Lettering Years. Ah! years have loitered by, mother, A weary, weary while. Since last I saw thy gentle fee*, With its sweet, patient smile ; Binee last I felt thy fingers light 1W fondly through my hair, As at thy knee 1 knelt at night To say my childish prayer. Into the world I've gone, mother. The old home left oehind New ties of friendship and of love Ahoul mi heart have twined ; Tet in ite holiest reoeee. AH dry and joyleee etilk There liee one well of tenderneee No earthly love can fill. Thv aelf-fergetfnl care, mother: Thy oouneel, ever neer : Thv eympathy with every joy, Thv grief for every tear ; Thy loving glance, thy tender tone, Thy warm kiee on my brow - Tone from my Ufe, forever gouc ! 1 know their value now. Aa Editor'* Table. Will M. Carleton, in s recent poem, drawn the following picture of en editor's tehle : The editor eat in his sanctum, his countenance forrowed with care. Hi* mini! at the bottom of buainees. his feet at the top of a chair. Hi* chair-arm n elbow enpportin,:. his right hand upholding hie hesd. Hi* even on hi* dnety old table, with different documents spread. There were thirty long negee from Howler, with underlined capitals topped. And a short requisition from Growler, request ing his newspaper aiopprti; There were lyrics horn Gueher. the poet, frvn corning eweet fionreta and zephyr*. Ami a stray gem tr. o IVodder, the farmer, de ecribins a couple of heifer* : There were billet* from beautiful maidens, and hill* from a gr-cer or two. And hi* best loader hitched to s letter which inquired if he wrote it or who T There were raptures of praise* from writer*, of the smooth and mclHfiiious school. And one ot his rival's last papers, informing him he was a fool; There were several long ree-dutione, with names telling whom they were by, Oanomxing some harmless old hrother who had done nothing worse than to die; There were t rape on that table to catch htm and serpents to sting ami emtio him ; There were gift enterprises to **ll him, and bitters attempting to bite htm ; There wren- King, staring "ad*" from the city, and money with never a one, Which ae.de "Please give this insertion, and send in your lull when you're done." There were'letter* from organization*—Uivti meeting*, the-r want* and their law*— Which eaid ' Can vou print this announcement Kir—the good of enr glorious cause f" , 1 hoi r were tickets inviting hi* presence to fes tival*. parties and shows. Wrapped in note*, with "Please give us a no t ee," demurely slipped fn at the cloee ; In ahort. aa bis eye took the table, and ran oVr its ink-epatl.red trash. There was nothing it did not encounter ; ex cepting, perhaps—it waa Cash. CONDEMNED BY A CLOCK. BY V ILK IE COLLINS. tin a summer evening, some years ago, a man was (Mind murdered in a field near a certain town in tbe West of England. The name of tbe field was " Pardon's Piece." Tbe man was a small carpenter and builder in tbe town, who bore an indiffer ent character. On the evening in ques tion, a distant relative erf It*, employed a* farm bailiff by a gentleman iq the neigh borhood. happened to be passing a stile which led from tbe field into a road, and saw a gentleman (earing the field byway of this attic rather in a hurry. He recog nized the gentleman (whom he knew by sight only) as a Mr. Dubourg. The two passed each other on the road in opposite directions. Alter a certain lapse of time—estimated as being half an hoar—the farm bailiff had occasion to pas* back along the same road. On reaching the stile be heard an alarm raised, and en tered tbe field to see what was tbe mat ter. He found several persons running from the farther side of Pardon's Piece toward a boy who was standing at the back of a cattle-shed, in a remote part of the inekwure. screaming with terror. At the boy's feet lay, face downward, the dead body of a man, with his head horribly beaten in. His watch was under him. hanging oat of his pocket by the chain. It bad stopped—evidently in consequence of the concussion of it* owner's fall on it—at half past eight. Tbe body waa still warm. All the other valuable*. like the watch, were left no it. The farm bailiff instantly recognized the man as the carpenter and builder men turned above. At the preliminary inquiry, tbe stoppage of the watch at half-past e ght was taken as offering good circumstantial evidence that the blow which had killed the man had been struck at that time. The next question was—if any one had been aeen near the body at half past eight ? Tbe farm bailiff declared that he had met MrjDubourg hastily leaving the field by tbe stile at that very time. Asked-if he had looked at his watch, he owned that he had not done aa Certain previous cir cumstances, which he mentioned as having impressed themselves on his memory, en abled htm to feel sure of tbe truth of this assertion without having consulted bis watch. He was pressed on this important Cut, but he held to bis declaration. At 1 past eight be had seen Mr. Dubourg hurriedly leave the field. At half-past eight the watch of the murdered man had topped. Had any other person been observed in or near the field at that time ? No witness could be discovered who had seen anjr body else near tbe place. Had tbe weapon turned up with which tbe blow had been struck 1 It bad not been found. Was any one known (robbery hav ing plainly not been tbe motive of tbe crime) to bare entertained a grudge against tbe murdered man. It was no secret that be aasoriated with doubtful characters, male and female; but suspicion foiled to s point to any one of tbetn in particular. In this state of things there was no al- I tentative but to request Mr. Dubourg— well known, in and out of tbe town, as a voting gentleman of independent fortune, bearing aa excellent character—to give some account of himself. He immediately admitted that be bad passed through the field. But, in contra diction to the farm bailiff, he declared that he bad looked at bin watch at tbe moment before he crossed the utile, and that the time by it was exactly a quarter past eight. Fire minutes later—that is to say, ten minutes before the murder had been committed, on the evidence of the dead man's watch—he had paid a visit to a lady living near Pardon's Piece, and had re mained with her until his watch, consulted once m- re on leaving tbe lady's house, in formed him that it was a quarter to nine. Here was the defence called an "alibi." It entirely satisfied Mr. Duboarg's friends. To satisfy justice also it was necessary to call tbe lady as a witness. In tbe mean time another purely formal question was put to Mr. Dubourg. Did he know any thing of the murdered man ? With some appearance of confusion, Mr. Dubourg admitted that he bad been in duced (by a friend) to employ tbe man on some work. Further interrogation ex tracted from him the following statement of facts: That the work had been very badly done; that an exorbitant price had been charged for it; that the man, on being re monstrated with, had behaved in a grossly impertinent manner; that an altercation had taken place between them; that Mr. Dubourg had seized the man by tbe collar of his coat, and had turned him out of the house; that he had called the man an in fernal scoundrel (being in a passion at {do time), and bad threatened to "thrash him within an inch of his life" (or words to that effect) if he ever presumed to come near tbe bouse again; that he bad sincere ly regretted his own violence tbe moment he recovered his self-possession; and lastly, that, on his oatb, (the altercation having occurred six weeks ago), he bad never spo ken to tbe man, or set eyes on the man, since. •• As the matter then stood, these circum stances were considered as being unfortu nate circumstances for Mr. Dubourg— nothing more. He had bis "alibi" to ap peal to, and his character to appeal to; and BO body doubted the result The lady appeared as witness. Confronted with Mr. Dubourg on the question of time, and forced to answer, she absolutely contradicted him, on the testimony of tbe clock on her own mantel piece. In substance, her evidence was sim ply this. She had looked at her clock when Mr. Dubourg entered tbe roem, thinking it rather a late boor for a visitor to call on her. The clock (regulated by the maker only the day before) pointed to twenty-five minutes to nine. Practical experiment showed that tbe time required to walk the distance, at a rapid pace, from the stile to the lady's house, was just five minute*. Here, then, was the statement KRED. KURTZ, Editor ami Proprietor. VOL. IV. of the form bailiff (himself a reapectabl* witness) convtviraud by another witness of excellent position ami character. The clock, on living examined next, wat touml to l> right. The evidence of the clock makcr proved that he kept the key, ami that there had lieen no ncccesitr to set the clock ami *iml tt up pci formed both those act* on the day pie coding Mr. Dubourg's visit. The accuracy ot the chick thus vouched for. the conclu sion on the •viilcuee was irresistible. Mr. Dubourg stood convicted of having lieen in the Held at the time when the murder was committed: of having, bv hi own admis sion. had a quarrel with the muideml man not long before, (rmmiating in an as sault and a threat on bia side ; and, lastly, id having attempted to act up an alibi by a false statement of the question of time. There was no alternative but to eottun't him to take his trial at the Assise*. charged with the murder of the builder in Pardon's Piece. The trial occupied two dsys. No new fact* of importance wen? discov ered in the interval. Tbe evidence fol lowed the course which it had taken at the preliminary examinations—with this diff erence only, that it was more caretully sifted. Mr. Dubourg had the double ail rant Age of securing the service* of the lead ing luirrbter in the circuit, and of moving the irrepressible sympathi-.w of the jury, shocked at his pout ion. and eager for proof of his innocence. By the end ol the first day the evidence had told against him wiih ucb irresistible force that his own counsel despaired of the result. When theprion er took his place in the dock ou the second dav tbote was but one conviction in the mind* of the people in court; everybody said, "The clock will hang him." It wis nearly two in the afternoon ; and the proceedings were on ttie point of being adjourned tor half an hour, when the at torney for the prisoner was seen to band a paper to the counsel for the defense. The counsel rose, showing signs of agita tion which roused the curiosity of the au dience. He dtmanded the immediate bearing of a uew witness, whose evidence in the prisoner's favor he declared to be too important to be delayed for a single moment. After a short colloquv between the judge and the barrister* on cither side, the Court decided to continue the sittiug. The witness, appearing in the box, proved to be a young woman in delicate health. On the evening when the prisoner had paid his visit to tbe lady she ra* in that lady's service as housemaid. The day after she had been permitted (by previous arrangement with ber mistress) to take a week's holiday, and to go on a visit to her parents, in the wet erf Cornwall. While there she had fallen ill, ami had not been strong enough since to return to ber em ployment. Having given this preliminary account of herself, the housemaid then nar rated tbe-following extraordinary particu lars in relation to her mistress's clock. On the morning of the day when Mr. Dubourg had called at the house she had been cleaning the mantel piece. She had rubbed the part of it which was under the clock with her duster, had accidentally struck the pendulum, and had stopped it. Having once before done this, she had been severely reproved. Fearing that a repeti tion of the offense, only the day after the clock had been regulated bv tbe maker, might lead perhaps to the withdrawal of her leave of absence, she had determined to put matters right again, if possible, by herself. After poking under the clock in the dark, and failing to set the pendulum going again properly in that way. she next at tempted to lift the clock, and give it a shake. It was set in a marble case, with a bronze figure on the top, and it was so heavy that she was obliged to hunt for something which she could u*e as a lever. The thing proved to be not easy to find on the spur of the moment. Having at last laid her hand on what she wanted, abe contrived so to lift the clock a few inches and drop it again on tbe mantel-piece as to set it going once more. The next necessity was. of oonrae, to move tbe bands on. Here again abe was met by an ob|pc!e. There was a difficulty in opening the glass case which protected the dial. After uselessly searching for some instrument to help her, she got from the footman fwithout telling bim what she wanted it for) a small cbmeL With this she opened the case—after accidentally scratcning the brass frame of it—and set tbe band* of the clock by gueu. She was flurried at tbe time, fearing that her mis trcas would discover her. later in tb<- day she found that she bad over-estimated tbe intenal of time that had passed while sbe was attempting to put the clock right. She had, in (act, set it exactly a quarter of an hour too fa*t. No safe opportunity of secretly puttine the clock right again bad occurred until tbe last thing at night. She had then moved tbe hands back to the right time. At the hour of tie evening when Mr. Du bourg had called on her mistress she posi tively swore that the clock was a quarter of an" hour too fost. It had pointed, as her mistress bad declared, to twenty-five min ute# to nine—the right time then being, as Mr. Duborrg had asserted, twenty min utes past eight. Questioned as to why she hsd refrained from giving this extraordinary evidence at tbe inquiry before the magistrate, she de clared that in tbe distant Cormb village to which she bad gone the next day, and in which hrr illness had detained her from that time, nobody had hc-ard of the inauiry or the trial. She would not have been then pi event to state the vitallr important circumstanecfl to which she had just sworn if tbe prrioner's twin brother bad not found her out on the previous day, had not questioned her if she knew anything about the clock, and had not (hearing what abe had to tell) insisted on her taking tbe jour ney with him to tbe court tbe next morn ing. This evidence virtually decided the trial. There" was a great burst of relief in the crowded assembly when the woman's state ment had come to an end. She was closely cros*-exmined, as a matter of course. Her character was in quired into; corroborative evidence (rela ting to the chisfl and the scratches on the frame) was sought for, and was obtained. The end of it was that, at a late hour on thesccond evening, tlicjury acquitted the prisoner without, leaving their box. It was not too much to aay that hit life had been saved by his brother. His brother •alone had persisted, from first to last, in obstinately disbelieving the clock—for no better reason than that the clock was the witness which asserted the prisoner's guilt! He had worried every body with incessant inquiries ; be had discovered the absence of the house-maid after the trial bad begun; and he bad started off to interrogate the girl, knowing nothing and suspecting noth ing—simply determined to persist in the one everlasting question with which he persecuted every body: "The clock is going to hang my brother; can you tell me any thing about the clock ?" Four months later the mystery of the crime was cleared up. One of the disrep utable companions of the murdered man confessed on bis death-bed that be had done the deed. There was nothing interesting or remarkable in the circumstances. Chance, which bad put innocence in peril, had offered impunity to guilt. An infa mous woman, a jealous ouarrel, and an ab sence at the moment of witnesses on the spot—these were really the commonplace materials which had composed the tragedy of Pardon's Piece. The Digger Indians of the Pacific coast have an unpleasant custom, when a squaw dies leaving an infant, of burying the thild with her. CENTRE HALL REPORTER. Anecdotes of (iirartl, The benevolent Samuel Coatee, one of the director* of the Pennaylvnuta hospital, met Mr. Girard on the street, and told hiiu the hospital wauled fuuda, and was about to ask him for a dona tion. *■ Well," said Mr. Girard. "call at liiv eountiug-house in the mnriitttg, and if you find me on a right footiuK I will do eonrothiug for the institution." Mr. Coatee called, as agreed, tin I was invited to take some breakfast (for Mr. Girard resided most of his time over his counting-hotiae), after which Mr. I Civitea ot (served : " Now we will proceed to busineas." " Well, what have you come for Sam uel ?'' "Whatever thee pleaaeo. Stephen." Girard then signed am) preaauted a check for S2OO, which Mr. Coatea put j IU Ins pwket without examitiiug. "What!"said Girard, in his broken English, " vou no look at the check I •• No ; beggars must not be choosers, i Stephen." " Hand me liack the check I gave < you," said Girard, " No, no, Stephen ; a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." "By George ! " exclaimeil Girard, " you have .-auglit tne ou the right footing." He then drew a check for and preaenfßfo it to Mr. C please thee, Stephen, I will," said Cortes. "Now, give me hick the first check," demanded Gintrd, and Coates immedi ately complied with the request. It is customary to relate the ab ve anecdote with the amounts in thousands; but a cq eful examination of Mr. Girard's books and jiapen# warrants the strove figures. Mr. Giranl was so constantly giving, that he rarely made douations in thousands. Had he done so. a greater fortune than his would hare been im paired, and the thousands of orphans who have become useful citizens through his bountv would have been friendless. When the Baptist clum-h was building in Sanson! street, Philadelphia, Dr. Staughton called on Mr. Girml for aid toward its erection. Girard was cold and formal, and without saying a word, ! presented a check for 8500. which Staugh ton received with astonishment, saying that he had expected 81,000 at least. " Ah, let me am- the check ; perha|a I have made one mistake, 'said the French man. Staughton returned the docu ment, which Girard immediately de stroyed, saving at the same time, •'WeU, Mr. Staughton, if yon will not take what I will give, I will give nothing." The Doctor left a wiser man, but carried his heart in his throat. Giranl never went to church, and as he regarded no sect more than another, he gave to all dike, for he lielieved that the building of churches should lie encouraged be cause they improved the city and in creased the value of property He gave SoOO to the Episcopal Methodists to build their church on Tenth strict, in the same city. This building was after wards changed to the Gothic stvle and sold to the Episcopalians, who now occupy it uuder the name of St Steph en's (Lurch. A deputation from the new adherents called on Mr. Giranl. They expected a large donation on account of the gran deur of their plans as compared with those of the former owner*. They ex piated upon their proposed new edifice-, but Mr. Girard listened in silence, and, calling for his check-book, filled up the blank for five hundred dollar*. Ther were for a moment stnick dumb with surprise, when their sjiokeman said : "You gave five Unnured dollars to the poor Methodists ; you have surely omit ted a cypher." " Ah ! gentlemen," said Giranl,"what you say? I have made one mistake; let me see—l believe not; but if TOU say so, I must correct it" I'pon which he destroyed the check, saying : " I will not contribute one cent. Your society is wealthy—the Methodists are |HX>r ; but I make no distinction, yet I j cannot please you." He then waited a moment, as if iu meditation, and then proceeded : " You remind mo of the rieh man iu the Gospel. He would not lie content with the blessings which at- j tended his agricultural toil*, hut was so covetous that when his granary would not hold his abundant crops lie erected new building* for that pupnse rathf-r tlwn distribute liis surplus among the suffering tioor. Profit by his fate, gen tlemen—l will give nothing to your magnificent church." GRADES. —Railroad engineers will lie ' interested in knowing that recent re ports from Switzerland seem to indicate , that such steep grades as that of the' Mount Rigi Railroad, even with the ex orcisc of the greatest precautions, are not entirely safe. An ascending pas-' senger tram on this well-known road was recently stopped by the inability of the locomotive to carry it any further. All the brakes were npplied as tight as possible, but absolutely without effect; tie train began to slip down gradually and was soon bevond the control of the engineer and brAesmen, w hen the timely arrival of another train with a fresh en gine fortunately averted a shocking ac cident. The slipping train had acquired but little velocity, otherwise it would have been impossible to hold it, even bjr means of the other locomotive. DECIDED. —The Pans Uaulnit gives, in a paragraph signed "Un Domino," the following anecdote almut Hir Walter Scott: " When the celebrated romancer had finished 'Quentin Durward,* he offered the youngest of his daughters, on whom he hail not yet settled a dowry, £4,000 or his last novel. Miss Scott re plied, blushing, that before taking a resolution on tne subject. she wished to read the manuscript. Hardly hail she received it before sne ran to lier father's bookseller, who immediately gnve £I,BOO for the novel. The young lady returned to the house enchanted, and said to her father, blushing, that she preferred the novel to £4,000, and the poor man, cre dulous as poets and fathers are, wept with emotion in the arms of his daughter, who blushed anew." AN EXTRAORDINARY boicNAMßtrusrr. In Mt. Vernon, Indians, there is an in teresting "old citizen," of whom a local pajier says : He will attend a church and listen to a sermon, aud that night he will repeat the sermoa in his sleep verbatim et literatim. He has been known to listen to lectures on scientific subjects, that he knew no more altout than a hog, and would repeat the lecture in his sleep, so with public speeches. He is an illiterate man, using commonplace language, yet, when under the influence of somnambu lism, uses the most chaste language. MAPS. —During the operations of the Versailles army around insurgent Paris, the only map in possession of the offi cers, (I will not say of Marshal Mac- Mahon, but very probably he waa no exception, for the engineer corps were not) was a thirteen cent map of Paris, as inaccurate as could be. Yet a first class map of Paris was to be hud for 82 and at a few honrs' notice. The lessons 1 taught during the Fran so-German war i of 1870-71 are tee hard fer Frenchmen ! to learn ! CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25), 1871. Among the Mliukt-r*. A eorreepondcnt who hm l*-ou among i tin' Icliauoii Shaker*. iv* : The Shaker orMleuieut, foundedm IT9O, is a rematk üble picture of lieatuc**, and at the same time,romance, The tall, clmu.syiuctrical houses dot uloug under the hills, and great dower and seed gardens show patches of lirilliunt color that contra*!* with all the delicacy of nature's artistic haudtwork agiunst the dark greens of the pines and spruces. l)owu the vil lage streets may he seen squad* of men ! and women wending their way to the meeting house, while now ami then a load of believer* roll in from Canaan, itrick Yard and New Lelianon families. • There is no aouud of church-bell, but, borne along ou the breeze, one may hear the tinkle of those at the Spriugs. I'he Shaker* are uot believers of uoiae jof any description. In their houses ; they walk on tip-toe, are firm believer* in Beujaiuiu Fraukliu's motto, that a door ahould never bo slanimed, and speak in subdued whisper*. The meet -1 itig-house is a long and imposing build ing, some 150 feet in length by 75 or I lUO feet in height. Along the side wall are arranged ascending benches for the accommodation of visitors, the male* being seated ou one end, the females on another. The floor fairly shines from scrubbing, and is waxed, as that of a ball-room. The male and female mem- Imra of the community are separated af ter the aanie fashion as the guests, aud prereut a very picturesque appearance. The vnmeu are dressed IU a light gray stuff, spotless white kerchiefs around their throats, and the dantiest and most immaculate caps IIJHIU their lieoda. Here j aud there may be caught u glimpse of ! s fresh, youug and beautiful girlish face, j but as a rule, the women are elderly,and present a comfortable, happy appear > suce that savors but httle of the ascetic save in the peculiarly waxy jMtllor of | their faces, which arises more from ! the absence of wrat from their daily diet than from any other cause. This (tailor, though, does not sxtend to the ; ineu. They are sinewy sons of toil, and their ham!* and faces are bronzed and tiardcned from laboriug in tlie fields. Like the women, they, too, are uniform lr clad in suite of homespun, and wear their hair m a peculiar fashion, the front j heiug cut short, like thst of the beau ■ ties in Charles the Second's merry day*, while, behind, it is allowed to grow long and flowing. Seated opjtosite each other, for IBM I time, the men and women maintain a ' jterfect silence. Their hands folded, and ou the face of each a calm look of : reflection. Then one of the elder men I arise* and apeaks to his companions, thanking Hcaveu that they liave lw-eu j allowed to meet together for another ; Sabbath ; that they have become so (icrfeet ; that they are at peacs with all j j men ; that so much peace has bosu ae ; corded to them, aud that prosperity has lieeti given to the labor of their hands, j One continued prayer, in fact, of thanks to the God whom we all. Christian, and Infidel alike, worship and recognize. As the speaker ur>e his companions have arisen with him.aud when be has ceased, one oi the nunilmr has started the first note* of a hymn, and soon it i* taken up by all the number until it swells into ] one great monotonous eliorus, acrotnpa ! uied liy a shuffle of the dancing feet of the worship)**-r*. The ilauce consists of a one, two, three shuffle, and now aud then, the dancers will stop, while one of rticm again returns thanks to God, that ao much gTsec has been granted to j them. The f ices at the sjx-ctators are u curious study during this jN-rformauce. <>u some lurks a covert sneer, and on , others an almost irrepressible unite ; but, for the most jiarf, they are marked : by an interest, aud, in some cases, rev- j : erence. that is very noteworthy. The , thought is plainly visible that these casual spectators have been taught that, ; althotigSi the form of worship of tlie |>eopte before them may bo eccentric and peculiar to their eyes, still it is earn est, honest, and evidently the offspring of s firm conviction. The fouuders of the sect, so runs the Shaker tradition, , were moved by the spirit in just this mnnner, and ao their descendants follow out the doings of their ancestors. The singing and dancing concluded, beuchos are quietly brought, the broth ers and sisters sit, and he who has been , selected to deliver the discourse stejs quietly forward on tip-toe, and t>egins to s|>eak. The discourse is delivered towards the visiting sjiectatora, and is almost invariably a defence of the Shaker doctrine. The Suicidal Mania. It is said that an ancient law-giver once put a stop to a suicidal mams among the young women of lii.v country by ordering the bodies of all who took their own lives to be exposed naked to the public view. ; The dread of that which was to come after ; death, the ignominy of ex)>osure and the insult* of the iMbble, was relied upon to J stay the fatal hand, and is recorded to : hnvc justified the faith reposed in it. j To mark its reprehension of suicides, the ( Athenian law cut off the hand which dealt the blow ; and for centuries the old common law of England ordained the burial of the self-murderer in the high- J wav with a stake through the body. As , public opinion would not tolerate any of ; these usages now, unless, perhaps, the , exposure, half-naked, at the Morgue of the men and women who drown them selves be an exception ; and these nag< s are pretty much all that mankind lias devised to deter from suicide, it becomes a question whether somo ignotninnus i punishment might not !>c awarded such wretches as are arrested in the net of suicide before their purpose can be crrricd into execution. Iu England, if , such person is found under the influence < of liquor, he is put away in jail for a month or so to get sober ; if lunatic, he is sent to the asylum ; and in case he is j toler and well-to-do,a heavy fine is added i to the imprisonment. It would l>e well i if this were the course of law in the ( United States. Every now nnd then we j read of some would-be suicide pulled out i of the water, or cut down from a tree , limb or rafter, or otherwise prevented . from self-murder, und yet no pain or 1 penalty is inflicted. But a few days since a man was overpowered by the police just 1 as he was about to blow his brains out, j and tliat was the end of it, instead of i some ignominious punishment having been awarded. FOOLED HlM. —ltecently, two persons i traveling on the road to Gotham in a < light wagon, were smoking cigars, from i the fire of which same straw at the bot tom ignited. The flames soon drove them ' from their seats, and while busy ex tin- < guinhing the fire a countryman who had < been for some time following them ou i horseback, alighted to assist tliem. i " I have been watching the smoke for I some time," said he. i " Why, then, dhl you not give us I notice ?" asked the travelers. " Wall," responded tlie rustic, " there are so many new fongled notions now-a days, I thought yon were going by i steam." i NOT Bo FUNNY. —The other day one' J. W. Ashburn called at a telegraph of fice in Portland, Me., and sent an inno- 1 cent dispatch of inquiry about his wife i, to Halifax. An hour later the worthy ! Collector of the Port was astounded at 11 the raoeipt of a telegram from Halifax ' whieh read. "To I. Washburn, Port land : Tour wife sailed for Liverpool I yesterday with a yeung man ! " A Chapter ON Crab*. Nature seeius to lisve taken into con sideration their warlike disposition, for alio haa certainly endowed them with the jsiwer of renewing their arms and leg*. It i* al*o asserted thst they are almost, if uot quite, in*eu*ible to pain, for a celebrated naturalist states that he once saw a crab eating another which it hud just killed, while a larger one was picking of! and eating bits of An body. 1 hii* crnb uumlier three wss eating crab number two, who went ou feeding as if he did not mind his big brother treating him as he ha 1 crab number one. There i* another fact equally remarkable, and that i*. that some oralis-—the spider, for instance—throw away their limbs with ap|>arently as much eaae as an old soldier could his" wooden leg. When pursued they are probably aware that their wuemy wants something to est, and therefore fiiug him a leg to appease his appetite and to save the loss of more. T once had s spider crab sent to me, and I won very much vexed to flud that he had lost a leg. and blamed tlie iwraon who had put him iuto a basket, for having, as 1 thought, done it carelessly. I put him !by himself in a glass ot fresh seawater, and next morning, ou iookiug at lam, you mav guess my surprise at finding that he iiad but one leg left to his body, the other* being sUVwed about the bot tom of the glass. I presume that he felt so anuovrd at being captured and imprisoned that he threw away hi* legs iin a fit of despair, or jN-rhaps it was an act of spite aguinst me for lieing the cause of his capture. At *ll events, he paid tlie just penalty of his follv, fur after trying to hobble about on one leg for a dny or two be died. Before we return. 1 must tell you that the shell of the crab docs not grew much larger, although his body increase* in sixv, When he begins to find his jacket too tight to tie comfortable, he ha* a natural desire to take it off. This is not an easy task to jtcrfonu because he has so many claws and legs, the covering of which is so attached to the jacket lie therefor* crawls beneath a heavy stone, which holds his shell tight, and then wriggle* himself out of his shell clothing. As soon as he has undressed himself be becomes much bigger than he was before, and could uot puasibly re-enter his shell His body is tlieu as "soft as your baud ; and, therefore, well kuowing that if he met any hard-coated crab, be would cer tainly be killed sud eaten, be hides him self until his akin hardens and forma a new suit of armor to protect hrui from his foes.—LiUlt fiJLi. A l-ong Branch Kewtsace. Even the perfidious ocean has its ad vantage*. A voung nun of good family and jMoition, hut without income wor thy of mention, went to Long Branch some weeks atnre with the intention of marrying a girl baring a wealthy father —not with the intention of liviug upon her, but as a precautionary measure against possible poverty He found such a girl, one of two children, and she was sensible, amiable, and mode rately good-looking, he proposed to her after a courtship of ten days. She thought his wooing "rather brief, and frankly told him she believed he wanted to wed her father's money rather than herself With equal eandor he admitted that the pecuniary part had its influence, but declared that if he were rich and she iXHir, be would be moat happy to make her his wife- She wavered lor half a day, slept over the matter, and the next morning felt constrained to decline. The young man performed tlie phi losophic role, remarking that he was worry, but that he had too much to do to occupy himself iu breaking his heart. " We may do better than marry, Bella," he added" *' We might have quarreled as man and wife, but we wont quarrel as friends ; and. after all, who knows but that celibocv is the greatest of blessings?" Sail, be did not surrender hope. He proposed the sonic afternoon to teach her to swim, and they went to gether iu the surf much further than prudence would have dirtafc'd. He wanted to frighten her.aud he sue.-ceded. Tbo undertow carried her out until she thought she was really drowning. He r dunged after her. and" brought her aafe yto the shore. When she had recov ered from her terror, she said to her comjsinion, "You have preserved my life, Charles, and it would be ungrateful for me longer to withhold my hand." Charles, as may be supposed, accepted the hand. Papa is delighted with bis prospective son-in-law for his heroic achievement, and iu the early autumn the torch of Hymrn will kindle the fire upon this new domestic hearth. The IMJ Man. A lazy man is always good-natured, lie never flies into a passion. He might crawl iuto one, if that were possible ; but the idea of his flyiug into oue is prepos terous. Who ever heard of a lacy man breaking into a hank where a crowbar hail to be used, or drilling into a safe ? Not but thst he might covet his neigh lior's goods contained therein, but the horror of handling a crowbar and drills would always deter him from actually committing* burglary. He uover runs sway with his neighbor's wife, simply on account of the horror he has of running. If he is ever known to run, it is to—run to seed. He rarely lies about his neigh bors, for it would IM too much exertion : but lie he* about a bar room all day. He , is of inestimable service to a billiard saloon, keeping the chairs warm and watching the game, for few would care to play where there are no spectator*. The fact that he doea thia without pay. day in, day out, shows the unselfishness of his nature. The lazy man never gets up revolutions, insurrections, and other popular excitements, and don't make a nuisance of himself by training around the oountry making incendiary speeches to promote public discontent. In his own neighborhood he is never a busybody in other jieople's affair*, for the very idea of l>eing a buayliody at anything would drive him out of his head. No lazy man ever ran mad. If he went crazy, it was lteoause he couldn't go anywhere elae without walking. Lazy men don't dis turb the qniet of peaceful neighbor* by | putting np factories, furnaces, and other , abominations. Exchanqe. Mount Onla Tunnel. The total oxpenuea of the Mount Ce- ] nia Tunnel amount to 66,'XX),000 franc* ; ( of these, 20,000,000 francs are to l>e con tributed bv the Victor Rmmannel Rail way, or Railway of Northern Italy. This sum is to be paid ou or lcfor the i opening of the tunnel. The French i Government was to pay 19,000,000 fr. if < the work was uocompliahed within twen- 1 tv years, reckoning from 1862. But if the work was accomplished at an earlier i date Franse bound herself to jiay 500,- I 000 fr. more for every year thus gained i npou the stipulated time. As there < have been eleven years thus gained, i France will have to jiay 5,500,000 fr. be- i side the 20,000,000 fr" of the original ' stipulation. She has, basides, to pay 5 1 j>er ceut. interest on the money due for I the work as it proceeded from year to • Sear. Thus Italy will pay something MS than 20,000,000 fr. Had the con struction of the tunnel continued be- < yond the stipulated term of twenty ; years, Italy would have lost 500,000 fr. for every year in excess of that period. Frogs steal honey from tba baa hives in Jamaica, Wsat Indies. That Baby Again. No matter what line vou travel, be it the Western Pacific, the California or the river steamer, the jtublic baby in always ou board. It can travel ou luree hues at ouee. Change your car to rid yourself of the P. U., ami you may find ita duplicate tit the nest. Ueleaee your self at your journey's end from the inflic tion ; g*t a room at the hotel ; the public baby occupies the next apartment Go at night to the theatre, the public Imbv is iu the next neat. The mission of the public liabj on coming into the world ia to growl. The parents of the public baity deem all thia howling a concord of harmonious sound. They would not have a single note wasted. Thia ia why they manage that it shall always go off in public. This is why it in taken to Ike theatre—to rip and tear into the finest orchestral - trains, or insert a screech into the culminating moment of the living scene. The public baby sceme to have a full head of nglineM on all the time. I ex amined one the other day while coming up here on the cars. When we started from Oakland Point, 1 felt a strange sense of a missing presence. 1 woudartsl at the cause. All waa * -on explained. At Sou Antonio, the public baby came on ItoariL I had forgotten that this little baby never mused a trip, nur paid a cent. Then 1 felt at home. At first, this public baby cried and howled ou general principle#. It hadn't a* yet discovered aur special cause of muvwice. It cried lax-auae it hadn't. It's little hand# were allrky with some thing, it# little face wna sticky ; it rublied ita Little fare with ita sticky hands ; the dickiueaa on ita little face waa thus amalgated with the stickiness on ita hands, and vice vt-raa. Then, when it had prepared this mix ture, it wanted to rub it all over us who sat near by. It clutched at a lady's hat ur lion net ribbons (wluit do you call them now ?) ou the forward acai ; it did transfer an irregular j*>t of molasses colored brow* to the bright blue of the broad silk ribbon ; the lady turned ; she looked for the moment as it ah* might be Mr. Herod's wife or sister ; the pa rent* withdrew their sticky offspring ; tbe offspring cried because it couldn't have that lady to pew. They gave tt colored candy. By thia th# little " wellsprtng of pleasure" worked itself still more into an uneasy lump of saccharine and mucilaginous uaatinew ; the place where the candy went inside of it ao>>n filled up ; it cried because it couldn't hold any more; it wanted to go to its father ;it went; it then cried to go back to it* Brother ; it went; it them howled to go back to it# father. He went into tbe smoking car. That mother held the public baby high up ;it cried. She held it topside down ; then it did cry a trifle leas ; the rush of blood hail stopped it a little. Unfortun ately, the motlier soon discovered thia. The child waa aaved—saved to howl for yuan.— Frvm Uu Sim Frunci*oo Reporter. A Singular Indian Tradition. Among the Seminole Indians there is a aiugnlar tralition regarding the white man's origin aud superiority. They ray that when the Great Spirit made the earth be alio made three men. All of Uie men had fair complexion* ; and that after making them he led them to the mar gin of a small lake, and luwle them leap in and wash. Oue obeyed, and came out purer and fairer than before ; the eoond hesitated a moment, during whieh the water, agitated by the first, had become muddled, ana when he bathed lie came out eonper-oolored ; the third did not leap till the water liad be come black with mud. and he came ont black with its own color. The Great Spirit laid before tin mi three package*, and out of pity for hi* misfortune in color gave the black man the first choice. He took hold of each package, and hav ing felt the weight, chose the heaviest, ["he copper-colored man chose the next heaviest, leaving the white man the lightest. When the package* were opened, the first was found to contain Siadea, hues, and implements of labor; ie second enwrap pea hunting, fishing, and warlike apjiaretuscs ; the third gave the white m. u pen*, ink and paper, the engines of the mind—the means of mil tad mental improvement, the social link erioritjr. Oonoß-Buvptns**. Mr. Monek. of Trinity College, Dublin, propounds a novel aud interesting theory of color blindness. The ordinary explanation is that the eye is not sensitive to certain colors, to which it is objected that a j color-blind pcraon sees the whole spec trum, and that were th * explanation true there should not be complimentary colors—red and green for example. Mr. Monck buses his theory on the phono- j meua of accidental color*. Thus, if the j ere be verv sensitive to the excitation of 1 tfie eompli'mentaiy tint, then this latter, apjieariug with vividness while the eye gazes apon the origins! color, is so com bined with it as to give rise to the grey ish tint with which color-blind persona so often confound color*. Th* brighter j the light the more quickly and vididlv j would the accidental color be produced, j Another argument is, that color-blind ! person* rarelv see accidental colors, j According to this theory, then, the color- i blind eye is one in which the eompli ! mentary color is seen very rapidly and ! very vividly while looking at the primary color. VEBT SAD.— The first wife of the Lou isville millionaire who oauecd something of flutter some time ago by inducing the Kentucky Legisloture. as is alleged, to ]Mxa a bill making it lawful for a man j having an insane wife to marry again, is | still an inmate of a private asylum near ■ Boston, without the least hojie of re-; eovcry. She has letn there for nearlv | twenty Tears, and first revealed her mad- j ness in Louisville by throwing her four | children one night, from the attic win- j dow of her residence into the yard lie low. Two of the little creatures were killed. The others were almost miracu lously saved from destruction, though they nufferod for years from the severe injuries they received. The unfortunate lady was wuwiouately fond of her chil dren, and the deatfi of the eldest de ranged her naturally fine mind by caus ing a religions monomanis, accompanied by the morbid phantasy that God wanted her offspring, and that alio was sending them to Him by destroying their lives. SWINDLED.— It is not strange that for eign travelers who land in New Y'ork complain of the miserable hack system of American cities. A California Omted States Senator arrived at a hotel in New York. In the evening ho concluded to S) and see Forrest as " Coriolanus." In ont of the hotel he found a hackmon, nnd told liim to drive him to Niblo's Garden. Said hackmnu drove him round nineteen blocks and landed bim safely at tho theatre, waited until the theatre waa ont, and drove around seventeen blocks back to the hotel. His fare was fifteen dollars. It was not until the next day that the successful politician ascer tained that both the hotel and theatre were under the same roof, and that the entrance to each were less than twenty feet apart IT is denied that the cholera is abating in Russia, and stated that there is stih an average of 150 deaths per day in Kiev, Latest Fashion Note*. -1 The chignon'• reign is ended. Turban hats are more in vogue than ' over. - Trimming on the front of droanea is I j revived. I j Bonnets string* are wider and very ■ j much longer. Chatelaine braid* will not ba worn ■ much longer. II Sock overcoats with aspes will be the style for boya The plaited Garibaldi waists oonttuue i j to grow iu favor. j Doubts and single round copes are to be > worn for early fall Short curl* and IriuUM on the fore head are still in vogue. The hair on the temples continues to > be worn high and smooth. Plaited and twisted coronets of hair are to supersede and Pompadour roll Bhonlder seam* are still high and short, following the line of the shoulder. Not much change in bonnets, but thev are larger and more cottage shaped. Pelt bonnets are to be worn for weath er suite by those who do not like hate. The short skirt for walking eoatume is still to be retained by sensible women. Many ladies have become reallv crip pled by wearing the French lugfi heel*. Aprons to overakirte are much wider, and the aide looping* are drawn very far back. Camel's hair aearfa will ba worn next season for the ueck instead of far tippets or boas. Very long coat-shaped poatilinhs are j to be worn with demi-trmin skirts for in ' door toilets. I The general effect in the new style of hair dressing is Qracian, bat as rough 1 and frowsy as ever. Satin and velvet striped silks will be very much worn next season, with plain silk or cashmere overdresses. Large jet or tortoise shell butterflies, with gilt edges, are worn in the center ! of a large bow ou the lop of the head. Deuii-trnius are to be adjusted for street wear by means of tapes to loop them up to the waist at the Wk eeama Deep flounces are more in favor than PJUTUW ones. When both are used in combination, the narrow one is under neath. The double cape of bright Hcotcfc plaid is sWery fashionable and atvlish street garment for youug girls of from ten to t fifteen. A polonaise, or close cut paletot, with pelerine cape or large collar, will be the fashionable garment for giria for early fall wear. Gray and light brown Melton eloth is ' the must approved material for boys' suite, comprising jacket, vast, and, , trousers. The style of arranging the back hair for the next season will be a French twist surrounded by a twisted ooil or, j heavy braid. The new style of wedding cards are marked with one letter only, instead of a monogram, and are plainly engraved . on thick white paper. Large silk and velvet cloaks reaching nearly to the bottom of the dress, with long circular capes, are to be vary I fashionable next Winter. Low-necked dreaaos are now entirely i ! a thing of the peat, all evening dseanas j being cut a L Pompadour, heart-shaped, . or square over the shoulders. In-door dn-ases are made up mu?h j plainer than last season. Overakirte are | frequently omitted, the plain demi-train and stylish basque being deemed suffi-! eieot Solid colored silks and rich poplins) will be most fashionable for street cos tume* : dark green, brown, black, ma roon and narr blue will be the moast fashionable colors. Why FUrt* Iten't Many. It is remarkable, lit nevertheless true. ' that, aa a rule, flirts, both male and 1 female, do not marry quickly. The chaucee are that a girl aho become* ' engaged at 18. and goes on becoming , engaged and disengaged, aa it is the custom for flirts to do, ultimately settles down into a confirmed old maid, too. If she does wed. as a general rale, she ■levdone* into the most virulent wasp, makes her husband miserable, and brings j ; up her children badly. It is not very difficult to find reasons why flirts do not marry. Sensible men admire in a woman something besides j .* pretty face and engaging manners, j They love intellect, common aense and heart, qualifications which the flirt does i uot posse**. The true woman allows. i her affection* full play, and is not i ashamed of them. She will not lead a ' j man to l>elievu she caret for him when j she does no such thing; she will not flirt with him just for the sake of flirting. She has a truer conception of what is right, and poaaesm s a good deal more j i Timmoa sense. She lias derived her j education from something else than ! three volume novels nnd the society of i empty-pated fojis. She can be tbor- j •ugh!r merry ; but slie know* how to. be nicrry without being idiotic. She j way attract less attention in a drawing- j room than tlie flirt does, because she i* . less noisy and obtrusive ; but, for all that, she will get married sooner, and : make her hnsband a better aud a truer wife. A true woman does not care for the spooney voung man. She dislikes his foppishness, the vapid comjiliment* he , iiays her, and hi* effeminacy. He quick- ■ Iv finds this out, and leaves her in peace. 1 ' 'flius, if he ultimately gets married, it is j, to a flirt, and the " happy pair" lead the j oiliest cat aud dog life imaginable. A VAWAULK HOUSE. —The Potttlown ! (Pa.) gives an account of a mare ( which is employed at tlie iron works at ( that place. Her business is to haul j ( carts loaded with iron. Part of the day die is required to draw a cart from tlie ' j furnace to the puddling mill, and the!, rest of the time to the plate mill, which i j lies in another direction. The distance to each place is over two hundred yard*. The mare has lecn engaged iu thia btisi- ■ ness for over three years,and after only a ( few trips hs* made her rounds without a drivt r. One route lead* over a rail way track, aud such is the sagacity of tilt* animal that if *he sees a train sp- ! proachiug st some distance she hurries | over tlie track, but if it is near st hand she stop* for the train to go past. As ' the wages paid to drivers in this rstob- ' iishment are s4l per month it will be 1 seen that this mars has saved bar preesnt ' employ sr |l,X> by gteg witknat a j drivorl BEWARE. —An English medical journal I publishes a warning against the wearing i of green kid gloves It has been oh- i served in several cases that the hands of ( those wearing gloves ot this color soon 1 become covered with an eruption which i physicians find hard to cure, as the i poison see.ms to enter the system. Upon analysis, it has been found thst the green i used for dyeing the kid contains areenie. Though not all the green kid gloves in the market are so dyad, it is nevertheless , safer to wear others ot a loss bright snd ] leas dangers us cwlor. CCRIOCS. — It is certainly a curious i chemical fact that the substanoe required to form common table salt are both of them poisonous—chlorine and sodium. No one ean use either of these articles separately with safety, and yat combine them, and they form a substanoe neces sary to health, and one found npou every table. TERMS : Two Dollars a Year, in Advance. Hew father Cured his llsne. WeU. said Reuben, the Wv-Udlr, father always wanted a horse, because the folks in Greene livw scattered, and be has so far to go to attend funarals and weddings, and visit schools, yon know ; but bo never felt as if be could afford to buy one. But one day he wae coming afoot from Hildreth, and a stronger asked biu to ride. Father •aid, " That's a handsome horse you are drivtug. I should like to own suck a borne as thaf myself." " What will you give for bun 7 aaid the man. "Do you want to acU him 7" says faihet. •♦Tea, I do, sad IH sell him cheap, tao." aaid he. "Oh. wett,"aays my father, j " it's no use talking, for I baron *t the money to buy him with." " Make me an offcr," aaid he. " Well," just to put an end to the talk," seal my father, '*l*U give you aeventy-flv# dollars for the bora*." "Too "may have him," aeys the man ae quick aa a flash, " but you 11 repent of your bargain in a week." " why, what ails the horae," aaid my father " Ails him," said the man, - why he's got the ' Old Niek ' in him, that's what ails him,"says be. "If he has a will to go, hell go, but if be takas a notion to stop, all creation can't start htm 1 have stood and beat that home till the sweat ran off me in streams. ! I've fired a gun Hose to his cam; I've burnt shavings under Ma sons. I might have beat him to death or burnt him ■live before he'd have budged an inch." "I'll take the borne," says father. " What 's his name 7" " George," say* the man. "I shall call him George," Sara my father. Welt, father brought him home, aad we boys were mightily plumed, and we built a place for him in the barn, and curried him down and fed him well, and father aaid : "Talk to him, boys, and let him know , you feel friendly." So we coaxed'and petted him, and the next morning father hsmeaaed him and S3t into the wagon to go 00. But eorgie wouldn't stir a step. Father got out and patted him, and e boys brought him apples and clovsr tops, and < nice ID a while father would say ' Get up, George," but be didn't strike the horae a blow. By and by he ear* "this is going to .ake time. WeU, Georgia, we'll see which baa the moat patience ; you or L' Ho he eat in the wagon. He sat fuU two hour* before the borne was ready to start; but when he did there waa no more trouble for that day. The next morning 'twas the aame thing over again, only Georgu? gave ia a little : aooner. All the white it seemed aa if father couldn't do enough for the home. He was round the stable feeding and faeatng ■ •rer him in his quiet, gentle way, and the third morning, when be bad fed and curried aad harnessed htm with his own hands, nomchow there was a differ ent look in the horse's eves. But when father was ready to go, Georgia put his feet together and laid hia ear* back, aad wouldn't stir. WeU, Dove waa playing about the yard, and she brought her ■tod and climbed up by the horse a head. Dove, tell what you said to George that morning. "I gave him aa awful talking to," said the little girL " I told him it was perfectly ridiculous for him to act ao; that he'd come to a real good place to live, where everybody helped every body ; that be was a' minister"a home, and ought to set a good example to all the other horses, aad God wouldn't love him if he wasn't a good home. That's what I told turn. Then I kissed him oa the mwe." " And what did Georgia do f " " Why. he beard every word that I said, and when I cot through be felt so 'shamed of himself, he couldn't hold np his head ; so he jest dropped it, till It 'most touched the ground, and he looked sa sheepish as if he had been steeling s hundred theepa." Yes, and when father told him to go. be was off like a flash. He has never made any trouble since. That's the way father cured a balky horse. And that night, when he was unharnessed, he rubbed his head against father's shoul der, and told him as plain as a home could speak that he waaworry. He has tried to make it up to lather ever since, for the trouble be bad made him. When he's loose in the pasture father has only to stand at the ham and call his name. , and he walks np aa quiet aa an old sheep. Whv, I've seen him back himself be tween the shafts of the wagon just to i save father trouble. Father wouldn't take two hundred dollars for she home to-day. He cats anything jrou give him. skis very often brings out some of her dinner to him. "He often euts out of a plate," says Dove; "it makes him think lie's folks.' Progress ef Co-operative Ladestry. People are slowly learning Iheed van tage* of combination in industrial pro duction. both in profit of result and in ! escaping from the worst drudge rice of i toilsome labor. Even the formers, who are usually the last to move ia any 1 co-operative direction, are beginning to see the benefits of this jmlicy, end to . reap its advantage*. The production of cheese in factories by neighborhood coui bination has now become an established business, and not only turns out to be a | real economy, bnt in removing a labo rious branch of manufacturing industry from the household, it has proved one tof the greatest domestic beous to over worked women in many a farmer's family. This industrial improvement i* not only ex (aiding in this country, but the English farmers are beginning to copy the Ameri can system with satisfactory result*. 5 The report of the Derbyshire associated dairies, shows that their first year's experiment has been fairly successful, so that there is every probability that the plan of operations will not only lie con tinned but extended. The "iood Jottr of' says that the manufacturers of milk have realised good prices for their pro dure, while the quality of the cheese made has decidedly improved, and what is a hopeful feature in the transaction everybody seems satisfied. THX AXXMAL KNRNDOU. —The number of species of animals kuown to l>e now living is thns given by Mr. Benthani. The number of mammalia is estimated at between two and three thousand species; birds at about ten thousand ; reptiles and amphibians, under two thou sand ; fishes at about ten thousand : insects at above one hundred and sixty thousand ; emstaoea and arachnids rather above ten thousand ; molluscs about twenty thousord; worms, radiates, and sponges and infusoria, under six thou sand ; while there are about a hundred thousand species of plants. He thinks a "Genera Plantaram is still within the capabilities of a single botanist, while such a work on animals would have to be accomplished by a division of la bo among zoologists. REVEHOX.— I remember once says a novelist, bearing of a lady who had mar ried out of sheer revenge. The right man had omitted to propose or had pro posed to somebody else. Whereupon she took s man who -was simply ugly, old and stupid. In advanced life she can didly owned how it was. that she bad made such a marriage. Itewas simply done out of spite. She bad a sort of idea that the man she loved would'be grieved at her marriage, and she wanted to grieve him. I believe after all, that she found a very tolerable husband. xa'i'apnrued jffih— jb'*m. RMTirwi; todrWMipMMal* What I kmt fur Hit aak#: i ttosreehr mat au it tbm y t do thy Wat, utMitia Oh, that in • Uviae lorn Wm t*n ihmmand iwrsalika miaa Prostrate laid, thai Ml tfaat •)) Thnw imliawuag tout mlgHteM t 00 thy ru, most awact, most fair I Traad as down, M*t tern-paved road, 1 sml*. pass to Uuos sbods. Oorio of tevsa, aooeud Us* threes, whom Uoo wiU not ait etas, gweataat maid in all tba aarth, la wf low too Ittiio worth j • Sow to W traamtod on Aa tbon paoaast la thy throes t Pacta and Fanetoe. The wants tap* from the locality where larje deposits of coal are kept, silt flab in streams where each waste water flows. There's a metre daetyttt*. pondato, A motra tor teagb and far tanas; Bot tba malm atone not prosaic, lath* Meat bar bjr nioaetighi ate*. The prejudice against church organs fat atil! strong is tfcntiand Men* the people witt not enter a ohurob that hen one. Preacher* in Iceland ere not very weU mid for their services Not one of them baa an income of one hundred dollars a year. By mean* of a simple and ingenious process a tther wounds of that kind. One or leaves must be bruised and applied to the part, and the around will be cicatrised in a short time. A shrewd little fellow was entrusted te the care of his uncle, who fed the boy rerv poorly. One day he happened to see* s greyhound. whereupon he asked the little fellow if knew what mads the dog so poor. The reply was, "I expect lie lives with bis uncle." "As BIT wife at the windows* dry, Stood watching a man with a nwekey, A e*rt eawte ateag with a * bonis mtahoy,* Who was driving a stoat fcttte douse*. To mv wile I then spoke, by amy of a Joke, ' There* a latettoa at yoaw ia that eamage 1* To which the rrolicd. as tba donkey aba spied, j Ab. vaa--* rtiatton b* auwrtag#"* NO. 38. A minister Hkcd a tittle bay who had been converted, " Does not the devil tell ran that you arc not a Christian T "Ten, mmHimm." " Well, what do von any to him?" "I tell him." replied the boy, with something of Lather's spirit, " that, whether lam a Christian or not, it is none of his business. ** The English postal cards sometimes form the basin of libel suit*. A man received one from his wife's brother, in which it was written : " lew unmanly conduct to my sister is known to me. ft shall be known to the world at knee, if ton do not reform, yon coward." The receiver of the epistle sued for slander, and got £9O damages. A young lady of Bain bridge, made n bargain with Curtis Cooper some fifteen vears ago, wherebv she was to have "ewe iamb and its increase until she was twentv-oue years old," in eschar go for a gold watch and key. She was hot six yearn old at the time, and now ne Mr. Cooper for 18.064 lambs, or their value, at $4 per bead, which is 964,596. An advertisement it going the round of the German papers, stating that a German Ira in E-gland has been en tablisbed since 1858 for marrying for eigners to English "parties." Indeed, it is stated that the firm ha* "rich par tica" always on hand, from all parts of Europe, ready to be married. Discre tion and delicacy are guaranteed, and unexceptional references are ottered. An Illinois constable made s return on the back of a paper thus: " I executed this subpeeny by trying to read it to John Mack, but he was drivin* cattle on horseback, and run faster than I could, and kept up such ahoUerin* I don't know whether he heerd or not This is the beat I could do, and don't whether the subpeeny is served according to law or not" Down In a Pennsylvania town the other day aome unscrupulous fellows, who had been gunning, compelled a poor itine rant Italian imago peddler to stand in the road until they had nhot every one of his images from his head, to the imminent danger of himself and the utter deatruc ; tion of his wares. And then they would not pay the poor man a penny for the damage done him. LOST His Tames.— -A warning to those given to losing their temper oc curred at a correctional tribunal at Tou louse, France. A man was accused of theft, but as the evidenoe was insufficient, the court was about to acquit him, when he, doubtless supposing that he was go ing to receive sentence of condemna- tion, became most violent, and burst k out with a volley of threats and insults i against the judges, so that he waa obliged to be handcuffed. The prisoner, who is possessed of extraordinary r strength, broke the chain with a vigor r ous effort and redoubled his abuse, and a number of gendarmes had great diffi | culty in overpowering him. At the de | raand of the public prosecutor, the tri j banal condemned the accused to one ! year's imprisonment for menaoes against : the bench. TUX LAST FISH STOW,—4FCBE North . Wales Chromkie treats risers to m tine bold fisherman's adventure. Fishing at Llanrwst, so the story run.", a Irsvwa j ington gentleman landed a eataioa weigh ing twenty-two and one half posted*. ntul ' had it conveyed to his hotel ww{ to® in tention of dining on one-half dftt Oa the salmon beinc oftoned it was discover ' ed he had gorged an eel, weighing about two and one-qusrt|r pounds. The eel was dissected and a one and three-quarter pound trout was brought to light. Tho 1 trout was cut open, and inside wer found eight minnows, making the total k catch of ten fish. The search was not fur ■ ther pursued. i 1 WHAT H* COULD Do. -A Green County - farmei recklessly publishes the following I challenge: "I will bet 942.25 that my r hired man can take longer to go to the i harvest field, get back to dinner quicker, 1 eat more, do loss and bear down harder e on a panel of the fenee, than any other 1 hired w*" within fifteen miles of tho flag-staff in Jefferson."