HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPEIIANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL. III. IIIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JTOE 12, 187& NO. 15. it Improvisations, llcnrt in my bosom beating Fierce, as a power at bay! Ever thy roto repealing Louder, and then retreating, ' Who shall thy being sn ay ? " Over my will and under, Equally king Itnd ulavo, Hoinetimen I hoar theo thunder, Sometimes falter and blundor Clopo to tho waiting gravo ! Oft, in tho beautiful Benson, liostloss thou art, and wild ; Oft, with never a reason, Turnout and docst mo treason, Treating the man aa a child ! Cold, whon passion 1h burning, Quick, whon I 1 flh for rest, Kindlor of perinhod yourning, Curb and govci-uioul "P'M'iiing, Thou ait W Vroact 1 llaynvd Taylor. A RACE FOR LIFE, 'j Sir, you're nu nss !' " Sir, I'm not. I camo hero to sue .'.oni a""S"ter's hand, ana" Ami you expect me to give mv Jjftertoninnu who, whatever may 1 c l is other qualities, 1ms not a copper mU'o world to bless himself with !" ir . ifJlTi1 h"Te no money nt Present, sir ; but I have hopes" i A P,rctc!y thin to beSiu housekeep ing on I Supposing you were married ;,. , ,1 u Iou W18U t0 live or die " Live, Sir, of course I" f i V vt of C0U1'80 ? To live you want ii you want food, you want muury; ana as you have no monev, you would, get no food; and no food means starvation ! Do you see that, "Yes, Sir; but " I mi . . . - - " t-'ui in iiiu case. tsow take a bit ,advice from me, Mor timer as one of. "your father's oldest menus, uo and earn n living ; and w nen you can show mo that you can ""I'l"1" .i"Y daughter if I give her to vo i mind you, Bmll be ready t talk to you. Oood-morniug. Bah !" anil the tc'-.'. v lmt tlemau stumped out of tho room, lenv- 111 n r.. 1 l - . . . . . "n .iic npccciiiess sitting on tlio edge . ot a chair with my hat in nivhand. All my hopes hud been ruthlessly dashed in i in- fjrounu. i una expected to argue the point with Mr. Clavering, as Bessie, ins iiangnter, had assiued me that it would be all right if I only put the matter properly before him. We had mutually agreed that he would he sure io gue ins consent, ami had laid no end of plans for the tiling but the question of money had limni 'l. ...... ...l i i .... --.... ..vnnunii(ijr considered. Xhe nbrunt manner in whinli t.bia l.n.i n.-,.,. been brought up disconcerted me.not a iin-iis, una j. ieic tne room not quite so certain that T 1il n.t. t,mi.i i. ..vv .nv.i.uiv Willi generally good-natured but otherwise i...i:..i.i i .1. i . . iiiK iiiiiuc quiuirupeu to wnicu Mr. Ula vering had likened me in the course of win conversation. At the door I met Bessie, with an ex- iunHiun or mingled anxiety and cunosi ty on her countenance. "Well, Jack, what did papa say?" " That I was an ass, Bessie !'' Oh, I hope you did not quarrel. I was afraid there was something wrong, as I heard him ordering deviled kidneys for lunch, and he never does that with out he's in a passion." " Bessie, the old gentleman asked me iiuw we were going to live. " Well rliil vnn lint toll l,;,i, ,, lit ' 1 . . . . . , - I . ' . 1 1. 1 1 II J J II 111 II 111- tle eottnee. with n minlnn iii W.v,t n.,,1 o i - r.""1 . viii , tin ii a piggery, and a kitchen-garden, and a l....l 1.1 1 1:1.1.1- 1. 1 .. iuiv i-iiuiiMi-, mm u nnio uairy, ana ."Ye.yes; but that's not what he meantf. He wanted to know where the money was to come Irom to pay for all this." "Why, you were to provide the money, of course, Iou were to earn it." " Certainly ; but your father wanted 1.. 1 i . m " iu Allow now. " How? Well, you would there now. you ought to know best, surely. Don't you ?" " No, I don't, Bessie, and I think we ought to have thought of this before." " Jack, I don't wonder papa got into 11 passion witu you, you re so stupid. I havo a great mind to get angry with jou myseii, "But, sweetheart, don't you really think we ought to have considered lion we were going to buy what we wanted?" "TMlllt Wn VHI1V iMitiinaoa i.nt wii'im. -- ui.l uuambDii, liny 1111111; , and, Jack, if you look at me like that T'll 1 . it x ii uui your ears. "No, you won't! -I think you're all in a very bad temper this morning." " Do you ? Now I tell yon wliat it is, Mr. Jack. Till you find out how we're going to get the money to live on I won't have anything more to say or do with you at all. Don't come near me now. I don't love you a bit ; I never shall, and I never did! And, Jack, when you've found out how, you'll come and tell me first, won't you?" And away dashed Bessie, leaving me at the garden gate, to which we had walked during our conversation. It was a lovely spring morning. All nature seemed iu ecstasy at the pros pect of approaching summer. I alone was sad. I could not help feeling that I had made a mistake, and that f must have lowered myself considerably in the estimation of old Mr. Clavering by appearing so thoughtless and incon siderate. True, I was but nineteen, and having lost my father early, had been brought up and educated by my mother alone, and so perhaps had rath er less knowledge of the world than I should have acquired had I been sent to a public school or to the university. My position was by 110 means a bad one. Tho only son of a distinguished mili tary oflieer, who was not wealthy, but had left what little he had to his widow during her lifetime. I might be said to have possessed a good education, and what was perhaps better, fair pros pects. I had been invited by old Mr. Clavering, who was an old military com rade of my father's, to spend a month with Lira at his residence at Morecombe Bay During my stay I had learned first to like and then to love his daugh ter Bessie, and whon my visit approach ed its termination had not only declared my love, but had asKed permission to marry, with what result is known. Having been always tolerably Weil sup plied with money, 'I had never yet been brought face to face with that great educator of humanity the necessity of earning one's bread and was, there fore, rather ignorant of some of the principal duties of life than unmindful of them. The bluff common-sense of Bessie's father had compelled me to consider matters from a practical point of view, and I was now perhaps more angry with myself than with any one else. I walked on, but finally resolved to return to the cottage and Boddle Moro for a ride. Moro had been luv father's charger, and had been left me, with particular instructions na to his care.' He was a Splendid horse, of jet black colo; ftmj enormous strength. By JL'inness of my host I had been al lowed to bring him with me, and many a pleasant rido had I had on his back with Bessie Clavering. As I re-entered the pleasant garden attached to the cottage I Btrove in vain to catch a glimpse of Bessie, and reach ed the stable without having met any body but the old gardener, who saluteil with the usual "How 'ee do, Sur ?" I was noon by tho side of Moro, who gave a neigh of delight as I entered. It did not take mo long to put on his saddle, and as I left the yard I learned from the old groom that Miss Clavering had rid den out alone about a quarter of an hour before me. I was certainly much cha grined at this, and made several mental resolves to be fully revenged as soon as I could get a convenient opportunity. I turned down a lane that led to the bridle-path along the top of the cliffs, and letting the reins fall over Moro's neck, abandoned myself to building castles in the nir, in the erection of which Bessie took a very prominent part. The spot was admirably adapted to meditation. To my left a small wood, through the breaks in which glimpses of the rising upland were caught every now and then, straight ahead a broad expanse of purple heather, and to my right the rugged steep cliffs, at the foot of which lay a vast tract of sand, as the sen, owing to the flat shore, retires a distance of nenrly four miles ; far away in the distance the bright dancing waters, with a sail or two in sight, and over the whole a glorious expanse of blue, across which the light morning nir blew a few white scudding clouds. Some three and a half miles from the shoro there extended right along the coast a low sand-bank, which was at once a source of pleasure and danger to the inhabitants and the fishermen. When the tide flowed the sea beat against the bank for some time, till at last, with an angry roar, it surmounted the obstacle and came tearing down the incline like a very avalanche. Many accidents re sulting in loss of life had taken place, owing to tho ignorance or carelessness of tourists and others, who, lulled into a state of fancied security by the dis tance of the sea, and unaware of the peculiarities of the place, would wander about on the sauds till overtaken by the tide, when they were placed, as it were in an iustant, beyond human assistance, and were invariably lost. Danger sig nals and notices had been put up in every prominent position by the au thorities, who were accustomed also at the turning of the tide to fire a sigual gun ; but, with all that, the sands were so tempting, and the very breeze that wafted across them so delicious, that a day seldom passed without some party or other generally mounted, venturing uiion them. As I looked down I could see nothing but a solitary speck in the distance, which I soon after made out, through a little pocket-glass I always carried, to be a person on horseback cantering along. I paid no particular attention at the time, and continued my way, gathering up the reins as Moro broke into a gentle trot. I was now on tho very edge of the cliffs, where a single false step would at onoe have precipi tated me on to the sands below, and consequently, although Moro was won derfully sure-footed and well acquainted with the path, I moved along with con siderable caution! Tho beauty of the scene and the exercise soon dispelled the gloominess that had oppressed me, aud as my blood began to circulate more quickly my spirits rose, and I commenced to sing right merrily. The path now took a sudden turn by a deep gorge, and as I did not wish to go round it, a distance of nearly a mile, I re solved to put Moro across it ; so, patting him gently on the neck, for I never touched him with spur or whip, I called to him ; the noble old horse understood me at once, and increased his speed. On we wont, the pace getting faster aud faster, till, at the gorge, Moro rose with a splendid bound, aud alighted safely on the other side, I now got a full view of the sands again, and found that I was considerably nearer the person on horseback below in fact, that we had been moving toward one another. At that moment Moro suddenly stopped, and tossing 111s iiead in the air, gave a loud neigh. Somewhat astonished at this proceeding, Hooked more carefully, and perceived by the flutter of the dress that the person on horseback was a lady. I became more interested, and taking out my glass, discovered that it was uo other than Bessie, who had been cantering along ou the sands 011 a mare that her father had lately bought her. Moro had no doubt recognized his stable companion. I debated with myself whether I should return, and, by taking a short-cut, meet her on the way home, in order to upbraid her with her mis conduct in going out alone. While I was cogitating, Moro uttered a snort of alarm. I looked, and beheld a sight that for the moment took away my breath. From some cause or other Bessie's horse appeared to have taken fright and become unmanageable ; all at once it tore away like the wind in the direction of the sea. At the same moment I herad the distant boom of the signal-gun ' which announced that the tide was just about to turn. The full horror of the situation now flashed across me : unless the more could be stopped in time, my love would be overtaken by the sea, and lost before my very eyes. A eold chill took pos session of me, and for a moment I sat motionless. Bessie's figure was already becoming smaller as she was borne rap idly onward. " Wow or never. Moro ! I said, as I rose in the stirrups ; and the gallant old horse seemed to under-' stand me, for he impatiently pawed the air with his fore-feet. Tho next thing was how to get upon tho sands. " The gorge I oh, the gorge I" I touched Moro, and in a few seconds Wo had reached it. It wan a frightful declivity, and tho descent seemed impossible ( yet it was my only chance, nnil I deter mined to make the attempt. Carefully, and with the greatest caution. I guided Moro, and after a few moments of agon ized suspense gained the sauds. I knew I had only o'.ie course before me to pursua the mare, and then attempt to luce the tide. " Moro !" I shouted ; "Moro I we ride to save my love!" Moro shook himself as if he knew what a tremendous effort was demanded of him, and settled down to his work. By this time Bessie was quite half tho dis tance toward tho sea. Would I reoch her in time ? In order to lighten the weight, I threw away my overcoat, my hat, coat, and waistcoat ; I called upon Moro ; he ccetned to fly. We were gaining upon the mare evidently, but still the awful question rose to my lips, Would it be in time ? I could already hear the roar and surge of the waters, and the rising wind warned me that the tide would that morning probably ex ceed its usual height. My blood was thoroughly up. I determined either to save my love or to perish with her. We were now but half a mile apart. I shouted until I was hoarse, but all to no effect, for the wind was dead in our faces. Moro seemed to participate in my excitement, and strained every nerve to overtake the mare. We were not more than two hundred yards dis tant from the sand-bank, against which the waves were dashing with unwonted force. Another second and the mare would have passed the bank, be over whelmed by the raging waters, and all would be lost. I screamed in my agony. I thought I heard a low wail iu re sponse. I shut my eyes, as I could not bear to look, but opened them again immediate ly, as Moro gave a whinnv of pleasure. " Ah ! what is that ?" The mare had stumbled and thrown Bessie, and then plunged wildly, in her terror and fury, into the waves. In an instant I was alongside my love, had dismounted, and was kneeling by her. " Bessie ! Bessie ! oh, my darling, are yon dead ? Oh, speak to me ! speak to me !" After a few moments, which seemed to me an ago of torture, she opened her eyes, and said, faintly, "Jack, my best be loved, save yourself; the tide will be over the bank in a second or two. Give my love to dear papn." Then, exhaust ed, she fell back in a dead faint. I tore my hair in despair; I raved like a 'mad man. What could I do ? At last I be came calmer, for a desperate resolve had taken possession of me. Moro should have a double burden, and we would try and outstrip the tide e would with death ! I soon placed my darling across the saddle, and leaped up be hind her just as the first spray came dashing over the bank. I knew not au instant was to be lost. We started for the shore. I patted Moro. I said to him, " Moro, you bore my father through the ranks of death at Balakla va. Oh, save his son !" To add to my agony, I now perceived that a storm was impending. The sky was overcast ; heavy drops of rain began to fall; and every now and then a lurid flash lit up the darkling air. We were now but two miles from the shore, aud if I could only reach the gorge iu time, I knew we were saved. I called agaiu on Moro. The noble horse for the first time utter ed signs of distress. A new terror now seized me would Moro's strength last? I turned and looked, and through tho blinding rain saw, to my horror, that the sea was al ready breaking over the bank. It would be upon us almost directly. I urged Moro on afresh, but the poor animal appeared unable to increase his speed. Boom! boom! "Ah! what is that? Thank God, we have been observed, and they are hastening to our help !" The signal-gun! "Moro, my Moro, but a few seconds longer a few seconds longer!" We tore along. Bessie still lay insensible in my arms. The cliff's now rose frowning before us. Another hundred yards aud we are saved. "On Moro, on ! I hear the roar of the de scending tide." Once more I turned, and as the lightning flashed, saw the waters raging and surging almost at the horse's heels. At that moment Moro staggered. The sea was upon us and over us. I heard a ringing in my ears. I gave one last, one agonized shriek, and remembered no more. I awoke and found myself in a warm bed, surrounded by compassionate faces. Mr. Clavering came forward. "You must not excite yourself, my boy," he said. "Bessie is well." "And Moro?" I asked. "Is well too," he said. Do you want to know whether I mar ried Bessie? If you do, go to More combe Bay, ask for the' Hawthornes, and maybe you'll see an old black mili tary charger, almost blind, with two or thre curly-headed little urchins on his back, all laughing and clapping their hands as he carries them daintily up and down the path. Kansas Murdering. The Bender family, of Kansas, have discovered perhaps the most merciful system of murder, and, if we must have murders, let us by all means have a system which we have not yet seen noticed. It is this: The cabin was arranged as a place of entertainment for travelers. A sheet was hung across it, dividing it into two compartments. When a single traveler arrived, he was seated at a table so that the outline of his form was defined upon the sheet, and in case he leaned back, his head pressed against this elastic as well as transparent bulkhead. The male fiend, stationed on the outer side of the sheet, watched for the pressure of the victim's head against it, and, striking a stun ning blow with a hammer on the back of the skull, slipped the spring of the trap doof, thus dumping the body into the cellar, where his wife, knife in hand, stood ready to end the work. Ever since a Green Bay man hung himself ou a certain plum tree, the blossoms have been as red as fire and each plum as white as a sheet. Bo ? Earnings of llie American People. In your paper lately, says a corre spondent writing to a New York journal, was a paragraph headed, " Average Earnings iu tho United States," in whidh there Was tliis statement : It appears from the last census returns of the wealth, the population and earn ings of the United States, " that the average annual earnings of tho whole American peoilo do not exceed $800 a year each. The population of the United States in June, 1870, was 38,555,983, and an average of earnings of $800 to each person would make the sum of $30,814, 78(5,400. The total value of the whole real and personal property of the coun try was estimated in 1870, according to the true value in the census, at $30,008, 518,507 ; less by $770,207,803 than the " annual earnings of the whole Ameri can people" at $800 each. Tho mere statement of this carries along with it the evidence of its error. The average earnings of the whole American people ut $125 each, gives to each family of five persons the sum of $C25. This estimate is too high. The census report of 1870 estimates the valuo of all farm productions, including betterments and additions to stock, ut $'2,417,538,053 ; and the value of all our manufactured product for 1870 at $4,232,325,412,mak ing a total gross value of our agricul tural and manufactured product for that vear of $0,079,804,100. Mr. David A. W ells, in his report as Special Com missioner, in 1809, estimated the values created by the leading industries of the country at $1,223,000,000. The agri cultural industry he estimated at $3, 282,950,000. In the supplement to the annual re port of the Special Commissioner, pre pared by Mr. Wells, in which tho cost of labor and subsistence is given iu the several States in almost every employ ment, the average weekly earnings of operatives in cotton mills in the United States in 1809 was $5.50, gold. This would make the earnings of each opera tive for the year, in currency, $357.01. In the Sourthern States, the average daily wages paid for farm and other labor was $1.23, without board, for ex perienced hands in summer. Mr. Wells estimates the average earn ings of 4,705,000 common laborers, domestic servants, and of all distribu tors, at $1340 per annum to each person. He also estimates the average earnings of all the agriculturists and persons engaged in the railway service and fisheries, and in cotton, woolen, and leather manufacture, and iu the pro duction of pig and bar iron, at $1.55 each per annum. This is a fraction over $1.50 a day for 300 days in the year. Hero in our goodly land labor is bet ter paid, better fed, better clothed, better Housed, uua biitfi i'ovision made for education, than in any other land ; but you will see that it is a great error to put the average earnings of the whole population at $800 a year, as this would give $1,000 to each family. Cause of Senator Sumner's Divorce. Mrs. Hooper, snys the Minneapolis Tribune, was a young widow, and young widows always have an aversion to be coming old widows ; while they are as much in demand as second-hand flat irons. Moreover, Charles Sumner had attained fame ; he was tho best consti tutional lawyer in America, and had the best knowledge of foreign affairs ; he was the pet of the old Bay State, and was one of those happy beings who live to enjoy the sweet rewards of martyr dom. So the rich, accomplished, and popular young widow went to keep nouse and darn stocitings lor the un social, crusty, conceited old orator She didn't do it worth a ceut. We are uwaro that some matters are private. and domestic secrets ought to be re spected by a gossiping press. But there are none m this case. Neither party has affected the slightest conceal ment of the situation. So it is proper to say that neither of them ever saw a happy or even a moderately comfortable day dating from the wedding to tho di vorce, ten years after tho ill-assorted marriage, it was Milton and Mary Powell over again. Like the fair daughter of the Cavaliers, Mrs. Hooper Sumner was social aud hospitable : Sumner was aristocratic, arrogant, and domineering. His way was the only way ; except one, indeed the way where divorces lie. Ho haughtily declined to meet her guests, and refused to be intro duced to her acquaintances. She went home to live with Mr. Somuel Hooper, in Boston, and a divorce followed. TaH'JIeu and Women. Ah a pnnrttlir linnnmoa cnttl.iil nn.l peeially in cities where largo numbers of human beings are crowded into n comparatively small place, men degen erate in neignt, ana tne women are not only proverbially shorter than in the country, but they are less muscular. As there are thought to be exceptions to all rules, there are both tall gentle men and ladies in old cities. A ma jority of them, however, if traced to their birth-place, will bo found to linve. come from the country. Kentucky and Tennessee produce the tallest men in this country. A young boy taken from this city, whose parents are below the llKlltll lmirrlit. ami l'Aai'ml in nitl.nM ,.t ri - i""1! mi ii . . 1 1. n v 1 111 those States, would probably quite over-xop any 01 uis iamiiy. j.ne nia- foritlla uhmm.l 111 1ia mniiio nvt.l . 1 of those splendid regions for develop ing ma uones. To Avoid Thinking. Susan Eberhart, the woman who was executed at Preston, Georgia, lately, while in prison whiled away the solitary hours by making friends of the rats that had access to her cell. A man called to see her a few days before her execution, and after some conversation told her that he had understood that she had some pet rats. She tapped on the floor, when out of their holes came the rats, until no less than fourteen of them had answered the call. They climbed upon her hip, and up her shoul ders, and crawled about over her head. suffering her to caress aud handle them as she pleased, and not one of them manifested the smallest symptom of alarm. This story is told by the Au gusta uonatuutionaim. A Year Without a Summer. Almost every one has heard tell of the terrible dark yeor in the earlier part of the present century which old New England farmers refer to as "eighteen hnndi'ed and starved to death. A con tributor gives the following informa tion : While every one is speaking of the present season as being remarkable in its characteristics, I have gathered for your readers some reliable facts of tho year 1810, known as the " year without a summer." Few persons now living can recollect it ; but it was the coldest ever known throughout Jmrope and America. The following is a brief ab stract of the weather during the year: January was mild, bo much so as to render fires almost needless in parlors. December previous was very cold. rebruary was not very cold; with the exceptions of a few days it was mild, like its predecessor. March was cold and boisterous dur ing the first part of it ; the remainder was mild. A great freshet on the Ohio and Kentucky rivers caused great loss of property. April began warm, nut grew colder as tlie mouth advanced, and ended in snow or ice, with a temperature more like winter than spring. May was more remarkable for frowns than smiles, liuds and llowers were frozen, ice formed half an inch thick, coru was Killed, and the fields were again and again planted until deemed too late. June was tne coldest ever Known 111 this latitude. Frost, ice and snow were common. Almost every green thing was Killed, irmit was nearly ail do' stroyed. Snow fell to the depth of ten inches in Vermont, seven in Maine, and three in Central New York and Mas sachusetts. Considerable damage was done at New Orleans in consequence of the rapid rise 111 the river ; the sub urbs were covered with water, and the roads were ouu- passable in boats. July was accompanied by frost and ice. On the 5th ico was formed of the thickness of common window glass throughout New England, New York, and some parts of Pennsylvania. Indi an corn was nearly all destroyed ; some favorably situated fields escaped. This was true of some of the hill farms of Massachusetts. August was moro cheerless, if possi bio, than tho summer months already passed. lee was formed half an inch thick. Indian corn was so frozen that the greater part was cut down and dried for fodder. Almost every green thing was destroyed both 111 this country and Europe. Papers received from England stated that it would be remembered by the present generation that the year 1810 was a year in which there was no summer. Very little corn ripened in Aew liiigland and the Middle States. Xiiiiiielo oi.iliirl tltniriaplvfiQ from H corn produced in 1815 for the seeds of the spring of 1817. It sold at from $4 to 85 per bushel. September furnished about two weeks ot the mildest weather ot the season. Soon alter tiie middle it became very cold and Irosty, and icelormed a quarter ot an inch thick. October produced more than its share of cold weather, Irost and ice particu larly. jNovernuer was eoia ana muster ing. Enough snow fell to make good sleighing. December was quite mild and com fortablo. The abovo is a brief summary of "the cold summer of 1810," as it was called in order to distinguish it from the cold season. The winter was mild. Frost and ice were common in every month of the year. Very little vegetation ma tured in the Eastern and Middle States. The sun's rays seemed to be destitute of heat through the summer ; all nature seemed to bo clad iu a sable hue, and men exhibited 110 little anxiety concern ing tho future of this life. The average wholesale prico of flour during that year iu the Philadelphia market was thirteen dollars per barrel. The average price qf wheat in England was ninety-seven shillings per quarter. Funitrrn' Cabinet, Amherst, Kcw Hampshire, Cure of Stammering. Very gratifying results have been obtained by Mr Chervin, a physician of Lyons, in treating the vicious habit of stammering. A commission appointed to investigate the working of Dr. Cher vin's system, put under his treatment eight patients, varying in age from ten to twenty-nine years, all of whom stam mered in their speech to a most painful degree. Some of the patients had been stammerers from early infancy, while others owed the habit to nervous shock. Iu ten days after they were first placed under the care of M. Chervin they were all able to speak without stammering, and at the end of the three weeks were discharged perfectly cured. The mode of treatment is as follows : The patient is taught, by means of a large number of exercises, to pronounce with distinct ness vowels, consonants, syllables and sentences. Great attention is paid to the regulating of the act of inspiration. A slow but normal inspiration is taken at certain intervals, and this is succeed ed by nn even, continuous and loud ex piration, during which pronunciation is effected. Twenty days are devoted to the treatment, the time being divided into three periods ; one of silence, to break up the old habit ; one in which the patient is taught to speak slowly and deliberately ; and a third, wherein he acquires the practice of speaking fluently, .and without clipping his words. TuEAsrRE Trove. Alexander von Humboldt, it is well-known, died in a state bordering on poverty. His finan cial 'embarrassments were caused by his loss, in 1813, of tho sum of $9,000 or $10,000 in gold, which the King of Prussia had presented to him. At the time, it was believed that the money had been stolen from the great savant ; but the police were unable to find any clue to its disappearance. Strange to say, a short time since, the gentleman now living in the house, formerly oc cupied by Mr. Humboldt, found the money in a small box among some old rubbish in the cellar. How it got there puzzles Humboldt's intimate acquain tances exceedingly. The Cats of Great Men. How Much tlicy Think of their Tnhby cm One man in Fultou Market, says the New York Sun, has under his super vision the well-being of 3,000 cats. His name is Dr. Moffet, and his ostensible business is selling cats' meat. Hislittle stall in the tipper end of the market is heavily laden with viands that cats find palatable, viz.: liver strips ana nneiy chopped ox hearts. The doctor's fame has traveled everywhere, aud scarce a moment elapses in the course of the day that does not bring in troops of fresh purchasers. His customers ate mainly persons of wealth. The doctor tells his .own story thus : I started in this business when I was 5 years old ; I'm now 05, and during my experience I havo attended to the wants of nearly every cat, of respectable breeding, to bo sure, that lias ever seen daylight in New York City. My associations with these Cats When they've been taken sick, for instance, have led me kind of into society, and I supposo that I am just as welcome a visitor in Commodore anderbilt s house as any other sport ing gentleman. COMMODORE VANDERBILT's CAT.. The cats that he owns I've brought up from tho very bottle, and when I go to seb them, which I do, if they get sick, it's just as much as I can do to get out of the house, with the way they go on, howling and screeching lor mo to stay with them. " There is Jim, Buckey, Tom, and Lullie just four. I remember, though, when he kept nine altogether, but Tom, which is the biggest one of the lot, aud as cross as a scorched hornet when he gets his hair up, drove the other ones awhy, and by George, if they didn't all trot down to me about two months ago, and I had the greatest trouble to get rid of them. The ones that remained, however, got along peaceably enough and tho Commodore is so devotedly at' tached to them that my kindness to them and tho skilliul maimer 111 which I treat them when they are sick, have won lor me his unbounded confidence, jay oocld's cat. There is Jay Gould, who never can cat his breakfast without he has High- backed Bimmer on his lap. High backed Bimmer is the name I gave to tho ugliest cat I ever saw. He came to me about eight years ago.and I couldn't get rid ot him at all.. 1 used to throw him out of the house in the morning when I'd get up, aud do you know that the sneaking wretch waited for me at the corner, and without paying the slightest attention to the shower of stones that I kept flying at him all the time, he followed me to my stall, and hung around here all day. In the even ing Mr. Gould came along, aud noticing the cat, he took a fancy to it, and offer ed 111C 10 fill it. X llti-11 ot iutovoutu.l in the creature and began to praise him. I told Mr. Gould that he (tho cat) was one of the two that had come all tho way from Asia Minor, and was worth a great deal of money on account of its sagacity. He then offered me $25, and afraid that he wouldn't go any higher, I took the money and got rid of the nuisance. This cat hits been sick five times, and I've always been sent for to doctor him up. I guess I've made $300 on that eat, and I wouldn't take $50 and have him in my house. AUGUSTUS SCIIELIi's CAT. Augustus Schell has a cat that he thinks more of than his own child, and it seems to mo that the uglier it gets, the more he lavishes good things upon it. It's a big black she cat, and has a short stump of a tail. It's 110 mouser, but the fondest creature for sleep I ever heard of. The old gentleman takes it to bed with him, and actually has a little night cap made for it, which he puts ou and takes off himself. It has one good point, however it never yells at night. When Mr. Schell goes to market, he always takes his cat with him. Let Them Grow. Let children grow. Give them time for slow aud natural development. Give them freedom and liberty iu things not positively and permanently hurtful. What matter if all their daily behavior is not quite pleasant or perfect, if they show improvement and progress 1 bow good seed, anxious parent, cultivate with care, but wait paticnti jor har vest if you wish good fruit. Suppose a child does not sit as straight as a ram rod at table ; suppose a cup or tumbler does slip through its little fingers, tho food below deluged, the goblet smashed, and the table-cloth ruined do not look cross, and break out with reproof of what was unintended as if it were a willful wrong. Did you never let a glass slip through your fingers ? In stead of sending the child away in au ger, or with threatening words, why not be as generous as to a guest, to whom you would kindly say, " It is of no consequence." It is generally wise to take little notice of mishaps or bad behavior at the time, and even to divert attention from thenix at the instant. Afterward, at some appropriate time, draw the child's attention to the im propriety, fault, or lack of suitable care, and point out kindly the remedy. Preparing for Summer, nong-Kong must be a perfect para dise for ladies who effect elaborate costumes in summer, as the following account by an American lady now re siclinc there will show. She snva " Finding I must prepare for the not season, when every man, woman and child wears white, I sent for a Chinese tailor. He came, a horried specimen of an old opium-eater, bringing along his sewing-machine, and pluuted hini- selt, cross-legged, 111 my sewing-room. He fitted me, and made lovely dresses of their grass linen and muslin, all for two dollars and fifty cents per weeK 111 gold. The lovely dresses he turned out were fluted, tucked and flounced. and tited elegantly. The two skirts and waists could be done in exquisite style for two cents a piece, regardless of number of flounces or tucks price the same as it perfectly plain and my dresses only cost six cents for the ' get ting up,' which in America would cost at least five dollars. Fncts anil Fancies. 111 nt Milwbukee has a capacity to roll 40,000 tons of rails per . . 1. (Q,1 flint, hia sign, "Taken irom me, diivh.v. - epitaph. Almost every young lady now-a-uu seems to be given to building castles 111 the (lair. Men and women differ. You may, perhaps, convince a man, but you must persuade a wemnu. The S'lmh of Tersia's expenses during his present European tour are rated at 5,0011,000 sterling. An low clergyman who had a dona tion party lately has beans enough to last linn tliirty-seven yeiim. " Mamma, can't wo have anything we want ?" " Yes, my dears ; out e cuiu- ful and not want anything you cau u have." An impoverished lop wears n ten cent silver Piece on Ins shirt uosom, and calls it his dime and pin, which it certainly is. . . The largest stationary engine 111 too wnvld i stated by a correspondent to bo at Scrantoii, Penn., in 0110 of the iron works there.' It is said in Madrid that the Govern ment of Spain will purpose to havo tho President of tho Republic elected by a plobiseitum. The number of Postal cards required in tho U. S., already reaches 22,000,000, and the demand is at the rate of over a million a day. The secret of making Russia sheet iron has been heretofore sought after 111 vain, but a Pittsburgh firm now chum they have accomplished it. Tho Vice Regents of the Mount Ver non Association havo elected Mme. Berghuiaiis, of Philadelphia, Regent, 111 place of Miss Cunningham, who has resigned. . " I'm not in mourning, said a young lady frankly to a lady querist, " but as tho widows are getting all the offers now-a-days, we poor girls havo to resort to artifice." Illinois has one hundred and two counties, and at least one railroad 111 every county except seven. At tho present time roads are projected which will penetrate these. Retaliatory measures are demanded by tho militia iit Barcelona, Spain, for tho butchery of voluuteers by the Carlists. Forty of the latter are missing, and twenty arc known to have been killed. The proprietor of a gun-store, which was gutted by a mob in New Orleans, sued the city, claiming $30,000 dama ges. Judge 'Durrell decided that the city had 110 police under its control at the time, and was, therefore, not re sponsible. " Uet out of my way! nat are you good lor f" aula o old man to a bright-eyed little boy that happeiieu t stand in his way. " Well, said tno little fellow, as he stepped one side, "I believe they make men out of such things as we ore." " You ought to let me pass here free of charge, considering the benevolent nature of my profession," said a physi cian to a toil-gate keeper. " Not so," the reply, "you send too many dead heads through here now. iho doctor didn't stop to argue the point, but paid hib toll and passed on. A father recently found his littlo girl's chubby little hands lull of tho blossoms of a beautiful rose tree, on which he had bestowed great care. " My dear," said he, " did I not tell you not to plUCK OHO OI inese iicrn without leave V" " Yes, papa," said tho child, " but all these had leaves." Tho Washington Star says with refer ence to the account of the Arctic adven ture: "Tho suspected poisoning of Capt. Hall recalls a prediction made be fore the sailing of the exhibition by a person in this city well acquainted with its personnel, that Capt. Hall would never return alive, but would fall a victim to the envy of some ol the party. The gold yield of California 111 18j:i was $99,804,753, that being the Highest amount ever attained. For the same year tho wine product was nothing, and the wheat crop by no means large. Last year the gold yield was $19,049, 098, while the wine manufactured amounted to 4,000,000 gallons, and tho wheat product last year ran up to $25, 000,000. In order to exclude negroes irom tncir exhibitions, the showmen of Vicksburg have hit upon the expedient of issuing cards of invitation soliciting the com pany of the holder thereof to tho enter- ainment, speciiying me uiuuuit m ma eut. and informing him that in order to meet the necessary expenses he is expected to pay whatever the price of a ticket would usually be. An incident in tho life of a Danbury farmer is thus recorded. His wife was taken very ill, and ho was called away on urgent busiuess. During his absence she died aud was buried, and the news was delicately conveyed to him by a boy who met linn ut the gate, iiie uoy said: "Mr. , your ole woman is dead and buried ; and we have got in the spring oats." "Great God!" said tho shocked man ; "and the oats in ?" The man who never owed moro than five cents, and that only once, has just died in Virginia at the age of seventy nine years. It was in his earlv man hood that ho unwillingly contracted the debt of five cents, it being the bal ance on a bill of goods pnrchased, und he was wont to boast all his life after ward that he could not sleep that night because of it, aud got up early the next morning, went to his creditor, and paid him. A Funny Justice. At Troy there is a police justice who, when people are brought before him for inebriety, in sists, before he will entertain any pro position for clemency, that they shall take the pledge. Then he lets them off, or sends them to prison, as seems meet unto him. If they will not take the pledge for one year, the Judge asks them to try for six months, and some times sends them down for three months in order that they may strengthen their resolution by the per fect impossibility of breaking it, at least for 90 days. Borne of them seem to think that they are sold.
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