VOL. II. ItlDGAVAY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 1G, 1873. NO. 46. The Stiiife-Drlvcr. j There is a magic in the calling of a Hinge-driver. Everybody knowH nnd as pires to know the stage-driver; every body is known by, and ia proud to fie known by, the Btage-driver. The little boys remember it a month, if the stage drivcr speakB to them. There is a par ticular satisfaction to be able to distin pniKli among drivers, and Bay it was Winkle, or it wnB Nnson, or it was Mitchell. The stage-driver is prince of a peculiar realm; and that realm con sists of the yellow coach he drives, and the high scat he occupies, and his four mettlesome horses, and forty miles of c rantry roiul, and the heart of several principal roads, not to speak of ten thousand little matters of interest and pleasure, bnsiness and profit, news and jgossip, with wliich he is connected, tlenoo he, like a prince, is held in rev tmce of the populace. Of all the people on the earth, he, is the one who rolls by in a gilded coach; he is the ono who rides through his immense estate with tho most lordly and consequential ivr, and all the rest of us seem to be but poor tenants and gaping boors. It is something to speak to a stnge-driver; it is a grent thing to be recognized by the stage-driver. To be perchance known by one who knows nobody, is nothing. To be known, 'to be pointed out, to have your name whispered in a bystander's ear, by one who knows everybody, affects you no if Omniscience were speaking about you. The stage clriver differs from a steamboat captain, in that tho latter is not seen to bo so immediately connected with his craft as the former. We meet the captain at the breakfast-table; he is nobody; he is no more tlinn we; we can eat ns well as he can. But who dare touch the stage-driver's ribbons ? Who dare swing ins w mp t How rapidly and securely he drives down one hill and up the nextand that with fifteen passengers and half a tun of baggngel Then how majestically be rounds to. at the door of the tavern! What delicate pomp in the movement of Hie four handsome horses! Iu what style the cloud of dust, that has served as an outrider all the wav, passes off when tho coach stopsl How the vil lagers the blacksmith, the shoemaker, the thoughttul politician, and the boozv loafers that liU tho stoop grin and stare, and make their criticism! How he flings the reins and the horses to the stable-boy, who presently returns with a splendid relay! How lie accents these from the boy -with that sort of air with which a king might be supposed to take his armor from the bauds of valet! There are his gloves, withal; he always wears gloves, as a Saratoga fine lady, and would no sooner touch any thing without Kh'vcs than such a lady would a glass of Congress water. There is, moreover, a mystery attach lug to the stnge-driver a mystery deeper man tho question why the car casses of elephants are found imbedded 111 the ice-mountlni8 of the Arctics even this: Why the stne-driver is not frozen to dcatff in our winters? His punctuality has something preternat ural in it. How, in the coldest weather, iu the severest storm, in fogs, iu sleet, in haik in lightning, in mud, when no body else is abroad, the stage-driver appears, rounding tho corner, just as regular and just as quiet m the old clock in the kitchen! The Champion KnintsfiintlHt, It may not be generally known that Dr. Charles Spier of this place is the oldest living and most successful numis matist in the world. He hns been en gaged in the collection of coins for over hfty-seven years, and has now over 4,000 pieces, representing ever species of coin ever produced iu any year, or under the dominion of any sovereigu or government, from the days of Semiramis and the Pharoahs dowu to the present time. His collection is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. He has over 10,000 of his pieces iu the vaults of the Bank of California, and 4,000, or over, hero. At tho Bank of California his collection is pronounced the best and most valuable in existence, not except ing those of Queen Victoria and the sultan of Turkey, which are particular ly extensive and valuable. A few days ago we examined the 4,000 of his pieces which he keeps here. They proved a most interesting study. Coins of the ancient Jewish kingdom, of the various kings, cjtteuls and emperors of Borne, of TyiT, Sidon, Carthage, Nineveh, Babylon, China, Palmyra, Egypt, Japan, etc., with specimens of every yeur s coinage ill all Christian lauds from the time of Constantino till now, were exhibited in prodigal profnsiou. J. he doctor hns ninny coins which would sell for many thousands of dollars each. His collection has been the work of a very extender! lifetime. He has travel led uenrly all over the world, and is constantly receiving new additions to lua pieces from ljiirope and the .hast. He has gold and silver coins from the size of a very largo teacup, rfiiwn to that of a pen. e wish we had the space to particularly describe some of them. UK! U1H lU, ttUU ITS IU fHPy llll IHIJ- stanees and greatly advanced iu years, though still robust for one of his age, remains iu Yisaila on account of the ex cellence of tho elimnte. His collection is very interesting to any one apprecia ting the mementoes ol antiquity.--Vixalia (Cal.) Delta. Four Men to he Handed. . Four men, all of them whites, are now lying in' the County Jail ot Burnet County, Texas, under sentence of death all to be executed at the same place j on January 15. Their names nro Ben-1 jnmin Shelby, Arthur Shelby, Ball Woods, and William Smith. They were all sentenced for tho murder of Beujn min McKeever. Their case, taken in all its details, is one ef the most inter estiig in the nnnnls of criminal trials. The evidence agaiust them, though eon elusive, was entirely circumstantial. McKeever was shot from his horse at night near the residence of the Shelbys, his throat then cut, and hir-t body carried on horseback three miles and thrown into a cave. A large rock was placed on the bloody spot where his throat was cut, but this precaution, instead of concealing the crime, led to the arrest of the criminals. The keen eyes of a frontiersman saw that the rock had been recently placed there ; so it was remeved, and indications of blood found. A closer search resulted in the further finding of a paper-wadding that had been fired from a shot-gun. On examining a gun of Benjainiu Shelby paper-wadding was likewise found in it, and yet another wadding that had been tired' from a shot-gnu like the first, was found under Shelby's doorstep. Iu his house was found a copy of the Chimney Corner, and by comparisons it was ascertained that the three pieces of gun wadding had been obtained from that pnper. Placed together the following enjgma could be easily rend : With piece of pnper or a slate, Sit around the fire both large and small; A letter make, almost an eight, And now you see what covers all. There were several other circumstan ces pointing strongly to the accused men as the murderers ;' therefore the jnry that tried them did not hesitate to find them guilty of murder in the first decree. The verdict is generally ap- proved by the citizens of Burnet Coun ty, and the latest advices from there indicate that there will probably be no interferences by Superior Courts or the Governor to prevent the decreed quad ruple execution. An AJfeetionafe "TV;)." The Terre Haute J-h-pren tells the following dog story : " There were two dogfi living in the same neighborhood, up town, that were attached friends, often visiting each other and making excursions to gether. The other dny one of them sickened and died. His canine friend called to see him, and found him dead. He watched beside the body until night, and then attempted to drag it to his homo. But the burden.was too great After dragging it yards, he was efm- BUl even inm iif He stood, for a time, gazing sorrowfully on the dead, then laid down in the street, beside him, with his head on the neck of his old companion, and thus he passed the night, and thus he remained until the body was removed. JSneh is dog friendship." Chinese (Jamliliiif. Little by little we are arriving at an understanding of the Mongolian's habits of life. Tho introduction of the race into Pennsylvania has given us n new insight into their "ways that arc dark," and the Pittsburgh Pout, which has never ceased to wonder at them since their pioneers reached Beaver Falls, thus describes one of their peculiar amusements : ' "Among the many little diversions employetl by the Mongolians at Beaver Falls, nunc are more popular than the game called 'Chamie.' It is played by the pigtails with 'tseen,' a copper coin of the value of one-tenth of a cent. The gamester is driven into reckless profligacy by the necessity of throwing a whole penny into the pool at oue time. The game causes the utmost excitement and the most intent ardor among the plovers. On the table is a kind of dais with holes all nrouud it. Into this each player puts as many tseen or pennies as he wishes, the number being restricted within a certain limit, and then a spring makes all the pennies put in tumble into a heap. Each jilnyer then guesses the number of pennies iu the pool, and the one who guesses the nearest obtains the pool. At first sight the game looks exceedingly simple, and one would im agine that each player would put in the smallest number of pennies possible. But this is not so ; for each one tries to circumvent the others bv his cunning. A player will put in sometimes a grent iany more pennies lumscit than the other, and then guess in proportion. rlie mmn amusement of the game to nn outsider is the manner of playing it the ninuv ways which the players em ploy to make believe that they are put ting in many pennies by enlarging their lists, or that they nre putting in little by making them smaller, when theymny be doiaig the very opposite. It is ex ceedingly comical and interesting, and all the time the jabbering and chattering roes on at a pace that would astonish Confucius himself." Lave at Sifjrlit. A servant girl of no strong intellect, who lived with a ladv in the neighbor hood of Paisley, one dny surprised her mistress by giving up her place. The lady inquired the cause, and found it was that fertile source of diss ension between mistress and maid-servant a lad. " And who is that lad ? " inquired the mistress. " Oh he's a nice lad: a lad that sits in the kirk, inst foment me." " And when does he intend that he and you should be married ? " " I ilinna ken." " Are you sure that he intends to marry you at all 1 " . " I dare say he down, mem." " Have you had much of each other's company ? "Not vet." " When did you last converse with him ? " " Deed, we .hae nae conversed ava vet." " Then how sliould you BHppose that he is going to marry you ? " " On," replied the simple girl, " he's been lung lookin at me, and I think he'll soon be speakiu'." ' The Kniotioiinl Nature of Dogs A little reflection shows that a dog approaches a mnn much more nearly in the matter of feeling than either of physical or mental characteristics. It is a startling fact, well brought out by Jesse in a synopsis of the dog's attri butes (" Eesearehes," chap, v.), that there are very few human passions wliich a dog docs not share. A dog feels anger precisely as wo do, and after provocation is sometimes vin dictive and sometimes placable, accord ing to his individual character. He is susceptible of hatred of the bitterest kind. He is so excrutiatingly jealous that his life becomes a burden iu the presence of a favored rival. His envy continually leads him to eat what he does not want lest another animal should take it, and t illustrate the fable of "The Dog in the Manger. " Gluttony holds out to him temptations under wliich even his honesty sometime succumbs ; but, ou the othej hand, frpifl drunken ness he is nobly emancipated. A dog mentioned by the Rev. Thomas Jackson (" Our Dumb Companions," p. 48), hav ing once been made so drunk with malt liquor that he was unable to walk up stairs, ever atter declined to taste the pernicious beverage, and growled aud snarled at the sight of a pewter pot. Again, as to love, Don Juan was a cold aud unenterprising character compared to a dog ; aiM as to maternal affection, the anothcr-dog feels it with heroic pas sion, starving herself to death rntlTPr than forsake her offspring. 'Gratitude may be almost said to bo a dog's leading principle, supplying first tho spring of allegiance to his master, and ever after reconciling him with true ningnanimitv to take evil from .the hand from which he has accepted good. Kegret nnd grief ho feels so deeply that they olten break hiB hcurt. Fear is a passion which dogs exhibit with singular variation, some breeds and individuals being very tim orous, and others perfect models of courage ; the latter characteristics and fortitude seeming to be more character istically canine. A urevbouud has been known, after breaking his thigh, to run on till the course was concluded ; and the excellent new volume " Ou the Dog," bv Idstone (p. 39), is a frightful "dory of a foxhound whom its ferocious master flogged so savagely for " bub bling " ns to cut out its eve with his whip. Tho animal continued to hunt with the pack till the end of tho chase, where upon the human brute, a certain Colonel ihoruton, took out his scissors aud severed the skin byvhich the dog s eye hud" hung pendant during the entire run." As to hope, no ono can observe the dog watching for his master's step- as in Landseers picture of "Expecta tion," without admitting that he knows the sentiment as well ns we. Pride in a successful chase may be witnessed in eVery dog, and even felt in the quickened heartbeats of a grayhound when caressed and praised. J.hat dogs have personal vanity appears from the fact that they are so manifestly dejected and demor alized when dirty and rnpged by lou exposure, nild recover their self-respect immediately upon being washed and combed. Chivalry and magnanimity may nearly always be calculated upon in dogs, and wife-beating is an offence to which the four-footed beast never de scends. The stories nre endless of big dogs generously overlooking the insults of small curs, or taking them into water aud giving them a good ducking ns a punishment for their impertinence, and then helping them mercitully hacK to land (see Jesse's "Anecdotes," p. 117). Sense of property, bifurcating into both 'ovotousnoss and avarice, is common to all lings. The kennel, rug, collar, water- basin, or bone once devoted to his use no dog can see transferred t another without indignation. Frequently he "covets his neighbor's house," and at tempts to enscorce himself in it surrep titiously ; and almost universally he covets his neighbor's bone, aud purloins it if he dare. Even from uvurire he cannot be wholly exonerated, observing his immensity to bnrv his treasures. Shame, humor, gratitude, in fact, nearly all other emotional attributes not above enumerated; are also to be noticed in dogs. A Burying Ground of (Jlniite, On the farm of Mr. Harrison Whaler, near Moorfield, in Carlisle Co.,Ky., is a skirt of woods which possesses charac teristics of deep interest. About three inches beneath the surface of the entire tract may be found innumerable bones, evidently the remains of an extinct spe cies of the humanrace. Several mounds are also in the woods, and in one which lias been pnrtially explored were found skulls and bones which from their size must have belonged to a race of beings far more gigantic than the race which now inhabits the eartn. -in mis mound were also found many clay utensils also arrow heads cut out of the solid rock, and pipes of the same material. Such a memorial q the past starts many inquiries. Was the place once a battle ground, whero tho aborigines fought to maiutain the glory oi their respective tribes? Or wos it a oommon burial ground ? The first seems to be the most plausible theory, inasmuch as tue wnoie tract, covering at least fifteen acres, has multitudes of human bones but a few inches beneath the surface. It is evi dent they were never buried, but origi nally lay exposed to view, until the ac cumulated deposits of time formed the black, rich soil which covers them. But whatever theory may be adopted, it is certain that these bony materials ante date history aud furnish another proof of how little is known of the races and tribes who flourished, it may be, cen turies ago. Forrest nuil the Lien Tamer. for his strength. several hundred pelled to desist. would not leave. The volcanic rocks of the Pacific coast in the Sierra Nevnda and Const range consist of a cooled lava flood ex tending from middle California.through Oregon whe.te it is two thousand feet thick-northward into British Columbia. In this lava region, occupying an area of not less than fifty-six thousand srtare miles, are about a dozen volcanoes, every one extinct, being, as Prof. Joseph Le Conte of the University of California- calls them, mere pimples upon its surface. That geologist main tains that these volcanoes could not have poured forth so immense a quantity of lava, and ascribes its occurrence to jfia sure eruptions, instead f to the action of craters. Mr. Forrest had the reputation of be ing a tyrant on tho stage, and was ex tremely apt to bully all in the thea tre, from the manager down. But once he met his match. It was when he was playing at the old Broadway Theatre in New York. His pieces were followed by an exhibition of lions by their tamer, a certain Herr Driesbach. Forrest was one day saving that he hud never been afraid in all his life could not imagine the emotion. Dmesbaeh made no re mark at the time, but in the evening, when the curtain had fallen, invited Forrest homo with him. Forrest as sented, and tho two, entering a house, walked a long distance through many devious passages all dark until final ly Driesbach, opening a door, said, "This way, Mr. Forrest." , Forrest' entered, ond immediately heard the door slammed, and looked behind him. He had not time to ex press any surprise at this, for at the same moment he felt something soft rubbing against his leg, and putting out his hand, touched what felt like a cat's back. A rasping growl saluted the mo tion, aud he saw two fiery, glaring eye balls looking up at him. "Are you afraid, Mr. Forrest?" asked Driesbach, from out in the darkness. " Not a bit." Driesbach said something; the growl deepened and became hoarser, the back began to arch, Jflid the eyes to shine more fiercely. Forrest held out two or three minutes; but the symptoms became so ferrying that ho owned up in so many words that he was afraid. " Now, let me out, yon infernal scoundrel, he said to the hen tamer, "and I'll break every bone in your body !" He was imprudent there, for Driesbach kept him, not daring to move a finger, with the lion rubbing against his leg all the time, until For rest promised not only immunity, but a champagne supper into the bargain. Animal Ingenuity. The architectural ingenuity, r rather genius, of the tarantula is a fact long familiar to naturalists, a Ran Diego, Cal ifornia, paper tells us. This insect has an exceptional development of the instinct which instructs all creatures which nre not protected by nature with a warmtli engendering hairy hide to properly house themselves. The details of the tarantula's dwelling, down even to the matchless mechanism of the doors of its edifice, have excited the wonder of all interested in natural history. Tho most elaborate inventions in locks and hinges of vaunted human skill are dis tanced by this venomous insect in the construction of the door which secures its privacy. But the road-runner, be tween which and the tarantula a deadly enmity exists, is its master, as an inci dent which we are about to relate will show. Prof. Agassiz, during his recent visit here, exhibited a special desire to be supplied with as many specimens ns possible of the road-runner, of the tar antula, and of the tarantula-killer. We are not advised as to whether he was supplied with live specimens of tho road-runner. This is a very timorons and incredibly swift bird. It is about tho size of a 'pheasant; its plumage is not unlike that of the pheasant family. It lias longer legs, and a slenderer neck nnd body than the pheasant. It trusts for locomotion almost altogether to its 1or"t nnd mns with n switness that would shame a rabbit or a hure. it, is susceptible of domestication, and in time learns to come at the call of those who have petted it. But it is a hopeless thing for a stranger to try to approach this fowl. It is as sagacious ns swift. e were put in possession of facts about the creature bv Mr. JosoG. Estudillo, which excited our wonder and admiration. As we have said, there is enmity between the road-runner and tarantala. Ill rond-runner is as noiseless as rapid. It lies in wait for the tarantula, and tho moment it finds its enemy asleep, it ap proaches noiselessly with a twig of the itvinl-lv fwixtna Deftly nnd stealthily ft goes on piling the prickly prison around the devoted insect, until at last a ram part of the desired height is piled up, It then selects a specially jagged and henvv niece of cactus, and drops it on tho tarantula. The last, awakened by the shock, endeavors to rise niijl make its exit. It is instantly impaled upon the thorns, and the triumph of the rmd runner is complete. The Story of Stephen (iirnrd. The man lives in Philadelphia who when young aud poor, entered w bank and savs he. "Please, sir, don t you want a little boy?" And tho stately personage said, "'No, little boy, I don t want a little boy." lhe little boy, whose heart was too full for utterance. chewing a piece of licorice stick ho had bought with a cent stolen from Iuh good -. . . -,i .... : 1 i: and pious aunt, wun boos puumy auui ble. and with great globules oi wittei rolling down his cheeks, glided silently down the marble steps of the bank. Bending his noble form, the bank man dodged behind a door, for he thought the little was going to shy a stone at him. But the boy picked up something and stuck it in his poor but ragged jacket. " Come here, little boy," and the little boy did come here; and tho bank man said, " Lo, what pickest thou A Hard Walk. The train from New York to raterson, N.J., got fast in adrift at a cut near Clifton, one night during the lato storm, and bid fair to stny there all night. The Eassengers took tho affair in all sorts of umors. One man said his daughter was to be married that evening, and he would give two hundred dollars to be carried through. One lady had gone to Passaic in the morning for an hour's visit, and she was alarmed at the prob able condition of the little nursing babe she had left at home. Another man had a wife who he expected would want him to go for tho doctor before morning. After waiting for a time, a number of the more anxious ones, including the fe male with the babe at home and several other females, concluded, rather than wait in the train all night, that they would walk to Paterson. It was an awful walk. In places the snow was above their waists. One mo ment they would be upon the track; the next they would suddenly find them selves precipitated into some ditch, or over some embankment. The woman, with the babe at home, delicate and sickly ns she was, kept up with the rest, although she was occasionally helped bv the strong arm of some of the men. When a male member of the party felt iscouraged, and like giving out, he was kept up by a sort of pride, thinking that a woman could stand it, certainly he pught. Despite the situation, the cracking of jokes never ceased, and good-humor prevailed to such au extent that the party had no time to get down-hearted. Then somebody would disappear with a yelp down some unseen cavity; all hands ould rush to the rescue, and the miss ing person would he extricated and threatened with being left alone if he 1 such a thing again! Aud so it went. The party finally reached Paterson at about 11 o'clock nt night, having been passed on the rond by the train they had abandoned, which had succeeded in forcing its way through, but without stopping to pick up the trampers through the snow. An African Man of Business. Soor Hadji Palloo was a smart young mau ot business energetic, quick at mental calculation, and seemed to be orn for a successful salesman. His eyes were never idle, tliey wandered over every part of my person, over the tent, tho bed, the guns, the clothes, ond, luvmg swung clear round, began the silent circle over again. His fingers seemed never at rest, they had a fidgety, nervous action at their tips, constantly iu the act of feeling something; while in the act of talking to me, he would lean over and feel the texture of the cloth of my trousers, my coat, or my shoes or socks ; then ho would feel his own light jamdani shirt or babwain loin cloth, until Ins eyes casually resting upon a novelty, his body would lean for ward, nnd his arm was stretched out with thA w.n..fr tincrcra n.a inws also were in perpetual motion, caused by the vile habit he had acquired of chewing ictel-nut and lime, and sometimes tobacco and lime. They gave out a sound similar to that of a young shoat in the act of sucking. He was a pious Mohammedan, and observed theexternal courtesies and ceremonies of the true believer. He would affably greet me, take off his shoes, enter my tent protest ing he was not fit to sit in my presence, and, after being seated, would begin his ever-crooked errand. Of honesty, literal and practical honesty, this youth knew .1 . .. . A '.1. A il. 1- - notning ; to uie pure iruui no m an utter stranger; the falsehoods he had uttered during his short lifo seemed already to have quenched the bold gaze of innocence from his eyes, to have ban ished the colourot truthtulnoKslrom his features, to have transformed him yet stripling of twenty into n most ac complished rascal ajid consummate ex pert in dishonesty. African ( orre nj)onden(. Encounter With a Tantherl Dave Mosher. a trapper and guide i the North Woods, had a terrible encoun- Jer with a North Woods beast last week. Three miles from Sncondaga Lnko there is a wild, rugged pass between the mountains, known as Black Cat Valley. The mountains on either side are very steep and rocky, and are covered with a heavy growth of black balsam and spruce timber. As the snows deepen and the weather becomes cold, many deer and animals take Shelter in that locality. Among the rest are the martin, Having a valuable aarK-coioreu xur, Known among trappers in those regions as "Black Cat." iney seldom move Dy day, keeping concealed in trunks of trees or between the fissures of rocks. Owing to the uncertainty of finding one twice in a place, and their natural shy ness, it is quite difficult to trap them. However, when they become pinched with hunger they will jump at the bait without hesitation. A keen, strong, steel trap is set aud covered with snow or leaves directly un der a drooping branch that the animal can reach by rearing; upon this -is se cured the bait, and in the affort to reach which it is pretty apt to step in the trap; then oome a system of desperate nianoevers, and the only way to hold them is by having the trap chain at tached to a small sappling that will spring and lift them off the ground. This sleek, fine-furred animal is about the size of a red fox, and, as David used to express it, " They're a sassy varmint to get hold on." As Mosher was going the rounds of his traps, he saw through tho bushes ahead a terrible commotion under a large white birch, where atrap had been set. As he approached, a long, gaunt, tawny-colored, fierce-looking animal, whose wild scream upon the mountain side, nt night, will send a thrill of hor ror to those who are safe in tho cabin, sprang upon a lower limb of the birch, and bid defiance with glaring eyes. It was driven to desperation bv hunger. Had David quietly backed out ha could haveenjoyed his supper of veni son nnd pancakes. But no. he raised the old rifle and fired. In one-fourth of a York minute, Bill Stewart's exact time for skinning a Montezuma bullhead, nn the clothes upon him would not have made a bib for a china doll. He direct ly found himself beside a log, partly scalped, with his lower limbs looking as though they had been through a threshing-machine, while, at the same moment, with a spit and a scream, a panther dis appeared up the mountain side. When he came up the panther was engaged in killing and devouring a martin which was caught in the trap, and his hunger being partly appeased was the means of the trapper crawling off with his life. Auburn X. Y. Advertiser. Aaron Burr. Good-Eye, Old Year! We bid you good-bye, with a smlla, Old Year because it won't pay to ory. Von ara hound to co. and leave ns, w know, and we cannot but say good-bye. We feel none the less that a long-drawB sigh, a quiver of lip and tearful eye, would better express, we will confess, our heartiest last good-bye. You ve piled upon us a neavy ioaa and many an ache, on an up-hill road ; yet enough for the day way the strength- alway, ana nence our smu o awry with which we say, Old Year, good . - f.uit.ui.A..iiu To Do sure, we nave icuiuhi mo uuot and pains were often by pounds and th joys by grains ; and the screws seemed turned with an extra pinch, as though Bome malice had hold of the winch ; and others seemed having much mere de light, and we much less, than was fair and right; that coin of the realm and bonds and stocks and real estate, in squares and blocks and acres untold of prairie and hill and silvery stream and dam and mill ; that these and more of the coveted real, and desires fulfilled of beauty's ideal, were the lot of too few, while we of the many were often in want of even a penny. But then, sinoe we know, or at least don't doubt, that the broods of care are swarming about the hordes of manifold wealth that burn and sink ami leave by stealth ; that " reumatic" loves to pain and twist the grasping heart and the gripping fist we about conclude that we do not know of oue so fortunate here below with whom we'd exchange what the year has brought though little oi profit our hands t have wrought and take his share of trouble and pains, and also his lot of regret and shame, and also th gaunt old skeleton grim that in cup board or closet is grinning at him. We ennnot but feel, though a load of enre, that to sny the least it is hard to bear, it has been our lot all along th years, that nevertheless there is joy in life, in spite of sorrow, pain, and strife, nnil ben eft we rcoret the old year gone. and wish it's draft on time undrawn ; that all to soon tho new is old, too soon the wondrous tale is told. The stream of time-Oli, woe is me ! Hath a current too strong and swift It hurries me on to the silent sea, Like a rudderless, soulless wreo adrift : Oh ! would that there were some little ',fty Some headland, beneath whoso tranquil lea, We might forever at anchor lay, Or float when we would 10 me oeop, dark sea. Bnt a-truce to regrets I let time roll i ; what mat ters what comes or what is gone ! It is joy to have bved, it is joy to live ; why care for the flight of the fugitive? If each have filled up the r).. . ... all 1- fleeting days with nooie aeeas ana uign essays, then no remorse or Ba regrets will cloud the year's serene sunset. . .i . h i up? Ana ne answered ana replied, "A pin. Aud the bank man said, "Littlo boy are you good?" and ho said he was. And the bank man said, " How do you vote ? lExcuse me, do yon go to Sunday School?" and he said he did. Then the bank man took down a pen made of pure gold and flowing with pure ink, and he wrote on a piece of pnper, "St. Peter," and he asked the little boy what it stood for, and ho snid " Salt Peter." Then the bank mnn snid it mennt " Saint Peter." TJie little boy said " Oh!" Then the bank man took the little boy to his bosom, and the little boy said "Oh!" again, for he squeezed him. Then the bank man took the little boy into partnership, and gave him half the profits nnd all the capital, and he mar ried the bank man's daughter, and now nil he has is nil his, and all his own, too. An Olil-FushUmcd Brigiiml. Brigands of the old-fashioned type are fast dying out, but some very fine spec imens of the romantic sort are still to be found in Corsica. A correspondent of the Paris Temp mentions that, besides some thirty-four very doubtful charac ters, who systematically elude the po lice of the island; there are three indi viduals, nnmed Germaui, Suzzoni and Alb-ti, about whom very sensational legends are told. The exploits of these brigands are, however, mere child's play compared to those of Suzzou's pre decessor, the famous Santaluccia. He was perhaps the last of the old race, and was a power in Corsica some thirty venrs ngo. He took to the woods in consequence of what happened to one of his brothers, who was convicted on the. evidence of false wituesse, and sent to the hulks. Santaluccia gave himself no rest until he had got those men into his power. The first of these he tied to a tree and addressed as follows: " Yours is a lyiug tongue; you are about to lose it; wuieli assertion ne in stantly made good. To the next he said: " x on nave declared, that your eyes ue- held that which they have not seen; you are going tt lose your eyes. To the third he said: "You have sworn that your ears heard what they had not heard: you will lose your ears. He then tore out the eyes of one nnd cut off the ears ot the other. UttMvv Wni-il TlponliPT wivs " Aaron iiurr wits a Keener thinKer tnan ueorge Washiuirton. Ho was a far more inge nious man. a more active man. and, if he had been a moral man, and main tained normal relations with his fellow- men, and with tho laws of rectitude, he would have bean an abler man. Wash ington was a man of good sense, but hfi was not u man ot genius in any direc tion except that of conscience. He was a man of singular equity, great disinter estedness, and of pure and upngnt in tent. Sagacious ho was, by a light which came from integrity. He endur ed, having faith to believe that right was right, that it was safe, and that rierht in the end would prevail. That which made Washington the only great hero of our revolutionary struggle was the light of the moral element that was in him not any intellectual genius which he possessed; Hot any rare tact of administration, or any remarkable exe cutive power. And if you look back upon those names in our history that have stood tle test, you will find that they have been men who were fiaiitful in the highest moral element. And as time goes on, those men . who lack these elements sink lower and lower and low er till they set below the horizon; and those who possess them rise higher, till they reach the meridian, with undying splendor, te shine upon history and the world." A company J Nci . i tt. -w xork ana l'enn- sylvnuia capitalists have purchased ten acres of hind at McKinuey's Station, ten miles from Pittsburgh, Penn., for the purpose of establishing works for the manufacture of steel by the Besse mer process. 1 1 The company has a eapi talof $l,000y000. Two yonng ladies residing on the Al exandria turnpike, a few miles from Newport, Ivy., learning that a young man named Newman had beeu talking improperly about them, waylaid him the other night and beat him severely. He has swern out a warrant for the arrest of the parties, The value iron acquires under the hammer is something wonderful. It is said that a bar of iron worth S3 is worth $10.50 when made into horse-shoes, $55 when made into needles, 3,285 made into penknife blades, 29.480 in shirt . , i n. r rirvx 1 i buttons, anuo,iwuai utuance Borings of watches. Boys, may, from tkis, see what labor is worth, and learn to value nnd respect it, for it is the labor the mind puts inte the iron that so iucreiiees its value. Consider what would be the reuult if there were no iron. All the prisoners confined in the Frankfort (Ky.) jail escaped one dark night through the roof. The Hen. When a flea, under a microscope, is made to appear as largo as au elephant, we can see all the wonderful parts of its formation, and are astonished to nnd that it has a coat of armor much more complete than ever warrior wore, and composed of strong uolished plates, fit ted over each ether, each plate like a tortoise-shell, and where they meet hun dreds of small quills project like thoso on the back or a porcupine or hedge hog. There are the arched neck, the bright eyes, the transparent cases, piercers to puncture the Bkin a Bucker to draw away the blood, six long legs, four of which are folded on the breast, all ready at any moment to be thrown out with tremendous force for that jump which bothers one when they want to catch him, and at the end of each leg hooked cJuwa, to enable him to cling on to whatever he lights upon. A flea cun jump a hundred times its own length, which is the same as if a man lumped five hundred feet : and he can draw a load two hundred times his own weight. Bad Memory' Those even who are cursed with the most treacherous memories generally retain a pretty accurate recollection w here dollars are concerned. But there are exceptions to every rule, and a curi ous one recently occurred in Paris. One Madame Le Bran, when leaving the Vineenues railway station, saw a little packet drop from beneath a lady's dress. She picked it up and gave it to her, but the lady denied all Knowledge or u, ana said that it could not be hers. Madame Le Bruti, much puzzled, spoke tooue of the officials at the station. He opened the mysterious parcel, and found that it contained about $4,000. Madame Le Brun then rushed once more after the lady, who came back protesting that it wasnt hers; presently, however, uie recollection suddenly, flashed across her that her mother, who had recently made a great deal of niouey, gave her a present, a dnv or two beiore. oi tno sum in ques tion; but, knowing that her daughter was going to pay several visits, took the precaution of sewing the packet oi notes uto her petticoats an attention which, had it been effectively carried out by a more vigorous ply of the needle and thread, would seem to have been by no muans ill-bestowed in the case of a lady who totally forgets in a few honss a packet of $4,000. It is not every one w he, when losing money, nat, uie hick mi meet a with Madame Le Brnn. OV-- ---- Aotivo preparations are in progress to drain the great Okeefenokee swamp' in Southern Georgia. The largest (counting Florida out of the question), in this part of the world, is now being attacked in earnest, and a chartered company propose to see if it cannot be made valuable for something besides bears, coons, wild turkeys and snakes. The swamp which extends down into the upper border of Slorida, is a thickly timbered morass, nearly two hundred miles in circumference nearly twioe as iarge as the Dismal Swampand its ornithological population, which in cludes some strnnge voiced birds ap parently peculiar to that particular do main, is only parauea ny us enaiess vnriety of sn'nkes and alligators. The preliminary work of draining the swamp required an experiment to show the nature of the ground beneath it ; and a shaft or tunnel, sunk at the border of the morass, has disclosed curiously enough the existence at the depth of two hundred feet, of a bed of genuine bituminous coal. Its extent, as well as the comparative value of the coal, re mains to be determined. The most ob vious facts in 'geology will readily ex plain, not only the existence of coal in such a place, out uie prooaoie; inoc that the bed is a large one. Other geo logical facts of some interest are said to have been developed by this shaft. one being stratum of rock of tbe nm rian age. The hay consumed by different ani mals does not vary greatly from three pounds daily for each hundred pounds taele is the result of various experiments by different persons, and will be useful lor larmers wno wisn to aetermine, Dy calculation beforehand, how their hay will hold out for the winter, 500 eubio feet of timothy hay, in a full bay, being one ton: Working horses, 8.08 pounds; Working oxen. 2.40 pounds; Milch cows, Boussingault's 2.24 pounds, Lincoln's 2.40 pounds; young cattle, 3.08 pounds; Steers. 2.84 pounds ; Dry cows, 2.42 In the Cemetery. Lodging-house keepers have serious objections to the introduction of chil dren to their apartments. These inno cents nre apt to damnge furniture to ereate disturbances not at all conduoive to the peace of the rest of the house, and to be the unfortunate subjects of infec tious diseases. For these reasons those lodgers are preferred who are "without incumbrance." However, it is plain that people with children must live somewhere, and sometimes artifice has to be employed to enable them to do so. On All Souls' Day a gentleman, seeking fresh rooms, was asked whether ne naa any children. The man answered with tears that they were "all in the oeme tery." Satisfied with this reply, the landlord accepted him as a tenant ; bnt the agreement between them was no sooner signed than -four children appear ed on the scene, with their nurse. It was true they had been to Highgate Cemetery but they had oome back again. The " Infant's Pavilion" will be a notable feature of the Vienna Exposi tion. Within this pavilion, gathered from all nations, will fce grouped the various oomtrivances used in the care of children. Those that minister to the physical needs, those that amuse and develop the mental faculties, toys and games of all kinds, will find a place there. This is not all. It is the design to prevent the various plans and systems used in charitable movements lor the care of children and the medical methods and inventions used for remedying phy sical defects and malformations. The idea of the " Infants Pavilion" certainly commends itself to the feelings of every one. A Boston Gentleman who could net waltz ohered a young lady $400 if she would allov him to hug her just as much as the man did who had just waltzed with her. It was a good offer, and showed that money was no object to him, but they put him out of the pounds: Pigs, estimated. 3.00 wounds: I house so haid that Lis eves were Quite Sheep, 2.00 pounds. I black.
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