Friendship and Flattery. L Whan Friendship flrtit nana down to earth. With heart of generous mold. And soul of trutn and heavenly wvrth, 'Twaa in the age of gold. She taught the love that eame from tied For all humanity j Sweet Pity in her footsteps trod, . With Faith and t'harity, tl. lint Flatteiv, an the world grew old. Stole Friendship's honest faoe , When Truth'* atern accent* grew le*a bold. tnd Falsehood taught grim see. Th indignant martyr did not wreak Her vengeance upon men, Nor soar on refluent wing to eeeh Her home in heaven again. The White Cur. [Ths White o*r in lvtw the Great. Baty nahka, ifeir, and >k>u.t*r. .Vrwvtyn, are tit lent ho Uii**i*n people arv fond of giving to the Crar tu thou popular *ong*.l Dt>t thou *OO on tho rampart'* height That wreath of mist, In tho light Of the midnight moon? Oh, hit! It i not a wreath of mint ; It i* tho Csar, tho White t'ur, lutyu*hk* ' (k>udar' B ha* hoard, among tho dead, Tbo artillery roll o'orhoad ; Tho dram*, and tho tramp of foot Of hi* aoldiery in tha ktrset : 110 1* awake ! the Wait* i *ar, Haty n*!>ka ' Gosndsr! He ha* hoard in tho grave the one* Of hi* people : " Aaako ' ariee !" no ha* rent the gold brocade Whereof hi* ahrvmd *• made He u risen the White t'aar. Hatyuahka ' Ooaudar i From the Volga and the IVui. Ho ha* led hi* anniea on, OTST river and mora**, Over desert and moat.Uin pa** ; The Ciar. the Orthodox Caar, Batyuahka! Oosudar 1 Ho look* from tbo mountain chain Toward tho *ea* that cleave m twain The coutiueats ; hi* hand Point* aouthwanl o'or the land Of Roomeiee! O Caar. Batyuahka ! Gosudar ! And tho word- break frotu his lit* '• I am the builder of ships. And my ship* 'hall *aii those seas To tho Pillar* of Hotvuie*' 1 say it; the White Caar, liaty uahka ' Gosudar ! "Tho lVwphoru* shall he free . • It ha!l mkt room for mo ; And the gate* of us water-*tret* BJ unbemsl before my Soot*, 1 *y it; the White Crar. Batyuahka' Gosudar ! "And tho Christian shall no more Be crushed a* heretofore. Beneath thine iron rule, 0 Saltan of ltambonl' 1 *vroar it! I, the Csar. Batyuahka ' Goendar!" lirnr It". m tfu .Irion,'.<• VvnAly. His Landlady's Daughter. "Yes, Mr. M Govern, she is coming borne to-morrow." "No? Kealiy—ah I I mean—ex actly—yea !" "Ah, Mr. M'Govern, if TOU could know how I've toiled and slaved and pinched that that girl could have an edi catton ! I never had no learning my self." " Precisely—just so." " And I made up my mind that Annie should be a lady, and she is, sir, she is—" "Certainly—no doubt Really the fact is—Would you mind?—l am very busy." Now the fact was that Mr. M'Govern was determined not to take the slightest interest in the w..rid :u his landlady's daughter. Aud at tliis moment he was, also, engag.d up i a piece of work that not only absorbed all li.s energies, but apparently presented difficulties that he wa not likelv to overcome. The case lay jn*c here. Mr. M 'Gov ern, salesman ami commercial traveler for a large dry-goods house, had recent ly male the acquaintance in an adjacent town, not as large, but fancying itaeif quite as important, as New York, of a young lady who had suddeuly inspired him with the exaggerated sentiment we commonly call love. At least he thought so. And now the problem lay, how to awaken a corresponding emotion in the heart of the fair Wing to whom he felt anxious aud b. tica witli Annie than he sjeedily made up his mind that ilia administration ot our Republican government was the one thing on earth that he kuew nothing about. How humiliating it was' The same thiug over agwiu. "If you ain't a rich man or a newspaper chap, what .wti von do with a girl ? They get their heads packed full of things at school that a fellow wbo'a got his liviug to earn can't know anything about, aud if yon haven't got any money— This world's a beastly hole!" concluded Clarence M'Govern; and IU that atuteineiit he em bodied the sentiuieuta'of many a wiser man. Rut iu this ess* it was too M. Now with Arabella, rich, besatilul and well born, it was different; but to le extin guished by Mrs. Gibson's daughter! he, Clarence M'Govern— abominable! Was he not a rising man, and were there not indications of good birth in liis every feature and in his very name? Tola 1 sure, he hated to attempt tracing his lineage; it would bolt up against a tailor's shop in the Bowerv in such an aggravating manner. But clearly names spruug from something. Why should his auceetora have been named M'Govern if they had never had anything to gov ern?—impossible ! But such a plebeian name as Gibson —bah ! But there was something very delight ful in Annie's society when he kept out of deep waters ; and when one day ahe asked him, very sweetly : " Who is Ara bella?" Mr. M'Govern felt that his cup of happuieea was full. With Arabella for a sweetheart and Anuie for a con fidante, what man could want more ? The flood-gates of hit soul were opened. He certainly lacked the eloquence of that much-to-be-en vied newspaper chap ; but Anuie was sympathetic, and she got a notion of his longings, hi* doubts, his aspirations, quite as correct as if they hail been mure elegantly expressed. Ttien came the story of the sonnet that wouldn't allow itself to be written, and the stupid, uncontrollable, contumacious behavior of that awful pollysvllable Arabella. " Don't put it iu at the end of a line," suggested Annie. " Get over it at once, and have it out of the way." "Capital!" said Mr. M "Govern. "Could you. Misa Annie, give me an idea, a suggestion, a line or two per haps ?" " What style will yon have it in ?" " Weil, something a little like Tenny son, with a dash of Shelley, just a trifle of Swinburne possibly." He had evi dentlv been reading tip. " liow would this do?" suggested the accommodating Anuie, with a twinkle in her eve that somehow made Mr. M'Gov ern blush to the roots of his hair : •• ArsU-lU. gaie upon me With thy soft and gentle etas. the wrong that thoa haat done me : All my troubled apirit Ilea Fainting with its deep emotion. I'nlM-leoa aa a tropic ocean. And I seem as one who lieth Low uoon his couch and dieth. " " Beautiful 1 Go on." Now the result of all this was that within the next three weeks Miss Ara bella received no less than nineteen love poems, all signed " Claren *e M Govern " in that gentleman's best style, with a flourish underneath at least four inches long. But somehow this partnership iu poetry did not seem to agree with An nie, and before long she announced her intention of visiting a friend in the country. She "needed a change," ahe said. Curiously now, the holes in Mr. M "Govern * stocking began to re-appear; the dust resumed its normal sway, and the only line of poetry the young man could remember was "Thou wiltoome no mors, gentle Annie." which he whistled so lugubriously that one morning, out of pure sympathy, Mrs. Gibaou put her hea l inside his door aud whispered, consul i ugly ; " Lor' bless yon, yes, she will, Mr. M'Govern; she's only gone for a month." Then Clarence began to wonder where his thoughts had been straying ; and as poetical effusions were no longer a pos sibility, he resolved to see Arabella at once, and put his fate to the touch, and win or lose it all. It was a night of wind and raiu ami sleet as Mr. M'Govern left the station and approached the Lockwood mansion. Miss Arabella would see him in a few momenta, and in the meantime would he wait in the library ? Fancying himself in solitude, he selected the easiest cluur, and was just oomposiug his address to the fair object of his affections, when a small voice appealed to him pathetically: " Pleathe, thir, thitli ith too thick, it won't twitht." "What is it, my child?" inquired Clarence,affectionately, seating the small petitioner on his kne. •'l'th makiu'Lamp-ligbterth. Thithter Bella gave me all thitli white paper. I wanted new, but she tliaid it wath good enough for me; there wath nothing on it but some tbilly vertheth that big fool —she tbaid bith name, but I forget—bail written to her. Don't pinch me tho; I'll theream." Oh agonies of unrequited affection! There, curling gracefully around a lamp lighter, destined perhaps to light one of his rival's cigars, were the tender lines: " Arabella gaze upon me With thy soft and gentle eye." The rest were gone, unless they might be discovered on the vicious morsel of paper that "wouldn't twitht." In leea than two minutes Mr. M'Gov ern was in the street. Oh, the dismal, dreary, sleeting iniquity of that night! Where was the station ? It had disap peared. Down in torrents rsme the rain, freezing as it fell; slippery and more slippery grew the pavement; only s cat or some animal with claws could have maintained a systematic perpendicular. Suddenly down went Mr. M'Govern. Perhaps it was a blessing, for the sud den application of oold ice to the hack of his head restored his consciousness of where he was, and he turned toward the railway station, having in his excitement wandered half a mile in the opposite direction. Had that partial bath suddenly oooled his paasion ? Clarence could not have told, but somehow be did not feel as miserable as he had expected, only very wet, and the ride home seemed interm inably long. Two or three days passed by, and even yet Mr. M'Govern was in a remarkably serene frame of mind for a disappointed lover. A week passed away, when sud denly he began to feel a serious distress in his left ankle. This struck him at onoe as peculiar, as, according to all precedent, the anguish should have pro ceeded direct from his heart. But pretty soon the invisible tweezers of a moat malignant imp began to wrench him in the knee; before long the grip was upon his arm; thence it struok to bis hip; and utterly in the power of the enemy, Mr. M'Govern awoke one morn ! ing and found himself, not like the | Philistines dead, bat unable to move a i limb, and helpless before the eye* of THE CENTRE REPORTER. Kitty, the wwitree*, who, Ute ut the morning. poked her hed into the room wud inquired if he were ever to^et up ' Oct up ?" no! Not for weeks upon weeks <1 il Mr. M'Govaru run* from his lawl. They blutvrtsl luin, they poulticed him, UIPV dosed him, they drugged him: tint all to no affect. The fever wool.! have its way iti spite of the whole inedt nhariuaoopuii*. Kind of 11, they placed him iu the eliarge of a monstrous male nui se, whom Clmvnfis in hi* impotent furr, mentally denominated a "great hulking brute," hut without whiwe***is tauoe the nnfortuuate victim of Ins at tentions oouht not eveu turu iu last. Bow lis grew to hate the horrible ore* ture who shawl over him .lav and night! Eveu Mr*, Gibson s craaking lioota ami high-pitched voice became a blessing when, in the interval" of her domestic labors, the looked iu upou the sufferer. But Auuie—if he could haw h*d Anuiel Finallr, iu his scmi-dehrium he began to call aloud for her; ami Mrs. (liliaou, whether out of the motherliiies* of her own heart, or laa-ause she hail her own ideas about Auuie and this thriving young dry-good" salesman much oannot la- expected of landladies with marriageable daughters promised liirn that Annie should la- sent for. At last ahe came; ami whether the -trength of the enemy was spent, or whether he did not dare apply his freezing, burning implements of torture iu Annie's gentle presence, the demon of rheumatism wa exorcised and peace began to reign. Mr. M'Govern began to fancy that he hail lapsed into paradise, such was the glory of convaleaconee. And Annie was everywhere. Onoe more the dust dis appeared, atul Clarence himself wit nessed the magical gestures through which it suffered auuiliilatiou; he also saw the very process by which all hole* depart from a stocking, save the one by which the foot enters it, Annie's fair fingers, that only wrote poetry under compulsion, aaemed to luxuriate iu the composition of broths and aonjm and jellies. And then, while the freah air of the spring-time stole in through the fiower* that Auuie hail placed in the window, and Mr. M'Govern lolled Upon tbe sofa in all the enjoyment of valetudinarian luxury, a great strife arose in his mind. He was thinking—of Auuie f No; of Mrs. Gilisou. Gould he; could he*— the blood of the M'Ooverps ! Hut when Auuie came ouce more, and her little hands were busv arouud his refructorv pillows, he found he could; and he did. " Auuie, Annie, 1 love you." "And Arabella?" It was a cruel blow, aud the spirit of the invalid was roused. Excitement began to gleam in the great hollow eves, anu he had just tune to ejaculate, " Con found her!" when Annie's hand wa* over his mouth, and Annie's soft voice reiterat.il the doctor's injunction to "keep very quiet." Then, iu a tueck voice, " Say yes; won't you, Annie?" "I haven't !>een asked anything." " Then pat your arm under my head, and let me go to sleep. If you don t, 111 go into a rage, and make myself sick. ' Annie did as she was bid. Somo two hours afterward, when Mr. M"Govern omdesernded to awake, his first distinct articulation was, "And' Anuie, a-abont—your—your mother ?" Annie withdrew her arm, and began to look severe. " N.< a word about mother. Tliere isn t such a cook iu the universe." "No; that is true." And sundry visions of the days when he hail an ap|*- tite began to rise before Mr. M'Govern's eves. " Annie you are right. She shall live with us." And Annie, who hail rememlwred what she had suffered from Arabella, replac ed her arm, and, like a true woman, answered, "Of courae." Harper't Weekly. Chained Amid the Flame*. A recent fire in a Terrr Haute |lud.) cattle yard resulted in the burning to death of a large number of cattle. A local paper says : The Are had not been burning many minutes until the men were at work taking the chains rapidly off the cattle in both the old and the new buildings and driving them out by hun ire-ls into yards south of the shed*. Bnt after getting into the dry old loft the fire swept over the hay like a flood, licking up the dry lioords with a fierce roar. Very soon it was so hot that the stock men had to get outside to save their lives, and abandoned to their fab' nearly '2OO of the poor beasts, chained fast to the solid lieams, stauding closely together in long rows. For a short time they bellowed in the agony of the horri ble'pain, then inhaled the stifling gas and sank down writhing and dying. About a doxeu jumped out of the west side. Of these three were seen to swim serosa the river ; a fourth tried to do it, but was so weak that it stuck fast in the mud on the bank A fifth rushed lawk into the fire and perished. Among the herd in the yard* were many which were oonspisnous for their rod and blis tered backs, and some were walking about with the skin pooled off in scorched Utters. One great steer rushed out of the south eud of the building long after it was completely enveloped iu flames, bounded through the crowd and staggered awav, his eves burned out of their socket*, liis now* burned away, and his whole body steaming like a hot ket tle as he got into the cnol air. Another, in the extreme southeast corner was un fastened by the fire and was dragged out by the tail, but oould not rise, and was knocked in the head. The whole unmlier of oattle lost was in the neighbor hood of 185 or 190. They were worth forty to sixty-five dollars apiece. Nome Busy Workers ('ndergreund. It is not generally known to what extent we are indebted to worms for the productiveness of our gardens and fields. It has lieen found, by a series of experiments carried out by a German naturalist, that the tunnels made by worms into the earth are frequently of much service to plants whose roots occupy the channels that have thus lieen mailt-. The mold of oar gardens, and fields, too, is improved to an almost inconceivable extent by the borrowings of this humble insect. Each worm in less than a week pAeses through its body its owu weight in mold, and the soil thus produced is fine and light, and ex tremely helpfnl to the growth of plants. When it is remembered that there are in every acre some .14,000 worms, aud that in addition to forming every day about thirty-seven pounds of fine mold, they open up the subsoil and render it fertile, we shall gain some slight con ception of our indebtedness to these apparently insignificant and generally unthought-of little workers. Llfe-Saving Service. The general superintendent ot the United States life-saving service has sub mitted his annual report of the opera tious of that service for the last fiscal year. The leport shows that there have been during the year 134 disasters to vessels within the limits of the opera tions of the service. On hoard these vessels there were jnst 1,600 persous. Estimated value of the vessels, $1,986,- 744 ; and of the cargoes, $1,306,588. Number of lives saved, 61,461 ; lost, thirtv-nine. Amount of property saved, f1,7i8,647 ; amount lost, $1,579,065. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA.. THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1878. AN KtiYFTIAN HAIRIAiIE. ('■rl*ws l ucowa Ihm grsall I" IS** KSs- Site's KtaaSsia. The following interesting account of an Egyptian marriage is taken from l>r. Kluuauiger's book of "I'pper Egypt: Wheu then young mm wishes to have a wife, tlie father and mother twit out iu quest of a brule for him. Hoth young jieople hate also to aoqille.*e m tlie arrangement, they cannot In* fonW, ami the marriage is not valid until on the " um.ivering ami unveiling " the jiair feel a mutual jileaaure. l'lie search for the bride is generally uuueeeasary, as tu two-thirds of the casi-s it lia* beeu previously imttled that the young felh>w is ti marry his female cousin, ami if he has none, more distant relations are aj>- plied to, aud last strangers. Ou the evening of tlie wedding dav is held the marriage banquet, ou which great sums are often exjiemled by the more wealthy. Everybody iu the |>la.!e is invited t• tlie house of the bride s parent's. Whole hecatombs (tins is often literally correct) of sheep are slaughtered and devoureil with a rapid ity that has ISHVUI proverbial with the most voracious ajqictite. Duly the very jK.iiest iv>utlue tliems*lves to mvitiug none but the member, of their intimate family eirule. Iu the course of tlie day the bride and bridegroom frequently take a bath, to which they often proceed iu grand procession. The chief festivi ty d.w not take plaiv, however, until nightfall. I'uder the red glow of crack ling j>itoh torches, anud the uumehslious noise of cojqier hand at of the bridegroom, ia generally for this day oulv. She is ombrm-vd and al most carries! by two wive* and followed bv a crowd of women and girls uttering cries of joy. The house of feasting is lighted up otitaide with guy lamjis and lanterns, and lie re the people amuse ttKVnselres with the dancing girl*, sing er* and buffoons, or, if more seriously disjswed. listen to tlie mysterious word's of the Koran or tire themselves out in xikra, while the bridegroom mount* to the chambers of the women and lift* the veil of her who ha* been chosen for him, and wbeiu lie ha* never yet M-CB, unless tormented by impatience, he has already, m the oocaan >n ol the proc'aaiu from the moa<]ne gone through this momentous proceeding in the house of the bride. Tliere she stands liefore him the little, tender, lovely maiden, her eyes deeply blackened with kohl, her hands colored rod, her face dotted over wiUi beauty jvta; her tender limbs can scarcely support all her heavy ornament* of gold and silver—lier armlet*, bracelet*, anklet*, crowns, hair chains ami other trinket*. The doll bride blualiea in childish mtsleatv, ami, instead of her husband, not seldom sialics— her play- Umig*. He, however, intimate* to her, in the name of God, the all-merciful, that he ha* become her husband. If the bridegroom has had reason* to be satisfied with his bride, tlie women who have been in attendance on the j>air utter cries of pleasure, and the joy JSUIMCS through tlie whole house ami ex tend* to Uie people collected below. hiring by Steam. A theory which has frequently been before the public of Iste years, and which relates to an inq>ortant question of domestic economy, lias apparently been solved at Lockport, X. Y., and in favor of the theory. The matter refers to the heating of buildings by wholesale, instead of singly, a* i* now the custom. According to a Ijockport paper a large school building, the largest hall in the town, with other rooms in the satne building, and forty large dwellings, are all hr ated by steam made in a single boiler five feet by sixteen in size, and Isolde this two steam engines, one of them more than half a mile from the boiler house, are run by steam from the same boiler, Alxmt three milesof Htroet mains have lieen laid, extending through fifteen *tre t* and supplied with steam st u pressure of thirty pounds to the inch. The total space warmed by this single boilw is more than one million of cubic feet. The originator of this system claims to have proved that a district of I four square miles can lie economically wanned from one central point. The company lay the pipes in the street* and collect from tlieir customers the expense of laying the service pipes from the curbstone. Tlie style and expense of the radiators in the houses are deter mined by the taste or means of the householders. The steam supplied by this company may be put to the follow ing practical use's; "The warming of dwelling houses ; the cooking of fool ; the washing and drying of clothes; the running of steam engines and tlie extin guishment of fires." Both pure dry steam tor heating purposes, and hot water from condensed steam for lattudry purposes, are delivered in every dwell ing. Tlie apparatus iu each dwelling is under ready and perfect control. The condensed steam furnishes to each house an abundant supply of pure and soft | water. The cost of heating building* in this manner i* not given, Imt it is probably mnch lea* than the ordinary expense. The fuel, being used iu large quantities, can be bought at wholesale prices, and being used at one central point thero must be a waving in transportation,while the saving in manual lalsr in the care of fires must be very large. The llatsvlan Way. The Malay policemen of Batnvin, in the island of Java, are armed with a singular weapon—pitchfork. It is not, strictly speakiug, a wespon at all, either of of fense or defena.. It is the policeman's aid. When at night he meets a drunken sailor, noisy and obstinate, the police man puts the fork around "Jacks neck, and makes him walk along. Thai Jack may move along willingly, the Eoints of the fork are curved inward. If e tries to escape, or move* his head violently, lie tears his neck. He may advance slowly, but move he muat, and I in the way he propelling policeman di reots. Simple Remedies. In country Ueigiiborbuoiia it la often mx-eaaary to send miles for a ihiebir, while even in the city the family phy sician is not always to lie had on the instant. Therefore it l. well to be familiar with the many niluplc remedies always at hand IU • > 'V household— the jiroiupt use of which may frequently save |aill, and sometimes life itself. ()f Thee hot water probably ileaervea the first rank, since the facility with which it is to be had is not (infrequently a matter of life or death. In convulsions from teething, or in Violent attaekn of croup, the physician wheu he comes will probably at ouce order the hot bath. The water for thin should In* just hot enough to hr this it should lie strong, while weak salt water is good for weak or inflamed eyes. We know of au old French ladv who at sixty was able to read aud sew without the aid of glasses, and who at tributcd the |>re*ervation of her eye sight to the regular application of French brandy and salt, night and morning, jn.t 1.-fore going to Iml and immediately on rising. The jiropor tions were a gill of bramlv to a teasjHsiu fnl of salt—the ajijdtoafion t-> In* made with the tq of the finger on the Inl of the closed eye, along the lashes, keep tug the eye closed until the brandy dried. In households where lxsilly in ilrfu'.ty or disease calls for hot rocks or hot lndtles, a bag of hot salt will In* found useful in their st< aJ. The salt should In* heated ill the oven, aud pour *l iut- the tug, which is 'hen sewed up. If retains its beat longer than either water or stone, does not acoreb, and of course cannot break and wet the Imhling. In addltlou, the (act that in*- sidr. the beat which It afford*. the salt is itself of value aa au outward upplica turn in ease, of neuralgia or rheumatism. A roasted otnon wrajiped iu brown jiajn-r or in a nuwnjMper, and laid over the ear a* hot as can In- borne, will r-- lieve the m<*t inteiisc earache when arising from cold; ami ue have known it successful where the jnuti calm* from a ruing iuaide the head, ami other remrxlies had faibxl. Hlnx-s of raw union bn*l *m a plate iu the chamber of a patient ill with infection* disease, act* as a disinfectant and at- h"*e seen it stated that when the dlacw- was small tliev turned black ami -.erayed in the ixmrM! of two or three noura, thus jimving lioa tuuch atmospheric poison they alssirb. An exchange is re*t*>*i ble for tlie statement that sliced raw onions placed nmler the arm-pita, will relirva aveope ; act a* au autidoie found to mitigate the jam until oilier aj'plicationa can In* used. Mus tard an i warm water sll rrv-l together is an excellent emetic, and wheu ipeoac ; or tartar emetic i* not at hand it alwml.l given at once. Warm aoajwnds will serve the same purpoae iu an emergency —when nothing elm* is to t>e had —and a life may often depend upon the prompt action of an emetic. Murity at liome than combined with we know not what nostrum* wheu liought from the druggist*. A Renaare From Far Alaska, A voung man who was in Alaska some lour*rears ago fell in love with the only voung lady on the island, s girl of fifteen, who was )riwessed of extraordinary beanty, and whose hsir fell lielow her knees'. But hs wa* unable to com municate the "old, old story to her, for she did not understand a word of 1-lngbsli, nor did he s|c*k Russian. In his dilemma the arrival of the priest on j his ouce-in-two-year* visit wss a god send and to him he made known his love. The priest, knowing the voung man to l>e possessed of s high character and a fair fortune, thought it wns a lucky chance for the young lady to escape from s life of such isolation, and he williuglv persuaded the girl s mother (her father was dead) to consent to the match, but the young lady herself was not to b panm*l*il. Hh* argtiM that she hail never spoken to the young man who expressed such a desire to be her husband, and only seen him twice, nUl * he had been on the island only forty eight davs; but her objections were overruled, and the marriage took place. After living in Alwki for month*. Hie voung man brought his bride to his home in Cleveland, 0. Mhe was astou i islicd at the fashions she saw, and de clared that nothing would induce her to wear her hair otherwise than flowing a* she hail always worn it. But before twenty-four hours bail passed her , mother-in-law hsd persuaded her to try the effect of braids around her broad and ahapely head; and now she dresses as much in the fashions s* anv lady in ! Cleveland. Last vesr he# husband wit ! to Alaska again *>•! brought home tlie vounger sister, who is eleven years of ace and promises to be a* beautiful a* tMelder The mother, l>ereft of both her children, still clings to her home on I one of the islsads of Alssks. Ills Chief Anxletj. Wednesdav evening a boy about eight years old, who had become bewildered down town and whose ear hail tieen nipped by the frost, was taken to the central station to get thawed ont and cheered up. The men in charge talked to him in n fatherly way, pnt liniment on his ear, and the boy seemed to be foil of grit. After a time, however, the big tears were observed rolling down hi* cheeks, and the captain said : "Why, bnb, I wouldn't feel bail. It isn't much of a frost-bite. " But it shows, don't it? tremblingly asked tha lad. ....... ~ ~ " Why, yes, a little bit; bnt I wouldn t care for that." " Maybe you w-wonldn't!" gasped the hoy, "but you h-hain't engaged to -to lie married us I am, and that make* a b-big difference!" They couldn't argue against that, and the boy wept bitterly. Anfroff Free Pre**. The KU Peasantry. 0u million tit wit inhabit Hwitaerland. About three million.of |*.>pie, also, out) IVIW to I lirr>e jieople. Kiu'li family ta en titled tolrt-f pasture for oue cow ou the paxtalt lot*, 1 put the dow* and the peo ple into tin. aim-iatiou Ixwmuae theouws are till! wealth of the people, Olid the word Alps muiiuk high {Mature. A cow i worth here aud now, a litiudred dol lar., gives thirty pnuni* of milk daily, which produce, two huudrod weight of cheese tu a season. These oowa are driven up the inounUuiis as the season udinmx B, ami down when it in time for them to descend, ami so they get all there ut to lie eaten a. it grows. Three person, are aaaigned to every forty cows; they milk them ami make the cheese for the whole nnmlter of owners, ami wheu the product in sold, the profit* are div ided among them according to the uum ber of cow. of each. The term rhalrt is properly applied only to the bulging, of those cow-keepers, hut it is siao given to Hwisa dwellings generally. The small buildings scattered over the ibid* ar- for hay, cheese, ami shelter. The cow. are petted ami carefully attended to. I'erhajM none of them became so intelligent as to read their names on a card |.ited at the stalls they are to eu ter, an it w:i. jestingly affirmed of my friend Mr. Starr's cows, at Litchfield, Echo Farm. But each canton lia* his Kan: dr I'aoAcs, s melody that the peasant sing, on the hills and respond from the vales, which is merely a eow owll; in German a Kuhreihen; "rows of cows " in Kuglish, limaM they come in a row in answer to the call. As the making of butter and cheese is the great business of the people, the raising of grss. for winter feed is a matter of prime importance, and to it they l**nd all their energies ami ingenuity. The smallest and most obscure sj.it where grans can lie made to grow is carefully tilled, ami the produce trausjsirtixl on the back or bead of the peasant, man or woman. Where we would think it unsafe to go, tliev work without fear, and are aatisfled with the jiitUnce of hay they carry to the Itarn. T1 if Bwiss wiflnen work in the fields, hut tiie men are not idle. They an iu gunions as well :ut industrious, making the work, for watches by hand, carving wood into the uiost fantastic aa well aa useful shapea, turning out tova for for eign children, and doing anytluug to earn a little mouey. Tlo- time was when Swiss men hired themselves freely to the kings of other countries ** soldiers, but they have ceased to seek money by such pursuits. They are wide-awake to the education of their children, and we meet the girls and buys going from school with their satchels filled with book*. Many of the young men go to foreign cities seeking their fortunes; ami the fluancial, scientific and learned world, has often beard of their banker*, ami merchants, anil scholars. The teach ers of Hwiteerlnml have their oonven lion., and arc quite as vuthuaiaslir in tinjimvuig the miales of education as teacher* in the United States. Th?y take paiua to make tlieir dwel ling* comfortable, and some of them are models of ueatneas a* well as conven ience. But tliere is the same difference among lliem in tins matter as in all other c. uintrn*. Tle thrifty people keep thing, in good order ; repairing, enlarg ing, embellishing, ami making sncli im pr ivemetite as tlieir taste and means per mit. The nuro!er of uew houses going up i. surprising. ., have com pie lions aluiaat tiie color of leallier, ami very f< "v'of Ue isrtod by two wheels, double flanges. The gondol's car now mounted on the portion of the road completed is twenty two feet long, nine feet wide, and weighs over 7,000 pounds. The ear is s double decker, there being room for freight in the body of the car and on each side of the saddle. Twantvtwo inches below a plane tangent to tlie upper wheels, at the lowest point of their eircumference, four smsller wheels are placed in s hori zontal positiou, and in the same plane, their circumferences leing twenty-two inches apart. These run against the wooden guide-rail#, and keep the ear in position. The wheels are attached to standards connected with the iron frame work of the car. Twenty Impolite Thlnjr*. I. Loud and boisterous laughing. 1 Reading wheu other* are talking. 3. Talking when other* are reading. 4. Cutting finger nail* in company. 5. Joking others in company. 6. Gazing rudely at strangers, 7. Leaving a Granger without a neat. 8. Making your*elf hero of yonr own atorv. 9. Beading aloud in company without being aaked. 10. Spitting aKiut thehouae, amoking, or chewing. 11. Leaving chnreh before worship is closed. 12. Whiaperiug or laughing in the house of God. 13. A want of respect and reverence for senior*. 14. Correcting older persona than yourself, especially parents. 15. Receiving a present without an expression of gratitude. 16. Not listening to wb it one i* say ing in company. 17. Commencing to eat aa soon as you get to the table. 18. Answering questions that have been put to other*. 19. Commencing talking before other* have finished speaking. 20. Laughing at the mistakes of other*. "Surely yon must !>e tired, aunty. I can't think how it is you are able to work so long." " Lawks bless you, my dear, when 1 on*t sita down to it like I'm just too laay to leave off.' ' TERMB: Stf.OO a Yoar, in Advance. An Extraordinary Escape. In Uie winter of lH73a vert uusea worthy im-rehaut sailing-veeael (a Hia meae), the Tye Wat, eet out from tiie north of China to Huun, with a cargo of I own-cake, etc. The weather became ' excessively stormy, and at laat the old vessel actually went to pieces many 1 miles from land in the Gulf of Pe-che-le. The crew consisted of eight Malays, who worked the ship; the captain, an Englishman; and in mhiition was one Chinese woman. They had no bout* on board, no time to make a raft or means of doing so; and, as tbeveaael was rapid ly sinking, the wretched people looked around in despair, when a hope of escape struck one of theui aa hia eye lighted on a large wooden water tank which was on deqg. This tank was strongly made, about six feet long, five feet across and five feet high, with a large hole at the top into which a man . could aqucete, and a tight-fitting cover. There wo* not a moment to loa; a hole was bored in the bottom to let ont the water it contained, then quickly plugged, and all ten squeezed themselves ID hur riedly, put oil the lid. and awaited their late. In a quarter of an hour after they wtue tint, packed the .hip sunk under them. Tliev first whirled round, and then floated off freely, and felt them selves rolling and tossing about fright fully an a stormy sen. The weather was intensely oold—so much that the uncles had hung from the rigging of the aunl > n slup the day before; and being ao tigi.l ly packed, ju-rhajM it was fortunate the weather was ao oold. In their hae to save life, they had brought only pi t f a ham which the captain had auatched tip, and a bottle of brandy; and thoa these poor crest urea were biased about from day to day, hungry and thiraty, jostled like potables shaken in a barrel; now and then, when they dared, letting in a little air by raining the lid. The < situation strongly reminds one of Gul liver iu his box when the eagle carried him out to sea from the land of the Brobdiguags. On the fifth day the Malays said they must kill and eat the English captain: but the t'hiuese woman (to the credit ol her sex i vehemently opposed them, and succeeded in saving him fur that day. Ou the sixth day the Malay, said they must cat her; but the captain in turn .aTed her for that day. It ia difficult to imagine a more horrible situation than that of this poor Englishman, surround ed by eight starving men, determined to ■at him—which they certainly would have done had not an English vessel rescued them on the aaveuth day. It happened thus The captain of that vessel sighted a large box tossing on the wstern, aui at first never thought of 1 minding it, ouly supp*ating it part of some wreck, a* the weather was ao bad; but aa he looked, to hia utter surprise a head popped up through a bole in the centre and then vaniahnJ. to be followed by another figure, making frantic ges ticulations. With much difficulty this strange IMIS *aa GOT alongside, hauled np, and its poor inmate* dragged out to light, barely alive, and emaciated fear ' fully, finding the man-bole easier to jawa out of than to get into; which was re ' versing the fable of the weaael who got into the barn. The captain of the reacn ' ing veaselfvKs a kind Englishman, and did all in Ins power to restore hia guest*. They were still in the Gulf of IV-ehe le, ' and did not reach the port of Hwatow sooner than six days, where a doctor was ■ called iu to visit the** liberated "Jacks r in-alxx." He sanl they were a singular proof <>f how much human lieings can endure. All lived and recovered per ' fectiy. Certainly they were all young people. The Malaya went home. The r English cajitaiu went to Siugajiore, and " ahowid himself really grateful to the ! p* is tbe rirncln' hair ahswl. Thane shawls are made of the wool of the Thibet gost. which ia a native of tbe mountains and valley*of Tartnry. From the mountain goat* oome the ooaraer wool, while the fleece* of all the animal* are sent to CaeLmere, where they are cleaned, spun and dyed. After the yarn hasbeea care fully sorted it 1* given to the weavers, who are faruialied with the design* to be followed, and these design* hare Iwen changed but very little during the lapse of ago*. The labor ujxiu a single alimwl ia very great, a* nometimi* a shop fnll of (ipmitiTM ia busy upon it for an en tire year, and although the District of Cashmere nan produce 80,000 shawl* in a vear, the yield from its loom* fall* far abort of that number. Then- seem* to be no eicluaive market for their sale, and the oonseqneuoe ia tiial merchant* iu Calcutta or Bombay tind them con atautly accumulating on tlieir hands, anil it often happen* that an American commission house will rewire an invoice of these shawls, which tliey endeavor to dispose of to dry goods dealer*. L*rge consignment* are sent to Lonibm, where they are annually sold at auction, anil where agents from all parts of the world oome tobuy. As tha purchases are all based u|K>u private opinions, the esti mates made vary widely, and the agent* often ruin the houses for which they act. Iu spit* of the panic, there lias been a steady increase in the demand for cash mere sli* wis. They are being sold, bow ever, for less than their <*> st, *ud tins is due to the fact that there has been a gradual accumulation of them. Leading Arm* are selling camels' hair shawls to day at a price which, if the cost of traus jwirtaUon and importation were removed, would hardlv, if traced Iwmk ao far. allow a margin of (15 for what mav have been the work of several people for month*. Shawls that many years ago would have coat the importer $l6O are now being sold for SSO over the counter. Consequently, where one shswl s day wss considered a good show, half a doaen s day, during the busy season, are what Arm's dealing in them now attempt to sell st retail In consequence of tbe pre*cut|nnproAtable nature of the busi ness, the Cashmere manufacturers have almost ceased making shawl* America st present ranks as the country import ing the largest number of shawls, and Boston has the credit of disposing of more, proportionately, than any city in the world.— Exchm*t/e. "Wise Before the Event." A poor woman, says the Sheffield (Eng.! Telegraph, lay very ill in her smntily-fnrniahed home in Sheffield. The doctor was sent for and came. He at onoe saw that hers was a very Save case, and that ahe hail, aa he ought, little change of recovery even if she oonld get the nourishment her illness required. A* he was about to leave, the question was put: " When should we send for you again, doctor?" , , , "Well," was the reply, as he looked at the poor woman, and then at the wretched surrounding*, " I don't think yon need send for me again. She can not possibly get better ; and to save you further trouble I'll just write you out a certificate for her burial." And he did. After the doctor de garted, the woman got better rapidly, he has now completely recovered, and 1 goes about carrying her burial cer i tificate with her. NUMBER 12. KA KM. UAKIiF.K AND HOUHEHOLB. Mr4lri HIM. Ci'hk ran 811.1 or. Hbadaohb. -Dis solve ml drink two teaapeonfula of fine ly powered elurcutl is oee-lialf ■ tum blerful of water; it will relieve is fifteen miu iite.; take Scull it* powder nn buor afterward. Hcaorci/OcaSoaa Era*. —The common blue violeta, wbicli grow wild in many plane.; Uke the top and root and waeij dean, and dry; make a lea, and dnuk several times a day; waab the eyea with it eaob time. FOB Brass. —Charcoal baa beeo die covered to lie a cure for Imrna. By lay ing a pieoe of cold charcoal upon the born the pain subsides immediately. By leav ing the cbarooal on one bour the wound i. healed, an baa been demon.irmted on several occasions. A H *j Waaa. —Hage tea ia oo of the very beat preparations for washing and dressing the hair. The hair abould I* carefully bruahad and braided in two finn braids, and the root* rubbed witb a aponge dipped in lukewarm aaga tea. The braids can then be waabed and dned with a towel. Tlxia preserves the color of the hair, and keepa the aeaip clean. Comdm Cctb. —Accidental out* from knives, cutting took, acytbea, etc., are more likely to occur on the face and limb* than ou the body. All tbal ia re quisite in general to bring tbe parte together aa accurately an possible, and to bind them up- tbia i* nasally done by adhesive plaster, when the cut ceases to bleed. Nothing ia ao good for tbia pur |hmc aa paper previously waabed over on one side witb thick gum water, and then dried; when ami it is only to be wetted with the tongue. When the cut bleeds but little it i* well to euuk the part in warm water for a few miuntea, or keep a wet cloth on it, Tbia retnovea inflamma tion and pain, and alao a tendency to lam ting, which a cut givee aome persona. If the Heeding be too copious, dab the ;>art with a rag wetted with crooaute. < rmrkrl Itmrnl la Hma. The following qucation and answer is from the New Y -rk Sun t lam the eon of a blacksmith, and sometimes in shoe ing horses I find one with a cracked hoof, and more or leva lame in conse quence. Can von tell me what causes these cracked b.veeo lost. The hue was of hemp interwoTrn with wire. Twice the , cable waa seited and brought almost to , the surface. Twice it alipped from the 1 disappointed fishermen, oat the third I time it waa secured. It was then nnited I wiUi the cable on board, which wa* . 1 •• paid out" until the peat steamer j again reached Newfoundland, and a second telegraph-wire united the two i continent*. Tlie scene on board a* the black itne I appeared abo re water wa* a retting , tieyood description. It was ftret taken j i to the testing-room, and a signal intend . I Hoir to find a girl out—Call when ab isn't in The Japanese amy department to t shout to erect • large manufactory ot i rite. • fm* A silk worm oooanmee, within thirty j days, (10,000 times ito own weight ot ! mulberry loaves. "Papa," aaid e Httle girl, "gir* ■ 1 ride an yotu knee, won't you ? He took the little gallop at onoe. i Why does mooter alwnyu have ha feathers smooth ? Because be always > earriee his ooaab with him. -What ia the dtekrenee between a hiU and a tell? One ia hard to gat up and the other ia hard to get down. tisathsof items attnmnlos Wsoao make atveiy ttoe, leavitm all ear bain Intent as. ii Qoatrsung lite hungry otona. What ia the different* between a hungry nod a glutton ? One longs to eat, the other eats too loog^ " I can't undertake, wife, to gratify all roar whims; it would be aa much ae my life ia worth." " Oh, air, that's nothing. Teas evar thaa . from vhfldbeed a hear I W.'v asm our fastest boas, dooay- Tee tie wa eat. the better s soar— We mat hav. tmakebmt cites to-day •• It ia feared that the extreme cold Ton know the rest Hame old waii about peach Ttetroii Prm /Vm. A man died In Austin, Nev., from the effects of swallowing a small particle of egg shell, which lodged in an intestine and lacerated it ttoy. Owml U Dec, W. shall iievw havs lock 'To ( e rid of the national pester sad dtet. | TUI ee put oar omu tea And ooffse. snd th. rNoo-arfrtngwit Jspaimm pwstemaa-you lot. With all his treachery and mean ! tricks, there's one thing the Indian ought to have a little credit for. He never steads an umbrella.—Otorinnu ii Itfaiijast Table. Every man who makea any preteu ; atooa to sight must have seen u snow squall some time in his life, but show u* the individual who ever heard one squall. —Oil flfy Derrick, urn axn death. Oa pareal knew a naked, oew-r tedd Ww]hq| tbuQ iftt it, •"till# iD trotux! lb## J tie tefuua, waking m ttotoagla* "MP- Thoe tteo ettMl ante hte all around ttee weap- A pot of lard exploded at Kingston the other dav. and a lean woman imme diately got ImL Hb. got it all over, (rum Ukl to foot, aiul m •• if had just taken a trip to Grease.—V©r risfown Herald. The publisher of a weekly newspaper, in Illinois, print* in each number s chapter of the Bible, and upon being ridiculed for it by its contemporaries re mark. editorially: "We publish noth ug but what ia neara to our readers." A young lady in Newtownfoounty, Ou, ia puaseoaed by a strange monomania. She fancies herself a baby, and has not spoken a word in three years, although her power* of eoovertetteo uaed to be of an order higher than the average. ■■Dili. The bod that soon oa higtert wu* Beads oa the groaad ter levty aest , Ate ate that tote must amwtty teg. abwi la the teste *tea all thmgs rest In Un sad nighttarak wa sea What honor hath hamtety. Am/w ff the Indian defendant* in a land suit lately brought in San Francis 00, were Ellen Green, Mary Black, Jack White, Lucy Bed, Flora Pink, Simon Tight. Bartholomew Laooe, One Cheats. Two Cheats, Square Pill, Bound Pill, Sour Pill. Soft Pill, Hard Pill, Tough Pill and Slow Pill Influenza affords a familiar example of an epidemic disease, a whole com munity Wag often attacked in the (*,xilfe of a few hours. From this it may lie inferred that the occurrence of tins disease ia connected with eomeparticular condition of the atmoepbei*. but what that condition ia, is out yet known to A diatingnisbed politician, while nonreraiiig with a ladnhc other evening, t*ram*> pjned by bar attention to a heantif nl dog that waa nating it* bead odaflduglj u> bar lan and impatiently t.y~t " Ho ia it that a lady of your / intelligenceoao be to food of a dog?" •' Bmanae be necer talka polittoa, " wan the prompt reply. Recent rscaratkKM at Big Boone manly. Ky., bare brought to light an immeuae number ut animal remain*. thn are immaoae teeth, taak, iawi with teeth in them, riba, spina! rolnmna—in fart there are bonea for nearly everr part of the aaaatodon, be aidw many thai are not like any ever lwior* found in that place. Inquiry into the wicked way* of Phi la delphia'a mock-auction men reveal**! that thav himl two or three women to Attend the sales, carefully inspect arto eles that were to be eutd, start the bid ding at the article's coat price, and run it no among themselves until an out d putia a bid. I wa. then promptly knocked down—to the out aider. * A poat-ofltae clerk in Rnssia wne found to be constantly in trouble with the stamp*. The account* would come wrong. Sometime* there wa* not enough monrv in return for atamp* sold, and on other" occasions there waa too much. This made dishonesty on hi* part lew likelv, but it was incomprehensible liow lie could make the aoeauct* so eu taejded. At kaagth it waa discovered he waa color Mind, and oonld not distin guiah red from green atamp*. The sea mouse ia one of the prettie-t creature* that livea under water. It sparkles lik* • diamond and is radiant with all the eotors of the rainbow, al though it livea in mud at the bottom of the ocean. It should not be called * mouse, for it is larger than a big rat It is covered with scales that move up and down as it breathe*, ami glitter like gold shining through a fleecy down, from which fine, silky bristle* wave, that constantly change from one brilliant tint to another. * Aa WUh*m drrw hi* Ba*y near. Re whispered to his bride: "Though queer it sound* T lore, my dear. To he* by Swy'* **d* " —Rxrhamy. When years hare paaeed *ad Sue hi* head Ha* clutched, u wires oft do, Poor Will will wish that ho had wed Some other *ort of Sioux. tkuUm OW* Dom Pedro, while returning to Brazil in the autumn, wrote r. E. B. Fxitc'r Health Monthly. ,|S|