The Lass that was Sweet. There's a witohing young lass in our street; Liew confections she sells, she is sweet. 1 saked for a kiss, Whereupon laughed the mise, “ Of sourse, Sillabub, you mast eas.” I called on that girl in our blook, Nor left till she looked at the eloek; “It ie ticking,” she said, “And it's ticking { dread" ‘ Good evening ” I said with a shook. The next eall I said, to attack, “ Like sents that are old, i've come back.” “And,” she said, * you should say, Like some new cents you stay" “Good evening” again. 1 was slack. Onee more that fair damsel I tried, But her pa, he was waiting inside, It was leap year, I know, For the weight of his shoe Made me leap, while she laughe! till she oried -H, C. Dodge. I AR SI sani, (CENTRE REPORTER. “ THE ,000 000 oleo. macsaring a Joo cinta y. After all an ordinary saw-horse pays better than the average trotter, — Yonkers Gaselle. The Baroness Hirsch gave Adelina Patti 15,000 francs 000) for singing one song at her he TERMS FRED KURTZ. Editor and Proprietor. $2.00 a Year. in Advance. EE aa a NUMBER I1. (83, ir Fr : ih | Mount Vesuvius is troghled w : , and they don’t r what te Ti ety Stanley has begun the ascent of Congo. well armed ane ¢ with all of provisions and oe in the transporiation of coal A NACA SIA) 3 \ IR VOLUME XIII. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA. THURSDAY, MARCH 1880. ’ A TO TAT I had but one distaste for the piace, | pretty, had it had proper nourishment, CAPITAL CLAIMANTS, RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES, TIMELY T0PICS, FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD: GATHERING CAOUTCHOUC, { and that wes for the basement, which, and air to breathe, with its delieate — - Begging. Battling with hunger How many we meet, Footsore and frozen, Wand'ring the street; Weary and dreary, Pleading tor bread, Houseless and starving No rest for the hed; Cold—oold-—nothing to eat, Ragged and shivering, Wand ring the street Battling with hunger, Wearisomo-—sad, | From morn natil eve Scarce “a bite ” to be had; The outlook all gloom. Tradging through snow, Tu misery creeping, Onward they go, Cold-~cold-—nothing to eat; Wretched and hongry, Wand ring the street Battling with hunger, Battling for bread, Battling tor bare lite, Wishing life sped; Hearts sadly aching, Hard in their pain, Qroveling in gutter, Begging agnin. Cold —cold-— wretched and sad ; All alone in the world, Searce * a bite’ to be had. Battling with hanger, Hard is their tate, Pleading and tramping Exrly and late; Oh, list the pray Ot the wandering poos And don't thrust the began: Away from your door. Cold—ecold—onut in the min, To eke out a living “Do buy the house, Charlie; [ am not at all atraid of ghosts!™ My busband leans against the worm- eaten fence and looks thoughtfully at shutters flapping from broker hinges, its porches overgrown with vines, its den full of rank weeds, and the river singing beyond its garden gate. “It is very cheap, Amy," he length. land, and nominally nothing house. But can you endure living i such a deserted place, and [ in the city all day? Why, all sorts of noises can be heard here day and night, and I have heard good, tateligont people, with con sciences, say they had seen the spirit of s woman, with a little ebild in her arms walking all about these grounds at evening. Nobody else would dare buy it. Why, it has had no tenants for a year. friends, and that you yourself will hav: to suceurab to the spirit-influence of the 208, P He stops, seeing the expression on my face. | can bear anything better than the allusion to spirit-influence, or to the helief of the progreSsionists. Charlie is a good business man; but hie has read a great many scientific works written by ht they were very wise on the subject of spiritualism; and he has investigated, or. rather, invested a deal in the same. gressed to such an extent that he ean sometimes hear raps on the headboard, and cold shivers down his back. and in mosquito-time he often feels pinghes from unseen <virit-fingers. I do not Hike to reac scientific books’ | for i great teed and embroidering baby-clothes. Still, Charlie worships me. 1 believe it is | God's unseen law of recompense that | there should always be some one to | adore, even a women with freckles, wide mouth and a figure like a Dutch doll. At all events, my will is always Jaw; | so Charlie takes his kvife and cuts away | the rose brambles that have thrown their arms across the front door, and to- gether we enter the vacant echoing rooms. The ceilings are dim with wails of cobwebs, the spiders run up the walls | at our approach. The house has a ruin- ous, moldy smell, but it doesnot oppress | me as it does Charlie. Already In my mind's eye 1 see what it will be like, cleaned and aired, with open windows | * and cheerful furniture. : I ran through the house, exclaiming: “* What m beautiful wide hall!—this | room facing the south shall be our sit- | ting room. I will rout all the ghosts with sunshine. See those hollyhocks smiling over that picket fence, and those summer p@ars all rotting on the ground —what » shame!—and all those rose. bushes choked in the long gross ™ Charlie shakes his head. *“If you had heard all T have about this house, vou would he in no haste to live here. You know the Widow Wool. son's daughter that has been missing from town a year, and supposed to be murdered? = Well, Geoffry Clare was passing here one night, only last week— and you know, whatever else he will do he won't lie—and he told me he saw Grace Wooison's face as plain as day | over that garden fence.” : I checked him suddenlyagain. I have pever had but thisone secret from my husband, that three years before 1 met bandsome Geoffry Clare. He had soon forgotten me for pretty Grace Woolson, had searclied for her many months. I think I loved him no lomger, and sometimes thanked God for taking my future out§of my unsekiliful hands, yet the mention of his name always made me wince. As Charlie's only objections were on my account, and as we were not rich enough to buy such a home ag we might have chosen, within a week he had aid the small sum required for the sunted house, and we had moved into it, bag and baggage. I liked the place, which was neither town nor country, but was embowered among its trees, just at the terminus of the pavements, wilh such a grand old garden and such glimpses of wood and water. The first thing I did was to open all the windows wide, and let in the summer's sun. Martha Ann, my one servant, cleaned awuy the mold and cobwebs, and fresh paint ard papcr changed the rooms as if by magic. Charlie left his scientific researches after business hours and pruned the trees, cut the grass, trimmed the ragged small paradise out of the reclaimed lawn. When all was oompleted, there was no place for ghosts in those wide, sunny roome. My room was the pleasant- est room of all, facing the east, and looking out upon the pear trees, the hollyhocks and the river. Pink had heen my color when a girl, so I took a fancy my room should be all pink. The dull drab paper, with green vines wan- during about and clutching aimlessly at nothing ali over it, was changed for a delicate pink and white. The carpet was pink and white, the color under the ¢heap muslin pillow shams was pink, the lace curtains hungover pink shades, and were looped back with pink rib- bons, making as a whole too rose-hued a bower for any speeter to fancy. I believe I was as entirely happy, alter getting settled that first week, as any one could be who had lived in rented houses all her life, and owned ong of her own for the first time. covered with oling underneath. It had formerly been a cellar-kitohen, but was now fallen into | disuse, and full of refuse piles of lamber, cans and unused rubbish, The heavy vines grown over the broken bricks had made it a damp and noisome place, and 1 never cared to explore it, jor to put it to any use, except the por- i old § | | down from the kitchen, 1 had Martha | Ann clean away & space here, and fill a | cupboard with canned fruit, vegetables, { ete, {| 1 grew to i and cheerless cellar, | of it without shivering, though I would 10t own it even to myself | It had scarcely heen my receptacle for { fruit a day before I began to miss things i in a most mysterious manner. Before l { could realize it there would be a glass | of jelly, a pie, a loaf of cake, a melon, i ora piate ot peaches gone I could ac cuse po one but the ghosts and Martha { Ann, and she had always heretofore | been the soul of truth and honor. | Twicel fancied, when in the cellar, 1 { had heard asigh and a rustle of ghostly garments, and 1 could have swarm | | heard the wailing of a y ung child i several times; but 1 would have died i rather than own this to my husband * Martha Ann," said 1, one day, com- ing up in great haste from the Har, i ghosts like pickled figs?" “1am sure I don't know, ma'am!" { Martha Ann's eyes are as wide, | nocent and unguailing as ever ‘ell, vou know that jar of pickled figs my cousin sent me from California, i that I was saving till mother came | visit me? Well, they are two-thirds { gone, as weil as that pie that was laid i away expressly for Charlie! What am i [to think.” | I am angry have a dread of this dark Qe ao in us to ig and ng, : excited. Martha | Aun says noth as usual, butl her tears are quietly falling over the dish-apron she is hemming. 1 am rather | relieved the day after when she asks me { for a month's vaeation to visit her sick | grandmother. 1 do not like acouse of theft, and I would like be { alone to ferret out this mystery. 1 have h bolts put on the celiar-doors, and he chinks in the bricks dlled in. The rap-door I keep fastened down with { heavy weights, the depredations | 20 on—pies, cakes, ice-cream left in the | freezers, dream off the milk, a | of every available thing i* missing fy | day to day 1 am too proud to confide in Charlie, i but my life is getting to be a burden. One bright September day I sit down in { the kitchen in tears, with my feet in the joven, and id fain cover my head with my apron, like Affery Flintwinch n ** Little Dorrit,” to shut out the faint { wails of some child that I am sure are coming from the cellar, Martha Ann wil not be home for two { weeks: Iam tired ont and discon Charlie will be home in haif an hour a five o'clock dinner, and the spirits have eaten ali the cold roast and tarts | that I have laid away for that especial | banquet. I shall be forced to tell him that for my hardihood in making him buy this haunted house, is destined to go on ailf-rations generally, I think with a h, when I hear a faint step below and trap-door slowly rising, and the bland } thin shoulders of a woman, with a skeleton child in he arms, coming into view, Can I believe my eyes? Yes, it is the shrunken, faced of Grace Wool- son, which 1 know in an instant, though the sunken eyes and claw-like hands and skeleton figure, make but a silhouette of | the rosy, dimpled girl I remember I am not a woman, and | | have expected this ghost to appear so long, t I do not scream or faint away when she toward me, and th hetic, drooping air with which = $ out the visionary baby, and then ts into such a human agony of tears, would make one {eel tender and akin to even a hobgoblin, “Ob, Amy,” she gasped, “you are a Ning to i her to | fres i abil sti Hn iy $1 REI to he wi i see the hed face and i +} form nervous * = i he At } £1 Comes hae Ours my child's life? If it had not been dy- ing I should have staid hidden always, but I knew you would help me it you ] I was sorry to take your figs and things, and would not if I could have kept from starving; but for mother’s sake 1 have hidden in your cellar threé months, for I knew she and Geoffry Clare woud find me if they ** It is his child, then?" I asked, not with any idle curiosity, but much as one would frame a question to fill a pause, “Yes,” she said, simply. “Well, I have not a word ot blame for you. I nearly went crazy mysel! love with him once, and had not God been very kind to me, I might have been as badly off as you. We will save the baby if we can.” I have pulled her into a chair while I am talking, ard am holding the baby's chilled feet to the five, feeling its feeble ing is its breath, and the clammy sweat on 1ts temples, while Grace is talking with the zest of a man just out of prison, and longing to hear the sound of his voice again. “ When people missed me first, I had gone to the New York hospital, wher: I ran away with the baby as soon as | could walk, for fear I should be traced there; and knowing this house was said to be haunted, and people were afraid to come here, [ made a bed in some pack- ing-boxes behind the lumber, and so long as my money lasted, I used to go jout at nights in my waterproof aad buy things; but after you came I dared | not leave, and the baby has been grow- ing sick in the damp weather.” I pour her out a cup of strong tea, that is steeping on the range, but she sits holding it in her hand, untasted, staring at me with her mild, faded eyes. “Oh, Amy, I am afraid to ask yon, but how is my mother?—have you seen her?" ** Yes, I saw her last week at prayer- meeting "—** and she looks like one who { has been struck with death,” I was going | | to say, but stopped, seeing Grace was | quivering all over with fear and expec- | taney. dared not tell her that her { mother was now sick in bed, and that {the loss of her only child, or how my | heart had ached for the poor widow, out | of whose faded face even expectancy had | vanished. | now, let us go and lay it in the bed ; and { Chariie and I are all a | rest assured no one shall know of your being here.” hear Charlie's step on the stairs, being a practical druggist, and a better nurse and doctor than onr little town affords, begins instantly to mix some medicine for the little sufferer. He is tenderer than any woman to- ward anything little or weak, or needing care; so for two days he does not go to his office, but watches with Grace and me beside the dying child; but what ean mustard-baths and drugs, and careful nursing avail where a damp basement has undermined the constitution of so frail a little blossom? On the third day the little life goes out to complete its being in another world. Poor Grace will not believe that the little child she has cherished through such awful days and nights of want and distress is reall dead. She holds it in her arms a night, and in the morning we dress it in the dainty lace and linen robe of a hap- pier baby yet to come, who, too, alas! may never need the pretty finery. And Charlie digs a little grave under the pear tree, close to the sunny wall, where the catchfly and sweet allyssum grow so rank, and lays the little creature tend- erly under the September leaves ard grasses. Poor thing, it would have been so { i i ! | { features and prety ri ws of soft hair i Grace follows us silently back to the door, and pausing on the step, iavs her | bescechingly, saying *1 must go to mother now, if you will do me one last favor, Amy, and go with me." Charlie hurries off for a car to his office, and Grace and down the quiet street toward mother's little cottage None of people who meet us recognize in the siender figure, clad in my new walking suit with mv gypsy turban and long veil, the Grace Woolson of a year age. | tremble on nearing the house, for I see the windows are open wide, | and two or three are watching by a bed where mother | breathing faintly and moaning at intervals Grace fly up the garden-walk and stop, with clasped hands and bent head on the threshold, and I hear her mother’s faint voloe saving to the woman who is fan. ning her * Do not trouble yourseif about me; 1 shall never be well again, and nothing | can cure me now but a sight of my daught down-town | i I walk her | the drab | i ies Grace's I sew ghter's face.” i I see Grace grope forward, 1 hear her “* Mother, mother!” 1see those two poor women in each other's arms, and 1 turn away blinded with tears, And Grace's mother did not die, but seems entirely happy with her lost dar- iing all to herself again once more, the color coming slowly back into her whitened cheeks, and life getiing hack into its old grooves. Her return was a nine days’ wonder to our gossiping town: but the little gmve pear-trees tel's no tales, and though she will never be exaotiy the same pretty, blooming Grace Woolson again, yet this aftermath of her life is something to be thankful for, in its great content and peacefulness. — Emma N CRINEg, * 2 : Bayley A ——————————— Retold. Happening into a Washington peri- odical store the other day, I encountered Joseph Shillington, one of the oldest men in the business. He was originally it to Washington to superintend the delivery of the Baltimore Sw suhscribers. He said Oo me know I gave the Sun what | Abell, always said wast piece of news he ever got? * What was that, Mr. Shillington?” “It was the explosion of the on the Princeton about 1844, Stockton came aroun Ait En 1 3 give Longress A Famous Journalistic Feat $01 3 to its “Do you 8 propries ¢ { Or, as the Digest "iy gu ! big Com dore 1 here his big shij administration an excursion. went down the river to somew! ‘ort Washington, and there, whi [ the people were down | + eabir srtaking of 8 coliation, Stockton iis hig gun, caded the Peacemaker, off. It burst and one of the pieces killed Secretary Upshur, while Secretary Gil- | mer was crushed to a human wad, Two | gentlemen. named Gardiner and Maxey, were killed at once. Gardiner's daugh- ter afterward married President Tyler, Commodore Kennon was killed. Com- modore Stockton was temporarily blinded, and Senator Tom Benton and his servant were both knocked down and the servant kil Some people said that Benton was a little crazy al ways afterward * This aecident hap Mr. Shillington, * and the ston unt: something like nin lock at night. 1 was not a writer of anything, but I saw there was an op portunity to give the Sun a hig lift. The first thing 1 did was to go to Stettinens, manager of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad here, and secure a locomotive It £75. Mr. Abell was not al- ways liberal and I felt that I was takin 2 risk. At that time there was onl two trains a day from Baltimore Washington, one in the morning and the other in the evening: ther had a cleer track. 1 kept with steam up in the old depot on Pennsylvania avenue until I could over. haul Congressman Zaddock Pratt, of | New York. He was an tanner in the Catskill mountains, and had tanned more than 1,000,000 of leather. Pratt saw the explosion and gave me the particulars, When I got down to the depot I found the postmaster.gen. eral, Charles Wickliffe, standing there. ‘ What is this locomotive for? he asked, | He was told it had been privately char tered on newspaper business. He was getting up letters and dispatches to | go North. Said I: * Mr. Postmaster. General, you can't send anything by this locomotive! This is a newspaper | locomotive!” Wickliffe was quite in- | dignant that there should be any such | thing as a newspaper locomotive; it had not beem heard of up to that time. Said he to the engineer: ‘The govern- | ment will pay for this!" ‘Never you mind,’ I said to the engineer and fire- man, and 1 got aboard and we went as fast as the state of the road and kind of locomotive would allow to Baltimore, nearly forty miles distant, which we reached in one hour and a half. I got there about eleven o'clock; the composi- tors had already been dismissed and the edition was on the press. I had taken the precaution to fee the engineer and fireman and make them go right back to Washington and talk to nobody in Baltimore. I said to the pressman, | ‘Stop this press at once.’ T could not make them understand anvthing. Then [ went down to Mr. Abell's house; he | lived on Waterstreet. He put his head | out of the window with a night-cap on and asked who was there. Finally, he came down stairs and went with me to the press room. We had sent out for compositors previously. ** As soon as the composing room was lighted up the Clipper and another news- paper there wanted to know all about it. We kept everything n secret, and got out the Sun with nearly two columns of news. The other pavers ealled it an- | other moon-hoax. It was not until about nine o'clock next morning that a train came in from Washington con- | firming the story, and then the Sun had made it general all over Baltimore The Sun had then been established a few years, but had not made much mark, | nn i € most ! | } : fired killed. t continued s 3 2hsit nf in the al to ned," pretty news di ! got fernoon, nt Washi Ov ning cost me kin 5 ¥ t fore th LHe O00 MO- i tive old sides its enormous expenditure in gettinz | that piece of news. But from that it i both locomotives and couriers.”— | “Gath's" Washington Letler to New York Graphic. ! Water for Fuel. Can water be utilized as fuel? Years ago such a question would have raised the question of a man’s sanity, but in this age of wizard invention, «f the strangest discoveries among nature's | elements and the most unexpected prac- | tical application of its laws, why not | contrive some way of evolving heat out | of water and 30 make it the fue] of the | universe? « This subject is not altogether | anew one, bu, certain events witi.in the | last few months have given it a new | importance. Only recently orders from | St. Petersburz have reached New York | for works used in manufacturing | water-gns.” Stockholm had already imported from this country similar ap- paratus, for the purpose of facilitating the manufacture of iron and steel. So well does the new invention work there that the leading metallurgists of Swe- den united in giving it be most em- phatic testimonixl of their approval. Some Austrian manufacturers have also ordered fuel-gas works from this coun- try. The gas engine, as recently im proved, is available up to thirty-horse power. In England, thousands of these engines are now employed, and it is confidently expected by many that this invention will in time do away with the use of steam-boilers, with their smoke and danger, altogether. Found in Washington. Frequent visitors at the have failed to notice the dally occupant of the front seat of the gallery, He known as the * praver fiend." In rain or shine he is puncte ally on hand, At ten minutes befor twelve o'clock he shambles in, takes his in nin begins his prayer. Then he rises, throws his body back to an angle which Gay i ! SOHC pOises his head backward than rocks on toe until the uttered, to which he responds, he resumes his mains until the if there this character tall and thin; hody, and angle his . and heel Then and generally re. ! SOSSion closes, particu In appear is striking, He is more than six feet high His frame is angular; face spare and shrunken. He has little tufts of gray side whiskers, otherwise his face is al ciwanly shaven. He in piain hisek, wears a cloak and carries a cane, His eyes protrude well out of their sockets and have a restless look If he happens to come in late, no matter seal is a debate anee $ dresses he may encounter to reach it, | crowd his way to the place and any one who may beinit., Helis known to all one who keeps most zealous vigil over The name of odd eharacter Powell Cuthbert, Virg by birth. Of late vears he Seems to Rave gone a oust their proceedings, this is nian Ion, be alienated from him in his lifetime barely sufficient to kee p him, and finds peace in his latter days in the Congres. sional gallery id lady name nim O has a « wrty-third, and is daily in attendance th in the gallery and the committes how | “*eoming : siaim 18 for services a as 8 hospital nurse, mira has a temper of her own, and wos it by he tO see is aon Ti been rendered 118 ¢ he it to the Congressional solon who Its to treat hor the Hous nilery, and frequently next to he sh EY { ss Lion, When othe witli considers is in session she IMANKEeYs prayer fiend." MUSE, tes or iu as she ni- 5 3 il is nn “onl % Bit DY INSIDE LO soe *Aln i 4 i's Gean Hil sometime him fifteen or twenty ng ab Aimira will get ms him witl hand DOL SO to face her Free nin with- her 1 of utes ho iim round i man, » ie IKt Hs £354 poweriess to resent her fe wiild muscular 0, deign to make a ) resumi ition in which he been disturbed ge her every mi good outline eign sleep to dodg wilen ra knows { can give a fine points and sometimes proves real an advantage in the ery. If hap ns wo be near any one who is will wi out either mber of Aim! ress of their \ ¥ gal she ing to listen to her she point the leading them or abuse them as recount many interesting Congressional debates, She has an es- cial for Ferris Finch fils lerk of th because, forsooth, he aim to the the files with each recurring Congress I'l this character : si riseryey @ men hors, fit, and 4 OpIsOaes she sees liking for H re ‘ use, onsigns hi catacomb of i = ¥i 1 Rppesranc Sh i Ring i adv ady, Arrow vied and hin us dastiing and Her hair is gray, worn | fusion of curls, which ha forehead She Iu { vouthful days IS CONS Ba sve. ul } ; to superior vel possesses more than i She a fade Un her and matroniy w Bnims wRuty ordinary DOORS, Wears i head she } i an old shawl. i ind WEATS 4 oes? i her sup- from 1 is HOO or how she is supported, but Appeals for aid her Hiveiil posed to he precarious Another chameter who, up to a few man has a grievance, He seems to be haunted with the phantom of Col, Tom Scott, the railroad king. He declares hat Col. Tom Scott years azo robbed him in araiiroad him, usually, a tin long and six inches in carries with about two feet kind. Originally it might have been a tracing of a plat of ground and the cross gections, but whatever it was in primitive state it is unintelligible now, by the mischievous. One day last sum. an exciting political debate, came to the capitol with a woolen shirt, saturated in blood, and clared was the shirt worn by him when hie was assaulted by Tom Scott on the plains of Colorado. £1.000,000, and is connected with a mine hing not put in an appearance, and it is helieved that he is over to the Eastern hranch. At times he is dangerous, Journal Clerk Smi h on one oceasion filled the tin case he earries with mueil- age. | | fled incontinently out of range. Another persistent claimant comes to Congress every year is John C, MeConnel, His elaim is for 817,200, and has made its appearance in every Congress for years, dered service to the United States in re- cruiting 300 men in Maryland Massachusetts regiment. Last summer General claims committee, in reporting adgersely upon it said: “This claim has been re treasury department when all the par- ties who knew ol have been lost were in existence. has since been rejected by the committee in its favor—unblushing persistence. It is time this raid on the treasurvshould — Washington Star. Frozen Seed. Researches made by Messrs. De Cane dolle and Pictet, of Geneva, on the de- be subjected without impairing their viwmlity, present very remarkable results. It is not the first time that such experiments have been tried, but the means now available for maintain- | | gree of certainty never before possible, wheat were separately inclosed in glass tubes, hermetically sealed, and were course of refrigeration, in which the temperature was reduced to fifty degrees below zero of centigrade. No precau- tions were taken to restore them gradu- ally to the ordinary temperature. They were sown, nnd all except seven grains of wheat, which had been damaged, germinated in the same time as seeds which bad not Leen refrigerated. An- other experiment was made with thir. teen different kinds of seeds. It lasted two hours, and during half that period the temperature was brought down to eighty Li below zero. They all germinated except three sorts, which were proved to be bad, hy the fact that non-chilled seeds of the same kind did not grow. Over twenty thousand oar-loads of live and dressed poultry are carried into New York city yearly, and £5,500,. 000 dogens of eggs go to the same market. According to the best esti. mates, the United States produces nine thousand million of eggs annually, This is a nice little item for the consid. | eration of those who call chicken busi- ness—egg raising—a small thing. A common pin is a very little thing, but a paper of ping is worth settings price on; while the manufacture of pins like the production of eggs, is an industry worth the attention of men of ability and the investment of capital. There are 100,000 church members in { the British army. Richmond has fifty-five churches toa { population of 30,333, he Baptist missionaries in Japan have ordained their first preacher In the last twenty years the Methodist missions have received upward of $10,- Thesixth of next May is the date pro- I'he Methodist freedmen's aid society It receipts last year were £74,603, The English Congregationalists have 170 churches and 156 ministers in active work in the Australian colonies and New Zealand, Professor Otto Bollinger, of the Uni- | versity of Munich, read a paper re- { cently on artificial tubereulosis as in- | duced by the use of the milk of tuber. The Lutherans are displaying great | pulosis cows. He endeavored to de- activity in church building. A denom- | monstrate that the milk of such animals national paper mentions the dedication | has a contagious influence and repro. of twelve German churches { duces the disease in other animals. See- The Rev. Mr. Marshall, a Baptist mis- i ing the enormous mortality from con. sionary in Orissa, India, writes that | sumption,’ Professor Bollinger believes {it to be of the utmost importance to turge upon all ciasses, and particu larly | upon farmers, the absolute necessity of Four Chinese were admitted to the | 18king every possible means of stamping Second Presbyterian church, of Indian. | 9% the disease among cattle, apotis, by Dr. William A. Bartlett at | Ey the last communion, the first Celestials | + , to join a church in Indiana, river in New York A inrge crowd The deat . wed of the Rew | gathered round, but no one dared to 1e@ deat is announced of th eV. | go to the boy's assistance, and he would 8 @ heen drowned had not a boothlack, | whowas polishing a man's boots near | by, left his customer and jumping into { the river pulled the boy out upon a raft The daughter of Chancellor Haven, of | of logs. The mother of the rescued hoy { offered his preserver $2, but the latter, | seeing that she was a poor woman, | gooa-humorediy declined the gift. The | name of this brave lad is John Higgins. He is a regular attendant at night school, and the principal of the school, as well {88 his teacher, speak highly of him. {| John will yet make his mark in th world. caste and become Christians. Many of Methodist instita- Mr. Berry was delegate. 3 a 3 . .. o the general conference, WNLenary college, a t eet t of the Michigan university, is on the Pacifie ocean, journeving from San Principal Bancroft, of Phillips acad. | emy, Andover, says the truths of the In France a marriage is valid with {out the actual and lormally recorded } their hearts There are now in the United States priests, twenty-four Catholic sem. ies, 663 colleges and neademies, 3,246 hia! schools, containing 405,334 estimated Catholic populs- ot wishes to marry and cannot obtain his The oN pupils : : : : : three times with a notice calling on him I'he freedmen’s aid society (Metho- dist), in its several schools and colleges, taught last year 2,510 puplis, of whom in the biblical, twenty in the in the medical, and 1,020 in not be permitted After three such ser. vices and on proofof full age, the mar- ‘riage is allowed, These provisions render clandestine marriages impossible, A male eloper would not only have his i ixt i iW, » 5 INRSeN, Ih punished for abduction, Australia threatens to become a serious competitor with the United States in ¢ Rev. Alexander Keith, D. D.. divine of advanced age and ebrity, died recently. He was | * Evidences of the Truth of ¢ Christian Religion,” which was pub. in 1593, which for many was 8 text-book Dr. Keith was a SOOLLIsh meh 0 ¢ of ti dshed vears and | with fresh meat. About thirty tons of fresh meat preserved by a new process, The Rev, Dr. E of Samrodt, A Very uncon;- ser, leven and Janded in excellent condition. f { philoe- He 1 Samrodt fifty-five five years of age. hy by the university of Breslau Lins been pastor years, and is eight The ® i eaten a dinner off a joint of this pronounces it, B who Bay | Meat. and y i 5 i thirty-one universities and col. London {or 2d. more, or, say, with profit allowed, for 54, (10 cents) a pound. Al most any quantity is procurabie, there being in Australia 7,500,000 cattle and 61,000,000 shicep. In New York one cane not huy * fat, ox beef” for ten cents a pound ; for good joints one must pay twice that price, The fees which physicians may charge in Prussia for their services is regulated by law, and according to the most re- | cent ordinance, the charge for the first visit 10 a sick person is fixed at two In their ty worth 87.336 000, and en. amounting £3,243 640 these universities and colleges, forty-nine seademies, female i . 2.313 students, The New York Methodist book con. cern has a net eapital of $1,080,568, The net profits for the year were 871155, i publications amounted to FN25.634, against $912.796 the previous year he Western concern, at Cincinnati, has a net capital of 8474. 178, tl p or the hailing $97.807 tiie The sales ii off $85,873 frow the pre. (RE La 0 prime BOS, el SOS OF book mark), and one mark for each quent visit; where, however, several persons belonging to the same family rolls | Year ’ av The Baptists report 12407 Sunday. sehionls, with 922 602 scholars. In the ist by States North Carolina leads with New York follows with and jeads with 112.345 scholars: ilinois has only 500 schivols and 58.5377 holars; Indiana 550 schools and 55.000 cholars: Michigan 338 schools, 32.000 cholars: Jowa 2M schools, 17.445 Wisconsin schonls, be treated at the same time, { only the hall of these fees respectively is to be charged—the same rule is to apply | to boarding schools and similar institu- tions, also to prisons. When there is a | consultation of several physicians about the treatment of a gick person, includ- shoinrs; 150 A580 scholars; Minnesota 65 sehools, is to receive for the first consultation Sve marks, and three marks for each subsequent similar consultation. On the occasion of the first visit to the physician's residence for his medical ad- | vice, one mark and a half. For the ad- ministration of chloroform, ete., when | necessary for the treatment of the pa- | tient, three marks. I .Rs A Farmer's Fight With Wolves. The Bradford (Pa.) Era has the foi- lowing account of nn desperate fight be How One Man Would Go to War, Every fresh item of news that another { nation of Europe has increased its | fighting force shocks ail right-thinking | | peaple by its suggestion of the awful | slaughter which must follow the coi- lision of the hosts armed with modern | instruments of war, At such a time { the question, *“*Does the maxim, infer arma silent leges, apply to the laws of { humanity?” aequires fresh point, and { the manner in which the subject is dis- | cussed by an officer of the United States | army. writing in the United Serpice, is { not a little startling. He finds that in the past all objections in the name of humanity to each successive improve- ! ment in the art of wholesale destruction {of human life have vanished in the! fierceness of international competition, and so he thinks it will and ought to be | | in the future. Greek fire and gunpowder | were in turn, he points out, denounced | | as inventions of the devil until the se- jeret of their manufacture and use be. | came generally known, In the age ot | projectiles the smooth-bore came first, ! and every shot was meant to kill: but the bore was rifled to increase the cer- | tainty of death, and breech-loaders and magazine guns were invented to kill more men ina given time. Therefore | hie forsees that the adoption of poisoned | or explosive bullets is but a question of { time, and declares that if he were a | general in command he would not hesi | tate to poison the enemy's water sup- | ply. Nor can he see any reason why he | { should not, for example, with a satis. | fied conscience, use .a projectile which, on explosion, should liberate a suffo- cating gas and destroy every living {thing for yards boi | He protests | against the hasty and unthinking con- | demnation of his views as bloodthirsty { and cruel, and bespeaks for each new | murderous machine thoughtful consid- | eration in the name of mercy and | For, he argues, the more terrib | recognized instruments of destruction, | the greater is the reluctance to engage | in war, and, should war break out, the | shorter, of necessity, will be its dura- | tion. Around the White farm isa dense forest, | extending for a considerable distance | lodging-place 1. but in this part they are iy in this woot In the rear of the farmhouse is a huge barn of antique architecture and boards. Last Friday morning, whenold heard an unusual commotion inside, Thinking some of the animals had broken loose, he did not open the front iest they should escape, but squeezed himself through a hole on one side left by a broken board. As soon as he'enterad the uproar increased, and he saw ia the middle of the barn floor a heifer which had torn itself from the stanchion by main force, amd broken one horn in the act. Clinging to its muzzle while the frantic animal bellowed with pain and fright was something that looked like su large gray dog, while an- other was trying to ham-string the poor creature. To say old White was aston- as wolves erazed with hunger that had boldness, heifer, the snarling of the wolves, and the ras tling of the loose barn floor, made a The cow a limp rag and pounded the sides of the anger at the attack on his stock over. 1 i and turned on him. A mighty blow in such eclore quarters the weapon was of no avail. After kicking uselessly at the brute he grasped its throat with his EH ——— At a Funny Lecture. While I was lecturing at Washington {I saw a lady with an intelligent, pretty face, and bright, eloquent eyes, that were rarely lifted toward the speaker, { and then only for a flash of time. They | were bent upon her husband's hands { almost constantly. Brilliant and ae. { complished, a fow years ago, she had | gone down into the world of voiceless | silence, and now all the music and all the speech that comes into her life | comes through the tender devction of | her husband, and as I talked, I watched | him telling off the lecture on his nimble | fingers, while her eager eyes glanced from them to his sympathetic face, It | was a pretty picture oy evotion. They | were so young to have this cloud tghadow the morning skies of their lives, | but as I glanced from the voiceless wife { to her husband, I thought how beauti- betore sunrise) is a most astonishing | fully the sunlight of his devotion was circumstance, and shows that the | breaking through these clguds, and tint- wolves were wild with famine. White | ing even their afflictions with a tender will not care to repeat his experience, as | radiance. This discipline of attending in addition to his bitten wrist, his | upon suffering is s good thing for a clothes were torn, aad his face, neck and | man, It rounds out his life; it develops breast scared deeply by the elaws of his | his manlier, nobler qualities; it makes nssailants. The heifer was not fatally | his heart brave and tender and strong as injured. { n woman's. — Burdelte. let go. Then seizing again the piteh- | ! the animals, which gnashed their teeth and sprang at him with quick bounds | 1 i one, which then dodged between his | legs and through the hole behind him, when it limped off howling dismally. ing desprrate fight, although punctured Without going further into de- tails, it may be said thet White killed the animal after a hard struggle, during which he was bitten so severely in the use of it. The dead wolt was of large | size, gaunt with hunger, and with a shaggy coat of light gray. Those fa- miliar with the habits of such animals say that an attack of this kind in day- light (the time of the struggle was just Fruit Facts. Pear blight has in several instances, been arrested in affected trees by syring- ing them with a solution of potash, and it has proved a preventive when ap- plied to the healthy trees, A German gardener has found by ex. perience that black or green flies, cater. piliars, ete,, are at once destroyed by syringing the plants affected by them with water in which the stems of the tomato plant have been well boiled. The liguor is applied when cold, and not only kills the insects, but leaves an odor which prevents others from com- | ing. { Diseased apple or pear trees are some. times attacked by insects. There is a remedy which causes the old dead bark to cleave off, leaving in its place a smooth, healthy surface. After a rain, and while the bark is still wet, throw on the tree dry wood ashes until the power of retention is full. Sow on the ashes now, and as a preventive of future depredations sow on in summer, when the insects deposit their eggs, which will never hatch under the influence of | the ashes. Two objects are gained by { the operation—the ashes or lye they | produce furnish food for the trees, as | well as destroying ite enemies, and im- | parts cleanliness to the tree. Frequent inquiries are made for the | best methods of destroying insects that | infest trees, The following suggestions i we cull from the Altanta Constifsilion horticultural department: A number | of remedies have been tried and generally { proven beneficial. One remedy is to | spread a cloth under the tree to eateh | whatever may fall—jarring the tree by {striking it with a heavy piece of lumber, padded at one end to prevent injury | to the bark. Some have found it effica- | elous to smear the k with tar, mo- | wrapping cioth around the trunk and | applying the tar to these instead of the | bark. Others wash the trunk and the | large branches with soft soap or stron soap suds or lye, or whitewash with | lime | with powdered helebore, when the dew is on, has been mentioned as sa remedy, Digging around the trea to expose the | larva to frost has been tried successfully, Late plowing, by exposure to birds and | frosts, will assist to destroy insects in their nests. Infected leaves containing | the eggs of parasitic insects should be | tnken from the trees and burne¢. The | vapor of benzine has been proposed as a | remedy against insects destroying wood. | work. A wash composed of one pound of flour of su:phur and a peck of quick- lime, mixed in a close vessel with a | sufficient quantity of hot water to make i it of the consistency of common white. | wash has been used with advantage as a remedy against insects and mildew in fruit trees. Apply it when freshly made | with a whitewash brush. Hecipes. Curar Puppmza.—Four teacups milk, | four tablespoons flour, four eggs, six i tablespoons BUZAr, any flavor; bake half {an hour. Serve with sauce. Tonkey Parries.—~Mince part of the breast fine, season with salt, nuimeg, grated lemon, white pepper und a little | butter warmed; fill the patties and | bake, VEAL Savsaces.—Chop half a pound { add sage, sail. pepper and allspice to taste; beat well, roll into bails, flatten and fy them. To Fry Oysters. ~ Choose fine larag oysters, lay them on a el an cloth to dry perfectly, sprinkle with salt and | pepper, then roll them in grated bread. Gyresy's Probpmna.—One cup of mo- insses, one of raising, one of milk or | water, one cup of suet chopped fine; one | teaspoonful of salt; spice to taste; one teaspoonful of soda; flour, not very stiff; s2eam two hours. To Brow Ovsrers.—Take the finest Sprinkle with pepper, Ginger Pouxv Caxe.~Take one cup- { sifted flour, three eggs, one teaspoonful | of soda dissolved in one cupful of milk, one teaspoonful of ginger, and one table- a] of cinnamon; are vepy gocd. Vinraar Caxoy.~This candy is re. commended for colds. Turee cupfuls of mix the sugar, water and vinegar to- gether, boil until the candy is found to be brittle, by dropping a little in cold water: then add he butter and lemon. Wells, A criminal neglect is too common in locating welis for the supply of both man and beast. Pure water and good health must keep company. Impure water like foul air of dwellings, is an insidious enemy to any household: and yet wells are sunk in a majority of cases with a reckless disregard of sanitary Inws, visit a household a fiithy through the ageney of degree. Wells are often sunk so as to receive the percolating liquids from some near gHve vault or cesspool, lo age. Some previous soiis convey the taint several feet. One we examined was affected at a distance of fifteen feet from the privy. We once saw a well @ and supplied the water to the herd. The water of a well ix often Joisoned by neglect to keep it properly protected about the top. An openor loosely-cov- families, was taken a short time ago, fifteen toads in various s of decom- position, an old shoe, and sundry bits of wood. Nothing short of a miracle can give health to a household where the laws of nature are thus defied. Look tion of your wells. Congregationalist. To Avold Diseased Fowls, Procure one pound of wood charcoal, ulverize it coarsely, and mix with it Pair a pound of common table salt. To a half a pint of this mixture, add one quart of corn meal and bran, half and seven fowl Procure some hard -coal screenings And place within reach, Feed occasionally a few oats. Always keep some old iron in the drinking water; give all the out door exercise you pos. sibly can, even chase them round a little. Place plenty of straw for them to scratch grain among them to encourage scratch- ing. Above all, give ure air and keep perfectly clean. 1 find a little kerosene inds. Smear thisall along the perches; also under the straw in the laving boxes. This is a disinfectant and deodorizer also. On cold days be careful ; on warm ones give them air.— Wm. Horne, V. S., in Country Gentleman. special duty it is to unfold the carpets to take care of his pipes and cigareites two to dress his royal hair, and twenty to attend to his most noble clean shirts. There are a muititude of other attend. ants about the palace; indeed, it is stated that eight hundred families and about four thousand persons live at his majesty’s expense. He is an extrava- gant hhusekeeper; the annual expendi. tures of the palace are mentioned as i nearly fourteen million dollars. th an of any other kind of freight. Busy-bodies are almos: always idlers; the less ss 8 man has, the more he meddles with that of his neighbors. A tramp we saw last summer ealled his shoes ** ‘ " because they Indepenkent E Interesting Account of the Manner in which India Hubber is Collected in Central Ameriea, As visitors on a Nicaraguan rubber- hunt, we must be dressed in strong but light clothing, stout shoes, with canvas leggings, and we must each wear a soft het that we eon pull well down over Our ears. Bw oll fou each pA to carry a and a too, : machefe is a broad heavy knife) We must also he very careful not to touch with our hands any tree, branch, vine or plant, as we may grasp some stinging insect, or thorns which may not only be | very sharp. but poisonous as well. [| remember once, to keep from falling, seizing a bush called chichioaste, which led my und with minute Shorns Thr each producing a sensal ike the! Itis DECEsSAry it shionid be sting of a wasp. The severe pain Iasted | : for the ratior 30 uke a bight of the for a t a quarterof an hour. but it ses in Lis course, when he is bungry for wns weeks Before the thats, Seas a | the shore. — American Punch. annoy me, being so small that I could | not extract them. We may see on our | There arg Sve Chins sadans in the way some wild animals and some very | one of these, Wing Ilo, &¢ the last ex- amination stood st Lhe head of his class. beautiful birds, Monkeys are in great abundance, One kind, ealled howling : The uverage life of a paper wheel under trucks of ve monkeys, make a noise whieh sounds | more like the roar of a lion or tiger than and under dining and palace 794,000 to BES 336 miles, man six a lt po woman on Lim, snd, of y three in fs, she was just half of course, his better half, {anything else, and is quite startling the first time you hear it, though the mon. | keys themselves are harm enough. | Parrois, macaws, paroguets, toucans, {and many other birds are to be seen | almost any day. There arealso pumas { (ealled the American or maneless lion) | ounces, and two or three varieties of | tiger eats; but all these are afraid of men and generally keep well out of | sight. Wemay come upon a band of | wild hogs, which, if in any considerable { number, will hardly deign to get out of {our way; but instead of grunting like | the domestic hog, will express their dis- | satisfaction by champing their jaws Ler, i © will let the hunter take the lead, (as he has a keen eye for snakes. Wives aren enpr 0 {shall find numberiess insects, any amount of briers and thorns, and alto. | ement or Four aih. Hastfington the , gether it will be anything but a pleasant | held out to women emigrants is that "We shall not have gone far without | they may elect a mayor and other offi- | realizing that the journey is a very dif- | ©°rs from their own number, ficult one, and without opening our | The word telegraph was first brought eyes with amazement at the wonCerful | into use about 1783 or 1794, when the forest. There are muititudes of differ- | French d e-tablished machines | ent kinds of trees growing close together, | for communicating Jotiligehes between primei twwns of extract, It allsys brain : : 3 i and some of them are enormously large, | Paris and all the {80 large that in this country each one | France. The British government | would he an object of curiosity. The | ted the same measure. - | rest of the trees range from these huge | North and South Carolina and Ten- | fellows down to the merest shoots. and | pessee are preparing to celebrate the | from them hang perfect net-works of | centennial anniversary of the bh of clinging vineeBf all sizes, from that of | King's mountain, the turning point in ‘8 kite-string to that of s good-sized | the revolutionary war in South, {eable. I have seen the vines from. fifty | which oce October 7, 1780, and {to a hundred feet jong, no larger than timately led to the final victory st orktown. “What do you think of my new {one of your fingers, but so tough and shoes, dear?” said she the other even flexibl: that they are used by the natives | for all purposes for which we would use ropes, cords, or string. They also | jo after tea. ** Oh! immense, my dear, petfectly immense,” said he, without ing up from his paper. | are for several other purposes, | house-buiiding, for instance, deine one Then she began to cry and said she thought it he feet were so dreadfully | of them, though you might think it » | stretch of the imagination to call their | ghonght her d Jags he needn't tell her of it. — Bosfon Post. The uniform color of the | structure a house. But it is, at least, | % habitation, and in the building of it | Shire i not & Jingle pi] used the side, vege {the ridge-poles and the rafters being | tied in places with vines, and the thateh | table world is due to hiatoph¥il This tied on to them with the same. The Substance, however, exists gw of natives declure that the vines will last | BUI quantity in plants, the leaves of a | and be good as ever after a nail, in their | 3T8¢ tree containing perhaps Bot mare | damp climate, would have rusted away. | than 100 grains. It npn u 3 ui | Whether that be true or not, it is well | 'ect product of the i Be that they think so, for vines are to be | light apen » a: » = of The {had for the gathering, while nails are | €Xist in J ats She ten pe very expensive. Worse, if anything, | changes in rot pi Wun than the vines in the forests. is te fate supposed to i 18 30 the oxidation pndergrowih, Sonsisiihg of canes, eir chiorophy — ushes, weeds, several varieties of | . : sof | A Merchant's Career. | cactus and other thorn-bearing plants, | : Spanish bayonet and ene |, We clip the following extract, Show | very much like it. Some of them are | Ing the way in whizh some ‘merc ante | very valuable for their fibers, but a;] have risen from an Bumble. Ran are very difficult to travel through, be- | Femunerative position to that of wealth {ing interlaced snd matted | and prominence: A few yews ago a | You can readily believe it is no small | large reg eas adv hea boy. | labor to work your way along, to say | The next day the store was thronged | nothing of the snakes, scorpions, taran- | With applicants, among Hun Ara iad, snd usher dinpronal things that | woman, who proved to mann in You would imagine that few men | eu of faithless parents, by whom he { would be willing to undertake quite | had been abandoned looking at this | such severe work, but so iarge are the | little waif, the merchant, in the al returns in money when 8 man is ordi- | said, ** Can't take jim; 2 “I kno he | narily successful, that plenty are ready | aides, He 58 boos man: he to go. and indeed large numbers make it | i® Smal ha a Th i | their only occupation, going into the | willi faithful, hg Was A | twinkle in the eve witish made n. woods, and remaining one, two, and | Binke 0s in the firm volun the remark that ** he did not see that they i i | even three months at a time, according | , to the luck they have. : Ail this we find out on our way! | through the tangle. following as closely | &boy--he | as possible at the heeis of our rubber- ; : hunter. We are very hot ard tired by | wasset to work. A few a3 bait 3 | the time we reach the tree, but we will | 3 : sit down on anything we can find—a | Sot sue one to Spa hight. The stump or log—while Juan, our hunter | ontt Trsponse with the reluctance of | friend, proceeds to tap his tree. | others. In the middie of the night the Jusn makes with the machele, low | , : merchant looked in to see if all was | down upon the trunk of the tree, two { right in the store, and ly dis- | deep scores, inclining downward, and 3 loan: together at a very obtuse angle, | covered Lis ontifal rouge sy {just below which he secures a little | Scissor ing abe Seg ue Jou do. | gutter made of a piece of split cane. He | IP’ sai he. wy id not d to ‘now makes, higher up, other scores, all | work nights. : know Jou gid wot | leading into the first two. Taking nt sa, ut thou ut Fo he { hold of some of the pendent vines, he Well doing Som ng. es | manages to climb thirty feet high, | Morning the cashier got ee is | scoring and _mutilatiLg the tree most | double that boy's hy hey . | feartully. We conclude that with such A ¥illing.” Only a few, Woes clapsed | treatment as this the tree will not last before a show of wi is peased seasons; judiciously tapped, it | through the streets, and, very natura 3 fa vield twice » year for many years, | #1! bands in" the are rushed to wi butin order to get a little mote each | ness the Specias - A ha nw time, these improvident people cut the | Opportunity, and entered the rear door bark up so badly, that in a few seasons | 10 seize something, but in a twinkl i the tree is ruinec. ; : found himself firmly clutched b The sap, or milk, begins to ooze out diminutive clerk aiforesnid, snd, 1 8 at once, and runs down into the pan | Struzgle, was captured. b ot A Sn placed to receive it, though we observe robbery was prevented, but valu Juan is likely to obtain considerable Articles taken from other Stores were harucha from the manner in which he recovered, When asked by the mer- has arranged his scores, and particu. Chant why he stayed behind to watch larly from the height to which he has A When all others quit their work, he re- them. The a of the Plied: “You told me never to leave sap is like that of thick cream, and, if | Fis stare 4 ye ausent. and left to itself, it would be days before it | 3 ought I'd stay.” SraNere imme became solid; but Juhkn soon finds a | distely given once more— 3 thal vine called alohuca, and sap of this vine A DOY'S ; heis willing and faithful. he mingles with themilk; this has the To-day that boy is 32500, of effect of coagulating it, or making it become a mem { next January he wil solid, in a short time, so that in the ofthe firm. Chair Boarders. : A reporter for one ot the St. Louis course of a day it will be ready to be removed, though it will be some time papers called upon Mr. Griswold, one of the of the Lindell hotel longer before the barucha is hard enough | to be stripped from the tree. Slowly the rubber, hy exposure to the air, proprietors to get some facts and figures upon "interesting class of le | * chair boarders.” He turns black, as you generally see it.—E, Ss. fifty per cent. of the le P. Indl, in 8. Nicho in the rotunda of a never spend a cent, and are yet an actual e proprietor. The why and wh ‘was given with m resesrch. Griswold, the provrietor, f 4 furnished the rmation that 300,000 ‘sheets of note paper and envelopes were distributed. annually to ons and . ** chair boarders” and also some 100,000 | blotters; and al the stationery was bought in job lots, cheap, it never- | theless amounted to $1,000 per annum. | Mr. Griswold said that they would even | have nerve giough to ask Jor postage | stamps, but that they were not kept | the oftice, but were on sale at the news- : to ‘stand. The reception of mail at the ‘with a troublesome feminine admirer, house for outsiders was also something on the plea that the weather would not | wonderful. Le rmit; and being caught by the lady as | . 1e was sneaking out for a stroll, encoun- | Three Wishes. = tered her remark that the weather | Three young soldiers, a’ Parisian, a seemed now to have cleared up, with | Gascon, and a Inis, were walking the bold asseveration: *‘‘ Yes, madam, one starry summer night on the shore enough for one, but not enough for of the Mediterranean, and Sting who two." Enough for one would, how- could frame the most colossal wish for ever, have been held enough for twe, a fortune. 2 | “I” said the P: “wish this | had the lady been as attractive as the | ¢ sea*were all ink: then I'd dip my pen in paper, i | call was made on the : wou Odd Ways of Putting Things. When Naples was ruled by King Bomba, his majesty one day paid a visit to the ship of an English commodore, lying in the bay. ile the commo- dore was receiving his royal visitor on the quarter-deck, a member of the Nea- politan suite, cruising about midships, mistook a wind-sail for a pillar, and leaning against it, suddenly went below head foremost. The only witness of the accident, an old tar, thercupon made for | the quarter-deck, and having saluted, said: “Ibeg pardon, commodore, but one of them ere kings has fell down the hatechway I” Sheridan once declined to take a walk fair one to whom a youthful admirer wrote: “I want you to comearound to it, make a big nine on a our house. If you cannot get anybody | and after the nine I'd set down | to come around to your house, an | until the ocean were dry, the you around to our house, I will come ‘thus written would represent around to your house and fete. you | tune. = * And 1,” said the Gascon, ** wish around 0 our house.% jie svideny nd 1, ted that meant business, altho s m of | ev ve: sented a bushel putting things was pp that of the Ea Fox that eloneed tome. .. “ And 1,” ¢ e ¥ is, “" wi “wishes were true, and of heart disease the ' gentleman who would not hear of that both made your wills Faro. in is foxtues with a partner because: b pr a “If you make anything you get | that m e it; and if you lose a to lose it Ba after you had all." Chamber's Journal. in my favor.— Paris
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