Horace Greeley and the Ticket Agent. A reformed ticket agent, a man now engaged in a mercantile pursuit, and who looks liock with a profound melan choly and remorse to his wicked career, us he sailed in as a ticket agent, told nic that once, in his sinful days, ho was em ployed at Chicago on a through lino front that incorporated Borons on the lake to New York city, which, made up of u new combination, was " bucking against Vanderbilt. To extend its cus tom the combination hud at Chicago a corps of nble-lsidied rui.ucrs. to seize j wavfnrers by the throat and fetch them up to tho ticket agent, where the inno- | cent traveler was to lsi talked into u j ticket over the combination. One day an able-bodied ruffian came loading up a rough-looking customer, who wished to purchase a ticket for New York by the way of Cleveland. But evidently the old wliite-hnttcd, loose trouaeml, coarse-booted countryman, j with his white head and goggling look, did not know what he wanted. It was for the ticket agent to care for him, and so he rattled on with ticket in hand until the venerable, goggle-eyed old shutfie-toos had extracted from a fat wallet the price and shambled awkwardly away. '• Say, old fellow," asked a friend, who happened to lie in the office, "do you kn*m- who yon sold a ticket to then?" "Home old fool of a corn-cracker." "Not a I lit of it that was Horace < ireelcy." "(er whillicans! and lie wanted to go to Cleveland ?" " Yes, lie is lulled to lecture there, and the 'Tribune will give your combina tion the deuce for the swindle." " Tluit's so. Here, you put your cheek to this hole till I find him." Away ran the ticket agent. It was not difficult to find the hotel ut which the venerable philosopher lodged. The ticket agent found him in the reading room poring over a late issue of the Tribune. He tapped Horace on the shoulder, and the philosopher looked up with the childlike expression of his that seemed to come out from open eyes and mouth. " I beg your pardon," said the agent, •• but I sold you a ticket to New York awhile since, and I made a mistake." " In the money, I suppose?" replied Horace, dry ly. " No, sir; in the route. I reinemlier after yon left yon said Cleveland. Now the ticket t gave you will not take yon to Cleveland." " The deuce it won't." crii-d Greeley, starting up. " Well, young man, I can tell yon that would Is- a great disap pointment to Cleveland." " I don't know anything about that; but I did not want any man to miss bis | way through any fault of mine. So I've I been in every hotel in Chicago after I yon." " The deuce you have?" " I have. Then- is the right ticket, j It's over a rival line. But my honor, sir. rises almve trick. I twilight the right ticket for yon, and if you give me the | • •Id one we will Is* even." " Young man," said Horace, fishing j from his capacious jiocket the ticket of i the combination, "you are very good \ too good; come to think of it, too gssl ( for a ticket agent. Leave that, good young man, liefore your innoeent nature is eorrnpted. or your jiatent screw and podfttiger line is bursted np. Go West, , young man, go West."— \Vrform actions and do things in his story liefore which the gory glory of freolxiotors or the dutliolical deviltry of a I mini 'if Moorish pirates on the {Span ish main pnuld pale into nothingness. As soon as Messrs. Htreet k Hmith le --enrne aware of the character of the story they stopped its publication, and in serted the following notice in their |Mi]>er : We liave just learned that the au thor of " Bantam Jim" has used the names of living persons in his atorv and endeavored to ridicule some of theni bv representing them as guilty of set* which could only nave originated in his imagi nation. As we never permit the columns of the New York Weekly to lie used as a vehicle for the dissemination of slander, no more of the story will 1m published. Mme York Monthly Union. Human nature la ao constituted that all see and judge hotter in tbe affairs of otheia than in their own. The Brooklyn Bridge and its Builder. I Uoebling wait tho greatest bridge j builder in tbe world. 110 started the ! making of wire cordage in America and | built suspension bridges to carry tho aqueducts of canals across rivers, ami ' engineered tho Pennsylvania railroad | across the monntains. Tho Brooklyn bridge, between towers, ( is 1,595 feet long. Behind tho towers | there aro 940 feet each side, back to j the anchorages. Tho whole length of the bridge and approaches iB (1,000 feet, j It is one of tho widest bridges in the world, eighty-five feet, with a prome- , nado thirteen feot wide, two railroad tracks and four carriage and horse-car tracks. It is 1:15 feot in the center above tho water. The rock on which tho towers rest is about uinoty feet be low tho surface of the water on tho New York side and half that depth on the Brooklyn side, tho most stupendous thing about the structure. Each tower is 134 feet long by fifty-six wide, and at tho top these dimensions are reduced to 120 feet by forty, or the si/.e of a very largo house. Each tower is 2(18 feet above high water. It is I,.'!■'!('< feet from the beginning of the causeway on Chat- i ham street out to the anchorage on the j New York shore. The nrchit -ct of the 1 bridge received his death wound almost at its inception, standing on the upper frame work of Fulton ferry slip as a , boat came in and threw its weight against the piles, which yielded and crushed his foot. As if the spirit of the old ferry, about to be supplanted, hud revenged itself on tho innovator ! They buried Uoebling in that summer of 1869 at Trenton, New Jersey, near the spot where poor John Fitch, tho watch maker, eighty-two years lwfore, had started the steamboat. But Boebling's true monument is the Brooklyn bridge towers, and liotwoon them in tho nerves and tendons, trembling like a weaver's web, plies the shuttle of his soul. You can hear his own words if you aro rev- | erent, calling to tho ships and steamers beneath : "It will be the greatest en gineering work of tho continent, and I the greatest bridge in existence. Its towers will be national monuments' It will forever testify to the energy, enter prise and wealth of the great commnni- I ties it overhangs !" Upon the portal of the bridge they might also inscribe his motto: " I have no fear of honest dif- j ference of opinion, it is only cavillers j that I dread." .Wir Ynrk Tribune, ——— Arab Oddities. An Arab entering a house removes his shoes, but not his hat. He mounts his horse ii|kui the right aide, while his j wife milks the cow upon the left side * Writing a letter, lie puts m arly all the , compliments on the outside. With him ! the point of a pin is its head, whilst its head is made its heel. His head must lie wrapped up warm, even in the sum i mer, while his feet may well enough go naked in winter. Every article of mer- | chaudisc, which is liquid, he weighs, * hnt measures wheat. Iwrlev and a few other articles. He reads and writes from right to left. He cats scarcely anything for breakfast, at tout as much for dinner* but after tbo work of the day is done sits down to a hot meal swimming in oil. or better yet. boiled bntter. His sons i-at with him. but the femah-s of his honse wait till his lordship is done. He rides a donkey when traveling, his wife walking behind. He laughs at the idea of walking in the street with his wife, or of ever vo<-ating his scat for a j woman. He knows no use for chairs, j tables, knives, forks nor even sjmons, | unless they an- wooden ones. Bed- j steads, bureaus and fireplaces may l>e placed in the same category. If he lie an artisan lie does work sitting, perhaps using his feet to hold what his hands are engage*] n|Kin. Brinks'cold water with a sisinge, but never liathcs in it un less his homo lie on the seashore. Is rnndv soon drnnk—too seldom sjieaks the truth—is deficient in affection for his kindred—lias little curiosity and no imitation—no wish to improve his mind —no desire to surround himself with the eomforts of life. A Swallow Storjr that Won't (Jo llown. A religious publication of .Switzerland prints n letter from a native of Valais, now a farmer at Uoritilm, Brazil, which tells an apocryphal story alio tit a | swallow. On August 15, 1850, Jean I/onis Caillct, the story-teller, then a pions shepherd of Valais, was climbing among the rocks when a swallow alighted on her nest above his head. He climbed tip and took the bird, which was jierfectly tame, in his hand and, i hoping to see it again in the future, wound a bit of brwaa wire, taken from his rosary, around one of its legs as a means of identification. Just thirty years afterward, Caillet was lying in his lsd at Coritilm, Brazil, when he heard a rustling of wings, as if a bird waa flying over his lied. He thought that it waa protmhly a hat, and fell asleep again. " When I got up in the morning," he writes, "I saw a dead swallow lying on my window-sill. I took it np care lessly, when suddenly I discovered that a piece of brass wire encircled its right leg." Caillet is convinced that this was the very same tiird which he had provided with the sign for fntnre recog nition thirty years liefore, when he was - in Europe. A Terribly Strict General. General Clim lmt, the present military governor of Paris, wan terribly strict in the Franco-German war. Having the eoinmaii)! >f row levies, inclined to he insubordinate, lie resolved to show them promptly that he was their master. Once lie issued a stringent order against robbing fruit ami vegetables from the fields and gardens of the peasants in the Loire valley. A few days afterward a eonple of Zouaves stole out of camp by night and gnthered a basketful of pota toes. These two soldiers happened to be veterans who had served in the Ital ian war, and they were brave fellows much liked by their colonel; but this only matin their offense worse in tlm general's eyes; " for," said he "if old soldiers set the example of diwlsslience, how can we expect the young ones to obey?" So the two Zouaves were shot. On another occasion three young sol diers took it into their heads to go out of camp without leave on Sunday, in or der to dine with some friends who lived in the neighborhood. Thev returned in time for tattoo, thinking, probably, they had committed only a venial offence; they were shot the next morning. (ii iieral ('liueluint had issued orders that on the march no soldier was to climb into,the ambulance vans 01 store wagons unless certified lame or ill by the army surgeons. The reason of this order was that a number of lazy sol diers used always to swarm on the wagons in order to get a lift instead of inarching. One day a yonngstei who was in pcrfi-ct health clambered inside a van, and was discovered there by a sergeant, who ordered him to get out. The soldier alighted, but, determined to have his drive, he slit open his lioot and inflicted 11 slight cut on hi- foot, to make ls-lieve that lie bad gone lame. A i oi'|M>ral saw him, and by-and-bye tie lad Way riqMirti-il for the double offense of disoliedicnccand malingering. When lie had been court-martialed, the gen eral gave him a chance of his lib- bv calling on hint to i-onfess 11 rat the injury to his foot was self-inflicted; but the foolish fellow, thinking to save himself by a lie, maintained stoutly that lie luul gone lame by stepping on a flint, lb was accordingly handed over to the provost marshal and shot.— St. J>tmm dazrtl'. Vow Postal Regulations. 1 rider the new order of the |s>stmas ter general revoking section 232 of the postal regulations, all |>artially written matter must prepaid at the regular I letter rate of three cents fur each half ounce. A nnmber of exceptions were made to the oj K-rations of this rub*. but nothing was sai-l alsiut circulars made by the lu'kto graph, the electric j-en. etc. Inquiry at tin- New York postofiire elicits the in formation that the jiontmaster-gciicral has made no ruling* resjiecting this class of circulars, but that they are treat**! as j thud class matter if left unsealed and : containing nothing of the nature of |wr sonal eorresjsondenee. (Hlu-r ex- options j to the new order are Corrected proof sheets and manusi ript copy arconi|ianyiiig the same. I kite ami I name of the addressee and of the send- i er of the circular* ami the eom-etion of niorv t V|H>gMphical errors then-in. U]-*-n third class matter or ii|w-n the wrapper inclosing the same the sender may write hi own name and address, with tho word "from" above and preceding the same, and in either cone may make sim ple marks intended to designate a word or passage "f the text to which it ia desired to call attention. There may Is- placed ii|oii the cover or blank b-aves of any | l-s-k or of any 'printed matter of the third cla-s a manuscript deiliration or inscription, but it mnst be confined to a simple aildress or consignment as a mark of respect, and it must not partake of the nature of personal ei>rrcq>ondonoe. Upon fourth class matter the sender may write his own name and aildress, preceded by the word " from," and also the timidier and names of the article* inclosed. He may also niArk the article for identification. A I>og Under a Charm. A large and handsome St. Bernard dog was stolen from his owner in New York by a man named Mcijaade. The woman who owned the animal valncd him at £M)O. Tho police arrested Mc- and he and the dog were taken to court. The great St. Bernard, during the proceedings in tho conrt, had been chained to a railing. He kepi con stantly sniffing at MKjnade'a clothing, and seemed fairly under the influence of a charm. As the police led MrQnade away the great animal gave a violent spring forward, breaking the chain, and bursting through the door followed the prisoner. It required the efforts of several policemen to bring him lack to his mistress. The police say that Mo : carries an ointment with him which ia ao attractive to dogs, that they will follow the person who has it npon him wherever he goes. Dog thieves drop some of this ointment on their clothing, and walk by the side of the dog they wish to steal. The animal once having scented it will follow them wherever thoy go. This, the police, say, ia the reason so many valuable dogs are continually being stolen. LADIES' DEPARTMENT. _______ Womn ll N " Horlal Hinndlni." The following story is told by a cor respondent of the Now York Tribune: About a year ago a lady from the conn try, in conversation with one from Brooklyn, was surprised to find a mani fest disposition to frown upon women who receive salaries. The conversation ran upon church siugeiti, their merit and ■ social standing, tho country lady being interested in a your u friend shout to take a place in a city choir. Maid the iady from Brooklyn : " \SV never meet our church singers in society, in our churrli parlors or anywhere. I sup- i pose they have society of their own, i singers and musicians, and keep j strictly by themselves, hut I ' liave never met or spoken to our soprano any more than to our sex- [ ton's wife or daughter." Whereupon 1 the country lady answered with some i warmth: "If that is the way you treat , well-bred, educated young ladies who, j either from choice or necessity, sing in • your churches, I will see that no friend of mine goes there t<> be snubbed. Tin probability is that you have not many ladies in your chureli parlors who are lier equal in intelligence or common sense, to say nothing of musical attain ments." A few weeks after that un pleasant encounter came the announce ment of nn engagement of marriage be tween the son of the Brooklyn lady and . this same little despised and rejected i soprano. ltf---k-rp|riir. .lust now the " independence of women" is particularly interesting to rue, and |-crluqm I can help a sister in , lier need. One employment a woman can follow at home is bee-keeping. Begin small and hum the business thoroughly by reading and experi once, and when you have learned it j well then g<> into it as largely as seems best. I bought a stand of t-cs tbree . years ago. but had never worked with ls-es or seen any one else do so, and hardly knew a drone from a worker, and though the situation is riot favor able and the seasons have been very poor, my bees have " paid their rent and boarded themselves." 1 have read largely and followed the practices of those who have ts-en-highly successful, until my ncighlKirn say: "You can do anything yon want to with Iw-es, can't von?" Having lw-en entirely succe** fnl in all the OJK- rat ions of hiving natural swarms, artificial swarming uniting, introducing, transferring, etc., I feel that with this thorough pr- para tion I can go into the business largely of either qu-en n-aring or raising honey for market. It is a fascinating employ ment, ami can I*- h-arm-d at home with but very little outlay. HUulr. Fashtra fssrlr*. Very close crimp*si hair is now in style. Tiny comb* of gold or steel ornament n--w hat*. Dull Boman red is a new color nsed in i-arpet*. Flowers of velvet and chenille are used on French liats. Glittering groups of snail *lill are seen on new hats. Navy blue ami old gold are much used in new cnrjK-t*., The condor and canary lord furnish the rival colors in millinery. Lndi--s use gold or jeweled collar but tons almost as much as gentlemen. Black Ratin dr*-sses are mueli trimmed with application of jet arranged in the form of ivy leaves. For evening cluster* of roses made of plush are placed on the waist and among the drapery of the dress. There is a new kind of momie cloth which has strqvos of two or three colors ; it is made up in combination with plain material. Some evening dresses are made tip with exceedingly short waists cut sway in an oval at the throat, and only need three hooks to fasten them at the lock. The only trimming on the skirt is a lit tle flounce. Woof marine etiquette. The first ami most important settj--. : merit which owes its origin to them was the mie -m tin- Fox river, LaHull*-ooun- : tv, 111., which was founded m 1 xrw;. ! Since then the Nona* emigration has | been steady and uninterrupted, though varying greatly in numbers from year to i year It was largest in the following year- 1843. Ist.'-. |s|h, JhT,}. IS.V-, IM2I, 1865, ]H6B, I*7* and IHKO. The States 1 in which tin Norwegians have settled by preference, and in which they are now numerically strongest, ar<- Minne sota. Wisconsin. lowa ami Illinois. Tlu-v si-em, however, to Is- constitutionally adapted for pioneer lib-, ami those of them who have failed to realize their ex- JS-I tat ions in the older States, besides a large munls-r of new-comer*, an- con- j tinuallv moving westward, pushing I fore them the boundary line of civiliza tion tf-Z-r-e-t li' nnt.li' -/, i. ' Fear of Disease. It is said that while the plague was raging in Buenos Ay res the grave-dig gers bore charmed lives. Of the three hundred men so employed not one died of tho disease. It has often been noticed that during the prevalence of pestilential dim-asm physicians, undertakers, nurse* and grave diggers, whose business compelled constant liability to infection, have usually escaped in a far greater ratio than their nurolier* would warrant. The "charm" of this immunity from the prevailing scourge is very simple. They are not wired. They are positive to the disease, and rejK-1 its attacks. Far is a great ally of death. Whoever is afraid of disease is in a negative con dition, and really invites its approach. And thus it is the world over. The brave die but once, while cowards die many times. Much unnecessary alarm exist* in every community in regard to tunny disease 1 -. We are, it is true, *ll liable to sickness and death. But if wo are all sol-er, cleanly and brave of heart, we need have no fear of disease of body or mind. Population of the Earth. Bolim and Wagner, in the last edition of their Imok on the population of the earth, estimate the entire population of tin- inhabited glol*- at l.iofi,ooo-000per son*. Europe, without rsmnting Iceland and Nova /• ml-ln, i* believed to have 315,929,000 inhabitants on an nn-a of 176,240.9 German square mile*, or at the rate of 1,791 jiorsnns to the German square mile. Asia is put down as hav ing KM.707,600 inhabitants, on H0P,478 square miles that is, 1,031 persons to tin- square mile ; Africa as having 205.- 679,800 inhabitants, on 548,187 square mile*, or .17# persons to the square mile ; America as having 95,495,500 on 097,- 138.5 square miles, or 137 to the square mile ; Australasia as having 4,031,000 on 162,002 square miles, that is, 24 jn-rson* to the square mile ; the Arctic regions are assumed to have 82,000 inliabitaifts on 82,<191 square miles, or als-nt one person to every square mile. Tho sum total,as observed, is 1.455,923,.500 itcraons on 2,470,903.4 square miles, or at tho rate of 589 person* to the German square mile. The German empire com prises 9,815.6 square miles, with a popu lation (in 1878) of 44,210,948 persons. It ia an ackm wlodged fact that among the modem machines nono work ont fine results with mora ingenuity of design, workmanship, or careful corre lation of weight, strength and material, and precision of movement of parts, than the tricycle. The Des Moines (la.) Mail Car K|e*ks right to the point when it says: "No mortal man can edit a paper and be popular with everybody; any man who would even try to would be looked upon as a colossal lunatic." The salt need by the peckers and j butchers of Han Francisco is obtained , by solar cvaj-oration from the water* of I the ocean. The process ia easy. One Honest Man. The other day *t z won Hat around a stov in a Detroit tobacco store. There had hoeri a long period 0/ silence when one of them nihhed bin leg and remarked: I hat old wound feels an if it wan going to open again. I shall alwaya re member the battle of Kich Mountain." There was a Might Htir around the atove, and a second man put his hand to hia aboalder andjobserred Ami I ahull uot soon forget Brand v Station, i eela to-day &H if the fend wu going to work out." Ihe interest wa* now considerably increased, and the third man knocked the ashes off hia cigar and said " Yes, those were two hard fights, but von ought to have been with Nelson at Franklin. Hut waan't I excited tliat day! When these two fingers went with a grape-shot I never felt the pain !" The fourth muri growled out some thing about Second Hull Hun and a saber cut on the head, and the fifth man felt of hia left side ami said he should always remember the lay of the ground at the Yellow Tavern. The sixth man was silent. The other live looked at him and waited for him to speak, but it was a long time before he pointed to bis empty sleeve and asked "Gentlemen, do you know where I got that V Some mentioned one battle and some another, but he shook his head sadly and continued: " Hoys, let nm be honest and own right np. I lost my arm by a buzz saw, and now we will liegin on the left and give every one a chance to clear hia conscience. Now then, show yonr wounds." The lira meti leaned ba- k in their chairs and smoked fast and chewed hard and looked at each other, and each one wished he was in Texas w hen a runaway horse Hew by ami gave them a chance to rush out and get clear of the one armed man. It was a narrower escape than any one of them had during the war. Itrtrvrit b\< ■■ I'm*. A Novel Fiirht. A novel comlrat wa* witnessed by a largo crowd in Kerry Hatch. St. Louis. A bantam gamecock made a fierce at tack upon a small bull-terrier, which had encroached close to a number of chickens tlwt were fading. At first the dog snarled and showed his teeth, but did not attempt to injure his impudent antagonist. The bantam would not lie subdued by such a moderate manifesta tion of spirit. He flew upon the terrier's Iwli, and sticking his spurs in his hair to obtain a foothold, apparently tried to put out the dog's pyes. The dog then uttomptcd to snap off the liantam's head, but the latter was too quick After in- , flirting some slight wounds the luuitam flew a short distance and crowed shrilly Then he darted bark again and met the dog hall way. The dog was agile and fighting hard, but wan never able to get a bite of his opponent. He made a *nap every five or six second*. but the wily rooster alway-H escaped injury. The fight lasted some five minutes, and only once did the liantam's life apjiear to lie in imminent danger. The Itantam lost some feathers in the fight, and the dog lost one eye and considerable blood. Musical Culture. Theodore Thomas, in a paper in ,