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.