HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL - DESPERANDTJM. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL. V. HIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, 0.CT01JEU 14, 1875. NO. 34. . My Little Wife and I. We are traveling o'er life' road togothe r, My little wife aud I ; We are happy iu fair and stormy weathert My little wife and I. Tbe reason why is verj p'ain, Tlitro'a nothing queor about it : We never give each other paiu, When we cau do without it. We, have toiled o'er many a road most dreary, My little wife and I ) But onr hearts were light, when our feet were weary, My little wife and I. The reason why we Journeyed on, Since hand in hand we Btarted : We ne er had seen the battle won By those who were faint-hearted. Though our home be plain, that never teases My little wife and me ; Though a humble cor, right well it pleases 5ly liitlo wife aud me. The n ason why we are content, We do not fear to labor, And though in toil our time is spent, We euvy not our neighbor. AVo never dream of ill for the morrow, My little wife and I ; But take what may con;e, be it Joy or sorrow, My liitlo wife and I. The re as.ra why we do not fret, Aud you'd do well to try it ; We ne'er have found a person yet That was a gainer by it. KRESCENZ. An Idyl of the Moselle. It wns evening in the ancient town of Tiii r ; the Angelus was ringing down from the great fortress-like Dora ; the little carts and stalls ha 1 vanished out of the market-place : and the carved saints, clustered on the fountain, smiled Venignly in the setting sun. Old women in strange head-dresses, beads and books in liana, passed in and out of St. Gon dolphus' curious gates ; young girls, with long, fair, plaited hair, moved in groups across the open place ; brilliant unuormH snone up on the balconies of the Ilothe Haus: tho shoukeeners in tho queer little peaked houses stood at their doors and amused themselves; while the awful black arches of the Porta JNigra lrowucd more grimly than ever in mo glowing light, and the gay and quaint little frescoes at the street corners seemed to blaze out with new color at its touch. One particularly bigh-paked . roof was suddenly covered with a flock of white pigeons alighting to rest, and at the same moment a face appeared at a nine open winuow among tho birds, looked up and down the streets, and was withdrawn again. The face belonged to n young gin, ana tno room into which she withdrew was pleasant and neat, if a in tie uare. a woru-tahlo at the window uli owed that it was tho home of a seuni- btivss ; a httie shrine hung m a corner. with a tiny lamp burning ; a few rude . pictures decorated the walls. The irirl . .. ln i i i i - - na uuHiiBu m a noiuiay aress of dark green stun, with white sleeves and apron, and wore a scarlet flower iu her breast. Sho had a soft, sweet, innocent face, and her fair hair hung behind in two long golden braids from her neck to Her Jsnees. As sho turned from the window, a curly -haired boy burst into the room. " I h.ive a message for you, Krescenz. I met Karl, and he told me to tell you he could Dot see you to-night. He is suddenly sent on business." A look of disappointment clouded the girl's face ; but, after a few moments of silence, she suid : " How good it is that they find him so useful. But come, Max, you shall not be disappointed of your excursion. You mid I will go for our walk, and I will take you for a peep at our cottage." Max snatched his hat, which he had flung off in disgust, and? locking the door behind them, tho sister and brother ilesm nded many stairs, and took their way through the streets, and out by the Porta Nig a, into the country. '.' Look here, Max, did you ever see anything so gloriously blue as the Mo selle this evening ? Could you bear to live away from it ? How glad I am that our new home will be near it. And look, how magnificent the red light is upon t ha vine-covered banks, with the crim son earth glowing between ! How tho t;dl dark poplars and tho golden acacias seem to thrill as tbey bask in this won derful light ! If I had been a man, Max, I should certainly have tried to be an artist. Karl laughs at me when I say so; he does not care for such things, and gets annoyed when I talk about them ; and yet I never saw half the beauty of things till he loved nie." " How many people are out walking to-night, Krescenz. I never saw the road so guy. Oh, there is that Gretchen kissing her hands to me, and I will not look at her. Why r Because she was impertinent this morning, telling mo that Karl had left off loving you, and was going to marry Luise." " It was a silly joke, Max. I hope you did not get angry. What did you nay ?" "Something that ought to havo stopped her kissing hands to me," said Max. "It was too foolish to be angry about, little brother. Some one said it to me, the other day, and I only laughed. I knew so well it was because I sent Karl a message to Luise, the other evening. But Gretchen ought not to have said it to you, Max. When I get to my new . homo, I don't think I shall ask her to come and see me. I do not want to liate . anybody, and " "I will do the hating for yon, Kres oenz, aud I hate every one who says that Karl does not love you." " Every one 1 Don't give such a big name to two people, Max. If Karl did not love me, should not I be the first to know of it? Ah, do you see our little house peeping above the acacias up in the fields over there? How delightful it will be to live there. Max, with all the flowers growing in at one's windows. And Karl is providing this home for me ! Ah, little Max, this looks rather like loving one, doesn't it?" Max was silent, and kept his face turned away, with a slight frown on the brows. "I wish I could suddenly grow big, Krescenz," be said, abruptly. The sister laughed. " My dear, you must wait," she said, gayly. "By and- bye you shall copy your brother Karl, and if you can manage to grow like him you will do very well. In the meantime, you are not quite so small as you were, my boy, when I first took you in my arms, and carried you about our poor garret, trying to put you to sleep. Mother had died the day before I was ten years old, and you were only born. I was a very little nurse, wasn't I ? But it seemed to me that my heart was a hundred years old. How proud I was of you, and how I loved you 1" " And you worked for me, didn't you, Krescenz?" "Ah, didn't I? We were alone in the world, only you aud me. I paid a poor old woman a very, very old woman, who could not do anything else a penny a day for taking care of you, and I worked for us two. I was a strong little girl, and as industrious as a bee. People gave me work to do; it was very hard until I was about fourteen, and then I learned to sew, and things began to be better. At sixteen 1 was able to rent a little room for myself, and so bring homo my little brother. Ah, Max, how often we have been huugry togeth er I a-id yet you are a brave boy for your age. I have' pulled you through the worst', and now God has taken us both into happiness and safety. No more scanty crusts for you. No more sitting up all night, sewing by candle, for me. No more pinching at the heart when rent-day is coming round. Who could have thought of it; that Karl, whom every one admires, should havo sought out mo I I did not occept him hastily, Max, for I was afraid he might change his mind ; afraid that he had not known what ho was saying, or that he did not know perfectly how much people thought of him. But he would persist in loving me, he would, indeed ; aud that is why I laugh so muck when the people tell idle tales. If von only knew, inv good people,' I think; 'if you only knew how well I know.' And Max you see I do not mind saying anything to you I must confess that tho greatest trouble I have had lately, has been the fear that so much sitting up at night was taking away all my good looks. I look so sick ly sometimes when tho morning light comes in. etare me well in the lace, Max, and tell me if I am getting ugly." " You are the prettiest and loveliest girl in the town, sifter Krescenz." "But I am not rosy, like Gretchen uor are my eyes so mg ana Dnglit as Luisti s, uor "No matter," persisted Max. "Not one of them can smile the way you do." "After that I must say something nice to you, Max. Sit down here on the grass, and let me tell you the kind of life we shall have over in our little house yonder. We shall have four rooms of our own, and- there are vines growing round all the windows. We shall have a pretty garden with bees and flowers, and a held with a cow in it. I sl.a'l do my sewing sitting under a tree, looking down on the Moselle. You will go to work with Karl, aud in the cveniug you will both come homo, and wo -shall have supper iu tho garden." " I wish we had some now, Krescenz." I' I wish we had, my boy ; and I think it is iime to go ana iojk lor some coffee and bread." I ho sister and brother turned their steps towards a pleasant summer-house of refreshment, built among trees, upon the high overhanging bank of the river, where the people of Trier love to drink coffee in the cool of tho evening. As the girl aud child took their simple meal in a nook of the projecting terrace, the bluo Moselle rushed under their feet. and Trier lay bathed iu ruddy glory in the distance before their eyes, with its strange contrasting outlines softened into magnificent Inirmonv. and the tieren black Iti man gates making a frown ou the very front of the sunny landscape. " How splendid it look's, the dear old town ?" cried Krescenz. "Do vou kuow. Max, I cannot understand whv neonlo eer leave their homes to go out into the woria. " I should like tj go out aud see the world," said Max, " You mustn't sav so. Max. Nothing would ever induce me to 1. avo Trier." 1 hey were rambliug auioua the trees on the hillside, stopping now aud then to lean forward and "take a fresh peep at the beauty of the river aud the exauisite gleams of the distance ou either side. " OU, Krescenz. Krescenz I I have fouud a puir of lovers." iNo! Have you, Max? said Kres cenz with interest. ' Behind that largo tree, in such a pretty nook. Just peep around and you cau see." Hide, then, while I peer), so care fully." Max retired while Kresceuz leaned for ward with a smile of mischievous de light, and peered from behind a screen of leaves, herself unseen by the objects of her interest. When the boy thought he had waited long enough, he came forth again, and plucked her bv the skirt. She turned to him slowly, and put her finger on her Jip. " Krescenz 1 Kresceuz!" whispered the child, "what makes your face so dreadful? Are they ghosts?" " Hush, Max ! I cannot see, take me by tho hand, aud get me into some quiet place, where nobody will find us." "Oh, Krescenz, you are ill! Aro you going to die?" " No, dear, I shall not dio. Fetch me some water, and tell nobody." Max obeyed, and while the red light paled on the Moselle, and purple mingled with the crimson and olive of its banks, the girl's white face lay on the moss, gazing blankly upward with fixed eyes. The tears trickled over Max's in nocent cheeks as ho nestled at her side and kissed her lips, her hands and her hair. "Oh, Krescenz! may I not call some f one to come and help you home?" "No, dear, no," baid the young girl, starting up. " We are not going home any more. We are going away some where else, you and I together' " What, away from Trier ?" " Yes, I am tired of Trier." " I thought you said you eould never leave Trier ; and what will Kail say to you i " Oh, Max! oh, Max!" " Where shall we sleep to-night, if we keep walking on at this rate I" . " We shall rest on the road, and to morrow we will travel further. There o.i " ore other towns beside Trier, where in dustrious people can get work to do." Oh, Krescenz ! I am afraid you have gone mad. Those people behind the trees must have been the wicked spirits we reaa about, and tliey have harmed you." " Do you know who they were, Max ? ii.au ana ljiuse. Gretchen was right, after all." " But did they say they were going to be married ?" said the boy. " Oh, don't groan, Arescenz, and I will try i nd ask no more questions." " Dear Max, there is nothing more for me at Trior, That is why we are gomg together out into the world." " Oh that I could grow big and go dock ana km iiimr " Hush I you must not talk such non Bense. Yon must take care of me now, as I have nobody else." "That I will, indeed ; but oh, Kres cenz, my canary !" ." Somebody will take care of it, dear. We can get another." " And your pretty little shrine?" " Somebody else will kneel at it. I can pray to God anywhere, you know. Deepening shadows dropped on the Moselle, and the two young figures Jiurned on througli tho purple twilight away from Trier. A Brave Man. Sir Charles and Lady Napier were riding one evening unattended, on the summit of the Mahablcsh hills. The sun had just set, the pathway was narrow, bordered on oie side by jungle, and on the other by a deep precipice. By-and-bye turning to his wife rather suddenly, but yet quietly, ho desired her to ride on at full speed to the nearest village, aud send some people back to the spot where she had left him, and he further more bade her not to ask him the reason why he sent her. She obeyed in silence but then she knew her husband. Yet it was no slight trial of her courage as well as of her obedience, for the way was lonely, and beset with many possible, perils; but sho rode boldly aud rapidly forward, aud gained a village a few miles distant in safety. Tho party whom she then dispatched and accompanied met Sir Charles, how ever, about a mile from the place, follow ing iu his lady's track; and he then ex plained the reason of his strange and unquestionable demand. Ho had seen, as they slowly walked their horses, first a pair of fiery eyes gleam nt them from the jungle, and then the head of a full-grown tiger. He was sure, if they both rode on, that the terrible beast, following the instinct of its nature, would give chase; and he feared, if Lady Napier knew the dread ful peril at hand, that she might be so startled as to be unable to make an effort at escape; or, at least, that she would not consent to his own judicious plan, and leave him alone with the danger. So ho tested her obedience, as we have seen, successfully. He remained liim self, with only his holster pistols, con fronting aud controlling the monster with the steady, unflinching glance of his eagle eye, and after a short gaze, and a muttering growl, the tiger turned back into the jungle, leaving him free to follow his wife. What ew York Eals. There is a total of nearly 00,000 cattle of all kinds brought to New York city every week to be cut up and eaten in the city, with the exception of about thirty per cent , which is either exported or delivered in tho neighborhood of New York. Some of this meat is sent to New Orleans, Savannah and Charleston or to inland towns, and, in tho seasou, when the passenger traffic is at its height from New York to Europe, each steamer leav ing that port will take with her as much fresh meat for her ten or eleven days' voyage as would suffice to supply the guest1? of one of our first-class city hotels for a week. Beef cattle range in weight from one tliniisHml tn coronin hundred pounds, sheep from eighty to uiio iiiuiuieu uuu sixty pouuus; calves will av(ia from iiintv t fwn I.uvwIi-a.i and twenty pounds, and a hog, whether uu iuiu- iee& or ou two, is always uncer tain, but the four-footed animal generally ranges in weight from one hundred to one thousand pounds. So says tho superintendent of the cattle yard. A noted fish meieliiint enva Tim amount of fish used iu the city of New V 1 i.. ."I . . - j. urn in ono uay, we win say ir riday, Which is the best dav for ft fish nnln ia as follows : Hudiloek, 200.000 pounds ! 30,000 codfish, 15,000 bluefish, 2,000 strined bass. 2(1.(100 IVonli 100,000 halibut, 2,000 Spanish mackerel) 9,500 refrigerated salmon, 25,000 miscel laneous fish, such ftRbnttorlvuh flsh (the smelts and porgies come m lubci ) , pouuus oi lODsters, two hundred Cllllonsof RPftllnns 0 -- "- V 'I V J-4 liUVil Ull dozen of soft crabs, one thousand pounds oi green turtle lor soups and steaks. He Struck the Wrong Man. " See what feet !" exclaimed a daoner little Chicago dandy, as ho pointed to the tremendous pedal extremities' of an overgrown but honest looking countrv youth who was passing at the time. OU-ho-lio! laughed a crowd of brother "styles." 1 sweah, though, continued tho first speaker, "if I don't believe the fellah weahs twice as lawge a boot us I do." " Yes," quietly said the countryman. as he half turned around in his course, ana twice as large a liat, too. Aud the dandy, looking at his com panions with a sickly smile, tried to get some consolation, but they didn't give him any. A Dreadful Result. There are two persons on the lawn. It is pa aud ma. They are playing cro quet. She is ahead of him. See how she smiles, There, he has passed her. She does not smile now. She only ham mers the ground. How he keeps going through the arches. It is not net turn yet. But how hard she hits her ball. Did you hear some glass jingle? It was tho cellar window. There is her mallet, too. It is flung toward the man. Suo how he dodges it It has landed over the fence. The woman has got through. She is going into the houss. How furiously she twitches along. Now the man ia left alone. He is play ing croquet all by himself. A HOUSE OF MAM GIBLES. Enftlnnil' Cozy BnlMtn Tor the Centennial Is the 4(iipen Coming to America? The Philadelphia Time says : Nest ling cozily in a cluster of stately chest nut trees at the foot of George's hill is one of the oddest of the many odd build iugs that within the last few months have been erected on the Centennial grounds. A short walk under the trees leads to the wall of this singular build ing, within which a dozen or more car penters are at work, and on tho roof of which several more ore nailing the shingles. This is the first of the British government's twiu buildings, and the first building erected by a foreign gov ernment on the Centennial grounds. It is a two-story cottage, and its size is not at all commensurate with the size and power of the country by which it was put up. As it stands among the trees iu a spot so darkened by the shade that the workmen almost have to use lanterns when they have to drive a nail, it has an air of British poetry and English ro mance spread all over it and through it. If some of the- old-time novelists hat! wanted to describe a robber's den, or a pretty maiden's cottage , or even a ghostly hauntod house, they could not have found a more appropriate place than this very British building in the park. It is almost a house with seven gables ; and no matter where you stand, or from what angle you look, one of the gables is always staring you iu the face not with an impudent stare, but with an easy, comfortable look, that carries with it au invitation to come in and welcome. But the oddest of all the odd things about this remarkable house are the chimneys. The architect undoubtedly started with the intention of putting up a frame building, aud he succeeded as far as the corners aud a few odd'boards are concerned, but when the masons be gan with the chimneys there was no room left for much of anything else. Stuffed into a house not much bigger than a seaside cottage are five of the biggest and queerest chimneys that architect ever drew or mason ever built. Broad chimneys, thick chimneys, high chimneys. Outside they make about two-thirds of the wall, and inside they make you wonder where a stout Britisher will find space in any of the rooms to sit dowu. Broad at the base, each chimney runs up, square and clumsy, till it reaches the edge of the roof ; then it narrows suddenly and goes on ten feet or so higher, when it as suddenly widens out again into a heavy band at the top, and then quickly tapers off into space. Iusido, iu every one of tho five little rooms is a cozy, old-fashioned fire place, with broad mouth and a sugges tion of winter evenings and the yulo log smoking. The workmen ore unable to tell why tho Queen has made such elaborate preparations for the warmth of her com missioners. Any one of the fireplaces would heat the entire building iu May or Novembei, and in any of tbe inter vening months would drive the coldest Britisher into the neighboring lake. But some jealous subject must have im posed upon her majesty with the idea tliat America is a frozen waste, aud Fuirmount Park crowded with icebergs aud avalanches. Rolls of building paper on the outside show what the material of the weather-boarding will be ; and when the bright shingles are all on, and a coat of cheerful paint covers tho outside walls, and smoke from British logs is curling from the five tall chimneys, the odd building iu tho little chestnut grove will be one ot the prettiest aud queerest in the park. Adjoining it is its mate, a larger building, but more on the Ameri can square-box plan, with holes for windows aud doors. How Fat will Bees Go for Honey! The above question, says the Rural New Yorker, we believe, has never been satisfactorily answered. A beo- Keeper once tried the old experiment of dusting the bees with flour as they left the hive, then rode to a heath seven miles away, where he discovered his white bees busily engaged in collecting honey. This experiment, however, can not be relied on, for tho simple reason that pollen, with which bees are fre quently completely covered, bears a close resemblance to flour, and might readily be taken for it when bees are on the wing. It is our belief that they sel dom venture more than three miles from home, for we have known them to be in a starving condition when auother apiarv only foiy miles away was flourishing and gathering stores rapidly. It has in re cent years been proved by Italian hy brids that queens have met with drones which were known to bo at least three miles away, but this will scarcely apply to worker bees flitting about from flower to flower ; they must become weary before they ore four or even three miles away from home. Wheat for Children. Teething children who are beginning to eat solid food can be supplied with nothing better than biscuits made from granulated wheat. The child will not attempt to swallow this food until it is Bofteued bv mastication, and the me chanical action of the biscuit upon the gums will greatly assist the teeth toward making their appearance. Tho act of eating this food will necessarily occupy much time, and this will give the te- th aud jaws considerable valuable exercise. The food thus swallowed proves very nutritious and rapidly builds up small boys and girls, as well as larger ones. In all stomach troubles and bowel com plaints it seems to have a wonderful power to regulate and restore. A Climax, This climax in the way of wedding notices appears in a Connecticut paper : The blue eyes of the bride seemed brighter than ever, and, with her light hair, formed a suitable contrast to her husband's extremely black hair and eyes. This matrimonial alliance has not been entered into unadvisedly ; it has been in contemplation for about two years, and meets with most cordial ap proval of all the relatives and friends of the newly married couple. The bride's mother regards her new son-in-law as if he were her cwn son. He will continue, as heretofore, to be employed in the vegetable ivory button factory. Artificial Trout Cnlfiire. In the United States much attention is being paid to trout culture, and many private ponds have been or are now be ing built. Au exchange gives some in teresting stories of trout raising. It says : During spawning season trout And the sandy and gravely bottom, the conditions most favorable to their pur pose. Digging with their noses pits in the saud six or seven inches deep, and three or four feet in diameter, the trout places in the center of these excavations a line of stoues of various sizes, accord ing to the size of the flsh. In this work a number of trout oo-operoto, and, when the bed is thus prepared, the eggs are deposited by the females in successive lines, and after impregnation the whole mass is covered up by the parents, the noses, fins, and tails being freely used in tho operation. While this work is pro gressing there are generally a number of email, feathered spectators, called water ousels, in the vicinity, deeply interested in tho operation. .These visit the beds when tho fish leave, and, disappearing beneath the surface, pick up such in sects ns would otherwise feed upon the ova. Iu the course of a month the eggs are hatched, aud thesp eggs are wonderful things in their way. Semi-transparent, and varyiug ia Bize from the head of a large pin to the dimensions of a large pea, they have a peculiarly horny and elastio shell, so that, if struck agaiust any hard substance, they will rebonud threrefrom with the elasticity of a minia ture ball of India rubber. Subject to the action of the water, and to abrasion among tho gravel aud sand, these little eggs are protected by the peculiar properties of the delicate looking case in which they are inclosed. A few days before the imprisoned em bryo is ready to emerge from his prison, two little black specks are observed within the shell. These are the eyes, and a glance through a microscope re veals a movement of the body and a wagging of the tail, all of which are doubtless the preliminary efforts which are to result m the final deliverance. When he has at last emerged there is a little sao attached to his abdomen, and this constitutes his sole nourishment as he lies on the bottom, unablo, so long as this appendage remains, to rise to the surface. The umbilical sac disappears iu four weeks, and then, for the first time, tho fry employs his means of loco motion to good purpose. The little fins and tails are set at work, and carry him from place to place iu quest of ani malcules aud such infinitesimal game. To enable him to grow apace, he must have plenty of the right kind of food, and clear spring water having a tempera ture of from forty to forty-five degrees. Bullock's livers cut fine and grated, offal, or the flesh of almost any animal subject to the same process, will suit his taste. Ho is not fastidious, and, when he has attained a weight f two or three pounds, he enjoys such dainty morsels as a frog or a mouse. He is, in fact, a keen sighted hunterof mice and other " small deer," and will lie iu wait under the pads of water lilies or the shelving banks, or behind a log or stone, as eager after his prey as Grinmlkin himself ready to pounce upon the hapless victim the mo ment he shall be withiu reach. Detroit Free Press Curreuey. Henry Swan, of Otsego, New York, called his wife to him as he was dying and said : " Mary Jane, when you feed tho hogs to-morrow night you'll be the widow Swan !" And she was. They are going to put up a headstone at the grave of Copt. Cook just as soou ns anybody can be found to point out the grave. Meauwhilo, the committee will hold your subscriptions. We can't all of ns beat the English aud Irish at target-shooting, but most of us can get chosen on county fair com mittees to award prizes to the best hogs and tho biggest melons. When a Maine mau can cut off his wife's head and get off with ten years' sentence, should any of us be afraid to heave a rock at an alderman's front door? There are twenty-eight brands of teas known to the trade, aud almost any gro cer can sell one dollar tea and twelve shilling tea from the same box. When one gets mad at an aristocrat in Washington it comes very handy to say to him: "I know you you sold gingerbread during tho war." Bayard Taylor says that there is alco hol in fresh bread, butone has to eat one hundred and eighty loaves before he im bibes enough of the liquid to feel happy. The next Legislature of Ohio is going to make a law which will blister a tramp from heel to ear in just twenty-two seconds. Any one who hasn't been invited to de liver au agricultural address has a right to be mad. You can clear a barn of rats in less than ten minutes by setting fire to the hay in the mow. Ladies' (i loves. Each number of gloves, says a fashion journal, comes in three shapes, viz. : short lingered, medium, and long-fingered a thing to be remembered by readers out of town who send to the city for their gloves. Gloves fastened by butone button cost SI. 65; those with two buttons are $2 ; with three buttous, 82.50 ; with four buttons, $3. Undressed kid gloves are the favorite choice for general wear with stylish people. A novelty this year is the white undressed kid glove that will be worn at receptions as well as in the street. There are aluo more serviceable shades of drab, wood, and mode. Undressed kid gloves fas tened by two buttons aro 1.75; by three buttons, they are f 2 ; and by four but tons, $2.25. Double-stitched gloves, called " dog-skin," but which are really made of heavy kid-skins, are liked for service in traveling, country drives, and cold weather ; these are as pliable and as nicely finished as the choicest kid gloves, and cost 2. Castor gloves, that bleach and soften the hands and prevent them from chapping, are SI. 75 for those fastened by one button ; twenty-five cents is added as the length is increased and another butten required. Children's gloves, fastened by two buttons now begin with infants sizes that are small enough' to fit a babe of twelve months. There are also the stylish three-buttoned gloves for misses ; these are $2. A Taste of Art. We were looking at some splendid photographs the other day. Magnificent pictures they were ! Having a natural taste for art, whenever we see any thing remarkably tine we get to think ing. We thought what an advance the art of picture taking had made since we were a boy, aud everybody particularly printers when they broke down under the pressure of their regular business, followed the art of taking daguerreo types, and compelled their unfortunate victims to sit for three minutes which seemed three hours their eyes directed into the opening of the camera. What agony theso poor victims suffered, and how eagerly they watched, and how anxious they were, after the "picture was took," until it was cased, paid for (price three dollars), and taken home to be the wonder of the neighborhood. And then we thought of the photo graph gallery on the same floor of the office in which we were a "devil " to the "art preservative," and how there came stamping up the stairs one day a great lubberly boy, the sound of whose heavy shoes resounded through the building as his feet came down with a crash. And tho very funny voice in which he asked if this was where "profiles was took," aud of our answer that it was, and of the other devil that took possession of us, and which we regret every time we think of it. Boys will be boys, and printers' devils were then the worst the very worst imps in tho world. We have not forgot ten how we took that young granger's profile ; how wo seated him on the high editorial stool, and made him hold before his face a heavy wrapper, while we took the old ball with which we inked the form, and covering it with printers' ink more carefully thau we did when beating a form for old Natt, tho pressman, we stood before the victim aud told him that oil was ready, and whon we said drop, he must let go the corners of the paper. It is all before us to-day, tho trembling fingers holding up tho paper and hiding from view what was going on outside of it, Bomewhat suspicious, no doubt, that all was not right, yet hoping that it might be, and that a good picture for Mary Ann would be the result, onrself standing there, holding the ball up be fore the paper and shaking with inside laughter so that we could scarcely utter the word " drop," and Mike, the junior devil, off ono side crowding the inky towel into his mouth to keep from laugh ing. Then came the word " drop," and the heavy wrapper fell, and the ball was pushed forward into tho victim's face. His hands went up to keep off the blow, but hands, face, hair and clothes were one mass of black, sticky ink, and such a picture as was "took." Sad as the re sult was, it makes us smile to-day as we think of the victim standing there, won dering what it was all about, and grow ing more and more angry every second as light began to dawn upon his mind. It was vary laughable just then, but when young Granger Baw through it all and made for us, and we went dowu through the office one way aud Mike the other, oud galleys of type aud cases went to the floor, and Granger's foot went through the advertising page of last week's form, as it stood agaiust a stone frame, and Mike aud ourself struck the door at the same time, and just os the proprietor came in just in time to save us from Granger's wrath, but also iu time to view the destruction done, tho typo that it would take a week to reset pied, and to take us in hand himself. Iu those days printers' devils did not run the office themselves; the "old man " had a hand in it, if necessary, even to physical correction, and, if our memory serves us right, we felt what it was to be corrected, aud quit the da guerreotype business forever. Owego (A'. J'.) Record. Fly-Catching Rats. Mr. C. B. Odell, at his hotel on Front street, says tho Newburgh (N. Y.) Telegraph, i the happiest owner of a fly exterminator, which for thorough work is unsurpassed by anything we have ever seen. In one of the windows, fronting on Front street, where samples of his wares are occasionally shown, a rat began several weeks since to mako sly visits, and secured a good meal as often as he came by catching the many flies which are on the panes of glass. He grew very expert at it, and though at first quite shy, soon became em boldened when he found he was not dis turbed in his foraging expeditions, and would pursue his business not at all intimidated by spcctators who were only separated from him by a pane of glass. He obtained eutrance to the window by gnawing a hole through the wooden base, coming from below. For weeks he has pursued his fly-hunting business undisi turbed. One Sunday one of the waiters discovered him in the actof introducing a friend or member of his family to his foraging ground. The new comer was very shy, and only put his head through, while the old hibitue tried to coax him in the window. He would catch a fly, gravely hand it to his friend, who would as gravely eat it, ond look for more. By degrees he lost a little of his fear, walked out, aud soon became an expert in the new business. Either one or both may be seen almost any day by any one who may be patient enough to wait for their appearance a short time. It is certainly a very novel sight and well worth a few minutes' time to see. An Underground Forest.- A mau living in Essex county, Vir ginia, in digging a well recently, at a depth of about thirty feet came npou the trunks of large trees Feveral feet in diameter, which were found to be cypress. Fearing the wator would be injured by the wood, he determined to abandon his well, and dug another some distance off. When he had reached about the same depth her gain encoun tered the trees ; and a third attempt, at a still greater distance from the first well, again brought him in contact with this subterranean forest, the trees of which are of great sizo and well preserv ed. Yale College, lost three men during variation bv violent deaths. Ona oKnt himself, one was drowned and a third was Killed woue piajmg case ball. Items of Interest. Political necessities are the mothers of conventions. Support home institutions support your families. Evening gray and morning ed Sends the farmer wet to bed ( Evening red and moruing gray Is the eure Blgn ot a very line day. It is now proposed to enlist men iu tho army as cooks, and at each recruit ing depot to establish a school for their training. A man was once'osked if he had ever seen a red blackberry. " To be sure I have," said he ; " all blackberries are red when they're green." The time honored " rush " at Yale College between the sophomores and freshmen did not come off this year. The faculty forbade it. A Miss Hergent, of Kansas, has fallen heir to an estate valued at $100,000, and scores of impecunious young fellows ore urgent to become her gent. There are several roads to the divorce courts, but there is none more traveled than the one via the fashionablo dress and bonnet making establishments. When you've nothing to do but flutter about, Gossiping as you flit,. Just take our advice, " step down and out," Give up the gboat and "git." Governor Kirkwood, of Iowa, recently said " he honestly hoped to see the day when in going to the polls we shall take our wives, daughters, and Bisters with us." A gentleman in Nueces county, Texas, has a field of sixty thousand acres with in one fence. He recently filled ou or der by telegraph for twenty-six thousand beeves. "Havo you caught any fish, bub?" asked a gentleman of a small urchin that was fishing. "Yes, sur, a good eel," said ho, exhibiting one about eighteen inches long. The expressing of dead Chinese from California to China has become a thrifty freight business. Each one, when liv ing, keeps constantly on hand his coffin, duly labeled and directed to destina tion. There is a man in Iowa who never had any oyes. The sKin grows over tho place usually occupied by them tho same as over tho rest of the face. It is per haps unnecessary to add that he is Btono blind. An old gentleman, with a kind but de termined look on his face, said : " Tho next time that boy refuses to go on an errand I will go for him." The boy heard of the kind offer, and concluded to go as told. A cubic inch of gold is worth $UG ; a cubic foot, 8252,288. Tho quantity of gold now in existence is estimated to be $3,000,000,000, which, welded in ono mass, could bo contained iu a cube of twenty-three feet. A Mormon in Provo, of whom Captain Codman tells in tho O'alary, is ninety two years old, and the father of sixty children, the eldest of whom is seventy years old, and the youngest sixty-seven years his brother's junior. An Ediuburgh lover received tho following note, accompanied by a bou quet of flowers: "Dear I send you bi the boy a bucket of flours. They is lik my love for u. The nightshade menes kopo dark. The dog fenel menes I am your slave, ltosis red and posis pail, my love for you shall never fale." Now, young man, listen while we tell you how to pop tho question. Get the young lady well cornered where no one can overhear you, and then poke this conundrum ot her : " When will there be only twenty-five letters in the olpha bet ?" Answer " When you and I aro made one." After that it is plain sail ing. When you meet a small youth playing the drum, at the head of a lot of two foot soldiers, with a stick and brass ket tle, you may know that his mother has the preserving fever, and has sat dowu to wring her hands and wondor " what on earth has become of that boy " she sent after Mrs. Jonos' kettle two hours ago. A reporter for the Philadelphia PrenH has learned from Mr. Boss that Mosher and Douglass approached a patrolman, some time before Charley Ross' abduc tion, with a proposition to assist them iu the abduction of a little grandson of Comi modore Vanderbilt, whom they intend ed to hold for ransom for tho sum of 850,000. It is the earnest opinion of the Detroit Free Pre that when one Bees little ragged, homeless waifs shivering on the utroets, and realizes that they muy grow up to become Philadelphia detectives and hunt for Charley Boss, it makes one feel that they might better be laid away now and have a bushy-tailed lamb carved on their headstones. A ladv asked her little boy : "Have you called your grandma to tea ?" "Yes. When I went to call her shs was asleep, and I didn't wish to halloo at grand ma, nor shake her; so I kissed her cheek, and that awoke her Very softly. Then I ran into the hall, and uaid pretty loud: ' Grandma, tea is ready.' And she never knew what woke her up." He started a hair-coloring establish ment and got rich in two years. He at tributes his fortune to persistent adver tising. This is one of his advertise ments : " Generation after generation passeth away, the fires of the firmament are extinguished and rekindled, the hopes that color the dreams of Ciesnr fade like streaks of the morning cloud into the infinite azure of the past, but hair dye blessed, magical hair dye asserts an everlasting dominion and crowns the hoary poll of age with the capillary glories of jocund youth." Surprised. A young merchant called on a young lady a few evenings since, and was shown into tbe parlor to await ner appearance, when, the lamps beiug unlit, he removed a large quid of tobacco from his mouth and threw it out of the window, as he nupposed. When the lady appeared with a light, the most prominent object in the room was that young man staring in a very embarrassed way at a big chunk of tobacco pinning the lace curtain to the unopened window.
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