Flown Away. f m lbs bars, brown bought before m In the softly falling rain, Raato a bluebird . now, upstarting, gas bow tnddenlr she's darting. Far tway across tha plain. It was but a dash of color, Shown against a stormy sky ; Only two blur wings uplifted Whare the gray clouds slowly drifted Bat they bora a song on high She is lost ta misty darkness ; . Will ahe pierce beyond the gray * Will the reach the blue behind It 7 Will she pause when she shall And it ? W ill she know tt ? Who can say ? Hoes RVTii Oooiki ', in .VribarT. Come Unto the HIUs. Come up unto the hills thy strength is there Oh, thou haet ltngen>d long, Too long amid the bower* stut blossoms (air, With notes of sumnur song Oh, son! ' why lam their What though the bird Pipe matin lu the *'*, The ploughboy whistle to Ihe Kutering herd As the red daylights fail. Vet come uuto the lull*, the > id >*roug hilla. And leave tha stagnant plant Come to the gushing of the r w horn rill* Tha: sing uuto the aiaiu. And It)on with drnisena of p■*!■ shall dwell Beyond demeaiung care . Cowp.etd ujkiu lu- itxk. tuiJ stoim nd fell, Tue eagle sha! l<e there. Come up unto the hills - the -Littered tree Still oiiugr unto the nci. And thngvih out his Inuclira eadfast, free. To bide agaiu the stuck . Come where no (tar :* Sr-sit ihe sea-bud's nest On the old hemlock *auig>. And than Shalt taste the gladness of uureat. And mount upon thy wings Come tip uuto Use hilts tha ntuO of old, Thev of undaoulud >H. Oiww jubilant of hi a .1 -t :jjai d . On tha enduring h; Where caiur the Svmudlng of the -e\ afar. Borne landward to tha car. And nearer grew the moon an J miJ.nght star. And God himeeif wore near. A"!!ltlirPl l WieS * :■ My Rich Uncle from China. "My dears." cried Mrs. ChiJleigh, hurrying into the morning partbr, where Berenice and I sat, busy m i blue and pink tarlatan candy-bags, the charity fair, " I've news I r you, the very best of news." It wa> the day beiore Timcksgiving, and the fair WHS to be hf L.I that evening at tnv ar it's bouse. "Whai is it?" Berenice, aeatteriv. her cand' -* ' H .at Mr. Ever leigh spoken at last V ' My auv.t flushed and bit her Up. "Myd-ar Berenice," - he said, "you .should not be so out-ej • kin ! To htar yon, one would fancy you were exceed - logly ai xious abont Mr. Everleigh. " " Well, aren't we?" • terrapted Ber ry, saacily. toeing lur blonde hair. " I'm sure we've leeu expecting him to speak for the las! month, and hoping for it, t HI. Where's the harm in saving what we feel ?*' Aunt was silent. I laughed, as I fill ed a bine bag with piuk bon-bons. " You seem to take it for granted. Berry," I said, "that when Mr. Ever leighi doea speak, it will be to propose for yon. Now, you forget ma Who can tell, which he may chooee ?" Berenice curled her red lip. " Hell not be likely to choose yon, Meg. at any rate," she said, with a sneer. New, I knew this to be quite true. I was a poor orphan, my father died, pen niless, a ,Vw years beiore. We lived in a small cottage, with only four rooms, that had hnce been the gardener's-cot tage. and which had been granted to us rent free, by Annt Mary. In fact, wt were, more or less, dependents on her bounty. Mother eked out our scanty living by taking in plain sewing, and I earned a little by fine embroidery; but I hail not mucb time of my own for this kind of work, for my aunt was sending for ur, continually, to do this and that; and I did not dare to re fuse. 1 was. in short, a kind of maid of-al'i work, up at the "great house," as we called Aunt Mary's residence. Sometimes, 1 tlmngbt, with a sigh, of the difference between mamma's lot an 1 Aunt Mary'g Then I remembered that the latter had sold herself for money, marrying an old man, who was twice her age, and Beth jealous and exactiug. Fortunately, he had died, at last. But Aunt Mary had. lor.g since, paid the penalty, by growing harder-hearted and more selfish daily, when my own dear parents, who had married for love, had bete supremely liappj ; at least, while lather lived. I WHS net sqre, recalling all this, that, in spite of our privations, we ongbi to complain. Yet Berenice was i-orrect, of course. What right had I, a dependant, even to think of Mr. Everkngh, who was rich, fashiouable. and a favorite everywhere ? Bnt I was human, after all, and this tan nt roused me. " I can't see why ha shouldn't marry even me, if he loved me," I retorted". "He's a free agent, at any rate." Berenice tossed her head, till her ring lets were in a shimmer. " What a little fool von are," she aaid, "for goodness' sake hold your tongue. Mammo. leva," and she turned her back on tue, " den't you mean to tell na your good news? " " Assuredly, when you are polite enough to hear it. I've been waiting now. some ten minutes. Are you and Meg quite done with your absurd dis cussion? " " Quite, mamma ! It was Meg who start*-d it; she's always chattering non sense. But let us hear the news." Aunt drew a letter from her pocket. "A letter," cried Berenice ; 'then it does not concern Mr. Everieigh, after all" "My dear, no. No one mentioned Mr. Everieigh's name, but yourself. I really wish yon would try and be a lit tle more guarded. The letter ia from your nncle in Bbanghae. He ia coming * home." Berenice and I gave a simultaneous exclamation. Since the earliest years of our childhood, "our uncle in China " had been the center about which all our romance had revolved. He was mam ma's brother, and Aunt Mary's also. Years liefore, when I was a mere baby, he had gone abroad, become soldier and sailor by turns, and flnall had amassed, wo had heard, a great fortune. Once in a long while a battered box that smelted of camphor and foreign spices came over seas, a reminder that Uncle Hal had not quite forgotten either mamma or Auni Mary. But generally the gifts were to my annt. "Those on whom success shines," says the old homily, "arc successful in all things." " When your uncle comes home from Qhica, Berenice dear, we will do thns and so," was always on my annt's tongne; for, rich as she was, at least comparatively, she was always wanting more. And now he was coming! Berry screamed with delight. " I shall tell Everleigh," she said, al most instantly, and a little spitefully, " I dare say he'll speak now." "It doesn't at all matter whether he speaks or not, my daughter," said my annt, loftily, " when your uncle arrives -and we mavlook for him any day next Week— you will feel, mv dear, that your position in life is doubly secured. Even Mr. Everleigh would hardly be a match for yon ! So now yon and Maggie go on with yonr work. I'm glad oar cbaritv fair comes off to-night; we shall be busy hereafter preparing for your uncle. "What a pity he couldn't be here for Thanksgiving." Having said this, my aunt sat down to write out invitations and directions for the charity fair. A devout church member, and something of s philanthro pist, was annt. FRED. KURTZ. Editor and Pr< vpriotor. VOLUME XI. •• Mamma, mamma, I aay," culled Jack, Berenice's hopeful brother, a lad some doaeu summers tiki, thrusting hi* cnrlj head in at the door, " Have yon get any stale victuals, or old elothea, or anytlnug to give away ? " , Sty aunt put down her gold jw n, ami threw hack ihe point-lace lajija t* of liar breakfast-cap, with an air of annoyance. Jack waa such a tormeut ! "Why, Jack?" demanded Berenice. "'Cause there's a beggar out here. He h>oka awful huugrv ; and ain't got no overeodt. I say, mamma, can l give him that cold turkey in the larder ? " Mamma leaped to her feet. " Xol 1 want that turkev to make ssudwiohe* tor the fair ; donH dare to touch it. Send the beggar away ; you kuow 1 won't have trumps about the place. Send htm away, this minute ; and go straight np to the library, and write ont your l,atiu exercises." Jack turned from the door, a cloud ou his aunuv face. Looking out of the window, 1 saw an old man, iDsuflicieutly clad. Our big dog Carlo was suarling at his heels. The beggar was so close to the window that he must have heard every word my auut said ; and he looked crestfallen enough iu consequence. "It doesn't seem quite consistent," 1 remarked, for once letting mv indig nation get the lieiter of my love of peace, "to have the house about one's ears, getting ready for a charity fair, ami a starving beggar walking from the door unfed." " A thieving tramp," cried mv auut, hotly. " Keep silent, Meg. and don't interfere. It's uoue of your business, anvhow." 1 was pmdeut enough to make no re ply, bat my blood boiled, nevertheless. Hail I remained much longer, I should have lost my self-control, ! fear ; so I got np directly, and saying thai I had promised to go home soon, left my aunt's. Our oottage was at the edge of the ■rood, just ontaideof the great gates; but the aveune was lia!f a mile long, and before 1 reached the gates, I ha 1 almost overtaken the beggar, ne seem ed not only old, but feeble, and walked with difficulty; he ws probably deaf also, as he Jul net seem to hear my foot step*. Just outside the gates, he met my little sister, Kitty, who was return ing from the wood, where *he had beeu to pick np sticks for onr fire. " My dear," said tbeold man, address ing her, " cau you t* II me where I can get a bit of supper and a night's lodgiug ? I am old and poor, and haven't tbe money to go to a tavern. Yon look a* if yon had a kind heart, Ood bless it! I've just been turned away trom tbe big honse here; but perhaps you are not so hard-hearted as the mistress there.' Kitty's honest littie face showed the pity that she felt. But she was only a chiid, and shrink from responsibility. "I don't know air," she said, diffi dently. " I thmk mamma will give yon something to eat; and maybe we can find a bed for yon; that is, if sister Margaret and I sleep on tbe settee; for you see onr house is small. Bat, oh, here comes sister herself,** she cried, as she discov ered me, " and she'll tall you all about it." My heart was still hot with indigna tion "at the brutality w-itli which ttiy annt aud Berenice bad treated the old man. and I hastened to rep'7. warmly: *' Yea, I will undertake that yon shall have supper and bed, although neither may be an good as what they could have given von up at the great house. Bat what little we have, you shall share. Stav. let me carry your pack for von." He hail a small one strapped on hisVack. " Indeed, indeed, I am fitter to do it than yon." " Thank yon," he said, slowly taking a long look at my face, and t hen scru tinizing that of Kitty's. "Yon seem, both of you, as if yon were good children; and your offer to take my pack proves aa much. But I'll carry it myself, still. Little one," and he turned to Kitty, " what have yon got those sticks for ? " "For mother's fire, please." she said, dropping a little curtesy. " I have just been getting them in the woods." " My annt," I interposed, " wbo lives in the great honse here, kindly allows us to pick np loose bite from under the trees. We are poor, aa sister says, and so every little beips." "And you are duly thankful, I snp pose?"said the old man, sarcastically. "Beggars must not b chooser*, you know, aa I heard just now myself." 1 blushed scarlet with shame for my aunt. " Indeed, indeed," I cried, "YOU trust not judge Aunt Mary too harsfily, for I see, from what von nay, that you overheard her. She must have beeD out of sorts this morning " " And 1 suppose that a veiee which answered her, and which I think I recognize," he interrupted, looking at me keenly again, " belonged to name one who was not out of sorts, eh ?" Before I could answer I heard the qnick gallop of a horse, and my poor weak heart gave a great bound, for 1 reoognized iu that elastic footfall the step of the thoroughbred that Mr. Kver leigh rode. In my embarrassment I stepped quickly asiife, though of course there was no danger, and in stepping aside my foot slipped on a stone, my ankle turned, and with an unconscious crv of pain I sank to the earth. Ybe rider was off his horse and at my side, and bad lifted me in bis arms, even before the old beggar who stood so close to me conld stoop to assist me. "It is only a sprain," I stammered, trying to free myself, yet feeling, oh ! so happy, in those strong arms. "lam sure I can walk." ' " Bnt I know you can't," said Mr. Everleigh impetuously. ' * How shall I ever forgive myself ? It was my rapid gallop that made you start." " No, no," I cried, " I was talking to this poor old man, and it came on me so suddenly—you are not a bit to blame— only I have been foolish. But do let me try to walk." My earnestness, joined to my strug gles induced him to yield. He release.) me from hia arms. Bnt the instant I put my foot to the ground, the agony was such that I almost shrieked. I bit my lip till the blood came, however, and kept silence. Mr. Everleigh snatched me again into hla arms. " I knew it would be so," he cried, " and now yon must let me carry you. John," and be called to a groom, who had been following him, "ride at at once to Dr. Landor's. We must, my dear Mies Chidleigh, have the foot ban daged without delay." " And I will lead your horse to the cottage," interposed the old beggar, " and tie him there. Gome on, little Kitty, you and I will follow." When we got home the house was filled with the smell of crullers, which mamma was baking for the feast that was to be given, up at Aunt Mary's, after the fair. Poor mamma, she looked tired to death ; and when she saw me, she fairly gave up for a moment ; but Mr. Everleigh, in a few, kind words, put her fears to rest; and long before the physician came, my injured foot was swathed and bandaged, so that Dr. Landor declared he had been " regular ly taken in." When evening came my foot was ever so much better; so much so, that, when Mr. Everleigh returned with a carriage, and insisted that we shonld all go up to my aunt's to the fair, as we had prom ised, 1 was only too willing to consent. For the first time in our acquaintance, > there was something in Mr. Everleigh's : manner that made even me, humble aa THE CENTRE REPORTER. I waa, think that i waa not without a charm ftir him. The lieggar had crept, unobtrusively, into a corner while my foot waa Iteing bandaged, but Kitty, rcmeiutieruig htm, left me when ahelotind the hurt waa not serious, •• Poor old man," ahe said, "we had i(ally forgotten you. Ton must be hungry. Here, eat some of these crullers, ami when mamma has finished with Maggie she will make yon a cup of tea." The cup of tea was made iu due time, and a substantial supper act before the mendicant; in fact, all the cold meat we had iu the house. When Mr. Ever leigh returned, and we proposed to go, the old beggar rose to hi* feet; " I am a stranger to you. ma'am," he •aid, addressing ummma, " and natur ally you will uotjwish to leave me here tti your house. 1 will wait outside till you come back." " Wait outside?" cried mamma, "aud m the cold ? No, your face is an honest face, if there ever was oue. Hit down again, here bt the tire, and stay, and sleep here to-uight and take dinner with us to-morrow. It will be a homely meal for a Thanksgiving one, but such as it is you will be welcome to it." "God bless yon, ma'am," said the old man, with a sbakv voice, ami I I thought I saw tears in his eves. I aui sure 1 heard him murmur, as he turned away to hide his emotion : ' Of such is the Viugdom of heaven." The charity fair, a* the reader, by this time has understood, was to be held in HIT aunt's spao.otis apartments. Everybody wan to be there. The gov ernor even, who was ou a visit to hia brother, a near neighbor, van expected to attend. One of the senators for onr State was also to la' present. It was to be a most brilliant affair. So, when the dining-room was all a-ghtter with lights, and echoed with gay voices, and shone with handsome dress es, and beheld the presence of the most distinguished society of the county ; and was tilled with --tails of pretty thing*, the big, chintz covered chair was wheeled into the hail, and I, my sprain ed foot resting on a cushion, sat in it, with a table of pretty knick-knack* be fore me ; and Mr. Evsrleigh by me. My aunt did nut look in a good hu mor, however, though her fair could not have been more of a success, and though everybody praised her philan- Berenice, too, wore a scowl, that spoiled all her blonde Inanity. Somewhere abont ten o'clock, wheu bnsiueHs was at Its briskest, there came a rl! of wheel* on the drive and bustle at the door. Presently, Jack, who had gone to see what was the matter, rushed back, his grav eves dancing. "Oh! lterry, I say," be cried out, stifling a burst of laughter, " Yon know tbe beggar ? The old man we turned off this morning? Well, he's back again; here at the door, and, oh 1 mv burtons, bnt he's our uncle from China." My aunt, in her black silk and point lace, stood behind a stall of cake* and ices. She turned sharply at Jack's words. He saw her look of consterna tion. and screamed with lanpliter again. •• I say, now, mamma, it is true. Don't you wish you'd let me give him the cold tnrk.-y. instead of making it into sandwiches?" My anut did not utter a word. But she htirruM to the door, and Berenice followed. There he stood, onr long-expected nncle from China, a little, weather lieaten old man, with a pinched, pale face. A wicked twinkle lit his eyes. My annt ruabed np to him at once, and would have smothered him with kis*es. But he merely gave her the tipsol hi* yellow finger*. "I made acquaintance with your niece, this morning," he said with a dry,chuckling iaugh, tnrr ug to me, as be came in, " and the littie girl there, too," indicating Kitty. "She is poor Marian'* child, eh ? She's got her mother's fair face, and good heart. She gave the In-ggar a welcome, which some others, I know of, didn't. Ah, well, I suppose its tinman naturj. But I'll make it np to her, all the same. Never turn a needy mau from joar door, Mrs. Chidieigb. Yon kuow what the good book says about entertaining angels unaware* ?" Poor aunt? Tbe look ou her face wa too ludicrous? lu spite of our relation ship, I laughed tili my sides actie-1. But Berenice went to her room and cried herself to sleep. Well, there is little more to tell. It really was our uncle from China, who had chosen to come to us, wearing the guise of a beggar ; aud if only tay aunt had been consistent in her charity, her long cherished expectations rnigtif haTe been realized. As it was, the gieat China fortune went to me aud Kitty and Jack; and Berenice got never a penny. And, moreover, when Horace F.vcrleigh did •qvoak (he had spoken that evening be fore our nncle declared himself), it was me he asked to be his wife. Berenice takes it all bitterly to heart, and my annt is inconsolable; but I, be lieving that in this life and in the life which is to come we get only our just deserts, have nothing to say. " Yes," remarlw my nncle, "Maggie and Kitty aud Jack shall inherit all I have. • They were kind to me when they did not know who I was; that's the sort of people I believe in."— Pclrmon l.lfe in the Arctic Region*. Dr. John Roe recently delivered an interesting lecture on tnis subject in Dublin. The lecturer, after having stated the necessity of those taking part in the Arctic expeditions being previous ly accustomed to oxjxisuree to cold and privations, gave a vivid account of two voyages which he made to-those regions. He described how the Esquimaux built lints of blocks of snow in which they lived perfectly warm, how the seals are killed by a harpoon being suddenly plunged by the hunter into the breath ing holes they make in the ioe, and re lated several amusing anecdotes showing the sagacity of foxes Home of these animals he bad known to scrape away all the snow which covered the traps set for them, and then approaching at the l>ack, steal and eat the bait. He bail also known a fox to scrajn* a trench by the side of a piece of bait and then get ting into the hole pull the meat down and so dischaige the gun, to the trigger of which a string one end of which was attached to the Bait was tied. Having thus avoided the shot and defeated the intention of the hunter it would eat the irnit. He did not agree with Mr. Ro manes in that gentleman's opinion about animal intelligence; but he believixl that some of these foxes showed that they possessed something more than mere instinct. Having -eferred to the sufferings of Sir John Franklin's party, he mentioned some of the privations to which he (Dr. Rao) and his men were subject. They had to sleep in the snow houses together in their clothes, and were unable to wash, being only able to rub themselves with snow. At. times they depended npon their hunting for food, and they were so hungry that they devoured the whole of the birds shot except the bill and claws. Their drink wag tea, water, chocolate, etc., but they took no grog. In conclusion, the leo tnrer mentioned that on his return he and Ills party, consisting of eight, were given the $50,000 granted by govern ment for the discovery of the remains of those forming the Franklin expedition. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO.. PA., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1878. stnr !• Thnr W hit rr Mahlm larta<l % (r Ihe llni'ft Just u word or two about tin* matter of Christmas. M>wt of the reader* of the 7Vl6tin< are *ic, practical people, who kuow the value of fun and charity, and hourly devotional filling, and meau therefore to keep the day which bring* these thing* into their houses, and the heart* of their lntya slid girls. Bilt the majority of Tribum reader* are uot people whose estates ruu tip into seven figures, or who can deal gorgeous gifts around aiuoug their friend* aliil |xor neigtilxirs, with no more trouble than it oot Aladitiu to rub hi* rusty lamp. A* a rule, they measure the outlay of dime* pretty sharp- 1 ly, and play a perpetual game of fence with their monthly bill*. They mean to keep Christmas and to give Christmas gifts, but they have in *ll probability about one-half or one-third u* much money a* they could afford to give to the purpose in former year*. The wisest plan to follow, as it seems to us, in these oiroumstauees, is 1. Lot the atiutiug and hardship, it it must come, (all on the grown people ; , keep it oat of sight of the children on tin* day a* mti' h a* possible. If they have been nsed to a tree, go without your cigara or new Ixiunet, but let it rise for them on this Chntma morning with all It* old splendor. The middle aged can weigh a sacrifice st it* insig nificant value, and they have phiioaopbv to meet it. But we question very wueli the good effect* of the discipline of pov erty at any season upuu youug children. At all events spare it to thcui, if possi ble, in this grscmus time when they think that al! good gifts and gladness come straight from Him whose birthday it i*. 11. Cut off your wealthy friends wilh tho cheai>eet alitl trivial offering*. They will have sense enough to under stand why you do it. and if they have uot, they are uot worth keeping a* friends. Put more thought, care and aeutitueut into your little koepsuke* for them, aud you will have more money left to put into gifts for those who need substantial offerings. 111. " Komenilx.r the poor, not by •ending a turkey to one hungry family, or a ton of ooal to another, and then dropping the wtiole ola* out of your tmnd for the reel of the holidays, but by actually takiug thought how to help them substantially. IV. Don't pay half your week's •alary for a bit( clois une to give your rich neighbor, whose cabinet# are full of such useless stuff, but take a photo graph of his baby to the |xor artist around the corner to paint, so yon shall scatter real pleasure with both hands. You know a newly cousin to .whose housewifely anxious soul a set of embroidered napkins or handkerchiefs would seem a most proper gift, aud you know a needle woman starving for work : make them Ikitli happy, (live the children's half-worn coals and shoes to the poor seamstre-s aud • •bibltr to bind and patch, betore you give iht-m to thou* who are still po >ret tuau thev. >et the children to w<wk to menu their broken toys aud to drvna tb-tr little trees, and lei them be themselves the Christ ehil or-u who shall carry them out and give tiiern away. Ho it -hail not l*> a tinsel ed tree which yon shall plant, hilt a habit of chanty, of kinJlluees, of love winch shall bear fruit their lives lung. Use yonr influence as well as your money to scatter hope and help. Don't begrudge un hour's letter-writing or a mile's walk to tlod a situation for that i>oor clerk or teacher out of work. Don't lie ashamed, either, to call IU co-opera tion in your kindly schemes. Yo j can yourself only afford logivt an occasional nu-al b> tl# j-'or widow in the back street, with her hungrv brood, but with the help of your fellows iu the office or shop you can set her up in some small business, which will give her daily bread the year round. Our liiuta are bt uiely, but we are talking, we hojx, to homely, practical people. lantiv, aud al*ve all, let tia id I remember iu Qnwhni- weak, before we give a dollar awnv, to pay every dol lsr of our debt*. We have no right to give to rich friend or to starving seam stress the money which actually lielougs to other people.. If we cannot be honest, let ns attract un false credit to ourselves by pretending to be generous. We shall not lie likely to deceive our neighbors any more then God ; ...el money honestly earned and honest'v j ward, is twice as live and useful as u. ev given in alms. New York Trtbun'. ( iirioii-. Norman French Custom. The Xouif Utile dc /loumm gives some particulars of a case of " crying baro " which has just come up in Jersey. Duke Hollo's administration centuries ago in liis duchy of Normandy was rigorously j n „t—indeed, it is claimed that the in stinct of order and obedience to law then implnnted among the Normans has never been lost. In case of any aggres sion the *ubjvt wa won't to call on his ruler's name : " Ha, Hon ! ha. Hollo!" an appeal that never was in vain. The custom anrvived under other dukes, and became known as " Haro," or the "clamour of Haro," a procedure abol ished in Normandy in 185 d, but still perpetuated in ttie channel islands, or at least in Jersey. In the middle ages the cry was often accompanied by the wind tug of a horn. At present the haro ia not er.ed in criminal ruses, but it is re sorted to as a Hjieedy method of obtain ing redress for civil torts. Three or four times a year tha royal court has to jn< Ige one of these esses. Two gontle men, Messrs. Hobiu and Dickson, are the parties to the latest snit on record. The latter, finding that a road laid out by the former was alrout to interfere with his right of way, cast himself on 1 is knees, and baring his head, cried, " Haro, haro, haro, and three times haro! To my aid, my prince ; I am wronged!" The workmen at once dropped their implements where they 'stood and withdrew—not to have done no would have been to incur penalties its criminals, and the affair instantly came lx-fore the courts. Home years ago, when the railroad company waa i about to trespass upon the public slaughter-house property in Jersey, M. de QueMeville, known ss " the Duke of Normandy," because of his devotion to , old traditions, cast himself on Iris knees iu the name of the town of Ht. Hellers and raised the cry of haro, with the effect of instantly stopping SOO laborers. The Galveston (Texas) Netvn says the remarkahio specimen of meteoric iron, resembling Bteel, picked np in the Mo hau desert and carried to Fort Yuma, a short time ago, is thuH described: " It weighs about a pound, and carries free gold, of which nearly a dollar ap pears on the snrface. It is not mag netic, and has successfully resisted sim ple and compound hatha of acid. In this respect it resembles specular iron, bnt in no other. One of its surfaces shows a fracture that reveals a crystal line structure, the color of which is a steel gray, tinged~witti yellow. It has defied the best cold chisels in the black smith shop, and has not broken or chip ped under heavy blows. If its composi tion can be imitated, it will produce the hardest and toughest alloy known," t HKIsIM ts HINTS. A Meteoric Story. TIMELY TOriUS 1/etters from persona deairiou* of adopting orphaua are pouring into Mem phis, Tenn. A Paris worker lu uietals finds himself with a head of green hair from some un known chemical cause. The latest invention re|*irtd in Eu rope i a phosphorescent |>|*r, wnLug or pruit on which can t>e read iu the dark. New discoveries of gold have been made iu Hitiena, near Hie source of Hie Kounisar ; and a nugget of gohl weigh ing 147 iKtnnda, the largest ever dis covered in Hussia, and probably in the world, ha* lieeu found on the (tanks of the Upper Toiiugouska, ner tlie river's month. Twenty vears ago a girl wa* born in l'lemingslmrg, Ky. tier parents re soivod to begin froui bur birth ami da iHmit ten cents a day iu bank for her lieueflt. Hhe is now twenty yeara old, and the sum amount* to $1,461. The young man that marries her will enter tain a secret wish that they had made it twenty ceut* a day. Ihwton poh.Twen are cuinjxdled to wear leather collars, the inteniiou leiug to make them hold up their heads in n soldierly mauuer ; bnt the leather nibs their chins, aud the restraint grows i --ceettiuglv lrkisune after a few hours. The |silicemen complain loudly, but the emiitasioueru say Uiat something is necessary as a cheek on the tendency to •loveliness. Hauittei Williams began his oarei-r in the Uuited StaU-* *a a runaway from his Kughsh home, having obtained money by forging hi* father's name. He be came professor id languages aud applied science* in the University of Virginia, and was rated high aiuoug college savants, hut lias just fiuuhod hi* career a* a jNuddler of apiU in the streets of Dallas, Tela*, druukeuness having ruined htm. Robert Darker, an engine-driver, of Chester, Kngland, was a steady mau, while his wife waa of intymperate habits. One day las! July, as he lay on a sofa with hi* gun behind him, she came home drunk, attuck huu, aud there was a struggle for the gun, which went off, fatally wounding her. The huslMtnd shot himself, but did not cause mortal injury. When they lav on the floor te • gether the man **id, " It was your own iaalt, now forgive me." lie at the aaiue ( time held out bia hand, but the wife would uot take it, aaymg. " You're shot me snd you'll have to be hung for it. On trial the jury acquitted Parker, amid much applause. The king of Dahomey, on the African coast, whom Eugiand lias been trying to ' civilize, has relspwwl into his old ways, i He recently attacked a village, to the windward of WLydah, and brought in a great nntubcr of human hernia, and also •uany women and children eantivi-s. H has iwrricl off a I'ortnguee merchant, Ignatt" Mayrattraee, and a* now detain ing iu custody the Portuguese oousol and seven >'ldiera. 110 obliges the soldiers to go through a variety of mlfi tary maneuvers daily for his amnCMUMit. I The king lias re-established hia grand customs of annaal human aarntJoee, and within the past month over 500 persons have Iw-en slaughtered. How Voting People are lade Near sighted. The eye is an organ which ia soft, as it were, when the child is born ; it is plastic- -it i in a couditi u to be change.' in its shape, and its tissues are in condi tion to lw moved, that is, the tisanes which go to made UP the organ can be molded in various shape* on pressure. Ordinarily the child goes on until it has reached the age of eight or ten years, or perhaps a little older, when it isoliserved tbarit is obliged to hold the object at which it is looking a little nearer than liefore. An examination reveals the fact that the child is near-sighted. This condition usually progresses more ra pidlv between the ages of teu aud twen ty-six. But we know by means of the ..ptlialmosenpe, and by in examination ■jt the body after death, that the near sighted eye is changed in shape from the spherical to an elliptical or ovoid form, and that progressive near aighted new is always marked bv a change in the shape of the eye. A- the eye is made up of healthy tissue, and it is constantly undergoing waste and repair iu use, you readily perceive that the quality of its repair is going to be determined very much by the character of the tissue binding <|nality of the |>artteulr child, and by the way in which that child uses its eves. Parents at home are verv often at fault iu not teaching their children how to use their eyes. I have often en tered the dwellings of many people and soen little girls curled tip on a sofa or in a chair, with the head down in the lap, the vssel of the forehead turgid with blood, remaining in that situation lor a greater or less time ; and often, before the child can read, some object, like a doll with its wealth ol iutricate clothing, or some other plaything, the child hold ing the object mat it* eyea—using her accommodation and focalizing her eyes ; and all the time waste and repair are go ing on, because there can be no use of the eye without alterations of tissue, and the child will go blind because the pro per nourishment of the eye is interfered with, and the tissues cannot lie repro dnoed as the wasting progresses. If the child uses tho eye for a long time or too closelv at any partienlar form of work, the tissue canuot bo reproduced or notir ! idied as it should be. and the pressure of the muscles upon the eyeball and the difficult act of tho child in focalizing, means that the tissne of the soft aud pliable eye is undergoing alteration, which will leiul to ft lamentable form of the disease. Then tho child goes into the school, and there is put into forms and cliut*oft, aiul oftcnlimcft in made to do work on slates and copy-books which, perhaps, might be better done on the hlack-lmard, and thus the eye is strained until the mischief is perceived in U* ef fects.— /V. Affnrw. Words of Wisdom. We must have n diet of oompohy, * well as one of bookk. Even the weakest man is strong enough to enforce his convictions. Few persons have courage enough to seem as good as they roally are. Grant graciously what you cannot re fuse safely, aud conciliate those yon cannot conquer. AH WH njiini an account of ov cry idle word, so must we likewise of our idlo silence. .... . Logic is the essence of truth, and truth is the most powerful tyrant; but then, tyrants hate the truth. children have neither past nor fu ture; and, what scarcely ever happens to us, they enjoy the present. I hate to see a thing done by halves; if it be right, doit boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone altogether.— GUjAn. Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since fiction can only please us by its resemblance to it. The most phlegmatic dispositions of ten contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flint A Hlier Filled with Sharks. loitering Hlisrk river we noticed the. , light of Dr. Harris" boat ahead, and we made fast to her stern. The entrance to Hhark river can easily IHI found by ob serving the following directions: North west It out mirth Oaj>e Hablw, about four miles, will tie noticed s heavily timber ed rape projecting into the gulf; round ing Una fmint, and keeping the timber to the right haiid, the river will be dia coveted. Asa heavy northeast gale waa blowing, the captain of the doctor s craft had anchored a few hnudred yards from the entrance, where we were pro tected from ths storm by the giant man groves. We have wandered oouaiderahiy, aud sailed over many oceans, but never saw even an approach to the number aud •due of the sharks at tins point. Their mnveineuta in every direction rendered j; the water luminous. Until we retired for fhe night lliey were visible, here, there ami everywhere. They were dashing hither and thither with a rapid ity that surprised me. Ttiey would dart like lightning aud double np uu ! thuir truck* with an ease that astonished me. Their movemeut* and *ixe could be determined bv the phosphorescence of the water. Mallet pas* into the rivers with the tide and ont with the ebb, giid it i probable that the shark* were enjoying a fried of these toothsome , fish. "Ilia water was eighteen feet deep, < anil looking over the aid* of the boat, | fisshee of light not larger than the < hand could Ih* noticed, probably pro ceeding from these inornatec* many feet , below the surface, . j About eight r. w. one of the brutes atruek the tinw of the Ixst a severe blow , in <me of his rushes to capture bis prey, < j and 1 dauouuitod hi si for hi* stupidity. Although 1 hail beat across Florida i bay in a severe gale, my boat was com paratively tight, and made bat little I water. For another hour I enjoyed my i pipe and watched the voracioua mon ster* aa they forwarded four, ehaaaad and turned corners. At nine r. m. 1 ar ranged tny bed and stretched myself for a auoot*. * 1 was just about to bid fare well to this world, and exclaim with ' Sal.oho I'anxa, " Blessed la the man ' who invented aioep, for it wrappeth one like a cloak," when bang came one of the monster* against the starboard aide of the boat, and the dory trembled from atom to stern. that the U*i had received some injury 1 turned out lit ray lamp, and examined the well to aecertain if the Last waa leaking. I made a hasty examination. and fancying that all was right turned in. I awoke at 4 A. M with a sensation of moiatneas abo tit my hip*, and found that the boat waa leaking badly, and that the water was over the floor. I attributed the leak to the butting proclivities of bis , sharksbip. and sn exsminstiuu st a later \ date develojied the fact that the blow had started a plsnk. Josh Hilling** I'rwierb*. Truth ix sed to be stranger than ficX j al.un—it is, to must pbolk*. The best tiling i kno ov ix a fnat rate wife, aud the mill beet thing is a uekond rate one. The wprld *U praxe the philosophers, but toM !l?elr penny* into the cap* ov the rmmkey*. Tliare ix '2 thing* in this world for < which w are never fully preposwd, and that in—twins. T'aare ix one .long that kan be sod m favour ov lite Uato— they make s man forgit all hi* other sorrows. I never question a snckcess enny more than Ido the right ova bull dog hi lie 'in hi* own gateway. No I don't. Yung man, set down, and keep still, yoa Will hsv plenty uv ehaneee yet to niakew pMi*i ov ynreself before yu die. How kan yu cxjwkt to find two peo ple in this world who are alike when YU kant ever, find one who ix alike haff the time ? Whenever yu cum akroat * man who distrusts everyboddy, TO bav found on* whom it 1* safe f"f everyboddy to dis trust. If yu undertake to hire s man to lie honest, yn will hv to raize hi* wage* every morning, and watch bun dredpbull clua# beside*. It if. a wise man who profits hi bizowu experience— Imt it iz a good deal wirer oue who lota the rattleeuaik bite the other phellow. The reptitaahun that a mail gel* from liiz anaeators often want# az mutch alter ing to fit him az their old clothe# would. It ta truly thus. I bav finally cum to the konkluahnn that if I laid prove a thing without bet tiug .1 dollars on It, the tiling hax got a dndpLul weak spot sum* hare. Cauaahuu iz a good thing for a man to liar, but when be has got m, rauteb ov it, that he i* aftade to tutcb a kaat iron lion, for fear it will bite, ignorance ix what's the matter ov lrim. Tbare ain't nothing so cheap az >ad •ptjUin, aud if it i autcli an element of suckers* as sum shrewd knticks bar dia koverwd, thev owe it to their airs, and aasinea. to adopt it at once, aud bekum riteh and fanius. The things that i kant prove i beleave the most; i beleave that one apple is sour, and another oue sweet, but l will giv emiy highlv eddikated man a span or matched mules who will tell me what makes them so. 4 Colorado Bonanza. A Colorado mine operator and a rauohtuan disoovered a large deposit of uarhouate of lead and zaic blend, near the South Arkansas river, about seventy miles sontli of Leadville. A dispute arose between them, and the ranchman agreed ID sell out to his partner for jtf ftnn. if the wliole amount of money was paid within eight months. The mine operator actually stiuted himself and lnurily the common necessaries of life to get the roouoy, and paid $4,000 out of the $6.f00, but haviug a large number of unpatented mines to work out the annual assessment required by law. could not meet the laat payment in time. He went to Ht, Louis, and tried for three months to raise the money by offering one-half the mine to any good i business man that would join him and pay tlu S',SOQ that the entire share when fully paid would ost, but failed to raise the money On hia return to Colorado his ranchman partner coolly told him that Iris time waa np, and it would take jnst about $1(10.000 to get hi* shore in the mine. During the miuer's atiaenoe in Ht. Louis the ranch man had worked a few feet further into the miue and uncovered as great a de posit of carbonates of load with silver ss has yet been discovered. Those gen tlemen now hold their property at the snug little sum of a half million of dol lars. A carriage comes suddenly upon a flock of geese on a narrow road, and drives straight through the middle of them. A goose was never yet fairly run over, nor a dnck. They are under the very wheels and hoofs, and yet somehow they contrive to flap and wad dle safely off. Habitually stupid, heavy aud indolent, they are equal to the emergency. The item being circulated throughout the country, that Christine Nilssou lost eight thonsand pounds in two months, is believed to be an ingenious advertise ment of the Anti-Fat man. TKRMB: a Year, in advance. PkltM, UAltllK* A.tU HOI HEHOLU. ( •ra, M IMI as* Wlf. It ia gleaned from the curreut report of the United Htate* department of agri culture that the products, acresge and value of the corn crop in the ten lewd ing coru-productng Htate* for 1877 waa as follows: MM SAli. A—m. rIM, , lllU.nl. ,'Jft '.UMi.UCIO ,*•,lit fTft *0 .ISO 1 !..* ... iM.eu.iua i.H ,uw UiMuur] 10*,(**>,Ul 3.M1.7J4 J,MU,UUU Kuiau . C*.H W.ISS.K*) • Hilu rt.uouunu *,!> *,*•• lu.ii.!,. sa.auu.uuo ,*, s-!,se>,w Kmiiu-Hv * M ■. t.MBMM is.uss.usu TUIW ftU.ftUU.UU* ijm.WO 'JU.MO.UUI i>l. j (MI,AN u, <NO, l.j4A,utu 3b,*?t,W in the average yield* of corn JHT acre, ouly one ooru-pnaluciug Htate (Nebras ka) report* a larger average than Kan sas. The yield per acre in Kansas ia given at 36 & bushels; Nebraska, 36; lliuioia, 29. I< va, 32 6; Missouri, 29; Ohio, 31.5; Indiana, 30; Kentucky, 30.3; Tennessee. 35; Texas, 24; Pennsylva nia, 83; Michigan, 31; Wisconsin, 'IH; Minnesota, 29; California, 30, Oregon, 26; Arkansas, 24. The rank of the eleven whest-nroduo ing Htate* for 1877 is placed as follows, with the product, acreage and value of the crop: AS#. Willi. Arf— I '•!•#. n>a... . *l,lu,ueu ftai, *,< MHi lire .1# Sv.KM.SftS l.tll.Slft SM.Wft 1M IUIU<>I%. AIMWU,UV X.UUS.TT*. >4,*JU,WJU (Huu j,MU,iou |, u,.*o.i' lu<iwa* M,o.(*e I.SM.UI JT.I -s.io . At.tMU, ifj l.lftfc.SeT *i,iSß,lu r !!f..rni I'i.iO". *U l.ilft,Tie S.ftO(Ml M., USA . xi.ssu.iuu I.MU.M: at, TS .auu Mieiurt au.i-u.uuu MXs.tTl *i,uun.ii fV!it.#*lv*liU 1 • l.ft'Si.UOli M.ifta.oou Xfttswa |.*UK,IU> t.Uftft.ftftf U,MM,(MU The product, acreage and value of the rye crop in the ten leading rye-produc ing State* i* as follows: Sei. WSil*. 4tw > .111 t-sbiiMliaklft UftKU.!** 1 MI.UUS tl-ft*/.,'*"' Sm lurk >,•, r>. oou n .ai&,su* tliluul* T.S*.U Ifts.OU" I,4JJ.W VVIM-vk.il ft, 7 ** ll **' IT*.UUI> l,ftu*.SUo K.IIKI 3.11U,0.H> isu.OAB aftl.ftuu Krulwk) I.iXft.lUU SS.kSk ttfl.UBU MiMuurl nu.SSS ,ftl S* .! \ 11(111. ft ft.uuu il.ftH. 3*6,llft* luil lan. ftftu.OUU 3ft.ua XXftUt Nr. Jotm ; ftftft uuu M.ST 3 SftT.ftue in the average yield of rye per acre Oregou ranks first, producing 22 bush els; and Kansas ranks second, produc ing 20 bushels. Then follow Illinois, Vermont, Wisconsin and Michigan, in the order named. Week la lb* liarftn. The garden demands attention in vinew, haulm, leaves and other refuse waiting to be cleared away, and in the growth of weeds almost crtain to p|M-ar m abundance st this season. These last by many farmers are catted off to the compost heap, where, after sufficient h'stmg gnd decomposition, the vitality of their seed is destroyed : but it ought to be borne in mind and acu-d upon that alight fermentation does not always suffice to accomplish ilns. and there is danger of returning to the soil in vegetable manures the very seed it is desired to keep it free from. Unices, therefore, troublesome growths are not to be thoroughly in corporated in a compost heap which ia to undergo complete decomposition, the safer plan is to born them on the ground. Hnch portions of the garden as have been visited by cut worms and other jceu, or the entire plot if it be of stiff Hay suit, may be fall plowed with ad vantage ; throwing the earth jip in ridgra exposes insects in their transfor mation state to the weather and affords the soil an opportunity of becoming ameliorated by the action of the fnat. Tina ta aio a good time for laying garden walks, espt-cuLly if tbeae are to be finished with coal sidiea. Tender plants should now be protected or re moved. as the latitude calls for. Hmall fruit bushes and vinea ahoold be mulched, and all plants that are gruas fetderm liberally supplied with manure. Indeed, the entire surface of the garden will take kindly to a top-dreaaing after it ha# been cleared off and raked oxer. Not a few cultivators contend that manure spread at this season is produc tive of greater U neflta than when ap plied at any other. Garden era ambitions for a succession of early vegetables in the spring will soon begin the *• >wing of aeejs in some protected spot, which is to be continued at intervals for a succession of trans planting#.—Aw York World, Sr<-s, Hr,i la Ik# kllsak. Most people have observed. no doubt, that self-sown -<ed, that is, seeds that have droppr I from the growing plants of the previous season, sometimes pro duce the strongest and moat healthy plants, that bloom the most freely. This is true of severs! kinds, and par ticularly of those that suffer under ex posure to our midsummer suns. The reason is that self-aown seeds get s very healthy growth in the spring, vegetating as soon ss frost is gone, and are gooj -Bized plants at the time we Usually put seeds in the ground, even if they Jo not start iu the fal. They thus mature and flower during the cool weather of spring. The clarkias and nemophilaa and annual arkspnrs are noted examples. There are also several varieties of hardy an nuals that do well with spring rowing that will bear autumn sowing in the open ground, and reward us with early spring flowers. Sweet alyasum and white candytuft will give us" an abund ance of white for early cutting, if sown iu the autumn. In a aandy roil the portulacca may be sown in autumn with good success. Seeds of biennials and jH-rennials, if sown early enough to pro duce strong little plants, will flower the next summer ; and pauniea and Chinese pinks, though they bloom the first sum mer, if aown in the spring, will make much stronger plants and flower more freely and earlier if young plants are grow'n in the autumu.— Tidl's Floral Guide. Urts# taitlu*. A correspondent asks for the best way to make grape cuttings. It ia very sim ple. Select wood of the current year's growth, cut to three eye# each, from straight-jointed wood; tie in small bun dles; set them on the larger ends on a dry soil, or where uo water may stand. Cover all with a mound and they will winter uicely. Plant as early in the spring as the soil is in condition, six inches apart in the row, at an angle of about forty-flve degrees. Bark the earth firmly about the bottoms of the cuttings and leave the upper eye of each cutting just aliove the surface of th ground.— Prairie. Fanner, Decorating a I,azy Son. A singular atory is told of the way in which the crone of the Legion of Honor wan bestowed upon the French artist, Meissonier. He was to receive the insigu'a from the hands of M. de Cailleux, director of the mnsenm. Out of consideration for Meisaonier's lazy habits the director appointed a late hour in the morning for the oeremony, but the artist slept over for several morn ings. When he at length appeared at the Lonvre M. de Cailleux had given, him up and was hard at work in his atndy, attired only in his shirt. Never theless, having secured Meissonier's presence, he was determined to prooeed with the ceremony ; and calling to his attendant for his coat and sword, he put on the ooat, and without shoes or stock ings, invented the artist with the order with all due solemnity. 1 think the first virtue is to restrain the tougue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent even when he is in the right— Onto. NUMBER 50. The I oiled Mate* librATf. Readers who ore eager for stntietten may seek to know *umath trig of toe pecuniary value of the cotleMon yf Looks which the peopl* owlt at Wash ington. The expenditure upoo the libra ry of the government. if cornpsred with iw extent and value, hae not been goat Tho inn total of tho ppropriMiona of CututitMM for book* from WOO u 1878 hae not exceeded §640,000, and thia ta inclusive of the ooet of ail the vulnmea destroyed in two conflagrations. The British murom library, which number* 1,100,000 volume*, le .uppoaed to have ooet about §3.000.000 (A680.000); but ia oot only thlft collection, but nil Ui# groat government librariee of Europe, are rich in rare and early-printed book®, a® well a® in manuscripts, anJ many of them in ouatly engravings. there can be no just baai® for • oomparison between them end a collection eo modern in ite origin an well a® its principal content* as lour own. The library at the British museum, moreover. ISM enjoyed for more than a century the benefit of tbe copy tax, bringing in free uf coat all the pub linalions of tbe British end colonial preaa. Tbe libmrr at Washington, though founded m the tiegtiining of the century, really dates from 1862, when only 20,000 volumes were saved from the' Uamea. Quite unreasonable would it be to expert that an American nation al library should rival those of the old world in those collections of incuna bula end precious manuscript* which oenturiea of opportunity here enabled them to assemble. There ere now twelve librariee in Europe outnumbering tbe library of Congreaa in the books upon their shelves; yet tbe growth of our national library has bees so rapid ea to have twice doubled the numeric*! ex tent of tbe collection m fifteen years. In 1868 tbe library of Congree® coo Min ed 72.000 volumes; in 1867,166,000; and in 1878 the collection had risen to 340,- 000 volumes, besides pamphlets. The hobton public library alooe among American collections approximates it ia site, and even a little exceeds it, if we eount the book® oontained in ite seven braucbea in tbe suburbs of Boston, which, however, are duplicates of tbe parent collection. But the numerical standard ia far from furnishing an ade quate test of the true value of any col lection of book*, nave in the presump tion it furnishes that tbe largest collec tions will contain tbe beet works printed in every field. It may be said of the library"of Congress that in the main ite stores have becm selected with * view to i tbe highest utility, and with some gen eral Han of unity. It bee net, like the British museum library, tbe Boston public library and some other large in stitution®, been the recipient of exten sive donation® or bequest®, which, while greatly enriching the oollectiotu, tend also to the multiplication of duplicates. It were to be wished that all author* of books, and especially of pamphlets, should bear in mind that thia groat col lection at Washington is the representa tive library of the country, and by plac ing in it copies of their productions, whether protected bj copyright or not, secure to their thought a place where it will be sure of transmission to that posterity which may care to examine it. All pamphlet* coming to this libra ry are treated with the same honor as book®, acknowledged, catalogued, separ ately bound < instead of having toau identity merged with others in incus gruouh volumes), and classified in their proper relation upon the shelves. —A. ft. Spofford, in International Heritor. " He Playing hhe**(l Collegek The night of the performance is al ways one of excitement to the 44 young women." The nimble finger® of a dress ing -maid are needed. "Tom, lace mv corsets; don't dull 'em too tight C* 44 Bill, hook the of my dresa I" and the like orders wAid sound strangely to the uninitiated ears. 44 Confound that pin!" 44 Hang that string!" 44 I've forgotten whether this is the front or the track of this blank thing," and 44 Which is the top and the bottom of these corsets 7" are no infrequent sen tences. Rut habit and care conquer, and with skirts gathered about his limbs he rushes serous the college-yard to the society room®, the passing proctor bare ly turning, fully understanding that 44 she " M a 44 he." It is not until tbe dressing-room is reached that the hand some wig is put ou, the rouge and lily white aud the line for the under eyelid, and all tbe little arts which unite ta making the fair and interesting. A good make-up is nre of a good recep tion, and tbe words 44 You look stun ning " will give a fellow more encour agement before his entrance than can be described. The eager plaudits of a col lege audience, no one who has received it ran forget. Besides tbe smell of the foot-lights, there is the aroma of alma mater good-fellowship in the reception. Then, the actor's audience is above the average intelligence, and patch e® every point, seconds every witticism, and ap plauds every good bit of acting. And > after tbe play, when 44 Company I com pany ! company !" brings tbe ctor# and actresses with a scurry to the front, it ia uo wonder that they who have success fully simulated gentler characters than their own, should feels particular pride. It is worth while to hurry to one's room, doff the skirts, corsets and et-ceterae, and don tbe male attire, and with pipe, cigar or cigarette in month, to re turn to the assemblage and meet the audience. The graduates and older classmen pay the highest compliment possible in not recognising the actress in the uouchalaut young man ; the pro fessors smile aud nod benignantly, and your own classmates say, 44 Jolly ; oM follow—tip-top 1"— 44 You've doue your aelf credit!"— 44 Pretty as a picture !" 44 You never did better in your life, Raster l"—srribncr't Magazine. The Sunset Bird. While in Dominica, Mr. Ober, an American naturalist, heard of a bird which the natives called the " aoleil concher, or "sunset bird." He oonld find nobody who had ever seen it, bnt every evening, at about half an hour before sunset, ite solemn, weird Lote waif beard in the mountains. The sound was of a soft, tlute-liko nature, and plainly syllabled the words, "aoleil concher, soleil concher." A vast amount of snporstition is attached to this bird. Among other things, Mr. Ober was as sured that it existed only in song, and had no visible body; that it was, proba bly. the voice of a departed spirit Mr. Oi>cr started to search for the mysteri ous songster, and hunted for two weeks without success. He, too, heard the Xte, however, and it was always his ..mal to prepare his camp for the night for in those latitudes there is little or no twilight, darkness succeed ing sunset almost immediately. At last he saw the bird, and after some careful maneuvering managed to ahoot a specimen, It belongs to the same family as the king bird, but is of an entirely different species. It has a back of drab color, and a breast of sil pbur yellow. On its head is a crest, . which it can erect or lay flat at pleasure. Mr. Ober afterward shot four other , specimens, and 6ent them, with most of liia oolleetioua; to Prof. Lawrence and Prof. Baird of the Smithsonian Institute to be named. Soon afterward he re ceived the information that the institute had named the species after its dis coverer, calling it the " Myiarcbns Oberi." Wtiter Tin#. rj mm ■ rm nrrrw I ting UM marry winter Urn® • DM mm sis* una. H Dm frown Hit*. Dm bar* brown wood* of winter tin* ; JksMgMaadefcMry wtatar tiros. tVe boar-frost'® rims, '*"Tbs (%MaMflU>n, TIM gilttrtng iter* of winter tims. Tlm roMy (Mi of wtslar tiro# i DM tinkling bUa, The Marking Mb, The ringing skates of winter Una. * DM ton* ®rt®e nigh*® of wtotsr UEM Tbs wlvary now. DM grateful gtow Of Magtog heart® of wtatar Urn*. I tc., Me., ote. m on Tin, I stag UM gkmaay winter time i Th® piiuaWa bill®, DM dreg® and ptlla, And IAM tad 01a of winter Urn®. The eleoty riroet® of wtatev MM • DM OPA and downs And broken erowrn. And ilnafc and drifts of winter time. DM howling wlada of wteter time i Th® failing ®gn, Tito Hun !ITI if kiirt, Th® ihirYtng poor of winter ttm® The melting®* o ** of winter Una Tb® "basted " pipe®. DM mn®h-iM®d - wipe®," The leaky roof® of winter Una. P. 8. -And other disagreeable thing® too numaroa* u> ®>nUo®.—Aferrisfe>— Jirrald. ■■ ; - - - - Item* ef Interest. Kidnapping— Infancy in elumber. The qnention of tbe hour—What timn is it? Uneasy aita (he youth aetride the fire! ■Uk Farmer® duba—Broken pitchfork handled. Never kick a doee of medicine when it ie down. Patient wait*re — Phyaiemn® without practice. The king of Hiam hue 8,000 wives. He W bald. A brillicnt future—When we have the electric light. Edison* light to the eyee ie the light of future done. There ere .two printing offleae in the whole of Siberia. If there wpe anv talk of rain it baa fal len to the ground. It ooet §75,000 Id net up Cleopatra e Needle in London. Heritable apartment for a eeatle in the aire- A brown study. Eentuoky a coal fields contain thirteen thouaand square miles. Cletcra are worn long—if not, what makes them threadbare I The find printing preaa in tbe United Htatm was introduced in 1629. The first chimney* were in trod need into Borne from Padua in 1868. Thia ia the season of tbe veer for de fective flnea—and defective flies. Deer horns increase in sine each year until old age. and tben diminish There is more active fun in an ounce of kitten than in a ton of elephant B. EL. Stoddard, the poet, write* with hie left hand, the other being paralysed. Itahr prodeca® 718,286,000 gallons of wine uid 87,179,400 gallon® of olive oiL Prance supplies her entire home con sumption of sugar from tbe product of tbe beet Starvation, yellow fever and smallpox are sweeping off the population of north eastern. Brazil. A nuptial tie: When husband and wife have both married for money, and neither have got any. " I don't like winter," said one pick pocket to another. •' Everybody bee ' bis bands in hie packets.** It has never been ascertained tow much old ocean measure* ri-und her gray and melancholy waste, t The New lock Wraui telle of "an American lady of eighteen spring*. Probably her name is Sofy. After tbe four great powers of tbe world oome tbe hind powers, as illus trated by the kicks of a mule, ' How pleasant it ia to see other people happy with little, when yen are com paratively miserable with much lees. There were no draft or pacs animals in Mexico. They appear formerly to hive had no beef or mutton, benoe they ate dog*. Tpadenti, Michigan, is one of the few t of the immortal American towns that oant't poke .fun at tbe Afghanistan war names.— Oil City Derrick There is a lAwyer out West ao exces sively honest that he puts all his flower pot* out over night, o determined is he , that everything snail have its dew. Among papers of the socialist belief ,in Germany are the Fbnrard tbe , Storm-Mast, the Martyr of Capital, the Petroleum Can and the Iron Ham mer. A ggoddooking young lady was caught the other evening smoking a cigar, and gave as a reason for the act " that it mmo* it amell as if there was a man around. Tbe improvement in roads during the sixteenth cautery was very marked in England, ami was owing mainly to the system of tolls, which was found to work admirably. Whales are becoming so numerous in (be Pacific ocean that they are crowding ashore on tbe California coast, and the newspapers there have e chance to be about their length and sum. • The value of the fruit crop in the United States this year is estimated at §133,218,700, and sometfanee a boy of eleven years old thinka be would be will ing to* give every oant of the entire crops to the poor, if he had only died } before he surrounded a whole water melon. A solid or cubic inch of gold weight 10.15 ounces troy, and ie worth $209.84. A cubic foot of flue gold is worth $d62,- ; 600. United States ooin ia nine tenths fine. A cubic inch of this in gold weighs a little more than nine ounoee troy, and is worth §lB9 28 ; a cubic foot of this standard gold is worth §292,500. | 44 In my airly day*," remarked the old man, as he shoveled ooal into the eohoolhouse bin, 44 they didn't use ooal to keep us school young "uns warm, I kin tell you." 44 What did tbey use ? asked a boy near by. A sad, far-away look seemed to pass over tbe old man s face as be quietly responded : " Birch, my boy, birch." to a r®sTß-rOT. Oh, potent aid to editorial pan, Twin-blessing of the awv-owapslling shear® How much we owe To thee, to thee! With shear® alone we might well cut J / And come ajriiii ; Bat whAt were tfc&t. Withoat fee power to fix. ta stick? What were it worth to unruar® the cooing dove, The chicken plump, at night from neighbor i roost halt lamp without Wi! host cropped wing ? Then hail Uiee, gMte-pot, hail! preserver Of what (hear® rWan! Thou mightisr far than peu! —Boston Transcript. Pith and Point." What is the peculiarity about wed look ? The connubial combination, to be sure. It is a perfectly safe business to swap flre-proofs daring a big conflagration. There was, no doubt, considerable mourning when the sunburst, but where \ did the day-light ? Charley Tradollar swears he never carried concealed weapons in all his life, bnt a girl lately accused him of wound - i ing her feelings. Gushing intimacy is a quickly heated ; vessel and soon boils over, but true friendship is the sturdy bark that outrides the roughest weather. | "Aha f I've got you on a string," as the boy oonfldentially remarked to the oat-fish. When a man warms with his subject he can dispense with artificial heat, New York New*-
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