A Simple language.
Oar language in a wimplft ime.
Yon hardlv used Ixt told;
A forest ftiul ft treulom ilown
Ym both alike • wold.
Tlio mftn whoso nerves are strong ml well
A nerve tin mftn wo call;
Wo also cll him nenrotis, 100,
Who lias no norv< s at all.
Wo say a liorve 1* r.wtlvc when
Ho will not budge ergo;
When ho rofneoo to stain! stUI
He restive is also.
*
Our language is ft simple one.
Which any one may oo;
A word u>ar now mean tweodlcdutn.
And the n moan twoedlodoe.
Morton Traiurripl. J
—
THE SQUIRE'S WOOING.
Hqmre Kimball was in hut strawberry
patch palling ap woods whoa Lacy
Keenn came down the road that beauti
ful July morning, and he was just about
to throw an armfnl of them over the
fence aa she came around the corner.
Tho sonbonnet she wore was exactly
like one he remembered to have seen
her mother wear twenty-five years ago;
and he remembered, too, as ho looked
at this one, and the fresh, rosy face
nndcr it, how that one ha J msde his
heart flatter the first time he saw it,
and how he was so bewitched by it, or
the face nnder it, that he bad walked
home with Hester Mason and had bard
work to keep from proposing to ber.
He wondered now, and he had won
dered many times in the twenty-five
years that had gone by sinco then, why
he never did propose to her. He had
meant to marry her some time, and he
was snreshe liked him in the old days;
bat—and ho bad sighed to himself more
than ouoe when he thought of it—
something had come between them, and
sbo had married Robert Keene, and he
had married his Cousin Mary. Fate
mast have had somothing to do with it,
he concluded.
As he looked at Hester's daughter
this summer morning the old fire
stirred under the dust and ashes of
twenty-five years, and he felt a little
flame spring np in his heart.
"Good-morning, Lucy!" ho said,
leaning over the fence.
"Ohl" exclaimed Lucy, with a little
jump, " I didn't see yon, and yon came
near scaring me. Isn't it pleasant T
" Yes,* ik is pleasant," answered the
squire, looking straight at her pretty
face. " How's your mother?"
" Pretty well," answered Lncy. " Your
strawberries are doing splendidly, aren't
they? We're so provoked abont ours.
Tho hens got into tho garden, and
mother says she don't think we'll hare
a pailful of berries in all."
" I want to know I" exclaimed the
*quire. "Now, yon tell jonr mother
t hat she's welcome to all ahe wants ont
of my patch. She can have 'em jtut aa
well aa not. There'a going to be a aight
m ore'n well want, and I'd rather hare
'em naed than wanted."
" I will tell her," anawered Lncy; " I
know ahe'U be delighted at the chance.
Ton know what a hand she is to make
strawberry preserves."
" Yes, I do," answered the sqnire,
thinking of old times. " I remember she
beat all the old housekeeper* at that.
They naed to say that ahe had a knack
of making strawberry jam that nobody
else conld get hold of."
"Bbe hasn't lost it yet," said Lncy.
"She'll bo pleased to have yon come to
tea some time, and try some she made
last year. She had nnnsnally good
luck."
"I'll do it," said the sqnire. "Le* me
see—to-day's Wednesday. Tell her I' 11
come over Saturday, if it's agreeable,
and I gneas the berries 'll be ripe so I
can pick a psilfnl by that time. If
thoy be, I'll bring some over."
"Thank yon!" said Lney. "If yon
do we'll have a shortcake. I'll tell her
to expect yon to tea on Satnrday,
then."
"Yes," answered the sqnire; "I'll be
'roond if nothing happens. Oh 1 I
heard from Charley yesterday. He'll
be home in a day or two to stay."
"That'll be pleasant for yon," aaid
Lncy, stooping down to pick np a daisy.
The * quire could not ace how rosy
the face under the bewitching sunbon
net grew all at once. If he had it
might hare aet him thinking.
"Tea it will," aaid the squire.
"Charley's a good boy."
"I gueaa Til have to be going," aaid
Luc;. "We ahall expect jou to tea
Saturday, remember."
"I won't disappoint you," aaid the
squire; and then Lucy went on, and ho
went back to pulling weeds.
"I a'poee it's foolish to think of such
a thing," he aaid to himself, "but I
don't know aa it's anybody's business but
ours. If I see fit to marry Lucy, an'
she's willin', I'm going to do it."
Prom which yon will see that the
squire's fancy for the mother had sud
denly been transferred to the daughter.
Charley came home the next day.
'* I s'poae I'll have to tell him what
I've been thinking about," thought the
squire. "I'd 'bout M soon take a
iv rse-wbippi&s, I declare. But there
1 ain't any nse in dreading it an' putting
it off, as I know of."
Accordingly, when they wero sitting
' on tho pin7Jia after snppor, tlio squiro
jbegan:
I " I've been thinking some of getting
a new housokeepor," he announced,
\ fooling his faoo gotting uncomfortably
i hot.
"Won't Aunt Sarah stay?' asked
| Charley.
"I—l meant a housekeeper of an
i other kind," said the squire, wiping his
! face vigorously.
j Charley gave a whistle of surprise
i and starod hard at his father.
" Who is it to bo, if I may ask such
l a question V ho said.
" Down tho road," said the squire,
jerking his tlintub over his shoulder in
, tho direction of tho Widow K*ene'n.
He couldn't muster up courage to
say Lucy.
"Aha I that's tho way tho wind
blows, is it?" laughed Charley. "I'm
glad to hear it. Yon couldn't do bet
ter."
" I'm glad to hear you say so," said
the squiro, much relieved. "I felt
sure you'd like to have Lucy as a—a
member of the family."
" I haven't any objections, if she
hasn't," said Charley.
"So that's over," said tho squire,
much relieved, as Charley strolled
down the road -in the early evening.
" I wonder he never took a fancy to
her. 1 s'jtoae folks'll say I'm au old
fool, but I don't care."
While he sat there Charley was
telling Lucy that his father had keener
eyes than he had given him credit for,
for he seemed to understand bow mat
ters stood perfectly. And what ho told
her after that is nono of yonr business
or mine, thongh I will say that 1 feel
sure it had something to do with Lucy's
becoming "one of the family."
About four o'clock Saturday after
noon tho sqnire, in his best coat and
with a pail of strawberries on his srm,
knocked at Mrs. Keene's door.
"Good-afternoon," said the widow,
as she let him in, with a charming
suspicion of a blush in her face, which,
ho had to admit, was almost an fair
as it bad been flvo and-twenty years
ago.
" Here's some berries," said the
sqnire, awkwardly presenting bis offer
ing. " Lncy said the hens h d played
the mischief with jours."
"I'm a thousand times obliged to
you!" said the widow.
By that time the squiro had got to
the sitting-room doer. Who should ho
see there but Charley, seemingly very
lunch st home, an he held worsted for
Lucv to wind ?
" I managed to get an invitation to
tea, too," laughed Charley. "Yon kept
it pretty sly, but I wasn't to be cheated
ont of rar share of strawberry pre
serves."
Then Charley and Lucy looked at
each other and laugbod; and the squire
felt his face grow red.
"Just see what he has brought usf"
said the widow, displaying the berries.
"If you'll help hull 'em, Lucy, we'll
have a shortcake for tea. I remember
bow fond yon used to Ire of strawberry
shortcake years ago," and the widow
smiled at the sqniro till thero was a
dimple in each cheek.
" I remember, too," teaponded the
sqnire.
Then Lucy and her mother went out.
" Ive spoken to her about being one j
of the family, and she's willing," said i
Charley.
"I—l don't understand!" said the
sqnire, in great bewilderment, growing 1
hot then oold.
" Why, yon know what yon said the I
other night when yon told me yon
thonght of getting her mother for
housekeeper," explained Charley. "I
supposed yon understood, from what
yon said, that Lncy and t intended to
bo married. It's all settled." .
The sqniro sat speechless. What he
thought of in the next five minutes
conld not be condensed into a column |
of this paper.
" I—l hope you'll be happy! ' ha
stammered at last, feeling thst some
thing wss expected of him.
" I'm sure we will," said Charley. "I
hope you will, too."
Pretty soon the widow came in.
" The short-cake's baking," she said.
" Lncy aaid she'd hull the berries and
set the table, and sent me in to play
lady and entertain the company."
Charley watched his opportunity, and
slipped into the kitchen.
The squire had made np his mind
again. If be cooidn't have Lncy he'd
have her mother, it he oould get her.
"Come to think it all over," he told
himself, " thst was the best plan by ail
odds."
He wondered how he conld have been
foolish enongh to think of marrying a
girl of twenty one or two. The idea
was ridiculous.
" What's the two ot waiting!" thought
be. "It might as well be settled now
an any time."
" Hester,' he began, getting red
again, " Charley an' Lncy are going to
get married. Why shouldn't wef
. " Why Hqoire Kimball ?" cried the
widow, blushing no rosily that h
thought sho wrh prettier than her
daughter.
*' I oanre over on purpose to auk yon,"
natd the nqnire, telling a ruont out
raucous Ah. "I hope you haven't any
object ions."
When Tmey came in half an honr
loter to aay that tea wan ready, tho
Hjniro rose up, bluHhing like a girl, and
jerked his thumb toward the widow,
and Kaid, in a voice that shook a little :
"That's your mother, Lucy. I mean,
sho's Mrs. Kimliall, or going to bo.
It's all settled."
"I a'pose I may kiss my father then,"
said Lucy, and plumped h kiss on tho
squire's lips, who said she might givo
him anotbor for her father-'n-law, while
she was about it, if she'd no objections.
"Ono'll answer for both," langbeil
"Lucy.
Then the sqniro gave bis arm to the
woman ho bad meant to marry twenty
years ago, and led her ont to tea. Ho
has never regretted that matters turned
out as they did.
" Lney can't be beat for a daughter,"
he tells himself ; "but he don't want
uny better than her mother makes.''
Kidnaping and the Lottery In Italy.
The mwt immoral amus.ment (if
amusement it can be called), the lottery,
is a great source of revenue to tho gov
ernment, and I know it is a great sourco
of misery and crime to tho people, in
illustration of which I will tell an anec
dote, which, strango at it may seom, is
absolutely true :
A lady took her little boy to a noigb,
taring fair. He was a lovely child,
with flaxen hair, blue eyes and a daz
zling fair complexion. To this pair a
well-ilrossed woman of the middle class
fascinated apparently by the extraordi
nary beauty of the child approached.
•' 1 have a carriage here," said she to
the mother; " may I tako your boy for
a little drive? I will bring him back
almost immediately." The lady was
young and unsuspecting; the child
eager to go. He was carried off, and
in rain the mother waited and watched.
The stranger woman never brought
back her child. The kidnaper was
not a native of those parts. No ono
there knew who she was, whence she
came, or whither she had gone.
There seemed no clew to the mystery.
The poor mother went more than half
distracted ; bat the father, a man of
energy and shrewd sense, succeeded in
tracking his child to a village far south.
Accompanied by " carabtnieri," he dm*
covered his son in s loft, and rescued
him only jnst in timo from an awful
fate. He was about to be murdered,
and an altar bad been erected on which
the rictim*s blood was to spurt. The
motivo of the intended crime was to in
sure his raurdereas a prize in the littery;
for a soothsayer had recommended for
this purpose the sacrifice of a fair and
rosy child. The woman wss put in
prison where she shortly died. Bhe
had not borne a bad character, and the
dreadful guilt sho meditated appears
to have been the result of a sort of
madness which the fascination of the
lottery is said to bring npon its victims.
Perhaps it is fair to add that tbia hap
pmed many years ago. —I Am don Corn
kill.
Blood-Atonement in (.'tab.
A letter frcm Halt Lake City to the
Chicago Tribmtr says: With regard
to blood-atonement I am assured that it
is practiced todays* frequently as it
was Iwenty-tlve years ago, though not
so openly. There are no coroners in
Utah and when a body is in death it is
simply bnried. Poison does the work
and there are no inquiries When a
man gets tired of his wife he (>oiaona
her. One crime, which was committed
here only a short time ago, I mnst de
scribe. Mrs. Maxwell camo to Bait
Lake City with her hnaband in 1869.
Two years afterward her husband took
another wifo and one year subsequently
he was seaKd to a third. Mrs. Max
well had two sons, aged respectively
fourteen and sixteen years. Their
father nrged them to go through the
Endowment house and beoome Mor
mons, bound by all the oaths of the
church. Mrs. Maxwell, having led a
life like that of Mrs. Hunt, objected,
and in order to prevail over her sons
she told thorn the secrete of the Endow
ment house.
The penalty for revealing these
secrets u dismemberment of the body,
the throat out and tongue torn out.
Mr. Maxwell overheard his wife, being
in an adjoining room, and forthwith he
informed the elders, who sent for the
nnfortnnate woman and her two sons.
The were taken into what is called the
" dark pit," a blood atoning room under
Brigham Yonng's house. Six member*
of the priesthood then performed their
terrible crime ; they first out off their
victim's tongue, thay then ent her
throat. The sons were eompolled to
stand by aud witness this dreadful
slaughter of their mother. The sons
went directly to the hoot* of a friend,
to whom they related the bntehery of
their mother, and obiaining a package
of provision* they started ; bnt on the
following morning thoy were both dead
—they had met the Daoites.
TOPICS OF THE OAT.
There are loss crnnkM iu the literary
profession than in any other, according
to nu English scicntifc writer, who
says: "I And on looking over the tabu
lated jflßrns that of all n-coguized pro
foKaioMllic one leant liable to insanity
ia that of literature. According to the
retnrna thero arc thia year 139,143 men
and women engaged an author*, dilorn,
journalists, re)ortrH, translator*, or in
other literary work. Ont of these
twelve only are returned a* lunatic*."
( uptaiu Encosou's new torpedo boat,
the Destroyer, was tried at the Brook
lyn navy yard recently, the result being
very satisfactory. The Destroyer is 130
feet long, twolvo feet wide and eleven
feet deep. It is claimed that against
this craft, with a torpedo which it will
ne in action, carrying 340 ponnds of
dynamite, the most powerful ironclads
will bo helpless, while tho facility with
which it can In* maneuvered will enable
it to ply its destructive work among a
fleet of big ships almost at will and
with entire safety.
Tho advice given by the Marquis of
Lorne to spinsters in England who are
pining for haabands was to go to Mani
toba, British America. Any womau who
goeo ont there, according to the marquis,
" will have an offer of marriage at least
once a day, and the farther west Bin
goes the more offers she will got."
There conld hardly lie anything more
encouraging than this to tho miud of
the sympathetic spinster yarning for avt
opportunity, and we shall expect ere
long to aee the wilds of Manitoba
crowded with blooming English maid
ens. It is a shrewd move on the part
of the marqnia, for it will keep ihe
yonng Canucks at home and hriug
others there.
One of the most extraordinary ex
periments ever vouchsafed to on adven
turous traveler has just been completed
by Mr. O Douovan, long imprisoned at
Merv, in Central Asia. Such is his ad
dress and so great are his powers for
winning conAdenco and acquiring cor -
trol that, after a long captivity of which
every moment might easily have been
his last, he cxmo to be troxted with the
utmost respect, lived in a fortification
erected for his special accommodation,
and wss appointed one of the council
of three to govern the tribes. And
when ho reached Constantinople last
November it was not as an esoaped cap
tive, hut as iho envoy plenipotentiary
from Mrv to ail the European princes.
It in stated tlii®. the common gra<len
of glass marie at the factories in Pitts
bnrg have a crashing strength nearly
four times as great as the atrongeat
quality of granite, and the loading
manufartnrcr* in that city say that
blocks of glass can be made of suitable
lengths and sizes and ao annealed as to
be available in the construction of
building* inst- ad of atone, the Work*
being made to adhere together by the
nse of cement. With the progress of
invention the cost of glass has been
lessening, while the quality of the fabric
is becoming better. In parts of Qer
many and on one line in England glass
tie* are being used on railroad* with
entire success. They are aa useful aa
wood, and last seventy-five per cent,
longer. It will readily be seen that
very picturesque buildings might be
made of colored glass.
fis an advertisement of the whale
which he eras exhibiting, a Hi. Louis
showman sent a man np in a balloon
with a quantity of handbills which he
was to distribute in his flight from the
trapeae upon whieh be sat. Everything
went right until the aeronaut was many
hand red feet above the earth, when
suddenly everything went wrong. The
balloon began to fall with great
rapidity, to the horror of the spectatota
and to the terror of the aeronaut, who
was seen to be desperately jumping
about among the rope*. His judgment
did not qnite desert him, however, and
when the balloon was within a few feet
of the housetops he sprang from tba
trapeze upon the roof of a high build
ing and threw his arms around a
chimney beside which he alighted. He
was not injnred, and the whale was un
doubtedly well advertised.
Tho United State* Economist sound*
this note of alarm concerning the timber
supply: The BOW well known feet ie
that we are rapidly exhausting, largely
by reck lam and improvident waste, onr
anppliee of timber in the Northern
Htates. The demand for it inoreaaea at
.he rate of thirty per cent, a ye r, and
even thorn who are interested in high
prioce and immediate safe* of what ia
left of it admit that in twenty yean or
sooner bnilding timber will be extreme
ly aoaree, and that in many parte of the
country, yet anpplied ia part from their
own aoil, it aill bare entirely disap
peared. it ia stated on good authority
that more than 65,000 establishments,
employing 400,000 persona, nnd using
material to the value of over 4350,000,-
000 a year, are engaged in the United
SUU. in manafftctaritig uiloW obllralj
froth wood, In addition to 8,000,000 per- ]
sons partly employed on wood or using
that material yearly to the value of
80,000,000. No country can be or ever
has been despoiled of her t:rnl>er and
flourish.
Or. Haves, the Arctic Explorer.
The late Dr. Isaac I. If ay CM was born
in Chester county, Penm, March 6,
1832. Hi* parents designed him for
the medical profession, and he was sent
to tho University of Ponnsylvauis, from
which ho was graduated with tho ad
dition of M. D. ta his name, in May,
1853, at tho ago of twonty-onc. Before
his graduation he applied to Dr. Kane
for permission to join his second expe
dition to the Arctic, and 'on May 29 he
secured the coveted appointment as
surgeon of .the expedition. Daring the
second summer the Advance was frozen
' in the ice and there was no possibility
jof freeing bor. Provisions wore run
j uing short, and it was Anally decided
I to divide tho crew, one part to remain
with Dr. Kano in tho Advance the
other to attempt the passage south to
Upernavik in boats. Dr. Hayes was of
tho latter party, which left the brig
August 20, 1854, dragging the little
I boat Faith over tho ice in search of
| open water to the south. The record
of that perilous journey, with its suffer
ings, is given in Dr. Hayes' book, en
titled "An Arctic Boat Journey," pub
lished in Boston in 1860. After three
months of terrible suffering the party
was obliged to givo up the project and
retnrn to the brig, for which they
started November 25, reaching it De
cember 26.
Upon tho return of Dr. Kane's expe
dition, Dr. Hayes announced bis con
viction that, notwithstanding the fail
ure to reach it, an open polar sea did
not exist, and be set abont raising the
money to organiza an expedition to dis
cover it In December, 1857, ho pre
sented his views to the American Geo
graphical and Statistical society, and
daring tho succeeding winter hs lec
tured tbrongbout the country and at
the Smithsonian Institution in Wash
ington. Subscriptions for a new polar
expedition were collected by acientiAe
aocietios in Europe and America, the
principal subscriber being Henry Orin
nell, of this city, and in 1860 the
schooner United States, of 133 tons
wo* Atted ont, and Dr. Hayes placed in
command. He sailed from Boston with
a'party of fourteen men, July 10, I*Blo,
and arrived in the same port October
23 1861, having reached a higher point
than any other explorer, except Sir Ed
ward Porry. He joined the army as a
surgeon, and afterward published vol
umes sntitled " Open Polar Sea," " Cast
Away in the Gold," and " The Land of
Desolation."
Ho was a member of the New York
legislature from 1875 to 1880. He was
a member of the New York Geographi
cal society, and his last publio appear
ance was to deliver a lecture before that
body on " Commerce" abont two
months ago. He was also a member of
the New York Press club.
The Cheerful Jap*.
Of all their surface qualities—l use
the word " surface" not as excluding
" substance," but rather implying it—
none is mora noteworthy among the
Japanese than their cheerfulness at
work. It is a quality shared by all
classes and common to all employments.
The Japanese statesman dictates a dis
patch or discnesea a cabinet qneetion
with a smile on his face; the financier,
more astonishing yet, smiles over the
intricacies of a deficient budget; the
preacher smiles during every pause in
hia sermon; the writer at bia desk; the
shopkeeper smiles while chaffering with
hia customer, the servant on receiving
bis master's orders, the smith while
forging the metal, the potter manipulat
ing the clay, the husbandman aa be
wade* knee-deep in mnd across the rice
fields, the bargeman propelling hia
clnmsy boat against wind -and tide, the
coolie straining to lift the heaviest load,
nay, even the conviot at hia forced
labor by the roadside. find what is
more, a very alight occasion will broad
en the smile into a hearty laugh, fill
this is true and genuine good bnmor,
based fir Uy, no doubt, on a good di
gestion, bnt also on a remarkably elastic
temperament, great oourage, and the
sound, good sens* that everywhere and
everyhow makes the beat of things. Had
Mark Tapley bean somewhat more of a
gentleman in manners ha might have
passed for an average Japanese.—Fbrt'
nightly Rtruw.
DeeempeslUea the Cuw.
A German was selling a furniture
polish ia Nomervilie a few days ago
which emitted a pungent and extremely
disagreeable odor. While showing the
preparation to a lady ahe said to the
peddler:
" Bat how it amelUt"
" Dot hi de smell of de composition,
madam," said he.
"I thought so," eho replied, as ahe
closed the gate.
And the peddler did not know whether
the odor or his remark had sent her ofl
eo suddenly.— SommoUle Journal
Changing Place*.
A citizen who had an office iu the
top atory of a block on On s wold street
bad half a ton of coal damped on the
walk tbe other day, and tho cart hud n't
yet disappeared when a boy came puf- j
flng npataira and called out:
"Hay, want that eoal lugged up7"
"That's no way to addrea* a perw>u,"
replied the raan. "Why don't yon ad- J
die sn mo jn a civil, polite manner T J
" Danno how," answered the boy.
"Well. I'll ahow yon. Hit down
here and auppoae yon are the owner of
the officio and I am a boy who want* to
bring np yonr coal."
He stepped into the hall and knocked
on the door, and as the boy cried
"come in, tho man entered the room
with hi* hat in hi* hand and began:
" Hog pardon, uir, but yon have some
I coal on the walk below."
; re*.'
" Shall I bring it up for you T
| " Ob, certainly!"
" How much will you pay?"
" Well," replied the boy, a he looked
aronnd at the scanty furniture. "I
generally prumUe a boy fifteen cent*
' and *hovt- a bogn* quarter on him, bat
seeing it'* yon, and yon are the only
support of a large family, if you'll
, bring up that ooal and put it in that
box, I'll give you my whole income for
a yatr half and a pair of old boota
in the bargain."
" Btiy, what do you mean V de
manded the man, a* he Hushed un.
Hut the boy dodgod him and reached
j the *tairs, and a* he panned at one of
the landing* to look up lie called out:
" I expected every minute that you'd
; advise me to get that coal upstair*
before some creditor gobbled it i You
' can't play boy for *huck."— l)ctrii
Fre. Fret*.
Mrx. Stanford'* Diamonds.
A Pari* correspondent eaya: "J hare
recently been shown one of the moat
magnificent act* of jewelry ever gotten
np in Paria for an American lady. It
waa manufactured to order for the wife
| of ex Governor Stanford, of California,
I and constate of a necklace of large col
| ored diamonds, rubies, sapphires and
1 emeralds, all of the pnreat water. A
bond o( large yellow diamonds en
. circles the throat, each act in smaller
stones.
Below this hand is placed a floriated
design in sm*H white diamonds and
colored stones, extending in deep
points. Between each of those points
l is suspended an immense yellow
diamond set in white diamonds
and attached to the tipper part of the
necklace by a ruby, emerald or sapphire.
There are Are of theso pendants, the
central one being the largest, and bav
in* once figured in the oollection of
the I>nke of Brunswick. This aagnifi
< oent ornament, accompanied by a
comb, a brooch and a pair of earrings
to match, and the necklace itaelf takes
to pieces and can be converted into
pins, hair ornaments, eta, while the
upper row of diamonds can be worn aa
I a necklace without the pendants and
the pointed floriated band. The cost
. of the set has been estimated at (CO,*
I 000. Besides this truly royal parure,
Mrs. Stanford has recently become the
possessor of three brown diamonds, one
set as a ring sad the other two as ear
ing*. which to bo perfectly
unique in the world of jewels
Personating n MrhUagale.
In one of the pieces recently per
i formed at Munich for the private
delectation of the eeoentrie king of
Bavaria, a scene occurs in which a night •
ingale is to sppear in the branch of a
tree warbling its sweet notes. Un
fortunately there exists thus far no in
strument closely imitating the song of
this queen of birds: surely no bird
could have been found loyal enongh to
aing even to a king in winter, mild aa
the season has proved np to this time.
The despair of the stage manager may
therefore bo readily imagined. Htill,
the truth of the old proverb, "The
greater the need, the nearer the help,"
was onoe more vindicated in this trying
dilemma A bootmaker, Bechthaler by
name, who has frequently amused and
delighted his friende by his wonderful
imitative talent, wee applied to by the
distressed official and persuaded to
piece himself behind the soenee, and at
a given signal to "personate" the charm
ing songster, which he did to the entire
satisfaction of his toVal listener. At the
nest performance there will doubtless
be read on the , "single" play-bill
printed for the ldng: "A nightingale,
Mr. Bechthsler."— American Rrgitttr.
Hw Indian* Kill Flak.
The Indiana of Mendocino county,
California, poison large q nautili?* of
flab. They nee a weed that grown like
clover, in boaohea, and m aba uJ an tin
that county. They braise the weed,
and than fasten a quantity of it in the
current, at the heed of n hole in deep
water. The flah become oraay from it*
effect# and die. It killa everything in
the hole where it ia placed, from the
largest fih down to thj smallest min
now. The Indiana ia tbia way gather
dab by the basketful