Hope. No matter where we sail, A storm may come to wreck us— A bitter wind, to check ua * In the quest of unknown lande, And oast us on (he sands. No matter whore we anil Then, when my ship goea down, What choice is let! to me Fnm leaping in the sea- And willingly forsake All that the sea can take, Thea, when my ship goes down ? 3t3*i, in spite of storm, Vrom all wc feel of fear A rescue may lie near: Though tcnqiesta hiow their t>eel, A manly heart can rest Still, in s|>tK> ol storm ' lr vi'! Ki istell. in Scrit'ntT. Lines to the First Fly of 1879. Dance on my nose with your tickling teot. Hluo hot lie fly ' Sing in my ea. Oh, how I prayed that you might be troie Villainous fly. All through the winter y .HI did not Ircerc, Not much, Mary Anu. Now all the summer you'll do a* you plaaae, That is your plan. When, ill the warm atteruocus. we wrouM sleep. Near us vour wakefuleet vigil* yoa'U keep. Precious is sleeping, but waking is cheap, Sleep, man, il you can. Oh, how 1 wahthat my two broad hands. Spread left and right. Stretched from the (sdes to Equator's Isunla, v.atnU ot might. Sotne sum met ilay in itiv wrath I would rise. ?■; .ng all sjvuv-c with uiv hands ot "itr ) And smash ail the nucounted million ot flies C lear out of siglit Vain are my wishc- oh, kiltie house fly. You re hard to uuvsh; Strong men may ir and women may cry. •Teething their gnash; But in o the house your Ir-.cnJs you 11 lug. You'll your feet in the syrup jug. And your care* you'll drown ir. the Isiby '* mug Cheeky ami brash. Still, precious I.ssons, dear hill, house fly, Y'ou teach to me. Ualcvl or loved, you tell me that 1 Happy tnav be. Why should 1 care, when 1 tickle a nose. Whether Us owner's conduct show s That he likr* it or halve it. just *o it goes Jleßsnnt to me. • This line should read "l.naaluug their teeth," tail a little poetic license was necessary to ONNG IU the rhyme. Burlington Hnickryt. • TlkLv " Asked Tilly?'' " Yes. a tua'ily. 1 heard hiiu myself. l>i.l you ever!" M jss Rosie Green. for an answer, looked unutterable things. Mis I'oeie Green took off' her sundown and fanned herelf vigorously with it. She Evoked warm; Iter face was flushed it ah feeling n.> than w : th the vv.-nther. She nr- 1 licr si-tor wer- no longi r as youtllfi: .is tlioir naui'-s suggested. M on-over, irri tation brings out the lines and wrinkles of a face, and it is unquestionably irri tating to be p.u-svd over for a sap of a thing with a doll-baby face, not one's own fli-h and blood at that. " It's all pa's fault." Miss Rosie pur sucd. presently. "He does spoil that girl so abominably. There wiil be no enduring her presently.' " I shouldn't be one bit surprised if Mr. Leonard makes so mueb o! her just to please pa. Men are such time-servers. Of course it's to his interest to keep in pa's good 1 looks. "There they go now!" cried Miss Rosi<- in an excited whisper, flying to the window, and peeping through a crack in the shutter. " For goodness' sake, don't give her the satisfaction of seeing you look at her." •' I don't care whether she sees me or not—not a ru-h. That oid pink calico on! Ido think she might have had the decencv to make herself look respe. ta ble. riding out with pa's voung man." " lVs \oung man! What away to put it fi ".Well. i>u*t lie. for the present? He's rending medicine in pa's office, I'm sure, and be takes the messages that are left, and tells pa afterward. For my part. I think he is bound to be civil to pa's daughter's." Well, lie is being civil to one of them." •*Ye-. That's the worst of the way pa treats Tiliy. It's reai unjust to u-. Hateful little piece!" A cue of cruel step-sisters, you are thinking. However, there was no tie either of blood or of marriage in this in stance. Dr. Green had adopted Tiiiy. brought her with him when be moved to Woodbridge fifteen years ago. She was a mere baby then, and his wife was still living, and eared for the child like her own. She was a motherly soul, and loved babies. Her own girls had left infancy half a score of years behind them." Since her death life hail not been so smooth for Tilly. Perhaps the Green girls would have been kind to another person in the vitne situation, hut they certainly made life a bnrden to their lit tle adopted sister. There is no account ing for likes and dislikes. It did not prove Tilly morally deficient because she aroused the worst feeling* in Rnsip's and l'o-ie's natures. It is an unpleasant mystery why certain antagonistic na tures should be subjected to certain ex asperating frictions. There are those wliom it sets wild to feel the down of the peach. Others bite through the skin with unalloyed enjoyment. Mr. Leonard —he hoped to !>e Dr. Leonard this time next year—drove a fast horse before a shining new buggy. It was a bright day. and he had a pretty girl beside liitn. His spirits rose to the level of the occasion. Tilly and he laughed and talked in away that would have driven Miss Posie frantic. I specify Miss Posie, because her sister had ac quired two or three years' additional resignation in which to bear the ills of spinsteriiood; wall-flowering had be come almost a second nature. Ilut Tilly laughed on regardless. She was happy. John I>*onard was the handsomest, best mannered. the best-dressed young man she had ever 1 nown, and lie had singled l*>r out for his especial favor. She was willing to believe_anything of an auspi cious fate. John Leonard compared her mean while to a wild rose, her bloom was so exquisite, her whole effect so dainty. Her large dark eyes were wonderfully brirht and shining. lam afraid she wa- quite unaware how much they avowed as she raised them to John's face now and again. Prudence should have kept them averted. " I burned my finger to-day," she said, displaying it, " taking the baked custard out of the oven." "Why. the poor little finger! And such bad stuff as custard is. after all." •• Do you think so? Pa likes it." •• Yes. So diil my mother. She al ways considered it an especial treat. I was a tender-hearted chap. It made me unhappy because I hated it; it seemed "'piPy thought this a delightful trait. •• We often have custard." she pursued. '• It's so hard 10 U P new k ' n ds ol desserts." . . „ •' And a great waste brains. •• Perhaps it is. I often wisli I had more time for improving my mind." •• You should take the time," dogma tised John. He had had it on his mind to say this. It struck him that Tilly s education was shamefully neglected. She wrote a wretched, scratchy little hand: she stumbled i reading aloud an ordinary newspaper iragraph; she bail once committed her If to the opinion that Vienna was in France. It was strange that beauty ould be so illiterate strange and a shame. The poor clujd was kept drudging from morning till night, cooking, sweeping, dusting. \\ by didn't those two sisters of here nut their shoulders to the household wheel? it was all tliev were good for. Some one had said thak Tilly w:is not old Green s FRED. KURTZ, K.litor and Rroprictor. YOLI ME XII. own child. The more fool she to w ear herself out in his service; hut women were apt to he finds: they would slave themselves to death for any tuiut who gave them a kind word. At least so his mother had always said. And old (Oven was certainly affectionate enough to the girl. Poor little thing, who could help Ix-iiig gvvxl to her* All this, while h" kept up at the same time an animatesi owvmiatioa witli Tilly. Nor was that the last drive they tok together, lie asktsl her all the oftener w hen he saw it made the "wicked sis ters." as he duhlxd them, angry As it proved, he asktsl Tillv far oftener than was good for her. This was only an episode with him; with Tilly it was the moat real experience of her life. John layman! seldom talked of his plans, hut she had mapped out his career for him. When he graduated in medicine he should become her father's partner, and finally relieve her father of the burden of his practice, ami then—and then Tillv always herself shared these air castles with John This was a long, long time ago—be fore the war. alunsst; accurately, a! the very breaking out of the war. Those thrives ooeurred timing the April and May when lite first "regiments were put in the field. At first John Leonard, who was an Englishman, escaped the war fever. lat these brothers tight out their own (amilv quarrels. Hut gradu ally the soul of the war clarions "passed into his blood." He must have a hand in this himself. A man must belong somew here. So he coolly informed I'r. (treen one day that he had enlisted; he was going to fight for his shoulder straps. "As for tuy diploma, I'll wait awhile for that." The doctor told hint he was mad. and urged hint at least to wait a year. Hut much recked John; it is a waste of words to answer a young man except ac cording to his folly. John was an anient soldier by this time, lie had come to America to vk his fortune; perhaps the wav to it lay along the path of glor\ When he came to bid Tilly good-bye. she burst out crying. That settled the question :is to their manner of farewell. He took her in Itis arms and kised her repeatedly. This was decidedly wrong, decidedly imprudent, although they w■ re only affectionate, brotherly ki-s.-s Miss Koste came in as he releas d her. " Well. Matilda tlrocn!" she eri-.!. witli an intonation that meant anything hut well. Hut Tilly was too heart-broken to extenuate her conduct. She left that •o John, who said, good-naturedly: "You'll give me a kiss too, won't you. Mi Hosie? Remember, you may n-v r riousiy hunt out in the dictionary nearly the words she wanted to use. to insure their correct spelling. She a'-o end.-av. r. d to find time to read such liglit literature as was contained in the weekly paper of the household. She read the love stories, to be sure, with an especial zest apart from tlieir purpose as educators. They struck a kindred chord. One day John le-onard received in amp a copy of this same paper- the Woodbridge .Vtirj. It contained a mark ed paragraph. "Good gracious!" he said, reading it. "old Green's dead. How fearfullv sudden!" His particular chum. I-ieutenant Phil Bos.-, was standing In*. This gentleman was a cormorant of tacts —a trait which tin* thoughtless are apt to confound with curiosity: hut I contend that tip-re is a difference between inuubitivencs- and acajuisitivetp ss. Mr. Ross stretched .ut his hand for the pajwr. "Old (Inrn? Iluin! ah, yes—l>r. Green! By Jove! •philbrick Gn-n. for merly of Grtenbrier. New York.' I knew the man. I hail from Greenbrier myself. So lie has turned up again, has he? * Wood bridge, Rockland county, Pennsylvania." Been in Wooiibridge. eh? What ever took you there?" "I stur. Green'# • •ffiee. There was an excellent opening for a country practice." •• I>rt ti* see: lie had two daughters— Ilosie and Posie." " Three." "The third was only an adopted laughter. Sin accounts for ray interest in him. Her mother was a distant ! cousin of mine. I.eft a widow with three children, utterly destitute Sewed for her living. The Greens took a fancy to her little Tilly, and offered to take her • off her hands. She ain-eed, rather than let the child starve. The Greens moved away shortly afterward. The last time ' T was In Greenbrier (I run up there ••very summer to see my mother) I found ' that my cousin had married—a very well-to-do man. too. He- oilier children hail fli<-d meanwhile, and she had set her heart on reclaiming Tilly. Her husband had m ule inquiries for Dr. Green, hut to jno purpose. He had made two or thre" 1 moves sinee leaving Greenbrier, and no : one knew where he bait moved to last. My cousin was fretting herself sick. J I can't say that I pitied her as much as though she had not given up her child of her own free will, to begin with. It | always seemed an unmotherly thing to me. And here I have suddenly un earthed the girl!" "Luckily enough for her,' 1 John opined. " Rosie and I'osie will lead her a life of it, I dare say. They'll have it : all their own way now, and a very un pleasant way it is, as I happen to know." "Had old Green, as you call him, any j money?" "Should say he had. I hope lie has i left Tilly her share of it. Sin- will get ! nothing by favor from those two elose j ftsted old maids that docs not come to ! her bv right." " I'll write to her mother this very ; day." " And I'll write to Tilly." .John added. He wrote to the mother, too: he i scented so anxious, as l'hil said, to have his finger in every corner of the pie that l'hil waived his rights of acquaintance ship and permitted his friend to make the disclosures to Mrs. Raton, l'hil con tenting himself with inclosing* few lines to his cousin—indorsing John's moral character —in that young man's own words. Speed''- came the answer. A very incoherent, agitated, short little note from Tilly, so badly penned and ex pressed as to he almost illegible and un intelligible. Hut John made out from it that she was very unhappy, and would hail any change with joy. Mrs. Eaton's missive was blotted with ti-ars. She had evidently a talent for letter-writing, that is, for the writing of letters consid ered as essavs. This one invoked bless ings upon John's head. It referred to the writer's past sorrowful life, it was a dirge. "She always had that whining way about her," Mr. Ross commented, after perusing it. " Coddles her miseries, you Know." Not long afterward arrived the news thatTilty had gone on to her mother in Greenbrier. John breathed a sigli of relief. He hail learned that Dr. Green had died intestate. His property had gone to his legal heirs. It would have been hard linen for Tilly, slaving all the rest of her days for those hard task-mis tresses, the " wicked sisters." The life long bondage seemed inevitable to John's excited imagination. So several months passed. Then John applied for leave, on his doctor's advice, who said he needed rest. It was a problem where to spend it. He had no mother or "isters to hasten to who would receive THE CENTRE REPORTER. hiiu with open arms, and make each day he was at home a holiday . lie had distant relations in England, none in this country He would have gone to Wood bridge, as being the ticaic*l nppt'oa h to home, had lb (liven and lllfv still been then He would like to sic fi.lv. She had cried w hen lie had bidden hi i good bye He did not think that any .me else had shed tear* for his sake since Poor little Tilly' Pretty little Tillv' He had a great notion to go to tlrocnhrler and look her up. He wantw n well. But fate interfered with hi- intention. Mrs. Katon was so ill that Tilly could not be spans! fioni her -ide for more than five minutes. She ran down just to say good-bye. John ii-solved th*t !ie would write instead. He told Til... lie would waite. '• And take ear. of yourself." lie added. She did not crj tlii- time. Per sons who takenn extreme vit w of humin maladies Would perhaps have said that she looked simply brtikcn-liearu-d. When John did write, it was n differ ent *>rt of letter from the one he had planned. On his return to ramp he was confronted hv a erisis in hi- lift A gay party from Washington eame down to dance and tlirt in the tented field in 10-u f tlie conventional liall-room. •>! its numh r wa Maud tia.e, who. ii experi ence goes for an v thing. -hould haveneen an adept in both dancing and flirting. \ r his side, hut which hft hi in in a condition hovering letween life ami death. He wan de>perateiv wounded: •u.f tin- time lie ww too ill to rix-og nizc any one. Only the tendercst nurs ing, the most assiduous care. saved hint. And when he finally opem-d hi* eyes t<> consciousness, upon what a—dduou* and lender nurse uo you suppo*' they rested? It was incredible. I'pon whom hut gentle, care-worn, gazelle-eyed little Tilly! " How on earth—" began John, llien dropped off to sleep again. It had been almost a year now sinee lie had son this dewy woodland rose. He had onlv written her one letter mean while. hut that letter had been le-r heart's sustenance ever sinee. She had laid it away among certain other mem ories of hers—memories which retained their sweetness like withered sprigs of lavender. As the months sped by she made up her mind that she would never sec John again—that lie hail forgotten her. This was her presentiment. Hut she did not hlaitie John liecause lie had r.ot proved all that she once hoped he would; that had been her mistake, but a mistake whi 'h had been also her one joy and romance. She railed him her good angel. In the dear Hebrew phrase, he had come to her—as in truth every goon friend comes to us—as an angel of God. During lliis weary while her mother died. Tilly found herself without a tie in life. She might come and go as she pleased. There was a distinct desire in Iter loving heart to do the one work for nn une"iiloyed woman just then. But it was some little time before she gathered courage to carry out her wish to become a hospital nurse. The alarm ing first step once taken, she wcgt on easily enough. And she found an im mense pleasure in thus being of use as she proved—and of comfort to many suf fering souls. The Providence which directs small matters as well as great, appointed her duties in a certain ward in a certain hos pital, where she came upon John I>*on ard's white face one day. as he lay stretched on his cot of pain, and,she realized, with a sudden tumultuous rush of filling, that it was for her, hu manly speaking, to tend hitu hack to life. She felt as though this satisfaction more than eompensa'i'd for all that she had suffered—loneliness, neglect, disappoint ment —in the past. There was little romance about Mauil Gale. She made some excuse for break ing her engagement as soon as she learned of John's misfortune. She had little faith in a one-armed man's being able to ligbt the battles of life successfully. And success meant to her more than affection; one might fall in love many times over. John fortunately found that the euro for his disappointment lay in the nature of the disappointment itself. "So weak a thing! so weak a tiling!" So we come to the end. Tilly, con tinuing her round of blessed duties, WHS greatly surprised when John told her, not many months after that, that she was the one need of his life. She had buckled down to work. When love came to her suddenly, its voice was as a voice in a dream. Hut she believed it —oh, how gladly! It is so easy for youth to he happy, to forget! Miss Gale might have married a dis tinguished man, after all. Dr. Ix-onard graduated in his profession immediately before his marriage to Tilly, and his name by this time is one that is well known among physicians.—l/rper* Bazar. CENTRE 11A LI., CENTRE CO.. PA., Till RSDAY. JLNK 1871. t IM-eiise Whirll H.n Cost More (ban a Civil Ur. Vt a conference of the Agricultural 11. a.lh Otlii tr* of New Yolk, relllisy lva nil and New Jersey, held ill 1 'hilade, phia. It Was li solved to make all li tile campaign for the puriats. ol extirpating the cattle disease, which has committed great ravage* in these three ami other States None of the countries which export cattle and do not import have yet I .ecu called upon to tight this contagion. 1 The disease is always due lo importa tion wherever found. There are cer tain parts of the world where it ha never existisl liei-nl|se of this fait Among them iu*<- the i hannel 1 mils, the Highlands ot Scotland, parts ot N.-r inanity ami HritUuiy, tin- countries of Spain and Portugal, and the great \\ ■-t in Ainci ioa I'lu sc regions export stoi k habitually, hut have ncvi r imported, at least since the tualady made its app-ur mice in tlie northeast and north of Kurope. In every case when- the mal ady has hrokn out of late years the trouble can IM- trm ed right to the par ticular cow - or lii-rd which Ix-ing tm portisl hruught the discos.- in tlu-ir sys tems The security of tin- valleys of tin- Ohio and the Mississippi and tin- plains ot the Y\ est has been due in part to tin fa. I that, while they have sent oouiitles head of cattle hast. they have not im pi- ted from the Ka.xt to any large < x ti 1.1. It is i-ertrtin, however, tliut tin ontagion will nxu-li that region eventu ally if dairymen continu to buy tine stock inf State- wln-n tin- disease pr. i ail- ami the fact thai a cow brought •roiu Ohio not long ago to i iinton. N. w .lersev. is In-lieved to have brought tin nleuro-pneumonia with it, shows that n lias jM.ssihly gone us far westward as i Hi in already That general prevalence of contagious pleuro-pneumonia, or lung f. ver, as it is more accurately called, is a calamity is . exhibited hv the exjierieinx- of F.nglaiid. Vusiralia and many otln-r >>nniiii riie disease was imported to I lug nd in laid. I'p to bTti many as 5,51', 7*o hsad of cattle had }Hiis|i,.| from tie • In. a>e. causing a loss of $ Hm.otto.OOU. I'p to l*7v the loss is safely • stilllale.i to have risen to fioO.uou.iMi. Krit.sii farmers have Ins-n compelled t. lose thi*enomtou* sunt of money hy f.ii mg • to stamp out a dreadful malady tin- mo ment it made its appearance among their herd*. In Australia, whither the contagion was imported in l-.Vv nfti-r losing mil lions ol mono in deaths among tin- cat tle and spending large sums to eradi- ate the pi stilenee. the farmer* gave Up the tight in despair bemuse it had extended to tin- gn-at cattle ranges, and it is now vc.epted that Australia will no-r g-l rid of thi* malady The loss, s in this country n rea.lv amount to million* of dollars , and l'ro ti-**or l-nw, who is excellent authority <>n these topit-s, lielieve* that w. re tin contagion ever to extend to the W. t it would cost the I'niteil States more than a civil war It would U- likely to ei.*t th* I"i'itxl Elates *ix times as much a Knglaad, tvause sin- has six tiui-s a* many cattle. It is well known that tlie di*tae can lie extirpated, IH-I-.-IUM' it has Iteen incer tain a-s. Isith in thi* country :uid e!c. where. Ma--a litis.-its itnrorb-.l the .li- in Is.'rti. nod after killing VI!- hut of -attic got rid of it completely by l-'o t'onnci-ticut also had the same suei.-- s.-veral times. Sweden. Norway and i other countries have done tin- same thing It is h< lieved that they have ill -aved money hv liberal ixpenditur.s in -• unping "lit tin- disease. It is claimed that hy vigorous unaaure* tin- I nitial >tati s can now get rid of this dangerous i 'stiU-n. e in the Statra in which it . \ ists. and prevent it from extending to i other*. •• What i* It!" Yesterday forenoon a farmer's horse nd wagon xven* hitched on t'ongri-ss street, near 1.-irned, and after the man had gone into the stop' an individual, who must know something about human . uriosity, wa'.kci slowly down to the wagon and carefully examined a hind wheel. In ten second* he was joined hv two hoys. In a minute there was a rowd of six. The man hwikixl at (lie wltcl from one side ami till- other, anal tlu* increasing i-rowd did tin* name. In -hris- minut-s tin-re w-p- tw.-nty ocople around the wagon. Some iiMikial oviT i into the tw>x and some at the wheel*, hut no one said anything. The man first mentibni-d wired th l ' wheel and shiwik it and then measured on- of tin- spokes with a pocket ruie. Winn he had finished, the crowd nutulH-p-d forty. N. one could say what had happened or was IIMIUI to happen, and the mystery .* last hc.-oniing intense, when a corpulent ■ itir.cn Imre down on the crowd and • ric ket rule. " What is it. th*n?" " I was liHiking at this hind wheel." " What's the matter with the wln-i-l* " asked the fat man. as he wired and shook it. " Nothing." The fat man scowled, clenched his hand, looked up and down and then slid, and in thirty seconds no one was left around the wagon hut a small hoy who was trying to hook an old utnhndla.— Ih troii *V'i-i pi are bet ween Vine and Race, wln-n he stepped up beside In-r and remarked : " Beautiful evening, isn't it?" The lady looki-d at him but made no reply. " May I have the pleasure of a prom enade with you?" The lady stopped and said: " Sir, I think you have made a mistake," and re sumed walking. Hut the voung man thonght lie hadn't, so In- spoke up again : " Not at ail. I assure you; oomo. take my arm, and we'll go and get some ice s en-am.'' From what followed it would sccni that the young lady didn't like ii-e-cream. or tin-young man, either. She made a grab at him, caught him hv the collar, and comnn-nced tlmniping him on the head and in the face with her fan. After ! receiving live or six w hack* he innde a | dash for liberty, leaving hi* nieely-latin | dried collar and flaring red roektio in the lady's possession, when he walked off | up Race street at a rate that would make < I'bury stare. There arc a hundred can didatcs for such treatment on that same square every evening.— ■(\wintuUi En quirer. Tlie Difference. If a man is on the cars and seiu n young lady In' ilorsn't know from Eveand never ntw lieforc trying to let down the win dow, he thrown down his paper, lakes off his hat. bows himself double, smiles dear round to hi* after collar-button, says sweetly, "Allow me!" and clones the window with graceful skill and charming courtesy. If his sister suys, "Tom, won't you please let this window down for me?" lie tucks his paper savagely under his arm, and. stalking across tiie aisle, stands on her feet while he bangs the window down wit ha slam that tills her face and hair with dust. Ami if his wife, holding the hnhy in one arm, and a lunch-basket on the other, tries to let down the window, and snys timidly and suggestively, Oh, dear; I don't believe 1 can get it down." lie grunts, says, "Eh? Oh!" and buries himself still deeper in his paper.—llawk cye BurdctU. | I mbn-ll.i* ami I'mnxoU, till- umbrella, a® a sUlt-shade, lionst* an antiquity jjf' it' r h> many ccnturh* than tli t> of tin * hrisllan religion It seem* to have hid it* origin in tin- nc ta-*itii of lli< - tropical countries <•! the East, lUnl wit® f•' luanx used only In tin* tulvra and UKUM* in high mate I'lii-"i initial lot in* iii'lut to liav<- l •it souii-xslmt tiluilnr ti> that with Wltit It all art- fhtuihtr, though 111 some coUiill i'-s a nun-sliade wm also constructed in the ttirin of a lauiun In xvhaUivt-r form it nut constructed, however, it wiu nix* ay* i-umlwrsome, ami rtsiuirwl, not only for dignity'a -nke, hut lor physical reasons at wrll, an attendant to carry it In llreci .mil llonii* tin- uuihti la or ton hra -tilum, a® it ta< called, wa* usiil a® a tun-thsdf hy tin* wealthy, ami win also still retained -ts a distinctive mm k of royalty. l-nlnn hail their mai, that i*. thine* that minister shallow unto thrm for -hrltrl against tin- ttgivhiog hral ofthr -un Tin v arr madr of leather, sum thing answerable to tin-form of a little i an-'py, ami hooped ill tin- illsido w itti divrrk lilt It* WIHIIII-II l.oojts that extend tin- uuihrrlia in a prf their thighs and they impart so king a shadow unto them, that it kceprth tin- h' at •( tin- sun from the upper part of tlu-ir IMMUC®," The umbrella flourished in other southern touniiii-s at tin snnm time, and was not Uiihi-arvl of in England, though it had not hi-rli adopt, ti lulu general Use. and was not t ieii familial to the imas - of tin people Mentfoll is made of it, liow <\.-r. as <-ar.y as Ifilfi, nnd Iwfori the .it is.- of the srv entii-nth renturv tin parasol hatl )wcom<- considerably u**d. It* introduction into 1 -ng.ami nad Frame apparently hating court* from t'hina, is the form was s. w tint similar to that u*<*d in (Tlinn and Japan t he us- of tuuhrell is an d<-fen<*-s against the rain iiid nut Isenmt general until U. in the eighteenth oeniury. though it h> 1 la-en Usftj TO . IIH I'ltitl, ryrhi- T hy Sin i'-s. f.r many >■ irs piwrlnus It wus tots > thmitiate a thing for tni-n, ami when Mr. Jom* Han way. hi the -ts ~f to • arrv an uiuhn lia, lie subjn-toi to no little ridicule, and it was Some v. irs l iter hefore any sin-n, except the w-r.ak nnd i k!v. had th® ttm< rivy to utt ia* ntinlly fetninm- covering n srote tloll nga'.list rain It N IVuordrd '.hat the iirst yinhre l - en in (ilasgow wo brought thero iii 1 Tsi from Pari*, iiid was p _-ard ! with nun h eurioaitv. The first Knglish unihre.las wen* made of oilnl silk, and when wit were n-ry dillit uit tti oi* nor close. Thetirk* and rilts, it HI, wire very targe mid heavy, tin! altogether tin umhia ila was a dm iJelv Citliusy ußair as Cotnpan-d with the latest improved frame, with lt ai iai aor silk iatveving of to-day TUe umhrtiia of two hundr< <1 yiatr* ago. with i thlrt v-one-inrli rib. weighed three and i liatf pounds; one 111 the name sire now wt ighs not over six or eight ounce* in IriMT fifllrer's Sulelde. The mystery of the uicid>- of I.ii uter.- uit t arrow . of th- s- venth I'nited States i avairv. at St I.mis. was t eared up by tin- liiitiing. among hi* pi rs- tain .Tick Sturgi*. who inst his lib with l M-neral Custer a! the titnesd the famous ma--1 re MvsaSiurgisli.-ui tnct Carp>w e f or - Um oln, NeJi.. win re she and the i "ting lit'utenant Iws-aaje very friendly. Hie general thinking lil tlaugfit-r and the vouast lieut< n-mt were lie-nniing too lev otod toi a. h other, nuioved h r foSt I "illis. hoping iii this way to break up • friendship whit)i be ihatiusd unwise, ('arrow's pride was stung, and. after ntiring hi* affliction for months, lie P*- .oiveii to eouie to St. l/>uis ami SetU< tin- aifuinntuui i(e*tion He arrived there, ami nt once plunged into all til" is. inatiotis of the le st mn-Uly. Four wts-ks after liis arriva' lie atl<-ndial a cnimn at tin- house of a wealthy o-*i hnt. He was to h ail in ilu-i-v etiing with the V' ling lady he so passionately iovml. lie loi.Ln friend of tlu* Itef.tp- the oven ng arrivisl. and vs-nuti di .ighti-ii at the thought of stS'jng Mi-s Sturgis 11- further -tubal that his prospia-tg wep never laip r. an I that he Itelleved lie waa going to be successful. The ne*t day he met the -aiue fii-iei, ami -aid Uia! he d.-itt'Tial himself thai the long and anx iously diseu-s. d qUintion had hta-n dc ••rded in hfs favor. .Tu*t a week irfter the event above mentioned ('arrow udd the same IViend that he wa* roitig to tuaki a linal rhnrge. and "if I niu re puisial." -aid lie, "I'll give uu the *tnig gle." The eharge was iiiaile. It was neither a de|. it nor a victor. Klia had an*w.-p-d : " Walt a few day*, and I will w rite you a letter." It is supposed hv those who knew the young otlh-er inti mately that lie received tlu fatal letter, mil that it wa> the linal and unfavorable answer. The next night tin- body of the young man was placed on a \ nndaiia train and taken to it* last resting plaeuin I'ottM ille, IVnu., w hetA-1 i* lather live*. Cellars. Cellars under houses are generally poorly ventilated, for most ol them do not have at any time the dlreet ravs of t lie sun—the chief of all Iwaltby hygienic inlluenoes. There are very foW that are not damp enough to accumulate mo id, The cellar, hofh in tow n and .country, is the depositors' both <>f fruit and vegi-. tahh*. mop'or V-s* of which at*n a'svnys in process of decay. Kat India fp-.juent ly cuunei't it with cecsfHiol*. or other sources of miasm. Uubbish ii apt to m - euinu.'ati in it, eitlu r interfering with it* proper cleansing, or directly iruTeiuimg tin- impurity of its air. Now what would be thought if IM>- neatli every hon*., instead of a cellar, there svas an oj.< n y>it lliai wa* constant ly exhaling poisonous vapors? Ami yet practically a cellar such as we have iliv scribed, which must generate impure air, is just thi*. Its nir conic* up intothe house through tlie cellar-way. or through the cracks in the lloor, or through the air-pipe of the furnace, not only when the furnace is supplied with air from the cellar, hut quite often through crack* and looe joints in the cold :.ir-hox. We may not he able to remedy the evil in full, hut we'may reduce it to a minimum hysin h ventilation a* is possi ble; hy the use of disinfectant*; by fre quent cleansing: hv keeping vegetable* and ruldiish out of the cellar; lv g*lxsl ishingthe cellar water-closet; hy having the tloor thoroughly cemented, the walls well painted and whitewashed, and the beams overhead lathed and plastered. " 1 should like to have you raise a club," said a seven-byvninu hook-can vasser to a daughter of Kriu, as lie stood on the front stop trying to talk her tp death on the subject of the " Extinction of the Tribes of tin Seventh Century." " I will," said Bridget, as she reached around Itchiud the door, "hut had luck to your picture if you are lingerng around here when I get it raised." lie didn't linger. Bound to have her own whey—The dairymaid. The woman who buys a patent spring balance is also bound to have her owu weigh.— Luketu. I* IN N AMI NFHM.F*. AM lulrrrMfliifl € Itapiri almul I('•* fitl Muiuralk Aalh In. I'ins are of very ancient invention, a® thej were imuiufai'tured hy the Kgyp linn* in the time Ol till* I'httPMihk Many of these useful articles were found in the toiuh* of her king* in the I'yraiuid* Soinn of tln-in were of quite elaborate manufacture, and inuat have been CtMlly, as they hod gold 10-ads and were six to eight 111 hi-* ill length Needle* are al*o supposed to t>e of great antiquity, and tlu-ir introduction in Kurope i said to have taken place at the time of iln-Sara • en Invasion and conuuest ol Spain. The first needles mode in Kngiamt were man ufactured at 1/omlon ly a negro wlm i ane there from Sii.tin during the reign of Mary, lie dhat without im parting tin* sxs®t itraigliu-ning the wire, pointing, cutting into pin length*, ( twisting xx ire for heails. annealing head*, stamping head*, cleaning, whit ening. xvashing. polishing, winnowing, psi-ei-pri. king and putting in paper* I lw Misinea* of pin making was i-stah iishtxl in thi* country in IwlV. when, in ilarqUi-iiei ( .f the war with tin-at Hrltain. the price rose from six cent* to inr dollar ier paoer. Invention wa ixMU'-i{U< nil* stimulated, and pin* were m uiut.M tun-1 at (invnwlrk. N'l w York. t <•! what now uvaititute* iuu tart of (he metropolis in the vicinity uf C'hrialoptier sireet. west -ide At the close of IMMl tidties the eff irt *xl abandoned, as we could n-' longer compete with English e|i. sp Inlior and low rate* of interest. In the husinen* was re*uuied at Heikvue Almshouse, but soon was again aUamlvncd. In Mil Is-muel WrigliUof M IH* busett®. invented and pat<-npat in England thr tirst machine that made wnid-lieaahxi ]iin, hut the enterprise .ai-k'si enrouixigi ment. and it was niwrly ten years *ttti*ixiitent l'forr pin* of liis nialie were mW in lomdot}. I'erfrct% tiy this proec** were manuCvtureil dur ing tin revolution of a single wheel, ami thi* niivliltir, sines ootuidvrahly Itn nrovi d. i Up ime u>ml at pri-tit in thr .nrc's-t m.-tiiufai tot je* in Hirusinghatn Jsin-a- JiWl M vmd Ainerivann have pateiiU-d uutchiiii-* for making pin*, hut the lined *u< cessful invention was the work of a Mr Fowler. Hut the entire , iii in's* i a mystery to the uninitiated, and the vsovt is car®ftt!!y kept hidih-n i from curious eves. Aiost of tlie Ikwi t American oin* are mnde in ("onnertii-ut, after Fowler's urn.. s. In one iwtahiisb i ni'-nt are eighty-five tniu'liini-*. which eonuin'- annually many ton* of brass or inm win-, and turn out million* of pin* Hr.xss pins are whitened by long Imiling in ooppiT VI-h.-C!* containing block tin. The priHiw* of making white iron pin# i- ti!l a se.-n-t Ths-rc ore <-ight pin f.-i -tori's- in the Tuil'sl State*, with an , olinuai ptodll U '.i "I ats'Ut 7 000.UW.W0 l-ins I'in-na,- r# arc mat kisl by the u*!* of a molded piece of xvood. which exxr r-ioiii!s t those portion* repn-senting the *mail fold*, through which the huh*# an- lliaiic for the pin* to ho Seeunxi. The pin-stiekcr. usually a girl.gather* two wf 'he folds together, and pLu-'si tllwe be , txvixm the jaw* of a viix- having gr>*'Ve* ',O wrx en* a guide for the efhrv of tlie pin*. When til lei t the pap< r is released ami held Up so that the evo of the ' X i>ert at once detects every defective pin, atwi it* removal. \eeitli-s dttfi-r fntm pins in ls-ing made of idecl. and having an eye for the rs-cp rioti of tltr<-d>l, a sharjwr jMiint, and a highly-polished boily. English necdh-* <>f the b -t make* arc very elastic, the metal Mng suitably u-miwreil, and tin • ye* all finely tiui*hcii and burnished. *0 as not t< cut* the tliread A great many qpixija# aru spoilt-J while in ur. o, of ' ■cmpimig. a* the sPsd of which they 1 -ir tuiui- is ai't to he •• variable in i uunlky. *nd in a hinted state, while un , "orlt Jfcnvin/iVr Jon null. The Young Man with the Wringer. One day about a week ago a #liin wa a tobaa-o liogsivad, which stoici waiting on tlie other side of the gate for a chance to tackle some Icg xvisu x agxmt. •' I'll .-all again." whispered the a* be turned f*> go, and he meant just what li® an id. The prfwtnv of one dog did not discourage hint except for the moment. He ja*-eil up the street and in an hour returned to try again. There wna no dog there a* he .opened the gate, but iu ten .seconds after the latch clicked a bundle of teeth and bonun shot around the corner id the house and tlie agent shot across lint rood. " Now. you mark my words!" he said, a* lie shook the wringer at tti" dog, " I'll gi't in liter* if I have P> walk ovrr your deail body lie no-ant it sgwin. and in the after na>n lie returned, lie surveyed tlie yard from every point, had reason# to con clude that the dog was down cellar, xvntefiing for rat*, and finally opened the gate. School children who were w.otoh fmj say that the dog overshot tlie mark by trying to swallow the agent and wringer at one gulp, and therefore got wither; hut it was such a close shave that the young man went round the cor ner minus his h.-U and one coat-tail, lie did not return again by daylight. Per haps it was he XVho tossed the poisoned meat over the fi nee that night, and pur hap# it xva* some young man who want ed to fall in love with the good-looking girl in tlie house Some folk* may think the dog didn't find the meat, hut there are proofs to the contrary. The agent was on hand about nine o'clock the next morning, and to his great joy discovered the dog's dead body lying in the yard. The poison had done it.* work and lie was frx-c to announce the merit# of hi* xvringcr to tlie waiting family. A hoy who sat on a fence saw the dog'# eyes open a little as the agent passed through a gate. lie saw the dog softly get upon his feet after the agent had pascil tlie " body." He saxv something like a grin iToSs that canine's face as he got his leg* well under him. and then the lad fell off his roost, and only scram bled up in time to *ia- a shadow cross a vacant lot. jumping clear over the tops of old tliisth-s and never minding the frog-pond*. The boy hung around there till tue dog had swallowed everything belonging to the wringer except one cog wlpx'f, and that he buried alongside the fence to " keep " for some future meal.— Detroit FVer Press. I'ulijue. the national drink of Mexieo is derived from a large variety of the aloe plant, the sap of which is collected and fermented in buckskin slough into a turbid yellowish liquid of most vicious taste, and of a highly intoxicating qual ity. TKHMB: #2.00 a Year, in iVdvancc. lIHF.LV topics* The shark's voracity is something wonderful. When the British bark Lut terworth was iM-. alnnsl in tin tropics, n large shark was oliacrved swiiumitig around the ship. A large hook witli a chain attached wan bailed with a four pound piece of pork 'The shark made for it. I rolled it, hut in hauling hiiu UP tJic chain parted, and he coolly swal lowed the book. chain and |>rk An other hook was then hailed, w hich lie instantly seized, biting a three-inch rope in twain, and also swallowed it with another four-pound piece of |>ork. Another hook was then hailed with a similar pine of polk, mid witii this the shark was caught mid land<-d on the main deck. \\ lieu at last he was killed ami cut open, tlie large hooks, cliain and rope, togetl er with eight |MiUlids of pork, w ere found in his stomach. A recent examination of French hiack silks iu New York city showed that they were heavily adulterated. Tin- weight of dye iu American silks is slmut seven teen per cent., but the French silks show - cd a weight of from thirty Ahrce to fifty per cent The principal article used in weighting is iron. The ai.k is repeatedly inserted iu a solution of nitrate of iron- It then receives a hiu>- tint from prussialr of |Nitash, (uilowed by several oaths in pttubicr, and a tn-atm>iil witii aevtateof iron. It is then tuade bright by logwood ami soap. To uiak<- tlie ss k soft, a little oil and soda are added, while to make it stiff and rustling an acid is used. Tlie " wearing shiny i* caused hy the action of tlie soap and alkali, which develop, under friction, a sort of grease. The cracking of silk is owing to its inability to carry the great load of material used in the dying A careful estimate respecting the cir culation of the Kiltie during tlie past cen tury place* the total at the enormous nutiiltcr of nearly 150.000,000 unpic*. The Hriti*h and Foreign Society is in ad vance of any other institution ol the kind as regards tlie number of copies js-ued It was founded in IMK. mot tin* circulated upward ol Hg.faMi.iag) vouien. The Atner icaii Society, founded tliirteeiv years later, has i-aused a circulation of 35.01i0,000 Tlieae two organisations are f:ir in ad r.vmv of ali others. Next in respect of copies circulated are tlie (iennall Socie ties. which together liav-r issued b,j think that it would be inhuman to *<-nd tin-m to an asylum, wln-n-as the inhu manity is in i rniitting tln-ni to remain at liberty. Thi* is the mischief of much that lias le'n carelessly said of tin manags ment of lunatic hospital*, and which may lie refi-ired still further liaek to the mismanagement of *otneof tin-m. One ill-n-gulatal estahlisbment may tiring a great many well-regulated re treat* of tin- kind into disrepute. Mr. Edwin ltih tsodotilH has strong opin ion* u|Hin tin* suhiia-t. and so would . very r-ader of thi* have after escaping from a similar peril." Mr. I, 1 >elmonico. tlc celebrated N-w Y'ork ntaurat-ur. lias le*-ii b-iiing tlie public the le>t way of ixM>kiii|{ fish, boiling Mx-ms to him tbe"mo*t ®giti mate, a* xiell n quiek<-st and most con venient. His dim-tion i* to " put them in ixild spring water—the lea* the quantity of water that the fi*h . an Is- ImiiiM in the twtter—willi a handful of salt. Huh a little vinegar on the skin of the fish, to prevent it from cracking, and to make the tbsh solid. Ten minuti-s to the pound *hould lie allowed for a salmon, and ttin*- or four minute* for .almost any other kind: but a gtsnl general rule i that the !i*h is done wln-n tin- fin.* pull out easiiv." Mr. lh-lnionico ai*i> sav* that broiled fisli should lw "i-arofuilv split in two from head to tail, dried. M-asoned with salt and pepper, go-an-d with a little oil (which is preferable to butter), and broiled to a nice brown color, tlie gridiron having Ixi-n pre viously well greased, too:" and that small fish may in- " deliciousiv frii*i in oil. after dipping in milk and then flour, or in very hot gnw*e. after lxeir.g breadad with Is-aten egg-i and crumbs." lWpite someone's dismal prophecy 1 that cm nreount of nrbdn in the i heavenly bodies during IHHI. the earth will Im> orcr*helmed by o'ti)en<-c ; famine nnd other disaster* too numerous j :o mention, an astronomical writer says: " There will l>e no catastrophe in I**l The conjunction of the four great planets at perihelion is not going to take place. ,It is an idle ware. It i true that the longitude of the |>erihelion of these three i )>latieta will brine them somewhat n-ar each otlier. Jupiter will lie in perihelion, I think, atmut tHet. Saturn will be in conjunction near that time, and Neptune will not he near enough to helwanv mis ! chief Uiat may IK- fearis!; wliWe the |o -->ition of the planet Uranus in the heavens in IHSI wililie al*ut Its degrees right viYttdon. Every one hundred , years we have five conjunctions of Jupi ter and Saturn, and always have had without the least damage thus far. Be ing in conjunction so near to Jupiter's perihelion may possibly produce higher tides than usual, as Jupiter's position will bo twenty-three million miles nearcr | ttie sun and the eartli than lie is at his mean distance. I>rt us not delude our selves, nor he frightened by chimeras. A Lawyer on llis Profession. At the annual dinner of the New York Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Joseph 11. I Choate responded to the toast " 1 ten eh and liar—lilesscd are tlie peacemakers." and said among otlier things: " I do not believe that a hodv of merchants with their stomach* full have any distrust of the institution that 1 represent. (Jen. tlrnicn. vou have the bar always with vou, and so the lawyers will always lie vour *un' and steadfast companions. Isird Uacon. who was one of the gmit -st lawyers of liis day, said that every man owes a debt to his profession, hut 1 think that can be omentua! on liehalf of ihe lawyers. Every man owes a duty to our profession, and sometime Ix-t ween the cradle and the grave lie must ac knowledge the liability and pay the debt. Why, gentlemen, you cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you can not die without them. It was one ol the ablest members of our profession who had liespokcn his passage for Eu rope. hut failed to go. and for an ex planation said. 'Yes. lie had intended to go. hut one of liis rich clients had died and lie was afraid if he had gone across the Atlantic the heirs would have got all the property.' [Laughter], When I look around at this solid body of mer chants. all this heaped up and idle capital, I lielieve that the fortunes of the bar are yet at the lieginning. (lentle men, the future is all liefore us. We have no sympathy with Communism, hut like the C imniunists we have every thing to gain and nothing to lose. Witli reference to the remarkahjfrnhraseologv of the toast, 'Blessed HIT the peaee makers,' I believe that is true. I lielieve that if you devote yourselves assiduously and long enough to our profession that it will result in perfect peace. For you never knew of a suit, if it was prosecuted vigorously enough, at the end where there wan anything left for the parties to quarrel over. I will take my seat, exhorting vou to do justice to the pio fession of the bar." NUMBER 23. FOR THE FAI II HEX. XartlllH In HUllntir- Wry iiiudl cott*gc-!iapd lionncu and the picturesque lnrii< shape* have both tmh'ii adopted, a* milliner* predicted the)' would be. Home of the he worn with various noMBK) are ninll cloae shapes of Tusi-aa straw. or c!w ecru rliip. trimmed with I""!**' crmini-o lured *tin ribbon and a widr Un ion hue barlw tluU form* a bow on (jit. crown and alao airing*; inside the brim ia shirred aatin. and tlw flower* on top arr cither chrysnutlieniutii* or row*. This in a charming bonnet to wear with elaborate • oatumc* of blank grenadine, •ilk and aatin The Ix-aded blue lamnete to wmr with variou* drcsae* are cither cloae •bade*, or rlw liiry hare Marie Antoinette flaring fronta; tinwe are alao moat often trimmed with white chrtsaa themutux. liiy huda. MM and a harbe of Breton lace. Simpler t.nncu of black chip are edged witli lieaded laee, or ciae thev are daintily trimmed with a jabot of Intfian muslin and lace on the right aide, tmie aaucy |erketi-up loop* of black **t in ribbon on tiie left, a hunch of wbitt lilac* tr of chrysanthemum* on top. and four narrow atringa, two of which are while aatin ribbon and two black. In side the brim ia ahirrcd black aatfn. on which rtaala a tow of white Breton lar-j*. To make thiaatill lighter, the brim may lie faiad with ahirred wilite mUaiin. Other black chip bonneta have an Al tai ian how and airing* made of a white Breton lace barbe • this ia suite far back on tlte crown, while in front of it it a eluatcr of black ostririi tip*; tlie brim ia edged with targe jet heada. and a cre scent of jet ia in the center of the la** bow. For light mourning are very dre#y Unmet* of black chip. trimmed with black < 'hina crux* edged with black Breton lare. rhrcnit*' iitwiiid Muund the crown, and held by jet star*. A wing i# attick in the tan k quit# xtw down. The large Mart# Antoinette bonnet* an- pointed in Uo- tniddl< of the tront* and one of the flaring side# i* UN in quite low down with flower*. Thi# i# * fanciful shape that should 1* worn only by very young fn*h fiu***. and wiii prob ably Ix* more worn in Saratoga and New- IMirt than the cloae cottage *htip** now i *o much liked for city trrei*. One of the freshest novelties lur the watering-place* i an imported "poke of Tuscan straw trimmed with white dotted mu*!in. The *idea and crown of the bu*tii4 are chaw to the head, while the brim pokes far Up oer the forehead, and ia lined with a full gatlo-red pnff of oft twilled foulard silk Polka-dnJjWd Swiss muslin rover# part of the uke . brim tilainlyjMid ia gathered bark to form a pufled Awarian bow on the emwn. Thi# fxiW i* heid in place by an ineh wide and of pink satin ribbon thai ■ iiaase* nround the crown and i* tied in a pert laiw on tlie larger muslin how. A Lunch of red cberri* with natural-look - j ing pale given leave* and woody stem* is on the left side. A tiny how made of the Tuscan liraid i* lie low the crown on the back. Price 830. Cherry bonnet# are alco novelties. Tlovc are close cottage #hap*# of white Indian muslin. shirnvi. or el*# of tulle. With til# smooth broad crow n trimmed with many parallel row* " round am! round "of red iridescent tx-ad. The ! Irim is nearly concealed by the green leave* of the cherry, while on it# dges i and around the entire bonnet is a fringe of drooping *tnall clierrie* s!iad*-d frotu red to black. The string* are a harbe of white Breton lace. Similar bonnet# are made of whit# crepe Jisse with the cherry brad#. etc., and alo entirely of jet lieiuls. Old gold braid, one or two inches wide, faces the brim* of black chip round hats and bonnet*. There ore also iet galloons showing nothing but the !c*ds uanl for fat ing the brims of black atin or jet Itonnct* Still :ng reared all her eliildr-w i# about to re-enter the ministry. She was the first woman ever ordained to preach in thi# country. Mis# Abbie Colby, formerly head nurse at the N-w England hospital fiw women and children. lias li*ft for Onalas- Wa. Japan, where she is to labor a a ■ missionary. Madame Beab\jeod. a regular author iz<*d Rua# : *n doctor, courageously visited professionally 2.000 women at their ' home* in the plague-infected district of Wet llan ka. Mrs. Mary I. Carpenter. action! super intendent of Winnebago College, Tin. has asked and obtained permission to in clude an educational exhibit in the dis j play at the next county fair. Miss Wordsworth, daughter of the i Bihop of Lincoln. and grand-niece of the poet. i# to be lady principal of the college f.ir young ladies prup*>scd to be i established shortly at Oxford. England. The wag*s of male and female MwlKtl '■onie nearer to lwing equal in Colorado than in any other Slate of tlie Union. , | Men average $49.90 per month pay, woman 846.95 less than $3 difference. in England thousand# of women are employed in hardware manufacturing establishments. especially in the finish of line steel instruments, making oar | l ridges, percussion caps, files steel i pens and tlie like. The third day of the third month is kept as a special holiday for girls in Japan, and every toy-shop is decorated with large number* of dolls or hinas, representing the Emperor and Empress, warriors, nobles, the spirits of Suniiyoslii •ind Tnkasngo. baml# of musicians and like personages, and with all kinds of furniture, games and ornaments to suit the site of tlie dolls. The Extent of Freemasonry. The following statistics of the numlwr of Freemasons' lodges which existed at the end of Inst- year, say* tlie Ixmdoii Family Herald, will be read with inter est: In Germany there are 31*2 lodges; Switzerland has 33: Hungary 44: Kou niania, 11; Servia 1; England and Wales, 1.187; Sdotland, 334; Ireland, 899; Gib ralter. 5; Malta. 4; Holland and Luxem burg. 40; Belgium, 15; Denmark, 7; Sweden and Norway, 18; France, 287; Spain about 300: Portugal, 22; Italy, 110; Greece, 11; Turkey. 16; Egypt, £8; Tunis. 2: Algeria, 11; Morocco. 2; tlie West Coast of Africa, 11; African Islands, 25; the Cape. 61; Arabia (Aden), 1; India. 118; Indian Islands, 16; China, 73; Japan, 5; Australian 4: Australia, 289; New Zealand, H4; United States, 9.594; Canada. 535: Cuba. 30; j llavti, 32; West Indian Islands. 65; I Mexico, 13; Brazil. 256; other States in i South America, 179; a total of about . 5,000 lodges. The number of members. Never make light ofa lantern-jawed man. Raral Seciery. TU Wild baa oar Uts (watrta SoogM hnaay tor bar Wea, Tba itmm earns tsapt ng from Ua roak A# though it wsrs all vs. While tba sol stun mountain trowalag BehM Ha daeioaa way, And like a man tor, old and atara. ltsprovsd the thooghUeas play. Tha erimaoa mini* flauatad Uka lover through tha glade. Aad paid gay homage to tha flowers In beauty'* gait.array'd, * Bet lightly there betore him Tha haouaiag-Unt would rove. While bird and hall with raptura thrillad To moat hi* kka ot Wi Tha baatla aad tha butterfly Mat on Utah ghUaring track. Tha anad moved oowsrd. alow aad aura, Ilia houaa upon hi* back; And lite to all waa beeutdul, Aa, Uka thajowalod my, Tbay gleamed l waUua ejoywnee ewwd un that bright summer* -lay Ob. trail and winged craaturaa ' that parwh ia an boor, Math ink* ya ara our teacher*. Mi l all our pump and powar. Mid all our vaaat of laaraing. Mid all our pride at away. Ma piuiul, aad teach o* Mature ya pea*away; How to he aimply happy Amid a ootid eo tair, And ia the eonfldenre of truat Accept oar Father'* aara —Mr*. /. H. Higowrntf ITEMS OF INTEREST. An inn-specter—A hotel giioat. liailntonen do a atuaalting bunineaa. M iaa-Conatru ctb >n —Wltaiehone, paiat, powdt r . and ao forth. When the lunga are in any way affoctod the pulae beata more rapidly. After ail telegraphic repairer* are tha beat wire puller* in the country. ••('htnli" i said to be derived from chiut, Hindoo word for variegated. For atM-ceaafttliy making ita mark in the world amaibpox can pit itae.f againat any known diaeaae. When Tennjaon aald, "Forward, tha light brigade, wa* he addreaaing the petroleum producer*' It ia taid of larf-d Beaconafieid that there are two tiling* lie never poaaeaaed —a watch and an umbrella. The receipt* tor school purpurea in Ohio laid year were and the expenditure* f7.0tt5.1Jf5.45. There were 419 Urea, involving a total ! lot' of f4.075.17tt, in New York city during the first quarter of IttTtt One of the citizen* of New York * tales hia occupation aa *' luixik-iarmer.'' Perhaps hi* burinem ia raising cheek*. Philadelphia imnaier* in WHt to wlo bral* the second reaUnniai of Uie settle mcnt of Pennsylvania bv Wiiljjin I'enn. ! The event i* to be made a* gf .ri-m* aa ' waa the signing of the lb clam! ion of In dependence by the Centennial Kxpoaition of 1876. Tlie man who atuek to hia color* waa the patnU-r who aal down in one of hia ( paial pot*. A statue of Sir Janus Young Simpson, the inventor of chloroform, ia about to 4 be placed in W eat minster Abbey. ' It is eatimated that the prod action of iron in Uie United Slate* ta 187 V will cuuai the cxeeptioaiaiiy productive years of 1879 and 1873. Tlie ararf around a little boy * neck in Mankato, Mina. caught on a nail when he jumped out of a window, and he waa c hoked to death. There ia a walking ciub In New York, tlie members of which take long waika through the country around the m tropoua every Sunday. One little boy said to another that it wa nice to aev the awnßowa back again; wliereupon tlie other aaid he couidn t ae I their bmk* they flew ao last. Tl.e reign of law lemma* ia aaid lo be , Mimpletely over in I lead wood. Black Miils. There ia a flourishing temperance •orb ty. and only one gambling-room is left. A roe Wot. a foot ia diameter, with a blazing train, fell at Worthington. , Minn., exploding just before reaching the earth with a noise that shook the buildings. A writer in Ind*H> TVwtA aaya: "I lieiieve it is an undoubted fact that fully one-half of tlie beef aold a* English, j Scotch and Irish in England is in reality. j American." In Windfall. Ind.. recently, a man and his wife got to that point of disagree ment so graphically described in *' Betsy and I Art- Out." They decided to Sep. irate, and the assets of' the partnership were divided up until onlv the haby was ieft. when the father said. " If you will leave the baby wMi me 1 will give you a good cow." Tlie mother considered a moment, and decided that a good cow was worth iwenty-ftve dollars, and tba 1 baby—well, pretty poor property. So . she took tlie cow. A hardy sailor—Valentine Roper—is the only snrvivor of tlie crew of tlie sobooncT(loklen (iate. which sailed from San Francisco nortiiward three weeks i .igo. Tlte craft wae waterlogged in a .-ale. and six sailor* were imuiediately i drowned, while seven laalied themselves j to tlie rigging. The former wet* luckieat. I for the ottiers all died of survstion. one , by one, except Roper. Tliey had nothing to eat. save a few raw potatoes that floated ut> from the vessel a storee. and several toll caught by hand. A caidn I>oy held out longest of those who , di<"d. Roper was eleven days without food. and. when picked up, was a raving maniac. " Angelina:*" cried Theodore, melo dramatically, "may I call you mine, wholly mine? Oh. say thai I may. dearest." " Well, let me see." answered the saucy fair one with provoking de li bcration; "I aiu hardly prepared to capitulate unconditionally, to sign a de finite treaty surrendering inv autonomy in pcrpctuam; hut I think I should not olyect to entering into amicable rela tions. according .ou all privilegea by the most favored fellows." The poor frllow tliouglit she was mak ing fun of him and botred hurt. But she soon took means to reassure him, and a treaty offensive and defensive was iramediHtefy entered into. And sealed? Welt, rat has".—Boston Trantrript. Tlie old gentleman who threw the paper down the other morning with tbe * Impatient ejaculation, "Ob. there"* noth ing in it!" and went out to look at his garden, was the same one who, coming bark half an hour latT and discovering that his wift* had cut up the paj*r into patterns, thereupon ripped around like lit yellow jatket, broke an important comniaiiduient and a window pane by kickinz a cat through it. turned over a bucket of Ciabber on the new carpet and the bahv. and finally departed with a slam of tlie door iiiat clattered the crockery to tlie uttermost parts of the Itouse. and with a withering malediction on " these gawi-husted women, any how !"— l/w**vilU li urwr-JvurmU. TUX* A*o sow. Talking of tbe prevailing ilrpwwiai of tlie ngricultursl intenet. I w* rustling doggerel the other day descriptive of what used to be oonnidered a pn>|er distribution of busiute* on a farm, and how the farming class now de i their noik: M*n. to the plow; Wife, to tlie cow; Girl, to the sow; Boy, to the mow; And your rent* will be netted. Man, tntly-ho' Mim>. piano; Wife, silk find satin; Boy. Greek und I -a tin; And you'll he gazetted. —London Truth Jests from Kiggs' "Recorder." Out of print—The letter B. Now doth the golden butterfly over the rural gutter fly. Tbe flower of the family needs careftil looking after at this season. The days have arrived when women wliodunotownandcannot borrow a seal skin saetjue feel that they are just ju- good as those who are able either to own or borrow. His name was Wrath, and when he asked her to Iw hia. a lie vqrtiy replied. " I'm more tlutn half a mind to ke Wrathy, too." Arid they two concluded to become one. That is lrow he won her.