The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, January 24, 1878, Image 1
The Fireside. With what a live intelligence the flame fllow* and leaps np in (pirns of flickering red And tnt nathec.ial, Jn* now so dnll and dead, To a companion ! Not like those who cams To weary me with iteration tame Of idle talk in (hallow fancies bred. From doleful mood* the cheerful fire haa led My thought*, which now their manlier atrengih reclaim; And like *ome fro7.ru thing that feel* the ana Through solitudes of winter (tenetrate. The frolic currents through my pulses run ; Whtle fluttering whi*]>er* *of and intimate Out of ihe ruddy tire-lght of the grate Make taik. love, music, poetry in one. C. <YiinoA, in liarper't V.l<.vie*". * Break of Bay. Ornel white wave* in **d under-tone Break at my feet with desolate moan. Far in the distance a* eye can reach. Only a long strip of sandy l>each. Backward and forward, to left, to nglit. Blacker the dark lire, upon the night. Ungged and silent Ihe mountains loom. Pitiless shtdow of coming doom ! Is th re nohera'.d of dawning day Ov r the ookui so cold and gray Waiting. I watch on the shore in vain Fast throhs my heart with its bitterest pain. Turn from the desolate moaning mm . It hath no j>art in thy life or thee. Bleary the |>ath w here no flowers bloom By rugged shore through the mountains' gWm. Tliine is the burden : with weary feet. Brave, not despairing, thy Fate go meet. From paiu no longi r a coward shrink ; Though the cup is Utter, thy hp* mug drink. Earthward no in.ire turn thy tearful gare . Who works in earuest, in earnest prays. The rough dark road th. n wouMst fain f.irget ? Fpward and cuward 1 The end is not yet. Lo' tl-.c mountain's crown, on the sbonv night (Hows with a gl.Ty of rosy light' Bark in the \ alley ; the sea is gray ; But the hill top hums, the l<eacou of day. A flrey shaft from the joMsn East Enkindles the alter where GoA is lYiest. B.vsy lights creep down the niounUia-slde, Flushing the slow heaving, swelling tide. Raiabow i>f pr\nuhw> high overhead Tells the Bay coming with silent thread. Slow !y the curtain of night is furled ; Slow!* the light of trod Us>v the world. Through the shimmering gold of breaking day A white-winged sail is speeding its way. Ah. Mewed Bay. full of hope new-born. That bring* my lore in its happy dawu ' Shine out in the sky ! O glorious sun 1 The end is not yet. Infe has just begun. BiU Gray i<% W.rrper # for Jon war A DISEASE OF THE HEART. Tlie day* of my clerkship were ended; my examination wns over; I waa ad mitted; wrote myself "Xehemiah Habha, attorney;" put up my new. bright little sign, and in my native village begaD my professional career. No, I ilid not, either. lam mistaken. I intended to pursue the honorable profession to which I had dedicated my talents and learning in the place of my birth; but never waa a truer word penned than the time-honored proverb, "A prophet haa no honor in his own country." I believe if I had remained in the village of Green Briar till my head was white, they would have thought of me aa nothing but a boy, and would have feared to trust me. Even < after my sign waig|m4 tip nobody called rae Mr. Hubbs; it waa still" Xe," with old and young, and " Ne " I would have remained to this day had I remained in Green Briar. Ouly one case claimed my attention during the three months of my patient continuance in Green Briar, after being admitted to the bar, and that was the ease of an unjustly impounded pig. "fekmeonsly extracted, your honor, from the small but secure spot in which my client had trustingly deposited him; and maliciously driven to a pnblic enclosure called a pound, for the vile purpose, doubtless, of compelling my client, in liis povertv and destitution, to pay 'he enormous fee that has been demanded of bim, in order to extricate the animal from his nnpleaaaat position and restore him to the bosom of his family!" By this I meant the client's family, ibe pig having none of its own. It was a figure of speech undoubtedly, the family not inhabiting an Irish cabin, but still it rounded off the period and sounded well to me as I repeated over and over again my m&ideu speech, pacing up and down the floor of my little office. In this my first case, I was successful so far 11s to rescue the impounded animal and save my client from the payment of an unjust demand; but it brought no silver to ray pocket, neither, to my surprise, did "it bring honor to my name. The eloquence of my speech did not form the theme, as I fondly hoped it would, of paragraphs in the village papers, or of discussion at the corner of tne streets; neither did it bring to my office the rush of clients for which daily I vainly made ready. It was plain that I should never rise "to distinction in Green Briar, and no I came to the tnddea determination to remove from that pleasant spot and settle in some city where nobody knew or heard of rae; and where, above all, there was not a soul to call me 44 Ne." There I was more successful, and soon had the opportunity of forming a very advantageous partnership. Business increased; money began to come in, slow at first, but after a time more plentifully, ami all things seemed prosperous in my outward circumstances. But, alas! as we are often told poetically, there is no sweet without its bitter, no rose without its thorn; and trouble came to me in the shape of disease, insidious and slow in its approaches at first, long feared and suspected, but at length betrayed itself so plainly that could blind myself no longer to the truth. Yes ! I was, without doubt, a victim to disease of the heart; not metaphoric ally, dear reader, for never had the or gan beat with a quicker pulsation at the approach of mortal woman. So far as the gentle aex was concerned I was a perfect stoic ; bnt that there was organic disease about my heart I could not donbt, and if ever the symptoms dis closed themselves unmistakably they did so in my case. There was a flattering, palpitating, irregular action, and at length, pain. I could not work. Life had lost its zest. The fear of sudden death was ever with me ; I could enjoy nothing. If I had anything to leave, or anybody to leave it to, I should have made my will, for I was quite sure now that I should drop some day lifeless in the street, or that the morning would soon come when the power to rise from my bed would have left me. I remained in my boarding-house and found no oomfort in anything but my cigar, and my dread disease grew worse and worse. As yet I had consulted no physician, partly, I think, from the ap prehension of having my fears con firmed ; but as I gat by my window one day, smoking as vigorously as ever, gazing abstractedly across the street, my attention was arrested by a modest little sign upon an opposite blind—"C L. Todd, ML D." While thinking whether or not it would be best to make a trial of the physician's skill, a sudden twinge and flutter decided me; yes, I would send for Dr. Todd and know the worst at once! Snramoning the only male servant belonging to the establishment, I told bim to step over and ask Dr. Todd to come and see me as soon as possible. Tije boy grinned. "What are you laughing at ?" I asked. "Is not Dr. Todd a good physician?" " Oh, yes, sir," be answered. I be lieve she is a very good physician, but she hain't never tended nobody here." "She !" said I to myself ; "the boy, surely, has Welsh blood in his veins; Uiev always she everything." The boy returned saying: "The doctor wasn't home, sir, but I left your niune on the slate." In the course of the afternoon; as I lay upon the sofa, with my hand pressed upon my heart, to still its irregular pul sath ns, there was a soft tap at my door. • Coinc in," I called out, and, to my sur- FRED. KURTZ, Krfitor and Proprietor. VOLUME XL ' prise, in came the ueuteat. brightcat, in.wt checrfuhlook uig little woman it had ever been mv lot to meet, i "Yon sent for me, I believe, sir!" ahe said, in a brisk, pleasant way. "I f No, madam, you arc laboring under a mistake." "All! I beg ronr parvlou," said th little woman. " I found ou my slate the name of Mr. Hublis, No. It, Mrs. Grey's Ixvardiug-houae, with a request l that 1 would call and see him." " Your slate, iua.lame !" 1 exclaimed, mv astonishment increasing every mo ; meut; "yon surely are not "Physician! yes, sir," she inter rupted, quickly ; " 1 am a phvaicuui, j Dr. Todd." " Extraorvhuary!" was all 1 could say, for though 1 had hoard at a distance of the existence of surh U-iug*, this was my first introduction to a female prac titioner of the Ksoulapiau art. It was rather awkward, hut since *lie had come, I determined to make the best of it, and acquaint tlie lady doctor witli my ciu-e. She felt my pulse, asked numerous questions as to my symptoms, and then, iu her quick, bright way, exclaimed : "Nervous! Nervous! that's all, de pend ujHHi it. Excuse me, sir, but by the air of your room 1 siqqoae yon are much given to amokiug." " 1 plead guilty." " And how many cigars do you usually smoke iu s .lay ?" " I could not tell; I never counted; as soon as I threw away one I took another, nan ally." " Hum ! a cigar in your mouth pretty much all the time, eh ? Chew, too?" Again a reluctant coufeaaion was wrung from me. " * presume you ait up late, smoke all the time ?'** " Yes, ma'am, smoking and readiug." " That's it. No disease of the heart at all, air; uothmg hut tobacco. It will make you fauov anything : It'll drive you craay, if yod don't take ."are. Now will you promise to follow my advice clostlv? If not I will take my leave immediately." 1 promised, submissive as lamb. "In the first place then throw away all your cigar* and tobacco and promise to buy no more." With a aigh given to my sole oonsola tioua I aanl I would do a* she directed. Many more directions she gave me as to diet, exercise, early hour*, etc. Ter ns pa, ahe Baw, too, that cheerful com panionship was something 1 needed, ao she remained awhile, talking with great glee and spirit about matters and thing* tn general ; and, premising to call and see me the next morning, ahe left I had not felt ao well in a great while; indeed, I had uot given my heart a thought amce tlie little woman entered the room. The next morning I found myself watching impatiently for the arrival of my little doctor. She came bright and clieerful as the day before. What a per feet little sunbeam she was ! 1 could not help growing better under her care, and the influence of her cheenug pres ence, and vet managed to contrive some ache or paiu every day an an excuse lor the continuance of her visits. At length I found tliat my heart, which had long been quiet, and apparently free from disease, began to dutter and palpi tate again ; bnt I observed it was only when I heard the little woman's tap at my door, or felt her soft lingers on my wrist. In short, as she had driven the disease out of my heart, that little woman herself had walked into it. I could uo longer blind myself to the fact; and when she one day told me that I was now off the sick list, and out of her hands, I determined that she should not so easily get out of mine. 80 I told her a ahe had now given ease to my heart iu one respect, she must not leave till she had done so in another, or I should be worse off than I was before. The little womau looked perplexed. Then I stated my rase and explained my symptona a seo>>nd time, showing her the distressed state of my heart, and she alone conld enre it. The former disease she hail removed by an occasional riait; the latter could only be cured by her promising to oome and take up her abode with me as a resident physician. She understand me now, and by the way she pressed her hand against hr own little fluttering heart, one would have thought the disease was contagious: and I verily think it was. 80 now we are both to apply to a clergyman who is to form between us a life partnership as lawyer and physician. Bnt oue thing troubles me, of which I had no thought till now; that it is necessary to have our cards engraved. Married people are nsnnlly 14 Mr. and Mrs. 80 and So," or 4 'Mr. Bach a Oue and Lady but will any one please tell me how I and mv little wife are to lie designated. Will it bo " Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Hubbs?" or 44 Mr. and Mrs. Huhhs, M.D. ?" or, as the ladies are going ahead so fast in these days of woman's rights, will I sink into still lesser insignificance, and shall we be 44 1)r. Todd and Gentle man ?" or must I drop the name of Hubbs altogether and become a T<xld, too ? * Somebody please tell how to have those cards engraved. Water for the Eyes. A writer in Frazrr Mayazinc thinks that, whatever hesitation there may lie , justly called for in recommending one or another of the various lotions now so popular, there need be no such doubt in respect to cold water or pure water. He savs in cases of much inflammation or difficulty in opening the eyelids in the morning, experienced by so manv / tbe water should be warm, and it may be mixed with warm milk, but in nearly all other cases it should be cold. Al! those who have been engaged in readiug or writing during several hours at a stretch, and especially at night, should carefully bathe the eyes with cold water before going to bed and the first thing in the morning's ablutions. All artisans too, who work at a blazing fire ought often to wash their eye* with cold pure water, and so should all those who work in wool, particularly carders and spin ners, and those likewise who are em ployed in woolen and ootton manufac tures, the fine dust which such works disperse often producing cataracts, ob stinate inflammations, swelled eyelids, etc. Novelties in Floricultnre. A very old but good story has just been rehearsed in the columns of the London Land and Water, by Mr. W. H. Webb. In substance it is as follows : Dr. Fothergill, an English botanist and physician of note in the eighteenth cen tury, successfully treated a ship captain who arrived at London ill of yellow fever. The doctor would take no money for his services, but requested the cap tain to bring him two barrels of earth from Borneo. At length the earth was brought, and the doctor, having burned the surface of a piece of ground very thoroughly, sprinkled the Borneo earth upon it. The result was that one hun dred different sorts o£ new and curious plants sprung up These novelties in j floriculture, including geraniums, have since been diffused throughout the gar dens of England. In those days, when the introduction of new plants is so sed ulously pursued, it is surprising that the method of Dr. Fothergill has not been morn extensively tried, as commu nication with tropical region a of germ oharged eoil is infinitely more frequent now-than then. THE OENTRE REPORTER The I'st'i StraUfM*. In Srriti nrr'i ViigiiMiic for January, R. E. Koliuiww him dn article ou " En Hunting in Now KugUu.l," from which wo make the following cxtiwet Hill think not thus early nor with such *uS .wsaful issue IS ovory eliase to CIIMM'. This was 0n.1.5l Iwforo tlio to* ha.l uied any other trick for hurtling the liouuda, lint his simplest one of rnuuing in cir cles. An hour or two later, an old fox finding the dogs still holding persistent ly to nil the w in.liiigs of his trail, would hnvo spoil awny to another hill . r w.nal a tulle or so off, U.l would have crossed uewlj p'owad Sel la, the frrelt earth leaviug uo tell tale scent ; would have taken to trveld highways, where duet and the hoots of horses and the f.*>t steps of uieu combine to obliterate the traces of his passage or have tr *1 gin . gorly along many lengths ot the top rails of a fence and then have sprung off at right angles with it to the ground, ten feet away ; and then, perhaps, have run through a thick of sheep, the strong odor of whose feet biota out the scent .if Ilia. These arttfiere quite bewilder and bsttfle the young .log, hut only delay the elder who knows of old the tricks of foxes. Nothing can he more mlunrahle than the manner of his working, as he comes to the edge of the plowed tiel.L He wastes no tone in useless p .tiering among the fresh-turned furrow*, hut with rapid lopes skirts their awarded bonier, till, at a far corner, his speed slackens as his keen u.se catches the scent again in the damp grass ; he snuffs at it an instant to aasare himself, then sounds a lou.l, melodious note, and go a on laying at evcrv lope till the road is reached. Along this lie xigsags till he ffn.ls where the fox has left it. And now comes tlie puxxling hit of fence. The old dog thinks the fox haa gone through it ; lie goes through it himself, but tinds no sceut there ; put*lea aliotit rapidly, now trying this side, now that ; at la*t he bethink* himself of the top, t.' which he dandier* and there finds the missing trad. But los big feet cannot tread the "giddy footing'* of the rail as could Heyuard'a dainty pnd*, so down he goes and tru*s on either side for the point where the fox left the fence. Ringing up and down, too near it, to hit the spot where Reynard struck the ground be fails to recover the s.-eut, stops—raises Ilia uose and utters a long mournful liowl, half vexation, half .it •pair. Now he elimtis to the top rail further ou and sutiffs it there. "No taint of a fox's foot is here." so he rea sons, "and he must have jumped froui the fence liet wren hen* and the place where I found it," and acting on this logical conclusion, he circh-w widely till he has picked Up the trail once tnore. Midguts merrily on to the sheep-pasture. Here, satisfying himself of the character of this trick, lie adopts the same plan employed at the plowed field, and after a little, finds the trail on the other side and follows it to the hill, hut more wtowtv ww, for the fox has been g>.ne some time ; the frost ha* jielUsl, the moisture is exhaling ami .he sceut gr>w mgeold. The for has long since reached the hill and half encircled it. an 1 now hearing the voices cf the houud* so far awny and sosh-wly Bearing. Iwe be-towe-i himself on tlie musy cushion of a knoll for rest and cogitation. Here he lies for a half hour or more, but always alert and listening while the d<ig* draw slowly on, now alni'ist losing tlie trail m a dry ledge. now catching it in a moist, propi tious hollow, till at la*f a nearer hurst warns poor sly-boots that he must again up and away. Snipe Mioutinr Extraordinary. The greatest shootiug exploit ever performed in tin* couutry, says the New Orleans Picayune, wan recently acbivod by a gentleman, loug a resident of this State, and the owner of Mine of the largest plantations, sugar and cot ton. For year* past the exploits of this gentlemau have (>een regarded with the highest admiration and wonder in all sporting circles. Leasing out bis splendid sugar estates on the Teehe, he has reserved the privilege of oocnpying a shooting box, which he calls his " snipery," where he sj>ends every year a month" or so, to enjoy withont dis tnrbsuoe his fsvorite amusement of shootiDg this fine sud agile bird, which abounds on his >wn and the adjoining plantations. The results of hie sport and skill in past years have been fre quently referred to us wonderful. To bag three hundred snipe on the wing, of course, s day has been s c uumon achievement—common for him, bat never saoomplished by any other s|>ort* man. In his lost enterprise, however, he surpassed his previous exploits by devoting six successive days to this sport. The result was a bag of nineteen hundred and sixty snipe. Allowing six hours per day for the hunt, this would give s snipe a minute, which is about equal to the hog-killing operations of the great slaughter-houses of Chicago. Besides the pleasure and pride of such an achievement, the robust appearance of the gentleman by whom it was per formed, when we met him on onr streets, attests the happt effects upon his physi cal condition of the exercise and excite ment of his Nimrodian enterprise. He will return to his eujoyment of the luxuries and pleasnres of his family residence at Biaritz, France, with a k<>en ' and invigorated reliah and capacity of enjoyment The liaftle Field uf Plevna. Tbe correspondent of the Loudon Daily Few*, writing from Plevna on the day of the surrender, savs : All around me the ground was covered with grim relice of battle. Here anil there the earth was nptorn by the explosion ol ►hills. Near me lay a horse groaning ami struggling in death. Close by an ox, silently tileeding'to death; his great, ronud, patient eyes looking mournfully at us. Just liefore me was a cart with a dead horse lying in yoke as he had fallen, and a Turkish soldier lying alongside whose head liiul tven carried away. Au other uiuu was lying under the wagon, and around were four wounded men, ly ing gazing up at the murky sky, or cov ered up with the hood of their ragged gray overcoat drawn over their faces. Not one of them uttered a sound. They lay there and bore their suffering with a calm, stolid fortitude which brought tears to my eyes. Just behind the wagon the gronnd was ripped to pieces by shell-fire, telling bow these unfortu nates hail met their fate. The road ami its edges were dotted here and there with dead and wounded Turkish sol diers, oxen, horses, and shattered carts, and a few hundred yards north of the road, the gronnd over which Osman Pasha's sallying oolumn had made that heroio charge, was literally covered with dead and wounded. Russian doctors were already going about on the field lookiog after the wounded and giving them temporary dressing, while waiting ] for the ambulances to oomc up. " What's Wanted 1" A suburb*! jwaident, losing the last train out the other night, concluded to save a hotel bill by spending the night with an old college chum of his, living in Boylston street. Arriving in front of the house, he tossed a pebble up against his friend's chamber window, and call ed out "Doc. 1" "Oh, Doc.!" "Doc tor I" in less thau a minute thirteen win dows flew open, thirteen heads popped out of them, and thirteen voices exclaim ed with one accord, " I'm the Doctor; what's wanted ?"— Boston Advertiser. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 187 S. lIIKkSK. la lu.iahi Into a Ureal laataairf l ele braird l.arl>fa Hradarla. A oruat of bread and cheee* ha* long been a proverbial phrase indicative of |K*uunou hospitality . toil continental agriculturist* bid fair to rrveiso ita ap plication, judging from the elegant and tempting varieties of iihtw now reach ing tlie laondou market in increasing consignment*. From the chalet high up ou Alpme mends, from eviunuunes of •IIIIIIV France, from Scandinavian fiord and forest, low lviug Holland, and even distant Italy, this easily j*>rtah|c pro duel of the dairv finds it* way to the English metropolis. Hollle few of these have long been kuowti to the epicure, hut have ntily reocutly beooim article* of comparatively common couaumptiou. Such i* the Oruyere, which l>y right of size cornea naturally foremost -a great cheese weighing one hundred pounds, rich ami luscious, from Hwitzerland. It sometime* measure* a yard iu circum ference. Hut upou tin* twelve mouth*' attention have tieeu lavished, to bring it to the exact consistency of a species of tirmer butter, disappearing, a* it were, upon tlie tongue. The pz *•<•*< i* carried ou iu summer aluioat beside tile glaeier alul avalauehe, and oue part of the ays tem l* *anl to le a repeated gentle mm meriug of the curd. It aella in Iroudou at about aah tiling a pound, Quite a contrast in presented by the Mont d'Or cheese- -from France—a yellow disk, *av Ave iuches across, like a cake of solid honey. Tlie taste i* dclicioua, ami it ha* a tempting appearance upon the table. Theae eheeae* are usually ob tained bv the dozen, costiug ten ponce •audi ; which is also the value of the Oaiaembert, atill lew* iu diameter, but thicker. A cheese commanding a wnler sale is the itoqtlcfor ( French I, the price of which ('J* a pound) indicate# a super ior quality. It i* a cream eheeae, coated with tiufoil, and weighing about four pounds. It is made from the milk of sheep, and when cut opeu is flecked with the peculiar decay so dear to the art *t iu eating. This mould in ex* is the chief object of the maker, who assist* its development by the use of a little barley bread. The eheeae is mature*! ID a se ries of natural caverns, the draught through which effect* the ri|>emug. lh quefort and Gorgontola < Italian) much resemble Stilton ; the latter is also made from crmun only, is very rich, and about the same price. The flavor of some f the continental cheeses is varied by the addition of car rwwavs or cummin ; others are prepared with herb*, a* the Hchabaiegnr, from Switzerland. Frauoe also semi* the l-'romage de llrie and Boudou (cream). Font rEnxv|W. He., not all, j>erhni>, quite attractive t<> tha English nostril ; ami Switzerland the Xeufehatel cre.uu, like molten Stilton, and eaten as butter on a slice of tiread. Parmesan and Strac china, from Italy, are well known ; the latter is a aoft eheeae, and oulv kci>* a abort time. Eiumeutbal cheese o tnes from several countries—Austria. Switz erland, etc. The Limlmrg i a German cheese ; Edam and 1 toitda.oue round and the other flat, are of Dutch make ; and all these are either kept in st-oik now, or quickly obtained to onler by lyunion merchant*. Iu addiEou, the Caonuca vallo, from Tuscany, a cheese half of goal's aud hail cow's milk, from a towu in Piedmont ; n Turin eheeae of goat's nulk ; a white variety from Sicily ; lb>- matour from Bavaria, Ookminier, Ge nuue, etc., have at least Ixcn wen in Lomlou. Iu Buaaia they ure copying the English Cuadl*r sn.l Stilton, |>er hajvs with a view to the foreign market said to be open for larger consignments of that character than have readied it from England. But this by the way. Iu home produce Devonshire cream has loug been a luxury ; York creatu, N'ew Forest cream, Victoria en-am, and the little Aylesbury—said to la- delicious— are hardly perhaps > well known as they deserve. There scema, indeed, sin gularly wide scope for invention and in dustry in the treatment of indk ; aud tlie subject is uot without an interest totlioae who are pouileriug upon the problem of female emplovment When the gov ernea* of au Eugliah farmer's family is paid £ls per annum,the lady who super intends the dairy—the professional cheese maker—receives £"2o, £K>, and even more, living a* one of the family and enjoying complete liberty as eoon as her work is done. The governess ha* " never tlniahod when the children are in Iwd, olie may lie persuasively re- , quested to assist in sewing ; but the '* cheese maker " after tea simply puts on her bonnet and WAlks forth to take the air. The life is decidcdlv more in dependent than that of a " iady-help," and the science of the dairy *<w>m* nearly as worthy of schools snl teacher* ss that of cooking. Kugliah cheese is invariably made from the milk of the now ; bnt many foreign kiuds, as mentioned above, are manufactured from that of sheep and goat*. Those made of gwt*' milk are usually small and oddly made— aome like tablets rather than cheese. It is scarcely probable that sheep's milk will ever fie used here for this purpose; but goats have received an increase fo attention of recent years, not so much for direct profit as with the view of sup plying a rich, freah milk for children. Pc&ons who have not the space for a cow can atill keep a few goats and tsissi hly may make a little cheese as a fancy, floats' milk butter lias been exhibited. Butter, by the way, cornea more and more from abroad—(lerinauy, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and especially France, contributing largely. Brittany butter i* a favorite ; another brand comes from Normandy, aud during the winter Italian butter may he had. This article has been sent to Londou, on the other hand, almost frort the arctic region*— from Finland. Many continental butter merchants' names are na well known here aa in tlieir own countries ; in fart, foreign enterprise, assisted by the re •qiective governments,is doing its best to take possession of the English market. In Germany, Hussta, <te., l>nMor and choose making i taught iu institutions directly subsidized from the government, and capital is largely drawn to this profitable investment. f'nctorir* ami companies whose main object is the English con sumer are common on the continent— as the Scandinavian Butter Preserving Company ("Danish'), the well-knows Caves Ronnie* of Roquefort. (France), a society for the manufneturu of cheese, etc.; iud-ed, there are companies in all the countries previously named. Some English butter is believed to b colored with a dye manufactured and used aoroad ; it is quite harmless, yet the fact seems strange. Saxony and Bavaria are making gr at effort* to insure the economic and scientific production of butter and choose, and there are dairy laboratories in Italy for chemical experi ment*. The Germans have actually a mechanical appliance for getting the cream out of the milk by stoma power. The ordinary system is to simply set the milk, and let the HIOW process of nature raise the cream, which takes many hours. This singular invention apparently con sists of a kind of hollow- wheel, into which the milk is poured, ami which revolves several hundred timen a minute, causing a vortex motion lu the liquid, and separating the particles of cream by centrifugal force in a very Bhort period. —Pall Mall Gazette. Cincinnati claims to have originated the first baby show, and the youngster who took the first prize is still living. A Stauip-tbllectlon Stary Home time tu Gotobcr laat, a.ys the liostou !\nt of, a reoeut issue, an aged la.lv iu New Y'ork city, finding herself without the means to procure the n*"es sunes of life, made application to vari ous person* for assistance in obtaining admission to the St. Luke's Home for Women iu that city. One geulleiuau to whom she applied asked her if she waa witling to make a great effort to obtain the desired end. She replied that it was not much that ahe could do, but her will was good, and she would try. The gentleman then replied; "If you will collect one million of old postage stamps 1 will give you the gHRO ueeded to ob tain admission to the Home." Tlie old lady was at first discouraged. llow.-v r, as she was a person of uitich energy and courage, she went to work in earnest. She first sought the assistance of some friends of 1 elter davs, and was fortunate in finding two laities noted for their energy in works of charity, Mrs. Gib biu* ami Mr*. Halstead, of New York, who promised to aid her. Their plan was us follows: To call at many of the officee iu tlie city and ask that all the ftiuiil". aa Uh Jitter* received might Ik raved. Mr*. Oibbitta also wrote to tlie wife of Mr. E. G. Champuey, the artist, of this city, requesting her assistance. Mr*. Champuey at once Iw-gan work. She informed her friends of the scheme an.! requeated Ibeir assistant*". The enthusiasm with which tin* idea was received was wonderful. Children began to watch for letters that came to their houses with almost a* much im patience as any lover watches for dainty, |H"rfumed notes. Men and womeu on receiving letter* would preeeed to cut off the stamp before reading the epistle. From hundred* the number became thousands and ten thousands. Last week all that was wanted to complete the amount was uiuety-four thousand. On receiving the contributions frem various sources tins week it was found that they had one million and five thou sand, and in informing the gentleman who takes tlie stamps of the fart he offered to give another free bed in Dr. Burghart's Hospital for a arc -ml million, the iieil to be dlpoi-.l of bv Mra<iallies (iibbiu* and Halsteail to the m-iat de scrviug person known to them. On t**ing informed that her home for life was ensured the lady expressed her gratitude to the kind friends who hail assisted her. Although having htnl the assistance of many, the lady h* eather ed br her own jM-r*ona! effort* > . '.nree hundred thoujutffd *t*iui>s ill the |wst ten weeks, or an average of thirty thou sand in a week or five thousand iu a day. The stump* on being receive*! were counted and tied np in packages of one hundred each, and then ten of these package* were tied together, and in this firm they were sent to the geutleman who haa agreed to furnish tlie money. What final dispiaiti'tn was to l>e made of the stamps was f.r a long time a mat ter of much curiosity. It was at last ascertained that they are to IK- sent to Europe to l>e uaed iu the manu(-*tnre of |Wpicr tuache gt*lw, the jaqwr of which the stamps are made making them very desirable, and the mucilage also adding to their strength. The million st*mj>s parked in the manner desertlKSl. fill an ordinary Saratoga trunk. A Forgotten FeMhal Little more than a couple of genera tion* ago, the 2Mb of November waa a holiday in many i-art* of the Midland agricultural districts iu Englan-1. No matter what might be tlie tat of the weather, u< interruption of tlie festivi tie* was allowed, however great might W tlie diaomfort of those taking jwrl in tlie *'Catherine Procession." In the towns, those, taking part iu the preces sion* were principally female children belonging to the work-bouse#, who dis carded for the notice their ctwlotnary workhouse attire, and aji*ared neatly ilriwksi in white, decorated with various colored ribl*>o*. chit fly scarlet, the tall est girl Wing selected to represent the queen, or rather saint, for which purpose she waa provided with a tinseled crown or sceptre. The procession invariably made a stop at the dwelling* of Uie prin cipal townsmen, when the children sang a ballad W-gmmng thus : " Her# mine* Qns#w Catherine. * line a* an* ipieen. With * reach ant! six hor-e -coming to la mn ; A'd a-optntrtng we will go. will go. will go. And *-pm:nng ws wtil go 1 While this was Wing *nng. severnl of the children would beg for money at the neighboring house#, the proceed* Wing devoted to defraying tlm cost of the pr<>- cessiou and providing the little ones wiUi the unwonted luxury of a good dinner. One of the most famous of these nro cesaiuna wa* that at PcterUrough, which was continued until the introduction of the new poir law, when tlie "Catherine Processions " lieeatne things of the past. Previous to this, spinning constituted tlie principal occupation of the female inmates of the work hou-*. hence the origin of the festival, Bt. Catherine being |K>pularly regarded a* the patron saint of thi* particular industry. She was also regarded in a similar light by the Midland lace makers, mauy of whom sigualize the arrival of " Eastern s Day witli a rump steak and onion dinner —an example largely emulated by the North amptonshire shoemakers, who evidently tlnnk more of a " Kattem Skipper than of a "Crispin Dinner." But these festival meal* furnish a poor substitute for the picturesque features which formerly marked the celebration of St. Catherine's Day, which already displays indications of speedily becoming added to the lengthy list of forgotten festivals. Chinese hmfr. Wa doubt if a happier im* exists then the Chinese farmer* and peasantry. Hie farms are small, and so the owners are not wealthy, hut thev are very respecta ble. Each farra-lianse in a little colony, consisting of some tliree (j*ntr*tiow namely, the grandfather, hi* children, and his children'* children. There they lire in peace and harmony together ; all who are able to, work on the farm, and if more labor ia required, the stranger is hired to assist them. They live well, dress plainly, and are industrious, with out l>eing in any way oppressed. The female metnliera of a farmer a household hare mneli more liberty than tboae of a higher rank. They hare small feet as | usual, but thoy are not ho confined to the house, or prevented from looking on and speaking to atrangera, aa ore the higher claaaea. If aat ranger enter* the court of the houae unexpectedly, he will see a nnmlier of ladies, both old and young, sitting in the verandah, all induatrlonsly employed on some work spinning, some sewing or cmbroideriug, and one probably engaged in culinary operations; and if the at ranger be an unknown for eigner. the whole will rite hurriedly, and diaapjiear like a ooyey of purtidges, 'overturning wheels, stools, and anything else that may bo iu their way. " Tina, says a writer on Chinese customs, " was a fpßquent scene iu my earlier visits, but it gradually wore off when it was found I was a oivilized being like them selves. Those aame ladies afterward would ofteu ask be to sit down, and even net u chair for me, and bring me a cup of tea wttli their own fair hands ; aud while I drank my tea, they would go on with their work, laughing and chatting iiß frooly as if I hftd a thonwn>l miles away." GRAVE BUNKER*. U ha l.arh la Ik* MbaWsw st Ihr Tsaih ssS tlvaeall Ihr l.ssl Mrailaa alar* a( lha I sail*. Most of our citizens, say* the Han Krauciaoo FAKO, are doubt Ira* familiar with the uot uncommon spectacle of a Cliiueoa funeral. But few arc fully aware of lite incident* which are attached to the mortuary proceaaiuus and which re developeil at tlie burying grouud. li • ceutly some (act* in connection with the funerai rite* of the o<*lic population have come into the jxmscsmiou of an Keho reporter, and they are of sufficient in terest to Is- given to the piddle. One of tlie funeral custom* of these |euple i* to tukc to the grave of the dee***©d a Sllb stunlntl feiit, including IbuM article* l*ith edible and j*>table which tlie de funct moat affected while in the flesh. When a Wealthy and llll|S>rtallt Mon golian "shuffle* off thi* mortal coil," the feast is elalaimte, vsried aud plenti ful, including roast j->rk—generally a whole hog—chickens, duck, rice, gm or brandy, aud a few other article* tlie name* of which Lave uo eouivalent in our vernacular. The feast thus act oat upon tlie grave, i* renewed once a vear, until the bones of the dejwrted (jnolie are disinterred to be sent to China, there to mingle with the du*t of tlie empire. The reuewal of theae sulwtantial favora tegiu generally ill the first week of -, and continue* about two weeks. The nearest living male relative of the de ceased no matter how poor or lowly tlie latter may have lieen IU life- attends bi the mutter, and always some alight sub stantial tribute at tin* season l* placed upou the grave. During the continu ance of tins annnal festival hundred* of Chinese may tie aeen trotting aloug under the haul of a couple of lauiketa, or comfortably riding iu an express wagou toward that jrortmu of the cemetery which is allotted for the burial of the Chinese. During tlie two weeks in whicli thl* festival prevails there are in the graveyard tietween dawn awl dusk, generally lietween two awl three hun dred Cooliiw, each of whom has brought some offering. When to this is added tlie amount which is contributed at the time of the funeral, it will be seen that the total i considerable. The iiartim larw here set forth in regard U> this cus tom of tlie C)He are widely known among a erew which in thi* article may I* known as gmvevard wrecker*. Tliis class, which is ivi:ii|*ael exclusively of vagabond*, trotn|M awl tluevea, burrow in tin- day time m the lowest and moat wicked quarter of the town, and if no crimtual or vagaUmd adventure promis ing richer reward i* on baud, they skirt along the bonudane* of the cemetery at early dusk and, hiding in the shadow* and gloom, wait until tlie last Coolie watcher ha* vanished eastward, when the plundering commences, and tlie graves are systematically and thoroughly despoiled oi every article of food or value. Generally the gin—the favorite tipple of the Coolie*—is seised first ; ami then such article* of food a are placed on the grave are appropriated. Often there is a dispute among these grave wreckers, a* to the possession of the spoil* thus sacnligiously obtained, and quito often personal eooounU-rs ocrur lietween rival claimants of the came lot. Over the mounds which mark the grave* of the aaoemhliol dead, and iu the darkening shadows of night these fonl bird# of prey fight over the woaae*- a.ua of some trifle with a vmdiottvenca* which the aanrednoM of the place due* uot in the lenst alatc. Since tlie Chinese have noticed this despoiling of the graves of their dead the practice of placing any considerable quantity of food upon them has fallen into disnse, so that through the evil efforts of these grave wreckers t j-nrtml g*vd may follow, in forcing the Coolie int- • an abandonment of a heathen ish and su]w>rtitjoua rite. More Marine Monster*. Whatever may lx ultimately decided Mu> the existence or uou-existonce of the sea wrjKuit, it w*m plaih that there exist at the l*>tt. >iu of the w* monsters quite equal lv worthy of the nam# of le viathan. Tlie most'hidaou* and gigaatio of these denizen* of the deep sea of wlneh tradition *|eak* belong to the starfish or octopu* specie*. and it waa tne bodies, or rather fragmeuta of lodi< a, of creatures >f Una aort which were col lected and placi-d in the museum* at Utrecht and Amsterdam after the storm* <d 1(39 and 1790. Professorßtcentraep, who i* an authority in these matter*, <ic*rnt>ei n sen monater which waa tlirown ashore in ISM, the h#a<lof which waa na fat aa that of a robust child. Eight year* later, Uie captain of a amall French WMU 'I claimed to have seen off the oast of Tencnffe another of these creature*, more than fifteen feet long, without counting it# huge arms. Thi* hiat waa swimming or floating at lbs time on the top of the water, and a chase enaued, hut without any further *noc<a than that of tearing off and securing Home morsel* of the flua and akin. I-ost vear, howrtar, during the tremendon* sb>rtn of September, it seems that a complete eperimon of a similar prodigy waa cant aahore in Newfonndlond. A deecription of it i* giveu by the Journal WuMtrr, wherein- it appear* that it wan no lea* than nine feet long and six feet in oircutnfereuee, and bad the arm* or leeler* cowered with aome '2,00b *ticker* of an lucb each iu diameter, two of the arma Wing aa much aa twenty-eight leet long. When the brute waa firat found it wit* atill alive, and waa glaring sav agely with eye* which were literally like those of the fabnloua dog*, a* Dig aa aauoera, measuring five or an inehe* aeroaa. It waa at thi* time of a dark red color, bat in a very few minutes after Wing left high and dry it died, and the olor Itoth of its body and of it* limla at once faded awnv to a dull white. Only one thiug i* wautmg to the account in the Journal Mu*tr, and that i* a state ment what Itecame of the fiali when captured, and where ao valuable a cttri ositv i* now to be seen on exhibition. < ein|iaratire Value of Woods. It ia a great convenienee to know the comparative value of different kinds of wood for fuel. Hhellbark hickory is re garded aa the highest standard of our forest trees, and calling that 100, other trtwsn will compare with it for real value as fnel for bonae purposes aa follows : Shell bark hickory, 100 ; pignnt hickory, 95 ; white oak, 84 ; white aab, 77 ; dog wood, 75 ; scrub oak, 73 ; white hazel, 72; apple tree, 70 ; red oak, 67 ; white 4>eech, 65 ; black birch, 62 ; yellow oak, 60 ; hard maple, 50 ; white elm, 58 ; red eediar, 56 ; wild cherry, 55; yellow pine, 54 ; chostut, 52 : ytdlow poplar, 51 ; , butternut aud white birch, 43 ; white pine, 30. It ia worth bearing in mind that in wooda of the aame species there ia a great difference, according to the soil on which thev grow. A tree that grows an a wet, low, rich gTonnd will tie leas solid anil loss durable for fnel, ami therefore of a leas value than a tree of the #ame kind that grows on a dry and poor soil. To the ordinary pur chaser oak is oak and pine is pine, but for home use, the tree grown on dry up land ami standing apart from others is worth a great deal more. A Hack-sewing machine has been in vented at Napa, Cal. It cost $3,000, ■ml took the maker ten months to per fect it, bnt with two men it can turn out eight thousand sacks a day. TERMS: $'2.00 a Y?ar, in Advanoe. The Arms of Great Britain My young readers have donbtieas often oliaerved upou familiar objects, such as imoks, china aud steel ware, etc., the de vice of a lion and a horae (sometimes represented as a unioorti) supporting tietween them a shield, aunnoiinted by a crown. On Hie alneld are certain divi sions called "quartering*," iu one of which you will obeervs two Uooa aud a horse. Attached to Uie whole is the motto, tHru rt man rffoW,— Kiskrli words, mhuas meaning is, " Ood and tny right." If y.u inquire, you will lie told that this device is the " ooat-of -arms " of Great Britain,—aa tlie eagle, shield and olive branch is that of the United Ktales, —and that all articles thus marked are of British manufture. In old tunes the national symbol of England was tlie rose, of Scotland the thistle, of Ireland the shamrock or clover. When England claimed Ireland and Scotland, these three were aniled on the British royal shield, as we find them in the tune of Queen Kbxabetb. On a victory over Franoe, the ayinlml of Fiance, a unicorn, waa aiao added, the unicorn wearing a chain, to denote the subjection of Fraud- to England. When a new sovereign *uooeed to the crown, lie lias a right to place his own family oont-of-artn* on the royal shield of Great Britain. George the Find did thia. The two lions and Ihe white tiorae, which you see on one of tlie quartering* is the coat-of - arms of the Guelphs, who were duke* of lirtiuwiok and Hanover in Germany. It is therefore called the arms of the House of Brunswick, and it I* about this that 1 now design to tall you. \te read in history thai when the groat Charlemagne conquered the northern countries, one of the Saxon loader*, named Wittikind, refused to submit to him, and that, in consequence, many bloody battles were fought, where in tlie Saxons iore in the van a tall nt>le surmounted by a wooden tionse's head. Thia was tlimr euaigu; and wiieo they afterward beoainc more civiluu-d, th<-y retaine-1 the same -niblem, —a white horwe paintetl upou a black ground —which remains to thia day the stand ard or banner of the little kingdom of Saxony. In the year Bfil,— just about one thousand year* ago,—Bruno, the sou of a Saxon king, founded a city in Saxony which he called after himself, Brunonu Virus, now known as Brun*wick. He returned as the standard of Brunswick the white horwe of Saxony, and thus it remained until the end of the three suc ceeding centuries. About tliat time the reiguing prince of Brunswick was a cer tain Henry Guelpb, a leader in the Crusades, noted for hi* atrength and daring which acquired for him the title of " Henry th* Liou." This prince refn*cd to own sllegiauce to the great Emperor of G<Ttoanv, Frederick Bar tiarossa. He declared himself indepen dent, and as a token of defiant** set up a great atone lion in Brunswick, and had the *am symbol placed upon hi* stan dard, two hoti* supporting a shield be neath the white horse. Thus yon know the origin of the Brunswick ooat-of-arms. But liowoame the banner of a small German country to be adopted on the arms of Groat Britain? This I will now explain About the voaa 1650, tlie tneu reign ing Dake of Brunswick, afterward also Klert- >r of Hanover, married the grand daughter of king Jatne* the first of England. Their eldest ami was named George L*ai*. When, on the death of Anne, the English wer* in want of a MKftwiaor, they looked about among tlx>*e nearest of km to the royal faanlv and d**ided to choose thi* grest grandaon of King James I. Thus it was that George Louta Gnelph—a Saxon German—came to be King George the First of England, and this was how the '* Ik o and norne " arms iff Brnnswick ami Hanover came to 1* also part of the arm* of Great Britain. Hi* snooenaora were George the Hocond, George the Third, (against whose rule the American colonies rebelled i, George the Fourth, William aud lastlv Queen Victoria, the present queen, who is grand-daughter to George the Third. Tims y*u under stand how Queen Victoria it descended from the pr.tioe* of Brunswick ;—how she happ , us to be of German instead of English blood, —and why her uame is Guelph.— St. XifAola*. The Slinging Tree. Though the tropical scrubs of Queens laud are very luxuriant and beautiful, they are not without their dangerous drawbacks, for there is one plant grow ing in them that is really deadly in ita effects—that is to say, deadly in the same war that one would apply the term to fire, a*, if a certain proportion of any one's body is burnt by the sting ing tree, death will be the result. It wo" Id W as safe to pas* through fires as to fall into one of these trees. They are found gmwiug from two to three inches high to ten and fifteen feet, iu the old ones the stem is whitish, and red berries usually grow on the top. It emits a Cnliar and disagreeable smell, but i* t kuowu by its leaf, which is nearly round, and having a |oint at tlie top, is jagged all round, the edge like the nettle. All the leares are large—some larger than a satto^ " Sometimes," says a traveler, "while shooting tnrkevs in the acrub* I have entirely forgotten the atinging tree, till warned of its close proximity by its smell, and have then found myself in a little forest of them. I was only once stung, and that very lightly. It* effect* are curious; it leaves uo mark, but the pain is maddening, and for month* after ward the part, when touched is tender, in rainy weather, or when it gets wet in washing, etc. I have seen a man, who treats ordinary pain lightly, roll on th ground in agouy, sfter l>eiug stung, and I have known a horse ao completely mad. after getting into a grove of the trees, that he rushed open-iuouthuU st every one who approached him, and had to be ahot in the acrnb. Doga, when stung, will rush about, whining piteous- Iv, biting pieces from the affe *ted part. The amall atinging trees, a few inches high, are as dangerous a* any, being ao hard to nee and seriously imperiling one'a ankles. This scrub is usually found growing among palm tree*." Horse-Shoeing. In the United States, England and France, the luirse-slioer simply takes the horse's foot on his knee to shoe it This depends to some extent on the uatnre of the bri>ed of horses, which in some coun tries are, on the average, more shy, and mint of them eoukl not well be treated in this way. Tbns, in the Netherlands, and in parts of (Germany, the horse ia placed in a uarniw atoll, where short chains are attached to the uprights; then one of these chains is placed around the horse's ankle and the foot lifted and tied up to a convenient height for the smith to do his work. In Turkey and Servia the horse's head is held by one man, an other holds the leg on his arm, while the third operates on the hiot. In Russia the horse is placed iu a square cage, made of rough wooden planks, and is strapped around the belly with wide leather straps attached to cross bars of framework; his head is also safely tied, the foot is fixed to a stoke in the ground and ia held bv an assistant, while the i smith nails on the shoe, NUMBER 4. WAR MX MUMMIED YKABA AWO. Tkr NIMO l ane ml jMsSta. Kmpmrmr ml lbs O*R KIIIOM NHIIM Hr mm Hrlid Kills* I* Tlu YMf. Tlie destruction of life and property tlm* far dnring the actual Eaateru war has been immense, even according to the lowest figure* of both Russian and Turkish iiflb-isl report*. But, even pat ting the Runaisn losses at Ml ,000, it sug gest* the chsnges which civilisation has ■lowly wrought in mankind whose natural stale Hob lis declared to be war —when we contrast with it the almost incredible waste of blood and treasure during the Fee tern wars waged by J eng ine Khan, in the twelfth and thirteenth conturies. Yiseugei, the father of that fierce and inighty conqueror, rejecting a title of honor which the Kin Kmpemr of China offer*-. 1 him, styled himself Emperor of the (treat Mongol*. The Mongol*, of which he was a typical representative, aa his sou was to a still higher degree, are first mentioned in the Chinese His tory of the Yueu Dynasty," A. D. 61H 9Uf, when, and for a long time sub sequently, they were subjects of the Turkish tribe of llnn.g-u.ua. They afterwards transferred their aUegianoe to the I.urn and Kin dynaaties of China, until, under Yissugei, they established their indejietidence. They had not only the vices of a nomadic, fighting race, but also many of its rude virtues. These they ought have communicated to their vanquished foes had they not almost in variably slain them, cutting then, down root and branch. Tlicir distingntailing characteristic was the brate, passionate foror which deeLruys but cannot upbuild, and which although too generally idol icea even in this civilised age, ia always, with all its fuss and noiae, vastly inferior to the alient, enduring influence of in tellertnal and spiritual force*. Tiaaogei, ou returning fiom a victorious campaign in 11&4 against the chieftain Tetnuhn, whom he had captured and put to death, learned thai his wife had givuu birth to her firsi-iiorn son. On examining the infant, a piece of clotted blood was Found clinched in hi* fist, snd the superstition* Mongol named him Temujin, in memory at the vanquished Tartar chief. Tins the future conqueror u stained with blood at his very birth. When thirteen year* old Temujin inherited bis father s throne and sword. He acquired at length undisputed sway over the tribes from the Argun to the Irtish. On his return in 1206 from a •uoeteaful raid into the kingdom of Ilia, he held a great Durbar St the source of the Onon, and caused himself to be proclaimed Jengbi* Khan, or Very Mighty Khan. In 1309 he made another incursion into His. Not long afterward, when an envoy of the reigning Kin Sovereign announced his master's acces sion, Jenghiz vouchsafed DO reply, but " spat on the floor, and mounting his horse rode away." He now began a career unparalleled since the victories of ancient Rome. At Bukhara, one of the numerous cities which he pillaged and destroyed, he called himself "the scourge of God." As such be *we©t over the fairest portion of the earth, devastating and depopulating it. Even in retreating through conquered provinces, Jengbix, "as bloodthirsty after the battle as in the heat of the fight, left behind him a trail of blood." Brieflv to sum up the rest of his terrible story, he pursued with relentless energy snd unsurpassed cruelty his exterminat ing conquests in Central Asia, in North western India, in Eastern Russia, and in China, where, in 1280. after a struggle of fifty years, the Moogols became mas ters of * the whole empire. Jenghi* himself died on the 18th of August, 1227, in the mountainous region of Lin pan, at the age of sixtv-six. His body wsa re moved into Mongolia, and in order to keep his death secret, the escort killed every ooe they met oo the road. "Aa a fitting clone to his murderous career, forty noble and beautiful girls shared bis tomb, that they might wait on him in the land of spirits." Mr. Hovrorth, in his " History of the Mongols, from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century," eulogise* Jenghiz aa a greater leader and statesman than either Alexander, Napoleon, or Timonr. Bnt, before the close of the fourteenth century, the Khans who succeeded him were eotn pletelv driven mt of China, and of the great Empire which be founded, nothing remains but hideous ruin*. Even Mr. Hovrorth admits tiiat it doe* make one hide one's face in terror to read thaAom 1211 to 1223. 18,470,000 human beings perished in China and Tangut alona at the bands of Jenghi* and hie followers ! Such was war six hundred years ago. A Man < named In a !t!s*t Furnace. A frightful accident occurred at the work* of Messrs. William Wlutwell A Co., pig iron manufacturers. South Stockton, England. About eight o'clock the hopper of No. 3 furnace was charged with ironstone, etc., by a man harned James Higgins and other workmen, ami in order to allow the material to tall into the furnace an attempt was made to lower the bell—a large conical-ahaped apparatus, which fits into the ring or bottom of the hopper—about two feet iuto a broader spacw. In consequence of having been raised too rapidly (n the previous occasion the bell had become tightly jammed in the upper |>art of the ring, and could not I* moved. Two or three expedients were tried without effect, and ultimately Higgins procured a large hammer. Heaped on to the bell, and struck it a blow. The apparatus immediately sank into the broader space, and Higgins unfortunately went with it. A groan was heard, but nothing oould be seen of the poor fellow, he having Cwed with the material beneath the 11 into the furnace. The blast wax at once thrown off, and a powerful current •f air forced in, but the horrible smell which rose proved that the poor fellow's bodv was being rapidly consumed, and not the slightest portion, of ©onrae, was recovered. The burial service of the Roman Catholic Church, to which the drowsed belonged, was read by the Rev. Mr. Shanahan on the top of the furnace shortly after the accident. The deceased was a married man, and leaves a widow and several children. The Pocock Brother*. The Chatham and Rochester (Eng.) .\>tr says: A beautiful memorial tablet has been erected at Upnor School Church by a friend in remem brance of the brothers Edward and Francis John Pooock, who died in Africa. The tablet bears the following inscription: "In memory of Edward Pocock, buried at Chinya, January 17, 1875, aged twenty-two years; and of Francis John Pocock, his brother, aged twenty-seven years, drowned in the Congo on June 3, 1877 (sons of Henry ami Ann Pocock), who was born in this village of Tlpnor and educated at the National Schools, Frindsbury, faithful ly aliured the perils of their leader, Henry M. Stanley, in the Anglo- American expedition, and perished in Africa, aiding to complete great dis coveries and to bring light to the people that Bit in darkness; also, of Francis Rich ard Pooock, uncle to the above, born July 80, 1819, at Upnor, lost in the Arctic Expedition, under Sir John Franklin, which left England May 19, 1845." The tablet has been executed by Mr. Dawes, of Strood. Chinese Maxim* ad PTAWW. •Bin fine* rami* do 004 go far. Raillery Im the lightning of calumny. It in the rich who want most thing*. (Uvmvmy th# emok* of friendship. Attention to nll thing* is the econo my of virtue. Ail i* kwt when the people f*r th less then poverty. He who let* thing* be given to him i* not good *t taking. Who ie the greatest liar ? He who ■peek* most of himself. Men may bend to virtna, bnt virtna cannot bend to men. One may do without mankind, bnt ooe ha* need of a friend. The oonrt ia like the see-—everything depend* upon th* wind. One fwrgiva* everything to him who forgive* himself nothing The pleasure of doing good ie the , only one that never wear* out TTje tree overthrown by the wind had more branches than route. Receive your thoughts as guetea and treat your deetre* khe children. One never need* onc'a wita eomacU m when one lias to do with a tool For him who doaa everything in it* proper time, ona day ie worth three. lire lee* Indnigenee one ha* for one * self th# more on* may have for uthecw. He who wiahsa to secure the good of other* haa already secured hi* own. A fool never admire* himself *e mnoh aa when be baa committed aotae folly. Tower* are measured by their shadow, and great men by those who are envious of them. He who had* pleasure in vies, and pain in virtue, iaa novice both in the one and the other. The truths that we least wish to beer are those which it is most to our ad vantage to know. The wise man does not speak <>f all lie doe*, but he doe* nothing that aea oot be spoken of. We moid do quickly what there is no hurry for, to be able to do slowly what demand* haste. What a plea*ore it is to give! There would lie no rich people if they were capable of feehng this. The way to glory is through the palace, to fortune through the mariuA, to virtue through the deeert. The rich find relations in the most re mote foreign coontries; the.poor not even is the bosom of their own families. Virtue doe* not give talents, but it sup plies their piaac. Talents neither give v irtue nor supply the piece of it. The prison i* abut night and day, yet it is always full; th* temple* ai* always ■pec, and yet yon find n* one in them. If the heart does net go with the head, the beat thought* give only the light. This aa why acience is eo little persnaaivv and probity eo eloquent. Whoever make* * gra*t fuss about doing good doea very little; be who wishes to be seen and noticed when he is doing good will not do it leog; be who mingle* humor and aapnee with it will do it badlv; be who only think* of avoiding faults and reproaches will never acquire virtue*. X# Lab*r-Nai lag Device* far Her. "Then you don't want a dotoea wringvr to-iay ?** as id the man. "No, I don't," replied the woman. " Times are too bard to think about it- Here it ia the middle o* winter, and me with my summer bat yet. I think I see myself buying a clothes-wringer, and goin'barebesdrtltill next summer. Not much." " Bui I can sell you one on weekly pavmenta," put in the man. " Give it to* vou at the wholesale price, and let rou" pay a dollar a Seek ou it In that "way von wouldn't fed it, and before you knew it, von'i have it all paid for, and be getting the use of it all the time. Ain't that fair enough ?" " I'm not finding any fault with your terms." raid th* woman. "But do I want to hide all the money where it can't be seen! A clothes-wringer wouldn't look well propped up in a front window, would it? Six dollars ia right smart o money, and I could get a hat with it that would just mors'n make the plasterer's wife wish die d stayed in the old ooun- urged the man persuasively. " ta.ifk of the hard work it would save you, and besides it's dirt-cheap at the price. No twistin' your fingers out of joint if you have one o' them. Shall we call it a trade V " Not if I know myself !" returned the woman. " Why, sir, with six dollar* 1 could almost get * clo*k that would make nearlv every woman oo the square catch cold'peeping through the door crack, and I have my mmd oo a piece of alpaca that could be sent borne to me for about thai figure, that would take the peace out of every family within seven door* each way. * I don't spend much monev these hart! times, but when I do, I want to get a little satisfaction out of it. So vou can move on with your aqueezui 1 machine, an' sell it to tome woman who hain't got no pride about her," and die slammed the door in his faoe._fWin.wrri Brrakfati TabU. Triple Tragedy In Artisan. J. E. Stevens, in • letter from Haek berrr, Arizona, aava : " I came over here*and found the camp in n fever of excitement over a terrible tragedy that had reoentlv been enacted. Rob White, whom TOO remember, had TORN'' word* with a stranger named Frank Mohiel, about a trivial matter, which reeulted in White's resuming the oootroverer next day. White attempted to ahoot lleNiel, who knocked htm down, disarmed him, and, upon his begging for his life, led bKm to the saloon and told him to go about bis business. Charlie Rice, whom von also remember shortly after ward came into aamp. and approaching Mehiel. to whom be was unknown, be emptied his six-ahooter at him, five shots taking effect ; death ensued in a few hour*. The eitixens turned out en msMr to arrest the murderer ; a fight ensued. Rice was badly wounded, but i of using to submit, was hanged bv the ueek from the ridge-pole of the black smith shop, where he remained till next morning. In the meantime White at tempted to escape, but soon fell dead, pierced with bullets. McNiel told White when he led liim into the saloon that he left him among his friends and desired him to stay there, as he sought no trouble with any one." The Electric Light. The first experiment with the electric light in Berlin, wax made recently, in the new synagogue in Oranienburg street, before a large crowd of people. In the court-yard of the building a sta tionary apparatus foruubed the light, which was conducted over the roof into two of the five round windows, whence the light streamed down on the syna gogue below. The effect was astonish ing. The light was so brilliant that it illuminatedthe gallery and the remotest corners of the edifice. The splendor of the light was vivid, but not offensive to the sight. In comparison with gas, the result is as fallows : Gas, per hour, sls ; the electric light, $1 for the same time. The apparatus costs several thousand marks. The synagogue was also lit up outside bv the'eleotric light, bringing it ont as bright as day, and producing s most magical effect. Gas burned along side of the electric light looked pale, and was, as it were, thrown into the shadow RuskUN Captures. Le Monde Rusee has ocmpiled, from official sources, a summary of the officers, men and artillery captured by the Rut. sians during the war. The following is the table, to which the official figures from Plevna have been added : Officer* Cannon. Pacha*, and Men. At Ardahan...... 92 1 1,000 At Nikopoli*. . ... 90 2 7,W>O At Ooruv Dubnik.. 4 1 At Tebsch S 1 5,000 At A lad}* D*gh 49 8 7.00® At Dsve Bovan Pass 40 1 At Port Hafix - - At Ears 550 5 17,000 At Plevna 77 10 35,828 Totals. 701 29 <5.12^