Ijr Rffiw.
The night is <whk moon it ringed ,
With h*rv propheo* of enow,
And frMinlie* the outer world ;
But la mv heart is summer glow.
The flro burns low, the light is dim ;
I bear late footsteps hurrying by.
Some one doth shout. "The night Is oold ■
t*nhappy one—not blest as 1.
I know not solitude or chill;
For all the oold and shadowy room
Melts into fragrant forest aisle*.
And meadows honey-sweet with bloom.
Beeanse- becanse 1 feel a Rose,
Steeped in the sunlight of the south,
Bod-petaled, rwvet, and velvet-soft,
. Yet lingering npou my mouth.
Ami never soli rude or chill
Can enter into humblest room
Where such a Hose but comes to touch
Ami thrill a lifetime with its bloom.
la a Country l ane.
Tli* little euro ore thirsty aa they aanntcr home
from school,
And they hurry up the lank to where, so ail
very aad'ao ow l,
A tiny amaM triokloa down, beneath a
spreading beech,
Jnst low enough for chubby hnd and pouting
lips to reach.
The ("•Sting nn i* glowing on the autumn
tinted leaves.
And gilding with a rieher gold the wave# of
ripening xliravro.
And, through the tangle of the hedge, warm
ry their glory abed.
Ronnd laughing frees peeping out from hoods
of bhie and red.
The lane is deep and shady, and the treasures
hidden there.
Judging from shouts of glad surprise, are very
rich and rare.
And oh ! the thrill of wild delight in happy
eyea expressed
When—grand discovery—a boy pulls forth a
mouse's nest.
And then the tempting bramble-wreaths invite
the babes again.
Their pretty mouths with blackberries so sweet
and npe to stain ;
And many a brawn nut slips, its sheath to
share, poor tittle thing.
A bursting p<iei wtih a knife, six marbles and
aim,* string.
And theu the wayside flow"reU, and the grace
ful nodding gross,
6eem blooming only for small hands to gather
as they jwas ;
And there are velvet lichens too, and moos-cups
to be found.
There is no eno to all tbe wealth with which
these banks abound.
And so the hsppy moments of the antomn af
ternoon
Stool by. and evening's veil of mist ia filling all
too soon;
Then a* the glow-worm lights her tamp, the
little tired feet
Turn ak>wly to their cottage homes, serosa the
springing peat.
Oh! little ones, I wonder in the Tears that vet
shall be,
When lingering memory rails to mind that
lane, and rill, and tree.
If you. reraeir.h'ring the bright days when vou
were girls and boys.
Would Weil-vane childhood back again, with all
its simple jo vs.
THE STOLEN NOTE.
Except that he indulged too freely in
the use of the intoxicating cup, John tVal
loce was an honest, high-minded man. Hie
one great fault hung like a dark shadow
over hi many virtues. He meant well,
and when he was sober he did well.
He was a batter by trade, and by indus
try and thrift he had secured money
enough to buy the house in which he lived.
He had purchased it several years before,
fcr three thousand dollars, paring one
thousand down and securing the balance
by mortgage, to the seller.
The mortgage note was almost due at
the time circumstances made me acquaint
ed with the affairs of the family. But
Wallace was ready for the day;" he had
saved up the money *. there seemed to be
no possibility of an accident. I was well
acquainted with Wallace, having dene
sotne little collecting, and drawn up some
legal documents lor him. One day his
daughter Annie came to my office in great
distress, declaring that her father was
rained, and that tbey should be turned
out of the house in which thev lived.
•Terhapi not. Miss Wallace," said L
try ing to console her, and give the affiir, j
whatever it was, a bright aspect. "What'
has happened 7"
"My father," she replied, "had tbe mon
ey to pay the mortgage on the house in
which we live, but it is all gone now."
"Has he lost it T'
"I don't know ; I suppose so. Lost
week he drew two thousand dollars from
the Bank, and lent it to Mr. Bryce for ten
days."
"Who is Mr. Bryce 7"
"He is a broker. My father got ac
quainted with him through George Chand
ler who boards with us, and who is Mr.
Bryce's clerk."
"Does Mr. Bryce refuse to pay it 7"
"He says be has paid it."
"Well, what is the trouble then 7"
"Father says he has not paid it."
''lndeed ! But the note will prove that
he has paid it. Of course vou have the
note T
"No. Mr. Bryce has it."
"Then, of coarse be has paid it."
"I suppose he has, or he could not have
the note."
"What does your father say V
"He is positive that be never received
the money. The mortgage, he says, must
be paid to-morrow."
"V ery singular! Was your father—"
I hesitated to use the unpleasant word
which must hare grated harshly on the ear
of the derated girl.
"Mr. Bryee says father was not quite
right when be paid him, but not rerv bad."
"I will see your father."
"He is coming up here in a few mo
ments; I thought I would see you first and
tell you the facts before be came."
"I do not see how Bryce could haTe ob
tained the note, unless be paid the monev.
Where did your father keep it 7"
"He gave it to me, and I put it in tbe
secretary."
"Who was in the room when you put it
in the secretary 7"
"Mr. Bryce, George Chandler, my father
and myself."
The conversation was here interrupted
by the entrance of Wallace. He looked
pale and haggard, as much from the effects
of anxiety as ftom the debauch from which
be was recovering.
"She has told you about it, I suppose,"
said he, in a very low tone.
"She has."
I pitied him, poor fellow, for two thou
sand dollars was a large sum for bim to
accumulate in his little business. The loss
of it would make the future look like s
desert to him. It would be a misfortune
which one must undergo to appreciate it.
"What passed between you on that
day 7"
"Well, I merely stepped into his office— j
It was only the day before yesterday—to
tell him not to forget to have tbe money
for me by to morrow. He took me into
his back office, and as 1 sat there he said
he would get the money ready the next
day. He then left me and went in to the
front office, where I beard him send
George out to the bank, to draw a check
for two thousand dollars; so I supposed he
was going to pay me theq."
"What does the clerk say about it7"
"He says Mr. Bryce remarked, when he
sent bim, that he was going to pay the
money."
"Just so."
"And when George came in be went into
the front office again and took the money,
then be came to me again, and did not of
fer to pay me the money."
"Had you the note with you 7"
"No; now I remember, he said he sup
posed I had not the note with me, or he
would pay it. I told him to come in the
Dext day and I would have it ready—that
was yesterday. When I came to look for
the note it conld not be found; Annie and
I have hunted the house all over."
"You told Bryce so."
"I did. lie laughed and showed his
note, with his signature crossed over with
ink, and a hole punched through it."
•'lt is plain, Mr. Wallace, that he paid
you the money, as alleged, or has obtained
fraudulent posjession of the note, and in
tends to cheat you out of the amount."
"He never paid me," be replied firmly.
"Then he has fraudulently obtained pos
session of the note. What sort of a per
son is that Chandler, who boards with
you 7"
"A fine young man. Bless you, he
would not do anything of that kind."
"I am sure he would not," repeated An
nie earnestly.
"How else could Bryce obtain the note
but through him 7 what time does he come
home at night 7"
FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. IV.
'•Always at tea time. He never goes
| out in the eveuing."
"But, tut her, be did not come borne till
ten o'clock the night before you went to
Bryce's. lie had to stay in the office to
• post toxik*. or something of that kind."
"How did he get in /"
"He has a night key."
"I must see Chandler," said 1.
"No harm in seeing hiui," added Mr.
Wallaoe; "1 will go for him."
In a lew momenta he returned with a
young man. Chandler, who, in the e mver
sation 1 had with him, manifested a very
lively interest in the solution of the mys
tery, and proteased himself ready to do
anything to forward my view.
" When did you return to the house on
Thursday night V
" About twelve."
"Twelve?" said Annie; "it was not
more than ten when I heard you."
"The clock struck twelve as I turned
the corner of the street," replied Chandler,
positively.
" 1 certainly heard some one in the Irani
room at ten," said Auuie, looking with as
tonishment at those around her.
" We're getting at something," said I.
" How did you get m ?"
The rouug man smiled, as he glanced at
Annie, and said:
" On arriving at the door I found I had
lost my night key. A that inomeut a
watchman happened along, and 1 told him
my situation, lie knew me, and taking a
ladder from an unfinished house opposite,
placed it against one of the second story
windows, aud 1 entered in that way."
"Good! Now who was it that was
heard in the parlor at ten, unless it was
Brvee or one of his accomplices 7 He
must have taken the key from your pocket
Mr. Chandler, and stolen the note from the
secretary. At any rate I will charge him
with crime, let what may happeo. Per
haps he will confess when hard pushed."
Acting upon this thought, 1 wrote a
lawyer's letter—" demanded against you
Ac—which was iuundiatelv sent to Mr.
Bryce. Cautioning the parties not to speak
of the affair, I dismissed them.
Bryce came.
" Well, sir, what have you to say against
me 7" he asked stiffly.
" A claim on the part of John Wallace
for two thousand dollars," I replied, poking
OTCI- my papers, and appearing supremely
indifferent.
" Paid it," he said, short as pie crust.
" Have you ?" said I, looking him sharply
in the eye.
The rascal quailed. I saw that he was
a Til lain.
" Nevertheless, if within an hour you do
not pay me two thousand dollars, and one
hundred for the trouble and anxiety you
have caused my client, at the end of the
next hour you will be lodged in jail to an
swer a criminal charge."
" W hat do vou mean sir 7"
" I mean what 1 say. Pay, or take the
consequences."
It was a bold charge, and if he had looked
like an honest man I should not have dared .
to make it.
" I have paid all the money, I teU you," j
said he; "I haTe the note in my posses
sion."
" When did you get it ?"
" I eot it when I paid the —."
"When you feloniously entered the house
of John Wallsce,on Thursday night at ten
o'clock, and took the said note from the :
secretary."
" You have no proof," said he, grasping a
chair for support.
" That is my lookout. I have no time
to waste. Will you pay or go to jail 7"
He saw that the evidence 1 had was too
strong for his denial, and he drew his check
on the spot for twenty-one hundred dollars
and alter begging me not to mention the
affair, he sneaked off.
I cashed the check, and hastened to
Wallace's house. The reader mav judge
with what satisfaction he received it, and
how rejoiced was Annie and her lover.
Wallace insisted that I should take the
one hundred for my trouble; but I wa
magnanimous enough to keep only twenty.
Wallace signed the pledge, and was ever
after a temperate man. He died a few
years ago, leaving a handsome property to
Chandler and his wife, the marriage be
tween him and Annie having taken placi
shortly after the above narrated circum
stances occurred.
How PANCAKES WERE MADE ONCE
UPON A TlME. —When our grandmothers
of about fifty years ago made griddle
cakes, or, as they were theu called, pan
cakes, the following receipt was then in
use. We do not present it for imitation,
but to show what changes a few years
have wrought in that article of food.
" Pancakes should be made of half a
pint of milk, three great s]toonfuls of
sugar, one or two eggs, a teaspoonful of
dissolved pearl-ash, spiced with cinna
mon or cloves, a little salt, rose-water,
or lemon brandy, just ns you happen to
have it. Flour should bestirred in un
til the spoon moves ronnd with difficulty.
If they are thin, they are ajt to soak
fat. Have the fat in your skillet boiling
hot, and drop them in with a spoon.
Let them cook until thoroughly brown.
The more fat they are cooked in, the
less they soak. It you have no eggs, or
wish to save them, nsc the above ingre
dients, and supply the place of eggs by
two or three spoonfuls of livclv empty
ings, in which case they must be made
five or six hours before they are cooked.
A spoonful or more of New England
rum makes pancakes light. Flip makes
very nice pancakes. In this case, no til
ing is done but to sweeten your mug ot
beer with molasses, put in one glass of
New England ram, heat it till it foatns
by putting in a hot poker, and stir it np
with flour as thick as other pancakes."
Whatever we may think of the above as
a recipe, the result seems to have given
great satisfaction to the good folks who
made and ate pancakes fifty years ago.
IRON AND HARDWARE. —The trade in
iron and hardware, says a New York pa
per, both domestic nnd foreign, presents
some remarkable features. Notwith
standing an importation of iron of more
than fifty per cent greater than that of
lost year, we shall find our markets far
from glutted. An active ttade, with
prices fully maintained er advancing, is
to tie found in these products through
out the land. It is noteworthy that
several causes, both here and in England,
have combined to keep up the price of
iron, and the demand has been and is in
excess of the producing cajmeity of the
two counties. In Europe, Bnssia and
Germany have. made demands on the
English" unprecedented
in history. Russia, ever since the Cri
mean wur, has kept in view one great
object—to cover ncr vast territory with
a network of railroads. For the last
fourteen years she has obtained year
ly loans in Western Europe, and bos
steadily built iron roads with them.
But since the French-German war she
bos doubled her usual rate of progress
in this work, and her orders for iron
rails in England have been more than
twice as great in the last year as ever
before. The demand for all kinds of
iron is very strong. American pig-iron
is both scarce and high in price. Rails,
both of iron and of steel, are higher and
scarcer than they were six months ago,
and a very healthy trade is doing, which
no doubt proves satisfactory to mer
chants.
TBCE, O KINO.—A paper says, "One
of the prettiest sights the human eye
ever rested upon is gold in its liquid
state." The human eye in this vicinity
would be satisfied if it could see any of
the metal in a solid state.
CENTRE HALL REPORTER.
" Fixing" the Hair In China.
I aulunittcd to the operation in IVkiti
its an exjvriiueiit, and have to this day a
lively recollection of the
Stretched at full length on a bamboo
scat or cosy choir I was pummelled all
over the laxly, but more jmrtictvUrly on
the chest. leg* and arms by a stout,
brawny attendant with his partially
closed rtsts, after the stylo once so i*'pu
lar at the " Husamaiu,' till 1 was faiu to
cry /'emiri. Sometimes the "douche"
i* administered, but only rarely. The
Larlnn's outfit is simple, constating of a
f good razor, which costs about three
pernx, a strop which usually is uothiug
more than a strip of .loutish calico cloth
costiug a peuuy more. The chief items
jof expense in this elaborate " kit" ore
■ the accessories. The metal basin and
the liawlioo pail uuderueath, and tlie
1 l>ole stirmouuting all, which serves as
| the emblem of his craft, are, however.
I scarcely more expensive than the razor
! and strop, so that on the whole it di>ea
not cost very much to furnish a liar IST
shop in China. The tariff of charges of
those engaged in this branch of industry
is correspondingly low. Three "cosh,"
equal to übout half a farthing of British
money is the sum ordinarily asked for
simply shaving the head. If the queue
i is plaited and interwoven with frwsh silk
i the scale of charge correspondingly
I rises. Shaving and braiding the queue,
' retailing a worn-out stump and shampoo
ing constitute all the arts required of
the barber. False moustaches and luxtnls
of a rude kind, such as are worn by
| actors in the public shows, are not matte
by his hands, and of making perukes
and wigs, so much in vogue among the
civilized nations of Eurojie, he is alto
gether iguoraut. In fact the Chinese
gentleman is far from Wing no particular
about his head as the English gentleman
|is übout his beard ; where the hitter
shaves at all he usually shaves daily ; if
I he dines out he will often repeat the
operation during the twenty-four hours,
ihi the other hand, the majority of even
the better classes in China slxave but
twice a week, and the laboring classes
but once. In the case of mourning, the
law—or rather recognized custom, more
jxiwerfnl than law—is to permit the head
to go unshaven for months, the precise
time Wing regulated by the measure of
relationship to the deceased. But as
the thirteen months' exemption from
shaving prescribed for the loss of either
of one's parents, if rigidly enforced,
would produce a crop of hair too exube
rant for even Chinese society to endure,
where strict regard for etiquette forbids
the clean polish of the razor-blade, other
expedients are brought into requisition
to keep the stumps of the hair within
due bounds. Since the incoming of the
Mantchou power, barbera' shops, primi
tive and simple as they are now, must
have undergone a more marked change
than those we are accustomed to see
nearer home, for the native Chinese, till
they received this badge of a foreign
yoke, did not allow either knife or scis
sors to jass ujaifi their head, but were
the " long-haired race" which the Tapping
insurgents are wishing to lieoome. Pre
vious to their subjection by the Tartars,
the fashion was to bind the* long hair in
a knot on the top of the head, and there
to fasten it with a wooden or metal pin,
as is often represented in the old pictures
of the Ming dynasty. The art of hair
cutting as practised in the West is as yet
unknown to the Chinese harWr. It is
but rarely, therefore, that a foreigner
calls in the aid of native skill Ouly,
indeed, when he assumes the garb of the
oountry and goes into the interior does
he find it necessary. This, indeed,
forms the coup ti- -/nfe* to the foreigner's
metamorphosis. The "tail" fastened on
to the back hair deceives even the prac
tised eye of the native, and, as Mr.
Fortune has daily observed '' even the
dogs cease to notice him."— D>trk Blue.
The Culture of Fish.
The America* Naturalist reviews the
recent progress in fish culture iu this
country. The report of the Massachusetts
commissioners gives much encourage
ment to those who advocate restocking
our rivers with salmon, trout, shad, ale
wives, bass, etc. The great run of shad
in the Connecticut, in the spriug of 18~0,
has Wen by popular voice attributed (o
the artificial hatching of the fish in that
river, in 1867. Many thonsand young
fry of the salmon, St. Croix salmon,
Sebago salmon, togue, and common
trout have been placed in the rivers and
ponds of Massachusetts and adjoining
states during the post year, and it is con
fidently expected that we shall ngain
have salmon and trout abundant in our
waters. Mr. Atkins, the able commis
sioner of Maine, in his report, enters
very fully into the subject of fishwnys,
and repeats that all those ways complet
ed in time for the fish to ascend during
the season of 1870 were highly success
ful He shows conclusively t hat properly
constructed fish ways can W made, at
comparatively slight expense, which will
not only furnish a free passage to the j
fish, but also not materially injure the
water power of the parties owning the
dams. " Their construction on every
salmon, shod, and alewife river and
stream in the conntry is now only a
matter of time ; for, us it is proved that
their construction is now simply a matter
of dollars and cents, and also that the
interest received by the community is
very large on the small capital required i
to W invested, the most penurious of
dam owners will W forced by public
sentiment to keep the fishwnys, which the
laws oblige them to build, in good re
pair." In New York, Mr. Sctli Green,
"pre-eminently the practical fish-breeder
of the United States," has restocked the
Hudson aWve the Troy dam, with two
and a half million of young fry of the
shad. During the year, also, a large
state hatching house has Wen built at
Caledonia, aud placed under the charge
of Messrs. Green and Collins, who have
very successfully carried out a number
of experiments, and hatched a large
numWr of fish of various kinds.
As ANECDOTE or Mux. HIDDONH. —A
correspondent of the London Times
says : Mrs. Siddons was lady's maid, I
Wlieve, to the Duchess of Alienator, a
relation of the Greatheads. She was nt
Guy's Cliff when young Greathead
broke his leg. He was a remarkably
clever boy, and the Duchess's maid,
for his amusement dunng the tedions
hours of his recovery, used to read
Shakspeare to him. The Wy was de-
Lighted, and insisted upon Siddons go
ing down to the drawing-room to road
before the Duchess and the party stay
ing at the house. Her Grace remon
strated. She bad uo idea of her maid
being brought so prominently for
ward ; but the Wy would Dot W refused.
He was furious at the denial, and, with
more zeal, perhaps, than discretion, he
retorted upon his noble relative in these
words : "My lady Duchess, Siddons is
one of God Almighty's nobles, and that
is more than your Grace can say for your
self."
BETTER STILL.—A person in high life
once went to Sir Earaly Wilmot, at the
time Lord Chief Justice of the Court of
Common Pleas, under a feeling of great
wrath and indignation, at a real injury
which he had received from a person
high in the political world, which lie was
determined to resent in the most effectual
manner. After relating the particulars,
he asked Sir Eardly, if he did not think
it would be manly to resent it ? " Yes,'
said that eminent maD, " it will be manly
to resent it; but it will be God-like to
forgive it."
CENTRE lI.VLL, CENTRE CO., l'A., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 0, 1871.
A Whole Count j Nlnk* In Florida.
i The Florida malls give m-rumiU of au
i astonishing phcuomouou at A porks.
Orange county, ucar Filatka. The
> whole county ili*npioured in one night,
I ami its site is covered bv a great lake,
i A oriiHi|K>udeut, writtug from the
neighborhood, says :
Mr. Alex, K. Foster has just coise in
j with more marvelous and startling re
ports. He says that on lib way from
Orlando to Miltonvillc, after crossing
Fort Methu branch, he left the road to
avoid the constant hogging to which he
was beiug subjected. The safest |ila<'e,
he thought, was on a high black-jack
i ridge, running parallel with the road,
i which he accordingly took. After riding
- a wile perhaps, his horse eoiuuieueed
I bogging, ami fur some distance it was
(luealiouahie whether he could get
j through; he however reached more
solid baiting ; again he ooiniuenced hog
ging ; at this time he noticed remark
able and }H>rteutous sounds in his rear.
The I togging grew worse as he proceed
ed, until he had to dismount ; there
seemed to be no escape for him, ltoth
he and his horse were still bogging. The
sounds in his rear increased more ami
more alarmingly ami the route in front
more boggy—he dared not stop, as this
would have rendered it impossible to
have extricated himself—he neither
dared uor could look behind him, his
whole thought and aim was to reach
terra firuia. At last, after the most su
perhuman exertions, both he and his
horse exhausted to the most extreme
degree, he reached solid groaml. Turn
ing to examine iuto the cause of these
fearful sounds in his rear, he saw one of
the must territlc and appalling sights it
has ever been the fate of man to witness.
The first thing that attracted his atten
tion was that the trees were moving—
first a gyratory motion of the top, then
some gradually sinking out of sight,
the tops revolviug more and more rap
idly as they sunk and disappeared, oth
ers following, and as they fell revolviug
and describing arcs of a circle against
the sky. Then the whole earth, as far
as the eye could reach. Milking, and itr
place supplied by a sea of waters, rusl
nig, seething, boiling with the noise 01
mighty cataracts, and ever and anon
casting to the surface the roots, tops or
bodies of mighty pines and oaks.
People are rushing from the scene of
disaster. Our camp is crowded with the
terror-stricken inhabitants from the
country in our rear. Everybody is wait
ing with forebodings and horrible ex
pectations. They believe the dav of
judgment has come. The extraordinary
phenomenon appears more and more ex
traordinary. The country from two
to three miles from here to Lake Met
lin is entirely submerged, and is now
one vast lake. Nothing authoritative.
from beyond, though rumors are rife
that Orhuido is swallowed up and the
whole ehatn of lakes to Indie Conway
an* now united nud form sn immense
inland sea. We leave immediately and .
in terror for our own fate.
Early llaj* of William 1.. Harry.
A correspondent of the Liberal
tian tells this story nlioutWm. L. Marcv : ]
'• 1 sjwnt a day of my vacation at ("liarl-1
ton. Mas*. Bill Marry was a native of
this neighnrhood, and grew up to !e a wild
and heady youth. He was thought by
his parents and by all the neighbors to
be the worst hoy they knew. One win
ter he succeeded, in conjunction with
kindred spirits, in ousting the teacher
from the district school. Salem Towne,
then a young man, wa* summoned as the
fittest person to hike charge of these un
ndy youth and complete the term.
Everybody thought the new teacher
would certainly have trouble with Bill
Marcv. But the trouble did not come.
The first ilny hail not parsed liefore Mr.
, Towne had discovered in his pupil an
element of real good, and told linn so.
This, to the boy, was a most unusual ac
knowledgment and it touched his heart.
Some one had seen good in him. He
was, then, capable of better tilings, and
he was determined to make the endeavor.
It was the turning-point of his life.
" Such was his conduct and such his
progress in study that his teacher advised
itirn to go 011 and prejmre himself for
College. It was a great surprise to his
parents, but at the urgent solicitation of
Sfr. Towne they gave their consent, and
he was placed under the instruction of a
: clergyman in the vicinity of his homo.
At length he entered college, and passed
tlirough the course with great success,
justifying at every step the confidence
and hope of his best friend. In conse
quent life he rose from one degree of
eminence and usefulness to another,
until at lost the whole world was familiar
with the name and fame of William L.
; Marcy.
" ijong years after he had left hia
school-day haunts, and when he had
come to deserved eminence, he visited
Boston, and was the guest of the then
governor of the old Bay State. Among
! the distinguished men who were invited
to meet him was General Hilcm Towne.
j When the Governor saw Marcy and
! Towne greet each other na old friends,
ho very naturally expressed a pleasurable
surprise that they knew each other so
| well. ' Why !' said Marcy, ' that is the
man that made mc. He was the first
! who believed in me, told me what I
might become, and helped me on in life
;at that critical juncture. Whatever of
merit or iliatinction I have since attained
to I owe to him more than to any other
living person.'"
Curiosities of Life.
Lay your finger on your pulae, and j
know that at every stroke some immor
tal passes to his Maker; some fellow
being crosses the river of death ; and
if we think of it, we mav well wonder
that it should be so long before oar time
comes.
Half of all who live die before they
are seventeen.
Only one person in ten thousand lives
to be one hundred years old, and but one
in a hundred reachea aixty.
The married live longer than the sin-
There is bnt one soldier to every eight
liersonn, and ont of even* thousand
born only ninety-five weddings take
place.
If yon take a thousand persons who
have reached seventy years, there arc,
clergymen, orators, and public speak
ers, 43 ; farmers, 40; workmen, 33; sol
diers, 32 ; lawyers, 29 ; professors, 27 ;
doctors, 24.
These statements are very instructive.
Fanners and workmen do not arrive at
a good old age as often as the clergymen
and others, who perform no manual la
bor ; but this is owing to the neglect of
the laws of health, inattention to the
proper habits of life in eating, drinking,
sleeping, dress, and the proper care of
themselves after the work of the day is
dons. These workmen and farmers eat
a heavy supper of a summer's day, and
sit around the doors in their shirt
sleeves, and in their tired condition and
weakened circulation, are easily chilled,
laying the foundation for diarrhoea, bil
ous oolic, lung fever, or consumption.
•• I keep the best bread," said a cer
tain baker, the other day, to a poor fel
low who complained of the inferior
quality of the article he liad purchased
of him the day before. "I don't doubt
it," replied the customer. " Then why
do you complain ?" asked the baker.
'' Because I would suggest that you sell
the best bread and keep the bad," was
the reply.
Tbe Cotton Crop.
The Dcjwtrtraeiit of Agriculture bo*
tsuited a circular setting forth that the
cotton crop reports, purporting to have
come from tint Department of Agrieul
, turo during the past month, have not
been genuine. The items in circulation,
often contradictory iu tenor, and tuum
mg to lie official, have had no origin in
the statistical data of that office. The
returns of September include rejs<rb
from about 4<W cotton-growers'eoiuitie,
representing s very large proportion of
the cotton area. Those for August
lioint an average condition of the crop
ulmoat identical with that of the pre
ceding rejort ; the averages for Alabama
and Mississippi Wing the saute, those of
Louisiana and Tennessee Ix-ing lighter,
and those of other Cotton Htates lower.
The State averages of the Sep Urn Iter re
port are somewhat lower than those of
August, though the principal depiecia
tiou occurs in the Ktatea which yield a
small pro|Kirtion of the crop, while the
reduction is alight iu tho iui|>ortant dis
trict represented by the States of < leor
gia, Alabama, Mtsataaipiu, and Louisi
ana. The percentage of full condition
in the first week of September, as
averaged from all the obtainable data,
is thus stated : North Carolina, B'i ;
South Carolina, 80; Georgia, 78;
Florida, 75 ; Alabama, 80 ; Mississippi,
80; Louisiana, 77 ; Texas, 81 ; Arkau
sis, 95 ; Tennessee, 96. There are re
ports of injuries by the boll-worm and
| caterpillar, mainly iu Mississippi and
Louisiana, but no evidence that a general
• or very serious lows from iuseota is prob
able. Bust is common iu the Atlantic
States, and to some extent on the Gulf
coast. Drouth has been injurious in the
Oarolinas and Texaa, though the reports
of raiufalla through the South iudicatq
i a fair supplr of moisture, tbe distri
bution of whicn has been somes list
more unequal than usual. At oue point
in Georgia the fall in August was traarly
14 inches, and in porta of Florida it
amouuted to 33 inches. The variable
atmospheric conditions have increased
the prevalence of rust, and caus<*d the
destruction of both loaves and fruit.
These drawbacks, though greater titan
those reported in September of last year,
ire not sufficiently serioua to excite ap
prehensions of a greatly depreciated
yield. They are reported each year in
some portions of tbe cotton area. In ;
the records Inst year there was consider
able complaints of damages to the cotton
crop from rust, worms, and unfavorable
August weather. These facta do not
poiut to an enlargement of the expecta
tion hitherto indulged iu. If they are
trustworthy, the most favorable season
' could scarcely bring a crop exceeding
3,350,000 hulea. If tbe growing season
should be short or unfavorable, 3,000,-
• 100 bales, would be a good result ; and
with a combination of unfavorable cir
cumstances, the product might be still
further reduced.
A Hard l ife of It.
Irene Robinson, s bright looking
voung woman, age 19, left her Lome in
Veoria, 111., two years ago, because ber
]iarents wished her to marry a man old
enough to be her father, nnu for whom
she entertained a decided dislike. To
guard against detection, she adopted
tbe habit of a boy, and, with ber nair
cut short, readily passed for a boy of
15 or 16. She first went to Chicago,and
there obtained work as a teamster, pass
ing uuder tbe name of William Franks.
She wss suspected of being a girl, but
denied it, and left Chicago through fear
of l>eing detected and sent home. She
workod at various places as a fatm U-
Itorer, but seldom stayed long at one
place. The prying eyes of women were
almoot always the first to detect the im
posture. After various adventures she
found herself in Troy, N. Y., a few days
ago, aud engaged herself as deck hand
on a canal t>oat commanded bv CapL
Cabineau. On the way to New York
tbe captain's wife accused her of being
a girl, and she finally confessed that
such was tho case. Ily the advice of
Mrs. Cabineau, she went to one of the
police stations in New York, and asked
for aid to reach her home. Hb is tired
of ber rough life, and is anxious to see
her relatives, of whom she heard notli
iug since leaving home. Her rough,
horny hands ami sun-burnt face l>oar
witness to her life of toil and exposure.
Her garb consists of a coat, much the
worse for wear and torn in several places,
patched iiantaloons, rough woolen shirt,
a pair of heavy boots, and a battered
black ltaL She possesses a cheerful dis
iKiaition. which even her rough life has
been unable to suhdne. When asked
why slio did not assume the garb of ber
sex when slit was first accused of Wing
a girl, ahe said she was afraid of Wing
found by her father and compelled to re
turn home. She has Wn sent home by
the police authorities.
latest Fashion Notes.
Block caahmerc ia more used for travel
ing drosses than any other material.
Some very elegant silk dresses are
elaborately trimmed with fine muslin
embroidery.
Ruches of tulle and raffles of Swiss
muslin art- more worn for the neck and
sleeves of dresses than formerly.
Some very pretty socks arc made of the
white Persian towels, and trimmed with
black velvet are very stylish.
A new style of bracelet is of tortoise
shell made vf-iy wide and ornamented in
front with a large monogram in gold.
Feathers have become quite an cxpen -
rive item in the toilette, as the hand
some ones cost from twelve to twenty
dollars.
For Indies who admire large earrings,
a new style is the head of a stuffed hum
ming-bird with diamond eyes, inclosed
in a wide hoop of burnished gold. They
are very odd and showy.
Many dandies have taken to wearing
eoßtly lace rravata, which looks very
effeminate and in bad taste. They also
propose wearing small feathers or wings
in the side of the low felt hats. What
next ?
Old lares have berome worth their
weight in gold and are largely nought for,
tbe present fashion of loose sleeves and
open tiodicea rendering it a necessity to
exhibit handsome lace and embroidery.
TRANSPORTING BEEF.— 8L Louis has
recently made an experiment looking to
tho supply of her citizens with Texas
beef, l'ighteen beeves receutly slaugh
tered at Chetopa, in the Indian Territory,
were transportated toTefrigeratiug cars
to that market, and found to be ar fresh
and good as at the hour of storting The
transit took some three or fom days,
but, with lines fully opened, two days
would have sufficed. When this interest
developes further, the live stock trade
will probably undergo a revolutic n. and
the barbarity of hauling cattle packed
solid in cars,' over a thonsand miles to
market, will cease. The economy of
sending meat instead of live stock is a
very important item, and the supply at
given points uau always be regulated by
telegraph.
A THIN RIVER. —Tho La Crosse Demo
crat reports the water so low in the Mis
sissippi River, that steamboat* have-to
keep whistling to keep oows out of the
channel. Many captains are having
cow-oatchere put on their boats. This
is about the thinnest river yet discover
ed.
A light for Life.
('apt Thurston, of the bark Brothers,
furnishes the following account of aL
outrage by tbe Mexican pirates :
Gn the Aklt of August Captain Tbura
toil, was on shore at Hants Anna, and
was informed by the Mexican Alcalde or
Mayor, that there were three sailors on
ltoard the Brothers who had leen shipped
there and must be returned, Captain
Thurston replied that the men bad been
legally shipped, tbey were not Mexicans,
and would not be given np ; if tbey were
taken from bim it must IMS by force ;
and if the Alcalde persisted be would lay
tbe matter Iwforc the Uuited States gov
ernment. The Alcalde replied : "I do
not care for your government." He then
arrested Captain Thurstou and ordered
him to be forcibly retained on shore.
The captain, seeing no other alternative,
promised that if allowed to return to his
vessel he would send tbe three men on
shore. At this time a mob of Mexican
desperadoes was surrounding the house
in which lie was confined, demanding
that he lie sorreuded to them. The
Alcalde advised him not to attempt to
pass through the mob, aa be would surely
be murdered if be did. He was finally
conducted to bis vessel, the crowd of
ruffians following, and shouting " kill
him." Once on board, be kept hi i prom
ise and sent the men ashwre. After re
turning to his vessel, several attempts
were mails to decoy Captain Thurston
on shore again, but ue would not trust
himself among the murderous gang.
During this time he had some alight
difficulty with the consignees of the
Brothers regarding some matters relat
ing to the vessel or cargo. On the 27th
of August the clerk of the consignee*
was on the Brothers, and returned to
shore with the captain's boat, stating
that be would return uext morning with
the necessary clearance papers for ber
departure. About 10 o clock on the
same night he returned to the bark in
comjsuiy with eight other Mexicans from
the shore. Captain Thurston welcomed
the party cordially, suspecting no treach
ery. and they returned nis friendly salu
tations. Captain Dickey, of the Lark
Harvest Home, then laving near the
Brothers, was with Captain Thurston at
the time. For a short time a friendly
conversation was kept up, when sud
denly, and in accordance with a precon
certed signal, the Mexicans arose, and,
drawing revolvers, surronudrd Captain
Thurston, exclaiming: " You are a pris
oner." The Captain seized a rutiaao,
and struck at the nearest of the party.
The first mate called np the crew and
told them to fight for their Uvea. They
seized cutlasses, be laying-pin*, capstan
bars—anything that was handiest—and
s desperate struggle commenced. The
Mexicans fired at the crew, two shots
took effect, one passing through the
steward's mouth and entering his throat,
injuring him painfully, but not serious! v.
One of the sailors was also wounded.
The crew were making a good fight, but
i it was reserved for the second mate to
distinguish himself by showing coolness
snd braveiy that would have done honor
to the veteran of many battles. He is
the son of Captain Thurston, and i but
eighteen years old. When the fight
commenced he took bis revolver and
endeavored to enter the cabin and aid
bis father. Tbe Mexicans prevented
him, snd he turned and entered by the
rear. One of the pirates was scuffling
with Captain Thurston, and him he abot
dead. Alarmed by the fall of this man,
the others attempted toffee, panic-strick
en, towards their boat One was chafed
! by Captain Dickev and shot dead by the
second mate. Taking a position on deck
young Thurston fired the four remaining
shots in his pistol st the wretches as
they endeavored to get over the boat's
aide, snd each time one fell dead, making
six victims to his steady hand. Of all
the assailants, but two camped to the
tioat, and of those one bore a severe
sabre wound. The ringleader, the con
signee's clerk, was killed by a sabre cut
from Captain Thurston. Captain Thurs
ton shipped the anchor, made sail, snd
attempted to get to sea ; bnt there was
no wind, and the*veaeel lay motionless.
Arm* were then collected and prepara
tions made to give the pirates another
fight. Soon afterward two large boats
filled with men were seen pulling out
from the shore, and Captain Thuraton
concluded they were too strong for the
means of defence at his command. He
and the crew then abandoned the
Brothers, and put to sea in the small
loat without either water or provisiona.
Tbey ] mlled thirty-five miles out, and on
the 29th were picked up by the hark
Harvest Home, which nad laid near
; tbcm at the scene of the attack. Captain
Dickey, of the Harvest Home, states
whst occurred after the Brothers was
abandoned. The two bosta seen by
' Captain Thurstou pulled around her, snd
by firing on her found that she was
deserted. They then rowed towards tbe
Harvest Home' and gave her a volley,
which Captain Dickey returned with snch
good eflV-et, that they hauled off and
returned to shore. On the following
morning, the 28th of August, a large
party of Mexicans came off in two armed
schooners and went round the Brothers,
firing upon her with a howitzer. They
then boarded her. and took her to the
anchorage near shore. Captain Dickey
wanted to eee no more, bnt went off to
see, first sending a rejiort of what had
occurred to the United States Consul
at Mimtitian He picked np Captain
j Thuraton and the crew.
A LITTLE JOKE.— LonI Shaftesbury,
in a speech at Glasgow on mission
chapels, good books, city buildings, and
civilization generally, fold a story to
illustrate the difficulty of housing the
people well. " There was an abomi
nable district in London, he said. He
selected a house, and persuaded the
inmate- to allow him, at some expense,
to whitewash the walls, and make the
Claoo as tidy and comfortable as possi
le. They consulted. A short time
afterward he went there, and anything
more begrimed than the appearance of
the house, more shocking to any person
caring for decency, he could not con
ceive. He said, ' 'What on earth Is
this ?' and the replv was, ' Plazo your
honor, the house looked so cold and
uncomfortable that I sent for the sweep,
and axed him to give us a few warm
touches.'"
IT Is WELL.— The arrest of the owners
of the steamer Ocean Wave, lately
wrecked by explosion in Mobile Bay,
and of the negligent U. 8. Inspector,
is anothex wholesome proceeding which
marks the revulsion of feeling against
the old-time verdict of " Nobody to
blame." It is likely that those men
think it hard to tie made the victims of
popular indignation ; but steamboat and
railroad men cannot go on forever killing
people with perfeut immunity.—AT. ¥.
Paper.
ALL SOUND, AND NOT SOUND.—A Scotch
minister in a strange parish, wishing to
know what the people thought of his
preaching, questioned the sexton :
" What do they say of Mr. ?" (his
predecessor).
"Oh," said the sexton, "they say he
is not sound!"
" Whnt do they say of the new minis
tor ?" (himself).
"Oh," replied the sexton, "they say
he's all senna!"
THE various nationalists ot Central
America are taking stops toward the for
mation of a confederation.
THE UIPKT** GUI*.
C'irajr Thorns was sitting at her toilet
table, skipping a novel, while hrr maid Em
ma brushed hrr long, thick, nilky hair.
Home people said it was bias, because there
vii so much of it; other Christians were
certain it must be dyed, seeing that it bad
that particular bright, golden tint which
hi so often due to art; but Emma knew
bettor. That exemplary girl took the
eame sort of pride in her unstress's hair
that a good groom dots in tbe easts of bis
master's horses, aud was never tired of
currying—l meau brushing it. Fortunate
ly, the young lady took an equal pleasure
in her passive part of the performance, and
to both were aalitfted. When the spoiled
beauty did not know what elue to do, ahe
went up to hrr room, took off ber dress,
and had her hair brushed; it was a ladylike
substitute fur smoking a pipe.
I wonder that Darwin has not instaaeed
tbe pleasure we feel in being stroked the
right war. ia favor of bi last theory. I
believe that CMS y was often very near
purring, especially in thundery weather,
when her hair crackled like an experiment.
"Well, Emma, did you go to the fiur 7"
asked tb brasher, laying down her book.
•■Tea, miss, I did."'
"And what did you ore 7"
"I saw a horsemanship, where tbey rode
standing, and jumped through hoops ; won
derful !"
"And did you go on one of tbe round
abouts that are worked by a steam-engine,
which play* an organ V
"No, miss 7" replied Emma, with an em
pbiai*.
"Do you know, Emma, I should tike to,
if no one saw."
"Law, tnits ! they are crowded with such
a low lot, they are."
"Low lots, as you call them, seem to
have all the fun," sold Cissy, frith a half
sigh. "And whst else did you see 7"
"I went to a—fortune-teller.''
"No! In s tent 7"
"There were little tents about, but it
was a little yellow cart 1 went into; not
in the fair exactly, but in the clomp, be
fore vou corns to it. She's wonderful!"'
"Is she, though! What did she my 7
Tell me," cried the excited Cnsy, who was
troubled with yearnings after the super
natural.
"She told me all sorts of things which i
she could not have known natural; a mole |
on my back; bow long I have Wen in ser
vice —"
"Yea. yes, but the future; did she say
snything about that 7"*
-'She did more, nana, ahe showed it me."
"No!"
"In a round glass ; as true as I'm stand- j
ing here I saw him plain.''
"Your future husband 7"
"As is to be ; yes,
Tbe two girts hod been playmates when !
very little, and there was ranch more fe- j
milisrity between them than is customary
with mistress snd maid. So Emma had
to enter into all the mysterious details of
tbe cabalirtic ceremonv.
"What fun !" cried Ciesy. "I should *o
like to go; I riff go! The lortunc-tell J a
caravan is not actually in tbe feir. you say; I
and there will not, be many pedple about if
we start early."
"Lor. miss! what will your pa and ma
ray 7"
"I don't know; 111 do it first snd a*k
them afterwards, for fear they might ob
ject. We will go to morrow morning, di
rectly after breakfast, mind."
Mr. Tboroe wis a steward; I do not
mean an official attached to a steam-packet,
in charge of a china shop full of white ba
sins. but a manager of targe route* in the
country; a well-to-do man, who had a
-mall propert v of his own, which he farmed
J in the moot intelligent and neatest style,
an tbe outskirts of the market-town of
Littaiun. Mrs. Tboroe eras plump, good
natured, and lazy, yet somewhat proud
and senritire; she fancied the count v fam
ilies were patronising, and the would not
be patronised.
Cissy was their only child, and they
thought much ol her, honestly believing
that there never wss such another baby—
child—maiden. Of course tbe paragon
eras never sent to school, and her govern
esses were selected principally with refer
ence to their power of appreciating ber
merits.
Nevertheless, she was very charming,
and had two lovers—l do not mean mere
admirers, but two men who were ready to
marry her, if she would but choose one of
tbetn. But aba could not quita make up
ber mind which of the brace to select.
"If this gipsy would only show me
which I am to take, it would rare ma a
world oi trouble," ahe said to herself, with
a smile; "but of rewrse that is all non
seme. Yet if she did, I vow that I would
be guided by it."
One aspirant was Pendil Frogmore, a
landed proprietor in tbe neighborhood,
verv poor ; for though his rent-roll was a
feir oue, his debts were enormous; but very
handsome, and well set up. Indeed, he
had been in the Blues: I don't mean in bad
•pirita, but a man in armor, commanding
men in armor, and his wife would be un
doubtedly coontf.
Charles Wilson was the name of the oth
er ; he was a young London solicitor, who
bad just been" taken into a good firm, and
was now on a visit to his mother, an In
dian colonel's widow who resided at Lit
trlun. Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Thome were
good friends, so all was smooth there.
Mi*. Wilson had murmured, indeed, when
she first raw her son's inclination—
"Would she be a companion for you,
Charles 7 would she be able to take an in
terest in the same thing* you did 7"
"No, mother; and that ia just what I
want. I should hate a wife who was as
clever as myoelf. But how can you fell to
see ber merits 7 She is such a very nice
little part} F
"Par/fe, Charley, par/i# ; bow dreadfully
bad your French accent i! 1 grant that
she would not be a bad match lor you
from a worldly point of view."
Frogmore was tbe more handsome, Wil
son tbe more pleasant. Really, if fete
would settle the matter for her, it would
rave Ciasy Tboroe a world of trouble.
So the pretty bone ol contention
thought, as she started with her maid Em
ma for Littelun Hurst at nine a. M. ; for
Mr. Thorne breakfasted early, and hU
daughter presided, Mrs. Thorne being a
sluggard. Not a drum was heard, not a
pandcan note, as they stepped briskly
along; the gingerbread husbands were cov
ered up from tbe dust; the merry-go
rounds were still; the clown was darning
his dress; the donkeys breakfasted frugally
on each other's manes ; the fire-ester was
trying a diet of baoon, bread, and garlic,
for a change. Business never commenced
in tbe feir before the afternoon. But Misa
Thome's visit was not to the fair: to tbe
right, some five hundred yards from the
common, there was a clump of sparse
tree*, and sheltered beneath them stood
one of those yellow huts on wheels *hirh_
act ao vividly upon the imaginations of vil7
lage children. This was the abode of the
sibyl, and tbe adventuresses turned aside
towards it
Emma went first up the steps, and
tapped with the bright braas knocker; the
door opened immediately, and a woman of
the mystic race appeared—voung, hand
some as a Spaniard, though her splendid
black hair was rather coarse, if you came
to examine it too closely. Emma drew
back, to let ber mistress enter first.
"Walk in, my pretty lady," said the
gipsy ; "don't be afeared; lam quite alone
here."
Although the fun of the fair did not
commence till late in the day, it was evi
dent that custom came betimes to the
■ibyl, for all traces of night disorder had
disappeared ftom the miniature interior,
which was spick and span, neat and clean ;
obviously prepared for visitors. The small
TERMS : Two Dollars a Year, in Advance.
apartment was still further reduced by a
curtain, which ran on braee rings along a
rod, enclosing a portion of tbe space.
The gi|y examined Cissy's band, and
began making shots—osotras though,
most; bull's #jr. some.
"You are an only child, end your Bather
and mother would gfre you gold to eat, if
you wanted H; you had a bad illnesa four
or fire yean ago; wbeo a child you were
in great peril from a dog." A tot more to
tbe same effect, couched in vogue language,
but very correct. Clray began to be sorry
that she had come. "There's two gentle-
men as is very sweet upon you, my |*wtty
lady," continued the tin poetic ethyl;
you many one you trill be unhappy all
your life, but if you take the other you wHI
be lucky, and live to be eighty, and ride
in your carriage sad pair all the time."
The ides of this very protracted drive
rather amused Cioay, arid that revived her
courage. After all, the woman might have
mad* inquiries about her on the chance of
ber "* *"* l "g, •
•'And how an I to know which of thee*
gentlemen to ehooee V the asked it ban
tering tone.
•'Ah, thet I cannot tell, my ledy; but
you can look In the Magic Ulaas for your
aetfl and aw if It shows you aught,"
"Let me eee it, then," said Ciasy brave
ly, though the feeling of croepioeoe began
to return. *
Tbe gipsy said that Emma should leave
the caravan; but Cissy would not hsre
that, so s eutapromioc was effected ; the
moid was blindfolded. Then the gipsy
drew slides across the Utile window* on
either ride, producing a deep twilight.
Then tbe curtain at tbe further end slowly
parted, revealing a wall of Mack doth,
tightly stretched, in the oentre of which
eras fixed a circular mirror, about two feet
in diameter, end this gradually became lu
minous. Cissy's nervousness returned
with increased foree, and she grasped the
hand of ber blind folded maid.
A table separated the firis from the
mirror; and whether it wis owing to the
nugic quality of the glass, or the angle at
which it was plaeed, it djjf not reflect the
figures standing opposite it. Indeed, it
was more like ground-glass than an ordi
nary mirror; ground-glass with a treble
light behind It. ProoenUr the surfece be
came covered with ill-defined, shifting
shadows, nkicb gathered so thickly as to
obscure tbe whole of it; and then tt grad
ually cleared, and a head snd shoulder*
grew upon it; it cleared a little more and
revealed —the undoubted fere of Charles
Wilson Ciuiy stood aghast in awestruck
terror before this supernatural intimation;
when suddenly, as she gazed, the fere be
fore her became convulsed with en express
ion of terrible agony. "Jbe uttered e little
•cream, and fainted.
Fresh air and csid water seea brought
her to; she foe'd tbe gipsy, and started
homewards.
"You see'd him, mie% 7" inquired Emma.
"Yes; and 111 never marry any oue else,
if 1 die an otd maid. But, oh, what can
that dreadful expression oa hit face fore
tell 7 I fear that some awiul calamity will
happen some day!"
A not improbable dread. These was oue
consolation: fete and Cissy's secret wishes
had hit it off nicely. Girls are queer
things, and ahe had hardly known that abc
preferred Charley Wilson as much aa the
did.
In due time be offered, and was accept
ed ; and tbey were married, and went for
their honeymoon to tbe lake pf Coma.
One evening Charles Wilson rowed hi*
bride out in a very clumsy tub.
"How serious Vou are, Cissum*!" he
raid, finding her W chatty than usual.
"Did that bravo-looking beggar frighten
you? Because his frowry bead shall be
punched if he did."
"Oh, no; oh, don't offend him!" cried
the young wife. "I am sure be has got
what tbe Italian* call the Rril Eye P
"Has he? Well, never mind; tbe
Americans bare invented a potion which
counteracts the effect"
"Really V
"Yea; wbeo we return, I will get that
gentleman from New York stopping at the
hotel to concoct us an Eve-opener; that
will make it all right."
"Oh,do!" cried Mrs. Wilson; and ber
husband paddled on.
"I say, Ciwums," he said preeently, rest
ing on his oars, "don't think that lam
finding fault, because yftu have not got any
fault*, so that would be absurd; but are
you not rather superstitious 7"
"And if I am, I haTe a right to be," said
she.
"Ah! any particular expenenre 7" And
he wormed out of her the whole story.
"I am sorry I told you." she cried, wb*w
he burst out laughing; "you don't believe
it! You had better call'roe astwy-teller
at once."
"Believe it, my dear! lam ready to
swear to it. You" did not see my ghost,
though; vou were looking at SM. 1 was in
a dresdfolly confined position, and that
thief of a gipsy was so long about her pre
liminaries, that I got a horrible cramp in
my right calf, and made a feoe which I
thought would betray me."
Tbe bride burst oat crying.
"And vou bribed my maid ; and laid a
plot with a common gipsy to deceive me;
and newly frightened me to death; and
were laughing at me all the time—oh P
•he sobbed.
"All's feir in love," raid Wilson, sheep
islilv.
"It was unworthy of you F she contin
ued ; "you have married ma on false pre
tences.' I shall never feel the ram® to
warda you; 1 will never forgive you, nev
er !"
But she did.
Aw INCIDENT or DICKENS.— It was in
one of those horrid opium dens of Lon
don, that he gathered the incident which
he related in tho opening chapters of
"Edwin Drood." In a miserable court
we found tbe haggard obi woman blow
ing at a kind of pi|M> made of an old
penny ink-bottle. The identical words
which Dickens puts into the mouth of
this wretched creature in "Ed win Drood"
we heard her croqn aa we leaned over
the Uttered bed on which ahe was lying.
There waa something hideona in the way
this woman kept repeating, " Ye'll pay
up according deary, won't ye?" and
the Chinamen and Lascars nmdo never
to-be-forgotten pictures in the scene.
I watched Dickens intensely aa he went
among these outcasts of London, and
saw with what deep sympathy he en
countered the sad and suffering in their
horrid abodes.
TOBFKDO BOATS. —Three torpedo-boats
for tbe German fleet are now in the oourse
of construction at Dantzir. They are
built almost entirely of iron, and lieing
about sixty feet long and only six or
seven broad, they have nearly the form
of a fish. The deck of each boat is to
be convex, ao as to be but little ex
posed to damage from the enemy's shot,
and the rodder ia at the bow, where
there is a small opening about an inch
wide to serve as a lookout for the
steersman. The boats are propelled by
screws, the power for which will be fur
nished by miniature engines. Petroleum
is to be used as fuel.
How HE LOOKED AT IT, —At the funeral
of the Duke of Wellington, a little child
was standing with her mother at Lord
Ashburton's window, to see the funeral
go by. She made no remark until the
Duke's horse was led by, the saddle
empty and the boots reversed in the
stirrups, when she looked up into her
mother's face and said, " Mamma, when
we die will there be nothing left of us
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Advice to persons meditating law—
Keep jowr own counsel.
The man who wan injured by a bwat
of aftis**. in reeowfiog.
The lady that took everybody's eye,
ntaat harebad quite a total them.
HM mail who wan nil abip-alutpc moat
have KMimiwf a little out of proportion.
To young
it sot wator-pnxrf yw should pitch it.
If virtu* it it* own reward, there will
be person* who will hare little enough.
TV youag woman who manriea an un
worthy man take "a her lard a name in
vain.
" That'* my IMAMM f aa the botcher
Mild to the dog that waa killing hia
H*a aaitor is shot at, if hit at all,
V woold doubtless prefer to bo hit is
the cheat
A barn-door fowl ami a lawyer who
ta'ks for pay pick np their living with
♦yir bill*.
"I toll von. wife, I have got the plan
•0 in ay bred." " Ah, then, It's all m
a notehell."
When a poor fallow in about to be
burned by the savages, hi* very edat
enoe ia at stake.
Bheridsn having been a*k*d what wine
V lik/4 beet, replied, "The wine of
other people."
Money m a great tow* in the aflhire
of men ; *> gnat a leaver that aome of
na can never keep it
Excres Of ceremony shows want of
breeding; that civility ia heat which in-
MuO formality.
Two long curb on each aide are to
il the place d the curia at the back
that have been worn ao long by the
ladiea.
Demi-trains are to be adja-ted for
ahreet-wear by mean* of tonus to loop
them np to the waiat at the back Mama.
A New Jewry woman discovered bar
luat little boy ia a CHpay camp, and at
tempting to recover him, ww aaaaoftad
and beaten off by the outlaws. The
„hiM begged to be allowed to go with
hia mother.
A Berkshire papa nhnervad to hi*
daughter's bean : "Jim !if yon wan*
Lu vtm can have her: but I don't want
voa hanging around base uatem yon
mean tmaiaaaa. If yon intend to mairy
her. harry up, for I cant be kept awake
nights ranch longer."
Saratoga girls are organising **-
kiaung aocwty. Recently the rule# of
the society imposed a fine of one dollar
for rec* kirn bestowed on the masculine
gender. At the end of a week noma
of thoee girls were actually indebted to
the aorfebrin awn* ranging from 5 to
ta&. The amneistton will disband.
The proprietor of a bear-garden and
bffliaid-ealoon in Cincinnati was brought
before the police-court for keeping hia
1 place open on Sunday, bat the court
held that, inasmuch as he waa an Israel
ite who faithfully obaerred the seventh
! day of the week aa the Sabbath, no
conviction conkl be had under toe stat
utes.
A frw months ago to# Antwerp paper*
reported that toe" Wandering Jew"had
reappeared and been spoken to in that
; eitv. The tradition of centuries ia that
the visits of that mythical personage
i always precede wr or pestilence ; and
the superstition* are now connecting toe
outbreak of cholera in Belgium with toe
recent visitation of the wanderer. There
ia something remarkable in the vitality
j of this ridiculous tradition.
A Kansas Girt.
The Topek* (Kansas) Record narrates
tiba following, which goes to show that
the Kan MM giri alluded to Ims phick and
perseverance, if not discretion :
"As a gentleman waa coming into
town toe other day en the Wakaruaa
road, he noticed a young girl on a pony.
Pretty toon the pony began to display*
bad temper, and very shortly afterwards
threw the girl, who tuned a somersault
in the air and struck oil her bead in th*
road with terrific force. The gentleman
got out of hia buggy and wen* to her
ANsietanee. He found she had got a bad
full, and had a cut serosa her forehead.
He advised her to abandon pony riding
for the present, but she wiped the Wood
from her tore, and insisted upon mount
ing her fmeticua dead again. Anxious
for her aafetv, her friend watehod for
future developments, and in a few min
utes she was hurled over toe pony's head,
to>vi thin time oh# struck the ground
with such force that he thought she
J must have broken every bone in her
body. The pony took the opportunity
to gallop off. She was again helped to
her feet, half stunned and covered with
dust, and urged to abandon riding such
a fractions brute; but clutching her
riding whip, the started off in pursuit
of the ponv, evidentlv determined to
ride Mm . or get her neck broken in the at
tempt She was apparently about six
teen years of age."
Hooe NR JAPAN—Jame* Brooks now
in Japan, writes: There is a speculation
Eoing on, jnat now, among the Jape who
are seen China, in hogs. The live hog
market has been going up and down,
just like stock in the Wall street market,
and hogs here have their " bears" and
•* bulls," just as other stock, or stocks,
have them. A sow and a litter of pigs,
some time ago, sold as high as $1,500 ;
but now the bears have their way, and
they have ruined the bulb in hogs. But
they don't drive hogs here, on toe To
caido, as we do in America. When hogs
are recalcitrant, as in America, they
don't here turn tail where head ought to
be, and drive them backwards, but in
merer for the dear hog they tenderly
put liun in a basket, and sling the basket
on a pole over two Coolies shoulders,
and in this way Japs drive hogs to the
Yeddo market.
TH* UNITED STATUS Sns AT*. —Twenty -
two Senatorial chairs in the chamber at I
Washington will become vacant a year
from the next 4th of March. Twenty
of the Senators whose terms expire are
Republicans. Two are Democrat*.
This fall, nine of the States which they
represent are to elect Legislatures, in
whole or in part, by whom the next
Senators will be chosen. The others do
not elect Legislatures till a year hence.
Fooi, AND His MONET. —A Paris paper
says that a rich American haq,offered to
rebuild the Tuileries solely at his own
expense, on condition that one of the
wings of the new building shall receive
his name, and that as long as be hres he
shall be allowed an apartment in it look
ing out on the gardens, and an invitation
to all the ceremonies which shall ever be
given in the palace by any government
which may be in power there.
Txz boiler of a hat factory in Kew
buryport, Mass., exploded, killing seven
men working on the premises, and in
jured two others.
NO. 39.