Opportunity. In harveeMima, whan field* and wood* Ont-dasale nnaet * glow, And aeytha* clang mnaie through the land, It ia too late to Ml*. Too late ! too late 1 It ia too late to eow. In wintry day*, when weary earth liea cold in pulaeleaa sleep. With not a bloaeom on her ahrond. It i too late to reap. Too late ! too late 1 It ia too late to reap. When hlee-eyed violet* are atir. And new-horn grasses creep. And young turd* chirp, then aiv. batisaea, And then. betimea, *hait reajv Then aow 1 then tow ! And thou betoue* ahalt reap. The Foreclosure of the Mortgage. Walk right in the Mtttn'-TOOtt, IVravm ; it' all in a muddle, roil ra\ But I hadn't no heart to right it, so I've jeet let everything be. Beside*. I'm going to-morrer ~1 ealk'tale to Urt with the dawn- And the honse won't aoero <> home-like if it'a all ujwot and forlorn. I sent off the children (hi* raormu': they both on 'em begged to stay. But .1 thought 'twould be eaanr. mebb*, if 1 was alone to-day. For thi* was the very day, Doaoon, Jet twenty year ago. That Caleb and ate moved in ; so I couldn't forgit it, yon know. We was so buty and happy }— we d been mar ried a month before— And Caleb would clear the table and brush up the kitchen floor. He said I was tired, and he'd help me ; but law! that was always bis way - Alway* handy and helpful, and kind, to the very last day. Don't you remem'oer. Deacon, that winter 1 broke my a .xa? Why, Caleb sin .-ely left me, not eTea to 'tend to the ft win. There night and mornm I saw turn, a-aettin' o doee to my bed. And I knr.w him in apite of the fever that made w.e so wild iu uiv bead. He n rer did not bin' to grieve me, until he Vft me behind— Tea, I know, there's no use in talkxn', but somehow it eases my mind. An d he oi such store by yon, leaoon. I needn't tell you now. But unless ho had your jedgiMOt, he never would buy a cow. Well, our eowa is gone, and the horse too — poor Caleb was fond of Jack. And 1 cried like a fool this monnn' when 1 looked at the empty rack I hope he'K be kindly treated : 'twould worry poor Caleb so If them Joneses should whip the cretur— but I a pose he ain't like to know. I've thrnkin' it over lately, that when Mary sickened and died. Her father's spent was broken, for #ii< was alius bis pride. He wasn't n- .verso cheery ; he'd smile, but the smile wa'u't bright, And be d> Ant care for the cattle, though once tb ey'd been bis delight. The c aighbors all said he was ailin', and they tried to hint it to me : They'd talked of a church-yard cough : but, oh ! the blind are those who won t see. I never believed he was goin' till I saw him a-layin' here dead. There, there 1 don't to anxious, Deaoon; I haven't no tears to shed. T~re tried to keep things together—l've been slavin' early and late — But I couldn't pay the int'rest, nor git the farm-work straight. So of course I've gone behindhand, and if the farm should sell For enough to pay the mortgage. I s'poee 'twill be doing welL I've prayed ag'inst all hard feelia's. and to walk as a Christian ought, But it's hard to sew Caleb's children turned out of the place he bought; Au-i readin' that text in the Bible bout widowa and orphans, you know, I can t think the folks will prosper who are willing to see us go. Bet there I'm keepm' you. Deacon, and it's nigh your time for tea. ••Won't 1 come over?" So, thank you; I feel totter alone, you see. Besides, I couldn't eat nothin"; whenever I've tried it to-day There s eomethin' here that cbokee me. I'm narvous, I s'pose you'll say. " I't{ worked too hard?" So, I haven't. Why, it t work that keeps me strong ; If I sot here thinkw' I'm aartin my heart would break before long. Sot that I care about livin'. I'd ruther to laid away In the place I've marked beside Caleb, to rest till the Jedgmit-day. But there's the children to think of—that makes my dootv clear, Aad 111 try to follow it Deacon, though I'm tired of this earthly speer, Giwd-br, then I shan't forgit yon, nor all the kindness you've showed ; Twill help to cheer me to-morrow, as I go on my kmelv road. Fur—What are you savin". Deacon. I needn't— -1 needn't go ? Ica've bought the mortgage, and I can stay ? Stop ! y it over slow.— Jeet wait now—jest wait a mrnnte—l'll take it in bime-by That I can stay. Why, Deacon, I don't see what makes me cry ! I haven't no wards to thank you. If Caleb was only here. He'd aech a head for speakin', he'd maki my fselin's clear. There's a picter in our old Bible of an angel from the skies, And though he hasn't no-great ooat. and no • spectacles on his eyes, He looks jest like you, Descon, with your smile to good and trew, And whenever I see that picter, 'twill make me think of you. The children will be so happy! Why, Debby will 'most go wild: She fretted so much at let mi her garding to hind, poor child ! And, law! I'm as glad as Debby, ef only foi jeet one thing— Now I can tend the posies I planted there last spring On Caleb's grave : he loved the flowers, snd it eeems as ef he'll know They're a-bloomin" all around him while he's sleepin' there below. —Mrt. E. T. GorheU, in Bnrper'i Majntine. AFTER MANY YEARS. "It's always the same thing,—cutting j wood, fetching water, and running er rands for mother's boarders. It's 'Here j Tom!" 'There Tom!' 'Look shorn, boy!"' from morning until night, till I'm fairly discouraged. Most of them are civil enongh, but that detestable Col. Monk ton speaks to me as if I was a dog. I'm as much a gentleman born as he, though mother does take lodgers now. It's hard for her, brought np as she was in wealth and lu'iury; and if it wasn't that she needs so much, I'd leave here to morrow." ... The lad's bright, handsome face grew , dark and sullen. He was half reclining under a tree, gazing out over a vast ex panse of rippling waves; for Fairview. where his mother lived, was a seaboard village. It was not a fashionable resort, by auy means, but a kind of fishing hamlet, where persons of small means and qniet tastes came for their summer holiday. , . . "I'm full seventeen, and am just rust ing aw ay here," he continued. '*l oould do better for mother and myself any where else. But I'm nothing here but a waiting-boy for that tippling, red-faoed Monkton. What a drunken beast he is, with his bottle of whiskey every day! And I'm to fetch it to him, and be sworn at if he's ont of temper ! Mother's al wavs talking to me about my furious temper, und it is violent, I know; but somehow old Monkton makes me bad all over whenever I go near him." ••What are you doing there, you lazy rascal ?" shouted a horse, cracked voice from at upper window which overlooked the tree under which Tom Courtney was lying "I set" yon after my whiskey an FRED. ICUHTJj, TOditor and J^ropriotor. VOLUME XI. hour ago, an.! there you are yet. Better be off, or I'll make the place warm for yon!" The boy sprang up, "hi* face crimson with rage and mortification. The furi oue temper his mother deplored lira! mastered him. "Go after your liquor yourself!" he cried. "I'm ashamed to be packing your drinks through tiie street. It's a disgrace to mother's house to have a tippler like you ui it, and 1 won't be your lackey any longer." OoL Monk ton for a few minute# #-onu\l dumb with astonishment. But his first impulses when he recovered bis senses, was to huri a large water-pitcher at the boy's head. It missed him. but, striking against the trunk of the tree, was shivertvl. At the noise, two gentlemen who were boarding at the house out their heads j out of their windows, and Mrs, Courtney, hasteniug through the front yard, en deavored to iead her sou into the house. " For my sake, my hoy!" she cried, in an agony. He unclasped her hands, and shook j his fist at his antagonist, his eye* blaz i lug with rage. " Tea, I repeat, you're a disgrace to ' anv deceut house—with your oaths and j vulgar words, and drunken ways. If you were not an old man, I'd horsewhip I yon out of it! " Uli go in now,mother. I've said what ' I had to say. " Yes, mother," he repeated, when 1 they were in her room, " he is a disgrace, j and you know it, if he is the only oue who pays litieraliy for his board." "Couldn't we have got rid of him ! without all this trouble?" said the i mother, still trembling and unnerved |by the scene. " O Tom, Tom ! after all ! the pains I have taken to teach you aelf , control, is that ungovernable temper of yours always to master you ?" Tom hung his head. "But, mother," he said. "I couldn't stand the names he culled me. I sup pose the Courtney blood is not unite I out of my veins, if we do keep boarders. You see now it's best for me to leave I here. I'm nothing but a servant, and an ill-nsed one at that. Any stout, strong boy can do all I have to do. It i will be best for you, too, mother, in every way, if you'd only think so. I'll make money for. you ; and then you won't lie always dreading that I aball get you into trouble by my temper." I Mrs. Courtney shook'her head sadly. I" You won't leave your temper behind, my boy, I'm afraid. But perhaps you are right. I may have kept you here too long. But oh, Tom, it's so hard to give up all 1 have in the world." She was a widow, and he was her only child. In his delight at his mother's • consent, Tom was utterly unconscious of the pain it cost her to give it. He was riotous in his expression of delight. He clasped his arms around her neck and kissed her careworn face. "Mammy mine," he cried, "you've male a man of me ! Look upon our fortune as mala You shall play the lady once more, and wear velvet and lace as in the old times—that is, when my ships come in. i " Oh, von needn't smile! They're bound to come in some day, for I've made up my mind to succeed, and you say yourself I never fail when I ry. Yes, you've saved me, for there was murder in my heart when tuat old rutfi vu abused me. I don't think anything he could say now could move me." " You*don't eh, yon young vagabond?" cried the well-known hoarse voice ; and turning, Mrs. Courtney and her son saw Col. Monkton standing on the threshold, with a large horse-whip in his hand, and his red face purple and swollen with passion. " Can't be moved by anything I say, eh ?" And the colonel advanced into the room. " Perhaps, young air. some thing I can do will move you. I'll teach you to insult gentlemen!" And before Tom Courtney fairly tk in his meaning, a onttmg lash descended upon his shoulder. With aery like that of a fnrious ani mal, Tom threw himself upon his an tagonist. Co!. Monkton was an old j man, but tall, and being still powerful, the struggle was a violent one. The screams of the widow brought the : other gentlemen from their rooms; but when they entered, Tom had freed him self from OoL Monkton's grasp, and pushed him violently against the wall, npon .striking which, he had fallen heavily on the floor, where he was now lying in an unconscious condition, breathing with a strange sound. " You've killed him, I believe," said one of the gentlemen who had been ex amining the fallen man. "At least, I think he's dying. Here, Miles, rnn for the doctor. " He's at the next cottage." "O my boy ! my boy !" moaned Mrs. Courtney, wild with terror. Bewildered, and hardly knowing what he was doing, Tom fled from the room. " You've killed him!" rang in his ears as he ran towards the beach. Was he indeed a murderer, he kept asking him self as he hurried on. Some distance from the shore a schooner was preparing to sail " It's the Minnie," he muttered, " bound for Galveston. I heard yes terday she was short of hands. I'll ship on her." As in a dream, he hastened down to his own little skiff, looking around with terror to see if he was pursued. He loosened the rope, jumped in, and in a few minutes was on board the Minnie, and soon out of night of Fairview. Then for the first time he realized his situation and his mother's desolation, j At thought of his mother's tears, he would have returned at any hazard; but it was too late. In the meantime, the physician who had been summoned hastily entered the room where Colonel MonktoD still lay, | everyone being afraid to move him. "Just what I expecteti," said Dr. "J Lyle, bending over the uurple swollen face. " These choleric/Wont, drinking old men generally end in this way. Apoplexy, madam, and not the first attack. This oue, I fear, is going to bo fatal. "Then it's not—oh! it's not " And Mrs. Courtney, unable to finish her sen tence, gasped for breath. " Whet does she jnean?" asked Dr. | Lyle of ore of the gentlemen present. " Her son Tom had a souffle with the colonel when he fell, and she was afraid he had hurt him. " Dr. Lyle turned again to the prostrate body and examined it carefully. "Not a bit of it, madam," he said. "I dare say bis fit of passion and the exer tion hastened the old man's end. But it was bound to come. I told him yes - ! terday, when he complained of bis head, j that unless he threw his liquor out of the window, and held his tetnpar in I check, be wouldn't live six months. True prophet, you see!" Mrs. Courtney tottered to her room, ' and there on her knees offered up u fervent prayer of thanksgiving that from blood-guilt, at least, her son was free. But now, alarm d at his absence, she searched for him, —in the house, the garden,—and then, with swift steps, she went through the village, asking every one she met if they had seen Tom. No, he had not been seen that morn ing- Old Nathan, a weather-beaten sailor, who had jnst brought in a load of fiah, heard her question, and answered it. "Lookin' for Tom, mistress? I seed him, about an hour ago, goin' aboard THE CENTRE REPORTER. r the Mimiiu, jest a* she was gettlo" under r way. She'* p#t nt*rt<*i ,n s cruise, lhit I wouldn't tali eu, mlstee##. l a bright boy, and n handy one. He'll • tuiwt like come back Ivrioi the utsu he 1 was when he started." So he had gone, ami wiUi a Janeiut # load of guilt on lira o-ior voting shoulder* 1 Mrs. Courtney felt as if her burden was more than she could I >ear. t She had a faint hope he would write to :< ' her, and for days, Weeks and moutUaelie haunted tlia pot-oftiee. At last alio * i went as if mechanically, and without t asking a question would look at the * postmaster. He undewkxKl the look, r and would answer,— "Nothing to day, rua'am." t Bijt about six mouths after Tom's departure, she had no sooner entered • the office tliau a letter was placed m her • baud. "Come at last,ma'am," said the cheery - postmaster, "and it's Tom's hand writ iug. Sit right down here aud read it. , You're all IU a tremble, ami you can't walk home yet." i Yes, it was from Tom. He was in Galveston, and had made several trips on the Minnie to different porta. > "Do you know, mother," he wrote, t "I've been afraid to write to you, fear f iug it might give the clew to my where > about*. But I've a friend here, a young lawyer, and he tells me 1 was a simple t j tou to run away as I did. Col. Monk ton made the first attack on me, aud no i law could bring me ia go Hy of murder, "I ve often wondered how the one > blow whieh knocked him up against the wall could have killed him. It was the i first I gave him after I got awav from ' his grasp. I know I'm reidly guiity. 1 i wanted to kill him, aud his blood is on my hands. "I'm going for a long cruise on the coast of Africa, in the Albatross, aud when I return IU come back to Fair view. For I feel that I must see you, whatever the consequences may be. "I will write when I can; but as I do not know the course we are to take, or the ports we are to touch at, I cannot tell you where to address your letters. In two years I will lie at home." Thankful for the letter, Mrs. Courtney took up the broken thread# of her life, and tried to fill it with the old interests and the old duties. But the two veara spread to fur, and no further tidings came from Tom. The mother's hair turned gray, and her eyes lot their light It was such a weary work waiting and watching for what never came! She knew by heart all the shipwrecks on the African coast, and the plagues which desolated it Where so many lust their liTea, how could,ahc expect her boy would escape ? Had he been alive, he would surely have written. " I shall never seen my boy in this world," she wonlJ think iu her hours of despondency. The seventh Christmas after Tom's , departure found Mrs. Courtney not only ; ioek, but without mean* to dVraj the necessary expenses of her illness. It was raining and blowing without, and the iuvalid shivered over her wretched ( fire of drift-wood, just brought in by a kind neighbor. "It'six>rue at last," she murmured, with her sad. patient smile—" the pover ty I've fought against so hard and so long. I hail hoped to die aud be with my bov before this hour came npon me. But why should I murmur ? He docth all things well ? I will trust Him eveu if He"-. As she spoke, the door was thrown open, aud a figure sprang forward. It was muffled tip, and the face was ; bronzed aud changed, bat the mother knew her sou, and lay sobbing iu his j arms. No questions were asked or answered. It was enough for them both that they ♦ were together once more But after a long time he told of the 1 of his ves sel, and of a long tedious sickness on the coast. He had written and sent money when he could, though the letters never reached her. "But I've risen, mother, till I am uow first mate of the Vampire, and your i bad days arc over. Yea, I hear! in the \ ' village that old Monkton die ' of nppo plexy, and I thank God that I did not; kill luiu. I thank Him, too, that lam ■ cum! of my terrible temper; or, at least, that it never quite masters me now." I '• It has been a cruel lesson to bo'h of us." And Mrs. Courtney shuddered. " But why to yon, mother?" he cried, 1 vehemently. " Yon, innocent and goou, i should not have suffered for my wron i doing. That does not seem to me right or just." " Hush, hush, my boy !" she auswer i ed, solemnly. " 0 my son ! my pride in yon and my weak over-indulgence deserved chastise ment. But all my sorrow is forgotten now; and God is indeed good to us both." Health and Science. There lived in England, in the last century, a man of science, nsraed Henry Cavendish, who was born in 1731, and died in 1810. He was a gentleman of fine cultivation, an excellent mathema tician, a profound electrician, and a most acute and ingenious chemist. He published many papers, containing re sults of recondite investigations and the most important dißoovaries. Bo was not only a great original Brisker, bnta most imlefutigable and accurate experimenter, and one of his main lines ot Research was the'ehemieal constitntion of the atmos phere. He made no loss than 500 : analyses of the air, and it is to him that we owe onr chief knowledge of the composition of the breathing medium. Now, there ia not an American that will not commend all this an most proper and admirable. But there is another side to the case. Henry Cavendish was a man of enormous wealth, for which be cam! 1 absolutely nothing. He waa one of the j greatest proprietors of stock in the Bank of England, and when on one oc casion his balance had accumulated to 8350,000 aud the director# tiiiuking it too much capital to He unproductive, asked him if they should not invent it, he simply replied : " Lay it ont, if yon please." That small portion of his wealth which he could make use of in his investigations was so used, bnt lie . did not allow the remainder of it to divert his thoughts in the slightest de gree from the nnremittine prosecution of his scientific labors. He died worth 87,000,000, which was an immense sum lof money at the beginning of this i century, bnt he had not the sHghest in terest in those objects for which wealth 'is generally prized. Now, the whole ! case being given, to the eye of the ; typical American, Henrv Cavendish will tie regarded as a fool. " With all ' that money," the representative Ame.ri j can would say, "I could keep a yacht,and a stud of fast horses, and build a church, and endow a college, and send a dozen j missionaries to the heathen, and run a whole political campaign at my own ex pense ; and you say this o#t famou# ease# of the day. The correspondent savs; Except the murder of the uhild, Mabel Young, iu the Warren avenue Baptist church by the HCxt.ui, J'iper, few years since, nothing of u criminal and bloody nature ha.* so Htirrod the citizen# of B >tou *# . did the tmirder of Dr. George Darkniau 5 bv Dr. John W. Webster, ou November 'it), lHAit, at the ManHOohunetta Medical College, m North Grove street. Dr. I'arkman was a wealthy man, who de vote*! most of hi# time to looking after t lua property. Dr. Webster was the ' Professor of Chemistry in the institu tion, and owed I'arkman 8170. whieh sum of money the latter called at the college to collect on the day above in dicated. The last seen of l'arkuian alive by any one who knew him, except hi# murderer, wa wiieu about two o'clock in the day lie entered a provision store in the neighborhood of the college aud purchased a few articles. Having that he had au eugagemeut, but would soon return and himself carry the artielea home. Dr. Welmter had finished hi# lecture for the day, and all the medical students had left the building when Dr. Uarkiuan entered it. The latter pmo>ed rapidly to the chemical romi iu the ri-ar of the lecture hall, where he found Dr. Webster arranging the apparatus that had lieeu used iu his lecture. I'arkman wa* a hard and grasping man, and Web st-r was a man of science, poor, hut proud, with a high temper. Webster'• inability to pay a note that i'arkman he'd led to a quarrel, am! the former struck the latter over the heod with a heavy piece of grape vine and killed I htm. Weh#rer tiieu locked liie doors, dragged his victim down stairs, removed the clothing, and hsviug placed tlie body in ft sink, deliberately proceeded to out it up. The room in which he worked was a laboratory ou the ground lloor, having a furoa.ws, into which lie put I'arkrumti*a head and all hia clothing and attempted to burn them up. The thorax lie placed in a tea chest. Home parts of the body he attached to fish huea au.l lowered into a privy vault that was washed by tt e I bailee river. Home parts of the limbs weje never found. Webster worked se\. ra! days, and moot of the time for one or two nights in try ing to cover np all traces of his victim. The disappearance of Dr. I'arkman nm t'u- talk of the town, and hi# family imuial landers noutaiuiag a fall descrip tion of ai* person, together with a large reward— 83,000, if my memory iwarVes me—for his return if alive, or for his laxly if deral. A* awn a* Webster learned that I'arkman lira! an appoint I uietit with sonic one on the .lav at his disapjH*raioo, he called on Air*. I'ark maii, offered his condolence, snd satd be was the one with whom the doctor hral an engagement on the unfortunate day. He said he had paki the doctor $l7O, who, on receiving th* money, hral run out of the ool!*ge, arewniug to be in great l osto. Search was made in the vicinity of the college, in rnauy of the tenement bouses narne.l by Dr. Parkmaa, who, it w# feared, liad tn-eu murdered for the money he might havt had while col lecting rente, The reward was a large one, or so considered in tie *** day*, and great efforts were made to gain it. Ttie earth in the cellars of all Dr. Park man'a houses was dragged, but the man e .aid not be found. Beports came that I'ark man hail been seen in far away places und hral licea iqxikeu to by those who knew him; but there was no truth in theoe statements. The crime was traced to Webster m this way; Dr. I'arkman bad been seen I the lost tune alive in the medieal college. This fact, oonplod with the strange ac tions of Dr. Webster, led the janitor of the college, Littlefleld by name, to sus pect that Dr. Parkrnin had lwxn killed and his lxsly secreted within the col lege building. The janitor hral always hail the run of the building, but since I the disappearance Dr. Webster liral kept the laboratory locked. Littlefleld made tip his mind to examine the vault above mentioned, and in order to do eo be w-ns obliged to enter the collar and dig through a heavy stone wall. Whenever Dr. Webster left the building, which j was seldom, Littlefield stationed hi wife at the front window, hi order to in form hira of the doctor's return, and 1 made the best of his opportunities to penetrate the Je.ne masonry. At lost he made a bole in Ihe wall, and placing a light in the vault he saw stupeude 1, by means of tt#b hoi4a and line#, parte of n human body. His suspicions being confirmed, Littlefleld communicate! with the police, and the matter was very rapidly thereafter worked up. After the murder Dr. Webster was much of the time at the college, an uunsual thing with him, and Littlefleld notioed that a hot fire ws kept in the laboratory fur naee for several days and night* that he could feel the heat in an adjoining pas sage-way, by placing hi# hand on a wall that was near tho furnace. One evening, after Dr. Webster went to bis home in Cambridge, tho labora-' tory was opened and during a long search mors of the remains of I>r. Park man's body were found. Dr. Webster was nTreated in a very neat way. Two officers in a hack went to his house nt about ten o'clock in the evening and informed him that friends of the Parkman family wanted to search the oollego, but did not want to act with out his presence. The doctor pnt ou his 1 boots and said he would go with them ' and help in the search. He then in formed his family that he was going ont , for a short time, and that lie should soon return; but he never saw his home again. In the confession that he made in the last hour* of that bloody tragedy Web ster described the agony of that dread ful night. A# he rode in the carriage with the two officers he tried to appear free and easy in conversation, but he wH unalile to decide whether be wan under arrest or really rquired for the purpose indicated. Wheu the carriage stopped at the Levorett street jail, he knew it was an arrest. He bad made up hia mind that ho would die rather tliau submit to au arrest So he had prepared and placed in bis vest poeket a pill of stxichnine continuing enongh of the poison to kill five men. As he step ped ont of the earrings lie slipped the pill into hi month Bnd expected soon to be a dead man. But his agony of mind was so gnat and bis system so wrought upon by the catastrophe that the poison, though it caused horrible suffering, did not destroy life. Dr. Webeter was brought to trial and the excitement in the commnnity was intense. Ho was a professor in the medical school of Har vard University anil moved in the very best society. There waa a powerful in fluence brought to clear liim, not only for his own sake, but for that of his family, and, most of all, for tho honor of the University. An attempt was made to fasten suspicion on Littlefleld, but tho doctor hral entangled himself in many ways, anil oue link after another was made at the trial that formed a chain of evidence which was so strong that the victim conld not escape. With a stick, in a disguised hand Dr. Webster wrote to the police about Dr. Parkman. One letter stated that Dr. Parkman hral been murdered and thrown off Cambridge bridge. Dr. Webster had one peculiar ity about his writing he never closed the top of his a'a, but made them like the let to* u, and iu hi# letters, trying to . throw the oflteert off the scent, he tor- got to change the peculiarity of his writ j iug. The defense tried to #bow that the u body might have been taken from the n dissecting room, but it was fairly delmt- ed at every point, Iti the asliee of the p. | furimoe the false teeth of Dr. I'arkman e were found, and ramie of lua natural u to. th. winch were Identified by a dentist y who hral filled them. Lastly the fld , hook hues were identified by the shop v keejier in Dock rapture, froui whom they s were purchased. Dr. tVebater wan eon n vietel ami suffered the extreme penalty r of the law, that of being hanged by the d f neck till he was dead. He hral a fine family, consisting of a wife and several >- daughters. At the time of her father's r urreM, oue of the voting Ira lies was about e to tie married. The family during the i- wtnde pern*! of the trouble visited the h prison lut refrained from reading the 0 uewspajvers, and dul not know the date i- of the execution. The day preceding e the one which Wei rater knew was to be s his last ou earth, he trade his family k good by as usual without indicating to e the member* of it that he should never 1 see them again. In this case the bar e harou# law punished the innocent more a thsu the guilty, for shoitly after the exe • cotton Mrs. Webster and her daught< r# • left the country, and some year# after I died broken hearted. l>r. Wetrater hral . j stroug men working for his pardon, but 1 ' failing to obtain executive clemency, he r made a full confession of the crtme, . which course of action establiHhed hi* t gnilt beyond question, and decided the a governor to allow the Jaw to do it# full • mischief. Hmh is the record of the t most remarkably mercenary murder ever • recorded in New England annals. i r ~ • Superstition About Precious Stone#. The m<>>u#U>nc, was, as its name im j plica, venerated from its auppooed Imnur h attraction. It ia one of the prottuwt, . though most common of precious atone* . in Ceylon. Pliny describes it as con -5 tainiug an image of the moon, "which, , if the story tie true," he observes, "daily , vraX-ra or wanes, according to the State 1 of that luminary." Chalcedony hang :l about tho neck dispersed sadness, and j if a person carried one perforated, with , the hair* of au a# run through it, he , wonld overcome all disaster*. Ory*ta! dispelled witchcraft Tim chrywopnums I gladdened the heart • the ehrysolyte ex pelled phantom*, ami, what was more serviceable, rid pragde of their follies. , The onyx in the Middle Age# vnw Ira . li- ved to prevent ugly dreams by night, and law-suit* by day. The jasper wa* , a charmer of ravrpi ns and spiders, was , worn a* a talisman by the Roman ( othelete; Barton, in the Anatomy of , Melancholy, tells us that, "if hung about the" neck, or token in drink, it , , much reaiateth sorrow and recreate* the heart." The same qualities were attribn , ted to the hyacuith aud tojraz. Tho cxvh- I to! has been the most popular of all oracular atom-#; a favorite stone wo* the beryl, "which." sav* Aubrey, in hi* j Miscellanies, "is a kind of crystal that t ha# a weak tincture of mi; in this ma , giciaus see viw-Ui-." The mat im wiut k to ounoecrate, or "ci arge" them, aa the , m<*lrn term is. for which purporai set forms were used, which are d< scribed in HeginsldSe-.tt'# Discovery of AA ltelicrnlt . The famous ery*t.*d of tliat pripoe cfric poqx'ritea of the diamond, sars- "It has affinity for gol I,small par ! ! ticle# of whieli fly toward* if. It i# also wonderfully sought nft-r by ants, who • crowil over it as though they would j j swallow it up." A marvelous curative | power was Hupposed to exist in a dia mond belonging to the Rajah of Matftra. , in the Island of Borneo, the Malay# In hering that a drought of water in which I it hral been placed would cure evory die- j 1 ease. A firaphic Death Vntesre. Iu the district oourt at Han Bnena wntiua, F. A. Horsgue was calle.l up for sentence. After the court hod ovrr ;' ruleil a motion for a new trial, Judge Fawcett said, after directing the prisoner to stand up; "F. A. Hprague, you j • have leen convicttvl of the highest crime i known to the law. Yon were skillfully . defended at the trial. Every device i was exhausted to save yon, bat a jury i jof yotir fellow-citizens lis# ptonoiuiced • , you guilty of the crime with which yon i are charged. In the dead hours of i j night you, the leader of a band of • i masked assassins, applied the torch to 1 | the premises of your vietim, and a# be i rushed, startled and half naked, into the I light of the flnmea, you closed up on ( > him and shot him near to death. n<> attempted flight; yon pnrsned ; he fell before yon with a pleading voice that should have wrung pity from a heart of • iron, but you remorselessly riddled him * with bullets as you Would a carcass of a i dog. There is no language strong j > enough to depict the atrocity of such a ( i j deed. Your guilt is as clear as evidence i can make it. You probably though. ! ■ you would be upheld by the oommnnity ) •, in which yon lived. Thauk God, you j 1 1 were mistaken. There are but few , i monsters to applaud your act. The re- j ! suit of your trial prove# that we are vet ■ I governed by law ; that wo are a : inanity of enlightened hnman beings, j i and not a society of savages. The law I has seized you. "and the voices of twelve | t ! good men held you in it# iuexorrble J | gra#p to pay tho dreadful penalty of your i 1 i crime. Let your fate be a warning that i justice is sure to follow crime, ravine i | times traveling slowly with leaden heel. ; i j but striking with an iron hand. I will ! j not affect for yon a sympathy I do not ■ fed. There is no point in yonr case I ■ for sympathy to grasp at no far as von are concerned. I deeply feel for yonr faithful i i wife and children. They are tho ones ! who need and deserve pity and sympathy • of kind heart*. It only remains to formally conelnda this painfnl dnty, i Tho judgment of the court is that on • Friday, the 27th day of September next, i between the lionrs of 10 a. M. and 1 > p. M., yon nre to be hanged by the neck until yon are dead, and may Gsl Al i mighty have mercy upon y™*r soul." i Sproguopresented a stolid indifference i and perfect calmness while sentence was > being passed. His wife and daughters were present, and were oalm and nn- moved.— San Francittco Poet. TIMEI.V TOI'IUH. A Western hail insurance company re cently paid tIy.WW for damages to crops in one Minnesota oouiity. France aud Hwttxerlaud exhibit mora dock# aud watches at the Paris Exposi tiou than all the other countries put ' together. The eutrail* of cattle are now manu fra-iitred into cord, rope, round and flit I railing, aud other material where extrs , ordinary strength is required. ■ lteus Willi#, a colore 1 girl, died a few j minute# after beiug huplizod in Wilkes ooiiuty, Georgia, Hhe was overheated when she went into the water. An Illinois lawyer, who charged a widow $25 for making out a bill of hale, reduced Lua bill to $3 after Die widow's brother had taken off his oust. On one day recently there were sixty four steamer#, fifty #tup*. seventy #ix brig#, 223 lrark#, aud 142 schooner#, lying at the port of New York waiting for cargoes. A woman of Hteele County, Minn, j hral her hu#baud and sou killed by light ning five year# ago. Hhe married again, and her second lord wo# killed by light mug lost week. A man recently died in Ins bed at I'eckham, England, from suffocation produced by eat iug a hearty supper. The undigested food had rtra-n and choked htm to death in his sleep. The longest daily mall anJ stage line in the United States, 1,500 mile* from 1 Fort Worth, in Texas, to Fort Yuma, on the Colorado nver, has beeu formally ; inaugurated with a procession of Con cord stage* drawn bv 200 horsea. * , i Figure# founded ou the nomination# made indicate that Uiere will be 800 regular candidate* in the field for the 283 seat* m the Forty-sixth United States 1 (Vrtjgreo#, although in many Southern 1 Ji#tnct> there i# no opjioaition to the Democratic ca'.ululate*. It i# a very remarkable orcuniktAnc in the native country of wheat that oat#, barley and rre should be entirely un known. Thi# ha# led to the opinion by some naturalist# that all our cereal plant# are artificial productions, obtained acci dentally, but retaining their habits, which fiave become fixed iu the course of age*. According to the bo#t authorities, the entire pop'Dituui of the earth is now 1,43t),145.3U0, brorallv divided a# fol low#: Europe, 81J.35W.480; Asia, 831,- 000,000; Africa, 206.219,500; Australia and Poiyncsi*. 4 411,300; North and South America, 86,116,000. The human race a# a whole is increasing slowly in# numbers. The publisher of an esteemed contem porary on M >uut Washington priute the name# of the young men at the hotels who work off on s hand press the great est number of oopie* of his pajrar :n a givt-u time; muscular nummer loarder# covetous of fame fl-.ck to the office, and tbu# he saves the co#t of a steam engine i or a mule.— Amp York World. i A diacnssi.m of the queatiou, " What i i# Inspiration f" appear# in the Septem ber-Octolier number of the .A 'orth Atnrri- - cu-i Review. The writer* will 'tie the Rev. Dr. F. H. Hedge (Unitarian), the Rev. Dr. E.A. Washburn the Rev. Chauncxv Gilea tSwedeubor- Rian), the Rev. Dr. J. P. Newman j i Methodist), Moat Rev. Dr. James Gib bona. Archbishop of Baltimore, (Roman Catholic), and John Fi#k© (Independ- i •wit > | Forty-five million# of pair* of aewed show and 55.000.000 of pair* of pegged •hoc* were tnade and *old by the manu faeturer* of the United States in 1877, and eighty-five per cent, of the work done o tlicse *hoe* was done by machine ry. The npjrars ore cut out by hand, simply because of the variableness of the quality of the leather in the same skin. The ra le# are cut out by machine ry, aud the binding, pasting, closing, crimping, stitching, holing and polish iug are all doue by machinery, without the aid of hnmsu hands. < M " Well, the deuce!" remarked Mr. R. | Townsend, of Nrwjiort, Ky., when, hav ing askol for supper at a Cincinnati hotel he received no change back oat of j a one dollar bill. Then, as if in a dream, be went to the dining-room and consumed two cups of coffee, three plates plain bread, two plate* fried mush, one plate corn beef, one plate chicken, one plate colli liara,two plates loin of veal,two plates broiled beef, three plates broiled i nam, four plates freah tl#h. three plate# fried eggs, two plate# fried potatoes and j one plate of baked potatoes. The clerk figured it ont that, at restaurant prices, , Mr. R. Towuseud wa# $3.05 ahead. Foreign Bodies In the Noe and Kara. Dr. Mason, in a lecture on the Sur genr of the Face, published in the Ixm ret. says that foreign bodies, such s* cherry stones, locu#t beans, brass rings, slate pencils, screws, buttons, pieces of wikxl, peas, etc., are not nnfrequently met with in the aural and nasal cavities of children, ami oven of adults. Much subsUuce* have been known to remain iu one or other of these cavities for near ly a lifetime, causing little or no iucon vetiience. Thus a case is related of a lady from whose nostril a foreign body was dislodged during the act of snees iug. It wa# found to be a button which had belonged to her little brother when they were both infants. Another ca#e is ri-corded in which a niece of slate jteucil wa# removed from the lady'# ear, and which had been pnt there when she was at Rcliool forty years In-fore. And a third instance, iu which a cherry stone hral Iraeu in an ear for sixty years. A case is recorded of a gentleman, aged forty-one, from whose ear a piece of cedar wood was removed by syringing. The patient remomlx'red distinctly the fact of an introduction when he was a boy at school, at least thirty year* previous. No attempt hral been made to extract it, ami it hral not troubled him until now. It occasionally hspjiens, however, that a good deal of infl imrua tory action is set up by the foreign Ixxly, as in the case of a girl who was nnd< r the author's csre iu the hospital, to which she had been admitted on account of a small stone in her ear. She subse quently lira! paralysis of the facial nerve. A case is reported of a child who not only had facial palsy, but died of menin gitis, caused by the presence of a locust bean in the ear. Living larvse have been found in the meatus of the ear. Dr. Routh publishes such a case. The patient was a gentleman who three years before was tormented by a fly nesr hiH ear. Convulsions followed the pres ence of the larvw, but the patient re covered, although he remained deaf. Dr. Blnke of Boston, lias seen four snoli cases. A case is reported which shows the curious oourse taken by a pin that had bean introduced i-to the external meatus. It passed through the middle ear, proba bly along the Eustachian tube, and was extracted by the patient from her throat by hooking it with her finger. TERMS: a Year, in Advance. FA KM, HARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. A Farm*#** Mil***'. Lot other* mwk the care* of state, And reek then brain* vrtlh trick* of trade, Thank tiod, it i* my happier fate To paa* ray day* in rural *htka White wranKliitg eenate* fa toe and flower, Aud • 'Uip*a* with *tratefic (huh, Ti* luiue to pee* the quiet hoar, Aud cultivate the teetuiug plain. CaeliUf ray eye* aiwed, I ace My ruoauatiuf flock* aud herd*. And liat, from each unibr**euu* tree Tuo mellow Biuak of the lard*. With teeraioK torn* and fertile fleld*. Aud healthful waft* wf *uramer air. Kind ilea veil a pure contentment yield* To oue wbwae lot * eo paaatuf fair, Then be it mine to heed the I'll** That Uod ha* mated out bo man Aud while we feet our work 1* llta, Strive to eventuate Hi* ptau. —Ohaohme#" Gom*ir. Fail Flewta*. Now that the small grain croj* are out of the way, it is a question what should be doue with the ground intrud ed for aprtng planting. This cannot It* decided in a general way. No other question in agricnltare depends more npon circumstances than thia, and each case must be decided upon its merits aud the contingencies affecting it. No absolute rule can be giveu: but if it were possible, it would most frequently be that bare stubbles should be fall plowed, and sods left uutil the rpring. Yet there would be so many exceptions that the rule would be about as much honored in the breach as in the observance. For instance, the character of the soil is of the greatest importune* to be cjrundar ed ; thru, if it is a piece of sod ground, the condition of the sod should be taken into account; lastly, the spring crop itself complicates the question. Clay soils that break np in clods should bv all moans, be plowed in the fail, and Wt as rough as possible, that the frosts of winter may break down aud mellow it. If such soil is fall of weeds, early plowiug aud frequent working with a cultivator would be very benefi cial. Soils that are wet in the spring should be thorongbly plowed as soon as possible, while they are dry; and should be left in condition to be sown with oats or barley as early as poaaible in the spring. Tin# may be dona by throwing the ground into ridges; plowing narrow: or wider lands; by making deep back furrows and plowing to tlieae in such a manner as to form rounded beds with open furrows between them. These open furrows should be finished clean, so a# to give an easy passage to the sur face water, and, of course, should be plowed in such A direction as to prevent this from remaiumg upon the ground. If woods spring up, the ridgea may be 1 cultivated or harrowed; and, if it is needed, a final shallow plowing may be given as late as possible, again plowing to the middle of the ridge. The ground, thus treated will be dry early in the spring, and may be sown to oats or spring wheat, while she sub-soil is still frozen hard. This has been done suc cessfully bv farmers who are forehanded and therefore prepared to take advan tage of favorable accidents of weather and season. bod ground, as a rule, should be fall plowed if Die growth it heavy and the laud at all clayey. Iu cold clay soils tbe vegetable matter doet not decompose so rapidly a# in warmer looms and ton iy toils, and for early potatoes especially heavy toil ground should be fay plowed. For corn it is not to needful, but it is well that it should lie done, for the rea son mentioned, as well as that the work may not be delayed by wet weather in the spring. Thousands of acres of corn would have been advanced the preterit season two or three weeks hod the ground been fall plowed and ridged as above mentioned. So with corn stubblea in tended for oat*. Theae may be plowed in the fall wit h benefit, unless the soil is very light and dry. For early potatoes upon otubble* the land should not only be plowed in the fall, but should also be manured on the surface after the plow ing. No other treatment will give to good a crop or will bring such large and smooth potatoes. Hpring plowing should be practiced upon all light ranis, except thoee which are infested with wools and need fall fallowing. Iu that case the land should be again plowed in the spriDg, unices it has l>een finally plowed in rough ridges, which can be worked down with the har row. Sod upon light soil should in any case lie spring plowed. Fresh green matter, in an open, warm soil, will de cay in a very short time, and a light sod plowed now will leave no trace of it in the spring. Soil ground for potatoes or corn should, if possible, be top-dressed now, and left in the spring as long as possible for a good growth of clover to sppear. This should be plowed under, the ground harrowed, and planting done at onee npon the mellow soil. To hasten the work and insure quick planting, it is well to procure and use a swivel plow, with which all the furrows can be laid the same way, beginning at one side of the field and proceeding to the other side. The first day's plowing may then be harrowed, marked oat, and planted, the harrowing and planting keeping up close to the plowing. Growth begins at onee and continues rapidly when this is done. A# a means for destroying weeds, fall plowiug or fall fallowing may be profit ably used. The fields are now green witli the ever-present rag-weed, the per sistent golden rod, with its almost inde structible root; the wild carrot, and scores of other* which disfigure the farm and if permitted to seed will furnish work for years to come. These plants should be plowed down, and the stnb bles cleaned before the seed is formed. There will not then be time for them to mature seed again this yer, and the present crop, with all its power for norm, will be vanquished. Yssr bv year farm# grow more weedy, and as the old-fash loned summer fallow has become abso lute, these parasites of the soil are doing infinite damage. Fsll fallowing may be made very effective in destroying them, but to be useful the first plowing must be done without loss of time.— Weekly Ttmc*. A Dairy lllnl ft-**> #wlli*rl**4. The following paragraph is on its American travel#: " A plan for improving the aroma of butter, in use in many parts of Switzer land noted for good milk und flue butter, i# a* follows: The milk, aa roon as it is drawn aud while yet warm, is filtered through a sprig of washed fir tips, the stem of which is inserted loosely anil up right in the hole of the funnel The milk deposits hair, skins, clots or gela tinous sliminess on the leaves. It has imparted to it a most agreeable odor, and does not readily turn sour. A fresh sprig should be used every time," That the presence of branches of the fir tree in the tube of a funnel through which milk passes will impart something of its aroma to the miltt there is no question, but in this country butter is acoounted never so good aa when it has its own proper taste. Butter-fanciers season very lightly with salt, lest it hide the true flavor, and they would, we sus pect, make serious objections to suoh use of the balsam or fir. The idea of cleansing tbe milk to the fullest extent NUMBER 37- possible is s good one, and soy means which will not injure Ux reuniting but tor should be gladly availed of. That Hid ruugkMM in tiic Idwt of ttxe fir would oateh some of the impurities which would slip through the smooth fitters of ft cotton fttmuer is HO doubt true, and if the filth could be aeparmted in no wilier way, the pnga of fir might bo excusable, ctmi though they impart ■ little foreign flavor. Bat them laft much bettor way. The vuugbnaas on the fibers of wool is eery much more officiant than the fir leavi*. A double alraftier of thick woiWt cloth will Oftteh s.hundred per cent more than the sprigs ui fir, and impart no flavor to the ixuik or butter. Woollen is not only bettor than the branches of evergreens few a strainer, but it ts bettor Umu cotton, ftod ia the only rat-aua for bokton back the bits of eolid curd and " aliroiueea " which or ur in the milk in the fall and winter, wL Mj— ln llllri ta iaerV*. During late year* little ha* beau heard of the Hewrian fly, forme'y *t deatrac tive. However, report* from a few western drntnct* ludimto it* retain, and this autumn may develop a renewed attack npon the crops. Thia m#ct was unknown in Amrn tell the Burn ing of the Heaaiaa troop*, in 1776. ilt-uee ita name. It was introduced in some btraw landed bv them on tit*ten and Load lalan-la. Then it wa* only in the form otpuped out again whau of proper height. If a window or gmmhotme ia not con venient for saving the plants over win ter, in October they may be taken up, the soil shaken off, and placed in a box of dry saw-dust over whiter.— If. C. L. Drew. Kashira >etes. Late iAported dresses show a dyeidrd revival of the ;okl-faahioned shirred trimmings. Garnet beads are to lie used this fall and winter for garniture on bonnets and for dress trimmings. Mantles and capes of coarse meshed lace, ornamented with black silk ap -5 pliqne work, are fashionable. The " Alumnus" is the hat of hats foe the autumn. It is shape*! precisely like the morion, seen in suits of ancient armor, ia bound with velvet and trimmed with three folds of satin, a star-shaped rosette of satin ribbon on the left side, and a short ostrich plume. None of the new goods for winter bonnets are plain Some have very flße stripes of alternate dark and light colors; others have wider bauds of velvet and •atin; others are uniform in color but are of satin and plush. A few are plaided and a very few broken checks ' Large square buckles for belts from two to three inches broad are imported in engraved silver, in pearl, and In jet mixed with steel. Everj tiling indicates that belted dress waists will continue in fsvor. New belt ribbons are elaborately embroidered by band, or else brocaded in the loom. Brigbtlv flowered belts are worn in Pans with black silk and grenadine dresses. The fancy for wearing black around the neck without "any relief of white ia popular with ladies* of very fair com plexion; brunettes find it unbecoming and warm-looking. The favorite black ruche is of thread lace closely Dleated in knife pleat*, and sometimes there is a slight pleating of crimped black crepe lisse inside the lace ruche. This black garniture is in best taste with black dresses, but ia also worn with ecru, Iwige. and pale blue dresses with very stylish eSect. Furious Bible Facta* The learned Prince of Granada, heir to the Spanish throne, imprisoned by order of the crown for fear be should aspire to the throne, waa kept in aolitary confinement in the old prison at the Place of Skulls, Madrid. After thirty three years in this living tomb death came to his release, and tbelbllowiag remarkable researches taken from the Bible, and marked with an old nail on the rough walls of his cell, told how the brain sought employment through the weary years: In the Bible the word Lord is found 1,853 times; the word Jehovah 6,855 times, aud the word Reverend but once, aud that in the ninth verse of the 111 th Psalm. The eighth verse of the 117 th l Psalm is tle middle verse of the Bible. The ninth verse of tho eighth chapter of Esther is the longest verse; thirty fifth verse, eleventh chapter of 8b John is the shortest. In the 107 th Psalm four verses are alike—the eighth, fif teenth, twenty-first and thirty-first. Each verse of the 136 th Psalm ends alike. No names or words with more j than six syllables are fonnd in the Bible. The thirty-seventh chapter of Isaiah and nineteenth chapter of Second Sings are alike. The word Girl occurs but ouoe in the Bible, aud that in the third chapter of Joel There are found in both books of the Bible 3,586,483 let ters, 773,693 words, 31,373 verses, 1,179 chapters, and 66 books. President McMabon is seventy-one years old. He waa born July 13, 1807. Items *t Interest. Bute oi speech—'The lips. A hard thing to aharpen—toe water''a eflffe. Evary bam ballist abould have a strik ing face. A man la not a man—when he's a shaving. Chinamen and biUlardiste stick to their cues, A German prinoam ia expected to live on 100,000 a year. The mac who waa oared by electricity - vu var j mar j, gbocked. When cornstalk to each other do they •peek in each other's ears ? What a dreaameker may boeetof—l : am engaged to saw and sew. The •inning crab at the seashore al ways wane# after the noder-toe. bird* are sold for fifteen ... oente apiece in the streets of Heliabnry, * I N. C. i Dignity ia expensive, mid without - ' other good qualities, it to not particular t !y profitob'e. f ♦•Ohio storied nrn or animated boat" 1 exceed in eloquence the words, "No k Trtwt. Ejeehanf*. \ There to a good deal of cordiality in toe make-op of the ordinary lobster. He : always offers to shake hands. A man may >kmbt his ability to climb i a picket fence, bat a growl from a dog , j will inrjure him with confidence and , | alacrity. I cWhen Barnum receives word from one I of hto agita that a aea-lhm haa been captured, be eimply toiegraphs back, • j "renin, gentlemen, tanks.** i An lowa farmer, worth $19,000, start s ad out four year* ago to secure legal i revenge on a neighbor. The lawyers have bis all now, while be has revenge. The minute parasite which ooeaaiooa ; toe whitish scurf known as "acaly leg" in poultry may be killed with carbolic | soap nude, or sulphur and lard applied 1 as a salve. "Will, I fear yon are forgetting me,* I said a bright-eyed coquette to her favor i :to beau. "lea. Sue. I have been for I getting yon them two yean,** was the 1 suggestive reply. "Wbo to toe bead men of thto town V | asked a stranger. And when a bo? promptly answered "the barber! toe stranger looked puttied and said be wanted to know who wae the mayor. It to enrprtoing what a Mass, of the namitff f tue tttetoa are abbreviated.— Pmtum Tint**. La. aakea! Coon, yoo not Peon, a better one than that? It makes Me. UL—Hack. BspuMuxm. itxoioo. Noma mso sra •tstwaUj? Jekttg, and thekr wit otumimm overflow! ; Bat Door ever show a* awash haasor. As UK Sou un ttw Uutgs of year bom. Jf. / Bqpmtuuam "I should just like to see aomebody try to abduct me," said Me. Smith at the breakfast table the other morning. " Hem 1 abould I, my deer, ao abould [/• said Mr. Mmito with exceeding ear nest neaa. A lecturer, eddreesieg e mecbanice* inftimu con tended that "Art could not improve Nature," whim one of the audi ence net toe whole assembly in a roar by I -1 aiming: " How would you look with out your wig r j There to a married woman named Ryeraon in West Hoboken, N. J., wbo ! has given birth to twenty ix children at eleven socoocbements, namely, eight times twins, twice triplets, and ones ' four at a birth. "Is gold a debased coin T asks the 1 ifropMr, Tea, it to awfully, terribly debased. It is en degraded that it is ashamed to associate with tomcat and j truly good pera-oia like ourselves.— j Harrittovm Herald. "The sun riaea in theeaat," explained 1 the teacher. "Y, an* there's suthin* i rises in the west, too," chimed in ane of the smeller boy*. " Well, what to it T" 1 asked the sehord ma'am. " Injnna!" 1 shouted the urebtti. A man bet another ten dollars that be i could tell" him how much water to a J .i art went over the falls of Niagara in a rear. The bet waa taken. " How much r was the question. " Two pints ] to a quart," replied the first, as he pock eted the wager. Hto mother was mending hto primer, 1 which showed sad evideuoe of wear and tear. He looked on for a while in a brown study, and then he said: " Ma, why are you like one of them prum opera aingwaV "I am sure I don't know, dt child. Why?" "Because you're a primer-demer." " A little four veer old, bright eyed ! girl, who baa , tented a little garden all ' for herself, was asked by an older stater | if she didn't expect a good many profile from it. IWa quiekly replied with great ; dignify, ' What are you talking about 1 prophet* for oa week days ? Don't you know they all died long ago, and went to . heaven in chariots of fire ?'" rrnua Wide mm van fur oar stop*. In the grey dswti w*M sad away, Thto wealth of mm! sad Hps i leave wuh hopes tost die to-day. (Sina, sweet, doe* to my heart. Jot will die oat with morning light. When MM bear us apart Welt weep tor momenta to* to-night. Look up-with Tonr sad eyes And chide am. toe*. tor every tear. And av. " though nubt-tinw flies Let seerow oStip tilTmora is bars. - Jeese Waits, of Williamsburgh, N. T.. went to sleep in a sleeping-car on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, about fortv miles east at Wheeling. W. Vs., and" while the train, the fast express, waa moving at the rate of about forty miles an honr, he arose, and, while asleep, walked off toe rear end of the •ear. The train stopped about half a mile farther on. and toe conductor went back to find the man, whom he met walking along the railroad track, follow ing after the train. A few scratches were all the injuries be had sustained. JfirhaH Reese. Michael Reese, the deceased miser of torn Pranciseo, was a slave trader at one period of his career, and made much money oat. of toe traffic. The wealth amassed by him amounted to seven or eight millions, a large part being the mi>d valuable real estate in the Califor nian metropolis. He made a doaen for tunes in his lifetime, and was a doaen times, bv the bankruptcy of others, by fire, and by shipwreck, reduced to beg gary. A bachelor, he lived for many vears a solitarr life in a small and meanly ifurnifthed apartment in one of his own 1 buildings, but of late had quarters with an acquaintance in a suburban village, so as to evade city taxation on bis per sonal property. Hw business office, in which negotiations involving millions ware conducted, was a small room hard ly large enongh for a Chinese cigar shop. In habits, dress and manner he was a miser, but he was aware of it, and dispassionately protested that he couldn't help it, because it waa a dis ease with. Ob the other hand, he said that he would some day do good with the money ho wag amassing. He often tlke*l of the bequests he would make to charitable usee, and made numerous wills, to none of which he called the aid of a lawver. Less than three hundred thousand goes to public uaea, while the millions go to relatives. Queer Parlor Pets. In the middle of my parlor I have, I you remember, a curious republic of > industrious hornets; their negt hangs to the ceiling by the same twig qn which it was so ao Durably built and contrived in ! the woods. Its removal did not dis please them, far they find* in my house plenty of rood; and I have left a hole open in one of the panes of the window, which answers all purposes. By thia kind usage, they are become quite harm less ; thev live on the flies, which are ' very troublesome to us through toe i summer. They are constantly busy in catching tb cm. even on the eyelids of my children. By their assistance lam but little troubled with flies. All my family age so accustomed to their strong buzzing that no one takes any notice of them; and though they are fierce and vindictive, yet kindness and hospi tality has made them useful and harm less. —Farmer"* Letter.