What in Nohle ? What ia nohle ? to inherit Wealth, estate, and permit degree? There must be some other merit Higher yet than these for me' Something greater tar mnat enter Into life'* majestic span, Fitted to ereate and center True nobility in man' What ia noble? That which placea Truth in its enfranchised will! I oaring atepa—like angel traces — That mankind uiay follow atill! K en though scorn's malignant glances Trove hini poorest ol his clan, He's the-noble who advances freedom and the cause ot roan' —Char I* s Nicci* My liOttrs. 1 have four nolile lovers. Young and gallant, blithe and gay. And in all the lund no maiden Hath a goodlier troti|ie than they' .Vnd nev ss princess, guarded Ry hnign s id high degree. Knew sweeter, purer homage Thau my lovers pay to me' One ot my noble lovers Is s *!f-pow.l. thoughtful man. tiravely gay. ereneiy earnest. Strong lo do, and bold to plan' And or.,- is sweat and sunny. Pure as crystal, true as steel. With a soul resjamding ever When the truth makes high appeal' And another Ot my lovers. Bright and ifrAcnutr is he. Brave and anient, stnmg aud lander, Aud the flower id courtesy' last ot all. an eager student, I'pou lolly aims intent' Manly lorve and gentle sweetucss In his nature rarely bleut' But a hen vd nolile lovers All alike are dear and true. And her heart to choose retusos, Prav, what can a woman do ? Ah. my sons' for this 1 Hess ye, liven as I mysslt am blest, That 1 know not which is dearest. That 1 care not which is Ideal' — Jaii.t Dorr, RANKIN BROTHERS. A REMARK ABLE PASSAGE DC THE HIS TORY Of TIlV: ft KM. Harry Rankin was married. Uis elder brother and senior partner. George Rankin, now. for the first time, fuliy realized the fact. True, he had that very uiornin: arrayed himself in un it on ted finery, had gone to church in an uncommonly solemn frame of mind, ami assistivl at the wedding. He had even gone so tar as to print a brotherly kiss upon the lips of the bride, as she and Harry set out en their bridal tour. Still he had not fully mast- red the fact that Harry Rankin was married until now. He poked his fire into a blaze aud planted his chair fairly in front of it, byway of asserting his sole occu- I ancy of the hearth. Around him were nil the bachelors" traps tltal he and llarrv had a,cumulated during their long joint tenancy of the room. He did not inventory them in his mind—he did not see them, for he was looking at the tiro —sti.l they were there, ami he knew tf oy were there and fel; the ir induence. lie "felt that the room would nevir be a home again—nothing but a hermitage. "This is worse than having a tooth drawn." said he to hintseif. "'t was dull enough hen with him, after he got to prosing eternally alxmt Eva, and Withering me with his ground plans for cottage houses. I thought 1 should !>< glad when it would ail be over, and 1 should have heard the last ol Eva and i double oariors and winding stairs, but j r it that it is over and I have heard the L t of it. I don't s. em to be very lively. Tlteolilder. will never he itself again. The firm of Rankin brothers is dissolved far as this place is concerned. 1 s. ia.ll have to carry on this branch of the establishment alone. I suppose 1 shall j get u- -d to it after awhile, out just now 1 feci like a fellow's left leg when the ■mt-geon carries off the right one in a -,, k. I ought to write three or four ,t::, rs to-night, hut there's no use in my trying to do anything. If I do I won't a. liiniish as much as a bluebottle fly nil a wooden god's nose. I shall have lo our. to opium, or chloroform, or ,i phus. or something, to get to sleep in this haunted chamber to-night." With these cheerful reflections and many others of the same sort, he whiied . any the evening until about nine o'clock, when the solitude became so oppressive that he sallied forth, stick in hand, and walked by starlight until 1 about eleven o'clock, after which he turned in and slept soundly. The interesting ev<*nt mentioned in the aliove paragraphs did n_t prevent the , senior memlter of the firm of Rankin brothers from resuming his uniform routine of habits and duties the next morning. At precisely eight o'clock, his lonjpestablished breakfast hour, he took his accustomed chair at the hotel table, and was supplied with his im memorial breakfast of toast, coffee and j medium boiled eggs. The rustling of a lady's dress called bis attention from his breakfast to the opposite side of the table. There sat his brother's bride. "Why, Eva." said he. "you here? Did you'miss the boat? Where's Harry ?" j " Sir!" said the lady, with a stare of unutterable astonishment. " llow does it liappen that you didn't gel off? Tm had ample time to reach the boat. l>id the carriage break down on the way to the landing?" said Mr. Rankin. • little discomposed by the amazed look of the lady, it is still confident that he was address...* his brother's wife. By this time the lady began to see the true stat.- of the ease. " You mistake me for some other per- i eon," eaid she. It was now Mr. Rankin's torn to be amazed. The lady belore him so ex actly resembled his brother's bride in I every line of her face :uid figure, every ' trick if countenance, iip and eye. that 1 he felt more disposed to doubt her sanity than her identity. There was the same j slight, lithe figure, the same smooth j ' brown hair, the self-same hazel eye. the identical high, clear forehead and petite, spirituelle lower face. " Can it he possible that I am mis taken?" said he. "1 took you for my hrother's wife. Tlie resemblance is 1 most extraordinary and there be any dissimilarity yout personal appear- i * anee and hers cannot perceive it. I I don't beiieve I should ever learn to dis- ; tinguish you. Your voice, even, is the very counterpart of hers." An old gentleman, who was seated by the young lady, here took up the conver sation. " My daughter," said he, " has been j annoyed by the unusual degree of atten tion she lias received since she came here hist evening. Her every move- ! ment has been watched by several euri- i ous pedple. Probably the resemblance j you speak of has deceived others as well j as yourself. May I inquire the maiden name of the lady you speak ot? Such a remarkable resemblance could hardly exist in the absence ot any family rela- 1 tionship." "The lady I referred to," said Mr. | Rankin, "was called Eva Noble until j yesterday, when she was married to my brother. She is the only child of Judge Noble of this city. By the way," con tinued he, brightening up as a new thought struck him, " I have heard tliat Eva had a twin sister who was lost in the woods here when a mere babe, just able to run about. That wa long before I came here. The site of this city was then a wilderness for the most part. The story goes that the little one strayed off into the forest, that search was made for her many days in vain, until her discovery*, alive or dead was despaired of, and that no vestige or trace of her was ever found." " Did you ever hear the first name of this lost child mentioned?" said the old gentleman. "Imay have beard it, but I have for gotten it if ever I did. " . Here a lady boarder at the same table, who had been an attentive listener to the whole conversation, cleared her throat and interposed. "The name of the lost child," said she, " wa.- Ella. I have heard Mrs. Noble and the judge speak of her many times." "My dear," said the old gentleman to the young lady, "I'm afraid I shall her THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME XII. to sire you up at last." Then turning to Mr. Rah kin. ln< said: " When tlits young lady was apparent ly aluiut three years of age, sne was found with a family of Indians in Cen tral New York, where 1 then resided. The Indians claimed to have found her in the woods, lost and nearly famished, many dn\s journey, as they said, to the westward. I'hey professed to he will ing to give Iter up to any wliite j>eraon who would take ,or and take care of her. They had plenty of children of their own. so they said, and no oc casion to steal other people's. Hav ing no children of our own. my wife anil 1 wereglad to adopt the little stran get - . Who ah* was aoOllt twelve years old my wife died, and since then slie audi have got along together as well as we couhl. Iter clothing when she came tou was marked 'Klia N.'in several plaees. It was badly worn and soiled, but my wife carefully pr.serve*! it, thinking it might lead to her identi fication. You have it with you. have you not, Ella?" "Yes. sir," said the young lady, re treat iug to her room with evident emo tion. There were alw>ut a dozen p> ople at the table, most of them regular lHrvl ers and residents of the city. When the strange young lady made her appear ance among them, thov had all sup posed that she was Harry Rankin's bride, and were on the qui vive to ae ••ount for her appearance there and then with a strange old gentleman. Of course they were eager listeners to the above conversation, and of course the news of the probahle discovery of Judge Noble's lotig-10-t daughter, and her marvelous likeness to In r supptised sis ter. traveled fast. The la.ly who had volunteered to give the first name of the lost child was at Judge Noble's house at the earliest possible moment, and the judge and his iadv were at the hotel in lass than half an hour from the time when Mr. Rankin sat down to break fast. The young lady's history, and her marvelous 'ikenes- to their reuiaing daughter, would have satisfied them that she was their child, it the lit!so garments in winch she had been found hail been not preserved. Those Mrs. Noble instantly recognized as Lcr own handiwork; suui her husband and the old Strang** gentleman smiled and ex ehanged glaneos when they heart! the mother apologizing to the daughter for tlic coarseness of her infant wardrobe. " You see, my daughter," s;*id the i d lady, " the country was new then, and the ways of the people very plain and primitive. There was but one store here, and tliat a very small affair—no drewmakrrs, no miliint rs.no nothing. Your father was not rich. We kcp.t ru> servants. I was a young mother with no experience, and with a double |KI tion ot work and care—that is, you un derstand. you and your sister wire twins You and she couid spoil more good clothes than any one woman couid make and keep in order. That's why you happened to have on such <-oar little things when you were lost." " This Western world has changed a good deal since tliat time." said the old gentleman. ."Such a loss and finding would lie simply impoe-iblc now. The newspapers would lo raid the child's disappearance, in all its known particu lars. from one end of the land to the other. Now about these little cloth. My wife was greatly impressed with tiieir original elegance, though tbey came to lier hand" badly -aiied and tat tered. She was especially struck with tic fact that each article was marked as it was." "Thelittle one'sclothing was marked with her first name in full at niv sugges tion," explained the judge. " You see. sir. the two children were so exactly alike that nobody but tiieir mother could distinguish them—and it is my belief that he was sometimes mistaken. So we had every tiring lielonging to theiu marked with their first names in full, to avoid ■•onfusion." " May I inquire," continued the judge, "the name of the gentleman to whom we are so deeply indebted?" "I .am Jonas Cunimings. the origin ator of the railroad which first brought your city into notice, .as 1 am vain enough to believe. You and 1 have been occasional correspondents tfiew that I have found my true father and mother. He has spoiled me with his indulgence, as you will find. I am afraid. I will try to le* a good daughtet to you. and always ea! 1 you " father,' if you please, sir. But won't you let mc continue to call him * papa,' as I have done so many years?" " My daughter." said the judge, with emotion. " I shall value you in proportion to your gratitude and affec tion for your lienefaetor. If he has spoiled you with indulgence, as you say b" has—and as i can '-asily believe from what I knaw of hitij, though we now meet for the first time—it is well that your sister wa- married and gone before you r"me. for it would be inconvenient to have two spoiled girls, two only daughters, in the same family. Besides, if your sister had not secured a husband before you came I don't believe -he or you ever could have got one. What man would be bold enough to make love to one of two girls that he couldn't tell apart? I don't sec, for niv part, how h<* could possibly make up his mind which he wanted." Mr. C'nmmings and Mr. Rankin took dinner with Judge Noble and his lady and their newly-found daughter that day. Mr. Rankin had never been a vio lent admirer of the lady whom his brother had wooed and won and wed. Ih* had regarded her as a very nice girl and a very suitable match for Harry. Further than that lie had never commit ted ' himself in his own mind in her favor. Now that lie was seated by one whom he rould not possibly have dis tinguished from her had she been tlier and similarly dressed, lie began to be sensible of charms which had quite escaped his attention before. In fine, he went away from that dinner party a smitten man. It was agreed that Mrs. Harry Rankin should not be informed of the discovery and return of her sister until she enrac bark from her bridal tour and ln-r mother undertook to communicate this arrangement to every per sua who would be likely to corresponrt with Ji< r in the meantime. Mr. George Rankin was a very fre quent visitor at Judge Noble's house, where lie was so cordially welcomed that he soon made bold to propose Hr Miss Ella. He was frankly accepted by the young lady, to the undisguised satisfaction of h*r parents. After some little demur on tlie part of the young lady and her mother. It was arranged tliat the wedding should come off before the return of Harry and his bride, which arrangements was duly carried out. A bridal tour w.ts out of the question as Mr. Rankin could not leave his business during his brother** absence. He and his bride took a fur nished house, and proceeded to estab lish a home forthwith. When Harry and his bride returned, they were received by Jud :e Noble and his lady at their house. As soon as tlie first rush of questions and answers be tween mother and daughter had sub sided, George ad his bride appeared, and the latter was duly presented. Harry's astonishment at finding his brother married to a fac simile of his own wife, though very great, WAS not to be compared to the amazement of his bride. She seemed to be confronted with her own image in a mirror. Ella, though fully prepared forthe interview, was also strangely impressed with this first sight of her sister. She seemed to see her own fonturt * on another face, and tolirarlier own voice from thy lips of an other To their liuiitwnili and parent* the rrtmordiiuury Hkriie** of tlie two Imiies wo* Astonishing and bewildering, hut to the ladim themselves it WA* magi cal and almost Ulteniuiy. It Watt at first liaril for either of them to regard her double otherw ie tliatu tut an apparition Harry was the first to speak. "George,** saivi he, " I knew you trusted my taste more than your own, but 1 really did •! expect you to duplicate my wife!" " It must • it must be Ella!" said Kva, in a suppressed tone, such aa one iuvoi utarilj adopts wh diw stroyed their previous identity. Tiny then presented themselves before their husbands, and required them each to take his own wife in to diuner and make no mistakes. Kaukiti A Brother were obliged to sur render at discretion and confess that they could not recognize their own wives. Since then the ladies have been eari fill to dres, so differently that their iiusliands and the other members of their families should IM able to distin guish them, but their wonderful like n. ss still causes perplexity in their large circle of acquaintances.— Sf. Ijtui-s Illus trated .Viiyo-nwe. Managing Cattle on the I'laius. The management of a vast herd of cat tle upon the open plain is a difficult and hazardous feat. It requires both nerve and an intimate knowledge of cattle nature to ride into the midst of the thronging, pushing beasts, and single out tin -e destined for the corral. Should a panic ensue, both hoiso and rider will lie borne along before the resi-t --less tide to certain destruction. Aln rd has been stamp* ded at the sight of a mail dismounted from his horse. They regard the man and beast as a single creature, whose w ill dominates, and to see this being take himself apart is a lit tle more than bovine nature can stand. A* a general thing, the animal* are quite docile, and ready for the round ing up." lWibly the - , may look lor warvi to it with some instinctive pleas ure at the grand sight of tin ir own nu merical strength. Stand herewith me upon this grassv knoll. Beneath u-. at yon tiiria* scrub oaks, is the station agreed upon. From three directions wc mav sis* long dotted skirmish lines growing front the little black bead-ike spots in a row into moving leasts The lines rapidly become m<>re dense . th ering up the individuals which stop -razing, look with wondering eyes a moment, and then, evidently having re flected. " Ut's -<*>. this is June, isn't it? they're rounding us up." obedii-ntly join the grand advance. Those knowing ones who have been under the brand may have some vague remembrance of its torture. The " Mavericks." as un claimed cattle have ina n called, and the calves have yet to feel the terrible iron as it burns it way through the quivering cut iele. It is an old Texan stor*. the origin of the name "Maverick." hui perhaps it will liear transplanting to th" East. A certain well-known "colonel"of the name bought an island in one of the rivers, and stocked it with a few cat tle. proposing to keep his animals where he could find thciu when he wanted Ixa't or hides. Business entanglements claimed the worthy colonel's attention and In course of lime lie well-nigh for got his island colony. Rounders la gan to find among their herds ancient nulls and cows, all guiltless of owner's mark. They came to be counted bv thousands, and it was finally discovered that they were runaway* from Colonel Maverick - island. The old colonel was informed by the herders of his good luck, and told, among other thing*, that some two thousand hulls were subject to his order*. The last tiring recorded in con nection with this legend i- the colonel's excited speech upon this occasion: "For Heaven's sake, noys. go and help yourselves!" Thereafter any nnimai found without a brand was called a " Maverick," and duly stamped with tlie finder's mark. Harper's Monthly. How Buffalo Rill Served a Writ. Buffalo Bill in hi- autobiography tells the following story of his official career in the far West: "One morning a man came rushing up to my house and said he wanted a writ of replevin to recover iMis'-cdon of a horse which a stranger was taking out of the country. I had no blank forms, and had not yet received the statutes of Nebraska, to copy from, so I asked the man: "•Where is tlie fellow who has got your horse? "' "'He is going up the road, and is alxiut two mile* awav,' he repli'd. "'Very well,' said I, 'I will get the writ readvin a minute or two. 1 " I saddled mv horse, and then taking up my old reliable rifle. Lueretia, 1 said to the man: "That's the best writ of replevin that I can think of; oomealong, and we'll get that horse or know the reason why.' " W* soon overtook the stranger, who was driving a herd of horses, and as we came up to him I said: "' Hallo, sir, I am an officer, and have an attachment for that horse,' and at the same time I pointed out the animal. "•Well, sir. what are you going to do about it?' he inquired. "' I propose to take you and the horse iiack to the post,' said I "'You can take the horse, hut I haven't the time to return with you.' *" You'll have to take the time, or jmy the eosts here and now,' said I. "'How much are the costs? ' " 'Twenty dollars.' " 'Here's the money,' said he, AS lie handed me the greenbacks. I then gave hiin a little friendly advice, and told him tliat lie was released from custody. He went on Iris way a wiser and poorer man, while the owner of the horse and myself returned to tin-fort. I pocketed the twenty dollars, of course. Rome people might think it was not .i square way of doing business, but I didn't know :iny better just then. I had several little cases of this kind, and I became better posted on law in tlie course of •rillie." The Great Bridge. Botli ot tiie towers of the New York and Brooklyn bridge rest on sunken cais sons. which win* sulstituted for the solid foundation which the engineers were unable to obtain. It was expected ■ tliat when the weight of the structure came upon the towers they would sink some. "We are surprised," sab f'ol. Paine, of the engineer corps, to a ro porter, "that the towers have sunk so little. Tlie New York tower rests upon t wentv-two feet of timber and is sevent y eight feet tmder water. In making tlie timber foundation there was a gain of two and one-half inches, hy reason of tin* pieces not coming close together. This we allowed to stand, expecting that the tower, when finished, would sink more than that; but now that the tower is all completed and over four-fifths of all the weight that it is expected to bear is upon it. we find that it liAssunk alxiut ah inch and a half, cr hut little more than half of the unintentional increase in its height. That is not near so much as we expected. At a certain altitude we had iron spikes driven into the tower at every angle to it on all sides, and we ; took the level from another spike, driren as a bench mark into the sill of a win dow in South street. By taking tlie differ ence in tiie level of those spikes to-day we get the distance the tower has sunk. AT other peculiar thing is that it has sunk evenly all around. The Brooklyn tower has not sunk so much—not over an inch, I think." CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER C>, 187 D. In Turkey, where wine and intoxi cating drinks are forbidden hv the Ko ran, the juice of the grape is liolled down in great quantities ami commonly , used in the household, much as wc use !jam, answering the purpose ol hoili butter and jam. It is considerably thicker than treacle, aud in winter can he cut with a knife like butter. It is put tip in goat skins, ami is a common article of trade in the market. It is called '* pek met."and is used as a drink when diluted with water. It tnste* somewhat like new cider. The towiug of \*sscis on canals by means of locomotive* has recently leeu •uiec-sfully u icd in Enuice. A railroad is laid on the tow-path, near the side ot llie canal, on widen are run small 10.-o --motives of four or more tons, m'cortling to the weight to IH> pulled. One man manages tiir locomotive. \ sela are thus drawn at a speed of two miles or more an hour aU>ut twi*e the no an rate of a horse U|w>n the tow-path* Tin locomotive has drawn an empty vessel six miles an hour, but such spis-d in jures the hanks of the cana.. The speed of carrier pigeons appears to depend as much on the clearoe*- of their sight as on the strength of their wings. The London relates tha' in an experiment recently made with some Berlin pigeons, on a -lear day, a dutaniv of over 300 miles, li'ota Cologne to lh'riin, was aeoomptishod in five hours and a half, or at the rate ot sixty miles an hour, while the most < x pedition of a group let !<*se the aevt day—a day not of t v, e >ainrt kind- U*>k twelve hour* to reach Berlin. Hetiee it would app'ar that in th< latter case a ga >d deal of the pigeons' UtUe w.vUsbll up in exploring tiie country for land mark*. as was some of Mr. For la**' in his ride from Ulumli with news of lord Chelmsford's victory. It is not instinct but sight by which the carrier pigeon guides it> tlight. Calistoga i* a famous mineral spring resort, sixty-eight miles frohi San Frtui cisi-o. It was inteudi-d to In* the Sara toga of the Pacific coast, the name Imng an abhreviatiHl tauithination of California :uid Saratoga. The waters are prin i pally sulphur, iron, stnia and magnesia. Nome of them w iri boil an egg in two minutes. Over one is built a pretty sum mer house It is called the chicken *oup spring. Here the guests resort, after a Isttit, with pepoer. *alt and erneker*. and if you are verv hungry and of an imagin ative turn of mind, you may. perhaps, be induced to believe that nature has indeed prepared iti her subterranean kitchen this delicate decoction for h< r visitor*. After people have been in California awhile they learn not to he surprisiai at anything that *onn*> from the heavens above or the earth ben-alh. The colony of New Z**aland ha- a very extraordinary prime minister in the p. i son of >ir George Grey. This gentle man was twii-e governor of the l'aje, and tln-n apj>"Uit<-d to the govcrment ot New Ze-aiand. When hi* tenure of th< latter office expired beele'ted to remain in the coionf, and took up his nbode in a remote locality, an ishmd, where he livtal almost exclusively among the Maori'*, with whom lie cultivated the most intimate and dome*tlr ties. He has now lus-n for some time governor, hut of late si'riou* dii>sen*ions. assuming tin- character of violent per winai antagonisms, have ari-cn In ilm cabinet, and the retirement of the premier is expected. Sir George is a man of force ami ability, hut decidedly eccentric, both in charaeicr and habits New 'lsaland. whos< area is estimated at IiJ.OOO square mi tt—about that of the British islands — i divided into eight prorinoa, ai-h of which i* g v --croed tnueh after the fashion of one of our States, while the general govern ment consists o! a cabinet of five officer*. In ore of the suhurta of Igmdon, the other day, a tnedicnl district officer called in to see the children of a man named Bailey *i< k with an eruptive di ease, declared that they hnd mall-j>ox and ordered the whole family t> go into hospital. When they had been there a fortnight they were discharged with the conoomtorv assurance th* 'lie doctor'* diagi.-jsi* was > imneous, t. M u they n< v r as a matter of fact had small-pox, and that what the children had caught w:- chicken-pox, an innocuous form of in fiuitrie disease. Titus the whole family had been exposed for a lengthened tiim to the contagion of a not mortal uid loathsome nialmiy; the hreml-winner lost his situation and two weeks' j>ay. and the ln'l authorities. ly wnv of ompensation, magnanimously offertsl the sum of five shilling- in money, two -hillings worth of gnweric- and four loaves of hreml. A family is broken tip, a house disinf!*ctesnsderahle cost, and no end of mischief done le < ause an incomjs'tent health officer could not dis tinguish Iwtwccn variola aad varicella. The moral is obvious. Forest- and Meteorology. An important paper in /bfyWAffon on this subject gives the r -ult of olwcrv a tions made during tlm last six years under trees and not far from the <*fgo of a forest, and also in the plain and fai from all trees. I. Forests increase the quantity of meteoric waters which fall on tlie ground, and thus favor the growth of springs and of underground waters. '2. In n forest region tiie ground tcceivesa* much and more water under cover of the trees than th" uncovered ground of region* with little or tv> wood. 3. Tin* cover of the trees of a forest diminishes to a large degree the evaporation of the water received hy the ground, and thus contributes to the maintenance of the moisture of the latter ;uid to tlie regularity of the flow of water sources, f. The temperature in a fure.-t is much less unequal than in the open, although, on the whole, it may he a little lower; but the minima are there constantly higher, and the maxima lower than in regions not covered with wood. These oliservations have been made in theneighlmrhood of Nancy, and by tlie pupils of the school of Forestry of of that city, under the direction of M. Mathieu, sub-director of the school. On the other hand, Mr. Fautrat. when stib-inspector of forests at Senli*. made during four years, hut on a different method, observations on forentinl meteo rology which fully and completely corro boralc in certain respects those of Mr. Mathieu. The laws which *ndon Times. TIM til, 1 TOI'ICN. Awful Scene* f n Rati mail Wreck. Tin* conductor of the Wagner ale** ring ears attached to theexprautrain, which collided wit!i a freight train, a Jackson, Mich , git the follow ing account of the terrible disaster by which fifteen persons were crushed to death in a twinkling : My train was made up of three W 1 ug lier sieepers, the St. N icholiw.Eori Wayne and D*\ler, with forty passengers. We did not get awa\ from Detroit until 1 alx>ut 10 30 o' - torn out. 1 c n't Is-ar to think of it a* 1 Maw him lying with hi* hot life'* blood shining in the g.a:e of the tnanv flaring iamp*. Smith wa- cut and torn Wyond recogni tion. I went ba*k and found many of my passengers 1.0 l even sw ak' tied. niui they were ages d d a! vexed at l-ing hastily aroused. I tlirew out bedding, towels and iiiatti->**<- as fast as could Is done with the help ot the porters. From tin* riii: oviking around 1 saw there was a sitting right lino , with a freight train tin it. Our wrecked car* lay upon them, and af i rawhiie the freight* wererleared nnd'our car* shiflrd Mr. William 1. Ciapp. who. with lri* wife, occupied a middle Iw-rtli in Uietiril shs-pt*r, was first apnriscd td toe disas ter bv leti g violently thrown from iris < oueli U|Mn the floor. Mr t app said: I gntheml my sell int< a standing |Mtur< as Stain a* possible, hut was unaiiie lor five minutes or *o u> make an <-* it front th< car. owing to the etc fusion. I pon n-acliing the p.alform the ocenaievoaled wa* a sickening one. Tiie lady inmates tif the sleeiwr-. who had scranib.ed frolU tiieir cuttdOM, ami had the horrible spec tacle and iuerormity suddenly r*\ <*aleil to their vision, a.tt rtmtctl their so'** with prnvtrs to be removed from the ghastly sight. The first of the victims to whom my att< ntit-n wa* dmvton the work of extricating the unfortunate on-s. The ordeal wa* one I hope never to pa** through again. The Story ola Dnel. In connection with tlie recent arrc*t of the Count de Vcysy in Belgium fi-r muruer, a I'.-ui* corresjHindcnt u*lis thi* tory of the duel out of which the charge arrw: The Marquis de la ltochejaque lein gave recently an evening partv at Klo'infeid. to which lie in\ ited ail of hi* acquaintances. After the dance was onoed supper wa serv**!. Guest after gue*t told anecdote* When it eaiue to the turn of Baron de Vnn!ix he told an incident that had lippensl to him at Constantinople in 1*77 and whose hero w:is the famous or notorious Gevznde Sonioskeoy. alias Count de \ ojflj. A\ lien he hail ended hi* story a guest rose abruptly and asked him In an insolent L ne: "Do you per-onaiiv know Geyza de Somoskeoy 3 " Baron de Vanion re plied, " Indeed I do. I have gn de \_aii loo ran towards him. hut the two furious ail versarii's were separated. A duel was settled for the following morning. Tiny fought with swords. Count de V'ryyy wns at ffie outset severely wounded above the elbow and bled pro fusely. His sword wa* covered with blood; even his adversary?* lace ra ceived some drops of it. Baron \ anion's second* proposed tlie duel should end. Count !•' Vcysy would hear of no such thing. They"fought five minutes longer. Count de Vcysy by a feint foiled the parry of his adversary and plunged his sword in Baron Van loo's abdomen. The latter fell mortally wounded and ha* since died. A Brother Marries hi* Sister. A young am! respectable-looking couple, brother and sister, named Lnd and 1/ouii" Rauckmnnn. son and daugh ter of a quiet, respectable tanner, resol ing in Lone Grove township, about twenty miles from Vandalia. Illinois, boarded the train a short time ago, went to St. Ixiui* and were made husband and v ife. They remained in the city a day or two. then returned homeward, getting off the trsin at Browntown. a station eight mile* from Vandalia, and for fear of lw'ing detected, wandered off in the woods near town, and remained there till found nnd arrested hy consta ble Joseph < 'opeland ■ Tlie man is about twenty-one years of age, and of gixtd appearance, and his sister nineteen, and rather good-looking. W hen asked why he was induced to com mit such an act he said: "Mv sister loved me so well tliat we thought the best tiring we could do would be to get married. lie was further asked if he did not know it was wrong and against the law to do so, and also why they hid themselves in the woods and kept awav from their parents. This he answered hy saying: "We did not know it was wrong, and only hid in the woods for fear of being discovered by our folks, as they were very much opposed to our marrying." Their j>arent.s are very respectable people nnd are sadly grieved over the un paralleled act of their children. They were tried, iound guilty and bound over, the man's bond being fixed at SMK>. and the woman's at S3OO, in default of which they were committed to tlie county jail. The affair has created great excitement in Vandalia. Never Ho It* Never lie too warm in your praises of a lady's lady friends. Friendship should he eneouragvd, not disooUraged. Never try to equal the smartness of your smart interioeutor. It is not his province to recognize smartness in another, hut to astonish with his own. Never tell all you know to a stranger, even if he regale you never MO eopiously with his affairs. Think you lie would la* more careful of your reputation than lie is of his own ? Never say, when retiring, I will get up early to-morrow; for doesn't the good book say tliat all liars shall have their part? etc. Never jam your finger in tin* door; for to swear is neither brave, polite nor wise. Nt ver eall a man a liar; for the eye is a tender organ aud the sense of vision a preeious one. Never ask n lady to play upon the piano unless you intend to he polite enough to listen to her playing. After having talked iues-ssanily during her performance— Never add hypocrisy to iMxirishneas by souring to IN' pleased with what you thought more eon tempi ihie than your contemptible prattle. Own up that you only asked her to play out of politeness and failed t listen <>ut of impoliteness. Never read your literary production* to another unless he press you to read them. Remember the golden rule. Never refuse the fruit when it is first passed jou, hoping thai all will show their politeness by taking the smaller, inferior apples and pears, leaving the best for yourself the next lime round. Not oniv is this mean, hut you may over-estimate the |>oliU-ncsa uf vour company. Never look over the shoulder of a man who is writing. Have mind upon voui j health; he may forget hitnoelf. Never talk of yourself in a country where forty odd millions of people are lient on taiking of themselves. Never ak a question unless you inU nd to pay attention to the answer. There u no happiness in life comparable to the my of airing our knowledge. Give your frienil a clianre to air his. He will love you with a love surpassing that of woman. Never say that you have heard before what your friend lias evidently taken great pleasure in telling you. His de light at finding you equally* well in formed with hittisell may not Be so great as \ou had imagined. Never look a gift horse in the mouth while the donor is present. After he i* gone, it is a duty. The proper study foi the horsemau is llie horse. Never ask for a second piece of pie. lift .* boy, unless you arc sure of getting it. It is IH-I not to get people in the habit of refusing you things. Never mak> any distinction in your borasear gallantry in favor of youth and beauty—if you can help it. Never tell a secret U< a woman. If you can't h<-eii It yourself, why expert sin will le- abc- to keep it to herself? Never stiv die to a barbrr. lx't him alone for startim* that übja*t, or he ii> not the barber wc take him for. N< * er IrK about te*i I ever h< ard : lr. .of Montgomery. Ala., owned a parrot during and after "the war that w-t* the pride and wonder ot all Montgomery county. The doctor, like all physician*. was fnsjuentiv railed out at night by some one's " halloo" at the front gate. Folly learned this, and one night when the doctor answered a shrill "halloo" by coming to the door and ask ing what was wanted. Polly answered from a bunch of rose buslo-s: " 11 • ! hi! ha" 1 fooi the doctor that lime; hi! he! ha!" Polly received a sound thm-hing for this trick and was quite sullen for a wo k or so. when one dark, rainy night the doctor woke up lo hear some one at the gate repeating his " halloo " fre quently. Going to the door he asked who wan there. From the top of a tail lorn hardy poplar the parrot screamed out in fiendish gl<*': " Ha' ha! ha! You can't eatcli l'oliy this time! You isn't! you can't!! you can't!!!" All the doc tor's persuasive arts were called into re quisition to get the parrot down from her high perch, but she eot'ld not lie de rrlved. i-oaxed or flattered into doing as he commanded or entreati.! her. She resolutely k< pt h-r pereh ail night in tlie rain, and waitsl until t started off next morning on his daily u und la-fore she vi-nturial down. Th edmtor had a little boy aged about two years, for whom th parrot formed a strong attachment. Warren was the child's name, and by-aad-bye he fell sick. The parrot mop'-d around and appeand to he nuite melancholy. At times, when the child was left alni for a few moments, l'ol'y would hop up on the edge of the cradle, and. spreading out her wings, she would vibrate them like fans, and ask as she had heard the nurse a*k "Poor baby! Baby want water? Baby sick? Baby hungry? Poor bahv? l'oliy'* so <>•(> sorry." Finally the child died, and the par rot slunk away for the two days preced ing the funeral, and was neither Been nor heard. On returning from the cemetery, the family met it, waddling along tlie middle of the road, repeating t horse if in the tonderest and most mournful manner: "Where's little War ren? Poor baby! Baby sick 3 Baby want water? I'-o-o-o-o-r baby! Polly's so-o-o sorry." She was picked up and taken back home, hut never spoke another word un til the dav of tier death, when she cried out. " Hawks, hawks." and the next minute was whisked away in the talons of a monstrous chicken-hawk that hnd laam watching for an oppor tunity to carry her off for several hour*. Item* for the Loral I'spcr. The following suggestions, made by the editor ol tlie FishkiUfN. Y.) .Stand ard, are as pertinent to this locality a* to any other: We often have people sav to us: "I intended to send you a little item for the }>aper last week." (mentioning what it was aUmt.l " but I didn't do it," ami then offer an excuse. Or another person will say: "You ought to have been down to, or Up to such or such a place, anil sec such a thing that happened there. It would have niodca good item." We are always f [ratified attln* good intent ions ex pressed >T such persons, hut grieved that they let the opportunity slip to po s( us on the matter in question, when they could have done it with so little trouble. W# cannot le everywhere, and while [we may desire to be at a certain place our duty iuay require us somewhere else. Even if we couid be at the place indi cated hy our frienil. who is especially interested in the item he mentions, often times it would not pay us to spend the time to go there. But he. being thor oughly conversant avith the whole mat ter. could write ft out in a few minutes, and perhaps no a great deal letter than we could if wc happened to be there. No one need fear to *end us truthful items. Write them with a lead pencil, if tlint is handiest, on any kird of paper that you can get hold of, put your name to It so that we will know who it comes from, not for publication, and if there is the least interest attached to your item it will see daylight in as good ashapsas we know hoav to put it- This is intended for sverybody- Who will send the first item? Some of the New York shopkeepers advertise an opening as an exposition One of them ha* had a " pageantry of head-gear finery" for sale. TERMS: a Year, in Advance. HORACE GREELEY. TMO Xro aud UWHI Sioilt.al Ike Urtal JourualUl. 1 Th* Ww York of the* ludiana|Milis find.) JourtuU writes: Narrating something of my ixmversation with Mr Reid reminds me of an inter esting Ulk 1 lirnl the other day with j Professor V. 11. lh-uslow, of f 'hieago, concerning Mr. Reid'agreat predecowor. I'rofissor Dens low was tin* chief editorial writor on the Chii-ago Trttmnr when I first met him, ten years ago, and won derful spirited, bright and attractive ar ticles did he contribute. He hail been for two years previous financial AliUirial writer of the New York 7Vt?aac, butllie offer of a higher salary hail transferred his brilliant pen to its namesake on the lake. 11l |H?J lie left it on aciamnt of ill health, which rcsultisi in a distressing j insomnia, and he has since done little ; newspaier work exceffi to write tiie series of long exhaustive and scliolarly articles on " Modern Thinkers." now running in the Chicago Time*. "I well rem*uil>er when I first met Mr. Gneley," said Densiow. "1 was iust twenty-one, and had rei-ently lieen admitted lo tiie New York bar. 1 was at tip* residence of one of my first clients, Mr. Partridge, publisher, when Greeley called When I went into the room with his hands under laisooat tails, look ing at some picture*. 'Mr. Greeley,* said Partridge, •this is Mr Jhmslow. a young attorney.' Greeley uttered a short grunt of recognition, but did not even look around. I. embarrassed, shrunk away to one eorncr of toe room and took a chair. He went on around the room, looking at pictures and what not, and ia SIKIUI KM minutes when his tack was turned on uie and 1 thought he had for gotten inc. he suddenly, without looking at me said : ' Hem! So you'rv an attor ney, are you?' I confessed it. 'I hale lawyers, he exclaimed emphatically. ' I hate lawyers; they do mora mischief than their heads are worth!' "' 1 suppose they are a necessary evil, I suggested, aeprecatingly. " Wholly unnecessary!' he insisted " * I suppose you will acknowledge,* I said, 'that they promote good order and remove impediment* to good govern | m*nt?' "'Just the contrary' just the con trary " he squeaked, in his old falsetto; •they ,xu* disorder, and they are the chief obstacle to good government" " I thought tiie man was crazy. * l'ir baps you w ill tll me,'l *uggst-d, * how debt* would lie collected without law yer*.* "*l>on't want 'em collected! don't want Vm rolle*'t*ai!' he squeaked.; "if A lets B liave his property without pay ment. I don't see why C, D. K. F and all the rest of the alphaiiet should Is- called on as police to g-t it tiack! No debt stiouid be collected by law. *t's mon strous! l*'t a man trust another man at liis own risk. Even a gambler pays his debt* that he isn't legally obliged to pay. and rails them debt* of honor: but men will put their property out of their It amis to prevent tiie ;ega! collection of their groc ry bills. Abolish all iawsfor thecoijecti on of debt, and that would abolish most of you lawyers—good rid dance T* "Itacemvd impossible lo talk with a man with uch cc-entrie notions." And this storv of Profi-ssor lfenslow's remind* mc of the im thod by which Seilheimi r got on the TYi/msr tm years ac. " I brought a letter from my uncle. Tliad Stevens, saidSeilheimer. "and up to Greeley's cubhy-tiole I went Thcte lie sat witli his hair lilted forward, writing aw.y rapidly, with the paper close to his nooe. The hoy thrust mus tard between his nose and the paper but he knoekid it awav without looking up. I waited and waited until I had lieen there an hour, t IrveJey never look'sl at anybody ami rarely spoke. When Young wani ed him to sign anything he brought it and thrust it um-eremoni tusiy between ids nme and the manuscript, and held it there till Greeley signed it. At last 1 thought 1 would try that with Stevens* letter In liiiu. which lay on lh<- desk un opened. 1 opened it. and slowly slid it along on llie desk from the right, the signature uppermost. He took no notice. I cautiously pushed it a little further. Scratch, scratch, scratch —he was ohJiv ious. I timidly advanced the document till its ivige overlapped his writing, but when he came across the paper the next time he pushed it away an inch or two with his pen and kept on. Emboldened now. I wailed a moment; then, when tie reaclnal for ink, I deliberately pushed the letter till it covered up his manu script. He looked down, saw the signa ture. and gemiy pushed it off again. MM saying in a high, shrill voice. HoWslMr I told him. and that I i hail brought him tiie letter lor him to ' read, hut lie was again altsorlied. and I j couid not induce him to again permit his voire to fall on the auditory nerve or , my image on his retina. After waiting ' another half hour, I withdrew " Young gave me a place and I went to work. Mr. Greeley never came to tkr office on Saturdays, hut remained at Chappaqua. One Satunlay I was sur i>ris work. l'r< -ently he came out and looked around surprisc said to imitate thun der. 'Oli. you think it i. do you? you think it is? And whothe are you?'" 1 have omitted the theological term which Mr. Greeley intrcsiucea torender his exact meaning plain. Tlie Walters. "I*am to laltor and to wait." wrote Longfellow, yet it i not likely the gen ial poet lias any idea that in New York city alone there are thirty thousand rasqde following his advice. The New York World has been taking a bur among the hotels and restaurants of that rity. and it finds ttint there arc this number of men who wait on their fellow men. When a man cries " waiter," he calles one of the vast army of men whose object in life is to administer to the yearnings of appetite and quell the rav ages ol tlie demon hunger. The ol - only gets eighteen dollars a month. The same rat** rule at the Fifth Avenue and other first-class hotel*. However, the gn-at fact must not he overl(Kk*d that it costs about a dollar in any New York hotel to make a waiter hear you order a beefsteak plain. This is tin 1 reason that waiters on infinite small wages are able to drive fast horses and live in brown stone front*.— Detroit Free Press. An Interestlitg Enterprise. A number of prominent citizens of New York, have formed a company, with a capital stock of $2,000,000, for a conservatory and zoological garden in that city. 1 hey have purchased a tract of land bounded by the Harlem river. St. Nicholas avenue. One hundred and tifty-tifth and One hundred and fifty ninth streets. There are three plateaus upon the land of which tlie highest point is nearly 155 feet ahove Eighth avenue. The land has been purchased for $400,000, and surveys have been made by an Austrian engineer and land scape arti-t at an expense of SIO,OOO. The plans have been prepared by Will. Mertnnez, who laid out the zoological garden in Philadelphia and other simi lar places of resort. Arrangements have lieen made to set at work about 500 la borers who are to be engaged in form ing the topography of the ground to the contemplated buildings. The proposed building will be among the largest and mo6t elegant in the country. NUMBER 44. THE FORMER'S BRIDE. sm> r.MM ta is. si s a.- iiutk.bl, t rlwisal. -- tissi Its* BrlS.I I kastwr to a rnwa Oil. The recent arrest, in England, of Win. | itingoid Cooper,says a Washington letter, j revives the memory of the social, as well as political success in this city of I tin- daring, unscrupulous forger and scoundrel. During the winter of IbOB thee appeared in Washington a hand - some, dashing young man. who repre ; mud himself to be an English noble niiii, lie made a great parade of hi* arislmcratir lineage, and asserted that, impelled by a iove of ad venture, tie had come to this country and had dour val iant service for the Union by deeds o j daring in the navy. Mr. Welle* was then secretary of the navy, and was thoroughly imposed upon. Cooper trumped up a plausible teason for de siring a clerkship in the navy depart iu<*nt. and obtained it without any trouble. This situation enabled him to -tudy the hand writing, as well as the business of the paymasters. The gen tleman was too elegant for work and j wiseed his time driving fast horse* and courting the girls. Of course I don't know bow many affairs he had on ltasK! at the same time, but I know of 1 one other than tliat of* Miss Mothers head. Mr. Defrees' niece, not daughter as has been published, whom be married. A retired army officer had an only daughter, wlto was a charming musi cian. Mr. Cooper devoted himself to her. He had a stylish learn and the young lady shared his rides. The couple iiecatne engaged, and when Mr Cooper was laid up with small-pox the roman tic young lady wrote tin* U-ndereat notes to him and daily sent delicacies made by her own fair hands. She believed him to be immensely wealthy and listened with delight to his Claud Meinour de scriptions of the home and estate* of hi* ancestors in England. The young lady was really refined, well cduca rd and of toud lineage, but be always impressed her with the idea of her inferiority to him. and that it was great Cundeaceneion on bis part to notice her. She. like many American girls, tamely submitted, and did not evince the slightest spunk until he deserted her and married Miss Mothcrshcmd. whom he supposed to lie wealthy. His forgeries , were disooverid several days before his , marriage, and it sectned cruel to allow , the ceremony to proceed wh*n Um ' detectives were outside of Mr. Ibfrc-'s j house, and followed him and the bride u> the train, taking passage with them and not losing sight of him for an instant. At llavre de Grace the j arrest was made. Cooper begged the detectives not to let the arreat br known until he reached Philadelphia and placed his bride in a hotel. To this they agreed. He returned to the poor unsuspecting girl, sat beside her and entertained her !.•: :!.'!.< ab.v a . Ih- cvning. The party proceed to the Con linen tal hotel, Philadelphia, wliere Cooper engaged a room, escorted bis liride to it. and then, with the promise of returning soon, left her. She never saw him again. Vainly did sbe watela ware. His mother was a widow, and testified that he was always bad and unprincipled, and used to invent false hoods to suit his every purpose. She had known nothing about him daring or after the war. Cooper received the mild sentence of five years in Moya mcnsing prison He served out his term, and ha* led the life of a forger ever since. He deceived men with the same facility that be did women. The general's daughter, whom Cooper ; jilted, of course felt much chagrined when she heard that Cooper had mar ried another, but the news of his dis grace so quickly followed that she felt | thankiui lor her escape from worse humiliation. She quickly dispatched her father to the navy department to ■ lieg the secretary to give him an order i for the delivery of her letters and sou venirs which might he found among Cooper's papers, which, of course, had Ixen seized. I was present when the general came in with toe package. The young lady sprang from the sofa to re ceive them, when her mother cried out: " lbm't touch them, they may be in jected with small-pox! General, take them to the kitchen and put them in the range." but the daughter would inspect the bundle first. Every letter was folded and briefed like a business document. Each letter was numbered and his comments upon the content* of the letters wen- recorded on the backs. One read: " I tear little . how she ovos me!" Some of the re flection* were not so complimentary and tlie young lady finallv yielded to her mother's command that the general should consign the package to the fire, nor was she satisfied for several days that the entire family might not be in fected with sinall-pox bv the handling of the tender missives which had been sent daily to beguile t!e tedium of the invalid's sick room. Cooper wa* a* successful in California and England as he was in Washington. It seem* strange that no one ever recog nised him as the ex-eonviet. He had had mnv disgraceful transactions whan he was with the fleet on the Mississippi during the war and yet he came direct from them to Washington where he WHS in daily danger of being confronted with the officers whom he had defrauded. In San Francisco lie was always exposed to recognition for he does not appear to have adopted aliases, and in England he lias been equally bold. O ben reiser, in Dicftem' " Xo Througbfnre." SHVS that the world is so small and narrow that we are always running across the same people, but this has not been the case with Cooper, for lie does not appear ever to have l>een recognised until he was detected in one of his clever forger ies and then he has been identified as the most successful forger pmong the Coopers. Words of Wisdom. Adversity is the balance to weigh friends. To him that lives well every form "of life is good. We must not look nround on the uni verse with awe. and on man with scorn. I/ovo, like tire, cannot subsist withaut continual movement; so soon as it ceases to hope and fear it ceases to exist. Love and enmity, aversation and fear, are notable wbetters and quiekners of the spirit of life in all animals. No man is called on to lose his own balance for the advancement of the world in any particular direction. Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature. The law of food is, that man should eat what is good for him, at such times and in such quantities as nature re quires. The sweetest music is not in the ora torio, but in the human voice, when it speaks from its instant life tones of ten derness, truth and courage. Have the opurage to show your re spect for honesty, in whatever guise it appears, or your contempt for dishonest duplicity, by whomsoever exhibited. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Feeling i* no criterion of right or wrong. Henry Clay'* old home, Ashland Farm, in offered for rent. Hurry man ha* hi* prtyudlce* and * arrry woman her biaa. A Chicago girl call* hrr bran Lucifer. ' because he i* such a good match. Mince pie for lf0 will be composed ! of the usual fourteen ingredient*. A buneh of chyle* ostrich feather* waa recently *old for 9337 a pound. One of the UMD of adveraity—Help* to fill up the dictionary.— L. O. Urgga. An old dealer *ay* business is just now moving in tlra furniture line.— naiguna. The small hoy who got slightly scalded ; w* only a son-burnt.— Stao Ynrk Srwa. Chicago kill* six hogs for every min ute of every hour of every day in the year. The Sultan of Turkey spends f10.P00.- 000 yearly upon himself and hi* fcuO wiv. There is one consolation in being broke. You have nothing to ose, and everything to gain. A lame tanner waa asked if he had a corn on hi* toe. " No." be said, " but I've got lot* on the ear." The ordinary life of a locomotive is thirty years. No doubt it would live much longer if it didn't smoke so much. If Edison can render sound available in so many ways, why doesn't be utilise the bowling wilderness? Haturdag Sujhl. Major Thorn burgh, who was killed by the L'te Indians, was one of the tet rifle shots and horsemen in the United Stem Army. " 80 ends my tail," a* the bee said to the boy. at the loiur time giving him a practical illustration of Low be coo ducted business, Pennsylvania has eighty incorporated county agricultural societies, thirty-one of which have representation in it* State Board of Agriculture T\& Phrmolomeal J'jurt-tU SAYS: "In choosing a wife be governed by the chin." And that's the thing a man is governed by after choosing her. There are ten petroleum refineries within the limits of Pittsburgh, Pa., wtiidb have a combined eapiwity of from eQ tKio to T5.000 barrels refined oil per week. The difference bet sreen the man whs girdles a tree and the one who entraps Bruin in it* branch** is this: One bare* a tree and the other tree* a hear.—Bos ton TroM*mpt. > A plow boy at Orkney recently picked from the furrow two gold rings, which are declared to he 1.000 years old and very curious and valuable as antiqui ties. A woman was recently dragged under a railroad train at Xearcaatle and killed in consequence of shaking hands with a friend at a ear window as the train moved out. Four of the largest trade unions it Great Britain have, during their com paratively brief terms of existence, spent over 91,500.600 in relieving the wants of members on strikes Because a newly-married couple sit upon opposite and* at tin- sofa and throw sheep's eyes at each other in silence, it is no sigh of fear or bash fulness. They are simply unspeakably happy.— Wain loo Obmrvtr. Let some of those mm engaged in run ning aix-day matches try raining a newspaper lor a while if they would un derstand the difference hctwee* go as you please and please as you go.—N. Y. MouMv Unmm. A colossal hotel is being ooupleted opposite the new lentral station U Ber lin. It will >-ontain immense apartment*, luxuriantly furnished and tastefully de corated. and 500 bedrooms, besides a theater, two chapel* and a synagogue. The number of emigrant* wiio have landed in New York this year between January I and October I, has been 115.- 404. against 77.307 for the corresponding months last year. The arrival* in Sep tember were nearly twice what they were in September •( last year Alfred Bently. ol Hardinsviile. Ky.. refused to pay the rent of the farm on which he lived, and declared that he ! would submit to DO remonstrance about ' it. Bight, lit" landlord. rode to the place to confer on the subject, and the ten net shot him on sight with a rifle, killing him. Switzerland ha* been visited this y< ar by hWO.OOO strangers. a number ! which exceed* by several thousand* the average of the last four yean. Of this total a*sed through the machine, and each • >ne came out as hairless as could be de sired. With a tew of improvement#, the machine is expected to finish off ti.CMO hogs in ten hour*. The influence of nasal respiration on the ear is illustrated by George Callin in his " History of the North American In dians." Among 000,000 Indians he found not one who was deaf or breathed through the mouth, except three or four deaf mutes; and in the memory of the rhlefs of ISO tribes not one case of deal ness could be remembered to have oc curred. This is explained by the mother closing the mouth of the child whenever it attempted to breathe through it. Mrs. Belle Inwson. of liagerstown. Md . has in her possession an ancient breastpin containing three locks of hair, braided together very beauti fully. si Kirn from the head of the fattier of his countrr. It formerly belonged to a Masonic lodge, and became the prop erty of Mr. Inwson more than thirty vrars ago. On tle hack of the pin is the following inscription: "This contains the hair of tlen. QMM Washington, first President of the United State* of America." How He Was Cured of Swearing. John caiue in and inquired whether dinner was ready, and was told it was not. " Well, why in the isn't it?'" said ho. "Because." she coolly replied, "the wood was so wet that the fire wouidn'l burn." " Why. Mary, what is tlie matter with you? Are vou crasy or have you been drii kiuc' > " ' " Neither," she said, and quietly pro ceeded to put on the dinner? ' The beef didn't melt like huttcr be tween tlie teeth—it rather resisted all attempts at mastication, like so much india-rubber: and finally John blurted out: " What makes this beef so infer na! tough?" Mary looked up archly and replied: "Well, John, {suppose vouwentdown to the butcher's and without knowing tlie diflerence. picked out a piece of some old stag Uiat hadn't been fed for a month." John jumped up. lonkrd at hi* wife in dismay, and wanted U> know what such language from her lips uieant. " It means just this, John; you are the head of the family, and just as long as you think it manly to swear in my presence I intend to do the same! If you don't like to hear it you know how to ere vent it." The cure was radical, and to this date Mary has never been compelled to ad minister another dose of that prescrip tion. A Hank President's Hold Briek. The details of the r. nnrkablo confi dence game in Leadville, whereby one Lewis and his confederates were enabled to get 814,000 out ef Mr. Clark, presi dent of the First National Hank at Ravenna, Ohio, by selling him a lead brick for a gold one, show that it was a shrewdly-conducted robbery. It is now said that Lewis carried the brick from Kansas City in his carpet-bag, and in fratiated himself into Mr. Clark's con dence on the ears till the latter con sented to buy for about half its value this precious brick, from a confessed murderer, who alleged that he dare not offer his brick in open market for fear of arrest, but was eager to make any sacri fice in order to go home to --e his " dear mother" before consumption claimed him for its own. Mr. Clark does not see any fun in it.