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.
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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