My Little Woman. Would the diamond Mem such a peerless gem If it measured one foot round 7 Would the roee leaf yield such s sweet perfume If it covered yards of ground 7 Would the dewdmpe eeem so olear and purs If the dew like rain should fall 7 Or the little woman be half so great If she were six feet tall 7 Tie the hand as soft as the nestling bird That grips with the grip of steel, Tie the voice as sweet as the summer wind That rules without appeal And the warrior, scholar, the saint and sage May tight, and (dan. and pray, The world will sag to the end of time In the little woman's way. Why He Kissed Ike Baby. I watched as they stood together there. And I couldn't help pausing to wonder If he, with hit wealth and stylish air. Would marry that widow down yonder. She did look pretty, and happy too; (If I were a man Td love her !) Her hair shone like gold, and her eyes were At the summer skies above her; Her hc-by sat crowing upon her knee, A height little year-old prattler And now if I tell what I saw that day, You must never call me a tattler. 1 saw him stoop down, close, close to her face, I was almost too curious, maybe. I thought he was going to kias hor, I'm sure, But he only kissed the baby. I saw him again, as he came one day. And they went to the church together; I watched froth my window over the way, Twas beautiful, sunshiny weather. She had a pink drees and a bonnet of white- She didn't wear black any longer. As all this burst forth ou my wonderiug sight, Curiosity kept growing stronger; And so I >nst put on my bounet aud shawl And wont down, although 'twas hot; The church door was o|e Berrian." "Oh, your new widow" ahe said, gayly. "Have yon called yetf No? How very accommodating in her to ride with von first!" "She is not a punctilious fool," he muttered, drawing on hia glove. "Cer'ain punctilios," put in Aunt Sosan, "are only self-respect." "If you will go and call with me, Nell," said Lucian, " I've no donbt she will postpone the ride." " Now, Lucian dear, you know I hate not to gratify you," said Helen. " Bnt really the last thing Bell said was that it would not do. She should not call, nor, could I, if for nothing else, for little. Laura's sake, who is too young and inno cent to have anything to do—" " Just as you please," he said, angrily, and had slammed the door behind him. You can imagine his surprise when, as he reined his horse up at the steps of the house where Mrs. De Berrian was visit ing, he saw his cousin Laura ooming down with Mrs. Vaughn, a leader of the fashions, with whom she sometimes went out; for Laura was an heiress, and but little gainsaid in her wishes. "I thought you would like to have me," Laura said, timidly looking tip with her brown eyes, as he dismounted. She never did have any spirit. " It is just like you, Laura," he said fervently. " I—l don't think yon will admire her so much by daylight," she said, again timidly; and he had laughed and handed her into the carriage and disappeared before she knew she had ventured to say so much. But a more judicious curtain had been dropped within the drawing-room; and ns Mrs. De Berrian sat pensively leaning her head on her hand that bore a gleam ing sapphire, a dark curl straying over he contour of the white hand set in its lace ruff, and the damask shadow of a great vase of roses on the table, taller than herself, falling round her, Colonel Lefebvre thought that he did admire Mrs. De Berrain quite as much by day light—although it occurred to him later that Bell would have called it rose-light ur curtain-light instead. He was oon- Armed in Ills admiration before he Is,ft FRED. KURTZ. Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME X. her. He was not sure but tliat by the time he saw Mrs. IV lterrian again he should be really in love with her. Aud his tittle cousin lsuira ? Well, thank Heaven, he could afford to uiarry where lie oho—. She ws rather an enchanting woman after her kind. " I will tell you about her," aanl Laura to her cousins, when alio had endured their reproaches. "She make* it a vital point to please iu her pertwui, her manner, her voice. Her face can only afford anulea, ao she never re sent*. not even such a look aa Bell's. She waa charmingly dressed. She is visiting people juat on tlie verge of aometv. Mm. \ aughu aava, but ahe doeau't Hoern to belong to them. It ia my belief that alie baa had mouey, run through nearly all of it, aud that ia her last throw for atatiou and a husband." " Laura, where iu the world," cried her displeaaed aunt, " did you pick up auch " " French no vela," aaid Ball, who had ruu over. " I muat say, Laura, I tlnuk you took a great deal on yourself. Now ahe will return tlie call." " She—she would like to be respecta ble," stammered Laura. " And you know very well that if you want Luc:an to go and' marry auch a woman out of hand, you have only to persecute her." "Persecute her! You do use select tonui. We let her alone—which you had Wtter have done." " I—l didn't want Lnciau to be mor tified." " So yoi mortify us." And by the time Luciau came home, Laura was iu a flood of tears, and sobbed oat, in reply to his amazed inquiry: " Oh. they are abusing me ao!" And then every one laughed at the idea of their abusing little Laura, the darling of the house. "Well, well, Laura," said he. " I'll not abuse you. I iuvite vou to our picnic to-morrow to Great Palls. Mrs. De Bernim will chaperon vou." "Mrs. Deßerriau !' rose the chonis. " Madam Arroyo, the Spanish minis ter's wife, invites her." " Well, to be snre," said Bell, catch ing her suspended breath, " nobody kuow% anything about her either—an aj venturesa, all tlie legation say." " The Count Zara escorts her. I suppose nobody knows anything about him." The Austrian attache—yes, he hit Nell hard then, he thought " And the young Russian duke that enchanted TOU so—" • •• Oh, men, ail of them 1" " Very tine men,and a >m of the finest ladies at the eapitai. I'll take care of you, Laura, if you'll go." *• I'll go, Lncian." " Perhaps she d l>est," said Bell to Helen, at the door. " I shouldn't let him out of my sight H I were she." It was a month later when Bell ran over one evening, as usual, now the gaye ties were so few, and sat talking gloomily with Helen. "I never woald have believed it of our Lucian," said she. " All but en gaged, as he was, to Laura, and with her fortune,that would have just doubled his own, and she so gentle—and now perfectly lost aud infatuated over this French doll." " I can't imagine that it is the same brother who turned pale when we came down with carmine on our checks the day after we first saw the Freucli play, anil who expostulated with ns so." " Our turn now." "He would have made Lanra such a good husband," said one. " But now this demoralizing woman " Aud while they were bemoaning his decline and fall, the subject of their oom plaint was whirliug away iu a palace-car, surrounded by wraps and rugs aud lunch baskets and periodicals and French candy and Mrs. D-- Berrian, the wox lighte shining softly down from above on the charming picture the lady made, as, having removed her hat, she leaned back among her cushions under the shelter of the rose-colored scarf passed over her dark curia. Mrs. De Berrian hod been summoned to New York on important business; Colonel Lefebvre had sud denly found that he had business there too." Mrs. De Berrian perhaps meant to give him some business before he re turned. Neither of them was aware that behind the curtains of a neighboring section, whose births hod been made up and occupied just as the train started, reposed one of his aunts and his cousin Laura. If simply an infatuation over mere beautv were in case, noone oould marvel at Cofonel Lefebvre's infatuation. By candie-light at night behind a veil out doors, in the dim, deep-curtained draw ing-room, Mrs. De Berrian was worthy a painter's pencil—delicate features, scarlet lips, deep dimples, penciled brows, the sparkle of teeth, the soft dark glow of great eyes, the snowiness of the forehead under multitudinous waves of shndowy hair —beautv oould hardly be better imaged forth, although poasibly ooe might tire of it, and of the set, unvarying smile, for all its sweet ness. Lucian had not tired of it yet; once or twice there had crossed IUB mind a suspicion that its owner was not alto gether a woman of high principle, bnt whether he had put the thought awav as treasonable, or had felt with a not un usual masculine vanity that he could change all that, or hod not just then cored so mnch for high principle, it (lid not hinder his own color from mounting when he looked at hers, or his pulse from quickening when this woman touched his hand. As for Mrs, De Ber rian, she was beginning to feel a tolera ble assurance that at last her pendulous position on "the verge of society " was to be exchanged for the fixed and solid station of a mem er of the Lefebvre family, with all their wealth and rank, their respectability, consideration, and friends. And when it should be -why, then she meant to show the women in that family who she was ! It came near being a settled fact that night as they rolled comfortably along, almost all the rest of the car behind their curtains, the soft light, half gloom, half light, falling softly on the lovely face, a setting moon" traveling -with them and looking in at the window at every turn. Colonel Lefebvre had changed his seat for one at the lady's side, that the sleepers might not be troubled by their voices—his voice, rather, for it was he that talked; she listened, with the lovely smile, the musical word. His arm lay along the back of the seat, his face was bending over hers; her great eyes were cast up at him in the dim light; her lips seemed to tremble. He was noting the gentle rise and fall of her breath, the charm of every outline of the beautiful head rest ing on that hand with its gleaming sap phire, aware of a strange quiet throb with the thought, half a certainty, half a fear, that all this was doubtless his should he choose to take possession— " Tickets 1" said some one at hia elbow —the conductor, had oome aboard at the last station, and who mistook them for a portion of the gay party that had been taken on with himself. It broke the spell for that night. Colonel Lefebvre started to find how late it was, and went away to his birth, leaving Mrs. D. Berrian, ill pleased, to order the porter abont as he made np her own. Colonel Lefebvre woke very early on the next morning from his ntfnl slum ber, restless with feeling and with heat, | and looking from his window, saw that ' they were rolling along the green Hate of THE CENTRE REPORTER New Jersey. Then he half parted liia curtains, sod took an observation down the oar. Soiue one waa up Imfore hioi —some joung girl; he could not aee plainly, with all Ihe obstruction of drap cry. was a familiar thug of a scarf. CKhkl graciims! * that hia oomuu Laura ? The sight of her made him fall Itock on hia uillow and liegin U> rvall tlie eyenta of the evening before. It waa juat theu that aome oue eame rua tliug by hia cloaed curtains -a lady who wiahed to make her toilette I adore tlie real of the oar waa aalir. The aouud stopped abort; tlie ponton did not go ou. Instinctively Colonel Lefebvre glanced through the crack of hia eurtaina. A netting of the lady'a fringe had oanglit on tlie hook of soiue projecting yaliae - the porter a-aa disengaging it—an old ish, frowsy sort of woman. One uplifted hand grasped tlie curiam for aupjH>rt; upou it alioue a gleaming sapphire. Tlie drops started out on his forehead. Was it—lmpossible 1 He sat up and glared at her. She held a toilette-cane in her other hand. She waa making for tlie Uttle dreesiug-room. There was the same hruuse green lustrw silk, the same black lace about tlie throat, the lapel of the same rosy scarf of woolen gause had been tliat instant thrown up from her face. Hut that face ! No; it was an ab surdity. And yet— It had lieen a hor ridly hot uight; the leat of paint would run; the best of powder would cake and roll off; tlie peuciling of brows would rub all about; the pigment that so dark ened and increased tlie eye would smear here and there raggedly. What hail happened to that mouth ? Or was there no mouth there. There were no teeth there; they were in her hand. Tlie dimples -they were two long furrows; the scarlet of tlie mouth had somehow streaked them. And aa for the droppiug curia—-they were dropping off. The beautiful Adelaide De iWrian hail gone out like the blowu dame of a candle, and left only the aahee—hail left only a worn and withered woman with white lipa, and a wrinkled pallor tliat was blotched and bleared, whose face hail a mask, •• whose mother waa her painting.' •*' False from the crown of her head to the sole of her foot,' " he repeated, m Helen's words, and shut hia eyea ; and there sat Laura, browu-"yed and fair, with her smooth hair, a little Madonna of a face, aa he opened them again. An hour afterward, tlie other women of the car haying clamored in vain the last third of that time for admittance, an ele gant lady issued from the dressing-room, crimped and curled and powdcml, a blooming, smiling picture, seated her self in her re-arranged section, anil awaited her cavalier. She win ted a loug while". While she was in the dressing room tliat cavalier had stepped off the tain at Elizabeth. As Colonel Lefobvre sat in his aunt's room in the Brevoort that night he replied to her query concern ing his gloom: " Let me l>e. I have u right to be a little disturbed. I have lost a friend. I have escaped temble danger. I have found Mi in valuable possession that I hod mislaid. What did yon bring Laura here forf Her summer fiuery f I am going to take her a long drive in the park to-morrow morning. Bay, Aunt Maria, don't you make any purchases till we come hack. And, Aunt Maria, don't you think it would be ntealiug a tine march on them all at home if Laura aud 1 went bock on one ticket" — *• One ticket?" , < " Well, no, not exactly. Husbands and wives are not one financially, ore tliey ? Railways haven't any sentiment." —jfarpera' Bazar. Lore's Defiance. Mr. Charles Reiche is a well known importer of wild animals and one of the principal owners of the New York Aquarinm and of the one at Cohey Island. He is reputed to be wortn 81,000,000, and his residence at Hoboken is probably the finest in Hudson county. It is situated at the corner of Tenth and River street*. The groin*ls are elabor ately laid out and liorder the Elysian Fiefds. Mr. Reiche had among the members of his family a very pretty danghter, aged seventeen. He had lavished large sums upon the education of this young lady, who is a fine linguist and very proficient- musician. Miss Reiche some time since formed the ac quaintance of a Mr. Onstave Ressner, a clerk in a New York mercantile house aud recipient of a aalary of SI,OOO per rear. Mr. Ressner is something of a Wan, well educated and of pleasing manners. He is of medium height, a blonde, with curling hair and mustache. With the pretty Miss Reiche Mr. Ress ner soon became a great favorite, and they grew to be so much tojnrthef that the neighbors believed him to be bat ac cursed suitor. When at la-t Ressner Vd his love Miss Reiche softlv murmur ed an acquiescent response to his plead ing, and they were for a time verv happy, at least this is to be supposed. Rut just at the critical moment Mr. Reiche appeared an 1 ordered the young man to leave the house and to latiouship*. ' • Like a morning dream, life betviniea more and more bright tli* longer we I live, and the reason of everything ap- Girs more clear. What has puttied us ore seems lees mysterious, and the crooked path* look stnughter as we ap proach the end. It is no small oomuieudatiuu to man age a little well. He is a good wagoner who can turn in a little room. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not the jierson. I will study more how to give a good account of my ! little than how to make it more. Meanness and conceit are frequently combined in the same character; for he who, to obtain transient applause, can be indifferent to truth, and las own dig uity, will be as little scrupulous about them if, subserviency, ho can improve his condition in the world. Knowledge of the world must he com bined with study, for this, as well as 1 >ettor reasons- the possession of learning is always invidious, and it requires con siderable tact to inform without a display i>f superiority, and to ensure esteem, aa well as call forth admiration. (iarruloua men are commonly oon ceitod, and they wiU th' found I with vary few exception*) tb be *uj>erAeial aa well. Thev who are in a hurry to tell what they do know, will be equally in clined, from the impulse of prevailing habits, to toll what they do uot know. Child-love snd Faith. The Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise says : Alaiut three years ago a gentleman of tins city went East on a visit id his old home. One of his brothers there had a bright aud beautiful little son, not yet j two years of age. The boy—little Beu uy —**a>ti became strongly and sttangely attached to his "Uncle Ben, front Wa shoe," whose namesake lie was. Uncle 1 Ben often took the little fellow in bis arras iu the summer evening*, snd, seat- i i*l in the porch talked liim to sloop. At such times be would point out tlie eve- j mug star, telling the boy that far, far away, just under that star, was his home. The child would look loug st the star, then for as long gaxe up in U*e face of his uncle, ss though thinking of what a bright aud beautiful pTscw his home must he. At lust the dav came wlieu Uncle Ben was to leave for liia home in the far West. Little Beunv knew this ss well as any one about tW house, and, with i both eyes snd ear*, was cm the alert. He would not allow his uncle to l>e a minute out of his sight. Hctrral sttempts on the part of Uncle Ben to steal away re sulted in aueh tits of urj Uig that be was 1 obliged to retufn and soothe the child. However, the child weand with crying aud watching, at last fell asleep in hia uncle's arms. When he awaased, aud Benny wns nearly live years old, liia belief in the story fold him by his uncle qfintpuffh Poor boy ! another year was nev* a mart and mingle with that of the star he so long had watched and fc'TCd. The rimall atoeama i are archill ovr. bat in the larger atreama the wall run* to the water a edge, and a tower ia built on each aide. On the top of the wall there are breast work*, or defense*, facing in ami out, ao the defending force can pass from one tower to another without being exposed to an enemy from either aide. To cal culate the time of building or coat of this wall ia beyond human skill. So far as the magnitude of tho work ia con i or modern times of which tlK*re is any traoe. The pyramids of Egypt are ; nothing compared to it. A!S IKAHINAKY kIM.IMII. , The KklrssrSlssrt sslsSlr wt Paris Mharprrw. A Paris correspondent sends the fol -1 lowing remarkable story to hia paper: ' The unaccountable credulity of the liou est lias Iteen for ages the patrimony of swindlers. One of the moat extraordi nary ohae* ou record amased and atuuaed j the correctional tribunal of l'aria a i couple of weeka ago. The luiiiiaters aud followers of the uuiooeut imaginary King of the Marianne islamla have been iu the dock for creatiug a kingdom, pro -1 claiming a sovereign, and procuring financial advances, not so large but quite aa swindling as (ireek or Spauiah loans. Young Anthony Laufrev ia the sou of an houest iuau near (Grenoble, who plants cabbsgea aud may be called a gardener, lly tlie sweat of hia brow, and tlie thrift of hia wife, this old man was enabled to place his sou at a school, where at seventeen years of age he wsa preparing to lie a poor teacher. Last year a great letter, sealed with splendid armorial impressions, waa presented at tlie academy for Anthouy. It had come iu the first instance to his father who waa addressed m the missive aa "royal highueaa," aud informed him that a per sou of his name and family had immi grated a couple of hnudred years ago to the Marianne islands, that a descendant had beau long since milled to the throne i of the country, and that his last inheritor hail recently died, leaving no male heir King Ferdinand hail, moreover, made hia last will and testament, which, with other Btate papers and decrees, was en closed. At hia majesty's recent death it waa found by this will that he had left hia kingdom and treasures to aaid An thony, the sou of Lanfrey the gardener, as his next male known relative, on con dition that he, tlie Anthony, should marry the beautiful granddaughter of hia imqesty. Though ueither syntax nor ortho graphy waa really observed in the "Pragmatic Sanction," Uie family of Lanfrey took tlie affair in solemn earn est, and almost went mad with joy. There wsa, of coarse, a small difficulty about entering into poamaaton ; they had little or no money for the long jour- ney. -! The story had got to the ears of the public through the |>ress, and s certain M. Laufrauchi, srho has siaoe disap peared, wss the first to go down from Pari# snd put himself st the disposition tion of the new rural family. He do ) rlsmi himself ready to be tlie inter | miliary with capitalists to get s loan. As sn anticipatory reward for his ser- he wss crested s baron by Anthony L, and letters patent were passed nomi nating htm grand chancellor of the king dom. Another gentleman who accom panied the chancellor, by name Roth, was named minister of war ; and one M. Peretti was enrolled and appointed cap taiu of the bodr guard. A person named Bidot was chic? of tlie gang. Since he ■ was turned out of tlie church, thirty rears ago—he ia now orcr sixty—the old man lias led an exceedingly improper life. Another uf the three prisoners just tried ia named Ssbaticr, a venerable ) a windier of seventy-six, and the third is a young fellow of twenty, by name Tate grain. I Bidot figured as Duke do Bouillon, primate of the islands, crown counselor, ami grand cross of aereral orders. It is certain he went over to England to raise funds, and possibly it was not difficult , for a noble foreigner with so many titles to bare made more or less of s haul in London. Sabatier, being philosophical, aspired to no grand titles, and content ed himself with placing on his card sim f ply "Tlie Grand Vicar of his Eminence the Bishop Of Marianne." I think young Tategrain was named Duke of Saint Ange. Recollect that all this time tlie innocent Anthony fully believed in his garden. When the Duke de Bouillon was in England, they ear he fared sumptuously, and he wrote over to say that he had an interview with Queen Victoria, who con ' sen ted to become Protectress of the Marianne kingdom! Several of the dopes, generally pour fellows, such as waiters st coffee houses who had amall ■ savings, gars evidence ou tlie trial. It is said that the ncher and shrewder per sons who were swindled st home and abroad have not come forward, being ashamed of exposing their extrordinary 'credulity. King Anthony was examined, and showed but little royalty in the witness box, twisting hia low, shabby hat with his fingers, aud exhibiting the awkward ness of s provincial peasant. The pria , oners sometimes laughed ready to split their sides when details were given of their artful duperie*. They were graver when the court sentenced Bidot to five years' imprisonment, the venerable Sab atier to two yearn, and tlie youth Tate grain to fifteen months. Rome of tlie must amusing confessions of tlie pris oners had reference to their distribution or side of tlie nbtious an.l arouses of their imaginary order of knighthood. It ia whispered tbst there ure news paper men in Paris who have been seen sporting King Anthony's ribbon in their i button holes. ( rime in France. The statistics relating to the adminis tration of criminal law iu Prance during the year 1875 hare just been made pub lic, The number of persons tried at the assises during the year 1875 amounted to 4,701, as against 5,228 in 1874. Of the accused 1,547 were described as wholly illiterate, 8,042 oould read and write, 202 had received a superior edu cation. The men were 4,008, the women 783. The acquttals were 947, or over twenty per cent. Of the persons con victed thirtv-threc were sentenced to death, 141 to penal servitude for life, 975 to limited terms of penal servitude, and the remainder to simple imprison ment, excepting three, who were only flne.l Out of 3,815 individuals oon victod 1,818 had previous sentences re corded against them. With respect to the nature of the offences, there were 369 prosecutions for crime punishable by death. All the accused under tins category were found guilty, " with extenuating circumstances. ' Of the thirty-three condemned to death only twelve were executed. K Remarkable tilobe. A monk of the Benedictine monastery at Bay gem, between Brunn and Vienna, ia a aelf-taught meohauician and artist. He lias recently completed a mechanical cariosity in the aliajie of a aelf moving terrestrial globe, which the Acadm./ describes in detail. A combination of wheels gives it a motion similar to that of the earth, and when onoe set going it will revolve for three weeks. At the north pole of the axis are dial-plates on which the days ami months are indi cated, and over those ia a smaller globe, by means of which the motiou of the earth around the sun is exhibited. The larger glol>e sets the smaller one in mo tion by the agency of twelve wheels. The construction of the mechanism took more than ten years of patient applica tion, and was only completed after num erous experiments. As' regards geo graphical details, the map an the globe is carefully drawn, and shows all the lateat discoveries. The steamer routes, railway and telegraph lines, the heights jof mountains and the depths of the i ocean ate all distinctly shown, A litllillu of Hat*. A Western paper say* thai the house of Mr. T. J. McAtee, of IXqj Prairie, Hi. Charles oouuty, Missouri, haa re oeutly Ismuius infested with I*o*. Ho noticed a largo number of baU flying HI the direction of bia house ami oou •-eahug themselves in the corner* of tlie windows ami under the weather board ing. He immediately began an on slaught on them, and in a few minute* lie had killed seventy, thi* number be ing all that he could reach with such weapon* a* he tlinn had at hand. Nest morning none were U> tie seen, but at twilight they returned in such vast num- I ber* a* to appall him. Hi* attention waa lirat directed to the neighborhood of hi* front gate, at which point be heard innumerable flitting uoiaea like a storm in the diatauce. Looking that way he **w what at drat he took to be a black cloud approaching, but a* it got uearer he realised tliat it wa a horde of bat*. A* the *wartn neared the house it lowered and many of the bat* entered the open door* ami wiudowa Mr. McAtee and his hired man at once net about to kill the lists, and succeeded in making away with two or three hundred. Bar ing rid the house of nearly all the bata, Mr. McAtee went out door* again to see what the prospect was there. He was surprised to And the air filled with mr rials of hsta, flying and rinding about in all direetioua, and darting against each other with amlible force. A huge and writhing mass had settled on the window sill, and the entire frame, as well sa the wooden part of the saah, was covered with them. The weather board ing, for at least five feet on each side of the window, ami from the liottom to the top of the hooae, was covered with the black throng. Every outliouae was either invaded or surrounded. A* Mc- Atee walked through the yard the air was black with bata. and he had to keep up a continuous fighting with his hands and arms to keep them fn>m striking him in the face. Overcome and oon fuscd by the phenonanal visitation Mc- Atee at first aid not know what to do, but finally conceived a plan which re sulted in the capture and death of at least a very large number of them. The j result, by actual oount, was 4,103 dead liata, ana their carcasses filled a large , barrel which holds over five bushels Though this onslaught greatly dimin isheil the number of invaders there were •till hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of them left, though owing to the dark ness, it was found impracticable to uiake further war on them. Next morning when McAtee awoke not a hat was to be seen, all the survivors having disappear!*l as mysteriously as they cam<-. They have," however, since in vaded the house, and all attempts to j keep them away are fruitless. Pipe Smoking in Tarkev. It is not an uncommon tiling to see a Turk smoke from sixty to eighty pipes daily. The pipe is the indispensable companion of the Turk in every occupa tion, how earnest and important soever it mar be. In the Supreme Porta, in the Ministerial Council, where tlie Turkish grandees debate regarding the welfare of their fatherland the question was once discussed, whether, during the consideration of State affairs, the tachibuktachis (pipe-bearers) should not be excluded. Great wss the difference of opinious; long was the contest be tween tlie yearning of the palate and the sense of propriety ; till st last was vic torious the sentiment of some corpulent members, who thought that it would be wrung to reject ignommionaly the old custom, and that the blameless tachi buktachis must l>e permitted, as before, to enter the chamber and give the need ful attention to the pipes. And yet all the members knew very well that this resolution was pregnant with mischief and danger, for the cunning servants, while busy with the pipes, snatch up with quick ear many a secret of State, and before even the Saltan and the offi cial world have any knowledge of the decisions of the Supreme Council, many weighty debates and decrees have al ready (through the pipe-bearers) been divulged. Consequently, tlie tsehi buktschi is, next to the servant of tlie harem, the most valuable reporter whom journalists and ambassadorial dragomans can find. Tobaooo and pipes are not merely tlie distinctive tokens of the dif ferent rank*. A muachir (marshal) would think it altogether unsuitable to smoke with a pipe shorter tlian two ells, while the handicraftsman, or the official of a lower order, would be deemed pre sumptuous if his pipe-stem transcended the measure of that habitual with his class. The grandees in contact or con trast with a man of low degree, can parade his pipe to its fnll length ; but the man of low degree, modestly thrust ing aside or concealing his instrument, must not show more of it than the mouth fieoe which he holds in his hand. The as ha can, like the chimney of a steamer, j throw forth clouds of smoke, but the subordinate must only allow small circles of smoke, light as sephyrs, to flow from his lips, and he must so oou txive that the smoke docs not go in front of him, bnt turns backwards. In the presence of a grandee, not to smoke is regarded aa a testimony of respect. Tin# sign of respect a son is likewise expected to show to his father; and a well-trained and well-mannered son is regarded who, spite of the repeated request of his hither, refuses to smoke. Care of the Hair. If. the hair is well cared for from childhood by brushing daily, and week ly or fortnightly cleansing and sham pooing, the utmost excellence in growth and texture will tie the result; but even if such thoughtfulneas comes layer in life, a great deal may be done to in crease the beauty, silkinees, and weight of the hair. Fifty strokes of the brush morning and night, the same with the comb, are said to be sufficient: but there are right and wrong mathods of brushing and combing. To do i t properly, the hair should be divided in straiidsj the brush held side wise when passing over the top, so as to reach the scalp closely, and pressed firmly down, flattening tlie brush when passing over the lower lengths of hair. A large rubber comb and stiff brush should be naiul neither these nor the hair 1 be wet. If a dressing ia required, a thin bandoline or preparation of quinine and bay-rum is nest. Borne persons flud aw. ak solution of glycer ine and rose-water good for smoothing refractory puffs or curls. For cleans ing the' hair many preparations are recommended, but perhaps the very luvit is the yolks of eggs, if carefully ap plied. Take first a crip of water with a small quantity of ammonia, and nib the scalp of the liend wHh it thoroughly, then nib in the yolk of the egg, using tlie fingers, and penetrating to every part of the scalp • have ready a basin of tepid water, and holding tfie head down, wash it. or have it washed, thoroughly, afterward rinsing it well with oold water. After the hair is finally rinsed, comb it out well, dry it with a towel, and let it hang until perfectly free from moisture liefore brushing or arranging. For simpler cleansers, ammonia and water, the white of egg in water, or a prep aration of quinine and bay-rum is very good, while an excellent method of re moving dust from the hair and drying too moist a scalp ia to rub in powdered starch or any plain rice powder, and then brush' the hair briskly and thoroughly.— Harper'* Bcutar. TERMB: #2.00 a Year, in Advance. FARM, (tAKHKN AND HOt'KEHOLB. frrSlns wtlh Urals. When our farmer* learn to look ui*n a oow a* a piece ot wonderful and aeli oste mechanism for the production of milk, and when they can realise that the product of suy improved machine de pends upon the quality of the raw mate rial furnished for manufacture, then we may expect a revolution in the matter of feeding dairy cows. A manufacturer of first-claas woolen fabrics oaunot feed his looms Willi shoddy. A manufacturer of extra family flour oaunot fill his hopper* with sprouted wheat; neither cau a manufacturer of prime milk, butter and cheese obtain the best results by feeding i his oow* with hay and grass alone. The experience of many intelligent dairymen goes to prove that the additional profit resulting from the feeding of cows with a reasonable allowance of grain far ex ceeds the whole profit of feeding from grass and hay alone, while other Impor tant elements in the reckoning are in creased value of manure, and the dimin ished quantity of hay required. The average yield of all tlie cows is Msass chusetts (and this is higher in quantity than the yield throughout the United Hutcs) is but four quarts, showing of course that there are many cow* tliat give even s leas quantity. Now we have in wind s herd of twenty grade oow* that gave 133,6(52 pound* of milk during the year 1878, averaging a daily yield Jto each cow of 8.60 quarts; 145,296 pounds in the year 1874, averaging each day per oow 9.16 quarts; 141,976 pounds in 1876, averaging 9.06 quarts; while in 1876 they gave 133,306 pounds, yielding a daily average to each oow of 8.60 quarts. To produce this remarkable yield the cow* were fed for ten months In the year with a daily allowance to each of ime peck of bran and two quarts of cob meal, ousting fur the yep- #494. Note the result: twenty ordinary cows fed in tlie usual way, according to Mas sachusetts average, giving four quarts per day, and calling the average value of the milk to the fanner two and a half cents per quart, would yield a gross re tarn erf #7BO, or #36.60 to each cow; while on the other hand our mure intelligent manufacturer, by the use of better cows, and #494 worth of grain food (without estimating bis gain in manure and sav ing in hay), gets from his twenty oowa, at eight "and one-half quart per day, and at two and a half cents per quarts, a gross result of about #1,660, or #77.60 to each oow; or deducting the coat of the grain food, #494, from the total yield of #1,660, we have #1,066 as the gross pro duct of the milk of twenty oowa, as against s #720 product from the oow* fed without grain, or a clean profit of #33(5, on an investment of #494 in grain, with the original outlay returned. Nor is this aIL If the product of these twenty grain-fed cows was converted into butter instead of being sold as milk, it would yield twenty per cent more cream 'or butter than tlie milk from the poorly fed animal, and command at least ten jter cent higher price on account of its superior flavor, oolor and grain. Results as compared with the average return would be 6,310 pounds of butter at thir ty cents per pound, equal to #1,698, as against 2,400 pounds at twenty-five cents, equal to #6OO, or showing a differ - nice in lavor of the cows that consumed #494 worth of grain of #993 in the sale of butter. Since it may be claimed by many farmer* that their oow* are far bet ter than the average, and hence the above comparison is more striking than would appear in their case, we have only to advise such to make the experiment of carefully feeding grain to oae oow, and test the difference in the quantity and qnslitv of her milk with the sveeage of the herd, and if s remit of only one quarter the gain claimed m ojir illus tration is obtained, that of itself would increase the present average income of the dairy fully seventy-fire per cent This important matter of feeding grain is worthy the careful investigation of every dairyman.— American Cultivator. HimSMU 111*1*. To POLISH FLAT-IROWS.— If flat-irons are rough or smoky, lay a little fine salt (m a fiat surface and rub them well. It will smooth them and prevent sticking. To CLEAM Frßxrrrax.— A shovelful of hot coals, held over furniture, will take out spots ami stains. Rub the plane while warm with flannel. To pßxvairr DOOR-KIHQM CRHAXIKO. —Rah them with soap. To COLOR PIC*L* OR PRMXHTXH. Use grapevine leaves and a little, pow dered alum. To KXXP MIL* Bw*rr — A spoonful of borse-radish in a pan of milk will keep it sweet for several days, either in the open sir or in s cellar. To CLEANSE J KWXLRT. —Use hot water and s clean brush; rub a very little soap on the brush, then dip it into powdered borax and scour well; rinse in not water, and rub drv with a clean toseL, or chamois is Wtter; silver bangles are brightened quickly in the same way. BAUD Arri.it Dunruw* Each dumpling ia formed with a single apple, which ahonld be peeled and hare the core removed. I'ut into the Woe of the core a piooe of butter and little sugar and spioe. Cover each apple with pie crust as smoothly and securely as jxmsi ble. Bake in a moderate oven, turn them frequently, and eat hot with sugar and cream, or what is called '' hard sauce." CHKIMK BTKAWH. —Sift one cupful of flour upon a pastry board, make a well in the center and put into this two table spoonfuls of cream, three ouaoea of grated cheese, two tableepoonfuls of butter, the yolks of two eggs, and half a tQaspoonfu! of salt, a dust of pepper and a little nutmeg ; if the the jaate is too still use a little milk until yon can work it without breaking ; roll out thin, out it in narrow strips, lay them on a battered tin, hake to a pale yellow ; serre as a relish, hot or oold. JOHWWT OAKS. —One teacupfnl sweet milk, one of buttermilk, teaspoonful of salt, one of soda, tablespoonful of butter, enough meal to make a very stiff batter : spread it upon buttered tins ; hake forty minutes ; as soon as it bpgins to brown, baste it with melted butter; baste several times. DRLMOICIOO HASH.— Take oold roast lamb or mutton ; throw away the fat portions ; chop very fine, and add water enough to make it quite thin : boil in frying-pan ; add butter, salt and pepper to snit taste ; have ready hot toast which has been well buttered and dipped into cream or rich milk, and spread the hash over the toast, and serve immediately. To GLEAM BLACK LACE.—Place the lace on a clean table; have one teaspoon ful of powdered borax dissolved in a quart of hot water; take a soft brush and use the borax water freely; after all the greaae spots or soiled places have been removed, use plenty of warm water with a sponge ; go all over the places so as to rinse off all the borax water; place the lice—while damp, and after picking out nioely—between pieces of old black silk or cashmere, and press with a warm iron until dry; be careful not to use a hot iron. PLUM PUDDING. One - half cupful sugar, one-half cupful molasses, one egg, one cupful chopped suet, one cupful sour milk, one teaspoonful soda, three cnpfnls floor, one teaspoonful salt, and one of-cinnamon ; lastly, add one cupful raisins, seeded and chopped, after sprinkling a little flour over them to prevent settling ; stsam three hours J to b* eaten with sauoA Rauoe for Pudding. NUMBER 38. —Hix tablespooafuls sugar, two a# bat ter, ""I one lumping tablespounfal flour; ■tir eil together; when thoroughly mired bnijjSJ weter til! thin enough, stir ring *ll the while ; plsoe it on the store, let it ooma to e boil, ramore, end mid the beaten white of an egg. Pit'iKD Cmcsn.—Pat one pint of cream into a frying-pan targe enough to hold * ehiclum, sod set it orer • moder ate Are until it begins to color; then ley into it one chicken, nicely dressed and cut in joints, end fry until toe under mde is nicely browned ; when the cream acquires s" rich brown hue dip oat enough to aarre se aauoe for the dish, and set it aside to keep hoi Season the chicken with pepper end salt, and torn it ore* in the pen. Let it brop* eoually ail ore*. Do not let the cream burn. When duos ley it upon e flat diah, sod pour cream in the center. OxkainU le m JMaev. c. M. F. 8., Kenton, Ky., writes ; " I hare s mare that baa eery weak ayaa. Oneof them ha# turned that white, milky <* lor that usually attends rary weak eye*. (that ia, whan the era ia almost gone.) and the other ere ha* a similar speck in one corner. Can the eyas be made all right again t If to, please give the remedy. The mere is. only four years old, and ia all right in every other way. If you will gie* a resaedy it will be received with many thanks." RrjAu. —The thseaae ia oothabnia, and is doubtless roustitutif mal. Many of j such diseases occur through the eery frequent and rary injodimoae practice of breeding from unsound marae. That " any mare ia good enough for a oult," is a very wrong though preraleat idea, and the effect of it ia seen in the rata number of hone* with diemaed eyee or limbs, predisposed that way hereditarily. In tins case procure a discharge from the eyes by applying burned alaim, Take s piece of slum as large as a forty-to-thr pound rifle bullet. Put items hot store und let it boil until It cornea to e dry white powder. Take this powder and blow half of it into each eye through a ?lill Do this twice daily for throe or our day*. If the eyee are not then cleared of cloudiness, gire the marc a dose of eight ounces at sella, and after ward one ounce of hyposulphite of soda daily for one week, and bathe the eyes frequently with s sedation at fire grains of chloride of line to one ounce of pure water. Keep her in a moderately dark stable for a tune. I have p radioed stacking fodder (or twenty year*—ners* had any *j> 1. and after trying various waya think it decid edly preferable to all other modes, be cause first, none bat the butts, the worthless portion, are erpoaed to the bleaching rmiaa of winter, and second, Uanae a larger quantity can be placed cloae by the feeding-place than or any other way. I pat tuaally fifty shock* of 100 bills each in a stack. A few stick* are placed on the ground to raiat the center of the stack. The center must be kept up sufficient to abed rain from the butts throughout the stack. He stack must be made at each diame ter only ae to allow the tops at bandies to lap and thus keep up the center, a single row of bundles oily forming the circle. The finishing of the stack should be in form similar to an ordinary 100- hiU shock, and be well tied with a band. I feed only four bead at cattle from an oh a stack, and never had any damaged by rain; only one course appear* to get damp, and the cattle prefer it in that condition. If a snow storm occur*, or a sleet storm, or a eery heavy rain, I im mediately remove one entire course, and aet on end all not fed. 1 feed in the ordinary box manger, always in the stable, being particnlar to have the butts of bundles placed in bottom of manger. None ia ever wasted—not even a husk. The stalks remaining are thrown under the cow*, and make good bedding, al ways keeping them clean— Practical Farmer. Barty Klprslia ef *• Tiam. By cutting back the end* of the tomato vine a* soon a* the fruit ia anfficiently set to insure a plentiful crop, the ripen ing season can be pushed to good advan tage. Not only will the frail ripen sooner, bat it will be of finer rise and more perfect development. If ptumble, the fruit should be ripened on the vines ; the flavor ia so much richer when so ripened, that it ia worth while to take extra pains m order to protect it ao that it may ripen in its natural state. A most effectual scarecrow to fight away poultry from the ripening fruit can be made by stroking turkey or hen feathers into a *' crooked neck " summer aquaafi, so it will resemble a hawk; pat a stick through the body, tie string* to either end, and fasten to a tall pole, letting the '' nondescript " swing back and forth over the tomato bed. It will prove ef fectual, we know. A Plucky DM*. i Some repair* beingin progress to the >oof of a house in High stteet. Bar*- staple, Eng., by Mr. Stoeker, bnilJer, a Udder fifty feet long, was reared from the roadway. A maaoa'* laborer, named Charlce Jonea, when nearly at the top of the ladder, bat not sufficiently so to deposit a heavy load of mortar on the roof, was observed by George Oroaa, the mason, who wae waiting to take the load from him, to suddenly stop and be in a fainting condition. Croea immediately went down the ladder, and removal the i load from the fainting man's should* on to the roof. He then desoeoded to the asrittn — of Jonea, whom he found ! in a At ready to tall, bat this he happily prevented by getting feuse him, and holding him tightly by band and leg. Jonea, in hia lit, fixed his teeth m . Cross's arm, and trembled violently as well aa straggled to get In*. For fifteen minute* the people below wit nessed the straggle, afraid to paoend, until another nrave fellow, named William Richards, a driver of a van, ran up the ladder to the assistance of the mason. In the meantime the ftre-eaeape ladder was brought to the spot, and m the nick of time the police aaeended, and the leather belt belonging to the ee tmpe being fastened round Jones, he was lowered, still in the fit, to the ground unhurt. The mason, Oroaa, was much ; exhausted, and when he regained the \ ground fainted. A Brave Dog's Record. The following is the reoorvl of a brave dog that lately perished: In 1882 a man with delirium tremens jumped overboard from the schooner Hero, on a voyage to Labrador. The dog bounded over the taffrail, and for half an hour held to the man with hia teeth fastened in the collar of his woolen shirt. The delay was oc casioned by the capsinng of the first boat that was lowered. In 1864 the dog saved a baby that had fallen through a sewer hole in a wharf at Oatalina, N. P. He jumped through the hole and was too large to swim between the posts of the wharf, but he held the baby's head out of the water and swam briskly in every direction in search of an opening. In 1869 he saved the life of a Swedish sailor, who, while drunk, walked into the land-wash at Bonavista, N. F. Between 1870 and 1873 Billy save*! three children and one grown boy. Thenceforth his strength tailed, and all his fangs fell out but one, until last winter he had not one left. He was a huge, genuine New foundland. The heart is a crystal palace—if onoe broken, it ean never be mended, "Tbm ian f i eegetebK" tIMI W*ster "that em ketchup op with 1!:' tomato. A tenor weighing OP* hunlrodsnd land. Mich , . - , . "Tb* " bookey" dey* have cam* again, the saddest in th* year, wh the uml I twy steels *wjr from, aobool end '! • mlkuff an his ear." i A aid teeMf* rrpVn* th* *• ol th* Turk* by saying that * OUkn ,™ t mar* th*n an* wife might to be willing I to bee deeth at any time. Th* forest* of North Carolina produca twenty-one of oak, eight of pine, nine of spruce, serenof magnolia, eight of hickory end fire of esoh of elm ■*>" I birch. An agricultural eocllaty offered s pre mium for the beet mode of irrigation, j which wee printed irritation by mistake. I An honeet turner Met his wife to etaun 1 the prise. A inSlf opening snrslope, with s thrend I in the edge of the upper flap, by pulling which the eprelepe is qphddy end neat ly opened, is the newest infrtition in stationary. A Texas neper **y* that Gapt It King, of flJu Wrndea. ia making an of sixty miles to hi* pasture fence, and will have inekwad altogether 1 •• Km? bus art a Say ; If ymi baw a bona *Mi tba Dtoti lags, ■and him fir awsy; If ye* bass a beets with to* eblts lags, h*U bats (esteem! ; And if yo havs a boras eith oca whs* lag. Keep bka to bis end. The Pittsburgh fPO/Weays that under the adjusting plea of ascertaining laaaas by the riots, similar to that of m companies, it rs believed the final awards will no* vary much from these figures: Railroad company, $1,500,000; freight destroyed, sl, ("00 000; elevator, $150,000; Ketone Hotel Wk. 0.0°?- pany, $90,000, private indmduala, $l(lfi,000; total, $2,990,000. The Auburn (*. T.) Mm* prints the •lory of the marriage of an Auburn girl some years ago to a cweeatnan while the company was wintering drier*. When summer oune the fellow went off with the show, and hit wife beard nothing from him until he recently sent for her to come to him in a Weetem town, where he wae dying. Bbe went, attended to him in hi* last momenta, and received his bank-bock, in which he was credited with $85,000. ... J ■ A Para ef the tieed Old Sort. Neerhr every adntt la the muted coun ties is more or lees eoeuainted with that large property situated about six miles the Perth wed, and known as the Flint farm. It has for a number at Tear* bean owned by Mr. Hamoai Flat of this hewn, who has con tinued to rent it from year to Tear, de riving from its rental quite a haaaome amount, For the peat four yeai*ii haa been managed by Mr. Frank McCrea, formerly orMerr&ville, wbo ha. nut it in the beat poambie condition, and has reaped from it some of the beat crops ever raised in this section. This spring Mr. McCree bought the form out ami out, paving for it the handsome sum of $15,000. Our reporter obtained from Mr. MoOrea the following statiatire in reference to this year's baainesa on the farm, together with the quantity of land tilled. He ha. rrwpcd and hoeasd 125 tons of bar, 1,000 bushefo of oats, 900 bushels Of bartmr, 100 bushels spring wheat, 900 bushels potatoes, 1,800 Uh el# of turnip* and 100 baiheb oi peaa. Fifty-four cows are kept on the place, the milk boingTsent to the fordory, and daring the best part of the season sp irregating SSO pounds at each milking. Four men with seven homes do the work, and they aw now engaged in put ting into shape fifty acres of ground, which will this foil be sowed to rye. The farm comprises 500 acres, half of which (260 acres) is in a good state of cultivation, and has upoa it some of the beat form building* in, Canada. — Brock ville (CM*.) Recorder. Turkish Pleasantry. * The other day Pop Milo, a relative erf Prince Nikita, felt irreeiatibly impelled to go down and objurgate the Turks in Nikaieh. He rode down from the heights of TreMßah, armed only with hie sword; and. after indnlgiag in a flood of impu tations touching the character of the Turka, invited the Niksieh people to send forth their most valiant champion to single oombat with him, at the same time exposing his breast to show that he wore no surreptitioas armor. But the Nitadeb men did not feel in clined to oome forth, and Pop Milo fell a victim to Modem barbarism by a bul let tKmngh hia heart. He was fifty years of age and considered the hamt someat man in Montenegro. When he fell, the Niksichers sprang forth, cut his head off, oarefully washed his face, oornbed his hair, and sent the trophy back into the Montenegrin oarap.—Lon don Examiner. Payiag far Hit Charily. unmmtte Newt tells this amus ing story concerning Leonard Grovor, the playwright: He and Ned Holmes, the "did man," both after partaking of a generous sapper one evening, passed through Union Square, New lork, where* he notioed every inch of bench by some poor fellow without a better place to si ep. Graver went about carefully inserting a silver dime in the vest pocket of each of them. He counted ninety, and one was leit. He determined to pnt a dollar in his poekei so as to make it a square ten. While engaged in the operation, which was rather difficult as the ma was tuned in an impossible oondition, the object of charity woke up and shouted "Thieves! at the top of his lungs. Grover had to give him a five dollar bill to keep qniet. He awenn. that this is the end of his flharitjh