The Safeguard. A hater wart So hU father'• knsa Ant! was nftsd up and lulled to rash Till the blue eves eloaed. so tired was ha And his Uttle head fell peacefully At ease on the rea.tr shoulder there. While the baby band, eo soft and fair. Lay like a shield on his father's breast Of old 'twas said that when men drew near To fierce temptation or deadly strife. And lost then way in a rnaae of fear. Or periled their souls for worldly gear, R away unknown an angel hand tfoold lead them ont of the dangerous land, Into the tight of a nobler life. The story is true for ihe world to-dav. We see no white-robed aneelt mild , Rut out of the dark and perilous way Where men and women forget to pray-- Into the peace of a pnrer land They are led by a gentle, shielding hand, The hand of a little nelpless child. Wurt.V h H /¥*isi-n, in CHtaAiv The Uaow of the KAIU. Away by the shore of the ocean blue In peecefulnees known to the lonely few, The wife and child of a sailor true Lived and toiled together, roll many a weird and plesufing tale Waa told the boy, of eea and aaii. Of floating berg and northern gale, Of clear and cloudy weather. Adown the wet the king of day Waa haatemug through the gates away, In all his goldeu bright array. When home returned the skipper. At evening, strolling on the saint. He told the tvy i f tutor a laud. And alowly traced with hts brawny band The cross and the starry dipper. Twas midnight, and. unfit for rets The boy etoie softly from his nest To watch the moon in clouds of the seal Flay hide and seek with the water. To laugh at the waul in Us wild, wild race. And again the stars of the lu ar ens to trace ; I.vhe thought that the dipper was out of place. And vailed Andromeda's daughter. The sea was mad, for the wind was high, TLc huge black clouds would soon go by. Bat dowu fell torrocie of raiu from the sky And woke the sleeping skipper. And suddenly long and loud laughed he. When the voice of hie child broke forth in glee, * Oh, fattier ! the king of the northern sea Has upeet his stany dipper." JN'iily hivbr, in iasc.it IVaicscnpl. How They Came Together Again. "Now, Kittv, vou don't mean eo 1" "I do, Will." " Then give me back that ring." Quick a* thought off came the ring from Kitty's tapering finger, and in another moment it flashed in the palm of Will Gtaham's hard. Then the two looked at one another aghast, a* if a precipice had suddenly yawned between them. "Time to leave the grove! Car> coming." saui a voice, tearing them. " Oh, Kitty, quick, if you don't want to be left!" And her sister, Nellie Barton, who had been searching for her, came for ward to grasp her by the hand and hur ry her off to the picnic tram waiting for the flushed and tired party from the city. " Hang the train !" said Will, reflect ing afterward that it would be rather a hard thing to do. " What am Ito do with this ring ? I would like to crush it under those locomotive wheels. And Kittv ! What have I done!" The sequel wAs, that Will, sauntering along, w..s too late for the train, and had the pleasure of walking into town, ten miles. "Good enough for him," said the vexed Kitty, in a thoroughly feline way, as she missed him in the train, pretend ing not to look for him, and yet oon ■tantly darting sly glances in every direction to See if he could be near. " Good enough for him," she said, when the cars started. More teuder thoughts came at last. " Poor Will," she finally murmured; " when he comes round to night, I'll make him comfortable in that big arm chair in our parlor, and will fix everything all right. But will he come round?" A lcok at her naked finger aent a ahiver over her, and the precipice yawning between her and Will in the grove seemed to yawn wider. " What have I said and done to Will? I won der if he'll come to-night." No Will came. The big arm-chair looked empty enough, and Kitty felt like tying a piece of enpo to it. Will reached home thoroughly tired out by his walk, and thoroughly disgnsted with himself for his treatment of Kitty. "Fool," he said to himself, as he dropped asleep. And that was just what Kitty Faid to herself. They were fool ish. At the picnic party there hail been a little jealousy and then a little slignting of one another. Kitty thought Will cruel, and so the end was that Will walked ten miles that night with a plump little gold ring in his pocket. Both went to sleep, saying in self-accu sation, " Fool!" Both woke np with intentions to make reparation the next day. It is easier though to make a break in the dam thaD to mend it. When Will Graham went down to his late breakfast, he found a short bnt peremptory letter waiting for him. It was war time. Will was a lieu tenant in his regiment. The letter was a summons l>aok to his poet, for the enemy were reported to be intending a serious demonstration. Every man must be in his place. The sentences of bis letter ended sharp as pistol-shots, and Will was off by the next traiD. He sent a message by a lady friend to Kitty that he wanted her to write and he wonld as soon as possible answer it, and that she mast uot think anything of what had happened. Woul-1 she forgive him ? he asked. Bot the lady friend, who chanced to be visiting in the place, was suddenly hurried home by symptoms of approaching sickness. The sickness proved fatal, and Will's words fonnd a grave with her. As for Kitty, she wrote a note before leaving her room that morning saying she was sorry, and gave it to a little boy to drop in the office. The game of marbles played on the way sent into happy oblivion all thought of his errand, and when he did think of his note, he couldn't find it. It probably dropped ont of his pock< t in palling out a bag of marbles and was finally picked up by the next enterprising chiffionier that went ronnd crying "Bags, rags.'' WUI wondcerd why after his mes sage, Kitty didn't send n letter, and Kitty wondered why after her letter, Will sent no message. Tne result was that a certain pretty little finger went minus a gold ring. It was a weary autumn, and wearier winter Kitty thought, that followed. The dead leaves whirling in the wind never Beemed so mournful, and the snow never seemed so much like a shroud. "No Will," she said, "these long winter evenings ! Nothing but war re ports sounding like batteries going >ll all the time."* "What is the matter with Graham?" said Will's mess-mates, as they rumi nated after dinner on the subject of his depression, sending up their inquiries toward the tent roof through dirty rings of tobacco smoka And Kitty's friends wondered why she 'tas fu .iu>l i.n . averse to society. " Oh, father and mother are both feeble and need me," she said. Three weary years went by; Will hay ing no heart to eome home. In the meanwhile, Kitty married and left the place. '' Gone to T—," some one said; " mar ried a rich old fellow that she didn't heartily love, all for the sake of making her father and mother comfortable." It was jnst about so, but only when Kitty had grown heart sick waiting to hear from Will. Reading at last in the evening paper that Lieut. Graham had been killed, she gave up all hope. She made a grave as she thought for the old love and gave herself away to a rich old friend of the family, a Mr. Carleton. " 'Twill be a good thiDg for father and mother," said Kitty. Mr. C—took his yonng bride to the city of T—. In two years, Kitty, found herself a widow. M". Carleton had been a kind husband, and Kitty though unable to give any thing like a hearty love, sincerely re spected him. Love, however, is a FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Prop i-lotor. VOLUME XI!. plant that oau't live on r*®peot alone. Kitty's affection had beru given to somebody cine, and that somebody else, though Kitty did not know it, wan still alive. '• Almost dead," aaid Surgeon Pale to Will; "they nay ron were found after hat laat little skirmish. The buyouet wound ron receive*.! in your eye, will Anally, 1 ani afraid, cauae you to lone it. At auv rate, you tnunt w*>ar a green patch for loug time." Will's health recovered sufficiently to allow further service, and at the end of the war, he wan sent home with a gold eagle on the shoulder and a green patch over the left eye. When Will reached Lome, he aaid to himself, "The vouug woman who ouoe wanted the littie gold rtug 1 carry in my pocket, surely won't want it now if she must take the green patch with it. " And sure enough, she didn't. Kitty's old home was a-, empty as a robin's nest in October. He beard heard she had goae somewhere and was a widow, Gol. Graham was rich, and whv shouldn't he marty? Many a girl would have put up with that green patch for the sake of his warm heart and manly character. Add money, and the green patch was vcrv attractive. Iu one little clique where Will moved, it is a wonder it was uot adopted as a badge. Rut those works of green were never carried, though assaulted by many a fair raider. Will wan given np at last, and venom ously reckoned as a "crusty old bach." The soldiers' orphans, and also the poor womeu that the war left peunileo* widows, knew the green patch, nowever, as the sigu of a warm-hearted man who made children happy with candy, and their mothers happy with coal. As a handsome little property in the city of T , fell to him one day, the colonel concluded to move there. The property included a big, hospitable old mansioii just suited to his tastes. It lay in s large garden. The trees were not close up to it, smothering it, but stood at respectful distance, so that the sun shine could pour around the old house depths of gold-color, bringing health and life. To outsiders in the street, so thick were tne intervening trees, it seemed like a nest stowed sway in the green foliage. Around the house went a broad piazza like a white ruff of the olden times about s lady's neck. Hack of the house, there were long slopes of grass leading down to a river. In June, this river went like s minstrel past the mansions bordering it, singing beauti ful songs of the summer as it purled along. At Minset, this princely trouba dour brought out of his treasures all sorts of precious stones and spread them on the water's surface to tempt away his lady-loves wandering on the river's banks. Within the house, the rooms were of generous size, and vet cozy iu their arrangements. The hall, furnish ed after the English style, was an ample, comfortable retreat, ever open to all soldiers whose stuiaps halted at the colonel's door. "Oh, mamma," said little Kitty Carletou, now three years old, aud Kitty Barton's only child, ■' somebody's turn, aomebodv's turn, over dere. See in de garden!"' Sure enough as Mrs. Carleton looked out of her windows, she saw that the ad joining manaiou we have described was indeed occupied, Strolling under the trees she saw a finely-formed, stalwart man. The stranger turned his face to ward Mrs. Carleton's heme. "See," said little Kitty, "something geen in his eye." "It is a green patch, darling, on his eye. It must be a poor soldier. Kitty must love the poor soldiers." " I will, mamma, and won't you ?" "Yea," the widow replied, hardly conscious of any reference to the geu thman walking under the trees. "A* long us I live," she said to herself. g'i ;ng to a drawer and taking out Will Graham's faded picture. "There, I thought I had got over that. It was never buried, after all. No, there are no graves for a true love." Mrs. Carleton soon fonnd that Kitty and the gentleman whose eye appeared iftbitualiy in green, were great friends. She would call upon him and bring home flowers or caDtly or toys. One day Kitty said she had found ont his name, the name of that " nice " gentleman. "What is your lover's name?" said Mrs. Carleton, smiling. " It's a ham', mamma; some kind of a ham—Gayham." "Graham, von must mean, child." "Aud he's been a sojer; and some- HoJv tame to see him and tailed him WilL" " Will Graham, and a soldier. Well, that is a coincidence," thought the mother. And Kitty said she had told the strange man her name. "Kitty Barton Tarleton." Ho that the colonel thought he had got hold of a coincidence. " Kitty Bar ton 1 Well, it can't be she!" And Mrs. Carletoa said, " Will Gra ham ! It can't be ho !" Both wished from the inmost depths of their souls it might be so. For several days the colonel missed his little pet. "Seem's to me the col onel's fussy," said his housekeeper, " wondering why that child don't come over, and saying every five minutes he must jest step over and see if she's sick. Tho', sartin, I do remember I've seen old Or. Oay's gig there twice. I'll tell him, or he'il fidget into o fever." •' Is it the little girl, or do you sup pose it is her mother?" said the oolonel, emphasizing the mother. " I should hate to have the little girl sick;" and he added to himself, *' I might feel worse if it were tho mother. There, I will call over to-morrow and get light on this mystery." "Do I s'pose it is the mother." sail his housekeeper, vigorously. " I don't know nothin' about it. There," Mrs. Timmins said, away in the recesses of her own consciousness, *' that man has been peekin' out of the blinds at that child's mother. He's old enough to do better." That very day the colonel stej ped ont on his piazza dressed np for the proposed call. Looking opposite, he saw his lit tle acquaintance running suddenly i nt of the house, and as he looked, he noticed a light wreath of smoke puffing after her. "Oh, Mr. Gayham, Mr. Gaybam, mamma's sick and house's afire. Tarn quick !" she cried. The colonel rushed over. He ran into the sitting-room. In a rocking-chair sat a lady in a morning-gown. "Oh, excuse me sir! but the house's on fire and I am still weak from my sickness. I can't stir." The colonel bent over her, took her in his arms, carried her toward the light. "Why, Kitty!" he said. " Why, Will I" was the answer. Not another word was spoken. " Well," said Col. Graham to himself, as his fair burden rested in his arms, " this is awkward, though delightful. Where shall I take her? Take her to your house, of course, simpleton." said an instinct within. Kitty had swooned, be saw, and in that unconscious state he bore her into his sitting-room, there to leave her and her child with the ener getic Timmins. The fire in Mrs. C.'s house arose from a defective furnace flue, was spreading rapidly, and the colonel, who had gallantly returned to fight the flames, found the house could not be saved. The next morning Mrs. Carleton looked ont from the guest chamber at the colonel's only to see a charred heap of rains. THE CENTRE R " Why, mamir.a, we taut go homo and hadn't us twst stay here 1" asked Kittv. "Hush, child, we must go some where." Tin re was a knock nt the *l**ir. "Shall 1 bring your breakfast iu tiow ?" said Mrs. Timmius, making the following private remarks for the l>euo fit of one Tmmiius: " I know Uiecolonel wanted orfnlly to Lave her take her breakfast down stairs, but said she was an invalid." "Thank you," replied Mrs. Garleton. " 1 am sorry to trouble yon. Could you order me a carriage after breakfast ? 1 had better go to the hotel ami uot im pose on your hospitality." " Ho-tef f" said the really warm hearted Tiuimiua. " Vou are l>etter fitted to take vour bed than a carriage. Ni sick folks leaves this house in such a fix. If sojer-boys cau stay, eating the colonel out of house and home, 1 guess a neighbor can." There wan another knock at the door. It was the colonel himself, and Timmms withdrew. "Biie wou't go," remarked Timmius to herself. " Ueekm* through the blinds always did mean something." " Why, how much the colonel looks like Wiu Graham of old," silently ob served Mrs. Carletoa. "Kitty," said the colonel, blushing suddenly—" Mrs. Oarleton, I mean, why must you go ?" She had told htm her intention. "She never looked so charming," thought the colonel. "He never looked handsomer, in spite of his green patch," thought Mrs. Carloton. " Oh, colonel, 1—I—I" " Kitty," said Col. Graham, stooping low and whispering, " couldn't you call me Will again ?" "Will, came back in a soft, low whisper. " Here, little Kitty," said the colonel, blushing redder than ever, and taking Mrs. C.'s child in las anus, " wouldn't yon like to stay here all the time?" "Oh, ye*; and wouldn't you, mam ma ?" " Say yes, dear Kitty," whispered the colonel, stooping lower to Mrs. Carle ton. No microphone ever brought the faint answer to that outside public, whose greedy ear catches up everv such thing eagerly; but in a few mouths there was a very happy wedding at St. Luke's, and little Kitty Carletou had a new father.— Portland lYatucript. Farts About the Indians. The tenth annual report of the board of Indian commissioners to the Presi dent of the Unite*! States contains a comparative statement showing the con dition of the Indians in 1868 and in 1878. Some of the more important items are as follows: ISA* 1878. Number of Indians iu the United State®, except Alaska J-8M Number of Indian* who wear aittaeu * dro®*.. 127,458 Number of botic occu pied by Indian® .. 8 644 23,080 Number of houee® built last year I*® Number of Indian ®chooU.. 14* Number of Indian pupil® 3.810 12,222 Am junt expended for edu cation .TT. 8334.125 Namber of Indiana who can read 41,*# Nr tuber of Indians who learned to read last year (five civilised tribe® ex cepted) 1.332 Number of church build ings on reaervatiou®.. ...... 218 Number of church mem ber®, about A). 000 Number of acre® of land cul tivated by Indian® . .. 79.071 373,018 Number of buhela of wheat rai®ed 169.383 770,(113 Number of bushels of corn rai®ed 320.079 694.001 Number of bushel® of oats and barley raised 81,131 3"*6, 132 Number of bn®hel® of vege tables raied 330.8®# 694,001 Number of ton® of hay made - 18.016 139,011 Number of horor® and mules owned 78,018 226,011 Number of cattle owned 47.704 291.278 Number of swme owned 31 iM 200.962 Number of sheep owned 7.933 394 574 From this statement it spjiears that more than one-half of the Indians have discarded the blanket and donned a civilized garb; that about one half have moved ont of their lodges and wigwams into honses, the number of which bus increased nearly three-fold in ten years; that the number of pupils in Indian schools has more than doubled; that nearly one-sixth of the Indian popula tion can read; that the numbers of acres of land cultivate*! by the Indians is shout five times as great as ten years ago; that the production of wheat has increased uearly five-fold, of corn seven fold, of oats and barley nearly four-fold, and of hay nearly nine-fold, and that the Indians own about three times a* mauy horse® and mules, six times as manv cattle, seven times as many swine, and "about seventy-five times as many sheep as they did "ten years ago. They now own more than two head of sheep for every Indian mau, woman and child in the United States. Arnte Rheumatism This is sometimes called rheumatic fever. Its medical term inpolyarthriti*. It is mainly a disease of the temperate regions, and prevails mostly from Oc tober to May. Persons specially liable to it are thoso whose calling exposes them to frequent changes of tempera ture, those who are insufficiently pro tected against sudden chills, and thoso who reside in damp localities, and es pecially those who sleep in damp rooms. One attack greatly disposes a person to a second. The foremost exciting cause is a smi tten oooling of the body when heated and exhausted byexertion —this, in the view of many medical authorities, developing lactic acid in the blood. The fover is proportionate to the number of joints attacked, and the intenstv of the inflam mation. It ia accompanied with a sour sweat. Hardly any other diseaae pre sents so many complications. The younger the patient, the greater the liability of the heart's being affected. The liability after twenty-five is the exoeption. .As a rule, it runs it course in from three to six weeks. Convalescence is slow. Even after recovery, there is for a considerable time a tendency to ro newed inflammation. It seldom termi nates in death. To avoid the disease, guard against all sudden and violeut changes of tem perature ; wear woolen next to the skin; in case the skin is especially suscepti ble, harden it by cold bathing, exercise in the open air, etc.; if exposed to wet or chill when heated, keep up the circu lation by active exercise till an oppor tunity offers for change of clothing. A Moment of Horror. A prominent fancy goods dealer of this city, whose neatness of attire is tho envy of the less fortunate, stepped into his store Sunday to replenish the fur nace. He laid aside his glossy silk hat and pnt on an old straw. Having ar ranged matters satisfactorily, he saun tered np Congress street jnst as church goers were coming down. Meeting a lady of his acquaintance, he gracefully lifted bis hat, when, to his horror, he found that be had on the straw one aforesaid. He took the back streets and reached home as Boon as possible.— Portland (A/#.) Argus CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., l'A., THURSDAY. MARCH 6, 187i>. m lint. ON I I'.I.INFN. nMBBtfIM la >BW that at# saltf !• be ■ atfaaf Cat Hai. The New York .Wersury asserts that some of the residents of that city are ac customed to buying sausages and other fixxl partly made np of the flesh of young kittens. The Mrrcury says men go about at uight hunting oats, which they put luto hugs as sooti as caught. Its article ooutitiues . When a sufficient uumlier of victims has been obtained, the oatdinuter takes his homeward way and empties his hag of his evening's spoils. The largest and fattest having been selected, they are quickly killed, either being knocked iu the head or havtug their throuts cut, while those too lesti are reserved to fat ten for future use. The slaughtered cat is then skinned, the skill being of some value, especially the white and black *iies, and the meat prepared for chopping. Mixed with a little bull meat, or sometime* alone, it is theu chopped and made into the desired Ixiloguas, ami is ready for sale. Most of these eat-huutera manufacture the sausages and sell them themselves, thus combining the ooeupatiou# of manufac turer ami tradesman on the smallest scale, while others sell the meat to small butchers. The mauuer in which this busiuess in cats wras discovered and in vestigated is of interest. Certain offi cials, a few months ago, in a tour through the eastern part of the city in search of alleged abuses, were surprised to find evidence of this traffic in more ways than one. A reporter of the Mrrtury discovered three or four men who made a business of getting, keeping, and br> -vlingcat*. Two of these men manu facture*! and sold bologna sausages in quantities. A woman told the reporter, ii.it knowing his errand, that a short time ago she had purchased one of these salvages, but its appearance and taste was so jiecttliar that she wtu* afraid to cat it, and threw it away. It is moat difficult to obtain accurate information, as these men are m*st reticent regard ing themselves. Many of them do not speak any English, ami are evidently afraid their business will tie discovered. The cats, when caught, are sorted out, and those re-erred for fattening are kept either in large boxes or in small vards adjoining their captors' houses. The advantage of the boxes is, thst they cau be more easily concealed ami kept in smaller compass, sometimes iu a small cellar or rx>tn ; but they are not pre served in such gixxl condition iu this way as when allowed more freedom, so it is not resorted to except iu cases of necessity. The !>oxe* hare slats nailed iu front of them, and the occupants are fed at stated intervals with aonie fatten ing eonjpound. When a yard ui nsed, the tops of ths surrounding walls are smeared with a snbstanee known to these eat-deairr* which the animals de test and will not cross. A collection <>f cats thus imprisoued presented a moat amusing spectacle when seen by the re porter. About a hundred cats, of all sites and ages, were sleepiug, eating, , quarreling and caterwauling in various attitudes. All grales of cat society were represented, from the handsome Angora and Maltese, to the prosaic, homely backyard Tom, that makes night hideous with his yells, and murders sleep. Great care has to lie nsed, it is said, to prevent the old Tom cats from eating their young. The " uncles, cousins, and aunts" e> uld indeed be " reckoned up by dozer a," and seemed to constitute auythiu but a happy family. The Unrloaltles of Advertising. Some person* find the advertisements the most amusing part of their daily pa per. Advertising is a system barely 225 yean* old; the first authentic newspaper advertisements having appeared in Eng land about 1658, iu the latter days of Oliver CromwelL At first two or three small insertions in the newspaper of the day were sufficient for the wants of the community. These only rela'ed to runaway servants, the appre hension of evil-doers, quack medicines, lost dogs, horses aud Lawks, and occa sionally challengea. At, for instance, Edward Ferry, July 1, 1658. is adver tise.! for as "of low stature, black hair, full of pock-holes in his face ; ho wear, .h b new gray suit, trimmed with green and other ribbons, a light einna mon-colored cloak and black hat, and hath run away from hit manter." Here is another, evideutly by the hand of the merry monarch himself, and printed by the honored editor in type extraordi nary, June 28, 1660: •• We must call on von again for a Black Dog, between a Greyhound and a Spaniel; no white about him, only a streak on his Brest, and a Tayl a little bobbed. It is His Majesties own Dog, and doubtless was stolen ; for the Dog aan not l>orn or bred in England and never would forsake his Master. Who . r Andes him may acquaint any at Whitehall, for the Dog was better known at Court than those who stole him. Will they never leave robbing Hm Majesty? Must he not keep a Dog? This Dog's place (though better than some imagine) is the only place which nobody offers to beg." Though great feats of feminine pedes trianism were reserved for our own days, the early jiart of the eighteenth century was in advance of ns in female pugi lism. Here is what the gentler sex proposed to do in 1722 : " Challknob. —I, Elizabeth Wilkin son, of Clerkenwell, having had some words with Hannah Hyfleld, and re quiring satisfaction, do invite her to meet me on the stage, and box me for three gnineas ; each woman holding half a crown in each hand, and the first woman that drops the money to lose the battle." "AnHwnn.—l, Hannah Hyfleld, of Newgate Market, hearing of the reso luteness of Elizabeth Wilkinson, will not fail, God willing, to giro her more blown than words, desiring home blown and from her no favor ; she may expert a good thumping."— lialt*rru>T * .Ameri can. Hold and Silver in Bulk. One ton (2,000 pounds avoirdupois) of gold or silver contains 29,163 troy ounces, nnd therefore the value of a ton of pure gold is $(102,799.21, and a ton of silver is $37,704.84. A cubic foot of pure gold weighs 1,218.75 pounds avoirdupois; a cubic foot of pure silver weighs 656,25 pounds avoirdupois. One million dollars gold coin weighs 3,685.8 pounds avoirdupois; $1,000,000 silver coin weighs 58,929.9 pounds avoir dupois. If there is one per cent, of gold or silver in one ton of ore, it contains 291.68 ounces troy of either of these metals. The average fineness of Colorado gold is 781 in 1,000; aud the natural alloy, gold, 781; silver, 209; copper, 10; total, 1,000. The calculations at the United States mint are made on the basis that forty three on noes of standard gold or 900 fine coin) is worth SBOO, and eleven ounces of silver 900 flno (coin) is worth $12.80. The Mahrattan had a simple but ef fectual method of discovering wealthy Hindoos. They pon>J water on ths leaves the people use instead of plates to eat their rice from ; if it ran off the man was rich, because he could afford clarified butter, whereas the poor have enly salt TIMELY TOI'HX The bone business is a big thing in western Texas. Cattle die ami buflalo are killed, and their ton. :a are gathered from the plains. A Han Autouiuu shipped 3,333 tons at uue time, receiv ing therefor #7.50 per ton. The French armi™ no longer march beneath the imperial eagle. That noble lird lias Ixxui deposed from his lofty jierch ou the standards of Napoleon, anil the soldiers of the republic are to be led to victory by a laurel wreath encircling a dart of gold. The monument to Victor Emanuel which Italy desires to raise, will c<at, it is estimated, not le than t'J.OOO,OOO. It is to consist of a colossal equestrian statue mounted ou a triumphal arch, and the competition is to be thrown open to all the world. Duly Uiirtv or forty miles distant from the City of Mexico are two of the Inset wheat-producing valleys in the world, and yet wheat costs at wholesale there from 51.60 to $2 40 a bushel, and flour retails for 81.75 per twenty-five pounds. The Mexican tariff ou foreign wheat is shout 81.15 a bushel, aud on flour a barrel. A liarrel of flour, costing in New York $6, shipped to the Oily of Mexico, is worth fl2'J by the time it* ar rives, on account of duty, freight *ud other charges. A corre*|ondcnt of the Neilgherry Hxcfltior tells of a tiger cub which is iu the habit of smoking up all his mas ter's cigar stumps. He secure®* these luxurious bits a* they are thrown away, and after laa master has retire*! to bed "pets a light" from the kitchen, and enjoys a quiet smoke every night. " Mchemet Ali,"beaays, " used to harp a tame annual of this irascible specit® to which he regularly handed over his hookah after enjoying his own after dinner sedative. The animal waited patiently for his turn, and then puffed away." During the last year the American Bible society has circulate*! about one million oopnw of the Bible, the British and Foreign Bible society of Bootiand 36,000, and other societies more than one million. The total circulation aiuce the formation of theae Bible societies has ln-en 8'2,000,000 by the British and Foreign, 35,000,000 by the American, 5,W)0,1kX) bv the National Bible Society of So*klland, and by German societies 8,500,000, while the circulation of other societies has raise*! the total to about 160,000,000 copies of the scriptures cir culated in various tongues by Bible societies during the lost seventy-live years. Not only is the story of William Tell attacked as a myth, but the monuments which have }>vrpetuated it are in equal danger. The government of the Hwiss canton of Uri, in which Altorf and other places aaaoriated with the name of Tell are situate*!, pr>qsaes to jn-rjn-trate an act of vamlalism which ought, says the London 7Wncj' e >rr*-sp<>u in.t, to )>e prevented. They have resolved to pull down William Tells chapel, on lake Lucerne; and, n-t content with the de molition of this interesting and romantic, if not precisely historic building, they have refuse*! permission to the Lueem eoe artistic society to detach the 'paint ingi ou the walls in order thst they may lie paced in the museum of Lucerne. The Vienna pa|>er* tell of the narrow escape of an xgisl Hebrew of that city fr -m liemg buried alive. 'He bad been ixxlridden for a long time, and being taken with violent convulsions, lecanio stiff and cold, and was taken for dead. He was lo;-l out, and two faithful be lievers were set to watch aud pray over him nntil the close of the Sabbath. Toward dawn of Saturday, while the watchers were ocrnpiod with their de votions, Ferjet Fischer returned to coDsetonsiieaa, and perceiving the mean ing of his surrotiudiDgs arose with rage, horror, and mad imprecations, while his terror-stricken attendants look to pre cipitate flight. Due of them waa so frightened tlint he foil sick and died, but Fejrez Fischer recovered from the shock to CDjoy better health than he had liefore his snppoecd death. The committee for encouraging the use of horseflesh as an article of food, have lasned a return showing that the nnmlier of horses, antes and mules slaughtered in I'uris for consumption in 1878 was 11,319. or 700 more than in the previous year. The oontiniuvl increase in the use of boiweflesh is, they say, a proof that the prejudice against it is twing gradually overcome. A prize of 1,200f. war awarded by M. Decroix to the founder of the first shop for the sale of horsaflesh in London, opened in May last. That venture, during the four months it was carried on, did not, how ever. meet with all the desired success, the ch of reason for which waa (the com mittee say) that the director was anite ignorant of the English language. Tha committee now offer s medal of honor to any English butcher who shall lake up the trade and continue it for three mouths at least. I'til It in ira Kat. Large sewer rats get into h on res, *n especially into public buildings in which suites of apartments are let to families and others. In such rooms, and in cel lars, walls and pantries, these ferocious vermin are more destructive than a wild beast of prey—and more dangerous when cornered. One perron, who hsd suffered much and long from their ravages, and whose occasional capture of one of their number had failtd to make any impression on the general horde, resolved to try s new plan. It is known that nothing so frightens a rat as to hear the shrieks of one of its own kind in captivity. Having caught a vicious and lively specimen, the experi menter determined on the cruel expedi ent of starving him to death, and to make his squealing " tell "on the others. Caught in a box or wire trap, the rat was there kept, nnharmed, except for deprivation of food and water—and he lived just two days and two nights. During that time, what with the pangs of hunger and thirst, and the added oc casional incentive to vocal exercises in the shape of prodding* ami stirrings up with a long pole, the caged rat gave forth at sundry and divers times such piercing shrieks of rage aud despair as only a rat can utter. Probably it wouldn't have hocn entirely safe, at that time, to have given him a chance to smell of vonr finger, or to get at your thumb; but one good result was certain ly accomplished by that otherwise too cruel experiment—not a rat lis* been in that room or in those walls from that day to this, a period, we l>elieve, of alsmt half a year. A similar result is said to have been attained by catching a rat, dipping it into a pot of red paint, and letting it run; ami also by shearing aud singeing a rat, and then letting him go. The Begum of Bhopal is a clever and energetic lady. She has built the best hospital in India, outside of Calcutta, is making excellent roads, and arranging for a railroad to her dominions. EPORTER THE Zl'LL' >1 tit KailasS'i Tr.sSl® XVII albs a Or* Tribe la "8 a® 04 111 %f r tr . The scene of the British military maneuver has shifted from Afghanistan lo Houth Africa. It is iu the later lo cality that the troops are now the uioat active, and the recent British reverses give rent-wed int* rest to tLe old story of misunderstanding *> th the natives of that part of England's extensive empire. Near the Tug* la liver, J0,00l) Zulus an nihilate*! a British column consisting of part nt the Twenty-fourth regimeut, a battery of artillery and 600 natives; 102 wagons, 1,000 oieu, two cannon, 400 shot an I shell, 1.000 rifles, '250,000 rounds of ammunition, 00,000 )x>uuda of provision* and the colors w. re captured by the enemy. AIKHII 5,000 Zulus were killed and wounded, while 000 officers and men were lost ou the British side. Hubaequeut attacks were repulse*!, how ever, and the threatened destruction of the English force# and colony averted, although the governor,Hir Bart let Frere, sent to England for re-enforcements, which were at once ordered to Africa to the numlw-r of 7,000. England has had almost constant trou ble with the natives ever aiuce that section became a British colony. The first Caffre war broke out in 1811. The Frophet Mokauna Leaded an incursion in 1810. The second Caffre war was in 1828-31. The third in 1834, attended by diplomatic difficulties between the colo nial secretary and the governor. " The War of the Axe " came iu 184<i, and an other of more than two years' duration in 1850. In 1857 came the destruction of all their cattle and grain by the t'affres at the instigation of another "prophet," and a desperate and futile attempt to recover their territory, end ing in death bv famine. The Galekas relwlled in 1856, and nearly twenty years of comparative peace followed. An ex tensive war, with quarrels ad lilntum among the English officials, came in 1877, and then succeeded the trouble with the Zulus, which had long been brewing, brought by animositiea be tween the natives and the English and Hatch settlers. The English proposed conditions of feaoe which would have destroyed King Cctywajo's royal prestige, so war fol lowki. He has 300,000 subjects, 10,000 miles of territory, 140,000 men of arms, of athletic and stalwart build and capa ble of great endurance ; 22,500 under thirtv years of age, 10,000 Iwtweeu thirty and forty, 8,400 between forty and fiftv and 4,500 between fifty and sixty, all well armed. Everything in the way of tacli-.w ami war supplies is very simple. To ford a swift torrent they form in a dense column ami push each other across, many, of course, being drowned. They do not marry under fortv, and the married men are distinguished by a monkish aliaven crown. The British force at the beginning of this war constated of alaitit 16.000 men, 5,000 t>e:ng regulars, and the naval brigade is 300 strong, from the ships Active and TeneduA.—Arte York i/ml. The (ountry It in >n the country that the aoul ex pands and gri'W* great. The town de velop*, cultivate* and amplifies all the sense*. hut its tendency is to contract that incomprehensible impulse of being we call soul. Out where the rugged hills point heavenward with ten thou sand sturdy evergreen figures; where stand the woods in royal majesty; where the brooks dance along and clasp bands with the rivers, and rivers sweep on with uuini|>eded flow t-> the btisom at the sea; where rocks rise like brawny giants, their nakeduei* covered with mos*<<. and drink in the sunshine and the rain proudly, disdaining t > show how the elements caress then alowly into dnst: where the birds sing their most jubilant songs, and the wild flowers wear their brightest lines ; where the bee* hnm in la:y content fmm honey-cap to honev-cnp; where nature rules supreme, and man liecome* a pigmy—there the true soul, ntibashed and undismayed, aspires to compass all ths profound mysteries of crestion, and reads ehqnent lessons in everything. Where villages dot the hillsides and nestle in the valleys; where the throb bing clangor of the ehnrch-bell is the loudest sound heard; where the fields teem with homely promise of the com ing harvest, and the voices of men are drowned in tn> pratilo of nature—there are magnificent souls hidden beneath the humblest exteriors. The hand that grasps the plow and scatters the seed may be brown and hard, but there is a whole heart in its grasp; the that has been snowed upon, and rained np< n, and blown npon, is neither marred nor scarred, but brave aud gentle; it shows in every lineament how eonobling is rloss communion with nature. The eye that sees the first tiny bud of the trees, the first blade of pale green grass, the first frail blossom of the woods, watches the covert approaches of spring with a glow and luster that we do not often see in the dissipated town. A Tegetablo Wax Tree The most important article for illu minating purpose* in Jspan is the can dle made from the fruit of a tree about the size and appearance of the common sumac of this country. It is grown more or less extensively sltnost every where in Japan, and especially in the western provinces, from the south northwest to the thirtv-flfth degree. The tree has a quick growth, ami at tains the diameter of a foot and a half, ami a height of twenty-five feet. Tho blossoms Appear in June. They begin to yield berries the third or fourth year. The berries are the size of a small pea, of a white oolor. hanging in clus ters, and contain tho wax *s thick white coating of the seed. The full grown tree is said to yield about fifty pound* of seeds annnallv, nearly one half of which is wax. It is a hardy plant, growing on indifferent soil, and living for many years. In Japan they are planted by the roadside, on embank ments and out-of-the-way places. The wax in obtained by the berries being rrtinhed, nteamed and then plaeed in hemp bagn and pronged in a wedge prean. It in also obtained by boiling the brained needn and skimming the wax from the top. The wax is a pal matine or glyeenne; when first extract ed it in of a yellowish-white color, and sometimes softer than beeswax. It melts at 127 degrees, and when formed into caudles gives a fine, clear light. In ordinary candle-making the unbleached wax is uned. When wan hod and bleached in the nun ami pir, it assumes a pure white color. It is said the tree in being introduced into California. "Rome Sentinel" Brevities. A pair of specs— : A tight fit—Delirium tremens. A little fronli heir—A new baby. The only difference between u swine disease and an important part of a har ness is, that one is the horse collar and the other is the hog choler-eli ? Men may come and men may go, tlio seasous may follow enc'u other in regu lar succession, dust may return to dust., the sun may continue to shine upon the just and the unjust, but the world has yet to discover tho man who has eaten a plate of soup and not burned his tengue. TKKMtt: #2.00 a Yoar, in fialluW* KrinltlUrrncra \\' take tin* following from the reminiscences of a Now York reporter, who ha* beu present at thirty execu tioua: " 1 wouilor if it hurts to be bang* <i ?" ► mil ho who rial at the foot of thin Oam altol of tho noose. " Probably not, after tho flrnt twitch of tho cord la fait, arid, although I can not claim any personal knowledge of that |>art of tiio business, my belief can scarcely bo said to la- purely conjectural. 1 once talked with a man who ha J been hanged by a party of blytha but kastv gentleman in California. They mistook him for a horaothief, an error for which they amply apologised in the heartiest manner when their attention wa called to the fact that he wax the wrong peraou, winch, fortunately for him, waa lust in time to have hia life. lie naid that hia sensations were tlrat a consciousness of a terrific crank, a if all created things, himself among the rent, had simulta neously exploded. That waa probably wkeu the mule was led out from under him. Then beseemed to be floating in a eea of red light, heaved and tuaaed upon glowing billows that awirled round and round, aaif in a whirlpool, to the sound of a harmonious roaring. And after that he knew nothing until he found himself lying upon the graaa, breathing with great difficulty and pain, bleeding from a little gaah in hia neck where they hid cut the nooae, and trying to under stand the profuse apologies of the spokesman of his entertainers." "It mast be a horrible thing for a man to know that he la going to die a shame ful death for a crime of which he la in nooent." " Theoretically, he ought to lie sus tained by the consciousness of his in nocence. Practically, the horror of the situation dependa upon the man him self—independent of guilt or innocence. The bravest man I ever saw die waa one who avowed frankly the perpetration of the .murder for which he waa hanged. Aa to how really innocent men accept the situation, I have not much ex perieuee upon which to base an opinion, aa out of all the thirty that I have seen hanged there was but one that I deemed guiltieaa—the unhappy victim of a judicial murder. That was a poor wretch named Lee, if I remember aright, who was hauged at Waukegan. 111., in 1N65, as the supposed murderer of au old woman by the name of Ruth Bnden. I studied well the evidence in kta caw, examined lum, and did what no body else seemed to have thought it worth while to di—sought out who else than he iu the oominanity had stronger reasons than he could poaaiblv have had to wish old Ruth Bnden dead. I satis fied myself that there was one man there- a rich and influential man—who would have profited largely through family connection by her death, and that man, 1 found, had been especially and remarkably active in pressing the prosecution and conviction of Lee. There was nothing about the ocndemced man's ;>er*<-,nn<7 or record to encourage suspicion of him other thau that h<- was a shiftless, poverty -stricken, friendless vagabond who sometimes got drunk ; 1 but lie was the easiest man in the com munity to hang, somebody ought to be , hanged, and they strung Lim np. , The deputy sheriff, to whom I expressed my oouviction of the poor fellow's inno cence, laughed at ma lie waa a big, good hearted, rough man, who had been b< rnfled by the atrocity of the bntcherv of Mr*. Bnden, and was easily swept along with the tide of popular feeling Hgaiut the prisoner, which had been artfully set in motion by interested parties,. But, six months afterward, I met him in Chicago, and he said to me: • What yen said atiout that hanging of ours disturbs my mind a great deal, and 1 have spent both time and money in in vestigating that caae for my own satis faction. And 1 tell you now, lam con vinced that wc hanged an innocent man that day.' The tears stood in his eyes, and his voioo trembled as be spoke. Unfortunate Lae ; bis last prayer was for hi* wife and little child, far away in the Kast; his last words calling upon Clod to judge his innocence. But be died courageously." A ( hwrfil Heart. A merry or cheerful counteuanee was oue of the Hung* which Jeremy Taylor said hi* enemies ami persecutor# could not tike away from him. There are Mine persons who spend their liven m thin world aa they would }>end their lives if ahut np in a dungeon. Every thing is made gloomy and forbidding. They go mourning and complaining from from day to day that they have no little, and are constantly anxious leet what littte they have ahouid escape oat of their hands. They look always upon the dark aide, and can never enjoy the good that is present for the evil that ia to <\>me. This ia not religion. Relig ion makes the heart cheerful; and when ita large and benevolent principles are exercised, men will be bappy in spite of themselves. The industrious bee does not complain that there are so many poisonous flowers and thorny branches in his road, but buzzes on, selecting the honey where he can find it, and panning quietly by the place where it ia not. l here is enough in this world to com plain about and find fault with, if men have the disjswition. We often travel i on a hard ami uneven road ; hut with a cheerful npirit, we may walk therein with comfort, and some to the end of our journey id peace. A Heart-Rending Stery. A heart-sickening atory comes all the way from Wisconsin. According to the chronicler a light-haired young woman and a dark-liaired yonng woman, who were room-mates in a Milwaukee board ing house, arose oue morning and. dressing in the dark, the light-haired girl t wistos 1 the dark-haired girl's switch in with what there was of her own in sufficient hair, and the dark-haired girl made similar use of the light-haired girl's switch. As soon as they got down to the breakfast table, where there was a light, each saw that the other's head resembled a confused checker-board. After it had finally dawned upon them what the difficulty was, and they had screamed as much as the occasion seem oil to call for, they retired without at i special premeditation. Mother. Despise not your mother when she is old. Age may wear and waste a mother's Iteauty, strength, senmw and estate; hot her relation as mother ia as the sun when it goes forth in its might, for it is always in the meridian and knoweth no evening. The person may be gray haired, bnt motherly relation ia alwayß in its bloom. It may lie autumn, yea, wiutor, bnt with the mother it is always spring. Alas 1 how little do we appre ciate a mother's tenderness while living ! Flow heedless are we in vonth of all her anxiety and kindness! But when she is dead and gone—when the cares aud the coldness of this world oome withering to our heart—then it is that we think of the mother that we have lost. Mexicans snbdne fractions horses by having a hood so arranged as to pnll down over the eyes of the horse as soon as he manifests uneasiness. Several ap plications subdue the horse perma nently. NUMBER 10. TOR THE Eiiaatx NOIM<II<<M lav WHIM. The fashion in England, set by Lord CanngUm, ia lor afternoon marriage*. leather belt*, fasten*! with Hpauuli buckles of lrou, are worn in tUn eveoiug. ii<adbaud alib pendant rouaof jew* U or coin* aie much worn iu New 1 utk. Mra. Burnt-tie, the author of " Tkat lax o' Lowr.e a,"ia very gwltab-luokiiiK. iVrfuined glove* are now fashionable, but u more delicate perfume than ben sine is desirable. Htriped ulia parses are fashionable Witk tkoao ladies having any money to pat into them, and still more fashion able with those who haven't. Mosaic jewelry is coming np again ' among fashionable ladles. Pearls are quite the rage. Filagree ornaments of gold and silver are muck worn. The ladies of Japan are said to gild their teeth, and those of the East Indiea to paint them red, wkde in Cjuxert the test of beauty ia to render them black. , The newest engagement ring ia of , gold, and consists of two ksndt meeting and clasping over a small gold heart, which occupies the top of the interior circlet. The Japanese ladies paint their cheeks, but the article they use fcr the purpose.wliea first put on is greeu; ex posure to the sir, however, soon turns it to s roe-shell pink. The Austrian white glove, s soft oss tor of ere amy-white tint, is much worn; it is a dressy street glove, and may be cleaned very satisfactorily; it is worn a size larger than a kid glove. It is difficult to say what constitutes £e lieauty of s woman. The Sandwich Islanders estimate women by their height. The Chinese require them" to have deformed feet and black teeth. A girl must be tatooed sky-bine and wear a nose-ring to satisfy s South Sea Islander's taste. African princes require their brides to have their teeth filed like those ufa saw. And thns goes the world, the criterion of beauty differing according to latitude and longitude. Mine Josie Baker, daughter of Prof. 0. H. Baker, of Indianapolis, has re cently been appointed a tutor of Greek at Simpson college. She is only sixteen, but reads and writes the language flu ently. At tiie age of eight abe had read three books of Homer, as well as other works in Greek which usually precede that author, and at fourteen she bad rattle s complete lexicon of s trsgedy of Sophocles. She is also equally pro ficient in Latin, and more or lees familiar with French and German. < kliwr HrtSal ( MasM. The bride was attired anmptuourly in a parti-colored brocaded satin overgar ment, which waa, of course, surmounted by the red cotton bridal-Tail covering tiie whole head and face and hanging some distance down, being, however, slightly open st the sides to permit of easier breathing. The fashion of thin attire was that of centuries ago—the top of the head-dress bulging out in form, very similar to that seen in an cient pictures of Israeli!ish priests. Around this she wore a golden coronet, stndded with pearls, amethysts and rubies, while pendant from it were nu merous strings cf long glass heals of several colors, the whole presenting s novel, if not altogether charming effect. The bridegroom was dad in the em broidered silk robes of a white-button Mandarin. He betrayed not the slight est anxiety to lift the vail that concealed the bride's face, bnt, with a stolidity remarkable in one so ynnng, allowed the ceremony to proceed and himself to lie guided by the old women go-he , twrens with mnch resignation. They placed the bride to the right of the foot of the family altar and the bridegroom at her left hand, both kneeling. The Laddered HUterx. This pair inhabited a single room; from the facts, it muat nave been double-bedded; and it may have been of some dimensions; but when all is said it wa* a single room. Here our two spinsters fell out—on some point of con troversial divinity belike; but fell out so bitterly thst there wss never s word spoken between them, black or wuite, from that day forward. You hav thought they would separate; but no; whether from lack of means or the Scot tish fear of soand 1, they continued to keep bouse together where they were. A chalk line drawn upon the flour sepa rated their two domains; it bisected the doorway and the fireplace, so that each could go out and iu and do her cooking without violating the territory of the other. So. for years, tbey 00-exinted in hateful silence; their meads, their ablu tions, their friendly visitors, exposed to au unfriendly scrutiny; and at night, in the dark watches, each could hear the breathing of bet enemy. Never did four walls look down upon an uglier spectacle than these sisters rivaling in nnsisterliness. Here ia a canvas for Hawthorne to have turned into a cabi net picture—he had a Puritanic vein, which would have fitted him to treat this Puritanic horror; he coald have shown them to us in their sicknesses and at their hideous twin devotions, thumbiug a pair of great Bibles or pray ing aloud for "*eb other's penitence with marrowy emphasis; now each, with kilted petticoat, at her own corner of the fire on some tempestuous evening now sitting each at her window, looking out upon the summer landscape sloping far below them toward the firth, and the field paths where they hail wandered hand in hand; or, as age and infirmity grew upon them and prolonged their toilets, and their hands began to trem ble and their head* to nod involuntarily, gmwing only the more steeled in enmi ty with years; until cue fine day, at a word, a look, s visit, or the approach of death, their hearts would melt and the chalk boundary be oversteppe I forever. —Sew AnnaU of Edinburgh. Ten Good Friends. " I wish that I'd good friends to help me on in life f" cried lazy Dennis, with a yawn. " Good friends ? why you've them !" replied his mister. "I'm sure I've not so many, and those that I have are too poor to help me." "Count your fingers, my boy," said the muster. Dennis looked down on hi* big, strong hands. "Oonut thumbs and all," added his master. "I have; there are ten in all," said the lad. " Then never say yon have not ten good friends, able to help you on in life. Try what those true friends can do be fore yon go grnmbling and fretting be eanse you do not get help from others. Turkish Proverbs. Never a sigh falls to the ground. God makes the blind bird's nest. A smile answers every tear. Where there is a soul th-*re is a hope. An orderly honse ia blessed. Alms are a silent prayer. The heart is a child that wants what it seea. Every accident givrs advice. Chance is the best introducer. Man without judgment; ship without anchor. ITBBB OP IXTEJUWT. A aide-walk—The crab's. Light timber—An eye-beam. Lawyers profit by their clients' trials! Hie most popular mine —J" Baby mine." He who learns to reed will read to ' learn. A book for the table-One full of platea. Hp!it horse-leather is made np into oboes. - I Most families die out in two hundred years. Whsn a man kicks he generally pute ' his best foot forwmrd. : j In a Loudon theater you pay twelve I cents for s programme. Pay attention : Courting young tt*aa have pressing engagements. Birds are not noted for oourage, but ' < many of them die game. The census reports show 6,000,000 I farmers in the United Btatea. A sermon is like a building—The 1 ' longer it is the more sleepers there are. 1 Peruandina (Florida) ships snapping -1 turtles in tieroes to Hevaunah and the North. The hair of the buffalo is now largely employed in making overonals, which | are all wool. What wa are suffering to know is, if a Bute prison oonvict taken the smallpox, oafl he break out with it? An old bachelor's proverb : Borrows grow less and leea every time tbey are told, just like the ages of women. It is estimated that the Colorado gold and silver yield for this year will be in the neigh oorhood of $46,676,868. "Bing a Hong of Sixpence" dates from the sixteenth oeutury, and " Three Blind Mic r " is in a muaie book dated 1609. Whether oa the hen-r ooet high. Or in the boiober'i van. The noblest plaoe for foU to die fa where they die for man. On the leading avenue* of Borne the guards now patrol the whole length of the way when the king and qaeen are expected. An exchange speaks of a " wife msur : anoe company." But we don't know whether it insures a man's wife or insures j a man a wife. •• la that marble ?" aaid a gentleman, pointing to a bust of Kentucky's great statesman. M No, sir; that's Clay, re plied the dealer. South African proof-readers die young. The last one succumbed to the descrip tion of a fight between the Cnabelinjiji and Amaawaaiemzi tribes. ••I MT, Jack, which would you rather, that a iron tore you to piece* or a tiger?" *' Why, you goose, of cc-urse I'd rather a lion tore a tiger in pieoea " We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, nav essential, to see his goo J qualities before pronounc ing on his bed. The Hawaiian nee crop is add almost entire to the United Blaies, the Hawai ian s buying for home consumption a cheap paddy, or noe, from China, Japan and bk Indies. While in a Western town Camilla Urso took her violin into the county poorbouae and delighted the inmate*. Good girl that, to play for nothing to poor houses. He who learns and makes no nee of his learning,ia a beast of burden, with a load of books. Compreht ndcth tire sea whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of fagots ? The bridge over the river Jantra, at Biela, in Bulgaria, is a structure of un usual beauty. It has fifteeu circular arches, with hollow pier*. It is the work of s self-taught Bulgarian. Ac English gardener has brought out a new v.-getabl* caned the cabbage broccoli, which is about the six* of a good ooeoanut aobage, solid and ten der, and when cooked is of a peculiarly mild flavor. To take a needed etep in the spelling reform, we have acted upon the advice of the American Philological -associa tion to the extent of dropping the use less dual e in the words have, giTe and live.— T*ntth Setler. g Mr. J. A.' Rose, of Highland Prairie, Wis., weighs 242 pounds ; so does lis wife ; their twenty-year old sou weighs 211. and a daughter, three years your ger, requires a supporting knee of the ca pacity of 181 pounds. Who is it, with funereal tmd Come* -lowly home and got* to bed. And Otter* what t* bet unsaid ? Ti be who ft-Bed ni.ee rowe toe run. t&bnsnag on a ► ingle banc. And after all's caujbl uart one. Forests receive more rain than open plains, and pines more than open leafy trees. Pines retain more than half the water that falls upon them, and there fore furnish the hirst shields sgaic-i in undations, and the beat means cf im parting humidity to the atmosphere. Much of the wool used for making so-called " brienoot" pipe* cornea from Corsica. It is s sort of heath wood, the roots of which are dug up and cut into rough forms of tobacco-pipes by circular aawa worked by the water power of mountain streams. The p.pee are sent in sacks to France, and thence to America. Two ladies, both of them a little dull in the bearing, were in church one day, when the minister had for his text. " Except yon repeut ye shall all like wise perish." They listened patiently enough, but when they got out the one said to the other: " Jenet, wasna yon an awfui text the minister bad the day ?—' Except we pay our refct. we're a' to be put ten out o' the parish." Young man, devoted to and expressly manufactured for society, clasping his hesd in agony: "Ah, by Jove, now my bead aches I Awfully, by Jove !" Sym pathising friend, student in Wilson's dental room: "Oh, you'd better have it pulled ' then, after a thoughtful pause—"or filled.' Petient moves away with an injured air, and the young dentist smiles after him more thought fully than ever,— Turlington Hawkeye, Men may escape the law, but their own consciences they cannot flee from. Many years ago a young man in Boston was guilty of an offense against the law, an offense which brought sooal ruin upon himself and his amily. The man and his offense are forgotten by the public, yet he lives, and lives in Boston. But from the day his offense was dis co ve ed—alt hough, having escaped the law, be is free to come and go afi he pleases—he has never been seen outside cf his own home in the daytime. Some times. under the cover of night, he walks abroad to take en airing, and note the changes that thirty years have wrought, but an evc-r-aeiive conscience makes him shun the light of day and the faces of men, and ho walks apart, a stranger in the midst of those among whom he has always lived. The Balking Epidemic. The New York Observer does not take kindly to the pedestrian fever. It says: The epidemic is now fearfully preva lent in this country. Its victims are not of one sex or ge only, bat men women and children are alike seized with it, and when so possessed they go spinning around in a ring, hour after hour, and day after day. One woman, over in Brooklyn, had it so badly that she walked every quarter of au hour. Physicians attend to the patientß con stantly, watching their pulse, breath and heels, administering pills, drops and plasters, as may be required. Thou sands of spectators look upon their protracted sufferings with intense de light The newspapers describe the ghastly appearance of the walkers, their exhaustion, recovery and sinking again. Bets are made upon the length of time they can stand it, and the distanoe tbey can go before they drop, and the out side public eagerly look for the result. It is the silliest, and least useful, and moat cruel of all the sporting amuse ments of the day. No good purpose is served by it. Athletic exercise is not encouraged by it, aud the health of no one is promoted. But it must have its day, like all other epidemics, and then something else will take its plaee to gratify the Athenian spirit of cariosity that wants a new sensation.
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