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 e<srrrys safe key that unlocks
M or*) treasures than Cpnseut ever saw ;
We near no velvets or satiu* tine.
We dress iu a very homely war ;
But O, what luminous lustres shine
About Sunbeam's gowns and my hodden
grey.
No harp, no dulcimer, no guitar
Break* mto sirgmg at Sunbeam's touch ;
But do not think that our evening* are
Without their music ; there it none such
In concert hall* a here the lyric au
la pahnfant billow* swiuis and swoon* ;
Our U- ss are a* psalm* and our foreheads
wear
The calms of the heart* of perfect June*.
When wc walk together v we do not ride.
We are far too poor\ it is very rare
We are bowed unto from the other side
Of the street —but not for this do we care.
We are cot lonely ; we ;iass aking.
Sunbeam and I—ar ' you cannot see
(We caul what UIL ...! tieaauful ttiroug
Of augels we hare for company.
*
When cloudy weather obscure* our skie*.
AIHI some days darken with drop* of rain.
We hare but to kxik at each other's ere*,
And all is balmy and 1 right again.
Ah ' our* is the alchemy that transmute*
The dreg* to elixer. the dross to gold.
And *o we lire on Hespersan fruits.
Sunbeam and I—and never grow old.
—KnAani Rmi.
CHASED BY THE FIRE.
In the coal regious of Pennsylvania
there are railroads called " gravity
ruadx," over which long trains run with
oa the aid of locomotives.
The tracks are laid on a gentle in
cline, till they come to steep ascending
planes, where stationary engines are
placed, either at the head or foot of the
slop*. Here strong iron ropes are at
tached to the cars, drawing them to the
top of the bills, when they again can
run down on the other aide, controlled
only by brakemea, till other elevations
are reached.
These roads have two tracks, not par
allel, but sometimes a mile or mure
apart. The oue on which the loaded
care oass is called the " heavy," and
the oilier, where the empty cars return,
the "light track." They are built along
the sides of the mountains and at times
climb to the mountain summits, giving
the eye a grand sweep over broad and
beantit'nl landscapes. Then, gently
descending, they follow the mountain
curves, sometimes hanging over deep
ravines, and sometimes dashing through
dense forests, where the trees form an
t jibroken shade over the track.
In the spring of 1875. John Ward,
the hero of this story, wa Ucm i brake
man on one of the coal trains. Daring
that spring, this part of the country
was visited by an unusual drouth. Day
after day the sun rose clear, and ran its
course over a cloudless sky. Bat at
length a veil gathered over the land
scape, thronVh which the son shone only
like a doll red disk. The people said
that forest fires were raging m the lum
ber districts north.
Near the close of a day in the month
of May, War! and two other brakemen,
in charge of an empty train, noticed a
cloud of smoke at the liead of the plane
next above them. As they ran down to
the engine-house, which was here at the
foot of the slope, they inquired if the
woods along the track were on fire.
The engineer replied that they were,
but he thought they conld shoot by
without danger.
The men resolved to try. Bat when
they reached the top of the plane, they
saw' that thev hail no time to lose. The
fire was rasbing towards them, and they
conld feel its hot breath. Loosening
the brakes, they sped down the track
with covered faces and suspended
breath.
Bnt a few momenta sufficed to carrv
them out of danger, as they supposed.
The road then wound round a curve of
two miles throngh a dense pine forest
J Oca and Dan McChing, Ward's two
companions, congratulated themselves
on their escape; bnt Ward felt anxious
lest this was but the beginning of their
trembles. His home was in the midst of
the woods some miles further down; and
for the first time he realized what a terri
ble foe fire might become.
Scarcely had these thoughts passed
through his mind, when the train round
ed the curve, and there before them was
the fire crossing their path.
They had gone so far down the plane
that it was impossible to ran the cars
back. They felt that they had better
abandon them and return, while there
was yet a chance, to the engine-house at
the foot of the slope.
But on rounding the curve again, thev
saw, to their dismay, that the fire had
reached the track belund them, and was
furiously burning on both sides. All
chance of retreat was cut off. Bnt the
forest where they stood was cool and
green, the undergrowth so luxuriant and
damp that it did not seem possible that
it could burn.
The next moment, however, a bnrning
twig lodged in one of the tall trees near
them, and igniting the pine needles,
darted ont a tongue of flame.
The men now saw that they must
push their way through the fire in front
or perish. With hearts trembling ".itn
fear, they took off the brakes, and were
about to rush down the bnnnng track,
when a woman darted out from the
trees, dragging a little boy by the hand,
and screamed to them in tones of agony:
"Stop and take us in !"
Josh McChing shouted back: "We
can't possibly," and pointed to a tall
tree left standing in the clearing ahead,
against which cord-wood had been piled,
and which was already in flames. But
with a Arm hand. Ward pressed down
the brake, and ordered the others to do
the same, saving:
"Would vou leave a woman and her
child to be burned like rats in a barn ?"
"Don't yon see we must get by that
tree before it falls across the track 7"
cried McChing in a rage.
"I know," replied Ward, sternly;
"but they shall g.- with us, or well all
perish together. Quick, quick, my wo
man ! we've no time to lose!"
He dared not leave the front of the
train to help her, for he knew the other
men, in their fright, would raise the
brakes and desert them.
She struggled forward, but when
almost up to the cars, she stumbled and
fell. With a bound, Ward sprang to
her side, lifted her, and handed her to
Josh McChing, who stood in the rear
car. He then caught up the child, and
turned to spring in, but the train was
already moving, Josh, made utterly self
ish by his fear, had raised the brakes.
Ward ran with the energy of despera
tion, threw the child into Dan's out
stretched arms, and then caugnt the last
car, where he clung, unable at the speed
they were moving, with his utmost
strength, to do more than keep his hold.
FRED. KURTZ, Kditor and Proprietor.
VOLUME XI.
Iu a tow momenta they left the green
wood*, and passing through the hiss
ing hrnsh on either side, were almost
blinded and suffocated with the smoke
and heat, while hurtling twigs and hush
es fell like a red-hot shower upon them.
Ward felt his hauds blistering, yet
he held fast, ami looked up to see if the
pine-tree was still standing. As ther
passed under it, the tlames had caught
in the long brauehes, and it stood a
pyramid of Are. On the oars sped.
Another curve was passed, and they
were again in the mulct of a dense green
wood.
l>au 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 <wied, "O mother,
how can 1 leave you?"
"Go, go, my soul As you have
l>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)<eech maker and diplomat. His dash,
above all, dazzled the Uriquaa and Oaf
free Ixith, and those who distrusted him
for his tricks admired him for his bold
nee*. White people who I eeame ao
quaiuted with him called it impudeuce
and bluster; but he was gentuuely feared
by the Caff re*, aud regarded by others
with something like su|>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
<! err ease the time of Goldsmith Maid.
Victor Hugo lias a habit of working
upon four or five subject* at <mot, rarely
knowing which he shall finish first. In
the morning be begins with which ever
subject first takes his fsncy, and after
devoting himself for a few hour* to
vrrae, turn* to his novel after luncheon,
and finishes the day bv writing on some
theme utterly mil ke that which be took
np in tne morning, He has now in
preparation six prose works and four
poem*.
An open winter is not followed by a
eool summer, as many suppose; on the
contrary, a cool summer u*ually follows
a severely cold winter, and a very warm
summer succeeds s mild winter, as we
now see. A severe winter leaves the
mountains heavily capped with ioa and
auow to cool the breezes during the suc
ceeding summer month*, while an open
winter leaves the mountain tops bare
and the winds are therefore much less
eooling.
At Bombay a lady and gentleman
wlio were taking a stroll sauntered into
a church, and finding the marriage reg
ister on a table the gentleman for fbn
wrote in it the names of four people
(two couples) well known in their circle
of frienda. The names may not now lie
erases!, because anv one tampering with
the signatures in the registry is liable
to seven years' penal servitude. The
offender has absconded, the gentlemen
are in pursuit and the ladies in dismay.
The governor has beeu appealed to, but
no decision has been arrived at as to
w hat can be done.
There are 4.000,000 dead lettsra re
ceived annually at the Dead Letter
Office. 800,000 without stamps; 60,000
partially addressed; 6,000 no address;
81,600,000 of money orders and drafts
of money value; 45,000 packages con
taining property: 840,000 in money—
nine-tenth* of which is returned, the
balance remaining in the treasury—sub
ject to application for tonr years; 25,000
photographs; 260,000 European letter*
are returned unopened; one-tenth of *ll
letters received contain property; 10,000
applications for letters reported lost; the
great proportion found and delivered.
There is an association in (lermany
founded for the pursuit of scientific
investigation about Africa, which has
been led bv the recent discoveries of
rich natursf resources iu the interior of
the "dark continent" to go outside of its
own proper field, and call the attention
of the (icrnian commercial and manu
facturing classes to the importance of
establishing trade connections with that
undeveloped territory. So important
does the imperial government consider
this suggestion that it has made a pre
liminary appropriation of 825.000 in aid
of enterprises of the kind advised, with
intimations that all necessary fnrther
aid will be forthooriiing. A geographic
eommorcnl association for establishing
trade with inner Africa has also beon
formed iu Switzerland.
A Koyal Silver Wedding.
The recent celebration of the silver
wedding oi the king and queen of the
Belgians was made the occasion of a
general holiday among their subjects.
Brussels was deoo rated with flags and
flowers, and numerous receptions were
made at the palace. The queen was
presented with a golden crown sot with
brilliants aud a splendid veil of Belgian
lace by Madame Auspach, the wife of
the burgomaster of Brussels, in the
name of the women of Belgium. The
queen acknowledged the gift in appro
priate termß, and aaid the demonstra
tion would lie the most precious sou
venir of her life. The king reoeived a
insgnifloent silver covered cup, with
handle, sent him by the Prince of Wales.
The cup is elaborately chased, and on
the front of it is this inscription: "Leo
pold 11., King of the Belgians, on his
silver weddiug. From his most affec
tionate oonsin, Albert Edward, Prince of
Wales, Aug. 22, 1878."
TERMS: a Yoar, in Advance.
EAR*, (. tItDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
lasrrkisi-
Tina method of increasing plant* or
trees that are difficult of propagation
we seldom see mentioned in th* book*
or paftera, and it i* to lie prraumed that
it la liecauae of the difficultie* in the way
of using It, that ao little attention is
given it, aud yet for some kinds of tree*
this method is the moat available way to
ancare additions! tree#, especially with
such as have a very hard or dry bark,
<-ud cannot easily t>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 fl<x>r 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."