Sons - * and Fancies.
Down from what bin# akiss above,
Up from what black oavarat below,
lN<v>r..l the sweet anna* that I lor*.
Arie the bright fancies that grow
Through the hard, frozen ground and tha
anow !
What matter whence the bright bird* conic.
What matter whence the aweet flowera riae,
If the birda atill refuae to I>* dumb,
* And aing a* they aang in the skies,
While the flower* hold their original dyea!
I care not who aowed the dark aeed,
1 oare not who built the high neat,
80 my nightingale* chant, I will heed ;
80 my liliea blow on, 1 am bleat:
Theae blessing* remain. Pate may keep all
the neat,
—N. H. jtfcwMa oi, in /fiirper'a W'erWy.
Country ldfe.
l<*t the vain courtier waste his Jar*,
Lured by the charm* that wealth display.
The couch of down, the hoard of costly fare;
Be his to kiss the ungraceful hand.
That waves the a.vpier of command.
And rear full main I pslsee iu the air.
Whilst 1 enjoy ail uticonlined.
The glowing sun, the genial wind.
Ami tranquil hours, to rustic toil assigned,
And prize far more, in peace and health.
Contented indigence than joyless wealth.
Not mine in Foitune's faee to bend.
At Grandeur's altar to attend,
Reflec* iu his smile and tremble at his flown .
Nor mine a flre-SZjdhng thought,
A wish, a sigh, a vision fraught
With Fame's bright phantom, Glory's death
less crown'
Netwsow draught* and i lands pur*
Luxuriant nature will insure;
These the clear fouut and fertile field
Still to the wearied shepherd yield.
And when repose and vision* reign
Then we are equal* all, tha monarch and the
swam. lope k l iyu.
Redolette's Escape.
"It is farther than it looks," said
Redolette.
" Not too far for us to climb," answer
ed the suuny-faced boy who held Redo
lette's hand while he gszed resolutely
up at the mountain's greenwood height.
"We can be there by sundown, and
run back before it ia dark."
" Well, then. I'll ask leave."
" Ask leave ? Are you not your own
mistress, Redelotte ?"
"No; I must obey my husband,"
gravely tlie little maid replied.
" Your husband !" cried Willie Locke.
" Yes, he is here, 111 the house. I
always ask bis leave wheu he is at home.
I do it in the begiuuiug, because it will
be so all the rst of my life. lam learn
ing, he says, to be his wife."
"What do yon mean, Redolette?"
asked the boy, dropping her hand and
turning to her with great earnestness,
his eyes ablaze, his cheeks flushe*l
•' You do not—you surely do not mean
Judge Hunt wLen yon say *my hus
band ?' Oh, you are not in earnest; you
are tessiug, you are joking; you are not
in earnest, Redolette ?"
" In earnest, Willie," the girl replied.
"Do not look so fierce. Are you a
wolf ? Are yon going to eat me up ?"
" No, he is the wolf," said Willie, in
dignantly.
" I have always been his little wife,"
said Redolette. " I was born so. ' Ever
since Redolette was a baby,' he says,
4 she has been mine.* He is my guar
dian. My dying father left me in his
hands, and he takes care of me, and
takes care of the money I am to have
when I am of age; bnt before that, at
least so Aunt Rhoda declares, although
I don't say so quite—before that we shall
probably be married. There ! Now,
Willie, I'll go and ask leave."
Without another word she ran np the
path at whose onter terminus, the gar
den gate, they had been standing while
they talked, and disappeared in the
house.
She returned all smiles. "Judge
Hunt has gone down to the village for
the evening letters, and auntie says we
may go to tlie 4 Block Height,' if we will
hurry home." She offered to take his
hand again as thev went through the
gaU, but Willie drew proudly back.
She started inquiringly, but still smil
ing. 4 • Now, Willie," she said, 44 don't
spoil our dear little time. Please don't
be cross."
" I am not cross," said Willie; "I was
never lees so mmy life. But I certainly
shall not take the hand of another man's
wife. Ton do not understand me, Red
olette," said this man of eighteen to the
baby woman at his side, in a voioe
thrilling with emotion and stinging with
reproach.
" Oh, I do," said Bedolette, deeply
shocked at his vehemence. " Indeed I
do, Willie. I understand you with all
my heart." They had gone some paces
down the maple-arched road before she
spoke again, and during that ti 1 e Wil
lie had taken the hand he had rejected,
and not only that, but he had transferred
it from his right hand to his left,,! > that
he might encircle with his firm ar.j. her
little waist. She turned to him fully
her innocent, sweet face—was there ever
a face more sweet and more innocent ?
and said, " Ton are the only thing, Wil
lie, in all the world that I do under
stand."
" Oh, Bedolette ?" sighed Willie, and
he kissed her cheek.
She broke away from him then, and
they had a race. They raced down the
road to the lane; raced up the lane to
the pasture fence; leaped over the fence,
and this without any appeal for assist
ance from Bedolette, for she was a
mountain maid, and free and agile as s
bird; raced across the upland meadow,
and then Willie caught up. 'The ascent
began; it became steeper and more
steep; they went slowly and more slow.
Bugged the wav that looked so smooth,
viewed from below. They climbed wea
rily the steep stones, stopping occasion
ally to take breath, and to look back
with delicious little liugerings at the
pictured field and wood stretched at
their feet, and the zigzag village cling
ing to the river's brink as for dear life.
Before sundown they reached the
height. They found a seat just wide
enough for two ill the crevice of the great
square rock that gave to this accessible
hill-summit, perched amid prouder
monutain heights, its familiar name,
" Block Height." Flushed and excited,
and again oooled and calmed, they rested,
while behind them the sun wont down,
its orb quite hidden by interlocking hills,
and known oply in its final departure by
the uplifting from the valley of the skirt
of sumptuous light.
" Now, Bedolette, we must have a
solemn talk." t
" Generally," said Bedolette, in tha
demure yet ooquettish accent, " I do not
like solemn talks."
" Never mind, Willie insisted, author
itatively, "whether you like them or
not. Bedolette—" He paused; he was
going to say, " Bedolette darling," but
he restrained, for the sake of solemnity,
his boyish warmth. " Bedolette, how
old are you f"
She folded her hands in her lap, and
looked down like a child at school called
to the recitation bench. "I shall be
sixteen the fifth of next month."
" Sixteen! And what do yon know ?"
Bedolette laughed. " I know thai."
Willie knew that too. " Sweet sixteen
—sweetest sixteen !" he said in his
heart.
He asked her, gravely, " Where have
you been at school ?" _
" I went for some time to Dr. K 's
class at Z , but I have not been the
last three terms. Judge Hunt dees not
believe in schooling for girls. JJnst now
I am talcing lessons in housekeeping of
my aunt I stitch shirt bosoms every
day—four threads of linen forward and
two threads back, the regular old-fash
ioned way. I sew and cook and bake."
fiake J" repeated Willie, indignantly.
"Or sometimes I fry. It depends
npon whether 'tis doughnuts or bread. I
would rather fry than bake; it is more
exciting."
•I should think so, indeed. Why,
Bedolette, these are the tortures of the
Inquisition for you. Fry and bake!
They might as well roast you at the
stake. Of course these thingß have to
be done. We must have shirt bosoms
and bread, and it is right that you should
FRED. KURTZ, Kditor and -Proprietor.
VOLUME XI.
learn how to do thom, or how to have
thorn done; hut sjNnd your life at such
tasks v Tito idea is absurd. Wo might
a* woll harness doves t> drars, or bunt
rose-buds in ottr grates. Every work
ha* it* own worker*. My dear child,
thoro arc two rule* for practical life
flr*t tho greater must uot be sacrificed
to the less, and second—" Hero Willie
was going to quote Ihtrlylc at length,
but he recollected that ho wa* talking to
a girl, ami he modified tho grand acn
lence* of tlie philoaopher ending in.
" Know what thou canst work at," into,
" And you should do, Redolette, what
vou >'*ll do 'vest, Now if you can really
do uothmg better than cook, then that is
your work. Rut iu tin* age of the world
you art not forced; you can have choice;
and you must remember that we are liv
j ing in the time of sewing machine* and
J scientific cooks. There is uo need of
immolation iu those departments of la
bor. We are living iu a time—" Willie
1 hesitated in the midst of his eloqnouoe,
flurried by a little thing, a very little
tiling; just the toned of his baud by
Redolette's—an action softly, shyly
done, but causing hitn to descend from
his speech to look into her far*?. He
paused for a moment, enchanted by the
serious sweet gaze of her dark eves
flxed iijHiu his. But he recovered him
self ami went ou : "Do vou know what
age of the world you belong to, Redo
lette ? You have uo right to go I tuck to
an age that you were not I torn in; you
have uo right to tnarrv a man who be
longs exoluaively to that age, and avail
yourself of nothing that ha* occurred
since in the great march of progress.
You can go back if you doeire it You
are free ; you live in a free land. But
if you do not desire it, if you feel that
there is something in yon higher than a
life of drudgery, unlighted by lilterty
that ' make* drudgery divine ' unlighted
by love—rand oh ! Redolette, you do not
kuow what you are relinquishing when
yon relinquish the possibility of love—
if you feel a stir in your pnlse that heat*
with what is highest and nearest true in
the time we live in, darling Redolette "
(this time the emphasis was laid with
sufficient stress to oomjH'usatc for the
former restraint), "then I would die a
thousand deaths rather than see yon
met in these woods by a selfish soul,
like Red Riding-hood f>y the wolf, aud
lured into a thatched hut, and ' eaten
up,' with no ear to hear your poor inno
cent cry of ' Ob. what big eye* you've
got! and, * Oh, what sharp teeth you've
got 1 *" .
Willie was excited now. He fright
ened Redolette. She sprang up before
him with a low cry—a gennine cry of
pain, likfc a hurt child. A sudden pallor
swept her face; the paleness as of a
woman's pang swept her childish face.
Then Willie took her in his arms, and
called her his precious love, and soothed
her with nis tenderness, as he had
aroused her with his wrath. And then
and there, in the mountain solitude,
witnessed only bv lonely height an''
lonely wood and lonely earth and aky,
he made her make one solemn promise.
Not the promise that his heart burned
to have her make. For what he wished
90 ardently, that uothing 44 before 01
after " could compare in ardor with that
hoar's wish, was to make her promise to
be his wife. He reminded himself that
he had no right to do this. He was a
young fellow not yet graduated from
college; and after his senior year, just
commenced, there lay before him a
oouree of professional study, and then
the establishing of his profession's prac
tice, for his patrimony wa* by no means
commensurate with his wants. He had
no right to ask her yet.
He only made her grant a promise
formed disinterestedly and exclusively
for her good.
By this time the suu had set Shadows
mingled with shadows. The air gathered
that strange pure cool which seems to
blend and at the same instant define the
precious woodland scents. The soft
rustle of leav, the twitter of sleepy
birds, the faint crashing sough of 44 the
long rank bent" as thev entered the
fields, the infinitesimal "fine yet clear
sounds of the summer night rasped not
unmusically by the tiny sharp cries and
beating hum of the insect world—these
were the vocal accompaniments of the
homeward way, for Redolette and Willie
hardly spoke. Clasping each other's
hands they went down the rocky steejw,
and across the meadows home.
And at the garden gate he kia*ed her
44 good-night " and kissed her "good
by," for on the morrow he wa* to leave
the mountain farm, and she would uot
see him again.
Redolette lingered in the jxirch some
time before she entered the house. Hhe
watched Willie's figure pass down the
road, and disappear at the river turn;
then she thought and thought. And
when she went into the lighted room
where Jndge Huut sat in his arm-chair
resiling the evening news, Annt Rhoda,
looking up from her needle-work to greet
the child with some reproof for staving
bo late, let reproach die on her lips.
Hnch a strange new look was on Redo
lette's face !
44 Hhe never was the same girl," her
aunt said, long afterward, when this
evening was remembered a* part of the
story of a life, 44 never the same girl
after that walk to Block Height Rut
I never see her" (Aunt Rhode's gram
mar had grown rusty with her drudging
life) 44 1 never sec her look so beautiful
and so proud-like a* she did when the
1 jndge got np from the chair and wa*
agom' to give her a kiss. Hhe drew
back her head like aoneen, and just put
out her hand for his iij>s; and he stared
at her, astonished, a moment, and theu
kissed her finger-tips. 4 Redolette,' said
he, 4 you've been imprudent; you've got
chilled through; your hand is as cold as
ice.' That was jnst all he thought about
it but women is more keen; and I says
to myself, that very minuit, ' Yes, she's
caugnt a chill, and she's caught a fever,
the fever may last or it msy not< bnt
the chill she's caught 'll last her the rest
of her life.'"
There comes into almost every ex
perience a night that, for its very dis
tinction of darkness and gloom and
blinding fright, is counted ever after
ward as " the night"
Such a night came to Redolette. It
was the hour that Willie had anticipated
when he made her make a solemn prom
ise " for her good."
A night of storm, of wild wind and
drenching rain. But wind and rain
seemed feeble elements in comparison
with the cruel anger, the passionate up
braiding, and pitiless threats that formed
the actual dark pre-eminence of the
eventful night
One bright scene stood out in relief
against the stormy background—the
opening of a door in answer to a faint,
despairing knock ; a beaming home
room, warm with fire-light and gay with
cheerful lamps; kind faces, kind voices,
smypathy, encouragement, help. So
every dark night—even the darkest—
has its friend.
Before morning dawned Redolette,
urged with all the gentle and firm aid of
winch she had need, was speeded forth
on a journey that was to oast into a
higher plane her whole future life. By
the time night had glimmered into day
Redolette had made her escape.
• ,•••••• •
Examination week at the famous girls'
school of N bad reached its closing
act. Compositions were to be read in
the afternoon ; prices were to be award
ed ; and at evening a collation wonld be
spread at half-past ten in the not spa
cious but particularly attractive grounds
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
1
of the N seminary, to end in garden*
party stylo, with a hand of music and a
! merry danoe, the arduous exercise* of
the week.
Intense interest gathered about this
cloaiug afternoou. Indeed, when
one consider* how small a part of the
great world tha female seminary of
N , with all it* frame, actually was,
it wa* wonderful how uiteuse tins inter
est liecame. Cine would say, who hap
pened to peep into the greeuroom of
the composition-leader*, waiting with
cold fright or with hectic agitation, each
for her turn to lx called upon the stage;
that the result of tins evening would he
something momentous enough to cause
au abort at n>n 111 tho course of our planet,
or, at the very least, a trembling inits
onward step.
This impressiou would uot have bet u
lessened by reading the titles of the
com(Huutiolls "Women of our Oct -
tury ;" " The l>ead l'ast burying its
Dead;" " The Future of the American
Republic"—a very Hue tiling, and
winner of the tlrat prise ; "Spiritual
Tendencies of Astronomical Research
" Darwin's Development Theory coil -
frouted with Argyle s Reign of Law;"
" Is Oeuius Hereditary, ami if so, from
the Paternal or the Maternal Side? with
Statistic* from tlaitou, carefully com
plied," and so on, and so forth.
Very simply, after this array, came
the announcement given by the principal
of the seminary, " A Mountain Brook,"
by Mis* R. Kane.
Closing exercise* had been lengthened
beyond their fixed time, and davlight
wa* departing a* Miss Kane ma!e her
appearance from the greenroom, com
position in hand. A side window had to
lie opened to give sufficient light, and
through this opening came a rosy glow
that almost atoned for the lack of tloral
tributes such a* had overwhelmed the
entrance of every other fader. Not s
single dower was thrown to welcome the
coming of Miss R. Kane. " A friend
less girl," many of the audience thought.
Hut no one in the world is a frieudltws
girl, so the suddenly opened window
said ; for the sunset glow poured in and
enshrined her feet, and illumined her
garment*, and crowned her young head
with dowers of light.
And in a timid, but clear voice the
composition was read. "A Mountain
Brook," not scientific or erudite, but a
theme of action, and taking a* a simile
of a useful life trie trite figure of a river
la wring from it* rooky solitude, through
wood and through field of grain, and
over null-wheel and by the town, it*
ever-augmenting stream of refreshing
and compelling force.
The trite comparison was treated with
a novel grace. And one thiug wa* quite
remarkable about the oompoaitiou a
description of the scenery in which the
Monutam Brook was supposed to receive
from high authority its mission through
the thirsting earth. Thi* description
was so vividly accurate that any one
familiar with a certain mountain locality
would have recognized at once that the ,
" Brook " sprang to light under the fern
fanned cavern of Block Height.
No one among the andienoe, however,
wa* familiar with that particular nook
of upland scenery. No one, excepting a
handsome young man who had drawn to
himself during the afternoon the shyly
admiring glances of very nuuiy of the girls.
He had been restless, Hke the watcher
who impatiently await* the striking of the
hour. When Mis* Kane entered helieoiime
still and satisfied, like the watcher when
the hour has struck.
" Redolette ! She has fulfilled her
promise."
These two unspofen sen>noes ex
pressed the mental impr-iou, com
plete. For to this voting man, through
the five years, including his senior year
at college, his law study, his energetic
establishment of law practice, '' Redo
lette" had been the embodiment of all
that is sweetest in a girl. And " she
has fulfilled her promise," referred not
siAmnch to the fact that this sweetest
girl had kept her woid to him a* that
she had kept her won! to Time—kept
the promise of the lovely child to be
the loveliest woman.
" Redolette !" said Willie.
They|hal entered one of the arbors
that had been improvised of cedar* to |
adorn the garden fete. They had been
walking arm in arm through the grounds
for a long time; for one of the earlieMt
gnesta of the evening had been Willie
Locke, and he hail rushed immediately
to Redolette's aide, and had kept her to
himself all the evening. They chose to
walk in the garden rather than join in
the dance, fox they had so much to *ay.
And they had talked over their five
years' separation and its leading evedts
liefore they went into the arbor to rest.
The last thing Redolette had said in
the walk wa*. "Ho now, Willie, tlianka
to the innpiring leader of my choice, I
am ready to take some part in the
movement of my time. My schooling
here is ended. My little inheritance is
made secure. I am my own mistress
now. I should like, if possible, to do a
little good in the world; and the only
(inflation with me now ie, • How shall I
Uo it best ?' "
And here it was that Willie with a
sadden movement drew her into the
arbor, and said, with such an electric
vjbration in his voice as made her heart
a *m for an instant to stop to lieat,
" jrfdolotte 1"
Hometbing so far beyond tho si rnple
name was implied by his vital utterance
of it that she made no respouse.
"Hlnoel was happy," he aaid, "to
guide you aright onoe, let xne lie your
guide again. Let me tell yon, Redol
ette, my angel, my qneen, how yon can
de tha most good in the world—how I
am sure yon c 'u do the most good—"
He paused, uud Redolette, whose eyes
had been tremulously cast down, lifted
her glance to his.
And liefore she had time to really look,
to see all he meant—before she hail time
to let the question, " How ?" pass her
beautiful red lipa, he had seized her in
his strong arms, he had answered her
onoe and forever:
"AA my wife."
Singular Wager*.
When Mr. Penn matched himself
against Hon. DauvarH Butler, to walk
from Hyde Park Corner to Hammer
smith for a wager of 100 guineas, some
body remarked to the Duchess of
Cordon that it WAS a pity a young fellow
like Penn should always l>e playing some
absurd prank. "Yes," the old lady
retorted, "it is a pity, but why don t
you advise him lietter ? Penn seems to
lie a pen that everybody cuts and no
body mends." What would the free
spoken dame have said to a couple of
clergymen running a race on Sunday for
a crown a side ? Such a thing has been
done. Soon after Swift received his
deanery, he dined on Sunday with Dr.
Raymond, of Trim, wljose house was
about 200 yards from his church. The
bell had nearly done ringing for evening
service, when Swift exclaimed : " Ray
mony, I'll lay you a crown I begin pray
ers before you." "Done P'said the
doctor, and off they ran. Raymond
reached the doors first, and, entering
the chnrch, made for the reading desk
at as quick a walking pace as his sense
of propriety permitted. Swift did not
slacken speed in the least, bnt ran np
the aisle, passed his opponent, ana,
without stopping to put on a surpiioe
or open the prayer book, began the
Liturgy and went on with the service
sufficiently long to win the wager.—AU
the Year Round.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY. MAY 2, 1878.
TKiIMNH SAVAME BEASTS.
Wclbsda *1 • Tatar wfc.tr TuplU llr.lrr It
Itetrssr Hist.
A New York Aim reporter has had ai
interview with a wild beaut tamer, from
whom wo gather the following fact* ;
" When yon want to tnun lioua, 01
tiger*, or leopards, or hyenas, the pre
parstory step* in all cases are the same,
Vou first get them used to you from tin
outside of the cage, feeding slid water
ing them, poakiug to them aud some
time* touch tug them through the ban
when they are iu such (Hiaitious thai
they cauufcit readily get hold of yon
Then you go into the cage to sweep 11
out. Keep your broom going—nevei
let them get near enough to you to siuel
of you, or they will suateh you the iu
staut after—and make them pass vou,
driving them about with a whip. Nvhei
yon have them thoroughly familiarized
with your presence you may begin then
education. Home trainer* 111 old timet
used to clip their claws and put luuezlei
on them, but 1 never did, and novel
considered it any use, except, perlia)*,
in the case of a leopard that you art
training to jump ou your back. Wheth
er von clip their claws or uot, a tiger 01
a fiou, esitecially the lion, has forot
enough in 111s arm to mash a man down
almost a* you would a fly. Aud it isu'l
right, for the auuual need* his claws.
They are his forks to hold his meat with
when he eat*. As for the muzzle, ht
knows whether he has it u or not, just
a* well as you do, and tlie memory of it
has no influence on him when it is uot on.
" You can't teach wild beast* any great
variety of tricks. You make them rear
up iu the corners of tlie cage, jump over
your whip, through a hoop or bal>ou,
or over you, or each other, and you sit
down on them, and that about exhausts
their capabilities for learmug. To make
them jump you hold a stick and drive
them over it with your whip, holdiug it
low at first and gradually raising it If
you want them to go through a hoop,
hold it with a gate set iu under it so
they can't go t*neath, and whip them
through. If you want an animal to rear
up, it may In necessary to have a rope
or chain dropped tl.rough the roof of
the cage and either swing atfcont it* neck
or fastened to a collar, and when you
whip it and order it to stand up, have a
couple of men above to haul up and
make it stand ou its hind legs. After a
few t'rne* the rope will uot be necessary.
Bee my splendid tigre**es, how tliey
stand up. They were trained that way.
You must always make them do the same
thing in the same place—that is, in the
same corner or iu tlie center of tlie cage.
If you want to ait on a lion or tiger, get
tlie animal trained to remain quiet 111
one place while vou stroke it gently, at
first with tlie whip, next with your hand,
and finally you can proas on it, and at
last sit down on ita haunches, but never
tease to keep a sharp look-out tipou it
for the slightest sign of treachery. The
' old Van Am burgh feat of a man putting
hi* head in a lion's mouth is safest done
' with a very docile old lion, well fed and
toothlflHH a* powuhle, but it may be done
—?*itli some risk, of course—to a young
er brute if he is very good uatured, and
you work up to it by gradual familiar
ities about las head, opening his mouth,
and so on. With a tiger the lx?st plan
is to—let it alone. When you feed them
scraps of meat while yon are in the cage,
never take in much, and of that you
have, see that it is free from bone* and
cut iu such small chunks that one of
them may be swallowed at a single
schloop. Toss it to them. IX>n't hold
it in y<>ur hand, or tliey*ll take hand and
all, writfiout noticing the difference, |>er
liapa. Firing guns and pistols always
excites them, but I can t say that I
think it frightens them at all after they
liave found out ouce that it doe* uot
hart them. You must watch tliem all
the time. Never trust them for an in
stant. If you study them as you should
and kuow your busineas proj>erly, yon
will understand their every look and
motion, every curl of tlie lip, switch of
the tail, tremor of the muscles, and
nuiver of the cruel claws. All those
tilings are the animal's language, and if
it is strange to vou so pinch the worse
for you. For instance, yon may whip a
lion for five minute* when he is sulkiug
in a corner without any danger, and
then suddenly you see tlie look warning
you that one blow more will bring him
on you with the force of a thunderbolt
and the mail fury of a demon. No, it is
not a threatening look at yon, and it
isn't emphasized with any growl. He
just aits up and seems to gaze off into
tlie distance, with a far-away, dreamy
look in his eyes. Btrike him then anil
you will have to battle for yokr life in a
second after. Affect to disregard him
and turn yonr whip to auother beast,
and in a few moment* his fear of you
may return to him, aud his desperate
courage will have gone. But you must
be able to see when that time oomes
itgain. A lion is a bad animal to have
any misunderatandings with.
"There is no truth in those stories
that sometimes get al>ont of animal
tamers wearing shirt* of mail and thick
clothing. Cooper na?d to wear sole
leather leggings, but I never thought
they wore auv good. Ho far a* safety is
ooneermxl, I'd just as lieve go naked
among the animals if tliey hail onoe got
used to seeing me outside that way. But
whatever else yon do or don't wear,
never go among them without something
in your hand to strike them. After they
arc once trained a stick, or even a straw,
will do, nntil they find ont that it doesn't
hurt them. When that time oomes
though—especially if you are among
tigers—look out. Remember always
the law of love is nnkno?*m to them, and
nothing can bo relied npon except ter
ror. The more cruel you are when
cruelty is needed, and with judgment, of
course, the longer von will probably
live among them. There are some crazy
beasts that yon can never tame. We
have a lion of that sort here. No kind
ness can reach him; no force short of
death could subdue him. We call him
crazy, but he is juat devilish, and that
he always will lie. He lire* for nothing
bnt the hope of killing somebody or
something. Onoe in Augusta, Ga., he
got ont, bounded over into s peu twelve
feet high where a yak was oonflnod, and
killed that yak in less than forty seoonds.
He never looses a chance to make a grab
at anybody he thinks inay be within
reaching distance. There never was a
wickeder brute, bnt he is a splendid
looking one. Just see him, and—take
care! Man alive, that was a close call!
He wasn't asleep, but just pretending."
The fonr tigresses trained for per
formances are deemed worth 832,000,
bnt a good tiger, unbroken, is not worth
more than $2,000. Lions are worth
abont 82,000 to 82,600 each; panthers,
8000; jaguars, $400; hyenas, $260, if
untrained; leopards, $260 to 400, accord
ng to their kind. The cheetah, or
hunting leopard, would be worth $1,200,
probably, bnt there is not one in this
country to-day. Mr. Reiehe, four or
five years ago, imported two, and sold
them for abont $2,560, but they have
both died of consumption, a disease that
carries off more tropical animals in men
ageries than all other causes oombined.
The Smithsonian Ins titnte at Wash
ington has just reoeived Bome Indian
relics from the Florida mounds, among
which is a piece of gold rudely beaten
into a representation of the head of a
woodpecker, which is said to be the first
specimen of gold found among the re
mains of the aboriginal tribes of Ameri
ca.
I Women as Speculators.
it would seem unnecessary to caution
women against speculation, says a writer
ill Harftrr't lUuar. By speculating we
mean au investment in things of uncer
tain value 011 wluoh large profit* are
hoped for. But since the mildest opera
tors at ltadeu-Rad.il are woman, and
aiuce they do }iersoiially, but ofteuer by
proxy, rush iuto the areua of tlie bulla
and l>eara of Wall street, caution on this
subject will not tie out of place. The
folly of those who dabble iu lotteries,
who see tlie wheel of fortune revolving,
' and imagine that it ia loaded with bene
fit* for them, ia not folly merely, bat
1 guilt The raahuofl* of tlume *ho hover
around the vortex of stock ajieculatiou ia
uot rsahucNaluerely, but probable per
dltiou. Aud if it is rashness for men, it
is for woiiieu insanity. Though women
may never seek speculation of any sort,
it will pretty certainly seek them, often
iu very enticing forma. There are two
good rule* shioh apply to speculation;
1. Never borrow money to speculate
with. 1 Never a peculate no deeply but
that, if you haste it all, you won't feel it
Fifteen hundred dollars of manufac
turing stock was offered to me at par,
with an assurance that it would sell iu a
mouth for £<,OUO. I believed it. I had
no surplus money at the momniit, and I
had adopted the rule above, not to
borrow for apeculstiou. Iu a month
that stock sold for sd,o(>o. Was I wise
or foolish 1 Had I bought it, I should
have kept it through tlie intervening
years until now. A few (lays ago that
stock wa* sold at auction for ten cent* a
share—a total of one dollar.
The time when s|Nvulation ia moat
rife is when money is cheap aud abund
ant. And then the moat dangerous form
of ajieculatiou is in city and aubnrbaii
lot*. N oue thing has occasioned
grrater disaster to well-to-do families
Uiau this. It ia so resjiectahle to own
land, it ia so solid aud sure, aud it won't
run away. "Would to Heaven it
would," says one, "if it would only
lrave behind what I paid for it 1" The
rule should be remembered; never j
BjMVulate deejier than, if tlie loea Ik* j
total, it will not be felt. But the better
way is to avoid speculation altogether.
The Doctor* Fnixled.
l)r. Daniel J. Brennan, of New York,
has rejfcorted to tlie faculty an interest
ing case which came to his notice a few
weeks ago. He and other medical gen- j
tlemen are investigating the marvel, and
cij.ree* themselves most interested in
the examination.
Three weeks ago, the doctor wa* called
to visit a young girl residing with her '
parent* on Forsyth, tiesr lielancey
street. Her father is a cigar manufac
turer, doing work in his home. Tlie J
girl, who is scarcely eighteen years old, 1
bad bnt lately arrived in this oouutry. j
To all outward appearances she is in the ,
jNMseaaiuu of excellent 1> alth. Her j
cheeks hsve not a* yet lost hat round- ,
liens tuid ruddiness which marked the 1
country la**, nor has her mild blue eye
lost any of its sjiarkle aud brightness. '
The doctor was puxxled when told that
something terrible was the matter with
her. The girl was unacquainted with
Uie English language, and her aymp
turns were told to the doctor by her
mother.
The girl ia aubjeet to a *jN?ciea of par
alysis, which makes rigid her arms and
log*. At theae times tliey beeom* insen
sible to pain; pma and sharp-|N>itited
instruments can be thrust into them
without producing any feeling of pain,
or anv sensation whatever.
" "fhia, however, is not what I con
sider a strange feature of tlie case," aaid
the doctor; " for I've met with other
jN?ople in a similar condition. I have a
patiet in Williamsburg—the wife of an
ex-postmaster of Brooklyn—who suffer
ed for years with ngidity of the limbs
but she has so far overcome it that ahe
can at will throw herself into that rigid
state, and allow you to make pin
cushion of her arms and legs. What I
find strange about Miss Eisner is tins:
When she recover* from her statue-like
trance, she falls into a delirium—not a
violent one-—and while in that condi- |
tion converses fluently in English, a
language which ahe does not understand
when in her normal state. Now, how
comes this ? Well, that is what I am
trying to get at."
" Would tobacco cauae such a situa
tion as yon describe?"
" I am puzzled," replied the doctor;
"but interested. I will, if jxissible,
find out all I can. "
A regular watch is maintained over 1
the girl, and her condition from hour to j
hour is netioed and duly recorded. The
case, without donbt, merits the atteu- '
tion which tlie aavant* are giving it.
A 1J rely Kacc After a Frtsoiier.
While the Sheriff of Chicago was tak
ing nurn prisoner* to the jail at Jolict,
the following exciting incident occurred:
Thomas lieJdy, twenty years old, under
sentence of one year for burglary, sat
only two seats from Sheriff Kern, shack
led to another prisoner. Every one was
laughing, talking, and enjoying himself
or herself in the best possible fashion.
Suddenly there was a noise. Kern
looked up in time to see a pair of legs
vanishing through the window. The
train was jogging along at the rate of
twenty miles an hour. Kern pulled the
bell rope. Currier aided him with such
real that he broke the astonished cord.
Brakes were immediately applied, but
liefore the momentum of the train had
materially decreased, Mr. Kern had
leaped from the platform and was in hot
Sirsnit of the firing criminal Mr.
ills, A. S. Trode and others joined
in the chase with a " hoop-la, ' and
there was rare sport for a few moments.
Deddy made for the canal and plnnged
in. Before the swimmer had reached
the middle of the sluggish stream, Mr.
Kern stood upon the recently-quitted
bank. He whipped out hia revolver.
Kern ia a remarkably accurate shot, and
Deddy knew it " Stop !" shontod Kern,
•' or I'll let drive a ballet I" Up went
Deddy'i hand as he amused himself in
the fashion of treading water. " I>on't
shoot, Mr. Kern, I think I'll come
back." lie did. He turned him abont
in the canal, and sheepishly struck out
for the repugnant shore. He stepped
out verv wet and very depressed in spir
its. The fugitive was oondncted back
to the car, securely manacled, and was
lost night of no more until he steppod
behind the walls of Jolie prison.
Took Him In.
Ono hitter 001.l (lay, writca a Black
Hills correspondent, an Indian, who
seemed to Ixi almost dead from hanger
and oold, was discovered near our camp
and brought in and cared for. We fed
him, wanned him and cheered him up,
and meanwhile felt that the good angel
who keepa the big book above would
make a tally in our lavor. We went to
bed with that noble red man dozing
over the camp Are, and two hours later
one of the trio awoke just in time to
avoid getting a knife in his heart. The
Indian made tracks when he found his
murderous game discovered, but the
being who oan outrun a bullet doesn't
live around here. When we starched
the body we found plentv of dried meat
and parched corn oonoealed in the cloth
ing, and there were likewise a knife and
revolver. He had put up a job on us,
and would have made a good tiling of it
if he oould have had little more rope.
FARM, MAMIE* AMI HOUSEHOLD.
tl*w is lira* nCrsrs.
Many jiersona think that a grnat deal
of skill is necessary to grow flowers suc
cessfully, but this is not the case. All
. that is required is a reasonable amount
of oare and patience, and choice flowers
can be as easily grown as choice vegeta
bles. In the flrst plsce, good seed
should be obtained, orfsiluie and disap
pointment is almost certain. The prin
cipal causes of failure to make seed
germinate are covering too deep, allow
ing Ute surface to become too dry, or an
excess of moisture. To guard against
these, a cold-frame is very useful; and
1 would reoointneud everylsxly who has
half s dozen varieties to sow to try one.
It is made by making a box-like frame
of board* without a bottom, which should
be twelve or flfteeu inches high at the
back, sloping to about six iucliea in
front, so as to catch the direct rays of
the sun aa much as possible. It can be
made of auy size desired and nailed at
the corner, if small enough to be easily
moved about, or if larger, fastened to
gether with hooks aud staples.
I'rejisre a bed in a warm, sheltered
spot in the gardeu; rakeout all the lumj>s
and stones and on this set the frame,
and cover with ordinary hot-bed sash,
or old window sash, which will do quite
as well. Make the soil in the frame
' smooth and firm with a board, and sow
the seeds thinly and evenly on the aur
face in squares, and label each sort with
a short, pine stick. Have a pile of light,
sandv soil, or leaf mold from the woods,
whicb has been sifted through a line
sieve, near at hand, and if the seeds are
very small carefully sift it over them.
Probably more failure to make seeds
germinate result from covering too deep
than from auy other cause. A good and
safe rule is to cover to the depth of
: aliout twice the diameter of the seed.
. This wonldgive a covering of about one
eighth of an inch to such seeds as aster,
phlox and pansy; one-sixteenth of au
inch to petunia, portulaca, and seeds
of like size, while very fine seeds, like
| lobelia, should be scarcely covered at
all, hut merelr pressed slightly into the
j soil. After tlie seeds are all covered
j make tlie soil firm again with the hands,
| and water with a pot having a fine rose,
so as not to wash the aoil from tlie seeds.
| Now put on the sash ami keep it tightly
closed until the plants liegui to come
up, watering often enough to keep the
surface moist Cover tlie frame with
straw mats or boards at night to keep
out tlie cold, and after the plants are up
give plenty of air daring warm, sonny
day. Pull out the we**l* as fast a* they
appear and keep the plant* well thinned
out. so as they will grow strung and
stocky. Tlie thinnings can be saved
and transplated to another frame if de
sired. After tlie plant* have grown an
inch or two and obtain**! their second
pair of leaves, transplant them to the
garden, flrst giving the seed-bed a good
soaking with water. Transplanting
should be done on a showery dav, if
possible; but it is better to transplant
in a dry time than to wait too long for
rain. Make holes where the plant* an
to be set, fill them with water, aud then
set the plant; water again and oover
each plant with a piece of paper held
down with clods of earth.
llnwkaM lllsls.
RrjrroKiNu Tainted Meats. — Tainted
meat or game may lie restored by wrmtv
ping it up closely in s fine linen dots,
then, after throwiug a shovelful of lire
wood-cool* into a pail of water, put the
meat or game in and let it remaiu under
water five or ten minutes. This will re
move all offensive smell, but it should
be cooked at once.
To Clean Ream. — lf the brans is
verv much tarnialud, use s little oxalic
acn) solution. If spot* art* lmlxdded,
rub them out with a little powderwd
pumicc-stous. Then wash with water
and dry. Mix rotten-stone with sweet
oil to a paste, and rub it over the whole
surface of the brans with a smooth cork
until it assumes a grseniah-black color.
Then wipe off completely with an old
cloth. Next rnb over with lampblack
until thoroughly poliahed, using a soft,
smooth cork. This gives an excellent
result, and repays the extra trouble it
causes.
To Cleanse Water.—lf a lump of
alum a* large as the thumb-joint is
thrown into four or five gallons of boil
ing soap-soda, the arum run* over and
leaves the water clean and soft and use
ful for washing. We have often, in an
cient times, "settled "a glass of Missis
sippi water, and made it look aa " clear
as a bell " in a few seconds by tving a
bit of alum to a string and twirling it
around under the surface of the water
in the glims. Hall* Journal of Health.
Twtijiii Halt. — A Pennsylvania but
ter-maker test* his salt by dissolving a
little in a glass tumbler; if the brine
formed is clear and free from bitter
taste, he pronounces the salt good; if,
on the other hand, it present* a milky
appearance, leaves any sediment or
throws scum to the surface, he reject* it.
Ptaais.
Attention should be given to airing
and watering, as the weather will admit,
and a* the sun beoomc* warmer. Home
flant* may require shading at noonday,
laut* that are making new growth, and
the root* being crowded into pots, should
In? repotted. Bhruba that have done
flowering, should be trimmed. Dormant
lemon verbenas, fuchsias, etc., may In?
brought from the cellar and started into
growth by moderate watering and
warmth. Look ont for insect*. Do not
subject roses and other plant* to strong
drafts. Tlie earth in pot* shonld he
kept mellow.
Para* Males.
In cleaning and oiling harneas all of
it should In* unbuckled and thoroughly
examined and cleaned.
Feeding chopped onions to ponltry is
said to eradicate lice. For young chick
ens three feedings a week in the spring
and a part of the summer are sufficient.
The utmost moisture that should lie
fonnd in thoroughly worked butter is a
very alight dew, and it should he of
such a fine consistency as to slice down,
hardly dimihing the surface of a knife
blade.
The beet preventive for worms in
celery is to mix plenty of salt, soot and
lime with the manure that ia to be era
ployed in trenches. This should lie
adifod to the manure some weeks liefore
it is used, during which time it shonld
lie turned now and then. The mixture
above uamed also benefit* the growth of
the celery, which will lift clean and
s|>otles<y compared with that grown in
the ordinary way.
Good wheat ought to furnish at least
seventy-four per oent of fine flour. The
best sample* often furnish seventy-six
to flighty per oeut., and in a few rare
instances as much as eighty-six per oent.
of flour has been obtained. Inferior
varieties seldom produce more than
sixty-eight per oent, and in instancies
only fifty-four to fifty-six per oeut. of
flour has been obtained from bad sam
ples. On an average, wheat may be said
to yield seventy-five per oent of fine
flour and twenty-five per oent. of bran
and middlings.
A. P. Walling, Worcester, Mass.,
writes to the Poultry World : VI have
tried sunflower seeds this year with good
results. At first my fowls would not eat
them, not seeming to distinguish them
from sticks or stones, bat in a short
time they lenmed to split open the shells
and devour the kernels with a gusto,
TERMS: s4<i.OO$ 4 <i.00 a Year, in Advance.
and the effect in glossing the plumage
was very soon noticeable. 1 Unnk tlie
amuaemeut of breaking the sheila will
turn out just the thing when mv birda
are cooped up in winter, aa it will divert
their attention from ngg eating, feather
plucking and similar mischief. '
lir*m*| CsttM*.
A subject which created some interest
a few years ago, and which Htill crop*
up, was the grafting of potatoes, from
the fact that auine potato growers as
serted that they had by Una means raised
hybrid*, or potatoes intermediate be
tween the acton and stock. With tlie
view of testing tha aoourrcy of such
statement*, I obtained, through the kind
ueaa of Mr. Byrne, all the varieties in
Messrs. Law sou's extensive collection.
1 selected thirty-four distinct aorta, and
began bv placing the most distinct vari
eties together. 1 first took all the eyes
out of the one that wa* to be the stock,
aud cutting various pieces out with a
sharp knife, I took a corresponding
piece out of one that was to be used aa
the acton. Theae were fitted together
a* neatly a* I could by tying ; but, pre
viously to that, 1 passed a piece of
wire through both so a* to hold them
the more firmly together. After doing
about a hundred in this way, it occurred
to me, in order to make doubly sure, to
aak Mr. Jaiuea Cooper, who for upward
of thirty years acted aa budder and
grafter to 'the Muasra. Lawaon k Bona,
and who is well known a* one of tlie
moat successful grafters in the kingdom,
to gratt some of theae potatoes for ine ;
but after doing thirty-six tnbera he
threw them aside, saying that it v. is all
nonsense. Home of these were potted
and placed in a sharp Uittom heat,
others were placed in a suitable aoil in a
cold frame, and some were planted in
the open border. Those in heat were
examined after they had made abont six
inches of growth ; those in the cold
frame, a* well as those in the open bor
der, were allowed to mature their tubers,
bat in no single instance could I trace
the least change, nor yet could I find
that the scion and stuck had united ; and
this was also the case when I cut the
eyes out of one-half of a single tuber,
cutting it in two, and tying the two
halves together, so that there could be
no misfitting of parts. I found in nu
merous instances that eyes hail been on
the so-called stock, but in each instan
ces the young tuber* were the same
as the stock.— (brrrjtjxmdenr* lAttidon
Oardm.
Queer I'eaple at the Laming Table.
A oomwpondent gives a description of
the celebrate*! public gaming tables at
Monte-Carlo, in Monaco. After refer
ring to the surly manner in which the
men controlling "theae demoralising es
tablishments carry on matters, and the
thievish propensities of many of the
players, the wnber aids: Tfiere is a
queer old character who haunts the
taldea, and who, although homelv to the
last degree, is undoubtedly a lady of
education and refinement. She him a
passion for roolette, and it has been tc
her what gin ia to aome, and dress tc
others—absolute ruin. Her appearance
ia marked, for she has an enormous fore
head, which bulges oat in an almost
semicircular curve. Her nose ia a bold
snub, and her chin is large and project
ing. SLe t* always clad in rusty black,
dreaa, bonnet and shawl, and this brings
out into stronger relief the aallow
neas of her complexion, which indeed ia
the color of an old parchment Whan
she ia in luck she stand* up in her chair
with a great roll of five-franc piece*
balanced adroitly in her left hand, and
with her right she proceed* with won
derful rapidity to cover some five or aix
numbers with Iwt*. Nobody touchea
her bets, for I believe she would brain
them with the rake with whioh she
gathers in her winning*. When ahe ia
in bad lock, ahe descends to subterfuge*
which must give her frienda much an
guish. She waits until some player
cornea with a system like her own, in
which many pieces are staked over many
number*, "and when he haa covered a
portion of the table with bets, ahe poke*
in two or three five-franc piece* among
his, and no matter what number wioa,
she insists that one of the piece* win
ning is hers. What can be done by gal
lant men under such circumstance* ?
She has the money, and he can only
submit If he is an English man, he
turns red in the face and says nothing.
If he is a Frenchman, be shrugs his
shoulders, extends his hands, palms up
ward, deprecatingly, and looks round
with s martyneal smile for sympathy.
Tins he is sure to receive from the hang
ers-on. There is another strange prac
titioner who ia on *]N?aking terms with
this lady. I think they talk over combi
nations." He ha* a piece of paper and a
pencil, and he studies tlie number* for
hours before playing. Then Ue com- ,
menoc* to play siugle five-franc piece*
on six nnmlHira, anil it is extraordinary
how often at first he ?sina. If a friend ,
drags him away after ten beta he is gen
erally s heavy winner, comparatively ;
speaking, but if he remains longer he ia ,
sure to lose all hi* original gnin* and his ,
original piece. He haa an exceedingly
intelligent face, but people do not like ,
him for a neighbor, for he ia frightfully ,
dirty, and perfumed srith garlic to a de- ,
grce which is almost unbearable. I wa* ,
told that he had been a professor of ,
mathematics in an Italian university, ,
and wa* living on s small annuity, five- ,
sixth* of which wa* absorbed by the (
table*.
An Inn ia Japan.
The certainty of having a pleasant
resting place after the toil and trouble of
the day is one of the charms of pedestri
auism in Japan. From the moment the
threshold is crossed to the moment of
departure the visitor is the object of un
ceasing solicitude on the part of every
one connected with the establishment,
from highest to lowest If it is mid-day,
and he has arrived hot, dnsty, and a
little tired, after a long morning's tramp,
tlio whole force of the establishment
ushers tli6 visitor into a pretty, light
apartment, looking on to one of those
marvellous miniature gardens in which,
covering a space of a few feet, the
mountains, woods, rivers, and floods of
an entire province are represented. By
one neatly - dressed, pleasant - looking
damsel hia boots are taken off and his
feet ha Died in hot water; a second fans
him and keeps up a volnble patter of
conversation; a third on her knees offers
him refreshing tea and sweetmeats;
while the host himself, with another de
tachment of waitresses, is helping the
coolies to unpack the box containing the
European food. Everything that meet*
the eye is contrived to please it There
are vases with flowers dotted abont; from
the wood-work outaide are suspended
gayly-oolorod lanterns, or festoons of
glass through which the wind makes a
soothing music, so that by the time the
traveler ha* finished his repast, has
smoked a pij e, and perhaps drunk a cup
of "Saki ' with the host, he feels thor
oughly refreshed and in capital humor
to resume his journey. All this enjoy
ment is procured at a merely nominal
cost, anu the present of some bread or
European liquor to the house at leaving
brings ont the whole establishment, who
say " Savonarn "-*-that is, " Good-by "
—with their foreheads on the mats.
The two principal buildings of the
Paris Exhibition, on the Champs de
Mara and Trocadero, are said to be the
largest and handsomest structures hith
erto put up in the world-fair line.
NUMBER 18.
THE BATTLE OF NEDAN.
j Vl!-4*r Usee's liwriaiiM •' tee Ureal
l.rrati llfurj.
Let us defloe the aitoation.
The (termans hare numerical atreogth
on their able; they are three to one,tour,
l*erhapa; they confess to hawing 250,000
men, but it u oertein that their line of
stuck wss thirty kilometree In length;
the? hold the positions, crowd the
heights, fill the forests, they are cowered
by sll the steeps, they are masked by all
the shadows, they hsve matchless artil
lery. The French army ia in a hollow,
almost without artillery and ammuni
tion, naked under their grape-shot. The
(iermana hawe sin hush on tueir ei Je, the
French have on theirs nothing but he
roism. It is e fine thing to die, hat a
go<*J thing to surprise.
Thia achiewement at arms ia e sur
prise.
Ia it fair war ? Yea, bat if thia be fair
war, what ia fool war ?
The same thing.
Thus much aaid, the battle of Sedan
is recounted.
We would atop here. But we cannot
Great though the horror of the historian
he, history ia a duty, and duty must be
fulfilled. 'There ia no more imperious
slope than thia; to tell tha truth, who
ewer ventures upon it rolls to the bot
tom. It must be so. Hie judge ia
doomed to justice.
The battle of Sedan ia more than a
battle which ia fought; it ia a syllogism
which finishes itself; dread piemedita
tiou of destiny. Fete newer hurries,hut
always attains its goal. Its hour strikes
and it is there. It lets years go by,then,
when least thought of, it appear*. Sedan
ia the fatal unexpected. From time to
time, in history, divine logic makes sor
ties. Sedan is* one of these sorties.
So, on the Ist of September, at fiwe
o'clock in the morning, the world awoke
under the sun and the French army
under the thunderbolt.
lie well lea takes fire. Giwonne takes
fire, Fioing takes fire; the thing begins
by a furnace. The whole horizon ia
aflame. The French camp ia in thia
crater, Btupefiad, scared, startled, in a
funeral swarm. A ring of thunderbolts
encircles the army. Extermination hems
it in.
This immense murder is curried on on
sli aides at once. The French resist,
and theT are terrible, for they tare
nothing left them buf despair. Oar guns,
almost all old-fashioned and curving
badly, are immediately dismounted by
the terrible and precise aim of the Prus
sians. The density of the rain of shells
upon the ralley is such that " the earth
is ruled," says a witness, " a* by a rake."
How many guns ? Eleven hundred, at
least. Twelve Oerman batteries on the
Moucelle only; the third and fourth
abtheilung, a frightful artillery on the
crests of Givunne, with the Hecnad Horse
Battery in a reserve; opposite Doigny.ton
Saxon and two Wurtemberg batteries;
the curtain of trees in the wood north at
Yillere-Ornav conceals the mounted
ahthrilanff with the Third Heavy Artil
lery as a reserve, and from this gloomy
thicket is poured s formidable fire;! the
twenty-four pieces of heavy artillery
form a batterv in the clearing near the
road from La ifonoelle to La Chapelle;
the battery of the Royal Ouard sets fire
to the wood de la (hirenne; the bombs
and the bullets riddle buchv, Franche
val, Fauru-Saint Rernv, and the valley
between Heibes and Oivonne; and the
triple and quadruple row of runs ex
tend, without a break, to the calvary of
Illy, the moat remote point of the hori
zon.
The German soldier*, seated or re
cumbent before the I latteries, look upon
the artillery doing ita work. The French
soldiers fell end die. Among the corpse*
which oover the plane is one, thet of en
officer, upon which thee find, after the
bet tie, a sealed paper containing this
order, signed by Napoleon: " This Sep
tember 1 rest for the whole arm jr." The
valiant Thirty-fifth Regiment of the lane
disappears almost entirely under the
•rushing mass of ahella; the brave mari
nes hold the Saxons and Bavarians in
check for an lnabrat, but being overflow
ed on all aides, fall back; the whole ad
mirable cavalry of Margueritte's Divi
sion, hurled against the German infantry,
stops and breaks down whan half way
on its road, exterminated, says the Prus
sian report, " by well directed and auiet
fire." This filled of carnage ha* three
issues, all of which arecloaed: the Bouil
lon road by the Prussian Guard, the
Oariguan road bv the Bavarian*, and the
Metneree road \>y the Wurtembcrgers.
Die French have not thought of barn ced
ing the viaduct of the railroad; three Ger
man battalions have occupied it all night;
two isolated houses on the Balan road
might have been the pivot of a prolonged
resistance, but the Germans hold them;
the Montvilleni Park, at Bajreillea, deep
and full of thick foilage, might have pre
vented the Saxons, who are masters of
La Monorlle, sod the Bavarians, who
are masters of Bayeilles from effecting a
junction, but the French have been fore
stalled, and the Bavarians are seen there,
cutting away the hedges with their
sickles.
The German army moves all of a piece
with absolute nnity": the Prince of Sax
ony is on the hill of Mairy, whence he
commands the scene. In the French
army the command oscillates at the out
set of the battle; at 5.45 McMahon is
wounded by the fragment of a shell; st
seven o'clock Ducrot takes his plsoe; st
ten o'clock Wimpfen takes Ducrot's.
From minute to minute the wall of
fire approaoht*. the thunder-roll ia con
tinuous. a sinister pulverizing of 90,000
men. Nothing like it was ever witness
ed—never did an army sink under anch
a falling man* of grape. At one o'clock
all ia lost. The regiments take refuge,
pell-mell, in Sedan. But Sedan begins
to burn; Le Diajonval burns, the ambu
lances burn; nothing but a dash
through the lines ia possible. Wimpfen,
brave and firm, suggests it to the Em
peror. The thirty-eight zouaves, mad
dened, have set the ezample, being
parted from the remainder of the army,
they have made their way through the
foe and reached Belgium. A plight of
lions.
Suddenly, above the disaster, above
the enormous heap of slain and dying
men, above all this hapless heroism ap
pears shame. The white flag ia hoisted.
There were there Tnrenne and Vau
han—both present—one in his statue,
the other in his citadel.
The statue and the citadel assisted at
the horrible oapitulation. The two vir
gins, one of broaße, the other of granite,
telt themselves prostituted. O august
brow of our country! 0, eternal blush
of shame!
<
The mail carriers between Little Cur
rent and Sanlt Ste. Marie, Canada,
broke through the ioe when about ten
miles east of the Spanish river, in
March, and men and dogs had a sharp
struggle for life. The men, Joeepn
Denomie and Frank Meeai, after getting
out of the water directed their attention
toward rescuing the dogs, which were
fastened by their harness to the tobog
gan on which the mail bags were tied,
and which was rapidly drowning them.
Their efforts to save either or mail
wonld have been useless but for the
sagacity of one dog, which, instead of
wasting strength in tiring to get upon
the broken ioe, seized the thongs by
which they were bound to the toboggan
in his teeth, and deliberately gnawed
them asander. Both dogs, thus relieved,
Rwsm toward the men, who helped them
out.
Items 9f interest.
(Tharlay ROM' FATHER is lecturing.
A rolling mill—a fight in the gutter.
A habit that ladies gat into—a riding
habit
A New York oompany roakea gaa from
water.
A cigar lighter—tha box from which
you take one.
A wine man ia never laaa alona than
whan ha ia alone.
Fifty-fenr railroad eompaniae failed
in tha United Btetee laat year.
They who M pine" in their youth aan
newer look " aprnoa " in old age.
The man who confine* himaalf to the
drink which ia beat for him ia v*U
■upplied.
At a meant motion ante ia Pari* a
Htrndivanu* violin, 1 yean old, eold
for s4,aou.
One Roaaian in awary aix #aa either
killed or wounded daring the recant
war with Turkey.
Tha war jnat eloaad ia tha eighth Roe
sia-Turkish war. of which fonr bave.beeu
disastrous for the Turk*.
" I came ofl withflying oolora," aa the
painter aaid whan ha fell from a ladder
with a palette an hie thumb.
Men ebould not think too ranch of
themselves, and yet a man ehould ha
careful not to forget himself.
It take* twelve letter*, or nearly half
the alphabet, to expraae thia year in
Roman nnmerala: MDOOCLXXVIII.
u Prdihr-laiul " —tiwrif*—aa thia
ooontry now eoppliae Europe with beef,
flour, applee. potatoes, batter and
cheese.
It ia fwtiff"**-'* that sixty millions of
dollars are drunk uj> in detail in one
single week throughout the United
Htetee.
The number of books in tha Ooogres
si on si Library at Washington ia *31,118
volumes, and there arc about 110,000
(jampblete.
The proprietor of a bone mill ndvw
tiaca that those sending their own bonaa
to be ground will be attended to with
punctuality.
A aan in New York haa a machine in
operation with which ha proposes to light
street* and booasa with electricity by
means of wires.
There was a clever boy who aaid that
he liked a " good rainy day—too rainy
to go to school, and juat rainy enough
to go a-fiahing."
The depreciate! Turkish paper money
ia valued at $2.60 against fl gold ; that
of Russia at $1.60 ; of Austria, |1.19 ;
and of Italy, sl,ll.
Little boy at the opening of a pro
posed spelling match: * Let's atari fair,
grandmother. You take Nebochadnea
zer and*lH take cat."
Japan ia starting national banks in
every city and town, and the staid old
Japs are struggling with such words aa
•' protest" and " discount."
A Lawrenoe paper aaya that a young
man recently "shot himself with a nvmL "
The young fellow doubtless had reason
to believe that the rival wouldn't go off.
Worcester /Veaa.
The ancient Egyptians used to glue
the mummies of thfir ancestors to the
walls of their households. These are
the earliest instances of "stuck up"
men and women on record.
The arms of the thirteen original
states of the Union are represented on
panels between windows on the front of
the building which is to give s specimen
of American architecture at the Pari*
show.
Beetle* and butterflies, and all aorta
of flies of silver, gold, and steel filagree,
and tipped with imitation jewels—-opal*,
diamonds, pearls rubies and emeralds
—are seen nestled among the bonnet
trimming*.
Oat of eighty-nine samples of beef,
and materials used in the brewing of
beer, examined last year by the internal
revenue authorities of England, sixty
one were either adulterated or consisted
of illegal ingredients.
" Oh ' tell me gentle seraph.
With those rnddy lips of thins.
Tell me food!?, tall as often.
That voo rs mine, forever nraa."
Then she gspe ■ gaps sad nodded.
Then another gape was burs.
And her very rfsaoe answered.
" I am yawn, ftseeer yawn."
Some practical joker broke into an
undertaker's establishment at Bchuylkill
Haven, Pa, the other night, and the
next morning the coffins were found
carefully arranged cm the doorsteps of
the doctors' offices sod the drug stores
of the town.
We find iu T>r. R. R. Footer Health
Monthly an account of a man who, in
one year, reduced his weight from SOI
pounds to 200 pounds. A regular diet,
plenty of exercise and profuse perspira
tion accomplished the diminution in
avoirdupois.
In a party of ladies, on its being re
ported that a Captain Silk had arrived
in town, thev exclaimed, with one ex
ception : ** What a name for a soldier!"
" The fittest name in the world tar a
captain," rejoined the witty one, "for
silk can never be worsted."
In the spring the heeband yearasth
Ft* hi* other soft of eiothea,
And be sparebeth through the garret.
And be swears and bempe hie noes.
Io the epnng the yoang wife's fancy
Toroeth beck ia wild despair.
She remembers that she haded
His old Clothes for china-ware.
The atar of M M Margaret Thomson,
who had her pet hone shod with golden
shoes and distributed shower* of gold
among the poor of various European
♦own*, is in the Royal Lunatic Asylum,
Gartnaval, near Glasgow, whither she
was taken on her arrival in Scotland
from Barcelona, Spain, having been
taken charge of there bv the British
Consul She is about fort j years of
age. On the testimony of Dr. Tannahill
she was declared unable to manage her
affairs.
The fever tree ( Eucalyptus globulus),
so extensively extolled for its medical
properties (it was supposed to drive
away fevert wherever planted), has at
length been the object of special inves
tigation at scientific hands. It is found
that there are no medical properties in
the plant itself. The immensely rapid
growth requires an immense supply of
moisture, and. hence, the plants make
wet ground dry by the sheer demand of
the roots for moisture. Iu so far aa
they dry swampy ground, the trees are
a good sanitary agent.
A toper in the interior of Georgia,
having determined upon a reformation
if possible, publishes the following ad
vertisement: " None*.—Whereas, at
particular times I may importune my
friends and others to let me nave liquor,
which is hurtful to me and starvation to
my devoted wife and children; this is,
therefore, to forbid any person selling
me liquor, or letting me have any on
any account or pretence; for if they do
I will positively prosecute them, not
withstanding any promise I may make
to the contrary at the time they let me
have it."
According to the Quitman Free Press,
a fanner tiring in the Morveu district,
near Quitman, Ga., undertook, some
evenings ago, to core his hogs of vermin
bjr robbing them with ooal oiL He pro-
Tided himself with a fat lightwood torch
and commenced work. Unluckily, just
as he had gotten them fwell greased, a
spark from his torch fell on the back of
one, and in an instant he was in a light
blaze. The flames communicated to the
others, and in a few moments the drove
was running wild, fleeing with lightning
speed, and appearing in the darknees
like flre-flends. The next dag the farmer
found hie baoon not only cored bnt done
np brown.
Several years ago a number of Ameri
can women, who had become interested
in the question, sent to Worth, the
oelebtated Parisian modiste, asking
him. " What costume can be devised
that will be perfectly healthy and at the
same time beautiful ?" He replied, " I
have to make the same answer to you that
I have made to the women of Europe.
The costume of the Persian women is
the handsomest upon the face of the
earth. It consists of a loose waist,short
skirt and trousers not too loose. I have
made this oostnme beautifully and hung
t np iu Paris, bnt the women will not
wear it. I can do nothing mare. They
must suffer until they are willing to
adopt it."