Ig Ilittsburglj Gairtts. THE HOUSEHOLD LAMP. When the snn declines, and crickets And wandering mists TO= seaward roam, Wheu nights nollearenlybeacons bring, The brighteqaptes.theakar at,howel IV/Ikni the browiilirooks iflth mdde ow. Weteltsummeri'dlo and - gotullitte conic When Eggtely golden rod&_toust beogi" , WtutVeheer istia that Ught at hcimel • Yhen S.l Nkter strips the *Merin, s. „tt•: = l!'•And, ttleASI veleVn wanton Wi llow b world's cold p we frveze, How blest is then that st gras ar at home! EPHEMERIS —Flesh is sakltule very fashionable.. . 1 , • , d-Verut has written twenty-five operas. end'Poritek have been boacifed . with Kti:Kiiiiaetters. —Wood and Barnum aregetting up a new - fausenia in NeW York. —Brigham Young's ,daughters gave a leap-year ball recently. , —Thor] , ads of women are enipktyed on the.ltalian flower arms. —The Ku klux are now said to be the sore as the Golden Circle. —64,690 squirrels were shot at a recent squirrel hunt in Vermont. • —Brigham Young has iio longer an in terest in the Deseret New; —Napoleon's valet, Leon, left a fortune of five hundred thousand flames. —La Millet rays- that short . dresses are growingin favor, but not in length. —Six hundred thousand kegs of lager beer were brewed in Milwaukee in 1867. --A Sixty acre field is the play: ground for the base ball tournamentat'Niagtna Falls. —The new Roman Catholic Bishop of Buffalo, will arrive in that city nest week. -,-Ninety-four , establishments . have paid petroleum licenses this year in Philadelphia. --$3,750 is the value set on ' , wives run over by railway trains, by an Engiish jury. —A seal weighing one hundred pounds was captured in Mfmarltusetts bay the other day. --Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has re turned to the North from her home in Flo rida. —lt is thought that the Princess of Wales will have an attack of rheumatism in June next —More than :calf ; of the inhabitants of tew York are native and to the manor born. —Some of the deaf mutes of Cincinnati have organized a society for mutual improve meat. ' —Major John Pettis, - United States Mar shal; of Vermont, tried last week aged 75 =1 —An Americon lady appeared at a Paris makued ball as The Hap of America. She created a sensation. —Lord.BrOugham is reported to have lost his memory. He can remember only fifty years back now. _ —Fred. Douglass, it is reported, has made up his mind to settle down among the Yan kees inirmelana, —Philadelphia is lighted with 7,309 pub lic lamps, which cost the city $4B per year eacb, or $374,832 in all. —The new prince of the House of Haps- Inutis to be torn in Pesth, out of 'compli ment to the Hungarians. —A colossal bronze bust of the poet Bry ant, done by Launt Thompson, is to be placed in the Central Park. • ; t-iitictor Emanuel has bought a pair of moose for the royal. zoological gardens. He bonglit them.lll Nova Scotia.. =Burgled is a new word, supposed to be the past tense of the verb burgle, which is - derived from the noun burglar. farm of thirteen hundred acres, be longing ' once to the renowned Davy Crocket, is nowfor sale. It is in Texas. —54,000,000 Bibles, in 174 different dialects have been distributed by the British and Foreign Bible Society since its foundation. —A report is current that Florence Night ingale has become a member the society for the promotion of female suffrage in England. -The Marsellain is breaking out agiin all over France; it is a portentous song and its every fresh appearance is ominous of revolution": ,-rMarcus Dohety , is the Irish Roman Catholic candidate for the seat of the late D'Arcy Magee in She Canadian Parliament. —A Philadelphian wants the new society for the prevention of cruelty to mtitnala begin by arresting "the man who struck his light guitai.-" —The winter in the western part of Mas sadmsettshai been so long and severe that thousands of 'birds have been picked up dead front starvation —The Hays City Advance says that buffa lo are very plenty in the neighborhood of that place,.and can be seen browsing on all Of,the Surrofinding• • • , __The Chicago Post says that gas is cheaper • than daylight In 'the 'Keysfone State. It is not qulte ;as, good, however, particularly thiw,winter in Allegheny. ' —Basil went to a oiasquerade l as t week, We fear that young ladies brought under I/ his wife asked him "Was the Rani = B ear the influence of Oxford and Cambridge there, my dear,?" "Oh no," Bold Ba s il, wouldicant many things Which would not `'he wee quite warmly dressed " het° their worldly or spiritual advantage. . _ e 0 has ___ th a t e But at H arvard thed grad • --loom .one suggesteu jealous al ways an er aates, i f not as wisels serpents, are at all events wives are not consiatent, because they do • not object when, husbands bring home 48 harml ess , as doves." 1 , pretty nre dresses in their arms. 4 , ite an excitement has been felt in .....A.;BontherfF:lnariner is said to have v se a n ri° ge u r a s otteherampiotikeel4otinb°ButreettlitO•Aight ofsopas heel, so - bitterly partizan as to refuse to be allow:smoking on th ca e f i l to . f ront prat! guidedby 4 ,Northtar, and the cense queries was his vessel was shattered. form an d manY PaaseriZers obie o ct, to this l as the fu es i* tobacco ' •_, j- it is sed that the APl:lett:au a b e av a e o p y re sis - The eseM.ef tobacco ° - has w fioat to the car. , • _ s taged the au thores sof the'hitililh li that it might perhaps b, well 1 40 uulversal , *lth $lOOO in gyld. 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