Those Eje* that were so Bright.
Thns. orea thai ware ao bright, love,
Have ito a dimmer shine ;
But what they've loat in light, lore,
Waa what they gaw to mine.
And sUll Ihrse orba reflect, lore,
The beams of former hours ;
Tliat ripened *ll my Joy*, my k>vo.
And tinted ail my flowers.
These locks were brown to see, lore,
That now are turned to gray i
But the years were spent with me, lore,
That atole their hue away.
Thy locks no longer share, wee,
The golden glow of noon.
But IN. seen Qe world look flair, my lore.
When silvered by the moon.
That brow was fair to tee. Wire,
That look* so shaded now ;
But for me it bore the care, k>r.\
That spoilt a bonny brow.
And though no longer there, lore. ,
The gloss it had of yore,
Still memory looks and doles, my lore,
Where hope admired before.
The Dree* a N Prayer,
In the regular evening meeting
That the ehnr -h holds, every week,
One night a listening angel est
To hear them pray ami apeak.
It pusaled the eonl of the angel
Why some to that gathering earne.
But mck and sinful hrorta he saw.
With grief and guilt aflame.
They were sileut. but said to the angst,
"Gur lives have need of Ritn!"
While doubt, with dull. ngs*. throbbing pain,
Surred through their spirits dun.
You eoukl eee 'twas the regular ineetiug,
And the regular seats were Ailed.
Ad all knew who sould pray and talk.
Though any one might that willed.
From his place in (ton*, naar the pulpit.
In his hmg awmtwwf *y.
When the Book was read, and Ihe bymu was
tuny.
The Deacon arose to pray.
First cuius the Song preamble
If Peter had opened so.
He bad been, ere the Lord hi* prayer had
beard.
Full fifty fathom below.
Then a volume of informal in i .
Poured forth, as if to the Lord.
Concerning His ways and attribute*. -
And the things by Him abhorred.
Bnt not in the liat of the latter
Was mentioned the mocking breath
Of the hypocrite prayer that not prayer.
Ami the make-believe life in death.
Then he prayed for the church ; and the pastor;
And thai "souls aught be his hire"—
Whatever hta stipend otherwise
And the Sunday-school; and the choir ;
And the swarming hordes of India ;
Ami the perishing, vile Chinese :
And the millions who how to the Pope of Rome ;
And the pagan churches of Greece ;
And the outcast remnants of Jndah.
Of whose guilt he had much to tell—
Hi prayed, or hs told the Lord be pray ret,
For every thing out of Hell.
Now. if all of that burden had really
Been weighing upon his soul,
Tsould have sunk hint through to the China
aide,
.And raised a hill over the hole.
• ••*•*•
Twas the regttlar evening meeting,
And the regular prayers were made.
But the li-teiiing angel told the Lord
That only the silent prayed.
Ol'T OF WORK.
"If yoa please, air, John Yates wants to
see TOO "
"John Ystes," I aki to myself. "John
Yates! What can he want 1 I thought
he was at work for Cocmls k Plank."
"Show him into the library, Jane; I'll
be there directly."
"Well," sir, said John, a* I came in, "I'm
out of wo k, that's what it is, and the
missis and two of the little 'uns down
with Dnenzi, or fever. or something of
that sort; and truth is, sir, I ain't got a
penny, let lone a shilling, to bless myself
with. I can bear it myself, sir; it ain't
for that as I'm come; but they ain't had a
bit nor a drop this blessed morning."
"flow long htTe Too been out of work V
I asked.
"About a month,sir; leastways, a month
come Saturday."
"A month!" I exclaimed. I was going
to say, "Surely you oueht not to be so bad
off as this, only "a month out of work."
-What wages hare you been earning P
"Wei!, sir. in a reg'lar way, it's five and
twenty shillings a week : but I'll tell you
all, sir. aa you say. I made a good deal
over-time in the Summer, and maybe,
then, it was thirty, more or less."
"About that, take one week with an
other?"
"Yes, sir."
• Haven't TOU laid up anything against a
rainy day, John ; anything in the savings
bank, now, or building society 7"
John winced and said, almost surlily, "1
shouldn't h' come to you if I hid, sir."
Then, as if he felt he badnt been quite po
lite, tie added; "P'raps I ought to have
done, but a growing family ia very expen
sire, sir." •
"It is," I replied. "I know that myself;
still, it's for their sakes after all that we
save. Suppose now. John, that you had
ten or even twenty pounds in the
"Well, sir. I only wish I had; bnt how's
the likes o* me to lay by? What with
rent being so high and meat and bread and
everything else, and clothes and firing, a
man's wages is gone afore he knows what
he's about."
He was beginning to talk more freely
now, and I tried to encourage hi* doing so.
"I know it is so, John," I said. 'The
time* have been hard for most of tw. I
know it'a been tight work for me, anyhow,
this last year. But there will be bad
timet as well a* good times, and we must
make hay when the sun shines. Come,
now, times haven't alwav* been so bad.
have they 7"
"Well, no, sir, Fve no call to *ay thev
have, I've had regular work, thank (<xi,
lor a good many years; and been able to
pay my way, mostly, somehow or ether,
but there wasn't so many in the family
then."
"But I suppose you had something laid
by, or how could you have lived this last
month 7"
I knew pretty well bow it was, and how
be had never laid anything by; bot, for
his own sake, 1 wanted him to tell me.
"Well, sir, there, the truth must out
Most of the thing* is gone up, sir, and
there ain't no more to go. I'm ashamed
on it, sir, and it'* hard to me to *ay it,
but there's the truth."
Thirty shillings a week—a month out of
work—no bread in the house—and every
thing of value pawned ! We both aat si
lent for a time. Then I got up, and, tell
ing htm to wait, went out of the room
and sent a basket to bit house. When I
came back—there was no mistake about it
—John had been crying, but be tried not
to let me see it, and talinz rav pocket
book diary off the library table, I pretend
ed to be looking at the almanac. I was
really trying to think how I Could best put j
John in the way of helping himself. I
knew pretty well how it wa* with him, \
and a good many others like him. Honest,
hard-working, good fellows, but neither
thinking nor caring about the future, so
long as they can meet the demands of the
day, and whose money is always burning
holes in tbeir pockets. Bat I wanted to
bring this tact home to him.
"John," I said, patting my hand on his
arm, "1 want to say a word or two to you
very plainly. May Idoso 7"
"Certainly, sir. if you please."
"Well, then, I want you to tell me how
yon have spent your money. I don't ask
from mere curiosity, but in order to help
you. Yen are free to tell or not toll; but
you come to me to help you in your diffi
culties, and I want to do so in the most
effectual way."
"Well, I don't know as I've spent it
different from others," be replied. "Thirty
shillings a week ain't mnch for seven of as,
come to pay rent and schooling out."
"Is the rent all paid 7" I asked.
"He hesitated, and then said, "Xo, sir;
and that's one thin£ as troubles me, for
the collector ssys if it ain't paid soon, out
' we goes."
"Hoir mnch is there owing T"
•It's two months a'uiost," he answered,
hanging down his bead.
"A month's rent was due when yon were
thrown out of work," I said. "Do you
owe anything else 7"
"Well, there's where it i*. sir. We
might ha' gone on for a bit longer, bat last
week they at the shop told my missus that
they couldn't go on no longer unless she
paid something."
"Is that much 7"
"Well, sir, it's a goodisb bit, I most al
low."
"This is a serious matter, John. When
a trader uses other people's money co spec
ulate with, loses it and pays ninepsnce in
the pound, you woriringmen aee very free
with your comments; and when a noble-
FRED. KURTZ, Editor tuid Proprietor
VOL. IV.
roan outrun, the con*table you take hitn
to piece* pretty sharpie, don't you 1"
'i <-au't deny It, wr. N '
'•Well, what is wrong with a hundred
thousand pound* is wrong with a few
pound*. I*mi Aim not her* Ao'ur', J< K*. n
He started and looked really angry, aud
hi* lace flu-hed indignantly. "Stav," I
said, "and hear we. If, instead ot l two
mouths' rent for a small tenement, vou
owed it for a mansion in B Igrat ia; and if,
instead of a bill at the shop. you owed
thousand* for the maintenance of an ex
prn*ite establishment and for luxuries,
and bad no means of paying. because you
had already spent all your income, would
that be honest P
"1 ean't say as it would, sir.**
"Well, it's clear as day that you luvc
been lit tog beyond your income, somehow
or other, or else where a the money gone
to * Aud so you are not only in difficulty
because you are out of work, but because
you are in debt too. It's clear it hasu't
been sending your children to school has
ruined you. There are only three of them
old enough to go, and sixpence a week for
them can't make a man poor that earns
thirty shillings a week. How much do
you spend in beer. John P
"I'm not a dnuking man, sir, a- you
knows, though 1 aiu't a teetotaler. A
man must have something to work upon;
hast ways, I must."
"I won't dispute that point with you
now," I replied, for 1 knew that to do so
would be to lose the hold 1 had, by at
tempting too much. "But MM, how
much, alxnit f
He looked ashamed now, and said.
"Well, for the matter of that, 1 might do
with less, I don't doubt."
"Two pints a day, perhaje ?"
"Yes, that is when I'm in work."
"Three sometimes, aud an extra one, or
, a glass of gin and water on Saturday night,
perhaps 7" I said.
"Well, I won't dene it."
"Six or seven shilling* a week then,
when you're in work P
"You like a spree now and then, don't
you, John 7 Aud now and then a trip ou
a Sunday down to Greenwich or Rich
mond ? Or to Brighton and back for three
shillings ?"
•'A man must get out a bit sometimes,"
i he replied, doggedly ; "and the missis aud
children, too."
i j "Right," I replied; "by all means. But
a man shouldn't drive a carriage and pair
when he can only afford a donkev-cart.
t Now. come, how much do you spend when
vou go out for one of these tri| on a Sun
day r
t helped him to make the calculatiou,
and it came to this, that it couldn't well
be less than four or live shillings, at tbe
cheapest; and, of course, to Brighton and
back a good deal more. He confessed to
having once spent a pound in thi* way.
John's eye* began to be opened.
"And you go pretty often, in the Sum
mer time, don't you T'
"Well, wc do go pretty often, sir, and I
don't say it's right at all times ; but there,
all the while there's money in the pocket,
sir, it will go."
"Now, John," I said, "1 am not going to
send you away with good advice—'jaw'
vou'd call it, perhaps—and nothing else.
I have a small fund at my disposal for de
serving cases." (1 thought he looked a lit
tle coufused at the word deserving;, "and
I shall give you something out of it for
present necessity. Make the best use of
it yon can, and I'll see yon again soon.
I've ent something down to your house
| for the children ; and my wife will call and
see yarn's sooa. Good-bye, John."
I went to his bouse a day or two after
; this, and found bint at borne, sitting des
pondingly by tbe grate, in which was a
mere handful of fire, though it was a cold,
raw day. The mom was almost bare of I
furniture, and had a poverty-stricken look.
"Well, John," I said, "how is it ? Any
work in prospect ?"
"No, sir. nothing; and the governors,
leastways the foreman, told me this morn
ing it warn't likely there would le, not
for some time to come. Thingr, he said,
was as bad as they could be; so many of
these franks and companies had gone to
smash."
"Do you know why John 7" I asked.
"Well, not to say exactly, sir."
' liaising money on false pretense* and
spending it before they bad got it," I said.
'They have been going too fast, John;
steam full on. and not caring whether the
fire was clear or no; and now they've run
into another train, and there'* an awful
sma*h ; and one train come* after another
and makes it worse, and they can't do any
thing to prevent it."
"It's a great shame, sir, as so many
should suffer, though."
"You love your children, John," I said.
He looked at me and tried to speak, but
could not. It was no use hi* trying to
hide it; and at last be lairly sobbed.
"Now, John." I said, we must try and
rub through these bad time* a* fast we
can, and f'll do what 1 can to help you.
But how i* it to be for the future 7 With
thirty shilling* a week, you ought to lay
by, ought you not 7"
"It seems a* 1 ought," be replied.
"Well. now make up your mind to begin
a* soon a* ever you get afloat again. Ot
course, you must first of all pay what you
owe. I have *ccn the agent who collect*
your rent, and he will take the back-rent
in instalment* of two shillings a week. A
pint of beer a day will about pay that.
The shop will do the same, and it may be
paid from the same fund.
"Will you undertake to do that a* soon
as you get into work again 7"
"Indeed I will, sir, and thank you heart
ily. You've behaved most kind tome, sir,
and I shall never foiget it."
"1 don't wish you to do so, John ; but
I wi*h you to remember it for your own
sake, and turn over a new leaf when you
once get a fair start. Come to my house
to-morrow, and there will lie a paper for
you to sign if you approve of it.
Twelve month* pawed *way, and the
dreary Winter came round again, when I
bad another visit from John Yate*. Of
course I had often seen him during the
vear. for we were better friend* than ever,
lie wa* nearly another month out of reg
ular work, and was often very hard up,
and be ami bis wife talked a good deal over
"what the parson said," a* he told me. At
first flbe wa* ratbef high and mighty about
it, and thought it was interfering iu their
affair*, for she had been upper housemaid
before she was married, and was inclined
to be "genteel." But John'* good sense
prevailed, lie reasoned the matter out
for himself, and soon came to see that go
ing on a* they were, tbey were fast going
to the parish, or worse. The pinch of pov
erty, too, which *he had never felt belore,
wa* a forcible argument with her; and
they both ot them made up tbeir minds to
work bard and save carefully, (especially a*
there wa* another little moutb to lie led
by this time;, and try and get straight,
and have a little put by for a rainy day.
He found his beer an expensive luxury,
and a temptation, too, so he gave it up,
and get* on just as well, if not better,
without it. And he made np his mind
that to go on Sunday excursions, and come
home late and tired, and half stupid with
bad beer snd gin, was not recreation, and
that he might get rest and recreation in
better ways. All these things I found out
or observed in the course of the year. The
children, too, came to school regularly,
clean and tidy. Now John wanted to see
me again.
So he came into the library (it was on a
Saturday evening), in bis working-drese—
but looking clean and trim, and certainly
not smelling of either beer or stale tobac
co, u-r many do at that season—and with
his honest face radiant with a smile, which
was almost a broad grin.
"I thought yon'd excuse me, sir, bat I
CENTRE HALL REPORTER.
wanted to show you souo-thing," heard,
and so saviug, handed we his *avtug*-bauk
book.
"Five pounds thirteen shillings and six
pence!" I exclaimed. "Well done!' 1
knew all the debt* had been |<aul beside*.
"It shall be ten more next year, plea*e
: lod," be rejoined proudly. Tlien, holding
out his hand as the tear* stood in hi* eye*,
he aid, " God bles* you, sir!"' .fkd I re
plied with all my heart, and you, too,
•• John!" and I ibiukwy own eyas were a
little dimmed.
John went on well. He had to eudure.
of course, u good deal of chatting tioiu his
>ho|mial(e>, but he took it for the most p .rt
very quietly, as was hi- w„y : aud week by
week hi* account at tile Savings Bank --the
Potloflce Savings Bank it was—grew
larger. He was lairlv working hi* way up
to a latter poaition, and might at no distant
licit si hate looked to be a foreman, win u
suddtnly, unexpectedly, as great blows do
come upon s , be anil many other* were
struck to t' <• ground by an event which
was deemed important in uigh to have a
newspaper paragraph to itself.
"II e rraf*! to hear that the Urge build
ing contractor*, Messrs. ('ooibaand I'Uuk,
have ai lat succumbed to a pressure which
has already fallen so heavilv ou many
-mailer house*. They stopped payment
only yesterday afternoon, and the pr-nripal
i works in ——— street are now closed.
More than 400 uirn are thus at onc thrown
out of work, to add to the already great
di-tress of the district, and to the daily
increasing number demanding parish relief.
The liabilities ol the tirui are, we hear, ml
lews then £150,000; nruUblf tuore."
John's ini|iroved character and position
in the work.* could be no protect ion agaiu>t
uch an event as this; and iu the stagna
tion of trade which was then prevail iug, in
consequence of the collapse of so many
seemingly prosperous *j>eculations, there
wis little chance for even the boit men to
, find employment. John was therefore
| again "Out it work." We were very good
friends now, ami mi wheu I heard ol the
sad a flair, 1 made up uiy mind to go at
once and nee him.
He stood up to greet uie a* I entered
his house, and tield out his hand "Trouble
again, air," he said, "as I -appose you've
heard. But anvhow vou are wcKome.
Bring a chair, ftc*e. Vlease ait down a
bit, air. We've been talking as I'd better
go aud see you."
"Awl I'm first, you sec." I replied, as
cheerfully as possible, for it was a sad
affair. Hut I knew it would not help to
be grievous oTer it. "I am very sorry, in
deed, Yate*," I aaid. "What is to lie
done!"
"Ah ! there it i*, sir," replied be. "I'm
-ure I'd sweep the streets, or break stones,
or anything, sooner than be out of work for
long. But where's the work to be found '
It breaks a man's heart a'must to be— He
waa obliged to stop here and make believe
to put toe fire to right*—" to be slaving
bard to get on and put by a bit, and then
to be Hung like this."
I put my hand on his shoulder, aud said.
"You remember coming to me—how long
was it ?—a year ago and tuore —when you
were out of woi k lefure 7"
"I do, sir," he said with emphasis. "It
was one of the best dav work aa ever 1
did."
"I am glad to hear if," I answered.
"Now 1 want you to fulfill the premise of
that time. You have done well, nobly,
hitherto. Never despair!"
"That's what I say s," struck in bis wife,
who had keen busy about some household
matters before, but uow came and look her
scat by his side with the !>abj on her lap.
"It'll never do to go back, and we mu-t
hope for better times; 'hope, aud hope
ever,' 1 Bays."
I gave her a look and a nod of encourage
ment, and then turning again to John 1
said:
"John there was once One who knew a
working man's lot, and his tnals and
temptations, too. He knows yours, and i
willing to help yc u. Don't forget Him."
John Ixiwed hi* head, buWinade no
reply.
"And then," 1 went on, "Just think
how differently you stand now to what too
did then. Why how much have you in
the luuik John ? you had nothing then."
•'Well," he said, recovering himself. "it
insy be * matter of MOM twenty or five
ami twenty pound*, hut I had put that by
for thi* here boy, to apprentice him ami
he put hi* hand affectionately on the head
of a bright-looking boy who *tood br hm.
1 liked to aee' thatl I like a man who
can sacrifice and save for hi* children,
"tlod bless him," I thought. "Ilia lioy
shall not Kiilfer from this disaster." I **t
silent for a while, and then said—
'•John, you mut draw on the bunk,
there'* no doubt about that, but don't be
down-hearted. Believe me your friend,
and wait till I aee you again. Your boy
wiil be willing to wait, and help hi*
father and mother I know,"
I must cut my atory abort, or I shall
weary my reader*. John's hoard, I was
sorry for it, dwindled away while that
long and weary time of "Out of work"
continued, and I could see by hi* worn
look and anxious cve, how great a trial he
ww suffering. But he hore it nobly. He
*aw it was inevitable, and braced himself
up to it.
One morning he came to me and asked
me to look at an advertisement he had just
seen in one of the local papers: "Wanted
a good experienced hand a* foreman.
Apply at the Aibion Work*." "I think,
air, I might perhaps do for that post, if I
may lie so bold a* to a*k your good
word."
I laughed back. "My good word. Your
good character, John, is a deal better than
that. I know the proprietor of the Albion
Works, and will write at once. I only
hope you may be successful."
He ten* successful. He got hi* boy on
also without any difficulty. Hi* employer
was pleased with hi* skill and integrity,
and 1 only hope that no disaster tnav occur
to throw him again "Oni of Bunt."
A Brief History of Long Branch.
Long Branch take* its name fro in a
brook, a brunch of the Shrewsbury
river. In the year 1793 the place wa*
inhabited by Indians, and wo* styhnl
Land's End. About that time fonr nipn,
named respectively Parker, Hlocum, War
dell and Hewlett came from Rhode
Island and established a settlement
there. A considerable portion of the land
which they obtained continued in the
possession of the Hlocnms until thirty
year* ago, and some of the land war
rant* ere still in existence. A few vmrs
later other hardy aettlorn from neightior
ing province* bought land in Long
Branch at twentv shillings an acre,
built dwellings and occupied themselves
with fanning and fishing. It now em
braces a population of fonr thousand
five hundred.
The Liberty Pole is the name given to
the village, from a flag staff erected
there dunng the war of 1812, while the
coast portion, upon which the cottage*
und hotels are located, is known us the
Whore, fronting the ocean. Land pur
chased at the edge of the village by Mr.
Wauuel Laird, in 1863, for 82.50 au acre,
was sold for $4,000 in 1870, soon after
the Burlington Pathway was opened.
The first hotel erected at Long Branch
was the Ocean House. There are now
accommodations for twenty thousand
people. Three years ago Blythe Beaoli,
south of the present West End Hotel,
comprised only farming lands. To-dav
it is laid out as a park, with new roads
from seventy to one hundred feet wide,
and beautiful sites for cottages. Of
these there are now two hundred.
A new style of wedding card is pure
white with wide gilt edge.
CENTRE HALL. CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1871.
I'lrtur* fa Cklanr (it).
To give a correct iJv* of a Chine** oily
*ny a eorreatKMuleut, i* next to an mi
jMixtihility. Aftei punning through two
Kates, over twj bridge*, along several
tigxng pu.-e.vgev ami then penetrating a
luiivrinth nf *lrc't*, all idea of the jxitnt#
ot the compam ia lost, ami MI it continuea
until you get out again, which without a
guiile would I*- uluiout a hop lew tush.
Si* feet 1 think would eteeed the width
of itoiue of the utreet*, which are o
thronged that one feel* aa though thread
ing a bazaar. The roof* of the house*
(project until they almost uieet overhead.
The natives live nioatly in the ujtper
*tory. the lower oue being naed for mer
chandise or n* a workshop. Chinamen
are very dextrous in various triules, ex
celling in carvings, filagree work. and
other handicraft. The shoji sign* are a*
numerotiH aa with us. and generally hung
perjM'udicnLtrly. with the edge to tin
street, are j tainted on lsth sides, and
reud from top downward* as ia usual
with Chinoae writing. The colors are a*
varied aa ours, though-gilt charucters ou
i a hluck grouud aeem to lx the favorite.
The joaa houses or temples are particu
larly interesting to strangers. The
interiors are very showy iu gilding and
embroidery. In some of theiu may be
set-11 idola from teu inches to aa many
feet iu height, moat of them of the
> hummi form—not divine, but rather of
J the opjHite character. The word pet*
ia a corruption of the I'ortugueae dma ;
but I think Mime of their images person
ify Satan—ao I understood uiy Chinewe
guide to say. The Chinese have three
forms of religion —Confucianism. Budd
hism, and Taonisui—all of which orig
inated several hundred yearn la-fore the
Chrintiau era. There are ten or twelve
Christia i churches and chapels here now
four of which are American and four
English, the others Kouiau Catholic.
Two of the Protestant churches arc in
; the old city. Bishop Williams, of the
American Episcopal mission, is stationed
here, and toe Rev. Robert Nelson, of
, Virginia who came out in IHSI. Their
latxir and that of others baa la-en Moss
ed, for there ia now a native officiating
in one of the chajxd* in the Chinese city
and another at a village ucar by, while
the number of native communicant* ia
M
The Women of Pari*.
Home of the incidents in the women
light* in Paris were thrilling in the ex
treme. A medical student ottered
! one who was greatly exhausted aornr
bread and wine. She declined tlieui,
saving : " For the short time left me I
shall not 'need them." Immediately
after the commanding officer of the
Versailles troop* was heard addressing
j the women : " Yon are brave ; yon
have killed two of my men." The wo- i
men burst into a tierce laughter and ex
! claimed ; " May the curse of tlu; Al
mighty rwst upon my soul for not kP.liug
more. I hail two sous killed at Imj and
two at Neuilly. My husband dieil at
this lairricadc. Now do with tue wliat
you will." Tlien there n the word
'• fire," and the woman fell dead.
Of the men it ia said, n lieutenant
I colonel of the Comtuuue, who was a
Pole by the name of Potnkcuaki. said he
had but one privilege to ask of his exe
cutioners when h< found that all prison
ers were shot. He usked to die in his
! uniform. Meliu, oue of the members
of the Commune, was tied to a post to
be shot, and his last words were : "We
have lost the game this time, bat oar •
; children will lx-gin it again some day
| and then mooted." A very common ;
lust cry was, especially of tine looking
young women, Shoot, shoot st once."
Some who were about to be convovrd
off, as it wua pretended, for examination,
took their stand and exclaimed. "No,,
v e perish here. Save us the fatigue of
that journey."
Romantic Ile-uit of a Stare.
A lieautiful aud wealthy young lady,
at a social jiarty, took offence at what she
supposed to he the iuiix<rtiueut gaze of ,
1 a gentleman present, who was a stranger
to her. bnt a friend of the lady of the
lionse. The young lady demanded hi*
expulsion as a condition of her remain
ing. Explanations ensued. The gentle
man was not looking at her, " though
lieautiful enough to attract and fasten
the attention of any one." Ho was look
ing st a fine and costly chain that en
circled the fair one's n<ck—iiiat such a
one as he had purchased for hi* sister—
in one of the liuks of which (having a
secret o]M-ningi he had put his photo
graph. But, some months since, and
before he had an opportunity to present
it to his sister, it was stolen from him. ,
I'pon examining the lady's chain he
touched a spring (to the little beauty '
unknown), and 10. and behold ! there was
his photograph !
1 leave you to judge of the confusion ,
of the fair one. She inmiediatelv offered
to return the piece of jewelry, which was
politely declined, for the time, and it is
said bv knowing ones that she ha* con
cluded to accept of the young man's
hand and heart, in onlcr that, M ing tin
jxmaesnor of the one she may lie permit
ted to retain the other. It is but justice
to remark that the young lady bought
the chain of a travelling peddler, who
hail stopjied at her father s house, for
alxmt one-half of it* original cost.— Ohio
paper.
MAN DOMlNOO. —lnformation reaches
Washington that in consequence of thei
Senate not ratifying the treaty for the
puroliase of the Bay of Humana, and
rnakiug no appropriation to jwy the
money instalment of 3150,(XIO due this
vonr, private individuals in New York
have advanced this amount of money to
Mr. Fuliens, to imy over to Presideut
Baez, in order that the Unitivl .States
may still retain the control of the liny
anl fly the American flag there. The
tuonoy is sdvauccd, it is stated, in the
oonfldetil expectation that the United
States will, ere long, annex the whole
island of Han Domingo, and that persons
who Hulmi-rilxxl toward the 9150,003 will
be reimbursed by tlic Government.
BOTH ANDHMOKK. —A French physician
has investigated the effect of smoking on j
thirty-eight boys, between the ages of
nine ami fifteen, addicted to tlie habit.
Twenty-seven prusenhnl distinct aymp- >
buns of nicotine poison. Iu twenty-two
there were serious disorders of the cir- j
eolat ion, indigestion, dnines* of intellect, !
and a marked np]M'titc for strong drinks ; 1
in three there was heart affection ; in
eight decided deterioration of blood ; in 1
twelve there was frequent epis-tnxi* ; ten
had disturbed sleep, and four hail ulcera-1
tion of the mucous membrane of the j
month.
A Mixr.u POPULATION. —In the Fourth
Ward of New York, in one block, are 69
old and rickety buildings occupied by 418
families, of which 2 nre Welsh, 7 Por
tuguese, 19 English, 10 American, 12
French, 39 colored, 186 Italians, 189 Pol
ish, 218 German, aud 818 Irish. In one
block of buildings owned or controlled by
the same parties, are over 3,000. Several
tenements contain over 1,000. These are
huddled together in filthy, dark, un
ventilated rooms, for which they pay
extortionate prices and suffer untold
miseries in body andunind.
Tax bay erop near Portsmouth, N.
H., is fast being harvested. The esti
mated yield will be from one-third to
one-half less than last year.
A Bog that Pta)* Euchre.
1 One evening, a listless party wen- sit
" ting in the maiu cabin of the Providence
> steamer Metis. A disagreeable north-
I wester made it uupiraMul to remain on
* dock. A middle-aged, keeu-eyeil, windy
haired man was the moat restless iudivtd
-1 uul in the enhiu. He ap|x-ared to he
1 somewhat wuuoyod by the walking back
• j wards and forward* of a dark-haired,
1 fine-looking young man. whose every tep
' wus followed and movements watched l>y
- a large sized Spanish jsssße that slight
' |y litu|H-il with his left fore leg. The
siuidy-haired man finally *oooted the
r mau with the dog :
" I soy, atrouger, it's Very dull here ;
' can't we got up a game of euchre t"
" I don't care much about playing,
I sir : but my dog here plays a tolerably
i fair game. Perhaps he'll try a hand with
t yon "
" No jokes, if you please ; I am an old
I euchre player, ami very fond of the game.
I 1 once pUv .l three mghla in sunwaaioo
' with Gen. Hilly er, aud tieat hiiu two to
1 Ids oue," said the sandy-haired man rath
er sternly.
" I am not joking air ; 1 tell you hon
' catlv that mv dog can play a g*id game
I of euchre. I'll wartu liitn up a little and
'! show yon w hat he can do lief ore you play
' ! with hiu."
By tliis time the convcraaUou had at
tracted the atteulioii of the other pan
1 M-ngera, ami they lutd gathered around
the dog aud men.
*' Now, gentlemen, pl.-ae to steji back.
' MI a* to form a good-i*>d ring, and well
' show you some sjx-ciui. ua of canine
sagacity tliat tuny axtoaiah yuu," sawl the i
j ow iter of the dog.
Aa aoott aa the riug had lx-u math- the
' dog man alumted :
"Come, Sjxirt, give u* a walk around
' on your ear.
Sport nniuetliai. lv raised liitnaclf on
his tor* legs aud walked around the cir-1
cle with his head chaw bt the carpet, his i
hune Kg giving him the appearance of j
j sliding on Ida ear.
The mail next tixik a ten-cent stamp,
rolled it up into a little newiqtaper Iwll
made a doren other balls of the same
*ixe ami appearance, mixed them op and
threw them on the carjx t.
" Now, Sport, pick ont the one with
the stamp in it"
Sjxirt immediately walked round the
|mix-r wad", looked .d theui eagerly, ami
pull out the one with tlie stamp.
Sport's master now pulled a pack of,
cants alxmt the aire of ordinary playing ,
carda from hia pocket. Each card had a
black letter printed ou it. The .-anls
were placed around iu a circle, with the
letter uppermost.
" Sjxirt. tell tlie Lo In* and gentlemen
where you came from this evening." j
Sjsirt walk* 1 round the carda until he
came to the letter P ; thi* he took in his
moulli aud laid one side, and tin n took (
tlie letter R and pl*ce<l h. side it, and ao
on until he had spelled Providenr.
"Sport, 01.l fellow, where are you
Ixiund for ?"
Sjsirt spelled out New York in the name
manner.
The letter carda were uow taken up
aud a pack of playing cards laid in tbeu
place.
"Well, Sport, what do you war to play
' ing a game of etiehre with this gentle
man t" in.i aired his master.
Sport didn't appsir to lie very eager, i
bnt hung his bewa a little, u* if tired.
" Oh, then- ia plenty of time; you j
never retire until nine, you know. Just ,
, look at my watch."
K|xirt jumped to his m oter's kueea
and lcked at the watch which wu* held
lief ore his eye*.
"Now Sport, tell it* the right tune to a
minute."
Sport walked round tlie cwnl* again .
. and took a niuc-sjsd iu hia mouth, ,
which he laid on one side of the ring.
Then he picked up a and laid
it a short distance from the nine*pot.
He followed this up by jdacing a tray and
I ten-spot by the side of the seven. Tlie
man then showed his wateh te the spec
tators. It wan'.t-d just twenty miuutcs to t
, nine.
"Before you commence the game, (
Sixirt, I want to see whether your head j
Is clear. Supposing yon werejrilaying a
game of old sledge with Bos* Tweed for !
n charter of railroad against a million
dollars, aud the game stood MX to six.
and it was your denl. what card would
yon like to turn np ?"
Sjxirt walked around the ring and
turnsl np the jack of sjiad. a.
" Right, old Sport, your head ia level," '
said his master, patting the dog fondly. !
Then turning to Gen. Hillyer'a friend, '
lie said :
" Iu nbyiug with S|xirt it will be uec- ,
oasaiy for vou to deal hi* cwrdn face np.
Thi* will give yon an advauMgc. In or-.
der to make the game even ileal Sport
! ten card*. As soon as the trump is made 1
he will jnek out five and throw the rent 1
aside. When Sport passes he will turn <
one of his cards over. When he oixh-iw
yon up lie will nod his head."
Gen. Hillyer'a friend agreed b the ar- j
rungement, hnflh*l the carilx, deaß'
Sixirt ten canl* and five to himself, turn-'
1 ing nn the nine of diamond*. SjKirt'
jiiiksetl, and Gen. Hillyer'* friend took it
up. Snort then sehcbxl the qucea of
diamonds, ten of diamonds, eight of
diamonds, and wee and king of hearts.
Sjxirt led with the ace; Gen. Hillyer'a,
fnend followed suit and lost the trick.
Sport then laid down the queen ; Gen. ]
Hillyer'* friend took it with the left how-'
er. The right Ixiwer wa* then slung at!
i Sjxirt; he laid the eight-spoton it. Tak- 1
ing the trick. Gen. Hillyer'a friund laid
jdowu the uine-sjxit. Sport taking it
with the ten. The. dog thou shoved the j
king of heart* at Hillyer'* friend, who
'had to hand over the queen of club*
with the exclamation :
"Euchred,** mire AS f*te,hy a ixxxlle!" '
Two more liand* were tlien played, j
Sjxirt winning the gome.
" Now," said the owner of the dog,;,
I " lie down and rest. Sport; you have j (
done nobly."
The dog lay down with ontatretched
and stiffened Icgi-. a* if he were dead. >
Hi* muster pulled flrs 1 . one leg and then
another, then pushed and shoved him : '
nlxmt, but be gave no aigus of lifa. Mad- < 1
denly he sung out.
i " Siiort, you noxwl, vou have Mmu,
j gambling ; liere comes tue police !" !'
Sjxirt was off like n shot for the fn- ( 1
waid end of the cabin.
A man who witnessed th*e wonderful •
! trick* could deb-ct no signala bet ween 1 '
, the dog and hi* muster. Sport ammiuwd 1
|to do everything from the working of 1
hi* own brain*. Flu* master's umnw is <
R. M. D<xld. He stated that he wm* a
I drug clerk iu WUliftflialnirg, and had i
sjx-nt three year* in educating Eport. '.
i Sport ia seven year* of age.— N. V. sw [j
KXTKIUMU low S SITICMON I'TBUCLIMIS.
—The Hooretary of the Interior decides
in the matter of the application of the
Probate Judge of Jufferaon County,
Montana, to enter certain lands as the
town site of Hpringville; that towns
with lens population than WO can enter
the public lands under the act of March
3, 1867, thus reversing the ruling of the
lute Commission or of the Grand Land
Oilioe, in this and similar casea. The
Secretory concurs in the opiuion of As
sistant Attorney-General Smith Unit
although the act of March 2,1867, makes
a limitation for more than 100 aud less
than 300 inhabitants being 820 acres,
yet a leas number than 100 may enter
the area actually occupied and unprov
ed as a town site, not exceeding the low
est prescribed limitation as to quantity.
At allfumta Bag.
. 1 A corr*-*]xiiident jmaking of Ut* hogw
N iu CVliformu,droves of which slxmnd on
tlie rwiiehea. my* ? One day f bad been
, gathering flower* in a field a mil** or two
. j from tlie house, when, on emerging trout
a valley, 1 saw quite near ma, coming
. along tb* rofiil white I wu standing. 40
or 50 bug*, driven by two men on horse
back f was in the direct road, and the
\ < men up.m seeing me turned the hog*
f j aside. Htill emitinning my walk leisure
ly, 1 watehed I hem nnbl tliey were well
, ji'mNt me, Suddanly three or four bog*
, took it into their hwds to turn hack and
retrace their atepa. One of the men
started after them arid auiniaedad ta
turning back all excel* one, that utarb-d
in the risul dMh towarils in The
j man, still on hia horse, placed bitusclf
( I between mw and the- hog and tried in
vain to make it tarn and Join the other
I hugs 1 wab-hed with mlnr—l the *p
uarantly unequal ixmiost, the man and
, florae Wing of the one 1 tarty anil tlie hog
, of the other. But the hog proved iter If
master of tlie situation. Although th*>
hone uiiderwbxxl the methuda of warfare
as well a* the nun, they wetv both uu
, j able to overcome the hug, which fought
I a* valiantly as any royal tiger ever did.
I had an yd considered iaywdf an alto
> gcthi-r uuintertnted spectator of the
fight StnlAeuly, the man turtted to ma
aud said, "It mav liite you." J needed
no second adinonhi' u, but fled from this
ignoble porker. M 1 won hi have dons
fnwn a furious gritxly hear, had 1 mot
<*l* iu the forest. 1 kicked around (or a
place ot i • fug.-, a<4 wishing b> deporal on
mdiaiiicJ flight FortunateD. then- was
near at hain] an aquedud in which
water Was taken *cro*9 a raviue I found
a M-am arm** ft, on which I elevated
myself, and there for one mortal hour,
i ia'a betMlxag mui, aat perched, while the
.onUwt- ooutmwod 'lhr vwlor of th bog
j was rewarded with victory, a* it ought to
havr bcn. He stayed where he won, the
man keeping him at lwj wbQe I bent a
retreat. It T* thi* kind of hog that fiml*
favor here. The smooth uwtnous, ari*
t-x-ratic t'heot.v White lis* too little self
rdisnoe, energy, and pluck, to find oat
the suap-root ruul other concealed earn
i lent* uccewoaty to sustain lift- and to
'fatten
A Business PrwsHlaa.
A and B enter into Imrinew ; A invasb
flO.OOO, It #ls,ni*V Thev remain in
partnership a boat ten yean without tak
. ing wn in* on lory, and not knowing
whclh. r they (guned or Its* atqr mooey
—which I admit is * cartdea* way of
, doing basjoam, but always having j
enough cash on hand to pay their hill*
u they were presented, they were aot
anth>n- about anything elae. At the end
of that time, A find* be has drawn ont at
, different time* aniua amounting to all to '
, 9U.UIU. B. ia the same manner, has
drawn out fil<i,oou. And on taking aa i
account of stock they find their present (
worth, afh-r deducting all del its, to be i
JSS.fIOO, Wiat is ewrh one'* present,
worth y "
Answer -As A put in two-fifth* ot (he
capital and B put in threadUßm. and the
335.0011 of went cußvortod- iat<'
<l3,uuu, ilu.(k<", 35,001\ in U ffiiuw.
the diviai.in bocoaar oanfr. Two flflh* of I
3<U,tQ are t25,<50b for A* *hare, oat of
which be ha* had ftT.OOO, leaving Id*
! whaie worth -filS.flOH. Three-flfth* of i
9*4.<ktf> are for B'* share, oat of
- w hioL he has dins a aifkOuu. leaviag Au
i share worth fZkiIAJ.
I A Caiyaaa Frmauuu A Chiuanmu
who was nmrd*n-d in San Ftancisoo ra
.s-atly wa* given a grand fuuoral, aotne
fifty carnages of Ccleatinl sympathizer*
paradiiij; in a Jong unxxwaxoa, beaJed
bra (hseordanl hand of Chinewe miui- j
cian*. The murdered nmu had been •
laid out hi a new suit of clothe*, with a <
quantity of feather* placed arnaad baa
liewtL la hi* hamk WVM placed a dirk-1
knife, sad other weatxin*, with which,
he ia expected to pilch into hi* murder
er* when they arrive in another world—
if he can find them. From the slioew
the sole* were removed, the npprn being
left. Thi* w-ae looe eo that he might
' step aoftly and revereatly into the pnw
enoe ot hia Josa As usual, a quantity
of Chinese provision-* wure put into the
coffin, and kit at the grave. Chineaa
wine—rice spirit —wa* duo left id the
grave ; hut id** ' those profaue lteU<wa .
j ruffian* of the Goltbwi City always follow
< these pnx-eaubma, and mthWshr gobMc
.iU they can find e*t*Me aud tlriakable ,
! a* *ooo a* the Iwchn o." the living CVlr-'
uul* ace turuod.
I GovaaxiXo WIVBB. luting
lute again bci-u telling hi* diMaphu what
lie knows about wives, aud if he-ia not'
as well jHxdod on <ln*t riibjact a* any
other man t America lie ha* Ixwn ter
-1 riblv ttniligned. Thi* i* a sample of hi*
talk": •' I way to von who want to gov urn
vow w tees, r< iheni an exniaple motin-:
uaß.v that ia good. Let theai say,,
| ' There is lay huobatnl, does ha d<i any-,
.thing Unit lie ought not do? No, he j
(loca not. He pray*, lie i* faithful,
' iiumble, meek, full of kinduce* and of
gtsid word* and work* ; I see nothing
wrong in him.' If a man purnne thi*'
straightforward, amnly, G .d-iike coarse '
bewail fiud woman in her place by his
, ssla following turn. When we find snj
I alder of laraci do this w And plenty of
J women who will go along with him." i
.. u j wit o j '"T
Worui Ww HAS -IO the Court ofi
Claim* in Lexington. Ky., a few dap-*j,
ago, th<> presiding Judge was nnuoyed t
by an Irritable old gentleman, who ,
would insist in *l***khig disrcspeetfnlly ,
of the action tif the <Vmrt. Ttw Judge
fined the old gentleman eleven times iu ,
sttcciwaion, for contempt, and threatened '
to eommit him to jail, without doing !
i any good : and fliiaUv, iu order to main-1
tain the diguity of the Court, told him ■'
that if he was only a young man, the i;
Coaii would whip hitu in so short *
time thaf it would make hi* head swim.
TBK LABOK Cmß#. -The only three J ,
cities on the globe positively known to j \
contain over l,0t*),Ull) inliaiiitauta are,
London, l'woo, aud New York yinclud- (
ing Brooklyn), the reported population j
of Yoddo, TVkin, and other heathen iwn- ,
bra having teH<n nrovevl to lie wildly
exaggerated. Benin. Ht Peterahnrg,
Napli-*. and Vienna do not diflbr very
widely In popnluthm, though the Prna- j
sian i-ajvital is growing more rapidly |
than any of the other ciUos, and ia jiroh- ,
ably the Urg.t by 40.UU0 to M.tiUO, j
—— ii- i l
lua TKXAS CATTU TBAOK.— Hie
Abilene (Kane m) Chrvnide gives the |
billowing us the most accurate figure#
ot the TVXBH cattle tiado this season.
1 There are now near the line of the
Kansas PWeilte Rwibroad lfift.ooo head ;
j mated Rod River station hi be driven on
that line, 100,000; for Atchison, Topeka i.
and Santa Fe lUilrood, 50,1)00; for ]
Missouri River, Foxt Scott and Gulf
Railroad, 75,000 ; foi the Union Paciflo.
80,000; to he wiutcared in Kansas audi
Colorado, 50,000 ; total. 500,000. Tbu ,
i* lower than- tall pmvioiu estimates, |
thongh larger than any previous year.
■ I
TBBX AUK Nau>Al'—There are ninety
nine societies for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals in full working order
iu various couutrio#. Engtand ba* beeu
working in the eauee for the past rixty!
i years, end has founded twenty-seven .
aonfotirs. Amariaa baa been working
only five years, and twenty-three State*
1 have organized similar association*
Hoaar-Xad* Ire*.
Given a " Plve-winute Frrenter " and
a -hilling's worth of ire, and other mate
rial coat* almost nothing With leotnoa
at nlaepenee a dozen, (tteily omagra four-
U*u for quarter of a dot tar, currants
and naberrtaa reddening in the garden,
•nd aUawberrtm at every voruet, a mould
of toe ousts Ism thou a pudding or a pie,
and invqivtM iraa bead and trouble ia
preparation. A lit of carpet and a mal
let, a few tuUiiih-*' pouuduig and stir
ring—your frewxer U ready -your mix
' tur# pottrad in and covered "over • yog
come and go )evine it to itself, with uow
and then a twirl of the darfter—tialf an
bone and it ia ready. The gboat of last
winter baa entered your kitchen and
done bis apiritiug dettly.
Thu tarurttoa of material ate many.
They sound tbe gamut uf the aeaaous
' There is an ire for every mouth in the
year, aud a ilozt-u fur those in which toe
ta most palatable and welcome
■H, for matnnre,—all the winter long,
lemon and orange ire* ran he had, made
•amply at the pure of tbe finita, eold
i water, and augur. A little sweetmeat,
or the kft-over ayruuof a aaaof peacbaa.
uuty he addod to eulianre and vary the
flavor, and the aliiSy-beaten white of an
egg m*k>- the tvtmpoiuhon lighter and
more delicate. Later, ptiireppk) ire
contra on ; then alrawbeny, raahwrry,
cherry -made precisely ia* the name
way. Currant juice well-awretem-d and
fruseu without water forma a ruby eone
daligltllul to look and teate. Frown
peaches aimed into oraarn ami well sweet
, coad, are not to be dertdad. la fact,
there ia nv fruit or miagkug of fruita
which will not Itlrnd banuonioualy under
the magic influeure of the freezer. Tbe
moat unlikely thing* torn oat the moat
1 toothaome. We diattnctly rernemlxir
oare rating a mixture of wonderful
gwadaaau, which proved an invratigntion
u be aarapownded of milk, flour, a little
melted butter, a very littie cream, augar,
ahsmd pcarhen and the juire of ateved
pear* 1 After, that, who *haS heat tale f
One word mora. Pound your ira
very fine, and add plenty of rurk aalt.
packing it oloae vritli a stick or twoom
handle There precaution* takes, the
freemng Iteeonwa a very raay affair
Prmm " /Jure osf im Sts/ifmrr^t
Afogeasae for
TMeklU Iteration of a (liM.
Out* of the most tearful e*acs w
Wild ob pipn ia this. <* t little boy, a
mere child, who travelled 1,400 mike,
taking care of the dead body of his
mother ail the way.
AD vxpremman. 14x10 reaching K of
fice one cold morning is January, ob
served on the id-waik a long, heavy
box. which hit practiced eye at one#
identified aa containing a corpse. Upon
the end of the box, shivering with cold,
eat • half-clad bov about seven or d tht
i ream of age. Addressing him kindly,
1 he aud :
"My led. dost ait them , you will
I free*r. Come ui and til by the fire,"
Bursting ink) tear*, the little fellow
, rrjli*l;
. ''No, I can't cv'iw Mv mother is in
this box, and I promised her I would
not lean' her mini we got home. *
Deeply tlMw) with the touching de
vote'a of thia brava little boy, be finally |
succeeded ia eaortnaiag him of the an
: Urv safety of bia precious charge, and ,
taking bun to a restaurant, gave biu al
warm breakfast, and then learned the!
particular* of his story.
Hia father died but a year previously,
, in a remote village in Minnesota, leaving |
hia mother in poor health and nearly j
1 destitute She died but a few days lie- j
fore the lioy'a aad journey, charging the t
little hero with the aad duty of ooavev
, tag her remains to ber frauds ia a dis-'
, last State, aud furuuhed bun with {all ;
j ahe had) a Mm of money barely suffi j
dent to carry them both We their desti
nation.
The little fellow had actually ridden]
' night and day in a freight car with his J
melancholy trust, never'for a moment'
losing mgtit of it.
A fight With-a Rattlesnake.
A Minnesota paper aaya: "Laat
week Sunday, aa a Norwegian girl, living
some fonr mih-s from this place, waa
walking akmg the road, ahe passed di
rectly in front of and very cioaa to a
huge rattlesnake that was just coining
out of the grass into the road. . Thia
uneonrtroua action seemed to ionic hia
, suakeahip very wroth, and he immeJi- j
ately aiunded the battle HUUTU by rattling 1
' hia gong. The girl well knew that sound.,
and turned to ssce.rtain the exact looa
lion of her uglv foe, which ahe soon j
did. ami. instead of running, screaming, l
l or fainting looked about for something
with which to defend herself. She could ;
find nothing, nor bad she a long time to t
look, for the snake. with eyas glistening |
1 and rattle* m motion, mouth aide open, ]
and hia tongue darting back and forth. ;
waa cioae upon her. But sLu? was pluck j
to the lmck-l>one, aud did not propose
' to surrender the field without a fight— (
in fact, a retreat waa now out or the
question, for the snake wtw within arm'a j
reach of her -wo keeping lier eye steadily j
on the snake's head, die commenced j
the fight with her foot, moving it back
and forth, up aud down iu every din*- j
Uon. the snake following the motions'
with hia head to get a chance to bite, 1
This performance lasted perliapa but a |
minute - hours fo her—when, by a quick
movement, sba got the advantage, and
down came the foot aud heavy shoe
upon the snake'a head, where die hold |
htm untH be wan dead. Mbe then found j
a stone and pounded otf the rattles to .
keep as a trophy. There were ainoteeu '
rallies, and she aaya it is the largest rat- j
tlesuaka aha ever saw."
Liojrriuxa ("oxnrrroma -Lightning
conductors, aaya the jrowiffir dwervroa,;
frequently have not so good a 0011 nec-,
tion with the earth aa they should have.
A lightning conductor having its earth
extremity partially insulated, soon bo
comes charged if a atom cloud passes
over it, and then a lateral discharge
takes place ; hence the acoidents which
have tmjueatiy taken place in building*
supposed to be adequately protected,
Sand and gravel, brickwork and atone,
•ro bad conductors of electricity, and if
the rod has such a base, and th* sur
rounding earth b* likewise dry, it is prae
(ullv insulated. The difficulty of gel
hag what telegraph operators call a good
earth, ia one that should weigh with
those putting up lightning conductors,
limy should not rest satisfied that all
is secure unless they can reach a run
ning stream of water, or els* sink a con
siderable surface of copper plate until
permanently damp earth is reached.
BACK AGAIH.— And now CORNER back
; to ns in the English journals the absurd
story of the killing of an old roan in
1 California, who possessed the secret of
' netting the river on fire, and who had
! threatened, unless an iuameuae sum of
i money was paid to him. to bum np all
I the oceans and rivers on the planet It
will be recollected that the old man waa
thrown off a oar on the Pacific Railroad,
so the story ran, in the interests of the
tinman race, and dashed seventeen hun
dred feet to the bottom of a precipice.
The matter is treated half seriously by
the London journalists, who have failed,
however, to learn the beet part of the
I story, whtfeh wee the remark of a miser,
who sever nsed water himself, that it
was a pity to kill the old mas, sinee to
born np all the water is the world would
not be each a bad thing after all.
TERMS : Two Dollars a Year, in Advance.
A Chine** DistkM.
The ( 'hi HAM bars mur custom* M
etiiitf tr> their nation, which st-ike the
44 outside barbarian " as Ixeiiig tr*ng<
Mid unnatural Their religion* tradi
tion* am and mo strongly
fcwtarwl by superstition as to give liUh
eoaoongewttl to loiaaioaa ry laborers.
> The moat striking of tW miperstition*
, are thus* pertaiiuug to the UwpoMUou
of their dying and (Lad relative*. Vary 1
. the had MM of Ouness men
, and women are found in ontanaated
-uihling* in the Chines* quarter of this
I'ltjr, and thoao unacquainted with their
superstitious are prone to aet the doner- ;
! tiun of dying friends down aa acta of
wlbhnwt Tina however, ia not to. aa
the Chinese behave that if twraoas die
m a house that they lived in before i
death, their spirits will haunt the placet'
aver after, and give unpleasant evidence
of their pretence to all who remain. In
order to prevent the manifestation* of!
| the reathw* spirit, as soon aa the doctor j
gives it aa his opinion that the patient
will die, be ia taken to another place and \
left alone to die. Yesterday umm of*
(hit kind was reported to the Coroner.
A young Chinawoman who bad bean
given up by the attending phyatatitu,
waa earned to an untenanted bouse in
Olis Place. off Pacific, above Dupont.
They then dressed her in her beat cloth
ing. spmul a new matting upon the,
flour, and laid her on it. liirr brought
in pre* i r*. meat, trait, nandfe*. hound
rim. Ha.. lighted suae punks and re- <
tired, leaving her alone to await the coin
ing of the Co una on destroyer. Ihiring
the day she died, and was found last
night Coroner Letteraan removed the
body, and ft ia now at the morgue await- ]
lug th<- further action of the relatives, j
who will probably leave her to be dis
posed of by the city, ae ia generaliv
their practice in such cases Many Chi-'
namen—those of the wealthy classes—
do not desert their dead friends, and for j
the furtherance of this desire there are !
several hospitals fitted up in order that
those about to die may be removed time
until they have paid the debt of nature, I
after which they are tuned with all the
ceremonies of the disciples of Coofu
cioua— &m fwriiu pajer.
Tkl Mteam Pittih.
by steam is carried co tot
gnat extent in England. A out respond
ent says —The engine nned is a traction
, engine, thai ia, move* itaelf like a loco
motive. When ploughing or hamming
ia to be (lone, steam is stated, the eu-
I sine rQs oat of the hero and proceeds
leisure!? to the field, dragging after it a
train oi wagons containing the ploughs,
rupM, Ac. The working force consists
of three men and three hoy*. The en
gine takes an its station on the road, at
one and erf the field. The plough, with
its four shares, is run on to the land, be
side the engine, and facing a war from it
at right angles. The wire rope is carried
to the opposite aide of the end pass
ed through a block, on a movable
anchor, basing disc wheels that cmt into
t the ground at the headland. The rop
| is connected with the plough and with
' the dram under the engine. The engi-
J near mounts hie locomotive. The man
l at the anchor stands ready to move it ae
> the plough cuts its wide path through
the soil. The assistants take their (daces
aIMMr the ropes with iron frames, over
skicn it runs to prevent friction, and
the ploughman mounts his strange ma
chine. This ia a pair of wheels, having
two huge iron arms, each containing
four ploughs, each act facing the other.
The ploughman the foreman of the gang)
warea a white flag to start The engine 1
; >ui!s lustily. The ropes tighten and
! groan. One arm containing four ploughs j
sinks into the ground while the other, '
slightly elevated in the air, goes back
ward in front The dust flies, and with
tremendous force the soil u ploughed up
and turned completely over to a depth of
sin inches, end at n speed of an acre an
bout. Ae the plough goes tearing
through the land, the bojra remove the
" porters over which the rope run# and
replace them aa the plough passes.
A wave of the Aag and tne engine slows
down. Another signal and it stops with
the plough at the opposite side of the :
field. The ploughman changes hia seat, :
the anchor is moved slightly and the en
gine starts forward a few feet. The flag
waves, the rope tightens, and tha plough '
starts on its return journey, making four ;
new farrows.
ImMaif T KilfN.
Few people have toy idee through
' what a number cf hands their pocket
i knives have passed in the process of
manufacture. A bar of ateel destined to
furnish % number of blades is heoied to
; rednt. A length is eat off, and the
forger speedilv " moulds" this—that ia,
shapes it roughlykinto the form of a pock
-j Untie. Another hasting m then
required to fit the end for being fashion
ed into the tang, and yet another before
it can undergo the further operation of
" smithing, ** tbe last stage of which is
the stamping of the mark of the thumb
■ail to facilitate opening. The tang is
then ground (and thai blade marked
with the name of the firm. Tbe alight
bulge on the reverse side mused by
this operation ia removed by fire or
the grindstone. The blade is then hard
uned by besting it to redness and then j
plunging it into water up to the tang.
The tempting proceaa follows next, the
bluish yellow tint being considered as
indicating that the proper degree of heat
at which to inunerac the blade once
more iu cold water has been attained.
After this the bladee are dandified in the
warehouse,: nd undergo sundry grinding
operations to fit them for being batted.
Twelve distinct prooeasee have by thia
tuna been gone through, and many more
are necessary before the knife is com
pletely finished, although the number of
nanda which it has nor to pan through
depends in a great measure on the
finish to be given to the handle, accord
ing to the quality of the blades with which
itix fitted, and the price which the com
pleted article ia intended to realize.—
Cdjn'swinj and Mining Jamrwii.
Un Relating to .Newspaper*.
We Lave been askod to give the. law, M
it new stands, relating to newspapers and
subscribers:
1. Subscriber* who do not give ex
press notice to the oontrary are consid
ered wishing to continue their subscrip
tion,
St. If snbecri hers do not order the dis
continuance of their periodicals, the
publishers may continue to send them
until all arrearages are paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to
take their periodicals from the office to
which they are directed, they are held
responsible till they have paid their bill,
mid ordered them discontinued.
I. If subscribers move to other
plaoes without informing the publishers,
and the papers are sent to the former
direction, tb.y are held responsible.
5. The courts have decided that re
; fusing to take periodicals from the offioe,
or removing and leaving them uncalled
for, is prima facit evidence of inten
tional fraud.
6. Any person who receives a news
paper and makes use of it, whether he
Las ordered it or not, is held in law to
be a subscriber.
In the course of a year the pin facto
ries in the United States, eight m num
ber, produce 6,720,000,000 pins.
I ' The Ship.
Aadasst sheaths!
, Hhs starts -she move* -she ssnas to ftvl
The thrill hf Uh slang hsr best.
And, spurn Ibe with her font ths ground,
With on svahluß, bound,
Hb tMps into the •amah eras 1
And let ftisn the toembM crowd
Thm f OMM s stent, pwkmgsd snd loud,
Thsl to Uw <** U mf—
j " Take hsr, 0 brM#*r'*<"• Old .sad gray,
l Taks le-r to thy pro*.' *lng anas.
With all hsr youth aS alt her charms T
Row heaattfal shs is 1 Hoe tab
Mm Uw within those arms that press
H rr term With assay s soft caress
Ofcteaderecse sad atchful eses i
Mi forth late the soa, U ship!
; Are not the eigne of doubt or ftr.
Ml forth into the see of life..
' 0 gentle, loving, trust** wile,
1 And safe from ail advwatty
i (fpen the henom of that**
I Thy muting* snd thy goings be^^
Prevail o'er angry wave snd gnat;
Aad is ths wre, k of nohk hvss
Htmsthisg faanmrtsl still survtws!
•. II JJ Hill. . •" H1 ' '
Facto and Piadnd
Nevada ia vegetating in minerals of alt
; kinds.
Mobile esparto more oranges than
Messina.
St Louis bus forty-eight school-bouses,
valued at §1,730,000,
I A Toledo genius start* baulky horses
by blowing in their aura.
Boston sells 40,000 bean-poles a year
i to suburban agriculturist*.
An Illinois man preaches Sundays
and drives stage week days.
In Heligoland all foreigners am called
• ••ski!," which in their dialeet means
dirt.
i ha New Orleans recently, a woman
citoefcod herself to death with s pair of
raapanderw
• The Empress Eugenie ia ia treaty for
I the sale of her diamonds, whim are
vkued at £330,000
| If you are afraid you should scream
j when your totdh ia being pulled, you
! should bold your Jaw.
A Philadelphia judge baa decided that
a pro ovation hm no right to interrupt,
the ordinary travel on the streets.
An exploring party in Wichita county
Texas, found an amow head of pure gold
od very fin# specimens of copper.
A man, commsutiag upon the nuns of
Pompeii aadd that it waa a very imposing
city, but very much out of repair.
A patriotic Indians youth took his
father's cow to the pound, snd teaKsad
fifteen cents fog Fourth of July expenses.
Bismarck had to kiss sixty handsome
voting holies at a recent reception, and
did H without the aswistaaoe of a clerk.
A peritajnmtory speaker lately re
marked that isnuccuoe is like an urn
hrrlk, when octee we have loot it we
may never ace it again.
A aaro-aatic young lady saya she never
was so much tn love with a man that two
rainy days together in n country bouse
woiud nut effectually cure her.
The exema of women in Oreat Britain,
as revested by the resent erases, is ex
citing much attention The dispropor
tion between the aeses ia 913,133.
An exchange, wanting to eompdneut
a " Live Stock Journal,'" an it is edit- *
cd by a man whose head ia chock full of
live stock. Doubtful compliment.
A heartless old bachelor erhootmss
tar flogged a little girl eight years old,
liecaose she said her sister wouldn't have
him because be had such aa ugly none.
NO. 29.
Ingenious and thrifty Chicago gamine
make money by imitating the warble of
die cat under the windows of nervous
people, and aeOing the boots and boot
jacks that are thrown at them.
A mother-in-law in Lanringbarg, If.
Y.. is trying to rid her eye# of a quantity
of red pepper, which in some strange
way or other came through the keyhole
of W daughter-in-law*# room
The government of Japan has sent
several hundred young meo to thia coun
try to be educated, and in a few years
tbev will carry back with them all thai
! our oollegea can pre in the way of
I scholastic culture.
I A little boy, after watching the burn
ing of the acbocrfbonse until the novelty
of the thing had ceased, started down
street, saying : "GoBr! Ta glad the
old thing's bunted: didn't have my
jogfrv lesson nohow P*
A Virginia paper is puzzled to know
whether whiskey should be spelled with
ana Spelled any wwy it ia a bad spell
for most people, sod it would not be
bad to drop all the letters #nd ao gat rid
of the wwd, in hope the thi ig itself
would follow. 4
It is raid that when Brigham Young
was asked the other day which sou he
had at Went Point, the conundrum so
Maggrrwil him. that be was obliged to re
far to the family record to solve it.
"Bo they miaa me at home?" is not
mnch sung in that family.
Yariin, who was Minister of Finance
of the Commune, was one of those who
died with the greatest courage. But, as •
a singular phenomenon, it is related
that his hair, which hid been raven
black, turned white in the interval be
tween his arrest and execution.
A man was urged to take out a policy
1 for the benefit of his wife to the amount
of five thousand dollars. Ha aaked his
wife's opinion, when she replied with
; charming frankness. " Why, my dear,
yon will, of course, act according to
j your own judgment; bat, in ease of
; voor decease, it woukl make me n mora
desirable widow."
The IBimoi* Imby*wind, edited by
Mr. Steele, says: "A printer last week
proposed to go into partnership with na.
His name is Doohtue. The firm name
would sound very bad, either way you
Pit it—' Steal A Doohttle/ or 'Do Little
Steel* We cant join. One of us
would soon lie in the poorhouse and the
other in the penitentiary."
A herd of two hundred and fifty bufia
loea was recently driven into the Missouri
river, near the Wlietstone Indian Agency.
A few reached the left bank in safety, n
few others were killed in the river, and
the remainder of the herd perished in
the rapid, treacherous river, which at
the time was swollen by the flood, and
their bodies floated with the currant.
An Mi kdkkrk ELutosd by a
MOB.—A dispatch from Watreka, Iro
quois County. IH., says that a mob of
citizens from that town and the sur
: rounding country, to the number of
nearly 1,000 including men, women and
children, proceeded to the jail in that
)ilace. and took therefrom Martin Men,
charged with the murder of his son. a
lad of 10 years. Merawas taken to a con
venient place near at baud, where, after
giving him 20 minutes to pray, a rope
was placed around his neck, thrown
over s limb of a tree, and hundred.-! of
ready hands hauled him up, and held
hiui there until he was dead. The leader
of the mob and his abettors claim that
Mera, oould only have been convicted
of manslaughter, and for that reason
tbey were justified in putting the mur
| derer beyond the reach of mercy.
NOT a Pramr PLANHINO —A boy
near Omvha the other day struck upon a
rattlesnake near his father's house, and
as he was temporarily in charge of his
little sister, he gave her the reptile to
play with. Presently the snake, tired of
the child's fondling, began to hiss vic
iously and rattle. The boy discovering
then its venomous nature, snatched it
from his sister and attempted to fling it
away. The snake fastened about his
wrist and threatened to bite. The boy
alarmed his father who was not far off,
and by caution the latter succeeded in
enticing the reptile so that it left the boy.
When killed, the rattietoiske was found
to be fall grown, over two feet long, and
with six rattles.
WHAT IT WIXJ. Da—There is A sharp
rivalry just now in Alabama among differ
ent guano dealers. One of them, by
way of showing the superiority of his
guano over any other, says that a far
mer recently put a sample of it into hw
pocket, in which there flappsned to be
a carpet tack, and started home, on florae
back. Before reaching hia house his
stesd broke down, and the fanner was
ti loss to discover the cause until he
found that the carpet tack had grown
to be a long bar of railway iron.