'• IXrllM." *' Darling!" H spoke it with * tone that drowned, . .... Deeps the word toe, breathed between Hps, . . . Other than when the qniok dieerUaWe slips From month to mouth of gtrl-frtenda who have found Each ot&er deer. "Deriinji"—the word wee bound, About my chikl-neek by my father's arms. Graved on my face by brothers, end bed charms Shaded aa infinitely ta the see's one sound. Teal ell within one compass! -But this word, Whereof I ley the aweetneea to my tongue. And mimic the intonation as it stirred My heir, is mellower then a deep son# sung In the deep night by mellowest-throated bird. And not the old word,bnt one forever young! Rainbows ef Held. " If you oen get to the foot of a rainbow be fore It fades away you will find a bushel of gold."— legend of Ki try lor*. When I was a child I was solemnly told. When the rainbow appeared in the skv. That under it foot was a bushel of gold That any could get would they try ; So 1 ran here the splendor came down to the ground, Rat it fleeted as feat aa I ran. And with all of my search it was nothing I found: Yet I'm doing the same as a man. Thor-> the rainbow of lore, when affections are young. The brightest, we think, of the lot; W fidlow, to find it a thing of the tongue. Or a foolish abstraction of thought. Then l 'a the rainbow of fame, with its amaranth crown ; We chase it in emulous strife : We reach where it* foot so enticing came down. And find—we hare wasted a lite. Hone's rainbows are ever abroad in the air, Alluriug us fools to pursue ; We follow ami follow, stvd .hud nothing there Save a sprinkle of glittering dew. Earth'* rainbow* of promise, so fair to the sight, '.re but Actions, st best, of the mind : Their gleams give at moat uiwubstantial delight Ther fade and leave nothing behmd. Then what of the rainbow that gleams beyond death The promise hereafter! Who is there can tell If. after the parting of body and bresth. He is sure under fk.it rainbow all will be well I Can be certain it is the last bow to allure. The one that stoops down on the bushel of gold- The gold to at last atoll pouaessf Who is sure f Alas! "lisa secret we can not unfold. H " ! ~ 9! *** IN A FOWBER MAGAZINE. We had not been ten davs at aea before ruo mind misgave me, and t began to dread an unfortunate termination to our Towage, for matters bad gone wrong from the Ten beginning. There bad been trouble with the crow, who seemed to have an idea that perennial drunkenness was the proper state of men's existence; and who, as long as a sixpence lasted, obstinately refused to go ou board, in many cases having to be hauled from the wharf over the side like so much suspended animation. Then when we had been warped oot into the river, and were lyirg awaiting the Captain, we found that be had been taken suddenly and violently ill, so that a week's delay followed, ending in a fresh appointment, and the coming of a new Captain—a man of a quiet, genial as pect, whose presence seemed to augur a ter mination of our troubles, and he was wel comed accordingly. For a merchantman outward bound is by no mean- the paradise existing in the minds of anient school-boys, bitten with a longing for a life at sea. Twenty-fours hours of the life on board and its discomforts effectually sickened me; bufotben I had chosen my vessel for reasons of economy, knowing that j every five-pound note would be. perhaps, of priceless value in my new home; so I made up my mind not to be discontented, but to bear all that fell to my lot. 1 had taken my passage to Buenos Ay res. with the full intuition of roughing it for some years to come, and therefore I argued that it would be cowardlv to turn tail at the first trouble that fall to my share. But reallv it was trying work, in spite of the strongest determination. The sailors were soon in that pleasant state of despondent misery which succeeds a long debauch, and, as if giving the unfortunate passengers the credit of being the cause of their sufferings, lost no opportunity of visiting the said sufferings upon their heads. I said upon their beads, but the feet as frequently suffered, buckets of water being dashed upon them—of course accidentally—if we ventured on deck during holy-stoning times.' We came to grief, too, over ropes, over the stowing of cargo, and in a variety of wtj* during those flnt days—our sea going friends looking upon us as an inferior race j of beings, whom, as lubbers, it was their duty to afflict. But by dint of good temper, this was all pretty well got over, in time for the rough "weather we en countered down Channel, and right away across the Bay of BtscaT ; sufficiently toil to confine us all. sick and well, below hatches for many a dreary day of pitching and tossing, with the ship's timbers groan ing and creaking to a degree that seemed to threaten falling to pieces. Picture to yourselves, you who have not been on ship board, a yloomy, low-ceiled prison, with stout beams crossing every here and there, the light stealing teeblv through the little windows, the air you breathe hot, foul, and stifling, the batch above you battened down, so that, save at special times, there is no communication with the deck; and nearly every fellow passenger either bemoaning his hard fate, or else groaning as be lies in the helples* misery of tea-sickness. I think that if ah the miseries of a rough voyage could be foreseen, those who take trips to far-ofl lands would be grastly reduced in num bers. A coople of days' respite came at last in the shape of fine weather: and in tbe reac tion produced by the bright sunshine, and free brisk air we breathed on deck, tbe troubles of the past were forgotten. Tbe Captain still seemed all that was pleasant; but there was a flushed and heavy look in his countenance that I did not like, and before long I bad another opinion upon tbe subject; for, in conversation, I found that tbe second mate had been at the same school as myself; and together we went o.er tbe old da'ys and compared notes, as I walked the deck with him far into bis watch. Tbe weather turned foul once more, but this time, through tbe mate, I contrived to stay on deck, when, to my surprise, I found that the greater part of the duty was shifted on to tbe chief mate, the Captain seldom sbowiDg on deck. 44 No, I don't think it's from cowardice," said my friend to me, as we walked the deck that night, when the gale had some what moderated. "Of course this is in confidence." I nodded. "Well,'' he continued, "I don't know what to make of bim; sometimes I think he's mad, and sometimes that he is given to drinking. How be got appointed to this ship, I can't tell. Mr. Ray don't say any thing, but be is one of those men who think all the more; and of coune he'll be particularly careful, lest tbe Captain should think that, as first mate, be is jealous be cause the command was not placed in his hands." No more was then said; but before many days had passed, wc found that tbe man who bad been intrusted with a fine vessel, a valuable cargo, and, more than all, tbe lives of passengers and crew, was one of those unfortunate beings who, not content with tbe enjoyment of the good things of this life, are in the habit of hav ing intemperate outbreaks, when tbe im pulse to drink, commencing, perhaps, with the stimulants taken in some time of peril, grows perfectly uncontrollable, and culmi nates at length in one of those horrible fits of mania known as delirium tremens. It was enough to make any landsman nervous as to our fate, should the heavy weather continue; but there was still tbe satisfaction of knowing that the two mates were thorough seamen, who would, no doubt, take upon themselves the manage ment of the snip, should there be any real danger. These feelings did not trouble me long, for, the weather again brightening, hope rose, and day alter day glided pleas antiy by. We saw but little of the Cap tain, and only learned that he wa confined by indisposition to his cot, tbe cause of this indisposition being only known to a few; bat I could see that the first mate, Mr. Ray, looked more anxious than usual; and taking the opportunity of being on deck one nigbt, I had a long talk with my friend, to learn that tbe Captain only recovered from one fit to seek the means for bringing on another. " Pity we did not leave bim behind alto gether," I said at last. 44 I've thought so a dozen times," said FIIED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor, YOL. IV. j mv friend, u for this sailing with a madman j ou Uianii does not suit :nr book ' The days glided slowly" by with varying weather. The hot latitude* were reached. There was a little home-play as we crossed the line; then a shark was caught, and at ; limes a dolphin or bonito; and at last, panting with the heat, we lay beneath the almost vertical sun, without a breath ot j wind to fill the sails as they hung troui tbe ' yards, the vessel gently rolling in the swell a* the sea heaved ami 101 l without so much jas s npple visible. Rough coverings were rigged up; lint in spite of all that could be done to mitigate it, the heat was uubcar able, beating down upon our heads, and '■ reflected from tbe sea, which shoue like a j vast mirror of polished metal, Gaping , SCSUK, with the tar oozing forth, rails and I stanchions so hex ted that a hand could I not be borne upon them, and the'tween j decks stilling as an oveu.it w as no wonder . that we were constantly longing for tbe comparative cool of the uight; hut even theu there was not time for the tempera lute to grow much lower before the sun once more rose, each day appereutly hotter than tbe last. We were seated one evening, watching the last glow of the setting sun, when Anderson, the second mate, made the re mark that he thought a change was com ing ; and then our attention was taken up by Mr. Ray passing close by us, and de scending as if to the Captain's cabin. •' How has he been to-day F' I said, as I Mr. Ray disappeared. " Worse than ever," was the reply. 44 If I were Ry, I'd make a prisoner of him, and take sole command. He'd be quite justified in so doing." Further conversation was cut short by tbe reappearance of the mate, who j beckoned hastily to mv companion. I " Something wrong,'- he exclaimed, as he leaped to his feet; and quite a-* quickly I followed him to the hatchway. " Good heavens, Anderson !" exclaimed Mr. Ray," what's to be done I He's raving mad." " Have you no medicines 7" I said. w Medicines ? Yes; but how are we to ideal with a man in his state! Just lUteu." In effect, as he ceased speaking, there ' came from below the sound of breaking chairs, smashing glass, and a noise as of I some one leaping from side to side of the i cabin, followed by a tremendous tottering ' at tbe door. "I've locked him in," said Ray, "for : he's not fit to come on deck. But get help, and we must secure bim, and strap him into his cot.'* A short consultation was held; and then it was decided to call one of the old seamen a sturdy, quiet man, and to do all as quiet ly as possible, so as not to alarm the rest of the passengers and crew. Anderson fetched tbe old sailor, who came rolling upturning the lump of to toe-, co in his mouth; and from his remark it was evident that he had been enlightened , upon tbe business in hand. 4 * Ah," he growled, " what a thing it is as any one wili go on wasting precipos liquors, and turning blessings into pisoo ! I kno wed this would be the end of it." " Don't preach, man," said Rav, angrily, " but come along. Now, look here," be whispered, as we descended: " as soon as 1 open the door, all step quietly in together. He'll dash at us the same as he did at me a while ago; but he can only tackle one man at once, so that while he is engaged, the others must secure him." We had hardly nerved ourselves for our task, and the mate was holding up his; hand as a signal as be unlocked the door, when wc were staggered by the sharp re port of a pistol, simultaneous with which there was a dull thud close to my ear; and I started back with the knowledge that a bullet had just passed through the cabin door and whistled by my bead. Then came a loud, harsh laugh, followed by a couple more pistol-shots, both of which passed through the panel of the door. I need hardly say that we beat a retreat directly; and as we stood once more on deck, the first mate wiped the perspiration from his forehead, and looked from one t > the other, as much as to say, What shall we do? It wa, indeed a trying position ; and for a few moments no one spoke. Then Mr. Ray seemed to recover himself, and spoke out firmly and quietly : "We should only be casting away our lives if we were to go in now. The only plan I can suggest is to watch him through tbe skylight, and go in when he is asleep." •' I don't think he can do any mischief in ' the meantime," I said; "but we mustseizc him soon." *• Mischief!" said the old sailor dryly, i •' Well, I dunno; but what if he keeps on , popping off that revolver thing f We shall be having a bullet in among tbe powder, and a blow-up." " Powder!" I said. 44 Yes; in toe magazine." - Is there powder on board ?" I said, with a strange tremor in my voice, as 1 turned to Anderson. " Yes, a heavy lot of it," he said huskily; and as be spoke, his eyes glanced involun tarily in the direction of the boats. Another shot made us all start; and now psssengers and crew began to collect, eager ly a?king what was wrong—questions, though, which, in dread of a rush at toe boats, wc fore bo re to answer. The peril, though, was indeed great, for in one small cabin, especially strengthened for its reception, a large quantity of powder was stored; and if one bullet happened to pass through, the chances wen- that the beat evolved in its passage would explode it all, and in a moment the whole vessel would be blown to atoms. There were two course* open to us ; to se-ze tbe boats at once, and push off, or to i make a bold and manly effort to subdue tbe madman, in whose hands our lives | seemed to hang. The same feeling must have pervaded all our breasts as we stood looking at one an other, and then I saw tbe old sailor wet the palms of bis hands and rub them gently together. " We must run in on him. Master Ray," he sa'd," '• Could we not shoot liinrdown through tbe skylight?" said tbe chief mate; and then, as if blushing at bis own proposition, be added hastily: 44 No, no ; that would be like murder. We must dash in on him at all risks. But what's that ? Look out; he's coming on deck." As be spoke, we heard the cabin door unlocked; then tbe rattling of keys and the crashing of a door, when Ray cautiously peered down the batch ; and as he kneeled there gazing down, 1 could see a tremor running through his whole frame, and when at last he turned to as, his voice was so husky as to be almost inaudible, when he whispered: 41 He's got into the powder room !" I shall never forget his countenance as he gazed up at us, fixed—rigid to a degree. For a few moments, horror, and dread of impending death seemed to have robbed him of all power. Then he sprang up, the man once more." u Quick 1" he exclaimed, "for your lives!" Then leading the way, he dashed down the cabin stairs, we following him, but only to find our progress arrested by the closed dooi. which resisted all our efforts. • Listen!" whispered Ray; and then he continued: 44 Good heavens, if he were to fire now!" The next moment there was a sound which seemed to make every nerve in my body tbrtll, and I frankly own that had my limbs obeyed my will, I should have rushed on deck, seized a poop or grating and leaped over tbe side, for plainly enough to be heard catnc a sharp crackling noise, and it wanted not the mate's word to enlighten us as he hissed ont 44 Lurifers!" 44 Here, quick, for God's sake!" exclaim- CENTRE HALL REPORTER. *I AixknoOv 4 * Iook htft; we ar* foiviug j the wrong way st the door." He dragged at it, but iu Jrain, for a few minute*, till, running oil deck, the old sailor returned in an instant with s cample .if marliue-apike*. which we were inserting just as we ouee more hoard the crackle of a match. "Quick I it's for dear life!" cried Hay, I and the door crashed, gave way and flew open, to reveal to u§. stamliug. perfectly i unmoved bv our forcible entry, the Captain, holding a lighted splint to "an iron bound i chest, which was already blackened and charred at tbe edge. For a lew moments we ould none of us stir. It seemed as if at the slightest motion on our part, the chest—which 1 afterward learned was tilled with cartridges for the suppli of one of the petty armies engage.! in tW Paraguayan war—would explode, followed by the other chests and kegs piled around. Then came the Cap ■ tain's low chuckling laugh, and we heard him say : " This will drive you out, then, J strong as you are." Then, with a gesture of impatience, he threw down the burnt-out splint, took a fresh match from the box he held, and was about to strike it, when, with a crv that did not sound human, Anderson Raped j upon him. and with one tremendous blow struck lum down, trampling on him the ■ next moment as he applied his tuoist lips jto the charred and smoking edge of the chests. The Captain was not stunned though ; and directly after a fearful struggle took place amid "these kegs, my pait being con fined to the securing ot the match-box, which I tore from his hand, trembling as 1 did so lest it should, explode. Then came tke loud pantiug breathing ot the j wretched man. as. held down by four strung men. he bowed his body up again and again with a lower that was almost superhuman But the danger was now paused ; and without losing a moment, we dragged bim out iuto his own cabin. Water was abun dantly applied to tbe charred side of the 1 box; and Mr. Kay's first act was to make j the carpenter screw up the door in away that restored confidence as every screw wa driven in. I say his first act; for hh second was to sit down on the deck and cover his face with his hands, and remain in that position for tally half an hour. Constant watching, binding, and the use of patent drugs placed tbe Captain out of I the reach of means to place us again in peril But though a breeze sprung up the next day, and our ship prosper ously finished her voyage, I never lay down to sleep the rest of the time without a ah udder, and never once dropped off without waking with a start from a horri ble dream of seeing the Captain, match-box in band, applying a light to the edge of, the cartridge-chest.— Ciamfxrt' Journal. The Earthquake of 18*0. CoL Charles Whittlesey of Cleveland, Ohio, read a paper before tbe American Institute of Science, on the earthquake which occurred in the United States iu the forenoou of October 20, 1870. It; wan felt from near tbe mouth of the St. Lawrence to Cincinnati, along a line of axis about 1,000 miles, and covering n breadth of about 300 miles. Iu greatest severity was on the 81 Lawrence, be low Montreal, and its progress was in a siouth-westerly direction. At Quebec, chimneys were thrown down ; a church at Kamarouaki had subsequently to l rebuilt. The duration of the movement ] at Albany and at Cleveland was about a minute ; at aK other places less than a minute. Taking the telegraphic reports and rejecting some that were certainly inaenrate, it appears that in Bangor.Me.. Boston, Albany, an.l Cleveland, when 1 tbe errors of observation cannot exceed half a minute, the differences of actual time of the occurrence did not exceed 21 seconds. In Cleveland and Montreal it was simultaneous. Observations on other earthquakes rarely indicate a motion that exceeds a mile in two seconds for tho progress of the earthquake wave. The Lisbon earthquake traveled at the rate of 20 miles a minute. The velocity of the earthquake under consideration was from 10 miles a second to 960 miles a minute. Such rapidity precludes thu notion of the transmission of an earth quake wave. CoL Whittlesey descrilied his own experience of the sensation as that of a alow motion like that of a pen dulum. with no perceptible jar. He con sidered that the force which brought about such simultaneous r>-suits must be deep-seated, and acting not as a wave, but by latteral compression, as from an explosion far beiow. He described the similarity of tbe sensations of those who felt the effects at a distance from a great nitro-glycerine explosion, not long after ward, hear Cleveland, with those that were perceived in earthquakes. Prof. Andrews described an earthquake at Columbus, Ohio. Tbe movement was such that he supposed he was dizzy. He considered the gentle character of move ment to indicate a force not produced bv a concussion or a jar beneath the surface. But it might bo that tbe drift formation of that locality acted as a blanket upon the jar. It was the opinion of another speaker that tbe simultaneons character of earthquake waves—that is, the fact that at widely separated intervals ou the , surface the shock was simultaneous, in dicated a force from far beneath the sur face, and probably from a molten mass within. Odd Fellowship. The Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. of New York at their late session, transacted the following business : It waa decided to be improper and inconsistent for a District Deputy Grand Master to hold the office of Noble Grand during his official term. Tho Noble Grand of a subordinate lodge can give the P. W. of the Rebekah degree where there is a regular chartered lodge of that degree; if a member of the Order commits suicide, bis family by such act is not deprived of benefits ; a motion to adjourn a lodge meeting to auothcr day before going through the regular order of business is illegal, but if without day it is right; a lodge must close, not adjourn ; a mem ber more than 13 weeks in arrears for dues is not entitled to receive tho P. W.; a lodge ia not compelled to reinstate a suspended member ; withdrawal cards of applicants for a new lodge need not be presented to the District Grand Committee for their approval ; tho charge-liooks cannot lie taken from the lodge-room. Subordinate lodge* have a right to appropriate their funds for pic nics or excursions. Grand Lodge cards shall be furnished to members of de funct lodges, suspended for non-pay ment of dues, at 81 each. Lodges arc empowered to return money paid for de grees, when tho degrees are not received, jirovided that the certificate be returned. Charters were ordered to 89 lodges in stituted under dispensation in New York State. UNLUCKY. —August is said to lie an unlucky month to be born in, as we are told that the man born in the month of August will be courageous and ambitious, but too apt to cheat. He will have sev eral maladies and two wives. The woman born in this month will be amiable and twice married, and her second husband will give her good eause to regret her first. SPOTS ON MAHOGANY.— Stains and spots may be taken out of mahogany with a little aquafortis or oxalic acid and water, rubbing the part by means of oork, till tha color is restored, observing after wards to wash the wood well with water, and to dry and polish aa usual. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1871. IVrIL of the l'lulou ( auxin. Mr George Partridge contribute* (he following iu an artiole descriptive of hi* j visit to the California Geyser* ; 44 Wo now commence to descend the mountain down the Piutou Canyon to the Geyser*, a descent of nineteen hun dred feet in u few utile*. The road goes down iu a regular grade around the ribs iof the mountain. Cotnmt-iu iug near the summit, you av the depth* of the can yon several hundred feel below you ; and what is peculiar nliout the road is it ia cut arouud the aides of these sleep j ribs of tho mountain, sometimes through hard gravel, sometime* through i conglomerate rock, leaviug nearly per pendicular cliff* on the one side, while there is a very great descent ou the other to the abyss below. And this is not so only on the outer rib* which vuu ride round, but also in tho inner circle be tween the rib*. W hat gives a further j interest to thesecue is the fact that the road itself iu very many place* is so nar row that a person sitting ou the uiqier side of the wagon can discover nothing on the other but the abvss below. Hee ' ing uo ground on that side for the wheel to run on, and with uuthiug to prevent ; your going to the depths below out the skill and carefulness of the driver—with this condition of thing* your surprise aud fears are awakened very soou after starting down the declivity by finding ; that, iustcad of the horse* walking or going upon a slow trot, they are started off upon a brisk trot, and sometime* run ; into a gallop, and you go whisking arouud these winters and short turns at . lull speed, having nothing but the brake 1 to govern your carriage, and, if not aj>- pli.nl at tbe exact moment, all is lost; all at the risk of the lives of the |>o*aen gers. horses and driver and you hold ou j to your carriage with all your might, ; exjieetiug every moment to lie thrown overboard. To exixwitulnte with the j driver is of no use, for they know their own business better than you ; they have never turned over yet, and they dou't expect to do it now. And you feel that you have taken your life it: your baud, and you are ready to crv out ' Lord save us!' They stxfl push on, whirling around these lieiuK a* though the rood was straight and of the utmost width, wheu to our expectation, but not to the j driver's, iu turning round one of the tuner circle*, at full sjH-t-tl, our carriage ; upset, throwing us all out on the ground and roclm, endangering the lives of us all. "Fortunately, no one was killed, but all received some bruise* and hurts ; one' lady, confined to the IKHI for nearly a week, struck on her side. I looked up on it as a miracle that we were not all killed. To show the narrowness of the road where it was done, tbe carriage had to be pulled up into the road, as it was righted, to prevent its being thrown overboard. It is said this was the first ' accident that ever liap|>tuK<d on this road, which was built but three years ago. If so, I can onlv say it is a mir acle of Divine Providence which has j prevented it" The Feminine Toilet. The other day. says a recent writer, I heard of an incident which shows that even men of society do not understand all the mysteries of the feminine toilet j A gentleman, who devote* a large jrt of his time to the society of ladies, and who believe* himself a cOMoissrur iu all that pcrtaiua to them, was much annoyed by observing that a fair friend of his, fav orably known for her style of elegant dressing, would insist when the weather would allow it ujKin wearing an old shawl devoid of any claims to beauty or good taste. The gallant endured this for a long while. He walked up Broadway and Fifth Avenue, and rode iu the jark with his friend, and often looked at the odious shawl in away that he thought would convince her of its unfitness for so ele gant a woman as herself. She did not take the hint,however, but continued to display it on every possible occasion. He lost jsitience at last, and said to her one day : " May I be permitted to inquire why you wiu wear that miserable shawl all the time ? It ruins your dress. You look no exquisitely otherwise that I can not com prehend why you will deform yourself with such a faded rag as that. It has nothing in the world to recommend it ; and I believe if yon were to throw it off in the street nobody would pick it up." ! The bright eyes opened with surprise, and a strange expression fell across the pretty face. "lon are jesting, are you not ?" the lady asked. "You do not really dislike my shawl, do yon ?" " I never was more serious in my life. I thoroughly detent this thing which you call a shawl." " Well, then, I'll inform you that this is a camel's ltair sliawl ; and, though I think it in very bad taste to sjieak of prices, it cost 83,000, and in one of the finest ever brought to this country." The young man was astounded ; but his taste was correct. Fight between a Cat and a Snake. A few days ago a gentleman who ia en gaged in farming in Tennessee waa walk ing through his field, near where hi* hands were plow ing, when he discovered a cat at some distance coming toward him. Proaently the cat turned aside, and squatting verv low, appeared to creep stealthily along, aa though in search of game. He quickened liis steps to see if he could discover what was up. He soon discovered a snake about n foot and u half or two feet long, and as the cat approached, the snake coiled and pa himself in a striking position. The cat instantly walked directly up to the snake and held out one foot near his snnnk ship's liend, as if daring liim to strike. Master snake, being full of spunk, was not the chap to bike a dare ; consequent ly he responded with his full strength, but when his head should have been in direct contact with tho cat's paw, the paw, like the Irishman's flea, wa'n't tliar; and before the head could lie withdrawn, it received n heavy blow from the cat's foot, und the paw was again presented, with similar results. About four rounds of this sort occurred, when the snake seemed to retncmlier " he who light* and runs away may live to fight another day," and with this understand ing uncoiled and started to quit the field. "How vain are all our earthly hopes" —his snakeahip had no sootier com menced his retreat than pussy pounced u I MID him and bit him entirely through the body in three or four places, each of which, our observer thinks, wns a fatal bite. After this the cat ajqicarcd to be satisfied, and quietly withdrew. DANGEROUS. —Apropos of the recent steamboat disasters a'reporter of a morn ing paper asserts that cine of the largest hotels in New York City, rests iu blissful composure over a rotten boiler which, at any moment, is liable to send it* 600 guests to the hospital, at least If people can't feel safe in a hotel wherein the world should tliey go ? Is it corn ing to that point where, after leaving the dangers of a ateamlioat and railroad, the weary traveler is liable to lie sent to sky ward by an old boiler in the hotel base ment ? Striped snakes eat potato bugs, whieh in turnpoisona the snakes, and the peo file in van Buren connty, lowa, speak of his arrangement as a mutual Wneflt society. All for a Farthing. Man v years ago say* Dr. Mat-Kenzie, , w hen t was u schoolboy, a singular trial took place iu Dubliu, about a Queen An ne's farthing. There was, at a popular . j restaurant in that city, a sharp laid, nam ed George Home, Scottish by birth and , training, who was intrusted with the (HI, i and had u high reputation for honesty, lie had well pied that position for sumo years, tud was attaint twenty-one at the ; period 1 aiu alluding to. Oue day, Ms he was guing out, lie took change for a tall i penny bank-token out of the till, aud tho 11 particular stiver coin which lie put in i was one with a special mark upon it, ■ which he hail long curried in his pocket * u " luck-penny." He waa unaware at i the time that lie was parting with this particular coin. Among the chaage w Inch he took were two farthings—one of | thcui hud lawn iu the drawer for some time, and being a handsome, old-fashion ' ed coin, had been shown to two or three customers, who admired it, but had BO ! 1 idea of its value. While Home was out j he got a glass of beer and, in paying for it, pulled out the particular ooin iu que*- , tiou. A gentlemen who was present, picked it up off the counter and said ; Your fortune's mode. That is a Queen \ Anue's farthing. I should not wonder i if 'tis worth a thousand pounds." Home hurried back to his place of | business, and in an excited manner, j mentioned what he had heard. Hi* em- j ployer claimed the ooin. Home refused j to give it up. The master said he hail stolen it Home produced a fellow clerk ] to prove that he had taken it, iu change, ' 1 out of the till, and showed the identic*! i ooiu Home's " luck-penny,"—which ! had been put in the drawer. The rums- ■ ter suit fur a policeman, charged Hume , witli theft, ami hod him taken before a ; magistrate. As they were taking him to ' the police office he dipped his hand into ! his jiocket, and thenc*- removed the far thing, chucked it into a heap iff mad j pU id up on the aid* of the street. He i w as searched by order of the magistrate, aud though the coin wo* not found, was ; committed to Newgate en a charge of | robbery. Incredible at it may appear, ' Home wn* trie! in the Recorder's Court, I Green Street, Dublin, convicted and sen- j teiioed to twelve months' imprisonment, i Tills matter got iuto the newspaper*, j of course, aud caused no small excite- ; uiciiL A humane attorney, was struck with the injustice of the proceeding, and i called upon Mr. Daniel O'CouueU, then ' in largo practice as counaell<ir-t-law, who examined the record* of the court, ami finding evidence of the illegality of I the whole proceeding* against Home, ; placed the case before the Irish Govern ment, sml declining to accept a free par- , dou for Home (who had done nothing j wrong), succeeded in having the whole | j proceeding* qua-shed,the Recorder rrpri-' ' uisuded and Home liberated, hi* pn*e- 1 eating employer paying him a consider-' able sum to forego In w proceedings fori damages. There also was a liberal gule j *criprion in Dubliu ; and, with the j money thus obtained, George I tome took | a lease of extensive premises, which had . ' been oocupi"d as an arcade, and opened ' a restaurant, called the A read-' Hotel, ' which, in a short time, became famou- 1 for good cheer, low price, great clcxnli- ( uetst, and civil wail era. In alxiut ten rears ha realized a fortune, with which Jh® returned to Scotland. His former | I employer, whose busitie** was ruined by Home's competition, finally became his ' cashier, and waa faithful and trust- ■ worthy. This story has an ending. At Home's, ; where I have often dined, I saw the Queen Anne's fkrthing which made his ( fortune. Soon after he had opened the Arcade Hotel, the identical coin again came into his hand, among other money j taken over the counter. He waa aide to j identify it bv a certain nick or cut upon i the edge. It waa supposed that, on the t removal of the mud-mound into which . Homo had flung it when he resolved, that his master should never have it, again, the farthing had been found, and hod again got into circulation. At the 1 Bank of Ireland, it* value, ton coin-col lector, was estimated at 525. But Home j never parted with it. He had it mount- j j ed in n ailver frame with glasses over it, j so that it could be seen, and not touched, , and waa fond of exhibiting it The , coin in fact waa one of the great at true ! tioiiaof the arcade. So, after all, a Oueeil , Anne'a farthing did make a poor fellow's j I fortune. Japanese Firework*. A eorreapoudent who witnessed an ex hibition of fireworka in JUINUI says : The day firework* U-at auytliing of the < kind I over beard of. Gut of a wooden j mortar bound with iron it sent high in the air what looks like a marble hi size. I AN it goo* up it bursta, and out of it come parachutes of bright lines, ami j hanging from them firecrackers that arc continually going ofL Balloons of va rious sizes, some of them quite large, and of courae inflated ; ojion umbrellas ; ribbons yards and at least eighteen inches wide, floating and twisting them selves in, the air ; men riding on fishes, muszmo*, jinrikiskas, all made of paper, reminding mo of the bon-bons at jiartios for the German cotillion, only these out here far surpass those at home. Some times these bouils burst in the air, and streamers of smoke with a dense body from whieh they radiate, resembling huge many-legged spiders, shoot out, and sometimes it is counties* serpcuta twisting and turning, übuut three huu dred feet in the air—the smoke Wing of several colors. All this should be svn t ibe appreciated. The night fireworks ilso were beautiful. Around the race track, on bamboo poles, hod been hung some kind of firework, and when the time enrae to sot it off, suddenly a light flashed with inconceivable Timidity from one end, and in an instant all was burn ing, presenting the nspeet of an immense waterfall of liquid Are, the effect of which waa really grand. Another favorite jiieoe was this : A few Roman candles went off, and a wheel or two, when all at once was seen a graceful tree, its branches all of tire waving in the air ; this piece was exceedingly pretty aud graceful. There were many others, but these struck nie particularly. A NEW I'NKMY.—A new and mysterious enemy of sheep, more fatal even than the murderous dogs, has made ita ap pearance and dreadfully ravaged the flocks of Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The animals ticing found dead, no marks of violence are to lie observed, save a small hole behind the ear, from whieh the blood hsa been sucked. This has let! to the conclusion that the destroyer is a kind of bat, or, more properly speak ing, a vampire—a creature which even men may fear, since it may not have an exclusive taste for the vital fluid of the muttons. This, the cureulio and potato bug, renders our present assortment of noxious vermin very complete. POTATOES VS. C'AIIHOTS NM MILCH COWS.— -It. A. Hunt, Euclid, G., has lieen feisling a milch cow jiotatoca and carrots with diy hay and water, with the following results : While 36 quarts of carrots were fed daily, 32 pounds of milk were received in return ; and while tbe same quantity of carrots and potatoes, equal-parts, were fed, 36 pounds of milk were given ; aud when potatoes alone were given, 40 pounds .of milk were received. It is said that square toed shoes are coming in fashion again, and that Indies' shoes are to be mule with what is known as box-toes. Hew He Escaped. A Communist leader now in England, f tell* the story of his escape aa follows: There had been a general surrender, I and I had two officer* und five ur six iima left. The greater part uf them , having dMWtad up Wednesday night, aud tig' next morning thtij kept slipping i ..fl ou<* by one, until I had the fire or •dx men f qieak of around m. They were all brave fellow*, and said they would stay by me to the tart. Tbe tart imrricude liet'weim the Louvre and the Tour Hi Jacques had Ixwtn already ilmudvU' d, the last throe or four cou rier* I had scut for reinforcements had not returned, and I was about to give the order to retire, when a few Bed Leg* appeared in the Hue d* Klvoll between | UK and the Hotel da Villa, and we knew |we were surrounded. 1 g*r<- the order to the uu-u to save theuMclves, and dash <al iuto a lemur ou the other aide of the street, followed by one of tuy officer*, and I found uivaelf in the arms of an old friend. While we were diaeuianag wnnie means of escape the soldier* broke into the bouse, and my friend pushed us ; into a deep, dark closet up neat the roof, . where wu awaited their M ruing, deter mined to sell our lives as dandy ** lion ! siblc. They sesrehed the house tuur ' <mgh!y, saying that they had meeu us i enter, and ooramenced flinging open the ! door* of every closet in the house, even the closet in which we were hidden, but i they did not see us. It wns well for xenie of them, for we lind each of iw two | revolvers ready cocked, and we had dr , terwined never to IKS taken alive. They ' left the bouse without discovering us, and we stayed in our hiding place alt ! night. The next morning my friend ! furnished me with dUresis clothes, and I sallied out in broad daylight, a cigar in ; ui.v mouth and • o*u<* in lay baud, and made my way leisurely among the ofli , cent aud soldier*, looking ou curiously |at the burning building*, as if T knew 1 nothing more about it than a simple spectator, and I paaaed unmolested. I soou found a friend near tbe Halms, : who took me iu and gave me shelter for two day*, and who found another place ; of refuge for rue when he thought I waa in danger at U-iug discovered. From this da von I lived in a moat terrible • tate of anxiety and fear, and I wished a hundred times'that I had been killed on tbe barrifsule. During the six weeks i I ra hiding I changed my quarters <1 leas titan twenty times. I waa nearly ttlways among friends who kept a sharp lookout, and whenever they saw any one -how the slightest enriosuy about the house or its inmate*. I w warned, and in an hour waa in another place of re fuge. H<> mcrimes it was aft BeUcville, sometime* at Montmatro, sometimes in ttie fauborg Aotoina, sometime* in a house where soldicia aud offlceis were quartered. Often and often I was awak < ned at twelve o'clock at night by a Up on my door, and would hear a whisper through the kevhole to fly to a certain place, and getting np aud going to the place indicated 1 would find some one awaiting me. porhsp* that I never re- I mcmbered seeing before, who, without a word, would take me to his room and KIIOW me a new hiding place. 1 ulna r '•hanged my quartern In the earlier part of the eveuing, jttst te-tween daylight and dark, for I found tlw dim, uncer tain twilight favored these changes more than any other tune. I always strolled h-issui*V to a ash stand, with a cig*r in my mouth, jdaying the part of a Ixitilevard "idler ta perfection. Tle kind of life f was leading became in the end unsnpportable. The constant apprehen sion of arrest, the continual listening to every footfalL with eara sharpened a hun dred time* by danger; the starting at the slightest unusual noise, with nerves taxed ami excited almost Iwyond endur ance by tlie continual strain npon them ; the awakening in the night with a aud den start, feeling sure of having heard tho tramp of armed rueo outside,which, in truth, waa often the esse ■ it waa ter rible. Ouly tini*e who have vxpexmMPd | it, have lived such a life, can couoervq of the suffering one can endure in thui way. The last place I was in was a very large house on a fatahionable bonievotu. in which there were a great many offi cers. I stayed there nearly a work, as I : found it tstrUcuinrlyoaie, no one dream ing of KCHirbuig a house occupied by officer*. It waa here that I saw my wile i for the first time after sending h r away from the accne of conflict to find a place of safety for herself. We hhd two little rooms iii an attie. from whence we hail a splendid view of the city and a part of the eountry. 1 alipped in quietly in the evening, following n Utile cigar girl em ployed in one of tiie cigar stores on the boulevard. The rooms belonged to her and her sister, and, although I had never known them before, I found as ready a welcome and IUI cordial a reception aa if we luul been old friends. While here I sent a note to Nsdnr. asking him it he could n>t help mo to get ont of the country. I received an answer from him immediately, inviting me to take up my quarters at liia bouse, as it would be safe enough, they having searched his house thoroughly a few day* before in the s.*reh for'C'oromuntsta I accepted his invitation, and for a few days found my self in comparative security. Nadsr im mediately set aliout devising means for my escape, which proved to be as simple as efficient. He went to one of the inost influential members of the Assem bly, who, although a staunch legitimist, is a particular friend, of his, told him lie had me in hia boiue. and that he wanted a passport for tue to go to Bel gium. His friend refused at first, and tried to induce him to turn me adrift But he expressed his determination to protect me at all hazards, eveu at the risk of detection, arrest. And ruin Finallv tho member acceded, and not only obtained the passport for me. but accompanied us across the Belgian fron tier. His breast was covered with deco rations, among them the Orand Oroas of the Legion of Honor, and of course he had no difficulty in getting us through. But wlmn we got fairly across tbe fron tier and found ourselves on Belgian soil, wc all three set np such A cheer, snd in- I'lulgud in such extrnonliiinry inanifesta 'tions of delight, shotting, laughing, singing and clapping our hands, that a man who happened to be in the same compartment with ns turned pale, think ing, no doubt, he had fallen in with a parcel of escaped lunatic*. THE MONET IN THE GOLDEN BI LK. A short time after the wreck of the, steamship Golden Ittile, the safe be longing to the Ifoitcd State*! Treasury was found and forwarded to Washington, where it was examined by the Depart ment mnchinest, who report**! that it did not bear marks or evidence of having been force! ojien by the use of instru ments ; but would have been, and probably was, broken open by being violently thrown from side to siae of ttie hold of the vessel, and among the rocks after tho vessel broke up. No part of the money contained in the s tfe wns ever recovered, and notwithstanding the unremitting efforts of the department, through detectives and otherwise, for more than three years, nothing has been discovered casting suspicion on the officers or crew pf trie vessel, nor on thoae employed on the wrecking vessel. It is now over six years sinoe the Golden Rule was wrecked ; the notes contained iu the safe ate past due three or more years, and no trace has been found of their existence. They amounted to over 81,000,000, TERMS ; Two Dollar* a Year, in Advance. The Burst Ing ef Hteam-Bolters. Tin terrible accident on the Ltatesu ? Island terry boat, by which a hundred liya were lurt, and a hundred prisons i crippled or injured, still continue* to ah i ton) the attention of the whole comma nitv, who demand greater safety in steam -1 buiWrs, or In tlw management of them. r From the contradictory views express f ed by person* who we eomndered **- y perta, it ia apparent that eoaiportively i "rite is In re drt v known about the eauatw „jof 1 toiler explosions, 'the opinion pr*- r vail* generally that the tu*t essential . thing to safety ia, that the boiler should I be very strong. 6 1 A different and novel doetriue on this B subject wmt recently advtuioed in our t hearing by * practical engineer. Itecx r : preyed, with great confidence, that r ; there ia only otic caure ever, for the ex . j plosion ut a boiler .and that is, letting the , water get too low. He say* you cannot explode a tadk-r in away to cause any \ considerable tov of life by any other J means. ,' But the wo*t curious point in his ( j theory ia, that the stronger the boiler. > if the water is allowed to get low enough ' i to explode it, the more dMasftrous will be .! the consequence* He contend* that if cold water is let , suddenly Into a heated IKMW. an explo ,, sion is inevitable, no matter how strung ~ the boiler may Iw ; and Uw greater the ; I i fores employed to ruuAne the steam, the ; . i more terrible will be the explosion. , ■ Familiar facte seem to sustain this | . doctrine. If yon fire powder in a gun ! , without any wad over the powder, it ex- i pi ode* with very little force and scarcely i j! any noise ; whereas, if you put a tight I * wad over the powder, ram it oown hard,, [ then pnt shot and another sad over that, ! the powder explodes with great force, I j and a loud noise. Moreover, it often , , | causes the gun to rerofi, and sometimes \ , j bursts the gun barrd Hportamen are , j very careful about too tight wadding, or , - too*heavy eiiaeges of shot, which confine [ • the powder too strongly, as he powder. whew ignited, must toco whatever ooti . | flues it aasunder, ~ And yet how iu principle, are the , tight wadding an J heavy charge* of shot (different from the strong steam-boiler ? Another thing : men engaged in blast ing rock know thai tha aaeoeas of their ' operation* depends, in a great degree, , ujjon tho thoroughness and strength of I! the tamping. Driu a round hole in a rock, and fill , it np with gttnpowder; apply a match to . the powder ; von produce a flash aud a little sm tr. and thus Is aIL The rock i remains unmoved and unbroken. But place a few pounds of powder in ' the iKittom of the hole, tamp it down | hard with broken stone and other attb , stances very difficult to remove, then , light the j>owd*-r. and yon have a load . I explosion, sending the small stones high , np in tbe air, and frequently breaking in .' pieces tons of the rock into which the ~ hole has been drilled. These v iew* are thrown ont aa worthy . the consideration of tnen of science. . i One conclusion we are obliged to come , ! to, and that is of great practical im- I' portence : Whether steam-boilers are ,' strong or wrak. they are very dangerous i, unless closely watched, and faithfully t and wisely attended to. , 1 ■ ■ .I HI f i ] The Brtir or Ijunmermeer. ' In legend—cue which war born of snd 1 ' truth, and has passed into Italian opera 1 - three ik no maiden mure famou* than , the Bride of Lammermoor. In mrlaa ' choly proas, the lady was the Honorable • Janet Ikiryiapk, daughter of the first | Lord Stair." Kb* and young Lord Ruth erford had plighted their troth, had broken a silver coin between them, and had invoked malediction on whichever of the two abonld be false to the com pact. The parents of Lady Janet insist ed on her marry ing Dunbar of Baldoon. The mother, "Lady Stair, waa moet crnel in forcing her daughter to tlii* match. Janet, broken-hearted and i ! hfdplroa, had an interview with her lover, j afrd aoblM-d oat a text from Numbers xxx. j ! 2, $, 4, &. a* an excuse for her obedience to her mother's commands. The lover* ■ , parted in sorrow ; Rutherford in anger. ■ He had not in him the spirit of young! Lochinvar. nor Janet the writ to run' ' away with him herself. The poor thing waa," in fact, scared. She ws* carried to , church to be w.-d. in a semi-crazed and more than half-dead state. At night a , i hurricane of ahrieks came from the bri- I dnT chamber, where tha bridegroom was r found on the ground, profusely bleeding j , from n stab, aud the bride sat near him in her uight-goar. bidding them " Take np yonr bonny nridegroom !" She died . insane in Iras than three weeks Dunbar . of Baldoon recovered, but be was never knurn to open bis lips on tbe causes i | which lend to the oatostroph#. Baldoon r 1 evidently took things an they came ; , i after km death. Home thirteen year* , later, in 1862, Audrew .-aimpeon wrote an i efogy iqxm him,in which the romantic ad .] venwrer Vpo! tnaiThqfl 4 with another , man's love was dweribed aa a re*}ect , a Lie country gentleman who had intro , i J need many improvements into agricul ture ! Lord Rutherford, ihe lover, died childless, in 1685. As Dnubar would never suffer the catastrophe to be allnd . Ed to, good-natured people invented a , story that Rutherford himself was in the , j chamber before Baldoon reached it, and had stabbed him as noon aa he entered it There ia uo ihalor or the slightest grain ! of substance for Iki* part of a sufficient ly calamitous history.— Some Nooftuco mett. FEENCH FUNCTION AKIE*. —The number of Government functionaries which Tonscretins, in common with most oth er French towns, possessed, were innu merable, unimaginable, ensconced every where ; roosting ou every perch ; lodged in every conceivable nook ; very rata in number, cobemveueaa, and rodent appe tite. Perhaps I may as well give a list , of them : A prefect, a soereUry generai, and three councillors of prefect ure ; a president of the tribunal, four assistant judges, a stipendiary justice ot the pence, two eforka of court," and a pub lic prosecutor: a receiver general of taxes snd two stil-reoeivera ; a veriflon tor of weight and measure*, a chief of ! tbe custom house, aud two lieutenants ; a high-keeper of the woods and forests, (there were none to keep,) and two sub k>epers; a commissary of police and a deputy commissary; a captain ot pnt dor nurt'e' and his lieutenant; a rector of academy, a postmaster, a keeper of the archives, (which consisted of one deal twv* fnlf of Wipe*",*) fllidtwo sub-keepers; a chief engineer, nu inspector of roods aud bridges, and four insist ant engi neers ; a bishop, two vicars-goneral, one dran, one arch-deacon, six| canons, two reetor*. and eleven curates ; tailing np on which gallant procession waa an army of fivo hundred and thirty-seven clerks, poet-men, woo<l-r.ingers, eustom-hoiwe officers, tax-gathers, menthtrmet, bradles, vergers, policemen, inspectors of quart pota and flrlots, tipstaff conrt nsliera, Erison jailors, prison governors, and po oe spies, all of whom, without excep tion were remunerated ont of the public purse.— Corn ft ill Maya an*. INTLCXNCE OF Osre ACT.— One pound ot gold may be drawn into a dire that would extend around the globe. So one good deed may be felt through all time, and cast ita influence into eternity. Though done in the first flush of youth, it may guild the last of a long life, and form tne brightest and moat glorious spot in it. NO. 36. Algeria la Africa. Algeria, .nrrotioded by the Mediter ranean, Tunis, Moro oo nod the Derort at Sahara, is about 500 mil** from east to west and 200 nub*, from north to south. JWilcs tlfte Kabyles, believed to be the original inhabitant., the country i peopled with Arabs, Turks, Jews, Ne groes and the Ftvnch The Kebytoe are MI industrious race and iiursnr the usual avocation, of civilised society. Tlw- Ami si load a nomadic Ufc. Of alLihe inhabitant*, except the #-gr<k<^'th<* Moor, are the lewd respected, though they aanuwr a luxurious mode of living. These three races—the KsbyU-s, the , Arabs and the Moors—arc called the j " indigenes," and number two rndßori j four hundred thousand, of whom the Kabyles number six hundred thousand, i The M UMsuiiiians alone number 2,030,- (100, without counting the tribes of the Desert. The Arabs number 1,391,812, uml these are divided into uxbe, and theeo tribes are divided into 10,€w | among therantive* During the wan of Napoleon the Al gerine desperadoes, oaring to the fleet* ! in the Mediterranean, ware compelled to desist from their customary depredations j upon commerce. But whan peace waa ■ restored the piratical ineunuons were ! rooommeucod. In 1795 the United States refused to pay tribute to the Dey. {ln 1615 C'onunodor* Decatur sailed, into J the Bay of Algiers and compelled the Dey to release the American ! and give a pledge of never .gam exert- i ! tog tribute. In 1616 the Kagiiab re duced Algiers to aahca Tlw Dey con tinued to act .lionet with impunity, un til one fine day the Dey W,ped the , French Consul' fare and apone diww j -pectfully of King Charles X The sljj p: scone, which kal to tbf , i ouquiist of Algiers is thus smnsingiy i described Ivy Mr Samuel H. Cex. in his •• Search for Winter Sunbeama~ "] " Huasetn the kst Dey ef Algiers, j ' received the French Coßenl, who cams iin full uniform to remouatiute agaiurt ; the non-payment of a - del* to the French proteges. The old Dey lost hie semper and Mapped the Consul in the i , face with his fan. It was ** all Dey " i with him then. Tlie Consifl retired ' without aay <n "good Dey," and if I, may be permitted, the wroepacta of that 1 Dey were not afterwards brilliant In Cart, tbey were clouded. The French • went after him and got him." ! This insult to the repassestativa of France iroultod in a French expedition against Algiers. In 1690 France landed ! 36,000 men from twenty-five slaps in the j bay at Sidi Ferrach aad fought the bat tle of Stavneli on June 19. About forty ' ' thousand Arabs were driven from the field with the bayonet, mid the victory of the French waa crowned by the conquest of Fort l'Emperwar ana the Casbuh, which oom mund* Aimer* city. < On July 4, the same year, toe French achieved the capitulation of the besieged 1 i city, the Dey and his troops lxsng furted to 'abandon the city. In 1831 the role-! bra ted chieftain Abdel Kader, placed 1 himself st the head of the Alg-nn*- He sustained defeat after defeat; but he ; harrusaed a powerful enemy perpetually, i i At length, Abdel Kader somag further resistance uaeW, aurrendortd to the French, on condition that be should be seat to or 8L Jean d'Aere. The I'hicftain arrived in Pari, on the 29th of January, 1 618; but Louia Philippe broke ma pledge, and Abdel Kader was not released until Napoleon 111. ascend-' ,d the throne. The struggle in Algesia ' ' has been continued since at intervals > with undiminished fury. The colonising ; family of the French is not very great at the best, but in Algeria tbey have bad almost insurmountable difficulties to contend with. The noumdic haloia, in -tincU and traditions of the Arabs an | opposed to European civilisation. The | Algerinos are impatient of foreign dom- . 1 1nation, and from the utter want of sym-j jwihy between the people and their rtilers have sprung all the sanguinary wars that have cost France so much blood ; and treasure. The Hair aad Eyebrows. There seem, to be two ways of diem-' ing the hair at' our famous watering places, so a comwpondeut inform* ua; an* called the ckuwse style, with the 1 natural hair closely braided in a coil on j the back of the hoad. and a drooping curl ou each side of the face ; and the other with drooping braids behind, and ! with the hair cut short in front and fris- j red with stunning effect- We noticed j that angular maidens who did not travel' i"ou their pretty" affected the former stele, and the young women who thought highly of themselves, and hoped to do vxseutkm with their wavy tresero, affected the latter. There is a peculiar kwki uliout the eyebrows among name of the reigning belles which we i-ould not un decstenci. We have since been told that i iit i* produced by false eyebrows which : hrisbe fiercely when some undesirable j suitor projHwea, but wbieb display a wonderfully peaceful aspect when th*s groat question comee foom a lover with j a large surplus at the I anker*. Diamond : i studs in the ears of fair faphionists is! i one of the latest dictates; lieueeforth j | long pendente are to be tabooed, and; pretty ears can retain their fair propor tions' with single or cluster diamond studs shining from the orifices. Gentle men would do well to guard their pos sessions while this buhion laata. ABSEMCXL (T EN A WESTS. —A few day* ago a little girl had a bunch of artificial grapes given to her. After amusing | herself with the toy she gave it to aplay mate of her own age, who presently picked a grape off the bunch and sucked it. The next day ahe was a oorpae. An eminent physician, who analysed the fatal plaything, deponed ttiat ten of the grapes yielded three grains of araenite of copper—a deadly poison—and that each vine-leaf on the bunch contained enough to kill a child. Another child's cupboard, in which its toys wero kept, was lined with green paper. The poor i little thing sickened and oiad. obviously from the effects of poison mysteriously imbibed. Dr. Letheby analyzed the paper-hanging of the cupboard, awl found that a piece of it onhr six inches anaro contained nearly thirteen grain* the deadly compound—enough to kill j two grown-up person* \-~ Lumhn In ?"*•• ' THE OHION.— Some one wrote to the English Mechanic lately, desiring to know what was the cause of the anti-mag netic property of the onion ; and in re ponse to hir request, a correspondent relate* than King Charles the Second once propounded as * problem to the Royal Society the question, why a live fish might be put into a vessel full of water without causing it to flow over, while a dead one produced the opposite effect. After a long debate, in which strenuous efforts at au explanation were made, a member suggested tW. possibly it would be well fiwt to show tnat ttie monarch's assertion of fact was true, and it was then ascertained to be with ont foundation. The asserted anti-mag nectic property of the vegetable men tioned seems to be of a like character, as the strongest obtainable onion did not in the lesst affect a very delicate magnet A large piece of ooal fell on a Virginia miner the other day, and crashing him t* the ground, forced the stem ef hi* pipe through the roof of his mouth and cut ef the top of bis head. 1* rented o'r tM Mawd tent,— ■ And in Uor rarnp MM hurt kboda ; UllMfbl 11 *X* aX/St* rlil'lWttMft •** HAW- And ttov iU tewrt pathway tied*. *%iK7|sarw- Tby atcMd It with unfailing i>y, • Alldietrscl tirtr Mate W ntHd tUHL Mf.uA - ~—- tm .LU-JFl— mn.a* ""-dl ■—**■ m Jtja jam'fllat flax Jit J JiOf nOW 111 ©CWniJIIIIWf Wmm99 Hr sn*VMt Our step* o God, Thy *te teak t Hut alfitrt ditto* Thy • MMh- Thy MMMr still thy tettfStepSMilMa Thy iijrbt is em mt pathway ••* , Tbv cmnvltm 'ortewrtotaprrosod, ySwfpEtfjiSjm wvim Nil; Thy mSUSS & <*' Zri£L<, mmmmmmmmmmm Parti aal FaaeieA Tbs toot cup of a frolic i* generally the hiccup • ftfdnem(♦* put an more airs then they cut play. The potato blight is doing great dam age in Irofauul. A homed rooster H> the latest pro duction of North Carotin*. i A forme wan JhadmtgmiL by a Racine Judge bemiw the forged ante bad no stomp. A m-. J unspoken i< • word ia tba jumidmil i a mtirS HHMiI sword .ia uAfcMMtfi ft :>om |0 Hun-baths art ait i jfeotnaf remedy fw wwj differ* tf tabes daring a smart two hours' wall. couple. tence January, 1883. One who wkbes tba worid to know what be know* about farming, am tba beat way to raise strawberries u with a '*"w;iat if 6td &&bme* between an en trance to a baro and stealer ia a print ! lug-otto* T One ia a burn door and th other is a 4*ro bore. A new atyle of neckkm ia of a heavy cable chain of French gilt or gold to which at* attached small aachon with topa of blue enamel. If amal] girl* are waifs, are huge girla waiter* ? "Ortainly," aaya sweet tex teen ; " to leato tba boys haws tba habit !of applying them to tbair Bps in aaaling r&dr vovm* Mr. A. T. Htewsrt. in anawer to a i friend who aafeftl her why aha dressed >*?;• ?_£. : no. One of the fdwbpi of Ming rich yon em. ' Haioou Browses, ia Bttib territory for the aala at ale and -bear, are ISO per Wh. jQoogliropaefrfotthe * 'lienor to be drank 1 oil the premises, ■♦ wf nianth. . p A Cfwraapondant of the Hartford s Comrm tf who baa been aaibng ateog tba Massachusetts coast, wonders why Olou ieeater ia apeUad tba way it ia, and if that 1 ia right, why akoaMa t lobster be spelled •f lolitxieUi *' Among tba lamp-lighter* in Milwau kee, Win. is a Utile gwi, ten yean old, who maktw bar rounda In all lands of weather, and mna up ladder like n naiiiml, while her (Metfy mother watehea for her nafety below. The Great Joiner: The lawyer ;ha enn replace a tenant, empand a ;wy. bosa witneM, IKHW the oourt, chiam us client, soger the gain*, floor a witaaaa, cut hit board, nail the ease, hammer the deak, file hiabOL and gouge the whole commnnitr. An, inaaqe Wjaoouain woman threw vhne of her eh'!Jr-u into n forty-foot w4l. and wna aboto to cast the rest of 'the famflr after them when Am waa dieeorered and the act pnrrentod. The | three www all taken out ahre, and only i one waa aerkwwly hurt A little boT in YorkviUe, Canada, cmne to hi* <Wfa a few day. iiaoto aingular cinmiaatamm He waa i one of a party of children who were playing together, and kiatod one of the fiule Thii. ao enraged aaothw little girl that, in a fit of what may be called wetowy, he atraek him witb a aHek. fcflirtm* an injury from which ha died ia a law hmonu ■ in i.um-ua— CagtUh gynenyma. i The copiooanctocd the Engiiab tongue, iaa well aa the diflh-uity of aaauiriiig the ttbibrt to nee it. immcnto rocnbnlary correctly, ia well exhibited in the follow in* array at irnonytnou. ward.; which, if not new, is "rot a capital liberation of the nice distinerion* which characterise eo man* at oar vocable*. It ia no won der thai we Hip oeeemonaUy, even the warieet of ua. A bttle fciri waa looking at the picture ! of a number of *hip% when she exclaim ed, "Sea. what a flock of skips r We corrected her by saying that a flock of ships is called a fleet, nd that a fleet of sheep ia called a flock. And her* we may add for the benefit of the foreigner who ia raarfermg the ' intricacies of our language in reject to noon, of multitude, that a flock of girls u called'a berv, that a bevy of wolroa la called a pack, .ltd A perk of thieroa ia called a gang, and a gang of angria ia called a boat, and a boat of poqxMMa w called a ahoal. and a shoal erf battsloea is j called a henl. and a heed of children ia ; called a troop, and a troop of partridge* I ia called a cover, and a covey of beaataea * is called a galaxy, sad a galaxy of ruffian. i called ahocda, soda honk' of rabbiah ia called a heap, aad a heap of oxen ia called a drove, and . drove of black guards ia called a mob, and a mob of whales ia called a school, and a school of worshipper* ia called a congregation, and a congregation of engineers called a corps, and a corps of robbem called a hand, and a band of kwtista is called a -warm, and a swarm of pefnde is called a crowd, and a crowd of pMrihdolksie eaD iad the elite, and the elite of the city's thieves and rascal* arts called the roughs, and the raboellaneoas crowd of the city folks is called the community, or the Kblie, according aa they are spoken of Um religious community or the secular public. — A uteriaam MlmaHomal Moult ly. Hew a Teasel was bared. The City of Houston, which sailed from New York for Galv&ton, Texas, would baro gone down with all on board, in the late gale had it not M happened that some naval officers ana U. 8. sailor, were on board as passenger*. Seeing that the ship we* unmanageable and that the Captain was incompetent to navigate her, and had become cohfoswl, Lieut Schelky and Lieut Commander Stroud took command, and summoning up their sailors, barely saved the vesaol from the breakers. A terrible talo is told. For twenty-four hours the wind blew a hurri cane. * All sail wo* carried away. The tiller-rope broke and rebroke ; the fire room wa* filled with water and the flree put out. The cabin was full of water, the boilers broke loose from their fast eniugti, the saloon was carried away, and the ship a wreck. The gallant naval officer, took command when the ship was in this condition, and the captain had given np, and by rigging np the donkey pump, splitting up furniture and using two barrels of pork, a fire was kindled under it and to® ahip pump ped out. A false rodder wan rigged when the ship was rolling so that no on© eould stand on her deck*. The boilers were straightened np and a fire kindled under them and the engine backed until they got deer of the ooast FRIGHTENED TO DEATH.—A Kentucky man who attempted to cross a high rail road bridge at Bbeperd*ville, in that State, on the 24th ult., stumbled and fell between the ties, but, fortunately, man agvd to grasp a tie with his hands and there hung dangling, with 100 feet of sheer fall beneath him. He was utterly unable to regain the top of the bridge, and he hung on with a death grasp until hi* cries brought assistance. Lifted from liia perilous position he w led off the bridge, and sat down for a few minutes, apparently overcome by the danger through which he had passed. Then he got np, as he said to go home, walked a few steps, and fell to the ground dead. Physicians, who carefully examined bis boly, say that there was no braise or wound sufficient to disable him, much lee* cause death, and are of opinion that his death was caused by fright
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