The Wator-Lily. Oh, lUf on the bruit of the rim, Oh, marra! f bloom nd graca, DM yoo fell (freight down from hiwvwn Out of the iMtwt plarw 7 Tot • whtto m the thong taU of en ang*l Tr heert i in the (on , Did woo grow tn the golden city, My pure end red lent one 7 Ney, ney, I fell not ont of heeren ; None gene roe my eeintly white ; It e)owly grew from the Merino** Down in the dreery night. Prom the oote of the client river I won my glory end grace. ' hlbe eoul* fell tot, #h, my poet ; They ne to the sweet t>#t pleoe. —V K. Unit*, in Ski. tow, Harvest Time. TVo *tng of Hold* when bi veet yield* It* bright end golden ehoeve*. And ecu em! rein here Ailed with gram The bsrti from floor to wave*. And new mown hey, ell night end dev. tl scanted fragrance leave*. Tlie early dew#, the drowsy ewee. The on* of oheuUi-leer, Tlie sleepy stock, the grein in *hcok. The threwber end it* geer, Tlie weving com, ell greet the morn "Tie fcervet of the veer. The breekfeet cell, to one end ell , The vieud* spread with cure. The nttered grace, eeeh ill hie place Partake* the hotiMwi/S't fere. And men end bea*t. et plenty'* foe*!. It# gathered bounties -here. The beerded men to lehor then, With hrewu end horny hand* ; The credle •mug*, the reaper aiuga, All through the wv'l tilled land*, And keepti-g tnne, till eultry noon They huid the grein with hand* They wrefc the shade of friendly glade. And ewift the moment* Ay; Tiad *vet repoee, a# rtreain tbet flow#. Or sailing ctoods no high. And hear the hreeie snso. g the tree* Sweep softer than a ugh. Oil: harvest day# we *ing thj pia-*c. Ttvm iall to river'• shore ! >'or Arid ai d tree, tor Wcota end be. tod fan.ess running oVt' Pop tanseUJ cons, for night aud morn. And God we bow before ! • —b*. UoJers. " A Tourist From Injianny Bt BKBT HAKTK. We first saw him from the deck of the Unser Fritz, as that gallant steamer was preparing to leave the port of New Turk for Plymouth, Havre and Hamburg. Perhaps it was that all objects at that moment became indelibly impressed on the memoty of the ©©parting voyager; perhaps it was thai mere interrupting trivialities always assume undne magni tude to us when we are waiting for some thing really important; but I retain a vivid mpreesiou of him as he appeared oo the gangway in apparently hopeless, yet, as it afterward appeared, really triumphant altercation w.th the Oermsn speak'ng deck-hards and stewards. H< was not a heroic figure. Clad in a wort; linen dnster, his arms filled with bags and parrels, he might have been taken for a hackman can yog tlielnggageof his fare. But it *s noticeable that. al though be calmly persisted in speaking English and ignoring the voluble Ger man of his antagonists, he, in some rude fashion, accomplished his object without losing his temper or increasing his tem perature, while bis foreign enemy was crimson with rage and perspiring with heat, and presently, having violated a dozen of the ship's regulations, he took his place by the side of a very pretty girl, apparently his sujierior in station, who addressed him as "father." As the great ship swung out into the stream, be was still a central figure on our decs, \ getting into everybody's wnv, adiir*- ing all with equal familiarity, iuipertr"rb able to affront or annb, but always dog gedly and consistently adhering to one purpose, however trivia] or inadequate to the means employed. " You're sittin' on suthin' o' mine, vniss," he begaa for the third or fourth time to the elegant Miss Montmorris, who was re vis it ig Eu rope under high social condition*. "Jist rise np while I get it—twont take a minit." Not only was the lady forced to rise, but to make necessary the rising and discomposing of the whole Mont morris party who were congregated around her. The missing " satin' was discovered to be a very old battered newspaper. " It's the Cincinnatty THmt*," he explained, as he qnietly took it up, oblivious to the indignant glances of the party. " It's a little sqnoshed by your sittin' on it, but it'll do to refer to. It's got a letter from Payris, abowin" the prices o' them thar hotels and rist'rants, nnd I allowed to mv darter ws might war t it on the other side. Thar's one or two French name* thar that rather gets me—mebbee yonr eyes is a little stronger," bnt here the entire Montmorris party rustled away, leaving him with the paper iu one baud —the other pointing at the paragraph Not at all discomfited, he danced at the vacant bench, took possession of it with his hat, dnster and umbrella, then dis appeared, and presently appeared again with bis daughter, a lank-looking vonng man, and an angular elderiy female, and so replaced the Monfctnorrisee. When we were fairly at sea he was missel. A pleasing belief that he had fallen overboard, or bad been left be hind, was dissipated by his appearance one morning, with his daughter on one arm, and the elderiy female before re ferred to on the other. The Unser Fritz was rolling heavily at the time, bnt with his usnal awkward pertinacity he insist ed upon attempting to walk toward the best part of the deck, as he always did, aa if it were a right and a duty. A lurch brought him and hit unoertain'freight in oontaot with the Moutmorrises; there was a moment of wild confusion, two or three seats were emptied, and he was finally led away by the steward, an obvi ously and obtrusively sick man. Bnt when he had disappeared below it was noticed that he had secured two excel lent seats for his female companions. Nobody dared to disturb the elder, no bodycared to disturb the younger—who, it may be here recorded, had a certain shy reserve which checked aught bat the simplest civilities from the mascu- line passengers. A few days later it WPS discovered that he was not an inmate of the first, bat of the second cabin* that the elderly female was not his wife, as popularly supposed, but the room-mate of his daughter in tbe first cabin. These facts made his various intrusions on the saloon deck the more exasperating to the Mont morrises, yet the more difficult to deal with. Eventually, however, he had, as usual, his own way; no place was sacred, or debarred his slouched hat and duster. They were turned out of the engine room to reappear upou the bridge; they were forbidden the forecastle, to rise a ghostly presence beside the officer in his solemn supervision of the compass. They would have been lashed to the rigging on their way to tbe maintop but for the silent protest of his daughter's presence on the deck. Most of his in terrupting familiar conversation was addressed to the interdicted " man at the wheel." Hitherto I bail contented myself with the fascination of his presence from afar, wisely, perhaps, deeming it dangerous to a true picturesque perspective to alter my distance, aud perhaps, like the best of us, I fear, preferring to keep my own idea of him rather than to run the risk of altering it by a closer acquaintance. But one day wb n I was lounging by the stern rail, idly watching the dogged ostentati' n of the screw, that bad been steadily intimating, after the fashion of screws, that it was the only thing in the ship with a persistent purpose, the ominnriß shadow of the slouched Lafc and the trailing duster fell upon me. There was nothing to do but acoapfc it meekly. Indeed my theory of the man made me helpless, ••I didn't know till yesterday who you be," he began deliberately, "er I FRED. KUKTZ, Editor and Rropriotor. VOLUME XI. 'shouldn't have been to unsocial. Hut I've alwsya told my darter thut iu per miskias trav'lin a man oughter to be kcerfnl of who he meets. I've read eonie\>f y*ur wrtlws— read 'em iu a pa I>er in Injianuv, hut I never reckoned 'd meet Thing* in queer, and trav- Tin' bring* all sorter people together. My darter Loaeae snspeeted ye trom the tlrst, and she worried over it, and kinder put me up to this." The moat delicate flattery could not have done more. To have Nvu • n the thought of this leeerved, gentle gul, who scarcely seemed to notice ev< u those who had paid her sttauti 'U. w.n ••7*be put me up to it," hecontinued, cahuly, " though she has kiud o' prejn disc again yon and yonr writins—tliiuk in' them sort o' low down, and tlie folks talked ahont not in her style—and ye know that's woman's uater, and she sod Miss Moutmorris ngicc on that roiut. B.it t.iut's a few friend* with me roiui.t yer ea WvUthi like to si-e ye." He stepped aside and a doaen men appeared in Indian file from tiehiud tlie round house, and with a solemnity knowu iiuly to the Anglo Sat on nature, shook my hand deliberately, and then dia prrsevl themselves iu various serums at titude* against the railings. They were honest, well-meiuiiug country nieu of nunc, but 1 ivuld cot recall a sinqle far*. There was a iletii silence ; the screw, however, c*st auuously went on : " Yon *©e what 1 told you,' it said. "This is alt vapidity and trilling. I'm the onh* fellow here with a purpose. Wins, wbia, whi ;chug, chug, chug !" I was about to make some remark of a general nature, when 1 was greatly relieved to observe :uy ouupaniou's trieuds detateh them-elres from the railings, and with a slight bow and an other shake of the hand, severally retire, apparently as much relieved an myself. My companion, who had IU tue mean time acted as if he had discharged him self of a duty, said. " Thar oilers must be some one to tend to this kind o* thing, or thar's no sooiablonesa. I t-xik a deppytation into the cap'n's room yes terday to make Bom© proppynltisna, and thar's a minister of the gospel aboard as ought to be spoke to afore next Sunday, and I reckon it's my dooty, on less," he added with deliberate and iornial polite ness, "yau'd prefer to do it, beiu', so to speak, a public man." But the public man hastily depre cated any interference with the speaker's functions, and, to chance the conversa tion, remarked that he had heard that there was a party of Coos H tourists on board, auu—were not the preceding gentlemen of the number? But the queatiou caused the speaker to lav as h his hat, take a comfortable pt -tion >n the deck, against the mil, and drawing his knees op nuder Lis clun, to speak as follows: " Speaking o' Cook and Gxik's tour ists, I'm my own Cook. I reckon I cal kilat© and know every cent that'll |>eud twixt Evansville, lujiauny, tuid Rome and Naples; and everything I'll see." He paused a moment, and laying his hand familiarly on my knee, said : " Did I ever tell ye how I kem to go abroad ?" As we had never spoken together be fore, it was safe to reply that be hail not. He rubbed his head softly with his hand, knitted his iron-gray brows, and then said meditatively: "No! it must Lev been that bead waiter. He sorter favors von in the mustache and geu'ril get up. I guess it was him I spoke to." I thangbt it innst have been. " Weil, then, this is the way it kem abont. I was sittin' one niglit. about three months ago, with my darter Lruieze —my wife bem' dead some four year— and I was reading to her out of the paper about the Exposition. She sez to me, quiet like—she s a quiet sort o' gal if you ever notissed her—'J should like to go thar.' I looks at bar—it was the first time sense her mother diet! that that gal had ever asked for any thin*, or had, so to speak, a wish. It wasn't her way. She took everything ez it kem. and, darn my skin ef I ever could ted whether she ever wanted it to kem in any other way. I never told ye this afore, did I ?" " No," I said hastily. "Go on. '* He felt his knees for a moment, ami then drew a long breath. "Perhaps," he began deliberately, " ye don't know that I'm a poor man. Sreia' me here among these rich folks, gom' abroad to Paree with the best o" tin m. and Louere* thar—in the first cabin—a laiv, e.. she is—ye wouldn't bleeve it. b it I'm powr ! I am. Well, sir.when that cal looks up at me and sez that—l hadn't bnt twelve dol lars in my pocket, and I ain't the darned fool that I look—out snthin' i me— suthin,' yoa know, away back in me— sez ywu shall ! Looey, you shall! aud then I sez—Tepeatin' it, and looking up right in her eyes—' You snail go,Loo-ey' —did yon ever look in my gal's eyes ?" I parried that somewhat direct ques tion bv another : " But the twelve dol lars—bow did yon increase thai?" " I raised it to two hundred and fifty dollars. I got odd jobs o* work here and there, ever time—l'm a machinist. I need to keep this yer over-work from Loo—saying I had to see men in the evenin' to get pints abont Europe—and that—and getting a little money raised on my life insurance, I shoved her throngh. And here we is. Ohipper and first-class—all throngh—that is. Loo ia I" " But two hundred and fifty dollars ! And Rome and Naples, aud return ? You can't do it" He looked cunningly at mn a moment "Kau'tdoit? I've done it." " Done it?" " Wall, about tL name I reckon, I've figgered it out. Figgers don't lie. I ain't ao Cook's tourist; I kin R- Cook and give him pints. I toll you I'vu lin gered it out to a cent, and I've money to spare. Of oourse I don't reckon to travel with Loo. She'll go first-class. But I'll l>e near her, if it's in the steer age of a ship, or in the baggage car of n railroad. I don't need much in the way of grub or clothes, and now aud then I kin pick up a job. Perhaps you smre member that row T bad down in the en gine-room, when they chucked me out of it?" I could not help looking at him with astonishment; there was evidently only a pleasant memory in his mind. Yet I I recalled that I felt indignant for him and his daughter. " Well, that fool of a chief engineer gave me a job the other day. And ef I hadn't just forced my way down, aud talked sassy et him, and criticised his macheen, he'd Lev never knowed I knowed a eccentric from a wagon wheel. Do you see the pint?" I thought I began to see it. But T could not help asking what his daughter thought of traveling iu this inferior way. He laughed. " When I was gettin' np some pints from them books of travel, I read her a proverb or saying outer one o' them, that 4 only princes and fools and Americans traveled first-class.' You see I told her it didn't say 'women,' for they naturally would ride first-class — and Amenkan gals being princesses, didn't count. Don't you see?" If I did not quite follow his logic, nor see my way clearly into his daughter's acquiescence through this speech, soma light may he thrown upon it from his next utterance. I had risen with some vagne words of congratulation on his success, and was about to leave him, when he called me back. THE CENTRE REPORTER. •' Did I tell ye," he .ul, cautiously looking a roil ml, >*t with a smile of atili ed enjoyment iu Yi hue, " di.i I till ve what that gul IUV darter *ed to me 7 No, I didn't tell ye uor no one ele afore, t'oine h, re !" He made me draw down dowdy mto the shadow and aeorecy of the rouud hooae. " That night that 1 told uiy gal hr should go abroad, I m to her, ignite chippier likeauJfree, "1 say, Loo-ey, *e* 1, " ye'U tie goin' for to marry aorne o" them counts, or duke*, or |Htetit*ta, I reckos, and ye'll leave the old man.' And she set, set she, harking me m|uar in the ivc diil ye ever uotiaa that gal'# eye J" "She has flue eyes," I replied, cau tioualv. " They is es clean as a fresh ruilk nan and es bright. Nothing sticks to em Eh 7" *• Ton are i ight." *' Well, she hulks up at me thin nay " hen- he achieved a vile luMtaUou of his daughter's mislest glance, not ut id! like her "and lookiug at tue, nhe eei quiet ly: ' That's what I'm gmu' for. and to unj rove my iniUiL' .He ! lie ! tie ! It's a took ' To marry a uohletnuu, and im prove her mind ! Ha! ha! ha!" The evident eujoviueut that he took ki this, and the quiet ignoring of anything of a moral quality in his daughter's sou timenta, or in hi.- thus eoufldtng thoin to a stranger s ear, again upts-t all uiy theories. 1 may say here that it is one of t'ie evidence* of original character, that it is apt to battle all prognosis from a mere observer's standpoint. Hut i re called it some months after. We parted in England. It is not ue eeaaary, iu this brief chronicle, to rei>eat the various stories of " Uucle Joshua," as tlie younger aul more frivolous of our passengers called him, nor that two tinrds of the stories reix-ated were utter ly at variance with my estimate of the character of the man, although 1 may add that I was also doubtful of the ac curacy of my own estimate. Put one quality was always dominant—liis resist less, dogged pertinacity and calm im perturbabihtv ! " lie asked Mian Montmorris if she * minded' singin' a little in the second cabin to liven it up, and added, as an inducement, that they don't know good music fr mi bad," said Jack Walker to me. " And when he •nendixl the broken toek of my trnuk, be abtholutoly prepothed to me to atbk .snithiu Grace if thee didn't want a • koorier 'to trav m with her to 'do me chanics," provulAl thee would take charge of that dreadfully deaf-and-dumb • laughter of his. Wothu't it funny ? Really, he'th one of your characters," sa J the yoatige-t Miss M out morns to rue as we made our a . cus on the -'earner. 1 am afraid he is not, althongn he was good enough afterward to establish one iw two of my theories regarding him. I was enabled to assist lum once in an altercation be had with a cabman regarding the fare of his daughter, the cabman rvH.mng a d>tinet impression that the father had also ridden i some obscure way in or upon the same cab— as be undoubtedly had. I heard that he had forced his way into a oerlaiu great hojise in Kuglauil, and that he hud t<een ignomiuiouely Rejected, but I also heard that ample apologies had lieen ruade to a certain quiet molest daughter of b.s who w:is without on the lawn, and tbst also a •> rtein lVrnonage, whom I approach, even in this vague way, with a capital letter, had graciously taken a fancy to the poor child, and ha 1 invited her to a reception. But this is only hearsay evidence. So also is the story which met me in Fans, that he had bt < n up with bis daughter in thecaptive balloon, and that at an ele vation of several thousand fi* t from the earth he made some remarks upon the attaching cable as I ti ■ ( am on which the cable revolved, which not only ex cited the interest of the passeugerH, but attracted the attention of the authori ties, so that he was not only given a gratu itous ascent afterward, but was. I am told, offered a gratuity. Bnt I shall i est riot this narrative to the few facts of which 1 wns personally cognizant in the career of this remarkable person. I wis at a certain entertainment given in Paris by the heirs, executors and asaignees of an admirable man, long since gathered to his fathers in Pere la Chaise, bnt whose Shakapearc-like bust still looks mlmlv and benevolently down n the riotous rev elry of absurd wickt - ness of which he was, when living, the outrun saint. The entertainment was •f such a character that, while the per formers were chiefly women, s majority of the spectator* were men. The few exceptions were foreigners, and among them I quickly recognized niy fellow oniuitrywomen, the Montmorrisiw. •' Don't thav that you've theen us hero," aaid the youngest Miss Mentmorris, "for ith only a lark, lto awfully fanny ! And that friend vourth from Injianny ith here with his daughter." It did not tako m long to find my friend Uncle Joshua's serums, practical, unsympathetic face in the front row of tables and benches. But beside him, to my utter consternation, was bus shy and modest daughter. In another moment I was at his sido. " I really think—l am afraid"— 1 began in a whisper, " that you have made a mistake. I don't think you can be uwaro of the character of this place. Your daugh ter" "Kem here with Miss M .ntmorris. She's yer. It's all right." The modest-looking Miss Loo, who hail been staring at everything qnite in differently, suddenly stepped forward, took her father's arm, and said sharply, "Come." At this momout.a voice in Eugliah but unmistakably belonging to tbe politest nation in the world, rose from behind the girl,mimickingly. "My! it is shock ing. I bloosb 1" In au m taut he was in the hauds of "Cnole Joshua," and forced back clam oring against the railing, his hat smashed over his foolish, furious face, aud half his shirt aud cravat iu the old man's strong grip. Several students rushed to the rescue of their compatriot, bnt one or two Englishmen and half a dozen Americans hat managed in *otn mysterious way to bound into tbe arena. I looked hurriedly for Miss Louisa, but she was gone. When we bail extricated the old man from the melee, I asked him where she was "Oh 1 reck a she's gono aflf with Sir Arthur. I saw him here just as I pitched into that fool." " Sir Arthur?" I asked. " Yes, an acquaintance o' Loo's." " She's in my carriage, just outside," interrupted a handsome young fellow, with the shoulders of a giant and the blushes of a girl. "It's all over now, yon know. It was rather a foolish lark, yo* coming here with her without know ing—you know—anything abont it. you know. Bnt this way—thank yon. She's waiting for you," and in another instant he and the old man had vanished. Nor did I see him again until be stepped into the railway carriage with me on bis way to Liverpool. "Yon see I'm trav'lin' first-class now," he said, "bnt goin' home I don't mind a trifle extry expense." 44 Then you've made your tour," I asked, 44 and are success ful ?" 44 Wall, yes, we saw Bwitzeriand and Italy, and if I hedn't been short o' time, we'd hev gone to Egypt. Mebhee next winter I'll run over again to see Loo, and do it." " Then your daughter does not return with you ?" I oontinned in some astonishment " Wall, no— CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., FA., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 31, 1878. she's visiting some of Kir Arthur's rela tives iu Knit. Sir Arthur li there perhaps you recollect htm*' He paused a moment, looked c*uto U!v around, and with the same enjoyment he had shown en shipt>oard, said : " l>o you remcuilier th joke I told you ou Ltvt, when she was at sea?** ■■ Tsa." " Well, don't ye say auythiag aVmut it now. But deiu my km if it doesu't lisik like coming true." Aud it did. IVa and t nffee. It uiay never have occurred ta our renders to cousnier tlie age of these favorite beverages among our European ancestry. Iu England, down to the Hevolutiou aud after, Inwr was the favorite lieverage of all classes. It is iejorted by stat.stical calculation that iu the year after that civil war a quart u day was brewed for every man, woman ami child in England; whereas the same calculation mski s the uuiouut in the present day sixty quarts per annum, or just oae-sixth. It is to two l>everague that have since passed into common use tea and Coffee —that the dllUlUllliSU 111 the amount 01 beer is due. Tea, or, as it was always tiieii pro nouuccil, tay ("tlrre thoo grrst Anus, wtiotu llirsu loaluu obey. L>oet •oineUtncs connsei take and soiuoUiimm Us."— rope.) was first brought into England by the Dutch nearly a century earlier ; but during the whole seventeenth century it was regarded ss a rare luxury. Mr. l'ejiys drauk his first tea Septemlier 25th, ltifil, describing it as "a China drink, ot which 1 have never drank be fore." In the reign of Charles 11. the East lniUa company presented the kiug with two pounds of tea. But dttriug the latter part of the century and through the reigu of Aune its use a* a lieverage rapidly spread. Just after the acces sion of tieorge 11. the consumption amounted t seven hundred thouaand pounds, and the price, depending upon the quality, varied Iwtween thirteeu shillings and twenty shillings a pooud. The amouut mi|s>rted luto Kugland iu 1c72 was one hundred and eighty-five million pouudo. Coffee was making its way at the same time. It was imjstrteil from the Levant, which is easily reached from Arabia, ita home. It was first brought mto England by a Cretan gen tleman, who made it his common bevt r rge ut Baliol college, Oxford, in the year when ihs "long parlianieut " first met. Coffee bcoctno a social power • vruer than t*s. T1 lire * *• rvaot of *u English-Turkey inerci.uit fivra Smyrna i* Miitl to have started toe first c 'itfo-hoUfc iu Loudon, iu tin- time of the Com *uou wealth. About the cud of tlio seventeenth century eoffec-bou*ea were very common, and important a* mean*of social aod political intercom - *** l<etwien men. They tllbxl tlit* place that i* now tilled by Loud >n club*. Smr were ohieflv political place* of re fort for only ene party ; others, eapeeial ly the famous Will*, inCovent Garden, were literary. Tb who wished to ree, to hear, or perhl ps to bow to * pramiueut literary man such ■* l>ry deu—would find hi mat the coffin - -bonne. The house* ha<i great indnence in the formation of opinion*. Men nowaday* often take their opinion* from their newspapers or the club. Then they took it from the coffee house.— Xational Uc yUtitory. The Ex-Empre-* Eugenie. 1 hare *eeu a letter from Ems which give* this description of the ex-empress: " I have ju*t seeu the cx-euipre* at Em*. It is hard to understand how *he could have aelecled these springe. Tbe leant iful village Etna is, a* it were, the funeral TOonmneu' the I* cuiparte dymo-t v She i* *"coropanied by Duchess ilf M nchy and Marqui* do Pieoues. Hhe 1* clad in uerp mourning. Hazard ha* cruel ironies. In German *pa* each house ha* ita f igu. Tue home of the ex empress tl'Mrs oyer it* door L'Elyacc— the same name sr. the jwiace where the future emperor wooed the future era prers. When *hc reached Em* aud came out of the railway station the throng, which contained people of all nation*. |>outneou*ly took off their hats. Ido not believe the empress was i ver saluusl with greater deference and deeper sympathy. Time, care*, sorrow* and exile have done tht ir work. Years ..go 1 saw her on the beach at Trouville with one of thos long canes which alio had put m fashion and which gave to the line ladies of those tiny* so ' fast ' a look. H'ue still earns n cane, bnt 'ti* not the light bamboo of old times; she HOW carries a stout walking-stick, a man'* walking stick, au which she lean* ii* she walks along, I could not, when I saw her, help thinking of the broken, violence-scarred wall* of the Tuillenea— majestic though in ruins. The day the Countee* do Pierrefonds (a* the ex-em press now styles herself) reached Ems Prince George of Prussia called OH her. He repeated his visit the next dav, and dnring her whole stay at Ems ho was rood attentive to her. He took care that she should have at RD something tike her old grandeur. He made the author ities and public functionaries show her a thousand courtesies. The postmaster ordered a letter-carrier to attend to her alone, and to carry her all iettors for her the instant the mails were opened. Tiie telegraph-master did the same tiling. This visitors, seeing these honors paid her, became still more defereutial. Whenever she walked precedence was given her, and she seemed very much touched by this courtesy. I saw agaiu n|on her lips the enchanting smilo of happy days."— Parin letter. king David a Candidal*- for Office. When Lamartiuo assumed office, after tho revolution of lIHK, he was assailed witli applications from ixirsons who de sired to obtain employment under gov ernment. Lnrnnrtino often drew np A list of those whom he WHA anxious to oblige, and tins list was submitted to the different ministers who had vacant appointments at their distend. Among the appointments which appeared in the official journal one day was that of M. David to the eoMUmte of Bremen, no Christian name or description being given. Several weeks passed without any one coming forward to till the jxiet; and, an there was a good deal of business to lie transachsl, inquiries were mode wilji n view of oiarov<B"ing him. These inquiries wore fruitless, and Lamnrtinc was nt last referred to. Ho oonld not tax his memory with having recommend ed any one of that name; and on looking at the list upon which the name was written, he snddcnly rememliered that while noting down several na en one day, he hail been, as often happened, thinking more of poetry than of politios, snd hail jotted down the name of the psalmist in order to write some verses aliont him at the first opportnnity, The official jonrnal of the next day announced that " Citizen Man-hand is appointed oonsnl of Franco at Bremen, in the room of Citizen David, who is called to other duties." "This in the season," says the Free when the girl, whose Stern father has kicked her lover out-doors, pocks up u few things, writes an eight-page letter to her mother, drops a clothes-line from her chamber window, and at midnight, when silenee reigns, raises the Bash, sees how dark it is, and—jumps into bed as fast as she can." Ft It*, tltltHFv M ■OFfiRHOLU. lis I'lawlna. As remarked by an observant farifter, there ta a short statement of truth which has nude some nieu rich. It t* this: " What is worth doing at sll is worth doing well." The farmer who doaa not recognize this truth ami act according to its requirements will always be of th opinion that "farming does not pay." Therefore, we sav, do not profane the plow with you* touch if vou do not in lend to plow well; not that, only, but firat rate. To this end observe the fol lowing rules: 1. Always have your plow sharp. Never go to the fluid with an instrument which is not iu a condition to do good work. A good workmuu may be thwart ed bv bad tools, and dull tools arc a good indication of a lazy farmer. 2. KeiueiuWr that to plow well docs not tneau to turn over a clean furrow; to do that may be well, but that is not alt. Hood plowing is the thorough pnl vcrizaLuu of the soil, aud he who can dissolve au acre of ground into the finest particles ta the l#st jilawn.au, for be ri pose* most surface to the seed which shall be sown. The ground cannot be too finely ground up. Here lice the mxiret of fine crops so far an mechanical agency is coucerued. 3. Plow an inch or so deeper each year, and thus deepen your weed bed, and bring the subsoil into contact with light and air for their chemical opera tions. You can never go too deep, pro vided you go slowly. Time will change igneous rocks utofruitful soil. 1 Never be in a hurry at this kind of work. If you have not the time to do your work right, just make the time. One acre well plowed is worth two acres half way done. Ixsik out for those hard place* where the instrument trie# to jump out. Stop, here is au enemy that must le con luered, and vou must not neglect it. Ihene spots determine the real from the artificial workman. Try it over again. •• Ton will oonqnor, never fear. Tiy, try again. 5. If a rook or root or any other ob struction is in yoor way, stop and get rid of it entirely. If it is a rook, put it on yonr fence or threw it into a sink hole. Never let it bother you again. Dispose of it at once. C. Do not ride ou your plow handles. Your team has draught enough to •"* come without your Isaiues* a.tiling fifty pounds more. Biding on the handles never does good work. 7. Stand square between tbe handles, arms so stiff that you must lie lifted off vottr feet before the plow can veer from it* course; tli en lift a little on the han dles, and you will do tietter work and lighten the draught by twenty-five or fifty pounds. 8. Keeji vonr eye ahead of vour team, and turn every inch; a bail workman cover*. and gram is loat. 9. When done take your plow and clean it well, and put under cover out of tli way of wet and moisture, which, like rot, *coti destroy s valnable implement. Kari* ■* tlarWaa Salra. Onions chojqwsl fixe and mixed with the feed of fowls three times a w- -t*\ are pronoiiuocil beneficial bv the fWfry Ho rUL Mr. Meehan **y that whitewaah i* frequently resorted to by farmers, bat the great "objection is it* unsicl.tly ap p urance : tbe result is otherwise good. It is said by a farmer who has tried tin* exparim* nt so often as to lie sure of liis ground, tlist buttermilk p'tired over the back of a scurvy nig will en tirely and spt*dily remove the scurf. Any mnn who will establhth in his gard-n an exjTinieutal plot, can select flie !•**( heads of the most prolific wheat, sowing toe ucxt year Uie leef heals alone, aud still selecting from ttiis the best heads, using the ludauoe for field uie>, and ui this manner keeping alwaxa one year ahead. Thu will make good as.!. The ever-blooming roses arc beat for house culture in pota—because llu-y hlooin quicker and more continuously than any of the others, and lieeklse this, tiieir style aud habit of growth :a more bushy aud better adapted to the pur jose. They can be kept nicely with other growing plant*, and with proper attention to tiieir rwjuirements will bloom freclv. A lineman chemist give* the following piaee** for the preparation of bones for manure, which, it is said, ha* received the approbation of Lienig. Mix 400 parts of ground Imiuc* with 400 parts of wood ashes, containing t"" cent, of carbouaU' ot jvitob, au<l isld sixty part* of quicklime. This mixture is placed in a tank or liarrel, with water snfllcient to make the whole aioist. In a short time the bony matter is completely di aggrogated by the caustic potash, while the pasty mass formed is then taken from the tank, dried, mixed with au equal amount of mold, anl is than ready to be distribated. The following facts should lw> born in mind: Every fully developed plant, whether of wheat, oats or I sir ley, etc., presents an ear superior in productive power to anr part of the rest of that plant 11. Every such plant contains one giain wbien, upon trial, proves more productive than any other. 8. The superior vigor of the luwt gram is transmissible in different degree* to its progeny. 4. By repeated careful selection tlie superiority is accumulate 1. 5. The improvement which is at first rapid, gradually, after a long series o y.-ars, is diminished in amount, and eventually so far arrested that, practi cally S[eakiug, a limit to improvement in the desired quality is reached. 6. By still coutiuuiug to select, tie im provement is msiut lined. auJ practical ly a fixed type is the result. A Nlmplr tnsrri Killer. The Gardr.nr.ra' Chronicl* has tlie followiug testimony from Mr. Kuight, of Floor's castle gardens, England, on the destruction of acale, etc., on plants. It is simply, he says, to syringe plants infected with bug and scale with water diluted in tbe proportion of one wiue glassful of paraffin© oil to four gnllons of water. The oil and water mnst be kept thoroughly mixed with the syringe —one charge into tbs can and one on the plant. He has naivl it with oraugrs, gardenias, crotonsand many other plants whieh had ling and scale on tham, and wlnlo it is said not to injnre the yonng leaves in the least, it in certain death to tlie insects. A Woman's Promise. Henry Carey, oonsin of Queen Eliza beth, after having enjoyed her majesty 's favor for several years, lost it in the fol lowing manner : Ashe was walking one day full of thought in the garden of the palace, nnder the qncen's window, she peroeived him, anil said to him in a jocular manner : " What does a man think of when he is thinking of nothing ?" "Upon a woman's promise," replied Carer. " Well done, cousin," answered Eliza beth. Bhe retired, bnt did not forget Carey's answer. Some time alter ho solicited the honor of ft peerage, and reminded the qneen that she had promised it to him. "True," said she, "hut that was • woman's promise." Enemies of Oct'iin labb-*. The amount u( submarine lift, that comas up ou a cable which in takeu up for r-pira alter l-iug immersed fur a year or two in sot-prising. Three yearn ago the writer wun with a repairing ax |Htitiuu uu the i'ara to Cayenne section ■>f 11 it? Western and bndiluiu nutti|ju v't cables. We were chi. fly at work off the island of Mitrajo, iu the estuary of the Amazon. The cable hat only been sub merged about a month ; yet It name on board the stop at juu.- literally cow ered with barnacles ; at othera over grown with submarine vegetation, crab", and ouriouaahelUi, often of singular deli cacy and beauty. The seaweeds were in great variety, clinging to the cable HOinetiaiea in thick groves of red and yellow alga, ateuder, transparent, leath ery graaaea, red slimy fnooids, and tufts of amethyst moss. Wefound branetnug oomliine plants upward of a foot in height, growing to the cable, the aoft skeleton beiug covered with a fleshy akin, generally of a deep orange color, boiueiiwes a *jK>nge was (uUUd attached to the roots of these corals, and delicate calcareous structures of varieifc tints in ertia ted the steins of all these plants, mud served t> ornament as well as to strengthen them. Parasitic life seems to 1> as rite under these soft, tepid aster* aa it is ou the neighboring tropi cal shores. Many itor-fishes. ztaipliytes, and curious crabs and crustaceans wre likewise fished np on the cable. The drabs were often themselite completely overgrown with the indigenous vegeta lion of Uie bottom, and so were acarcelv diattuguishsble from it. Others, al though not so covered, were found to have Uie same tints as the vegetation they inhabited, and even in structure somewhat resembled the latter. Others, ag.-un, were perfectly or jmrtially trans parent ; and ons most beautiful hyaline crab, new u> science, united 111 its persou several of tbe prevailing colors of the bottom. Its slender limb*, like jointed filaments of glass, were stained here and there of a deep topaz brown. Its snout, pointed like a needle, was of a d.ep scar let; its triangular body was of a deep yellow ; its eyes were green; and its tiny litnba of an amethyst blue. iiVithin a ilay after this cable had been laid a mysterious fault had occurred, and this we were in pursuit of. To our surprise, we found it ti t>eeu caused by U— l>of some voracious tish About thirty nules north of the Para mouth of the Atnsxoa we found the cable bitten in many placet, and in some so severely tbst the iron guaril wires had beeu forcibly crushed aside, the cable penetrated to the oouductor, aud pieces of ilie animal's teeth left sticking in the core, lustaucra of cabiea haviug been damaged by the saw fish were known both by us and doubtless by our readers. The saw-fish grubbiug with iu snout iu the mud is supposed by Frank Ducklaud to encounter tie cable; and becoming enraged at it, to deal it a sharp downward stroke with its saw, thereby piercing the cable from above, and in certain eases leaving its brokeu teeth jammed between the wire*. But the bit*-* we cut out were evidently dne to another fish, for they showed signs of having been made by a direct bite lie tweeu a j>air of powertul jaws. Pieces of teeth were found both on the noper aud under side of a bitten piece, show ing that both jaws ha i been at work. Of what the fish really is which tries its U> th on such ri|>emri\*e prey, not mug ia oertamlv known. Fish axe m l the only large animals winch have tried to make a meal or a plaything out of a eabic. I'uderground cable* luive beeu found eateu by IsaJi rate and mice. In Bristol, a year or two ago, a company of rats made their wsy into the street pi pea, and devoured the gutta percba contiug of the strevt cable*. Net long s'nee, at Dawliah, a mouse bunt ber n< >i aud reartal her progeny iu one of these pij>ee. and apparent ly supported lioth tierseif anil her honse hold ou the gutta-jiereJia of the wire*. No doubt, a the current pn*m- i at tune* while she was gnawing, the little creature felt a tickling aenaatiou of the palate, which fairly puzzled its tiny u deretandiug. and possibly disturled it* innocent feast. A curious submarine accident oc curred a few years ago to the Persian gulf cable. The cable suddenly br>K down fsnlty. The position of the fault was localized by shore tests, and a ship dispatched to raise the cable and repair it. It was duly grapnelled ; aud after a great deal of labor, caused by the ex traordinsry weight f the cidile iu haul iut up, they succeeded in raising it to Ui surface, when they found, mticti to their amusement as well as surprise, that tfacr had " caught a whale." The Iwidy of a dead whale was found en tangled in the coils of the oable, where ti>e aaimal had netted and strangled it self. Hemarkable Conduct of a Dog. A Scotch paper anvs ; A B rough ty Ferry 'ady, writing to her friends from Dublin, gives an account of a strange occurrence by which her husband was aaved from being run down in a ferry !>oat. The gentleman was just about to step into the ferryboat to cross tlie river, wJien a large retriever ruahed np on him, caught hold of his trousers with its teeth, and at the same tirao kept up a constant howl. It was only after con siderable difficulty that he oould get himself released, and by that ttiue the ferryboat had shoved off iDto the river. The gentleman naturally felt much an noyed nt being prevented from crossing, but his feelings were changed when, a minute later, he saw the ferryboat run down by a steamer which had approached without noticing the boat. The passen gers were thrown into the water, but, fortunately, the crew of the steamer were successful in saving them ail, some lieing very much exhausted, however. While thinking of the singular means 4y which he had been saved from the accident, the gentleman conld uot help noticing the conduot of the dog, which followed closely at his heels. He tried every ineaus to get rid of it during the dav.'biit in the afternoon the animal was still followiug him, nn.l he was whliged to take it home with him. Thodog has now t>een installed as watchman of the house, and has already shown great at tachment to tlio gentleman and hia family. A Legend. A day or two since a stranger in the city was making inquiries about the "Pontile Elm" at Bloody Run, and Anally accepted the offer of a bootblack to go up Jefferson avenue and point out the historic relic. When the'tree had lieeu looked over and the ravine ex plored the stranger asked: " Boy, are there any legends connect ed with this spot 1" "I guess there's one," replied the lad. " What is it?" " Well, as near ss I kin remember, a feller got a boy to come up here with htm and look around and answer ques tions, and when tbey got back down towa he never paid the boy a cent— not a red I" "He didn't? Aud what happened him ?" asked the stranger as ha lifted his left eve. " He got drowned the same niglit, while the boy is rich and high-toned, and wears a veWf t vest!" " Hum J" mnsed the stranger, as he passed out a quarter without further delay.— Detroit Free Pre. TERMS: $2.00 a Yoar, in Advance. THE TOWEJt OP CHEIUTIT. 4 frsfeMsr'a Kslr Tk Trrrlbls firstrar Itvrsrss l.airui Is ssiar 1 ktelrala. A most tuilqrluust* accident which has occurred at Prague recalls iu many of ita details aud circnmatancos the •|uaiut traditions that were oncw preva lent with reward to the mnd.asval al- . chemists. Professor Fischer, of the Piague gymnasium, a yeung man ouly twenty-five years of age, and of the highest < mitieune in his profession that of chemistry—has come to an un timely i-imL under the most m danebury i cirruui*!4Sg No one needs to lie told that cyanide of poLaaaiuu, a drug large lv used in jdiotogrujihy, ia a pniaou of ' Itie most deadly character. Ita active ingredient is pruaaic acid. Prussie acid iu its pure, or—as chemists wouhi term it —"anhydrous " form, ia a substance too dangerous to be kept, or even manu factured. if a glass capsule containing a wineglaasful of pure prnsaic acid were broken 111 the pit of a theater, those among the audience who were nearest the doors might perhaps noaoe. but the great majority would lie killed ou the hjK>t The prusaie aciJ ordinarily sold, and occasionally used for killing dogs and cats, contaiua about a drop of tbe pare acid to a quarter of a pint of water. Pure prussic acid no cbemist naie keep. He might as well compress a ton of dy namite into a single cartridge—suppos ing such package to lie possible—and , then leave the deadly parcel lying lunaa upon his table. Cyanide of potassium ia not, like prua aic acid, volatile. It is a white powder, rather resembling flour or chalk. It is, however, so jx-notioua that a mere pmch of it, sprinkled over an open j wound or wore, will cause almost inataa- Utoeous death ; that a fragment, almost imperceptible to the eye, will, if swal lowed, prove equally fatal, and that its mere smell has before now produced immediate death. It was, it seems, the nmbitiou of Professor Fischer to discover some means of rendering cyanide of ' potassium harmless. We can do this with goupowder— although the analogy is not strictly exact, the means employed ■ with gunpowder being merhsoical,while those for which Professor Fischer sought were chemical We know what happens if s hfffct is apphtxl to a keg of gunpow der. If, however, we mil the powder j with four or fire times its balk of saw- i dust, a torch may be held to it with im punity. The mechanical resistance of the sawdust makes it impossible for the explosion to st once spread to tbe whole 1 in ass, and tbe consequence is that a sort of splutter ensues, like that of a squib or blue light. Professor Fischer's idea was that if cyanide of potassium were thoroughly trued with sal ammoniac, it would be as harmless an gunpowder mixed with sawdust, but would still re main equally available for all tin we pur poses ot photography for which it is at jiresent absolutely iudispenasble. In tbe course of his researches, Mr. Fischer ma lea mixture, of which iu hia own mind he felt assured that it would meet the cutidttiou* of hia problem. He compounded the cvauide with aome other substance, and then—turning to i his laboratory assistant—said: " Science has new ao far advanced aa to be even able to render harmleaa ao dangerous an agent as cyanide of [ vitas aium." With these word a be tasted the mix ture, and was almost in an instant seized with the most violent and excruciating axon lea. He at once implored his assist ant to send for medical aid. Cyanogen, however--whether as prnsaic. acid or as cyanide of potassium—kills almost instantaneously. In a few aeconda Pro fessor Fischer was beyond help. We are told that there is poaeihle reason to stipjKwe that a deliberate sntcide had Imtu planned and carried out, under The mask of experiment. Ou lite contrary, there is every reason to believe that the professor had met the fate which befell only too tnativ of the early chemists and their predecessor*, the alchemists. We know, now, what will happen to , any experimentalist if hi dip* blotting paper in nitric acid, washes it, dries it, aid tlien lucantionsly tresis upon it What happened U> the man who is be liered—for hi* record perished with him —to have first discovered fulminate of silver, is matter of scientific record, j That he was engaged in researches upon the fulminate* of the higher metala, vraa well known. How it nrecisely came about that lie disappear**! as he did will remain matter of con j ••dure. There came one day a puff, a slight shock, aud a smart noise as if some one had inflate I a paper liag, aud then Intra! it between his Lamia. Of the professor himself, of his laboratory, of bi* apparatus and of much else within the radius of some yards, not a vestige or trace was left. So it used to be with the alchemists —the heritors of the hidden wisdom of ltohme, and Eager Bacon aud Albert as Magnus. They were always blowing themselves np, or asphyxiating them selves with some noxious" vapor. For a man who know* nothing, or next to nothing, uf chemistry, it is a very lau gerou* game indeed to mix together a 1 couple of substane g of which he knows nothing, and then bray them in a mor tar. Common sulphur is hsrmles* stuff enough, so is charcoal, so is nitre ; but let au ignorant man mix the three ami npj>ly a light to them, and the result will much astonish him. Apart from the sad fact that a yonng man with a bright and indcl brilliant future before him alionld be thus sud denly cut off, the death of Profesaoi Fischer has auother moral. Chemistry —whatever Mr. Lowe may have to say in praise of civil engineering—is the science of the world aud of the future. The bridge which takes the eugineer year* npou years to construct, the chemist can, in as msuy sixtieths of a second, reduce to atoms. Chemistry has given us the balloon ; it has pnt into our hands gunpowder, nitro-glyeerine. dynamite, aud, above all, fulminate of gold—an explosive ao terrible that if an onnce of it be left in a stoppered bottle, its grains falling araoug themselves by their own weight, will create a oouvulsion sufficient to lay all London in ra nt It has given us poisons so subtle that—were we to re solve to employ snoh means of warfare —we could sail in s balloon over the camp of the enemy aud drop upou it a shell, the burning of which would kill every human Iwiug within a mile of its range. Then, too, chemistry has jpven us die* infectants. To the chemist we owe carlsihc acid, chloride of lime, snd per manganate of potash. Chemists have taught us to disiufeot our sewers and drains, to ventilate onr houses, to burn gas instead of oil, and to light our streets with what is more powerful than even gws itself—the electnc light. It is to chemistry, indeed, that we owe al most all the comforts of every-day life. But, on the other hand, the possi bilities ef chemistry are almost tao terrible to be contemplated. As the science at present stands, any student can, if he have access to a well-stored laboratory, carry away with him in a pill-bjx matter sufficient to lay London in rnins, or to poison the whole oem mnnity of its inhabitants. The chemist can, as every schoolboy knows, convert water into ice in the center of a mi-hot erncible. He can construct a shell the size of a cricket-ball which will explode the moment it touches the water, and overwhelm in flames a hostile fleet. Indeed, the chemist reduces the world to its original and primal elements. Far NUMIiER 44. him, even more ihon fafr the engineer, 'nothing in irorio*oibbv And Iji bi* power, vit Mit is, fll limited. Tie MO more #i)y ihttro/ lbi)otrnrt. He out Uke life, bat be casftot give it. Ho eon level • city with tbephdn. bat ho cannot baihl it' •gain. Ho mu nrmlo pro •no teiil, bat no io tgaonud a# 'to auteloU. He ik like tfao ttherman who rmkhly opened the veneei umled witii the ring at Huh iamo Beu* Dauad. The foriv-o ot hik oontroi ore beyond hia oominknii; the power* le oon evoke ho cannot ley. It ia the old otory id Cor- IM4IU* Agripp*—tbooe who trifle with nature'* kocreto do o at their peril.— Jjundan OLtertmr, A Fsreat biant. A receut .muo of the Stockton (Cel.) Herald **: M'sr*. McKiernan, Mauley awl II abbe, of Yuwlm, shipped from Tulare city Uii* moruiiig a <*"tiou of one of the larged, if not Um> large*** of all the bl|i tr* that have yt been discovered iu California. The tree from which this cuoUuß waa taken wan 111 feet iu circumference at the butt, awl atood 250 feet in height, at which eleva tion it waa broken off. At the breaking off place it *ll twelve fact in diameter. Three geuUeuinu have bora at work get tiug tuia errtiou ready for exhibition for nearly a year. The aectien i* fourteen feet in height, and wm ent from the , body of the tree twelve feet from the ground, the bane being eo irregular u> form, the irregularity extending up from the root*, that it Waa laeXpeiumt Uj Lake the I<>w<ii part. At tie diatanee of twelve feet from the gretuul the tree waa twenty-aix feet aix taehea in diameu-r, tbi b-ung the diameter of tbe baae of the aeotaiu exhibited. The top of tne tree, or etuh aa it really we*, waa felled twea tv-eix feet from the ground, the labor of felling it occupying fonr men nine day* with axee. It made a noiae when ft came down that reverberated through the mountain* like a peal of thunder. The work or taking ou! the aectien which ia exhibited waa then commenced frun the top. The men dug the inatde of the tre- out with axee, three tool* be ing the only once that could be need to advantage. Tbe wood wa* left aix inche* tb ok, excluaive of the bark, which range* from three to ten inch. a in thickaeaa. Tne diameter of the tree where it waa felled (the diameter of tbe top of the section that ia to be ex hibited) ia twenty-one feet. Thia ahell wa* miwed down, making fifteen gigeu ' tic *l*l*o TLi* tree stood aix milee away from a public road, and a r>*d wah bnilt thia whole diatanee in order to get tbia aection of the tree out. Etch slab made a load for eight boraea. The whole fifteen make two carload*. The owners of thia great natural enri oaity will exhibit it in thia city daring the* fair, after which thgy will travel through the State, thence through the East and to Europe. This tree i* claimed to be four fed larger in diameter than any other tree that haa been •iisoorered on tfcr coevt. A Pew Parts About Afghanistan. The fallowing extract by Colonel Den ni, an Englishman, from bis nwrative of "A Campaign in the Afghanistan," published in 1843. may I* f interest at the present time, in view of the trouble that baa broken ont between England and ita neighbor in the East: The Russians poeseaa here an advaD tage over 01, una ttaa weat awe of the moanUuna the country ia lower, and cotmequently mora open for their move ment*. The people of the country through whfeh they are paaaing are their brethren—of the aarae tribe aa tbemaa.vea—all Tartars. The Afghans are mixed Tartar*, chiefly of the Tnrko manian tribe*—those who ouoquwvd Turkey, ami have overrun at different times all the northern part* of Asia and south of Europe, and founded dynaatiea almost orer the world, Persia and India inclusive. In this kingdom, aa in thoae an> HE i, which are Csbecs and Calmnoa, the tribes are loternrngled ; bat a Kna si au conld not be difttugmisbed from thoae who crowd the street* of Cabal. This part of Octroi Asia baa been famed in hiatory for thousands of yeara aa the great nursery of all thoae migra tory I>auds which in time* far back ovar ran Rime. Greece, etc.. call them Hups, Vandals, or Goths. Timur, Genjhia, Nadir, comparatively in modern timet, did aa their forefathers, ov< rrmn all Aaia and Europe, and not many centu rion ago advanced to Moeoow. This ia all classic ground, and intereating ia sac ml r.nd urofane hiatory. It ia rac morabla in Grecian store in forming thw great proviuce of Itactria, and every place hereabout ia noted by some mark of its former possessor® and conquerors. The abundance of Grecian tomi which are found here and pnreliaaed at little oust would astonish yon. The heads and descriptions upon them are moat per fect and legible, sod manr mounds or tnmnli arc oinstantlT opened, which abound not only witii Grecian ooina, but antique gems, which are exquisite specimens of ancient engraving, form iog indubitable evidences of the davs of Alexander the Grant and his generals or lieutenauta, who after him remained kinga and rulers of theae provinces. Influence f Aewspapers. A achool-teaeber wfio had bean en gage! a long time in hit profession, and witueaned the influence of a newspaper upon the minds of family and ebildren, writes as follows : " I have found it to lie a universal fact, without exception, that scholars of both sexes and all ages, who have access to tie as papers at home, when compared with thwee who have not, are : 1. Belter readers, exoelleut in pro nunciation, aud consequently read more undcrstaudiugly. 2. Tbey are t>rtter spe'lers, and define words with ease and accuracy. A. They obtain practical knowledge of geography in about half the time it re quires of othera, as the newspapers have made them acquainted with the location of important places, of nations, their government and doings on tbe globe. 4. They are better grammarians, for, having l>ecomo so familiar with every variety of style in ttie newspaper, from the oommonplaoed advertisement to tbe finished and clasaical oration of the statesman, they more readily compre hend the meaning of the text, and con aeqnently luiahxe its construction with accuracy. 5. Those young men who have for years been readers of newspapers are always taking tbe lead in debating so cieties, exhibiting a more extensive knowledge, a greater variety of subjects, and expressing their views with greater tluency, clearness and correctness." A Cheap II aminated Clock. Reuiiger, of Stuttgart, proposes an in genious substitute for illnmiuated tower clocks. It is the use of a magic lantern, so frequently employed for street adver tising in New York "city. A small lan tern could be so arranged as to throw the picture of a common watch or chro nometer upon a suitable white screen in places much frequented at night The movements of the hands would be quite as distinct as those of a real clook with a transparent face and a strong light be hind it The project recommends it self to smaller oities, unable to bear the expense of a oostly tower dock with il- , uminated face. What the BJwr **. J run toward the north. Oh. rtvae rwnnlos aeatfc- Btmnft* tooth far****. No tmt • '*** drootti l Ikfb for your awaet Hfe " *Oll wa •**•*. AM ran toward tb* owtk. I ran toward tha north- Wbara tb* traa* ataod *M and stark. And tb* gloomy ior-Mb whttao, And tha day* and night* ara dart ; And only atara and aslMr#MM settfbtca My soars* lofard tba nartb. I ran toward tha norlfc. Tat, oh, rtoar running aontb Through woodarfal rtab flora*. Warm taaa to moat yoar month . Khali I repine wbUa atUl my groat anrotao Hhtna on am from tba north? | ran toward tba nartb, Tat briar and awaat and bright Bammar* soma torn* Wttb aoag and bloom and light 5 And wbo boo** hot 1 may roach at tart tba opoa 00a As I ran toward tba nnrtb ! —Mima* Pm b HorOnttr. I • Item* wf lterU Bpellbonnd— B-o-n-n-d. , i flow to got fat—Speculate in lard. The bookkeeper a is a figure bead. Tbo best time on reougd—Lunch time. Tin u one of the earliest metels known. Why is it people boot a dog and shoo s ben ? Carter ha* been auoceaafully grown in California. Will Carle ton. the poet, is traveling in Scotland. Tba favorite flower for fortune hooters —Marry gold. Men who always proceed to extremities —Chiropodist*. Can a man in a dense crowd be called a member of the pre*. Wbat in*ect does s blacksmith month footer* T He make* the fire-fly. J acknowledge tbecoro," 0* the man aabl when be palled an a tight boot. Marcos Clark. the eeaeyiat. says the jyfnipfl ueo trill be an Australian. The phonograph will register thirty two thousand vibrations per second. The reason a boy lores a woodaew is because it leaves 00 chips to pick up. Lightning struck an apiary in Denver, recently, and astonished every bee hoidar. •' My 'laarest little dark," he murmur ed. " Oh, don't stuff me like that," she archly replied. Oregon ia wakingnp to the importance of her chipmunk crop. Their hides make nice kid glove*. Back English, of Hen Quentin, CaL, after listeoingtoaoormoo three-quarters of an boar long, can repeat it ward for word. An Oil Citixen ia preparing a woah for the scalp, which he say* will produce a Ininriant heed of hair on a bald eagle.— Oil CUjt Derrick. It was a Detroit hoy wbo soaked a box of match** in a pail of water over night in order to get up a snlphar spring and care but mother's rheumatism. A young lady in toon said she bad jast Loft a bedside. When asked if a friend was ill, she replied, sweetly: " Oh, no; It was an onion-bed !** Chinese railroad train* run at the rate of thirteen miles an hour, and when a eh inker on the highway show* signs of being agitated the tram mast stop. Is there aacuectific man :n the country who can tell, after a nock g- t* a bolt- in it, what beeomea of the material that once took the plaoe of the aperature f In the fall the robin** {aping* Oar lb* ateoSow *: to float. In tb* fall mob **ra** yams* man Get* a or* light overcoat— If be eon. A veaael rwembles a reptile when ita toad mta port—Aiohd CkmatUultrm. .And an objectionable lv -r resembles a reptile when he's bad ont by the front gate.— Brtmkfart Table. An old said had a cat and a canary. The oat died. She had htm staffed and placed m the eage of the canary, saving, " I have put the dear creature where he always deaired to be." Beaton own* more than one-third ef all the property in Massachusetts. The valuation tor three hundred and twelve cities and towns in the State i* $1,514,- *244,237; for Boston, 8630.446 866. The official statistics of immigration for the last thirty yeara ahot that Ger many and Ireland have fnruiabcd u# more than 2,000.000 imigranu each, but that Germans ia upward of 400,000 ahead of Ireland The Railroad Gasrtic put* the amount of new 'rack Mi in the following yeara thua: 872. 4,623 milea; 1873. 2,607 miles; 1874, 1.025 Bulr*; 1875, 746 miles! 1876, 1 556 uflles; 1877, 1,223 milea; 1878, 1,273 miles. India rubber erases pencil marks from paper, because the rubber contains a vers large qoantitv of carbon ; and black lentil is carbon ami iron. The carbon of the India rubber has an great an attrac tion for the black lead that it takes np the loose traces of it left on paper by a pencil. " Ah, great heavens !" sighed a rising voting genius, throwing down his peti and leaning back wearily, "yon don't know how much pleasant** and easier it is to read these little poems at mine than it ia to write them." Sympathetic but awkward friend: " GaJ, how you must suffer, then f* Out in lowa the young ladies aid the vol k>w fever sufferer* by selling kisses at ten cents apiece. We opine that there has been enough wasted arou' d here to have brought in a revenue ot J36 381 23, or in that immediate neighborhood. Tue worst of it ia the waste continues.— Breakfast Table. Dipbtbfth* broke oat in tbe family of Samuel Rttdtll, of Mukato, Mum., re cently. and earned off (oar of hm chil dren within four day*. The bodies of two other children, who died some time PRONOUN IT. and hai been buried in an old cemetery, were disinterred, and the tin little coffin* were warned to the gravevard at the name time in the prea enee of an immense concourse of people. Glih-tongucd individuals go about the Western States in pairs renrreent mg to the farmers that they are com missioned by the bureau of agriculture to obtain statistics. They make many entries in their books, atay # to dinner or overnight, insist- on paying for their lodging Iteosnaetbey are employed upon government service, and pass counter feit X 'a npon their host, receiving the change in good money. The history of the first cotton this year from Mississippi is interesting. It was contained in two balea, and was sold in Cincinnati, on the 21*t of Angnst, for SI, 165. One of the bales was forwarded to New York, and sold in front of the Cotton Exchange, on the 2G'h day of August, for 2850. The same bale was immediately forwarded by the purehas ara to Liverpool, where it was sold for $585. All these unounta were devoted to the beuefit of the yellow fever suffer ers in the South. 'The United States express carried the bale free, as did the Gunard line to Liverpool. The Dreaming of Plants and Animals. Mr. Francis Darwin, leotnr ng at the London Institution on the analogies of plant and animal life, aaid : " There is one, but only a fauoiful resemblance, between the sleeping plants and animals, namely, that both have the power of dreaming. I have been sitting quietly ( in the hot house at night, waiting to 1 make an observation at a given hour, : when en Wanly the leaf of a sensitive i nlant has been seen to drop rapidly to | its fullest extent and slowly rise to its old position. Now in this action the i plant is behaving exactly as if it bad been touched on its sensitive joint; thus some internal process produces the seme impression on the plant as a real exter nal stimulus. In the same way, a dog dreaming by the fire will yelp and move his legs as if he were hunting a real in stead of an imaginary rabbit
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