Waiting. A lisUmk holiday: th# ewarntn* *pr*y Boat* upward to the kv, And not a llxinn dy* Relieve# the UMoaa day. 1 ait and pant with aU thia •nmmer toil That takes from m* my #trangth, An unavailing length Of year* without on# apoil. And nothing her* 1 gMxiarad, nothing won: Nothing had come to ma - Nothing that I can ■**— la all the work begun. go pass the languid anmmera one by ona. Ami one by one the day*— A life of June* and Maya- - With all I would undone. What the Baby U Thinking About. " What t* the hahy thtekfag about ?" Why, eurtly, of topic* there eeldiun ia dearth. To move the half animate jelly with doubt, With (tissual. or with rage, from the hour of ita birth Till Ita want*, with articulate voice, it exprrawea. While ehaflng with impotent acal, to explain The muddle raa e bv our fatuitous gw#<*. Ita thoughts doubtV## run in the following rein: Here ounce that great atujad who thiuka he muet toea me. And hollow hia paternal twaddle at niu , I declare. 1 believe it delights him to croaa me! Whv ,vui*t the great nineom fer once Vet me be ? Dpi go, in hia pawa, till my Wood ehitla with terror. And down again, nhuddertng wifUy I eweepl Will he artvr have done ? 1 -#i-A ? Put me down air or You'll soon hear a yell that will make your flesh creep! •' Why! Pivnt poppy's deary want mora ndy dide I" No! I do.i'rThe man thinks I am ln.li* rubber Enveloped in oak-tanned rhinoceros hide. Instead of a sensitive atom of hlnbber ! Y-a-h! Now, with hi# nose, he is guing to : mnsalr me ? Ya-o-oh! How I'tu rasped with hi* whisker'# coarse hair*! Why don't the groat bear put hu anas in a mnaxlet He— Phew ! He—Ys-e-e!—ha# been smoking cigar*! Yew, " Turn to ita mosaerl know what *Ae"lf do with mo; * Though never intending a trick that ia scurry, Shell aqueexe me. and kiss, and belbre ahe l* through with me A hatf-dosen timea I'll be turned topay-turvy! Just what 1 expected! Now dowu goes my head! How long mug I be with heel* kicking the air* My eveball* arc bursting t I'm more than half dead I Tm black in the free, from the rush of blood there 1 " There now, titty up!" I should think it high time! Of conrae! Now Tve got to be churned on her knee! She weer will learn not to stir up the chyme 1 I'm iek! If you don't atop lil puke? Yon bear me? " Why 1 It's sick in it* poor little tummtc !" "You bet? 'Twas uuoing. Now what isthat horrible Parajorveby all that is nasty! You bet! I wxwtt take it! Goo-foogfe-aotr.' Now that's rough! Goodness, gracious! What now! There'* pin my back pricking ! •- The colic!" No! Hang it! It'* clear through th* ! Dimt-cr AT< f You would " Ki," with a pin in you sticking! Diohuaa take Mr*. window ! That won't pull a pin! Jkrwoicri,.' Why don't they find it? The nanniee They think a live pincushion likes to be nursed! IV-e-e.' You're squeezing my back now, just where that pin ia! So. They've found it *1 last, where they should have looked firal! I hat* pantomime, but I cant get a word m ; 1 wonder now why I ao helpless was made. That six months of hie ia already a burden ? Wall, "let tu have peace," for 1m just about pfavad, B/ the way, that reminds mo—Aw my dinnei tbne; Of saaree 'twill be only the usual trash ; But IYu hungry, so here goes, in pantomime— Her, muss 1 II you please, I will " wrestle my hash I" A YACHTSMAN'S ROMANCE. The London season was over, ami a con siderable number of it* late celebrities were collected in various pleasant spots closely contiguous to tbe waters of the Solent Blighted beings had repaired to ('owe*, and shattered hearts to Ryde. Gentlemen who were, in popular parlance, about " done up," were enjoying themselves with an hilarity, that might have betokened the aenlth of worldly prosperity and com mercial success, in different crafts belong ing to the pleasure fleet which covers the English Channel with animation during tbe xpnoths of July, August, and Septem ber. Of all social phenomena there is none probably more curious than that thus stated by a distinguished novelist: " How is it that imo whom in their palmy days I hare seen haggard, careworn, and deject ed by tbe simpla fact that they are utterly and irretrievably ruined, suddenly become tbe most light-hearted and jolliest of man kind J" The explanation probably is re action—reaction from the suspense of anxiety to tbe certainty of despair. Or possibly the philanthropists who propose to themselves tbe extinction of impecunos ity at a modest profit of eighty per cent, might consider that the true rauou dilre wa* to be found in the fact that these volatile human wrecks are blest with ex- Ktion# in tbe background, and usually a reversionary interest more or less available. The scene is Ryde Pier, and the boar about 7:30 P. M." A pretty spot, and by no means an unfavorable boor for visiting it. Like Melrose," Ryde Pier and the view which it represents may be visited with signal propriety by the pale moonlight or in the pale twilight. The eternal promen ade on the pierhead, the perpetual accom paniment of brilliant music and intermin able scandal, the careless tide of demon strative flirtation—these things are pleasant enough per *, but tbey have, no aoubt, a tendency to become monotonous. It is a very different thing, Ryde Pier after din ner. You can secure society without crowd and company without effort. You may meditate sofas, or nl>n c*m told you may frti. And the prospect is not with out its charm. There in the Solent is the Mpadronrot dainty craft, their sails furled, •till and motionless at anchor, the lamp fixed to their mastheads reflecting itself with a quivering motion in the tide below j and the whole effect being that of a ma rine illumination. A little further on, and vou can see the lme of light on the main land and distinctly trace the terrace* of Sonthsea and Portsmouth. If you turn round yon wM see foil in your face the little town of Ryde alive with gas, and the windows of the Victoria Yacht Club all aglow. Then, probably, to enhance the sentiment of the moment, the strains of music steal upon you; and were it not that you are seasonably reminded of con tingent rheumatic pains, von might be tempted to lapse into poetic reverie. Mr. Jim Law lease, to address him at once by bis familiar title, was scarcely a gentleman of a poetic temperament, yet from the prolonged intentnem of bis gaze upon the waters, as he lounged across the railings of the pier, and the fact that he had suffered his cigtr to become extin guished in his hand, he might, for all one could have told to the contrary, been meditating a sonnet to his mistress'eye brow, or be speculating deeply on the philosophy of the unconditioned. Of that little yacht yonder—the one nearest the shore, with its tiny light twinkling from amid its riggingf-the Sea Fan was her name—Mr. Jim Lawlcsse was temporary proprietor. Jim's friends were in tntf nabit of saying that, having made the land too hot for him, he had taken to the waters; and there may have been reasons which rendered St. James' street a slightly too public place for our hero. So Mr. Lawlesse had accepted an invitation from an old college friend to go on a yachting trip in the Sea Fan. But the Sea Fan's owner had been called away, and Mr. Law lease was the man in possession pro tern. A boat containing a gentleman and two ladies pulled to the pier, and Mr. Lawleese's attention was aroused. The party bad come from the Petrel, about a mile out, and consisted of the proprietor of the Pe trel, Sir Hedworth Dare, and his two daughters, who stood to each other in the relation of step-sisters, as Sir Hedworth had married twice, Edith and Kate. When Mr. Lawlesse went up to the two as they landed, it was pretty obvious that Sir Hedworth Dare would have been quite as well pleased had that gentleman not chosen to present himself; for the baronet regard ed Mr. Lawlesse as a detrimental, and had a wholesome and ]iarental horror of the class. " Ah! Lawlesse ; thought it was Moon ington," said Sir Hedworth; "aaid he would be here to meet us." The Hon. Sam Moonington was sldsst FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor VOL. IV. son of the heir of Moonshine, and desper ately smitten with Miss Kate Dare. Sir Hedworth—aoaaid Hyde society—wa# lent upou the match. The Hon. Sam wa* cer tainly a catch—ao said the ladies; Moon ington wa* au ass—so (somewhat abruptly) said tbe gentlemen in general, and Mr. Lawlease iu particular. Jim, however, was uot to be taken aV>ao by this very tepid welcome, aud walked down the pier with Sir Hedworth aud hi* two daughters. u Are vou going to tbe ball to-night. Mr. Lawlease aked Kate Dare. It ba|ipcned to be within a few hour* of tbe commencement of tbe Yacht Club ball. Of course Mr. I .awl esse was going; and ao was Mr. Moonington. That gentleman bad just joined them; and ao they all were. '• And so we aliall all meet again presently." And Jim Lawlease sauntered oil alter hav ing !ade the ladies an Kate," ssid Jim to hia affianced bride, before they parted that night. " don't you think 1 waa right, and that there may be romance even close to Ryde, and on the waters of the Solent, after all ?" CENTRE HALL, CENT How a Matt Eloped with 111* Own Wife. Late iu Julv last tbe good ueopl© iu the town of Lvuu, Oaklau.t Count v. Mich., were tuue)i excited by au appli cation for divorce ou tbe |nrt of the wife of Kaiuucl 11. Dolpli, a Detroit drover, ou the ground of adultery. The ife was the daughter of a wealthy far mer of their county. Dolph, who bail licen enjoined from removing uuyUiiug from a farm that was the projierty of his wife, attempted to take |MMwea#ion of the place, ejected the family living upon it, aud wa# arrested for riot. Iu the uieuutime the family he had ejected re instated themselves, aud when he re turned he found them well guarded by armed meu. Dolpli was tlieu arrested aud gave Imi I. Subsequently Dolpli and liis father v inited the farm aud fouud people cutting tbe crojia. and for interfering with them lie and hi* father were arrested for assault aud lmtterv. Other suits were brought by the wife, aud elder aud youugvr Dolpli, aud by various |iarties, and legal gentlemen were retained ou oue side or Uie other to take part in the eontrovcrxie#. Tbe suit at law embraced injunctions, replev ins, tresjMAs, and pretty much every thing else -known to the. civil and crimi nal calendar, and the litigations Li 1 fair to exteud thrhugh several" months, and perhap* years. Dolph is well known, and has many iutlueutial and wealthy friends, and the same may be said of his wife ; and these friends, it appears, were strenuous in their effort* to keep them separated. Mr*. Dolph remained secluded at thcTettideuee of some of her friends, sud a policeman was employed to watch Dolph, fears I wing entertained that he might attempt to alaluct her. Thus matters |mxsm*l along for several weeks, and a few days since an arrange ment was effected by which Mr*. IKilpb was to pay her husband $3,U00, and all the suits, except that for the divorce, were to lie discontinued. The pajiera were drawn up and signed, and the jiarties separated, -Mrs. Dolph avowing it as her determination never to live with him again. Dolph. however, in sisted that he loved his wife, and a friend volunteered to effect a reconcilia tion betweeu them. It is not neoviaary to state in detail all that occurred, but, lb make a long story short, we may simply announce that the j>hin worked like a charm. Mrs. Dolnh consented to elope with her husband, and Dolph to elope with his wife. She returned to the place where she was stopping, pock ed her trunks, to be ready to move at a given time, and Dolph prepared himself for a journey too. Tbe f.iend referred to took a carriage and obtained Mrs. Dolph, subsequently drove after Dolph. The carriage was driven rapidly to Ham train ek, where it remained until evening, and from thence tbe reconciled couple took passage on s train that car ried them many mile* away. Telegram# have lieen sent in every direction. Init no traced hare been discovered of Mr. and Mrs. Dolph. They are out of reach of Detroit and Pontiac lawyers, who have pocketed feca to the amount of about $4,000, and they have sworn to forget and forgive, and hereafter live happily. Animal Teaching. We ba*e all witnessed iu our time, nay ft Land tiHaii ion danced. He next taught three eats to do many wonderful things, to sit be fore mnsie-liooks ; and to squall notes pitched to different keys, lie advertis ed a " Cat's Opera" in the Hnvmarket, and successfully carried out his pro gramme, the cats accurately fulfilling all their parts. He pocketed some thousands by these performances. He next taught a leveret, and then several sjiecies of birds, to spell the name of any person in company, and to distin guish the hour of the day or night. Hix turkey-cocks were next rendered amen able to a country dance, and, after six months' teaching, he trained a turtle to fetch and carry like a dog. aud, having chalked the floor and blackened its claws, he made it trace out the name of any given person in tlie company. BEYORD PER CERT.—General Craft, one of our prominent lawyers, was hailed while passing Freeman's jewelry store by the proprietor with : " General, come in hero a moment; we have something for you to solve. If a man brings his watch to lie fixed, and it cost me ten cents to do it, and I keep it a week, and charge him six dollars, what per cent, do I make ? We have lieen figuring, and make it nine hundred per tout, and have only got np to one dollar. How much do you say it would ho at six dol lars r " Well," replied tlie general, " I do not wonder at your perplexity ; for it is well known, and tno celebrated Rabbit calculating machine has demonstrated, that at oertain points iu progressive numbers the law governing them changes In this cose the law would change, and long before it would reach the six dollars it would run ont of jier cent, and into what is known as larceny." MAGDALEN* BAT— The San Francisoo papers are severe on the Magdalena Bxy scheme, and one of them, the Alia Cali fornia*, chronicling the arrival at Cape de Lucas of the last of the colonists in a very dilapidated condition, says : "In the meantime the telegraph informs us that the company is seeking to entice the Trench Communists to that lively j country. Tha French Government was I infinitely more merciful—only proposed to send them to New Caledonia." IE CO., PA., FRID Steam oa ( anal*. The following, written for the Maticli Chunk (W (hitriu, will lie read with in tercut : Within the |iat half century various plans for the sulwrituriou of steam for animal jiower on the canals have been proposed and tried, but so far, none with entire success. The idea of high Sliced seems so naturally couuerted with tue use of steam, that no doubt tbe fail ure of these plans is cluefiy owing to the effort to olitaiu that qiwxl without suffi ciently taking iuto consideration the enormous increase of power required to doao. To give an illustration of this, it ia stated by the Htate Engineer of New York that while two ntulca or horses may le able to tow a given Inmt at u qsvj of two miles per hour, it would require sixteen to tow it four mile* |>er hour thus gainiug only double sj**n rail, to diminish friction ; those on the plank lieiug used to preserve the equilibrium only. A track of this des cription Iteing laid on the tow-path, the hosts sre attached to the locomotive by tow lines, the engine taking the place of the tunics, and towing from four to six IxMtts. according to aise. The sixxxl would only lie increased about one-third, hut the Ixwts would he towed steadily at that, night and dav. thus making a con siderable saving of time —nearly 100 per cent —and materially reducing the cost. When navigation closes in srinter the track and locomotives Iteing ready on hand, by simply adding a sufficient num ber of cars vour canal would lie virtually open the whole year, instead of only two thirds, as at present, aud yon would still have the opportunity to repair and im prove the canal when the water is out. as usual. Ages of Oysters. An oysterman can tell the age* of his flock to a nicety. They are in perfection when from five to seven years old. The age of an oyster is not to be found ont by looking into its mouth; it Wars its vears upon its l*ck. Everyliody who has handled an oyster shell must hnve oliservcd that it seemed as if it was composed of successive layers or plates overlapping each other. These are technically termed *• shoots," and each of them mark a year's growth, so thnt bv counting them we can determine at a glance the year when the creature came into the world. Up to the epoch of its maturity tlie shoots are regular and successive, hut after that time they lie come irregular, and are piled one over the other, so tliat tlie shell becomes more and more thickened and bulky. Judgiug from the greatness to which some oystershells have attained, tlii molluak is capable, if left to its natural changes and unmolested, of attaining a patriarchal longevity. Among fossil oysters, sjieeimens are found occasionally of enormous thick ness; and the amount of time that has E*ed lietween the depositions of the and rock in which such ail example j occurs, and that which overlies it, might lie calculated from careful observation of the shnpe and number of the layers of caloare-ius matter oompoaing an xtinct oyaterahell. In some ancient formations stratum above stratum of extinguished oysters may he seen, each bed consisting of full grown and aged individuals. Happy hrooda these pre-Adamite con gregations must have been, horn in an epoch when epicures were as yet un thought of, and when there were no workers in iron to fabricate oyster knives. Geology aud all Its wonders make known to us scarcely one more mysterious or inexplicable than the crea tion of oydter long before oyster-eaters and tlie formation of oyster-liankH—ages before dredgers. What a lamentable heap of good nourishment must have been wasted during the primeval ejiochs. RENDERING WAULS WATEB-TIOHT. —It is proposed by Mr. F. Ran some, of Lon don, to render stone and brick walls water-proof by ooating them to satu ration with a solution of silicate of soda, which is superficially decomposed by the further application of chloride of eal cum. The surfaoe thus obtained con sists of sileoia of lime, whiob is perfect ly soluble, while it does not alter the ap pearance of the wall. AY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1871. la the Woods. Is there rcsdltr anything more gh.n>>us than a day iu tue wood*, whether it lie iti solitary musings or in the skillfully planned picnic? Moat of its have our recollection* of gloriotia picuie* iu the wood*. Old fogies will tell oa that it U better to go and have a look at tb woods and then come home to a satisfactory dinner round the mahogauy. But that ia not our opinion, rnr young friends, ia it? We know what it bto get into aim# sequestered glade, wm* clearing of Na ture's ow uiu the forest, atul then, be yond any pathway or reach of outer aouuil, to hold high revel, spreading our whiUt cloth on the miawtr carjiet and (tailing tbe long-necked fmttles in the kltwu We know wlntt it is to pitch an actual tent in the wilderueaa, aud to gather faggots for our woodland fire, and to raise the woodlaud shout that shall bring all comrades together before the homeward start. These woods are ever lieantiful, whether ia the delicate full flush of the green of spring, or in the high noon of settled summer, or in the magnificent variety of tints in the autumn; even in the "chill October" of Mr. Milium' picture; and Longfellow seems to give a distinct preference even to winter itself. Or perhaps you will eejiecially enjoy woods in long solitary rambles. You cannot at the same time, except in ati audience fit aud few, have much I aith of nature and of society. You seem to need a special kind of train ing and education to enjoy the natural beauties of the woods. Aud there is something provocative, in the stillness and solitude, to quiet thought. Yon seem to have escaped into another world. You have left behind you shadows and mocking voices for the reality of peace. To tue a wood ia always a region of a kind of happy enchantment. I linger there till the latent moment I can spare myself, even when I have had to go on to my next rearing place in utter gloom, so intense that I could not see my hand liefure me, but satisfied that I am in a weli-woni path, and feeling my way with a stick. Perhaps you are startled sud denly rousing the "whirring pheasant, or yon" may feel uncomfortable at the thought of meeting some poacher*. I know a man who, in a lonely wood in the middle counties, came upon a croaa liearing an inscription that some help less traveler had been murdered there. Perhaps he quickened hia step until he name oat of those dubious paths. But there is a witchery about the woods; nor can I look lawk upon any days that have so thoroughly s holiday character as Ukmc which I have speut solitary or social in the woods. Hariri7 and Fashion. At a Staten Inland voiding there ara to be ten bridesmaids bnt no grooma man. A norelty iu wall decorations ia lesth r ua|M>r, *hi"l> haa the effect of freaco and ia very beautiful. Very few ladiea at Saratoga seem to be willing or courageoua enough to appear in the name toilette twice. AU the ladiea in Paris now drraa in deep mourning, and the gaiety ia own fined entirely to the foreign run tor*. The t'hintwe crepe dresses hare found unusual favor this season at the *• short) aa they do not alirink or wrinkle with the dampness. Amauiain no danger aa loug aa he talka love, but when nc write* it. he ia impaling himaelf on his own pot-hooka moat effectually. Overakirts are now worn ao very long that the underskirts are uaoally made of an inferior quality of ailk, with flounces the aaine aa the overakirt. A lady at Long Branch appeared at one of the " hops " in a dress of yellow satin trimmed with flounces of black litre, on which ware faateued /ire Braril ian buga. A cynnal. man aaya the reason women are ao fond of writing letters ia Uiat they rejoice in the opportunity of aaying all they wish without the powribility of an interruption. Bronre l>oots hare entirely gone out of fashion, as the least dampunss turns tbein a light purple color, and the ]>oliiib uaed to renoriUe them staiua all goods with an ineffaceable stain. What la aa Army ! If w might piece out a picture with incomplete likeneases, we might indicate MI army aa it actually exists in real ser vice, as a huge nondescript monster sprawled over uie earth ; books of cav alry moving to and fro, doing the office of in ; its long, thin limbs toiling over the country in the shape of wagon-trains; tlie black fangs of the batteries visible here and there in ths moving mass ; its /safer* now drawn in. represented in out posts aud picket lines, a sort of exagga rated insect-life ; every thin fibre of the creature, from the attenuated line of the outpost or vidette, many miles away, to the general, who carries in his head the whole wonderful plan, instinct with life and doing its offices. So met lines there is hsttle. The mons ter (hen has its vomit of Mood; hut when it has coiled again its slow, wound ed lengths, it is obscure and incumpre henmlile as liefore. The motions are inexplicable to tlie common oliserver. Imagine such a mons ter groping its way through a wooded and intricate country, such as furnished most of the liattle-fields ef our late war. It is never visible as a whole. It is half burrowed in the ground, half concealed in the forest. There is a strange hum in the air; hut here is an army of tens of thousands of men ; and if it has shed its tents in the summer time, there are moments wbeu the vast multitude has disappeared, as it were, into the very bowels of the earth. We see a line of soldiers on the fringe of the forest, some gashes of red earth, sums bodies of men, perhaps, traversing the brown plain, a line of horsemen pac ing steadily across a fish!! This ia all. or WATBBT VA- roß.—Professor Forel, of Lausanne, af ter long-continued observation, has de termined tlie quantity of water passing into the Hhone ltclow the Lake of Gene va. and finds thit to furnish that amount it would require an atmospheric precip itation in tlie liasiu of uearly 45 inches. Tho actual precipitation, however, amounts to lmt 27 j inches ; and the qnes tion arises, therefore, whenee comes the surplus water ? Professor Dufonr finds its origin in the direct condensation of the atmospheric vapor on the ice, the cold rocks and the snow-fields of the Alps. The following experiment mav serve to elucidate the principle involved: A vessel containing a cooling mixture of 672 grams weight, on being exposed for an hour in the calm, open air, inereaeed 5 grams in weight from the vapor con densed on its exterior. Direct meas urements st suitable points would bs in teresting for the purpose of ascertaining approximately what Quantity ef water is thns actually carried to the river. Now AND THEN.—A writer in the Boa ton Trantcript tails how ens morning she remonstrated with her colored ser vant, far abusing his wife, upbraiding him after this manner : "Jack, what a pretty little smart wife you have. If I were you, I would try to make myself more agreeable to her, and—and—l wouldn't strike her." The only answer from Jaek waa: " Why! I'eeaoae mar ried Leu; I isn't eeurting her." Tkr Adieu of Ike Engaged. Tbe following, from s Cape May let ter by (Jourge Alfred Townaend, to the Chicago 7Vto*aa, ia worth reading : Nothing ia au pretty aa to see the en gaged folks part on Monday morning, the fowler to go back to buaineaa for a whole week, the euanara*! to stay at the Cape counting tin- days of his absence. To see ibis aceue you tuna! get up at 6 of the elock, for it i# tbe early train that the young uian of huaiuem in tut take. The young man in his duster, a little dragged out, slips dowu with his valbs, and, at the foot of the ataira, spyiug the inexorable omnibus, halts a minute to let the bird catch up to bim. Abo a lit- 1 tie worn with rarfy rising and late last evening, the bird bops dowu stair* in Iter yellow morning plumage, and formally shakes the young man by the baud ; anil as be recedes, sud turn# once at tbe threshold to look bark with that glance which is the respectful yearning of all that be knows or hopes fur, it meets, al ready fixed, the bird's farewell, poured out of her eyes like a note of melody. That look btbe living solace of tbe week, tbe one ration on which love mnat march for six (bya. rill Saturday brings sooth er rendexvoua. It b the letter thau oath or affirmation, that neither b to be forgotten by the other, although the true parting, aa we all know, took place not here, lmt above stair*—per napa in the room of tbe old bird, who graciously aaaented, aud lived beck thirty years in the sound of ber daughter's Tbe three fond periods of life are the first councilmaneas of lore rqfurned, the Hummer last before marriage, when all the course is smooth, and, next, the early months of the first baby, when tbe mau feels a little queer and the woman Is perfectly self-possess# d again. The woman engaged ouoe fully and distinctly in love, is the highest type of human fidelity. Bee this one, abandoned to a week of Uie longest ennui possible to ber nature, the absence of ber affianc ed ; a man Would, perhaps, balance it by tba violence of bia pleasures, and smoth er expectation in gnrety ; like a vratal who knows not tbe day nor the hour when ber master cometh, tbe engaged woman baoomea, for his sake, the sub ject of ber own exalted respect. Her liody and soul, ber walk and conversa tion, are purer to ber eye.', because they have been promised away. She draws around herself the circle of the solemn '■hurrh, and all society (alls beyond the line ; but one man aan cross it. The beach, the ball, the promenade, the bath, etherealixed and no longer partaken in I romp and volatility, find ber still higher above reproach each Saturday succes sively, rill at last, whan the aeaaon ends, and with it the last campaign of her beauty, alia abdicates, like Zeuobia, without an accusation, a secret, or a lament A woman in love know* when her mind ia made up ; a man thinks be does. Chinese Shoemaker* la Xaaaarkanrtta. A visit to the Chinese shoemakers in Nortfi Adams, Massachusetts, ia thus de scribed by a correspondent of the Spring field RepuUicam : Tbe Chineat are in a room by tbem selve# working pegging machine*, aole tng, Ac., must of the other work being done bv girl*, and they labor with rapid ity and intelligence, for what I can owe, a# well aa the best journeymen, though you may call them apprentice*. Few, very few are able to converse ia EugL-1.. or even to understand tbe simplest words. I tried it on two or throe, and thay, with a look of blank astonishment, reduced a few tea-chests to articulation, which delighted me, I assure you. They are mostly young men ; some are fair looking . while other# look uglier than sin, and would make innocent idols, not lieing in tbe liken**# of anything : but too will obaerve wherever yon go that Leanty •is nothing, and it is "ot with these fellow#. There are seventy-five Chinese em ployed in one establishment: they enjoy good health, not more than one on an average bring sick at one time. They are gradually getting into the way of eating in the American style, but do not yet get over their custom of eating aoup with a fork. I learned one thing I do not remvmlter to have aeen in print. Unit they are strictly temperate except on the Ist of January) when they have a grand drunk. Lost January they were given four days for a spree of this kind, and they went through it, I am told, with magnificent system and success. I omit ted to inquire what their favorite bever age is ; hut somrltody should Ami it out; for after getting drunk, and keeping so four days, they come out refreshed and invigorated. There is no joke about Ibis ; for the proprietor said that on the day following their enormous " bum " in 'January they did a larger day's work thsn before or since on a single day. Now here is something for the reform ers—possibly for the scientists. Alco holic stimulant to the civilised American system is depressive when emploved to excess; but to the "heathen Chinee" it has an opposite effect- seems to suit him to s T, and gives him new life. •• Why." said our informant at the fac tory, "it was perfectly surprising how the fellows worked after it; when we had other help the men were off drinking, and it took a week to get them back to rights again." It is evident we have something to learn from the Chinese, while setting ourselves up as superiors and teachers. THE KOH-I-NOOH.— The following stoiy in told concerning the Koh-i-noor oap tamt in India : " The Koh-i-noor was captured in this cheap war: In 1H49 that well known diamond became part of the spoil of the Anglo-Indian MTBT, on the conaueat and annexation of the Pnniab, sn|)prtarbiiii| the Atlantic eoaat is an nounced two days in advance of ita reaching a givaa point One signal ,pb •rrver gather* up the first thrastning dis turbances of the element* aa they fret at the boar of the Uookj Mountains, and trace* then along, fur the atom make* slow time compared with the electric telegraph until the folly developed atom roaches the New England coast Or, a cheery but nnnaual wind ia felt in the Mexican Onlf, at Key West, or tialveaton; the barometer fall* suddenly ; the indications tn that a series of die tiirbanee* are taking place somewhere in the atmosphere. Pnawlly the stonu, gathering ita foroes in our semi-tropics! regions, oommeneas ita journey toward the North It ia traoed along, gather ing intensity in its progress, until the telegraph reports it at New Orleans. The wind and the rain follow, and daah over the "Crescent City." The steamers start from their wirings, and the deep, muddy river is lathed into funr, and seems molten copper under the glare of the oontinnoua lightning; the sugar cane and cotton-fields are desolated; when suddenly the storm, now fairly launched, turns into the great highway of the Mississippi Valley, ruabsa along twelve hundred miles, until it ranches Kt Louis, deluging that city in rain, and poasibly wracking some of ita mora delicate steam craft; then, aa if bent on mora mischief, it will strike off toward Chicago and the great lakes, moving Weatwardly. Northwardly, then Fast wirdly, until striking the Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland, the discontented and rain-scattering child of the tropica is finally lost in the intense odd of the Northern latitudes. And the history of the four days' pro gress of thin storm —day* consumed by its journey through the heart of the continent—ia not only given, but the ar rival of the storm at every importAnt place is anticipated, aad ita eondort along the route w kept with unfaltering proration and the moat scientific care. Twenty-five miles an hour is shown by signal service operations, to be the aver age velocity of a storm; when it baa twiee thai velocity it becomes a tornado. Now, a storm proper, starting from the foot of the Rocky Mountains, and trav eling toward the' Atlantic eoaat, even if severe in it* demonstration, is beaten all the way by the railway train, which av erages* more rapidity in ita movements iKn the ordinary storm ; while the tele graphic message, no matter how much headway storm and railway ears hav# ■nxU. passes both, and arrivea at its des tination without any real perception of consumed time. The wind in the upper currents, as marked by the Mount Washington observations of last winter, is often rushing past at the rate of one hundred mil an boor. When it was at this great velocity, at Portland, sixty miles away, the weuther was perfectly calm and dear. On the sth of March. 1871, Masrat Washington observation, the wind was blowing fifty mile*; at Portland, two uules. Balloons sometime* reach so al titude where the wind ia blowing a hun dred miles an hoar. These winds in the high air are almost exclusively from a Soother! t direction —m*uy from the equator toward the pole*. But this rule is not imperative, for the surface of th# earth, by ita heat and cold, affects the direction of the high winds. Phenome nal winds are cyclones, one of the never art of which known in history, a few rears ago swept ovar some portions at English India. Tbe Tbrtt of the brand Duke Alexia. A despatch to the Russian Legation at Washington announces the sailing from Craostadt, Russia, of the fleet with tha Grand Duke Alexia and anile. The squadron consists of five Teasels of war and tenders. The Grand Duke, with his personal "toff, occupy luxurious quar ter* on the steam frigate Hwetana. The fleet will make the passage under sail, and may tie expected at Sandy Hook by tbe first of October. Tbe arrangeuieuU for the reception of the distinguished visitor* are as yet in a very incomplete condition. It is expected however, that the imperial fleet will be received by Bear Admiral Gordon, in command of a squad ron made up of vessels on the home sta tion, to be ordered here for the purpose. The Grand Duke will be presented upon his arrival to the representative of the Preaidaut of the United States, aud in turn to the State and municipal autbori tkw. Tbe arrangements for the sulme quent reception and entertainment of the Grand Duke and suite, we understand, will be somewhat as follow* : The Recep tion Committee will afterward lie pre sented to the Grand Duke, and will then lie conducted by the young gentleman to hi* magnificent steamer. Escorted by two or threa flrst-daas steam frigates, and 1 rawing a miniature navy of government and private vaehts and steam vessels, tha combined fleets will move np through the Narrows, the Russian visitors receiv ing in the united mlvoa from the forts and the American shipping their first grand welcome. The leading features of the festivities may be summed up thus: Reception in the bay ; reoeptiou by the ■ First division National Guard at the Bat tery. and escort to the Brevoort House, where elegant apartments have been pre pared for th* visitor* ; a visit to the Nary Yard and public institutions of the ; eitv and harbor ; a drive and breakfast at Jerome Park ; excursion upthe Hud son River and visit to West Point; pa rade of the Fire Department; grand re ception ball and banquet at the Academy of Music, on which occasion Page's great picture of Farragut Inched to the shrouds of the Hartford will be given in charge of the distinguished guest as a gift to his father, the Emperor. KILLED HIS MOTHXB.—A young man of nineteen shot hi* mot her, in Brooklyn, in an attempt, as it appear*, to defend himself from an assault by a third iiarty. The history of the case shows how recklessly personal violcnoe is re sorted to in these day*. The young man was accused by his assailant of slan dering him, and threatened with a flog ging. Thus threatened, he applied to a Friend for advice and aid. The first was given in the shape of an admonition to shoot his assailant if he were struck, and the second in the shape of loaded revolver. Tha offended man came, with a companion, to the home of his alleged slanderer, and endeavored to beat him. The mother attempted to separate them, and the son fired, killing his mother. THE KILLING or A Wl rs BY Incms.— The examination of Dr. Carl Groesso of Louisville, Ky., on the charge of caus ing the death of his wife by ill-treatment, is progressing. A witness testified to the cruel treatment, and also that the Dr. expressed a desire to get rid of his wife during her confinement; that ha kept her in a close room, the doors and windows of which were shut, and neg lected to provide her with the absolute necessaries of life, aad did all in hi* power to prevent the neighbor* from contributing to her relief. The terti mony at the chemist who analyvod the stomach of theddeefsad has net vat bran received. Aa Order tar a Plctara. Woods and i iradrids • Httls brown— Thi- (total* in'ist or* to nw-brtghl— -Ist a5 Va tto golden, tr -swMdht Of clot*! whsti ths Bom * sua is dews. And siwsv* sad s>wsy , etght sad man, W-wds upon woods, and tol-ts of sera Igtag aatwssn them. not units sera, And not ia th* full, thick. l*fr town. When th* wind ma hardly find brcsthtogtoom radvr their laswl* c(U* nor, rating shorter the short grew* anas, ' And s of sums* sad sasafraa. With trfaetdrtis twitteHag sll sraaad— (Ah. good painter, yoa csatptent Htol) ft&LsaJ Ito te.w* "torn I was tors. ! Low sisi little, and blscfc sad old. With ehtldrso assay so H can hold, All at th* wtadows, opoa wide !i*ds and shoulder* <*•£ oateide. And fair yonngftwrs sit Prhs| yon BUT harr .. some day, I ftuw-o crowding the self-name way (MoT a wilding; wayside bosh. T Isirn nWr Wbaa vwa hsvs dans WHh woods and inwndsK" and grsamg hards. A lady, th* lovsiisnt svwr the asa Ixx,ki tows spoo, yon nae psiat tor am, Oh, tf 1 only eonld mak* yon as* tim clear Mm *ysa. the tend* smile. Thssovorwiga sweetness, th* gyutls tmw-, TV woman* seal, sad ths awfi hf' Thai arc beaming aa ms al ths •ht''. I asadteitimmk thsa* todtob wcrds; Yet oas word teUsyoa ad ! would ssy flhe is my mother; yoa will sgras That ail th* rest rosy to thrownsway AUeiOny. - . Fads and Fancies. The church to ailanead o mm . All Banna. Th# moat unpopular of all wntoh word* Tick. A shillingdcotial moat baa man of lew wxtraction. A bandy tuna For tuna." It ia not common metre. The biggest "guns" am often the greatest " boras." Stog*-drivers look npno a rainy day Mm paealtariy (am weather. Chew yonr meat, aaehww grassy gra vies. Doot chew your tobacco. In Truro, MM., there ars 105 widows whose husbands ware lost at sea. The man who became a Hquer ealler goes a long way toward a basement Home teetotalers would evnn prefer a watery grave to preservation is On aa English railroad, a certain tenia is rax lIM milwt in four boors and a quar ter. NO. 3*5. Aw*ptaM baa been invented, mIM "TV Breath of a Chti—i Wo- MB." Ia Michigan there an 178 Congrega tiond churches, with a membership of 11,984. ID time the mulberry tree become* iiilkgo*D—aadasOk gov* becomes a womaa A child at Albany awallowad a nag. and the mother became ao frightened that she died ia afaw minutes. Last year the Baptist Board of Mis sion* received f'2OA,(ViB into lis treasury. Thia year they propoaa to reimst lea* Tbe yoang lady who was caught smok iag by her mother, excused beraelf by aayiag it made bar email aatboagb there was a man about. Good bousefceepsru are patting ap all tbe {rait they can, and little boya aad girls are willing to try sad put down aa much fruit aa their mothere. * Young ladies are now' adviaed not to put too much oil an the hair, for tha reaaon that it ia apt to epoO, not only the lappel of the ooat, bnt alao tha rtat The yoongaaan at the watering plaom hare discard til white vesta. Urn young ladies nae ao much ofl on their hair that a vest Is only good for ana erening aa tbe pi area In colore, black will retain tbe aapre inacy for the street, although tbe dark but rich doth colon which were ao much worn last season, and the neutral tints, will alao prevail Baron de Rotharhild owns 144 hoanaa ia Paris worth 85,780,000 in gold ; nod the Count de Madre owaa 100. Nans of these building* had ao modi aa a window pane broken during tbe siege. A gentleman arid to an old lady who had brought ap a family of children near the rivwr. "1 should think you would bee in constant fear that some of them would get drowned." "O, no," responded the old lady, " we only lost three or four in that way." Tbe Burlington Free Prm ascertains that there is much alarm in this City concerning the cholera. It ia misia farmed. We rinl afraid of cholera. We are only afraid that the a&ccre of the Btaien Island Ferry Company will never be punished.—-V. f. Paper. A fanner cured a batty bona in the town of Eden, Fond da Lac county. Wisconsin. He hitched n fair at cattle toa log-chain around tha home's neck, and prevailed on '(■ to laan n law tons weight on the yoke. The hone didn't start, but his bead name out by the roots. Tbe hide, a set of shoes, and a lunofa for the crown are all that ia left of tha Indo cile steed. ___________ timet Brigandage. The gentlemen of tbe rord in Greece. " iiotwith-Undiug the eiTorta of th authorities, appear to carry on their raids upon the purees and persons of travelers and others, with aa much dili gence aa ever. The lateat nq*rted out rage was upon a poor shepherd whom they held for a ransom As hi parents were only aMe to send the reb oots a portion of the heavy erection, thev rmral ia retura but a portion of the son. the brigands retaining the boy's uoee and ears. The warns erf tire phef of the band engaged in this affair ia Takoa, who, though pursued by the Greek soldiers, succeeded in escaping and at last accounts, was enjoying the mountaiif breeeee of Thrssaly. Another brigand chief, named Ccama Ooureme no*. notorious for his nmmbcrkws crimen had the misfortune to be captured lately. At his trial all tbe charges against him were dearly eatahtuhed. aad those un acquainted with the social condition of that classical land, would suppose that quick punishment followed; oat not so. The enlightened jury acquitted tha cul prit on the grOuad that his crimes against Greece, had been asptated by his having killed three Turks in Crete. The Hellenic authorities, however, not the same patriotic view of tiie sacrifice on the national altar of a trio of the traditional enemies of Greece, de clined to liberate the modern Spartan hero, having other charges to try him upon, and he has probably ere this, been made a brad shorter, unless poonlar in clination to look upon the killing of three Mussulman aa a full atonement for the moat atrocious crimes be toe strong for the Government to withstand. Any of our tourists who are tired of the ordinary routes and sigh for pernan cy in their wanderings, might take a turn among the mountains of Hellas To those with plenty of spare eash, and to whom the choice of losing noee and ears would be no discouragement, tha expedition might prove more than ordi narily intonating. A PBOVTTABLX FAKH. —Mr. Mechi, of Tiptree Hall farm, England, states, as on example of what poor land can be made to accomplish by draining, deep and clean cultivation, and plenty of manure, that he paid in 1841, 23 pounds sterling, or 115 dollars, per acre, for bis farm which is a very low price and sig nificant of its poor quality. The land has been heavily cropped since it came into his possession, and in 1867 yielded a heavy crop of clover; in 1868, forty bnahels par acre of white wheat, which sold for 115 dollar*! per acre without the straw; in 1869, 35 bushels wheat ; in 1870, 39 tons mangels, or 975 bushels per acre, and the land now bean a very promising crop of red wheat. Mr. Mechi is an advocate of high fanning ; his rotation is a nine-year one, and con sists of clover, wheat, mangels, wheat, beans, wheat, winter tares, and Kohl rabi, or cabbage (two crops that year), flninhing with oats seeded to clover. All the straw and the green crops are at coarse fed en the farm aa well as tha oats and beans. In such a practice as this the land is yielding crops contin ually. It is evident that the mast worthy efforts often fail, while the wont ftce eeed. This fact alone aught to thaw the folly of baaing an estimate of charac ter on t superficial reckoning of results. .