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I wonder why the sunshine bright Should fall in paths some people tread, While others shiver in the shade Of clouds that gather overhead ! I wonder why the trees that hang So tell of luscious fruit should grow Only where some may reach and eat, While others faint and thirsty go! Why should sweet flowers bloom for some, For others only thorns be found? And some grew rich on fruitful earth, While others till but barren ground ? I wonder why the hearts of some O'erflow with joy and happiness. While others go their lonely way Unblessed with aught of tenderness ! I wonder why the eyes of some Should no'er be moistened with a tear, While others steep from morn till night. Their hearts SO crushed with sorrow here Ah ! well; we may not know indeed The whys, the wherefores of each life! But this we know—there's One who sees And watches us through joy or strife. Each life its mission here fulfills, • And only Ile may know the end, And loving Him, we may be strong. The' storm or sunshine Ile may send. Higgins and the Widow ONE Sunday night Higgins came into my office and sat down without a word.— For some minutes he sat still, watching me intently as if he was trying to make out by the sound of my pen what I was writing. "Squire," said he at length, "did I ever tell you about my scrape with the widow Horry up here on the river?" "Never did," said I, laying down my pen ; "let's hear it." "They're curious creatures, widows is," said he in a meditative tone, "and the more you study about 'em the more you don't know anything about 'em. What was this thing I've read about in Egypt, or some other country, that nobody could un riddle ?" "The Sphynx, probably," I replied. "Well," he continued, "that was a widow as sure as you ever had a granny. Every thing else on the earth has been found out but them, and they're as much a mystery to-day as the length of the North Pole." "You may read the history of the world from Genesis to Revelations, and you'll find that widows has been at the bottom or top of five quarters of the devilment that's been cut up. Was you ever in love with one 7" "Lots of them," said "You're a great gander—that's what you are," said he. "A man that loves one and gets over it won't never get bit by another, if he's got as much sense as a ground hog; but I'm a little grain too smart to let another of them get all the trumps on me. "The widow Horry that I was speaking of is a little the handsomest woman, Ireck on, that ever looked a man into fits, and I ought to be a judge, for I've seen lots of pretty women in my day. She was about twenty-five years old when I went up there to work, just in the bloom of her beauty, and as full of deviltry as a three-year old mule colt. There was a ball over at Jenk ins', and of course I went, for I always go where there is any fun going on, and gen erally act the fool before I get away, of course. "The widow was there, dressed as fine as Solomon's lilies, and flying around as frisky as a_young lamb in a rye patch. I got introduced to her and asked her to dance with me, and when she flashed her eyes at me and said "Yes," I jumped up like I bad set down on a hot griddle. You may talk about sensations, but when she took hold of my hand and sorter squeezed it, I felt a sensation as big as a load of wood, and it kept running up and down my back like a squirrel with a hawk after him. I'm very fond of dancing, but I'll be hanged if I know whetiher I enjoyed it that night or not, for every time she took hold of my hand I'd commence feeling curious behind my ears and up and down my back again, and then I wouldn't know ' whether I was on earth or in a balloon, or on a comet, or anything about it. It was undoubtedly a case of love at first sight; and a powerful bad ease at that. For a wonder I got through the frolic without making myself conspicuous or cutting up any extras, as I'm in the habit of doing when Igo into public. I'd set my pegs to go home with the widow after the ball, but just as I was fixing my mouth to ask her, up steps a big, long, leather-fated doctor, named Mabry, and walked her right off before my eyes. That riled me a little, but I kept my tongue still, inwardly swearing to break his bones the ver; first opportu nity that presented itself. I saw there was no use saying anything so I went home and went to bed, and al the rest of the night I was dreaming tbout rainbows, an gels, butterflies, fiddes, widows and doc tors, mixed up worst than a Dutchman's dinner. BUSINESS CARDS; "Well, 'Squire to make a short story of it, I made up mymind to have' the widow, or kill myself, 0. somebody else. "So I made .t convenient to be on hand where she was, upon all occasions. I could not eel, nor sleep, nor work, and if the thing .Geld on, I wouldn't had sense enonkb,so skin a rabbit. But I was deter mine• it shouldn't last long, for I'd been fooled so often by women that I thought I wauldn't give her time to think of anything but me. She appeared to take to me right sharply and the doctor seemed inclined to mix in with me, but I didn't consider him no more than a brush fence, for I was so far gone I thought she could see nobody on earth but me. Well, 'Squire, things went on so for about a month, and one Sunday I screwed up my spunk and put the question to her. She sorter laughed and sorter looked one-sided, and finally told me she couldn't give me an answer just then, but if I'd call at her house the next Thursday evening , she'd give me a final answer. Thinks I you are mine just as sure as there's a fiddler below. Whenever a woman takes time to study she'll sayyes. 'Squire, don't the poet say something about the calculation of men and rats going crooked ?" LEGAL BLANK 9, PAMPHLETS --- - - "Mice and men, Burns says," I replied. "Well, mice and rats is all one, and so is fools sometimes, as I have found out in my travels. I was so Shure she would have me I went off and spent all my money for fine clothes, thinking I would have them ready for the wedding—and I did? Confound that widow, I say ! Confound all the widows ! In time Thursday even ing came, though it was a long time about it, and over I went, feeling as big as Josh Ize Otorg-Zeller. -:):(:- HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1873 Raynor did when he was eleeted Coroner. I got there about dark, and found a right smart crowd collected, which was not on the bills, but I felt as big and as good as the rest of 'em. So I marched in like a blind mule into a potato patch, and took a seat by the fire. I didn't see anything of the widow, but I kept looking for her to come in or send for me, and passed away the time by cussin' the crowd to myself, thinking they had no business there, and I would not get to talk to my woman a bit. Presently the door opened and in walked Polly and that. long-legged Doctor, and a whole team of boys and girls fixed up sav agely, I tell you. I looked around for a fiddler, thought they were goin' to have a ball, but wondered what they kept so still for, and was about propoain'. a reel, when up gets a little preacher, and before you could swallow a live oyster, he had Polly and the lioctor married faster than a Mex ican greaser could tie a bull's horns. I was so completely flununuxed that I set there with my mouth wide open like I was goin' to swaller the whole crowd, and my eyes looked like billiard balls until the ceremony was over, when I jumped up and bellowed— "I forbid the concern from being con stituted." "You are a little too late, my friend," said the preacher, and they all commenced laughing like they seen somethinc , ' funny. "I'll be squizzled if I don't be soon enough for somebody yet," says I, "for I was mad, 'Squire, and no mistake in the ticket. It was too bad, after I had fixed up to marry her myself, for her to walk right out before my eyes and marry that great baboon." - "It was bad, that is a fact," said I. Bad !" cried he, "it was meaner than eating fried coon. I first thought I'd g o straight straiglt home, but then I concluded that P wouldn't spite nobody, so I determined to stay and see if I couldn't get satisfaction out of somebody You know I'm the deuce to get myself or somebody else into a scrape when I take a notion. I'd taken one that night that went all over me like a third day chill, so I commenced a studyin' out some plan. I recollected hearing the doc tor say that where he come from (but the Lord only knows where that was) the bride and groom always washed their faces to gether before they went to bed, as a charm against infidelity, or imbecility, or some other long word. While I was studyin' about that I spied the doctor's saddle-bags sitting in the corner, so I waited till they went to supper, and then I got the bags and looked - to see what I could discover. Nearly the first thing I saw was a piece of lunar caustic. I slipped it into my pocket, for I had my plan as seen as I saw it.— Well, I watched around till I saw one of the girls go to the pail with the pitcher, so I went out and asked her what she was going to do with it ; she said she was go ing to carry it into the room fur the doctor and Polly to wash their faces in. I kept talking to her while she was filling the pitcher, and when she turned her head I dropped the caustic into it. It was then about bed-time and I got my hat and put out, but I couldn't help laughing all the way home, whenever I'd think about the next morning. "Well, 'Squire, they do say that when they waked up next morning they both had the hardest kind of fits, each one thinking they had been sleeping with a nigger ! Oh !it was rich ! He a cussin' and teario' up things, and she a sereandn' and faintin' and comin' to and goin' on again, and me not there to see it. They made such an unearthly racket that the folks broke into the room to see what was the matter, and there they was with their faces and hands all as black as the inside of an old stove pipe. I'd give half my in terest in t'other world just to have seen the whole row. As soon as they found out that they were really the same folk's that married the night before, they called for warm water and soap, but just here the doctor happened to think about the pitch er, and took it to the door to see what was the matter. There was a little piece of caustic that had not dissolved, and as soon as he saw it he says : "It's . no use washing, Polly; all the soap in New York can't wash it off." "That was the truth, 'Squire; soap and water had no more effect than it would on a native born African, and all the chance was to wait and let it wear off. How long it took them to get white again I never found out; but one thing I know," be concluded, getting up to go out, "the next time I saw tile doctor I had the hardest fight and come the nighest getting whaled that I ever did in all my life." guano for tilt pillion. Rules for Bathing , 1. Never bathe soon after eating ; 2. Never take a full bath nor go into the sun less than three hours after a full meal. 3. The best time for bathing is an hour or two before breakfast, or as long before dinner. 4. Never cat noon after bathing. 5. Those who bathe in the evening should not remain long in the water. 6. Be sure that the body is uniformly warm at the time of bathing. 7. Never go into the water in a state of fatigue. 8. Never bathe when the respiration and circulation are disturbed in conse quence of violent exercise or any other cause. 9. Perspiration is no objection to going into cold water, provided the action of the heart and the breathing are not disturbed, and the system is not in a state of fatigue. 10. After bathing keep the body com fortably warm by fire or exercise, and do not expose it to a draft of cold air.—Sci ence of Health. Better than Gold We often hear little boys telling of the wonders they will do when they grow to be men. They are looking and longing for the time when they shall he large enough to carry a cane and wear a tall hat; and not one of them will say he ex pects to be a poor man, but they every one intend to be rich, Now money is very good in its place, but let me tell you, little boys, what. is a great deal better than money, and what you may he earning all the time you are waiting to grow large enough to earn a large fortune. The Bi ble tells us that "a good man is rather to be chosen than riches, and loving favor ratber than silver or gull. A good man does not mean a name for being the rich est man in town, or for owning the largest house. A good name is the name for do ing deeds; a name for wearing a pleasant face, and carrying a cheerful heart; for always doing right, no matter what we may be. How to be Somebody. Don't stand sighing, wishing and wait ing, but go to work with an energy and preseverance that will set every obstacle in the way of your success flying like leaves before a whirlwind. A milk and water way of doing business leaves a man in the lurch every time. He may have ambition enough to wish himself on the topmost round of the ladder of success, but if he has not the go-aheadativeness to pull himself up there, he will inevitably remain at the bottom, or, at the best, on one of the very low rounds. Never say I can't—never admit there is such a word—it has dragged its tens of thousands to poverty and degradation, and it is high time it was stricken from our language; but carry a whole lexicon of I cans and I wills with you, and thus armed, every obstacle in the way of your success will vanish. _ Never envy your neighbor his success, but try and become like him, and as much better as you can. If at first you don't succeed, don't wilt down with despondency and say I can't, but gird on thearmor of I can, and any word for it you will. Always bear in mind that whatever is worth having is worth toiling long, earn estly and manfully fdr. So .inre as a con stant dropping wears away the hardest stone, so do constant efforts insure success. If you work manfully, persistently and with energy, you may smile, be hopeful and happy when life's clouds hang the darkest, for as sure as sunshine succeeds the storms, so sure a bright future awaits . . Whatever you undertake try and excel in it. That is what makes any occupation in life honorable and profitable. A.first class quack is better than a second-rate doctor. Great obstacles in the way of success are fear of being 'laughed at, and what some body may say. Never fear sneers and remarks when right leads the van, but push right straight ahead with your eyes and thoughts on the brilliant future. Don't always be saying to yourself, I am going to do co-and-so-to-morrow; but act to day. If you are invited to make a prayer, get up and make one if it be as simple as, "Grant, 0 Lord, that we may not think contemptuously of our rulers; and further more grant, we beseech Thee, that they may not act so we cannot help it !" If you are invited to speak in a ly ceum, get up if you cannot say more than, "Than you, sir, I don't speak." Neat time you• can get a little further, and so on until you can handle the English lan g,uage, or anything dse, as a Yankee does jack-nife. A Voyage to tie Moon, The Boston Journal says : Mr. Wash ington H. Donaldson, d Reading, Pa., formerly a gymnast, and since 1371 a bal loonist, has made a propeition to the Bos ton - City Government to make an ascen sion from this city on tin 4th of July, as a itizter on a voyage acrom the Atlantic. He has attracted considerable attention by giving trapeze performances from his balloon while making ascensions. He claims that a balloon trip can be made across the ocean in two days and a half, although he intends to provide for a trip of thirty days. He proposes to construct three balloons, of nearly three times the size of the others, the latter of which will be used to supply the big one with gas. as it gradually loses its liftinc , power. The balloons will hold some 325,000 feet ofgas and will have a lifting capacity of 11,000 pounds, besides the weight of the gas chambers themselves, nettings, basket, life-boat, etc. Te,will take about 2700 yards of drilling for the big balloon, but with the aid of sewing machines he thinks he can get it ready in a month's time. The basket in which he proposes to ride will be a comfortable room, with a cellar in which to store water andTood for the trip. The room will have windows on all sides, a lime stove will give abundant heat fur warmth and to cook with, while a vacant tube with platinum wire at each end will furnish abundant light by sending a current of electricity along the wire. Beneath this chamber will be an open platform or bal cony, and beneath that one of the Francis metal life-boats, provided with oars, sails, instruments, food and water, will be sus pended, ready at any instant to receiveithe aeronauts should a near approach to the water take place for any reason. This life-boat will have four large air chambers, and will be provided with a cabin in which the men can be protected from the weath er. By means of an ingenious contri vance the centre of gravity can be made beneath the bottom of the b:at to prevent upsetting it. He proposes to take two men with him, and desires to have them scientific men. He states that. Professor Wi,e, the well known seronant, desires to take the trip. Mr. Donaldson estimates the cost of the preparations about $3,000, and desires the city to assume the cest and he will give his services. A Protest Against Early Rising, Dr. Hall, in his Journal of Health, says : One of the very worst economies of time is that filched lion' necessary sleep. The wholesale, but blind commendation of ear ly rising is as mischievous in practice as it was:erroneous in theory. Early rising is a crime against the noblest part of our physi cal nature, unless preceded by an early re tiring. Multitudes of business men in large cities count it a saving of time, if they can make a journey of a hundred or two miles at night, by- steamboat or rail way. It is a ruinous mistake. It never fails to be followed by a want of general well-feeling for several days after, if, in deed, the man does not return home actu ally sick, or so near to it as to be unfit for full attention to his business for a week afterwards. When a man leaves home on business it is always important that he should have his wits about him ; that the mind should be fresh and vigorous, the spirits lively, buoyant and cheerful. No man can say that it is thus with him after a night on the railroad or on the shelf of a steamboat. The first great recipe for sound conneet• ad and refreshing sleep, is physical exer cise. Toil is the price of sleep. We caution parents particularly, not to allow their children to be waked up of mornings; let nature wake them up, she will not do it prematurely ; but have airfare that they go to bed at an early hour • let it be earlier and earlier, until it is found that they wake up themselves in full time to dress for -breakfast. Being waked np early, and allowed to engage in difficult or any studies late and just before retiring, has given many a beautiful and promising child brain fever, or determined ordinary ailments to the production of water-on the brain. The Right Sort of Religion We want a religion that goes into the family and keeps tho husband from being spiteful when the dinner is late, and keeps the dinner from being late--keepsthe wife from fretting when the husband tracks the newly washed floor with his muddy boots, and makes the husband mindful of the scraper and the floor mat; keeps the mother patient when the baby is cross, and keeps the baby pleasant; amuses the chil dren as well as instructs them ; wins as well as governs; projects the honey-moon into the harvest moon, and makes the happy hours like the Eastern tree, bearing in its bosom at once the beauty of the tender blossom and the glory of the ripen ing fruit. We want a religion that bears heavily, not on the exceeding "sinfulness' of sin," but the exceeding rascality of lying and stealing; a religion that banish es small measures from the counters, small baskets from the stalls, pebbles from the cotton bags, clay from paper, sand from sugar, chicory from coffee, otter from butter, beet juice from vinegar, alum from bread, strychnine from wine, water from milk cans, and buttons from the contribu tion box. The religion that is to save the world will not put all the big strawberries at the top and the bad ones at the bottom. It will not offer more baskets of foreign wine than the vineyards ever produced bcttles, and more barrels of Genesee flour than all the fields of New York grow and all her mills grind. It will not make one halt a pair of shoes of good leather and the other of poor, so that the first shall redound to the maker's credit and the second to his cash. It will not put Jouvin's stamp on Jenkins' kid glove, nor make Paris bonnets in the back room of a Boston milliner's shop, nor let a piece of velvet that professes to measure twelve yards come to an untimely end in the tenth, or a spool of sewing silk that vouch es for twenty yards be nipped in the bud at fourteen and a half, nor the cotton thread to the yard-stick fifty of the two hundred yards of promise that was given to the eye, nor yard-wide cloth measure less than thirty-six inches from selvedge, all-wool delaines and all linen handker chiefs be hmalgamized with clandestine cotton, nor coats made of woolen rags pressed together to be sold to the unsus pecting public for legal broadcloth. It does not put bricks five dollars a thousand into chimneys it contracted to build of seven dollar materials, nor smuggle white pine floors that have paid for bard pine, nor leave yawning cracks in closets where boards ought to join, not daub celings that ought to be smoothly plastered, nor make window blinds of slats that cannot stand the wind, and paint that cannot stand the sue, and fasteners that may be looked at : but are on no account to be touched. The religion that is to sanctify the world pays its debts. It does not con sider that forty cents returned for ono hundred is according to law. It looks upon a man who has failed in trade and who continues to live in luxury, as a thief. It looks upon a man who promises to pay fifty dollars on demand with interest, and who neglects to pay it on demand with or without interest, as a liar.—Congregation elms, The Egyptian Slaves About three-fourths of the population in Egypt are Arabs, or of Arabic origin. The remaining fourth is composed of Copts, Turks, Jews, Armenians, Abysinians, Nu bians, Mamelukes, and Franks or Europe ans. The Copts are natives of longer res idence than any other race. They are also believed to be descendants of those patient and clever toilers who reared the massive monuments of four thousand years ago, which to this day are a puzzle to the archreolo,gue and historian. They are usu ally darker in skin and dress than they who are called Egyptians—that is, those of Arabic origin. The Copt is more sombre in expression, heavier in speech, and rath er coarser in feature, than the Egyptian. He has lost his language and speaks Arabic, which is the tongue of Egypt. One of the Coptic bishops, at my request, wrote a line or two of Coptic character. Ho was con sidered learned, as but few aro capable of doing this. The Copt is a bigoted Chris tian, who from intolerance of other Chris tians, leans to the doctrine of the Koren- He frequently carries an ink hors and pen in his waist-sash, as be is generally a scribe, or in some way co nnected with commerce. The Egyptians possess Arabian charac teristics, although there are differences. The importation of Georgian and Circassian slaves over a long period has modified the type of the middle and upper classes. No public market for slaves exists at the present time, but they are sold by stealth. The traditions of Georgian and Circassian beauty aro familiar to the world. For centuries historians have drawn them in lines of generous curves, and poets have painted them in Titian colors. With these pictorial fancies upon me, I was taken aback on landing at Alexandria. A dozen of these mountain women were sitting on shore, where they had just landed from the ship. They were pale, thin, rough skinned, tawny-haired, un kempt, in coarsest attire, and were in the pursuit of—fleas ! I expressed my disap pointment to an Egyptian dragoman stand ing near, who, with a graceful wave of the hand, replied : "Oh ! effendi, could you see these women three months hence you would say that the Prophet had fitted them for heaven ! Good mashed beetles and generous pilaf shall make them plump. The daily bath shall give their skin the hue of creamy milk, and their joints the suppleness and grace of the gazelle. With new health, their , 1 eyes shall sparkle with mirth and be dewed with tenderness; the rose shall bloom on their cheeks, and gold shall gild their tresses. God is great !" The man's•statement was substantially correct. The slave-dealers endeavor to bring them up to their highest physical perfection before offering them for sale. I afterwad saw some who had been trained, fattened and purified to the selling point. They were exquisitely fair, blue-eyed, and golden-haired, but for the most part like wax fi,tnres. It was surface beauty, with out depth, and I looked in vain for some indication of thought or sensibilty in their vacant faces. AN English writer thinks the American early potatoes will come to an end ere long, for as each new variety is claimed to ripen about ten days earlier than any other, the time between planting and digging will soon be used up. TT occurred to a Danbury scholar, while writing a composition, to make the remark able statement that "an os does not taste as good as an oyster, but it can run fast- Constitutional Convention, PIIILADELPIIIA, May 29.—Mr. G. W. Palmer, of Luzerne, moved that when the house adjourns this afternoon, it be to meet on Tuesday next, at half past nine o'clock, a. m. Mr. Alricks, of Dauphin, moved to amend "and that it shall meet in the state capitol at Harrisburg." On this the ayes and nays were called, resulting in 30 ayes and 62 nays, and so the amendment was lost. On motion, the Subject was laid on the table. Leave of absence was granted to a large number of members, and it is looking as if there would he no quorum present on Monday. Mr. Lilly moved to reconsider the vote which laid the motion to adjourn until Tuesday on the table. Agreed to. Mr. M'Connell moved that when the convention adjourns on Friday week it be to meet in Harrisburg on the 13th of Sep tember next. Voted down by a large ma jority. Tho convention then resumed the con sideration of the article on suffrage, elec tion, and representation, the second section and amendments pending. The section as follows was then adopted: "All elections of the citizens shall be by ballot. Every ballot voted shall be num bered in the order it which it is received and the number recorded by the election officers opposite the name of the elector who presents the ballot, and any elector may write his name upon the back of his ticket." SEC. 3. Electors shall in all cases, except for treason, felony, and breach of surety of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance on elections and in going to and returning therefrom. Agreed to. SEc. 4. Whenever any of the qualified electors of this commonwealth shall be in actual military service, under a requisition from the President of the United States or by the authority of this commonwealth, such electors shall exercise the right of suffrage in all elections by the citizens, under such regulations as are, or shall be prescribed by law, as fully as if they were present at theirplace of election. Agreed to. SEC. 5. All laws regulating elections by the people or for the registry of electors ' shall be uniform in their operation throughout the State, but no elector shall be deprived of voting by reason of his name not being registered, was discussed, many delegates considering that it was of fering a premium for fraud at elections. SEC. 6. Any pe:son who shall give or promise or offer to give to any elector any money, reward or other valuable consider ation for his vote at an election. or for witholding the same, or who shall give or promise to give such consideration to any other person or party for such election vote, or for the witholding thereof, and any elector who shall receive or agree to' receive for himself or fbr another, an- , money, reward or other valuable con sideration for his vote at an election, or witholding the same, shall thereby forfeit the right to vote at such election. And any elector whose right to vote shall be challenge for such case before the election officers, shall be required to swear or affirm that the matter of the challenged is untrue before his vote shall be received. Agreed to. The next section was modified by amend ments of Messrs. Carpenter and H. W. Palmer, and agreed to as follows : "Every person•who shall while a candi date for office, be guilty of bribery, fraud or wilful violation of any election law, shall be disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit in this common wealth, and any person convicted of wilfal violation of the election laws shall be de prived of the right of suffrage absolutely for a term of four years. To the next section Mr. Harry White inured an amendment enlarging its scope to embrace election investigations, which was agreed to. The section then prevailed. It prohibits, in contested election pro ceedings, investigating testimony on the ground that it may criminate himself or su bj e a him to public infamy, and such testimony shall not afterwards be against him in any judicial proceeding except perjury. Pen - din g a vote upon the neat section, limiting election divisions to 250 votes, the. convention adjourned until Tuesday morn ing. Old Time Axioms The following I find in my scrap-book pasted there more than a score and a half years ago. I reproduce then► to show the present generation what quaint ideas were promulgated by the teachers of our fathers and mothers of the olden time : An independent man is one who blacks his own boots: who can live without whis key and tobacco ; who earns at least a pen ny a day more than he spends; and wh3 can, upon a pinch, shave himself with brown soap and cold water without a mir ror. A great man is one who can lead his children to obey him when out of his sight A hospitable man is never ashamed of his dinner when a friend unexpectedly drops in to dine with him. A good wife exhibits her love for her husband by seeking to promote his wel fare, and by administering to his comfort. A sensible wife looks for her enjoyment at home—a silly one abraad. A wise girl would win a lover by prac ticing those virtues which secure admira Lion when personal charms have faded. A simple girl endeavors to recommend herself by the exhibition of frivolous ac complishments, and by a mawkish senti ment which has as little to do with a true heart as has the gaudy dress she wears. A good girl always respects herself and is thus sure to be respected by others. The Silver Trumpet. "Give me," said a sweet-toned voice, "give me the money that has been spent in rum, and I will purchase every foot of land on the globe. I will clothe every man, woman and child in an attire that kings and queens might be proud of. I will build a school-house upon every hill top and in every valley over the whole earth. I will supply that school-house with a competent teacher. I will build an academy in every State, and fill it with able professors. I will crown every bill with a church consecrated to the promul gation of the gospel of peace, and support in its pulpit an able teacher of righteous ness, so that on every Sabbath morning the chime of one shall reach to another around the earth's broad circumference, and the voice of prayer and the song of praise shall ascend as one universal offer ing to heaven." NO. 24. Tit-Bits Taken on the Fly. Chili, too, means to have a universal exposition. Many Kansas farmers are planting pea nuts this season. lowa has 3,540 libraries, containing 673,000 volumes. Canada is sweet on beet sugar, and has voted not to taa it. The burninr• ' of Columbia is now attri buted to Mrs.O'Leary's cow. Philadelphia lays claim to a club older than the London "Beefsteaks." Michigan built 1,400 mills last season —all for grinding meal, though. Fulton county, 111., has paid $590 for wolf scalps in the last four weeks. The state debt of Connecticut has been reduced fifty per cent, in six years. The Minnesota papers describe freezing as the sweetest death imaginable. The Athenreum thinks American humor "the most genuine in the world." Iron carriage wheels are being used in France, and give good satisfaction. Portland, Oregon, expects to put up 2,- 000,000 cans of salmon this season. A hot 'coffee spring in California has been running since the first of April. A Jersey City milkman's horse ran away, and left a milky way a mile long. At wooden weddings in Montana clubs are among the gifts to the married pair. The sugar crop at Jamaica is reported as heavier than during any former season. Benjamin Franklin's electrical machine is in the laboratory of Dartmouth college. A negro gambler is the most successful player among the New Orleans fraternity. .4Laryland, through its historical society, claims Philadelphia as its rightful property. A boy in Richmond, Va , was injured by the explosion of a cocoanut the other day. Floating docks for timid bathers are to be a feature of the eoming season at Cape May. It cost a Buffalo man $4.87 to cut off the tail of a sturgeon before the latter was dead. A commissary of police in Belgium has been suspended for eating meat on Good Friday. A mining expedition is organizing t ion vestigate a reported gold deposit in west ern Texas. The buildings of the Terre Haute car works cover three acres and the ground eight acres. The Yellowstone expedition was glori ously successful, as they had nothing to fight against. A man at Wolcotville, Connecticut, has a windmill seventy feet high and of ten horse power. "Died a fighting Bill Jones," was the verdict of a coroner's jury over an Indian territory man. An Italian court has sentenced a man to prison for life for lassoing women and robbing them. Carl Schurz's wife ha cows into pos swim of a legacy of $170,000 left by her uncle in Germany. Tne conductors in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad in New Jersey are all to wear unifoyms. In Russia the wheat crop generally look ed well, and the indieations so fur point to a full average harvest. The rye crop, a very important one in France, is very poor, and there is little or no hope of improvement. Two unknown schooners were sunk in East river, near Hell Gate, on Tuesday night. It is believed no lives were lost. A young married woman named Jen nie Dennis committed suicide by jumping in to the canal at Harrisburg, Tuesday night. In Italy cold, wet weather has injured the wheat crop very seriously, and there is no hope of the harvest reaching the aver age. The European marine budgets for 1873 amount to $35,255,197.70 for France, $26,668,215.90 for Rusia, and $7;197,912.- 50 for Germany. Ex• Governor Jewel is now in Washing. ton awaiting the return of the President to give him a definite answer regarding the tender of the Russian mission. A Dubuque (Iowa) woman found a long lost brother, recently, by reading over the certificates of remarkable cures in a quack doctor's almanac. . Minnesota is invaded by an army of pigeon trappers from Illinois, Wisconsin and elsewhere, and the shipments of the captured birds increase daily. The Erie car wheel works are now turn ing out 400 car wheels per doy. When first started the capacity of the establish ment was only eight per day. A colored lawyer appeared fur the first time in Louisiana court, on Monday, in the person of T. Morris Chester, who was en gaged as counsel for the defence in a mur der trial. In Holland the weather has been bad, but the crops appear to have suffered less than might have been expected, and the very latest accounts may be regarded as favorable. It is now believed the bonds found on the burglar Brady, caught in New York Tuesday night, were the proceeds of the robbery of the First National Bank of Glenn's Falls. A dispatch received by the Secretary of War, from Inspector General Hardee, announces his arrival at Pooland, Oregon, from the Lava Beds, where be had been in course of his tour of inspection. Horses are so plentiful in Australia that they are sold at the pound at prices rang ing from sixpence to a shilling, and local papers think they would fetch more if put up in pound cans for the Paris market. Kansas is importing plants direct from Scotland, consistingof larch, spruce, Scotch and Hungarian firs, ash, birch, oak and elm plants; also several varieties of Hol land„ Portugal and rhododendron ever greens and roses. The advanced liberal party among the Methodists of London are about to start a new paper to advocate the disestablishment of the Church of England, the adoption of a national system of secular education, and to support all measures for the suppression of intemperance.
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