God keep yon oafs, my little lore. All through the night; Rest clone in hi* encircling arm* Until the light My heart i with yon M I kneel to pray, Good-night! Ood keep you in hi* care away Thick xhadowa creep like silent ghoul* About my head ; 1 lone mynelf in tender dream*, While overhead The ni.sm conies stealing through the window bam. A silver sickle gleaming 'mid the stars. For 1, though 1 am far away, Feel safe and strong ; To trust you thus, dear love- and yet The night ia long— -1 say with sobbing breath the old fond prayer. (lood-night 1 Sweet dreams ! God keep you everywhere ? A Wish Fulfilled. In the following poem Mr. Bryant expressed a wish which is happily ful filled iu his death in the first mouth of Juuc—,Y< tv York I'lviMy /N*f. jrsx. I gued upon the pk>ncn *kv. Ami the green mountain* round. And thought that whru I came to he At rest within the ground. TVrers pleasant that iu flowwy Jntfc, When brook* send np * cheerful tune, And groves cheerful sound. The sexton'* hsnd, my grve to make. The rich, green monntsiu-turf should hroxk. A call within ttie fnwen mould. A coffin borne through sleet, And icy clod* sbove it roiled. While fierce the tempests best Away i —1 will not think of theee Bine be the aky and eoft the breere. Forth green beneath the feet, And be the d*mp mould gently presaed Into my narrow place of rest. Then*, through the long, long summer hour*. The golden light should lie. And thick young herbs and group*of flower* Stand in their beauty by. The oriole should build and tell 111* love-tale close beside my cell; The idle butterfly Should rest him there, ami there be heard The housewife bee and humming bird. And what if cheerful shouts *t noon CVnie, from the village *eut. Or soug of maids beneath the moon With fairy laughter blent ? And what if. in the evening light. Betrothed lovers walk in sight Of my low monument ? 1 would the lovely scene around Alight know no sadder sight nor sound. I know that I no more should see The season * glorious show, Nor would its brightness shine for me. Nor it* wild music flow ; But if. around my place of sleep, , The friend* I love should come to weep. They might not haste to go. Soft airs, and song, and light and bloom Should keep them lingering by my tomb. These to their softened hearts should bear The thought of what has been. And speak of one who cannot share The gladness of the scene ; Whoso part, in all the pomp that Alls The circuit of the summer hills. Is that his grave is green ; And deeply would their hearts rejoice To if.-ar again his living voice. Thusie's Fourth of July. It was different from any other Fourth •of July. There wasn't a man, woman, or child in Bayfield whose blood did not tingle with a patriotic desire to " cele brate," not only because of the birthday of our nation's liberty, but for the glo rious anniversary of old Bayfield town itself. One hundred years old on this day ! Little Thusie Bassett wouldn't have been in the least surprised if the swn had atood stilL It would only have been just what ought to have happened on this "Centennial Day." The day was everything that could be desired. Early the crowds began to as semble, and the village green was gay with the happy folk who came proudly from their simple homes. • Was ever anything quite so fine the singers marcliing into the dilapidated old church with their books; the tables in the grove of fine maph-s just a little distance off fast becomingYespleudent under the fin gers of ambitious matrons and rosy cheeked maidens; the grand new band, blaring and drnmnnng so joyously that lazy farm horses came hurrying up the steep hills to be there in time; the little streamers of red, white and blue be spangling the harnesses; the big flag tkmating from the church belfry; the can iron booming on the village green. Thusie just clasped her hands and sighed. She had " ran and raced her self most to death," as Aunt Martha ob served, thus early in the day. She had fallen down and scraped the skin off from a large place on her knee; she had torn a hole in her best frock: bnt what cared she for snch slight mishaps ? Was she not part and parcel of this glorious Fourth of Jaly? Tired as she was she swung her own small flag bravely, and glanced with pride at the little bunch of red, white and blue ribbons that Aunt Fanny had pinned on her white drees; and then away she went again, her small figure curvetting and frisking in and oat as she " oelebrated " with the other children. "Thusie come here!" called Sarah Jones. " I want to tell yon something. No, Nelly Smith, yon ain't eamin'! You'll go and tell V' And Sarah dragged Thnsie off, and with an arm around her waist and persuasion in her voice she told of a secret —O, such a great one ! and enlarged enthusiastically upon it to the two or three other girls who were graciously allowed to join. "Now yon see, girls, this is what we're going to do. Don't you never tell—'certain trne, black and bine, hope I may die if I do !* yon must say; be cause, yon see, it's a great secret." "O, no Sarah 1" said timid little Frasie Newcomb, " that's wicked." " Poh 1 no, yon goosie ! it don't mean anything." What Sarah wanted them to say it for if it didn'k mean anything, the girls didn't clearly see; but they repeated the magic words. " There now! I can tell you with some comfort," said Miss Sarah, seating herself on the grass in a sheltered nook, which example was followed by the others till they formed a circle; then, in a low voice and with many mysterious gestures, she unfolded tlie wonderfnl newß. " Well, girls ! yon know the fireworks to-night ? Well, you all know we can't see anything on the Green,' the folks crowd and jam so; so we—that is, us Ave—are going up into the old belfry !" O! —O !" screamed two or three of the girls. " Sh! if you don't want all the boys coming." "But, Sarah, I don't see how," said one of the girls. " They won't Ist ns. You know Deacon Smith said nobody must go up there; 'twan't safe, he said. He said the old shell would break through or tumble off, if a great crowd got in." "Anybody knows better than that, and besides, we ain't a crowd ! I guess 'tain't coming down for five girls ! AM just think how we can see the rockets and comets from the big window!" "It would be splendid, said Roxy Thompson, "but I should be frightened most to death, Sarah." " And isn't there mice—and things ?" timidly asked Lucia Russell. Thusie said nothing. She knew her mother never would hear to the lovely plan. Besides, she was to go with the rest of the familv to "Uncle John's." O, dear! if she ooald only do as she was a mind to, like Sarah. "Besides it will be dark, Sarah,"pur sued Lucia. "No'twcn't; it'll be as lights any thing. Why. the fireworks go shooting up, whiz ! bang ! all through the sky," —and Sarah suited the action by an ex pressive fling. "I've teen 'em when I went down to Boston last year." And Sarah deacon ted on the glories and won- k'HED. KURTZ, Kditor and Proprietor. VOLUME XL 1 tern IU store for them till she got them ■ wild with delight slid ready for any • thing. Having n hrsd for CHUitnvauco, she had the plan toady for getting into the eh u roll. " You know, girls," alio said, " they've decided to riug the bell when they're ready to set off the fireworks. \Voll, when Joe Vance goes ap to ring it, we must lie all ready to creep up after him. He s awful slow, you know; and besides, he'll be making such a uoise with the lell he can't possibly hear us. And I'm going to have my pocket full of candy, ami we can sit no there ami see the whole thing just elegant! So, Thusie, you be ante and \k here. We're to meet uuder the big iiak tree. Ami Frooic, if you tel'., there'll be the nnmt awful thing* liapjn-u to you ! Aud Su, don't wait to wash all the dishes for your Aunt lleisev; she can do 'em for oaoe. AJI 1 Tildv—" "If yon want any dinner, e along; they're all sitting ilowu ! screamed Hob i Davis, [Hiking his head into their retreat " with a whoop that made them jump v Away they all ran, and fireworks and j lielfrv were s< on forgi>tteu iu the glor ies o* that table—a real Fourth of July ielebr.it ion table ! Flowers, pyramids ' of cake* aud flags flying from the apex, cookies, tarts, iced loavea—every tHok had done her best. Sunset was coming on before the last left the tables, ami even then Thusie had scarcely thought over her promise. She only vaguely realized what a forbid den tlmig she and the others were go ing to do. I think if she had really and fairly reflected upon it, she would have r.fused to have anything to do with the 'whole thing and stood firm. "My think always cornea afterwards,'" a little girl • once said, and it's most always a sorry think ! Well, the sun went down. Great , gold and mi clouds came out all over I the sky; there was one cloud nearly white, with deep red borders and a rosy center, on the blue patch that had I been so bright through the day. | "See, it's put on reel, white and bine!" called Henry Carter, and all the children rushed to see. "Thusie," saiil her mother, as she . drew her little girl who was racing along Lwith the others towards her, " 1 am go , ing home now to put Gracie to bed, and when vou get ready you run right along up to Vuele John's. Aunt Fanny went an hour ago, alio was so tired." Thusie's heart gave a naughty little leap. Was anything ever so conven ient ! Merry groups were already get ting " the best places" for a good view. She knew it must be time to be at the meeting place under the big oak. Away she ran with rapid footsteps and was soon under its shelter. She was the first one there, but in a minute Sarah Jones and Tildv Thompson rushed up ami threw their arms around her; then Lncia came—all there but Fraaie. "Why don't she come, the stupid thing!" fretted Sarah. "There's old Joe crossing the Green, now; we can't wait for her any longer." That moment Frusie, pAtiug and frightened, hurried up and was pulltal into their shelter. " What made you so late I" demanded Sarah. "Oh! I couldn't help it," panted Frasie. "I had to run every step of the way. My little brother Teddy and cousin Augusta would come, and old fat Mrs. Brown wanted me to get her a chair, and then I tumbled down and—" "Well, never mind," said Sarah, "you're here now, at last. Come, girls, now for it!" And with many a whisper and giggle they stole along under oovcr of the darkness after old Joe who was blundering up the stairs, making so much racket himself that he couldu t hear anything else. "Qh, mercy!" whispered Sarah, "I ran my head into a horrid cobweb and it's all in mv eves." "Shi Sh !" And on they sped lightly. "Frasie Xewcomb, yon shan't scream, so there 1" A big moose, unaccustomed to such interruptions, had financed across the floor right across the chil dren's feet v Clang—clang! clingity— clang ! How queer the old bell sounded up here. Joe they could see above them as his figure swaved back anil forth, and they wondered Low he oould posibly get up there upon the rickety little ladder. Wasn't it delightful, though, up in this dim forbidden spot—all shadowy nooks and mysterious recesses—lighteJ weird ly by the lurid glare from the firework stand outside. How queer all the peo ple looked moving down on the Green. " There's Miss Priscilla Bascom," an nounced Tildy with a soft giggle. " Ain't she funny ? My ! look at her nose— it's a yard long !" " Yea ! bnt O, see what they're doing there 1" whispered Sarah excitedlv. "Where? where?" said Frazie, try ing to see. "O, Frasie! yon push bail as the folks on the Green," grumbled Sarah, not moving in the least to accommodate. Just then a most dismal noise sound ed close which made them all jump and stare in each other's faces in fright. "Oh, what was that?" whispered Lucia, grasping Thnsie's arm. Sarah's black eyes began to protrude a little, bnt she said nothing. Hash! Another awful noise that seemed to the frightened girls like thunder; something ran and ponnced into a dark corner. They didn't wait to see what it was; they s]>ed and tumbled over each other to get to the landing below. Thnsie's lovely bine sash was grasped by Sarah's sticky fingers, which had been greedily and slyly diminish ing the pocketfnl of candy in the dark ness above. " Well!" gasped Sarah, when at last they reached the foot of the stairs, " I don't see what there is to be frightened at!" " What—did you—come for then ?" choked Thusie, who had scrambled so she could hardly breathe, let alone talk. "Why, I didn't till you all started," snapped Sarah. "But never mind, here's a splendid place to see !" and she ensconced herself at once in the best corner of the big, square, front window. It was very dirty, being covered with dust and grime, not exactly the place that careful mothers would have selected for the holiday dresses of their children. The grand show of the evening now began. The girls held their breath as they watched entranced in the dirty old window, crouching together very uncomfortably, trying hard to think they were having a nice time. And O 1 it was so warm and stifling. " Phew ! How close it is 1 Do open the window, Sarah 1" gasped little Frasie at last. Bat it wouldn't open. I wish we had staid out on the Green," wailed Tildy. Suddenly Sarah screamed. " Why, as sure asyon'ra alive, they're going ronnd to the side of the church, girls, with that splendid wheel of lib erty ! O, hurry, hurry, harry 1" and she began to scramble down and pick her way over the rickety landing to the bel fry stairs. "Wait I" called out Frasie; butßarah sped on. They could scarcely see her ahead. They had all they oonld do to follow her, and Thusie, being last and catching her dress on a rusty nail by the unlucky hole she had acquired in the early pitft of the day, had to stop out right and release it, and so was entirely separated from the others. Her mates, supposing her close behind, reached the front outer door and were soon scattered THE CENTRE REPORTER. in various direction* among their friends, ami lost in the delightful enjoyments. Thusie turned. after going down the stairs, the wrong way. Near the foot there was a closet—a little old uiusty place for odds ami ends a place that very few kuew existed. The iloor of this cliiset stupid Joe had left open when lie wrut for a polo that was wanted; ami Thnsie, in her bewilderment stumbling along the narrow passage way, turned into tins door ami fell headlong over an old worm-eaten stool stamtiug in the middle of the floor. She struck her forehead with great violence ou the floor beyond, and knew no more. And uow the show was over. Every body was getting ready for home. Old Joe was locking the church. Couldn't any friendly liaml rouse lit tle Thusie! Aunt Fanny, safe at l " Brother John's," supjHised her with her mother on the Green. This was why Thtiaie wasn't missed by anyone. Couldn't something have whispered to the loving mother as she sat there iu her low rooking-choir- kept at home herself from Uncle John's by sick little baby Gracie, crooning soft melodies liito.the fretful little ear*—of the danger and loneliness that threatened her little Thusie ! The old church door shut with a bang. This it was, probably, that fairly roused Thusie from the *woou out of which she was slowly coming. In those first dreadful moments Thusie never knew what she did. She groped her way out at lost to the inaiu passage. There was a window up to which she unwaged to climb and press her fright ened little face pitoously to the jwue. From time to time, as she had groped her way along, she had called and shouted and then paused to listen. She soon legnu to realize this was of no use. " Oh, dear !" I don't believe I ever could have hated Uucle John's," she sobbed. " It's just the loveliest plsce 1" Aud then the bitter tear* drooped down and rolled all over the soiled little cockade that had been so guv and patri otic in tiie early morning. Thusie was a child of great common sense. She kuew nothing could actually harm her in the old church, and darkness had never for her any of those keen terrors that in vest it with such horrible dread for other children; hut remorse reproofed her sorelv. She said over all her pravers, even those of her badyhood. And then she watched and waited. It seeuied to her hours, but, in reality, it was ouly late beb-time through the village; the lighta, 0110 after auother, weut out, and all were peacefully settling for the night. What was that ! Surelv ni tbiug but a mouse nibbling at the old wood-work. Again. That was no monse! Thusie would have said she smelt something burning, onlv she must have been dreaming. Slie pinched herself to keep awake. Hut uo! there certainly was a little flame of fire shooting up its deter mined tongue right there on the very roof of the jorch. Locked up in an old church, with the fire that had somehow canght from the fireworks and been smouldering, until now it hod broken ont! All the people at home and in bed f Thusie knew enough to realize that the old weather-leaten structure could never withstand the test. If she could only ring the old bell 1 But Joe always Cut up the ladder and secured it by a ook when he finished ringing. She rattled the window ; she screamed ; she crawled to the door and tried with all her might—which was quite considerable now—to shake it; anything to make a noise. She could se*< the fire slowly growing bigger. What was one flame hail now become two, with a swift increasing velocity that threatened tlie whole build ing. "Oh, dear! I wsnted fireworks, and now I have got them," moaned Thuaie. Still tlie awful crackling as the dry timber® took fire, and the smoke l>egan to oome in through the big cracks. She fiuug herself down on the floor; she oonUl not look up any more. " Fire! lire ! The church is on fire I" in what seedied to Thusie the voice of an angel, rang through the stillness. It was farmer Brown going home late m his wagon. The old church porch was wreathed in flames when his first wild cry rang over the startles! village. Thnsie rushed back to the window. She felt the hot rush of the flames push ing in at the cracks anil the rickety win dow. The light of the bright fire fell npon her white dress, whiter face, and disordered hair, making a strange pic ture; bnt she was not discovered yet by the excited crowd. At last Job Sawyer, a stalwart rough blacksmith, hut with a heart tender as a child's, cried out: " Why ! there's a little gal up there !** All eyes were turned then up to the window, and a second's pause fell npon them all. Then Job sprang npon an other mau's shonltler, swung himself up to the railing, and with one blow from bis powerful fist shattered the window to fragments. He grasped Thnsie, passed her to the trembling crowd be low. Thnsie heard tlie voices about her as in a dream. " Why, it's little Thnsie Bnssett!" •' Sakes alive ! how did it happen ?" " What : { it hat! been mv Jaue !" " Where's her mother ?' ! She only knew she was in her father's arms—safe now! And she knew no more until in her own dear home she came to herself with a great gasp ; and there she was looking into the blessed face of bor mother. And six simple little words were on her lips, nnuttered, involuntary, but never forgotten, never annulled: " I will alwayt mind my mother Wide Awake. Ameriran Carpets Our production of carpets in larger than that of any other country in the world. In 1875 the value of the product was $d'2,376,16H. In 1872 our importa tion* of carpeting amounted to nearly $6,000,000; in 1877 they were only $674,911. In their report as to tho character of American carpets, tho Cen tennial judges rniid: "The proofs at tho Exhibition of our attainments in thia mauufaotnro were observed with no little surprise. It wax manifest, from the absence of rival foreign exhibitions, that in respect to the carpets of the cheaper and medium qualities, up to the two and three-ply ingrains, the compe tition is coutined to our own manufact urers. Even rival English manufactur ers generally admitted that in the produc tion of Jaequard Brussels, tapestries and Wiltons, and narrow Axminstors, we have nothlkg to learn from them either in design or fabrication. It is worth remarking in this connec tion that when American inventors un dertook the task of devising carpet weaving machinery, the work was all done ou handlooms by men. Now women and boys do all the manual labor. In 1844 a man with a helper could weave not more than seven yards of Brussels carpet in a day. Now a girl will weave fifty yards in that time.— Scientific American. " Can you tell me where Washing ton's monument is 7" asked a rural gen tleman in Charles street, Baltimore, the other day. " Just lift your eyes off the ground," said the person addressed, rather tartly, "and you'll see it." "Well, I have lifted my eyes," said the rural party, looking his informant calmly in the face, " an' I don't see nuthin' but a blamed old fool." CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, JULY IH, 1878. FARM, HARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. f>rn as* llarSes XIM. Keep weeds in check. Attend daily to the potato beetles. An acre of soil one foot deep contains , 4,1100,000 pounds. Grape trellises may be wade of wire that the vines easily cling to. i Pari* greeu.a* an insect extertniuab r, 1 must lie used with great caution. Unbuckle a harness before cleaning {and othug it. lusects on vines can be driven off by sprinkling the vines with plaster, soot j or air-slacked lime. If you will plant seed of the castor bean where moles ore troublesome, it will drive theui awav. A mixture of sifted coal ashes,sulphur and helletnire, will di*lodge most leaf insect feeders, if sprinkled on alter ram, or when the dew is on. IX> not trim up your trees Ave or six feet, lad the liinlw of the tree oome near the ground. In other words, short eu in your tree. fteal hard work is uow the lot of all farmer*. To do this, sud keep strong aud well, live temperately. Be prudent in all things. ltetire early. Sleep is s great restorer of strength to the lal>or tug man. Get all you can of it. Do not ovurtax your system. Do all you can without iujury. Health is more im portant than money. Keep it if possible. A farmer of experience *aya that the feet of a horse require more care than ths body. They need ten time* as much, for in one respect they are almost the entire home. All the grooming that can be done won't avail auythiug if the horse is forced to stand where la* feet will lie filthy. In this oa.-e the feet will become disordered, and then the legs will get badly out of fix; and with bad feet and bad legs there is not much ulse of the horse fit for anything. Chimney aqot i* a very powerful man ure applied at the rate of one pound to the rod. It altonuda in ammonia,and con sequently jmssessea stimulating power to a remarkable degree. Too much soot per •rani wiil drive vegetation beyond what is desirable. One part of soot and two of guano |*>sses* more stimulating ammonia than any other manure extant. Soot forms an exceedingly rapid stimulant for pea*, lettuce, carruta spinach, and most crops in a liquid state, at the rate of half an ounce to two quart* of water given so to soak down to the root. Al ways give soot while the plants are in an act Ito state. Most houses make soot enough to manure a whole garden for the year. Psslirr Noie. It ia stated by an intelligent and suc cessful poultry breeder that eiiwri meats have satisfied him that chickens from hens fed on oats are much mora vigorous and hardy than from th<>ee fed on corn. A writer in 77i* Poultry H' srhi aays that the effect of sunflower seed in glowing the plumage of fowls that eat them is very smn noticeable. Another advantage in this feed is that breaking the shell to get at the kernal—which they soon learn to do—i# useful exer cise aud diverts attention in confinement from egg-eating, feather plucking aud similar mischief of idle hens. A lieu wo* found so lame Julie could not walk. Parasite* under the aonlee •round the joint just at the edge of the feather*, were the cause, Two appli eutiou* of turpentine effected n cure, followed by annointing with oml tar. The turpentine k)llt*i the insect*. in riaihle to tiie naked ere,'and the coal tar healed the soreness.— Hural A'fee Yorkrr. 11. W. Pottage, of Indiana, writes thai, after hauuig tried, without suc cess, various remedies to remove ver min from youug chicks, he lis* found the following to tie the quickest and most effective way of disposing of the pests. Take a sponge, dip it into kero sene and squeeze dry, then mop the feathers and fluff of the mother hen; and in the evening anil next morning you will be satisfied with the result. An occasional application will keep young chicks entirely free from vermin. Care must be taken to squeeze the sponge dry as it is the odor tliat removes the critters! We have tried this with good ' results. I'sTrasr Pepper f*r Fowl*. Fowls seem to need "some stimulating fthsi, or rather an occasional seasoning of their different fivds of grain in its varied forms. Some breeders resort to prepared foods or some of the condi ! mental poultry fins Is which an* now so prominently brought lie-fore the public. Some of these are undoubtedly most ex cellent, and a breeder mnv be benefitted fbv using them knowingiv. There are some of the preparations, however, which are to be tried with caution, for they are prepared by those who do not know anything about compounding pre parations of any kind. Other things lie ing equal, the simplest thing that can be i used is often found to lie the beet. In this connection Cayenne pepper is large ly used, especially for young chicks, and for young turkeys, too, but it must not lie fed in too large quantities. Bet ter feed sparingly and often than at long intervals and in large quantities. It should always be fed with soft or mixed food, especially with corn meal. Mix the pepper welf with the meal before moistening it, so as to insure it being ! well mixed through. Poultry breeders —those who raise turkeys largely es pecially, know the value of Cayenne pep por, and use it accordingly. Full grown fowls, too, are very fond of it, and it serves to keep them healthy, sliarjiens their appetites, and helps to induce them to lay well and early.— American Poultry Journal and Record. The (ireat Inventor. Mr. Edison is above the medium height, and although ho is only thirty one years old, his iron gray hair and thoughtful eye show the effects of con tinued study. He is genial, liberal, and entirely unostentatious. His mind, day and night, is on projects; and even while eating his thoughts dwell on his inventions. His table conversation con sists of occasional ejaculations regard ing some new point in whatever project he may have in baud. He is at home in his laboratory, which is very large and complete in all of its appointments. He has a number of assistants, who are competent and quick to carry out bis wishes, and thev are often engaged on several widely different subjects at the same time. The experimental apparatus which is completed during the day is often tried at night when all is quiet and no visitors tire present. Notwithstanding his great mental labor, he avers that his health is good, Hnd tliat as his occupation ir. pleasurable it does not tire him. His residence and lalmratory at Menlo Park are beautifully situated upon the brow of a hill that overlooks a pictur esque valley. The beautiful, landscape and the mountain air—Nature's best re storatives for tho brain-wiary— he has without the seeking. Mr. Edison may well pride himself as to his position in the world of science, standing, as he does, first among the in ventors of the day; and having, by his own energy and persisteuoe, secured an income that enables him to carry for ward on a graud scale such experiments as his prolific mind may suggest.—Sei entyfo American. t'aslileu Metes. Jsi x>t are worn more than ever. Tinted veils arc very faabinoble. The fashionable fan is of medium sine. Veils cover the whole face this sum- I mer. Jubarry lace is popular for dressy jabots. The "Lavense" overnkirt grows in favor. Wide collar* and deep cuff* grow ui favor, (tray ia the color for a mountain or Sinn-hie suit. The "Mignon" is a pretty summer basque mantelet. Japanese fans are atill the favorites for ordinary use. Fringe or trimming is uot suitable for mountain suits. White is the favorite garden party dress this summer. The "Carmen" is the popular blouse waist thi* season. The Ml union viaite is the popular dressy wrap for the moment. Parasols lisve round tops this season, and are of medium size. The Extelle twsque is an improve ment on the cutaway jacket and waist- j coat. Surplice basques are worn by ma trons; blouse waists by girls iu their teens. Pongee paraaola, lined with contrast ing oolor, are the thing for dressy sum mer toilets. Coarse straw hats, raistvl ou one side and trimmed with great simplicity, are suitatde for mountain wear. Blue, ruse, color, aud yellow are the favorite shades for tinted tuile veils. The dots ore either white, black, or straw cwlor. Hilk hosiery, emlmiidered by hand or machine, art* stylish with low shoes. Summer silk, in very small checks or i hair-stripes, is for girls dresses. J f colored hosiery is worn, it should be 1 either the color of the dress or trim- i miug. I "Costume bonnets"" are of straw the oolor of the dreu, or made of the dress ' material. * White dresses for the country, dor- j ing the summer, are long polonaise over , a short round skirt. Stylish bonnets are of black chip, i trimmed with white rosea, Valenciennes , lace and black satin ribbon. f Dark brown and dark blue cambrics f and luieus are for girls' summer dresses. 1 lists of brown or blue straw are to ! match these fa brio*. t * Ostrich feathers tipped with mara bout showered with gold, silver aud ja-arl, are elegaut novelties, l'lumes of maraiiont alone are sprinkled with all three decorative additions. Lite Old lea. Prince Gortsrhakoff was Itorn in 1800, Lord lieaconaflehl in 1806, aud Prince lksmarck m 181. H. The youngest of the three is 65. tiie next 73 aud the oldest 78. The Emperor of Germany was born in 1797. The late Puis IX. died this year at the age of 86, and his sueeeasor, Leo XIII., is but 08. Lord Lvmihurat was born at Boston, Mass., in 1772, and lived to be 91. Lord Brougham was boru in 1779, and lived to be 81. Lord Lausdowue was 89 when he died, and the late Ear! Bussed was 86. Gmaot was 87, and Thiers was 80. OoWl de Waldeck, French artist andarchn*olugist. died in 1876 at the age of lUI. All thi-ee old men were very much alive up to their last breath. So were Lord Bnjugham, who died at 89, aud Lord I'almerston, at 81. Ho are John Bright at 67, and Mr. Gladstone, who writes about old Homer, aud dismisses domes tic and foreign politics, and cuts dowr tree* as lustily as ever at 74. Ho, tc<\ were Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, a signer of the American Declaration of Independence, who lived to be 91; and four Presidents of the Continental Con gross—Mi Jay, 84; Thomas McKean, 82; Elias Itoudinot, 81, aud Arthur St. Clair, 84. The first Chief Magistrate of our Republic, George Washington, died when he was but 68. Five other Presi dents of the United States lived to be 80 or more—John Adams, dying in his 9!2d year; Thomas Jefferson, at 83; James Madison, at 86; John putney Adams, when almost Ml, and Martin N an Bureu, at 80. Six more lived nntil past 70— James Monroe, who died in his 72d year; Andrew Jackson, at 78; Joliu Tyler, at 74; Millard Fillmore, at 74, and James Buchanan, at 77. Stephen Girard die.! at 81. and John Ja-sob Astor at 86. Chief Justice Marshall lived to 80, and Chief Justice Taney to 87. Charles O'Gonor ia 74. George Ban croft Mid Caleb Cashing are each 78. Simon Cameron is 80. Tbnrlaw Weed is Ml. Peter Cooper is active at the age of 87. The death of William Cullen Bryaut, a victim of sunstroke, ia now being everywhere mourned as prema tura, even at 84. Richard Henry Dana, the poet, who first introduced to the public the author of "Tbanatopais" mora tliau sixty years ago, survives him at the age of 91." Walt Whitman is only 59. (iliver Wendell Holmes is 69. Whittier and Longfellow are each 71. Emerson is 75. Victor Hugo ia 76. Charles James Mathews is 75. Buck stoile is 78. CarlTle is 83. The Cost of Cotton Culture, One good, active baud can cultivate twelve acres in cotton or twenty-live acres of corn, which may be increased or dimiuiahed, according to the character of the noil. The length of time required will be about eleven months for the cot ton and seven months for the oorn. Putting the wage* of this hand at eight dollars per month, eighty-eight dollars; with rations, say three and one-half pounds of bacon per week and one neck of meal, any twenty dollars; feed of the male to plough at forty dollars and the smith bill at five dollars would make the whole cost of cultivating twelve acres in cotton, $l5B. If these twelve acres would yield only fonr hundred pounda of seed cotton per acre, then the amount mode wonld be 4,800 in seed, or 1,600 in lint. Ho the expense of making 1,600 of lint will be $163, which at $0.50 per one hundred pounds would simply cover the cost. But if the land shonld make one thousand pounds per acre, the whole yield would be 12,000 pounds in seed 0r'4.000 ponnds in lint; but as the one hand could not pick over half tho crop, the cost of pioking the balance, 6,000 pounds, wonld be alrnnt twenty seven dollars, makiug the cost, SIBO, which, at $4.50 per hundred, will cover tho amount, SIBO. Ho it ia evident tho expense of making one hundred pounds cannot be uniform as to the cost. The richer tho lands the greater will be the reduction of the expense, and the re verse; for if only two hundred pounds had leeu made per acre, then the ex pense would have run tip to nineteen dollars, and if the yield had leen two thousand pounds, the cost would have been $2.50 per one bundrod ixmnds; the cost of tho hired hand and the feed of the mule being the same in loth cases. This plan of estimating the cost will hold in making corn, though leas than that of cotton, as the time of working and gathering crop need not be over seven months instead of eleven. —South ern Home. I UK I'AKIH KXPOSITIO*. nMf ml the Objr -| ml Inierrwi l be t+mem mi Ibe (<rral A Puri* correspondent writes about the F.xjxwitiou an follow*: To observe the progress mode in the manufacture of the article in which he te interested, or whirii is the specialty of hia country, with what means, prooeaaea ami appL ances this progress has been made, whether it is available and would bo profitable with the resources of bia own laud to rival, or to excel this; such to the thoughtful, practical man are the uses of these world's fairs, which are as old as Leipsic and Novgorod. As art ei|M>aitioiJi they charm those of msthet , ic tastes; as great shows they delight the citnoua and the numerous class who, like the Athenians, arc continually seek ing something new. This present is more than twice as large as any of its predecessors; has about M.OOO exhibi tors, and it would be hard if in nome of their varied displays every visitor could not find something to interest him and reward him for lits visit. Approaching the place, you will ob serve a curious methou of advertising. A restauraut bv a huge captive balloon, shaiMsl like a fxittle, which bear* high in the air the name and business of its proprietor {minted on its sides in great j letters. Another captive balloon haa commenced making regular ascents into , the sky, carrying ten passengers at a time. On one of the outer towers on the grounds France has an electro-magnetic machine, driven by a steam engine, to produce ilie electric light-house lantern at the top; and there is another one, de signed for the mouths of river*. to show the state of the tide, one oolor for high water, and another for low. Among the freshest novelties, Norway shows s pulp for paper manufacture and for ornamen tal mouldings of frame houses, made oat of piue wood, all the processes of pre paration being shown, from the thin strips cut from the log to the liquid rnlp, like glycerine, in the bottle. And laly shows cloth and clothing laade frurn aslx-snw, which can lie washed, or rather cleaned, bv the simple process of passing it through the flames. Italy now makes a great and imposing display. There is statuary in great pro fusion, but made more to sell than to illustrate art or exemplify progress. Focardi's expressive groups in planter excite constant admiration and will doubtless flud speedy sale. His two uewslxiys, struggling together far the sale of a newspaper to a customer, are full of expression, and if taken, as 1 • fancy, from Neapolitan models, should be full of life also. A superb, and ap {larently a very effective fire-escape for the loftiest buildings, is in etrsuge jux taje aition to all the statuary. Near this is s group of life-like models of Italian soldiers, the mounted gendarme and hints 'r and the dashing bersagheri, look ing most natural and a* if they were actually keeping rigorous guard over the treasures around them. The 1 >u nuio Company, of Venice, show glans ware so delicately thin that one fears to touch it leal it crumble in the hand. The other Venetian glass fabrics, of Sal viati and the Murano Company make, with this, s wonderfully glittering and imjxwiug front along the central aiale. j Mv Luccliese friends have sent s Ixwuti fnl collection of wax in all the processes of manufacture. The exquisite gold and silver filigree work of (ienoa and Venice is here in glittering profusion; and it was right pleasant to be gr*eted by the exhibitors, in their 'musical tongue, as an old acquaintance. Home, with her peculiar mosaics aud jewelry, presses b th these cities ban! in the race for ex cellence. While the corals and tortoiaa ahella of Naples add to tUe display, which is unique and most attractive. Italy's display, with the recent addi tions, is indeed s rich and varied one, and worthy of the genius and skill of her industrious sons. I observe from the #ISJM CAT. In that * great number uf article* in the Japaneee Motion ire already sold, and that they lire marked with prejawterouslv high prices, too. Only think of fluding in thia section MI exhibit of books, chart* and other educational appliance* lined in the Japanese public schools, together with specimens of the school work of the pupils. The maps are well execut ed, although tlie lettering ** too much for me; the old-fashioned abacus for counting looked primitive enough. Here were little pamphlet* of rule and regu lations for her primary achoola, aud actually terrestrial revolving glolies of paper stretched over wire framea like a paraaol, and others with the mountain chains raised on the aurfaoe. I went out from here into a court ad joining to a Japanese tiand of twenty four mnaiciana in full blast. It would pnr.zle Hatidel or Haydn, or even Wag ner. to have named either instrument or tunes. Near by i* * collection of Chi ncne coins from K. C. 220 to A- 1). 1851, each with a hole in its center to ntriug them together by. How can Chinese mothers and teachers and po -1 icemen ever tell these people one from another. For they all drees and look exactly alike to me. In their section the beautifully embroidered shawls ol the famotia Canton crape are gaining the eyes aud winning the hearts of the ladies. The Austro-H.ingarian section is as large as that of England, ami more beau tiful and attractive; although not *c useful nor so intensely practical. The mmenae exhibit of Bohemian glass, in all its varied aliapoa and oolora, is an exposition in itself; it is snrpasaingly beautiful and awfully dear. The Austrian porcelain compares but poorly with the work of neighboring Italv and England, and the onaint, rich profusion of Japanese and Chinese ear araie art. What astonishingly aud amazingly gorgeous specimens of mau millinery and military frippery the gal lant Hungarian and Austrian warriors bedizen their handsome bodies with ! No one can have an idea of the riotous extravagance of military tailoring until he has seen these aud the German uni forms. The rich leather goods, of which Vien na has B specialty, are here in alsiuud ing varietv and taste and pungent frag rance, and the Viennese book-binding seems peerless in richness, if not in sub stantiality. Hungary makes s gigantic display of her great variety of wines. The Japanese also make a display ol their wines, with oabalistioal signs and hieroglyphics on their labels and qneei colors inside; and a hospitable Jap ex hibitor, seeing me taking notes, invited me to '•sample," but their fearful na tioual music was lacerating my ears al the moment, and I argued from analogy and declined with thanks. The United Htates machinery depart ment has been well and apparently creditably filled; but,as I have told you. I am not "a machinery-sharp. Bnt those who are expert in such matters tell me that our display compares favorably with that of England and France, and excels that of any other nation. There certain ly is a great array of wliirriug sewing machines, with a great array of heavily ooifTed and rather stern-looking damsel* at work at them. Our section is quite welt filled. We have draped lota of gay bunting all around our section, but have totally neglected tlie aeeommoda tion which every other nation has af forded—a provision of chairs ami lounges for the weary visitors, A Canadian manufacturer set ont a lot of j Windsor chairs and rockers in their sec | tion, and they were constantly filled TERMS: WlhOO a Year, in Advance. with visitors, admiring the Dominion's oliow, as they rested; and' see from the cards affixed, that he has already aold every one of them to Europeau pur chaser*. But perhaps we deem our oeutnsl show of falae teeth and dentistry instruments, and surgical ofteraliug ta bles, and invalid chair*, aod patent modiciuus too gorgeous aod dauling for the human eye protractedly to gaze upon. The I'riuoe of Wales is making him self very popular iu Frauee by his sym pathetic speeches, and by the great in teres! he manifests ui the Exposition. I met him there several times while he was going round from case to case, scoom pauied by his wife, formerly the Danish PriuiHws" Alexandra, a tall, thin, grace ful looking woman, straight, but i* deli cate appearauae, with long, straight nose, intellectual look, marble complex ion, dressed in a plain black silk skirt sud basque, with two rows of black lace trimming, and a black bonnet unbecom ingly trimmed with large yellow flower*. A gajuug, staring crowd ran around after them everywhere, as another gang did after three short, insignificant look ing Chinese princes, and yet another after Marshal MaeStabon and his wife. Indinrt of Birds. No subject connected with the history of birds furnishes more interesting ma terial fur study than that of instinct. Young birds of different speouw show that they have very different degrees of instinctive knowledge. Home are able to Lake the eutire care of themselves, and do not need a mother to watch over them; others, on the oontrary, are per fectly helpless, and need teaching be fore they can do anything for them selves, except breathe, and swallow what ia put into their mouths. The young chicken, s short time after it leaves the rgg, knows how to take care of itself nearly as well as does the year-old bird. It call run Ifter its mother, use IU eyea, pick up food, aud answer tiie call of the uld ben ; and it dues all this without in struction. How different it ia m all these respects from the young barn swallow 1 This is bliud, and unable to run, or even to stand, knowing only enough to open its mouth when it hears the old bird return to the neat, and to swallow the food placed in its open bill. Far from knowing by instinct how to use its wings, as the young chick doee its leg*, it does not learn this until it i* well grown, and has had several lessons in flying, and even then it flies badly, and improves only after long practice. After it has learned to fly. It is still very helpless and baby-like, and very differ ent from the active, bright-eyed, inde pendent little chick of the barn-yard— and, Indeed,the young of all the JBaaore*, or scratching birds, such as the hen, the a nail, the partridge, the pheasant and ic turkey. The scratching birds are not the only nea which can take care of themselves at an early age. This is true of the run ning birds, such as the ostrich ; and the same is the case with many of the wad ing birds, such as the woodcock ; and among the swimming birds, there are several kinds tljat take full care of them selves soon after leaving the ahelL Far from standing in any need of in struction, young ducks take to the watar bv instinct, even when they have been brought up by s hen; and they know that they are perfectly safe upon it, al though the anxious nen tries in every way to restrain them and to call them back. There are many way* in which some of our young bird* ahow their really wonderful instincts, bat there ia nothing more curioaa in this re*ieet than the habit* of the little chicken*, which moat of ua hare opportunities of noticing, if we chooee to take the trouble. These little creatures, almost aa soon a* they are bora, understand what their mother "clucks" to them; they know that they muat hide when a hawk is about ; they often scratch the ground for food before they ace their mother or any other chicken do so ; tliey are careful not to catch bees instead of flies ; and they ahow their early smartness in many war* which are well worth watching. But, sometimes, a brood of these youngsters find something that pnules them, aa wheu ther meet with a hard shelled beetle, who looks too big to eat and yet too small for a playmate,— dX, Nicholas. How a Signer Died. The following letter, descriptive of the last hour* of William Eiiery, one of the signers of the Declaration of In dependence, who died at Newport, K. L., in 1820, ha* never belon been published. It WM written by an in timate fnend of the family, and haa recently oome to light: M AH'H 14, 1820.—01 d Mr. Ellerydied like a philoeopher. In truth, death in it* common form never came near him. Ilia MrMigth wanted gradually for the laat year nntil he ceased to tiraathe. The day on which he died he got np ae usual and droased himaelf, took his old flag-tiottomed chair without anna, in which he had sat for more than half a century, and was reading " Tally's Of fices " in the Latin, without glaasea, though the print was aa fine as that of the smallest pocket Bible. Dr. W. stopped in on his way to the hospital, aa he usually did, and on perceiving that the old gentleman conlo scarcely raise his eyelids to look at him, he took his hand and found tbst his pulse had gone* After drinking a little wme and water. Dr. W. told him that his pulse beat stronger. " Oh, yea, doctor, I have a charming pulse. But," he continued, "it is iille to talk to me in this way. I am going off the stage, and it ia a great blessing. I go free from sickness or tiain or sorrow." Home time after, his ■laughter finding him becoming extreme ly weak, wished him to lie pot into bed, which he at first objected to, saying that he felt no pain, and there was no occa sion for hit going to lied. Presently after, however, fearing that he might fall ont of his chair, he told them they might set him upright in the bad so that be might continue to read. They did so, and lie continued reading Cioem very qnietlv for some time. Presently they looked at him and found him dead, sit ting in the same posture with the book under his chin, as a man who becomes drowsy and goes to sleep. InstantaneoDA Photography. A very remarkable improvement in ■ instantaneous photography, says the London Echo, has been reocntly in troduced bv Mr. C. Bennett—adisoovery which promises to vastly increase the oapabilitao of the art of the camera. It is, as might be expected, an improved dry-plate process, in which bromide of ammonium and nitrate of silver are the active agents. Probably the severest test of any of these instantaneous (so called ) method of photography consists in obtaining a picture of falling drops of water; and this Mr. Bennett has succeed ed in accomplishing by photographing the drops of water falling from a jug and tickling over bunch oif flowers. His pictures, when examined under a mag nifying glass,exhibit the drops of broken , fluid clearly and unmistakably, and are I a complete triumph of the photograph ers' art. They show that the ripple of the waves, the discharge of a gun, and even a flash of lightning are capable of being depicted upon a negative with ac curacy, thus opening np a still wider field cf usefulness to the camera. NUMBER 29. TIMELY TOPICS. There are *260 Anna in the United Htate engaged in the manufacture of toya. The late W. H. O'Brien, one of the fonr California bonanaa kings, left an estate rained at $6,000,000. America spends $700,000,000 annually on strong drinks ; England, with 6,000,- 000 leas of population, $766,000,000. There are only eighteen political par ties in Michigan at present, bat two or three counties are behind on returns. American peanuts transplanted to the south of France grow welL Oil is made from them, which comes hack to this country as olfve oil. Meanwhile, in Florida, where the nuts grow abundant ly, they are fed to hogs. It ia stated that there are 8,000,000 pupils enrolled ia the public schools uf the United HUtas. The average daily attendance ia 4,600,000. The estimated population tietweea six and sixteen years of age is 10,000,000. A raoent calculation say* that the da maud fur lumbar increases in the United Btates at the rate of twenty-Ave per cent, per annum. The (ureal* decrease at the rate of 7.000,000 acraaayear. The fences alone are valued at #1,800,000,- 000, and they euat each year #96,000,- 000. Daniel Wehner, a Bt. Lowe boy of ten, died in great agaoy recently from the ating of some ineeet, inflicted aa he lay upon the graea a few day* before. The poiaon gradually and painfully crept over hia system, swelling hi* hand to four time* ita natural aise, and ex ] jelling bloody matter from mouth, noee and ears. The Emperor of Boeaia haa just cele brated hia airtieth birthday, doubUeas to hia great relief, for it naa been a superstition among the Knaaian people that none of the Romanoff rulers would live to be sixty, and daring the pnet year Alexander 11. 'a noticeable melan choly had been attributed to hia faith ia the tradition. Queen Victoria sent him a congratulatory meaaage on this txv ruion A man died in Vermont the other day, after suffering from dyspepsia for twen ty rears. Some peculiar circumstances in his case led to a poet mortem exami nation, which revealed thirteen cherry stonaa imbedded in the lining of the stomach, causing a thickening of the walls of that organ aome three-fourth* of an inch, and ultimately the man's death. It was the opinion of the physi cians that the atones had been there many years. Terautr of life in eels and eats ia proverbial; but from aa instance that occurrel at F1 ins tow Farm, near Pem broke, England, it appears that the pig may claim to rank with other creatures in this reepaet For sixteen days a pig was miaaad from the farm-yard, and, aa ever? aearcn failed to discover it, the conclusion was arrived at that it bed been stolen. Home masons who were repairing a brick kiln on the farm one day discovered the missing animal, which had fallen into the kiln, and was unable to extricate itself. Though all that rime without food, the pig, whan rescued, was able to eat, and did not seem much the worse for ita long im prisonment. The boat in which the Andrews brothers started from Boston for Europe is only fifteen feet long on the wster line, and is smaller than anv vessel that has ever sailed across the Atlantic. She has one short mast, with s lateen sail and a square saiL She is decked over and has two small hatchways, in one of which the steersman sits. The provisions con sist in the main of dried and canned meat and vegetables, with sixty gallons of water in kegs, which will serve ss bal last, the kegs being filled with salt water as fast as emptied of freeli water. A large canvas globe, with a hundred feet of rope attached, is carried for the pur pose of anchorage. This will be thrown overboaad in case of a storm. The two adventurers are to be liberally paid, if they reach the other side, by a showman who will exhibit them in Paris and else where. Leading British embassadors draw the following salaries: In Paris, Lord Lyons receives $50,000 per annum; in Constantinople, Mr. Layard receives $40,000 a year; Lord Augustus Loftus, at 8t Petersburg, receives $39,000; at Vienna, Sir Henry Eliot has $40,000; at Berlin, Lord Odo Russell has $35,000; in Bruss Is, Mr. Lumlev has $19,400; at Rio de Janeiro, Buckley Mathews receives $20,000; in Peking, Sir Thomas Wade has $30,000; in Copenhagen, Sir Charle* Wyke has 18,000; in Borne, Sir A. B. Paget has $35,000; in Japan. 3ir Harrv Parke* has 20,000; in Holland, W. Stuart has $18,000; in Persia, W. T. Thompson has $25,000; in Portugal, Mr. Morier has $30,000; in Washington, Sir F.Award Thornton has $30,000. In each instance the above are auuual pay ments, and where the Embassy has not s mansion of its own in the capital where it is located an allowance is made for rent. The Crimean War. The last Anglo-Russian or Crimean war was declared against Russia by France and England in March 1854, Sardinia and Turkey joining in. The allied armies, consisting of 65,000 men, with 5,000 horses and eighty pieces of artilerv, effected a landing at the Bay of Eupatoria on September 14th, and en countered the Russian forces, command- j ed by Prince Menschikoff, on the heights | on the southern banks of the Alma, where a bloody battle was fought on September '2oth, aud the Russians com pelled to retreat. Menschikoff fell back on Sebastapai, where he made prepara tions for the defense; and on the 24th, marched to unite with the advancing reinforcements. On September 25th, the British seised Balaclava, and on October Bth, opened the regular seige, the first fire being opened ou the 17th. There were many regular field battles, such as Inkerman, November sth, the attack of the French on a new redoubt (February 23d, 1855) the first assault on the Malakoff and Redan (June 18th), the battle of the Tchemaya (August 16th), in which the Russians made a last effort to break the force of the enemy. The final bombardment was opened September 4th, and lasted three days. On September Bth, the Malakoff and Redan were stormed and taken, and the Russians having destroyed the oost ly docks, arsenals and shipyards of Se bastapol, remained inactive in their camp, and with the axoeption of the ; capture and sack of Kertcn, no further feats of arms were accomplished. Peace was restored by a congress of the great powers, at Paris, in March. 1856; but England signed it reluctantly, and the forces of the allies were withdrawn in 1 the summer and fall of that year. The Crimea (Russian, h'rytn, ) is a peninsula at the southern extremity of the Russian j Empire in Europe, and has an area of j I '',654 square miles and a population <4 , I about 200,000. 1 (Mm af htewrt. Every dog km its bay. Never bother a baa when ba ia bossy. There ara iiiastsin canals in Pennsyl vania. How *o acquire ahorthaod Pool around a bass saw. The railroad track ia like the ship when yon can ase a cargo cm it U four quarters make a yard, how many will make a garden f Ia Haw Zealand, insurance policies ara loaned by the government What ia the nearest thing to a cat looking oat of a window ? The window. Garibaldi gets his mail mm a weak, and it gmmaUy averages six honored letter* and aa many paper*. Ths bnj be* doth bumble, ink sweetly be doth dug; The mosquito Ufeee t tumble, With h£ nme^toe-un*. The IhMkeye thinks it mnst make a letter-carrier awful mad to have hi* physician tall him be needa more oat* door exerciae. Hie new Mexioan Minister ia Bettor 7, t After be resides hare a year or ao be wfll probably aaU himaelf plain Bam. A. Oona. Youth. "Oat each a thing aa a light about yer. gur'ner V Old man. " A light! What, d'ye want to go to bedr [Brit youth. An sat by which w# tnalu one friend and one enemy is a losing game, be oaaae revenge is a much monger pea* sion than gratitude. An individual complaining of his bed lock aays he got ahead but once, and that was a end.bugs, and even that waa stolen from him before ha got home. After all agriculture ia the surest road :to wealth An Illinois farmer last week j plowed op an iron pot containing ten dollars in gold. Plow deep. 'Town a farm with four dil.weU* on it f M chad aa old woman whan she fell joo the streets of Pittsburg, and fifty I men at once rushed to bar assistance. 1 Capital will toll. It ia the confession at a widower, who has been thrice married, that the first i wife cores a man's romance, the second i ltenhn humility, and the third | makes him a philosopher. In the Island of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, ia a tree of camellias • thirty-five feat broad by feurteeo feet 1 high. It ia aaid to ba the largest in Ureal Britain, possibly in the world. | "Pa," said a little fotv-year-old, ! ".there's a poor man ont there that i would give any thing to see you." • " Who is ft, my son V "It ia a blind man." It ia a strange thing to behold what gross arnica and extreme absurdities men do commit for want of a friend to tell them of them. The light of a good counsel ia' that which setteth business straight. Kate Field is aaid to have secured a permanent position on the London Times. The eompositore are to be com plimented. Kato write* a large, plain hand, and always makes a paragraph of wins words. Jadge Deniueoa, of Washington Ter ritory, has poor eyesight He went hunting for deer, and fired at something that moved ho the bashes. A wild whoop of pain came from his brother, whom be had hit It ia stated that there are 8,000,000 pupUa enrolled is tbepobhc schools of the United State* The average daily attendance is 4,500,001 The estimated population bet ween six and sixteen years of age ia 10,000,00a Pne of the things exhibited at the Paris Exposition ia a dock with a pistol in it, which it appears is fired by the of the bait-piece every hour. The intention of this ingenious toy ia doubtless to kill time. A young lady who ia doing the Alps report* progress to her guardian: "I tried yesterday to climb the Matterbora; didn't near reach the top. It ia absurd ly high—everything ia in this country— please send me # ." Of every thousand men, twenty die annnallv. The population of a city or eountrr ja renewed cnee in thirty years. The number of aid man who die in cold weather ia to those who die in warm weather aa seven to four. Of every thousand men, twenty die annually. The population of s city or ooontrr is renewed onoe in thirty years. The number of old men who die ii> oold weather w to those who die in warm weather as seven to foot. It is easier to forgive an ancient etwat than the friend we hare offended. Oar resentment grows with our un desert, and we feel vindictive in dne degree with our own doubts of the chanor of finding forgiveness. On the top of Meaifowoccie, a hill in Inverness-shire, Scotland, is s lake 106 feet long and eighteen feet wide, which never freezes and is always full, without tba appearance of any regular supply. Near this lake ia another. Loch Wain,- which ia covered with ice all the year round. Borne of the papers sre ranting about Sitting Bull's •* beautiful niece. ' The government has no knowledge of this portion of Sitting Bull's anatomv. He showed it a ** clean pair of heels * some tune ago, bnt it never saw his knees. His beautiful neck is what is wanted now.—Hawkey e. A voung lady of the age of seven, who is deservedly a pet of her household, but ia a little exacting, sad given to bemoan herself as being rather neglected and - upon "in her family circle than otherwise, said the other day: * Nobody ever cared for me, for even when I was born my mother and all my sisters were sway at the seaside." The late General Bonneville, who died recently, aged eighty-three, it is said always tried to seem as young as possible, that his name might not be placed on the retired list of the army. When his hair whitened be cut it ofl and replaced it with a wig of more youthful color. It was his ambition to remain in active service as long as he lived. " Anything new or fresh tins morn ing r a" reporter asked In a railroad of fice. " Yea," replied the lone occupant of the apartment. " What is it ?" que ried the reporter, whipping out his note book. Said the railroad man. edg ing toward the door: " TRiat paint vou are leaning against" Snoh are the loads a newspaper man must bear.—A cokuk A stream of water is said to issue from the side of a hill in the White Mountains of Arisonu from twenty to thirty feet in depth, so intensely salt as to furnish sufficient salt to 'supply the world. All that is needed to utilize this salt supply is to construct ditches to carry the water to the adjacent deserts, where the heat of the sun would perform tue necessary work. Much the greater part of the writing in newspaper offices is done with lead pencils. Somebody, therefore, makes the following suggestion: Sinoe the corp* editorial have renounced the pen as a weapon of intellectual warfare, it would be well, for the sake of fitness, to reconstruct an old aphorism thus! The pencil called the Feber "8 more potent than the saber. A parrot created some excitement in a baggage car on the Chicago, Burliugtou and Quinoy railroad the other day. The cage, inclosed in paper, was put on a coffin, and was soon forgotten. As the conductor and other trainmen were pau sing through the oar they heard a sep ulchral voioe issuing from the coffin, crying "Lemme out!" They were utartlad and thought a dead man had come to life until the bird was discov ered. * • A MO DEMI ÜBKJUDL Waka, dearest, wake and light thy gas, Thou ehalt not be alone. For stUl for thee, my lovely lass, I touch my tel^ihoae. Though absent far from thee I am, * Yet eoftly on thy diaphragm t give nrv sweeteet tone. And though away ten tboOMod nule*. . • 1 cannot use thy angel smilee. Yet I can hear thy laugh. And oh, unlexe fond hope beguile*, Deceived with mechanic wiles, Fll trust thy phonograph. And as I grind tuy aocvut* out. Then fading each food jealous doebt, HI call thee all my own. And absent yet, on thee m bet, Bone of one bong, by telephone , Mr better half, my } benogrspb, My By own
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