The Listening Oak. She fonnd the old Iwmiliar spot. Beneath the green oak tree; She sighed—she sighed—" He lovee • no An ! I'm alone—ah. me'" It watched her there—the tond old oak For trees have eyes like other folk; It whispered, whispered, " Hearts may roam Bnt late or early love comes home!" He stood where they so oft had met, He flung away her flower; "Ah. me!" he cried, " Coquette, coquette. To love me hut an hour' ' But loudly sang I he angry oak. For tree* have heart* like other tolk; And chiding, chiding was the song, "" The heart that lorea believes no wrong!' There's some on# stealing on apace. Ami some one's anus thrown wide, And some one's heart is some one's plac* At happy even-tide. The tesis. the doubts, sre gone, are gone And gayly now the oak looks ou. And sings to them ig |oy ami rest, *• The love that's tried is happiest"' Lira lurantata. Within a easllo haunted, As castles were ol old, There hung a harp ciichautcd, Aud on it* run ol gold This legend was ensoroiled: ""Whatever hard would win me To strike and wrtke within lue. By one supieuic endeavor, A chord that sounds lot-ever." Thrve harils ot lyre am! viol. By mandate ot the king. Were hiddien to t rial To And the mngic ailing • (It there were stash a thing). Then, alter much essaying Ot tuning came the playing; And loot- and ladies splendid \Y ate he, 1 as those Utols coateiiM. The first—a minstrel hoary-, Who many a rhyme had spun— Sang loud of war ami glory— Ol Ukttie* Knight and won; But w hen his song was done, Although the ban! was lauded. And clapping hamts applauded. Yet, spite ul the laudation. The harp ceased ,ts Tibial ton. The second changed the measure Ami turned troiu Are and aword t'o sing a song ot plrasure— The wine-cup ami the board— Till, at the wit, all roared. And the high hall resounded With merriment unbounded ! t he harp—loud as the laughter— tirew hu-hed at that, soon after. The third, it* lover's tashion, Ami with his soul on fire. Then sang (love's pure pass.on— Tlie heart and its desire ' Ami. as he smote the wire. The listeners, gathering round him, Caught up a wreath and crowned him. The crown— hath laded never ' "The harp—resounds forever ! 7Trodure T\iUi- Humors of the Telegraph. The majority of the reading, and all of the educated world are farni iar with tlie accepted theories regarding elec tricity. and with the application of these theories by which we have the tele graph. But comparatively few have lifted tlie veil of the temple and wit nessed the peculiar results of its practi cal working. And these are the em ployees ol the companies whose business U is to control and make use of the mysterious agency and " wonder-work ing wires" for the convenience and hap piness of the public. In the hist- ry of the Western Union company 1 recall but two instances of the known betrayal by operators of the contents of important messages among the millions of opportunities and in d uoements offered. In no other business are mistakes more common, or for many reasons so excusa ble. For instance, a compositor or a copyist has his manuscript to easily con sUit, and. to a certain extent, is mas ter of his own time; but an operator's time, especially if receiving a message, is governed by tlie one at the other end of the line, and he must depend for ac curacy upon the correctness of his ear and memory. Nearly every on- has read of the indignation of that father who received a message that his sickly daughter, who was absent at School. *• hail a Pliild this morning," and the subsequent appeasai of his wrath upon finding o'U that the original message read ••chili," not "child." Not long ago a certain charitable institution was considerably mystified by a message ask ing for the whereabouts of "Monkey Wrench." The inquiry was instantly changed to " Mother French." how ever. upon being returned to the le.e graph company far explanation, and apology made lor the unintentional blunder. It was, I think, the same operator who. in taking an Associated Press article, innocently spoke of " Mrs. Herman" as secretary of the treasury— a sudden advance in woman's rights to which the secretary, Mr. Sherman, wouid doubtless object. And a peace ful family circle ought not to be sur prised. as it was. by receiving the fol lowing: "John is dead beat. Depot this evening.' when a correct transmis sion of the dispatch would have rendered it. "John is dead. Be at depot this evening." I recall another family agitated by the telegraphic information that ' Brother lied :ast night." only to ultimately find out that he had departed life instead of truth. Some time since a message trar emit ting the intelligence that "the Presby tery lacked a quorum to ordain."earned a prodigious amount of ecclesiastical wonderment and dismay on reaching its destination by announcing that "the Presbytery tacked a worm on to Adam." Comment is unnecessary. The worthy and sedate Dr. Blank, of one oj our eastern college#, once accepted an invitation to lecture in a western city. His letter of acceptance, appoint ing 'n early date, omitted to state the subject of fiis discourse, and. to adver tise in advance, the committee was obliged to telegraph him, requesting his subject. They were somewhat aston ished at his reply, but not thinking of the possibility of a mistake, handed it over to The only daily pai>er, which in a highly eulogistic but misleading article advised all its readers to hear Rev. Dr. Blank deliver his celebrated and ex tremely humorous lecture —subject: "A Flea for Activity." Tlie Doctor arrived too late to have the announcement changed to what it shonld have been— "A Plea for Activity "—and the result was a disappointed house and a grieved lecturer. Tne mistakes of the telegraph, often provoking and sometimes amusing, are occasionally in their results of great im portance. It was not long ago that a wheat speculator in Chicago made S6O - by a small order being accidentally changed to an immensely large one. I believe he has made no complaint. Had the market turned the other way though! Some years ago tlie daughter of a well known citizen of central New York, named Jennie, had unfortunately, as the father then thought, formed an attach ment for a young man named John. To separate them the father sent her to spend the winter with a married sister, Mary, who resided in New York. Spring approached and Jennie was ex pected home on a certain day. but, in stead, tlie father received a letter from his son-in-law desiring that she might remain a while longer so that his wife could accompany Itim on a short south ern trip, and requesting an iinswer by telegraph; whereupon the father sent the following dispatch: "Jennie may stay and Mary go, if she wishes to very much." The message as delivered in New York read: "Jennie may stay and marry George if she wishes to very much." The father immediately received this from Jennie: "A thousand thanks for your permission ; John and I marry at once. The telegraph stupidly made his nanie George, hut of course you meant John." How it happened that John was so wonderfully convenient is, probably, not our concern, and we can only hope that the father and Jennie have never re gretted this mistake of the telegraph. The hierogiyphical'charaeters supposed to be writing in some messages handed in over the office counters is sometimes fearfui and wonderful to contemplate. The telegraph is only used in cases of importance or emergency, and the incor rect reading of a single word in a con densed telegram is apt to render it not onty valueless, but is liable to lead to a serious misconstruction. Businessmen especially should bear FRED. KURTZ, lCilitor and Rropriotor. VOLUME XII. mind Lh.it a plain, clear cbimgnphy not only lessen* the liability to iTror, hut helps to hasten the forwarding of a message. To illustrate the carelessness ot some men's writing i< the story of that Kng lish nobleman ho wrote to a Iriend in India to " please send at onee two monkeys;" but he wrote the two with out crossing the t. and otherwise so blindly that bis friend mistook it for 1.000. and on the first toat came thirty* five monkeys, with a note saying the halanee would follow as soon as so urge an order eouid lie ti led. The menitiers of llie press are not ex empt tVom this eareiesstit'ss of untrans latable handwriting. 1 retuetulwr a special sent by a metropolitan reporter from a smalltown, describing an execu tion. Thesemling operator complained of the writing, and stumbled along slowly ami erumblingiv, finally capping the climax bv saying the "doomed man then arose, partook of a hearty break fast, and went out aud buried himself with his life." The city operator re quested a halt, and after a long silence and evidently much study, was told by the sender to change the last five words to " busies! himself with his pipe." Mentioning newspapers, mails a mes sage sent bv an energetic Cincinnati edi tor who bad heard a-false rumor of a heavy rain and flood in the country odi tor's vicinity, to the editor of a country weekly. It read: " Send us particulars of the flood." The reply was quite prompt: " You will hud a lull account in Genesis." An operator gets accustomed to these message#, and also to such as: ' Send me two daughters of an outcastor. "We have no desperate men;" for he rightly concludes that the last-mention ed are eitlur to or Ironi some book dealer. Why telegraphers, as a class, are so seemingly care less and mirthful need not he discussed here. Perhaps tlie lively character of the tluid with which they are brought into constant contact is transfused and causes this effervesence of mental activity. Uneol their honored customs in the initiating of an operator, fiesh and verdant from some small coun try place into his new position in a city office, with its babel of sounds anil per plexing rush and hurry, reminds one of college hazing, or the sailor's haptize rnent on his tirst crossing of the line. The victim is requested to take a "special." How timidly he sits covrn. and how nervously he sharpens hi* pen cil to take for the tir-t time in his life press for the papers. How the instru ment buzzes when he says " go ahead." and closes his key. He feels the watch ful eye of the chief, and he must not. he will "not. fail in his tirst trial. And. oh! what a dispatch for a newspaper! It begins all right alniut a raiiroau acci dent, but in some mysterious way this connects itself with a temperance con vention, which branches into a tin caused by a walking match, with C'ongre>> call ing upon Mexico to prevent the duel >h>- tween the polar expedition and the Pa cific railroad which— He stops matters for an investigation and wonders if it's he or the correspon dent t tat is entirely daft. Then he rules his amazed head, and looks cautiously around and discovers that lie seems the sole object of interest to the others; and if he takes good naturediy the rears of laughter and the pointed questions that greet him when he a.so discovers that his wonderlui dispatch originated in the fertile brain.and by a clever switch ing of the wires, was sent by the fasUst operator in the office from the other end of the room to test him. he has taken one long step toward fraternizing. The all-night men while awav the tedious hours after the dropping of busi ness withconveisation and stories; ami the better the story-teller, and the fresher his jokes, the more popular lit is. And how easy to dispose of a (tore' It is said that on one of the circuits be tween New York and Chicago and in termediate cities, the all-night men had 1 only to request one of their co-laborers, who had no otix* fault than his long, pointless stories, to relate something, and then, uncnown to him for they had no desite to offend him —would cut him out of the circuit, and have a social good time for an hour or two. On readjusting the wires the honest and solitary story-te'ler would Is- rattling along.unconscious of his loss of auditors, and perfectly happy in their remarkable attention. Perhaps the reader has in his youth told with much enthusiasm a <-apital story to a sleepy bedfellow to find, on Hearing the < nd. that his companion was sound asleep. It's rather depressing. A story, first told by a San Francisco paper. I will venture to repeat here for np better reason than because it is strictly true. It often happensthat tele graphers are called into service at tlie representation of a stage play, in which occurs what is known as a " telegraph scene," such as tie* one shown in Byron's "Across the Continent."or Boucieault's "Long Strike," and at such times the operator behind tin scenes manages to amuse himself by "talking" to tlie audi ence. unknown of course to only those of the fraternity who are present. Tlie drama of " Across the Continent" was several years ago produced at a certain hall, and for the manipulation of the telegraph instrument which plays an im portant part in the most exciting scene of the play, an operat >r. whom we will call Frank, was engaged. His position was such that he could see the audience without being seen, am! upon taking his position he discovered in the auditorium a brother operator from out of town. Spicer bv name, who had that day ar rived. Frank is fend of a joke, so when the time came for sending the tirst dis pa'eh.he loudly sounded on the machine, t "How are you. Spicer?" The profs- i sional ear of Spieer instantly caught the words, and, wondering who it was. straightened up and stared at tlie stage if he would give two dollars and a half to know something more. "Spicer. how's your mamma?"quickly followed from the instrument, and the mystified Spieer confidingly turned to his fair partner to express his astonish ment at the most singular circumstance. As luck had it the auditorium held quite a delegation of operators, who knowing Spicer and his great characteristic of baslifulness. with one accord began to look around the theater for him. Spierr hod hardly Ix-gan telling the young lady about it when there came anot her message: "Aha! old Spicer! Don't fool that confiding creature with any of your non sense." This aroused the telegraphers to a pitch of curiosity, and many of them stood gazing about them as if their only object in life was to discover Spicer. And he felt that they saw him. and the confusion which had lieen gradually covering his features grew into mortifi cation when lie saw so many eyes leveled at him. and at last culminated in his hasty withdrawal from the theater. But Frank sent a Darting shot, for as he faded from view-he heard "Good-bye, Spieer; but don't forget her tendency for ice cream." When it is considered that tiiis scene forms the climax of an exceedingly thrilling point of the play, and Mr. Byron is dramatically explaining with wild gesticulations to the audience what the instrument is supposed to be saying, the modest Spicer's embarrassment can be understood. Hastily as we have glanced at the brighter and cheerful side, there is now room for the uark one. But messages of sorrow and death burden the long slender wires and trip through the Click ing instruments. Living dramas are constantly wrought through their mule agency, and of this perhaps they are speaking when at the quiet of midnight we hear from them that strange JEolian music like voices from a spirit land, that deep within us/inds a responsive chord, thrilling and saddening us.— Cincinnati Enquirer. THE CENTRE REPORTER. TIMFLY TUl'IfS. Charles Ar Showe, a Chinaman, t>e miue a tea meretiant iti Boston thirty years ago. married an Ameriean wile, grew wealthy, and mixed in cultivated siH'iety. Lately lie visited hi. native 1.-uitl, and, on returning, says to the Hoa ton ilerniil: " Kvery thing in China scrim d almost tu strange to me as it did to me when 1 tirst s'W' to Huston," He Ibund l< w social ehang< s. however. " Individual taste, if it leads to a devia tion from the set forms ot soeiety, i* frowned down, and. so long as this lel ing is prevalent in China, it- people are siavis to custom, opinion and usage." The Hungarians are exceedingly jeal ous ot their identity as a distinct and sovereign people, and carefully pr -crve ibeir natio al usage* and language. With the latter, however, they have much trouble, the tendency being to Its gradual extirpation before that of the more mi nerous and powerful Teutonic nee. with which they an' so joined that on*or t*e other must give way. Ger man is the official and judicial language of Hungary, and souie of the sviiooia an' not on v not conducted in Hun garian. but that language j not taught in them. An efl'ort in the Hungarian Parliament to mike instiuction in tlie native tongue compulsory in the school* was under discussion some time ngu, and was finally defeated because it was feared that it might create trouble wi.h the n>st ol the empire. A singular fact has been recently re ported ol the people ot the little visited country of An nam, an ii.iiepetulent though tributary state on the south of China. Th" natives of tint country ol pure descent have the great toes of evil fool separated from the others like the thumb on the hand, and can and do use their toes in much the satue manner that the thumbs are used, though, of course, to a much less extent, in the vicinity of the seaport of Sargon. where foreign intercourse has produced an admixture of nuss, this typical characteristic of the Annamese is gradually passing away; bur in the northern >ccii ns of tlie king dom. where tin- raoe has remained dis tinct, it is :ii y the ease that a child is born without tlexibie t*>. That this peculiarity is of great antiquity is shown by the fact that in the Chinese annals ol the year 'i3ix> B C.. there i- ad ><-ription given of the barbarian tribes that were then to la* tound upon the borders of the Chinese empire, and among these one trilw or rnee is mentioned as having this peculiar formation of the big toe. They have no civil damage act in Ger many. but evt-n there tlie necessity of some restriction upon the sale of atoo iiolie liquors'to sucli as have not suffi cient discretion to use them properly appears to l>e conced< <l. In various dis tricts. bv authority of general instruc tions proceeding from the government, the police have prohibited tavern keep < rs from selling or otherwise furnishing to minors under the age of sixovn, ap prentices or person* mentally deranged or weak, any distilled spirituous liquors of whatever d< scription. and a similar prohibition will apply to saies to con tinued drunkards, whenever the nanxs of these latter have lx-cn given to the liquor venders with it propet* caution. Disobedience of these order* will l>o punishable by tine and imprisonment; but they are not intended to app y to the -ale of brer, tlx* consuuipiion of which has never ls< g found to cause injury to anybody. The police orders are to he posted in a prominent piace in every tavern. This news must make German liquor ei!ers in America feel k> perse cuted and forlorn. furious Fffects of Altitude in Lend- Tlllc. A li tter from Ln Iville. Col., the great mining town, rjt I saw but very few case* of intoxication in the streets, though the three hundred saloon* in tlie city held out their best inducements. 1 was surprised a! this, as oncof the nota ble effects of the great altitude of the place (10,300 feet almve the e v 1 of the sea) is that ail fermented liquors intoxi cate more quickly than a lower elevation l he boiling point, owing to the decrease of atmospheric pre ssure is much lower than at Chicago, and the a coliol is m Miner vaporized and taken into the circulation, producing intoxication quicker. The boi.ing point of water here is about I'JO degrees, instead of 212 de grees, tlie effect of which in boiling IM-ans. eggs, potatoes, etc.. is that it re quires a long while to cook them in an opt n vessel, and it is necessary to keep the vessel well covered, or the water a ill vaporize and escape before Ix-ing raised to the requisite degree for l ook ing. At tins elevation much air i* re quired to till and satisfy the lungs, and breathing must be quicker in order to properly oxygenize the blood, ft is said, too, that alter one has -M-en h re some time, the coloring matter of the blood Isvomes darker, lteing changed from the peroxide to the *e- piinxidc of iron. \\ ith a person suffering under any difficulty or disease of the heart, the rffret of any long continued exertion is to cause a dangerous degree of palpita tion. and even with persons entirely well, the pulse runs extremely high.. There an* other and notable fang con cerned with this altitude. There arc ft-w birds si'i'n here—jwrhaps for th mason that flying is difficult in the light air. The common house-fly. the sum mer pest of our eastern housekeepers, is unknown h<r>. There are some of tlie out-door blue-bottle variety here, hut they seem languid and tired, ft is said also that eats cannot live here. This is probably owing to their delicate organ ization icing unable to resist the rigor of the night air. So the "voices of the night" are not heard in this locality, and the iMMitjacks are reserved for their natural uses. Another tesult of the lightness of the air is that, having so little density, it is e:isy heated by artificial means. Our nights ate universallyeo'd—so cold that it is uncomfortable to sit without a lire; but a few pine chips or small sticks will warm an apartment very ijuickly. At the same time the sun's rays do not seem to have the heating power that they do in the lower elevation. This seems to confirm the theory that them is no sub stantial caloric in the rays of the sun. but heat is the result of chemical action, generated by the direct rays with the element of the atmosphere—the direct ness of the ravs and the density of the atmosphere. While standing high upon these mountains, even nt a distance from [ any snowdrifts and where the air is still, the summer sun lias onjy sufficient power I to make the air refreshing and pleasant. while you on the plains are sweltering : under a torrid heat. In the shade of a rock or two it is always coo) enough. The effect of the altitude is the same as that experienced by ballonists, who in ascending from the surface of the earth, even on the hottest days, soon find it necessary to don their overcoats and warmest clothing. In the night here a good supply of blankets is always neces sary, and nearly every morning heavy frosts are found, and sometimes thick scales of ice arc formed. The crests of some of the mountains and many of the deep ravines upon their sides are still full ot masses of snow so con pact that one can walkover them without sink ing. A day or two ago, in visiting a mine close to the summit of Mount Bross, I was compelled to cross a field of snow, hanging over the edge, which must have been a mile in lengtli and probably in places twenty feet in depth. The man who wears a watchchain should keep a watch on it ■ CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1879. A Stilt Bare. I reuietuhrr particularly a certain slid I race, one of the oddest raws Uiat I ever -aw Six men ami four women were " enteral." a* the horsey men would say At A reach, n the women scare t li* exercise* of the tiiru. riinv iii ii' then on the beach of Kviac t. it tchaiika*. In the patoi* ol tin* Eiiidi s, which one , might in* tempted to eontouud with the Japiuiest* or i bin* sc idiom*, a tchankas is a pii'stiit mounted oil stilts, and so tchanker means to mount upon stilts. I'hcsc tin tchankas had ai* tin* same : iraditioual ci'stuiiic. without dis.inction ol si x; that is to say. a beret on the llt ati, a mantle of wind over the -liotil ilei's, a buttoned doublet, hare feet, ami the let* enveloped in a e uimno or fleets*, fixed hy red garters. Their stilts raiwii I thelli five or si* feet from the ground A pole scrvtxl them a- a third JKIIIII of support. Sen from a distance, tliey looked like gigantic gmssliopjiers. The Ichanka. however, is seen to perfc**lin on the bate land, motionless ami liX'sl I like a solitary triangle of sunset, or else when he leans against a pine tree, silently knitting fti kings and guarding : a bhlCst ami lean tlo. k Mill and mtltc m the midst of which was j examining tlieiti with curiosity, their j l ho "clits Were eonia'nlrated S., •' yon tiie gain tjial they were af>"Ut Units ute. I'he prize was not much The VP tor woniw'tity francs (four doi am) liul ! twenty franc- in the eyes of lite lehanka reprcsetit- a fortune Soon, at a sig'.nl given hy the president of the fete, tiiey all ten sprtxul over tl > lieach, how ling ami veiling. If it had not been for their immense strides, whieh pa-s iutagina lioti. you miglit have thourht you were (present at an Arabian fantasia Their evolutions were the - one, at'com pi-bed with the same rapidity, iu Condition* which touched upon the mi os-ible, and j on ground where tin* stilt sunk in a foot ■at each -tep. Their iuantie strmming , in the wind, like lho-e of Arabian cava ■ iier-, tiny nut and pivoted round as ! deftly as if they had IHI-H on fool. The women were by no means inferior to the men; one of thent, in faet. iwiue in sec ond, and they wen* only to !>*• distin gtii-lied hy tfirir more piercing cries. This race was followed l>v some private i*ti rci-'-s performed by the tchankas. in order ti provoke the g*m rosity of the spectators. Tht v juintssl, thev -at down and ro-< up again, ami thev pi ki it up :A.H they ran piices of nu ney tliat were thrown to tlu-m. This spectacle was not the least extraordinary. Bouncing forward at full speid, tf;e man wa- sud denly son to Stop, the-tilts fx lit, fell as it were iu pieces, then something wa *een moving between llirxs* pieces of Wood, .ike the IMKIV of a spider on Its long legs. rile w hole performance wa tlone witli lightning rapidity, tin* stilts rose again ami the man appeared on top ot them and ts*sumed liis course.--/ Vow the Frtnek of CkarUs MMUCUI. The Abuse of Chloral. The person* who Income habituated to chloral hvdrate are of two or thri-c cla->e*, a* a rule. Some liavi originally taken the narcotic to relieve pain, usiug it in the earliest application id it for a true medical and legitimate obp*-t, prol nbly under mi*dical dinvtion. Finding that it gave relief and repose, they have continued the use of it. nnd at issi have got so abnormally under it- inllui-ni** that tliey cannot get to seep if they fail to resort to it. As -eond i of t-s-r sons who take to chloral are alcoholic inebriates who have arrived at that st ate ,f aiiadi-m when sleep i* always dis turbed, and often in any imnuasible. These persons at first wake many times in the night with • >ldn- -s of the lower limbs. (*id sweatings, starting* and r sties* dreaming*. In a little time tliey lus-o'ui* nervous al>out *ubmitting themselves to -iCep, and ls*fori* long habituate themseiTe* to watchfuini -* and r**stle--ni**s, until -i eon tinned in somnia i* the resii.t Worn out witli s'.eepii-ssnes*, anil tailing to find any re lief that i* -atisfn< tor\ e.r safe in tlieir fa'-> lrie*,ul aleohol, tin y turn toi hlornl, ani in it find for a season the oblivion which they de*ire. and which tliey call re-t. Ii i- a kind ol nut, and i, no doubt, bett'-r than no rest a*, all; hut it leads to tin* unhealthy atatis that we arc now conversant with, and it ratio r promotes tfian destroy* the craving for il oliol. In s!:ort. the man who taki** to elilural after a.eoliof enlist* two craving* for a single craving, and is double-shotted in the worst sense. A third class ot men who Uvouic habit uated to the use of chloral are men ol extremely nervous and excitable tcm pcrmcnt, who fty nature, ami often l>v the labors in whieh tliey are occupied, ln*conie lui sleepers. A little thing in the course of tlieir daily routine op pns-i-* them. What to other men i passing annoyance, thrown off witli the ii'-xt step, is to these nun a worry iuul anxiety of Imur* They are ovcr-sus eeptihl e of what i* said of them and o their work, however giMid the work may In*. Tliey are too elated when praised, and to deire**' n when not praisui, or dispraised. They fail to play character parts on the stage of thi* world, and a* they lie down to re-t they take all tin ir care- and anxieties into bed with th- in, in the liveliest state of j" rturhalion. I'liable in thi- condition to sleep, and not knowing a more natural nnt'dy, they resort to the use of such an in*ti*n nient as chloral hydrate. Tlu-y begin with a moderate dose; increase the ilosi* as occa-ion seems to demand, and at last, in what they consider a safe and moderate system of employing it. tliey depend on the narcotic for t heir falsified repose.— l>r. Ilichardson in CotiUmpo rury Review. Fires in Constantinople. The season of tires ha* begun, writes a Constantinople correspondent of the Philadelphia Telei/raph. As soon n cold weather sets in, nnd, not withstand ing the blazing afternoons, sunset brings chilly hrcexes to us. then inevita bly. in one quarter or another, a confla gration is sure to break out every night. Hither carles-mess or faulty construction of grates and lighting apparatus is the cause. The first warning we have is from the " hekdjee," or night watch man. Making his round, lie instantly pounds on the pavement with a heavy iron shod staff, its ringing noise being easily heard two or three blocks. The word is passed from the watch towers to the bekdjecs of the locality of a tire, a certain number of guns ltcing fired also for eaeli quarter, viz., seven when the blaze is in Stamboul. four for Peru, etc. The watchman in a full, loud voice calls out the name of the quarter where the tire is raging, and, it in his quarter, thumps violently on the door* of the adjoining houses, and with good reason, for before people in the vicinity are fully awake the flames are on them. The rapidity with which 400 or 500 dwellings are swept away cannot he conceived by any one who lias not ac tually seen what rickety, sun-dried wooden houses they are. A Hungarian gentleman. Count Szeeliery, of much ex p< rienee, has organized a fire brigade, which docs wonders, when one consid ers that tlnir only way to fight the flames is with little hand pumps. The streets are too narrow and winding to permit steam pump* to circulate. There are also the famous " foolumhadjees," or volunteer firemen, whose main object seems to be fun and plunder. Their reputation is such that of them and the tire the latter is the least dreaded of the two. The Szeeliery brigade is confined, unfortunately, to a few quarters. Sev eral of the embassies have a private force of their own. tjo, the poor printer, sitting on his stool, dissembletli slyly with his stick and rule; sogers all earnestly o'er this and that, with one eye peeled upon the hook for fat; or, waiting for <*>py, o'er the stone he stoops, and, two em quads in hand, he jeffs for dupes.— St. IMUU Tima-Journal. A WONDHKITI. t Itlti I MAI.. tllalury of %\ llllaui llliniiilil I o|*cr, I 11 inffl** Amnlcan l orfftr .% Ilumout r Ml rlmv. In tin* criminal iiistorv of tin* present day no matt, x.\ the New York (iraphic, lias ohtaii ed a inure wide ipreail repuUition as an ai eouipltslied, .lariiig aud expert erimina! tliau Wil liam Kinggold CiMiper, th* Anglo-Aitn-r --lean criui'nal. Certainly no man has j ever sustained tiie dual character of a : gentleman and a forger with equal sue eesji. Young, aei'i inpiisllt d, of t egatil personal np|>i ai aine and of the most fus eilialilig address. In- might hn\ e adorned any position in *o-iety t and yet foryears In* has. under various and almost uiuie tci laide disgui-i S. pi eyed Upon Ids h< s{ friend* and the world at large, until in tin* fUlliess of his BU. cess he thought failure or defection impossible, lie was fwirn in Smyrna, iK iwarx*. of re spi*i*tnldc parents. Ids fitlier fM-ingiaiunlv judge for live years t living to a scandal, with which a young lady of was j connected, fie r*-ig"ts! a position lie held as assistant Ins'k kit p* rin the Suiynta nation tl hank, and lu ing iltßcardial tiy liis family, alter many vi> issituites, bo l iUlle employeti .11 1 photograph gaili r\ at Wilmtnglon The breaking out of the war in found Itiui an enlisted meuila r of the I nitt-u States navy, and after two years'ser\i'e h* hi-caiue an ensign on lilt* Staii of Adiuira. 1/r. of the North Atlantic squadron II • l>e enine a great favorite among his -U|M-- rior officers, owing to his gcnt-* maniy ismduet and fascinating manners, and his power ol making friends resulted in his iM-ing aptiointisi assistant paymaster. \V bile m Washington he formed the ac quaintanee of a nuinf>t-r of gamn.ers rind aeeoiuph-tieil forgers, who inducted liltii into methods of aristocratie cimn; ami as a consequence he forgial ti warrant for f tTi.wo purporting to have l>.-, n sign* i hy Tniu s State* I'aymasU-r Spauldlng. At this lime he was rn gag eti U> I* mar ried to a iwaUtitul and accomplished girl, the daughter of Mr. Defrres, the government printer, and tiie forgery of the paymaster's warrant was not dis covetrd until the day after the nuptials when t'iqiT w.vs arrested and sin lemt'd to five vear in the Eastern l't ni ti tijiary of Pennsylvania, whieii term in* Served. It was supposed ly many that in* died in prison, hut otl his release he went ti> New Orleans, wliere he jwr petrated another mi*ce--ful forgirv for 1 luvooo. and then fled to San Eram is.s where IM- became a mining stocj, aad .*••. i broker. \\ hiio in San Eranciscti. his own wife, liaving married again, sup posing himlo IM* dead, he foraita) the ac quaintance of a handsome and clever woman, who lias since iiccii known as Mrs. Kate ('Hotter, tiie jxrson who. since hi* arrest in England, has so ! steadfastly adhere*! to hi* fallen fortun**s. Though for a brief time he .Mre an envia ble reputation in tin* San Ft im i- o Ex > liang**, the crash soon came, atul he ale -ponded, having forgeil a cln- ■. for ** on his l>usints* pai*tner. In tfiis. singular to say, a* well as in all his criminal effort*, he employed the ser vhx-s of a hov to cash the forged check 1 and hand him the t>r<"-i-ci!. Chief of detectives, .1 W. Is .s, ol Sati Frnn eis.-o. scattered de- Tip!ion* of Cooper, lli# wife Kate and the hoy Fred ( nU. broadcast tiirougli the count*y, hut to ; no avail. Tiiey ditappenred a* mysteri ously a* if the ground had swallowed them up. and nothing furtlier was heard ol Cooper until his arr* st in Ixmdoo under tie name ol Neviilt Hunter this summer. When Cootwr arrived ir Ixmdon. in the f.i 1 of 1 H ~", he did not register at the l.xnghatu hotel, hut on ; the contrary engaged apartments for himself and wife in a private hotel near the Strand. He passed tln-n a* Henry ('. Neville, an American iron merchant ami maker of mowing machines After a short stay in this hotel, he te-gan ne gotiation* witli a firm of solicitor* for the ohlainni'-m on l**ase of East Isxige. a fM-autiful i-ouniry M*at. witli Mpai-mus i grounds, at Hemel-Hempstead, in Hert fordahire. He obtained JHXM s-jon ol 1 this estate at a heavy yearly rental, and : set up hi* carriage and horse* keeping a lialf dozen srrvant-* in hi* hou*e. ll* funl lit* steed of hunter*, rode with the county hound*ami sis urial UiefHend*hip \ ami acquaintance ( tiie surrounding ' gentry, with whom hi* wife ami himself . Pts-atiie spiiilily intiin-ite. Thi* inti macy lie turniil to goml account, for hy inviting tlicm to dlnnendami n••options and r.ceiving their n-t'iic* he familiar- ; iged himself with Uie character of tlieie i band writing and forged check* 'ti tlieir lxankers in Isxndon. (In June 528 he sent • a boy to the Bank of Engiat.d with a . forgeti elnvk for sh"o. v>urporting to j have fa < n made hy Hugh Cheevcr f IIMMI- | win.of ileiiiel-H'-ropst'-aii. Tlieclerk *tis- , pected the forcerv ami huiried out witli , the lw>y to find Cooper driving away in his carriage, having lurned liisn-verwib.e coat and taken off' the lalse w iiisk< rs in wore wln-n h* liirisi the nies*<*ng( r In I ail liis crimes of tlii* nature he stoml i ahovethe other Anglo■ American forgi r. hy 1 enson of Uie fact that he never ap- ! p. ared at any publ c place in Izndon j except at the opera*, that, unlike M> Don- ■, nell and the Htdwcils. the Bank of Eng- : land forgers, he never Hs-iH*iat*il xv.th i aieindoncil women, nor a ted like W. E. (iray. the forge r now in the Tomb* who, wliiie in l. indon under the name of Dr. Collet son. becatui mixed un with Mik.ejolm. Druscovieh*wtl I'alnicr, tin corrupt Scotland Yatil detective*, and who. while in a 1/omlon tavern, was rohlMil of hi* Bastrop mining company *hare* by William and Fred Kurr, the Dotioui-ourt switiiller*. Too much suc cess made Cooper over confident, lie presented to Glvnn, Mills A Co. a chx*k for JP.l>s6 9*. fkl. It was duly honored and be would have eecaped. save that hearing he was suspectiai he returned with extreme audacity and demanded oftlie liankers why they suspected liis honesty. He WJIS at on<a* aiTested. the lioy whom he employed recognized him as did the cabman, and the barber was found who made his false wig and whiskers. His neighbors from Hemel- Hempsteaii testified with tear* in their eyes that tliey could not believe him dis honest, hut finding that the evidence against him was overwhelming when arraigned in the Old Bailey lie pleaded guilty to IMIIII charges of forgery, and was sentenced to four years' penal ser vitude. Words of Wisdom. The path of moderation is tHe safest to tread. The mother's heart is the child's school-room. Hide the faults ot others and make known the virtues. Reason is the test of ridicule —not rid icule the test id truth. When reason is against man, a inan vs ill be against reason. Our actions are our own; the conse quences belong to heaven. The festival which bears the grealos fruit is the festival of duty. Every undertaking is involved in its faults, as the tire in its smoke. Oft expectation fails, and most oft here where most it promises. Age that lessens the enjoyment of life increases our desire of living. Five things are requisite in an officer — ability, clean hands, dispatch, patience and impartiality. Uphold truth when thou canst, and for her sake be hated; but know thy in dividual cause is not the cause of truth, and beware that they arc not confounded. It is i-asy to advise a person, hut how difficult to receive, under similar cir cumstances, that same advice from another, because we are so prone to be lieve that what we accept is truth, and that those who cannot see with oui eyes are all wrong. A Young Lady of I'lurk. A handsome Mint charming young rtily, hi lug in otic nt tilt* suburbs ol (hit rtiiunti, UHWptHI an iiivitMlioii tlit otlitr evening to attend tlie theater. Mint ug f,tht i*it uln-r MM ort that lltty should u ttr father's Itorata mid carriage to drive into tlit tily, which pro|n>tti"ii was ac cepted by tlit young man. During tlit afternoon tht i urn liiiiait ol tbr family, who had MiWnya It'tn considered an i t eel lent one aud a reliable m*B. was ili i-ovtn-d in an intotii aiidcondition, lit waa rttuonalfaltd with, told that he lUUSt " sober up," aa his services wtrt . needed to drive to the theater in lite ■veiling lit ttplitd to tbt reprimands in an insulting, angry way. When tv iiing eamt and the young ladv's e eort bad arrived, the carriage was or dered at the front door. Wiien the I'uni limnn appeared it w t.a quite evident ilia' lie was still lalmring under a heavy 'pressure ol whisky. The young iady expressed some fears of riding in thr carriage with htm on the IKJ*, hut finally determined to risk it, nmi got in the car riage. her es. ort following and sitting by her side. They were haidly started on the avenue when their fear# were awak ened The driver commenced whipping i Ids horses in a violent manner, and ■lashed on down the avenue at break iiitk-speed. The yyung laily remon*tra led, f.ut tin- drunken driver ony replied with ihsultinr remarks and Jn ve all the faster. Her escort asked her per mission to speak to the wild and reckless "Jehu," and in positive tones told him lie must la-have himself and cauti ously. This interference from an out sider seemed to irluriate the man. and he lashed the horses ail the harder. Down the avinue they flew theearriage spinning on first one wh<*el, and then another, passing other vehii .e willi a graze, and filling the inmates of the car riage with fear. Just as thev started down a sldjw of tfte drive the young lady and iier friend discovered a miik wagon coming leisurely up the toad, with the driver apparently asleep. On they dashed, and faith thr gentleman and lady thought they would strike the wagon, and at the terrible spen! they w. re going sui*h a collision would be cither a breaking of lames or instant death. Tiie maniac driver was lagged for <roll's-sake to he careful and to " pull up" his now foaming horses. But furi ous with mge and rum, in reply he inbi*d the horses again and again and dashed ahead. Indignation hiul now taken the place of fear with the young lady. and she e*claimed: " I'll stop the ra> ai if I have to mount the box mv #< .1 J" But it was tln-n too late to avoid the collision. It came with a crash But, strange to say. the carriage si fx si the blow and was only partially broken. Not so the milk-wagon; the lorcr of the carriage Uxwed it up on two wheels and threw it entirely off the avenue, spilling the driver and the milk-cans around promiscuously. The shock brought the horses to a stand-til'. The plucky little Avondale girl at once lumped UP to llie front m it and 01. the IM>X . With eyes flash* g and with clenched fist shaking in his face, she ex claimed to tiie drivti " You brute, get down Iroui this box The driver, who a moment before had IMS r, *■> defiant, atipexred dumbfounded at this display of indignation and ixiur age on titr part of the fair girl, ano meekly climlMsl. or rather fell, off the IKIX. over the wheel to the ground. •• Now." she exclaimed, in a voice ol st<-rncommand. iuid one thai meant husi nc-i. " takr off that hat Tin* astonished iehu pulleil off his liat. Then again the beautiful girl ex claimed : " Takeoff that coat, sir'" And the coat come off. brass buttons and all. " Now, sir, put them in this car riage V he put them in the carriage. *i en the fair damsel, turning to her escort, w ho was standing up in the car riage witnessing the scene with wonder and ani.'renii nb and filled with intense admiration lor the girl's pluck, said, with a smile, and in the swi-etcst tone of vole* : • Won't you please get up on the box beside me and take these linos?" lie, i f course, quickly mounted the IMIX. took the lines, and they drove rapidly . vay, leaving the drunken man standi'i L- in the middle ol Uie road, liat ]e* aiii coat leas, and .coking like Uie fool In was. Arriving in the city the gentleman drove dir-. tly to the theater, alighted with tils lady friend, and, sending the tiors'-s and carriage to a stable, tliey entered the theater. And not one lady in the audience would ever have sus pcrtrd by her manners or appearance I hat this young girl had pa*sid through lii- exciting scenes described. ( ahul and its I'eopie. The diversified crowds ol people thnl surge through thestieets <f ( abui agree in away. At night, when the narrow bazaar- are aglow with the reflected light of oil in little metal wick-lamps, ignited cotton floating in earthenware saucers, or the wood fire* of the cooks, the Kcrghanee has no objection to sit side by side with the Bokharian on the low, open veranda of the cook's sbon; and on the same platform, with the seething flesh-pot in the center, contain ing little lumps of meat skewered upon a stick. r< presentatives of twenty differ ent Mohammedan nationalities wenn tent to sit toget her upon terms of equality, and afterward to exchange the hookah and the national love-song, and the romance of chivalry and theft. I.ike other .Oriental towns. Cahul is filthy. Sanitation is not even a dream wiili the inhabitant*. There an- four principal roads, which are from thirty to fortv feet hroad. and these are con sidered the handsomest street*. One is the (ireat Bazaar, or Chareutta. com posed of one-storv mud houses, which have verandas. slightly elevated alove open gutters, opening full upon the .trects These verandas become shops in the daytime and are stored with speci mens of all the furs, silks, and wool and hair cloths that Central Asia produces. In the evening three or four cronies sit on a mat in almost every shop, set a lamp in their midst, fold their feet, put on their skull-caps, and smoke nnd tell stones till midnight. Another great basaar, leading from the Western Oaks to the Bala Hissar is monopolized by cooks and butchers Heads and car cases are suspended there in plenty, hut no trace of the unclean animal, the pig. UdWbernihle. It is in this basaar. by oil-light, that some of the inost picturesque - looking ruffians in the world may he seen. Observe this one. A man over six feet high; his head conical-shaped ; the jet black hair close cut, almost to the hone; his face long, sallow, and fringed with grizzly black whiskers, which meet be neath in one long matted beard; the eye small, black and keen; the nose arched and thin; the mouth cruel and com pressed; the chest and arms to the elbows hare; the body enveloped in a tattered blue shirt reaching beneath the knees; hare, scarred legs; the leet tread ing on grass sandals, which are held on by the toes. That is aCahul beggar, and a most arrant villain he is. for, beneath his rags, he conceals a knife, like the rest of his .'.miahle countrymen, and will use it with the rage of a wolf if he is tempted. The cooks are glad enough to toss a kahob or two to gentlemen ol this class. The other two roads have no particu lar characteristics. except that they are a great deal broader than by far the larger portion of Cahul. Off these four principal roads numerous dark and filthy lanes, twisting for a auarter of a mile it a time, and not more than three feet hroad, shoot%t frequent intervals. The flat-roofed housesin them are made of mud, thickly mixed with straw, and the apartments ar" dark square holes, much worse than the much-decried shanties of the fialway peasant*. Men. TERMS: &2.Q0 a Year, in Advance. women atul children sleep together, and never change their garment* lili these •hop of). Frequently cattle and fowl* are to lie found crowded into thiwe nparliucuU. together with the human inmate*. Such place* ate dangerous to all stranger*. Not even an unusual parish dog could stray into one of them, for he would be worried by a hundred jealous, big-honed, hungry cur*. In the last British attack on t'abul. Afghans who preferred " dying like poisons) rata in a hole," retreated to their tortuous streets and lane*, and many a good life waa lost in hunting them out.—7xs don Su.tuUirit. A Kagplrkrr Princess. Th* most curious "city" of I'aris is on the Avenue lie la Hcvolte. at th* upper end of the I'assage Tribouiet. Ihe passage ends in vacant lots, where in summer our carpets are whipped. The right side belongs to a woman named FoU'aull, who huiit and manages | tiie "city;" it'isalong alleyway, bor dereil with a sort of sheds V.;uii lodg ing on the ground floor, or first story, to which access is ha<l v an outside gal lery. i* a Species of little ceil, more or li-s lirokcn down and dirty. The only furniture is a mattress tbrown on the floor or a loppiing irx>a bedstead. A *quore window, eighteen inches across, lights these places. Isl /V'awi e Cli'uUf i the title by which the proprietress is known. She reigns supreme over a wretched people—raguickers, workmen without work. dtcla**f* of every kind— to the number of 400. This woman, who is very rich, and goes about in her phai-ton draw n by a pretty pony, is dis guised as a man ; she may he fifty ; her gray hair is rut short, like that of mm; she is clad in pantaloons—hen<*c the name—a vest, blue blouse and laced gaiters. This costume she has worn j for the la*t twenty years, assuming, as well, tile I waring and energetic gestures of Uie stronger sex. Isi Frmme <"uluUe jishy no man* dull; in her springtime she must have associated wiUi intelli gent men. She declare* she knew Dumas Uie eider well She chat* very agreeably and skims literature with a light touch. The dav 1 had tiie honor to visit her the had two friends at break fast. As I enteren they had just taken coffee, and these ladies were smoking cigarettes, pouring out from time to time a swallow of cognac. Isi Fcmnu Cuiotlt leaned bark in her chair, her legs crossed, and puffed the smoke from her cigarette in dainty rings. At the moment the three companions were en gaged in a dispute. EmileZula was the subject. Isi Femn se ( 'uU4JU was of the opinion that " L'Assommoir." which claimed to be the romance of the people, was a picture of hut one phaar ol IWisian wretchedness. and if Zola hail applied to her he oould have learned much more as to popular depravity. Tliis conversation was interrupted from time to time by the enirv of some poor fellow who presented himself at the cash-window to pay ar< instailmmt of his rent—five cents or ten cents—all of wtiich />* F<mnu ' 'ulotle fmried in licr hrm*b pocki-t. Conduc ted by this lady in person dhom her salute as a sovereign, we make the round of Uie "city." Everywhere the same spectacled heart rending povery; entire familiee in dwelling* wliere a single person could liardly find room. In one of the** holes a woman with a m-w Imrn child lay on a straw pallet, while Uie oldest girl of twelve wa* cooking on a little furnace, and the odor of tip* charcoal mingled wiUi the pestilential emanations from the rubbish which the )iul*and had brought in and w raking over. Young boys, who t ad been hunting rag*, tired out. were seeping at the foot of Uie fed, hy tiie side of the mother and babe. Poverty descend* in these famine* with ths calling. Some lien arc honest fathers, who for twenty years have lived in the "city." worked 'like dogs paid their rent regularly. and j have never been able to lay up a sou for the morrow. (Blurs are worthies* scamps, spend each day's wages at the rum shop and lire on a morsel of bread so long as tlicy g< t as much brandy as possible. Children horn in these "cities" .ire raised in the teiilst ol the most degrading sights. Modesty i an unheard word; shame an unknown feeling. Old men pass by witli hack* bowed, whose life ha* been parsed in this filth, buried under their j load of refuse, covered with vermin. Here are Ixnn little being* who will die j without having caught a glimpse, even j for an instant, of the joys of life.—Parts Figaro Iknnksghlug. Many of our readers—and they need not IH> very old—can it collect when Thanksgiving day woe an exclusively New Knglant holiday, and in which the other* of the older States did not par ticipate. At New hag lander* migrated westward, and helped to found new State*. they carried with Uiem their usage of annually observing a day of thanksgiving. it i* thus that the custom has ipnwl to other State*, until now. having been confirmed ly the action of remit presidents. Thanksgiving has be come no longer a partial, but a national holiday. It i well that this, originally a farmer's holiday, has a p-noral observ ance. It is most fitting that the farmer* of this brood land should, on one day in the year, gather in their scattered child ren, and in one of the holiest of temples —home—give thanks for that uj*>n which the prosperity of the nation nwt —the abundant harvest. It is pleasant to think upon Thanksgiving day in it* higher aspivts, but not the less so ui its associations and its minor influences. Being emphatically a home holiday, it more than all others affect* the homes ol the land, not less the homes in towns and cities than homes upon farms, and long before the day is at hand the thought that" Thanksgiving is coming " controls the movements in household* everywhere. The home that is not upon the farm is none the less to observe the day; it. too. is to have its " feast of fat things." and the city housekeeper looks to her sister in the country for a fatted turkey " wherewith to make merry." A large share ot the demand for the tur key, the bird that lias become to essen tial to the thanksgiving feast, is sup pliisl bv those farmer* whose flocks number hundreds; hut aside from these, the turkey plays an important port on many small farms, and ttic bird, besides "furnishing forth" the material for many a home feast, is in itself a cause for grateful thanks. Many a mother, to help the family purse; many a daughter, in pride at being independent of her father's hard earnings, to meet her per sonal wants, looks to her flock of tur keys; and as Thanksgiving draws nigh, she counts and feeds her flock with | pleasant anticipation of the day in which the hopes of many days will be consum mated. Blessed be the observance which touches so nearly *o many human hearts. Blessed 1H the day which bring* joy to I so many homes—which, to the wanderer, ' wherever lie may be. turns his thoughts ; towards home. And when has the American farmer had greater occasion ! on Thanksgiving day than now to say • ! "Oh! give thanks unto the Lord, for He ! is good and his mercy endureth for- I ever.— American Ai/riculturitf. I love to hear the rumbling of the steam power press better than the rattle and roar of artillery. It is silently attacking and vanquishing the Mala kotfsof vioeand Redans of evil; and its parallels and approaches cannot l>e resist ed. I like the click of type in the com posing stick better than the click of the musket in the hands of the soldier. It bears a leaden messenger of deadlier power, of sublimer force, and of a surer aim. which will hit its mark, though it is distant a thousand years.— Rev. Dr. (Jhap in. A worm in the chestnut is worth two in the mouth —Stcubmville Heraid. NUMBER 46. UK*. IJAKDtS A*D HOI'KEHULU. ruauaa KmH rckar<i. Tlic ultimate success of fruit orehards depends upon lite judicious selection of •oil, situation, tmu and their proper ar rangement and management. In-nee any man who contemplate planting, whethrr ; a small or extended plaalatimi, will do well to keep tliW essential points in *lew and avail himself of the sxperienos gained in lliiw several directions, not I only ly himself But his neighbors, for e*j>riec* la the trust worthy guide. Beginning with the question when to plant, there are advocates for both fall and spring setting ol orchards. Pomoio gtaU very generally agree that fall W tlie season for lifting seedlings and rooted ayerafor stock*. Many ol ihemgo fur ther and advise planting tin* in the fall, as this saves handling, avoids all pan geruus loss in herling-in and give* the tree* time to throw out and mature new rootlets before the severe summer beat Miid drought rooms on. which is not al ways the case in spring planting. Another argument advanced in favor of fall planting is tlis leisure time oreur ! ring at this season, which naturally tn j du> cg more extended orchards with ! work brtu-r dune than during the rush : and worry of the spring season While on general principles it is sa/e j and wine to advise the fall planting ot fruit orchards, thie advice, like all oth- , era, is subject to modification. Fall j j planting, for instance, should bt avoided I in climates where the winters are long •tnd severe, or where alternative fpeer ing* or thawing* are frequent. Again, on some soiia. experience has taught that -tone fruits sui-ceed best when set dur ing *Jm spring. The matter therefore resolves itself into the fart that the sea son of planting extends from after ths I fail of the leaf in autumn by frost, until ' ; its reappearance in the spring, provided : the ground is not fro ten Titers are soils of a certain texture and quality, as that commonly termed sandy loam, with a sandy clay tuhaoi]. in which, with proper management, all . the hardy fruiu can be grown to perfec tion. On this may be gained good results in apples, pears, p.urns. cherries and peaches On the other hand, soils there are wholly until for any kind ol fruit trees; these comprise such as are peaty or mucky, damp and cold and spongy soils. Experience has proven that ap ples thrive best in a dry deep soil, be tween a sandy and clayey loam, and pos sessing s considerable portion of lime. The plum excepting perhaps the Canada or native, and Mirabelle. which succeed on very light soils —do best on s rather stiff clayey loam. The cherry and peach require a light, dry and warm soil for enduring orchards. The best site for an oreliard varies with localities, hence the wisdom of gaining in the immediate neighborhood the knowledge required. An eastern and southern extmsurs ol low ground is to be avoided in sections wlieir late and severe spring frosts prevai. If high winds from the west and north are to be ruarde t against it is recommended that a situation be chosen where some nat ural protection, at a belt of woods or hill, will break their force. If no auch protection already exists, it will be wise to set out at the same time the orchard is planted a border of some rapid grow ing tree, which wih form a protection by the time the fruit trees have come into bearing. Selecting the varieties for a fruit or chard is a most important point and should be made in reference to the special purpose tor wbirh the fruit ia in tended. A commercial orchard ist in the immediate vicinity of a good market will find profit in summer and early autumn fruits, for instance, while the market grower at a distance obtains his gains from late autumn and winter varie ties which uiay lie safely packed and transported. bow, stout trees, other things being equal, are preferable tobUL slender ones, and especially should this preference be observed in elevated and exposed positions. The square form, in rows the same distance apart and an equal space be l*(tu each tree, is the usual plan prac ticed insetting out orchards. Twenty fire feet is the distance commonly al lowed for the nrera.e apple orchard P. Barry recommends thirty feet in all directions as none too many for standard tree*. Peach trees should be set at about fifteen feet apart, as should plum and cherry trees. Standard pear trees requite from twenty to twenty-five feet. These distances are of necessity only ap proximate. then* being algreat difference between the sixes and varieties of the same fruit, and also in their babiU of growth. The vaaon previous to planting the soil should be at least twic* plowed and enriched with suitable composts. Wh this lias lieen done planting an on-hard is a simple matter, holes being dug deep ami wide enough to admit the .Wts. Where the soil has not been previously prepared planting requires considerable labor, especially if there are any defect* in the soil, which ought to be remedied at this time by the aid of composts. Dig large holes and line the bottom witlt a good bed of compost, composed, 'if the soil is too compact, of sand, leaf mould. muck, etc . to render it more porous, and if too light, of clay, stiff loom and .ashes to render it more reten tive. Lime should form a part of these compost*, especially tor apple and pear tree*. Barry mom mends half a peck of lime mixed with the bed of each tree in soil not naturally calcareous. In soil adapted to fruit culture if in a good state of tilth then* is no necessity for cither large holes or compost. The com post having been laid and covered with a layer of pulverised soil set the tree in the hole, carefully adjusting the roots, and fill it with fine earth which should h* firmly trodden down around the tree. Where the trees ar** large, or in exposed positions one or two stakes should be placed with each tree. Mulching is al ways advised; it pn*rents the moisture of the soil from evaporating and main tains uniformity of heat. A deep mulch ing is required for tn*es plan ted in the tall to prevent the frost from penetrating to the roots and heaving the tree out of the ground. Ilouarholil Hints* Apply a little soap to the hinges to prevent the doors creaking* New linen may l>e embroidered more easily by runl>ing it over with fine white soap; it prevents the threads from crack ing. If brooms are wet in boiling suds once a week they will become very tough,will not cut a carpet, will last much longer and always sweep like a new broom. Boiled starch is much improved by the addition of a little sperm, or a little salt, or both, or a little gum arabic dis solved. Glass vessels in a cylindrical form may be cut in two by tying around them a worsted thread, thoroughly wet with spirits of turpentine, and then setting fire to the thread. If you wish to clarify sugar ar.d waler that you are about to boil, it is we.J to stir in the white of an egg while cold; if put in after it boiis, the egg is apt to get hardened before it can do any good. The expression is often heard, by people who understand very little about it, that "we all cat too much." This is very rarely the case. It should rather be expressed, *' we eat too much of one thing, or of the same kind of food, be cause cooks and housewives are so very ignorant." It is perfectly impossible for a human being to exert his best fac ulties if under fed. There never was a strong man with a strong brain who could keep up the physical and mental drain without an ample supply of food. When people, thin, do not iced well, there is something wrong with their heads or their stomach*. The Hhartnets sf Life. How tooa Oar MV-twra life Attains to foil-aged aooa ! And this, how soon to gray-habnsd night! Ws spring, ws hod, ws blossom, sad sro Mast Krv ws as ooant our days, our days thoy tfeo so last Thoy sM Whsn scares began j Aad orn wo spprohsod Thai ws hogla to livs. our tlis is dons; KM, count thy days, and, U thoy 4y too fast For thy doll thoughts to const, roust ovsry day ths lost. Framett Qua rim. ITEIH OF ISTKBEHT. Philadelphia is to hav an elevated railroad. Hi. Louis employs only colored trash ers in her colored schools. Nail-making hy machinery was origi nated in Massachusetts in lb 10. The Russian press pi.diet " sooner or : later a war of III* or death with Eng. I land." What is borne without a walking mat' bf A sole less spot.—Mew Hamt /• Large numbers of mules are being i shipped from the United sta ten to the W tutlndies. The only kind of cake children don't cry after—A cake of soap.— Tonk*rs HUtUmtum. There is a bouse on Mount Colorado, which is 14.15? fed above ths level of tbe sua. I .steer beer has been exported from the United Stales to ismdoo, in con siderable quantities, of late. When a man lias nothing but a few broken teeth in bis mouth, can be prop arly lie styled a stump speaker * Two men and two dogs killed, by aet ual count. 1.000 raU in tbe space of two hours at a slaughter bouse near Vtileyo, ; o*l. A child rigiiteen months old was re cently stung to death by hea at Hanta Ana, Cai lie received swentneu stings j on his forehead. A man is going to have bis name ■tamped upon SO.OOO.UUO toothpicks. * That man's name will tie in everybody's iiiuuili Meruit n llctorder. " See here. Jones, why don't you feuos in your premisesf" "Oh, Uiciw's no ; need of it so kmc as my wife's always a-railing around the house, is there* Yonktri QusttU. Women owe a great deal to the press. W • mean now. mure particularly, the p inting press. If it was not for it wherw in creation would they get their bustles and circulars.— Y(mktr* Statesman. A new disease, commencing with nr vous twitching* in the legs and feet, and ending in grtar emaciaikm, lias been discovered by Philadelphia physicians, who ascribe it to tbe habit of riding In street car* instead of walking, and the peculiar jolting motion of the ran. Butterflies are covered with feathers; hair* an- hollow tubes. The surface of our bodies is covered with scale* like those of a fish A single grain of sand would cover a hundred of these scaiei, yet a scale rovers hundreds of pores. Through these narrow openings perspir ation forces itself out. like water through a sieve. A new and singtttsr means of incen diarism i reported by the (Mo*. In a village of Poland a cat was saturated with kerosene by an nnknown party, and set on fire: the unhappy animal rushed to and fro. spreading fire ail around, till it perished in dames, to gether with a number of buildings. The Ball *nd the Dftll Fi*h. The Tapeko (Japan) Time* may* the •tor; given below was communicated by m i-orre*p< ndent : The author of " Schnyukidan "* who lived some sixty years ng<>, WWOQW traveling in Muttu. one of the northern provinces. Walking one day near the sea beach he heard the bellow of a bail, and went x the direc tion of the noi*. He w:u then witneaa of an extraordinary combat between ton# cattle fish and a boll. An enor mous pouipe. with b-ijtlu purple eyea and tentacles six feet lone, had aita-ked the qutdruped. Throwing its arms around the body, the monster tried to make tor the water with its captive. Meanwhile other octopi. in iarg* num bers and of great site, swarmed on to the shore, which seemed tube alive with their big round heads. Some ot tl<em assisting their comrade, snoe ike him attacked the hall. -'ragging it down to tlie tea Their quarry, however, made a brave resistance, and root* eded in por ing its first foe in the head and belly and shaking iuelf free from its emlirace. Kef,-re it coald escape, however. It was Urmly held hT a still larger monster, while others took solicitous care of tiie wounded one. The unlbrturstc b- xst's lie 1 lowing attracted a crowd of fishermen to the spot. One of the*, stronger and braver than hi fellows, his liuihs swayed in straw bandages, and a sharp knife in his hand, boldly rushed to the rescue of the nail, and cut through the tentacles whio.i inclosed it Other poalpes then attacke the fisher .to whose aid his fellows h iatcne . and a tierce fight ensued between men and monsters in whi'-h the former were victorious, many of the squids being killed, while the rast escaped into the wsuv. Two of the tentacles wound round the bull were so heavy that one man alone could not carry them. One wa twelve and the other si x feet lung; tie* largest of the two was subsequently hoiled in sections at different tim<* in a big kettie. Some years previous to this battle, rattle had disappeared in a mysterious way from the same shore. The fight between the cephalopoda and th* hull enlighten* \ the proprietors as % their loss. Down a I'll ate. A chute it laid from the river's brink up the steep mountain to the railroad, and while we are telling it the monster logs are rushing. thundering. flying, leaping down thadecllvity. Tliey come with the speed of a thundcrl>olt, and somewhat of it* roar. A track of tire and smoke follows them—tire struck by their friction with the chute lop*. They descend the 1.700 ft of the chute in fourteen seconds. In doing so they drop 700 feet perpendicular. Thee strike tin deep water of tne pond with a report thai can be heard a telle distant. Ix)gs fired from a cannon could scarcely bare greater velocity than they have at the foot of the rhute. Tltc average velocity is over 100 feet in a second throughout the entire distance, and at the instant they leap from the mouth their spee d must 1*- fulljr SOO per second. A sugar-pine log sometimes weighs ten tons. What a missle! How the water is dashed into the air! I-ike a grand plume of diamonds and rainbows, the feathery spray is hurled into the air to the height of a 100 feet. It forms the grandest fountains ever beheld. How the waters of the pond foam and seethe and lasli against the shore. One log. having spent its force by ils mad plunge into the deep waters, has floated so*as to be at right angles with the path of the descending monster. The mouth of the ehuie is perhaps fif tiM-n feet above the surface of the water. A huge logiiurled from the chute cleaves the air and alights on the floating log. You know how a bullet glances, but can you imagine a saw-log g:ance. the ! end strikes with a heavy shock, but glides quickly past for a short distance, then a crash like a reverberation of artillery, the falling log springs 150 feet vertically into the air, and with a curve like a roeket falls into the pond seventy yard., from the log it struck. Truekee Nev.) Republican. Tirtnes of Onions. Few people dteam of the many vir tues of onions, and those few are enthu siastic for the beneficent bulb, and be lieve it a panacea for every ill. I.ung and liver complaints are certainly bene fitted, often cured, by a free consump tion of onions, either cooked or raw. Colds yield to them like magic. Don't be afraid of them—especially if you are married. Taken at night all ofi'ense will be wanting by morning, and the good effects will amply compensate for the trifling annoyance. Taken regu larly they greatly promote health of the lungs and digestive organs. An extract made by boiling down the juice of onions to a syrup, and taken as a medi cine, answers the purpose very well, hut fried, roasted or boiled onions are better. Onions are a very cheap medi cine, within everybody's teach, end they are not by any means as " had to take" as the costly nostrums a neglect of their use will necessitate.— Philailety/nn Btoord.
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