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.
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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.
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NUMBER I1.
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VOLUME XIII. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA. THURSDAY, MARCH 1880.
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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
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to
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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
{
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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,
*
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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
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3 to its
“Do you
8 propries
¢
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Or, as the Digest
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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
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When
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witli considers
is in session she
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prayer fiend."
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muscular 0,
deign to make a ) resumi
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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
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ress of their
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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
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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
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eaten a dinner off a joint of this
pronounces it,
B who Bay
| Meat. and
y
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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
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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
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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