lite.
Oar slender life run* rippling by, and glide*
Into the intent hollow of the past;
What i* there that abide*.
To make the neat age better for the laat ?
Life memo a ject of fate'a contriving.
Only seen re in every one'* conniving
A long Account of nothing*, paid with lo**.
Whore we, poor puppet* Jerked by un*een
wire*,
After one little hour of atrnt and rave,
With all onr partehoard pa**ion and desire*.
laivo*. hate*, ambition* and immortal lire*.
Are tneaed jxll niell together in the grave.
Ah ! Uiere in something here.
Unfatliomod by the cynic'* *neer-
Somcthing tlut leap* life'* narrow bar*.
A aeed of sunshine that doth leavwu
Our earthly dullneea, witli the l*am of *tara.
And glorify our clay.
With light from fountains, ,iM<>r.tli*ii the
day.
Miltiadc* lYterkin I'anl fa tluilty of
" ricking and Stealing."
Little Miltiadc* IVterkin Paul,
Going down to Uic |>ot-oM<* on* day in fall,
A* h* loitered along the road, chanced to espy
A tree thick with fruit in an orchard olo*e by.
" Oho!" h* cried gleefully. •• Fee !—Fo ! Fi!
Finn!
These are nice li cking russets—l guess I'll
have some.
I cant stand by and see good fruit hxug there
and rot
I really cant do it indeed I cannot!"
r*. little Miltiade* Petorkin Paul.
Having looked aU around, lest perchance Uncle
Sol
(That wa* what people calleit Mr. Solomon Sly,
Whoae orcliard it was"* ahould be watching
close by,
He got over the wall aud climbed into the
tree—
(Oh, there never was such a smart climber
he!)
And preseutly found himself high in the tree
top.
With more apple* about him than ten men
could eat up.
Then he braced himself flnuly and tasted a
few ;
And finding them quite to hi* taste, be set to,
Devouring one after another until
• In a very short time he had eaten his AIL
And he breathed a most heart-rending sigh a*
he ceased.
*' Ah ! they aay that enough i* as good as a
feaitt,"
Murmured little Miltiade* IVerkin Paul.
"But I can't eat enough. Urn so dreadfully
small.
"I'm determined, however, 1 won't leave them
alh-
Ooctinned MilliaJes Peterkin Paul.
"I have several big pockets, I U Just All them
too—
It won't do any harm to lay in a few,"
Which was no sooner thought of, be sure, than
'twas done.
He staffed all his pockets quite full, every one.
Then he cautiously turned him about on the
limb,
To crawl back—when a frightful thing hap
pened to him.
Alas, poor Miltiades Peterkin Paul!
There came a great crash—then he felt himself
fall
Down—down, with a rush and a bump; and I
fear
That his life and adventures had ended right
here.
But that, kicky for him! his gray oordnrov
jacket
(Which was quite new and stout) wa* to big in
the back it
Caught him fast on the end of a limb ; and lo!
there
Young Miltiade* helplessly hung in mid air.
Then little MUtiadcs Peterkin Paul,
Almost frightened to death, began straightway
to bawl
At the top of his voice : " Oh, dear ! Help !
00-00-oo !
And hi* cries, being heard in the neighboring
lot.
Quickly brought Mr Solomon Sly to the spot.
Who. perceiving our hero, said grimly : " Ho!
ho!
What's the meaning of all this, I'd just like to
know ?
That's a queer sort of fruit for my trees to be
bearing!
What is that that you say? Help you?
Humph ? Well, now. really,
I should *ay you'd been heqnng yourself pretty
freely.
I am taut I can't *t op t# lend my as-i*tance ;
Bat the fact i* o'er I mast travel some
distance.
Just have patience, and mvytc you'll get ripe
and fall.
My dear young Miltiade* Peterkin PauL"
MAY'S HOME.
May Linton ! sweet May Linton I" he
murmured, as he went home from liis
busiuess.
Home! It was only a dingy boardmg
honse, ruled over by a dwarfed and
wizened landlady, in a purple worsted
shawl. But May dwelt there—sweet
May, with her girlish grace and ready
laugh, and her braids twisted round a
high comb on the top of her little bead.
She met him in the hall.
" I'm so glad to get home !" he said.
Her face flushed a little, and her eyes
grew more full of light. It was so easy
to see why he was glad.
"I only came in myself a moment
since," she returned, and stopped, em
barrassed at liaving answered his mean
ing rather than his words.
But young men are lees observing of
these little inner shades than yonng girls,
for they are not required to guard the
expression of their feelings, and Harry
Bender was too happy to notice, or, if he
did, it Bounded quite right.
They were drifting toward that hour '
when some word or look would prove the
open sesame, to their nutried hearts,
and then there would lie a silence fall of
speech, into which s kiss would come
of its own acoo'rd, to be remembered
ever after as the awakening from a vague,
sweet dream, into the sweetest reality on
earth.
It all happened just so; and then there
were a few happy weeks of extra work,
and much planning of days in store.
One morning, with light hearts, and the
unspoken conviction tint uot even a
moral earthquake could unsettle their
well-secured happiness, Hsrry Bender
and sweet May Linton, accompanied by
May's Aunt Dodo, went to church, and
were married with the same ceremony
which the strange minister used for the
„ uniting of couples whom God or Mam
mon liad joined together.
There was precious little Mammon in
this case. Nobody took any bridal tonr.
They never thought of the little expe
dient practiced by the steady young
business man, who, seeing that his bride
had set her heart on conforming to the
custom, sent her off alone for two or
three dayß, while he worked in the office,
as usual.
The wizened landlady had hart their
feelings by raising the rent of the room
prospectively.
" A family is a great disadvantage,"
she had said.
Bnt Harry and May thought a family
was jnst the nicest tiling in the world,
and after their wrath had died down,
tried to pity the landlady for not seeing
the matter from their stand-point.
At last the family was born. It was a
very small one, and Harry addressed it
as couleur de rose.
Three or four months later they moved,
for May declared she would not live
"where darling baby is considered a
nuisance."
Harry wrote to Aunt Dodo about this
time, and May put in a postscript.
THE LETTER.
" DEAR OLD ANGEL,— Nothing par
ticular is happening except perfect hap
piness. We are living in a nasty little
Siggy room, twelve by twelve, which
[ay keeps as nice, or nioer, than can be
expected; and we don't often condescend
to pay attention to the ontside bar
barians.
" May is the prettiest picture at this
moment. She has got Miss Bender in
the bath-tub, and Baby is splatting the
FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME X.
water all over every thing, while May has
gone off into a gale. 1 must go aud keep
things irom falling, for when May laughs
she get* so weak. Her laughing so
much, sensibly depreciate* her market
value as a wife and mother, of course.
"My salary is rie twenty dollars a
month, and 1 am saving to buy—well,
never uiiml what; yon shall come ami
see u* wheu it is b >ug!it,
"Your not infelicitous
" Hakhy Hkspkh.
" May w ill a M a P.S."
xiav's P.a
" Dkakkmt Aintt,- If you were only
with u*—though, to l>c sure, 1 don't
know where we could put you, unless
you could go to sleep under my jaunting
table, uow transformed into an ironing
table, or curl up in the baby's bath-tub.
" The idea of Hal's pretending to keep
the great secret a mystery to yon ! That
was only his sweet w ay of leaving me the
pleasure of telling it.
"You kuow, Perth, where the Wo si*
went that summer f Well, there is a
little house of four rooms not ten min
utes" walk from tin depot of the Long
Hnuioh railroad, which goes near that
little old village. The little house is not
very pretty now, hut it can lc made so,
and, oh, iov ! it i* dirt cheap. (This i*
Hal'* cultured remark, ami of course
good enough for Hal's wife !)
"Aunty, think of it! 1 am nearly
wild: a home, a little house to lie the
mistress of, ami for Hal to come to !
" Well, we have saved one hundred
ami seventy dollars, ami only need three
huudred and tlnrtv more, which Mr.
Chain, is goiug to advance to Hal.
" There is a brave old oak, and plenty
of greenery all around us, aud the great
wide hay in sight, where Hal says the
biggest ships that
'Sail the seas over'
can come right in, and there are walks to
lovely places. So you see we are goiug
to a healthy neighborhood fur my pre
cious isinb of love.
•• lam so well, and life is so sweet! I
often have little weep* all hi myself for
sheer happiness. Happiness is good for
jieoplc, Aunt Dodo. Away witli the false
theory of the uses of adversity! lam
not half so selfish and thoughtless as I
was. 1 may lie a trifle vain, but Hal
keeps telling me that my temper is only
a little lower thiui tlie angels, and that I
a:a bis i Lilty jt. (Isn't that too
frantically imbecile ?) It is lucky that
baby cannot understand Hal's nonsense.
Hal must learn to sin-nk English in the
bosom of his family before Miss Bender's
talkiug day* come.
" Yon had bettor read my eud of the
letter first, and call his the postscript
I meant to tell you all about baby, but I
have no time now. You are coming to
see us as soon as we get settled, ltabs
sends a honey-kiss. Ginni-by.
" Your beatitudinous Mar BEXUKK."
Five year* passed. May and Aunt
Dodo sat togetlier in the cottage which
was to have been an * rthly panuiise.
Notliiug had gone wrui.g tint anybody
could have helped, apparently, hut some
how the glory had rubbed off. May sel
dom laughs! till she was too weak to
hold the baby ntiwadav s. Her arms were
oftener inclinevl to feel heavy from fa
tigue; but then this was the third baby,
ami a much more exacting one thau
"Miss Bender " hail lieen.
It was delicious June. Tlie white
sails went up the bay, and took Venetian
colors from the sunset.
" You look, timl, May ; give me the
baby."
"No, Aunt I>olo; it would only save
a drop in tlie bucket of my tiredness.
It is quite chronic," said May, with a
laugh, which I am glad Harry did not
hear. Laughter without a heart iu it
has a bad effect on a man in his own
home.
" Do yon always have that pain in
your back f Doesn't it ever stop?"
"Never." answered May. "That is,
it never does when I am awake, and I
ofteu dream that I am being sawed in
two at the spine, so it is to be supposed
it goes on when I am asleep."
" I wish you would see a doctor," said
Aunt Dodo, peeling apples.
" Harry thought as yon do," May re
marked, when she came back from put
ting the baby to sleep in its cradle in
the next room.
" Thought what ?" asked the old lady,
wonderingly.
"Oh, nothing. About the doctor."
" What was that ? I forget. Oh yes,
about your pain."
" I wish I oonl 1 forget it one minute
m my life. One minute's utter rest 1"
said May. " Harry did go to one," she
continued, " though I begged him not
to waste the moucv, for, as yon know,
we shall lose the house if that mortgage
is foreclosed, and every dollar tells ; but
he would. Poor Hal!" said the wife,
wiping her eyes. "He said mv temper
needed curing, if my back diifn't. It's
very hard on him, my being so nervous.
What do you suppose the doctor told
him?"
" I'm sure I don't know."
May laughed again.
"He advised him to take me to
Europe."
" Did yon ever ?"
" He told Hal that five women out of
ten hod more or less of the same thing,
and that rest wss the only cure—rest of
body and mind."
" Did he know how yon were situ
ated ?" asked Mrs. Puikham.
" I don't imagine he could have taken
Hal for a millionaire," replied May.
" I rather think it was veiled satire on
tiie doctor's part. There is a resort, I
understand, where the most absolute
repose both of body and mind is en
joyed. "
" Where, my dear ? If you could only
go!"
" Yes, I think so sometimes," said
May; " but there is little hope for along
time yet. We do a deal of bending
before we break. Aunt Dodo. Be
sides, there are the children." She
looked np fiercely. Was this hollow,
despairing face that of " sweet May
Linton?" "The life of mothers in
poverty is more cruel than that which
criminals lead as punishment for their
crimes," she said, with bitter conviction.
Aunt Dodo Baid nothing, bnt while
May took a heavy pot from the fire, she
wiped her aged eyes with her sleeve, still
holding the apple knife.
"Why, aunty," said May, turning,
" are you trying to scalp yourself ?"
Aunt Dodo dropped her arm, and May
knelt at her side ami put her arms about
her. A tall form stopped in the doorway,
but neither saw.
"It is not quite what we expected of
life, is it, aunty ?" said Mav. ' ' But God
and heaven and hope and love remain
just the same, only the present is hard,
and hides the truth from us at times.
You must not believe," she went on,
"that Hal and I are less dear to each
other than of old; but when he coincsin,
full of his politics, and angry at this
man, and eager about that one, and finds
a cross, faded wife, who somehow seems
to blame him, I dare eay, though she
never means it, and when the children
trouble him with their noise, and don't
look as neat as they used; and I feel all
| the time while I'm getting the Bupper
as if I could die of pain, and weariness
worse than pain, or give one dreadful
shriek and go mad, and get rid of it all;
and I have to fight it down, and go on
seeing to fifty things at once, don't you
see, dear, we cannot exactly l>e as we
were five years ago? And yet if I were
to die, don't you suppose I know how
Hal would feel, not counting the need of
me for the children or the work, bnt just
THE CENTRE REPORTER
the lima of tne and tuy lore? And if
Hal ahoul.l Iwi brought homo from cute of
th.*c political meetiugsko speak no word
of anger or hope alxuit auv uian, or any
word to mo ever agsiu " M*y roe.' and
clasped her haiula " atinty, ' would be
worse, a thousand times worse, tliau it
would haw boon five yoars ago, w hen 1
wsa hi* ittv bitty pa'idge." And May
aoblxsl wildly.
A deeper nob, like an who, Htartled
tiiem, and they *aw Harry, who, with
hi* head on hi* arm, hail suuk into a
chair by the dour.
" My May ! mv poor little love !" be
cried, as he took Iter in hi* arm* and
looked iuto her eye*, " 1 came home to
night a very angry and obnoilou* fellow.
I have loat the election, nu.l, what *
worse, Martin ha* gained it. Hut uow 1
am glad, and not worry, for 1 am going to
spend my time and strength in serving
my May instead of mv country."
And Harry was a* good a* hi* word.
Six-eighths of the time he hiul giv.u to
political excitement lie restored to his
huaiuess, and the mortgage was cleared
from the homestead in a short time. The
hour* at home were fauns of mutual
help and lmruiouy; for a atroug deter
mination will carry all I adore it, like the
turn of the tide.
M-uy a rest on the little louuge, while
the maiil-01-all-work was putting the
kitchen to rights after tea, did May en
joy.
Many au evening, when the children
were asleep, her hnstuuid sat lieeide tier,
her sensitive clinging spirit resting in his
loviug presence, and her straiucd nerves
relaxing from their long fatigue.
" Harry," said Aunt Dodo, during u
flying visit, " liaj'piues* is the la*st ami
truest condition, of course, hut 1 think
you will ugrre with me that the happi
ness we have fairly won is worth the
most; and, May, we can not really de
serve it until we have learned the
uses of atiti rtity."—Harjnr't JUtzar.
A Burglar's HUM*.
Tim Brady, alia* Oscar I>. Peterson,
recently captured iu New York, aft r a
long chase and desperate ntiileiKV, has
been known to the polieeas a shrewd,
daring aud aueceaaful burglar for a liuw
berofyeara. He was brought up iu New
York eitv, and was probably born there,
ami is about thirty-five year* of age.
The manner in which he sj>ent his youth
is unknown, but his acquaintance and
standing among the " profeastunals"
seem to indicate an early start in ras
cality. In all his operations Brady has
lceu celebrated for coolness, impudence
and success. The robbery of a Philadel
phia Itank ml Mint seven year* ago fur
nishes a good illustration. The bank was
about to close for the day, when Brady,
in a policeman's uniform, entered the
office and told the cashier that the
|Hlioe-sergeaut of that precinct had
ordered him to Step iu and say that
suspicious-looking men luul been seru
hanging aronnd the Itauk, and it was
deemed DCWaarr to send assistance to
the night-watchmen who regularly
guarded tlie bank's vault*. This was
reported to the watchmen, anil they
were not surprised when four men iu
uniform came to the door just as dark
ness was setting in, and said they hail
eomo to help in guarding the bonk.
Suddenly Brady uttered an exrlaimation,
and pointed up the street. *' What's
tlie matter ?" askel one of the watch
men. " Tw-1 men just slunk around the
corner," whispered Brady ; " let's ua
follow tliein," Brady and "the watchman
stole out of the building aud spent a
quarter of an hoar prowling about the
corner. When they returned to the
darkness of the bank bnilding, the
wratchman WHS suddenly knocked down,
gaggdl aud I M mnd, as h * companion
had tieen, while he was at the corner
w-ith Brady. The robiiers then pro
ceeded in the most lea-iureiy manner—
having a whole uiglit before them
to rifle the safes, which they easily
forced open, and they ilepart"d without
molestation in the morning. Brady was
credited with the suocesa of this crime,
and the watchman to whom the police
gave a private view of the burglar
thought they recognized him, but dared
not swear to hi* identity. Hence lie
escaped, though evidence has since been
found which cotild convict him.
Trade Union*.
The number of trade organizations in
the United States are comparatively few.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Ku
gineers, who figure so prominently in
the present great railroad revolt, was
organized in 18t53, ami hi s a membership
of about 14,000, and nearly 200 branches.
Candidates for admission to the Brother
hood must bo white men, not leas than
twenty-one years old, able to rend and
write, of temjienite habits and good
moral character, and with at least one
year's experience as an engineer. 'I he
following is a list of the societies with
branches in different States :
/•••*. r
li<At finm#Ae. # tj
International TTpographical
Union lata 175 10.950
Machinist* and HUrkmnitbi 1*59 181 0.000
Inm MIWITH' AnsHiitmn 1*59 152 7,500
llrotherhood of Iyoeono't iVP
Engineers IHC3 19*4 14,000
Jouniermen Tailors National
Trade Union ... . .1*0.5 40 2. *OO
Cornier*' International l'nion.l*7o ft* 5,000
cigar Makers' Union l*"l 108 5,<>00
Miners' National Union 1*73 347 35,315
Uluted Sons of Vulcan .... 1*74 ... 4.000
The Miner's Union comprises organi
zations which existed for years in differ
ent States—Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois,
Indiana, lowa, Maryland, Missouri,
Kansas, Tennessee and West Virginia.
The society of the United Sons of Vul
can comprises iron pnddlers and other
workers in metals. The local unions are
called "forges." In addition to the
hlkivc, there Hro the Bricklayers' National
Union, the United Order of American
Plasterers, the House Painters' Union,
the hat Finishers' Association, the
Knights of St. Crispin (shoemakers),
the Order of Morocoo Dressers, the
Jonrnevmen Horseshoers' Union, the
Society of Locomotive Firemen, and the
Mule Spinners of Cotton Factories.
An l'nMMnljr Slurp Fox.
The Somerset (Me.) Reporter is re
sponsible for the following story : The
fox which Mr. Fairgrievc# now linn <>c
cupiee H yard hack of the store, to wliich
Mr. Fairgricve's dog has free access.
The dog and fox are great friends.
They frolic together, plav "no end " of
jokes on each other, and live in the most
perfect harmony, save at "meal time."
The diacu-sion that a choice bit will call
forth is sometimes most interesting.
Mr. Fairgrieves gave the fox a hone the
Other day. The dog had been taught by
experience that it was no use for him to
try to capture it, so he retired into the
store to watch the proceedings, doubt
leas hoping something would turn np in
his favor. The fox ate what he wonted
of the bone and preferred to lay it away
for future use. The dog pricked np his
cars, but yawned aud betrayed no
especial interest. The fox dug a deep
hole, placed the juicy bone in the bot
tom, and. covering it over with earth,
" patted "it down. He then went into
his kennel, brought out an old dry bone
that he had kept away from the dog for
several days " out of pure cussedness,"
placed it in the hole over the sweet one,
covered it up with apparent care, and .
retired to his kennel to watch operations.,
The dog saw the fox safely housed, and,
j as he had done before, stealthily ap
proached the treasure, resurrected the
I dry bone and trotted off.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1877.
Peat fa of Thought.
He that rises fate hurries through the
day.
Example has more influence than au
thority.
Let a lie aloue, and it will run itself to
death.
(huu|>laiuers are always loud sud clam
orou*.
'The wicst of nieu is he who ha* the
most civility for others.
It is the heart aud not the tniud that
makes the true gentleman.
To be at once iu any great degree
loved and jiraised is truly rare.
Greatness may build the tomb, but
goodness must make the epitaph.
Everywhere endeavor to be useful,
and everywhere you wiU be at home.
Life is an outward oocujHition, an
actual work, iu all ranks and situation*.
Keep the horrors st srrn's length.
Never turn s blessing round to see
whether it has a dark side to it.
It is one of the most difficult things in
tlie world to persuade over selves that
any oue can love those whom we our
selves dislike.
'However many friends you have, do
not neglect yourself. Though you have
a thousand, not one of them loves you
so much as you ought to love yourself.
Whosoever j>ays s visit that is uot de
*irol, or talks longer than tfle hearer is
willing to attend, is guilty of an mjury
which he cannot rejmtr aud takes as ay
that which he cannot give.
Winter, which strijis the leaves from
around us, makes us see the distant re
gion* they formerly concealed ; so does
old age rob u* of our enjoyments, only
to enlarge the pro*jeet of eternity Ih--
fore us.
He that never changed any of his
opinions, never corrected any of his mis
take* ; and he who was never wise
enough to llud out any mistake# in
himself, will ut Is* charitable enough
to excuse what he reckons mistakes iu
others.
Tlie uiau who write*, sj**uks or medi
tates, without fa-nig wll RUeked with
fact* as lsndmurks to his umlcrstamliug,
is like a mariner who satfanlong a treach
erous oust without a |'ilot, or one who
ventures in tlie wnle oc-iui witliout
eitlier a rudder or cunpass.
There are but three ways for a inau
to revenge himself of the censure of tlie
world : to despise it, to return the like
or to endeavor to live sooato avoid it.
The liret of three is usually prevented,
the last is almost impossible ; the uui
veraal practice is the second.
With uiaiiv peraous the early age of
life is ]m**ci in sowing m their mm.fa
the vices that are most suitable to their
inclinations; the middle age gore on
nourishing ami maturing these vices;
and the fa.t age concludes in gathering,
iu pain and augo'.*h, the bitter fruits of
the most accursed seeds.
I)o not imagine that the pj>j>earance
of Biuiurea indicates sanctitv; it may
mean hypocrisy. To conceal one's own
griefs for tlie sake of cheering others be
token* a self-denying sympathy which is
the highest kind of Christianity, fat
us present the sacrifice of praise iu
whatever company we may Ik\
Idleness, as lias been truly said, is the
mother of crime; aud it is tin- trti rtad
to pi vert y. We re all so cuuntjtiiU*!
that our minds must lx' employed. Per
sons brought up idleness un<! luxury
often acquire bad habits, which they
never ran throw off through life, and
which anl in preiuaturc death. The as
sociation* in life are various, and all
ought to 1H employed in some useful
railing, and to faithfully discharge the
duties 6f that calling.
Take this wise lesson. Aspire to the
high places, and lrave those you now
hare for other beginner*. Aspire, hut
remember that you shall win them only
by present content, and by doing wrefl
what you have iu hand. You rearh
them only licrause yon have more than
tilled votir present place. If, because
you think yourself too g>xxl or too big
"for, you decline its duties, you will sim
ply demonstrate your unfitness for it;
the shrinkage will slip into a smaller
place.
Stand by your friends, let come what
may, is a good motto. If you don't
stand by them yon needn't exjwet them
to stand by you. So whether they be
friends of high or low degree, in affluence
or piverty, stick to them and don't stop
to inquire whether it w ill pay or whether
it will be pipular. Whenever you prove
traitor ami desert those who have stood
up for yon and helped your battles,
yon will find yourself without any
one to congratulate you upm your
achievements, or comfort yon in an evil
hour when misfortunes comes thick and
fast.
Home clear-headed fellow says there is
but one road to luippiness snd prosperity,
for either individuals or a nation, and
that iseconoiuyand a faithful p>rsiHtenoe
in the legitimate jiatbs of business. Hie
riches that come in an hour do more
harm thnn good. Hence we call upm
all g'Hx 1 people to stay the tide of wild
excess. Let man lie frowned upon in
sm-ioty where ho is living beyond his
means. Let sll true ami noble women
express their disgust at the extravagance
aud indecent display of the followers of
fashion. Aud so shall the nation lie
saved from the millstone that has drag
ged over republics to destruction; so
shall our yonng men find larger And no
bler devotion than that of money, and
modesty snd dignity shall not wholly de
sert English womanhood.
A I/Citer by Artenm* Ward.
Mr. Charles F. Browne—otherwise
Artemus Ward—once wrote a bright
letter to a little eight-year-old friend of
liia in Elmira, N. Y., and the <faz> ttr of
that town now prints thin letter for the
first time. He tells his "dear Amelia"
how much he misses her : " Why didn't
I put yon in n bottle and bring yon
down with me?" he aaya. " But I am
alwaya forgetting something. The
other day I went off ami forgot my Aunt
Sarah, and alie'a n good denl bigger than
yon nre. Mr. Ramaey ia also a very for
getful man. He frequently goes off and
forgets his washerwoman. * * * I
like you very much. 1 should like you
just aa well if you were twelve years
older. lam very singular about some
tilings. You spoke to me alwmt a boy
who ia my rival. I should feel very
sorry to kill that boy, but he may drive
me to it. lam in hopea that he will
take himself into a premature tomb—
that he may choke himself with a large
slice of pudding—but if he does neither,
1 shall feel forced to load him withohains
and read all iny lectures to him. That
will finish him. Hia boots may remain,
but the rest of him will have perished
miserably long ere 1 have got through!"
A Hat Stolen from a Man's Head,
The Baltimore Sun says that an old
gentleman from the country had his new
hat stolen from his head in that city,
and a shocking bail one substituted in
its stead by a shrewd thief. While look
ing in the shop windows some one came
up behind him, and gave his hat a tilt,
us he thought, and he paid no attention
to the rudeness. Ho strolled down to
the pout Qflloe, and there discovered to
Ims surprise that his own hat was gone,
and that he Iml on hiH head adilapidated
tile. The police could not find the fel
low who made the exchange.
FARM, HARDEN AMI IIOPKKHOI.It.
Kwinii
Giikkn Cons Ti'DOlxa. —Twelve ears
t.f corn grated, two quarts of milk,
four well-beaten -gg, oue teacup and a
half of sugar; mix aud bake in s butter
ed dish: bake three hours. Hwect com
sliotild be used.
Tomato Sai.ao. —Wipe and slice alxiiit
half a doseu tomatoes, lay tbeiu in a
naiad boil on a Imhl of green aalad; pour
over thrui tlie fell..sing: Halatl dre'siug
—Tut iu the iH.ttoiu of a pint Imiwl the
yolk of a raw egg and quarter of a salt
spoonfu! of salt; stir up, drop by drop,
tfiree tableeixMinfuls of olive oil, one of
vinegar or lemou juice and half s salt-
HjMMiuful of dry mustard, stirring until
Mill. MlGl.
Horr GisoKiinuKAi'.- Put oue cup of
dark lU. 'lsaacs, one-half cup of brown
Htigsr and one-half oup of bifttcr (or imrt
butter and part lard) into a jnui and set
it where it will ju*t coine to a boil.
Cool, and add oue teaKjMioufu] of giuger,
one-half of salt uiul oue egg. Stir in
one-half cup of sour milk and two and s
half cuim of flour; beat well, and last of
all add two even teaaponuful* of soda
dissolved iu oue-thtrd cupful of hot
water. Bake iu moderate oven until
well doue.
A CcrviUEK Diau. Peel ciieuuiliers,
cut thru) lengthwise ill half, soraj*' out
tlir TMLT if preferred, I Hl)] thrill ill
water well suited until tender, which
takes usually about half au hour; toast
ntCelv a few slice* of* light a tain liread;
lav t(ie cucumbers ujion thorn, nod pour
over the whole a MI tier witch na in used
for asjiaragus, which should, of course,
Is* prepared while the rarumbcc* are
cooking.
l'KAi it COBJU.EH. —Make a rich hisrait
cruet, put it, rolled thick, around the
diah; put in a layer of peaches, thru
huttrr and sugar, uud u very little flour,
then pewchc*, and no ou till the diah IN
full; cover with a thick rruat, cut a alit
in the center, and pour in ladling water
till full; Inke iti a moderate oven.
A Kits WAX TO COOK NKW POTATOI.
—Part* and choc thin; let ntoud ui cold
water half an hour; then drain and put
in half a pint of milk, a tahicMiiooufu! of
hutter and a little |M-pj>er and Holt, and
hake in the oveu one hour.
OMurxn KICK Pnuuxo. — MIX three
large apoonfulH of ground rice in a little
cold milk; let it lioil id tout tlfteeu min
uter, stirring all the while. When cold
add four eggs, a little lemon; attgar to
the taste, and Iwkc it one hour. Line
the diah with paste, or not,
Ml amp Merklas la llsrses.
A ixirrespt indent asks: la the hnhit
commonly United " stump auekiug " the
manifestation of some disease ? If so,
please give a remedy. I have never read
anything on the subject, hut 1 know that
there are quite a mimher f horaea which
have thia disease, if dim-one it ta.
Wind aucking, stump Hacking and
crih biting arc all one and the name
habit, ami, in some instance*, are the
mamfestatiou <>f a diaeaae; m others, the
liabit may have IM*CII acquired from old
and confirmed crib bitera. Some vetori
uarniua attribute it to a distortion of the
teeth, which have become worn away on
tlieir interior edge ao OH to ohow more or
lean of the yellow ltiiudc instead of the
enamel. Prof. Law nay*: The** worn
teeth are associated with tlie serious vice
of wind sucking i swallowing i and erncti
catioii, which leads to tympany, digea
tive disorder, and rapid haw of condition.
Tin* horse M-ieea tlie manger or otlier
solid object with his teetli, arches and
shorten* the neck, and makes a grunting
noise. The wind sucking tnav exist
without crib biting. It mar Is* (earned
hv standing idle near a crih . iter, and
always go* * on to disease and hww of con
dition. Tin* same authority prescribes
tlie following treatment; Suieor the front
of the monger with aloes or otlier hitters;
cover all t-xp'Med woodwork witli sheet
iron; tutixxle* may also be put ou nftcr
the horse has done feeding. Other
equally good authorities recommend cut
ting a lump of salt and one of white
chalk or magnesia in n l*u before tlie
horse, and k<*eping theae constantly
within roach. As we have moid, the
habit may be learned, but, in most in
stances, it may lie considered as n kind
•if dis|M>|isiu, and tlie burning acidity of
the stomach prompts tlie horse to get re
lief by sucking in cool air. The salt and
magnesia or chalk affords a similar mo
mentary relief, and frequently leads to a
permanent cure.
A flood Word for Ibe t row.
A letter to the Chautauqua i N. Y.)
Farmer says : Let me speak for the
crow. Lar-t year as 1 was harrowing
corn with a vibrating harrow having
teeth (you know it is a noisy thing), it
uncovered a great number of white
grids, which you could see all about the
ground. They are very destructive to
vegetation of all kinds. They ate or
destroyed thousands of hills of corn that
year. You could see the track of the
grubs as they traveled to get something
to eat, for they travel when in search of
food. You could seo the surface of the
ground a little elevated, aud cheeked
when the surface is hard and dry. Well,
yon sec, when I was harrowiug, as soon
as the crows heard the harrow at work,
they would come and light on the ground
that was being harrowed, and the ireslier
the better thev liked it; when going one
way they would light after I hnd passed
•long; when I returned, and come writhin
x or eight rods of them, they would
rise gently and circle around iu the rear
again. I have counted as many as
seventeen grubs t lint one crow had picked
up at one lighting. Hiey take any and
everything, largo and small—that is,
worms, gmlw and lieetles. Crows can't
pull corn when planted with a machine ;
we have uo fear of them from that
source. Finally, wherever civilization
is, there Are rooks and crows.
Japanese Progress
A letter from Yokohama, Japan, to
the Cologne dazrttr says: that the mint
at Osaka, which was ojMned ujxin the
direction of an Englishman, some years
ago, is now in full working order ; 100,-
000 oop|>er coins are turned out monthly,
and the number of gold aud silver coins
which are eventually to le brought
into circulation is 50,000,000 of the
former, and 3,000,000 of the lntter. The
receipts of the post-office for the past
year amounted to $595,000. About 30,-
000,000 letters, newspapers and parcels
were transmitted by tnc post, and 114
letters only were lost. The exports
during the season half of the year
amounted to $20,000,000; the imports
to 314,000,000. Of the former $15,000,-
000 represent the value of silk, silk
worms' eggs, and cocoons. The custom
revenues for Yokohama alone amounted
to $1,534,200. The riee harvest being
abundant, the government permitted its
exportation, chiefly to Corea, where a
famine was threatening in consequence
of the long continuance of dry weather.
A monthly line of steamers has been es
tablished bet weed Yokohama and Fusan,
in Oorea.
Two Bhirf Epistues.— I The following
brief epistles lately passed between Bos
ton anu Mount Desert:
SHE TO RIM.
Mocnt Desert, July —, 1877.
Daar John: Lots of pretty girls here. Do
come down. Haij.y.
HE TO HKH.
llohton, July —, 1877.
Dear Hally: Is>U of pretty girls here, too.
Can't get awsv from buaiaeM. JOHN.
Sally came buck to Boston the next
day.
The Turkish Minister of War.
The jHudia of ll*g.litd ia the despotic
ruler of the largest aud most important
province iu 'Turkey, lie ha* the com
mand of a large army which ia stationed
at Bagdad and other towns within his
|Muihalin, which is fawuded on the cant
and south hv the l'enuan frontier and
tlie Gulf. More tliau once ambitious
men holding tins position, no remote
from the home government, have tieeu
*il|jected of designs to render them
selves independent sovereigns— s design
which wsa successfully acnoutplished iu
1830—by Mohuinnied All, pasha of
Egypt. At the time of my visit to Hag
•lad, says a writer in Srribner's Maya
eine, the governor wsa the present
Turkish minister of war, Rod if Pasha, a
successful general and a until of uuqure
• turned energy and ability. Once while 1
' wan in Bagdad, he had au opjsirtunity to
*how his power a* a despotic ruler, and
he acted with nerve and energy worthy
of all |>raise. The Tigris, which had
I wen on the rampage for two mouth*, at
last broke through the dukes some Urn
uillcs idnie the city, and the torrent
■weeping down with irresistible force,
did grest damage to the cropa, and in a
single day turned tlis brow I plain at the
luu'k of the city into an immense lake.
The water wiui only kept from flow
iug into the city bv an embankment
outside the walls, which in many places
was out of rejMur. Great fear was felt
of such an inundation as ucrarad in IH3I
—the year of the pleague—when seven
thousand houses fell in a single day.
Here was an emergency calling fur
prompt action. The ias)ta issued an
order closing all tlie iHUara and ahojia,
and for four days impressed tlie whole
male population (foreigners exa*pted| to
work on tlie dirkes. Half the force was
sent up the river, and the bahuias net to
work to repair the cmlmiikmrut* around
the city. I rode out in thai directum
one morning, aud witness ■ lively scene.
Several Uiotiaaud men were at work, and
the |malia himself was on the spot, sur
rounded by s brilliantly uniformed Muff,
superintending the operations. These
energetic measures saved the city. The
break iu the dike Up the river was stop
ped, and tlie water gradually subsided.
Upon my entrance to the audience
room of the pttaha 1 found lum seated at
the further end of the apartment, near a
large table covered with pajjerw, and as 1
en tend he now aud advanced toward me,
shook hands, and courteously motioned
me to a seat lieside him. lie is ■ large
man, tall and quite jsirtiv, pethap* forty
live Tears old, with a mil face, brown
liearvf, and evea sharp and piercing, iiis
dress was entirely European, except the
ft:, without eveu a button to indicate
his rank. His countenance indicates
energy and firmness, and his manners
are courteous and pleasing. Several
officer* of rank standing near were pre
seut*l to me, but uo one was seated
except tlie pasha and myself. .As he
spoke uulv Turkish and Arabic, Mr.
Htanno, a Levantine in the sea vice of the
government, was summ< med to act ss inter-
I* ter. Our cuuversatiou was necessahly
slow, but the questions aud replies were
very readily translated, aud I felt quite
at my ease. I found the psaha very in
telligent as to tlie geography, and govern
ment of foreign countries, and beseemed
fully to compreheud that England and '
America were two distinct and separate
countries. He offered me every facility
for seeing Itagdad, and said that, as I
was the uulv American who had ever
visited him, lie hojied I would receive a
favorable impression of tJie country.
A (omedy of Errsrs.
Hers is an amusing comedy of errors
with a Parisian edge: Mine. Je V. was
very jealous, and determined to watch
her husband. One dav he told her he
was going to Versailles, and when he
went out she pnt on her bounet and
followed him. Kite kept him in sight
until he turned into a passage which
shortened the way to the railway stall oil,
where she missed him. She stood for s
few minutes in the passage looking
about, aud suddenly saw a man oorniug
out of a glove-shop with a rather over
dressed lady. From the distance she
made sure the man was her husband,
ami without a word of warning she gave
him three or four aounding lxixcs on the
car. When the gentleman turned
around to confront his assailant, she
perceived that ahe had made a mistake,
and at the nam# moment she caught
sight of her husliand, who had replen
iahed his cigar-case at a tobacconist's,
and was crossing the street. What
could she do ? It goes without saying
that she fainted in the arms of the
stranger whose ears she had boxed,
while the other lady nui off as fast as
she ootild tosvoid scandal. The stranger,
who was a comedian, was astonished to
find an unknown lady in his arms; and
while his ears were still tiugliug from
hex blows, he was again startled. A
gentleman collared him, and shaking
him roughly, naked him what he meant
by embracing n lady in the street.
" Why, she boxed my ears and fainted 1"
screamed the actor. " She is my wife,"
shouted the irnte husband, *' and would
never have struck yon without cause!"
The infuriated gentlemen shook their
fists nut 1 the lady, who had been car
ried into a shop, recovered sufficiently
to explain how it hnd happened.
A l.ittle Mixed.
A newspaper correspondent strolling
among the dancers at a ball at one of the
Virginia mountain watering places,heard
the following amusing bit* of conver
sation : "Delightful affair; Mr. Smith,
have yon seen the " " snake killed
on the mountain this afternoon measured
thirteen feet and" "he does look
splendid ; he always did in uniform;
they sav " " the poor man had two
cows killed on the railroad track yester
day by" "Speaker Hanger, yon
know ; he presided at the convention
last week and " " breaks hearts right
and left; it's her first season out and
that black mouatachod" "nurse took
the children out this morning and found
them" "a charming tarletan over
skirt, but such a bustle! big enough
to" "mine coal neAr here, don't
they, for the Richmond gasworks? I
wonder" " who is that tall girl; the
blonde one I mean with her hair in"
'' butter is very good here. Col.
Peyton always particular alxmt the
quality of his" "cot-bed out on the
lawn to-night ; the house is full and he
was obliged to" " allow me the
pleasure of the next dance "
Jilted Koek Hues for Usuisges.
The New Haven Palladium says:
A rather novel breach of promise suit
has just been beguu lefore the superior
oonrt for Windham county. David L.
Bock, a sturdy young man of Wauregan,
two years ago began to pay his addresses
to a bright, black-haired, black-eyed
girl by the name of Agnes Greenea.
The swain bought little presents and
paid his sweetheart the most undivided
attention,hut Agnes didn't think enough
of David to become his partner for life,
and plainly told him so. David didn't
like the " mitten " a bit, but watched
every opportunity to enjoy the company
of Agnes. About three months ago
John La Rose appeared on the scene,
and his attentions to Agnes were recip
rocated, and after a short courtship they
were married. After the knot was tied,
all the chances of David Rock were
gone, and he now brings a suit for
S2OO damages against the girl and her
husband.
TERMS: &U.OO a Year, in Advance.
LOVE AM) HE < KKA.
Tit I ttvrlit ml a lilrl la !*•** Jas Five
rt—ss.
There ia some affinity between lovers
iuiu ice cream. Just what it ia or why
has never Irnen disclosed ami yet re
mains a problem for the consideration of
Tyudall aud Huxley. A writer, whose
name ia unfortunately lost, having be
come erased from tlie roll of honor by
age, has computed that a girl who has
lawn two or three times in love can cor
ral five dishes of ice cream at a sitting.
This i somewhat discouraging to tlie
beans and renders it necessary that the
young ladies should observe secrecy con
cerning their love affairs lest they should
become objects of terror to the young
men nntil their dsy of grace is frittered
away. But there is a subtle instinct
Uist prompts the youug lover lo indulge
the psasiou of the object of his affections.
No matter how uusouhistocated he may
lie or how little knowledge of Hie world
and of women he may have this unseen
jiroropter whisper* iu his ear:
If tlwa wouldst bs loved give her lee cream.
This psyebological fact has not escaped
tlie uotiee of designing men, who have
encouraged and fostered this psmuou and
tt ruwl it to their own advantage as
caterers to it The last sod most am
bitious schemer has invented s patent
scoop which u warranted to retain tlie
precious mixture while it is earned some
.balance to some secluded spot, where in
silence and apart the loving twain may
.favour it The idea was a bright one,
snd wsa, of course, eagerly snatched at
by lovesick swains, liut #l##'
Whoever thinks s jwcfeot work to see
flunk, what near was, nor is, nor e'er ehall U.
Jeffersonville, Ind., furuishee the vic
tim. What So soothing to his burning
heart as the cooling loe cream sliding
lowu his aieophagus f Ho it beaatne his
ruisbua to carry one of these new-fangled
sooopa filled with tlie seductive concoc
tion to the house of "the maid his heart
had singled from the world," aud they
would nunble to some " flowery dell,
where, with none to molest or make them
afraid, they would surround the delicacy.
But every dog lias his dsy, and the time
came wheu the iron entered into the
vitals of this young msn. He hsd pur
rhssrd ■ aooopful of the frigid nectar a
few evenings since snd was proceeding
on his way to the residence of his charm
er, with love snd anticipation in his heart
aud the scoopful of ice cream in his
hand, when he met her coming with an
other fellow to procure that which satis
fied her longing as nothingelae could do.
Whether it wsa from sudden emotion,
or whether he feared that his heart might
crack if too suddenly cooled, he hastily
shove*! tlie scoop into his pantaloons
pocket. Then it was that the hitherto
faithful scoop failed him, and be became
convinced of the vanity of man's inten
tion* sad woman's oonstauey. Jilted by
the woman he loved and betrayed by s
new-fangled ice cream scoop, now the
pride of his life omnl sway—ran down
and filled his boots ! His love for the girl
meltei like the ice cream in Ins pocket,
and the light of his life disappeared with
the polish on his boots. Seldom have
we Ueo called upon to sympathise with
a sadder fate or to mourn over so much
sweetness so suddenly dispelled. He
who but a few short moments before had j
started forth with a proud heart and a
well-filled scoop returns with blasted
affections snd s boot fall of skimmed
milk.
Our C ir.merre.
We hare before us the condensed
statement of the importa and domestic
exporta into and from the United States
during the fiscal years (ending June 30.)
1875, 1876 ami 1877, prepared by the
bureau of statistics. The document is
always of great interest, and never leas
so than now. With importa we find of
raw and partly manufactured articles,
decreases in 1877 as compared with 1875,
in live animals, breadstuff*, fish, fruit*,
hemp, hides and skins, marble, paper
material, salt, seeds, spices, tea ($6,560,-
000), tin, timber, wool ($4,000,000) and
line. The totals for " crude or partially
manufactured articles" for the three
v<-ars are : #207,907,270 in 1875 ; $199,-
833,840 in 1876, and $189,318,002 iu
1877. Our unjxirt* of msnufsetured
articles show a heavy falling off in almost
every item. We can ouly note, in round
sums the more important: Beer, ale and
porter, $1,000,000 ; cotton manufactures
nearly $9.tl00,000; flsx manufactures
over $5,000,000 ; iron and steel manufac
tures. $9,000,000; leather. $2,000,000;
precious stones, $1,200,000; silk, $3,-
500,000 ; spirits and wines, $2,000,000;
tin, $3,300,000; tobacco. $1,100,000;
watehra and moveme.it*, $1,510,493, and
in woolen manufactures the figures are
$44,609,704 in 1875, to only $25,698,300
in 1877. The annual totals for manu
factured articles are $325,008,157 in
1875; $201,407,350 in 1876, and $261,-
989,547 in 1877. The totals for merchan
dise are $533,005,436 in 1875, $460.-
741,190 in 1876, and $451,307,649 in
1877. For the same periods the imports
of coin were $20,907, <l7. $16,935,681 and
S4O, 774,414. The notable increaae is in
sugar and molasses—alxiut $7,700,000.
The domestic expirts for the three
years show that in the totals for crude
or portiallv manufactured the amount*
were $492,996,479 in 1875 ; $577,139,920
iu 1876, are $554,744 111 in 1877. The
moat notable increases are in petroleum,
from $30,078,568 to $61,789,438, and iu
meats, from $39 217,176 to $67,288,758.
Of manufactured articles the most impor
tant increases have lieen in cotton goods,
from $4,071,882 to $10,235,843 ; copper,
from $1,085,688 to $2,913,948; ordinance
storea, from $800,107 to $4,747,899 ; and
sugar, from $3,752,488 to $5,181,245.
There have been conai erable decreases
in agricultural implements, brnss manu
factures in iron, (nearly $1,000,000).
The totals) for 'manufacturing articles,
are $66.241.159iu 1875; $72,677,051 in
1876, and #78,235.969 in 1877. Our
exports of gold ami silver for three years
were $83,857,129 in 1875, $V).(89.435 in
1876, aud $43,135,758 in 1877. The ag
gregates of our exports were $64.3,097,-
767 in 1875 ; $644,846,406 in 1876 and
$676,115,818 in 1877.
A Masked Singer.
A Paris correspondent describee one
of the recent novelties at the Alcazar—a
masked singer. On the opening night a
map in evening dress nunc forward, his
face covered with a velvet half-mask,
the lower part of his countenance disap
pearing nnder a natural and well-grown
grav beard. He attempted to sing the
solo from "La Juive, where Eleazer
in prison hesitates whether he shall sur
render the cardinal his daughter or al
low her to be conducted to the stake.
The man in the mask had a tolerable
voioe, but nothing beyond the average.
He might have sting a simple ballad
very sweetly, but he had evidently un
dertaken too much in selecting an oper
atic piece. He was recognized and
named by manv of his friends among
the audience, wlio ironioaily applauded
and recalled him. It is said that the
masked singer is a very rich merchant,
who made a wager with a friend that he
would appear masked on the stage of
some music hall.and sing a song.
A man in Cincinnati haß a son whose
hair curls just before a rain. He says
that he has noticed this phenomenon for
the last two years, and has never known
it to fail to indicate rain.
NUMBER 34.
At the Prawdan C'eart.
We find the following in the autobio
graphical recollections of Sir John Bow
ling : 1 went to Lord William Bussed,
our smhaaaattor, expecting that he would
aeoompauy me and aid me in surmount
ing the difflenltiea which, in ooorta ao
formal as thoae of Germany, always at
tend the stranger. To my aurpciae, he
neither be nor any of the for
eign minister* had ever bee invited to
dine with the king, tt being a traditional
counsel of Frederick the (ireat, atdl ob
served at court, not to allow foreigners
to meddle with the aflhira of the royal
family. Lord William added that he saw
him only once a year, and then but for
five minute*. while even Ida ministers
rarely got at him. People waited three
month* for aa audience, and the king
spent half his time aritb dancers and bal
let-girls. I went to Potsdam, and hap
pily found Humboldt at court. I was
the sole Englishman introduced.
The king asked me how I liked Berlin,
and said he had heard of my reputation
from Humboldt Boon came m the
Sown of Bavaria, the I*ru>oaaa Liegtnta,
ie Princess itayal, and other priuewaca,
and some pretty ct.ildr.-u, among whom
was the aun of the heir to the mown, a '
tod of tee or twelve. At about six we were
summoned to the theater in the nalam'
which was superbly fitted op and filled
with guests invited by the king—some •
sixty or seventy persona. All the great
actors of Berlin were there, bet the bal
let, which was the king's hobby, wee
specially good, and one part of it truly j
amusing. Tbciw were forty or fifty little
children, four or five years old, playing
the parts of men and women, and some
did it admirably. One child, who was a
grandmother, was perfect, and there
waa a good love accoe, and an after
matrimony scene between a boy and a j
girl not over six years old.
The soldiers with mustaches, the asp
per* with long beards, the postillion* in
their boots ami with their tails, the law
yers in their gowns, etc., were a tmmrir
de rire. The king's dinner was unlike
any I had ever seen. In the oenter of ■
the room waa a table where the royal
family took their seats while, around it
were'many other tables, arranged aa at
a French' restaurant, the moat diatin- j
gutabed guest* being near enough to
hold conversation with tho royal family.
The waiters were Chinamen, wearing
their native costume, whom the king
told me be had imported to take charge
ot his gardens, but the project not hav
ing succeeded, he had turned them to
other account.
Haw te he Handsome.
Most people would like to be hand
some. Nobody denies the great power
which any person may have who has a
handsome face and attract* yon by good
looks, even before a word has been
Kpoken. And we see all soita of devices
in men and women to improve their
'.ooks. Now, all cannot Lave good
Matures, but almost anyone can look
well, especially with good health. It is
hard to give rules in s very ahor* space,
but in brief these will do:
Keep clean—wash freely. All the skin
wants is leave towrt freely, and it takes
care of itself. Its thousands of airholes
must not be dosed.
Eat regularly, and sleep enough—mot
too much. The stomach can no more
work all the time, night and day, than a
horse. It must have regular work and
rest
Good teeth ares help to good looks.
Brush them with a soft brush, especially
at night Go to bed with cleansed teeth.
Of course, to have white teeth it is need
ful to let tobacco alone. All women
know that Washes for the teeth should
lie very simple. Acid may whiten the
teeth, but it takes off the enamel and
injuries them.
Sleep in a cool room, in pure air. No
one can have a cleanly akin who breathes
I*d air. But more than all, in order to
look well, wake up mind and aouL
When the mind is awake the dull,
sleepy look passes away from the eyes.
I do not know that the brain expands,
but it seems so. Think and read, not
trashy novels, but books and paperathat
have something in them. Talk with
people who know something bear iec
turea and learn by them.
Men say they cannot afford books, and
sometimes do not even pay for a news
paper. In that case it does them little
good, they feel ao mean while reading
them. Bnt men can afford what they
really choose. If all the mone) spent in
self-indulgence, in hurtful indulgence,
was spent in books or papers for self-im
provement, we ahoula see a change.
Men would grow handsome, and women
too. The soul would shine out through
the eyes. We were not meant to be
mere animals. Let us Lave books and
read them, and sermons end heed them.
Watchful Matrons at Leug Broach.
According to a New York Herald
correspondent, the season st Long
Branch this summer baa set a movement
on foot that may possibly result in a
code of etiquette to be used by mammas
for the governance of their daughters.
It has arisen from the meeting of
matrons from different portions of the
country, and a mutual exchange of views
aa to the manner iu which a young lady
should be brought up and the amount of
liberty she should be given. At some
of the larger hotels it is quite amusing to
watch the girls and their mammae. Some
of the mothers of the old school never
let their daughters out of their sight,aud
sit on the beach and watch them through
opera-glasses while they are bathing,
while others, satisfied with the early
training that their girls have received,
are content so long aa they know where
they are and what they are doing. The
interchange of opinions on the question
between toe mothers will very probably
result in a definite aettlement as to the
amount of liberty a young lady should
be allowed. In the meantime tJie young
ladjes themselves are very much agitated
over the question, and a secret indigna
tion meeting waa held toe other eveuiog,
at which uine young ladies pledged
themselves to exert all their iuflueuce.to
at once remove their beloved mothers
from the hanefnl influence of certain
matrons who were promulgating a doo
trine.in which they claimed it was highly
improper for a young lady to accompany
a gentleman to the theater, opera or
gerraan without a chaperons. These
nine yonng ladies have constituted them
selves into s committee on permanent
organization, and are rapidly enrolling
under the banners all too malcontents
that they find. There are some hopes,
however, that before any open outbreak
can take place a compromise will be
effected that will meet with the views of
both parties.
Marrying His Grandmother.
The Nelseu (Ky.) Record says : This
is the age of progress. James Par ton, i
the biographer, married his step
daughter ; John Downs, of Nelson 1
county, married hi* step-mother, but it 1
was reserved for Dode Cheeher, of Wal- i
ton's Lick, Washington county, to out
strip them all in a matrimonial feat.
Last week he married his grandmother. :
Dode Chesher is twentv-flve years ol
age, s son of Rev. J. M. Chesher, the
well-known Baptist preacher, and grand
son of William Chesher. Boms years
since the latter died, leaving a buxom
widow erf forty-five summers, and now
his grandson has done what probably no
man ever did before—mairy his step
grandmother.
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flippy b^ppftt ami}
Nobody kacw h* i 4ag to mm i
BlugUgl Nw isaadr of rantstssa fains,
Now wo on ftwlfaily glad that ho ouwo i
And wbeo he IBs* to hi* Western bow#.
We will bo hoppy to think bo bod bosas i
Winging Ms wuy to thai Waslavly oUma,
Mojr be bo happy to think thot bo time .
Ho mtf be etn tbenll bo ptooty of rooen.
Wetting for bint the next tons bo noy ooon
Voet!
The obovo to nil v# are permitted
to publish at an unpublished poem by
Mr. Tomjaoa ao the occasion of Ova.
Grant's recent visit to England. We
only present this exquisite stanxs to our
readers far the purpose of allaying the
fears of those who thought tho Laureate
was going to negtoet our ax-Preaident.—
Burlington Ma.wkaye. o
llama of latenwt.
What city does a kiss resemble? Nice.
An old faahkmed watering ptooe: A
pomp.
Why to a kiss like a sewing machine
Because it seams so good.
Minnesota will produce 34,000,000
bushels at wheal tat asportation this
I year.
When c yon be said to swallow
glass-ware ? When you buy a tumbler
and goblet.
A fiddler in Virginia Oity, Nov., plays
one at Lola Moo tea's tunes with a bow.
made out of bar own hair.
Little things should not be daapisad.
The little toe to the smallest on the foot,
but it always has the largest corn.
W iile the Windsor <V.) Havings Bank
officers were gaxing at the Presidential
party some sly thief dimbad in through
a back window and stale £I,OOO.
Since June 1, 17, 13,000,000 pounds
< of dried apples have been exported from
Ihia country —nearly twenty times ea
many pounds aa the year before.
James Cbutn, a prisoner in the Ten
ueaaoe penitentiary, received twenty-five
lashes, in the presence of the assembled
' convicts, for coining counterfeit money
> in his cell.
A certain young gentleman went on a
recent steamboat exenrsiou. On hit re
torn he was asked it there was any
swell an the ocawt. He replied, with
Incoming dignity : " Tee, when I got
It is estimated that 20,000 oil well*
lucre thou far been dug ie Pennsylvania
and Wt Virginia, at ao aggregate MM*
of tIttMKMJ.UOa Tby have yielded
about 88,0(10,000 bimb of oil, valued at
the well* at 9900,000,000, or §400,000,000
at the aeaboard, Baltimore American.
The Kings ai Holland, Belgium,
1 Sweden, Spain and Portugal have each
engaged MtdnwH in Paris far the
EipueUoo is 187 H. The Comte d'Eu,
who married the daughter of the
Empt-mr of Bnuil, and many othera
connected with r- >:d families have done
the MM.
These are seventy Mtabliahmentais
the United States devoted to the pro
duction of window glass. Of the several
States New Jersey has the largest cum
has, twenty-seven. The capital invest* •-
there is about $8,000,000, and the annna J
production between 2,000,000 and 8,000,-
000 bores of the varkiaa sizes and quali
ties of glass. At the present tune it is
tmlieved that fully time-fourths of the
factories are dosed.
What a picnic would be without hor
nets is a matter of euejeeture, aa there
never has been away to find out. A
hornet is not denomUMtaonsl. It goes
to all picnics. And it is a desirable
adjunct It tends to modify greediness,
Uvude adding largely to the general en
thusiasm. Five hornets at a small table
will do mot* to level social distinctions
*nd to promote fnyirt intercourse than
an awful disaster in a village.
In 1875 the horse butcheries of Paris
furnished for public consumption 6,865
horses, aaaes and mules ; in 1876 they
furnished 9,871, giving 1,685,470 kilo
grammes at neat meat. At Lyons the
number has diminialmd from 1.262 in
1875 to 1,088 in 1876. On the first of
January there were fifty-eight butcheries
in Para and only seven in Lyon*. A
committee swarded s silver medial to M.
Petard, who baa nine butcheries in Para,
as s reward far his enterprise.
She was a maiden lady, and sweetly
told the bachelor editor that she had
been a regular subscriber to his paper
for over a score of years. "Indeed,
how old might you be at present T asked
be, with tends* aalioitatiau. And it was
not without a couatdetablene** of noj
shyness that she acknowledged she www
" not more than twenty-two. " One of
my earliest patrons,' murmured the
editor, aa he moved on, "bnt so young
when she began to subscribe."
From time imawwyiil, it has been
the custom in the southwest of England
for foTHM-m to throw bock ft shilling
< twenty-11 vo cents) on every ten sacks of
wheat 'sad every ten quarters of barley
they selL The custom is sup) wined to
lure* its origin in the fact that formerly
the dealer* met the farmer* at their inns,
when the market was over, and paid
them, when the farm** threw back the
shilling for s drink. If the custom were
abolished, it is asid that it would oast
the largest brewing firm iu England
#75,000 a year.
A Defroster hong up his watch the
other day until he should find rime to
take it to a jeweler's to be cleaned. His
son, a boy of ten, took it down and wore
it to school, but didn't bring It home
with Mw. He met a boy at school wb
had a stout goat which he desired to
trade for a timepiece, and an ex
change was effected. When the father
came home he miaaed his watch, and
asked: Who's seen my watch f"
"Father, was it not an old watch f" naked
the boy. "It was." "And would it
gof "It would not" " Then, father,
did I not do the correct thing to trade
an old watch that wouldn't go for a fat
goat which will go ? Ccaae out and see
it go for a barrel!"
Soaring Away the Eclipse.
Soon after my arrival at Bagdad, says
a writer in Srribnrr, on the evening of
the first day in May. as we were dining
cm the terrace, we were startled by a
most terrific din. We then noticed that
there was a nearly total eclipse of the
moon, and npon consulting an English
almanac we found that it would lie " in
visible at Greenwich, but a total eclipse
in Australia and some parts of Asia."
The tumult increased, and soon the
whole population seemed to have "as
sembled on the honec tops, armed with
jwta, pans and kitchen utensils, which
they beat with a tremendous clatter, at
the name rime screaming acid howling at
the top of their voices. Frequent re
ports of guns and pistols added to the
turmoil, which was kept up for nearly
an hour, until they had succeeded in
frightening away the "jin," or evil
spirit, who had paught bold of the moon.
It was a most amusing scene, although
it interfered seriously with the success
of our dinner. Our own servants canght
the excitement, and deserted the table
without ceremony. Our host told us
the next day that they well nigh knocked
the bottoms out from all his kitchen
utensils. It was, however, a complete
sncoess, and when our servants returned
to their duty, the moon was shining
brightly as ever, and upon their faces
was an air of complacent satisfaction.
Transfusion •: Bleed.
A remarkable case of transfusion of
blood is attracting much attention in
Williamsbnrgb, New York. John Adam
Konlhepp, residing an Ten Eyck street,
was seized with the dread disease con
sumption something over four years ago,
and despite medical attendance, passed
through the various stages of the dis
| ease, until suffering from tuberoolosis
and thoroughly emaciated and weakened,
he was confined to his bed. For several
t weeks he obtained no sleep except
through the influence of morphine. No
hope of recovery by medicine was held
| out to him; blithe begged so strenuously
for some remedy that should keep him
alive, thai his physician. Dr. Charles J.
Stahl, proposed 'transfusion of blood.
Eagerly jumping at this prospect of pro
longing life, s volunteer to supply the
blood was found, and the operation
twioe performed has restored Konlhepp
so much that he is enabled to be up ami
around.