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