TV Organ (irindor
An orpan tironcth high and low
Above the aonnda that ebb and flow.
And faint through all the pale and din,
It* plaining comes to me within.
"In the Sweet liT-tnd-bv that brow
We need to eing when day grew dim ,
Pit song to Jeer me with -whore life
r.i;teotant only ia of strife.
And a* I lint, I roe again
Tlie pathway of an Orchard lane.
Where lag* a little brook at esse
t'nder the blossom-laden tree*.
1 know not if it be a dream :
I almort see the winding stream.
And hear one voice—oh, heart of nnne
Cronch down, nor think what once war
thine!
The Bay of the W>ll.
Whene'er we see ■ mm
Who's wise beyond the rule
We ask who is there can.
We ask who is titer? who'll
Take his place another day,
Wheu his son! has ja*eil away
Oat of all this world of clay—
Wheu the weird fates his life-thread e.er
And he is lost to us forever
To ns it soerrs as though
The world could scarcely stand
The course of things .-carve go
Without his guiding hand.
Strong the wide world to d reel
Hcconcilitig every sect.
Keeping eil courses ohe.kod
A hand that's <Pong eno.igb, and clever.
To keep the world's course straight forever
But w jje-.i he gains the bound.
When runs his earthly race.
Another man is found
Straightway to fill his ptaee.
Just as though it we-e to prove
Others can the hi tuake move
In its old accustomed groove—
The world, that wonld suruve him uevcr,
Sti.l rcllsou just the saute as ever.
Wc learn a lesson here ;
We find we, after all.
Who think ourselves so dear
Are only very small.
Though we da oar best to-day
That our praises men may *y.
And we reriemticrrd aye;
Yet, notwithstanding our endeavor,
Oar deed* sud wc are missed -carce ever.
lkmuviic .V w.'V'y
Our Little Servant-Maid.
I never thought ao little of Barbara
Darling as I did that July afternoon
when she stovl by the window with a
pent on her lips and a frown on her
1 row. looking ont on the road with eyes
that taw nothing, and utterly obvious to
the fact that her dear, rosy-cheeked,
bright-eyed little sisU-r was tugging at
her skirt with one small hand an.l hold
ing up her doll with the other, while
she piteoHsly complained, " There's
snrafln berv awfnl wrong er matter wif
my baby, Baba; her'sbroke in her inside,
ati' can't crv any more to sabe her
life." nntil the speaker, as though to
make up for this deficiency on the part
ofher "baby," burst into a loud, loug
aud tearless cry herself, and even then
Barbara only pulled her dress out of the
dimpled little hand, and said, in a
deeidedlv nnamiable manner, " Oh,
bother!"
Barbara Darling was not pretty, that
is, not very pretty—at least there was a
diversity of opinion about her. The
young meu, s'luding to her eyes and
hair, spoke of violets and buttercups,
the voung women, on the contrary—
voung women are so unp*>etieal when by
themselves !—sneered, " Bine china and
molasses candythe young women said
it was "awfully babyish;" the young
men called her "a fniry," the young
women "a dwarf."
She was the eldest of eight children;
had no accomplishment, unless singing
a ballad or two passably well could be
called one; was eighteen years old, poor
an.l —and- -well, to tell the honest truth,
rather high-tempered. And yet she had
for a lover handsome, talented, proud,
wealtliv Anthonv Ditto, the match that
all the girls in her circle had been mak
ing eyes at for a year before he, with
heart still untouched, had met " wee
Bab," as he called her.
How he came to notice her at all
goodness knows, unless the comicality
of the introduction struck through the
dignity which enveloped him as a mantle,
aD.I softening b ; s heart, let her steal
into it. and then being a burry sort of a
little body, he couldn't get rid of her
afterward.
"Miss Barlmra Darling," said the
drevoking Ned Parker, " Mr. Anthonv
Dittoand we (ves. we—l'm Bab
Darling) bnrst out laughing, the names
were so odd following each other in that
manner, yon know ; and from that mo
ment we were excellent friends until the
dsy we ceased to be friends sad became
overs.
Papa and mamma were delighted with
the engagement. ami so was T. for of
course I loved him dearlv ; anil yet for
the life of mo I couldn't stoD what ho
rolled " flirting." though I'm snre I
•lidn't mean it for that. Yon aee every
Vvxiv in ao v<*rv Li ml to a little woman
tliatit in almost impossible for me to lie
dignified. She gets nsed to beiuz
trroteo like a child, and accept* pet
name* and honqueta and honl>oD and
gloves and the beat of everv thing, and
talks and lanzh* and sings with pleasnnt
people of the opposite sex jnst as a child
would.
Vow Anthony didn't like it—absurd
fellow wasn't I going to marry him ?
—and he used to look, oh ' so very grim
and ogreish. and lecture me on the im
propriety of my oondnct, nntil I felt my
self the m<>st miserable of sinners : bnt
—I don't know how to aoconnt for it—l
always forgot the lecture a soon a it
was over, and was in disgrace again
immediately.
"Well, the other evening—Fourth of
.Inly evening it was—a party of ns yonng
folks went to the village green to see
the pyrotechnic (I had to eonsnlt the
dictionary before I ventnred on that
word) display, and arriving there rather
late, found ourselves the last comers,
and consequently on the ontide of the
crowd. Ned Parker and T tried to posh
our way to the front, bnt we oonldn't ;
and T didn't see a thing, excepting a
few rockets and blne-liglits, nntil the
very last, when Ned lifted me in his
arms eo that I might at last catch a
glimpse of Washington blessing his
countrymen and women with one fiery
hand, while he pointed to a Roman
candle that had jnst gone np with the
other.
Anthonv was a few feet .away, talking
to Netta Brooke; and when I joined him,
expecting to meet with a terrible frown,
he greeted me with a charming smile.
And all the rest of the evening he was
as amiable as possible, and thongh lie
had several five-minute chances to scold
me, never said a reproving word—never
even referred to the George W. episode,
bnt he did worse—he flirted himself.
That I had never dreamed of, and I
mnst say that I thonght—at the time—
it was a real mean thing for a great tall
fellow like him to do to revenge himself
on a mite like me.
Yes, he flirted for two long, very long,
hours; and when (the party ended at
onr house) the children proposed a kiss
ing game, he, my haughty, reserved
lover, joined in with that bold Brooke
girl, and chose lier for a "partner"
every time, kissing her on the month
and she has a pretty month—as he did
I should have liked to box her ears,
and his too for that matter—but I didn't
of course not. I sauntered about with
Ned Parker, and looked up into his
face as though every moment I discov
ered some new beant.v in it; and when
Netta bade me good-night (Anthony
could find no excuse for offering to walk
home with her, her brother Dick being
there;, I kissed her, and hoped she had
enjoyed herself.
" Oh ! very much—very, very much,
indeed," said she, flinging a look which
she meant to be tender, bnt it wasn't—
she has big, black, shallow eyes—at
FRED. KIXIITZ, l^ditor and Proprietor.
VOLUME XL
Anthony. " I never enjoyed myself m
much."
But a* aoon iin the garden gate closed
Indian! them I t*>k my engagement
ring from my finger and tiling it u|h>ii
the ground, and I actually, I'm ashamed
to tell it, but 1 did made my hand into
a flet and slnxik it at uiy promised him
band. What would maniuia, the dear,
meek ilarling—l don't got my tenijKU
from her—have said if ahehed seen me ?
As for Anthony, he wasn't the least
bit frightened, but caught tile flat, and
shut it up in his strong right hauil like
soiuetliing in a box.
"I hate you ?" 1 cried. " Nobody
ever treated me so before,"
" Hut hi>w many have you treated so ?"
he asked, with a smile; and I couldn't
heln thiuking how handsome he looked
in the silver moonlight.
" Everybody lias always done what
ever 1 wuutad them to do," I went on,
stamping my foot.
"And consequently spoileii you," said
he.
" Wliat did you love me for, if I'm not
—not nice?"
" Hecause I kn w the luoiurut I saw
you, you wee thing, you were my fate.
I thought you were uioe then, and want
ed to take you m my arms the moment
you smiled on me."
*' Aud now 2,"
" Aud no* I think you a bad-temper
ed. selfish, willful, unreasonable girl."
" ImM !" anil I wreuched mv hand
away, but not before lie hail kissed it
with the most provokiug coolness.
"Then we'll part,unless you change your
opinion imuiixliately, atnl promise never
to s;>eak to Netta Hrooke again.
" I shall make no snoh silly promise.
Barbara." Good praciouA ' the idea of
his calling me Barbara ! " I have prom
ised to drive her to thedepot to-morrow."
" Yon return to the city together ?"
" We return by the same train, as we
have done a down times Ufore."
"Oo," said I, almost Iwside myself
I with rage. "1 never want to see you
again."
" Are you snre, Barbara ?" he asked—
"quite sure ( I thiuk you had better
wait for a Jay or two before roil banish
me. If by the day after to-morrow—
your birthday—yon still • hnte ' me, send
me word to that effect, and I will, the
moment your note is read, accept a josi
tion offered me this morning, and start
for a home beyond the sea. Good-night,
Miss Darling."
"Good-night, Mr. Ditto."
Aud he strode away up the road, aud I
. picked up my ring ami stole into the
house. ami cried as though mv hear!
■ would break. It was so cruel of him to
be unkind to a poor little tkiug like me.
The next morning, as I sat on the
front porch darning the children's stvk
inga— dear roe! it seems to me every
time stocking-darning time comes around
that there never could be another family
with so manv legs as ours—Anthony
drove past with Netta Brookeat liissnle.
I hid behind the stocking basket until
thev were out of sight, anil then I flew
to mv desk and wrote ns bitter a note as
a woman twice my size oonld have writ
tea, and I sent it to the village nost
offieo that very evening bv oar little
servant-maid
Oar little servant-maid is a pretty lit-
I tie maid, with large honest gray eyes, a
small red month, bright chestnut hair,
a pleasant smile, a neat, plump figure,
and a remarkably cheerful disptwition. I
And a clever little maid she i, too—can
wash and iron and cook, and do a hun
draf other things; bnt she p-ssess**
one taste which interferes sadly with
the performance of her domestic duties
—the most insatiate hunger for litera
ture, which she gratifies whenever she
finds an opportunity, in season or out of
season, morn, noon, or night
Potatoes and stews are burned, bread,
cakes, and pies baked to cinders, doors
left open all night, breakfasts delayed,
lunehes forgotten, dinners served too
early or late—all on account of this love
of reading which characterizes onr little
servant-maid.
She nearlv drowned babv once, while
giving her her bath, by letting the dar
ling's head slip under the wafer, while
she devoured a story in a Ifarfrr
Wcrklt/ she had taken from a table near
bv. She let mv canary esospe while she
remove.] his emr>Av seed cup with one
hand, and held Helen's Babies in the
oMier. her eves being fixed on the book.
She spilled the soup one dinner-time
over v>ana*s immocnlnte white vest while
trying to peep at the magazine he was
glancing over. She set the hot flat-iron
on onr best damask table cloth, and left
it there to indelihlv imnrint its triangu
lar portrait, while she hastily read a
murder case in the morning paper.
She could scarcelv be got out of bed
mornings, because she was tired and
sleepy from reading the book she had
abstracted from the book-ease the night
before, and when she did get np she
actnallv sat before the dreary-looking
stove for half an hour or so, intently- 1
(ierising the various "craps of newspaper
with which she should have been light
ing the fire.
In short, if she hail not been the most
devoted, sunny, unselfish, fond-of-us-all
little creature, it wonld have been utterly
impossible for n° to have stood the many
mishaps and disasters that, sprang from
our servant-maid's devotion toliteratnre.
As it was. papa said to her when she
drenched him with soup: " Another
oeenrrenee of this nature, and yor. go."
Ami mamma said to her when she nearly
drowned the habv : " Reallv, Eleanor,
if any thing as dreadful as this happens
again, we mnst part." And T said to
her when she freed my song-bird: " The
verv next wrong thing yon do while
reading—" and I made a significant
pause and looked.
"Y'es, miss."* xaid Nellie, meekly,
w th the tears in her gray eyes, which
didn't prevent her, as so n as she reached
the kitchen; bnrsting out with " Why,
why, whv didst thon leave me?" to a
tnne made up of a strange combination
of."OM Dan Tucker " and "The Bus
sian Hymn."
Bnt with the exception of a turkey
nicely roasted and sent to table retain- ;
ing its crop and one or two other super
fluous appendages to a turkey when
roasted, on aoconnt of " Red as a Rose
is She," and forgetting to put the yeast
in the bread one night liecanse " East
Lynne" lay beside the bread bowl,
Nellie hail got into no trouble for several
months, and had gladly said to me, the
morning of the very day I sent that hor- I
rid letter : " So, miss, I shall be with
you another birthday, after all ; and
isn't that " Monarch of Minking Lane "
lovely f I read a little hit of it when I
wns dnsting the parlor, miss."
Well, to go l>nck to naughty Barbara, 1
standing by the window, and gazing oat 1
into the street.
Oh, how my heart ached ! How sorry
I was for quarreling with my dear,
good, splendid Anthony! Tlie first
thing this morning, my birthday morn
ing—Last year I was scarcely through
my breakfast when he came, bringing
me the lovliest set o' pearls—he will
get my cruel letter, and then, before I
can Bend another to beg him to forgive
me, he will have started for that dread
ful place away off goodness knows
where.
" What possessed me," I said to my
self, wringing my hands in despair,
"silly, wicked little thing that I am, to
break my own heart aud wound him
so deeply ? He loves me, I know he
loves [me dearly, and he never, never,
never would have flirted had I not set
him the example ;" and I heaved a deep
THE CENTRE REPORTER
nigh, which Mac immediately echoed
tehiud me, and turning, 1 saw Nellie
laying the table for dinner, with a most
woe-begone expression iu her round
rosy face ; and as 1 turned toward her,
two frightened imploring gray eyas met
mine. For a urroicut f forgot my own
trouble.
" Why, Nellie, what i-> the matter
wttli you ?" I asked.
"Oh dear 1 oh dear ' how can 1 tell
yoitf Aud out of Hum house I must go
as soon as you ku >w. And I love your
ma, ami 1 almost love your pa, and I
sdore all the rest of you. Oh ! 6li! oh 1"
—bursting into sobs and tears.
" Take down your apron this minute,"
said I, flrnily, "and tell me what you
have beeu doing tills tnne."
•' Well. mjr-.' aaid Nellie, giving a
great gulp, and eonnug and standing
lief ore me, "you know, luta*. last eve
utug I went to the village, ami it was an
elegant moonlight night, mtss ; and, old
miss"—twining and uutwiuing In r
finger* nervously -" 1 can't Isvir to go
out into u colli aud heartless world
What shall 1 do' what ha)l I do?"
" Go mi," said I.
"Audi got uiy paper— I'ht WacL'y
A'oarer you know, where they're
printing 'The Vow of the Glass Final ;
<>r, the Glittirii)g, Gleaming Girandole.'
Ami oh ! miss, what shall I do?"
" Go on," said I.
" And 1 opened ttie paper iu the store
just to see now Stephnnyer Alveretter
got out of the fugliaiited cave, and 1
came out iuto the Mbd n-readiug i'.
t)h, miss, it's most awful interesting !'
And Nellie, completely carried away by
her subject, unola-flssl her hands, and
eoutiuued iu as bass a voice as she could
assume, "The dragon belched forth
streams of fire." And then suddenly
changing to a high, shrill tone, "Rn
dolfer sprang lietwwu her aud the tuou
ster-r r. 'Save.!, navt 1, navisl," she
cried," cried Nellie, at the top of her
voice, entirely 1 t to everything but the
"moat awful uiterentiug " story.
" (iixxl bmvean! Soil," saui I, "you
will have ma tumbling il wii sUim,
• thinking it's tramp* F<irget the * (ifass
i Fiend,' or whatever it is for it few m<s
incuts, au>l finish your own story."
I The frightened look eatae buck into
i Soil's face. "Will, miss" she sod,
slowly. "I pot my ljwr, and, oh!
miss—"
"Oo ou !" said I, stamping BIT fo.it.
I hai made uj my juiik! never t > stamp
. my |.*>t again. but the girl was so pro
' noting. *
'"Ami. mi*s"—with deajvr.to calm
ness—" 1 forgot to p >l your lottor."
I tlung my arms afotiml her ami gave
hor a ling ami a kiss, promised her a
whole year's subscription t- • the village
circulating library, ami loft her with
ronnil eves ami mouth wide open iu
; wonder, wrhile I flew to the door to
answer the ring of—
" Barbara Darling," said lie.
"Anthony Ditto," said I. tiarj'er'n
Weekly.
Kn*sn.
" Her vast territory e-intaiiis not leas
than >,7i0,000 square miles, or
more than one-sixth part of all the
land of the globe. Uno-ia is connected
with the commerce of the world by the
Baltic sea with Europe and all oountries
bordering on the Atlantic; eastward to
Japan, China, the Pacific islands, and
the eutus western shores of oar own
continent. Her vast territory ia tra
verse*.' with rivers, lakes, and iuiau 1
seas, through which the commerce of
the outer world mav he transported into,
the verv heart of the country. A dis
tinguiahed writer has said, 'lt is ap
parent that nothing more is wanting
but the possession of Constantinople,
, and the control of the Dardanelles, to
complete a territorial outline of the
most imposing charmotef that earth has
ever seou in possession of a single
power.'
"She now sustains a popnlati >n of
one hundred millions. In an iutre*t
iDg calculation of Sir Archibald All - >n,
in which he rejects two-thirds of Asiatic
Russia as unproductive, lie process
to show that if Russia in Europe w. re
people*! as Germany now is, it won! 1
contain 1,10,000,<100 souls: if as dense as
Great Britain, the number would he
111.000,CK10. That portion of Asiatic
Russia which is capable of cultivation,
if populate.! as denselv as Great Britain,
will sustain a population of Kki.OitO.OOO.
Tims there is sufficient gt>od territory in
Rusaia to sustain a population, if as dense
lv settled as Great Britain, of more than
800.000.000. Her vast forests and
mines will furuisb timlier for her ships,
i and iron to bind them together, and
fuel for her population for generations
to come. The Muscovite empire is in
the hands of one dominnnt race, whose
' social affinities are strong enough to
produce one compact national unity.'
Russia's military an.l navnl powers, her
educational institutions, her rapidly ad
vancing civilization, and the immense
influence of the Russian Church in
molding the great empire of the north,
preaent the spectacle of an empire
; hardly eqnale l by any in ancient or
modem times."— f-lrcharu/r.
A Chinese Temple of Horror*.
A traveler thus describes a representa
tion of the punishment of tho wicked
after death according to the Buddhist
theory, which be witnessed in the sub
urbs of Canton : After a walk of about
a mile, we came to the "Templeof Hor
rors." This is a horrible place—that is.
the scenes are hideous. The intention
is to represent what a bad man would
suffer after death. It is composed of
ten different groups of statuary, made
of olav, and many of them are crumbling
to pieces. The first group represents
the trial of a man ; lie is surrounded by
I his family and friends, who are trying to
defend him ; the second, where he is
condemnod and given over to the exe
cutioner : in the third he is undergoing
j a semi-transformation from the man to
the brute ; the fourth, where he is put
i into a mill, with bis heal downwards,
j and is being ground up ; liis dog is by
the side of the mill licking up his blood'.
In the fifth scene he is being placed be
tween two lioards, an.l is being sawed
' down lengthwise ; sixth, lie is under a
large bell, which is rnng until the con
| cussion kills liim ; seventh, the man is
placed upon a table, and two tpen aro
paddling him with large, wooden pml
dle(j; eighth, lie is upon a rack, and the
executioners are tearing his flesh with
red-hot pincers ; niutli, he is in a
cauldron of boiling leml; the tenth
scene represents him noon a gridiron,
undergoing the process of roasting.
In all these scenes his family nre
present; also large figures who repre
sents the judge, executioners, little .le
mons, an.l various instruments of tor
i ture.
British India.
A statistical abstract, relating to Brit
ish India, jnst issued by order of Parlia
ment, shows that the area under Britisli
administration is 909,834 miles, with a
population of 191,065,445. The native
states comprise 573,052 miles and a popu
lation of 48,233,978. Including the
French and Portuguese possessions, the
total area of all India is 1,484,150 square
miles, with a population of 239,970,505
Of the 191,000.000 inhabitants of British
India, the religions denominations are
given as follows: Hindoos, 139,343,820;
Bikhs, 1,174,436; Mohnmmedans, 40,-
867,125; Buddhists and Jams, 2,832,851;
Christians, 879,682; others, 5,417,304,
and "religion not kn0wn,"532,227,
CENTRE lIAI.E, CENTRE CO., L'A., THURSDAY. MARCH 14, 1878.
IJKEKN WOOD'S MOM MMS.
Msmr el llir I'rswlsrsl ltsnn Iu Ihr
( rli lu sl. tl I rutrlrrr Prserlbrd.
Among the prominent monument* in
GieeuwoivJ iHrooklyn, N. Y.) i" a
statue of Do Witt Glltitiui, which ia turn-
M.leroJ a tdrikuig likt u< -s. i'he bronze
tablets mi either c\ie of the potlf.vUl .no
illustraU'd with the great work of the
iloooimeil stateslliutl the llltilillUg of the
Erie ('..111M1. thi one tablet the muial iu
been ut pnurroHrt— the survey, the exca
\nt ini u'ul the ti at . i ml on th' other
the canal iu full operation. I'he bust
hug scene arouuil the luiatu ami the dm-k
is happily coiitraatixl with the idle group
of IlliiiliUb, who MHIIU to Imi I<mkiug oil
in s i luesa at the eut*prise before which
tint ami their bark canoe" were won to
fade away. Tire u><"iutuent to Mis
Charlotte Cuniltt. though eclipsed of lute
years bv still more ambitious and itiag
uificeut structure*, will always continue
to lie an object of attraction. Time and
the eh meuta have destroye 1 the lustre
an 1 the whiteness of the marble, but the
liesuty of the dtv-igu retnaitis the same.
The tenant of the tomb had a * idly ro
mantic history. H*r father fought with
Napolaoa ti WiltfioQ, ud th# ln rself
iu u reign.built in New York tad
engaged to be married, when, on the
eve of Lite wedding, the horses of her
carriage ti*<h fright on Broadway and
she was thrown out against the ourh
sroae and etpireil s-sni after at a hotel
to which she was taken The idea of
this monument, iu its general features,
was. singular te nay, conceived and
sketclowl by Miss Cau.la herself, ait I
meant a* a tribute to a b*loveil aunt
whose death ixv'.iriisl a few months lie
fore her own. She little dreamed the
marble design ah oil 11 be made to hand
her own name down to p wterity. 15: rv 1-,
flowers, bntterfl es and angels are the
marked features of the monument, typi
fying well the youth, I leant y ami joyous
ki<>pe of her to whom it ta ihxlicattsl.
A few of the lui< a of the epitaph run as
follows:
0.. vanish*-* ihs! in. Ivor ffcir.
Th niortntig .-limit in kit
So iliU ou nw *v
Th- I' *.lro|> fltmi tkr |>rav ;
So (*.(< o falls, tin- <>|k-wiu: r> r.
> tiMk l **!* lirf.***- it r!> ,
sink* from ij{lit rvi ■ |?>>Uit >l*l
J toil In lltf *>hfT .lr! I!n> fr
Yet ill ituMlh* biwht tivne 1 ! urn ,
Sol liouelrM iour Pbarlotte nru.
In i ivh! own morn hrrort' til ri*e
i Out* man {->r of Pimliw
rh*ttu •■[ (Uj<ti:u G'frfja, r-j-it
(uniting th it fatuous old suit on the d.-ck
. of him ship taking no obeervation of the
suu nt meridian, has always attract*.l
, attention. When alive lie came often !•>
i MM* it, nud would
[ complacency to the remark* uju-n
j it by wouderiug strangers. An htttnble
i tombstone, transplanted from the >l.l
!>nteh Reformed church on Brooklyn
Heights, K-arx the nam*- of Edward
Namely, "Marnierof BBmahfp
r Rhinoceros," He died in 17".i4. On
Locust avenue is the singular monument
of "the lujeieut sister*," Sarah \V.
Cairns, aged 117 years, nrs 1 EUtabeth
j Cairns, aged 100 yvnr*. The firemen's
- monumert is aeonapicit >n* landmark in
, Greenwood. It leeopir* a very fin.
| site, and i>>iisi*t* of pyramidal column
. of marble reeling on n massive ped->tal
, of the name material, with a granite la*<-
, ( beloiv. The llgttn* of a fireman on the
[ ! aunrnit in well executed. One arm sur
round* ami anpport* . child PIS' rescued
fr>m the flame*. which it ill pursue :t
Hi* right hand hoi.la a trumpet, the at
tittiile l>eing *pirit<-1 ami the general
0(11)01 gi>od. I'pou four of the pilaster*
<<f the podf-atal and upon it* upper *nr
fitre aniattr r*ri>.n representation*, in
relief or in full, of implement* and nrti
idea appertaining t.th tire man" a calling
—the swinging engine lantern, tin
trumpet and cup, the h->se and hydrant
and th" hook and ladder. One of the
earliest ntraetuh-* in the cemetery w.i*
mound ami a monument, which the
enrioua invariably seek for. to the
memory of IVehnni-mee, an Indian girl.
She was n *plim'* daughter, "f the Sac
tribe of Indiana, antl came t<> Washing
ton witli lu-r father in a delegation of
S*e and lowa*. Before reaching New
York she w* married to a voting I>w
cliief. Ib-re they nttrn cte IJmuch notice.
Great attentions were lavished on tliem
nud ball* were held for their lipoma)
delectation. Poor Do-hum-tnee, nnao
ottntomed to artitlcial and fashionable
life, took cold at a miilnight hop and
death aoon closet! her bright and brief
career.
Highland Revenge.
Ou the elioree of Mull, one of the
western islands of Scotland, a crag over
hanging the sea ia pointetl out as the
scene of a tradition which wouhl form
nn excellent subject for either n picture
or a mx-m, Some centurjew ago, the
ehiei of the ibstri<*t, Macleau if
Lochbnr, lnul n great hunting excur
sion. 'l*.) grace the festivity* ni* lady
attended, with her only child, an infant
, then in the nurse's arm*. The deer,
driven by the hounds and hemmed in
by surrounding recks, fled ton narrow
pas*, the only outlet they could lind.
Here the chief hud placed one of bi
men to guard the deer from pussiug, but
the anim-ils ruahed with such impetuosi
ty tli*t the poor forester could not with
stand them. In the rage of the moment
Maclean threatened the tiinu with in
stant death, but thin punishment was
' commuted to a dogging in the face of
his elan, which in those feudal times
won considered a degrading punishment,
(It only for the lowest of menials and
[ the worst of crimes. The clansman
hurued with anger nud a tierce desire
■ lor revenge. He rushed forward,
plucked the tender infant, the heir of
i Loohbny, from the hands ol the nurse,
and bounding to the rook", in a moment
i stood ou on almost iuaci-esaible elitY pro
i | trudiug over the water. The cries of
the ogouized mother ami the chief at the
• awful jeopardy in which thir only child
i won placed may be easily cone* ived.
: Maclean implored the man to give him
back hiK son, and oxt>c*scd his deep
• contrition for the degradation he lnul,
in a moment of excitement, indicted on
hia elnnsttian. The other replied Mint
I the only condition on which he would
i consent to the restitution was, that
Maclean himself should bare his biu-k
i and consent to be flogged as he had
i been. In despair the chief consented,
• saying lie would consent to tiny
> tlnng if Ins child were but restored. To
1 i the grief nud astonishment of the elan,
i Maclean bore his insult, and when it
i was completed, begged that the clmuk
, man might return from hia perilous
, | position with the young chief. The
>! man regarded him with n smile of do
- j monino revenge, and, lifting the
- child above his head, plunged with hint
- i into the waters belaw. The sen closed
over tho.ni, and neither, it is said, ever
emerged irom the tempos tons whirl
pools and basaltic caverns thnt yawned
. around them, un i wliicli still threaten
. the inexperienced navigator on the
, shores of Mull.
Ages of Prominent Poets.
Dr. Frederick R. Marvin, himself a
poet, lecturer and preacher, lias pre
pared a table, which we give below, of
the ages of the poets:
Wm. Cnllen Bryant .80 j Philip J. Bailer... fil
Victor Hugo*. 71 | .lumen R. Lowell.. .58
H Longfellow 71 Walt Whitman 5S
Whittior. ...70 I Julia Ward Ho wo. 57
Alfred "onnynon .. .67 I K H. Stoddard... 52
Oliver W. Holme*. .67 I Bayard Taylor 52
Alfred B. Street 66 I Matthew Arn01d...61
Robert Browning.... 64 i
"Till: HEX TLB t ltAir."
Sliara, (arlral and llmlriu what niakrra
W bi> tlavrbrrsMr fsmuu*.
Slioes dateJroui a very remote period,
atnl the shoemaker is u relic of autiiputy
who lived uinl had Inn being in very
early tiinev. The Jews wore wooden
ahiiea long before the ago of Augustus,
aud iMimetliues leather shoes are men
tioned. The Jewish soldiers covered
thair feet witli copper or with iron. The
shoes of the I'gyjitinus were of />ajii/rus;
the Chinese and the llidlaas uiauilfae
tnred the:rw of silk, of bark of trees, of
brass, gold or silver, according as their
fortune |>ermitted or tlieir fancy dic
tated. At Rome, as in (Jretx>e, leath
er was the material which covered
the feet of most every one. In classical
times the Romans wore eork soles m
the shoes to secure iheir feet from water,
especially iu winter, and ai high heels
were not then introduced, the* R iman
ladies, who wished to ap|M-ar taller, put
plenty of isirk uu ler themselves. Tiie
11 unnn ladies wore white slioes; the
OolntU -11 people wore lilaek, and the
mngistrat*-s ami those of exalted rank
set their fei-t off with risl shoes aud em
ploy eil the erescent as an ornament
they were often very costly. The cus
tom of making shoes right and left was
common in classical times. Only one
instance is drawn of an ancient monu
ment exhibiting sh.ies with separate
heel pieces. The Streets of Rime in the
time of Domitian were blocked up by
cidiblcr's stalls, which he therefore
caused to Is- removevl.
The fashion of limits sud shims has
undergone innumerable change* Under
William Hufus, son of the Duke of
Normandy, who eouqueml at Hastiugs
ill lOtVt, a fashion was introduced by
wearing long pointed shoes with up
turned tos curvisl like a ram's horn
and stuffed with tiw. In the fourteenth
century they ouuudel tln-se jsiiut*
with ttie knee hy chains of gold aud sil
ver—they wrere called cra-ows. Buckles
wi-re also woru iu this century. The
latioriiig clnsjn-s wore them of copper.
Other (H-rnouH had theni of gold and
ulier. Not long after shoe rosettes
came iu fashion. Iu the last century,
the high heels of ladles' shoes liecame a
I monstrosity. In our day the general
disuse of the sin*' proper, and the in
troduction of short ankle-boots, form
the chief change of fashion.
Alxnit a century ago it was no uncom
i mon prsctios on the part of " fast men "
, to driuk biimjiers to the health of a lady
S nit iif her shoe. The Earl of Cork, in
an amusing pajwr in the (hnnoisarur,
relate* an incident of this kind, and to
ivrry tiie compliment still further he
states the slu* ws ordered tii I*'
ilnvtMsl and to lie servsl for supper.
" Thf cisik set himself seriously to
work ufou it; he pulled the ti|'iier part,
which wax of fine damask, into
and tosscil them up in a ragout, mmce.l
the soles, frusl them in hatter, and
place.l them rotiri 1 tiie <li*h for garnish.
I'he company testified their affection
for the la.lv by eating heartily of this
extpusite impromptu." Within the last
score of years, at a dinner of Irish
•quires, the health of a beautiful girl,
whose foot was as pretty as her face,
was drunk in champagne from one of
her satin shoes, which an admirer of the
la.lv had ooutrirrsl to obtain fwwc*-
sion of.
The patron saints of shraunakers are
Ht. Cnapiti and his brotiier Criapian.
who snpfvirte.! themselves bv mnkiug
shoe* while thev preoohed to the people
of Gaul and Britain. In compliment to
th"-e saint*, the traie of shoemaking is
i-allel "the gentle craft." The craft is
ricli it) name* which have become iu
greater or h-er degree honachoM prop
••rtv. among which may lie found Hans
Sachs, the jxiet of Ntiremlierg an 1 the
friend of Luther, the ewntrie Lacking
ton, who, in the title page of his auto
biography, says that he came to London
with So in his pocket, and rose to lie a
Ksikseller. having an annual sale of
inn.ono volume* ; Richard Savage, the
r*oet Bloomflel and his brother, and a
whole constellation of ninor lards.
hoadol bv James Lsokinston. of the
Temple of the Mue* : Sir Cloudeslv
Shovel, the redoubtable a.!miral ; Sir
\Yilliam Re<vl, th" jwiwerfnl Gilford of
the (fuartrrly : the ralical Hsrdv and
'lie astrological Partridge, H*r Simon
Eyre, Benedict Bandora, Jacob Boeh
msn, Samuel Drew, George Fox. the
real original Friend. William Hunting
ton, John Pounds, John Brand, Hans
Christian Andersen, Dr. Carey, Dr.
Morrison, Dr. Ehenezer Henderson, Dr.
Marahman. Dr. John KitUi and many
others—all shoemakers before they
turned tlieir thought* and energies into
litersrv ehannel*
Among the Anglo-Saxons the trade of
shoemaker was somewhat comprehensive.
He manufactured and stipplie.l ankle
'esther, shoes, leather hose, lmttle*.
bridle-thongs, trapping", flasks, boiling
veKiels, leather neck pieca-i, halters,
wallet* and pouches.
In the Unitcl State* tiie mannfnctnre
of shoes h attained the highest per-
A* ctian, chieflr in Masaachnsett*. and in
Philadelphia/also, the shoe manufacture
has attained considerable importance,
and the sole leather and the morocco of
Philadelphia are far-famed.
The antiquity of the art of leather- ■
dressing date* fsr back. The seven- 1
teenth l*v<k of Ilitvl speaks of tanners
preparing skins to make leather of them.
Over three hundred vears ago the tan
ners composed a very important bo.lv in '
England. An aceonnt is given of a '
furious quarrel which broke ont in
Queen Elizabeth's time, between them
and the shoemakers. 7Yoy TV me*.
Legal fnnrte*ie*.
Thev had a very interesting trial at
the Unite! State* land office, in Lo*
Angeles. Cal., the other day, the case
being Ketehnm vs. The State of
California, with Messrs. Oonld A
Blaneharil a* attorney* for plaintiff,
and Judge Widney for defense. Air.
Gould called Ketehnm and asked :
" What became of Laehetiai* f"
"He wa* hanged by Judge Widney
and Home other persons, " said the wit
ness.
Judge Wiilnev quickly arose and drew
a pistol from his pocket, and
the muzzle down, addressed Ketohum
substantially a follows :
" Yen sav I murdered a man. Yon
lie, you pnrjnred villain ! I was in the
county court-room trving a case at the
time Laehenni* *' aq hanged, and knew
nothing whatever about _ it. If your
crowd arc armed to assiiHsinntc or mur
der me, draw your pistols and go mi."
" We are not armed, " said Mr. Gould.
"Then I will put nwnv my weapon,"
said Judge Widney, " as T will not use
it on an unarmed man."
The case then proceeded without in
terruption until the uoou adjournment,
when Judge Widney asked Mr. Gould if
liis party intended coming armed or un
armed in the afternoon, as he wonhl be
governed by their action. Ho said he
only wnnted fair show, but did not in
tend that any one should get the drop
on him. Mr. Gould made no definite
promise.
Matrimony among deaf mutes has its
disadvantages as well as its sweets—at
least so thinks the husband in Lafayette,
lud., who, returning home late, found
his door locked aguinst him. No amount
of pounding was loud enough to arouse
his sleeping spouse, and he was foreed
to smash a window and crawl into MB
dwelling.
IcoXDEMXEU BY THEIR COM K A DEN.
• A llrMliltrrai-r wl V . Illr, T*'4 1..
frtMNfi
I, An old survivor of Aujeraotiville in
y a talk with a representative of the Kifrt'
y iny /Wf nuy : There was an episode
li during my life at Auderaouville that
i, stands out iu mv memorv ul*>ve all oth
ers. While Au.leraonville deVtdoped ex
-1 all)plea of as noble heroism and s.-ll
n sacrifice as the world probably ever
; witnessed, it serve.l also to bring out
upon th* part of some of the inmates
f many of the most abhorreut and .lespic
r able traits of human nature. The great
- est luxury that could lie enjoyed by u
- | prisoner was a warm blanket. Yet men
1 were found among the prisoners base
1 enough to rob their fellows of these com
i fort*. A gang of robbers was organized
, who went around the cainu at night ux.d
- tore blanket* 11 lid clothes off from
i sick and dying meu, kicking and beat
t ing those who made any feeble attempt
at resistance. Money was also taken
from the prisoners, or auytlnug of value
that Could be found upon them. In a
little while the robberies liecame ao
frequent as to lie the worst of onr trou
bles. A perfect reign of terror existed,
and we did not *n >w what to do.
Filially, after consultation, we asked
permission of Wirtz to investigate aud
ae who Were the |xg|ietrntora of these
outrages, aud puuish them. Wirtz
granted it, and 1 thank htm fsr it to
this day. We picked out HIX men for
trial before a tribunal of onr own selee
tion. It sat outside of the abtckmle
under a Confederate guard. A judge,
jury, prosecuting attiruey aud clerk
were appointed, together with a oouusel
for the defence. Evidence was heard
from many of the prisoners, and the
ao -used were all ideutifie.l as among tiie
parties guilty of the robberies. A ver
dict of guilty was found, and they were
sentenced to la* httug, and the entire
proceedings approved by Wirtz, who
ordered the lutulier to Im< furnish'"! us
for a scaffold. We built one sufficient
for our purjKise in a few hours. It con
xisted simply of a cru**-lieati.,sup|*orted
hv two upright*. A platform was con
structed aliout three feet from the
groiiud, tiie first plank, laid at right
angles with the upright* and parallel
with the cross I team* directly above it,
I wing so adjusted that it eouid IK* with
drawn from it* position at a moment's
notice. The six condemned men were
escorted to this scaffold by a guard of
alsiut three hundred prisoners, armed
with sticks and clnba. They were
placed on tins plank. In lion of the
customary black cap wo encased their
heads iu flour B!Uk*.
Notwithstanding this abaence of cer
emony tiie scene wa an impressive oue.
The gallows stood near tiie top of the
hill, and nearly all the thirty-eight thou
sand prisoners were gathered to witU'-as
the execution. They maintaimxl per
feet silence, refraining from any insults
to tin* condemned. I Hit their hollow eye*,
pale, pinched face*, their savage expres
sion of couutenance, were a sufficient
indication that not one shonld oaca|>e.
The rojM** were carefully adjusted, with
tin* kind in each cane under the left wr,
and, liy a signal, the board witlnirawn
from beneath them. There was a drop
of two feet, and the Ikklio* swung aliout
a foot fnm tiie ground—all but one.
The sixth tnoii. a former sailor in the
navy, i< perceived to have fallen to the
ground. The rope had broken.
In an instant he was on his feet. He
started to run down the hill. The crowd,
oomprelieuding his intention to escape,
followed with a wild yell in pursuit. It
was a (light for life. He had the start
hv a few seeoud* and he made the m<mt
of it. I never saw a man run as he did.
He went down to the moras* with nearly
thirty-eight thousand meu close U|KMI
his heel*. Not finding him there we
looked np and saw him running up the
side of the other hill. We followed, lie
made for one of the huts or sheds, hut
as sism as he heard us coming got oat
an l again started on the run. Widen
ing the distance between u* he again
sought refuge in a dugout, and a sec
ond time had to alaitidou it as we rarac
up. It was twenty minutes before we
tnpi him fast. II" begged piteonslv for
his life, but we hod no mercy. We hail
to drag him down tiie lull through the
sand, theuce through the swamp, and
np the other hill to the scaffold. He
was held by three men on the platform
while the rope was adjusted the second
time, nfter we had splice 1 the rope. He
trembled in every limb. At tiie given
moment the men pushed him from the
scaffold, and he swung clear from the
ground two feet. The robberies never
occurred again.— St.lstui*Krcning
Washington'* Prediction.
In the March number of H*rp*r's
,\Vic Maffdziw B. Phillips
prints a paivr <n "S >ra< Unpublished
Letters of Washington." and among the
letter* there for the first time printed is
one written by Washington himself, hut
for and in the name of hi* wife. In it
he playfully sj*>oulate* upon the time
of hia own death, and curiously enough
guesses within sixteen days of the
nctnal date, although the lettei was
written in the year 1797. We oopy the
passage :
" I am now, by desire of the general
to odd a few word* on his behalf ; which
ho desire* may lie expressed in the
terms following, that is to say,— that
despairing of hearing what may lie sud
of him, if ho really shall go off in an
apoplectic, or any other fit, (for ho thinks
all fit* that iasuo in death are worse
than a love fit. a fit of laughter, and
many other kinds which he could name)
—he is glad to hear lieforehand what
will he said of him on that occasion ;
conceiving that nothing extra: will
happen lietween this and then to make
a change in hia character for I letter, or
for worse—and besides, a* he has enter
ed into an engagement with Mr. Morris,
and several other gentlemen, not to quit
the theater of this world before the year
1800, it may be relied upon that no
breach of contract shall lie laid to him
on that account, unless dire necessity
should bring it aliont, maugrc all his
exertions to the contrary.—ln that esse,
he shall hope thev would do by him **
he wonld by them—excuse it At
[ireaent there seems to be no danger of
lis giving them the slip, a* neither his
health, nor spirits, were ever in greater
flow, notwithstanding, he odds, he ia
descending. .Alia* almost reached, the
bottom of the hill ;—or in other words,
the shades below."
Long-Sighteil One*.
It is an interesting fact that there are
very few persons in the world jsMtsesaiug
a peculiar keei ncss of vision enabling
them to see certain planets with the un
aided eye. People with the ordinary
power of sight nanally see six of the stars
of the Pleiades: Kepler mentions one
person, who, with the naked eye, could
see fourteen, and Littrow another who
saw sixteen. Dr. Dawes, an English
olergyman and astrouomer, was remark
able for his powers of distinguishing
very faint spots of light; and Mr. Q. M.
Ward, an amateur astronomer, iu the
north of Ireland, is known among scien
tific men for having viewed two of the
four moons of Uranus with so small and
simple a help as a four-inch telesoo]H}.
In this country, Mr. 8. W. Buruliam, of
Ohicago, is noted for the particularly
acute vision which reveals to him donble
Btars. The astronomers of other lauds
often call upon him to decide vexed
questions relating to theso Btars.
TKRMB: BU.OO a Year, in Advance.
i. ! A 1.1 EE OF PERIL.
• TtirUllaa A*.sailers ala trirraa IMtrr
l.r.>i>, sk.rlu, aa* Oibrr "übiusrlsr
U llarrara A ItaS It lib llralb.
The assistant superintendent at th"
•* (Milice headquarters in Toledo, Ohio, is
' "Old Jack" Camptiell now nearly
sixty-five te.trs of age, and who has
' been, and still prop<js4*a to lie, a sub
marine diver. To a reporter he ha*
r related some of hia thrilling adti-nturea.
I He gave a graphic description of the ap
" (K-aiain-e of the first sunken steamboat
into which he ever went. It was about
two iuih from shore that the vessel bail
II gone down. He went into her for the
1 imrpocie of recovering her cargo. The
9 bodies were of no consequence, he
" i stated. "It is a singular fart," said he
1 , in subatauoe, " that the rorjase* of
' ' women iu a sunketi vessel alwaya lie
1 face upward, while nreu are invariably
face downward. The cabin of the vessel
' preseuteil a horrid apjM-araure. The
1 bloated iiodies all laid up next the ceil
ing. Home were clasped iu each other's
i arms. One motiier had in her arms her
' tiaby. A husband and wife were clasjicd
" iu each other's embrace ao fiimly that
' they could not pull them apart
: " I dove once in Mobile bay, where I
| put over three thousand cliams under an
iron clad. The greatest annoyance that
we had there was sharks. They didn't
hardly dare tackle us because with our
' armor we looked more like scaro-crows
than auytlnug else. They would come
sailing along aud gradually swim up
toward us with tlieir great big mouths
wide o|M*ti, hut when within a few feet
of us they would au>p and lay there
flappiu' their fins aud louking. it seamed
t<> me like the very eril oue himself.
Finally we devised away to scare them
off that never failed to frighten them ao
that they would stay away an hour or
1 longer l*fore they dare to come back.
The armor that we'wear is air-tight, you
1 know. Our jacket sleeve* were fastened
around our wrists with an elastic, ao
that the air oould not escape. By run
uing illy finger under the sleeve of my
jacket t could let the air out, aud a* it
rushed into the water it would make a
sort of biasing noiae and a volume of
bubbles shoot up. 80, whenever those
sharks would come prowling around me
1 would hold out my arm toward them
and, putting my finger under the elastic
uf tny jacket-h-' ve, 1 wonld let a lot of
air out and send a stream of babble*
into the shark's face, with a hissing
noiae like steam from • gauge-cock.
The way that those sharks wonld go
scooting off was funny to behold.
" I have had several narrow eaca|>e
frmi drowning," said Jack, a* he re
lighted his ancient and much-tanned
pipe, "but about the closest call wa
when 1 was workiu' in the waterworks
crib in Cleveland. Yon aee, much de
pends on having a good signal-tender.
I can tell wheu some one else bceide* the
regular signal man steps up and take*
hold of the line. Ho can any good diver
for that matter. There was the diver
that worked for the ladle Shore Railroad
Company when they were building
the anutment* of their new bridge here
across tiie Mamnee. He, by tiie wav,
wa* paid S4O a dav for 100 day*. He
was working one <lay, shortly alter he
hail liegun on the job, and I went down
to see him. The signal-tender asked
me if 1 wonld take hold of the line. I
did ao, ami gave it three or four little
*hake* that u g.sl diver always under
stand*. He immediately answered back,
and let me understand that he knew 1
wa* there. But I wa*J going to tell yon
about that narrow cscxik-. I had a
signal-tender who didn't hardly Tinder
stand lii* business. The month of the
crib had become atopjied UP with dirt,
and I waa clearing it out. I had crawled
through the entrance, a sort of a door,
and was nntude of the crib. My life
line and hose chafed tiie top of
the door, and all at once When I weut to
turn around, I pulled my helmet off.
There 1 was out in the water, where in a
short time I knew I would drown. I
pulled twite on the life-line for the
signal-tender to pnll me np. bnt he
didn't do it I felt that I was filling np
with water fast, and I pnlled again.
But still he did not understand. Of
course all my armor had filled with
water, ami a* there wa* no air in it I
wa held dowu hy tona' weight. Sud
denly George, who I wa* telling you
ab ml, ami who had just come down to
see ir.e. stepped up and took h>ld of the
life-line, shook it and asked me what 1
wanted. I had just sirrngth enough
left to give two hard pull*, which meant
' Pull m<- up quick.' George, I after
ward heard them tell, yelled to tiie
signal man and told him : * Help m* to
pull in that life-line, and pnll for all
you're worth. fir Jack is drowning.'
Thev hauled me up out of there mighty
quick, now I tell von, and it took lot* of
strength to do it. *l>eeau®e my armor wa*
full of water. When they got me to the
surface I was clear gone, and it wa*
more than an hwr before I came to
enough to sjKwk.
" The decjiost water that I wa* in wa*
ltW fe t, W hen one is down ao low it is
hard work to get air. I have hod the
air-pump manned by six men working
with all their might, aud still I've been
oblige! to keep pulling on the life-line
and calling for more air."
Jell) Tar* on a Land C'rtii*e.
During tii" autumn of 183>, a first
class frigate wa* paid off at the Washing
ton navy yard—an uuusnul thing, lie
cause it wa* hot a depot. The city wa*
taken by storm by the discharged men,
and oue may say "that business was sus
pended for a week. A party would
hire a hack, fill it, aud two or three climb
upon the roof, or a* they tenuis! it. the
deck, and ride about town occasionally
stopping at a greggery to "stow ballast."
Of course thev attended the theatre.
Die old National, now no more, was then
in its glory. One evening the play was
** The Bleediug Nan." When she come
upon the stag)', and, alludiug to the
raurdeier, exclaims: "Alas, he has es
caped!"— "No!" sang ont n sailor in
the pit, "there he is liehiml that door 1
we'll catch him for you I" aud with that,
leading a forlorn hope, he rushed on,
captured, and dragged the trembling
disciple of Thepsis to the footlights, and
the interference of the manager only
prevented them from summarily punish
ing him.
President Johu Qtiincy Adams was a
warm friend of the dram*. At thin time
lie im u nightly attendant. The tars
found out, aomo how or other, that he
was in the houae, and cheers were pro
poeed. The cLeeriug lasted an hour;
when, lo 1 a commotion was heard at the.
door, and in comes .Tack with a waiter
covered with cakes ami aU sorts of oou
fectiouery—after him another, with a
waiter of ices— theu four or five, hearing
waiters with every kind of liquors, all
of which were passed up to the Presi
dent's box. The old man declined as
long as he could, but had to partake.
Then the provisions were passed around
the audience; the play was disregarded,
and loud cheering for the crew of the
followed. Mr. Adams slipped
out as soon as possible, but the theatre
was not closed until three o'clock in the
morning.
That evening the dan souse came very
nigh making her fortune, from the
showering of gold pieces on the stage.
She tlanced between (Jic pieces, and was
encored thirteen times! The night will
never be forgotten in Washington.
NUMBER 11.
FAltfl, MAKDHX AM) HOI'NEHOLD.
The Dairy lalrrM.
Fiotn the address of Mr. J. Real), <d
S'.-w Vurk, liefore the annual convention
of the American Dairymen's Association,
wc present Uiia extract: Mr. Kasll con
trasted the proaporitjr of the ilairj in
dustry with other branches of farming,
business and as ana facta ring whioli had
outrivaled ail. Cheese and butter ware
now bringing relatively higher price*
than ever before. The export last year
to Great Itritain, onr chief customer, had
•mounted to 110,000,000 pounds worth
over $13,000,000, a large increase over
the {mat, and aueoeptahle of still greater
enlargement, Butter had idao lweo ex
jKirted.' to the amount of 14,000,000
pouo-ia. It wa* a known fart that the
. home consumption la not oomuienaurate
with the foreign demand for cheeee, but
it ia because the beat grade* were sent
abroad and the poorest quality forood
ajxiu out own |jeople. If the American
consumer were given a fine full cream
cheese instead of an article skimmed to
death, it would l*eeome popular aa a '
wholesome and nutritious food. It waa !
the skimmed cheese which naturally lies I
like a grindstone on the stomach, and ;
give our people the opinion that cheese j
was indigestible. A mild rich kind !
was demanded by the home trade and
wo Id be appreciated aa highly here as
iu Hug land. In reference to'butter a
stah article, however fine, was no longer
wanted. The public taste had Lteoome
so well cultivated that fresh flavored
butter was demanded at all seasons of
the year- To meet this demand the sys
tem of winter dairying, so suooeasfully
practiced in Illinots where the finest
stock ia made at all seasons of the year, j
must be extended. Creameries or the
associated plan of butter making mast
take the place of private dairies, because
a much higher price is realised for the
product and much waste and labor is
saved the dairyman. Beside*, all classes
should have the opportunity to enjoy
fine flutter, at reasonable prices, aa well
aa all other articles of food.
Dairying gives its followers both
physical and intellectual food. No class
think more or discuss more. This was
attested by their convention* which
should continue to be enoooraged. They
had been of vast benefit not only to their
members but to the entire dairy com- '
m unity.
An important feature of the dairy in
dustry has been the successful estab
liahtnent of two distinct dairy fairs the
past year. One at Meadville, Pa., and
the other at Chicago, the results of which
would be of lasting benefit. Dairy fairs
were of long establishment in England,
where two hsdjaleo been held within the
year. In that country the leading men
of the nation took a pride in participa
tion in meetings of dairymen. At the
fairs, dukes and lords and members of
Parliament officiated. The Prince of
Wales prides himself on having the
finest dairy in England.
.Heairsi II lata.
FOE I XVALll*.—Crust coffee is on ex
cellent anbatitute for tee end coffee;
brown the crusts in the oven, pour hot
water on, and let it stand for an hour on
the back of the range; use milk aatne aa
for other coffee. ,
FOB Dvarxrsu. —Burn alum until the
moisture in it is evaporated; then take
as much as von can put on a dime,
about half an BOOT before eating. Three
or four davs probably will answer; bnt
take it nntil cured.
DIPHTHERIA. -Sulphur used aa a gar
gle is said to be a sure cure for diph
theria This disease is only an accumu
lation of fungus in the * throat, and
snlphnr is a specific for every species of
fungus. If the pstient cannot gargle,
fiat the sulphur on a live coal and let it
>urn under his nose.
BLEEDING AT THE NOSE. —To atop
bleeding at the nose, says an exchange,
exercise the jaws as if in the act of mas
tication. In the case of a child give it
something to chew—a pieoe of paper,
for instance. The motion if the
will soon stop the flow of blood. It is a*
sure remedy, simple as it seems.
CraE run IXCUIEKT Coxsrinriox.—
Live temperatelv, avoid liquor, take a
daily s|Kinge batli, wear flannel next the
skin, and take every morning one-half
pint of fresh milk from the cow, mixed
with a wineglass of the expreaaed jniee
of green horehound- A person who has
tried tlii* remedy says: Four weeks'
use of the horehouod and milk, relieved
the pains of my breast, and gave me
the ability to breathe deep, long and
free, strengthened iaul harmonised my
voice, and restored me to a better state
of health "than 1 had en loved for years.
The remade to be effective must be eon-
tinned for some time.
To Clrai Rlark Tkrrul Urf Te lla.
Mauv a person baa spoiled a compara
tively good black tnroad lace veil in trv
ing to clean it. Such a veil can be made
aim oat aa good aa new if TOO mix bol
lock'a gall with anftcient hot water to
make it aa warm aa Ton own bear your
hand in. and paas the veil through it.
It muat be aqoeaaed, not nibbed; and it
will be well to perfnme the gall with a
little mtiak. Rmae the veil through two
cold water*, tinging tho la*t with a
little bine. After drying, put it into
acme stiffening made by j>oaring boiling
water on a very small piece of glne;
aqneexe it ont, airetch it. and clap it.
Afterward pin it out on a linen cloth to
dry. laying it very straight and even,
taking care to pin the edge very nicely.
When dry iron it on the wrong side,
having laid a linen-doth over the iron
ing blanket. Any article of black lace
may be waahed in this manner. Some
people prefer to use spirits of ammonia,
and it cleans very well.
Wonder* of the American Continent.
The American Enquirer thus cata
logue* a few of the wonders of the
American continent: The greatest cata
ract in the world i* the Fall* of Niagara,
where ihe water from the great npper
lake* form* a river of three-fonrth* of a
mile in width, and then being suddenly
contracted, plunges over ihe rocka in
two columns to the depth of 175 feet.
The greatest cave in the world is the
Mammoth cave, of Kentucky, where any
one can make a voyage on the waters of
a subterranean river, and oateh fish
without eye*. The greatest river in
the world' is the Mississippi, 4,000
miles long. The largest valley in
the world as the valley of the Mis
sissippi. Io contains 5,000,000 square
miles, and is one of the moat fertile re
gion* of ihe globe. The largest city
park in the world is in Philadelphia. It
contains over 2,700 acres. The greatest
grain port in the world is Chicago. The
largest lake in the world is Lake Supe
rior, which is truly an inland see, being
430 miles long and 1,000 feet deep. The
longest railroad at present is the Pacific
railroad, over 3,000 miles in length. The
greatest mass of solid iron in the world
is the Pilot Knob of Missouri. It is 350
feet high and two miles in circuit. The
best specimen of Grecian architecture in
the world is the Girard college for orph
nus. Philadelphia. The largest aqueduct
in the world is the Croton aqueduct,
New York. Its length is forty and one
quarter miles and it cost $12,500,000.
The largest deposits of anthracite coal
in the world are in Pennsylvania, the
mines of which supply the market with
millions of tons annually, and appear to
be inexhaustible.
Item* ef litfmt.
The first thing in a boot in the laat
ChiMgo paper* aay that no man'* Ufa
w aafe in that erty.
Stanley** AfHeaa nam* ia ' The Lit
tle Van with Mnoh Face."
The flmt boon of .lumber am the
*wwtit. If ever a man aleep* the
■loop of the Jimt, it ia wham be** i n *t
aaleep. , •# ,
A Michigan paper aaya Tramp* oof
♦hi* way lire on the choioeat meat*.
Bvery ono of than gots warm tongue at
moat every hooaa.
At Tracy City, Tens., recently, John
Manga*, a baker, etotod himaolf np in
hi* own oven and waa baked to death—
cremated to a cinder. *
Tfca Atlanta OtmalUuHon think* that
tha gold yield of Georgia, which ia now
half a million a year, may be raiaed to
the aame amoant monthly.
Immena* bed* of copper hay* boon
found at Bine Bill, Ma., and in the
neighboring town of Bedgwiek mlver
vetus of much promiae bare been un
covered, the ore aeaayjng from |IOO to
JOOO a ton.
The former private aecretary of Preai
dont Polk baa been diaoovered, old
and poor, in Hanta Fe. He waa well
acquainted with Andrew Jaekaon, and
rclatea bow he ono* aaw him praying
at the grave of hi* wife
OB* of the Imrgtwt shoe firm* in Boe
tou has just concluded BO arrangement
with the Peruvian government to far
niab 85,000 pairs of men's shoes. The
firm had previously filled so order for the
same government for 10,000 pairs of
shoes.
What a beautiful example of aimnlici
tj in drees is shown some of the follow
ers of (sshion bj that domestic soimsl
the est. which rises in the morning,
washes its face with its right hand, gives
its tail three jerlu, and is ready dressed
for the day!
An exchange says s good way to man-
I age a fiero* dog is " to sains htm by the
under jsw, with s stiff thumb under his
ungw-." As an amendment we would
( suggest that the dog be a very small one,
ana not old enoagh to have any very
| definite ideas as to the use of teeth.
! Oilmantou, N. IL, has a lady farmer,
Mrs. J. D. Piper, who, though over sixty
years of age, owns and manages a farm
of seventy-five acres. The past sum
mer rite has herself doeeall her fanning,
i planting, hoeing, harvesting and other
farm work, with the exception of hay
tug.
TWO axsaoxa.
WbTO 1 Ids* Lbs* on thy lips,
Tt Bay own lw to impart;
i or U4asn those swsst roaa-huds
Li** the doorway of thy hssrt,
WhrtO 1 km tbae oo thine ores,
"tS to bid thy Vore-thks roll ;
Par ten—Si thiwe velvet ltd*
Am the foanteuna of the mat.
A arlioalboy bstcg requested to write
a composition upon the subject of pins
produced the following : " Pins are very
useful. They have saved the lives of a
great many men, women and children—
in fact whole families." " Bow so ?"
asked the puxslad teacher. The boy
replied : " Why, by not swallowing
them."
" Does this razor go easy V asked a
harber of a victim who was writhing un
der a clumsy lndrument, whose chief
reoommendation was a strong handle.
•' Wall." replied the poor fellow, " that
depends upon what you call the opera
tion. If you are skinning me, it goes
tolerably easy, but if you're shaving, it
goes ratker hard."
In 1876 cnk* and wild animals in
India killed 19,278 persons and 54,830
head of cattle. There were slain 28,549
wild animate and 212,371 snakes, rewards
' to the amount of $62,287 being paid for
their destruction. There were killed
be auakm 15,946 persons, by elephants
• 52, by tigers 917, by leopards 156, by
t>aar> 123, by wolves 887 and by hyenas
49. The ""'■ destroyed were : Ele
phants 4; tigert 1,693;" leopards 8,768;
bean 1,352; wo!res 5,976 snd hyenas
1,585
1 WalterS. HarW and Robert Fish
bone, of WaHerboro', a" C., were
brothers-in-law. They quarreled in
consequence of some opprobrious hm
gnsge addressed by the former to the
latter. Piahtmrne sought to make Har
ley withdraw the offensive words. He
declined to do an, and a challenge fol
lowed; t hey met at a point a few miles
from Saranah; Harley discharged his
pistol in the air, and Fishbnme sent a
bullet into Hariey's body, inflicting s
mortal wound.
A narrow escape from a singular sod
dent occurred m the hunting field in
England the other day. The Atherstone
hounds, a celebrated peck, were in pur
suit of a fox, which tried to escape by
leaping into a stone quarry, eighty feet
deep, but was killed oy the fall. The
leading dog of the pack also leaped in
sad was dashed to pieoes, and the others
would hare followed had not the men
employed in the pit, seeing the danger,
formed a line upon the brink and driven
the dogs hack.
Cotton seed some years ago was con
sidered worthless, snd immense piles of
it accumulated on the Southern planta
tions. For s number of years it has
been utilized, however, .nd has become
s valuable source of income. It yields
per ton alxmt seven hundred pounds of
cake or meal and thirty-five gallons of
oil. The meal is worth $lB per ton, the
" cake " from $24 to S2B, ana the oil in
its crude state, thirty-eight cents per
gallon. Much f the " cake "is exported
Por maiyr years past in an eastern
city a letter addressed to " Philip
Gregory, Esq.," has been dropped every
dsy info the mail, with no indication of
the place of residence of the person for
whom it was intended. All began.'' My
own darling Philip," and ended, "Tour
faithful affl affectionate Mary," and ex
pressed the writer's undying love and
confidence that her lover would return.
Now suddenly the letters have ceased,
and the clerks in the dead latter office at
Washington really feel lonesome and
sad.
Cooking by meaus of solar rays has
been tried successfully at Bombay, and
an apparatus has been contrived to eonk
chops and steaks in the open air as well
and expeditiously as over an ordinary
fire. The apparatus consists of a copper
vessel, tinned inside and painted black
outside, with a glass cover enveloping
the vessel with an inch of hot air, and
fixed on to the bottom of a conical re
flector lined with common silvered sheet
glass. If pwparly covered over it will
retain the heat for full three hours and •
halt
Mrs. Angela Podesta-Onetta died re
cently in Cincinnati at the remarkable
age of one hundred and nine
years and one day. after being confined
to her bed only "three days. For about
three months previous she had been
ailing somewhat, but she did not take to
her lied until the Wednesday preceding
her death. Her last hours were painless,
and her death came as calmly as if she
were going to sleep. Mrs Podesta-
Onetta was born Jan. 10,1769, in the
village of Yignoio, Italy. Ai the age of
twenty she was married to Podesta, by
whom she had eight children, four boyß
and four girls. Her second marriage
was to a wandering mosioiau named
Onetta, wlieu she was eighty-six years
of age. When 100 ypars old she danced
all night at a ball in Cincinnati.
The Rain Tree.
Among the many virtues of the euca
lyptus or blue gum tree is the property
of absorbing moisture, and instances
are related in which moist and marshy
places have been made comparatively
dry by planting trees of this species
upon then}, although the method of
draining Mu> not yet come into general
use. Thafe is another tree whose prop
erties are as wonderful as the blue gpm.
It is the rain tree of Peru ; and it is said
that moistorw drops from its leaves and
tjraaohes all the time, and that in some
instances the ground around it becomes
a swamp. It would appear from these
facte that by a judicious use of these
trees, which* are so opposite in nature,
the wet places of tee earth can be made
dry and the dry place* wet—that deserts
may bo turned into swamps and swamps
into deserts. The rain tree, whose pe
culiar property is said to increase in the
dry season, might be made useful for
inigation in thia State.