Antnmn Voice*. Fading flower* whisper, " Little onm, tare well' Will yon miss onr t'aoe. Prom the hill snd ilell f Will yon dream almut na In the wintry night. When the silent anowltaVea Hale the earth trom sight ? Hying hiruie* warble, " We are going now; Will yon long to see it* On the hlootning bongh ? Though onr airy journey Far awny m*t lie, Sweeter, hrightcr tares We shall never see'" Silver brooklet* murmur" "Little onee, gooil-b • Win>l* are -rowing ohilly. Hitter ilav* nrr> uigh; We shall miss your bright eyes Peeping o'er lite brim. When in icy tetters We lie hushed ami dim," * •• Flowers, hiois and brooklets," Uttlr ones reply, " l.arth is sad and lonely When* on bid good-by , \\ e shall not torget you, Never in-vrr tear; \\ e'll i*i watching for you Kuriy in the >■*'" T%t.\ 10 set y> A Rhtmejof lite Time. Miss Pal!** Kudora Von ltluiky She didn't know chicken trom turkey; High Spanish and t.rwk she oontd rtue itly apeak. Rut her knowledge of poultry was murky. She could tell the grnrl tmcle ot Moses, And the dates ot the wai> ,U the Roses, And the reason ot things —why the Indians wore mini In their red, .. ard would be quite an item in our little housekeeping, we were resolved that, of course, we would be to her lik ing. Moreover. Miss Rehone was a distant—indeed, a very distant—connec tion ; mamma's great-aunt's second cou sin by marriage, or something of the sort. And distant aa that was, we were the n.-arest and only connection she had In the world, so that—l am .ashamed to acknow ledge that we were so poor v to be obliged to encourage a mercenary thought in the matter —so that w<*might possible come in for something bv her will, if she decided not to leave all and everything to the Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Cats, as she had on.*- formally declared her intention to be. Sarah did not iook on the innovation favorably. Sarah was our Inwuty of beauties —1 ui-li you eould have seen her in those days—dark .and tall and straight as :ui Arab, with such a carna tion on her oiive check, and such biue black hair, and eves like midnight and stars. iu>i as different from Emiua a* dark from dawn; for Em was all fair and rosy and dimpled and yellow-haired, while Kate was grav-eyed. black-lashed and pale. As for me, I was always a little dud; hut 1 was mighty useful. Well. Sarah said >!ie had rather go without everything fore v. r than intro duce a stranger-and such a stranger— among us. and Em seconded her. Em didn": say it. hut -he w.is pretty sure it would interfere with her K-aux to have an old la !y always sitting round, with her blanket-shawls and foot-stoves and big tabby cat* on each side of her, to be waited on every minute or two. or else to give you a heart lea* appearance; and it was Weil known thai Mi-- Rehone had the greatest contempt for the young men of to-day. who had deteriorated so sadly since her time. But Kate and I persua.hd mamma to our side, and that was a majority, and Miss Rehone came.- And she was an old woman, with o'.anket-shaw.-. and soap-stones, and rubber hag* of hot water, and terrible attacks ol colic, and a lap-dog. and a parrot, and a pair of canaries, and a tam ily of Persian eats: an.l for tue rest, the most inquisitive little body, with her sharp black eyes peering fiom alt her wraps and cans and strings and thing* like a mouse from a bundle of raes. And to Sarah's ron-L rnation. she singled her out for the royal favor at once. " You have the lb-hone eye, my love," she sain, with a series of queer little nods: "I looked just ,ik" you at your age." And Sarah said afterward, with asperity, that if she was going to look just like lier at her age. she wished she might die now! "Just tliink how horrid it will he when Arnold comes." said Sarah to me. " There she is nerched with her jn-ts in the corner, ami there she a!ways will be with those dreadful eyes of hers. too. Rehone eves, indeed! And she Will be asking ail sorts of hateful questions— she'll be asking him his intentions, for all I know." Asking Arnold Parnell his retentions! Sarah guessed that mamma had been on the point of it any time this twelve month; for mamma held her husband's ciris to be a serious responsibility, and here hod Arnold been, as she would have said if she had put it into words, in the way of Sarah's making an eligible settle ment all this year and more. Mamma is cheeky—l to-g her dear old haughty pardon, she calls it h. r habit of self-re spect—hut somehow, like "grandfather's clock," she always stopped "short" ol asking Arnold any questions that she could not have asked a prince of the blood royal; and if anybody ever looked like a prince of the blood royai it wa* Arnoid Parnell. That he was madiy in love with Sarah there wasn't the least doubt in my mind, and I doubt if there wa* any doubt in Sarah's, although I dare say that about some things one is hardly quite sure till the articles are signed and sealed. But she was such a f.rou.l and stately piece that she would uive died sooner than have given him, on anybody but me— nobody ever mind ed me much—one sign concerning her feelings; and all we exactly knew was that if young Dr. Parnell had given us a good chance, we, at least, should have been equally madly in love witli him. But then Sarah wasn't like the rest of us, and had never said as much as this aliout him before. " Oh, no," I answered her on this occa sion, " she won't go out of her way to make herself disagreeable." " She won't have to," said Em, com ing in with Kate and overhearing me. "It is just going to destroy our home having that woman here. She'll have the best chair, the best corner, the best morsel, the best room and the best man ners all the time. There'll never be a bit of freedom; we must speak with bated breath; we don't know how she'll like this or take that; she's strict and we're liberal; she likc-s a lot of people we hate: we'll have to mince our words and pare our speech; she'll want hari cot when we want roast; we'll hate pies and she'll hate puddings; she'll want breakfast at daybreak and dinner at noon —and oh, dear! dear!" And she did. All these things came true. Miss Rehone naturally had the best corner and the best chair in it; of course she had the best room—there wasn't any other for her; and of course I helped,her to the best cuts—what eise could you do with an elderly stranger at table? and of course we were on our best behaviour and took care as to what we said in her presence. She was a dys peptic and had to have little messes made for her; and she did get up before dawn, and look very thankful if any body else crept out of bed a rouple of hours afterward, and seem to be a re proach to lazy young people; and she did look over the tops of Iwr glasses at Arnold's goings and comings in such a way that it was quite plain that if she said nothing, yet, like the silent parrot, she kept up a great thinking. But then, as I said to Sarah onoe, she paid for it KHKI). KUK'I'Z, Kditor ami Proprietor. VOLUME XII. all. As vet we hardlx felt any addi tional expense; tvtui if tilings went on comfortably. we could really think ot buying Ikt tieV firm! that we hut lie spai r cd of. and so rul ourselves of the disgusting task of covering up ho.es ami darn* by means of artistieallv ar ranged shadows id ehairs and tallies, and the next thing would !* the new drvs* 'or mamma she hadn't had a tresh b.aek si.k sinee papa's death, and now silks were so cheap. " 1 don't care it she thies," vtid Sarah. "Money can't pay foreverything; money won't pay for your health And hue you are making yourself sick waiting on her by inehes; and if you don't, ot txiursc 1 must. And then I never shall he able to have an hour for my s< If for Arnold— " She stopped, lor she hadn't meant to ay hum my face and grime my hands." she cried; 1 ean't have you doing all the nursing. There'll be nothing lett of • volt in a year, with carrying up trays for I hreaklasi. and making he, t lea, and whipping up eggs for refreshers, and . st irring a custard now and a panada thvn, , and filling hot- water Kittles, and shaking i up cushions, and running up and down | stairs, and being a perfect drudge in : general—" "Nonsense"* said 1. when 1 eould . | break in. " You know I like to do it. It is aiwars pleasant to tue to "Tln uit it's so pleasant," > .id Sarah. " I'll have some ot the pleasure. It the little creature's going to stay—and I suppose she is—l shall take care of her for the tuture. I'm sure you've enough to do in waiting on mamma and seeing to the housekeeping. Mamma's enough to set one by the head. Mamma wasn't our own mother, by- 1 the-way; she was papa's great mistake. But then we all got along nicely to gether, and were. 011 the whole, very fond • each other, for all Sarah's re mark: but you know the best of friends are sometimes exasperating. As mamma cameot an old and stately but unpeeuni ons family, she held herself of a little more worth than we were—we who had sprung from the soil, so to speak ; and, to tell the truth, we did have to wait upon her—how xve did have to wait upon her! But somehow we always liked it till Miss lb-hone came; and then. I suppose, having the two of them made it too much of a grant thing. And I must say I was surprised to <■<• Sarah tak-ng the matter up so. and it did put me in mind of the Queen of Sheha wait ing on the Witch of Endor. say— Sarah was so splendid and superb, and then she usually did look like an Eastern princess in disguise, whether she was holding a toasting fork over the blare or snutling Mi*s Dehone's wax candle for her; and Miss lb-hone always would have a wax candle. As for Em and Kate, they kept school, and wore the chief of our support, ami could not. of course, do anything else. Well, at the end of the second month I went to balancing our accounts, and seeing what would !*• left over tor the carpet and mamma's -i'k; and, if you'll believe it. adding in all the board money, our accounts only came out iu.-t even. All the little ni< ssings had counted up. and instead of our boarder's being a profit, that iittle item in our hou*< ke, jv. ing was all the other wav. " Well " said 1. " what shall we do? Let her find another home? It's a pity—and she so welt established." " It would be a shame." said Sarah, hesitatingly. "A shame. No, I couldn't —could you?—turn her out." " No profit and no pleasure, and a world of trouble." said 1. " I don't know." said Sarah. "You can't help growing fond of the little thing, although she does ask such ques tions." Questions! I should think so. Who was that 1 And what did he come for? What was his busim-ss? Was he Sarah's lover or Km'-? 81m didn't think much of his taste if he were Urn's. Was he a good match? Why hadn't we looked out for hi:u. then? Why were none of us engaged? Did we mean to) die old maids like her? Rid we think that so cheerful a prospect, with nobody to ear-'a farthing' Who was the Dr. Parnell that came round here >0 much? Was he after Sarah? Handsome is that handsome docs, and Sarah wasn't to be had for the asking, she would have him to know. " Roes Sarah like liira, do you know?" she asked hp- one day. "Indeed. Miss lb hone, how can I say ?" " You can say very well if you will." " But—" "I don't want to hear anything about a ' but.' You think I'm a chattering old woman, and so you won't speak. Very well; lean find out usually all I want to in one way or another, and no thanks to anybody. I'll ask him." Ask him! "For goodness sake. Miss Rehone—" I began "Then there is something in it!" she said, triumphantly. " I thought so. lie's in love with Sarah, and she's in love with him. Why aren't they en gaged? Why don't they marry? flood gracious! it wasn't so when I was young. I.ovc has turned his bow into a money-bag. Weil, hasn't he a pro fession ?' "Oh, yes. you know lie's a physician. But he practices in a country village t -n mih s from here, and drives over to *-e us. And. dear me. it's the healthiest village!" "So I suppose. Why doesn't he set tle there?" " Because there's no opening. The i town's full of doc tors now." " And there's no hope of anything l t ter—iet me see, I ought to say worse—in the village?" "No. He doesn't earn enough to pay for his salt, let alone Sarah's. No, it's hopeless," said I, " unless some angel of mercy leaves u* all a fortune." "You needn't look at me, I sha'n't. My will wa rmule years ago. But 1 should think." she added, reflectively, "that if a young inan had any push, he could find away to support himself and a wife too. If I wanted to marry Sarah, I'd emigrate, hut I'd do it. But there! what do I care? What should I do. to be sure, wi!bout her? No. let Arnold Parnell marry Em or Kale, or any other baggage. My Sarah's too good for him." " I quite agree with Miss Rehone," said mamma, who had waked from hr nap on the lounge. "If a young man i; worth marrying, he will find out a way." " I suppose he will." said I, "by the time they are Kith gray-he:ul*d." "Dear! dear!" said Miss Rehone.! " What a world it is!" And when Ar nold's gig stopped at the door that night, the old Jady hitched her chair round and deliberately turned Iter ; shoulder on him. having first fitted on a pair of dark blue glasses for tin- pro tection of her eyes from the fire, and leaned back in her chair to enjoy a nap. j Arnold and Sarah sat down for a game : of crib huge, and perhaps the sound of the monotonous enumeration and itera tion lulled her oft—ami perhaps they didn't. At any fate, she soon gave audi ble testimony to being asleep; and I 1 went into the back parlor, where mam- j ma was playing whist with Kate and two dummies —for Em and Fred Mallows were so taken up with eaeti other as to , be no better than dummies. "I declare," said mamma, as Em trumped her own triek and Fred placidly revoked, " I h id its liet play with two figure-heads. , Pray, Mr. Mallows, do you follow Pole, j or Cavendish, or Re Vautre, or—" ' I follow tny partner's lead," said Mr, j Mallows. 1 went and looked on at the play; ami as they grew merry and forgetful, I glanced into the little mirror that re flected : corner of the other room, I be ing the only one in the range of its pic ture, and I saw Arnold's band pause in moving a peg, and close round Sarah's half-6Uspended one—and there was no more eribhage played in the front par lor that night. And hy-and-bye, when Sarah came to bed, 1 pretended to be THE CENTRE REPORTER. asleep. Put for al! that I viw herein* ks the tador of two carnations, and her eyes shitting with such a sixtvt light in them as -lie put down the lamp Mini stood 1 leaning her arms on the bureau ami looking in the glass. "Oh!" she mur mured to hers- t "And it will In-an , old. old woman's first!" And 1 heard her crying softly to herself whenever I woke up in the night, as I had never | heard her do before. Bui the next morning there was no ; time for sentiment. Mi*s lb-hom- wa ill. \tul alter no end of running with hot flannels and loot baths, she divlared it was a ease for a doctor, and I must send for one. " Why not have Arnold said 1. " Arnold!" she cried, with contempt. "Ro you suppose 1 want to make clinical lecture of ntv-eif for that loy? Do 1 want to be a subject tor a young man's experiments? No. 1 heard Ktu's chattering Mallows there last night, after you went up, telling of Arnold's taking that Irish halo up to his own room to gel well; and of his transfusing blood from his right arm for that dying woman—hut you see she died and he hadn't any right to do it. And I can't say when 1 have telt tuore indignant than went lie told of Arnold's taking out a screw in the life-boat 111 that Septciu bcr gale to rescue the people en the wreck of the Snriana. Suppose I'd K*-n one of his patients, and he <1 risk his life sii iii the very middle of my ease—" "How did you hear all that. Miss Ik hone? 1 thought you were asleep." " I woke up." " IVrhaps you heard something els.-?" "I heard a great deal else." s;tid she, with some emphatic nods, and her little b'a k eyes sparkling like diamonds. " And saw too." " 1 don't ms- what there w as to ms-." "Just as good as a novel, tuy dear, just as good as a novel —a real live novel, too." " Do you mean Sarah and Arnold?" She nodded again. " I don't think you had any right —" I Ik-gnu. "Now you stop just there!" she cried. "That's my aflatr. .and not yours. If I itui square it with my conscience. I'm not obliged to square it by yours " Then the little sprite looked up at me withlthc raidest, eeriest laugh "Ro you wont to know how I saw them?" she said. " Then you put on tuv glass- s. I'm about done with them.'' And -lie thrust the blue spectacles on my nos--. ti 11l at an abtuse angle, and I saw the whole room behind me reflected in miniature in the blue glasses, as it they were a Psyche mirror. "Oh, how moan'" I exclaimed. " i'shaw! Why should they mind me any more than an old tree? I am an old tree. I saw him ki*s her hand; tuid —and I should have seen him kiss her lit s. 1 guess—her beautiful sweet |iij>— if I hadn't shut my eyes iust then. Oh, yes, I have a little conscience. You an going to warn them atotut me? You'd better not. Tin- motto on one of our tirst coins was. mind your own business. I'll give you on-- of them for your col lection if you'll hold your tongue. And I'm glad you think it's mean. too; hut then it isn't wise or n-spectful for you to say so," said the midget. "Arnold? No. I want a practical man. He's hand some enough—oh. he's v.-ry well-,ook- 1 ing; handsome as Sarah; handsome ! like King Saul. But I like an ugly doe- 1 tor. And my throat's all filling up. I ] wish you'd hurry. Who is the best doc- ' tor hen —I mean the oldest? Who has ' the widest practice? I want Aim." So J I sent for Rr. Bunts; and th<- little crea ture insist<*d on seeing him alone, and a ' sweet time, we thougiif, he Ii:m1 of it ' with Iter. "lie's an old man. a very old man. 1 together too old to practice, and 1 told ] him so. if I lik- an old lH-tor. I don't mean Methuselah." -aid she. " But he's I done me good. I f<* Ila tter already. I 1 shouldn't wonder if If eould go down 1 stairs." " Ro \<>u tliink you'd IK--I?" " AA'-'ii. if S irah'il ronic and read to 1 np-, I'll sit up lien- till night-fall. 1 a!- ' ways like to leave ray room, and change 1 tlie air anyway, when I can." And as Sarah read interminable page after page ' of Bollock's "Course of Time." her sad. 1 sweet taee a little turned away, the mouth slightly drooping, and the lovely lips east down. 1 saw the tilth- creature eyeing her with a most singular cast of countenance. "Just think," I said t* myself, " her life almost done with, and their live- ray dear magnificent Sarah's life—ju-t K ginning, and just going to 1 ruin. And it they only had her money, • only had half of it—" " You ju.-t goaway !"said Miss Rehone to me, sharply. "I know exactly wliat you're thinking of. Your face is iu-t like a jack-o'-lantern— tin- light shines through. It's no u-e at all." She came down stairs, la-fore tea. on ' Sarah's arm. It win blowing up quite a gale and the rain wasswi ping by the , firelight of the windows like sparks. < She didn't iook much as though she had ' had the doctor in the morning; Sarah 1 looked a great deal more like it. The 1 little eyes of the old lady fairly danced ; 1 -he kept looking toward the window-. ' and wouldn't have the lamps lit; and ' as Arnold suddenly opened the door and ! came in. shaking off the storm and 1 bringing a gab- with him. she laughed ' like H girl. " I declare," I said to my- j' --■lf. "I don't know what to make of Iter. Is she a fraud, or is she not ?'' And ail at once, cold and ruddy as he was I after throwing off his cloak, Arnold had , stalked forward to that lire and had jj seized the little bundle of rags and rib- ! Rons and eyes in his arms. 1 ' " I always knew there was a good < fairy at the hearth," lie cried. "But medown,sir! put me down! I'm ' sure I don't know what you mean, i j never was treat* d with such indignity?" "I never shall put you down,"said I he." till you promise to come and sit by Sarah's fireside and mine." "Arnold!" cried Sarah, whit" as a white rose. " Rr. Parnell!"tnid mamma, starting to her feet with as much dignity as tin amazement left Iter. " Yes, yes," he said. " I mean it. We are going to have a hearth of our own at last. And such a hearth! Ro you re member that old gray house on the hill, with the garden going up the hill Is-hind it. all terraces and grass-plots and alieys and flower l>eds ?" " Ah, h .v sweetly such tilings sound in fall weather, and when you don't have to weed and water!" cried Kate, clasping her hands melodramatically, in order to break the breathless spol!. "And if you do!" he exclaimed. "And all the year round and. forever!" " Ro you mean Rr. Burns' house !" I asked. "Exactly so. Sarah, that is going to be our own house. It is your wedding present. And she lias done it, the little fairy godmother. And she has bought Rr. Burns' practice, and that is mine, and I enter 011 the good-will next week, and we go into that house, you and I' Sarah, the week after. Ro you hear?" " Do you hear, Sarah ?" echoed Miss Rehone. "Oh, it ean't be true," said Sarah, with white lips, and scenting ready to fall on Iter knees. " It in true," raid Miss Rehone. " And now 1 suppose you'll let me go, young man?" "Not," said lie, "till you promise to come with Sarah. We shall nenl the fairy godmother at our hearth there— they've got another here"—and if you'll believe it, he looked at me. " Not till then." said he. "Very well, then," said she. "Any thing for peace. But if you believe for a moment," said site, adjusting Iter cap, after he had dropped her into her chair, "that I had any other intention you are mistaken. Leave my Sarah to the mer cies of a man, indeed! Sarah, I'm deter mined you shall have everything I didn't. And I've ordered you an ivory tinted satin and orange blossoms and veil." And all of a sudden the little creature burst into tears, and we were CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2! ail sobbing and laughing round her, niid when she at last emerged from the diUtlplti - II 1 Ul' -lie said, '• I should think 1 Was the bride, after all!'' Il<>r/sr'ji f>i.d'. furuig ll)dropliidrtu In force of Mill. It w ill not do t> say that hydrophobia is always a disease ot the imagination . hut that it is Miiui-liiit' s sU< h. and llial it may l>- controlled ami cured by the iii ißietnv of the mind over the tn!>, woul appear to be proved by tin- followiug in tercsiing en.-*- related in a recent article in the CbrnAtU My a oit, whidi on the satuc day died from hydrophobia, lie seetus resolutely to have di-inisscd from his mind the bars whieh must naturally have ls 11 siigg- sr,| hy tin *e eireuinstiuiees. 11 ail he yielded to tiiem, as most itii-ii would, h< might no* ini ' probably have succuuilierl within a ! w days or weeks to an attack ot mind created hydrophobia- -o 1| de* ribe tbe lata! ailun nt which eie now lias been known to kill persons w ho had ln*-n bit ten by animals [h i feel !y lre from rabies. Three months pa-- eaihal for watr, hut "at the instant." h- says, "that 1 was alsutt to raise tin tumbler to my Sip- a -trotig spasm -hot ai ross my throat; imunaiisteiy the terrible convic tion came to my mind that 1 was nttout o fall a victim to hydrophobia, the eon sequence ot the bile i bad received from tin oat. The agony of mind 1 endured for one hour is incescriltnble; the con t.tn pint ion of such a horrible death— death from hydrophobia— w as almost m aupportabie. I'lie pain, which t)al first txiiunieuced in my hand. pae-'*t up to the e!law, ami from llieiu-e l> the shoulder, threatening to extend. I felt all human aid was UM-ii-ss, and I believed that I must die At length 1 began to reflt-. t on my condition. I -aid to nijwlf, 'Either I shad die, or I shall not; if 1 do, it will only be a fat*- which many have suffered, and many more iuu*t sui fer.and I must bear it .ik<- a man; if.on tin otiier hand, then- is any hope of IUV life, tuy only chance is in summoning my ut most I'-solution, defying the attack, and exerting every effort of my mind.' Ac cordingly, feeling that physicn as w< . as mental exertion was ne. esaarv, 1 took my gun. shouldered it. bud went out for the purp-> of shooting, my arm a. hing tiie while intoierablv. I met witli no j s|x>rt. but 1 walkesl the whole afternoon, j exerting at every step I went a strong mental effort against the disease U ben ! returned to the house I was dts idwily j better; I waa able to eat Bonn- dinner, and drank water as usual. The next morning the aching pain Lad gone down j to tuy elKw. the following it w- nt down to the wrist, and the third day it '.eft m> ' altogether I mentioned the circum stance to Rr. Kinglak- 1 , and he said lie eertnin y amsidertal 1 had had an atve x of hydrophobia, which would pssibly j have proved fatal had I not strugg ■•! again.st it by a strong effort of mind." A Remarkable Rifleman. At Acri- uilural Bark. Rr John Ruth, | of tiakiand. gave an < xhibilton of his skill as a rifle slart. and achieved a de. rided suv-s, astonishing even his; Irieniis. Ruring the enti-rtainment In shot eignr* from the mouth of his as- , sislant. who was standing alx-ut twenty i f-s-t distant, :unl not on y did s U wli • having the pun—a twenty-two ■ 1 ilr< liallanl —against his ihoQltitT in the usual manner, but with it turned sirt ways or upside down, with the -to- k resting U|>>n liis head. lie also shot ap- ! rles from a sti<-k two or tlins- inches 1 long ln-id in his assistant's mouth, tin gun lelng tirut middle a re, of agreeable manner, and handles v. r; siiic*thly the weapon he u-.-s. Hi- average time in sh.Miting 100 halls wa* b.-'. ween nine and ten minutes, using but one gun and hauling it himself. Like Carver, he sli.Mrt* with both eye* open.— San Fran cisco !(• i'or'l. Field's .Monument to Andre. A monument has toa-nerect*lby Cyrus \V. Field to Major Andre on the spot where the British spy was hanged, in Tappan, N. Y. The monument, which i* of the finest Maine granite, is -ix feet eight inches high and along with the foundation xveigH* aK>ut fifteen tons. It 1 bears the following inscription, written by Dean Stanley, of Westminster, the line* being arraagod in the order here given: ll- r MIS Bfl I. though MrcoMtinr to tiaw tr'n rs4* of war. 11l .vc 1 Ptrti ht fncmlrs I pit % . •n l loth ftrihici ttt -arnc i th" ft of .n# to ftiuos Ah l hf.AA •• In l"?! till • urt' • vc.i in Wrtrnlnilr AWrt V hun-lrt'-I v*ar aft**' liL% rtn utioti this Was pi*! fI Itoivt ttic W?i**ro la* by I< it a**!! of the Stfitcfl at> a R-t Whk h I" foßgbt* rtff t rH-r|wtnxt'th" *c rl .f fitrlfr, but m token of lh(p better frrjlntff whUli hve ktt.vc unite I tM tMtRHia. "tic tn race, in lanffUNffe an I in rcltfih n. witli th- earn* *t rw that th; frlm llv union vriu. NKV Kit UK KROkKN On the west side of the shaft is the following: A STUCK 1-fNKUVV STAN'IKV. | ; Dcau of Wcstmint*r. ; On the south side is tlie following quotation : i Sunt iurryuup rcrum t mrnUm morta tanffunt : : \ On the north side are the following words attributed to General Washing ton. who signed Arnold's death warrant; ; "He was more uriforfatiatc than rrlniitiai. at a : :romioh"l mil!,ind c* *nt •.fitter ; GKoKGI WAMIIN'tiTON. A Maliiciiiatlcul Curiosity. Mr. Joseph Jameraon. of this city, says the Columbus (Ohio) Journal. ha* had the leisure and ingenuity to study out the following peculiar arrange ment of figures: The year Ihhi will he a mathematical curiosity. From left to right and from right to left it reads the same; 18 di vided by 2 gi 'os it as the quotient; 81 divided by B and 9is the quotient. If I*Bl is divided by 200,!) is tiie quotient; if divided by !, the quotient eotitnins u 0; if multiplied hy ti, the jiroduct con tains two 9's. One and eight are nine, ■tight and one are nine. If the 18 l>c placed under the 8J and added, the sum is !K). If the figures be added thus. I, fi, 8, 1. it will give 18. Rending from left to right is 18, and reading from right to left is 8|; and 1h is two-ninths of 81. Bv adding, dividing and multiplying nineteen !)'s are produced, being one 9 for each year required to complete the century. FAItX, tAKIK> AMI IIUI NKIIOI.U. lire ||. Mock tfisiiiis or Co km. - Take a i dozen and a half eat - ol grt-eu coin and , grate from the cob as tine as possible; 1 tlu-n mid two large lahl.-spooiifuls ot •lour and thr*- egg*. Beat well ami fry a* you would oysu rs, in part butter and part lard, which should tie very hot. low mo Soi t* l'o one pint tomatoes, j canned, or four large one* cut tine, mid i one quart boiling water and let them | lw.il, l licit add oii<- tea*) w win ol sod a, j when it will loam; immediately add ouv j pint ol *w> l milk, with salt, pepper and plenty of butter. \\ hen thi* bolls add ight small cracker*, rolled line, and j serve. 1 (liNi.ii: I't'lu.iKt. Haifa pound o : tlour, quarter of a pound of suet, quarter i of a pound ot moist .sugar, two large tca i -pooiitui* .f grate.t ginger. Sbrcd the u< t very fine, mix it with the flour, -11/ar and ginger, -tir al) well together; I.utter a basin and put the mixture in .try ; tie a cloth over and laiil lor three hours. Km. OK Burn h (iitvvy.—But into a till dlsli olie-qUarter . Up >f btltler and a large tabic*pooaful ..f flour. Set on the stove, and as the l.utU r melts stir iu the flour until smooth, or free from lumps; then janir oh nearly a pint of boiling water. Slice into your gravy Imwl two hard boiled egg*, twvur the gravy on them and serve. Salt and pepper. A itu t 'akk.— Take two .-uj>* of dried applies; stew just enough to c lion easily; chop as tin.- as raisins and boil in two eun* of molasses till preserved through; drain off tin- molasses, then add two eggs, one cup of butter, one cup of sour link, two t.-asjSHJtifuls of soda, five cups of flour and spices ui ail kinds; ml.l the apples and one large cup of raisins tin ! last thing. Sxtvii Bimril. —Two pounds of tin scraggy part of the neck of mutton Cut the meat from tin- Itone and cut off all the fat; cut the meat into *maii pieces; put into a soup pot with one large aliec of turnip, two carrots, one onion, on.- j -talk of parsley, one-half . up of t.ariey, three pint* of water and lw.il gently two hours. On the twines put one pint of water, lw.il two hours and then strain on the soup. t'.H.k onespoonful of flour , and one ol butter together until perfectly ] smooth, then -tir into the soun and add >ne te.vjww>nfu. of ciioppeu parsley, j Season with salt and jw*j>p.*r.—Afis* .\l. \ i\trlua. tlouwrbalrt Uinta. To make a tw.iish for ui.-tals, dissolve 1 one oun< < carbonate of amtuonia in fou.' | ..urn's-* of water and mid sixteen ounce* of Baris white, mixing them w.-U to gi-ther. I *e a damp *|>.>ngv, and rul the j*iwder lightly over the surfa.-e of the metal. M 11. 11 the JH.wdrt ) dusted off the utetal will lw- bright and clean. To make potato star, h, grate six me dium-siz.*i rwvtahw-s and mix thiwoughly with on.- gallon of water; strain through a ixunc towel, let srihle, drain off tin water and turn dry. I s. same a* corn-starch for starehlng clothes. When you gather yourh.-rlsi dry them and rub the hnv.-s through a sieve and Krtth- them tightly tih you n.cd litem. Tie the *t.a k together nnd save them till you want to make what the French call a bouquet lor a <>uj> or slew. A KtUqtxi of herb# is made by tying to gether a f< w -jrig* of jiarsciey, thyme and two haylcav.-. These can al. to tomglit at any drug store. To r.-ston- srordtod linen, jxv] and a lice two onions, and extract the juice by pounding mid squeezing; cut uj> half an ounce of line white Maj>. and also add to tin- juice of the onions two nun.'. - of fu 1 r's . artli an.l half a pint of \ inegar. Boil all together. When cool, sj.n ad over the scorched linen, and let it dry on . llu-n wash and Kil out tic linen, and the sjk.l* will disappear, un h -- hurn.ai so l>a>ily as to destroy the threads. When to .iuplr Manffrf. TIIO common run>ng fjirmcr§ is to make a general clearing of the yard* and barn celiar# on. >■ a year, either in the spring or fail. Either practice mak.-s a heavy .'raft utx>n the teams, and has it* disadvantag.**. If this work i* done in the spring, it is when tin ground i* -.ft. and other work i* \- ccdingiy pressing. If tlo- manure i* drawn out in the fall, and in lieap* uj-on the fieid to to- eu.rivaled next *ea.-"t>. tlien- is more or les* wasti hy leaching and by evaporation. There i* a growing li*poMlin among our in tcliig. Nt farmer* to apply manure di r* tly to growing < roj*. or as near tin time of planting and sowing as j**sibic. It i* f it that the sooner manure is put within reach of the roots of plants, the K-lter f.r the croj>* an.l their owner. Manure i- so uiu.-h capital invested, and to-ars interest only as it is consumed in the soil. The ham-cellar may lc so managed as | to manufacture and turn out fertilizers j every month in the \a-ar. *<> that the ' farmer may suit hi* convenience in ap- I plying th.-m to the soil. When manure j 1- not wanted for cultivated crops, it is ] always -ale to apply it to the grass crop, i either in pa*ttir< or uj*n meadow* after ; mowing. Top-dressing is growing in < favor with oui intelligent farmer*, i Grass pays bettor than almost any farm j croji in the older States, and the spread- , ing of compost saves the necessity of 1 frequent plowing and scaling. By toj>- .lr.-ssing at any convenient season of the year, fields may he kept profitably in gra** for an indefinite time.—American .tyricuUuriM. In.I Until, for I'nwlt. Yes, they are just about the in-st thing* which can be allowetl to the fowl* and chicks, and tlicy are sure to appreciate them a* much as a cleanly disjmsed j>er son docs a gi mm! hath in tiie water, for it i* their mode of effecting a thorough ck vn-ing. Nature ha* ordered it *O, anrt the fowl* understand it full well, for they delight in nothing more—unless we except a good feed —than to roll around and Work through a lot of fine dust, and they go at it with all the de light evinced by a lot ol urchin* in a pond of water. They rub themselves di wn deep into it, toss it uj> under their wings, over their head* and backs and in under their feathers until they are completely covered with it. This re freshes them wonderfully, while it also has the desirable effect of ridding them of lice. Thi* is especially so when the dust has been sprinkled lightly with di lutcl carbolic acid or well dusted in with flowers of sulphur, though the acid is the hcs|, and, as used, the cheapest. There should always be plenty of line, dry dust kept on hand, and it should be liberally sujiplicl, either in wide and shallow boxes, or in one corner of the house. It must always to- kept under shelter, else it will soon bccomet-amp from the dews, or from showers of rain. lbultry Monthly. Burtons Facts. Man has the power of imitating al most every motion but that of flight. To effect this, he ha* in maturity and health sixty bones in hi* head, *ixty in liis thigh* and legs, sixty-two in his arms and hands, and sixty-seven in his trunk. He has also 131 muscles. His heart makes sixty-four pulsations in a j minute, and therefore 2, fiWO in an hour, and 92,160 in a day. As to the sjieed of animated to-inj;*, size and construction seem to have little influence. The sloth is hy no means a saiall animal, and yet it can travel only fifty paces in a day: a worm crawls only live inches in fifty seconds, but a ladybird can fly twenty million times it* own length iti less than an hour. An elk can run a mile and a half in seven minutes; an antelope a mile in a minute; the wild ass of Tartar ha* speed even greater than that. An eagle eiui fly eighteen league* >n an hour. A violent winds travelß sixty to seventy miles an hour. fun lljdrupliobia He I tired tiottlich Ehiaaeer, who died ill Phila delphia, had a history, which i* given by the nsg< of that city. In Prussia he tK>k adcgrci -ar* the water is jw.isonou* at ail times, and tlmt the members of the other cL-ws are entirely harmless. " Well, my father's friend l.w.k our Spit/ dog away. The dog hit llitll and the man died. ' Didn't 1 tell you said my uncle, the ' scharfrichter.' " The bite of a " waaserchcu " is aa deadly a* the sting of a rattlesnake. If ><>U had call.*! m>- in time, though, I exrtlid leave sav.sl him.' "This wa* the remedy my uncle pro jM.stal, Hepmih the tongue of every hu man being tin re an- two large veins, whose blackness renders thetu easi.y dis tinguishable. When anyone i* afflicted witii hydrophobia, . ut these open with a pair of small scissor* or any sharp in strument. and allow the tdood t trickle out. This rids the patient of the virus. Then make a lea of iuj.ulin. the seeds o| the hop vine, mid give the jwxllent a.-up fui. This will at once put him toshs-ji without having the injurious effect that would follow the adminstrationofopium In four or five hours the patient will awake. Tln n give hiui another cupful of the tea. and continue this treatment until he ha* slept for twenty-four hour*, lie will then 1*- .ntireiv cured. The , scharfrichter-knecliters '* say that thi.* siuipic muedy n. \ <-r fails. "In Hilesia, in 1*31.1 was in tin* army, employed to prevent people from enter ing the district ravaged by the cholera. Four soldiers were bitten by wolves, they aisodr.-ad the water, ami tliercfore K-.ong to the wasscrscKu. Oneof the nn-n expird in terrible agony. While the oilier thn*- w. re suffering terribly n scharfrichter-knetliter arrived, appliesi his n ttiedv an.l the iv< of the men were sav.sl. " When a Ky I threw a Spitz dog into a pond. It was only b* *trato?v that I could g 1 him near the hank. When h<- found himself in the water in- jioddled vigorously with hi* fore feet, but he eouid not swim. The hind jwrt of l.s body sank. Trv a Newfoundland or bloodhound dog in the satuc manner, he rests easily in tbe water, and swims quietly and gra fully. Everyone should try hi* and ass rtain if they belong to the wasw-rseheu. If they dr nxl the water do not a ; !> aled success.-*, Queen of Brus*in. who wasct.mpelled to fly from castle to castle, determined to seek nil inbrxiew with the resistless general. When sin- entered the room with her children, hoping that their cuilclcs* faces would touch the royal heart, she was so exhausted that she sank into a eliair. Napoleon, a-ldres<- ing lier in his most brusque manner, said. " Madame, are you aware that you are iu the |>r.-s< nee of the Emperor?" She at once n*.. and standing before the |.ar\ > liu with the dignity which the rta-ollection that her family hail been famous for hundred* ol years in*j>ind, repliini: "Sir, I supjKwd that 1 was in the presence of a g.-ntlcman." Even the tiny child felt the insult, for lie flush.*l with anger and doubled his little fist. What wonder that lie never for got the wrong done .0 hi* mother, and that wln n lie Ix-i-ann- a man and felt the pressure of the crown he sought for an opportunity to avenge it? The emperor reached the height of his towering am bition and then fell into the abyss of Si. Helena. At last his nephew—a shadow with a great man's name attached — seized the throne ol France. At Sedan that nephew—all then' was left of the Napoleon who had insult-d Louisa—d-- liv. re.l up his swonl in disgnn-eful de feat to the Emperor William, who as a boy had clinched his fists and vow. d revenge. And now you can see in Rerun a magnificent monumentdedi.-ated to the memory of !rtuisa and built with money which the French people were eompellea to pay. History seldom jo-csen's a pic ture so complete in all its details as this one. The Sutro (New) Imhpentlcni savs: "Old Mother Rildine, the hermit, of Twenty-One-Mile l>e*ert.nald her semi annual visit to our town l >t Thursday for the purposeof getting a few supplies. Notwithstanding her age—sixty-three years—she is .* spry and active as a girl of sixteen. She want* a purchaser lor her ,W goats and says she will re turn to her native town in Massachu setts if she ean effect a sale ol them. She lelt for the mountains again Thurs day eveni'M with a j.illow-cnse full of eatables and clothing." Marrying I'hlnunian. The absence ot Chinese women in the East lias rompelled the males to inter inairy with the whites. There are in New York at the present time nearly 300 Chinamen who Lave while wives. They are mainly Spanish and Irish women, the Mongolians preferring the latter on account >' their skill in domestic labor. Few of them allow their wives to work. This is due to a spirit of gallantry which is visible even in the West. The inter marriage ol races commenced about six years ago. Consequently a young China-Celtic generation is sjiringiiig up, the oldest of whom is about five years of age. As these children are becoming very numerous, they may become an important factor in strengthening the kindly relations between our citizonc uud Chinese emigrant*. In a year or two some of them will be old enough to enter school. Not only have thcCliiness married Spanish and Irish women, but at No. 15 Molt street there lives a China man who married a colored woman. The pair have three tine-looking chil dren.—New York Herald. TKKMH: #2.00 Yoar, in Advanoe. , 187 D. An Insurance Murder. In Recejijlu-r htai J. W liillman, ol 1 lawn-lice, Knnna*. insured hia life lor f'.'s.uno in tin following companies j Connecticut Mutual Idle, flA.ouo, Mutual Life, of N. w York, flto.tkat; New York Life, tio.o-0. the premium* I amountingaeini-aniiuaily to alaiut $313. < tue -lay m the following February he I met Major Wi*inan. the special agent tot the Mutual Life, who had Ink-ti hia i application in Jn-a-iiiln-r, am! naked him ; many |ertinent qui-ation*. which rouaed I the major • auspiciona that liillman wm c,nit> iiiplaU-d something "crooked." The special agent at ran* la-gnu taking i notea a* to the more preeiaeand positive . idetitideation ol liillman atiouid he in the future turn up dead. In the minor's survey ol liillman. he notices! a tooth : out iu bis upper left jaw. Noon after ward it waa published that liillman Was : accidentally shot and kihed by hia former huiun exhuming the Udy. and did not reoogui/e it aa liillman a. The up ja-r jaw tnotli wa* not mining. He stud notfiing then of lii* conclusions, hut had Um bon tnkan to 81 UtnMklddvi the widow an opi-ort unity, he said, to erect a monument to it at her Inline, out of the insurance money. There he re iMirtcd his lelief to the *>rooer, who held an inqU'wt, and after six liaya' care ful investigati-rti. the corpse being viewed !iy mauy who knew Htlhuac., the Vtrdfct wa that the corps*- wa a person unknown to the jury, and, in the opinion of the jury, it vu the corps-- ol aotue man who i-atne to hi* death in a ! felonious manner at the hands of J. 11. j Brown. lb lon- the jury rendered their vr-rdict Brown was sworu.and detailed 11 .nuie- K the ioutn.-y he Pajk witli Ijlilmar. from Wichita to the spol where the I alleged shooting occunt-d; lw it was ; done, and that it wa* Hiiimwn who wv 1 shot hy him. Mrs. Hilltuati swore that ! the corpse she saw was that of her liUs- j Itand ; that she recognized it by the gen* erni appearance, and not liy any special j mark. Other witnesses of high stand- j ing swore that the corpse was not thai ' of liillman. Atuotji these w.-t* Hill- j man's sister, Brown .-M-np.s! the verdict, , f.-arin ■ *) Wichita, and of jer sons who knew liillman The 1 w.a* nrm.al with IIHi- ' man. Brown and the dead man Tin dead man's photograph wa* immediate ly r.vognized a* that of one Frank j Nicholas, who alwvut the first of March w.a* offered f-Jit n mouth .and found, hy Hiliiuan and Brown, to heni catUle for ! tln-ui. Ila promised to write to his j friends, but they had never heard from ' him. iliiiman and Brown l-ft Wichita J at tfira-1* m. March 5. and went South instead of West—a different mute from that described by Brown al the inquest —and mat W!.ington. as previously agr.-ed on. The shooting took place f .urt.a n miles north ot Medicine l*dge, and one hundred mid* *outliw*l of Wichita. Under an assumed name Brown was not long sin.e heard of at Highy, Mll., and wv n jairteiF to b<- negotiating, through his father and brother, lor immunity from punishtm nt. provided he would divulge the whole 10b An attempt to capture him failed, and prettv reliable rej>rts have it that hch.ui joined Iliiiman in the East. H< s nt word from Missouri that he himself did not do the killing, as he claimed in his testimony before tin coroner's jury; and that, if a*sunair*. one will always n-main on tin n* by assemb ling on the land, a* they snow that the rain will bring earthworm* and larva* to the surface. This, however, is merely a search for food, and is due to the same instinct which teaches the swallow to fly high in fine w. .other, and kim a'.ong the ground when foul is coming. Tbey simply follow the flics and gnats which remain in the warm strata of the air The different tribes of wading birds al ways migrate before rain, likewise to hunt for finxl. Manx birds foretell rain ly warning cries and unixy action*; and swine will cairy hay and stnw to hiding placoa, oxen will lick themselves the wronv way of the hair, slicep will bleat and *kip "Knit, hogs turned out in the woods will come grunting nnd squealing, colts will rub their back* against the ground, crows will gather in crowds, crickets will *ing more loudly, flies eoroe into the house, frogs croak and change color mo dingier hue, .log* cat uru--. MM ■Ma * -i like hawks. It is prolwb e uauv of tticsc actions an- due to actual uneasiness, sitnilsr to that which all who are troubled with corns or rheu matism experience K-fore a *tortn. and an- can*. .! Krth by the variation in bar ometric t>re**ure .and the clntnges in thr electrical condition of the atmosphere. A Woman's Work in I'arls. The Christian I 'man reports a great work among the English shop-girl* of Paris, conducted by Miss Ida IssW. having heroine interested in girls if this -'"ss. she started a Bible-claas for them, which s,-hhi h.-id sixty-four atten dant*. The Franco-German war inter rupted her project*, but at its close she returned to Paris; and. shortly after, a girl who had attended hoi meetings, gave her a franc wrapjtod nj> in a jde>.e of paper upon whi.n w.-re written the words: " The gift of faith and love for a girls' home in paris." This incident de termined her to carry into execution a long eherished plan. and. on the 2Hth_of Di-eenibor. I*T2. she opened a home with twelve bed*. In five days the beds were all occupied and the number was soon increased to thirty. At this point the French law. which forbade the ca rying on of charitable work in ajartments, compelled Iter to secure other accommo dations. She selected a suitable building, and, before tin* time of payment arrived, secured the <0 for its purchase. As a result of her efforts there are now five separate Homes, with a sanitarium at the top of each for the sick. Provision is also made for the care of the youngchil dren of English mothers who ore com pelled to work during the day. Re ligious servicios arc Isold lnonungand evening; U-n mission meetings arc con ducted every Sunday in different parts of the city, besides a regular church service. Sixteen hundred air s have enjoyed the privileges of the Home; and, in connec tion with it, two establishments where food is supplied every Sunday to shop girls free of charge, are carried on. M. Gaiignani not only gave Miss Leigh a hospital built by hint, but paid the heavy fees for conveyancing. There are now one hundred and thirty girls at the Home, and Miss Leigh has recently made an aj>- peal for aid in carrying out her large and beneficent charity. NUMBER 42. TIHKLt TvriCH. The ladle# of the liihi* and fruit mis •lon in New York Hty liaee MMld and paid for a substantial and attractive threv stroy brick building opposite the Bellsvue hospital, to furnish refresh ments lor ti* hare (tat of material and rooking, to draw away a* many a* pos sible from the drinking *aloon*. The first tnrjr 1* a restaurant. top seoond a lecture-room, readiag-toom and par lor; the third U for lodging-rooms. There i Held enough lor several estab hshmitiU of this kind in Nw York. The I .ondon Times prints some statis tic* reading to the population of the L'nileti Ktat*#. which " exhibit a picture of progress that cannot fail to gladden I tie patriotic hearts id sanguine citizens of the North American republic." "The citizens of the United State*," it add*. " will doubtlsM have ample reason to congratulate each other as the figures of each succeeding census are made public. Tbey are certain to t in the I'uiU-d Kuans in 1870 was >,556.9*3 Seventy year# before it was a)tout 5.306.000. The fire-desolated city of Dead wood, inthe Black Hills, was situated in a gulch I with a lew houses scattered on the side* j :of the hill*, and when one* on fire a draft was created which was irresiati-; hie. It was the largest and richest town in Dakota Territory, and it will be promptly rebuilt and in a much more j substantial manner than before. It was : built so hurriedly and ctnaply that the wonder is that it wan not sooner destroy ed by fire. The character and enterprise nt the sufferers bv the 1 e*d wood fire are illustrated by the laet that for days since the tire the trie graph win* from there were so burdened with orders for goods that it was almost impossible to get any news through. The telegraph operator established himself trmponuily on a , bluff a mile and a hall from the town with a barrel h- ad for a desk and had no reason to complain of dull business. A photographer at Scarborough. Eng land, who died lately, was famous in the bud' as for the shrewd way in which {•? induced persons to order portraits in , oil. when thev had intended only to sit for card photographs. Selecting Uie most pleasing of two or three negative* which had been taken, it was handed into a distant department fitted up for rapidly producing transparencies. A transparency obtained, it was placed in a magic lanu rn kept ready, and a life- 1 sized image was thrown on the #<*reen. The photographer had. in tin- meantime, invited the setter into a gallery of lite si iu- portrait# well painted in oil and handsomeiy framed. These, of course, elicitid admiration. and eventually be led hi# visitor into toe room when- a tine portrait of himself was pr<*cnt*d life-sire on the screen. The effect, as all photographers know, is very striking and fully admits ola little eloquent talk on its fitness for painting. Since 1H74 there lias been a consider able development of the paper manufac ture by machinery in Japan. The firat paper mill was built in that year at Mi la, Yeddo. by Mr. Doyle, an Ameri can. who carried it on with two Ameri can managers and ISO Japanese workmen. (In at opposition was thrown in the way of this undertaking by the governor. Oyclaku. and the under finam* minis trr. Mutro. who afterward (ell from their high estate and were stripped of their dignities. This paper mill is now gov-1 . rnment propertv. The seoond i also at Yeddo and belong# to Assano. Count of Gcisehu. and was ereeU-d by an Eng lisliman n.-aud Bodgera. A third is at (Kaka. and a fourth Kioto, built and carried on by Hermans. The fifth is an American undertaking at Oil, mid the sixth was established by an English company in Kobe for the working up of rags U) half-stuff, but it did not suo-eed ami was sold to Messrs. Walsh. Hail & (.. It is now carried on as a paper mill. N al Dow examined the English postal service when recently in England, and his opinion i* that it rould not easily be improved. On the great mai 1 routes the railroad train- are ran very rapidly, and they take in and throw out the letter bags without stopping as they fly along at the rate of fifty miles an hour. They pause only at the principal towns upon their way. Anywhere within three kingdoms a letter of one ounce weight gts-s for a penny, and the term# are very clteap for other mailable matter. This penny rate includes the entire cost of service in the tnuts}>ortatlon and deiiy crv, not only in the large towns, as in this country, but also in all the smaller ■ towns and "villages and rural districts. There is no cottage so remote or retired that the letter-carrier does not reach it. The perfection of this system of actual delivery,| if possible, is thus illustrated bv Mr."Dow: "I have received among the Highlands of S.-otland a letter ad dressed to me at Liverpool. It was mark d at the office 'Not here Try Manchester.' There again it was re market! 'Trv Edinburgh And there it was marked ' Try Stirling.' where it reached me." *5 hat the Balloon Can Bs. Prof. King, the balloonist, told a New York reporter that the balloon can never bs used a* a earner in tbe strict tense of the tenn. because that is Im practicable. but for scientific research it is the only means wc have of studying the higher regions and learning about tile upper currents —nlxml the formation of ram and snow, and tbe action of storms. It is the only tiling by which we can resell a point in the heavens clear of the earth; and for theae purposes it is invaluable. The day will never come when balloons will lie made to navigate the air against the currants. That can only be done by fl\ ing tna cliincs having momentum, which a bal loon is without. You cannot throw a tuft of cotton against the wind, for the reason that it lia* no resistance. The balloon's mission is scientific in severai ways. In case of war it has been very useful in escaping from besieged cities. Paris, tor instanee, and for military operations it is the only way you have of looking into the enemy's fortifications with impunity. It is also valuable for looking down into deep water. From alialloon you ean'.look down to the bot tom of very deep water. fea-HUse you are away far enough to overcome the reflec tion "of the sky. In these ways balloons can bo made very useful, but as a carry ing agent Mr. King cannot sec how they are to he utilized. Savages and Regular Armies. The experiences of the United States forces in the tar West and of the French armies in Algeria are shared by the British in South Africa and Afghanis tun and bv the Russians in Turkisian. A well drilled trilie of hardy fighters, with a chief having military skill, can nearly always teach a regular army that thev arenot to What Abdel K:wWwa* to tho French and Sitting Bull to the United States, Cetewayo has lieen to the British. The defeat of Lord Chelmsford was almost the counterpart of the defeat of Gen. Custer. The de feat of the Russians by the Teke Turco mans was probably due to the same cause—the natural contempt of a regu lar soldier for an irregular, savage foe. Yet these Teke Turcomans are by no means to be despised. They are brave to a fault, they are the best horsemen in the world, and they have kept up their fighting qualities since the days of Tam erlane and Genghis Khan, when they overran half of the Eastern continent.— Baltimore Sun. Fuder the Wave, Uadsr lbs wars tb* p*arf shines bright; (■sarins* and purs is lb* light of tb* day, Undsr tb* dreary wars. Under lb* wsnryjarav# Hiddsn sway. Under tbs srsv* tb* eoral eltanbs Irsilly. Hat* trom tb* rush of tb* rsging oommstioa, t"nd*r tb* dashing wsv*. Under tb* crashing wars, I>**p in lb* bum. Uadar lb* wsvs tbs r**d* grow UdJ, Dreamy <* mothm of ass-w*d sad willow Under lb* toiling war*. 'Ntsuh tb* rermting war*, Uadar tb* billow. Under tb* wav* lb* miemon* grows; Kusrlcna sad trail ia ha ianoosao* tbrivfag— I'ndor lb* narking wav*, Uadar (be marking war* PaliaaUy striving. Under tb* wavcw (bee# is psarslnl calm, llmt/ttl sod still without ripple or motion, Uudor tbe bowling wsv**, Uador tbe growling ■, Lie* tb* grsat ucoaa. < d luoketh down lroai 111* tbroao ia tbs bauvoas, a**s not lb* ocean, as ws do. is pan— Judgalb it not by its changeable surface, (hit under tb* rambling waves, Uador lb* tumbling wsvea, Uador tbe grumbling Waves, bee* it* put* twart - JmnU lMmm4, is Portland Transcript. J _ ITEMS UP INTEREST. When the stove is put up in the parlor look out for sparks.— Toronto (Jmpkic. American corned beef is superseding 1 all other kind* in the market* of Ger i many. Wontm are arrhers by nature. TIo bent of their inclination i# to bend beaux. 1 -Km, York Mau. i The entire population of Paris, whether floating or permanent, is counted offi | daily every month. It is propussd to sntol a statue to L*v | fayeu ein Druid Hall Pai k, Baltimore, at a cost of #12.000. Truth in tli* most powertnl thing in the arorid, since fiction can only please us by ' its resemblance to it. The cotton factors of New Orleans be ; lieve there will be 250,000 more holes re ceived there this season than last. "A Fraud in Silks," is the startling head line in an exchange. Ah! Went , hack on you, did thof—Jtockhmd Courier. Quite a I (risk demand for American windmill# lias sprung up in the British colonies. West India islands and South America. The greatest evils in life have h-d their rise from something which was thought to b* of too Uuk importance to be at tended to- Anybody is apt to be mistaken, but a boy never but once attempt* to pat a shirt horned bull on the head.—.Vest York Express. Tennyson's son Uonel doesn't care what hi* name ia. so he assume* that oi Turner in order to succeed to the great estate left by his uncle. Louisiana* temperance alliance givs the amount of liquor drank in the State at si2.Guo.tksi yearly, or #8.000.000 more than lite value of the combined cotton, sugar and rice crops. If you want to convince a boy of six teen that this world is all a blank just kindly inquire about these days if he is going to block out a pair of chin whis kers for tLe winter season.— Fret Press. A Chinaman in Paris committed sui cide because his tormentors had cut off his queue. He fastened the cherished braid with pins to the place where it ougiit to grow, and jumped into the river. The sum received by Rowell. the win ner of the pedestrian match in New York, equalled #5.90 foe every "lap" around the track—a lap being equivalent to one-eight of a mile. He made about #3 every minute of his walk. Wm. Haxlett. of Portland. Oregon, in the shadow of fatal ill ocas concluded to shorten the fight over his estate some what by burning #22,000 in greenback*, lie soon began to mend, however, and is now as mad as he can be to think be got well. The population of Richmond. Va., is 46,000 whites end 14,000 colored. The rate of mortality of the whites is 16.95 per 1.000 per annum: of tbe colored population 36.70 per 1.000 per annum. While in a grocery store at Fostori*. Ohio, the editor of a local paj-T w;s assaulted by a small mob for having written an article which they did not like: but when tbe editor suddenly pulled out bis little pistol the valorem crowd incontinently fled. Now. thro' tbe woodland eoUtnwAas The withered bannerets ol June Float downward to tb* lowly hladsa That sigh tbe cummer's parting boon; From many a lowly nsaulow nook The tbi*Ue flnau as -oowy flakes. And eomrtb to the luillitnl rook A growing hint of boekwheat rakea. Ysnktrs Gs'.rtU. A search of tbe iuveniies who are on the street, tout lis from twelve to eigh teen years of age. would reveal the .act that two-third# of them carry pistols. At any base-hall gathering a majority of the tuen and boys in attendance have pis tols. dirks or other weapons Triimme. A dreadful storv is reported from France. A young sportsman wrnt shoot ing. In a wood he met a charming young girl, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Falling into conversation with her lie set hi* gun up against a tree, and sat down himself on a knoll with the fair enoh-ntreas. Tbe girl's fatfier going by that way saw the loving couple, crept up softly through the wood behind them, seined the lover's gun and—disappeared with it There were at one time two hundred and Ihirtv Japanese student* in the United States, but enly about twenty now remain. The number ot Chinese student* in American educational insti tutions is one hundred and twenty. There are three Japanese girls at Vaaaar college, who have entered uson their second year there, and one of them has been elected president of the sophomore class. The Japanese government ia training them hw tear hen. and three more are expected in lite country soon A list of the printing houses and kin dred institutions of £t. Petersburg is published in the Olohr of that city. There are. all toki, 103 printing offices in the city, seven of which belong to the government; there are 110 lithographic establishments. 12 type foundries, 5 nietaHogmphie estahlishment*,69 photo graphic galleries. 120 bookstores, 30 libraries. 15 stores of typographic im plements. 22 hand-printing presses, and one store of elastic stamps. Books and journals were sold at 15 printing offices, at 7 newspaper offices, at 32 tovshops. and at several tobacco shops. The sale of journals is in charge of two compa nies, consisting of thirteen responsible members, wlo employ 150 persons. The Massacre of Uabnl. Cabal, the scene of the recent butch ery of tlie British Amlmssy by tbe Af ghans. is a city with a remarkable re cord of massacres, especially of ambas sadors from foreign courts. It liecame the capital of Afghanistan in 1523. Dur ing the reign of the great Mogul Akhar I it was attached to the Indian empire for fifty years, duri' g which half century it murdered two Indian governors, with all the persons of their court- In 1562 it murdered its own sovereign, burning him alive in his palace, with his house hold. In 1735 an ambassador of the Shah of Persia. Mahomed Mirza Kahn, was surprised in his residence in the capital ami put to death, together with all his embassy, after which the dead bodies were dragged through the streets of the city. Not long after a Persian army sent to avenge the outrage stormed i the city and beheaded several thousands of its inhabitants. On November 2, 1841, the mob of Cahul assassinated Sir Alexander Burnes. his son and another 1 officer. The whole town rose against the English resident, his followers were massaerad, and he himself was shot, his body being dragged, like that of | Mirza Kahn, about the streets, and treated with indignity. When the En glish re-entered tbe town they bnrnt the great bazar in which the bodies of the murdered English had been exposed.