Spring. In leafy woodlands hud* are mnjring. Throatls* calling through the dell , In ope a field* freih flower* are tprir *ing Violets bloom on hill and fell. In ahady wood* and unnlea* placet, lire hard, forest, field and plain, Oowtlip* tbow their modest face*, March leave* *mg through April'* ram. In the Spring the earth rejoice* All the tnnefnl feathered throng. With one iuatinot lift their voice* Rural with rapture into *ong. "Ti* the time of joy and glailnea*. "Tt* the creecent of the year Winter * paat with gloom and tadnet*. Snow and sorrow, frost and fear. -VoAa Fire. " Rut a week i* so long I" he sani. With toss of his curly head. "line, two, three, four, five, aix, *eve*i! Sewn whole day* I Why, in six. you know (You tali) it yourself you tohl u;e to). The great Hod uj> tu he* veu Made all the earth and the i-e* and *hie*. The tree* and the hitd and the hntterflie* ' How can I wait for my seed* to j,fow " Rut a month i* *o long !" he said. With* droop of hi* boyish head. " Hear me count one. two, three, four— Four whole weeks, and three days more , Thirty-i>ne day*, and each wi:l creep A* the shadow* cr*wl over yonder sleep Thirly-oue night*, and 1 shall lie Watching the star* climh up the tky ' How can I wait Ull a mouth is o'er •• Bat a year is *o long ' he said. UpUfUug hi* liright young head. " All th* seasons must come and go Over the hill* with footsteps *low Autumn and winter, summer and spring . Oh, for a tmdge of gold to fling Over the chasm deep aud wide. That I might cross to the other aide. Where she is waiting -my love, my hrtde •• Ten year* may be long." he said. Slow raising his stately head. " But there'* much to wiu, there 1* much to lose ; A man must labor, a man must choose. And he must he strong to wait ! The year* may be long, but who oouU wear The crown of honor, mast do aud dare' No tune has be to toy with fate Who would climb to manh-Ksi a high estate "" "Ah ! life it not long!" he said, Bowing hi* grand white head. " One. two, three, four, five, six, seven ! Seven lime* ten are seventy. Seventy years ! A* swift their flight A* swallows cleaving the morning light Or golden gleaius at even. Life ia short as a summer night- How long, 0 God ! is eternity!" —iktrprr's &uar. Two Saints of the Fout-Hills. BY BRET HASTY".. It never was clearly ascertained how loug they had been there. The first SBttl r of R mgh-and-Readv—one. Low, playfully known to his familiars as "The Poor Indian declared that the saints were afore his time, and occupied a cabin in the brush when he " blaxed " his way to the North Fork. It is certain that the two were present when the water was first turned on the Union Ditch, and then and there received the designation of Daddy Downey and M immy Downey, which they kept to the last. As they tottered toward the refreshment tent,' they were welcomed with the greatest enthusiasm by the boys ; or, to borrow the more refined language of the Union Recorder, " Their gray liair* and bent figures, recalling, as they did, the happy paternal eastern homes of the spectators, and the blessings that fell from venera ble lips when they left those homes to journey in qnet of the Golden Fleece on Occidental Slopes, caused many to burst into tears." The nearer facts that many of these spectators were orphans, that "others hail enjoyed a State's guar dianship and discipline, and that a ma jority hail loft their paternal roofs with out any embarrassing preliminary formula, were mere passing clouds that did not dim the golden imagery of the writer. From that day the Saints were adopted as historical' lay figures, and entered at once into possession of unin tenmpted gratuities and endowment. It was not strange that, in a country largely made up of ambitious and reck less youth, these two —types of con servative and settled forms—should be thus celebrated. Apart from any senti ment or veneration, they were admirable foils to the community's youthful pro gress and energy. They were put for ward at every social gathering, occupied prominent seats on the platform at every pnbiic meeting, walked first in every procession, were conspicuous at the frequent funeral and rarer wedding, and were godfather and godmother to the first baby bora in Rough-and-Ready. At the first poll opened in that precinct, DadJy Downey cast the first, and, as was his custom, on all momentous occa sions, became volubly reminiscent. "The first vote I ever cast," said Daddy, " was for Andrew Jackson ; the father o' soe on you peart young chaps wasn't bora then, he! he'—that was 'way long in "33, wasn't it f I ilisremem ber now, but if Mammy was here, she bein' a sehoolgal at the time, she could say. But my memory's failin' me. I'm an old man, bora ; yet I likes to see the young go ahead. I recklect that thar vote from a sucknmstance. Squire Adams was present, and seem' it was my first vote, he put a goold piece into my hand, and, sez he, sex Squire Adams, 1 let thai always be a reminder of the exercise of glorious freeman's privilege !' He did ; he! he! Lord, boys ! I feel so proud of ye, that I wish I had a hundred votes to cast for ye aIL " • It is hanilv necessary to ssv that the memorial tribute of Squire A lams was increased tenfold by the judges, inspec tors aud clerks, and that the old man tottered back to Mamrav, considerably heavier than he came. As both of the rival candidates were equally sure of his vote, and each lial called upon him and offered a conveyance, it is but fair to presume they were equally beneficent. But Daddy insisted upon walking to the polls—a distance of two miles—as a moral example, aud a text for the Cali fornia paragraphers, who hastened to reoord that such was the influence of the foot-hill climate, that "a citizen of Rough-and-Beadv, aged eighty-four, rose at six o'clock, and, after milking two cows, walked a distance of twelve miles to the polls, an i retnrned in time to chop a cord of wood before dinner." Slightly exaggerated as this statement may have been, the fact that Daddy was always found by the visitor to be en gaged at his wood-pile, which seemed neither to increase nor diminish under his ax—a fact, doubtless, owing to the activity of Mammy, who was always at 1 the same time making pies, seemed to give some credence to the storv. In deed, the wood-pile of Daddv Dowr ey was a stauding reproof to the indolent and sluggish miner. " Ole Daddy must use up a pow'ful sight of wood; eveiy time I've passed by his shanty he's been makin' the chips fly. But what gets me is, that the pile don't seem to come down," said Whisky Dick to his neighbor. " Well, you fool!" growled his neigh bor; " 'spose some chap happens to pass by thar and sees the old man doin' a man's work at eighty, and slonches like vou and me lying round drunk, sod that chap, feelin' kinder humped, goes up some dark night and heaves a load of cut pine over his fence, who's got anything to say about it ? Bay ?" Certainly not the speaker, who had done the act sug gested, nor the penitent and remorseful hearer, who repeated it next day. The pies and cakes made by the old woman were, I think, remarkable rather for their inducing the same loyal and generous spirit than for their intrinsic exoellenoe, and it may be said appealed more strongly to the nobler aspirations of humanity than its vulgar appetite. Howbeit, everybody ate Mammy Dow ney's pies, and thought of his childhood. "Take 'em, dear boys," the old lady would say ; "it does me good to see you eat 'em ; reminds me kinder of poor FKED. KURTZ, Kilitor and Proprietor. VOLUME XI. Sammy, that, >f he'd lived, would he? been cj strong aud big ea yon be, but was taken down witli lung fever at Sweet water. Ikm e t him yet ; that's forty year ago, dear ! ootniu' out o* the lot to the Iske-honne, aud amiliu' sneh a lawn tiful smile, like yours, dear (toy, as I handed him a tniuoe or • lemmiug turn over. Dear, dear, how I do run ou! and tin we days is past ! but I seeius to live in you again !" The wife of the hotel-keeper, actuated by a low jeal ousy, had suggested that she *• acemed to live o/V thorn," but as that jer*on tried to demonstrate the truth of her state meat by reference to the \*t of tl>e raw material used by the old lady, it was considered by the camp as too practical aud economical forconstat ration. ••Be sides," added Oy Perkins, •• ef old Mam my wants to turn an honest penny iu her old age, let her do it. How- would you like your old mother to make pies on grub wages, eh ?" A suggestion that so affected his hearer i who had no moth er) that he bonght threw* ou the spot. The quality of those pies had never been diaeusaeal but ooee. It is related tliat a voung lawyer from San Francisco, diuiug at the Palmetto restaurant, pushed away one ef Mammy lh>wney's pies with every expression of disgust and dissatisfaction. At this juncture. Whisky Piok, considerably affected by his favorite stimulant, approached the stranger's table, and, drawiug up a cliair, sat uninvited before him. " Mebbee, young man." he legan gravely, " ve don't like Mammy Dow nev's pic* ?' The stranger replied curtly, and in scnic astonishment, that he did not as a rule, "eat pie." "Young man," continued Dick with drunken gravity, " mebl>ee you're ao customed to Charlotte rusks and blue mange; mebbee ye can't eat utile** your grub is got up by one o' them French cooks ? Tet tee- us boys yar in this iamp—calls that pie—a good—a oom-pe teat pio !" The stranger again disclaimed any thing bnt a general dislike of that form of pastry. * " Young man," continued Dick, utter ly unheeding the explanation,—" young man, mebbee you onet hail an ole—a very ole mother, who, tottering down the vale o' years, made pies. Mebbee, and it's like your blank epicurean sou!, ye turned up your nose on the ole wo man, and went hack on the pies, and on her! She that dandled ve when ye woz a baby,—a little baby ! Mebbee ye went back on her, and shook her, and played off on her, and gave her away—dead away! And now, mebbee, young man —I *would*ut hurt ye for the world, but mebbee, afore ye leave this yar table, TE'U. KAT THAT PtK !" The stranger rose to his feet, bat the muzzle of a dragoon revolver in the un steady hands of Whisky Dick, caused him to sit down again. He ate the pie, and lost his case likewise, before a Rough-aud-Ready jury. Indeed, far from exhibiting the cyn ical doubts and distrusts of age. Daddy Downey received always with child-like, delight the progress of improve ment and energy. "In my day, long back in "the twouties. it took ns nigh a week —a week, boys—to get np a barn, and all the young ones—l was one then —for miles 'round at the raisin' ; and vers you boys—rascals ye are, too— runs tip this yer shanty for Mammy and me 'twixt sun-np and dark ' Eh, eh, you're teachin' the old folks new tricks, are ye ? Ah, get along, you !" and in playful simulation of anger he would shake his white hair anil his hickory staff at the " rascals." The only indica tion of the conservative tendencies of age was visible in his continual protest against the extravagance of the boys. "Why," he would sav, "a family, a hull family—leovin' alone me and the old woman, —might be supported of what you young rascals throw away in a single spree." There was little donbt that the old couple were saving, if not avaricious. Bnt when it was known, through the in discreet volubility of Mammy Downey, that Pappy Downey sent the bulk of their savings, gratuities, and gifts to a dissipated and prodigal son in the East —whose photograph the old man always carried with him—it rather elevated him in their regard. " When ye write to that gny ami festive son o' ypnra, Daddy," said Joe Robinson, "send him this yer specimen. Give him my com pliments, anJ tell him, if he kin spend money faster than I can. I call him ! In vain wonld the old man continue to protest against the spirit of the gift ; the miner generally returned with his pockets that much the lighter, and it is not improbable a little lees intoxicated than he otherwise might have been. It may be premised that Daddy Downey was strictly temperate. The only way he manage*! to avoid hurting the f-s-lings of the camp was by accepting the fre quent donations of whisky to be used for the purposes of liniment. " Next to snake-oil, my son," he would say, " aud dilberry-juice—and ye don't seem to pro-duoe em hi reaboats—whis ky is good for rnbbin' onto old bones to make 'em limber. But pure cold water, • sparkliu' and bright in its liquid light, and, so to speak, reflect a' of God's own linymeuts on its surfiss, is the best, on less, like poor ol' Mammy and me, ye gits the dumb-agurfrom over-use." Praised by the lip* of tlistinguished report, fostered by the care and sus tained by the pecuniary offerings of their fellow citizens, the Saints led for two years a peaceful life of gentle ab sorption. To relieve them from the embarrassing appearance of eleemosy nary receipts—an embarrassment felt more by the givers than the recipient# —the postmastership of Rougb-and- Rcady was procured for Daddy, and the duty of receiving and delivering the United States mails performed by him, with the advice and assistance of the boys. If a few letters went astray at this time, it was easily attributed to this i undisciplined aid, and the boys them selves were always ready to make up the valne of a missing money-letter and "keep the old man's accounts square." To these functions presnntlv were added ' the treasoreshi(M of the Masons' and Odd Fellows' charitable funds—the old man being far advanced in their re spective degrees—and even the posi tion of almoner of their bounties was superadded. Here, unfortu nately, Daddy's habits of economy and avaricious propensity catne near making him unpopular, and very often needy brothers were forced to object to the quantity and quality of the help ( extended. They always met with more generous relief from the private bunds of the brothers themselves, and the re mark "that the ol' man was trying to set an examnle— that ho meant well." — and that they would yet tie thankful for his zealous care and economy. A few, I think, suffered in noble silence, rather than bring the old man's infirmity to the public notice. And so with this honor of Daddy anil Mammy, the days of the miners were long and profitable in the land of the foot hills. The mines yielded their abun dance, the winters were singularly open, and yet there was no drouth nor lack of water, and peace aud plenty smiled on the Sierrean foot-hills, from their highest sunny upland to the trailing falda of wild oats and poppies. If a certain superstition got abroad among the other camps, connecting the fortunes of Rough-and-Ready with Daddy and Mammy, it was a gentle, harmless fancy, and was not, I think, altogether THE CENTRE REPORTER. rejected by the old people, A oert du large, patriarchal, Itouutihil maimer, of late visible m Daddy, and the in crease of much white hair aud beard, kept up the poetic ilaisum, while Mammy, day by day, grew more and more like some! nifty'* fairy godmother. An attempt was made by a rival catup to emulate these paving virtues of rever ence, aud an aged mariner was procur ed from the Sailor's Snug Harbor in Sau Krauciaco, on trial. Hut the unfort unate seauian was more or less diseased, was not always presentable, through a weakness for ardeut spirits, and dually, to u*e the |owerful id nun of one of lus disappointed foster-chi dreu, "up and died in a week, without slinging ary hlceaiu'. M Hut vicissitude reaches young and old alike. YouUiful Rough-atid-Heady and the Samts had eliuiled to their meridian together, and it seemed tit that they should together ilechue. The first shadow fell with the unmigratiou to Rough-ami-lteadv of a sccoud aged nair. The landlady of the Independence Hotel had not abated her malevolence toward the Saints, and had imported at consider able expense ber grand aunt and grand uncle, who bad been enjoying for some years a sequestered retirement ill the poor-house of East Machiaa. They were indeed very old. Hy what miracle, even as anatomical sjiecimeua, they had been pros- rved during ttieir long jour ney was a mysterv to the camp. In some respect* they had superior memo ries anil reminiscences. The old tuau — Abner Trix—liad shouldered a musket in the war of 1812, his wife, Abigail, had seen Lady Washington. t Whether it waa jealousy, distrust or tinuditv that overcame the Saints, was uever known, but they studiously de clined to meet the strangers. When di rectlv approached ujHn the subject, DadiW Downey pleaded illness, kept himself in ch>se seclusion, and the Sun day tUat the Trixes attended church in the school-house on the hill, the triumph of the Trix party was mitigated by the fact that the Downey* were not in their accustomed pew. " Yon Iwt that Daddy and Mammy is lying low jest to ketch them old mummies yet," explained a Dowueyite. For by this time schism an 1 division had crept into the camp; the younger ami later meml>cra of the settlement adhering to the Trixes, while the older pioueers stood uot only loyal to their own favorites, but even, in the trite spirit of partisanship, l>egan to seek for a principle uuderlving their personal fecliug. " I tell ye what, boys," observed Sweetwater Joe, "if this yer camp is goiu* to be run by greenhorns, and old pioneers, like Daddy and the rest of ns, must take back seats, it's time we emigrated and shoved out, and ttik Daddy with us. Why, they're talkiu* of rotation in offiss and of putting that skeleton that Ma'am Decker sets up at the table to take her boarders' appetites away—into the post office in place o' Daddy." And, indeed, there were some fears of such a conclusion; the uewer men of ltough and-Ready were in the majority, and wielded a more than equal iuflueuoe of wealth and outside cnteq>rise. " Fris co," as the Downeyite bitterly remarked, " already owned half the town. " The old friends that rallied around Daddy and Mammy were, like most loyal friends in adversity, in bail case themselves, and were beginning to look and act, it was observed, not unlike their old favorite*. At this juncture Mammy died. The sudden blow for a few days seemed to reunite dissevered Itongh-and-Ready. Roth factions hastened to the l>eroeved Daddy with oondolements, and offers of aid and assistance. Rnt the old man received them sternly. A change had come over the weak and yielding octo genarian. Those who expected to tlnd him mandlin, helpless, disoonsolate, shrank from the cold, hard eyes and truculent voice that bade them " lie gone," and "leave him with his dead." Even his own friends failed to make him respond to their sympathy, and were fain to content themselves with his cold intimation that both the wishes of his dead wife aud his own instincts were against any display, or the reception of any favor from the camp that might tend to keep up the divisions they had inno cently cr • ated. The refusal of Daddy to accept any services 'offered was so unlike him as to have but one dread ful meaning ! The sudden shock had turned his brain ! Yet so impressed were they with his resolution that they permit ted him to perform the lastsad offices him self,and only a select few of his nearer neighbor* assisted him in carrying.tlie plain ileal coffin from his lonely cabin in the woods to the still lonelier cemetery on the hill-top. When the shallow grave was filled, he dismissed even these curtly, shut himself np in his cabin, and for ilars remained unseen. It was evi dent tliat he was no longer in his right mind. His harmless aberration was accepted and treated with a degree of intelligent delicacy hardly to be believed of so rough a community. During his wife's sudden aud severe illness, the safe containing the funds intrusted to his care by the various benevolent asso ciation's, was broken into and rob bed, and although the act was clearly attributable to his carelessness and preoccupation, all allusion to the fact was withheld from him in his severe affliction. When he appeared again before the camp, and the circumstances were oonsiileratey explained to him with the remark that " the boys hail made it all right," the vacant, hopeless, unin telligent eye that he turned upon the speaker Hhowed too plainly that he had forgotten all alont it. " Don't trouble the old man," said Whisky Dick, with a burst of honest poetry. " Don't ye see his memory's dead, aud lying there in the coffin with Mammy." Perhaps the speaker was nearer right than he imag ined. They took various moan* of diverting his mind with worldly amusements and one wan a visit to a traveling troupe, then performing .in the town. The result of the vinit was brief, ly told by Wliinky Dick. "Well, sir, we went in, and I sot the old man down in a front seat, an d kinder propped him np with some other of the fellers round him, and there he sot as silent and awful ez the grave. And then that dancer. Miss Oraoe Somerset, comes in, and blame my skin, if the old man didn't git to trembling and fidgeting all over, as she cut them pidgin wings. I tell ye what, Ijoys, men is men, way down to their Imots—whether they're crazy or not! Well, he took on so—that I'm blamed if at last that gal henwflf didn't notice him ! and she tips, suddenly, and blows him a kiss—so! with her fingers!" Whether this narration were exagger ated or not, it is certuiii that old man Downey every succeeding night of the performance was n spectator. That he may have aspired to bo more than that was suggested a day or two later in the following incident. A number of the boys were sitting around the stove in the Magnolia saloon, listening to the onset of a winter storm against the windows, when Whisky Dick, tremu lous, excited and bristling with rain drops and information, broke in npon them. "Well, boys, I've got just the biggest thing ont. Ef I hadn't seed it myself, I wouldn't liev believed it!" "It ain't thet ghost ag'iu ?" growled Robinson, from the depths of his arm chair ; " thet ghost's abont played." "Wotghostf" asked a new-oomer. " Why, ole Mammy's ghost, that CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA.. THURSDAY, APRIL IK, 187 H. every feller about yer aeea when lie'* half full aud out late o' night*." " Where t" • W here f Why, where nhoulil ghost lie f Meander in' rouud her grave on the lull vouder, in iwnirwe." " It * sutliiu bigger uor thet, pard," waul Dick, confidently j "no ghoat kin rake down the pot agin the keerda I've got here. Thi* unit no bluff 1" " Well, go on I" *aid a dogen excited voice*. Dick panned u moment, diffidently, with the hesitation of an arti*tio racon teur. " Well," he said, with affected delib eration, " let's nee I It is mgli onto un hour ago ex I was dowu tliar at the show. When the curtain wn down lu twixttheax, I looks round fer Daddy. No Daddv tliar I I goes out and aaka muue o' tlie boy*. ' Daddy was there a minuit ago,' tliev aid ; 'imi*t hev gone home.' Beiu" kinder reajHiuaible for the old man, I hang* around, and gqps out iu the hall and see* u passage lead in' behind the scene*. Now the queer thing about this, boys, ex that sutluu ill my bones told me the old man is thar. 1 poshes in, and, sure a* a gun, I hears lit* voice. Kinder pathetic, kinder pleadiu', kinder—" " Lovc-makiu'!" broke in the impa tient Robuiaon. " You've hit it, |>erd, —you've rung the bell every time ! Hut she says, ' 1 wants thet money down, or I'll ' end here I couldn't get to hear Uie rest. And theu he kinder coaxes, aud she says, sorter sassv, but li*|ruiu' all the time, —women like, ye know, Eve end the sarpint! end she says, 'l'll nee to-morrow.' And he aaya, 'You won't blow on me?" ami I gets excited end peeps in, end may I be teetutally blame,l ef I didn't see " " What t" yelled the crow,l. "Why, Ikidiltj on hit it oft to that therr dancer, Grace Somerset ! Now, if Mammy'a ghost is meainleriu' round, why, et's alamt time she left the ceme tery and put in an appearance in Jack sou's Hall. Thet's all !" " I*>ok yar, bora," wud Robinson, rising, "I don't know er. it's the square thing to spile Daddy's fan. I don't ob ject to it, provided sheaiut takiu' in the old man aud givin' him dead awav. But ea we're his guard eens, I propose that we go down tliar and aee the lady, and find out ef her intentions is honorable. If she means marry, and the old man persists, why, I reckon we kin give the yonng couple a send-oft thet won't dis grace this yer camp ! Hey, boys ?" It is unnecessary to say that the proposition was received with aoclama turn, and that the crowd at once departed on their discreet mission, lint the re sult was never known, for the next morning brought a shock to Rnugh-and- Beady before which all other iuterest paled to nothingness. The grave of Mammy Downer was found violated and dea J*>l led; the tsiflln opened, and half filled with the papers and accounts of the robbed benevolout association; but the body of Mammy was gone ! Nor, on examination, did it appear that the sacred and ancient form of that female had ever rejajtuxl in its recesses f Daddy Downey was not to lx found, nor is it necessary to say that the ingen uous Grace Somerset was also missing. For three days the reason of Rough and-Ready trembled in the Iwlanoe. No work was done in the ditches, in the flume, nor in the mills. Groups of mm stood bv Uie grave of the lamented relict of Daddy Downey, ss open-mouthed and vacant as that seruloher. Never since the great earthquake of 's'i had Rough ami Ready IsH-n so stirred to its deepest foundations. Ou the third day the sheriff of Cala- Teru-> quiet, gentle, thoughtful man —arrived in town, and passed from one to the other of excited group©, dropping here and there detached but oonciae and practical information. " Ye©, gentlemen, yon are right, Mr©. Downey i© not dead, l>ecaue there wasn't auy Mr©. Downey! Her part wa© played by Gen. F. Renwick. of Sydney —a 4 ticket-of-leave-man,' who wa©, they say, a good actor. Downey ? Oh, yes ! Downey wa© Jem Flanigan, who, in '52, used to run the troupe in Australia, where Mis© Somerset made her debut. Stand back a little, boy*. Steady ! ' The money?' Oh, ye©, they're got away with tliat, sure! How are ye, Joe? Why, you're looking well and hearty 1 I ra ther expected ye court week. How'© thing© your way?" " Then they were only play-actor©, Joe Hall ?" broke in a dozen Toicea. 44 1 reckon !** returned the sheriff, coolly. "And for a matter o' five blank year*," ©aid Whisky Dick, adly, 44 they played this camp !*'—Aoriftnrr's Afagaibte. Ingenious Shoplifting. An elegantly dressed female lately en tered a jeweler'© ©hop on the Imulevard in Paris, and asked to see ©ome valuable gold pins. While ©he wa© examining them a man began playing a barrel organ before the door. The music seemed to annoy the lady, and stepping to the door she threw a piece of money to the man and told him to go away, which he did at once. On returning to the counter she said that none of the pins suited her, but that a© some eomiwnsation f>r the trouble she hail given she would buy a brooch. She accordingly chose one, paid ten francs for it, and was leaving the shop, when the jeweler missed a diamond pin of great value from nraong those ©he hail beeu looking at. He ac cordingly ©topped his customer, who seemed highly indignant, and insisted on the jeweler's wife searching her, which was done, but no pin win found. The jeweler therefore allowed her to leave, but sent his sister to wateh her. The woman was s>sin seen to enter another jeweler's shop, and was pre tending to make a purchase as before, when the orgnn grinder again made his appearance. A© soon as he began play ing she again threw him some money and ordered him to move on ; but the |>erson who was watching her perceived that with the money she had also given the man a piece (if jewelry. This was nt once made known to some sergent© de ville, who arrc©ted both of them, and found on the man several article© of jewelry which had been obtained in a similar manner. The thieves were sub sequently taken to the prefect of Police. "The blarney Stone." We all know, says a writer in Cham hrr's Journal, wbat blarney ia—that aoft, sweet si>eoeh in which the sons ane worn with comfort. The plauient and simplest of drxporie* are preferred. Laces and fur trimming* are beauti fully studded with pearl lioad*. Among the choice novelties of lingerie are " Duchesne ends " un Mull uecktiea. The latest style of dolman has short, square Hungarian sleeves and a |>eleriue front. Yokes ami pleated aud gathered waists are very becoming to tall, slender wo man. Many |M>lonaiaes are accompanied with a pelerine dolman, to lie worn on Cool morning*. II al f - bloHMomed Rower*, with scant foliage i* the latest transition for bridal garniture*. Very tine colored embroideries are *eeu on many of the newest styles of handkerchiels Yokes, or trimming* producing yoke effects, are very jaipular for very young ladies' dresses. Colored embroideries appear on many of the haudaoiuest *et of white collar* and deep cuff*. Scarfs of creje base, with the end* embroidered iu silks of Oriental colore, are pretty novelties. Handsome wedding droaaea of conled js-arl white silk, are trimmed with pleat ing* of English crape. Wnr wide linen collar* and deep ruffs are richly embroidered end trimmed with frills of flue Torchon lace. Yellow, of ell shades, is very much in vogue with bloudee and brunettes, white with yellow, is accepted, instead of black. Tiuael galloons and "cloth of (fold " ere trimming* now woru in Pari* but will uot uow appear here until the fell season. Maci'ame lace work, in the form of tidies, bureau mats and chair covers, is the favorite fancy work for ladies at the moment. Gold embroidery, in fringes, lace, tassels, balks ins, passementeries, in ev erything, in fact, i worn in Paris, both 111 the morning aud evening, but it is vulgar for all that. Cardinal capes, dolman mantles, and Helm mantelets are trimmed in tnanv macs with several rows of fluted black Spanish or French lace, headed with moonlight aud nunlsiw jet galloons. Combination suits are verv much liked —observe that in the imported suit* of this character, one of the colors is al wars dull, while the rest are brilliantly dis tinct ami ofteu of the tie ' delicate tints. Utile Johnny on the Upossum. If there is anything in name* this animal comes frotn Ireland, but them thata here calls theirselfs jeas P.issnroa, like they was natif born. Possums hss a sharp nose and a long, bald-heded tale, wieli is always cold, never mind the wether. Its jess like their talcs was ded and no money for the funeral nformanee. The obi ones has got n to bacco |sinch on the outside of their stummiickse*, and wen the little ones is afraid they snuggles iu and don't care a eopjier wot becomes of their old mother wich is outside. When a dog finds a jHissoni snd it cant g"t to a tree it lays down and pretends like it was ded. One time there was a dog, wich didnt kno poasoms found oue a lrin like dol ; after rollin it over a wile an smellin it the dog winked his ear much to say : " Mity good job for yon, ola feller, that you was dead fore I come along." And then the dog he lay down and went a sleep. Wen the possum see the dog a sleep it stood up on its foeta to go away, but jest then the dog woke np. Hncli a friten possum you never see, and sech a a friten dog you never six- too, but the dog most. It got up, the dog did, and made for home yellin like iU heart was brok, and fore it got home it hail changed with acaro from black Nn fonndland pup to a ole bull, wite like < iaffer Peters.-* bed ! A man wich had a pet she possum and a little chicken wich he thot ever so much of was a set tiu at his table one day ritin, wfcn he seen the possum come in at the dorr and try to sncek under the led. So the man he sail : " Oleopntry," wich was the jvMwnm's name, " come here ai.d do some tricks on the table." But the j>o*aum took lota of coaxtn, and at last wen it was a settin np on 'the table l>eg gin like dogs, the man hesrd his chicken go " Yocp, yeep, veep ?" Cleonatry she started, ami stared ol around the room, like she sai.l: " Wv, hlcsa my sole, were is that poor chicken?" But the man he knew were it was well enongli. Then the chicken went " Yeep, yeep," a other time, and Cleopatry she ran to every side of the table and lookt over the edge and come back to the middle a shakin her bed, like ahe said : " I can't make it out at all; it l>e*t me 1" But wen the man he went "Cluck cluck," like a hen, the chicken stuck its lied out of the tobacco pouch on Cleopatry's atnmmnck, were it hail been put away for to l>e ot. An I'Dinvited Wedding finest. Another industry of Paris was lately revealed. It seems there are a number of men here who enjoy good dinners at th© expense of their neighlwrs by an ingenious trick. They watch for mar riages, mingle with the bridal party and take their seat© at the lunch and dinner table. The bride's family make ©ure he i© one of the groom's friend© anil treat hini witli profound respect. The groom's family seeing oourteaie© shown him by the bride's family think he must lie ©ome rich uncle, who will leave n ©liee of hi© plum-cake to the bride, and then redouble their attention to con vince him he is not going to lose hi© niece by the marriage. Hut—it some time© fiappen© that marriage dinner© here are not found by the families. It i© agreed with the guest© that each per i ©on ©hall pay hi© or her ©hare of the ! dinner's cost. Into just such an enter | tainment Monsieur Pique Assictte fell j theother night. He must have gotton out of bed with his left foot foremost ' that morning. When the waiter handed : around the plate for each person's scot, Monsieur Pique A©siette, fumble a© he might in his jioeketa, could find only a ten cent piece—the waiter wanted sls. The bride's family whispered t<> the groom's family: "Hliali we advance the s.l to your friend ?" "Our friend 1 why isn't he yours?" 44 We never laid eye© on him before." Monsieur Pique AHsiettn looked like a sneak-thief, hard caught in a ©toel trap. Explain! All ho could do wm to stammer incoherent nonsense. The jiolioe were abont to be called wlien the bride interfered and ©aul she ooiild not liear that the first act of her married life should l>e to send a man to prison, so she would pay the un bidden guest's sent. Although his heart wa© in his b<*>t©, he hod no heart for daring, but took to his heels the instant he saw the door opey. This incident made the wedding one of the merriest seen in Paris this long while and every body agreed that the B't worth of fun bought by the bride was very cheap. THE FROST KING. Trrrvra •! llir I Im >f•*•!•• *!•• f • lir I'lirMcmttitM r Arrllr Ulllr Til* Hll *i il c.f i Itr Nui i!• A Trapper's Mra* ll>T>Pear to invite one forth to enjoy its seeming mildness. But the native knows better than to venture out. A fifteen minutes' walk iu that clear ether is a fifteen minutes' fight for existence. A sudden prick and one's nose is frozen; uext go both cheeks; one raises his hand to rub awuv the ghastly white apota, only to add his fingers to the list of lev member*. Hub as you will, run hard, swing your arms—all to no purpose ; tbe little white spots increase in aise, until the whole face ia covered with the waxen leprosy. The breath congeals al most upon leaving the mouth, and the icy vajsir falls instead of rising. Hpit and instantly there is a lump of ice where the spittle fell. Ah, it is oold beyond belief I The spirit registers a tempera ture away down iu the forties. I have seen a stalwart man, after two hoars' ei|sure on such a day, walk into the room where every footfall clanked upon the flor like blocks of wood clspping together ; bis feet frozen solid as ltim|>s of ice. I rememlier going sixty yards to shoot a rabbit'and returning with fin gers froxen fast to the trigger guard. (hi such a day one may stand for hours in the snow with moocaaiued feet aud leave no trace of moisture behind. The snow is granulated like sand; there is no adhesiveness iu it. It is difficult to draw a sledge through a bed of sand. Hlipjtenneas has gone out of it. A horse gives out in no time. And yet the u*pct of all nature is calm, still, and equable as on a May da v. One of Lheae stikj nights upon the pnune is nna|>eakalffj awful. The cold is measured by degrees as much below the freexiug jaunt as vour ordinary sum mer tcmpcrattire is ata.ve it. Scraping away the auow, the blankets and robes are spread down. Then you dress for bad. Your heaviest coat is douned, and the hood carefully pulled up over the heavy fur cap upon your head; the largest moocaains and thickest sucks are drawn on (oommon leather boots would freeze one's f<*'t in a twinkling); huge leather mittens,extending t<> the elbows, and trebly lined, come next; yon lie down snd draw all the available robes and blanket* abont yon. Then begins the cold. The frost cornea out of the char gray skv with still, silent ngor. The spirit in the thermometer placed by your head sinks down into the thirties sn.l forties below zero. Jnst when the dswn liegins to break in the east it will not unfreqneatly be at fifty. You are tired, perhaps, and sleep comes by the mere force of fatigue. But never from your waking brain goes the consciousness of cold. Yon lie with tightly folded arms and up-gathered knees snd shiver be neaUi all your coverings, until forced to rise and seek safety by the fire. With the advent of a "blixxard," however, all the still life ends and chaos begins. A blixxard is the white squall of the pnurioa, the simoom of the plains. Like its brother of the Sahara, when it oimea all animate nature blows baloM H. Tlie traveler prostrates him self in the snow, if he is of the initiated, and, covering his head, wait* until it pauses by. To pursue a different course and journey on is to be lost. In con versation Pierre Bottineau, tlie noted guide and trapper, related to me the following incident, illustrating tbe power and rapidity of the blixxard storm. Bottineau was engaged, some years since, in guiding two gentlemen from Pembina to Georgetown daring the month of February. The country was an unbroken wilderness, and the *now tav very deep upon the plains. The party traveled on snow-shoes, and to carry their provisions used tobogans, or bond-sleds—mere slips of board turned up £t one end. Shortly after ! midday, toward the ehweof the journey, when all the party were walking close together, a blixxard came up. The timber skirting a small stream lay be fore them at the distance of not more than a quarter of a mile. It hail been intensely cold before, and the wind l>earing the storm on it* wings, now made it terrible to face. They at once started at a run in order to gain the shelter of the forest before Immng over taken by the storm. Accustomed to travel from infancy, an.l an expert in tbe use of snow-sin**, Bottineau passed I his companions in the race, never think ing'for s moment but that they could find their way with the timber fall in view before them. Notwithstanding j the hardest running, however, he was tiuable to gain the skirt* of the wood before the storm was upon him. It wa* iof the most terrible description ;• no j man could face it; nothing could be distinguished at the distance of a yard. From long experience in plain travel Bottineau knew it was a fight for life— I every man for himself. Lying down upon the snow he crept upon hands and knees toward tlie wood. After infinite toil and difficulty he reached its friendly shelter, and took refuge under the lee ; !of a fallen log. Hoping his companions might have reached a place of safety, but not daring to go in search of them, he lay shivering for an hour. At the end of that time the storm abated somewhat, and Bottineau startd ito the rescue. About five nxls from the edge of the timber, upon the open plain, , 1 he found one of the unfortunate gentle- J men wrapped in a winding-sheet of snow and drift, and sleeping the sleep that knows u<> waking ; frosenstiff while : .in the act of crawling on hands and knees to shelter. A more extended search revealed the unfortunate man wandering through the timber, with hands, feet and the greater part of his face frozen solid. A man of quick con clusions and ready resource, the old gui le knew his patient could tramp no , more. So he made him a bark hut in the forest, snptdied him plentifully with wood, placed tlie provisions near him, t hen sped off to the nearest military post for a conveyance and the post surgeon. He was gone three days. He returned i only to find that the poor victim in some sudden craze had torn the band ages from his frozen limbs, east off his clothing, and wandered out in the snow to freeze to death. The older class of houses in the terri tory are practically impervious to oold. They are built of logs, with the founda tion" either flat UJKIU the ground or slightly below it, so that no air can pene trate from beneath. Even the cellar way ojiens inside the house, the cellar ! being a limited aperture immediately I under the center of the building;. Tlie TKRMS: SU.OO a Yoar, in Advance. log walls are daulntd thickly with mod outside aud inside, and, backed by double doors and windows, safely defy tlie oold. There arc many bouses of four to eight rooms where one stove heat* the whole building the year round. Merle* of a Miser. Mr. Cooke, tlie muter of Peotouville, aa he wa* called, wa* * great annoyance to gentlemen of the faculty. He us *d to put on ragged clothe*, and go as a pauper to Mr. Ssundera and other gen tlemen, to have gratuitous advice for hi* eve* ; get * letter for the diapenaary and attend there as * dcraved tradesman, for several weeks, until Selected. H*v | ing a wound in lit* leg, he cmp.oyed a Mr. Pigeon, who lived ucarly opposite to him, in White Lion street, Peutou vdle. to cure it. " llow long do yon think it will be before you can cure it t" •• A mouth." " How mush must I give you ?" Mr. Pigeon, who saw tbe wound was not of any great importance, answered, j " A guinea." " Verv well," replied Cooke; " bnt mark this : a guinea is an immense sum of money, and when 1 agree upon sums of such magnitude, I go upon tbe sys tem of no cure no pay. Ho if lam not cured by the expiration of the month, I pav you nothing." Tliis was agreed to. After diligent attention, the wound was so near bettig healed, that Cooke expressed hime< If satisfied, and would not let Pigeon see it any mom However, within two or three day* of tlie month being com pleted, tlie fellow got aome aoi. of plaster, with cuphorbium on it, from a farrier, and made a new wound on tlie place where the former had been, and neudiug for Pigeon tbe last day of the mouth, showed him that his leg was not well, and that of ooume the guinea he bad agrees! for wa* forfeited. Till* story the old fellow used to tell of himself with great satisfaction, and call it "plucking a Pigeon." When on hi* death-bed, he sent for several medical men. Home of them would not attend, but among other* who went to see bim was Mr. Aldridgf, of lVntonville. At oue of the interviews, he earnestly entreated Mr. Aldridge to tell candidly how long he thought be might live. Tlie answer was, he might probably live six dava. Cooke collecting all his strength, and starting up in bed exclaimed r "Are von not a dishonest man, a rogue an if a robber, to serve me so ?" •• How so ?" aaked Mr. Al.lridge, with surprise. " Whv, sir, you are no lietter than a pickjiocket. to go and rob me of my gold by sending in two draught* a day to a man that all your phyaic will not keep alive above six days. Get out of mv house, and never oome near me again." Nationalities and Ages af the Pepe*. The jtmrnnl of the French Statistical Society publishes aome curious statistics c>norruing the Popes which may not be without interest. Pins IX, wa* the '252.1 Pope. Of these fifteen were French, thirteen Greek*, eight Syrians, six Ger mans, five Spaniard*, two Africans, two Savotsiens, two Dalmatians; England, Portugal, Holland, Switzerland and ('snails furnishing one each; Italy provided the rest. Since 1523 all the l'opca have been selected from Italian Cardinals. Seventy Bishops of Borne, lielouging, with very few exceptions, to the epoch preceding the establishment of the temporal power, have been proclaim ed saint*. The last ten centuries have seen nine Popes judged worthy by the Popes themselves of being sanctified. Of the 252 Pontiffs, not including St. Peter, eight died within s month of their elevation to the Popedom, forty eight within a year, twenty-two were seated between cine and two years, fifty four from two to five years, fifty-seven from five to ten year*, fifty-one from ten to fifteen years", eighteen from fifteen to twenty year*, and nine more than twenty year*. Pin* IX,, in the years of his Pontificate, surjia**vl in 1874 all the Roman Pontiff* except the Spanish anti- Pope, Benedict XIII., of Luna, who, elected at Avignon in 1394, died at Penaacola, near Valencia, 1424. In respect of age he ha* leen surpassei lly a very great number of his predecessor*. There died at the age of over eighty-two rear* Alexander XIIL (1689 91) and Pin* VL (1775 99); at eighty-three vears, Paul IV. (1555 59), Gregory XIIL (1575 85), Innocent X. (1644-55), Benedict XIV. (1740 58). Piu* VII. (1800-23); between eighty-four and vears, Paul 111. (1534-49), Boniface VIII. (1294-1N0S), Clement X. (1670 76), Innocent XIL (1691 1700), between ninety and ninety-two Tear*; John XIL. Pope of Avignon (1316 -34), Clement XIII, (1730 40), at the age of 100 year*. Climate of the Arctic Region*. That * comparatively warm climate prevailed in the Arctic region*, at a period not very remote, geologically is one of tlie most interesting conclu sions which h*vc heen established by the researches at modern geologists. From tlie abundant remains of plants preserve*! in rocks occurring in North Greenland snd in Spitsbergen, the geolo gist feels warranted in oonclnding that a Itixnrions vegetation flimriahad there during that age of the earth's history known as the Miocene period. The char acters of the fossil plsnts found in Green land, indicate that North Greenland en joyed, in Miocene times, a climate warmer than at present by at least thirty degrees. In fact the Miocene flora" of this locality includes several species of oak, poplar, chestnut, and vine, with sequoias akin to the fanions mammoth-trees of California. On the whole, this flora of Greenland points to a climate which, according to Pro fessor Hcer, must have been something like that of the Lake of Geneva, at the present day. Going further back in geological time we obtain evidense of a yet warmer cli mate than This, even. Thn*, in the Lower Cretaceon* period, the flora in cluded fern*, and conifer*, resembling species which exist in temperate or even sub-tropical zones. Indeed, Professor Heer eonelndcs that the climate of the Arctic regions, at tlie beginning of the Cretaceona age, mnst have resembled the present climate of Egypt, or of the Canary Isles. Train's Bill of Fare, George Francis Train, from the lofti est rooms of the Palmer House, Chica go—tlie location being in entire con souanoe with his own exalted flight* of intelleot-r-orders a meal fit only for snch lofty mind, thus : sour. Gruel, one gill. BOTL. One peanut. One apple. ESTHERS. Two baked bean*. , Cold boiled Hoe, two grains. One alioe dried apple. One alioe Pomme de terre firltea, One pea. One raw peannt. EHTREKSTS. One glass water. One oraokor. MUST. One orange. One lozenge. Water. Peannt shells. Apple parings. Crumbs. Tooth Pick. —.Yer York Graphic NUMBER 16. FARM, HARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. HssisbslfcHtel*. Tea. —A French one mist aaaerta that | i f tea be ground like coffee, hot water ia Soured upon it, it will yield nearly onble the amount of its exhilarating qualities. Unuawtsr or Dnooira.—lf brooms are wet in bojlwg soda once a week they will become vary tongh, will not cut the i carpet, laat much longer, and always ' sweep like a uew broom. Kami'in Brrrue.—Batter that baa be come rancid may be reetomi by washing it thoroughly in good now milk, and then working it over with cold spring water. Butyric acid, which, when pres ent, causes rancidity, ia soluble in fresh milk, and run be removed in the manner stated. Cinvkd Cipxr —Older may be pre served for years, try putting it np in air tight cans, after the manner of preserv ing fruit. The cider should be first set tied and racked off from the dreg*, bnt fermeutation should not be allowed to commenoe before canning. To Hasb Holder*.—- Window aaabas may be retained at any desired height, by itoring three or four Poles in the side of the tush, and inserting into them common bottle corks, leaving them to project about the aiiteenth pari of an inch. Three will preaa against the win- , dow frame and hold the sash at any height required. Caxraos It*.—Melt slowly together white wax and spermaceti, each one ounce : camphor, two ouaoea, in sweat almond oil, one pound. Next, triturate until the mass becomes homogeneous. Thai allow one pound of rose water to flow in slowly during the opaUoo. Then perfume with attar of rosemary, one drachm. Tm4> Is Ikr tiarSrs. Many persons have a loathing of these really interesting, if not handsome, little animals of the genus Bufo (Bu/o vulgaris). The toad is perfectly harm less, and ia often useful in gardens by feeding on noxious insect*. One ; writer gives it as his opinion that they are Worth more per head to the horti culturist than chickens, even allowing that chicken* did not scratch. Dr. Harris tells a very interesting story of these insect devonrera, which we think ought to put the reader in good humor i with them. He suptxieed the odor of ; toe squash bug would protect it from the toad, and to teat the matter he offer- ' ad one to a grave looking liufa, under a cabbage. He seized it eagerly, but spit it ont instantly, reared upon hia hind legs and put hia front feet on top of his head for an instant aa if in pain, and then disappeared acruas tha garden in a senna of the greatest leaps a toad ever made. Perhaps tha bug bit the I biter. Not satisfied with thia Dr. Hams banted up another toad which lived under the piaixa, and always sun ned himself in one place in the grass. He offered him a squash bug, which be took and swallowed, winking in a very satisfied manner. Twenty other fine bog* followed the first in a few min utes, with no difficulty or hesitation in taking or swallowing, though, frutn the wriggling and contortions, it appeared their corner* did not fit well within. Htm ntaMaa. Dark stables are an abomination and should not be tolerated. There ia no necessity to sacrifice comfort, either in winter or summer, to secure enough light A horse's eye* are enlarged—the pupil of the eve ia—by being kept in a dark stable. He has the harness put an him, and suddenly brought out into the bright, glaring sunlight, wluch contract* the pupil so suddenly a* to cause extreme tain. To see jnst bow it ia to face a 1 bright light after having been in the dark, take a walk some dark night for a abort time, till the eye becomes aocna- . tomad to the darkness, then drop sud denly in some wall-lighted roam, and you will scarcely be able to sea fore few moments in the sudden light. A dark * stable is invariably a lamp one, ami such stables we ere not yet willing to pot either a valuable or working horse m. Give good ventilation, let the sun shine and the air have a chance to effect j an entrance, and your stables will be j purer and more healthy. Pat Haras*. There ia a tendency at this season to feed too much grain and get the horses too fat This ia done at the expense of muscle, because an animal kept con stantly at work will not got •' hag fat," the food going to fnrniah tissue and : muscle used up and destroyed. Not so with an ammal kept iu a stall and given j no exercise, except, perhaps, that ob- I tamed while being lad to water. Tha amount of grain fed should be reduoed, ; and a plentiful supply of hay kept in the racks at all times. When possible, the horses should be giwpn the free run of the vard every .lay. If only given their liberty oocaaionly, they are liable to run and jump to excess. Many vain- j able animals have been lost by rupture or a fall obtained through giriug exer cise to exuberant ammal spirits.— Western Stock Journal. Pesetas Pawls. In a state of nature fowl* run over a great extent of ground before they get a crop fnlL They pick np tneir food grain bv grain, and with it small pieces of dirt. bla.lea of grass and other thing* that all help digestion Placed before the fowls in boxes filled with grain, the birds do in five minute* that which should be the work of two hour*; they cat s gree.lv fill, and, suffering unnat ural repletom they have recourse to drink ; the corn then (wells in the crop, and the sufferer*, instead of walking about cheerfully, hide in corners and squat about, to the detriment of their health. This applies to the equally bad practice of throwing down the food in heaps. Ha alas Between the bonss of the ankle and the wrist there are muscles. When by accident theee are drawn oat of their places, whet we oall a sprain ia prodnoed. When one ia aware that he has suffered this specie* of derangement, the first thing to be done ia to keep the part in jured, perfectly still, and by no meana use it in the least. The muscles left to themselves will return to their places gradually. Hops steeped in nuegar and applied hot to the injured part will .quiet tue anguish and restore wholeness. But more important than any applica tion is perfect quiet Cartons Reservoirs. One of the hottest regions of the earth is along the Persian Qulf, where little or no rain falls. At Bahrin the arid shore has no fresh water, yst a comparatively numerous population con trive to live there, thanks to the copious springs which buret forth from the bot tom of the sea. The fresh water is got by diving. The diver, sitting in his boat, winds a great goat-skin bag around his left arm, the hand grasping its mouth; then be takes in his right-hand a heavy stone, to which ia attached a strong line, and thus equipped he plunges in and quickly reaches the bot tom. Instantly opening the bag over the strong jet of fresh water, he springs up the ascending current, at the same time closing the bag, and is helped aboard. The stone ia then hanled up, and the diver, after taking breath, plunges in again. The souroe of these copious submarine springs is thought to be in the green hills of Osman, some five or six hundred miles distant. Items ef Interest. E vary dor* has a eote, and aj dof pnnte. Tha mm* roita at law the lass suite go on your boak. Counterfeiting ailw coin* baa begun. Look ont for them. Whom did tha pastry eook marry? Hia sweet-tart. of oouraa. Franc* amokad 180.000,000 cigar* laat year, and 183 tona of cigarettes. " If mankind oouldn't sneese, what would happeu to tham when tbay want tor Buroa people ttee glaaaea for tha eyea. Other* oar not get tham above the aoaa. In 18T2 there were tbirty-two eirtraa •how* on the road. Tkia year there are bnt thirteen. Thia ta a world of senood-hand good*. I Every pretty girl haa been aome other ; fallow's sweetheart. • An editor oat Went, peaking of a ! blind sawyer, aaya : " Although ha cannot sea he can aaw." Rice ta mora largely grown and eon snmed aa human food than any other nereal. It ta aaid to be the main food of one-third of the human nee. Chicago haa 3,800 liquor aaioooa for her 800,000 inhabitant#, giving one sa loon !• every 178 psople, or one to every thirty-Ave adult males. Tha number of children lost daily in the city of Mew York ia very large. Over thirty found temporary qnarter* a* the police central station one day recently. It ooeta jnat mx rente to peete a printed slip on a pastel oard and aeod it through the mail*. The aender oon tributea .me cent and the receiver the other Ave. Josh Billing* aaya laeting reputo shnna are e alow growth. The man who wakes up famoa sum morning ia quite apt to go to bed sum night and sleep it ail off. Food father: " Well, my eon, how do you like your college ? Hbe haa turned out some greet men." Young Hopeful (jnat expelled i Yee, air, she has jnat turned me out." In a Mew York druggist's window a placard announce* : " Indie* afflicted with pale, feded eye* can now have them tattooed black, brown, or dark blue with India ink. In Kentucky vagrancy ia puniahad with involuntary servitude, and a colored offender was sold on the block at auction for six months t • the highest bidder at Hickman, in that State, the other day. Life is not ao fall of attractions to tha •mall boy of to-lay as it was to hia father. A generation ago there werw neatly fifty circus shows on the road, and this year there are only thirteen. It ia when a man is carrying a pound of hoocv an one arm, and a bag of eggs on the other, and lending a bulldog by a string, and attempt* to brush a fly oA his ear, that ha feels ao man caa be an expert in all thing*. Queen Victoria, hao seven palaces. Three in Ixmdon—Buckingham, St. James, ato Kensington. Her ootof town palace at* at Windsor, at Osborne, Isle of Wight, and at Balmoral, in the Btti*h Highlands. ToS much reproach " o'er leaps itself, and falls on t'other aide." Pricked too sharply, the delinquent, like a goaded boil, grows sullen and aavagi., and tha persecution continuing, ends in roahing madly on tha spear that wounds him. Tb* Is no grows on asrt*'s broad obsrt Bat has nn bed to efaacr it; Bo Hope stags on ia avsry bssit, Although w* nsv not hear 1L And if u>-4*y thsbasvvwtng Of sorrow Is opfMwswng. l <*ebano* to-morrow's SOB will brag The wsery heart sons* iilsssing A man was soared to death is Berry villa. Mo. He was passing a graveyard at midnight, when two men sprang from behind a monument and shouted at him. He ran borne and went to bed, bnt was so nervous that he could not sleep: and l>efore morning he died in amvulmona. Dr. 0. B. Eddy of FinebriUe, Kt., who has recently imported from Canada s drove of Berkshire bog*, ha* erected for them the finest pen in the country It is made of heavy stone, and through I it run* a hallway aix hundred feet long, traversed by a stream of water. Per fect light and ventilation have been se cured. aad the entire coat haa been 830.000. A popular doctor of Utk while aaoort ing a lad* home tfa# other evening, at tempted to retiree bar oough and aorc throat b* giving her a troche. H-* told her to allow it to dissolve gradoall.* in bar month. So relief waa experienced and the doctor felt quite chagrined the next da* when the lad; aeot him a pan taloon button with a note easing he moat bare given ber the wrong kind of troche, and might need this one. A fanatic Mussulman at Constanti nople attributes the Saltan'* disaster* to the fact that Baron Teeeo, a former min ister of Italy in that capital, fraodalent 1* purchased for a mere song the Prophet's •acred flag and aent it to Turm. Tbe flag certainly is in the poa srvwinn of the Royal Museum of that city, bat it* sacred*character and magic al Value are entirely ignored by iti pres ent owners. A fearful cetaetropbe occurred at Par ma. Italy. An artillery officer and six men weie trying to uproot an old horse chestnut tree by the nee of dynamite in tbe public promenade when, owing to the officer'* carelessness, an explosion occurred, killing the officer, two soldi err, two children and another person, and wounding sixty-three. Among the sen oaaly wounded were four noblemen and several gentlemen who were out for an afternoon walk, and were attracted to tbe spot from curiosity to see the experiment or mown*. Tbars were ao rosss taU the Aret child disd, So riolaU, nor balmy-breaths! tasrt'a-sem, So heliotrope, nor. hods so dear to boos. The boeey-bseited aarkla. no fold-eyed And lowly dandelion, nor. (trstefauw wide, Clover and oowUp-capa. like rival seas. Mooting and parting, as the young spring Bon* cidtr races playing seek and hide. For all flowers died wfaso Eve left Paradise. And ah the world vasfloweriesa a while. Until a little child waa laid in earth ; Then from its grave grew violets for it* oyee. And from ITS 1-P- ose-potnl. for to mflw, And ao all floea.S from that chfld t death took birth _ Ver<* r. Kfan >* StrOmr. A New ring' mil paper tell* a curious etorv of a d ig and a yoong pig, who are in the habit of foraging together on the opposite aide of a small near their owner's residence. The dog dis covered that there was good feeding on the other aide of the stream, and oom tDnnieated the intelligence to the pig. who wns PU T two months old. As the pig could not swim, the dog waded into the river, crouched down, the pig scrambled on hit back, and then the dog swam serosa, carrying his chum. Reg ularly everv morning the two crossed the "stream" m this way, returning at night in the same manner. . The ancients had neither pen, ink, pencil, nor paper; bat their needs were small and their necessities of publication slight, so that their primitive methods sufficed. They out upon stone, and sometimes blackened the letters after cutting; more generally and loqgeet. they used a scratching implement called the "stylos." For materials, they had bronxe, trass, leaden sheets, palm-leaves, skins, bark of trees, tablets covered with a thin sheet of wax, and as convenient as the modern slate for erasure, and the layere of the stalk of the papyrus. The brittle papyrus would not endure fold ing, ana so the book was' a continuous I1L There is no nationality on the face of the globe that can compare with the Chinese as vegetable gardeners, with the exception of the Italians. The gardens of the latter south of this city are mar vels of order and economy. This nation ality is spreading its gardens over the State everywhere, and day by day, dime by dime, strip by strip, adding to their moneyed and real estate possession#. In the vicinity of Antionh they have become well-to-do in a few years. As fishermen they can make a living where others would starve. They are making little spots of Paradise wherever a rich piece of sod is fonnd. They are frugal, ener getic and hard working, and even the Chinese find it difflcnit to keep np with them.— Sacramento Be*.