44 Men Brave." Brave one, who nobly fell, I trinmph while t grieve. And love your honor far too well To wish that you might live. It i# because 1 love With love that's limitless, Mv thoughts can pais. themselves aixtve Love's common selfishness Just, Iwave, and good, and true, Pure heart, of spotless name, I try to be as just as von. And grudge yon noi your fame And grief must not appear To sully with sad fires tli— Dear heart but it is bant to bear ! The glory of thy death. Yet if our host must die. What is there left to savs * Whv should the weak have victory, The strong ones but a grave ? Rut from their graves they speak " This is our victory,— Thvt we go dx r, Wh. n want with winter comes ; The loaf is never all your own, Then scatter out your cnuufis. Bo=ui winter fall* upon your hfr ; The day of reekoutagt comes, Against your sirs, by lugh decree. Are weighed those scattered crumb*. Jim BIUJMI, tor tax rtLvtitit uuz. Wall, no ! 1 can't tell whar he lives. Because he don A hve, yo.i see; Leasts av n he's got out of the halul Of Imu' like vou aud me. Whar have vou been Aw the last Ihiee year That you haven A heard folks tell How Jimmy Udtdso ja*a.d in hi# checks. The bight of the 1 Amine B*Us * He wercuA no saint—th. m engiuivrs Is all pretty much alike— One wifc in N'stclu i-under-the-Hill And another onr here, in Pike. A kee.ri.ws man in his talk was Jim, And an awkward man in a rv But be a. v. r fiunkod and he never be,!, 1 reckon he never knotted how. And this was all the religion he had— TO treat his engine well; Never he passed on the nver ; To mtnd the pilot's bell; And if ever the l'rairie Bell look lire - A thousand times he swore. He'd hold her nozzle agin the bank Ti l the last soul got aahotv. All boats has their .lay on the Mbaisxip. And hex .lay come at last— The Mow-tar was a better host. But the Belle site wouldn't l>s passed. And so die come tear.ii' along that night— The eldest craft on the hue. With a nigger ivjuat unber safety ralve And her turuace crammed, rosin and pine. The tire bust out as she claml the bar, ' And burnt a hole in the night. And quick as a flash she turned and made Tor that wider-hank on the right. There was running and cursing, but Jim yelled out. Over U the infernal roar, " Til hold hi r nozzle agin the bank Till the last galoot's ashore." Through the hot, black breath of the burning Lzt. Jim Biodso'a voice was hrwr.t. And they all had trust in his cus®edne-s. And kiiowvd be would keep his word. And son 's you're born, they all got off Afore the" smokestacks fell— And Bludso's ghost went up alone In the sstoke of the Prairie Belle. He werenA no saint—but at judgment Td run mv chance with Jim, T ncside > r xnie pious gvntleman That wouldn't shake hands with him. He a run his duty, a dead sure thing— And went for it thar and then : And Christ air.t a coin' to be too hard On a man that died for men. WHY HE MARRIED. " And don t you know when you will jjass through this part of the country again. 44 No I don't." said the old bachelor, de cidedly. He was something of a bear to answer so crustily when Babara Smith stood in the doorway, with the shadowy lashes drooping over the soft brown eyes] and the roses melting into deep carmine on her rosy cheeks, until her muslin dress was plain in comparison. Such a pretty, big eyed, loving little Barbara as she wa<, in all the blonde freshness of her eighteen summers, and the soft sigh that fluttered from her lips as the one-horse carriage drove away, was checked instantly. Bar bara bad no idea of becoming a victim to unrequited lore, though she had rather lanned Mr. Yerley during hi* brief aerjuni at her lather's house. Mr. Verley drove a war through the rustling green draperies of the summer lanes, whistling sadly as he drove. *• I. shall be in very good time for the I±3o tnun, r ' he meditated to himself. *' Punctuality is the soul of business, and 1 never was one of the behind-hard tribe, thank Providence. Besides, 1 think it was becoming dangerous to remain in that place any longer. I am thirty-nine to morrow. and that k just twenty y cars too old lor me to eo making a fooi of mrself. Fancy me getting married ! No you don't. Joseph Verier, my friend.' 1 As be settled himself comfortably in the crowded railroad car, and opened a letter, the subject again occurred to his mind with carious pcrsktancc. ''The letter of my poor brother's exou tor came just IU time, or I should certainly hare fooled away more time than would bare been sensible or profitable. Poor dear Harold; I don't see what cn earth possessed him to fell sick and die on his way home from Venice ami leave his daughter on my hands too. Why could he not have left a son instead of a daugh ter? 1 never did understand a woman's ways, and what's more, 1 don't want too. 1 am to meet her at Spccdville. and take her home with uie. "OH" groaned Mr. Verier, referring despairingly to his letter. '• And what I'm going to do "with her when I get there, I'd like to know! fsappose she's a great creature, with ringlets and riblwns, and just as lik-ly as not an Italian lover talking sentiment to her—a creature that reads Byron, and keeps an album, and eats slate-pencils ami chalk. I'll semi her to a boarding school, that's what I'll do with my niece—and perhaps when she has graduated there the schoolmaster can suggest some means of getting rid of her. Of course she'll have a dozen large trunks, and a bonnet box and a parrot's cage— that's the way women generally travel, I believe. I am glad lam out of the way of Barbara's fascinations now." Mr. Vcrlry looked out of tbc car win dow, in a sort of calm desperation at the prospect before him. *' 1 suppose she'll want a piano, and may be a poodle dog, and there's no knowing what ejse. I don't see why Harold want ed to die and Jeare hts daughter to my can* just now. SpeedTille station—twentv seven miles further. I wish it was twenty-seven hundred miles—that's what 1 wish." _And with this vindictive sentiment in his mind, our hero tied a red silk handker chief over his head, and tried to lose him self in a series of brief| troubled dreams, wherein the vision of a tall, nice young lady figured conspicuously*. "Are we here already 7" he stammered, starting to bis feet, as the conductor bawled out "Speedville Station," and seizing umbrella, valise and traveling shawl, with the bustling bewilderment peculiar to people just aroused from sleep, ce alighted. Speedville was rather a large-sized vil lage. situated at the junction of several railways, yvith an imposing American Gothic structure for adept. Into this building Mr. Verley walked, looking right and left for the young laffy whose guardian ship he was to assume. tt of course," he responded mentally, "she'll be on the lookout for mc; women are proverbially curious." But Harold Verley's daughter was not on the lookout for her uncle. When the crowd incident to the evening train had subsided and the people had gone their different ways, the only remaining occu pants of the depot were Mr. Verley, a lame old man who sold peanuts and apples, and a decent looking colored woman, yvith a brilliant Madras turban on her head, yvho took care of the building. Neither of these could be his niece, so Mr. Verley, after a little perplexed hesitation, addressed him self to the colored woman, who was busily polishing the window with • piece of crumbled newspaper. * FRED, KURTZ, Editor aud Proprietor, VOL. IV. "Ahem! I ivu to meet my nio-e here U'-ir } what is her uaun? f" " Verlejr." "O yes ir: she has W--n liere these two hoars, ties# her dear heart ; she asleep uow." 44 Asleep!" gasped Mr. Ved#y; but the ttetvinhw only au->wervtl hint to hu-iliiu: :nto theiuner apartment and bringing out w hat appeared to be a eompact bumUe, w ih a |>inh face at one end of it. and a ma .* ot long trailing embroideries at cV other. Josenlt \ crtoy rveoikd as far a> the an gle of the wall would permit him. •Win iC>r. hafcfP* "To \>e sure it is, sir," said the woman "and as tine a little girl as ever I saw ; hies- her sweet blue eyes," " But isn't there a nurse or some uoh |et>on here, who would take charge of her C " There was a uur-e brought her on, sir, a queer foreign-looking thing, with a yel low skin and hair as black as night, and big gold hoops in her cars ; but hc talked something about the tie\t steamer— I couldn't understand her lingo, sir—and went right hack to New York on the two o'clock train." Jiwcph \ erley st<>od aghast, staring at the rosy lahy as it lay crowing in the wo man's arm-, and wondering winch of Lis lucky stars he should call on to aid him in this unfookcl-for emergency. A full-grown young lady uteoe would have been bail enough—but a baby ! "So this is my niece," be muttered. " And w hat am 1 going to do with her ?" He turned suddenly to the colored woman. •' \V hat time does the neat train for \V infield leave ?" " lit an hour, air." " Would you be kind enough to take care of the child till then ? I suppose I must take it home with me; for 1 can't very well drown it, or throw it under the car wheels." " Sir 1" ejaculated the astonished stew - ardewa. But Mr Verley turned on his heel and strode out of the depot, scarcely able at first to comprehend the disaster that bad befallen him. The train was at the depot when he re turned, and the woman await-d him with the sleeping infant in her arms. •• A-leep, eh '" commented Mr. Verlry. " Well that's luck v." " Where's the nurse, sir P inquired the woman. *• The nurse 1 What nurse P " Why, I suppose you want to get a nurse!" "Never once thought of it!" ejaculated Joseph madly smiting hi* forehead. "Here —give the thing to me quick, the train is moving." He had hardly time to spring or board, as the locomotive gave an unearthly shriek while the bahv followed suit in Loth re spects. He staggered to his seat, holding the umbrella and child in owe hand, while in the other his valise swung backward and forward. " There! there! bless its little heart ? he exclaimed, imitating the colored woman " We won't crv—so we won't."' But the baLv evidently had an opinion of its own on the subject, and would cry in spite of the various blandishments prac tice*! by the bewildered uncle—such a* shaking the umbrella handle, swiuging his watch, and trotting both knee*. People began to look around, reproach fully ; young men shrugged their shoulders, and young ladies giggled. " Hu>h ! hush! there's a darling!" whis pered Mr. Verier. But still the baby wept and wailed, and gnashed its gnm, for of teeth it had but two. Mr. Vcrley began to look round in the car in search of some matronly dame of whom he could seek counsel, hut in vain. They were only three ladie* in the car. and they were young, with ivuud hats and dimpled cheeks. "They dou't know any thing aliout it," groaned Mr. Verier, in anguish of spirit. " Oh, why didn t 1 have common *en-e enough to go and get a nurse ? I suppose there is no danger of a baby bursting it* lungs; but I should think if there was such a contingency, thr* baby was in a fair way of meeting it. Well, roar away, my voung friend; 1 can stand it as long as you can." Vain boast, as futile as vain, as Mr. Verley very soon discovered. The baby not only cried, but it screamed, it kicked, it doubled itsel'over in more ways than a contortionist's wildest dreams could imag ine, and became apparently frantic with passion. The perspiration broke out in huge beads on Joseph's bsow; his face flushed, and still the cars thundered on. "What's to become of me?" he puni er* d, holding desperately on to the strug gling infant by the sasb'that encircled its little waist, and watching its purple fere with a species of detestation. '• I don't wonder Harold died. I shall die in a week if this thing goes on. And it seems so easy for Barbara Smith to take eare of her little brothers and si.-tens. If Barbara was here—" And Verley pulled the baby up into a sitting posture with a sudden jerk. " I'll do if," quoth Mr. Verley, " I'll take the hack express at four in the morn ing and go straight there. Ah you may stop crying, you little hypocrite; but it won't do any good; I'm "not to lie caught twice in the same trap." Barbara Smith was watering her tube roses in the bright morning sunshine, with the valise and baby in the carriage. "Dear me, Mr. Vcrley," she ejaculated, blushing 'celestial rosy red." " Why, what a sweet baby." "Yes, very sweet," he responded dryly. "It is my niece that I was to meet at Speed ville." ** W'hy, I thought that she was a young lady 7" "So did I; but it seems she's not. Bar bara, what d you suppose brought me liack 7" lie added, speaking very fast for fear the baby would cry. '• I dou't know," faltered Barbara, crim soning still more. " Perhaps you forget something." " Yes, I did." '•What was it 7" said Barbira, a little disappointed. '• I forgot to ask you tf you would marry me!" " Dear me! was that all 7" said the young lady demurely. " Isn't that enough 7 Say, Barbara, will you 7" " I'll think of it," answered Barbara, eva sively. " No, but tell me now. Quick —the baby's waking up." '* Well then—yes." Barbara had taken the little thing in her amis, and disappeared before it had time to utter its waking yell. A week afterward Mr. Joseph Verley took the 12:30 return train with his wife and niece, the happiest of reclaimed old bachelors, and it was all the unconscious baby's work. IN ORDER to improve the food supply the New England papers are urging "a better and more provident system of fanning all through the East. They are also arguing against the transportation of cattle in bulk, declaring that the bone and offal should be left at the West, as the expense connected with them is a charge opon the meat we consume. A scoffer, residing in Hartford, Ct., who has been contending that he could not learn from the most careful reading of the papers what good the scientific party on Mount Washington is doing, was dumbfounded, when he learned by the daily report that they had discover ed " a snow-flake of a heretofore nnde soribedform." A CENTRE HALL REPORTER. My Wire. 1 have not found her, but I know That aomew here on Utv fruit fid earth, The stars of love and Joy have sung Their welcome to her happy Urth. I have uoi found her, yd 1 kuow How, year by year, the gentle days Have lest her up, through light and U*U., The lovely heights of woman ways. 1 dream her eyes are softly dark ; ltut whether dark or heavenly blue, 1 kuow the light wtthtu theiu is My life's North star, so bright and true ! 1 dream her mouth is sweetly proud, Reticent since it wait# for me ; And "round her brow her bmwu hair lies In perfumed wavelet#, light and free. Of voice and baud, and lightsome step, The blissful kisses of her mouth, I dream, as one who, (iator-UiBM, Dream# of (he ever ra.haut South 1 have not fouud her, yet 1 shall Though Tate Nsoi coldly to defcr, She is my owu. Aud I w ill keep My Hfo all pure and true for her. Mioxostrrr. An Australian Hush Story. Soon after mv arrival tu Australia, 1 obtanusl, tlirvtugh the influence of soutc friends in Melbourne, a la rtli in the mounted police. The sen ice there differs very much from wltat it is in other countries, nearly all the members of the corjui being well-educated gentlemen, tuany the younger scions of noble boiiaea, who like the adventurous life they lead 1 was stationed up country near iktllurut, and the chief duty upon which that branch of the force was engaged was protecting the squatters from the depre dations of bushrangers. A rough ami often hlood-thir#ty lot these fellows are. The lender of one of the most jtowerftt! gangs was named Morgan, a wild and dasperate fellow, wh >se very name wua a terror to peaceable settlors. t)ne Spring—Spring there, by the way. is about October—we received in format ton at headquarter* that the mail l>ar hemling our party was Hurry Holler, the second son of an English Baronet, a frank, genial, open-hearted fellow, brave as a liou. It was Sunday evening when we arrived at a little store kept as a sort of holf-tvav house, for journeying dig gers, and there we concluded to atop for the night We picketed our horses HI. a kraal outside, made a hearty su]i|ier. rolled ourselves up in our opossum rugs, and. wearied by our long ride, sank quietly to sleep. In the middle of the night I was aroused by a little aborgine, who had craw led in on his stomach ami a.traet.nl my attention by gently squeez ing my nose. "Lags here!" he whis pered softly, as I raised my head in astonishment. I listened attentively for a moment, and then heard a horse whinny outside, and shortly afterwards a tramp ling of horses. Rolling over and over, I aoon gained Boiler's tide, awoke him and put my finger on his lip as a caution to him to be silent. "The gang are outside, and are probably stealing our horses," I said in a hushed voice. He sprang to his feet and commenced softly arousing our comrades, " Look to your pistols, boyw, aud come out the front way. Half of ua go to the right, half to the left, meet in the rear, and I guess we will capture the scoundrels," he ordered, -peaking rapidly, but iu a low tone. Our party separated as instructed, I fol lowing liuller round to the right, our short carbines cocked, and the revolvers in onr belts ready for immediate use. As we turned the last gable of the build ing we came sttddeulv upon a large Itodv of men, many of whom were monut.il. while the rest were bnailv occupied nntethering our horses. " Stand, in the Queen's name, or we fire!" shouted Buller, leaping boldly to the front, and bringing the muzzle of his pi.-ee to bear ui>oii a swarthy, rough-headed man. who was evidently the lender. Scarcely were the words uttered when a flash came from another direction, and Htiller fell dead nt my feet with a ball through his brain. Quick me n ! The Cm flics ore clown an us, yelled a voice in savage fury, and a heavy volley followed his words. A bullet pierced my shoulder and I fell, but w.iile on the ground I drew mv revolver and fired at the leader, ft is horse swerved jnst nt that moment, and received the hall aimed at his rider. Cursing with rage, the man strove to free himself from his fallen steed, and I became aware of n sharp conflict Vung maintained by my comrade? and the band of desperadoes, but I I was unable to rise, and shortly fainted from loss of blood. When con sciousness returned, I found myself lying on my liack securely bound, the rest of our party iu the same predicament, and our rough foes mounting guard over us. " So you've come to, blast ve ! have ver? Well, I'm glad yer ain't dead vet, for I owe yer one for my liorse," said Morgan —I easily recognized him in the flicker ing glare of the fire they had lighted— giving me a brutal kick. * They iiHMnted us to rise, blind-folded our eyes with bundnges, and led us along by "the sides of their horses. " Yer thought to trap us, did yer ?" said Morgan with an oath. " I guess the boot's on t'other leg. Yer ain't got long to live ; so spit out yer prayera if yer know any. Say mates, the poor wretches may want to soy u prayer or two before they kick off. lad's hang them over this precipice ; not by their neck though. We'll fix the thing after a new fashion. Knot the end of each rone, and put it into their hands. When they are tired of holding on they can just let go, and hurry off to kingdom come of their own accord." This proposition met with unanimous assent, and the fiends ehuekh d as they hitched the ropes to the end of a fallen tree that hung partly over the chasm. Wa were blind-folded, and I could only conjecture their movements by their con versation. Then they unbound my arms, fdaeed the knotted ends of a rope in my Kinds, lowered mc slowly over the brink, and let me swing over in mid air. They followed the mime course with six com panions, and then rode off laughing. Never shall 1 forget tlio agony of the time when hope seemed forever fled 1 It was highly improbable that assistance could arrive in time to save us, for it is not possible to liang for any length of time with the whole weight of one's body solely upon the hands. All my piwt life coursed vividly through my mind every little long-forgotten episode of boy-hood came fresh into my recol lection. I thought of home, of friends —ay, of the old fellow, whom you know is very dear to me ! and I pray etf earnestly for salvation in the nigh-drawing eterni ty. Still I held on. The tenacity with which a man. when in awful peril, clings to life, is marvellous, and now or at any other time, I do not believe I could sus tain my weight for half so long as I did then. I thought of the yawning chasm beneath me, in fancy saw cruel rocks hundreds of feet Ixdow which would re ceive my mangled carcass. At last the agony of suspense proved too much for my nerves ; I felt my fingers relaxing their bold, and, as ths knot slipped from •my grasp, I became insensible. "Bravo! CENTRE HALL. CENTRE CO.. I'A., FRIDAY. FEBRUARY I*7l. not d.-a.l yet. Chat lie !" My senses re turned once inure ; and <>|K-iimg inv oye> 1 auw the stain art form of Will Hunter#, who had shared a similar fute to mute, I lending over me, a* he ajirmkled my face with ioe-001.1 miter It was brnad day-light. The sun hud risen in all las glorious majesty, un.l levelled his streaming rays full ujtou ua. Alt our mimlver were standing round, save one, and he lay stiff oil the grass, a eorpae. Morgan and his band fearing t.i taii-e the whole country against themselves bv the wholesale butchery of #. muuy of the Queen 'a officers ha 1 hung as over u muff ulsntt ten feet high, so that while suspended, at no time had our feet been more than a yard from the ground, hut they had rightly coiij.vturcd that we should hung on us long us our strength permitted, and so give theiu ample time to escape. The horrors of the situation had lieen too mueh for Morris —, he wits but a youngster, and sheer fright had killed him. We returned to the store-keeper's, un.l, after interring jioor Duller atnl Morris in a grove of wattles, started for Itallarat On arriving there 1 at one.- tendered my resignation, for my nerves hod received such u shock thut I felt myself totally in capacitated for dutv. IIOM (
resent there is no good reason for anticijMting that that position can lc maintained. The quarts lodes, when furring their egress, often dnuurl*l. fissured, and rent asunder the enclosing odii*t*, the opening* noeflWt-ed Wing instantly filled by the quartz stone, and thus giving rise to those capricious, irregular, or zig-zag shapes vulgurl v termed " Eut and West veins." lint t here ara other than thece*- mie and geological conditions mentioned which prevailed at the time of the forma tion of the quartz lodes, and they also in dicate the Plutonic character of this dyke formation. Under this h-ul is to be reckoned the occuraiicc of felspar in quartz veins, for it is on established scientific truth that mica, felspar, and umjdiibole, or angite. are all miocrals which cannot be formed nmrt from igneous chemical .action. Tlii* single circumstance alone gin.-* far to prove the original mohen state of the silica of quartz lodes. Another argument to the same end may Is- drawn from the fact that the auriferous quartz lod-s have exercised a manifest met imorphic etion on the adjacent walls or casing. They have done so partly in a mineralogies] sense, but generally there will be found a true uietauiorphic alteration of the rock. A Ib-ioted WifeTotirhlnir Fidelity. Au Illinois paper says: " Sheriff Prichnrd tolls its that the wife of George Hirer, (s<*i)U*uced to the Penitentiary of tin i State for five jrean for home steal ing!, followed her husband to the walls of the prison. They attempted to gut away from Lcwistown, without letting her know sUmt it, hut the |Mx>r woman was evermore on watch at the depot, and so she was on hand when the offi cers and prisoners started away last week and, followiug on the cars, hung aliout the neck of her htudnuid to the end of the Journey. Mr*. Hyer had two* Children. Tie-so she hid delitwrntelv given away to her people, determined to reinnin in Juliet, near her husband, so that she could sec him us often as Io>wihle, and be ready, at the end of the live years, to welcome him again to freedom. She hoped she would le per mitted to see him often, but this hope was nidelv toni from her by the stern prison rules. She can see him hut once in two months, and then but for two or three minutes in the presence of a guard. She can write to him as often as she pleases, hut he can write in reply only once a UKgitli. After learning these facts, the Sheriff tried to get her to re turn to her family near Peoria; but her resolution was flrmlv taken. She had given up home and children to be near her huniHtnd. and there she determined to s'av at whatever sacrifice. They left her afone and frendless, a stranger in a strange citv, weeping as if her heart would break, but unwavering in her de votion to her husband. No entreaty of hualmnd, or friend, or stranger could move her heart to leave him in his long imprisonment. The Profenslon f A Nun. The ceremonies of the profession of a nun attracted a large and brilliant audi ence to the convent, corner of Fifth Avenue and Seventeenth Street, New York, recently, the lady Ix-iug Mi*s Ellen 0. White, daughter of a late Judge of the Superior Court. The chapel was , brilliantly lighted for the occasion, the pure white mai hie nltnr Wing illuminated by two hundred wax candles, and adorn ed with vases of rure flowers and gilded palm-trees. A profession of nuns filed in and took seats while the choir chanted. , Then came Miss White, accompanied on one side by the Superior-General of Convents in the United States and Canada, and on the other aide by the Assistant Kujierior, followed by a pro cession of priests and acolytes. The solemn ceremony opened with prayer and the blessing of the ring and cross ; then followed a sermon by Pen* Bcavdc viu, the distinguished orator of the Order of Jesuits, and the vows of Miss White, who knelt at the altar steps. Then the Mother Superior advnnced anil placed upon her finger a costly hut plaiu gold ring, as n proof and token of her baring chosen the Savior of mankind for her spouse on this her betrothal day to her Lord, and at the same time encircled her neck with adelient-ly-wrought irt chain, supporting a silver cross, which is for a sign aud a remembrance to her that she will take up her cross and hear it cour ageously for His Bake. After mass the professed nun advanced with a tall eon die in her hand, and received commun ion, after which she was congratulated , by her friends. A lady wishes that Rome one would invent a "leg-ometer," to attach to men'H pedals, BO that wives may deter mine the distance traveled l>y their hus bands when they " want just to step down to the post-office for a few minutes only," of an evening Chinese sew up pigs' mouths and eves jto prevent squealing and wandering when being driven. lVuitsi It aula's lusane. From some careful statisties couocrn iug the inmate* tr.-at.-d in the great IVnnsvlvuiuu Luuatie Asylum duriug a period of years, some imjtortant finds may be gleaned, giving valuable hints concerning the age an.l sex which an most liable to insanity, the and oocuputjo is which are most euudueive to it, ami the cutis.-s which most fr queutly result iu the overthrow of the intellect. It is between the ages of 'JO and 30 years that we should guard most carefully agaiust excitement, for more persons then Uvuins insane than HI any other ih-eade of life. Men, it sptteaiw, g.;t more of the wear aud tear of life, or .lo not stand it as well as women, for out of J.OIH patients only I,'if'd were of the fuir sex. Widowers stand their grief I letter than widows, for there were 15l> of the latter and only 74 of the former. This is the more remarkable, as women patients were, on the whole, leas nume rous. (hit of a total of &yiS, only I,'it'd w.-re women. The numbers of married att.l single |M-rsons werecurprisiuglv near equal, l,34'Jwer> married and 1.H43 wen single, leaving a majority not sufficiently large to found an inference on. The Woman's Suffrage orators might gain an argument from the fuel that a majority of the womelt were housekeepers, (118 of whom su.vumlied under their cares, while there were only 14 teacher*, aud i'i seamstresses. IK*-tors would jioiitt * I moral with the ciretimstano* that the .-ause aaaigne.l for the largest uutnlier of eases was ill health. Evident* ■ to isirnilHirate the atatement so often tuiel.-, that Americans live too fust, and that tin* rare ia wearing out, might In- found IU the large number of uative-liortt American* among th unfortunate wrecks of humanity, of whom 2,i118 wi-rn of native birth, while of excitable Hiliem niiiK there were the small number of 270, of liecr-drinktng Germans 150, ami of hewrtr, contented Englishmen, only 51. l'erha|M the most surprising item, and the ni-.Hit contrary to mNrnl opinions, i the preponderance of out-door work ers. Out of I.G&lnuj men. then* were 550 who had been farmerw, and 409 who had lieeit latMirers ; while of representa tive* of hrain-rnrkiug professions there were not 75 in all, 10 of them physicians, M teacher*. 10 preacher*. 15 lawyer*, and 2 editor*. Ilw Old Are You I There IN a Rival ileal of amnsement in the following magic table of figure*.— It will enable you to tell how old the young ladies are. Just hand this table to a young lady and request her tell you in which column or coiumua her age is contained, add together the figures at the top of the column* in which herag - i* found, and you have the great secret. Thus suppose her age to lv seventeen, vnu will find that Dumber the first and fifth columns, and the first figure* of these two column* added make seventeen. Here is the magic tabic : I 3 4 8 16 as 3 3 5 9 17 33 5 6 10 18 M 77 7 11 19 85 9 10 12 12 20 36 II 11 13 13 21 37 13 14 14 14 22 38 15 15 15 15 23 39 17 18 24 24 40 19 19 21 25 25 41 21 22 22 2b 20 42 23 23 38 27 27 43 25 26 28 28 28 44 27 27 29 29 29 45 29 30 30 30 30 46 31 31 81 31 31 47 33 54 36 40 48 48| 85 :io 37 41 49 49 37 38 38 42 50 50 39 38 39 43 51 51 41 42 44 44 52 52 43 4.1 45 45 53 53 45 46 46 46 54 54 47 47 47 47 55 55 49 50 52 56 56 56 51 51 53 57 57 67 53 54 54 58 58 58 55 65 55 59 59 59 57 53 60 60 60 60 69 59 61 61 61 61 61 62 62 62 62 62 63 63 63 63 63 63 THE MLunmo printed circular was received recently by a member of the Maweicbmvtta legislature : " Ten cent* is paid out in thouaands of ways, almost eviry day, thoughtlessly by millions of people. One million ten cent pieces nuke, in round muni ten, one hundred thousand dollars. Without any pretence to chanty,or auy pretence of any nature, whatever,the undersigned simply respect-, fully solicits from you oue ten ceut scrip and asks you to send it in the envelope enclosed. Please do not put this one side, but at ouoe grant so small a request, and lie one of the many to make one | person rich, who will, iu return, unpre judiced, give one-half received, less ex- j pensc incurred. to one of the many who first give*. The name* of lvth person* i made rich by this novel idea will be j pitblishisl. You will uot mi** ten cent*. Please send it by return mail. It will j certainly make two iiersona rich. Your I olvdient servant, and, it may be vou."j The circular was signed by Jessie D. ' Anthony, 62 Sudbury street, lloston, ! Mna*. The matter was put into the j State police. KIOAR FROM CAMFORXIA BEETH. The Scientific J'rrtu says :—" In the course of the experiments and test* of the licet in Sacramento a singular anomaly seems to hnve been developed, according to Mr. Grnmraont'a report, whereby Cali fornia IK-ets, instead of retaining perma nently the saccharine vulno develo|ied at the period of ripening, lose a portion of that principle by a second growth,which appears to set in nt that time, if the licet* are not removed from the ground. Hence the view is expressed that the Ixiets must bo taken tip before this secoud growth commences ; the loss being so gri-nt as to render the late pulled roots unprofitable for manufacture. How LETTERS (JET OFT or PARIS. — The Cologne Qmrtle snys that the send ing and receiving of letters iu Paris by the newly-advertised wny is either done by a submarine boat which holds seve ral jicrsons, who can remain hv means of compressed air for several hours un der water, anil steer the boat without difficulty in any direction, or the com munication can lie effected by menns of men dressed after a system which allows them to move under water for a long time, n* visitors of the Paris Exhibition may have observed. Coi'RAOE wild Wn*.—Once a keeper in an asvlum had occasion to go upon the roof of the building—a very high one. A patient, unobserved, quickly mounted the ladder after him, and eon fronting the keeper at the top, told him if he (the keeper) did not jump down, lie (the lunatic) would throw him down. There was no mistaking the menacing look and tone. E- cape wus impossible. Suddenly a hnppy thought struck the keeper. "Ha ! said he, with an air of easy confidence ; "to jump down would lie no groat feat. I tell you what—l'll go down and jump up." * The madman was off the scent at once. The notion pleased him immensely. Both descend ed the ladder, and the keeper saved his life by this lucky stratagem. "Is it possible, miss, that you don't know the name of your best "friends ?" " C'ertainlv ; I don't even know what my own may be a year from now," Fight with a Itarglar About mi.luight, says a New York pajter. the .M-enpuuta of the farm-house of Mrs. (Seraliltue Hoyt, Hlratshurg, Dutchess County, were awakened by the imis.. of a burglar attempting to get in. Horridly .ln-ssiug themselves, tlu-v made ready to utta.-k the intruder, but la-fore thev w.-re prepar.-d he fl.-d. Fearing another utb-mpt of the robWr, arrange meiita were m .do to give him a fitting reception. About 1 o'clock ut uight the moving i of a window in the luwe*aud rear jsirt of the house attract.-1 the attention of a voting matt named Rogers, of Hyde I'ark, then visiting the family, and who was i watching for the eXfieeU-d burglar, (ioiug down stairs hurriedly but quietly, he cautiously approached the window, just iu time to an- a man enter the room. Rogers was noticed by the latter, who quieklr drew a revolver and fired at him, the ball just missed the intended utark and entering the ceiling. Seeing that R.tgers was not hit, the burglar drew a knife ami mode u quick stab nt his adver sary, cutting hiiu in the hand. Rogers slso drew a knife, aud the twit grappled, a severe IUSM-1 ensuing, both going heels over heat) out of the wiudow. In the Roger* struck the burglar with his knife, who, uttering a err of pain, let go his hold and. breaking loo*e, fled, the knife still sticking in him. The ucighlMtrs were aroused and pursuit given, but thev failed to catch the thief. The knife was found in a piece of wood iu the vicinity covered with blood, and •pot* of blood were oliecrved leading from the house to the wood* ; there ail further trace* wa* lost. It .is thought that he was mortally wounded Such a |>er*intelit snd d--|x-rate attempt to rob ijirintc dwelling has not heeu h<-ard of liefore in the vicinity for a number of years. Pruee** of Ca*tlng?Mctaf*. The LandoH Quarterly Journal of Srimc* says that a considerable nn ra iser of gentlemen lately met at the Lancashire Engineering and Compress ion Casting Works of 8L Helen's J fic tion, to witness the uew process of cast ing in bras* and iron, chased and em bossed work of the most elslxirate des cription. Tlie process, which vw then for the first time exhibited in England, is an American invention, and its utility wn* shown to consist in this—that anv design, whether in high or low relief, chased on metal of any required pattern or shape, whether fiat as a door-plate or round as a v**e. ran he reproduced by casting art iNifst7s. and each casting will show ii|ou it nil the sharpness of the original casting. Mold* are made with a I "reparation of fine chtv. The making of one of these mold* takes from five to ten minute*. They have then to stand twenty-four hours exposed to dry sir, after which they laked in a furnace j for eight hours. These clay molds, into which the metal is afterward* pound, are to all intents and purposes, encaus tic tilea. The molc perfectly represented, with the exception of removing a slight sur face of clay from it, which can be done in half an honr, and the article is then ready to be sent to the hronzer, instead of having to be put iu the chaser's hands In this wav an enormous amount of ' cost and labor ou ornamental articles in metal is saved. The 'Prentice Boy*. Mr. Fnsar's bill in the Assembly of New Y'ork, entitled for the " Protection of employers and indentured appren tices," provides tliat no person shall take an apprentice witlidut llie consent of parents or guardian ; that a written indenture shall le signed by both part ies, for a terra not less than three nor more than five year*, the emplover to fnrnislt the apprentice with board, lodging, and medical attendance ; the indenture not to le annulled " exo pt in ease of death." or by onler of the county or Supreme Court; that an apprentice leaving his employer may be arrested and lie subjected to im prisonment for such a time as the justice may think fit or until said apprentice " shall have attained the age of twenty one years." the refusal of any appren tiee to perform his contract shall give the employer lilierty to cancel the in denture with the forfeiture of all Iwwk pay and claims against him. it ulso provide* a penalty of not more than 81.- 000 and not lew* than 8100 against the employer if he neglect* to teach the ap prentice hi# trade or fail to provide hi*u with proper liuard, Ac., and any one harbonug or employing a run-away aji jireiitice wrill lie liable to a fine of uot more that $1,006 or to imprisonment not exceeding six months. FROM MARSKII.I.ES A correspondent writes: ."We begin to have a very anxious time here. The rich are now alarmed for the poor. as we are without magistrates or police, so as if any one knocked you down in the street you could get no redress. The rich gentle men are having meetings to make ar rangement* for giving assistance to the Imor. People here who have hitherto cept seven or eight servants ore uow keeping three or four only. All the merchant* are losing daily, and 1 hen are grvut fears of an insurrection if Paris is taken. The French were absolutely mad a fortnight ago. It was one of the most exciting doys 1 have ever seen. At one o'clock in the morning the can nons began firing, news having come that the French army had left Paris and driven the Germans out of Versailles and AS far a* Fontainebleau. All day long 1 lands of music paraded the street*, anil the people sang the * Marseillaise.' At night the whole town was illuminat ed, though Uie snow was falling and lay two inches deep. Two days aftor wnrds the news was contradicted, and despondency has prevail**!, but one dare not say to a French jierson that Paris will ever capitulate. Hr.AR Bom SIDES. —The San Francis co Alio tells this : " Many years since, when it was the practice of American Consuls nt the Sandwich Ishtn resent nt nil trials of American sailors or breaches of the jienee, the Consul, at a trial liefore that sturdy old Magistrate and native. Gov. Kekuunnaoa, objected to the testimony of an islander on the ground that it was fnlse. The Governor replied : "Yes, lam perfectly aware of that; but so was the sailor's. Let us hear lioth sides, and then decide the matter." GERMAN REQRNIRNONS. —The German roouisitions are now carried a* far as the walls of Besnncon. Every community has just been ordered to furnish within three days five oxen, 1,400 kilogrammes of flour, 3,50>) of oats, 1,200 of hay, 1,400 of jHitatoes, 1,000 litres of wine, 1,000 kilogrammes of bacon, 70 of peas, and 70 of beans. Crush hats are not adopted to be used as trays. A gentleman tried to carry a plate of cream on one a Rhort time ago He anfortunately touched the spring at the wrong minute. Result, an adoles cent avalanche sweetened, a spoiled dres", and an unexpected revelation of the in ner depths of a feminine " sweet charac ter." A Ittisslan Boy Murderrr. A writer in Chumbrr't Journal (fix * this accouut of on interview with a Jtuv >wi mnnlffwr: Beatde the *iu a mound, a netting fiery sua ; slowly dipped the weatern bounds of the landscape behind him, and toad" hie : huge outline loom doubly grand. Food j had been scarce with me, xml consequent*' ly 1 made a more than usually careful I •italk to get within range ; the game'* ; )>oaition was such that I almost doubted the ]K>ssibihty of aooeraa, yet eloaer and closer, without o*using any vuabU* alarm, ■ I advanced. At length, when I had do-; cided that the range did not require' lessening. 1 felt convinced! that 1 bad ' itern seen, for the head and eye* war* ' turned toward me ; but no angry shake of the horns, paw of the ground or flush of the eye evinced hostility. and morw f over, th- figure appeared to l.snen with each, respiration, and an air of incapacity (orfurther exertion waa indelibly stamp ed upon the veteran monarch of the prairie Mr gun was for the moment forgotten, and 1 gazed with wonder, and jMcadbly with sorrow, at the apparent approach of death. Bv degree* the veto- 1 ran'# fore-legs were placed farther and farther apart ; rapidly diminishing strength instinctively oompelkid this mt'th d of supporting the-towering fig ure ; at length the body ■ waved, ami, j with a lurch like a foundering ship, rolled : on ita side, and life departed bum the > carcass at the same moment Up to the termination of the career of the nobk brute he bad remained upon his limbs, defying decay with hi* last breath. With sorrow 1 looked upon the laxly, regretted j that life had flod ; although, at the aam<*l time, I had been drawn to the spot with i the intention of executing the office in j which I had been fore-stalled. Befitting wta such a death to the greatest hero, uccnmbing only when nature refused to j grant further support, yielding up the, life and strength be had gloried in with out a sigh of rtfpemL—AU Rmmd Ike World, by CapL Parker GUhmore. Ignorance rf Mathers- The care of toe young ranks aa me of the moat important of all things to the state and the race, and one on which no I wins bestowed could be too tnneh. Yet low many mothers understand the man agement of the young m any scientific sense ? How many studj the best mode* of education, physical or moral and bring their studio* to good ianue ? How many mothers will ever reoeiTe advice and not consider it interf-renoe in their wn distinct domain ? and how many are there who ao much as doubt that mster niiv of itself does not give wisdom, and that by toe mere fact of motherhood a woman is fully capable of managing her child without mure teaching than that which she gets from instinct ? We give less thought, (not less tore.) leas study, leas scientific method, to the management of our own young than to the training of future racehorses or the development of the prize heifer on the farm. The j wildcat idea* on food, the most injudi-' cioiiA fashions in divas, amusements ] which ruin both body and mind such as children's evening parties, theatres, nnd the like make one often think thai the 1 last person to whom her children should ; be entrusted is the mother. Add to this j a moral education, good or bad according to individual temperament an ignorance of psychological laws as dense as that of the phyuological and hygenic, and the personal care of the little oo<* delegated to servants, and we have the base on which the modern nursery is constructed. This delegation of the mother's doty to servants i* as amazing in ita contraven tion of instinct as the revolt against maternity. Every woman sera liow nurses treat the children of other mothers, and every mother trusts her own uurse implicitly, and gives into the hand# of a course and ignorant woman, the teauw, the liealth, the nerves, the earliest men tal direction, and the conaeuuent perma nent bias of the future of her child, while perhaps she goes out on a cruaade to help people who need example rather ih.ii oawstanoe. This is no overcharged picture. The unacientific management of children, and the absolute surrender of them while voting, and therefore while most plastic, into the hands of servants, is too patent to be denied.— .Vacssirfoa. A I'earfal Tragedy. A terrible tragedy occurred in the town of Wavland, Steuben County New York. A Mr* Mary He** shot and in stantly killed Mr. William H. Lewis, doing business i Waylaud. He called upon her on business and she met him st the door aud shot him dead. She theu proceeded to the residence of her brother, Mr. Warren Nortlirup, some half mile distant from her own, and ask ed him to come out of doors, as she wished to speak to him privately. He declined to go out, but invited her in to the house and led the way into a Ixxl ri>oin, she followed closely. Just after he entered the bedroom door she placed s revolver to the back of his heiwl and fired. Uie boll paaaed entirely through liis head. She then closed the bedroom door and turned toward a son of Mr. Northrop, who was in the sitting-room, but before she could fire upon him she was seized and the revolver taken from her. Mr. Northrop lived until 4 o'clock that tlav. Mrs. Hess was taken into custody,' and upon being interrogated as to whv she had committed double murder, she replied that she would learn Mr. Lewis not to be the causa of so much talk as there had l>een about her. It is stated that she had not been on friendly terms with her brother. The circumstances of the case are being in vestigated. A WAB STORT.— Ttyree weeks ago the driver of an ammunition wagon was shot The poor fellow left his quarters at 7 in the morning, and asked a Frenchman in a blouse the way to the bivouao in front of the town where bis wagon waa. The Frenchman showed him by signs. The German thanked him and went on his way. He had hardly gone a few steps, however, before the Frenchman shots ball st his back, which entered his lungs. As the criminal was not to be found the town was fined 600,000 francs, accord ing to rule. The sum oould only be paid half in ready money. The bavarian commander ordered that the sum should increase 100,000 francs a day till the sum was paid, and on the next day the sum was to hand, a thirl of it in good Prus sian tholers, too, which is a proof of how much money has come into circulation by the Prussian occupation. Ladies' paper skirts, costing but fif teen cents, are becoming common. Tie paper is of grtf.it tenacity, and does not emly tear. It is of various colors, from snowy white tg doleful black. A (tear far Winter. Tb (Tost is hers, tnd Ares burn dear, And firusl M here, . And has tdttou ta* bosi of ths gotag year. Bite, frost, bits! HS , Van rail up swsy f!ra the Ugld ' The blue woadkms* sod the ptaaip Amman* And tw !**• sre stili'd, sad the pas an UN, : And yos bits far into m- heart of th# boms, J fist not into was. rssjns A Tartar Lave fiawr. Night and day & I'*asii sway. Dot mv knar did not ream. Itosss shroud them in their nils, Kvsn the hns-stoh Hurtittiigslas Mlrnubev, sad M# dumb: aMmdstftHdAfltlMM. Night la gowg-sh I •> mm I i Omiasita ths nsMtac asoon Hoc. it* Weal stofdntk *ad. Wtth th- torsh of Merahgf in its hand J Will, my awsat one is not swml NO. 5. • Facta and Fanrlre. | Harsnnah haa a skating rink, aad j | thinks it would enjby it if there was any ka. [ The average east of each shot fired „ into Paris is estimated at two hundred , dollars. Whr i* the earth Hke a btockbcmrd f I Because the children of man multiply i upon the face of it, r Western mercantile houses are gmda i ally discharging the young men and cm ! ploying girl cisrita in ibiwr stead. ' ' A Trov gentleman had u letter ooo* '! twining a cheek on a Troy bank, dated ■ i Paris. Nov. lb, sent from that city in a ' j balloon. There *n at present in OermmiT up ward of twenty-five th-msand widows and one hundred ami twenty thousand fatherless children. • j The Prussian war office haa given , orders for the purpose of ascertaining how many of the French prisoners are able to read and write. Miss Anna Dickinson's annual income from lecturing lor the lest seven years, has avenged £7,000. Her profits ket season reached 913,000. A Mt Pleasant, lowa school gut, Alice KanSmaa, spelled *2,100 oonsecit | live wonls, recently, and got a fine Bible tor her smartness. A* many as twelve Dufcm, of the old f est and most uistingnisited Jinnge , of France, linee been tolled or scnooaiy wounded daring the war. An lowa man is so inhuman aa to drive ten-pen BV nails through an inch boird ami file' them sharp, and then beat his horae over die head with it Gen. Tsvlor, on one oocaskm, being i besieged by ..ffiwMwekara, made die retnnrk that "aome wera doomed to appointment, and some to dmsppoint meut" The neweat thing in stationery fur lovers rose-colored aote paper. with jan imprint of Capsd in gold Gold ia ; something of a tempter ia love as well ! as out of it In Hcmunento. Gshfornia, a band of boya has jnst haen hrokeo up, which had all the rigna, paaawotda, Ac., of an or gtaized robber band, and within two rears had committed many crime*. King William haa sent the sword thst ; Napoleon ILL surreaderad at Hedaa to i l>e Lung lw*ide the one that Napcleon I. gave np to Hlocber at Watevtao in ths Praamsn Military Cofiege at Berlin. , ** Krethreo," aoid a speaker at a late miiuionarv meeting, " I want jtM to tarn your barks cm thai Board of Mi- I dona, tout greeatbeehs. I mean, and, if von pmmme to speak to them, talk in ! over tonea." A voting Mkiiigudrr placed his hand on the muzzle of hit gun and his foot on the hammer, saving to those present, This is the war Jim Fairbanks shot hi* hand to pie©.**," and tbew was a re port of a gun. and a great hole through | the middle of hi* ha%d. There ia an improl*Me story thai a j New Jersey ben mislaid au egg, when ; another ben sat on it and hatched it, and ! the original hen recognized her chicken ffl after it was hatched. The setting hen •laimed a "fowl," but the ampin* has riot yet given his deciskm. Water ia in many points of view, a •angular reflection at perio.lio.il litera ture For instance, it cornea out in ' beet*, and when a auffieieut quantity is • owned, it is collected into volumes, but how tuaar sheet* erf water it takes to make a vwume it I# difficult to my. A in Cooneccicnt has Lnveotsd and published a most ingmuouac deader, good for three bondred yea M. and printed on paper the rise of a visiting rsud. If any man, after wring it three I hundred yeaa. isn't satisfied with it, the publisher will give him another free. A couple who* united in the "holy " 1 Kinds, " AA, in Newport, R. L, lately, i had no particular preference aa to which of the three divine* of the place should jierform the essential knot tying Thegl name* of ttie clenmnen wera pot in hat, snd Rev. Footer Henry's was drawn. He < fixed things up to suit. The latest attempt to hurt the feel ing* editorial ia in this currant story: ;" Are you connected with a paper here r asked a countryman of an inmate