Hi* hnwr'i Day. *T itui UJ>I. Up. when the lark* to labor call, Jnst M the sun's first glance* ton Lovingly on the breeding toll. Oh MI fill the (innw form to toil ; Sober and honest. hearty and hale. Thrift and tndastrv never toil; Working, otill working, till net of ton, And mat at laat when tha toil ia done. Contented he looks at the work of the day, Then happily homeward takes his way ; A light in his window shines before- Brighter the light at his onen door : The star of his home smiles welcome there; " Thanks be to heaven the world's so fair !" Heart speaks to heart, and hnsbend and wife Merit the joy of their hnnihle life. " Two's Company." MIM Jeany B was born for me. And I *nu born for Jenny ; For any other mm 1 tee I hardly care a penny. Two turtle-doves yon never saw 80 fond of one another. And yet my rapture hath a flaw My Jenny hath a brother ! A child of eight, or under that; * Of manner* inoffensive Ton rarely And *0 young a brat With knowledge so extensive. For him two syllable* are naught. He laugh* at long division . lie says his lesson*, as he ought. With laudable precision. Due reverence for m* he shows ; F* greets me a* a •• mister," The clever boy !—I know he knows 1 love hi* pretty sister. It iy be chance -and yet I see That more than chance is in it; He never leave* Mi>* B and me Together for a minnta I can not heave the tender sigh With any sattsfact.cn While such an incubus is by To mark my every acUou. I can not bend the supple knee. And " pop " the tender question ; The very thought of Number Three Forbid* the soft suggestion. Me never meet, vre never talk. But thoee two eyes sspy us ; We never strive to steal a walk But Number Three is nigh us. In sach a sad and sorry plight Ferhap* it would be better To plead my suit in blsck and white. And register the letter. A GOOD LITTLE SAMARITAN. Miss Betty Van Dyke had curled her self up in the corner of the capacious window-sill in her mo tier's kitchen to watch Fifine flute the flounces of her India muslin. Miss Betty was as pretty and fresh as a rose; her eyes were of heaven's owu blue, her hair like threads of gold, her cheeks "like a Catherine pear, the side that's next the suo." Fi fine was nothing more than a bundle of old boues wrapped in a piece of parch ment ; ahe was a native of Lorraine, and had lately married an Englishman familiarly known as " George," whom ahe had loved for many a year. Misa Betty was romantic, and it so de lighted her when George at last yielded to the idolatry of poor Fifiue, that she ooaxed her father into leasing a bit of •crabby woodland with a tumble down house upon it, to George, so that he could have a garden and potato patch, and raise some chickens, and take nice care of poor Fifine. Miss Betty even condescended to go to diem during the honse-fiuiahing and the houey-moon, and assist Fifine in her little domestic furnishing and adorning, and advise George in relation to hia garden, his potato patch, his chickens aud wood splitting. But, truth to say, George had so stud ied the character and attributes of the noble Indian that he modeled hia life upon it, so far as resigning all domestic duties to poor Fifiue. He gave over to his spouse the entire supervision of the garden, potato patch, chickeu-raising and even the wood-splitting. He was of a dreamy nature, and would sit for hoars on a rude bench he had placed near the water, and there he would smoke and meditate until Fifine had tidied up the hoose, and fed the chickens and hoed the potables, and washed a couple of dozen pieces for one of her patrons, and sp it some w-md. and got dinner upon the table, and then George would come ID and eat dinner sub Fi fiue, aud tell her of all he had been thinking about while sitting there upon the bench under the trees. Fifine was very happy. Slieknew that George was superior to her in mind, but he Tad told her time and again that it was right he shonld be her superior, and he loved her all the better for it ' But Miss Bettv bail her misgivings, and one day, when she was curled up like a lovely kitten upon the window-sill, she said to Fifine : " What does George do, Fifine. toward the support of the household ? It seems to me that yon are always slaving and toiling. What does George do ?" Then Fifine shrugged her shoulders, which had become somewhat crooked and bulgy from the heavy burdens they had borne all these years, and ele vated ber eyebrows, which were rather •craggy and gray, and said, with a world of feeling in her voice : " What does be do, my angel f He gives to me the hap piness which ia my all: he gives to me the Conversation which'■ beautiful ;he tells me of what ia going on in tbe big boar world ; he pities, be consoles —ah, my little one, he loves me I" Mies Betty blushed and was silent, and thought, foolish child, that, after all, thia waa every thing. She left Fifine to iron the tucks and furbelows with which Mrs. Van Dyke delighted to adorn her daughter Betty, and went out under the grapevine, and walked to and fro, and thought that if somebodv—and here ahe trembled an I blushed at the thought of his name—if he would read to her •gain, would talk to her again, would tell her of the big beautiful world once more, if he would love her—ah, what would ahe not he glad to give in return ! She would work for him—ay, ahe would work her slim fingers to the bone, onlv, of oonrse, he wouldn't let her ; he was too noble and generous and thoughtful But if the necessity should arise, how glad she would be to do even like poor Ftflne, if only he would love her in re turn ! But, alas ! the superiority of mankind was here also pre-eminent." He was the new minister, the Rev. Reginald Roake. The consistory had thought it best to get a vonng man, v o that he could board aronnd among the parishiouers, and thus save the rent of a parsonage. Cap tain Van Dyke, Misa Betty's father, had thought it best to economize in every way that they could, and had even taken the young man to board at first. He told his wife they'd scarcely miss what the parson ate, and tbe church must be helped along as much as was prudent " and possible. But the captain, after a few months, suddenly changed his mind. Tbe voitog minister was very fertile in imagination and quick in thought; and his sermons were speedily prepared, and the long summer days hail so many sweet, ri-h hours to fill! Miss Betty's duties were also light; her mother was still active and robust ; there were two sturdy young women in the kitchen, besides the occasional artistic work of Fifine. The captain sight was keen and strong ; when he was ont sailing in the bar be oonld see a couple of figures bending over some book in the Bummer-house, or wandering among tbe rocks or along the sands upon the shore. Tbe captain would come home hot and v xed, and tike his wife to task for this misdoing. " I don't want any oeggarlv parsons hinging around my daughter," said the captain. The good lady would look very much shocked, and really tremble in her heart at the captain's temerity, for she thought it was almost tempting Providence to cast a contemptuous wird upon the clergy; but she had that wholsome fitor of the captain that she never ventured to remonstrate with him. She sighed ia FRED. KURTZ, Editor nnd Proprietor. VOLUME X. secret with her daughter when the cap tain managed to transfer the preacher to the care of a wealthy and coincly widow iu the neighborhood. " He can poach all he pleases on tliat domain," mod the captain; and shortly after, he wna delighted to nee tlie rever end gentleman ndiug out with tlie fair widow, and gathering grasses and feme in tlie pretty woodland haunt# about Grauville. •' W can't keep a parson single," chuckled tli' captain at his dinner table: "the women won't let htm alone, do what ae may. But the widow Benaou owua her own house, and that will save rent for a parsonage." The morsel upon Miaa Betty's fork re mained untested, and lite captain tu this war apoiled many a meal for hut daughter. And ao the summer waned, and Sep tember was at hand—September with her aoft blue base and rich warm ami ahtue ; and though the WHIOW had a brilliant garden of herowu, she waa fond of the wanton wild dower* that grew aj luxuriously in the woods of Granville. She aud the jouug minister Ailed the houae with great cluster* of golden-rods aud asters and big purple poke-barriea. One day thepouy-phietou stopped before the door of Captam Van Dyke, and the widow was led into the sitting room, where she found Mias Hetty almost hidden by a mosquito uettiug which she was busily patching. " Come, child," said the widow, " put away that rag. and run get a pretty dress on. I've promised myself this many a day we should take this drive together, and I declare to vou it shall be the rarest one you ever haA in your life. The day is made richlv to order for it; the balmiest air, the goldeueet sunahine— not a cloud in the sky ! Ruu sway, and make yourself look as pretty as you can." •• You are very kind," eaid Mian Betty, with a little trip of oold jealousy ou her tongue; " but I must mend this nettiug for poor Fidnc. She is sick with a fever, and the mosquitoes are dreadful dowu there in the wood. Mamma says I may have this netting if I can make it do; it is so badly torn," said poor iiettv, "and so perplexing t But I could not sleep, Mrs. Beusou," she added, with an air of geutle dignity, iu which there was alao a slight suiff ol reproach—"l could not sleep in my own bod of luxury, and know that poor Fifine was languishing there, a prey to fever and mosquitoes." If the widow had thereupon offered to drive to town with Miss Betty and buy for Fifine a brand-new canopy, Miss Betty would have put the old netting aside ; but she was at heart very glad that the flue lady offered no such sacri fice to charity, for she could not bear to find her altogether perfect. " Ten chances to one, my dear," said the widow, "vou'll have your labor for your pains. these poor creatures are very superstitious and queer, and don't knew what is beat for them. I've no doubt, in auv case, ahe has pretended to be sick to get rid of some clear-starch ing for your gooo mother. Fifiue would rather work at home, so that she can be with that iubberlv lout of a husband of hers, bhe is the fiueat aud beat of laundresses, and sorry ahonld I be to have any thing befall her ; but you must not be lie v > all that these wily Frenchwomen say." The color mantled high in Miss Betty's cheeks as these slanders fell upon her ears, and she steadily refused to put ber work aside. "You are a little goose," said the widow at length. "Must I tell you, then, thst we shall have some charming company with us ? We are to stop at ray house for Mr. Roake—there, now, Miss Betty, run away and dress. The color fled from Miss Beatty's cheeks, aud the needle trembled in her fingers. As she raised her blue eyea to the flue black ones of the widow, a tear or two trembled within them. " Yon are welcome to yoar charming company," she said. " I will go on with my work for poor Fifine." The widow laughed lightly and went iway, leaving poor Miss Betty to strug gle on with her troublesome task, which was more and more irkaoine u >w that she kuew bow s *me other people were spending their afternoon. As rent after rent yawned before her, and her wesry little fingers grew lees and less nimble, more than once the question arose with in her whether it was better to go on. Since nobody cared for her, why should she care for any body ? Bat her gener ous heart conquered all thiwe bitter temptations, and nearly at night- fell she ran up stairs to slip on the pretty mus ! lin robe, all smoothed and crimped by tbe art and industry of poor Fifine. The netting was not a very heavy burden, but she carried also a kettle of ice with her and a pot of jelly. She took the road through the woods, and though it was growing darker, and her heart beat rapidly, and she could not brush the mosquitoes away because ber hands were so full, yet she was upheld by the thought of reecning poor Fifiue. Since she could not save her from the stiugs of slander and reproach, she alion d at least be free from those of mosquitoes. At last through the trees she could see the cfaicken-coops of Fifine, and soon she was at the poor wroman's bedside. The heart of Mine Betty was fired with indignation when she rememliered the cruel words of the widow. Fifine lay upon a rude bed in the corner. Always thin and brown, she might now have been taken for an exhumed queen of Egypt, and Miss Betty could not imagine how all these mosquitoes could find it in their anatomy to prey upon poor Fifiue. when tbe fat and unctions substance of George was temptingly at hand upon the bench outside, where he was enjoying hia evening pipe. Miss Betty stooped over the sick woman, aDd said, softly, "I have brought you some ice, dear Fi fine." " Ah, my angel ! my angel of light I" said Fittm-, "thou hast of hearts the most merciful ; but, alas, I cannot have the ice, I am too cold already, my little one. There is a cold hand at my heart. No, no ; I cannot have the ice." *• Very well, Fifine," said Miss Betty, putting down the kettle which had been such a nuisance to her, "you shall uot be troubled with the ice, but here ia some jelly." " Ah. my blessed one !" cried Fifine, " thou art iike a saint from heaven ; but talk not to me of jelly. They have given me of jelly many years ago, after some bitter medicine, and I have since that lime no hunger for jelly. Ah, rav rose of the wildwood I it makes me sick to thiuk of it." " Then do not think of it, Fifine," said Miss Betty, putting aside the jar, that had grown In-avier and heavier at every step of the jonrney. " But these dreadful mosquitoes, they are devouring yon." "Ah, yes, my adored one, tnev are demons without mercy ; they have drawn all tbe blood from my body, and their dreadful song is madnerfs to my brain. Bnt rest tranquil; death will soon put an end to my misery." " But see here, my poor Fifine," cried Miss Betty, exnltingly unrolling her precious net; "now yon can sleep in peace. We will spread this over you, George and I. and not one of the monsters can reach you. See, my poor Fifine, we will draw this over you—so and suit ing the action to the word, Mies Betty polled the net over the high post of the bedstead, when suddenly a terrified look upon the sick woman's face stayed her bauds, and aha cried out to Fifiue, iu THE CENTRE REPORTER. ! TLITFIUAY : M Don't YOU want Uie not owr > QMe IrHllne f" " Ah. life of my hie I" said Fiflne, " it is sad, it is terrible! I know not how to deuy thee, after all thou hast done lor me ; hut, oh, my little one. 1 eau not have it over me. 1 hare tried, I r tli.v dear sake, to l>ear it. I told myself that 1 would say no word against >•—* l h'ust till tliou wi re gone, when (Jeorge oouhl null it away—but I eau not even lor one little moment. Ah, mv angel, wait until 1 am dead. and tlien tliey can draw over me the pail, and put caudles at my head •ud leet, and do with me what they will; hut while I am vet alive 1 can not he t rented like a dead body. Miaa liettv aaid no further word# of entreaty or remonstrance, hut let the iinaerahle, duusv tbiug fall out of her liauda upon tlie fl.*>r; and haviug smoothed Ftdue's pillow, and held aonie milk to her lip*, and promised to oome again in the moruiug, Mow Betty took the woodland road home again. It waa uow quite dark, *ud big shadows aeemed to threateu every atrp of her way. Her hekrt waa heavy within her, and her poor little leet aeetued scarcely able to carry even her light weight'aloug. What a wretched, abor tive attempt had been hera to alleviate the miaerv ol poor Fiduc? It waa'aa the beautiful widow hatl said, she had had her labor fur her paius—the beauti ful, mocking wtflow, who waa no doubt ruling home thapugh the gloaming with the Bev. Hegmad Roake. At that very ■ouieut Mts Betty heard the tramping of hoofa tiehmd her, and stepped aside to let the light-limbed pony of the widow pane by. The banket side* of the phaeton were tilled with wild tlowerw, and the white hands of the raiuiater held a hunch of shy, sweet forget-me-note aa blue aa Miss Betty's eyes. Tbe witlow drew up ber pony, anil bade Mum Betty get iu by her aide, lost the liobg >blins of the wood ahotiid devour her ; hut the voung girl stoutly refused, nor would ahe he coaxed from her decision. " I am not afraid of hobgoblins," ahe said, thinking iu her heart there could be none an greedy aud rapacious tu> the lieautiful widow herself. "Now what is to be done with this olietiuate child ?" said the widow. The minister had long since leaped from the wagon and approached Miss Betty; but she turned her back upon him, perhaps to hide the tears of wretchedness which were falling out of her eyes. "Pick her up and put her in here by me," said the widow. " I atn myself a little afnud of the satyrs of the wood. Come, child; do not lie a goose and get jealous of your grand mother. The gen tleman there has gathered a pretty nose gay of forget-me- uoU for vou that were left over from spring. \Ve ha\e been looking for you far and wide, aud he has done nothing but talk to me of his love for you iill lam wck of the refrain." Bettv turned a swift, melting glance Itehimf her. Iu a twinkling the minister had lifted ber to the widow's sule, aud forgot to take his a-m quite dark, aud the only star that ahune iu the sky was that of Venus. They drove rapidly on. Miss Betty's heart thumping in unison with the hoofs of the l>ony. " I told you," said the widow, "you'd have your labor for your paius. We stopped at Fifine's. The poor creature was fell of adoration for you. She called upon every saint iu the calendar to shower blessings upon your head. She ssid that you had brought her some lieautiful ice and some delicious jelly, aud a net that was most wonderful " But she refused them ell," said Miss Betty. " Ah, ve," replied the widow ; " but George did not refuse them. He had chopped up the ice in his milk, an I had spread nil the jelly upon his bread, and had wrapped himself up in the mos quito netting, aud lay upon the lounge when we entered, snoring, as F.fiue said, like an augcL Fifine was parched with fever and devoured with tuns quitoes. but she declared to me that she was qcite comfortable and I.tippy. I do not understand it" But Miss Bettv did. She nestled closer to the arm about her, ami lifted her flushed aud radiant face to the one above her own. " My sweet little Samaritan !" he whis pered ; and although the widow could not understand the hoppiuee* of Fifiue, it was clear to the heart of Miss Betty. —Harper't Weekly. Ward* of Wisdom. Be deaf to the quarrelsome, and dumb to the inquisitive. Character is the diamond which scratches every other stone. Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes uer. At all times confidence and truth are better preventives of jealousy than con cealment. Tbey who lewd shrink at the storms of fortune are always most virtuous and victorious in the end. We would gain more if w lcfl our selves to appear mich as we are, tlmn by attempting to ap)>ear what we a e m t He is liappv whose circumstances suit h's temper ; but be is an>ra excellent who cau suit bis temper to any circum stances. He that waits for repentance waits for that which cannot be had as long as it is waited for. It is obstird for a man to wait for that which he himself has to do. The most politic, liecatise tbe most effectual, way of governing in a family is for the husband occasionally to lay aside his supremacy ; so in public as well as in nrivate life, that king will be most popular who does not at all times exercise his full prerogative. It would appear that there is a great sympathy between the mind of man and falsehood ; when we have a truth to tell, it takes better if oonveved in a fable ; and the rage for novels sliows that we nuiv not only divert extremely without a syllable of truth, but truth is even com lielled to borrow the habit of falsehood to secure itself an agreeable reception. Read wood Death. As I was resting in a camp on the out skirts of Dead wood, writes a Black Hills correspondent, a jolly-faced man came along and asked for a job. He was told that every tnan was working foi himself, and making mighty poor wages at that, when he replied : "Gentlemen, I hnvea't had one good meal in three weeks ; I haven't been able to get a day's work ; I'm dead broke, and the curtain is going to ring down on this tragedy right here and right now !" He stepped aronnd the fire, pulled a revolver from a miner's belt, and then retreating back a pace or two, he aid : "Gentlemen, I m going to die I I've starved around the Black Hills for three rtlbutbs, and if there's a worse place than this I'm envious to see it I Excuse me for wasting ammunition, but here I go—crack I" He put the muzzle of the revolver to his forehead, and never kicked after the report. No man rose np to restrain him. After a few minutes the owner of the revolver walked over and seenred it, and, as he wiped a spot of blood off tbe barrel, he growled out: " Why didn't he jump over some cliff, or go out and let the In 'ians tickle him to death I" CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1877. A ■OL'JfTAISEER'N EXPLOIT. Haw a Karkr Maaatala Ktaav Uafebrr ml Ikr OU faaklanrd Hluri Mcl Ilia Maltb. " liah ! >n the*.< thirdola** *tge rob ber* J" ooulwuptuouiily exclaimed tbo ghtxly-headivl old luouulnioeer, a* he felt around to hie hip to *ee if hia re volver waa at ill there. " Follia try to make out that thia Mack lfilla excite meut ia tlie equal to the ruah to Cali foruy, but it'a all boah. There'* lota o' groenhoraa, he*f<* o' gamblera, auo an' aeo 'em grow pale over reporta that eouie of the stage* ha* been atop ied, an' the folk* robbed of a few dol lar*. Why, air, I've aeeu tlie time when a aiugle man, an' not a big uian at that, atood in the eeuter of tlie trail, halted a coach full o' men, each oue armed, an' made 'em hop dowu and hand over duat enough to aet an vUxlv up iu the baiikiu' buauean, an' plenty left over to a tart a circua ou ! That waa biaue**, that waa, an' Uie victim* couldn't help but feel like ivattiu' the feller on the back for hi* nerve. Ye've heard o' Hank Monk, I reckon?" , " Waal, there'* fifty juat aa good driv en a* he wan, and tlftv braver men, but Hank got into tbe uewapapera, and folk* thought him a preacher, a driver, a gn xly, a buffalo an" a rattlesnake all rolled inter one. Mmd ye, I aiu't aayin' a word agin 1 vu junt thmkm' of bow I witM Jt ptuuM-UKt'r IU bin coach ouoc when it cunt me u bullet through the nhpuUler to do what be could hare dune viUioot e*eu atoppuig the coach. Thar wan a chap called Prince Charlie, who UIMMI to imagine that Fargo'* coaches wan* put on the liar uu mm*** to bring liim dust. Ht> w a flu* look in' chap, sUndin' wlxiut six fret high, lusif Texan an' lisw Mrxieaa, an' he had ryea like <\*ds o' flrr. That chap hung along the luui its in the lioeky Mountain* for one null summer, an' 1 gum* he collect ed hard uu to a hundred thousand dol lar*. He didnt hawe any partner* in the bizneas, but played a luoe hand every time, an' alius raked in the stake*. He didn't stop every stage—oh, no. He'd hdt an' rob one to-day or to-night in Apple lUoasom Canyon, then, two, three or foar weeks arter he'd turn UP on Scott's Hill, or Betsy Jane tlulch, or fifty miles from the oilier spot. Folks thought he had just about time to dig down into Mexico, put hia dust inter safe hands, an' then return, au* p'raps that was the game. " 1 reckon ye've read about dozens o" thraarha**, aud |h'e*rfor ye don't re me in tier tins otic; bnt 1 tell ye he gut to be a terror. As uobdy could aay when hi'd cry • Halt f to a stage, ereu brave meu hated to travel in that fashion. I'nuco Charlie was s dead shot—wouldu't take a word o' chin music} au' some time* he shot down a passenger or two. just to increase the resjicct of the rest. I was kinder speculatiu' ar und in tboac daya, an' it was a poor tuornin' when I couldn't show up the half of |U).UOO. 1 waagittin'ready to k-sv# the country an* go back to Illinoy. when on® o' Fargo's sgeuts dropped m ou me one day, and sez In*: •.Jim. why don't ye go to work an* lav out that Prince Ciiarbe ?' Sara I: ' I'll In*t ye fifty to oue I kin fix lua biziuesa fur him in less'n a month.' That kinder brought us to terms, an' the agent showed op oolor strong. The w.-re most desartod by traveler* on aeoonut o' this oner* aid mm>t, an' the oompauy felt that sumthiu' had gut to be done. The annd o' lead, or chaw red sand tall spring opeus.' i "He raised me theextiw mighty quick, sn' I Iwgan to stiffen mv backbone, The prince had rubbed n stag* about twen ty days before, an' it was then abont time for him to make another aatenainent on tlie shareholder*. It was agreed that nothin' shtmld b said l*mt our bar gain, and that I was to be hooked an' put through as a regular passenger. I was left to maka my own preparations, an' I kept shady till the stage was ready to null out for the loug trip. P raps ' ye imagine that 1 loaded myself down with guns, re vol rei a, knives and aicb. but I lit I n't. ■II I ill ad was a good double-l>ar'ted shot gut 1, eaeh bur'l loaded with *hif|S—i® Oust, no baggage, an' lOoki n' kin. 1 down in the moutn an' played out, 'zif I hadn't made a cent. Thar war seven other fellers in the ■tags, an' Hank Monk was the driver. We went out o' Marraville on the whoop, Monk bavin' a ride an' two revolvers on the seat, an' lookin' aa brave aa old ; Gen. Scott. It wasn't my game to say anytbin' to anybody, an' so I didn't mix in a great deal with the others. They were stotit-lookin' chaps, ail well armed, an' part o' the crowd said thev'd gin a clean hundred dollars to have l'rince Charlie ' halt the coach. Tliey planned to peel him iu alxiut a second in case he showed up, an' fore long I got bins from think in' I was to lie left out in the Cold when the fun commenced. " Wall, ray ly, one arternoon we was trottin' along as smart aa ye please on a ! bit o' level road in the Itockiag, when all to once the climax showed tip. The eight of us were wide awake an' ready for hizneas, when all of a sudden some body yelled out: ' Holt!' and that same Prince Charlie jumped on the trail from behind a big rock. Hank Monk pulled in the horse* to once, but instead ofgivin' the robber some o'bis bullets, be got white around the mouth an' hopped j uowu from his box an' held one o the ; lead hone* till tin; chap could come back !to the stage am! say : ' Now then, you j gents climb down here an' shell out, an' the first man who even winks his eye will git a bullet ovor it I' That was Prince Charlie's style to a dot, juat like you would walk into a atdr<> ah' ask for ten pounds o' imgifr. 1 ftm'lM>elieVe I'm a coward, but when I heard him sing out an' realized that the chap I hail sworn to kill was right near tliar, all filled up for hizneta, ray heart jumped inter my gullet au' my kneea wobbled all over. Only for a minute, though. Hays I to myself: • Jim, old man, brace up or Beaty Jane will put op mouruin'!' and I braoeii. Prince Charlie at.*> 4at tlie door, a revolver in either hand, an' the passengers got dowu one arter another as meek as could lie. Not a one 'o them spoke a loud word, let alone piutiu' their pistols at the chap. '•Waal, I war the last one out, 'cor din' to the plans I had laid. Prinoa Charlie had the hull mrowd to see to, an' he didn't have but two eyes. As I got dowp I dtewed •the shotgun arter me, bavin' bold o' the butt The seven men were itfling, ttieir guns in the age, and the robber was callin' out, 'Up with your arms—hold 'em up,' an' for the life o' ye don't even apeak to me!' Aa I lit on hard grouud I jelled out like a pau ther to throw the feller off hie guard, an' thou sprang aruuud the stage, Then the real biauasa began. I jelled out to the others to go fur the rubber, an' be tween watchiu' them an' Ann' at me, tlie lYmoe had hia hauda full. I guca# he ahot at me four or Ave timet under the atage, but I wur cantenu' up an' down, au tie didn't hit iue, I * workin' to git him confused an' mixed up, yon arc, au' I war right. In u minute or two he slammed tlie atage door abut to keep the men from their arms, called out to them not to move, an" the blasted coyotes stood rigid tbar in line, an'ucver moved a foot while the robber came for me ! I wur luokin' for him tu conic around the lead horses, but ho took Ule other way, an' giu me a bullet in the shoulder from over the hind wheel. Lord ! but wasn't thut lead hot! An', sir, aa liig aa I am, it knocked iue tint down, though p'raps the fall saved my li/e, as the Pnuce was firm' from both revolver* as ateudv as the turn of a coffee-mill. I rolled un der tlie stage, ria up ou t'other side, an' as true MI ye *r' a sinner I had to laugh right out to aee them seven rnfln staadin' in a row, arms up aud inoutha wule opeu! 1 felt tlie blood trickliu' down, and I kinder got riled. It takea a heap to atir me up from way dowu, stranger, but when I get riled for good, I don't mind uo thin". •• That but blood blisWrin' down my aide rii m_T hair fur me, tu' 1 wanted to aee l'riuce Charlie wna* nor he cared to me. He had begun tiring agin, ahootiu' right inter the crowd, when 1 started fur hiui. A I weut around the wheel he tired slap-dab into inv face, an' never touched a whisker The rang.- waa too abort fur good ahootin', and thir'a men linn' to-day who will tell ye that 1 let go the gun, reached out my naked paw*, an' the fust thing that rob ber knew he was beiu' shaken by a yearthquake. He had let lu empty re volver* fall an' drawed lna Uwie knife, au' be gin me these ere trifle* on the arms while I waa amkin' mv claws inter him. When I got settlej au' ready, I lifted him clean from Ilia pins, big aa he was, jammed him agin the wheel to Mifteu his hide, an' then flopped him down on the aile an' choked the life oat o* him then an' thar! Tea, au. I did, an'it took the hull seven men to tear me loose from him, "cause I waa nled an' wanted pay for my injuries. That's what I did to Pruio Charlie, stranger, an' right down here is the nugget Mister (iray gin me, an' here's the aoara to baek it! Fargo wauled to hire me to drive stage on that line at big pay, lota o" men named raiupa arter me, the newspapers gin me puffs, an' rations didn't coat me a cent all winter." The old man ahoved hia hat over on hia left ear a little more and added : •' Therefore, stranger, when I hear about these third-class hencoop thieve* stop pin' stages an' maktn' folks fork over, I i kinder feel took—kinder feel that the boea days are gone forever.**—.Vete Tont ' .Vim. • The I'nbiddrn tinrat. Charley Ht ne waa leaning over the counter of the Tliorndyke House, gaxtug out of doom at the sunlight, and wishing . he had four mdliun dollar* and a year'* vacation. A tall, cadaverous-looking man. with red whisker*, and a carpet bag in hand thinner than an argument in favor of rum-driuking, ambled in at the die tr, meandered up to the counter, ami slapped the carpet-bag down with emphasis. "The register, please," be eakl, haughtily, a* one who waa accustomed to hotel ways. The pob'te clerk turned the book around, proffered the stranger a pen, ami waited for him to inscribe with a flourish the name of " Alonao Montague, New York.,' "I'lease handle my baggage oare , fully," he remarked, as he handed up the* shadowy article. "It a >nUtna much of value. How's bunities* f" " Fair—only fair," replied the clerk. " Aa 1 supposed." said \be cadaverous man. frowning. "How'a granite?" " Hard—verr much depressed ; but prospects good," replied the clerk. ** II—m" muttered tho tliin man re flectively ; "tliia, then, i* my time. I have visited your city, young man. for the express purpose of investing largely •n this business, knowing, from the gen eral depression that I could do ao to ad vantage. I tell you thia in secret," and here his TUICC sank to a hoarae whisper. } " I have in that satchel documents that will oompcl the granite ring to admit me to their midst, an.l absolutely get down on tlseir kuees to me— ves, sir," fiercely, "on their knees," ami he slapped the oounter spitefully. The clerk didn't look aa though he waa much impressed by thia information, aud lie continued : "There has been at work in your midst sn inflnence that had tended to this great depression, but, by the great hoop snakes, I'll show them Uiat they have not only capital to oppose them, but an iron will and an inflexible nature that but laughs at obstacles. Where is the hsnqnet hall ?" he exclaimed, abruptly. " This way," replied the clerk point ing- . . " I will proceed to appease my natural wants, ami then—" and the cadaver ous man nodded his basil gloomily, and started for tha dining-room. " Bag fiordon, air,' said the clerk, po litely. " Sir ?" exclaimed the lank man, stop ping- "Wealways require pay in advance from strangers," continued tlie elerk. "Pay in advance!" almost screamed the thin man, " whv, I'll buy your little, insignificant hotel isn't for sale," replied the elerk, firmly, " fifty oenta please." "Give me that satchel," said the tall man, in a voice of condensed rage. " Let me get out of this one horse tavern. I've traveled from Maine to California, aud this is the first time an upstart of a hotel clerk ever said pay in advance. Let me out—the sir stifles me." He grablied his satchel and strode rapidly and fiercely out of the office. Soon after he was seen begging a dinner from a bouse in Middle street. And the granite ring is getting ready to tremble. —Rockland (Afe.) Courier. A Modern Robinson Crusoe George Hoaley, formerly f Arlington Vt., turns up at It nw. West Coast, New Zealand, after leing miasiag for twenty one ywrs ami writes home of his advent ures. He had started to return to this ouuntry eight years ago, after aocumn luting a small fortune in the gold dig gings, but reports of an El Dorado, sixty miles off, drew him away, and the steam er halaa—<.raiaa mmd at liar Tra- MM*. A mimical tknsuperstiLious yet lingering in the ut inila of mankind, uiiie, JH*IIUJ>S, ia morn uuivcru! than that of the UIUI in the moon. In Kugland bo ia chiefly immortalised by the uldHMtioery rhvrne, but no further details are gimi of bia I proceedings. German legend* are, bow ever, mure nommuii restive, and sundry 11 edition* relate bia history, varying in different parte of the souutrv. A Bwatnaii motber at l>erudingen tell* her cbild that a ruau vu oooe work ing ui but vmejard on Buudav, and after having pruned all bia viaea, be made a bundle of the abuota be bad just eut off, | laid it in hia baaket and went borne. According to one venuon the viuea were atoleu from a neighbor'a vineyard. When taxed either witb Habbatb-break ing, or witb the theft, the culprit atontly protected hia iunooeuee, and Anally ex elaitued : "If I bare committed ancb a crime, may 1 go to the moon!" After bia death, thin fate duly befell him, and ' there be remains to tiiia day, ouadeiuned to eat inulteu lead as a puuishmeut The Black Fernet peaaautry aay that the dark apote viaible in the moon are oauaed by I a man beiug apell-boand there. He stole a handle of wood on Sander, be- I'Miiae he thought on tlmt day be ehould ' t>e unmoleated by the foreatera. But he bad not gone far witb it when be met a atrauger, who waa none other than the I Almighty bimaelf. After reproving the i thief for not keeping the Habbath day holy, God mid be mnat be paniabed ; tmt be might chooae whether lie would tie banished to tlie sun or the moon. The man chose the latter, declaring be • would rather freeee in the moon than burn in the aitn, and thua the ** Beeen manule" or "Broom-man'' came into the moon with hi* faggot on bia hack. Different veraiona are related in Lim burg, where the man in the moon ia be lieved to have stolen wood on Easter morning ; while at Hemer, in West phalia, people say he waa engaged in fencing hie field on Good Friday, and had jnat poised a bunch of thorns un hia fork, when he waa at once transported to the moon. Home of the Hemer peas ants declare that the moon ia not only inhabited by a man with bis tbornboah and pitch-fork, But likewise hy a woman churning. They are husband and wife, and both broke the Sabbath, the man by fencing hia field, and the woman by I aborning her butter, during the hours of divine service. All nation* eeeni to have a carious desire to account for the spots in the moon. According to the Hindoos, Chandrae, | the god of tig* moon I wars a hare in hi* arms. The Mongolians also believe the pou represent tbvc. Oue of their del tie* transformed himself into a hare in order to feed a starving wayfarer; and in honor of thia act of virtue the Satire of a hare was thenoefortb viable in the moon. The native* of Orion have a aome what similar legend. When Buddha •Sjourned aa a hermit on earth, he ooe day loat hi* way in a forest, and after long wanderings he met a hare, who than addressed him : " I can help thee. Do thou take the right hand path, and I will guide thee out of the wilder- neaa." " I thank thee," returned Boddha, •' but 1 am poor and starving, and am nnahle to requite Uiy kindness." "If thou art hungry,** replied the lisre, " light a Are, kill and eat me." Buddha lighted a flre as desired, and the liare immediately leaped in ; but Huddtrn now displayed his supernatural powers, and, teariug the bare from the Aamra, he placed it in the moon, where he etill abides. This alory is related by a French traveler ir Ceylon, and he adds that hia telescope wwe" often hwrrowed by the natives, in order that they might uiapact the hare in the moon. Mullenhoff says that the people of Rautum, in the f&hleawig island of Hylt, declare that the man in the moon ia a giant, who bends down at full tide to scoop up the water aud pour it on the earth. At low tide he stands upright, resting (rem hia labors, so that the water mav subside. Wa now come to the superstition* at tached to the power of tbe moon, ami prominent among them i* the idea that no work may be undertaken in moon shine. The Hwalnan people consider it a groat *in to spin or knit by moonlight, as though cue could not do enough by day. That ia the reason whr the moou doe* not give sufficient light for any work. Whoever ventures to spin, for example, weaves a roje for the neok of *nme relation. There are several stories illustrating the danger of I ranagreasing this rule. A poor woman at Breckeulialm, iu Hwains, gained her livelihood by spin ning, and her'diligence wss so great that she spent whole nights at her distaff ; in order to save the expense of oil she never lighted her lamp when there was a full moon. As ahe thus eat spinning in the moonshine, and the church clock was tolling the hour of midnight, the door opened ami a strange man entered. He ban his arm full of distaffs, and said : " If thou dost not spin all these full this night, it will be ail over with thee." With these words he vanished, leaving' the poor woman in a terrible fright. Luckily she bethought herself of merely apiuning the distaffs once oyer, and in this way ahe accomplished her task be fore daybreak. Tlie stranger, who was the evil one himself, reappeared at the appointed time and silently took the spindles away with him. But never again did the woman spin by moon light. • Soli on v erth says that the peasants of the Upper Palantinste never leave their certs or agricultural implements out of doors when the moon is shining, as its l>eams would break them. For the same reason, linen must not be left banging in the moonshine, ami superstitious folks alwavs warn their friends against sleep ing in the moonlight, and bathing or drinking from any fountain or well, on which the rays <>t the moon fall. It is also unsafe to dance by moonlight, be cause the surfeoe of the earth is then as thin as a cobweb, and the spirts under ground are lured upward by the music. The moon is likewise said to hlsrkan the complexion, to promote the decay of fish and meat, and even to blunt the edge of razors. Dancing. Dancing is very near aa old as the world. David danced before the ark. Socrates learned danaing from Aspasia, The soldiers of Crete and Sparta went dancing into assault. Dancing probably originated in certain gestures winch in dicated contentment, pain, joy—just M music was born of certain analogous sounds. Plato, Socrates, Lycnrgus, and others, held dancing in veneratiou. We are further informed that in old Chinese books dancing and music are described as the two most important departments of public affairs An Amherst (Mass.) farmer lately of fered one of the young ladies who teaches iu the public selioels there a bushel of potatoes if she would wheel them heme through the streets at an hour when tbo greatest number of students were taking their walks. He had them loaded on the wheelbarrow ready for her, and she pluckily wheeled them home, telling him that when he had more potatoes to iliuprss of in that way to let her know. TERMS: a Year, in Advance. " Fed Ira res " and 4 * Manicure*." Olive I>ffu a writes to Uarpw'a Hasar aa follows ; At the bath houae in Peru, near the church of La Madeleine, and which la oallad after that maguiAoent building, I told tlie female attendant that she might Mud the chiropodist, or, to use the French term, " jjednmre," to me, as soon aa I had my bath and dressed , myself. j "Than madam will not have her feet j ' duoe' while ahe la still ia the bath ?" aha queried. "It ia store convenient. It ia thua that all our ladiws do in Paris. Our pedicure is a good, brsva woman, knowing well her trade." The brave pedicure sustained her reputation for goodness by her looks when she appeared, aud strapped a baud of leather from aide to aide of the bath tub. Hhe was a plump, good-aaturad woman of forty-Ave or eo, and the easy manner is which ahe handled her num erous instruments showed her to be quite at ease iu her profession. She placed my foot wry gently and gracefully uo the leather support (while I luxuriously reposed in tlie warm water of the bath tub), and dcxtronaly manipulated the troublesome little consequences of un <-easing tramping and the rubbing of ught or ill-fitting shows. She was a pleasant talker, and while ahe wialderl her dainty implements with tlie near aud precision of long practice, she dis coursed about tlie openings of the door of public opinion concerning the pedi cure profession to the secondary sex. "It is some year* now," she said, since women pedicures first begun to practice ia the Peris bath houses. It is a wry nice and suitable trade for a woman who haa a sufficiently steady hand, and all day I am aa busy as I can be, at forty son* for each lady, put'ing her feet in order. •• Does everybody have troublesome feet, then V " Everybody," she answered positive ly. "There ia not a lady bather comes to these rooms who bss not got corns— some, frightful ones. Those modern high-heeled boots are ale mm stion*; they murder the feet of all who wear them." The female pedicure gave me an eh eaae that I felt aa if aha had furnished me with a brand new pair of feet when I got up and prepared to walk off on them. "And the bands?" she suggested. " Too would not like year finger nails ' done ?' Handsome finger nails limy advantage great! v an already pretty hand" Bly flatterer ! I waa in for "doing" of the b*nda, of coarse. " I will give you the address of the manicure we recommend," she said No, I am not s manicure—pedicure is my only trade." In the course of the day, more from curiosity than anything el *, I betook myself to the room* of the manicure, between the boors indicated on her bom news cord for her reception of clients at home. To my surprise I found the place crowded, not only with ladies, bot with gentlemen, patiently awaiting their torn for the favor of a sitting with the mani cure. The dreaa and bearing of all present indicated their poeitiou, and in almost every esse it was one of impor tance. Grave senators, young scions of nobility, numerous stately gentlemen decorated with the crass of the Legion of Honor, tastefully attired ladies with children attended' by eerraaU, two or three pretty American girls, sat around the room and glanced over books and newspapers to relieve the tedium of waiting. The mroieore's operations were performed in the same room, *l#l under her skillful scissoring and rob bing we aaw hand after hand depart w a much more beautiful condition than when it was brought them After a tedious waiting my turn at length came, and I seated myself by tbe manicure's little table, upon which were scattered the tools of her trade. These were scissors and knives of a speciallv devised for the trimming of the nails ; dice, nail-cleaners, a small basin of rose water with a bit of map near it, a tiny towel of linen cambric, a bit of lemon* and various polishing pow ders and sweet-smelling ungunts in the form of ruby-colored pomades. The first step in her proceedings was toaraah off the nuger tips carefully, then to dry them, alter assuring herself that there were no ink spots or other stain upon thstuft Then she clipped and trimmed the nails into the approved filbertahape, neither too short nor too long, nor t pointed nor too broad; the "half moons" at the base of the nails were gently brought into clear light; all "hang nails" were amputated; and after this she rubbed a coral tailored pomade of a delicious odor upon the nails and the ripper part of all the fin gers. After allowing this to remain s little while she wiped it off again, and scattered upon the nails a golden brown ish powder, which she vigorously rubbed with the whole length of her powerful forefinger, occaaionally aided by the palm. More pomade, more powder, more rubbing, and then the nail# wore shown with that beaatifnl gleam upon them, that pearly pwkneea, aeen in the ioterior ol some delicate sea shells. As the pedicure had said, the manicure's manipulations greatly " advantaged " a pretty hand,but even' in 4 greater degree advantaged an ugly one. The manicure, like tbe pedicure, charged forty sous. When ahe did the viaiting her "price was a dollar. That she found her business lucrative was sufficiently indicated by her handsome rooms and ber prosperous appearance. She waa almost as much a fine lady, in respect to clothes, as some of her cus tomer*. She was very independent, too. The r* or the LOBOB. Aa a writer in the London Lancet re marks, few people know the value of lemon juice. A pieoe of lemon bound upon a oorn will wire it in a few daya ; i it should be renewed night and morning. A free uae of lemon juice and mgar wul always relieve a cough. Moat people feel poorly in the spring, but if they would eat a lemon before breakfast every day for a week—with or without sugar, as they like—they would And it better than" any medicine. Lemon I juice naed according to this recipe will sometimes cure consumpWaa: Put a dozen lemons into oold water and slowly bring to a boil ; boil slowly until the lemons are soft, then squeeue until all the juioe ia extracted ; add sugar to your taste and drink. In this way use one dogen lemons a day. If tbqy i cause pain, lessen the quantity and only use five or six a day until yon are better, and then begin again with a doxen a day. After using five or six dozen the patient will begin to gain flesh and en- Joy food. Hold on to the lemons, and still use them very freely for several weeks more. Another use for lemons is for a refreshing drink in summer, or in sickness at any time. Prepare as di rected above and add water and sugar. But in order to have this keep well, after boiling the lemons, squeeze and strain carefully; then to every half pint of juice add one pound of loaf or crashed sugar, boil and stir a few minutes more until the sugar is dissolved, skim care fully and bottle. You will get more juioe from the lemons by boiling them, and the preparation keeps better. A blighted female in Ban Francisco, sixty-five years old, has brought a suit for breach of promise of marriage against a gay deoeiver of seventy, the damages being laid at SIB,OOO. NUMBER 40. * A ffOllV* TERRIBLE itiVET. raarfW liei ia* DeukM af a MrSr*. nhiWn VlrJ. The deethaf Mrs. Ltesi* Webber from , hydrophobia m the Ronton Hospital waa .attend**! by moat horrible symptom*. 'On the Slat da/ of July ■*> waa bitten through the nail of the middle Anger of the right band by her pet dog, • a blank-and tea. Home boys in the ntreei were worry log and teasing the •log. until at laetthe animal, goaded h anger, turned and bit ail peraooa, four adult* and two children, five of them promptly had the bite eeateriied, end the aixtb ia unknown. Mr*. Webber, to punish the dog, grasped him and coifed Ilia ear*, when he bitber Anger aastated. Turee hour* after the infliction of the bite she went to the Man—ahuaett* General Hospital to have the aame operation per formed, but the doctor* told her it waa { too iaie to be of any carries. Bbe thought ne more of the matter, mm] aqwti euced no ill effect, until a leomrt Friday, | ♦ when ahe had a severs headache, and the next day she experienced a severe pain extending from to* aght ahoulder down to the baud -ahieh ahe thought to be a touch of rheumatism. Chi the suc ceeding Sunday ahe waa ehilir all day, and at night experienced a violent liaart beating, and great difficulty in hrmHuiig —the breath iximiug in short, quicx gasp*. Two prominent physician* were m attendance, but aha ooukl not take their medwane. Tliej decided the rase to be a bad cold. Monday the patient kept her bed —the breathing difficulty increasing, with great ueresusnre*. The Klightori noise, much as the closing of a door or the moving of a fan. or sound of a footstep, would cause her to jump violently to the floor, and tare-' quired the united effort* of her attend ant* to quiet her. She began bo abow great avenrieu t water; but the doctor had no suspicion uf the real nature of I the disorder, which gradually grew' worse and worse. She expressed a de sire fur varioaa article* of food and drink, but whan they were offered to her she found herself utterly incapable of eating or drinking anything; in fact, from Bun , day morning until the hour of her death, Tuesday afternoon, she ate and drank nothing. At tunes, Tuesday afternoon, aha fait quite easy, end the next mo ment the eevere 'gasping for breath would come on, and she would jump op and down and dash wildly about. She ' would grasp bar attendants by the dram and thrust ee mush aa ahe could into bar mouth, telling the— el the same time, however, thai she would not bite them. She waa next aeixed with severe and unmistakable convulsions, aeoatr- j panied by frothing at the mouth. Mor- ■ phtne was given. Then a pail of scald ing hot water wan procured, and the pa , beat's feet pUoea iu it. One of the j , lady attendants poured but water apt— the bead of the victim, all of which ahe bore without flinching, in fart she de clared it made her feel battel. At times , •dm would stamp her feet upon the floor so tepidly and violently ee to shake the bouse, and in the meantime her difficul ty in breathing increased. Another trial j of the water pail caused her to bound j back to the other side of the bed. ssd experience e severe convulsion. She • waa taken to the hospital, in a sort of ambulance, held by fastening* around ■ her body. On the way she made s growl ing or hvkiug noise. At the hospital, ' where, about three-quarters of an hour , after her arrival, she was lying appar i cully comfortable, she suddenly gave Iter 'arms and feet a violent twieh, her oonntenanoe tamed black, and ahe breathed her lest. After her death a vipaultatiou was had by the physicians at the hospital; the best authorities upon ' the subject of hydrophobia were loosed up and quoted, and it was unanimously decided by the physicians that it waa M a genuine cage of hydrophobia." * Cleed Sews Car Humpbacks. "Thank God, the days of the hump back an end**!," said Dr. Sa/re, St a ' recant meeting of the Cork branch of 1 die British Medical Association. His method of treatment of spinal town j ia to give complete and continued rest j day and night at the point where the in ' flam mat ion exists, perfect freedom from ! compression and at the same time aheo- i ' lute ia—obiHty, ni enabling consolida tion to take place. Hie process invdrre 1 die temporary suspension of the patient j in a peculiar apparatus by whish the weight of the beadand shoulders ia taken ' off the spine, and the application of a vkin-fi ttrag shirt coated over with plaster . of Paris. A sufficient vacuum for the patient's food ia aecnied by laying s cot- j , ton pad or India rubber bag beoratfa the ' shirt, over the stomach, until the outer t case i* hardened, after which it ia re moved. Dr. Havre exhibited a patient, a young man dt nineteen, who had auf- I fared fr>>m an aagntar curvature of the i apiue, the angle of this curvature being about 190 degrees, and was only able to ' move about by putting his hands on his ' knees or catching at the furniture. Af ter six weeks' treatment the patient was ! perfectly erect and had gained three- ' quarter* of an inch in hight. be bad tuk-} en, unasfuntod. a walk of four mile*, and the bone was rapidly developing, la the case of another sufferer, a line boy of seven, affected with curvature of the lumbar vertebne, marked benefit had j followed a very brief treatment Drowned iu a Crock of Water. A moat singular fatal accident occurred at the town of Oroton, near New Pennsylvania, the other day. Ann Elixa Weisocr. a young mi— of eleven years, started to go to tea spring-house at her mother'a residence, lor batter and milk for supper. She did not return as soon as expected, sad her mother followed to aee what detained her. Arriving near the spring-house, Mrs. Weiwier was sur prised to And her . laughter lying flat on the ground, with her face boned in a crock of water, and waa terribly shocked when, on raising her up, the /ouag girl was found to be dead. Mim W eianer was in perfect health, never had s falling At of any kiad, and the only manner in which the sad accident can be accounted for is that ahe stumbled and fell, her, head striking the crook with ech force that the blow rendered her insensible and powerless, and that her face being buried in the water ahe was drowned. The wound, or mark of violence was a bruise cm the nose, which, while not sufficient to oanac her death, might have stunned her so that she was unable to help her- Belf, The crook in which Miss Weisner was drowned was an ordinary flat two gallon crock, and had been set under the cave of the spring-house roof to catch soft water. Eleven Flies and One Wasp. The wasp is frequently s disturber of the pesos, although s '.over of sweetness and light He lately acted in both, rolps within five minutes in Belgium. Two peasants, while in an inn, desiring to gamble, hit upon a novel method. Each melted a lump of sugar in water and poured the syrup on s table. A multi tude of fiiee were upon the walls. Money was bet as to which pool of syrup the first dozen of flies would gather around. Soon there were eleven flies around one pooL and, While its owner waa anxionsh scanning the air, into the room boteed a , wasp, and began feeding by the aide of the eleven. The wasp was claimed as a fly, the claim was declared absurd, a warm argument followed, then blows—and*then the police marched both men off to the station-house. * u*m r Inter—t. - Pennsylvania baa tbs largrat nambsr 0# IWtity bools UMO| tt* 1111 7,480. . A young lafl, waom teach— ri to* with the reff, remarked th# oth— day that "theyhad too many bollerdaysat toeir aobooL" A tall man twin# rallied * friend on the ahoitntiw of hi* leg*, toe friend re plied : "My lags ranch toe ground— what mora ecu you** do?" A convict u pot into stock* in Willi*, T—sc. H|a cries for mercy, " Take m* down," "I am dying," w—e not b—dad, and ha dtad and— the torture. What! Tartar m*W Turk. With (Mr mntiaal Than kwrtta*—fc?- 0—*• th* In# of atrorttira—JPtnMft. Nathan Minard. <4 Bslem, Omn., a nan ninety year* old, and a rich miner, haa had hw coffin in hit room for twenty yaara, and haa dog hto own grave to rare fltiT'pSEMlNtl. The total number of immigrant* to thia oountry during to# last fire yrara, >a 1,706,1*. Mince 1846, the number of German tmmigranta tor 9,345,486: of Iriah, 1,009,447. The largest jet jewelry aatabliahment m the eonntiy ia located at Pawtucket, it, L Thirty person* art employed at preaent, and moat of the glass uaed is imported from France A " gentleman "at a leading hotel in Hamilton, Ontario, *pok<> disparagingly of one of the lady guest*. She heard of it, invited him into the parlor, pre sented a pi.tol at hto brraat, and naked him to epoiogina. Ha aequkeeed. I At Memory, ia Tsylor oounty, lows : recently, Dr. Hnodgrass, if that place, • while endeavoring to separate some small \ pigs from s mom old mm, waa attacked I by the infuriated animal and lacerated - m a allocking manner. Two ribs were ' broken is against vita! parts, his hands war* torn and otherwise be was so in ' jured that be died ia s few hours. i Beaten At Work. ' Jn almost any stream in the mountain ' j ou* part* of Wyoming Territory, you '' mar mid more or tern braver* or braver dam*. But Green riser and this whole region, writes s member of Hsy b n's surveying party, swpsssw any place I II know of as e resort for those animals, j now so aonioe east of the Mireiwippt. j In the rocky canon higher up, this creek ' was thirty or forty yarito screes, nor • I would it have been much wider in the more open vailev below had to not bran frefMM." Hot for a doses miles the brevets had as dammed it sod choked it , with their house*, that the water yd oni to a mile or mor>- iu width, and hun >' dimls of dead or firing frees, once far back frite Hie margin, were standing eqealiv far out tor the water. Home of | the dares mann ed 100 or more feet in • length, and ware built on s curve, with the hollow of the curve up stream, yet ' so aubstentiallv that thev were standing the beating the frrehct with slight damage. All along the baok of the stream the teltoida was bare at aspens, and their stump, cut off dare to the ground, showed what had destroyed them. Soms of top stump were of trees toe or twelve inches in diameter, and seventy-Are yards from the water, C there was no doubt that tore* rodent* felled those tress, trimmed off the brancbea, pealed away the bark, and then dragged the log dl the way to the water to put into a new dam or repair an old one. Indeed, we surprised some of the— at work. Most of toe dam* were shorter than there I bare mentioned, and tan from cue to another, eo thst there was a net-work of them supporting a growth of willows, and each rack—tig a little be—n of deep, still water, in which would rite like an island the domed top l of their home. But the how*** of many ware under the bank, and of others be neath the dams, as we could eee, by the paths to them, which showed pltunlr , through the water. Wherever the wil lows grew closely |o the water's edge j for some distance there would be roads through team at frequent intervals, the ; stems gnawed off and the weeds trodden down smooth. " Bust as a beaver " ac quire* a new force when we think bow ceaselessly he must work to get his daily food, collect his winter stares, keep hie • house hi ardor, repair his •"d guard against sue—a. We saw none of tee animala themeelvra. They are ; rarely seep by say ooe, bring able to detect jour approach by the jar of the ground. If not otherwise, and hide them* fclvc#. che was laid out to Mm bans. They left home by the Muskingum Valley rosd, left the train st Del Oerbo, and started, walking together. On the way they met 1 persona whom James told she had deser- • tcil him,*to which she replied she neither would nor eacdd tare wrih him. James was exceedingly eooentne, and, it is be lieved, mean*. About a year since, st the burial of his flrat wife, s airier of the murdered one. he Selected female pall bearers. sad walked into the church with 'a feather duster under his arm, with whtah he dusted the coffin, and, beside*, generally superintended the funeral. He ! was a master workn an, and had prepared an elegant coffin for hintaelf, which had set in bis shop tor many motrtha, he tol ling the story tost it was for himself.