Outward or Homeward. fltill art the ships the in-hsvsm ride, Waiting fair wind* or turn of the tida ; Nothing ther fret, though they do not get Out on the glorious ooean wide. Oh wild heart*, that ream to he free. liOoV and learn from the ship* of the sea Rr*v,.w the ship*, in the tempest toeeed. Buff. t the wares tilljth* sea he crossed . Not in despair of the baren fs.u\ Though wind* blow backward, and league* lie lost. Oh weary heart*, uat „^ rn for , Wp) Look. and lean- f n , m the ships on the deep' Thr tytclator. Sunbeam and 1. We own no houses, no lets, no lands, No dainty viands for us are spread ; By s>voat of our brows and Mof our hands We earn the pittance that buy* us bread. And yet we lire iu e nobler state Sunbeam and I- than the nullum*ides Who dine off silvern and golden (date. With livened laeueva behind their chairs. Wc hare no riches in Kinds or mocks. No bank books show ear balance to draw Vet eau MoChing shouted to his brother to put down the broke*, ami succeeded m making him atop the traiu. The two men theu got out, ami ran Iwk to pick up Ward, who had dropped exhausted before the motiou entirely ceased. They placed him iu the cam, and Uieu allowed the traiu to run some dietauce further, till thev felt sure that the dan ger was past. Coming to a little stream of water near the track, they again stop ped the train, and gathered round the spring, to wash their burns and rest a little. Here Waul recognized the poor wo man he hail saved a* Mrs. Stacey, the wife of a wood-chopper, who was em ployed to supply fuel for the engine house they had just passed. Her little shanty was right iu the path of the fire. She saw the fire coming, and ..ad time only to catch her boy and escape to the woods, where these men had picket! ker up. She had lost everything, and feared that her husband had per ished in the damea He had goue off with his axe m the morning, which way she could not tell. Ward was filled with auxietv about the woman and her child. He knew that his two companions would do noth ing for her, aud he must offer her shelter in his own home. But he had aix children and an aged mother to sap port, and his wife was not one who bore her burdens lightly. But the kind-hearted man invited Mrs. Stacey to WIU|SDT him home, and lifting the boy in his arms when they left the ears, he strode on ahead to show her the narrow path. They passed several houses, and ap proached a pretty white cottage. With a thrill of joy, Ward listened to the merry voices of his children. In a moment more he opened the door on a bright family picture. The table was spread and his children were gath ered round it, except the little twins, who were already in their cribs, while in the midst of them sat the old grand mother, smiling placidly at their lively chatter. Ward gave Mrs. Stacey a seat, and placed the boy on her lap? then, after introducing her to his mother, he asked auxioaslv for his wife. She was iu the kitcheu, looking tired and worried. He saw this, as he began in a low tone to explain to her who their visitor was, and her claims upon their hospitality. But in a loud angry voice she inter rupted him, saying, " Now, John, that's jnst like yon— taking the food and cloth ing from your own family to give to beg gars. Here I am slavui' aud worryiu' from mornin* to night to take care of these children and your old mother, yet yen bring two more yon've picked np, and expect me to feed and provide for them." " But, wife, I couldn't leave the poor woman to perish in the flames, or re main homeless and supperlees this chilly night." Mrs. Ward was not a heartless wo man. She was thrifty, and anxious to get ahead, and had innch to try her. It distressed her to find that manage as economically as she could, she could hardly keep John out of debt Just then she laid it all to her husband's charity to others. Therefore, seeing only her side of the argument, she said: "Why must you always be saddled with such peopie ? They see von are easily imposed upon, and so we have to bear the consequences." Mrs. Stacey could not help bearing this conversation. Patting down her child, she walked to the kitchen door, and opening it, said, in a faltering tone: "Mrs. Ward, Fm no beggar. This morning I was in my own home. This afternoon the fire came, aud I had to flee before it My house and everything in it were burned to ashes. Mr. Ward saved my life and my boy's at a risk I don't dare think of. May the Lord re ward him for his kindness! He asked me to his honse to pass the night; bnt I'll not stay where I'm not wanted, nor be the cause of strife. May the devour ing flames never leave yon as homeless and friendless as they have left me." These words touched Mrs. Ward. As Mrs. Stacey turned away, she sprang towards her, and said, earnestly: " Oh, forgive me! I did not think what you had endured. You shall stay, and I'll give you the best the house affords. Come, let's all sit down to tea. Then, John, yon must tell us every thing about the fire and yonr escape." She turned pale and trembled as she listened to his account of the fearful ;isks they had ran. "John," asked his old mother, "will the fire reach as ?" "I think not. It is not spreading in this direction, and I trust we are per fectly Bafe." Yet, with fear in their hearts, that night, before retiring, John Ward and his wife went ont and climbed a high rock, near the honse, where they oonld see if danger threatened. Bat around them was only the green, dewy woods, and above, the clear, peaceful starlight. Feeling relieved, they sought the rest both so much needed. The next morning, a messenger oame to the little village to say that the fire was spreading with fearful rapidity, and that help was needed to fight it back. The men of the village responded to the call, aud all day aud nearly all night, in company with a larger force, they fought the fearful conflagration. But, fanned by a strong west wind, although baffled and driven back at one point, like an unrelenting foe, the fire pushed forward its columns in another, and often, before the men were aware, they saw the flanks of the battle turned, anif themselves almost surrounded by the flames. Ward at last became alarmed for the safety of his family, and returned home. He fonnd the greatest excitement pre vailing in the village. The fire hail attacked the other side of the monntain, and they feared it yfould sweep over and come down upon them. Ward saw that the wind was still carrying the flames in an opposite direc tion; yet he told his wife to dress the children in their thickest woollen gar ments, so that they might be prepared for any emergency. Then, completely exhausted, he lay down to rest. He had slept but a few hours when Mrs. Staoey came running in, with a report from the lower bouses that the fire was approaching from another point. They were in danger of being hemmed in. and must make their escape at once. Old Mrs. Ward begged her son to leave her, urging that her life was nearly ended, at beat, and that she would only retard their flight. But he positively refused, and oatch ing up the two children, while his wife took the twins, they all started to follow the rest of the inhabitants. Mrs. Btaoey hod taken the baby, and with iter own little boy, was already in the advance. For over a mile the old mother walked, aided as much as possible by her son; THE CENTRE REPORTER. but of necessity, their progress was slow. The exertion proved 100 much for her. She sank to the ground ex hausted. Her mm assisted her to rise, and urged her to make an effort to keep up a little longer; but she begged huu to leave her and save the rest of the family. The tlames were drawing nearer and nearer. They could hear the crackling and the crash of the great trees as they fell. He tried to persuade the children to run on by his side; but terrified by the awful scene, they clung screaming to him, and refused to move. For a time, iu his desperation, he tried to carry them all. Rut the tire waa advauciug *o rapidly, he saw that ho must abaudouhis moliior, or the whole fannlv perish. She uow earnestly pleaded with him, for the sake of tlie little ouee, to put her down ati.l flee for his life. Hhc was not afraid to meet death. It woeld !•< but a moment's pang, til on heavenly joy forever. With a groan of agouv, he acquiesced, yet drew her as far as poeaible out of the direct line of the tire. Then, clasp ing her in his arms, he een faithful to me, may God ileal faith fully with you and yours. iXin't grieve that vou left me." I am describing au actual occurrence. It seems alunist iuqxissible that u gen erous, dutiful sou could leave hi* aged mother to die by the cruel torture of the flames, but the safety of his own chil dreu and of his wife appealed to hia heart, and at the moment it seemed to him better that one should be left, rather than that the whole family ahould per ish. Ward started forward, but before passing out of sight turned for one more look. His mother was kneeling, with hands clasped aud eye* raised in aileut prayer. The approaching flame* illumined hci pale face, out it was calm and peaceful. He stood like one in a trance till his wife, who had pushed ahead, besought him to hasteu ou. She didn't know which way to go, for the Are seemed to be everywhere. His mother also saw his hesitation, and motioned him away. Ward could hardly endure that last last sight, fie tonus I desperately away, came rapidly to his wile's side, and placing the children at her feet, dung himself into a tree to obtain a more ex tended view. After a glance ronnd, he sprang down, and told her there was but one cliance of escape. That was to climb to the top of the mountain, where there were some barren ledges on which there was noth ing to burn. It was a desperate struggle on the steep rocks, over fallen trees and through the brush. But the children had become more accustomed to the scene; aud as they got further from the fire, their courage returned, and their own practice in mountain climbing aid ed their pareuta. At last they reached the summit in safety, t But it was a sail, exhausted gronp that gathered there. The little ones cried with hnnger and thirst; and on that barren rock the parents had no means to satisfy either. All day long they looked down from their high perch into what appeared like a gulf of tire. Now it ran along the ground, now leaped from tree k> tree, then, as if iriveu by a tornado, it came ou in one broad sheet of flame, the roar increasing till in terror the children covered their eyes and skipped their ears. The parents also felt as if the awful grandeur of sight and sonnd was more than tliev cunld bear; for they hardly dared to r.ope that theT were safe above it From this position tfiey were arouse by the oldest boy Bhontirig:— •' Oh father, the sky is on fire, too f" Ward looked up and saw a broad flash of lightning dart out of a dark cloud that was rising rapidly in the west. '•Thank God!" he cried; "the rain is coming at last" Soon the heavens were overcast. The lightning darted back and forth, heavy thunder rolled overhead, aud the in creasing wind fanned the flames below till they raged with redoubled fury, as if seeming to realize that their power wonld soon be gone. Then came the bltws<\] rain; not in gentle showers, but in heavy torrents, that potired inccssar - ly on the hissing, steatniug forests, tiil they lay drenched beneath it. John Ward drew his family close trader the rocks to keep them dry, but caught in his hat the cool drops to quench their thirst. As the night wore on and the violence of the storm passed by. they all fonnd some rest save the father, who mourned for his mother as lie kept watch over his poor little homeless flock. The next day dawned clear ami beauti ful, the air washed pure from the blind ing smoke, and as soon as they had risen and thanked God for their escape, they started to make their way back to the settlements. It was a tedious, difficult journey. When almost back to the site of their old home they heard voices approaching. Ward shonted and was answered by a load cheer. In a few moments, a dozen of his old companions gathered round, congratulating him on their escape, and anxious to hear their story. They had just started in search of them; but as they saw the #ide swoep the fire had token, their fears for their safety were greater than their hopes. John Ward and his wife now fonnd that the kind acts done for these neigh bors in the post were returning, "after many days, "like bread cast upon the waters." The men lifted the children in their arms, and all proceeded to the homes that had escaped the fire. Hero each viol with the other in making them welcome. Money and clothing had been sent from larger towns to those whom the fire hod made destitute. Mrs. Ward found her baby and Mrs. Htacey safe and well; the latter full of joy, as she had jnst received the glad tidings of her hnsbaud's safety. The burned houses were soon rebuilt, and bnt for the dear old motlier, whom he had been so crnelly forced to leavo to the flames, John Ward oould, after all, hardly have been called a sufferer from the loss that had befallen him. This is not a fancy sketch. The act ual facts of the terrible disaster 1 have faintly pictured are more harrowing than I could uear to deeorilie. 'Lan guage cannot adequately depict the awful scenes that were witnessed in that terri ble fire of 1875 in Northern Pennsylva nia, that destroyed whole villages, and brought great losses and suffering to scores of families.— C. M. Cornwall in Youth's Companion, The other day a visitor surprised Richard Grant White saying to his baby: "Oh-ny, no-ny, e mussy tick hick he ittie footsy tootsies out fnm nndy zis banky wankv or. o catch ooly woly an* have ze snuffles." Just then he caught sight of the visitor, and said to the in fant : " No, no, you mußt not expose your pedal extremities by extending them beyond the protecting oovcr of the blanket, or yon will lay your system open to attacks of catarrhal affections." And the astonished child shrieked as though some one had winged it with a defective safety pin.— Burlington Hawk eye. The star Arcturus moves through spaoe with a velocity of not less than fifty-four miles a second. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., l'A., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1878. k REMARK lULk HOTTENTOT. Thr ( urnr as* l.l Klhi ol Huillh K. Mrs. hr r*n> lirlsss t'hlrl. The Loudon World says: We copied recently from a Mouth African paper a little paragraph relating to the killing of Smith Rummer. Some nf our resilera mav wouder who Smith Rummer is or ratfier was. Ho aa* a remarkable man'. Although a naturalised llriqua, he waa a pure Hottentot in blood ami inherited the craft of his race. His father, who was one of the Kat River people, was ail industrious man, who did his twnt to im prove his condition ami educate his sou. Rut the bov, when only fourteen, joined the Kat River rebellion, ami after it* defeat escaped lute ItasiUolaud. and afterward found himself in Xumsiisland, where he and many of hia rebel compan ions established themselves, surrounded by hostile ueighl>on. Smith Rummer grew into a tighter and theu into a leader. His diminutive figure, his droll behavior, his native wit and las inventive faculties made htm a distinctive character, and a great superior to the ignorant people around him. He became recognized as s s)erstition. The Caffre* in time believed that he U>re a charmed life, for while a notori ously miserable allot, and seldom ihiuK a weapou himself iu a fight, he could show leg* aud arms scarred with wouuda. With a lofty idea of effect, be always let those wounds show themselves, and cultivate! the impression that with all these scar* no bullet had ever entered hia akin, which waa not true. After some rears of a wauderiug, vagabond, warring lite, Smith Pointuer marrwsl the pretty Oriqua girl, Wilbcluiiua Rnruuian, ami made a compromise of " settling dowu " by turning a transport ruler. While on one of these trading journeys, the Atua baoas swooped dowu upon his place at lliee rtver, surrounded tlnwe who could otTer resihtaiuv, and iu the tight Smith Pommer's young wife was shot dead. Smith's career thcp took a predntorv turn again, and for some time he was an intriguing freel>ootT. Iu Adam Kok tune he again married, this time into one of the moat respect able and well to do of the settled Oriqu* families—the Ulbreoht*. It is spoken of as a remarkable wedding Having gone through the ceremony at Kokstad, he took his bride to his home at Hies river, from which he had sent out invi tations to every one in the region, of all colors and ooeupatiou*. The bride, a good-looking young woman, with but little dark blood in her veins—was mounted on a rude throne in the open air, and lefore her every guest, white and black, passed separately, bowed his homage, and laid a gift at her feet. This, to them, unique ceremouy was gone through with by hundreds of peo ple from far and wide, and the wedding was kept up for two .lays. The shrewd and original bridegroom acquired, it is said, a considerable amount of property in tin' *ha|>e of wedding gifts. Smith now returned more steadily to his trans port riding, bat still manifested his prestige among the people and became a sort of oommaudaut m Capt Kok's army. His lngeunitv in laying n snare hi order to obtain influence or gain a point was well kuowu, and manv of the Griquas at last had learned to hold aloof from him. The part he toox in the outbreak which brought lna reckless life to • close ha* l>een told in the colonial paper* since the Kokstad disturbance. Ilia excuse for being among the rebels—which may or may not have had a foundation—was that lna name had lieen falsely mixed up with the discontent, and he was on his way U> bring in Adam Muis to prove him self innocent. It is said. however, that he entrapped numbers into rebellion by telling tie-m to ounie to a certain meet ing armed, and win n they got there made them believe their act had already committed them to rebellion. It is also aaid that ho led on other men of influence who he knew, wonld draw manv after them, by writing fictitious letters to Capt. Blytli and readiug out imaginary replies. The fight in which be and Adam Kok's son wen' routed from the old laager near Kokstad ended in the death of the latter, and Kmith himself, with a few attached followers, fled at dnsk to the monntaina toward Pondo land. It was a weird place that Smith Pom mcr and his liaud had chosen to die in. High up in the thunder beaten peak* of the Inguli, where the last bluff in that rugged range standi oj* like s terrible battlement, where the beacon wave* on the crag that looks dowj over throe coun tries—through the deep valleys of Natal on one side the busby hills of Pondoland in front, and still over the nplami slopes of Griqnalaud or the other side—here in s steep ravine Smith and his follower* hid through the day. Toward night the sound of guns was heard in the krautzee and some of his men fell at the hands of hia Cnffre pursuers. A Caffre abut at Potnmer, bnt missing was shot in re tarn, anil fell down a rook ont of sight as if wounded. Watching his chance this Caffre again shot where he saw a bush stirred, and the next morning the body of Smith Potnmer was brought out with a ballet through the hip. Smith Pommor met his death by the hand of one of a race against whom his enmity had been nurtured from infancy. Yurocco at Ibc Paris Exposition. The court of Morocco has an inde scribable air of romanoe aliont it, writes an American correspondent in Paris. It is hung with mats and scrafs of gay, w*rm colors, and displays an emfless variety of attractive kmckknacks, deli cately embroidered silk kerchiefs, cigar and cigarette oases and holders, bril liantly illuminated bracelets aud neck laces made of an aromatic composition, fantastically embroidered slippers, deli cate pastilles, and an astonishing variety of gilt and tinsel ornaments. Everything seems to seud forth the most delicious odor. The air is heavy with eastern perfume* and spioes. Olive wood, sou venirs in the shape of canes, paper cut ters, paper weights and sleeve buttons, are spread temptingly before yoti.— Strange looking mnsical instruments, war trumpets, balnfaus (a very primitive sort of piano), spears, guns and qneer looking dirks and battlo-axes ajijiear. Then the tall, handsome Moors, with " liquid eyes" and languishing manners, looking like the stage Othello*, in their picturesque red, turboueluw and flowing many-colored robes; standing in the tent and around the courts, add greatly to the romantic scene. Oue of these dark-eyed attendants brought for our inspection a box fall of pretty ringH. And wlule he was tolling Mistress Jack about his country and enlisting her sympathies for his king, who, he said, was Tory ill, he managed to persuade her that the rings were the prettiest and the cheapest in the Exposi tion. Those apparently sleepy Orientals are in reality quick-witted tradesmen, and keep up a very lively traffic with their small wares. They never cease to praise the beauty and taste of the Amer ican women, and the generosity of the men. Next to the Americans, tliey say the English buy most; the French and Germans •• look a long while bnt don't buy anything." Ilijah a* a FbreuwiuglsL It was a mother with a two-year old ln.y this time. Hhe dragged lain iub> the room in a rioketv old cart, bounced him out as if he had beeu a package of iiardware, place>l him ou the center table with aforoeof twenty eight pounds to the square foot, and called out : "Air. Joy, we have agreed to leave it to yon !" " Well, madam, it'a my opinion that she's a boy, aud he'e not over four year# old." "Four, sir 1 why he's only two ; am! Www nut rou to feel of hut uumba ami decide if he'll make a smart man. I say liw loot tliw head of a preacher, ami uiy husband savs he'll make N lawyer, ami my atster aaya he'll luvent sotne gr< at thing*. Put your haml ou hin head, Mr. JOT." ftijah carefully placed his paw OD the young chap's head, alul it around for a while, ami remarked : *' Madam, his bump of anxiety is very great. lie will lie a great hand to git up and tear things shell a street car git* off the track." "Will he? Oh! I'm so glad, Mr. Joy 1" " His bump of inventive genius is monstrous, madam iwrfeotly mou strous. 1 think he will invent a new sort of hair-brush before he is ten years old—ouc with a corkscrew in one end and a jack-knife in the other. 1 apeak for the first oue turned out, madam." " Ami you shall have it." "Bight here, l>eniud tlie left ear, is the bump of oratory, madam. See how it stands out! lief ore he is twelve years of age he will be able to deliver a good a speech as you ever heard —and get his pay for it. Here, between the eve*, ia what is called humility. Just see how humble he ia even now ! Why, if he hail forty opinious on finance he wouldn't advance a single one of them if it was to disturb anyone's feelings. Here, under his evea, is what is call*i cheek. Heboid the broad expanse! There isn't a man tu Chicago who mu bold a candle to htm when he's tlfteeu years old. Take him away. He's built right up from the ground, has a hide stuffed full of bones aud muscle, and all you. need do is to keep ou feeding him milk, giving him plenty of room to roll over in, and don't be too particular about his swallowing s few hairpins, shingle nails and thimbles." "Mr. Joy, you have made us happy," saul the woman, tears coming into Ler eyes. "The first time we can get some oysters cheap, we will make a supper and iuvite vou over." When she had bouueed the loy into his cart and backed him out, llijah swept up her tracks and tenderly whis pered: "How easy it is to make people happy! If some one had encouraged me when 1 wss two years old, I might now be presi dent of Mexico, and have feet as big again as these."— Detroit Eree Prr*. 1 Tragedy inning Alaska India**. A letter dated Klswock Cannery, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, gives the following details of s terrible tragesly : An Indian was sitting alone in his wig wam when a young married womau entered from a ueighlHiriug lodge, and thinking the brave wss asleep st an un seasonable hour, she gave him a smart push, which threw him oTer against something or other which cut his face, causing a flow of blood. The brave muttered a curse, and the woman quick ly retreated, thinking but little of the accident,[fur an accident it was, so far as the trifling injure went. Nothing fur ther transpired that evening, the dam aged warrior remaining indoors nursing his anger. The following morning, when the woman and her husband were quiet ly eating their breakfast of dried salmon and anticipating no harm, tlnf wounded man walked into their hut, raised hia rifle and sent a bullet crashing through the skull of the man. He then rushed upon the woman, whipped a huge knife from his belt, ripped her open and, leaving husband and wife dead upon the floor, quietly walked back to his own cabin and cl*od and tiarred the door. The murder created a violent commotion in the Indian village as well as iu the cannery. An Indian council was held and a "death sentence passed upon the murderer. Luckily tor the cause of jus tice iu such caa- a, there are no courts of sppeal in this region to retard the prompt and merited execution of a red handed murderer, but in this case there was the barrier of a stronglv-larred door, with a desperate and well-armed man ou its inuer side. Urgent ap peals were made to the criminal to open the door and oome ont and be shot; all of which bo respectfully declined. Fear ing that he would eM*|tc in the night a close watch and gnard were kept upon the lint, the whole aettlemeut !>eiug on the qui nee all night, expecting the shooting to come off overv moment. At ten the next morning tte criminal an nounced that be was randy. He tin barred his door and stalked ont. gorge ously robed in a flaming red blanket, hia head resplendent with pitch and feathers and his rifle upon hia shoulder, (living a few direction to his executioners, he stepped forward a few pacts, whirled through s war-dance, fired his rifle into the air, aud fell dead pierced by twenty bullets. The remains of the murderer and his victims were cremated, and In dian life resumed its usual monotonous routine. The Fall of Avalanche*, A paper on this subject was road by M. Dnfonr, at a recent meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, in which he states that, during his travel* in the Alps, the inhabitants had frequently as sured him that avalanches rarely fall when the sky is overcast, but that they do so rapidly and in groat number when the heavens grow clear. The fact was confirmed bv the monks of the Great St. Bernard. In winter the latter always urged travelers not to leave the monas tery wheu the sky is clearing, and, many times, those who have neglected that advice have fallen victims to their ira prndenoe. M. Dnfonr explains that peculiarity as follows: In cold weather, when the sky clears off, the temperature falls, csjioeially just In-fore sunrise, and then the filaments of ioe which retain the snow on the slopes of the monntains contract and snap, the mass begins to slide and draws others in its train; for the slightest cause of movement, the smallest shock may cause the fall of enormous avalanches. The start of a bird, a cry, sometimes even words pro nounced iu a low tone, are sufficient to produoe a catastrophe. That is why, in daugerons places, the guides recommend their travelers to observe slisolnte si lence. That explanation appeared ex trcmelv probable to the monks of the Great &t. Bernard whAn it waa suggest ed to them by M. Dufour, and a circum stance of which be was a witness con firmed him in hia views. A meadow of several acres in extent hail been pre pared at Morges for skaters, by covering St with water, which froze while the heavens wore covered. One night, the sky cleared off, anil M. Dufour noticed a sensible fall in the thermometer. Im mediately afterwards he heard crack ings in all directions, dne to the con traction of the ioe from the increased oold, and nnmorous splits were observ able. That phenomenon is precisely analogous to what oocurs when the heavens clear np and cause the fall of the avalanches. 1 11 ELY TORIRM. The ammonia of the oomniereial fer tdmers manufactured iu the euhurbs of Augusta, (la., has completely driven out the chill* aud fever aud other iu*l aria that ustxl to infect the locality. An ui toman well 3,'i&o feet deep ha* leeu )sired iu Roath, Hungary. It is the deepest iu the world, lieiug nearly twice the depth of that in Raria. It semis by a jet of nearly boiling water forty two feet high. Minnesota ia engaging in frog-culture, which consist* chiefly in protecting the eggs ai d young from their enemies by wire screen*. i'he product so far ha* been alsmt 3.000 doXeu lega quoted IU HE LOUIS at twenty cents a dozen. A farm sixty mile* long and ten wide iu one tract, nuMtly fenced, ia that of Mtller A Lux, cattle monopolist* of California. They have MO.OiAi head of stork, own TUB.OOO acre* of choice laud, and are rated as worth !j 15,U00,00U. Joseph Broner, an American, who emigrated to Chill some years ago, waa recently murdi-red in cold blood, to gether with hi* wife and children, by a gang of • Uncontented laborers. In the struggle he, alone aud unaided, killed thirteeu of the villain*, but waa obliged to suocumb at la*E While Rcecher waa at the depot iu Freeborn, Minn., awaiting a train, the other day, a gentleman pr*enied him with pen, ink ami paper, aud aaked him for hia autograph. Taking the |eu, be wrote the following: "Too many egg* in one basket: farmers should nuse something besides wheat" Christian Brieteubach came ont of prison at the age of twenty, went to the residence of hissgid graud-pareuts, near Detroit, Mich., and ouully told them that he intended to live with them. They kept him oat of fear, fur he was a bally; but he wso not satisfied with bare sap port. He Killed them in the night with an ax, and ran away with their money. A blazing meteor which fell during a recent storm near Beaufort, 8. C., was picked up and.found to be an irregularly shaped rock, weighing about twenty five pounda, and having a thin coating as if of lava. More remarkable was the finding of s fallen srolite on the Cali fornia desert, near Sail Bernardino, which weighed 250 pounds and contain ed gold, silver and copper. Mtsulev, the African explorer, is claimed by his mother. A Mrs. Easta way. of Liverpool, England, writes to /.Nwy Saturday, a Baltimore literary journal, that she is Stanley's mother, and thst she can identify him by pecu liar India-ink marks npon his srms and a mole on bis neck. He was bora, she msts, in Sew York, on October 26. 1843. His father wss s sea captain, and died fifteen years later. In 1820 the best trotting time wa* a mile in three minutes. Iu 1830 the time was reduced to 2.40; in 1840, to 2.28; in 1850, to 2.26; in iB6O, to 2.191, iu 1870, ilTj; in 1876, the best record was made by Goldsmith Maid, who made a mile in 2.14. Practically, the limit of trot ting speed may be said to have been reached, though it is by n< moan* im probable that phenomenal annuals may e bud led or grafted. The beech and oak are of this class, but the pear and apple can lie worked very easily by thia process, where it ia desirable to increase a choice variety, aud a gam of one season's growth can tie secured (when it is too late to graft) over the simple budding process. Inarching is nothing more than the simple bringing of two growing twigs of the aauie site together, shaving each one half thr> ugh on one aide, and then fitting the cat parts together with the harks of both to join, and then securing them in position by ligatures until the parts are firmly united. The limb i* then detached frotu the parent tree, aud forma the top of the other, the r-t of it* branches having been removed. The principal care rijmra) ia in removing thia tying material in time and nut al lowing it to cut too deeply into the growing limb. Twigs of the same sea son's growth, while growiug rapidly, can be made to form a perfect union in a few weeks, and the ligature may have to be loosened in one week. To be sacoeaaful it requires that both trees be in vigorous growth, and the stock on which it is prouoeed to fcrm a a new head will have to be planted care fully, within reach of the limb, by which it may he worked at the proper season, ami then it can be out louse and re moved the following fall, after growth has ceased. This may be practised on trees already growing near together, or when a new top is to be put on a small tree by grafting. If a few fail to take, and other limbs are desired, the sprouts can be worked from the growing grafts by bending them together, and thus a symmetrical head can be at once formed instead of waiting for another year. This is work for the amateur or gardener, and, as has been remarked, requires st'eutiou st several times and cannot be well done where the work is out of reach from the ground, or where hmbs far apart will be severely sua ken by the wind, and liable to break off where tied. It is not desirable to do this work much before midsummer, and no union takes place until the new layer of wood is deposited, in the case o ! shoots pf pre vious season's growth. A little obser vation will show thst last season's twigs do not increase in diameter until after or about midsummer, even though sev eral feet of new growth have been added to their length. The new groath or an nual layer, is then all deposited in a short time, when growth for the season cesses. Whether this new wood is deposited from the bark or thrown ont from the wood below, has been s point in con troversy, bnt observation seems to have established the latter as the correct theory. The bark may be removed from "the trunk of an apple or pear tree at any time during the longest days of the year without apparent injury to the tree. I have seen pear trees thst were apfiarently an the decline and had rugb, scaly bark, started into new growth and health by simply removing all the bark carefully (without scraping the wood) from the trunk the latter part of June. The new bark is left undis turbed, adhering to the trunk, and it thickens up iu s short time and takes the place of that removed. Some trees continue this growth much later in the season than others, and a knowledge of their peculiarities is of great imj>ortance to every one who attempts to propagate them.— Cor. (buntry Oentlema*. Prrmrlm stark lr EiklMtlti- 1. Begin to feed animals for show as young aa it will eat. A calf should be pushed from four week* old with plenty of milk and such solid food as it will •at That is the time to begin—never quit. 2. Feed anything that they will eat, the best that' is ordinarily given to such stock, and in such quantities as they want, being careful always that they clean up their troughs. 3. I never found it advisable to feed ofteuer than three times a day—have tried suckling calves three times, and feeding the grown cattle five or even ni times, but tbey will do no letter tkau three times; and I have had good suc cess sometimes in feeding twice, but that requires experience. In general, I will say that an adept will soon learn the thousand details that make up the whole, if be has hi* eyes and ear* about him and want* to learn. Wheu he goes off to the fair* let) him notice particularly bow everybody else does their work, especially those wbo take of the prizea. An occasional ques tion, without being too inqu aitive, will bring ont one piece o information, aud adapting it to hia own use, he may see something lietter. This is an art that must l>e studied, practiced and picked np. An induatriona man with a taste for such things will learn mora to do all, or a greet part of the work, himself, than in any other way.—Exchange. An Incident of the I'lagne. At the corner of St Joseph and Raronne the reporter entered a n*>m on the ground flr of a two-story brick building. On a crib lay a boy appar ently about thirteen years of age, whose tossing* and twitchiugs were watched over by a fond mother. When the re porter entered, the wet eyea of the mother told the tale. Mistaking the ideutity of the reporter for s doetar she, with no little emotion, said: "Oh ! doc tor, Jimmy is dying." Entering the room, the poor little sufferer was found to lie breathing ster toriously, hia eyes fixed, and evidently with but a short time to live. " Doctor, do tell me," said the mother, " how long can he live 1 He was a good boy, aud would not associsto with bad boys. He was one of the best boya in the world." The sun slanted down in the western sky, the shadows of the houses and fences lengthened out, the quiet of our short twilight stole over the streets, and us mother anil oonsin watched over the thin form of their beloved little one, without a warning, it* spirit, in quiet ude and peace, left it* habitation, and, with those gone before, entered into the great unknown world.— New Or Iran* Democrat. The Banks of the United State*. The following statement exhibit* the condition of the banks of the United States ou the 29th of June, 1878: <'tr>inu K7O,!Wa,KM|Not, bUta of (limitation.... St.JIH.Hni ciiimasr.stc, Deposit* MJ,BBB,SBJ rie KSl.iiM.Jt9 Profits on band IM.fluS.SSOT.H.stork* and I other securi ties 45J.577.95S Specie J9.J51.459 Reslestste.. 46,155,40S Totsl *1,970,987,1(18 Totsl *1,a80,W7.158 Since the 15th of March last, the capi tal has decreased 92,959,175. the circula tion 950,058,460: the profits on hand 88,782,711, the loans 917.874,612, and the specie $25,297,283 The deposits have increased $40,860,040, ana the United states stooks and other securities 926,835,033. The number of banks throughout the I Union is 2,056. NUMBER 40. Fewer of Urn I'jeioae. A writer in the New fork AW aaya : The aonotinti in the daily japcr* of the recent death-dealing cyclone whioh vis ited Wellington!, Coun., state aa jeooaaly aa the aad surroundings will warrant, that aunt; of the people there insist that the wind blew the borne off a cow. A plenty of people living in the interior of Plorida to day will deacrite to your readers cyclones which have taken the hark from the trees in their oourse. Be this so or not, I beve examined the tracks of tornadoes there, varying from three to one hundred yards in wnith, that would make the eyea of " Old Indi cations" open wide with wonderment. But i know of an inatanoe where every leaf and lite entite bark ware take* from a tree in foil vigor of growth,'and at least ton inohea in diameter at the butt. This occurrence was during the month of July, 1H69, in Georgetown eonnty, Booth Carolina, and can be substantiated by more than a aoure of prominent and reliable resident* of that county who visited the sortie aooti after it transpired. It remains to thia day a mooted queation whether the violence of the win I or aotne electrical power performed the wonderfnl feat. The exact location of the remarkable event here Jnenbed ia about fourteen mtlea back from the Tillage of George town , the oounty aeat, at the head of Win jaw bar, which is fifteen miles in land from the outer bar of the harbor. This cyclone was about one hundred and fifty feet in width only. It laid flat in the twinkling of an eye scores of huge live oaks, which for mors than a century had withstood all other storms, and shaded the long avenue leading up to the plantation house of Dr. Fwuburne. It jumped over the house, and sweeping down among the bats of the bauds, demolishes! them and killed a number, as also several head of live stock. It then shot out across the broad acres of the plantation, with nothing to obstruct its course until it reached the single hickory tree before mentioned, which stood uear the center of the fiekl. The bark was entirely taken from this tree, even to the end of the smallest twig, without breaking any of iU branches. I visited it tne afternoon of the occur rence, and can vouch for the phenome non. The superstitions hands looked upon the occurrence as a visitation of the Almighty, and the number of genual old planters in that vicinity was not small who believed the gyrating wind twisted the bark off. Others believed that it was done by electricity, and cited the fact that the twigs sod branches were not broken to substantiate their theory. The color of the wood was left in ha nat ural state, and without stain of any kind. Merchant Prince and Banker. Stephen Girard, tbe rich merchant of Philadelphia, who founded Girard Col lege, began life as a common sailer. Not withstanding his ability in money making, Le wa- so illiterate as to be scarcely able to write his own name. Even when hit success had ranked him as one of the richest merchants in the country, his manners savored more of tbe forecastle than of the oouaUng room. On one occasion, Mr. Francis Baring, a partner in the great London house of the Barings, being on s visit to this country, called at Mr. Guard's count ing-room. He was told that he must seek the merchant at his farm, near the city. Thither Mr. Baring drove, and found a small low-aet man, costless, restless, and with bis slurt-sleevae rolled up, loading hav on a wagon. " Have i the pleasure of speaking to Mr. Girard V said the Tisitor. " I am Mr. Francis Baring." " 80, so! Then von are the son of the man that got married bare f" re marked Girard, referring to the fact that the elder Bating had married a Philadelphia lady. •' Well, I am g'lad to see yon, but I've no time to talk with you. It's harvest time, and I am very busy. Won't von walk around sod look at my oows? Get some of my Tolks to give von a glass of milk, for yon can't get such milk in Philadelphia." Mr. Baring complied with tbe bloat invitation. He was amused rather than offended, at the eccentric reception ex tended by tbe richest merchant in Philadelphia to one of the heada of the largest banking-house of London. A Sew Swindle Scheme. A new trick has been developed in Clarion county. Pa. The trick at its first playing paid, and will doobtlew. be played as long as it will pay in other part* of the country. It may, therefore, pay somebody to read this paragraph, (hiodman is a notion peddlar, who had lieonme acquainted with a thriving farm er named Logue. The peddler told the farmer that he had dreamed 'if a treasure on his farm, and asked the farmer to go with him while he identified the spot. The dreamer did not wish to trespass, and the fanner humored the whim and went. Rambling in a woodland, Good man saw an oak which answered the ap(wwrance of a tree in his vision. There was a hole in the tree about twenty fwt up. It was the bole containing the treasure of the vision. Neither man could climb the tree to inspect the hole. Goodman asked the farmer to help him cut the tree down, promising to give him half the "find." The fanner reluct antly ooneeuted to the arrangement, and the tree was felled. When it fell there was a jingle of coins out of the hole. The tree bore $5,000 in silver by actual count Goodman did not want to carry his half in silver on account of it* weight The farmer paid him $2,500 in green backs for his share, and took charge of the coin. The farmer cannot pass a dollar of the money—no good—and the peddler and his pack are gene from the neighborhood. Telle* Feter Visitations. Speaking of the yellow ferer visits tion, a New York paper says : In 1833 the scourge was much woraa. In New Orleans, for example, the maximum oi death* per day ao far attained has been 103. August 22J of that year there were '254 deaths from the pestilence, and on no day of that mouth were there leas than 110 deaths, while moet of the time they averaged at least 180 daily. The resident population was not than, it is estimated, over 80,000, and of these 12.- 000 died that season ; compared with which the present mortality, distressing though it be, is small. In 183*2, when the yellow fever prevailed here, there was a great panic ; the city was fences! in below the City Hall park—the m feoted district was in the three lower wards 'the merchants, bankers, profes sional men and the mncicipal govern ment moved to the village of Greenwich, now one of the upper wards ; and yet, despite the alarm, barely 200 persons died. Just before the close of the last century the fever here destroyed 2,500 lives, ana then Now York had uot more than 50,000 people—a mortality of one in every twenty inhabitants. We hear now mnch more of the fever in 1822 than of the fever in 1793. How fortu nate that we ao readily forget both our 1 sorrows and our calamities. Mrs. Maokay, wife of the bonanza king, has over $250,000 worth of jew elry, but when she gets the toothache she snffers just as much as the woman whose bracelets and diamonds came from the ninety-nine-cent store. Item* af litmrt. lis flows* for young fathers—the W r ' Ail old err i*w art—a mis* ta aa good Hbikmv* *m i waodor, bit Queen Eliiatieth ft Tudor. Tbft carrier-pigeon never travel* with his oote 01 hia arm. The beet of bo*U get into trouble and have to be bailed out. The grape orop of California ia on usually amall ttjm year The United Bute* baa more cattle thsn any other nation in the world, Camel* engaged hi the caraean trade carry loads varying from 640 to TJO pound* i "H peakmg of the dead languagaa, professor," inquire.! the new Undent, " who killed them V \ '• Lore la an internal tranaport 1" ex , claimed an enthuaiasUfl poet. "Bois a cenalbeat," stud a practical old forward iog merchant. The differeaae betwoan ladiea and dock*—if there ia any difference~ia that lad ice are often dieeeed to kiU, while Jacks are killed to dree*. Ift no nee. yonng man, claiming that the letter the post ta an just banded yon ia from a Uosiucm friend. We aaw the stamp in t&e lower left hand corner.— Puck. The caanal Invention of the aaw came about by the nae of a Jaw of a aerpent aa a cutting instrument It was found to work well, and waa afterwards imita ted in aaetal. It waa thought to be a big thing in ancient timea when Ajax threw off hia loater and defied the lightning, bnt now almost any man raia*e thunder if hia dinner ia wild, and the poeta never my word abont it> , Colonel J taker, of TgXfta. Commit aiooer to the Facia Exposition, aay there are only four new things on exlii bitiou the phonograph, telephone microphone, from the United States and a awimauisg doll-baby, a French pnatioß. This country is becoming no crowded with marksmen, athletes, swimmers and oarsmen wearing medals on their breasts, that the ordiparr msn will soon hare to return to blue mats with brass buttons, in order to keep from sinking into utter insignificance. A Wisconsin dentist recently received the following from a patient writing few advice: "If? month is three inches across, flwveighlbi Ihroagb the jaw. Bum humnky a the edge. Khsped like a boss-shoe* toe forrard. If yon want me to be more particular, I shall have to some tkar." Tbe last man will have an awfully kmosome has Mit Nobody to burrow money of; nobody to don hup or raise his rent; no gas metre to make things lively; no book agents; no life-insurance man* and no oldest inhabitant to declare that it'a the most remarkable weather we hare ever had- The last man* Ex cuse us! We are not a candidate.—ATeo kuk (YmstiMum. It ia not generally known that the Chinese make very fine nmora, and that for a long period" no European shaving knife could compare with theirs in keeo neaa and durability. A fine edge ia a noraaaitv with tbaai, ainoe they regularly shave their heads— carefully emitting the pigtail—without using soap or any other emollient They only moisten the scalp with a little warn water. When the summer paaaes away and the flowers lie withered and acre; when the forest puts on its annual robes of scarlet and gold, when tbe breese be oomee fresher and more bracing, wbec the crack of the gun reverberates through the silent mice of the woodland. when eve rr thing has a tsuJaory to make tnan pause and meditate on the uncertainties and vicissitudes of life, what is sweeter than to sit on a rail fettoe and peacefully devour a raw turnip t While Mr. T. il. Kellogg, of Center ville, lowa, was eating twenty cents worth of rib ro*-l the other day, bur glars lifted SSOO worth of watches and chains out of hftr jewelry store. It was a luxurious dinner, thai even kings might boast of, but Mr. Keltogg now feels that he could have better spared a better dinner. What shall it profit a mm if he eat a pound of liver and on ions and watermekm, and lam about half o! his jewelry store ! " Runs trotted a aeat at Buffalo in 2:154 tbe fastest utae on record." A amah Alt may boy read the dispatch, and then, after' reflecting a moment, re marked, a* he laid down the paper: " I kinder wish Jim Jones and me had been timed Baturdav as we made tracks from that orchard oa the Shaker road. FU bet the farmer that chased us will say that we made a mil# in a .good deal leas than 2;13|. and the road was bad in places at tuat Jee h-*ey, bow we did skewf Animals that depend chiefy upon the ere, and especially il tbajr be feeders in tiui night, or in -{4 m to which little light can come. invariably havw the eyee very large. This ia the caea with owls and other nocturnal birds. The name k f* observed even in coßßsetlan with the inhabitant o! the see. The surface fishes usually hare the erea email and ST Re. tiual!y Wtftl when we cwme to those which inhabit the depths, and yet are active. feeding upon other fiahra. their eyee aw very large. The Grand Canal of China islikely to ah are the fata of the Great Wall. This waterway oonatruoied by Kubail- Khan and hia saceeosors of the Yuen race, mod ia 600 mile?, m length. There are 10,000 fUt-bottoraed boat* on this canal, and these aire wed in the trans portation of crass. The KcMo atatea that this grtwl waterway ia an enormous "white elephant," as it oosta an enor mnna amount every year for repairs, the eppropriatiou* there, or elsewhere, not Vang entirelv devoted to the pur pose for which they are meant. Junks are delayed every month while channels are being dug for their passage. Hiis Tear, for the first time since the con struction of the ewel, the grain from Nankin, with the eonaanl of the govern ment, has been forward*! by sea, and this fact has impelled the Pektn authori ties to consider the expediency of abandoning the canal as a commercial highway. Extraordinary phenomena have been observed in connection with the "Oor pupa" volcano in the Province of Castills, Peru, which have caused great alarm among the population. The immense banks of snow which have crowned its summit from time im memorial have suddenly melted away with such rapidity to cause torrents to rush down the sides of the mountain, washing out immense quantities of itones and earth. The river below, being unable to contain the great body iof water so suddenly added to it, overflowed its banks, causing great damage and distress. A great chasm or lateral crater next opened on one side, throwing out volumes of smoke and steam, as well as tongues of flame, i which were distinctly visible at night, aocompanied with loud subterranean rumblings. It bad never been supposed that the Oorpnna was ot could be a I volcano, and there is no tradition that it i was ever in a state of eruption. Nor within the memory of man has its crown of snow ever been absent. Sensible. A very sensible change in opinion aa well as profession is indicated in the letter of a young man, a graduate of Dartmouth, and noted as a law student, who, having tiad the misfortune to lose his hearing sad having settled am & farm, writes thus o! the occupation he has chosen: "There isn't much glory on a farm, but you get a good sure living. Yon are your own master; you can't starve or be tamed oat of business; and as far as the work is concerned, in these days of horse power, a man needn't kill himself farming any more than any other business. It is brains tfeat win on a farm as everywhere else, and the smart man is going- to ride while tue stupid one goes on loot in the eorn-field as well aa in the bar or pulpit. I should like to have my hearing again, but I wouldn't leave the farm again if I had it."