Harvest. Tbs crimson moon uprising from the MM. With large dslight forsMls Um> harvsot near T* shepherds, now prepare Tour melody, To greet the oft xppeamno* of her sphere ' And like a pg*. enamored of her train. The star of evening glimmer* in the went . Then raise, ye shepherds, your observant "train, Tbt "O of the Groat Shepherd bore are bleat! Onr Arid* are full of the time ripened grain. Our vineyard* with the purplecluster* well; Her golden aplendor gluuiuor* on the main, And valee and mountain* hot bright glory trU. TTien riiy, > e tdiephenl* ' for Uia time i* oome When we mu*t bring the oariohed harvest home. Petitlen t Time. Touch n* gently. Time! let u* glide idown thy>tre*m Gently—as we sometime* glide Through a .past dream. Humble voyager* are we. Husband, wife aud children three , One is Scat an angel fled To th(xr.iire cverheait! Touch ns gently. Time ' We've net proud not waring wuig* . Onr ambition, our content. Lies in aunpie things. Humble are we O'er life's dim. un*ouud<-d sva. ,-wmktng only some cairn clime t Tiwtch ua genii v. gentle lime! Harry Cor Html The Silent Woman. A IX! VK STOUT ruoxi THK J VFANKSK. , Oshikoji Nobutaro was a voting noble who found himself quite disillusioned, i> that the gavotte* of society, the va riety of travel nor the achievement of literary distinctiou were pleasing to him, aud be retinrd, a prey to unuttera ble weariness, t > the auerstnd abode on the beautiful ah ore- ' Like Bi*. hop ing b> find at- W- -1 i* .nlpuhty. In the tu,e of the second gathering of the tea, the mihiest and fairest of the vest, when the trees begin to fill with little nests, and wneu all nature trem hlee and blushes with eouscious warmth Iriye lchigoro ordered a couple of nori •nono, an.t started off to Riwa to take conusel with his exiled friend. He found Nobutaro in the field* at the base of Hi Yei Zan, practicingthe enlivening paren tof hawking. The greetings of the young me*i were polite and decoiona, uad' their oouv rsation, which turned upon various subjects, was at ouce ex hilarating and instructive. Towarl the close Iriye introduced the topic which most closely interested him. "Nebtrtaro, there is a maiden"— aaid he. " Alas, there are so many," said Nobu taro. "If u.y amiable and well-conducted friend would restrain for a moment his noble impetnoity, hi* servant would endeavor to make buna*-If more plainly understood." "Pardon me, lchigoro, I will listen with the respect which is due yonr ex cellent character." , " There is a maiden, Nobutaro, whose indescribable charms have for mauy weeks afforded the youth of Kioto the most pleasing sensattona Her father i* known to us all as eminent far riches and refinement, and is, iu truth, a mem ber of the exalted house of Sanjo. As for the girl, who has but recently emerged from the rigid privacies of girl hood, and been revealed to the eyes of a few whose rank may claim so rare a privilege, the incapable words of Iriye lchigoro can convey only faint and in adequate ideas respecting her. Her form is like the waving willow leaf, ami her face as full of beauty as the moon, of which she is the younger sister. Her eyes are like the brightest stars of winter, and her feet, which have never been spoken of without emotion, are said to be wholly incompetent to the support of her delicate frame." " And what of her tongue 1" asked Nobutaro. " Most accomplished, NobuUro," answered Iriye, in some irritation, "yon talk like a person of vulgar birth and no edncation whatever. Her conversation is regulated by a wise discretion, and modesty conoeives every word that is imned from her exquisite lips." " Ah!" sighed Nobutaro, "if I could hear of a beautiful woman who is not possessed with the oni of speech." " Nobutaro, mv first and only broth er !" exclaimed iriye, " will yon take one of my norimono, and, after a journey which we will all pray may be disturbed by no unhappy misadventure, i gaxe upon this {sir and dazzling damsel, and consider her for vonrself ?" "No, Ichigoro," said Nobntaro, "that is entirely out of the question." Bat the truth was, Nobntaro had al ready found that his self-imposed exile was not wholly a relief to him. Total feminine abstinence had operated some what to the increase rather than to the diminution of his weariness. At least, in Kioto, he could exploit his grievance. He keenly felt this, although his pride wonld not suffer him to acknowledge it. And now Ichigoro was very pressing, and it became Nobntaro in doe time to gndnally dispose of hi* scruples, and, by slow degrees, to yield. When Nobntaro first encountered the maiden, Tama-ko. of whom hi* friend had told him, his breast did certainly quiver with a new anil strange sensation, and bisaelf-conSdence, which, until that moment. Lad never known a variation from its firmness, experienced an unex pected shock. Her loveliness, he was compelled to admit, was not to be dis- Sited. The flash of her dark eyes kin ed inextinguishable flames. The smile of her ripe and deftly-gilded lips was brighter than the glimmer of sunbeams. Her whole countenance was elegantly pale and fnll of sweetness. Her hair, falling in black waves about her face, addel grace and symmetry to the move ments of her head. Her dress was em broidered with marvelous accuracy, and revealed as she moved twin feet of pro portions too minute to be distinctly measurable. Iriye saw with friendly satisfaction that Nobntaro was for a moment moved. And the distinguished people of Kioto, not a few of whom were present on the occasion, carefully watched tho ooming together of the manliest of the manly and the' fairest of the fair. Nobntaro approached Tatna-ko, hi* hands folded upon his breast and his body reverontly inclined. She knelt awaiting him, her eves cast in humility downward, and a timid flush of expectation illumining her brow. 44 Health is with the daughter of the stars,"said Nobutarc. "Thanks to your accommodating wishes," said Tama ko. 44 Yonr air announces your goodness," said Nobutaro. "Ab, sir," it is you alone who can judge." said Tama-ko. •' Virtue and a contented mind are painted upon your face," said Nobutaro. •' My acknowledgements should be everlasting," said Tama ko. " It is a flue evening," said Nobutaro. " It is a most fortunate and successful evening, since the noble gentleman honors it with his approval," Baid Tama ko. " It is impossible to be sufficiently respectful to you." said Nobutaro. " How shall I dare to persuade myself of what you say ?" said Tama-ko. " Well, well," said Nobutaro, making a grave obeisance and withdrawing, " 1 have not treated you with sufficient dis tinction. " Tama-ko, less ridgidly cyDical than Nobntaro, did not conceal from herself the joy which this interview afforded her. All that she had heard of the agreeable Nobutaro was abundantly veri fied. And she discovered, too, graces and attractions of which she had not been warned. "But alas," ebe 6aid to hertelf, " he loves not women, and each day strives more and more to harden his heart against our inferior and unprofit able sex." N"bntaro feared to admit the sus picion that his fancy had been touched. FRED. KURTZ, Kditor and 1 *rojriotor. VOLUME XI. He reunited with mneli coldness the im putation of Irive lchigoro. "Alt, Nobntam," said that good usturcaifrteud, "therefreshingTama-ko has inspired you ouoe tuortv" " Aonto I rive, thi* time run ate wrong. Tf, now, she hud the gift of silence witii her other visible advautagia, there would be something to talk about." "Noble ootxaiu," auswertxi Iriye, "run ate ulauvs sensible and well informed, but thi* tiuie yon are alao very absurd. Her language i* the lan guage of parity ami evident propriety." "1 do uot like the language of the woman at all," *anl Nobutaro. " Better a spoeohlem daughter of the rota thau the fairest ami richest of the loose tongned knge." *'Estimable Nobutaro, Ton have too much ginger in vour temper." •• Very well, I rive, only 1 shall see the beautiful but talkative Tama-ko uo more." " Oh, Nobutaro !" " Precisely, my lchigoro. As she daxxles the eye, so might she confuse the understanding. In time she might destroy my principle* and ivuipel me to endure the female tougue. No, lolii coro, mv resolution is not to be unfixed. Remember that a restless tongue is one of the five causes allowed by the phi losophers for divorce." Wheu Tama-ko heard this, an she very speedily did, a gloom eauie hk-> a vail of chinmen over hit face, and she expressed a tear, as round and as pure as the unist priceless of the jewels of which she was the namesake. Then it was observed by her family that she sank into re very, out of which ahe emerged an hour later, smiling and con tented. Two days after, the court circle* of Kioto were convulsed with the intelli gence of a sorrowful calamity. The beautiful Tama-ko, during a visit of duty to the temple of Kiomidzu, had thoughtlessly veutureel Uw Dear the edge of it* perilously exposed platform and had fallen, not," fortunately, from the extremes! height, but from an ele vation sufficient to injure her ih a geu eral way, but principally in the region of the head. For two entire days her condition was deemed dangerous, ac cording to rejxirt, but then her well organued constitution triumphed, aud she began to recover. One startling misfortune, however, clung to her. She had loat the power of speech forever. When Osliikoji Nobutaro heard this, he was agitated with mingled soilness and delight. He Mould uot overcome his gratification on finding that no im pediment need now oppoec the progress of hi* aff-'ction* ; and yet the conviction of his supreme selfishness was at time* too bitter for him. But one thing, at least, was clear. It would no longer be pontile for hini to forego the presence of the l>eantifnl Tama-ko. So, as soon as the circumstances of her recovery would permit, he sought an interview, and communed with her. The language of her eyes told him all that he most wished to know, and he was thoroughly happy in her oral in campetancy. Tama-ko was happy too. For many weeks their coarse of com panionship ran swift and smooth, and all Kioto's nobility smiled sympathetic and complacent. By day they were never paired, and each night tender chants, expressive of hopeful passion, sustained by the throbbing koto, re sounded in the dell which lay contiguous to Sanjo no Nishi's garden ; that lovely dell which in all ages has been the moonlit resort of artist and poet ; where the river -rustles in harmony with happy thonghts and the snipe sings soft en couragement to yonthfnl hearts, *1 SCTABO'S MREHAP*. There is a maiden. There w a little maiden whom I love. Her name it U eaT to ntter ; The night wind* are alway* breathing it in my ear. Something has been telling it to me all the night. But who shall oonrcy the extent of her beauties. Or the graces of her mind ? To ethers she is frigid. But to me she is as the moonbeam, radiant and warm. She it exempt from the ordinary weaSneeee* of women. Her piety it the theme of admiration among mil classes. Her virtue* are so lofty that they roach the (tar*. She read* all the aacred l>ook and know them by heart. With strong moral principles *he immingloa a cheerful spirit. And her rich black hair is involved hi nnctuona gum. Namber* of costly ornament* ahinc iu bor hair ; They shine like cluster* of stars relieved by a jet-black sky. I Soft silken scarfs encircle her throat ; Ota ! enviable toft silken oarf*. 4 A radiant satin obi, of princely dimensions and incalculable prion enfold* her waist ! Oh ! enviable satin obi of prlnoely dimcnuione and incalculable prise. Hr countenance need* not the additional glow of paint; And her neck aoorn* the Inferior luster of pow der. Her form i* enveloped in many oolored marvel* of millinery ; And her petticoat i embroidered with a hun dred butterflies fluttering among flower*. Her feet are atom* of celestial ongin. And her kedabii is the pink cloud which pro tect* them. To many her heart i* hard and oold . I To them it fc very beautiful por lain. To me it l* soft and warm : To me it i* fre*h-cnt velvet. Her lip* are sealed, and word* proceed not therefrom, lint in their place come* sigh* of aromatic fra grance. Her family are conspicuous for antiquity. And her father i* of the true blood of Fuji wara. He possesses a great many tiger skins. All Drought from Chosen and very valuable. Myriads of koban* glitter in the strong chests of hi* kura. But for mo the greatest treasure— The treasure beyond all, for me, la the little maiden. Tbe little maiden whom I love. As the lovys of NobuUro aul Tama ko advanced and prospered, an inde scribable tinge of regret came over the young Japanese nobleman. At first, to hi* surprise, bnt presently to his con sternation, he fonnd himself longing for a word of fondness from his affianced, For a time he repelled his sentiment, as unworthy of his firmness,but it gradual ly overcame him again and again, nntil ho became a prey to the deepest anguish, : He was forced to admit within himself that bis ideas on the subject of the female tongue had been too dangerously radical, and that experience had st Inst taught him the value of a gift he had | once considered an excrescence. The ' eloquence of the eye, he found, the pressure of the hand, tho assurance of a caress, were insufficient to complete bis comfort. Ob, for a word 1 he sighed, but signed in vain; and it at last appeared painfully evident that Nobn taro had simply stepped from one un satisfactory extreme to the other, and that he was now almost as lrconsolably miserable as when he had started to ! adapt himself to the seclusions of the I hawking box on the shore of Biwa. It was natural that Taina-ko should feel a deep concern at thoreturning nn happinees of her lover. Bho I*sought him to explain it, and, indeed, succeeded in drawing from him the reluctant truth, i And on learning the real condition of > things, she did nothing bnt smile with great and persistent appearances of de light, which Nobntaro thought the most extraordinary circumstance that had ever happeued. Nevertheless, as Kioto had expected, the announcement of the impending marriage ceremony was not long de- THE CENTRE REPORTER. ferred. And in early autumn it came. Festivities were profuse, and corre spondingly brilliant. Every body-pal piloted with sympathetic emotion ; everylxxly was irrecoverably lost tu ad mtratiou at the beauty of the living pair; evervbody mourned the ntlhctiou of the bride, who. for her part, seemed never so joyous. Nobutaro raised the eup with which he was to pledge his fair companion. He s|s>ke a few wonts indicative of his intentions through life so far as Tama ko was oonoeruod, and Uieu an amazing i incident occurred. Lifting her beautiful eyes to her lover's face, and o|>euiug her lieautifnl i lips, Tsms-ko softly murmured : "Tins is my dear ami only lord, the master of my faith and duty !" " XaruAmio cried everybody, No butaro included. The explanation was rapid and oom plate. "Howeoaldl help it?" said Tama ko. "What they said was that you scorned me for my tongue. Oh, hate ful tongue, to bring uie Nobutaro'* scorn. 1 would have forever remained your silent lover, but for your latter words, iuipelliug me to take once more my gift of speech. l>oos Nobutaro for give mef " (>vcetability; his hat is greasy, and mapped with so many veins, caused by crnshinga, that it might have been used as n chair, or, at least, a footstool ; around his neck ho wears a heavy cloth kerchief, and his long coat of by-gouo fashion reaches nearly to tho ankles, which are covered by shabby gaiters. H.i walks along at a very gentle pace, and scans the windows of the houses for some sign that his ser vices are wanted. Perhaps business in dull; bat in the neighborhoods where there nre plenty of children he in pretty sure to find some **ork. Osne-aeated chairs are durable, but they will not stand the rough usage of those little boys and girls who treat them as step-ladders and stamp npoti them. It often happens that a neat English housemaid appears at the area railings with a chair that has a big, ragged hole in the seat, through which Master Tommy has falleu, with his boots on, in an effort to reach the goose berry jam on 'he pantry shelf. Master Tommy probably looks on while the repairs are Iwing made, and is much interested by the dexterity with which the mender does his work. The old and broken canes arc cut away, and the new strips are woven into a firm fabric, with little eight-sided openings left in it. The overlapping ends of the ribbons are trimmed with a sharp knife, and the chair-seat is as good as new. It seems so easy that Tommy thinks he oonld have done it himself ; but when he experiments with a slip of rune that the mender gives him, he finds that chair-mending is really a trade that must be learned. Home chair-menders are blind men, and it is still more interesting to watch them at their work. The plaiting of the oanes is done as unerringly by their un teeing fingers as by the men who oan see, and with wonderful quickness. Occa sionally the business is combined with that of basket-making ; and should we follow paorold "Chairs-to-mend" home, we might discover his family bußy weav ing reeds and willowy branches with the same cleverness the father shows in handling the canes.— Sl. Nicholcu. CENTRE HAI.L, CENTRE CO.. PA., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1878. THE ST. HOTIIAKD TI'NNEL. Hal* aaS SallsMrlaa* la Se < aaarnrd b a Tuaarl aadrr i.r Ale* iSal will a*i Nearly slio XlllUaa llallar*. There are men living to day iu Swit/.ei land and Italy whoao life dreaiu hus Imen a tunnel under the Alj. Many schemes have been iuveutigated, sml luniiy schemes linve failtxt. These tuighlv bArriers of mountains have for ages dixiile.t jieoplethat but for them might have t-eii of one language, one interest, nbkc iu laws uiid customs. For five hutulre.l years there was but a stone path sen .s the Helvetic Alps, where the St. tiotliar.l jsw>t-roail wu* afterward built; and it is but a century siuoe the first vehicle on wheels was drugged over the puss, at all expense of several htindred dollars. Till that tiuie, the traffic In-tweeii two nations was borne ou the back* of mules and men, who struggled, at the risk of death, along narrow atony ways, winding around glaciers, high mountain uud yawning gulfs; lti.ooo persons and9,ooo horses uliuibcd over these diexv heights Muuuallv. There were mvxrcely fewer dangers to be encountered by the ls>ld trialer even forty or fifty years ago—sudden storms, almost eternal snows, uvalauchus, falling rocks, dangerous aud unbridged torrents, and even robbers. Nature and mau cupircd Ui make the path of the St. trotkanl oue of awful risk and dangers. It wind* among granite pyramids and peak* nine to ten thousand fee! iu height, and the road itaelf reaches uti elevation of nearly seven thousauil fe**L Even now the snows on the poos are so deep and the ilaugers are so great that com merce and travel over the St. Gothard cease f>r half the year entirely, the mails Ix'icg carrieil over by m* at Gor-echeuen, in Switzerland, and emerges at Airolo, tn Italy, is 48,030 feet, A number of the smaller tunnels, bringing tlie ruad up to the proper level :n the Alps, exceed 7,000 feet. Ou the lake of Lneerne, too, there will l>e important tuuuels ami galleries cut alongside of or uuder he eelebrmted Axenstrasse, high alsxve the water* of the InXe. At the time the international treaty for tin* great undertaking wa* signed it wan .believed that the work could lie done for the sum of 187,000,000 francs. A company was organinnl. with '14,000.- 000 francs of stock, in JC2O share*, and 68,000,000 franca >if mortgaged bonds. Itoly presented the undertaking with 45,000,000 francs. Germany and ttwuz erland each gave '20,000,1100 francs, Ttie work, however, was not more thsu fairly tinder wav when it was discovered, to the astonishment of everybody, that an awful mistake had lieen made in estinia tiug the costs, s'nl that, instead of 1K7,- 000,000 francs, 289,000,000 would lie re quired to complete the work as at first pro|o*ed—a blunder in estimates of 102,- 000,000 francs. This blundering calculation threatened all sorts of bail result*. The stock of the company ran dowu to a minimum, ami hundreds of families were nearly ruined by the onllajMic. The bonds shared in the crash, and even the most ardent friends of the enterprise feared tliat the money which hail been so lavishly given was buried under the mountains forever. It became a serious question whether the works would not have to lie completely abandoned. There certainly was no choice, except to lose all that hod been done, or to add many millions more to the subventions. The time* were hard, financial cri*v were imminent everywhere, and war was raging on the oontine.nt. Everybody wa* discouraged, bonus of tin- little canton* of Switzerland, which would re ceive the most benefit from the comple tion of the tunnel, refused to lift a hand or to spend another dollar. In the face of all opposition, how ever, the money has. at this writing, been almost raised. Tlie three conntriwi, jiartie* to the tresty, have added largely to their subsidies, and leading Swiss railways and cities have each voted sums proportioned to the advantage* they hope to reap. The work goes on—in fact, has never stopped. The contract for this enormous work is most interesting. It was granted to Mr. Louis Favre, of Geneva. By its terms Mr. Favre promises to deliver the works of the tunnel, onmplebvl, by the Ist of October, 1880. For each day the work may be done before that time the company agrees to pay him 81,000. On the other hand, however, the contractor ia bound to pay liaudsomely for all dc aya. For every single day in arrear of contract lie forfeit* 81.000. If delay oontinno six months, the forfeit is 82,000 per day ; and should he be one year in arTear with his work, ha surrender* the contract, and forfeits 81.6(H),(KM), which ho and his friends for him, havo deposit od with the company as security. On January 1,1877, the bondings, or a sort of advunoed gallery eight feet square pushed forward at the top of the tunnel, were half-way iu. Whether the gigantic work can really bo completed within the time specified is a grave question for Mr. Favre. Opinions dif fer, and even engineers can do little more than guess. Mr. 8. M. llyers, from whose, article in llarper' Magazine the foregoing in formation was ohtai .ed, gives the result of a recent visit to the nnflnished tun nel. as follows : Fonr ef iih with the engineer stood on the little cow-catcher platform at the front end of tho engine, and were noon hurled otl into the darkness. Tho screaming of the engino whistle right at our earn was frightful, and the dark new wan no utter and the ntunke no thick we fancied we oonhi feel them with our hand*. The g tinea begun to lm aim on t unticaruhlo, und the miscellaneous noises throughout the tunnel nomething terrific. I presume our train waa not running fast, and yet it made so much noise, ami the surroundings were HO uunatial, it aeemed aa if I had never in mv life bounded along at anch a rate, I hail had many a strange ride, too, before, but never had I felt so completely help leaa, or more likely to be snuffed out by the nnaeen should anything hippen to the raila, or to the novel machine on which we were riding. Aa we rußlied by drippmg walls, and HAW here an there ghonl-like fignrea with dim lamps hiding behind rocks or in deep niches, I involnntarily recalled what onr con ductor hail said of a glimpse of the bowels of hell. It was impossible to speak and be heard. I might a* well have addrcaned myself to the granite walls of the tunnel an til have attempted a word t cither of my companion*. Huddeuly our locomo tive gave one extra, unearthly yell, and stopped. We nlighted, got our lainpa burning, tuid with a little motion ou our own feet ma hi felt ouraelvtw. again. The eugine aped back, sornamtng and rut thug like the voices of Milton'H doomed. We now start el forward iu the tnnuel on foot, and, a* we recovered our breath, hud abundant time to look about, though there seemed something fatally wrong with the uerx|Motin of the pic ture of which we formed a part. The lur was so thick lights could not lie seen twenty yards ahead of us, and we all walked close together for fear of being lost or tumbling into nnrne sub terranean hole. Far ahead of lis we heard the dynamite explosions, sounding like heavy mortars iu the midst of battle. Iu some places where we were walking the water was nearly a foot deep, aud again it came through crevasses above onr heads like April showers. Our conductor tells us that ou the Airolo side of the tunnel the waters have sometimes come in at the rate of 4,000 gallons per minute, and in audi torrents as to even upset the work men and carry away the tnols. Again, au occasional spring would burst out iu a utream as thick us u man's arui, while the track for the drill* was frequently laid tn rushing water two feet deep. This water conies from spriogs in the mountains about us, and from eternal suow-fielda lying in the sunshine thou sands of feet above onr lies.is. It is vt-nr impressive to reflect that, as we stand here in the dim light of the tunnel, far aliove us are lofty mountains sud fields of snow, tumbling avalanche, and roaring torrents. Almost above us arc the peaks of St. (iotbnrd, reaching above the clouds; and there, too, is Uie rapid, roaring river Hours, with it* leaping waterfalls, and the 1 Anvil'* lirulge, where French aud Aulri*u soldiers met iu deadly conflict. Up there, hx>, are the bright sunshine and the v>ld snow of winter, aud the dili gence* and sltsige* filled with freezing passenger*, while we are melting under eighty degrees, Fahrenheit of heat, and the Italian workmen are almost naked. There, too, abuvo our hsxds, in Uie glistening glaciers, are the first rip pling* of the baby Rhine. Behind us are the cold hill* of Switzerland. In front of 11*. and just outside those gran ite rock*, i* sunny Italy. How strangely wr fuel ! Our conductor stops u* to name the strata <>i r<-k through which f sre walking. TLe first 7,1)00 feet at the O.**ehcoeti end bad Iwvn through dark gray grsmu- c• granitic gneiss; tJbou (4- lowtsl 1,000 fe t of schistous gneiss, lying in vi-tical ledge*; then 500 feet of crystalline limestone, with here and there a streak of black serpentine, fol lowed by 3,000 feet of micaceous schist*, and aome 20.000 feet of gneiss rich in tuicx. Ttu is followed again by 5,000 feet "f schistous gnelM with thread* and Imni- of qitartx, and nearly lO.OOD lot of Jure* schist. ending on the Italian ibde with some 2,000 feet snore of mow schist mixed with gneiss and rich vein* r>f quartz. Such were the calculation" inn le by Uie geologist* from the moun tain* alxive the tnnnel, uud the lMiring ao far ha* proved the** observations to lie pretty nearly correct, lint little gold, silver, or other precious ore haa been met with, and even atone ooal haa failoil to put in an afqwarance. mrteh aa it would be welcomed bv the Swiss. who have scarcely a pound of coal in their whole Alpiue country. The ttinuel haa alxmt tlie aamo dimen sion*, except in length, aa the Mount Ceni* tunnel; that is, it la, in round nnmtxir*, twenty-four feet iu wnith at sleepers, twenty-six feet wide at epriug ing of arch, ami nineteen fact high le --tween sleeper* and renter of arch. It start* into the mountain at a point 3.G&) feet above the sen, and come* out at Airolo, on the Italian aide, .'1,757 feet above the M-a-level. On the north axis the tunnel ascends one foot in every 172 feet, or about 142 feet in travering the distance of 24.462 feet. It then follows a snmmitor level line for the next 581 feet, when it de scend* to Airolo, 24,279 feet farther, at a gradient of one in 1,000. The highest point in the tunnel, hence, is 142 feet abovo the entrance at the north end, snd twenty-four feet only alxive the outlet at the south. These gradient* are for the purpose of permitting the water to jnes off through a channel of masonry cut between the two tracks of raila toward either end. Almost the entire tnnnel i* being arched aud lint-el with solid masonry, eighteen to thirty inches in thickness, and that, too, in places where the gran ite and serpentine blocks seem to the ordinary otiservar the perfection of soliility. • One Hundred and PHly Years of Law. An intricate snit for the possession of an estate—Htanfleld Hall, in Norwich, England, for nearly a century and a half m dispute—has just been decided, the trial traversing rnanv strange experi ences, including a liorriblo tragedy. The estate came into the possession of William Jeriny in 1736 through mar riage. Mr. Jenny made a will.Wqueath mg it in succession to Jacob Preston and his heirs and to Thomas Preston nud his heirs, nnd in default of issne by either of them, to snch relative of the name of Jermr nearest skin to the tes tator, and to his heirs forever. These Pre*tons were relatives of hia second wife, nnd not of the wife through whom he acquired the property. William Jermy died a year after making the will, | and the father of the Pros tons, who ! were both minora, sought out the two Jermys next of kiu ami prevailed njsin tlu-m to relinquish all claims upon the est do for 8100 each. The sons dying without heira, the elder Preston claimed .possession by virtue of his purchase, and entailed it by will upon his son, the Rev. (Jeorga Preston, and his heirs, forever. The affair Iwciuue the talk of the oountry, aud pamphlet* were printed explaining and attacking it; but as the I Jermys made no attempt to recover the property the matter was forgotten, and for eighty years the Prestons enjoyed the fruits of the bargain. At leugth j one of the Preston* made a bitter enemy , of one of his tenants named Lush by a i quarrel and lawsuit, which left Rush financially ruined. Rush revived the old story'of how the Preston* (who had adopted* tbe name of Jermy) came into possession of the estate, and made a written agreement with two other claitu i ants that ho should havo the farm at i low rates if he pnt them in possession. Being hard pressed for money, Rush masked himself and went over to the hall one night and murdered Mr. Pre* ton-Jermy and his sou, and severely wounded the son's wife and her maid. The murderer, in spite of the scheme to fix the crime upon the two Jermy claim ants, was brought to trial and hanged. But lately a new claimant appeared, who baaed his olaim upon the assertion that bo was s descendant of a Jermy nearer related than the two whose claims were liongbt by the elder Pres ton. The defendants set up the statute of limitation, upon which plea tliey wou the ease ; and thus, after 160 years, the title ia for the first tune legally set tled. Til ELY TOPICS. Japan has thirty-eight banks, and will aeu have sixty-tour more. Wisconsin's l*mnty of (.* for every wolf scalp Cost the Stste glrt.Htk) lust ▼ear, us the wolves sro iiicreaaing, sud it is suspected that the wolves are raised for their scalps. Between a Hwris* watchmaker and a Hwtse chemist, a watch has been devised the dial of which will ta phosphorescent, so that at night or in the dark it will distinctly allow the hours. Ostriches have lately increased in value from SKofl to fl.dOO per pair. The man who purchased pairs last summer is now raking in dtwni oada of profit.—lM truil frt*. I'm*. Rollmcr, Holstein, hits just hail the diamond wedding, or seventy fifth mar riage anniversary of two of its 1,40b parishioners. Two more such < was ions are near at baud, and during the last fourteen years ten have taken place. I'hiladAipbia'a permanent exhibition is still o{>en, oconpying the main build ing of the international exhibition of ]B?fi. Concert* and balls are the chief attractions, and the receipt* for a year have reached within about fflO.UtlU of expenses. No leas than ttiree important will con tests are pending in Ifiitladelphia, in which the alleged grounds of contest are that the instrument* offered for pro- Iwte are forgeries. One of Uie eetaUs, that of Robert Whitaker, amounts to be tween tI,6uO,UOU and 1100,000, and the other eatatiw are large. The MeunoniWare increasing rapidly in Nebraska, Kansas and MinneooU, owing chu-fiy to the immigration of the ltusr .au Menuonitee. who are allowed by the UiiMiau government until lABO to leave Russia to avoid military enlist ment. Then* are atxiut 70,000 of tkil sect in America, abont one-tenth of thorn Wing in Canada. As au illustration of the prevalent ex travagaiice of ureas in our day, H is said that bonnet* ore selling in Parts just now at incrtxlible prieea. A lady can easily procure one for 9T,DDU. They are marie in imitation of lace, but carved m mother-of-ptvxrl and decorated with jewels. Such a figure as (1,250 is t*ti casled aso>mparative)y cheap. American cigars have recently t>een advertised in.London st very low rutee. They have proved to lx the cabbage leaf and brown paper brands not au known thi* side of the water. Hays a London uewspajier : " These precious commodities are kuown to be largely furcM*lof a peculiar description of straw p*|>er steeped in tobacco juice, whieb is mantifnetured in th- United .States for thi ex|tr<-** purpose, and largely ex |X)rtel to tlie Cuban and other markets." The earliest uotieo if yullow fever ia that of Ligou, in hie " History of liar bailor*." lie there state* that it broke out early in September, lt>47. aud that before the expirauon of a month "the living were scarcely able to bury the dead." Thereafter It did not attain any very remarkable severity until 179.1, when it destroyed no lea* than 6,000 men of the garrison of Tort Royal in the course of a few mouth*, lu I*o4 it wan brought to the aonth of Hpain, and n*it-d Cadiz. Malaga and Carihagena. lint it* greatest force fell npcm Gihraltnr, where out of the civil population of the town, amounting to nearly 14,000 per son*, only twenty-eight eaaaped attack. The head gardener in the Botanical gardcua at Singapore had rather a dan gerous adventure recently with the python p rerouted to the gardens by tlie Maharajah of Jobore. The creature is sluggish tn hi* balnt* and allow* liber ties to be taken with him. One day the gardener entered the python'* cage and wa* showing to a friend that tie could do as he pleased with him, when enddenly, irritated by a kick in the head, the python roiled himself quickly ronnd the gardener's body, and bad well nigh sncceeding in squeezing tlie life oat of him before asaistance arriveil in the •hape of Private John Adolphus of her mapwty's Twenty-eighth regunent. who very pluckily soiled the snake, and, by sheer strength, forced him to let go. M. D. Conway writes from London that " Frank Millet, who, from being a drummer boy in the late American war, lawame an earnest art student at Ant werp and at Rome, lias s charming lit tle chalet near Honflenr, from whose summer bouse in tbe ganion he can gather figs and cast their rinds into the sea. Millet bad enough interest in the Iwttle-field left to lay down his pencil for s time and go off as a war correspon dent in the Kaat with poor MscOahan, and he has bronght tmrk captive a fine specimen of that region—s certain Creek-Turk, one Psnlo, who, having leen his guide out there for s time, re fused to leave luin, and follows him wherever be goes. Paulo is s matchless servant, is able to do anything at all; already since be has been in France he has mastered its boat cnlinary art, and the way he nnUtes up seaside delicacies for Millet's table is sncli a* might in spire even French cooks with envy. Miss Ward lake rejected one lover and married another. This was in Juanita, • Oal., of which place she was regarded as 'the belle. The wedding brought to -1 getber uli the fashionable folks of the . plaoc, including Henry Barron, tbe re jeoted suitor, who joined the rest in seemingly heartfelt congratulations of the bride! It was afterward remembered, however, that he acted like a mau in a daze- conduct at the time attributed to too free drinking of the beverages that i formed a part of the refreshments. Just before the assemblage *•* about to disperse, Barron approached the bride, bearing two glasses of wine, lie hand ed her one and drank the other himself, saying significantly: "Let ns drink together once more, for the last time on earth." She was rather saddened by hia words, but supposed that they re ferred to the necessary end of tlieir intercourse, and drank the wine. Tn half an hour both were dead. Barron i had put poison in the wine. An inciilent of a recent flood iu Texas j thua described bv the Anatin Reveille; A man wan carried down ly the flood, but managed to get up a swiftly-ilissolv ing bank of earth. He called to hin aon, who waa on high ground above, to bring a rope, and the boy hurriedly obeyed the reqnent, and when he arrived at the odge ot the bank and threw the rope over to hia father the old man took it in bin hand, and in a 000 l tone aaid to the boy: "Now listen to me, and do aa I tell yon. If yon find yon can't hold on when I commence to climb, let go. There's no uae in both of nn being drowned; I'm here iu the water, and yon nre eafe np there on the bank, eo don't let me pnll you down. If yon find yon can't hold the rope, drop it, and run down on the flat and grab for me aa I float by." Tho boy braced up firmly on the ground and told hia father to come on, and the old fellow went np the rope like a cat going np a back-yard fence with a bootjack in pursuit TKRMB: $2.00 a Ymr, in Advance. FAKM, GARDEN AND HOI REMOLD. fmrm mm 4 tiaeln Naiaa. Ijook for gruba among your peach trees right away ; at tlie aorfaon of the gruuud, or just below it, yon know. Vumlmi FLOORS are objected TO for poultry houses, for Uie reason that they tsud to cause the birds to ber*>me duck f■ sited, and what IS of more Conor qnence, alsmrb and retain dampness fmui the droppuiga, and so prove a aonrce of oramp and other ailmeuta. Fowls need eharooal when in ouuflno ment ; but that from wuod is not palata ble to theoi. The leat way to furnish it is by charring an ear of corn. Tha fowls will devour it greedily, and tha improved color of tUcsr combs will aoon allow it* wholesome effect. The farmer who wishes U> avoid an excess of laltor, with nnprofltabl<> result, will not apread a small quantity of manure over a large surface of poor laud, bat will only plow as much aa he can highly manure, wheu hxa income will be aa large, and Lis Labor nearly one-half saved. " The cause of failure in the {>eacli crop often cornea, in my opinion, from too great fertility of the soil on which the trees grow. A* the jieach tree grows rapidly it is often hurt by Uie fruat tie (iatin- its woosa, la. Cabbage ha* a superior value for feed ing purposes. Htigiiah cattle feeders assert that their beast* progress faster on cabbage, mixed with plentv of fine out wheat straw and cotton cake, than any other vegetable. Cabbage contains one irnrt fleah forming substance to three of heat producing, white in potatoes the flesh forming i* only one to twenty. Cabbage is also rich in mineral matter. " After a long experience I am safe in making Uie statement that the aoil upon which they are raised ha* much to do with the " character of rnyoet apple*. Those r*er to suit taste; have ready hot toast which has been well buttered and dipped into cream or rich milk, and spread the bash over the toast, and serve immediately. LEMON MA nw AI-AI-E —TO make lemon marmalade, nquwic tbe lemons, boil tbc peels 111 water till soft, then take ont tbc pith, and pound tbc remainder in a mor tar till quite fine, mixing v >tb it a little of tbc juice. Pace it all. with tbc rest of tbc juice, th rough a sieve into a pre serving pan. To pound of pulp odd three-quarters of a pound of loaf sugar. It .1) it for half an hour or more, eo that it acta, when cold, into a jelly. Onixiir CASK. —Two en pa of sugar, ▼elka of flee eggs, whiten of two eggs, hall cuj of oo|d water, two and a half ou)w of flour, two teaspooufula of Imkiug powder, the juice and grated rind of one orange and a pinch of aalt ; bake in jelly-cake tins. Beat tbc whitca of two erg* to a stiff froth, add seven large tablMpoonfula of powdered A agar and the grated nnd and juice of one J range- Spread this between tbc layer*. If you like the taste of orange, you will like thia cake. latrria fiance Plants. Tlie principal inserts troubling honae plants are the green fly, the mealy bog, the arale and the rod spider. Tbc most effectual remedy for green fly is fumiga tion with tobaoco. Some wooded plants, snch as heliotropes, salvias, etc., will not I war fumigation without injury to tbe leaves, and for these a weak solu tion of tobaoco is quite as effectual. Steep some tobacco in water and snrinkle the riant with tbe solution, and after wards springe with clean water. Mealy bug ia to be searched for and destroyem women, and this they eall by a ridiculous name—gotene. Their huode* are little, and tied under the chin."— llittory of Cotumc*. An Kxtraordinarj Fish. A moot interesting discovery ban been made in the ae of Tiberias of a fish which incubates it* young in tne tvi tiea of the mouth ; ana, what ia the more remarkable, it is the male which jwrforms this part of the family func tion. As soon as the female haa deposited its eggs iu the hollow of the sand, the tnale approaches and draws them into the cavities of the mouth by the pro cess of inspiration. Here they are dis tributed between the leaves of the gills ; and in the midst of the respiratory organs the eggs rapidly develop, dis tending the month of tine male fish iu the most extraordinary manner. Finally the young fish make their appearance. I lacked in the gills like so many her rings, and with their heads directed to ward the opening. From this place of retreat and safety they run in and out until they are large enough to take care of themselves. It is said that as many as two hundred individuals are some times crowded into the month and gills of the male fish. " A future contingency is best ex pressed by s verb in the indicative mood, and a new supposition with in definite time by a verb in the subjunc tive preseut, but a conditional circum stance, assumed as a fact, requires the snbjuuctivo imperative." It is not a joke, although it sounds like one. It is the twenty-sixth rule of Brown's Gram mar, a text book in use in the New lork public schools. It was the effort to commit this axiom to memory that gave our eight-year old brother the brain I fever last winter. —Puck. la the Pall. 1b llm (*ll * sedtM** to tbe drcopinf todGT&ZZ**. dreamy with lb* And Lb* srtetr of lb* psrtrtdf*. A*. DUM F*n th* but gloiain# with • parpl* baru* In Lb* fail Klm O*orgtan In tb* D.W* pUw* "if*"she b** young n*n to *>* l P *•* gaiter UMUI. In UM fall too** tb* vallsy *oo*y etoodteu f ft if I" la tho fall UM Broadway window* *ro profuse Of UM UdM*. b* it Mid. la UM fall tb* MWRY songster IMVSS tM 't'pobUcUu u dltroreod from toll* ° MMU which require no ciplaaa- Uon. la UM f*U *ll broaot* with r*v*na *r bootot and *l*l*, (alb* I*ll * man will fondly kiss bla |w*tty ouown Kate- - Or Mary Anna a* UMCU* ny be. LA Lb* fll UM MO! of b**uty dwelt* within lb* rerdeiM or*, In the f*ll w* are *ll poatliv* that winter • drawing MMUT — Tb* other fall b*n>auinf* arw 100 numerous to mention. —it A*. MunJdttriri im Graf Me Item* ef Interest. A grand shell raoe—tb# oyster. A fraudulent bond—a vagabond. The song of the top—Bum again. It augurs no good to be called a bore. A good word ia aa easy obligation; but not to apeak ill require* only our silence, which coats ua nothing. n mnnt be eo, Plato; thou reaaonest well; else whence this fond desire, this lingering hope, tbia longing after"— baked beans t Micbad Eugen Ohevreui, the drug gist who diaouvered the famous Gobelin i,,4, ie still living, and i A the oldest chemist in the world. An exchange say* : " Push your busi ness. If it I* worth advertising, adver tise It If it taut worth advertising, ad vertise to tasks it wortn advertising." "Don't osll me Mister," said an affected lover to hi* package of sweet ness, "give me some sweet sounding, cheering name." And she called him a "gay lute." " These are tbe days," asys the Phila delphia ChramieU., " when tbe man with two hands goea out hunting, and comes home without any game, and with only one band." A new device for trapping fi*b ia a small areolar mirror, from tbe md of which protrude* a wire noose. The fish seeing its reflection thinks it ia another Ash mad move* op to it, when its nose strikes the glaaa, mid the shuck springs the noose. The mirror ia attached to a line tbe same a* a hook. "Ia the doctor in ?" asked an anxious looking young man, aa he paused half way np the stairway leading to Dr. Btone's office, yesterday. " No, I gnesa not," replied the person addressed, " but yon can leave an order on Abe date."' The young man hesitated a moment. • " Well, I guess I would hardly have tune to wait," be said. "Is !it a very urgent case ?" " Well, yea," the young man said, "rather urgent, I think. Just aa I started away from home my youngest brother wsa falling out of a second story window."— Bur 'utfftun i/awhjfe. "Let too look at your dictionary a minute," a polite, well-dmaed stranger aaked, bowing i nto the sanctum io some loutn- yesterday morning. "Certainly," and we iburM Scab W.'a charming nov lotte. unexpsnged edition, ower to hi* tude of th table. Long *od earn - estly looked (V man. Tben a dark frown settled down on bu brow like a winter cloud. He banged the book down os the floor and kicked it. '• Blame iroeb a dictionary,** be roared, M 1 wouldn't give a cent a thousand for Hnrh a book 1 It'* got lndepend* noe au