Honsehald Word*. 0 beautiful househol 1 word",, That mora ry treasure* vet 1 0 beautiful saying* learned by heart. That one eaii Dover forget 1 " Mother" the tendcreet word That ever otir language fotuied ; A bleeeed word that baa many a Una The failing spirit warmed! " Father," a nohle name. That atirreth the children's heart# VTith lowa and pride, and to older one# Courage and '.rength impart*. •• Brother" and " alater" dear, •' Hnahand predoua " wife"— Household wonla that will go with U* Even through earthly life. O beautiful honaehold wni*i* I Too many to number o'er, But not too many to cheer our heart# nil we ranch the better ahore. Baby IWr, Where did you come from, baby dear t Out of the 'everywhere into here. Where did von get vonr eye# ao hlne ? Out tin' iky a# I came through. What make* the light In them apatkle and ajunf Home of the a'.arry apikce left in. Where did you get that little tear) I found it waiting when I got here. What make# your forehead ao amoot li and high? A e ft hand atioked it a I went by. What make# vour cheek like a warm white roar) I saw tome thing better than any one know*. Whence that three-cornered amile of bliaa? Three angels gave me at once a kiss. Where did yon get tin# poarty car ? Ood apoke.'and it came out here. Where did you get tboec arm# and baud*? Lore made'itself into hooka and hand*. Feet, whence did you come, von darling tiung*? From the aamc box a# the eVrube' wtug*. How did they all come lost to be you ? Ood thought of me, ana #o 1 grew. But how did you ciime to ua, you dear? Ood thought about you, and so I am here. ?ot*l lVorda /or Ike Fiiwag. PEARLS AM) BLACKBERRIES. *No mid Dr. Darling, slowly—" no! 1 can't believe the evidence of my own senses!" And s* he enunciated the wonts with impressive distinctness he Kvoked aob einnly at Harry Clifford He" might have found s worse looking individual to fix his regsnb upon than this young M. D., who had taken hw first les >ons in lames, muscles, ami human anato my, with the therapcutKS belonging there to", in the little office across the ball, ami w as just {we)wring to hang ui a shingle of his own; for Harry Clifford was tall ami shapely, with red-brown hair and a huge auburn mustache, and merry eyes that laughed like springs of water' in "the sun shine. Dr. Darting took off his spectacles, folded them, and deliberately placed them in their ease, still with-vut taking his erw from his neophyte. Harry Clifford smiled ; but he looked a little embarrassed, notwithstand- ing "She would haTc you in a minute, if you were to propose," pursued Dr. Darling, dropping great red-hot splashes of sealing wax over a sheet of blotting paper, and stamping them with his monogram seal in an aimless sort of way. " Yes; but I tell you. Sir. I don't want to propose," said Harry, staring at the in terwrined D. J. D. 1 # as if they were the most interesting things in tbe world. "You don't want a pretty girl for a wife V' u Not that pretty girt in particular, doc tor." " Nor fifty thousand dollar* 7" added the doctor, pronouncing the three momentous words in a manner that made them sound very weighty indeed. " I would not object to the fifty thousand dolln.s in itself, Sir : but. a* a mere appen dage to Miss Bradbury—" " I believe tbe boy is crazy," ejaculated Dr. Darting. "Well, well, as the Scotch proverb has it, 'a wilfu' man maun hae hts way,' and I shall interfere no farther. Bv-the-wav, Harrv—" "Yes Sir?" "You are going to the city this after noon 7" "Thst is my present intention. Sir." •' Stop at Dejaerre's will you, and leave Mrs. Darling's pearl brooch to be mended. I ought to have done it a week.ago; but a man can't think of every thing." u Certainly, doctor f and Harry Clifford deposited the pearl brooch—an old-fash ioned ornament of massive gold, act with tiny seed-pearls—in his waistcoat pocket. •• Rather a careless way to carry .jewelry, voting manP* said Dr. Darling, elevating Lis cvebrows. " Oh, I never lose any thing I" asserted Harry, in an off-hand sort of way. The morning son was casting bri/ht. flickering threads of gold across the kitchen floor; the morning glories and Maderia vines, trained across the casement, stirred softly in the raid-July air; and Ursula Percy. Mrs. Dunning 9 * orphan neice, was busy " doing up" blackberries. Fresh as a rose, with haxel eyes, softened tc intense blackness at times by the shadow of tbeir long lashes, and smiling scarlet hps, she stood there—her calico dress con cealed by the house-wifely apron of white diminity that was tied round her waist, and her black curia tucked rctnorsely back of her ears—-looking demurely into the bubbling depths of the preserving-kettle, like a beautiful parody on one of the witches in 44 Macbeth ;" while on the whitely scoured pine table beyond a glittering tin vessel was upbeaped with the beautiful jet black fruit, each separate heny (lashing like the eve cf an Oriental belle. " Ursula !" Tbe pretty young girt started, very near ly dropping her skimmer into the preserv ing-kettle. •' llow you startled me, Harry !" Harry advanced into the kitchen, with an admiring look at the bright face, flushed with a little blush and a good deal of store beat. " You are always at work, Ursula." " I have got to work, Harry, to earn mv own living," Ursula Ferry answered, with s slight uplifting of her exquisite black brows: "I am not an heiress, like Miss Bradbury." " Confound Miss Bradbury!" exclaimed our hero. I hear nothing hut Miss Brad bury the whole time." " She is a very sweet young lady, Harry," said Ursula, in mildly reproving accents'. u I dare say; but—what a lot of black berries you have here, to be sure, Ursula 7" " Forty quarts," said Ursula, demurely. " Aunt Darling always enjoys them so much in tbe winter.' Harry put a honey-sweet globule of fruit into his mouth. " Blackberries are a beautiful fruit, Ur sula." " veryand Miss Percy skimmed dili gently away at tbe bubbling caldron. " Especially when you arc doing them up," added the young sd. D., with rather a clumsy effort at compliment. Ursula did not answer. Harry walked up to the range and took both her hands in his. " Harry, don't I The berries will burn." " Let 'era burn, then ; who cares ?" " But what do you want ?" she asked, struggling impotently to escape, and laugh ing in spite of the grave look she lain would have assumed. " To see your eyes, Ursula." She lilted tbe soft hazel orbs to her face; then withdrew them with sudden sin new. " Do you know what answer I read in those eyes, dearest /" he whispered, after a moment or two of silence, broken only by the hissing and simmering of the boiling blackberries. '•Ko." •' I read ytt P " Oh, Harry, I dare not. Uncle and aunt are so determined you shall marry Miss Bradbury." " And I am so determined not to marry her. Is a man to be given away as if he were a house and lot, or a bundle of old clothes, I should like to know ? Ursula—" "Harry, they are burning! lam sure ol it. 1 can smell them. Oh, do let go my hands 1" K Harry Clifford deftly seized up the big iron spoon, and stirred the boiling depths vigorously. " It's all your imagination, Ursula!" •'No, it's not ; and if they are the least bit scorched they will spoiled for Aunt Darling." " But, Ursula—" The creaking sound of an opening door beyond suddenly dissolved the tile-a-tite. Ursula almost pushed Harry Clifford out of the kitchen. " You'll be on the piazza to-night when they have all gone to tbe concert ?" he persisted in asking through the crack in the door. " Yes, yes, any thing—every thing; onlv go 1" FRKL). KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. IV. And Harrv went, beginning to realiac that love-making and preserving do not assimilate. " Your pearl brooch. my dear 7 Ith. I remember now. I gave it to Harry more than a week ago to have mended. I dare say it's doue by this tiuic 1" and l)r. l)arl ing turned expectantly to our hero. ■' I—Put verv sorry.** U-gan Harry ; "but the brooch disappeared iu the most uuaeountablc manner worn tny vest pocket. I know I put it there—'' " Yes," dryly interrupted the elder gen tleman, " 1 remember seeing you put it there, and you v*urvd me at the time that vou never lust any thing. So the brooeli ta gone, eh f • 4 Yes, Sir, it is goue. But Mrs. Datliug may rmt assured," Harry added, with a j glance toward that lady, *' that I will re '.placv it at the very earliest opjsirtunity." "Oh. it is of uo consequence at all 1" taid Mrs. Darling, with a oountcnauoe that said plainly. It is of the very greatest consequence '. " Perhaps we shall tind it aomewbere about the house." But the davs slipped by one by one, and the doom of the pearl brooch retuaiucd involved in the deepest mystery. Harrv Clifford bought another one and presented it to Mrs. Darling, with a little compli mentary speech. Mrs. Darling laughed, and pinned it into the fold* of the t'-read lace barb she wore at her throat. " But it's so strange what can have be come of the other said Mrs. Darling. It was in the golden month of September that the old doctor and Mrs. Darling made up their mind* to invite Muss Bradbury to tea. " We'll have j and from Boston, and at the end of a couple of mouths was inclined to aban dou the experiment, as his exjiense* exceeded his receipts. At that time the writer was the busi ness agent of an op|Hisitiou steamlsiat running to Providence, and was author ized bv the captain to puss Harden at much leas than the regular rate of pass age. This saviug of exjiense save 1 tlie express, as busiuess Is-gun to iucreas', and as some eustomeis objected to kiep their packages over for a day, he was advised to employ some oue to travel on the alternate days. A young man uamcd Brigham, who was then out of employ ment, volunteered for this duty, with no other compensation than his Isianl. The daily express induced new business, aud the carpet bag wus multiplied by two, and three ; theu a large truck was sub stituted, ami soon a larger oue. It then In-came necessary for Harnden to remain in lioaton, and Brigham, hav ing become a partner, ts>k a desk in New York, employing Pullm and Damon as their first hired messengers. Subse quently, Haruden's brother Adolphus w as a messenger, until he was lost on the Leximjlou, which was burned an Long Island Sound. The business had now become so vast that it was necessary to liave a crate on board each steamer. This was a small hand car about live or six feet square, and was looked upon as a real wonder, as it showed what a great thing the express business was. In a few months nierefore, when it had become on estal>- lisbed fact—the greatest obstacles having been surmounted, and the public gradu ally admitting its utility—then, as in letter-carrying, other euterprisiug per sons started in the same liue of buain< SH, but chietly on short mutes leading out of Boston. At about this time, too, Mr. George Pomeroy, of Albany, called ti|>on me to advise with liim as to the feasibility of running an Albany express, by the river I nuts. I knew but little of the wants of that section of the couutrv, but ahowcd him the difficulties he wouid have to en counter by the opposition of stettnilnuit captains and clerks, who wen* doing the same kind of business, and with whose E'rquisites he would materially interfere. ut he was plucky—started his machine, and was successful, first us Pomeroy A Co., then Pomeroy, WclLs Jt Co., with some other chauges, until, fiuully, it grew into the present American Express Co. One of the small Boston expresses had previously been purchased by Mr. Alviu Adams, of Boston, but the sphere was too limited for his ambition. He there fore started an opposition to Ilamden, between New York and Boston, but go ing over the new route of the Norwich and Worcester railroad, which was then in operation. It was first called Adams' Express; then Adams A Co's, and now as a corporation is known us the Adams Express Co. Harndcti died in 1*44 or '45, and an annuity was secured to his widow, for the continued use of the name, but she never had any business control of the concern.' AXOTHKB PEKIUHS A-p.ANTIi VoYAOE. —(.'apt. John Meiks who, in 1*67, cross ed the Atlantic on a life raft, is prepar ing for another voyage to Europe on a smaller raft of similar construction. The raft is composed of inflated India rubber tubes which, wlieu not filled with air, fold up iu a comparatively small comjntss. but when inflated will earry all the persons that can crowd on it. The raft on which Copt Meiks performed his last voyage was 25 feet long by 18 feet wide. He then had two men with him. A canvas tent was ereetod on the raft, aud the three crossed the Atlaatic, arriv ing safely in England in forty days. Capt. Meiks is now having another lite raft made 15 feet long and 15 feet wide, on which he intends going to Europe, accompanied only by a boy. He will be ready to start about the last of August from New York, and will take with him sixty days' provisions. He intends tak ing the direct steamer's track, ami is confident of success. LOOK OCT. —The Han Francisco Bnlle ti cautions people in the Atlantic Stat** against being swindled l>y irresponsible companies who advertise in the Eastern Cities extensive tracts of land in Califor nia for sale without owning a foot of them. The Bulletin says that every few months many victims visit that office with deeds duly made out in Boston, conveying lands on the Sacramento river, wV.ich are not worth the pa|>er on which they are written. People in the East who buy land or other property in California which they have not seen should Is* sure to have thorough guarantees of the re sponsibility of the parties with whom they negotiate. A MIXED CAME. —A curious case is re ported from a Michigan town. A stranger, who drank a glass of liquor in a saloon, offered a 8100 note in payment. The seller, unable to break it, went to a neighbor's for change. The latter took the bill, gave liim 810 and said the 800 would just settle the account he had against him. The liquor-seller protested, the creditor was immovable. Finally, the former weut out and tried to borrow the 890 iu order to pay the customer his change and the latter, meantime, worried by the delay and suspicious as to its cause sent an officer to arrest him for embezzlement. Marriage. —A man who passes through life without mafrying is like a fair man sion left by the builder unfinished. The half that is completed runs to decay from neglect, or becomes at least but a sorry tenement, wanting the addition of that which makes the whole useful, 1 CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1871. Front Forge to Fahlnu. There is credited bin Canadian pajier, called the St. Mary's IVVrtr, a pleasant and romantic little ms-ial reminiscence which, while prompted by a line in the last edition of the " I'eoruge and Baron etage " of Euglaud, refers to one of the humblest stations in American life. AiUoUgst the travelers brought bv a stage-coach to the tavern of the village of Stratford, in Canada, many years ago, was a young man of rather tumuli coun tenance but not nudigniticd I tearing, who, attracted by the pleasant scenery of the place, and its oportuniiies for fishing and hunting, lingered on at tin- inn many weeks In-v oud his apparent first inten tion. Known as Mr. Stirling, and be lieved to be from England, he was for some time credited only wi'lt the whim of a free and easy young tourist enjoying an interval of rural indolence U-tweeii city sight-seeing* ; but ut last the true iwoaoii of his delay was discovered. Im mediately across the road from the tavern SUKSI the cosv cottage aud sparkling forge of the village blacksmith, named Folsoui, whose only daughter was a girl of extraordinary beuntv and the belle of the place. From siu-udiug certain idle hours iu the smithy the v wig stranger had contracted quite au intimacy with the smith, and thus, by ilegtvu-s, formed an acquaintance with the family ; and a fortuight's incidental association with the U-autiful daughter was what had caused the w.-eks of his stay in Stratford to lengthen unnoticed into mouths. In short,this English youth uuun hi* travel* fell iu love tu a depth ilee|*-r than all dirtatious with the blacksmith's chill, aud was manly enough to confess us much to her and to her fatln-r. The lat ter he frankly told that hi* feelings iu the matter had become much stronger aud more serious than he hail iu tended they should Is*; that his station in life wus much above black smithing; but that, be ing iu love beyond power of recantation, he wished to marry the voting lady, and, in due time, raise her to Lis owu position. To the girl herself he not only offered ar dent suit, but confided iu strict confi dence his ]H>*itiou and cx|M-ctatious. Trusting his honest face and manner, the worthy blacksmith favored hi* pre tensions ; trusting bis love and honor, the humble lie lie of the village returned his honorable passion ; and, as a conse quence, there followed a wed,bug of which the elderly spinsters u nd sages of St stford could not predict too much evil. After a few happy weeks of mar ried life, Stirling informed his wife that he must visit New Orleans, and took leave of her with a promise to write or return very soon. Then, of course, the •• I-told you-aoa" of the vilLige were sure that he would never coiuo back again, nnd chorused hints aud fears innumera ble to that effect; but, to their discomfit ure, the Englishman reapjieared iu Strut ford even earlier than he had promised, and his calumniators acknowledged their defeat by an abashed silence. Only a few days from thence, however, after receiving a formidable bundle of Idler* issuing foreign poet-marks, the young husband declared th. t he must return iniinediatelv to England, and nlone. WithouFa thought i f d-strust or a single question the wife bade him go ; and from the hour of his going until after two vears hail elapsed ahe never saa nor Dean! from hiiu again. This time the so cial critics of the village were sun- of the verification of all their predictions, and oulv the wife herself believed that it was not a final desertion. In the two year* of absence and silence on one juirt, and trustful waiting 011 the other, a son was Ixirn to Mrs. Stirling an 1 hel|x'd her to bear the more l-t. Mitly the trial of the father's alatence ; but, at the end of the period named, word came across the At lantic from that father himself, briefly asking the wife and mother to go at once to New York, from whence to embark, a* directed for a new home iu England. Coining hither wilh her hatx-, she found that the ship named hud apartments splendidly furnished for her uv, and two servants to obey her every wish during the voyage. Cnquestioninglv still, but full of happy H IJM-S, she sailed for old England ; to lie there received by her delighted husband in his true rhoruetcr of heir to s name and estate second to none in the English iiamnetage. and to enter a luxurious home uud<;r the title of Lady Stirling. By her beauty, virtue*, aud simple groci-s doing honor to the '• station unto which she was not Ixirn." the village blacksmith's daughter passed many happy veers liefore following her hualstnd.Hir Samuel Stirling to the grave. After his father's death, the son succeed ed to the tittle and estate ; and the men tion of him in the lost " lVeragc and liamnetage," as the issue of the former " Mis* Folaom, of Stratford, North America," is what inciti* the Canadian jiaper to tell the alxive romantic story of nis parents' courtship and marriage. Iced Water, During the hot season the excessive use of iced water is one of the m ist pro lific sources of disease and sudden death. In very hot weather, when water is ren dered extremely cold by the uae of ice in the cooler, no person should drink it in that comlition. but should pour in, or draw from the hydrant, as mueli water of the ordinary tenqierature as will modify the iced water to about an October tem perature. Then he may drink without damage. Nothing is worm l for the teeth than extremely cold water : and many a man has acquired dyspepsia by its bad effect upon the stomach. Not a few have suffered from congestions which wore dangerous or deathly. We remember a boy, smart, black-eyed, and handsome, who was connected with our office. He was just old enough to be wise above that which is written, Being one day re monstrated with for drinking two or three glasses of water as cold as ice could make it, he replied tartly, "Water is never too cold for me; I never feel the slightest injury from its use." The weather was extremely hot, and if ever cold water couhl be used at any time, that, of all others, when the system was overheated, waa not the time to use it so copiously. The next tiny be was not in the office, and the following day he did not come. The third tiny about noon he made his appearance, uutl looked as if he had had chills and fever for three months. He drank no more iced water that summer, and probably got a lesson which will lost him his lifetime. It is a wonder it'did not kill him. A word to the wise is sufficient.— Phrenological Journal. A SERIOCS JOKE.—The other day an exceasively humorous Canadian came upon a small snake in the woods, and, carefully entrapping it, waited until night, and placed it between the sheets of an old gentleman's lied. The victim retired as usual, and had barely covered himself when the reptile began to crawl over him. Paralyzed with horror, he lay still until the snake hiul leit liim, and then, half dead with terror, fled from the bed and around the house, lie wus told that the affair was intended as a joke, and the author was designated. That idiotic scamp took counsel of discretion, fled the town, and has not ventured to return, though his absence costs him a flue position and his home. Pray Simply.—God loves to have us pray with earnest simplicity. Better in God's sight are the broken and heartfelt utterances of a child than the high flown utterances of those who think themselves wonderful in prayer. I'rlde, Turn Outs and I'uvrrtjr. Muii wants but little here In-low, and woman wants a great deal more, 1 aiu sorry to aav, write* a watering place Correspondent. I confess it, my sex are unri-asoiiable and hard to please. 1 sjieak of them gein-rallv. '1 ucre are exceptions —you occasionally meet one who is uot ambitious of living alsive her husband's means. You see more of them at Sum mer resorts than at any other place. These people w ill talk, uo mutter where they are—thev will exhibit their teui|>ei' and bad breeding, uo mutter where you meet them. Try to dam Niagura with a a lady's fau, lint never try to stop her tougue. I say it, who shouldn't say it, it can't W done. I have a case iu jxtiut. Ju*t befoie the arrivals from New York the other afternoon Mr. and Mrs were seated on the piazza as Mm. F, ——, from the Continental, drove by in her i-arriage aud livery. "Charles," said his wife, gazing wist fully at Mr. F 's establishment, "Why i'l we have a carriage us well as other folk* *" The hustiaiid moved nncanly iu liis chair and responded. " Mimply, my dear, Isvaiisi* we want to live within our mean*." " ltother alxuit means !" rejuiuded the luiughty aud thoiightles* wife. "We ought to live as well as other people," she coutinued. "Mo we do, my dear, and will iu the long run." mildly added the good-natured Charles. " I am sure we ought to live in aa good style as the M——a, the F s, the M ——a, the Ps, the C a, and a dozen more I might mention. We ought uot to appear mean." "Mean !" he exclaime*!, showing much temjier—" We want—we want," he unit to red, " there is no satisfying woman's wants, do what you may," and he abruptly arose from his chair and took the direction of Chauiberlaiu'* Cottage. How tuativ hu*bauds are iu a similar dih-uiuia t Row many house# and hus hand* are rendered uncomfortable by the constant dissatisfaction of a wife with present provisions? How many bright prosjieoto for busincM have ended iu liankniptcy and niiu in order to satis fy this secret hankering after fashionabh riiirrwuririi ? Could the real cause of mniiy a failure l>* made knowi: it wtiuld L* found Ui result from the ambition of wotueu tolivealxive their means. "My wife made my fortune," said Mr. D , a gentleman of great poe Heasions, the other evening, "by her thrift, prudence, and cheerfulness when I was just begiuuing.'* "And mine, pour soul! she is d<-ad," sai• France. Such, at least, is the account of the ori gin of newspapers given by De Saint Foix. IMPORTANT TO TANNKKM. —A chemist says that tannic acid ia the anhydrtnn alcohol of fCitllic acid, and that the least purified tannic acid in in fact the brat, it may not uppcar to lie of much value to tanners to know that they get a peculiar variety of alcohol out of oak und hemlock bark, but all such know ledge ia likely to be turned to good ac count in the long ran. Tanners know that the exposure of the extract of liark to the action of air destroys it for bin ning purposes. Chemists say of this charge that gallic acid is produced, which no longer haa the property of coagulating albumen and of rendering gelatine insoluble in water. If we know the true chemical nature of tannic acid we may devise some method of prevent ing this change into gallic acid, and thus be enabled to make extracts of barks in the forests that will bear transportation and preservation any length of time. SARCASTIC. —TBO Rochester "Demo crat " is slightly sarcastic ftn a railroad line in that vicinity. It says, that a gen tleman took the train a few days since, on what is termed "the huckleberry road," running between Avon knd Mount Morris. After the train started from Avon he discovered that ho had left a valuable dog behind, but on arriving at Mount Morris the lost dog was found sitting at the station awaiting the arrival 1 oinis master. The Transit of Venn*. The .Vi/tm/oy Heritor {English) asva that extraordinary interest is alreaay felt in British seientifle circles in regard to the transit of Venus in 1H74, and tliat arrangements for makiiig the proper ob servations are eveu uow iu progress. The problem whi h lias to lie solved is the sun'* distance from the earth. About the middle of the last century the amount of tin* ilistam-e wu* m-I down by the ac t*pb-l authorities at K2,0U0,0W) miles The first transit of Venus, in I7fiß, brought this up to UA,173,(XJ0 miles—s uiimlM*r so near the oue obtained iu the next transit, that of 17H, that till quite recently some foul play was suspected in the observations made in the last named year to render the results similar. But the transits of Yetiu* are now so longer depended upon with the impor tance and excluaiveness formerly attach ing to them in the determination of this great aud magnificent problem. Astron omical instruments arc uow so greatly improved that the liaae line method can be applied to Mars, aud, Is sidi* other misuis, even the velocity of light has lawn brought to Isar on the problem Singularly enough, too, the result of all litis modern work, and of the more in direct methods, lias beeu to show that the amouut of the distance derived from the observation of transits in tbe last century requires to be reduced by some thing fees than four niilliou miles. Tbe error, however, thus made by astion to all vur nwlrn, mt< a oorrojxiudent, ia, if they go to a Water ing-place, to go villi a liig trunk. The proprietor* sud lull-buyi art' more con aetviitliug to the owner of one than to the owner of a black hag. The htatl waiter anil the servant* at the table know that the owner of a large traveling com panion projKv to stay Home time, while the ownerw of small bag* ore mere bird* of passage, and are treated accordingly. We have a very great influx of small I iag* everv Saturday afternoon. On® of tkeae satchel* are no more noted than an umbrella or a walking-stick in a man's hand, and yet. when rightly viewed, it is, to my thinking, an object of no ordi nary interest- The owner of it ia one in teu thousand. It aiguifhw that he ha* no incumbering alliance, no wife, no mother, no sister, no grandmother. He is the jx-rfect tyjx- of independence, and can snap hi* lingers in the face of every |x>rior and Itaggage man in the country. While other passenger* are looking after their luggage, he walks in to the cars and selects the beat seat. When he arrives at his journey's end, by steamer, be ia the first man to jump ashore.* No man with a little canvas bag in bis lisiul has bis last shirt on hia tack. Neither is it possible his lieard will suf fer from slovenly overgrowth. When he retires to re*t the presumption is that it will lie in the midst of comfortable and oosy night-gear. A gentleman with a canvas bag may tie said to contemplate a couple of shirts alms-nee from home. When our se* can learn to travel with a satchel, what a comfort they will have, but you may as well hxk "out for the millenium. A Whaler** Cenrt*hip He had been * whiter twentv yew*. Ukl when he gave op tin* and wttliJ upon hia earnings, all hi friends said they hoped Jonathan Week* wonld mar ry * une nire woman and enjoy the com fort* of a happy home. lie himxelf *ymnl to think it wul a nice thing to do, and he made an effort in that di rectioa. Hut they waid tliat the reaaon why he did not win the heart and band of widow: nnrritt wa* tliia: It aeema that Mr. Week* used to go round there courting in the evening*, while the Widow oat patching the tn>u*er* of her *ou, and waiting for manifestation* of Week*' love, did Week* wonld ait over on the settee, getting sleepier and quiet er every minute. And every now and then be would nod in the bunt of dreams, and get to wandering off and imagining himself away on a winding voyage,wake up all bewildered, and would seine hia ciuie and jab it into the widow before he could collect hi* aciiues sufficiently to re alize that it wa* not a harpoon and she a whale. They do soy that Mrs. Burritt indulged these eccentricities for a time w itli the tlrm conviction that she would reconstruct that whaler when she mar ried him. But this was never to be; for one evening Mr. Wcektf oat dozing on that settee with a kind of dim dreamy conseiousncsa of things, in which the room and settee wc.ro confused and mix ed with the raging main and the whaling Ixiat. The widow had a cold in her head, and she wasjnst in the act of nuk ing a vigorous use of her handkerchief, when the dream of Weeks reached a cri sis, and lie yelled out, " There she blows ! " And he heaved his harpoon at her with such force that he broke her comb into vulgar fractions and knocked her off her eliair. Love's voting dream was entirely dissipated, and Mr. Weeks went home with two handsful of hair missing. Ho M single yet, because, he says, women have no sympathy and for bearance. The Fair ©r the American Institute. The nmmal exhibition of the Ameri can Institute, to be held at the Rink in New York in September and October ucxt, promises to lie of more than usual attractiveness. Tin 1 managers have made arrangements to exhibit the machinery in motion, that visitors may be enabled to understand the various processes of manufacture. A large amount of money hits been appropriated for premiums to the successful competitors in floral, agricultural and horticultural products. The exhibitors of successful specimens will lie presented with a certificate in addition to the premium. Specimens for competition are to lie entered on the 11th, 12th, or lKtli pf September, before noon, ami inch scries must lie kept iu perfect condition for four days. \\ e un derstand that specimens of any frnit or (lowers exhibited may bo renewed, and the fresh specimens will lie entitled to an award. The highest money nwarel* for flowers are twenty dollars ; five dollars for the best floral design, and twenty dollars for the best cose containing plant*. A premium of fifty dollars will lie given for the lx-st collection of pears, and forty dollars for the liest collection of tipples. There' will also be minor awards for the best specimens of grapes and vegetables. THE HI'MAN HTSTEM. —The muscles of the human jaw exert a force of 861 iMiumls. The cpiuntity of pure water which blood contain* in its natural state is very great; amounts to almost seven eightfis. Kiel estimates the surface of the lungs at 150 square feet, and the blood is one-fifth the weight of the body. A man is taller in the morning than at night to the extent of half an inch or more, owing to the relaxation of the car tilages. There is irou enough in the blood of forty-two men to make a plow share. The human brain is the twenty cightli part of the body, but in the horse the brain is not more than the four hundredth. IN Effingham County Ga., Mrs. Ash, the wife of John H. Ash, killed her three little children and afterward committed suicide by administering a sufficient quantity of strychnine to produoe almost iutantaueous death. A Urea! California Ore hard. A few day* ago it was our pleasure to , visit the orchard of John Brigg*, located shout two miles south of Yuba City, ; in Mutter county. The proprietor own# ttkl acre*, mostly bottom land on the west I tank of the" Feather river. The soil is a rich, sandy loom, aud composed of the yearly deuaaita of the river many years ago. No belter or richer land u to be fouud in the Btate, add the or chard we shall briefly notice promises to be the pride of the Bnggs Brothers, who have a Mute reputation as or ihsrdisU and fruit-grower*. Before reaching the orcliard jm>per we rode through a field of ISO acres of castor I leans, growing in the most luxurious manner—which field, by the by, is to give place to a new orchard next year, the fruit tree* for the saine at present growing in the uurwery by the side of tbe field of castor beaus, and containing 25, 1KK) one-year-old budded peach trees, 16,(100 plum trees, (i.HOO Eastern walnuts, 25,000 California walnuts, 2,000 pp)e trees, 500 Italian chestnut treea, etc. l'aasing along through this forest of young tri*i-, we arrived at the present peach on liard, consisting of 60U trees, two years oltL and some of them bear ing this season 150 pounds of peaches. These trees have made a ri-markshle growth owing to the rich ground unon which they are planted, and in another year will "make a tremeudoos yield of fruit. Passing the peach orchard we n-ached the a|>ricota, 2,'J00 in number, which are also two yean old, and have Uirne a loir crop "the preoaul season, litis orchard preseuted a aad sight iu one renp -ct. The Late heavy storm had |iro*trated uiauv of the trees entire, while in others the lituba hod been torn off as if a tremendous tornado had swept over the place. However, the tree* were healthy and stout, notwithstanding the mutilation* here and there. We rods next into the cherry on-hard, containing three thousand of the moat thrifty young trees ercr seen on any ground. The different varieties, fifteen in number, gave this orchard s variety of anted, and broke up the usual mouotony of the steeple-like formed cherry orchard. These cherry trees were all imported from Rochester, N. Y., stwmt three years ago. Off to the aoutb of this wonderful wilderness are two thousand five hundred apple treea, mostly winter varieties. On returning from the or cliard by the wagon rood we had entered we visited Hriggs Brothers' steam power castor oil mill. Here we found a mag uificent hydraulic prison with eighty pounds pressure, and possessing n ra pacity of comprtraing three hundred gallons of oil per day. The mill also coutaincd twenty tons of castor beans, and two thousand fire hundred gallons of oil, nicely Ivottled and rased and ready for market— Cuttfarmia y*tp*r. ( ray Prwaperts. The condition of the cotton, corn and wheat efojw for July, as ascertained at the Detriment of Agriculture, has al ready lxs'u publi vhed in advance of the printed report: PiMaitm —lt appears from the latter, which has just been published, that the indication- are that tlie crop of potatoes will be a full average. It has had to contend with the drouth and the late frosts in many of the States devoted to its culture, with grasshoppers in wwnc of the Eastern State*. and the Colorado bug in nearly all of the Western Statea ; but to offset these unfavorable conditions, the season as a whole hat been favoralile. There is an increase in the aggregate acreage. The rot is not reported, sod the farmer*, knowing the perils to which the crop was exposed. have shown un usual diligence in caring for it Grot*. at of sheepskin. Most prison ers have good, woll-ehadcd boots, which guard their ankles against the friction of uic chain ; others wear the national foot clothing of linden-bast over the linen rags they tie round their feet and legs. The only* chains worn are fetters attached to the two ankles, and lifted up in the middle by means of a strap fastened up to the loint (I believe by n girdle.) These chains are not very heavv, and the pris oners walk freely enougti with them ; yet the cliuking of the irons makes one shudder. Such chains are worn only by those who are sentenced to hard la lior, while those who are sentenced mere ly to Siberia wear 110 chains whatever. A fashion writer calls attention to the peculiar manner some yonng ladies have just now of carrying the hands. The arms are held as close to the body as possible, bending them until the back" and forepart nearly touch ; the wrists remain elevated, and the hands assume a listless, drooping position which we can only liken to toe kangaroo. In unravelling the Savannah Custom House it appeared from the vouchers that one employee performed 730 hours' labor in the month of September last. He must hove had a 44 steady sit." TKKMB : Tiro Dollar. • Yau, iu Advance. Tte Pitton' lik. One of tit* moot reiaerkable *• well u ebenril rioU New York IUM ever Men wee that known M the " Doctor*' Mob," which occurred in 1788. In the reer of the Sew York Hospital, which ni • omtly obliterated from Broadway, stood i a buudiag is which tha medum) student* connected with the hospital USMI to dis sect " subjects." Although tha public lutew that tha bodies were obtained for tins purpose from 11 Potter's Field " audi tha negro bin ring-ground, yet it eras shrewdly suspeotoa that they did not confine themaetvaa to tbaae sources, and that in the dead of night, with dark lan tern, pick, book, and mattock, they dug up corpses from privala cemeteriaa. OB the l tth of April, a atodont of facetious and cheerful turn of mind looked from the window of the diaaacting-room and twhrld a number of children playing in a vacant lot below. He attracted their attention, and then warad before their horror-atnckea ayaa a ghastly arm, put taken from a subject cm the table. There waa a ladder leading from tha ground to this window, and up this went a little boy, to whom the cheerful student again showed the arm, bidding liirn to look well at H for it waa his mother's- Now tha boy's mother bad died but a abort time before, and filled with horror, he ran off to a neighboring house, at which his father and other laborers ware at work, and to them related the faarfui: sight he had seen, and what he bed been told. The father immediately went to hia wife's grave, and thought from Ha appearance that it had been disturbed. He hastened back, told his brother workmen of the supposed sacrilege, and they all struck work, and with their tools in their hands ran down Worth atreet to ; the hospital and attempted to effect an entrance. Boon a vast crowd collected, the building was broken into, gutted, and s large amount of valuable property destroyed. The mob found tha ghastly remains of half-dissected people in the dissecting-room, and took them away to give them a decent banal. Having be gun in idiocy, tha mob went to incou cetvahla imbecility, and on the next day assembled and with cries of "Down with the doctors !" they determined to kill every member of the odious proles sum whom they could find, and in such imminent peril were the poor men, that by tha advice of the city authorities they took refuge in the l ark Jail (now the' Hall of Records). The mob heard of this, and with wild cries and brand ishing clubs and other ugly weapons they assaulted the jail, fully determined to wreak their vengeance to the utmost. , They did not effort aa entrance, and the authorities sent a dozen men to defend and protect tha Jail, but hardly had they reached it before they were disarmed. It may be readily imagined that the citv was now in an' uproar. The Mayor ceded together some of the moat influ ential citizens, armed them, and pro ceeded to the scene of action. With him were Alexander Hamilton, Baron Steuben, and Chief-Justice Jay, the lat ter of whom addressed the mob, but while speaking was felled to the earth with a brickbat. The riot act waa read and the crowd hidden to dispone, but Mich was not its intention. Stones flew about and cluha were brandished. Pre sently Baron Steuben, while engaged in the very act of begging the Mayor not to order the arisen* to fire, waa doubled up bv a brick which hit him in the belly. Tbeu he withdrew all objec tion, the mob waa fired on, five rioters fed dead and eight wounded, and then the rest turned tail and fled. Virirttn la Drew, 4c. A beautiful quality of English cloth of uavT blue is mggMtcd for tntHiag suits for autumn terrier, u well w few am voragwa. It drapes as gracefully aa cashmere. and ia intended to be won over a aerai -demoralised akirt or black silk. ' It ia pleaaant to know that traveling va f.tmiUe ia onoe more considered • stylish," aa well as sensible. The con tnfiigal impulse of fashionable society does not need any cultivating. Now if there could be a return of the custom of carnage traveling, one might indeed snuff the tuill< uiutn. A death-blow aeenta already aimed at the chatelaine. This baa teemed likely to follow, since ladies began shorten ing the braids and leaving off long curia A French twist, surrounded by a eosl of braids, ia the moat recent suggeation. That is a slander from a pen masculine, quite likelv, which aaya the pretty Normandy caps ate "like penwipers, with a fringe. Whatever they are, they are the prettiest little combinations of lace and ribbon that were ever worn by young matrons. The only walking-boots laoed on the inside that have gained favor, were those made on the Creole last, and which fact was verv rtpprriting to whoever could wear them. NWotner shoe requires Bo wel!-formed a foot to make a good ap pearance. The modern young woman continues to " get her hack up" iu the moat extraor dinary manner. The bustle is seen even larger titan ever, and this oamel-iah up rising is seen on every lady who " knows what a what" It is predicted that among the novd tiea of sdorninga in the fall we shall have souvenirs from Htrasboug, in the shape of bits of stained gtaae windows, and pieces of bomba and grenades polish ed and duly labeled. It ia rumored that home-weddings will be altogether the most fashionable, in the coming society season, and that the old-fashioned custom of presenting every guest with a little box of estke, will be revived. Time was when the printer was mod generously remember ed. Garden parties are among the most agreeable festivities iu the country this summer, and quite rival the English kettledrum in genial simplicity; but croquet is threatened, as an amusement nor are the croquets tents as popular aa tbcv were expected to be. Word is brought from the seashore and the various idling places, that young gentlemen are sketching, carving, ana occupying themselves, variously, with pretty work for leisure hours, and that the ladies were never more interestingly busy, with netting, crocheting, and the thousand other daintinesses that are natural to the handa of women, to say nothing of the new furor* that has sprung up tar collecting mosses, and building ferneries. The gentlemen are f indebted to their lady friends for some of the prettiest carriage robes to be seen. These lap-oovers are of twilled > linen, beautifully braided in contrasting 1 colors, and marked with a simple initial, ! instead of the obsolete monogram. DIDN'T COM* TO WOBK. —We ktely heard of the case of a newly-appointed Treasury clerk, who after idling away the first dav at his desk, was asked by his chief if ne intended to wor£. "Work! the denoe ! " exclaimed the ind gnant youth, " didn't I work hard enough to get in here ? " He found, howeve I that he musteither work or " walk. ' KILLED in BATTL*.— The Drtadtntr Journal publishes an official statement of the losses of the Saxon army, vis: 115 offioera and 1,987 men killed, 202 officers and 4,180 men wounded. The Saxon contingent took active part in 102 battles and encounters; the artillery fired 15,521 rounds; the infantry used 6,000,000 of cartridges. Waiting. WW* the maaor hmi priea ia tangtod th# WMlf By UM door to th FDTMN* walL Ton bad* ia* torao*fi-4wr aa hour a* fuis Agricultural and Mechanic al, Oct 10. a O. Kalb, Secretary. State Fairs are announced as follows : Central Kentucky, at Danville, Aug. 1& - . „ New England, at Lowell, Sept 5. Kaunas Agricultural, at Topeka, Sept lowa, at Cedar Rapids, Sept 11. Central Pennsylvania, at Altoona, Sept 12. Northern Ohio, Cleveland, Sept 12. California, Sacramento, Sept 18. Colorado, Denver, Sept 19. Central Ohio, Mechaniosburg, Sept 19. New Jersey, Waverly Station, Sept 19. Central lowa, Dee Moines, Sept 19. "Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Sept 25. Indianapolis Agricultural and Mechan ical, Indianapolis, Sept 25. Minnesota, St Paul, Sept 26. * Nebraska BrownviUe, Sept 26. New York, Albany, Oct 2. Central Michigan, Lansing. Oct 3, Arkansas, Little Rock, Oct. 3. Alabama. Montgomery, Oct 16- Cotton States, August*, Ga., Oct. 3L Louisiana. New Orleans, NOT, 18