Bradford reporter. (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, January 15, 1880, Image 1
Tisaii, rvauch:nom. The BRADFORD IMPORTER Is- published every Thursday morning by GOODRICEI k Micucocs, at One Dollar per annum, In advance. far Advertising In all cases excluslro o 1 sub scription to the paper. S V EC lAL NOT IC ESinserted at TIM CIXTB per line for first Insertion, and riVECSNTS perline for each subiequent insertion, but no notice Inserted tfor less than fifty cents. , YEARLY ADVERTISEMENTS will be .insert ed. at reasonable rates. "t" •t . Administrator N' Administrator's and Executor's otlees, A.dditor's Notice 5,42.51) ; If ustness Cards, Ave lines, (per year) tS, additional lines It each. Yearly advertisers are entitled to quarterly changes. Transient advertisements must be pald for in advance. - • . All readiedions of associations; communications of limited or Individual Interest, and notices of marriages or deaths,exceedlnglive linesare charg ed FIVE CENTS per line, but simple notices of mar riages and de.dit'S will be published Without charge. "'he REPORTER having alarger circulation than any other paperin the county, makes It the best advertising medium to Northeru,Pennsylvattla. .1011 PRINTING of every kind, In plain and fancy colors, done with neatness and dispatch. Handbills, Blanks. Cards, Pamphlets, )11111heads, Statements., &c.. of every variety and style, printed at the shortest notice. The TIEPOIITEN office is well supplied with 'power presses, a good assort in,fnt of new type, and everything in the printing line can be executed In the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates. TERMS INVARIABLY CASH. 'Nusiness garbs. JOHN W. CODDING, ATTOP.NEV-AT-LAW, TOWANDA. PA' Office out Mroon's old Bank THOMAS E. MYER ATTOP.N LY-AT-LAW, TOWANDA, PA o.llre with Patrick anti Foyer PECK & • OVERTON ATTonnurs-At-LAW, TOWANDA, PA. OVI:UTON, ,110DNEY . A. MERCUR, ATToItNEIC AT-LAW. TOWANDA. PA.. Solicitor of Patents. Particular attentilin paid to hoquess in the orphans Court and to the settle -4lf estates. 4 MlCt.r.4lll Montanyes Block OVERTON & SANDERSON, ATTOI:NEY-AT4.AW, TOWANDA, Ps. t. .7.1 JESSUP, ATT. , I:NLY ANT , C0UN , E1.1.011.-AT-LAW, 71111NTROSE, VA. .losqup having 11,11nted thn praellee of Ilw law w: lira:era rehn,ylvatila, legai . lot‘innss intru.ted to Mtn it: Bradford enmity. Peron, WIshINZ tl. consult him, call call 011 11. St r..etor, Esq., Towituda, Pa., when an appointment can 1..• 1113 le.. TTENRY STREETER, I_l_ =I TOWANDA, PA .Al - ry L. TOWN ER, M. D., * 11oNE0PATlitc Plf Ysli•l A 7 , Z AND srlu; KW.; Ito,illeore :nt Ottioe jam North 0t Dr. Cm , 1 , 11: Maio 'trt, t, \thrtn. ra. jaw:.-am. L s' 4 . JLI A TT"IIN LT-AT-LAW, TolyA:s;DA, PA. - 1; F. , GOFF, I=2 W VALI - SING. PA .l genre for the sate and purchase or all klutla of Securities ale 4 for making hums ieu Real Estate. All itusiness will receive careful and prompt =BIM -NAT. If. TIMM I'SON, ATTORNEY y • %T LAW, W . V A PA• win attend to : 04 to 1.t4 care lit Bradford. Fnlllcatt and Wyoming (02it,t tettlt Evq, OEM E.. 11. A NGL E, P. D. S. 01TRATIVE ND 31Er1IA NIcAL DE\TI•T WC:`. nn State SCI . Ond floor of Dr. Prat re' apr 3 79, I. 4 7 4 LSBREF. & SON, ATTM:NEY , AT-I.AW, TOWANDA, I'A. N. r. 11 D. KINNEY, vLy• ATT,,w: Ey-AT-LAW o'llre—nnonis f,.nnerly urr l I I t.y Y. M. !'. A t:n•nu. T I • ATTolt FY-.1 AW, T“NVA N DA, l'A. Dim' Airy Brqd. lOIIN W. MIX, ' • : AiTot;NEY-AT-LAW tNn V. S. CO-M-511SslaNilL TowANDA. PA. PuLac Fquare IpVIES',V,CAR:COCITAN, ATTORSF.Y,AT-LAW, Si N.: uF WAF. 1101.5 E Tler 2A-7$ I ANDREW WILT, I=ll ott'co nyer Toms' SE Gard. ti•,. Drii,?, Store, 70,an.1.a. Pa. May he consulted In t;..rtnan. Air O. YOUNG, ATT , IINLY-AT-I. \\N" ToW AN PA, PA, • %omit of the Fir4t NaO•mal Nlatzl St.. up .tail.. WI LI A ANG J,E, kTTOTts:EY. ,' •A74..“V r....- 7 Formyrly ocimpled by Wm. Watkins 11 N: WILLI AM , . (oCt. 17,';7) E : J. ANGLE NOY T M, MA XWE „ Y . =I "fl , WANDA, PA I Day;oll*. Store =MEE 11 DILL & CALIFF, ,A TT“IIN EY s-A-I -1..0C, Ti)WAN DA. PA Onl• firkf door sout:t of the First t 1 ;ink, Up-4,!:t1: , . 1..1111.1,. .1. N. CALIFF. S. M. NV0()11g1:11.N. Pitysi - and ofTlee over O. A. Black's 1 ,, 1", Hay 1. 1.7? Iv•. AIT B. KELLY • DENTIST:—OItIee y • • over M. Totvan•la. Pa. . . T. • .1, fo, ltanbei. and Al cia ha,o. eNtraett,,l 1 - 4 1 D. PAYN E, M. D.. 1.4. I'llr.lCl.r N A NI , Sr M;rON. 1.:...,- ore? . MooMoVt , ' , :, , r••• IMO, Lour' from 10 io 12 %. %:.:1.1 fro :: to 4 v. , 11. , , rloo4.ll'tltto+itt"ti Oven to DI-- \•1. : . , i DISE A,..ES .3.1 , V 4 or TI I V 0:1 E , f TIIE fEAIt i 3. 1 . W. 11 Y . AN , ‘.. • • I=l U:1,• • day 1a0..--ourlay“r eavli 11101‘111, over Turner ,tere Towautla. Pa. =EI =1 - .A ns. H. PEET, T A c? el E +2,,r 11:,,11en, f hil4l , lreet, 1%1 Jan:. V S. IItSSET.L . S • • 1 • GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCYI N(7.3"::5.7t:`,t1 SAM. W. BUCK., ATT vfl E 1-A T-1., A 01,‘ , --South side Poplar street. 01 to 'Ward [Nov, 13, la:9. MEI FIRST 'NATIONAL BANK, Tt.wWANIIA, Plc &PITA'. PAID IS frUI:PLUS FUND... . 'iii. Bank Ater.. unusual raoillttes tor the trans- 1 US a vuerat husluess • • an hour." " I ,hope lie made ,sure. the turkeys 1 and geese were all:right, for papa A1'111.187.9 - - SA NV Itt:Sox. cross the meadow thiS I iIIISSOIXTMN OF PARTNER- • morniira." ji y iitc. ; " Oil. yes, - m, he is a careful lad is r - P:tr,:t..ntitlit httr,ttttrttr,• cNistinz Itvt,t - ttil ' _, t t ;:r ittt,.,-Pt ah.l A. 1.. Itilslisyeit, mi.ltti the , . IsllitAl, 111111 ' he ' s got ' em all right •-; . 1,50,.- t•f A. 1,, 11...km.1i .: +•.,., i0.. 1, this day • eno w f 1.11 he . L,ouud ,„ responded the i,. N: Pa, Nu,. 2:A, 1..79- iw• maid.' , S. PONVELID, President IIN W. R 'large and ' general I hi:At:ilea inornent as to whether (I , —ortttottt 10 41* pricee, ik t JUN F. , S, lit Wa4 altogether 4 , 141 to be thus •lh't. COODRICH & HITCHCOCK. Publishers: VOLUME XL. Sc p.2'75 P.F.N.T, M. DECK May 1, '79 Irffff= 'Tway wars ago I used to know This little lad and love him so, .And since our parting ['e'er I've heard • Of hint, or hail a single word - To cheer my thoughts, yet all the while The recollection of Ids smile, Ills Mart!r of truth, The sweet attractiveness of youth, Jn many an our have made me glad That .•nce I knew the little lad. FEE= [novil-75 A TERRIBLE INTRUDER. We were alone in the house— Maude Chaplain and —a n d did not altogether like the position in which we were placed. While the daylight lasted, and there seemed so Jima life about the farm, it seemed very pleasant to4five the house to ourselves, to be a.I.A to wander to!rether through the quaint old rooms and to talk on the subjects • very dear to both of us, without the i r dread of being overshadowed by th ' London female cousins and the rod tering yOuths who had come to spend a month of the shgoting beneath our roof. MTIMI I!✓-74 MEM= For a time we reveled in our com parative solitude, and pitied the female cousins, the eager sportsmen, poor papa, and-,..the res of the house hold, who had been beguiled into ( acceptitg an invitation' to Mrs. Ra ttletrap's picnic at the Scrubs,a piece of moorland some eight miles.Aistant from our house. We were all ex pected, but my old school-Mips', Maude, pleaded headache, and Vwas • not sorry to have an excuse forLstay rug at home with our guest. We had met hut seldom since we had left the prim school at Taunton; and although Maude had already been with us a week. what with the noisy clatter of our friends, the cro quet tonrnays, the lawn dances, and the other pleasant ways in which our evenings were spent. we had hithyto had no opportunity of judging -in those mutual confidences so dear to women who are in the blissful state I known as,"'eng,raged." There was a particularly- ender bond of Sympthy bet Ween ns, inasmuch as I was in bi weekly !corresponylenee with - her brother John, to Whom I signed .my , self ° yours affectionately," while her ' betrothed was Harry Somers, who had been a visitor to our house from his,child hood. Ere they dfove away in the afternoon the other girls twit ted us rather severely for not joining them, and it seemed a general opin ion that Maude's headache was noth ing more than a sham. But the gen tlemen said little; 'in my opinion, their hearts,-would have been glad dened bad all the party abstained from attending the picnic. their in -1 clinations tending toward the wheat 1 stubble in " five-acre-field " and the adjacent turnip patch. where a fine 1 covey land sought - shelter the night Ibefore. But as the girls were re solved on going, the malesof course TIMM IRIEMMI3 Spril L. were obli7ed to act as escort. By and-by papa was ;induced to join them, and thus it was Maude and, I were left aloiie. So engrossing., was the object of our conversation that. we were sur f prised when the housemaid dropped in the tea. and dropping a courtesy, asked if Sarah, the cook, might go J down with her to the village until ten, o'clock, to join in the . festivities with which Farmer Ashcombe was celebrating his harvest home. It then, occurred to my, memory than the servants had asked me for this holidqv a fortnight previously, and that 1 had given a half acquiescent resp , nse. In the hurry of my do-, mestic duties, and the' excitement Loceasioned by a house full of compa'- Vny, I had, however. forgotten the ; circumstance until 'now. Where is Ben ?!' I inquired, re ferring to one of the carters who in habited a snug little cottage on the farm, and was consequently iequired• to place himself at our service when we so desired. The domestic (hopped 'another courtesy, awl announced that the in ividual alluded to had gone to Wells with a load - ofharley, and would not ,;be back until late. r i And -the boy Smith V' " Please, Ari, master told him he might go when he 'ad fed the poultry and fastened ''em up for the night, and he `as been gone this quarter of ',, I =I 8125,000 . Ckd,ooo I IMM3I6II=II ii Rorke. GOD BLESS THE LADS A little lad I used to meet, years ago, upon the street, • Whose, pleasant 'smile and look of truth, The sweet attractiveness of youth, So won my heart that I would watch Aiming the crowd lits nod to,eatch, Tnat was, upon a cloudy day, A bit of sunshine on my way; Atotanswering back with;smile as glad, I said, "God bless the Little lad." , Fozditin I felt an anxious care, In all his interests had a share, And planned what shouicilthis future ha, As if he had helcinged to lite. As childless mothers , for lt he good 9f hearts instinct with motherhood, Suite little waif will kin4ly take And cherish well for lore's dear sake,, whose lot in life was sad, Took to my heart this little I knew not who his parents were, lir where he lived : what did I care? Or it his garnielit.s were as line As I should giro a child of mine ? My daily thought, my Miter concern, Was that he might no evil learn. But strive in manliness to learn, Foremost, and in integrity, To rt,e by every ciatu•e he bad, To prclve Illuiselt an honest hot. I.eannot.think be went astray, Or wandered In an evil way, lint 1 . 1111,4 bellelie he's neat and trim A• triter. liirct encountered him. And n hen among the news I read - 0 I gallant or heron• deed, I feel that lie would. do Jest so-- This tittle lad I lona to know; And ,11 I pray while tear I IlviK ••• the! tiles the lath , : Goifbh•ss them all :' to "'ark Lerlyer rlrrfcd F;tle. Cd-liJe but as I had given a half promise to tlie girls, and I knew it would be a sad disappointment to them not to' go, I dismissed my apprehensions, and told them they might leave the . tea things and be otr at once. Noticing that after a time Maude became less conversational, I inqUired the reason ; but receiving naught but evasive answers, I questioned her more closely. " You are•nOt afraid, are you,dear?" " I shall be only confessing the truth when I tell you that I was very sorry to hear you giye your consent to the servahtsleaviAg us. Suppose any person has be & watching' the House, and was to seize the opportu nity of committing a robbery ?" "Nly„ . dear Maude,". I responded; "nothing of the sort ever happens in these parts. Living. as we do some distance from any town, we know all the persons within a radius of, say, four - " But lio,w about tramps ? Are they not dreadful people, sis ?" -" Perhaps, Maude, even they arc more sinned against than sinning. At all events, tramps seldom, if ever, come near ins. You see, we lie off the main road. The lane leads to ¶.he farm, and nowhere else." " But," pursued Maude, that fact would he all the worse fur us if a tramp should come here." " Really," P'replied, " I shall get quite angry with you if you pursue the'nuhjeet further. To put au end, howerer, to all your fears; you shall come With nit!, and we will bolt the outer doors." The alacrity with which Maude rose from her chair was - a good proof that the proposed measure was of a weleolne nature, so, proceeding from the drawing-room, we walked to the lawn, and, fastening the gate which opened on the lane, we re-entered the house. We then locked, bolted- and barred the back premises, saw that all the windows were fastened, and then came hack to the drawing-room I,' , must confess that when we had secured all the approaches to our cit adel, I was myself a good deal more at ease than I had been previously. Slowly the autumn sun sank be neath the range of hills fronting our dwelling, tinging the sky with radi ant hues that varied momentarily. I could have sat for hours watch ing the numerous hues that swept across the heavens, but with the up rising moon and gathering twilight I clearly saw that Maude was once tore becoming nervous. " Won't you close the shutters, Mau(le Nut unless youparticularly wish it, dear," I replied. " But I do," he answered. I was about to shut but the moon iight view, and mice a desperate effort to change the conversation, when• Maude, who !MA ter eyes fixed on the •lawn, suddenly clutched my arm, and 'involuntarily retreated a step. "Sis." she xried. " What is that moving in the laurels?" I looked:and in a moment observ ed emerging froth the shelter of the laurels, but still remaining beneath the dense shadow of the overhanging tree, what seemed to be the figure of. a man. Ile looked in height very short. , almost dwarf:like, but was stout of frame. and appeared dressed in white, or without a coat,and seem ed to be in his shirt-sleeves; being alone seen as he raised his arms in freeing himself from the hushes. "Oh, Sis." exclaimed Mande, " it is a man. Let us give him all our jew elry. or mayhap we may be•murder cal• ere any of ,our people may come babk." Maude." I .cried, " for heaven'a sake retain your senses. You yester. day remarked that the double-barrel ed gun hangs over the m:ptel-piece in the back kitchen, and asked me if it were - loaded! Do you think you could fetch it cio me while I- keep watch here?" She nodded ; I knew her fright ,prevented her speaking. 'Clasping her hand tightly within my own, and then releasinir, it I said : " Hi ing it to me, then; the gun is perfectly safe so long as you do not touch the trigger." While'Maude was gone it seemed to me as though the figure drew closer; it was careful to remain with in the shadow of the tree, but' it struck me as exceedingly strange that, although the white sleeved arms seemed continually raised, as- though their owner had just aroused 'from a sound sleep. I. could not see the creatures head. In a very short time I heard Matule's;approaching footsteps.- As she plac&t.the gun in my hand I felt that her fingers were cold and tremb-- MI At that . moment the mysterious being came a few paces 'nearer, and seemed to have alimping gait, wheth er from natural infirmity or drunken ness, I could not tell. Throwing open the window, and raising the gun, I cried at the top of my voice, " Who's there? Answer, or I'll itire." A . few seconds elapsed - , but; no re sponse came to my inquiry. " Who are you_?" I again shouted. My f\ngers closed . upon the trigger, then came a flash of light and a loud report—the intruder upon the lawn, staggered and fell. S'imultaneously poor Mande sahk fainting on the 'carpet. Not daring to move from the room I rested the gun against the table, and raising Maude's head in my hands,oideavored to restore her to consepsness. What seemed to me hours, but it could not have been. more than twenty minutes, passed and then came the sound of vehicles driven rapidly up thelane. I heard my father clamoring for, admittance, and hurrrying to the.ddor fell almost swooning into his 4rms. As coherently as I _could ' I told him of dur adventure, and that the body of a man lay beneath the laurel bushes; sa resigning me to the care Of one of the gentlemen, he hurried to the spot indicated. In a moment a fte'r, . his cheery ' voice sounded thrOngh the still night air. "I've 'got him . but he's more frightened than hurt. Why, girls, it's a repre. sentative of yourselves! Ws. noth ing byg a flogolet”. - - TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, 3ANUARY 15, 1880. And 'so it was. That boy Smith, who was so much to be depended on, had for once proved himself un worthy of his . trust, • and this poor bird, in "his futile endeavors to seek its companions, had in our nervous fancy, become magnified to the pro portions of a house breaking despera do; its outstretched wings in the shadow, to which it so persistently kept, helping to carry, out the delu sion we had entertained. Of course we were pretty considerably rallied about the matter„Anit we never there after volunteered to. remain in the house. alone. Diversions of a King. PROF. GALL AND HIS PHRENOLOGICAL " Who," said King Frederick of Prussia, at a fete at Potsdam, which had attracted an unsually Lssemblage, " who is that tall, bony old man, with a head so full of character ?" "Sire, it is Dr. Gall, - the famous phrenologist " "Ah, the phrenologist, eh.? Com mand him to (line with us to-morrow evening." Next evening the King received the. doctor - affably, and t.hey sat down to dinner with a dozen other eon rives, all blazing with decorations and uniforms, but awakward aod constrained in manner and eonveqa tion. "Doctor," said the King at the conclusion of the repast; "pray let us see something of your wonderful skill: Examine these gentlemen's heads and tell me frankly what you think of their characters and dispo-si tions from the indications afforded by their cranial developments." Gail rose and felt the head of his neighbor on the right, a stout, power ful in a resplendent - uniform,. who had been addressed as "General." "Speak frat.kly," , said the King, seeing that the phrenologist appear ed to he embarrassed. " Ills Excellency," said Gall, "must be very passionately addicted to—to field sports and exciting pleasures; he has a decided fancy for—for the battlefield and—and—" The King smiled and then pointed the phrenologist. to his other neigh bor, a small, alert, keen-eyed man in a diplomatic costume. " This gentleman," 'said ,the doctor,. "is—hum—an expert in gymnastic exercises, an accomplished pedestrian; very neat and graceful in all opera tions requiring manual dexterity—" " Enough," said the King, rapping on the table,. and, as a score of soldiers entered,. he continued, to the stupefaction of Dr. Gall, " remove these gentlemen to their cell. Allow me to' put in plain language what yoil were reluctant to say. The general is a murderer under sentence, and sour other neighbor is the most . ex pert pickpocket and cut purse in all Prussia, who has eluded capture on innumerable occasions. EXamine . your pockets." . The doctor did so,,and found that his handkerchief, purse, watch, snuff box-had disappeared. They were all returned, to him the next day, with a complimentary letter from the King, and a costly snuff-box bearing Fred erick's potrait set in brilliants. Fun, Fact and Facetix Ax Ithaca little girl, attempting to de scribe an elephant, spoke of it as "that thing what kicks up with its nose." A. enms.rittxx match between a police man and a steer is talked of. A toss will bil: - made for the start. —New York CO+P merridl Adrertixer.' AN Indianapolis lady ,hugged the Pres ident the other day. and b admits tilat there arc somethings in this world better than pumpkins. " • A mcius head does not contain a brain capable of culture ad relined rearing, but, it is wonderful to what extent the other end of the form can be reared. cAItI'ETERS, as a rule, are liable Let any time to be prosecuted under the Unit ed. States laws, for how many times haye we seeh thOn make a counter fit?=-- L t lea Ohm reef. STUDENT, fresh from college, to con ductor—" 1. wish to get on the penulti mate ear," ConductOr" We have no peanut car ; you can take the smoker."— Rochester Express." • THE Boston Poet man has 'fully recov ered froM the efleets of his vacation and gets this off:, A broken preserve vase suggests the Chinese language, because it •is ajar ;;one:" *i / imr; men are captivated by a woman's laugh; just as some men predict a ideas aut day, bccauve the sun shines out clear for.a.moment. They forget the chances for squalls. " How to ttil Lad eggs." is the title of au article in an. exchange. When you have anything to tell a bail egg, you must be careful nut to break the shell while imparting the information,—Sorridoitil l'untE was -never yet a boy so good that he didn't have au overwhelming de sire to look for a lump of.sogar if he came bogie and found that his mother had gone to a neighbor's to " borry tlat-irems."— Del roil'Fre'e from " SUPPO:MNG, Charley, you were at a masquerade ball, would you dance with an . unknown lady, if she requested it?" Said Charley, "If she is masked and I am asked, why shouldn't I :"'--BOBfOA Tralivript. A LADY, engaged to be married, and getting sick of her bargain, applied- to a friend to help her untie the knot before it was too late. She replied : Oh, certain ly, it is very easy to uutio itnow while it it is only a beau not." . A LADS who had quarreled with her bald-headed lover said, in dismissing him, "What is delightful about you, my friend, is that I have not the trouble of sending you back any locks of hair." Kissixn the babycmay result in deform ing its nose, and bringing-on near-sight edness. The.safest plan is not to kiss a baby of the feminine gender until it at tains the age of sixteen. years. The car-. tilage.of the nose is much stronger then.' THE subject for conversation at an ev ening enterptinfifent was the intelligence of animal.;, particularly dogs. Says Smith : `There are dogs that have more sense than their masters." "Just so," responds young Fitx4oodle, "I've got that kind of a dog myself." . • THEY were meandering arm in arm up the street, and a shorf distance ahead of, them walked a young lady very hand somely attired. The sun was about set ting, and its light was throwing a beauti , ful crimson glow all over, the, earth. He .• said, in a rather subdued toue• of voice : " How heautiful : perfectly grand :" etc. "Well, I don't know," was the response from the fair one by his side; "1 don't minnto• her gtyle, aunt I.llq drc4is iN.O mighty poor (it." . .i . , ~~la~~~ REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. PATIENTS A Romantic Duel. Once upon a time all Algiers . was laughirig over an article printed in a local pa tier edited by M. Arthur de Fonvielle, in which Gen. Yusuf had been amusingly caricatured as "Mon sieur Joujou." The late Clement Duvernois was the author, but the editor avowed-his responsibility for it. Early-next morning there was a Ting at the journalist's door, and . the .General showed his Arab face on the threshold, followed by .an aid-de camp. De Fonvielle was still in bed. "You are M. de Eonvielle? You called me ' Monsieur Joujou.' We must fight." " As you wish, General. will send you a couple of friends." "Oh! no, none of that; let us set tle it now—here! I've come to kill you." "Ah ! then allow me to get up and dress. • Where do you prefeefighting?" " This room will do." "Agreed ; and if your aide will act as second to 4 both• of us- 1 --" Yusuf drew his sword and mo tioned to his companion to do the same, then offered the tic° weapons to De Fonvielle. " This one' will do," said the jour nalist, selecting the officer's sword, and the two men faced each other. Yusuf had thrown off his tunic and rolled up his sleeves, showing his brown, corded arms; his sunburned face had a wolfish gleaM of white teeth. Fonvielle . remembered 'how his adversary, being in love with the daughter of the Bey of Tunis, had poniarded in her chamber the slave that had threatened to inform Kasou bah's father, and cutting out, the blaek's ° ton7ue cast itat her feet, say ing, "It will tell nothing !" Yusuf fought like a — savage, with tiger springs, gleaming eyes starting from their sockets and cries like a jackal at every motion. At last getting an opening lie made a tremendous lunge, missing De Fonvielle7s heart but running lam through the arm. Yusuf dropped the point of his saber. "It would be murder for this to go on," he said, " with . your arm wounded. When you recover we will resume and finish it." Nest morning, and regularly every morning thereafter, the General would put in an appearance at the wounded man's bedside. " Sorry to keep you so long, General," the in valid would say, "but have a little patience and 'II be at your disposal." "Oh, I'm very patient—very patient," the General would answer, bow and depart. At last the journalist was well enough to leave the house and take the air. The first person he met was Yusuf. who r stalked up to him, offered him his arm, supported him during the. promenade, never thereafter talked about dueling, but remained his firm friend till his death, when in La Lawrie De Fonvielle was able to pay an! eloquent and hearty tribute to his memory.—French Paper. How . ANIMALS PLAY.—Sthall birds chase each other about in play, but perhaps the conduct of the crane and the trumpeter is most extraordinary. The latter stands on one leg, hops about in the most eccentric manner, and'throws somersaults. The Amer icans call it the mad-bird on account of these singularities. Water-birds, Such as ducks and geese, dive. after each other, and clear the surface of the''water with outstretched neck and flapping wings, throwing abundant' spray .around. Deer often engage in sham`battle, or trial of strength, by twistipg their horns together and pushing for the mastery. „ x All animals pretending violence in their play stop short of exercising it; the.dog takes the greatest precaution not to injure by his bite ; and- the or ang.outang, in wrestling with his keeper, pretends to throw him, and makes feints of biting him. Some animals carry out in their play the semblance of catching their prey: -Young cats, for instance, leap after every small and moving object, even the leaves strewed by the autumn wind. They crouch and steal for ward, ready forthe spring, the body quivering and the tail vibrating with emotion ; they bound on the moving leaf and again spring forward to an other. Bouger saw young jaguars and'cougers playing' with round sub stances, like kittens.: Birds of the magpie kind are the analogues of monkeys, full of mischief,. play, and mimicry. There is a story of a tame magpie that was seen busily employ ed in a garden !gathering. pebbles, and with much soleinnity and a stu died air burying them in a hole made to receive a post. After drop Ping each stone . it, criled, !' cur ack ” tri umphantly, and set ott for another. On examining the spot a pone toad was found in' the hole, which the magpie was stoning for his amuse ment. NEW Iltil.E?; SPEW Drop ue at the end of words like diittogue, eathlogue, where the preceding:vow el is short. Thus spell depagog, pe dagog, epilod, synagog, etc. Change tongue for Lung. When the preced ing vowel is lorig, as in prorogue, vogue, disemtiogue, rogue, retain fin at as at present. 2. Drop final e in such *ord s as definite, infinite, favorite, where the preceding vowel is short. Thus spell opposit, preterit, hypocrit, requisit, etc. When the preceding vowel is long, Ps in polite, finite, invite, unite, etc., retain present form unchanged. 3. Drop filial to in words-like quar tette, coquette, cigarette. Thus spell cigaret, roset, epaulet, vedet, gazet, etc. • „_ 4. Drop final me in,words like pro gramme. Thus spell program, ori flain, gram, .etc. 5. Change ph for,/ in words like phantom, telegraph, phase. Thus spell alfabet, paragraf, filosofy, fonet iel fotograf , etc.. X. S.—No change in proper names. • c.ms!..tileave my mammy yet."—"Y like you." sighed . a girl to her suitA,r„ "but I can't leave home. I'm a widow's only darling'; no husband can ever equal my dear }Arent in kindness." "She is kind." pleaded the wooer, "but . be my wife; we will live together, and we if 1 don't: beat your mothov." Life and Death of a World. [Professor PROCTOR last week delivered a lecture in* Steinway Hail, New-York, the subject of which was " The Life and Death of a World." lie considered the growth of the stays • through millions of years—their slow but steady decay—and briefly summarized the processes through which the earth .must have passed .in teaching its present condition. lie esti mates the time consumed in these pro cesses at not less than ilve.hund red million years, and that twenty-five million years will elapse before it will reach the present uninhabitable condition of the moon. • The 'speculations of the dis',tWuished astrono mer will be found as* Meresting as his perhsls of time, are stiipendnous and be yond the grasp of the human mind]. THE LECTURE. We haige this eVening to-eousider e various members of the solar sys- tern; as representing to us the begins nina, the middle life, and thepld age ad . : death of a planet. I forbear froni:troubling you with any consid erations as to the'varioris arguments concerning the crest on of the uni verse, as' I think . 11 at tlie students of science have satiOed themselves that the planets and the earth on which we live have arrived at their present condition by processes anal ogous to growth, and which are com monly known under the - one head of ev,olution; but I may particularly in dicate them in this way. The changes of the earth's crust such as are now going 'on we find have been going on dining periods ofetime which in real ity grows longer the more we study ttie evidence, and' 1-don't think it would be exaggerating—in fact I know from the evidence Which has been gathered - that it does not fall' far short of the truth—to say that one hundred milllion , of years must have elapsed, during which the frame of the earth has been very much as it sat present. Vitrions processes have taken place during that time which have aided in the course of formation, such as the gradual deposit of matter and other proces ,, es which we call enutiation; bv which the surfaces of continents Inise been worn away, =2l and other details in the formation have taken . , place. If estimating at what rate the processes have taken place we are able to form some idea of the length of time which must have elapsed- (hiring which these pro- ceases haye been continually going on. Then the earth's crust shows us cleafly that aoterior to this there must have been a time when there was far , too great a heat upOn this globe for it to be the abode of life, and 'this perioii has been carefully estimated at three hundred million f years. Then we have the preeed ig period, when the earth was in a vaporous state.' Of 'that we derive evidence, not from tt* world herself, but from the present tate Of the so, lar system, Which leMs us to the conclusion that tilt 1 what!' system must have been iii a form. of vapor, and therefore our t i arth must have had its beginning in a vaporous state. find another line of evidence -)1 this fact in regaird to the moon, which' shows that the frame of tlic earth must once have. extended so far as to include that luminary, and that could not have been unless she had been in a vaporous state. So we have, to take into account, also, the )m1(411 of time that wonlil be oc- copied-` in the change. of • our earth from a vriporous to a solid and liquid staie, and we cannot regard that as less than one hundred million of years. 'IV::: brings us ,to the very moderate estimate of five hundred million of years (hiring,' which our earth h:t existed an independent whole first 111," a varorous state ; see- ondly, the solid an-d liquid form, and its gradual - cooling so that at length, and thirdly, its surface was fit to be the ;abode of living creatures sof vari . ous kinds, and by!the processes of wearing down and 'denudation, such as are now taking place, reaching her present condition. It is essential that we should grasp the idea of the long period which has elapsed during which these various processes of formation have been in operation; hut there 0, of course, an escape froth that by accepting the thpory that everything we find 'upon the earth's surface and everything we have discovered in regard to the. solar system, is evidence that the system was created just as it is ; that though • all -the evidences of the pro cesses of development , are presented to our reason, we have been mishal that reason, not our own, but giVen to us, has led us astray; and that all Ahesb relations of earth were; created at once for, no other purpose :appar ently but to contradict our reason. Why should we be, conscious to save time or limit our ideas of space . if ,this were not so ? hn the- eyes of Him who works through all things there is no difference between great and small ; land these longer periods 1 are as easily to be believed in as re sulting from His action as the'short er periods -we are so Much better able to deal with. Where we admit growth and development on a small scale, we ought to be able to adthit it on a large -scalp: and where_ our' reason seems to point to these enor mous periods of time, I do not think. we ought to reject its teachings and' refuse to accept them as readily as we do the processes of development affecting plant, ; or animal, or those t mailer details we are able to utider stand more clearly. POOLING 'PERIODS OF TILE WORLDS. - But after all it matters very little whether we take the longer periods of , time or the shorter. We are not concerned• with the periods of - time but the amount of tleeclopment tbr each period in the past.of our earth; and it matters little whether the pro cesses of developmentwere quicker - and so required- a shorter period, or were slower in their Operation and so required, a longer tithe. What we have to consider ie whether the vnri ous .members of the solar system represent to us the remote past of our tiwn earth in some cases, and in • othet4 the remote ruture; anti think I skill be able to khow you that they do, r . or I am going to aflopt n plinci. t , pie that;' will allow us to view Our own planet and the sun at different ages, and this principle is, that the larger the orb is the longer has'been. its period of growth, beeauSe. it would tale .a longer time fora large'mass to cool than for a small one. Take two balls of heated iron, for instance, one of which is four times greater in size, and has a volume eight times greater, than the other. At the be ginning the . larger ball will hare! eight times as much heat as the oth- . er, and as the surface is only fouri times as great the supply . of- heat would last four times as-long. Apply that principle to thn planets:- The diameter of Jupiter is seven times that of the ; earth, and his volnine wonld be in the same ratio Were it in the same shape of compression as .that of our earth. Then, if we mul liply our five_ hundred million of years of existence by seven, -we get three thousand five hundred million, yeais; or, in other words.' if the planets began their existence at the same time as independent orbs, which assumption is adopted for convenience only, it',would be three thousand mill len years before Jupiter would be in the same state as our earth. With , out insisting on these figures, we. may fairly assume pat Jupiter will, have to go through a very long pe riod of time before he reaches the .same state as this globe. Take the smaller orbs., The moon is one eighty-first part of the size of our 'earth, and 00e-thirteenth of our sup=. ply of heat would last the ineon . sik times as long. Every stage of onr -earth's cooling, therefore, would last six times as long: Therefore, instead of five hundred 'millions of years'we get for the moon only about eighty millions of years. In other words, the moon would have. reached the , same. state as our cardh is now in four hundred and twentylmillions.of years_ago. The sun Was probably formed, as all the planet&were famed, in. a state Of vapor, and probably still re mains in great part in a vaporous state. He is the younger ruember..of the solar system simply because , he surpasses all the rest in mass. By the same principle as we have before applied, it would take thirty-five thousand millions of years to bring the sun to the same state as Our earth ; • thetefore. We will consider him as a younger member of the sys tem; not, of course, in years, but. in development, and so pags onward from its present state to the clianges our card; is passing through, and then to her old age. TIIE EARTH'S FUTURE A comparison of the various other members of the terrestial part of the solar'system will tell us much of -the eareh'S future, the moon especially telling.of the earth's future just as Jupiter has of its past. Upon the , pictures of Venus.kery Pale reliance can be placed ; and few favorable op portunities are offered for studying her, because when at the full she -lies on the other side of the sun, and at the only time we could study her she turns -her darkened hemisphere ,to ward us. In this vieV,of the transit of venus. half het• di§ is shownoa .that of the sun. Wtmust not as that this is not sunlight, for it Must be light of the sun brought into view by the erect of reflection. Therefore we learn that the planet has an atmosphere, and it is said to beat the very least as - dense as that of our own earth. Then we learn also that oceans are on her surface, because it has been shown by. the spectrum. It appears also that it closely resembles our earth in condi ' tion, and that it is the one planet fit to be the abode of living creatures like those which exist on the,earth. In Mars we begin'Aq recognilze the effects of planet:H. - S. old age. These greenish patches we must i , regard as seas, and we tind that they are much -larger in comparison to the rest of the area than in our earth. On our own . planet 72,410 is covered with water, and on this onlvj about 5 - O.Qq. ,The older planet has ,the smaller Water surface, and the idea is sug geAed that in old age of a planet the waters gradually diminish in ex, Nye pass to the moon- to answer that question, and here we certainly find no traces or water. Also, we trace no .atmosphere of appreciable density,. and everything tends to show that she had ° water on her sur face, but that it. has disappeared. Does this, seemingly cold and:dead' world appear to have passed through tie same stages as ou s t. own earth ? I think we cannot doubt-this wheP we • look at her volcanic craters. .I.think too, there must haVe been there such "life as exists on our own planet. There were oceans- on her surface,, which formerly occupied these spots,_ which, the waters being withdrawn, present this finely granulated appear. ,anee from its action., This seems to be a natural explanation, as the planet Jiecorae old the oceans become soak 'ed hit° the planet's interior, the crust of the surface as the planet "cools, being formed into large cavi- ties such fts exist in porus substances, and-into these the water is withdra`wn. Dr.'Franklin, of England,. has shown Out fOur iftneS as much- water as now - finds place on the ',earth's sur face could be found, room for 'in the interior of the earth, when the pro cess of cooling his gone sufficiently 'far. Then, in regard to, the atmos phere, there is certainly no trace on the moon, but we have a picture here showing that the volcanic action of - the moon was, at one time no less than in 014 4 ' oiVn earth. Here are the craters of 6pernus compared with. those on the Bay of Naples. You notice that 'they are larger on the moon's surface than those of Naples, ;with the exception of Vesuvius, But we have tcOetnember that the volcan ic action of the moon had more to contend with, aid therefore, although the volcanoes are large, they may not have .exerted so great a force. :Here we have A picture repres:enting the moon without an atmosphere ' and this, it may be g'enerally stated, rep resents the future of our own earth. The moon probably represents the future of our own earth at' a distance of time of twenty-five million of years :30 not only in the firmt Once • 511.00,per Annum InAdvance. NUMBER 33 have we not suilleient time. for theSe charigeslto occur, but our eniotions' are also satisfied, so far as they are affected by . the painful- thought that when the old age of: the earth will come, it will cease as the abode of life, by the reflection that Ourselves and thousands after us, to the re moteF.t•of generations, will still have ample time and. ample rook' to re.: '.main - on the earth's surface. • AN INFINITUDE OF STABS • Let.us . pause to` consider some of the Stars in this regard. Many :of them are too Old and many too young to sustain life on their -surfaces, but that they were . formed for some pur pose beyond that of being useful to this particular planet_ there is no' doubt.:•Aistudy of the heavens Semis to tell usithatTall life should occupy' all space and all tithe, and not e Crowded into one portion of time or one portiOn'of space: So I think we may lookat the .heavens, with the thousands of stars to be seen with the naked eye, and hold this thought. There you • have . 6,000 suns, each a brother of our own sun, though many. belong to higher orders, and we may believe they baVe thousands of orbs circling round, .them- which are the abodes of life. And if each one has but a single world in its system as. the abo(le of life, we have'then thou sands of inhabited worlds similar, perhaps, to - our own. In the one polar map here showri there are 324,p00 stars, all to beseen with a small telescope, and'br One of Herschel's telescopes 20,000,000 stars would haVe been brought into view in the same section of/the firmanent. We here'find in the depths of' space the worlds that wilt-take the place of those already known to us. But after all there' still remains the thought that each planet is. tending toward death, and' though the periods of time are.so vast that they seem like . eternity, the - dying . out of the larger of these suns appears to . us like the death the universe itself. But take uch - an orb as Sirius, which isa th said times larger than the sun, d after his death' all the sinalle ores will have died, but can. we escape the thought') that there. will still - remain others to take - 'their places: - It seems to me "ice cannot if, we remember how thoroughly we .e been deceived, in the past; We thotight the earth the centre of the nniv4se; then the solar system was everything, then that system became .. but one in a galaxy ; of stars 3 and in turn the galaxy of stars is lost in the infinitude of stars: So may it not be in regard to time and space as it is in regard to Matter.; that time is one of many -formationw of the Univers.e. that there are higher orders so much grander in form that eeryrairacles of time in reonrd to them 'are like-the suns and planets that we see. There is a lower order that Wander through space. in- which all the 'waste.eneoies of 'sans—ocit' own sun included—are. continually' being - poured ; .they may 'be in turn reviving the next louver order of the universe, and mayit not well be that We in turn may receive from the higher orders something of their waste energy ; so that instead of death we- may rather undergo a continual interoifinge by various orders 9(1 - the universe, which shall be carried on through - all ,time; How" Silver Ore is Sold at Lead - ,The bosiness.of buying and,selling ores in a camp like this, when the output of the Mines , is so .immense,: and the value in dollarso great, hIS : . been reduced to a science; and is by no means, as many have , supposed,' dependent upon the fair dealing and honesty of the mill men who gener ally are the purchasers. The large Corribrations and, wealthy in dividual owners of productive pro perties.have.their own •assayers,, as well:as their own scales at the mills. S 9 far as:practicable, similar' ores from the . ditfcrent pay streaks are piled together . for shipment, under the distingUishimr, titles of hard Car bonates, iron dark sand, gray sand, and many other varieties of ore. -The assayer makes frequent, assays for the purpose of keeping a general knowledge of 'these separate kinds of .ore, yet, such assays are- not the basis upon which sales. are 'made, owing to the-flict that Such *samples May be either too high or too low for thebulk ofsuch lots, and the cor rect sampling works of regen;ing so many pounds at regular intervals, out cif a•given - weight of ore as it is being crushed. This system ' gives ' approximately the. true value .of the bulk of nre, to ascertain which is equally to the -interest of the buyer and seller: SaMples from these bulk samples are assayed by the mill men - and by the:oWner, and if the,ounees elOsely tally, the price to he paid is arrived at,...:,11 too, great variations occur, :the assays are Made over again until they do.agree. The owner of ore, knowing the cost of milling and Marketing ore, is.as well, able to de, termine what the mill man,can afford to pay as the mill than can himself, and thus there is full 'and' complete . satisfaCtion and 'confidence •existing between 'the sellers and buyers of ore inthis camp. The. weight of each ton of ore isinade to tally almost to a pound by allowing for the unavoid able light waste in hauling, and it is very seldom that disputes' on this . . PREACII . ING' FOR - A CROWN.--110WC11 1 DavieS, w. 'king ,one Sunday . morn- i ing to preach, was accosted i by a. der; gymanon horseback, who was bound'' on the same errand, and who •com plained of the iinprofitatle drudgery of Ilk ' profeSsion, - saying : that he coati, never get more than half a guinea . ,for preaching. ;.The Welsh man replied that-he,'for his part, was • content to preach for a erown.. This so offended . ttAe other that he up -braided "the - pc( estrian for disgracing; his . cloth.. .".I' rlittps," said Davis,f "you will hold me still cheaper, when. I inform yOU t at 'I am going nine miles to preach, and have only seven pence in my pocket to bear my ex penses out and in... But the crown t'Or which I preach.. is the crown of lory," • - i : . . . • MOTHER'S WAY. ' • r" r Oft withlniourVittle cOttage: . the gently fall; wranarge..... , •Witite the tunligkt tonehes softly '" „,=()ne sweet face upon the wall,: . f. we gather eloserkgether,",- - And in hushed:stul tendeitene,: Ask each other's full forgiveness If ' For the wrong that each has done. .Should you wonder Why thts'„custent At the ending of the day "Z , Eye and voice would quickly answer, ' "It was once moth e rs way!" L.. If our borne he bright and eierry, - If It M;bl Arelrma true s - Opening wide Vs door of greeting I _To the many, not the few ; If we share our Father's bounty With the needy, day hydayi , because our heart's remember This was ever mother's way, Soinetlmes, when our hinds grow weary Or oar tasks seem very long; When - our burdens look too heivy, • . And we deem the right:all wrong, , Then we gain a new (resit ceurag, , Ali we rise to proudly say: ' Let us do . our duty bravely, This was our dear tether's way." Tll4 we keep her memory precious.A pile wo never eetse to pray That dt 15-st, when leligthenlng shadows ar the evening of our d.y, Tisr*May find us waiting 'o,gi) home our mothers way I . Thoughtful Thoughts., • A as you would be done by. NOTHING is difficult to the brave. and. faithful. A svtoNG- shield is the.safety of com manders. - WE would -do many- more 'things if we believed less in-impossibilities.. . more honorable to. acknowledge our faults than boast of Our merits.. 11F. that representeth hiniself diator between God and man isa demon. To. row is to pray, to' plant is to, prophecy, and the harvest answers and fulfills. • " - IF you . - present God as a . poetic, I can accept it ;. if you present him as'alact, I resist it. .' TALENTS are best matured in solitude ; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. - • FEVERISH, anxious, expectant waiting s the things desired of litiff its pleas- • tires and wears umn the soul. • -tun first step to self-khowledge is self=. trust. Nor can we attain to any knowl edge except by a like process. ; 4 - TEARS are to be,looked'atj, not; as' a proof of very deep sorroW; but as a gra .relief to the killing intentity of such, grief. • .1 " Tifn love that destroys pride and envy, and that .teaches us to endure tiibulations,. tits us for heaven, and will be bur eternal portion in heaven. . A -. WE need grace alike to ket;p us from - - breaking the. weightiest comman - dmentof the law, and from falling into the most ity of the age - . • HASTE al rashness are storms and tempests, - breaking and wrecking .busi ness ; but . nimbleness is a ; full fair- wind,. blowing it With speed to the haven, - Orpoltrui - ry is'. the dower of 'lime and_ as' the. stalk may . ,reinain *hen the flower is cut so time may remain with us when oppertunity is gone . forei - er. _ .17 ENTILITY consists not in birth,wmltb, . manners, or fasht m, but in a high sense of honor ; a determination never to take, au Undue advantage - of. another. Tim element of faith is in tlie-imagina tion. That which comforts must be ac-: cepted as true, .althouillh 'it _cannot be proven by any dlreetjine eyidence.' A. 'Moat glorious victorY_ cannot be gained over another man than this'--that when, the injury began on :his part, the kindness should titian] on ours. THE habit of resolving without acting • is worse than i,not resolving at la, - inas much as it gradually-sunders the natural condition betwear-thought and deed. Ernitv man silould reap ! . from his occu pation as flinch-Pleasure as lie can;- and men in congenial oecnpations have little need' to seek beyOnd them (Or amusement. Tii moral restraints of habits nr4hnt so many lines at which one stops—With every line obliterated there are-the fewer cheeks in The way of theirapetudus man. titEu is tie magnanimity in conseience; t is prOzie to' take us at advantage.' It always wields its whip of scorpions when the soul is scoured by outward circtirri st ance. • - Children's Fancies and Sayings. CAROLINE, (under ,ten,)_ walking. through falling leaves in autumn :—"Arc the trees crying, mamma, because the summer is gouel . 3lsmmA to Isabel, (four years of "age,) who is rather unmercifully teasing 'the kitten Isabel, my child, you must not, do so. - I don't like to see , Isabel " Well, don't look,. mamma.'' O . Nx. evening , as Elsie (three years old), was saying her prayers to - her mamma she said "Oh, - mamma, mayn't I say the'spider and the Fly' instead of Gentle Jesus,' for a change?" . , • 31i'utEL, 'singing : ' • • ' " There is a happy land, - Far, far away, . . Where saints in glory stand"—.. —" Is there not room to !tit down in "Heaven; mamma ?" . - '. . , SCENE in a country "road.: Harry, (agelcight,) reading a printe bill on a gate-rust :—" Sermons 'will be preached on Sunday u - ext by the Rev; "John Until berts. M. A." Oh,.Amy, faucY Mr. Cuth berts' ma is going to preach ; I didn't think women ever did." - A Lima.: buy of seven had been order ed to ake planet by; 'the doctor. A person, dining with- the family.- said 'to hiM : " You shotild put a little)-water with with it ; it brings out the Itaste;";, "That's very tine," risiOnded the sevenlyear old, 'but I prefer the taste left iri." ON leaving church a corintry vicar was - asked by his. son (aged.tive) when the old parish clerk Was going 'to bc.erucified. 'He expressed some surprise, and was remind ed that he had just said in his sermon, " We must crucify the old mangy' , JANE, (under nine,) to.her gOVerness:— " Miss. Blunt, when Ma asks you to have some more wine to-day at dinner; do, please, say t•es." - Governess :—" Why What do you wish me to take more wine for V - Jane Oh, I only want to see. ma's face l" AT family.prayeni , one. - Morning one of the petit ions was, "That ire Might do our duty in our several stations.". " papa," "aid Johnnie (five years old) after prayer, "did that mean Leisham station or Iflack heath station?" .* , A LITTLE 'boy ; . six .narnnia, do - People say the Prifice of Wales will not. be a good king?" - Mamma :—" Some persons think that he does not - promiso very well." 'Little lkny :—" But mamma, perhaps he-will - notteep.bis promise." PnEeorious Precaution: -Professor -Deepthinker's Son and.lleir to Professor Dcepthinker— , Wot - am I a-doin'? I'm a tirin' this off; Ybu're a-blooding' too much, 'an' I ain't goin' have no loaded pistols round, .or clse,sorne day you'll be browin' yer brains out, an' cheatin' Mud der and my out of yer life insurance."— Park. ' ' -A LITTLE boy live years old was taken to the seaside. , Wren he- arrived it was high tide. The next morning, the tide being out, the little 'fellow was found gazing with wonderous eyes at the long stretch of sand and the distant sea. After_ a patme he exclaimed :—"-Why,. auntie, it's all gone down its sink.'! A lady giving her little boy religiouS in struction, told. him: that if, "he was good he would gate Heaven and sing psalms, and play the harp before the throne of God. - " But I can't play tie harp;" said the child. His mother answered that be would know how to play when hn got' up to Heaven. The child. thought for a moment, and then said,—"Mainma, When I get Op to lleavgn I shatl, ask God to give me a drum." SCENE : the. breakfast table: 'lamma, •Ing.:—" Hamilton, .go up stairs and change yOur. clothes. Now. you are at the seaside I want you to wear out your old gray suit." . Hamilton,- who is nine, ap pears four hours later a sight to - behold. ,• :Mamma (horrified) :—" Hamilton, what ha re you been doing ?" Hamilton. (cheer /I fully :—" Oh, mamma, I've ',been having Rich n jolly roll down the chit -You wish -1 ed me to wear ent. my tild.clothes? Yutt know," • . . El II ii•