To a ldttle ttirt. Little girl, with dainty feet Blithely firing down the street, The toughest heart yon would begaile With your jirettr face end winning smile. • Little girl, yon are very fair . With rosy cheeky and flowing hair . Your eyes are bright, your heart i* young, And words are music from your tongue. Little girl, I love yon well; • How ranch ray veree can never tell, Bnt if the troth must be confessed. I love your growu-up sister best. -iivuhnrr. The Hold of Hope. Bright shines the sun, hut brighter after rain The clouds that darken make the sky more clear: Bo rest is sweeter when it follows pain. And the sad parting makes our friends mors dear. "Tt well it should be thus , our Father knows The things that work together for our good. We draw a sweetm ss from our bitter woes We would uot have ad sunshine if ae could. The day s with all their beauty and their light Ooaae from the dark and into dark return. Pay • peak* of earth, hut beavvu shines through the night. Where the blue e thousand star-tires burn. 8c rims the law, the law of recompense. That buida our life on earth aud heaven in one: Faith eannot live when all is sight and •< use. But faith can lire aud sing hen these aie gooe. Ws grieve and murmur, for we can but see The single thread that flies in silence by. When if we only saw the things to be, Our hps would breathe a song aud not a s^h. Wait then, my soul, and edge the darkening cloud With the hright gold that hope oan always lend: And If to-day thou art with sorrow bowed, Wait till to-morrow and thy grief shal. end ' And wheg we reach the summit of our days, Beyoud the reach of shadows and of uight. Then shall our every look and voice le praise To Him who shines, our STerlastiog light. leaden Ckoxiay Magavim*. THE HOSTLER'S STORY. BT I. T. TKOWBRIIXIK. What amused us most at the Lake house last summer was the performance of a bear in the beck yard. He was fastened to a pole by a chain, which gave him a range of a dozen or fifteen feet. It was not very safe for visitors to come within that circle, uulea they were prepared for rough handling. He had away of suddenly catching yon to his boaom. and picking your pockets of peanuts and candy—if you carried any about you—in a manner which took your breath away. He stood up to his work ou his hind legs in a quite human fashion, and naed paw and tongue with amazing skill and vivacity. He was friendly, and didn't mean any harm, bnt he was a rude playfellow. I shall never forget the ludicrous ad venture of a dandified New Yorker who came out into the yard to feed bruin on seed-cakes, and did not feed him fast ■cough. He had approached a trifle too near, when all at once the I-ear whipped an arm about him, took him to his embrace, and " went through ' his pockets in a burry. The terrified face of the strug gling and screaming fop, and the good natured, bnsmess-like expression of the fumbling and munching beast, offered the funniest sort of contrast. The one-eyed hostler, who was the bear's special guardian, lounged leisure ly to the spot. * "Keep still, and he won't hurt ye," he said, turning his quid. " That's one of his tricka. Throw out what you've got, and hell leave ye." The dandy made haste to help bruin to the last" of the seed-cakee, and es caped without injury, bnt in a ridicu lous plight—his hat sma-hed, his neck tie and linen rumpled, and his watch dangling ; bnt his flight was the moet laughable part of all. The one-eyed hostler made a motion to the beast, who immediately climbed the pole, and looked at us from the eroespieee at the top. "A bear," said the one-eyed hostler, turning hia quid again, "is the best hearted, knowin est critter that goes on all-fours. I'm speakin' of our native black bear, von understand. Tb£ brown bear aint half so respectable, and the gnzxly is oue of the ugliest brutes in creation. Come down here. Pomp." Pomp slipped down the pole and ad vanced toward the one-eyed hostler, walking on his hind legs and rattling his chain. "Playful as a kitten !" said the one eyed hostler, fondly. "I'll show ye." * He took a wooden bar from a clothes horse near by, and made a lunge with it at Pomp's breast. No pugilist or fencing-master could have parried a blow more neatly. Then the one-eyed hostler began to thrust and strike with the bar as if in downright ekruest. "Rather savage play," I remarked. And a friend by my side, who never misses a chance to make a pun, added : "Yes, a decided act of bar-bear-itv." " Oh, he likee it f" said the one-eyea hostler. *' Ye can't hit him." And indeed it was so. No matter how or where the blow was aimed, a move ment of Pomp's paw, qnick as a flash of lightning, knocked it aside, and ho stood good-humoredly waiting for more. "Once in awhile,'' aaid the one-eyed hostler, resting from the exercise and leaning on the bar, while Pomp retired to his pole, " there's a bear of this spe cies that's vicious aDd blood-thirsty. Generally, you let them alone and they'll let you alone. They won't run" from you maybe, but they won't go out of "their way to pick a qnar rel. They don't swagger round with a chip on their shoulder lookin' for some fool to knock it off." " Will they eat von ?" some one in quired ; for there WHS ring of spectators around the performers by this time. "As likely as not, if they are sharp set, and you lay yourself out to be eaten, but it aint their habit to go for human fleßh. Roots, nuts, berries, bugs and any small game they can pick up. satis fies their humble appetite as a general thing. The one-eyed hostler leaned against the pole, stroked Pomp's far affection ately, and continued somewhat in this style: " Bears are partie'larly fond of fat, iuicy pigs; and once give 'em a taste of human flesh—why, I shouldn't want my children to be playin' in the woods with in a good many miles of their den ! " Which reminds me of Old Two Claws, as they used to call him, a bear that plagued the folks over in Ridge town, where I was brought up—wall, as much as forty year ago. " He got nis name from the peculiar shape of his foot, and he got that from trifling with a gun-trap. You know what that is—a loaded gun set in such a way that a bear or any game that's cari ous about it must come np to it the way it p'inta; a bait is bung before the muz zle, and a string runs from that to the jigger. "He was a cunning fellow, aDd he put out an investigatin' paw at the piece of pork before ttying his jaws on it; so instead of gettin' a bullet in the head, he merely had a bit of his paw shot off. There were but two claws left on that foot, as his bloody tracks show ed. "He got off; but this experience seemed to have soured bis disposition. He owed a spite to the settlement. "One night a great row was heard in my ancle's pigpen. He and the boys rushed ont with pitchforks, a gun and a lantern. They knew what the trouble was, or aooo found ont. "A huge black bear had broken down FRED. KURTZ, Kditor and Vropriotor. VOLUME XII. the aide of thi* pen; ho had seized * fat i porker, and was actually lugging him off in hi* arm* ! The pig was kicking siui squealing, luit the bow had him fast. Ho did not oem at all iuolinod to give up his prey, oven when attacked. Ho looked sulloii ami uglv; but a few ;ah* from a pitchfork, aud a shot ui the shoulder, convinced him that he was making a mistake, *• He dropped the pig and got away before my uuele could brad up for another shot The next morning they examined Ins tracks. It was Old Two i Claws. "But what sp'ilt him for traiug a quiet ueighbor was something that hap pened about a year after that, j " There was a roTing family of Indians t encamped uear the settlement; hunting, ffstnng and making moccasins and bask ets, which they traded with the whites, " Oue afternoon the Red Sky of-the- Morniug, wife of the Water-Snake with-the-Long-Tail, came over to the ' settlement with some of their truck for i sale. She had a papooae ou her back strapped on a board; another squaw traveled with her, carry lug an empty jtS --" Almost within eight of tiorman's grocery, Red-Sky took off h< r papoose and hung it on a tree. The fellows around the store had made fun of it when she was there once before, so she t preferred to leave it in the woods rather than oxjxwe it to the coarse jokes of the boys. The little thing was need to such treatment. Whether carried or hung np, papooeey never cried. "The squaw* traded off this truck, and bought, with other luxuries of civilization, a gallon ot wkiskv. They drank out of the jug, and then looked at more goods. Then they drank again, and from being shy and silent, as at first, they giggled and chatted like a couple of silly white girls. They spent a gooi deal more tune and money at Gorman's than they would if it hadn't been for the whisky, but finally they started to go back through the woods. " They went chattering mid giggling to the tree where the papoose had been left. There was no papoose there ! " This discovery sobered them. They thought at first the fellows around the store ha<l played them a trick by taking it away; bnt by-and-by the Red-Sky-of the-Morning set np a shriek. " She had found the board not far off, but no papiH>se strapped to it, only something that told the story of what hail happened. " There were bear tracks around the spot. One of the prints showed only two claws. "The Red-Sky-of-the-Morning went back to the camp with the news ; the other sqnaw followed with the jng. "When the Water Snake-with the Long Tail heard that his papoose had been eaten by a bear, he felt, I supjose, very much a* any white father would have felt under the circumstances. He vowed vengeance against Old Two Claws, but oonsoled himself with a drink of the fire-water l*fore starting on the bant. "The braves with him followed his example. It wasn't in Indian nature to start until they La! emptied the jng, so it happened that Old Two Claws got off again. Tipsy braves can't follow a trail worth scent " Not very long after that a woman in a neighboring settlement heard her children scream one day in the wools near the house. She rushed out, and actually saw a bear lagging off her youngest. "She was a sickly, feeble sort of wo man , but such a sight was enough to give her the strength and courage of a man. She ran and canght np an axe. Luckily she bad a big dog. The two went at the bear. " The old fellow had no notion of los ing his dinner just for a woman and a mongrel cur. But she Btrnck him a tremendous blow on the back: at the same time the pup got him by the leg. He dropped the young one L> defend himself. She caught it up and ran, leaving the two beasts ta have it out together. "The bear made short work with the cur ; but instead of following the woman and child, he skulked off into the woods. " The settlers got together for a grand hunt; but Old Two Claws for the tracks showed that he WAS the scoundrel —escaped into the mountains, and lived to make more trouble another dav. "The child? Oh, the child was scarcely hurt. It had got squeezed and scratched a little in the final tussle; that wa* all. " As to the bear, he wa* next heard of in our settlement." The boatler hesitated, winked his one eye with an odd expression, pat a fresh quid into his cheek, and finally resnmed: " A brother-in-law of my uncle, a man of the name of Rush, was one day chop ping in the woods about half a mile from his house, when his wife went oat to carry him his luncheon. " She left two children at home, a boy about five years old, and a baby just big enough to toddle around. " The boy had often been told that if be stmyed into the woods with his brother a bear might carry them off, and she charged him again that forenoon not to go away from the house; but he was an enterprising little fellow, and when the BUD shone so ph-Asant aud the woods looked so inviting, he wasn't one to be afraid of boars. " The woman stopped to see her hus band fell a big beech be wa* cutting, and then went back to the house; bnt just before Bhe got there, she saw the oldest boy coming out of the woods on the other side. He was alone. He was white as a sheet, and so frightened at first that he oouldn't speak. "'Johnny,' says Bhe, catching hold of him, ' what is the matter ?' " * A bear I' he gasped ont at last. " ' Where is your little brother ?' was her next question. "* I don't know,' said he, too much frightened to know anything just then. " ' Where did you leave him ?' says she. "Then he seemed to have gotten his wits together a little. ' A bear took him!' said he. " You can guess what sort of an agony the mother was in. "' Oh, Johnny, tell me true 1 Think ! Where wan it ?' "'ln the woods,' he said. 'Bear come along.—l run.' "She caught him up and hurried with him into the woods. She begged him show her where he was with his little brother when thebear came along. He pointed out two or three places. In one of them the earth was soft. There were fresh tracks crossing it—bear tracks. There wss no doubt nbont it. " It was aterrible situation for a poor woman. Whether to follow the bear and try to recover her child, or go at once for her husband, or alarm the neighbors; what to do with Johnny meanwhile —all tbat would have been hard enough for her to decide even if she had had her wits abont her. " She hardly knew what she did, but just followed her instinct, and ran with Johnny in her arms, or dragging him after her, to where her husband was chopping. " Well," continued the one-eyed hos tler ; " I needn't try to describe what followed. They went back to the house, and Bush took his rifle and started on the track of the bear, vowing thut he would not come back without either the child or the bear's hide. " The news went like wildfire through the settlement In an hoar half-a THE CENTRE REPORTER. doaeu men with their dogs were on the track with Hush. It was so much trou ble for him to follow the trail that they soon overtook him with the help of the doge. "Hut in spite of them the bear got into the mountains. Two of the dogs came up with him, ami oue, the only one 'hat could follow a scent, had his t>aok broken by a stroke of his paw, Afte r that it was almost impossible to track him, and oue after another the huuters gave up and returned home. " At last Hush was left alone; but nothing could induce him to turu tack. He shot some small game in the moun tains, which lie cooked for his supper, slept uu the ground, ami started on the trait again tu the morning. " Aloug in the foreuoon he came iu sight of the bear as he was crossing a stream. He had a good ihot at him as he was climbing the bank on the other side "The bear kept ou, but it was easier tracking him after that by his blood. "That evening a huuter, haggard, his clothes all in tatters, fonud his way to a backwoodiuau'ahnt over iu White'* valley. It was Hush. He told his story iu a few words as he rested on a stool. He bad found no traces of his child, but lie hod killed the bear. It was Old Two Claws. He had left him ou the hills, and came to the settlement for help. " The huut hail taken him a round about course, and he wo* then not more than seven mile* from home. The next day, gun iu hand, with the Iraar skin strapped to his back—the carcass had been giveu to hi* friend the back wixxlsmau—he started to return by an easier way through the woods. " It was u sad revenge he hail had, but there was a grim sort of satisfaction iu lugging home the hide of the terrible Old Two Claws. " As he came in sight of his log house, out rau hi* wife to meet him, with—what do you suppose? —little Johnny drag giog at her skirt*, and the lost child in her arms. " Then, for the first time, the man dropped, bnt he didn't get down any further than hia kneee. He clung to hi* wife and baby, and thanked God for the miracle. " But it wasn't much of a miracle, after all. •"Little Johnny had Iraen playing around the door, and lost sight of the baby, and maybe forgotten all about him whea he strayed into the wood* and saw the Iraar. Then he remembered all that he had heard of the danger of being carried off and eaten, and of coarse he had a terrible fright. When xsked alnuit his little brother he didn't know any thing him. and I suppose really imagine! that the bear had got him. "But the baby hod crawled into a snug place under the side of the rain trough, and there he was fast asleep all the while. Then he wok a up two or three hoars after, and the mother heard him cry; her husband wa* far away on the hunt "True—this story I've told you?" added the one-eyed hustler, a* some one questioned him. " Every word of it!" " Bnt your name is Rash, isn't it ?" I said. The one eye twinkled humorously. "My name is Rush. My uncle's brother-in-law was my oan father." "Aud vou?" exclaimed a bystander. "I," said the one-eyed hostler, "am the very man who wmru't eaten by the Lear when I was a baby !" Youth'* Companion. How Yassar Lost a Pupil. A letter from Poughkeepsie, N. Y., to the World, says: At the beginning of the term one year ago a young lady from New York entered the freshman class of 1878 at Yassar college. She was tjien sixteen, of alight figure, brown-haired, pretty, and a young person of buoyant spirits, who speedily became something of a character among her fallow-student*. It is said, however, that the faculty found her intractable and subjected her to a course of mild discipline which she did not like. She bad entered the col lege under peculiar circumstances. Her father hud endowed a scholarship there at a oost of SB,OOO, and she was the first to receive it* benefit*. Finally, much of what wa* considered infelicitous in the girl's ways wa* overlooked by the faculty, ami under the new order of things matters moTed along more smoothly. Just before the last holiday week she was agaiu, however, in open relrallion against the authorities. She expressed a determination to accompany a fellow student to the latter'* home in the We*t to spend the holidays. The head of the college protested with emphasis; but when the time arrived the young rebel went on her proposed trip and returned in dne time and resumed her studies. In the meantime she wa* corresponding wuh and meeting in Poughkeepsie every Saturday, when the young ladies are permitted to leave the college to do their shopping, the yonng son of her father's partner in New York. Thus matters Rtood np to a recent Friday, when the young woman was missing. Inqniry discovered that, with the assistance of two of her chums, she had quietly packed her wardrobe and stolen away. The young man had a carriage in waiting for her. and on her arrival thev went to the residence of Dr. Elmendorf, of the Second Reformed church, in Poughkeepsie, and were mar ried. Then they were driven to the Nelson house, where they remained until Saturday afternoon, going then to New York. Dr. Elmendorf, it is said; was induced to perform the ceremony only by the presence of a gentleman of high standing in this city, who accom panied the couple to the house and vouched fortheircliaracterand the regu larity of the proceeding. The father of the bride ami groom are in business to gether,the former Iraing a wealthy manu facturer of a proprietary " bitters." The two girls who assisted his dangh ter in making her escape from the col lege have been expelled and sent home. Trade in Children Ernest Morris, the young American naturalist traveling in 15rn7.i1, tells about a practice prevailing along the ; upper Amazon, as follows : At one of the houses wo met a trader who had come from the river Japura. He had on board a boy and girl of the Miranha trilie for sale. Hennr liatalhia Imught the boy, a bright-looking little fellow, for fifty milrava, or 82f>. The little girl cried pitifully when separated from her brother. The trade in children is spoken of by Bates, who was at Teffe twenty-five years ago ; it is prohibited by the government, but openly carried on. The Miranhas are the most power ful tribe on the Japura ; they arc a warlike nation, who for a knife or gal lon of rum, sell captured children. Numerous raids are made by them upon their weaker neighbors ; and men and women are killed and the children sold into slavery. At Teffe there is not a house in which you will not find children of all ages, as you also will at Manaos. On my return on the steamer Jin Branoo the captain was taking to Para a boy that he had bought for jJ3S. "The reason for this," Baid Beuor Batalhia, "is very simple—we must have servants and they make good ones ; besides, they are not Brazilians—they are Indians of New Granada." This trade in children is carried on more ex tensively every year, and is a disgrace to the government. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1871*. .Grant Hats, There are perhaps a dozen specira of bats respectively drsigurd to act their part in different parts of the world, but they are all winged quadrupeds, var ous m sire, corresponding to the du tics they have to perforin ami to throb mates ui which they are located. Of whatcier species, the bat Is maiUUllfcr- OUA It suckles it* young, of which it has one or two at a birth, and it* month l* provided with teeth. It ha* four legs, but two of them resemble krui, and it has a tail extended from the ver tebra*. Each arm consists of two long bones with an ellaiw joint. At tli outer extremity of the arm, a* with a human haud, there ore four fingers aud a thumb. The fingers are long thin bone* attached lengthwise to a membranous wing, which they expand like the slen der whalebones of an umbrella a most beautiful ami effective arrangement. The thumb projects, ami is an interest ug member. It resembles a claw or hook, lly means of it* two Inaiked thumbs the creature can suspend itsi If from branches of tree* or other projec tions, ami i enabled to draw itself for ward ou the ground. The legs are short, with knee-joint*, ami the claws of the bras help the thumbs iu the matter of suspension. Arms, legs, ami tail are all united with the membrane of the wings, ami materially aid in propulsion through the air. Everything in the general structure of the animal Is sul> Miliary to the function of firing. The wrings, however, are inferior to the w ing* of birds, such as those of the swallow. Hut they perfectly fulfil! their purpose. Consisting of a membrane which wraps the laxly like a cloak, these bat wings are powerful in darttug swiftly in s series of jerks and zigzag* in pursuit of moth* ami other lusect*. Bemle re iving on it* eyesight, the bat possesses tlie advantage of an extremely delicate susceptibility in it* thin membranous wing* which reveals the presence of any insect it happen* to touch in it* flight. Had the wing* been of feather* like those of birds, this important quality of detecting lniracts by the slightest touch would have been lost. Numerous fanciful notions arc enter- Lained regarding bats. They are Hani to be able to see in the dark, and that tin y are bloody and vengeful in their nature. A* concern* seeing in the dark, that is quite erroneous. Their power of avoid ing obstacle* when flying in darkened place* is not due to their eyes, but to that ktrail sensibility in their wings that ha* beeu ju-t sliu iol to. The thiii leathery wing* of bat* are their a: teui-w, or feelers. Parting about in all direc tious in utter darkness, they ar< never bv any chance impeded or injured by obstacle* that happen to lie in their wav. Experiments have beeu made by stretch iuc string* actoas darkened place* in which a uumtrar of them are eonflced, ami no string is ever disturbed in their flight. The exquisitely-radiated system of nerves in a bat's wing offers one of the flm -d studies in animal physiology, or. we might say, in natural theology. Shall a creature so ingeuionsly formed be spokeu of with sentiments of hostility or derision ? On the contrary, it should excite our warmest admiration. Artists from time immemorial have Iraen in the habit of depicting malevolent demons with wiug# on the pattern of those of the bat—a piece of conventionality wholly at variance with what is learned from a contemplation of the actual fact* in Da tun-. The bat is no more fiendish than the swallow or any other bird which ha* Iraen upjiomted to rid the atmosphere of superfluous and destructive insect*. The Trade In Bird*. A busy but quiet industry iu this city ib that of the bird fanciers. A dealer in canary birds say* that last year he im ported 100,000 birds, which were readi ly disposed of at fair prices. They are generally brought from the Harts aonn tain region of Germany. From the large dealers a fine male canary with a good voice can be bought for $3. Choice specimens with extraordinary vocal power* bring, sometimes, $lO. Female birds for breeding purposes sell for sl, Unscrupulous dealers,particularly stnrat vendors, palm off on the nnwary the fe males for good songsters, and only after patient waiting do the owners, who have been sold as well a* the birds, find it out An amateur alight-of-haud per former gives this as his method for ren dering a canary tame enough for trick playing: " Take a young bird and put oil of bcrgamot on bis bill. It will make him 'as drunk a* a lord'; then roll him in your hands nntil he is famil iar with your touch, and put him in his cage to come to himself. He can he handled afterward at any time without being at all frightened. Then the first thing is to teach him to climb np your fingers a* a ladder, and to hop on your thnmb. Soon he can be taught to do anything." Next to the canary the mocking bird is most in demand. Those whose vocal powers are well-developed are sold for $25 and upward. The birds come from Virginia and other Southern States, and also from Mexico. The bullfinch is highly regarded when well-trained. It can l>e tanglit to whistle tunes. There is oue in Chatham street which whistles "Pretty Polly PerkinA" ItH price is $25. One which can whistle ton times is valued nt s4(l. The goldfinch,chaflluoh, nightingale, lark and the linnets aud thrushes nre also prized as songsters. Of other birds not songsters, thirty dif ferent speeies, kept as pets for their beauty or acquirements, may be found in market. Of these the parrot is most in demand. A well-trained bird of either the gray African variety, or the green American, is worth SSO, or even SIOO. The most brilliantly oolored birds are the Australian paroquets and strawberry finches.—A 'cw York Tribune. An Indian Funeral. " Ned," a Digger Indian, wan found dead alongside the railroad track, near Anbnrn, (Jul., having apparently fallen from the platform of a ear and fraetnred his skull. His friends being notified, I they placed the remains npon a horse and conveyed them to Clipper (lap, where they were dnly cremated in the manner customary with the red men of ; that section. The funeral pile, which | is built of wood to the height of about four feet, is kept burning alxuit five hours, during which time relatives and friends place upon it snch articles ne they desire to contribute to aid the de ceased when he shall have arrived at the happy hunting grounds; ODO gives a blanket, another a bow and arrow, another a saddle, etc. When the flesh lias all been consumed and only the bones remain, these are raked togethf r and a tire kept homing alxuit them until they also bcoomo ashes. When the fire finally dies ont the ashes are all collected and'taken to the burial-ground and interred, a little sngar loaf shaped mound being erected over them. The female relatives of the deceased, as evi dence of mourning, smear their faces and heads with tar—the extent of the application indicating the closeness of their relationship—and this is left nntil it naturally wears off. There was a large attendance at " Ned's" fnnera), every train arriving at tho Gap bringing a number of bucks and squaws. As | they were allowed to ride free, the train men usually press the bucks into ser vice when it is necessary to wood up, but on such an occasion as this they Bturdilv refuse, replying: "No work; funeral to-day." FOR THE 101 Mi FOLKS A t urluus >*rt. A little more than half way across the dreary Tartar steppes, that extend uu broken for eight hundred miles, from the Russian frontier loan of Ornk to the great inland lske marked on Asiatic maps as the res of Aral, the endless level is broken by u deep rooky gully several hundred sards ju length, on the* brink of which stands n long low build ing of sun-dried clay, surrounded by a thick wall of the same material. The whole affair has such a primitive look that it might easily pass for a huge cattle-pen, but for the tw guua which peer watchfully over it* irregular sides, and the glittering bayonet of s white-trocked Cossack, who i* standing sentry on an sngle of the wall. This littl" nest is " Port Karabutak," one of Russia's Central Asian outposts- a spot so remote aud desolate that one might well suppose it* garrison to have been sent hither as a punishment for some uuheard-of crime. < At this delectable place do I halt about four o'clock i>ne glorious June moruitig. I hammer lustily at the door of a little wud-plaatcred log htit, which ha* nothing but the black and white *tri|H-n on it* door-p-wts to show that it is a iKHit-house. My Tartar servant, meanwhile, assist ed my efforts bv yelling at the top of his voice, " <M ■' " (horses). At length, just as we are beginning to loan patience altogether for in the Asiatic deserts every miuuto of the cool morning hour* is worth its weight iu gold a long yawn from within, follow ed by a drowsy *• * i-tcha*" (directly), aunouuera* that the master of the bouse is tragiuuiug to bestir himself. Just at this moment, my attention is attracts! to a "swinging cradle" of genuine Eastern fashion, suspended from the projecting caves, in which lie a brace of sturdv little children, brown a* hazel-nuts, and round av plums. Both are fast asleep, in tlusve extra ordiuarv [tositious which none but chil dren can contrive to assume. lam still admiring the pioiureequrnees of the group, when 1 snddenlv jrarceive that I have overlooked one ot its most inqxirt ant feature*. Hnugly curled up between the two sleeping children, in the warmest place of all, lies a round yellowish mas*, topped with a pair of pointed ear*. At first sight, it* size and color might make one Uke it for a large cat; but a oat it certainly is not. Nor, a* 1 look again, does it seem like a dog. The outstretched fore paws ou which it rests, indeed, are sufficiently canine, and when I iragin to careos it, it re s]h>dilm by licking my hand iu genuine dog fash!<•; bnt that narrow head, that sharp muzzle, that slanting greenish yellow eye, surely never belonged to an v dog since the world began. It is this peculiarity of the eyes which, recalling my winter experiences in European Russia, at length let* me into the secret. The btxlfellow of the p. at master's children is a vouug wolf. Just a* I have made tins discovery* the door of the kutopena, and out come, a big frowzy, shock-headed fellow, with s huge red beard, who laughs loudly at my look of amazement. " Aha, burin ." (master > "you haven't Aran msny children like (hat. I fancy 1" " Where on earth did yon pick it up ?" a*k 1, looking wooderingly at the two children, who are awake at last, and Ira gaining to pull their fonr-footed play mate in the most unceremonious fash ion. " Well, vou see, last winter, a wolf oam<> prowling round here, and I had to give h:m a taste of my hatchet. Ko, when I'd settled him, I bethought mysel, that the she wolf nnght'nt Ira far off, ami I followed the trail throngh the snow till it bronghi me to the hole, and there was the old lady, sure eDongh, and an other lap of the axe quieted her, too. " Bnt wheu I saw Ihta poor little brat whimpering over the biy, I felt sorry for it, somehow, *nd I concluded not to kill it bnt to take it home for the chil dren to pl*y with, and now it get* a share of their bread and milk in the morning and of their blanket at night, just like one of themselves." " But you surt-lv don't mean to keep it ?" " No, I'm afraid that won't do," said the giant, with a regretful shrug of his huge shoulders. " When it get* bigger, and begins to find it* teeth, then " a significant flourish of the gr-at brown hand completes the unfinished phrase. When I return from Samarciaud, three months later. I find the sentence already executed.— David A'rr. Ktep a* Xtep. No matter whether the steps l>e "one hundred and eighty," or less, or more, Mm safe rule for a boy to attain emin ence in the world is always the same. Said a father to his young son, who was complaining that he lie 1 nothing to be gin with, and shrinking from the " low" position of errand-lioy in a store: "Were you with me last summor, wheu we visited Baltimore and went up to the top tf Washington's monnment ?" " Yes, father; yon recollect we all went ud, and little Fred was so tired ho could hardly gain the top." " Do you recollect how we ascended ? Were we lifted from the# street by an elevator ?" " No, father. Don't yon remember that a man let us in by the door, and we went np by the winding atep* ? We had no light only that of a smoky lan tern, and it was a long time before we reoohed the top." "And we got up at last," said liis father, "after patiently stopping oue hundred and eighty time*, one after the other; and were we not repaid at the top with the magnificent view which we enjoyed ?" "It was perfectly grand 1" said Thomas. " Now, Thomas, an yon ascended that monument, so you must rise in busi ness. You are now standing on the lower steps—yon are on the steps—and there is nothing to hinder vou, if your health is good, from standing on tbo top" _____ CaflTre Dances. The usual signs of festivity in s Caffre kraal is the slaughter of several sheep, which, when the members of the tribe and their friends are collected together, are otxiked in their large iron |x>t, and eaten with great relish and appetite. The women sit apart from the men and elder boys, ami cook separately, and all await, sileut and dignified, the commencement of the first course, when for a couple of hours it is a continuous eating and cooking. Having consumed a few ponnds each, a party of men advance on a small slightly raised circle of the gronnd. Holding the assegai in the right hand, blanket or sheepskin carossc thrown over tho left, they commence going ronnd in a circle, chanting and marking time, the emphasis on the right foot. They str.iin all the muscles of tho body in so doing, and contort the fea tures of the face as they shake their assegais. At times oue will leap into the center of the circle, shooting and going through warlike motions; then, retiring to his former place, the whole j*rty resnmes the monotonous circular motion. When they are tired, a fresh lot takes their places, and so on. The women have their dance apart, and the girla also, apart from the married women, at the same time. Curious Method of I atrhlng (Juail. The following pasaage, from a work called " Hport and Work ou Hie N'epaul Frontier," dnnorilraa the manner of cap turing quails in the Host Indies: Trav eling one day along one of the glades I have meutloued as dividing the strips of jungle, 1 was surprised to are a man before me in s field of long stubble, with a cloth spread over his hriui ami two sticks projecting in front at an ob tuse angle to his Ixsiy, forming horn like projections, on which the ends of his cloth, twisted spirally, were tied. 1 thought from his curious antics and movements that lie must IK- mail, but 1 stain discovered that thrie was method lit his madness. He was catching quail. The quail are often very numerous in the stubble fields, ami the natives adopt very ingenious devices for their cap tare. This was oue 1 was now witness lug. overtng themselves with their cloth as 1 have deaenbed, the projecting ends of the two sticks representing the horns, they simulate all the movements of a row or bull. They pretend to paw up the earth, to** their make tralieve horns, turu round and pretend to scratch themselves, and, in fact, identify them selves with the animal they are repre senting; and it is irresistibly oi mical to watch a solitary jrarformer go through this al frtn-o comedy. I have lailghtxl often at some winning old herdsman or shekarry. Wheu they see yon watching them they will redoublethrir effort*, and trv to represent au old bull gotug through ail his pranks and practices, and throw you into convulsions of laughter. Round two siiUcs of the field they have put flue nets, tuil at the apex they have a large cage with a decoy quail inside, or ]rarha|>s a pair. The quail !*'% running bird, disinclined for night except at night ; iu the daytime they prefer running to using their wings. The idiotic looking old cow, a* we will call the hunter, ha* all his wit* about hini. He proceeds very slowly and warily; his kren eye detect* the conveys ot quail, which way they sre going, his ruse generally succevsls won derfully. He Is no more like a oow than that respectable animal is like a cticum tier; but he paws, and tosses, aud move* about, pretends to est, to nibble here, and switch his tail there, and so on maneuvers as to keep the running quail away from the unprotected edge* of the field. When they get to the verge pro tected by the net. they iragin to take alarm; they are probably not very cer tain about the peculiar-looking "old Cow " behind them, and running along the net, they see the decoy quails evi dently feeding in gre*t security and freedom. The Y-ahajrad mouth of the large basket cage looks invitingly open. The puzzling net* are barring the way, and the "old cow " la gradually cloamg up I rah i ml. A* the hnnter move* along, I should hare told too, he rub* two piece* of dry hard sticks gently up and down his thigh with one hand, prounc mg • peculiar crepitation, a crackling sound, not sufficient to atartle the bird* into flight, but alarming them enough to make them get ont of the way of the "old cow." One bolder than th*other*, possibly the most timid of the covey, irritaLxi by the qneer crackling sound, now i utor* the basket, the others fol lowing like a flock of nheep, and once in, the puzzling shie of the entrance pre vent* their exit. Not mfreouentlv the hnnter bags twenty or even thirty (irace of qnail in one field by this ridiculous looking but ingenion* method. A Sulride'• letter The dead ixxly of an unfortnnat* man. Hood Alston by uarfle, wa* found on the 3d of March under a tree at Ray 8L Irani*. Miss. It wa* diraovered that he had destroyed himself by mor phine, and that be left trahind him a pitiful and deeply interesting letter. He wa* evidentlv a man of culture, and the letter *aul he had once Iraen a jour nalist. On the 2*l of July, 1863, he wa* *trnck on the head by a piece of *holl at the battle of Gettysburg. He recovered to all appearances and wa* thought to Ira quite well. In his letter, however, Alston declare* that he haa since Iraen c macron* that he lis* always Iraen hoTering on thedangerons edge of in aauity. lie has felt on particular and frequent oochmou* au almost irresistible impulse to kill people, and always pre* ferentially those who were most dear to him. To avoid thi* he ha* fled often from the presence of a wife and chil dren, living in California, whom he tenderly loved; but has never had the moral strength to confess his fears and cause himself to be placed under re- Htramt. At last the accumulated agonies of his apprehension, and the horror of his secret wa* too much for him and he slew himself. The case is aingular and anggestive. How far Al ston'* mad new* was, a* represented by himself to himaelf, real and how far feigned we ah all probably never know. Perhapa, aa some writers would have tin think of Hamlet, he wa* sometime* sane and sometimes otherwise. Rut were hia frer* leat he should take the life of others incident to his lucid intervals, or Jid they only present themselves when hia mind wa* off its balance and ao con atitnto the charactenatic and proof of his insanity ? The question i* a puz zling one, and, like the problem of Hamlet'* lunacy aud the inquiry whether it is genuine or simulated, may invito endless discussion while leaving the issue forever in the seqnel to be "■mothered by surmise."—AW YorA Evening Font. A New Astronomical Wonder. At tho last total eclipse of the snn, many astronomer* burned themselves chiefly with observing the corona which had excited so mnch interest and specn latiou at prerions eclipses. This is the n ime given to the bright light seen out side of the moon's disk when the body of the sun is completely hidden by it. Opinions wore divided as to its cause; some observers thinking it proceeded from the sun's atmosphere, or from lu minous gases which shot far above its surface; while others imagined it sepa rated Irom the sun altogether, and due to other causes in the depths of space. From the observations made, and from photographs taken, it is now be lieved to be sin ply the reflected light of the sun. This reflection is snpposed to lie due to immense numtiers of meteor ites, or poeaibly, systems of meteorites, like the rings of Saturn, revolving at>ont the sun. The existence of such meteor ites has long been suspected, and ob servations now seem hi justify a belief in their existence. Their constant fall ing into the sun is thought to lie one of the methods by which its heat ii main tained without losa. Itellef Froth a Corn. Hoak the foot in warm water for a qnarter of an hour every night; after each soaking, rub on the corn patiently, with the finger, a half dozen drops of sweet oil; wear around the toe during the day two thicknesses of bnckskin, with a hole in it to receive the corn, and continue this treatment until the corn falls out. If yon wear moderately loose shoes, it will be months, and even years, before the corn returns, when the same treatment will be efficient in a few days. Paring coins is always danger ous, beside making them take deeper root, as does a weed cut off near the ground; bat the plan advised is safe, painless, and costs nothing bnt a little attention. —'Exchange. TERMS: $2.00 a Yoar, in Advance. TIMELY TOPIC'S. The sacred right of petition baa been vindicated to the extent of 10,167 peti tions introduced in the House of ltep reaentatives during the Forty-fifth United Klate* CuugrcM. They relste to ail sorts of subject*, and come from private individuals, aliens, corporation*, literary, scientific, and lalsu-reform societies, tioards of trade, htste and Territorial legislature*; in fact, from almiwt every branch of trade and in dustrv. Under the rule of the !i"U*e |ralltloli* are uot presented in open sea •1011, tint are placed on file, and ** a general thing are never heard of. Hixty-fiine libel suits for one libel! Ambiguity has Ixrati the death of one pi n>r paper in Marseilles, France. The A'oui-rUnit, of Marseilles, stated some months ago I out the tax receiver of Hi. Etleuue had einlw-xzled SIO,OOO. The proprietor must have hat more than one "bad quarter of an hour " when he discovered, as he very quickly did, that there are sixty-nme Bt. Elleuues, towns or communes in France. Every one of the tax receivers of these place* brought au action sgsiust the paper, which has Iraen ordered to pay s*2o damage* to each Collector, Iraaidcs S4O flue. A "first exhibition circular" of the Melbourne International exhibition of 1880 ha* Iraen received. It contains long list* of oommiasinner* and oomuiil tocw and the " system of general classi fication," apparently basod to a con siderable extent o- on that of Philadel phia. The president is the Hon. Wm. John Clarke, member of the legislative council at Melbourne. Applications for space should be sent in not later than Juue 30, 187'J The reception of ex hibit* will commence June 1, 1880, and none will be admitted after August 31. The exhibition will remain open for oix calendar moulha, commencing October 1, 1880, and closing March 31, 1881. Full particulars can Ira obtained from Joint-* E Demson, Na 123 Collins street, Wcwt Melbourne, who will act a* general agent for American exhibitor*. A subject of more than ordinary in terest is now nuder consideration by a committee of the Medipo-Legal society, and it is deemed probable that the re sult of the research and report of the oommitUra will be the paiiaage of a law providing for the verification of every case of snpi*>sed death occurring in New York city. The wisdom and ne cessity of such a law, the Herald xe marks, can hardly be questioned by any one who has given the subject any care ful thought; and ao thoroughly ta it acknowledged by Europeans that in every principal country of Europe legal cognizance is taken of the possibility of syncope being mistaken for death. And in nearly all, if not all of the principal citie* ou the continent therw is an officer of the law whose duty it is to deeide in every case of apparent death whether it is or is not real. In England and Amer ica, however, no protection is afford ed bv the statutes against the possibility of a live person being buried. An original character, well known in the Latin quarter, ha* just diad in Fans at an advanced age. IVre Royer, as he was calhvd, fancied he wa* an unappre ciated genius, and amused himaelf in inventing new systems which were to renovate society. He set up a new re ligion, one article of which —and the one that | roeured the most adherents— wa* to make everv other day a day of rest. He habitual* d himself to eating only on alternate days, and used to argne that by sleeping twenty-four con secutive hour* *nd then working for a like period, the name sum of labor would le produced with a saving of food and the time lost at mealA During the late war Pere Royer invented a uumtrar of mean* for annihilating the Prussian*, and never pardoned the war depart ra nt for the indifference it manifested toward hi* Greek fire, which be called the " prusoovnre." He was the anthor of some song*, which were sung in their time by the ntudents, and of a poem nailed " Ira droit de boire," which, un fortunately for bin, he never found a publisher to bring out Like many other philanthropist*, he died in a state of utter destitution. W hoppers. 11 wa* at a miner's cabin in Tennessee; a dozen or ao of rough, uncouth, un kempt looking fellow* *at over a stove in an atmosphere redolent with cold cof fee and tobacco. "Talkin' about your storiea," said a grizzly, gray old fellow, removing his pipe from Iratween two shaggy masses of tawny hair, while his companions gave each other significant glances— " talkin' about your stories, why, y've all hearn on Bill Hess, him a* wa* killed in '7B, a moonahining. Well, Rill an' me wua old cronie*. A year afore the war Bill, he swalled of a peach pit. It trubbled of him a kinder, bnt no one thonght much on't; but Bill's appetite it got stronger and stronger, till at last he'd eat and de vour of every think as what he could lay of his hands on. An'the mystery about the affair wna, that the more Bill he would oat, the thinner did he become. " It wns six years arter that—ye*, it wna saving years—when one day Bill he wu* took with a pripin" an' a groan in'. Hnake*! how he kicked and yelled; saving men couldn't hold of him. No doctor wus in the part* where we WUA Well, he had cnuwulsion*. an' he had 'em right smart, too, I toll ycr, and the fnrst think we knowd, np came a small cherry tree " " 1 thought a* 'ow he swalled of a peach pit ?" some one asked. " Well, so he did,aud he disgorged of a peach tree altout three feet high —did I say cherry ?—well, that was a slip of the tongue—with bloomin' peaches on it. Aud arter that Bill's health cum back to him, ami he wusu't afflicted no more." " I've got a story to best that," ex claimed a young, spriglitlv-lookiug miner, with a merry eye and a clear complexion. "Me an Bob Jones we wus a traveliu' in 'SB, just about the time that ere accident happened to Bill Ile*s,and Bob he got a cinder in bis eye, whicli kinder annoyed him. It got wuss and wuss, till the poor feller hadn't no peace or comfort. One day, says Bob to mc, says he: * Pete, sometbink is the matter with that ereeye.somethiukis the matter. It feels like as what it wus gettin' bigger and leavm' of my Head." "I looked at it.and sure enough there wus a raisen-like sort of tliixik on it. Still it trubbled of Bob. Day by day, that raiaeu-hkesort of think growed and growed, nutil it wouldn't let the eyelid slint. Mind ve, all this time Bob could see just as well as ever, if anythink, bet ter than nor before. The raisen like sort of think growed and growed for two years, when it had growed three inches out of Bob's eye. It was just like a bush, with tiny branches and little bits of leaves. Well, to make a long story short, one night Bob turned over on bis face in his sleep, and in the mornin' he found a little maple tree lyin" alongside of him, and the pain in his eye and the bush was gone. That, there," pointing to a sapling just out of the door, "is the tree which growed of the cinder what Bob Jones caught in his eye." NUMBER 14. I The I'reMTTttlen of FeretU. In an article with the above title in the Aor(A American Review, Felix L. Os wald, after reviewing the disastrous ef fort* which have followed the wholesale deMru'-tiou of foieate io various e<>nn triiw of the world, r •rnurka t!.t ab<<e the year IKH6 th f<-re*t area of the Western Lrruispbere La* decreaal at the avi rage yriy rate* <4 I.tMW.btMJ arroa. or about 11,400 (Wjuarr miles ; in the (.'tilled Hlate-s alone ib'a rate baa advanced from 1 (100 njuare tnilea in 1836 to 7,000 in 1855. and 8,400 io 1876, Between 1780 and 1838 the total aggre gate of foreata fejle I iu Honth and CVc tral \m<-rica (especially in Bouthtealern Mexico), and in'the Eastern, Southern and Southwestern States of oar republic, may l>e estimated at from 46,000,000 to 80000,000 ecrea. In other w./ria, we have been waaliug the moisture supply of the American soil at the avtrage ratio of seven per cent, tor eeec juarter of a century during the last one hundred and twenty five yeara, and are now feat approaching the limit beyond which any further decrease will affect the climatic phenomena of the entire continent. If we consider how the agricultural products of the eastern continents be come frorf year to year more inadequate to the wants of their atili-growmg popu lation, we may foraee the time when the ho|e of the workl will depend upon the productiveness of the American aoil; j but that productiveness depends on the fertilising influence of the American fresta. If they are gone we shall ave on earth no newer world to hope <jr— no future Oolumbos can alleviate the ! struggle for existence. To stay such a catastrophe the author suggests that in every township, where the disappear r.urr ot arboreal vegetation begins to af fect the perennial springs and wattr e'uraea or the fertility of the fields, a space of fifty acres should be appropn ated for a " township grove." an oaa a to be consecrated forever to shade tree*, ! b rds' neat*, picnics and playing chil dren. In ail new settlements, where a remnant of the primeval foreata has snr vired, let the woods on the upper ndgt a or on the summits of isolated bills be s(>ared by mutual agreement of the pro prietora. In the treeless regions of the great West not only the amateur aoeie ties, but every grange and farmers' union of every county, should devote inemselves to the work of tree culture ; andVverv landed proprietor should see to it that the boundaries of his estales be set with shade trees, and that the j wooden fences be supplanted by ouick set Ledges. Let fruit trees tie planted wherever there is a piece of ground neither otherwise occupied nor absolute ly bairen ; and be sure that their lnfln ence on the atmosphere in summer and their fertilising leaves in fall will more than indemnify the adjoining fields ft r the modicum of sunlight they may in tercept. ADy State where these pre cautions should be generally adopted would soon be so unmistakably distin guished by the unfailing humidity and freshness of its fields and the abundance of its crops, that the sheer necessity ot competition would induce backward neigh borVto experiment, and be fore long the maxim would not only ba generally recognised, but generally set d upon, that husbandry and tree enl tare are inseparable. Scientific Amer ican. Women Druggists in Holland. In 1865 young lady of Zsandijk, MIM A. \l. Tobbe, wrote to the medical commission of Northern Holland. asking to be admitted as a student of pharmacy; she desired to fit herself to carry on the druggist business of her father, who had iast died, and which was about to be entrusted to a graduate with a diploma. The commission answered her that her request was ao exceptional that tbA did not think they had a right to decide it, and adriaed her to write personally to the miniater of the interior, M. Thor becke. On the 25th of June, 1865, he refused her request on the ground that as article seventeen of the instructions for druggists used only the pronoun He. The law of 1866 npon the exereiae of the art of healing waa, however, more gal lant than its predecessor and admitted women as well as men to the examina tion as either stndents of pharmacy, druggist a' assistants or druggists. Hard ly eleven years have passed since this last medical law liegan to operate, and already a hundred women have been re ceived as atadenta of pharmacy, and when they have acquired the necessary knowledge and satisfied the legal re qmrementa will pass through the ex aminations necessary to qnalify them for the right to open a drug store. The examination required for becom ing a student of pharmacy is itaelf quite a serious one. It comprehends the Dutch language, arithmetic, Latin, the reading and application of written re ceipts and some of the prescriptions of the Pharmacopra hrrrbamdtca, a theo retical knowledge of medicine, a knowl edge of simples by their exterior charac ters, the origins of medicines, their scientific names with their synonyms and the preparation of receipts. * The fact ia not very flattering to the stronger sex that, on the average, the number of masculine candidates refused is doable that of women candidates. These future druggist*, many of whom are the daugh ter* of drnggists or country doctors, do ant find the.r places only iu their fathers' offices but are in demand among the druggists of the large cities, in Amster dam especially, and now in the phar macies of hospitals, and commend them selves by their habits of order, neatness and exactness, which are rarely met with in equal degree among their male competitors.—AVg York Graphic. Alligator-steak*. The following letter is from the corre spondence coinmn of the New Tork Evening Pi Hit: " A short paragraph about Achille Murat in the /Timing Pot reminds me of some stories about lnm that I have often heard on the gulf coast of Florida. Only the older fami lies ri membered him, as he died in 1847. Ilia wife is buried with him at Talia haaae. " With a Frenchman's instinct for new and rare foods, Murat himself cooked and ate from nearly the entire fauna of Florida. He used to cook adigaicr steak in away so delicious that no alli gator in all Florida would recognise it M a morsel of one of his brothers. Another of his experiments was in cook ing the turkey-buzzard. the scavenger of Southern cities. These birds are among the best of flyers, soaring around at a great height for hours at a time, w"h no appearance of moving their wings, which have a spread of about six feet. But they are foul and disgusting birds, always eating oarnon food if tbty can get it; and I have seen great tkck of them so gorged wikh such food that they could not raise themselves from the ground, and so were at the mercy of any one who chose to walk among them and knock them over. They are seldom killed, and in most Southern towns and villages are protected by law. Perhaps their occupation is of value in that warm olimate in disposing of dead oattle, alli gators ana flsb. Murat worked faith fully over his buzzard roasts and buz zard fricasee until be oould stand it no longer. When asked how he liked it, he said: ♦ Oh! I can eat any kind bird; lam not affrate to eat anyzing. I have no prejudioe; but ee buzzard is no gojae.'" ITEMS OF INTEREST A bora hm Oolu. " Branch-bouses I Tbe florists. There Uf fifty substitute* far coffee, tod 129 for te*. The lighthouses of ths world si* esti mttod tt 2,814. One-third of Ohioago's population it German, or of German origin. A otM it gained through perjury tod sometimes per jory. The tutu who wm lot! io slumbet probably found hit wty oat on t nigbV mare. Many of the provincial cities of Oh at hare populationa of from 600,0 hi to 1,000,000 etob. W suppose no one woold osrsto do without t tongue. But, tfter til, t it only t matter of taste. A TACT is arraososr. If the moon wars Ilk. sotns man, Krery night ibs' 4 b# swbiusa. For instaaO of <(ar taring lias Hha would be lull ah (be taws. New Mexico has 1,W,I0 hs.i ..f sheep, valued at 1.600.000; t>lc*d 060,000 bead, valued at fiLOOO.ODO. Wy uniing territory 228,000, valued at s4B©,- 000. " Mother is all the time telling me not to bolt my food," watd the small boy, | •• and now she has gone and bolted up the enpboard that has got all the oom ; pany victuals." On the Atlantie ocean, daring the prevalence of a heavy atorm the ex treme altitude of waves above the inter veiling depressions or holloas was found to be forty three feet. The differenoa between the th-rniom eter on a July day and a meadow lark u that the latter rises three hundred feet, while the former goes up nearly a bun dm! degrees, above nothing. — W. Y. AW. Nothing is more injurious to the floors of s building than covering them with pointed floor cloth, which entirely prevents the access of atmospheric air, whence the dampness of the boards never evaporate*. A confidence operator was caught in the art of cheating a man at cards, and boldlv insisted that by so doing he was only obeying the scriptural injunction' When asked bow be made that out, he said: " He was a stranger, and I took him in." Two iovsrs at the gats. Th*v linger, ling sr. linger. He bind* U* nng of f ale— The nog of love and fat*— With a bis. sua her finger. i ,t n A< S||s One kivsr at ihe grata. She bog sr., ling era linger*, " HsigtaoT this ring of fats,' It be ssya, "I'vs seen of Ist* I'poo six starts' fiss(s." ' Lfuircu t Oumisr-JtmmaL Select your object in life, and then make it your great and eonstant aim to attain it. This ia the only true principle of (access m say depsrtmrnt of labor— the great principle acted on by men who attain anything like emicenoe. Tbey select their object fcr the most part' in early life, and then pursue it with unshaken resolution and firmness. Foolish Every-day Qaeations— Aakin the orange peddler* " Are Lhej sweet?' Inquiring of your friend Hea th as to what the weather is going to be in the future Ume, certain or indefinite. De standing " What's the news t" with the expectation of getting any answer other than " O-o-h, nothing." Hailing Tom, Dick and Harrv with " How d'ye do T" " How are ve? J as though you cared a rush how tfcey did or bow they were,— Boston Transcript. The American Agriculturist, in an in teresting article on the Texas cattle drive, says: "The cattle go to the river for water at noon, with the exception of a few, which remain behind to take care of the calves. One cow may often be seen watching twelve or fifteen calves, while their mothers have gone with the remainder of the herd to drink. Aftei the return of the herd the ' watchers * take their turn. This interesting fact is vouched fot by several old ranchmen." David Crockett ouoe viaited a me nagerie at Washington, and, pausing a moment before a particularly hideous monk#*, exclaimed: " What a rearm blance to the 800. Mr. L 1" The words were scarcely spoken, when be W. Ned, and, to his great astonishment, saw standing at his aide the very man whom he had complimented. "1 beg yonr pardon," aaid the gallant colonel; "I would Lot hare made the remark had I known yon were near me, and I am r<wdy to make the moat hnmble apology for my nnpardcnable rodeo ess; but"— looking first at the insulted member of Congrcws. whose face was anything bnt lovely, and then at the animal compared to him—" hang it, if I oan tell whether I ought to apologiae to yon or to the monkey!" Wanted te Porch*se The bells had jnst struck three o'clock in the morning when there came a faint knock at the humble door of the hnmble cabin of the hnmble Widow L ybold on Woodbridge street. The widow turned in her sleep and mattered: " 'T\s some child of woe and sorrow Come thu early here to borrow Tee or ooffee for ber break feet-" The next knock wasn't so faint. It made the door shake and the dishes rat tle, and the widow sat np in bed and cried oat: " Tiseoaw loafer who is poaaditif Ah ' I bear tue voice rvsouoding; And I'U chase him from my door." The third knock was a kick, and the hnmble Widow Day hold opened ber door with that prompt, decided act.cn which alone saved the battle of Waterloo. Before ber stood a tall, distinguished stranger, and he aaid: " Lady fair, eicnes this knocking, Pray o erieak this ooadact shocking— Kicking on your door. I* r. or name Xirandy Taylor, Widow of e gallant sailor Dead upon Lake Erie • ahore t" The widow gracefully inclined ber head and delnged the stranger with a pail of water, and he was running awsy when he fell into the arms of a police man. He was permitted to sit by s hot stove for the next five hoars. Yet when court opened the only dry spot about him was his throat. •• Did von have the least idea that Mirandy Taylor lived there ?" inquired h ; s honor. "Well, I don't remember whether I had the least idea or not. I thought I'd inquire and see. I'm s great hand to ; itquire." "Yon.are, eh? Well, when yon ccme in sight of the honse of oorreotion the driver of the Maria will answer all inquiries. I shall book you for thirty days." •'Jnige, does it seem possible that a man as wet as I am is to be incarcerated iu a bastile for simply inquiring for Mirsndv Taylor ? I'm amazed and as toondea." "Thirty dsys is the sentence, wet or dry. If you go up there wet they can pack yon closer." "And may I inquire, your lienor, if this is the nineteenth oentury f" " Y'ou may, air; and yon may get your sentence doubled if 1 hear any more talk." ■' I'm too wet to run any risks," said the prisoner to himself, and he went in to hug the stove and wait for the oar riage to back up.— Detroit Free Frees Words of Wisdom. Lame excuses seldom carry the cratch es of plausibility. Wisdom prepares tor the wrist, bu folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. Fortune turns faster than a mill-wheel. They at the top to-day may be at the bottom to-morrow.— Beecher. Do you know that a wise and good man doee nothing for appearance ; bnt everything for the sale of having acted well"? The moment we feel angry in con troversy we hsve already ceased striving for troth, and begin striving for our selves. The latter part of a wise man's life is taken np incuringjthe follies, prejudices and false opinionspie had contrasted in the former.
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