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They will be entitled to j confined exclusively to their business, with irivilege l, i change. •/—Advertising in all cases exclusive of sub ■riptiou to the paper. ,!0H PRINTING of every kind in Plain and Fau nas. done with neatness and dispatch. Hand \ Blanks, Cards, Pamphlets, &c., of every va ,-tv and style, printed at the shortest notice. The vi ,I : TKI: OFFICE has just been re-fitted with Power aid every thing in the Printing line can vented in the most artistic manner and at the rH t. s. TERMS INVARIABLY CASH. OUTSIDE THE ALE-HOUSE. 0, don't go in to-night, John— Now, husband don't go in! To spend our only shilling, John. Would be a cruel sin. There's not a louf at home, John— There's not a coal, you know— Though with hunger I am faint, John. And cold comes down the snow— Then don't go in to-night! Ah, John, you must remember —- And, John, I can't forget- When never foot of yours, John, Was in the ale-house set. Ah. those were happy times, John, No quarrels then we knew, And none were happier in our lane Than I, dear John, and you— Then don't go in to-night! You will not go. John !—John, 1 mind, When we were courting, few Had arm as strong, or step as firm, (ir elieek as red as you ; But drink has stole your strength, John And paled your cheeks to white. Has tott- ling made your yeung, firm trend, And bowed your manly height— You'll not go in to-night? You'll not go in ? Think on the day That made me, John, your wife. What pleasant talk that day we had (>f all our future life ! i >f how your steady earnings, John, No wasting should consume, But weekly some new comfort bring To deck our happy home— Then d' >n't go in to-night! To see us, John, as when we dress'd. So tidy, clean and neat, Brought out all eyes to follow us As we went down the street, Ah, little thought our neighbors then. And we as little thought, I hat ever, John, to rags like these Bv drink we should be brought— You won't go in to-night? And will you go? If not for ftie. Yet for your baby stay ; You know, John, not a taste of food Has passed my lips to-day : And t 11 your father, little one, 1 is mine your life hangs on. Yon will not spend the shilling, John ? You'll give it to him? Come. John, Come home with us to-night 1 —Lomlou People's Journal. J THE STORY I HEARD IN THE SMOKING-ROOM. Were staying a large party at Thronton ! Court, at the beginning of the pheasant-! shooting season, when J heard an account ' "1 an optical delusion, which is of such a ] nfivel character that I can hardly suppose ! it will not be interesting to many people, flie ladies had gone, or at least were sup jMsed to have gone, to bed ; for I have of ten, on my way back from the smoking :n, at an hour when all but a few con- j :;rmed lovers of the weed aie believed to i asleep in a country house, heard through i doors, which communicate between | trie ol the young ladies' rooms and the ; irridor, sounds of voices aud of laughter, which have led me to imagine proceeded ; uii sleeping occupants, and which have I nie to believe that the vague stories wv hear of little chats by members of the titer sex over their bedrooms fires are not altogether unfounded. At any rate every one had left the draw ; ig-r.ioin ; one by one, smokers in every variety and every color of smoking-jacket 1 of dressing-gown, had dropped into the vi re mentioned sanctuary of tobacco, where, under sporting pictures and one or two fixes' brushes, and shut oft the house v d'luble baize doors, we formed a part of about half a dozen round the cheerful fire which the chilly days of early October f' li h ted quite acceptable. After all the '"rubers of the social community were sup ! lif! with cigars and large glasses, which "lit. lined various compounds of elferves •*!JC waters, and bad settled into their i >. we chattered over the pheasants,the F sp 'cts of hunting, the merits of some well-known race horses, and such other sub lets as form the staple of conversation turned upon ghost and spiritualism. All • the subject except the usually '"iversational Col. Houghton, who silent v pulled away at a large cigar and gazed steadfastly into the fire. Come, Houghton," at last said Kandon, Ur host, •• what is your opinion on the sub- I certainly have not the least belief in -C-iOHts. but a most curious case once occur "l to myself for which 1 have never been ' ' if to account," was the reply. Dli, let us hear it by all means," cried several, charmed with the idea of getting " ughton.wiio was rather skeptical in most 'fitters, to tell a ghost story. 1 have never told it, but I think that )' ,w 1 can do so, as, by giving other than r " d names of the men I fancied 1 saw 1 ter their deaths, no one -now will be able fed who they were," was the reply. • S( verai new cigars were lighted, some Bosses we:e replenished, and we disposed . 'vesto listen, when Col. Houghton, ! wing very grave, and with an expression ' ba\e never before seen on his face, began ■us tale ; ' must tell you that my adventure oc in a country, which 1 think is the E. O. OOODIMCII, INiblislior. VOLUME XXVI. last place on earth where one would have expected to encounter anything mysterious or unnatural ; for it was in China, the conn try of ideal dullness and practicality, that 1 witnessed the phenomenon I have hither to been unable to account for satisfactorily. In order to understand the whole case I must begin it a much earlier pnrioil of my life than that at which the circumstance I am about to relate occurred. " When I was about sixteen years old, and at school at Eaton, 1 was seized with a j most ardent desire to enter the army, and ; in frequent letters implored my father to I let me leave Eaton and go to a private tu tor's, where I might undergo a special i preparation for the military profession.— : .My lather for a long time opposed the idea, as he wished me to go to the bar ; and as I was not an over diligent boy, imagined that in the army 1 should not do anything I except smoke and run into debt. At last I my importunities led him to consent to a compromise, and 1 was removed from Eton, but not to a military tutor's ; I was sent to a clergyman in the west of England, who received a very limited number of pupils, and who was to teach me thoroughly such subjects as would lit me for the army, in case I remained steadfast to my wishes, or which otherwise might be useful in a civil career. When I arrived at Dr. Warnbor ough's I found there only two pupils, one named Charles Granger, and another who left soon after I joined ; Granger and I in a short time became warm friends ; we rode together, boated together, had no secrets from each other, and for eighteen months were almost inseparable. I)r. Warnbor ough and his wife were a most kind, good hearted couple, and made us most comfort able in every way,an attention, lam afraid, we did not always reciprocate, for we were both rather wild and foolish, although I must do Charles the justice to say that in all scrapes I was the leader and cause.— One incident which amused us much at the time I may mention, en passant. The village in which Dr. Warnborough's rectory was situated abounded with cats, against which we two boys declared a war of extermina tion. Many fell before our air-guns(bought surreptitiously at an ironmonger's in the neighboring town)before the bright idea struck me of making a rug of their skins ; but the idea when it did come up in my not over well stocked brain, was regarded, both by myself and Charles,as quite equal to Watt's conception of the steam engine, or, what interested us more, the invention of air guns. Naturally my idea was soon acted upon ; the next cat that we killed was skinned with our pocket-knives, the body buried, and all seemed well, when a new difficulty arose. How were the skins to he dried ? It would not be safe to place them in any of the outhouses, for the doc tor might find them, and would lecture us on what would appear to him cruelty, al-, though to us it seemed only in obedience to the dictates of youthful nature that we i should kill the cats. My invention again came to the front; the dining room table ' was turned upside down and the skin nail ed on under its surface ; the table being re- : stored to its proper position, and the cover j put on, no trace of the currier's establish- i inent below was visible. But vision is not ; our only sense ; next day at breakfast Mrs. 1 Warnborough began to think that some of; the drains were out of order ; but as deaic- \ cation had only just set in, her idea was pooh poohed by the doctor, and we boys ' had too strong stomachs to feel any incon venience from u smell of which we so well knew the cause. By dinnertime, however, there was no doubt on the subject, and the ( good lady felt, 1 think, almost a little tri umph even on such a subject, when the doc tor was obliged to confess she had been in the right in the morning. Every search was made to discover the cause of the evil, which increased hourly ; the drains were examined, hut all without avail, the room with the table (which no one thought of examining) standing in its centre was ! uninhabitable ; and at last I felt I must tell ; the doctor ; so I went to him, received a | mild reproof, and the nuisance was repres-! sed." At the first mention of the table with the catskin stretched below it, several of the audience expected some account ot table rapping, or of the supposed spiritualism, for the demonstrations of which this very useful article of domestic furniture used a few years ago to be the favorite instrument: Webb of the Artillery, who knew that cat skin generated electricity, was prepared to account for any phenomenon by the electric agency of the catskin below the table ; but as the termination of this part of the, story opened no chance to him for broaching this theory, it was only in a confidential mo ment next morning he discovered to me what had been passing in his mind. Colonel Houghton after a few moments pause, recommenced : '' For about eighteen months Granger and I lived most happily in Dr. Warnborough's house ; but at the end of that time the poor doctor caught a cold in returning at a late hour from a visit to a dying parishioner, which settled in his lungs, and from the effects of which he died within a few weeks. Both Granger and myself were deeply affected by the loss; we had both loved sincerely the worthy estimable man whose only fault ( if lie had one at all) had been too much kindness to us. "As this loss left Mrs. Warnborough to tally unprovided for, the curate, who re ceived the late doctor's living, being an unmarried man, generously gave Mrs. Warnborough the free use of the rectory, and engaged himself to read with us, so that Mrs. Warnborough might still receive what our parents paid for our board and lodging to help to eke out her little income. " About three months after I>r. Warn borough'- death, a match at football took place in the village between our parish and a neighboring one. Charles and I were players on our side, aud worked hard at a rather uphill game all the afternoon. In the evening we left the drawing-room and retired to the dining room, which after dinner was devoted to our use for the pre paration of our lessons. This evening the severe exercise of the afternoon told on us so much that Charles, after a vain attempt on a piece of French composition, threw himsclt on the sofa, ami in a lew minutes was fast asleep. A quarter of an hour more of Euclid made me follow his example in the armchair hy the fire. The room was well lighted with four candles aud a toler ably bright fire. Charles' sofa was at the end of the room furthest from the door, and TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, I'A„ NOVEMBER 30, 1865. I was sitting in the armchair, which had its back towards the door. After being asleep about an hour and a little before ten o'clock, as I afterwards found bv my watch, I was aroused by a sudden cry from Charles. On awakening, I distinctly saw Dr. Warnborotigh, dressed in his morning gown, walk across the room from the end nearest Charles to the door, where lie dis appeared either through the door or by opening it, and closing it after him : in my surprise I could not see which. " A few moments sufficed to completely awake me, and 1 rushed out of the door to try to perceive something more of the extraordinary vision; but all was still and undisturbed in every part of the house. Charles and 1 discussed the matter very seriously. He informed me that he had awoke and seen the doctor standing look ing at him, the sight caused him to call out and thus awaken me. We neither of us believed in ghosts, but were much de pressed and puzzled by this strange ap pearance, which we resolved to confide to no one, in case it might reach Mrs. Warn borough's cars and give her pain. Often and often we talked to each other, how ever, on the subject and .ultimately made a compact that if it were possible, which ever of ns died lirst should appear to the other after death. " in a few mbnths after this 1 was re moved from Mr. Warnborough's, and at the same time Granger went abroad to look after his father's business in Austria For six or seven years I was quartered with my regiment in several parts of the United Kingdom ; I occasionally saw Granger when we both happened to come to London together, which was not often ; but in the excitement of early military life, I thought no more of optical delusions, and almost forgot my compact with Granger and the vifiion of Dr. Warnborough, I was after wards sent to India, where I still received occasional letters from Granger ; but diff erent tastes and pursuits rendered our cor respondence uufrequent and uncertain. "When the expedition to i'ekin was de termined on in 1860, the cavalry regiment to which J was attached was ordered to China, and wu arrived without incident at Talien Buy, where the English army were disembarked in order to wait for the French, previous to a common descent on China at the mouth of the Peiho. The shores of Talien Bay did not afford facilities for en camping the whole army together, on ac count of the small space between the beach and a high rocky range of mountains which ran along the bay at a distance of about half a mile from the sea in some places, but which ran close down to the water in others. The cavalry were encamped at an open part of the shore, where there was room for their camp between the hills and high water mark. Another portion of the army occupied a similar encampment about six miles further up the bay. " On account of the rocks running down to the sea between the two camps, there was no road or means of communication along the shore ; the only way to g-o from one camp to the other was to pass through a gap in tiie hills behind our camp, where we always had a picket, ride about five miles across the plain, and re-enter the hills by another gap behind the infantry camp, where pickets were also regularly established. I had many friends in the neighboring camp, and used often to ride over there, not unfrequently stopping to dine, and riding hack at night. These ex peditions were not, I believe, known to the superior authorities, who would probably have stopped my evening rides beyond the sentries, as it was not certain whether the country was infested with Tartars, who might have carried off any stragglers ; but trusting to a revolver and my Arab horse, 1 had individually no fear of being taken, even if attacked. " One night 1 had been over to the infan try, and had stayed till about eleven o'- clock, when I started to ride home. There was a tolerable bright moon shining, and 1 trotted quickly through the hills, past the infantry picket,|and into the plain, where I drew my horse into a walk and smoked a cheroot while he walked quietly along the smooth turf. About half way across the plain I was aroused from a deep reverie in which a certain lady in England, who is now my wife, took a prominent place, by my usually quiet horse manifesting an in clination to bolt. I attributed his restive ness to a desire to get home, but was as tonished, after 1 had quieted him, to find him burst into a cold sweat and trembled violently. Fearing he was ill, I was about to dismount, when a noise behind me struck upon my ear. 1 looked around and saw a human figure walking behind me at a dis tance of about a hundred yards. My im pression was that I was about to be at tacked by some Tartars, so I got my revol ver out and urged my horse with difficulty into a trot. In a few minutes I again looked behind, expecting to have left my pursuer far in the distance, but to my great surprise he had walked faster than my horse Could trot, and had gained upon me. I was more astonished still when, as lie continued to gain on me, I perceived he was dressed in ordinary evening costume, especially as 1 did not think a dress of that kind could have been found in the whole army, lor we always all wore a uniform adapted to the climate, and had little enough baggage allowed us without car rying any superfluities. " My follower still continued to gain on me, and I was so much astonished that I continued to gaze on him as, coming near er and nearer, he became more distinctly visible. When lie was within a few yards 1 saw that the front of his shirt was entire ly covered with something red, which looked to me as if a bottle of port had been spilled over it. Nearer and nearer he came ; slowly and steadily the moon, high up in the skv, but directly on the way 1 was go ing, came from behind a slight cloud, just as he reached my girths. She shone full on a very pale face, weich was turned up o mine, on a month from which blood was slowly issuing, and on a pair of eyes which, although now they appeared fierce and staring, I well knew. It was Charles Granger. Still he walked steadily hut quickly ; he passed my horse's shoulder, then his head. The poor brute shook as if he were going to fall. " I was so surprised that I could not ; speak, nor did I remember that I held a ! pistol in my right hand. When the spectre j ' for so 1 then thought of it) had passed on, ' f could distinctly see it in front of me REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. walking away from me, but straight along the path I was pursuing. Then 1 recovered my presence of mind and called after him ; in vain 1 implored, imprecated, and threat ened to fire if he did not stop ; but on he went steadily, though quickly, without ap pearing to hear me. 1 then urged my liai se (who had recovered from his fright,) into a canter and pursued, hut could not gain on my extraordinary fellow traveller ; the fas ter 1 cantered and even galloped the taster he went; hut he never ran, his movement was always a long steady stride. After a pursuit of about ten minutes, I saw the sen try of the outpost at the pass of the hills leading to our camp standing directly in the patii th figure was pursuing ; loudly I called to let no one pass. I saw the sen try bring his musket to a charge when the apparition was within thirty yards or so of him, heard his cry, 'Turn out the guard.' The men who were loitering near fell in al most instantaneously and quite closed the pass in the rocks when the figure appeared to fade away. I hastened forward and asked the sentry : " Did you see a man walking in front of me ?" " No sir,'' was the answer, "no one has been past here to night since we mounted." " VVhy did you turn out the guard?" said I. " Because 1 saw you galloping and call ing out, sir, and I thought you were being chased by Chinamen." " The sergeant and other soldiers fully confirmed the sentry's assertion that no person had passed their post ; and as I did not wish to be thought absurd, I sim ply said 1 supposed 1 had been mistaken, and rode into camp without seeing any thing more of the figure of Granger." "Did you drink much wine at dinner, Houghton ?" hero inquired Random " No upon my honor, all I drank that day was one glass of rmn-and-water, and that early in the afternoon. I never did drink much of anything in the East for the sake of health ; and that I was perfectly sober at the time of the occurrence all my broth er officers could testify." " Do you ever see it again ?" asked some one, almost acknowledging, by the form of his interrogation, that the story had told on him. " I soon got over the effect of that delu sion, which I believe it must have been, al though 1 cannot account for it," resumed Houghton, " hut I received another shock when we were well on the road into IVkin, about two months afterwards, and the En glish mail arrived. 1 was away for a day or two from my own regiment when tin letters came, and did not receive my own ; but in the papers which came to the regi ment I was quartered with, 1 read that Charles Granger had died on the very day 1 had thought I had seen him at Talien Bay. A day or two afterwards, my own letters came to me. One was in Mrs. War borough's hand writing. She was writing, she told me, to give me the particulars of the death of poor Charles, my old fellow-pu pil, who had been cut off so suddenly,which she had heard from his relatives. He had been dining at a public dinner at Vienna, when suddenly he fell forward senseless, having broken a blood vessel. The blood poured in torrents over his shirt, and he had bled to death, without speaking a word, before medical aid could arrive. She then gave the hour and day of his death. Al lowing for the difference of time which ex ists between Northern ('iiina and Vienna, Charles Granger had died in Vienna, al most ton minute, at the very time 1 fancied I saw him on the plain of Chinese Tartary." f/Onffon Soviet •/. THE PUNCTUAL MAN. —Mr. lliggins was a very punctual man in all his transactions through fife. He amassed a large fortune bv untiring industry and punctuality ; and at the advanced age of ninety years was resting quietly on his bed and calmly wait ed to be called away. He had deliberately made almost every arrangement for his de cease and burial. His pulse grew fainter, and the light of life seemed just flickering in its socket when one of his sons observ ed : " Father, you will probably live but it day or two ; is it not well for you to name your bearers " To besurt; my son," said the dying man, "It is well thought of, and 1 will do it now." He gave the names of six,the usual num ber, and sank back exhausted upon His pil low. A gleam of thought passed over his withered features like a ray of light, stud he rallied once more. " Aly son, read me the list. Is the name of Wiggins there ?" "It is, father." " Then, strike it off !" said he etnphat icly, " for he was never punctual—was nev er anywhere in season, and lie might hinder the procession a whole hour." WHT was there a financial panic in Egypt in the days of Pharaoh '( Because the mother of Moses went to the bank and made a deposit. After that Pharaoh's daughter went and drew a large draft. The Bible then says there were rn*he* on that bank. THE difficulty of acquiring our language which a foreigner must experience is illus trated by the following question : Did yon ever see a person pare an apple or a, pear with a pair of scissors ? A JUDGE out West has recently decided that it might lie insanity to sign another man's name to a check in place of your own ; but when you draw the money on the check, and spend it, there is a great deal of sanity in the proceeding. THE best description of weakness we have ever heard is the wag's quefy to his wife, when she gave him some chicken broth, if she would not try to coax that chicken just to wade through the soup once more. THE surest way to prevail or: young couple to get married is to appose them.-- Tell them you would rather see them in thefr graves, and twelve months will not elapse before their baby will pass you twice a day in a willow wagon. FUN, FACTS AND FACETI2E. * TUB best game for a blacksmith t play is old sledge. THE two Kings that rule in America.—Jo king and Smo-kiug. I 'ire In lie/iuUiqee. WHAT town in Ireland would an Irishman name to a fellow-countryman when in the act of ■'flooring" liim ! Down, Patrick. W HO K .vows —•-l)utrk wonders if "eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty, ' what the price of built.- will be by the time grass gives out. - (ptein Suite A WEI.SH paper recently contained the following in its notices to correspondents: "Truth" is crowded out of out columns this week." A CERTAIN barrister, who was remarkable for coming into court with dirty hands, observed "that he had been turning over Coke.' "Coke?" exclaimed a waggish brother. "I should have thought it was coals! BKMI s asked Jemima, a few days ago* if she had seen hei 'vegetable friend?" "My veget able friend? Who is that?" Why the young man T met with yesterday, who has rarrntf/ hair, rrtbllsh whiskers, anil a turn-Hp nose. A CORRESPONDENT introduces a piece of poetry to us with these words : "The following lines were written more than fifty years ago,by one who has for many years slept in his grave merely foe his iiir/t ((<"'•* lli'nt. DEEI'I.Y were we affected, on reading the j other day, of a young ladv, who being told that ! her lover was suddenly killed, "O ! that splendid gold watch of his—give me that—give nie some thing to remember him by! Touching simplic ity. • A LAWYER one pleaded with gieat ability the -a use of Iris client for nearly an hour. When he had done, his antagonist, with supercilous sneer, said he did not understand a word the other said, who merely replied. "I belb vc it. for 1 was speaking law." A CRAVE stone in the cemetery at New- Imryport, marks the resting place of an estimable lady, who, according to the inscription, "was in state ot health suddenly summoned to the skies, and snatched from ye eager embrace of her friends by swallowing a Pea at her own table, when in a very few hours sin sweetly breathed her soul away." "WIFE," said a married man looking for the bootjack, after she was in bed. "I have a place for all things, and you ought to know it by this time." "Yes," replied she, "I ought to know where you keep your 'ate hours, but 1 don't." Jio wilted. VERY LIKE. An unsophisticated country man tin • ; her day, coniiug in Washington with a load of wood, saw a military officer, followed at a respectful distan by two orderlies, in full gallop, "Good gi.-.cious, .-aid he, "lutv. u t they caught him yet! I was in about three weeks ago, and they was a-rumiin' after liim then. FAME.— Thackeray when speaking about fame,would fr< quently tell the following anecdrde : When at dinner, in St. Louis, one day. he heard one waiter say to another, •• Do you know who that is?' "No," was the answer. "That is the cele brated Mr. Tliacker." "What's he done?" "Bles sed if I know." was the reply. A Coi.o NEE of one of the regiments at- 1 tached to the Army of the Potomac was recently j complaining at an evening party that, from the ig- j noraneo anil inattention of the officer t, he was j obliged to do the whole duty of the regiment. Said he : '1 urn iuv own major, my own • apt on. ' my own lieutenant, my own sergeant, and" "Your own trumpeter," said a lady present. A Li EI TENANT was promenading in full | Aiuitorm one dry, and approached a volunteer on j sentry, who challenged him with "Halt! who conn s there ? ' The Lieutenant, with contempt in ev.-ry lineament ot his- face, c \pr- sed his ire \.itli j indignant "Ass! The sentry's reply, apt and quick, came. "Advance, ass. and give tin counter- ! sign. IHE 1 olio wing dialogue ,s said to have j taken p'ace recently betwee n a married couple on ) their travels : " Sly dear, are you comfortable in : that corner ? "ipate, thank you, my dear."— ] "Sure there's plenty of room for your l'eet ?" "Quite j sure. love. "And no cold air from the window j by your ear':' "Quite certain, darling." "Then, my dear, T'll change places with you." A Kl< ii petroleum worker, gaunt a.s a ! skeleton and ignorant as a hodman, wont to an nr j tistto have his portrait taken. "Will you have it i I taken ill oil or water-col ..ls inquired the artist, j | "tie, of course," replied lie. "It conies to me more ! natural ; and, besides it makes me look fatter." I \\ MY is a favorite singer's voice like a j crown?- -Because it's replete with proeious tones, i i THE beautiful tresses ol voting ladies are ; UOW ealled beau- 11 ill'; I i TJIK tongue was intended for u divine or- ! | gam but the devil often plays upon it. I THE coat of a horse is the gift of nature I —-that of an ass is often the work of a tailor. i I \\ 11 EKE do you hail from queried a ' Yankee of a travel, r. "Where do you rain from ?" '■ ; "Don't ruin at nil," sai l the astonished Jonathan, j "Neither dot hail, - mind vonr own business." ' A PHILADELPHIA editor affirms that the ; poetical age of women is thirty, when they begin ! to love conscientiously. IN the sinner's life the roses perish, and ! the thorns are left ; in the good man's the thorns die and the roses live. I HE difft renee between perseverance and obstinacy ; the first is a strong will, the last a strong won't. THOUGH the proverb says yon cannot make ! an auger hot. with a gimlet, yet a small man may make a great bore. WHAT is the differei.ee between a North- j era and Southern gentleman? One blacks his j own boots, and .he other boots his own black. (That was before the war.) \\ 11 AT is the differ* nee between a school* i master ml a ail-road conductor ,J One b./.'es the ! j miiii!, and the oth. r iiibf/.s the trai t. \\ HAT is the d fference between a bad boy ! | and a postage stamp ? < live it up? One you />/.• . with a slid.', and the other you st'rl.- with a . A i.tTTi.E fellow going to church fur the ; first time, where the pews were very high, was ask ed, on coming out, \vhat ( he did in church, when he ' i replied : "i went into a cupboard, and took a seat I on the shelf." (D.n CENT! EMAN (affectionately): My son, j i why do you chew that filthy tobacco? PRECOCIOUS i YOUTH fstjtlly): To get the juice out of it, old cod ger. SPEAKING of a beautiful brunette belle of an Illinois city, our friend accounts for the brown j nes.s of lier complexion by the fact that she had been so often toasted. WHEN a Baltimore lady is kissed, she says she feels as though she was taking chloroform, and remains insensible as long a.s the operation lasts. 'I ii EKE js a family in Ohio so lazy that it takes two of them to sneeze—■one to throw the head back, and the other to make the noise. ARTEMIS WARD says, when he hears T lie I song. "Come where my love lies dreaming." he don't go. Ho don't think it would be right. MR. QUILP, upon censuring his nephew for bad speculating in "oil" was shocked at the re port th it the money was trW/ spent. M. who boast loudly that they never show quarter in time of danger are certain to show none hut their hind ones. WHEN may two people be suit! to be half i witted : V.'hen they have an understanding be tween lie m. ***-2 pei* Annum. 111 Atlvance. ' DISEASE AND DEATH UAUSED BY EATING PORK. A few months ago there was a festive cel ebration in Hettstadt,a small country town I m ar the llartz Mountains, in Germany.— l.'pwards cles of the leg, particularly the calves of some of the sufferers, the description which Zenker had given of a fatal case of trichi l ums disease was remembered. The rem nants of sausage, and of pork employed in its manufacture, were examined with the microscope, and found to be Utterly swarm ing with encapsuled trichina*. From the sull'ering muscles of several of the victims small pieces were excised, and under the microscope found charged with embryonic trichina- in all stages of development. It coiiid not be doubted any longer, that as many of the one hundred and three as had partaken of h'os/rirnrs/ had been infested with trichinoua disease by eating of trichi nous pork, the parasites of which had, at least in part, escaped the effects of smoking and frying. This awful catastrophe awakened sym pathy and fear throughout the whole of (lennany Most of the leading physicians were consulted in the interest of the suffer ers, and some visited the neighborhood where most atHicted patients remained.— But none could bring relict or cure. With an obstinacy unsurpassed by any other in fections or parasitic disease, trichiniasis carried its victims to the grave. .Many an thelmintics were arrayed to destroy, if not the worms already in tin* tlesh, at least tiiose yet remaining in the intestinal canal Picric acid was employed until its use seemed as dangerous as the disease ; ben zole, which had promised well in experi ments upon animals, was tried, but was un availing. As patient after patient died oft", and the dissection of each proved the par asites to have been quite unaffected by the agents employed, the conviction was im pressed upon every mind that a man alllict ed with ilesh-worm is doomed to die the slow death ot exhaustion from nervous ir ritation, fever, and loss of muscular power in parts of the system essential to exis tence. But medical science hat! only just unrav elled a mystery : and if it could not save the victims, it was determined at least to turn the occasion to the next best account The cases were therefore observed with care and chronicled with skill. All the multi farious features of the parasitic diseases were registered in such a manner that there can hereafter be no difficulty in the diagno sis of this disorder. A valuable diagnostic feature was repeatedly observed, namely, the appearance of the flesh-worm under the thin mucous membrane on the lower side of the tongue. The natural history of trich ina in man was found to be the same as that in animals. All observations led to the conviction that the trichina cncapsuled in the flesh is in the condition of puberty. Brought into the stomach, the calcareous capsule is di gested with the flesh, and the trichina is set free. It probably feeds upon the walls of the intestines themselves, for the irrita tion of the intestines begins before the bringing forth of young trichina* has taken place. Copulat'on is immediately effected ; and within a few hours, or a short portion of days, from sixty to eighty live embryos leave the female, and begin their own ca reer of destruction. ' This consist*, in the first instance, in an attempt,to pierce the walls ol the intestinal I canal. Great inflarnination of the entire 1 surface ensues, ending' not rarely in death ; of the villous or mucous membrane, or in the formation of masses of pns on its sur face. .Sometimes there are bloody stools. But these severe symptoms only ensue when much trichinous meat has been eat 'en ; when less has been consumed, pain and uneasiness in the abdomen are produc j ed, accompanied, however, in all instances by wasting fever and prostration. The embryos actually pierce the intestine, and are found free in the effusion, sometime serous, sometimes purulent,which is always i poured out into the abdominal cavity. ' Thence they again proceed towards the NUMBER 27. periphery of the body, pierce the pcritom unri, causing great irritation, and sometimes peritionitis, to the extent of gluing the in testines together to a coherent mass. They next proceed to the muscles nearest to the abdomen; arrived at the elementary mus cular fibres, which, under the microscope, appear as long cylinders with many trans verse strue, they pierce the membranes, enter the fibres, eat and destroy their striat ed contents, consume a great part of the granular detritus, moving up and down io the fibres until grown to tin. size necessai \ for passing into the quiescent state. They then roil up in spiral or other irregular windings, the bags of the muscular fibres collapse, and only where the trichina 1 be a calcareous matter is deposited, perhaps by the trichina- themselves, which hardens into perfect capsules round the parasites. A muscular fibre may harbor one or sever al parasites ; but every fibre invaded by a single parasites loses its character entire ly, and becomes a bag of detritus from one end to the other. If it it be remembered that one ounce of meat filled with trichina* may form th • stock from which in a few day three mil lions of worms may be bred, and that stria ted muscular fibres, an idea of the extent of destruction produced by these parasites can be formed. We are not in a position to say to what proportion of the fifty r sixty pounds of muscle required for the performances of the human body these two millions of elementary fibres actually am ount. In the muscles nearest to the ab domen the destruction is sometimes so com plete that not a fibre free from parasites can be found. This amounts to complete paralysis. But death is not always produc ed by the paralysis ; it is mostly the result of paralysis, peritonitis,and irritative fev< r combined. No case is known to which trichiniasis, after having declared itself, be came arrested. All persons affected have either died, or are in such a state of pros tration that their death is very probable. Most educated people in Germany have, in consequence of the Hettstadt tragedy, adopted the law of Moses, and avoid pork in any form. To some of the iarge pig breeders in Westphalia, who keep as manv as two thousand pigs, the falling of the price of pork has been a ruinous—at tin least a serious—loss. In the dining-rooms of the hotels in the neighborhood of Hetts tadt notices are hung up announcing that pork will not be served in any form in these establishments. To counteract ties panic, the farmers' club of the Hettstadt district gave a dinner, at which no othei meat but pork was eaten. But it has had no appreciable effect. The raw ham ami sausages of Germany are doomed to ex tinction : the smoked and fried sausage* must necessarily be avoided. * 1 In the south of Germany some people now sa}' that it is the Hungarian pig* which are most frequently affected with trichina*. • This rumor, like the famous pork dinner of the fanners' club, may, however, have been set up with the intention of quieting apprehension about the native pigs. We have already mentioned the ac cident which befel the crew of a merchant vessel. They shipped a pig at Valparaiso, and killed it a few days before their arrival at Hamburg. Most ol the sailors ate ol the pork in one form or another. Several were affected with trichina* and died. Ol those whose fate could lie inquired into, only one seems to have escaped the para sites. Another outbreak in Saxony has carried away twelve persons. A fourth wholesale poisoning by uichiiue is just t- - ported from Offenbach, the Birmingham of ITesse-Darmstadt. Of upwards of twentv persons infected, three had alreadv died when our correspondent's letter left. Nu merous sporadic cases ot fever, and epidem ies of inscrutable peculiarity, but referred to an anomalous type of fever, are now claimed by medical authors, and with much show of reason, to have been outbreaks o! trichiniasis, or tlesb-worm disease. Sever al (fermao physicians experimentalized with a view of finding a cure for this horrible disorder. Professor Eckhardt at fliessen, we are told, has obtained permission to try the disease and supposed remedies upon a murderer under sentence of death. We have not been told whether his reward in case of success is to be a commutation of his capital sentence, but should hope th to be the ease. The experiment, cvi-u it should not have the romantic character in dicated, will probably teach some cuii >u.s details of the life of those parasites. Al most every wherejtho commonest rules of cleanliness are disregarded in the rearing of pigs. Yet pigs are naturally clean an imals, avoiding, like dogs and cats, all con tact with ordure. Though they burrow in the earth, and in summer wallow in tin mud, they abhor the heaps of excrements mixed with straw in and upon which tin } are frequently kept. A due regard t > cleanliness will prevent trichinae in the rug. In wild boars,of which many are eaten in the country around the Hartz mountains, trich ina* has never bien found. Neither has been met with in sheep, oxen, or horses. Beef is the safest of all descriptions I meat, as no parasites have ever In n dis covered in it. They have also never bet found in the blood, brain, or heart of those animals in whose striated muscles they low to reside.— Itritixh Medua! Journal. Tun Swedes are a gay race. Balls, t, >i rees, and card-playing enliven the long winter. The people are fond of music, am! sing well. One of the bores to which a i stranger has to submit is that of taking eft' his hat when he enters a shop or public j house,and keeping it oft' as long as he stays. In the streets you lift your hat to every ac quaintance, so that it is almost as much off the head as on. Cleanliness is a virtue much cultivated, and the uncarpoted floors are as clean as a man-of-war's deck. A> 1 mats and scrapers are rare, goloshes are worn by visitors, which they slip oft before entering the room,in wet or snowy weather, lest the thaw from the nails on the shoes should leave its mark in little pools on the ' floor. Touching the Subbath (for so we must call it), the Swedes reckon it to be gin at six i". m. on Saturday, and end at six ! a m on Sunday : but, in practice, tho'evt n ing of Saturday is quite as secular as the morning ; while trie evening of Sunday the fashionable time for ball, concert, ami theatre. The people are hard drinkers : the consumption of native brandy being about two gallons and a half for every man, w< man, and child in the country. Yet they ; are rarely seen drunk, for the laws against drunkenness are severe