FOR THE f OUJiU PEOPLE. CAREER OP WM. M. TWEED. Ton tell me yonr nerves are to fragile, And probably, Lncy, vou're right ( Bat that seems a fine way of saying You're easily thrown In a fright. Did nerves make yon shriek with snob, loudness When Curio's tooth bruised yon in play, Declare yon would hare hydrophobia, And cry nearly all the next day ? Do nerves make yon rosh for the pillows, Whenever a thunderstorm's near, And stop both your ears with your fingers And act almost f rantie with fear ? Do nerves make you fly from a beetle, And yell if a snake's within sight, And not for a million of money, Dare sleep all alone In the night ? Well, Lnoy, your nerves may be fragile ( 1 don't eontradiot yon, my dear But I know a good definition For people who won't conquer fear. It's better to give a thing, always, Exactly the name it deserves ) And if one's an out-and-out coward, I laugh when I hear about " nerves." Edgar Fawcetl, "Iehpo." The old red barn had stood at the end of the lane for years, even before the academy had been built at Greenville. It waa in ruins now; its days of useful ness had gone; it was the home of rats, and sometimes a shelter for stray tramps who might venture down the lane. It had once been the Saturday play-house of the academy boys, as the sides and corners could well testify; and all the loose boards were well whittled with the jack-knife that most wonderful of all knives in the eyes of an American boy. But the old barn had stood the storms and sunshine of many years, and was likely to stand in ruins for many years to come. Here and there were patches of different boards from the original red, and the one window was bonrded up with an old door that had once been painted green. But the most curious patch on the barn was directly over the door, where a board had vaniBhed, and an old black board with white letters taken its place, The letters were old and faded, and oo- cupied all of the opening. The letters looked like this: ISHfO. Now the curiosity of the boys had been excited for a long time to discover the meaning of " ishpo," or what other letters put ot the beginning and ending of ' ishpo," could make that ontlandish word into anything possible to under stand. Many times the boys at the academy had pondered over the enigma; even men, in passing throngh the lane, would look with some curiosity on the blnck patch on the old red barn, and as they hurried along into the city would say to themselves: " Ishpo;" and what is that, I wonder ? Every boy fn the Greenville Academy had thumbed Webster's Dictionary nearest at hand in search of " Ishpo; and left the book no wiser for the search, But the mystery of the old red born was to be unraveled at last. As year alter year went by and tlie boys iiau be come used to the strange word, and some of them entirely forgotten it, a new idea accurred to Dick. He was enjoying a half holiday and was lying on the grass nnder the trees on a very hot day, when his eyes hap pened to rest on the mysterious word. It seemed to have a new meaning to the boy, now. Ho had gazed on it for years, but he now wondered why he had never thought before to tear off the old patch , and see if there were other letters with ishpo. But how to accomplish that task without being seen by the owner of the barn, who was a sour-tempered old man. he had yet to discover. Going back to the school buildings he found his comrades, and confided to them his plan and asked their aid. All readily loined in the undertaking, and they formed themselves into a society for the express purpose of discovering the on gin and meaning of the word " ishpo, They were to wait for a dark night. and them meet at the old barn, where by the united strength of the party, they could tear the old patch from tho red boards and examine the side nailed to the barn. That very night was favorable for th enterprise, for it was dark, aud to very close and uncomfortable within the buildings that permission was given the boys by the professor to take a stroll down the Jane, before retiring for the night. Eagerly they all set out for tho ol ruin, but had scarcely gained the shelter when the storm that had been gathering for hours, burst in all its fury of wini and lightning, and the loose boards and trash around the barn were thrown about in great confusion, and the boy escaped to the open Jane. TheNold red barn was blown down iu the gale 1 The next morning in the beautiful sunshine the bovs hastened to the spot and there, still nailed to the barn, was the old patch with its mysterious letters. A few minutes and the old board was torn from the door and eagerly examined by the boys. ' The letter F was found, very bright from its long imprisonment, to head the word "ishpo," and the two letters nd ended the mysterious word. "Nothing but a fishpond," said the boys, as they went back to school for he day. New York Tribune. Disagreeable Hiblte. It is easy to form a duagreeable habit but not so easy to drop it again, f er sisted in. tbey become a second nature Stop and think before you allow yourself to form them. There are disagreeabl habits of the body, like soowling, wink' ing, twisting the mouth, biting the nails, continually picking at something, twirl ins a key. or fumbliag at a chain, drum ming with the fingers, screwing and twisting a chair, or whatever you can lay your bands on. Don't do any of these things. Cultivate a calm, quiet manner. . Better be a statue than iumping-jack. There are much worse habits than these, to be sure, but we are speaking only of very little thingi that are only annoying when persisted in. There are habits of speech, also, such as beginning every speech with " vou see." or " you know." " now-a, " I don't care." " tell you now." India tinct utterance, sharp nasal tones, a slow drawl, avoid them all. Stop and thiuk what you wish to say, and then let every word drop from your lips just as smooth and perfect as a new silver coin. Have a care about your ways of sitting, and standing, and walking. Before you know it, you will find your habits have hardened into a coat of mail that yon cannot get rid of without a terrible effort habits which render you obnox ious to all around you. (ketch of the Life) mT the Notorious New York Rln Boss." The New York papers contain long notioes of the career of the well-known "Ring" chief, "Boss" Tweed. We quote: William Marcy Tweed was born in New York in 1823. When about twelve years old William was sent to a boarding school in Elizabeth town, N. J. Here he finished his education. He studied nothing but the English branches. On his return from boarding school, young Tweed entered his father a shop and be came a chairmaker. Afterward he ran the business on his own account. H;s evenings were spent either in the theat ers or in engine houses. Like most New York boys of that day, he fancied the life of a fireman. He joined engine com pany No. 6 on Jan. J, 1849. Within six months he was elected foreman. Big Six, as she was called, became the most famous engine company in the city. She dashed through the streets, aiming to be the first at all the fires. Tweed led the ropes with a silver-mounted trumpet in his hand, a white fire-coat over his arm, and one of the old-fashioned stiff hats on his head. He was well known to all bunkers and volun teer firemen. His personal popularity was so great, and the friends of Big Six so numerous, that the company became powerful lever in mumoipal politics. The Americus club was the offspring of its popularity, and its influence was felt in political matters yeais after its dis-bandment. With the foremanship of Big Six, Tweed began his political career. In 1850 he ran for assistant alderman of the Seventh ward, but was defeated by the Whig candidate, Mr. John B. Webb. The following year he again contested the district witi Air. Webb and was elected by a large majority. His busi ness tact and vigor were recognized in the board, and the leaders of the party predioted his rise to power. In 1852 Tweed was elected to Congress, serving one term, and in 1855 he was defeated for alderman, but was elected school commissioner the following year, and in 1857 he became a supervisor. During all these years he had carried on his chairmaking business. Soon after his election as supervisor he sold out and devoted all his time to politics. He served as supervisor until the board was abolished in 1870. In 1861 Tweed was defeated for sheriff, but was appointed deputy street commissioner in lob l'rom this time forward he oecame a power in city and State politics. The city swarmed with ofliciols holding sine cures. There were street inspectors, pump inspectors, water inspectors, inspectors of meters, of weights and measures, of street incumbrances, all drawing salar ies, and all useless. With this vast power, Tweed became very rich, lie invested in real estate and iron mines; was interested in every street opening and widening; had a hand n all contracts, and was a director in railroad and gas companies, banks and insurance companies, and similar organ izations, almost without number. Com paratively a poor man in 1861, within five years he was reputed to be worth $12,000,000. A board of audit was formed in Hew lork having control of the city's finances, and the members of which were Tweed, Sweeny, Connolly and Hall. Tweed was now master of the city, lie could throttle his enemies throngh the board of audit. His nrst measure was to reimburse himself for his expenses in fighting the Young Democracy. Within two months, with the aid of Garvey, woodward and Jn- gersoll. over 80,000,000 of city money was drawn from the Broadway Bank and divided. Woodward drew the money and paid Tweed's and Ingersoll's shares wiin cnecks in lue same uuuk. iiih buu cess seemed to have mode Tweed reck' less. At last, however, figures were obtained from the books in the comp troller's office that conclusively showed the operations of the Ring. The figures were so convincing that the people rose en masse. A great meeting was held and seventy prominent citizens appoint ed to investigate. The board of audit became alarmed. Dissensions sprang up. The comptroller's oflice was broken open and many vouchers destroyed, Connolly believed that he was to be made a scapegoat, he went to ins old friend, ex-Mayor Havemeyer, made pnrtiul confession, and gave up the key to the situation. With the weight these disclosures Tweed ran for state senator, and was elected by 9,000 ma jority over O'Donovan l'osea, but never took his seat in the Senate. A suit was now begun against Tweed by the city, but the jury disagreed. He was tried a second time on a criminal indict ment, November 19, 1873, was found guilty and sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment, and to pay a fine of $12,500. After serving one year on Black well's Island Tweed was released on a writ of habeas corpus, but new civil suits were begun against him, and not be ing able to obtain the required $3,000,000 bail he was imprisoned in Ludlow street jail. He remained there until Deo. 4, 1875. While visiting his residence, in custody of two keepers he made his es cape. For some days he was hidden in New Jersey, not far from the Weehawk en ferry. He was afterward conveyed to a. farmhouse beyond the Palisades. His whiskers were shaved off, bis hair clipped, and he put on a wig and gold spectacles. He assumed the name of JohnSecor. He afterward spent some time in a fisherman's hut within sight of the Narrows and visited Brooklyn. He left in a schooner, and landed on the coast of Florida. From there he reached Cuba in a fishing smack, and was landed on a rock near Santiago de Cuba by the skip per. He and a companion, Hunt, were at once arrested. He was recognized, but got on board the Spanish bark Carmen and took passage for Vigo, Spain. Hamilton Fish, then Secretary of State, requested the Spanish author ities to arrest him on his arrival. They did so, aud, though there was no extra dition treaty between the two govern ments, and the suit against Tweed was a civil tied not a criminal one, he was turned over to the commander of the United States man-of-war Franklin, and delivered to the sheriff of New York on Nov. 23. 1876. He was returned to Ludlow street jail and np to the time of his death was engaged in efforts to get free by offering to " make a clean breast" ot his criminal practices ana give np au his property ; but his effort proved futile. Mr. Tweed was about five feet ten inches in height, and weighed at one time over 300 pounds. In the height of his power he wore a moustache and a closely cropped grizzly pearo. ne naa a round, bright blue eye ; a nose nearly equline, and a high forehead. He spoke very rapidly, but distinctly, and was possessed of great executive ability. RAPID TRANSIT IN KkW YORK. Same at the Rrhemesfor Hnpld Trwrellnc An Arcade Railway, ft IMoTlm Mldewalk and a PnemnMle Railway. Rapid transit in New York has become a certainty, one of the two lines which were started last winter being partially completed. Appleton's Journal has an article devoted to a description of the various sohemes proposed to solve the noise and no obstruction whatever in the street. The motive power was to pro oeed from stationary engines placed be low ground one mile apart and acting npon shafting through iron puiars. in stead of an endless chain, friction-rollers were to be used, and each of the engines was to have one-third more power than necessary, which was to be utilized by the others when one became disabled. The very novelty of the project evoked I, . . . . . i . i me aension oi tne uwecuuiuui puoiio, out vexatious problem of how the people living in the upper part of the city could at least one competent engineer avowed get uown to uieir uuhiiiuss ijiuuuh iu ms ueuei in its iji uunun unity : uuu Several fine buildings are going up in New York. A number of large Ijanks J gritisb Museum. In 1816 Joseph Nicephore invented photography. He succeeded in securing a picture printed by light in the camera. A view of Eew Church, taken by him in 1827, was the first photograph from nature taken in England. It is in the quicker time than by the horse cars. Some of these schemes for relief were more ingenious than practicable: Among the plans proposed at various times for the expeditious conveyance of passen gers, that of the Arcade railway was tne moBt ambitions, the most attractive and the least feasible. A new street was to be constructed thirty feet below th pre sent level of Broadway, forming new fronts to all the basements of the build ings. The sewers and gas-pipes were to be sunk below the level of the new road way, and an artificial roadway was to be constructed on the level of the old street the supports being hollow iron pillars, which were'also to serve as drains. There were to be clean, dry. and spacious foot paths at each side of the arcade, and the middle was to pe nnea oy iour railway tracks, two for passengers and two for freight.' The upper sidewalk was to be partly formed of glass bull's eyes, which would admit an abundance of light into the lower street, where umbrellas would be unknown or superfluous in the rainest weather, and where the climate would always be equable and salubrious. Is it necessary to state the advantages claim- ed for this fascinating plan by its auda cious projectors ? It would add a new story to the entire length of isroadway double the walking capacity of the street; quadruple the carrying capacity; and enable the trains of the Hudson River railway to deliver passengers and freight as far down town as the Battery. Further more, the rental of seventeen hundred stores would be increased at least two thousand dollars each, the aggregate of which amount alone would pay ten per cent, interest on a capital three times as great as the calculated cost of the work, which was twenty million dollars. But the Arcade ltailway, like many other schemes of equal brilliancy, never secur ed a firmer foundation than the specifr cations of its ingenious inventor. The Pneumatic railway gave more substantial proof of its practicability, however, and a tunnel three hundred feet long was excavated under Broad' way, southward from Warren street, where the proposed car and the great qjower could be seen m operation. The tunnel was eight feet in diameter, and built of solid masonry, parts being lined with iron plates; and the atmosphere was dry and pure. It was constructed without any diS' turbance of the Burface of the street, by means of a strong cylindrical shield, open at both ends, which was propelled oy hydraulic rams, the loosened sand and stone falling through the rear of tne shield, and the tunnel being inline d iately afterward arched with masonry, The car fitted the tunnel had seats for eighteen passengers, and was illumi natea and comfortably upholstered. It was propelled like a sailboat before the wind, by a strong blast of air forced against the rear by au immense steam blowing-machine. Nothing more smooth in the way of locomotion than the pneu niatio plnn could be imagined. You de scended from the ever busy and noisy liroadway into a cool and quiet recep tion-room some thirty feet below the level of the thoroughfare, and the car which had the shape of a horseshoe was ready for you with sliding doors at the ends, seats at each side, and a lamp overhead. Being seated, you heard a noise like the approach of a squall at sea, the doors were closed, and with a slight tremor the car moved out of the station and was shot through the length of the tunnel, where it was Btopped and drawn back again. There were to be an up-tunner and a down-tunnel, and it was claimed that ten cars a minute could be dispatched. Its inventor having spent Borne sixty or seventy thousand dollars, however, the Pneumatic railway was practically abandoned, though it was kept open for seme time as a publio exhibition ; and the tunnel is now used as a shooting gallery. A quite unique plan was proposed by Mr. Alfred Speer, of New Jersey, which consisted of a perpetually-moving ele vated train or belt of platform moving up one side of the street and down the other. This was commonly known as the " traveling sidewalk," which was a good descriptive name for it. The track was to be supported by fancy iron pil lars, fourteen feet high, ranged along the curbstone, and the platform was to project about four feet over the side walk and the same distance over the roadway. The structure was to be reached by commodious and ornamental stairways at the corners of all intersect ing streets, where there would be gates in the pretty iron railing surrounding it. Let us suppose that the traveling sidewalk is an accomplished thing not merely the unexecuted design that it is and that we wish to avail ourselves of its advantages in going from the City Hall to Union Square. Having ascended the stairs at Chambers street corner, we stand upon a little platform and, looking up Broadway, see an endless flooring, raised on massive pillars, moving down the west side of the thorougfare and np the east side. It resembles a viaduct, and is traveling at tho unvaring speed of ten miles an hour. Nearly as many people are upon it as upon the sidewalk below some are walking southward and others northward, and presuming that their pace is four miles an hour, they make, with the added speed of the plat form, fourteen miles an hour; some are seated on benches and others in cabins, like ordinary railway cars, erected on the platform. The constant flow of the promenaders lends the surface of the structure an animated appearance; it is surrounded by a stationary iron railing. with gas-lamps, npheld by branches from the pillars, aud, while the passen gers can shelter in the cabins during inclement weather, they can enjoy the fresh air and the briskness of the street below in fine weather. The greatest ad vantage cf the plan is that, as there are no intervals, there is no waiting, and. having signaled one of the conductors. we are almost immediately admitted to the platform-train br one ot the trans fer cars, the train never ceasing to meve meuifluously or to slacken its ape 3d. These transfer-cars seat eight persons. and have four wheels with independent axles so arranged that they oan be stopped at any of the stations Without detention to the main structure; before our admittance to which, our fares are collected. The cabins, or drawing rooms, contain toilet apartments, with female attendants for ladies, and smok ing and reading rooms are provided for gentlemen. What a dream of Mr. Alfred Speer's this was, and what a benefactor he might have been, naa it ever taken a tangible shape I There were to be no w . . . , though Mi. Speer may be disappointed in the discouragement he met with, he has the silent satisfaction that belongs to all real inventors, of nurturing a bold, well-meant, and picturesque de vice, the failure of which takes from the profits but not from the honor of his efforts. Exercising in Old Age. At eighty, says a writer in Harper's Magazine, a gentleman in New York city commenced trying to walk np the stairs of the livening 1'ost Dniiding, and there are eleven flights of them, of which there are nine from the street to his office. Any of the elevator men will tell you that, when the elevator is at all full, off he will go cheerily np all the nine flights, seemingly none the worst for it. Within a year he has told the writer that he still continued dumb bell and club work before breakfast daily, and simply because it pays ; and he is certainly still a wiry, active man. even though it is sixty-two years since re wrote ThanatopsiB. .faimerston, fox-hunting when past eighty ; vander, but, no youngster, without groom or companion, urging his blooded trotters over Harlem Lane at a slashing pace ; Gladstone, at sixty-eight, felling Ha warden trees by the hour, and for the benefit the exeroise brings are but a fewsinstances of what old men can do when they try. None of these are more surprising than, in an intellectual field, the learning of German by Ualeb uush ing after hehad passed seventy.or Thiers activity at nearly eighty, or, in all ways, than Moses doing the forty years best work in his life after he had passed eighty, and yet with eye not dim nor natural force abated. If some men, by oiling their joints daily for, as Mac- laren says, "they are oiled every time they are put in motion, and when they are put in motion only" can keep those joints from grating and creaking and moving stiffly, even into a ripe old age, why may not others as well ? And which of these things which man can, if he will, do so readily, cannot wo man do as well ? It needs no money. very little time, little or no present strength. (Jne thing only it does need and that is perseverance. Une-third of the time often given to the piano will more than suffice. One less study a day of those which are to-day overtaxing so many schoel-girls. and instead judici ous, vigorous, out-door exercise aimed directly at the weuk muscles, and taken as regularly as one's breakfast, and is there any'donbt which will pay the bet ter, and make the girl the happier, the fitter for all her duties, and the more at tractive as well ? We trust that the day is not far off when no boy or girl will be sent to a Bchool whore care is not taken to develop vigorous healthy bodies, and when that vigor and health will be the rule and not the exception among men and women alike, and in every walk life. Singular Pnenomenon. There was onco found, says the Iny (Gal.) Independent, a pair of field glas- see in the desert near what is known as Death Valley. The glasses are supposed to have belonged to lluhn, a lost gum of Wheelers expedition. They were brought into one of the interior towns by an Indian, and purchased from him, The most singular fact connected with them is that every object within range of where tho glasses had been lying lor a vear or moreis distinctly photographed npon them. We have heard of such phenomena before, but this is one oi tne most remarkable instances we remem ber. Both object glasses are covered with perfect and beautiful photographs or etchings of desert snrnos, stems, branches, leaf stalks. Leaves and leaf lets are distinctly marked, as if laid on by a master hand. There is no mixture or confusion of one plant with another, each having a clear border of unmarked glass, rendering it probable that the sun or lightning photograph, or whatever it may be, was received through the eye glass. These pictures seem to occupy a position about in the center of each of the object-glasses, but a little nearer the plane than the convex side. The Cat. The cat was the animal selected in the middle ages of superstition and witchcraft, to represent the familiar companion in which was embodied the evil spirit supposed to attend an tnose who practiced the black art in former times. Long before this time, however, as some people are probably aware, the oat was one of the most highly favored animals living: petted, pampered, care fully protected, and actually worshiped by the then most civilized people in tne world, the anoient Egyptians. How this .reverence came to be paid to the' cat in particular by this extraordinary people it is quite impossible to deter mine, but by some it is supposed to have originated from the benefits con ferred on mankind by its destruction of vermin and reptiles; at any rate, if the Egyptian cats were as useful as they are represented to have been, tne care of them is easily accounted for. Though it seems somewhat difficult to understand how the sportsmen of the Nile trained their cats, not only to bunt game, but to retrieve it from the water, the hunt ing scenes depicted on the walls at Thebes, and on a stone now in the Brit ish Museum, afford proof of the ttgypt ian cat's services in this reBpeot. It is generally supposed that nothing will induce a cat to enter water ; but this is clearly a fallacy, like many other popular notions about the animal world, The tiger is an excellent swimmer, as many have found to their cost ; and so the cat. another member of the tiger family, can swim equally well if it has any occasion to exert its powers, eitner in quest of prey or to effect its escape from some enemy. As cats are exceed' ingly fond of fish, they will drag them alive out of their native element when ever they get a chance. They have even been known to help themselves out of aquaria that have been left un covered, and on moonlight nights tney may be seen watching for the unwary occupants of a fish-pond, during the spawning season especially. Again, cat will take to the waterin the pursuit of a rat, a fact that was proved by a friend of ours a few years ago. Diana or Pasht. as that goddess was called in Egypt, was the tutelary deity of cats. Various reasons are assigned for this curious selection of the oat as the animal worthy of being dedicated to the moon. We find that according to Plutarch, the cat was not only sacred to the moon, but an emblem of it; and that figure of a cat was fixed on a sistruin to denote the moon, just as a figure of a frog on a ring denoted a man in embryo. As before stated, the .Egyptians treat ed these animals with nnusual care and attention during their lifetime; hence it is not surprising to find that the death of a cat was regarded as a family misfor tune, in consequence of which the house hold went into mourning. The willful destruction of a cat in Egypt is looked upon as a very serious offence even now; but in the good old days (.tor ciub; at Bubastis the offeace, even supposing it to have been accidental, was punished with prompt severity. Jewels or the Crown eraretlnnri. At Krlinburir. Scotland, some Tears sinue. the Jewels of the Grown were locked in a box, that box In another, and so on, nntll tney were snp posed to be burglar-proof. They were then locked up in the vault of the oavtle, there to remain for one hundred yesrs, tbe keys being placed in a mortar and fired into tbe sea. Scarce fifty years passed by, and the modern lock-picker opens the vault and boxes without trouble. Bo the scienoe of medicine, when studied with the aid of chemistry and the mi- crosoope, becomes plain and simple, and dis eases that were regarded as mourame a genera tion ago, now readily yield to remedies employ ed by the modern and progressive physioian A decade of years since, and women were taught to believe that their peculiar diseases and weaknesses were inourable i bat now hun dreds and thousands of once bedridden women in tbe United States will testify to the fact that Dr. Pierce s Favorite i'rescnpuon nas enectea their perfeot and permanent cure. Toledo, Ohio, Deo. 6th 1876. Dr. R. V. Piehor, Buffalo, N. Y.t ltonr Mir -.About nve vears since my win was taken sick, and tnongn we empioyea me best physicians in onr oity, yet she gradually grew worse, so mat sne was eonnnea w me ku. Every remedy I have tried, or oonld find, failed to cure or even give relief. 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Die. and uave lived on uuiu now witn one side oooked, and the other waiting until, in the fullness of things, it can in its turn be submitted to the fire. Dur ing the massacre of Ohio, a uumber of Greek children who had been carried off bv the Turks were ransomed and after ward educated bv a philanthropic socie ty. Oue or the boys wno was ransomed and educated by Americans, has become a wealthy householder at San Stefano. It was under the roof of this Chiote exile, who had been trained by Ameri cau missionaries, that the oonqueror of Turkev. the Grand Duke .Nicholas received shelter whue tne diplomatists were chattering over the conditions of peace. Russia has a wonderful Swedish, gun for use in its fleet. It is worked after the manner of pianoforte playing, moves to and fro in a section of a circle and sweeps all the ground that it covers in a most marvelous manner. Xt is some' thing like sweeping a lawn with water from tbe jet of a garden hose moved right bnd left by the operator, and oan be carried up into the maintop for firing on the enemy's deck and inside fortifica tions, in close quarters it would sweep the enemy 8 deoks of oomDaianta. Curious Discoveries. The old question, where do all the pins go to ? is not near so interesting as this conumdrum: How do things get where they are found ? The poems of Propertins a Latin poet who lived half a century be fore the Christian Era, were found in a wine-cellar. The discovery was made in the nick of time, for the mildew and the rats had begun their destructive work ou the parchment manuscripts. But how came these poems in that wine cellar ? Did some bottler, a lover of the muse, carry them down to read during intervals of rest, and then, overcome by the fumes of his own wine, forget to carry them away ? It is said that one of the cantos of Daute's ' Inferno" was found, after be ing long mislaid, hidden away beneath a window-sill. Who hid the precious manuscript? Did he hope a reward would be offered for its recovery ? We can understand how ' Luther's Table T ilk " came to be hidden in the foundntions of an old house. Pope Gre gory XII I ordered its suppression, and so it beoime dangerous for any oue to be found in possession of the book. When discovered, it was ' lying in a deep obscure hole, wrapped in strong linen cloth, which was waxed all over with beeswax within and without." The man who hid it was determined that the book should be read by somebody when better days had come. An old cabinet held for time a forgot ten manuscript which the world is glad th ituthor found. It was the first vol ume of "Waverly." "I had written," snys Scott, " the greatest part of the first volume, and sketched other pas sages, when I mislaid the manuscript, and only found it by the merest accident, as I was rummaging the drawer of an old cabinet, and I took the fancy of finish ing it." The Markets. m VOBK. Beef Oattle Nsilve Texas ana unerosee... Miloh Oowe Hogs Live Dressea. ... Sheen Lamlis I Cotton Middling Hour Western oooa to unoioe... State Good to Choice Buckwheat per cwt, Wheat Red Western No. 3 Milwaukee. Rye State linrloy Ktate Barley Malt Bnckwheat Oats Mlied Western. Corn Mixed Western Hay, per cwt. ..... Straw perewt...... Hods 7's 01 (01 77 's Pork Mess 10 in al0 75 lATd Oity Btonm 07rtt 08 Flab Mackerel, No. 1, new 17 00 18 00 No. X new 9 60 10 00 Dry Oorl, per cwt t 00 a 5 82Jt HerrlnK. Scaled, per box 17 Q IS Petroleum Grade 08,' j09,W Refined, Wool California Fleeoe ., 90 H Texas " 80 a Australian " 44 State XX 41 Ratter -State 85 Western Choice 18 Western Good to Prime,. . . 85 Western Firkins 11 Oheese State Factory 18HQ State Skimmed f8 (4 Western U(A Ejgs State and PenuavWanla...... 11 & U1TFALO. "lonr 6 OH Wheat No. 1 Milwaukee 1 88 Corn Mlxod 4 0:ts 0 Rye 74 (a) B'-irley ,..... 75 Barley Malt 80 O yHrUDSXFHIi. Beef Cattle Extra 08V(S flheep Mnuft DreaRed (A V left Flour PenrsTlvanla Extra 4 11 A Til Wheat Rod Western 125 S 1 21 Rye 71 9 "S Oorn Yellow 5U O Mixed 51 t4 Oats Mixed..., 81 A Pctro!euni Ornde 0; Keniirri, Wool Colorado 8i ( Texas 'it OeluornU 81 EVERETT HOUSF, Fronting Union Square NEW YORK. Finest Location in the City. European Flan-Restaurant Unsurpassed MetropolltRn Agricultural Warehouse: N In addition to alftritets Mtmnrlt nf HKflful imD'e- mentR forth, frnrraand Garden, I havmanjrTfl nable improvenn nta to offer; among which ara ih.fnilowinir: Adimant Mow. with ltaTebl. i D" .to. I mII all PI""" W'n Pn VVt a Y.i! nV.fl ii 35 83 ii 44 87 31 63 18 14 10 18W 11 141 (4 49 9 C4 FIRS 0UNlV0RwVNtrV MAMA SAFE 8, SCALE CO. 265 BROADWAY. A.Y7 (4 83 74 78 83 09V C6 )5X 5) 51 82X 84 83 48 BC'TOM. Beef Cattle 08 O8I4 HUecp 08 & 06h H.ps 06 Q C6 rwnr wiscousui ana muuosota. .. is i Oorn Mixed...... .................. 66 0 61 Oats 83 O 85 Wool Ohio and Pennsylvania XX... 68 (4 66 California 34 a 41 BniODTON, MA0I, . Bef Cattle OflJiO 07 ) Sheep, ....... . .............. . ...... 06 Q 094 iJtmoa, 07 iu Hogs 07t a 08 WiTKHTOWK, MAM. Beet Cattle Poor to Oholoe 4 50 9 1 50 Sheep 1 00 & 7 00 Lambs IIH1 4 8 76 Eighteen thousand men are now en gaged in the express business. Express companies cover 60.000 miles of railroad. and it is estimated that their messengers daily "travel 300,000 miles. Three tnousand nve honored horses are em ployed, and over 8,000 offices are re quired to transact thur business, and an amount of capital in invested not less than 3 0,000,000. Saved for Greatness. Madame de Mainteiion, who became the wife of Louis XIV. of France, and for the Inst thirty years of his life exer cised a controlling influence over his opinions and policy, had a narrow es cape from premature burial in cimuiiood. tier parents migrated from D ranee to the Isle of Martinique when she was ten years old. On the voyage she was taken ill, and the sickness ended in ap parent death. The funeral rites were over ; the last look taken of the body about to be dropped into the 'sea ; a caunon was loaded to be fired over the corpse; when the mother, ordinarily unloving, insisted on seeing ner cnuu once more. To her surprise, she found the heart still beating, and in a delirum of joy, declared that the child was not dead, but would reoover. The hope, born of rapture, proved a true propnecy; and the little girl, so nearly given to burial in the ocean, was spared to be corae one of the most distinguished women in French history. " Use great prudence and circumspec tion in choosing thy wife, said Lord Burleigh to his son; "for from thence will suriner all thy future good or evil; and it is an action ot life like unto a stratagem of war, wherein a man can err but once." Mothers'. Molherf!! Mothers i ! ! ! ! fail to procure Mri. Winalow'a boothing Byrnp for all disease! incident to tbe period of teeth ing in children. It relieves the child from pain, cures wind oolio, regulates the bowels, and, by giving relief and health to the child, gives rest to the mother. 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