Over Uio Way. There'* a ntc* little woman lit** over the way. Who mte by the window the moftt of the day ; And I never before knew * maid or * wife Who led eneh *n eftfty end indolent life. -Who i* he ? Wht ia fthe ?" I often h*ve aai.t; "Who givwa her her clothe*, ftnd who p re* her bread t ... PrT whftt kind of food doe* ehe slowly derenr From the book fthe ia faring ftt honr after honrT* If one from her dnty i* reedy to *hirk. There * always another quite willing to work J And thi* I hare found i* the rule of the dy In that qniet eetabhehment over the way. He (roe* to the atore for butter and bread. He kindle* the fire and make* no the betl. He waahee the dishes, and set* them away. And work* like a heater the whole of the day. Oh, hotter than any invention I've aeen 1* this beautiftal. dntafhl household machine- That i* never disturbed by a tear or a frown. And 14 never wound up, aincc it never run* down. She site hy the window, the fkir little wife. And eeem* to enjoy all the good things of life ; Ami if any one naked me. 1 surely sh< nhl eav That a Woman * Right* woman lived oter the **y. The OM Chimney-Place. A stack of stones, a dingy wall. O'er which the bramble* cling and creep, A bath on which uo shadow* fall, A doorr-ten where long dvvk-h'avea sleep, A broken rafter In the grass. A sunken hearth-stone, stained and cold, Naught left hut these, fair home alas t And the dear memories of old. Around thi* hearth, thi* sacred place, All humble household tiriuee grew,— The grand*!re'* love, the maiden'* grace. The matron's instincts deep ami true. Here first sweet words were lisped ; here broke Life's nomine dream, ami yet more dear. The love thai lifr's heel impalse woke, Orew warmer, gentler, year by year. How eheerfttl, while the atom without Knitted the eaith and teed the night. The ruddy glow gashed laughing ont Oft merry groups and ffteo# bright : How eh inns! the eraekiing, freaktsa flame, With rosy mirth or thoughtful eaae. Or, may be. syllabled the name, t>f one rocked o'er the shivering aeas. What fairer scene*, what goklen lands. What pageant* of nun antic pride. In the wetr\l deep of glowing brand* Saw the fair boy. the dreamy-eyed. Till, musing here, hi* spirit drew Strong inspiration, and hi* years, Ibr Beauty's subtle nurture, knew "The patha of Nature's inner spheres. Here a* the swooning embers stmt A faint flush through the quiet gkvwn. In the warm hush hate the kit era blent Tha fragrance of their heart's frosk bloom ; Awl, veiling in soft drooping eyes Her tremulous Joy, here blushed the bride ; Here, o'er pale form* in fiineral guise. Farewells from broken hearts were sighed. This spot the pilgrtm, "neath strange skies, Raw in his way-aide drvm ; here stood Oil! friends writli gladness In their evcs ; Here grew the Wauuful and good Sweet friendship*—faith aerene ami sure Manhood's stlong pnrpoaa, warm and bukl (Vmrage to labor and endure, . And hoaaenokl feehugs never eokl. Here, leaning in the twilight dim, AD ronml me acems a haunted air ; I hear the old familiar hymn. Hy heart gtwe upward in the prayer That wiade the night so full of peace ; Kind bp* are on my hrow—mv ear Hums with tweet sound* -they faint—they cease. And night o'er all brosd* calm and clear. A TERRIBLE FIFTY MINUTES. In August, 18dy, I arrived at Cbamounix with one of my friends, a traveller like myself. For about five weeks we had been exploring Switxerland, so that we had plenty of time to get used to snow and gtac iers. We had made several ascent*, one of 14.000 feet. I well remember the sensation I felt when I first saw one of those crevasM-s which s.tm the surface of the glaciers. Holding firmly by my guide's hand. 1 leaned over that yawning gulf, and tried to gaze down into its terrible depth. The two perpendicular walls of ice appeared to meet some 300 feet below, but 1 believe it was only the effect of perspective, the rent being probably prolonged as far as the •olid rock. " A man who falls there is certain never to come out alive," said one of my guides. *• True," replied the other; '• but I kuew one who was rescued. A narrow escape in deed it was ;he lives at Grindlewald. lie m a chamois hunter; he was returning home; in descending the crevasse. Hi* fall was broken by projecting blocks of ice, which yielded,"however, beneath his weight when he clung to them. When he reached the bottom, a distance of some hundred feet, he had a leg and an arm broken. Between the earth and the tee he frund a hollow place into which a stream was running; crawling along suffering terrible pain, be followed the course of the water, and in three hours he was cut of the glacier." Crevasses vary in breadth front two to six feet at the mouth, but the side* ap proach rapidly as tbey descend, so that a man may find himself jammed in between two walls of ice a long time before he reaches the bottom, and then, if ropes long and strong enough are at band, it is possi ble to save him from a dreadful death. But generally the ropes are not long enough, and the traveller perishes of cold, or falls lower down into the crevasse dur ing the hours which elapse while some of the party haTe gone to the nearest village to fetch longer ropes. Thus an unfortu nate Russian nobleman perishes! in a gla cier near Zennatt some years ago. We had ascended the Brevent. we now, had only the Merde Glace and the Jardin to visit" We slept at the Montanvert in the solitary little inn at the foot of the glacier. Next morning were np at dawn. Furnished with some provisions and two bottles of wine we started with our guide. It was a splendid morning, and augured well for our excursion. For half an hour we followed a rough path which skirted the Mer de Glace, which played below u its surface riven with crevasses and covered with rocks and fragment*. Our road ended at the glacier, upon which we now began to descend, and to traverse in zig zags in the mi'lst of numerous fissures. The Mer de Glace is not considered dan gerous, and it is quite the exception to take axes and ropes, when crossing it. Alert and cheerful we hastened on with out taking notice of the guide, who some way behind, cried out to us several time* to be cautious and wait for him. We were obliged at last to halt before a va*t cre vasse which barred up our |amage. It opened with a length of some sixty yards, and end'd upon our left in a slope of ice, somewhat steep, but which I thought 1 could easily mount. Using the iron spike of my alpenstock as a hatchet, I began to cut holes in the ice, large enough to put my feet in. At this moment our guide rejoined us. He looked at the slope and at the yawuing crevasse below it, and said in a grave tone, "It is dangerous; let u* go round it" With the aid of my alpenstock I had al ready got half way up this icy hillock, and was now quite convinced that it was too steep and slippery to be crossed without an axe. The guide's warning confirmed my opinion. 1 was cautiously lowering my right leg, seeking for the hole that 1 had nude in the ice; my foot passed it; I felt that 1 wa sliding down; there was nothing rough to stop me, not the least Kijection by which I could bold myself in. e declivity became perpendicular, and fell into the gulf. I beard the cry of despair of my com panion and my guide. My own sensations cannot be described. I was giddy and half-*tunned, sent backwards ana forwards irom one wall of ice to the other, I felt myself descending to a great depth, con demned to be dashed to pieces, to die by a horrible depth. Suddenly something stopped roe, I felt myself suspended. I took breath again, and could cry out, •' A rope! a rope!" By God's mercy I had fallen upon n narrow ledge of ice, which formed a sort of bridge across the crevasse. This frail sup port as far as I could judge, was about four inches broad and eighteen thick. My head hung from one side of it, my feet from the other. Instinctively and immediately by what means I know not, I raised my self up and stood upright on this projec tion Jwhere there was a hollow just large enough for me to plant one foot. Then I heard my companion say above me, "We never hoped to hear your voice again; trust in God and take courage. The guide has run to Mantanvert to seek men and ropes; be will come directly." "If he is long," I replied,"l shall not come up alive." My position was a terrible one ; the thin ledge of ice was so narrow that I could not place both feet on it. I could only support my. elf on one leg, half resting against one o' the ice walls, smooth as a mirror, and there was nothing to grasp. A stream of ice water liowed down upon my shoulders, piercing me to the very bones ; above my FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor, VOL. IV. head 1 saw the long and narrow streak of the akv round which the mouth of the cre vasse formed a frame. The ice. which was of darkiet blue color, encirling Uic on all sides, looked threatening and gloomy. The two wall* seemed as if they were aliout to meet in order to cruah u.c, rather than to release their prey. Numerous water course* streameii down their sides, but in this extent of more than sixty raid* I could not see any other projection or ob stacle except thi* ledge on w Inch I had so miraculously fallen. I risked looking, for one second only, down iuto the terrible abyss, above which I wa suspended. At the spot where I n, the crevasse was not more than two (bet wide, lower down it narrowed raptdlv, and a hundred yards below the two sides appeared to touch each other. I believe it I had fallen but a very few inches on either side front the narrow briilge which had ar rested me, I should have been buried and jammed up at a depth where no rope could have reached me. I had remained aUuit twenty minutes in my perilous |>ositioit, nerves and muscles stretched to the ut most to keep myeelf there, looking at the sky above my head and at the ice around me, but not daring again to glance into the gull below. The Wood WAS timing from a wound I had received iu the cheek, and l felt that ruy right leg, upon which fortunately 1 was not resting, was severely bruised : the left leg, however, paiued by the effort of standing the cold, was In-giu ning to give way. It was impossible to change tuy position without the risk ol losing my balance. The cold of the wall of ice against which I was resting more and more iwnumlied me, the water continued to fall, and I dared not stir. I cnlletl my companion; no one replied. I called again. Nothing! Nothing! Not a human being within reach of my voice. 1 was seized with giddiness as a terrible thought crossed my brain. •' He has gone to see if the help is com ing, and he cannot find the crvvasse again; there are hundreds such—l am lost P 1 commended my soul to Hod. My strength was exhausted. I had never giv en up all hope. I was seized with a desire to let myself fall, and thus put an end to this agony. At the critical moment, 1 heard myself called. Mv friend had run to look for the guide, but when he wished to return he was horror-struck on perceiving that the surface of the glacier was rent by count less crevasses, all so similar that there was not a single sign by which he could recog nize the abyss in which I 'was buried alive. In this cruel perplexity, Hod guid ed bint to see a little kuap*ack which the guide had left at the edge of the gulf. 1 cried to him to look at his watcb. Five minutes more had elapsed. The cold wa becoming more and more intense; the blood wa- literally freezing!in my veins. 1 called; I asked if there was any one in sight. The guide had started thirty five minutes ago. and not a soul had yet ap peared. It was scarcely probable that he could return so quickly, as we had taken three-quarters ot an hour to get to this spot, and he had to go and return. I felt that I could bold on but very little longer. The frail support on which my safety alone depended might yield at any moment and break beneath me 1 remem bered that I had a strong knife in my pocket, and resolved to make use of it to draw myself out. I informed mv com panion of this project; he implored mc to do nothing of the kind; hut my situation had become intolerable. I made a notch in the ice, high enough for me to reach it. and large enough for me to insert my hand in it; then about two feet above the little bridge 1 dug out a bole sufficiently large for me to put my foot in it. I succeeded, and grasping these two points of support my lck resting with all my Strength against the opposite wall, I was able to raise myself and keep myself firm in this new position. 1 descended again u|on the bridge, and began another notch above the first. I flattered myself that I should thus be ahle to escape* from roy prison, but a single slip, a false step, would precipitate me into the abyss. I was working diligently at mv second step, when I heard a joyous cry above mc. u Here they are! Three men with rojx*s —they arc running as fast as their legs can carry them." I steadied myself as firmly a* possible upon the narrow and slippery bridge, so as to lie able to seize the rope they were about to lower, and tie it around me. 1 saw the end of it swinging about two yard* above my bead. " May God have mercy npon mc! it is too short!" " We have another." That was fastened to the first and let down. I seized the end of it. 1 hound it strongly around roy waist, and grasping the rope with both hands I gave the signal for them to pull up. They began— I was saved. A minute afterward I was standing upon the glacier. 1 had |*seed fifty minutes in the crevasse, during which time I had happily lost neith er my confidence in God nor my presence of mind. When I placed my foot upon firm ground again, an overpowering feeling of deep gratitude to the Almighty who bad deliv ered me in so great a peril filled my breast; I fell on my kncea and fainted. When 1 again became conscious, our party was pre paring to start for the Montanvert. Be fore leaving I wished to cast one last look into the crevasse where I had nearly bee i buried alive. 1 saw how completely im possible it would have been for roe to get out of it as f had projected. The opening at the top was too wide to have allowed me, as 1 reached it, to lean against the op posite wall, and without that support the most agile of climbing animals would have found it impossible to scale this perpen dicular wall of ice. The guide bad run to the inn, where he could not find a single rope suitable for the purpose. In despair he started for Cha meunix; when on the way he met two muleteers. Their animal* were laden with wood, tied on with ropes, which he im plored them to give him to save a poor traveler who had fallen into a crevasse. These good people at once unloaded their mtiles, and came with the guide to my as sistance. Tying them together—there were three—the ropes reached the depth of thirty to forty yards, where I had been arrested in roy fall. Assisted by my deliverers, I was able to reach Montanvert, where, in a good bed, and with my bruises attended to, I had leisure to dream about the danger from which 1 had escaped, and the remembrance of which often haunts ine both sleeping and waking. 1 trust that future travelers, profiting by my experience, will not run the risk of ]>enctrating into the midst of these icy regions without providing them selves with axe* and ropes, and especially with a first confidence in God's goodness, the surest of supports, and the best safe guard here below. DON PIATT writes about an auction of the contents of dead letters: "As the rude auctioneer held each article in the dim light, and coarsely cried it off, I could not help to think of the fingers that had worked, and the heart that had throbbed over the token of affection, and remembered that it had failed of its des tination, and was being sold for filthy lucre to this motley crowd. Two-thirds of these evidences of remembering love came from women. The fact is, during my stay, I did not see one that could positively be ascribed to a man. To a woman's busy fingers, and to a women's heart could the work be attributed, and also to a woman's ignorance or careless ness, probably, in addressing, is due Ihe fact that the work miscarried." OWTHKE, Idaho, is now shipping £41,- 000 in bullion weekly. CENTRE HALL REPORTER. JOHN CT'TTS* NECBET. " l Mr. t'utt* in r a*ked a gentleman who having knocked at a door, was saluted I>V a woman from an up|>er window with, •■'Well, what's wantin' MOW •" '•l* Mr. Cutta in f" ••V v he' in or about aomewhera, I sup she replied j *'but I'm Mr. 1 nit* where any busman* i to IK' done. He's Mr. t'utt* eatin' and drink in' and lee|iiu' sometime*." •■Wall, my good woman," said the gen tleman, "I ihiuk he will I* Mr. t'utt* for mv business, too. I wish to see hint. "What uo you want of him asked the shrew, thrusting her head still further out of the window. "To do something for me. But I must see him," was the reply. "I* it real business, lor pay. or only a favor you want I I cau let your bow* have a jieek of oats, or I cau direct you to the shortcut road to the Four Corner*, or I can I can—why—l can do auvtbiug for vou that he could, and a good ileal more ! ] can take the money, and rite the receipts, and pay the men, and I take care of the E induce! lTn as good a judge of stock a e is, and 1 can't lie beat on horwetle*h." "But." said the gentleman, drawing down his face solemnly, "you can't take hi* place now. Find him lor me at once. The shretv was l>attied. "Look-a here, mister, mart* you do not know the cir cumstance* of this case. This here farm ia mine, and it WAS my father's afore me ; and Cut fa, be haiut no mere claim to it thau that hen down there haa. And, be sides, I'm seven years older thau he is, a foot higher, and weigh tweuty pouml* more! What'a your buainewa uo my place, if 1 mav make so bold F' "To "see and talk with your huaband," replied the gentleman, getting out of his chaise ami hitching hta horse to a post, a* if be meant to stay until he did are him. "Be you a doctor I Cau*e there ain't a living thing the matter with Cults, lie's the wellest man in town, and so be 1," said this woman for the times. 4, X0, my good woman, I'm not a doctor. Do you think your husband will he in soon 1 Send that boy to find bim,'' said the stranger. The boy looked up in his Ks>ther's face —but he knew his own intrrtets too well to start without orders. '•Then you're a minister, 1 suppose, by your black coat. 1 may as well tell you and save your time, that we don't go to meeting, and don't want to. It ain't no use for you to leave no tracts for nothing for I've got a big dairy and hain't no time to idle away readin'. and I keep him alxnit so early and late, that when he's doue work he's glad to go to bed and rest." '•l'm no minister, madam; 1 wish I was though, for your sake," said the gentleman. "Look here, mister," now appearing at the door, and looking defiantly at him. '•you're a schoolmaster buutin' up a dist rict school; and you think he's a commit tee-man ; but he ain't this year." "Send for your husband; I cannot wait much longer. I must see him at once." The boy started to his feet again, and looked in his mother's eye; but she gave no marching orders. "Ma'am Cutts," as the neighbors called hor, dropped her bands at her side and heaved a groan. She had found a man she couldn't manage. "See here, now, mister.'' she said, "I can read a nun right through, and I knew what you was the Mowed minute I clapped my eye* on you. I can tell by your ever la*tin' firguiii' that you are a lawyer. We hain't got uo quarrels; don't want no dwsl* drawed or wills made, so if you're huntin' a job of my huslwnd, you may a* well on hitch vour horse and drive on. We know enough to make a little money,and 1 know enough to hold on to it." "Mr good woman you entirely misun derstand my errand. I ran tell no person but himself what it is, and must tell hiin m confidence and alone. If he chooses he can break it to vou the I wet wav he can.'' "O, my goodne** sake alive! Brother I.ifs Mowed up in the Mississippi Mat, I bet! O, la me. the poor fellow. He left a little something, didn't he ? "1 never heard of bim, and nobody's 'Mowed up,' that 1 know of," replied the gentleman. "()—now 1 know! You're the man what wants to go to Congress, and have come here huntin' after votes. He shall not vote for you ! I hate politicians, espe cially them that goes agin women, and thinks thev were nude to drudge and notli in' else ! Igo in for free and equal rights for white folks—men aud women—for Scripture saya, 'there isn't neither man or woman, but all's one in politic*.' I lielieve the day is comin' when such as you and me will have to bow the knee to woman, afore vou can get the big place and high pay that's a eatin' u* up with taxes ! Yon can't see my husband ! We are goin' to the polls on the way to the mill, ami I'll promise you that he votes right." •■l'm no candidate, and I don't know what you are talking about. Ah ! there comes the man I want." And the stran ger went toward Mr. Cutts, who had just leaped a pair of bars which led from the potato patch into the lane. Mrs. Cutts flew into the house for her sun-bonnet to follow them; but by the time she got to the bars her mysterious visitor and Cutts were driving rapidly down the road. The strong-minded woman shouted after her husband. "You'd better come back, I tell you!" but the wind was the wrong way, and carried the wonls into the pota to patch. '•Sir,'' said the gentleman to honest Cutts, "1 have a very simple question to a*k you, but I shall have to ask you in confidence. I will give you five dollars if you will promise not to repeat my words until to-morrow." '•Well, sir," replied Cutts, "I shouldn't like to answer any questions that would make trouble among my neighbor*. I have my hands full, I can tell yon, to keep out of scrapes now; but I've done it, and haint an enemy in the world, as I know." '•But, sir, you needn't reply to my ques tion unless you are perfectly willing," said the stranger. "Ask your question," said Cutts, "and I will not repeat it." "Well, Mr. Cutts, I am laying fence on the Brisley place, that I have just bought, and I was directed to enquire of you where I could buy cedar post*. A fellow in the store said, "Cutts can tell you, if his wife will let him; but she won't. She'll insist on telling you herself—and perhaps 0.'... to drive you wherever you go to order them.'" "I told tbem I would see you and nak you only ; and the fellows bet on it. They are to give you ten dollars, and to two or three widows in the town a cord of wood each, if I succeed in asking you this ques tion alone, and making sure your wife docs not know my business until after breakfa*t to-morrow morning." Cutts knew his wife's standing too well to feel very sensitive—and taking the bill from the stranger, he smiled atid said : "I'll go with you to look out cedar post*, and keep dark, for the joke'* *ake; but I don't know as she'll let me slay in the hou* to-night; I don't own it," replied the good-natured Cutts. you go to th place and see to setting the posts. 1 will send a boy to tell her you bad to go off suddenly, on a little business, and will be back in the morning," said the stranger. '•I'll do that," replied Cutts, "for 1 never quarrel with her, but let her have her own way. I don't want to worry myself about trifles." "Goodman," said the Strang*r, "there are no trifles in this life. The smallest act is important, and that easy good nature of yours will ruin your family. Baffle that spirit to-day—and next Sunday take your CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1871. i*v* and go to (he house of Hod, whalrvt-i die ■tay*, and lw a real man —at the load of vour uwtt house and family. "It's rather lair to licftin," said t'nfta shaking lii< l.rad ill away that w.wlil tiavt >i arurd otht'lM from tin* trap in which hit fret were fast. "You see thr purer I* here," lie added "ami that ha* hero a crueller fetter than her will to me. But I will try to lufgiu anew, ft* her good and the children's." The I *>y wa* aeiit with the un-magc, hut the Imv wasn't sharp enough. Madam t'utta tUscoTrred tlie whereabout* of her lord, tackled up, and went after him. All the way home, and far into the night, she used her eloquence, both lu pleadings aud threatening*, to liud out the tuvstciiou* errand of that hateful town na bob that had come iulo the country to sep arate happy famdiea. But C'utta yielded himself up loa "dumb spirit" for the night, and no measures could induce him to talk on any subject, lest she should pry the mighty secret out of him. About midnight she wore herself out, and went to sleep; but at daybreak she began again, lie thru ventund to say : "As soon as breakfast is over, I'll break the news to you." "You'll never eat a moree! in my house, I can tell you," cried Xautippe, "till you hare told me w hat the man wanted of you." "Then you'll w ait a good while to hear it," said t'utta, •'for 1 hare rowed I'd nerrr tell it till I had tiret eaten my breakfast," ami with three word* he went out. Ma'aiu t'utta endured the torture as long a* possible, and then got breakfast She called to the door to no one m partic ular, "Come." But t'utta didn't come. After awhile she went out to the !ru, and found him seated on an upturned half-bushel measure, calmly preliug and eating a raw turnip. "It does seem as if this here man had l**MsKed y,u • Your breakfast is coolin'; do come in." Here was a point gained. t'utta went in aa required, and ate his breakfast. When that was over, uiadaiu settled herself back in her ehair, with her face full of eaprr expectation, and said: "Now W hat did that ere man want 1" "He wanted some cedar post*,* replied t'utts, calinlv, without looking up; "and that wa* all.* 1 If an arrow had stnick Ma'am C'utta, aha could cot have manifested tuore surprtae and .shame. "1 am the laughingstock of this town," added t'utta, "and from this hour I turn over a new leaf. I'm henceforth the head of my family—and unless this house Is made mine, ( shall finish fT a room in the bara—which is mine—ami you w ill be welcome to share it with me. Hunt. I'll live there with my boys, and you will tind me a ci* it neighbor." Ma'am t'utta' power waa broken. Since then the farm ha* been called "Johu C'utta' place," and he'a the head of the house. Maddening Mechanism of Thought. Our bruins are seventy-year clocks. The angel of life winds them np once fur all, then doaea the case, and gives tin key into the luuid of the Angel of Resurrection. Tic-tac ! tic-tar ! g<> the wheels of thought ; our will cannot stand them, madness makes tlictu go faster ; death alone can break into the ease, and seizing the ever-swinging (leudulum, which we call the heart, dlenrr at last the clinking of tint terrible escapement we have carried ao long be Death our wrinkled forehead. If we can ouly get at them, aa we lie on our pillows and count the dead bat* of thought after thought and image after image j.irriug through the overtired organ. Will no body block those wheels, uncouple that pinion, cut the striug* that hold the weights, blow Up the internal machine with gunjiowiler. What a jMission comes over us aotnetiraes for sih-tice and rest, that this dreadful mechanism uuwinding the endless tapestry of time, embroidered with spectral figures of life and death, could have but one brief holiday. Who can wonder that men swing themselves off from lie am* in hempen lassos, that they jump off from (tarapcta into the swift and gurgling waters beneath, that they take counsel of the grim fiend who has to utter but his one peremptory monosyllable, and the Metleen machine is shivered as a vase tliat is dairies! apcD a marble floor. Under that building which we pas* every day there are strong dungeons where neither hook, nor IMU\ nor bedcord, nor drinking vessels from which a sharp fragment may be shatter ed, shall lie seen. There is nothing for it, when the brain is on fire with thp whirling of its wheals hut h spring against tlie stone wall and silence them with one crash. Ah, they remember that the kind city fathers and the walls are nicely paddisl, so that one cun take exercise as he likes without damag ing himself. If anybody would really contrive some kind of u lev er that oue could thrust among the works of this horrid automaton, nud cheek them or ulter the rate of going, what would the world give for the discovery. Men are very aj.t to try to get at the machine by some indirect system or other. They clap on the brakes by means of opium, they eliange the maddening monotony of the rhythm by means of fermented liquors. It is IM-oau.sc the brain is lacked np and we cannot touch its movements directly. Hint we thrust these coarse tools in through any crerice by which they may rencli the interior, aft T its rate of going for n while, and nt lost spoil the machine.— Exchange. A Mam of unblemished character was a candidate for a large constituency, and the following means were used to get rid of him. At a large public meeting, an elector got up and said : "I demand the exercise of my right to nsk that candidate a question. Will he answer me bv a direct y* or no, like an honest man ?" " Undonlitedly I will," A most incautious promise, na the reader will say.' " Well, they," said the eld-tor, " I ask that gentleman who killed his irnshn-- troin'tn T" What was the poor man to say ? What ye* or n could answer the question ? He hesitated, ho stammered—the meeting was against him ; lie was hustled out of the room, and to this day he laliors un der the grnve imputation, m ninny peo ple's minds, of having feloniously accel erated the ih ntli of aotne unfortunate and pcrlnqai ill-used washerwoman. JOHN HKSH, who had been confined in the jail at Oshkosli, Wisconsin, escaped a few nights since, and immediately went to Neenah, his former home ; thence he went to the home of his divorced wife and murdered her, first shooting her, and then cutting her throat from ear to ear. The murderer then icpnired to his brother's house and hid in the at tic. An effort was made to arrest him, when he shot himself through the head. AN Indiana paper announces that Hon. W. H. Holman is to tie the next Democratic candidate for Governor of his Slate, and Hon. D. W. Voorheos for the Senate, while Hon. Thos. A. Hen dricks will have the entire Indiana dele gation in his favor for President, in the naxt Democratic National Convention. The printing and reporting of the Ill inois State Constitutional Convention cost 885,000. Two Chattanooga men went hunting, were gone two days, and killed 385 quail, II turkeys, 110 squirrels, and 3 deer. The Ancient Km lan*. In the early history of Scotland and Ireland, a tribe of Celtie w amors stand forth pre-eminent by their I mid adven ture* aud warlike deeds. The scenes of their exploits received names still |>er|iet uiit.il in tlie topography of IMIUI conn tries, and the exploits the HH.IV.-S ticeawe , tlie them* of many JMICIUM, ami romattcea. Finn Mac t'umliuil i pronounced (oole) was one of these warriors, aud tiivir must famous commander. According to Irish annals, lie lived and dud in the third • century of the t'hristiau era. Ho great was his reiiowu that theae (iaelie war riors, who had previously bora designated I by various name*. lou-baron* to our Kug ' lish ears, were heuceforth known aa Frinne. Fitiua, or Fenians; and such were Celebrated in the legendary history of Scotland and Inland. They seem eventually to have constituted a kind of established militia, whose duty it wa* in tlie words of au old historian, "to de fend the country agaiust foreign and domestic enemies, to supjmrt the right and succession of their kings, and to be ready UJMJU the shortest notice for any | surprise or emergency of tlie state." lliese meagre historical details give one little idea of the amount of Fetiiau literature which still exists iu ancient Gaelic manuscript*. Dae of ita moat accurate and learned students ha* coni putcd that, were all the Fenian (tortus and legends published, thev would fill three thou*and closely printed large quarto pagm, i To enter the aucieut Fenian order, " nvenr sohlu-r must swear llint without regartf to fortune he would choose a wife for her virtue, her courtesy, and her good manners ; that lie would never oflar violence to a woman ; that as far as he could he would relieve the jmor; aud tbut he would not refuse iu fight nine men of any other nation. Every *oldier iuu*t be well acquainted with twelve ! Imoka of j*ietry, and be utile to eoinjwaae , I verses. He must also run well, aud ile -1 fetid himself w hen in flight. To try his i activity, he was made to run through a wood, having a tree's breadth, and the whole of the Fenians pursuing him ; if he was overtaken or wounded iu the wood he.was refused, as too sluggish and uuskillfnl to fight with honor among such valiant troops. " He must lie so swift aud light of foot ua not to break a rotten stick by standing on it ; able also to leap over a tree as high as his forehead, ami to stoop under a tree tliat was lower than hi* kneea. Without Mopping or lessening his speed, lie must tie aide to draw a thorn out of liis foot. Finally, he must take au oath ' of fidelity." These are some of tlie qualifications given to us by an ancient historian, who uaively adds : "Ho long as these forms of admission were exactly insisted upon, the uiihtia of Ireland were tn invincible defence to their country, and a terror to rebels at home and enemies abroad." Wliat would lieeouie of our modern Fenians were such .raalifioatiani now re (lUired ? l'rrf. iyccige, in QcribHrr't SionUtly for M rrch. Death of a Noble Human. The telegraph brings us the jiainful intelligt iicc of tlie death of the Senora Dona Marguerite Maxa dc Juarez. wife I of tbo President of Mexico. Born of an honorable family iu the city of C'axa ca, she married at 15 the then unknown young lawyer, who snlswqueutly rose step l>y step in his profession ami in po- j litical poaitiun, utittl he liecame literally the luad of the nation aud one of the most famous men of our time*. Few women ever (Mewed through siieli vicis situdes of fortune. Hhe saw her bus- j liand at one tinm a prisoner in the liamls of the revolted Church party, niiderj Minuiion, at liauilalajara, ami threaten ed with instant death, aud again wa* herself coin|ielled by foreign invaders to seek an asylum iu tlie I'uited Htat**s, where she industriously furthered the cause of the Repuhhc and coutrilmkil uot a little to the further overthrow of the Empire. On tlie fall of Maximiiliaa, Mr. Sewrnrd sent her and her ehiklreu back to Mexico iu an American war sU-amer. Hhe always nianifewWsl the moat grateful regard for the American |M-ople, who had been the friend* of hi* family and country iu their hour of adver sity. She waa admired and beloved by nil* class.* in Mexico ; by the aristocrat* for her piety ami courage, by the re publican* for her unostentatious mode of life and patriotic devotion to the cause of the tuition, and by all alike for her charity, kindneaa of heart, ami ma ternal devotion. Hhe was the mother of thirteen children, of whom oue won. a fine, promising young man of years of age, uow in Europe, three married and three unmarried daughters, survive her. A year ago slic appeared like an Ameri can woman of 3o or 40, iu excellent ' health. Nothing in her drew or equip age distinguished her from the wife of any well-to-do citizen of the capital, and her Me, like that of her htisluuid, led her to avoid all unueowsary display ou even the most inqiortaiit invasion*. When the Si'ward party called at the ; (wince to hid her good-bye on their de parture from the capital, they found her sitting with her daughters around her, all engaged in family sewing, and no ticed that the work wa* merely laid aside for the moment to lie resumed on the departure of their guest*, not hur ried out of sight a* it would lie in mnny American or English families occupying infinitely leas exalted positions in socie ty. She was always kind, sympathetic and affable, displaying all the character istics of a perfect lady, a faithful, devot ed wife, n model mother, and an houor to her sex and race. A Ileal Ral .Story. A London (Canada), paper says : The most exciting rat eliaae we have heard of for some time liaa been going on in Sparks street for some days past. ilr. Offord was terribly annoyed by the de structive little brntea, and had lost a great deal of his stock by them, and seeing a receipt for banishing the pesta, ho tried it. The plan was simply to spread some kind of a drug on the floor near their runs, when* they would get it on their feet. The drug burns like cans tie, and they lick it off end get it into their months. Mr. Offord was astonished to find that in a short time he hadn't a rat ulmut liis promises. Dr. Hrown serosa the mad, however, found that his stock had increased to an alarming extent. Mr. Offend gave him his receipt for banishing tliein, and drove the hungry little brutes into Mr. Alfred Brown's house. Mr. Brown saw with astonish ment the terrible plague that had come on hiin and sat up at night to kill the brutes. An idea of their numbers inav be formed from the fact that he kilted sixteen one night in his room. After lie was tormeuted for u couple of days, Mr. Offord gave him the receipt, anil he soon got rid of them, and they retired ou Mr. MeCormiek's flour-store. He has got rid of them also, and Mr. Ch&mpness lins now pot the whole of them. It is the intention of mrties who know the receipt to drive the rata into Lower Town. A couple of weeks will be sufficient, and they will cross the canal some flne night ami walk into the Metro politan, and their entry will be as trium phant as that of the Germans into Paris. An Indiana girl finding a man in her room at a hotel, picked him up and threw him out of the window. THE Joint High Commission were cor dially received by the President. Lost on the Plata*. Iu January hurt, John Wilton, a lad about 10 years of age, left his home, on Mosquito Bottom, Kansas, iu eotu|tauy with his father aud two neighbors, for the purpose of hunting buffalo on the upjHr Arkansas The west lor was all that could be wished, game was found iu abundance, ami the huuk-ra secured an much as tb<*ir teams were able k> haul bin k ou ao loug a distauci, aud on tlie 10th preparation* were made for a return home. Young Wilsou, h.l liecome eueluuited with the wild scene* and wilder *jH,rta, mid shouldering his gun hastily, lie started out, and waa noon lost to sight as he picked his way quietly aloug the rivt-r Iswik and timber. The boy not re turning in a reasonable time to the camp his father aud conqsuiiona became un easy, and set ont in search of him. Onus were fired, but uo answer came in re sjKinsc. The same was continued through oitttlie night, and large fire# were kin dled on the highest eturaettofs in the hopes of attracting lua attention, but all in vain. The .lay daisied in fruitless search, followed by another night of de monstrations similar to those of the first, On the third dav, after fully deli In-r --ating on it, the party concluded to re turn home, form companies of their ueighbora, anil make a grand search fur th<> bov on the plains. Awakening from sleep, through a feel ing of eoUneaa, young Wilson looked out n(>ou the dreary wasta before him. The wind still blew, but the sleet liad sulsmlt*l His frozen clothe* clanked about his lmdy as he aroae and picked up his gun. He now fully recognized his situation, and hia first thoughts were on hia friends anil something to eat. To choose his course puzzled him, yet no time was Ui be lost. He plucked from oue of the bushes s sprig <mt it on end. and in his boyish way, resolved on going in tlw direction it might falL As the re- | suit will show, it fell in tlie oppoaite di rectiuu to that in which his friends were, and he wandered farther and further sway. For procuring food his guu was now his only reliance, and as he trudged aliout lie kept a sharp lookout for game. lie first tlay out nothing in the game line j presented itself, but on the second day ; a small herd of buffalo, on which he fin-<t, (tossed him. His shot was short of the mark, aud they were aoon away. . Ho he (Missed the third and fourth days i Weakened by hunger and fatigue, h nevertheleas ke(t up good courage, aud hopH-d that if he did not And hia friends, he at least might fall in with other hun ters or Indians, friendly or otherwise, he j did not care mush which, so long as his *cai( was safe and a prospect of a re plenishment of his stomach offered. t)n the morning of the fifth day he nunc to a small stream, skirted by s few scattering trees. Here he gathered some broken limbs, and pulled out from be neath the roots tlie dry grass and started fire. This he did by firing off hi* gun and blowing the wad into a blaze, which HOOU grew into a wanning fire, by which his frozm clothe* were thawed out and himself warmed. By this time he was too hungry and worn out k> proceed j much further," and he resolved on keep- j itig up his lite through the day and uiglit While so engaged late in tlie ev ening, he was suiUlenly startli-d by a gruff " how ! " and a dirty lug Indian stood !w hire him, with a gun on his hack and the hind qnsrter* of an antelope. " Bully !" replied Wilson, " how your lf ? " tie gaxivl ui astoniahment at the intruder. The Indian comprehended [he situation, proffered him a portion of liis meat, and they sat down together and ite ravenously of" it The heat and food livened him UP. and he soon ascertained that a liand of friendly Indian* were en •Ainji.il a few miles below. To this vamp the two repaired, and Wilson was welcomed kindly, and fid for three .lava, shen enough proviaiou wa* given him to reach tlie settlement*. liis ctmrse wa* pointed out and be started on hi* j iiomeward jonrnev. He traveled three | lays, when he fefl in rith liis father and Friends, who were returning to renew die search for him. The meeting wras a joyous one, and young Wilson i* content with " ouly one more shot." Nothing in the WT. Prewident Bez says there exist* no : rooty between Hayti and Hanki Ikomin <o to prevent the cisling of the latter to uiy Government. The convincing proof [but uo such treaty exists is, that Uie Do minican Government has made a> agive uent to the eotitrary with the Govern ment of the United Htate*, without any iwotcst whatever from Havti. while if inch a treaty had existed, the fset would , laive lieeii brought to the attention of die whole world long ago. It wa* hink*l in eonveraation with official*, tliat Mr. | iumuer in certain (wrsoual itik'tviews, liimself at one time desired President Bnez to come to Honto I>< >mingo and keep himself in power, and that ulti mately tin* I'nikit Htate* would lease or uy Hsmann Bay. but President Baer Having the snbjeot brought to his atten tion, said the matter lielunged to the •lass of private conversations. Tlie ltaez Governxuent denii* ero(l)at eally that *tiy eession of lands, any M! vantage* or privileges whatever had lieeu grantetl to any citizen of the Uni ted Stake or elsewhere. From Uie licet information attainable, it ai>|>oara tliat minea arc regulstinl atximling ki the French laws, which declare tliat private vwneiw are owners of the surfnee, pro ridisl there are no mines, or at least un til after they obtain authorization from die Government for such mine*, in ad vance of designation Ac., by others, rhere are, therefore, Mr. Hues says, no reservations in contradiction to the law in force. In reply to the question as to the im prisonment of individuals for jaditieal effrneea, the President most emphati cally says that no one has liecn impris oned or ! shed for political opinions against annexation ; that all who fol lowed ('abml Jsiiuarv 31, 1867, did an of their own free will, and that some few who have gone since, owe their forced alisenee hi the fact that they eon spinal against the public safety in favor of Cnbrnl or Lupenm. The debt of the IlepuMie apiwars to lie as stated in the Senate by Mr. Moi ton and others, namely, 81,600,000 in gold, but the friend* of Mr. Bacz say that unless great care is taken to reject spurious claims, a much larger amount will be required. It seems to In- the de sin" of the Bacz administration to pay the dot its while the Government still has legislative power to admit or reji-et the accounts, according as they art" just or spurious. None of the clergy, M above stated, have thus far made any protest against annexation. It wns charged in the Senate delate tlmt Bacz intended to leave the country. This he emphatically denies. People are inquiring liow long cotton will kec-p. Columbus, Ga., asserts that no change is noticeable iu the nppear anoo of the staple in Iwdcs, which have Ix-cn in its warehouse since 1866, and Augusta Georgia, rejoins, that a liale wns sold there the other dsy which, having heen in the warehouse eleven years, looked somewhat oily, and it brought as mnch money as new cottons of similar grades. North Carolina is the fourteenth State in the Union in point of population. She is one of the sixteen that have over oue million inhabitants. The Struggle fur Food. One calm dajr, aa we were lying at ttuchur off the bor of Florida, a long, J viona land of ripplca *M obwnrwd eou trntiuK aenribly with the atill *tr of the (lulf. Eventually it apiu-onctml, , Mill proved to ruiidit of myriad* of wtl) fiahea young *• sardine*." Hw ■ wonderful illustration of the m*xim, •• Eat and Iw eaten." FN, tJU* *|owu of thear small fifth** ia batched upon the Mirfncr of the MM, and forthwith acre* of form* live, move, ami have their l*uig - ■ greganou*lv, and almuat ** out- IUMM of animation Ho uoiforai and situukau nm are their momni oU, they aem like the revolt of one impulse. l*rg. Avium, (he Jack*, MO called, make vigorous uo daugliU aiming them, ami carry many i captive. The da*h ami uniform rimul taiioous movement of a rqiud of Jack* tut they make a raid upon tbeae aolid column* of aardiniait infantry are iuU-r --•wting to witmwa. The sardine* are con tinually leaping oat of the water to mrau their eiietuica, presenting in the ttulight their njmrkiiug ailver aiilea, mad attract- U>K the attention of the watchful ana-fowl. Thia vast auiwated j*t h soon became a scene of the greatest interest. Aa the " streaky finger* of tlie morn" began to fade, ami the aun ray* to glisten on the ai.vrry wing* of the flying fiah, and glow in indentvnoc on the rippling masses, the brown pelicans drop from their rooat and come flapping heavily toward the scene Flattering for an instant over the prey, down he (dungea, with open, dip-cet bill, resting on the water to adjust the game in hi* cajmcjou* pouoli. The laughing-gall—iuglorioaa bird ! with eager and aoruatoined eye, hovering near, eaaaya to help himself, and, "o/e** rolent, settles on poor PeJec'a head—a head, albeit, none of the araalleat, but one amply rotund and roomy. Now i* the moment of hia diaooutent. Aa the fiah i toaaed to bring it right end down, the gull adroitly atiapa it away, laughing liia derisive ha, hn a* he goea. The pelican aeem* to Kubmit to it an an inevi table operation, and make* no resistance, but flap# heavily up again to renew hia search. Meantime the lazy gull ia brought to grief, even in the inidat of hi* hilarity. The war-hawk ia on hia track. Listening and ogling from the neighltoring ahore, he apiea when he can leave hia rooat to profitable purpose. The exultant laughter of the pull noon give* place to ahrill erica of alarm. The war bird, collision* of hia power, beam a weary rye; caution*, and Mire of hi* mark.' TV weaker darts fitfully in rig rag line*. "triring with all hi* power to escape. Fatifruc ■nd fear prevail, and hating faith, lie let* the choiee morel drop. Down dart* the hawk ; rlntrhing the prey ere it reache# the *ea. he soar* straight**y to the nearest roost. 80 the struggle for exiatene* goes on. THE IUWOEB of wearing false luur in illustrated in a new and forcible way by the recent exjwnence of a Massachusetts dame. Fancying that her natural charm* required enhancement, aha innocently purchased one of those mysterious and toil-like ajq>endagca for the female bead known, we lxlievo. hy the technical name of "switehea" It waa a ••switch,'' equally Iwatitiful and hecoming. and for a brief space all waa luur and happincaa But presently .Madam began to feel an unpleasant sensation about the throat every time ahe assumed the foreign loeks —in jaunt of fact, a choke. She would, in her own striking and niacatorial lan guage, " get aa red a a bailed lobater. and gasp like a [Kirpoise** dreadful snnptoms which disappeared aa soon aa the "switch" was removed. What waa this myaterr no mortal could explain. Madam, being a true Boston woman, called a " medium." and Uie "medium" called a spirit from the vasty deep. Then did that spirit unfold a long and excur sive tale which, condense t. waa to the effect that " ahe waa the woman from whoso head the hair had been cut, just after she waa- hung ?"—and that a choke would always attend the wearing of that particular switch. Furthermore, this in structive spirit obaerved that all false hair retained more or lem of the jx-rson ality of ita original owner, and that this was th<* cause of mnch iuasnity and many criminal idiosyncracies in women. Which is an explanation rather more startling than lncid. A Storj of the Bell*. The I**ll* of the Cathedral At Idmcrick wore east by AH Italian. au<l placed in the rompanile of A con rent in FK pence. He had put hi* heart into hi* work. And believed hi* IM-UA the moat nu-lodion* in the world. I>uring the war* between FranciA 1. and Charles V. h-* kwt all liia AOUA, and his wife aoou after dying from exceaa of grief, the Italian went to Man ttu. and during hi* altaenee the I**ll* were carried off. When he returned ami found then) gone he was heart-broken, for they were then hi* only couaolation. He determined to wander oTer the earth until he recovered them ; and ao, staff in hand, be aet out upon hi* almoat hopeleaa pilgrimage. One summer lay after sun set, in 1550, a* the tale i* told, a grny haired man wa* seen in a boat on the Mhannou. Listless and dc*|Hindent. he took no notice of any thing until the I tell* of the Cathedral pealed out on the soft evening air. He wa* young again. He rrcognixed hi* long-lost and hug eought bell* ; and lifting hi* hand in gratitude to Heaven, hia aonl went forth with a prayer on hia lip*. The (tfrnin Umpire. The new German Empire ia to have a population of 38.509.053, exclusive of Atsaeeand Lorraine, which will give it 1,688,545 more, or a total of 40,148,'J0*. >. This ia the largest |*mulation of any State in Europe except Knsaia. The fig urea (TT the varioo* States are a* follows : European Russia 89,879.500 German Kmpir (with A- and L.).. t0.14M.a00 France (without A, and L.) 96,488 MM Anstro-Hungary Menarrhy 58.M5,593 Great Rritain and Ireland 90,8811,810 Italy, with Rome 38,170,000 There u a disjnite in Germany as to where the Emperor sludl lie crowned. In ages iiast the Emperors were elected at FYankfort-on-the-Main and crowned at Aachen. Two or three centuries ago, Aacheu had no quarters for the guests on these occasions, and the coronation ceremony wss removed hi Frankfort. Now Aachen is again of importance, nud disputes the claim with Frankfort. Ber lin is HO profoundly Prussian that the .South Germans look upon it with jeal ousy. _ How oist/I OVOHT TO WALE. HOW any of you who desire to appear well, to make a fine impression, can consent to crawl about, poking your chins out, shoulder blades sticking out and wiggling yourself along in that stnbhy, stumbling way. amazes me. Why, girls, if yon were to give one twentieth ]>art as much time to learning Vn walk as yon give to the piano, Jyou would mid immensely to your attraction. Everybody plays the piano. It really is refreshing to meet one who says, " I nev er learned to play." Why not a few of you, instead of sitting four hours a day ou piano stools, weakening and distort ing your spines ; why not just a few of von, byway of variety, cultivate this beautiful, elastic, queenly manner of walking ? You have no idea how, to use a Yankee phrase, "it would pay," as an attraction. A musical young lady says that a com poser mav very properly make overtures to anybody. TERMS : Two Dollars a Year, in Advaaoe. The HUrj ef a Hero. II might have been a lon* atory, far the her * waa aa brave aa good Mir Gala bail, uid |Ntluni aa well deserved immortality. Hut he waa only a boy, and they aay lioya don't alwaya have i untie** done them. He waa a eery poor Liy besides, and there waa nobody in ; (artbikr to toll the atory, and et it j never waa told in an/ regular way, only uaawrd from lip to Up, and kept sacred in the hearts that held it, like the legend* of the old saint*. I'm afraid he waan't a aaint, though. He had tjeen known to join moat heartily iu 'playing a trick on the pompous Utile police man, that kepi the newsboys in order while they were waiting for their 1 jw|K-r> ; and once, when a big peanut ( boy waa pounding a little candy peddler,' be pi i cbed in vigorously and gate the big fellow a complete pommeling. He bad lieen beard to aay rough words upon hard provocation, which waa not aa; strange aa it might hare been, seeing he 1 never in his miserable life was taught any lustier. In short, he waa nothing better than a ragged, dirty, Utile heath en, and it waa out of all reason that be should have wanted to join the boya of : his ward school in that laat game of j •• shinny." Why, he hadn't even a pair of akaios, but came scuffling along with bis clumsy shoes, a* sure footed aa a cat, except when one of the merry abaters gU<led suddenly acrorn his track, or half n-doieen of tbein swarmed pell-mell over him in the eager rush for the balL He ! never minded that, or the frequent nuw from the sticks that struck wildly at the tiring ball, and aeemel to have aa much fun a* if be were leader, and bis feet bad •dlv-r wing*. He bad not been chosen on either aide; not because be waa poor—your genuine boy is a democrat, arid anspa his fingers at social distinction—but because he had no skates, and what waa tbe use of a fcf- j low without skates f Well, it waa hard work keeping up, and by and liy he shuffled off the ice, danml a torn or two on aliore to warm his feet a little, and started, with his hands in hia pockets, for the glue factory, where Tim Conover waa sure to let him warm up. It waan't in boy nature not to we how the game waa coming out, however, ao he crossed a vacant led and came down to the river' just bv the ice bonaaa. Ah 5 H only needed one glance to see how it moat come oat for seine of them. Only a few rods away was the belt of blue water where the'ke had just beeu sawn across to keep the boys from spoil ing the harvest of the ke packers, and every instant they wet* coining d<*er to it Couldn't tbeT see it? Would not somebody ane itNo one hail eyes or thoughts for anything but that hall, gU<Uug, glancing.' darting here and there among t he steel-clad feet It wasa long way around the bend and up the river by any street but straight across, where the ice-cutten had been at work, was a thin, treacherous sheet of broken ke. It might bold a boy up, but if it didn't—there waa no tone to think about that for the next instant a ragged little hero was dashing across, whooping and screaming like a locomotive gone mad. Would the ke bear ? Yes ; per-: bap the hands that are underneath the falling sparrow hell it up, and the herd of startling players looked up, and cirrle ed with quirk motion from the very edge of the chasm at their feet " Who was it? Where is be T they asked with pale facet. I roue down with the tweaking ice, to come np again, gasping and strugghug. nnd at last to !>• drawn out, chilled and breath leas, by the ice cutters. They rubbed him with all the vigor of their 1 *awiiy arms ; they held him up by the beds to let the water ran out ; they pounded, and squeezed, and tossed him in a blanket, bat be lived through it all. and came to himself aith a strangling rough, and a laugh of approbation. Everbody praised, and petted, and made much of him, and then forgot all aliout him ; ao it was left far me to tell his story, and I call it " The Skxy qf a krro." Proverbs of All NatlMs. A deceitful man ia more hurtful than open war. A fox should not be oar the jury at a goose's trial. Justice will not condemn even the devil wrongfully. A great fortune is a great slavery. A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool. A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little. An old dog cannot alter his way of lurking. An idle brain is the devil 's workshop, A penny worth of mirth is worth a pound of'aonow. Avarice increases wealth. A small leak will sink a great ship. Bacchus has drowned moire men than Neptune. Expect nothing from him who prom ise* a great deal. Draw not thy bow before thy arrow be fixed. Grieving for misfortune is adding gall to wormwood. Good Iwrgniu* are pickpockets. Give neither counsel nor salt till yon are asked for it. Have not the cloak to make when it begins to rain. Re who would catch fish must not mind getting wet He is idle that might be bettor em ployed. lie who would stem every man's month must have a great lcal of meal. He that makes himself an ass must not take it ill if men ride him. He that knows not when to be silent knows not when to speak. He that fears yon present will hate von absent If an ass goes a traveling he'll not come home a horse. If l>etier were within, better come out It is more easy to praise poverty than to bear it It ia hard for an empty bag to stand upright. It is a pitv that those who taught us to talk did not also teach us to hold our tongues. How rr is Dora. —The following inci dent is related to show how some things mny be done, and it is said to have actu ally occurred in New York city : A builder of furnaces was called upon re cently to name a price for heating a large structure in that city. He offered to put pat in his apparatus for 830,000. After i ejKuted conversations with sundry per sons interested in the contracts, lie was told that the man that seenred the job would be obliged to pay a percentage to them—in this case amounting to $3,000 —the bill, of course, to be rendered in such a form as to make him a party to the fraud upon the owners of the build ing. He told them he wanted the job, but that as he also hail a desire to go to heaven when he died, he should be obliged to decline their conditions. HLe also suggested that ha should like to bid for the job with others, and was informed that not a single contract on the build ing was given to the lowest bidder. Then he was jxilitely bowed out of the pres ence of the gentlemen who oould not nse him. He went home, and as an ex periment, sent them a proposal to put in his apparatus for 825,000. From this he never heard ; and some man with a more convenient conscience, got the oontract and gave the percentage. THE Democrats of Troy have nominated the Hon. Thomas B. Carroll for Mayor. TO* Mwp-Wr;. DMU H i jit* Ha *,— n * aW it lirtl inMM VAN • w'totisff* tthftMtr toirift. 'Mm AsMMist) (Soidd Im iuqw <■ imhnw yon: Hot I ktv>w Mart (Hat r<m|4 Msk# jroar eyas a dtaasood brighter. Malt* *'">ttr Hjjs a its** am red. Malt* yom twwk a sm*4mm whiter. Straight mt Hjpoh*. with gb<hn* gait (<ittm.v boots, I hate rem *01) ■3a or aw* ; On# assail hand a tared ciaap* (oVm<teM>, bawiT torawi; I~ .t!i r tifte thr *&sMty ima, Kbowing vsgui-it 1 what! might h* Mo- tht'i ynt I tb fslial*T cU Of h*r boot-boals tend* m* on; And I follow hm in tlw*h, : And I wonder rheer *W gone. N<>( thr my hronsMrt kid That illtuainr* Smwm Mr**t OpiM no lw iw with H* cwß, Coold an sank* my pal*** baal. I* ahe walking sUB, *> wi f Mali Mi* nasi In IMB Jin Mid pitawwu Dai imanslaa (ah. todmfcl) To tka nrgwnr* ofter bresai t Or haa Mm reach. <1 bar fni, Aad irat -il her rusty batf And (hi. .hapdy hand, I ?*v Ha* ah# Ram# ta work with (hat 1 H.miitealioft-girlt thm^thyowhnota Wiai.br br and *b war dm*. T<*l jronr Ist, and mat jroar joy*. Mar. kind ward, and rare eatwaa; Ifl irt I am (hat a ytar w That owtaUaaa all oatvard show; That make* poverty rente*A And thst makre im kww jm ao! I- Aft.! avnl fmmtk*** Woman'* ri^hlw — High training—Haughty-cnHnre. Operatic refreshment— High-ncrraurrf. A aigenl ftflll I railway accident j la mixed society, a clean hand often carries off iba paint. Th* London Gazette ia the obtest newnaprr pnblialted in Eagtteb in the world. Tb* moat trembUaam* aort of tenant ia that which the landlord can get no (jointer from. London haa 316 newspaper*. 21 daily, and 216 weeklies. It haa *7B periodical publications. In Loudon workmen are earned on the railroad*, ten mile*, once a day each way for a week lor tweutydw cento. A manufacturer of rat poison ia Parte ia aaid to have committed anieide on ar count of the annihilation of his trade. Then- are 27.000 mote malm than B female* in die population of Minnesota, | or a masculine excess of about 12 per j cent A Taaatoaiaa caught in Sampson's Pond, last week, a pickerel weighing ms I m mud* two ounces, and armoring ova* two feet ia length. A Bo*ton l>ank President ha* gained notorietv by carefully turning np hia real several Inohe* when at hi* desk to' keep it from wearing out. An aeronaut haa dweorerod that a woman's Toioe ia audible at a height of two mile*, while a man's voice has nerer tiecn heard higher than a mile. It ia estimated that 220,000 pcowona live on the banks at the Merrimac River, and. to a great extent, are depend..! * upon it for motive power for their facto : ties and workshop*. According to an English jeweler, "the i United States have for several years aliaorbed, and do still absorb, all tka diamoiMla of firat-mte quality that como to the European market" \ An item in an account sued upon ia Winntekick Canny, lowa, ia: "For homing a bole in i y hall and dancing therein, 810." Tir* occnrreoee moat have taken place ra a holiday. Charcoal and marsh hay, skillfully compounded with a cheat of ordinary tea. will increase its bulk to fifteen cheats. * This compound is sold in the Wisconsin ittnerie* to stimulate the wood-chopper*. A-man in Qstian, lowa, was to be married on the eveuiim of the lat inat, tmt died on that day. The lady to whom he was engaged attended the funeral in what was to have been her wedding drew. Oapt Hall, of the steam-chip Jmma A. Gftrp, reports a huge water spout in Hatterea Inlet, ami my* the water came down in one solid sheet, and in ita descent -truck a dock of wild geese, killing all of them instantly. Three or four months ago an Italian fisherman climbed Vesuvius and threw himself into the burning crater. Since then Are or six Neapolitans have com mitted suicide in the same way. and the {dan threatens to become fashionable, A Florence paper mys of the American ladies there : " There ladies are ao handsome, there giris ao lovely, that if one but see* them, or, still worse, if one enter* into conversation with them, one cannot help falling in love at one* with the New Wodd." How many person* there are who have utterly misconceived their aim ha life! How many tenors are ready to din with grief, because their voice* are not bum ! How many Sim Tappertits are constantly endeavoring to elbow their way to the foremost rank among the chosen few. During the siege of Paris all the Ger man batteries "wittered around the city, were connected with Headquarters % telegraph communications. The tide graph stations were bomb-proof, and the operators were plentifully supplied with cotton wherewith ti> stop their ears, during the bombardment. A terrible warning ia conveyed is the statement that a young lady in Missouri, to test the truth of the stories concerning chignons being infected with insect.' thrf ml into the scalp, immersed her head gear in hot water, and una somewhat startled to find the surface covered with hundred* of jute bugs in a moment The Naval Paymaster in San Francisco appeals for contributions in aid of the families of the men who perished while n*kiug the trip from Ocean Island to Honolntn in the gig of the United State* steamer Saginaw, to secure assistance for the wrecked crew. Two of the men left families of little children wholly unpro vided for. A lazy dyspeptic was bewailing bis own misfortunes, and speaking with a friend on the letter's hearty appearance. " What do von do to make you so strong and healthy V inouired the dyspeptic, "lire cm fruit tione." answered the friend. " What kind of fruit T " The fruit of industry ; and I am never trou bled with indigestion." " What are you drawing, Anna V 'Tsemakin' your pictnr'." So the gen tleman sat very still and she worked away earnestly for a while. Then she t n 1 compared her work with the ortgTaai. and shook her little head. " I don't like it much," she said : " Tain't a great deal like von. I den I'll put a tail to it and call it a dog." This thing of wealthy gentlemen edu cating young girK designing to many them some time, ought to be stopped. A rich man in Oshkosh, Wia., educated a young lady with the intention of mak ing her his wife. The wedding day was near at hand, when a young lover took her from the church, where she waa attending service last Sabbath, and they were speedily made one, and set off to an Eastern home, leaving the elderly lover to console himself as best he might. During the trial of a famoua divorce case, now pending in Philadelphia, one of the lawyers in his argument said something about a witness named Kelly, when that individual sang out : " You're a liar," Kelly was arraigned for con tempt of court, until his counael ingen iously explained that Kelly meant no contempt of court, but that he was so carried away by the sweet dulcet strains of Mr. Cosaidy's voice that he involun tarily exclaimed, "You are a /yre/" thereby intending to compare Mr. Cassi dy to that delightful Irish musicai instrument. Ssbykd him Right.—A Boston gentle man, who could not waltz, offered a young lady a hundred dollars if she would let him hug her as much as the man did who had just waltzed with her. It was s good offer, and showed that money was no object to him ; but they put him out of the house so hard that his eye was quite black. As enraged father in Michigan caught his little boy by the ear, and whirled f him around with such force as to wrench that organ from his head. NO. 11.
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