for fflhfCß' Sake. TV* happiness to Vow our work For it* own sake, And could wo alwava, none would ah rk. Or dread to wake. But life I* long, and we may NM To l*e oar tasks; Illusion* paaa, the sober day* Throw off their mask*. They front n* with averted ayv* And faded bloc* ; The spirit quail* and almost diea Before their gloom. Ah 1 then we learn work haa no worth For it* own sake; And aordid are all tasks of earth TUI low partake. Fhr, truly, only lore out Urea thin worthy make; And he ia happiest who meet strive* For other*' sake. The Changed Crws. •ft was a time of aadneea. and my heait, Although it knew and felt the better part u Felt wearied with the eonffict and the atrife. Ami all the needful discipline of life. And while 1 thought on these aa given to me, My trial teata of faith and lore pi be. It WMWHV ae If i never ooulU be aUre That feithfal to tlir end, I should endure. And. thus. no longer trusting to Hie might. Who aara, we walk by talth and mil kg sbt. Doubting, and almost yielding, to despair. The thought arose, my cross! osuuoibaor. Far heavier its weight uiat aurelj ko, Thau tlwse of other* whirh I daily we; Oh I if I might another burden choose. Mi think* I should not fear my crown to lose. A solemn aßoncs wigned en all around. E'en nxturs'a v to me aa 1 trustingly lay, Antl, -follow me.' he aairt. *1 am the way.' Then speaking thus, He led me hur above. And there, beneath a canopy of love, Crowe* of ihvrr* share anil siae were aeen. Larger and amaller thau my own had been. Ami one thai .* rnsat hessßfwl tsbehoM, A UM e one wvffi jvwe'a aet >a gw:d; Oh! this, meumught, I can with n.iuh>rt wear, For it win be an eaay one to bear. And so the little crow I qaicilr took, tint all at once ore frame ceneath it shook ; The sparkling jewels, for they were to rar. Bat far too heavy was tbr wrsyM for me. This may rot be, I cried, and looked again To see if mere was any here could esse my pain; But one by one, I passed them slowly by. Till on a lovely one I cast my eye. Fair flowers around its sculptured form ca twiued. And grace and brauty seemed in it combined; Wondering, 1 gaard, aiulsnU 1 wondered wore. To think so rnaay shoaM haw ptmsd It uVr. But oh! that form so beautiful to see. Soon made its hidden sorrows known to me. Thorns lay beneath those flowers ami colon fair; Sorrowing, I said. 'This cross I may not bear.* And so it was with each and all around. Not one to suit my need could then be found ; Weeping. I laid each heavy burden down. As my guide gently said, "no cross, no croea.' At Wngth to him 1 raised my saddened heart. He knew its sorrows, bid its doubts depart. 'Be not afraid,' He said, 'but trust in me. My perfect love shall now be shown to thee." And then, with lightened eyes and willing feet. Again I turned, my rarthfr" cross to meet, With forward footsteps turning not aside. For frar some hidden evil might be tide. And there, in the prepared appointed way, Listening to hear and ready So obey, A cross I quickly found of plainest form. With only words of love inscribed thereon. With thankfrilness. I raised it from the rest. And jovfhlly acknowledged it the best; The only one of all the many there. Thai I could feel waa good for me to bear. And while I thus mf chosen one confessed, 1 saw a heavenly bdghtgrss on it rest. And as I bent, my br.: leu to sustain. I recognised my ow* old cm** 0701s .' But oh! how different did it seem to be, Now I had learned Ita jaerioasneas to see. No longer could I unbelieving ray. Perhaps another is a better way. Oh. no! henceforth my own desire shall be. That He who knows me best should choose foe me. And so what e'er His lam sees good to send, I trust its best, beceass He knows the end." Song from (ioethe. Many thousand stars are burning Brightly in the vault at night; Maty, an earth-warn heart is jeaminir Upward, with % foad dslight. Btara of beauty, stars of giorv, Radiant wanderers of the sky I Wsssy of the world's sad Maty, Ever would we gazs en high. A WIFE'S SECRET. "The Lawrences are going abroad," raid Robert Dtna to his young wife one ere oing. "I met Tore to-dav, and he raid he and Carry would sail cm the 26th, and the furniture be soW at suction." "Oh, how we shall miss them ! and what a pi£y to bars that handsome old furniture scattered among strangers ? We hare had manv happy times there. Robert."' "Ye, Annie; it was there I first raw rou, do you remember; yon were playing then on that old Chinese chess table, so absorbed that you did not see me come in; and I stood wondering who that little maid in bine could be. I don't like to bare that table sold at auction, dear; I wish it would occur to Carry to tend it to us as a fare well present." "That would be very nice; but as she is not at all romantic, she has no idea how or rahy we value it." "I suppose if I offered to buy it, Tom would not accept any pay ; and then we should feet as If we had begged a present 71 '"Yes; and, besides, we can not afford it, Robert." "How much is it worth 7" "It must hare cost a hundred dollars wheq it waa new ; but I presume it wdf go for fifty, as it is somewhat defaH'£ We must not think of it, though, dear. You know the hurt of our 'luxuiy-fund' went for the Dickens reading, and we agreed to have no more treats till fall. I dare say we should not play very often if we had it—reading aloud is so much nicer." Thus the brave, conscientious little wo man turned away from the tempting theme, nd ft was not* resumed between them. Annie Dona, however, had a great fund of that tough quality which is now blamed as "obstinacy," then praised as "firmness." The more she told herself the chess-table was unattainable, the more did a oersistent inner voice reply, "1 must hare it P' But how 7 Dozen* of schemes occurred to ber, but none that seemed practicable. When she awoke in the night, the weary question flashed back, and with it. like an inspiration, its answer. She would write a story for the Magazine, and so earn the ncedlul money. Had she not at school, several years before, sent two or three anonymous stories to a country weekly," just for the frolic of it, and had they not been printed f To fx* sure, they were not paid for. She would almost have 6corned money then, so deliriously sufficing was it to see her own words in print. But there must be the sordid reality of pay ment now ; and bow delightfril to surprise Robert with the table, show him her arti cle, and enjoy his appreciating praise! But before this dizzy climax oould be reached, much mast be done. What should she write about ? When find time? How bid for the table ? And all without Robert's knowledge 7 Absorbed in these questions, she appeared sadly absent dur ing breakfast, greatly to her husband's surprise and mystification. After she had Eat two spoons in his saucer, asked for utter when already supplied, and poured maple syrup over her steak, he began to be alarmed, insisted on feeling her poise, and inquired if she had slept well. Annie dis claimed sickness, but admitted that her night had been restless; and finally, to please him, promised to take a nap during the day. Never having concealed any thing from him before, the weight of a secret was far from pleasant; but she con soled bemelf by thinking bow well it would all and. *For the first time since she knew him, she was glad to have Robert go, so eager was she to be free to plan, perhaps to write, her story. Her usual duties about the house were faithfully performed; but the outline of a romance was flitting through her head all the time, and she Mas glad when free at last to sit down at her desk. For an hour her pencil flew busily; ideas thronged at ber bidding; word* Came freely to express them. The first sentence only troubled her. Five or six beginnings were made only to be scored out: this seemed FRED. KURTZ, Editor nml Proprietor. VOL. IV. \ too formal, that too abrupt, another too sentimcnul. She feared die uuiat resort to the charming old formula, "(>uee upon a time." liut the right word# oame at lat, ami then all went on hrarely, till a neigh bor eame in, and the already hulorcd hero ine had to lw exchanged for RolvrtSi aighan and every-day chat. Then ovine ! other intorruntiou* and dutie*; no mora , writing that day. The promised attempt at a nap occurred about baif an hour lieforr Robert'* return, luring been entirvly for gotten till then ; and though Annie lav on the sofa, with her eyes conscientiously closed, for fully fifteen minutes, ber thoughts were on her heroine all the time, aud mice ahe sat up and made pencil memoranda on the luck of a letter, hastily pocketed a# her hu-dand's step was hea rd. By the second night her plot was fully sketched in her mind, aud it only remained to put it upon paper. Sometimes a whole day would pa##, and not a moment cf time run Id she fimi bur writing, though exactly iti the Biood for it Again, ahe would hare leisure, but an almost unconquerable aver sion to her ncti; and if she tried to rally her powers by reading what was already written, it sounded like arrant nonsense: certainly no sane editor would accept it. The native persistency of her character, however, enabled her to liiush her ta*k, in defiance of many interruptions and discour agements, and tbe rough draft of her story was completed in two weeks. It was a funny-looking affair, on no less than twenty-three pieces of (taper —half sheet* and wliols sheets, lucks of envelopes and concert pr.srmmnies; white, brown and tinted paper; some in pencil, some in ink—a nu*-t disreputable medley ; but she was a happy little woman as she scrawled the last line, straightened her cramped shoulders, pushed her hair hack from her flushed cheeks, and whispered, " Done at last?' A timely term of bad weather gave her leisure to copy it promptly. She was arranging her neat pages when Robert's step wra* heard on the piazza. She nervously crushed the MS. into her port folio, and was ju-t turning the key as her husband eutervd; but she looked so guilty and confused that he exclaimed, | "How, soared voo look, Annie! Did you take tue for a burglar / "Oh no; but aren't you early 1 There's no bail news, is there P u No, no, little woman; nothing of tba kind. Been writing to mother 7 She'll be glad to hear from you. Are you going to let me read your letter 7" Annie wa* in the closet getting hie slippers, so he did not see her troubled tace as she made some erasive answer, and changed the subject. Robert referred no more to ber writing, and Annie believed his suspicions were not excited—that he would think of it no more. This was far from being the case, however. The dly bdbre the Ufkiluuf sailed Annie mailed her precious MS., under the son de plnute of " Cynthia Sullivan.'' She was very uneasy on her errand to the post, for tear ome one might suspect her mis sion, and was glad to start on her way homeward, thinking herself unseen; but she was mistaken, for although her hus band's office was in another part of the town, he raw her, and wondering at her strangely • agitated face, his jealous heart instantly suggested that she came from the direction of Tom I-awrenee's office, as Tom had been an old and ardent admirer of hers. But he sought no explanation, and grew moody and (alien; his wife attributing his con duct to his old enemy, the dyspepsia. , As days went on she had her own inwsni anxietv to bear, for no reply came from the editors. Every- other day she inquired at the post office for "Cynthia Sullivan," but without success, till, at last, during the third week of suspense, an envelope bearing that name was actually handed out to her. Well was it that the post master was boxed in behind high wooden barriers, or he must have observed Mrs. Dana's strange agitation over the letter. She lost all sense of the ground beneath her feet as she hurried through the village, and out on a by-road, where, seated in a gap of the wall, behind a tangle of clematis vines and barberry hushes, she read, through happy tears, these beautiful words: Mrt. Cynthia Sullivan: "Dkak Madam, —Your MS., 'Stella's Summer by the Sea,' is accepted for ■■ Magazine, and we herewith inclose for it our check for forty-seven dollars ami fifty cents. Yours, etc." There was the crisp, oiange-lettercd check, the more thau realization of ber wildest hopes ! She felt that these editors were ber dearest friends, and longed to do something to express her gratitude to tbem. It was almost too good to be true ! and, as she walked happily home, one hand in her pocket clasping the wonderful letter, she feared she should wake and find it all a dream, floing In. she found on the table her husband's hat and an unopened letter, with a Liverpool post-mark, ad dressed to her in Tom Lawrence's well known handwriting. Of course it was from Carry; she never would direct her own letters. But w here was Robert 7 She went through parlor and sitting room seek ing him. tearing open the letter mean while. Not finding him, she was about going up stairs, bur, remembering the pre cious check in her pocket, turned back, smiling happily as she recalled its contents, and locked it safely in ber desk, quite una ware that Robert was watching her from bflbind tho bay-window curtains. Yes, he bod seen her come in, more joyously than for weeks past, with Tom's letUr open in her hand; seen her look carefully aliout the rooms, hastily secrete a billet in her desk, and pocket the key. She never used to lock that desk, or have any secrets. To be sure, she showed him her letter after ward—but that was from Carry; the in closure, so carefully bidden, was doubtless from Tom. And jet, while all his worst fears were thus revived, Annie's eye* were so pure and true, her manner so leving and happv, be could not doubt ber long. After a night of reflection he resolved that if she had a secret it could not be an unworthy one : he would trust ber and respect it. If her heart ever did regret its choice, he would win her back by patient tenderness; for he well knew that if man had a guardian angel, bis little wife was his. Now followed many happy weeks, dur ing which Annie showed no absence of mind, made no mysterious journeys.ieceived no private letters. Robert's resolutions were easily kept, and he almost forgot the Eerturbations of the summer. Coming ome by an earlier train than usual, one frosty evening in November, as he turned up the hill from the station he saw his wife, a few rods before him, coming from the post-office with a letter in her hand. She went slowly homeward, reading as she walked, too much absorbed to hear bim behind her. " What can interest her so 7" be wondered. Juat then the envelope, a common yellow one, fell from her hand and fluttered down the icy path toward him. He picked it up, intending to laugh at her carelessness, but one glance at the address drove all color from bis face, all jesting from hie mind. " Mrs. Cynthia Sullivan," in a strange, masculine hand. For a moment Robert stood still •, the November night seemed to clase dark and cold around him with a chill that penetrated to his heart. Looking up at last, he saw his wife's light figure for an instant on top of the hill clearly traced against the lower ing sky, then it turned into their own avenue and disappeared. Sintram-like the husband stood listening to the demon within bim. Every half-forgotten mystery rose as an uicusatton sgainst poor Annie, carrying all good resolutions away like a flood. u A secret correspondence! A ffeigned same! What could it all mean V Crushing the hateful envelope in bis band, he strode fiercely on, determined to show CENTRE HALL REPORTER. it to her aud demand to lie told all. He reached kit gate just aa Annie euteivd the house. The light from within gleamed down the path a moment, then the door closed, and all waa dark and cold. "Site doca well." muttered Robrrt. bit terly! " ahe ahut me out of ber eoutideuce long ago " Su Idenlv the dour re-opened. Annie .Mine quick I v out and down the aveuuc to wan! him. Does she see him ? Oh no! She i* searching for the bet envelope. Her husband drew lack into the shadow of the : beige, watching iinaani her Hurried motion*. What *\all I do P' ahe exclaimed, in a low, troubled tone, close beside him. Hi* jealou* mood awept over him like a wave; he stepped suddenly out before her, ' saying, in a cold, hard voice, a* he thru.t lorward the envelope. * Perhaps f hi* i* what you have lost!" His unexpected appearance, passionate gesture aud rude tone gave Annie a terrible , shock. .Starting backward, catching ber breath with a gasp of IVight and paiu, ahe lost ber footing on the icy slope, and fell down an emlankment of sevrral feet on to the carriage drire below. Terrified and | temorseful, Robert was beaide her inatant j iy, only to hud her lying, white and ailent, on her aide, her left inn broken under her. Neither of them ever kucw van- clearly what liappeued duriug the next half hour. Robert took bis wife into the house. The doctor came, set ber arm. preacrtbed for a •lisp wit ion to lever, and ordered entire quiet. Annie scarcely apoke. The doctor was -urprvseti to see one usually so bright and brave now apparently entirely sub dued by pain. How could the good man know tlut the hiisland, whose loving cou cern was showu in every look and inove ment, had been the cause of the accident ami of the mental distress, Iwside which the physical paiu was a* nothing t Annie had been perfectly aware of her husband'* state of mind when be sprang out upun ber. She knew that he suspected her of some thing wrong; that he waa angry ; had pre judged her cruelly. With all her sweet ness of temper slid warmth of heart, she had a good share of personal dignity ami womanly pride; and to lie condemned un heard, on a mere mystery of appearance, was more than she could well brook. She was too much hurt to offer any explana tion. Hove could she when he had asked none? No; she lay perfectlv still, sub mitting passively to all they efore her, and that upon these hours of suffering and confession, of humili ation and joy, their mutual confidence and love were rebuilt upon a tried and perfect ed foundation. The next morning a reply was mailed to the editor's letter, the inno cent cause of the trouble. It had contain ed merely a request for " permission to alter the name of Mrs. Cynthia Sullivan's story;" and, with Annie's acquiescence, the correspondence ceased, and " Mr*. Cynthia Sullivan" wa* known no more in the literary world. A few weeks later, on the evening before Robert's birthday, his wife failed to meet him at the door on his return from the city, but in the parlor he found her, blush ing and radiant, sitting at the dear old chess-table, trying in vain to keep np the traditional look of absorption in her game. The only drawbnek to the correctness of the picture was the sling in which aba waa still obliged to carry her arm. I'erbaps it was this which sent the rare tears to her husband's eyes as he kneeled beside ber and held her close to his heart. Thus the quaint old Chinese table be came one of the most cherished of their household gods, the companion of many a cozy winter evening, the silent preacher to Robert against all impatience and suspi cion—to Annie against any concealment or diingenuou*np*s. When February's maga zine was published, Annie's arm was entirely strong again, and she enjoyed to the full the long-desired pleasure of hear ing her story read and praised by the voice dearer to her than all the world beside. A HORBIBLK CAW.—A negro on the Gibraltar plantation, in Jamaica, aided by a woman, seized a little boy, cut his body, and dmnk his blood, then cut off his upper lip, which was roasted and ate. The child's cries were finally beard by a man in the neighborhood, who leecued the boy. The little fellow retained his senses, and lived long enough, notwith standing the entrails protruding, to give the particulars of the manner in which he had been treated. Intense excite ment prevailed in consequence of the terrible act. CENTRE 11ALL. CENTRE CO., PA., ERIDAY, JUNE JO, 1871. | Massachusetts Farms and Farmer*. Acrorxling to the hud census returns, i the cash value of the farms iu Mannarlm- j M,UUO, with in ore than 45,000, OOd worth of fanning iuiuleinctiU aud machinery. The chief of the I alitor ituiwau for that State reports that more atteutiou is eneli year being paid to manufacturer* ami less to farming into i rnffii The general complaint w* uis to , be that farmers have to pay high wages for all the help they employ, much higher, iu fact, than the prices received for their eropa warrant. The result ia, i lmt mono iu vested iu furuuug does not jmy a* well ah it would iu some manufac turing induatry. The hew] of the Indior Bureau, in discussing this question, aays that the price of labor cunuoteoiue down aud the result will be a change of invest- , ment. The coueluduig portion of the report of thin official takes a somewhat discouraging view of things, more so, the Springfield Re/>uMicttu thinks, than the circumstances warrant. The report says : j •• The methods of agriculture are yet crude, though growiug year by year more and more into aeoorastuce with the demands of the age. Neither capital will invest, nor iutefiigeiit lalmr wort, at a business that yields so grudging a pit tance. Small farms, like sin-ll workshop* ! must yield to larger enterprise Aggre gate capital will therefore call for con- ; gratulated lal>or, and as the wages of a people cannot be permanently reduced,, machinery must and will be iutrodnoed j !to chcapeu products, and make farm i labor, as it has nil other, more ex pen- i rive ; for in farming, as iu every other ! inductive eatnpriae, cheap labor i* leareet, and dear lalmr cheapest. We have said that the foreign laborer is getting possession of our badly located i or sterile farm*. This is doubtleaa true; i and if the former owners migrate west- i ' ward, or bring their skill to the better lands nearer the markets of cities, mak-! ing anch change of culture aud crops as tin- change of market demands, it will be better for all concerned An Incxtlngnlvhshlc Signal l ight. A new signal light poaseaaing moat ro ! markahh- qualities, has now been brought • out in England. It* peculiarities are, ithat it is self-igniting when placed in i water or thrown out on the sea. Con tact with water being the means of ig ! nitiiig th lamp, it is inextinguishable ' wheu once igtiih-d ; neither wind nor •tot IU lias any effect upon the flame. The Hgbt is of "intense brilliancy, and of groat duratiou, aud can la- seen for s distance in the open air. Photograph* may be taken by it Experiment* wen tried on the evening of the '2sth of April, at ten o'clock, iu the presence of some scientific gentlemen, to determine ita brilliance as a signal. A lamp wa* placed In a bucket of water on the top of Primrose Hill, London, and the light was so intense that one could see to n-ad j a newspaper at a distance of seventy feet, notwithstanding that the night wa* dork and foggy This light will burn forty minutes In construction, the lamp is exceedingly simple, and so contrmvl tlint when once burnt the whale may tie thrown away. The chemical preparation contained in the lamp is a solid, hard sulwtanre, free from danger ; not affected by heat, a!hd also non-explosive; and the signal is com paratively inex|>eiisive. It* applications for marine signals are numerous. In case of shipwreck, a few tem|w thrown ou tlie sea would illuniinale the entire scene, and enable assistance to l>e promptly and efficiently rendered. F .*r rocket-Unc apparatus it is equally valu ' able, as, bursting into a flame on falling ! into the sea, it would iudicate the posi tion of the rocket-line. In connection with life buoy*, it would be a mark to , tlie drowruing sailor. '♦Suthlne In the Paper." The Richmond Gnmiss-, has a spicy chapter on the subject of newspapers elicited by the stereotyped remark of in different readers after scanning the •' miniature world " of a daily issue of news, that " there's nothing in the paper." It says: " And men are always grumilling about their jaqs rs, and insin uating how much better they could do it. They talk as flippantly about " flne artieb-s "* on every imagimble subject as if tliey could effect such s change. Let •ouie of tbeac over-running philosopher* try it for one hundred and fifty day* in succession. And tbeu they think it is nothing to "select" for a newspaper, you have merely to run the scissor* through a half docon exchange*, and you have got matter enough. Now this is the most important, and the most diffi cult dejiartment to fill on a newspaper. Terr few men have the slightest idea how to do such work. It require* a thorough newspaper man—who knows the public appe'ite well—who knows what is going on in the world—and who knows how to re-write and pack a col umn into a dozen lines. Men who skim a newspaper and to** it aside little re flect bow much brains and toil have been expended in serving up that meal. Busy heads and busy hand* have been toiling all day to gather and iirejmre those viands, and some vast building lias been lit from cellar to garret all night to get the j-apt-r ready for the newsboy by crack of ilnwn. "Nothing in the news paper ?" Nothing in your heads, that's what's the matter." Church Building in New York. " Burleigh " write* to the Boston Journal, from New York : It in n jx-r --ilnoa thing for * minister to undertake to build a church, in this legion. One or two things usually happen, either the minister break* down, or a new hand is required to fill and j>av for the church. A pastor down town was several years Btting his people to consent to move, ic thing was fought vehemently, and was carried finally by a rapture through the centre of the church. The new house is approaching completion. It is commanding in position and lnrge. One of the leading men in sneaking of it casually down town the other day, said : " Yes, we have got a fine church, and we mean to have a star to fill the pulpit." When a lecture-room costs 880,0(10, the hill church, with all its appointments, is rather an expensive matter. It is quite common to have a church cost from $200,000 to SBOO,OOO. One place of worship in New York has a loan upon it of a quarter of a million, As the insur ance comiauiy that gave the loon take no security at over half the value, the cost of the church may tie conceived. It takes from $15,000 to 825,000 to run a fashionable chnreh. Seven thousand for the pastor; choir, 80,000; sexton, 82,500, with other corresponding ex penses. The test of a man is his ability to fill the pews, and raise the pew rents. If he can do this he can stand on his head, and people won't complain. THE OLDEN TIME.—The first meeting house in Wbeelock, Va., was built in 1789. A curious vote was taken by the town for the purpose of selling off the pews. The record of it reads as follows : '•Voted that the town be at the expense of rum for the venduing of the meeting house pews." The prophecies from Delewore and Maryland are that the peach crop will yield 3,500,000 baskets—about half s million more than were gathered in 1869, which wae the champion peach year. "Cornering." The operation of " cornering," a* the term is, is played by broker* iu the fol lowing manlier : Four, five, six, or ten (as the ease muV bej brokers cuter into an arrangement with ouch other to buy and get control of the entire stork of some company. They commenoe by • leprcwniilg tlic stoek as much as possible, iTo do tlus, they must all appear to la? sellers, and cry down the price, repre senting it to lie worth less wild themselves heartily- sick of everything |*efore tue expiration of that time they would lie able to buy at a lews price than they sell it at Iu * this way thousands of shares are sold, to be delivered at a future day, to the very men who own every share of the stock that ha* ever lawn issued. When the time arrives for delivery the sellers discover that there ia no stock to lie hail but of the men to whom they haa sold it Of course they must |*y whatever the owners choose to demand" If the game ia well playi-d, i the oomererw will make as much iu sell ing aa they did in buying them. Should every one of the party prove true to hia comrades, they will soon manage to get rid of the whole stock to outsiders at a high price. It will lie readily seen that this u a very ilangerous game unless well played ; for ahould any of the par ties interested " let fly" without letting the others know it, the game ia up, and although he may make a fortune, it will be at the sacrifice of all the others. Flower* and Children. In u article on the influence of tors in educating and forniiug the U*t- of children, Blunt-hard Jerrold write* charmingly cm the subject of flower* He aaya: I would have flower* crowded in the aoboabroom winduwa of the very young, 1 would build broad open Inm couies for the baby achohtnt; where, dur iug every davlight moment of fair weath er, they might have fresh air, and liitaof In-outy" flowering under their inquiring eye*. I would haw the PoupontUetw of Brussels copied ; making elementary education Wgtn—not when a child has leen already erected into a little mon iter bv liad parout* and evil aurround ing* ; out in ita protected cradle, in the first shaking of it* rattle, and the fintt pointing of it* fingi-m to picture* arul plant*. We should—or our children would—see the good result* of audi cra dle teaching ; of irotheties thrown inU the alphabet, into the ty-hp, the play-ground, and the adornment* of the schoolroom. J>*or the chilil tliat i* alive to tlie simplest lessons and leautiea of the field, that can delight in atriving to imitate—if only with draw or paper - a beautiful form placed before it, 1* farther on the way to a higher education, even fthould subsequent events prove unto ward in it* jwith, than the creature of dull, unformed sight iu infancy, who may he kept well at school under good master* A feeling for the Wautiful, a delight in it, which at present is almost unknown in Kugland, it tliat which we shall strive after, not in art academies, but in infant schools and uursrnes. The roughest Dutch doll is the Yenns de M.-dica to the child that nuracs iL We give the ugly thing to the child, aud so make for or twelve* the after-difficulty of proving that dolly is ugly. The n-mark applies to ueurlv all toy* ; certainly to ail that are English. Sew fork Market. The *ii|p]y of vegetables in New York market is steadily improving, anil price* are not exorbitant, rine Bermuda pota toes sell at cen in troduced by Dodd's Trwnsfer Company, New York City, and are received with much favor. Fifty have la-en ordered and ten are air ady in use. TH car riage is called the "Crystal," the whole upper portion, except the top and corners, being of glass. The door is in the rear, and the seat*, on the Rides, ac commodate four persons. The interior is" substantially upholstered with morocco, and top is frescoed. Each cab oosta about 81,600, horses and har ness included. The drivers are uni formed with blue coats and navy caps. The rate of fare will be about 81 an hour for the use of the vehicle. THE amendment to the Connecticut Constitution, submitting to the people the question whether there shall be one capital or two, was defeated in the House by 145 to 87. Under the Bark. Tak<-u roughly, all the ere i turns wUflk ar< found uiiJtaJ or chrysalis condition, it is little more than a* trap for the iierfect insect. For not only are spiders' egg* to be found ••under the bark,** but spider* them selves also take up their residence there, and And ample salaiisteucc in the many insects that lrnve found their way under the laxrk and cannot And their way ont again. Of all the insects which hiber nate in the crevices of the hark, by far the greater number seem to be the ehrys nil do of various moth*, which, as a rule, hide themselves so well that they need a practiced eye to see them, and even though the greatest care be taken, are often accidentally destroyed. It is ex tremely provoking, after selecting an apparently safe spot for the chisel, to see a white creamy fluid run along the blade, and then to know that the tool has pass ed through the body of a chryaslis which has bidden itself so cleverly aa to escape observation. The most success ful of theae hiders is the Puss Moth. (Carura riau/tt,) the chrysalis of which lies hidden in a *i ocularly ingenious cocoon. When the caterpillar is full fed. it crawls to the trunk of the tree and looks about for a crevice in the rough hark. Into this crevice it insinuates it self, and begins at oner to nibble the liark into tiny chips, which it fastens together with silk-fluid discharged from its spinereto, and so makes a cocoon ; which completely shelter* it. Owing to the materials of which the cocoon is mode, it exactly resembles the bark, and con scarcely he distinguished from it; and as the caterpillar took care to retire into the crevice liefore spinning, the sur face of the cocoon does not project be yond that of the bark in general. Very often when the eye fails in detecting a cocoon, the touch succeeds, the material of the cocoon being soft; but this is not the case with the Puss Moth, whose coooou is much harder than the bark of which it was made, the silk-fluid forming a wonderfully firm and tough cement .KM for the wuodlice. millipedes arma dillra and centipedes, they awarrn under the liark. especially the woodlice, whose dried and white.skeleton* can lie seen by hundreds, showing at onee their cruaUuH'ou* descent. Eoraig*, also, arc sure to appear in great force, and, aa is their want, do not lose their ptjrsence of mind when disturlied, but make their w*v iustinctively for the nearest crevice, and wriggle their little bodies out of reach almost before they have lieen seen. The Ikirl■ lihte. Snpcrstltious of Vampire*. The Pull Mall W.unc says : " From a case now liefore- the high tribynal at Berlin we learn that the superstition of vampires—corpses who are supposed to rim- from their graves at night and suck the blood of those with whom they have held intercourse in life—ia still general among the Poles and Magyars. A Polish gentleman died at his country si-at at Boslasin in February last, leaving his family in excclleut health. A few weeks after his death, however, his eldest ton was suddenly aud unaccountably taken ill, his short aickncaa ending in death. Similar cm**. though not fatal. occurred among hia near relatives. It was at once agreed that the ih>ocaaed must he a vam pire, aud tliat his visits were the cause of thia repeated illness. To save him self from the fate of hi* brother, the second son determined to apply the sup posed only re-meily, vix.: to exhume the body, cut off hia heml, and lay it with the feet, while another jx-rson was to collect the blood issuing from tlie wound to give tlie remaining relatives a drink. He obtained the assistance of a laborer, naturally at a heavy price, but was pre vented on his first expedition by the interference of the parish priest. The next attempt proved more successful, and the deed was accomplished. It had been observed, however, by some person in the village, and wan thus brought to the kuowledge of the authorities. The absurd superstition threatens to coat the doseerator of the churchyard a tlirce months' imprisonment. That was the verdict in the first instance, and though the Court Appeal ha* cancelled the sen tence, the High Tribunal seems resolv ed to confirm it." BE CAREFUL.—The Jacksou (Miss.) PiM says : " Five persons have recently been found dead in the southern part of this State, under mulberry trees. Death in all these cases have been attributed to eating mulberries which had been im pregnated by locusts. 'ln the stomach of oue colored boy,' says the Woodville Republican, 'were found a quantity of raulberrv ►oeds and the locust eggs.' Two children in Wilkinson County are also reported to have died from eating plums similarly impregnated. " Look here, boy," said a nervous old gentleman to an urchin, who was munch ing sugar candy at a lecture, "you are annoying me very mnch." 44 No, I ain\; I'm*-gnawing this sugar candy," replied the nrchin. flipping Palish Beards and Trawaera. According to the /irasfowsr Zc whose authority on such uiatts-rw e can not doubt, the Ituasiau ukase prescribing a change of costume to Uie Jews in I'ulsud lias not met with aa ready obedi ence aa waa exported. The long ixato have, indeed, been easily disposed of ; whenever the owners refused to shorten them the lattice obligingly took the task off their hands. Tin- curia have under gone similar treatment. But aa the myrmidons of the law are not aa skillful in handling the needle as the shears, the Dowsers have for the most part remained aa short aa before. The provision excit ing most ruaiataiice is that ordering the chin to be shaved ; barber's work seems a ticklish matter for policemen to under take ; the Jew, on tue other hand, ven erate their liearda almost as a sscmd tiling ; they would aa soon think of cut ting their throats aa their beards. The Warsaw police still allow the latter, shunning all application of force aa apt to produce disturbance* ; lmt in provin cial town* a crusade ha* been opened against them. At Ooica the police In-gan the cam paign by an exjierimetit on an old man of ulsMit'eighty, who wra* ucrfowe spoiled of bis lieard in the pnbhc market-place The old man's erica speedily attracted numbers of b-Uow-creedatnen anxious to rescue their Neetor. No better opportu nity could have lieen desired. Ax fast as Uie men arrived the* were seized, forced into chair*, and shaved in rwtiier too hurried and rough a manner to be uleaauit The lamentations of the help lew. victims are described aa touching. The authorities are, however, mightily pleased with their success, and are said to intend adopting the same method in other towns, until the law imposed by the paternal Government shall have been everywhere complied with. Ingenious Thin inr. The Loudon Zbi/jr JVeww aava : An example of the action of the Detective patio] is given by the Paddington Hnper* lntciideut. One evening, Detective Frben and Police Constable Hmith aaw two respectaWv dreaaed women loitering in Westbouroe Grove. They were soon joined by a grey-haired gentleman, who carried a great coat on hia arm. In • few minutes he left them and returned wearing the coat. The three sauntered along until they came to a considerable group of ladies who were around the window of a print shop. The police went into an opposite ahop and watched. Presently the man came out of the group and stood where he could com mand a view of the street After awhile one of the women joined him and hand ed him MißMthiog, which he pit in an inner pocket of the groat coat; she then returned to her female companion, and the two placed themselves one on each side of a lady who was looking in at a print ahop window. In a few momenta, one of them came out to the man, and again handed him something, very much like a purse, which he put in hia pocket. The policeman followed the lady, ascer tained that her puris- wma gone, and then, with the detective, arrested the women and their companion. Two pur ses ww found upnu them, tbey were all throe proved to be old offenders, and thev were .sent off for seven year*' |>enal servitude. Such occurrences aa these are happening frequently. Triamiag with Laces. Vt tin* whit# muslin drew**, which are to "be worn only on dneasy oorsmou*. in> trimmed with point duchesoe Iw. The lac* nswrnhU* Honiton, and St three and four inches in width, Hinges in price from wren to nine dollars a yard. For black silk and Mack grena dine, black dutches* enjoys an equal degree of faTor. Valenciennes retains popularity, thotigh such good imitation* art- made of thia favorite lace, that it ia sometimes difficult for even a connoisseur to tell the genuine Freuch article from the Italian and German imitations. In the latter the patterns are often copied, but in the genuine the thread which forma the nnwh in thinner and finer, and the flowers are more delicately wrought The lanndry will make these differences still more perceptible. Black and white lace are mingled together with good effect in elegant costumes, which are designed for evening, for dinner, or for receptions. The flowing drew sleeves, which have necessitated hand some nnder-sleeves. have made necessary either the needle work collar edged with lace, or a lace collar to match them. Lace bows are worn at the throat, and fine lawn neckties which are lined with some bright color and tied in front in a loose sailor knot, are also edged with lace. Bright colored silk ties are trimmed with Valenciennes, with stylish black silk ties having tin- ends formed of alter nate strips of Valvcnciennes insertion and black silk. The ends which are square are edged with wide lace. Fereir* Weol Imparts. The Boston Journal aays : The imports of foreign wool* at this port are* again on the increaoe. The l*rk George T. Kemp aud brig Western Star lwth arrived here this week from Cape Good Hope, bring ing in the aggregate 1.780 bales. Until nwntly these woola have been com par* tivdv neglected by our manufacturers, twit the continued 'scarcity of the home products has turned their attention to the foreign article, aud large Liuichas-a have latelv been made abroad to supply t!e deficiency. There is at present no little excitement among the dealers in thia country in re-guru to the new clip, as nudcr "the very light stock*, tlie market has been stimulated with a material rise in prices, and buyers have gone to the Western state* in large numbers to se cure the first lrgains. Home fears are expected by Eastern jieople, that a too great eagerness to purchase at high rates by the parties who have gone out may lead to heavy importations of woollen goods, and thus ultimately to break down the markets, bnt the prospects of the trade now are very good, the demand from manufacturers Wing quite active at full prices. Large purchases of foreign wool Have recently been made in Eng land for aliipmeut to thia country. lUiaiNu TEA.— In 1848 Mr. Junius Smith, of South Carolina, oommenoed the cultivation of tew in this country, and since that time it lias been cultivated with moderate success in various parts of the South. A correspondent of the Wilmington (N. C.) Journal sgva that his brother has raised plants and cured tea which cannot be excelled in flavor by the imported article. The plants were obtained from the Agricultural Bureau of the Patent Office liefore the rebellion, and their number has increased every year, the latter plants being fully equal to those first grown. Samuel Dunn of Livonia, Mich., was, eighteen years ago, a hard drinker and tobacoo-ctiewer, but formed a resolution at that time to drop both habits, and has kept it ever since. He has, however, lain in bed all that tune, never leaving his room nor having his clothes on, though he has not been sick a day, nor taken any medicine. He ia now eighty years old, with flesh as pulpy as an infant's, and just as good an appetite ee he ever had. THE Tekootis rebels in New Zealand were defeated by the friendly natives. Twenty-five of the rebels were killed. The Ureivera rebels have surrendered. TERMS : Two Dollar* a Year, in Advanoe. U* ia (tenth Africa. Matebric, Booth Africa mnal ha a pWaalit place to lire to. Mr. Maekeo ! sic. who iuw been there tlraa tdla hi* ! *toiy; Itotohalc MM-ictv may ba aald to tttirt i for the chief. But ctainui ar supreme IOM! unquestioned. To him Mattffil . very pereon and every thing to the country. The drove* of cattle wlum ! yon mod to every jwrt of the country laelottg to the chief ; and if one die* he :i* informed of it. The herd boy who ! follow* the cattle, and hi* master who live* in toe adjoining town, baton* alike to the chief. The trortoa of gMa who raah ont from every Matehde town to i ana the paartng wngunu, baking all of them to the chief; the uuaeitmto fat ; women who slowly follow ace introduced i to the traveler a* the wire* of Mosaic- Lata*. The ehtoTa officer* or head men may, indued, possess private property f but the chief ui only to raiae hi* finger, and their good* are confiscated, and they ! themaelve* pot to death. ; The head men lead perhapa the moat wretched Uvea node* tin* wretched Gov* crnment The private aohln-r haa little to poaaiaakm or enjoyment, mi he baa also liMlr oar*. The officer, an the other hand, know* that jeatoua eya* aw apon ; ittoi. Hi* equal* to rank and *UUo covet hi* punat l Baton*, and regard the favor* which be receive* from toe chief a* BO much personal kwa to themartve*. Therefore the bead men am continually | (dotting and ounntarplotttog again*!-on* I another. *' We sever know/' wlitopafwd ; unc of them to me, having fink looked carefully round to ace if we were quite alone, •• we never know whan we enter I onr Louse at uigbi tt *• "ball again took ui** the hght of the eon." Aaa matter ! of fact, anefa meo neidom fall aaleep sober; they every night call to the aid of boy alw'a (baer) to deepen their dumber*. One dav a" small wiir man waa intro duced to me at layate by one of the mis sionaries. He waa aakad abera be had lieen the night before, and with a smile mentioned toe name of a certain villas*. Thia perron had sharp rcatleaa eye*, the thinnest lip*. I had seen among native*; hi* mouth v* wide, and hi* teeth large and white. I wa* told after be toft that tow waa one of the chief • eireutwom ; and from the fmjoeocy of hiadomieflary vixita he was called by the Matebel* "the chief a knife-" 1 thought his face befit ted bis office. Waiting in the neighbor hood till his victim haa drunk the last cup of beer, he gives him time to tell into that stupor of aieep and drunkenness out of which he ia never to awake. The chiefs knife haa his tteiatento, who arc to readiness to "mak* smear'' any bloody wo* ; for Mosekkatee could not aarry on hi* paternal adminktratkm with oiiiv one ''knife." According to the testimony of one of the mtouonanaa, it ia nothing for him to send in one night four or five different partie* vengeance, to harry the iahanitanta of four or fire different Tillages into eterni ty. The death of Moayebe, who waa toe favorite officer of Moariekatee when the mifMionaries arrived, illustrate* the social life of the Matebel*, and emieciaßy the position of the bead men. Monyebe waa a wise councillor, a* he had bean a heave noldier. Moariekatee kept him always nmr to* penoo. But the man who is ihns in attendance on a Zulu chief re ceive* many valuable prevent*. Horses, saddle*, clothe*, guns, beads, were given by Moaekkatee to the officer hi whom ha had such pleasure. The other officer* liecame violentlv jaalon* of Monyebe's prosperity. They laid their head* to gether and plotted bia destruction. Jealous of one another, they were united against him, who was profaned i before them *ll. Innuendo* were first thrown out in the hearing of the chief; vague surmise* *ad fears were expressed: and at length a definite charge was made ' against Monyebe for witchcraft and in tended murder—murder not of a subject but of the king hiinarif. For some time the king turned a deaf ear to all those ; charges, but the bead men ware indefat igshle. They gave the Moariekatee no rert. Hia life waa at stake, they declared, and love to their chief waa their sole motive. At kttgth. aorrowfaUy and re luctentJv, the chief gave the officer* per mission' to kill Moayebe. The next morning nothing remained of toe favored Prime Minister, or his wive*, or his rcb tivea, or his servants, or hia property, or hi* village, but a blackened or smoking ruin. The sharp assegai had done its wo*, and fire waa left to complete the destruction Jealousy was tot the time appeased. Compressed Air a* a lathe Fewer. A Portland (Me.) correspondent of the Boston AdecrtiMr *ay* : The experi ment* which Mr. Robert Spear haa recently made in this city upon com pi-catcd air aa a motive power have made * very considerable aattteflkte among men of rif classes, mechanics, manufactareiw, capitalists and inventor*. It ia evident that in certain branches of manufacture a complete revolution must follow upon toe general introduction of this simple and economical substitute for steam or water power. Whether engines of very high pressure can be snpeessfuDv worked by Uu* new agency is still a debatable question among our intelligent median irians Mr Spear Has invented a gov ernor which aa easily control* toe pres sure as the governor of a steam-engine. He claims that air cau be compressed in the reservoir to an extent double the (>ower. of the engine that compresses, thereby saving a large per cent in fuel ; that the pipes can be extended to an ahnoat indefinite extent, and the obstacle of friction, which previous experimenter* have found almost impossible to deal with, ia bv a simple invention of Mr. Hpear'* entirely overcome. The necessi ty of long lines of shafting in large shop* is thereby obviated, and each workman broomiug as it were hia own engineer, the work of keeping a large engine con stantly running, when perhaps only a small' part of the factory's machinery i* in motion, is done away with. Mr. Spear affirms that the tidal force at Tu kev's bridge alone is sufficient to furnish compressed air for all the machinery in this neighborhood, and that toe water (tower at the Lower Falls of the Pro- Humpaoot, if applied to the same purpose, would give a snffieieut power for a manu facturing city of hundred* of thousands of inhabitant*. DOES IT PAT TO BF. SICK ?— The AMi cal urn! Surffioal Reporter estimates the cost, to the people of the United States, of medical services And medicines, at $100,000,000, and adds $25,000,000 for the qnack medicines swallowed. " Let the people," it saya, " study these figures awhile, and then reflect that probably one-half, or certainly a large fraction, of this expense, is incurred by a deliberate infraction of the laws of health ; that, if they tippled less smoked less, overworked less, were less ' fast* and less self-indul- Snt, they would save some thirty or rty millions a year." A SAD STORY. —A brakeman named Jones fell under a freight train on the Lake Shore road at Cleveland, and had both legs cut off and hia body badly maneied. Hearing a passenger train ap proaching, and would run him over also, toe wounded man stabbed himaalf is 23 places, in the breast and left arm, with a pocket knife. He was seen, however, by the engineer of the passenger train, who stopped it, and the m*n was taken up, but died shortly af terward. r I^l ■tof*** in* mm* ! ltelevahfairl \ . ,* pucft vawi W'f " tmi-t : - Tmnp wreath* of *y td *Mte tor her hair; Plate ream re! to mat aa f>t wWte tv—l m.t4 *... _ui at_ m ritdla* aMH&M artagga ■>* MMr^irrw* ~ v lLt rirSSlhrTpS f riff fttW Turtmfrn htiowfi oiwytwrrmi, iw 11 wr The bang* W*^"**3?- mLj MTfl 11 i "SffiSHSSa*.- Tafi nwtiiel fiprtng haaaomt. and prtat th* ***' . My km, toys* 1 ; Tour touch la tender, aw*rw qfgj*SSj. four voim drv*eeam*to, and your asm* min* tfrtßmaea: } T*n me, my fipvtaf, my lor*, hew *• aetite all auuahina mth with Life whre leva to part; AMI leva whan wjm.it bhtapag 'totemy. I* BirwHr ifcaa ttn fo **7*, JtoZmd sreraroSronut than roar fatty Mi Ant, •* yo* natetor, uar. JSwaall ] yZj w Faate and Fancte*. : Spotted vails, now so much warn, am vary injuriona to the eyesight Sixteen balnea on mm toDtoroit have haattehri*tened • Bmnmrek. Vermont emtitoya over AW mm to quarrying martd* to th* aeroml parts rf ! toe Mate. Oaa prrwon fa born evary few minutes ami archer dim every rovaa mtontaa ! A Chicago bishop waited two honm tor * bride who had been disappointed i in her bonnet airing*. Five hundred and twenty-five thou sand nix hundred testes leave London : in the eourM of <* yaar. L The Fmumylwmia LegialaJ|BW ha* t w ~ ti-mpoojar i# JXiSStSSe-SSS and about 1,00Q,0p0 pound* tote Eng- Jfediotf cattmato. that fhe peopf* of the United Btet P*T §llfi.>' OWt anutmfiy lor medictima and Tun fttta at Magteaw. MWt., ada a Imavtba; toey cotod tek* five gratoa of moifibine without injury. They teied it i ad died together TW mauagarof the AlhambraThaatre, M Fruomaoo, baa failed, with aavte of ten centa, no *l or peraonal pmperty, watch, clock or jeweby. A Providence mewhant aavaa hi* um hrelhu. bv cutting a small ptoea out of the whaeh be eantea in hi* pocketbook. ready to paore at anytime. A Philadelphia baggage-maater died latdy to the attempt to tnaah a man a trunk He had maahed thousand* be , fate, and thia waa the fiiat one thet threw off on him. Every seventh pamon to Umdon ia to j fecespt of public oharity. !%• ooat of aiding thia cfaa* has toaraaaad during ! the part ten yea** p than the growth of the great metropoh*. A Mr. L- P. Taylor, of Vermont iart 'South Bend. Ind.. on a ahmt vtrtt I for the benefit of hi* health, the five Mm. I Taylors whom he left a* hmna barma proved too much of a loud on hi* mind. A couple out to Portland, Qwgou, i who found themartvaa divwwd. through toe machination* of the wife** mother. M JhT l*wt liong poanWe undtw fee ciromnrtancaa—promptly got mamad country paper. apaatog <* ffcf street-organ pkytog of a *ddwjnthout arm*, who worked the crank with hi* foot, my* : " Hi pkytog waa tor above the nsual average: he thww lna whole sole into ft." • A moose ran up the pautateous lag of a Rochester Kaghahitmn w a quiet nap at one , poor fallow waa ja frigiitM tlmt be jum)ied down a flight of atepa and got ureated as a lunatic. An infatuated young man to haa indited many vemea to the id,d at his heart, closing - May Mihron kee eclipse Chicago, if ever I nmto lover MMU could take no loftier flight than that to Chtoago. is announced on excellent authority (Jvit ItU * million JKHUBU of willow leaf were made up at Shanghai, I last aeaaou. and palmed off a* gen tew The willow leaf aa prepared cannot ba dintinguirtwd from green to* The potato bags sea finding thr i B mti Bgp id the Waal in the soldier bugs, Wgu taaugnlar toaecta which attack th* other fiercely and make sbork wo* of them when they appear in ' any conaidcrabl* quantities. An Frgbah inmate of one of to* Pun jaub jails mvlc two complaints to toe inspector-general recently, one being that be waa not ntppbed with gmn-fed mutton, and th# other tfeathr was fonad . to feel the mrtmtote of hi* porttiou. The aewwrt too exhibited on the i atevets of New To* ia to the shape of a bird, which ia attached to a rubber string, ami flutter* its wings and tail to j a very life like manner, a* the vender swings it in cinfle* wound his heed. , A number of Milwaukee ritixensare organising a colony to go 11 est They will take along everything MM*_to civflixaiior.. *qtiat on m# wtejrf® tbiat s is vast enough, and have a well-built and flourishing rtty by the thna mow flies The Chicago Jomrmri thtofe " the 1 government throws swmr deal of mooev in keeping np lighthooa. rt the mouth of the Chwago river. On v give a pilot a good rtttted b. wo,l ' d make toe channel toe darkest night wito ent faiL" An old fanner said to hi* aoua : "Boy*, , don't you ever speekerlate, or wmt for siimmit to turn up. Ton might just aa well go an'sit down on a atone in the meddcr. with a pail atwixt your lega, wait for a cow to ha* up to you to ba milked." A school committee to s frontier dis trict are reported to have rammedl up their opinion of an examination which they had attended by making to the pupil* this address: "You've spelled well, and you've ciphered good, but you haint sot still." It having been decided that women can hold the office of County Superin tendent in lowa, the ambitious creatures are determined to hold them all. Three ladies fill ttiis office already, and several other counties have put female candi date* in the Add. Tbay have something worse than pota to bugs, chinch bug*, seventeen year locusts, curculio, caterpillars, etc., out in lowa, and all the country editors "go for" him pretty strongly. They call liim the "Chicago bummer." At home he is a " commercial traveler." The next municipal canvass in Louis ville promises to be based on the dog question. The wholesale slaughter of the canine species is exciting the ire of those who have pets, and toe next can didate for alderman must show a clear record on the anti-dog-kiHing subject American readers are often amused with the names of Chinese. To them Li PoTai and Chy Lung look very funny. Bat perhaps it is only in the way we print it. Suppose some of our own were given thus : Da Vis and Groe Ley, ScuhyLer Col Fax and Val Lan Dig Ham. Let parents make every possible effort to have their children go to sleep lin a pleasant humor. Never, seold or give lectures, or in any way wound a child's feelings as ttgoes to bed. Let all banish business and every worldly care I at bedtime, and let sleep come to a mind at peace with Oed and all toe world. The editor of the Bangor {Ma) Whig says he recently saw * large number of ladies enter a public hall with diahev- I riled hair and hat brims apparently wrinkled and broken, and, aa ha fancied, with exaited counter tines. "Upon in quiring what the riot waa abont, tew he, "imagine eur chagrin when told it waa the fashion." NO. 26.