the fatlier daml not trust his aon on the river at that time of night, it then being ulioiit eleven o'clock, and he refused to let hun liave the skiff. A bystander who happened to overhear the conversation told the judge that he would take him serosa. He was engaged, aud soon appeared with a skiff, and they embarked on their peri haw journey. When alaait mid i way tlie jMuaeuger discovered that tbe Imat was rapully filling with water, and the boatimin asktvl the judge if he could swim. The judge is not skilled in the art, and told tlie seaman so. He then told thejudge that he would swim, and taking off Ids clothes he jumped in. IH* was able to reach shallow water m safety on Missouri soil, though not without bitterly repenting his follv in i nttai|)ting to cross the river after dark. The mau who furnished the judge with 1 transportation did not own the skiff, but went tip this side of the coat shaft and J liotfrowe.l one that had leen lying in the ann all summer, and was warped to such ' an extent that water went through it like a aieve. When the boat reached the j other shorn It was nearly even full of . water. Tlie Canary's I-ast Song. About a year ago, says a contributor to Journal , a canary which T dourly prized, and which, iu reality, ! was one of the most intelligent birds. ) that I have ever owned, flew upon a ease 1 where soma light and a few heaw vol umes hod bean piled rather carelessly. While hopping about ha accidentally overturned ana of the smaller volumes, bis feat became eutuuglod in some way or other, aud the whole pile fell over ' upon him. I heard tlie chirp of alarm, the erasli, and hurriad to the reaene, bnt only to fiud that both of Goldy'a legs were broken. Tenderly I lifted him, ' examined the injnry, and splintered the fracture as best I oonld. For three davs I nursed the little unfortunate, but with out much satisfaction as to the result*. I j Itegan to think that tin' bird had received some internal injury, but what it was no i one could say. On tlie fifth day the bird, lying in cotton, was placed on my table —his old favorite spot, and he knew it well. Presently there was a slight rust ling of hia wings, he seemed eager to get again upon hia feet, but, too wise not to see tho foolishness of such an attempt, s he contented himself by warbling the ' saddest and the most touching, if not tlie loudest, aoug that he ever sung. Nstnr -1 alists will tell yon that the story of tlie swan's dying song is only an invention ; of the poets. No naturalist shall dispute with tne that the last song of that dyiug canary was uot hi* sweetest. Saved by a Sagacious Dog. The intelligent dog to tha front again f Mrs. Edwin French, of Londonderry, Vt., in attempting to draw water a few i day* ago from a well near tha hnnsa was thrown into tha well by tlie tweaking of a lioariL Tho water wan several feet doep, hut she managed to keep her head above tho surface by clinging to the pump pipe. There was ho jieraon within aound of hor voice, but tho family dog, an intelligent and faithful animal, went to the well and looked in. Mrs. French I asked him, as she would have asked a | Iranian being, if he could not get help. 1 Tbe dog took in the situation instantly, and bounded away toward tlie buy ft eld • where Mr. French was at work. Arrived • there he made a terrible uproar, and persisted in his wild actions until Mr. i French, fearing that something had hap- I pened, followed him to the well and saved his wife from drowning. I IIIOTN OK TOE PANT. # Mm* *1 ik* Ntltkl* Omov la IhU Caaalrt. ' Under our |K>pular system of govern meiit, there ought to be no such tlnug ss * a riot to enforce a popular claim of any kind; but tlie people of s free country are not unlike Uioae who live under dea " isituun; there is always an element ready 1 to bmik out into furions demonstrations j to right whati* regarded as a grievance. A list of some of the most notable riota . : san e the revolution will be found to in clude the following: in July, 1812, at Baltimore, a news -1 paper, opi>o*d to tlie war witli England, whs demolishetl. ' Hoptemlier 24. 1831, four prwons were 1 killed by the militia iu a not at Provi dence. '! August 18, 1885, several men killed - and wounded in a not at Baltimore, about " the Bank of Maryland. [ Julv 10-12, 1834, a riot oocurred in New Vork city, about tlie supposed aims and objects of the Alxilitionists, who were ' aocused of promoting amalgamation. August *2l, 1834, a Catholic seminary [ or uunuery was burned at Obarlastown, Maas. ' I August 12, 1834, forty houaea were ] destroyed in au " Abolition '* riot in . f Philadelphia. February 13, 1837, a riot was caused ( by the " hard times " aud high price of ' flour, and flonr warehouses were sacked aud tlie flour destroyed in New York. May 17, 1888, Pennsylvania Hall ami I other buildings were destroyed by an •• Abolition " riot. l>wmt>er 8, 1838, the Pennsylvania Legislature was broken up by a mob, aud after several daja of riot tin* militia were called out to suppiees the rioters. | Mav 6-8, 1844, iu a riot l*-tweeii native Amencans and Irialimen, tliirty houaea and three churches were burned, fourteen persona killed and forty wounded. The military was called ont to suppress tlie mob. Tbia riot was renewed July 7, 1844, when five thousand troops were called ont and forty to fifty pemnis kill ed In-fore tlie mob was quelled in Phila delphia. Tlie anti-rent riots in Albany, Rensse laer, Delaware and Columbia (vaintiea, New York, from 1844 to 1847, were put down by the State militia, after much disturbance and destruction of property. The Aster place riot, lietween the frieuda of Forrest and Mac ready, took place Mav 10,1840, when several jieraous, among them many innocent spectators, were killed. Bv the great anti-draft riot in New York, July 13-16,1863, many persons were killed and wiminimi and a number of bntidings wereilcstrxiyfxL July 12 1871, an Orange jiroceaakm which" was guarded by the military, was attacked by a mob, and tlie soldiers final into the crowd, killing several, the major ity of thoae who met their deaths being aiiectators. Beveral of the military wen also killed. Mountain* In the Moon. It is an ascertained fact that there are three classes of lunar mountain*. Hie first of these consists of isolated, sepa rate, distinct mountains of a verv curious character. The distinguishing chararter isticof tf ieae mountains is tliia—they start up from a plain quite suddenly. On the earth it is well known that mountains generally go in ranges of group*} but we find these isolated lunar mountain* standing up entirely apart, uevnr having been connected with any raugv. The oue named Pico is 9,000 feet high; this mountain has the form of an immense j sugar-loaf; and if onr readers can im wagine a fairly pnqiortioned sugar loaf 9,000 feet in height, ami themselves situated upon it, ao aa to be able to look down upon its apex, they will have an approximate idea of the apja-arance of Pico. There arc many other mountain* of a similar deacriptioh acsttereil over the moon's surface, and these mountains not oult stand apart from each other, bat what is still iiKsre remarkable, the plain* on which Uiejr stand are bnt aligiiUy die turbeiL How singular, then, the influ ence which aliot the mountain up 9,000 feet, aud yet scarcely disturbed the plain in the immediate neighb trhood. The second class of lunar elevations consist* of mountain ranges. Now, this is tlie principal feature* of the mountains on earth. This phenomenon i* also found in the moon, but there is exceDtion; only two principsl range* are found, and j three sp)>car to have been originally only one range. One is called the Ap penines. It i* so well seen thai, just aa the line of Bght is passing through the moon, von trill think it is, generally I speaking, a crack in its surface, bnt a (tiiescipe of onliuary jkjwot will at onoo manifest it to be a range of mountains. The lunar Appeniuca may lie compared with the loftiest range of mountain* npon earth. It is 18,000 feet high, and there is another still higher, rising 26,000 feet above it* base. In this feature, then, the moon corresponds with the earth, bnt with this difference-what is the rule ; <ai tlie earth is the exception in the moon. _____ Colors of the Ocean. Tho uoean has naturally a pure bluish tiut. All profound and clear scm are more or lohh of a iloep blue ; wliile, ae cording to seamen, a green color indi t cnb>s sonndinga, Hie bright bine of the Mediterranean, so vaunted by poets, is found all over the deep, pure ooean not : only in the tropical and temperate zones, but also in the regions of eternal frost. Hie North sea is preen, partly from tlie sandy lsittom mixing with the essentially blue" tint of tlie water. In the bay of Lnango tlie water is of the color of blood, which result* from the reflection Of the red gronnd soil. But tlie hue is much more frequently changed over large spaces by means of enormous masses of algm, anil countless hosts of small aea worms, floating or swimming on the I surface. Near Gallon tlie Faciflo has an olive i green color, owing to the gmmish mat ter fonnd at a depth of 8(10 feet N"ir C*) Palmas, nn the coast of Oniuoa, Oajri. Tnckey'a ship aeemel to sail through milk, a phenomenon which was owing to the immense number of little | white animals swimming on the surface. The inxruliar coloring of the Red aea, whence its name, is derived from the presence of a minrosoopio algm, or sea weed, less remarkable oven for ita beau tiful red color than for its prodigious fecundity. Iff many more instances from like causes the dewp blue is varied with strips of yellow, green, brown, orange or red. Small yeilowiab meilusie are the principal agent* iu changing the pure ultramarine of the Arctic ocean into A muddy green. Of these, it ia computed a cubic inch must contain sixty-four; a ■ cubic foot. 110,592. It is here tliftt the giatit whale of the north finds his richest ' pnstnre grounds. The Baby's Strike. 1 They liad a strike up at Mr. Middle ■ 1 rib's tlie other night. The baby strnck i 1 for six hours' walking every night, in , strnl of fonr, which it hss been getting, t The family at first refusal to oooale to i this preposterous and unreasonable de- 1 i manu. but the baby being a monopoly, . there being no others to supply the place , of the striker, it was able to enforce it* I demands, as all sleep was shut off nntil I a settlement was effected. The only I show of violence was the throat, on the . 1 part of the baby, to make it warm for - i the household when it wa* about fonr I years older and green apple time came I aroußik—Burlington l/aufheye. TERMS: Sti.OO a Year, in Advance. The Native Kgyffflaa. The fellah wears bat one glu-mciit, ' and suffers from cold In winter for ha " | ha* no fire aud no lied elottiea except " perhaps a kind of quilt 11* Uvea on 1 ; unleavened bread, sour milk, raw vege f tables, but aonitim<-s for week* together ' lis* ujtkiuf but final dates. Ia towns the food is sold ready-oooked, stnl oon ' mat* of differeut kinds of liariooks and lentil*. His house is roofless, mcqit for 1 a few canes laid arruaa the low mud ' walla. It ouutains no furniture; but iu upper Egypt there in generally a mat at ' the dour and a sort of canted divan made of mud. Ha au afford bat one wife, who, like himself, has but one garment ' and a bond or vtsl, while hit ohiklren go naked, la this respect, indeed, travelers remark great puvarty yea* by year. ' There is immense mortality among the ' children—partly, no doubt, from the dirt in which they afe kept, aa tliey are 1 never washed before they are seven 1 yours old, but partly also from the ah ' aeuee of medical aid and the universal ignorance of the cause of disease. The women are in every reepect inferior to the men. They are too poor to Lave em ployment; tbev have no stockings to ' thru, no house linen to mend, no furni ture or cuokiug implements to clean. They wash their one garment in the river, cleaning it with a piece of mud which act* like aoap and pumice com ' j biaed. They wear their bracelet* and necklaces in the field * here they pull oorn or henl the cattle. They carry all the water required in their house* from the river in I wavy jam, and ait long on the bank gomiping. Women in Egypt do not aay prayers like the men, ainl have a ftmHciM 'expression which contrast* strangely with the intelligent and even noble look frequent among thair hus bands. Their highest Idea of life con sists in doing nothing. The daughters of a family are kept at home aa long aa possible, aa it is a mark of respectability to retain them at least till they reach fifteen; but this advanced age ia only attained in comparatively wealthy bomea. In Nubia the poaitiuu of women is better. Though the clothing is even scantier than in IdSJP t, they have some idea of working embtuideiy. weaving mats, aud making latekets; iu*i they keep their houaea in better order, siweading the gulden aaiui on the floor and sway ing it clean. There are doors to all tne houaea, and auinetiuie* an lruo lock and even akm ick-r. Over the doorway there is au attempt at ornament, and a plate or saucer begged from a passing daha beaah is sometimes inserted. Before the door ia a row of round mad bins, like barrels, for storing corn; and there are separate pigaoo-honaee. The pigeons everywhere eat more than tbey are worth, and contribute greatly to the dirt of the houses in lower Egypt. Fever ia rare, considering the flltn, but there are stomach complaints and innumerable skin diaeaaee of great severity. Oph thalmia is said to be decreasing in Cairo since tlie opening of wider and bettor watered streets, but everywhere else it is very common, and aeems to lie carnal by the flies from child to child. There is' also a mysterious sleeping airlmees, alsmt which doctors differ; it ia always fatal. A man dimes home from his work, lies down, and (deeps ft* three day*, when he diea. It is impossible to get leave to make a mf-morfe*r exami nation, though English physician* have repeatedly attempted it Turkish Dainties. A c. >1 lection of sweet temptations much carried about in Pv* ia of the " stick jaw " deacriptiou; tee black, brown, red, white and yellow sutiatance* are disposed on a flat metal dish, divided into com partments radiating from the center, where there ia a revolving stick with the appreciative Iwirl round, and the dealer, with an iron skewer that serves for all,Moaont s halfpenny or farthing lick from the aweeW at which the point mav atop. But these dealer* are gen- , ' erally Persians; our Oamanli ia of s su perior order, and be gravely waits the approach of customers; they quickly' gather round, among them two little Turkish girls under tlie charge of an eld man in a cotton drawing gown ami large white turban. Hie little maiden* are on their way to the day school of the qnarter, for their gold-embroidered school hags are slung over their shoul ders, but they stop soberly at sight of the " scheker" and enter upon a serious bargain on the subject of candy,exacting, with much show <•[ experience,tlie largest 1 lumps obtainable for ten paras; they i are, however, slightly distracted during the negotiations qy the rival charms of the " mohaUbe " vluch aa Albanian is dispensing at a neighboring house doer. "Mohalibe " is a sort of oold jelly com gonqfl of ground rice and milk; it is served in annopm, powdered with sugar arid sprinkled wUi roaewater; in the proper season a tump of clotted cream, ( called cjumak. is adSod. There is noth ing prettier ami more tempting than the moludibe trays, when the white jelly in covered with a dean wet cloth and sur rounded with gayly-colored and gilded 1 saucers, while a richer display of orna mental porcelain ri*ea in tiers at tlie back. Then there are the slim metal arrow-shaped sjmons, and the Oriental looking flask of roaewater with its slen der neck. Tlie costume of the " molia libedji" completes the picture; he wears tlie broad Albanian fee, with a ponderous dark blue tassel, ami a large striped cloth is bound round him like an apron. ( Tbtiplc Bar. A Town ©f Dwarfs. A writer in the London TV we* de senile* tho effect of excessive inter marriage on the ui!win taut* of Brotea, a little town in tlie province of Bantander, B]win. Until eighteen or nineteen years , ago, Ui© village wraa quite shut off from tlie rest of the world. Its inhabitants, from llieir ever-recurringiutermarriages, hod become quite rare of dwarfs. Oil i 1 market day* tlie priosts might he seen, with long'black coats and bigh black hats, riding fn to purchase the simple provision for tlie Week's consumption, men of little intelligence aud no learn ing, sprung * from fho 6• West ranks. About eighteen yeiira ago, tlie Oalician j laborara, of Oalitigoos, from tne mines of Galicia, * warmed Into the town for lodg ' jug, etc., ami aincc tlioir colonization the 1 population has increased in strength, : tatun\ cilucatiou. intelloct, and moridi ! ty. Their intellect*, also, have im- ' proved—intellects wliich have lieen stunted, dwarfed, and ruine<l by their froqnent iutormarriogc*. A Poetical Pastor. The pastor of one of the faahiauable chnrchoi of Detroit, Mich., i* a poet. For years he ha* hail s small clock in a convenient place under tlie reading desk by which he eonld note tho hour without hieing time by taking ont hi* watch. The clock was lost sorao time ago and the pastor, who missed it very much, sent to one of his favorite parishioners the following noto on a postal card: Your pastor very uioekly suggest* Without vsnturiug any decided liehests | That a Una-piece to the pulpit annexed May keep the peoptt from beihg vexed j By Hermoim Uiat run to excessive length And tax the popular ]iatkinea and utrength. I'erliaps an bonr-glas* might do as veil By which the pannage of time to tell; With a beadle to tap with hia gentle rod Not only the hearer who ventures to nod But the' preaclier whose wqrds continue to run When the sand in the glass aay* he cught to ba done. That pastor got hia time piece. NUMBER 31. Why the Barometer KHea *nd falls. First of all, what ia a InuroiMtw ? It 1 ia • tab© or pip®, eloaed at one end rod 1 i open t tliu other, made of none trana } pormt materiel, Mich n* glaaa, •" that H in* be Meeu through. Tlua'Mbe ie AiloJ with the melted metal ; colled mer 1. cury, iud, when quite fall, the immb placed ovr the open eod (an aa to keep the mercury from felling eat), tend the 11titie ie turned npeide mown. 8o the closed end ie et the kip, the open end it the bottom, rod, if the thumb were ro ' mured, the mercury would, at course, 1 run out. But now suppose you wished not U> WKr.tr any, and so put the open end a# the tube into a basin with aofne mercury in it, atul then remove your thumb, what would happen f "Why, the mercury would all run out in the 1 haain," some one will aay. But this ia s mistake, aa the Italian philosopher Turricrlli found out; and whatever aise or length of tube be taken, the whole ef the mereury will not run out, but a length of about thirty inches of the tube wiU remain full of mereury, aud you , cannot make it run out into the basin unless you either pull the opes end of the tube out of the mercury or make a hole in the closed end of the tuba. This punled TonriMHfor a long time, until at last the thought struck kun that the only thing whicu was on the mer cury in the basin was the ah, and that it' was probably the weight at the air press ing on the metal which prev.mtol its running out into the beam. *lf no," ' tliougiit TutriotUi, " thus if I take my tube and basin of mercury up s moun tain, less sad lees of the tube will re main full, for there ia evidently leas air shove the bantu at the top at the moun tain than ut the bottom." You maybe sure he didn't wait very king before be mite the experiment; and to kis great delight, ha found the mereury getting lower and tower in the lobe, thus prov ing that k really was the weight of the air that kept it in the tube at all; and a the instrument was celled a barometer, < which ia derived from the Greek, sad means in plain English a ♦'weight measurer." But it the barometer ia watched ft ! will be found to contain different quanti ties of mercury on different days. On a fine day the mercury will, aa a rule, stand higher in the tube than on a wet day or just before rain; and now for the 1 reason of this: Why does the barometer rite (or, rather, the mercury in it) in due weather, aud fall when it ia going to be wet? * * • Now, dry air ia much heav ier than wet air, or air oontaininf steam. The consequence ia, that when the sir gets moist it baewmea lighter, and presses less aa the mercury of the ba rometer, so more mercury flows out into the basin, snd.cKKiaeqaeuUy, less re- SHIM in th tuts*, or, as we usually % press it, the barometer fsita. Now, i when the air is very wet, there ia, of course, more eliance of rain than when it ta drv, for rain ia formed by the cooling 'of the steam contained in moist air.— JMfc Fb/hi. i • Japanese *ig Aheps. 1 The great thoroughfare thus lined lsy gay shops pod brilliantly illumined by < gas lamps, would in itaelf be snftdenuy attrsetive; but at this season of the year 1 it ia rendered much more so by the preseiiae of " night shops,' wlpou ax lend in almost a ouuunuoua line fuim Kio bsahi to Buxikei. Tlieaa shops are kept by very poor who came ont (wvwetm eight and nine o'clock in the evening and star till eleven or erwn Inter. Their mode of doing business ia very simple. Each merchant spreads his meager display of goods oo a mat in the gutter, on one corner of which be ska, keeping a sharp lookout for the depre dators who crowd about his exposed property. The wane on sale are of the cheapest description, of enurse, but , are attractively arranged, rod pake a pretty appearance, often, in tha weird -hiaro o*curo at the torch lamp at tal low saturated paper. Generally second hand, hut sometime* new, they comprise almost all kinds of goods in common re quest, such as domestic utensils, books, sandals, gotaa, "ehop-sticka," mats, flowers rod " curios " at every sonoeiva ble an 1 inoonoeivable shape and purpose. Some stoaks are, oollectively, of otitaid erable value, but in many -cases a Ive dollar note would buy out the entire es tablishment But to moat of their cua turners such an amount of ready cash ia undreamed at wealth; and few of the transactions mount to a higher sum than that for which copper eoina can sgfioe aa a medium of exchange. f Most of these tradesmen hade other occupations during the daytime or go about the streets, with boxes of their backs, picking no trifles at low prices when thev can find a promising bargain within Gieir capital. Some, again, axe •eat out by established houses |o work off cheap "and diumagad goods. When ! not engaged in business, thev may be t ; found in very dirty bouses called by the Japanese uradann, or back-shops, in inner courts rod mlseralde localities where they make a shift to livf. Bat despite thur deep poverty they ieem to sliare the happy disposition of their na tion, rod a passer-by who stop* to ex amine their wares will find them polite, pleasant and clever. And oooaaiobally it will be worth his while to examine the wares, as, now and then, really wry prett v articles may be picked up at very low pr.cea. And the purchaser, sharp as he mav think his Iwugain, may rest assured thai he has sent one poor soul happv to bed that night over unnccrta tmned profits.—TWNo Wate*. An Interesting Keielntonary Belle, A powder horn picked 'ip on tfie bat tle-fleld of Bennington by Samurl Cul ver, a soldier of the revolution, ia na , interesting relic of the struggle of the colonies for independence. It is • large horn, more than s foot in lcugtfat and a map worked out on it from Lake Ontario to New York. We find on it distinctly marked in the form of printed letters, the words: Lake Ontario, Oawegq, Lake George, WIKKI Creek, Fart Eli ward, Saratoga, Stillwater. Bkewacet, Albany, New York, with some other name*, the signature at the l>oMom is ""Cant. (Corporal) Charles Hoyedelufcto, gf. li., j 1758." This indicates the owner and the dote. The name ia hardly English ur French; it may be Hessian. It ig a vwhiable and interesting relic, and helps , ' to expound the history of those times. S The maker of this map evinced a skill in making letters which cannot be ex- i celled at this day; he doubtless under stood the geography of the country from Canada to New York city, as well as could have been understood by pnynne ' in those timss. Without Interest, A Paris paper has Hie following : A capitalist is just alxrat leaving Paris fear' America on pressing business, when he misses his poeketbook containing 20,000 francs. He cannot afford to lorn an hoar, , and ao. with mnch agony, he goee on his way. At the end of the year he returns, hurries to the prefecture of police,details his loss, and—joy, learns that his wallet :ia in the bureau of lost objects. Thither he goee, obtains it, and, with trembling i Angers aud eager spectacles, counts its contents, makes a hurried calculation, i and his jaw fall*. 1 " Well," said the clerk, " isn't it all J right ?" "No," says tha baroD, "it ia short." " Short ? How much ? What do you | find there f" I "The year'a interest." , f *fb if l ft * | "3 : 4i Y If 'I j # *' ii 1 ' IHM r lattran. Hhmw — w — can collar moot any thine. About every iwmedy irm tried 00 the rioter* except lino gCm*. Tbo Hew Yrnhfrate trump rteato the OIOUMS off at acar* OF©** aet up M the field*. Diaaiaaaid to dartre theeedin# <* Northern Mobmn Stat*. to the United | ! ' * of ItUkM flfifi,ooft.flfift emth of liquor 0 v ( *rto haooafetbr thlrto at Haw York oily. v * * ♦t ■ The oldeat eort of iw mnope on record to the hmd buabajid, who Uee übed 'Tlilliglt. •• Whet would ym Ai, BWMlaa, if yon wore e geutiemau ? "JUr, yrfcat would you 4o a you aoro <rt* 7" A women 1# not lit to hive* Iwby who AWM'4 know how to holir i\ end this 1* M true ot e tmur a* of * baby. The average annual watue of import* into Turkey to *Ji*M00,000; export*. about fW,000,000. TW hmrmiaa* Htnth Aftn'rlow *iiiiDsl, 0u anneSSfwheu in Wer.boU* iteeU • into * bull end beeome* very W. The Jevuequfrrel Otoe town <-w to toe* by * membrane atretehed like * eeU. They are about eighteen inch*# long. At Toroote, Caned*, the new* boy* her* a temperance lodge. The flrat one organised with rtgbteea active member*. The eemmitmant# la* orimee in 1881 j in Ireland were 9,902, of whoap 262 were ; TV *i-„r r.i' 'of rinn* fa very ancient. | At one time it— pStbited in Borne in all meehamee and men of mean con dition. II *- L ' the provost marshals four muuifH tu ouonoi ud ahoot * *PJ. and the cz*r loudly cooplafca of loet ttoae. Dobba, rm being adkaflif h< b*d MHO th •• bridge o 4 rig km," replied "Y*l bnh*mln*lwe * aaoel VM martuaL" .* , In lUly July is the month of ** d ; Auguat the mouth of wine. If the ftrat the Roman pea—fit* H*P', to the second they gather the grapes. It en be shown by any one* having a few hours lo apare, that it always raina whenever auyoa* guar on a picnic ex peetong to have a good time, f A little girl yesterday, whfle watching the mm. turned to her another and Mud * " Ma. I fima the weather'a ao wann it's melting to*- cloud*." A man named Bpott, of Nashville, to be able to cure the bite of a mad dog in fIW minutes, hot he keeps aa far away from mad daga aa any one else. J Greene baa 101 journals and periodi cal pobhoattona, which gwro ooe for each 1L 434 inhabitants. Ihennmberuf political journal* ia eighty-two, of which thirty-six appear at Athena. The world's mutual production of sugar aggregates 8,140,000 ton* of cane sugar, 1,32u,0ufl tana of beat-root sugar, 150,000 tons of date sugar, 90,000 tons of maple sugar and .20,000 kma of sorg hum sugar. The largest of the pyramids in Egypt ia 543 feet high and 033 feet on the odea, its base eoeara eleven actea. ami many of the stones sra above thirty feet in length. To cunafruct jt 080,000 men were employed. 4 Massachusetts machinist has spent fifteen yearn of his We getting up an Automaton which oat plainly aay: "How do you do r He ought now u. get up another which will snrwer: "None of your bumneee. Tim ancendancy of Europe over the other three-quarters of the- world in modern agee is .Attributable to the dis covery of gunpowder, made by a monk about 1300. This ia the only discovery traceable to thaf class. A public reader asp that when he be gins to declaim t|e staring piece pmn mencing: "Strikethe lyre: the effect at the to* seflteßeA on aome of hie bear ers can only heeompased to what follows the ery <*t."low bridge," on a canal boat. a- " • Snimsls jpav think, but sometimes they do not think very fast. 4 cow got into a garden, in Rome, N. T. and it her half mi Hour to make up her mind where to go oak A man.amr dog were flooding her miari with toiarmation ail the time, too, A peculiar way of discharging printers exists in Dayhii (Ohio) ofltoes. Each compositor has (t nail to hang his oust on, and When the forenmn conclude* to dispnarr with the earvmss d one of the hands, he takes a hammer and drives the nail to to the head. * At last, ' When Ufa is oM. * And vanished see its Jressas. WVI prospect* bright or dart unfold! Will soavs sirs eoms with Mart* of buds sad balms And puipw mamma Uft their ftwuied natass la low honsons of far ssss of gold t Or BTrtMt i voirrless rnght enfold Cs in its dulsoas asms Asd leave scold Hew Caake Stepped the JUhge Thunder. Daring the early day of Oftoke, the celebrated ector, he would "hato attend ed every performance a* the theater, but his funds would not permit, and many were the schemes he Jevpwsl for a sur reptitious entrance. One of these, told bT himself, extremely hrdfetou*. One night be akippad through the adage door before the keeper was posted, or aay of the employs* about, his way behind the scenes, sought for a place where be might remain concealed untfl the rurtaia rear, when h# hoped to be able to ensconce toman* to aome ob scure spot unobserved and got a glimpse of the performance. In A remote corner he found a very Urge barrel— nothing could l>e better for bis purpose. Drop ping himself into it be found t the bot tom two twwttty-four-pound cannon Ipdls, about which, however, he did not trouble himself. little did he imagine that he had taken refuge to the machine by which the theater produced its stage thunder. But m it was. Just as the last bats of the overture were being played, the property man tied a piece of carpet over the top of the barrel, with out perceiving in the dark its living oc cupant, raised it In hie arms, no doubt wondering at its extraordinary weight, and oarried it to the aide scenes. The play was "Macbeth," which opens with thunder and lightning. As the curtain Mil sounded, awav be sent the machine rolling. Horrfblv frightened, and pound ed by the cannon balls, Cooke roared oat lnstflv, and fighting to release himself, seat the barrel oa to the atage, burst off the carpet head, aud rolled out in front of the audiouoc, scattering the three witches right and left ' * ; ® ' ' Imiii'* * Exports and tmporN. During the month 'of June, the im ports of merchandise into the United Britten exceed the efcpOrts "in value by $4,625,609. For the twelve months ended Juae 30th, life excess of exports of merchandise over imposts .was $151,- 913,482. During tlse preeedjn g fiscal year the exports exceeded tfeft. imports in value by $79,543,181. The total exports of domei-tio merchaadise for the twelve months ended June 30, 1876, was $525, - 582,241 ; for the twelve months ended June SO, 1877, $5*1,586,159, an increase of $04,000,000. Ths exports of foreign merchandise tor the -twelte months ended June-30, 1876, WeTe $14,802,424 ; for the twelro moaths ended June 30, 1877, $12,746,845," a decrease of $2,000,- 000. The imports for 1876 wrse $460,- 741,190; tor 1877, $450,419,522, a de crease of $10,000,000. In-1876 the total exports of specie, including exports of foreign specie, was $56,506,302, against an importation of $15, 99fT,681, showing a net outflow of $40,509,621. Ia 1877 the exports of specie amounted to $56,- 061,934, and the imports to $40,736,172. showing an excess of exports of $15,325,- 752. The total exports of merchandise and specie for theflimal year ended Jane 30. 1877, was valued at $§58,394.255, and the imports at $491,155,194, giving an excess of export* of $167,239,244. The preceding twelve months the excess of exports was $12(4213,104 The aggre gate of the trade in 1877 was $1,149,550,- 622; in 1876, $1,072,568,844, showing an increase in 1877 of about aeven per cent , V - *-£t - • - wit:*-.,: , .>r-a
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