At the Bedside. Oh, mothers whoas children are sleeping, Thank Ood by their pillows, to-night. And pr*T for the mothers now weeping O'er pillows too amooth and too white; Where bright little heads oft have lain, And soft little cheeks have been pressed , Oh, mothers who know not this pain, Take courage and bear all tbe rest For the somber-winged angel is going With pitiless flight o'er the land. And we wake in the morn, never knowing What he, ers the night, may demand. Tes, to-night, while our darlings are sleeping. There's many a soft little bed Whose pillows are moistened with weeping For trie loss of one dear little hesd Then are heaits on whose innermost altar There is nothing but ashes, to-night. Ther* are voices wior. tones sad!) taller, And dim eyeN that (-brink from the light On, mothers wt ... children are aleepiug. As ye l>eiid lo ai i • thl fair h<>ads. Tray, pray for tbe nrotl ore now weeping O'er pitiful, smooth little ><■• Thatl My Itey ! Rig bine eyee with rognish twinkle Timplee ever miming riot. Busy tongne that's never quiet. Forehead fair, with ne'er a wrinkle, C nsl'ring hair of sunny hne, V wa lit: e niinh, 'us Une That's my boy ! Fun and mischief never stopping. Teasing new for " pants and boota. And a truly gmi that shoots;" "\is-e on my cheek fast dropping I hen away with ahout and hop Till 1 cry: "Oh mercy, stop '' Thai's my boy ! Never ending, still beginning l'.vkeU full of dirt and cruuilw. Craay ovr horns and drums. Noise in all things ever winning bragging be of "Jim'' is master. While I run for white court-plaater That's my boy ! TV) you hear a fearful noise '< IV> you scent a burning smell V Bo yon beau- a curdling ye;l Load enough for twenty boys ? Po yon hear while at your prayers, Some one turn! . g down the That'* my boy! bo it goee —some pain, some pleasure. Wonder I. twin tear and smile. Will it be thus all the while— Jcy and grtef m equal measure t bl al! I cry, in bitter sorrow, Is some (tread, far-off to-morrow. That 's my boy ? At, -jo, no! Mothers' eyes look far ahead. And mure see, with tender pride. By a gray-haired woman * side One whom, now that years have sped. Brava, yet gentle, is her stay; One of whom shell proudly say, That's my boy I Cbra K. Ccn-iptmL ."Vav---; . TEN DAYS IN LOVE. It was a oolJ night in January. Peo ple were hurrying alone through the blinding -DOW-storm, :i tliug with the wind that howled and moaned ont by turns ita rtory of woo. , Huge Remington and his friend Wil liam". glad to be ont of the storm, had settlol themselvi < in gown and slippers for a quiet evei ug at home. The shut ters were closed aud the curtains drawn, sad on either s -?e of the hearth was placed ti. • fawn ; chair of each. These frier-Is had lived together iu their bachelor quarters for more than two years. Everything in the apartment showed refined taste and wealth. Some said that it all belonged to Qngh, and that he made it a home for his friend. No one, however, knew this to be true. Hugh was quiet and reserved, seldom spoke of his affairs to any one, never laid any special claim to anything, but allowed it to appear that all things were equally shared. After the evening papers had 1-ecu read and discussed, the two sat talking cf days goue by, of little episodes ia their lives. Hugh was in a talking mood, and had told several good stories of his past life; stopping sud denly. he exclaimed: " Did I ever t-11 you of my love for thu widow ?" "No," replied Williams. "Let's have it" "Well,'aaid Hngh taking another cigar and looking very serious as he leant d back in his great easy-chair, " I met her in Paris." •' Met who?" "Ou, nevermind who. Be content that 1 am telling you the story, and don't ask for name*. I thought of her as 'the widow.' It is a sufficient title." "Well, I won't interrupt. Goon." So Hugh continues!: " I was calling upon my old friend Mrs Lee, and while waiting for the servant to take her my card, an odd piece of bric-a-brac standing in the corner of the room attracted my atten tion. I got np and went over to ex amine it. While thns engaged, the door opened. I turned, thinking that it was Mr-. Lee, when, oh ! what a beauty met my sight!—so small that she looked like a chlid, large deep bine eyes that came oat from under a mass of light golden curls, a small nose, and a rosebud of a month. She was dressed in dqep mourning, and 1 thought, as I looked at her, that I bad never seen a more beautiful picture. Bhe didn't see me nntil I ma lea slight movement, which startled her. Coming forward I said: "I frightened you, did I not?" " Yes; I wa* not aware that there was any one in the room. Yon are wait ing for" Mrs. Lee ?" And she gave me the ewe-test of smiles, showing a most perfect row of teeth. "Before I could answer, Mrs. Lee appeared, and introduced n. Mrs. was making Mrs. Lee a short visit prior to her departure for America. T was glad of that, as 1 should then nave the pleasure of seeing her again. " The evening passed only too quick ly, an l I arose with an apology for stav ing so late. Mrs. Lee invited me to dine with them informally the next day. She said her friend preferred being quiet, so they should be quite alone. Yon may be sure that I acoepted the in vitation! and was there promptly at the Lour. The widow was more charming than on the previous evening. I longed to stop tire hours from rolling on. Hav ing been in the habit of dropping in at Mrs. Lee's at all hours, my frequent almost daily—visits were not noticed as anything strange or nnusual. Mrs. Lee thanked me for coming to them in their eneliness, and the widow wculd give me one of her sweet smiles, and I was thankful in mv inmost heart that they were lonely, and that it fell to my lot to cheer them. So the weeks passed, until the time cimo for the departure of Mrs. Lee's friend. " Now I had intended passing a month or two in Eugland before coming home, but when I found that the widow was to return in ten days,l began to think that my duty called me baekto my business. The more I thought of it, the more im portant it seemed to me to go. " Do you know of any one going on the 15th?' the widow asked me one evening, in her dove-like way. "'No one but myself,' I answered. •Busiuess has called me sooner than I expected.' " ' How delightful!' from the widow ; while Mrs. Lee exclaimed, 'Ob, Mr. Remington, lam so glad! I couldn't bear the idea of my friend going entirely alone, and you of all others will know best liow to'take care of her.' "We then began to make our pIaDS. Mrs. intended miking a visit of a few days to some friends in London. I was going direct to Liverpool. Mrs. Lee and i drove down to see our friend off, and I looked forward to the pleasure of meeting her on board the steamer. My last day in Paris were spent in say ing ' good-bye' to old friends, and buy ing presents for sister Nell and the chil dren. I got every noweaute that I could find, and felt well pleased with mv selection. At last I was on the steamer, and stood looking at the ship move away. By my side was the widow, and I thought that I had never seen her took so lovely. I exulted in the knowl edge that she knew no one board. I was her only friend, consequently I should have her all to myself ; this was FRED. KURTZ, Kditor and Propriotoi VOLUME XII. t*o 1 said to myself! what 1 had for week* been longing (or. \\ * liu love? Fhat qawtiou had not occurred to wo. I felt supremely happy, and thought the situation delightful. 1 was ready to do anything for tin, fair creature. Site tiad only to command; Iwo nil eager ties* to obey. I eoou had opportunities of ahowing my devotion. "The following morning I came out ou deek Terr early, and was surprised to Ami my little lad* already there. Hhe looked very miserwtfle and very pretty The morning salutations over. I asked her how ahe had slept. " ' I haven't alept at all," ahe said, IU a fretfnl, ehUdiali way. which 1 thought charming. "Such a noiae all night," ahe continued, • 1 could uotget to aleep; aud the amelia are aimply dreadful. I muat have another room. I'd rather ait up here all might than aleep in that horrid place again. Don't vou tlnuk, Mr. Remington, if yon naked the cap tain or somebody, be would give me another stateroom ?' and her big eyea looked inquiruiglv mto wine. '••Certainly,' f aaid. "1 will goat once and see about it, and if there is no other, vim ahall change witli me. Take my room, which ta a good one, and as 1 uon't uuad either noise or swells, your room will snit we well enough.'" Here Hugh leaned over his chair to knock the ashes off hit cigar, and said to Ins friend: " I muat have had it pretty bad—eh, Williams?—to have aani that, for vou know that I can't endure either a bad "dor or a load noise. But I forgot everything when under the mdueuceof those eyee, and when ahe exclaimed, 'Oh, uo; I couldn't let you do that,' I felt that my fate was sealed, and that 1 should take the noise and the smells. " The next tiling that I discovered was that mv lady had no sea chair. There was only one left, and that had lawn spoken for; bat I paid double the aciount and the chair was mine. " ' Vou are so kind, Mr. Remington, she said. ' 1 don't know what I should have done without von. lam uot fit to travel alone,' ahe added,in childish tones. " I longed to preaa her to my heart and tell of my love; and if she wonld bnt let me, it wonld be the joy id mv life to care for her. I looked all this; 1 am snre I did. Bnt there were tot many people around for me to speak. She sat with her hands folded in her lap, and looked divinely unconscious. " The third day out the weather be came bitterly cold. "'I am almost frozen,' said Mrs. ing to wrap around me. and shall have to stay below, aud, oh der! it is so un comfortable there !' The face turned up to mine was that of a spoiled child. " Now I had a fine English rug, which I hail used at night, for von know every thing at sea is so horribly damp. It had been a great comfort to ree, and I knew that I should miss it. Bnt what of that? I couldn't see the woman I loves! suffer. So I got it, and tucked her all up in it. Her delicious smile repaid me for the sacrifice. "'Oh, how nice." she said, as she put her hands under the warm rug. ' 11 seems to me, Mr. Remington, that yon have everything to make oue comfort able. I never heard of such a man. I am so glad that I came tinder your care.' "I was so love-stricken that I did not reflect upon her apparent unconscious ness of the fact that I had deprived my self of these comforts in order th t she should be made comfortable. Bhe seemed to take it for granted that I was a sort of traveliug missionary, with extra wraps, staterooms, chairs, and anything else that one might need ; and I was such a slave to her fascinations that, had she asked me to do the im possible, I should have attempted it. " Every day I ha 1 it upon my lips to tell her of my love. Each day courage forsook me. We walked the deck .lav after .lay. Bhe would put her little soft hand on my arm in the most con fiding way, look up from under her curls, laugh her low, sweet laugh, and ask the most childish, 'innocent ques tions. "We were walking this way on the sixth day out. I had carefully rehearstsl my part! and was about to tell my story. Her conversation seemed to lead to it, for she said : " ' Ton will come to see me when you are in New York, won't you, Mr. Rem ington ?' " ' Nothing,' I said, ' would give me greater pleasure.' " ' You will come often ? Promise to dine at our house pDce a week. You won't forget me?' and the blue eyes sought mine. " I looked into them, and my look told what my tongue had refused to sav. I pressed the little hand close to my heart, and after a pause said, below my breath, ' Forget you 1' and I was about to pour forth my love when she gave a little scream, and cried, 'Oh, my vail !' There, sure enough, was the confounded bine thing'sailing before the wind, and alt the passengers, it seemed to me. after it. Of course I Lad to go too, and make believe to capture it. I never bated anything so mnch as I did that yard of blue gaure. I couldn't go back and oontinne my story from where it was broken off, and indeed the widow seemed quite shy of me. " The incident had given the passen gers an opportunity to speak to her, and when I joined her (without the vail, for it had, I hope, struck bottom) she was surrounded by a group of people. I had no chance that dav, nor the next, to get her to myself. \ tried to think of something that I could door show her that would amuse and detain her. It seemed as though I had exhausted all my re sources, wo u at lust a brilliant idea occurred to me; I would show her the preseuts I had brought for sister Nell. They were all in my little sea trunk, and I knew that she couldn't re sist their attractions. She came up on deck bright and lieautiful as ever. "'lsn't it delightful,' she said, 'to think that to-morrow we shall be at home? I can. hardly wait for the time to come; and yet'—and her voice droppt 1 into the dearly-loved soft tone—'the voyage has been a most charming one, owing to your kindness,' she added, brightly. "I longed to launch forth my tale of love, but thinking it more prudent to wait until I had secured her wholly to myself, I asked her, in the most ordi nary manner, if she wouldn't enjoy look ing at some little trinkets that I had picked up in Paris. Her eves sparkled. " ' Yes, indeed,' she said ' Nothing oould be more delightful than to get a glimpse of Pans while at sea.' " I went below and got all my pretty nouveauten, and bronght them up to her. Placing a chair in a quiet corner, and well hid from the other people, then drawing mine np beside her, I began showing, one by one, my collection of odd things. " ' Where did you get them, Mr. Rem ington ? I hunted all over Paris, and fonnd nothing half so pretty. What ex quisite ports bcjnht um!' and she slipped one after another of my carefully-chosen bracelets on to ber little plump wrists, and turned them first on one side ami then on the other. "I knew Nell's taste, and had searched for something mnoommon, and was well pleased with what I had bought. But Nell and everything were forgotten with this bewitching creature by my side, and when she made a move to take them off, I said, laughingly, of oourse, 'Oh, don't disturb them; they TH E CENTRE REPORTER. h*>k iu> well where tlioy aro, and it ta so pleasant, you know, u> got glimpse f Paris w lule nt sea.' " Sho kept theui 011, and 1 opened the other bore*. There wire ring,, crosses, medallions, chatelaines ami many other ornamenta of curious de stgu. The willow tliekal herself, and was 1U high glee. A child onild ui't have enjoyed it wore. I watched her with ljTiug eyee, told her where eaeh one iwuli' 'row, vnt helped fasten them ou. I feel like an Indian priuoeaa,' ahe aaid, * arid ought to have a throne and a crowd of kneeling courtiers, and the picture would be complete." ""Can't vou imagine a throne?" 1 aaid, • and take me for ku> eliug ftmrlitva Wouldn't mv love compensate for the admiring crowd?' "She looked un quickly, and was aK'iit to answer, when one of those eter nal old bores that, uo matter wheu you cross, are always to bo found ou ahtp board, came up, and began telling of hta early retutuiaeeuces; what the sea was twenty years ago -as though the sea had .ever changed—and how, wheu he had tirst crossed, his friends never expected to see hitu agaiu. Ho had wade his will, and they parted as though he were to be forever lost to them. 1 assure you that I silently wished iu wy heart that he hail never turned up agaiu. Without saying s word, 1 got up, took my boxes, and left my Indian princess. I was thoroughly angry with the old fellow for interrupt iug our !' ts a-tetf, and seriously auuoy eil with Mrs. for listening to and answering him. 1 made up my mind that that game had been played long enough. 1 would ask her the simple question the tlrwt chance I got, and know my fate at once. But the chance did not conic as soon as 1 expected it wonld. "She weut to her room with a sick headache, so she said, and I paced the deck alone. We were along way up the harbor when ahe made her appearance the following day. She said that ahe had hurried with her packing, thinking that we were nearer thau we really were to the citv. '"Oh, Mr. Remington, 1 had no op portunity of returuiug your jewelry, and so I packed them with my things. But you are comiug, yon know, to dine with me on Saturday, and I will thru give them to yon.' "' t'ertaiuly," I said. ' There is no time for us to change them uo*. Wear them nntd I see yon again.' " I bad fully made up my mind that as I had beeu baffled so often, lwould now wa.t until I had se- u her iti her owu home before I opened my heart to her, or rather before I askat catch her np in his arm*—my sweet one, whom, though loving, I had never dared to touch—and kis* her over and over again ! I could have knocked him down. "On drawiug near to them, 1 saw that neither of them noticed me. Bhe had forgotten my existence. With a heart-sick feeling I turned away. Was this to he the end ? Why ha i I come home? I could hear t. em talking, though too miserable to hsteu. They cam# nearer, and the same soft voice tliat I loved so dearly said: ' Mr. Rem ington, I have been talking alwmt you, telling how good and kind yon have been and how utterly forlorn I should have been had you not always looked ont for my comfort. I have come to thank you, and my husband wants to thank yon too.' "Her husband 1 Great heavens! And I thought she was a widow, and made love to'her ! I listened a* though in a dream, and a deuced unpleasant one it was, too. I believe he thauked me, and she praised, and he thanked again, and then they urged me to come to see them, and she said: ' Don't for gt t Saturday.' " Whether I saiu anytbing.or whether I remained mute, i more than I can tell. I was like a man as!ep, ami had to give myself a good shake to come ont of the nightmare that I was in. When I looked around, she they were gone." Here Hugh stopped as though be had finished; but his friend Williams,whose curiosity was aroused, asked. "Did you dine with hsr on Satur day ?" " No; I sent a regret.' " Have yon ever seen her since ?" " No; never." " What liecame of your nauveautet ds Pari* f" "Nell went without them, as 1 went without my English rol>e." "Ton don't mean that sue never sent them to yon ?" " I never gave her my address, and she was not supposed to know where I was." Williams didn't like to ask any more questions, and Hugh remained quiet for a time. Then rousing himself and get ting ont of his chair, ho said : "I have never made love since, and" —with a bitter laugh—"l always avoid women in deep mourning. An 1 now as the fire has gone out with my story, I think we hail better go to bed." — //arper's Wrskly. The ICutf :er Hoy and the Baker's flirl. It wan down in the yeast part of the city. He was a burly batcher toy—she was the pie-ons daughter of a German baker next door, with eyes like currants and her yellow hair twisted on the back of her head like a huge cruller. They leaned toward each other over the back bone of the separating railing. He was canting sheep's eyes at her, while hers turned to him with a provocating roll. •' Meat me to-night beef-fore quarter to ten," he said. "Oh, doughnut ask it," said she. " I make no 'OIIOB about it," said he. " You're not well-bread," said ahe. " Only sweet bread," said he. •' Don't egg me on," said she. "I never sausage a girl. Don't keep me on tender-hooks 1" said he, qnite chopfallen "Why don't you woar the dear flour I gave yon ? asked she. "Pork-qnoi?" asked he. "Oh, knead I say ?" asked she. "That don't suet me," said he. " Yon're ornsty. I only wanted to cracker joke," said she. " You gave me a cut the cold shoulder," said be. " Ah, you don't loaf me !" sighed ahe. " Veal see. I cleave to you and no mis-steak—if you have money," said he, " I can make a-bun-danoe," said she. "Then no more lamb-entations," said he. Yon shall be my rib 1" " Well done I" said ahe. And their arms embraced like a pretzel. Bo his cake was not all dough; she likes a man of his kidney; and be ing good livers, they will no doubt live on the fat of the land. This world is a qneer jumble, but love seems '' bread in the bone." CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY l'7, 1870. It is possible, not to say probable, that diphtheria has its origin tu the dis rased coudltlou of milch COWS. Much at least is the inference which must tie drawn from Hie carefully observed facts of two epidemics iu England, both of recent occurrence; cue in North lauidou and the other at Woking. They indi cate that a dlseiisc of the udder known as garget, and generally regarded by dairymen as insignificant, may so afTcot the quality of the milk as to produce diphtheria iu the consumers. inquiry leaves uo doubt that milk from cows having garget finds tts way into the market in couaiderable quanti ties. Duly a (kortion of the udder is usually attacked by the disease, aud the milk yielded by the other quartern does uot manifest any such change iu quality as would ordinarily lead to it" reject on. Indeed, so indifferently is the affection looked upon by men haviug the charge of cows, that they seldom inform their employer* of its existence. A member of the Pathological society, of Loudon, who was Usl to investigate the subject latelv, found several cases of garget among hi" own cattle, although tils bailiff had uot thought them important enough to mention. The circumstances of the North l*iu dou epidemic of diphtheria satisfied the sanitary officer charged with its inves tigation that the disease was distributed by the milk supply, and that the milk had uot tieeu contaminated by any in fluences from without. These conclu sions are coufirmtxi t>y the like opinions of distinguished physicians to whom the facta have been submitted. They naturally lead to the question whether any special disease could prevail, with out attracting particular notice, among the cows from which the milk came. The answer is that garget is wist such a disease. Aud the belief lit this ap parently slight affectum in cattle may be transformed into diphtheria, or may induce that disease, in the human sub ject, is strengthened by the recent diphtheritic outbrt ak at the Pnucras Mary'a home at Woking, (target was fouud to be prevaleut on the farm which furnished milk to that institution. The proceeding* of the Pathologic*! *t>oiety, of !>>ndon, in refereueo to this |HMsible connection between diphtheria and disease in c. ws, supply abundant evidence of the gravity with which the medical profusion regard the subject. It ha* t>eeu referred for investigation to a committee of highly-qualified physi ciaua, one of whom i* I>r. lturdon Sauderson; and the results of their in quiry cannot fail to be important. In the meantime, ought not something in the same direction to le done in tin* country?—. Vet* I'ort Aloi tarving Fowl*. It make* no difference whether von buy turki-y, g>*>se, duck or chicken, the result will be the same. In other word", these remark* a ill IK a> shaped a* to apply to id] manner of fowls having wiugs. It is better t*> buy the f >wl and pay f r it, but tin* a irioe :* • intend ed to prejudice any one from obtaining their cluekeus in the u*ual manuer. Having securetl the fowl and baked and roast.• 1 it, it Iw-come* the duty of the head of the family to prepare it for eat ing. Some pe p!e n*e forty-penny nail* t>> spike the chicken down to a plank, and then do the carving with a buck saw, but there are other and more con venient ways, Place the fowl on the kitchen taole. Attach a chair to the other leg, and make fast t> the leg of the table, or to eye licit* driven into the wall. A third chain should pa** from the neck of tl > fowl to the onpoaite end of the table. He victim is then in that conditiou commonly known a* "where he can't wriggle." If roj>e* are used instead of chains, they shonld not t>r less than inch in diameter and the best of hemp. It is now s question of what man tor you wish the fowl to be carved. If company is cxp>cted to dinner, it should be carved in away to leave the fowl to the family ami the none* to the company. If it is for the family alone, the wish-hone should lx< given to the baby, while the head of the family should take the neck, and be thankful that he bus been spared to live another year. A fowl carve* up like clockwork, if one only knows where to U-gin. As every man ha* a weak point, *0 hath a fowl, and there is no u*e spending over half an hour looking for if wheD the balance of dinner is waiting. If carved with a knife, but little preparation is ue4\ieoint about two miles north west of the towu, where 11 small herd of young pigs were innocently grazing on the green sward. The bird came soar ing along, and when a point had been reached nearly perpendicular to the head of the swine, as it were, the old *' Na tional " swooped down ami aronnd the snrface of an inverted imaginary pyra mid, and. sinking its talons deep into the interior composition of a thirty ponnd pig, started heavenward. Tfio ascension was tedious and slow, aud gave ample time for Htringer to draw a la-ad, and when a height of thirty or forty feet had la earn a liveli hood, Ueouiuo a'deaiet iu Ixtot* and shoes, m the oily of New Orleans. Too close an attention to business overtaxed his strength and seriously impaired his health, and to add to tins affliction he soou afterward received a sunstroke which entirely pr<*trated him. Pa ralysis wan an immediate consequence. He soou rectivt red the jxiwrer of loco motion, and at first the disease did not nee in to affect very seriously the organs of speech ; tint tiy-and-by he ex|>eri cuced a marked difficulty of utteranee, which gradually grew npou him. His mental neusations, iu tha meantime, while they did uot betoken any weak emug of the brain, were far fiom pleas ant. It was not till 1*75 that he entire ly lost the {>ower of articulation. For | sometime previously his symptoms had given him warning that his calamity was near at hand. Iu the mouth of May, at the wedding of his sister in Baltimore, he fonnd himself unable, for the first time, to articulate. The drop anguish which the shock caused him could imlv tie realised by oue who had tn-en Bimilarlr visitoL From that time until the return of bis |>eerh, all of his communications with tin•*• around hini were matin in writing. Ill* hearing w always Jwrfeotly good, hut the little Toiiwt that rriuaitiod t ■ him almost cutirely duutpixiarod. Tho only vocal sound that hn could make *a a •v >rt of whistle. In all other rt>sjwvt* ho> health steadily improved. A fnnuti named John T. IVter*. a lawyer, visited him at a hospital in Hartford, to which he had gone, aud conceived the ulna that he would lm greatlv tanu-fited if he were to come to Sew York anil remain here with hi* friends. He wait received here at the residence of Mr. J. J. McOomh. An eminent physician, who la a npeciai lat in throat ami uervoua diseases, made an examination of hia condition, and wa* the first to give the true diagn *l* of it. Hitherto thuoe memlmr* of the faculty who had treated him h*ai UoV lodged their ignorance. They had all predicted that lie would never *|>cak again. Dr. Kncomrr immediately declare*! that he would a>me day l>e able t<> apeak, and attributed hia dumt>n<-a U> the paralyat* of the vocal ourda in the larynx. "He 01 gradually recovering," said he; " and a* au. an three cord* Ixeoial vitalised again, their function* will return to them. It may beauddenljr, or it may be slowly." Hui >*cqurntlv, about twelve month* ago, i>r. Hucomer gave the strongest |*>aibie assurances that Mr. Wood would entirely nww hi* sjxeclt. It was thought advisable, however, that he ahould return to Hartford. In last November he w nt to New Orleans, where hi* wife and two children now are. The climate of Louisiana did not prove Imneflcial to him, and after a so journ of two t three week* be started tor tlie North. V>w come* Um wonder ful part of the *tory. When the tram oil which It- w*s traveling uppt 1 tachiwl Pittsburgh, it c.*me in collision with another tmiu. The engine wa* *ma*h*l and the car* were violently *hak> n. The dumb man felt a new siuf pccnliar sen nation that seotn-d to indicate a change of some st-rt in hi* condition. Suddenly s eouaciousw** of its significance came U> him, aud, springing from hi* seat, he rushed t-> Uu- platform of the oar, when a brakemsn WA* ta-.i in g, and trwal to addren* him. A* he now relate* the in cident. he opened hi* month, moved hit tongue r.nd felt that he was speaking. The hrwkctnvu looked at htm dnbioOaly, a* if he had heard his roiee but failed to uodendand ttemi}*-rt. He auswerivl by exclaim 1:1,r. "What!" Too uxcifcod then to make a faither attempt to apeak, Mr. \V'>od returned to his seat. On the next day he arrived in New York, and a* soon as he met his friend* he eagerly related to them ill writing the hofwdnl experience which he had s < lately had. They bopaL hat *eare4y believed in his bright auticquttion. On Tuesday last he waseugagod in diarnaa ing some personal and business matter* witli Mr MeComb at the office of the latter. Mr. McOomb remarked to him that hi* general health wa* fully re stored and expressed the moat cheerful views sliont hi* fntnre. Hetirgixl him to make tlieuflnost effort* to regain hi* utterance. Mr. Wiasl scorned t> form the resolution to follow tin* advice, and lnvauio excited and rnthns.astic. He then seized a jsmcil and wrote the last communication which he made cm paper. It w* a*follows: "IV ui't be surprised, hut when I come back to-day I will talk to you with my tongue. 1 have it now." Handing tin* to Mr. McOomb he weut out. He afterward related that he went toßtateu Island ferry aud took passage on one of the l*>at*. nis mental feel ings were peculiar, and peril spa oonld only !>o midersUsxi by a child who bad just learned to lisp her first syllables, were she capableenongh. llwas bash ful, timid, distrustful of himself, and vet eager to make the essay which might reveal for him the delightful release of his thoughts from their boudage of si lence. If he moved hia lip* he fancied that every one was lookiug curionsly at him. Fortunately there were few peo ple on board, so lie hud no difficulty in finding a quiet corner on the dock. Heat**! on a stool near tho rail ha opened his month and lifted up hi* voice. It* use and inflection all name liaok to him in an instant. It did not even sonnd strange to him. He conld hardly real ize his own joy. He sang, spoke, ahout ol, and tried his voice in every way which happened to occur to him. It was |>erfoct. He accosted pisiple and they did not stare at him, but took it a* s matter of course. The next returning loat brought him laek to New York. Breathless and flushed, ho entered tho office of his l>rotiinr in-law ami exclaimed: "It' Hall right!" Mr. MoOomh jumped up. rushed for ward ami joyfully embraced him. Ho did everybody else who wan there. The pant three or four day* have been • pent by Mr. Wood in visiting his frienda and receiving their ainoere eon gratnlationa on the restoration of his voice. In every reapoct he is now per fectly recovered from the effects of his sunstroke.— New York Ifrrald. He Wouldn't lraw. Onrjlioy is not fend of drawing; in fact he cannot draw, will not draw, does not draw. " I can't draw to-day; my throat's too sore. It hnrta it. Besides, I don't feel like drawing; and my mother savs I needn't ever draw if I didn't feel like it." "Are you sure yonr mother said that ?" asked the teacher. "Yes," he said, stoutly, " she did. Bho said 1 wasn't to draw whan I didn't feel like it; and I don't feel like it now; my throat's too sore." " Vci/ well," replied the teacher, " I shall go and see yonr mother about it." Quick as a flash, ho replied: " Well, if 1 was yon I wouldn't take the trouble to go and see her; because, you see, it was way back when we was livin' in Wisconsin that she said that, and as like aa not ahe's forgot all about It liy this time."— Atlantic. Tlim TOI'ICM Tha Journal qf ('/urnftry says that uo European nation is MO advanced as Italy IU lie methods of teaching agri culture. .Matrimony and love making through the cofumus of the lu-wspaprrs are on the rise in (b rmany and Austria. Vi enna and Berlin newspapers have agen cies for such pnrp>>srw, and the busi ness, reported to lie profitable, la car ried out ou s rash basis. Airs. Mary Uolbrouk, who died in Massachusetts s few days ago, aged ninety-three years, was a remarkable woman. When aeveutv five years old she ■ egsn the mannfacture of tidies, which found ready sale in Boston, and were so much sought for that she was obliged to employ several old ladlsa to do the ouarner work, while she tilled in the finer {(arte with her owu hands. In this way, up to her ninetieth year, she netted jfl.lgK) from her sales. The City of Mexico is alary place, ac cording to a Chicago JSti* ourres|Miud eut, who accompanied the visiting Committee from the United States. "The hotels are languid," he nays; "so are the restaurant*, the theaters, the public offices and the barber shops. The business houses have au air of per periial waiting upon Providence. The clerks act like weary anglers looking pstieutly for a 'rise.' A generation of American enterprise might revolution ise all this and rouse the metr >|>uua from her trance." Chief Joseph, of the Nt-x Perces In dians, when in Washington, was asked what, of all the work of civilization seen iu his first trip to the East, had impressed him the meat. It aa* ex pected that he wonld name the cwpito), lnt he replied, without a moment a hew itatiou, that the most wonderful thing he had ever seen or drrsmcd of was the bridge over the Mississippi river at Ht. 1 Aiuio. Ha could build a mountain of stone like the oapitol, he said, but he could not build a spider's web that wonld stand alone in the air. He was afraid to cross it; but he saw that the pale faces were not afraid. So he wr*p|**l his blanket around him and trembled as the train went over. This story ui t >ld in a Rome letter to a French journal One rooming Leo XIII. wa* aWtit to eat some raw eggs, a* is hi* wont every morning, and re quested Commander Hterbint, the gen tleman serving him, to bring some aalt to take witu ibem. Hterbmi, preaent ing UM* salt o*ll*r on a aoiid sdver tray, accidentally let it ahp from hia hands, and the salt fell—but ouly on Ure table. The pope rose immediately, carefully looking to see whether any of the grams had reached the ground. •• Only see," he said, " the an!t is upset, and had it fallen on the gronnd 1 be lieve I *liould not have got over to-day." Uo them tx>k out a pucketbook and noU-d the fact, olawning at the aame time that "We shall see whether we shall not have the !o*a of mms beloved cardinal to deplore before long." Nine ■ days after, the sad new* of Cardinal Asqmni's death reached the Vatican, and the pope, handing to Hterbini his pocketixiuk, requested him to read aloud to tlioae around the note he liad mstli' uii.e days fore. Them breaking the silence, lie said, " Had the aalt Iwwn *ealt red on the fhwir instead of upon the table, a* wa* the case, verily I ivfiere I should l>e standing now be fore the judgment seat!" Why a better Iten't He Because yon forgot to address it. Because yon f f. IWiinsp you nl a once-canceled I stamp. t Because yon ex.? -at an envelope stamp ami (stated it on yonr letter. Because you mal internal n venne stain)* instead of i*>*tage statu}>*. Because you usod patent medicine or proprietary statu)* instead of (satage stamp*. • Beosnae yon nsd an olj, out-of-date stamp. Because yon used a foreign stamp. Because yon wrote the address ao | badly that no one conld read it i Because yon wrote the addrea* on the i top of the envelope, and it was surely obliterated by the pastoffice dating, re ceiving and canceling stamp*. And lieoause yon put your letter in a blank enveloj>e and sealed it and for warded it to- the dead letter office, when- thousands of letter* are daily de stroyed l*eiinee the poplc are either r-arnios* or ignorant of the postal lawa. —At. /xsiti -Sptrf. How the .Meney was Stolen. One would scarcely imagine, after the infinite ingenuity that has lieen display • el n stealing for iunnmerable ages, that anv new method oonld bedevisod. But a 1 ooiural porter employed in a shop at Little Ilock, Ark., appears to have ap propriated money 111 an original manner. The tradesman had continually misiwd small ftnms from his cash-drawer, ami could not account for their disappear ance. Finally, he suspected the porter, snd had him searched every evening be fore going home. But he oonld find no ground for his suspicion, and was at his wit's end to explain the mystery, when he observed one night that a tame fe male opossum, in the habit of follow ing the colored man everywhere, did not accomtiany him. The animal seemed desirous to go, but, for some reason, eon Id not move. The shopkeeper think -1 tug her ill, took hold of her, aud was surprisial at her weight. Reversing her pomtiou, the enigma was solved. A shower of small silver coins descended from her pouch to the floor, and l>etray ed the man's thefts. He had overloaded her on that occasion, and she oonld not follow as had been her enst-om when ; more lightly freighted. ~ A Temperance Movement In New lork Tho itumeuse extent of intemperance among our business ranks, says a New York correspondent, hss startled think ing men with deep alarm. The habit lias reached such n extreme as to threaten genera! destruction, and hence the present deep eonsciouatieaa of the ueed of reform. To place a youug man, indeed, in the New York business com munity, is to subject hiin to fearful temptation, since the motto of the day seems to be " everybody drinks." The new temperance movement is intended to meet this appalling danger. Hence the pledge is not to drink daring busi ness hours, snd'also neither to give nor accept " treats." It is also proposed that some drinks be provided which are not of an mtoxicating nature. This recalls the fact that there was a time when the word "ooffee-house" was a reality. At present, however, it is synonymous with barroom. Perhaps New York business men, like the mer chants and wits of London in old times, may eventually limit themselves to oof fee and tea, hut before this can be done the fierce excitement which marks their operations must be abated. TKKMB: #2.00 a Year, in Advance. 1 ARM, HIRIHX AM> HOI'sEHOLD. -•wrlblMß Vb.MI There la a popular fallacy to the effect that soups re troublesome and cijxui sive tu prepare. In truth, excepting the sldermauio turtle, there are few dishes at the same tune more untritioas nud eoonomicai. The wat> in which meat has lierii boiled, be it boef. Veal or muttou, is always availsble fur soup, and, except in warm weather, may be set away until the next day. Uuoooked meat makes the best lawns for soups, but the bones aud fragments of a cold Joint answer'very well for the asme purpose. For sll white soups, veal or mutton ta to lie preferred; for dark soaps beef is the lxwit, while I lean and pea soups may lie made from the water in which a ham has been boiled. The custom of keeping s stock pot on the tire answers admirably where the mistress attends to it, other wise the contents are apt to soar or acorcb. Herbs for soap should be tied together, so as to be easily taken ont. Vegetables should be boiled long enough to IH- thoroughly done, and ail meat and bones should be taken out be fore serving, while clear soups need tu tie strained. Puree# of peas, beans, celery, etc., are made by boiling the vegetables with a knuckle of veal; a slice of bacon or ham boue may be substituted in the case of the {(ess or lieans, uutil they are soft enough to lie mashed through the ool lander. Then make dumplings, if yon like, and bml in the soup until done, wheu add a gill of rich milk and a little butter for every quart of sonti; let all boil up once, ami serve. Hmall squares of dry toast floating ou the soap improve the ap|Miranoe of the dish, and are much liked by epicures. Itioe flour makes the l*wt thickening for sonps. When this is nut at hand, corn starch can be used. Itio and barley improve most white sonps, if added a* are other vegetable*. The favorite Southern gumbo soup i< made from the green pods of the oehra, the basis being a chicken, (irecn corn aoup, made also from chicken brotii, is another delicious dish. Ail vegetables are available for soup ; the reci|ic once given us by a notable housekeeper said : " But in all you can get." The favorite vegetable sonp made from fresh tomatoes, corn and Lima l*ean is almost a* good when the canned vegetables are employed. For chicken sonp with noe and milk, no h* rlts but parsley shonld lie naed, The •hiu of bha Turin. lUaarkoll lllala When molasses is nsed for cooking it is an improvement to boil and skim it before you use it. It take* out the un pleasant, raw and makes it ml moat as go* si as sugar. Keep an old blanket and sheet on purpose for ironing; have plenty of holders always made that your towels nisy not l- burned out in such service, A good housekeeper never allows her carpet broom to be used for sweeping the ontside stairs or yard; keep a coarse broom for this purpose. Keep a heavy stone on yonr pork to keep it down; in the snmmer this stone is an excellent place to keep frwah meat on when von are afraid of it* spoiling. Have all the good bits of vegetables and meats collected after dinner and minood Ix'fore they are set away, that they may be in readme** to make a little savory mince meat for supper or break fast. Take the skins off potatoes before thee are cold. Vials which have teen used for medi cine should be put into cold ashes and water, boiled, and suffered to cool be fore they are rinsed. Never leave ont yonr clothes-line over night; and see that yonr clothes-pins sre sll gsthered into a basket. Have plenty of crash towels in the kitchen: never let yonr white towels or napkin* be used there. S*wp yonr dirtiest clothes and soak them in warm water over night. Tse hard soap to wash yonr clothes, and soft to wash votir floor*. Soft *->*p is so slippery that it waste* a good deal in vraehing clot hen. A little salt sprinkled in starch while it is boiling tends to prevent it from sticking; it is likewise goes! to stir it with s clean sjermaoeti candle. A few potatoes sliced, and boiling water poured over them, make an excel lent preparation for cleansing and stiff ening old rusty black silks. (Preen tea is also excellent for thi* purpose. It should 1* boiled in iron, nearly a enp fnll in three quarts. The silk shonld not lw wrung, and shonld be ironed damp. Oonrt plaster is male of thin silk, first dipped in dissolved isinglass and dried, then dipped several times in the white of an egg and dried. Nan Francises Statistics. The (Accid/v(, of Han Francisco, pub lishes the following statistics of that city for the year 1H78: " The number of homicides was twenty-seven. In seven cases there were no arresta, as the police failed to find the murderers. In six case* the mati-slayer was acquitted. In ten eases the person is nnder indictment awaiting trial. In three cases the mur derer has been sentenced to the Htate prison, and one, a Chinaman, is sen tenced to le liuug. Thus it seems that capital punishment is practically abolish ed. There were ninety-flve snicides. eighty-eight men and seven women. There were 284 divorces the past year, lieiug alHuit one in eight marriages. The ennsoa were as follows; Desertion, twenty-seven males aud fifty-four fe males; crnelty, thirteen males aud eighty-four females; failnre to provide forty-four females; adultery, twenty three males and fifteen females; and in temperance, fifteen males and nine fe males. On New Year's day there was opened, according to tho daily papers, at No. f> Liedesdorff street, "the finest saloon iu the United States." It is fitted up at a cost of $20,000, and is called "The Dividend." What will its divi dends be? Pauperism, insaritr, crime, disease, death.— New York Ob+ rr< r. Origin of the Word Chicago. Forty-five years ago the place was called " Tnck Chicago." Trick, in the Indian dialect, means wood or timber, and Chicago, gone, absent or without The words Tuok Chicago signified, therefore, the waste prairie, or literally translated, " wood gone." Mr. John Jenkins, an old resident of Momenoe, 111., says that when he was a boy he was as familiar with the Indian tongue as with his own language, and that the above may be relied 011 as correct They were snrronuded by Indians at the time, and his father was the first white man who raised a crop of ooru in Cass coun ty, Michigan, which was in'the year 18*25. The usual definition given to the word Chicago is entirely erroneous.— Potter's American Monthly. NUMBER 9. "The Highland Beaaljr." In au article on " Coasting," by 0. A. Hii>|ilimii, id Youth's ( bmponfow, a do- Script ion la given of the different kinds of sled* used iu tbta winter The writer describes one aled in particular, thna: Protwbly the Aueat donble-runner ever seen iu tbpoouutry, or any oountry, m made by Dr. Fowler, of B eton Highlands, end is now the property of Mr. Francis Alger, of Boutb Button. Tlie construction of thia really beautiful pleaaure carriage i for it aeema hardly proper to call it a aled) hae oompied ita maker's leisure lime for three and a half years. It was placed on exbibiUuo el the recant mechanic's fair in Boston, where it attrafted much attention. It ta over thirteen feet in length, will seat ten persona, and weighs three hun dred and fifty potinda. Yet it move* ao eaaily thai two or three boya can readily draw it up hilL The materials of which it ia made are white oak, while walnut, steel, gun riieta! and broute. Though highly orna mented, it ia built in the very strongest manner, and will no doubt stand year* of hard service. Two seemingly small, yet wonderfully strong, steel-shod and steel -braced aleds aupport the elegant "aat-board," which, with its foot-rail on each aide and poliabed hand-rod*, is strongly truaaed op, and cushioned in green velvet over elastic rubber tubing. At the forward end of the seat-board are the steering-wheel, the lanterns and the foot-br-ak The steering-wheel, which resembles the plated brake of a drawing-room car, turns the forward sled upon a rocker, provided with what is termed a " universal joint," while by mesas of a foot-brake and chain, two str ug steel points, working inside the runners of the hind sled, am plunged into the road-bed, thus arresting the speed at will. At the mar end of the cushioned seat there ia a low " knee-board" for a footman, whose business it may bs to start off the vehicle when the silvery stroke of a gong shall give the signal to *"• Taken altogether, this donble-runner is a remarkable piece of work, not only for costliness and strength, but for sym metry and elegance. It has evidently been made by a man who has devoted himself to the task con amore. It does the eye good to look at it, and it has ♦•sen very happily christened "The Highland "Beauty.*' The coat is said to have been about a thousand dollars. Tbeerie* Kegardiag a Fire. The other (lav when a boaae on Fifth street look flru and waa saved by the firemen in a damaged condition, the* net aboat trying to discover the cause of the accident, and in so doing questioned vanon* inmates of the family. The bead of the bouse had his theory all ready. •' It is my oninion," he began, " that aome enemy of mine climbed to the roof and emptied coals on the shingles." The idea was laughed at and the wife said: " Well, there waa a lamp up stairs, bnt it was not lighted. Now if the rata got bolo of matches and tr®d to light that lamp they would just as qniak throw a lighted match cm the bed as to blow it out I don't say they aet the boose a-flr* on purpose, but yon know bow careleaa rats are." That theory didn't hold with the fire men end the oldest daughter waa called upon. " I expect it we* spontaneous oom btiation," she t ><-gau. "Yon aee in my room np stairs, where the fir* broke oat, there we* a hole id the chimney. I didn't like the smoke coming in my room and eo I stuffeJ the hole fall of straw. It may be that the at raw and the mortar aii.l the brick* canaed spontaneous com bustion." The firemen wore about to accept her theory when the small boy of the family cams up and said; "I know all about it Ye see. Bill Smith he was on the abed a-heavtn' auowballf at dogs. Tom, the feller with one arm, was in the barn playm' with my goat. That Turner gal she waa on the fence ont there oaUin* ns name*, and her mother had the clothe* line and was try in' to lasso a stick of wood off a wagon in the alley. I went down cellar to aee if my mud turtle 1 ad got away, and I was jest trvin' to set the cat on him when I beard father fall down stairs and mother give a yell, and that's how toe honse got a-fire, and now I won't have to go to school for six weeks."— Drtroit /Voe Prt*. The Labor of Cutting Leaves. Oue of tbe minor miseries of human life ia the necessity that is laid upon the readers of magazines, and of divers weekly, monthly and other journals, of cnttiug the leaves thereof. The amount of time consumed in thia search after hidden treasure, and of force expended therein, is no mean consideration in these utilitarian days. Tbe literature of the world in all the clauses which we have mentioned, reducing quarterlies, bi-monthlies and weeklies to monthlies, cannot be less titan 2,000,000 copies s month. Not lsss than ten leaves to'a copy may be deemed a fair average. The cutting of each of these 2,000,000 publications requires at least five min utes. This. a s simple calculation will show, is something like twenty year* for each month, or 240 year* in each year. In cutting tbe leaves of the ordinary magazine, the hand travels at leant twentv feet. For 2,000,000 magazines this is 40,000,000 feet, nearly 8,000 miles a month, and 90,000 miles a year —four times around the globe—a dis tance greater than the railroad mileage of the United Stales. Prof. Kalfe say* that " the ordinary external mechanical work" done by an adult weighing 150 pounds amounts to 300 foot tons v 3OO tons lifted ons foot) dailv. In pile-driving a man lifts the equivalent of 312 foot tons in eight hours; in turnings wrench, 374 foot tons. But this magazine-cutting necessitates sn expenditure of 240 years, or 87,000 dsvs, which at 300 foot tons a day, makes 26,280,000 —a sum total that makes the tonnage of the Erie canal and the trunk lines sink into insignificance. Brookiyn l?nion-Arfpu. A Dog Thawed Bark to Life. A family residing in the aonthern part of the city had a pet dog, and said dog was provided with all the comforts his canine natnre required. But one day during the late cold visitation he had got out of doors without its being dis covered for some time, and then be was found on his back and frozen stiff in death, as was naturally supposed. The ladv of the house, on ascertaining the pet's condition, and satisfied of his death, directed her little son to throw the body over the fence, when the boy snggested that they Bhould place it by the fl-e and try to thaw it back to life ; and, placing the apparently defnuct dog on a rug, the little son commenced chafing the paws and nose. The mother, forcing open the dog's month sufficient ly, poured down his throat some hot whisky, and signs of returning anima tion began to be manifested, and iu due time the little animal was ou his legs again, and is now, it is claimed, as suc cessful a live dog us can be found any where. This may seem rather a tough story, but the head of this family, a gen tleman well known on 'change and of undoubted veracity, says it is a fact. — St. IsOuia Republicav. ITLMM OF HTLKISI Twins are the parapets of a house. Home stretch- Ovar a mother's knee. Dress reform- Tnrniug a silk dims A fare proposition Ticket, please,' Boston'* population is given st 373,- 310. It is safer to bear a hug than to hug a bear. Capt Emm fiaint is a member of the legislature of Indiana. Dr. Carver, the marksman, 'and his wife, have gone to England. In Japan the lsndlor I receive* one sixth the produce of the land. More men worry and fret themselves orasy over taxes than over love. Borne wasps sting twenty-four hours after they have been cut in two. IBeience euntnerates 568 species of or ganic forma in the air we breathe. Laborers' wages during the thirteenth century were fifty cents per week. Barely half the world mnat lie blind— they can see nothing unless it glitters. Opticians are well-behaved men and never make spectacles of themselves. There ia over $2,000,000 worth of bogus ooiu in etrrnialiuu ic the United Btataa. Bbefßetd, Eoglattd, uses 3,000,000 shank bones of oxao every year for knife handles. There are 700,000 cattle gnu-ng on the plains of Colorado, Montana praxes 800,000 bead. The gradual mode of seasoning is tha moat favorable to the strength and dura bflity of timber. The Arkansas wild grapevine is gatb i ered and shipped to France to be used for grafting stuck. Felicity is not acquired facility. Neither is a foothold on the outside of a slippery pavement What ia the difference between a crim inal and windfall fruit? One is a felon and the other fell off. Miss Beddengrr was elected as en grossing clerk <5 the Arkan*< use. mbly by a vote of forty-eeven to fifteen. It ia well to remember that repeated shocks of electricity will revive s person dying from an overdose of chloroiorm. What is the difference between a suc cessful lover and his rivaL The one kisses his miss, and the other misses his kiss. China invented the gong, and thia is another powerful reason whv the Chinese should cot be tolerated in this country. The most stupendous canal in the world ia in China, which is over 2,000 miles long, and passes through forty two cities. Tha lag of a " Granther Graybeard " (which it a specie* of spider) retains its vitality one or two days after being aev ered from the body. The Atlanta Constitution estimates that during the past two seasons the farmers of Georgia have paid out $3,000,000 for mules. A Greenland clock hi known by its arc-tic. — Nets York Scwi. A sports man's watch is km wn by ita hunting Case.— Sew Haven Register. A Wisconsin man offers to bet that be can take 2,700 quarter* of s dollar in 2,700 quarters of s minute if any body will give him the facilities. Thars was a jromw uaa of Palmyra, Sat down along a,d* of hi* Myra . Tin? had Jest Soared lbs glim WUu the part-ni asms la. And lbs young man achieved his hegira. lUiviayr. A Nevada woman scolded her Chinese servant for not properly cleaning a fish, and going into the kitchen soon after found him energetically washing it witn brown soap. Alaska contains 500,000 square miles; about one-tenth the aiae of the United Btales. It has 2,000 miles of sea coast, or more than all the aea coast of the United States together. A butchrr sold a sailor a Ism < n credit, but finding in a few day* iluit be had gone to sea, be gtowled, "If I'd a known be wasn't going to pay for it I'd a charged him threepence more a pound fur it, the rascal 1" Mr. George W. Child % of the Phila delphia Ledger, ia said to have a pecul iar fondness for clocks. He has more than forty of the scarcest kind, and has one ia his business office that is report ed to have coat $6,000. Daring the jeer 1878 th* ousiucas transacted at the Oil City < Pa.) oil ex change aggregated 76.450,000 barrels. The average price was $1.17} per barrel, which would make tbe value of the total 889,450,000. A lawyer, badgering a witness, said sternly; " 1 believe, sir, yon have s< rveJ a sentence in the State uriaon V "Yea," waa the unconcerned m iy, " I was in the State prison, and I bad the misfor tune to oeropv the eel! voor brother had had." We have about decided to sail for Europe aa aoun a* this issue of the pa per goes to press. We can no longer hold hack. Paris mothers coax dis tinguished Americana to his* their pretty grown-up daughters.—Aorria (OM HffUtL The work of fortifying the anb-trea*. ury in New York against any possible assault by a mob is to bo begun at onoe, the contract haring been i*u d. Steel turrets are to be place! an the roof, and the door* and window-shutter* are to be made bullet-proof and pierocd to musketry. A patient German has taken the trouble to count the number of hairs in the heads of four different colors. The bloodehad tbe most, 140,400. Next came brown with 109.44a Then black, 102,- 962, and last red, 88,740. The bulk of hair was, however, about the same in each case, the firmness of the blonde's and their multiplicity beiDg balanced by the coarser, heavier texture of the lesa humorous red and black. . Tbe Swerd asd the Plew. " Our fields of labor are very differ ent," said tbe sword to the plow; "mine's a field of glory ami your* a field of ground" " Your* is s field of death and mine a field of life," replied the plow. " I admit," continne.l the sword, " that your* is s field of grain, and you must allow that mine's a field of graudeur." " No," quoth the plow, " yours is a field of blood and mine a field of bless ing." " I was set to guard the tree of life." answered tbe sword. " And found to be unto death," an swered the plow. The sword, being high tempered, said: "No wonder any putting their hand to you should look heck rather than look ou snoh an unsightly thing." " And any taking yon shall perish by * you," retorted the plow. •'Well, Mr. Btrord," said the scab bard, " you've been fairly beaten by a plowshare, and tbe time will oome when you'U be beaten into one." Men adorn the sword with gems and brilliants, but none think of ornament ing the hoe or plow with either gold or silver. "Pis true men do more and pay more to maintain a field of carnage than to support a field of herbage.—George B. Atwell. A Big Shark Story. While the British bark Lutterworth was becalmed in the tropica a largo ■hark was seen swimming around the ship. A large hook with a chain at tached was baited with a four-pound piece of pork. The shark made for it and bolted it. In hanling him up the chain parted, and he ooolly swallowed the hook, chain and pork. Another hook was then baited, winch he instant ly seized, biting a three inch rope ia twain and also swallowing it with another four-pound piece of pork. Another hook was then baited with a similar pieoe of pork, and with this tbe shark was canght and landed on the main deck. All bands cleared from him, for he was in a terrible flutter. His tail was out off with the carpenter's axe, and this quieted him a little. He was cut open, and the sailors hound the two large shark hooks and ihe chain and rope snugly coiled away with eight pounds of pork in his locker.