A Lyric, Ths cnltured flower* in garden* bloom And matter wide thsir rich perfume For the msrry earele** no til; The rose. the lily, mignonette, Oeraninm*. the pnrplr violet. And ih* ruddy mangold. Rut many a 1 ttle wayside flower Ha* had a *wwot ]Hir*na*ive power To cheer the penaive mind The asphodel. the golden rod, The daisy blooming on the eeu sick all sum mer. was still too feeble to work, and the small stock of money he had savt\l was rapidlv going. She knew that he could not afford to feed the calf through the winter, and she knew that Mr. Thy sou wanted her and had offered a large price for her. Mr. Thy son was a man who wanted to possess all the rarest speci mens of cattle, and he hail been very anxious to buy this calf, which was said to be the handsomest creature in color and shape, ever seeu in Loudoun county. He was "a selfish man, withal, and was very ready to take advantage of Mr. Moore's misfortunes to get her. He was known throughout the county as a man who always got the l>est of a bargain, who thought more of making money than of anything else, ami who never worried himself about his neighl>ors' troubles or felt it his duty to share or relieve them. He hail one child, boy •bout fourteen years old, named Tom, and he was determined if possible, to teach him to he as shrewd in business matters as himself; but so far Tom had not shown much progress in that direc tion. He often went with his father as he rode through the country with his meat, and was advised by him to "watch sharp," for he would soon be old enough to take the business himself. And Tom did " watch sharp."and his large brown eyes grew moist with tears to see his father take Bessie's calf away, for he knew how Bessie loved Clover, and that it was only necessity that made Mr. Moore sell her. Meantime Bessie hail cllni tied the pasture fence and crept quietly behind the barn, where, through a big crack, she saw and heard all that passed. Then, as the wagon turned to go out of the yard, she went back, and, running across the pasture with all her might, climbed the fence on the other aide, ran along the road to the corner which she knew the wagon must pass, and waited for it As she saw it coming she waved her hand for it to stop, and in a trembling voice tried: " Oh, please stop a minute. I want to ask you something." Mr. Thyson drew up his horses, wondering what child it was in such apparent distress, for he didn't recognize Bessie at first, as, in her haste to reach the turn in the road before the wagon came along, she had fallen down in the dust, and then, wiping her tears with her stained hands, bail smeared her face so as to be hardly recognizable. Her long, flaxen hair was blowing in every direction, and her hat was lying on the other side of the pasture fence, where it had fallen when she climlied over. "Oh, please, pirate, Mr. Thyson," she screamed, "von won't kill my calf, will you ?" " Father," said Tom, " that's Bessie Moore. Why, Bessie, what's the mat ter ?" " Oh, I am so afraid your father will kill my Clover. Tou don't know how I love her, and I can't help crying;" and here the poor child broke down, and sobbed bitterly. Then, as she saw Mr. Thyson draw up the reins to start, she continued : "Perhaps if papa gets -veil he can buy her back, yon kno.v. Bo you won't kill her, will you ?" "No, no, child: I won't kill her. She's too pretty to kill. I will take g< glad to get ml of her, if I oau get uiv price." '• Well, I'd like to buy her if I've got monev enough in my bank." •• Vou ! What do you want of her?" "Oh! something. Will you sell her to me?" "Yes, 1 suppose so. Yes, you mav have her for ten dollars, juat what d oanl." " And do exactly as I please with her, father ?" His father hesitated. He suspected I what Tom was going to do, and he saw a difficulty in it for him. However, he replied, at last: " Yes, Tom, you may buv her and do ( exactly as you please witii her, upon one condition; and that is, if by buying her you get yourself into a hard sera|*e vou will work yourself out of it without kelp." Mr. Thyaon thought, by binding Tom to that promise that he "should have a good chance to teacli him a valuable lesson in shrewdness and foresight about makmg a bargain. Tom readily promised, for he couldn't imagine what scrape he oould possibly get into by buying Clover. So the bar gaiu was soon concluded and the mouey ~,j. Meantime, Bessie had dri-si her tears and gone home, trying very hard to be cheerful; but as soou as she had oaten her tapper she crept up to her little led ana sobbed herself to sleep. The uext tnaruiug she felt braver, ami thought she would trv very hard to for get Clover. Her father usually lay ou a lounge bv the sitting-room window through the day, and for several morn ings Clover had been in the habit of coining there and putting her head in to be caressed. So Bessie made a point of getting a basket of fresh clover-blos soms, with which her father would feed the calf while Bessie and her mother were at breakfast. But the morning after Clover left Bessie sat down to tin table with a heavy heart, for she missed Clover then more than ever. She had hardly taken a mouthful, though, la-fore her father called out— " Bessie, just bring me a basket of clovers, won't you ? Clover wants her breakfast." Bessie sprang from her chair with a bound, exclaiming, " Why, papa, you've forgotten ! Clover's gone !" But no 1 there was her sweet, white face peering in at the window, and there holding her by a cord stood Tom Thyson, his faoe covered with smiles. " Why, Tom !" screamed Bessie "did she run away ?" " No, I bought her of father, aud now I'm going to give her back to you. She's yours again, now. Good-bv ;" and before Bessie could express tier thanks Tom was gone. Now. although the return of the calf broaght great joy to Bessie, it brought equal concern to her parents, for the question arose how Clover could le fed. Mr. Thvson hail foreseen that difficulty from the first, but Tom, iu his eager ness t > get the calf back to Bessie, had not tuOQgbl of it. Mr. Thyson said nothing, though. He thought he would see how Tom would manage. Toward night Bessie's father called her to liim and told her that although Tom w:i* very kind and thoughtful to bring Clover back, she couldn't stay, for he had not feed enough to keep her through the winter, and no money to buy any. So the next morning Bessie started to carry her back to Tom. It was two miles away, but it was a lovely morning, and Bessie enjoyed the walk verv much. Tom saw her before she reached the house and ran to meet her . '• I know you've brought her back," said he, laughing heartily, " liecatise you haven't any feed for her. I forgot she would have to eat, but don't yon worry, Bess. You shall have this calf * for yours, if von have to wait till she is a cow," and then they both laughed to think she wouldn't be much of a calf by that time. " But, you see," he added, "I'm in a scrape, whether I give her to : yon or keep her myself, for I haven't any feed for her either, anil it never will do to ask father for any. But I'll man age it somehow l>efore to-morrow. I'll go to bed soon after supper and think it out." So Bessie left the calf, and Tom took part of what money he hail and went to his father to buy some feed for her. He was determined not to ask him to give him any, and his father was E leased to see tliat Tom was sticking to is promise not to ask his help. The next morning he said to his father: " Father, have you anything yon could hire me to do this winter ? lam going to carrv the calf back again this morn ing. lam not going to give this job up, now that I've started. So lam going to earn money enongh to feed her this win ter myself." " Ah ! So you are going to work the calf's board, are you ? Well, if you want to take Jim's place here you can earn her board and something beside. You could do his work before and after school if you were smart and got up earlv." " Well, I'll take it and try. I'd like to buy feed enongh now to keep her thin week, and after Urn I can earn it and carry it over." His father smiled at Tom'a bnsiness like way, and thought to himself, " Well, I am teaching Tom a good lesson, that's a fact. Hell get sick enongh of his bar gain before spring, but it will do him good." Tom filled his hand-cart with the feed, and tying the rope aronnd Clover's neck, started again to carry her back. I don't know what the people along the road thonght to see the calf going luck and forth BO often. Bat Tom didn't care. He kept straight on and carried the calf to Bessie's door. " Here she is, Bess, and here's enongh to feed her one week, anyway, and I'll see that she has enough all winter, un less I get sick, and I don't feel very siok now. Don't catch me backing out of this scrape. No, sir-ee 1" All winter, Tom was up betimes in the moraine, fed and watered the cittle, groomed the horses, and did whatever was required. He carried Clover's feed over every week or two, and never once complained. His father watched him coriomly, and every week congratulated himself on the good lesson he was teach ing him. At last spring came. The tender grass began to sprout, and Clover could keep herself, from the pastures and meadows. The farmers were all plow ing and harrowing, and getting the ground ready for planting. Everybody was busy, and in a hurry, as usual. Mr. Moore was improving, but was still very weak. His affairs looked very discouraging to him, and his depressed state of mind did much to retard his recovery. He had bought the farm where he was living only the spring be fore, after the planting season was over, expecting to earn enough by his trade, that of a carpenter, through the following seasons to enable him to buy seed and to thoroughly plant the wbdle place in the spring. lustead of that, he was taken sick soon after he bought it, and had been obliged to sell his stock to get money to live upon. And now, THE CENTRE REPORTER. right in the busy season, whou every hour seemed worth u day nt any other time, he win atok, with no tuoOe* hi buy seed or the uetvwiuiry (arming im piemen ta, or to litre the needed help. With htM tinnd overwhelmed with dis couragement, he eat, one evening, itt the diK>r way (if his hou*o, and looked hopelessly ou hia atill unemployed land. At the same time Mr. Thyaon was rid ing akiwly along, having made IUI uu usually good trip with hta meat, and wa reviewing in hi* mind with great satisfaction the prosperous coudiUou O( lua affair*. As he (>aa*rsl he saw Mr. Moore sitting there, ami uolical that ha looked very pale ami worries). A feeling of sympathy took *troug hold of him, and he was tempted to atop and have a talk with him, hut those fields, waiting to l*o plowed and sown, spoke Ito him so plainly and reproachfully that he concluded lie would better U>w ' ami go aU>ug. •• I'm sorry for Moore," he said to j himself ; " that's a fact. I'd bo glad to give him a lift, bit I've got my own family to look out for. If I had always giveu way to my feelings I wonder where I should be now. Oh, no! no; it will never do. No !" But as he drew up to his own house, the sight of his broad aor-s so carefully planted, and the neat, thrifty appearance of all the surroundiiiga, did not give him the feeling of satisfaction he was enjoying before he met Mr. Moore. As he went into the kitchen where his wife was getting stip|>er, he said, glancing out of the window at Torn, who was having a grand frolic with his dogs : "It does me good to see Tom play ing. He has hail a ban! winter of it. But I'm glad 1 let hore doesn't hurrv up and plant Clover will oe marching I jack here in spite of me, next fall. I wish I w* a rich man. I'll bet I'd make things look different over there in no time." Mr. Thyson made no reply, but fin ished his supper, ami weut. out into the vard, where he stood leaning on the fence, apparently in deep thought. As Bill, his head man on the farm, came along, he stopped him, and they had a quiet talk together. Meantime Mr. Moore had gone into his house, utterly nuable to throw off the gloomy thoughts which filled his mind.* He saw no way out of his diffi cnlties. The faith ami ho|e which had kept hun up till uow sceiued gone. He went to bed early, bnt did not sleep for hoqra. Toward morning, however, he foil into a deep sleep. His wife quietly darkened the room and left him. The sun was several hours high when ho drew aside the enrtams to look out. What a sight met his eyes! Men were plowing, harrowiug and shouting to their horses. Fart of the gronml was already prepared for plauting.aml there, iu the barn doorway, sat Tom and Bes sie, cutting potatoes and chattering like blackbirds. " What docs it mean, mother! What doe* it mean ?" said lie, as he opened the kitchen door. " It means, father, that the dawn has come. 'Twas very dark, yon know last night Those are Mr. Thyson> men !" " Thyson'* men ! Thyaou's men ! Wiiv '■ I don't understand." "Well, nor I, and the men say that tbey don't know what has come over him either. But he told Bill to take men and horses, and come over bare and plant whatever you wanted, and he'd provide the seed: and they are working like beavers, I tell you." The next afternoon, when the horn was blown, Mr. Moore was waiting at hia gate. As the wagon came along, Mr. Thyson saw him, and didn't feel at all like' just liowiug and passing on. No! he felt like stopping, shaking hands and getting out to see how hia men were doing. • "God bless yon, sir,"said Mr. Moore. "You have given me the best medicine I've hail. I believe it'a going to save ray life. I don't know how to tliauk yon, but I know I feel like a new man." "So do I, friend Moore. So do I. But don't thank me. It's all Tom'a do ing. I thought I was teaching him a great lesson, but, bleits yon ! he was teaching me a greater one, all the time. Well, the Lord has great surprises in store for us, sometimes, haseu't He?" And, with a fervent shake of the hand, Mr. Thyson got back into his wagon and drove home. From that time, Mr. Moore's health steadily improved, and from that time also, Mr. Thyson was another man. It was the beginuing, but not the end, of his kind deeds. A few years later, when Tom aud Bessie commenced housekeeping on their own acoonnt, and Clover lowed oontentedly in her new home, Tom re marked. with a merry laugh : "You see, father, I was longer-head ed than yon thought. 'Twas all in the family after all." The I toy llsd lllm. On a Btreet car yesterday the actions of one of the •> isseugers attracted the closest attention of a boy abont twelve years of age. The raau first blew one side of his note, and then the other. Then he took a handkerchief from one pocket and wiped the right hand side of Lis nose, and deliberately pnt that awav and united ont another and wiped the left Land side. The action pleased the boy immensely, anil he watched everv movement of the man, who next took from his right hand |>ocket a stick of gum, pnt it in the right hand side of his mouth, and then served the left side the same way. He chewed on the right, then on the left, and the boy's eyes hnng ont like pillows in a broken window. The man soon got rid of the gum and took two chews of tobacco from two separate boxes, and noticing how closely the l>oy was watching him he said: " Boy, do yon know tne ?" " No, sir," replied the Iniy, " bnt I'll 'l>et you my velocipede agin a cent that you can't drink out of two jugs at once!" The man hauled the half of an orange out of one pocket, and the other half ont of another pocket, and tendered them to the lx>y as a token of admiration.— Detroit Free Ptett. Kailroad "Savings Hanks." Bail road savings banks are the very latest financial ventnre, Hays the Omaha (Neb. ) lire.. The Denver k Rio Grande and the A.,T. & 8. F. railroads have started ont to act as savings banks for their employees. They issue " interest pav checks" in the form of drafts or orders on the treasurer or paymaster for SSO and $25, to bear interest at four per cent, per annnin if not presented for four months, and at five per cent, per annum if not presented for eight months, but to bo oaahed without inter est if presented at an earlier date. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., EA„ THURSDAY, MAY !, JB7K. RAPID TRANSIT IN NfcW YOKE. •! iktMrkcaMlw Tn.rll -n.l ■> PkixMlr *!• Rapid transit IU N*w York liM become a certainty, OM of the two line* which wre started lat Wllllrt liemg partially roiuxlelod. Appirlon' Journal low iui article devoted u. a description f the Mtriotis acheuie* jiropuaetl t> nolve the vexation* problem of bo* the people living * the upper part of the city eotiUl got down to their buaine** places in quicker time then by the home ears Home of these scheme* for relief were more ingenious then practicable: Amijug the plana proposed *t venous time* for the expeditious conveyance of jwescn gers, thet of the Arcade railway wee the moot ambition*, Uie most attractive ami the least feasible. A new street we* to be constructed thirty feet below the pre went level of Broadway, forming new front* to *ll the basement* of the build ings. The sewers and ga*-pipe were to lie Biltlk lie low tlie level of tile new iu*d wav, and an artificial roadway wan to be constructs! 011 the level of the old alreet —the niip|H>rt* being hollow iron pillar*, whtoh were)alao to serve a* drain*. There were to l>e clean, dry, and Bpwoiou* foot path* at eaeli side of the aroade, and the middle wa* to tie tilled by four railway traek*, two for jiawseiigern and two for freight. The upjier aidewalk wa* to lie partly formed of glass bull * eye*, which would admit an abundance of light tllto the lower Htreet, where umbrella* would be uukuowu or suj>erfluou* 111 tlie raunwt weather, and where the climate would alaray* lie equable olid salubrious. la it iieca-saarv to state the advantages claim ed for tin* fascinating plan by it* auda cious projectora ? It would add a new atorr to the entire length of Broadway: double the walking capacity of the *treet; quadruple the carry tug capacity; and enable the trams yf the limlnou Hiver railway to deliver |>a**eugers and freight a* far down town a* the (lattery- Further more, the rental of seventeen hundred store* would be increased at lea*t two thousand dollar* each, the aggregate of which amount alone would pay ten per cent, interest on a capital (lire# time* it* great a* the calculated coat of the work, which van twenty million dollar*, liut the Arcade Railway, like many other Kchetue* of equal brilliancy, never secur ed a tinner foundation than the s|ieeifl eutioua of it* ingenious inventor. IJhe Pneumatic railway gave more sulistantial jiroof of it* practicability, however, and a tunnel three hundred feet long wa* excavated under Broad way, southward from Warren street, where the proposed oar and the great blower could be seen in operation. The tunnel was eight feet in diameter, aud built of solid masonry, j.art* being lined with iron plate*; aud the atmoMphcre wa* dry an.! pure. It was constructed without any dis turbance of the surface of the street, by means of a strong cylindrical shield, open at both cuds, which wa* profiled by hydraulic rams, the luoaenetl sand aud stone falling through the rear of the shield, and the tunnel Is-iug imme diately afterward arched with maaonrv. The car fitted the tunnel—had seat* for eighteen juuiaenger*, and wa* illumi nated and comfortably upholstered. It was propelled like a saillioat before the wind, by a strong blast of air forced agaiu*t tin' rear by au immense steam blowing-mac lu lie. Nothing more smooth in the way of locomotion than the pneu matic pl*u could be liuogiuod. You de scended from the ever busy and noisy Broadway into a cvsil and quiet recep tion-room some thirty fret tielow the level of the thoroughfare, and the car - which had the shape of a horseshoe— wa* rea.lv for you with sliding door* at the ends, seat* at each side, aud a lamp overhead. Being seated, you heard a noise like the appr>>aoh of a squall at sea, the doors were closed, and with a slight tremor the car moved out of the station aud was shot through tlie length of the tuunel, where it wa* stopped aud drawn back again. There were to be an up-tunnel and a down-tunnel, and it wan claimed that ten car* a minute could be dispatched. It* inventor having sjient s.ime sixty or reventy thousand dollars, however, the Pneumatic railway wa* practically abandoned, though it wa* kept open for acme time a* a public exhibition ; and the tunnel is t*>w used us a shooting gallery. A qnite nniqno plan was proposed bv Mr. Alfred S|*er, uf New Jersey, which consisted of A perpetually-moving ele vated traui or belt of platform moving tip oue aide of the street and down Ute other. This WHS commonly known AS the " traveling sidewalk," wliich was a good descriptive name for it. The track was to be supported by fancy iron pil lars, fourteen feet high, ranged along the enrbstone, and the platform was to project about four feet over the side walk and the same distance over the roadwav. The structure was to be reachctl by commodious and ornamental stairways at the corner* at all intersect ing streets, where there would lie gates in the pretty iron railing surrounding it Let ns suppose that the traveling sidewalk is an accomplished thing— not merely the unexecuted design that it is —and that we wish to avail ourselves of its advantages in going from the City Hall to Union Hqnarc. Having ascended the stairs at Chainliers street corner, we stand upon a little platform and, looking up Broadway, see an endless flooring, raised on massive pillnrs, moving down the west side of the thorougfare anil up the east side. It resembles a viaduct, and is traveling at tlio nuvaring speisl of ten miles an hour. Nearlg as many {lenple are upon it as npon the sidewalk s>lnw—some are walking south ward and others northward, and presuming that their pace is four miles an hour, lliey make, with the added speed of the plat form, fourteen miles an hour; some are Moati-d on lienelu's and others in cabins, like ordinary railway ears, erected on the platform. The constant flow of the promenaders lends the surface of the structure an animateil appearance; it is surrounded by a stationary iron railing, with gas-lamps, upheld by branches from the pillars, and, while the passcu> gers can shelter in the cabins during inclement weather, they can enjoy the fresh air and the briskness of the street below in flue weather. The greatest ml vantage of the plan is that, as there are no intervals, there is no waiting, and, having signaled one of the conductors, we are almost immediately admitted to the platform train by one of the trans fer ears, the train never ceasing to mere mellifluonsly or to slacken its speed. These transfer-ears seat eight persons, and have four wheels with independent axles so arranged that they can be stopped at any of the stations without detention to the main structure; before onr admittance to which, our fares are collected. The cabins, or drawing rooms, contain toilet apartments, with female attendants for ladies, ami smok ing and reading rooms are provided for gentlemen. What a dream of Mr. Alfml Hpoer's this was, and what a liencfactor he might have been, had it ever taken n tangible shape ! There were to be no noise and no obstruction whatever in the street. The motive power was to pro ceed from stationary engines placed be low ground one mile apart and acting upon shafting through iron pillars. In stead of au endless chain, friction-rollers were to be used, and each of the engines was to have one-third more power than neoeasary, whioh was to be utilized by the other* when one liecallie disubled. The very novelty of the protect evoked the derision of the uutcchnicul public,but at leat one competent engineer avowrnl In* belief in it* practicability; and, though Mi. Hjieer may lie di*a|>poiutod lu the discouragement lie met with, he ha* the nitrut *atn! - ••iou that belong* to all real luveutom, of nurtunug a IMIKI, well-meant, and picture*.pie de- Vice, the failure of which take* from the pmtit* but not from the honor of hi* effort*. The Cat. The cat was the animal selected in tlie middle age* of sujierMtltlnu ami witchcraft, to represent the familiar companion in which was cmtiodied the t*\tl pirit supposed to attend all those who practiced the black art 111 former time*. Long before this time, however, i a* no me pimple are probably aware, the cat wa* one of the moat highly favored am mala living; |>ettod, pampered, care fully protected, and actually worshiped by the theu moat civilised people m the world, the ancieut Egyptians. How this reverence came to lie paid to the cat 111 particular by thia extraordinary jHs.ple it la quite imjioAHlblc to deter mine, but by some it is Mijq.os.xl to have originated from the benefits con ferred on mankind by it* destruction of vermin and rejitilea; at any rate, if the Egyptian cat* were as useful a* they are represented to have been, the care of tlieui is easily accounted for. Though it taenia somewhat difficult to understand how the ajKirtaiueu of the Nile trained their cat*, not inßy to hunt game, but to retrieve it frWTs the water, the huut lug scene* depicted on the walls at 'Dielies, and oil a stone now 111 the Bnt ish Museum, afford pr*if of the Egypt ian cat's services in this resjieet. It is generally supjioaed that uotliing will induce a cat to cuter water ; tint tin* is dearly a fallacy, like many other popular notions aliout the animal world. The tiger is an excellent swimmer, a* many have found to their coat; and o the cat, another mcialier of the tiger family, can swim equally well if it ha* any evasion to ex.-rt it* powers, either m quest of prey or to effect it* escape from eotue enemy. As cat* arc exceed ingly fond of flsh, they will drag them alive out of their native element when ever they get a chance. They have even lieeu kuowu to helji themselves out of aquaria that have lieen left un covered, and ou moonlight night* they may IK* MVU watching for the unwary .KVUIMMit* of a tinh-JMiud, during the Bjiawuiug season esjKviully. Again, a cat will lake to the water in the jiursuit of a rat, a fact that wa* proved by a friend of our* a few years ago. Diana or Pa*lit, a* that god dews was called 111 Egypt, wa* the tutelary deity of cat*. Various reason* are amugiiod for this curious selection of the cat a* the animal worthy of being dedicated to the moon. We find that according to Plutarch, the cat wa* not 01 v sacred to the moou, but au emblem ol t; and that a figure of a cat wa* fixd ou a sistrum to denote the m<*m, just as a figure of a frog ou a ring denoted a man 111 embryo. A* In-fore Ktated, the Egyptians treat ed these animals with uuiiHtial care and attention during their lifetime; hence it is not surjinsiug to find that the death of a cat waa regarded a* a family misfor tune, in consequence of which the house hold went iut.. mourning. The willful destruction of a cat in Egyj>t is looked npon as a very serious offence even now; but in the good old days (for cat*) at Itubastis the offence, even supposing it to have been accidental, WM putushid with prompt severity. y\ in J (xicomotlon on land. It is curious to uoto that while to the railroads is owing the abandonment of the wind carriage (formerly s.x-n by traveler* in China, Spain and Holland I, to the same agency it now seems likely that it* rejuvenation will lie due. Wind vehicle* are already in use on the long streUdie* of track* which extend over the Western prairies, and the s;iccd at tained is said to rival that of the fast express tram. One which ha* lieen in use on tlie Kansas Pacific railroad for the jiast three years wa* devised by Mr. C. J. Bascom. The vehicle is said to av erage a speed of thirty mile* per hour, and, with a strong brecte, to travel at the rate of forty miles in the same period. Tins last iqieed was reached with the wind right alieam. A distance of eighty-four miles ha* lieen jiaxasxl over in four hours, the car sailing part of this time close hauled and over disad- curved track. The vehicle lias four wheels, each thirty inches in diameter; is six feet in icngth, and weighs 600 pound*. Tlie sail has two liooms, respectively fourteen and fifteen feet in length, and an area of aliout eighty-one square feet. The mast is eleven feet high, tajiering frem four inches square at the heel to two inches at the track. It will lie obvious that many of the laws ajiplving to the iceboat apply equally well to the smling car. A little consideration will show that when the latter is sailing at forty miles per hour it is traveling faster than the wind that inqiels it, and this is constantly the cws in icelmat sailing. On the other hand, icclmat* alwavs sail best close hauled; in fact, the sheet is almost constantly kept flat aft. The sailing car. as stated above, goes fastest with the wind direct- Ily on the beam or side. Of course the I difference is dne to the greater resist ance offered by the larger and more ele vated surfaces of the car body and its occupants, and to the friction of the axle journals, which probably, under ordinary condition, is sufficient to pre vent the sailing car ever attaining the iceboat's sjieeil.— Srirnfi/lc Amertcan. Japanese Eire* anil Firemen. A writer on Japan *av: Yeddofnnw known a* Tokio) i* a city of Ares. Nino houses out of ten i* bnilt almost entirely of WISH!, and in the bnaines* nnd poorer portion* of the city the dwellings nre packed close together. Of *ll people on earth the Japanese are earele** of fire. Even in the open |K>rt* of Japan no American or European houae owner can itianro hi* property nnleaa he *tipulate* in the jailiey that the Area shall not be made or attended by Japanese servants. Everything help* ft Are in Yeddo,e*pe oially the Are department. Tin* la*t nftmed honorable twsly con*i*t* of forty eight companion of nl*>nt 1,4(10 men in all. The Are extinguishing apparatn* consists of tuba, bucket* and pumping mnchine*, carried on the shoulders of two men. Theae machine* are aimply Ixixe* holding alxint aix gallon* of wnter, and Ailed constantly with water carriid in bucket* from well*. Two men work the pump, which ha* no air chnmlier. It throw* an intermittent palpitation of water, about twelve feet high, and of a bore equal to the hole in a apool. I could not *ay how many home-power *uoh a machine i*. but if I meaaurod by the amount of water one could aquirt from hi* mouth, 1 alionld declare it equal to Ave man-power. Tho fironHMi of YwUo wonr thick mnt*, helmet and glove* of quilted hempen cloth. On arriving at a Are they *ou*o them*olvc with buckets of water, or jump into a tnbful and emerge dripping. They are now ready for a tight. Tho*e who do not bring or throw water carry a hook of steel to tear down the neigh bor ing hon*e*. Nearly all Jnpanese Area are put out by taking away their fuel, rather than by throwing enough water I directly on the Aames A leopard Hunt. A traveler in South Africa describe* the following adventure : With a slack rein ! rode! the dog* were clustered amuud me, for the heat of the afternoon and want of water hail commenced to tell upon them, when up sprang the largest leopard that I had ever aeon, and at an easy canter, grunting at every stride it took, made for a few scattered treea. The appearance of the game was so sudden, that it was some moments liefore I left the saddle, and when 1 got ready to shoot, the dogs were between me and the object of tuv aim. At length 1 got a clear shot, and fired ; the bullet rico chets! under the leopard's feet, but in doing ao hit some part of it* body. However, giviug no more evidence of its mishap than a shorter and more savage growl, as well as an acceleration of *|>eed, it pursued its i ourse as hereto fore. lsv this time the dogs were crowd ing it, but none dare lay hold, for such an act of temerity would have insured instant death. Boon the trees were reached ; but in stead of tlie leopard Jakiug shelter 111 them, it turned reund ou the dog*, and the pack scattered like chaff before the wind. I approached, and got off my horse, having taken my double gun in place of the lately - discharged smgle liarrelled rifie. To my snrjrie none of the hushmeu would go closer. The dog*, owing to my presenoe, liecame more and more txihl aud clamorous ; one cur that 1 had picked tiji at liartebeeot fr. Bonnott, of Graulbet, France, rec ommends and prescribes for chronic rheumatism the use of the essential oil of turpentine by friction. He used it himself with perfect sueeeaa. having al most instantaneously got rid of rheu matic pains in both knees and in the left shoulder. RRUIKF FOR CMorr. —Croup can lie cured in one minute, and the remedy is simplv alum and sngsr. The way to ac eotnplish the deed is to take a knife or grater, and shave off in small particles j about a teaspooufnl of alum ; then mix it with twice it* quantity of sugar, to make it palatable, and administer it as quickly as jvossible. Almost instantan eous relief will follow. AHTHMX. —The following proscription wa* given a correspondent l>y Hon. E. B. French of the treasury department: lodide of jwitassium, two drams ; tinct ure of lolndia, half au ounce ; syrup of senega, two ounces ; camphorated tinct ure of opium, half an ounce ; water snf fieieut t< 1 make four ounces. A teaspoon ftil every half hour until relieved. The above cured the above-named gentle raau, and liaa beeu used successfully in the correspondent's own family. # FOR BOAI.O-HF.AII. Alice M. writes to the Houttrhold : " Here is a enre for scald-head that I have seen used many years, but it has to be applied more than onoe : Take equal part* of go>o pine tar and new mutton tallow ; melt just enough to mix well, then add a few drops of sweet oil to make it soft (if sweet oil is not handy, hen's oil or pig 1 foot oil will do); do not shave the head, 1 but just open the hair and apply to the NUMBER 19. ' akin ; if there ia a scab, apply to that ! and it will aoou heal and <* m off." Herlaea. , Cold Hnaw.—For a quart of fine-cut cabbage, take <>n cup of sweet cream, aoewf cup of aagar; aalt and pepper to taste; pouud the cabbage well before adding the cream and vinegar, with a pol ato- pounder. Caunnaaa.—'Two cupa of sugar, two "ggi butter aixe of an egg, one ooffee cup of sweet milk, one and one-half teaaf—mfula of aoda and two heaping teaapooufnla (4 cream of tartar, nutmeg or other apioe; do not mix too stiff. Biscuit Pcdumo. —For light biscuit, take lour tableapooufula of flour, i-ar of sugar, one of butter, one quart of boil ing water and one teaspoon of lemon. Beat the fiour to a paste with oold water, afterwards add the butter and sugar, the auart of boiling water, stirring brisk! v J the time; now split the biaeuit and add. Keep warm until ready to eat A Warm Boer.—Break np a ah a ef veal; let it soak in cold water about two hours; then put it to boil in foar quarts of water, with an onion, a little mace, pepper and aalt; lei it simmer about five hours, Btrain it through a sieve and act awav to cool until the next day. Then take off all the fat. wiping it with a cloth; put it to boil. When quite hot, if not well waaoned, add whatever may : I*- required ; mix two spoonfuls of ground noe with water; stir it until it j boil*, then add a pint of good sweet milk, and give it one boil.—A 'ansa* Farmer. Botrnts Bain Baana.—Put one quart of small beans on the back of the range to simmer, not to boil, until they are tender; about five hours; then take tbeui out of the pot and pour off the water; have a brown earthen pot, in the bottom of which place a very small onion, then the ueana, one tablespoon! til mo Isaac*, *t building, and there are eleven flights of them, of which there are nine from the street to his office. Any of the elevator men will tell von that," when the elevator is at all foil, ofl he will go cheerily np all the nine flights, seemingly none the worst for it Within a year be baa told the writer that he still continued dumb bell and club work before breakfast daily, and simply because it pays ; and he is certainly still a wiry, active man, eveu though it ia sixty- two rears since he wrote " Thanatopais." Palmeraton, fox-hunting when past eighty ; Vrader bilt, no youngster, without groom or companion, urging his blooded trotters over Harlem Lane at a slashing pace ; Gladstone, at sixty-eight, felling Ha warden trees by the hour, and for the Ix-neflt the exercise brings—are but a few instances of what old men can do when they try. None of these are more surprising than, in an intellectnal field, the learning of German by Caleb Cash ing after he had passed seventy,or Thiers' activity at nearly eighty, or, in all ways, than Moses' doing the forty years' best work in his life after he * had passed eighty, and yet with eve not dim nor natural force abated. If some men. by oiling their joints daily—for, as Mar laren sayw, " they are oiled every time they are" put in motion, and when they are* put in motion only"—can keep those joints from grating and creaking • and moving stiffly, even into a ripe old age, why may not others as well ? And which oi these tilings which man can, it he will, do so readily, cannot wo man do as well ? It needs no money, very little time, little or no present strength. One thing only it does need, and that is jieraeverance. One-third of the time often given to the piano will more than suffice. One less study a day of those which are to-day overtaxing so many school-girls, and instead judici ous. vigorous, out-door exercise aimed directly at the weak muscles, and taken as regularly as one's breakfast, and is there any doubt which will pay the bet ter, and make the girl the happier, the fitter for all her duties, aud the more at tractive as well ? We trust that the day is not far off when no boy or girl will be sent to a school where care ia not taken to develop vigorous healthy bodies, and when that vigor and health will be the rule and not the exception among men and women alike, and in every walk in life. An Arqualic Velocipede. We were shown this morning, says a r>eent issue of the Buffalo (N. Y.,) Ctunmrrria/, a remarkable invention exiled the floating velocipede, which was invented by Mr. William Ascough of this city. It consists of two pontoons made of galvanized iron, upon which the framework is fastened. The boat is nineteen feet long by three feet eight inches beam, and the two pontoons have twenty-six water-tight compartments. It has a seating capacity of four per sons, and over the npper part is a graceful awning. The motive power is supplied by four levers, two for each seat, and the osoupants working these levers cause the paddles to revolve, if required, at the rate of sixty revolution per minute. The speed of the boat is about six miles an hour. The steering apparatus is managed by the feet of those navigating the boat. The paddle wheels are three feet two inches in di ameter, and are in the center, under the seats. We are informed that there is no splashing, but that the " floating velocipede" rides like a duok. It draws j five inches of water. I ton* af Interval. It la * wise mm that works both raya. " Winding op buaineas " Starting tha (dock. Food for repentance— Minea-pie eaten iftts at night. Knife-grinders got their work in dor ing doll tunes. No one bat ft coward strike* in the dark, and then he only atrikee a light. If I were in the enn and you were oat af it, what would the ran become f Sin. A man in Kern county, Cel.. baa a ten acre lot of mignooette, on which hi* beea feed. When a fisherman ahould be thank* : fal—When hia linea are eeat in pleaaant j plaoea. A* the twig ia bent the ararage email boy ia inalioed, when it oomea to pan ili moot. " The older the tree the thicker the bark," bat the older the dog the thinner the berk. Wheu a priae-flgbter'a mill ia stopped only four handa are thrown oat of em ployment In New York city alone the capital employed in the ice buaineea exceeds $6,000,000. —The iaagh of the farmer—Hoe! Hoe t Hoe I— Harkaneack Republican Also, Hay! Hay ? Hay I Natural lata claim that aome of tha tree# of the tropica give nnboopded evi dance of being over 6,000 years old. What ia the difference between a butcher and a gay yoang lady* The former killa to dreaa, while toe latter dresses to kill. Edward Wheeler, who died in Nashua, N. EL. worth gl 1,000, ordered the expenditure of the whole of hia fortona on hia funeral and tomb. General Mite, the dwarf, ia said to linve earned $30,000 for hia mother in the last two years. This ia a flne illus tration of the value of a " widow'* mite." Pit tba sorrow* of e poor old rasa Whose trembling limbs would fiy tha poor house door; Who filled for ntasty Utouasud: retell plan ; Assets, ooe hundred end twenty, fifty-four. A Japanese laborer receives 1,000 "oneb" e day, and be can get a satisfac tory meal for forty " cadi." By the time he has saved 100,000 "cash " be owns $lO. A hand-car, with a mast and sail at tached, ia in operation on the Kansas Pacific railroad, and with a favorable wind the vehicle makes forty miles an hour. It ia estimated that it will coat the navy department $900,000 to send tha goods of American exhibitors to the Pans Exposition and bring them home again. The Cgu has offered a prize for the beat hymn celebrating the recent Rus sian auooeaaea, and adapted for the army. The competition is restricted to Russian composer*. A sweet seedling orange-tree in Her nando county, Florida, bore two genuine lemons with its crop of oranges this season. It had not Wen grafted with Lemon. Woman attains maturity of growth at Rio Janeiro, Brazil,WU an avenge age of twelve years, and it ta no nnusual thing to see s* youna man of twenty-one with a mother of thirty-two. More than 700 persons have entered the oompetitive examination for the thirty-two additional clerkships which Congress recently authorized in the surgeon -general's office. In a paper on nervous affections ef the heart a recent English writer charges the free use of tea and tobacco, as well as certain other execs sea, with being very frequent causes. It ia saddening to watch the dying dav, to see the flickering light fall pulae leas behind the western hill. It ia harder still to watch for rater to boil, over a doubtful Are, whan ia a hurry for breakfast. Lord Kinaale is the only peer who can remain in the presence of the British Sovereign with his bead oovered on oo caaioos of state. The privilege was conferred by King John in the thir teenth century. What a blessing the phonograph will be to editors 1 The bores era slip right into the phonograph room, and plead with the instruments, and the editor oan grind it all oat afterwards—if be wants Ux.—Botton Transcript. The phonograph may bottle up the voice and paw it down to future age*, bat the snule that taut* ap tbe face of a man aa be aeeks aolitode and gazes upon his name in print for tbe first time will always have to be guessed at, "It was my wife's wedding ring, but cruel circumatsncesforoea me to part with it for 81.50." The pitying aerrant girl produce# the money, gather* in * tirwa circlet and the iwamp more* on to repeat the game at the next bonne. Write on roar door* the saving via* end Old. "Be bold :be bold! end erwrnrhere be bold; Be not too bold!" Vet better the esoeae Then the defect. better the more then torn; Better like Hector to the field to die Than Ukr the perfumed Peru tarn and ty. —LcmqfeOo*. Russia haa recently purchased 200,000 ounoea of quinine in the United States, and that eaaential tonic hae in conae quenoe experienced a sharp ad ranee in price. Shaking rritb the ague promisee to he an expensive amusement this year. A philosopher says: "We learn to climb by keeping our eyes not on the hilla behind us, hut on the mountains before us." Another way is to take a oouple of rods the start, and try to beat an enthusiastic ball-dog orer a nine-foot fence. A Lawrence (Maes.) lawyer recently drew np a will for an elderly and quite portlr gentleman, which containe the following clause: " And further, I gire and bequeath to my wife all my house hold effects and all my wearing apparel for her sole use." A German inventor will exhibit at the Paris Exposition a patent scrubbing brush, which can be turned into a store with eed-hot coals and everything complete. Originally, he intended to have aided a bed, but life was too short. " Use great prudenoe and rircumspec tion in choosing thy wife," said Lord Burleigh to his son; " for from thence will spring all thy fatnre good or evil; and it is au action of life like nnto a stratagem of war, wherein a man can err but once." Iu 1816 Joseph Nicephore invented photography. He snoeeeded in semiring a picture printed by light in the camera. A view of Kew Church, taken by him in 1827, was the first photograph from nature taken in England. It is in the British Museum. It makes a stuttering man awfnl mad to be drawn into a discussion about "the remonetixation of the dollar of our fathers," and the " necessity of the inter convertible In-metallic currency.' He may be just bursting with ideas, but the flow of language in the title of the bill is what throws him. Eighteen thousand men are now en gaged in the express business. Eiprees companies cover 60.000 miles of railroad, and it is estimated that their messengers daily travel 800,000 miles. Three thousand five hundred horses are em ployed, and over 8,000 offices are re quired to transact their business, and an amount of oanital is invested not less than $80,000,000. William Norton, who assassinated Jacob Killion in Empire City, Kansas, a few days ago, "comes of a family that kills." He has one brother serving a life sentence in a Missouri prison, s second was hanged in Texas, and a third is awaiting trial in lowa, all for mnrder. Killion was the third man he had killed, and that crime was committed because Killion had cheated hi n at cards five yean before. Russia has a wonderful Swedish gun for use in its fleet. It is worked after the manner of pianoforte playing, moves to and fro in a section of a circle and sweeps all the ground that it covers in a most marvelous manner. It is some thing like sweeping a lawn with water from the jet of a garden hose moved right and left by the operator, and can be carried np into the maintop for firing on the enemy's deck and inside fortifica tions. In close quarters it would sweep the enemy's decks of combatants.