The lift of All. I love my lore because ohe U no fair : Hor eyes are like two star*. her flowing hair Like braided sunshine, and her email fleet feet Keep time with my true heart like mueic eweet. I lore my love beoauw she ie ao wiee Her eonl eiu calm anWthoughtful in her eyre No paion stirs her; she ia atill and calm As in the tropic noon the quiet palm. I love ray love for that ahe ia ao good : No human heart hath fully understood Hor gentle way*, her happy, hopeful face, llngbt with the light of aome aweet holy place I love my love, the fourth sang, glad and • free— I love my love hooanae that she lovea me : This ia enough to make me proud ami bleat, I love my love because *V Jot* a m< Nat. A YVord to the Wise, Love hailed a little maid. Romping through the meadow; Hoodies* iii the ami she played, Scornful of the shadow. "tVHM with me," whispered he; "Listen, aweet, to love and reason. "Hr and by," she mocktd reply, "I-ove's net in aeaaon." Years went years oome, l.ight mixixt with shadow; Love met the maid agaiu Preaming throngh the meadow. •"Not so eoy," urged the boy, "List m time to love and reason." ••lty and by." alto nmstxl reply, "Love's still in season." Yiars went—y,ars came. 1 ght changtxt to shad.ow; Loire saw the maid agatu. It .iihag in the iNeadow. "Pass IK> mor j, my dream is o er, 1 can lister. m>w to reason"— "K*q> t'jee coy," w Inspired the lx>r, "LOT* S ywiie n the sea,and its two great counting-houses to which belonged all the wharves and warehouse* of the Mouth American trade carried on there ; and this was a young South American who had come then?, with some others, in care of the consignees of the houses at home, for a mercantile and English education. He was probably progressing reasonably— that is, we did rot know whether he was or not, for we saw little of him—when at length Chrystie come home, not as wild aa a hawk, because she was, after all, more like a dove, but a shy, startled, swift-moving creature, with a cloud of hair just a shade more vellow tha* a flaxen, with immense dark-lashed eyea that you Wok at first for black eyes, till you learned how dark the blue star lit midnight sky can be, and with a skin where the rich red came and went like a torch that the wind blows on, a hill, lithe, slender beauty, wayward as the weather, and bora to have her will. Fenallosa was strolling by, one Septem ber day, ax *he sprang from the coach and ran up the crackling path, and threw ber arms round John Allan, her brother in-law, who came to meet her. The yonth stopped deliberately and snrver ed (he scene, then lifted his stick and shook it at Johu, ami strode ou. We heard afterword that he that night as sembled the other young Spaniards, as they were called in the village, and the rest of their comrades, and gave them to understand that if they chose to enter, tlie race was free and fair, bnt there whs to be no foolishness, since for his part he meant to carry the girl with the corn-silk hair overseas with him and the priest's blessing ; and he appeared next day with a tassel of corn silk from some late field in his button-hole, and as many days thereafter as there was anv to be had. He did not wait for an introduction, bat climbed the fence one sunset, and accosted tier in the garden with snch an air of adoration and reverence that she could not be offended ; bnt as he could then only speak Spanish, and she ooold only soeak English, all she could do was to retire with great dignity ; at which he was by no means abashed, for that, he knew, was her proper course, and he considered that he had now made her acquaintance, and he followed it up. A few weeks later he wss heard to com plain to yonng Joan that he had learned all the English he wished; he had learned" No *® and "Xevare," and he was going home in the next brig. Unnecessary to sav that the brig sailed without him. She sailed many times without him, indeed, but never withont the transaction of a little high tragedy on his part previously. He was leaning one spring day, over the rail of the veranda, the lazy roller creeping under neath—for our house was close upon the sea, built so by grandpa's whim, the nammer parlors almost, and the veranda quite, overhanging deep water, the solid old stone foundations belonging once 4o a light-liouse that had been removed— when the brig rolled out again with all sail set. " Some dy,'' sai Ihe to Chrys tie, looking back at her, "you will be sailing out in her with me, and never back." If Chrystie had nodded, lie would have been content, and have ask for no more just then, being strennons that she should do nothing unbecoming: but she shook her head. He so took it all for granted that dissent on her part seemed absolute rebellion, and then he snatched his hat and stalked off without a word, and meeting Leon at the gate, pitched him clean over the fence and into the ditch. Of coarse a challenge was the result, and a duel was arranged, and I have no poubt would have come off but for notes that flew from the naughty Chrystie to the combatants, in conse quence of whieh, and in total ignorance that each note ha l been a counterpart of the other, they both appeared before her and bound themselves over to keep the peace. But Leon was a fickle vonth, aDd it did not much signify. As for Fenallosa, we rather wondered at Chrys tie, for he was like nobo ly else in the world, and with an irresistible personal charm, it seemed to us—such eyes were never seen except under Spanish brows, the fine black hair lay in great locks on a forehead that had something infantile in shape and hue, bnt the rest of the face was an unbroken bronze tint, except for the thin curved lips, and the teeth which made his laugh, the whole face breaking into dimples, dazzling. If Chrystie were not in love with him, the rest "of us barely escaped it, John Allan in the number. Of course as soon the danger of the dnel was over. Chrystie took occasion to quarrel with Fenallosa's attentions, and to tell him to visit us no more if he could not cease annoying her. We expected him to take her at her word; but it was only the next day that he stopped on horseback under the window, having seen her face framed there, and having ridden up the garden path, as he told me on her disappearing, to ask her if "she have not changed her mind," for he never made the least secret of his suit, and seemed to feel that he had en listed us all as hie auxiliaries because he had rights, and success was but his de sert. He really rode up that day, though to display himself and his horse, for he rode like a young centaur; bnt it seemed that that was no way to win Chrystie. She bad quite a different ideal—some little middle-aged, grief-worn hero, with iron-gray hair, jierhaps, who had struck her fancy in a novel, bnt would have been fearfully uncomfortable in house keeping; and she consequently regarded Fenallosa as a hoy, than which nothing conld have been more maddening to him, for he regarded himself rather as a knight of old Spain. "I have the blue blood !" 1 e cried to me, who happened on that day to be his confidante. " I ask her'uo beggar. It is the blue blood FRED. KURTZ, Kditor ami Rropriotor. VOLUME XL of Castile, Sex'!" Aral 1 presume wo should have sreu, hail I not snatched the penknife whose blade tu another second would have pierced the white wrist. •*A knight of the Round Table," aanl John Allan. "For all his nonsense, there is something of the Sir Galahad about him." Wheu he came again I was crossing the lane nr.self, and st the gate wc saw Cbryatk* sittiug on the roof of the vr *u'„ iu the sun, and reoliug some fine uuen thread for her lace-work. With her fair hair and her color, her work, and the background of the s-a lx*- hind her, she certainly did look uncanny and like some lovely witch; all the more as, j net st that moment, her voice began carolling: "Hark ! hark ! the lark 1" sweet and atrvuig as the lark's itself, xii all the ripples of melody running ui> and dowu between heaven's gate and the low nest iu the corn field. Feuallosa stopped, and put his hands over his eyes. "Alas! alas!" he cried. "So young, a*' beautiful, so sweet, so wicked! l/Ud'Sltlßlll " What do yon mean t" I exclaimtxl. "Ah ! vou know- you know," he an swered, iu aoLcmuity, turning and re leasing the great eyes, " tliat of all things the good God do hate, it is the unthankful heart, and that girl she haauothauk, she have uo heart, site is the iugrantude itself. The great God can do but hate her—alas ! hste Chrystie !" Of course I could only laugh at him; and so divl Chrystie when he repeated it to her. "I hope you will never grow up, von foolish boy, and never learn Euglish!" she cried. "For you will never be half so amusing again." "What ia that—'amusing?'" he an swered. "Is it to please you ? Then I will not to grow." He glanced up and down his shapelv outlines, ami looked dowu on her with a gav, pleased laugh. "Indeed, I can not," he said, "bun the six feet now. To be more, it would be absurd, and less— Drsiliehailo he cried, striding away; "she do uot care if I be six-and-tweutv! Bnt the idea of a stature of six-anii-twenty feet so tick led him that in a moment more he was laughing and beside her agaiu. "Then I should not ask vou. I should take yon 1" he said. "You learu the Spanish to-day ?" he asked, changing his tone to one of most seducing sweetness; for, with a 1 her coolness. Miss Chrystie was not neglecting so good an opportunity of increasing her vocabulary, and ahe took Spanish lessons from all the youths Tensilon, Juan, Leon, Garcia, the first that came to book; and then, the lace work and reeling laid aside, the pretty sight was to be seen of that fair head and that dark one bemting over the page, Fenallosa's great eye* rising, every now ami then, to dwell on her. while, if he thought no one saw, he would furtive ly lift a long stray lock of the yellow hair and bold it to his lips. One day, long before the corn came again, he sauntered up the paths with what iooktxl like a tassel of the corn silk in his but ton-hole again. "What have you there?" cried Chrystie, suddenly, as he ap peared. "I have my colors," he answered; "my scarf, my lady'a favor." "Give it to me !' She cried, in some thing like one of his own furies. "Give > it to me, or I will never speak with you again ! How did vou come by it?" "I—l took it," tie answered humbly. " One (.lav—as we read the Spanish." And he banded it to her, after he hail taken it from the button-hole aud kissed it. "Ay de mi he cried. "To wor ship, to adore, and not to can !" "And I suppose," said the heartless girl, " that you have been Darading tlii every where, making a fool of yourself and me—" " Making fool!" he cried, clasping his hands. "Yea, you ridiculous boy. Do yon suppose it is my hair, that curl ? Lok at it I bought it It is some prison j girl's, for all I know." •' Dio* cried Fenallosa. "And yon did wear it ?" The disgust on his face quite outshone the wrath on hers, and it was a fortnight before he came near her again. In that fortnight I fancied Miss Chrystie did a little thinking; and we all studied a little Spanish more vigoruiisly with Juan, who, although of the samr age, was comparatively the staid guardian of the others. Chrystie had been singing a Spanish song with the guitar, Juan correcting her, and the rest of ns were bending over the dictionary and grammars on the table, when, daring a silence, a deep, grave voice sounded: " I should never to come again, bnt yon do sing the song so badly;" and we looked up to see Fenal losa's head in the window, as ho sur veyed Juan and Chrystie with tremen dous displeasure. Presently became in. " What are you going to do on the Fourth, Fenallosa?" asked John Allan, as he brought in a box of Roman can dles from the express wagon. " What is it that the custom of the country is to do ?" asked Fenallosa, for i he had arrived last year just after that day. " Oh, burn powder." " And blow toot-horns." "And set towns ablaze with fire crackers. " "And make every one wish there were no such thiDg as liberty." "Powder! horns! It is sacrilege. Wish for no liberty ! Yon deserve not the day. It should be in the church, prooessions, flowere, with prayers, with thanks. Powder, horns, fire crackers— detestable 1" " But the fireworks are beautiful, Fenallosa," said Chrystie. "When John sends np the rockets after dark from the roof, and showers of colored stars fall into the sea that showers of colored stars rise out of the deeps to meet—oh! that is beautiful!" "That is beautiful!'* said Fenallosa, all at once in a radiant humor. "I shall to see it. And I will play your Yankee Tootle on the toot-horns; you will give the instruction." And so Chrystie play ed him the desired tnne, be standing beside her and addiDg to her guitar strain according flourishes on the piano. "It is a quickstep, your national tune. Your fast people do keep the time. But it suits not the guitar. One night, Chrystie, you shall lean from the bal cony with me, and to hear the baud down in the plaza play the soft music— very different music!—and the was roll ing other music in the harbor, mountain tops and south stars over us—" "1 do wish, Fenallosa," murmured Chrystie, as he bent his ear to listen, "that if yon will make love to me, yon wouldn't make it before all the world," " What care I for the world?" he cried. "The universe is nothing then if yon bnt to listen!" And he turned about and caught my hand and kissed it in a pas sion of delight, since he dared not kiss Chrystie's, and he knew John Allan would not mind; for he saw here his first good omeu. It was on the afternoon of the Fourth itself that Fenallosa uppenred before ns in deep mourning, clad in the blackest habiliments of woe from top to toe. I confess I thought it was a part of his love-making, and he was only testifying to the condition of his emotions, or else that some revolution had turned up in South America that he was contrasting with our happy day of independence. Bnt it was quite otherwise. The news had jnst come of the loss of a great-un cle, whom he bad never seen, bnt who had left him n silver mine in the moun tains, a troop of slaves, a ooffee plan to- THE CENTRE REPORTER. tion, and a few oilier tritles. "I shall go IvaoW one day now to tuauieiivre, to manage, tuy aalate" lie asud, grandilo quently. " lint uot alone I go. They are not mine; they are hers." And he felt more than over assured that, after this, thing* must turn out tut ho wished, and he surveyed himself ami the uiky hue of his garment* with ineffable satis faction, while Christie brought Inm the iced lemonade with whieh he celebrated, ami which he regurdtxl with tuifeigutxl contempt. tiareiaaud l*eou were playing a due on the piano us lie came in. It is tnie that the music tliey played had never been written, but tliey had a bouud vol ume of the Hatar ojwu ou the rack be fore them, aud appeared to be going through it Fhilhariuouically, their eyes tiitxl on the page and running along the lines, tsruiug the leaf religiously when they reached the foot, nodding their heads to the time, going buck for a fresh start or to play over some bar mure to their niind, and jabbering together now aud then without looking off coucorutßg the fingering or the phrasing, and get ting out of it all a uot unpleasant ring ing aud clanging. As Feuallosa came u iu his dark urrav, with the shining ue* black hat iu his hand, they glauoed at each otlier quickly, but banged away, till, haviug made his compliments to the rest, he wheeled 011 them, and with oue of his gestures, which even Leon and (tarns ucrcr thought of disobeying, brushed them from their seats, and ad justed himself in their place. "They profane," he said, looking up at me. 1 used to think that nobody ever looked exactly like him, so nobody ever playtxl exactly like Feuallosa, Playing sx'imxl to be as uattiral to him as breathing, as natural as it is to any fish to wave his fins in the water, and the keys always sang under his handw. Eron Christie listened wheu Feuallosa played. " They conquered the wild creatures with the music in the old day," said he to me, as 1 leaned on the instru ment " I shall yet conquest of her," indicating Chrystie with his head. And there was a conscious power about him as the great chords rolled out. " Ah, Feuallosa," cried Chrystie once when he teased her, " why cau't you al ways be the man that you are when too are playing, and not the boy that—" "Chrystie," he said, quietly, "why can you uot to be the woman of dignity that does to tell me my fault, and not the girl I sec when I pass the window, dancing alone with ber arms alxive her head and all her silver bangles ringing like the Almee's bells f Eh ? But the beautiful arms I The fair head - " "There you go agaiu !" critxl Chrys To-day, as Fenallosa played, there was something very grand and solemn in his thoughts: one might fancy that he was up among the purple slopes and silver peAs of the hills at home with the work of death. By degrees, though,more and more sweetness stole into the meas ures, with all sorts of hesitating tnrus and melancholy cadences; in- hod forgot ten himself and his bojisbucos in Uie music. But wheu at length he paused, it wns to see Chrvstie's eyes- swimming in tears, and all the boy was uppermost again. " She is ice, but I melt ber 1" he cried; and immediately he be can playing, with a total oblivion of dead uncles and living coffee estab-H, all sorts of gay dance tunes and the airs of sweet love songs, ending with a medley of na tional airs framed in a fanfaronade of trami et calls, drum beats, and shrill cornet strains, for Feuallosu was a mas ter of music. Then suddenly he arose, lxiwed to every body, and darted for the hall and his hot, found the hat gone, and iu ita place the light straw ruin that Garcia had left. Y'ou should have aeeti the transjawt of rage into which Feuallosa fell, and have heard the anathemas on the luckless heads of his compatriote.the adjurations that they should want hats all their lives and liave no beads to pot them ou, while the hat went spinuiug to the ceiling, came down, and was trampled under foot till there wax nothing left of it. "A nice prospect for a wife!" said I, at bis elbow. "A pretty husband, you!" He turned, langhmg in on in stant. his white teeth glistening and his fare full of oolor. "Why she not to pacify me?" be cried. And of course we all laughed with him, for the greater part of the time Fenallosa was as good as a play. But there was no help for it; JTenaf losa now would not utir out of the house till night. "It ia indeooroua," ho said. "I am not to mock the memory of my uncle. Here I stay!" And he was as good as his word, taking tea with us, and conducting himself with the most charming dignity, evidently in a sense of the honor due the day. After ilark, when we hail sat for a while on the ver anda overhanging the sea, watching the great stars rise from the water, brother John and John Allan went up to the roof with the fireworks, and Fenallosa followed; an increase of two or three other youths, Emily's lovers and Hue's, presently taking place, with the inevit able Spanish lads dying to play some fresh prank on Fenallosa. But Fenal losa shortly returned to ns, and he and Chrystie leaned over the rail together to watch the colored lights in the wave breaking on the cliff IK low, and singing some refrain half under the breath to gether. Jnst as wo were in the midst of our cries of admiration at the effect of the Bengal lights, I heard feet on the roof of the veranda overhead, a tittering and te-beeing, and directly down came a long pole with a huge bunch of fire crackers on the end, spluttering and fizzing and flaring, and exploding straight in the face of Fenallosa and Chrystie, shedding sparks everywhere .ulxmt us; and in another moment there was a blaze, a shriek,and Chrystie's mus lins were all aflamo. There WOK one scream from everr mouth: "Oh, she will burn to death |'* for the immmcr parlors had neither run nor curtain, and there wan nothing to ■mother the blaze, lint l>efore the words were well uttered a sheet of fire went hurtling through the air. " Fear not 1" cried Fenallosa, " I too die I" And wo saw that he bad caught her in bis arms and had leaped into the sea. " Hurry ! linrry 1" I shrieked. "He can't swim ! he can~t swim I Oh, yon have killed them both 1" But while I was exclaiming, a dozen long legs were scrambling down to the beach, the boats were out, and before long—for he had come to the top again, and although he could not swim he oould keep afloat— Fenallosa and Chrystie were pulled in, safe and alive, but both of them badly searched, and what was left of Chrystie's muslins one black and dripping rag. Rut we wrapped her in the cloak with which I had run down, and by the next evening her injnries were not apparent, except for the weakness from the shock she had sustained. Fenallosa had been at the door at sunrise and at noon, and at twiligut he came again, and now he sat beside Chrystie as she lay on the cool wicker sofa on the veranda, half covered with the flowera that the deeply repentant young scamps had heaped npon her. It was from there, as the evening dark euod, that the words of which I told you came in on that tendealy impassioned tone: "Will yon to marry me? Ah, mi povrecita. amiguita Chryxtita raia At which I hastened to make a racket of any sort. When, by-and-by, I went out on the veranda, Chrystie looked up and said, shyly, "Laura, dear, I am engaged to Fenallosa; that is, I am CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1878. engaged for a mouth -for jut a month, you know." "A month 1" I cried, in amaewucut. "A month. By that time, you know, he will be—" • I shall be marry iu just tree weeks !" cried Feuallosa. " Your Fourth waa my day of the iudepcudeuea." And marry iu throe weeks he did— Harper'* llaear. The following repiirt of the sanitary t*>miiiiHioUfrs of the New Y'ork board of health, ujx>n sunstroke, has beeu ap [>rove*l ami published by the Imard : Sunstroke is causvxl by excessive beat, and es(MX?lally if the weather is "mtiggy," It is more apt Ui uneur on the second, third or fourth day of a heattxl term than on the first. Loss of sleep, worry, excitement, close sleeping rooris, debility, abuse of stimulants, predißjxwse to it. It is more apt to at tack those working in tlie sun, and es , |Kially between the hours of eleven •o'clock in tlie morning and four o'eUn-k m the afternoon. On hot days wear thin clothing. Have as x*il sleeping • rooms a.x |x>ss!ble. Avoid loss of sleep, and all unnecessary fatigue. If working tu-dunra, and where there is artificial heat laundries, rU\ -see that the room is well ventilated. If working in the suu, wear u light hat (uot black, ns it aliMirlis heat), slraw, etc., and put un>ido of it ou tlie head, a wet cloth on a large gixx-n leaf ; frequently lift the hat fruu tlie head and see that the cloth i* wet. Do not tiheck perspiration, but drink what water yvu need to keep it up, us pt-r --spiratiou prevents the body from iieing overheated. Have, whenever jx*ible, an additional shade, as a thin umbrella, when walking, a canvas or brood cover wheu working iu the MIU. When much fatigued do not go to work, but be ex cused from Work, especially after eleven o'clock iu the moruiug ou very hot days, if tlio work ia in the suu. If a feeling of fatigue, diz ziness, headache. ui exhauatiou occurs, cease work immediately, lie down in a shody and cool place ; apply cold dot lis to and pour cohl w .ter over heail ami neck. If any one is overcome by tbe heat, send immediately f.w the nearest goixl iihyoician. WHiile waiting for the physician, give the jiersou cool drinks of water or cold black tea, or cold coff-e, if.able to swallow. Lf the afciu ia le>t and dry, spougr with, or pour cold water over the -laxly and limbs, and to the head pounded ice wrapped iu a towel or other cloth. If there is uo ice at hand, keep a cold doth ou the head, and pour cold water ou it ax well a* on the laxly. If the person is pale, very faint, aud puis*' feeble, Ist him tnhale ammouis for s fo seomds, or give liim a tea spoonful of aromatic spirits of ammonia iu two tablospoonfuls of water with a little sugar. A lid ( lad l>t£. In these time* of mad dogs, oue whicii got his head into a tiu jar a f>-w nigh la ago at the resid uoe ot W. T. Chandler, Beaver Valley, Del., was the tuml-hut of all, but happily he was not mad from an attack of hydrophobia. Spook'.eg around Mr, Chandler's back yard, he found in au open summer kitchen a tall tin jar, with something in the bottom whieh made him thrust his head iu a considera ble distance to reach the palatable mor sel at the bottom, which, we la-lu-ve, was potato yeast. Probably not from the ef fects of the yeast, but from some cause, the dog's htwd from the *' to behind the ears grew so largo that the can jx-r --.xiated upon remaining on his head. When the dog found that he was 'airly caught and not being able to howl him self, he oomzneueed a series of gymnas tics that made more noise than half a dozen dogs. He tugged nl the ran wiUi his feet, he snort**! and su.x s*xi and would have growled if lie could; ho rolled over ou his back, stood upon bis hind fret and shmik himself, but that can was "thar" and he ootild not remove it. Taking a cruise around the yard he jablxxi the big cud of his tin elougatiou against the yard tenon, jammed it through a bunch of dahlias, swept down a swath through the potato patch, ami emerging to the oniou bed ho took a roll in it, and coming buck to the open kitchen again lie sent the breakfast table hor (U nom- Lat, kg® upwards. By this time Mr. Chandler had so far recovered from the foara engendered by the terrible racket below, that he veutuixxl fiom his l*xl to see what was the mutter. Opening the kitchen door, the dog hearing a noise made a bounce in that direction, almost ramming the bottom of hie tiu can that stuck to him "chioer than a brother" into Mr. C.'s face. Frightened for the instant at such a queer kiud of an ani mal, Mr. Cuandler shut the tin, headed lieast out, hut after a moment's morid eration, he gra*|Mxl the situation and boldly went out oud grasped that tin can,and with n dexteroueeffort he threw the fuzzy end of it over the feure, but held on to the tin end. The dog prilled nod Mr. Chandler pulled, and at last the separation came, Mr. C. performing a somersault on one aide of llie fence and the dog at llie other. Remarkable ('HIT*. Among thoe wiio have been most rumarkanly affected by .ircklonUl sur prises are the deaf and dumb, ami tales of uuknown antiquity relate how Hpeocb or hearing has been recovered or im proved in this way. As a ease in point, Aliont 1750 a merchant of Cleves named Jorisscn, who had bocome almost totally deaf, sitting one day near a harpsichord while someone was playing, and having a tobacco-pipe iu his mouth, the bowl of which rested accidentally against the body of the instrument, was agreeably surprised hear all the notes in the most distinct manner. This accident was a happy one, for Jorissen sooti learned, by means of a piece of hard wood placed against his teeth, the other end of which was placed against the speaker's teeth, not only to keep np a conversation, but to understand the least whisper. Other cures have been hronght about less by skill than acci dental circumstances. There is a story of a Frenchman who, throngh ft sword wound received in a duel, suffered from internal abscesses, which forced him to wslk in a stooping posture. Borne time after, becoming engaged in another affair of honor, thin time with pistols, the bnllet of his adversary chanced to pass exactly through the abscesses caused by the former wound, which, making them discharge, not only re lieved him from the stoop, but caused him to walk with rather a stiff carriage ever afterward. The Migration of Flics. A New York paper perpetrates the following: Early in November our flies gather in swarms upon the heads of our baldest men, or on the butter-plates of restaurants, and prepare themselves for fight. Choosing the night time in order to avoid remark, they wing their flight through the upper regions of the atmos phere, and passing far above the Hiirfiee of the zone of Perpetual Fliea, they de scend in the aonthern zone of Migratory Flies, where they pass the warm months. In May, when the southern weather grows cool, they retrace their flight anil reapfiear among us. Thus there is a semi-annual ebb and flow of flies between the two zones, a migration in compari son with which the migration of birds are trivial and scarcely worthy of notice. Siiu*troke. TIIKKI.Y TOPICS, A rat weighing fifteen pounds is exhib ited in a Philadelphia beer shop. It ia a foreigner, coming from Mouth America. The " British interest" which has the largest representation ill the present House of Commons is that of the soldier ami sailor. There are two huudred and thirty nine men iu the present li>>tiso of Commons who are either active or rctinxl members ol the army or navy. It is uot generally known that iu tlie oil region of Petitisylvama mauy of the engines which pump the oil wells are run with natural gaa instead of sU'am. The gas is conveyed from the well to the engine through an irou pipe, being forced from the well through the pipe into tne cylinder. A Htrauge manifestation of affectiou occurred rx-ent!y on the farm of Aaron SutLiu, in Coffin's Summit, N. Y'. A kitten, several days old, hiul become separated from its companions, and was adopted by a hen. llie kitten was found under the shelter of the lien's wings, aud, when token away, the hen tb-w at the |>ersuii who look it and show ed every sigu of displeasure. The cruelty of which a Wiacouaiu wifo complain*, iu her suit fur divorce, is that her husband ticxl her securely and shaved her head. The defence ia that she bleached her black hair to lemon color by the use of acid, aud that he, d'-emiug such a thing highly scan dalous, took the only means of undoing what she had done. He says that lie bought a wig for her, imitating her nat ural hair, ao that her bare head might be rmcx-alxl while nature was remedj iug tlie disfiguration. Tlie attempted aiuutosiuatiou of tlie emperer of Germany recalls the fact that the mouth of Mar has indeed lawn marked on several ixx-wxtons by crimes cr attempted erimiw of the same uature. Ou tbe 11 tii of May, lHl'2, Mr. Perrival was oaaaxsiuuL-.l ia the lobby of the House of Commous, Ou the 30th day of Mav, lHt'i, ijuwn \ ictona was flrtxl at while drivn ; dowu Constitution Hill in an open carnage by John Francis. The 14th of May w the date rf tlie murder of Henry IY'., of France, by Reroillac; and ou the Ith of May, 1874, Gueen lasliella, of Spain, was twice fired at by Ist Rivo. At Rochester, Mich., tliey have a unique way of advertising Uie men who stand on Uie ciiuroh st* j-s alter mooting to stare at the ladies. The following card is kept standiug in the F.rt i of that place: "The Donkey club of this village would respectfully * inform the young lodic* cajxarjally, and Uie public gener ally, that they Lave made arrangements for au extensive demonstration on the steps in front of the Meth'xhat chapel— the members hawttng themselves on either side of the main entrance—ou Bandar evening next. Positions taken immediately alter the cloae of the relig ioua cxercuus within." The difficulty of providing horses with forage iu war lias set the ingenious to work in endeavoring to compound a condensed horse bnscuit, aud ("01. Ra veili, ou Italian officer, acems to have bren very suoreosfiil iu this r* q>ect. By direction of the Minister of \\ ar, very careful i-xja-rimrnts liave lately lieen uirnle with cavalry horses, and a com mission rejxirt that net only wheu the biscuit is administered with proper care is it consuintxl witii spj elite and easily digst*xl, but that the horse* I<*l uptm it actually increasixl ui vigor. There is really nothing new in this, for three ecu tune* ago horses in E'ugland were often fed in the same wav. When Qneen Victoria came to the throne in I the Hhoshone -tribe, and is apparently sixty or seventy years of age, stands as erect as Pompey's pillar, and with his white flowing beard and distinguished mien, is really a venerable looking old party. There is a enrions legend about this hoary pioneer of the valley. Although the Bhoshoues persistently assert that ho is a trno born member of their tribe, yet tho story goes that the old man is really a native 01 Mexico, and that he was stolen while an infant and carried to the north by a raiding band of Shoshone warriors. The long beard, contour of foatnres and general make-up of the old follow gives plausibility to the legeud. Whether the tale of captivity be true or a Ise, our savage is an odd specimen of American red man. •*TIIE CODE OF HUMOR." _____ wsuir t'rumlnr ol Awertrsas Whs Haw* •< una St Oar Is. A recent pamphlet issued in Charles ton, M. V., on the "Code of Honor," given the following list of well-known Americans who have fought duels: Gen. Christopher Gadrden, s dele gate to the first (lenteuuisl Congress, fought a duel. Colonel Janice Laurens, sou of the president of the first general Congress, m 1777, and on the staff of General Washington, fought a duel with General Charles Lee. In 1778 Geueral J. Cadwaladcr fought General L. Cou wsy near Ihiiladi-lphia. Mwmbers of the William Washington branch of that family have engaged in duela—for in stance, that iu which Oillon was killed. Robert Goodloe Harper, United Stat*-* Menator from Maryland aud leadti of j the Federal party, fought a duel with William Loughtou Mmith, an early representative from 'Charleston, H. C.. and minister to Mpaiu iu 1800. Colonel Johu Hutlodge, sou of the revolutionary governor of Mouth Carolina and a mem ber of Congress, fought a duel. I)< Witt Cliutou, United Stare* Senator aud illustrious goveruor of New York, iu 1802, fought Johu KwartouL Aaron Burr, Senator from New Y'ork in 1787, aud Vice-President of the United States in 1800, fought iu 1804, Alexander Hamilton, who hod been secretary to General Washington, a member of the Isslv which framed the Constitution of the United Mutes, first secretary of Uie treasury, and, after Washington, com mander-in-chief of the army. Andrew Jackaou, representative and in 1797 United States Senator, judge of the su preme court of Tennessee from 1798 to IWR, hero of the battle of New Orleans and eight years President of the United .States, fought several duels—notably oue in IKKi wilii Charles Diekiusou, ntwr Salmlle. Commodore O. 11. l'orry, hero of the battle of lathi- Erie, fought a duel. Commodore R. F. Stock Um, of the United Stales uaw, and after wards Senator from New Jersey fought several Juels w itb officers of the British navy near Gibraltar. Captain Frank Hampton, United States army, a m u of Major General Wade Hampton, ui 1815 fought Captain E. D. Dick. Captain William Sumter, UniUxl Status army, about the same time Might the colonel of his regimenL Clement C. Clay, governor of Alabama, member of Con gress and Senator, fought a duel tn HlB, with W. Tate. Henry Clay, the reuowued orator and party leader, mem ber of Congress, s}eaker of the House, Senator from Kentucky and serretarv of State, fought a duel iu 1808 witL Humphrey Marshall, and another in 1826 with John Randolph, memlier of Congress and Senator from Virginia and minister to Ruoaio. William 11. Craw ford, Senator from Georgia, minister to France, secretory of war iuml secretary of the treasury, fought a duel. Thomas EL Benton, Senator from Missouri from lwifi to 1850, fought s duel near St. la'uls with Mr. Lucas. J. Cnuimmg, of Georgia, fought a duel, 1830-3, with George McDuffio, the Demesthenaan orator, member of Congress, governor <>f Bnth Carolina and United States Senator. Jonathan Citley, of Maiue, memlier of Congress, fought a duel near Washington in 1838 with W. J. Graves, memlier of Congress from Kentucky. William L Yaueey, member of Congress from Alabama in 1844-5, fought a duel near Washington with Thomas L. Cung tnau, mcmlw-r of Congress and Senator from North Carolina. Francis Cutting, of New York, member of Congreas in 1851, challenged John C. Breckin ridge, of KeutuckT, memlwr of Congress, Senator and Vic**-President of the UniUxl States; the challenge was ac cepted, but the difficulty was adjusted. B. Grata Brown, of Missouri, in IHM, fought a duel wuh T. C. Reynolds, lieu tenant-governor of Missouri. David C. Broderiek, Senator from California, fought Judge Terry in 1857-1858. Major General D. C. Ruell, of Ohio, 1 United States army, Might a duel. General H V. Sumner, of Massachusetts, United States army, who wax elected to escort Mr. Lincoln to Washington. March, 18(11, challenged General W. 8. Hartley, of Tennessee, U. 8. A., Major General Phil. Kearney, of Now York, U. S. A., aid-de-camp of two sno cesMve oommauders-in-chief of the UniUxl States army, Generals Mncomb and Mco'.t, fought a duel w.tli Cham liers, at the time colonel of his regimeut. Genera! Sam. Houston, memlier of Con gross, and in 1827 governor of Tennes see. Commander-in-chief and president of Texas in 1836. Unite*! Stats Senator, fought a ihwd in 1837 with General Al bert Sidney Johnson, U. S. A, Jeffer son Davis, memlier of Congress and United States Senator from Mississippi, secretary of war from IH5'2 to 1856 and i President of the Confederate States, fonght duel with Samuel Cobb. Lieutenant-General Winfield Mcott, C. S. A., hero of Lundy's Lane, conqueror of Mention, commaoder-in-chief of the army, challenged Do Witt ClinUui, and fonght another party in tlie District of Columbia. These are mime of the men of note who have engaged as principals iu duds. Numerous other Americans of the highest standing and most exten sive influence have rosorUxl to the Code of Honor. Not at ime of Kniehle. There was a picnic in Eby's drove, near Dayton, Ohio, one day recently. Some of the vonng meu wandered down the river. In a secluded nook they dis covered a pile of female clothing, They looked into the river for signs of life or death but saw nothing. A newspaper reporter of the party took down all the surronndinga, rummaged among the clothes, and found there were several nets or snitsof them, little and big. Iu one of the pockets a love letter was found, written by Hal to Julia. The clothing was tenderly bundled up and taken to the picnic camp, stuffed unde a buggy scat, and the pnrty started home feeling very sad. It did not occur to them at once that it was a little strange Byonng woman and two or threo little girls should commit suicide all at once. It was perhA|M Julia and her lit tlo sisters who had thus plunged into eternity. It was a very sad case all agreed disappointed love perhaps ami on tlio theory ot snicide the lore letter wonld le a good thing for the account. The clothes were taken to the police office. The reporter was satis fled that he hail a good thtng. The account was road evidently, lor early in the morning an angry father came rag ing into police quarters demanding the clotliea. Ilia daughter liad taken a walk on the river bank with two or threo lit tle neighbor girls, and the place being secluded and the temperature warm, and the water inviting, they concluded to take a bath. Boon they *heard voices in the woods, - ami hid themselves in the bushes. They huddled together ss quiet as mice uutil the intruding young men had come and gone—goue with their clothes. The only thing they could do was to remaiu qnietly where they were uutil after dark and then steal to their homes in the kindly shadows of night. It was a wish of Bryant, they say, that he might die in Juno. We never thought seriously enough on the subjeot to insist on a time, but so far as we have any preference, to be defluite abont it, we have always thought we should like to die on the 30th of Feb ruary.— Burlington Haw key e. TEKMBi $2.00 a Yoar, in Advance. FARM, LAUREN AMI HOUSEHOLD. (•erwlaallea •( Suto. There are a few common principles eouuected with the germination of seeds which are familiar to mauy, but which are nevertheless worthy of being piaoed on record, and which may be inter eat ing aud instructive to those who have uot givou special attcnth >u to the sub ject. The three great leading requisites for germination are warmth, moisture and air but uot light. Meeds deprived of these requisites will remain dormant. If the plants are very hardv, such a* the chick weed, ami the rye and wheat plant, they will start at a few degrees above the freezing jxiint. Others less hardy, as Indian corn and beans, must have a higher temperature, and if the agil ia too cold, they will rot instead of grow ing. Hot-house plants require a still greater best, many of which will not germinate below eighty or ninety de grees of Fahrenheit. Moisture is very easential, as every farmer knows who lias sown wheat and irraxs seed iu time of a severe drought. Flower seeds sown in a dry garden lied, vegetate rapidly if tlie sowing is follow ed by a warm shower, which fornioht* the two element* for sncceoa, warmth aud moistnre. Many seeds are deprived of this ceseutial requisite when tbey ore allowed to become too dry by long ex posure to the air. • Heeds must have air, or tbey will not grow. Buried deep in Uie aoil, they re maiu dormant for a long time, although kept at a nearly uniform temperature with tlie soil, to retain their natural moisture. Nurserymen sometimes keep peach stones in a sound and dormant condition, buried >*u feet or more in compact earth. Many of the moat trou blesome annual wends make their sppoar suoa in ground supposed to be clean. The careless farmer has allowed weeds to ripen secxls by r h few years hit chickens died no lrndly that 1 abaiiiioned all care of them, thinking it lalmr lost. In 1872 1 eimmmoal ft*vlinn with air-winked lime ; I kwt a very few tliat summer. In the summer* of 1873 and 1874 I lout noue at all by that disease. I pat half a pint in a veaael and till it with water or milk and put for them to drink. Aa thev drink ofT the top I fill up again. Sometime* I mix half a pint with a peek of stirred up feed and girts them. The lime helps to form the shell for laying hens. I give the lime two or three times per month, and always if I see auj signs of the disease. I raised about twenty donen last summer, and healthier, brighter looking chickens I never owned. — Wc-*(cm AgricuUuritt. Tropical Tree Forma. Borne are almost cylindrical, rising tip ont of the ground an if their bases were concealed by accumulations of the aoil; others get much thicker near the ground, like our spreading oaks; others again, aud these are very characteristic, seud out, toward the baae, flat ami wing like projections. These projections are thin slabs radiating from the main trunk, front which they stand out like the but tresses of a Gothic cathedral. They rise to various heights on the tree from five or six to twenty or thirty feet; they often divide as* tliey approach the ground, and sometimes twist and curve along the surf nee for a considerable dis tance, forming elevated and greatly oompreased root*. These buttresses are sometimes so large that the spaces be tween them, if roofed over, would form huts capable of containing several per sons. There is another form of tree, hardlv less curious, in which tho trunk, though geuerally straight and cylindrical, is deeply furrowed and indented, appear ing as if made np of a number of email trees grown together at the centre. Sometimes the junction of what seem to be tho component parts is so imperfect, that gaps or holes are left bv which you can see through the trunlt in various places. At first one is disposed to tnink this is caused by accident or decay, but repeated examination shows it to be due to the natural growth of the tree. NUMBER 31. Justice In the Old Time*. Maya ChoMnbmn't Journal: To Ty burn doomed men from Newgate were carried in half-doMU as if for a public entertainment. We can hardly in the present day realise the brutality of these exhibitions, to which, however, ladies of quality regularly adjourned to see the show. Hanging formed a holiday amuse ment of the fashionable society of Lon don. Much was the disregard of human feeling that officers of the law weee not ashamed to practioe cruel deceptions on connote at the rery scaffold. A person named David Lindsay, convicted of traitorous visits to France, wa* sentenced to die, and carted to Tyburn in spite of an amnesty. When his neck wis in the noose the sheriff tested David's oourage by telling him he might yet ssve his life on ooudition of revealing the names "f alleged traitors. David. however, sorely tempted, declined to save his neck on such terms. Thereupon the sheriff or dered the cart to drive on; but even this move toward leaving Lindsay suspended did not shake bis stout spirit. All this time the sheriff bad a reprieve for the uuneoeaaarily tortured fellow in his pocket. Before the cart wa* fairly from under Limlaaj'a feet it was stopped, or he would have been murdered. Taken back alive to Newgate, a very ttnnaual spectacle, Lindsay, after being nearly starved in a loathsome dungeon, was scat into perpetual banishment; ulti mately ho (lied of linger and exposure in Holland. As the hanging of some thou sands of rebels would have shocked or dinary illHli WSJ, vast numbers were con demned to be banished, as an act of grace, to the plantations, or were "made over as presents to trading courtiers," who might pardon them for a "consider ation ' Think of lords and ladies at court being presented with groups of oonviets on whom money could be made by selliug pardons! The fact thrown a new light on tliis period of English history. As regards transportation, some not uninteresting and little known particulars are given concerning Rob Boy. Twelve years after the rebellion of 1716, Bob was taken to London in connection with the disarmament act, and sentenced with many others to be transported to Barbadoen. Handcuffed to Lord Ogilvie. be waa inarched from Newgate through tin- streets of London to a barge at Blackfriars, and thence to Gravesend. "This," says Dr. Dona, "is an incident which has eaaaped the notice of Walter Moott and of all Koto's biogrsohera. ' quitting England, the tlarge-load of oonviets were pardoned and allowed to return home. Tkr LMiißf Tewer. Dr. Prime gives, in the New lark Oft •freer, his opinion m to the cane* of leaning erf the celebrated tower of Pisa: in conversing with A guide, who had been there for fifty year*, the man give* an opinion: I aked him what waa the common ly received opinion aa to the enure of ita leaning over. He aaid moat j>*?r erected for the bell* of the cathedral: the bell tower: the cam panile; ita height ia two hundred feet; lU diameter, for it is round, ia about twenty, and it leaaa out of a perpen dicular fifteen feet. To suppose that a tower of exquisite architecture m atone, designed for such a purpose, and built at an oh vast ex pense, would be finished after it began to leen oat of the perpendicular, would argue an amount of rashness on the part of the builder* or the director* that has no parallel even in those modern time*. I presume it waa finished, with ita successive galleries, to the very sum mit, ita bells were hung, and by and by the earth beneath became gradually compressed on the aide where the ground Itelow waa lea# solid than on the other; that this settling proceeded so slowly as to lie imperceptible for many long *Dd was never mentioned in the chrom ■ ole* of the cathedral, aa it certainly would have been had it occurred while in the process of building. It was begun in 1174, and has there fore stood more than 750 years In that time the tendency to fall might easily have been so alos as not to be noticed. Birmingham Rulteaa. At cue time Birmingham (Eng.) buckled and buttoned the three king dome, and half the world beside, requir ing audi adornment. It furnished every variety of both buckle and button, but it* chief staple wa* the metal button. When ahoe-bttcklee went out, the af frighted makers went about in shoe string*. petitioning Parliament to com pel people to wear buckles. In like way the London iierruquisrs went np to George IIL, in their ova plain hair, to solicit him to bring back the departing fashion of powder and wigs ! When the metal button yielded to the mold of wood or horn, covered with silk or some other woven material, the metal button makers so besieged Parliament by their shrieking entreaties to 1* saved from ruin that a law was passed which made it illegal for a tailor to sew on to a anil of clothes any button made of cloth, serge, camlet, or any other "stuff." Uulees this law was swept away by the enactment which recently abolished all latr* tliat had become practically obso lete, this button aet is still in force, and we believe it to be so. About a lialf a dozen year* ago a tailor named Shirley sued, in the Marvlebons oounty court, a customer named "King for MO ($45), the Crice of a suit of clothea msde for the itter. The defendant's counsel a*ked the tailor of what material the buttons were msde, and on being told that they were of cloth or silk on norn molds, he remarked that by the law made for the protection of the Birmingham button - makers, not only could the tailor not recover, but if "the defendant chose to sue for the penalties, the plaintiff would have to pay forty shillings for every dozen of such buttons sewed on by him. The judge agreed, and the tailor was non-suited. Instinct in a Crab. Mr. Darwin, in his " Naturalist's Voyage," thus describes a crab Which make* its diet of eoooa nuta. and which he fonnd on Kneeling Island, in the Sonth Seas. "It is common on all parts of thia dry land, and grow* to a mon ■trona sise. It has a front pair of lege, terminated by strong and heavy pincers, and the least pair by others which are narrow and weak. It would at first be thought quite impossible for a crab to open a strong ooooa-nnt covered with the hnsk; bnt Mr. Liesk assures me he has repeatedly seen the operation effect ed. The crab begins by tearing the husk, fibre by fibre, and always from that end nnder which the three eye-holes are situated. When this is completed the crab commences hammering with ita heavy claws on one of these eye-holea till ail opening is made; then turning round its body by the aid of its narrow pair of pincers, it extracts the white al buminous substance. I think this is as curious a case of instinct as ever I heard of, and likewise of adaptation in strne ture between two objects apparently so remote from each other in the scheme of nature as a crab and a ooooa-nnt," Item 9t IIUTML Dodl collect the '* Wis " of e women'n mind. Bathing suHs-eiipeeWly * totem* •an— €kmdHn Pt pet A touching incident A phyuiciaii feeling patient's pulse. Mr. BOM my St HM ooe* him *,<**> not to find hie lont Charlie. Advice to etntenmen by the Chicago Time*.' Do right— don't write. Colored embroidery on underclothing cannot last long, an nothing will evr be ao pretty M white on anch gmrmeuta. *un tb* (Mtira fly (>ta ready to die. i Hr faWWM hifuaatf in an tppk pas. Printers' ink is the oil that matm the I hinge* of trade, and makea the gn*i doors of commerce awing eerily. Ad , vertiae I A Chinaman in St Lome boasts pnaiftiitn of a eat of riee-utieks a tbon -1 aand yeara old, which bar# descended as heirlooms from father to eon. There are more than 2.000 photograph galleries in Paris, employing upward of IH,OOO persons, sad doing a business of mora than 80,000.000 franca a year. It is said, remarks a New York paper, that Texas does not feel the hard time*. Hbe has more miles of railroad being constructed than all the real of the Union. There is a fortune in store for the genius who can invent a wit of carrying home a mackerel so it will resemble a parcel containing twenty-si* yards of ailk fur bis dear wi/a, A boy of flva died in Manchester, Eng., from hydrophobia, caused by the bite of a cat. The wound healed, and he appeared to be cured, until a few days before his death, when be began to rave. A vein search—That of the leech.— dov iuula Enterprise. A vane search— Looking tor the oae tliat the wtnd car ! tied o lf.—JJaelmwaek IlrpultHram. A vain search—Lacking for bumn