Buhl lUs Hone t School. The!babr hw |tnw to school ah m* ' What will the mother do, With never * ml] to button or pin ~ Or tie a little shoe ? K22U c * n "J* kw T herself bnsv all la- , With the little hindering lluna " away? ~inot her baeket to All with lunch,** Another " good-bye " to **v. And the mother stands at the doortto aee Her l*bv march awav ; And turn* with a nigh that is half relief, And half a something akin to grief. Bh 4! hink * * possible future morn. when the children, one hy one. Will go from their home out into the mr.d I n battle with l,fe alone. And not even the baby be left to oh* r ' "<olate home of that future rear. She pick* no garment* here and then , Thrown down tti osreles* haete. And Inee to think how it would seem re . "'I '"* ww " dleplaoed. „ " iP .. etill a. Una, How oonld ahe bear the loneliness'. 1 indirection. ,1!u author of the fol.osing veraes rwvntlT tenmnsted an *v.niful and stomiv carver bv commuting suicide IU K*n tYanciwo. Hon. in turn poet, soldier ami journalist]. Fair arc the flower* add the chUdran. but their subtle suggestion i fairer ; Hare i* ibv rose biuret of dawn, bnt the secret Uiat clasps it i rarer ; Sweet the exultaucv of *ong, but the traiu that precede * it is sweeter ; And Dever wa* i>ovm yet wTit. but the meaning iHitnu-tim! the meter Never a daisy that grow*. but a mystery guideth the gTv*mg ; Newr a river that flows, but a majesty scepter* the flowing , Never a shahp i .,*re ibat soared, but a stronger than he did enfold him . Nor ev r a prophet forteUa, but a mightier seer bath for told him. Back i f the canvas that throbs the painter n hinted and hidiU u . Into tie statue that brvaUn * the eoul of the sculpti r is bidden ; Todar the j, y tbat is felt he the lnfluite issue* nf feeling ; frowning the glory revealed is the glory that •WUI Uie r*vealiu|t. Hrwat are the symbol* of ben g. bnt that wh ; eh is stmtailed i- g ,r; Vast tav create aid beheld, but vaster the inward crt at or ; Brckof the sound brood* the silence, hark ~f the gift stands the giving, Back of the baud I'tat reevivia thrill the eensi tive ueriv* of receiving. * nothing to stunt, the deed i* out done by the doing , The heart of the wooer is warm, but warmer the heart of t he wov tug ; And up from the p.ts where these shiver, and up from the height* where those shine. Twin race* and shadows swim starward. and the es*ri.ce of life is divine. -Jb tanl JJMI/, .* A:Umtie .VcnhVy. THE FARM HAND Bhe Wli '" on tire front stoop, mending Fanner Thoreley's stockings, when Baxter, the new larui hand, came and sat down on the ruoe seat by the door, and hung his palm-leaf hai upon his knee, and took hie pipe from his mouth. " Do you mind the pipe?" he asked. Folly too&ed up in surprise; none of the farm hands had ever consulted her cm the subject before ; even Mr. Thorn ley himself smoked and smoked without a dream >. f asking her permission ; that is, whenever Miss Hannah was not near to reproach him with turning their sub stance into smoke. "Mind the pipe!" returned Polly. *'No ; I like it better thau Mr. Thorn ley'a." " There's a difference in tobacco." Polly, not being posted in tbe merits of the staple, dropped tlie subject, and the frogs filled the interval with melodious pipings. " What are yon thinking abont ?" asked Baxter, as she delayed her needle and meditated. " I—l was thinking that Mr. Thorn ley's hand would make two of yours. Yon weren't cut out for hard labor, Mr. Baxter." "But the harl labor was cut ont for me, eh? Its a mighty fine night, Miss Polly. Wouldn't you like to walk down by the briok and find some vio lets ?" "Yes; but Miss Hannah may want " Miss Hannah has put on her specta cle® and gone to borrow Neighbor Hook er's newspaper, and Thorn ley is steal ing a smoke in the orchard. It's as good as a play to see him tnck his pipe into his pocket, a: the risk of setting himself on fire, whenever he hears a footstep." And then the two yonng peo {>le strolled off to the brook, and istened to a whip poor-will making pen sive music in the edge of the woods, and watched the evening tar pnh the flimy clouds aside and step forth. Young Baiter bad been on the Thorn ley farm a month or so. He happened one day to knock at the door aud ask for a night's lodging : he had a small bag slung across his shoulder, and a sun burned countenance, which quickened Miss Hannah's pulses. *' A tramp !" said she. "Good arracions, Polly, shot the door quick 1 No, no, we don't take lodgers. We'll be murdered in our beds—and the spoons my grandfather left me ! Didn't I tell yon to shut the door, Polly? No, we don't take folks in; yon'll find V<uomodation further down the road, at H<ker's or—" Bat just then Mr. Tbornley came np, cau tiously knocked the mud off his boots, and said : "A tramp, Poily?" " I've been tramping some distance," said the stranger, with a frank smile, " and I'd like to put up for the night somewhere. However, if your family's uncomfortable at the idea, maybe you'd let me sleep in the haymow ?" "The impudence I" cried Miss Han nah, from within. " That would be might? handy for him to make off with Ligbtfoot and the colt, wouldn't it, now? Where'svonr wits, Hiram? Why don't you say ' No,' up and down ?" "As to that," drawled Thornley, " a fellow must sleep somewhere ; and then I s'pose you wouldn't mind working it ont in the morning, eh ?" —with an eye to the main chance. "I've got some plowing I'd like done right off." " I'll drive yonr plow for a night's lodging, and thanks," returned Baxter ; "or mend your fences, or repair your clocks. I'm not above earning an honest pennv." "Lor', if he's willing to lend a hand," capitulated Miss Hannah, " I'd give him an attic chamber and welcome. He ain't near so rough-looking as I tbonght," she confided to Polly, later. " He's got an honest face and handy fingers, if he is forty tramps." Baxter showed himelf so ready on the morrow. Farmer Thornley suggest ed he should spend another day in his employ, and then the work in hand ran over into the following day, and as no body <!Ould finish it so well as Baxter, he naturally staid on and on, till, at the end of the week, Thornley admitted, ' Marbe you're as good a hand as I'dget if I waited till Christmas ; perhaps you'd like steady work for the summer, with board and" wages ?" "Yon wouldn't be likely to do bet ter," pnt in Hannah, " with no recom mendution you see—though I don't say you need one." " Thauk you. And what do you say?" he asked, turning to Polly. i< j•> Why, I—" faltered Polly. " Polly hasn't nothing to say about it," objected Hannah. "Me and Hiram runs this concern." " Then she's the first woman that hasn't nothing to say. Speak up, Polly," commanded Farmer Thornley. "Don't never leave a sentence to loose ends." " I was going to say that four makes a oozv family." "Two's company, and three's a crowd, eh, Polly ?" 'said Thornley, with a laueb. And Baxter staid. " ' What makes the lamb love Mary so ?' " he qooted, as they wended home ward, Polly's littleiewe lamb, frisking before them, having joined them in the pastures. " Why, you know," explained Polly, " her mother disowned her, and she was left shivering and hungry out in the F.RKI). KURTZ, Editor and Hropriotor. VOLUME XL cold. Ami I brought her tit ami warmed her Mow the kitchen tire, ami fed her with warm milk, till she grew ami throve." " Aud Thornley gave her to you t" " No ; but he said, ' Scents as though she belonged to Tolly.' But Miss Han nah didn't like it. ' Then l s'poae the dishes belong to Tolly, 'cause she washes 'em, and the rooms, 'cause she sweeps "em, ami the beds she makes f' she said. ' Isn't Tollv paid her lawful wages for doing whatever her hands find to do, lv it to cosset '.amlvs or cook the vituals ?'" " Have von always lived here, Miss Pollv?" asYed Baxter. " 1 have always liveii in this house, but not always as a servant, Mr. Baxter. This was the old (vtrsouage ;my uucle liveii here, with little or no salary. He didn't care for that; he came here to do good, tii show the people the road to heaven—there wua no church then, for miles arouud—and he had money of his own. My mother aud 1 came with him, and after she died we tw liveii on here together, ami he taught me all 1 kuow —it isn't much. But when I was fif teen, he came home one day from the city, where he had gone on business, and told me that some wicked people hail ruined him, that his good work was ended ; and he threw his head hack, sitting in his arm-chair, and gasp d ouce or twice, and I was all aloue—qnito, quite alone. After that people came and Itxiked at the place, and the Thoru leya among them ; and 1 was a little mopuig beggar, not knowing which way to turn, and the Thornley a offered to keep me for maid-of-all work for food and clothing. There was nothing else for me to do, and the neighbors all said it was a providence; but since then I have struck for higher wages, and now I have day-dreams ; when I get enough money 1 mean to go away to school, even if I'm as old as the hills, and then maybe I can do something nicer than to churn and cook for mv dailv bread." " And you have saved something ?' "A hundred dollars already." Baxter smiled. " And wheu do yon expect to have enough to set out and seek your fortune?" "Do vou think it will take very long?" she asked, anxiously. "Shall I be too old V "I should think not," he returned, still smiling to himself. This was not the first walk Baxter and Polly had taken together, neither was this the last confidence rejxised in each other. " Yon two do seem to have an ever lasting lot of talk together," commented Hannah, "and Polly ain't no talker neither; and what's queer, yon always come to a full stop when a laxly catches up to yon." She had just overtaken them on the highway, as it happened, though usually Miss Hannah's inter ruptions were not owing to chance. No sooner did she see them strolling off together after work was over than she slipped ont the sink-room door with un dignified haste, took a short-cnt through the woods, and joined them as if she ware returning from a neighbor's. " Yon'd onghter not to take to tramp ing ronnd tbe country so much with Baxter," she advised Polly on one occa sion; " folks will begin to talk about yon." "Talk about me? What can they say ?" asked Pollv. "They'll say Baxter's making a fool of you—and they won't be far wrong." " Why aoonld he wish to make a fool of me "' persisted Polly, the tears gather ing in her eyes. " Why should he take the trouble?" "It ain't no tronble—it's amusing. Yon're an easy victim, I reckon." After that Polly made au excuse when Baxter wished leave to go with her on an errand, or begged her to step outside on fine twilights aud listen to the whip poor-wills; she had always a stint to finish, the bread to mix, the milk to set, or some homely duty to detain her. An older woman than Polly would have seen that Miss Hannah herself had set her heart upon Baxter, followed him about like his shadow, courted him with sweet meats, and flattered him within an inch of his life. " Baxter's that 'cute abont a place, its a pity he wasn't bora twins," she ve 1 to declare. "Though he be a trump," Thornley would a^d. But it was love's labor lost. Her flat teries fell npon unheeding ears, as she was not slow to discover. By painful degrees her keen eyea took in the sitna ■on, and her emotions changed, as the ease became hopeless, from love to hatred; she seemed to echo the poet's assertion: "To love von wsnpieuuuit enough. Bat. oh ! ti delicious to bate von !" Neither was Polly's existence made more agreeable just at this time. Han nah's amusement was to thwart Baxter in his love-making, to send him a wild goose chase of a mile or two iu the wroDg direction, to put stumbling-blocks in the way. Bnt she did not stop here; she suggested to Thornley's slow mind the possibility of an elopement, of duty neglected " along of spooning npon Polly." " Do we know anything about Bax ter 1 Did he have a recommendation ?" she darkly insinuated. " Didn't I cau tion you against taking him in ? If yon lose anything throngh him and Polly, don't lay it to my door, that's all ?" " Him and Polly !" gasped Thornley. " Baxter 1" Hannah bad hit the mark at last. Blessings brighten as they take their flight Polly might have lived at Tliorn : ley farm for a century, and Thornley never have found out thnt she was dearer to him than Hannah, till some oye else shonld threaten to claim her. After that Baxter could do nothing to please him; he lay in wait and watched the lovers as a cat watches a mouse, and worried them as cruelly. One evening Miss Hannah entered the room where Polly was sitting in the twilight. "Plotting mischief, I reckon," she said. " Are you fond of darkness, Pol ly, 'canse your deeds are evil ? Htrike a light, girl. I'd a roll of crisp bank bills in iny hand an hour ago—Square Emery paid his butter bill this after noon; I put 'em in rny gown pocket when Hiram called me to turn the grin'- stone—and they're gone ! Now you needn't tell me they're gone witliont hands." "There's been no pickpocket here, Miss Hannah." "Ain't there? When yon take folks in ont of the highway, without no re cCmmendation, how do you know what their habits is? To be sure, I didn't suspect no one of having stole 'em out of my pocket; there's a hole in it; I'd forgot about; and naturally them bills must have dropped out between here and the barn; but Hiram and me has hunted the place nfer aud ngaiu, and it stands to reason they couldn't have trav eled further withont hands." "Mercy !" cried Polly. " How mnch was there?" "A whole hundred dollars, miss; and if it ain't forthcoming, somebody'll smart for it." " You don't think that I took your money, Miss Hannah ?" "Well, maybe not; but it's goue— and there's Baxter." " Baxter !" "Yes, indeed. What do yon or I know about the fellow ?" "I know he wouldn't do it" " He'll hare to prove it, I'll have THE CENTRE REPORTER. him up before the court, ax sure aa you live." Tolly could hardly keep her auger (nun tlamiug into audacious words ; the bare suspicion waa a blow to her ; alio behevcii IU Baxter thoroughly ; though an angel hail ace lined him, vet would nlie have upheld him. But flow often has the iutii<eeut suffered ! how often han injustice triumphed over justice! To be ana peeled merely wit* an irrepara ble injury, she thought. Baxter might lone hi* good name, hi* work ; might be aeut to prison everything might go against him, and he had nobody but her for defense. As it happened, he had gone down to the village to get the tnail ami do some chores, aud while Hannah inveighed and Tolly defended, a small boy knocked at the door to briug the tdeaaiug news that " Mr. Baxter, the ellow as works for old Thornley, give me a quarter to run up atnl let you know he wouldn't lie home to-uight, and may 1H not tomorrow neither, as he'd been called away suddmg like along of a letter." " There !" ejaculateil Hannah, " I hope you're convinced. Hn's absconded. I'll have the law after him sure as his name's Baxter, which 1 dare say it aiu't." "Were your bills new greenbacks ? and did you take tlie numbers t" asked Tullv. "ilnsp and freah as new cabbage leaves; and as for the number*, they were fives and tens just as it hap pened." " We must have auother good search belore vou accuse any one." ' Oulv them that hides can find. And Folly spared no pains ; every minute that she could secure from her duties was sj>eut IU the search ; but when the second night ami day passed without bringing Baxter, or any ti<iiugs from him, her heart sank beneath the weight of Miss Hannah's words ; not that she doubted him for an instant, but the suspicion might keep huu away, and she might never see his face again. There was now but one thing to do, and she did it. She begged leave of Miss Hannah to go to the town and mail a letter. " Lor", Htram'U mail it for you," said Hannali, intent upon mastering its con tents first. But Polly was firm in the matter ; the letter was too precious to trust to another. It ran: "MK. BAXTRK— If you are staying away from your work and losing wages because you are suspected of finding Miss Hannah's money, which she lost the day you left, please return at once, as money has been found, and yonr g*>d name is restored, though never suspect ed by your friend, " PjtrniNK Powuiw." Bnt her object in town was not merely to mail this document ; she went direct from the postoffice to the bank where her little hoard was growing, and drew out a hundred dollars in crisp green backs, fives and tens, trusting that tbry made no larger parcel thau Miss Han nah's ; then she retrace*! her steps homeward, am) quietly drop|wxl the precious roll on the floor of Miss Han nah's closet, where It might easily have been overlooked after falling from tbe rent in her pocket ; she wisely con jectured that the next day being Friday, Miss Hannah would bring it to light with her broom. " What's all this about Miss Han nah's money a.ud my good name ?" asked Baxter, when he returned on Saturday and fonnd opportunity to speak to Polly privately. Polly related the facts, leav ing ont her owu Rhare in the results. *' And where was the money fonnd ?" "Miss Hannah fonnd it on sweeping day on the floor of her closet," demurely. "And who put it there, Polly J" " Who? Why, she says ,t must have dropped there wheu she huug up her gown." "Poor deluded Miss Hauuah ! How long since yon learned to prevaricate so prettily, Polly f" "I? Prevaricate! What do you mean, Mr. Baxter ?" "I mean that yon drew the money from your bank store yesterday to save 'my good name,' Polly. Don't deny it. The cashier told nie—lie hsd some curi osity about it. If you can do so much for my good name, bow much would you do for the owner ? There is a rid dle for vou." Polly bnng her head and blushed. " And so you've abandoned the idea of an education, Polly?" " I dpn't know. I'm so sorrv yon found it ont; yon will think that i—" i " I shall think that you love me well enough to be my wife, Polly, dear." And Polly failed to put in an objection. "Didn't I tell yon how it would be, Hiram?" said Hannah, at dinner, the following week. " Here's Baxter and Polly, they stepped down to town this morning on an errand together, and came driving back like the great mo gul, whoever he was, on their wedding tour, to say good-bye. I blowed the dinner horn for yon like the last tramp, thinkin' that'd fetsh you, if any thing, bnt I reckon you're getting deef." " Well, I never I" rried Hiram,aghast. "Bnt it ain't no nse crying over spilt milk." As Baxter and his bride drove along, " the flowery by-roads through," towards the railwav station, " I've a pretty storv to telS von, my love," he said, "which I nope yon will be glad to hear—a trne story. There was once a yonng man who, being rich and strong, and tired of fashionable life and conventionalities, undertook a walk ing tour through the mountains and valleys of New Hampshire for a summer's vacation or recreation, camping out at night in the green woods, buying his bread at farm-honses by the way, or broiling his wild game by a brush-wood tiro, as fortune favored him, wearing his old cloth's, and getting bronzed and weather-*i.lined on the route. One night he asked for lodgings at a certain farm house door, as it threatened rain, and he had a mind to try the luxury of a lied in doors. A yonng girl opened the door for him, spread the table, made the l>ed, and —stole his heart; and the next week, when the farni'-r offered him a sen son's farm work, lieing short of hands, he promptly accepted tiie situation, having a fauey for adventurous living and the young girl aforesaid," " Mr. Baxter," said Polly, " what do yon mean ?" " It's a trueilory, Polly," "Do you mean that you—oh, John ! that you are not—that yon are the young man, that the farmer is Mr. Thornley, and an ignoraut girl like me your wife ? Oh, John, how could you be so foolish ? How could you deceive me so ?" "It was all 'for love and the world well lost,'" said Baxter, proudly. "There's that hundred dollars," said Miss Hannah, the next year, when she lay ill. " I put it direct into the bank. Give it to Polly, if—if anything happens to me, though she doesn't need it, good ness knows—a-traposing off to Europe, Yon needn't tell her, bpt I confess I was a little oonfused when I found them greenbacks on my closet floor, seeing that I hadn't lost a red cent myself.— Harper'* Bazar. One of the balloons at the Woolwich arsenal, England, recently broke its fastenings after it had been inflated with 24,000 feet of gas, and soared away like a gigantic bird, being last seen, a mere speck in the sky, at a height of four or five miles. CENTRE' HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1878. FAIIX, HAKDES AMI HOINKHOLII lIMIrS llulb*. Under this name are comprised the snowdrop, hyacinth, crocus, tulips, nar cissus, iris, aueuioue, jonquil, etc. They are all very e&silv cultivated, and a few words .if practical advice may be accept able. 1 like a sandy soil for these bulbs, and if the soil in naturally stiff or clayey, an addition of two or three inches of sharp sand, well uuied in by repeated spading, will put it in good eouditiou ; the t>cd should also be very rich, aud a good coat of fine manure should be thoroughly worked iu ln-fore planting. Having raked off the bed smoothly, the bulbs are planted iu groups or clus ters, to suit the taste of the gardener. The crocuses and snowdrops can be planted about three inches apart ; the tulips, narcissus and jonquils five or sis inches apart ; the hyacinths about ten inches. The bulbs should be placed about two inches under the surface of the bed. It is a good plan to consider the color the flowers will have, when planting the bulbs, aud group together colors that harmotiiae. Thus, purple and yellow crocuses go well together, aud white will bear mixing in consider able quantities with all the other colors. There is room f >r exerciaiug a good deal of taste in the arrangement of colors in garden beds. After planting, the bulbs will need no further catc uutil spring, except that, if it is desired to have them bloom very early, it will be desirable to cover the lcd over in November with a foot of dry leaves, or other litter, to jireveut fnjet from entering deeply, and this covering will need to be removed about March 'JO, as the bulbs " come up ill the oohi," as the old song has it. The early flow ering of these tmlbs make* them univer sal favorites for small b-d in the lawn or area of the city and suburban dwell ing. They make the beds gay with flowers at a season when all else is yet but giving us tbe future promise of flowers. They need little room, little care, little expense, and repay the little trouble expended upon them moat grate fully. Who would be without a bed of them! The IK>l those bullm occupy can l>e used in Ma J or June* for planting gcra mums, verbena*, or any other (tedding plants, for the bulbs nan lw> taken up a* noon an th-y ifr< done flowering and laid awav to dry, to lie planted again in au tumn. They are an cheaply furnished, however, by the seedsmen, that few peo ple will fare to take thin trouble with them. It in worth mentioning that the eroeun, tulip and snowdrop may be left several yearn, without liftiug the bulbn, in the name bed, and I have neen cro cuses thrive iu the nod of a lawn, flow ering among the gram for yearn in suc cession. Toe flowers growu than, how ever, are rather inferior.—/'toriif, in dHwrican (VNnifor. A Chapter •• lla> The |wun caused by the nting of a plaut or insect in the rennlt of a certain amount of acid poinuu injected into the blood. The first thing to be done m to press the tulie of a small key flruilr ou the wouml, moving tho key from si<{e to side to facilitate the expulsion of the nting and its accompanying poinon. The nting, if left in the wound, should be carefully extracted, otherwise it will greatly increase the local irritation. The poison of stings being acid, common Bcuae points to the alkalies as the proper means of care. Among the most easily pmoored remedies may IK- mentioned soft soap, liquor of ammonia, spirits of hartshorn, smelling salts, washing soda, quick-lime made tuto a paste with water, lime-water, the juice of an onion, to bacco juice, chewed tobacco, bruised dock leaves, tomato juice, wood ashes, tobacco ash and carbonate of soda. If the sting be severe, rest and coolness shonld be added to the other remedies, more especially in the case of nervous subjects. Nothing is so apt to make the poison active as beat, ai d nothing favors its activity less than cold. Let the body be kept cool and at rest, and the activity of the poison will lie reduced to a mini mum. Any active exertion whereby the circulation is quickened will increase both pain and swelling. If the swelling be severe the part may be robbed with sweet oil, or a drop or two of landauam. Stings in the eye, ear, mouth or throat, sometimes leaJ to serious consequences; in such cases medical advice shonld always be sought as soon as possible. Males far the OrrhnrH sad llardea. In many portions of the country there lias been such an execrsof rain that ar tiflcial watering has not suggested it self. The summer of last year, as well as the one jnat past, having been un usually moist, there is the greater probability that the coming one will be dry. There are few localities that do not have their years of drouth, and when the facilities are at hand there nhonld always be provision for irriga tion. It may be that watering will be really needed but once in three or five years ; it is this uncertainty that makes it all the more necessary to IKS prepared for drouth when it does come. Every experienced fruit-grower has known seasons when an abundance of water would have given him a yield of straw berries, Jhe profits on which would have paid for a much larger outlay than is ordinarily required to provide means to irrigate the whole garden ; nnd ao with other crops. In our uncertain climate the control of water in both directions is necessary to the best success. Ability to remove excess by drainage, and to snpply the deficiency by irrigation, give the enterprising cultivator a great advantage over the one who •• takes things as they come." This ia a most favorable time for all wr> requiring the removal of earth ; and such improve ments as road-making, gradiug, etc., are not only more sure of luting made, but they will he Itetter done now than iu the busy, bnt often cold and cheerless days of spring. How to Keneit Velvets. Velvet, if wet. Incomes hard, knotty, and shiny, and to nll.appcarunoos spoil ed, but can be fully restored, looking as well as when first taken from the store, 'if it is made quite damp, wet thoroughly —only not enongh to drip—on the wrong side, and then with the assistance of another held over a very hot iron, but not allowed to touch the iron at all. One should hold the hot iron face upper most, while another holds the damped velvet close to the iron. In a few min utes the " pile" rises, and the velvet lie comes like new; the heat of the iron sends the water through the tissues of the velvet, forcing the steam out at the tipper sfce, thus separating the small flossy fibres that, having been dampened or wet on the surface, flatten down and adhere together in hard hunches. If one should attempt to iron the velvet where it has been wet, it would only flatten these fibres still morn and make the surface harder; for this reason it is important that the velvet should not touch the hot iron. After the velvet assumes its proper appearance it is well to spread it over a skirt board, or table, and brush gent ly with a soft brush. Be snre that it is thoroughly free from dampness before putting it away in its proper place. When velvet is crushed by packing or use, hold the parts defaced over a basin of hot water—the lining, or wrong side, next the water—and the "pile" will soon rise np and look like new.— Afr&. H. W. Beecher. Demoulntii In the Hindoo Religion. Demon ism. in foot, bu always boon from the earliest tune* an essential in gredient iu the Hindoo religious sy*- triii. It probably began in the *tippo*cd jteopliug of tt> air by spiritual beings, tlir personifications or ooiupuuious of storm ami tempest. It ia err lain tliat in thr present day thr worahip of thr ilia jority of thr people of India ia a wor ahip of frar. It roiiainta in oonatant effort* to appease tlir malevolence of rvil spirit*. Not that thr oouiwon peo ple doubt thr eiiatrnce of good beings, presided over bv our Hopreme firing, iiilt that thrv believe tinier beings to be too absolutely good to need propitia tion. Just a* iu ancient hiatoriea of thr Slav races, we are told that they believ ed iu a white and black god, but paid adoration to the last alone, having, a* they supposed, nothing to apprehend from thr beneficence of thr first or a lute divinity. Thr truth is that rvila of all kinds, difilcultitirs, dangers and dis asters, families, diseases, pestileucra and death, are thought by an ordinary Hin doo to proceed from devils, anil from devils alone. And these malignant beings air hehl to possess varying de grees of rank, power and malevolence. Home aim at destroying the entire world the sovereignty of the gods themselves. Home delight in killing men, women and children, out of a mere thirst for human blood. Home take pleasure in tormenting, or revel in the infliction of sickuee*. injury and misfor tune. All make it their business to aiar the progress of good works and nsefnl undertakings. 1^ verily believe that the religion of the mass of the Hindoos is simply demouolatry. Men and women j of all claases, except perhaps those edu cated by themselves, are perpetually penetrated with the idea that, from the cradle to the grave, they are being pur sued and jwrsecut.-d, not only by de structive demons, but by simply mis chievous imps aud spiteful goblins. Thia, in my opinion, is the true explanation of the universal worship of Gauesa, lord of the demon hosts. And the remarkable thing is, that the power wielded by cer tain arch-demons over men, and even gists, is supposed to have Ihm-u acquit cd by the practice of religious austerities. It is said of the demon Havana that after undergoing severe austerities in a forest for 10,000 years, standing in the mnlst of five fires with his feet in the air, he obtained from the god ilrahma |*>wer* greater than those i- >mkw.l by the gods themselves. Another noteworthy point is that the majority of petty fiends am believed to have beeti originally human leings. If any man is killed by a tiger : or the bite of a snake, or dios a snddeti, violent death of any kind away from his relatives, and out of reach of proiwr funeral ceremonies, be forthwith be comes an unqniet, mischievous spirit, roaming about in a restless manner with malevolent proclivities. Aud a curious notion prevails in some part* of India that the better the man the more mis chievous will his ghost be, unions steps are taken to allay its irritability by the due performance of fnneral rite*. Again, when a man remarkable for evil i>a*sions dies, the man himself may become x- Unrt, but his evil nature never dies, fur every one of ion bad jmssiuus, foul habits and even criminal act* becomes, as it were, |>er*onifled and demounted. Then arc pride-demon*, thief-demons, deceit demons, lying-demons, etc., m an infi nite array. Furthermore, all the disea ses that fiesh is heir to are personified aud converted luto veritable devils. There are small-pox-dcmous, cholera demon* and demons of various forms of typhn* and jungle fev-r. Kven hail storms, dronth and blight do duty in the devil army. Msny villages in India possess professional charmers or con jurer*. whose business eounists in charm ing awav (by the repetition of particular Vedio Mantrosj, particular demons, such a* thr hail-atorui-demon.drongbt-deniou, blight-demon, from the growing crops. —Obafrmporsry Un-lsv. Word* of Wisdom. Hatred is blind as well as love. Man is more than constitutions. The greatest pleasure of life is love Light cares speak, great ones are dumb. Hate no one -hate their vice* not themselves. Approve thy friend privately, com mend him publicly. Great souls invite calamity, as lofty mountains the thunder clouds. Men's evil manners live in brass ; Uieir virtues we write in water. Take the tone of the company you are in, ami never pretend to give it. % To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities. Truth often displease* a lively soul, but it always persuades a just mind. Men seldom improve when they hove no other models than themselves to copy after. A man can do without his own appro bation in much society, but must make great exertions to gain it when he lives alone. It is common for men to err ; but it is only H fool that perseveres in his error ; a wise man, therefore,alters his opiuion ; a fool never. Everything may be mimicked by hy pocrisy, but humility and love united. The more rare, the more radiant when they meet. The great mistako in raauy of the plans for reorgsnizing society consists in supposing that system*can supply the want of sense. Wonldst with thyself be aoquainbsl, then see what others are doing. But wonldst thou understand others, look into thine own heart. A friendship that makes the least noise iH very often the most useful ; for which reason one should prefers prudeut friend to a zealous one. A Former "Corn King" In Penury. The Gibnou (Dl.) Courier prints the following : One of the itaddest and most complete financial wrecks of the day is that of the great Hullivant estate. The aoMgnee's sale of the personal property took place last Thursday and Friday, the lands having been surrendered to the mortgages. Everything was disposed of, and to-day M. L. Sullivant, the gnat corn king of the world, is without lauds and without a roof to shelter his family that he can call his own. Under the en forced sale and foreclosure, we learu, the estate failed to realize enough to pay the indebtedness of 8100,000. The melting away of this once kingly estate is a remarkubio example of " how riches take to themselves wings." Mr. Snlli vant's farming operations were ou the most colossal scale in the country, and his failure only emphasizes the lesson taught by Vepeatoil smaller failures on the part of others, that largo farms do not pay in his country. It is not likely that farming on the Hcale carried on by Mr. Hullivant will ever again be at tempted in this Htate, and his magnifi cent domain of 40,000 acres will doubt less be cut up into numerous small farms. And while we sympathize with Mr. Hullivant in his failure, we cannot bnt regard this as the best disposition to be made of these flue lauds. They will fnrnish homes for several hundred happy families. FOR THE FA llt HEX. Vaafctaa Nataa. The moat stylish walking bout* have brocaded cloth uppera. Lace of many different kinds is often usod on a drees thi* year. * Ulster caps, stiff and plain but styliah, are worn with Ulster coats. The hair is generally worn high with the present style of liouuet. The short skirt, jacket and waistcoat still retain their popularity. Home of the round hat* are of the most stupendous proportions. Hlightly-ronuded trains are sujiersed iug those of the square shape. Hulphur-colored (lain abo rough hat* are worn by English Ix-auties. Square trains are considered a trifle more elegant thau the fan train. A pink satin drees ornamented with morovu velvet loaves is elegant. Fancy gilt buttons are used altogether on the plant suits of this season. With garnet, turquoise-blue ia more generally used than any other color. Garnet bead braids, cords and orua , Uionta are used on hat* and dresses. The Madeline is a favorite shaj>e for a round hat. It is becoming to moat faces. Plushes of every variety are found among the drees, cloak and hat trim miugs. The oordurov velvet of a few years since ha* ogaui oouie forward in mil linery. White, j>ear! gray and cream felt bon nets are the most or easy headgear of the season. Too Knm>Ma*l Psr-*ra I have recently heard of two very extravagant purchases that were made by American ladies in Pari* tins season. One article wo* the costliest braid or " switch " of hair that ever was mode in Paris. It waa composed of hair a yard and a quarter in length, snow white, and exceedingly soft and glossy. Its price was Another was a /an that was recently gotten up by one of the leading fan-makers of Paris for tbe wife of a New York millionaire. The leaf wo* painted by Edward de Beaumont, a Parisian artist of high repute, aud oust sNkt. The mounting was in ivory, richly carved from special designs, mid with the owner's monogram in diamonds act on a medallion-shaped space on one of the outer sticks. The ends of the rivet that held the sticks together were also of diamond*. The price of the en tire fan when completed amounted to f 1,40*1. The subject of M. de Beau mont's painting w as the Iteach at Dieppe during the !at century, an animated and WaUeau-hke seen a, crowded with figures and too delicate and fine a work of art to be carried as a fan, one would think. Hut the Ilaroue** de Hothschild possesses a fan painted by Louis Ijeuoir, whereof the painting alone cost pi, 000. l.ury Hiprtprr. About Authors. The time aud effort spent on varions literary productions have differed with different authors. Johnson said he calculated, when writing for a magaxme, that if he wrote but one page a day he wonld at the end of ten year* have written ten folio volume*. "W! n msn writes," aays he, " from hi* owu mind he writes rapid lv. The greatest part of the writer'* time is spent iu reading. A roan mnst turn over half a library to write one book." Presett said he composed many a chapter of •' Ferdinand and Isabella " while galloring over the hillls, or wan dering among the cbestnnt shades of his favorite walk in sutnmn. Thirty and forty page* at print were an ordinary nmrning's work for Walter Hcott. He once said to a friend : "When I get the paper before me it commonly runs off pretty easily." With so much facility did he write that he had a novel, a poem, and review* for quar terlies on hand at the same time. One of the largest and Is st of Byron's poeiu* was written in ten sitting*, and in two days another was completed. In fourteen years Baxter wrote and published sixty volumes. Pope says: "To take more pains sad employ more time cannot fail to produce more complete pieces." The first six hook* of the .Eneid were written in aeven years ; the last six in four years. This was left un finished, and at his death Virgil wished it destroyed ; but Augustus placet! it in the bands of Varius and Plautns, who eorrected it and gave it t<> the world. I>avid Livingstone says: "Those who have never earned a book through the press can form no idea of the amount of toil it involves. The process has in creased my respect for anthors and authoresses a thousand-fold. I think I would rather cross the African continent again than undertake to write another book." (enntnption of Paper, The greatest quantity of paper is used in the United States, and the smallest quantity in Scandinavia. Italv's con sumption is small, bnt that of Russia is very much less, as might have been ex pected from the condition of her people, form of government aud state of manu facture*. The quantities used per head of population in the principal countries are given in the exhibition catalogue as fellows : United States, 30.8 !T>*.; Ger many, 13.2 lbs.; England, 11 lb*.; France, 7.92 Tbs.; Anstria-Hnngarv. 5.5 tbs.; Russia, 1.98 Tbs.; Italy, 3.08 lbs.; Scandinavia, 1.1 lbs.; Belgium, 11.22 lbs.; Switzerland. 13.86 Tbs. The quan tity used bv the Spaniards is not given, but as Italy's consumption is so small the influences at work in each oonntry probably reduce the consumption in the former conntrv to an imnotioeable quan tity. China I'S not mentioned, bnt it is stated that 600,000,000 people use Chinese paper, 866,000,000 use En mpeau paper and 130.000,000 Arabian, 24,000,000 write on leaves, etc.. ami 280,000.000 are happy without any paper or writing material. Language* of Finger- Kings. In ease of a gentleman wishing to marry—literally "in the market" with his heart—he wears a plain or chased gold ring upon the first linger of the left or heart hand. When success at tends hia suit, and he is actually en gaged, the ring passes on to the third finger. If, however; the gentleman de sires to toll the fair cues that he not only is not " in the market," but that he does not design to marry at all, he wears the signet ii)>on his little finger, and all the ladies mav understand that he is out of their reach. With the fair sex " the laws of the ring" are : A plain or chased gold ring on the little finger of the right hand implies not "euguged," or, in plain words, "ready for propos als, sealed or otherwise." When en gaged the ring posses to the third finger of the right hand. When married the third finger of the left hand receives it If the fair one proposes to defy all siege to her heart, she places the rings on her first and fourth finger, one on each— like two charms, to keep away the tempter. It is somewhat singular that this latter disposition of rings is very rare. TERMS: ©ti.OO a Year, in Advance. Art emus VtiN ti. the Fit (en tribute r. As remiuinoenooa of Artemm Ward I have been revived by a writer in .Vr-rfft ner, the Prompt Hook ia reminded o. one, as related to him by John If Hmith, the well known manager of the " Uucie Tom " combination. Mr. Hmith waa acting aa advance agent for Artemna Ward daring the time he waa lecturing on the " Mor uioiia " ami exhibiting hia panorama of Halt I sake City. While on their travels thev came arroaa Mr. A. Minor Gria wold, the " Fat Contributor," who alao 1 bad a panorama and comic lecture, and waa adverttaed to appe-ar in the same town. The two old frienda and celebrated comic writem enjoyed each other's com pany, aud each one expatiated npon hia *uac<-Ha and the attrectivcneaa of the ahow he waa running. Ward inquired of Griawold if hia lec ture was fanny and hia ill us Da ti una go.si, aud reoeivmg aaaurance to that effect he next aaked tlriawold what hia nightly exueuaea were and what he could afford to exhibit for. " Well, fifty dollars is a gosl paying honse for me," replied the F. C. ••Then," said A. Ward, " if I saw fit to pay yon fifty dollara you'd be willing to give your entire show and let me sup ply tbe|amiienoe.. *• Certainly I would," aaid GriawokL " Done," said Ward. "I'll pay yon fifty dollars and yon moat deliver your lecture entire—no cutting. I'll hold the manuscript, and your miniona must unwiud all your painting* and give the show joat aa if yon were before a regu lar audience." " I'll do it," said Griawold, laughing; and the bargsiu was made. Upon the night of the jierformance Ward called Hmith and the attaches of his combination together, told them of hi* agreement, and gave them direction* how to act daring the performance, closing with the admonition that he would discharge any man on the spot who dared to even make the least at tempt at a smile during Griawold's lec ture. At night Griawold waa promptly at hia reading desk and 'saw before him an audience of some twelve persons scat tered around uj>u the front seats, and as be oommeuoed the introduction of hia lecture his auditors all, save one, drew ucwspa|*ra from their jwwkrts and quietly began reading, tbe only excep tion being Ward, who held the manu script of the lecture to be delivered in hia band, and sat strictly following it word for word. Grtswold talked on, and the reverber ation of bis own voice in the empty ball and an occasional yawn by Ward was the only notification he iiad of there being an andience present At everv joke that fell from Griswold's lips a sod or s snore would greet the j>er]>etrator. After half an hour's steady work the lecturer found bis task getting very monotonous, and offered to let Ward off for twenty-five dollars if he wonld allow htm to shut up shop ; but the unimpres sionable Artemus w< >uld not aeeede, and demanded the entire performance. Another thirty minutes was passed in the same war, varied a little by confi dential and muttered remarks among the auditors about stale jokes and in fernal dsnbs of pictures, until Griawold gave np the ghost and begged off, pre ferring to pocket all the losses rather than submit to Uie torture of lecturing to such an audience. The lecturer and their friends retired, and at the nearest restaurant enjoyed many joke* over the night's frolic.— FS-rty Saturday. Sitting Bull. A Canada paper, the Ottawa Pitisen, giv* an interesting account of the prea ••lit poit:on of Hitting Ball and hia fol lower*. A British officer, Major Walab, la at present in charge of a poet in the immediate vicinity of Sitting Ball'a en campment, near Wood mountain, and. >a on the nii*t friendly terms with the " big Indian " chief. The major appear* to hare a decided influence over the red men, anil they all look up to him a a great and noble chief of the White Mother. lie haa a contingent of twenty picked men, aa brave and a* tine aa stecL Tne Sioux camp at thia point number* about Are hundred lodge*, re presenting nearly one thousand son!*, and is divided up at present into small hunting partie*. The old braves are moat peaceably inclined, and there would be no fear of a breach of the friendly relations existing were it not for a num ber of hot-headed young bucks who make depredatory incursions across the border and sometimes go so far, when a favor able opportnnitT presents itself, to steal horses in Canadian territory, and escape to the United States. The old bsve* deprecate this, and in every way endea vor to prevent it In fact, they invari ably make good the value of the horses stolen. To show bow strongly they feel on this point, Inspector Allen savs that the day before he left a party of Hioux were out hunting when t hey oame across a young buck with a number of horsea in his possession, evident] v making his way to the United States, "flie father-in-law of the voting man was in the party, and wauteJ to know where he got the horses. He replied that he got them as a present from a white trader. The father-in-law quietly hinted that he handled the truth carelessly, whereupon the yonng buck grew impertinent. The father-in-law oousidered this snffleieut justification : for him to dispatch the yonng man to the bsppy hunting gronnd, and with out further parley dashed his brains ont with a war club. • A Race with the Flames. n* Yankton Prt * tellsof a lively race tlio general and L. A. Carney had with the recant prairie fire. Traveling rtpon an nnhnrned atrip, they came cloee to the lino of the fire, which extended milea northwest and southwest, and was edging slowly northeastward. When they were within twenty rode of thia line the wind anddenly increased and shifted some twenty degrees towanl the east and from the weat, sweeping the flames directly upon them. What was five minutes before a harm leas fire, to be omaaed with ordinary care, waa now a continuous flame, often ten or fifteen feet high, and sometimes twenty feet acroaa. Tt roared like half a dozen paa senger trains at full speed. They spraug from the wagon and fired the graaa, bnt it made very alow progress, and had not burned ten feet souare when a whirl wind came down the line with a high gale. Their only chance waa flight, and they sprang into the wagon and whipped up their Texan horses for a race north ward to some higher atony ground. The ponies understood that game And went readily. It was all doue in leas time than the telling. The very cause of danger waa at last the means of safety. The whirlwind, which waa twenty wide, passed by. It hail changed all the adjacent currents of wind. This hail deadened the wind ahead and prevented the fire from spreading, and now that it hail passed it gave a chance to cross in its rear upon the ground where the grass waa thin, and within ten minutes of the first apprehension of danger they were among the smoking cinders on burned gronnd. The whirlwind went over toe bluff and down the river bottom, filling it with fire iu plaoea above the level of the bluffs, and sending up a column of black smoke which must have been over half a mile in length. NUMBER 41). TIMELY TOPIC*. Ex-Oov. John P. Hoyt, oI Anaona, •ays that the foara that the Mormon* are taking possession of that Territory are rather premature. Germany tnrna oat annnally flaw hun dred and fifty doctor* thoroughly edu cated, about one hundred of whom im migrate to foreign parts. A farmer of Reno county. Ken., com ing acroaa a rattlesnake, tiod hi* reina in a bunch and killed it therewith. Bulieequeutly he untied the knot with hi* teeth, and the poiaon thn* got into hui system and drove him mad. The riding of byeiclea, the modern development of the old velocipede, trans planted from England twelve month* ago, Lao taken a firm root in the citiee and towns of New England, and threat ens in o abort time to spread it* in fluence all over the country. Mr*. Dion* Haines was mads insane in Moont Gilead, Ohio, by a false re port that she was an heiress to §IOO,OOO, the sadden elation and disappointment tin balancing her reasoo. Has tried to commit suicide and wsa sent to an asylum. Lately §7JO.QOO wsa really be- SMWtbed to her,bat she will not believe A drunkard in Bacramento, warned by a touch of delirium tremens that be had carried his drinking altogether too fir, resolved to reform or die. He declared his purpose to aeveral friends, locked himself in his room, seated himself in an easy-chai7, and pnt a loaded pistol on s table within reach. The craving for al cohol grew stronger and stronger, and at last, unable to resist his thirst, he shot himself through the heart. Twiee already had the marriage of s Soong doctor and a rich bells of Moont terling, 111., been postponed, when the cards were issued for a grand wedding purtv. The feast was set, the guests were met, but no bridegroom was there. The young lady went out to seek him, am! found him at his room dead-drunk. Going to the railroad station she took the first train that passed, gave the conductor a ring to pay her fare, left the cars at Macomb, and was only found next day by her father and the eober and repentant lover. He was anxious to marry her at once, but she refuted ever to speak to him again. On the Cooper lane, about a mile or so north of Stockton, OaL, there lives an industrious Italian on an even acre of ground lying in triangular shape be tween the road and the railroad at the crossing point He has a wife and five children, whom he supports in oom fort from the product of his garden. The little farm is planted with trees, vines and vegetables, and is thoroughly well tilled. Occasionally he plants an early crop on the railroad right of way adjoining, which remains undisturbed until the plow of the fire protectors comes along. But this instance is a good illustration of " a little farm well tilled." The Times That Try Ink StmL When be pope the question. When be goes home t night, finds e a house full of company, and hia wife blissfully ignorant of tbe fact that dinner is not ready. Wben be dives down into tbe bottom of his trunk, jerks out what be snp poeee is a clean pair of socks, but finds only an old table-napkin, with four white neckties, pnt away for next summer. Wben be buys a new pair of shoes and '.laoovers two big nails sticking up in tbe bee! a. When be takes hi* girl oat and dis , ooven that be has left his pocketbook at home in his old trousers. When he harries around the corner and lands sonar* is the arms of a man who holds his L O. U. When he writes to his best girl and has to wait two weeks for s reply. When hssh is plaoed before him five Mooesaave mornings st his boarding house. When, after waiting in s barber shop for an honr, and hearing the welcome word "next," he sees a little fellow shoot up from behind a paper and alide into the chair like a streak of greased electricity. When his wife wants to talk and be doesn't. When he pokes hit bead through his last clean shirt and finds no bntton on behind. When in his dreams he is standing npon the verge of a precipice, end bis wife suddenly reminds him that he isn't, bnt that he is jerking her " banged hair all to pieces.—jYrrr I'ori Erpmt. A Singular Case. Tbe Brookfield (N. Y.) Courier re ports the following: " Miss Caroline llaboock, s sister of Mrs. Jordan, whose sickness we have hitherto reported, died last Wednesday. Her case was an ex tremely singular one. Her limbs had been partially paralysed for a number of Tears, rendering it difficult for her to walk. Some time in last August she began to experience a loathing of food; and soon her stomach became so badly affected that it could retain food for only a short time. This condition continued for about two weeks, when it became impossible for her to take anything ex cept cold water, and that was always emitted from her stomach as soon ns it Itecamc warmed. There were a few times during her illness that she evinced a desire for food, but wben it was given her, her sense of taste revolted, and she Would be unable to take it. During tbe last eight weeks and four days of her life she tasted nothing but water, ex cept on two occasions, once a little water-gruel and once a few blackber ries, ami these remained on her stomach only a few minutes. How she survived this length of time without nourishment is certainly marvelous. The best med ical skill and kindest sympathies of her friends were powerless to change her oondition, and her friends ooold bat look on while she literally starved to death. She suffered but little pain un til the last week or tsro, when she suf fered severely." Winter Clothing for Children. Every one must remark that a favorite ' article of winter clothing for children is a comforter swathed around the ueck. ; This is a great error; the feet and wrists I are the proper members to keep warm; the face and throat wfll harden to an healthy indifference to cold; but that muffler, exchanged for an extra pair of thick socks and knitted gloves, would preserve a boy or girl really warm and well. Bronchitis and sore throat have declined fifty per centum since the absurd use of high oollars and twice round neckerchiefs went out of fashion ; and if the poor would take better care of their children's feet half the infantile mortality would disappear. It only costs a trifle to pnt a piece of thick felt or cork into thd bottom of a boot or shoe, but the difference is often consid erable between that and a doctor's bill, with perhaps the undertaker's beside.— Green Mountain Freeman. Th# Boon fill* Hollo. Wo Moth milo.Boon tII la belle With MOST iMkir sad ayes, For tM ■ mUi o renin* air vff Fewsfltorthhi* moan* and rigka. Ema b*r walking down ths tann— " Where do H ago?" bs Mid. Kh Edith oot hi* plaintive too* And trie* to Id* hood, i " 1 HIM far Moray," tboo ho Both. " Nor will 1 happy ho TO) yon hora Frith in ny complaint And My yon 11 Mary m," " Ik* oaanot proaim yon," oho qooth. A twinkio la bar oyo, •' Km 11 laaiah I do, ymH my,; I'arhap*. ti* all a Ouy." •• |iy Uoorga, I do da CUra|trnth Whoa I'M in lorn I my— Your Lot ah*U happy bo. oooa wed HYoa'U never iiath the day 1" " It may bo l{hwvo;ilaa too raafe— If Phoabo hm 'twere oad A maid ahonld ao Loaim cfcauee Whaw ohaooo to wod aha'a had." Thai did tbo girl with self-eommane' While to bor pretty fern There Bom bfarh, which ha did Mark Oara bar a royal draco. Haid ehe: I do bo Lewi will Coooant to he your bride— If Violet yon take a Mm, Wilt bo now Mtiafled 7" fCwjmt rttkL Item* of Interest, A polite flab—A gent-eel. A lean lover may still be a man of great sigh*. Beady made—The young lady waiting for an offer. It is the tin business which is moat liable to a pan ic. Oive seat money and it will, of oourss, put a is its purr*. When is a man thinner than a shingle Whan he i* a shaving. Out of all character—The poor fellow who has lost his reputation. Tomato** contain no oancer-produong snbetsnoe, aay* Prof. Arnold. There is a olaas whom beggar* can't I put op with ; they are hotel keepers. 1 Light from the north is more injurious I to the eyes than light from the south. A printer fa the New fork World at' flee he* worked at his trade fifty-seven aara. $ Deer are found in almost all part* of the globe except Australia and south of Africa. If you turn an American " State "hp aide down yon will find the Btair of the French republic. A r"" Potion lis* written a book on music. It will be called " Put ton Aim, probably. A couple were married on the can in Missouri, lately. What a long " train " the bride must have had f Albert Smith once wrote hi* initial* in a hotel register. A wag wrote jnat underneath: " Two-thirds of the troth." Oct in yew plants, your apple* pick, Er* both at* knocked to under*. To dsyhgbt bring year stora-door quick, pat co yowr double winder*. The popular idea that mushrooms grow only in the night not correct; their growth i* nearly equal day and night Gold ia entirely unaffected by atmos pheric actios or influence*. Silver be comes dull, but gold retain* it* native luster. "What i* good for a oold F" asks a subscriber. Winter ia about the beet thing we know of: a good winter full of snow-drift*. Talk about the angry sea and the mad waves and all that Humph! you'd be angry, too, were you crossed a* often a* the oean is. It may add to the interest which ia be ing revived in " Down cm the Old Su wanee Hirer" to know that it has ali gatora eleven feet long. A Nevada politviaa was elected on the merits of a single speech. All be •aid was, " Fellow-countrymen, follow me to yonder refreshment saloon." " A splendid croquet ground in the rear," said the real estate agent And, when he had bought the house and moved in be found that the frog* kept croaking all night. A Nevada paper tell* of a young lady in that region that is ao delicate and •thecal a creature that ou losing a hair ! pin from her head the other day, she 1 caught A bad oold that hong cm for a week. The first steamboat need dry pine wood for fuel, and the flame rose to a considerable distance above the smoke pipe: when the Ares were disturbed, mingled smoke and sparks rose high in the air. Onetime a lion met a elephant and the elephant aed : "You better go and git Tour hair cut." But the lion it aed : " Bah ! I shant resent a fellers in suits wich baa got his nose tweea his own teefha." A striking peculiarity of the cater , pillars of Patagonia is their eannilialism. They prsv universal ly upon their own kind. TipnUtim is frequently dried up in that region, and hence thiaeanci baMsm. A correspondent sends us some verses and asks "if ten cents a line would be too much." No, ten cents a line would not be too much for a clothes line or a aLwmboat line. Jtortmn Commercial Bulletin. It is said that there ia one word which is never pronounced right even by the best scholars, and that is the word wrong. It ia only fair to obeerve, how ever, that there ia another word which is never pronounced wrong, and that ia the word right A French paper report* a murder trial in which a witness testified that he heard two pistol shots on the staircase and sent his wife to see what was the matter. "Yon did not go up-etairs yourself 7" "No, air; I was afraid of the revolver." California, like many other parts of the country, is suffering from an excess of railways. The San Francisco A Ita says that so man v railways have been built in California, and they have advanced so far beyond the demands of business or the probability of any large profit, that the future construction must be slow. Out of 2,000 miles, st least 1,000 do not pay six per cent on the cost Long stretches have been built with the expectation that they would be unprotit able, one motive being to increase the trade of other roads already built A young lady, named May Forrer, oj Edinburg, Ind., has had a strange ex perience with her voice. She had lost the faculty of speaking above a whisper uutii ODO day last summer, when she was playing croquet, with a piece of ice in her mouth. The ice slipped down her throat, and the sudden effort to re cover it restored her speech. She went on talking then until a few nights ago, when she dreamed that she had lost her voice, and, aura enough, when she woke up in (he morning she had lost it The doctors call it aphorica, and say she will be all right when her nervous system is built up. Proof that the top of a wagon wheel, when running along on the ground, moves faster than the bottom, is given, according to the Scientific America H, by instantaneous photographs of a wagon iin rapid motion. It is obvious, says the writer, that an instantaneous photo graph of a wheel, revolving upon its axle in the air, will show all parts of the wheel with eqnal distinctness. Tint if the wheel has a progressive motion, and any one portion has a greater mo tion than its corresponding part, above or below, there must be a liability to blurring in that part of the picture. These pictures are taken with so brief an exposure that the horse, though moving at a 2:24 gait, is sharply oat lined. The wheels of the driver's sulky, however, have a different tale to telL The lower third of each wheel is sharp and distinct as if absolutely at rest. Not so with the top, that part of the wheel showing a peroepti jle movement dur ing the two thousandth part of a second of the exposure of the plate. The np per ends of the spokes and the rim are binned.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers