A Pontic Word is Never Lost. A rant)* word is never lost. Oh, never then refuse one; It cheers the heart when tempest tossed,' And lulls the oe-eo that bruise one , It soetters sunshine o'er our wsy. And turns onr thorns to rose*, It chanties weary night to day. And hope and love discloses. A gentle word is never lost - Thy fallen brothers need it; How easy and how small the cost With peace and com fort speed it ; Then drive the shadow from thy cheek, A smile can well replace it; Our voice is music when we speak Wit h gentle word* to grace it. The Empty Schoolroom. Gray dust upon each wmdow-sUI. A broken chair; The tarnished bell untouched so long-- One leaf of a familiar aong - Such marks of wear As hearts with sad remembrance fill. TireJ, tired I gase on these st last. Strangely it seems The fresh, young fsoes are all fied-- Kome blithe, young hearts among the dead, Numbered. In dreams Alone, come vision* of 'he past. With something twivt a sob and sigh 1 stand to-day Within this amply, dreary room. As silent as the speechless tomb. And out. away Beyond these walls brown meadows lie. 0 room deserted evermore! 1 love you yet. And sky. that holdeth only gloom. Beyond are skies, of summer bloom Without regret. To shine upon the golden shore. Brown meadows, where the wild wmd sweeps Chill, ah! so chill; lust through the cob webbed window-pane see the graveyard in the rain. Still, xh: *o still. Each heart aweary, resting, sleeps. A LEGHORN HAT. Nine o'e'ock of a cloudless summer morning. The basket phaeton stood at the door in the narrow noisy street be low, but Mr. White had already gone to his office, Annie pleaded headache, and the children had their allotted tasks with the t Verm an governess to accomplish. I must either remain within doors daring the hot hours of the day or go out alone. I decided on the latter course. " I am too old to require any chape ron," I said, with a laugh, and glanced in the mirror. There I beheld a not unpleasing image of a little woman attired iu gray, with a silvery veil over her plain face, in the act of fitting on a pair of qnite infinite simal gray gloves. I kissed my good Annie and the children, as if bonud on a long and perilous voyage, and departed in the basket phaeton. What a new world was that all about me ! It was the citv of Leghorn, with its tail houses, rendered dingy by sea damp, and wide white squares, the atmo sphere redolent of tar. the qnayß throng ed with shipping, the clumsy funnels of Oriental steamships relieved by the lighter tracery of interlacing masts against the sky. I like ships; in their bonndlrws suggestiveness they resemble wishes, hopes, ever coming and going on some fresh errand. The phaeton rattled through the main thoroughfare, once Via Cirande, and now re baptized, after the manner of all Ital ian cities, in the name of Victor Eman uel. I noticed with the interest of a stranger groups of bronzed sailors; the untidy Legh -rn woman with trailing gown, and dapping handkerchief tied over her frowzy head; the bnlliant uni form of an occasional officer strolling languidly to his cafe. Then the Sea Gate was reached, and beyond stretched the white road which threads its way beside the Mediterranean to the beautiful suburb of the Anlenza. The sea breeze wafted to me delicious coolness ; the hedges of evergreens and oleanders in masses of rose bloom mingled rich odors ; the stunted trees drooped their feathery foliage laden with gray dust. I gazed out over the sea, which sparkled like a sapphire, with the light houses eo bright at night, now pallid in the morning which no longer had need of them, and the sails glistening with an exquisite silvery whiteness on the horizon. 1 glanced down the white road as it curved along the strand, bordered by its feathery trees and oleanders, its gardens, hotels and villas stretching to the Maremma, and the coast I might never explore. '' This is the moat beautiful shore in the world, and the old Romans knew it," I soliloquized ; and just then the phaeton paused. m My destination was the l*th. Again the charm of novelty delighted me, for it was my first summer with Annie's household. Bathing at Livorno is male a pastime, a recreation, instead of a serious business. I walked out on a pier which terminate"! in a round space shielded by a tent from the sun's rays, and thence the smiling old bath woman, in a flapping straw hat, conducted me down a passage, bordered ou either side by li'tle tents with green doors, to my destination. Onoe consigned to the baracca, I was free to remain in the tinv house, with its roof of matting and walls of striped canvas, where the water rippled in of a transparently green hue, or to part the curtains and issue forth boldly as a swimmer. I decided to re main secluded in my crystal bath, as I was alone, like a mermaid in a cave. I was startled by the curtains being separated from without, and the appear ance of a man's head, with long sandy beard. The heat! advanced with such evident intention of a tall body's follow ing that I uttered a faint scream of alarm, when the intruder retreated hastily with a mattered " Beg pardon.' I received the apology with such dig nity aa is possible to a very small lady in a flannel bathing suit, hanging to a rope to avoid drowning "in deep water, and with her head done np in an oil-skin cap. "Some stupid Englishman!" I said, pettishly. The hour was too early for many occu pants of the large tent, and when I emerged from my bath I i rvute I remembered a tri fling commission at the milliner's. En tenug the ahop, the first obiect present ed to mv notice was the tall officer with the sandy beard, beset bv two clerks, aud surrounded t>y piles of leghom hats. The poor man's aspect was moat bewil dered aiid helpless in that sea of straw. I executed my commission quietly, and was about to leave, when he accosted me. "Would yon have the kindness to give me your advice ?" he said. " I wish to make a present of a Leghorn hat to a ladr in America, and it must In? of the best quality." Thna appealed to, I sifted out the finest straw for his inspection. "Leg horn hat* are made in the Florence manufactories, von know," I said. He male no response; he was stariug at my hands with a very peculiar expres sion. I blushed slightlv, and hid them in the crown of the Leghorn hat. They were very arnall and well shaped; 1 had trouble with my gloves usually, wearing a child's size. Brother Harry used to admire their tiny proportions, and ac cuse me of vanity in tne possession of such extremities. Here was this tall officer in a foreign city actually pausing in the midst of baying a gift for an un known lady—probably his fiancee —to stare at my little hands in evident aston ishment. I was more vexed thau flat tered. What right had he to gaze at me so fixedly, after having claimed mv assistance ? What would Annie thmk of mv adventure ? I recalled him somewhat primly to a sense of dntv, I suppose, for he pro ceeded to pay for the list, after I had warned the shop people not to charge him more than double the nsnal price. He thanked me in subdued accent*, and even hinted that a* the ship was to be iu port some weeks, he hoped any residents would oome on laiard. I relented suffi ciently t* inquire how he propose-,! send ing the Le-ghorn hat, and learned that it was to be entrusted to the captain of a brig, bound for New York. " Perhaps I had best ad,lres* the box here," he said, again consulting me with his eve*. " Ye," I assented, gaining firmness and decision of tone from his very irre solution. The clerk brought him an immense inkstand with a very rusty and gritty pen attached. My companion dipped the pen into the ink and stirred it thoughtfully, as if it had been soup. " I hope she will like it," said the ex traordinary man, consulting me again, with a most sheepish expression of coun tenance. " Perhaps she owns ever so many Leghorn hat* already," in sudden alarm. " No, no," I returned, soothingly. I pictured to myself this lady whom he was so anxious to please. How proud she would be of the exquisite Etruscan straw which she wonld wear to church ! How envious would be her neighbors ! " There, will that answer ?" he held before me the written address. I gasped as I read: " Miss Helen Weatmore, Berryville, Vermont" My own name was Helen Westmore, and Berryville had been my borne ! The Leghorn hat which I had selected with so much care was evidently intended for myself. "Yon can not be Dr. Ea*ton, who took care of my poor Harry, aud wrote me the letters about him?" I cried, lietween sobbing and laughter. "I am hi* Bister." "He told me hie dieter had the small est hands in the world," he replied with excitement. After that there were dinners at Annie's, moonlight drives along the shore, entertainments on the man-of war, with ample leisure for explanations and confidences. The surgeon who had taken care of Harry had been his inti mate friend during long voyages, and had retained the image of the sister at home a'l these years. In retiring on half pay he had been tempted to seek her out. Had I not assisted at the purchase of my own hat, he would never have found me when he returned to America. The little woman in gray was not to lie the old-maid aunt in Annie's household, after all, but to return to her own country as a happy wife, even if in a sober, sedate fashion. Verily human destinies hang by a straw! A box stands on the high shelf in the old home. It contains an nntrimmed Leghorn hat— Harper't Weekly. The Scrap-Hook. Every one who takes a newspaper which he in the leastalegree appreciate* will often regret to see any one number which contains some interesting and im portant articles thrown aside for waste paper. A good way to preserve these is by the use of a scrap-book. One who has never been accustomed thus to pre serve short articles can hardly realize the pleasure it affords to sit down and turn over the pleasant, familiar pages. Here a piece of poetry meets the eye, which you would long since have lost had it not been for your scrap-book; there is a witty anecdote—it does you good to langh over it yet, although it may be for the twentieth time; next is a valuable recipe you had almost forgotten, and which yon found just in time to save much perplexity; there is a sweet little story, the memory of which has cheered and encouraged you when almost ready to despair under the pressure of life's . cares. Indeed, you can hardly take up a single paper without reperusing. Then hoard with care the precious gems, and see at the end of the year what a rich ! treasure yon will have accumulated. An Extraordinary Tumor. An inquest has been held at Consett, says an English paper, on a woman named Wake, whose death was canned by a tumor of extraordinary dimensions. It had been growing for four years, but the woman refused to have it removed. Bbe was attended by a " herbalist," who foolishly by giving her medicine en deavored to burst it. Dr. Benton was called, and said that the tumor was three and a half feet high, and contained forty imperial quarts of semi-solid fluid. The coroner said that the herbalist had acted with gross ignorance, but he was not criminally responsible for tb wo man's death. THE CENTRE REPORTER I'he Ku.oluu knout. I There is prohablv no more terrible instrument of puuinhment, or it may j-erhap* be more properly called torture, than the kuout iu the hands of a Ktis- MOll exeeiitioner. To give our readers *ime idea of its form, the mode of ad ministering it, and it* horrible effects, we quote the following from a recently published work, entitled "The Kuout aud the Russians:" " Conceive, reader, a robust man, full of life and health. I'll is man is condemned to receive fifty or a hundred blows of the kuout. He is conducted, half naked, to the place chosen for this kind of execution. All that he has 011 is a pair of simple lineu drawers round his extremities. His hands are Urn ml together, with the |ialms laid flat against one another, and the cords are breaking his wrists; but no oue puvs the slightest attention to that. He is laid flat upon his stomach, ou a frame inclined diagonally, aud at the extremities of which are Uxed iron rings; his hands arc fastened to one end of the frame, and his foet to the other; he is then stretched in such n manner that he cannot make a single movement, just as an eel's skin is stretched in order to dry. This act of stretching the vic tim causes his lames to crack, and dis locates them—but does that matter ? At the distance of tlve-aud-t weuty pace* stan.n another man; it is the •public executioner. He is dressed iu black velvet trousers, stuffed into his boots, tuid a colored shirt buttoning at the side. His sleeves are tucked up, so that uoth; iug may thwart or embarrass him iu his movements. With both bauds he gra*|>* the instrument of punishment—a kuout. This knout oouauts of a tfioug of thick leather, cut iu a triangular form, from four to five yards long, and an incii wide, tapering off at oue end, ami broao at the other; the small end of which is fasten ed to a little wooden handle, abont two feet long. The signal is given; no oae ever takes the trouble to read the sen tence. The executioner advances a few ste|ia, with his body twut, holding the • knout in lioth hands, while the loug thong drags along the ground lietwesn his legs. On coming to about three or four pace* from the prisoner, he raises, by a vigorous movemeut, the kuout towards the top of his he.ul, and then instantly draws it dowa with rapidity to wan. Is his knees. The thong flies and whistles through the air. aud descending on the body of the victim, twines round it line a hoop of iron. In spite of his state of teuaiou, the poor wretch bounds as if he were submitted to the powerful grasp of galvanism. The executioner retraces his steps, and rejiest* the same operation as many times as there are blows to tie inflicted. Where the thongs envelope* the body with it* edges, the flesh aud muscles are literally cut into stripe*, us if with a razor; but when it falls flat, then the boues crack. The flesh, iu that caae, i* not cut, but crush ed and ground, and the blood spurt* out in all directions. The sufferer be comes green and blue, like a body in a state of decomposition. He is removed to the hospital, where every care is taken of him, and is afterward sent to Siberia, where he disappears for ever in the bowels of the earth." Fires In America. An English magazine says : The ex ceeding dryness of the atmosphere in the United States produces such an in flammability in buildings, that when a tire break* out it proceed* with surpris ing velocity. Owing to this circum stance, Americans have organized the most j>erfect system in the world of extin guishing fires, though all their efforts are often in vain. A stranger in N'ew York or Boston would be astonished at the immense uproar cansed by an out break of fire. Bells are rung, gongs sounded, and steam-engines rush along the street*, regardless of everything. The unaccustomed stranger is apt to make a run of it when he see* the en gines coining ; the American simply steps to the " sidewalk " or into a " store " for a moment. It is provided by the city government that " the offi cers aud men, with their teams and ap paratus, shall have the right of way while going to a flre, through any street, lane, or alley," etc.; and must unre servedly do the said officers and men make use of this permission. If auy old woman's stall is at the corner of a street round which the steamers must go, there is no help for it; over it goes. If a buggy is left standing at a oorner, the owner mnst not be surprised if but three wheels are left on it when he re turns. Accident* of thiß latter kind, however, are rare; people reoognixe and yield willingly the right of way ; nnd the quicker the engine* go to a fire, the better pleased everybody is. It is quite a point of rivalry among the fire men who shall get the first water on a flre, and it is mentioned always in the report of the engineer. Only Practicing. Two intimate friends met on the street the other day, after a short separation and the following curions converaation ensued: * " Ah, how d'ye do, old fellow ?" cried the first one, heartily. Second friend (shrugging his shoul ders) —"O, trav bang." First friend (looking a little startled) —" Nice day, is it not ?" "Second do.—"Ab we, say bang sure." First do. (doubtfully)—" You are not ill, are yon ?" Second do. (with indignation)—" Oh, nong!" First do. Ix.-nnes uneasy ; thinking his friend is mad, he say*—" Well, good day," and moves away. The Second smiles from ear to ear, shrugs his shoulders and replies : " Ah, bung znre, mong amine." All the day Number One feels ex tremely bad about his neighbor's un fortunate condition, and he does not dis cover the truth of the matter till the evening, when, as he is reading of the Paris Exhibition, he suddenly recollects that his friend is going to France and is studying the langiiage. He was only practicing French in a preliminary sort of way. Numlier One smiles as he thinks of the fate in store for the unfortunate natives of La Belle France. Walt. Wait, husband, before you wonder audibly why your wife don't get along with the household responsibilities " as your mother did." She is doing her best—and no woman can endure, that beet, to lie slighted. Remember the long, weary nights she sat up with the little babe that died; remember the love and care she bestowed upon you when you had that long fit of illness. I)o you think she is made of cast iron ? Wait— wait in silence and forbearance, and the light will come back to her eyes--the old light of the old days. Wait, wife, lieforeyou speak reproach fully to your husband when he oomes | home late, and weary and "out of sorts." I He has worked hard for yon all day— perhaps far into the night; he has wres tled, hand in hand, with care and sel fishness, and greed, and all the demons that follow in the train of money mak ing. Let home be another atmosphere entirely. Let him feel that there is no other place in the world where he can find peace, and quiet, and perfect love. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1878. THE SILVER El ML IU JHtitra fr'nlr tin fllaar mt iftir raallUlraal >lr n In lb* Hnrlai. There is a man alive at this present I moment who, if lie were so mluded, could give his daughter a marriage-por tion of one hundred and fifty million dollars. He would then have sliout fifty milhous left for himself. He lives half way up a mountain-side in Nevada, and Ilia daughter lives with him. Seven years ago he was a jnior man; to-dav he is tiie silver kiug of America. He ha* dug two humlri-il million dollars' worth jof silver out of the hill he is living on, and lias about two hundred millions more yet to dig. If he lives three years longer he will be | the richest mau tu the world. Hiauame j is James Fair, and he is the manager, superintendent, cliiet partner, and principal shareholder til the consolidated Virginia and California Silver Mines, known to men as the " big lsmauzaa." He has an army of men toiling for him j day aud uight, down in the very depths -if the earth, digging, picking, blasting and crushing a thousand bins of rock every twenty-four hours. He works a* hard as any man of them. The mau • who, by his own unaided exertions, can rise to such marvellous wealth in so short a time is worth knowing something about. It is worth while to hear how •noli a fabulous fortune can be accumu late,!. Seven years ag>> there were two little : Irishmen m the city of Sun FVuciMa, keeping a driukiiig-bar of very mixleet pretensions, close to oue of the priupiptl business thoroughfare*. Their custom er# were of all kimls, but chiefly com mercial men and clerks, Auioug them was an unusually large proportion of stock and share-dealers, mining brokers j and the like, and there was no place in San Francisco where so much mming talk went on as in the saloon of Messrs. 1 Flood k O'Brien, which were the names of the two little Irishmen. Keeping their ears wide open, and sifting the mass of g'sutip that they listened to every day, these two men picked up a good manv crumbs of information, liesule getting now and then a direct coufldeu- Itial tip ; and they turned some uf them ti such good account in a few quiet little speculations, that they shortly had a comfortable sum of money lying at their bankers'. Instead of throwing it away headlong in wild extravagant vmi { turca, which was the joyous custom of the average California!! in those days, they let it lie where it w. waiting till they knew of something good to put it i into. They soon heard of something good enough. On Fair's advice they bought shares in a miue called the Hale and Norcrosa, and were speedily taking out of it fifteen thousand pounds ster ling a month in dividends. This mine was the property of a company, aud though it had at one time paid large and continuous dividends, it was now stip poatsi to be worked out and worthless. Mr. Fair, however, held a different opinion ; and when he came to examine it carefully, he found just what he ex pected to find—a large detxxut of silver ore. Thereupon he and Flood and O'Brien together bought up all the share# they could lay their liauds upon, J and obtained complete control of the mine. It was immediately put under Fair's management, and it prospered, and the three partners waxed very rich. Mr. Fair, Wing an experienced and clever practical miner, spent moat of Ins time down in the initio, laying out and directing the work for his men. It was necessary that he should know all there was to be known, aud see all there was to been, about the property ;.atid he made snch constant ami thorough ex plorations of it, that he very soon got it by heart. In a little time tiiere was not an inch with which he was not thor oughly acquainted, not a trace of mineral in aliaijft or tnnnel of which he was not personally aware. By and by, Wing a reflective kind of man, who noticed everything and forgot nothing, he took to thinking over things, and putting odda and ends of observation together, and comparing notes, and rummaging in old ont-of-the-way corners of the mine, ami making all sorts of examinations in all sorts of abandoned places, and generally carrying on in a curious wnv. until he 1 finally persuaded himself that some where, close by the Hale and Noreroaa, there rftn a gigantic rein of silver-bear ing ore, whose valne he could only cal culate in figures that frightei ed him to look at. Week after week he hunted for this vein without success, and under difficulties that would have disheartened an ordinary man ; but he stuck to the search, and nltimately found a cine. He followed it tip for ten days, and then struck the Bonanza, a hnge sheet of | glittering stephanite, one hundred feet wide, of unknown length and depth, aud 1 of the estimated value of six hundred millions of dollars—the mightiest for tune that ever dazzled the eyes of man. In a week he and his partners were the absolute owners of three-fourths of it, the prospective possessors of four hun dred and fifty million dollars ! Figures like these stun the imagination. In the excitement caused by this as tounding discovery it is scarcely more than the hard truth to say that Han Francisco went raving mail. The vein in which the bonanza was found was known to rnn straight through the con solidated Virginia and California mines, dipping down as it went, and could not W traced any farther. But that fact was nothing to people who were Wnt on having raining stock; and, vein or no vein, the stock they would have. Con sequently they bought into every mine in the neighborhood, good ami bail alike, sending prices up to unheard-of limits, and investing millions in worthless pro perties that have never yielded a shil ling in dividends, aud never will. When Flood hail bought a large quantity of the bonanza stock, and had assured to himself aud his partners the controlling interest in the mines, he recommended all his friends to buy a little, and O'Brien did the same. Those who bxik the ad vioe are now drawing tlioir proportion ate shares of dividends, amounting to about two million five hundred thousand j dollars a month. The majority of those who bought into other mines are, in Cali fornia parlance, "bunted." What these three meif and their latestartner, Mao kay, are going to do witti their money is a curious problem, the solution of which will be watched with great interest iu a year or two to come. The money they bold now is yielding them returns so enormons that their maddest extrava gances could mnkc no impreeaion on the amount. Every year they are earning more, saving more, and investing more. They have organized a bank with a capi tal of ten millions of dollars; they con trol nearly all the mining interests of Nevada and California; they have a strong grip of the commercial, financial, i aud farming interest* all along the Paci fic slope; and by a single word they can at any moment raise a disastrous panic, and plunge thousands of men into hope less rnin. It will l>e an interesting thing to wait and watch how this terrible power for good or evil is to be wielded. —Home, Journal. A teacher in Bangor, Maine, upbraid ed a little girl because she did not hold up her hand with the rest of the delin quents when, at the close of the day, all tnose who '' had lost their places in their classes " were called upon so. But she, with ready wit, responded: '• Please, mum, I didn't lose my place; an'how could I when I'm at the foot'{' Fencing In Japan. A famous company of professional fencers wt re }erformiug at Yokohama while 1 was there, and we went to see i them aloug with several English resi dent*, who had been many year* in the country, but hat! never witueaed a sim ilar exhibition. The* .'lmitators were encased in armor, ami were distinguished from each other by the color of their cuirasses. Their appearance was her aided by the blast of a conch *hell, and all their proceed I Uga weresu|>eriiitoiidcd by a handsome young man, attired and I shaven in the most orthodox style. Wielding his fan like a marshal's trun cheon, he set the combatants upon each I other, and separated tiiem with loud ejaculations. At each corner of the arena sat a judge, with all the dignity of a Human Senator, motion lees and silent, until referred to U|MIII a doubtful jtoiut of order. Out* are interchanged so rapidly that it is often hard to say who had dealt the successful stroke. The weA|K>u* are loug handsaw held in both hamla like quarter-staffs,and any ort of blow above the waist is jM-riuissible, but the favorite la a good crack ou the top of the helmet. Occasionally the combat ants get too near together for striking, and the struggle becomes literally hand to hand until they are separ ated ; notwithstanding their savage , veils and tierce blows, they pre .-serve the perfect gtaal humor characteristic of their race. Byway of variety there was a fight lietweeii the sword and the " morning star," a sphere fastened by a cord to a spiked handle. Although the latter appeared to be the ■ inferior weapon, its la-arer did not oome twdly off, as he played the part of a retianun with the l>ail ami string, and when at dose quarters brought his aharp hook into active ojwratiou. Then two girls, elaborately attired in the wide sleeve* and trousers of Jajwmso knights, attended by female squires to arm and equip them, took their place* on oppo site aide* of the lists, and went through the motions of a fight, one liavtng a halberd and the other a couple of swords. Finallv, auotlu-r amazoii had a duel with a male antagonist, ami completely overthrew hun ; but this was it mere burlesque, as he evnlqptly tumbled iiviA ou purpose, aud Itehavtsl like the clown in a pantomime, whereas an air ofstern reality pervaded the other mimic battle*. It is remarkable that the Japanese art able to derive keen enjoyment from ] K-rf--nuance* which involve uo jienl to life or limb, and if their public sjKvtaclea differ in this respect from thoae of the Homau amphitheatre, they mav aiao comjwre favorably with many which find favor iu the eye* of the British public. Various game* of skill, including the " Go laug." are popular, but the pa*sion for gambling and cock fighting, so strongly developed in most {•art* of Eastern Asia, is not couspicu ous in J span, where animals in general may In- said to have a good time.— The bbrtniyhtly Reciew, Turkish Love of Water. A Turk thinks he can do nothing ao grateful t<> (tod and man a* the setting np of a fountain by the roadside or in the street* of the city, where the way farer and his animals may appeeae their thirst and bleaathe name l>f him who pro vided for their want*. Often in my trav els, savs a correspondent, I have halted beneath the nhade of a wide-spread ing plane tree to slake my thirst at the limpid waters of a marble fountain, and to repie from the noonday heat. There is always some edifying distich from the Koran, that "Water ia the gift of (tod, and blessed is lie who distribute* it," or that •* Water is the source of health and life," etc. There is a practical piety in these monuments of eharitv that tqa-ak* well for the benevolent disposition of the Mussulman. The Turks are great consumers of water, and they are good judges of it* quality and nice in what thev use. The favorite water, that is sold at a para glasa in the *tr>ota, is from Asia; either from Tcbatmldja, on the motintaiu aliont Scutari, or from Karakoulak, some ten mile* up the Bosphoru*. several mile* inward from Belona. This is brought to the landing in barrels, on horses' hacks, pnt in largi, and in this way carried to Con stantinople before daylight. Notwith standing the length of the journey, it is as clear as crystal. The venders cry it us, " Bowz guibi -as gissl as ice. A pasha will drain two goblets at a swal low. As water is said to Jiave fattening propertiea, the large draughts they take of it may be the cause, in part, of the ohesitv to which both sexes of the Turks are subject A Turkish legend. On a rock opposite Hcutari, (win* the entrance to the Boipborni, stands 11 tower which in often, without rrwton, called " the Tower of Leander." The Tnrks call it " the Tower of the Virgin." In it, according to a Turkish legend was confined the lovely daughter of Mohammed-Sultan, Mehar-Hchegid by name, of whom it had l>een predicted by n myateriona gipsy that she would die ] by the bite of a serpent, Mehar- Schegnl'a reputation for beauty spread nntil it reached the ears of the Prince of Persia, who came to Constantinople de termined by some means to gain admis sion to tliii' tower. He contrived, by bribing her attendants, to get conveyed to her a bouquet of symbolical flowers expressing to her in a language she per feetlv understood the passion with which she liad inspired him. But, like Cleo patra's basket of frnit, Mehar-Hchegid s bunch of flowers concealed an asp..j Mehar-Hchegid was stung. Her ser vants, rememlieriug the gipsy's proph ecy, uttered lotid cries of distress, and, throwing open the doors of the tower, rushed out frantteally, exclaiming that all was lost. Then the Prince of Persia rushed in, seized Mehar-Hchegid in liis arms, and sucked the wound in her shoulder until he had extracted from it all the venom left there by the asp. The Hultaii, when he hoard of the young man's noble and devoted conduct, de clared that he should lie hit son-in-law ; and Ae Prince of Persia made Mehar- Hchegid his wife, and lived very happi ly with her for a great number of years, and had many children. Words or Wisdom. Better be upright with poverty, than unprincipled with plenty. A man mav have much of the world, and vet not be much of a man. Without the virtue of humanity one can neither be honest in poverty nor contented in abundance. No life*can be pure in its purpose and strong iu its strife and all life not lie purer and stronger thereby. It was Thoreau who said that "We, who have not had a seed-time of charac ter, cannot expect a harvest of thought." Be always sure of doing good. This will make your life comfortable, your death happy, and your aooount glorious. The darkest day in any man's career is that.wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by I squarely earning it In each grain of sand there are mar vels ; in every drop of water a world. In the great spectacle called nature every being has its marked place and distinct role, and iu the grand drama called life there presides a law harmo nious as the one which rules the move ments of the stare. Magnificent* of Ancient Rome. The following *i"J pen-pioluro ia fnmi " The Old Roman World," by John Ford: If anything inure were wanted lo give UB "" ides of Roman maguift otuice, we would turn our eyes frmii pub lic monuments, demoralizing games *ud grand pruceoaioua; wo would forget tin* statue* in brass and marble winch out humls-rod the living inhabitants, ao nituit-roua that oiio hundred Uiouaaud have been recovered and "till embellish Italy, and would damwd iuUi tho lower sphere of material lifo—to thoao thing* which attcat luxury and taste— to orua uanta, dresses, sumptuous living and rich furniture. The art of working metal* and cutting prectoua atone* sur passed anything known at the present day. In the doooratiuii of house*, iu noctal entertaimnenta, iu crockery, the Roman* were remarkiible. The moaaica, aiguet ring*, cameo*, bracelet*, bruize*, chain*, vaaea, oouclioa, banqueting ta ble*. chariot*, oolored glaaa, gildini, mirror*,uiattre*e, coametica, perfume*, hair dye*, Bilk mliea, potteries, all at te*t great elegance and beauty. The tablea of thug* root and lie! I*ll bronze were a* aipen*ive a* the sideboard* of Spauiidt walnut, ao much admired in re cent great exhibitions. Wood and ivory were carved a* exquisitely a* in Japan an I China. Minora were made of jiol idied *ilver. Glass cutter* could imi tate the colon of precioua atone* ao well that the Portland vaae from the tomb of Alexander Severn* via long considered a geuine sardonyx. Hraaa Oould be hardened ao a* to cut atone. The pal ace of Nero glittered with gold and jew el*. Hi* bed* were of ailver and hi* table* of gold. Tibenua gave a million of sesterces for a picture fur hia bed room. A banquet dudi of Druaillua weight**! live hundred pound* of ailver. The cu|>* of l>rtißU* were of gohL Tun ic* were embroidered with the figure* of varioua animal*. Sandal* were gar nialied with prcriou* *tone*. Paulina wore jewel*, when he paid viaita. Tal lied at SBOO,OOO. Drinking cups were engraved with scene* from the pueta. Librarie* were adorned with bust* and fireaee* of rare wowda. Sofa* were ln atd with lortoire shell and oovered.with gorget hi* purple. The Roman grandee* rode in gilded chariot*, bathed in mar ble bath*, dined from crystal cup*, slept on I**l# of down, reclined on luxurious oouchcw, wore embroidered robe* and were *dorn<*l with preeiou* stouea. They ransacked the earth and the sea* for rare dudie* for their lianqueta,and or namented their houaea witli c*rjwts from Babylon, onyx cup* from Bythinia, marble* from Xumidia, bronze* from Corinth, atatue* from Allien* —whatever, in short, was precious or rare or curvoua iu the moat distant countriea. The lux urie* of the bath almost exceed belief, •ud on the wall* were magnificent frtw cue* and painting, exhibiting an inex haustible pmducti veiies* in landscape and mythological scenea, executed, in lively colors. But these were not all. The moat amazing wealth and the loftiest taste went hand in hand. There were '• citi zen noble* who owned whole province*; even Paula could call a whole city her ywn. Rich senator*, in dome case*, were proprietor* of 200,000 slave*. Their i"- come* were known to be $5,000 per day when gold and silver were worth four time* a* much a* they *re now. Vampire Bats. South America also ha* ita large bats, of one of which every I*sly has heard— the vampire.* Much nonsense ha* been written about it, but there waa some foundation for the stories of ita Bucking the blood of men and animal* until it killed them. In the interior of South America nearly everybody aleep* in a tiannnock either out-of-door* or with the window* open, and the weather i* so warm that little covering i* used. The vampire cornea in on silent wing*, and finding a toe exposed, gently prick* it with hi* sharp tooth, and draws the blood until he can swallow* no more. The sleeper rarely ia awakened, and doee not know hia lows until morning. He may tbeil feel weak from the flow of blood, but we are not aware that a man waa ever known to die from thi* cause, florae* are very greatly troubled by them also. Mr. Charles Watterton, an enthuaiantic naturalist now dead, who spent several year* in New Guiana, haa tolil ua much about thi* ugly bat, but could never induce one to taste of hia toe, although he would have been very glad to be able to any that he had been operated upon. For eleven month* he slept alone in the loft of a deserted wood cutter's hut in the deep forest. There the vampires came an i went as they wished. He saw them come in the moonlight on stealthy wing*, and pick the ripe bananas; lay in his hammock and watched them bring almost to hia liedaide the green wild fruit of the wild guava; floating down the river on oilier moonlight nights waa struck by the fall ing blossoms of the lawarri-ntit tree, which the vampires pulled from the branches to get at the tender *eed-ves*el, or the insects that lurk iu the deep corolla. He lav niglit after night with his bare foot exposed, but could never get them to lance it. although his irienda ami companions were all bled by this nocturnal surgeon; and except that he once caught one fastened to the shoulder of one of his animals, lie came awry no wiser than when be went of how the vampire doe* his horrid work. The vampires measure about twentv six inches aero** the wing*; frequent old house* and hoUow trees, and repose iu clusters, head downwards, from the branches of f orest trees. Strength of the Human Arm. The powerful force of the human arm when propelled by a hale, hearty man, is almost incredible. The damage it may inflict is simply astounding, and we have recently had a sail but verv striking demonstration of this kind. A few jnontliß since, when a man named Freize hit Andrew Weldner, it is said that I lie latter fell as suddenly a* if he hail been hit in a vital part with an are. The bridge of the nose was l> oker. he ceased to breathe in less than ten m ti ll tea, ami within a quarter of ati hour was dead as though a bullet had )>ene t rated his heart. It instated that Freize 1 told an officer tlint the 'orce of the blow was so powerful that he came near fall ing irom the rebound, and when he dis covers! that the man was dead, he eonld not reilize the fact. We see it stated in a Virginia paper that one of the cele brated Randolph family, a near kinsman of Thomas Jefleraon, wlieu in liia prime, could lift a thousand pounds. Our shows and circuses generally exhibit a , man who displays wonderful feats of strength, but we have rarely or never known an instanee where a single blow from the human arm ao instantaneously preduced death aa that inflicted by Freize on Weidner. It ahould prove a Hail warning to all possessed of such muscle, to be extremely guarded as to when and how they use Two voting farmers desired the excln sive privilege of daucing with the seme girl at Mount Vernon, 111. There was a auarrel, ending iu au agreement to settle le question with a fight. The com batants and a few friends went to a barn; but before beginning the fight one de manded that the other be searched, to see if he hail any weapon. The search was not thorough, for the searched man drew a knife, on finding that he was being whipped, anil inflicted a mortal wound. TERMS: s'-*.OO a Year, in -A^dvanoe. (lathes Moths. This nam* include* several distinct but similar specie* of the minute moth* Belonging to the family Tinrldtr, which I iu their larval state, are very destructive to woolen good*, fur, hair and similar substances Among them may be men tinned the clothes moth ( mtian rlla ), the carpet moth ( 7Ynca fafteUel la), the fur moth (7*. pellkmalla), and the hair moth ( Tinea cane Ila >. These i t means have slender bodies and lanceo late, freely fringed winga that expand mi tenths or eight-tenth* of an inch. The antenna* aiJ palpi are slrort and thread-like, and there ia a thick orange or brown tuft on the forehead. The colnra range from buff to drab and dark gray. The egga Hid in May and June (the moth dying immediately after ward), aud hatch out in fifteeu days. The young worm* at once proceed to work, guawing the salwtaucea within their reach and covering themselves with the fragment*, which they shape into holing rolls and line with silk. These rolls are by some carried on their liacka a* they move along, and by others fastened to the aubatanoe they are feed ing npon ; and thev are enlarged from time to time by additions to the open extremities and by portions let into the sides, which was split open for this purpooe. In auch ambush the worms carry on their work of destruction through the summer; real, in seeming torpor, during the winter ; and change to rhrvaalids early in the spring. They transform again in twenty days, and uiat.e from their shelter a* winged motha to fly about in the evening till the) iave paired and are ready to lay eggs. Then follows an invasion of dark chiaeta, chest* aud drawers, edge* of carpets, folds of curtains, and hanging garment*, aud the foundation of a new colony ia swiftly laid. The early days of June ahonld herald vigorous aud exterminating warfare against these subtle peat*. CloeeU, wardrobe*, all receptacle# for clothing, ahonld be emptied and laid open, their content* thoroughly expooaJ to light and air, and well brushed and ahakeu before lieing replaced. In old bona** much iufe*ted with moth*, all cracks in floors, waiuaoots, shelve* or furniture should lie brushed over with turpeutine. Cam phor or tobacco should be placed among all garment*, furs, p'ume*, etc., when laid a*ide for the summer. To secure cloth-linings of carriage* from the at tacks of moths, sponge them on both aides with a solution of corrosive subli mate of mercury in aloobol, made just strong enough not to leave a white mark on a black feather. Moths may be killed bv fumigating the article containing them with tobeooo or anlphnr, or bv patting if practioab'e, into an oven heated to abont 150 degrees Fahrenheit Velraae-Worship ia Java. An eye witness describes volcano-wor ship in Java as follows : " The Stamat, or Slatnanlan Fromok, that is, the blessing or worshipping the volcano, is s ceremony which the Javanese bobl every vear. When we reached the place, everything bore an aspect not nnlike that of an English fair. Eatables of all kinds were displaved upon portable stands, and gavly drowed groups were parading about. There were old men and women who had come for the last time to pay their respects to the ahrine, and they watched with delight the gam bols of their grandchildren, of whim there seemrol to be no end, who were sporting anuind. Everybody seemed bent on Laving a good time. Near the shore of the sea were placed a score of msta, on each of which knelt a young prieat, having before him s lot of myrrh, sloes and oilier spices, which are sold for offerings. At right angles with this row of mats was another row, with the same number of pneata, all kneeling in Arab fashion, their bodies partly resting on the calves of their legs. They were older than the others, perhaps the patriarchs of their respective villages, lief ore each of them were small packets containing incense, chips of sandal wood and the like ; and wooden censers, from which arose clouds of aromatic perfume. Behind each priest knelt or squatted an nmbrella bearer, sheltering his reverence from the sun. Crowds stood cloae by, waiting for the consecration of their offerings, which consists! mainly of fruits, bankets of riee, poultry, oakea, strips of cloth, small coins and the like. Service at length began. There were some momenta of prayer, according to a prescribed ritual. Then the priests sprinkled consecrated water over the offerings. After another prayer by the priests, in which many of the auditor* joined, the eldest priest roee np, followed by the otbera, au shouted Ayo.' Ayo! Fromok! 4 Forward ! For wan!! to Bromok !' whereupon the whole mass of people made a tremendous rush for the volcano, the first one wuo gained the ndge counting himself favo-ed by for tune, and certain of future good luck. The manifohl votive offering* were then handed to the priest* who innmbled a a few indistinct word# over them, and pitched them into the crater." The Friendly beat. For several weeks past a goat belong ing to a famdvon Foaitb street has been on very intimate terms with a family on Cherry street. He has had the run of the yard, poked his now into the house, and been very snccess.'nl iu uodgmg cltilw and brick-bat*. Yesterday fore noon, when the asid goat had finished eating np a good share of the week's washing, the man of the boose was heard to remark; " I will now go into committee of the whole and fix that beast so that he will never bother man again !" He ran to the grocery, purchase! an old pack of firecrackers, and at the end of ten minutes " William " was fixed. He had firecracker* tied to hit legs, tail and neck, and the plot was abont to thicken. He went off with the first cracker, charging across the street. After cleaning ont a grocery he npaet a boy, went into a house by a front door anil came ont of the back window, reached the street and mahed a dog a half a block, and finally disappeared in the same cloud of smoke with a runaway horse. A policeman was pacing Third street with a slow aud solemn step when s boy came thundering along ana called out: " Turn in a fire-alarm !" " What's up ? What's up?" inquired Uie officer. " Conflagration down here—big goat all on fire from basement to fourth story —boy* rolling him in the mud, but the fiendish flames still creeping heaven wards—turn in an alarm for two enginea and a htx>k and ladder I"— Detroit Free Pre**. Liquor Drinking In England. In the year 1877 duty was paid on 29,888,176 "gallons of home-made spirit* for consumption iu the United Kingdom a* beverage, this quantity being less by 62,112 gallons than in the preceding year. The 16,858.082 gallons for con sumption in England show an increase of 414,974 gallons, and the 6,987,189 gallons for Scotland an increase of 16,- 051 gallons ; but these increases are more than counterbalanced by a de crease of 493,110 gallons in Ireland, where the quantity fell to 6,047,905 gallons. The 10,618,564 proof gallons of imported foreign spirits (not sweetened or mixed) entered for consumption in the Uuited Kingdom in 1877, were leas bv 883,176 gallons than the quantity in the preceding year.— lx>ndon Time*. NUMBER 17. PARE, HARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD* 1 Twbairal Trrs.. I •*. br r.lin B:^4in. There are very many pereona who are familiar with poultry, their general ap petrtooi, and aomnuo habile, and yet wholly unacquainted with the recently introduced ternia aa applied to fowla; word* the meaning of which, thus used, is Greek even to those well informed on general subjects. Vat the benefit at those who may deaire to obtain the knowledge, I subjoin a glossary of tech meat terms, derived from the beet au thorities : Heard - A bunch of feathers under the throat at some breeds of rbiekens, such aa Houdana or Polish. There are many phraaea, such ss breed, brood, brooding, carriage, etc., that evsm the leaat on learned will understand. We often hear of a " litter of chickena," or similar ex pressions. Litter, aa applied to poultry, is inelegant and in bad taste. We hear of a litter of pigs, a litter of kittens, etc,, but a litter of chicks ia entirely out of keeping. Csrunculated—Ooveiwd with small fleshy protuberances, as on the bead and neck of a turkey ooek. Chick —A nrwb hatched fowl. Chicken—This word applies indefinitely to any age un der one year ohl. Clutch This term is applied both to the hatch P of tlie fowl's head. Con dition—The state of he fowl a* regard* health and beauty of plumage. Crret— A cn>wn or tuft o.* feather* on the heed ; of the same s.gnifleaace a* top-knot. Crop —The receptacle in which the fowl's food it stared before pausing into the gizzard for digestion. Cushion—The maa* of feather* over a hen, covering the tail—chiefly developed in Cochin*. Dnbbiog—Cutting off the comb, wattle* and car lobes, so aa to leave the bead smooth and clean. Ear lobes— The folds of bare akin hanging just below the ear*, by many called deaf ear*. They vary in co'or, being red, white, blue, and cream colored. Face- The bare skin around the eye. Flight*—The primary feather* of the wing* use 1 in flying, but tacked under the wing* oat of sight when at rest Fluff—Soft, downy feather* about the thigh*, chiefly developed in Asiat ic*. Furnished —When ■ cockerel ha* ob tained his full tail, oomb,(heckle*, etc., be is said to be furnished. Gills—This term 1* often applied to the wattles. Hackles— The peculiar, narrow, long feather*"on the necks of fowls. Henny or Hon Feathers—Resembling a ben, from the alweoce of hackles and sickle feathers and in plumage geuerally. Hock—The joint between the thigh and thank. Keel —A word sometimes used to denote the breast bone. Leg—ln a living fowl, thia is the scaly part, usually denominated the shank. ' !n a d'-issert bird, the term refer* to the joint above. Leg Feather* Feather* growing on the outer aide* of the shanks iu many of the Asiatics. Mamy—Confuted or lmkstmet markings in the plumage. Pea Comb—A triple oomb resembling three small combe in one, the middle being the highest. Pencilling—Small markings or stripes over a feather. These may run straight across, as in the Hamburg*, or in a crescent form, as in Partridge Cochins. Poult— A young turkey. Primaries—The flight feather* of the wing*, hidden" when toe i* closed, being tucked under 4b* visible wing, which is composed of the "sec ondary " feather*. Usually the prima ries contain the deepest color belonging to the fowl, except the tail, and grert importance is attached to their wlor by breeder*. A cockerel or a pullet of some breeds should never show a white quill, or a white shaft to a quill, to become perfect breeding birda.— C.B., fbwn try (Gentleman. Sri can Hwarr POT sToaa.— Boil one dosen small potatoes till they are done, bat not too soft: peel and slice them and sprinkle over them a teaeapful of sugar and a tableapoonfal at ground al spuY*. Now put into a frying pan a tableopoouful of lard, and aa soon as it it hot, lev in the potatoes and fry them. When the potatoes are tskeo up, put a little water, sugar and spies in the pan and make a grave to p b but It wsa that oe hi* head I found him Tbscsuaa WA* as plain s* the BOSS on ytkw face. Though parhap* ysa'd ha** thought it * lunacy And (Wined any further to heed K; But the fa wa* a *cfekar of MU* is * bun*. H ad poa&ed tall BPmde down la hi* flurrr. SoVe atood oo hu bead to read it Some stupendous figures or* furnished by the recent centos of the British Empire. IU total population is 4,- 750,000, or nearly doable tfiet oI the Roman Empire >• ita palmiest day*, while ita territory, 7,750,000 square mile*. M almost fire timet aa great A sixth of the queen's subjects are Chris tiana, a little more than a tenth Mobam medan*. over two-flltht Hindoos and a (north heathen* of variona aaeta. Tha titled property holders ot tlraat Britain number 186.000. 41 Hold the Fort" may be a grand enag, bat is not appropriate for all oe corioaa. At taast to some people thon ht when a srorthr de-eon, on tome aii u vwrsarv oeoasion, formed his Sun' *y school in line and cr arched them alone the oieies himself in front, and all ruror oatlr ringing "Hold the Fort." The consternation which seised all parties at the aeoond— "Seethe might?boat advancing, con be better imagined than described. Mr. Ltnfear, a man engage 1 in brew! jag camels in Texas, ears of them that it* is no more trouble to raise them than it is to raise hotaes or cattle. Toe oolts for the first three or four days require close attention, but after that take their chances with the herd. They feed on cactus and brash, eschewing all grosses that cattle sod horses eat if the favorite cactus can be had. Mr. Danfear says there is one camel in hit herd that lias traveled one hundred and fifty miles *- tween sua and tan, and that almost any well-broken aamel oan travel more than a hundred miles la a day. 4 # Training the Breaches. The brone'io horses which perform such wood. rfal tricks at the New York Aqnariuiu ware taught wholly by means ofkimlnees, jwienoe and skilL The old system of traiuiug by fear is supesedod by a more excellent way. The home is taught to*feel that his trainer is his friend, and will not ■ hurt bim; aud though uatnrally a very timid animal, kindness wins his confidence, end then, wheu be understands what he is desired to do, he will try to do it. The whip is used, not as an instrument of torture, but as a means of communicating to the horse the wishes of his keeper. Move ments and touches of the whip he soou learns to understand, and he will watch for these signals intently. The broncho horsee thus receive their directions for the tricks they perferm, and obey orders exoctlv if there is uniformity in giving them.* The distinctive name of these horsee cornea from the Spanish broncho —wild horse. They are not considered more intelligent than common horses, but are handsomer and more spirited, and their being perfectly wild is a great advantage for purposes of training. Fate of a Centennial Relic. All who visited the Centennial Exhi bition will remember the tremendous and uncouth figure of Washington on an alleged eagle or some such bird which stood at the entrance of Memorial H&ll. The huge work was no caricature on anything American, but was executed ' in good faith by Signor Guarnerio in Italy who thought to get some thousands of dollars for it from the United States Government. The Italian Government transported it free from the studio to the gates of the Centennial and the Signor had to pay ninety dollars for re moving it from thenoe and placing it in Memorial HalL The colossal figure was removed thence to the Main Exhibition building after the Centennial closed. The other day an atterapfc was made to sell it at auction on account of non-pay ment of duties. The 11 gbeet bid was the magnificent sum of one dollar.