llMere I
Where AOM tha winter stay?
With the lit Ate Ekqumiu,
Where the frost end anow-taka grov .
Or where the white berg* firat oow ' .
Where ctrc Jet nuke heete to api* ul
Where the winds end storms h g^in
Gathering the crops ell in.
Among tt • ice-field* fer * WKJ ?
Wh* does the *v mm „ , tT v
In distant sunny pieces.
A Wb** they pi, to* MM, threed.
WLT"' IK' IT* WN * TR "** <.
the len ,on grovos give alma,
, * or k her deilv cherms.
Among UK- rice-del da far away.
- Mary A'. m A ,v,oko.es.
T t L >t, Lost laj*.
PW the nodding float r*
* . teeswks) hang fn.nu yonder tree ,
rtr new til buetty, wear thtir gold
" . uwimr crowns of purity.
*' * men. oh. men, whet coolly tear*
the crndle, as thy grave ;
•Mat griefs eiiseem thy coarse of veer*
And break the rest • e vainly or are.
3. fain would be the nodding flowers.
Which one bright sunnner morn arrays,
Tbn in s wintry norm of life
Bit down to count the lost, lost days :
Aye, happy ere the bursting buds,
Aye, happy are ihe bird* of song
Tls only men whose diKvmleul
D.s.urbs the earth -nh reding tongue
He monrus for childhood's ei tU } >▼*.
And youth's end manhood '* visions fl-d .
While by the ambers of ohl age.
He nmmbtrw onlv of he dead.
Whence wit that frail men alone
Should fill tlie earth with grievous Uy
Always a story of regret.
And wasted life, the lost, kwt days
Pans*, hsten to that sin gmg bird.
He trills not for a vr gne spplaosc ;
He bat obeys his Ma-nr. God.
And sing sin oa.l. oc *i with His laws.
I hate the but. r 1 j** of art.
Melodious fraud thut flits oiu ears ;
The ssrvile sr'oool w'jerr men are taught
T. monrd ;n sung protruded tears,
- • cold be tho turd who amgw
With tisrew throat, his houa.l lays.
Nor hosds our kioe-s toe>< rrow's dswu,
Nor jet regre w the lost, koet days.
THE TABLES TURNED.
I am not nre that it redoaods
ttoh tc oar credit. f will tell it, ho*
* or, an a twj ug."
So oar gnest. answered an inquirv
made by a young and. u must be eun
fcaac d, somewhat CQUivitsd member of
the little party gaAberrd together one
winter even>ug an-amd our diuiog-table.
V" dan? the credit 1" that p?raou re
plied. He wa* rather nplilted, for he
thought he hail that evening woa dis
tinction in the sught of a lovely pair of
eye?, then waatu u their sweetness o the
drawing-room. The owner of the love
'J <7*® hfl been a widow for rome
Kir* ; ahe was rich, eiegwut and clever.
ere was a humorous wrinkling about
the mouth of onr middle-aged or. est, as
heanaweed:
" Harg the credit! So I causav now
with a light heart. Theu the credit w H *
of attore importance to me. However,
jam aaa.ll jno*o. Yon have btwrd "he
went on, turaiug to the gentleman who
headed the table, "thet in the earlv
day* of onr settlement we were a wild
jOt. Largo fortunes had-town made bv
the first settlers . and i; rot abroad at
home that gold was to he bail simphr for
tbeaaking. Adventr.i*.rspoured in. "The
native war brought in adventurers of
another kind—men whose lives had
been played ou* u: the old country, and
° roT ' ur an . v kind of devil
try. Oh 1 • euu assure yon there was at
times aur .galar collection in the settle
®vni. . oould tell you one or two tales
that Would surprise yon. This, how
ever ' —tnrniDg to the person whose re-
had provoked his tale— "is not of
desperate a character."
You must unuerstand that, at the time
■of which I speak—things are much
changevi now—we had neither library,
nor theater, nor concert-room, and were
dnv n, now and then, to queer devices
for killing time. Some few of* ns took
np with practical jests but, after n time,
even these palled. Every one in our
community bevnie so wi.ie-awake that
the m.*i artinllj-coustructed scheme
broke down. If it did succeed, on the
other hand, the vengeance tak>n was so
dire as to be alarming We were sorely
in 'jeed of a patient bntt.
It happened that, at this time, a
■young solicitor whom fortune lia<i not
favored at home, toking it into his head
that competition was slayiug his talent,
determin-d to iry bis fortune anion? us.
He was certain—and he was n-d far
wrooar —that in such a eommuuity
•1 m for litisaHoD w. nld abonnd.
He was slightly acquainted with one
of toy friend a. and wrote to him of his
latent ion, asking him at the same time
to be so kind as—in f e poor fellow's
own words—'' ju-t to let the people
know, jim kno, that I am coming "
Tbe letter was shown ab-.nt, and that
■roe evening my ineud and I, with two
or three others whom we let into our
secret, went out together, armed with
large pieces f chalk. In the morning
there was much questioning in the com
munity. far ou every bit of boarding,
•vary blank wall and gate, was posted
tip in gigantic letters: " He is &>ming "
Aram and acain were the notices ex
ponged by indignant householders.
Again ami agiti ww they imposingly
reproduced. The police were set on the
watch ; we> either browbeat or bribed
them. People began to think that there
v* something mysterious in the busi
ness. 0 f oonrse, kept our own
GOUWeI, and, at last, one flue morning,
• second advertisement appeared. It
*a to this effect— " He has oome."
In the interval onr friend had heard
XWn "I shall arrive by steamship
Benares," our solicitor wrote. " I hope
you have let the people know." We had
wt tte people know to some pnrpoae. It
s>*gxa to be rumored abroad that a joke
on foot, and the whole eommuuity
flocked to the landing-place.
To preserve the delusion we had
paved the jetty with scarlet cloth, and
decorated it with flowers. As soon as
the steamer dropped anchor, my friend
nd I put off in a small boat to receive
and bring to shore our distinguished
guest.
He was a small, delicate looking man,
with a face as refined as that of a
woman. I had alight prickings of com
punction when I met him. He was so
delightfully frank aDd confiding. " I
aay," he said to his friend, as we neared
the decorated landing-place, "do they
expect any swell ?"
"They expect you, my dear fellow,"
was tbe reply. " I let people know, you
know."
" You must be a jolly hospitable set.
Bat what am I to say to them all ?"
"No necessity to say anything. Just
bow as you pass through. '
"Ob 1 I scarcely like—"
•' You must, my dear fellow, you
most Not to acknowledge this brilliant
reoeption would stamp you at once as a
churl"
The young fellow's color rose. He
was as shy and sensitive as a girl, but
rather than appear ungrateful he would
hva gone through any ordeal, and
presently —oh, dear 1 I can see it now—
he waa stepping out on the scarlet cloth
bowing' graciously to his right hand
and his left.
No need far as to wink and nod behind
bis back. It waa understood that a butt
was being brongbt into the community.
The bows were gravely returned ; and
like an honorable bodyguard, we
formed round the new-comer to escort
fcim to .his hotel, the crowd that had
gathered to reoeive him fell into pro
oeesion behind us.
It was the oold season, and we called
oc him the next morning to take him
for a ride. He was full of hia pleasant
reception, and anxious te become per
sonally acquainted with those who had
■o interested themselves in him.
•'Ob > y-10*51 know them soon enough,"
Kiy friend said. " Shouldn't wonder if
FRED. KUIiTZ, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME XI.
yon find when you go buck, thai half
the community lias been calling on you."
; And Bare enough, when he returned,
there was his table heaped high with
visiting cards. His eyes glisten d.
" I've heard that people abroad were
hospitable," he said, "but, upon my
word, this kiud of thing I didn't ex
pect."
My frieud glanced over the heap of
cards.
"Ah!" he said, "The most infiuen
tial names. They don't often call ou
uewouners, 1 suppose you impressed
them favurohly vesterdav. Sharp set of
fellows, too 1 T'u had better lose u>>
tune i* returning their civility."
" t will make my return calls this
*f'.eruoon," he said, warmly "Can
*/ou gtve me an >dea of the a.ldresest"
, "No ueed. Everybody kuow* every
body here. You have only to ask. I
wish I cvuld accompany you, but I shall
lie busy this siteruoou."
"So shall 1," said I. "but we will
look iu upon you later. "
"On ! and stay to dinner, do " re
plied our young frieud, and we readily
agreed.
To one of us, a* it happened, the of
' fer of a diuuer was uot a thuig to be
. 'tahtly treated.
We were not surprises! when, at the
t proper hottr, we made our appearance,
to see the young new comer look weary
and depressed. He brighteued when
he BHW us.
"So kind of yon to come f' he said.
And presently—" Either 1 must be
, stupid at understanding direction*, or
everybody does uot know everybody in
▼ .•or setUeimuik Such a wild-goose
■ chase as I have this afternoon !"
" What!" cried my frien i with welh
aaanmed surprise. " You didn't find
them ?" Ana his voice so clearly com
mentekl, " You must IH< a foolish fel
low !" that the young man s color rose.
"I must have another try," he said.
'* Bnt was not tins strange? 1 showed
one of the nunc* to a member of your
police force. He directed me to the
road leading out of the settlement, and
I walked ou for about an hour, expect
ing of course to reach some house. All
at once I found myself at the oeraetry."
My friend laughed. "That man was
a wag ; not a doubt of it. However,
wait a few days till you know the place
better."
As you may have guessed, more than
half tbe cards, drooped by onr orders
at the young man's door, bore the names
of men either dead or departed. But a
long time passed before tie found this
ont; he might have never found it out
at all, but for—however, I must not au-
UCTjr.te.
To give in detail the practical joke*
we played on our new-comer would te
impossible. One I mast tell you, for it
vt-rv nearly had a tragic ending.
Two or three of us had s'-arted with
him on a shooting trip up the river. It
hail pleased one of ns, his first friend,
to feign a deep melancholy, from which
our new-comer sought in vain to rouse
him. The yonng fellow spoke to me in
private on the subject. "Our iriand,"
ne said "ought to lie watched. Men
in his state of mind have been known to
do strange things." I, of course, en
eomraged his fear. We were neither of
ns then much surprised when, one even
ing, the melancholy man, after hastily
wringing our hands and mnrmuring
that "it oonld be borne no longer,"
leaped into the river. What followed
helped me afterward to understand the
seqnel of this story. Without a mo
ment's hesitation that brave yonng fel
low threw off his coat ami boots, and
dived after his friend. He was not a
strong swimmer, however, aud that lit
tle trick was near being our last. When
we fished him np he was half drowned.
He rose in our estimation from that
moment, though it was not in the nature
of tilings that we could give up our di
version, and we were still plotting
auaiust his peace when hazard called
me awy from onr settlement to a In tie
piaoe at some distance. I went willing
ly, for the honse at which I was to be
en'ertained was presided over by a
young lady whom it always gave me
, great pleasure to meet. Hoe waa the
daughter of tbe merehaut I went to see;
a bright, clever aud intelligent girl, and
to my ta-te peculiarly handsome. It
had struck me, moreover—no harm in
confessing it n< w; there is an age, you
know, when we read volumes in a smile
—it had struck me then that the beauti
ful E eanor Hartley hai a special kind
ness f<* me.
But ou this oocanion it "einea to me
fhst something was wrong with Miss
Eieanor. She su-dained her part in tho
conversation only with effort. She was
languid and depressed.
"This detestable cl mute is telling on
her," was my conclusion, and I outdid
myself in my efforts to be amusing.
At such time*, as we kuow—it, that is
to sav, we are not born talkers, like our
friends of the Emerald isle—there comes
the moment wheu everything is used up.
Neither joke, nor pun, nor lively anec
dote will visit the distressed brain.
Nothing remains but to ehisose lie'ween
naked commonplace and doleful silence.
To me, one evening at diuuer, such a
moment came. Up to that time (for
onr host was a silent man) Iliad done all
the talking, and Miss Eleanor's eyes had
often mo'ely thanked me. I ronld help
her now no longer. In the silence that
followed on this dreary conception she
raised her gentle voice. What a plain
tive look there was in her face ! How
hard she was trying to be animated; and
bowl felt for her! Happy tbongbt!
Had I been alone i should have cut a
caper. It struck me ail at once that I
bad not yet told them about onr new
comer and the tricks which we had
played upon him. This, if only proper
ly managed, would afford of food for
lauguter and amusement for days.
"Oh ! by the by," I began, "I have
not told yon abont the new fellow who
arrived at onr place the other day."
Certainly Miss Eleanor's eyes were
fixed on me with an interest such aa she
had not hitherto accorded to any of my
stories, and, thns encouraged, I pro
ceeded boldly, telling them, only with
mncb more gusto, what I have just told
you, about the letters and advertise
ment*, the dead men's cards aud the
false suicide. I was so mnch taken up
with my own cleverness that I did not
notice the way in which ray story was
being received by my hostess. Judge,
then, of my astonishment and dismay
when, as I ended with an inane little
chuckle, she suddenly burst ont:
"And you call yourselves men! Do
yon know what I call you ? "
'' My dear Nellie I " said her father.
I was speechless. She fixed her eyes
on my face, and the position, I assure
yon, was a singularly uncomfortable
one.
"I call yon oowards,"she went on,
"and—and—" evidently she was at a
loss for an expressive word.
"Miss Hartley," I said, deeply peni
tent, "if—"
" Pray say no more," she answered
coldly. " Papa, I will leave you to your
coffee."
I did not see her again dnnng my
stay, which, as yon may guess, was not
prolonged beyond the time absolutely
necessary. This abrupt sdJ mysterious
interruption of an acquaintanceship
that had promised to prove interesting
cut me up mvre than I can well express.
I rotnrned to my own quarters, where,
as I pr sentlv found, event* oi an ex
citing ohaiaotor were nnder discussion.
Miss Hartley, I was told, had oome to
pay s visit to her married sister, who
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
I lived tu our aettienn nt. As we wore
not cheered by the preecuoe of any un
married ladiee, tin* wan, of court*., ail
occurrence f the first magnitude. lint
I further, w largo dmuer was to tie given
at our club, to which all the lad*. - iiid
our new comer w. re tuvitod. lie had
l>ern persuaded that tlie diuuer waa
given IU hi* honor, and was to be be
guiled into making a speech, from which
mil 'h fun vis exjwoted. 1 threw cold
water on tin* scheme. 1 wa* afrnid, you
see, that Mis* Hartley would ace ill it
another malicious trick atiil be further
mcetmed *gaiut tue. Hut once s ball
of such sort is set rolling, it requires a
hand of |>e'uhar force to stop it. Mine
•ran not able for the feat, ami mv friends
arranged their plan of sctiou without
me. After all. 1 think 1 wa* nt sorry
that he should make a f.sil of himself
publicly before M M Eleanor. It would
l>e sure to destroy any sentimental lik
ing she might have for him, so I held
my jkea.V, and the eventful day came on.
Haw nervous I WHS that evening ! I
remember 1 was obliged to call in the
assistance of oue of my friends to adjust
my necktie, ami he was obliging enough
to tell me that I lt*>ked as yellow as a
guinea A comfortable assurance truly,
wncn 1 had wished to look my very best,
for 1 had m t seen Mi** Hartley since
my unlucky story, and I wanted to make
my mace with her. But when, wtth an
apology eu my lips, I drew near the
sofa where she was sitting, I fouud, to
my infinite regret, that no apology was
necessary. She was ns friendly iu her
manner as ever. She waa exquisitely
dressed that eveniug in—well, 1 can't
exactly May what—some dead white ma
terial, tliat fell IU delicious folds about
her stately figure. That girl could al
ways dresa herself to perfection. She
looked superb. Reyoud a doubt, she
was the queen of the party ; certainly
we all felt as proud of her ar if each one
of us had Iwu her father or brother.
She did Uv>t speak to our new comer,
and this relieve! me. But at the dinner
table I felt a little more uueasy. She
and he sat at opposite corners of the
table. It seemed to me that she was
quietly watching him, from time to
time, and at such moments there was in
her face a wonderful light of bappiuees
and pride. I understood it all presently.
The long dinner pass**! dessert was
on the table; the usual toasts had been
given and responded to. Then my
friend rose, and in a few serious words
which, as some of us knew, veiled a real
irony, prupomd the heaitk of the young
est man at the table, our distinguished
guest, whose arrival had been so long
anticipated and so eagerlv hailed.
All >lraiik the toast, and there folio wed
an awful pause. Every eye, Eh-anor
Hartley's aicog the number, was fixed
on our new comer. He rose to his feet,
and I ventured to glance at her. All
was explained.
Oh, wnuian. what a strange being you
are ! Soft and yet triumphant was the
beautiful face of onr queen. She was
binding a little forward ; her eyes glis
tened ; yon would have said that ahe
was hstcu'ug to some exquisite mel.sly.
About him, too, there was a change.
I was excited, and, of course, what I
suw and heard was colored in mv mood,
but I could have declared that the young
man's form had expanded, and that an
indesorible dignity bad crept into his
gestures. He stood upright, his voice
was clear and unfaltering ; he did not
shrink from, he m'her courted, the mul
titude of glauces that were bent on him.
As for his speech—air, I have knock-d
at Mint pretty much, as you know, and
now and then at dinners and elsewhere
I have knocked up against distinguished
men, but I have never beard a speech
to match this one. In siitistsuee it was
a review of the time he ha 1 speut in the
settlement. To hear him one might
have believed that he had seen through
our practical jests from the first, and,
while e.-m s ng to he their victim, had
been quietly amusing himself at our ex
pense Its manner, the delicate ironv,
the wit, the forcible piquancy, I should
be glad indeed t reproduce, but of
such an effort Tam itrOHpable. Here
waa a turning of the tables! My friend*
w re Iwwil.iere-i ; those not in our
secret applauded vociferously. I uloue
knew who it was had planned th a
triumph ; and I wn* not surprised when,
a low .lays later, it waa rumored abroad
that Eleanor Hartley and our new emer
were engaged to be married. Rumor,
for en IN*, told a true tale. Before that
ivffd season was over I was invited by
Eleanor Hartley's father to hia daugh
ter's wedding.
" And I would wag r," said the gen
tlemen who had asked for the story,
' that my ladv kept him in order."
" Ou the contrary," replied our guest,
"she was a model among wives—de
voted, adoring. f believe she thought
that man half divine. Well, poor fel
low ! he was always delicate, and, after
two or three ye.rs of happiness, lie
died."
" And hia wife ?"
" I think yon have met her."
" What I She cannot be—"
" I s-e that yon have guessed. Thank
me for giving yon ir peep into the char
acter of Eleanor Walthiugham."—Cos
*cil * A/tv/asine.
A Cold Winter Foretold.
The mnskrat has been heard from
just in time to prevent embarrassing
mistake*. His stebiteeture is of the
lofty, Mansard roof variety, indicating
plenty of cold to the square inch dar
ing the winter. Now, stock up your
wood piles, for this is a sure thing.—
Sauk Rapid l'r< *.
The mountains are full of yellow jack
ets this summer. Tbev sting the horses
nnd cattle till the poor animals become
furiously desperate, They gather at>out
a person in the woods, as would a swarm
of moaqnit<es. If you let them crawl
over you and bite pieces of flesh out of
vonr hands and neck without attempt
ing to brush them off they will not sting
yon. The overage human being, how
ever, feels irresiatihly inclined to brush
them oft. and so gets unmercifully
stung. Trout Ashing has some days
been unendnrable, because a myriad of
yellow jacketH would cluster around the
fisherman, and for every nibble received
from the trout they would give him a
dozen bites. Woodmen or railroad men
who have happened upon nests have
been stuug so badly in iustnnces, they
were unable to work for a day or two.
The butchers are compelled to feed
these wasps with refuse meat tn a cer
tain portion of the shop, in order to keep
them from covering the cutting blocks.
There are hundreds and thousands and
millions of them everywhere in the
monntains aronnd Truckee. They
effectnally kill off the flies. It is ra'e
sport to watch their maneuvers when
catching flies. They awoop down upon
their victim as a hawk does npon its
prey. Their aim is generally nnerring,
and the fly is carried off to the yellow
jacket's nest. It is said to be an old and
true saying among backwoodsmen that
the more yellow jackets there are, the
harder wiil be the winter. This being
true, the winter will be about 5,000
times more severe than any of its pre
decessors. Thermometers will be en
tirely inadequate to mark the cold, and
snow-plow men will not lack em
ployment.— Truth** Republican.
A woman hearing a great deal abont
" preserving aatamn leaves" pat ap
some, bat alter ward told a neighbor
they were not tit to eat, and ehe tuigb
as well have thrown her sugar away.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY. NOVEMHER 14. 1878.
SNAKES IN HOHSES' EYES.
Seoul I salsa,'ra si iSta Mlaiss HrearJ
A likirse was reL>utly discovered in
Plnlaklelphia which ha* exoitetl much
interest owing to the fad that he haa a
snake iu his eye. The reptile la de
scnlkcl as attotit three inches long, as
big rouud as a tuu, white in color, ami
without the aid of any artificial u.caua
can lie plainly seen wriggling and twist,
mg ami swimming alaitit within the ball
ot the e e, like a fish in an a*|uarium.
T'ie horse was ra.'se,l ti>*ar IVChester.
N Y. The " snake "in his eye was dis
covered twenty-one weeks ago last Hun
dav. it was tlieu Ctiul.|erably smaller
than it i* now, but there has Iteeu no
peiceptible iucrease iu ita site during
tile {Hast five we, ks.
Mr. 1 11. Flint, of this borough, says
that when he lived in Bucks county,
some year* ago, his hostler ca!lvl Ins
attention to one of bis horses, winch was
similar ly troubled. The hostler regard
ed it as curious but not iui|Hirtaut, as
tlie horse was not unfavorably affected.
The snake was very small and white sud
could Ire plainly seen swimming >U the
lymphatic or liquid portiou of the organ,
apparently within the pupil aud (>rhiud
the cornea. It did uot atf>ct the ani
mal's eyesight, either at that time or
afterward, and Mr. Fliut did m>t re
gard It aa a matter of auffiv eut momeut
to le investigated. The tiorwc retamral
hts health, and he neither kuows h*>w
the snake came there nor how it disap
peared.
The m*lie*l authorities are iliriJivl in
opinion us to the i-nu#" of these mutw
or, rather, wiMrui*. Paraaihw of this
kisiil are found in the tissues of many
animals, and in the In* they are often
o numerous as to render the flesh unfit
for food. An instance IB cited of round
worm, peculiar to the horse, which WM
found in the anterior chamlwr of a
horse's ere as far bank as sixteen hun
dred and something. Other instances
are on record, but they are very rare.
How the worm gets there lias never
l>een -BtiafaetoritY determined.
Judge Francis Uopkinsou read a oaper
in tile Philoaupioal society at Philadrl-
Ehia on September Jo, 17fid, in which
e says :
"A report prevail**! last summer that a
horse was to le seeu which bad a living
serpent lu one of its eye*. This worm
was of a clear white color, in aire and
appearance lunch like a piece of white
bobbin ; it seemed to bt from two ami a
half to three niches in length, which,
howtwer, ooukl uot l>e exactly aaoertain
eJ, ita whole length nerer appearing at
one time, but ouly sach a portion there
of as could be aeon through the ins,
whieh waa greatly dilated. The croatore
was in a couataut, lively, vermicular
motion, aometiuiea retiring *>• deen in
Uie eye as nut to be seen at all, and at
other times approaching ao near to the
iris as to become plainly and distinctly
aeen ; at least ao much of it aa was
within the field of the iria. I could not
distinguish its head, neither end being
perfectly exhibited whilst I viewed it;
and, imieed, its motion was so brisk and
constant as not to admit of ao nice an
examination.
" The horse's eye was exceedingly in
flamed, swollen and running—l mean
the muscles contiguous to the eyeball—
and he seemed to be in great fain ; so
that it was with difficulty the eye could
be kept open for more than a few sec
ond* at a time, and I was obliged to
watch favorable moments for s distinct
view of hi* tormentor.
" I I*l a-vs the horse waa quite blind
in that eye, for it appeared as if all
the huuiors were confounded together,
aud that the w rm hail the whole orb to
range iu ; winch, however, not of
a diatneh r sufficient for the worm to ex
tend to its full length, a* far as 1 could
discover The hntn< r* of the eye were
b< ginning to grow opaque, like a chilled
jelly, aud soon afterward b-oatne alto
gether opaque, we are informed,"
Some of the most egperienmd horwe
tiien in Norristowu say that while small
worm* are occasionally found inside of
I tie eyehil they iu-v-r heard of oue )>eiug
found in the eve. Toe late Dr. Jouet,
of tins borongn, on-e extr*ctel a small
re-1 wortn from a horse's eye, bnt it had
suddenly entered from the outside. In
all case* when-the worm* have remained
any time the eves have become very
sore.— Sorrittoum llnrald.
Marshal Saxe and the Itlarksmitti.
Marshal Saxe, the most famous gen
eral of tho last oeutury, prior to the
appearauee of Frederick the Great, was
a man of remarkable bo lily strength, of
wldch he wns far prouder than even of
hia well-earned fume ft* a commander.
To astonish those around him by
straightening a horseshoe, or bending a
bar of iron, WHS hia greatest delight;
and for a time his superiority in this re
spect was an unquestioned as hia skill in
war. At length, when a brief iiruiiatioe
between the French and English armit a
enabled the marshal to invite some of
the British officers to dine with him, he
entertained his guests by untwisting the
links of a chain, ami challenging them to
do the like. The Eugliab general
modestly disclaimed any pretension to
rivul his excellency's strength, lint added
that there was a Flemish blacksmith iu
one of the adjacent villages who might
perhaps tie capable of doing so. Saxe,
kindling np at the bare thought of any
man presuming to !* as strong as bini
self, eagerly inquired where this athlete
was to be met with, and riding thither
next morning with several of his officers,
bade the smith bring oot one of his tiest
horse-shoes The man obeyed, tint Hale
broke it with one wreDcli of his powerful
hands, ami treated a second an-! a thinl
in like manner. " This is but poor
gear of yours, my friend," said lie; "it
won't stand wear. However, I suppose
it must be paid for." So spenkit g, ho
threw him u French crown. The smith
took it between bis finger and thumb,
aud cracked in two like a wafer. The
marshal produced a second and athird,
which shared the same fate. " Thia is
but poor money of yours, mein herr,"
said the smith, griumug; "it wron't
stand wear. However, 1 suppose the
cracked money must pay for the broken
horse-shoea." The officers could not re
strain their laughter, and Saxe, although
aomewhat mortified at having met his
match, at last (bowed his appreciation
of tbe smith'a performance by enliating
him as farrier to the headquarters staff.
Charles Lamb vs. a Dog.
Charles Lamb's enjoyment of a long
ramble, and hia (usually; excellent pow
ers of walking, are here deuoted. He
was so proud of bis pedestrian feats and
indefatigsbility that he onoe told the
Cowden Clarkes a story of a dog pos
sensed by a pertinacious determination
to follow him day by dav when he went
forth to wander in the Eu field lanes and
fields ; nntil nueudnrably teased by the
pertinacity of thia obtrusive animal, he
determined to get rid of him by fairly
tiring him out f Bo he took him a eir
ouit of many miles, including several of
the loveliest spots round Enfield, com
ing at last to a by-road with an intermi
nable vista of np-bill distance, where
the dog turned tail, gave the matter np
and lay down beneath a hedge panting,
exhausted, thoroughly worn out and
dead beat, while hia defeater walked
freshly home, smiling and triumphant.
She W ouhla'l I utlciktaud Itlui.
Doming down on the K. and I). M. II
K., tho other day, a benevolent old
gcnllt-uian, finding the car crowded, am
bled up to a woman who vu occupied
by a baby, and m return was occupying
two seats, one for herself and the infant
to sit ou, the other, with the back turn
cd, for a bandbox and a few of the inev
itable pticcU which a wouisn a!say*
carries, tiecause she always buys valises
t*HJ Ui boll) wbut hlitf tttilitr* U)
travel with, 'r travels with so uiauy
wiauts that she can t find valises rUungh
to hold thsm.
The bcnevoleut old geut amble,! up
to this woman, made bis la st Is.w, laid
his hand ou the set facitu; her, ami
asked it it was occupied. The woman's
hsk, as she glanced at the haudboX and
parcels, aai.l that it was, hut her voice
said " No," and the b. o. g., not Iwuig
a*vustouie>l t,j reading looks, slid into
the seat and be*nted pleasantly ou the
lakiy. Presently silence gr-w mouoti>
uou*. and the elderly individual, amid
the oiatter of the wheels ami the ratuo
ot the pans, spoke up ami said ;
" How old IB your baby, mum ?"
" I'lißuk you, sir, said the wotuau,
with a cold star>, •• I can hold ll un'
•elf."
The Itenevolent <dd gi-nt waa annoyed
ami slightly confused, but he recovered
himself and said :
"Just so I klon't doubt that. 1
waa inquiring about Uie utimlwr of
yeais that s passed over its little head "
" Its ears," shrieked the woman, as
she glare.! fiercely at the (>l,l man. " its
ears dotl't pass over its little head. They
are not as lrge as your*, you "
'' (i rue ions goo,iuese ! madam," said
the old getitleniau, wishing he might
slide out sud i>e uuobserveal. " I—you
misapprehend me; 1 siuiply uske,! the
yoting | s tson's age."
" Young pwrsou. Person, You. Ob
von old brute. Call my baby a jmrson
Oh. Where's the Conductor, where'a the
brskem..n, send for the engintwr, send
for—"
"Tlie deuce'" jeaculated the old
IUMI, break tug out tu a cold sweat and
for the smoking car. And his remark
soiiudekt •>■ i jieculiar that s >uiebow ever* -
Ixxly amtItaV— AVOAMA (bri*tifution.
A Klast>t'nraaee in Central Africa.
Mr. Stanley gives the following ac
count ot the manufacture of iron frotn
ore ou the lianas of the Lualaha river
in Central Africa, m his book " Through
the Dark Continent
At Wane Kirttmbu we found a large
native forge ami smithy, where there
*ere about a d2eu smiths ounilv at
work. The iron ore is very pure. Hero
were the brusd-hiadod spears of Hottth
cru I'tegga.and the equally broad knives,
of all sixes from the small waiat-kuife an
inch and a half in length to the heavy
itotnau sword-like cleaver. The bel
lows for the smelting furnace are four
IU nutnlier, double-band i<ai and manut-i
by four men, who. by a quick up-and
down motion, supply a powerful blast,
the muse of wnicii la heard uearly half
a mile from the scene. The furnace
consist* of tamped clay raised into a
mound ahont four feet nigh. A hollow
is then excavated in it, two feet in
diameter and two feet deep. From the
middle of the slope four apertures are
excavated into the liase of the furnace,
into which are fitted funnel-ahsprd
earthenware pipes to convey the tilasts
to the fire. At the base of the mound
a wide aperture for the hearth is excw
vrtted penetrating lielow the furnace.
The hearth receive* the dmsa and slag.
Close by st- *si pil*l up mst-*k* of
charcoal, with a couple of IS.TW ready to
supply the fuel ; and ationl two yards
off was a similar smithy, where the iron
was shaped into hammers, axes, war
h.vtcbew, sp-ars, knives, leglets, urmlets
and ir.m brails, etc. The art of the
blacksmith is a high standard in the-e
forests, considering the louelin* *■ of the
inhabitants. The jw-ople have much
truoitioual hire, aud it apiicar* from the
iinmuuity which they have eujotrd in
these dismal retreat*, that fmm oti
generation to another something has
'eeu communicated ami learned, allow
ing that even Uie jungle tnan ia a pro
gres*:re and improvable amuiah
Bold-, of Wisdom.
In every human countenance is cither
a history or a prophecy.
Tlie vigorous idea keeps warm though
wrappe I in few words.
The heart has it* reasons, which
i reason dors not apprehend.
Woul t'st thou know the true worth
of time? Employ one hour.
Happiness only begins when wishes
end, for then content comes.
The world is up hill when wo would
dc, down lull when we suffer.
There is real love just a there are
fluios's ; every ja-rson speaks of it, few
persons have M-rn it,
Wc should rnin more by letting the
world see what we are than by trying to
seem what we are not.
Among those who labor for fntnro
bapi ines*. he is greatest who lives well
tn his own household.
Give, if thou canst, an slms ; if not,
afford instead of that s sweet and gentle
word. R-thrrt /frrrii k.
luterrst speaks all sorts of tongues
and plays all sorts of characters ; even
that of disinterestedness.
" Dying in poverty," says a modern
| moralist, "is nothing; it is living in
poverty that iximee hard on a fellow."
That family is the best who obtain not
unjustly, keep not unfaithfully, and
Hpend in n way that produces no repent
ance.
The mind is nourished at aolioap rate.
Neither euld, nor heat, uor age itself can
! in'errupt this exercise. Give, therefore,
all you can to a possession winch ame
liorates even in its old age.
I Whatever cornea out of despair cannot
iear the title of valor, which ahonld tie
lifted np to aneh a height that holding
all tilings under itself it should be able
'to maintain its greatness even in the
midst of miseries.
Expressing the Message.
A writer to the Boaton Traveller tells
how the President's message was once,
before the days of railroads, "express
ed " from Providence to Boston—a dis
tance of forty-two miloa—in one hour
ami forty minutes.
It was done in this way. Poat-l>oya
were stationed along every mile. Tlie
message WHS tied aronnd a whip-stick;
the fleetest horses were selected, and the
beat riders. As the poat-bov saw the
messenger coming he started, got his
own homo well going, and as the mes
, sanger overtook him he rode alongside,
grasped the whip and urged hia own
horse to lna highest apeed; at the end of
the mile delivering to the next. And so
the process was repeated, the entire
forty-two miles.
The message in the case was carried
in about the time it takes tho regular
i mail to go on the train between tho two
cities.
" How quiet and lovely !'' remarked
the tourist. " Surely, this might he a
spot Ihe poet bad in mind when he said:
'oilenoe reigns.'" GnJde : "Ah! and
ye may say that same. And thunders,
too, yer honor
Ihe liumtnlng Bird
The appearunew til the humming bird
* iitu-rly unlike that ol auy other living
creature. We arc admiitng w>iu tmt
haul mi.l beautiful flower, alien there
suddenly appears lieforr lie it small, daik
object suspended, as it Were, between
(our abort, black threads, meeting each
other in a cross. For all iustaut II show#
in front at the flower; iigt.ui, another
instMiit. and, emitting a momentary flash
of eiueiahl sod sapphire li|{lit, It la van
ishing, lessrniug lu the distance aa it
shoot* away to a spook that the rye can
not take note of. lnde**t, the little
utoui of life com* n and g<*- with the
rabidity of a gust or a dragon fly. An
•l'lbtii li'lln an lllat the entail siae of the
ruby humming bird render* it unpossi
follow lU flight with the I'll- for
luoro limn fifty ynrd*. A person stand
mp m the garden will hear the humming
of their wiuga, and tee the little birda
themselves willou a few feet of hlui at
• >tio moment ; the ue*t they aill fie out
ol sight and hearing, (iould trlia u*
that die tinv creature lives ui the air,
like a gnat or a butterfly. It often
mouuta up the towering trees, and then
ahia*ia off hk* a little meteor at a right
• ogle. At other times it will weutfy
bttar. among the fluwera upon the
ground. 'flie neit moment it i hol
ering over a diminutive weed, and thru
tt ta aeen at a distance ul forty yarda,
whither it haa vanished with the quick
ness of thought. Prof. Wallace ha* de
vot**l a considerable period to miuute
study of the halitta of tiie humming bird,
and haa come to the ooiieluaion that it
ta A tropical awift, or awallow, nnsiifle)
in a long coarse of many generations
from ita original ancestor, but retaining
its old characteristics of an essentially
insect feeder, ft i* trne that down to
the time c>f ltuffon it was believed that
the humming bird lived solely ott the
nectar if flowers, bnt since then it hss
been ascertained beyond 11 |Mwatbility
of doubt that it feeds largely, and in
some cases wholly, on insects. The
birds hsve lieen s*-en in winter picking
■ lea,! flies oat of the webs of spidera.
Hnllerfc, in ftfetteo, and Watert* 'ii, iu
Newtiainea, saw them oatch small bat
ter flea, and found their stomacha filled
with insects Those who have watched
their fiabtts have ol served them sitting
like fly catchers on a twig, datting off
and returning. Mr. tioas, one of onr
msit accnmpliahiai naturalist*, tells us
thst all the hamming birds have, more
or less, s habit when in flight ol pausing
and quickly taming in the air. " Tliat
tlie object of these quick turns," he
adds, "is the captnrc of insert* I am
stiro, haviug watched one thus engaged
pretty cliwa- pi me. I observed it oare
ially, and distinctly saw the minute
flics which it pursued and caught, aud
heard repeatedly the Knapping .if it*
beak. My presence scarcely disturbed
it, ll at ail.' Moreover, is seems that
however loug may In* the bill ot the
adult humming bird, the young bird haa
* little, short, bruad, triangular bill,
like a swift. It is evident, in short,
that the swdt is, to use Mr. Wallace's
words, a pure acnai insect tinnier, and
that its short, broad bill ami wi.ic gape
are essential to lis mode of life. The
bumming birds, on the other hanJ, si
fl 'ral insect hunters. They seek then
prey among the gorgeous rnaasew of
creepers thst hang from hough to la ugh
u the track less infest* of the tropica.
Thry ilart in and out between bud at d
leaf, between blossom and stalk, as the
dragon fly fl.te among the sedge and hub
rush. But the Action that they subsist
on honey and nectar alone must be tsui
isbcd, like other pn rty fables, to the
regiuu of myth. The htimanng bird is
as ravet>.His a creature in its way as the
robin. No doubt * robin in winter,
when the ground is hanl with fr.at, will
not despise bread crnmbs ; bnt his real
delight is in S caterpillar, or a fat rarth
worm, or a little plump slug. Simd via
the eiiju.nHe, dainty humming lord • a
canuveroa* brmg — London Tt hgraph.
at ib- I'art* Fxpesii tun.
The ditph; of glaw*re in the ex
position (rr leu a corr. sj* tident) can
only IH- dcacribed as bring alm< >t super
b iinau. Hnch a wonderful crystal el
hthit has n vef before liern MTD. Tie
delicate wort mansh-p and artistic t*t
•Down ID their decoration AUD form* hs
tieru greatly advanced :n beauty—jf mob
• thing were possible—by a ne pin
ce--, by which they are ma te to reflect
tne oulore of tbe raintmw— this, too, by
••i*reg.rdiug the pr.untile* by which the
flat :ic of a pru>m or a precious stone is
made to reflect tlione co' irn. In these
Bpwtmens tf brilliant glassware showing
prismatic color*, thefa is rn a>t< ration
of form for the pnrpoae of prouqe-ing
that effect Hat there in the maguiti
cent t< tuple made entirely out of cut
glass. which is realty a thing of lieauty—
one npoti which the eye I<>V* ty rent.
Tt< height of tbi* interesting |>ecitnen
of crystal architecture i* about sixte. n
f<at. Tao. dome itself in flee feet ui
height and eight feet iu diameter, aup
ported by fluted g)ns column*, nine
inchiw in diameter and ten feet in height,
witb carved cajei and |destaU, fas! ion
cd like elaboratelv-flnielicd Grecian
marble colimiua. Tina temple is sur
rounded by a glass fmea eighteen feet
in diameter and thirty inches in height,
composed of glas pillars on heavy gl*s
pedes tela or base#. aiipported by aix
glass posts, each thirty-two niches high
twelve iuchea square, and surmounted
by a richly shaped gins* ewe. The
beauty of thin temple cannot lie de
scribed— it will hare to be left to the
vieid imagination to obtain a idea of it*
effect.
In the British department there were
exhibited three glass va*ca, with black
background and exquisitely raised white
figures. t>eautifnl beyond description.
The prices of them respectively were
so* 10, £ 1,'200 and $12,500. Iu the French
department were immense plate glasses,
over half an inch thick, thirty feet wide
and twenty five feet high, so clear that
one ta apt to walk through them if not
warned.
\n Authentic Sea-Serpent Slcry,
A correspondent tells the following
sea-serpent story in the Boston 7Van
ncript: In IH6I I was on the voyage
from India to New York, ami in the
South Atlantic, the ship beiug t>eoalmed,
wo saw a sea-serpent lyiug apparently
asleep on the water aomething more than
a mile away. Tt was some thirty feet
Ion?, with numerous curves or humps
rising oat of the water, and its large liend
undsniHiie slightly raised. Its motion
was only what was cansed by the slight
swell. The water was perfectly smooth
but for the swell, and we eonld see the
whole form and length of the monster
with perfect distinctness.
If the ship had heeu making any head
way we should havebrough home a well
defined and authenticated story of the
sea-serpent, for all hands saw it Being
calm we lowered a boat sod pulled for
it, qnite up to it in fact, to find-—a
monstrous piece of kelp, two rods or
more in length, tapering to the end, t
least five inches in diameter at the
thickest, and with something, eitlnr
haves or roots, which made, at. the dis
tance we first saw it, an exoellent heml
and mane. We cut a seetiou from tl e
beast, which was about five or six inches
in diameter as well as I can remember,
and more than an inch thick, being hol
low like a hamhoo. As I said, at the
distance of a mile it was as nice a speci
men of the sea-serpent as any man ever
saw.
TKKMW: &UJ.OO a Year, in iVdvance.
TIMELY TO MOW
A large number oi oouutcrfeit UuitaJ
States tr*d dollars are tu circulaUau m
New York.
Dr. H'odgett, a nnsaionary in China,
estimates the unmtwrof neat ha by famine
iu North China at 10 fUU.UIH).
The prise for the beet bale of cotton
exhibited ut Paris has Iteeu awardetl to
Memphis, Tenn. The same bale receiv
ed a grand testimonial aa being the beat
ever raised tn the w rid.
Christopher C dutubus has not al'o
get hi < Uen forgoin n. Hsu Frauciaco,
Han J s and idtier Psnfia cities recent
ly celebrated the dovth atiuiversary of
the discovery of America.
HaDtanta, the note) Kiowa chief who
was sent to the Texas penitentiary about
1871, found ho* continoHJ* nt unenilurable
aud. after tailing to cut himself so that
he should hhed to death, recently threw
himself fiom the thirl-story porch of
th>- hospital utki accomolishvd hia pur
pose.
At Jamaica, L 1., a man sn<>t a quail
iu nolatiou of the gntne law. Hia netgh*
b>rw threatened to inform the authori
ties, but he got the start of them by go
ing before a magistrate and himaeif
ioklging information againat himaeif. He
was fined ten dollars, which he paid. He
then drinaiiiied half the fine for giving
the iu formation, and five dollara waa re
turned to bun.
At the Ophir mining shaft in Nevada,
two strrauis of water of considerable aise
(about such as would flow through an
inch pipe) are turned in near the top
and allowed to fall to the h •th-ta, a dia
tance of over l feet. This shower
of falling water uot wily greatly ouola
the air, but also fotoea it out into the
1 fit 10 level and adjacent portiona of the
mine.
Hwmdlcrw have no heart*. Just as
men have tieen found in this country
mean enough to rob the yellow fever
sufferer*, so in England a number of
rascals have bceu making money be beg
ging for subscriptions for the relief of
the women aud children made widows
and orphans by the Princess Alice dis
aster. It is consoling to know that
several of tbem who were canght receiv
ed sentences which astonished tbem.
Postal carJa give rise to peculiar
troubles. A H -cheater lumber dewier
mailed a card to a discharged clerk, ac
cusing him of swindling, and the clerk
ha* obtained a verdict of damage*,
based on the publicity of the charge •
while passing through the mails. A
similar case ta ou trial in Pittsburgh,
the plaintiff being a sewing machine
agent, to whom ins employer aldrreaed
an accusation of improperly retaining i
money. An Omaba c'< rgyman pabhah- ,
e a card complaining thai he frequently
receive# *dvrtismeita of wine printed
on postal cards, and, aa he ta a total ab
stainer from strong drink, the imprra-1
sion might Is# wrongfully created that
he ia a buyer of the wine. A Boston
landlady sends bills on postal cards to
former boarder*, accompanied by ur
gent request# for payment. One of the
recipient* began a suit against her for ;
libel, but withdrew it, but lawyer advis
ing him that, as the communication waa
a simple recusal to pay a just debt, be
had no legal grievance. A Kansas City
girl jilted her lover, and be retaliated by <
writing her amorous letters on postal
cards. She did not invoke the law, but
put-* rawhide in her pocket, lay in wait
tor her annoyer, and whipped nim.
He Had His NaqHdain.
An elderly man wearing blue jeans,
spectacle* "nd a punted expression, J
M-od ou the comer of Fourth and Olive
Too-day afternoon for nearly an hour,
gaging around abstractedly. Finally be
a gentleman who was jassiog
and inquired:
"&<ranger, who am I; or, rather,
wh*r- am 1 ?"
" Von are on Fourth street. ''
•• | had my suspicion*. This isnt the
right plsce. Tm *ee, I'm a stranger
in the city—never waa in St. Louis be
fore. "
And he atartel off. Haying he hail
promised to meet a man on Fivrtenth
nt Olive—"a splendid chap."
• L.K>k bere,'' amd the gentleman,
••do you know tbe man well?"
•' Jut met him this morning— not in
timately acquainted. Ton but he'
one of* the niceat fellow* I everaaw."
And he trudged away.
A'>iit six o'clock in the evening the
gentleman happened to ran serosa lm
a(iortarlcd friend again and inquired
whether or not he had found hia new
acquaintance, whereupon tho old fellow
iaiM-d h'a glasses alowly and remarked:
'• Stranger, I hare my suspicion. J
lent thia man twenty-dive dollars this
morning, and he promised to meet me
on Fourteenth ami Olire at Are o'clock
thia afternoon and return the money,
but he wasn't there, and the worst of it
is, he is a minister of the gospel, at least
he told me ao, and bA hau a Bible.
Good evidence, hey T"
" Well, my friend, yom'll nerer get
yonr money, You're been swindled by
a shrpe.r."
" Think ao? I're had my suspicions.
Fact is, however, I don't care ao much
about losing the money *e meeting the
old woman—ahe'a np "there in a board
lflg-bonse," pointing over hia ahonlder
with lua thumb. *"1 tell you, abe'a a
monaer and will find it out. Then
won't there be a mnsa. thongh ? I hare
my suspicions."—A*. Ixtui* Rrjmblican.
•'The Chance af the Ferk."
In no towns in the w< rid, perhaps,
except those of China, is the value of
little thing* better understood than in
Varis, ami particularly in that essential
ly Parisian branch of industry which
caters for the hungry man. Even in the
lowest quarters of Paris people must
dine, jnat as they must in the boule
vards and the Palais Royal; but the
modes of dining are ao different, that
thev might l>elong to two different
worlds. The expensive dinner has often
been described, and in these day* of
quick traveling, when Paris is only
eight honrs from London, dining there
is as familiar as dining in London ; bat
few people have ever penetrated into the
nooks and corners where customers
measure their appetites by centimes,
and very freqneutly can only gratify
them in on unpleasantly intermittent
manner.
In these establishments, plates of
meat can be had for two sous (a penny),
and one of vegetables for a half-penny,
while some of the meats combine with
the chanoe of getting something good to
eat, the thrilling possibility of getting
nothing. This is playfully called fhaz
ard dr. la fourcKttc (the chance of the
fork), and onuits in the plater taking
one shot for his money with a two
proDged fork into a seething caldron,
and bringing np whatever he is able to
stick the fork into. An old hand often
anoceed* in landing a succulent frag
ment of something nuknon, but a qov.
ice finds the coveted morsel evades the
prong, and leaves him despondent and
dinntrlesb.
>'UMBER 40.
A IhoUit.
Tb native dentist* of* tli* Mercs*
cbarlutaur, uJ prartioe M <*thi
cur rail*. Tbey uiawrt artificial 'roth oi
the wt kmr, ohiob are l*Bt in plac*
by oopper-eire wrappings or fastening*
to the adjacent tortfc, OM ebargs about
three root* prr tooth for the operation.
Teeth are eitreaUd by a boi*
prooret which the Jrntil impost*"*" culli
"ounitif up." The metlftl of extract
ing i* tbi* : The dmtiet applies "bin
powder, represented to bo the anlt a*
ireeted fruta Uta ••eat of tba bdrao. D<
Kaeliack fwnnd Una wbita p-.wdc-r to b.
nothing mora or lor* than arsenic, whir*
cause* tba gtim to aloagb, when tL
tooth it easily removed by the tgws*d
finger*. Bat the Chiasm method 0
c uring tba lootbaob* oaa obit puxxlr.
bin) moat, ami longest defied detection
Tba operation, it tbcmld have ban
stated, are all |*rfonned in a U tuple en
is the *|erc is frrmt onder * large un
bielia, Ibe idea being tbat rvtogwm*
oeramuuy ta in auzne way ciaiueeted wit!
hem. Toothache i* cause! by a maggn
wbeh geta into tba tooth aoiOf how 01
< tber whila tba patient ia asleep, 01
while be ia laughing immoderately. I'
du* be removed alive ur tba patient
will go ""<1 He i* therefore plaeed <*
• M iit and hi* bead thrown l eek. Tb
dentist insert* a long pair of forceps,
and a'ter fumbling arnond far a u*
aeoueds. product* botwean tba nipp*r
a liUle black maggot—tbe <-eue of the
whole trouble. Dr. Entlirt witneMed
tbi* or *• rati on rejawtedly. bat it wm
only after obtaining *arn-ptiooapoe*e
• ioa of tbe forerp* that ha discovered
tbe trick. He found tbat one arm of fbr
iorrepa only wax of iron ; tba ckber war
of tiamtino, painted to reeemble tbe
other. In the hollow of tbe bamboo
were found a number of little black
tnaggoU, probably obtained (nan decay
d vegetable* or decomposing matter.
When necessary to do service, t La opera
tor aimply aqneecod tbe tiamboo above
and the maggot was ejected from tba
small end of tbe instrument to tbe
mouth, and then adroitly taken between
tbe nippera and bold up trinmphaotly
before the gaze of tba Mtonnbad and
grateful patient. Dr. Emtlark could
never *atu>fy himself on tba point of the
patient's relief. Tbe operation* be eit
ueenad were diapatcbed with a*fc>ai*hing
rapid)tv and the patients bnrrird away,
a* tbat part of tbe performance waa es
sential to the ruecea* of the operation.
•• Porterage" asd " latobafe."
An officer detached no spe
cial duty, and allowed bo charge lua ex
penaes in tfce war office, duly sent there
a Cbeotoraiidum of the different noma he
lia<l disbursed. Among these we* an
tt.*m of rroe ahtihng paid to a {drier who
bad helped to eerty bia luggage. This
item the offieer entered aa "porter.'
Shortly afterward he r-oeived an <tteial
letter from tbe war i flit* in which hie
attention waa called to this " rattraonlf
narv charge." Capta-o —— was re
minded ttiat tbe secretary of war waa
not dtapoeed to sanction the ooat of bia
beer bring defrayed out of the public
, man- re, and that in ant case, eren in
hot weather, a whole shilling far porter
waa decidedly exeeesive. My friend waa
ranch tickled'. He dispatched a formal
reply iu which be elaborately explained
that "porter" did not represent the
liquor that he had iK>t;retl down hie
throat, hut the man who had carried bia
luggrgt. Thia brought a enrt reply from
Pali Mall direct ngcaptain to enter
auch charge*, uoi aa " potter,** but as
••porterage." The gallant < rffieer in
question, a little amused and perhaps a
'little a-inoyod at thia rtdicnhma red
tapeistn. took tbe warning to Iteert A
few weeks later, in makuag up the ac
count of bia disbursement*, be had oo
oaainn to charge la 6d. for tbe hire of e
rah. Mindlul of the mat, he argnrd to
himeeit that if "porter" in war oflaee
English became trasaauegricd into
• porterage," "cab," of ounree, mnat
undergo the same development, and be
meekly jotted down in hie modret
schedule eighteen pence, in what be
anppnaed to be tbe orthodox manner.
By tbe next poet be received a trvrneu
ik.ua fooleoap epistle, rad-guantly desir
ing to know why captain bad pie
anmed to charge eighteen pence fo* •
" cabbage? Ixfftrm ffnrnet.
The Rural ag of laserts.
The old natnrmbet* beiieied that the
hn.ng oi insects was ratmed ao!e!r by
the vibration* wf the w isg, but tb>a
opinion ru abandoned when Eeae.aar
show oil tha' a blow-fl; conGrneeto boas
after its wing* are eat off Aeeording to
M. J oil see t tie Heliesme, who baa Nm-l
invcMigating the subject, meat* which
buu emit two sounds, a grave one whea
they fly, uud a alrnrp one when they
alight." The grave sound alwsy* socom-
Fanirs the greal vibrations of Hie wings.
It commences an aoan as the wings be
gin to move, and if the wing* foe cut off
it disappear* entirely. The sharp aoard
ia never, ou the contrary, produced dar
ing flight; it is only ohsorved apart
(rem the great vibrations of the wings
when the insect alights, or when it is
held so us to hinder iU ainvemi-nt, and
in that ease the wiug is MHU to be ani
mated by a rapid trembling. It is also
produced when (be wings are entirely
taken away. This sharp sound is due tin
the vibrations of the tborak. The form
of the thorax eiiaugee with each move
ment of the wing under the influence of
the contraction of the thorax mnseles.
The muscular ma*e intended lor flight
being powrtfnl, this vibratory move
ment of the thorns is very int'eusei, aa
may be proved by holding a bumble-bee
between the tlugorK And aa the vibra
tions are repeated two or three hundred
times per second, they'give rise to a
mnsioal sound, which is the sharp note,
iln feet the air wbinh MI rewinds the
thorax ia set in vibration by that direct
ly, and without the wing taking put
in it.
Oesdwo d.
Dead wood now has a population of
about 4,0(10. and the commercial cen
ter of the Black Hilla region. It has
rude theaters, dance houses, gambling
saloons, and uncounted barrooms ; jet
a recent visitor savs there is far less
ruffianism than might fairly be expected
in a new mining place. There are
banks, chnrchea, a school-bouse, a news
paper, and good hotels. Many lawyers
get s good income ont of the extensive
litigation over the title to mines. Dead
wood ia in an irregular gulch, has al
, ready outgrown ita space, and bogins to
climb the precipitins aides of the hills
by which it ia inclosed. White cot
tages, approached bv winding paths and
steps, stand hundreds of feet nbove the
level of the town. Under Deadvood
proper there is another city—the city
of the miners. Openings to the tunnels
and shafts are reen at various places
throughout the upper town. In the
tnnnels and shafts the plaoer miner digs
out the yellow earth, an<! sluices it for
the crumbs of gold that, during the king
ages, have been slowly escaping from
the quarts lodes in the hills. But capi
talists bsve taken hold of the mining
bnainess of the Blaak Hills, an 1 many
quants mills of the best class are run
ning. The truth about the yield of gold
is hard to find out, because the owners
of ricb mines seek to depreciate values,
and the owoers of worthless mines have
a contrary intention.
A chap should never kiss his girl at
the mountains because mountains peak.
IVPij f (•< M*rw,
OMIW to m fbetlarf of wags.
And i iiialaa the WtM with hi* rot** i
H* |w> aft day to M ***
To-morrow be lw*m "• toola
At Ant h* mad* u*ught hot to-day.
With it* Joy*, tt* WMia—x, ami "*j
Th*o to kp 00 geed U*r* wtth th* wurld.
0* proodßM) be' 4 mM a to-toorrew.
Th* til* refwmd milk* WTO*.
Pot their hand* in thsir po**A* and
SoUevlag th* pronil** of Tim*
Wooid t moat r*hgi<m*ly k*pt.
TWy nrwr nsssaivad that th* roge*
■ad prmalmd tomorrow to too.
Bo quietly want to decay,
Leaving *n to-day'* wort to be dans.
At U*t they wah* *p tat to Sod
To-morrow M mally o myth.
And thought what they do, wb*n too ioto,
If th*y had the tone to do wtth.
Tboy preyed to old TUM to return.
Tom merely the *Mtt>c * breath
For ttioy Itoond, ** b* leagted and tow on,
i Thto umimwtow om waOuag hot death.
Item* of fatofwet.
Alary girl moat ba told to get up and
J oaf .
Tba early chestnut -eater catches tba
worm
In playing a* chary young women don't
aind the heaa.
One-foarth of tba human rare die
'ore firs yaara of age.
When amen •• breaks " a borae, what
IOM he do with the pieoesf
pnaaume too much butter ;
to aay * Mary Wagar-rbr.
Venice ia overrun With blind men, al
bougb *be ia miatreaa at the aea.
The press of Clreat Britain eonaiata of
2,750 newapapara and magazines.
Tba first camp-meetisg ia tba Dnitod
dtatea was bald in Kentucky in 1709.
A Kentucky woman baa married a
Mr. C*Uc% Our only hope ia tbat ha
will wash. . ,
Mr. baa married Miss Howe oat
n Wisconsin. They wme prenoaaly
oetroagbed.
Throughout tbe entire world tba aver
se oooaotnpMou of eoal is fiOO pounds
to each parson.
Boxtoo baa 40.000 dwelling*. 115
hotels, 3.000 a'orea, aad 4,500 miaeel
.*naoua builaing*.
Kcxt spring an English erpedition
will start for tbe tboruogb ciptorauon
1 if tba vallay of tba Euphrates
Tbeaa iMtm* pejdormera are daapc-r
--1 ate peraoea. Tbev am booad to maka
a living if they bawe to awing for it.
It Mttmated that aonnaiJy in tba
c Ited Btatea 7.000 pemwa are killed
nd 6.000 are wounded wtth eoal otL
A bee can draw twenty tunc* tbe
weight of its body; • specie* of beetle
can drew forty-two tew ita own weight.
In good society we are required to do
obhging things to cam another; in gen
teel aociety we are only required to aey
them.
Oa reaaoo why we aoo*mpU*h ao lit
tle in this world ia because so much
time ia lost hunting up cottar button* of
a mottling.
So wonder Proctor naked, "la the
moon dead!" It tehee no aere of its
health. It never gets up till evening,
, and then knock* around all night
Edison bar taken out ISO patent*, bat
only twenty are considered by him to be
of much importance. Tbe rest were
obtained to give edited security to them.
It require* a great deal of badnaa*
and • great deal of oantton to make e
gnat foctaue, and when you have got it
it requires tea times aa much to keep it.
The Australian aborigine* are said to
have discovered a sew stimulant which
it-miJed " pttobenoe." It is smoked,
- hewed, and applied aa a piaster behind
tbe ear and has a very exhilarating
sffeet
At a recent sitting of a medical ©on
grewe in Puts, Italv, one at tbe doctors
present, Pnrim, committed suieide im
racdiatelw after the subject *• Suicide "
had been elaborately dieen ssed by tbe
body.
Mala goosip; "He aa liberal to a
fault," said Smith, speaking of e well
known eitisen of Tixgiaia City. " It
tbe only thing to which be as liberal,"
said Brown. " Axd then the fault must
be bia own," remarked Jones.
" Why," a ska an eminent professor of
linpab-tie science, "do not tbe 'owcr
animal* *peuk?" We never gave tbe
subject very close thought, but we sup
post- it is to avoid being celled or to
make addresses of welcome and after
dinner speeches.
Concentrated fores is what aeecm
pitches wonder* A little green apple,
aot so big see base ball, will doable a
hoy fourteen year* old tap so close and
ught that it will take e mustard piaster
aa big as a watermelon three hour* to
straighten him out.
WAST* PBWMI or Soar—Cut the
pi&M arte iwil bits, and sorer then
with water. Place them upon the range,
where they will gradually dissolve mtc
ajelly-lihe p*te ; add a little perfume.
Wtieu urn oth and ere®, poor into a
square aided pan, aadl when eokl cot into
The Bosnian papers have lately con
tain** porta about a band of robbers
stash has appeared ia the district of
Paulotok, in southern Russia, and has
-pinad terror through all the heighbor
■ng region. It ie said to ba over HOO
• rung. The osptain ie iwpocted to be
a peasant woman of singular beauty,
who was previously counseled with a
.rang of forgers of rouble-notes. The
Russian government ia ao deairon* of
procuring the arrest of this female chie
that it has ant a price of £11,250 upon
her heed. *
The big picture of the Berlin congress,
bv Director Werner, painted to the or
der of the citv of Berlin, ia nnder way.
The artist look separate sketches in
wster color of all the members of the
congress, and that of Lord Bsaoousfield
ia among the best. In the picture he is
to be represented standing ad the upper
end of the congress table, leaning over
the chair of Prince Uoikebakoff, anil
laughing in a friendly way with that
,Mmty. Prince Bismarck stand*
firmly planted beside them, ami Counts
Andraasy and Bolumvaloff are depicted
advancing to shake hands. The pic
ture promises to be of interest and ex
cellence.
Pear Celebrated Tree*.
A correspondent of the Troy Timr*
thus describes four celebrated " big
trees" of California;
The "Father of the Forest" whose
huge form now lies prostrate upon the
ground, has a iliameter of thirty- seven
j feet, and measures 112 feet m eireuin
ferenoe at the base. It must have been
100 feet high when standing. We
. climbed np by a ladder on the mighty
trunk, and walked from the roots to
ward the top for 300 feet, then were
oompelled to oome down another ladder
because the tree had been broken in
two by falling. At the break we found
the giant sixteen feet in diameter.
Through the trunk of the fallen mon
arch, which is hollow, one can ride for
! seventy-five feet on hore-baek. A party
of ns walked side by side through the
inside of this tree, then wo all crawled
through a knot-hole.
The " Mother of the Forest," now
dead bnt still standing, is 327 feet bigh
(More than 100 feet higher than Banker
I hill monument.) This is the tallest
tree on the continent Some years
since the bark was stripped from this
tree, for a distance of 116 feet from the
ground, and carried to England. Tour
correspondent sew it in the Jjondon
crystal palace, ia 1867. , \ .
One of the treea of thia prove (the
Calaveras) is called the " Old Bachelor."
He is sixty feet in circn inference, and
looks, like some other old bachelors,
rather forlorn. Another ia: eet'ed the
"Old Maid,"and aba ia fnll wxty feet
around the ai*h The Old Bachelor
and Old Maid are quite a distance apai t
(tbay generally are, jou know,) Tba
Buohelor ia still standing; but a few
yean ago the Old Maid fall, and I must
i tell of it, ahe fell right towarcHbe Old
! Bachelor.