Experience of a Census Nan. Owen Browne, a census enumerator, who is now resting on his laurels, gave a New York Ueratd reporter recently a brief history oi his experience. His district was No. OHO, between Fifth and Lexington avenues and Eightieth and Eighty-fourth streets, which lie found to contnin a population of 2,971. He began his task every morning at eight o'clock and ended it generally at six, but Bometimcs seven in the evening, taking a lunch and siesta at noon. He is a tall, dark, wiry, determined sort of man, of about thirty-live, who. as he says himself, started out with his mind made up to be as polite as possible under all circumstances, but resolved to stand " no shenanigans " if the law was not complied with, and he kept the afore said law before him like a lantern to * guide him all along in the path of his duty. •' When I'd ask a lady," said he, " for her age, she might say,' is it necessary to give the exact figures?'and I'd an swer, 'no, ma'am; I can't compel you, and I must only draw my own conclu sions.' Ar. American lady of the middle class, well-dressed and lively, gave me her age one day as thirty-seven, but when she came to tell me her son's age was twenty-six, I said, ' Madam, you must have made a mistake.' ' Oh, then,' said she, a little put out, but very cheerful, 'make it forty-seven; it will beallthe same in a hundred years.' That was a class of ladies 1 used to like to meet with, but some of them would get their backs up if I doubted their word and give me a look as good as a subpena. Another lady gave me her daughter's age r.s twenty-one, and as I was leaving the daughter called me back, and said she wanted that made nineteen, as she was afraid the people next door might see the entry twenty-one in my book and sneer at her. Young ladies, I found, seldom knew their own ages, and would always call their mothers and say. ' Mamma, what a' e ought I to be now ?' and the mamma, I used to notice, always had to think awhile before she fired off an answer." The census man then went on to re late how a lady refused him admission to licr Louse tince times in succession, and would only st eak to him from an upper window, telling him that her hus band loid her to give no countenance to book agents, insurance agents, light ning rod men and such. She believed he was one of these. At last lie grew impatient and somewhat angry, and told her that if she didn't open the door and give him the information lie would read the riot act. She bid hini to road away, so he pulled the law out of his pocket, and, taking a position in the middle of the street, read the penalties out loud enough to be heard a block away. " Tell that to your husband when he comes home to-night and be ready with your answer in tlie morning," cried the census man as he walked frownlngly away. He was around next day, and the re ception lie met with will be something he thinks that hecan never possibly for get. The lady, he says, was in full dress, and welcomed him inside with profuse apologies, and her hospitality was so pre sing that at the rate of two cents a name lie believed his earnings that day hardly exceeded twelve cents. In his district Browne found Ameri eans, Irish, English, Scotch, Welsh, French, Swedes, Canadians, negroes and one Russian. He had more annoyances from young married women than from any other class, as on account of their babies, they always wanted him to call at their own convenience. He reasoned with one of these young women by say ing that if he had tocall two, three or four times at every place there was a baby the census would not be taken till Christmas, and the young woman saw the point and surrendered. One day, Browne, who was also engaged in tak ing the census of 1675, called at a dwell ing and met the housekeeper, who told him she did not think she was bound to give Lim the information he wanted. " Why." said he, " I took the census of this house before." "Oh, well, that will do," Baid she; " just refer back to your books and you'll have the whole of it V. ithont any trouble." " Another thing," continued the cen sus man, "made an amusing experi ence In nineteen cases out of twenty the men would be absent at business when I called, and I bad to depend on the women for all my information. It was necessary to ask the women what business their husbands followed, and though many were never slow about telling the real truth others would hesi tate nnd try to think of something more dignified than the actual calling- A bartender would be 'in the wine busi ness.' a driver of a beer wagon 'in the brewery business,' a bricklayer 'in the building business,' nnd clerks 'in the dry poods' and ' in the grocery busi ness. One colored woman WHS crazy to have all her eight children ' took in the i r:-us.' 'Come up here, Jemima; etmc up here, Lukie; come up here, I/M py,' sb cried, until she had the whole crowd around." "Well, on the whole," asked the re porter. " was the work severe?" " I did not feel so." answered the cen tal man, " because perhaps I went niethodically to work. 1 began at the beginning and made it a point to finish with every house in a row as far"as pos sible. I failed to get information in the morning, pass on to the next one, hut in the nft<-rnoon I was bound to return aid I'd pick up such as were omitted. This would s metimes take me past my recolar hour for quitting work, but I had the satisfaction of knowing that I had every day so much work covered without a break. There were no tene ment houses beyond half a dozen, con taining four or five families, in my dis trict. nnel the majority were private dwellings." What au Editorial Room Looks Like. He opened the door cautiously and Peking his he-ad in a suggestive sort of way as if there was more to follow, inquired: "la this the editorial rink tum ?" " The what? my friend." " Is this ti.e i iukiuuj—ainktum—sanc tum or eonic such place where tbe edi tors live." "Tlds is '.he editorial room, yes, sir. Come in." "No, I guess I won't come in. I wanted to see what a rinktum was like, that's all. LeKiks llks oar garret, only wuse. Good day."— New Haven Betpeler. A piece of charcoal to be changed oc casionally fchou.d be kept in refrigera tor* as a purifier. Milk, butter, and all strong- smol ling articles should be kept cor<-' nl, especially when the water from the refrigerator is used fur drinking. COUNTERFEIT MONET. Increase at Imitated Currency-Maine Facta About founterfcltlnii and Coun terfiltcre. " When you want to know whether a ock can bo broken, you don't want to go to the maker of that lock to find It out. The burglar's the man you must S} to. You nslt him: ' Fee here; can lis lock bo broken?' and he tells you at once: 'Why, certainly it can/ And then you get from tiim its weak points. If I want to find out whether a note's a counterfeit or not, I don't ask to know any thing about counterfeit notes; I want to know about good notes; I want to be familiar with every detail of them, so I may know them at a glance. If a man comes in and offers me a countcr fiit, then I know it nt once. Why? Because it is not like the other notes." Thus spoke John Dye, of Dye's govern ment Counter/eil Detector. Mr. Dye sat in his office. Around hira was a curious collection. The fruits of forty years' counterfeiting at least looked down from the walls, or out from the cases, or reposed beneath lock and key in numerous small drawers. Thousands of dollars artistically bunched together in neat wooden frames behind glass work told of the days of wild-oat band, and State scrip; thousands ol dollars more told of the after period of silver and gold, the trade dollar, the half dol lar and the quarter. took at those trade dollars as they nppear through the glass cases. What is the matter with them? There is no shine about them; they arc all dim and black, cop per-colored and brass. A man luugtis as he looks at them at the idea of his being deceived by such base imitations. Yet men have been deceived by them in their better days, and now that they are like old shoddy garments, worn thread bare, their true nature stands revealed and, as a warning, they have come here to serve a moral purpose. "Here," said Mr. Dye, reaching his hand into his pocket, "are the*most dangerous pieces that have been seen.' He drew out two $5 gold pieces—one of date IHI4, the other of date 186.1. "The great trouble," said the old ox counterfeit detective, " in counterfeiting gold pieces is to get the counterfeit to the right weight. I only want to feel a gold piece anywhere to tell whether it's good or not. I can teli 'cm in the dark by the heft. Here," said the old man, gazing with his sharp gray eye on one of the gold pices as he danced it in the palm of liis hand, "this is a piece I would have been deceived on any day. It's just the right weight. Joe, bring me the scales." The young man addressed brought forth a queer small steel scales, such as is used in the mint for weighing coins. There were apertures in it for placing coins of all denominations. In one of these marked " Five D," he placed the gold piece. The brain tilted up; it balanced exactly; it was to all appear ances a genuine coin. "See that,'' said the old man. " It's the exact weight of a $5 gold piece." But around the edges was noticed sev eral little blotches of white metal pro truding through the cold. The piece was nothing more than a platinum body with g ld plating. It was worth about $2 50, that being the value of the plati num in it. The cost of plating it was about fifty cents, making its entire worth $3. Old Mr. Dye imparted this infor mation with professional gravity as he took the coin out, and, having restored it to his pocket, told of the mischief it had already done. " A tout two years ago a man, travel ing in the istlmins to California, traded about 1,50 ft of these pieces to the captain of a schooner for English sovereigns. The counterfeit was not discovered until the captain reached San Frnncisco when, having got into circulation, in was detected by the authorities of the San Francisco mint." Counterfeiting has increased to such an extent that it is claimed the govern ment will shortly have to take some more vigorous measures than it has ever taken yet toward cheeking it. The one drawback the oflicersnf the secret service have to encounter Is the small nessof the appropriation which Con gress allows for this particular work. A less sum is appropriated for this purpose now, it is said, than has been allowed heretofore, despite the fact that counterfeiting has increased just as the resources and capital and population of the country have increased. The sum granted amounts to atont $50,000 an nually. Persons who are familiar with the extent to which counterfeiting is carried on in this country nno have had long experience in trying to break it up, declare that $951,000 a year would not be any too much to pay for secur ing more perfect means nnd facilities for protecting the nat ional currency. Coun terfeiting. by all accounts, was never carried on with such perfect system as it is now. The work the counterfeiters turn out in many instances surpasses the work produced tv the gov ernment, ana so perfectly have the counterfeit notes been executed that they have been taken by experts for good money. The latest counterfeit out is a slOft bill upon the National Ex change Bank of Baltimore, printed from a retouched plate of the National Bank of Commerce, of i'lttsburg. The only way in which this bill differs from the genuine is in the superiority of the workmanship Although this counter feit was originally on the Bank of Pitts burg, as above mentioned, the plntc can be easily modified so as to counterfeit the issue of any national bank. Not oniy is the engraving of asuperiorchar neter, but the bill is printed on i-n ex cellent quality ofcounterfeit fiber paper. There is not the slightest elue as to the locality where or the persons by whom this work is done, nor is there any knowing to what extent the government issue has been counterfeited in this single case. The oniy way in wldoh the matter can be remedied, it is claimed, is for the treasury department to call in all the notes ol this denomina tion and series, thus withdrawing from circulation the counterfeit as well as the genuine. It lias been for some time advocated by persons who have interested them selves in observing the extent to which countei leliiii_- is carried on in this country that the government will he forced to take sonic steps soon that will insure the suppression of the business, not temporarily, but permanently. Some months ago a proposition was made by Tom Ballard, the skillful and notorious counterfeiter, now serving a term of thirty years in the prison at Albany, N. Y., to impart to the govern ment a process by w liich money could be made ihatoouid not be counterfeited, provided in return the government would, after satisfying itself as to the xenuiness and success of his plan, set litni nt liberty. Tli • offer was made in good faith, und some effort was put forth by the publishers of several papers devoted to the subject ot counterfeit detecting to have the proposal taken up. An interview was Arranged 10 come off between George W. Casilcar, the head of the bureau of engraving and printing at Washington, ano Ballard, in the Albany penitentiary, but through some hitch or other it was never carried out. Ballard has several times since that renewed ins proposition and endeavored through parties who interest ed themselves in his behalf outside to get the matter to the government's attention, though without suocess. Despairing of everything alter this he made two attempts to commit suicide, but failed in both. lie'has asserte positively and persistently since his impriponment that then- is away by which money can be made that no innn living can eounterleit. As Ballard is known to be ono of the finest, most skillful, most ingenious engravers of the country, in prison or out of prison, there are many persons who think the government would do well to give him a hearing. Again, it has been suggest ed that the government should ofler a reward of suilieiently liberal proportions for a design for banknotes which it would be impossible to counterfeit. There are plenty of ideas in the heads of tho engravers, it is claimed, by which such a design could be produced, but nobody wishes tn give away their ideas without a recompense. At the treasury department, it is understood, there is a belief that there is too much engraving on the government notes. Instead 01 so much of this kind of work, it is supposed to substitute a system of Bcroli-work for either the back or face of the bill. The more intricate this work the more assurance of the inabil ity to make a perfect counterfeit. Some counterfeits are executed with such masterly skill, and such faithful ness to the smallest details of the origi nal, with such perfection in every Une and fcaturo, that they stand out :u> mar vels of imitative genius. To produce such work the highest order of artistic skill is requisite. The business of counterfeiting monopolize!) some of the most finished talent to he found in the engraver's profession. Whether it is the incentive found in the prospect of large though unlawful gains, or tho fascination held on by a business ever attended by danger, the counterfeiter seems, as soon as he gets launched into the work, to he favored by some special genius which quickens his skill and sharpens his perceptions t an extent that is almost miraculous. On the wall of the Counterfeit Df lectori office there hangs a splendid picture of the late Governor Alien, of Ohio, a grand face, with curves and lines and wrinkles —exactly the type of face seen in the old Roman cuts where Brutus and Cassar stJind as models—with every point of the grand old head, with its elose-cu white hair and bold, dark eyes standing out in strong relief. Directly under neath is the inscription: ; Govkrxob Wm. Ai.i.kn, at Ohio. ; t Engraved by Charles Ulrich on a nw> ; ' blade, in tho Ohio penitentiary, ironi a photograph. ; Over in a gloss case, among a lot of photographs of noted counterfeiters, there is a picture of a broad-faced indi vidual. with a pair of very sharp gray eyes nnd a most genial expression about a well-formed mouth. This is Uirich, the noted counterfeiter, whose skill at counterfeiting there is none can equal. Ulrich was serving a term of twelve years in the Ohiobtate prison, at Colum bus, when one day, in 1*76, he got hold of a photograph of Governor Allen. Without any more ado he set to work on an old saw-blade nnd engraved an exact counterpart of the picture, head, face and bust, making such a remark ably good likeness that it attracted at tention far and near and Governor Allen himself came to see it. So perfect was it that the Democrats of Ohio, in the next canvass for the governorship, in which Governor Allen ran forre-elec tioii, used it on theiritransnarencie*, and the picture stands to-riny as one of the best ever made of Governor Allen. Ul rich was pardoned out sliortiv after that, and is now engaged in the china and glass business at Trenton.— l'hiludel- \ phia Time*. Aerial Navigation. Tho Mililar-WocJienbfott prints a de scription of an aerial byaHpanish artillery officer, .the con struction of which is, in the opinion of the German paper, based on correct principles. The machine, which is of considerable extension horizontally, but of very small vertical dimensions, can be made to ascend or descend at pleasure, and can. according to the state, mcnt of the inventor, be turned in any required direction. It consists of two air-hags, as they arc called ,by the in ventor, one of which is filled with hydrogen gas and the other with com pressed air. When the latter is so far filled that its weight, together with that of the ear and its load, exactly counter balances the lifting power of the for mer, the machine will naturally neither rise nor fall. If the compressed air is allowed to escape from its bag the weight will be reduced and the machine will rise, the altitude it will attain de pending upon tho amount of compressed air liberated. If, on the other hand, it is desired to make the machine de scend, air can. by a simple mechanical contrivance, he pumped into the com pressed air-bag until the total weight of the machine exceeds the buoyancy or lifting power of the hydrogen bag. To rhange the direction of the machine a rudder is provided, to be worked by a small steam engine, while by a simple arrangement the position ol the eenter gravity of the whole apparatus can be altered so that the resistance of tho air shall effect the machine in the most favorab'e manner possible. The ma chine, in fact, is designed to act the same way that a bird does. When a bird wishes to change ,tho direction of its flight, it lowers one wing and raises the other, and as It works tho latter rapidly and diminishes the speed of its flight, the resistance of tho air on the oblique surface presented to it turns he bird around into the required course." In tho new aerial machine this principle is applied; but whether it will be possi ble to overcome the difficulties which may ariso remains to be seen. Feather pillows can be cleaned and purified without removing tho feathers, by taking the pillows, laying them in the bathtub, scrubbing them with a scrubbing-brush dipped in a solution of two tabiespoonfnls of ammonia to half a pail of warm water and ritase them thoroughly. Lay them out on the grass to dry. turning them frequently; and at the last pin them to the line for a nun. ber of dnvs. nn < when quite dry beat them with a rod. This is to disentangle and lighten the fealticra. Wrestling for u Wire. Tho peculiar conditions upon which a matrimonial affair was biu-ed in South Arkansas have iust come to light. Diok Anderson bad graduated lietwoen the plow-handles. It was said that he could run a furrow so straight that it would break a knock-kneed man's legs to walk in it. This accomplishment was a kind of frontispiece to a further volume of agricultural success, and more than one young lady in the neighborhood bud her eyes on the young catch. Dick wasn't bashful, but lie didn't seem to be particularly impressed with the charms Scattered around him like falling drops of water that linger on leafy trees after a rain; But lie soon met his fate, a young lady, Winnie Hogrow. Winnie was a beautiful girl, anil could cover as much corn with a hoc or scrape as much cot ton as any man tn the neighborhood. Tho couple loved—devotedly, agricul turally. Hogrow had raised his 'laugh ter with great care, and now that she had attained the zenith of her useful ness, it grieved him to think of losing her. One 6unday Dick went over, and, going out to where the old inun was shelling corn to the pigs, said : "Mr. Ilogrow, I suppose—" " I don't suppose anything, sir." " Well, then, you doubtless know— " "I don't know anything." " That's ail right, then. I am giving to marry your daughter, and by next com planting time you'll know some thing. Do you weaken, Mr. ilogrow?" "See here, young feller, I can't afford to lose my gal. I have had powerful bad luck this season. The cutworms begun on the corn by the time it came up, and the bugs pitched into the cot ton ; and to make things worse, my best mule and one of my cows got into a fight the other day. The cow Inxiked the mule, and the mule kicked the cow until both of them died. So, under these circumstances, I'd rather you'd marry somebody else." " I don't aCe< pt your misfortunes as excuses. I'm going to marry the gin." 44 1 toll you what I'll do. "Dick. I'll tnnke this arrangement: We'll wrestle, and if you throw me the gal's your'n If I throw you, she's mine. If you marry her against my will, I shall pleas antly exterminate you. If you throw j me and marry her, this farm, together ' with the gal, is your'n. I'll give three | trials, one to-day, one three weeks from now and the other six weeks." Dick was compelled to agree, although the old man was recognized as the best wrestler in tho county. He had chal lenged evcrylxxly and liad thrown everybody who had accepted. After entinf! dinner, the old man announced his wiilinguess to take the fir.-t ballot. ! Di"k was willing. The contestants, in j eluding the girl, went into the yard, the girl took the hats and the men grappled each other. The signal was given, and Dick went over the old man's fiend and plowed a short furrow in the ground. "< live me my hat." he said to the girl. " Don't give up," she remarked, hand ing over his tile. 44 Go away and pnie tieo." Dick left, discouraged, hut taking the ndvire. wrestled with steamboat men and farmers until tho time for the next trial came. At the appointed time Dick appeared at Hogrow a re sidence. " Feel like you can cut your capers putty well?" asked the old man. "I think so. I feel that my cause is just, and with the aid of kind Providence I hope to pile you." " Providence comes in putty handv at times," said the old man, puiling off his coat, 44 but it's a hard matter to buck agin nn old stager. Get outen your jacket. If I fall the gal and the farm is yourn. Four hundred acres, and all under fence. Gal weighs one hundred and fifty. Big inducements." The two men grappled, ,-md again Dick plowed up the earth. Don't give up," said the girl. "No," said the old man, "for the bend is under fence, and the gal weighs ene hundred and fifty—can handle a lie>e wonderful!" Dick went away and ponelored. It was evident that the old man could throw him every time. To lose the girl wns to wreck his life. An idea struck him. He siuihxl. He left the neighborhood and remained until the time for the third fall was nearly up. On the appointed day he visited the old man. " I have agreed to everything," said Dick, " and r.ow I ask a favor. l-et the final trial take place to-night in the dark. I will meet you here at ten o'clock." " Any way suits me," replied the old man. 44 I'll meet you anywhere." AI ten o'clock t lie old man stood in the yard chuckling. His combatant climbed I the fence and approached. Without exchanging a Word, the two men grap pled. The struggle was short. The old man went up in llienir. came down, and struck the ground with a force that al- I most took his life. He lay for a moment 1 hnif uncousciou-. Dick raised him up and assisted him into the house. " The gal and ttie farm is yourn." said I the old man, nnd the young couple cni | braced each other. The next day they were married. Shortly after the cere mony was over a large negro man ap peared at th door and, attracting Dick's attention, said: "I wants my $lO- I flung the ole man hard 'nougli to kill him. Whar's my money P" Dick gave a searching look from the old man. " I'll explain," said the bridegroom. '• Realizing that I couldn't throw you, nnd at the seme time realising that my ImppiiiMw depended upon this marriage, I rtstortoi to a hit (If treachery." Here he stopped iiis nrm around his wife, " I found a big negro that 1 knew could throw you, and offered him $lO. That's why 1 wanted the wrestle to take place in tho dark. After he had thrown you. 1 rushes! forward and picked you up." Wh IBek had finished, the old man looked nt him for fully five minutes and remarked: "It was a mighty mean trick, but the fim and gal are yotir'n. Four hundred acres under fence, and tho gnl weighs one hundred and fifty." —Arhttuas daieitt. To remove stains frjm ivory make a paste of prepared chalk and asmali quan tity of sweet oil nnd snti volatile. Apply it moist with a piece of wash leather, and let it remain till dry. If discolored yellow place them in alum water pre viously boiled and cooled. Take out the brush wcii ami wrap them in a linen cloth wet in cold wriP r. and dry gradu ally. If dried too rapidly out of the alum water they will be injure;!. Mf . M l "WS - TVU Rev- DA Hogs, of the Sou then PrestuUrian uhurch, whp is traveling in tip Holy Lang, narftowly escaped drowning In nth-mpting tn cross Litany nvarfjfcWwfiTyps (Ul d Sldon-by ford ing The strfiun proved to bo deeper and the current winch stronger than he suspected,' nhd fits horse barely escaped being swept down into the sea. About Icebergs. A New York paper says: Vessels sail ing hence lor Kuropc, particularly the regular steamers, have encountered an extraordinary number of icebergs this season, and been exposed to great dan ger therefrom. Many icebergs are pro duced from glaciers, which, thrust down from the higher lands of the polar regions, are pushed forward to the sea, where vast fragments break off and fl oat away. The edges of glaciers extending for miles along a precipitous coast have been seen to fall into the ocean and thus become icebergs, often carrying with them masse* of rock gathered upbv the advance of the glacier. Enormous bergs are also formed by the breaking up of fields of sea-made lee which accumulate along the shores of far northern waters. In 1817, the ice covering several thou sand square miles of the sea north of Iceland, and mainly on the east coast of Greenland, most of which had not, it is thought, been disturbed lor nearly four centuries, was suddenly dislodged and scattered over the North Atlantic. Por tions were carried far beyond the usual eastern range of icebergs f rom the north, approaching within eight hundred miles of Ireland. This great break-up led to the expedition of Admiral (Sir John) 1 Ross in search of a northwest passage 1 the belief then being that the climate had undergone so great a modification as would insure the continual openness of | the northern seas. Northern icebergs drift with the great polar currents. One of those Bids in a south-south west direction, between Iceland and Greenland, and another along the west side of Baffin's bay. near the coast of Labrador. The l>ergs are brought against this continent and the west shores of its bays from their not catch ing immediately the rrpider rotating motion of tne earth as they pass upon larger parallels, and so permit the mo tion to slip from under them. The ma jority of icebergs form on the west side of Greenland, their most remarkable center being at Jacob's light, an inlet a little north of Disco island. From Labrador the ice floats with the current 1 past Newfoundland, meeting near the 1 Gn at bank the warm influence of tne I Gulf stream, and usually disappearing ! about latitude forty-two degrees, the ; extreme limit being forty degrees. In j the southern hemisphere b< rgs go itill I nearer the equator, being visible occa | sionally off the Cape of Good Hope, in latitude thirty-six degrees. They sensi bly cool the waters for forty to fifty miles.and the thermometer on approach ; ing them fails seventeen or eighteen dc- I green. When driven, as they sometimes I are, into Hudson's bay in large numbers, ! I they cause intense cold over the north | ern part of the continent. Ice is always ! found, even In summer, at the mouth of Hayes river, though this is in the lati- ; lude of Northern l'russia. When tho ' ice is spread out into sheets of hundreds | | of miles extent, and rises only a f< w '■ feet above th< water, it is called a field, and when its entire area tain be defined 1 from tlie mast-head it is named a Hoe. j The bergs are rugged nnd picturesque, ' and are om< times seen moving together ! in great numbers. Ifiw tor Kane counted I on his first cruise 9so in sight at the same time, most of tln-m 250 feet high, J and some 300 Jcjd-. Tliey ace generally I sevt n or eight times turthcr below tlmn j above the surface, and the biggest are measured by miles. Rats. Itats are a great pest in every city and j town, and. indeed, everywhere in this country, it seems nearly impossible to get rid of them, and - any method that promises to secure this most desirable j end is worth trying. Somebody recom mends covering stones, rafters and every part of a cellar with ordinary wliite- I wash. made yrllow with copperas, put ! ting copperas in every crcvice or cranny j where a rat may got, and scattering it in 1 corners on the floor. He has tried it repeatedly, and the result has been n I general retreat of both mice and rats, j | not one of which had at last accounts returned. It is said that a coat of this yellow wash, given each spring to a eel- i lar, will not only banish those vermin., but wiJ prevent fever, dysentery or ty- | phoid. Everything eatable should be carefully secured against the ravages of ! ran. which MU so intelligent that they ; will soon abandon premises where they ' get next to nothing to cat. The rat we are most troubled with is the brown rat, much larger, stronger, fiercer and more ravenous than the black nit, which lias almost entirely disappeared, having been driven off or exterminated by the more formidable species. The brown rat is frequency called the Nor way rat, from the erroneous impression that it came from Norway.which coun try it did not reach until it had become abundant in Britain and America. It appeared first at Astrakhan in the be ginning of the eighteenth century, and gradually spread over Western Europe, whence we have derived it. It was onee known as the Hanoverian rat. be cause the Britisli Jacobites were pleased to believe that it came in with the house of Hanover. The Seven unites 01 the World. The seven bibles of the world are the Koran of the Mohammedans, the Eddas of the Scandinavians, the Try l'ilikes of tlie Buddhists, the Five Kings of the Chinese, the three Vedas of the Hin doos, tlie Zendavesta, and the Scrip tures of the Christians. Tlie Koran is tlie m >st m-ent of tliese seven bibles, and not older than tlie seventh century of our era. It is a compound of quota tions from the Old and New Testaments, the Talmud, nnd the Gospel of St. Bar nabas. The Eddas of the Scandinavians were first published in the fourteenth century. The Pitikcs of the Buddhists contain sublime morals nnd pnr n aspira tions, but their author lived and died in the sixth century before Christ. There is nothing of excellence in these sacred books noCiound in the Bible. The ss ; cred writings of the Chinese arc called the Five Kings, " king " meaning web of cloth or tlie warp that keeps the threads in their place. They contain 1 the best sayings of the best sa*es on the ethico-politicni duties of life. These r sayings cannot lie traced to a period , higher than the eleventh century B. C. 1 The throe Vedas are the most ancient . books of tire Hindoos, and it is the opin t ion of Max Muller, Wiison, Johnson 1 and Whitney that they are not older ■ than eleven centuries B. C. The Zcada -1 vesta of the Persian* is the grandest of nil sacred books next to our Bible. Jsor oaster, whose sayings it contains, was i born in tlie twelfth oentury B. C. Moec* , lived and wrote his Pentateuch fifteen [ oenturies B C„ and therefore has a clear , margin of 300 ye irs older t out the most , ancient ot the other sacred writings. 1 A man who won't take off his hat to him-cif once in a while in summer must be a cold-blooded wreeb. A Singular Disaster. The astonishing accident to the steamer Bohemian, which took place at Montreal recently, adds Htill another calamity to the list of marine mishaps which of late hue already been so ue prominent men ia ti..a ;r< >- - i n are bachelors (like William H. Huribcrt and Whitelaw It. id), the j recent leading editors hav- a., been j married men. (ireeicy's wih was a schoolteacher, wliose acquaintance he made at a boarding-house. She after ward went South as governess, and they maintained a ooflfespondence, but how any woman could decipher Greeley's hieroglyphics is a wonder. At last be went to Richm< nd and | brought bark his bride, who pre ; ceded him to the grave only a few weeks. Bennett married a bright girl whose parents kept a thread and needle store. It is said that their ac | quaintance was made at a fair he,d in behalf of a Roman Catholic church, which Bennett was requested to notice favorably. The "favorable pottoe" led to mutual notices of a more import ant character, and finally a matrimonial alliance was the rpsult. It was then the day of small things, and the Bennetts little dreamed of the immense wealth which was before them. BenneU was | fben glad to go up to New Roolielie as a Sunday resort and cut clam chowder at the public table, where, as I'ope says, he oould "damn the climate like a ford." David Hale's wife was one of the most remarkable housekeepers on record, and although he was even then moderately successful, she voiuntar y opened a large and fashionable board ing-house. which was well known as Mrs. Hale's. This was kept up for many years, and was a popular resort for tit st elass families, llenry .I. Raymond left a widow and a family. His son has not thus far displayed any of his father's genius. Manton Mnrhle, formerly of the World, has a second wife, and lives in a very quiet manner. It is suurising how Marble can endure a life of retire ment alter so many years of incessant activity. The Power of Enjoyment. Comparatlvelyjfew people posses# uni formly ehecrfu* disposition#. Most of us have our #d hours nnd moods. But. wbntever his disposition, a man is hound by the law# of his own being, and by those of his social relations, to cultivate the virtue ol cheerfulness as siduously and constantly, lie has r:o more right to injure his neighbor's hnp pinrss llinn to,interfere withh is pecuni ary property, and he cannot indulge in venting ill-humor or spleen, with gloomy forebed'ngs or complaints, or even carrying a sad. sour, frowning visage, without sensibly diminishing the enjoyment or comfort of others, and thus infringing on their rights. Any individual who has tried to do so can win himself from despondency and auriloess. The power of epjnytncnt is in itself a faculty capable of improve ment. and as practice always en fiances power. It is a good thing to form the habit of enjoyment. It is not true t .at the sources ol pleasure arc lew and rare, but it is sadly true that we pass them by unnoticed. Wo crave the ex citement of business or politics of fash ionable lite. and forget the world of in nocent enjoyment,Uiak we trample un der foot. Nature and art ofler their treasure* in vain, the loveliness ol child hood, the attractions of home, tho reel satisfaction of honest labor, the simple pleasure of little things all plead for ut terance. but we repulse them. How can we possess a cheerful spirit and a glad heart when we scornftulv des) if* our simple pleasures? Rvery inno. u\t means of happiness should he welcomed, and giooouiy thoughts persistently init ialled. Always let on that you are smart. It any one asks you a question you can't answer, look at Uietn as though you pilied their ignorance nnd immediately change the subject.—/feci# uk date Cty.