Earth* Best Prtenve-lit eyes. And murmur*. •• It were perfect bit** To gain the gift of hand like thia.' Wis pan.** then a* if in doubt , While still the clock again speak* out. AnJ murmur*, with iu cheerful Uk, lie quick ! be quick : Yet ones .gain we find them here , But this i* in the winter time ; The forms are bent, and on their hair Are frost* of age like winter'* rime. But still the eves look ou iu love, Beholding glories far above. Hi* arm again her foitu draw* nigh. " Ah I wife," he wo*. "* we soon nint Ge . )Vo\e strug*; led ou through world and weather. 11 od grant that we BUT die together ' The clock chim< in with doleful tick. Be quick! he quick ! Onoe more the window greet* the *un ; No form* now stand it* pane* beside. Their smoothly gliding day* are done. And there two cofiiii*, aide by aide, Enfold the fond and fa.lhful forum From summer'* rain* and winter's storm*. The pastor pray* with saddened sound. While weeping mourner* gather round. , " They loved each other well." he said. *• Nor will we pert them now. though dead." And ou each eudmed face the while There seemed to dawn a loving *Biilc. A* mourners trod with muffled sound And bore them to the burial ground. While overhead, with mournful click. The clock moaned out with tireless tick, Be quick ! be quick 1 —J. Edgar A Modern Romeo and Juliet* If yon hail gone with me into a cer tain chiuch in Btltowu on a certain Sauday, followed the highly respectable usher up the softly-carpeted aisle, set tle yourself comfortably in the corner of the proffered seat, and glance*! up at the organ and choir behind the lie v. Speecharn's desk, your attention would probably have been attracted, as WHS by an undeniably attractive snb- Ct. A girl in a dark gray dress and i, with a dash of color like the breast of a bird in the latter, and a charming poise and quick motion of the head to carry ont your thought. A slender, graceful girl, with warm red dimpled cheeks, full red lips that gave the chief expression to the face, and were con stantly changing that expression by corves and quivers, steady blue eyes and a strong forehead and chin. If, at the end of the first hymn, yon hadjbeen unable to tell what she had lay n singing about, it would not have been because you had not been watching her all the time from under cautions eye lids; and, after the reading, yon would probably have found yourself as I did, old bachelor that I am, wondering what the girl was thinking about First, she pulled off one neat little gray glove, rolled it into a ball and threw it into the book-rack in a very impetuous manner, and when the quiet little Mr. Speecbam gave out the hymn she glowered at him savagely, then shnt her lips tightly, making a straight scar let line thfct surely was not called out by the sentiment, " Blest be the tie that binds," etc. After the benediction bad been pro nounoed, and the people had been sufficiently awakened by a terrible blast from the organ to walk mechanically oat of the chilly ohnrrh into the bright sun shine outside, 1 saw my morning puzzle slip by Dr. Bpeecham, join a middle aged lady of the highly rei>ectable sort, and go oat with the crowd. As for me, I betook myself to a humdrum boarding house with a dim feeling of regret that I was no longer young. Now, all this is simply a prologue, as it were, te the little drama which I found out afterward, and started out in the beginning to tell you under the title which has, I believe, been need for a similar purpose already by some one. Having given the introduction in due order, the curtain will now rise on the first ant of th play. Picture to yourselves a Sunday after noon, slowly waning into evening; a large gothic house, with a great many porticoes, and ou one of them my puzzle Juliet, and the middle-aged lady, whom she addresses as aunt, sitting vix-a-vti. Juliet looks up now and thee iuto the elderly lady's face aa she speaks to her, but oftener, it must be confessed, glances dreamily beyond over the wide slope of lawn at the side of the bouse. Auntie Gray, impressively, " Now, Juliet, I am very snre yon would find j your feelinga changing toward Dr. , Bpeecham if you would only stop think ing of that wild harnm-searum Hal Lane." (" H'm," thinks the maiden, ) " it is a good thing you don't know who lam thinking too mnch of.") "It isn't he most violent love that lasts the longest, and, besides, it is dangerous to trust too mnch to the feeliDgs. The dear doctor is a good man, and he wonld re strain your sudden impulses and freaks." Juliet's lip curls suspiciously, but she | says nothing. Auntie' Gray resumes, " You do like him, don't you, Juliet ?" " Yes, anntie, I respect and like Mr. i Bpeecham, but that isn't loving; and I don't love him." A sudden vivid blush finishes the sen tence, for as she looks np she has the horror of seeing that reverend gentleman standing at the end of the porch, having oome over the lawn as usual to take tea rnd walk to church with them, after a custom of some years standing. The | instant she glances up, he makes a ges ture of silence, so much sterner than any Blie has ever seen him make before, that sbc is literally astonished into com plying. " There is no need of your blushing like that over a man that yon only like," drones on her aunt, in a state of sweet unconsciousness; but before she has finished speaking, the man who has un intentionally played eavesdropper has disappeared, Ho is late in coming to tea that night, bat when Juliet comes down from her room, in answer to the bell, she finds him chatting quite the same as usual, though she cannot help noticing that a change has oome over his countenance. There is a oertain young artist, Ilex Gant by name, only son of one of her aunt's intimate friends, who has for some time made his home with that worthy lady, and, thanks to his unfail ing fund of conversation, and the ease that belongs to a society man, tea passes off comfortably in spite of the abstrac tion of two, for the aunt is still sweetly serene. As the time for service draws sear, Juliet says: I think I,will not go FRED. KURTZ, Ktlitor and Proprietor. VOLUME XL out tin* ovouitig, my head achoa." Hut Mr*. Gray answer* quickly: "Why, my Rear, you forget your eolo." tibe can't quite lßxtarm and the expression of the tuiuistor'* face, he almost look* gratified at her suggest tou, but her aunt will uot hear to it, knowing the lioad aohe to be a subterfuge, *o she go,'* awav to get ready. When they leave the door, Hex, not in the least couipreheudiug her looks and gestures, off dutifully with Mr*. Gray on his arm, leaving Juliet as usual to Dr. Speeeham. Several times dur ing the walk she thinks she will iutrv>- duee the topic that is uopernmat ill both their uiiuda, but he guides the conversa tion so eaaily aud akillfully ou other subjects that * she has no opportunity, and, after all, what oau she say? In the sermon thst evening, notes are dis carded, and the *|>eaker preaches a ser mon straight from his heart thst electri fies and tenches as none of his rhetori cal, flowery discourses have ever done ; and, most of all does it touch a sober girl on the platform behind him, who is not at all the restless pustle that she was iu the morning. She makes np her nuud that she will speak to him about the matter on her way home; but, again the question suggests itself, what can ahe say, since she has already told him, without beiug asked, that *bc didn't love him. She is saved the trouble of answeriug, for, after the ser vice, the conversation is taken up as skillfully aud easily as before, aud cue or two Iwgiumugs 111 that direction are nipped in the hud, so that almost before she knows it, they hsve reached the gate, and he has bidden her a quiet good night and goue home, inst the same as usual. Jnliet walk* slowly np to the house with many and eoufiietiug thoughts,for, like manv another girl, she is at odds about some thing* of which she says little. She only stops a moment in the par lor to say, " Auntie, I guess 1 anil go right up to my room aul rest my head." Then she goes on np the broad stair case, through the long corridor and into her room, looks the door and sits dowu wearily in a chair to tluuk. She sets up an * imaginary self on a stool of re pentance in front of her and apostro phises it as follows : " Yon little goose ! why don't yon love that miniater ? He is a genuinely good mau, and there are mighty few of them." Then she falls into a reverie, but soou proceeds: " Yon ought to be ashamed to care any thing for Hex tirant ; yon know he don't care for you." Here the other self grows indignant,and speak-* up : " What of the evening you went boating, and i the walk from Ouble's hill, and " Hut ,at this juncture she becomes disgusted ' with both selves, and redely interrupts the dialogue by getting up and taking off her wrap and hat. I%eu she lights the gas and sits reso lutely down to rgad, but after reading one page over some six times without the least idea of what it means, she tosses ihe book into the farther corner .of the room, turns out the gas again, raises the low French window and steps ont npon the balcony. It has been a delightful afternoon, and she remem bers, as if it were a long time ago, the soft sunshine and swaying shadows; bnt toward dusk the air had grown oppressive, and now the moon is pnt ont by clouds that are gathering and scnrrv ing across the sky. She drt*>a wearilv down in a rustic chair, puts iier folded arms on the balustrade, and leaning her cheek upon them looks ont over the lawn and tbinks. The brisk breeze blows over her face, and lifts her hair, and she thinks in earnest now; of mauy an even ing boating, of walks, nnd talks, and, oh, of a thousand things ; aud under all, like the current that l>ears drifting rt>se leaves, flows the fear that this artist who has grown into all her life so closely will go ont into the world and forget her. The current of that fear grows strong er and swifter, until finally she finds that the breeae, grown to a gale, is moaning aronnu the oorner of the house and in throngh the open window behind her with a lonesome sonnd that she can not bear ; and aho rises impatiently and sbnts the window down and herseif ont with the night She has hardly done this when a familiar odor greets her senses, and, presto ! the scene changes, for the odor is unmistakably that of a agar. She stands perfectly motionless, and looks down in an opposite direction from where she has been looking, and there, pacing np and dowu the walk slowly, is her artist, with that masculine comforter between his lipa. There is an old saying about his satanic majesty, but she adapts it to the case in haud, as she thinks in her ignorance, and quotes to herself, "Think of angels and you hear the rustling of their wings." She hardly dares breathe as she watches this bright being, probably for fear of frightening him away. But he walks up and down without even a g+aucc at the balcony, and presently she breathes freer, but still she watches and he walks, and in the meantime the clouds are growing heavier. Presently she hears a low rnu. filing of thunder, and at the sam instant Rex tosses away bis aigar LU comes straight over to the balcony. Striking a tragical attitude, he lifts his face to her and sighs out: " 'Bright angel, thou art as glorious to this night, lieing o'er my head, a.s is a winged messenger of heaven'—but you had better open the window and go within, for there is a shower coming up and you'll get your wings wet. Besides, yon've been out too long already." "Thank you, sir; I will go in imme diately, sinoe you have wntched me so long as to grow tired of • " and she turned in a very dignified mannei to the window, quick as love always is to take offense at nothing, and secretly not a little vexed that he has been walking np and down there BO long and not* spoken before. But the unlucky windo closes with a spring, and is fast. One or two frantic efforts to lift it, and she stands stilL A low, amused laugh from below. "You don't mean to say the window is locked? Well, that is too good. Say you are sorry for being indignant at nothing, and I'll mn up aud let you in." "The door ia locked too," says the disconsolate Juliet; and this wicked man, straightway seeing the comical side of the affair, goes off into a long, low laugh. But he is stopped bv an other heavy roar of thunder, aud in a moment more he has thrown off biH hat and is climbing hand over haud up the wooded vine that grows against the side of the house, and twines over the bal cony. As he climbs he says, in a jerky way, not at all dramatic, " With love's light wings did I o'erpereh these walls," and getting over with a great • cramble, tears a very unromantic rent n his coat. But, as he stands beside her, all that is ludicrous dies out of his manner, and he takes both her hands in his own in that caressing way that she thinks, poor child, is peculiar to him, and looks into the drooping face. It is dangerous to stand on a balcony on a summer night alone with a girl that loves you. and that you love, un less yon mean to make ner aware of yonr feelings. Any resolves in the way of firmness are apt to melt into nothing, and float away ont of reach. " Juliet," he says, in a tone that is a little constrained, "are you going to marry the minister." Just a little whispered " No " for an- THE CENTRE REPORTER. swer, but it makes him happier than such a word i* apt to make a mail ou such au occasion. " Why uot ? " a litfW more hopefully. " Because, Hex, 1 don't love him." A sudden pressure of the hands that hold hers, and then Hex draws her, shrinking ami trembling with a rapture that is half jov, half pain, to his l>re*.*t, and savs words that are like a beuedio- , tiou to her. Few meu make love well, as regard* eloquence ; tuit word* that aio common place enough iu black and white can easily blossom into a marvel of leauty ou • a summer night with one who love* you devotedly to listen. The storm gathers faster, the thunder mutters louder, the wind shakes the trees, and Juliet II*M no idea how long these sounds last, when a great drop of rain falls ou their face tit could hardly fall between them). "That says I must let you in ; I hope I haven't kept you out U*> long al ready. " " 1 hope yon haven't," ahe answers demurely. He turns to the window, takes out his jack-knife, and shivers one of the panes, which are, fortunately for Mrs. Gray, of a fancifnl shape and rather small, reach es in to the spring and raises the win dow, ami they both step inside, just as the raiu begins to come down in torreuts. "Juliet," calls the cautious voice, j uot of the garrulous nurse, but of ber sunt, as they light the gas and ojieu the door. Hex slips an arm about her and they go down the hall, at*d, leaning over the railing, look down. Auntie Gray is one of those restless sort of people that are always prowling around the house in nervous dread if there is a storm in the night; and there she st aids in wrapper and slipper* with a night-laxup in her hand, calling softly to know if Juliet's windows are down, and if she thinks it will be a very severe storm. A sudden impulse comes to Hex ; he tightens his arm about Juliet, and draw* her down the stair*. When they stand in front of the astouishei woman he says coolly, not at all minding Juliet's burning cheeks: " May I have her for my wife, auntie ?" " Weil, "well I she cries, looking from one to the other in a dared way as if to find out what it all means, "if that don't beat all ! What a blind old fool I've been, to be sure. But Providence always doe* provide some way," setting her lamp down carefully, so as to hold up both hands, in her surprise. " Here's dear Dr. Speeeham asked me to marry him, and I wouldn't do it. l>ecauae 1 thought yon love*! him, and I knew, l*ing a man, he couldn't help learning to love you. There, there !* and she breaks off with a little sob that is half strangled by Juliet's arms about her neck. So the curtain falls on our little dramn. Let us hope this " love on a balcony " mav prove to be of the right sort that will last throngh life ; that none of them may ever take poison ; and that the stream that often has its rocks and shal lows, sharp curves and rapids, may in this case, :a Hpiteof the old adage, " run smooth." Mints for Advertiser*. "The architect of his own fortune" lias always been a heavy advertiser.— datridcn /W. It is a fact worthy of notice, that few who have learned how to advertise their business, ever give up the habit.— Yonkrra Oazi tt>. A sure mark of a successful store keeper is keepiug his windows clean aud his advertisement in the local paj>ers. — Seneca Fall* veille. Why is it that business men who never advertise always get rich, while those who believe in the efficacy of printers' ink—like A. T. Stewart, I)r. J. C Ayer and others—die pun perm.— Btdti'ford Miniature. To the retail merchant: " Honor and fame from no condition nn-; Act well your part, and then go advertise. Just so. Let all the ends thou aim'st at he I'D make the public buy tbeirgood* from thee." —JSmirn (ia&itr. If you can sell an overcoat far a dollar less than another tradesman ; or if your molasses is five ceuts a gallon cheaper than the other fellow's ; if you can sell your calicoes for a cent per yard less than another dealer, let the public know it by the medium of au advertisement, and "you will find that your business will not suffer.— Orlcana Rcjmltlican. "Times are too hard to advertise now; it don't pay," is the way some business men talk aud think. But then is just the time a business firm need to advertise. People at such times are on the lookout to sec where they can trade the cheapest and find what they want. If your "ad " is not there the inference is that the times were too hard for yon, and you went under. Don't put your "sign" nnder a bushel, if you want trade.— fit on Citizen. And while the subject of ada. is under confederation, the Seniiw I will add that there is no known medium in which the local merchant particularly can adver tise to such advantage as the local news paper. It is a sign-board, a show card, a handbill, a business card, a directory, all combined in one. An advertisement in the local paper, if the paper keeps up with the times, so that people read it, is brought to the eyes of all or nearly all of the very people whose trade is sought by the merchant doing business where the paper is published. People who go to a town to trade go there to take their newspapers. Considering the amonnt of publicity there is given, no other form of advertising is so cheap and so effective as newspaper advertising, if properly done; and if you don't know how to an advertisement yourself you can • .sily interest the publisher in your cause aud get him to write it for you.— Home Sentinel. Words of Wisdom. I envy no man that knows more tiian myself/but pity those who know less. What we have to do in this world is not to make our conditions, but to make the best of them. Whosoever is afraid of submitting any question to tin test of free dinensniun, is more in love with bis own opinion than with truth. Sincerity is an openness of heart; we And it in very few )>eoplo ; what we usu ally see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others. There are no accidents so unfortunate from which skilful men will not draw some advantage, nor so fortunate that ; foolish men will not turn them to their hurt. What men term friendship, is merely a partnership of reciprocal interests and an exchange of favors—in fact, it is but a trade in which self-love always expects i to gain something. However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her, either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her. There is a burden of care in getting nches, fear in keeping, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sor row in losing them, and a harden of ac count at last te be given up concerning them. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1878. POK THE FAIK HEX. Kahlnu >!*••. Hand-painted button* are used. Kwlhmumhl velvet ribbon ia aeeu. Htuooth hair ia favored by aome. Maralsut feathers are in demand. Bonnet string* are growing longer. Very glowing cnlora are adtuisaable. Whalebone friuge ia very much natal. AU.itinn bows npjiear ou all IsinuotM. Sleeves are uot so tight aa heretofore. polonaise* laced in the back are worn. Hatiu is more use-1 for dreaaea than ever. Ilouuet rtblioua are wider thau hereto fore. Morning dress** are very simply made. Ostrich feathers are leas uatxl than usual. Fur bonnets will appear later in the season. Slurring is extensively used on aatiu dreason. Silk and chenille cord ia much used in millinery. Black aatiu cloaks trimmed with fur are stylish. Tiny wing* lire uatxl with advantage ou bouueta. More gilt appears iu trimmiuga than ever before. Htripes in satins, ailks and velvet* are highly favored. The lixard is the pet reptile of the ladies thia season. The rage for garnet ia on the increase. It ia the color now. Broadcloth iu light color* ia used for little girls' dree***. Surplice-shaped neck* are seen ou many loose dresses. Slate-colored blue is a fashionable shade in dress goods. Loops and emis of narrow ribbon are still uatxl by mtxhatea. Princes** dresses are no longer fashionable for the street. The bell-slntped " Coraeyville " hat ia very popular and betx>miug. New earrings are in cube shapes, and all the new earrings are larger. Drossy fan* made of feathers are filled in with little butterfly bows, either of white or some delicate color, instead of flowers as heretofore. Bodices are made in the shape of a vest to open over a waistcoat of plain material, either woolen or silk the latter being the handsomest.. The " Jessie," lor little girls, :s a felt hat with jHiiuUxl crown and largo brim, with a trimming of satin ribbon aud a feather pompon. Parents can give their little daughters "Jessie" without offending them. A Vl l ull Orsisr'i Trl**M>*' A young lady student of Bhurtleff col lege nt Alton, 111., named Emma Bulk ier, recently carrhxl off the me>lal offenxl as u prize in the State iuter-oollegiste oratorical contest at ladwiion, against the combine-! opposition of Knox, Mon mouth, Champaigu, Illinois, Blooming ton and Mckendree colleges. When she returuixl home a grand parade waa arranged in her honor, the procession being headed by Miss Bulkier, in an open carnage, followed by the Bluff City baud, a wagon containing a bevy of voung ladies, and about '2OO students {tearing torches, banners and flags. The townsptxtple honored the procession with shower* of flower*, aud after the baud had serenaded the yonng lady's parents, the company marched to the houses of the president and professors, where speeches were made. The town was brilliantly illuminated in honor of the occasion. Til* < klnew* A novel and striking feature in con nection with the Chinese minister's entertainment iu Loudon was the new departure taken by his excellency from the established custom of lu* country, itr allowing hi* wife to lie present to do the honor* as hostess. What will his fellow countrymen in Chins say to such a concession to the foreigner, such a deviation from tbe social system ? The higher classes of Chinese, like true Orientals, keep their women strictly secluded from thevnlgar gaze. Woman's position in China is not an enviable one. She is looked down "i>on a* an inferior, is seldom educated, and is regarded more in the light of n appanage than as a helpmeet, counselor and friend. Even as early as her entrance upon life she receives a chilling welcome ; Chinese parents invariably desire sons, no mat tor how many children they may have, j —Hung Kong Pre**. •'Marriage by Capture." Among the Turkomans of Central Asia, who may fitly be styled the Oo manches of the East, the ancient and much-discussed usage of " marriage by capture " takes the form of a very aingu lar game, which : s univeraallv popular with the tribes of the lower Oxus. It is knowu by the curious appellation of " kok-bnri " (green wolf), a name which has never becu satisfactorily accounted for. The mode of playing is as follows : When a Turkoman belle finds herself embarrassed by a crowd of rival imitora, her father settles the matter by assem bling them all in a convenient place ou the open steppe. He then brings out hia daughter, arrayed in the pomp of Turkoman "fall dress," and sotting her npon a swift horse, places in her hand the carcass of a lamb or kid. well greased from head to tail, with *. cli she in stantly gallops away. Tho y-ang gen tlemen follow her at full upeed, aud en deavor to snatch the prize from her hands, any one who can succeed in doing ao being thereby entitled to oon aider himself "tho happy man." It sometimes happens, of course, that when tho cavalier who in the object of the young lady's secret preference comes within arm's length, she will hold tbe kid in such away that lie can easily wrest it from her ; but should a less favored suitor overtake her, she grasps it with all her strength, and the ill starred lover gets nothing but a good roll in tho sand for his pains. When all is over, the father regales tho whole company with a sumptuous feast of rice and mutton-suet, for which he after ward " sends in tho bill" to his future | son-in-law, who is often anything but Mattered by thiH expensive compliment. An excellent hint is given in the fol lowing item : Dr. Hall relates the cane of a man who was mired of hia bilious ness by going withont liia supper auil drinking freely of lemouado. The next morniug this patient aroae with a won derful aenae of reat and refreshment, and feeling aa though the blood hud been literally washed, cleansed and cooled by the lemonade and fast, Hia theory ia that food can be used aa a remedy for many disease* successfully. Aa an ex ample, he cures spitting of blood by use of salt; epilepsy, by watermelons ; kid ney affections, by celery; poison, by olive or sweet oil; eryaipelas, by pound ed cranberries applied to the part affect ed ; hydrophobia, by onions, etc. 80 the way to keep in good health is really | to know what to eat and to know wkat I medicines to take. Influence of Food. Midland Ponies. Fur north from Hoot land, ami bnt acl dom viaiUxl bv southern travelers, kf the Hhetlaud islands. From these rock hound, treeless islands oomo the Hhol la lul (Hiuioa that we no often see Hi tho circuit, or pulling little phaeton* pa tiently along. A pony in tho Hh ft land islands hit* often hard work to porforui. If a poor ponton is possessed of a pony, thou, indeed, ho feels rich. Now ou certain daya in the weok there are mar ket daya at lor wick. Home walk to th* town, aoiuo aail, ami othora come riding on their pomes. Juat lnaide of Ler wick ia a narrow path loadiug over tho hilla. 1 have often aeon, coming along thia narrow way, a long line of jKMiiea and women. And audi a curioua ap pearance they proaeut! The pouie* aeem only lega. They have no bridle, only a cord atiout the ueck, and each followa the one in trout. You can't make them go at the aide of one another. On either aide of each oue are two im meuao auddle-baga filled with | **at, or potatoea; on hia back are piled other good*, and even hia neck haa a cloth or other saddle-hag* strapped, so that aeeu from a abort distance it aeema just aa though the Iraga had lega, and poor pony aeema buried out of night. Hoiue timea, too, if there la room to keep seated, his intatreaa, with *h<eiug drowned in his own horse-trough. The civil court liefore which he made his com plaint handed Virtoireover to the conrt martinl. The judges laughed and let him off with two days' arrest. This was still less to Topinot's taste than the loss of his five franca. He vowed vengeauce, and aaaistod by two friends, captured Hajac one evening, stripped him nakxl, and after throwing his clothes into the ditch, tied him to one of tbe telegraph poles on the Pansy and Paris railroad. He remaiued there till midnight, when a brakeman from one of tho trains released him. M. Popinot haa aix months iu jail to reflect on how he will be able to pay hi* 500 franca fine. Hereafter Victoria Hajac will confine himself to the naked truth. A Hospitable Island. Captain Garth, of the steamer Ariel, in a recent voyage from Melbourne to Fiji, called at liord Howe island, on which lie found twontv-five inhabitants men, women and children, all told. The island is mountainous, of voloanic origin, bnt well wooded, about five miles long, and from a mile and a half to two mile* broad, four hundred mile* east of Syduoy. As the steamer approached the inland on the west side, with ensign flying, a l*at came off with two men in it, aud brought the vessel to au aucbor age. Hhortly afterward a bollock was seen in harness coming toward the beach, drawing n sledge loaded with fowls, oranges, banana*, etc., which the settlers brought off and gave to the cap tain, without making any charge or tak ing any payment. A blacksmith s shop was given up to the engineer to do what ever he required. Tho inhabitant* assisted in cuttiug wood and getting water for the vessel, and rendered every possible assistance. Captain Garth speaks very highly of their hospitality. An Army of Frogs. As J. B. Wall tras returning from Paicines, a short distance this side of Tros Pinos, ho mot a very formidable army of frogs. They were diminutive specimens of the genus reptile, measur ing about three-quarters of an inch in length, but their numbers made up for deflcieucy in site. They were agile lit tle fellows, of a brown color, marked with small green strij>ea, and seemed to l>e buckling down to business. Mr. Wall bail no idea of the extent of the frog belt, but they were mot with in countless myriads on the road for the distance of half a mile, and he could see them thicklyon each side of the road, hopping through the grass, apparently bent on the same destination ns those encountered on the highway.— J/ollitler \ (Vol.) Enterpriee. FAHV, GARDE* ARB HOt'MKHOI.D. KrUllaa. at PerlllM* la Hlark Hrer4lu|. lUrnyiud manure is but the hay, grain and root* fed to animal*, deprived of that p-rUou of their imbalance used to uiuke lb *h and bone, milk ami wool, with the wastes of the system a- ntract from them, nothing being allowed i for the liicmaaad value of the manure heap which in- derived from their eon numpUou. Mow with every cargo of ourn, oato, or tarley, ahipped abroad, we send out of the country, away fnaa our farms, an amouut of fertility equaling nearly half the entire proceed* of the grain, for • which we get no return ; and in oil cake, more fertility than its selling price would purchase. Where does this fer tility go to ? The grain and oil cake go to Europe, to make beef and mutton fc>r tin* great English and other markets, and the manure resulting from feeding it enrichee foreign noil. Indeed, it ia largely to the f ceiling of cattle andahecp for beef and mutton, that Ecglish farm | era owe the great fertility of their high ly productive lands. ' In the light of these facta, is it not I>etter for Southern farmers to convert tlieir refuse cotton seed into lioef and mutton, an J in selling the latter get OH much or more, than they now obtain for the former ? while stiil preserving to Miefr lauds the great amount of fertility winch is removed in the seed of the cot ton, and which they now give away! | f.ir the pnttMtut and increasing demand ,In Americau, uieat abroad, it is well for | our farmers. East. West, and Smth. to eonaider the feeding of gram for benf and mutton, aa a means of ready profit j in the sale of meat, and for retaining the fertility which they are now sending over the M in almost numberless car goes, Faruu-is who counot afford to or cannot conveniently raise grain for , stock food, should consider that in every ton of grain purchased and fed, a large jercentage ef its coat is retained iu the manure heap, perhaps saving the ex penditure of just so much money for i commercial fertilisers. With a proper selection of uininals, and with proper feeding and •'are, tlus bca-t. mutton and , jork ought at leost to |wy the ixietof fiMsl ud labor, leaving the re snttiug manure aa so much clear profit 'on the investment hi stock, buildings, 1 etc.— Amrrtran Affrirtiltmrirt. II nnarSold lllals. ToOuux FAINTER WAULS.—Use ox gall fiuiiL TO KJ-KJ' DOOM HINOKK riuut CKEAK INO. —Rub tliem with soap. To KEET MILK SWEET.—Put in a #p know better. Circulate the injunction, "pare thin the potato skin." To REMOVE INK. Tlio following methods are said to be infallible : "To extract fnk from cotton, silk and woolen goods, saturate the spots with spirits #f turpentine, sud let it remain several hours ; then rub it bat ween the hands. It will crumble away without injury to the - color or the texture of the article. To extract ink from linen, dip the stain ed part in liot tallow ; when cool, wash the garment in soapsuds, stid the ink will disappear." Heme Srntinel Brevities. Dry good*—t'odfiah. High schools—Seven-story aoodpmie*. Poor policy— One that is repudiated by the insurance company. "One-half of the world don't know how the other half lives," and what is more, it don't care. The attention of the public, which lias lieon oeutered on tlio boae ball bat ter all. summer, will now lie turned to the contemplation of pancake batter. When a uinu is hanging by his toes from tlio cornice of a high building, and expects momentarily to drop, nothing ao completely reassures and so thoroughly satisfies him ns the sndden disoovery that he is safely home in lied. " Do for gracious sake, waiter, take these nnt-eraekers over to that man," exolaim<eper men of 10-od like a witch aatnde : the gale. 1 know of uo place that af ford* a better field lor descriptive writ* , in thau tliaae very oil region*. Why the tire* you have here can't be beat— axoepUu', of course, beyond the tomb. When 1 hear of one of those ouiiflagrm tioua 1 juat ache to take my pen m hand aud describe it in my own graphic style." Grandfather closed hia eye*. swayed Ito and fro on his eaay chair, while hi* ) face glowed with enthnaiaaa. Ho seem ed to Ire in a transport of iojr. I " Bring forth my good gray quiil," he said, " aud let me {aunt the bornin' town." One of the children aatd he thought grandfather waa going to have a lit; I father said he waa ouly in the newspa per business, in hia imagination, at ■ salary of a thousand dollars a week, but would soon be all right. "'Tie night Fire! fire! fire I" aaid grandfather, rapidly tracing a sheet of nnagu ary paper with a gooao-qnill of i the mind. '' Fire I lire I firs ! and tha I affrighted wind* took ap the cry. Tiie fire fiend, with hia aword -jf flame, waa seen leapiu' from the back window of a hake-shop, breathin' smoke aud forked ' lightuin' from hi* nostril*. In an in stant the sleepiu' city waa out on the floor barkin' its shins on chairs and 1 things in a mad bunt after its panta loons. H rush 1 hark ! The fire fiend rushes on and on like s war-horae, leav j in' destruction in hia trail. Look ! he aeales the aide of yon grocery, even aa a kitchen-maid would eeale a fish, an' with hi* fiery, forked tongue, licks the paint offen the bmldin'. Hee ! like the hungry holocaust that he is, he ia liek iu' up the sign, 'Salt mackerel, baoon, flour, feed aa" provisions,' a* if he hadn't tasted a bite for a month. See him leap to the caves of my lady's bow er an gorge himself upon the ginger bread work of the cornice*. Now he ' hurls his body through the window* of yonder residence, ransacks the premi ses, and cscaiiea like a rocket through the roof. Ha turns somersaults from househg) to housetop, knock* over chimney-pot*, •huicos a Jig on the hot shingles, like the boy on the burain' deck, an' without as much aa ' look out' behind ' rains a shower of spark* npon the head* of the panie-stricken popu i lace. But see him now I He spit* npon hi* e&liouaod hands an' scoots up the liberty-pole like a cat up an appla tree. Up! up! up I Higher! higher! high er 1 Higher and yet higher! Hire a hall ! Higher than the price of butter, until now with one fiery foot he tiptoe* it upou the topnnwt tip, the while ha fling* hi* arm* of flame about him like * village lawyer making a Fourth of Jnly oration. Vow he places a thumb to hi* n<>se, an* with his extended fing er* describes a circle iu the face of the uisu in the moon, while be lap* his fork ed tongue about the American flag an' swallows it liafore a loyal people can i shoot him ou the'spot."—- Ou City Dcr nek. _____ Anion* the Penguin*. A gentleman who passed aome daya sketching in the Falkland islands had many oppiuhnnillsa of observing Urn penguin population j and ha declared them to be the most intelligent, impu dent aud inquisitive of the feathered tribe. He planted his eamn stool in the densest j>art of their " rookery," where they crowded about him, picked the but ton"* off and fraved tbe tail* of hie cod. I walked about his drawing materia!*, smi , altogether twhaved themselves as if he had been sent for their special entertain ment, Fear there was none, or, rather, it was all on the side of the man; for nothing but an occasional vigorous use of a walking-stick enabled him to main tain his ground and finish the beautiful series of water-color drawings which we had tbe pleasure afterward of examm . lag- The structure of these birds should Dot be passed by without a word of com ' rnent, so admirably adapted is it to their mode of life. The fore limbe—whxsh in ' moat other birds are wings— are flattened ■ out iuto a pair of broad swimming pad dle* covered with scales, enabling the ■ bird to follow its prey beneath the water 1 with s swiftness, grace and ease con trasting remarkably with its awkward , movements on land. The feet are broad and partially webbed, and tbe leg is modified In order to give stability to the body. Provision is made for loag-oon ' tinned diving by enlargement of the veins, which thus retain and act aa reaer -1 voirs for the vitiated blood until it can be renovated by breathing. Tbe bones 1 ' are filled with oily marrow, and the ' feathers are exceedingly compact and • well adapted to resist water. When 1 | molting, the penguin avoid* water, ami the feathers oome away in patches in i stead of BUigly ; the whole process re -1 sembling more nearly the shedding of a > snake's skin than the molting of a i bird. Fashion has not spared the pen guin I At oue time ita slun was is great > request for ladies" muffs, and is still, we i j liebeve, extensively oaed for many pur- I poses of ornamentation. Chamber*' f Journal. I An Eccentric Wager. The eccentric individual who a short time since undertook, for a wager of one thousand francs, to travel from Romon ' an tin to Paris on foot, escorted by fifty [ rabbits, and to accomplish the distance in the space of five days, encouraged by j the successful issue of hia first enter , prise, baa just announced his willing ness to start on a second expedition of a , similar Dature. The difficulties be en : ' countered on the first occasion were not ' slight A fortuight before starting he ' selected, he says, twenty-five male and Itwenty-five female rabbit*, which troop i he endeavored to accustom to the work cut out for them by training them to the 1 required indifference to dogs, carnages and other object* calculated to alarm their timid nature. At tbe outset tho ' rabbits proved distressingly refractory. " At every noise, every sound, they scam pered nwav, right and loft, helter-skelt er, refusing to bo coaxed back into or der, causing thus much precious time to be lost. Iu despair at the prospect of losing both the wager aud their fepuU ■ tation, their leader tried the effect of a 1 stimulant ; to each rabbit he adminis tered a small dose of cau-dc-vte, which appears to have supplied the troop with a courage foreign to their nature. ~ No longer timorous, they bounded forward with snob speed that their owner had 1 some difficulty iu keeping up with them, arriving in Paris some hours before the ' cxpiratiou of tho time fixed for the sin gular excursion. Proud of his acbieve ' incut, he lias just offered to accept bets ' with any one disposed to make them for 1 his second enterprise. This time, eon r f fldent in his rabbits, especially when r nuder the influeuou of brandy, he pro- Sses to perambulate the city at mid y, on any given Sunday, and to make i his exit without there being one of the ' animals lacking. After the aeoomplish ; ment of this feat he backs himself, and - invites others to back him, for an e*- i cursion to Berlin, which city he prom , ises to reach in twenty-two days,[with his troop *f rabbits intact. NUMBER 48. ' MH'KET* or ran SOUTH HOLE. Am IN4 Hktltr't View. -MimuWl Im. (Japtaiu Tripp, a wU-kuown whaling captain who baa made several voyage# to Um Antw ooean, it a diahelisvsr in an open polar aa, lit* trip to the world l lee the present year baa but confirmed hie experience in the pant. In a Conver se uti with htm a CArunirU reporter procured aoine iiitereatuig faoto on thla aoiuewhat mystified subject. No vcaael* have been able to get farther than mxly three degrees north tbia year, and all eaptaina report heavy aso in the Arctic, in one of his voyage*, whiie Oapt. Tripp wa* master of the bark Arctic be reached a* high aa latitude sevaoty three degree#. In 1870 Wreugel's laud waa clear of los, and in 1971 in* ahip waa within a mile of tha shore of that land whieb no human Imuig haa ever •tapped upon, ao far aa history tell* na. With the aid of a splendid giaaa, ho got a good view of the entire lay o# the land, but he wna unable to see any human habitations, or evidence thereof. No > animal hie waa viaiole save sea-birds that flitted in mid-air along the shore. The earth waa green, no snow being visible anvwhere. A coast range ia visi ble from * the ooean winch rreemblcs ooaat regions farther aouth. extending aa far a* California. Shreba were plainly viaible. bat Oapt. Tripp wa# nimble to discover any large lyere of forest*. , WrangeTs Xauid ran# northwest, ana, ao far aa known, extends indefinitely into regions never penetrated by the white ' man. The Indiana inhabiting tbakJK*- tion of Alaska bordering qu.the North Pole have no tradition#, that any people hftva evar batto bcgu otx Wrmfrf • though they state that dew ™ a variety unknown to Alaska have been found on i Herald island, in the heart of the Arctic, sod from which the land namod <*n be distinctly seen. It is supposed that the animal* made their way across from tha mainland of Wrangel to the island. No canoes, clothing, or relies of say kind have drifted from Wnutgel'a Land to Alaska, aa an indication that a new race of human beings existed in the unci ( plored regions of the Arctic. Still, it ia believed by those sea captains who have taken dote observation# that the myste ' rfoua counter alluded to w habitable. The fact that no snow waa to be seen, that vegetation looked green and vigor - oua, and that mountains loomed up in the'distance, aa sheltering fortresses for the valley*, are so many proofs that humamtv could find a tooth old there. It fteema' that no whaling captains have 'ever attempted to land on Wrangel s Land, but it must bo remembered that they visit the Arctic regions aa business men. and not aa explorer*. ' Gapt. Tripp aay# that if the North Pole exist*, and if it ia ever to be dis covered, the discovery will be made from the Pacific side, aa navigators can reach many degrees further north on Um Paci fic without suffering the least iuoonveni -1 onee bom dim*tic rigors than on the 1 j Atlantic. At Kotebus sound, at the mouth of Buck! and river, Oapt. Tnpp 1 ' saw land 700 feet high, beneath which a stratum of iec was distinctly visible. At > Point Barron the land is only u* feet I above the ice, all beneath being a stratum of congealed water, llow deep this strat -1 i um is remains unknown. Until is certain that the earth has gradually formed it self on the ice. There is reason to ha bere that WraugeTe Land is of like formation, at least along the shore, i There ia no telling how far the ice body 1 S extends inland ax a substratum. If a body of earth 700 feet high can rest on i a mass of ioe along the abore, there is no ■ ' reason why a mountain 7,earanoe. The Greeks carried sachets of soent in their dresses, and tilled their dining-rooms with fumes of incense. Even their wines were often impregnated with de coctions of flowers, or with sweet scent ed flowers themselves, such as roses and violets. There were also appropriate soeuts for each Mmb, ami each feature, and the elegants of Athens resorted to snch effeminate refinements of luxury, anuointiug pigeons with a liqbid per fume aud causing them to fiy loose about a room, scattering the drops from their feathers over the heads and gar ments of those who were feasting be- I neath. (.m /, Tim Tras to toe promise of thy far-off yoatb. Thai all who lovai tees, for the* propbe- V ffed AgmadLiaU Ufa, devoted to tha truth- A nobis sans*, by soflwta# saarttfted. TVus toai has atlas of tea poet-thought WMsh wad* thy youth so rioq™*' sod swaat Was to all dote* white thy manhood brought To Uk* tha room of faortas light and d**t. True to tea steadfast Walk sod narrow way, White thy forefathers of tea oovwiaot trod t Tras to thy friend to foal or sunny day. Tras to thy boat*, thy country, sod thy Clod Tras to the world, whtah still is falsa to to**. And tews to ail—as thou art tru* to n* True to the vow that bound us in the lane. That •umaMC evening when the brown bird sang, 1 Wring the rtlenos wttb sweet ante* of pain, White steoesovar Sit tha woodland rang. Tru# to the troth we pttßhtod on teat day. gate to forses ha all ether for the one i (leaving togetew through the unknown way, Toi deateaurto void the anion then begun. True U> tee \p* brought by a little head ; I roe-though the patter of the childish feet lUr% leased from earth tote the silent land : Loss hallows lore, and lore la still sample!* ; I can lift up rate* eyes from the tear-drops free. Vor teas art tras to all tease things—sod aw. Item* •( Interest An aristocratic garment—A knight shirt. The greatoet strike of the day—Twelve o'clock. The first iron boat wa: built in the year 1844. The average dandelion proJneee two thousand need*. A with a good oil well can live cm the fat of the land, j When a graaahepper eats it is only • ■imjiU hopper-ration. Aa Antwerp silk faetory waa astab ashed in the year 1004. Onions send their roots three feet down into the ground. The man who broke the news was ad vised to be more careful next time. A quotation for Thanksgiving-"Bo fowl and fair a day I have not seen. A culinary paradox—A good aqnare meal usually aorta e pretty round sum. Horaea can easily bs led out of a burning budding by throwing harness over them. • Wbaa yea g*t a eoni on your toe don't think yarn can knock it ofl against a fanes rmiL , . _ A new Krupp cannon sends a ball through the baavieet armor plate at eight miles. Joint debate—The cos held between the heads of the house on whether this puma of stove-pipe will fit that Surprise is one cd the principal ele ment* of wit This is why it always make, a man laugh when he sits down on a pin. The slanderer injures three persons at once : he of whom he speaks ill, him to whom he wys it, and moat of all himself in saying it There isn't much difference between a v" 1 who sees * ghost sod a man who swallows a bad oyrter, ao far as their looks ere concerned. Whan Gitr" 1 """*' burglars are cangfat in the act they fold their arms and wait to be shot at, knowing that the police conidn t hit a barn forty feet away. First student (angrily): "If jon at tempt to pull my ear*, youll have your LwidsfuU.'' Second do. (looking at the car*): "Well, yea; I rather think I shall. * Josh Billings suggests that many a young poet might be able to ooUert his scattered though*" if he would look into an editor's waato basket early in the morning. "Bee, mamma t n exclaimed a little one, as puss, with arched spine and ele vat, ,f rudder, strutted around the table, Kitty's ate so much ahe can't abut bar tail down.*' The whoie area of Great Britain and Ireland under cultivation ia, excinaive of space covered by building*, roads, waters, guedtert. wood and waste land, fT,M7, acres. " Pa, whv do you sniff at each oyrter before yon swallow it 7" "To be sure that it rUh, my drer." "Bat, pa, you'd know if tt waa if yem swallowed it without sniffing at it." " Lore ia blind," and that * the rea son why it can get along with one small band-lamp, turned down aa low a* it will go, aa well aa under a Waxing chan delier of fifty burn era. The man whose lame bank prevents him from splitting a stick of wood or building a fire, ia the oca who lead* an attack oa a pile of ten cordi of wood to help uncover and kill a frightened rab bit It alwavs makes a young man feel nick when," while aitting talkinglove to a beautiful girl, he aces her suddenly take her fan handle out of bar mouth and allude casually to fish-balls and their influence on polite aoeiety. Great men are said to bacome so by mining high and wasting no time ou small things; but, although a man may be way np in the hay-krft of fame, there are tim*. generally just before a rain wben he tenderly remember* the first first little corn he ever had. BOW TBET DtD IT. They warasttttaf dtobjr dto. 4*4 he **rhsd sad she tod. ftidto: •'lfv darting idol.* awl the idled and he idled. Said to. " ¥<*r toad I uk, mhold Tregrown.' And ehf groaned and be groaned. feud be ** Tee are caution*, BaUe. " And ebe bellowed and he bellowed. tor* to; " too *h*U have your private gig.' iad she giggled sad he giggtid toid ebe: "My dearest I*k* •" And to looked and ato looked. Wed ke: " C poo my soul there'* such a weight. And she watted snd he waitul told to: " I'M have thee if thou wilt" Aad to wilted and she wilted. Twe Odd Pet*. Morris Aah has as a pet a sturdy Tonng wildcat He is very tame, and between him aad Mr. Ash's big dog a warm friendship exists, the two frequent ly playing and rolling over one another with the liveliest good nature and en dowment The cat, however, out of deference to the prejudice of civilisa tion. ia kept at the end of a large chain. Harry Fogg, of the People's market, ia the owner of a still more interesting pet—a black regie. The bird w*a caught bv a Piute Indian about two years ago, while yet a mere chicken. Now he ia a tremendous fellow, with a six-foot spread ef wing. He is kept in the back yard, in a stout wooden cage. The bird is n beautiful one, his plumage being as smooth snd shiny aa new satia. He is fierce toward everybody but his master, far whom he has a great regard, feeding from his hand and taking pleasure in having his feathers stroked and his head scratched. His chief pleasure is to bathe, just like a canary, in a mammoth pan of water which ha sends flying in all directions with his wings. His food is principally raw beef, but the hand of i passing charity now and again throws hiui a live cat or chicken, and then the eagle murder* and eats with intense satisfaction. — Reno (Jfev. 1 Gaxtte. Good at Figures. George Bidder, of Englaud, recently deceases!, when eight years old, could answer almost instantaneously how mauy farthings there are in £868,424,- 121. Zerah Colburn, of the same gen eration, was once asked to name the square of 999,999, which he stated to be 998,998,000,001. He multiplied this by forty-nine, and the product by the same number, and the total result he then multiplied by twenty-five. He raised the figure eight to the sixteenth power with ease. He named the squares of 244,999,755 and 1,224,998,775. He in stantly named the tartars, 941 and 263. which would produce 247,483. He could discover prime numbers almost as soon as named. In five seoonds he calculated theloube root of 413,998,348,677.