TIMELY TOPICS. An article in the New York Sun says that Ilolyoke, Mass., is the great center of the paper trade of this country. The town contains -0,000 inhabitants, of whom 4,000 are employed in the seven teen large paper mills of iheqtlacc. The capital Invested in the paj>or trade at Ilolyoke is estimated at about 96,000,000, and there are annually produced aboVit 30,600 tons of paper. -The mills ara run by water power. Henry Face killed the young man who had wronged tiis daughter, at Clcrken well, England, and public sentiment favored him so strongly that a fund was raised to support his family during the year and a naif ol imprisonment, to which he was sentenced. His escape from a worse punishment was regarded as lucky, and he went to prison in good spirits. But his daughter taunted him with being a murderer, and in conse quence of that lie hanged himself in his cell. An association, under the name of the "Jasper Monumental Association," has been formed at Savannah, (la., for the the purpose of erecting a monument to Sergeant Jasper, who on tin* 9th day of Octobor, 1779, fell in the attack of the American forces on Savannah. Th* sergeant's exploit in leaping over the ! ramparts of Fort Moultrie, Charleston j harbor, during the hottest part of the j British attack at that nlace. and fixing ; anew the flag which had been shot from j its staff, will he remembered as one of thejmost stirring episodes of the Revolu tionary war. A Missouri farmer has been figuring ! on the damage done by dogs in that ! State. In thirty-two counties 10, KM j sheep have been killed. He estimates ! the number of dogs in thirty-two coun- ! ties to lie 413,000; tlint a hog will thrive • on the food necessary to support an able-bodied dog, and at the enu of the year weigh 900 pounds; therefore, if the j food for these 403,000 dogs was given to ' the hogs, it would make 93,000.000 ! pounds of pork, worth at least six cents j a pound, or 94,650.000 —nearly twice the value of all the school-houses in the j State, and more than twice the amount ; used by the State for school purposes. The streets of London. England, have j been recently placarded with an adver- 1 tisement stating that" the art of begging is exhaustively taught in six lessons by i Prof. Lazarus Rooney, who )>egs to in- j form the public that he has founded a college for theoretical and practical in- j struction in mcdieancv." Among other practical appliances for the profession the professor announces that he ; keeps on hand artificial wounds and sores, assorted braces of twins, trained dogs for blind men, crutches for crip ples, and surgical bandages fur wounded impostors. Information is afforded re peating the most lucrative streets and j neighborhoods. The Ixndon correspondent of a Liver pool newspaper says: " The papers an- 1 nouneed the other day that, owing to an accident in the machine-room, the extra j double number of the Illustrated I.< mow I Newt, advertised to appear, would !>c unavoidably postponed for one day. As a matter of fact, the * accident' was a literary, not a mechanical one, the proprietor canceling several thousands of printed copies rather than allow the publication of an article by one of its editors, reflecting, as he conceived, with ill-timed si-verity and offensiveness oti the family of the Prince Imperial. In-! stantly, on perusing the article, Mr. Ingram ordeied 'stop press,' sacrificing over £3,000 to this delicacy of feeling.' The claasification of a company at one ' of the seaside hotels, by a child who had not troubled herself to remember names, has a great deal of significance. | To her they were " the lady who whines j as if she were going to cry;" " the lady who talks about her headache"the , (ady who scolds the children for making a noise, and who plays the piano so i much herself;" "the kind lady who I sneaks to all the strangers" the linppv j lady who draws pictures and lets ns look 1 over her shoulder;"' "the \<>ung man who thinks he is handsome; 1 ' anil "the boy who always offers to take you out in his boat when nobody else will take you." Truly, many things which are thought to he hid by the wise and pru dent are revealed unto babes. The maddest newspapers of the pres ent time are those which are published in the Austrian lunatic asylums. Con tributions are received from ail the in mates who have either hobbies or griev ances. Those who are afflicted with any monomania whatever may explain their delusions and support their eonvi-tions by argument and example. The ogie em ployed in an article of a recent issue by one gentleman to disprove the belief of another that tiis beard was of heather and required constant watering, was so faultless and incisive as to have done credit to a Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy. Alas! he himself firmly be lieved tfiat his own nose was mane of sugar, and to prevent its getting wet. and consequently melting away, always drank through a straw.— New York Tribune. Even princes sometimes starve to death. Recently, the St. Petersburg papers announced the death from sheer starvation of Prince Serge Michaclovir i (ialitzin, employed as a censor of hooks, and removed hy "suoreme orders" to Odessa, where fie took lodging in the house of a carpenter, occupying a dark, damp room, of such limitisf dimensions that his coffin could not he got into it. An inquir elicited the fact that for months he had subsisted on dry bread, with occasionally a morsel of cheese or an apple. He left no effect* save the rags on him when he died. His mother is a wealthy dame, resident in Moscow, where she owns several houses, a fine mansion surrounded by a park and a fashionable nunnery. Ills wife—for the unfortunate nobleman was married— hastened from Moscow to attend the * funeral, but was too late. Two boys in Westphalia, sixteen and thirteen, lost their parents by death, and were so sorrowful that tliey concluded to die too. They wrote a will disposing of their money and playthings. Then the elder killed Ids brother with a hammer, after which he swallowed poison.opened a vein in his wrist, and shot himself through the heart. It is understood that the hotel-keep ers at the mountains object to Senator Davis climbing Mount Washington for fear it will settle.— lfaMon IM. That's the first time we ever heard of a hotel keeper objecting to anybody or anything for fear ne or it would "settle. '—Det Moines IlegiMer. AFTER LOST TREASURE. Tlir Vnif I CnnlalnliiitNlx Million Dollars In Colli mill Jrwrla that Want lo llir ■ loll•>■■■ Of Ihr Carrlhran Wra K.lTorl- lo llerovrr t lir Trraanrr. In 1816. whon Spain was exerting ail her powers to suppress tin' revolution in Venezuela, the I,(XK)-ton line-of-hattlc ship San Pedro Aleantara was dis putehed from the mother country luden witli ammunition of war and treasure to pay the army in Venezuela and the navy on the Spanish main. Site had on board, as proven by the records preserved in the State archives in Madrid. $2,000,000 in gold coin packed in iron chests and 000,000 silver packed in wooden chests. When tin-vessel arrived off La (iuayra, the insurgent forces were threat ening CaraoCM. and the frightened merchants and clergy, fearing a sack of the city, hastened to place their wealth in the treasure hold of the San I'edro Alcantara for safe keeping. Bullion, gems, church ornaments and jewels, roughly estimated at 91.000,000, were thus added to the riches already aboard. The San Pedro Alcantara sailed from La (luayra to off the southern coast of tin island of Margarita where she anchored between Cache and Cubagua, small islands to the south of Margarita. Lur ing a revel among the sailors, a lire was started by the upturning of a bowl of blazing punch, the flames communicat ing with a barrel of brandy. It is said the dry wooden vessel was speedily en veloped, and the lire soon became un controllable until it reached the power magazine, when a terrible explosion took place, shattering to fragments the after-half of the vessel, scattering far and wide over the waters the wealth of her treasure hold, and sacrificing the j lives of 700 out of 1,000 men. All the foregoing is a matter of history estab lished by undoubted authority; that re- ] ruaining to be stated is a' matter of knowledge to living witnessc. In I*o4 a company in Baltimore undertook to re cover the treasure. They worked three months on the wreck of the forward half of the vessel, and recovered nbout two ' thousand dollars in coin; the coin found there was only scattered silver dollars stuck into the wood work by the force of tin* explosion. Owing to the slow progress fh recovering any of the treas ure. many concerned in the expedition became dissatisfied with the way by which the wreck was worked. Thomas 11. Folingsby, one of the divers, ad- , vaneed a theory to the superintendent that the force of the explosion had thrown almost everything on the visel aft; other divers coincided with him in his opinion. After changing the loea- i tion of the schooner from which they I worked a diving-bell to the place indi- > rated by Folingsby. they suoccrdcd after six months' work in recovering alx>ut 9300,000 in silver coin. However, much more was recovered, as the divers se creted about themselves large sums of money. They also found jewels, of which they rendered no account. One ' man in particular picked up a diamond cross which was subsequently sold in New York for 913,(t00. Several of the 1 divers finally stole the longboat and fled to I-a (luayra; they were, however, pur sued and arrested, but as they had coun ter-claims for percentage, and the mana ger of the expedition was quite unnopu- ' lar, the affair was compromised and they were set free, the expedition returning to Baltimore to refit and set out the sis-- ' ond time. Owing, again, to difficulties between the superintendent and his divers, the expedition was compelled to return to Baltimore the second time and again refit. The third expedition was equally unsuccessful. Owing to a change in the Venezuelan government, a sus picion of pretended distrust and deccp- j tion in the matter of royalty were taken advantage of to annul the grant. An expedition from Providence took some $ to.ooo, hut was believed to be dis honestly managed and brought up in a row. Another small expedition got 918,000. .Several attempts have been made since by incompetent and ineffi cient exptditions, all of which have got money, but owing to various circum stances have only been measurably suc cessful. having been stopped by incom petency or avaricious dishonesty. The latest was one gent out by a well- ' known New York capitalist in I*7B. It i failed, however, through the ineonipe- ; teney of the captain. The grant for ex clusive working of the ground for a term ' of six years is now held by Mr. Fo- ! lingsby, the diver before mentioned as 1 directing the movement in 1841. which led to the recovery of 9300,000. The ground to be wnrki-d is about two and a half miles from shore, in an almost land- ! locked roadstead; the water is from fifty , to sixty feet deep; the hottom is sand, fourteen to thirty inches deep. At both ends of the roadstead there is very deep water, preventing, therefore, any accu mulation of sand in the roadstead. The current is never more than two knots, which renders it an easy matter to work at the wreck the whole year. It is nro posed to dredge the entire bottom for a sufficient radius to take up everything thrown out by the explosion. Dredges taking twenty-four square feet at each dip have been tried and work well. Ex pert* contend that the iron chest* con taining the gold have afforded a solid break oy the force of the explosion, and have consequently been thrown far off, while the silver hurled from the hunted boxes came down in a shower within a narrow radius, which accounts for the fact that only silver has lieen recovered. The last expedition—under ('apt. Post, of the brig (yp*y—was compelled to re turn to the United States, as all em ployed suffered from tlie heat and hail drinking water taken nhoard at the island of Margarita, so tlint work was impossible, ana it may be said that the captain was the only one wlm escaped any illness. What He Was Fishing For. The other day the Harbor Master came across a stranger on the wharf at the foot of Randolph street, fishing with a cotton string to which was attached a hook made of stove-pipe wire and baited witli an apple core. " I)o you expect to catch any fish with such a tackle as thai?" Inquired the of ficial. " No, sir," was the prompt reply. " Are you fishing for bites?" " No. sir." "Fishing for fan?" " No, sir." The nettled Harbor Master was about to tell the calm-minded stranger to fish awav and hehangrd to him, when he earenilly lifted Ids hook out of water and said: " I've been in this rity lor two days and over, sleeping in boxes and living on air, and I was just experimenting to see if there was a blamed reptile in this neighborhood as hungry na I ami" The officer lent him a chew of tobacco and'permitted him to continue his ex periment In peace. - Detroit Pre* Prtm. The American Society Novel. Pre/ace. This is tlie hare, bald and hideous skeleton of one-half the present Ameri can society novels. CHAITKH I. The Heroine. She was pretty, well educated, grace ful in manner, polite and pleasing. By her beauty she captivated many voung men. Iler parents were hut in moderate circumstances. That is all. CHAITKH 11. The Hero. Ho was rich. He kept this from her a secret. She guessed it, however. He was of the " blue blood"' of these United States. His noble ancestors couldn't make a good living in Europe so they came to America. Their noble house was founded in u small grocery store, Augustus wanted to get a pretty wife who would marry him for himself alone. He got aw fully fooled. But he never found this out until some years after their marriage, and this discovery has nothing to do with our romance. CHAITKH 111. The Stuffing. They met. Namby panihy. Nam by paniby. Sqush, gush, style. Namby pamby, natnhv paniby, gush, mush, suush. Namby pamby. Namby pamby. Namby pamby, tnush,gusli, sqush. CHAITKH.IV. She threw the other fellow overboard. At first the poor parents did not like the disguised rich suitor, because they thought he might he a jxxir poet, painter or writer. She knew better, and told the old folks to mind their business. That night he slipped on her beauti ful neck a string ol pearls worth f. r ioo. " I am a poor man," said he, " remem ber that. CHAITKH V. More Stuffing. Namby pambv. Nanihy pamby. Namby pamby. Namby pamby. CIIAITKK VI. Their Sentiments. " You know more of the world than I, Augustus," said she. "Tell me, arc there many people in the world?" " Not many," said he. _ " Where do the people iu the world live?" she asked, confidingly. "In winter on Fifth avenue; in sum mer at Newport, Isng Branch, Sara toga and a few in Europe," said he. " Ami are those all?" said she. " All," said he, softly. " Tell me," said she. in her silver tones, " how much must one he worth to bo n gentleman or lady. " At present not less than (1,000,000. In old times one might go in society for (500,000, hut price* rule higher now. In fact, mere millionaires ar- but just tolerated in good society," said he. Bt■lippMOa her linger a (1,000 dia niond ring. " iteniemoer, I am but a . poor man, said he. " 1 mn 1 not." said she. " You are good and noble, and those are qualities better than wealth." CHAITKH VII Stuffing. Namhy pamby. Namby pamhy. Namby pamby. Namby pamhv. CIIAITKH VIII. The ExrUing Chapt- r. They were married, lie gave the vil lage minister a (100 wedding fH. " We go now," said he, "to meet my poor old mother am! *i*tcr-. 'hir home i Is humble but rh-an. 'Twos scrubbed ; yesterday for the first time in years." The pair came to New York. An cle. j gant carriage received tliem at the depot- They drove up to the brown stone front on Fifth avenue. It was all as she bail expected. " Dearest Augustus," said she. " |mw could you deceive me thus?" The rest. More gold watches. Six Saratoga trunks full of dresses. Five entirely rew switch)*. Family dia monds. Butler at the door. rrrn< h maid. Anotlier French maid. Solid 1 crystal chamber sets. Frescoed and : gilded •parlors. An ivory clock worth ,000. Haughty blue blond roothcr-in law gives her another gold watch and chain. CHAITKH IX Conei union. Namby pamby. Namby pamby. | Namby pamby. CHAITKH X. Moral. To all poor but amiable girls Ho thou and do likewise.—Vrw Fori Oraphte. A Yellow Fever liero. After the yellow fever had ravaged Memphis in 187 H. such was tlie terror of the people that it became impossible to find any one willing to nurse the sick or bury the dead, .lame* Forbes, an en gineer on a railway running into the city, had a fireman named George, a gruff, silent fellow, who had worked with him for years. One day the engineet was sent for. His hoy, a lad of eighteen, was struck down with the plague. As he left thern gine, George stuck his shovel into tlie coal and pulled on his cap. " Where are you going?" said Forbes. " Along with you. I'llsee you through this pull, Jem. Forbes lived in a small house on the edge of the Bayou Gayosa, a sluggish stream, laden with impurity, which oozes through the city. Tlie boy had been seised with the disease in its most malignant form. He died Hint night. Forbe* and George nursed him. carried liiin out in the coffin, and with their own hand* dug a grave and buried him. Wh"n they came bark they found that Forbes* only other child, a little girl, had been seised. The mother, a few hours later, was struck down. Roth died. The j two men stood beside them. Tlie air j was heavy with a horrible odor, literally the breath of death. " You've done all you can, George," said Forbes. " Save yourself. Fly before it is too late." "No, I'llsee you through," said the fireman, gruffly. Coffins were no longer to be had. They made a box. laid tlie mother and child in it, dug a grave, and buried them. Before tlie task was finished Forbes turned to go home. The plague was upon him. George carried him to tlie house, nursed him tenderly until lie died : then alone lie buried him beside his wife and children. After the last soil was heaped upon the gTavc he turned away ana went quietly back to work. George was not the only hero who jus tified Ills right to live in that terrible dark day. There are hundreds ol them still living, or at rest beside those whom ♦Jiey have vainly Uled to save. NEW I'OHTAL KULEH. ModlAeatloiis In Hair. „f VomlMf and Classification of Matter. j By ths provisions of recent acts of Congress, as construed by the I'oetofllcc Department, various important moiiilieat lions have been made in rates of postage and in the classification of mail matter. As these changes will largely affect the mercantile, insurance and other interests and as they are at present huts imper- I fectly understood, the subjoined detailed information upon the subject has been obtained by a New York paper through inquiry at the postofllce. It. may lie re lied upon as being in accord with tlie latest official rulings and decisions of tlie department, and as absolutely correct. I he rats* on commercial papers, insur ance documents, papers in legal proceed ings, etc., when partly in print and partly in writing, has heretofore been the same as on letters, viz., three rents per hill ounce. All such articles have now, with the exceptions mentioned, been as*ignnl to tin' third class of mail matter, and as such arc chargeable with postage at tin rat)' of one cent for each two ounces, when sent in unsealed envelopes or i wrappers. The exceptions arc: M such articles contain writing in tlie nature of personal correspondence, or are in tlicm selves the representatives of a monetary value. 11l these cases they become first class mail matter, and, as mob, are chargeable with letter rates of postage. According to the last rulings of the de partment (which reverse a nunilxr ol those recently made under the same law), the specific examples of the exceptions to third class matter are: Insurance poli cies signed anil in force, daily insurance reports, insurance transfers, notices of premiums due, assignments, transfers, applications for insurance; promissory notes, attached to premiums or not, ami all notices from local agents to jiolicy holders ri'H|>ccting renewals, concilia tions, rcci'jnts or other kindred matter; also, all signed notes, i hocks, drafts, deeds, bonus, bill* of lading, receipted bills, ami signed receipts of all kinds. Insurance policies, canceled or incom plete- unreceipted hills, invoices anil monthly statements may all be sent at third class rates of postage. The former restrictions as to writing in books have leen removed, to the ex tent of permitting a simple manuscript dedication, or form of presentation, to he written fin the covers or blank page*. Manuscript fur publication, when ac companied by proof sheets, may is- sent at third class rates; but, unless so ac companied, is chargeable at letter rates. Architectural and other drawings made by hand, heretofore charged at letter rates, are now assigned to the fourth class, and may be sent on payment oi postage at one cent per ounce, as may also original paintings ii oil or water colors, etc. Chromos are ratisi as third class matter unless mounted on cloth or pasteboard, in which eas" they belong to the fourth class. Postage ami revenue stamns an now in the fourth i-hms Artleha of g!.u-, formerly excluded from the mails, may now be sent at fourth class rates (one cent per ounce), provided they arc secured so as to guaril against injury to other mail matter in ease of breakage, and are boxed in accordance with certain instructions contained in the I nit-si State* Postal Guide. Original package* of tobacco and boxes of cigars and other articles sealed by internal rev enue stamps, which were formerly charged at letter rates, arc now plsenl in the fourth class by a decision 'of the department, which state* that they " will regard the stamp placed ovir the cover or iqiening of sui-h package* ** evidence that no matter is contained therein which is subject to letter rates of postage. All persons who desire to avail them selves of the concessions noted above will understand that they involve certain drawback*. For example, with the single exception of the packages seali-d by internal revenue stamps, all mail matter not sent at letter rates must te left open to inspection by the postofllce authorities. No article*, other than let ters and postal cards, can he returned to tlie senders on request; nor forwarded to other offices, unless ngain fully pre paid, in'oase'the |ier#on* addressed have removed; nor can. they bo advertised: but. if found undeliverable or unealled for, they will be sent to the dead letter office. Mail matter of tlie third and fourth classes is not assorted and put up with, or in the same manner, ns letters, placed loose in canvas svks and not in looked pouches; and, of course, whenever it is necessary, on account of unusual accumulation of mail matter or for oilier reasons, to give preference in dispatch, it is always accordi-d to letter mull. A Midnight Vigil. The night is dark, the air is raw and chill and damp, the storm is raging. An old anil eminently respectable litiz. n. oftt i>n North hill, is sleeping the slop of the just with tlie snore of the wicked, and theprivatecloekson their r<*speetive brackets and mantels throughout the citv, for Burlington lIM no town clock, are tolling, as well as they know howr to oil it, the hour of 1.30 A. M. A violent jangling at hia door-l>ell awakens the eminently respectable citi zen. Shuddering herrawlsnut of bid. mut tering be gropes across the floor. Swearing under tiis breath, he falls over a rocking-chair. At last he finds a mat h, lights a lamp, anil desiending the stairs, opens tlie hall door, and admits a gust of wind that blows nut the lamp, ami a torrent of rain that drenches him to the skin. " What is wanted?" the respectable citizen asks. "Are you the resident owner of tliia property?" promptly inquires tlie caller. " 1 am," wonderingly replies the em inently respectable citizen. " Were you in bed when I rang?" "I was," replied the eminently re speetalde citizen. "That was right," cheerfully ex claimed the caller, " that is tlie place for a man of your age at tills time of night. I am surprised to see out of It. (let hAi-k into it, and pleasant dreams—" All is silent after the crash that en sues, save a mocking smile that dies away in the distance. The fragments of the lamp that are revealed on the side* walk hy the coming of the dawn indi cate that either the lamp fell out of a balloon at a height of about twenty-nine miles, or was hurled at some object with great force. When will the mystery be solved ? HurlingUm Hawkeye. A woman in Cincinnati was arrested not long ago for horrible.cruelty to Iter adopted daughter, aged sixteen, whom she hd leen accustomed to beat terribly with a whin and then put red-pepper pod* and brine upon the wounds. Site also is said to have crushed the nails on the feet of the girl with a hammer and to have inflicted other terribl* cruelties. Miliaria! Origin of Yellow Fever. It in a noticeable foot. says a New York paper, that there 1m very little difference of opinion among physicians who have practiced medicine in yellow fever dls tricta, and have had tfie advantage of long and careful observation. an to tlie malarial origin of that terrible ucourge. Ihe elder Dr. Stone, ot New Orleans, than whom no man had n larger experi ence, always maintained that yellow fever was one of the malarial group of uiwMiiiftd, and dilTw'd from int'Tinittflßt and remittent only In Ihe violence of the | attack. Dr. Illair holds the samcopiniou in lIIH admirable treatise. Watson in bis "Institutes," and Condie in hiH "Notes on Vatson's Institutes," make no question < n the subject. iiut one of the most sugg -stive illustrations of this view occurs in Dr. Ferguson'* cel. t ,r: t < •! work on malarial disease* it in n gen eral observation that in maiarioip iiiv tricts agu' M and ramittent fevers are more common in hot and dry than in cold and humid seasons. Temperature appears to In- the factor which mainly determines the the barracks. The yellow skin and black vomit were almost in variably among the prominent symptoms in these cas<*. Among the officers, wo men and drummers on Monk's hill who never descended to the marshes, there was no,single cose of fever during the whole summer. Seventeen nun were quartered in the lower ridge barrack, 300 f.H-t alsive tbe marshes, but were not required to perform night duty at the dockyard. Every one of these men liad remittent fever, but no ease < T black vomit occurred among them. Thus, in the same place, ut the same time, tin, malaria in the level plain caused a con tinued {< v. r. identical in rapidity and symptoms with yellow; at an elevation of 3i* feet the type was remittent, and at tiOO feet there were either light ague# or no disease at all. ThoreaiT* Thonghts. Woeto him wti<> want* a companion, for 11 in unfit to he tlie companion even of himself. That virtue wo appreciate I a* iuU< h ours m another's. \Vc <•*■ so much only you know on what bushes a little peace, faith and contentment grow ? (to a-berrving early and late aft< r them. There is nowhere any apology for de spondency. Always there is life while life lasts, which, rightly lived, implies a divine satisfaction. Cheap persons will stand upon cere mony, ts-cause there is no other ground ; but to the great of the earth we need no introduction, nor do they need any to us. What is peculiar in the life l a man consists not in hi*obedience, but ids op ts wition toiiis Itutin -ts; in one direction or anotlier he strives to live a super natural life. When we cca~e to sympathize with, and to lie p< rsonally related to men. and lie gin to lie universally related, then wc are eapahle of inspiring others with the sentiment of love for us. No fields are so barren to ine as the men from whom I expect everything but get nothing. In their neighborhood I experience a painful yearning for soci !v which cannot lie satisfied, for the hat i greater fhan tiie love. Make the most ol your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live a fast. By so doing you will Ire astonished to find younelf restored once more to nil your emoluments. Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in"wliirh you are to show your pluck, and woe lie to the coward. W bother passed on a bod of sickness or in the tented field. It is ever the same fair flag, and admits of no distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to suc<-eed. not to fail An Interesting riant. The Victoria Begin, or the Queen Lily, is now developing at the Bark conserva tory. This plant is remarkable for the great size which it attains. No other specimen of this plant is known to exist in the Unite*! States, and this Is the first attempt to propagate this species of water-lily in California. A number of its great leaves liaye reached their full size, the largest lieing about seven feet in diameter. Although a nice adjust ment of the temperature of the water and air Is necessary to bring the lily to per lection, yet, even under the most favor able conditions which could be produced artificially, the blossom often fails to make its Rprxwranco. On this account the stages of growth which precede and accompany flowering have bwn wstehed with keen interest by amsteur botanists for the 9 lightest indication of blossoming. In the midst of them- hopes and fears a colossal bud, atmut the size of a small head of cabbage, made its ap|ieanuce under the water a day or two ago, and is growing rapidly. The exact time of its attaining maturity is not known, hut it will probably lie in ftill bloom in three or four days. The flower opens only at night, and jn gins to unfold its petals shout nine o'clock in the evening, to re main in bloom until sunrise. The Dark commissioners announce that when the flower is in full bloom the park will be kept open In the evening, and that por tion of the conservatory containing I lie lily will lie illuminated.and amplefaci)- (ties provided for the examination of this colossal flower. Two leaves of the Queen Lily will he placed on exhibition at the Mechanic's Fail, and will require for their transportation a frame eight feet wide and sixteen feet long.— Am fYan Utco ChromtU. Hon a i;at Made I t* of Her Reason, I . A correspondent of Nature tells the following stoiy of feline Intelligence; . Many years ago we lived in |at the Inw-k of Emnianuel (Allege. The premises w*re partly cut off from the road by H high wall; the body of the house stood back some little distance. A high trellis, dividing off tlx garden ran from the entrance door to tlx wall! in WIJIC'I! w tin another rloor, or CHU*. A portion ofthe house, a gable, feed the treJJifi. Tliw fmrtif'ulArii w aa vou will Wf. We were, after some time of residence extremely troubled bv " runaway-he])! rings," generally mot prevalent at night, and in rainy, laid or cold weatlx r, which was a great annoyance to tlx- ser vant girl*. who had to croM the *|race let ween the house and the wall, to ojx*n the ou er door in the litter, and were I'IUH exj.owd Ui wet and cold. The an noyance heeame so great that at length a i 011 in and myself, armed with wicked •>h saplings, watelx-d behind the trees, b nt on administering a sound thrasb .■ to the . nemy, whoever he wan, that r, revealed the originator of tbf scare. Being ill I was confined to tlie wing facing tlx* trellis, and one i iserahle, hlowing, wet day, gazing disconsolately out of th'j window, espied my favorite ••at a singularly intelligent animal, much petted —coming ai ng the path, wet, draggle. tailed, and miserable. Ptiasy marched up to liie house-door, sri ff-d at i'.. posted it, m weaninrc in public by giving a num ber of jxrformanro* at th* "Zoological Hardens 1 ' of Hrutsels, Belgium. All doubt* al>out lii* identity were at once dispelled by a scries of moat astounding, A almost miraculous feats on the tight rope, calling f.rth unexampled out iir-.ik* of