A Dinner and a Kb*. "1 hare brought your dinner father," The blacksmith a daughter aaid. As he took froin her arms a kettle tnd lifted ita ahining lid. There'* not any pie or pudding, 1 trill give you tin*," And upon hia toil-worn forehead She left the childish kis*. The blackanuth took off hi a apron Vnd tlined in happy mood. Wondering much at the aaror Hid in hi* humble food; While all about him were vlaiona Tnll of prophetic bliaa; diet he never thought of magic Jn hi* little daughterV Viae. While ahe with her Kettle awinging. Merrily trudged away, St 'pping at alght of a squirrel, Catching aouie wild bird's lay. And 1 thought how many a ahadotr Of life and fate we would miaa, If a!way* our frugal dinner* Were reasoned with a kias. To-Day. CtoeJs live and die : faith follow* faith, tVwd* prove but mockeries of the will; And dreams that were to-uiortvV* arv> To-morrow * still. Subtly, in all our good the thread O. ill ia wrought; our fairest fair la dragged to earit in being ours. And traileth there ! Light follow* light, and caeh grow* dim ' The }{reseat will be as the {vast ; Wave lirwaka on wave, and wk ia strong As each is last 1 Life laaaa on faith, and pressed hard ! K.uth erica to Ood, ami only stand* Whoa, bearing dfe upou our hi east, She clasp-* lW* hand*. Ttic distant hills are darkucs* ; hnt The morrow brings the morrow * light ; 'lsk\ much i* oum—to-day to do The present tig lit. Tin* much i* ours, *gd things beyond In love's own w.sdoni hidden he 1 Hut thia les close hand—to do Ilia will, and die. MISS ASHBELL. OcmFternatton w lepiotvJ *h faces of tlic fa .oup iv.-- .u. .co u> kw it, when i o ...-tied reading the let ter 1 had just received from aunt. The group consisted of myself—Mary, eldest daughter of the house aud hearth —brown, d. rk-eyed, tall, and eighteen; Helen, uot quite as brown, haatJ-cyed, almost as tall, and sixteen; Will, brown er, darker-eyed, a head shorter, and ten; and Carrol, towering above ns all, blue eyed, fair-hatred, goldcu-uiustaehed, and twenty-one. Auut was, in fact, our great-aunt, sis ter of our father's mother, but the only aunt, groat or little, U;at we had ever known. We had met her but two or three times during our lives, as she lived in far-may Illinois, and was too much occupied with gnuns and herds to think of frequent visiting, and we—well, we we.e too poorly provides! with gold and silver to be able to take long ami ex pensive jonrneys. So what little visiting there had been had been on our aunt's aide, with one exception, and then I was the visitor. It was when I was about tifteen this short bnt memorable visit look place. Yielding to aunt's repeated solicitations —I was her namesake—l started from home with the intention of spending the summer months on the Illinois farm. I arrived there safely, was welcomed heartily, and entertainer! right royally; but before a week had passed away I had grown so tired of the seeming boundlessness of every thing, and longed so for the little cottage and Lillipqtian garden where grew my three rose-bushes—one red, one white, and one a creamy yellow—that aunt, seeing the longing" in my eyes, said, "Child, you must go back," and back I came long before I was expected, bnt my dear father and mother mam red me not a moment too soon. We children had always hoard twice a year from annt—once collectively at Christmas, and onoe respectively on our birthdays—aud each time the kiudiy note which exhorted us to "be good, industrious, and self-reli: ~ :-..dosed a check larger or smaller, according to aunt's gains the preceding year. These notes we had been taught to answer with many wishes for the old lady's welfare, and thanks for her kindnesses, and hopes for a speedy meeting: in short, in a manner befitting the only nieces and nephews of the Carmody family replying to the friendly epistlee of their only aunt, to say nothing of that aunt being the wealthiest and most influential member of that familv. A few days before our father died he called us together, and said: " My chil dren, it isn t at all likely to occur, but il ever annt should ask a favor of you, grant it, a* no matter what inconven ience. She has been my best and dear eat friend." Poor father! I suspect aunt had often helped him out of pecuniary difficulties. He was an unpractical, dreamy sort of man, fond of birds and poetry and flowers, and didn't succeed very well in life. But, in spite of his dreaminess and his want of worldly tact, and his being so totally unlike her in most ways, be was a great favorite of aunt's, and when we telegraphed his serious illness to her she left her vast possessions without a captain at a mo ment's notice, and hastened to his side, making her appearance in a bonnet that immediately suggested the prairies, it was so unlimited as to size and so bare of ornament, and which grotesquely obtruded itself into the remembrance of that sad time forever after. Sin* father's death things hadn't been very bright with us. In fact, they hadn't been bright at all. We found there w:is a good deal of money owing, and what remained of the two hundred dollars aunt gave us on the day of the funeral—she bade as " good bye " the instant the ceremonies were over—after our very cheap mourning was paid for, went to the butcher, grocer and shoemaker. We were all willing to do, all did, whatever we could to ward supporting the household; but, dear 1 dear! talk about weeds. 1 never saw anything grow like bills. Oarrol, who had an artistic turn of mind, straggled with it, and I, who hail a dressmaking turn of mind, straggled with that, and Helen straggled with her books, hoping to become a teacher in time, and little Will straggled wttli somebody else's books, for he went into a publishing house as errand-boy—poor fellow 1 Besides the struggles, we had mother on our minds. A few weeks after we lost our fa the* we lost oar baby sister. , A beautiful child ahe was, as bright as a diamond ami as fair as a pearl, and the pride and darling of us all. Already sinking beneath the blow of her hus band's death, when her little dnughter lied, too, my mother's heart was almost broken. From being a sunshiny, en ergetic, busy woman, she became listless and apathetic, sitting in her room day after day gazing upon the pictures of the loved ones, or rocking back and forth, her hands clasped before her, looking with dry eyes upon vacancy. " O that she could be made to weep 1 that she could be roused from this dreadful speechless gloom iuto which she hml fallen!" was our continual prayer, for the terrible thought came to us often fhat we should lose our mother in a much worse way than we had our father and sister—that her brain would at last give way beneath its weight of heavy, despairing thoughts. Well, the exchequer was low enough ; and mother hail had one of her very bad spellf; and a lady customer had just l >oell in and abused me—yes, abused ; I can use no other word ; women do fly ID snch temper at their dress makers— about the fit of her dress, declaring it to be " utterly ruined," when it only want od taking up a little on one shonlder and lettiug down au inch or so in front; and Will's right arm was almost disabled from ft heavy load of books he bail car ried a long distance the day before (how men can have the heart to give a man'B bnrdeu to a child I can't see)-wheu aunt's letter fell like a bomb-shell into our very nearly disheartened little camp. "DEAR FOLKS —A friend of mine— an luglishman" (aunt's language was oorrect enough, but at timea her spelling FRED. KURTZ, Kilitor and "Proprietor. VOLUME XI. was somewhat peculiar)— •• who came here purporting to start in business, book the fever, lingered a few- luontlia, and died, leaviug, heaven kuoww why. hi* oulv child, a daughter, who will eventually lie a not - to-be-sniffed-at aires#, to my care, liaviug IHHUI deh cately reaml m the midst of dovotiou ati-l tenderness, thia place, oulv suited to bold, atroug natures, is a little too ruff for her. So alio desire# -at least 1 desire for her—*, home iu the North, and 1 wish that home to lie with von. "My niece Marv, who inherits the disposition of her lather to a great de gree—ami be would hare gene out of hia way any day to give even a dutu brute pleasure—will, 1 am sure, lie kind to tier. Carrot will love her for her beau ty, if for nothing else, and the rest of you will love her because ahe is most lovable. Her maid wlli accompany her. "At present her affairs are in a tan gle, but I hope to unravel them <n the course of a few mouths, ami tiieu you will lie recompensed for whatever extra ex pense she may cause you. I would iu cloeea check at present writing, but all my funds are invested in a speculation from which I except to reap much pro fit. IXi the best vou oau until you hear from me again, when I will farther un fold my plans in regard to Mi as Ash bell, who, by the-bye, starts to-morrow. " A CUT." No wander consternation and disn ay were depicted on everv countenance wheu I ceased reading tins letter. No wonder we looktvl gaspingly at each other. What in the world were we to do with this fine young lady iu our hum ble home f What could aunt be thinking about! True, she didu't know exactly how jxvr we were, for we'd been too proud to ac knowledge our extreme poverty in our few and far-between letters. On the contrary, I am afraid we hail led her to believe that we were in quite a donrish mg condition. But for all that, she ought to have known that we were not flourishing enough to support a delicate and beautiful girl, used to luxury, ten derness, and devotion, for eveu a few months. Was ever any thing so mala propos and vexatious ? Of course Miss Ashbell would look with scorn on our seven roomed dwelling, with a back gar den twenty-five by twenty-five, and a court-yard teu by ten. And suppose— as aunt, with a short-sightedness very unusual to her, complacently remarked —Carrol should fall in love with her ? The proud English girl would no doubt regard him as a fortune-hunter, and in vidiously compare his frank, impulsive, rather brusque manners with the repose and "awful" dignity of the languid swells of her own land. And somebody else might be attracted toward her—men are so susceptible to woman's beauty—somebody who now thought my brown face the sweetest in the world. The very thought made my heart stop beating. And the maid? Even if we could make arrangements to accommodate her —and it seemed utterly impossible for us to do so—Betty, onr failhfnl servant for the last fifteen years, would look upon her in the light of an interloper, and treat her as such. Betty had been used to being "monarch of all she sur veyed." Even in house-cleaning tunes —those times that try men's souls and women's soles—she scorned the idea of an assistant. "No, ma'am, I'll have no strangers pokin' roan' me. When I'm not able to do the work of this house alone, I'll go." And mother—dear, shrinking, grief stricken mother—how wonld she bear the advent of this dainty Miss Ashbell ? But we conld do nothing to avert the impending miafurtnne. Even if we had thought of disobeying our father's last command, and refusing aunt the favor she had not asked, bnt, in her usual decisive way, taken for granted, the young lady was on her way, and would be here in a day or two. The news must be immediately broken to mother and Betty. I, being the housekeeper, undertook to face the lat ter. I must confess I did t with fear and trembling. She heard me grimly, never ceasing to pare the potatoes she held in her lap, and when I hail ended, looked up witn a sharp nod of her head, and said, slowly and emphatically: "Betty'll have to go now, sure. She can't stand no fine young ladies and sas sy young ladies-maids about for no tLin'." Helen went to mother, put her arms about her neck, and with a kiss and a smile told her of the expected visitor, adding, with an assumption of gnyety: "She sha'n't come near you at all, mam ma dear, if yon don t want her; but you know annt has been so kind to us, and father loved her so dearly, it wonld be impossible to refuse the first favor she ever asked of us." Mother said never a word, but began brushing the hair back from her tem ples with both hands in a nervous way she had when anything grieved or an noyed her. And then we began preparing for Miss Aahbell. Will's room was to be given np to her, and Will (Carrol's room was scarcely large enough for himself aud his art traps, as he called them) uas to be stowed away in the loft—a proceed ing which he viewed with immense dis satisfaction. " I'll smother np there in hot weather," he said, with a wry face. "Oh, I wish there wasn't any Miss ,Ashbell ! Why don't she go to a hotel ?" " Why don't she?" echoed I. I said' we began to prepare for her, but for lack of the before-mentioned sil ver and gold, our preparations were of the simplest kind. Carrol made and put up two pretty brackets, and bung, with a sigh—for he hated to part with them— tue few pictures he possessed on the walls. I looped back the white curtains (freshly washed and ironed, with much grumbling, bv Betty) with new blue ribbons, and I covered the trunk, otto man with bright chintz, and with Helen's help made a new mat to place liefore the bureau, and we turned an old table cloth into napkins, and bonght a new napkin-ring and two or three cut-glass goblets and a lovely china cup and sauc er, and when all was done, waited with anxious hearts for our unwelcome guest. Mother had shut herself up in her room early in the morning of the day we expected her, and had remained there; and the rest of ns were all as un comfortable as poor, proud, shy, sensi tive people could be at the thought of a perfect stranger's ingress into the very heart of their home, and wishing audibly and inaudibly that Miss Ashbell's father had never brought her from England, when, as the sun set in the west, and a cool summer breeze, fmgrant with the breath of the roses, lifted the curtains of our oozy bay-window, a carriage stopped at onr door. "She's come, and I'm gone," said Will, flinging down his book and rnh , ing out into the garden. Carrol rose from his chair, ran his fingers through his golden hair, ant} glanced in the mirror at his new blue silk neck-tic. Helen sank back on the lounge with a sort of groan; and I opened i the parlor door as Betty went muttering ; through the entry in answer to the bell. "Is it Mrs. Carmody's ?" asked a pleasant voice, with—yea, it was a slight : brogue. " Yes," answered Betty, shortly. And in another moment a round-cheeked, unmistakable red-haired, good-nato red looking young girl in a plain traveling dress stood before me. THE CENTRE REPORTER. "Hi x>d gracious ! is thi* the bekuty ?" thought I; and Carrol fell back a step or two. " Are yiiti MisaCarmodvt" she asked. "! aiu," 1 replied, holding out my hand; " and let mo welcome yon;" when, turning from me, she gently pulled for ward iuto the room the loveliest little child 1 had ever beheld tu my life, with large soul-lit brown eyes, mid sunny hail the exact iMlor of our lost darling's. "This i* Miss Asltbsll," sanl the r/uinf/ "and 1 tun to stav or go back as you see fit." 1 looked at Carrol. He indulged ia a long under-the-breath whistte. Helen buried her face in the sofa eushion and laughed hysterically. The child came forward, ami holding {•ut her little hand, said, with a pretty . drawl, " 1 am to k>ve yon, and you ttfe 'to love me. Aunt sain so." 1 weut down on my knees on one aide of her and Helen weut down on her knees ou the other, and we kissed her till her dimpled cheeks glowed again (you see the house had lieeu ao lonely without our little sister, while Carrol looked ou with astouishmeut, admiration and tendernesa blended in his handsome face, and Will stole in with the only buil from my precious tea-rose. the stem ; carefully stripped of its thorns, and put it in her hand. " Ttiank you, boy," she said. " I will have vou for a brother; aud you too," looking with a Uriglit smile up into Carrol's face. " There is au angel home, .u a big picture, with hair and eyes like yours." Carrol caught her up in his arms, and away with her to mother's room. Aud there she had no sooner said, " my jiapa and mamma are both iu heaven," than mother burst out ui a blessed fit of weeping that left a rainbow behind it. And from that hour the weight begau to be lifted from her brain, and soon I had to resign my position as housekeeper, for we brnl our mother back again as she used to be of old—a little q motor in her ways, perhaps, but just as sweet, as kind, as unselfish as ever. And Carrol's picture of "Miss Ash bell" gained him a place on the walls of the Academy that autumn; and Will, who entered college last week, never ran away from her again, but has ever since been giving her roses freed from thorns, as he did the firstmght *he came among us, bringing light and happiness ittxl bless her I—to our sorrow clouded house. Aud I often think, looking it the two young bead* (there is only four years' difference in their ages) bending over the same book, that some day Will will tell her the old, old story, aiid ahe will hear it with a smile. "I shouldu't wonder if you were right. Brownie," aavs my husband—how I laugh when 1 think of ray jealous f.wra about him once on a time!—" yon almost always are." Arid aunt's sweotil&tjon turned out splendidly (she is still Hvmg, a halo old woniuu of seventy-five), and she insisted upon our accepting wiiat she called father's share, and that share was no inconsiderable one. Anil the seven-roomed honae has grown to a twelvo-ruomed one—Betty, by-the-bye, has allowed her daughter to assist in the house-work—and the twenty-five by twenty-five garden to a hundred by a hundred, my corner just filled with rose-bushes. And everything has prospered with us, and no lengthening sluuiows have fallen njM>n our paths, since the rosy June aiUmoou we so unwillingly opened the door to let in the darling wlm loved us, as we loved her, at first sight —sweet brown-eyed, golden-haired Miss Asli bell!—l/arfnr'n BVeX/j/. Consumption of Timber. In pleading for. the protection and perpetuation of forests, i'Ae Lumber - man* (fazettc gives some mUm-sting particulars of the amount 14 timber con sumed every year in this country. "We have now," it says, "about 90,000 miles of railroad; the animal consumption for ties or sleepers aioue is 40.000,000, or thirty years' growth of 75,000 acres. To fence these roads would require at least 130,000 mill's of fence, which would cost J45.000.000 to build, and take at least 315,000,000 annually to keep in repair. We have 75,000 miles of wire, which re quires in its putting up 800,000 trees, while the annual repairs must ta! e 300,000 more. The little, insignifica; t lnmfer match consume* annually in it manufacture 300,000 cubic feet of tif fin est pine. The bricks that are annu ally baked require 2,000,000 cords of wool, which wonld sweep the timber clean from 50,000 acres. Shoe-j>egw arc quite as important an article as matches or bricks, and to make the required an nual supply consumes 100,000 cords of tine timber, wlule the manufacture of lasts aud lioot-trecw make 500,000 cords of marble, beech and birch, and alxmt the same amount is required for plane stocks and the handles of tools. The packing-Inures made in the United States in 1874 amounted to $12,000,000, while the timber manufactured into ag ricultural implements, wagons, etc., is more than $100,000,000. The farm and rural fences of the country consume an immense amount of lumber and timlier annually, bnt as we grow older as a na tion, this consumption may, nod prob ably will, be reduced by the more gen , rial use of live fences or hedges. Our consumption of timber is not only daily on the increase, but our exportation of timber is also rapidly increasing. Our staves go by the million to France nn nnally; walnut, oak, maple aud pine to England, and sjMirs and docking timber to China and Japan." Wanted a Patent for n Chalk' Mark. The Washington correspondent of the Hartford Tim*.* writes: Several days ago an application reached the paten, office from J. J. Strong and Rate M. Strong, of Talladego. Ala., for a patent for an ant guard. The petition, which was a very fuuiiv one, 6et forth that the Strongs, "who are man and wife, had jointly put their heads together and had invented the most w<tufl<rful thing ever heard of, to wit, an 'ant guard,' which they went on describe at great length. They claimed that it was patentable, as it was new and useful, two thing* that are necessary to secure a patent. The guard consisted of drawing a chalk-mark around a table or other place, by which it was claimed the approach of ants was stopped. Mr. Strong says, and Mrs. Strong swears it is trno, that an ant cannot walk over a chalk-line, and all that is necessary to keep ants away from anything is to draw a chalk-lino around it." It appear* that chalk maltos an ant's legs slip up, as soaping a track prevents a railroad engine from starting. The petition was novel, and caused consider able fun. At last the commissioner of patents lookid over the precedents and directed his law clerk to write a decision refusing the application on the ground that there was nothing new in the in vention claimed, that ehslk had been used for such purposes heretofore, and winding UD with the general statement that such ideas are not patentable. This 1 decision was sent to the Strong family, but it failed to satisfy them. They had made up their minps that there WOH millions in their invention, and they did not intend to be cheated out of it by i any such decision. As they have money \ they can pay lawyers, and tliey have filed j an appeal from the decision of the com -1 missionerof patents. This appeal will I be tried in the circuit court. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1878. VILLAMK IMI'OVEMKKT. Vhr lnuirl Hill iMovlallas. •IHUrkbrlillf llrrkahlrr l a.. It MM. Tllis association had its ticgmmug 1U the year 1853, aud wiu sot ou foot en tirely by the efforts of one devoted ladv i —-now Mrs. J. Z. (hntdrioh—whose personal aud untiring latsirs to arouse the people resulted in an organization | winch has ui>t only secured to tlie towu ' lucalrulable l>eueilt, but lias Uvouio the iuapirer aud the model of similar , asstKJiatloua in other .Stat<s. [Au ao j C<>uut of u more recent effort of this kind wan given ia February.] After a thorough eaiivtuis of all por tions of the towu, byway of prepara tion, a meeting was held iu August, which proved ru enthuoiaatio suooeaa. I Besides iu own citisens, many sons of the town, settled elsewhere, were ivresent, or responded by the proxy of a lils-ral subscription. All the prelimin aries of a regular organisation under 1 the (leneral Htatutes of the State, were transacted. By its constitution uiuu ! bership was obtainable by an adult on the payment of 81, and of tweutv-flve cents by a child, or, ou the part of the latter, by the planting of a. tree under direction; and every child was en couraged by this means to erect a memorial of him or herself, to boar thereafter the name of the planter. , A remarkable knoll, where magnifi cent nxsk* are overhung by a forestry of oaks and pines, was purchased some ' years previously and presented to tlie ; village as a pleasure ground, by a pub lic-spirited citizen. Au abuudaut nu growth of Laurels, suggested a uaiue for the locality, anil also tlie uame of the association. Au aggregate of about 81,400 iu casli anil available subscrip tions enabled it.to commence operations with vigor. Its at ten tun was primarily -breiq<-d to improvements upon tliis hill; then extended to the village ceme tery, whose ruinous fence was replaced ■ by a tasteful structure of uiarhle and iron, within which, a year or two later, was sot a hedge of Norway spruce. The latter is now kept fifteen feet in height, aud is a superb wall i f perennial green. Within tnis enclosure walks and ' drives were constructed, shrubbery and tree* planfbd, leaning mnuuuwuu set perpendicular, aud provision mode for repeated mowings. Then the street* of the village were ta'.en in charge; side walks straightened, trimmed ami grav eJeil; crossings latu; gutters constructed with regard to thorough drainage, aud shade trees sot along the ante* of every stiwt. Year idler year these improve ments were pushed farther, and along the roaile leaning into the towu, ahd the opportunity for pedestrian exercises greatly enlarged. Iu undertakings involving more expensive labor audi as gra.ii ng and working the roads through and near the viLlagt—the association has acted in concert with the municipal authorities, adding its owu to the town's appropriation, and thus securing a di ' recti on iu the enterprise. The two have thus enjoyed mittnai aid, to the invalua ble ail vantage of both. Tht question is often ashed tis: W tiro there uo opfmnente <>f this crusade of improvement? Yea—but they were not uumerou*. and no luug time was r<qmr i*l to conciliate them entirely. It is not in human nature, when one puts his premises in order aud lieautifles them with taste, for his next neighbor to en dure for long the contrast suggested by the neglect and dilapidation on lna owu premise*, and the chances are that he will not only fall in with the prevailing spirit, but lmeome a formidable rival in betterments with the other. The little labor and trifling expense necessary t<> cfhvt a change in his surroundings, of | which, when made, he can not but be proud, ere long convert htm from a brake to a spoke in the wheel of pro gress, particularly when he oomes to find —as lie will—that there is money iu the operation. Once a year, ia the month of August, our Association holds it* festival ou Laurel Hill. A turf roebaa built against a huge overhanging cliff is the .nucleus of ope.rations. On that rural platform sit the officers aud invited guests. Around and in front, beneath the shade of the oaks, on the level plat that onoe formed the Council-ground of the Houaatenic ludiau*. ataud or wt the town's people: the numerous summer sojourners and visitors from the neigh -1 siring town*, whom the occasion attracts, forming an appreciative audi ence, sometimes of several hundreds. After prayer (and often music also), the , choice of offloers, and the annual Report ' of tlie Executive Committee, an oration is pronounced—usually by some ilistin i gundieil native of Htockbndgo—which is supplemented by brief offerings Tu proso ■ or verse, ami extem|>ore spc*vhes from visitors. After some two hours of these i pleasant exercises, the occasion is cloaed —at times with a dance by the young jveople on the verdant sod, to the music of the band. This is peculiarly tlie vil lage festival, and tends to keep alive and ; transmit tlie infiunuee of tho institution i to which so much pleasure and profit are due. In the course of it* existence 1 of twenty-five year*, the records of the L. H. Association show an expenditure of sfi,fi92, with the following as some of the r**ults: 1. The acquisition by legacies of more than $4,000, most of which has l>een in vested in public funds; the revenue from this, with the annual subscriptions, af fords available means and secures the permanency of the association. •' 2. The setting of 1,686 trees, besides several hedges. These, from mere sap lings have beoome magnificent speci tniens to affort a grateful shade and la l he joy and pride of ooming generations. 3. Well ordered streets, sidewalks, gutters, and crossings, rendered locomo tion convenient aud agreeable at all seasons. 4. A general tidying up of all the private liwellingH and premises through out the community, rendering ours, ei tcm ally, the finest village in Western Massachusetts—the subject of admira tion bv all visitors and sojourners. 5. Tbo growing education of our peo ploiu the beautiful iu nature, aided by art, tending to diminish ruduuess, ami to the promotion of morality. 6. An increased value of real estate of from twenty to one hundred per cent. Trees planted by the association iu it* infancy in front of some humble prem ises, have, on the acknowledgment of a later puroliaser.'addod 8600 or 81,000 hi his offer therefor. Seldom i* a larger income returned from so small au out lay. 7. An cxamplo which has lieen copied by scores of communities',that have ob tained our constitution as the founda tion of similar organizations in distant localities. Hnch applications continue of frequent occurrence.— S. IE. Ji. Cam\iny, in Amerit,anlAgricvlturint. Grenada, Miss., wiw in no condition to resist the iuroiulH of any malarial dis eases, it reports are true. The midden outbreak of yellow fever there, and ite malignant type, nro said to lie due to the unwholesome condition of the town. The main sewer, which leads entirely through the town to the river, caved in not long ago. In order to repair it, the sewer was uncovered for some distance, nnd examination proved that it contained numerous carcasses of dogs, cats and rats. The sun beating down upon these remains thoroughly polluted the atrnos phere, and within a short time afterword the plague broke ont violently. Ou the Way to the lllark llllls. A corres|Mindent of the Rochester AW nitty Alqmiw, eu route for tlie ltlaek Hills, thus dcserilie* the sighta nd seen.s by the way; The hugs trams lrawu by cattle or mules, the rough looks and dress of the " hull whackers,' or " roule-puuohors," aa the drivers are oailtsl, are strange to un, but evidently common here. Be thut us it may, the night is uovel to us, aud we gaze with wonder at the immense wagon*, capable of carrying 10,0011 to I'd.ooo jKiuuds of freight", ami drawn by sixteen to twenty head of cattle or mules. Often as many aa twenty to thirty of these wagons com pose a single train, and in the aggregate carry a large amount of freight. The drivers we find to lie made up from all nationalities, Mexicans, Irish, negroes, all associating together in one oomnum family, under one master, and fix! by one oook. "All alrnard !" shouts tlie burly driver, as tile Concord drives up U tlie door of the hotel, to take u# to the Hills, ROO inih-s to the north of us. In spite of the haste we all show to get the best neat, tho driver ooema to grow impatient at the delay, and is anxious to ?;et away for hia early drive. His every esture, action and expression denote the Wssteru man, ami you uoed not feair for vour safetv while in his care. The broad brimmed sombrero shading his sunburnt features, his eosrae clothing, sud his im mense top-boots, all prove tlie roughness of his duties, while the " uavy " tind the " Bowie " in his belt tell their own story. At last all are suugly stowed away in side, or mayhaps preferring more air, on the "upper deck," where true, fresh, prairie I reeaes give us a happier and more comfortable feeling. A heavy load is oars, yet the four well-trained horses hardly frxd our weight, but speed along, happy in the prospect of a good " meal" ahead. The magnificence of tlie pasturage, tlie frequency of runumg streams, ueax each of which the inevitable "ranchman" ha* "located" himself, already having his cosy house in order, and ton* upou tons of hay ready for use; tho excellent cunditiou of the roods—a strange thing for a uew country—all these surprise us, and cause wonder why tins broad expanse of load has so long been left to itself. Wo are told that we are now in the center of the great winter grazing regious; that the prairie grass cure* in summer, and the winter ia, for feed, equal to gram Here we para through tie- lovely and picturesque (ireeawood Canyon, where a quiet stream is shel tered by bluffs, and, soon after, by a very flue and substantial truas-bndge crossing the North I'latte river, we have a fine new of the chimney and court house rucka, whose prominent appear ance always oommauJ attention. Als wit 120 milea out we pas* the old Red Cloud Agency. Soon after leaving here we get a sight of the Hills, more than 100 miles away, and truly black and somlwr they appcat to us, the immense jwaks looming be ward the sky. In rapid suceeadou we pas* French, Spring Rapid, Box Elder, Boulder, Elk, Bear and Whitewood creek*, each come ten to twelve uiih-s from it* neighlmr, and each the sole occupant of it* owu bright green valley. The general lieautv of landscape, the brood, expansive aud grass covered pnuries, the deep aud wi-ird canyons, the refreshing stream*, the brigbt-iook ing evergreen piuea, and mire amusing than all, the little j>rainc dogs—all serve to robero the ted mm of otir jour nev and make ua leas weary of our long ride. Monkeys at Hupper. This rather comical picture is from the pen of an eastern traveler: "There is a pretty grove of mango* just out of Lueknow, called the Aish drove, or the monkey grove. In this place there are hundreds of monkeys. One evening I went out to see them. At first as I rode under the big tree*, looking everywhere and not seeing one, I wa* beginning to feel disappointed, ltnt presently I saw two or tliroe in the road, three or four on lop of a house, and all at ouce they were everywhere, hanging from the branches of the tit* above my head, rnnuing across the road, np the trie trunks, so I concluded there were a few loft. "As I was watching these few, a man came out of a small shop with a nig bag full of graiu, and going up and down the road in front of our buggies, liegan calling ont no, (v>, an; which means come, come, come! "In a few minutes everything seemed alive with the tiglv, long monkey*. Tbev sst down on their hind feet and put the grain into their mouths as fast as tliey oould; very greedy they were. Some of the mother-monkeys took up their babies in their arms, rockiugthem I awk ward* and forwards, just as yon have seen your mothers do with your little brothers and sisters. "Jnst as they were in the midst of their big dinner, eating as fast as they could, there appeared upon the top of s house a very large black monkey. He sat a momeut and gazed upon the feast, then ■prang from the roof, seating himself in the ec nter of tho assembly. There was a general breaking np and squealing fearfully, they all ran sway to the edge of the mad. The old fat monkey sat npon hia hind feet and looked around; then, wisely looking at mo, seemed to say: " '1 am monarch of all I survey, My right there is nono to dispute,' and then, quietly settling himself to work, began eating. "Not one of them dared to come near liita. I asked the reason, and they said lie was the king-monkev, and ail the other monkeys were aft aid of him. After he hod est nu enough, he scampered back n]K>u tho house-top, and sat watching the others as they finished what he had lift." ___________ Chin Foo's Monthly Expenses. The San Francisco dot dm Era ob serves: Much having been said and written in regard to tho cheapness with which the Chinese live, one of the load ing merchants of Sacramento street ! oomes to the front with the following letter, in which he gives n true statement I of the whole bnainess; Emtub Gtxu.kn Em :—Mo hsb learn ; readee [leper. So now can se> all dat i ting what he talkoe. Me hub see what : plenty man talkee, liow much he 1 " pung-le " every month for chow-chow. Me tinkee yon no shsbbee how mnchce Chinaman liab pay for alleo sntno ting. Me telleo yon: I For 1 littec Hhantyon Sivramontn hi rest, , to Amnliky mail for 1 month •■'>o 00 1 piooo man ox >ley for catches chow-chow 'je 00 I 1 littec dog for boil 2 00 Cnmshaw to 1 nieos polloemsn, who say ho look out no man tbsates mo. ... 20 00 1 other policeman talkoo mo all same,... 15 00 1 alitor piooo man say, " John, yon pun glo, or I'll bast your oyo." 10 00 1 other pioce man. who say ho llroman and lun wid dor machiiio 10 00 1 other pieco man, who say, "John, whs yon license ? ' 6 0® 1 other piooo man, who say, "John, vou pay mo dat license or I raise bod place wis yon 1® ®® lUce for oooloy 6 ®® Chow-chow for mo 25 00 I. ttlo bird's nost soup, rat sauoo 20 00 Little dat "impure drug " for smokeo.. 20 00 1 littec row, when Aroehky man lickeo mo and Judge Loiuleblaek say, " John, yon must punglo," 10 00 $282 00 Dat what cost China merchant live in Sun Francisco one month. What you tinkee ? CHIN Foo. TIM 1:1.1' TOPIC*. Uuiou College has given Eilisou, the inventor, tho degree of Dootor of I'hil oaophy. Jesse Pomeroy reeeutly made a saw from some article in his oell and nearly cut Ins way out of pruaou before he was discovered. Eiujioror William has fsion takmg mud batlis at Teplitx. They are con sidered a very efficacious remedy for rheumatism. What vs the difference between a provident widow and • wife who talks about her " lirge lord?" One husbands her means, ami the other means her husband. A recent unmlier of the Jtepublique Franoaimt give an sooount of ths great publishing house of Hachette A Co. According to the writer the firm has the largest bookselling business iu the world, turns over some 18,(100,000 f ran CM, publishes s book s day, employs 5,000 persona, aud exjKirts yearly 'JOO,- 000 packages. One of tlie most daring feats ever achieved by a swuumer was performed at Toubridge, England, by Prof, llenry Hiarre, who suooeedej in shimming, a distance of two miles with his hands fastened together with handkerchiefs, so that no effort could possibly extricate them; his feet were chained together, aud his eyes blindfolded. A new cannon lias been made at the Krupp works in Germany of enormous dimensions. A ball of thia caution pierce* the thickest armor plates of ves sels at u distance of eight miles. Two shots at a range of 6.UUU feet are sup (Mised to be enough to dismantle and sink the uiost powerful ship. Each ball (AiatH one hundred and fifty dollars. A Chinaman's mule walked from a hillside on to the roof of a miner's cab in, in Eureka, Xev., and fell through, breaking nearly everything underneath, including one of the miner's arms. The <mraged miner immediately slew the mule wtth an axe. The Chinaman now sues fur the loss of the mule, and the miuer sues for the damage to the cabin and himself. A little boy of John Slangherty'g a saloon keeper at Bteul>enviile, Ohio, was playing in his father's liar room, alien he hapjx'ued to jostle ugan.st a barrel containing two or three gallons of whiskey, a frightful explosion fol lowed, the liarrel tieiug blown into frag ment*. killing the boy instantly. The barrel stood beside a window through which the sun shone very warmlj, and it is *up|Hj*ed this generated gas suffi cient to produce the result stated. After the second attack upon the E ojieror William the brothers of the assHwun, who were officers in the srrny, tendered their resignations, but were allowed to retain their places and to change their name from Nobiling to Keeling. Bv a strange coincidence, a man in Cologne, who was formerly nsmod Becker, and who, after Oscar Bicker had attempted to assassinate tbc Emperor in 1858, eliaugi*! hi* name, happened to select his wife's uame, which was Nobcihig. When Admiral Hay landed in Cyprus he sent filtv marines on to Lsruaca, the capital >f tlie island, and as the weather wn* extremely hot, gave them mule* to ride on, thus organizing s veritable corps of horse, or rather male, marines. The mules suffered from the heat as much a* their riders, and after brief and solemn deliberation determined to kick their unskillful rider* ff. There wa* a sudden aud unt.nimoua elevation of heals, and fifty marines lay prostrate in the dust. This was comical enough, hut the story baa a serious end. The mulre ran sway, and ten of the marines, compelled to walk, were sunstruck. The Journal fa* Drl>at* recently has given statistics respecting the number of horse* possessed by different coun tries. Throughout the whole of the Turkish dominions there are estimated to lie uulyfl,ooo,ooo horses, while the Kussiau provinces are credited with tlie poflsesmou of no fewer than 21,670,000. AnstTO-Hungarv lis* about 3,500,000, and (Jermany 3.382,000. France, which hail cousidcraiily more than 3,000,- 000 a few years *g<\ ha* now rather leu* than that number, and England atonds only fourth on the lud, with 2,255,000. The United States bag a total of 9,500,- 000; Canada, 2.400,000; the Argentine Republic, 4,000„000; and Uruguay, 1,- 000,000. The Merchants' Exchange of Nash ville, Tenn., has as its members' pecu liar pet an eight-year-old rattlesnake, with sewn rattles and n batton, about five feet long. Every evening about five o'cloak be is taken out of his box and emptied rnto the basin of the fountain. Along the edges of this he establishes himself until compelled by frequent prodding* to move, when he goes dashing through the water to the other aide, cat sing a stampede of spec tators in that locality. Often ho jumps from the basin to the floor, and coiling himself, strikes at his tormentors. His close confinement, however, has render ed him Inactive, and when he strikes it is may to get ont of the way. At the conclusion of his performance tho end of his box is plaoed at his head and he erawla in. It is on the 11th of July next that.if the proclamations jv>t<vl bv tlie Wall ahco# on the uuisque* of northeru India are to be believed, the world is coming to an end. The story, as set forth in the manifesto, runs as follows : A priest in the mosque at Medina has lately hod a visit from the Prophet, who lament* the degenerate oouditiou of Ilia followers, ami attributes theveoout short rainfalls and consequent scarcity to neglect of his precept*, and to the corruption ami apathy of the judges who ait over his people. The Prophet, moreover, as sorts that only seven Mussulmans havt attained to eternal bliss since hi* own ndmission to paradise. This state of thing* is so unsatisfactory that the Almighty ha* decided that the sun shall rise in the west iustead of the east on Jtilv 11; ami on that day all who call themselves true believers shall be struck with blindness, and dissolution follow immediately. "If there be a word of falsehood," adds the priest, "in what I have stated, let my face lie blackened forever." It is estimated that the wheat crop for 1878, in twenty-one States of the Union, foots up 801,000,000 bushels. Of this amount, Minnesota furnishes 60,000,000 bushels; lowa, 45,000,000; Kansas, 80,- 000,000; Nebraska, 26,000,000; Wiscon sin, 18,000,000; Michigan, 18,000,000; Illinois. 15,000,000; Indiana, 20.000.000; Ohio, 16,000,000; Texas, 12.000.000; Arkansas, 7,000,000; Kentucky. 8,000,- 000; Tennessee. 10,000,000 ; Pennsyl vania, New York, and New England States, 25,000,000. TKRMH: #2.00 ft Yoar, in Aflvanoe. I Where Mosquitoes were Thick. The captain of a steamboat gave a St. Louis n-jmrUr the following information concerning mosquitoes on the upper Missouri: " Well, sir. we new p<ior est- Ue riuh down into the water end wade ui until everything waa oovered but their heada, aud then the peat* would light on their heada in awaraia, and bite their uoaea, arid every place they eould •ettle ob, until the lor thiuga bellowed ib their agony, and cloaed their eye* aud toaaed their heads. If they were hutuau they would oomruit suicide. Aa it ia they are driven mail. Poor thiuga, ther are notiiUig but akiu aud luiues; mere skele tons, clothed iu awolleu aud ulcerated akin*. Borne of the boya killed a few of them, but they were not tit to bring ou tioard. Same way with all the anitnala. Antelope and deer were reduced to uoth ing but akeletotia by the vain pin*. If you held your hand out for a quarter of a minute, it would Ire (<vcr<*l ao thick with mosquitoes that it would look like you hail a glove on. The naffaring of the men was awful. 11l tell you Low we were able to get through. I took down my Move-pipes aud kept amoky fires burning all the time, I had to have two small hand -furnaces making smoke m the pilot-house all the time, ao that the pilots could work. The men ware all broke up. Every limb was awaited up, and you eould not have recognised the features of your own brother. The smoke was the only protection, and it was pretty near as bad aa the mosqui toes. The eyea of all the ineu were blood shot. Life *w misery. "The nrosquito latitude begins about seventy-five mi lea tielow Bismarck, and ia good for seventy-five above that point. There never waa a season like this one before. For the first lime in many years they had up there what you would call an ojwu winter. There was no ice or snow. At Fort Benton, and just look at your map and you will find it about forty-seven degrees latitude, and that's pretty far north, they didn't put up a ton of ice. About the first of March the rainy season set in. There has not been twelve good days siuoe. I will venture to say, and mind yon I know all about that country, mure nun has fallen in that latitude this year than in the fif teen years previous. Vegetation ia rank and tropical in its luxuriance. Weeds of uuoanally ordinary growth are higher than a man's head, and from the water mosquitoes arc bread by the million. If you publish what I hare been telling vou about the pesta, some people will laugh and call it exaggeration. Young man I couldn't begin to give you an idea of their numls-re. They fly in clouds. They obstruct the iight of the sun. They are mvenous. They are as bad in the day aa in the night. They drive a man aim <iet crazy. Just think of preferring to ait in a blinding and stifling smoke rather than venture outside where the mosquitoes would get at them. Rathef would I promenade twenty hours a Jay through the yellow fever .listrict of New Orleans than go through the experience with mosquitoes that I had this summer. It ia awful. I can give you uo idea of the nuisance, the torture." And the captain aimed a vicious blow at a sleepy fly aud walked vigorously around to ahakc off the memory of this upper Mis souri mosquito misery. The Kmp ror of bermany. A Paris paper has an article on the Emperor William, from whicli we take the following extract, describing the personal appearance of the mouareh who has been so repeatedly a target for the assassin. An audience* of the emperor, in hi* cabinet on the ground floor of the palace at Berlin, reaemblea no other royal audience. The emperor is dad in bis long military frock coat, with it* two rows of buttons. Fie is marvelously neat, very straight, and rather *t ff. His oontour is still well preserved. Ilia body is well made. His limb*are power ful. His extremities indicate an old and good race. His face, more grave than severe, with it* beard cut in derm an fashion, is we.ll known. The smile which plays on his face is at times very young. When tliis tall old man speaks to tlie women who, during the summer months, form his court at Ems, he seems to date bock to the seventeenth century. The emperor has the lieautiful bine eyes of Frederick the (Treat. But however large his eyes they have not the extraordinary dimensions of the eyes of Frederick. The scant hairs, formerly light brown, to-dav ashen, are parted low cm the left, crossing but not covering the crown of his head. William seems to me to per sonify absolutely the type of an emperor of the olden time-large, strong, hand some—a soldier. The faces of Alexander aud Francis Joseph are those of modern emperors. The gaze of William ha* a strange slowness. It is the.look of a man who has the consciousness of majes- ty. He believe*, it is well known, in bis divine right. His tufted eyebrows form fine arch. Hw eyes have not the vague mystcriouaness of those of Ales andrr, nor the indirible melnneholy of those of Prsneis Joseph, nor the tronble of those of Qneen Victoria. However, I prefer tlie expression of these lust three to that of the Emperor William. They have more personality. His voice has a strong tone of com mand. The acceut is slightly Rerlinese. The emperor tliickens a little, nml dwells somewhat on the vowels. He speaks slowly and very correctly, as a man who has the habit of alwnvs l>eing listened to, without having hiainterlocntertlnish hia sentence. He chooses rather than seeks his words. He would Ih> able to deliver from the tribune of the Reichatadt an eloquent discourse. The emperor lias the real memory of a aovereigu He re members every name and every face. He knows most of the officers of his army. At times, wheu witnessing a review, one will hoar him say to a modest officer, "You resemble jour grandfather; a little lighter, perhaps. He was a brave sol dier." tie remembers a conversation he has hold years before. Adored by those who surround him, be is very thoughtful of them. But nover did a sovereign do so easily withont the pres ence of an officer whom death or ad vancement has taken from hia snite. tie thinks ouly of those whom ho see*, and of whom he has need. It ia an egotism of the aovereigu which does not affect the heart of the man. Look at him close by. Every face of old age is a revelation. The Emperor William is good. Planets not Like the Earth. Modern seienoe, in a number of oases, bos exploded the old theory that the planets are very much like the globe we luhahit, having the same eonditions of being. Notably is thi* so with reference to Jupiter and Hat urn. During the last eight or nine years the belief ha* been gaining ground that these giant planets ore in a state of immenae lieat, and en wrapped in atmospheres of enormous depth and donsity, and that we do not see thera at all. Beoent observations have fully oonfirmed this theory. At the Adelaide Observatory, where a fine telesoope has been erected, and where a singular purity of air greatly assists astronomical observation, two practical observe#*, on two different occasions— both observing on each occasion—saw the nearest of Jupiter's satellites through the onter layer of the plauet's cloud ladeu atmosphere, which must there fore of necessity be at least 2,000 miles in depth.— Boston lYarucript. NUMBER 38. The Feminine World. Quo of the Eastern churches claims that a weeltliy latlyof their congregation saves them fIO,OOO a year by the exam ple aba aeta her sisters in the eimplinity ami pUinnaaa of her dross. One of our beet writers ssys: "That eduaaiion makes women Ices pedantic and more lovable." One of the printed rules in s female seminary to thai none of the pupil# shall eat alato pencil*, chalk, soap stone or ooal. In the United Btatee them am over one thousand females practicing aa doo ors. dentists, lawyers and ■raaeL.-rs. Many woman have ruined their health, and noma have beoome insane by the habit of eating arsenic to clear and whiten their complexions. Btill, the list of arsenic victims does not diminish. A London merchant says that the American women am the moet capricious so l extravagant women in the world, particularly in the matter of hosiery. Their latest caprice to open-work lace hose—lace from the top to the toe—to be worn with a colored silk stocking underneeth. gueeu Victoria has her carriage seat arranged in such a manner thai the motion of the vehicle acta it rucking. Hint can now bow to the populace with out wearing out the vertebral of Jw neck by the incessant motion. Seventy.five hundred dollars to a higher price than the majority of us pay for a dram, bat is the actual price paid for the wedding dress of a lady of nobility. Tsaaar girls are not allowed to keep l<srrots ami doga, but are permitted to keep 500 pianos ooutinuaUy going; so they are not deprived of their privileges. It to useless for physicians to argue against short-slewed dresses. The Ocm t ltutioa of toe United Btatee says that •• the right to bear arms shall not be in terfered with." Udy clerks in the different depart ments at Washington have been released from the political law which used to Wx them a percentage on their salary to help defray the expenses of political caxapftigna. A woman of rare presence of mind was overtaken by a train oo a high trestle work, near Marietta, 0., reoently, and dropped between the Uea, holding herself suspended by her arms nntil the train pM*ed over, when she climbed hack again, and all without s scream. The acknowledged belle of Europe is an American lady from New Jersey. Oameis hair shawls are made from the wool of the Cashmere goat, and not from camels hair, as many have sup posed. A number of the leading ladies of Chicago are meditating a plan far the founding of a home for inebriate women, similar to the Washington ian Home in that city. The either, already fashionable in England, promises to become the rage now thai the Princcea of Wales baa be gun to take lessons on it. The sweet girl graduate has been heard from. Having laid to rest her bouquets and bolted up her graduating ribbou, she now wears the royal purple and tastca the sweets of life—-she s put* ting up blaekberrv jam. Virginia City, Nov.. gave ita prettiest girl a tea-set coating $65. Women are usurping men's rights in Colorado. They have organised them selves la to gangs and are stealing boiwea. Eating cloves is injurious, as a Ver mont girl discovered after she had lost her health and forty pounds in flesh. Elevated Railroad Scenes la Sew York. Two elevated railroada are now in running order in New York —one oo the ut aide and the other on the wast aide of the city. The former was the last one finished, and a H'or/d reporter took a ride the first day, recording his im pressions. The newspaper man says: While the reporter was examining the can with a critical eye the train waa already on its way through the narrow down-town streets. Through Pearl street it ran, making a deafening clatter with the rattle of the road itself, the grinding of the wheels and the reverberations from the buildings. People in the street below, however, seemed to pay no at tention to the engine and the oars and the home stood quietly in front of tbr trucks and carts, without driven near, and munched their fodder. In Third avenue the horses of the sarfaee cars and of wagons jogged along, people looked into shop windows and not into ths sky, and the only difference was that the train, having more room on each side, did not make so much noise. By this time, after one or two stops, the two can were comfortably filled, several of the passengers being women. The re porter, for Sack of anything slse to do, attempted to read the store signs as he was rapidly carried along. Only the big ones were readable. A woman knit ting at a window was unpleasantly con founded with a man pressing beta, and a barber in the second story of a house, leisurelv shaving a customer, became, by a sort of dissolving-view arrange ment, a fat German woman energeti c*Uv spanking a child. Oooper Insti tute" suddenly loomed up —a dark mass. There was not much left of the journey after thia, nor much novelty. There "was the same round of women sitting at windows, sewing and occasion al!? half lazily looking at the oars that shot past their lioneee, and of people anietlv walking along the streota, until ie train turned into Forty-second street, frightened a team of horeee attached to a brewer's dray and then halted at the Grand Contra] Depot. A Cartons Hobby. The bibliomsnia of gonrmsndise i* a queer hobby, bnt the manager of the Continental" Hotel restaurant in Phila delphia is firmly mounted on it,and rides hard and well. He has read the Bible from cover to cover, and treasured up every word about food; and from Shakespeare' 6 writings he collated over three hundred extracts relating to dishes, mainly salads. A Press reporter, who had been allowed to examine this en thusiast's collection, found over 10,000 bills of fare and 500 cook books. There were menus from every important city in Europe and Amerioa; bills of fare printed on white satin, when kings, statesmen and heroes had been enter tained ; in a word, it is a collection that cannot be surpassed in kind. The col li-etc r knows how to make hunt! reds upon hundreds of salads, and says that so simple a dish as Indian corn can be > served in a hundred styliw. He notices 'a difference iu the tastes of Americans. A Philadelphian will call for terrapin or filet de bceuf ; the Bostonians, although it sounds like satire to say so, do actual ly want pork anil beans, when away from home ; if not that, then rare roast beef seems to bo their favorite diet. The Western men, too, are groat boef eaters, and are fond of fowl and game— solid food generally; Southern men are as a rule, vegetarians. They are great salid eaters, and can appreciate a salid when it is well made. Gay colored belts are worn with all costumes, but especially with black. Ladies who have a taste for embroider ing work their own belts; others wear the gaily woven ribbons in the Oriental designs so much in vogue. Items #f Interest. The toper to now spoken of as thechap with a (IMM sigh. Why to ft a tick of oandv like ft borse? RaouiM the more you lick it the faster it goes. Why to ft lady'a foot like • locomo tive? Because it asuallj goes sliced of ft train. It to mttmated that 45.000 000 eggs are oonatimed etrty day in the United HtaU-e. New Tork alone oonsnmes 40,- 000,000 doses annually. "See here, misther," said • l*d of ■own natntncra, who was driven op • tree by ft dog, ** if yem don't take that dog ftway I'll eat up all your apple*." Ohiaago possesses • preooetou* female oretor iu IUM ROWS, aged thirteen, and | the hardened sinner of the Bnrlirgton Haw key e apeaka of her aa another Hiaey- Rowe. In France arehitecta and contractor* are legally held reaponaible for a period of ten yearn after the completion of a structure for total or partial loss occa sioned by defective plana or work. Lightning baa been prove! in one ■n.tr.v, to have struck e church with e force equal to more than 12,000 borae- Bwer, or equal to the raising of 884,- ;,000 pounds one foot in a minute. An exchange wants to know whither iuaeote can talk. Can't aay as to that, but yon can bet your last slu-kcl aocne at them can occasionally inspire the very livelieat kind of eon vernation in others. " I wonder where the clouds ere go ing," eight*! Flora, pensively, aa she pointed with a delicate finger to the heavy floating in the sky. " I think they em going to thunder," said her brother. Tlito to aaid to be a good recipe for wood .—For black walnut stain, simply use sulphatum varnish, thinned with spirits of turpentine, and apply with a brush. It can be made light or dark aa deaused. The good man loves si! men. Ha love* to apeak of the good of others. All within the four MM are hi# brothers. Love of man is chief of ail the virtues. The mean man sows, that himself may reap; bat the love of the perfect man is universal. . They have long preserved with reli gions oare in Germany a fragment of the rook to which John Horn waa chained mat prior to his death at the stake. This preeioos relic has now beau con veyed to Prague, and is tu be deposited in the National Museum of Bohemia. The editor of the Sew Yerk Advocate, Walter H.shnpe, hae filed m petition to be declared a bankrupt. His liabilities are reported at $69,538.58 and his asset# SBB7. His principal creditor is Andrew Luke, of 111 Fnltoa St., to whom he owes 847,000 on two separate- claims.— Sewtpaper Reporter. " People who go into bustueaa by the aide of men who have a large business built np by constant advertising, and never advertise a dollar, bat j upon the drippings from the neighbor ing sanctuary, are like boys who go oat to s pigeon snoot, and try to get enough birds Tor a mess from those that get sway from the regular sportsmen. Such 'is life, and the pot hasters often go hungry.— MiUnaulse dam. OS SEEIBO A MTXK UOK A WAS TBMOVQU TBK moor or a SBKO. Oh, male' . What sow and osmpbcsla machinery ! What sudden sod prectiitoto eitnmeea; Use's JUDGMENT sad has VMM mo* be kesn or he Will hsutsta to nxuc ths from thy dreams, A ragged eeheul Trained Uy grmnrnmmvrpt mtrmmr To bust e hag of nail#, kick down a fence, or Lift a man. oh urate' Bat. ma>. Ibes east not lway# the taaalshle, liiinnmt■ in s Inn f'- teacher word? Not sie.v. Ura U.r aixxmU. loud and rotable. Men* ferfni bewt with dreadful toner lias your hsisb rale Jltwsyv Impelled him, with emotions fleet To fly the foodta#* of Shy Utarfeot t Say, geuJs mule f ' gpeak. mote. Why didst tboo. with intaow vitality lift through the hragohMs roof of yoodw •bad A man. an earth bora child of immortality. Because bo passed thee with raeaanout tread t He via DO tool. That base bora, eonikes mules should kick him, fg— i He us ecbolsr. an JL M., s Ph. D. j s D.— Ok!! Whoa, male!!! —Awrhaytoe Bwekeyt. Komanrr of a break Baalu A London correspondent writes: There are only four streets, I am told, in all London where verdure is not to be seen; that is to aay, all ths streets of London command a view of some growing green trees or shrubs. This is rather startling when yon come to think of the hundreds of seres of booses sod narrow streets this great city of cities presents to the sview of the visitor. Take "the Old : Lady of Thrsadneedle street," as the citizens disrespectfully term the vener able sud mighty Rank of England. Within its strong walls is a garden, even I a delicate fountain, and a nig tree, in deed two trees and some numerous ; plants. Fresh and attractive thev stand oat in charming contrast, smiling at busy business and listening to the ever tan tali zing dink of gold. This garden > is more beautiful and attractive than any I have seen in many towns in : America—a land of trees! You survey 1 thjs emerald spot, stnddftl with floral ' rabies and adorned with petalled tur quoise, and you look around at the to i pax fringe of guinea gold, and exclaim: I "No garden in the world is so richly , environed." Millions of money per month pass around this garden. Be neath that tallest tree there is a story. It is brief. Allow m to tell it for the first time in print. Home years ago the hawk bad a clerk whose height mru , sored nearly seven feet two inches.. He ! was s marvel in more ways than one. ' He could add up I don't know how many ' columns of figures at one time without an error; do subtraction and multiplica tion simultaneously, and look upon " vulgar fractious " disdainful!?. In a word, he was a big figure. Nature has i given to big men gentle dispositions. This figurative giant was most amiable and a general favorite. The clerks in ' the Bank of England are all gentlemen !by birth and education, not a few of ! them being by blood ties allies to the 1 oldest families in the kingdom. Indeed, I mm told one of them is the lineal Je , soeadant of a king, and as that monarch through this descendant proclaims Ire land as their domain, I will not for a I moment stop to dispute the pedigree of I " the pretender." In good owmpanv the giant labored and lived and diefy for giants cannot carry their lengthened j sweetness long drawn out beyond the period allotted to mar generally any mors than a dwarf. When the giant of the Bank of England added up his last figures and balanced his accounts with ' this world, htuclerkly companions sought ! to shroud him in the loaves of the ledg er of their esteem and bury him beneath : the tree I mentioned in tse precincts of ' the bank he loved so weil. There, in thia verdant oasis of the commercial desert, his financial spirit is continually I rejoiced by the tinklo of gold and the ever-moving millions, not a farthing of which he can now reckon on. An Absea t-Minded Recorder. Mr Richard Biker, the Recorder of York City, some fifty years ago, was a polite but absent-minded man. He was always ready to oblige, and his good nature was once taken advantage of by a waggish lawyer who also knew his habit of absent-mindedness. The Recorder would sign papers for tho lawyers at all hours, and that, too, without looking at them, exeept on rare occasions. He trusted to their honesty. The waggish lawyer made a small wager that he would prooure Mr. Riker'a sig nature to an order committing himself to Jail. The order was taken to the Re corder, who put his signature to a mitti mus ordering the Sheriff of the City and County of New York to commit Richard Biker, Esq., Recorder, tt> tire common jail.
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