(•reen lir I ndpr the Snow. Tbe work of the sun it slow, Bnt a* sure M Hmrn we know ; So we'll not forget. When the skies ere wet, There'* green pre** under the ar lo w. When the winds of wiuf r blow, Wailing like voice* of WOPi There ere AprP K | IOWPrK , And green grans ntlder thp roow . We'll an-", that if, m m In this jj^- g „ npwn fl ow . C'e'vs orilv to wait. In the fere of Fate, For the green grass under the snow. Sunflowers. They blossom brightly, straight and tall. Age mat the mossy garden wall, Hon oath the poplar trees; The snnbeama kiss eeoh golden faee. Their green haves waTe with airy greoe In fresh Septeiutw r's hreeae. On one fair disk of gold am! brown A purple butterfly light* down; A sister blossom yi< Ids Her honey store, eoutent to be A late provider for the bee. Flown brew froiu clover flelds. Kach dawning day. when climbs the sun. And steadfast till his course is run. These royal blossoms raise Their grand, wide opened, golden eves To watch his journey through the skies, t'udannted by his blaze. The butterfly may sleep or soar, The tws ma* steal their honey store. But still the flowers gate on, With burning looks of chaugoh * love. Toward the day-god, high above, Until the day is gw,e. Fair maid beside th * garden wall. Thy lithe form <\v straight and tall. The sunflower' , grfcJu . The golden tr 0 f tumo hair, Like sunfloa, c do ,ea VP f U Bright ha a pound Uiy face. And thro* ahadow-s looking down. We find thine eyes o' -. Nest brown I-tke siuitl.'se.- tw.ui erp thoughts, th at All our time-worn eyes With fearful. Lopefui tears. Ood give thee s* lushsue on thy way ' God crown thy happy summer day With ptjnx f* tl autumn years ! In doe time < omicg. on thy breast Love's pnrpl i butterfly may rest. And uestk close to thee; And ere thy stunmer-time is o'er. Thy tweotn* may yield honey store For life's hiown wor'jng bee. But evermore, thouy h love should come And fold his pinion * in thine home. Lift thy calm gai above : Mark thou the ear flower's constant eye, And follow throw ,h life's changing sky The sun of fai' ii and love. —Uitrptr's Bazar. What Became ol the Pocket book. - " H jTeyon any toy trumpets?" asked old Farmer Campbell of the talkative tin-'peddler whose red cart with its ho asekeeper-tempting array of brooms, ujops, scrubbing-brushes, pails, tubs, etc., stood one sunny spring morning under the bndding maples before the farm-house gate. " Lots on 'em, sir ; red ones, blue ones, green, yellow and white ones—all on "etu shiny ones. Which will you have? 'Aint they hansam now?" "and he jingled the attractive baubles before the smiling old gentleman \ "IH pick out these two," he said, taking one in ea<*h hand and putting his hands behind him. • " Don't say any thing about them yet to Catherine. Perhaps when she settles up for her rags there'll be enough coming to pay for them. There, she's coming oat with another lot." " We've tn-en making rugs," explain ed Catherine, a plump, good-looking young wont in of thirty, running hriaklv clown the walk with a huge handle in in her arms, '-that's how we happen to have so ma ay colored rags to-dav." "Here's another little wad," pried Mother Gampbeli, very much out of breath, hurrvmg along a ft er daughter. "I don't want any leavings for moths to aongregate m.- "I decker ejaculated hrr husband in dismay. 44 1 d jdare! that is my sheep's gray vee' fc I shan't have a rag left to pi it on, and shall be driven to wearing my go-to-meetin' suit every day." Cat jerine had been diving her shining bro* n head and pi amp shoulders into tbe out, bringing to light sundry pans, Cape, measures and skimmers, while the artful peddler had beguiled her mother into purchasing a pair of sparkling glass Etchers. Ks the accounts were being danced the old gentleman laughingly held np the blue and the green trumpets to be enumerated, while from a branch of the tree above their heads the tame crow, Jetty, laughed, "Ha, ha, ha," to call their attention to the red trumpet which he bad stolen from the cart. "Father, you don't want that trumpet more'a the crow doce! Come down with that, you black roguel" scolded Miss Catherine. "I promised the twins when I was up to Dolly Jotue' to have a tootmaker on hand for each of them when they came down in May," said the old man decided ly, "and grandpa musn't break his word to the little fellows." "Those boys are too old for trumpets," put in Mrs. CampbelL "They'll drive me distracted with their noise." "1 hope they'll never be too old to enjoy toys and fun," said the old gen tleman. roguishly blowing a blast upon each of the trumpets at the same time. " I guess I will have one for myself, too, and as for the twins, they won't be seven till June." " They'll be eight," said his wife. "I've got it down on a paper in my pocket-boik," replied the old gentle man, feeling first in one pocket and then in another, " and I'll pay money for the trumpets, Jetty's and "all Catherine, fetcu my pocket-book from the mantle shelf in the bedroom chamber," he called after his daughter, who was hurrying to ward the home. "It isn't there," she replied, as she retnrned presently with a bag of dried apples, "and I didn't stop to look it np, because there will be enough com ing from these to pay for the trumpets." "I want to make father some ginger snaps after Consin Bath's recipe, and I can't find the paper on which it is writ ten down," remarked Mrs. Campbell next morning, as, busy abont the Satur day's baking, she bustled around looking over boxes, baskets and drawers. "It is in my pocket-book," paid her husband, glancing up from his news paper, " I saw it lying on the hanging table the last time you made snaps, and I reckoned it might get mislaid and so yon have an excuse for not making me* any for a long spelL So I took pos session of it," and he began again to feel first in one pocket and then in an other. "I declare," he ejaculated, presently, " I haven't seen that pocket book, as* I remember, since I looked for it. when the peddler was here yesterday. "Make ginger-drops with enrrants in them to-day, mother," suggested Cath erine, " I can't take my hands out of the pound cake to look np that pocket book now." " Have you wound the clock, father?" asked Mrs. Campbell, next morning, as she was tying her bonnet-Btringa in a sqaare bow under her double-chin, pre paratory to starting for church. " No*" said he, " but I was calculat ing to just before I started, so as to be Mire and take the money for the mis sionarv-box out of my pocket-book when I took the clock-key. Catherine, bring P ..itED. KURTZ, Kditor and Proprietor. VOLUME XI. me my pookeUbook from the mautle ahclf m live tsklrnou fhitabfr*" " It isn't here," replied his daughter, who was rattling about iu her bust black silk drees. " Did you fltid it yesterday * If yon did, I didn't hear anything about it, and it slipped rav miud. A " Vfatia, quna," laughed Jetty, from th tall lilac-bush iu frout of tlie bod room wludow, and, glauding out, they saw that he had the green truinjx-t iu his mouth. " He stole that from the mantle iu your room, and wliy shouldn't he have stolen the pocket-book as well ? lie picks i up every small, bright colored object tliat attracts his attentiou. I, for one, don't believe iu liarUmnga thief m the house," and Miss Catherine turned the i cat outdoors, abut the dam pew of the | stove aud declared every tiling to lie ready for starting. " 1 never thought it a good plan to I carry that clock key iu your pooket j InKvk," said Catherine, as they jogged along to church. " I like to have tliiugs where I know they are safe," said her father. " Well, you missed your tlgure for once," sjKike up his wife". " By no means," replied the line old gentleman, good-naturedly, " the key . with the rest of the missing articles is in the pocketbook, and that is mislaid by no fault of mine, as you will be willing 1 to admit when it turns up." | Bnt it didn't turu up, even after din ner when they searched until suudowu. Then, uot wishing to have the old eight day clock ruu down, Catherine had the horse harnessed into the chaise, and drove over to the east part of the town • to the Russell homestead, where there was an old family dock exactly like theirs, and borrowed the key. In talk ing the matter over with Mrs, Russell. Catharine remembered that a tramp had called and had eaten a Kiwi of bread and , milk by the kitchen fire the very morn ing before the pocket-book was missed. I That brought np the prolific subject of : tramps and thieves, and Mr. Russell mentioned that a widow named Waite, • with two children, a son and a daughter, from down the river somewhere, had bought and moved on to the Basoomb place ; that when he heard of it he couldn't help remembering that last year when he was down to the shire town on a jury a widow woman named Waito was sent to jail for three months for stealing, and that Mrs. Russell re marked that she didn't luteud to say anything about it to any body, but that she had made np her mind that she shouldn't call on her new neighbors. The nest day, when Catherine was up to her elbows in si-Is, a gentlemanly appearing youth who said his family had just purchased the Rascomb place, came to the door, having heard tliat Mr. Campbell was Prudential School Com mittee, to see if he could secure a situa tion as teacher for his sister. Catherine listened no further, but answered him curtly without referring him to her father, and shut the door in his face. Sbe mentioned the incident to Mrs. Russell after dinner when she drove over to return the clock key. She add ed, thoughtfully, that he looked to her like the fellow to whom she gave the bread and milk the day before the pocket-book was missed. Mrs. Russell asked how much money there was in it, and, being told, said she had heard that they paid one-third down for their place, although only one fourth had been required. When Catherine returned home she fonnd that her half-brother. James, had driven over from his adjoining farm to see abont a note which his father held against some one in the next town, which he thonght ought to be renewed. "It won't outlaw for a year," said Farmer Campbell. "Let me see," said his son. and then, of course, Catherine let ont the storv. "Was it your old sheepskin wallet, father ?" "Oh, no, it was the pretty ml mo rocco one with twenty different com partments that the twins gave me last Christmas. "Ton had it in yonr band the last time I was in here, and showed me the re ceipted bill for three aets of Cyclo pedias—Catherine's set, James* set and my set Let me sec; that was Thursday. There was a tramp eating bread aud milk in the kitchen, a rough-looking fellow. I thonght it injudicions to let him enter the house, ami spoke to wife about it when I got home. Don't you remember it ? After he went away mother said father looked lfke a tramp in that old sheep's gray snit." "There, those clothes are in that nig," pnt in Catherine triumphantly, pointing to an immense braided mat upon which she was at work. "Father left them off to have them mended one day. the tin peddler came along, and while father was out talking with him, mother and I stripped what was good for carpets ont of them and bundled up the rest for rags in a hurry, I tell you." "I am glad of it," said her half brother, laughing heartily, "but I must not be lingering here. Father, can I take your side-hiil plow for a few days?" "I presume it is in that missing pocket .book," observed Catherine facetiously, and the tarneed crow laughed, "qnha, quha, qnha," an he alighted outside the window with Mrs. Campbell's scarlet crochet knitting-bag in his bill, which he immediately carried across the yard and threw into the welL The four persons looked at each other and nodded knowingly. "We will send for Ed Hotton immediately to come and clean out the well," said mother. "That would be impracticable while the water is so deep," said James, "bnt at high noon you can reflect the bottom of the well in a looking-glass, and see what is there." The experiment was tried, and there could be seen on the clear, gravelly bot tom of the well sundry cup, mugs, nails, small tools and pieces of crockery, a green frog, and a big, speckled trout, but no pocket-book. The knitting-bag caught on the backet, and was saved, to Mrs. Campbell's great relief. Hardly a day passed bnt that some thing was wanted, which, when inquired for, was found to have been safely stow ed away in that capacions lost pooket book. Mrs. Campbell settled down in the belief that James, who was the father's son by a prior marriage, and no favorite of hers, had thougth it no harm to appro priate his father's property to his own uses. Miss Catherine had no doubt that the tramp picked it up soon after her father had thoughtlessly laid it down, and she was sure' that the beggar and young Waite were one and the same person. Mr. Campbell thought that Jetty was the rogue, and spent a great deal of time watching the singular pranks and evolu tions of the interesting bird. When the twins came for their prom ised visit Aunt Catherine made a party, inviting all the boys and girls in the neighborhood, and offering a prize of a gold dollar strung on a blue ribbou to the one who should find the pock et-1 took. The premises were thoroughly explored, the garden plot was raked over, every maple, apple and cherry tree was climb ed, and searched for knot holes, but al though a great many squirrels, birds, rats and mice nests were brought to light, the pocket-book, to grandpa's great dis appointment, did not appear. Every Sunday night during the sum mer Catherine drove over to Esq. Bus sell's to borrow the clock key, and some THE CENTRE REPORTER. titue during the week when alio had time, alio eat riml it home. When, in the fall, the weather grew chilly, bachelor Ed Hu*acll U*ik to driv ing over to Farmer C*mpt>ell' to wind the tall clook, and the family all agreed in cwlling Uitu au uncommonly accommo dating young man. A* this w ss kept up steadily all winter, people would have set the young folks dow u as Invent had not every one known about the missing clock key. It had come to l>e generally under stood that young Waite wan the thief, and not A call was made UJMU the comers for a whole year in that highly proper Christian neighborhood. One balmy moruiug the following spring Miss Catherine, chancing to glance up from the rug winch she was braiding and sowing fora present to Mrs. Hussell, saw a pretty young girl iu a plain black alpaca suit coming through the gate. " There's that YViute girl," ejaculated Catharine to her mother, " t wonder what she means by calling here ? I pre sume it's about the school again, but we don't want our neiguborbood chil dren tinder such mfluenco. I alian't ask her iu." Catharine did uot have the oujHirtuu ity, for her father, with Jetty "perched on his shoulder, waikt J slowly down the gravel walk, shook the girl's hand iu his habitual gentle, cordial way; stood and talked with her a minute or two, aud then, in an excite*! manner waited upon her to the house. " Hallo 1" here's my pocket-hook I" cried he jubilantly, a be threw the door wide open. This young ladv brought it. Walk right in, my dear, and tell us all about it. My wife add daughter will be glad to know you. bit dowu iu this rocking-chair; yon must lie tmvl after your long walk." Miss Catherine prided herself upon her sharpness She thought now, as she set her head a little more primly on one aide, " Ah, that self-assured young Waite tuid that miserable tramp were identical, as 1 have always supposed. We ought to have had him arrested at the time, as Mrs. Russell suggested." "This is where 1 found it," wul the girl, tsmidly, pulling a little btradie of old sheep's gray tlanuel out of her pocket. "Hallo! The haek aud lining of my old gray vest," said the old gentleman, skipping around like a boy. "It looks like an old friend. There, mother 1 who was the rogue J It wasn't me, and it wasn't Jetty, nor the poor hungry, for lorn tramp. " I found it in this inside pocket," went on the girl, " and thia little roll was twisted up and tucked in ou top of a sack of nut* that was given mo to sort and cut in the rag-sLop where I have been at work because I couldn't get a situation to teach. I haven't opened it, because it wasn't necessary when I saw your name in gold letters ou the out side. " "Everything is all right," said the old man, "The note runs out jus* as I said, next week. The twins will be seven, and it does take two cups of mo lasses for the snaps. I guess yon will begin to think I know something, after aIL The monev cornea just when I need it, and is just the same as a gift. Sit down, sit down, my dear, you are not rested, I am sure." Catherine told Mrs. Russell, after ward, that she felt as cheap as rags, but she came forward and took off the girl a things aud kept her to supper, and be fore that meal was over they were all so charmed with her that Miss Catherine carried her home in the chaise aud drove around by the residence of the newly elected prudi-utial committee, and se cured the school for the corning term. The neit day Miss Catherine took Mrs. Russell over to call, aud they car ried the young ladv, WIK*-- name after all was not Waite, but Wyat, a gift of a twenty-dollar gold pieoe from Mr. C&mpbelL At the wedding of Miss Catherine aud bachelor Ed Russell, waica camo off at midsummer, the Wyat brother ud si ter were among the bridesmaids and groomsmen. Everybody, old aud young, even to the jolly tin-peddler, were bidden to the wedding. Graadua told the story of the lord pocket-iooK, and said that it had turned out well, for he had given Catherine over as an old maid, and she would have leen hail she not been obliged to keep the old ck k from running down. The twins h 1 new trumpets bought by grandpa f< - the occasion, and Jetty in his best suit of black stood in the lilac bush in front of au open window, au i all tlirongh the ceremony laughed, "qnaha. quaha. qnaha."— Chicago Standard. French Prisons There are twenty-one central prisons in France for prisoners with sentences of five years and over. The cellular system is adopted in prisons for the de tention of prisoners not sent up for more than a year and a day, but in the central prisons as many as 100 men sleep in one ward, certain of their num ber being lesponsiblc for the preserva tion of order. The dormitories are lighted, and there are openings from the galleries through which the guards may inspect them. By day the men work in atrlicrt, fifty or a hundred in each. Shoes, chairs, woven fabrics, buttons, umbrella-ferules, Chinese lun terns, etc., are manufactured, and such light work as glossing paper, sewing oopy-boQks aud making hair ornaments is done. The wark is let to contractors by tai iff fixed by the local Chamber of Commerce, to prevent an nndne com petition with free labor. Half of the profits of the prisoner's work goes to the Htate; he is allowed to spend a quar ter in procuring special articles of diet, etc., and the remaining qnarter is paid to him on leaving, so that a discharged convict often finds himself with from $1(10 to £IOO cash capital. A large propor tion of the prisoners use this in setting themselves up in trade or in procuring passages to other lands. These re wards of industrial labor, together with the industrial training itself, constitute together the main and tolerably effec tual counterbalance to the otherwise grave evils of association. The eleme.nt of hope is always prominent in Freuch prisons, and it is the sheet-anchor of their administration. A visitor to La Hante, at Pare . observed in tlie first cell he inspected n table on which lay a pipe of tobacco, a half bottle of wine and a novel. An Exposition Shawl. At the Paris Exposition is a very beautiful Cashmere shawl, exhibited by Tissier, Bourely & Co., which has a story. It lie came kuown, ub n>*n, that the members of the jury had decided to award the great medal of honor to the above-mentioned shawl. A French lady, the Conntess d'Orx, of a very old and wealthy family, heard of this, and at once called on Messrs. Tissier, Bonrely & Co.. and wished to buy the shawl. She also insisted upon their entering into an agreement with her never to make, or have made, another shawl of the same pattern. They at first objected, but, npon her paying a large price for the shawl, together with a sum sufficient ly large to cover the entire oost of all their exhibits in the Exposition, they signed the agreement; and at the close of the Exposition the countess will have a shawl the like of which no other lady possesses or is likely to. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1878. TUE MONK El' AtWAHMN. Trwalc Mreaslaa Vsaeasel* Stlslas t'aiap A Haas MrS %• Harder# III* Hai*r aud Is Haraed al Ikr wiahr. t)ue of the moat famous of the weird, short storied of Edgar Allen Foe is "The Murder of Lha Rue Morgue," In that most shortly yet entertaining narrative a mousev is the author of an assassina tion. I'hc annum crimiual has uow found a rival iu real tit*. Earl y m 1877 the lending luine owners st the* Curatnl gold fields, iu Eastern Venezuela, fitted out an expedition to prospect for some reputed eiimubar de jK'Mts ou the Brazilian border of tiuay ana. The uutnunuid of the }arty was conferred on an ail venturer named Seller, an old resident of Yeuexuels, a skilled miner, a naturalist by predilection, and very well known to European and North Aiderieau scientist* through the valuable collections he had made for various museums of natural history. The expedition was a failure, the cin nabar existing only iu the brain of the mendacious In ban who had reported it. In plnoe of specimens of the precious quicksilver ore, Boiler only brought bank a cargo of jirepared skins, stuffed birds, . curious animals, skeletons, ami an enor mous rod :q>c of the arenk of the tiled naif, mouthing at the jwasersdiy, burling whatever missiles he eonld lav hands ou at them, and gnashing his great teeth like a fiend. At night ho charmed the somber hours by ho a ling incessantly. llor*> s and mules would stampede st sight of him. Onilifreu tied from him in terror. Every miner was careful to pass Seder's house on the other side of the strtv t, and with a wary eye on the sen try ou the roof. Even the buzzards deserted to Call so, tne opposition mining oeuter, for the ape h I developed a gtcat fondness for capturing them whenever he could, then proceeding to pluck them and tear them to piece alive. In fine he became such, a public abomination tlia the authorities were applied to. Ac cordingly the alcalde watted on Seder and laid the case before him. He might as well have g|x>keu to the ape himself. Though the rainy season was at hand and his roof was almost denuded of tile* which the arguahi had torn off to throw at people; though the brute ate ** much as ten men, while his master, who had taught h tu to eat meat till lie would hatch nothing else, had to starve him self to fed hint; though he hitaeelf was a walking m.w of sears receive! at the paws of Ins ungrateful pet, still Seller clung to the wtgthlens hide of "El l>e mouio Colorado," or the red datum, as jieople bud come to call the spa, with an unfaltering devotion. Ho swore that Mango, as he had christened him, should remain ss long as the house held together, which, e'iisklernig tlie rapidity with which it was being convert* 1 into projectiles, was certainly not an eternal prospect. When the alcalde inatsted Seller drew his attention to a fine exam ple of Smith and Wesson's revolver manufacture, ami the argument ended abruptly. Hoopla now took the law into their own hands, but with equally poor success. The rati demon wcmeTi to bear a charmed life. He dodgou sil ver imllota with the greaUtt MIK', and one genius who melted down two ounces of gold into s sing to make sure of htm, had the satisfaction of seeing Seder pick the precious un tal out of his wall atal purchase rum for himself and raw meat for Mango with it, just at a juncture ton when his credit Bad collapsed aud given rise to a hope that the upe would starve to death afte; all. A# for poison, the brute revelled' in it Paris green seemed a sweet morsel under his tongue. .Strychnine only improved his digestion. He devoured arsenic like sugar, and swallowed enough mercury to salivate s regiment without starting as much a* a tear. At last his enemies gave rip in despair. At the l>eginning of the present year. Seiler was struck down by a fever, con tracted from rejxsatod divnrhings during the raiuy season, which drenching* were solely due to Mnngo'a having unroofed the house to such an extent tlmt (here was not a ilry cornet iu it Unpopular as the sick man's defense of his abomin able pet had made him. his neighlxirs were still miners with the warm hearts and open hands that never refuse sym pathy or aid to distress, and they doctor ed and nnreed the invalid faithfully into convalescence. Mungo, however! they positively refused to succor, and after devouring nit the garbage within the limit of his chain, the red ape was re dnced to an open air diet, and grew more meager aud vicious every day. Ou the night of the sth of February last some teamsters from the Orinoco, who had arrived too late to find shelter, camped in a corral behind Seder's house. The night was a dark and rainy one. For a wonder, Mnngo was making no noise. Toward midnight a commotion in the house attracted the notice of one of the wagoners, but, as it soon subsided, he paid no particular attention to it. With daylight, however, ho discovered that Mango's chain was broken, aud that the monkey was missing, and knock ed at the house door, intending to inform Boiler of it Receiving no answer to his repeated suramona. the mau became alarmed and forced the door. As he pushed it open a startling and unearthly iiowi greeted his ears. In the middle of the room, surrounded by the wreck of what little furniture the place had con tained, was the corpse of Boiler. Bqnat tiug ou the breast of the liodv, hia hair glued in patches with clotted gore,'and his long arms aud hideous head besmear ed with blood, was the rod ape. His lips wero glned to a gaping wound in his master's throat, and be was sucking MM blood from the jugular vein, stop ping occasionally to utter a low howl of satisfaction, aud lieat the ground with [ the fragment of hia brokcu chain. Tt was not until he waa fnirlv riddled ! with pistol bullets and rifle halls that Mnngo abandoned the body of his vic tim. The corpse except, for the wound in the throat, was nnmutilated. The ape, driven frantic by hunger, must have de soended on his master through a break in the roof while lie slept, and fastened hia teeth in hia wincipip*. Weak as he was from his late illness Heiler eonld prob ably offer but a slight resistance, which was insufficient to shake the powerful brute from his deadly hold. $ In spite of his wounds the monkey murderer was yet alivo. A rope was made fast to his legs, and he was drag ged into the middle of the plaza, where ho was fastened to a stako and burned. Yonr true lover of nature is the potato bug. Yon will find him everywhere—on the mountain top, by the sad sen waves j and in the quiet country nook. Nature in any form is good enough for him; bnt i when it oomes in the shape of murphies he sits him down and sings, " This is the j place I long have sought." A Itauk lteiutnlseenre. Secretary Sherman, tu making his arrangements to roll out the heavy sil ver dollars over the country through the mails, will appreciate the little story told by Nathan Kargent (Oliver 01*1- school) aliont Nicholas Riddle and the Havaimah braueh bank. One of the as sault* against the United Htates Bank was the calculated " happy thought" to prove its insolvency by breaking one of ita branches, of which there were ten or twelve situated in different cities. Savannah was far distant from Pliila deljilila iu those days, and the business of the bank was ixjiuparativeiy small, consisting chiefly of drafts upon cotton sales, re(|utriug very little specie, of which there was but a small amount kept in its vaults, compared to its hills iu circulation. It would !te an easy mat ter, therefore, so calculated the oppos ing parties, to secure quietly a large amount of the bills, present them fur redemption, before the tiauk had notice, make a ruu ou it, iu other words, and Lave the bills protested .and its doors shut; thus proving the insolvency of tlie branch, it would react on the parent oonoeru. So the scheme was set going. But Mr. Nicholas Hi.ldle sat in his renin ting house reading the weekly returns of the branch bunks. For several weeks he observed the reports from one branch after another. "We return you less than our average of Savannah braucli iiote*." Just what it meant was not ap parent, but it meant something evidently, so the ready Fremdeut, keeping his own counsel, quietly shipped #200,0<10 of specie to the Havsimsh branch, with a letter of caution and advice to the pres ident. Meanwhile, the New York ope rator, having secured something like $170,000 of the bills of the Savannah branch bank, started for that place, se cure in his scheme. Arrived there lie asked s private interview of the presi dent, and informed him that he *M a New York broker, and had a quantity of bills for redemption, probably a much larger amount than was usually pre sented st any one time. To hi* surprise the president did not appear st all dis concerted, but politely replied that he would be happy to give him draft* ou New York or New Orleans for the amount. These, however, were declined, and the specie demanded. The president re minded him that lie could get the specie for the drafts iu New York and so save transportation aud insurance. But the broker insisted on the |>eei*, and so it was counted ont, keg after keg. When shout a hundred thousand dollars had lieen counted aud still the kegs kept rolling ont, the broker saw that he was outwitted, and kindly offered to change his mind and take instead. Rut the president told him he was really very much obliged to him for relieving him of the sperie, and couldn't thiuk of taking it back. So the gentleman had the satisfaction of shipping the specie back to New York and paying both freight and insurance on it.—PhiUuUt* phia Ijf'igrr. The Snapping Turtle, The tatrruft of the aborigine*, or the snapping turtle of more reflued dialects, is the deadliest foe of the trout, tor he takes the mature fish, uot the r.iefe fla gerling* which satisfy the pickerel. The (aurup is a horrible creature, one of the antediluvians —cruelty ia it* eye, strength in it* muscles, iraparviousueas iu its shell, and neither mercy nor gen tleness in its heart or bowels. With equal independence it lives on land or in water, with equal courage it defends dm-lf from man or beast. One of forty, fifty, or ven sixty pounds, to which weight they often attain, is no mean an tegouist ; wh< u captured and drawn into the Ismtsor cornered, it turns, and, ris ing ou it* black and wrinkled legs, not crawling prone like an ordinary turtle, but with head extended, little yellow eye* glittering, aud sharp beak ready for the contest, it advances defiant of all created things. Then it is no pleasant object nor agreeable companion wiiiuu the narrow limit* of an ordinary boat, and the captor at such a moment wishes he liad done something else, and been a good way ofl instead of being just in that particular spot at that moment of time. I rememlwr one I captured, of quite sixty pounds weight —dragging him ashore l>y the tail, and then chop ping hi*head half off with an ax—which cleared the kitchen quicker than the "ole folks, young folks," when we un dertook to put him ia the wash-boiler of boiling water, with a view to turtle autip ; ami another which moved it* legs twenty-four hour* after it was not only decapitated, bid disemboweled. These fellows are dangerous to deal with; and must be appro iched with care ; their bite is terrible, their jsws never relax ing till the piece seized upon comes out; and they are poswwsed of a quickness of motion which no one would expect from their heavy, awkward shape. They lay their eggs iu the sand during the w-arm days of early June, depositing about thirty or forty, ami scratching out a hole about half the depth of their bo die* for the purpose. The eggs are round, nearly an inch in diameter, and of a delicate orange color, the shell being exceedingly thin, like transparent paper, ami thev are left to hatch them selves under the heat of the summer's sun. Snapping turtles destroy and de vour some of onr finest trout, rising slowly from the bottom, and looking more like some black, rough-barked log, till they are uear enough to dart out their long neck and big head. The trout sometimes escapes, but carries on him thereafter the clear imprint of the two horny jaw*. Frooodlle Tears. A paper published in Tallahassee, Fla., ha thia story in a recent number: I)r. Philbrick, among many other living curiosities, poawwHoa nn alligator about half grown, ami an infant whieh ia old enough to crawl and go about the yard unattended. A strange attachment exiated lietween the alligator and the infant, the former being ao docile that the frienda frequently apend hour* dur ing the dny in playing with each other. The alligator would amble olumaily o hia tank, take a aportiye dive, and, returning, he would embrace the little one, ao to apeak, and give unmiataka ile evidence of delight in receiving tender carouses in return. 80 secure aeemed the friendship between tlieni that Mr. Phil brick never thought of hnrm, and left the playmates to themselves to paw the time as auilod their inclination. The friendly relations did not last long, however, for Mr. Philbriok wa startled, aliont ten o'clock on Wednes day last, bv agonising screams oommg from the back yard, and rushing ont he found to hia liorror that the alligator had bitten the little fellow's arm almost entirely off, the fraction of limb dang ling by a slander bit of cuticle. The poor, suffering little thing moaned and wept bitterly, and tlio alligator, seeing the distress lie had created, crawled up to his victim and shed oopions tears of sympathy, his expressionless counte nance givinghim the appearance of a sub dued and sentimental ass. Mr. Phil brick severed the lacerated member, dressed the stub carefully, and the ani mal iH now able to waddleabout on three legs. Wo have aften heard of "croco dile tears," but until Mr. Phil brick's statement our faith in their existence eon Id have been easily shaken. Til EI.I TO PI CM* For the first time a sermon has leou delivered iu Westminster Abbey by a colored divine, tlie native Bishop of It ajipears from tlie official report* that there are uow iu New York city places where malt and spirituous liquors are sold at retail. Miss Man* W. Htoers of Qoabon, To, a den' mute* but good looking and an heiress, recently eloped with John W. Miohaol, another deaf mute. They fell in love at an institution for the deaf and dumb. Tlie ecu tor of gravity was so nicely calculated at tlie raising of Cleopasra's Needle that, vhufl U>ey gut its iron jacket <>u and it was raised by the truu uioua, it balanced exactly, aud oue taau could swing tlie great maaa of two hun dred tons. The Russiau Got as says significantly that " Russia must collect her strength for a new stiuggle with Austria chiefly in Europe, and with Turkey and Eng land iu Asia. The Berlin Congress has brought to Russia, instead of peace, the immediate prospect of a new war which will Uo more serious than that which has just concluded." The heat was recently so intense in Arixona that a thermometer failed to register it on the aaudy trail, it being lib in tlie shade. A mail carrier, see ing that his horse became restive aud was apparently in much pain, on exami nation found the floah around the up- IWT part of the hoof thoroughly roasted. In a few minutes the beast dropped ex hausted and died. Australia is the servant-girl's para disc. A lady in Melbourne, who had ad vertised for domestic aid, received a call from a pretty maid, with unexception able references, a pleasing manner, and a willing disposition. The lady was charmed and engaged her on the spot. M But I hsve always had s whole day's b-ave of sbseuos every fortnight," the young girl remarked, pausing on the threshold, " and an evening a week lie sides." •• Yon shall not be deprived of them," was the encouraging reply. "And this is a very lonely place, ma'am," the girl rejoiuded, " and I could not come home by myself. Would the mas ter mind coming for me?" The lady hesitated a moment, but as a good girl is not to be picked up every day, she consented; and when her hnsbau 1 re turned ahe informed him that h* would have to refuse all invitations for tso nights in oue week and one in the other in order to go after the new help. An English lady, who was exceedingly careful of her complexion, recently con verted her dressing room into a restau rant. Hhe was in the hal.it of wrapping up her fare in a raw veal cutlet every night before going to l**d, leaving ojxmings in the mask for mouth, nostrils and eyes. One morning, instead of rolling up the cutlet in a piece of paper, and stewing it away in her dress ing bureau for future disposal, she threw it on the coals which lay ready for light ing in the fire-place, and then forgot all about it. I-iVl* iu the afternoon, while she was drewing for diuner, for which several invitation* had gone out, she told her maid to light the tire in the dressing room, ss it was chilly. Pres ently the room, the floor, the whole house vw prevailed with the odors of s third-class restaurant; aud before the frying cutlet was discovered the master of the establishment arrived, followed by guest upon guest. IfoW the Ketocuds* Fight. Prince Maximilian of Wied- Neuwied when traveling in Brazil, witnessed a singular battle fought by two tribes of the Botoendoa. The cause of the quar rel was, that Captain June, with his people, bad lawn hunting on the aouth bauk of the River 8k Matthew, on the grounds of Jeparack, and killed some swine. This waa considered by the latter a* a great insult, only to be atoned for bv war. First, the warriors of both parties uttered short, rough tones of defiance to each other, walking sullenly round one another like angry dogs, aud at the same tune making ready their poles. Oapt. Jeparack then came forward, walkvsl alxmt between the meu, looked gloomily and directly t efore him with wide-staring eye*, and snog, with a tremulous voice, a long song, which de scribed the affront that he hail received. In this manner the adverse parties be came more and more inflamed. fiHnd detily two of them advanced, and tmahed cue another with the arm on the breast, so that they staggered back, and thou began to ply their pole*. One first struck with all his might at the other, regardlem where the blow fell. His an tagonist Ixire the first attack seriously and calmly, without changing counten ance; he then took his tnrn, and thns they belabored each other with severe blows, the marks of which long remained visible on their naked bodies. As there were ou the poles many sharp stump* of branches which had been cut off, the effect of the blow wa* not always con fined to bruises, but the blood flowed from the head* of many of the com batants. When two of them had thus thrashed each other handsomely, two more oamy forward, aud several pairs wero often seen engaged at onoe; lint they never laid hands on one another. When these eombst* hail continued for semis time, they again walked about with a aerions look, uttering tone* of defiance, till heroic enthusiasm again seized them, aud set their poles in mo tion. Meanwhile the women fought most valiantly; amid continual weeping and howliug they seised each other by the hair, struck with their fists, scratched with their nails, tore the plugs of wood (which the Botocudos wear) out of each other's ears and lips, and scattered them on the field of battle as trophies. If one threw her adversary down, a third, who stood behind, seized her by the limbs and threw her down likewise, and then theypnlled each other about, ou the ground. 'Die men did not degrade them selves so far as to strike the women of the opposite party, but only pushed them with the ends of their poles, or kicked them on the side, so that they rolled over and over. The lamentations ami bowlings of the womeu, and chil dren likewise, resounded from the ncight>oring lints, and heightened the effect of this most singular scene. In this manner the comlmt continued for aliont an hour, when all appeared weary. Some of the Bavages shown! their courage and perseverance by walk ing abont the others, uttering their tones of deflation. Capt. Jep&rack, as the principal person of the offended party, held ont to the last; all seemed fatigued and exhausted, when he, not yet disposed to make peaoe, continued to sing his tremulous l ong, and encour aged the people to renew the combat, till Prince Maximilian went np to him and told him that he was a valiant war rior, but that it was now time to make peaoe; upon which he at length suddenly quitted the field and wet A over to the Quartet. Oapt. June had not shown so mncb energy; being au old man, he hail taken no part in the combat, bnt con stantly remained in the background. TERMS: S'J.OO a Y.mr, in Advanoo. 1 he Hire Beat* of Burma*. A recent traveler in India, writing of the river traffic iu India, doecrilies the curious boats used iu carrying noe, as follows: Tlie rice boats, built ou a uniform plan, vary much iu siae, aud their capacity is estimated by the number of "baskets" of rice they are built to carry. One hundred baskets are equivalent to a ton's burthen, aud there are busts which carry a thousand baskets. When first Been at ■ distanc* io fall •ail, aa from the deck of a river steamer, oue of the** boat® resembles Home enor mous white bird, so email dor* the great hull ap? ear iu comparison with the vs*t spread of canvas which It carries; and a flcrt of tradiug lping roof, of timber, and bamboo and thatcL, not laaa substantially built than the ordinary oottage on shore. Here a whole family will hve for weeks or months, much ss the gypej basket-maker iu England lives in his cart during the summer months. This cabin, if it can be so called, is usually in two parta,having it* thatched ruof in* two separate compart ments, the alter compartment on a high er level than the tote, precisely as shown in the willow pattern. Finally, perched above the higher of the roofs is a small lookout turret with its own tiny roof, something like the "howdab" of an el ephant, from which the steersman has a commanding view ahead and astern. An alternative seat is also provided for the steersman iu the extreme stern of the boat, behind the cabin, where a chair is fixed against the high-carved stern piece. This chair is often of the plain est fashion; but the Burmese, who have much real taste in decoration, are fond of ornamenting the cabins and sterns of their woats, which are often rich in carv ing, painting and gilding. Thus noth ing is commoner than to see s half nak ed steersman, crouching withoat tarban or jacket, and laxily smoking bis ciga rette, on s richly-carved throne, sup ported ou each side by a huge lion or tiger, or peacock with spreading tail, in rough but bold and effective wood carving. Behind him the curved stern lowers over hia head, it* summit crown ed, perhaps, with s gilded bird with outstretched wings, like the eagle which serves for lectern in an English church. The outer walls of the oabm vary a* to the material from rough bamboo matting to elaborately carved and painted panels of woo*, while the interior is little more than a reproduction of the oottage on , shore. As we pass in the steamer, wo men and children are seated on the plank floor amidst a medley of cooking jiot* and other vessels, the mats on which they sleep tx-ing rolled up few the day; the crew are idly smoking, or seated in s ring round the common rice dish, into which they dip their fingers; small heads are put out of the narrow window to look st tis, and a dog stands on the gunwale and barks at the unearth ly apparition The tall bamboo mast bend* and creaks under a gigantic sail stretched on a yard-arm sixty feet in length, and surmounted by s smaller top-sail, and as the steady lireese bears the vessel st s speed little less than that . of the steamer, we have every opportu : nity. ss we slowly pass, of noting it* pe culiarities. The Bead Old Tines. The history of domestic architecture in our own eonutrv, says a recent English newspaper, illustrates in a very striking manner the rise of civilisation and the extinction of barbarism. We have not to travel back more than a few hundred years to find domestic comfort a thing entirely unknown, and the abode of princes entirely destitute of conve niences which are now considered neces sary in the house of every peasant. Our Saxon forefathers lived in the rudest poaaibl- style. The homes c-ven of kings and lords consisted simply of one large apartment or " hall," in which all the details of domestic life were earned on by themselves and their immediate at tendants. Privacy waa a thing entirely unknown. After the pursuits of the day —the chaneor the fight—they assembled round one common board, taking place according to their rank in the household; and in the self-same apartment all mem bers of the household afterward disposed themselves for sleep. It was only occa sionally that one end of the common hall waa separated from the rest by a screen, affording a rude retiring chamber for the lord and lady of the house, with privileged attendant*. Almost the only • ont offices attached to the hall were the shed or pens for the cattle and the swine. The ilnga, more cherished, were allowed a place in the corner of the hall itself; and another corner arms frequently occu pied by the store of proviicona. Some times, however, the latter would be 1 placed in receptacles or cellars dug under the hall. Its flooring was of earth, it* walls of wood and clay, and its roof of thatch. For the admission of light, openings were left in the sales, and closed by wickerwork when night came on; for warmth, a log fire wa* lighted in the center of the apartment, and the smoke escapeJ by holes in the roof. A Hhawer ®f Fish. Abont two o'clock r. says a recent issue of the Chioo (CfcL) Hr-ord, a youug man, who works on the Bbepard ditch, stepped out of Mr. Yokum's store, and was pelted with an immense lot of small fish aay from one to three inches in length, and consisting of a great va riety—sun, pcrcli, flying-fish, and many others that do not belong to the scale family. The young man called those in the store to come and see the wonder, when more than a dozen men went ont ami sow them dropping th ek and fast Thev covered the roof of the store and extended for a circumference of two or three acres, and perhaps more. I thought at first that a flock of traveling pslicaus were unloading their ponehes for the purpose of attaining a higher stratum of atmosphere, that wonld take them more rapidly to their destination. Hut I gazed for a long time in the clear blue sky in every direction, withont being rewarded with the sight of a sin gle pelican. Then I weakened on the pelicau theory, and I am led to believe if it were the work of pelicans they must have been so high that they were out of sight. The fishes were very wet when they first fell, but soon dried after strik ing the ground. I understood that Wil liam Phillips, laboring under the im pression that all good things come from above, devoured one of the finest ones of the lot, and said it tasted so good that he sadly regretted not having harvested more of them. Buch fine epionrean frenzies are very rare in the community. Eli Brauum has preserved quite a lot o* them. It takes weather like we hail last sum mer to aonvinoe a man that every human being has 7,000,000 pores. NUMBER 39. PA KM, 4iAHIIE> llOt HEMOLH. Tki Sml forltUsor. II.w to make a to, mala for a fertiliser ! for any particular crop or soil, which •hall produce satisfactory results, and j at the same time be moat economical of material—wasting nothing, and using only so much aa the special case requires —is • most difficult question for any one to snawer, unless be be the beet of agricultural chemists, and is thoroughly familiar from long experience with the land under treatment Yet, just such information aa this is what farmers in various sections are continuously writing to us for. The first part of the problem is comparatively easy—i. to make a fertiliser which shall produce great re sults—but what to leave out is a difficult point to settle. Indeed we may say, that this is a point which never can be j settled exactly, so great a difference is tin re between adjacent farms and fields, and parte of the same field even, or fur- I ther still in the composition at the same { •pot of ground at different periods. But wonderful progress haa b.-en made in the solution of this problem which J involves so much of success or failure in agriculture—within the past few years, and for the tin art part lias been recorded in the A merman AjrriculturiM, Here ] is s letter from " J. W. L.,"of Lancaster j county, Pa.: " Will you please give me what you consider the best formula for making a : phosphate for wheat, also tobacco and corn, to be used on limestone soil. Farmers in this county have generally been making their own, ami are using more every vesr with good effect. It is made according to the following formula, via, for one ton take CUO It*. 10 lbs. Bait. •JOO •' Oil of Vitriol 900 " Piaster. ISO " Halphstr of suds 7 bomb. Hand or Ashe*." 1 10 " Nitrate of Kud*. In this case the same fertiliser is used for three crops of quite different require ments, yet apparently with like "good effects " on each. Tobacco is a great potash feeder, containing about twenty seven pounds ia 100 of ash; while corn contains thirty pounds, and wheat > thirty-four pounds; yet this fertiliser contains only what potash ia in the seven bushels id ashes—nut over twenty pounds. But the Lancaster county aver age tobacco crop of I.SOO pounds per ; acre requires eighty pounds; and as only 40() pounds ot the fertiliser are applied per acre, it onlr gets four pounds, and not always that, sines the ashes are oomudered of so little import- > ance as to sometimes be replaced by san AM st'vssi l—dls moat* for to kiss dTriins Ml ***,•• dot (to lofs M —lt. lot Mot. mis* frs, ato oonld a* do mttoadt bar Stem—asaafam comfort to tor da? a* dor: Dot Ob id to mako sfry vae Sow sbaadi tor. Utoas—M—ato dnl# dtow dtwsSbs nr. fib* Soldi dor Tool jro vSllo K : nn ato nod tt, ftrpriWktrdottsstotoWWdwwfi; „ „ Sto trfcrk mo also Stgo. too, tnaan A* dot hamt! LooooSs, dot left awoo wtt. VSOS rtator no oosm, mtt ! ootdt. Mnons? rod- UflBT, Sotrlas sod I wood at ts dor honor Cod do* off dor Sost. hf do —md tspoddor. Or htm? Mit dot Ms off out liw* *rm—o. Otdl a** mtt Its wrluktto {*o to VMStod tr cmnsM ov to? loa mil mr ttUldson to Ml; Bnt • n shall sswt mtt dor o?o loft pohiad no, Pad dot oStom Xaimi iss.'dot too -cksrto ff. ddsm*. m Ottrod rrwm. A Nalaaa Keeper's Lurk. Among mining shares which suddenly went up in the markets of the far West ern country a few weeks ago waa Wild Oat. Among the poor men in Virginia city several months earlier, who owed a certain saloon keeper bills lor whisky which they oould not pay, was one whose total world It possessions amounted to a few shares of Wild Osi. in which nobody then dealt at all; it was quoted, however, st tweutv-eifftit orota. The poor debtor, after many pressing request* for money, at lost offered to part with his shares, which were accepted and the debt waa cancelled. The saloon keeper gave them to his wife, telling her to keep them to light the fire with. A few months pass ed and Wild Oat waa worth two dollars a share, but the wife oould not toll where she put her hnshand'a gift. *Bhe searched her trunk, her closets, and her bureau drawers in vain. Meanwhile the ' stock advanced to five dollars then to six dollrrs. It was nesting seven dollars when the husband one day saw his little boy on the flaw, scissors in hand, cut ting pictures out of the long sought cer tificate*. The next day he sold the shares st a gain over the whisky bill of more than §4,000. Hew Sea Birds slaxe Their Thirt To those making long voyages the question doubtless has often presented itself, How do the bird* which are teen at sea, far away from laud, obtain drink to slake their thiret? This is the expla nation which ia given in regard to the matter by an old sailor. He says that dnring some of his voyages, when be has been at a very great distance from any place which would supply fresh water, he has frequently seen large numbers of birds hovering beneath a storm-cloud, chattering, as he says, " like docks on a hot day at a pond, and driukingin the drops of nun as they fell" These birds, he tells us, will sometimes smell a coming rain 3uall when more than a hundred miles and will then make their way to wards it with a swiftness that is mar vellous. There seems to be a great deal of uncertainty aa to the length of time that sea birds can live without partaking of freak water; but it is supposed that their habit of enduring thirst is in creased by necessity, and tint they are often enabled to exist without it for many days, and sometimes even weeks A Hew Lite Pestreyer. A new warlike appliance is about to be introduced into the British service, and will probably be known as the *• hand torpedo." Like the grenades of half a century ago, they are intended to be thrown by the hand into the enemy's boats, or over parapets and stockades, but instead of being a shell exploded by a fuse, as the grenades were, they will consist entirely of gun cotton, pulped or compressed into a cake or ball of three or four pounds weight A long cord is attached to each charge, the other end of which is connected bye kind of pistol held by the operator. The tor pedo is pitched into the required posi tion, when a touch on the trigger deton ates the gnn cotton, and an explosion follows, such as experiment has shown to be sufficient to shatter in atoms a five ton block of granite. One such charge, skillfully applied, would annihilate a boat's crew, and, in the bands of daring men, might work great destruction by being thrown into large ships.