FOK THE YOUNG PEOPLE. Tkrw Ma.all 1^.4,. Tkree small lad*. in their rhildiah g), fhased a butterfly over the lee 5 Keeping ita brilliant wing* in view. Fact tfaey followed, a* faat it (lew, Hither and thither, with eager ere*. Ran the children to aeiae the priae ; Swinging their kerchieft deftly looped. On they hurried and leaped and (looped. One in hi* palm had deemed it canght. Off it darted at twift at thought Then therewat laughter from all and each. Mirthful shouting* and merrv tpeeeh , * Till the lucktett boy of the band Ought and thowed it alive iu hi* hand. •' Pay the prize money, pay my due," Pried the boy, and a quarrel grew. All wore struggling ; the butterfly, Snatched at and squeezed, and pollad awry, l,ot what made it deaired before 5 Ixxt tlie beautiful wing* it wow • Only a bare worm met their eye*. 80 with n*. who have long punned Eagerly cune nnwaU good. After our struggles and all our pain* Only the naked cheat remains. H'. C. flrpml. The I n* u\ The United States in 1860 pro duced more than 430,000,000 pounds of tobacco, bat ten years afterwards the yield of the plantations bad dwindled to about 260,000,000. The report doee not state the exact quantity grown in any subsequent year; bnt it seems that the exports alone in 1875 reached about 220,000,000 pounds, vnlned at more than 525,000,000. According to the United States Bureau of Statistics, leaf tobacco valued at nearly $29,000,000 was sent ont of the country in the year ending June 30, 1877. These figures woald make tohacco rank sixth in the list of exported staples from the United States, cotton, breadstuff's, petroleum, and the precious m'efals alone exceeding it in of the Uasted i States for tobacco was Germany, which, notwithstanding the large quantity grown in Prussia, took 56,000,000 pounds, while Great Britain, which proijnfces none, took only 54,000,- 000 pounds. How lie (irl (jot the *12,04)0. Quite a remarkable case is reported in Larue Cbnnty, in the vicinity of Brush Creek, Ky. One old man named Henry Mi&tison had for fifteen years been successfully engaged in the manu facture of moonshine whisky, and in that time quite a sum of money, about $12,000. One day recent ly Mattisiaa died, and before death re pented of; his sins; then made up his mind to guvs the Government the mon ey, as he donsidered he had swindled it out of ting amount. All he had was money, except the patch of ground he , lived upofi, about three acres. The day after his death Bally Small, who is said to he hia offspring, visited her dead father, alffl while there succeeded in getting tL money. While the friends of the ol>bnan were at the grave, Sally, who was with her beau, a young man from Ledhjpton, concluded that it was the best fopie to "light out," and this they diend the types double if we should undertake to print it,and slammed down the window. He rem irked to Bob the next day that for downright freexing coolness his re frigerator was a bake-oveu compared to the prank practiced on him.— Cincinnati Breakfast Table. Police Experience in New York. In 1873, "Mulligan's Hail" was a basement saloon in Broome street It had been growing worse and worse, and one evening, hearing a disturbance, Captain Williams and the officer on that post went in. There were thirty-eight persons, men and women, of every color and nationality, all of the worst character and some notorious iu crime. The captain took in the situation at a glance, and determined with a thought to arrest the whole party. Placing his back to the front door, he covered the back door with his revolver, and threatened death to the first pers n who moved. Then he sent the patrol man to the station for help, and fcr fif teen long minutes held that crowd of desperadoes at bay. They glared at him, squirmed anil twisted in their places, scowled and grated clenched teeth, itohed to get at their knives and tear him to pieces; bnt all the while the stern month of that revolver looked at them, and looked them ont of counten ance, and the steady nerve behind it held sway over their brutal ferocity. It was a trial of nerve and endurance. Captain Williams stood the test and saved his life. He wonders now why they did not shoot him a dozen times. Certainly it was not because they had any scruples, for the first two prison ers sent to the station killed Officer Barns with a paving-stoue before they had gone two blocks. Oaptaiu Allaire made an almost precisely similar single handed raid on the famous "Burnt Rag" s&ioon in Bleecker street, one winter night in 1875.— Ernest Imjcrsoll in Scritmer. A Montana Wagon Train. In an article on "Montana," a writer says: Probably the true menuing of the words, "A wagon train," as under stood in those far conn tries, is new to many. Imagine a team composed of ten or twelve yoke of oxen,or |>airs of mules or horses—rarely the latter—drawing slowly along the road a string of heavy wagons, at least three in number, canvas covered, the leading wag< loaded with ten or twelve thousand pounds, the others proportionally les; then put three or four or a dozen of these strings of wagons, with their teams, upon the road one after the other, a teamster to each team—stalwart fellows, profane, covered with dust from head to feet, armed with a tremendous black snake whip; a few led horses following along; a wagon master, with geaeral snper vision, who seems capable of oombining in himself the nnited dirt, profanity and energy of all his train, bnt almost uni formlv faithful, hospitable, and, away from business, kindly; and there is pre sented an idea of a wagon train of the mining territories when moving over a comparatively level and easy stretch of road. But when a steep ascent has to be passed, or a mad h