The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, December 13, 1877, Image 1
My Illorkl Mind. I oonfssa, with a feeling akin to regret. That, aa there are epota on the nun. So the beat of u all are with railing* be*et, And that I am afflicted with one. I pre*nme I po**e* it, although I can awear. That ita presence I never oonld Snd. But the friend* who pretend that they know me declare That I hare an illogical mind. In short. when I won't let an arguing friend Persuade me that yellow i grey, Or when I decline my adhe*ion to lend To all that the loud talker* nay. They tarn on my poor little aelf with a frown. And my death warrant'* instantly aignej •'Thi* fellow." they cry with contempt, "ia a clown. And he has an illogical mind." * The Coming Man. A pair of very chubby leg*, Encased in scarlet boae ; A pair of litUe atubby boota. With rather doubtful toe* ; A little kilt; a little coat, Out as a mother can - And to 1 before u strides, in *'ate. The Future's "coming man." Hi* eyes, perchance, will read the star*, And search their unknown way* ; Perchance the human heart and eoul Will open to their gear ; Perchance their keen and flashing glance Will be a nation'* light— Those eye* that now are wistful bent On eewne " big fellow'* " kite, That bow, whare mighty thought* will dwell In solemn, secret state ; Where tierce Ambition'* restless strength Shall war with future fate , Where Science from now hidden cavee Sew treasure* shall outpour- Tis knit now, with a troubled doubt. Are two, or three, cents more? Thoee lip* that, in the coming years. Will plead, or prsy. or teach ; Whose whispered words, on lightning flash. From world to world may reach ; That sternly grave, may speak command. Or, smiling, win control— Are coaxing now for ginger-bread With all a baby's soul 1 Thorn hands -these little busy hands 80 sticky, small and brown ; Thoee hand*, whose only mission seem* To tear all order down— Who know* what hidden strength may lie Within their future grasp, Though now Tis but a taffy-stick In sturdy hfcid they clasp? Ah, blessing* on those little hands. Whose work is yet undone ' And blessing* on those tittle feet. Whose race is vet unrnn ! And blessings on the little brain That has not learned to (dan ! Wtate'er the Future bold in store, God bless the "cowing man "' THE JANDIDIER MYSTERY. A F&KSCU STORY. A very short time ago, that is yester day, about four o'clock in the afternoon, all the Quartier du Marais was in an up roar. It was said that one of the re spectable merchants in the Roi de-Sidle has disappeared aud all the efforts to discover him had proved fruit leas. The strange event was discussed in all the shops in the neighlxirhood ; there were groups around the doors of all the green-grocers, and every moment some terrified housewife arrived, bring ing new details. The grocer at the corner had the best, freshest and most ootrert intelligence, having received it from the lips of the cook who lived in the house. "So," said he, "yesterday, after din ner, our neighbor, Monsieur Jandidier, went to his cellar and was never seen again—. disappeared, vanished, evapo rated It occasionally happens that mysteri ous disappearance* are heard of, the public get exci ed, and prudent people pny sword Canes. Policemen hear these absurd rumors and ah rug their shoulders. Tbey are familiar with the other side of these closhly embroidered canvasses. Th<y search into the mstter and find, instead of artless falsehoods, the truth; instead of romances, sad stories. Yet, np to a certain point, the grocer in the Roe Saint Louis told the truth. Monsieur Jandidier. manufacturer of imitation jewelry, had really not beeu home for twenty-four hours. Monsieur Theodore Jandidier was a very tall, verv bald, man, about fifty-eight years old, with sufficiently wood manners, who hail amassed a cgMjMMle fortune in trade. He had an wmllli i stocks of twenty thousand livrm. amrKs business brought him in about fifty thousand francs. He was beloved and esteemed by his neigh bora, tad justly so, for his honesty was above suspicion, his morality austere. Married late in Kfo to a poor relative, he had made her perfectly happy. He had an only daughter, a pretty graceful girl, named Terese, whom he adored. She had been engaged to the oldest son of the banker Schmidt—of the firm of Schmidt, Gnbenbeim A Worb—Monsieur Guetave ; but the match had been broken off, no one knew why, for the young people were desperately in love witli each other. It was said in the Jaalidier circle that Schmidt, senior, who, as was well known, would skin a flint, had required a dowry far bey <nd the merchant's means. \Vuraed by public rumor, which con stantly increased, the commissary of police went to the home of the man who was already called the victim, though no exact information had been received. He found Madame and Mademoiselle Jandidier in such transports of grief that it w*s with the utmost difficulty that he could gather the truth. At last be learned the following particulars: The evening before, Saturday, Mon sieur Jandidier had dined with his fam ily ss usual, but did not eat with much appetite, having, h said, a violent head ache. After dinner he went to his ware houses, gave some orders, and then en tered his office. Returning home at half-past six, he told his wife he was going to walk. And he never appeared again. Having carefully noted these particulars, the commissary of police requested permission to see Madame Jandidier a few minutes alone. She made a sign of aasent, and Mademoiselle The rose left the room. " Pardon, madame," said the commis sary of polioe, '' the question I am about to address to you. Do you know whether your husband had—l again ask your Crdon —any connection outside of the use ?" Madame Jandidier started up ; anger dried her tears. "I hare been married twenty-three years, monsieur ; my husband lias never returned home later than ten o'clock." " Was your husband in the habit of going to any club or cajt f" he con tinued. " Never; I wouldn't have allowed it" " Did he usual ly carry valuable papers about with tim ?" " I don't know; I attend to my house keeping, and don't trouble myself about business matters." It was impossible to get any further information from the poor wife, who was bewildered by grief. Maying accomplished his business, the commissary o( police thought it his duty to say a few words of commonplace con solation to the poor woman. But when he went avav, after making inquiries in the household, he felt very anxious, and began to suspect the existence of s crime. That very evening one of the most skillful detectives. Retiveau—bet ter known in tho Rue de Jerusalem as Maitre Magloire—was put on the track of Monsieur Jandidier, provided with an exoellent photograph of the mer chant. The very morning after Monsieur Jandidier had disappeared Maitre Mag loire presented himself at the Palais ae Justice to report to the magistrate who had charge of the matter. "Well, Monsieur Magloire," said the magistrate, "so you. have discovered something ?" " I'm on the track, monsiaur." "Speak!" FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME X. "To begiu with, monsieur, Mousieur Jaudidier didn't leave lua house at half past six, but at aeveu precisely," *' Precisely ?" " Yea. 1 got rat information from a clock-maker in the Rue Saint Denis, who is sure of the fact, becatia* Mousieur Jaudidier, while paasiug his shop, took oat his watch to compare it with the clock aver the door. He had an tin lighted cigar in his month. On learuiug this circumstance I said to myself, 'I have him ! he'll light his cigar some where.' My reaaoniug was correct; he entered a shop in the Hue de Temple, where he is well known. The woman remembered the ciruinstance liecause, though he always smoked sou cigar*, he bought London ones." *• llow did he appear?" "He seemed very thoughtful, the shopkeeper told me. It wns through her I learned he of leu went to the Cafe Tare. I went in and was told he hail been there on Saturday evemug. He appeared depressed. The gentleman, the waiter told me, talked all the time about life insurance. At half-past eight o'clock our man left the cafe with oue of his friends. Monsieur Hlandureau. I instant lv went to this gentleman, who told ine that he walked up the bonlevanl with Monsieur Jaudidier. who left him on the corner of the Rue Richelieu, pleading a business engagement. He was out of aorta, and seemed troubled with the darkest presentiment." "Very well, so far," murmured the magistrate. " On Wring Monsieur Blandureau I went to Rue du Roi-de-Sitnle, to ascer tain from somebody in the house wheth er Monsieur Jandidier had auy custom ers or friends ; there was only his tailor in the Rue Richelieu. I went to this tailor. He Raw our man on Saturday. Monsieur Jandidier went to his shop after uinc o'clock to order a pair of pan taloons. While his measure was being taken he noticed that one of the buttons on his rest was ready to fall off, and asked to have it sewed on. He was obliged to take off his overcoat to permit the little repair to made, and as at the same time he took out the contents of the aide-pocket, the tailor noticed several hundml-frano bank notes." "Ah ! that is a clew ! He had a large sum of money with him ?" " Not large, but considerable. The tailor estimated it at twelve or fourteen hundred franca." "Go mi," said the examiuing magis trate. " While his vest was being repaired Monsieur Jandidier complained of sud den illness, and sent a little boy out to look for a carriage. He had to go to see one of his workmen who lived a long dis tance off, he said. Unfortunately, the little fellow had forgotten the number of the carriage. He oulv reniemberel that it had yellow wheels and was drawn by a large black horse. This afforded a clew. A circular sent to all the livery stable keepers put me on the track. I learned this morning that the number of the carriage was 6,007. The driver, on being questioned, distinctly remember ed having been stopped about nine o'clock on Saturday evening in the Rue Richelieu, by a little, boy, and having waited ten minutes in front of the Maison Gouin. The description of his face suited our man, and he recognized the photograph among five others I showed him." Maitre Magloire stopped ; he wanted to enjoy the approval he read in the magistrate's face. "Monsieur Jandidier," he continued, " was really driven to No. 48 Rue d'Arras Saint Victor, where one of his workmen lives, a man named Jules Tarot" The manner in which Maitre Magloire pronounced this name was intended to arouse, and did arouse, the attention of the magistrate. ••You have suspicions?" he asked. " Net exactly ; but these are the facts. Monsieur Jandidier dismissed his car riage at the Rue d'Arras and went to Tarot s room about ten o'clock. At eleveu the employer aud workman went • out together. The workman did not re tain till midnight, and here I lose track of my man. Of course I didn't ques tion Tarot, lest I should put him on his guanl." " Who is this Jules Tarot ?" " A worker in mother-of pearl ; that is, s mail who polishes shells ou a grind stone, to give them a perfect lustre. He is a skillful fellow, and helped by hia wife, -to whom he has taught his trade, can make a hundred francs a week." " They are in easy circumstances, then." • "Oh ! no, they are both young ; they have no children, they are Parisians ; and, zounds, they amuse themselves. Monday always squanders all the other days bring." Two hours after Maitre Magioi re's re port, several police-officers went to Jules Tarot's lodgings to make a search. At the sight of them the worker in mother of-pearl and his wife turned paler than corpses and were seized with an attack of nervous trembling that could not eseajie tbe practiced eye of Maitre Magloire. Yet, the most careful search having failed to discover anything suspicious, they were about to withdraw, when the detective saw Torot's wife anxiously watching a cage that bung near the win dow. This was a ray of light In an instant Magloire had takeu down the cage. Twelve hundred-franc notes were found between tbe boards of the floor. This discovery seemed to crush the i workman, while his wife began to utter terrible shrieks, protesting that she and her husband were innocent On being arrested and taken to the police-station ; they were questioned by tbe examiuing j magistrate that very day. Their answers were precisely the same. They ac knowledged that they had ha 1 a vi-it from their employer on Saturday even ing. He Beemed so ill that they had offered him something to take, which he refused. He had oome, he said, on ac count of an important order which he proposed that Tarot should undertake, hiring his own workmen. Tarot and his wife replied that they could not do it ! for want of means. Then their em ployer said : " Never mind, I'll furnish the money," and instantly put twelve hundred-franc notes on the table. At eleven o'clock Monsieur Jandidier a*ked bis workman to show bim out of tbe house; he was going to the Fau bourg Saint Antoine. And, in fact, Tarot accompanied him to the Place do ia Bastile, crossing the Oonstantine Bridge and walking along by the river. The magistrate asked both husband and wife the very natural question : " Why did you hide the money ?" They made the same answer. Hearing on Monday morning of Monsieur Jan didier's disappearance, they were seized with terror. Tarot had said to his wife 1 "If it ia known that our employer came here, that I crossed the bridge and walked along by the river with him, I shall be compromised. If this money were ever found in our possession we should be lost." The wife then wanted to burn the notes, but Tarot prevented it, intending to return them to the family. This ex planation was reasonable and plausible, if not probable, but it was only an ex planation. Tarot and his wife were still detained in custody. i A neek after the magistrate was in the utmot t perplexity. Three new examina tions had not enabled him to form an opinion, Were Tarot and his wife inno- THE CENTRE REPORTER. cent ? Or were tlicy simply marvelouaiy clever in maintaining a probable fable ? The magistrate knew not what to do, when one morning a strange rumor reached his ear*. The house of Jaudidier had just stopped payment, A detective who was sot to work brought back the most startling uews. Monsieur Jaudidier, who hail teeu considered so wealthy, was ruined, utterly ruined, and for three years he hail sustaiueil his credit only hy meaus of various expedients. He hail not a thousand francs, and notes falling due at the end at the mouth amounted to sixty-seven thousand,tive hundred trance. The cautious merchant speculated in stocks. The magistrate had just learued these particulars when Mattre Alagloire appealed, pale and panting for breath. "Yon kuow, uiouaieur?" he cried, from the threshold. •• AII r " Tarot ia mnoceut." "I believe him so; aud yet that visit —how do you explain that visit ?" Magloire shook his head sorrowfully. "I am only a fool," said he, "and Lecoq lias just proved it. Mousieur Jau didier sjHike of his life insurance at the Cafe Ture. This was the key to the affair. Jaudidier was insured for two hundml thousand franc*, aud French companies don't pay in case of suicide. Do vou understand ?" Thanks to Mousieur Gustave Schmidt, who will marry Mademoiselle Therese Jaudidier next mouth, the house of Jaudidier has not gone into bankruptcy. Tarot and hia wife, restored to liberty, have been established iu business by this name Monsieur tins lave, and no longer go pleasuring on Monday*. But what tiecameof Monsieur Jaudidier ? A thousand franc* rowan! to whoever will give news of him. Deaths From Fright. The first Kiug of l*russia, Frederick L, was sleeping oueday in an arm-chair, when his wife, Louisa of Meckleuberg. who had fallen into a state of hopeless insanity, having escaped from her keep ers, succeeded in making her way to the private apartments, and after wounding herself in her efforts to break through a glass door, cast herself upon her bus l>aud in a state of funous delirium. The king, from whom her malady had been carefully concealed, was so horri fied at the sight of this woman covered with blood, and clad only in some ltueu garments, that ho imagined he sam be fore him the "white lady," whose ap parition, according to an ancient tradi tion, invariably announced the death of a prince of the house of Rradonbtirgh. He was at that instant seized with a vio lent fever, of which he died in six weeks afterward, aged tiftv-six. The death of a Dutch painter, Penti man, in the seventeenth century, was occasioned by an extraordinary circum stance. Being engaged upon a picture in which was represented several death's heads, skeletons, nud ether objects fitted to inspire in the hearts of the beholders a contempt for the amusements and van ities of the age, he, in order to have the benefit of studying these objects from nature, was accustomed to repair to au anatomical cabinet, which serve*! him for a studio. Oue sultry day, while engaged in drawing from the melan choly relics of mortality by which he was surrounded, he was overcome witli ilrowsiness, and several fruitless efforts to continue his work at length succumb ed to the power of sleep. He had slept but a short time wlieu lie was suddenly awakened by an extraordinary and ap parently supernatural movement, anil the skeletons suspended from the ceil ing clashing violently together. Seized with a sudden panic, Pentimau rushed in terror from the room, cast himself headlong from the staircase window, and fell into the street. On recovering his senses, he learned that the spectacle which so terrified him arose from natural muses, having been occasioned by an earthquake. But the shock received by his nervous system was so great that he never rallied, and be died a few days after. The French marshal, De Montreval, whose whole soul, according to St. 3il mon, was ambition and lncre, without ever having been able to distinguish his right hand from Lis left, but concealing his universal ignorance with an audacitv which favor, fashion and birth protected, was so snperstitioos ttiat one day at a public dinner, a salt-cellar having !>een accidentally upset iu his lap, he was seized with sticli a terror at the un toward occurrence that he rose from his seat declaring that he was a dead man. In fact no sooner had he got home when he was attacked by fever and died in the year 1716. A Mysterious Shower of Fish. The Globe, of Toronto, Canada, nays : A confirmation of the strauge report ttiat a shower of fish had fallen on the fourth concession of Harwich townahip ia given by a school teacher of the neigh borhood, who testifies to what he saw as follows : " Having dismissed the chil dren for the day, I was returning to my Ixiarding place, when with a side glance, I discovered something in the grass. At first I thought it was some species of rattlesnake, but upon more careful scru tiny. I found it was a fine, firm, fresh fish of the pickerel species. Having been brought up at the sea shore I knew at once the fish was good, and picked it up, while wondering whenoe it came. My astonishment was increased, however, when stepping on a few yards further I found another equally good. A few steps further and one more, and I thought I ought to return to the school room for some paper in which to wrap them. On entering the room I seized (rather thoughtlessly you will say) one of the pails, and proceeded to ooliect fish. When I had more than half flllvl the pail I saw a man in the distance carry ing some fish, and supposing the mys tery was about to be solved I awaited his approach. I dropped the pail and felt somewhat guilty for having appro priated the fish till relieved by his assuring me that he had gathered up also those he had in the same way, and that he had just been culling the larg est of them. He olwerved : ' These are as good and fresh as money could buy.' I filled the pail, not only" to the brim, but up the whole height of the handle, and having deposited my bur den naturally in the farm house where I board I returned to collect the remain der. When I had finished my task I assure you that I felt fatigued. The work had occupied half an hour. This fall of fish extended about three quar ters of a mile. On the same evening one of the maids was sent for the oows to a field about half a mile from my boarding place. She also returned laden with fish that she had picked up in a similar way, This girl reported that she had left others behind her which she could not conveniently carry to the house. The lady, with her maids, prepared the fish the same evening for drying and smoking, and they were sub jected to this process next day. The circumstance, you will admit, is unique, apart from its strange surroundings, and I cannot but think the correspond ent of the Rondeau Newa did not en much in reporting it As to whether these now famons fishes fell six feet or six thousand I know not. One thing I know, that they were scattered for a distance of about three-quarters of a mile, and that, at least, to my knowl edge, three persons gathered them." CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1877. , PA RAP, hlNtl OF NWIMIILKKS. Hralsalsa kto l'*r**r Is Karaite sd KsSlsa Is neatb America—New \ srh'* Skr sf his nrkrwn llrss sad ArtlSrlal Hslirr Kurarltaa li*M IVem l ***rr Ore. The intelligence that the Chevalier Alfred Paraf had lecu arretted in Chili for swindling, recalls the thrilliiiK denta of that individual'. career iu New York. The .Vwn, of that city, say# : Paraf waa bevond question the moat accomplished adventurer that ever aet foot iu America. His personal appear uuoe, of itself, was enough to uuprcaa the most prej inlioed iu his favor. Of medium height, spare iu build, with clear-out, regular features, dark com plexion, aud large, eloquent eyes, lie captivated men aud wouieu alike with 1 equal ease. His dress was rich and tasteful, but studiously plain ; his con versation varied and fascinating, aud his whole beariug that of a man of the world, gifted with an unusual amount uf taste, genius and courage. A native of Alsace, his education as a chemist was of the most thorough and practical order. His first priueipal venture, after leav ing school, aas in Great Britaiu. While on a pleasure excuraiou to the north of Scotland, he ran short of money ami wrote to his father fur more. Not receiving a satisfactory response, he went to Glasgow, lured the most sumptuous Start went* ill the best hotel, and on the ternoou of the same day preaeuted himself to a wealthy firm of uuuiufar turera as the discoverer of a new and cheap dye for oalico prmtiug. He was taken into the laboratory of the eatab lishmeut, and iu half an hour con v.need the manufacturer of the truth of his Htatements. In a fortnight he was on his way home with $£0.01)0 m his pockets Before seeing the father he changed the mouey into gold, and when his father began to remonstrate with him ou his extravaganee, cut the conver sation short by throwing the bag. of sovereigns on the table, and asking " whether that wasn't some extrava gance." Nothing, however, could in duce him to settle down. In a few mouth* the whole of the s£o,ooo hail found its way into the pickets of Parisian adventuresses, German gam blers, aud the thousand and one .harpers who haunt the pleasure centres of the coutiueut. When the money was all gone l'araf went to his uncle, of tile Ann of l'araf. Javai A Co., iu the Hue de Santier, Paris, and in a short time aa Itofore had compounded a new color, which sold for SIO,OOO. Another month of dissipation followed, and then the vouthful chevalier determined to "Go West. " Paraf lauded in New York from tlie West Indies iu June, 1877. Admit, handsome and daring, he found no diffi culty in effecting an entree to the count ing rooms and parlors of New Y'ork mer chant* Ills first acquaintances were Bredt A Co., chemist*, iu Fulton street, bv whom he was introduced to Prof. Charles F. Chandler of Columbia Col lege and tlie Board of Health. Ilia scheme at tliis time was tlie manufacture of i.aline out of sponges, and he applied to tlie professor for au analysis of his proceas. The rnterpria* was found to be impracticable, and was soou urop |>ed. Paraf then turned to liis old forte of calico printing. He protested to have discovered an " analine black " superior to any in the market, and with this he made a trip through the manufacturing district* of New Eng land, selling licenses to manufacture the dye to various mill owner* at from 82,000 to £I,OOO apiece. Tins campaign js said U> have netted him over SOO,- 000 in (o*li. Returning to N'ew York. lie took ele gant apartments in tin* rtrt story of the Everett House, at $125 a week, (•ringing with him a tall, distingue looking blonde, whom he introduced a* Madam I'uraf. The money which he had made " down Eastlie dung around him in the moat lavish style, lie would take iitwvilnto pleasure in loaning SI,OOO or $2,000 at a time to a friend, and would even press it upon the latter if he thought him in want lie gave elegant dinner parties at Del monioo'a, at which men well known in scientific, mercantile and legal circles were welcome guests. He would drive home late in the evening aud allow the carriage to stand uu'aide all night, too indolent to send down the order for its dismissal, hut perfectly willing to pay 825 or S3O to the driver in the morn ing for his trouble. In bathiiig, he wonld throw S2O worth of ottar of Macs into the water, and then lie and soak in Oriental luxury for au hour or more. When the "snaline black" was ex hausted by the diacovery of the fact that the owner and patentee in Europe was coming over to make those who had used it pay roundly for the privilege, I'araf carried his explorations into auother Held. He professed to have hit upon a method of employing the extract of mad der in calico printing at a much cheaper rate than tfiat in common use. He called upon Gov. Hprague, of Rhode Island, and laid his plans ticforo him. The two together took a trip to Prov dence, where Paraf performed his ex |Mriment so sticoeaafiilly that the Governor became convinced of tlie value of the inventiou, and paid the Chevalier $25,000 down, with a contingent interest or royalty on the profits that might le made out of the undertaking. Madder works wore started in Providence, and au imposing office rented at 42 Hroad way, in this city. For a time everything went on swimmingly, and Paraf over flowed with money. His entertainment* at Delmonico's became more lavish than ever, and one in particular that he gave to Hassan, the Tnnisiiiu Ambassador, was a marvel of richness and luxury. The Bpragne " placer " at last became exhausted, and the Chevalier was forced to new shifts to keep up his magnificent style of living. In the eighteen months during which the '•madder" excite ment was nt its height, he had spent over 8100,000, besides running into debt largely. Something had to be done, nud that speedily. Whnt. was done is best described in the words of an intimate friend: "I was coming up Broadway one evening, when, who should hail me but Paraf, who was driving by in a coupe. He dragged me in, without a word of explanation, shut the door, ami held a small black bottle before my eyee. 'Taste it,' said he imperatively, I did so. • Why, it's good butter," said I. * Yes," replied he triumphantly, ' and it's made without one particle of milk.'" This was the foundation of the oleo margarine scheme, at least as far as America was concerned. The process had originally been discovered in Paris during the siege by the Germans—tho government having offered a reward to any one who would produce au artificial butter. The gist of the scheme lav in the conversion of the fat of cattle into a substance resembling butter, by the use of pepsin—a method which was sup posed to aboemplish in another and a cheaper way what was effected by the Srocees of digestion in the cow's stomach. peoimens of the batter were prepared in Dr. Chandler's laboratory and the School of Mines in Oolnmbia College, and submitted to R. Ogden Doremns for analysis. The result of the analysis was favorable, and a joint stock "oleo margarine " company with a capital of $500,000 was formed. The first thing that led to suspicion in the soundness of this new venture was the discovery by the Chevalier's lawyer that the process had already been patented in France, and that Paral, instead of being the original iuveutor, was at liet but an adapter of the plans of others. This fact aloue vitiated all the patents under which the company was working, and it liecame ucccasarv to effect a reorgaiuaatiou. T. C. Dure mils, a SOU of the professor, weut to Paris, and bought the right oif manufac ture in America for 810.000. It was afterward diaouvered that I'araf had merely "cribbed " lua ideas from Mege Monries, the original author, and the diagust of the inventors ** not less ened by the fact Uiat a few months pre vious a process almost identical with Paraf's had been desert bed in the col umn* of AppltUm't Journal. It is thought by those who are well acquainted with the finds that Paraf might have made large fortunes for him self tuid his aasticiate* had he nut been in so great a hurry, and beeu willing to ruruhase the American interest in the 'ranch patent. At all eveuta the Chev alier was the hero of the oleomargarine war, aud unquestionably first introduced it iuto America. From Han Francisco, whare, iu u lim ited war, he had repeated his Sew York experience, Paraf embarked for " freali fields and pasture* new " He went to Chili, and there claimed that he luul dis covered a method of extracting gold from copper ore, by which everybody's fortune could be made. A company was organised aud over 81,260.000 were sunk before the swindle was discovered and Paraf arrested. How a Newspaper l Made. Front an trticlr m Harper'* Maya sitae, eutilled " Til# Metr.ipolilan News paper," take the following vtvi.l de scription of tin* manner in which the reading matter of a New York luornmg newspaper ia prepare.! for publication: A cloae, low-Muftui, *tu<<ky room, lighted by iunnhierable Argaud burner*, and filled witii little desks, at which aat bnsv, stooping men, puffing cigar*, and scribbling with puna or jiencils at light ning apwd that was the next acrne opened to them. On aome of the dtoka there were pile* upon pUee of newa ptt|H-r* from point* aa far apart and as rune.! aa the capitals of Europe and plaintive outpost* on the far western plains. A little tin box shot tin and down a wooden shaft in the middle of the mom, into which rolls of manuscript were put by an office 1OT, who ruahed from .leak to desk and gathered the shecta aa they came from the writers' ban.la from time to tiiue a nervous, sharp-voiced, imperative gentleman in a very much soiled liueu .luster, called to one or the other of the workers, and gave orders which would have been quite unintelligible to a layman, who might have mistaken the establishment fur a slaughter-house, when he heard a pale faced little gentleman requested to " make a paragraph f the Pope," "cut down Anna Dickenaon," "double-lead (b'Ueral Grant." "put a uuniou cap head on Peter Ctsiper," aud " loil down the Evangelical Alliance," lint making a paragraph of the l'ope, simply applied to the eonifweaaion of aome news con cerning him into that ajace; tlie "ininiou cap head " intended for the venerable philanthropist meant the kind of type to be uufl in h* title of a speech or lertnra of Ins; and " boiling dowu " aud ".•nttiug doru " were two technicality* expressing condensation. The gentle mau in the linen duster was the night editor in charge, tlie despot of the hour, and the intermediary between tlie writers and printer*, the latter being on the floor aimer, and the little tin box in tlie shaft communicating with them. Ity three o'clock the last line of ropy mnat lie in the printers' hands, and from midnight until that time a newspaper in Uie editorial department is in state of nervous inteuaity ami activity for which I can imagine no parallel. Tlie amoke from the cigars and pipea rolled op to the ceiling, an 1 the pena sped over the pages of manuscript jmper. The writers bent to their work with tremendous earueeturas and concentra tion; there was not one of tlioro who had written leaa than a column of mat ter that night, and sonic of them were closing two sn.l three column articles, which contained nearly as roauy words ns five page* of Harjtrr'i Mayazinr. They were pale and care worn. One of them was heading and stileheadiug cable dispatches from the scat of war. another was writing editorial paragraph* wu tle importsut telegraphic dispatches, an other was condemning a new play in virulent prose, another ww* revising a thrilling account .*f a murder, another was transcribing his stenographic note* of a S|H.CCII on the inflation of the eur rencv, another was pnttiug Jhe finishing touches on a well-considered article criticising a debate in the French As sembly, and another was alisorWd in the description of a yacht race. Tlie little tin box in the shaft bounced np and down more frequently, and the night editor became more nervous and im iierative than ever, as the fingers on tlie big clock on the wall wen. beyond two. The page* of mauuacript went no one by one, and long moist proof-alieets came down from the comi*•sing-room. Then tlie "cutting down ' l>egaii, and some of the writers saw articles that had cost them hours of rosea roll annihilated by tlie stroke of a pen, or redood from ooltimns bparagraphs—not on account of unimportance, but simply because there is always a superfluity of matter, con trary to the erroneous notion that tlie editor's great difficulty is to fill his columns—snd in aome inatanoi-s even the paragraphs were finally omitted to to make room for unexpected news that had arrived later. Telegrams were still coming iu at half-past two, but soon after one dispatch brought the words, " good night," and that meant the clos ing. The night editor and his assistant now disappeared into the oempoaing room, where they remained to miperin tend the making up of the forms, and the men at the <e*ks prepared to leave, or threw themselves back iu their chairs for a chat and more smoke. Female Suffrage Refused. A telegram from Lelnnd, 111., to the Oincinnati Oazcttr , dated the day after election, says: Au incident which created quite a ripple pf excitement yesterday afternoon was the appearance at the polls of Misses Hughes, Hnrd and Squires, lady teachers in the public schools, who wont together to the polls snd insisted UIHIU easting their votes for school commissioner, their argument being that if a woman was intelligent enough and had a right to lie a school commissioner, she ought to tie allowed to express s choice in the matter. The anti-womAn suffragists were on liand in force, amoug them being the street com missioner, who demanded that they pay a poll-tax if the judge allowed tliam to vote. This create*! a big langb among the hangars on about the polls, but the ladies insisted, as they retired, that in the refusal of tlie judges to receive their votes they were denied their rights. A little "five-year-old fellow came up to his mother the other morning, and with great earnestness said : " Mother, I saw something run across the kitchen floor this morning, and it hadn't any legs either; what do you suppose The mother's cariosity was excited at the apparent strangeness of the supposed animal, and, not knowing what else to say, she said she supposed it was a worm, or something rtf that sort, sbh did not know what. Having for some time enjoyed his mother's inability to solve the problem, he said: "It was some water." Value of Scarce C oins. Of all the decimal Uuited State* coins the most valuable is the silver .foliar of 1804, which is expensively rare. Hpeci mens are worth from t&OO to •1,000 each, according to Uie nearness with which they approach |>erfectiou. The coinage of this year was very limited, aud there were uo more dollars coined until 1836. " Proofs "of the laat named veur are worth flO, and good exam idea $6. There was nothing done in dollars in 1837, and the issues of 1838 and 183U are rare enough to raise the quotation for good specimens to s4<t each. From that date forward to 1873, when the trade dollar came iu, there is no break iu the line of dollars, but from JBSO to 18615, inclusive, they are quoted as •• rare "or " scarce," those of 1861 and 1862 being worth 836 or S4O each. Previous to 1804 the value of a '* good " spec! meu varies from $1.76 for lt'J9 to $6 for 1798 and 84 for 1801, save that the flrst ihiie of all (1794), which ia very rare, bring* S6O. Home of the early dates are made peculiarly valuable by reason of variation in the number and style of star*, etc.. there I sung three varieties of 1798 and live of 1790. Of the silver half dollars, those of 179 C and 1797 are the most valuable, choice examples of these dates being worth from 816 to 820. tkaal ones of other years previous to 1806 will bring from 82 to $4 One of this clous of 1816 is quoted at $2 60, and then titer are of little runty nutil 1836, when a specinien with reeded edge and head of 1837 is valued at 8d or 84- The other names of lias vcar is worth 81 The next dates of uote are iB6O, 1861 and 186(1, valued at $1.60, $2-50 aud $3 respectively. More recent datea are only valuable to roll.dor* when iu perfect condition, •• proofs " of later issues only licing de sired. aud Uiey range in worth from $1 25 to SB. guarter dollars are likewise a specu lative issue slid therefore favorites with dealers, >artieularly the date* 1833 and 1827, which arc excessively rare and command from (45 to $75 each. The 1853 issue without arrows is also much sought after, fair specimens bringing from $8 to SB. The only other dates worth over $1 for "good " example* are • 1824, $1.50 ; 1822, $2 ; 1818. $1.75 ; 1815, $2 ; 181)7, $2 ; 1806. $2 ; 1805. $1.50; 1804, $4 ; and 1786, $4. .Silver dimes are still mure valuable as a clam than the quarters, their smaller *ixe and more general circulation having made good specimens rather scarce in all the earlier dates. From 1828 back to 1786 thev range in worth from $1 to $7. except in five instance*. The high rales are : 1824. $2.50 ; 1822, $5 ; 1811, $2.60; 1808, $3 . 1807, $1 ; 1808. $8 ; 1802, *C ; 1801. $5 ; 1800, $7 ; 1798, $5; 1797, $5 ; an 11796. $3. An 1840 with a draped figure of Liberty like 1841 is worth sl, as is a good issue of 1846. Of all the minor coins, however, an 1802 half throe is the chief in cost, the price ranging from $75 to S2OO, accord ing to quality. A good specimen of many other dates is, nevertheless, a handy thing to liaTe as will be noted by the following a dotation#; 1791, $4; 1796, $4 ; 1787. $2 ; 1800, sl. 25; 1801. $6 ; 1808. $4; 1804, $4 ; 1840, (with drapery), $1 . 1*46. $1.75. From that dote until 1873, when the coinage closed, no unusual worth attaches to tins clam. A first-clam specimen of the last named date is worth fifty cents, however. For the three cent silver nieces there is but little speculative call, as their period only reaches from 1851 to 1873, including i-th these years. By far the m>sit valuable of all of them is the 1855, a jierfect specimen of which is worth $2. From 1863 to 18$.) an uncirculated one is worth fifty cents. All the other date* are of small value.— /foston Pott. A Rcmlnl-cetice ef Senator Motion. A correspondent gives this reminis cence <>f Senator Morton in the Cincin nati Ojmwirrefaf .* One of the pleasant et occasions of that viatt to California, when vonr cxjrreapondeot had the honor of aroonipanyiag Senator Morton aud family, was a trip to Virginia City. Among other places of interest we visited ass* the Consolidate*! Virginia mine. Very agreeable arrangements were made to convey the Senator down the shaft into the mine. The platform was covered with canvas and seats were provided for the party. At the last he declined going ou aooouut of his wife not being quite strong enough, but lie osme tuid seated himself by the side of the shaft to witness the descent f other members of the jarty. When I add that the ladies were obliged to don a .ximplete suit of male attire, some idea will tie formed of the undertaking. The ladies wen* three in number, two lovely voting girls, the daughter aud niece of Senator Cooper, and an elderly lady, Mr. Macker and another gentleman comprised tlie party. The costume of the lathes was a dreadunught overcoat worn over blue flanuel shirt and cloth jswtaloous. Heavy shoes and a slouch felt hat completed the outfit. On so count of tlie intense heat of the mine, the overcoat was worn only in descend ing and ascending the shaft, and in the absence of suspenders the |>auUlootis were tied with a tow striug tightly around the waist. The costume of the geutlcmen was not leas striking, aud no one enjoyed its ludicrous aspect like Senator Morton. He laughed immod cnitelv, and had the patience to remain seated until we returned, flushed with heat and dripping with i>erspiration. There was not the suspicion of a cnrl left in the locka of tlie young ladies, and tliev looked as fresh and pretty as a child just out of the bath. Henator Morton, who relished the exit eTen more than the departure, said they eminded him of the old song of the ose just washed by the rain. Fooled by a Bottle. The other uiglit,*avs the Santa Barbara (Cel.) /Vfs, a houe near tlie lieach was entered by a burglar, long after tlie in mates had gone to sleep. The only occupants were a woman and two little girls. Tlie man obtained an en trance through the window of the room in which the children slept, and in get ting in woke one of tlie girls, who called out to her mother that a man was in the room. The mother soon realised the fact that something was wrong, and called ont to her little girl that she would get a pistol aud come in. She accordingly came in with a small bottle in her hand (she not owning a pistol), and was just in time to see a man crawl from under the bed and make a hurried exit throngh tho window. The woman displayed an amount of presence of mind ana courage not often exhibited in an emergency like that, even among the sterner sex. Siamese Twins in an Oyster Bed. The clerk of the steamer Maggie, of the Eastern Shore Steamboat Company, has brought to the city a remarkable oyster that had been caught in the Ches apeake. The oyster is, apparently, two oysters fastened together, ae is often the case. The peculiarity, however, is that while there were two diatinct oysters, they were fastened together by a ligature running from heart to heart, the shell that divided them being veiy thin, and showing that there was really bat one oyster contained in the three shells. The same gentleman has also an old bottle into which an oyster had become imbed ed, remaining until it was too largs to get out. — Baltimore Bulletin. , TERMS: ®'2.00 a Year, In Advance. FARM, GARDES AM) HOIHEHOLD. I HrSlral Hlala. Bat'iaK-HwKLLiMa. —To cure a swell , iug from a bruise, foment it for half an hour, morning and evening, with hut cloths dipped in vinegar and water ae hot aa you can bear it. Oi'itn roa Waara.-—Warts may be re moved, says a celebrated physician, by rubbing them, night and inurning, with a moistened piece uf muriate uf atnmo i ma. They solum aud dsrimlle away, leaving no such mark aa follows their dispersion with lunar caustic. To PcmrT THE BLOOD. —Btrictly diet on oat-meal porridge, lean beef, plain vegetables, fruit aud Qrabatn bread. Eat no wheat bread or pastry or pud dings ; no butter or gmsm whatever. Butter and cheese secretly poison many system*. Drink weak leuiouade. Eat regularly, and the dryer the food the I witter. Food floating in grease refnaea to digest. Substitute clear water—not toe water—for tea or coffee. On retir ing, apply cold cream or beef fat to the complexion. Take the oila externally instead of internally. A KRMKMT rua OATAKKH.—A fanner'a daughter asya : Dry aud powder uiulleu leaves aa fine aa you would powder sage; then smoke aa yon would tobaeau, Ist tiug the smoke eseajie through the uua> trils instead of the uiouth. This is cue of the beat of remedies tor catarrh in the head. It lias entirely cured a ease of over twenty yean' standing, when every other remedy heard uf has failed to do ao. It may require a little prac tice to let the smoke escape through the nostrils. Mullen will be stronger gath ered before the trust injures it, but will amwer even if dug front under the snow. It will ah>o be found an excellent reme dy for cold in the head. fltolM aa* Waaarta*. A correspondent of the American Farmrr says: The above constitute* two first essentials in the production of good crops, and should receive special attention at the hands of every one who would cultivate and produce a good crop, let it be corn, tot swum, cotton or ' potatoes, etc. Thorough plowing I consider the more uufurtaut of the two, fur nulea* the ground is well plowed, the heat manur ing will have comparatively little effect, whereas land well aud thoroughly plowed with light fertilising will product! fairly, ' but with better manuring will prodnue |at a profit; still there is a limit beyond which profit ceases, aud just where this Unut is the cultivator must be the judge, after experiment; but generally there ia ! little danger of exceeding it. Plowing, to be thorough, should be ao performed that the ami shall be broken and made as fine a* possible; you cannot pulverise too much. Plow deep is a relative term, and may mean V.TT differently on different soils, for while four inches rosy be deep for | one soil, tec or twelve may be less ao on ' others, no that here we must be governed by the nature of the soil plowed. Bub ' soil ploughing ia a distinctive difference from the common acceptation at the term plowing, yet is often used with the same meaning. Sub-soiling on moat • soils, in connection with good ph> ving, m one <4 the essential* of ocrtaiuty ufa : good product; the deeper and more thoroughly the sub-soil is broken the , better, as no nop will be likely to suffer the effects of drought or wet where the i ground is sub-soiled, as witers only snr j (ace pkiwad. In plowing under manure it should not be tumid down to the bottom of the turned soil, if we wtab the benefit of anv portion of H in the present crop. l*be ucarer the snrface, and have it covered in the soil, we keen manure, the greater benefit the crop will receive from it Herein lies one benefit of plowing under the manure shallow, and again plowing the same ground a trifle deeper; which, while it mixes Uie manure with the sou, still keeps the greatest portion near the curface, jn*t where the roots of the voting plant will be benefited by it; and*as the water of rains dissolve ami wash down the portions of the salts, etc., the later roots of the same plants find and appropriate what they most re- 3 aire, aud thus the manure is equalised trough the soil. Southern men have informed me that it Would not answer to plow deep, as with their sudden powerful showers the land would go seaward, from washing, I out (pose; however that may be I am un able to say, as I have no experience there; hot from what I read of the ex perience of the most snccessfnl South ern planters, I think I should venture a trial and see the result. I know here at the North the more shallow plowed £onud washes worse than that which is eply worked, aud also crop# grown on shallow worked soil are less certain and more subject to the vicissitudes of the season, wet or drought, than where the ground ia deeply worked. 11 aakekati lllmtm IswwUt ffwlu KBral^wi IUKEDMATAHO!*!.—Dee about half a pound of macaroni, break up in piece* !>nt it in boiling water and stew geutiy or twenty minutes; salt it a little; drain well; have ready a buttered pudding dish; place slaver of the macaroni in the bottom, then cover with grated cheeee and a few lumps of butter; then another layer of macaroni and more cheese and butter until all is used np; add a wineglass of cream or milk; hake covered for half au hour ; then re move the cover and brown uicely; serve it iu the bake-dish. To SOIL A TTM. —A delicate hen turkey nliould always be selected for Ixhling. Pick and draw it, taking g*c** care not to break the trail-bladder; when it, iasinged, cat through the akin round the flrat joint of the k'gs, awl draw them out by faatening the feet to • atrong hook and then palling the bird away (mm it; take off the head and neck, waah It clean, and wipe it dry; fill the breaat with real stuffing; in trussing it, draw the leg* with the body, break the breastbone, and give the turkey aa plump an appearance aa yon oun; put it into plenty of hot water and bou it very gently for about two hoar*; aerred either with celery aance or a good white aanoe. • DRIED APPLE CAER. —Boak three cap iula dried apples over night, than draw off the water through a sieve; cliop the apples slightly, then simmer them in three capfnla of mo lassos for two hoars; after that add two eggs, one cupful sngar, one capful sweet milk or water, three-quarters capful batter or lerd, one tesspoonfnl baking powder, flour enough to make pretty stiff batter; add cinna mon, cloves to taste. GRAHAM BREAD.— Three pinte of gra ham floor, one and a half pints erf white floor, one-half pint of molasses, a little salt, one capful yeast; mix rather wet with a spoon. InSlraitoaa of k UM4 Bauer law. , It is said that the oolor of the inside of the cow's ear affords an infallible guide to the selection of a good batter oow. If the skin on the-inside of the ear is of a rich yellow or orange oolor and the lining of the ear is covered with an oily secretion, the oow will be sure to give a good quality of milk, rich in batter. Oows that produce a high-colored bat ter have a large amount of the secretion, the inside of the ear being of an orange tint. On the other hnpd, light-colored batter makers present a sototy, thin, Jiale yellow secretion, in some cases onnd only at the bottom of the ear, > while the 'inside lifting is of a oonre- NUMBER 46, •jHitidmglv pale, undefined color. Every male of tbe bovine family has the power <>f accreting a certain amount at this oily matter. If tbe quantity be normal ly large, secretion will take place freely in the mammary glands, tbe ear and the akin. Aa the teat is simple and coats nothing, it cannot fail to prove e useful aitxtliiary to tbe deityuwn and farmer in their selection of rkat milkers. —lndiana Jliraaar, America* and Foreign Longevity. American life, its strain and expendi ture, ia ones more arraigned liecause Governor Morton died at fifty-four, while Theirs fell off at eighty, and bis ' ooiilemporarie*, Bismarck, Von Moltkc, the Emperor William, and other influ ential meat we Living at the name age. The arraignment is * rrpetkm and not a discovery, and does not consider impor tant facta. One of theae is that tbs xtndioaa, calm, and regular life of the French historian and statesman waa a very different thing from y*e exciting <wraer of the Indians leader, and that dissimilar vital force ia to be calculated with unequal oouditiooa in reckoning their longevity. Another is that oo in dividual ia a Miffimmt national repro- Meutetive in such a case. We have no* i living in our own city, in the person of General Robert Patterson, uce who has aeau and done as much and suffered a* great change* at climate and endured a* much labor aa perbap* any of the named European* ; and yet eclipsing them all in yew*, he is quale their equal in vigor. 'Hero, too, at caur doors ia Henry C. Oarey, capable of doing the work of any erf the men named at eighty five. And' Mr. Oameroo ia in his eight ieth year, and by no mesas randy to fall asleep while this administration lasts. We recently buried Horace fiinney, wasting tint three yearn of a century ; j and recalling other prominent men whose lives were active and laborious, there was Webster, who lived to seventy 1 year* ; Clay to aevcoty-flve ; Benton an additional year; Chi* Juatfce Marshall, eighty; J. g. Adams, eighty one; Thorns* Jefferson, eighty-three ; Lewis Cam, eighty-four, and Chief Justice Ta ney, eighty-erven. The list can be easily extended, and the more it is ex amined the more fully it will be proved ' that American life ia oo move deadly than European, and that professional life has as good chances of <*®tinuanr j here a* them A few years ago Ameri can women were the subject* of similar , lamentation. The jeremiads wae explod ed at the time, sod its auccaasor cannot survive full and <b "passionate iuveotiga tkni. —Philadelphia North Amariran. Supplying a Vw Scalp. A very canons case has its existence now in Jamestown, N. Y. It seems that on the morning of April 23, Mm Hay, an employe of the Jamestown alpaca nulls, weal from her home, adjoining the mills, to the lesemant story of the •• wen VP-room " to feed MOM fancy poul try. Iu some unknown way her hair, worn loosely, caught ia a horizontal abaft, revolving rapidly, end the aoaip was torn off from the neck to the eye brow*. leaving the akull entirely bare, and making a wound 159 square inches iu extent. 8h- walked to her borne, nbout 500 feet distant, sad gave order* about *ending for a surgeon. At first an attempt **e made hi replace the scalp, and it was patched up and sewed on,but soon began to alough off, and the physi cian* were at a loss as to the coarse they idtould pursue. The case had DO pvqpe ,lent, and for a time they were completely nonplussed. A* last, however, they hit upon the experiment of grafting, and published a card in tbe daily papers ex plaining the case, aad asking contribu tion* from voting and healthy people to replace the scalp. The young people responded in goodly number* to the call, and the doctor* took from their ansa a < very small piece of akin, which waa transferred to the heed of the uufortu uete lady. At first the experiment I Neemcd driobtful. but at last the grafts began to adhere, and the patient ia no* iu a fair way of roeovoty. Two hundred and forty-one "plants ' have been ap plied, which cover about half the scalp, and the remainder will beplaoed in posi tion a* soon as possible, Mr*. Hay ha* lieen unconscious for days, but enthusi astic physician* who have the cese in hand are sanguine that she will ultimate ly recover. ________ At balk-age to the Ueurtlerw. Grants, in hia " Saxon History," tell* <m of an Earl of Alaatia, *u roamed on amount of hia great strength, ''The Lion;" who waa a favorite of Edward the Third, of England, aad much •-uvied, as favorite* are always sure to be, by the rest of the courtiers. On >m* occasion, when the king waa absent, Mwue noblemen maliciously instigated tbe queen to make trial of the noble blood of the favorite, by causing a lion to be let loose upon him, saying, accord- < iug to Uie popular belief, that if the j >wrl was trnlv noble, the lion would uot touch htm. It being enstomary with the •wrl to rise at the break of day, before j any other person in the palace was stir ring, a boo was let loose during the night ami turned into the lower court Wneu tbe carl came down in the more- I mg, with no more thaa a night-gown | cant over his shirt be was met by the liou, bristling his hair, and growling de- Ktrnetiou between hi* teeth. The earl, not in the least daunted, called out with . a stout voice. " Stand, you dog!" At thane words, toe liou crouched atnia feat, to the great amaxemeut of tha courtier*, j who were peeping cut at every window to aee the issue of their ungenerous de sign. The earl laid hold of tha lion by the mane, turning him into his cage, and placing hi* night-cap on the lion's back, came forth without cutting a look be hind. "Now," said the earl, calling out to the courtiers, " let him among von all that standeth most upon his jwdigree, go and fetch my night-cap." Words of Wisdom. The mom polished society is, the less l formality there is in & Two-thirds of the world are always engaged in fighting wind-mills. A man writing an anonymous letter, is like a pappy inside an enclosure bark ing at yon with his nose under the gate. A lie is a hiltleea sword which is sure to cat the hand of him who strikes with ! it. It is better to find this ont flmt than afterwards. A who can give up dreaming and go to his daily realities; who can smother down his heart, its love or woe, and hike to the work of his hand; who defies fate, and, if he must die, dies fighting to the last—that man is life's best hero, * The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and. understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; aboVe all, of a golden temper, and stead fast as an anchor. For such s one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker. Lessons of wisdom have never such Eower as when they are wrought in the earl through the groundwork of a story which engages the passions; is it that we are like iron and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon? or is it the heart so in love with üboeit that where a true report will not reach it we must cheat it with a fable in order to come at the truth T I (MM Of btMTMI. Forbear to jodga, far we are all *in " Life ia made up or sunshine and ahaddo," an Josh Billing*-" sbont lira ahaddo* to one sunshine. Hare than 100,000.000letmma, oranges, and citrons ate consumed or exjKirted by the inhabitant* of ration* parta of Asia Minor. Professor—" In one evening I counted twonty-aaran meteors aittuig on my uiasxa." Claaa amraaaaa groat astoo tahmaut at the of tha ! heavenly bodies. In Cincinnati, on a meant Sunday craning, foar public ball*, three musical entertainment*, three variety theatre*. " in the Grand Opera House, earn all numerously at tended. Tbe aneeetry of Senator Voorbeea, at Indiana, on hia father 1 * de, ea Dutch: lon hi* mother'* aide, Iriah. He bad I India* fighter* and Revolutionary ad diet* for bis grandfather* and ! grandfather*, and he is fifty yen** old. A young man who left home in Con necticut aome year* ago to aeak his for tuue, reoeutlv wrote framHfexas, aaying; " f're aettled hot*." It baa since trana pi red that ha waa right He had aettled at twenty cent* on the dollar. (One of the Kentucky minstrel* ia "it ting far hi* picture in character.)— Operator; "Now. air, look pleaaaat— ntnilc a little." (Minstrel smOea.) " Ob! that will nerer do. It's too wide for the inrtrunteiit." The Anti-Horse Thief Association ia an institution in northwestern Miaacmri, southeastern lowa and northwestern Illinois, whose object is pretty clearly imlhmtad ia its name. The torn of human life daring the great ftood in Bengal, foUowmg lite cy clone of 1876, has lately been ascertained to hare amounted to 165,000. It wae estimated at the time at near 800,000. Bucks county, Pa., ha* a smoker who claims to hare averaged seven cigars per •lay daring the laet fifty-eeren yearn, which would aggregate 146,000 cigars, worth, at fir* eanta each, #7,250. In Biealan, Germany, a success! nl at tempt has been made to erect a paper ■•tourney about fifty feet high. By a chemical preparation the paper m ren dered imperrtoua to the actaon of ire or eater. The 806 member* of the two boneee of Congress include 239 lawyers, nineteen I bankers, aercnteen merchant*, fifteen editor*, twelve farmer* and planters, twentr physicians, eoren manufacturer*, fire officer* of railroads and fire school teacher*. An important though little known business in Wort field, Mass., is the manufacture of piano legs. Some 800 oarrrd leg* per mouth are turned out They are made of white wood, and carred mostly by hand. They are sent un stained and unfinished to the piano manufacturers, who color and polish them to suit the instrument for which they are designed. Laet mouth a Paris butcher was bitten by a pet oat ana did not go to a doctor, but oowtonled himself with cauterizing the wound. Next morning the cat was found dead, but a veterinary surgeon Eve it as hia opinion that it had not sd mad. Notwithstanding this the poor butcher waa seised with the direst apprehensions In tbe night he waa subject to terrible pains, and two dara later died in horrible pain. Men are generally more honest in their private than in their public capac ity, and will go greater length to serve a party than when their own private inter est ia alone concerned. Honor is a great check upon mankind, but where a con siderable bodr of men act together this check ami gnat measure removed, since a man ia sure to be approved of by his own party for what promotes the common interest, and he soon learns to despiss the clamors of adversaries. A man who was hanged in Arkansas the other day, far murdering his aunt, had some very dear views as to hia ca reer in life, provided he had been ac quitted of In* crime. He intended to burn up the jail and court hooaaand village of Hot Spring*. Then he in tended to kill five meu thai he didn't fancy, and to burn the dwellings and barns, and poison the stock of sundry other people who didn't altogether suit him After this he intended to do aa indefinite amount of burning, mordering and robbing, until he waa caught or get tired of the sport A man with hia Lags almost petrified lied at New Haven, recently, in Jamas Feathentone, aged Tt, who for many vean suffered from elephantiasis sea born. He had a "crick** in hia back ten yearn ago aad took to hia bed, and has nerer since been out at it About a rear Later the aoie* of hia feet bemn to harden and look like stone, said hie leg* swelled and were covered with scabs, ulcers and homy (excrescences, sometime a two inches Long, presenting a sickening .tight, until at his death they measured aome thirty-five inches around the calf and weighed about eighty pounds. The case has attracted wide attention from physicians, and is thought to be the first at the kind in New Eng land. - sprin&rJd ( Ma**.) Republican. Fewer *f Rumple. Bpeakiugof a recent suicide *4n New Tort, s correspondent add*. Tbe nata * ral inclination to fellow an evil example was illustrated by the monument sui cides in London. ia 200 feet high, and it* summit once wee open to the public, with but a small protective ! railing. More thnn seventy yean ago. liowever, a man leaped over the rail and was picked up deed. Hia example was woo afterward followed by another, and j the monument suicides became so fre quent that a tall railing was built, i which effectually prevented any further attempt. Similar instances of tbe power of ex ample have occurred iu this city. A man, for instance, leaped from the wheelhouse ! of a steam ferryboat some year* ago and was drowned. Immediately there was a run of "steamboat suicide." Another striking case was that of Dr. Wells, the once noted Hartford dentist, and (aa it is claimed) the diaaoverar of chloroform. , He came from Hartford to this city to attend to his disco very, and in tbe even ing walked out to ace New York by gas light. He became, no doubt, slightly intoxicated and was included in a number of arrests made that night. When he came to, he found himself the inmate o s cell, and he knew that as soon as this dreadful fact became known hi* reputa tion would be destroyed. Unable to contemplate such a result the unfortu nate man opened a vein and then dosed himself with chloroform, and was found in the morning dead. That season a large number of chloroform suicides took places. Hotel suicides have also been much in vogue since they were at first started. Paris green suioides also had an extensive run. One finds that there is a fashion in felo de e just as there is in everything else. Life ia the City. During one week recently, in London, twenty-seren deaths were caused by fractures and contusions. Two men, aged respectively forty-two and thirty nine years, two boys eight years old, a woman seventy-three years old, and a girl three Tear* old, were ran over and killed by vans or carts. A girl four years old was run over and killed by a cab; a boy two years old and a woman twenty-seven years old fell from a window and were killed. A woman sixty-nine years old fell on the pavement and died : another woman, seventy-two years old, was killed by falling from her bed. A boy three years old fell from a child's arms and was killed. Two men, aged respec tively forty-nine and twenty-eight year*, were run over by the railway oars. An old man aged sixty-nine years, a young man of years, an old woman of seventy-two years, and a middle-age woman of fifty years, fell down stair* and were killed. A man of thirty-nine years was killed by falling down a ship's hold ; a man of forty-fonr years by fall ing into a cellar ; and a man of thirty nine years by falling from a roof. The number of births waa nine hundred and seventy-five more than the number of deaths. Eleven infants under one year of agedk of rcuffocatkm.