The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, January 30, 1879, Image 1
A Winter Landscape. A solemn aileno* Dili the lonely wood* . Thsoold motet leaves lie motionless below. The brook, in lev cloak ermined with nvo, Mnte a* * meek, forget* ell summer moot* TYie weed* like witohe* weird, in tattered hood*. Are etill as death, for faint the hreeve* blow , Winter * thin choir t* bushed, nor oft the crow Give* voice to the elee roiceleiw solitude* Under the muffled *kv broode everywhere A *oft, half Kmiling gloom all life iawhiat. And nature, kneeliug, make* uuuttertd prayer ; The world i a oatlnslral vast and bare. The road along-drawn *i*le, where. awad I lint The singing wire*' loud anthem thrill the air, The Son* of the Stream. Over the moeae* and gr**<>• Tlie white cloud paee*. Silent and eoft a* a dream And the earth, in her *hy emlwwc**. Conceal* the trace* Of the secret birtli of the *trv*iu Till tot t!ir**,lr are braided and woven And *pe<*t through the cloven Channel*, and gather and atnk. And wind, and sparkle, and dally With song in the valley And ahont from the terrible brink Then the whirl of the wind divide* me. And the rainbow hide* me. A* I midway scatter in air . And 1 hath with endle** shower* The feet of the flower*, vnd the lock* of the forest'a hair Till proudly, with ater* welded My strength l* bedded Hy meadow, and slope, and lea And the laud* at last deliver Their tribute river To the universal *ea. Ktiytici Tiy.c. A SLIGHT MISTAKE. To say that Harvey Frotiiingbam was in a bad temper was to put the mildest form of words to express the savage mood in which he fonud himself one winter's evening, as he shot through the main street of the town of L , on his way homeward. Everything hail gone cootmrv to his wishes all the week. Eutirely ignorant of the fact that Har vey Frothingham was a man of standing anil wealth in L , pretty Joaie al lowed the minor facts, that he was in sultinglv free in his addresses, to in fluence tier so strongiy, that her digni fied reserve taught him the lessor: he needed; and when he sought her for his wife she refused the houor. To add to this discomfiture, the heir ess, M i-.- Maude Chesterton—whom he had hel-i in reserve, that his ambition might win a wife if his love would not— had cool'v informed him that she was en gaged to Fred Holman. Now, ii there was oue man above another who was ntterly detestable in the eye* of Harvey Frothingham it was F red Hal mar Tiny bad both been rivals at school, where stood well in talent, appli cation an I social position; and Fred was ever a lit' le in advance in every study, carrying away the contested prizes far more fr< quently than it suited Harvey he ebon la. Iu society, Fred's handsome face, ready wit, courteous manners, and frank, sunny temper kept him ever iu higher favor than Harvey Frothing bam's sullen, cold disposition could gain. And now, when Maude hail been ever gracious to the son of the wealthy banker, Silas Frothingham, she an swered his love-snit by the tidings that his life-lcug rival had won the prorais* to be his bride. " And the worst of it is, it will be just the match to s lit his uncle," muttered Harvt-y, savagely •' No fear o! him disinheriting Fred now." For Harvey knew that Fred depended entirely upon the good-will of his mother's brotbei, James Rutherford, a wealthy and eccentric bachelor, for his income. He had been left an orphan when a mere boy, ami his uncle had adopted and educated him, and would prolwblv make him his heir. But the bachelor, having long ago put away sentiment, if he ever felt it, looked to Fred to make a match that would in crease his fortune and social position. It was tue wish of his heart to see Fred the husband of Mande Chesterton, and his wish was to i>e fulfilled. Harvey Frothiagham, at odds with love, would like to see his rival refused, disinherited, humbled as he felt himself humbled, since neither love nor money would ace j>t him. He strode over the pavemeut in a sav age mood, aud started suddenly to see Josephine Onnund coming ont of a shop a few steps m advance of him. In her ban 1 were several small pack ages, and her face T.HS pade and anxions. In a moment Harvey was at her side. " Let me carry some of your parcels," he said, lifting his hat as he spoke. " Thank you, I onlv a few steps logo," answered JL WE ; hnrrying for ward nervonslv. "Yon need not be afraid of me," Harvey said, noting ber nervous man ner. "I will not annoy you! Why will you not believe my respect is as great for you as my love f" And before he knew exactly where his words were leading him, the young man was renewing the offer he haJ made before. At th door of a small lodging-house Joeie stopped and faced him. "You have spoken so before, Mr. Frothingham," #he said, gently; and because I believe yon are sincere. I will tell yon what I have kept sreret for Rix months ; I am already married !" "Josie! Be quick! Why do yon stand there ?" cried a voice in the nar row h&llwav, and a man stepped into the bar of light thrown across the open door by a street lamp. " Fred Holman !" muttered Harvey, starting forward. " Married ! and to Fred Holman!" It almost consoled him in his own dis appointment to think of the hold he had npon his rival. Engaged to Mande Chesterton, and married to Josie Or mnnd ' FSDCV the proud face when she knew she had been deceived for a girl who worked in a factory. And sweeter still was it to Harvey Frotbingham to think of the wrath of James Rutherford when the news reached him. But in his triumph Harvey Frothing ham had resolved to be very cautions to have strong proof of his rival's marriage before venturing to accuse, to either bis uncle or his betrothed. He had noticed the number of the house in the glare of the street lamp: "No 28 Ralph street." This waß the entry he made in his note-liook, in case his memory proved treacherous. It Beemed as if fortune favored his plans. Only the next day, happening to go into a large fruit and flower Bhop, he saw Fred Holman selecting the contents of a large fancy basket of choicest fruits and rarest blossoms. Nodding carelessly to Harvey, he wrote the address upon a card and attached it to the pretty basket. " You will send this at once," he said, and then left the shop. And Harvey, taking the place Fred had jnst vacated, read the card: " Mrs. F. Holman, No. 28 Ralph street." Wbal proof was needed now ? It was not in the nature of Harvey Frothing bam to work openly in any scheme. A blow in the dark suited him better. Feeling sure of his position now, he hurried homeward to write two anony mous letters, that would, he fondly hoped, disinherit and utterly confound his long successful rival. One of these venomous missives found Maude Chesterton in her pretty boudoir, trifling with some embroidery, and dreaming sweet dreams of her love and Fred Holmau's sweet devotion. She was a handsome, dignified girl of nineteen, full of all womanly sweetness, unspoiled by her great wealth. She loved Fred Holman with the FRED. Kl l IM Z, Kilitor and l-'ropritHor. VOLUME XII. ' whole strength of her young heart, and abr was sure that her love ta* rein rued. The daiuty work under the slender linger* progressed slowly, an Mamie lay hack iu nor deep arm-chair, looking into the glowing fire, ana building castle* of future happinena. From this tender reverie he was aroused by a servant, who handed her a squarely-folded letter, awkwardly ad dressed, and fastened with a wafer. Wondering who her uukuowu eor respomtent could le, she opened the pflper. The aatuv straggliug baud inaido met her eye*. Only a few line* were writteu " If yon would have a proof of the falsehood of one yon believe true, go at eight o'clock tliia evening t<i the second flivir of No. 28 Ralph street, and you will find Mr. Frederick Holmau and his wife." " Anonymous 1" the proud girl said, her lip* curling and her eve* dashing. " It is a falsehood I" She threw the not* upon the i>alß a* she spoke, Slut watched the flames curl and blacken the paper till it flashed out of sight up the chimney. Then, with nil the color stricken from her fmv, she tok up her embroidery. Had Harvey watched her then, he would have tfiought that that poisoned arrow had missed its aim. But it was not so. The work was thrown aside, the piano rang out nuder her restless ringer-, a novel was opened, a room was put in order; but while the calm face betrayed no secret suffering, the girl was tortured all day by the w**rds of the anonymous note; " Frederick Holman and his wife." Could it be I Had the frank, browu eyes that had looked so lovingly into hers mirrored only a false heart ? Was she, indeed, so far deceived ? Long before eight o'ch'ck Maude Chesterton hail resolved to prove or falsify the words that seemed burned upon her brain. Surely, of all the world she hail the beet right to test the truth of such a monstrous charge against her betrothed lover. And while she was striving to hide from any eves the tortures she endured, James Rutherford was storming up and down his library, holding the second of ■Harvey Frothingham"* communications in his hand. Iu the same awkward haudwriting, the same facts were stated, the same hour and "place to verify the writer's words. But the peppery old bachelor made no secret of his wrath. To have listened to him, oue would have supposed that making mince-meat of his disobedient nephew was the least he intended. He called him all the pet name* suggested by a furious rage; he nsed up all the abusive adjective* in the dictionary to describe Mr. Frederick Holman. He exhausted every threat that he oonld devise; long before eight o'clock he had wrought himself up to a rage that was frightful to witne*a. It was with a chuckle of satisfaction that Harvey Frothingham, secretly hid den in a uarww court way, watched a tall,stately figure leave a carriage at the head of Ralph street, and walk to the door of No. 2#. In the quiet of the street he hear 1 u clear voice ask the servant who opened the door; " Poca Mr*. Holrnau iive here ?" '• Yes, ma'am; sooond floor." "Is her husband at home?" "Oh, yea, ma'am; you'll find them both there." Then Maude Chesterton entered the house, just as a short, panting man dashed np the steps, and, not pausing to make inquiry^!so entered. In the passage, Maude Chesterton, turning, as rapid steps followed her, faced James Rutherford. "Yon here!" he said. "You have heard too, then, of the trick this un grateful hound has played upon us?" "I have heard," she answered, iu cold voice, "that your nephew's wife lives in this bouse. I wish to ascertniu if it is true." " We will soon see ! we will soon see ! Second floor. Here we are. Now, then I" And the old gentleman's raps proved the excitement under which he was laboring. A very pale, sweet woman opened the door, her eyee showing that she had been weeping very recently. " Doe* Mrs. Holman live here ?" the old gentleman asked. "That is my name, sir." " Can I see your husband ?" The soft eyes, fall of deep trouble, were lifted. " Is it on business, sir r" " iTery important business," was the rather dry response. " Because the doctor said to day be must not have sny mental excitement. He is so very much worse to-day; I—l am afraid he is dying !" And sobs broke out again. "Dying I" Mande Chesterton reeled into the room, and sank dizzily upon a chair. ines Rutherford, with a face white as death, said: " Dying f An accident ?" " No, sir; it is a fever from over work." " Fever—over-work 1" " Josie—Josie !" If ever Fred Holman spoke, he spoke then from an inner room, and the little wife, seeming to forget her strange visi tors, answered, quickly: " I'm coming, Fred." She went at once to the room from which the voice came, and again the two, listening intently, heard Fred's hnskv voioe. "firing the last oordial, Josie. Ten drops ! lam sure be knew me ; but he is faint." A moment later the same cheery voice Bpoke again : " Drink this, old fellow. So ! See, here is Josie ! Don't yon know Josie?" Then another voioe—<>b ! so very faint!—said ; "Josie—little wife !" A moment of utter silence followed, and then Josie ssid : " There is a gentleman and lady in the other room, Fred, who want to see Frank. Will yon see them ?" And Fred, appearing in compliance with this request, fonnd his uncle vig orously fanning Maude Chesterton with a newspaper to bring her out of a faint ing fit. Before he oonld frame a question, bis nnele said, quickly: "Get me some water!" And* he obeyed. Then, Maude's blue eyes opened with a bewildered stare, the old gentleman aontinued : "We wore sent here to see your domestic felicity, and we seem to IK* misinformed." "My domestic felicity !" cried Fred. "Read that," said his uncle, handing the anonymouß note. And Fred com plied. " Humph ! yes," he said. "So you came to see Mrs. Fred'rick Holman. Well, that lady has made me a happy man ;" and his eyes flashed merrily upon Maude. " But I will introduce you to my cousin's wife, Mrs. Frank Holm&D. Maude," he continued, with gentle gravity, " since you have come here, it will be an act of Christian charity to remain, for " —and his voice sank very low—" we are afraid the poor little woman will be a widow before the morning." " Poor fellow !" said James Rnther ford. " What ia the trouble ? " Tin-: CENTRE REPORTER " (Over work. He thought he could increase ht* amall salary by tolling over Rue engravings in the evening, and he broke down, I new r knew of htn mar riage till last week, when he wrote tue a pamful m te, lieggtug tue to care for hi* wife If he died. 1 eaiue hero at uuoe, and was fortunate enough to win poor little Joste's sisterly confidence and affection. Maude, if the great trouble wo fear comes " *'l will lie hor true sister, Fred!" interrupted Mamie. Hero was a deep ailem. of aevorul uimutea; then Josie, verv pale still, crept softly into the room. *' He is aaleep !" she whispered. " The doctor sai-l if he slept lie would live And wheu she broke iub- hysterical | weeping, Maude held her clone in loviug arms, whispering that she mnst let her stav and comfort her, for Fred'* sake. Nearly eleven o'clock came, ami still Harvey Frothiugham waited, hnlf froaen, iu the dark oourtwav, to *-<* the discomfiture of hi* rival. Then his pa tience was rewarded by seeing Frsl am! his uuele come out of No. 28, arm-tn arm, evidently the Invti of trieuda, and enter Mis* Cheater ton's carriage and drive awav. Sot until the day of the wedding, when he saw Jusie an honored guest, and was introduced to Mr. Frank Uol uiau, did Harvey Fro thing ham under stand the slight mistake he had mailt*. Tile Oetopuv Though all the ootopods, large or small, ean swim freely at will, such is not their halut; they prefer to lie con cealed, or partially so, 011 the aide or in the clefts of rooks. There the vcto|H>d't body is protected from the attacks of other animals, while it can extend its long feelers in search of prey, of which fish, mollusks, and crustaceans are the principal objects. Its movements,when an object of focal is perceived, are mar velously rapid, swifter than the fiight of an arrow from the bow of an exj>en tuioed hunter. The long, flexible arms grasp the victim; its hundreds of suck ers, acting like pneumatic holders, make escape impossible; and, as the long arms draw the object nearer and u*urer, the other shorter arms add their multi plied disks, forming "a perfect mitrail leuse of inverted air guns, which take horrid hold, and the pressure of the air is so great that nothing but closing the throttle-valve cau produce relaxation." This throttle-valve is the neck as we have liefi_.ro described. Tuose lengthy apjwudages, the limbs, are rather IU the way when the auimal is swimming, and wonld act as drag-anchors if left pen deut; but the octopus usually draws them close alongside, whence they ex tend in a horizontal position, acting the part of a tail to a kite. It propel* it self by drawing iu and expelling water through its loeomotory tnl>e. The oc topus swims backward, and it has beeu remarked that it change* its color to a darker hue when it starts out for a sw.m. This change of line, apparently at will, is one of the most peculiar charac teristics of the octopus. It may !>e con sidered the chameleon of the sea. Its ordinary color when 111 repose is a rnot tl*l brown; but if irritated it assume* a reddish hue, approaching to purple. Nature seem* to have been iiinc *t sn perflnouslyacarvftil ia furnishing this ani mal with protecting elements; for thia coloring matter, which reside* between the inner and outer skiu, enables it even to assume the color of tue ground or rocks over which it travels, so that oue can hardly say what oolor it is !>efore it niav have changed to something .quite different. When exhausted after a bat tle or a struggle to get out of a trap, it turns pale like a hntnau IK- .;g. Others beside* Victor Hugo's hero have hail a chance to t*st the strength of these devil fishes. Major Xewsoiae, R. E., when stationed on the east coast of Africa in 1H56-07, undertook to bathe iu a pool of water left by the retiring waves. He says: "As I swam from one end to the other, I was horn xl at feeling something around my ankle, and made for 'the side as speeihly as I could. I thought at first it was only sea weed; but as 1 lauded and trod with my foot on the rock, my disgust was heighten, d at feeling a fit-shy and slippery sul>- stanoe under me. I was, 1 confess, alarmed; and so apparently was tin beast on which 1 trod, for he detached himself and made for the water. Home fellow bathers came to my assistance, and he was eventually lauded. * * As the grasp of an ordinary-sized oeto pits holding to a rock is not less than thirty pounds, while the floating power of a man is between live arid six pounds, I believe if I had not kept in mid-chan nel it would have been a life-aud-death struggle between myself and the In-ast on my ankle. In the open water I wus the best man; bnt near the bottom or side*, which he could have reached with his arms, but which I could not liare reached with mine, he would certainly have drowned me."— Popular .Science Monthly. ( anning FNh-BalN. For several year* past a firm iu this city, says the Boston Advrrfltrr, have sought to discover a method by which rninoed fish, or fish-balls, could be canned so as to retain its original fresh ness and that peculiar flavor that ia sup posed to be one of the secrets of the oook'a art. After months of trials they at length succeeded in producing au article, composed of butter, fish and potatoes, that hail the flavor of the old fashioned New England fish balls, ami that wonld bear transhipment around the world and retain its virtnes iu nuy climate. The flsli are killed by beiug stuck in the neck, md are hung up nntil every drop of blood is removed, and the napes re carefully scraped and cleaned. When salted and tlrieil, it is equal to the best Phillips' beach flsli. The best Nova Scotia potatoes are used, and, in stead of pork fnt, tne best Vermont and New York butter is contracted for at the dairy. The tlsh-balla are packed solid in tin cans, ami hermetically sealed, after which they are put up in eases of ten dozen each, when they are ready for the market. The first sale was made in New York last May, and to such an ex tent has the business grown in nine months that tl e firm employ s force of 2ijo men and women in preparing and packing the fish-balls, snd sixty tinners in making the cans. Since the first of Heptemlwr 2<t,(XX) bushels of potatoes have been used, and the codfish com prises several hundred quintals. The goods are shipped by the cnr-lond to Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and other Western points. A case of the good* was on exhibition at the Paris exposition, for which a medal was awarded, and orders have been filled for France, England, Sootland and South America. A few weeks ago an order was received from Turkey, and the firm has received one from China. The business has ontgrown the most san guine expectations of the proprietors, and it will soon require additional room and u larger force to fill them. This article of food has only been offered to the pnblic for a few mouths, and in every case orders have t>een duplicated', and a steadily-increasing demand in re ported by the grocers who have retailed it. It is as popular in England, France and South America as it is on Cape Cod, and seems likely to become quite as famous abroad as American cheese. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 110, 187' J. MOW INK OIINUSK M\I(K Till:. *r % rrv IUI UMI Kicrrci* lrm i*** I.Miral OfH ll HiunMr. The Chinese Offii iat Jltnanar i* la mod annually in December, mi J is care fully pivpriHl by the IMMUVI of astmuo my, an important (ssiy, imperially up (minted, presided over by prince of 1 tic* roy nl IIIIKHI, mnl oijual tu dignity t suv other government body tu tbti cm pire. Tlif alumnae is IwUiWtnl as n -p.vial art of gimv by the emperor on the Goreaua, 1. HK'booauh, Auuamites and other tributary males. A* tins publication is RO highly respected by the Chinese, it may fairly be considered as the representative of the highest state of astronomical science reached by them. A largo part of the astrological portion of the alumnae i lutwiJisl for u " practical guide in the oouimou affairs of life." A translation is gtv i >f the aduiouitioua for the lirM .lays of the current year, as follow* The first ilav is favorable for • acrifico anil for entering school ; at noou it is allowable to bathe. It is unfavorable for startup; on a journey or exchanging resilience. The MeOlhl dsv is favorable for sacn flee ami bathtnj. It ia unfavorable for ou p-urney, removing or practicing acupuncture. The tliirfi ilav : there ate no indica tions. The fourth ilav may receive or make Visits and cut out clothes ; at seveu *. H may ilraw tip isiutraets, barter and make pieaent*. May not go ou a journey or break ground. The fifth ilav : may visit, bathe, suave ami clean up ; may not plant arid sow. The sixth is favorable for sacrifice, visiting, taking on a new servaut, stsit lug on a journey, removing, marrying, re pairing, breaking ground; at three A. M. may draw np contracts, opeu shop.liarter, .send presents, seal, test the soil and burr. The seventh day : may level roads, but must uot start on a journey. The eighth : may sacrifice, memorial ize, enter office, -assume ceremonial clothes ; at five a. u. may sit toward the southeast ; also favorable for conjugal union, visits, weddings, taking on a new servant, starting on journey, erecting uprights and putt tug on crosslu-ams, budding, removing so'l and burying. The writer gives a few more items and comment* us follows : And so it goes ou for nearly every day iu the yewr. Kuough tia* been trana lated to show tUe excessive childishness ami aliaurdity of this, the principal part of the imperial almanac. On the seven teenth one may be treated for ;Hu<-** aud opeu cachcv of provision. Ou the twenty-third it is allowable to pull down old house* and walls, but drains must uot be oj>cunl or wells dug until the twenty-seventh. Arrest* should be made ou the fifteenth ; this is the only favor able day in the month a very satisfac tory arrangement for criminals. There are four days iu thirty on which our mtv cut out clothes, and the same num ber on which one may sweep and clean up. It is advised to shave on ttie fifth, twenth-third and twenty-ninth, and to bathe seven times in the month. Un fortunately, the intervals between the liath days aro unequal. aud the believer iu the almanac must wait from the fifth to the thirteenth and from the fourteenth to the twenty-third. Beside*, on the first, bathing is favorable at an incon venient hour—viz., mam; the hour on the twenty-ninth (five o'clock! is much better. These indications --eetu b*> "illy to *f feet sensible mcu. v-t while the China man in not only sensible, but actually shrewd and keen, lie guide* in->st of hi* more important iiffair* by the almanac. The poorer chins--* watrn the almanac aarefnlly, ami marry, bnry ami do other things only when it advises, and it i to le feared that the Ivetter educated do not start on a journey nor enter office except on favorable days, though it ia to be hoped they bathe, abate and clean much oftener.— American Journal. I riehiaoHis, Tina ia a parasitic disease, caused by eating |>ork infeated with minutest hair like worms, called trichina*. It is only since IH6O that the disease has Wen fully investigated and understood, tint it can now be traced lack, nnder other names, at least two eentnnes. Hmce the alxivr date it has been recoguisad wherever pork is eateu raw or imper fectly cooked; and there have been many epidemics of if. The trichinia, after passing through the stomach, rapidly multiply in the intestines, aud thence they work thei wav into the substance of the muscles generally aud of the internal organs, where they soon roll themselves up into coils, like worms of the earth. If comparatively few trichina' are taken into the stomach, either because the pork is but slightly diseased, or is eaten sparingly, or the meal is not repeated, the disease is light ami soon over. In severer cases there is vomiting; diarrhea, followed often by obstinate constipation; profuse sweating; fever; great pain in the limbs; difficulty of chewing, swallowing and breathing; hoarseness, often with entire loss of voice; neuralgic attscks and sleepless ness, except in children, with whom the opposite condition of stnjwrr prevails. in the milder cases the patients liegfn to recover in five or six weeks; m severer forms, convalescence is deferred for four months, while the full strength is not restored for a much longer time. A fatal termination is very common, gen erally from paralysis of the respiratory organs. In children, recovery is the rule. No means have yet been found to destroy the trieliinic. American hog* seem to 1h especially liable to the disease. Tliey should be noli! for the market, home or foreign, only after legal inspection. Hot thorough cooking kills the trichina*, Lard, of eonrae, having been subjected to a high heat, cannot contain them.- Youth'* Companion: A lake's Hystericus Sounds Manitoba lake, which lien northwest of Fort Oarry, and has given a title to the provinces formed out of the Itcd nver region, derives its name from a small island from which in the stillness of the night issues a mys terious noise. On 110 account will the Ojibway Indian approach or land on this islnnd, supposing it to be the home of the Manitoba, the "Speaking God." The cause of this curious sound IH the beating of tho waves against the " shingle" or large pebbles lining the shores. Along the northern coast of the island is a long, low elifl of tlne-grain ed, compact limestone, which under the stroke of a hammer cliuka like steel. The waves beatiug on the shore at the foot of the clitl cause the falleu frag ments to rub against each other and to give out a sound resembling the chimes of distant church lells. The phenom enon occurs when the gales blow from the north, anil then as the winds sub side. low, wailing sounds, like whisper ing voices are heard in the air. Travelers assert that the effect is impressive, and that they have beeu awakened at night under the impression that they were listening to church bells. Helena (Mont.) Independent. Old bnttons are in demand in Paris as articles of parlor ornament, and large prices are paid for those in steel, jasper, silver, pebbles or Alenoon diamonds. Till IH'KI.H OF I 111! I'AST VIA It. lira H! llrl MS ISr Mrl.l si Itsusr. ssrf Jan. I'd. At the luucttou of the A. and (1. and H. and (V lt.lt , three tulles from Savanna, between Walter A. Hut lev, lawvcr, and Hubert Vlshburu, ten paces, (toll's revolvers, llarley killed; cause, |>olities Feb. It A J. Niooh ptilo and (ieorge Villere fought with swords at Moiitgom ery station, ou the N. (). and M It It ; Nns'lopulo wounded IU hand. Fell. 'Jli. - lu I'hartes City OoUUtT, Va., fortv miles from Htchmoud, Tiiomas Wilooi ami Hichard Walker, dispute about lainls adjoining; two shots llreif ami Walker fell; Wilom slighfly wound ed ill the urni. Both parties were ar resteil. After the first shot Wilcox said " Hold ou, mv pistol is out of order aud won't tire." "All right; I'm not iu a hurry and I'll wait," was his opponent's "i-iy- - March 7. Vt l'auton, neaf I niversi ty of Virginia, It. T. Johnson, Jr., aud Mr. Cookroll f night with bowie knives; (Va-krell called Johnson a liar over a game of billiards; the young men were aged alnnit twenty two; neither party hurt. March dp. At Kaatvilh , Va., Mulnev l'ltta aud A I*. Thomas fought with pistols, to settle a quarrel alsuit sdd; two rounds at six feet apart. Fitts was killed, ami Thomas fatally wounded. July 4. —On Luxembourg frontier, Jorree Uaoedo, minister to Itelgnim from San Salvador, tuid Medira, minister from Guatemala. Uacedo wounded in shoulder. I>r. William Auberv and Adolph Flummer; Colt's six sheading OisU>U; uear Latouia Springs, Ken tucky; one ahot. Dr. Aubery wouud*l in foot, tyuarrel atsiut a lady; fifteen paces. July 14. Th. llev. Dr. Wade Hail, Baptist, and Andrew Scroggina, sou in law, fought duel, ten jiace*, in Ilutlier ford county, N. Scroggina spanked Dr. Hell's daughter and the doctor re proved him. A quarrel and fight eu iu*l, doctor coming out test. Scrog gins challenged, tiie r> vereud deeliued. Scroggins \ owed revenge, it he jioiaou eel his coffee. The reverend Wa* armed. Thee met on borarback. Major •* 11a. I've got you 1I>W." The rever- - aud "Keepcool." Major " Ten min ute* t> say your prayers." The rever end— 4 'Well. sir, I'm ready," drawing derringer. Major "And so am I mav the Lord have tuerey ou ua Itotb," ami fired, wnth no effect. The reverend tired ami killed Scroggins. Aug. 1. lt. S. Salisbury an IJ. 8. Iveraon of August*, Ga., met ou Caro lina side of river and exchanged shot*; uohodv hurt. Sept. 14.- John Riley and unknown man, at Catholic cemetery, San Francis co,ten paces an 1 advance; Riley wound ed; refuses to tell. Paris, Nov. 21.—-A duel with pistol* lietween M. (iambetta and M. de Four ton, arising out of the passage in the chamtver of deputies on the lath inst., when the latter was unseated, wa* fought to-day at Pleases Picquet. They fought at thirty-five i>acr. Onlv oue exchange of ah >t wrw* had, and ueitlier party wa* hurt. Columbia. S. C., Jan. 2.—A duel was fought last Monday night near Biahop ville, tiie principals being Mr Canter, of Camden and Mr Cash, of Cash's De pot. Two shots were exchanged with onkefieet. ('mcinnitti fViwm" ial A Model \ea Fnglaad Farm. Mr. Burnett, the owner of the three hundred aero in Hiuthboro, Me., known as Deerfoot frm, makes a spe cialty of breeding, raisiug and fattening hogs, and converting them into various articles of f.Hxi, and of the product* of the dairy. Tb conversion of the car casses int.• tiaina ami bacou, and the manufacture of sausages and lard are carried on in the most systematic man ner an.i on an extensive scale; extra pains being taken to province for the private consumption of customers in Boston. New York and Philadelphia, the choicest and most palatable articles. Mr. Burnett raises about 850 hogs an nually. aud purchases from the fanners of Vermont 1,500 fat Berkshire*, winch make the l>est jork. After Imiug dress ed, the hogs are kept in a refrigerator for forty eight hoars, wbeu thev are cut up, the ham* and bacon enred ia the most approved manner, the lard tried out and canned free from adulteration, and the pork packed in kegs of fifteen aud twenty pound* weight; the sausage meat chopped by machinery aud sea Boned with the best quality of sage aud pepper that can Ih* obtained, ami theu made into aansages. Mr. Burnett's baoon hna taken the place of imported English bacon in the Boston market, and has become so popular in Philadel phia that one dealer has offered to take the entire product of Deerfoot farm, which amonnts to 300 side* a day, while 3,000 hams are-cured annnallv. The product of sausages averages about 1,000 pounds a dav. Another s|>ecialty of Mr. Bnruett ia the canning of pigs' feet, which are sold largely iu the sea son to yachting |>arties. The piggery at Deerfoot farm is an extensive affair, located at some distance from the main butldiugs, and consists of a building eighty by forty feet, with a wing sixty by twenty feet, containing pens, in which were seen about 250 swine of .all ages, from the sucking pig to the hog ready for the scalding vat The animals are fed twice a day, on a cooked mixture of two-thirds corn ineal aud one-third ground oats, which Mr. Burnett has de monstrated to be the most profitable food for fattening hogs. In the dairy, the Devonshire process of producing clotted cream is used. New milk, scald ed, is placed in long, large pans, which are placed under a refrigerator, where it is cooled rapidly, the temperature Wing reduced in ttiree hours from 100 degrees to thirtv-two degrees, aud cream raised to the thickness of three-fonrths of an inch, which ordinarily required forty eight hours. This "cream will keep sweet several days, and is sold for sixty Mali quart to' Boston families. Mr. Bnrneft also mannfactnrea from 250 to 300 pounds of butter a week from the milk of fifty cows, of which twenty-five are thoroughbred Jerseys, The bntter readily sells nt seventv-flve cents b pou n<l. Bo*ton '/Van*cri]tt. A Buhl Operation Prof. Alan T. Smith has perform.*! a most difficult and dangerous operation on the nine-year-old son of Mr. 8. J. Hopkins, of Cambridge, Md. Ten months ago the chilu swallowed a tin ferrule from an umbrella. The ferrule, which was open at both ends, after going some distance down the throat, canght, in the anterior wall of the >sopliagiiH pressing against the windpipe, giving rise to senoua trouble. All efforts to extract it were unavailing. The child was brought to town some days ago. Prof. Smith, finding that the obstruc tion eonld not be reached by means of any of the forceps in use or that oonld tie devised, on account of it lieing ini bedded in the mucous m< mbraues and the difficulties of its position, forced his fingers down the child's throat and extracted it in that way. To do this, the child jhad to be held by the heels, head down ward. It was completely suf focated for the time being bv the opera tion. Artificial respiration bad to lie re sorted to, which, after some time, brought him to a normal state. The child ia now doing well.— Baltimore Sun. After Orli/ltr*. A letter from Biamarek, Dakota 'l'er ritory, tells uf the arrival there of a Mr. te-asiire, who had 1 KM-N hunting in the Judith baaiti and the Muaeleahell valley, le-anitre Was Willi Meaniter, the English aporUmaU, part of the time. They had their czpericuoo#. The grimly (rear is the big game. He la an Ugly enemy at short range. The boy* were always ou the alert for hi* approach, line luinty night Leaaure and his companion were startled by a specter moving slow ly toward their eamptire after the up aud down movement of a grizzly. It was not a safe investment, hut the hunters thought they would lodge two bullets fore and aft of the brute. They tired, ami la>th bullet* passed through the animal where they aimed. It turned and disappeared. Neit morning the boya went in search of their wounded grizzly. They found him. He was their old gray pony, who had broken loose from Ins picket and was grazing in the direction of the cam)). The wounds were not serious, sml the pony soon recovered. A few veurs ##•• three men iu mix week* killed 1,500 deer in the Big Snowy mountains. Thev killed theni for their hide*. It wa* prulublj the ni<wt auooeaaful slaughter of the forest luu-ieeiite that ever oorurred iu this aec tiou. Wlieu Measilcr and 001. Pickett of Kentucky sUrted into the Judith basin oil their fall hunt, their first ex (►erieuce wan with * big grizxlv, which suddenly charged thetu from the wood*. The hunter* and their two gulden were oa horseback. The hurwea were frightened, and the rider* unable to take aim. The liear would charge oue hor*- and then another. Volley after volley wan fired at random. The borne* (■ltched about, and the Iteuir entered inio the fun with all the spirit of hta great nature The crack of the rifle anm*ed him. lie would run hack into the wimml, and then tamiice out again, taking after the nearest home. A rifle shot from hi* aide or rear would make him turn an : ctiarge in the direction of the cue my. The tight wan kept up for hour*, when darkness terminated the unsatis factory con teat. The lwr wan safe. Me*niter saw a fine grizzly run into a very heavy thicket. He peratiided hia pointer dog to go into the thicket by throwing a ntone into it. The dog went in to retrieve the atone, hut name out with hia tail lietweeu hia leg*, and on a clean run that never top(>ed until he got into camp. The bear followed him to the edge of the thicket, wheeled altout face aud dl*api>eareiL Just a* hia hind quartern were paasiug out of aight, Measiter discharged both barrel* of hi* Express rifle. Thev were loatled with exploaive bullet*. Tiie liear removed them. Thev hurt, but didn't kill. Mr. Me**iter *# now iu a quandary. The fhall of one barrel cotildn t lw removal, aud the l>eivr wan too cunning to make fight Meaaiter threw a cartload of atone* into the thicket, hoping that the Ix-ar would take offense and come out The bear had men enough. He would take the ehanoe* of Iteiug hit by the •uine*. M<-*iter could *hoot straighter than Le could throw. He tol I the re*t of the torv iu about the following w >rd* "Gentlemen, lam sorry to say it, hut 1 deliberated an hour and a half before I decided to go in after that Issir. 1 knew that he w*a wounded, and that iu all | (liability he would die Iwfore moruing and hi* meat spoil. It was getting late in the afternoon, and 1 mn*t decide. Having but one useful barrel of my rifle made the aitualion all the more interesting. I got down ou my hands and knee* and crawled into the thicket a few hundred yards, when I caw something just in front of me mov ing up and dowu. It was the lower jaw of the grizzly. He wa* whetting his ap petite. I plaxsl my rifle to my ahonl- Jer. The Is-ar I* gan to rajse tip. It was death to one of* us. I flred. The ta-ar fell hack. The bullet |>aa*cd directly through the hall of his left eve." Messiter ha* g"ue directly to Harris burg, Pa., to sjhmk! the winter and spring. He lives near that city, but get* hia wealth fr>m England. He ia the proprietor of 12,000 acres of land and three small villages. His income is jirincely. He ha* hunted everything from an elephant to a jack rabbit. He was three year* the chief of a band of A rub* in Arabia. His object was adven ture and a knowledge of the people He is by tar the moat accompli shed gentleman who has ever traveled Ibis war a a hunter. His rough life simply refines lorn. He is au artist iu his line. Medal* at World'* Fair*. So far as the general public is con cerned. it always is aud always will lie in a atate of hopeless confusion con cerning the medal* awarded to the dif ferent firms that have exhibited at the world's fair*. Each firm seems, accord ing to circulars an.l advertisements, to have taken the highest prize for its specially, whatever it le, so that the community at large is unable to see how or wherein one firm his any ndvau. tage over auother. Philadelphia, Vienna, anil Paris expositions are mys teries to the many who cannot perceive the benefit of competition if everything exhibited is worthy of the same honor. Although this may appear so, quite the contrary is the fact. Different me<lals are given, as at the Paris expc .ition, for articles of different degrees of merit. There are the grand gold metal, the gold, the silver, and the bronze ni(<dala, the honorable mention, which is the regular descending scale. Exhibitors who have gained any prite are ingenious enough to advertise in a way to make people believe that they have carried off the highest honors, ft is growing to lie a question among mer chants and manufacturers whether world's fairs do any good commensnrate with the trouble and cost of exhibiting there ; and it is not at all unlikely tlint these fairs will henceforth diminish iu importance and interest. They cer tainly seem to have had their beat days in the opiniou of a New York paper from which the foregoing ia taken. A hiving fishhook. A curious way of catching turtles off the coast of Cuba is employed by the natives, and with entire success. A specicß of muora, or feet*, inhabits those waters; it has an oval disk on the top of the head and the adjacent parts of the back, the surface of which is crossed by transverse cartilaginous plates, and on the middle of the under surface are hook-like projections, con • nected bv abort bands with the skull and vertebras, aud their upper margin is st with fine teeth. By means of this apparatus, partly suctorial, partly pre hensile through the hooks, the retnora attaches itself to rocks, vessels, floating timber and the bodies of other fish, us ing them either for anchorage or labor saving transit. Boatmen seeking for turtles carry several feet** iu a tub, and when near their game n properly equip ped feet* is cast off. The tlsh fastens itself to the turtle so firmly—it will |>er mit itself to be torn asunder before it will release itself from any object to which it is attached —that the turtle can readily be secured. The living fishhook is held by a ring in the tail, aud a strong line made of the fibre of palm bark. By a peculiar manipulation, the flail is made to let go its hold of the turtle when botL have been hauled into the boat. The remnra ia then returned to its tub to await the discovery of another turtle. TKRMH: #2.00 . Yoar, in Advanoe. TIMELY TOPICS. Lima went into mourning for eight days for Don Manuel I'ardo, late ureal dent of Peru, who was assassinated by a soldier. Denver, Colorado's chief city, twen ty years old, lias a (topulatiou of thirty t hum-ami, t wruty ehurchoa, nine educa tions! institutions, eight newspapers, four banks ami one theater. A New York p*|>er says that in New York city alone there are wore ien*oua with £I2,DUO moomea than in all Prua sla. Jt estimates at leaat 2,000 such against 1,500 in Prussia. hiate savings banks in Maine have been reduced to fifty tune in number, five loss thsu three years ago, and of these thirteen have had their deposit* scaled down by the supreme court The electric light has been applied to the velocipede m England. The ltgld is equal to oue hundred aud twenty eaudlea, and it lights up the road two hundred yards ahtwwl on a dark night. The Vtckshurg i Miss, i Herald print ed in U-u columns a hat of all tbr gifts that have been received there by the yellow fever committees, and has had a copv mailed to each of the place* whenor the contributions came. The home of lierr August Wilhelmj, the noted violinist, now playing in the United Htales, is at Biebricb, on the I dune, where hi* father owns many large vineyards, and next to the emper or is the largest vineyard proprietor tu (iermaov. King Ludwig's royal chateau, which he haa aet alnmt building on the laland of Herren-Chiemsoc, in Bavaria, after the model of the palace at Versailles, will find him, when completed, ouly forty-eight ycara old; and he baa set apart til teen years for the building of it. Since June 90th, 1H47, 9,719.308,527 postage stamps have been issued by the United State* government, worth over f-JNb.iMIo.UOU. For the tirwt four years they amounted to hardly $1,000,000 a year. Sow New York eity alone takes gJ.M66.000 a year, Philadelphia, $95,- 000, Chicago, $971,000, Boston, $946,- 000, and St. Louis, $465,000. The public work* of the general gov ernment in New England have ouet, dur.ug the last two year*, a? follow* : I*7" I*7* Maow . .s*U.l*.7 yxs.xssas New Haiupsbirc ... 10.4W U Zc.KX4.OO Vermont - -• 11 000.00 14.d00.00 Mvssaetiusotis .. ..0M.40550 1*4.8*7.66 Uvum- aud Mo* .... (unnnrtieut WIJ44.M 56 10170 lthode Island ... 27.W1 itt 45,00(100 Statistic* given by Mr. Richard Hall, secretary to the meeting of cattle im porter* at Liverpool, show that there bus I<-n a very substantial growth in ana cat lie trade, especially in regard to the citations from thia country. The lmpeaae ha* t>eeu *-imething enormous, incrha* oeearred within a few months, instead of by alow accumulations. In 1875 onlv 7<J2 cattle were imported, while iu 1*714, up to the commencement of December, the number was >50,000. The total for the rear wruld probably reach 86,000, or, including abeep aud ptga, not far abort of 130,410 animals. The Liotiae iu which tUe Emperor of Germany prefers to live is tilled with the parspberualia of war. Portraits and Inst* of great soldier*, pictures of famous battles, are it* chief ornament. Models of cannon, rifle* aud sheila wooden statuette# clothed in all the uniforms of the world, fill the niches and vacant place*. Hi* inkstand is half a cannon ball, and his paperweights the hoots of favorite charger*. Military books and rnapa fill hia library, aud his own im(erial signature is given with a penholder cnt from splinter* of an Uhlan lance. Where the Work 1* lBr. Au important place the speaker's room is, write* a Washington correspond ent. Poaaibly not half of those famil iar with the capito! know where it i*. Not the jveaker's room down in the guide book*--a big, tile-floored, well win Jowed room just back of the cham ber id which the House ta. That room is currently known as the sjieaker'sroom, but the spiaker never sees any one there whom he want* to see. It is too open and accessible by half. The conferences winch the speaker ha* at which anything is done are not held in thia marble walled (Moon. It is a little close! in a dark entry below the hall. It is hard by a private staircase. The glazed door is screened by green li*e. There is not the sign of name or note on the door, and it l* one of the few doors un marked in the eapitol The corridor has no light, and ou a cloudy day ia dark. Once inside, yon see a room partly covered by a carpet partly ragged. The window —there is onlv one—is screened in some cheap way. "there ia room tor a straggling table, one lounge sod three chairs. There is room for nothing else. If you know him, yon have got in with out a card. If yon do not know him. yon have uot got in at all. And iu such N room yon find the third officer of the government hard at work. It is signifi cant of the publicity of pnolic life when it ia nnfeuoed bv claaa rank that it ia onlv in some such coal-hole that he can get time to work. Unless he hides him self, so many people have a right to aee him that hia whole time runs to waste. It ia in thia little hole in the wall that three speakers. Oolfax, Blaine and Ran dall. have done the real work of legisla tion. Hpeaking guardedly, I fancy more of the business of goveruiug is done in thst room than in any other one room in Washington. She Couldn't IU , A young man and his girl sat near the front, at Rurdette's lecture, tlie other evening. Ttie young man carried his head on one side, it being forced into that position by the weight of half a i verv tender mustache which was com posed of seven hairs upon one side and eleven on the other side of his nose. When the Hawkeye man hail jnst flu ' ished convulsing his hearers with an account of a youth's first shaving en counter with a barber, the young man leaned over to his girl, and whispered : •• That's true to life, 1 can tell you." " How can yon tell me?" inquired the girl. "How?" he repeated in a whisper; " why, by experience; that's just the way i felt when I first got shaved." " When was that?" ahe asked, "Oh, before I raised my mustache," he returned. "What mush che?" she queried, little surprised. "What mustache do you suppose?" he retorted, turning red. " Why, Charlie," whispered the girl, " I never saw any mustache. Do yon mean"— "Never miud what I mean," hissed the young man betweeu his clenched teeth. Aud he stared very hard at the lecturer all the rest of the evening, but somehow oculdn't see anything to langh at. Sunday night he went to see a new girl. Bockland Ctourier. NUMBER 5. 44 The Tug •( War. M The recent two daya' exhibition of amateur athletic games, in Oilmore'a gariieu. New York, reanlted in a aerie* at interesting contests, consisting of running and walking matchea, veloei |>ede and hurdle re* ing, and " tuga of war," in which two " tuama " catch hold ufa rope aud try to pull ea-h other over a mark, the laat event in the ex hibition—a tug of war between twenty men—ia described thna by a reporter: The concluding event waa a tug of war—the final of the contest of the previous evening— tet ween the Boottiah- Atu-ricjnj team and the team of the Em pire {'ity gymnasium. Tlie former had uever lief ore lieen tieeten, and looked like winners in their pretty uniform*, displaying magnificently-developed mus cles. The Empire City meu were knot ly fellow*, apparently workiugmen.and were airnpiy stripped to their abirte and pantaloons. The struggle waa the tin eat that ever took place. At the fivah of the piatol the Hoots went to work imme diately with every muacle of their bod ies anil all the skill fur which they have won a reputation, but they did not budge their opponent* an inch. Then the Empire City men pulled for ail they were worth, and succeeded in dragging their opponent* a foot toward the hue. The cheers, yella. whistles an J cat call* that arose from the assemblage a* this were simply deafening. The triumph of the Hootch ruen pad been regarded aa a foregone conclusion,and the delight of the crowd at this indication that the con test was not to be altogether one-aided was indescribable. Men lost their heads and jumped around like In nation, at the si.me time shouting thennaeivt* hoarse at one team or the other. Until the end of the contest the din bad no cessation nor the excitement any abatement. The mortified Scotchmen rallied and made a supreme effort, but they loet another inch in so doing. Pull followed pull in quick suooemnon; the bunched muaclea on the arms, baeka, and legs of the Scotchmen swelled and writhed, and their powerful bodies swayed from aide to side under so intermittent strain that seemed almost enough to pari the thick rofie, but the others were like rocks,and yielded nut a hair's breadth. On the contrary, they proved quick to take ad vantage of every relaxation of their op ponents, and added meb after inch to their advantage, until ther had a clear gain of four or five feet, "fhen they just anchored themselves and held on. The Scotchmen got mad at length, and began tannting the Empire City men, bnt they stopped on being promptly hissed. The fifteen minutes were fast slipping away. Bracing themselves, the Scotchmen partly arose, and pulled until it would seem that something mast break. But to no avail. The pistol shot went off which gave the Empire City men the victory, and a shout arose that shook the building. Xiaiag Numrai laturi Nsmee of mines, like one's emotions when eating L'.mburger cheese for the first time, are peculiar. The locator of Dry Hash probably showed his prefer ence fcr s dish which is a prominent featnre in a boarding-house, and has a large circle of acquaintance*. Little Bilk leave* one to infer that there is a Big Bilk; in tact, on consideration, we concede that there are a great many of them. Mollia Darling shows that, al though *he is getting to be an old maid, she still has admirers. The Fraud is no exhibition of human nature; the locator wanted to pique the pride of the vein and spur it to bebe its name. On in quiring of one miner whv he had named his claim "I Know All/' he explained: " When I left the East I left mv girl there, and—and some tronble I bad with another lady. When I got out here I wrote to my girl that I waa doing bully. That wasn't so; but you know how a fel low will write. Wrote that I expected to return soon and cage her in a palace. She answered: * I know ail. Yours no more, Jane.'" Asking another whv be ch<>* to name his " Terror." he replied: "For a lady." "Howl Didn't know that was a female name." " Well, you see, that s mv wife; she's a terror. Left in Gold Hill." Tom Pike being ques tioned as to hie naming a location Josh Johnson, said: " That—that was my uame in the Btates." I asked the pro prietor of the Last Chance if he really considered this bis last chance for a for tune; if he failed, would he try again ? " No, sir; no, sir; will go to rcijbin' the stages." To the man who vu showing me bis two claims I remarked: " From the name, the Treasury, von must have ( high hope* of this?" " faint isn't why I named her that.". "Why, then ?" "There's ntithin' in it" "And thir second one. Hector. Yon admired the j valiant Trojan ?" •' Named for my dog • Hector.' He's dead now. Buried over tbar. Come an'see his grave."— Salt I akr Trihunr. Koes in Wlater. At a recent regular monthly meeting of the New York Horticultural society the business waa to elect half a dosen new members and to listen to the reed ing of a priae esaay. Mr. Peter Hender son, the veteran florist, offered in No vember lsst a special prize of $25 to the writer of the beat es*ay on " Rose Cul ture for Winter Blooming." The prime went to William Bennett, florist, Flat busb. Mr. Bennett advised that cuttings should tie taken from the strongest roots, as early as Jannary if possible. In March plant them in the rose-house. The border in which they are to be set should 1* of strong loamy soil, with no manure. Drainage of the border should lie perfect. While the roses are grow ing during the summer months, they must lie well watered continually. The varieties liest to grow for winter are Bon Silene. Saffrano, Sprunt, Cornelia Cook, Nephitos, Douglas. Madain, Tal oot. Pearl of the Garden and Marshal Neil. These comprise all shades of color known in rosea. Pruning should tie doue sparingly ; rosea are nsnally hnrt by ocereealotts pruners. The tem perature in tbe night should not average -bove tifty-flve digreee Fahrenheit, and by day seventy-five degrees. Finally Mr. Bennett said that the causes of failure to produce winter rose blooms are not only that the bonier is nsnally manured too riehlv, bnt also that the liorders are badly drained and the roses too closely prnned. Great care should be taken to begin the temperature low when the rose-house is closed up in the fall If weather permits, the tempera ture at the beginning shonld be forty five degrees in the night, ranging np to fifty five degrees in daylight. Words of Wisdom. Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward tonch as the snnbeam. No man is the wiser for bis learning. Wit and wisdom are born with a man. Reason is the life of the law v nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. To write well is to think well, to feel well anil to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul and taste. A man can do without his own appro bation in mnch society, bnt mnst make great exertious to gain it wheu be lives alone. Oar hopes, though they never happen, yet are some kind of happiness; as trees, whilst they are growing, please in the prospect. ItMi ef liUmt. " Anti-fat remedy'—Killing UM bog when young. Winter is the aeaaou beat raited to frame speech. A hotel bill may be called iun-debted oeea. The population of the Oerman empire is 75, Of, 000. Why ia a healthy tree like a dogf Beoaoae the bark ia sound. Look ont for the girl who thrown bar whole soul into a pair of slipper* for the pereon. The annnal batter and cbeme product .if the United HUten ia $50,000,000 great* r than the wheat crop. Wolves and wild bear* are at til nu merous and troubleaome in France, owing to ibe extenaire tracts of foreat j laud. i How aome people keep from freeaing jin the winter By keeping 'bemselves , nonatautly in bot water with their mugb bota. Woman a capabilities are great, but hardly sufflmeutly developed to allow of her driving a nail without hitting ber finger. A man who bought a box of cigar*, when asked what they were, replied, " Tickets for a course of lectures from my wife." A romantic young mu *y* that a yonng woman's heart is fiae the moon— It changes continually, but always baa a man in it. Instead of leaving flowers Mid wreaths on the graves of deed friends, eastern expects the people of Madrid to leave visiting cards. * Two boys recently found in the gem district of Ceylon a blue sapphire weigh ing no less than two pounds in tha rough, and valued at $60,000. Nothing can exceed the intense affec tion which a girl deals ont to ber father for a day or two before the time when slit's going to ask for a new dries. To oommenoe with, he bad fallen in love with Josephine Ormand, whose pretty faoe was her only fortune, and who worked in a paper-box factory fcr her daily bread. He that i* found reasonable in one thing ia sonelnd*4 u> Be so in all; and to think or my otherwise is thought so unjust an affront and no arnaeiee* a cen sure that nobody venture* to do it New Mexico has seven different tfibes of Poeblo Indiana, each speaking a dif ferent language. Am."as has one tribe that live in seven different villages, ad jacent to each other, however, and in several town* a different dialect is spoken—the Moquia. Ths 8L Loaik JUpuLlioan Mya: The "correct way to prooounee the name of thia Btate ta m though it were spelled Missouri, end that of its southern neighbor a* ihongh it were spelled Ar kanaaw. Dictionaries and gaseiteera often give other pronunciations, bnt theee are the one* which the people of the respective Bute* generally follow. The only Frenchman ever heard of who did a fanny thing st * duel was Bainte heuve. who, hawing to fight on a very rainy morning, persisted in hold ing an nmbrella over his head with his left band. In wain did bta seconds remonstrate with him, and tell him that such conduct was out of order. "I don't mind being shot." said the greet critic, " bat I newer came here to get wet" And he stood his adwersary's fire with his nmbrella waring proudly ower his head. A eanoas old manuseriptlrontaimng an sUuatoo to the death of Outtenborg, the great in wen tor of printing, has re cently been fonnd in the Walraf museum at Cologne. It contains the poemr, written in Latin, of a certain Jan Bart* bark, who speaks in one of them of " a recent invention by means of which the works of authors "can be rapidly multi plied;" adding that thia invention "uad proved fatal to the discoverer, for a •and of malountenU bad entered his house, borne him sway iu a carriage, and then cat his throat" Tie mora! that the wise medieval poet derives from 1 this eiretunstanoe is that " the love of gain is often the cause of oar rain." The pot m is dated 1441, and is sou poaed of 2,000 verses A wealthy Scutcli gentleman, while traveling by rail in his native country, in 1876. lcet his portmanteau, contain ing $500,000 in bonds of various nations, smong which were $5,000 in United Btates six per centum coupon bonds. Bom# time ago the polme <if Scotland , arrest*! two meu and one woman upon suspicion of having stolen the portiaan :<*n. Upon being arraigned they ca ptained that, not being able to rrad, they were not aware of the value of the pa per*, and. fearing to retain them, they were burned. A relative of the Scotch man, living in the United Btates. now comes forward with an application for the issue of dupboster for the bonds stolen, a full description of which is given. Similar applications to European governments, whose bonds were among those alleged to have been burned, have I won granted. Li vint: la ud 1879. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Vasrttf has been digging into the past and has brought up a comparative statement of prices of living, which w not uninteresting. November, 1828, the following were the prices of food in that market: Floor 00 riora H0(t -■ ■; S J2 bogtr— Sew Orleans.... Hsrd White I 5 'off* (fobs) ; Coal T 19 W In 1852 the prices were: Flour W 90 r <**> Hews 6 w 1A... Kngtr—New Orleans S Coffee. " doing into the market to-day, he finds this list of prices: Floor *"* 52 Oon ... " Hog* 4 Sugar— New Orlesne Hard White 1" Lard ,'(■ Coffee J* Coal - 10 00 Toad Poisoning. The following singular aocount of the. action of toad poisoning on the human body, is reported in the lsst number of the London Chrmi*t: A child of si* years old followed a large toad on a hot summer's day. throw ing stones at it. Suddenly he felt that the animal had spurted some moisture into his eye. There suddenly set in a slight pain and spasmodic twitching of the slightly-injected eye, but two hours after coma, jumping' sight, dosire to bite, a dread of food and drink, consti pation, abundant urine, great agitation, manifested themselves, followed on the sixth day by sickness, apathy, and a kind of stupor, but with regular pulse. Some days later, having become oom faratively quiet, the hoy left his bed ; is eyes are injected, the skin dry, the pulse free from fever. He iiowls and behaves himself like s madman, sinks into imbecility and speechlessness, from which condition he never rallies. Digging Fp a Palace. Tradition has long pointed out a cer tain field about e miie from Wed more church, in England, as the site of the old palace of King Alfred nnd the West Saxon kings. This field is called the Court Garden, and there have been many storiee of the treasure hidden there. And now the rector, Mr. Sydenham Hervey, has dug tip in this place the re mains of the palaoe where, I.OCO years ago, the great peace was signed with the Danes. The walls are massive, the mortar of an ancient character, and the whole appearance of the bnildingspeaks its great age. A large quantity of pot tery has been fonnd, some Roman and some of the early English character. Some of the walls are bnried at a depth beneath the surface of the land of six to ten feet; others, which are on rock, are bnt thinly covered with earth.