The Summer-Land. 0 tend of glory I Bnmtnw land I Fair land to which 1 go, 1 Me in dreams thy silr*r streams. Where spirit boatmen row. And by whoee lakes, in shining ranks, The'happy angels go. Anear and yet afar thon art From me, fair land of light- Bright land of peace, where sorrows cease, And drouth can never blight. Bright land of peace, where sorrows oease, Where I shall reach a height. A height so great the winds of fate My Joy can never blight. To theo, in dreams, fair land, I go. In dreams at noon of night. Where all is still o'er vale and lull. Enrobed in idlvery light. Where all ia still o'er vale and hill My thoughts ia visions fly : Tea, fly above to thee where lore And joy can never die. The Secrets of the Heart. Guess, what counted pebbles lis In the rushing rirer; Guess, upon how many biui Mar'a flrst sunbeams qmrar ; Guesa. wbr.t words the mghtengalu Sings in woods apart ' Twetu easier than divining them, The secrets of the heart. Why, at careless wont or phrase, Eve# may flash or till; Why a lily or a *ow> &V*m a sign of ill: Why, at aome fhmibar name. Sudden shriuit or start; Do not try to fathom them. The aocrwts id" the heart. Why a merry tuns may bring Hidden weeping after; Whv a mournful air may maks plea tor happy laughter ; Why one common day may ha Sadly helil apart, And another kept a feaat, By the aetstvt heart. Why some paths untrodden still Bv the wandering ft* t; Why a strange enchantment hangs Round some woodland neat ; Whv some book unopened liea ; Whv siime fkvonte art Left neglected, owns the sway Of the secret heart. All these myriad marvels lie. Hollowed from the touch ; Do not press upon their source, Eager over much. Girlrrom lover, friend from friend. Something holts a{art; Child from parent sacred keeps The secret* of the heart. Look on them as holy things. Turn the gaae away. Strive not thou to force the clua 1T the of dt^. Glad, anil frank, ana bold, and proud Howeoe'er thou art, Ope day. Thou, too, shah know The secret* of the heart. The Flower of Sleep, Sweet sleep, pale flower, loved flpwur of night, Thv leaves so pure unfold to me,— And breathe their opiate fragrance o'er mr now. That 1 may hide myself in thee. The tears I weep shall water thee, And thou shah grow the while more bright, Until glad dreams do sparkle on iny stem. The pendant fruit of blessed night. THE RIVAL LOVERS. My hither true a Bowery store keeper, /"' wettv well to be employed two clerks; tkef lived with as, in the stone building. Our two young men were named Barnes Scott and Henry Schoolcraft. Father took a great deal of pride in them both, because they had come to him when they were very young, and he taught tbum all they knew. • Last vear henry was yean old and James was twenty-oife. I was eighteen and—well, it wonkl be very fool ish ponsense I setting out to tell this story, to pretend at being too shy to say that both the clerks were in love with me. and be J been for some time before, as I was almost certain after we began to talk about it at all. I liked them both and it has often puzzled me to know exactly how I did make np my mind that I preferred James. It's hard to sav it makes the thing any more dear that there was a certain some tl ing I couldn't for my life tell even to myself, that made me like Jimmy Scott so much better than I did Henry. I suppose all young women who love, "talk to them eclv'ei much the same way; but I couldn't make up my mind that it made this differ ence in mv case, that father very much preferred llenry. It would be hard to tell which of my two lovers was most devoted to me—that is. as far ss attentions go that a young girl likes to receive. Tbey hadn't much money' to snend. to be sure, on their small salaries and if they had, father and Aunt Hetty had some very strict notions and would'nt have let it be spent on presents and thea tre tickets and drives for me, because, as aunt often said, girls never knew what might happen, and it was hard to feel obliged to persons we might come to dis liking. Little kindnesses that didn't cost ronch in money they offered me constantly, and with satisfaction to themselves and me, for they knew how father felt about such matters—but I had, truth to say, my own thoughts about who took most real ' pleasure in my pleasure—whether these were made good or not you alia 11 see. One day in the fall of last year—it's not worth while to tell you how the thing grew from time to time, bow father and James, then father and I, had our long serious talks, and how James and I were with bis consent engaged, but with a pro mise not to marry yet awhile. We did not know indeed when, probably not until father approYed. James' salary was hardly large enough, truly, for him to take asrife, economically brought up as I had been, them Father might increase it if we be haved well to him ; we were would thongh he did not say so yet To go back to Henry for a little. I had never liked him as much all this while we'd known one another as I did after I discarded him. He was disappointed, and be showed ;t greatly, but he wished James and me muib happiness in a very friendly, honest-seeming way, and we both felt something sorry for him. That is a very cold way to express all that was said and felt on the occasion. Indeed, for some weeks subsequently my plighted husband was often found saying that, intimate as be CDd Henry had always oeen the bear ing of the latter, had been even mere brotherly pf late than ever before, which, he said, argued so manly a spirit that he felt m his admission of Henry as if he wonjd go almost any length "to serve him A few weeks subr .nently to James' and my engagement, I said this was going on. It wasn't more than six, I think, when I observed that father was looking exceed ingly troubled one evening. The had been the case several days, indeed—quite a week *t least, I think; but the night I apeak of j it was so apparent as to depress us all in the family circle, which was felt, though nobody said anything about it After supper the two young; men went oil' as usual to right up books, bills and ! accounts, and to set the store in order for the coming day. Presently, Aunt Hetty j took , her bit of sewirfg and went away, i I supp md to her room, but this was some- j thing unusal at such an early hour, and I prepared to follow her, just out of a child ish curiosity, I suppose. Father said, " Esther, stop here. I want to speak to you." And I did stop and take my seat again. As aunt went away, I saw i now surely that something was the mat ter ; I could not tell what. " Esther," he went on, very solemnly, and in away that chilled my blood, for father was very plain of speech always; "my money goes wrong out of the store some way, and I needn't say some way either, for, in spite of all the charity I try to have for my fellowman, I'm obliged to beliete that James Scott is the thief!" I jumped to my feet quicker than I can tell you, stung by the very thought that the man I Lad set all my love on could be accused of robbing my good father, who, though very strict and something exact ing, too, never defrauded a man out of a fraction in his life, and trusted both these w boys," as he called them, with every cent he was worth. That James could be guilty of such heartless villiany I scouted the very sus-, picion, and told my father go. I, who had all my life beea a child, his little girl in my own tLonifhts as in ins now grew to be a woman in this sudden impulse of mingled grief and indignation. I asked who informed him, and declared, of course unreasonably, that I would go to his in formant and tell him to his teeth that he told a wicked untruth. * "It cannot be, my ehild," my father said; "the sums that have been missing from time to time amount now to near a ' 10 * FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. IV. thousand dollars, and that money 1 WW with these eyes in June*' possassion in his private desk in the office." " And you! How came you in bh pri vate desk r { answered. * One who is his friend ami mine showed it to me only to clear himself, Esther. They lay equally under suspicion." my father said. "I pondered long Mto the best way of approaching the suljeet; then 1 decided to ojen it tin.t to the oldest. I hardly know whv 1 was sc. stunned by the circumstances. They both knew the cash was short; loth knew that I knew it; neither said anything. What was to ho done 7" Lot that night go; it was a horrible aight to me. I did ut>c talk long with fkthor. He saw I was iR >< sent me to boil. 1 did not sleep, fer all iff kind Aunt Hetty's uneasiness and her far-away re marks on my ailiueut, tltough I more than suspected she knew all. I determined to he at break fast next day, though my head ached AS though it would split, ami there was James, iiale as a ghost. He bad an interview with father, who had set up in the parlor waitiug far him after 1 left the night before, though I didn't know it then, and it hadeud< d with three words: *• Then, James if it i* all A* you say. and the time ever 1 cornea, you can make things clear and fair; com* hack, ami you shall have mv daughter. She loves you, and she is like her mother—if she loves once, *be loves forever.", llenry Sch.xil craft lookvd aihkfcrraMed {Mined, reotless. Why should he not, and y*t lie inioceut, tven If l, iu my passion, saw fit in some vague way. Mit to he ex plained. to transfer the offunce at issue from the ore 1 loved to him 7 1 WAS not, 1 promised my father, to hint to James that llenry had said augbt con necting him with the outrage. It waa through tears of blood As it were,fat bar said, j that he wrung from him the confessiou that he also suspected James Scott. u I can't tell," my father had represent - . h! him as saying, - if i had had the suae temptation, en gaped to your daughter ami too poor to marry her, perhaps fer many a year, how it would have been with me, so it does'ut become me to blame him." Then they agreed between them to semi toor James awav, and never, never to Ireathe beyond themselves what had oc curred, what bad separated him and us. But James anticipated. He was not nt away, because he took the stand at once, as soon as my father opened the sub jwt to him, that it was unfit he ahould runain any longer under taint of suspicion. He had p> means uf proving his innocence. h< said. He had tnkssd moneys from the tine the first inroad had been made on the store capital; he knew it lay between H?nry and himself, the going of it; he was fine oif the offence, but since the money TO found in hk desk, though ho Was not anare of its presence there until my father slowed it to him (he had counted and put it back again), he would leave and go his my. After breakfast the merniug following m' horrible night, James roee from the taile with a fearful stillness in hie manner, ani a hollow tone in his voice, and said, •' list her. I wish to speak to you alone." Nether ne nor I had partaken of the meal anything to speak of, and he Seemed to kmw that I had gone to it only to meet hin, as he had for the sake of coming in cortact with me. How dead pale be was, ant old-looking! Why, he might almost hate passed for my father. That was James going to tell me ? Wrnld he make a confession of hk guilt or deiy the vile charge out-and-out ? That refaction of Henry's stuck to npjl must owi—the temptation of hiving to work harl for years, it might be. before he could tak> me a wife, he loving me as he did all thewbile, and the fear of a possible influ ents from my father in Henry's behalf; for Janes knew how that matter stood. Oh! it vas likely to be the death of me! I hunedly thought of this first trouble of min> as passing from room to room. Tie lonr and short of James 1 story was thatwhich has already !>een told. It re fresbd my faith to hear from his own Jips —* is God lives. Esther, 1 speak truly. I knot nothing of thl- matter." I promised to blicve in bis truth, and I did ; and when we tartcd it was in full faith that God wouil defend the right, and bring my dar ling* guiltlessness out clear in the face of all arusers. W? mufct hire believed in one another, you rill say, because we were not to write or hdd any intercourse. My father said , this irst, and I complained of his cruelty ! ; at tb time, as 1 did to James, when I told j kirn if it; but he, generous like himself, said hat was right. I believe be thought 1 I wa such au inexperienced creature that i he wiuld give me an opportunity to know my ovn mind for suia in the matter. I rondered if Hepry would renew his suit Dme. Now I began to ponder to my-1 | self vhen James had gone. I hadn't many week to wonder. lie waa very delicate j at Art, I must say; but somehow Ferny ; appered to be under artificial excitement at tines. I could not tell what, and one of these times the old story came from him again and met with just the same result as bebra. I wondered if he hadn't bred a lie aad told it" to James' hurt, and if the act wasn't preying on his mind to make him rt as strangely as he now acted at I intervals. I wondered next if my own brain might not be slightly affected by the stock I had received; nobody seemed to noicc his queer wfcys but me; so, per haps, ae hadn't them after all. So much | for rn and my wonders. I jrln't hother tmrh ta ftW( ou| if my mind iras not visibly w worse. aO think it wai; my body certaialy was. I grew very meagre, and weak, and listless. EveryVody noticed that; everybody in the Loose that is, and my father really was good t me and concerned for me. Now came the end. I waa getting worse and wtrsc ; was in my room all the time, and on the bed, lounging for the most. There was a little surprise prepared for . me one day. A bird and a flower hasket were brought and hung b the windows of the chamber adjoining Aunt Hetty's, so I wis moved in there for a change. 1 en joyed it MXI went to sleep. After night father came in, took hie seat quietlv beside me. and kept silent for fear of waking me, though he laid his hand on mine on the bedside I was busy a little with my thoughts, but had not energy nor will to room opened into Henry School- i craft's,and the partition door between them was swung back. It went on to bed-time. I didn't know the hour, but there father sat, quiet as a | mouse, and I liking the quiet. Presently we heard Henry come up and some one with him. Father made no motion to shut the door for fear of waking me, and it made no great matter either, that we knew. y/| Jlenry *a* m one of his excitements. This was apparent to me at once, snd he rattled away something recklessly to his companion—a young man I recognized by bis voice as one who sosr.etimes visited James and himself. ' Something recklessly,did I say,he talked? You shall see! "I've got him out of the way, and the coast is all clear. Lord, Lord 1 Hanson, it was a master stroke upon old Groessbeck ; I went to my prayers ex actly where I knew he'd see and hear me, and thanked God I was not as other men —well, that is, I asked him to forgive Scott —for my taking his employer's money and putting it in his desk ! How's that fpr high ? Confound the paltry thousand or nine bundled 1 aad seventy, I believe it was; I didn't want that no more than Jim, but, then, all's fair in love and war, yod know. I'd like to hat* the girl; good looking girl and, then, you know, fair eye to the windward. Old Hunks icks the bucket and a son-in-law and sue- CENTRE HALL REPORTER. ceasor is so handv to have in the house! Scott'* gone to tlie dickens for all anybody knows, and here am I with a fair Hold Ite farc tne. He's an honest fellow and I'm a re-Mwl. but thai make* no difference as long as one succeed*,aa they call it,in life. You're my heat friend, Hanson, so 1 give you that mural, ami illustrate it by a leaf from my own experience." Those are the very words he said; I could vouch for them if I were on my dying bed. Well, it was a hard case, mav be, that 1 should rejoice in finding out the wicked ness that was in this man's heart, but it was better than ntediciue for me, or rauarv hints, or hanging fiowcr-baaketa either, for that matter, but- ii almost stunned uy father. I could hardly suppress a scream when the confession came, but alt 1 did was to press his hand and let him know I heard it. Not a breath stirred the silence, and presently when Toung Hanson went away Henry ciune with an unateady step, pulled the door to, and fastened it. Next day it was a conference of father and Henry." Henry denied nothing, and I don't think he was bad hearted, either; he was onk- weak. He had a great desire to establish himself, and he would have liked what means father had to assist him to do it. It was now poor Henry's turn, too, a* it had been poor James', to go away and leave the old place. Nobody opposed it; father would never have suffered him tore main; and. now that he has gone, we don't know where, it's no harm telling all about it. The worst I wish him t hat he may never offend again in like manner, and that he may live anil die a* honest as the man he endeavored to ruin. This is the amount of what 1 said to him when he hade me good-by' and Asked my forgiveness. I was in a good mood to give it to him. for my heart felt light that day with reading in itself as it were all day long a personal that appeared in that morning's paper: •' If .James Y. Scott, formerly a clerk at No. Bowery, will communicate with his .old employer at once, he will hear some thing to his advantage.'' Before the week was out a letter caiue from James, in the far, far AVest. He was employed by a'Canadian house, and had gone away to do some trading for them in furs. Ho wouKl call on his return. Several weeks passed first, and I was getting better in mind ami body, getting to be my same old self again, when one day the back door of our sitting room open ed (the room connecting by an entry to the store), and, before I had time to consider, a pair of strong arms were holding me tignt within their grasp, and a good, honest kiss —yes, a number of thein—were showered upon my lips. L couldn't speak, as you i know,and if I had. what should I say ? Aunt Hetty's astonishment only brought out !'• Why, James!" but it was of no use, and 1 think the saucy fellow had some notion of j giving her one in hk bewilderment and if she hadn't always looked so demure. I know her hand hadn't had a heartier shake for many a day than it got then. James had seen father and everything was made up. and Aunt went considerately away to see about dinner; and James toid me all this and a great deal more. His obligations to his new employers bound him . to them for a year, and though, as he said, it was hard work to forego father's offer oi a partnership and a residence with us agaim i and whatever else might come, his word had £one, and he must be as good. The I rearts almost gone, too, now, as we said be j fore; and the end of all k—well, won't you come and see, at I)r. Deems' * Church ol the Stranger," on such night'as I shall notify you in the present week. The Hospital at Darmstadt. Fresh from the scenes at Hpeicheren and Saarbrnek, a walk through the Darmstadt hospital was almost exhilarat i ing. There seemed good hope for the worst of the sufferers, and many of them had clearly turned the corner, aud were steadily on their way up-hilL They I smoked with placid satisfaction, they i read with absorbed attention, and jour j uals and novels were especially in de mand. It is to be regretted we in Eng i land can do so little to supply that par ticular want, for it would be hard to , overestimate the pleasure that might be conveyed in a box of light literature. But the pleasant>st sight of all was the way the saddest faces would brighten up as the Princess ALICE stopped to say a few kind words and ask a question or two—not mere questions of course. In defatigable in her attendance, she keeps herself personally informed of each seri ous case, and from day to day anxiously watches the progress of her patients. Indeed, they owe her far more than the kindness and generosity which is nearly universal in Germany. Long before this war broke ont, her care hod organized a corps of educated nurses ; and when the sanguinary battles created an exceptional demand for their services, she liad a cadre of skilled attendants, which expanded immediately into an efficient force. The Alice-Franenverein has l>een rendering invaluable services ; and it is no wonder that, in spite of great local liberality, its funds should be well-nigh drained. The charitable who desire to make sure that their contributions will be promptly ex pended to the best advantage, and im partially distributed between the wound ed of the two nations, can scarcely do bettor than intrust them to the Commit tee of the Alice-Frauenverein. They will have tlie satisfaction of knowing every thing is done under the personal superintendence of an English woman, for her Royal Highness has given np to the work a suite of her own apart ments in the Palace, aDd lets no day pass without a long visit to the hospital. —AI exatuler Innes Shand. Extraordinary Result of AdTertlidng. A gentleman residing in Portland in serted an advertisement in this paper for a few days,. that he wanted a man to take care of his horse. The result was instantaneous. The very first day he had applications from men enough to constitute a full regiment of cavalry. The number went on increasing in go metric ratio, till onr unfortunate patron found himself receiving as lr> a num ber of letters as if he was ma. ager of a "mammoth lottery," or the |,-oprietor of a new kind of stttaparilla or " hair re storer." Letters encumbered all his tables and desks, and pervaded every nook and corner of his house The post ilnan staggered under his unaccustomed I load, and the Postotlioe Department was Hl jmL in a fair way to become self- sus taining. Postmaster General Cresswell ; was in ectiisies, but our friend was in de .spair, and rushing into the office he im- I P'ored that tho notice might be discon thjued. His request was promptly com plied with, but tnc stream of applications flows steadily on. He has already had specimens of the chirography of the people of all the counties in Maine and New Hampshire, with scattering letters from the Dominion of (Janada. New ; York and the West have some represent | atives, and an insinuating Cuban put in I lib* claim. Our patron is now awaiting i with the keenest apprehension the ar rival of the next European steamer. He has ao doubt that after the lapse of a sufficient interval he will hear from " Greenland's icy mountains " and " In dia's coral strand "—from Ispahan, Yokohama, Quito, Abyssinia. Bankok, Timbuctoo, okowhegan and Madawaska.— Porlfasnd Prat. A Western engineer has invented a hot-water pump to squirt deaf men off the track. CENTRE HALL. CENTRE CO.. I'.V.. FRIDAY. JANUAIfY 13, IH7I. The I'plted States Senate. A Washington onrrospoiKleut figuring up the prospect* of the baited Stat' 1 * Senate, says: "'On the 4th of MoroJi next, the close of the XJ Jt Cougrew*. the terms of service of 24 Senators will expire, namely ; Ablxitt of North Caro lina, .Anthony of Rhode Island, Cnttdl of New Jersey, Crag in of New Hump s'lire, Fowler of Tennessee, HuQiiitoii of Texas, Harris of Louisiana, Howard of Michigan, How >ll of lowa, Johnson of Virginia, Morrill of Maine, McDonald of Arkansas. Mol'reery of Kentucky, Revels of Mississippi, Robertson of North Carolina, Ross of Kansas, Sauls j bury of Delaware, Thayer of Nebraska, Warner of Alabama, Wiudoui of Minue ! sots, Willey of West Virginia, Wilson of ! MassaelniA'tts, Williams of Oregon, and Yates of IlliuoiA Of-these, Messrs. 1 Anthony, Orngin, Rtla'rt*liua. Two of those, Stevenson and Vance, are doubt ful of admission* on account of tln-ir record during the war. The States yet ! to elect are Arkansas, Delaware, Illinois, Kanaas, L>>uiaianA Maine, Michigan. | Minnesota. New Jersey, Nebraska, Vir i gtnia and West Virginia There i* also | a Senator to be elected from Missouri, I owing to a vacancy occasioned by the resignation ef Senator Drnke. The I can>liilatea iu Arkansas are Mcßftn alil, yie incumbent, and Governor Clay ton. The oaudidates in Delaware are yet in donbt. In Illinois there are Lo jgan. Gov. Oglesby, Gen. Palmer, Lieut.- Gov. Koeuer, and John MedilL The j prominent candidates in Kansas are > Ross, the incumbent. Representative Clarke, Gov. Carney, and Stephen Col well, the contest b*' ug uiainlv between the two first-naiued. In lemisiana. the contest is between Harris, the incum bent, Lt Gov. Dunn (colored), ex-Gov. Malm, and Gov. Warmoth. Iu Maine tue {irincipal candidates are Morrill, the iucumbent. rndGov. Chamberlain. In ■ Midnw there are Howar.l, the incum | bent. Representative and ex-Gov. Blair, j and ex-Congressman Win. H. Howard. I In Minnesota the indications point to the I election of Windom, the incumbent, al- I though ex-Senator Wilkinson and Mr j Driaeoll are candidates. In New Jersey | ex-Senator Frelinghuysen is a strong candidate. Mr. titteli declima re-elec tion. and Sixwetary Robeson says he w ill j not consent to nn. In Nebraska the . principal candidates are Thayer, Uie in j enmbent. Gov. Raker, ami Repr's. :iUj i tive Tlffcs. Iu Virginia the result is in s doubt, and the candidate are uot vet i declared, although it is understiKxl that ! Gov. Walker will run. and also Johnsou, the incumbent. West Virginia is also iu doubt, the prominent candidate being (diaries J. Faulkner. The contest iu Missouri for the vacancy w ill be hotly contested, tlis struggle heing mainly le --twreen Gen. Fruuk P. Bhur, and >x- Congreaauuui John T. Phelps. Tliis list of candidates is prepared from the best information to lie gathered at thu> time. Crruiatiou of an East Indian Prince. The Florentine have had another novelty added to the variety to which they have lately been treated. A young East Indian Prince, on his travels, died at one of the hotel*, and, according to the customs of his country, it was neces sary to go through the ceremony of burn ing his body. It is a good manv hun dred yearssinoe the Etruscan and 1 toman ancestors of present Italians gave op the habit of reducing the body to ashes after death, and HO it was at first difficult to get the authority to consent to a function wi out of date. But by the intervention of the British Minister, a compatriot of the deceased, liberty was obtained, and between 1 and '2 o'clock in the morning of a mw and windy day of December, al>ont five bundled persona of both sexes met iu a remote part of the public prome nade of the Caaciue, to !*• witnesses of the strange spectacle. The liody was wrapped in robes of princely dignity worn in life, with the pearls and other ornaments so much loved in the semi harlmric East The attendants threw upon the burning mass camphor aud other gums, going through a variety of rites preset ilx-d in the system of Budilha for similnr dism d occasion*. The ashes were gathered up in due form, and in closed and sealed, to bo sent to the native country of the deceased. The Floren tines came back, half-chilled with cold and horror, content that their wierd cu riosity had once more found something to feed upon ; and the newspaper writers have exhausted themselves upon their new theme. Gold Jewelry. The most useful sets of jewelry are those made entirely of gold. Those can lie worn on all occasions, both for day and evening. The pale yellow gold known as Roman and Etruscan, the red gold with copper alloy, and the picked gold, a bright yellow with frost-like dec orations, are used for these sets. The designs are artistic and beautiful, and and most varied. Long pendsnta are the most becoming ear-rings for ronnd faces ; hoops and bolls for slender faces. From $35 to 812 ft is the range of prices for gold sets. A brooch and ear-rings of hoo]is, with a gold knob in the centre aud many pendants, is marked 866. The pierced or perforated gold, of reddish east, is exceedingly pretty for brunettes. An elegant set, with quivering pendants that is impossible to keep still, is mark ed 390. The design is pure Moorish. A set of Roman gold, without polish, is in the Egyptian style : price 897. Turquoise blue enamel on gold is the favorite enamel at present. The designs are similar to those of plain gold sets, but they are colored jtule bine. They are exceedingly becoming to blondes, and cost from 800 to 8125 for brooch and ear-rings. Coral and turquoises are much worn this season. The former in associated with diamonds, the latter with pearls. There is not, however, a marked partial ity for any special stone, as there was a year or two since for amethysts. J'lain gold sets ore preferred by ladles who can not alford variety in jewelry, and these are becoming to brunettes and blondes alike, are worn bath by the old and young, and with costumes of every- color. —Bazar. DETUTKNCT linx.—The item* of tlie Deficiency bill for the current year, us transmitted to U. 8. Appropriation Com mits* by Secretary Boutwdl, are as fol lows : State Department, $3,005 09 ; Treasury, $584.1118 70 ; Interior, 837*,- 160 ; War, $1,861,894 00 ; Navy, $1,884, 345 50 ; Department of Justine, $20,200; total, $3,850,803 38. FOUB HUNI>BEI< VOYIOEH. —Captain E. G. Lott, commanding the steamship Russia, has started on his four hundredth trip across the Atlantic. In of an event so interesting, a large party of the worthy oaptain's friends presented him with a purse of magnificent propor tions (between $3,000 and $4,000), and various other tributes of esteem. THE Apache Imlians are reported as committing outrages .in Arisona. A freight train was recently attacked by them, three persons killed, and a num 1 ber of oattle run " oft." Society at Washington. A Washington comipoidt an itmight into Society tliero, lie found interns ting : li is ounus to seo the stack of curd* ou the marble slab iu the eutraneo hull of tlie house of Mr*. ! Secretary Fish on a bright day iu the ' Height of the aeaaoQ. It i curious when I seen once or twice, but when this MOUii tuiu of pusU'LKMRD has IMWSI olaterv*) mivnv times, it cease* to bo curious and becomes appwlling. For, O, it means work t—tedious, and too often thankless j work. Kvury nurd is a bond, ahoso obli* got ions rest Ulsm the holder, and the time for the discharge of which is limited ; bv certain fixed laws of social etiquette. 1 From three to thirty ody for forcing such dutiea upon the wives of the officers of the government, hat custom decided the matter long ago. j Tlie wive* of the Secretaries have the wo.rst of it because they receive more calls than any other ladies. Itig Gnus for I'arU. " An Englishman" writes to the Lon don Sj>4rMor the following curious information : "It is within my own knowledge that guns have, for weeks | last, l>en lying in |>arks around Paris of inqpiuparaltly greater range and calibre than an v yet employed luring the present war. In the city of Frankfort-ou-the Maiu. I witnessed last Septemlier the arrival of a train ladcu with siege pieces : these gnus were on their way from Krupp's factory in Essen to the French capital ; and, as they call him in (jermiuiy 'King Krupp's' workmen had labelled the trucks with the following announce ment : 'We' (the guns) • are off to Paris, and well see to that little affair alone.' Two cannon lay side by side on the trucks, the latter being quite new and of sufficient strength to bear the enormous weight The guns were each some twenty feet iu length, with a liore of twelve inches ; all well rifled, and the conical shot thrown by them scaled, as an officer informed me, nlx>ut five hundred weight English. Such are the pieces witb which King William propose* to gain possession of the forts around Paris ; and when they ore brought into play resistance will not, in all probability last much longer than that of the Strasburg eitadaL" No guns so formidable as those here described, have ever yet l>een employed in actual warfare ; and even the two or three huge naval guns brought from Cherbourg to Paris liefore the siege are no match for them. A FRENCH RIOT. —The occupation of Suite by the Prussians caused a riot at Lyons. Meetings were held, at which the orators made frantic appeals to the multitmle. The tocsin was sounded; the National and Mobile Guards mus tered, and the Delegations assembled. A procession of women in mourning I tossed through the streets. The "Bad Republicans " gathered in large numbers before the Hotel de Villeand clamored for vengeance. Gen. Arnaud, com mander of the National Guards, refused them admission to the holL He was as sailed and his sword broken, and in self defence he discharged his revolver at his assailant The mob then overpowered him, and after a short trial -he was con demned to death and shot a few minutes after reoeivinghis sentence. The troops remained passive during the disorders. AT Mm: ABIULBIT and imineer offi cers have arrived from Berlin for the purpose of directing the armament and restoration of the forte on the Prussian system. A governor, commandant, police superintendent hare been appoint ed, and nil the arrangements seems to be designed for a permanency, whereas at Nancy and other places they are tempo rary. The explosion in the large outer fort of Pinppeville on the 21st is attribu ted to accident. A detatchment of the Seventh Westpludian Artillery was en gaged in exploding the large stores of French ratridges and powder when a J wirt of the powder suddenly took fire. The soldiers tried to ascend to the door of the casemate, but could not open it quickly enough, and, a portion of the casemate being blown up, seventy artil lerymen were killed or severely injured. A LBOAL PROCEEDING of great interest to secret societies was )>egun last week in the Circuit Court of Baltimore. This is a bill filed by a certain individual lo --longing to the order of Knights of Py thias, to enjoin certain others from form ing a new order of the same kind in the State of Maryland. This action grows out of n serious d'Uoulty which had agi tated the various grand lodges of the country, numltcring over 125,000 mem bers, caused originally by the passing of certain resolutions by the supreme lodge at its session in March lsat, which as sunied that a certain rival order, which was then being established, was hostile, and l ulling upon all members thereof to renounce their obligations and return to the order. This not being complied with, the above remedy is sought to be obtained. A PJUEOOCIOU/B YOUTH at Bridgeport lately robbed lfis father, aud being in different to parental authority, was hand ed over to the law. He was not punished or sent to the Reformatory, but fined for the benefit .of the Commonwealth, and, the fatherVho had beep robbed as com pelled to pay the fine. The boy will never venture upon a second offense af ter having putioe dealt out in this stern fashion. What he Knows About Apple*. Horace Greeley say* that apples should liavc been and should be, from last August to next May, an common as bread or {Nitatooa, aud tfiookt have been and bo as freely oaten iu every house hold and every fireside. How nearly hare we realised this ? I will not Kae* how many mUlions of Lutih' ld have rett l under tne trees tliat bore them, lw>< eats* bv animals to lit tle or no profit, or turned into eider that did not sol) for as much as it cost, count ing the apple* of co value. Living im medftii.-ly on a railroad that runs into New York, wherefrom my plane is 35 miles distant, I should be able to do better with apples thau most grower* ; and yet I judge that half my apples were of no use to me. Many of them sold in this city for fil per Inure I, includ ing the cask, which had cost me 40 cents; and when you have added the cost of transportation, you can guess that I had no surplus, after |laying men $1.60 per dav for picking and baireliug them. I sold all 1 could to vinegar makers at 50 cents IXT bushel fr cider apples—the cask* licing returned. But tlu-y ouuld ncrt take all I wished to sell them, there being so many seller* presvimr to get rid of their windfalls before they rotted on their hands that even this market wss glutted. That it WHS much worse for a dozen miles from a railroad and a hundred from the nearest city, none can doubt I have heard that, in parts of (xmnecthJut, cider was sold for 50 cents per barrel to whoever would furnish casks, and that their size was hardly considered. Manifestly, this left noth ing for the apple*. Nor arc apples singular in this respect I would like to grow a thonaand bushel* of English (round) and French or Hwede Turnips per annum if I could be sure of getting R1 per barrel for them delivered at the railroad. If tlie poor of New York city could buy such turnips throughout their seaaon by the half-peck at the rate of $2 per barrel, I belh .c they would buy ami eat more than they do. But they are luuully asked 35 rent* per half peck, which ia at the rat* of $5 per barrel; and at this rate they hold them too dear for every-day use. So the tur nijis are not grown, or the cattle are in vited to clear thein off before they rot and become worthless and a nuissnoe. Quite often, a green youth undertakes to get rich by fanning near some great citv. Ho lias heard ami believe* that cabbagua bring •rotn $5 to 98 and even $lO per hundred, squashes from $lO to $35 per hundred, watermellon* from S2O to SSO, and so on. He has made his 1 calculation* on this basis, and aangninely expects to make money rapidly. But bis products, iu the first" place, fall abort ; of his estimates ; they arc not ready for market as soon as he Apected they would lie ; and. when at length they aie \ ready, everv one else seems to have rushed in ahead of hini. The market is glutted; no one seem* to want his " truck " At any figure ; he aell* it for a song, nud quits farming, disgusts ami hank nipt. May he, his stuff would have sold much better next track or the week after ; but he could not afford to bring I it to market and take it liack day after day, on the chance that the demand for it would improve by-aud-by. I judge that more young men have on this ac count turned their backs on fanning, after a brief trial, than on any other. They might hare born np against the shortness of their crops, hoping for bet | u*r luck next time ; but the necessity of , Helling them for a price that would not liave reimbursed their coat, bail they been ever so luxuriaut, uttedj disheart en* and alienates them. A Story of Tom Corn In. " " I heonl a good thuigof the late (iov ernor Corwin. It seems that wltile this gentlemnn was in the Senate he sat at dinner one afternoon entertaining the mess wit!) am (Ming stories and witticisms, such as Corwin only could throw out, when the servant, a new hand at the business, announced a visitor in the par lor desirous of an interview with the Senator. Corwin paid no attention to the man at first, but, after a time, irri tated by the eontilined interruption, said, i impatiently, •0, tell him to go to " Corwin coutinned his dinner, and at the end, suddenly recollecting the via tor, hurried to the parlor and found no one there. He rang for the servant, unl , when the man appeared, said : "John, did you tell me there was ; some ene here ? 1 " Tea, sah,' responded Johu. i " Why didn't he wv.lt •" i " Wall, sah. I took him your message." " What mi-ssage ?" naked tke aston ished senator. "Why. sah, I told him dat you said he should go to , and he went" Cor win's indignation at the stupidity of the , servant wae only equalled by hia anxiety j leas the person instated should prove to f be a constituent, or ]>erhap a brother senator. He heard nothing, however. , for two weeks, when he was called npou by an old friend who belonged to the ministry, looking after the eharitioa did welfare of other people. The Reverend gentleman, when he saw Mr. Corwin, i burst into tears. The political humorist thinking that some of their nnmerous relatives had departed this life, hastened to ask the meaning of the sudden grief. "Ah, Governor Corwin," responded the poor man. "I thought never to call upon you again. The last time I waa hers you sent word oat to tne to go to— ,to go to— !" j " illess my soul ! v cried Corwin, " wns I tliat you ? lam SJ lad. I feared it was one of my constituents, and mv oanstitu | euta are such tarnal fools, while you are j too sensible to mind such an' abeurd message. Here, let me givo you ten I dollars fyr the ready relief of agod cler i gynien.' Fhmch I'aiSflSKiiß—The eight thon ! sand five hund-d French prisoners at Ulm, according to an article in the Xorti 1 Oermrm (latriie, are on the whole harm- I less ami contented. About a quarter of them are daily employed. } tartly on the j fortifiewtious, partly by private per* >ns ; but most of them show Do inclination to earn money in this way, though in fa t vorable weather the cooking, cleansing. 1 ( Ac., leave hardly any idle. Many show j . great cleanliness in their persons, aud take great pains with their hair, espe cially the Tureos; but they pay less at* 1 tention to the cleanliness and ventilatiou of their rooms. Through the interven tion of the English government meas- i ures have been taken by which they re oeive their pay from the French govern ment, and lectures, newspapers, and other attentions have been provided for tlmin by benevolent societies. BEET SIHJAK IS CALIFOBNIA. The lect-root sugar factory recently estab lished in Alameda County, California, works up thirty-five tons of beets per day. The sugar is of extremely delicate HHVOK, pure white, and resembles a fine quality of A 1 granulated, us it comes from Eastern refineries. It readily sells | at 13J cents per pound by the 100 bar rels, and retails at six pounds for one dollar in our market. The net yield of sugar is 8 per oent., where, in France, they get but 7 per cent Two hundred beef cattle are fed pn the refuse, and there is no loss of material on any point. The ground suitable for the beet culture in California is unlimited. A baggage-master at Naugatijck was killed the other day while trying to mash a Boston man's trunk. Illats about Consumption. Whatever render* the blood impure tend* to originate ooonuinptfon. VI hut ever in*few the air impure make* the blood uupurw. It is the air ws breathe which purifies tlie blm*l. And as. if tlie water we use to wash our clashing is dirty, it is impoHdblc to wash tlie elctlies clean, so if the air we breathe is impure, it ia iuipuaaible for it to abetract the im purities from the blood. What tlien are aotne of the more pro minent things which rendar the air imuura * It is the nature of still water to beoome imjmre. It is the nature of ■til) sir to bocomc impure. Running water purifies itself. Air in motion, drafts of air, are self-purifier*. Thus it is that the air of a dime room becomes impure inevitably. Thus it is that close rooms bring consumption to aountlie* thousands. IL-nre all rooms should be so constructed as to have a constant drnft of air pawing through them. The neglect of it murders myriads. A man of ordinary use render* a hofpheed of air unfit for breathing, consumes its blood-purifving quality, every hour, so psrfrouy, that if a man ooald re-breathe a full breath of his own the next instant after iu expiration, without any inter mixture witn the outer air, be would be instantly suffocated. Hence sleeping in doe* rooms, even though alone, or sit ting for a short time in a crowded vehicle or among a large wswcmhly, ia perfectly corrupting to the blood. Close bedrooms make tlie graves of multitude* Among other eauaca of consumption are iasuffieirnt food or clothing, sleeping in basements, or sitting habitually in damp apartments. A dog will beoome consumptive in a few weeks if con fined in a damp oellar, especially if it b* a dark one. Hence the room which we occupy for the largest portion of each twuiity-four hours should be the lightest, dryest, most airv and cheerful in tne whole build- ing. As occasional causes of oonmmntive disease, there taay be menttcned all auppreasiona, tlie sudden driving in. of all crupteons, such as measles, totter, and the like, the sudden healing up of sores which have been running for a long time, without intelligent medical advice, in carrying off the drains of the system in onothor direction. Many uvea are thrown away by ignorant parsons, in applications to old sores; they are elated in the highest degree in having " cured np" an uli*r, which the " regular doctor*" haeo air ; and if properlv attemtel to in a timely manner, it will cure a large majority oi curable diseases, and wijl sometuues smxjecd when medi cines have lost their power. If you have actual consumption, or are merely threatened with it; or if, from some o/ TOUT relatives having died with it. yon have unpleasant apprehensions of ita lurking m vour own body ; or whether from a diseased liver or dis ordered, stoiuach, or a dyspeptic con dition df the system, the foundation* oi the dreadful disease are lieing laid in your own jierson ; or whether by ex j>o.*ure. by over bodily exertion or mental lal*w. or wasting* carea for the t reseat, or anxieties for the future, or by uggiag shurp-pointed memories of the (mat, >*r by intemperate living, in eating or drinking, or by unwise habits or praetors in life, you have originated in your own peraeu" the ordinarr precurstws of consumption, such AS hacking cough, pais* in the breast, chilliness, wasting of fie&h and strength, shortness of Vmwtii ou exercise—under *l' thee circum stances a proper attention to air and exercise are indispensable—aids are i amcng the jwiuoijwil, essential means of cure, and are never to be dispensed with; confinement to the regulated temperature ai a room, in the altitude, is certain death, if persevered in ; and if, from any cause, this air and exercise are not prnetiealde to you, except to a limited extent, it is your misfortune ; your not being *able to employ them does not make them the less necessary, and they < hare no substitute*. TUN CHUCKS*. — The records of the San Francisco Custom-house show that 1 in three years, from January 1, 1882, to January i. 18(35, 13,275 Chinese arrived at thai port, of whom 78 were women. Of the 12,197 Chinamen. 11,417 were laborers, 291 mechanics, 168 merchants, j 1 carpenters, 122 shoemakers, 97 gro cers, 65 miners, 85 tanners, 13 tailors, 4 travellers, 1 physician. 1 interpreter, and 374 whose occupation is unknown, in L 865 there were arrival* at tiiot port of 3.901; in 1866, 3,151 : in 1867, 3,815 ; iin 18IW. 14,882; and during the grst nine months of 1870, 4.586. From Jan uary 1, 1862, to September 1, 1870, 18,- 908 Chinese left San Francisco for China, On deducting departures from arrivals it will be found thai there are not over 21,000 in the country, it being borne in mind that nearly all 'come by the Pacific route, and land at Ban Francisco, I _ , 11 ■;y |f ♦ \ ■ WAGES at ArsTKU.— In BieUitx, a fac tory town, the average earnings of ine : ebonies are 82.50 per week —those of lac ] tory workers are leas. The price of but ter is 30 rente a pound, bread 4 cento a pound; meat 15 cents a pound. The weekly wages of a mechanic at BielKte, "highest— will buy 651 pounds of bread ; the highest wages of tne Vienna weaver will buy 75 pounds at the same C'oe. The agricultural laborer of Eng d who gets what is considered the highest wages—l2s, a week—can at the present time buy 96 pfunda of bread with his week's wages. The average condition of the Austrian mechanic is therefore below the average condition ol the English agricultural laborer; and the condition of the latter is generally taken as the ripe of low pay, misery, and wretchedness, aud who in his five sengea will dare to contradict it. BIUTTNH ten-drinkers have been alarm ed by a horrible suggestion that the offended Chineee may attempt to poison the whole British rare by means of tea. There seems little danger of such an event, since thereby the Celestials would lose their ltest customers, aud they are us foud of the "almighty dollar ' as other people. There is, however, little doubt that sundry article*, not tea leaves, tire sold under that name. Investiga tion has brought various adulterations to light—snoli as rice and pen basks, leaves of the Chinese willow, decayed wood, seeds, us well as iron filings, lampblack, and Prussian blue, which lat ter is actually poisonous, and is used to color black tea to make it sell for green. The Chinese do not want to kill their customers, but they are willing to de j ceive them. IN the United States House of the Forty-sp?ond Congress there will be one hundred and thirteen new members and one hundred apd eleven who are in the present Congr<%s, so far as the elections' have been heM. * A leaned physicist announces that this globe will support life for 26,0*00,- 000 years. TEBMS : Two Dolkn a Year, in Advance. Hone Instinct of AnJtnai*. The instinct which anabloa the car rier-pigeon to And bio way i* ate I m)uu"(-<1 by otbor aninml*. A writer in the Londou /Aoi/y Jfrv* My*: "A subject that boo !.?* hnl (- Wp in terflirt Tor natnmliate i* the power - oesNcil by bird* and animal* of finding their way back to a given *pot by a road j never before travelled by them. Toes* uppftarn to be no doubt that ProTidemx? lim b*towd an inotainW open them ! which we, who do not jm" it, aro ! hardly able to comprehend, Bird# of j istssage find their way by moan* of this unerring guide to the remotest region* of the earth, and seem to prefer ] t ravelling by night, ao the keeper* of j light-bouaea are well awatw, inasmuch ua ( they frequently fined ■woodetxk# and I other birao lying dead under the w- < I dowa, having Iwon killed by flying agaiitot tho thick jdate-glaaa, attached, | like moths, by the light "The same faculty ornate in various ' domestic animals, but ie not oo strongly < developed ao in birds A home belong- ( ing to a friend of mine was turned out in some marshm adjourning the Thames. I The distance in a straight line from his owner's hauae was lady a few miles, but he had to be sent a king way round to CTOM a bridge. In lem than terttity-* > four hours he made his appearance at ; the stable-door dripping wot, having swum the river and taken a straight line home. During the life of the celebrat ed sportsman, the late Mir JHehard Hut-; ton, a draught of young bounds waa sunt j up to London, by wagon, from the kennel near Lincoln, and there wit op board a I vessel to go abroad. While die ship was, dropping dowa the Thames one of them , jumped overboard, and swam ashore Home weeks after it made ite appearance > at the kennel half atarved and oovarsd with bitaa beatown upon it by ft more fortunate fellow*. * I " Some yean sine* a dog fox was ran i to ground. n that hatched them. I took them home and placed them, as I thought, safely in a pig pound. In the morni ug I found they were all gone, and T dis covered them snugiy huddled toiwtber at their old quarters, at the other <|pd of the village, in Hie neat in which were hatched. A laborer told me he' had met them in the street, homeward bound, at 4 o'clock a. m., aa he waa go- j ing to work. They had not been off toe premises where they were bred before," How He lost his tje. A correspondent relates the following story about M. Garubetta: "Hp haa loot an eye; they say so, at least, and cer tainly there is something queer about one of his eyaa; bat, however, this is the stair. When a boy, Oambetta was sent by his tether 'so a ouilepe, where be was to be educated. It would set m little Gambvtta had a strong dislike for that particular school, so he requested his lather to withdraw him from that school; his father, however, not barkening to his request, the hoy declared that ii be were not taken away by * certain day he would put out one of cis eyas. The te ther uia not for an instant believe the led capable of performing the throat, and did not give the matter a second thought However, a few days afterwards he re ceived a letter from* the principal of the school, informing him that the boy had put out one of his eyes. The father went to see his son, bat still retimed to take him home, upon which young Gam hetta declared that unless be did take him home he would put out the other eye. Upon this the tether thoasht it advisable to give in. Gambette's ad mirers cite this as an instance of the man'* precocious determination and firm ness of character : other*, however, can not see in it anything but an evidence of an undisciplined and unruly spirit, which has not improved since." ! " , 'M- t X The Honors of OBce. The New Orleans Ptcayum4t local editor relates the following touching incident: In the Potior Court an old veteran vagrant was arraigned for sleep ing in the Square. He had frequently t>een found hefxre in the same condition, and mnonstrQom seemed to hate no effect m inducing him to abandon the practice. The Court, therefore, deter mined to deal rigidly with him, and to this end inquired why be persisted it this course ? 'Because I have nowhere else to sleep." " Cent yoa come to the stationf "I don'tlflceta" '• Why?" Ifind too much bad company there. " Tou mean the prisoners?" "No air." ••Who them?" u 1 •• The other people who come there. They insuK me, "How?" "They want to make a policeman out of ue." ; import* and Exports. The monthly report of the Bureau of Statistics of the United States shows that, of the total amount of {imports for the nine months ending Sept, 80, 1870, $355,286,947 consisted of merchandise, and $18,008,048 of gold and silver. The dutiable merchandise amounted to 8809,- < 892,305, and free of duty $34,002,884. Entered for consumption, $218,722,371; entered for warehouse, $155,172,018. Of the total amount of exports, specific values, $2T1,458.458 was in merchandise, and $50,613,768 in gold and dlvr Of the total amount of merchandise, $262,- 483,231 was exported from Atlantic ports, and $8,976,227 from Pacific porta Of the total amount of foreign exports, $12,640,044 was merchandise, and $lO,- 503,994 was gold and silver. The total valuation of foreign commodities re maining in warehouse on Sept. 30, 1870, was 851,061,972, against $56,250,290 in 1869. t California Wheat Crop. The statement that the whaxt crop of California in 1871 will fall short of what it was in 1870, is answered by the San Francisco Bulletin as follows: "Wr learn that 300,000 acres of land not heretofore sown in wheat, is in whrot this year, on the west bank of the San Joaquin. With an average crop of twenty sacks to the acre, which is not an extravagant esti mate for new lands in that valley, if the season is moist enongh, the yield of this virgin soil will be 6,000,069 sacks. At $2 per sack, the present price, this would realise $12,000,000 —more than the whole value of the exported crop of last year. VIBGIHIA'S oyster mines are wealthier thfjrt the silver ledges of Nevada. One Norfolk firm employs 1,500 hands to " shuck " the'oyaters. jjr-; *fj % ' '$tSM fatf tSiJPf. "* | The Way to Wall. Am I IrAffirWld tidfWl* A teAranf tiath f WnwdtS , lb keep tram bstaf suriy. ' Don t ham, sad strtda, and qoum down hasd. ! Upon the rolling pchhkra, ■ But Ugfctlv step ; I that'* tha way To charm iUr bods of rebols .. | Don't hurry, and stride, and oouw dowa hard. | Even on trwWhiearuaa peooie j But sorry your fset, and treat an air, I As though you Hvtd la a steeple. j Tburs are rolling stones in 107 I And rocks wiw ioggad adgaa, Whito, if w* gsauv touch mar tun . To flowsrs and tondiag sedge*. Wit and WMom. , Wiscoxact has caught a mow-white , squirrel , r , >• , In Detroit fashionable young men | wear caring*. A Chicago saloon bean the modest name of "1 xmb's Best" Mrs. E. Tapper Wilkes is a Minnesota preacher whe gets 92,000 salary. Western adaptation of the word* of I the poet: Loath* to* poor Indian. The last password of the Good Temp , Ism of lowa wo* " Not for Joseph." Friday is the most fashionable for tu oeptom day : ThnraWy is note in favor. L 11* a nqtic-able fact that people.woh i ctrnqg* their mind often new get a good i one. ! " What is a smile V asked a tnan of * little glrL "The wtrieper of • laugV said olw. -ff j Three worked twenty hour* 1 on a county safe in Wisconsin, and just f got a cunt apiece. Th'-v recently hud a rat hunt la a Fair- Held Co., (O.) town. About 810 people killed, in the hunt, 17,961 rate. An Alabama Judge, who wea too drank to sit upo the bench, wa# put in jail by toe Sheriff for eontenf it of court. An elderly Indiana pair, agadwespoct tively 7b and 71, wa.it a divorce on ac count of accumulated tnooapsHbility. IV Chinese relieve neurat|i* and gout by applying oil of peperatoit over , toe part aJLetod, with a camel's hair |* | irf" 1 A Hi'ifOKT of tobacco is announced toll pree j, illnetrated wito fine curia. Tanchoir sang ' Com# Ye IHaconso- M * reeetrt wdtling at Lxfayette. I Indian*. IT ie mid that the painting of toe akin of th comer of the eye blue, and shad ing it off gradually towards the ear, will give a meet languishing expression NO. 2. , to tlio armatmAoec. TB VIJI of jciety tie carton*. Two todies who reside near each other is York, hav exchanged calls and > wralaikMvi for tiw last MX .rears, and , yet hare never met personally. There is mneh food fur reflection in 1 the following questions and answers : " Who Into a woman when she is down ?" |• Why, another woman." " Who keep* Iter down f* Why, another woman." "Howean 1 expand my chest?" an • ertortsonate man naked of'a physician, i" By carrying a good largo heart in it." reposl the doctor." !TV German* hare no set funeral aer ftee. It ia left to the ability and diacre i ttou of the ofikaatiug clergyman to im j pro viae one suitable to each case. On an average about one man in every 1 four was ittoreorlas* under the mfineneo •>f liquor in New York on Christmas night, if w# may believe a ty paper. An nomicalldy says that, in these hard tune*, it would be well to remem ber that a good silk ought to be like a worm when trodden a pun—it will turn. A young gentleman in New York the ether day shocked society on! of its pro priety by daring to get married fit church in a iigbt overcoat What are wo com ing to? A correspondent in Paris writes : ' '' People are continually exchanging re eipea for delicious dishes, in which eggs, butter, salt, and meat, ars replaced by water." A Portland paper assert* thai a man recently walked into the cfifoe of the LMXX * 'Admc te, in that pleasant little Maine city, and inquired if Mr. Zion jwetoin. It *> "ettmatod that Pari*, at the be ginning of the siege, contained mom than 20,000,000 rata! This number is rapidly decreasing by tluir general nes aa food. i A t'laasiMgar on tiie Pacific Railroad put bis five hundred dollars in his boot for safety, and now he is inquiring 1 mound if the porter who blacka boots on i the (Tsui is honest A Western paper, which one day re cently noticed the opening of a new ! whiskey afore, the next day apologised j for the brevity of Ha local coltuuu, be- * cause "the reporter was ill" He had assisted at the opening. An editor is bothering hi* head over the folkwing problem : If 4 dogs with , 10 legs can catch SO rabbits with 27, in 14 minutes, how many legs most the same rabbits have to get away from 8 dogs, with 32 legs, in 17 minutes and a half—allowing 3t days in the year. The inhabitant* of Florence, Italy, ! have been surprised by Hie appearance of an American circus company, and their astonishment culminated when they ' saw one of its members drive twenty six horses through the streets, turning abrupt angle* into ancient, narrow pas sages with apparent ease. A ladv who was acting a* gratuitous amanuensis in writing a letter for a lady friend last week, had Hie impudence to throw the letter in the fire whan nearly I finished, for the simple reason that the I lady for whom she us writing modestly requested her to close the letter by say -1 ing, "Pleaee excuse bed spelling and writing. J A real smart man wanted to see how they made wood pavement in Williams port, IV, ao when the workmen were ! not looking he dipped up a little of the j ohkside of idar in which the blocks were . dipped, and put it into his mouth. The ' doctors have taken his measure for an | artificial month, and he has lost all in terest in wood pavements. During a- marriage ceremony in a church in Indianapolis, one evening last weds, the gi>s suddenly went out, lead ing all the interested persons standing in dismal darkness. Candles were proenr xed, mid the ceremony was completed despite the whispered croaking* of a few spectators, who predicted ail sort* of direful evils to follow the bad omen. A man stopped at a hotel at Pike'* Pftak, and on settling hi* bill the land lord charged him 87 a day for five days, " Didn't you make a mistake ?" said tha guest "No," said the landlord. "You did,*' retorted the wiry-looking fellow; "you thought you got all the money I had, but you are mistaken. I have a whole purse full in another pocket" A man living near Sioux City is enti tled to the championship for absence of mind. A few days since, he rode into town, attended to his business, and walked home. Next morning he went out to feed hi* horses, found they were not In the stable, and started for the city post haste for the marshal to detect and arrest the thief. The marshal took him to a livery stable and showed him a team that had been t#kn up at midnight the night before, and he identified them aa THE PRUSSIA* ABUT.— According to a London despatch the total effective force of the Genu an armies now in France is set down in round numbers at 600,000, half of which is now before Paris. In addition to this number 100,- 000 men are reported on the sfok list. It is estimated that 300,000 Germans have been killed or disabled since the beginning of the war. Garrison duty in Prussia is to be entrusted to volunteers who, by reason of being under or ow age, or' of having served their terms, r not liable to military service. THE FISHERIES. --A special dr from Ottawa to the Montreal B&vs : " I Understand that higl factory dispatches have been from Enghmd relative to' tb assumed by the Canadian C in reference to the fishery c * ..... .. t