The LlflM lock. There in * little myotic dock No human eye hw open, That beafrth on, end beOtclh on. From morning uni And when the soul i#wrf jxd in deep, All silent Mid alotifk It ticks nd tick* thllM| tu#ht. Vnd new runneth dorß. 01 wondrooo i* that work of Mi Which knoll* the pawbif hour: But rt ne>r fennel m* mind conodtcd The Wfe-elock's magifl ptowcr, Not Oct in gold, nor docked with K*ui. FT wvwlth nd pride WHMMWI ; Bt"rich or poor, or 1. gh or low, Each boor* it in hi* Erea*t, Bnch i* the clock that wciwo* life. Of fl**h and |>irit blended ; And thus 'twill run aithiii the breast, TJfl that strange life U ended. Tkf Perplexed Hon* keeper. I wiah I had a dozen pair* Of hand* tin# very minute; rd M* put all these thing* to right* - The wiy dotn* i* in it. Here'* a hi* washing to ho dona, tine pair of hand* to fe> it Sheets, shirt* and steel inga ocat* and paota— How will I eVr get through it T Dinner to get ftir alx or more. No loaf left oVr from Sunday, And baby CNN a he can lit* He'* afwava ao on Monday. And there'* the cream, 'ti* getting ermr, And BUM) forthwith ba churning. And here'* Boh want* a button on- - Wluoh way ahaU I he turning ? "Ti* time the meat was in the pot. The bread waa worked for baking. Tlie clothes were taken from the bod - Oh dear! the baby's waking ! Oh dear! if P—— eomew home. And An .la things in this bother. He'll just begin, and tell me *U AWW hi* tidy moth How nice her kitchen ueed to be, Her dinner always ready Ftartly when the dinner Wit rung - Hush. hush, dear little Freddy And then will come noiae hasty word. Right out before I'm thinking They aav that liasty worda froiu wives Set aober men to drinking. Now btTt that a great idea, That men should taka to sinning. Because • weary, half-sick wife Cant always tuuile to wintung 1 When I was young I owed to n My living without trouble ; Had clothaa and pocket money too, And boors of leisure doubt . I nev.-r dreamed of anrh a fttte W hen I, ti 'tis* .' waa courted— Wife, mother, nurse, eeamatnwa, coofc. hou*>- keeper. chambermaid, laundreaa, dairy wtv man, and acrnh generally, doing the 'work id six. For the sake of Using supported. A LEAP FOR LIFE. I was on nv way from Fam to Rotuv, and one morning in Mar found utyvnf in the City of Marseilles, where I had made up tax miml to take the steamer fhr Italy l"he vessel I had intended to sail in had departed the day previous to mv wriral, so there was nothing tu d hut to aaucct the next beet and crwnro .nee my jo arts ey After toting the offers £ the various com panies. I finally settled upon the Central Abbertoci, of the Yakrv Line, and after seeing my aboard, and looking in vain for some owe to whom I might say good-by. 1 followed suit, and was soon us the deck. I h v<ked around ine at our pavwnget*: ■ev jf *--,* there a greater mixture of aauuws. 'French, Spanish, and above all Italian, TO heard on every side, but 1 listened m vain for a sound of our good old English tongue. After numerous leave takings and ksssiurs. such as only a for eigner ran indulge in. we managed to get off. and steamed from the harbor with a light breeate following, and as happy a com pany as was ever got together. Tnere were several notables on board, the Consul- General of France to Rome, and hie wife, an accomplished and elegant woman: severr l Secretaries of Legation, besides many officer* of the French Army, who, with a company of troops, were on their way to relieve a jart of the garrison at Civita Veer hi, then held by the French. As we saihd along raatsv small boats followed us, the occupants scouting and waving their good-byes until we were out of sight. Could they have seen what the next twenty-four hours would produce; could they hare known that their pood drew were indeed farewell* to those who, before the morrow's son, would be in eternity, their gladness would have been changed to sor row. and their rejoicing to tear". As I said, we sailed on the morning of the 7th of May, 1809, and nothing occurred to mar our voyage up to 8 o'clock that night, when the wind changed, and a bead sea aet in, which quickly drove all the ladies and most of the men below. As for myelf, (baring spent nearly a year at sea. and neTer suffering from that malady called sea-sickness,ll walked the deck for soma two hours, partly for the fresh air, which I could not get in the saloon, and partly be cause a feeling of uneasiness and insecurity had taken bold of me. which I endeavored in vain to throw off. There were good grounds, however, for my feelings, for I had not been half an hoar on board before I noticed a lack of discipline among the offi cers and crew, which boded no good in case of accident, and which was afterward fully confirmed by their conduct. We were also heavily laden, including among nor freight a deck-load of petroleum, upon the barrels of which the troops lay or sat smoking. I endeavored in vain, by signs, to make the Captain understand the nature of such inflammable material, but be treat ed the subject with the utmost indiffer ence, and, shrugging hu shoulders, went into bis room, as if the fate of over sixty lives were of no possible consequence Havinz remained on deck up to nearly 11 o'clock, I went to my room and Lay down, taking off my coat merely, tor the horrid presentiment that something would occur still clung to me, and made my sleep anything but quiet. 11 was about 1 "o'clock when I was awakened by a fearful crash, followed instantly by two more shock* repeated in quick succession, while at the name moment shrieks and cries burst from all parts of the cabin, where terrified women and children were rul:iag madly hither and thither. Sly first thoughts were that we had struck upon some hidden reef or shoal which this part of the Medi terranean abounds in, but on reaching the deck I soon saw my mistake, for a large brig, whose outline* I could justice in the darkness, was slowly drifting away from us, and I knew in a moment that we had crushed into her, and the only question now was, were we sinking or wm she ? Every one was now on deck, and the confusion and excitement wis dreadful. Men called aloud for their wives, and mothers for their children, while others on their knees called upon God to save them. I went to forward part of the ship and there saw enough to convince me that an hour would soon decide the case for us ill, for our bows, which were made of ixon, (in fact, the ship was iron, and Clyde built.) were all stove in, and the water last pour ing in in great volume* at the apertures. But another sight I saw, which, for cow ardice and unsailorlike conduct, could hardly be equaled. The Captain and crew, with only one or two glorious exceptions, had seized the only boat left uninjured, and in the indistinct light I saw them pull ing away from the ship, and leaving u* to our fate. I rushed back to the stern, where the passengers, who had now caught sight of the boat, were vainly stretching forth their hands and begging for the love of God to take them in. The Consul, whom I have mentioned, shouted a reward of two hundred thousand francs, would they but take his wife. In bit agony he beseeched and prayed them, but money in that hour had no temptation, and his word* fell on ears deaf to a'l mercy. Seeing one of the sailors, "who yet brave ly stood at the wheel, I asked, by signs, or life-preserver*. He shook his head : hey bad none. I then tried to get two or hree men together, who would help mo wrench off doors or cut away the scat* and benches which ran along the upper deck for a raft, but they would not stir; either they could not understand or fear had paralysed them. And now the ship was settling by the bows and rapidly sinking: already the water was nearlv amidships, and almost up to the fires. The engine* r had left his post, with the engine at full sped, ami it was pushing us here and there, as chance directed. I now began to look around to see howl might save myself. The time had passed when we might have passed together, and everv one for himself was the thought of all. it 41 it i < t;. g y4l'4 CENTRE I IAN. REPORTER. FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor, VOL. IV. Having taken vtf tuv clothing. I seized a 1 tntafi tVf it Wire utmost good fhr noth ing a.i a Host, yet more than our attempted to take it Irian in#, ami it tva* only bv thrxatrtiitit* them *ll with my knife that*! Ptmltl keeppossession. I knew that it wa* a chance, it it would hold but one, and life' wa* too dear to |rt with lightly. A* the water reached the boiler*, the •team poured .ait m vvltiiie*. <ttd i#auv, thinking u* Usee on tire, added to the *oem\ by their era*. 1 had made up my mitui to throw my settee overboard, and w a* about to put it into execution w hen tuv atteutcui was drawn to the brig, whieh was approaching again with the evident in | taut ion of affording help. The ship had now sunk *. far that her "tern wa* rawed i -erne thirty ieet tlmv* the water, and : only the mizxen ina*t wa* clear of it. Krery mouieut, we could foci her settling i lower and lower, preparing for her tiual ; plunge to the bottom. We were all hud dled together in the stern, anxiously look ing fur boat*, or at least a I mat friun the brig, when the Captain hailed as asking what nation the alup -. He -poke in French, and we eriesl back : The tieueral Ahbertoci, Italian; we are sinking. can you save ti* ! Tien a silence runicd. and mother* hushed their children, and we all waited the words—the word* of life or death. The answer eaiaa back clear and distinct: We cannot help you, we are sinking ourselves. t>|i, the agour of that moment. Vat there wa* no wore frantic crying, but men grasped each other* hands in a farewell grip, and a dark, settled dre pair war. mi the lace of all. 1 now oncmiiwd to reach the brig or pegish attempting it. for I saw there wa* no hope for us, ami I reasoned that the brig, being a wooden vessel would bobl | >ut the longest, or at least afford mean* of I building a rati, at anv rate it wa* death to *tay where 1 waa, tor I kmw I ab-nild be drawu fnVv the suction wheu she sank. j So. gra-ping my watch, am) what mom-} 1 ! had with me, which I had taken from my 1 vest, I went up the rigging, and a the brig sank on the nfdK Ijumpcd dOV9 . and across. The exact distance f sprang I ' : could not say, but I struck her gunwale ' (and fell in the (wssagc way. between it and ' . the after-cabin. I lay for a urnmeot stunned, and then springing up I •*UH ' amidships. Here everything also was iu ' 1 confusion, our steamer having struck her 'j on the atari*<ard side near the bow, cutting '; a hole in her to the water, and carrying ! J away a good part of bar rigging. 1 i The Captain and -ailoi* numbering j about ten men. were endeavoring to get a : r i small bont. which lay keel upward on her i i deck, free from the entanglea rigging, and ; launch it. It was only after working with j a will that we were enabled to get it over the side, and jumping iu a- best we could, j wc palled away from the brig toward the steamer, but we daw not approach too : n-ar for fear of being drawu in, hut shout ,cd for them to jump, and wo would try and pick them up. i ft wa- too late. I'ne awful scream, one | cry of agony— such as I pray I may never hear again—as she plunged to the bottom; [ and of ail those cabin passenger, 1 alone was left. The waters met and closed over her as peacefully and calmly as if nothing had ocvured, and nearly sixty souls, men, women and children, were in eternity. The day haul fairly broken now, and wrth the new- light we seemed to have new • hope. Finding that the brig, which had drifted some way off, was still floating. ! we sheered for her, anil, clambering up, i threw ourselves upon the deck worn out , and exhausted. I think, had our vessel . than sink that not a man could have saved himself, so utterly were we used up. But help was near at hand. We had J discovered, while in the boat, the masts and spars of a ship looming up on the, horizon, and now she was in plain sight, j ; We hoixted our flag as being in distress, and shouted, and almost cried with joy, as we saw her return the signal, and then came bearing down toward us. As she i passed where the steamer sank, she put out her Umta and picked up two posseti -1,1 gers, and then came to us. She proved to be 77/e King bound from Norway to the coast of Africa. Her Captain, a bluff old I sailor, !>ta kiad-liwrtediriait, ifter a cpn- 1 aulfafroirsihth tlie Captain of our brig, told him he would help bim into the nearest port, which was Leghorn, or, as he called it, Lirtano. Our vessel,although severely damaged, would still float, for Wine, a ' sailor- have it, only in ballast, via. hav ing no cargo we were enabled hv constant ! pumping to keep the water out until we ' had staffed the rent full of old cordage, j sails, 4c., and nailed a large lot of canvas oxer the side. The Captain of The King had also pick ed up the Captain of the steamer and his crew in the boat which they had taken so basely, and. Wing rather short of pro visions, with so many more thrown on his hands, all that could had to stay on : the brig. We found by observation that we wete I about 100 miles from Leghorn, and turned , ! our prows in that direction ; but n >w. one of these calm* so frequent in this sea set '! in, and it was oalv after three days and | nights' increasing iaWr at the pumps that ■we reached the port. The ship, mean 1 ; while, kept close by ti<, and at night our lamp answered each other's welcome N hght, while deck-watches oP the two j vtsH-lii sent across the water the joyful , cry of '• All's well." I was quite used up and uaftt for doty after the second day, for my feet were swollen and purple, and my left wrist sprained from my jump, but 1 it was not until cramps set in that I gave up taking my turn at the (tumps, for there was many- a poor fellow worn: than 1. The moment vre arrived the news spread like fire, and soon a crowd of many hun dreds were about as asking questions and pressing upon our acceptance food and - money, and in tact, like many others of . our species, we needed both, for a more '' sorry looking crowd it would be bard to 1 find. < 'or wardrobe was made up of tlie ' odds and ends belonging to the Captains iof the two vewln, and was anything but I comfortably but v little thought of that, 1 for life h*j Wn spared ill, *hile so pi any had met a watery grave. Of my journey to Rome, and the reception I received there, I will not speak—suffice it to say that a more kind-hearted jsnplt* than the i Italian*, or ones more ready to help those jin actual distress, do not live. 1 made a statement of the affair tieiore an Ameri | can Consul at Leghorn, and have since ' learned that the Captain of the Ahbttiw f is serving out a term of eighteen years in the Government Prison f3r not having his I lights oat, and cowardice in leaving hi* II vw*el. ; | Nearly two year* have now passed since I [ that night, but I can yet see those pale > facets, and hear the shrieks a# they sank. (It will cling to use while I ejdst. for I am §ue 1 can never forget while memory lasts 1, —my leap for life, ! A WELL-KNOWN BAILOR DEAD. —Mil waukee papers note the death, on the sth inst., of Capt, Dennis Mcßride, one of '■ the earliest navigators of the Lakes, who was wheelsman n the Erie, iu 1841* when that steam-boat was burned on Lake Erie, by which memorable disaster —the first of any magnitude to occur on • the Lakeß—nearly 400 persons lost their ■ i lives by burning or drowning. He has | served as Captain for twenty-eight years ( ; and navigated one steam-ship." the ■ Detroit, across the lake between Mil ' waukee and Grand Haven 2,752 passages, • without the loss of a single life or acci- II dent to the vessel Indeed, he n°ver [ (lost m psseenger nor met with any serious i accident while in command. / I ; ■■■ ■ ■ i A Boston man disposed of sn estate of ' over three millions in s will consisting of | eleven lines. ** The Birds are Coming." Wltou Hortbern winds blow let all the southern bird* sing ! Wheu the late snow* drowse through the air, let *ll the bird* elnji their wing* and plume theii feathers. It is the old battle of the birds again*! the wtml.v Irest autumn birds were driveu away by the winds, but it wa* not till they lunl forgotten to sing PnwperitT hud made the bin!* gross and songle*w, tutd the wind* prevailed. But now it is spring. The bird* have found their voices. They are coming every day in royal array toward* the north to avenge them -elves upon the di*]wscv. tug wind* that drove theui away. The battle of the bird* and winds! Siug, victorious chairs 1 sing till nights grow short, tiU loug ilavs are full of heat, till the meadows are full of fragrance, and the Uvea of hlowsom* ! t'ouie, all of you, and bring all of your relation* ! t' me, sparrow*. blue-birds, and robbm*, ear liest of all content ! Oouie, black bird*, those with red ejmulet.* on your should ers. and those without ! Come, lark*, W iiod-threshe*, bobolinks, bullets. Illlt hatchera, warbhra, tly-catchers, flre birvl* and orioles! Come, hungry hawks, and solemn old crows, dapping funeral wings to keep time with croak ing song t'ouie, everything tlie-, uu l sjiiders to eat them ; squirrel* ami owls to catch them ; worms ami limiting bird* to catch them. Wake on all ls*-tle* and droning iuse-ta and fat larva?—tlie birvl* are coming, and you tuuat bo reotlv to le eati'ii ! And ao the world rolls on. The winter consumes the autumn, the spring devours the winter, summer eon snuie.- the spring, and autumn run*iek* the siinnuer. Insect* are the foxl of birvl*. and birds are devoured by stron ger birtl* and auimals, and both by man; while Time, the great destroyer, con sume* lw >th man and !x-ast. Only <iod is young and unchanged. "Of old hast Thou laid the foumlatiou of the earth, and the heaven* are the work of Thy hand*. They shall jwrtsh. but Thou shalt emlure. * * As a vesture shalt Thou eluinge them, and they *hail be change*! th-u; but Tboti art the* same, and Thr v.-ars shall have noend.-/A -v/.cr. *eek*Tle Social*. A correspondent of th>- St. Louis hV pwVicKM. writing from Macou, Mo., aav*: A somewhat novel entertainment under the above head, took place in MIUMII City last evening. The mt*ins opcrom'/i of this exhibition, and which doubtless rendered it more attractive, was the fact that the ladies, one and all, wore a calico apron, and from the same piece and pat tern was made a gentleman's neck-tie, which was placed iu an envelope and Je poaited with door-keeper or tioket-oeller. The gentleman attending, upon paying th/admission fee of twenty-Ave cent*, was presented witli an enveloja* contain mg one of these calu-o neck-ties, which he immediately opens, and UJM> enter ing the hall, proceeds on a hunt to Ami the yonag or old lady, as the ease may happen, that sports an apron matching his neck-tie, which lady according to announcement, is to be his jartiirr for the evening ; and who knows but what it may in some instances result in a life affair. We have heard of huliea holding the sterner sex in many different way*, but this is the first instance we have ever known of a neck-tie lieiug both an introduction and a i<a*sport for un evening's entertainment with a lady that perchance von liave never seen before or ever will agaiu. Your correspondent was afraid, for sundry reasons. to ven ture on auy such a 1 venturous affairs, for I never liad any luck iu gift enter prises, and in such a one as this, would certainly have drawn one of the oldest and most imperfect of her sex in the assembly ; hence I did not invest. All ladies, of course, are beautiful. but some are much mure so than oth rs, and I per fer some other lea hazardous method of obtaining a fair partner. A very pleas ant evening, however was pa* d, the only objection Wing thai the ohl men succeeded in drawing a majority of the young ladies, while the spruce young men in mauy instances had to, like good Wvs, and for the way of a change, enter tain their dear mammas for an evening. Upon the whole, the young men didn't draw worth a cent, and express them selves a* oppoaed to a rejs-titi* >u of Br anch kind or lottery. Women Gamblers, The Kansas City Neva says: " A woman went through on the" Kansas Pacific train a lew evenings since, aho was pointed out to ns UA out* of the cel<>- hrated female fan >1 milkers <>f Denver. .She was dressed tastily and quietly in a gray AI{MCCH traveling suit, with gloves i und trimmings of hnt to match ; nan of medium stature, well- formed, and not [ more than thirty-four or thirty-five. Her \ face was not at all an unpleasant on--, mart have been very pretty, some tinn, I en* so many tell-tale lines wen* drawn upon it; and, what is moat unusual in women of her class, the Complexion was good. Hhe was on her way back front Si. Louis, where she went, NO our in formant stated, to place a young boy nt school. Tlicirfaro-buuk at Denver has j been in fall blast for some time, ami the two proprietors an* reaping u rich har ; vest. No fights or disturbances of any kind have evpr occurred at their rooms, and the women conduct the game with till the suavity of ex|H*rien<*d profes inionnls. Several lights of the gnmliling fraternity were at the de}>ot, and seemed 1 much interested in in'inirirg after her , welfare. Hint* to Poetical Advertisers " The f Laneui in lAIU<UM iSociWi/ has a new idea : Advertising, as an art, is at a very low ebb among ns ; and though we have imported certain wrinkles fnun America, much remain* to be done. 1 Poetical advertisements §eom to have died out with Warren's blacking, hnt they might be made very effective and i the products of the day would offer ex } eellent subjects. Thus : I' I ld .. my darling. •* I'm K nia to I*ll von Tto mraatOK ol jruu r, saatows to know: I TfeouffU .vow 1W<1 immi Ituit nothing would Impel too ; To vk itrti of n#bl lhl tout nM to mm* ,/ foul i let riara SHOe ruttoMty ftrtM votir bmta. ' Dndwlafcly ntadln* no utokrr. It W -mid to crtn l tn me to Kfttat- in vinUln | What t nndentand by Oxokerlt." ' Or thus: • Kw* M vwrtona. tome* ni) Baartioa. Jt<; iiwlsltn* Offer to me t , Talk ol the town, ob ! Poland and Brown •< All their renown, oh! ' Darling. lo tbw I' Or thus : | • Breathe three, with emil ao dead, a man i Who ne'er need libra' " Kaffir Ksnne r* • THE New Orleans Picyunr SAYS this is ! the style in Havana: "Whenever a carriage arrives the jaunty footman jumps from his seat, springs to the door, and doffing his glossy beaver with his | right hand, opens the door with his left, ' and stands there a miniature Beau Brnm | mel. Just as the ladit s rise to vacate the carriage the driver {sitting bold up right in life seat,with reins in his left hand | nearly on a line with his chin, and whip i perpendicular in hia right), suddenly, and with military preciseness, places the whip in his left hand, and taking his beaver in his right holds it at a respect - i ful elevation." j EDWIN P. WHIPPLE says that the taxa ' ble value of all the property of the Uni ted States in 1860, was in round num bers $16,100,000,000 —a rate of increase in ten years of a fraction mora than 126 I per cent CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 31, Hutmlng n Newspaper. The Memphis .Iro/fMc/o lias the fol lowing suggc-tive (wtrugrapU, which sliouhl IH< carefully read and pondered ov-r by u witiviu ebvs* of iewspa|er remler*. •• Hv some utiaivouuiable misappre hen-ioii of facts, there is a large class of p<oplc in the world who tluuk it iwts nothing to run a uewspajK-r, and if they buy a copy from a uewsboy wlien t<** far from the ofHiv t** Ivg, think thev are regu lar patron*, ami entitled to unlimited fa vira. Men call every day at the oftlee to get a copy of the ptqter, jut from the pre**, for iiothiug, who would never think of lagging a ptwket haiidkerchief from a dry goods store, an apple froiU a Conf>cti oner, even oil the plea of old ac quaintance, or having bought something before. One jmper a duv amounts t<> nothiug, but a hiiudrt*! a day amount* to *oni thing in the course of time. But thi* i* a sindl ilruin cunqrered with the free inl- Vertisiug a new*pap-r l* expeetevl to do. Huure men who have jmid two dollar* for an ailvcrtim-meut worth four or five ilol lars, up|*ear to think thev are *t* khold er* in the e*tabli*huient /or lib*. They demand the publication of inairiogea aud futu-rul Uoticeo, obituaries and fam ily episodes, for the next forty yearn. Speak of (my and they grow* indignant. "Don't I jHitronizey iiirpaixr *f " " Wft, but you receive the value for wliat you paid." "But;" sav* the patron, "it will coat voit nothiug to put tliis in," which is just aUmt ui ridiculous a to ask a mmi to griud your ate on a grtnd stoue aud U>ll htm it wout cost him a cent It take* money to run a trew*|Ktper a well a nuy other !>u-ine, and no ]apcr stux-vssls financially tliat carries on a deavl-head system. Any mention of the people's afihir* they wnili to tree in print, i* worth juiying for, and when printed is geuendly as good a* any other iuve-t --tucut of the vttuc amount. ne uewwpapcr btiMuew ia very cxact ing oil all eonuectad with it, aud ttie pay is oomjMrutivcly sm.ill, the proprietors risk more money for smaller pro tils, and the re}>orteni arid editora, and print ers work harder and cheaper than any other class of uie.i requiring Uie given amount of intelligence, training and drud gery. The life lias its charms and pleas ant associations scarcely known to the outside world, and nntiethw, and hour* for exhaustion, which, likewise, are not known to Unas- who thiuk the business all fun. The idea that ucwspaperdotu is a charund circle, where Uu- im-mlan* lead a life of ease, are free from cart*, and go to the circus at night ou a free ticket, and to the Springs iu summer 011 a free ticket, ia an idea which We wish to explode pruerieally and theoretically. Business is business, and the journal that succeeds is the one that i t conducted ou a square business footing the same as banking or building bridges, keeping a hotel or running a liverv stable. The ( rj ptogruui. The Cincinnati Tiwnw n*fer to a let ter recently written by Horace (ireeley, proiMMing New V*rk city as a site for the national capital. Tin* pajwr stab-a that it ia a little difficult to decipher the letter, but (ireeley rvideullv " 1 SUM'S hi* of the fifteenth masting codfish en rnmU'ra of Cincinnati ut twenty-five cents per pound." The body of toe h-t --ter is given u* follows: "ft is not possi ble that I should ever *{,!• Uietu again. As pudding i* a reproach to comic sec tions, the vi-rv caveat conveyance* of our an- untrue, ami pramia are Ivinkrupt. Swill your nicest ea:it loujx-* in Wash ington until it swim* in un unfortunate location. All the MrtWtbyx are lurv to he veneered unless they ae ejit moral polecat*. I bought four of the earlioat. and I suffered fearfullv uudeltiable cress *ut saw*. Who tmught all the nnta and Inrcogu* of the Ecumenical C unci! ? The lube of the Federal parentage ia the Itcarer of it* two-horae lumber wag on. It Mptcalctl when *urreumhd by a dose <f Widow Cliqnot. Experimented on by the population of rein-nting voter* in mvrinda to the defeat of nautienl an chovies and tondoea It swelled to a forest of artichoke* ; and amid the soli tude of resin Isurel* thus inviting the lki* de Boulogne. and accommodating the formation of cheese fivctorie* through out the civilised world."' A NFW INVENTION rou THE MANITAC TUM V OP NAILS.'—An English inventor ha* taken out a j*at<-nt for a new method of making nail*. From his sjiccjfica tion we 1.-uni that the uietlusl i* sutv *tanttally a* follow*: The inventor forms flat Iwira <ir strijw <>f wrought iron in the o nil nary machinery. While the hare or strip* so formed are still hot, he pa**. # them between a jwiir of *hnping rolLi. Due of these roll* i* a plain cylinder, ami the other roll ha.-, the gen eral figure of a cylinder with a series of incline or steji* made on its cylindrical surface, the .said incline or step* of the roll having such a conformation that the bar rolled Is-tween it ami the plain cylin der roll ha* in longitudinal section the figure of a aeri. l * of headless nail* joiuevl together slumk to jioint. tVhile still hot, the shaped liar or strip i* slit into nail rod* bv a series of circular slitters, the whole bar Wing simultaneously slit un by the said slitters into nail rovls. These nail rod* when cold ore fed into a heading machine, by which the nails ait headed nnd cut off from the nnil rod. The heading nnd cutting off machine which he employs differ* in no essential rcsjieet from other machines commonly used for hemliug and cutting off nails. A i Kin AIN Maaaochnaetta farmer, a Uun penuice man, bv the way, who is justly jirond of his fine im|K>rted stock, re cently fancied that one of his la-st milk ers wa strickfii with the cattle disease, and rent in a great fright for the village farrier, a ne'er-to-do-well sort of a fellow, whom he harl often lectured for hia tip ling propensities. IHck came, exHmined tlie animal, looked grave, luid raid, •• Have von anv whiskey or brandy handy ? " " No," raid the farmer. " Pat, run tin thedruggist'a ns WKIII ON jHn-iblfl, and tell him I want a quart of brandy for medical purjioses." When the bot tle arrived, I'ick took it and uncorked it, siuelt of it. and taking a good drink, put the bottle in his jiocket, saying, " Your row will hi* all rigid presently; I have pulled a thorn out of foot," and walked off. BAIMNO VESSELS built in the United Stntra during the year ending June 3*l, 1870, are officially reported to number 81ft, of which the shijm are forty-one, of 57,107 tons, and the schooners 619, of 56,908 tons—showing the coasting trade very near the foreign shijijung. The steam vessels nuinlicr 290, of 70,- 890 tons, there tieing six oewui sb'amci s. eighteen for the lakes, and 966 on the rivers ; tho barges rejiorti d are 182, and the canal boats 512 ; or a grand total of vessels bnilt, from ocean steamer* to canal boats, of 1,418 ; tonnage, 276,953, HEAVY LOSS.—The Rothschilds i\ie said to have lost from 850,000,000 to 875,000,000 by the result of tlie Franco- German war. They all believed at first that the French would be victorious; bat two weeks after tho Germans had crossed the Bbine, they saw their mis take, and made new investments which prevented them from losing thrice as much as they would have done had they not corrected their blunder in good sea son. A Feeding Xaekine- Thetw has recently been invented ami tit now nt work in New Yurk City uu im proved fetsliug and registering machine. Tlit* invention eouibimse uu automatic feeding apparultt* W itli UII adjusting at tachment, by which it (wrin't registry is twcuml. It i constructed tin follow* ; A movable table, ou which the |uq>er in laid, *cillatw IwkviM ami forward by menus of a cam, working from the main cylinder, Directly above the table i* a Miction !|.|urttii, consisting of an oa cillatiug pipe, with a eerie# of *upa or abort tube*, with uUii(ii< edges At each upward movement of the tabic the air i* exhausted froiii the |ij>* bv a com mon air pump, tool by reason of the vacuum the toy hot ia sucked up from those beiu-ath, and adheres rWljf to the mouth* of the etipa. Owing to the ineliuatiou of the cupa only a magic sheet In allowed to adhere ; the front edge of the ttllie being above the |Mprr at an angle of 4o degree*. To complete the operation. a aeeoud tula* ia placed parallel with the om-ilUtiug pipe, and ia provided with several perferatioaa opj site the table, fnn which current* of air jams uudt rueath the rained sheet of |a --ta-r and separate* it from the other sheet* lying uu the table. At thin umlaut the -netion of the pipe oeases by the action of a cock cutting off the communication with the vacuum chamlww, and the j jn-r in nloawtl from Ute cup* and deliv eml to tlie adjusting apjwratiu. The latter consist* of a nrriea ui gripjsr* aud clump* by which the sheet* are adjusted and delivered b the printing press with out manual aaatstalice. The sheet in seized by traveling carrier* moving hor izontally, and if oblique, or out of place on the lawk table, the front edge ia drawn squarely up to the gauge# by ui'-aus of guide*. while at the nam* time aide-cramp*, acting at right angle* to the carrier*, seize the lateral edge of the sheet and adjust it according to aide guage*. A rent bar preveuta the edga of the |>a]>cr from curling up, and the sheet in delivered to the grippers of the print ing cylinder. In thin way, printing pa per of any size, placed in any oblique }*>aitiou ujnui the oscillating feed-table, i perfectly adjusted and delivered to the pre**. T&e machine i nelf-feediug and self-adjusting, and requirew 110 supervi sion whatever. The ap|taratus is not adapted to printing pr-**e* alone, but tear le ned in connection with rolling, folding, cutting, and all other murium* which are fwd with |a|ier. Its speed Is *J,5< O ab> eta an hour, which fully equals the ew|aunty ot any rotary press. —„V. Y. 7Wfoms, M-ircM li. W hat Becomes af the Cat a. In the reign of Darius, gold was thirteen times more valuable. weight for weight, than silver. In the lime of I'ta to, it was twelve times as valuable. In Uiat of Julius Ca-sar, gold was only nuie times more valuable, owing, jicrhap*, to tiie quautitn * of gold seized by hitu iu his wars. It is a natural question to ask, what has I worn** of the gold and silver ? A jsqwr ri-ml l-fore the Polytechnic Association, by l>r. Ktephena, recent br, ia calculated to mart this inquiry. He savs, of the annual goM imwlnet, fully fifteen per cent, ia melteddown for man ufarture; thirty-tivo par cent g* to Eurojie ; twenty-live per cent, to Cuba ; fifteen per cent." t* Brazil; five |s-r cent direct to Jajiau, China and the ludu- - ; having but five jmt cent for circulation in thisconnlry. Of that which goes to Ctilw. the West Indies, Brazil, fully fifty j**r cent fitida its way to Ktuope, where, after deducting a larg- |*-re-ntge used in manufacturing, four-fifth* of the re mainder is exported to India. Hen* the transit of the precious metal ik at an -ml. Hen* Ui*< supply, however va-t, is alsiorlicd, and never return* to the civilized world. The Orientals consume but little, while their productions have ever been in de mand among the Western nation*. A* mere recipients, these nation* have ac quired the desire of ai-cnumlatioii and hoarding, a passion common alike to all classes among the Egyptian*. Indian*. Chinese and Persian*. A French econo mist ststiw tliut in hi* opinion, the for mer nation alone hide away 82UU.0U0,- UUU of gold ami silver siuiually, and the present Emperor of Morocco is rejstrV-d a* so addicted to hi* avariciou* mania, that he Its* filled seventeen clnuubee* with the precious net ids. The pa**imi of princes, it i* not surprising that the same spirit i share*! by their subjects, and it is in this predilection that we di*- 1 cover the solution of the problem a* to | the ultimate disposition of the precious metal*. This absorption by the Eastern I nations bus been nnintemiptedlv going on since tl> most remote historical jie riod. According to Pliny, as much as 9100,000,(NX) in gold wua. in his day, , annually exported to the East. The ' linlauce of trade in favor of those na j tions ia now given u* $80,000,000. A singular Duel. That infraction of tlie code did not necessarily involve sociid ostracism it evident from the fact that I> • Witt Clin ton left the held with impunity, while i Swartwout, his opponent, was prop sting he was satisfied. After the first shot the latter demanded n second, and after the secimd n third. Neither wras wounded. "1* votir principal satisfied ?" asked Hiker. Clinton'# second. "He is not." replie<l Smith. after con sulting Swartwout. The fourth shot ww> then exchanged, ! (lin ton'a ball entering the enlf of Swart - wout'a leg. " Is vonr princijial satisfiisl now ?" de manded Hiker. is not," replied Smith. HhoU were exchanged tlie fifth time, and again Clinton's lmll entered Swart- I wont's leg. Riker again asked the question, "I* your princijial satisfied, Mr. Smith t" After a moment's consultation with Swartwout, who, standing while the tair j geon extracted the bullets from his legs, manifested great fortitude Smith re jdicd that he was not. " Then he may go to thunder, for I will fight no more !" replied Clinton, and immediately left the field. A aovruc in Dubuque have managed to get through the winter quite pleas antly. The wife gave out that her hus honil lunl gone to Wisconsin, and that she wns left with the several children to get along the lm*t she might. Tlii*. of course, exeitvsl the compassion of all the , benevolent people at the town, and she lias been supjiorUd by the iliflereiit churches during the jiast winter. The 1 other day a benevolent lady visited the woman and ojiened the <t<*>r without knocking. She was 'somewhat surprised j to see a pair of boots disappear under the lied, and still further oatonished when she discovered that the owner of tho boots was the husband, who w as sup posed to be in Wisconsin, but who, in reality, had lived comfortably on the fraud lie had been perjictrating through out the entire winter. JACOB LUENBUBOEB, who shot Miss Fredenea Myer, at Sing Sing, a few week* ago,sud liaa been indicted for mur der, baa so far recovered from the ef fects of the wound inflicted by himself on his own head by the discharge of a pistol, us to be considered entirely out of danger, although the ball has not yet been extracted. He speaks freely on the subject of the lste tragedy, and still ex presses, his regret that he did not suc ceed in taking his own life as well sa ! that of Miss Meyer. Women lecturer*. Vet there remain* in many court*<u and generous mind* the oil prejudice. A women should not sfa ak in public, they say. (lo tf you will, and enjoy listening if you can ; but e will stay away, for we do lint think it feminine. Vet tin* god friend who says this went with delight to hear Jeuny land; and pay* for himself, Mis. liieud, and the two Misses l'rieud, si*tvu dollars to hear Nilsson ; carriage, four dollars; gloves, and incidental et|**usm, five di.l'ar* a u< ut sum tobtl twenty-five dollar*. He likes mimic, she i* a sweet Ntuger, ami it is cmnac it htu( to hear a famous prima donna. Certainly the Fiasy Choir does not quarrel with those who like to hear musicaud sweet singers. Hut we were sjieakmg of pnqiriety. Now why is it not as uuf< murine for a woman to *iug U)MIU a platform in a public hall a* to ajM-ok o|m*U the same platform ? If she sing* badly, certainly she ought to I** severely discouraged ; and if she sp<-k* twdly, let her-we say it "in a spirit of love"—hold her tongue. Hut then, in the aoine spirit, we sav tin- mine thing U* singers aud oratoi* w ho are not wituicu, I* it ptv*|*>r aud manly and lie iviming to hi* st-x that a man should wing or speak who has no talent far sing ing or s|ieakiug ? it is not this Easy Chair which assert* it Hut when tlie woman ha* a noble tal ent for soug, exquisitely cultivated— when Jenny ljuu stands before us. with her luiud* resting one upon Lite other, and with her very soul sing*, " I know tliat my H**h*-mer hvetliis it uupro]*-r? Is it unbecciuiiug ? Is it uuiemiuine ? Why. uttr good friend himself goes home a better titan, liecause a m re Iwlicvnig, for tliat marvelous soug. Hut sup]MMk- tliat instood of aing ing those words she had read other words from tire lhblc, with ewruustneaw and conviction and power that they •bone with new light, and illuminated duty, would it be unfemiuine or improp er that ahe alHiubl do it ? If a Woman is evidently ahailow and vain, and ia plain ly more concerned with the eflect Uiat Iter toilet will produce tliau with Uiat of ber word*- -if what ahc aaya ia evidently aaid for sensation—uo man aud no wom an will care to bear ber. But there are women a* intelligent, who think as much and fuel a deeply, a* Uie la-si men; and when one of them, feeling the in fluence of eertaiu customs and laws in society as no tuau can feel them, ap peals soberly and eloquently to the judgment and COUMMM of society, it is a peculiarly l*eommg, ami especially feminine, duty that she doea, - -£xrA-mjg, Close ({warier* with a Heajal Tiger. Air. Felix McDonald, a wild beast tamer, had a narrow escape fnuit a frightful death at Louisville. Ky.. a few days since. H< ming's menagerie is " wintering" iu Louisville, and several of the animals, including a pair of royal lU-ngwl tigers, an* quartern! at a livery stable- iu this city. Such is the savage dts|MMition of tliew animals tliat uo cue can approach them except Mr. M. He is iu the habit of entering the den rv. ry day for the pttnxiM# of cleauiug it, and of keeping the tigers under control. A few days ain-r he cntere t the dens as tutnd. armed only wit t a heavy whip. As soon a* he • ntera, tin* door of the den is closed and locked. The moment lite inn doorchwed upon Mr. McDonald the largest of the animals, which is called Frank, without a single warning growL sprang upon Mr. M. with all the natural ferocity of the tiger in his native jungle. Fortunately, Mr. M. was thoroughly acquainted with the diap wilion of the animal, arid was on the alert. As the tiger Jaahed at him lie stepped quickly aside, avoiding the onset, aud reversing his whip, (h-alt (he tiger a furious blow, momentarily sluuuing him. Tlir tiger sprang at him again and again, but le --wildcml by the rapid blows of the dar ■ug man. rendered desperate by the terri ble danger, lie retreated to the corner, when, bv the aieu**tnnee of the men employed in the building, who came to the aid of Mr McDonald with iron lara, he waa enabled to entirely subdue the tiger. As it waa, he narrowly ramped a horrible death. A f-.KXMiu-r. PUOTUST.—A New York lady pr<>te*t* in one of the morning pa per* against long ilrera-* for street **- tnniiw, from which wc infer that trials an* again coming into fashion. The short walking-vires* f the last one or two year* i* at once so pretty and sen sible that w.- hojvc it i* not going to be discarded. Trailing rot*** arc very graceful—-wo will not *ay convenient, in a diawing-1-ooui, bat they are detestable out of door*. If we could get at the ntimber of women who have caught their deaths by walking in ilamji skirt* we xhonld probably have very curious and startling statistic*. We quite sgive with tne l.aly referred b> in wishing to have the milijc't * talked of that * wo man would I*' mortifiv 1 to I*- seen sweeping the -idewalk* anil the erosaiug witli her drajH-ry. TKACHINU Hownta.—ln teaching a vouug horse ti drive well, do not hurry to see li<iw fact In- can trot. Keep each pace clear ami distinct from the other, that is, in walking ; make hiiu walk, und do uot allow him to trot. Wliile trot ting, la* equally careful that he kei'ps steady at lrri sjiace, and Jo not allow him to slacken irto . walk : the rein*, while driving, should le kept sung, and when piifdicd to the top of lu* sjiced. keep him well in hand. Unit be nuiv learn to laar in*>n the bit, so that when going at _s liigb rate of spaed he can lie held at his pare, but do not allow liiui to pull too iiard, for it is not only unpleasant, but make* it often difficult to manage him. Tux H\in.—Chatelaine braids arc as iKipnlar brai<l* sml a* notable a* ever. Tie- false one* are fasteued on the toji of the lieavl and looped under below. Those jMsueaaing hair of their own of moderate thickness* and length deftly plait a fal*e braid beneath their natural hair, making the braid* more ponderous, nnd nt the *ame time give* a natural h*>k to the ar mngement, which i* si save all things most to be desired. Curls are worn down the centre beneath Uie braid*. The hair in fiont is *lightlv Waved, and is becoming, brushed bock over a pomjis dotir roll. __________ WHEN rabbit*, mjuirrv-L*, ami various other gnawing animal* are fed on soft meats, their teeth often grow so long uml so crok*l a* to prevent them from taking food, ami instances have occurred in which, to pre* rve life, it became ueccMHary to break otf or *-xtnct the | teeth. Dr. Darwin, was of the opinion that if a deaf person dreamed of hearing, th iutcruid jvart*, cs*>utial to the func tion, were unimpaired. The Mime re mark, Kitys Dr. SmiUi, of Boston, is applicable to the blind. "1 have invari ably found that the incurably blind never dream of seeing or hearing. THE SPANISH troops took the oath of allegiance to King Amadous and the Spanish Constitution. The Tolunteen only took the oath of fealty to the King, omitting that to the Constitution, be cause they all are a jiermanent Cuban force, aud "the Spaniwh Constitution does not rule Cuba, which is governed by Rjiecial law*. There has been a curious breach of piomise action in London, the converse of the usual ease. The plaintiff had been jilted by a lsdv of fortune, being himself dependent on his father. The jury gave him 7*o. 871. ( ondKUn of the Pfrgaaa. The present condition at lite Piemn Indiana, comaarniug whom ao little has been heard since the tnooNM're of h*t year, is thus reported by Colonel John CJIMKIU, conuwimdlng at Fort hhaw, in a letter: I a<x*umpiiied tire officer to w iUres the distribution of annuity good* to the Indians, ami found assembled there tome aix huudred ImUutis. men, wotni-n, and children, principally of the Piegan and Hl<mm] trims Aribwi of the Hkrek Feet Nation I uever heard Indians talk more |M*cnbly. Birvl Chief, an "U1 man, who wa* in trie fight with ColoiMl Baker hod year, said he luul not had a gre*! night's slt-'P since that fight, ami liad ever since I* <-n moving from phe-e to tda**-, ex* IH* ting every day to be attacked by some* UkIV. he did not know who; tliat they all wislred to lite at peaoe with tint whites now, and hi have no mure tru ible. A uumlwr of other* sj>k>, all in tire same strain. They all WWWod jdiws nre in having an agent living among them. They all se<-nil *ati-fi*l with their present agent. Major and said that I would I** atirprtscd if * could compare the pruaent issue of good* (with which tlrey seemed very much pleased w itli former issue*. Peace with tire Piegan* i* much to Ire desire*! oiul cau Ire easily msintaiire-l, provided they can Ire dealt witli justly. The agent complain* that of thr #SO,WW uppr*pr*- ted by Cong lea* for the Piegan* only t17.01 id worth of good* lure vet rendu*! him. 1 Ire Indian* *iq*-are*l very dewti tub- and aoure brtwdstn#*, coffee, and sugar should be aeut to them without dc hJ BaMe* aad Keedtag-llattb -. The London f'kemitf amd IhrmfyiM ay: Tin- latest h-aJ-toiJoniiig s.-tt nation, Ut which o-rtAiU laicr)-*.! chemist* aw r* klHiiinlblc, reveals the horrible fact Uiat we an? now training our ladiins to the uae of tl.ts addition t. their nutriment. liv feedhig 110-m through tuls-s composed of "india-rubber dissolved in ten jew cent, of bisulphide of mrlmu and thick ened with while load, resin. and Home times oxysulphurent of antimony, from bb'b, alien it com** into contact with the milk, *ulihurrtted hydrogen i* evolved, and lactate of lead funned in j the stomach." The fact thai aevcral millions of infanta liave not only mrrived this treatment, but have to ail appear ance* thrived on it, somewhat diminish ing the homir which we ought to experi ence on learning thia rejawt. But we remember, and now fr the ftrwt time intelligently comprehend, the touching American epitaph in a graveyard a very long way out Weat: -OtUB Anoii bu taken 'tarMae UlU* iwrry. Tti# es <4 Iwgi W4 Sreums BoseU Srvrs <Uj. U mSW *WI >- dywwtory Xd Mm* h- e-rUIwS 11)1 fa is turn tm**U Most likely M was wwaiat m)iu4 Ms * Jsvry, trie bud* sesBe V San Sl* srssVt We Mat >tk U U ll tut i sod meriy fur there • ia, ksrslai u-lties wheir he's (Ml ,** The fact that some millions of infants have thrived on one form or another of feeding bottles, ia indeed capable of af fording consolation, but the comfort we derived from that reflection will be materially diminished bv calling to mind the mam millions who have perished. AMERICAN EAXIIKL—We all eat too much, MTI Dr. Lfwit Our American system of diet ia lad Tlai* ia too great a variety ; the food is too rich; the .x-iking i* bad ; wc eat too often, and we eat at the wrong times. I>r. Lewia gives an account of a dinner at the house of a lady who i* reeoguired as standing at the bead of the intellec tual aristocracy of a most intellectual and refined city. The plaU- and crockery were most beautiful. Hie dinner con sisted of four little courses i fat, a small glass of lemonade; 2nd. a bit of melon ; 3d. roast lef and sweet pota toes ; 4th, ice-cream. Nothing should lie eaten after dinner, and dinner should lie taken early in the day. not later if possible, than 2 o'clock. Eat nothing between tnoaß not even an ajple or a pewch. Avoid cake, pies, all sweetmeat*, nuts, raisin*. and randies. Wine and liquor* l)r. Lewis will not tolerate, and no young woman who is ambition* of a clear, tine akin will drink tea. Tea com promise* the completion, probably by deranging the liver. "Hie l*-t plan i* to drink nothing lmt cold water, snd as little a* possible of that, eteept that one or two glasMW nu lying down at night and on rising in the morning will be fouud uaefuL AN ACT tip HUMOIHM worthy of witle- Hpreavl mention ami ommeo.latHin was recently jierfonued by a woman in But hurah. "New Brunswick. Hh- WAS a post mi*tre** of tlie town, ami a fire broke ont in the building in which tlie post ofltw was kept, and in which she also lived and carried on business. When the alarm was given, although her own pronerir, including a stock of goods und all ber honsehtild furniture and snje plies, was in danger of lieing destroyed ltl a feW minute*, she neverthcle** first of all securevl the money, the account*, ami all the letters ami j*|-re ia the office ; and it was only when these had lieen collected with the greatest core and pine,*! in rea|siti*iWe hands, that she turuevl her att ntion to saving her own eflvS'ts. The result of. this devotion to duty was a great saving to the rublic, but a great jx-enniary sacrifice on her own jiart. M bother or not any eonipeu satiou wiU be made to her by the Colonial Government we are not inform ed. RK PEA LINO Drrm.—A resolution was offered in the House bv Mr. Hale, of .Maine, repealing the duty on salt, w hich waa finally adopted, 145 to 47. A reeolutiou was offered by Farns worth. of Illinois, rejiealing all duties on coal This was sdojib*!, 132 to 57, Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, then proposed the repeal of the untie* on tea and coffee, which was agm-d to, 141 to 49. Mr. Wilson, of Indiana, offered a resolution declaring that the Thirteenth, Four teenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution have been duly ratifi'd. and that C*tugre*shas a right to iuijxise their ratification as a condition precedent to reprraentatioo in Congress. The vote on the question of su*jeiidiug the rules and adopting the reaolntion was 110 to 75, leaa tlian two-thinla in it* favor. A IIEAVT CLOUD. —Old Captain Blank, of Btonington, relates the following re markable incident that occurred while on the j storage from New York, some years ago. He ohacrv*l, one summer altcr nouu, a heavy doud arise from the land, and. to hia great aurprie, apjiroach the vessel. Suddenly it broke near him, and miliious of moaquitos Covered the deck of the vessel to several inches, wliile jairt of tlie flock went through the mainsail, leaving nothing but the bolt ropes idly hanging to the sjaira. (Virrotiorative evidence to tbi* astonishing tale was found in the parson of a down-east skip per, who beard tlie story, and who, on comparing date* with the narrator, de clared that two days afterward his ship was hoarded by a part of the same flock, and tliey all wore canvas breeches. PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNORS.— Pennsyl vania has had sixteen Governors since 1790. Of the sixteen five are now living —WM. F. Johnston, residing in the western part of the State; William Big ler, in Clearfield oouuty ; James Pollock, director of the Mint of Philadelphia; Andrew G. Curtin. Minister to Russia, and John W. Geary, the present Gov ernor. TKRMM ; Two DoUr> a Yaar, in Advance. A Mrgv, Mfol Mm k Inug With Wr litis span, tetehrl Mm U JJ ma Of • brutes hsart. VUapsri KUr i gufog To i.-r littai tmH. : Lrth Is growing torn within bar brwat. Oantiyl tie U *kfiUig; Nhv ha* wwilMd her issl. Osntlyt White joil'l* wtwoang, Ulu to bMvm be paawd. A t enretentlMis Thtet Bum who do not know me unay |wr haps Mtove the following story Tbo>> who do know me will not. Htiil it to quite true. iLgjnaid was • ptewuemt old Kfiitleiuaa with a fine muwmi of humor, lie had oonaktenibto projivrty and lived on Wiuiblwloßu C-utntnoe. He had one Wautiful itoughter—but that to not to the point. One afternoon, a* Old Regi nald waa rending Ikkilu is hi* drawing room, it was announced to him (bat a i'< million Man dwiiwd to apeak with him He gave order* that the < Man idiunhl be admitted. Ami admitted the Common Man waa. H- was a very Com mon Man indeed. A tall, sltanibliug, 113- luuking fellow, with an hrwolnte man ner and a sbrinking eve. H- waa dre-aed m when fodiowing their iwlhng. " What to vour ptoasuiw, good sirt" said Old iteguudd. " lteg pardon, guv'am-," said the Com- UKIU Man. " I hipe you won't be hard on me." "Not at aU. replied Old Bi-ginald. "I'm— I'm a Imrgtor," aahl the ten in u Man. "Indeed r said Reginald. "Takes chair." "Thank ru, kindly, guv'nor," said he, " Iwt I'd rather stand. And he did stand. Bo far there to nothing very incredible in my story. But it gets more remark able "as it goes on. •• How do you like your profireaion V •aid Old lUginald. "Well, guv'nor," said tin Comioon Man. " 1 don't like it noway*, rod that'i it. ' •• Tfiafs what f " That's why I'm hero. I lickings to s gang of twelve wot'a working there parts just now. We crock* cribs by turns. It's—it's my turn to-night. * And the burglar wrpi like a child. "This I presume to Remorse," mid Ohl Reginald. " No, guv'nor. it ain't Remorse," said the InugW. " It's Funk " " Ihe Hum thing," said Reginald. "It ain't the being a 'mrghur that 1 object to. It's the having to commit burglaries. 1 like the credit of it, sir it'* the danger I object ta" "I see." " Now, by the tow* at our gang, we're loond to crack cribs in turn. That i* to asy. one of us cracks tlie crib wliile the other eleven stop* outside rod gives the ufiim" " I thought bnrgtors always worked ia two or tiirecs ?" said Old Reginald. " P'raps I ought to know beat ?" *ug grwted the burglar. " Perhaps you ore right. Indeed, I am sure you ought What arib do yon propose to crock to-night " This here roe." • Miuef "Bum" "Oh?" And Old Reginald prepared to ring the bell. " Please don't do that guv'nor. Yon ain't never agoui* to give me into custody f" "I think I had lietter.'' •' No, no, guv'nor, don't do that lis ten to me first I ain't again' to hurt " It's my turn to crack your crib to night Now, will you hvlp me ?" " I hardly aw my wny." said Old K'-ginald, th<-ughtfully, "StiU, if I can be of any use——" " Look here, guv'nor, each member of our gang to bound to get tiftv pound* worth of swag from each crib he crocks, i if he don't, he's shot Now. 1 see a handsome silver salver and cofifcc-pot rod •ream jug as I caaie in here. Wot might be the value of that handsome silver salver and coffee-pot f "The cream jug to electro. The coffee pot. with sugar burin rod salver, may be north five rod forty pounds." " That's near enough. 11l take 'em. Here is a flimrev iur fifty quid." And he lu.tided Old Reginald a bank note for that amount. " Htill lAm i quite understand " " I want you, pviv'nor, to be so goral ; as to leave your liedroum window open ! to-night, rod place that silver and them silver traps where I can get 'em Imndy. J I shall have cracked my crib, bagged my -wag, and made myself sale until my torn rrote round again." " Certainly," saw Old Reginald, hold ing up the note to the light. " But let me x-k. how cau you afford to pgy so handsomely for your depredations ?' " There was a" down on us. sir. Eseh of ua. cracks a crib once fci four months, rod eech swag* at toast fifty pounda worth—often more, but at least that After each plant the profits are divided, land quartet the twelwe cribs cracked brought us ui eleven bitudxed pounds— that's ninety pounda odd apiece. When my turn comes I pay a fair price for the fifty pounds worth I swag (for I have hew honorably brought up), and 1 gets forty pounds to the good. And forty pounds a quarter to a hundred and sixty pounds a year. And 1 lives on ft, Some times it's more—uow and then it's toss, but whatever it to I lives on it," Aud the honest fellow took a receipt for a note rod departed. Old Reginald was aa good aa his word. He toft lus bedroom window open, rod placed the salver where the Honest Burglar was as good as hi* word, and at two o'clock in the morning he came rod found it. Bo far, all was simple rod straightforward enough. But howc*onus the curious rod incredible part of my story. The fifty pound note was part of the proceeds Ot a previous burglary. The number of (lie note was known, and traced to Old Reginald, who had to ac count for its I icing in his possession. Now the twelve burglars had in the meantime been arrested by the police (this is also incredible), and were con demned to penal servitude for life. So Old Reginald had no hesitation in stating j the facte as I have stated them. No one believed him, as no one will believe me. So he appealed to the Honest Burglar to corroborate hi* story. But the Honest Burglar, having discovered the whole tiling, coffee-pot, salver, rod aU, was the commonest electric, was so shocked at Old Reginald's dishonesty that not only did he decline to corroborate his story, but actually, and I think very property, identified him aa an accomplice. And Old Reginald was also sentenced to penal servitude, and he rod the Honest Burglar worked for many years together on the j same works, ami had many opportunities i of talking the matter over from ita moral, social, and political points of view.— London Fun. MaxiSQ lent—'The New Orleans ice j factory runs six machines, each costing in gold, and freezes sixteen tons of ice daily. The water to pumped from the Mississippi, purified, rod frozen into blocks three inches thick, and twelve by twenty-four inches is area. WHS HMI kwil Mm w*. to mmf diMh , E * 1 1 t til ■, w, ji'iighi , .A 'htmi in. iiH mlir-1: tfjjlfc?'!- ■* .. 118 L.x*.rfMfcHMS* SaUsi 4 ill- UKOW M *fSl*wywit- woMMT UKVWV wwrn In I h* !* tartan Mitii to ibtvffte I H#< hctt murnt- lajfrftre litssh in Vi lis W |jr'.t mini, m aliwiV ur fiveriagt item— Ma tin* weak huff* at Ui matutfefW pita*, vi.l,vital* rtliklaut mm (to stirta* draw* war, . But to Itto MKtoul if sanest wwils ufiMMfcMta* ■ Willi weds *odbn<W n* 'put toata*Mswap. And toads (1M mmmmm an from day tote 1 . Earth'* thousand tribes tahta® w Mw*l token, ' And work, and wait, and with stperiaat mi ' Look tor tba mrnmrmA htoatoac torn ito •ktoa. Fade and Faaele*. 1 . Th< fiicur oldest Congregational paatora am in Massachusetts. A qntot mind, like other bleata* is ! MOW mrily lent Mian gained. No gifts, however divine. profit thoae • j who street to outlivate Chest. A mail of saittw may disdain artifice aa , a rich mm ma y wear a plain ooat. The iron product of the United Stetea for the y*r li *■ 1,062,647 ton*. There am about H1,§70 Baptist ebmdbes i in the world, with 1,382,034 member*. Frt- maw subdue, bat lore gains; 1 and be (hat forgives first win# the laurel. | _ MaoT Into* bare mow appear atiMM of tratb (ban thing* (bat lie most iru*. I A Mil t* fiM'flittftlt fiifniliil r>^ ;i * ' baa beam defeated in tna Itfaaaaoboaetto ! Henato. At table, be aa biting of roar food aa won ptaaae, but dost be biting in yosr ; remarks. Frieodsbip is the sbadow of tba even ing, which strengthen* with the setting ami of life ban Ckmatw, Maes.. raised 36,000 barrels of union*, waltaad at •100,000, last season. Three thousand applications www mada ,for cirfc in a now bank iweeiat Jopenad -in Phi luiffphi* |i It tarns oat that the woman wbohasn't , spoken to ber bnaband for twenty year* never bad one to spank to. Threw are f.mr osndidatos for (ha Pre sidency of Mntoi .vlresdy in the field, and two other* are tfcreateaad. H. W. Dale, an old printer of Monti cello, Miss., claims to have invented an improvement on the hand-ore*. At Booth Bond, lad., now Jacob Mcthuaatoh. died of lannbtor, iwemitl.r. at Mime droll story told him by a friend. The steam ploughs nsed in the United State# aaw made in England. and inpoti d it i ooat of about £IO,OOO in paid each. Aiming the totoWimt effects of tight kdng is the eaHmatod fact that it aawwa the cuntrw over £2,000 annually in board. Tba actual profit of the bnainetn dona bv the Onondaga Bait Company, organ ised in IMb. to the present time, la £2,48K,t0t. ■ "The prisoner baa a very smooth oontitommce." "Tea, be was ironed just before be was brought in. That a*- coanto for it*' * A aii&'-fal which perform* all the du ties of soap and baa an aromatic odor, bus been discmcnid in exbamitiess qma tarn near lowa City. Two bftlr Km were arreatod in Qoin cv. HI. for trriog toaet ftrc to aC3nir*h. They wanted to bum the eborob to avoid going to banday School. Fear governor* are now on trial for impeachment Holden, of North Caro lina : Bntbr, of NVtoaAa,; Clayton, of Arfctma* : and Bead, of Florida.. Tomg ladies fmmenade smto of striped -ilk aw very much in iavor.made ! with plain round underskirt with van dyked oretakirte wiaborwtefy trimmed A woman in MbwiMppi hut season cultivated, with the help of a mala, taa acres of corn, ten acnes of wheat, and ton acres of cats, making a dear profit of •400. TV* was a huie jai And he had a cart Hurt bang ntu tem ea.ber towhmd And wbewato **• gwd the was very, vary gwoaL Bet wton am was tod, she was IkxxML j An lodiaaajiolir man went down ewl l.-r and shot aarro balls at once into |—a pork barrel. Beeaoae bis wife did not acaaam, call in all the ncigbbora, . sad then swoon awgy. be went ap atoiiw and thrwsbeil ber. Uroarh Radcwarlerite, formerly a mp twin in the army, and latolw a letter carrier in New York, who bad pltedod IgvDtv to embemding a letter, wwa mm enrod to threw roan' imprisonment in the Albany Penitentiary. Mr. Hyde and Mws Taller, of Oohan boa. Ohio, having been married, md the i •• fatted cwlf " killed in their honor, giwro the tsvoieviUe an oppor- Gututv to air a joke aboat ** killing onttlw far the sake of the Hyde and Taßer. M A dialer latdy took two samples of gin from the same cask, rod flied the arte* of one st JQ 75 per gallon, and the .fiker at 13 30. Invariably upon b. iwrng : l*th. the latter would be chosen, at thonrb indentknl in quality with former. •• What do yon mean by a eel ami dog life add * huabrod to bit wife. j "Look at Carlo and Kitty asleep onthe rng! I wish men would live half so peaceful!*- wito their wivea" "Stop," naid the* lady, "tie them together and sew bow they will fight" No opportunity ta toot by Chicago rod Milwaukee papers to have their little asy. Chicago has the tost word, aa follow*: : " The body of a man was seen Boating ) in the river at MUwaukee on Fridav. bat ! as his etotbiw tbdnt seem to bold any valuables, no efforts were made to recov er it" The " dramming" business appears to be industriously prosecuted out WA A correspondent writing from Maoon, Missouri, my* that in one dsjr he "counted four from Chicago, two from Boston, one from Philadelphia, two or three bom New York, rod 'one from Bt Louis. A wife in San Fmneiaro lately put a petition for drroree in the court on the ground that her husband was a " con fouiulcd fooL" The judge, who was an old bachelor, would not admit the plea, because, he said, every man who gets married would be liable to the same im putation. A Providence man. about aeron year* ago, was persuaded to take some stock in a fancy corporation for a had debt, rod reoently some of its creditors, finding his name in the list of stockholders, com menced suits against him rod obtained judgments which have thus far amounted to $25,000, rod the end is fiof yet Teaching Eagllsb. In a volume printed by Senor Jose da Fonseca. with the avowed object of teaching the Portuguese to%p*ak Eng lish. the happy reader will find matter that would provoke an anchorite to tough until the rocks ring. The following is a sample : Dialogue I&—For to ride a home. " Here is a horse, who have very bad looks. Give mi another, I will not that He not sail know to march, he ia pursy, ha is foundered. Don't you are ashamed to give me a jade like that ? He is un ahoed, he is with nails up, it want to lead to the farrier. He go limp, he is disable." " Let us prick. Go us more fast nev er was i seen so much bad baaat; she will not nor to bring forward nor to put back." "Htrek him the bridle hold him the reins shortest Pique strongly make march of him." " Go down, i shall make march." "Takeeare that he not give your foot kicks." " Then be kicks for that i look. Look ; here, if i knew to tuna him." ) A Wilijams Common student who I went to Fittafteld on a "spark," the oth j ear day, had occasion to get a check 1 cashed at ihe bank, but the cashier didn't i know him, rod demanded identification, i He bethought himself of the mark on ids underclothing, Unbuttoned his ooat only to disclose in plain letters on the I band of his shirt the name of his chum, who had lent him fhe garment for the 1 occasion. NO. 13.
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