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Deeds, Mortgages, Notes, Justices', Consta blsz' School and other blanks for sale. piocella nom A Wild Itiuntress. —o— The Wheeling Register of the 20th instant tells the following story on the authority of Julia Messenger, of Wind ridge, Green county, Pen syl van is, fur whose veracity it vouches: A man living near Windridge,. Green county, Penusylvania,'had born to him five children, four girls and one boy. Iris name is Daniel Lewis. When quite young the boy and second daughter, tamed Lucinda Lewis, developed quite a fondness for hunting, and were out nearly all the time, roaming the woods in search of game. They scented to delight in nothing so much as the fall life of a hunter, and would be gone from home for week's at a time. After some fdtir or five years the boy quit it, and entered on the more industrious pursuits of life, but the girl continued in the chase. Drawing herself more and mote from Imlnan intercourse and restraint, she has become a wild woman, fleeing front the approach of her line with the speed of a deer. During the early years of her solitary life she used to approach her father's house and entice the dogs to follow her, learning almost any breed of dogs to be come good hunters. In the hope of bringing her back to her hornes and to civilization her brother followed her and shot the dog she had taken away, using •very inducement to get her back with him but all in vain. For eighteen years, since she was twelve years of age, she has lived this wild life, sleeping in the centres of straw stacks dur ing the night and hiding in them during the summer the wild and cultivated f.-nits else intends for her winter's store of pro visions. She is now thirty years old, and is as wild es the most untamed denizon of the forest. Mr. Messenger says he at one time, while out hunting, met her in the woods. Her long black hair, covering her face and eyes, were matted with bars and leaves, agd black flashing eyes made her startling picture. She remained perfect ly still until he got within twenty feet of her when she suddenly turned and fled with the swiftness no man could hope to rivaL A few days since she was seen again, and then in her hand three pheasants -Auld four rabbits, but although these en cumbered her she eluded every attempt to capture her. She has been so long in the woods that she has become perfectly wild. Her dress is made of the skins of animals and a blanket that she has taken somewhere during some of her nocturnal predatory tours. Idle Girls. ——o— It is a painful spectacle in families where a mother is the drudge to see the daughters elegantly dressed, reclining at their ease with their drawing, their music their fancy work, and their reading, be guiling themselves of the lapse's:if hours, days and weeks, and never dreaming of their responsibilities ; but as a necessary consequence of neglect of dnty,growing weary of their useless lives, laying hold of every newly invented stimulant to arouse their drooping energy, and blam ing their fate, when they darn not blame their God, for having placed them where they are. These indwwiduals will often tell you, with an air of affected compassion (for who can believe it real) that poor ma ma is working herself to death, yet no sooner do you propose that they should assist her than they declare she is quite in her element, in short that she never would be happy if she had only half so mach to do. Tax MIN Wrrviouv 61c Exsoiv.— We believe in the man or woman who "has enemies." This does not sound sound, but it is sound. Your milk and water people, who content themselves with sim ply doing no harm, at the same time nev er do any good. They are mere nega tives. Your man of force who des not wait for a stone to get out of his heaven appointed way, but manfully rolls it over may unintentionally hurt somebody's toes in the act ; tut thousands will thank him for clearing it. The man or woman who has no enemies is generally a sleek creeping cowardly creature, caring for no one bat himself—smirking and creeping his unchallenged way to the obscurity he merits. He adds nothing to the common stock—does no good in the world, and is lowered into his six feet of earth without one sincere regret from any one. He has no.enemies; but has he a friend? A place is vacant, but not in any warm, grateful heart. A fig for such people! Da. J. IL To czn,' of Washington, of a theory that a person "who retains his hair past the age of sixty-five has a good prospect of living to be over eighty. As the result of large exnerience and close obeervation,he expresses a !xdief that the vast majority of persons who become bald of lose their hair, do so between thirty-five and forty-five and that these rarely live to be over sixty-five or seventy yearis of age. Past epvy withers; timot4er's )ay Queer Things About-Babies. A great many curious things happens to babies, in this round world of ours, that the readers of our"Youn,g Folks" I probably never heard of. One tbing is— planting them. This is done by the dark. skinned woman of Guinea, anti isn't half so dreadfi las it sounds. The mother digs a hole in the ground, stands baby in it, and then packs the warm sandaround him to keep him in place, as you would set out a rose bush. It keeps him out of mischief and he can play in the sand while his mother works. All the day lung he stays in his odd crib, and at night, when she is done with her work, he is dug out. Wben this agricultural mother wants to carry baby about, she tics him into a little chair which she straps to her back. If it is somti very grand occasion, ho is dressed neatly in stripes of white pants, and ornamented with. dozens of brass bracelets and rings on arms and legs. A funny looking baby he must be. If you don't fancy a crib of sand for a baby, what do you think of a big shoe stuffed with moss to make it comfortable? The droll little Lapps cradle their babies in that way. The shoe is large, of course and made of reindeer skin. It comes up high at the back, like the slippers we wear nowadays, and is turned up at the toes. The moss with which it is stuffed is the famous reindeer moss, soft and white; and the odd little black-eyed baby looks very comfortable hanging from a tree or slung across its mother's back.— ,Perhaps this baby who lives in a shoe is no more comical thsu the baby who lives in A fur bag—another sober little black eyed baby, away off in the shivery Esqui mina huts. Besides being cuddled up in a fur bag at his mother's back, this round faced little fellow wears a - fur, hood and looks like some strange kind of animal peeping out in the world. You may have seen the Indian baby or papoose bound flat to a hoard—poor little creature! One tribe, the Flatheads. made a rude sort of box of bark or willow work, and wrap the baby— "little man" (hey call a piece of blanket, strap him tightly to the box, and hang it, across two sticks.— Besides this, the untortunate little fellow has a board bound over his lorhead to make him a Flathead. Even the Russian peasant mother cradles her baby on a square board hung from the walls by strings from each corner, like the pan in a balance. In India the funny little black babies either sit on their mother's hips and hold on by c'asping their hands over her shoulder, or they take airy rides in a basket on her head. These babies are ele gantly dressed in armlets, bracelets ank lets, and legless (if one might make a word,) linger rings, toe rings, and nose rings. As for clothes, they don't need many when they wear so much jewelry. China babies—not dolls, but babies that live in China—are sadly in the way among the poor. Sometimes they are cradled in a bag on their mother:s and sometimes they are tied to the bucks of older children, who goes about as though they had no such load. 3lany poor Chinese live in boats on the river, and the baby that comes to such a family is tied by a long rope to the mast, It is long enough to let the child creep around but not long enough to let him fall over board. There is another curious custom regarding babies which prevails in some parts of China, if one dies, it is not buried as older people are; it is thrown out carelessly, :4.1d crackers are tired of at the door. Here and there, at the cor ners bf streets, charitable people build small hOuses with openings to drop the neglected little bodies in, and that is all the burial they get.— Young Folks. -- St. Vitus. ——o— The Nitrembary Chronicle of 1493 re lates a medireval legend to this effect— that in the reign of the Emperor henry the Second,while a priest was saying mass on Christmas eve, in the. church of St. 3fagn es, in Magdeburg, a company of young people amused themselves with dancing and singing in the ch tirchyard.— The priest remonstrated, but - they derid ed his words and refused to desist. Then he, incensed at their conduct, prayed God and St. Magnus to cause them to dance and sing a whole year, without rest; and the prayer was granted. Neither rain nor dew fell upon them ; they did not eat or rest, nor were their shoes or gar ments worn out. Three of the company perished in the time, one the daughter of a priest: the others were released at the end of the year and obtained forgiveness before the altar, but, after sleeping three whole nights, they also died. This same story is told of other places and charches. The involuntary dancers were styled in the Latin chronicles CtlTChkßielt, and the dance was spoken of in the 4411 century in some parts of El - troller - as St. Titus's dance. A nervous disease, procuring fre quent involuntary motions,thus took this name among the common people ; while medical men specified the disease as Chor ea Sandi VW, or Sancti Modest!". It has been also called the dance of St. Guy,and of other saints. If is_possible that these several names came from eifferent church es to which the old story was attached. IRISII QUAKElL—A,friend tells this story the Quaker Indian Connis sioliera on their recent return to PhiLadel plif&-- The "broad-brinn." landed, carpet bag in hand, at West Philadelphia, when an Irish hack driver, who chanced to have'a broad brim also, to ingratiate him self into their good ~,, ,r aces passed himself off as a brother Quaker. "Is thee going to the Continental ho tel?" asked the hack driver. "Yes our residences are near," replied the Quakers. "Will thee take my carriage?" "Yus, gladly." .As they seated. -therueelyeS, the hack driver awed very seriously: "Where is thou's baggage?" Turr.s has been-Seine discussion as to the injurious effect of beer, but there is ample evidence that in some cases it is fatal. A man was killed in St. Louis lately by the explosion o,f f.oask of this dangerous liquid, and leaves- it'. wife and two children to mourn his loss,aml many fellow-citizens to mourn the loss of the beer. The articles is to be classed with dangermis explosives, but, luckily, it ex ploded only before it has been swallow ed. JEREMIAH BEIM:TAIL% "once preaching a revival sermon, was interrupted by the entrance of Aaron Burr. "Here cornea one," save the revivalist, "against' whim even will testify in the &y of judg ment." "yes sir," said Burr, "in fifty yews of criminal praptice I have always found - the greatest rascal turn State's oil define." t arut mid tirtoide. Care for liforses. —o— All horses must not be fed in the same proportions, without regard to their ages, their constitutions, and their work ; the impropriety of such a practice is self evident. Yet it is constantly done, and is the basis of disease of every kird. Never nse bad hay on oecount of its cheapness, because there is no Proper nourishment in it. Damaged corn is exceedingly injnrous, because it brings on inflamation of the bowels and skin diseases. Chaff is better for oh horses than hey, because they eau chow and digest it bet ter. Mix chaff with corn or bean's, and do not give the latter atone, because it makes the horse chew his foot more digest it bet ter. Ilay or grass alone will not support a horse tinder hard work, because there is not sufficient nutritive body in either. When a horse is worked him' its food should be chiefly outs—if not worked hard its food should be chiefly hay—be cause oats supply more nourishment and flesh-making material than any other kind of food ; hay not so muck. For saddle or coach horses, half a peek of sound oats and eighteen pounds of hay are sufficient. If the hay is not good add a quarter of a peck more oats. A horse wbich works harder may have rather more of each ; one that works lit tle should have less. Rack feeding is wasteful. The better plau.is to feed with chopped bay from a manger, because the food is not then thrown about, and is more easily chew ed and digested. Oats shou:d be bruised for an old horse but not for a'young one, because the for mer, through age and defective teeth,can not chew them properly. The young horse can do so, and they ure thus pro perly mixed with saliva, and turned into wholesome nutriment.—London Iltzrse Book. Treatment of Farmer's Hopi ——o— Somebody says : I have a Teo ipe tg offer. It is a compound, being composed of several ingredients. It is an excellent remedy and when properly applied, has au amazing good effect upon farmer's hoys,keeping them at home in the :.!vening when they ought to be there, and mak ing their home better than any o:her place on") earth.—Here are the ingre dients : L Treat them us partners with you. Give them to understand that they are interested in the success of the farming operations as much am yourself. 2. Converse with them. Get their opinions, and give them yours. If at nIL prudent, make use of their plans, and when you think your own best, explain to therm why you did not adopt theirs. Don't keep them altogether in the dark with reference to your plans fur the fu ture. t. Don't require them to star at home in the evenings all the time. When there is any meeting, or entertainment from which they might reoeive imurfit be aut, to let them go. 4. Pro; ide them with plenty of g,,od books and papers; especially referring to agriculture. Let them be well posted in their own hnsiness—farming. 5. Never ecold them lx•enuse they don't do their work or attend to the business of the farm us well as you do. Encourage them. Give them a holiday now and then. They look for it, and they need it; and it will he !Adler for you and than to let them have it. Other ingredients may with safety be added, but the above are of infinite ira• portance, and should never be otni ted.— Farmers, try my recipe; it acts like a charm. I=l=l Washing Trees with Lye --o-- I have washed many trees with soft soap and water, half Anti half, and never saw any injurious effects arise from it; but on the contrary, trees so washed could be picked out from others not washed, by their healthy appearance and freedom from moss arid scale lita•. I astral)) , apply it in early spring. and also in thesummer after no moss or lice can be found on the trees. Some orchardists about here use iimewater with like beneficial results. I saw last auturfin an orchard of four or five hundred young apple trees that had been treated with limewater wash, and they were certainly as thrifty and as free from moss and insects as any trees I ever saw. I have never used anything but soft soap and water for a wash, and this I know has no injurious effects upon the trees.-0 - if. Rural Home. Scratched Furniture Scrape one pound of beeswax into havings in a ran; add half a pallor. spirits of turpentine, and one pint linseed oiL Let it remain twelve hours, then stir it well with a stick into a liquid; while stirring, add one quarter pound shellac varnish and one ounce alkanet root. Put this mixture into a gallon jar, and stand it. before the fire, or -in the oven, for a week (to keep it warm ;) shake-it up three or four times a day. Then strain it. Pour about a teaspoonful on a wad of baize, go lightly over the face and other parts of mahogony furniture, then rub briskly with a similar wad dry, and in three min utes it will produce a dark brilliant polish unequaled. --m•i