He Paid Hit Own Bill*. Ot mar SST inane a hittwr thing. Oh, world, whan I am gone, gnn* tar away To that dim land where ahinee no light ot day. Sharp wa the bread tor my soul's nourishing TAhieh late allowed; and bitter wee the spring Of which I drank and maddened, eren aa they Who, wild with thirst at eea, will not delay Rut drink the brine and die ot ita keen ating. Not gentle we* my war wdh chance, and yel I borrowed no man'a sword—alone 1 draw And gave my alain (It burial out ot view. In aeoret places 1 and aorw* met; So when yon count my nine, do not torgei To aay 1 taxeo not any one ot you. Pkutp flcarka .Varthat lieserted Fifth Avenue. Be inrly csndle light I w nn.ler teitli I pen Fitlh avenue and the adiotinng streets How silent, how dissertod are these tuarhle halls, The homes of wealth and luxury. Scarce the glimmer ot a chain hw light is accii. Hie purloin alt tunerally clossd. Pie tolks are out ot town, Ihe tissementa only show sou.* signs ol ble. \- Ann and Rndgel. Lett to keep the house. Pier* loiter at hour ol early eve. To breathe tr sh air and gossip With Komwlsnian No. 7.652. V rat with stealthy traad teals o'er the way, ■ ntent on theft or commune with sunt o:!.rt cat. Ha! Who are these' so stealthily |w>epiig turth \s though in tear iU lias outside in ambush, eh' sitting well ensconced within the hall. In dreeaw .lark and somber. Theee * T K i* is the family. Who tor strong reason Have stay ed m town this season. \V Ih> timidly a* night utihar the diior t'Uv-tsf iu the -lay. and tti deserted outwarvt look V'lUitenqxvraneous with the rest 1 turn away my head. I know their |win. They wish not to tw seen ivt men. They're theoretica.ly out ot town. I will not e'en spy ivnt their number. This is true charitv . —Arr Fort llraphu. The Little Old Woman and Her Cows. A STOUT FKtMC OVtK THE SEAS. Oudeiuwlc is a town in the Nether lands; perhaps the guide fxwiks sped it Audiuante. hut long ago, when she livetl there, thr country was known as Flan ders. and the name of the town begun with A). They were times of trouble then on account of the wars. The men were nearly all off lor soldiers whether they wanted to go or not; and the towns, winch all had high wails round them for defence, fell first into the hands ot one army and then of the other, and fighting was the chief business. This woman, whose name was I'etro nilla, lived just off the road between Oudenarde and Ghent, which were twelve miles apart; but she belonged to the former place, though she lived a good way outside, and never went ther* now; for not only did she feel too o'.d for the walk, but the town had a garri son of soldiers in it. and was in danger of being attacked s.ny day. and she had seen trouble enough without going to seek it. She was more than seventy years old. and lived alone except for her cat. And she was so poor that she had a.uic-t nothing but two cow-, and those -It would not have had long it the soldiers had thought tliem worth driving off; but as they were not much more than skin and lione. she vva- left in peaceful of them. Being a pious woman, when she said her prayers at night she never forgot to sav that the cows were a great deai to Is* thankful for. On the lew pints ol milk they gave, and tin . • barb y bn ad, -he managed to live, and also to keep her cat in got*! condition. The cat—his name was Solomon—had belonged to her son I'eter. So had tic cows, which he had raised from calves visa they had a nice farmstead of their own. and ail was prosperous with them. Now the farm was gone, the hot-s --and the cattle, all but the cows. She hail only them and the eat. Her husband was dead: and I'eter wa lost. lie had ! '-en foreed into tin- wars, and now for eleven vears no tidings of him had ever reached her. But she always prayed for him as if he was alive, and never gn-*e over the hope that he might come back —a mother nev*r does. That was why she still lived near Oudenarde". be* -au-c if die went away, and lit* should eoni? hark, how could h* ever find her? Could he anyway, for her old neigh ors were all gone, and the war had eh .nged everything? She had found shelter in a little, old hut with a thatched roof. The walls looked ready to fail down, and the thatch had rotted so that it let in the rain: hut she kept it sweet and airy. In fair weather the door always stood wide open, showing the clean, clay floor, a small fireplace with the dinner-pot, which had nothing in it. hanging on th* crane, two wooden benches, a table and a bed. a brass lamp, some pewter and wooden dishes, and a ru-ifix ar.d picture of the Virgin. Tlcie was a square window with latticed bars acros.-* it in checkers, and on the ledge wa always a mug of flowers, and beside it in sunny days usually sat the eat. which was salmon-colored and immensely large. This was how the house looked one Septem IST afternoon at sunset. I'ttro nilla had just milked the cows, and boll: of them were safe for the night in a little yard at the end of the house. She stood, in the door looking first at the small quantity of milk in the wot den dipper she held in her hand, anil th<*n at the cows, and saw that they were leaner than ever. Th'*r h" gazed off upon the dusty, dried-up Heads, on who*** out skirts they had picked up their scanty living, w I tile she sat by watching tliem with knitting-work in h*r hands; tle re was almost nothing left for them; what should she do? Then she thought of the great meadows along the river toward Oudenarde; broad and green she could see them far away this side the town. There the grasses grew rank and high : and in this time of fear no man cared for them, or would dare to cut them. A force ol soldiers had just gone into garrison tlipre, the gates were kept shut and guarded.the inhabitants dared not stir outside; and at any moment the men of Ghent might march down and attack them. It wr-s no trespass to gather grass from the river valley. The longer she looked the more she felt that she could get some, and that she ought to do it. When she had made up her mind felt easier, and her face showed it. It v s a good face; brown, because she lntd been out of doors so much, wrinkled in a row of furrows clear across ber forehead, and wrinki"d about her eyes and chin, but it was kind and p. ' ! ent. She tied a dark handkerchief over her clean white cap, and tucked her small checked shawl closer about her neck and crossed it on leer bosom outside of her brown woolen gown, then she put a strong cord into her pocket which she wore hanging from her belt, and took her stall' from behind the door, and set out: but just before she crossed the 'threshold she looked down at Solomon, who sat there and said, "Solomon, you keep house till I get baek. It won't be before midnight/' Women who live alone' with cats are apt to confide, things to them. „ , It was a lonesome walk, ana a weary one for a woman of her years, but the thought of her poor cows kept her up. The >'ht was beautiful, the air was miid, and the starlight so clear that she could easily find her way. and yet it was not bright enough to betray her to any one who might he wandering about, which indeed w s a very unlikely ttnng to happen, fo everybody, except a few stray cottagers ike hem 'lf, was safe within the walls of the town; and as for the enemy, tiny were twelve miles off in Ghent. Besides its own strong defences Oude narde was further protected by great ditches, deep and broad, along the mead ows, so that it was considered safe from attack on that side. When Petronilla FRED. KUKTZ, Kditor and Proprietor. VOLUME XII. reached the outermost of these ditohea siie was much surprised to find that there wjts no water in it. but being anxious to gather her hundie of grass, she fell to work, pulling it ui by long handful*, until she had secured as lnucii as she txMild carry, and had just, tied it with the cord, when a strange thing hap p< tied, ami site soon cariosl something terv important about the ditch Titough her hearing was mt as gvaxl as it once had luvn. she was sure that two or three person* were talking not far awa\. and that they were coming nearer. She instantly palled off bercnp that its snow \ whitem-* might not at tract attention. muffled herself to the eyes in her kerchief, and crouched low among the tufts of reeds And none too soon, for tuen Iwgan to pass close hv her. earning long .adder., which nearly swayed against her, so near were tin > She dared not stir, and could not raise her eyes to -cc higher than their knees; but as the feet went hy her face. vine pair after another, she counted; and there were four hundred men. What was the meaning of she gath ered qui* k.v enough, tor the u aders '.a.k loi t r their t an> tuoal over her head. They were Ex*. the men of Ghent, come at midnight after long marching to surprise Uudenarde. They said tliat most ot the garrison and the great officers were away, feeling that all was safe—thev had sent -pics wlio found this out —and that the town was careless'.v guarded, and what was worse, that the inhabitants had drawn the water out of the diteh<"s to get the fish, ami along these channels the enemy could now approach vcn to the walls, and by means of their scaling-ladders cliiub over. As soon as the men had all gone by. lVtronilla, though shaking with terror, hurried as best as her leet could hobble hy a short path she k|iew to the just where the mptiid ditch would give them a place of advantage. The sentry was going his rounds, and tiinling all was well, would soon have passed out of hearing, but she hegnn to nroan ami cry as it in distress, ana hear ing her. he came back and asked her what was tlie matter. Then in a quavering voice she told her storv. which he knew not what t<> think of; being only a poor sentinel obeying orders, what "should he think when an old woman started up before hiui at midnight lagging him to alarm the g vr rison. when the commander had felt secure enough to leave everything just as it was? But he was humane. <o he treated her kind's , anil asked her to stop and r st herself, but she said ; "No; if 1 don't hurry away 1 ihall W a dead woman." When she had gone, the thought earn* to hint hosv trite and kind her voice was. and what an honest woman -he seemed. "She made me think ot my poor mother, who has been dead thi -o many yeaps. I fear." Because of this, he s-tid he would g" and from the highest place and watch and listen, which he did; but not a sound broke the t illness except the cry of a night-bird on the nt' idow; nothing was stirring, even the old wo man was nowhere to lie seen. Indeed, she luui made haste to get back to the plate where she saw tin men. who remained as sh>- had left them, all hut four, who were iu<t I* ing sent onward with orders front their leader not to speak, not t> cough or sneeie, hardly even to breathe, but to go as near the walls as possible without startling the watchman. r lonnoiter. and bring back word. This they did; and I'etronilla waited to hear the report in dread and sorrow, for she was sure there was not a light burning in ail the town and that the people wi re sound ase-ep in their b' ds, never dreaming of danger: and when the spies returned, their words only added to her misery. They did not see so much as a lighted candle, they said, and they belief* it that tin -entinei had liectt his rounds and had gone to tied; and now it was proposed to prepare for a start, enter the ditch :.nd move on to the walls. Then poor tins! old IVtroniiln -tai :<■ i again, and npp*ared once more to tie astonished watchman, who w .- -till keeping a -.harp lookout, and toul liiin all she liad jut heard, and that it was the last lie would see of her that night. " Hut," she said. " if evil do* s eotue to the town and you es -atie. tuy hut can shelter you from harm. It is the tirst on the road to Call* nt She told him this because he had a civil, pleasant way. which made her think of her dear boy. l'eter. And now the man. fully alarm* d. went round to the gate that was tlm-stemd, where he found the soldiers of the guard crowded about a dim light playing dice, with three or four flasks oi wine U side them: they wete his superiors ie rank, so he addessed them as "Gcntdiien!" and a-kisi if th> ir gn!* and harriers were all secure, because an old woman had been to liim and told him that a band of men were on the'r way to take the town. "Oh, ho!" they cried, "our gates ar> fast enough. A bad night to the old woman who has come at such an hour to alarm us! l'rohahly she saw soim* cows and calves that had come untied, and stie fancied they were men ot Ghent coming here. They have no such inten tions." Meantime. Petronilla, leaving her bundle of gra-s where it lay. wearily and sadly plodded horn** that she might he take herself to bed while she was aide to get there; and the cows went without any supper. While she lay awake, for sleep she could not, the terrible tiling she feared came to pa-s. The guard, careless at their post, who scorned her message, were surprised at their game. The four hundred had come over the walls by their scaling-ladders and gained tie market place, where they were heard shouting: "Ghent! Ghent!" The startled people sprung in horror from their beds, only to sec that it was too late to save their town, even if tin ir own lives were secure. It was an awlul night of fighting and pillaging: and the sight which tin* next morning's sun looked upon was of streets full of armed men, houses hrok< n open, confusion and destruction and death everywhere; and out through the now open gab* a multitude of women an<l children, in th clothes tlicy sltep in, barefoot and half-naked, fleeing for their lives before the men of Ghent, who were driving them as if they had been cattle; and the poor fugitives, glad to escape on any terms, went running off on every road except tic- one to the enemy's city: and in the end found refuge ia other towns, where the hus bands and fathers of some of t hem after ward joined them, but the most were the same as if they were widowed and orphaned. There was only one nerson who dared take the road to Ghent, and he crossed out to it over the fatal meadow, hut left it as soon as he saw at one side the lean ing cottage, with the little cow-pen be side it. where Petronilla lived. Tlic sentinel had escaped, witli his outer gar ment torn away and a gash across his shoulder; hut he had kept safe sewed within his leathern doublet a pouch of gold which he had laid by for his old mother's support, if ever he should come back to Oudenarde. Since he came lie had heard that she had been some years missing from the farmstead, which had l>een ruined by the wars, and that surely she must be dead. lie thought that perhaps he would give this gray-haired woman some of it now for lus mother's sake. llow anxi ous she had seemed, wnat a faithful soul she was to do so much, how old she was to have walked so far, and how kind her invitation had been! This was her hut, then! How poor it THE CENTRE REPORTER. was And those tw > cows looking over the fence and lowing mournfully how lean and starvivl the. Were ' the holts* door w is open, aii<! a eat eatue out, salmon colored Where had he ti such a cat of that queer tailor? Shi growled ilid put Up lii i bin k arid stal led in, .hen stopped and h- -ked around in dismay as he culled "Solomon' 'solo tuon' It IS IUV very eat. Solomon'" Then something else happeinal, for a toll e el led from the Ixd W llliill ■•Ob. IN 1.1 ■ Yes. I'l tielli seeping '.ate after !l'l night's adventure, divanuat oftheenti lii .. alld IVtel - wotd- awoke tli'l *A >UI> as sfie was I'etrollli.a, lie w i- I'eter \Y bat tuorc is tin !i 1 I" tn.ii Why, that they lioth agna-d that it was henl to get aw av from thtdsnarde as last aa their feet could carry thetu. l'he house might si r*a as -!n-.ti rUI -nine pout lu.-i live, l'he dinner-pot they would nave with souyelxidv who In wlu rewitlial to buy a dinner to cook in it And tin lew |n>—--ions of tlie departing house keeper should be lett for her -uen—uv But So oniiiii tin v tiMik w itli tliein in a bag. and the two sorry-looking eow* the\ drove In fiei- thvui to a more fertile a- we!, a- peaceful iar.d " IK-I-IUI-I-." -aid i'eter. "if it had not Ix-cti for the .to*-, we never should have found each other )\mth's (WHPINIUII. A Zulu Artist. M. Kttanda writes to tin Art IttUr 1-Ao'n.a- from Zululaiul as follows 1 will give you the hi-torv of one Zulu artist that I knew. His name was I'qonqota. [Hlea.sc sirike the mot of your mouth twice with your tongue, making a noise like a small hammer and tln-n you wii! get the pronunciation of his name.] lie tied to Natal with bis wife, to escape the sentence of death which AYty wayo had passed on him for being suspected of witchcraft. 18-spent his time in carving wooden and ivory spoons, snuff-boxes of many curb tie-, made of vegetable ivory, ete., and al-o from reeds, all painted and ligund. Bead work lie exec.led in , .-o modern pillows with liligri-e carving, wooden milkpails. ivory and bone perspiration -crapei s with a -nui! -;-oon . end and bone comb- that looked .ike three titled l'.g-k-. With these fork- th-y dre-s the hair in fantastic de-igns Wh.-n an ox i-ki*d in rib- ar- tasen •are of to make tin -, u-efn: ti •■-. 1 inu-t tell you Is fore 1 forget ihat I pm pitn was also a noted poet and -ang hi ovvn compositions as be earvi-d or painted the -nuff-laixes and tnu-ica reeds, lb could draw very well considering he never had a le--,in, and hi- silhouettes were made with the sp< ar red hot, burn ing the tigures very evenly h.aek though they were hideous representations. 1 regret not having a few copies tor the cup and -aueer fainter- of New York to i-opy. for they would have admired them hugely- Thi- Zulu artist was indeed a vi ry original character, lb- often paid us a visit to see the sewing ninehine, and would solemnly exe'aim. "The white man wii -o<>n "find the iftedieine to cure death." He tried to imitate some of our tiling-, and showed mueh taste for pie turi-s. Hi- pottery was nmre graceful and the ornamentations looked lifelike. By liis great industry in ait In- -oon ae ■juired a large fortune, namely, three wives and a kraal fuil of -attie. calve and goats; but he did not n tire from business; he would psl.lle his armlets md leglets, necklaces, spoons, spear-, •tc , far and wide over the eountrv At last he ha<i filled an earthen !•-. fu of Kuglish moni-y. and he thought hecou.d n--i titer the Zulu country unknown, to buy more cattle. t buy uiore wives, to la* a greater aristocrat, when lie un cxpectedly met one of t Vty way o's jaiiie.-- inen who was watching for runaway- to Natal, and a sjx-ar too wc.i aimed fc..el him to the ground. A Thumping Fish glory. Kstimatcd by tin ir game ,pi cities and the difficulty sometimes experienced in s.afely landing them, the larger sixvi luens of >ur mountain trout w* igh like ■i sturgeon. This fart i- * -tabiished whenever the trout, hooked in a i>oi with sufficient depth undspr* ad of water can bring to bear in hi- native el*-until the full r* listing force of hi* remarkably strong and active tail, 1. ustritive <*: this, a story is told of the experience of two professional fishers who r*■*■■ ntly went out from Helena to the Hig Black lotif. one a doctor and the other a iaw vcr. In a very brief time th > had a la-kt of Iwauties for th* ir pains, hut tic fascina tion of the sport kept tlcin tossing tin ir flies into tic clear water- of the magnifi cent stream. Finally on*' man hooked a " liouneer." one on which he had most vt arned to try his-kill. The pool was deep and broad. .and. work and tin* -*■' is the doctor might, tin* trout In Id to the water. The fnw\ r, n-sting his com panion. tried his strength and tact, but with no better luck The trout warned quite master of the -ituation. m>r could tie bo towed or tuckered out. The con test finally culminated in a most exciting -.•one. Determined to secure the priz*', and forgetting he could not swim, the valiant doctor, throwing aside coat ami IMM*t S, jumped into the depths <>f the stream. It was a rash act. and to save him tic lawyer was forced to plunge in after him. A fair swimmer, lc r* a. h* 1 his struggling companion, and holding on to the pole and tackle with one hand, lifted with the other hi- companion's lead above water. But the lawyer found lie roulil not bring his burden to shore, and only by superhuman effort could he k'-ep himself and companion from sinking. On the very point of drowning the trout came to the rescue, traightened out the line, and after a few portive pranks battled tic two men out of the pool to shallow water. Grateful f<*r the service thus obligingly rendered, the lish was permitted to disappear over the riffle down stream. This story i eonfirncd by the testimony of loth the gentlemen concerned and by the trout itself, which has since been seen towing the tackle up ami down the waters of t.e Blackfoot.— Helena (Montana) llrr nUl. _______ Fruits for Food. Henry Ward Beerber says there i no sense in the old familiar motto. "Fruit is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night." His reasons for this opinion lie thus states: Because, with a limited experience, people perceive that some folks can eat fruit at onetime tnd not at another, ticy lay down this rule for ail. The caw s win re fruit is unhealthy at night are the exception It is Inn that in tropical climates, heavy ruit, difficult to digest, ought not to he taken at night. But the fruits thai are on our North-' •♦i farms are all healthy, as a rule. Among the excellent small fruit are cur rants, gooseberries, raspberries, stinw- Icrrics, grapes, mulberries—tlcsc last are a very much neglected fruit; then is no Is'tter fruit tree for children than the Downing'* ever-hearing mulberry. One of them will ts-ar fruit for eight or t< n weeks steadily, constantly ripen ing, and pleasing all the fowls and tur keys, children and old folks. I would rather have this mulberry to-day than a strawberry. The common mulberry is flat and sweet; hut this has a tine sprightly arid taste, as finely combined as lemonade. As you go up, you l ave the apple, which is the patriarch, or the Ahraliam, of all fruits. If I had to choose hut one fruit out of all in the world, I should decide for the apple. For uses of every kind, early and late, | winter or summer, cooked or raw, ap ple is king. Then comes the < berry, then the pear, then the plum and the peaeh- I have not mentioned oranges, because they are not raisable in the North; hut they ought to he eaten at the right time, which is all the time from getting up in the morning till you go to lied at night. The man with whom they disagree is i t he exception. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, SEPT EM HER 4, 1870. TIIUUtS BLANCH t KU. 111, Intfllat ol WacNlnr* fot Turslsi IrrrguUt tovm*. A brief biography of ('homos Blaneh arvl, tin inventor of the mechanical com I.inatioii foi turning irregular forms, who di.-d at I tost oil ill I s '-• b.* JU*t IK. II rioted I'll, writer, \-tll \N al r*. snv* that a.though the name of Tholiias If.am-hard t* not o popuiailv known a* many oiln-rs who have achieved f.atiie froin singl. invention*, the writer l>o!dly a*<Tt* that "it may be questioned w hetlier another inventor can be named in thi* country or in Kuroiie, during the ia*t century, who ha* protiu.etl so maiiv ditb it til tbot -iv ing luachim *, applies hi.- to *u.-li a great variety of u*< * ami which have contributed *.• largely to the cotiitmui tiet-i **it i. s, comforts am! econ omics of life Thi* language may seem ■ \ti av agaiit, but it lUUst It. r. in. nils-fed that not an armory > \i*t* in thi* .nun trv or in Kngland where gun* are made hardly a human b< ing that weai* IKMII* or *hoe- - it ttely a vessel that *aii* ujmn the ocean not a school w here slates are u*ed not a carpet laid down, but that ow. * tribute to the genius of I'homas It itichard tor pniducing article* chca|K! an '. tn tit r Ihe -am. mav In- aid of carriage wheels, plow*, shovels ami v ariou* article* ol furniture, l-atterly. Iti* tuaehine* hav. be. n app.ietl t) .-arv ing. to architectural tit-sign* ami even to *;atuary—much to the surprl*e of arti*t* In-leert, tht-r- *eem* to IH- no limit to tin u*.-* made of It lane hard * inventions, ami it i* impossible at prt*--iit to enumerate them, t hie can iiarvlly go into uiiml *llop. a machine shop, or a Workshop of in* kind, vv> dor iron, where motive pow • i" i* us. d. in w liich In- w ill not find more or i ** of Hlanchard's in.* liann ai motion*. itlanchartl wa* a native of Suttoll, Ma.** . and vv •.* born June -,'t, ITtv* Hi* father, Samuel, vv* a fartm r. ami iv.al on a tHwir. remote strip <>f land, where there was ahsttiuit y nothing t<> *ugg.*>t a tut chanieal motion. While t-n tlw iarni Thomas gave little if any protni*. of tin- latent power* within him. There was nothing HI hi* surrounding* to e >'ite them. He vv a* mi*plae>at; nehooi* wa re remote ami he seldom attended. :■ rhe w .is adliclcd with a peivi*. im pediment of >lH**-11. so lliat the ln>y . ill.ti him " Staiuniering Tom " At: age of eighteen he vv a* ••ngaged by hi* ler brother, Stnlmi,to a-**it him in hi- tat k mill, which be had jut .tartil in Wist Mi.ibury Young Thomas'iluty vv :t* to In id the i ick* ill a vice, with a ' hand hammer. ine by one. t >m*• in a mechanic shop hi* dormant getiiu* began to wake up. Kre lie had spent many month* tieading lat k*. one riy one. lc had tl**igued. constructed ami tut in operation a machine which wou.d cut and head them at one motion tw ice a* fast a* the tit king of a watch, ami better linidied than tin.*.- mode by liand. So TH-rfeet was it in design ami con*truc •l. ii it was continued in u- more than twenty venr*. It i said t> IH- still in • \.itence. nml expert* who have s,-. n it -v no e*eniia'. improvement ha- ever a.-en made upon it. The reputation of the IHIV'S SUCCESS in his brother's tn. k .. t. a v -tl Mr. A- a Water*, who had in the *.uue town of Miilbury an armory, whero he manufa*-tumi arms for th goveriiment, to send for the budding in ventor, and. tlu-re young Itlonehanl. at ainiost a glance at the old proe.-**e* for shaping gun-barrel*, sttgg. *t<al an Itn provement bv which the irregular butt of the barrel could 1" tunnal by tua hirn-ry. on! afterward produced a ma -bine lor • timing out the gun-stock Tlie germ of :lu- stocking ma him- lay in that .-aim motion, ami it wa* tln-n and there, a* In tllerwnnl said, that the idea of hi* world-renowned machine for turning ir r-guiar forms tir-t flashed through Iti* mind, although it r- qui rial some month* tt> e.atHtrate ami bring it out. lt.anrh -ird was afterwanl cai..-ti to the Spring tielil armory, where hi* machines w. r introduced ami atlopt. d hv the govern ment. Hi* machine for prtwlucing ir regt. ar form* was appit- d to a vat nutn r of speei . pun•*•••■ I'nlike manv lu r invention*, thi* wa* really tln-tli*- ..vcry <>f a new principle in mechanics, whereby the machine i inatie the otmdi tit. faithful servant of man. to work out hi* designs after any given model, lie it .Mttml "r square, crooked or straight, however irregular, ami made to re pro duee the original shape exactlv. every time. This perfect uniformity of Illoncii ard's work suggested t lie itlea of having i ! the parts of the guns made at the ar morli * perfectly uniform. *<> ns to in tcivhiuigeahie Hitln-rto they hod IH.-H urt'd *. parat'-lv. like Swiss watclu-s and carefully lettered or numbenai. Thi* i* t he method in all our workshop*, even to tin holts of a t-arriageor a rotn itioti lu-dsti-ad. and •.• to him whomis plaee.l me. It wa* It onchard who tir*t r mi.-red nossillle the nt-i-omplisliiiit-ntof thcdesiretl r.--ult with f pe<-t to arm*, and to him the writer gives the eredit of the origin of the "uniformity system" which lias revolutionised mechanic pro ct***t-s iii all our workshops; js-rfected ami greatly cheapened mts-lianl.- pro duct*. ami tlrivt-n front use the old sys tem ol numbering. Blnm-hard realized hut little pecu niarily >n hi" patent", fur they were <o pirated upon that h<- h:ut t> sjtend many thousand" <>f dollar* in defending hi" right.* in the courts. He lurrifilitl in getting an extension of hi" patent for producing irregular fortii". hut at the end of the extension he h:ul made prn - tieallv nothing on it. and began to think of trying for a second extension; hut such a thing was unpreeedented. and Blanc hard, knowing that great opposi * •ion would he made to nnotln r renewal, thought In- would resort to a little strata g' tn. He fitted up a machine for turning busts from marble block*, took it to Washington, obtained piaster easts of the beads of Webster, Clay, Calhoun and others, and exhibited the bust* in t lie rotunda of the Capitol. The mem ber* were qjite astonished when they found that these hu*t* were wrought out by a machine, and that they were more exactly like the originals than any human hand could make them. It pro duced a great sensation. They all sup posed it a new invention. Blanehard said. "No; not a new invention, but a new application of an old one of mine from which I never realized much, and I want the patent renewed."' A resolution was introduced in the Senate by Web ster to renew it for a term of years, and it was rushed through without delay. Win n the news was first proclaimed from Springfield <f .1 machine which turius! gunstocks. ims-hanics mine float ir>if frmn near and far to eo it. Antony those Httrarted Were two members of tlie British Parliament, then traveling in tlii< country. When they Plumed to England they reported the wonderful invention of Blanchnrd, by wldeh the Americans were getting greatly in ad vanee 1 f tliein in gun nianufaeiu p e, and moved a resolution for the pup-hase <.f similar machines. A true John Bull memher then arose anl ridieuled them unmercifully for being *0 badly "old and played upon by the running Yankees. "The vet v idea of turning a gunstork is absurd on the fare of it, as a]] must know who ever saw one." Finding the resolution would fail the two members withdrew it and moved for a committee to go to the I'nited Stales armory and report Upon the fact*. Tile committee came over, examined the workings of the m whine, returned and reported the farts to bona at first stated. 'I lie douht ingThonias rose and said the Americans might have got un something to work their soft woods, pine and poplar, hut it would never stand the test of "our tough English oak and hickory." I'pon this, doubting Thomas himself was chosen a committee to go over and ex amine. lie was not to he imposed upon; he would expose this humbug. Select ing three rough stocks of the hardest, toughest timber he could find, lie went to the Springfield armory incognito, brought his stocks to the stocking-room, and inquired of the overseer if he could grant him the favor o turning them. " Certainly, sir. lake a sent." Without making the least alteration of the inn chine. the I'Vi-rmi-r run tin* stock* through in lew minutes, and tin -it w mi on with hin work as though nothing utiusuai hiul happened. I ln- Kitgiisli lilnli riiuuiiml the stock*. found tln-v writ) lurunt nil llir hrttrr for lieing of hunt wood, nml he wa* completely dumbfounded Aft i-1' roUninß awhile. In- frmk v ••out' "•><•<! who In- win, win In* cniue, nml hi* thorough t onvit*tion of tin- utility •> the machine. H.lorc In hft tin- fit > In- gavt- nn ortl" r in In-half oftln* British government for thin aittl tin* accompanying machine*. sotursix or right, with h amounted to woiut- forty thousand dollars I In* machine* were built at t 'hioopec. shi|>|tt-tl to England, ninl liavt- In-FU ill UM- iln-re from that itay to this. The Latest Thing ut In High l ife. T'lie recent discovery nintie by tin- *1 i tor ot the t'iiieiiio tii Tliw that every until h:t a delightful suiuiuer resort Oil the root of hi* house has ea*>t a giucin along the enlirt -• ashore. " I have nl was* heltl." said the editor of the An.rr to a rejHirter, "that nnyltotlv who has a root to < >*. r hitn can pass hi* time there more pleasantly than in the heated room* he low ■ 1 trust 1 am tto mere theorist, mni it vou w ill eoun- with nn- 1 w ill show you the practicability of 111i tiling." The tepoftt f accompanied the t<citif to the latter'* boarding-house, over tin tioor of which was tin legend, "Koyal meal* ten vents," and followed him up a . nliter ti the roof. " 1 hi* rtnif i* not a flat a* it *hould be."ubst rvetl theetlitt.r, "hut it will s.-rve to i .ju* trni my idea tint crawling on hi* hands ami knee* In* wo* MHH. sal> > astride the comb "Just vs easy a* riding a gentle horse." said In-, taking hold of the shingles in front of him to make his >*'t more secure. •* In the tirst plaee." ObltTttd the editor. " 1 wouhl recoiuiuend that rtsif* that nr. tint steep *hou!<i he planed .low ti to the prowr level. This, you see, will open upon entirely m-w ti.*ll f industry to out idle miiliods. I in- editor slun.k tin kink* out of a!■ it on . itln-r *IOIM- of the t.Mil, and continued a itli delightful en thusiasm " i'lea.*.-observe the magnificent view one has from this point. And tin genii. !ir<*< /<-' How it fan ® on * fevered brow and invigorates his whole Is-itig'" " It's a iittle to warm. in't it s '' *ug g. *it tl the reporter, as he noticed that the shingles were about reatly to take tire. " A trifle w arm. i-thap*."said the ed itor. "but 1 wouid remedy that -so," and up went in* uuibr* ... "How's ;I.at, young f. .low t'ou.d anything l>e • iiupnr? 1 re< k.<n not. I would pro vide each member *f tin- family with nn umhrena, ami have one or two in reserve for company. That would not only in -ure \ou ngaint *un. but against rain tin! hail aw. Simplest thing in tie world, you .-(■ " "The children might fall off. mightn't they'" " Not ne.f**ari'y. That i*. not unies* you wanted Vm to My I an i t* have what might . a..-d a family hitching j. .*i ■ t in the center f the roof. th a* many chains atla. lied to and radiating therefrom as volt have children, ihe chains w i 111*- just so Song, anil no longer. You catch th>- i.b-a' Win n n cli el is *• ur< .1 at the end of a ehailt. It will I* long < tioUgh— the . haili w ill—to allow the child to *il on the edge of the r<K>l ami dangle its feci ot er. or look down on the !*** fortunate children on tin- hoi lrvt* IM-'IOW Couldn't plea*, the iitte dears Iw-tter." " You would have your twK.k*. paper*' gold fish, canary, etc. on the naif. 1 *up iwete?" "Certainly. Make it a* attractive a* p(Sihi.'. \>' lettT piace on the hlo id tinivf r*.- to n-.-ui and write than jut hero." and the editor drew forth a hunch of pai-r and | n. il, and. qui k.v throw ing up hi* kltte for a wri'ing de-k. began tn scribble vigtirousiy. "S- how tin o d thing work*, young man." r. marked the editor. glancing tn> p.. :i-antly from his mantpwript. " 1 am riling a double-leaded editorial and writing it with if** wear ami tear of hrain-ti-*u. than I would writt a -ing • leaded arti 1<- in tnv library or office.** Just tin n a lump ol *ot a* big a* a frit kbat came *:ii.mg along ar.d lamhal ' upon tin- elegant no*, of tin editor "Ofcourse, there will he a lew di* ul- ' vantages to overcome." *aitl h<*. kin- k illg the *oot off of Ills m>*e; "but they cannot ln< met suc<e**fu. v until tln-v ]ire*<*nt them*elven." anil he glanced down his nroho*4-is, which mu-t hav. lH:k. .1 to hint like a -tack of b.< k ■ at*. "Thi* little trouble of coal oot will t jM*-tliiy OVeretime by the adoption ot smoke-consumer* or removing a short ilistancc in tliewuntry. lien- you will observe I havewtitt- n seventeen page* in less than as many minute* a good hour's job when shut up in a hot room downstair*. I'p here, ahovi the rattle of the town, where tin air i* bright and clear a* the eyes of tile girl you love, one's thoughts flow as free as a tnoun tain stream. No sluggishness, no dead eddies, no—" Ihre a sudden breeze lifted the edi-' tor's umbrella and carried it over a do/en blocks of houses in tl e direction of Miiloreck bottoms. In an endeavor to secure it. seventeen pag"- of the double-leaded editorial were eatight up and distributed by the four winds of heaven. The (alitor secured his hat by buttoning it on the inside of hi* coat, and (snc i uiha!: "My scheme is not yet fully developed, hut this will serve to show you the drift of thing" Saratoga i* nowhere." said he, crawling carefully toward the lad der. "and, a for Coney Island, I wouldn't have it mentioned on the same day—l wouldn't, hy gracious!"—Cinetn miti Enquirer. I'ueblo Indians InConrt. A novel scene was presented in < 'liief Justice Prince's court at Sati'a Fe. New Mexico, a short time since, hive of the *o called "Indian*" from the Pueblo of 1/tguna were brought into curt for trial. The Pueblo Indian* of New- Mexico are the only remnant sti I exi*t ingofUncivilizedalxiriginal Am- rieans, whom Cortez found on hi* arrival in Mexico, living to-dav exactly a* they did 400 years ago; and those of I-aguna are especially advanced in agriculture and mechanical arts. They are a quiet, industrious, honest and law-abiding peo ple. having their own municipal got em inent. and seldom, if ever, coining into the I'nitcd States courts. On this oc casion alKiut thirteen were in attendance, live having been indicted for driving a large thick of sheep into their tillage. It appeared, however, on th<-1 ri;' tha' tiie sheep were trespassing, ami w cVe driven in by direction of tlo-ir governor, and with no ill inten* The Indians wore no la-ad covering, and all hail long. j< t blink hair, except two or three very old men, whose hair was white as snow. The l.ieu'.eiiant-t lot ernor of the Pueblo had a i" (I handkerchief arranged around his head like a tiara; and wore a curious targe green shell suspended from his neck. Their dresses were various in color. Several were in white; snine wop blouses of rod cotton, others green, and othet striped pink and white. All had high ton-heads, ami intelligent faces with prominent noses. While they have boon at peace with all mankind formany years, yet among their oflleials whom they still annually elect is a " war chief," and he wits among those present. As their wit nesses understood no Spanish, a vener able Puehlo wits sworn a.* interpreter; and the questions, first propounded in English. were translated into Spanish by the regular court interpreter, then into the I.aguna language by the old Puehlo; and the answers similarly translated, first into Spanish and then English, making the examination a slow one. The language is a peculiar one and full of very prolonged consonant sounds and aspirations. The word for "yes" for instance. could he*' be spelled, " H-h-h-h-h-ah." I It>ll k* OF IM FM'IO>. < ,11 l.„lltr. ~r 111, It r VVltltll.il>. Mr •• f tfttr I tills ti Mali full ill Olflt The t v per lent* of the last si* years show * that hard limes stimulate rntlo-r than obstruct American inventive getiiu*. Thi* remark i* verified hy thr record of inv etition and i* not specula tive. More applications for patent right* have ben hied 111 the United "stnt. - I'atclit Dtfi. . at WoshiitgVon since the great financiat panic of |h?3 than were received by the office during any twenty years of it> previou* rtiitiins. Since the I 'lgalli/.at tun of the I'alelit Dflic . brought nlmut by the great fire • d |a3i, morn than two hundred ami eight) < n thousand patents hav® been issueti to iloinestic anil foreign iuveators. 1 lo re are now on the records of tin- Talent Offiee in the hands of aspiring inventors throughout the country more titan Iwo thousand patents lor devices i lor the coupling together of raiirond cats. Hie *oli- object ola Very great ma jority of W 111. h i* I)i provide lor the uu lolntili. eolMiection ol tip- tar*, ami thus obviat. tin-ni*ce*-iiy of tin brukeuiau's going !t t w .a-ii abutting car* in the . oup ing pro.a-** ami the eoitsetiuent danger .■I hi* IH ing mashed through the lailure t in<--t oi the giving way of drawhead* .* tl. vchi>.c> mutually exhaust their iiiotii. ntuiii UJHIII eiu h other. And yet ot thi-. two thousand ami odd inven tion* onlv t w oare in general use in the I titled state*, nml wertainly not more lliaii four have proved to he worth the sheepskin and )>a|M-r they are written and printed on' I JHIII *e*al planter* there are to date more than tiv.- thousand four hundred patents, t>l thi* groat nutulier of plan ter* not a tithe - an plant more than two row* a to** tic !i. id at onee— lH- tin *t tsl com, t oltuti ol b. ait excluding,of our*c, th> itt ichine* for the tli'|.o*fiiiig of the smaller c.-reals, which a ! classed in the Talent I •ffita- a* " sa*d-*lriliillg machines." til :ir. • - -apt patint* Iherv are a It-wi r HUIIIIM r b.-cau*., prin< ipally, devices of thi* kind at. of a comparatively recent • late. Tlcn i* no other cias* ol inven tion.* *. a most wiiony tlu< to the exoite ■uent ami tletnami ot lie hour as litis one. Kv. ry great fire brings to the i'atent Office a great, r rr smaller num ber of inventions tor the rescue of people iini t>rq*-rt} from burning bu'.idings. ilc tl. *tru- ti.ui of th. ltrxHiktyn th. at. r and tin ixiliMqtl.m dreadful IOSM of a short litin ago w as worth a great deal of money to the Patent Office, and prolia hly not 1 ** than seventy-live patents wTe i.*ut ti in tuns, quence of it. The Chicago iir<-. a little farther hack, was a.ot a gtval stimulant to inventors of lire apparatus, a* wa* also, in a amitid de gre<-. tlie burning of the St l-oui* hot., in win h the actress hate Claxlon come mar losing for ,ife The dates of these three i veiits are distinctly trai-eahle in the m-ords ol the office. Many of the ... awkward ami iiupraa-tit*al, white some are little short of absurd in tin ir constru tion ami .application. It ). *af- to say that more than a score of the (our hundrtsl Otld dev i.a-s to enable |**s pie to rtimh out of the windows of n bunting house and -a/ely tlests-ml to the gtaiuiid ar. as r< li.ahlt ami convenient as the out ami -.-risible *lyle of tying .a tope to tin lsljH*t and letting one's self tlow ti Kami ov.-r hand. There ore said tots at tin* present time a tsnaldernbie number <■ f anplieations (ending in tiiis c!a**. .and it i* manifest tfial the device which *trik> tin- mean Intwern utility anil economy lias not yet ln**n plnond In-fore tlie country. V .-a*, which i* not in the liri--ccaiH line, but w ... It may. like the cooes that lim . IH- considered of the *p:i*mtHl|c orvlt r. Wa- recently disfKSMal of hv the granting of a potent. It was to a I to* ton .adv. and was a novel mechanism for holding I tack tin ear- of children ami pn*v . tiling fhetu from standing out o!>- truively to tlie prejudice of ginni at p- aram-e. Thi* device is peculiarly appli able to childr H witli abnormallv ..ar ■ .ir flop • ar*. The inv. litres* dhe* not *|H*-if> vv !i< tie r or not the demand for her invention is peculiar to Boston. Tie- pat nlability of a ib-vi.-e i gov - i .-rntal prim-ip.aiiy by two things. It iuu*t 1 < ith- r an- wd vic<- or a combi nation of either new or old ones. "The offi • . \ercisi-s It* discretion in deciding upon tin- practical utility of inventions, but i! i* iib. raily di*JH>*. .l toward appli cant* in thi* respivt. ami to a great ex tent permit* them to judge of tin- practi cabi itv of their maehin. * and process*-#. A g.MMI illustration of tlii# idea in-eurn-d j not ).>ng ago. Two Mississippions be came imbueti with an odd notion that there was a groat demand for means of prov cnting the tl. struction of hou*> * by tire, anil thev si t alvout jointly to supply tlie demand in a manner that is ctmiie.-u enough. Tin ir plan is to oave which ever part of th< building may IH- the least aff.,-. teil by the flame-, bv roi'ing it away from the other |Hrtion of the structure on wheels, running upon an im iintal track of suitable length. The theory i* that the greater number of tire* originate in the kitchen or cooking department of the house, anil statistic* are mailt- to do duty in substantiation of the theory. The entire practicability of the plan is shown by the fact that very -ooti alter the kitchen tak<* fire one of two rope* employed for boiling it up *nug)v against the main portion of Un build ing will burn in twain if not .H>ner cut with a knife or hatchet, ami the kitchen vvill then, hy the attraction of gravitation, roll away to the lower end of the plane. The rop- *. it must he un- . d.-rstood. arc to he so disposed about the j kitchen that a tire cannot burn HI any part of it more than five or ten minute without reaching one of them. Tlo-in vention is described as also applicable, with some ni'f'-**.-iry modifications, to *mall cotton ginning -*tablishments. A j patent wa* a110w..!. It is a noticeable fact flint tin- patents grant.*l to men It.-tiling from tlie south of Mason and Dixon'* line relate almost exclusively to tie planting, picking.ginning and baling of the great Southern staple. \n another but not ouiteus good illus tration of tie liberality of the Patent Oflloe toward inventors is found in the recent allowance of a patent to a man living in California for a combination churn ami hath tub Among t lie remarkable inventions that have been patented within the last month are a pocket umbrella devised hy a New Engfnndcr. and so constructed that it can lie folded and placed in an or dinary pocket without seriou* incon venience; an automatic music machine, nvented by two Boston men, which is designed to wholly supplant tin- orches tra at hall* and automatically call oft" the square dances, such a* quadrilles and the lancers; a device for blinding a runaway Innse with spring curtain*, and bringing biin to stand, planned by a New York man; an exceedingly elalmratt* niet<oro logira , instrument, conceived md per fected b\ ticneral Albert ,!. Myer, tie chi< I of the government Signal Service, which, it is thought, will materially c\- pdit- the work of forecasting the weather: a process of making orna mental out tons principally from blood and pulverized horn, united by an adhe sive substance, the result of the experi ment of a Jersey fit y genius; an electric light apparatus, designed to solve the gn at problem of the practical subdi vision of the electric current, by a New Yorker- \. Wilford Hall; an educa tional appliance for use hy classes in rhetoric and grammar, by which sen tences are mechanically separated and analyzed, the different parts of speech being illuminated in varying colors—as nouns in black. v< rbs orange, adjectives yellow, adverbs blue, etc.. and a steun i.pi rated machine for shearing sheep and clipping horses, hy a Bay City (Mich.) inventor. "~11. r. after no recruit is to he enlisted in the I'nitcd States army who cannot see well, at 600 yards distance, a black center three feet in diameter on a white ground. TKRMB: a Year, in iVdvanco. The Timber Itafls of the Black Forest. The Bauer (peasant) is primarily and , by nature a woodman; and a very large proportion of the Bim k |*on*t jieople. will! number atmut JUO.OHO. are employed ill the cutting and transporting, hy roar! r ! and water, w tliis chief product of tln-ir huid. Formerly ail the timlier was flouted down the various streams into the Hhitie. V-ry luudi of it i now .<on i veyed by road and railway; but, fort U uau-ly lor lovers of the picturesque, the old method in not w holly out of use, 1 aiid rafting—Holx-Klowwtvi, a* it 5- ealled still forms forthe strang-r one of the most attractive features of Black Forest life. The pities, having An Wi -doff a little almve the n a its, are ! slid down tlie mountain or hillside where they have grown, into the never-falling stream, wliicli lows rapidly over bouid era and amid rapids, through the valley Here they are pierced at mrll end ami tiel witii wilhiw roots, in rows of from (MHJ to tat, acctinling to tlie width of the stream. To this roughiy-construcp-d raft a similar also tied with willow root*. To this another ami an otJier are added, until, je-rliap*. as many as thirty lengths of tail pine tr**s have lieen joined. To the foremost a sort of lotigb bow—a hollowed tree trunk —is usually fixed, ami tlie last section of the raft i titled with a rudder formed of a stripling pirn*. The frail, extraordi nary-looking craft is now * launched on it* rapid voyage. A man stands at tlie bow to steady it. the water dying up bHween tlie trees ami drenching hitu at every yard. Another in at the In- in Ail along the raft, men furnished with poles or oar* move rapidly from section to section, guiding here, rc-trainiug lh< re, ami at litiien basing to use all their strength to cling on. liable to I** swamped at every moment as the raft rushes ttiadlv along with the im|H-tuou torrent, (lashing over rapids and through narrows, ami over boulders, twisting and curving a* it to.low - the Intricate windings of tlie stream. " like a tiling of life"; not pre cisely after the fashion in which we ordi narily apply the term. hut rather in (lie term of a huge, black, wriggling serpent, wliicli seems to swim,rather through than upon the surface of the stream, sending a rolling ware tn-for* it. which surge* up and through the tree-lrunss tn a thousand hissing eddies. As may well IK- believed, the navigation of the*'- rafts n quires no little skill, care anil knowledge of the locality: and tlie ex treme rapidity with which they arc cor real over the seething Water seems to the uuinitiated on-looker simply a mad career toward destruction. As a matter of fact, however, the stream* ar*- so *ha.- ow that liuir real danger exist* Wltero the narrow mountain stream flow* out into the scarcely less rapid river, the l.aft* are widened and joined to others, until in time, when the broad and stately Ithine is reached, they are built up into ttio*e floating village* which may IK* U often observed upon tin- rivt-r. some of them, it is said. TOO feet long. These constructions are very pevu.iar. They are formed of ser. ral layer* of tr<*-s placed on.- on the other, and pinnked ovrr with rough deal so a* to form a deck. Upon tiii* are erected various small huts ami cabins; for the Khine raft carrie* often a population of not je* than three or bur hundred per son*. tie* Itoatmen l-ing accompanied hy their wive* and families, while cows, fowls at.d tig* are also carried for the use of tlie crow; and we are assured that the domestic economy of nn Kat Indiaman or an Kngiislt man-of-war could hardly h • ntoro com plete. A well-supplied Indler is at work night and day in the kitchen; the<l inner hour i- announced by a basket stuck on a pole, at which signal the pilot givi*s the word of command and the men run from all quarter* to receive their ra tion*. while the consumption of pro *i-ion* during the voyage is stabs! to le almost incredible, it fia* ing le-en calcu a led that from the time of the i-ontruc tion of the rafi until it i* sold no l<-* than f.'i.OH) pounds of broad. 30,1X10 pounds of meat. 15.000 jxtund* of butter, lo.ttito p-tund* of > h'*-*e. 50i tun* of U-er. i iglit butt* of wine. :uui other provisions iti profKirtion at tii-|.*ctl of. Tlie raft* are navigated to Holland, when- they are sold, producing from SIOO,OOO to $150,000 each. The raft* are very fro quently the property f a company known a* the S. liiffcr-ticsells. haft, which <lat< - from the sixteenth century* and which unite* a vast number of mali for*-st proprietor*. This com pan v, to gether with tlo- government ami the I'rincr of FursJcnberg. owns the gn-at)-r part of the Him k Forest. The timber ■ xported from the fore*t* of the SchifbT < i.-selis -liaft alone is estimated at over s>.'*tU.ino yearly, and altogether Holland i* a con*um r of liiack Forest tiniU-r to the amount of s*.'o.ooo per annum. fin Wheels. F.very middle-aged person knows what a great change hoc taken place in the carriages in ordinary use in the ia*t thirty or forty years. When 1 was a IHV. family earring)*, and, indeed, vehicles of ev rry kind, except omnibuses and carta—l believe there has not been much change in them—wi re very heavy and unwieldy affairs, when compared with those now in u*c. Not long ago I *aw- at the permanent exhibition, in Philadelphia, the carriage in which fo-n --eral Washington used to ride. You could not get a Trosident of the t'nited States to ride in such a funuy old conch nowadays, and I doubt verv much if any on.-wouid take it as a gift if they w ere obliged to use it. Yctit is far bet ter l<H.kiitg than some of the carriages were thought good enough for kings and queen* ittintlrod years ago. But we cannot go very far hock in making comparison* of carriages. Previous to the sixteenth century there were many hundred* of years when carriage* were •earcelv known at all in Europe. In the old Roman days, there had lrvn handsome chariots and wheeled vehi cles of various kinds, hut when Rome declined, chariots and carriages disap peared, and people ( cither walked, or rode on horseback, or were carried hy men in sedan-rhairs and similar con trivances. There was a good reason for tiii* change. The old Romans made splendid roads, but the nations thai afterward ruled Europe did not know how to make good highways, or did not rare about such things, and were content to ride their horses over such road* as tiiey found. Even in England, where wc might suppose the people might have known better, tiii* was the case. The print ipal highways were so hat! and the mud was sometimes so deep, that even horsemen found great difficulty in get ting along. So the? never thought of using wheeled vehicle* on these wretcht d thoroughfares. But when they liegan to make good road*, carriages followed, as a matter of course.—St. Su hoUu. (hi Driving Ont Mosquitoes. Mosquitoes can bo driven away from roams by the smoke of ln<*cnse powder burned on a hot shovel. \\ hen it is not easy to get tire, put a hit of gum cam phor in a shovel, light, and thegum will catch as quickly as alcohol; then sprinkle a tnblospoonful of insect powder (pyrethrum) on the flame, let it take fire and blow out the blaze, close the win dows and let the smoke rise lor five minutes. It will not injure walls or furniture, and does not harm human beings, though obnoxious to insects. Hanging a cloth on which a teaspoonful of carbtdir acid is poured at the head of the lied, will keep mosquitoes away, and the writer has repeatedly gained a good night's sleep by this means when others failed. Take care to place the cloth or sponge so that there is no danger of touching it with the face or hands in the night, as the acid burns like caustic. It is not generally known, as it ought to t>e, that the remedy for burns by car liolie acid is Canada tir balsam, spread on the part attacked. NUMBER 35. TIIF.LT TOPIC#. Tibln prepared at Washington gl v tli** aggregate production *f ill* - thm great agricultural taple of lb*- South ern Siic lor I*7B it* follow* (lutbrn, VVoo.uuo tm!<n; iurar, 812,000 boghead* hdaovo, 478,000.000 pound*. In AC7 thi* production * Cotton, 4."11.423 hair*; sugar. 197,733 boghead*; lolmmco, too,ouo,uuv pound* I 'bar!** Read* i* outdone in lb* *lorv which Nathan G. Sayle#, of Golden, Col., telle of hi* own experience a* a cnutT men. Ili ptwdilari were hi* wife end daughter, who would la* I "-ne ttled hy hi* dying intestate. He nay* on oath that they induced a jury of *lx of lii* anemia* to pronounce him inline, hire:! a brute to keep him on hi* farm, revile*! him wlieti. in an effort toewwpe, lie wa* lasaoed ai d hm! a leg and a hip broken hy hi* jailer, and finally stole hi* property. The mau U vouched for a* entirely *ane. The French originator of the gigantic <*nt<-rpi i*e ol bridging the KugiUh chan nel *ay* that he mean* business and pro to operation* at on<*. lie haa been inking lit* plan* before the I harnber* of Commerce in Frame and lielgium for the purpone of *e> uriug tuna*. and will Mm make an ap iK*al to the British government, lie ha* already aecured tue iadrffsa ment of eighty-tour comraen ial or ganisations in France and itelgium. and he eat i 111 ale* that seven luohth* time am! SIOO, OOO will suffioe for theeiperi mcntal alage and detuorialraJe the (••* i hility of hi* enterprise. Imitation mearscliaum |>ip** are now manufactured from potato**, in France. A peeled potat*i it placed in *ulphuric acid and water, in the proportion of* ight part* o< the former to 100 ot the latter. It remain* in thi* liquid thirty-*!* hour* to blacken, i* driei with hhitting paper, and euhmitle*! U a certain pnwsure, when it become* a material that <-an ta r*-a*)ily rarve*!. The counterfeit i* aii to t>e excellent. An imitation ivory Hulfn-iently hard for billiard bail* <-an lie made by nil! greater pressure. A re **-rablance of coral is obtained by treat ing carrot* in the same manner. The race of white people which Major Pinto, the Portuguese explorer, ha* dis covered in South Africa i* name*! ( W ■luer. and is whiter than lite ( 'aurasian*. Small tuA* of verv *h<trl black wool take the pla**e of hair <in the head, while •mallne** of eye* and prominence of cheek l*>n- constitute a resemblance to tlie Chinese. The men are extremely robust, and both men and women are entirely nomadic, wandering in group* of from four to *ix families each, and living on .root# and on tin* results of the chase, I n lew, lh***e fail tJi* m they have no intercourse with their hia* k neigh- Ikh-* Tiny are the onlv people in Africa that do not cook their food in pota. The latest "fastest " o -ran steamer is the Arixona. which is the steam er now in service and which reached tjuecnstown in seven days,ight hours and eight minutes from N>-w York, beat ing her previous trip, which was also her first one. by one hour and a ijuarter. The speed of ocean voyages docs not necessarily increase thedangerof them, for it is the perfection and excellence of the machinery used which enable the newest steamers to outsail the old ones. For people who spend ocean voyages in the agonies of sea-sickness the quicker the trip is made the lictter they iike it, ami provided sifrtjr he not sacrifita-d to *|xssi. the taring of a day in < lovsingthe Atlantic is an object lor travelers of all clauses. In relation to cotton production and consumption the I'nitrxl StaU • FstmomiM gir Ultln showing that for eleven years. ending with the crop of |N6O. the total production of the country was 37.- 410.687 lisle*. The annual average yield 3.400.873 halo*. For the fourteen year*. ending with the crop of |67>. the yield. v 50,758.16s hales. t!ie yearly average b< ing 3.615.318 liim*. The <->>niing crop is put at 5.300.(100 bale*. The pens nlage increase is, for the three yrat> ending 1656. t4 per cent.; tor the three years end in* 1858, 7; far the two year* ending 1661. 30: for Ihe three years ending 1671. 46; for the three years end ing 1676, II j: for the thn-e vear* ending 167". 17: for tlie two years ending I*7B. 15f. (luring tlie first eleven years fol lowing the war. the production reached 36.310.861 hates, an average of 3,300.088 per annum, against 37.410.607 for eleven years ending 1661. an average annual production of 3.400.873. The average crop for the last fourieen vear* cxm-isis the average production for the eleven years ending I*6l by 315.000 Itaiea. The crop now coming t. ntarket, if current estimates of it he correct. exceeds the largest crop prior to the war hy 377,000 hales. Tiirough China. We passed through hy-roads and fields of millet ten feel high, and could not see a ross the country unless where the har vest was cut. The stooks of the large millet looked like wigwams. We heard sad tidings of the famine: yet here there was abundance, so much that this one province could supply all the famine strieken A measure of millet will sup js>rt a Chinaman for a month: hut there is no enterprise about getting the millet to the hungry, and the port was soon to he closed bv the winter. There was al ways tome one on the road, though the houses and villages were few. Now it ww the (Mtstman. white .nail-bag slung across his shoulders, his hand* swinging vehemently a he went. Then it was travelers on horse hack, armed with formidable gpears with which to frighten, not to tight, the robbers that infest the roads of the road*. Peasants were trudg ing to mark't. a farmer was going over his land. Figures in white came near the road to watch us pass, and we knew it was a family in mourning. Some Indies crossed hy a path over the Jields to pay a visit to a neighbor's house; a servant followed them, and they stole shy looks at tlie foreigners. Here the reapers were at work: and if it wa the large millet, they cut down only one stalk at a time, and then Kiund them labor* iously in gigantic sheaves. A watch man. staff in hand, was patrolling the fields to guard his master's grain against the inroads of the poor. Then we saw a threshing-floor—the hard, beaten circuit of ground, the ears with only a short straw spread over them, and a white and lazy mule dragging a stone round and round. Sometimes the grain was lashed, hut never thrashed with the flail. Where roads met tin re was al most always a small shrine of mud. a few feet high, rnisisl to some local god. a shabby superstition that contracted wilh the comfortable look and intelli gence of the people.— Good Wardf. The Small Hoy in a Torn Uin. Frank, n twelve-year-old son of Joe Williams, hail a new experience Satur ilay. The youth was up in the new ele vator utter pigeons. Looking at the i large hopper through whieh the shelled torn passed through into the ear, it oe eurretl to him that it would he a pleas ant trip to ride down with the corn. He jumped on and was soon covered up in the rushing grains of corn. Dan Bush man, observing that the grain hail ceased now in g. ran his hand in and felt the boy's feet. They had to break the spout to re move him. 11c was almost smothered to death and black in the face. They blew in his nostrils, worked the chest, and chafed his hands; ami they were re warded tor their efforts by a slight pulse. On his removal home medical aid was summoned, and the youth will survive his spouting experience.— Eldora (la.) ledger. Heltagang. Hrimgamg' So th* tier awn paopla Wkiapar when they hear the bell * Toiling Iron *o*ne gray ok* aUMpia Oaath'* laimluu- tale to tail. When they hear the organ dirge* Swelling oat train chapel dome And the aingeni chan tin" nngae " Hnmgang f He is going boron, Hrimgn *yWe am all no weary, And the willow* a* they wave. Softly nghing. sweetly dreary, Woo us to the IranqttU grave. When the golden pitcher** broken, Kith its dreg* and with it* Mam, And the tender word* are spoken, " Hnmgang We am going home. —J. J. H. Dt iyeaa-. ITEMS OF INTEREST There is not a single national hank in Mi**iippi Japan hag forty-three Christian eliurchfl*. Seven year* ago it had non* The manufacturing huainem i *o du i in Kngland that t*u mills do not make a cent. W hen a man u**a hi* cam- to help him walk rapid 1 j it bcoom** a hurrycane.- hiwril Coaritr. Tlte Japan*-*- think paradl* i* on i bated by a high Iwara fenoe; and no docs the email boy in watermelon time. The boy who ha* a love for swimming and a nervous mother 1* one of the mo-i unhappy being* on Uie fa** of tlie cot.! We hear of men aowing wild oat*, bdl who ever heard of a woman sewing anything but tares?—Sl. Ixmit Tunc Journal. The Krnpemr Alexander, of Russia, i* devout, well int-ntion*-d. and physically very weak lie iivtwsimply and Is given to long walks. The total production of <**al in IB*7 wiu estimated at 1t05.*,J7t gross tons. Germany produci-d to SD.iMi, ouo for toe I'nitcd State*. The water in a well at Washington, which was supposed to b i impure, i found on analysis to tie mineral water, valuable for medicinal purpose*. Tlie I'nited State* haif-eagie con tain lift grains of pure gold, equivalent t $&; tlm British sovereign. 113 grain*, equivalent to $1.87 of I Suu. - mney. The ice-cream n-udied at some of the down town restaurant# i# fearfully and w.m*lerfully made. If the frost could lie got out oi it it might be sold for cot ton flannel. Tbe ex - Khedive to Sew York: " Sine* ! in rule you a present of tbe Egyptian obelisk " I have foiled in business. C<uiiti't you allow me #3O or s*o for it?"— ('inrtntuU* Enquirer. A young man went into n restaurant til*- oth*r day, and. remarking tha' "Time i* money."" added that as be bst half an hour to sjare. if the proprietor was willing he'd take it out in pie. Always *om- hitch about it—a barn*-**. —.l inrric ih S'unck. Always come iu-h about it—a mosquito* bite. —Monthly t'num Always sum switch atajui it—a girl'* train.—AVie Tori: Peoflr. A Xorristown man wlio was advised to go to the Hot Sprii g* for tbe benefit *if his hcaltii, *aiu hianx-d if be wi* going to do it. as it wa* a sou! as much :i he could do to worry through the hot lummm.- SorrisUnrn Herald. The old saying that lightning does not strike twi<* in tin- same place will not always hold gtaid, for on the farm ol Alexander Isouttks, of York. I'a., is a walnut tree that ha* I*** struck no lea* than five limes during a single season. We are told that not on- American woman faints to-day where Jiirty year* ago twentv-five fainted.—Boston Herald. Nothing tike variety! They got tired fainting in the same place, probably. Men are not so easily fatigued by it.— Boston Courier. A British army captain and two lieutenant* have licen fined f6O each for break in c into the bedroom# of two other officer* and "prinkring pepper on Uie carpet* in order to make them sneeae lunniiy when they returned. Tlie <-oni plainan' wa* the landlady, whose furni ture liaii laa-n damaged. One of a series of Indian mound*, twenty-five f*et in dtameh-r. hat* been unearthed by tbe Albany (IU.) scien tists. Curiously carved drinking ves sel# of ton- wi re discovered, and skulls and bone*, evidently belonging to an unci en l race of mound builders, were found in profusion. The blind pacer. Sleepy Torn, slacken* hi* speed toward the end ol each heat at soon a# he li.-ars the crow.l yell, tor lie think# lie has finished- Thi* ten dency has to be met by talking and with the whip, and even then count# seriously against liia suooeta, although be has made the best time on record. Some rrramnivrou* animal* will eat many plant* that other# do not appear to reli#h. Ij-innwu*. tin'di#tingui*bed ixttanist. iv offering fresh plants of the ordinary kind# eaten by animals, found that horse* ate ?7S specie# and refused •ill . horned cattle and reftnwd 218. Sh**ep ate 3M7 and relHaod only HI. Here i an incident of railroad travel in Hungary. A mail train came to a sudden stop in a tract <>. open country. The passengers thrust their tu-ads out of the window* to sv what hail happened. A pig had leaped from a van and was -kurrving away. The train employee# joined in a tiruit. and the fugitive wa* hotly chased for twenty minutes. Then all rcturn.d to tlie waiting train except the official who had charge of tlie hag gage voucher*, and the delay wa* pro .onged. hut in vain, for him to come hack At the end of tlie journey the passenger# could not get their trunks until next day. when the voucher man arrived. .Some time ago the Xew York Erpreu irnve an account of an attempt which was made to rob a luuik. The newspaper got it* information of the cashier of tbe hank, who it ms implicated an inno cent p'rson. The person suiii and re covenal damage*. The Kxprtxs ha* now drought suit against the ca-hierfor the amount * f tue •lamagea which it was a>mpelled to pay. The result of this suit will be looked for with inter est. If tlie principle lie established that the person giving tlie information and not tlie newspaper publishing tlie same is n*s|Hnible, people wlx> are inter viewed by reporter# will doubtless !>e more oan'ful wliat statements they make for the press.— Rome t-cnlinel. Too Many Snake Bile*. During the haying season an honest old farmer out ou the Gratiot road em ployed tlin*e young men from the city to help cut and store his timothy. None of them liked work half as well as whisky, and a conspiracy wae the re sult. About noon one iiw one of the trio fell down in the field, snouting and kicking, and the other two ran to the farmer with wild eye* and called out that their -onipaniou had been bitten by a rattlesnake and must have whisky. The farmer rallied to the house and brought out a uuart. and the three harvesters Rot a big drink all around on the s.y. while tlie "bitten" one had a lay-off of half a day. The next forenoon a soi-ond one was bitten, and again the farmer ru-lied for his U>ttle. It was a nice little job for the boys, and on the third day the third one nut in his claim for a bite, and jelled for the whisky bottle. The farmer took tlie matter very coolly this time, and after making particular inquiries as to the sise of the snake, location ot the bite, the sensation and so forth, he slowly continued: "Day lie fore yesterday James was bitten and drank a quart of good whisky. Yesterday John was bitten and drank a quart more. To-day you've got a bite and the best thing you can do is to smell their breaths i M lay in the shade while the rest of us cat dinner!" The man got well in ten minutes, and not another rattlesnake was seen during the season.— Detroit Free /Ve.s. The Children of Knot Drinkers. Dr. Martin, of the Salperriere Hos pital, Paris, has made a series of inter esting observationson nervous affections among the offspring of alcoholic parents. His results may la' summed ur> as fol lows: In eighty-three families in which one or more members showed nervous exeitability with a history of alcoholic origin, there were 410 children. Of these. 106—more than a quarter —had oonvul sions, and in the year 1874, 189 wen dead; 241 were still alive, but eighty three, *. e., more than one-third of the survivors, were epileptic.
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