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
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