PNM*. *T OROBLIS DB UT. A keen wind gleam*. and all th# ground In bare Mid oh*ppd with hitter ooid ; Th# rntu ar# iron ; fl*h ar# found In io# #ocas*d aa in a mold j Now frozen hill-top* aoh# with pain, And ahudder* tremble down aach *hy Dsap r notlot burro wing in th# plain ; Now mark the *ky. Kh# roftlr pall* a downy roll lV>for# ber clear Modn*a faoa i Thi*. falling *low, abroad doth trail Aoro** the wold a feather? trace beneath whose fold* lb* moaning aarth A*irop him tr#teh#a droamlly. Forgot both pain and *ummr'* mirth , S.xsthed by th# aky. —Sfntmrr't .V imiik The Old Sampler. t>at of the way in a corner Of our dear old attic room. Where bunch,> of herb* from th* hllliude Shake ever a faint perfutn*, , An oaken client i* standmg With h**p and padlock and key, Strong a> the ban 1> that made tt Ou the other aide of the Sea. When the winter day* are dreary And we're out of heart with life, Of it* crowding care* -wcry And *iek of it* re*tie** tnfe. We take a le**on in patience Prom the attic corner dim. Where the che*t tUI hold* it* tmanure*. A aariler. f uthful and sruu. Robe* of an antupie fashion, Idnen and lac and *tlk, lliat tun# ha* Unto! with natfron. Though ot.ee they were white a* aitlk. Womlcrful Uabx garnit-nU Itrvadervd with loving ear* - Ity flngvr* that felt the plea*ure, A* they wrought the ruffle* fair. A ►word with the revl rust on it. That dashed tit the battle tide. When from Islington to V rktowu Sorely men's ouU vrt re tried. A primed chapeau aud a buckle, A'd many a relic Sue; And *ll by Used the sampler. • Framed in with ts-rry and Tine, Faded, the senate of cauras. And duu i* the silken thread Rut I ihiui of the white hand* dimpled. And a childish sunny head. I'nr, here U a cross, and m teut-atiU-h, In a wreath of berrv and vine ; She worked i", a hundred year* ago. *' Elizabeth, aged nine." la. and out, in 'he sunahine The llttie needle dashed ; And in and out on the raiuy day When the merry drops down plaahevi. As close she sat by her mother - The little Puritan mud. And did her piece on the sampler. While the other e ihlrcn played. You are ssfe in the beautiful heaven, " Elisabeth. aged nine Hut. brfor* you went, you had trouble* Sharper thru any of mine ; Oh the gold hair turned with sorrow White a* the drifted snow. And your tears dropped here where I'm standing— On this rery plumed chape* u_ When you put it awy, its wearer Would never need it more, rt a sword-thrust learning the seerets, God keeps on yonder shore ; And you wore your grief like glory, You could not yield supine. Who wrought in your patient childhood, "Elizabeth, aged nine." Out of the way in a corner, With hasp and padlock and key. Stands the oaken chest of my fathers. That cams from over the sea ; And the hillside herbs above it Shake odors fragrant and fine. And here on its lid is a garland. To "Elisabeth. aged nine." For love is of the immortal, And patience is sublime, And trouble a thing of every day And touching every time ; And childhood, sweet and snnuy. And womanly, truth and grace. Ever can light life's darkness. And bless earth's loneliest place. —Mrt. M. E. ."idsjsw. A D3MESTIC CHAPTER. It waa a favorite expression of Mrs Msrne's, •• As long as a child of mine lives with me, no matter if she is as big as the house, she has got to mind me." Bat when girls have become perfectly indifferent to snch threadbare assertions an mnch. Hail Oliver Mayne been of a philoeophic torn of mind, he might have seen in all this tagging a sort of retributive jnstice for the woes of the fair s< x under the d"ap >tism of man, bat alas ! he was not ; so he read "Mr. Midshipman Easy," and, when lie dared, played truant and prowled aroand the water-front with ideas in his head. Yet in spite of all her inconsistencies, Ms. Mavne was a mother among a thou sand. What wonld she not do to push her daughters on in society ? So, while they Were brought up as much like fine ladies as was possible with her limited means, she was cook, chambermaid ami seamstress by tnrns ; they gave their best energies to the glide, the cream of their gotd nature to gentlemen friends, an 1 imbibing a taste for dress and fash on well nigh Insatiate. To snch a length had this motherly self sacrifice been carried that there had been months in Mrs. Mayne's life when Sunday was no more a day of rest than any other;and while the girls were rustling into church with their stylish suits she was aa likely as not shut up at home, sewing away for dear life on some finery for them. All this she would do uncomplainingly, but of little brief au thority she was extremely tenacious, and liked to be consulted \iy her girls on even the most trivia' occasions. As old as the human race, is the liking to have one's own way; so with these young rebellions spirits, nothing was so trying as t/> be obliged to say, "May I ?'* One Saturday, toward noon, the girls were in the parlor, under pretense of ousting and setting to rights that most impor'ant room. "I tell you what it is," said Midge, yawning most prodigiously, for she hail been out late to the theater the night before,"! think my plan is the best; just go on and make yonr arrangements without saying a word to ma. She will be angry, bnt what can she do ?" " Well, I don't know bnt what yon are right, Midge," returned Amie, musingly. " Of course," asserted Cecil, "since it is for your sake that we >ire hatching up this plot, Amie, you will have to shoul der the blame; but then we will back you—won't we girls?" Then they went up stairs, and ia half an hour these four had written, sealed and addressed twenty-five or thirty dainty letter notes. "Now," said Cecil, moistening the last stamp, and affixing it with bnsiness likc oelerity, " all we have to do is to get Oliver to post them. Yon go and call him Ee." " Where is he?" FUKD. KUHTZ, Ktliior and Proprietor. VOLUME XI. "Oh, out in the laek yard sawing wood, 1 gacsH," said (Veil, c sconcing herself comfortably iu a ciiair with a book. Great reader* of romance they all were. When there was no immediate diver uou offered in the way of promenade or hall, owe or the other t>f Uie sinters had been known to pass a whole lay at a time, oblivion* of everything except the deed* or misdeed# of aotne hero of the Strathmore type, " I*>ok here. OUT," aatd Atuie, sweet ly, wheu her brother had eome up into her room: " I want you to do something for me, like a dear gixxl fellow." " Whut'a up now ?" axked Oliver, the more gruffly, xoau*e he knew hia aiater hail a motive for pleaamg him. j " 1 want you to post these letter* for j me without letting ma know." " Why don't you pout 'em yourself ?" drawleil he, nngraciotialy, turning om en velope after another to study the ad dressee. "O, you know well enough, OUy ; it doe* uot do (or youug ladies to run out on the street without fixing up now, it dou't matter about boys a bit. "That's what yon always say," re turned her brother, remembering the many timea he had been left out at the ellnor because iu Mrs. Mayne's system of household eoonomv the girls lisvl always to be aupplied first. Hut Amie kuew well how to avert any unpleas iut argument when it waa politic to do ao. "Never mind—see here," said she, slipping a small piece of money into Ins hand. He became perceptibly bettor nature*! on the moment. 1 "Say, Amie,** he cried, still intent on the envelopes, " I'll bet my head von are doing all this on aoxract of Mr Pick-" He got no further, for his sister, tam ing red as a rot*', hustled him out of the door. How had he spied that name, when she had put Mr. IVkeus' invita tion iu the very middle of the packet ? Unconscious of these mschiuatious, Mrs. Mayue was drudging away in the kitchen with tliot intense ataairptmn in her work wliich denote* the tli<>roiig)> manager. Amie found her over the irouinc table. " Mother," said she, " I should like very ranch to hav? some company hen next Wednesday evening." Mr*. Mayne. who had l>een admiring tlie petticoat just finished so satiofacton ly and huug on the clothes-horse to air, turned alrotit sharp! v. " Amanda," she ex:-laimed, " you arc a fool." Whatever luxiirv Mr<. Mayne denied herself, she certainly did not deny her self the luxury ot plain speech. "Urn sure I dou't know what you mean by that, ma." ",I tell you it is not to be*thought of —not for one moment," replied her raoxher, punctuating her sentences with vigorous thum|>s of the smoothing iron. "I've got my plans all laid out for next week." " What is there to do on Wednesday ?" "Mrs. Nesbett As coining to cut and baste yonr polonaises, and I want to get a g.-si day's woik out of her; so you see, Wednesday evening, of all evenings, ia the worst for ootnpsny." Amie naturally wished now, that she had not been so hasty about sending the invitations. However, regrets were use less, so she said: " But, mother, why need that inter fere—" Her mother cut her short pereinp torilv. "llon't argue with me, Amanda. Go along and get your worsted work, snd tell Essie I want to hear her practicing nght away." Strange to say. Amie wasn't so cour ageous a* usual ; so she idled about I without reuewiug the forbidden topic, and having looked into the small square mirror hanging by the sink more from : hsV*it than from inclination, thought " What * hideous complexion this glass gives me," and walke 1 out of th t room. The moment she sbowe I her face to iher sisters, they knew she wan disap pointed. After she had detailed her conversation with ber mother, and had l>eeii rated for not bring bolder, Midge cried spiritedly ; " Never mind, Ami, I'll go right out and see ma myself." She was the m >*t demonstrative of the family, was Midge ; so she stole up behind her mother an i slipped her una around that ample wsist. Mrs. Mayne was too warm and buv to be in a tend ermood, so, without turning alxrat she 1 said ; " That's yoti, Margaret, I know yonr tricks ; go along." "Yon look so tired, ma; do Ift me help von." " You cau't do this—go along." "O, yon never think anylxxlv nan do anything bt vonrself!" laughed Midge. " Because it is so much easier to do a thing than to bother showing somebody else." Nevertheless Midge e>axee viewed from a purely fuminme stand point. Of all the aiatera, A:uie'# temper seemed ti be the lu-iat rasped on that eventful t\ > lung. Everything went wrong Willi her, " My gtvahmaa, Kmii Mayuel" .-aid she, scrambling breathlessly arouud, poking under chair*, the Iwal. the bu reau, ami even looking half demented luto her bandliox, " f do lieheve you have got oil one of mi Oxford tie* ty nuatake." •' No ancli thing, Anne," replied the ' Matin tvldi ecMsi, aho wa* at that moment ailbjeettug her eye-laxhesto* mysterious treatment which new*Mi*ted the making up of a horrible face, " mine ai-ra to gether m the shoe-bag." "Come, do get out of the way, Ea," ' another voice Midges -was hoard complaining. " I want the glass to do my hair ; you've been long enough put ting oil that black stuff to make yunroelf into u Uott utut." " What I want to know, girls," said Atuie, who had found her shoe in the work-basket, and was now struggling with an obstinate lacing, "is whether any of you had sanae enough to light the gas in the hall ?" " Xobodv in this family pretends to be smart \>ut you, Auiie," respouded Cecil, saucily. "Then go down stairs this iuataut and see to it," exclaimed the elilest sister, peremptorily. " Here I am only half dressed, and every time there is the least noise it gives uie stteli a start ex jxvting to hear the Itell. 1 have a sort of feeliug that Mr. IVkeus will be here early." Cecil, who hated to he ordered about, scolded ; •' Oh, bother yon and your old Pick ens!" but she threw a shawl about her and went hastily down stairs. " I suppose ma wouldn't go to the door," eontiuued Atuie, "if the bell should ring forty times before any of us ate ready—here. Midge, hold these crimping irons iu the gas for me." In spite of all these wearying annoy ances. could tllVre have been jmssiblv a sweeter, more artless face thau Atule's when she had coaxed the little tendril* of hair low down ujx)n her foreSt ad ; had kuotted her silken tie aud turned to go down stairs? She was iu gocxl season after ail, and had full five minutes quite to herself in which to collect her thoughts. "Yea," said she, " I have made up my amid. It may not be so romantic and all that, but 1 am sure plenty of girls would jump at the chance. . I must tell him K-fore hand that he must not expect me to give up the glide and everything —" here the bell jieale 1 tbruu-th the house, titid as Anxie ran hastly to the front do-r her heart seemed to fiutter in her throat. Her first guest w as,as she had surmised, Pickens. He stepped into the hall, and as he hung his hat and overcoat upon the rack he glanced inquiringly al*ut. None of these roguish sisters were in sight— ouly Anne, l'-oking not unlike a dewy rose had. He was a gentlemanly person of fifty or thereabouts, with beard and hair well grin led ; nor iu his strongly m irked features did one discover the least hint of a susceptibility to rounded curves aud bright e yea —yet these had taken him captive. One glimpse of his face and Amie knew intuitively that a decisive moment in her life had come. Nor was she mistaken, for Mr. Piokormtook the white hand she slyly gave him, aud held it close to his immaculate shirt-front sud whispered : " Mine, Amie The ridiculous liell sou tiding once more with startling empliasis, cut short the first kiss. Ijater in the evenlug, rilien the parlor wus all alive with vivacious conversation aud music, wheu everybo.lv seemed to lie entert lining everybody, one #ft-r another, the four girls slipjied out into the kitchen, whither Mrs. Mayne had withdrawn herself directly after dinner. Amie was tne last to go. She knew that her aistcra intended making a united appeal to their mother to forego her angry resistance, and to assist them in pleasing their gnoats; and *h thought, "I am anre ma will be melted at once, if I can whiaper two or three worda in her ear." A Unfortunately, when Amie got to the hall door she heard loud voices in angry discussion. From parlor to kitchen is always a sharp transit ion ; but was there ever so . marked a contrast between the two rooms as in Mrs. Mayne's house that night? "There's no doing anything with ma," said Ccci ; " she's just as obstinate as the Sphinx." " Yes ; everybody lias been asking foi 'her," said Midge, ponting, "and won dering why she didn't come into the parlor." "Sobesnre—and I would have told them she is sick, but likens not if I did, she would come popping in the next minute, saving that she never felt lictter in her life," added Essie. Then Mrs. Mayue broke iu angrily "Don't want another word from you, Esther. I've caught von at yotir tricks, miss. Didn't you flunk I had any eyes in ray head when von were giv.ng Oliver monev in the hall t enigld ? ' " Well, suppose I did," retorted Essie, indignantly; " I can't see people coming Ito the In use and go away without a crumb to eat." "That's just what they will do," said the mother, rapping her knuckles furi ously on the table at which she had lawn sitting with her sewing. " Didn t Itell yon that there shouldn't l>e any supper b -night ? And *as for tampering with your brother, and making him asdis ' i.lifldient as yon girls are, that I will not permit!" " You don't mean to say," exclaimed Essie, nearly inarticulate with anger, " that you stopped Oliver from going out ?" " That's just what I do mean to say." Mrs. Msvne's temper had now risen to such a pitch of exasperation that, not withstanding the fact that since her en trance Amie hod not censed to pour gen tle pleadings into her mother's ear, the good la iy felt she must have ivitne fuller vent than mere words. Her finger itch ed to box somebody's ears. Just as she i. lanced about from one to the other, poor unfortunate Oliver, who had bean sitting on the lounge behind his mother, in swinging his foot, acci dentally kicked his mother's chair. Quick us n flash she wheeled about on him and gave him a sound slap. " I ain't doin' nothin'," he oriel, sharply, clappiDg to his geography to hide the ' Claude Duval' he had been slyly reading. " You needn't take it out on me because you are mad at the " Things have come to such a pass, said Mrs. Mayne, bitterly, "that! never expect to take any jieoce or comfort in this house any more Just then there came a gentle rapping at the hall door. The girla' hearts stood still. Was i | some guest coming out to be insulted ? was their mother going to shame them forever ? i " Let me in," said a cheerful voiee at > i the sonnd of which poor Amie's breath i came quickly. O, horrible! If her mother should be disagreeable to Mr. i | Pickens 1 , I Neither Amie nor her sisters need ) j have feared. Human nature is many CENTRE IIA EE, CENTRE CO., FA., THURSDAY. MARCH 7. IB7K. r aided ; it linn its curious instincts. Angry as a mother may l>e with her own fich and Elood, she cannot tiauut their failings before o'her |M*>ple'a eyes. Hitter a* thv pill wa*. Mrs. Mnvue awalloWvd her wrath whole and walked ' to the door with a *milmg face. "Why, Mr. Pickens ! is that you?" aiud she, giving hiiu her hand. " 1 whs iifmnl you were going to be invisible all the evening," replied Mr. Pickeua, " ami 1 utade Iml.l to hunt you —besides, 1 want my Auae.' A sliiN'k went through Mrs. Mayne's triune. Mr. I'ickeua had told the whole story bluntly in those few worda, ami • magically a* a uictnri' sponged front n 1 slate Welti Amie'e Shortcomings wiped i froiu the tablet of Ittr mother's reiuem : bruuce, "I'm unit*," said she. tremulously, " I couldn't wish her i belter choice, Mr. lhckens; aml if she makes as g>*sl a wife nit she linn Iteeu U dsilgliter, Toil > will lie i happa man." The liltlt) disturbance w all forgot ' ten. The girls weut lm'k into the purler radiant, while Mrs. May lie ! dropjied a few salt tears as she brewed ' some delicious coffee for her itaughters' guests, and Oliver, harboring no resent, uient, sptsl to the baker's a* fast as his ' • legs could carry him. It was not until the guenta were all 1 gone, and the girls were alone together, that Ainie received her sisters' congratu lation s. The gaa flared over the bureau, piled with ribbons and crim]>iug-piua; braee ' lets aud shresls of ttiru curling papers; a I fringe of silken frit ties had fallen aor>wt tlie powder t*>x; then there were rulfles, brushes, cosmetics and comtst. Hut nobody minded the disorder in the least. Perched oil one bed, arrayed in the " prettiest uight-g< was under the sun." were the four girls, talking and talking, in spite of the lateness of the turnr. " There w.ll lie only three of us t. squabble Kir the looking-glass,'" said Midge, sighing. " And I su;'|sse we will have to go on paying for nse it that is eaten, and clothes that are worn out, while Amie will have no end of lovely dresses and Ism net a," ad-leal Essie. " You havt n't guessed the nicest thing of all that 1 shall have," laughed Amir. " Oh, I know," exclaimed Oeci, tri nmphantly; " yonr own way!" The Earliest Printing t ngraii d llrirk*. Engraved stamps are of very early origin, and may be regarded :.s the tiist pr>c,"ss of every method of prmting. Three thousand yora ago tie* engraving of forms for impressing seals ami ooiu was practiced with a skill scarcely anr passut not o elstsir ately as in Assyria. We have iteen able to procure cuts showing the face and buck of an old Egyptiau stamp, found in a tomb of The!***, which was probably used in " printing " brick* iu Hi >*o sarly ilays k and impreaaed it upon paper ; but alaa, there were yet discovered neither ink nor paper, and instead of this practice being improved and developed, it grsduallv fell into disuse, and has been almost wholly neglected for more than tweuty-tlve linn dmi years, in the very land where it originated. M,- 1,500,- OtWI.OOiI of iuhlthitnnta. Let us take the half as the more probable, and let us suppo-e the t.ibaeco leaves transformed into roll tolsieco. tobacco scrjM-nt is mskd which, with a diameter of two inches, nml following the direction of the equator, could wind itself around the earth thirty time*. Let us supp'ee tfiat the tobacco is formed into tablets similar to the chocolate tablets, and which, indeed, is the shntM* which the chewing tobacco of sailors takes, and we have a onlosaal pile worthy of beiug ]dived tieside the third largest of the pyramids of, Gizeh, that of tho Myker itios, nml as massive ami high as lliat old regal edifice. Let tis grind all tlie tobacco into snuff, and lot us pictnre to ourselves the sad case that an evil equi noctial wind, one fine morning, blows the snuff over the ocean, and showers it on one of our German states, we are , eertsin more than one of the Lilliputian stab-s would have much difficulty in recovering its existence by shoveling away the snnff. loliaren Plant. Absent Minded. A letter from Sew Preston, Gonn., to the Litchfield Knyairtr, contains this anecdote: A man who had been sort ing tobsceo for one of bis neigiilmrs, stopped at one of the stores on Ins way from work and purchased s pnir of shoes. He tlircadad liis dinner-pail upon his srro, took the shoes in the same hand, and with the other thrust deep in his breeches' pocket, started lor home. Having got opposite L)r. Ed's he missed his dinner-pail, and, thinking he had left it ai the store, back he went for it. A he went through the door it swung to, and hit the pail strung on bis arm. His only ejaculation was. "Thunder! I thought I left it!" He's tho same man who took his watch to New Mil ford to le repaired and two days afterward found it in bis vest pocket. Her Kronen}. Tlie dried apple of to-day has a hun dred yards the start of tb dried apple of ten years ago, but yet all people nre not wiibng to admit it. A Woodward avenue grocer was yesterday tryiug to induce* woman to buy a three-pound : package, instead of half a bushel of green apples, telling her that she would i | save money bv the operation. " Yes I might fsve money, and again i I mightn't," she noised. " I know you would," he urged. " But if I took home dried apples in stead of green, there would le no r ' parings for the children and no cores tar my husband to shew on during the long evening. And there's the worm-holes I —they're awful nioe for my canaries." ■ I She look green applet. —Free Pratt. UKKATKN lit IX THE TELEPHONE.. The lavrailoa at ** Ailaaia lias *•*■*• Trlrl-Sault 11, TraMMlllrd Mini I'haai arapblraMi MraUtrrrS. Hie At Inula (Gii.) fbn tlitutioM haa tin- following account of an invention which it attribute* *•• n rcanleut of that city : "We are not p. ....ittedat this time to ntate *|hm tlciillv ull the |Miiuts lie huigmg to the invention in question, hut we can say that an examination of of the working model leaven no rootu to doubt of it* suceesaful application for the |>nr|K>*c desigued. The geiitleuian of whom we iqicak haa carefnllv watched the progrtsntlig luoveiuenta bercUftre lueuljolied, ttUil from them he conceived the combination (or that in what he claims his instrument to be) whereby sound could 1m- telephouicall V trailS ttul ted and phoiiograpically registered m visible signs capable of eertain prompt trannlutioii into written language. Tin* seems, ut fir->t glance, an aliuoMt incon ceivable achievement, but a slight ref eramie to the uiethovl employeil should di*|ie! all dotibta. 'The Telephono graph' is the name of the uew combina tion, and it* |HHuts are us follows : " First —Telephone, ** in common use, for the transmission of the sounds of the speaker's voiee, "ttocond A telegraph instrument of the same nature a* the priutllig tale graph, whereby the sounds may Is* register.*! by pliomgrapUkc signs upon slqw of pa|ier, as iu the printing tele graph. " Third—A delicate and ingenious instrument which mdn-ates the olighta-st or loud<*>t I me*, aud pr>sluce currenta tiist ojwui the jiraove key that would tudicate them. " Ftiurth- Au alpha)wt of sounds ar ranged ujK.u phonographic principles, by which every combination of sounds and indication in Luguagc can Is* fully indiCntcl. " The entire machine is electric and automatic, and the phouogruphic combi nation*, made iu much nuialler shiqw than iu the most primary stage* of photography, are easily made by elec tric action and a* rapidly an the sounds are uttered. The main value of tin* in strument i* that it will do away with all nec.-** - .ty for telegraph operators, re quiring only one man in au office, and aliohsliiiig a vast amount of red-taiwism in the U-legrapby. Its greatest advant age, however, will tie to the n*wspa|er prt of its gn- it snccas and usefnlm-aa in the world's affair*." tnccdotcs of Yirtar Emmanuel. An English paper says: Of Vic tor Emmanuel, as of all |x>ptilar king*, great many anecdote* arc told. People take u interest in every, even the digbtc*t, peculiarity of such sover eign*. ami the late king of Italy hod a gre t many jiectiliarittes. He never ate iu public, for initauce He aat ont all slat- dinners, at wh'ch lie sa obliged to be present, with hi* h*nd* resting an the lull of hi* sword, without tasting anything, except, perliaj**, aoine trifie at d-saert. Hi* long and superabundant moustache# were the cause of this nb atcmk>n*nea*. ITe ma le up for it, h< *- ever, tn private, when he could biud Up hts obstructive* on each side of lua face without Ixvoming a public lsugtiing stock. H<* wsn uo gourmand, and lua contempt for tlie art of cookery wa* a oouriaut thorn in the side of the court cooks which, for them, deprived life of one tiKtf of its attractions. Nothing more depresses an artist than not to lx> appreciated at the value he seta u|xm him (elf. Victor Emmanuel's meal con sisted of meat dishes, and of tlioec he preferred game shot bv himself. Fnut and natir* wine completed the repast. In the Palazzo I'ltti, in Florence, he al lowed the state apartment* to remain empty, and installed himself in a couple of r>mia on the ground flr*r. He did the same at Rome in the Quinnal, where the whole palace was at the entire diap-isal of inquisittve stranger*. In spit" of hia well-known physical brav erv, he had b xu|>eratitious dread of the Quirmal, the former dwelliug of the jxqx-s. The first night after his govern men. wa* trati*fcrrivl to Rome be dared not sleep in the palace, but went to pa** the night inotyaita with a friend in the conntry. H *mokecn named afier their greatest minister, Cavour. The king was fre quently seen in the street# of Turin, Milan, Genoa, Florence and Rome. As it whs understood that he wa* out iw ••oguito no oue seemed to recoguize him, tlmngh every child knew him quite well. Like Haronn AI IWchul. he went by night aud alone into tlie pre*t and mo*t distant quarters of Turin. There he heard with his own ear* the opinions of Irs enbject#, and admired unhindered the beauty of eveu his moat lowly coun trywomen. We cannot close three rem inis<-ences without giving tba atory of the English correspondent who some vests ago went prowling around the Palazzo I'itti, anxious to get into the king's anartinent* *nd write a descrip tion of them. At last he went up to a gentleman who waa leaning against a aide door smoking, and asked him how he might lie able to get a Bight of the king's rooms. "C-me in," said the gentleman, who showed aud explained everything to him. He then invited him to ait down, offered lnm a cigar, and on his departure aliook hands warmly with him. It was onlv tome time after he had left the palace that it dawned upon tlie correspondent that the kin(j himself had been his guide and entertainer. Too Old Not long since tlie enterprising man ager of a theater cdHed upon Meis aonier, the faiiona French artist, and asked him to paint a drop-soene for hia theatre, and name his own terms. " Yoti have seen my pictures, then ?" naked Meisaonier. "Oh, yea," exclaimed the manager; "but it is vonr name—vour name—l want; it wifl draw crowds to my thea ter." "And how large is it you wish this curtain to be?" "Ah ! we will say fifteen metres by eighteen." The artist hxk up a pencil and pro ceeded to make a calculation. At last he bxiked up and said with imperturbable gravity: "1 nave calculated, and find that my pictures are valued at . 0,000 franca per metre. Your curtain, therefore, will cost you just 21,600,000 francs. Rut that is not all. It lakes me twelve months to paint twenty-five centimetres of canvsa. It will, therefore, take me just 190 veara to finish your curtain. You should have come to me earlier, Mouaieur; I am too old for the under taking now. Good morning." Till: m*-,\t hi: ut nil: dim. ' •••■ at a Krrfm TrtrlMrTla*4i la *•- •ut S I'umlli MaaalilrrMl * Mill* I.!•!'• I uuir ltraahi ia Jaallra. HeiiU-iiee of death ha* jttal Ixwu tin |xih<-tl on two men by the Dreadcn A* hizck, tot one i f the rooat #cu*atioial miml atrocious murder* of the century. ( August '46 th, Ouatav Tunger, the miller ot VogeMierg, was smoking his after supjicr pi|>* in froul of his null. It so* quite dark, but tke null m still busy, for a heavy stock of corn had to l>c ground up, and the clatter of the machinery echoed for out < u the hi rath leas summer night. Through tins i>ommotion the tuiller fancual he ootild distuiguiah aome one calling htm from be hind In* garden hedge, and approaching the barrier he ftniud hewn* not deceived. Two men were standing on the other side of the hedge, but before he could question them Uie mtixxle of m rifle was set iigaiuat his forehead, and a bullet went crashing through his lira n. Am he fell, stone dead, lua limp tiguit- was caught, dragged over the hedge, and thrown mto a drain which intersected the potato field from which the aasaa suis hai fired the fatal *hot. Ilia Isaly had las u scarcely thus di*|*Med of, wheu the figure of the murdered man'a work man, Ernest Itriuhardt, appeared in the diMr of the mill. One of the murderer* called him. ' What do you want? Who ia it f" demanded the Work man. " Mr. Tuuger, conic here; 1 liave found something," was the reply. I'ttarlv unconscious, lu-uihardt oalleil to his master's son, a lad of sixteen, to have au eye to the mill, and obevcal the fatal sninmons. As he reached the hedge two abota were fired, and he, too, fell a corpse. The asaa*iu then went systematically to work to rob the bodiee, removing eveu Uie shoes from their feet, and rifiiug their pockets of everything they contained. From Heinhardt's ears eveu a couple of almost valueless ear rings were violently torn. This task oo m pie tod. they dug a *hallow grave under the ledge with a spade which had been left there by a workman that day, and loaned their victim* it.. After filling the grave and neatly levelling the earth over it, they advanced to the m'lL Just a* they net foot on the lower step, young Tunger came to tlte door. In the dark uca* he mistook the figure* for those of Ilia fsUier and Heinbardt, and asked " What hsveyoti been doing?" " This," responded one of the mis creants, tiring rti hi* faw. The hid Ktaggered back with * shattered jaw, snd a moment later, was beaten down and literally jxmnded to death upon the threshold. His mother and little sister, the latter a cluld of nine, were in one of the 1* Jrooni*. The soiiud of the shots attracted the aiteD; tion of the little one, who *aid to her mother : " Wnat noise is tliat ?" " I do not know, child," re*j*>nded Madame Tunger. " (kt and *€*." The child spraug to obey, and ran into one ot the scoundrels in tlie dark pas *age outside the bedroom door. " It is yon; then, nana !" she cried. ■' Kill the accnrse*! brat 1" responded a deep voice, "while I attend to the old woman." Tlo-girl wa* seized aud thrust into a nvui whose door wa* locked on her, and, cronching there iu the darkneaa, she heard the sotiud* of a terrible con test in the next apartment. It was the straggle for life of her mother. Fierce and frightful wa* the struggle. After filing three nltot* lUto her. the axHUNMin* found the woman xtill clinging to life with tlie trnaritj of despair, and oue of them struck her over the head. Tlie force of the stroke lx*at the unfortunate woman down on ber knees. Then the girl heard tier give one great shriek, and the silence wa* ouly broken further by the muttered eurtw-* of the murderers, and a heavy thumping sotunL It w* the thumping of their ride stocks, with which the butcher* were bearing nt Madame Tunger * hraui*. In apite of her fright, the child preserved her presence f mux), and appreciated the uwraaity of identifving the murderers. In tlie partition oi plank which ae|w rated the room in which she wa- a prisoner, from the one in which her mother had met her end, was a crack, ll was so higli up, however, that it wa* only by standing on a chair, placed on the tied, that she could resell it Through it hlk- srw the men pluuJenug the rootn. Three thousand thaler* which her fattier kept in a bureau were taken. Then one ol the sheet* was re moved from the l**i ami every articie of value altont thrown into it. Tlie miller'* new Bandar suit, a heavy woolen petticoat his wife had on. even a pair of children's shoes were thrown into the heap, and then made into# large bundle. One man at lust took up this bundle and stumbled off under it, while the other, after breaking some furniture and piling it into a pyramid in the centre of the room threw the kerosene lamp into it, and without waiting to sec if it would burn, went out. The lamp only hurst, showering a nun of burning (81 over tlie liedatoad, which took tire, but was too hard to continue burning long. The house filled with xiuoke, nevertheless, aud the child lieatiug helplessly at the door of her prison, would have nndonbt odly suffixated hut for her own nady wit and bravery. Fiuding it iiu]M>Ksihle to open the door, she managed to smash the hx-k away with an iron bar, which was used to aeenn- :t on the inside, and wrapping lu-raelf in a blanket ahe .'ought her way through the smoke into the open air. The murderers had dragged tbe Ixxliea of hor mother and brother to a wixxlshed alongside of tlie mill door, and after throwing ttiera in had fired the structure. The flames of this conflagration awopt acroaa the doorway in a ahcet of Are, but the intrepid child rushed through it with no further injury than a few barna, aud made her wav up the little valley in which the mill lav, to the village shout ing for help, 'flie aroused neighlxira responded to the call, and a search wa* 1 made, but without definite result. No I traces of the miller and his workmen oonld be discovered, and the mnrderers had vanished. Tlie only description the child amid give of them wb that they were large, (aiwerful men, aud that one of them had onlv a finger and thumb on hia left band. Tlie absence of Remhnrdt, Ihe workmnn, directed suspicion to him. It wax telioved that he hud nmntored hi* master, and then, with some aaaoci atc, made the descent Upon tlie hofioe for the purpose of obtaining the monev he knew to be there. In Novemlier last, however, this theory waa disproved by the dieeovcry of the Ixxtie* in the potato field, far gone iu decompoaition, but still susceptible to identification. The little I girl had Ix-eu sent to her annt at Stutt gart, and was now summoned to assist at the examination. In eorniug from the railroad to the village, her aunt hired a vehicle from the inn at Krauthein at# tion. This wagon was driven by Johann Waber, a hoetler of the inn. In the course of the examination, this man ex hibited audi emotion that anspicion wax aroused. Once iier attention was direct ed to him, the child recognized him poai ' tivelv rh one of the murderers, and he was arrested. He denounced his accom plice at ouoe. The seooud murderer wax j iiia employer, the owner of the Kraut hein inn. Tuuger it seems bad stopped at tbe inn over night on his waa noma from I Dresden, with the 3,000 thalere, which TKHMB: #UJ.OO a Yoftr, in Advance. he had ilrawu from the bank there for the pursier of purchasing some laud, iu his [xi—uasum I u Ihe course of a carouse With hia boat he had exhibited tin* money, aud the latter, whose busiuea affsirs were eiabarraaaed, had determincil to iMiaseas himself of it. He called Welier to his aaoiatsucc. At first they contemplated rffeetiug their iiurfMau while Tuuger was at tire inn, but fear that they would be discovered deterred them Welier, who had lived at Fogels Is-rg, and kuew the country well, theii profxwed the plan which was ultimately carried out. Historical (sketch of liar Hold tola*. The following is a historical sketch of onr gold coinage: 1. I'lie double eagle, or twenty dollar piece. Coinage of Uie double-eagle wa* silt hoi need by the a.-t of March .td, IHSM. Its weight ia 61ti gruina. Its tiueue-s ia Skki. (Tliis tei hni -al form of eiprossiou mean* that RUO parts in a 1,(100 are imri nietal, lire ot)i*r 100 perto are alloy. I The total coinage of the twenty dollar gold piece up to June 30th, 1077, the close of the 'ant fiscal year, was fHO4,- 608,440. The amount is far greater than Unit of all the other coinage of the United htates. If, iu fact, ia the im |M*rtal emu of our couutrr, at once man sive, weighty aud regal in appearance. i. The eagle, or ten dollar piece. Its coinage was autlrorikcd by the act of Apnl AJ, 171*2. The weight was firwt established by law at 270 grama, luit was changed fort*-two year* afterwards, by the act of June 9Mb, 1834, to 268 grain#, where it has remained ever since. Its fineneaa wan, in the lieginuing, made 9!6{, but waa chauged by the act of June JMh, 1834 (the same act that lowered its weight) to WW 226. Two years and a half subsequently its fineness wan increased—tans than one part in a thousand—to 900. Its weight and fine ncan have remained tlrtia fixed to the present day. The total coinage of this noble piece of American monev up to June 30th. 1877, waa *66,707,220 -lews than one-fourteruth of the total coinage of the imperial double eagle. 8. Tlie half-eagle, or five tlollar piece. This elegant com linn undergone the name vicissitude* as the eagle. lUcotu age waa aullmritel by the same act of April 2d, 1792. Its weight was 135 gram*, and its fineness 916|. By the act of June 28th, ltfiM, its weight was reduced to 64.5 grain* and itn fineueesto 899.225. By the art of January 28th, 1*47, >fs fiueuess waa raised to tiie uni form staHilard of 900 Its weight and tiuenewM have thus remained to our time. Its total coinage up to the close of the last fiscal year wan 869,412,815. 1 The qtinrter-eagie, or two dollar and a half piece. Tlnn coin bel to June 30th. 1877. was *! .300,082. It t* arsrcelv necessary to atate that all these gold coiu* are legal tender to an nuliiuited amount. The federal statute requires, however,that the weight should not be materially reduced by attrition. Thus it will lie seen that there are six piece* of gold coinage iu the Uuibsl States. Tlie double-eagle, the three dollar piece, the dollar piece—all of lot# r coinage liave not been change-1 in weight or fineness. One of the earliest acta of Cougreea antbonz-d Uie coinage of the eagle, the half-eagle and the quarter eagle. They remained of the same weight and fineness during more than forty year*. By the act of June 28th, 1834, "the weigh* and fineness were both • materially reduced. Two year* and a half subsequently, by the act of January 18th, 1837, the fine ness was iuci cased by lea# than oDe part ' in a thousand. Tlie standard of the weight and fineness has remained the same ever since for all gold coin. The j fineness in nine part* of pure jpld and , one part of alloy, or 900 parts in 1,00(\ aa it ia generally exprcnaed. The stand ard of weight, including alloy with the gold, ia 25.8 grain* to the dollar; the double-eagle, is twenty times that (516 grain*); the eagle, ten time# (238 grains; the half-eagle, five tiraea tl29grainsi; the three-dollar piece, three timea, (77.4 grains); the quarter-eagle, two and a half timea that (64.3 grains). The question is sometime* asked, of what ia the alloy made? In gold coin it was at first a componud of silver and copper. It wa* forbidden by statute that the alloy should lie more than half j silver. It is now nearly all oopper, owing to advance* in the art of assaying ] and improved methods in coinage. The total amount of gold coinage up to Jnne 30. 1877, was $983,159,695. Be Social. We are social I wings, and Uie home circle, alone, however attractive, will not satisfy. The old-faahioned singing school, the husking party, the lycenm, the grange, the Good Templars lodge, i or division of the Sons of Temperauee, whatever drawa together the young men i and women, the bov* and girla, for i development of mind and character and for social enjoyment, is"to be welcometf. All the Iwtter, too, if the parent# can renew their yonth, or enter heartily 1 into the young people'* enjoyment. There ia but oue object in the world more pitiable thau Uie adult man iff 1 woman who feels no thrill of sympathy . over the happiness of the votiug, aud that moat pitiable of all is the old head on young shoulders, too diguifiod to ac cept ttie keen wisdom of Uie old Roman poet, " It ia pleasant to he foolish some times." Work aud nlay each have their time, and advancing years briug no pang* for the innocent sport* and enjoy ment* of the youthful days long ;ast We grow old all too soon, but if the heart ia freah, and in sympathy with the world around ua, it matters litUe how we count our years. The J/onteetead. A Revolutionary Tombstone. A correspondent of the Woreeeter (Mass.) Spy has copied as follows the inscription upon aa ancient slate alab in a cemetery at Westchester, Vi.: "In Mem of William French, Sou to Mr. Nathaniel French ; Who waa shot at Westminster, March ye 18th 1773, by the hand of the Oruel Ministerial tools of Georg ye 3d ; in ye Oorthouae, at a 11 a Clock at Night; in the 2nd year of his Age. " Hi-rv William French hi* tkxlv lie*. For Murder bis Blood for veugeauce ones. King Oeorg ths Third hi* Tory crew th* with a bwl hi* head #hot threw. For Eibertv and hi* Country# Good, he Lost hU life hi# Deare*t blood." It i* said by men who have sailed a mil# a minute on an ice boat that the 1 sensation It like felling from e building. NUMBER 10. FARM, (JtKDF.fI AID HOtMKHOLD. A 11 Mir I r*lUf Vsr*. flunking t tbe rani of a jioLltry fan cier a few Java ago. I W pleased with iiia beti-tnmae, not because H waa the lin.-ai I ever MW, Iml baoeuae of ita per fect simplicity. Aa be waa a man of abundant means, ami lit* plane ia near a fashionable raaort, there waa a toiopta tiou for a timer building than oilier peo ple, but be preferred to art a good ex aiuple for hi* poaMT neighbors. This buildiug war framed, <4 convenient aire for two flocks of about twenty fowla iwrb; Iriar.bol onlaide and inaide of tba frame with uatdiei boards, aud with a large window uu the euutb aide. It wa* Terr warm inside, even when the air •ratable war ueerlv at freestog point. On tlie inaule ot the will a plank waa ■piked over to go down a foot into the ground, all around U>a bwilding, which prevented the • nitride inoiature from coming under tbe buildiug, and a* tbr building inaide waa rained autae indie* witb earth and dry loam, H wraa at all timet a dry plane to wallow in. A tbe lwutae waa for large fowl*, tbe moat* i werr low, and a apace waa brft where tbe beua eould ataml on the ground all night, matead of rooatiug U they pre- , ferred, which wane did. I noticed the fence between tbe jamltry yard* wa boarded up autuv three feet high, with abort picketa sliove that. ITiia prevent ed tbe cock* from fighting through the fence. The whole art angement* ot bmkl- i iug aud rarda were neat enough far a i geutlemau'a couotrr place, aud yet not too extravagant for any farmer to copy. , The yard a were *et with pluai and beach tree*" aud the owner aaid he bad no diffi cnlty in getting abundant crops of tlic finest frtuta every year, which waa a lutudaome profit in iter If upon the coat ( of keeping tlie fowl. — Wwtoa Journal. > II MM-kal* II lata. To Mac BOOT* WaTxarxoor. -Tel low beeawax, Burgundy pitch and tur ■ ' peutine, of each two ounces ; boiled lin seed oil, one pint. Apply to tbe boot with tbe lunula lief ore the fire till well saturated. MlUl. —Milk absolutely supphreerery requisite- for the body, and enables a young oalf to grow into a heifer and a iMtbv into a thriving child. It ia a nxxfel food—ln fact, it ia the moot per fei-t that exiata in nature. Let pen-tits realise Una, anil toe. image it* naa in the family. POCLTMI ** Foon.—For aWe use, fowls that are killed directly Is# m a free range, where they have been well fad for some time previously, and, baviug taken plenty of exercise, are in perfect health, are to be preferred to those which have been kept in a close coop, in #• nectvm with their own excrements and a polluted atmosphere. To DumxuruH BCTTKH rnow Ouao- Xiwuvxr. Artificial butter no* ao nearlv rceetnblea the genuine article that it ia difficult to dwtiDguiah one from the other. M. Jail lard submits the follow ing plan : When the t uitter ia placed be tween two slips of glass the animal tats appear under the microscope as shores cent crystallization* Pure batter ia seen i only aa' fatty globules. I JKLLIBK, —In making jeihee of apples, jdam*, pearlies or apricots, peel, remove the stones or cores, "ut in pieces, cover with water, and bofl gently Uil well cooked ; then strain the juice gently through a jelly beg and add half a pint of sugar tu a pint of juiee, boil until it ropes from the spoon, or from fifteen to twenty muiute*. In making rasnlierry je.lv use one-third currants and twy>- third* raspberries. IV rail lies CI • sills. P. H., Bsytnoudville. writes: " 1 would like to tudc through the column* of your |p*r if cattle shed their teeth the same as the horse; ii ao, at what age f" Beply. - Cattle, as wall as wellae other animals vrith teeth, shed their first teeth before they reach maturity. Tba matu- . rity of an animal ia frequently considered to be complete when tlie dentition tbe comes permanent. In horaad cattle the first twvi orulral permanent incisors ap pear wt the age of twenty months or two rear*; tlie next two appear at three years; ; tlie next two at four, and the last two, t which are the eoruer ones, at about five years old. The first aud second perras i neut molar teeth appear at tlie age of two yean, an additional oue oO each jaw ■pjicars every year after np to the sixth year, wlieu the mouth is full. As the 11term*ticnt tc ih appear, the milk or de ciduous teeth drop out, or are force. 1 out by the new ones. After tlie sixth year tie teeth Vgm to wear down, aud the.. ' amount of wear, in ordinary cases, i* a guide to the age of tin* animal. When sheep or cattle are pastured upon sandv laud this test ia deceptive, aa the teeth sear down faster than they would other i wise do.—.Vcic York Time*. T%* Well fsr Wswrp. u4 Ptasts. The best soil for moat flower*, aud principallv for vonug plants and tbe seed-tied, ia a mellow loo® containing enough aaud to prevent its baking after watering it. A good many ban- the idea that seed will grow moat anywhere and with any treatment. Mostly tbe seeds are planted too deep, so they either rot in the eold, damp soil for tbe want of warmth necessary to their germination, or alter germination, perish before the . tender shoots can reach the aurfaon. To preveut this, sow Tour flower-seeds in a oohl frsuie, box, or pot, and tranaplant as soon sa the young plants attain their proper siae. Transplant when tba weath er becomes warm and settled. A Free City ef (onstanttnepte. Constantinople under Turkish rule became the centre of a vast system of plunder and oonqneet Tba city was enriched br the spoils of Europe and , Asm. A large multitude gathered • there. But its legitimate commerce has never been large. Tbe race which held this golden key erf the world's commerce baa never been able to open the store-honse. They were like barbarians in possession of a com plicated machine. The aultans have simjilv wrung their wealth from the plundered peasantry, and lived genera tion after generation in their rich pala ce* on the Bosphorus. No building, no work of art, no machine or invention, so far as we are aware, has ever been discovered or constructed in Constanti nople bv a Turk. The Greek has done all The race has basked in the rich sunlight of that deKciour climate, and has enjoyed all the luxuries and bean ties of the Golden Horn for more tbwn fonr centuries, has seen the current of the world's history flow by. and has ; never contributed a single blessing or favor to mankind. Ontside of the capi tal, its dominion has been to Christiailih , a onrse and a burden; inside, it has per- ' mitted all things to remain as they were. AA a free cjtv, it might, like Venice of j old, or Hamburg in later times, be the , centre of a world's commerce. The j Greek has an aptitude for trade, and, no doubt, the merchants of all oountries I would gather there. The burdens that have hitherto rested ou all production and industrv in tbe Turkish empire gpuld then ou removed, and we might see a new centre of civilisation where Slavic barbarism baa reigned ao long. But this will not be till the empire of the race of Osman has come to ita end, and that must be yet in a future, not remote, but not immediate, —Htu) York Dntt. TV Twin*. Mlsnt wharf! tike Ood . blessing ••- bswtldsrad earth' ('earfna- oonlM-vttb §b*T end r*o" • .1 tWr hirtfc ' Wutidron* cm4roii, whil*-wtnxl bwaM". with a wofdl— atystorv. HmHbc with tbam *•* *nd jtaimM of U>* fkr-og arses." KrtfUv swiftly —dgwn w serth-wkT twing i ti Uwar* til aakw>w t IWehißf out t!t! Ikkado U> Uiucli as *h radiate* Of • Throw! I -''<;• • • Bltant Wut ' going -going out Mmwwl oar Hearing vtUi team so nvh swwfusM ssaros • km* tesv awals toaek. Hwfftty swiftly— skill wa strnggla for a little ISM or more, ' fi. .we their tkta daar footprints vanish, Isaring ourv swa tba shore! v t i /-j- . " '< si uil j calmly wtfils oar pulses beat to ev'ry •tree tuna, On their waves eur aauilght Uenblaa, sad our day grew* dim si nam ! imwkrd on weed- ending svwr at Ood"s foal Aodl ! * Ah, will H 1 ' Merge ttiss* weary fragment. Into His aureus Rtaratty? -Awr York Kvmttuj Pott. Items ef latereeL Mooring ia now politely described an indulging ia ahead music. ' Patrolmen ia the favorite illuminate* ] in many French households. About 20,000 Italians annually immi grate to tbi* country to settle, i Turkey ■ expeneaee ia that iron dad fleets do not amount to shocks / Every cloud, and every proepmwna ' pocket-1 H k, has a silver lming. i Dr. Poternmnn, the leading geogra pher of the world, places Htanley foee moat among all explorer*, i A lemdraa paper nttimatea that daring tbe latter 200 days of 1877 that hnmau blood flowed at fee rate of forty gallon* 'an hour. * A Chicago German, who wanted to , add a poetecript to a letter after ha had • mailed it, waa fonnd trying to dig up ' the lamp post A paper speak* of a home that eat* meat Harry aaya that be has never seen a borer actually eat meat, but ha ' seen ooe running for a stake, f IJent. Flipi er, the only colored jrea uate of West Point, ia to be *pj*iinte.l mibterv inatruetor of the colored brandi af t(w g^ricultural and military college ipf Texas, This country imported from Japan, last year, through the port rf Han ' Prsnmaco, 4.100,000 pounds of tea. From China wa imported only 936,000 pounds. A patent has been takes out upon al taokt everything at value, but there ia a fortune waiting tar the man who patent* a boot-jack that will kill two piomw rata at ooe time An Indiana farmer mused a -WO-pound hog and found him. after thirty-five days, under a bug that bad fallen ami .sgngbt him under iC Tbe bog lived, but he only weighed 300 pounds wbeu found. " Why didnt yon put an a clean col lar before you left hamaF' called out an impertinent voung fop loan omnibus driver. " 'dense your mother hadn't seal heme my wwabing," was the extic gOMhing rapfy. There was a shower of worms iu Michigan, one day recently. Some day* previously there waa a shower of Ash And now, it Nature understands her busine**, a shower of fch-hooka ia next on tba programme. The total dividends paid last year by mining nompamcs, banks, insurance and expaaaa coaspaniew, and other oommer cial eaterprises on the Pacific coast, not including the Central Pacific Railroad, was 894,366,060, an tucreaaeofgl .350,000. A deserted life qua< grieved by the !inartlrsam at the Indian who had only a few mouths previously taken her to hut wigwam, drowned barwlf. Before bar stueidr, she formally and elaborately cursed him. Hie Indian belief ia that sorb a curse ia a paten*. The Times' Fwieaoneapoudeut writes that the French govevumeat will allow 1 imairan rtfiemen to about in France daring UM uitematioaal exhibition. Tbe Franco law against the introduction of wrapons la very ntrirt, but tbe American riflemen will telly be called upon on suding to justify their nationality. A Frenchman has analysed the dual end debrift of tin- ftreets of Pans and Fkxnmor, aiv! lias (untivl that thirty-flve per cent, of thai collected from the roa.l - is iron given not approve of your plan. I should make it larger j and oover it with silk." r •" That would be tlie maliest foolish i Qeea," aaid another, emphatically, aa she aa* dawn her teaoup with a bang. "I should follow the plan already begun upon, MMI nee velvet, ' True, it will cost more, but one might us well have a thing right." I ** I agree with pane of yon;" chimed in a third party. "I have a design, which, if followed out, would surpass any of those yit proposed." Thus t hey talked. What are they dis cussing thought the listener as he eaugh * now and then oweh words as "plan." " deaig*." ** " Can it be a new insti tution o! learning, the formation of a . JZ&SiSS- ixfdTiSZu.