The Bable.
Ntcshaou to hide her tiny taee,
Nse stockings on her feet.
Her supple ankles white as snaw
Of early blossom* sweet. % -
Her simple drees of sprinkled pink.
Her <b>nb!e, dimpled ehin ;
ller puckered lip itid bsutnv moo,
With nse as tooth between.
Her eon sue like bar mither's eon,
Twa gentle, liquid things ;
Her face is like an angel's face -
We're glad she has nse wings 1
Tattlers.
Ohx>uM there in this work! be found,
Bnu* little spot of happy ground.
Where village pleasure might go round,
Without the village tstthng.
How doubly blest that spot would he.
Where all might dwell in liberty,
Free from the hitler misery
Of gossip'* endless prat lling 1"
Iu the Harrest Field,
Okvrr to Him who bids the field
Its Incasing to our toil to yield,
Who givetk much, who gtveth more.
Till store sml basket runneth o'er;
Thus, ere the golden sluee grow dim,
t\miF, let us sing uw Harvest hymn.
His finger on the lend doth lay
Its beautv, stretchiuc for awav :
Hi* breath doth fill the opal skies
With grandeur dread to mortal eyes :
He rives man harvest from the wild,
And drops the datsiea for the child.
Rut oh, how shall we -tar.' draw near?
Such power is veiled in uhlt of fear.
What can We bo hi One who fills
The awful aileace t the hills.
Who knows the secrets of the sea.
The wild beasts m the foreata free ?
Rut, Lord. we know Thes otherwise
A slighted man with loving eyes.
Toiling a! wig with weary fret
Such path* aa these among the wheat:
CVmm from the light of Heaven's throne
To call no home on earth Thute own.
O Lord. Thon givest hmuteon* spoil
To the poor measure of our ML
For oar few grev dank eiiwins days
The glow of August's evening blase.
And what can we give for the pain
With which Thou sowed immortal grain?
Nothing-Am all wa have is Thine.
Who ased'st not corn, nor oil, nor wins;
N.vtlutK -nnles* Thou make n meet
To follow Thee through tares and wheat.
And from the storm of wrath and ain
To help Thee bring Thy harvest in.
KXCHANMSB RINGS.
Prudence Holmes sat thine in the wide,
shady kitchen, busily en>asrd in 44 picking
over" whortleberries. Without, the golden
sunshine of an August afternoon bathed
the green fields aud the dusty road that
wound away to the village, and touched
with richer color the nasturtium*, sweet
pease. geraniums, and ainnias in the tiny
garden, and the heavy Virginia creeper
that climbed aud blossomed above the
door. Prudence made a pretty picture aa
she aat on a low cricket, with a big calico
apron *posad over her blue-sprigged rnu-lin
dress to defend it from the stains that had
aoiled her little brown hands. She was a
petite, daiutilv round, d maiden of eighteen,
with great dark eye*, and glossy curls
shading a fair brow, and cheeks that had a
touch of urild-roee bloom upon them. The
kitchen, too, made a prettv picture, with
its well-scoured floor and dresser, its as
paragus-topped dock, its shining store,
with bunches of herbs hung behind it, and
the great bouquet of vivid cardinal-flowers
set on the snowy table.
The kitchen wm perfectly still, save the
huxx of the flies and the tick of the clock ;
and outs.de the crickets- and the locusts
alone disturbed the silence. Prudence be
lieved that evenr one in the house was
asleep but herself, and yawned somewhat
wearily as she tneoed over the berries, fin
isbing the vawn with a bit of a soliloquy
uttered half aloud:
"Oh dear! this having summer boarders
isn't very nice!"
u Mi* Prudence," said a voice in the
doorway, so suddenly that Prudence nearlr
upiet her berries in her surprise.
u Oh. Mr. Wentworth. it TOU V' she
said, bashfully, bending down to pick up a
tew berries that had rolled from her apron.
" 111 pick 'em up!" exclaimed tbe new
comer—a tall and rather aristocratic-look
ing youth of twenty-one, with merry blue
eyes, and short suborn hair curling cloaely
under a straw hat—diring for the missing
berries with ungraceful dexterity. " Tea,
it is 1, of course. Jlave von forgotten
your promise to go after lilies with me
this afternoon P
"Oh, but I didn't say this afternoon,
you know; only some afternoon this week,"
responded Prudence, demurely.
" Well, we'll call it this afternoon, won't
w# 7" was the persuasive rejoinder, as the
straw hat was tossed on a chair.
" I can't; I've got these berries to pick
"over."
" m help you. Lend me half that apron,
and we'll have them done in a trice."
" But I shall have supper to get Moth
er's away, and there are biscuits to make,"
insisted Prudence, turning her face away
to hide a smile that would curve ber lips.
" Never mind that," responded Mr. Ab
bott Wentworth, bringing a chair to her
aide. " Tea's at six, isn't it 7 and it's only
half past two. We'll be back by five,
without fail, and have time to get half tbe
lilies in the river ;" and he began to assort
a handful of berries with much earnestness.
•' W-e II," assented Prudence, after a
pause for consideration and a glance at tbe
clock—" I can go for a little while, per
haps. u Ob. don t stain your cost, Mr.
Wentworth."
Bat Mr. Wentworth wa sublimely in
different to his cost, and worked with such
good-will that tbe berries were soon picked
over, and Prudence and himself on their
way to the rirer. five minutes later Pru
dence, with her draperies daintily bestowed
around ber, was seated in the stern of a
Kttle boat, which, propelled by Mr. Went
worth's practised hands, shot swiftly down
stream.
Although Mr. Wentworth said to Pru
dence fire times within an hour that it
was a lovely day, and although -Prudence
assented every time, I hardly think they
appreciated tbe beauty around them, for
Prudence was quite absorbed with tbe
lilies and the reflections in the water, and
Mr. Wentworth looked more at bis com
panion than at tbe aspects of natnre. They
nad gathered enough lilies to satisfy them,
and Prodence was leaning backward and
idly trailing one hand in the water, when
she suddenly uttered a little scream, and
sat erect, with white cheeks, from which
the color had been frightened.
" Oh, I almost lost it! How careless I
am!" she exclaimed, replacing an old fash
ioned ring, set with a tiny circle of rubies,
on her finger.
" Did tbe water sweep it off your hand 7"
" I suppose so. It's too large for me.
I'm always losing it and finding it again.
I wouldn't lose it entirely for the world,
because it used to be grandmother's. She
gave it to me."
" What a carious old ring it is !" said
Mr. Wentworth, with interest. •' Mar I
look at it 7 Don't trouble yourself to take
it oil," be added, drawing in his oars and
leaning toward his companion.
Prudence allowed ber tiny brown Land
to lie in his aristocratic white one a mo
ment, then coquettishly withdrew it.
" Isn't it pretty 7" she inquired, archly.
" Very pretty." Shall I tell you how to
guard against losing it in future 7"
" Oh yes, if you please."
u Wear this little ring of mine to guard
It; or, better yet, exchange with me.
Give me youni, and take this instead," said
the young man, daringly.
Provoking Prudence looked at tbe heav
ily chased gold ring be held out to ber,
and then looked back at tbe water with
an innocent,
" Oh, I don't think it would fit."
" Try it," suggested her companion softly.
Prudence shook ber head, but finally
agreed, blusbinglv, that '• it would do no
harm to try," and slipped tbe ring on her
f oefinger.
"It's a perfect ft!" en ad Mr. Want
worth, delightedly. "Nothing could be
better. Why, Miss Prudenes, you surely
don't mean to give it back 7"
"Of course I do," was the saucy rejoin
der. * Why not ?"
" Because, Mid Mr. Wentworth, speak
ing very earnestly, and disregarding his
oars altogether, while he tried to get a
glimpse of the face hidden by the flat hat
—" because I meant to ask you to wear it
always for my sake. I meant to ask
you—"
' Oh, Mr. Wentworth," cried his listener
here, "do you see that lily on your left!
Won't you get it for me 7"
" 111 gat you that and twenty othera if
you'll listen to me first. Do you care for
inc. Prudence 7 Will you marry me T'
Prudence's face was turned away, and
FKED. KURTZ, Editor aud Proprietor,
VOL. IV.
her head bent lower ami lower. A crimson
flush stole over ear, neck, and chiu.
" Prudence!"
No answer. Her companion leaned over
ami took her hand strain, venturously.
•' PradtuAs will you wear the rtng ?"
he questioned sottly.
But the hand was hastily drawn away ;
a pair of saurv Mack eye* flashed into his
own. and Prudence's merry laugh ran over
the water.
4 'l'd rather have gran-bus's please. I
ought to go home, Mr. Went worth, for 1
know it's almost tea-time."
Mr. W out wort h put his ring in his
pocket, and took up the oars agaiu etier
retkalfr without a word, lie was fresh
from college, aud had held the stroke oar
in many a race, hut tie never made better
time than he made that afternoon in row
ing up the river. The light boat shot
along, with the rower's brows knitted aud
his teeth set. Not once did he look at
Prudence, who sat iu half-puxxled, hslf
lsruicd silence, now and theu stealing
ode wise glances at the offended young
Hercules frotu under her hat.
Mr. Went worth drew a breath of relief
when the boat at last prated on the stand,
and. having assisted Prudence to land, and
curtly offered to carry har lilies, he shoul
dered the oara and marched grimly toward
the house by her side. Prudence, some
what bewildered and more angry, made
no effort to btcak the silence, and studi
ously endeavored to u keep from crying."
Whim he at last left her at the door, with
a cool " Thank you, Mi* Prudence," and
departed to carry the oars to the barn, it
was well he did not look back, for Miss
Prudence tossed the lilies aside with a
petulant gesture, and had a fit of crying,
with her head on the kitchen table.
When Mr. Wentworth returned from
the barn half an hour later he did see a
picture that comforted him a little through
the hop-wreathed pantry window. It was
Prudence, with her sleeves pinned up,
moulding biscuits with desperate haste,
while the tears fell thickly ou her high
calico apron. This picture so amazed Mr.
Wentworth that he retreated hastily be
hind a lilac-bush to observe it, and lingered
so long that he was late at tea.
That was a model supper-table. There
was the great dish of berries with snowy
cream beside, flanked by cheese and rasp
berry jam. There were two mountainous
plates of snowy biscuits, contrasting with
the golden sponge-cake and the richer gold
of butter. Sir. Wentworth, wbo had sup
posed he should never have au appetite
again, felt quite revived by the sight of
this table and the memory of the picture.
The rest of the boarders seemed to share
the sensation, for the group of muslin and
broadcloth was very hilarious, and the eat
ables disappeared rapidly. Prudence, pre
siding between tbe tea- pots, seemed rather
out of spirits; but Parmer Holmes atoned
for her silence by unusual jollity.
When the biscuits were passed second
time to Mr. Wentworth he saw that only
one was left, and would have refused
decorously, bat the hospitable fanner
pressed it upon htm.
u Don't be afraid of it. There's plenty
more in the kitchen—ain't there, Pru
dence r
Thus pressed, Mr. Wentworth accepted
(he biscuit, and Prudence disappeared to
replenish the plate. Mr. Wentworth
divided the biscuit, then dropped it sud
denly, with an exclamation that brought
every eye upon him. There, imbedded in
tbe light, white bread, lay Prudence' ruby
ring!
Such a shout of laughter arose that it
brought Prudence back from the kitchen
in baste, just in time to see Mr. Went worth
coolly remove the ring from the biscuit,
amidst tbe merry chorus, and drop it in bu
waistcoat pocket, "to be kept till called
for," be said, with a significant glance at
her scarlet lace.
Poor Prudence! there was no peace for
her after that. An army of jckea quite
overwhelmed her protestations and dis
claiming*, and she was thankful to beat a
retreat to tbe kitchen when the meal was
over. But even there she wa pursued by
a laughing trio of ladies, and harassed with
questions and wonderment and merriment
until the last dish was set away, and she
had seized ber bat, with the excuse that
she must go to tbe village for letters. In
stead of gbing to tbe village, however, she
stole along tbe hedge, climbed tbe wall, and
ran to tbe farthest end of the orchard,
where she tiling herself ou tbe ground, and
cried as if her heart would break.
She had, perhaps, cried half an hour be
fore a step, crushing tbe dry gra* at her
side, roused her, and tbe very voice she
most dreaded to bear said,
u I've come to return your ring, Miss
Prudence."
Poor little Prudence sat up hastily, and
toon the unfortunate ring with a faltering
* Thank yoathen immediately bid her
face again.
"You needn't tbank me. I should have
brought it before, but I couldn't find you.
I hope you're not troubled about those
ridiculous jokes," be added, dignitiedly.
'■ N'-DO,' responded Prudence, miserably,
between her sobs. " I—l thought you'd
think 1 did it on p-purpose."
" Bow could I bare thought so ? It
waa a mere accident my getting that par
ticular biscuit I'm very sorry youhre
been so annoyed in this way. I'm going
away to-morrow. Mias Prudence."
Tbe sobs partially erased, and Prudence
said, surprisedly, " Are you 7"
" Won't you bid roe good-by 7"
Prudence said, " Yea," unsteadily, but
did not raise ber head.
" Yoa will shake hands, won't you, Mi*
Prudence 7"
So answer.
" I can't go away while you are offended
with me. Won't yeu at least tell me why
you are erying 7"
" Because I—l lost my grandmother's
ring," aobbed Prudence, making a great
effort for composure.
Mr. Wentworth laughed in spite of him
self.
" Why, it's safe on your finger, and not
a whit the won* for its baking. Is there
no other reason 7"
" N-no."
" But there is. I shall never have an
other bappy moment if Pve offended you,"
said Mr. Wentworth, tragically. " I was a
brute to treat you as I aid this afternoon;
but I'm going away, and I aba'n't annoy
yon again. Won't yon forgive me now,
and shake hands 7"
Another long silence. Mr. Wentworth
turned away in despair, but waa detained
by a filtering voice.
"I—lll forgive you, if—"
"Well?" was the breathless interposi
tion.
" Yon—won't—go—away."
The more observant boarders noticed at
breakfast the next morning that Mr.
Abbott Wentworth wore the ring he batl
found in tbe biscuit on tbe little finger of
bis left hand, and that Prudence wore a
heavily-chased gold circle in the place of
her lost ornament. To use the words of
one of the before-named boarders, "That
tells the whole story."
A CCRKXOTT. —Virginia has produced
a natural curiosity—if we may credit a
local paper—in the shape of a bamboo
root, which, held in one position, pre
sents, clearly defined in outline and re
cognizable at a glance, a bull's head and
three cows' heads. Reversing it, a sheep's
head appears to view, exact and faithful
to nature as if carved by some skilled
hand. The heads of two African ante
lopes, a boar't head, a greyhound's, a
bull-dog's, a squirrel sitting on s stump,
and a tobacco- worn aire seen whan the
root is held in other positions. This
freak of nature is said to be on exhibi
tion in Richmond.
CENTRE HALL REPORTER.
The Coal .Supply.
Whenever the British people have no
Htore pressing topic of agitation. for
eign invasion or some "Battle of IXirk
ing," says the Beaton Journal, they al
ways gel into an excitement alwmt the i
im|vtitling exhaustion of tlirir c<ial
miuea aud thb consequent ruin of Brit
ish fomnairial ascendancy, The sub
ieet haa lately been revived with peon
liar interest, oaring to the publication of
a report upon it made by a Parliamen
tary Commission The prospect which
has so diaturl>ed Eugltahmeu is here
faced and considered iu all it* lieariuga.
It is admitted that if the present rate of
exhau*liug the coal supply was to go on
indefinitely and iu any probable ratio to
the increase of jiopnlatiou and manufac
tures, the progress toward the final ex
tiuction of that supply would In*
" very rapid." In reality, however,this
rate could not steadily continue. As
soon as the impression of scarcity began
to lie felt coal would rise in price aud
this would diminish consumption, and
would prolong the duration of the
supply, though at the expense of the
prosperity of the country. Again, iu
the natural order of things, oulv the
beat and most easily accessible coal has | <
thus far been mined; but ultimately
high prices will bring poorer qualities '
aud those not so conveniently obtained ' 1
into the market "A time, " says the <
Commission, " mnst even lie anticipated 1
when it will be more economical to im
port a part of our coal than to raise the
whole of it from our residual coal beds ; 1
and before complete exhaustion is reach - ■ I
ed the importation of coal will become '
the rule, and not the exception, of our
practice. Other countries would un- '
doubt,-illy be iu a position to supply <
our deficiencies, for North America alone 1
jxweeaes tracts of coal-bearing strata, as 1
yet almost untouched, of seventy times
the area of our own."
The Commission, however, confess
that the manufacturing supremacy of
England could not lie maintained after
the importation of coal had become a
necessity. The next question is, whether
our American coal mines could sustain
themselves after a foreign demand
should have been added to the domestic.
Thoughtful men have already recorded
their judgment that the anthracite re
gions of Pennsylvania are limited,and the
duration of their supply is capable of
calculation. We must decline, however,
to be disturlwd by any apprehensions
of this character. The quantity of bitu
minous coal in this country is as yet be
yond estimate. Besides that, the his
tory of inventions tells one uniform
story—they are sure to come when they
are needed, .steel pens take the place
of diminishing goose quills, steam sup
plies the place of horse power and the
sewing machine the needle when, in the
exigencies of humanity, the change is
required. So a new heating power or
motor may yet take the place of coal—
something utterly WMOspeded now in
the simple materials around us—or much
more economical methods of utilizing
coal (as in preventing refuse in quarry
ing or in some way of burning the dust)
may be discovered, which shall have the
effect of indefinitely augmenting the
supply. At all events, the trouble from
this source is so infinitesimal that it is
not worth while to hunt after it quite
Very Bad 44 Spells."
At a late session of a New York State
Teachers' Institute, each teacher was
given certain words to and was re
quired to write them out ou paper. The
list of the words—fifty in number—dic
tated to the teachers, were the same
that hud been used in Institutes held 111
several of the counties in the Htate,
with the following results : In Ulster
County sixty per cent of the words had
been incorrectly spelled ; iu Greene
County sixty-six per cent; in Saratoga
County sixty-seven per cent; in Scho
harie County sixty-four per cent; in
Madison County seventy per cent; iu
Chenango fifty-seven per cent. The re
port showed that the word "cachinua
tion" had botherer the teachers more
titan any other. In the ninety-five pa
pers examined there were no" less than
fifty different spellings for this word.
In the ninety-four papers examined,
there were two thousnud six hundred
and sixty-three mis-spellings—an average
of twenty-eight.
The " bard words" were as follows ;
Intermittent. Heresy, Bilious, Coercion,
Eestacy, Clarionet, Surcingle, Paralyse,
Licorice, Trafficking, Suspicion, Ellipsis,
Apostasy, Mortgaging, Singeing, Skill
fully, Subpcena, Allegcabie, Ignitible,
Phosphorescence, Sibylline, Cachinna
tion. Vacillation, Catechise, Trisyllable,
Tyrannize, Apologise, Gauging, Saccha
rine, Hemorrnage, Rendezvous, Fahren
heit, Galilean, Saddueee, Erysipelas,
Canaille, Cannihal, Mignonnette, Ka
leidoscope, Hieroglyphics, Ajxicrypfia,
Daguerreotyj*, Idiosyncrasy.
A VIOELANCE COMMITTEE. —ln Denver,
Colorado, the citizens have organized a
vigilance committee, and given notice to
the roughs of all classes to depart forth
with. A few days since the following
handbill speared in various jmrt* of the
town, and it is said to huve been followed
by an extensive exodus of blacklegs :
Murderers! Thieves!
[Five coffin*.]
aart 111 t-%n
And Bobners 1
Beware!
The first man that commits mnrder,
robbery, or larceny to the amount of
S2O is our meat. A word to the wise is
sufficient This is the first aad last warn
ing. Thieves notified to leave this place
will do so at once, or stay at their periL
By order of
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
TROUBLES. — A German was lately
found hanging by the neck near the
Poligny railway station. This discovery
greatly exasperated the Germans, and all
night long they marched about the
streets. Two shots were fired on a squad of
German cavalry who were watering their
horses on the nnblicsquare. One horse
man was killed, another mortally wound
ed. The signal of alarm was instantly
given, and all the German soldiers ran
with drawn swords through the streets,
cutting down everybody tliey met,break
ing doors and windows. They wounded
twenty persons, eight of them danger
ously. A man who ]>aased along the
the street in a cart was so severely
wounded that he hud to lie carried to the
hospital. His horse was killed. The town
was in the greatest consternation.
FEMALE FASHIONS.-*~L. Maria Child,
in writing upon the absurdities of female
fashions said : Hevcn or eight years
ago bonnets were hung on the bock of
the head and slipped down on the shoul
ders, instead of being perched on the
forehead and tipping over the nose, as
they now are. At that time a bride in
the vicinity of Boston left her father's
house soon after the marriage ceremony
and rode seven oj eight miles in a winter
evening to the dwelling of her husband.
She became so silent during the latter
part of the ride that the bridegroom was
alarmed, and there being no house in
sight, he drove ss rapidly as possible.
Arrived at his own door he lifted a
corpse from the sleigh. Her bridal
bonnet had afforded no protection from
the severe eold and her brain was froaeo.
▲ rout in Trieste, the Austrian sea
port on the Adriatic, deetreyed many
petroleum warehouses. The fire origi
nated from an explosion of petroleum.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1871.
By Caudle Eight.
During the actum n atHurutoga, the gas
gave out, atul society hud to depend
upon tallow dip* Listen ts the scene
aa deacrilied by it correspondent :
i Itw.steu o'clock, l'he stage drove
up frotu the depot. Almost et cry ludy
ex|>eeted her hushsud on the train.
Mauy young ladies expected their sweet
hearts. Neither the stage, the driver,
nor the horses were visible. Prom force
of habit the passengers felt their wuy to
the reception ruotu. I got mixed up in
the crowd. Twenty-five married ladies,
seven old maids, ami four young la lies
oomraeucct! greeting the oaso-ugers m
the darkness. "My dear William ! why
did you stay so long ?" exclaimed a sweet
young wife, and then she threw her arms
around my neck—our lips met. 1 wasn't
going to lie a ditrn.nl fool.
Far different.
Now, a dear, sweet, liquid-eyed bru
nette threw her arms wildly around me,
"O, Eugene, why dnl you uot write
oftener ?" she sold ted, and then site sank
sweetly on my bosom. I said, " weep
not, Julia," and theu kissed her twenty
two times. It was delicious. It made
me think of my first wife and my college
days at Yale.
A sweet, golden-lutired blonde now
took my hand. She pressed it gently,
saying : V Dear Albert, I know it is you, i
and I'm so glad to see roll ! You won't
dance with Lixsie Smith, now. will you*
Now, do you promise me!" I said I
wouldn't Then she held her cheek close
to mine. It was hot with love's youug
hope and pure, sweet affection. We were
very happy. None but a wicked man
w->uld have brought saduess to this
sweet, pure young affection, aud beauti
ful with splendid girhshneas.
44 1 X) yon still love me, Albert ?" she
whipemi.
4 'Yudoubte.ilY," I remarked.
4 ' How much, darling ?"
" A heap."
" O, I in too lui|ipy," iLf murmured,
as *lif twisted h<*r finger* in nir auburn
hair and held me in a itwl embrace.
Thia aort of thing went on for acven
teen minutes, wheu t'. Iceland appeared
in the di*taue with a tallow candle. I
quietly withdrew and uiiugled unolwerved
in the crowd. As the candle appeared,
tw entr seven young gentlemen were aceu
shaking hands with as many young
ladies in the different corner*. I hare
seldom seen such an affecting scene. It
was a great display of affectum. One
married gentleman was holding the
hands of two lathe*. The hair of the
ladies was geuerally crituples*, while the
hair of the young gentleman did not dis
play a parting place. 1 reflected. " how
kin such thing* be. antl overcome u*
like a summer shower?" I consulted
with J. Billing*. He says they kau't, 80
I resolved to leave the place.
('urine t ad Fish.
An Eastern imjwr thus describes the
curing of cod : One of our Ashing vil
lages presents quite a lively scene. The
boats that have been out d'urtng the day
OD the fishing-ground*, usually only a
mile or two from the harbor, come
home in the evening la leu. On reach
ing the stages the fi*h aru one by one
flung on the stage, and the head and en
trails removed, the liver being preserved
for the oil. Then the Ash posses to the
" splitter," who lava it open jwrfectly
flat: the " Salter" takes it, and after
remaining the proper time in salt, it is
spread out ou Urn ** flake" to dry and
harden in the sun. While undergoing
this prccaa it require* <-ontant atten
tion. On the approach of night, or
during wet weather, it is piled in little
heaps that resemble small haycoaka, the
•kin of the fish being outward so as to
throw off the rain or dew. When thor
oughly dried, it is taken to the store,
where it is "culled," or sorted into va
rieties suited for the different markets.
The different kinds are known a* "Mer
chantable," "Madeira," "West India,"
and " Dun "or broken fish. The first
named ia the 1-est quality ; the second a
degree inferior, while the third is c >n
sidered good enough for the Indians ;
the "Dun" is used at home. The
"sound*," or air-bladders, and tongues
of the cod are pickled in kegs, and make
an excellent article of food—when fresh
they arc esteemed a delicacy. The cod
liver oil is world-renowned for it* med
icinal qualities. The le*t is made with
out bouing, by applying to the liver*,
when quite fr*h. a moderate degree of
heat. Then filtering the oil three times
in succession through thin flannel or
similar texture. When carefully pre
pnred it is quite pure, nearly inodorous
and of a crystaline transparency. Alxiut
300 tons are exported annually. The
value here being £240 j>er ton.
A-TKICTLTTRAL WAOKS IS EWOLAKD. —
From a recent Parlimcntary return we
get a prettv full account of agricultural
wagea in England. In the south-eastern
dt vision of Eugland, a very rich and pro
ductive region, laborer* earn from I<l*.
to 15*. a week, and find themselves ;
south midland, 10*. to li. ; south-west
ern; B*. fid. to 11a. ; weat midland, its.
to 13a., north midland, 12*. to 14a. ;
northern coonties they range from 7*. to
15a. Women earn from 3*. to 6*. a
week ; children from 2a. Gd. to sa. It is
something lietter in harvest time, and
there are local custom* of allowing gar'
dens, potato planting, Iwcon, 4c., which
nnmewhat inprove the condition of the
working population ; tint the average of
agricultural wage* over England cannot
lie more titan fifty cents a day for men,
twenty cent* for women, fifteen cent* for
children—a small enough sunt for rent,
fnel, food, clothing—all the necessaries
of life. 'Htese are cheaper here than in
America, excepting focal, drink and
tobacco, which are much dearer. Food
is imported from America and must coat
more. The others are heavily taxed.
A Doo CAME.— A venr exciting dog
ruse was settled in Washington Co., N.
Y. It seems Mr. Henry Burch ownwl a
very qniet, peaceable bat knowing New
foundland dog, which hud l>een trained
to draw the baby's carriage, to drive
cattle, churn, rnii a sewing-machine,
and we know not what other useful tricks.
Now this dog, on Sunday, trespassed on
the premises of John Whitaker, a neigh
bor, who owns a small rat-terrier dog,
and the latter, (the dog,) jealous of the
acquirements of his shaggy neighbor, or
forgetful of the respect duo to great
attainments, resented his intrusion, and
did make an assault on bim, against the
jieace and dignity of the Htate. Attempts
were made to part them, I nit ineffectu
ally, and at length Whitaker drew a pis
tol and shot Burch's dog dead. These
facts appeared upon the trial arsl the
jury renaered a verdict of $45 for Burch.
OUR FCTTRJE. —According to the offi
cial aggregate of the new Census, the
population of the United States in 1870
was 88,566,983—against a total of 81,-
443,821 in 1860. A journal, taking the
figures of the last two Geniuses as a
point of comparison, hazards a guess as
to the probable population of the seve
ral States and Territories in the year
1880. The supposed aggregate is 49,-
600,000; and the largest estimated in
crease is in the States of New York,
Pennsylvania. Ohio, Illinois, lowa, Tex
as, Kentucky, and Tennessee. New
York is put down at 5,000,000 in 1880 ;
Pennsylvania, 4, 200,000; Ohio, 8,00(k
--000, and Illinois, 8,200,000; while Toaas
and Kentucky are estimated at 1,500,-
000 each—the largest ratio ef increase
being in Texas.
The Fall Fashions.
> Among Full iin|M>rtatinu the jdatda
1 i show novelties Uotii in ouatMuations of
• color aud iu fabric* The tsrtuii* ail re
appear. There ate alao Uie favorite green
and crimson plaid*, so comfort ible-Jook
tug fur t'Uildreu aud young girl* iu mid
winter. ,
Cashmere will eontiuuatobea favorite
wool fabric for continue* The tirat
i quality of caslunere i* called Thiliet
i moth, measure* forty-eight inches in
widtli, and is eta £1.50 a yard Lighter
qualities of caahuiere tu the choice
i shades just mentioned, and in imuiy
other* beaiilea, are N2.50 a yard, double
fold.
In pluin good* are many English lus
tre,*, ranging in price from 50 eeuta to
fit a yard. Among these are *ilk wrap
Dolertuo popliaa of light quality and
verv lustrous; melange lustre* in
dark shades, *]igh tiv chine, fur 55 cents
a yard ; a new ami pretty white and
block erupe clotli at 75 ceuta ; cheap
tartan lustre* for 25 or 30 cent*.
Cieilian cloth i* a new black fabric.
It is a lustrou* mohair, a sort of haaket
woven alpaca, but far softer than ordin
ary alpaca, and capable of being draped
as gracefully m a cosh mere It is a
pure, full, deed black, a yard wide, with
out a center fold, and cost* front 65 oent*
cent* upward.
Soft wool shawl* cost f6 for ample
auares. Ooy Scotch plaid squares are
.50, if of American manufacture;
from 90 upward if imported. The
IsMinarw shawl—a good warm plaid,
basket-woven, is 96. The Jaoqtiard
shawl, of aoft white wool, with twill
effect* in color, is 96.
Fall wrap* Ik-gin to arrive. Buyer*
say that prune-color and the deepest
greeu cashmere* will nval the ioug-tinte
favorite black this aeaaon. Mid dark gray
and brown will lie the popular colon
j for cloth garment*.
Sleeveless Zouave jackeat of rich dark (
colon —scarlet Mid block—ate trimmed
with intricate cording* of gilt, or jar-i
diuiere embroidery in bright color*. I
[ hi'e arc for afternoon wear iu the
house.
The new velvet polonaises are simply
elegant, and *ome will coat as high aa
ST**) ou account of their flue lace and
j cording or embroidery.
An o|Mi cloak of soft white cloth in 1
raised diamond*, figures in circular, j
trimmed with two broad band* of blue ,
velvet rirbly wrought with rich blue and ,
white fringe of taasel* borders this
lovely wrap.
A French Font let ( olenjr.
New Caledonia.the French convict col-;
ony, where so many female communist*
have la-en sent, is a long island, sloping
from Northwest to Southeast, among
thoae coral-reefed seas of which porta .
delight to sing. It is inhabited by a
race of savage* called Kanaka, whom
Cook found to be delightfully mild ; but
be did not happen to make their acquain
tance at tlie conclusion of a war, and
left without the knowledge that they ;
were cannibals.
The first beginning of a couvict •- j
tabiiahmeut was in 1864. when two hun
dred prisoner* were sent out from Ton-1
lou Mid vstabltihed just outside the port
of Toumea. The mortality waa at once .
found to be much leas than that of the '
dreaded Cayenne. The Government
than tried a ticket-of-hwvc system, and 1
•nghty-fonr of the most hopeful of the
isinvicta were aent to Boraie, with eon-!
. rsswions ot larnl, while othor* were al
lotted to the free colonists a* aaaifUnta.
Anotoer net are employed ou a model
farm. Up to December, 1867, nearly a !
, thouMnd convicts had in all l-een aent <
out, of whom only forty-six hail been
kept in real prison life. So far the re
sults have bacD satisfactory, but what
will they be when the island is flooded
with discontented Pari* workmen ? A
large body of troo|* will have to l>e sta
tioned on the island. Be that aa it mav
say* the Loudon rfor, we must, it ;
seems, make up our minds to a great,
perpetuation of human misery, at an,
epoch of human history when we have ,
Ik-en moving heaven and earth to ameli
orate convict colonies and jails. It is a <
•tad subject. The French official docu
ments describe a country much favored j
by nature, and chances of colonial pros
]M-rity of a high order if nature be nut
corrupted and overborne by man. But
to tlie normal difficulties of the French
colonist who has never succeeded in l
cresting substantial prosperity in Alge
ria, will here be added so many extrone
j oua ones that good resulta can liar>llv be ,
hoped for. A aort of ro-operntive hum
created by the authorities of Noumea
some years ago proved a signal failure. I
tbougk the set tier* were free and the ,
farm stock waa supplied by authority.
The f*ronHAJ comprised laborers,smiths,
ntont -cotters, brick maker*, a I >aker. a
machinist —tn fact, what might lie rolled
a complete selection of imrkm*n. Three
hundrod hectares of land wa* allotted to
I the grouji. and beasts, feeds, bails, Ac.,
were advanced. This waa in Ito -A, and
in two years the expel imeut fail oil, and i
the memliers had spht asunder, amidst!
bitter diaaenaions. The political hatnvla j
ot the new convicts will go for to make '
tlie renewal of such experiments in New J
Caledonia very hopeless.
The Eight-dour !<aw.
The committee appointed to visit the
new Post-office building and see if the
men were working aocordiug to the pro
visions of the eight-hour law, report
that they hod been unable to are the
superintendent, he laiug alment from
tlie city, but they hod an interview with
the aiwiMtant-su]*Tiutemh'Ut and hod as
certained that the work had twen done
by contract, but the contract* had Ik-en
thrown up and that for aome months
past the worka had been solely under'
government control. That tue men
worked ten and iu aome caaea fifteen
hoars per day, but were paid by tlie hour;
and the aasistant-anperinteudent claimed
that the men were better paid than were
those working on any similar work
anywhere throughout the city. That
the work was all Wing done under in
structions from Washington, aud no re
ference waa.made in thoae instructions
to anv given mimWr of honra per day,
only toey were ordered to W guided as
to wages by thoae given to other parties.
The men at work ou the buildings were
moatlv non-union men, for the reason
that thev did not like to employ others,
an they frequently made trouble. Tberw
were eighty-one men employed at pre
sent, all told, as the work was delayed
for lack of material, but soon a large
foree will be engaged. The superin
tendent won seen at a later interview,
and he told the committee that if the
eight-hour law was not enforced it was
the fault of the working-men themselves,
and not his. He should go exactly ac
cording to his orders, add if they wanted
any alteration in the manner of working,
they must go to Washington for it.
HEW WANTED. —The fanners of Can
ada seem to be driven to their wits' end*
this year in trying to find laborers who
are willing to aseiat them in gathering
the cropa. In some instances, tuey have
offered to share the profits ; but, so far,
have been unable to induce men to leave
the towns. Last week a farmer went to
a large boarding-house in Ottawa, and !
declared that he would give two dollars
a day and board to any number of men
who would go to work on his farm. Two
only accepted the offer, and they did not
remain longer than two days, wlien they
St tired of oountry life and discharged 1
unaelvea.
Beerher ex Nix.
• Sli Ito-clicr, in a recent leeture-rXom
I monologue, gave birth to the following ;
' Then- can be uo question that man* of
it the things which ore (oiled sinful aA In
• the eye of Uodauiiply iuUrutitim. >
• |of the things which men anil tin jars
Htmply i n-x p*rtne, untaught nn*. rfde-
R IION* of being* that have to he edueited
t into capacity through faculty. Rutaul
t luittiug all timl, is th< re nothing beyond!
it jl* there no Mich thing m deliberate
r choice against knowledge, and not from
want of it ? Arc there uo soeli things in
v meu as letting aside what they under
s stand to tie the best part of their not arc,
in favor of what they admit to be the
- wot at jiart ? It is not in the cooarioua
> ties* of every tuon, that, while he goes
i through a probationary or apprentice
1 system by which he is learning how to
> uan bia faculties, when he has learned
" | how to use them he perverts that knew
-1 ledge J Aud who aloes not know that if
i j he were to bring up every s<*|mte feel
ing of bia nature, ami arraign it by the j
■ aide of reason be would find that in his
• practice he oomea short of hi* knew-;
; 'edge f j
1 If a man were to ask himself, " Does
i reeaou approve the way in which I oxer- *
• eiae my affection* f" he would be obliged ;
to any. " I act unreasonably every day io ,
my affections." Bring up the engineer
• ing paeaion*, the master force* of tha '
• sou), by which (tod meant to drive life, j
; as steam aud the engine drive the slop. '
• and ask every man, Have your passion*
I wen pil'ited, or have they run away with ]
1 the hull ? Are yon museum* that when •
I yon aiu a great deal it is largely on ac
count of iguoTunoe and nndavwlopment f >
1 And are vou conscious that when yon
have reached a certain ixdnt, tin mnltt- 1
1 |lica, and you deliberately employ faculty'
after faculty for gaining thiog* that yon j
1 know to be wrung befonthand, and after j
: ward attempt to cover up and tone down I
I by urowioes and excttare 1
The question ia here plainly pat. How
many of thoae habitually pursue the j
wrong can justly claim that they do act,
know the right ?
*aeh a lav bait.
A W.-M Virginia paper tells the tk>l> >
i low-ng *try ot Ohio cssntv : "A eiti
aen of this county, whom we will drsag
-1 aate a* Y. had a goat that sometimes •
' tresspassed upon the premises of his f
ueighU-r W. On an uuluclry thy, W, :
i being much annoyed, took hia gun and '
: shot the gust V sud for damages oe
cvuuoned by the loss of the goat, and t
the ess., was tried befors a Justice of the
Fcae- in the spring of 1970, A jury of t
six drixens waa unjaiueled in aocordanoe
with the provisions of our code, aud the
argument* ot attorneys were heard. The
jury failed to agree upon a verdict, and i
a *ecoo<l trio! raa ordered. At the aye-'
ond trial tlie jury awarded damagwa to T j
in the sum of 95 To this W demurred, <
and appealed to the Circuit Court The ]
oaoe won heard at tlw June Term in 18T0, |
and the jury of twelve men disagreed as i
Ito the proper finding in the case Anoth
••r trial was had at the October Term.and !
a verdict of f 12.1(J waa found in favor of J
Y. Iu the meantime, and prion to fiad
tug this vundiot, W claimed to hava ten-!
Jerad to Y the atun of 815. the ' fleet of
Y * uon acT'-pumce of which wosiid have 1
bes tn auk* him raapoiitible for the
costs that bad accrued during the pro-'
gross of the suit This aQemd tender ,i
was denied by Y, and at toe March •
Term iu 1971 s jurv was impanelled to
oaarrtain the fact whether or not the ten- '
der bad been made Tb jury failed to'
agree upon a verdict, and again at the ■
June Term in the present year, another '
jury waa discharged before' arriving at a j
•leeition of tht- core. In this shape the i
case aland* at present
In the meantime the Costa have been [
growing enormonsly. Four Jury trials
Wfore the Circuit Court have been had, i
and their coat ha* been paid out of the j
|kople of the State ; the time of the
I court has been ooewpie*!; the time of I
the rhiieoa, aa jurors and witoaaaea, ha* t
been consumed ; the attorneys on each j
side are to be paid by the parties them-'
selves ; and unless some decision ia *oon
made the cost* will probably exceed j
95W. ' •
The ! akaawa Victim*.
The New York 7Vhgae reviewing'
the late sod affair in that city, think* I
there are a good many Alice Bowlabys
about—only they are not discovered. '
How many pretty girt* H sav, respected |
by their friends* snd neighbor*, have j
carried the same awful secret which :
, Alice llowlsliy kept So long, and Sought ,
I relief at laat from the cursed arte of the |
. creature* like Ibawniweig, lWtell and 1
Perry ! The sixirtionists of New York J
are ronntod by score* How many \
, must lie their [latieuts. It is not ah \
I ways that the victim diea. The majority *
, may escape with uo worse penalty than '
, s ruined and hopeless life, and the f
damning guilt of a child murder haunting j
i them forever after; yet the days ana
I night* of mental anguish, the ever i
, i present horror of discovery, and the
, j torturing conscieoce that fancies aaspic
, ion in every carelem look, and the re*
. I morse that ran never be stilled—theae
; are the unfailing experiences of the
: most fortunate of snen patients; these
are part* of tha silent tragediee which
we may road 1-etween the linea of the
| "medical" advertisement* that kindle
just now anch a general indignation.
HHNDAT.—The name of this day ia de
rived from the riaxona, who coii*e*rstcd
it to the sun. The aolemniaation of the
day dates from the earliest date of (he.
Christian cburrli, in memory of the reac
tion of tha " world and light," and the
| insurrection of Jeus Christ. The Jew
. j inh Christiana also retained their Sabbath,
the laat <lav of the week; but this practice
became obsolete early, at leant in the
Western Church*. The Sunday was at
| first distinguished merely by" peculiar
f ravers Mid passages of the Scriptures,
t does not apiMiar to have been strictly
observed as a day of ceasation from labor
Wfore the reign of Cons tan tine. By the
derive of that emperor, (A- D. 321.)
, public business ana'military exeroises
were suspended. The Council of Laodi
, oea, (A. I). Skill,) forbade lalnir in gen
eral terms : and tlie law* of Theodooius
sanctioned this interdiction by civil {ten
t altioa."
MowrALrrv STANRNOS. —The mortality
stutistica of the census office show thai
, the homicidea in the United States and
Territories during the year ending May,
1870, including "killed by Indian*
reached the numWr of 4.060 The
highest uunils r iacredltod to Texaa, and
the nerft highest to Tennessee. The to
' tal number of homicidal iu New York
was 70. New Hampshire re porta but a
, single ease, while Connecticut is credited
with six, Delaware with four, Maine
with seven, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode
Island anl Minnesota each with five. It
ia a notable fact that the number of vio
, lent deaths (Alter than thoae caused by
, Indians, was, as a rule, lew in the new
Territories than in the oldest Btateo.
HRIPPINO GOLD.—It ia a fact not gen
erally known that all the gold sent east
from San Francisco now comes through
the mail-hags. It ia pot up in small
boxes, weighing two or three pounda,
and each box ia aent as a registered let
ter. In this way the coat of transporta
tion if about one per oent, while the
express companies charge five. One
I hundred thousand dollar* thus paean
through the Omaha IW-cffef daily
lir4m la Raw Ytrt.
There ha* never been a tun* whet
murder* by abortionist* created no great
• **uaati< in New York m now, Tl*
pajiers (.wrotfl wfth *ad and Mrfceuia#
,uU of fluid MM! mother murder, su
th (% protMi an* feat filling up wMi
I parties arrested fur participate .u mtiw
j otiuM. A iim|wwl<( who inlmi>
, H1 • oily official W-IU Urn following atory
IfuiMia u ;tiofficiolj -How inaayabor
; tiooiktM am (bare in iltfw city 1
Official ~l*> you in can thoae who an
! known to fnOow tin* huaiaaaa regularly I
Reporter ~Yt% air.
Official-Well. I U ten you. Ho far a*
I wa have IMMMI atda to uot rtuu—am] we
' hare taken pain* to get all poaaibfe infor
J uiatton on the irobjeet—there are aboql
, fifty. That w to my, we hare •Hw in
, tbi* uAoe of about tbat number of name*
at parous* who are wall known to u* Ui
be in the bnaiueaa, and other* who arc
suspected of being in it.
Q Do yon accept death certificato*
from persona who are known to be in toe
buainaaa I A. So, wa do not; It la our
rule Lena on the receipt of a certificate
from owe of theae pecaooa to hand it over
to the coroners for examination and
thorough investigation, if it la daeatad
necessary by fiifn.
Q. You would not receive a certificate
from Dr. " A*ch,''fur instance ? A.
Oh, no. We knew of him before toe
Bowtaby matter owt out, and would
I not have accepted a certificate from him
under any cir.-umataiwwa. He nndoubt
edly knew this. and for that reaaon we
have not been troubled with any oertiff
catea from him.
Q And Rnaenzwetg, how about him ?
A. Well, in hia aaar, f can H ay that a re
had no knowledge, not even a enamclon.
of Ruortixweig mud " Aacber" being toe
wane aud the one man, we would proba
bly have accepted oarttitoaton from Rotes
scire** if be had aent oav to the office.
Q Did Madame Revtejl ever amid any
ceitificatM of death to the office * A.
! Never.
g. Nor Madame Von Buakirk? A.
i Never. 1 will aay, however, that the
1 ahortaobjeta are mppoaed to work in
ronnertfen with plivmeun* amdaat whom
toere ia BO suspicion, and that thuaa
uauallj sign the certificate* of death tor
their employ era or partner*, the abor
tionists. . , i
Q. What do you do when you have
your auaptoioaa srouard aa to aoine pby
ktciaa who had heretofore been supposed
to be aa honorable member of toe pro
fewuon ! A. We aeud bta certificate* to
the coroner the name aa if be were wall
known to na to belong to malprartitfon
eta. Now there i* Dr. for in-
Mum. A* HOD aa we found that he araa
*u*uected of having been found guilty of
malpractice, we rofuaed to aooept any of
lua certificates until the ooronera pro
nounced them all right
At the couchiaioe of this conversation
the writer waa permitted to examine two
ponderous vohtmea in which are entered
the namea of peruana who died in New
York between the let of January aud the
let of July of toe present year. The
names of the f> r*i<mn* furnishing cer
tificates of death are afeo included ia
these hooka. A careful examination of
tit.. UtUr ,J name* did not er t"!l
, in discovering Roaenszwcig'a name in a
Tbs ekriu in the oAe*
at the Board of Health say they never
beard of this men's name until it was
made notorious in connectioa with the
trunk mystery
Cmler tha head of the letter " U" in
tlie volumes referred to, aome sad but
intonating feet* were learned. More
than two-third* of the entries were either
"unknown man," "unknown woman,"
* unknown male child," or "unknown
female child For the six months end
ing June 90 the "unknown" readied
eighty-six. Of theae thirty-aeven were
men, six wooes, and forty-three chil
dren. The certificate* ot death in all
their cases were furnished by oorotwrs.
Among the forty-throe children whose
(oirentage was unknown, not a few of
them were undoubtedly brought to a
premature birth by such men a* Rosyn
ssweig and hia co-laborer* in the fiald of
malproctica. A least such ia the opinion
of men who profess to be well informed
iu the mattsr.
Incidents *f a Htagv ftobbery.
Borne of the dcligbtaof stage traveling
in California are thus described by a
Han Jose paper :
From Sheriff Harris, who has just re
turned from an nnsucoesafnl pursuit of
the Yiaalia stage robbers, we I earn fur
ther details of the transaction. The
operation* of the robbers were boldly
planned and reaohitoly executed in a
thickly ret tied neighborhood. The fleet
thing the robbers did waste capture a
gentleman named Moore. He was rid-,
ing in a baggy. They took him aaide
privily, near tie road ia the field, tied
and blindfolded him. and robbed him of
855. By this titte the two-hone stage i
came along. The robbers fell upon it. I
and ordered the driver to go through
an opening they made in the tence.
The *tage waa stopped at the point:
where the man robbed lay ion d mm
bat. The paaaengers were four men aud
a woman. The men were compelled to 1
alight and keep their eyes on the ground, I
while each was securely bound, aearoh-1
*d, and blindfolded. One of the rob- 1
bars asked the woman : " Which ia yotir j
husband F" Hbe {xuntod to Mr. Sim
mona, Canal Superintendent, who aat
on the back seat with her. " All right,"
aaid the robber, and Mr. Simmons was
searched and bound, but the lady was
not molested. The robbers wealed
something over 9500 from the stage
company, and a gold watch or so.
The subsequent proceeding* were a*
cool aa ica Don t make a move till
we come back, or we'll murder every
one of you 1" aaid the road ageata. am
leaving the people bound and tha lady
sitting in the stage they drove off. In a
short time they returned with a picket
teamster, whom they bottnd and aearch
ed, and left with the stage party. They
then departed again with the same
threat, but were seen no more. For an
hour and a half the captive* lay there
in the field, bouod, and fearful to move.
By and by, the driver got anxious to
go, and aaaad the woman to come and
untie them. She refused for a while,
fearing the return of the robbers ; but
presently released the driver, and he
the others, and they got into Gilroy all
right, except the plunder of their prop-
AmonuTi Namaa.— Tlie following
motes are indeed appropriate for the
usee mentioned :
- For an auctioneer'* wife—-Bid-dy.
For a general'* wife- -Sally. j
For a sport's wife—B#t-ty.
For a fisherman'a wife —Net-ty.
For a ahoemakei's wife —Peg-gy.
For a teamester's wife—Car-rie.
For a lawyer's vrifs —Bus.
For a printer's wife—Em.
For a druggist'* wife—Ann Elian.
"Fori aarpct man's wife-Mat-ti*.
WOKBX Jtmoss. — A Wyoming corres
pondent says that in most of the juries
during the recent court term at Chey
enne there was a slight sprinkling of
women. In capital caeca female jurors
are placed in charge of a female bailiff,
and are allowed toretire to an apartment
by themselves during the intermisdfljns
of the court, until the cause is finally
submitted, when, they ere, of eourse,
required to be shut up with their mmo
oiates of the sterner sex until they sen
agree upon e verdict
TERM 8 : Two Dollars a Year, in Advance.
AMTVM iHtitato Fair.. I
n I Tn the Amiwwn Instituto Mi, h
lt session ia Niw fork, tba articles f
m j exhibition in Aridal iotoMm depart
v , raenU, and <aob department into sevei
j groups. Th# first uf tixro la the De
-1,, partment of Fin* Ari and Education,
0 and ilk M vi ral group* will Include paint
in on maw, gla*a and other surferae,
. mgrutinign, chromes, lithographs, pho
i Ugpapln. M-oiptiifn. nmiial ioanutK-itta
->)' i - unaM of printing and I.M>k-In iii
ft jAtluaoaihioal Utatmapntn, Ar. fleron.i
I,m th Duprinwi of the Dwtdtig,_t<
. which ia assigned the balcony siro* on
u tli# left of the main Here wifl
e be found all article* necessary fur heose
... keeping—range#, refrig.Tatora, iora,
t raipaka, upholstery, entJrry. fie., illdu
,, j sifted and groaned* - third, ia the De
„ parttmmt of Dr<-* and Handicraft
u wbsxein will be displayed aii manner of
■ * carina appard. for gao tinmen
and children, sewing-machines, jewelry.
a ; ribbons, meerschaum*; needlaa, and toe
, thousand and one article* with wbn h
r i ladtaa perform th#-tr work. Ponrtli, ia
f, tba Department of Ckeaustcy and Min
r j eratagy, when- are to be found soaps,
j . candle*. oil#, India rubber good*.
j medninwa. Ac. Fifth, in 1% Depart
' meat of Engine# and Machinery, afcer*
% ' there are engine of all kinda, pamtnup
' f hioerr foTworkjng i#
j | machinery for preparing fibre# and tin
*U.--S miM-hiaer* for grinding aud .-m-ii
. i tug grain, and innbairia#' toala of all
t f kind* ftinb. ia the Jtepartiamt of In
. j veroomm uaioati. n, where locomotives,
{steamships, mmigm, trnCMmL jpWgha,
v 1 trteprapbie kpfjaratu*. are exhibited, to
, igether with the Brarhinary far prodoe-
Ifng aeitain portions of these articles
1 Sevnub. and leak, ia b# Hapantawmt of
. j Agncabwreand Hortteultimu, Here will
. b# found plants, flower*, fruit*, vageta
. blot, lmtter, rboeae, plow#, and a general
r j assortment of agricultural implements
, A •• Potato-Knre" hi lewr Hampshire. i
• ( A correspondent of tb# Boston Athmr
]#sr write# from East Wilton, X. H.,
I that outdoor athletic exenaae# are the
> 1 faahion, and oo# of the DOVCHMM la the
< potato-raw, which i# thus described, A
t i very eurioaa trial of speed and -f*rtnflfb"
•I it ia. BUM bnaa of petotcas wcnlanL
Each line ia of fifty sack a yard from
' j each other. Of roars* each line ia forty
; j nine yard# long. At the end of each line
II ia a baaket, br which at the dart a #oo
iteetant ataoda In thi eaae there are
three eompetitom. At the word u go,"
each one begins where be nhnoaaa an hit
kne to pick up potetoea that ho mar
, bring them to the lia#ket. lie ma* pick
;i no lmt one an each trip, and turn An
, bring it back to the basket. Tow
mathematical reader* will see that this
IN TO! TO* aeTcn thousand three hundred
* and fifty feet of running, wfth rech de
duetkma as may be made for an out
' atretched arm, when one romai to Ui>
• baaket; and, with the aeriona addition
of two tana of arety potato, or one bun
idred turn* in all. ibrtwajuoted oon
teetanta entcn-d. and oxe of them, nam
ed "Tbrakber," diidlnguiabed here aa
; having won a tab mm in the last apart*, i
!*hrh were aquatic, performed that (eat
in a little more than nine minutes. The
other tmo were ek*e behind him. If you
ba*e erer any oocwcionto try, let me tell
' 1 you that the scientific performance mto
1 1 take your long ram first when your wind
' is good. When you want to regain wont
breath, take your abort nana, which tn
rolr# the deluy of turning, bat ore easier
for braathing. You aae bow nood the
time was for a distance of a mil.- and a
; half.
Heartr Mappers. '
It requires about fire hour* for the
stomach to work on aa ordinary taaal
and pass it oat of itself, whan ii falls into
a state of repose. Hence, if a uia eats
three times a day, kis stomach mast
work fifteen hours of the twenty-fear.
After a night's sleep we wake up with
a certain amount erf bodily rigor, which
1 lafkithfaffly pwUonadonttoereqraat of
muscles, each its rightful ah sure, the,
stomach among other*. Whan the exter
nal body get# weary after a long liar's
work the stomach bears its share of the
fatigue ; bat if, when the IKHIJ is weary
with the day's toil, we pat it to bed,
giving the stomach meanwhile a five
bourrtswk, winch most h<* performed#
1 we impose upon the very beet friend we •
bare; the one that cives the largest
amount of earthly enjoy m.-nta; mid if
this overtaxing i* continued it must as
certainly wear out prematurely a# the
body itself will if It is overworked every (
And if persona eat between meals, than i
tba stomach haa no rest from breakfast j
in the morning, until one, two, three or ;
four o'clock the next day ; hence it is that I
so mi\y persona have dyspepsia; the
stomach is worked so much and en cam- 1
' utantly. that it becomes too Weak to work j
iat all. It is to be hoped that every istel-
I bgent parent wiU prea# these ttuags on 1
the attention of their duidrsnae a matter j
of cooertenoc, becsnee dyspepeia like |
t consumption, has its foundations laid
'ia a luge majority of cases during the j
, "**" of Ufa- .; , . .
War ta the Oeeaa.
Immense quantities of ceptSn are need
■s bait for catching codfish. The shoals
1 of caplin ore so great that a boat can
t frequently be tilled in a oonple of hours
by two men. with a binding-net. Mil
i liotim too, are carted away by the taraera,
and when mixed with earth and bog make
a fertilising manure. The rorariouecod
enjoy a rare feast daring the sis weeks
that the caplin continue on the coast and
devour the delicate creatures by mrriads. ,
It is an intaraating sight to stand, on a j
i Lae moonlight night, and watch the ar
rival of a shoal ot caplin in <me of oat-'
bays- The surface of the ocean is com
! pletelv covered with the moving mesa, j
The greedy cod, in serried ranks, dash j
upon their prey, bortadiu? ever Jhe]
waves, and refieoting the of the
moon from their eUrmry enrfanea War
is raging, though the conflict goes on in
dead silence amid the water*—no sound
proceeds frdta victor or vanquished.
Death is ss busy amid these ocean soli
tudes as on the land. Here is a vast'
shoal of caplin flying fbr life towards the
shore, and a boat of cod pursues them
open-mouthed, taking them in flank and
rear. The destruction is enormous j
but such is the profusion of life that
little impression is made on the living
mass.
PimmAjcr.— A co-operative milliner
and dressmaking house in London is
founded on share# It contains every
cemfort for forty young ladien. They
work never longer than eight hoar*
daily. A piano, a large library, instruc
tion in different branches of science,
gvmnaatio exercises, and visitors fill their
leisure time. Two French forewomen
and two lady superintendent* manage the
business and the house. Their fifteen
hundred customers, belonging to the
highest ranks, are at the same time
shareholders. The second year, 18t>7,
when the writer visited London, it gave a
dividend of six per cent, to the share
holders ; and after distributing 810,219
to the workiog women as their part on
shares, a fund of 8600 was left The
general behavior is excellent.
Bsverrex* emigrants ware injured,
sod a lady, whoa# nam# waa not ssoer
lain ad, had bar neck broken by aa aam>.
dent on the Detroit and Milwanka# Bail-1
road, n#ar Lindan atatioa. j
j
Heading the Payer.
1 'Had be bis* readme irflk# **
At heme, Mk Jia£ I
nib**iwatthai
: Parts and Faartes, K r
Who waa Richard theTWM before be
waa " himself again f
Nearlr 200, t0 #li. - p hnnrv c* the
biues of the Hakivraa HrranHtn*
Lo the poor Indlr.H
000 swiK aoourduig t . Qwlfiaf ewttaus.
The near style of IMHM in three
| colors arc mlled' 1 Ihg " patch work 0O
turns* **
Agar* Hormaa, aged fifteen, flj© Lon
don child mawlwrnr. bean sesiteneed
to too years*penal s#rviliiil*i,
A shrewd pulitii-ian says that he al
ways jinlirt# of tto characb rof s boos*
by the cleanliness of the hack yard.
IBsicriet* teaehiw tlnt ! yi£ia.ig weaols
o.niriifa| g ash/'-ol art not nsiw-bißy in
telligant whsntwenty-fv# yrarv dd. '
, }LL>
S^IBSSSSSHK.'
Mr. B. F. Htdwmcrboni mails a < low
log prayer to tlir ftclt **fil 1 hitch
Reformed Churh. and sat down and died
immddlsMy.
It ia not diegraecf a] to any one who i#
poor to conlem hi* poverty; bat the
mArnwrtrnt one's self to escape .poverty
Itarsizsttsz, tfst
and an age of sorrow rod change cannot
efface the impression.
Humility i tic Aral lemon we lean
from reflection, and If-dfeilra*t tba
flrot proof we give of baring obtained a
knoaledge of ourenlvea.
liroataXew Yoitrity something tor
printing ami stationary. During tba
vrar lbflfiand lflRI. sa|n part of I*7l,
the grand total paid was
Where aemmity gods eoriority be
gins ; and no sooner tm we supplied
vrith everytidng thai Wstore tm de
mand than we sit down to arti
ficial appeiitos
A ton-year old hoy on Long Inland,
while running dodged the outstretched,
hand of another hov.auod struck fall
against hitehing-pok He toll on his
book, and with am cry of jmtn. died.
Stem Parent—"LMVS off" thai noma
diißull.i, yuu naughty hoyd—lPs all
uOVj | Wmm | mMßEwflHwlfl, 4BHHI ej^K
tlws# ton mural**," Jiek-herthM be
gan crying before t did t 800 hoc !"
Plain and ogfy women may take eom
fort dan Watorv haa aalfifacihiiiTjr
proved thai'the women in all timea,
who tmre nartaead llm gwaAaet laflnenee
on man's lives, are rot the beaatifal
onm.
Tifei inßtt* S"" xsr,
i tor ritk n floe horse and baggy m m
evidence <rf their appreemiKm of hie
i paper We hope there *fl he no sack
I A - A,, ~I„—,, * , . ■!,. M I*" 'WTKUFIS AART, M if,, F*
! tartcK puiTPi opoo ■wyixxijr iMtft*►
L A young fellow who erantod aoeM
i money rest to a man and aaked htm to
advance htm five' doOsr- Wliff
1 etid he, 44 1 don't know yoo." " That
t why I came hero," answered the
other, "for those who know me want
lend me five Shilling#. **
Women*# frreaa.
Harriet X. Anatia, M. D„ up i It is
terrible the hardehipa which women enffer
on aaaonnt of the style of diem which
they are almost forc4to wror, and mmt
of them fed It to he no. flilwwwnaA
who doe# feel It aboalflssasrt hr right
ao far at toast to wear in her home a
costume in which ah# can work w real,
1 stand ap, ait down, or lit down, Wash or
•PW, cook or trot 1 '* beds, go tip chamber
or down oeltor, withoal huadnnaa or
obstruction We, the woartt of our
home, air determined that Wewfltnet
t M miiitfini t# theimaiHittansof fash
ion and custom, ia this ngaid, sad we
bare in vented n style of dnaa, which we
call the American costume, and in the
! rraring of which we exeerienm itn
•o coauaeods it-elf to the judgment and
good eenee of the women who eomeha
ns as patients that it Is ndoptofl byttto-m
in vwy large mraanre,and the opportu
nity to wear it in peace, they prise aa
one of the gwatost fflmsittg* of toe u
■titattoa. The objact erf tou oostame is
te afford complete protection to every
I#.rt of the while the free, natural
action of no mnacle or iwgan is inter
fered with. Thecostomrisfitted nicely,
lmt #o easy aboot the cheat and shimldera
that the arms can be nsed freriy, the
htnjr* expanded, and tba ribe thrown
out to Ike fultoei extant without restric
tion ; the stomach is free from pressure,
aD heavy, heating nndertitirto are dis
pensed with, and faaade Of under gar
menta ramoved. akirta and drawem being
supported by #uspende or torttoning x
to wrll-fitting, wnpletenodarmtit. The
Skirts are short; and the lower limbs are
rlttlhcd with paotaloon fiwfiaMil,
A fiss Mmm-A fish myvtorv ia
troubling Comeil BSnflh i Bpoiw Lake,
a placid sheet of Wafer ww ihatotty, haa ,
nevei WD known tooonfean fish "to
any extent" until recently, whan its
watora not oalyjswanaed with myriadaof
cotne in eneh enorwtow numbers that
the waves wa* thmntogh and dry on
the ahote where they li inee-di% dead
and putrafying. The flak tradeia Omaha
andOor.ncil Blaffr ha* became prodigi
ona. lbs fish seem to be greatly aston
ished at their new surroundings, and
stick their heads from the water and
ot* n their months as if they wanted air.
A Kttie bov takes a fiat board and wadea
into the water and in ton minutes throw#
out as many fish aa A wagon ran carry,
varying in aright from two... to five
ponndn People who have lived in the
neighborhood for years declare the phe
nomenon unprecedented, and vanous
wild theories are pot forth ha exphumtion.
The provident belief is that the swarm
earn# into the lake by a aobtemnean
peaMHta, during a fete atom, while a few
VraZbfe observers contend that the
Miasoori overflowed its banks and flooded
the laks with catfish and perch.
CUM of GOLD Pnat-d have, mys a
correspondent, some gold fish, about a
a doaen, ia a glass jar, such as qonfec
tionera use for candies. I give them
fresh water every day, but evert morn
ing I find one or more dead. Can you
fleu me the cause and the remedy, and
what food, if any, is good tor tnem ?
Thev dieof starvation, of omrta, bemuse
you'do not feed them. hto**vPeopl . i
suppose that fish in globe* will find food
enough in the animaculre in tiie water,
if the latter be changed every day. But
it it a mistaken idea. Fish in globe*
must be fed at least twice a Week. The
bird and fane* fish dealers will tell you
where to get the paste that is given for
food. Where the water is bring contin
ually changed, as in fish fountains, of
ooorae the flsh can find provender for
themselves.
THX ROTHSCNRLDS.— The firm was es
tablished at Frankfort in 1771, by Meyer
Au.*lm. Being left an orphan, he obtain
ed employment in a bank at Hanover,
and bv his industry and economy suc
ceeded hi amassing a little capital, with
which he founded his own establishment
In 1801 he waa appointed agent for the
Elector of Heaoe, whose fortune be saved,
at the risk of his own, when the French
army entered that State. For that *er
viee the Emperor <rf Austria gave title#
of nobility to all the members of the
family, with the motto, to which ttgy
have always remained foithtol, " <■*-
eerdia, ImdvMra, Inttgriku." The founder
of the dynastyleft ten children, of whom
the youngest was ft* Baron James,
NO. 37.