June. Fair month of ro*a*! fFho woolrt *ing hor praise On* *T*. ohonld eom* dtrorl from hsnqnann* On bonoy from HfnMlm, thai h* bring nt flror to the strain hi* Up mr. As if, around tbas* aiqnlsilo. rra day*. Of richest Juno, for him who fain would alng Hor lovollnoaa, did not auoh awoolnooa cling Ao Hvlila or Hy molt no a.* roe could rata* For ail tbotr atorlod law 1 And jot in Tain, Pool, your aoroo ; aitol hor a* you wIU, One i-orfoot rooo hor pralaoa shall dlatll More than all aong, though Nai-pho load tho at ram For boar, Ihon; atno# for any tribul* At, Hor own rare lip* alonr ran utter It. —Caroline A. JVa**, in Srrthnsr. Cornell Hunt Song Ralanood wr* all In our atx-oaml aholl. Toil, of Ihobraltt, for an hour, farewell Oora la no hark tho atorm to brave, She htdoa no buffet el reaming wave; Bui when our take la a mirror irua Of Ita hula to green and U* akiea an Una, Or when Sbe breete thai mirror break* And outward to**ca il ulcer flake*. Oh, then, to the heat of her aaben wing,. Uk* a bird oVr Ihe air-clear deep ah* a|irlng. Oars pulled and feathered and dipped In lime Make measure aweet aa a po* V rhyme, Makr murlc aweet ■ our aweel twit* •-turn*. In open aky, on lake anil laml. lJva apirlu of health for brain, heart, hand. And Ihe waring oar hath a wand-Ilka opell To run them hither whara'ar they dwell; Jiow for a apurt your aiuew* brace, Juat think of the laurel that crown* the raoe, for when our brow, with the bay era twined Oi\ fat** are plenty and fair maida kind, pull hard with one ttiuerle, one heart, one will. For pure accord 1* perfect aklll. Oar* pulled and feathered and dipped In time Make tneaaure aweel an a peep* rhyme. Make uiu*K- aweet a* our aweel belt*' chime. * JV*wi> O'CvuHtr, is /I Asm. I Viaiwh An Adventure With Smugglers. TO LP BT A rxmtp STATES OfSTOMS OFFI - 'lho Ail venture I am about to relate occurred oight voars ago,in the northwest part of Mains, near the Canadian Bor der. Our government places a stiff tariff, or "duty," ou many articles of irn- Evrt, such as "silks, liquor*, cigar*, etc. nman nature is* perverse, and, I am norry to say, there are men who try to evade the payment, in other words, "smuggle." There had been, for a number of years, more or loss smuggling in that section of the State, of whisky, clothing, guns, pistols. These were constantly brought across the "line" and sold; though, for the most part, in small quantities. A good many persons—mostly tran sient and disreputable fellows—wore in some way interested in it. The subject was one that nobody said much about, however; Tor to come out openly against the traffic would have made secret ene mies of a class that most persons would rather keep the right aide of. The writer was then seventeen years old. Though not much acquainted with any of the "smugglers," I yflt knew the countary thereabouts as well, perhaps l>etter, than almost any other person; for I hail trapped and "prospected" for lumber in the woods along the border for two or three rears. That autumn 1 had two acres of pota toes to dig. It was the first season we had raisevt the "Early Rose" potatoes. They yielded wonderfully. On those two acres there wete raised six hundred bushels. I was nearly a fortnight har vesting the crop. There came along, one morning, as I was digging, a stranger. He was a rather singular-looking man, dark-complexion ed, with a black, stubby beard, and had on, I think, a glazed cap. I had seen him coming across the fields, thirty or forty rods away, and he struck me as being an odd fish, even at a distance. So I kept industriously at work, and waited for him to make his erraud known. He began by remarking that it was fine weather for trapping. Then he spoke of nnnting caribou up on "the Line;" asked about mow there, and wanted to know if 1 had ever seen any other game up that way. I felt that the fellow was sounding me for some purpose of his own, and gave brief answers, keeping hard at work. This, however, did not hinder me from seeing that he was observing me closely; and I began to get angry at such cool scrutiny from a stranger. "Look here ?" said I, at length.a good deal out of patience; "what are you driving at, anyhow ? If you've any busi ness with me,you might as well state it" "All right," said the stranger, "I see vou're a square man. Wouldn't vou like to make a little money easier than by digging potatoes ?" "Very likely," I said. "80 I thought" He then went went on to say that he was moving into the States, and had a quantitv of baggage np at Lake Megun tic (in Canada), which he wanted to get down, and ended by offering me one hundred dollars to make five trips with him through the woods across the bor der. "Yonmight as well say that yon are smageling, " I observed. "Oh, I don't call it bv that name at aIL" "Call it what you've a mind to," said |, laughing. "But can't I get you to help me? You were recommended to me," he said. " No, sir!" " Bat why not ?" "That's "ray business," I told him, but added that when I oooldn't get a living in a more honorable way than that, I would go stunewhere else and try. Somewhat to my surprise, the man began to laugh heartily. He the a drew out a paper and asked me to read it. " You hail better not show me any of your papers," I said, resuming my work. "I'm no friend of yon smuggling fel lows. You might as well pnt it up and be going." "Oh. I'll look oat for myself," said he. " You just read that." I took it, and saw it was an official commission to Oliver C. Stnart as a United States customs officer and detec tive. " Is this your name ?" I asked. "It is," said Mr. Stuart; and from a certain change in his voice and air, I saw that he had previously been assum ing a part. "Well," I said, "you've fooled me. I suppose that's part of your trade. But I guess you haven't got much infor mation. " " Oh, I've learned what I wanted, and that is your honest opinion of smug gling. " " Any man's welcome to that," I re torted. "What do you say to going on the other tack, then ?" questioned Htuart. He then told me that ne had been sent to discov er aud "arrest a gang of smugglers who were operating along that frontier, and offered me twenty-five dollars a wees to go with him. What he wanted was to avail himself of my knowledge of the country. I wished particularly to earn a hun dred dollars that fall, but I refused his offer. I knew that to aid a detective would get me into trouble. I should be "spotted," and, likely enough, waylaid some night. But Staurt came again the next day. He had an oily, flattering tongue, and he said if I would do my best to help him work up this "job," as he called it, he would get me into the detective service, where a keen young fellow like myself (such were his words) oould soon make a fortune. A great many boys of seventeen would be caught by such an offer. I was caught, and took a week's pay in advance to consummate the arrange ment. . The next week we set off, disguised as two mink trappers, and spent nearly a fortnight wandering about the bounda ry, picking up such information as the settlers on each side were indiscreet enough to give us. There was but one road aoroes tha FRED. KURTZ, Kditor mul "Proprietor. VOLUME XL " lino," through tho wilderness from Canada to Maine; hut there were a number of •• luutr paths," and old tot roads. Ouo of these, calhsl '' Durkee's tote trail," wo watched ixmstautly for five days, ou hint dropped by ntt old French settler. Certain signs tuid tracks indi cated th*t there had Ixvm rtvont pass*itg nud repaasiug; but thus far wo had not seen any perwon upon it, Earlv tiio ninth rooming, wo sot off to follow tho trail up to Moguutio. Wo had not gone a hundred rods, and woro still ou tho Maiuo sido of tho lint, when wo heard voice* ahead, and hatl just tinio to slip into tho firs l>osido tho path, whou two tuou nunc in sight with )tnck on their back*." Wo took a good look at their faces as they passed, but Stuart did not attempt to arrest them. They wore both young men, and had bulky packs. It was evident theT had not Come very far that morning, for it was scarcely sunrise when thoy {laaaed us. Thoro was a frosty dew on tho grass and bush os. As soon as they were out of hearing, we came from onr place of concealment and followed back ou their trail, to trace them, if jNwoible, to their camp, which Stuart thought would prove a sort of half-way house for storing ivu tratwud goods. But for the frosty dew, we should not have found it. Some two miles further up, and just over the line, there was a thick second growth of scrub fir aud spruce. Ten or a dozen years previously the lumbermtu had cut on the old growth. The tracks iu the frost at this poiut turned from the trail aud led into this dense green thicket. We followed cautiously iu, and, after beating about awhile, stumbled ou au old lumber-camp, where the loggera had formerly spent the winter. So completely hidden was it by the second growth of deuse firs, that one might have passed and re passe. 1 within three nvis of it, without discovering it. " Here's their deu !" Stuart whisfvere.l We jieefHsl alxvnt it; then approached c' wer, and looked iu at a ohmk betwixt tlie logs. No person was in the camp. Ws n- 'mttoned the door and went in. A nu- 1 r of old gram-boxes, each made to ho i , hutnlred bushels, lay bottom up Ou the floor. Under the-e was a rich sight—Havana cigars, and liquors, box on box, flask on flask ; French brandies, and old Bourbon whnky! Stuart ran his eye over it, and said there was at least a thousand dollar*' worth. "A good haul!" he chuckled. "But it's over the line," I said. "We can't touch em over here." "See H I dou't," laughed Stuart. "In sueli a case as this, I'll take the risk. I've seen "em carrying the stuff across. And in this out-of-the-way hole, it is not so easy proving just where the line is." He ha.l hardly uttered the words when we heard voices in the firs outside aud close by. "They've come back for something," Stuart muttered. There wasn't even a chance to get out. The detective hastily tipped up one of the big grain-boxes, and we both slipped under it. The edge was hardly down on the floor when the door was pushed open. "Strange Bige didn't button it," were the first words we heard, in a harsh, coarse voice, as the owner ot it stepped into the camp. He was followed by an other and another, till a gang of at least ten men had come in and thrown down their guns and packs. Some of them sat down on the very box we were under. There was a knot hole in the box above as, large enough to have stnek a fist through. To say that we felt uncomfortable— there in the very Jen of that lawless gang, expecting nothing but that we should be discovered next mirnte— but faintly expressed our emotions, my own, at least. True, we might make a stout fight with our carbine and revolver; bnt we should certainly be overpowered and put out of the war. The safety of every man in the gang wonld demand that we should be disposed of effectually; and, from their talk, they seemed the men to do any desperate deed. Half their con versation was oaths. The smugglers seemed tired. We soon understood that they had been traveling all night. They sat and lay round for ten or fifteen minutes. One of them—whom the rest called "Cap'n" then said: "Pack away the staff, boys, and then get up breakfast." They all rose up and unbound their packs. "Shall we stow it in this box?" asked one, tipping up the box we were under at least a foot. Our hearts leaped,and we gripped our weapons. "No: pat it in this one," said an other. The man let the box fall back. It seemed as if they must hear our breathing, for we panted, in spite of ourselves. We dared not even whisper to each other. When they had finished packing the goods, some of them commenced getting breakfast, while the others sat talking together. The conversation was partly in French, partly in English, .inter spersed with a profusion of oaths. A great deal of interesting matter came to our ears—names of men engaged with them, ail along, from Montreal to Portland, and many facts and methods of their illicit traffic. We were, of course, interested in this ; though we felt that every bit of information thus given would be an additional reason for killing us, should we be discovered. Boiled potatoes, fried pork, butter, cheese and bread, were soon ready. Three or four of the rascals sat down round our Iwx. It seemed as if they must see us through that great staring knot-hole. We could see their faces plain enough as tbey swore and ate alternately. After eating, they smoked what seem ed to be excellent cigars. Blankets were then thrown down, and soon, but for the heavy breathing and snoring, all would have been quiet. Two of them had spread their blankets on the box above us, so that they cover ed the knot-hole, and were lying on them. Thiß made the air inside the box very close after a time. The reader can imagine our situation, if not onr feelings, as the honrs dragged by. We scarcely dared to move a limb. I suffered terribly from constant cramp and a desire to sneeze; on account of the bad air, probably. Well, the day passed, and I hope never to pass such another. It was, in truth, a day to try one's soul ! Towards night, the " cap'n " awoke, and roused the rest of the gang. They then partook of another meal of pork, potatoes, bread and butter and whisky. We had not learned the captain's name. But there was an "Eph,"a "Seth," a "Mike,' a "Jed" and a "Lige " in the gang. From their talk while eating, we gathered that a "Bige" and a "Johnny" were expected to "oome up" that evening ; and we guessed that these were the two we had seen and tracked in the morning. After eating, the men took their guns and set off on their return trip up to • "thelake." We waited ten or fifteen minutes, then raised the box and got I out from under it. Neither Stuart nor I myself could stand erect for awhile. THE CENTRE REPORTER Wo hol|ox. They stared wheu he jestingly told them how he came to know them. "If we'd a' known you's there," ex .•laitned Eph, with an oath, au.l grind ing his teeth, " you'd never got this chance on us!" Hi* Presence of Mlud " Presence of miud," said the gentle iuan, who had hitherto remained silent. " ptewoM of mind in a it thing, ud has sav\l hundred* of lire*. I, myself, who speak to yon, can tell one ease wherein I played an hnmbl • part. It was during a Are m Toledo, Ohio ; the throe lower stories of a live-story build ing were wrapped in flames, thus put ting off the escape of the hapless tenants of the two upper stories, which were oc cupied as residence-tenements. The lurid, lambent flames licked up the window-sashes and sign-boards, and crawled cruelly up the whole front of the building, which, it was only too evident, was doomed to destruction. Thousands of people gathered around, bnt what couhl they do ? The flames— 'the devouring element,' I think wan what the local papers alluded to them as next day—were raging so fiercely that a near approach to the building was impossible, while no ladders long enough to reach the windows were to be found, and there was no means of com municating with the adjoining build ings, there being a vacant lot on each side. 1 tell you, boys, it was a horrible sight, such as I do not want to see iigain ui a lifetime. We thought—we had hof**! that all the inmates of the building hail escaped, bnt, right in the midst of the frightful tumult and ex eitement, a woman, a young ami beau tiful woman, appeared at the fifth-story window. ' Save me! save me!' she shrieked, like an aerophone. Bnt how were we to! I tell you, gentlemen, it is upon each an occaaion as this that the latent force in a man's character, that his presence of mind—if he has any, of course—must be shown. Quick ■is lightning, it flashed across my mind that I hail seen a coil of long and slender rope lying ou the sidewalk ; I rushed to the spot and found it, and I shouted to the woman, • Keep cool ; I'll save you !* There were two other men there, big, powerful fellows, and says they, 'What do you want us to do to help ?' ' Catch hold of this end of the rope,' says I, throwing it to them, ' and freeze on to it like n collector to a custom house.' They did so, and, hastily coiling the rope, I stepped as far back as I could to get room to throw it up to her. Never sliall I forget the sight; the great building in flames, the immense crowd standing around in awe-struck silence, and above, at the window, fully sixty feet from the stone sidewalk, that !>eantiful woman, blanched with terror. ' Keep cool!' I yelled, and poising my self for ope mighty effort, I hurled the coil of rope npward. Up it went, like a lissom serpent, inn-oiling as it shot through the smoke tinged of a lurid red with the fire's reflection ; she stoop ped forward, amid the thundering cheers of the crowd now wrought up to fever-heat, and caught the rope—and wepnlled her down !" They made a unanimous dash for him, bnt he had bounded through the saloou-dncr and got nearly half a block's start, and the fleetest and maddest runner among them knew that pursuit would be in vain.— Chicaf/'t Tribune. Bird Lore. In the Lech Vslley there is a belief that the ravens never drink dnring June, because in that month they fed the prophet Elijah. In North Germany, Hwabia and Tvrol, a superstition pre vails, that if tfie eggs are taken from a raven's uest, boiled, and replaced, the old raven will bring a root or stone to the nest, which he fetches from the sea. This " raven stone " is very valuable, for it confers great fortune on its owner, and has likewise the power of rendering him invisible when worn on the arm. The stone is found in the nests of magpies as well as ravens, and as it makes the nest itself invisible, it must he sought with the aid of a mirror. In Pomerania and Rugeu the method is somewhat differ ent. Thp parent birds must have at tained the age of 100 years, and the would-be possessor of the precionH "stone " roust climb up and kill one of the vonng ravens, who must tie a cook bird, and not over six weeks old. Then the aggressor descends, taking careful note of the tree. The old raven immedi ately returns with the stone, which he puts in his sou's lieak, and, thereupon, rioth tree and nest become invisible. The man, however, feels for the tree, and on reaching the nest he carries off the stone in triumph, itugen folks de clare that this feat can only be accom plished by the help of satnn, and that the man's soul is the price paid for snch assistance. The Bwabian peasantry maintain that young ravenH are nour ished solely by the dew from heaven during the first nine days of their exist ence. As they are naked, and of a light color, the old birds do not believe they are their progeny, and consequently neglect to feed them; bnt they occasion ally cast a glance at the nest, and when the young ones begin to show a little blaok down on their breasts by the tenth day, the parents bring them the first carrion.— All tho Year Round. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., l'A., THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1878. I'FltFI IFRY. llom I'rilomra arr Made •( Flown* la la- Irrrailua Oaaralla*. A correspondent who visited M. Herman, a great maker of perfumes at Vance, Francs, give* u an insight into the methods pursued for extracting |er ftime from flowers, as follows : At the pr>seiit moment, IU Veuee, roses are the order of the day, and on the deliciously clean and cool tile thawing of the factory the rose-blossoms were piled up thicklt iu huge, glowing heaps. Iu a back rxNiiu was a long table, covered with a snow-white table cloth, and around this were seated some thirty womeu and vouug girls, waiting impatiently to lie served with roaea, which tliev were to pluck. There was only a sample quant | ity, so Mr. Herman luformod me, for I the rains had interfered somewhat with the Vence crop, and these came from the ncighlioring ullage of I.a Tourette, from a new man. Three very pretty girls, who wro imrauuiontly emplovej in the factory, at a signal from the proprietor, took great wicker baskets, anil heaping thrw with rosea, emptied them upon tho table cloth in front of the plnckera. It was s very charming picture—the village girls and* old women and little tots not 7 years old, in picturesque costume and very wonderful straw hats, all seated around the totard heaped up with the glowing i bhissoma, wonderfully relieved by the white* cloth. The good-looXtng girls did not wear any hats—trust them for that -and immediately, lrom natural thirst for decoration, cimse the loveliest rises aud stuck them liehiud their cars. ! Then plucking liegtui iu earnest. Bei mg the unhappy flowers firmly in the left hand and grasping the stalk close to the ovary, they, with an angry twist, separated the blushing cordis* and threw them into a big Ivasket ensconced between their knees. M. Herman told me that the growu girls could work very fast, but that by a tacit convention, when the ami nut of roses to be plucked was limited, they restrain**! themselves to give the very old and the very young a chance to earn a trifle. A cent a pound was the tariff, aud when there was uo stiut of flowers, the girls can always earn half a franc, or ten cents, but ou this iNvasiou the utmost that any , earned was four cents; but then, old women of seventy and little thing* of seven earned either a cent or two cents. When the rose# were weighed, iod * tall TeocuD, standing lxwide the pro urieto* Willi hi# hand# full of oop|crs, had paid everybody hi# suua, the flow er# were r#pt"keJ iu banket# by Uie three handmaiden# of the establishment and taken below. Here were vat* half tilted with warm oil in some instance#, ami in others with warm grease, made by mixing lard and beef suet, imwt care fully prepared ami cleaned in the Winter mouths. To every three cui*>#, or vat*, was a man armed with a wooden paddle, and a* the girl# poured the ruse blossom* into tho oil and grease, they atirreo about until the whole wa# oue hideous wretched paste of a dirty browu color. The men who manipulated the grease had a warm time of it, for it offered considerable resistance to the paddle, and the perspiration fairly poured down their brown as they worked their spatuie#. Twenty-four hour# the leaves remain soaking, and then tliey are |>acked into cvar*e huen bag# and put under a j>ewerftil pre*#, which aqoeesea the perfumed oil into a atone gutter, from which it pour# by a pipe into a straining vat. To warm the oil and grease, precaution# liave to te t.ikeu. They are not placed in coaiiip meat ion with the tire, but are lodged m huge copper iHUler# half-tilled with wa ter, tlxed in a range, whiab occupies one entire end of tho apartment. When warmed to blood heat, the oil and grease are poured iuto their respective curve#, and the operation with the paddle ta repeated with fresh roses. Twenty-five times are roses poured into the vats lie fore the oleaginous matter# are #ust nbont eight feet' from the position of the sitter. When the operation of taking the picture began ho first placed his eyes upon the XII, then upon I, and so on, shifting the gaze lei surely from figure to figure, "all around the clock." There WHS no feeling of strain, weariness or giddiness. The pic ture taken was free also of all appear anoe of constraint. There was no star ing expression, and the eyes were clear and well defined. The hint is well worth the attention of photographers. TIMELY TOI'ICN. Farmers' wives are iu great tieeil of domestic help lu Colorado. Since the year lfifltl (ireat Hrituiii has tonight from the United States $1,360, 014,7(18 more than she has sold. Aooordiug to the director of the mint, the animal production of gold 111 the United States is $46,100,000, and of sil ver |88,60,000. Miss Annie It. Irish, a Nebraska girl, is assistant private secretary to Hecretary Sebum, and reads and answers all liMi (teriuaii, French aud Spanish cor res pondeuce. The Japanese, after haviug furnished our gardens with some of our best trea sures, are now stocking their own grounds with some of the |sipular American flowers. Queen Victoria s new saloon railway car is one of the most Iwautiful of its kind ever built, as may well lie imag ined from the fact that its construction aud fitting* cost over sß<>,(ioo. Can a man swim in oil? This ques tion was practically solved the other day by a workman employe.! in an oil manu factory of Nice, who fell into a tank of olive oil nine feet deep. He was an ex pert swimmer, but he went to the but torn like a plummet, and was only saved from drowning by the timely aid of a comrade. Oil is too lurht to swim in; it is not sufficiently buoyant, aud does not offer the resistance necessary to keep s tnan afloat. The value of fifteen of the principal American articles of export for the year 1877 was s* follows: Cotton, $171,i18,- 5,H34 843; tallow. f7,*f13,616; l.eef, $7,603,475. Pronft of former exploration are fouud in various |>*rto of the Black Hill* regiou, and it is prolutble that gold was discovered there alx>ut tlnrtv yearn ago bv several separate jwirtie* of miventur ers, all of whom were killed by ludiaos. The bones of men and l>easts, mingled with rusty mining tools, were in one place discovered within a rude fortifica tion of rocka. In another place a rotted aluice box, made of a hewn tree, allowed that mining operation* bad been earned on. A camel ranch is owned by 1), Mather of Ha-trop, Texas. He claims that •aimcls an- no mrr trouble to taise than horses or cattle. The colts r three or toor day* are rather tender i .d require close attention, but after that they take their chances with the herd. They are extremely docile, and as the females give birtii to a colt every year they are profitable, the animal* nelhng when reared at from s2Ulto s6 which petroleum i* l>eing put, that a little familiarity with the subject will oeaae U> cause wonder at what be come* of the million* of barrel* that are annually drawn from the bowel* if the earth. A curiou* phenomenon haa, *ay * Preach scientific journal. l>een observed at Vernon, in Franca. Fire or aix year* ago lightning atruck a garden planted with gooaebcrry bu*hea and cherrv trees, making a deep hole, the on floe of which was not abov® a yard in diameter. Hub scqtiently, everything died ronnil about. The death ourcle enlarged year by year, until it i* now atiout eight yards in di ameter, Hi® haa juat reaches! a eherry tree planUd twelve year* ago. which liaa died like the rent. The gooseberry btinhc* which were replanted on the spot died in two year*. TIJC cause of the rvil was evidently the lightning, but it is difficult to explain why ita morbid ac tion continue*,and sterility gain*ground. The lightning |K>**ibiy generated in the a<>il chemical oompouud* injunou* to vegetation, or burned the hnmu*. Blackburn, England, contain* the lnrgo*t cotton mill* in the country. The " Thm*tle Neat " i* owned by Mr. Turn er, M. P. The " Phvsic," coloaaal oonccrn, i so called (mm its founder Having been a physician. Other mill* am the "Cat Hole," the "Butter Tub/' the "Smut," the "Twelve Apoatlev," the "Glory," and the "Hallelujah." The "Twelve Apostles" refer* to a weaving sh< d, of which the original pro moters, eighteen rear* ego, were total alMitainar*. The owner of the " Lather Box " vw once a barber, who shaved at one halfpenny each, but now own* seven large mill*, chiefly spinning mill*, and i* the fortuuate ixissinsor of the ex tensive estates that formerly belonged to Lord De Tablev, in the valley of the Ribbte. The " Hand Hole is the next mill to the " Lather Box," and owes its origin to the excavation of a* much red sand a* realized the money to build the mill. Little Banny and Hl* Bead Mother. I've just been down in the parlor to sec mamma. She's in s long box. with flowers on her? 1 wish she'd come and bathe mv head —it aches so. Nobody ever makes it feel good bnt mamma. She knew how it hurt me, and she usixl to read to me ont of a little book how my head would get well and not ache any more some day. I wish it was "some ilny" now. Nobody likes me bnt mamma. That's cause Ive got a sick head. Mamma used to take me in her arms and cry. When I asked her what's the matter she would say, " I'm only tired, darling." I guess Aunt Agnes made her tired, for when she came and stayed all day mamma would take me np in the evening on her lap and cry awful hard. I aint had any dinner to-day. Mamma always gave me mv dinner and a little pudding vith "D," for " Danny," on the top. I like to sit iu my little chair by the Are and eat 'em. I wish mamma wouldn't stay in the long box. I guess Aunt Agnes put her'there, 'cause she put all the flower trimmings on and shows her to everybody. There aint any tire in the grate, but I guess I'll sit by it and make believe there is. I'll get my little dish and spoon and play I've got a pudding with D for Danny on it. But anyway I want mamma so bail. — Neu> Or lean* \ Picayune. The smallest natural magnets gener ally possess the greatest proportion of attractive power. Sir Isaac Newton wore in his ring a magnet which weighed nearly three grains ; yet it was able to take up 746 grains, or nearly 360 times its own weight; whereas magnets weigh ing above two pounds seldom lift more than five or six timss thoir own weight. Frozen In Summer Weather. The Mrridou (Mias.j M rrrury of a recent date, tells thi* atfaugr Story: Mr. Jaine* Knot, a young man of the eastern part of tin* comity, ha* Item ntrangely Mlllietol for about a year. Hot or cold ho wan alway* affected a* fre-eiiig to death. ilia case haa been examined by aevoral skillful physician*, ami we uud<*r*Uuid haa puzxled thrill all. He wan continually using all the device* to warm himself that a man might who had been dulled by exposure to extreme ould, Hittiug near rouMiug tlroa envel oped iu blanket* ami the house closely abut up, atnl tin* though the weather wan ut hummer heat, it i* aaol that he would ait by the lire and bold hie head to It and almoat roant It IU the ef fort to get warm. It ih a fact that he put cloth* ou hie head to protect the scalp from actual buruiug while doing thua, aud the clotha have t>eeu aet ou tire by the heat he subjected them to iu eudeavoriug to warm hi* head. Home time ago he made a wait to Livingston IU the ho|ie of being benefited by the artohiaii water, wheu Dr. Webb, of that towu, aw hi* cane. Lately, he had de termined to return to Ltving*tou aud try again the water*, aud again oou .lilted Dr. Webb, going to hie office for that purpose. He seemed aa oue suffer - ing from extreme cold, aud naked Dr. Webb if he had any tire in hi* offioe. He told him he had not, aud that it waa U*i hot to have tire aud be comfortable. He aaid he could uot ataud it, aud ran out'of the office into the afreet for the benefit of the sunshine to warm htm aeif. Tlie next day Dr. Webb had him in hi* office to make a more critical ex amination of hi* cane, aud had a rotuiiug tire. He carefully leatrd with a thermometer the degree of animal heat he carried, aud found it near normal. With all of tin* trouble he lo*t little flesh aud kept a g by step iu disnieter. The gold never deserts the silver, but adhere* closely to it, and shares all its mutations ; it i* one-hun dredth part the thicknoMa of the silver st the beginning, and it maintains the same ratio to tlia end. Aa to the thin mas to which the gold-ooatad rod of silver can be brought, the limit dejiend* on the delicacy of human skill; but the most remarkable example ever known wa* brought forward bv Dr. Woliaston. Tin* was an eiarople Of solid gold wire without any silver. He procured a small rod of silver, bored a hole through it from end to end, and inserted iu this hole the smallest gold wire he could procure ; he subjected the silver to the usual wire-drawing process, until he had brought it to the finest attainable state —being, in fact, a silver wire aa fine aa a hair, with a gold wire in its center. To isolate the gold wire, he subjected it to warm nitrous scid, by which the sil ver waa dissolved, leaving a gold wire one-thirty-thousandth of an inch in thickness —perhaps the thinnest ronnd wire that the band of man haa yet pro duced. But the wire, though beyond all comparison finer than any employed in manufactories, does not approach in thinness the film of gold on the surface of silver and gold lace. It has been cal culated that the gold on the very finest silver wire for gold lace is not more than ooe*third of one millionth of an inch in thickness —that is, uot above the thickness of ordinary gold leaf. An Unexpected Friend. An unexpected friend to tuan haa been discovered in a kind of animalcule eu- Semiered by sewage, which prevents the eoonqxising matter from liecoming a dangerous nuisance. Mr. Angell, the public analyst for Hampshire, England, having examined the sewage-polluted fluid in Southampton water, lias dis covered that where the suspended mat ter* are thickest there is going on a silent destruction of the foul matters, through the agency of millions of the rainnte creatures, by some held to be of animal, but bv Mr." Angell believed to lie of vegetable origin. On examining the muddy fluid through a microscope, it was found to contain myriad* of little brown organisms, surrounded with a gelatinous substance. Each specimen was fonnd to lie active in ita movement* and of peculiar shape. Wing furnished with a belt of cilia round the center of the body, and with a long transparent and very flexible tail. After death, these tinv at >ms give off an odor similar to that of seaweed, and cliange to a green color. During life they evolve bubbles of oxygen gas. which serve to purify the water from the effect* of decomposing matter. Two Hundred Thousand Bng*. The Han Francisco Bulletin says. Prof. Davidson, President of the Acade my of Hciences, recently called the at tention of a u um Wr of citizens to the large collection of specimens in entomology made by Henry Edward* during a period of t wenty-flve years. This collection is said to be one of the largest ever made in the United States, and by far the most complete ever made on the Pacific coast. About 60,000 species have been collected, representing more than 200,- 000 specimens. These represent not l only all the orders on this coast, lmt nearly or quite all in the United States, with a largo representation of orders from all parte of the world. The collec tion is really one of the most oomplete known in this country or any other. The collection is valued at 812,000, or rather that is aliout the sum expended in freights, cabinets, and the purchase of rare specimens. The labor of twenty flve years is not estimated. TERMS: #2.00 a Year, in Advance. KJK*. UIKIIKD oil IHH smill.ll. l ara Mrraul. To cups ludiau, caw cap vbaat, Oiw cup suur milk, cms cop awsst, One good sgg thai you will bast Hair A cup tuulassws, tou, Half s cup auger eld tiiwslo i With ouai spoon ot initio! new. Kelt end sodesecti e spoon; Mix up quiakly end heks U suou, Thau you U heve ooru brued cumpMs. Ileal of ell ooru broad jou meet. It will tasks your boy's eysa ablne. If be l like that buy of mine, It you have e do ten boy*. To Increase your household joys, Double then this rule 1 should, And you'll here two com calces good. When you va nothing nine tor tee, This lbs very thing will be AU the men that 1 have seen Key It is, of ell cakes, queeu; cloud enough for any king That a husband home can bring; Warming up the human stove. Cheering up the hearts you love. And only Tyndell can explain The links hetseeu eorn bread and twain. (let a husband what he likee. And aevs a hundred household strikes. -Z*d*o M. MirUtrd. Farm .Netea. Tbuso of our remders who have kept their orchards in grass tor year* should trv thorough cultivation not? vnarand wfist the effect will be. It will show more on next year's crop than till*, and we think uoi'e will regret the experi ment.—A"* n/ncky Fartn Journal. Fruit in cellar* is likely to suffer from heat rather than cold. Iu the slow operation of ripeuing, heat and carbonic acid are thrown off. Whenever the teinjierature approaches fortv degrees, the outer air, if cooler, should be let in to reduce it- In the hooae-cellar, the accumulation of carbonic acid would be inj unous to the health of the family, aud it is highly important that this be removed by ventilation. In fruit-oellars apart from the house, this is not ueces sarv, as the presence of this gas, ej in jurious to snimal life, tends to preserve the fruit, as it excludes the atmospheric air. Improved seed, like improved stock, must be grown with special oare or it will rapidly go back to lU original state. In experimenting with new kind*, every care should be given to keep up the vigor of the plant and maintain the char acter of the product. Make yonr farm ao valuable by con stant improvement, skilful culture, good fruit, ornamental ahrnbbery and pleas ant surrounding* that no money will tempt TOO to leave iL We think it should "be the settled purpose of every voung man to put down hi* stakes for life, to make a permane nt borne which he will never wish to part with till he i* ailed to the better land. The successful farmer is he who pro vides oonvecieoees for the care of hia protiertv and the performance of his work ; he count* time aa an important item in the yearly calculation, and care of all his various effects as s factor ui the annnal return. When be puts the horse in the stable thare is a place for the harness where it will be safe Irom woather or any other damage ; hia wagons and tool* are provided with oov ennga to preserve liu-m : about hia premise* will be fonud a little shop or room where he keeps *sw, hammers, rises, auger* and the various tools that •re needed to mend and put in order the different machines he uses. These simple articles prevent day* and week* of delay, lieaides adding to the lengtn of time implements will last. It pays to have conveniences, and also to get what von do buy of good quality.— lsaneoMtcr fformrr. Facta far rrm. lodine i* obtained from ses weed. The squash is a native of America. In general '20,000 ponnda is a car load. An old eow for milk, a young hen for Wool contains eighteen per cent, oi nitrogen. A bonliel of ashes contains five pounds of potash. Beve~ pounds of bay will produce one qtur: ui milk. Parsnips contain twice sa much real food aa turnips. Of planter of pari* forty-x per cent, ia aulphuric acid. Leave* hare 170 opening* or mouth* in a square inch. Twenty-flve pound* of mila will make one pound of meat. Milk yield* more oream in deep pan* than in shallow one*. The tassel of corn ia the male flower, the ailk the female. Lire weight cattle, to dead weight, ia twenty-one to twelve. A cubic foot of manure weigh* from fifty to aixty pound*. The horn* of cattle are made up of elongated flbree of hair. The earth ia one degree warmer for every flftr-flve feet of descent Plant* have three kind* of flower*, male, female and hermaphrodite. The chemica composition of hoof*, hair, wool and feather* i* *ubtautially the same. It require* but seventy days to grow a crop of Hungarian. It can follow a crop of cloTer the same season, the right time to sow it being after the clover ia harvested. About three pecks of seed to an acre is required. The IfsiiarAiMcth Ploughman ha* taken pain* to collect the toatimony of a large nnmber of fanner* on the ques tion, how many solid feet of hay well pieaaed in the mow will make a ton. Taking hay as it is fonnd in roost barn* in the spring, all agree essentially that a ton will measure not far from .>OO feet Many adopt the rule of buying good, well-pressed timothy of reckoning eight feet cube as a ton, or 512 feet English authorities reckon potatoes to be superior to Hwede turnips to 200 to sixty-four, to beet-root as 200 to 106 and to cabbages as 200 to seventy-three: 200 parts of raw potatoes and 175 of boiled are equal to 100 ports of hsy. An acre of good potatoes yields 600 lbs ° gluten, albumen and casein, prodneing muscle; 3,880 tb" of starch, gum, sugar and fat, with 23.050 lb*, of water; 100 lbs contain twelve of starch, gum and sugar, two and s half of gluten, albu menVid casein, and one-fourth pound of oiL (|NPMtlo> nnd Anwr*. MITKS IS A POULTRY HOUSE. Please tell me what will destroy mites in a poultry house and on the fowl*. We have tried sulphur, ashes, China berries, and walnut leaves, without any benefit whatever.—Former's Wife. MiUedgeviUe t Oa. ..... Ton could not have ippliod sulphur thoroughly, else all mites or lice of whatever kind would have been killed. Tnru ont the fowls *ome 000 l or damp day. and then close all cracks in the house exoept the door. Then take a kettle of live coal* and place on the ground in the oenter, but if there is a wood floor, lay a flat stone in, on which set the kettte. Throw n half pound or pound of sulphur upon die coals, and *hut the door and leave the house closed for a few hour*, and we will venture to say no more lioe or mltae will be found NUMBER 28. in it for a few week* thereafter. If the bouse is not tight enough to admit of thorough fumigation in the manner de scribed, then clean as well as yon can, and then whitewash with freak lime, mixing in a liberal quantity of sulphur; after which throw sulphur into all the cracks, and apply kerosene oil to the rooete. The house should be wall aired t>efore the fowl* are admitted, and well ventilated at night. We have never known the "•ulplinr cure" to fail if properly applied. ■ow TO HAMS A ooon oanr. Which ia the best way to raise a calf; by taking it sway from the oow soon alter it ia born, or letting it run with the oow all the time? Would it do well if only allowed to auck night and morn ing-W. L. C.. Ohio. If you want to see how large and flue a call you can raise, lei it run with its mother for three or four weeks; after which they may be separated during the day, and put together at night. When a month old teach it to drink; after which yon can add oatmeal, middlings, and a little corn meal to its food, or put them in skim milk from other oow* or that of its own mother. Hbuw calves •ecm at fair* are generally those that have had extra feed from their birth. Of course, the oow must be looked after even while the calf is running with her, and if she gives more milk than the calf oan take, it must be drawn ones or twice a day as usual. C atlars • ( Jr. Celery plant* must be kept gruwiog. They never reoover fully if they onoe receive a serious cheek. Avoid tearing or drying off the root*. Bet them oat in Miy or Jane, when in three or four leaves, in a email bed of very rieh soil, about four inches auart, and keep well watered, without fail. Shelter carefully rom drying wind and hot snn when set out, if cloody, humid weather esnnot be availed of. The final trenches should lx prepared as aoonaaearly pea oronioo grouna is clear in July. Let the soil in the trenches be very rieh, and from a surfaoe well exposed 'to air. Enrich it farther with thoroughly well-aired and deeayed manure. Raw manure is con sidered to be a chief cause of the flabbi neaa and pipiness ao much in ountrast with the cTispnesa and almost debquse cent texture of well-grown sterna. Lift the plant* from the temporary beds with the ball of soil attached to the toft of roots, and water promptly to prevent any check in growth. If shading is necessary don't oontinne it too long, nor eat off the essential light too com pletely. The dwarfer aorta of celery are now most liked. They are easily grown, and have the moat " nnttinesa " of flavor. The blanching of the stems is effected by excluding light from them, while at the same time the heart of the plant and all the leaves must remain fully open. As the sterna begin to spread, they are tied together just ao much as to keep them nearly erect, and to prevent their hrtmkiiig if earth la used to etiolate the sterna, but* ajwrapping of paper, bark, or even a bottomless fruit-can maybe n*ed for this purpose. Charcoal brans or cos! antic* answer well, as they ex clude slugs and other insects. And celery keeps well lifted and set close together on a slightly damp cellar floor, and filled between np to the leaves (most of which may be removed) with perfectly dry. clean, fresh coal ashes This is a safe and very convenient mode and celery that has not been sufficiently blanched in the garden will be found Iteautifully white, tender and sweet after being stored this way for two or three months. Because. GrxoEß Caisrs. —Two cupful* of mo lasses, one of lard, oue tablespoon of ringer, one dessert-spoon of aod#dis solved in s very little hot wster and enough flour to make a smooth dough; roll them. BT&AVBURT SHORT CAM. —Make A good dough the same a* far sods biscuit; roll it thin, the eixe of roar jelly cake io(; bake it, and when done open tbe cakes, and batter both the ltimde and outside lavers; have your atrawberriea niooly picked and sugared before you prepare toe dotigli, in order to have plentr of jmoe; spread yonr bernea in both the npper and lower layer, patting one layer on top of the other; set it itgam in the oven for a few minutes, not long enough to oook the bemea. Soar.—DiMolee three pounds aal-eoda in two gallons of warn water, alack in a firkin three pounds of good quick-lime, add to it the soda eolation, stir the whole thoroughly with s stick, and add two gallons of boiling water ; stir again and let it settle, pour off the clean liouor in a clean iron boiler placed on the fire, and stir into it six pounds of clarified grease and one pound of powdered borax; let it boil slowly until it gets ropy (about ten minatea' boiling), and poor it into a tub or a tight box. Hiia makes a good, hard soap tor family use. After drying a month or so in a dry room ami cut into bars it is fit for use. On en average (says an authority.) horses require shoeing oooe a month. The length of time a shoe will wear, depends mnch on the kind of service a horse is doing, and on the kind of road he is dailv traveling. A team horse in heavy draught does not wear out as runny shoes aa one used in a heck. Quick motion grinds shoes down more rapidly than alow use. Some pavement is hauler on shoes than ordinary road, while the friction of a gravelly road wwra them a war rapidly. Wooden pavement is but" a little saving to the wear and tear of shoes; for the grit and j dual which become impacted in the in terstices of the wooden block, grind sway shoes like the friction of aa emery wheel. The hind ahoea wear out first, and there is more strain and friation on them than on the forward shoes. It is impossible and improper for a norse to wwr shoes more than six weeks; for the growth of the foot shortens the ahoea, ss well as changes the shape otherwise. The neglect will cause the shoe to en croach upon the aoft texture* of the foot, and produce lameness. A fair of Trawling Bird*. A moot interesting ornithological in cident ia recorded in the London Times. Laot .year a water wagtail built her neat on the frame-work nnderneath a third-class carriage on the London and Southwest ern Railway, running between Ooeham and Havant four times daily—about forty miles in all—and the male bird was*regularly observed by the station master waiting with manifest interest aud anxiety the return of his family from their periodical tours. This year what is believed to be the same bird has returned, and built her ueet in precisely the same position, under a third-class carriage, and with her family of four little ones, takes the same daily return journeys from Cos ham to Havant. The same interest and anxiety have been evinced by the male bird. During the absence of his family, he promenades the turn-table, or rests impatiently on the wires of the telegraph, but no soon er are the carriages shunted into the usual siding than he enters the nest. Birds, it is known,do anertain a remark able attachment for particular places, and this fact may in some degree help to explain the water wagtail's singular fondness for third-class oarnagaa. I tew* *f Interest Hani* at seal* keep "The warn eeaeoo Pbppe*. Dallas ara generally high-toned. Dwpsraia game—A z*eg at bay. A prickly pair—A awpl* at needle*. A rods lead pencil was used aa early aa 066. Whfur Doonaeoea—Trying to eat your own hair. * rw will sail twenty thousand males this jeer. What most resembles tha half of the moon f—The other half. Japan cultivate* 8,000,000 acres, one fourth of her fertile area. In lore, aa in letters, engagements el ways begin* with a-vowel. What does a person nanelly sea on lbs faoe of A Bill J— His DOSS. Rehire are twenty-five pa* cent, aonreer in France than ia Bug land. J Virginia'claima the flneet wheat proa peot ever seen in the State. A young Oil Citizen call* his girl Re venge because she is sweet. How may a man always became four handed f By doubling hi* date. The American furniture trade ia very large as oompared with otuer oouutnea. There are about a dozen Turkish bazars in the Paris exposition grounds. The woman who makes a good pod ding in sileoea better than she who makes a tart reply. A dog is the first to great John Chins' man when he lands in San Francisco. He bites the new comer. Whether old age is to be respected depends much whether it applies to man and women or to poultry. The height of politeness is pausing round upon the oppwite side of a lady, while walking with bar, in order not to step upon her shadow. When the royal baby of Brazil cries, his tjtune remarks, purs Caetihan, -Now, yon Lois Marir Philippe de AW <-enters Ossiao Miguel Gabriel Gaozaga youjust keep quiet" Beany," said his maiden aunt, "yon should set the barley ia your soap, or von will never get a man." Benny, bwtfring up, naively inquired: "Is that what you eat it for, aunty V People snore because they lie with their needs thrown back, ana there is consequently a dropping of the lower jaw. To break the habit sleep with the mouth closed and the chin low. "This ia meat and drink." said the sailor, who sat on the gunwale sipping his grog —following hi* remark by tum bling back into the water. " Ay, and there's washing and lodging," said his messmate. The needless orange of Bruil is said to be the best in the world; bat it cannot be tested without a trip to Dam Pedro's aa it cannot be shipped an ac count of its thinness of akin, and it is not grown elsewhere. •• It was simply an informal affair," wrote the editor, of a little strawberry party at a neighbor's house. "It was simply an infernal affair," read the oom poaitor, end that editor will never get say more invitation* from that quarter. The Piate tribe of Indians in Neva da was excited over the election of a chief. One Indian thus expressed his objections to one of the candidates far the position: ** All same too sehmart far be Lajin; beep too much fool for be white man." When little Thomas stoops to toy with berries, jam and jeUy-eaka, no art can soothe the chastened boy—no nostrums esse his stomach-ache. And if the grip ing pains defy the medioiMs prescribed ID foil, his parents will do well to try the l'upH, )q*d castor oiL Oxen use a peculiar licking motion with the tongue when gathering herb age. because their upper lip ia not of a nature In seize or grasp like that at a horse. They therefore use the tongue to gather in the greet, winch M afterwards divided by biting. Don't tell a man yon sweat. It ia vulgar. Inform him that yon are being deprived of the saline and oleaginous flu ids of veur material substance through the excretories of yomr psUneid cuticle, with a sensible eoodentetaoQ of moisture upon the superficial exterior. A tree called the butter-nut tree is found on the banks of the Niger in Afri ca. From it excellent butter is obtained. ! The fruit somewhat resembles the Span ish olive. The kernel of the fruit ia tmilcd. and the batter thus obtained is mid to be whiter, firmer, and at a richer flavor than is that from a cow, bmidea which it will keep a year without salt. Dr. Shaw relates that "in the Levant, mirrors form s part of female drees; for that the Moorish women, in Barbery, are so food of their omaamata, and par ticularly of thsir looking-glasses, which tbev hang upon thsir breasts, that they will not lay them aside, fit® when, after the drodgery of the dav, they ate obliged to go two or three miles with a pitcher or a goat's skin to fetch water. "Minerva" sends as a poem in which tbe fallowing lines occur: "I am tad sod "ph and wear*, My life is ebbing awav." Instead of sending the poem to us, ihe should have sent for a physician. Her liver needs repairing. All of our lives are ebbing away, bat there is not a particle of use of getting aad and tick and wearv about it—especially at this season of the veer, when there is such a nuinerousneaa* of atrawberriea, and pio mc and ice cream, and excursions, and other refreshments. —Xorrutovm HrraltL Josh Billings—whom knowledge of natural hiatorv name by instinct—after mentioning that the hornet's disposition is •• a warm cross between red pepper in the pod and fusil oil." given his eaaay a moral bias by informing the public that this " inflammable" insect is not long lived, simply far the reason that anv creature, bug or human, who is mad all the time aad stings every chance he can get, and plants meUn -holv in his track, " generally dies young.' It pays, he thinks, to be more pensive and much lees "peremptory." "I'm glad to aav that our child is a generous little body. Tbe other day ber grandfather gave her a cent to boy herself some candy. Aa she was going oat, she discovered a little bee ear-boy on the front steps. She stopped, and looked first at him then at her cent; then looked down on the ground apparently lost in thought. Finally, with the sweet est smile on her beautiful face, she stepped up to the forlorn child, and, laving her hand on his shoulder, said in a gentle tone: 'Here, little boy, take this cent, rvnd go and buy yourself a suit of clothes and some dinner." lnd ependent. Tbs sunbeams danoe ton* oa U# otover, And Uss the red Up* of tha rasa, Bat a man dance* wildly all O'er, When a hammer drop# on his toes. Uackrneark Republican. The peach blushes red in the sunlight. Which brightens the bloom on the rose; Bot tie not the sunbeam imparteth Such bloom to the toper's red nose. —Mthdm Recorder. The cherries in cluster* hang drooping. While gooseberries ripen amain; But both will account for your stooping With that torturing abdominal pain. St-raUc Rturujue. The clouds are heavy and damp and gray, The mist and dnasle all pleasure* mar; And man seised with a fever ehistened "Hay.' Badlv plars on his nasU catarrh. —Scrristown Heroin. The bears in Kamschatka have re course to> singular stratagem in order to catch the bareina, which are much too swift of foot for them. These ani mals keep together in Large herds; they frequent mostly the low grounds, and love to browse at th| feet of rooks and precipioes. The bear hunts them by scent till he comes in sight, when he advances warily, keeping above them, and oonoealing himself among the rocks, as he makes hi* approaches, till he gets immediately over them, and near enough for bis purpose. He then begins to push down with his paws pieces of rook among the herd below. This ma neuver is not followed by any attempt to pursue, until he finds he has maimed one of the flock, upon which • chase immediately ensues, mat proves success ful cur otherwise, according to the hurt i the barein baa reoeivad.