J nsrnrtha. * T tntxar * iflxomuxiw. How cold are thy both*. Apollo • I no# tho A (Heart monarch, tho uplendiA, A down to hid death in tho hollow dungeon* of Rome ho descended Uncrowned, unthroned. unattended; How cold aro thy Iwth*. Apolio ' How cold -ire thy Iwth*. Apollo ' t>iod Iho Poet. unknown, unts-ti icndisl, Ad tno vor*ion. tlmt lnrvd him to tollow, II "h tho mist and tho dutknoa* hlendivi And tho droam of hid life *m ended. How cold are thy hatha. Apollo ' lntrrintionol Kfrnv. 44 In the 1-ong Run." The crld-iaahioned saying. So 1 ghtly exprt—ii. Ami so ,-atvlcsslt uttered, 'i* ose ol the tie*t. tli. pontler, young t niter. With young lite begun, lite deep, earnest meaning t*J "in the kutg run." For " in the long run." horn, • "lite ei*l will spring up That a* n in the garden (tr liropjxst hi the cup. And, mm-uibar • o ro*e Will spring trian the weed. And no heantiml tnnt From unworthy seeil. How many a stripling In t rial We to-,IT, Ry riotous lit mg VV ith comrade* too gay. With character shipwrwkest And duties undone. Will he sv-rrv-u* harvesting 4 * In the long run." And " in the long run." will The Utiler tare host Who performs hone*l lahot Anil takes honest rest. Who, contented and happy. Haste* SHU, in a day, tV a year. to heap riches That wtU |-as-* aa ay ' The good and the evil l'hat hale on the earth. The joy and the sorrow. The (sen and the mirth. The hattlra undeeitevl. The victories won. Will yield what was sown, lads, •• In the long run." I'mIYTI Slatfir.f:. AUNT HILLARY'S LEGACY. "Oh. dear, dearstid Aunt Hillary, in a tone of de*pair: "oh. dear, dear, whatever shall I do with him?' She was looking ll WlWltllHl wMrh the ex pre**man hail jus: dcji-*i ted on the floor of the lutck purvh —a stout wooden cage, within which appeared a hright eyeil, pink-faced monkey. "Why. he'll murder u*. 1 shouldn't wonder. % ' continued Aunt Hillary, draw - ing hack as the monkey stretched forth his little black paw. "or *et the hou*c -m fire, or something el** dreadful. W hat an Ito do with him' he concluded, in a tone of distr*-*. "Give him away, aunt, or sell him." 1 suggi-sted. poking my school-timbrelia between the bar- of the cage. "No, no; I cou'.ln't think of that. He was such a favorite with poor Janet. And she left him to me because she was sure, she said, that 1 would tn-at hint kind'iv: but how to manage him 1 am, aure 1 don't know. What do monkeys eat. Rose?" " Oh. cocoanuts, and bananas, and orang*--. ami cake, and sugar, and such things," I renins!, confidently. " Pretty dear boarding." said old Kphraini. limping up from the garden, hoe in hand. "S'po*e now. Miss Hil lary, you try him with a piece o' bread. It's plain, but !;• a.!hv. The monkey eager y grabbed the light roll which Aunt Hi ! iarv presented on the end <a fork. ;u devoured it with gusto. He also a -opted some milk which Ephrnim '•>- ag-ou-.y put U-- tw.-en the bars; arc then he crouched down in a corner a d looked so quiet and wistful that Aunt Hillary quite pitied him. "He do. - look in: >eon! and lonesome, poor 'lit! .' thins." said. " I dart' say lie mi-- h<>meand liiskind nii-- tr<--: hut h-—ii.'.il have at • tt pientv to eat and drink here. "Only." she added, hesitatingly. " I <!■' rather wish that Jan t Wat', rs liad chosen anything but a monkey for a pet." When, two <>r three days after this. I stopped on my way from school to see Aunt Hillary. I found her in great dis tress. .lackey (that was the monkey's name) had turned <>u* a jerf.st little demon, and wa> giving no end of trouble. lie wouldn't stay in hi" narrow cage— in fact. he wasn't used to a cage, except in traveling; and when she. with Knhra im's assistance. l"t him out and tier! him to the bedpost, he J tad ripped open the pillows and inv*stignt<*d their contents, which he afterward strewed liberally about the floor. He had then been con fined in the luuk porvh. where In wrapped himself in a roller-towel and pni:eu Tabby - tail, and up-et a can of kerosene oil on Puff, Aunt 1 Hilary 's little white poodle. Thereupon Ephraim had tied him in the ganf'-n. while he prune.) the currant bush' -.and after a while re titni-ii to find all the young radishes pulled up and Ja. key industriously searching out the canlen peas which had been sown on the previous day. Finally a tall pole was erected in the mid-t of the cra"-plot. and to this Jackey was secured with a rope long enough to admit of bis running up and down and around in a limited cirrle; hut. alas! even thi- expedient failed, for in two hours he had pulled up half tin era-" and scratched innumerable dust- Lle". W hat was to be done with the monkey ? " I don't know which is the worst." •aid Aunt Hillary, with tears dimming her usual bright brown eye—" the boy s or Jar key." Tlv ■re was an old schoolhouse on the big lot adjoining Aunt Hillary's pretty cottage at the end of the village street. The t acher was a tall, thin, grave-look ing man of middle age —"very neat and threadbare, and with the manners of a perfect gentleman.a Aunt Ilillary ad miringly observed. But the Iviys! t lis* whooping, yelling crew, who made twelve o'clock liideous witli unearthly noise-; and who climbed Aunt Hillary's garden-palings, and -now bailed l'uff and Tabby in winter and stole her choice plums and cherries in summer, and at all seasons enriched her garden with old shoes, tin cans and discarded hoopskirts! An. what pathos there was in that simple remark of Aunt Hillary's: " I tjon't know which is the worst —the bovs or Jackey!" She was the most patient and good humored person in the world, and the last whom anv but a schoolboy would have taken pie: en* in worrying. A neat, trim little woman about thirty-five, witli bright, kind! eyes, a fresh complex ion, and a face stil o comely andjexnres sive of gentle and womanly feeling that 1 often wondered why she should lie an old maid. Once, when I expressed to her this won der. she colored like a girl, smiled, and answered frankly that no one had ever asked her to marry except Sam Lane, and lie, poor fellow, though good enough in other respects, had been too dissipated for any sensible woman to think of. For tiie rest, she might have married, maybe, if she had liecn more forward and pushing; hut men don't generally fancy bashfui girls, so she and poor Janet Wal ters had been left in the lurch, while all their voting friends got married; and see ing how badly some of them had turned out why maybe it was all for t lie liest that she had remained single. She had her own house, and money enough to live comfortably; and, if shedid feel lonesome at times—mostly in the winter evenings why, there were the neighbors, and Tab by and Puff, and, in short, she complain ed of nothing, except the hoys and Jackey. Ephraim—who lived across the road, and came over every day to do the out door work —had undertaken t he manage ment of Jackey, but the experiment proved a failure. . Tin- monkey had taken a special dis like to him ; and when, at length, tlieold man declami that judicious chastisement was a" necessary to monkeys as to boys, FRED. KURTZ, Ktlitor and Hropriotor. VOLUME XII. and attempted to carry tlint theory into practice, .lackey fairly turned lite tahli > upon hint, forwd hint to .an ignominious rvtiv.nt. .and RniiiUtiol victor ot the ticlil tli.at i>, of the grass-plot, to w ho*o central pole he was *:tl! att.a. tnsl " I'll go right over,"said Aunt Hillary, desperately "right ovei to Souirc San der*. .and a*k hint what 1 had IH-*I do with that monkey If I only knew how to manage hint. I wouldn't part with him for gold, on account of .lane* hut he's worrying the life out of u* a and something inu*t he done." When, on her return fret Squire Sander* , .lie MM in sight of her own house, she knew that the climax of het w<<e* w a.* reached VI! the h.y* |U*t di*ttti**"*l front school were collected in a crowd in front of the cottage. whoop ing and yelling, while on the roof in lull view *ai .lackey, attired iti Vnnt Hii -1 trv'* very liest Sunday home! M ancient Leghorn, of rather obsolete pat tern, whieit *he had that ntornittg care fully trimmed for it* third sunttuer * tertn of service. Jack> v. it appeared, had watehed her proceeding* a* she stood try ing on tier iionnet at the open window, and on her departure had gnawed asunder his fit ter*. apprvtpriated the b->nnet, and mountiM with it to the roof, where he could examine his prixe it .. tr Poor Aunt Hillary 1 It vt. tot so much the injury to her Unmet w ltieh now troubled her, as the greater mi* chief which the hoys were doing, tin pretence of capturing or driving down the ntonkcy. they were climbing her nice white Front paling*, trampling her c.ioice rtovver-Uv.s, and throwing mis siles, which had already smashed more than one pane in the upper-room win dows. In vain she implored them to de*i*t. In vain *he rtpre*i ntial totlieiu that *h did not care nir the bonnet, and that it Jackey were only left alone he would comedown of himself. They w- re too niuwh delighted with the fun to li*ten to her. as she stood, with rtuhe*l face and tears in her ey< s. on her rose-iao eri*i porch, while her tormentors how d ami screeched, and threw wet clay and ntud lvt! * again*t the hitherto immaculate whib- w aii* of her cottage. Soddeuly a hu*h fi ii.iumn the crowd. The little front-gate opened, and the IH>J fell hack, a* along the walk cam the tall form of Mr. the school master. The pale, thin man spoke to them quietly, hut with an air of eoiu mand.'and they silently trooped out of the gate into the street, w here they stood awaiting further pn* eeding*. Then In advanced to Aunt Hillary, and lifted hi# hat. " I perceive, madam, that you are in some trouble, t'an I assist you in any •' Ah. sir." >;ud Aunt Hillary, her • - brimmingover with tears, " it vou could only -end away the boys, and—and get the monkey down'" " The bovs will not trouble you again, madam, and"—lie looked douhtfu. y u;> at the roof-—"" 1 think 1 may possibly se cure your pet. I will try." Kphraini came limping up with the garden-ladder. and on this Sir. Mel-ean mounted, advancing cautiously to the edge of the roof, near which Jackey w as now seated, deep!* absorbs! in picking to pieces the yellow rose which hau adorned his mistress' bonnet. lie took no notice of the schoolmaster until tin- latter quietly stretched forth his hand, artfully displaying a spec-ta< i.•- case, when he started up, seemingly in doubt whether to retreat or to seize the tempting iure. " You can ketch him now. sir. easy' " bawled Ephrnim. from the f.H>t of tin ladder. "Grab bold of him at once, or he'll la* right off like greased lightning. It's a trick o" his'n." Alas, in his eagerness. Hphraim forgot that his duty was to hold the ladder steady. He let go his hold of it and step ped liack to s-e the resti t* of hi* advice. The schoolmaster, with a quick mo tion. seized the monkey by his long arm. as it was outstretched to snatch at the spectaele-casc. The iinjs-tus threw him ofl'his balance—the ladderlipped slow ly along the edge of the roof —and liefor*- Aunt Hillarv's Iwrror-stricfa-n shriek had fairly ceased. Mr. M -im lav, very *ti" ami white, on tho Ix-d of violets h>*ncath the parlor window. He was not dead—though we n\ thought so at first. Aunt Hillary ran for water and blackberry wine, and km It down and twllied his face and rubbed hi* hands, while her own face wa* as color less a* that of the injured man. Meanwhile the boys had ru*hed off some for the doctor and the rest to spread the news that the schoolmaster had broken his neck, back and *kuli, in consequence of which the yard and*?ns-t wen* soon filled with an eager crowd. The doctor and Squire Sanders con veyed the unconscious man into Aunt Hillary's parlor, and laid him upon her broad chintz sofa, where, with proper restoratives, he was soon revived. And then, after an examination, it was offici ally announced hv Kphraini to the anxi ous public without that there was nothing more serious the matter than a broken leg. " Hoorav!" cried Bill Davis. tossing up his cap —""hooray, boys! there won't Is any school to-morrow!" f'pon which Aunt Hillary hastened to the front gate, with more indignation in lier eves than I had ever before seen then-." " Bovs, ain't you ashamed ot your selves. said she, severely. "If you have no more feeling for yotfr good teacher, at least go away from here and don't disturb him with your unchristian noise. It is a wonder to mc," she added, a* she went back to the hotls*— "a wonder to mc that, considering the badness of Imys. then' should ever Is any good men in this world." After a while, I saw her in earnest consultation with the doctor, who had just set the broken limb. "He is uneasy lest lie should be a trouble to you," 1 heard the doctor say. "and is anxious to lie taken to hi* lodg ings. but to move him is simply impossi ble as yet." "Ot course," said Aunt Hillary, promptly, " I don't dnrim of bis l-ing a trouble,"poor man; and am *ure lie is welcome to whatever I can do for him. It is fortunate that he is in my h itise, as 1 have no family to take up my time and so shall Ih* able to pay liirii proper attention. Just tell ine what I can do for him, doctor." "At present," said the doctor, inn low, grave voice, " lie needs only quiet and— nourishing food." Aunt llillarv did not take in the full significant; of these words until a few liours later, when Ephraiin returned from Mr. McLean's lodgings, whither he had voluntarily gone for certain articles ! of clothing, ami to see the schoolmaster's effects properly secured during his absence. And then he told Aunt Hillary a pathetic story of hare walls and a straw bod, chair and table; the latter with the schoolmaster's dinner set out upon it. " Pea-soup and corn-bread, as I live,"' said Ephraim, "with brown sugar and coffee in a cupboard, and no butter. And the shoemaker's wife, who lets him the room, says he cooks his own victuals and don't eat enough to physic a snipe, and mends his own clothes occasional." Aunt Hillary burst into tears. She knew, as did everybody in the place, that the schoolmaster was very poor; but she had not dreamed of poverty such as this. And then he was a stranger, with no friends near to do him a kindness, or to look after him in his illness. What wonder that her tender heart was touched ? Thereafter, despite his helpless condi tion, 1 considered Mr. McLean a fortunate man. 1 never entered the house without finding in Aunt Hillary's kitchen (a per fect model of a kitchen, hy-the-bye), vari ous dainty dishes, the very sight of which caused my schoolgirl mouth to water. Such tragrant tea and delicate waffles, served on the French china that had been a wedding-present to her mother. Such savory beef-tea, and fresh straw TH E CENTRE REPORTER. berries and tranalui ent jellii * ' Such omelet.* *ueh hroile.l *te.tk* u> li white, leathery roll* and all *o tempt iitgly arranged on the large japanned tra\. ready to he carried to 11it- invalid'* U*l*ide, w here *!! a round table al way * adorned wit li the \ •> choicest ol \Ultt Hillary* (lower* not lit a hlg U>lh|Uet, hilt simply a hlo**olU ol two, ft< *h and *w e> I. in .t 1111* lln *ilelt - It ilia v .)*)• that had Us'lt ioitgei in the family than \unt Hillary In r*i I. Vliti then, how In at and coo. ami pli-a.*ant w,t* the room in whieh the in \a id lav Kind In ichlnM* supplied him with pa|er* and lunik*. and Vnnt lit' try sometime* road to him . ami I more than oncer heard her singing in the twi light ina low voire, imtcli .* a mother might ing to her tin*' thy V* he grew U-tterai ould *it up in Usi. Mr M I•an I- g.m • make himrif of U.*e to hi* h))*t< ** lie retouched a fadtal crayon portrait of her father; he repaired and tvnovated a iuu> h-prixod w-rkbox; he Instructed her how to >-lean gilt picture-frame*; how to tix rolor* in carpets ami dre* goods by cliemical cninbiuatioii, and, l~ *t of all, he took charge of.lackey the cause of this un- I'xiuvti*! hange in Mi** lliiiary'sht>us hi-d and, suojivting him to a n-uise of careful trainiiii:. transformeil him into a tractable, intelligent ami well-behaved mouther of tire Hi-it*, hold It was wonderful. Kidiraim thvlarcd, how chaltgi d Uu' Isast had Itevouie, and how implicit.', he obeyed the iea*i word or sign from tin *- lioo-ma-ti r, who wa* theonly person for wltoin he ever inaiti festeil the 1- i*t I* *;- it. Vnnt Hillary din her !>< *t. hv mean* of fis-ding and petting, to w in hi* regard, but he appeared to look upon ln-r with a certain contempt una* indifference, some times e\prn*i*l in hi* conduct, except wh-'it sti-niiv rehuked bv Mr Mcl.- Nt And *> the sweet flow ery June passed ; and otti day, Mr. Mt Lean, with the a**i*tan.-e of a crutch and Squire Sanders' arm, limpi d out of Aunt llii lnr\ * rose-w reath'-♦ porch to a carriage which was waiting before the IIIHT. I *tw hint tuni to Aunt Hi tri and take ln-r hand, and *ay *--uiething in a .-w voice about her goodtti *.* and hi* grati tude; and 1 thought hi* e\i-i were moist and his voic- .-oiuctvliat fa ti-iitig. And when he was gone (not to his old lodging, but to Squire Sanders' hospi table home). Aunt Hillary w. Nt l>n k into the house and wandered atiout in a osi kind of way. and llni * -at down in Mr Mcln*an's armch iir, aiul then, without a word, Ix'gan to cry When I .asked what ailed her, she wiped her eves and laughed. Wind said that she felt at a 10-s. as if her occupa tion was gone —and she must g-t an other patient to attend to or go into a hospital as nurse. After this I Us.d to nccasiottaHv see Mr. Mcl.c:m seated in Aunt Hillary's front potvli. or leaning on her gate, as she gathered a rosebud for him. On e ! heard him talking about his little girl, l.illie—he was ,i widower—at school viniiivliirc away in the South, ami of his longing to '*• her; and then 1 knew that it was for this child—to dress her nicely and give her a good education— that the schoolmaster had -avid his little earnings, t, the sacrifice of his own com fort. He did not go back to his little school. Through "sjuirc Sanders' infiuence h<- obtained the p..*iti,ai of prim ipa! of G Academy, with a g*d salary; and now lie I* g.ui todn -s well and look so handsome lliat the *iglc ladi< sof G began to take quite an interest in Itim. They inv itsl hint to -ociety meet ings and quilting suppers; but it was very seldom that he accepted an invita tion, and it came to !• under-stood that lie was not a marrying man. as they t \- pressed it. One day. on my return home from school, tuy mother desired me to dress myself vei ' nicely. :i- she wished to take nie out with her. We w- nt lirt to Aunt Hillary's, whom we found attired in a very n* <t gray tire-- anil a brand new bonnet, with white trimmings, in place of the one which Jav-key had de stroyed. she ■ ~>k--l strangely n- rvous. wlieth'T from tr< übieor happiness I eould not decide, as she waalternately smiling ami wiping the tears from her eyes. Then Sjuire Sanders can in and gave her his arm, and we a went together to church. I conjectured tlir*t tlier* was to be a servi . though it was a week day : but. on uitering. ! * i*v Mr-, banders and her sister and daughter*, with Mr. Mel.ean—the latter n so dr- -s. .i in m w clothes and wearing a rosebud in his buttonhole. The clergyman advanced to meet us, and Mr. M<l,i-an, ofl'ering hi- arm to Aunt Hillary, the two stood before him, and there, to my litter astonishment, the pair were niarri<*l—Squire Sanders giv ing away the bride. Tlii* was two vears ago; and I think that in all my eir. of friends, I don't know a more quietly happy and eon tcnted eoupie than Mr. M- and hi* wife. Lillie,of eourse.came to live with them—a sweet, lovely* girl of nliout mv own age. of wh<— place in Aunt Hil lary's affections 1 might be jealous, but the fad that she is my own particular b worn-friend. A Son's Ingratitude. In the Essex Market police court, in New York. William Flannelly, *1 years of age, bent and intirni. accused his son of defrauding liitn out of his home and then turning liitu out in the middle of the night, at the end of a pistol, to die in the streets, '"What is the trouble lx-tween you and vour son," said Justice Murray. " Your honor, pardon me if I have at last been obliged to come before you. Hut, your honor, in IHSti. after many years' hard work, I managed to buy the land on which mv house at 303 East Tenth stns-t is built. There, your honor. I raised my family. Hut my wife and my children, with tin- exception of this boy, are all dead. God help me, your honor, for ever having to come before you in my old age and to ask your pro tection. Since my wife died, your honor, and my hist son was buried, 1 have had no one to care for but this one. I didn't care how much he drank, and ! was willing to bear tip with much. No matter what hour lie came home, and sometimes it would be way in the early hours of the morning. I was always up to open the door. But lately, your ; honor, he has be n brutal to me. He has told me that 1 ought to be dead long ago, that I was no good to anybody, and lias frequently kicked Isle out of tile ' house in the dead of the night. I never drank a drop in my life, your honor, but lie told me that lie would never forgive me if I didn't drink on his last birthday. Then h* was forty years old, I drank that dav and the liquor went to my head. fie made me drink more and kept ine drunk until I eould stand it no longer, and lie said lie would force me to drink until I signed a paper. I did sign t it, your honor, and wlo-n 1 got sober I found that lie made mc assign to liitn all tliat I own." • "Does any one in court know you?" asked Justice Murray. The old man turned round, hut before he could reply Court Roundsman Reilly said: " I have known him for many years. The old man has always lieen re garded as a kind, sober man.' William Klannelly admitted that lie held full possession of his father's property, and that the old man had on several occasions left the Infuse after midnight anil remained out until morn ing. " And you did not go to see what be came of him?"'asked Justice Murray. " No," answered the son. with nsmile. " What did you do on those nights?" asked Justice Murray of the old man. "The policeman on jiost will tell you, your hofior. 1 didn't want to bring dis grace on my own house, so I walked, and walked the streets the whole night long." Young Klannelly was required to give $1 ,000 bail for good behavior, or go to the penitentiary for six months. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., l'A., THURSDAY, MAY If., 1870. t.IUIN AT TIIF MOULD'S FAIK. I Mlnl lllr Hr 11,,• I nUllir ,i| (It, | out niUaloitrr* Iu I'ui n. The rejMvrt ui>on agriculture by .1 J Woodman, ol Nfiehig ut. \si*t.uit ( .-in Ults*ioltei to the I'ari* K V position, eon tain* AII inlet e-tlng account ot the . \ hi hit of gt lilt* It -ay * tilt ftuc*t exhibit of Agricultural product* from the I nited M il.-- wa- that ot the Oregon Stat. Commission (It the other great u.l I cultural ami cereal producing Stale* f tin 1 niott, some w. re not represented ut all and some only partially. lln r.-jioit contains a comparative statement <>t' the present condition of agricultural interests in the principal .outline* of Kurope, noting e*pe< ialiy the point* in which they diff.'r from tin same industt i.w in our own ■ ountrv. In Frame the average *i/e of farm* i* *i\ tis-n and a half a. re* arable or thirty three and a half acres of product iv c land, making3.UTT.?*! farm*. Ofth.-*.*, '.'.s-.ti, ItoN. or seventy-one per cent., arc culti vated hv th. ow iters; KSl.tdS, or only twenty one js-r O nt., are rent.*! at a fixed price and eight J. t cent, are worked on shore- Tin- free u-e of fertilizer* t> mentioned a- the reason for the he.*, v crop* realized front small area- The advantage of rotation hu es ■ b. n t'uliy deimmsti at.al in France In the Fnglish exhibit-luuple-ol Molds' new varieties of wheat were shown in the straw and at trie t.-d much attention, it w a* claim.-d that thi- wheat could h sown tine month • u-licr and would re quire only one half the quantity of tin old varieties, ami would produce |o. r > grain* from a single sta.k, and 11- hii*lieSs front a -ingie acre. The report -how- that the a#'fagt pr<Miucti..u of Knglnml p. r a.-rc i- greater than in any other country in Kurope, if not in the world. In Austi ia and ilungarv. tr,'A per cent, of the w hole territory It prte ductive. and the soil i* highly favorable for agriculture, lite formers generally, own the soil they eultiv at The av. l age yield of wheat I* filter!! husliel* to the acre Vn elalM.ratc and < oiupr. h.-nsive table giving the av crage amount of the ia-r.-al production of the K.uroj • an countries which furtti-li A surplus for ruiuitii-n <, and also those which are obliged to ini |M>rt breul*tuff*. show * tliat thenv.-nige annual prmiuction of *r.*als in F.urope aiiioUUt*to.*>. 1 4?.T'.M'CIXX>LILT* Iie - . F whi- II Ku**ia pr.uiue. - l.lioA.Ogt.Um bushel*, or marly one-tiiird: tlic whole of t.*r inany. 7fi6.ft*i.O(Kl bushel* Kt aiice. 71d,- 13d.WXt huslt.-i*. and Hungary . 3<io.33tt. i*i(i. On the la*t id an av • rage of 15 7s-h**t bushel- of c.-rc# - for •-•(■ It iMTson for home eon-umpti>n. Houmania, It.nnmrk. Hu--ia. l'ru—i A. Fram .. Ilun garv. Havana and Nwol.n alone rai-e sufficient for home eoii*ump(i<tti A comparison of the production of i. real is-r capita for the who..- isq.u. uion .f KurojM- wit It that for the 1 nited *: at-- giv< - tin-former almut *ev.-nh**n hu*h> 1* and the latter nlwtui forty huslt< The report -ay- that itianv of th. countritvs of Kurope, .-p.'ctally Ur.-at Hritain and Fran- are largely h-ti. ient itt meat jir.Miuct*. and that they are now turning their attention to the I'nit.al State-f,.r supj'li.-- The rej . .rt -ays that F.tigiish -t.M-k rai-<-r, who have 1* *>m. alarniiai at the suc< ■ -- which ha* at t'ttdi'd the importation of American beef, have recently disiov.-red tliat Allieri' all cattle call he iltt; .n.al and f*l Up.'lt AlU'Ttcan grain At je . Nt price- with considerable profit to the Kiigiish intporh-r. Fresh Air ami Moderate Fating. A capital te rmon on ftxwh air and m.Mlerate eating i* preached by "t.atm*- k.s-iK-cat Home," in the fAWf Va.i '.i: rtte: "It s indoors, sir. as kills half the j.eo pie; Iwing indiHir* thr.-e parts of the day. and rt. Xt to liiut. taking t.m uiti. h drink and vitta!- Kating'sas had as drinking: and tlu re ain't nothing like ft. -han and the smell of tile Wood*. YoU shotlid eonte out iter.* in the Mpring. when the oak timber i* throwed (beeau*.' yott *<*• tlte saj. IM> rising, ami the bark strips then!, and ju*l sit down on > *ti> k ft.*h jvc ied—l tn.-an* a trunk, you know and sniff up the scent of that there oak hark. It g>M- right down your throat and pr.*- *. rv. your lung*, as the tan do leal In r And I've heard say a* folk who work in tan-yard* never have no ilim--. 'There's always a smell front trees, d.-ad or living I could t- you what wood a log was in the dark by my nose, and the air i* IM-ipt where the w.*<i* be. 'The lodic* up in the great liou*e* -..metinn-* gm- out into the fir plantations—the turtx-ntine s.-cnt •trong, you see—and they say it's go<Ml for the ehe*t; but ltle*e you. vou mu*t .ive in it. I'eo'de go abroad, Vnt told, to live at the pine fore-ts to rure 'em; 1 say tln-e here oak* have got every hit a* much g< MM! in that way. I never ent hut two nte.ai* a day—breakfast and supper; what you would call dinner—and utnylte in the middle of the day a haunch of dry bread and an ajqdo; I take a ileal of hpxikfast, and I am rather le.-tr (hungrv) at supper: but you may lay your oath that v* If. I am w hat I am in tin- way ot health. I'coplestuff* thentselv*. ami. by mnacjUence, it break* 'iltt. you see. It - the same with cattle; they're ovcrfd, tn*i ttji in stalls and stuffi-d. and nevern<> exercise, and mostly only f<Ml, too. It stand* to reason they mut get bad, and that's the real cause of the*''here rimlerjiest* and plettra-pnumoni. nnd what-not*. At least that's my notion. I'm in the woods all day. and never conies home* till stipjM'r —'cent, of course, in breeding time, to fetch tlic meal and stuff for the bird;—so 1 gets the fresh air. vou see; and tin- fre*h air i* tin life. *ir. There's the smell of the earth, too—'*j.e cially as the plow turns it uj>—which i* a fine thing; and the beige* and the grass are a* swet a* sugar aft-r a shower. Anything with a great leaf is the tiling, dejiend ti|iii it. if you want to live healthy." AVhnt I'tttne of Planting Trees. A)x>ut twdrr year- ago a gentleman engaged in busim-si in S'cw York city pttreha-ed a fnrm in the interior of tli.it State, ami net about improving it in iu - cordanoe with hi- own tastes and no tion-. I'lie farmer- al-nit him at tir-t laughed in their sleeve- at hislattempts at "hook farming," and predicted eer tain failure an the result of hi- experi ment-. Heing an admirer of the beauti ful, hi- first move was to -urround his place with shade tree-, and to (rive order tor their eareful attention and eiilture. He next employed the columns of a local paper to prove to lii- ni ightmrs the ad vantages of trees, not only for-hade and shelter but also a-a means of protis-tion against storms. A eireular wa- printed and di-ti ihuted,setting forth the matter more fully, and giving direction-a- to what varieties to plant, and how toeare for them after being set. Meeting- were railed and the matter diseu—is), until at length the neighborhood eaught the spirit of progress, and a tree planting mania -et in. The highways were adorned for miles, anil, yards heretofore hare of shade were now adorned with a bountiful supply. The good influence of that man's example spread until the leading roads in the whole town were rovertrd into avenue-of shade, and the unattractive village transformed at length intoone of the most lovely town in Central New York. A short time sinee the plaee was visited a gentleman from the city—a son of the party who first led the way in tree planting and it was with diflleulty that lie recognized the spot. The old farm and the neigh bors'farms anil the village streets were adorned with graceful elm- and maples front twenty to thirty feet in height. Strangers had heard of the nlace, and, attracted by its beauty, had chosen it for their home, and tine residences now graced the shady avenues. The old farm, which his father had purchased for i? 11,000, has been since resold for $20,000, and a like advance in property has taken plaee throughout the town. The gent leman "liuildcd better than he knew." We not whether, with all his far-sightedness, he ever ex pected such results as have followed from his efforts.— -ft. l'nul IHonrtr-l'rut. KA It M CAKHFN tMI IIOIsI llOl.il. I'lnltlllilf at lllr ICIw *'' Tlmr, The ex act date r lime of >■ ii ttl wliii li certain kind* <'l Iri . s >|iniilt| ) •'it ntiK planted or ' tops nut in i> very difficult iH.int in i iiiiiic. f\<cpt front ni'itml local i-\|M-iifiti-f Not only mu-i tlt< time lh varied tv till ft cry degree of lati- LUTLT*. I'IIT ILL' 1 A!>O vitry. m-< • *L utliujt it i'orn>|itin(lii)|; variation from ycitt to yinr in 111<- sane locality. SoiU .tUti ilill". i in < oin| o-ilion mill texture, itiui some l • untcry luut vv ttrin in *|iring much sooner itfii i the fioM h.ta lift tlit'iu tlian other*. which circumstance must IM- taken into mt'uunt in fixing A time to nat* ilirtu lor Aiiy |;*rt ii iiltu kind of crop. (If course every farmer ami gardener ought to I** tin IK at judge in regard to the right time for jiiaiitihg on hUottn land hut there are. ne vertTieleaa, eertain general rule- ;i|>|iiii able to nil cliinatctt, which the novice ia very likely to disre gard, owing to vvnnt of cxj>< riein e; ami tllU* lie often fail- v\ hen lie would other wiae have Ueee< ded It no take two ol our moat common rnnl tt idrly -cultivated garden vegetable*. pea* ami bean*, vve will find A gnat dilli rence in tin ir *en sitivcm to eold The pea will with ataint a eotiaidemhle amount of freering, ami i ven tin grow th of the v ine in spring i a. doiu injured hv light fiviatit; wliile tiie he All la ao aeiiallive lilAt it aooli de cnv* if plaival in eontact with wet. eold Mill, ami the leaves will not witliatolld the least hill, or even , old w ittd*. IVa, therefore, may he put into tin ground n* •ooa M theglost ia Ollt. hut the |>i.'tnllllg of le-ana should he delayed until w arm, growing weather has actually com menced. Among the wed* which it ia safe to put in early and before tin earth lias lieeome warm, we may name | o, radi-ln-*. tieela, cahhagea, lettuce, oil ion* tlaith *ll ai a and sets), a> Wen t,- ami g II lie- Tomato SEED may he NOWN early, hut tin- plant* will not grow until warm weather Among tin- more tender SORTS which ear 1 v planting v\ ill not hasten, the variou* kinda of squashc*. melon* ami rorn ate FLIC best known. 1h <* OF all tin -E SUM d-cav if PLACED in cold, inoiai or wet -oil. Potatoes may GO in early, IM* ntt*e tin* TULATA ARE generally placed -o deep that a - iglit fri e/ing of the aUl'lai e Wi 1 Hot reaeh tin 111, and it tin' young grow th ahollld he cut off. new ihoati aoaa iprin| up from tin- main -n M or the tut-r* In-low \\ ITLI ah the dif ferent kinda of meadow , na-ture and law n JTRA-AI a, I arlt Ml* nig IA far prvlerahle to '.ate, he. nuac tin \ are naturally hardy ■mi grow in ' W ATLN I . and tin young p xut* w ill 1.1 making ri'l- even wln-n there I hut a alight growth OF Jeavi-A. Hut with the annual gra— • A. millet-, -MG huilic and till- ilke. the ■ aae ia quitt'dtf- FI rent, a* tin v are all tender plant-, lia tire* of hot eiituah . ami tln-irwol toon rot in eold. WIT soil; the -lightest frosts will kill the voting plant-. -•• that wltat w ould In' termed late Ml* ittg -hotlld NL way- he prn. lieed with tln-ae t< MH-r an nua.- that 1-. aftes ail danger of frost i* jwvst mid tin* ground ha- IX-I-otne warm and comparatively dry. Tin NEW (WAR) or Kat India millet i- • v n MORE *cn*i tivi to FOLD than tin- sorghum* or ci<itt nn>n *}.■■ J.-* and varb ti< of millet. The pearl millet i- hv tar the nuwt proitin live forage plant we JMSS**. hut dm-- Hot tiiriv e in a ci*L -oil OR grow rapidly ■ x cent dtiriug tin' hotli-T weather. Karlv planting of all lunly tr-E* and • Itrub* i- always pp f- -ruble to late, no matter whether tin v !• d<*eiduou* or EVERGREEN kinds, FOR the simple P-A-ON that tin- earth in -pring i- G-M rally WARMER and of a MOP ■ n n nnuperature than the air. and thi- <-x. IT-* th root into growth, W hii h may PNA-OVL for SONIC considerable time |M-|OP- the wcatln r i warm enougli to rallse tin- hud- to * 11 ami new -limit- to puLL out ; I O|L*<-qUcnt iv when tin leave* call Ujwin tin* pmta for a *upp!Y of - ip. tin y OC iii a condition to respond. and TH' !if'- of tin- plant i* thcpdiy inupsl. Having TI-ATNL Imth early and late planting of evirgps-n- and DECIDTTOU- tree-, w C AN* fuliv I-TTrim-od that tin- former i- TO I-- PP-HTML in ail •oi WILL H 1 '.NE* ILL y I notlgh TO !•• handhal N-adilv -KOII aft r tin- fpi-F It UV • > it in apring; and if it remain* wet and lumpy for anv coiuaderahie tinn aft<-I *nt. it i- Hot kuitahie for ti'--. and SHOULD l* put in giMxl I Oiniitioti Is fop u-<si for thi- TIURJMIAI It i *• 11 to NMKI LIA-ti in G- tting tin cpip* in early, hut there i -M-LI a tiling as overdoing tin matter hv putting in *eed IM-FOP the land i* in prnja-r < ondi tion for tin ir r cution. or the w eatln-r I* warm enough to in-nre grow th; and it would often he hotter • ( .W and hat - row the land twice 1.. FOP sowing small seed or planting it W till com. EVEN if a little time Is' loat. than to -OW on land full of lump* or soaked with wot IT. — .VNC )'ori Sun. Ilouur hold 1•I•• I •• To Hr.vtovi <>IT SIAI-PI NMW MVT- TtM.s. T'ORNRITSI*VM tie. \V-t w ith alcohol. rul> with hard soap, tln n wash w it It cold water. WAIT Pirn.- In SOLI* ting J>aper for lnui-e U-T. avoid a!! gp- ns a- far a- P - -ihle. fur thi- eolor invariably contain* more or H - jstisonou- matter, and will inevitably poison to sonic extent all who Use it. A IHSUR \ttTK Ir. TN mnki father hru-lies to u-E in gn-a-ing pan*, or hru-hing CSG over tarts or pastry, hoil the w ing FEATHER* of a turkey or chicken* for about ton n inutc-. tlnn rinse them in tepid water, drv and tie Tl| in hunt In-*. AI oTlts l\ t' A ItPKTS A gomi way to kill tlirni i- to take a course towel, and wring it out in clean water. Spread it out smoothly on tlm earjwt. then iron it dry with a good lmt iron, rcjionting the o|>e ration on all sr-pectcd nlaci *, and those len.-t used. It i* not NECESSARY to pre-* hard, heat and steam BEING the agent-, nnd tin v do THE work cffivtually on the wormsnnd tin iregg*. M<u.ti\r,. 1- (M-ENSIOIUSL hv the gniwth of minute vegiiation. Ink. paste, K'ATLNT and seeds MOST fnajtientlv suffer by it. \ clovi will pre- rvn ink: anv essential oil answer* eoually well. I .eat Iter may he kept fi e. from mold by '.lie same *uh*tanee. 1 hit*. KU-sian leathiT. whi.-LI i- perftinted with tin tar of hin LL. never heeollie* moldy. A few drop* of any c--enti 1 oil w ill keep IxMik entiP'ly free front it. For liarne**, oil of turpentine i* rei oinnn-tnled. ('KMt vrtM; MT rvt. T 'IT v-*.—Take two part* of finely powd.Trd litharge, and one part of tine white lead. tni\ im luedifitely, and work up with BOILED 1 N --*.**| oil and lac-copal to a still dough: oln- part of COptl alld three of oiI, AND < notlgh litharge AND white lend added to give it tile I-on-i-tency of putty. I lie -id.' to HE CEMENTED is eover.al w ith the putty ami pn N*l again*! the gla.*. the I \ci-S* of cement i- -erapeil oil w ith a knife or other suitable in-lriinicnt. The aliove will he found reliable, as it dries quickly. Ilrntlh Hint*. TO HKVMVR FT.t-IT IVOKMS 1-"K.>M rut FA I Take a large- -i/.ed watch key. place tlip stent din* tly over THE hla.-k *|>ot. and pre-* firmly on it. INSOMNIA. —'To procure sleep, take bromide OF potassium. Fttrnisiu*! by chemists. To CT UK COKNS. — Apply, morning and evening, one drop of solution of pcr chioride of iron. To AI.I.AV CItAWI.INO OK Till. KhF.NII ou NK.UVOI *Nl>*. 1 *IIT a tahlesponful of hi-carhonate of soda—ordinary cook ing soda- -in otic quart of water. Itathc the entire person. STINCK ANI> ItITES. —("arhonateofsoda wet ami applied externally to the bite of a spider, or any venom >US creature, will neutralize the poisonous efl'eet al most instantly. It nets like A charm in the ease of snake bite. TOOTHACHE.—For toothache, take equal parts of camphor, sulphuric ether, am monia, laudanum, tiuctipv of cayenne anil one-eighth part of oil ol cloves. Mix well together. Saturate with the liquid A small piece of cotton, and apply to the cavity of the decayed tooth. Fou (J HOI.KK A INFANTE M. The while* ol tWoeggN, well iM-aten; thell mix with pure water, add one !.- -pooiilul of orniige-fiour water ntid a little sugar; a iahl<--|M>oiilul every Imur. it will cure the wor-t .• of cholera infantum, tin* egg- coating the iiowt-i- I lr uil hog*, A correspondent of the Fbrrg and Sirmtn gi.-* a new remedy for killing ilea* on dogs. If you try it, give >ui render- the iM'to-tii of your experience. 1 In- follow ing i* hi- ii-tter " Some ycoi - i learti.sl from druggist in N'.-w A ork thai th>- manager* of an orphan a-yium freed the head- of the unfortu nate waif* from para-iU* by applying tincture of ti-lilHTrien to th<- scalp. I tri.*t the same thing on my Better pup for tie As, W lib the Allie -Ueeess Since th.-n I s.vured another *<-tt<-r which wa* a.-o trouble.l with lleits. and one apoli ■ tioit cured loin. I did not uoe in either ease more than a few drops, rubbing ih.-m in on tii<- nape of llir n* k and nt th<* end ot the baek where the dog Would be in no ■ iaJiger of licking lite place to which the tincture had te-eli applied. My ear. in this regard may have been ex ees-ivc, but a* liie stuff is poiaolloux, 1 preferred to run no rika. Thi* is a sure cure, and > an IM- obtained from druggists any wiiere for a f-w cent*." New Vnrk's Messenger Hoy*. Many .uriou- U*cm have I teen found in the I-nurse of year* for the ttl<-selig.T boy - of the N w York IMtriei Telegraph ( oiiipany . They are used iim a specuw o two-egg**! express. On <>r atMiut Ttiank-givingev e hundr*ls of m.-sseiiger Is.y- are ms-ii carrying a turkey or tur key-. On t'liri-tmas eve tii<-y carry I*.v.-- 'and gifts—young and pro-air e.blieiis of Santa ( 'lau- On N> w Year's day they are deputed to)pay tln-ir patron-' .-all- liy proxy, and leave their eards at houses w here tlley do not ch.Mjse to call in person. M< -seng'-r Imiv - an al-o in demand now ta .-• ort young < hi!dren. esjK* ially vol;!-.. cir!. t> -< IIM1, and to .-seort them I torn, again. They an- even employed to wat h babie- and tln-ir nura*>, ami U notify a policeman if any Strang, r ap proa. lies them. I'atroltucu in llie employ of tin- l>ia tri. t J. . graph CVmiponv an- of late year* put to ape. uliar Use. The more g. ntlemanly of tin- fon->- are often sent for to es.-ort tnaid.-n ladies and elderly la.lie- to the iiprx or theat.f. in the-e i as.-s tin- men are furnished with white glove* and even iir.- .nit., if dwiwi and paid for. t tin evening re.-ently iher*- w.-n- eight ladio at six different theater*, including Iksith's during the heil.cv OIM i"a s. :i*in, whine e*<airt v. •re ftirnlsln-d "to order." Men. as w.-ll as women, einplov eacorta for vari ous purpo-- - Many, in fact uiosl of the tin n. t*, vv ho require the s.-rvii-**s of the nn-sMti.-.-rs an- -tranger*. win. wish for guides to show them the "night*." t a-e- ate n.l unknown w h.-n- a mes senger lia* IM* n summoned and sent in search of a missing husband, who was -up|M.s. d to IM- at one of hi- favorite haunt-. It i* related that in one instance a til.---, ngor -tart.*l out with a complete list of the place- in which the truant w a likely t*> l- found, and at lt discoven-d him. Itut lie wa* unable to persuad*- him t ■ I 'in.- IMMM, and so r.*|Mirtel. It is not an uncommon thing for a tnc—.-n --ger to IM- s.-nt home with an intoxi.-at.si |*tmW. In one instam*' of thi* kind, recently, a man w is ilM'i.*l and scut home, and when the messenger gave him up IM? obtained a receipt for "one drunken man " Th< important applica tion of tin district Tel. graph Company to tin- i.revrntion of burgiari.-* and fin can on.v IM- hint.*! at in th- com pass of this article. Tlieee (h-partnn-nts emhrwee a wid.---jir.-A.ling system of night and day patro.- intru*t.*l to coni|>rtent men who watch and are in their turn wat. h • *i. arui wlie movement* are rM*>r.l>Ai and gtiar.i.*i ly electric communication. Itasriy Ileeelved. llii AintMdhara live*at kjM.rt wh.-n home, hut if lie doesn't ajijM-ar then- thi* summ. r his friend* may rwt as-ur.*t that wliat i* hi* loss i their gain, and the biggest kind ©' gain, lie wandered thi* way because lie beard that day alMircr* in IMr>>it w.-r.- jcvi.l six dollars j*T day ami had fr<*- !i> kets to the opera iiou— .-very night. He tlmuglit he would < onie here and .am a few thousand dol lars this summer ami return to l,ock|Mirt in the tail and buy him a residence with walnut tr**s in the fr.ait vnrd. lie nrrivc.l here on the truck* of .N fn-iglit car. and after shaping one night in a eoni.shod he wa* open to engagement*. He didn't find any jolvs at six dollars jmt day. and when lie went around to the ojmta houc the man at the door sli.vok a club nt him and erici out: " Y.s, I'll give you a kingdom for a horse—oh. yes'" The j.oiic. finally gathered the k port'T in. Tin y have away of linking arms with stranger who donsn t seem loaded down itll go.*! clothes and cosh. The prisoner's fa.*- wore a blank look a* lie slimm! h.-for.' the bar. lie M*'m.*l to f.s l that he wa* lMM.k*l for a watering pla.*'. " You sec. it il<e*n't l.Mik exactly right for a full-grown man to he fn*"-htnching around and sl>* ning in dry-good* lw.\c-." observed the court, a* he w ip.*l off hi* pen. "I want to light right out t>Lthi* town." rcplti*! the prisoner. " You would only light down on some other. This is the headquarters here, and \"U can he cnt up far cheaiN-r titan from the interior I permitted a pris oner to start for the interior a few days ago. and yesterday he came to the House of Correction front one of tin* western counties at a cost of s,ltt. 1 shall IhhL you foi sixty days " "Can 1 send my poor mother a check •>n the Imnk before I go up?" asked the " Yott can, sir. Hyah will furnish you all kinds of blank i hock* nnd pen and ink. Write your name plainly." 'I'll" pri-ottcr finally concluded not to forward a check at all. lb-sent a boy out to find hint four good lawyers who would tarry hi* case to the Supremo Court, but the box* wa* gone so long that the police wagon hacked up nnd removed the tourist to another and more Useful sphere.— Ih'troit Free Press. Dee* on the Wing. \V|t<>n n swarm leav< - for the woods they are off Iteforv you fnirlv know it. They drift nwav front the hive in a wide spread and apparently aimh—* concourse, then suddenly gather up tlieir skirts, draw together their forced, and away they go. a humming, dying vortex of Iters, the queen apparently in the renter and the mass revolving about her as a pivot, over orchards and meadows, across creeks and swamps, or woods and deep valleys, straight for the appointed tree, slow at first, so that you ran keep up with them, hut presently with a speed that would tire a fox-hound. In this llighl the individual lces do not move in right lines, or straight forward iike a dock of birds, hut round and round like chaff in a whirlwind; unitc(|fc they form a whirling, revolving, nenuloua mass fifteen or twenty feet across, that goes as straight as a projectile to its mark. They are not partial as to the kind of ins—pine, hemlock, elm. birch, maple, hickory—any tree with a good cavity high up or low down. A swarm of mine ran away from the new patent hive 1 gave them, and took Up their quarters in the hollow trunk of an old apple tree across an adjoining Held. The entrance was a mouse hole near the ground. Another swarm in the neigh borhood deserted their keeper and went into the cornice of an out-house that stood amid evergreens in the rear of a large mansion, ltut there is no account ing for the taste of bees, as Samson found when he discovered the swarm in the carcass (or more probably the skele ton) of the lion he had lain.— John Bur rough*. in Scribntr. TERMS: ©'2.00 a Yoar, in Arlvanoo. Tiviar Torn*. New Yrk city has nearly 500 churches Mild chape is, landing ftO.OUO.tIOO to build, and s6,utxi,ooo more per annuiu to kn-p tli< in going. It haa lift \ bid lumpitala and asylum* for the ai*k. aged, liiind, deaf and duinb. lunatics, inebriate*, orphan* and soldiers, whieh have cost f Jti.oou.nuO to build, and require U- UIKI.- tsst a year to sustain. The public school etliflt • * have • list ♦'-.Utsi.ooo, and fIt.UUU.- OOti a yi-ai to operate. A French chemist la*t year exjKs*l a -ju.iiiiity of flour to a hydraulic pn-asure of 300 lolls, which reduced It to a fourth of its original bulk, without impairing the -quality. ID pai kul a (Mirtion of it in tin lanes and iwl<*<l theui uu, doing the same with the UOprensed flour. When opened in three months, tbs former was in Wtter pri-vw-rvalion than the latter. When lutkisi into breasl, the pri-s-x'd article was decidedly sU|a-rior. A ftcr the lapse of a year other cans win- Opened, and the unprenard flour liad laivmie *|Miiled, while the pressed remained sweet, and was excellent when bak<xl. A tin** woven from the webs of the large spiders common in South America has been presented to Uueeji Victoria by the Hmpr**** of ltray.il. It exi-eeslsin tine-* in-*i- any manufai-lured silk known, and is very handsome. Spaniards, nearly two buitiired year* ago, endeavored to make gloves, stin king* end other articles of spiders' wrba, but tliey vielded SO little profit, and necessitated so much trouble, that the maiiuLo lur- was aban doned. In 17J0 the calculation was unwii that the welts of 7t*i,t*io spiders would !• reiiuiml for almut forty yard# of silk Suili dress.-* art taaasionally i > n in South America. There is man with a cake doine a thriving husiiitwt in Michigan. The papers throughout the State are expos ing hint, and in a short time, no doubt, he will .be compelled to seek pasture# new. He eontcs in town to start a bak ery. and bring* a sample of hi# work along in the shape of a Large and ele gantTy-frostevl cake. Sonte hitch take# place a'oout the lease of the bake shop, and he concludes to raffle tiff the cake. The ralflc tak<** place; the splendid cake i* won and perhaps kept on exhibition for a day or two. Then it i cut up. or a party i arranged to assist in it# con sumption. When they attempt to cut up tlie cak'-, tlicit conic# thi- fun. They find it i* made of wood, tastefully frosted. Sonic thieve*, who manifested remark able ingenuity, hare lately lM**n < aught in tin ( rinn-a. They ojverated tliu : A thief was locked in an <-mpty trunk by lii* mates; tiie trunk was sent to the railroad d'-|Mt a* the baggage if a pass enger. an<l jiut in the baggage car; one of hi* mates, who claimed the baggage, t<M>k pas-age in tin* same train to the next station : as soon a* every thing was quiet in the luggage car. the thief opened it and crawled out; lie ransacked the r*-t of tin- liagg-ig- and put in hi own trunk sttcli valuable ortiile* oa were available; then lie crawled hack to the trunk and 1M ke.l himself in. and on re.*, hing the next station, hi* mate took off the trunk a* hi* luggage, and they proceeded t MOW tlteir plunder. Tlte gang of l;u--i:n tliicve* who concocted tlii- *. h'-ttie managed to carry it on suc cessfully for s.itnc time; hut at lost, on the occasion of one odvtituiv. the thief in lite trunk t'Mik in with him such an amount of stolen g'ssls that the trunk hurst o| n at on unfortunate moment. Tlte method of operation was dutcovered and the thievi - were brought to the Ivor. Mop- than twenty x car* ago two young num. sitting on an kin the gold fields of California, shook hand* and agreed to IM- jiartiti r in business. No articles of co-;>artnrr*hip wen- The con tra- t wa* IM tw* n Ikiiiunick and Martin ti Mallev. hndher*. Next day Martin startcl f. r Australia. Ikintini- k remain ing in ( l ifornia. Serera! year* passe-t. Martin *--ttl*l at AA'cstport. Wis. A viwr later he wax joined by Ihmtinick Vln h had kejit a finn account and Itad 'iraxvn tlic wages agrct*! ujvon. paying himself fp'ttt the finu's fund* in his own fHM-ket. Tlie fintt's -•artiing* were in w*te*i in eiglit hundred oi rvs of land. Martin married. The firm ww -nntin u<*l. Duadakk lost an arm. Hr Tat sent to i'ari* at the firm'* expense for a wiMvd-n one. IKitniniok niarri'si A hou*4 fill of hildren were horn to both. lHtminii k went to the legislature. The children gr< w up. Recently the broth er* save tliat complications might ari ttnb s* the property should be divided iM-fiire tln-ir death, and the partnership wo* dissolved. The vast estate was di v ided in a f- w hours, without a word of dispute. Young ladie* in Moscow think noth ing of shoot ittg a man in polite society. SOUK weeks ago a young nobleman named Itaiiaschewski was seated at home in iii* salon. ent< rtdining n few in timate friends. In the midst of a lively conversation the dn<u- suddenly opened, and thep* entennl a young lady named Praskowia Kats-hka. about nineteen vearsof age. handsome and prejKvssess tng. a member, moreover, of woll know n and nble tamilly in the Wilna 1 >i*triot. Perfectly ealnt and self-pvis *.-VM*|, she gracefully saluted the visitors jires-'itt in the chainiMT. Then, drawing a revolver front her poek<*t. she delilx'r atcly shot Hairashewski through tlte Iteaii. so that he fell to the ground, dead instantaneously. So rapidlv and coolly vv-i* the d**i iwmniith'd that all wa over Ix'fore any one in the salon at tempted to interpose, l'raskowia made no attempt to wcajM'. and |>erniitt<Nl her self to In* arrest*l without the slightest p'ristani-e. It is said that two days he fop- hi* assassination Jlairaschewski rei*eivi*l a thp'atening letter front the exivutive committee of the Revolution ary Society, wliiclt he handed to the police. A Poor Relation"* Revenge. A furious will contest is going on in Ilerlin. The following, with the elimin ation of some uninteresting figures, isthe document upon which the difficulty is haseff. It i* daled Julv 15th. IfCR, and i duly *ignei ami i-ecordt d. It.* maker savs: "I'ntil ten years ago 1 was a poor man. and conmNiuently no favorite with my relative*, though I never incom moded litem in the least. Ittti*' only, when I was in great n**i. I njipliisl to them for aid. Tltev shrugged tlteir shoulder* and showed nte j>ili*s of un receipted hills. A'et 1 knew they were drinking champagne at the time like water. Strangers helped me. and many most disinterestedly, for they Itad to wait many years in patience till I could pqiav them. "Then fortune threw a little property into my lap. 1 hold it yet intact and will until I die. It amounts to 88.000 guilders. "That money I desire and think should go to my creditors, tlte people who helped me when thing* were had enough witii nte indeed. My relatives may. if they choose, share among them selves my heartfelt contempt and the bushel* of letters tlicy sent nte, postage unpaid, after they found I Itad no need to turn thrif pt— in*ideout. I hope this bequest will do them a* much good as their friendship did nte." Nepotism, or favoritism, or familyism, in the public office* of Russia is often manifested to a strange degree and in peculiar ways. A whole province or district is often in the hands of a few families. Thus, it lux* just been shown that in the Usnttui district all the offices are in the hands of four persons, belong j ing to two families, viz.: 11. Blank has seven offices; H. Blank, seven offices; J. Andruff. ix office*; N. Andruff, eight OFTTEOB. NUMBER 20. TIIIKIMJ THICK HOKfIIM. a Pi of. •ilonal Testa** 1 * r.iprliM lu Ilk* Art *t .!*•* KdwMl**. A New York rej>ort*7- wa* admitted •' behind the svui* "of Itanium's dr u in New York, and saw Carl Antony, the i-eletiratcd lioreie trainer, put several horse* through the " mill." Signor Se ba*tian, trick equestrian, was attired in costume, but it w a* simply u rive him freedom of motion while riding the spirited steeds Antony brought for ward a U-autiful charger that lie had re c'lfitly purchased It wa* handsomely marked. It carried its bead like a prince, ami di-played a little apprehend *em authe large banners ami ijaiion*, under whi< bit liad to run. In going around the arena the course in usually toward the left. Few rider* can keep their fret in thebare IMU k style in the opposite di re-lion. Riding tradition more than physical law* make the course toward the left, although a few skilled rjdT, like Sebastian, for instance, have learned to ride in both directions. When a horse new U> tbe ring ft to le* broken in, lie must be taught to put iii* left foot first every time In that only can lie preserve tliat nice equilibrium m i-cMtarv for the rider. Tlie horse's liack in well rewined, so that Uie eques trian'* feet w ill not slip from the moist skin of the animal, for a steady foothold is required for those extraordi nary actn of horsemanship. Antony wnfkd around the ring, nevar taking hi* ever-watchful eye from the horse* an in-tant. and snapping his long whin that carried obedience with every crack, but the task seemed too much and it wa* abandoned. During an interval. Antony indulged in biu <>f talk in nyard to hi* profession. Ili- ha* a uobii- looking oountcnaiK*-. with a dainty dark red mustache, which h<- • fond of'twirling. " You see. Kir. 1 ' he twgan. " horse* are lik<* mm. some an- more intelligea t than oth r. And then- are many grade* of intelligi-nee, too. I have a little Ken tucky thoroughbred that tuubrstiuid* everything. A* it i*. be ha* picked up all 1 have wished W> injure** upon hut little wi< ked aouL Oh. oc'l a wild <ne. 1 can a-kure you." and he laughed with a peculiar chuckle. " American horse* learn Quicker than any otlwr stock, but they also forget easier. To-day 1 may have no difficulty in getting an idea into their heads and to-m orrow they will forget it. Thi* is true, ltowcver. only in the first <lay of the training. After a while they lweome a<-- ii-toned to their newly a< juirtdskill and form a valuable portion of your stud. Russian and Hun garian horses. on the contrary, are nuwe difficult to teach, but when they do learn anything the* hold on to it like grim death. The Trakene stallion* tliat I in troduce day and night came from Em peror William's stable in Prussia. I "broke" theju myself, and. as they had m-vcr known halter or stable, of course they were pretty lively specimens. Tliev were ' broke' in l(Cf and have performed in the principal cities in Europe. 1 could tell you inb-resting tilings in re gard to training trick horses, but it is with u the tame as physician*—what we know is our fortune Kindness. I find, accomplishes more than the whip, al though a horse must have aw bob some dread of the latter. Some people arc under the impression it it a difficult matter to make horse* stand on their hind legs and sulk around the ring. 1 think it is one of the easiest. I can make any good horse do it in two days. It requires assuageness. My father, who it in the city at present, was considered to he one of the biggest home • breakers " in Europe and froffihiui 1 learned the art ot break ing horses. Since I was seven years of age 1 have been, in some way connected with horse business. At that early age mv work was confiued to riding homes at oreakneck speed. At ti fawn I entered the Itu)M-rial sj-hool in Berlin, where I I learned a great deal about horses and passed examination successfully. Tiicn 1 went to the stable* of the Emptor of Russia, and had the privilege of ' break ing ' for him a magnificent stud. I Uwe my work and hope to adhere to the pr<*- feiwion. if you ever go into the art." said ! the horse trainer in conclusion. " let me tell you that stallions make liefter trick hors-than gelding*. They arc aremore I intelligent. You can l*"gw to teach a iiere when he is two VISITS old, and if you take can' of him lie will last for a quarter of a century. " An Elopement frustrated. An infallible indication of the warm season is the number of eiopeomli which are chronicled in the local columns of lite domestic exchange*. One of the moat touching idyls of the SWCB is told in limpid pone by the Dayton (Ohio) /Vmocotf. He was poor; she wasyoong: her pariuls wen' sensible. He was forbidden to enter the house and she to leave it. Her chamber was in the second story and underneath the win dow was a grane-arbor or rack. At the hour appointed for love's adventure he made the preconcerted signal from a shady corner of the stmt and she answered it. She had a change of clothing stored away in a valise which abe had borrowed front her brother without hi- knowledge. She opened the window and lowered Uie valise to the ground. Then crawling out of the window and straddling one of the rafters of the grape-rack, site crept down to the put and thence, as it were, shinned it to the ground. Everything looked auspicious, and they were in great glee, when to her horror she happened to observe that she had on a pair of old rubber* instead of her shoes, which abe ltad taken off in Iter room, and had for gotten to throw out upon the grass. This was a sad state of affairs, as it would not look well for a young lady to go traveling among strangers witii a pair of ruhher*. and nothing else In the form of shoe leather; and besides, as it was damp and cold, her health would be en dangered. Just what to do greatly dis tn-ssed their ardent young hearts. A proposition that he should clinth up to the room and get the shoes was not favorably entertained by the dashing young man ; but while thev were dis cussing it their pretty little scheme sud denly collapsed The big brother turned UP unexpectedly at the front gate! The girl sat down on the door-ster> and burst into tears, and Iter lover disappeared over the fenee with uncommon agility. There was a domestic tableau in the parlor and the young lady was sent to bed. Russia's Plight. A New York paper says: No country in all civilization seems to be in so pitiable a plight at present as Russia. In addition to her immense foreign debt and her general lituuirial derangi-ment, herpolitieal afflictions continually crop ping out in defiance of law, anil mys terious assassination, and her losses of every kind from the late war, she is threatened with famine. Last year she suffered exceedingly from drought; nearly one-third of her crops were de stroyed bv beetles am' marmots so that the seed lias been deficient, and field labor is inadequate in consequence of the excess of holiday*—about 100 a vear— and tin 1 widespread drunkenness of*many of the people, involving great waste fulness. drain, which is the chief arti cle of export, which furnishes the means of paying taxes and of getting all sup lies. now seems insufficient to home con sumption. Her domestic debt is very oppressive. Most of the land of the empire is mortgaged to bankers, and its owners arc scarcely able to pay their interest, much less the principal, their arrears being from twenty-five to thirty per cent. Russia is a vast country of vast resources: luit she has drawn on them very heavily of late, and all indications are that she is approaching a crisis in her fortuni-s which will require the full est wisdom of her statesmen to meet. She appears to be socially, politically, financially and morally disorganized, or very near it, and she cannot go on much longer in her present condition. Tk Model (lirl •• Pmtet, WlMlmt, Among nil girt*; The TW M*M, Mom prsetoa* than pvari* " Indaatr'owi, Nat Mustroua, Bat nxvleot and kind; Sh'* sparatnl, Shs's nuiAl, And alt right in mind. " She taint* not ■She |*uU not. Ijke aoma foolish girl*, She pout* not, Kb* spoilt* not, fterauas her hair mtria. Mm ehihlmh, Not artldjah. Not running ham, thorn; Not fretlisli, Coquettish, like mm* y tmug girl* am •• Not wealthy, I tut hoalthy, And alarmingly smart; A dandy With nandy Cannot win bar heart —i'aiumim* (0 ) Dtmaer* ITKMh 01" INTEKENT. Never look a gift apple in the worm hole. Are shopping Indies liable to be railed priee fighter*? •• tier small bill*," tut the mother bird said whew exhibiting her brood. (htf on a fly! The pesky insect ban Lurmenlod us for nearly a half hour. There are forty-eight lighthouses and light beacons on tlte roast of Maine. A small lake is a mere. Any referent*, then, to a lakelet is " mere mention." Evergreen trees on a lawn afford great protection as barriers against the wind. There wereaitt.oo7.flrM gallons of petro leum produced in lite U mted .States last year. Jn ordinary respiration ahout two third* ufa pint of air is inhaled at each breath. They say a strong grasp of tlte hand denotes a strong heart. It also denotes a good grip. Only one person out of every ten es cape* ' premature death, according to statistics. It has never been ascertained how much old ocean measures around her gray and melancholy waste. Nineteen families of Belgian*, with sixty car-loads of stock and goods, have settled near Sherburne, Minn. It is easier to bear the troubles of others than to sit risrht down and do your own suffering patiently. The loss by fire in Europe is only about one-fourth what it is in the United Stales on property of equal valuation. What is most gene-aily wanted in the way of navigation is a life-boat that wi' 1 ride safely on the sew of troubles. When the lady fainted at the matinee, the usher brought iter a single glass of water.sixi soon afterward brought bet to. The microphone ha* been actually in troduced into an English church, for th accommodation of a " bearer" a mile away It is safcto say that Normtown enjoys more late springs than early spring*. We allude to springing out of bed in the morning.—.Vor. Herald. In I>r. Johnson'* famous dictionary be is guilty of a queer blunder He defines garret a* " a room on the highest floor of the house," and a cock-loft as " the room over the garret." "• The Turkish Finance Minister pro poses," says a < ierman newspaper. "to divide the creditors of the Stale into three categoric*: First, get nothing; -ere •nd, get nothing; third, get nothing." "I suppose the bells are sounding an alarm of fire,*' sm-cringly said an old man as the chureh bells were calling the wor shippers one &un<Uy morning; to which a clergyman W!K was passing replied: "Yes. my friend; hut the fire is not in this world." * Sf i- lift" by your* eaMhted is," He Kwpen-Im her oar; •• I only brmlbr hen you re shoot. Lire only with you, dear." Says she. with archness on ber brow, " Pretaith in whst you my," Thwu gisitcieg at h r*eu locks, " You dje when l'rasway .'' — Boston Trammel. An uniqnr celebnitbwi i to take place : in Pompeii. Italy, in Nov<*mbtT n*xt. Eighteen hundn-d year* ago. on the -4tli ofNovetuber. the city wa* buried from sight by an eruption of Vesuvius. On the 94th of November, t<9, there will be a banquet and illuminations on the his toric spot. Several bouse* will be un covered in honor of the anniversary of the event of A. I). 79. In August, 1569, >re*t<v N. Clark, a highly-releetned citiren of Davis county, lowa, died and *m buried near'FWia, on hi* oa a farm, at hi* requent. He wa a strictly trims-rat* m*n, weighed about 300 jiound*. and not much rotated bv hi* fatal sickness. A abort time ago the fsmtly de cided to remove the remain* to a public cemetery, and, on opening the grave, the coffin was found perfectly sound, but filled with water. Seven men were required to raiae it from the ground. The water was re moved, and the body of Mr Clark wa* as perfect, nearly, a* when arpuhured, and turned to stone. The ckulio on it were slao onrhanp-1. The weight of the body wa# ahout 500 potimV Several simitar cure have been known in the same vicinity The tJrnwth of Temperance. The following is from a letter written by VBIm E Hodge, one of the lend ing men in tin u-niperanoe muse in New York dtv: But tin>-<• of us who OJUI EO Imck to Ute very commencement of tne temperance reformation know that in all part- of the country outside our large cities there- lias a most remarkable change in the habits and custom* of tin* K-nt mass of the jn-opK as the result of * 1 temperance efforts. Tin n there was liardlv a family of any standing that sat down to dine without some kind of in toxicating drink on the table. Men were hardlv expected to work on the farm or in tlte sliop without their regular allowance. It was kept in every coun try store: was used at all public gather ings. ami, in my remembrance, was passed among the attendants at funer als. As you sat down at the hotel tables every second man luid his bottle or glass of some kind of intoxicating drink. Xow we know that to a great extent this is changed. (Jo where you will throughout the country, sit down to the tables of the great m:\jority of our fami lies, and you will find no intoxicating drinks. Kit down in our hotels on the great lines of travel and you will not see one person using strong drink, where, fifty years ago, you would have seen ten. Those of us who have watched the tem perance movement feel that its progress has been niost encouraging. I have just returned from an absence of two months, in which I have traveled through ten States and over 8,000 miles, and I have seen less drinking and fewer drunkards than ever before in the same time and distance. |lokes from Paris Papers. Frederick William IT., of Prussia, once u (Km a time stopped at a little rail road station where a deputation headed by the mayor of the adjacent village awaited him with address. Just as the mayor braced himself up to deliver his oration " a neighboring ass did sing both loud and clear." A frightful silence ensued, but tlic king did not long delay in hreaking it with the paternal and graceful remark: "One at a time, gentlemen; one at a time." Man who is endeavoring to strike the other man for ?10 bill Saturday at one o'clock: "Now, old fel', let's have the X. You know what the Bible says: • Help one another.'" His friend, with a sad, sweet smile: "Oh, yes, 1 know : but, I say, you know, you're always the * another,' you are." A lawyer charged with the defence ol a ruffian of unprepossessing appearance depicts his client as the image and em bodiment of all the peaceful virtues when, lo! the prisoner, seated just be side him, begins to stretch himself un easily and gives signs of impatience. " Yes, gentlemen of the jury, as gentle as a lamb, and as implacable of inspiring terror as—hi. therf*. policeman, hold bini tight!"
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