i THE SILENT WOOER. How can I speak to thee ? The far bine eky Hath neTer speech for men : The longing breezes round thee flit, and then, Tnspeaking still, they die. Like sky and breeze, I gaze, I mnrmur near. Oh, most my heart be dumb ? And most hit lore like formless breezes come. To sigh and perish here ? I cannot speak to thee : and vet in thi ' & last dear bops may be. For I could tell my love's eternity In one long, silent kiss ! TV G'a7jry. era. Macaulay, in comparing Xapoleon to Ca-aar, very rightly says that Ca-sar waa greatly bis superior in one point he was a perfect gentleman. Tallyrand wittily expressed nearly the name thing when he said, "What a pity that such a great man should have been no badly brought up!" If we may judge not from the reports of hia enemies, but from the disclosures of hia faithful and devoted servitors. Napoleon treated those who were admitted into his inti macy with a familiarity that no man who had any self-respect would have tolerated for a minute. Mineval, his former secretary, represents him as pulling the ears of his interlocutors, sometimes hard enough to make the blood Cow, giving them a slap on the cheek, at times even sitting on their knees. These acts of graciousness were marks of special kindness with him, and men of the highest rank were proud of such tokens of favour. Such habits were calculated to produce still ness in his manners with strangers, tie was too familiar when he wished to please, aud too stitt'ly declamatory when lie wished to command respect. As to his body, the fatigues of war had strengthened his iron constitution, and given him a stoutness bordering on embonpoint. Napoleon acknowledged that be never was better than during nis nara campaign, in which he otten rode thirty leagues a dav over the snow. The agitation of war may be said to have become needful to his tempera ment, a necessity for bis health, and in some sort the indispensable aliment of mat immense activity wnicii was the predominant characteristic of his na ture. He literally lived on what would have killed others. War gave him both sleep and appetite. A great deal of the lorsican still remained in him. He had passed through the relined civiliza tion, the kind of philosophical chaos, of the eighteenth century, appropriating to himself with wonderful faculty of assimilation all that could be of service to him; he had turned to account his ideas, adopted the forms and language. but in realty the primitive man had been but little nioditied. He had re tained even certain superstitions of bis countrymen, w hich weie like stamps of ins origin, tie whose religion was a faith, more affected often than real, in his star, was sometimes seen, says .Mineval, suddenly to make an involun tary eign of the cross on the announce ment of some danger or some great event. Aud the half secretarv adds, in order to give a philosophical turn to the fact, that this gesture might be in terpreted by the expression. Almighty liod ! I'nder his apparent good nature, too, and his lelii.e gracefulness of manner when he wished to appear kind, was hid the old harshness and insur mountable mistrust of the islander always of his enemies. It was noticed that during the nineteen days that the two emperors spent together in the midst of effusions of the tenderest friendship, Alexander took his meals every day with Napoleon, but Napoleon never once broke bread with Alexan der. Lanfrey's Uistoru of Sapvleon the Firt. Bnroynes Original Order Book. The Centennial year seems to have unearthed in Europe as well as here many events and documents connected with our devolution never liefore gen erally known, or wholly forgotten. Macniillan has brought out an illustra- til wort rnii t u in in ir "noltt-iuaJ. uid Mi litary episodes derived from the life and correspondence of the Kight Hon orable John ISurgoyne, general, states man, and dramatist." The writer goes very miuutely into the events which preceeded the famous expedition from Canada to Saratoga, gives large space to correspondence connected with it, describes the campaign itself, aud evi dently comprehends fully how decisive and latal to our cause its snecessful issue would have been. Mill he is wrong in some of his figures. Ihe work has brought tc mind the original order book of this general, directing all the movements ot tins splendid army Irom the bngut promising com mencement of the march to its sad to tal ending at Saratoga which manv years ago was sent me by a descendant of General George Clinton. It was obtained at Saratoga at the time of the surrender, but in what way I have for gotten, if I ever knew. This order book, written up a hundred years ago, and containing the orders that for three months from day to day directed all the movements of that army, on which two continents looked with such intense regard and expectation, iiosses- ses more than common interest. The book embraces about one hundred and seventy pages, is a small quarto bound in brown paper board, fastened to gether at the back with short leather straps pasted in tor hinges. Ihe writ ing paper is brown and coarse, of the old 6tyle, with rough-cut eoges. Although in some portions the ink; is very much faded, yet the whole is per fectly legible. The first two leaves and some half dozen in the middle have been torn out. In the latter part is given in paaanei columns all the cor respondence between liurgovne and Gates relative to thesurrender, together with the proposed, rejected, and ac cepted articles of the convention on which the army capitulated. The two missing leaves at the commencement evidently contained the order arrang ing the movement of the boats, be cause the first line on the fourth page is a continuation of what followed be fore, and ends thus, "following dispo sition and then lie upon their oars. 1 he uaitury. The Power or Nona. A correspondent of the Boston Pott gets on the following on the songs of Geo. P. Morris, the genial and gifted Home Journalist : OS IlEAIilNG THE O'lUfiER SM El rflME IX AUSTRALIA. "Whwe'er l beard the Encli.h toluene. Where ruws a tree, or flow, a mer. The Hfftiin ol Morri- now are cunK. And there tliey will beating lorTer. This brings to mind an anecdote which shows the influence of song. Judge Hams, ot Georgia, a scholar, a line jurist, aud a gentleman of exten sive literary culture, regarded "Wood man, Spare that Tree,"1 as among the truest lyrics of the age. He ranked it among bis favorites, aud never beard it from musical lips without emotion. On one occasion the judge astonished a convivial "gathering" by entering into the spirit of the song with all his soul. His daughter was seated at the piano, aud, as her rich, mellow voice sang stanza after stanza, the judge became visibly affected. At length, when she trilled out the words : "Mt beart-ntrinK round thee rlin-. Ckioe ae thy bark, old frhunl ' Here thall the wild bird uu. Ami still thy branchep betid. Old tree, the .torm "till brave And. woodman. leave the 9rt : While I've a baud to Mre, Thy axe shall harm it not," "Touch it if you dare!" cried the judge, striding across the room with clenched hands, while the eyes of every one pre sent opened wide in wonder, "touch it if you dare r It it-needless to say that Lis defiant energy, and especially the passionate earnestness of the last words, made silence almost audible. The little audience were touched, and it was some minutes before a word was spoken. This anecdote should be em balmed. I venture to say that no finer compliment was ever paid General Morris during his long aud brilliant literary career. AfiBIClLTTBAI Necessary Fall ix Dralnaok. A correspondent of the C'usatrv Gentleman writes : "21 years ago I drained a part or a meadow 500 feet long, with a fail in that distance of less than two feet, and with water at the outlet of the drain ordinarily less than a foot below the surface or the ground. The sur face soil is a light, black vegetable mould, about a foot deep. Trie subsoil is a tough, firm clay, which had to be broken up with a pick. The drains were two rods apart, parallel with the brook ; the first one two rods from the brook. The ale were laid two ana a half to three feet deep, and for the whole length of the drains were more than a foot below the surface of the water at the outlet, and they have never been obstructed since they were laid. The only career or labor has been to remove the mud or silt which the steam deposits at the outlet in the spring and autumn. The water is kept from the surface just as effectually as if the outlet were above the surface or the water, though the water does not drain off quickly iu the spring of the year or after heavy rains. The surface is thus freed of water sufficiently for hay growing and making except when the water in the brook is raised for a few days by transient rains. "Ill is is the only way this land can be drained. An open drain could not be kept clear of sediment and water grasses where there is so little fall, nor was the rail sufficient to overcome tne friction of the water in flowing through such grasses. The consequence was that with a fall of nearly two feet in 500 by midsummer the water would be still just as near the surface at the up per part of the piece as it was at the lower. These drains have remedied this. The advantage in putting the tile so deep is to get them out of the way of frost and disturbance by teams. "This piece of land has lain in grass 20 years without manure, but the coarse grasses had come in so much that last September it was plowed and seeded down again to timothy. The operations upon the soil plowing with two yoke of very heavy cattle, harrow ing, rolling, etc. have not ibterferred at all with the operation of the drains." Fences. The fence question is on the tapis again, which means "fences or no fences." We have several times alluded to it, says the Germantown Tel egraph, and never could come to any other conclusion than that it was one like many others to be left to the judg ment of each farmer. This judgment will depend upon the size, form, and use to which the land is put. If it is for stock raising, some interior fences are indispensible. If the farm is of small size and used for cropping where a few cattle only are kept, interior feuees can largely be dispensed with. If, for raising vegetables and fruits, there is little need for any but line fences. No doubt on many farms dou ble the extent of fences is used that there is really any need for. On small places, movable fences, which are now made to perfection, are all that are ne cessary. It is lolly to be always Harp ing upon the cost or the fences in a State or the United States, as if all far mers were fools and were throwing all this money needlessly away. Good farmers and we are yearly getting more of them don t waste any money if they know it, and we can say of them that they know what they are about as wen as any outer jivuiuv in me vuttu. Gkoomi.no ArraRATis. An ingeni- us grooming apparatus a foreign in vent ion recently introduced Is said to work not only satisfactorily, but to possess some tieculiar advantages over the ordinary implements and methods. The device consists of a brush now in use in hair-dressing establishments, and is operated at the extremity of a suitable spindle attached to a series of jointed rod, fitted with a new hemis pherical form of joint in such a way that it la rartarilA of rwi ti rr worked bv an ordinary fly wheel, w hich can ne managed by a lad. The at paratus is iso arrangeu w wora cttiier rigm or left, so that both sides of the animal can be brushed freely and thoroughly, penetrating the coat of the animal in such a manner as to effect the operation completely, while removing all dirt and secretions without irritation or In convenience, and imparting to the sur face that glossy apiearance which is held to be the test of good grooming. Years ago the ailment called "hol low horn," or "horn distemper," was very common, and in many yards cows might be seen with horns bored on the under side, and into this hole and on the top of the bead the remedies were applied. A syringe or wooden squirt gun was used to inject into the horn soap-suds, pepper tea, brine, etc. It is now known by most farmers that there is no such disease as horn-ail, or hollow horn, but that when the horns are cold that state of things indicates the pres ence of disease elsewhere and a feeble circulation. The horns being extremi ties are cold, and the circulation needs to be equalized. It is now known to be a dangerous experiment to treat animals after the manner they were used to be treated. A Good soil rarely fails, even in i poor season, of returning a pay ins in come for the labor expended upon it in the cultivation of any crop adapted to it. ine idea that the number of acres in crops indicates the farmer's income must be abandoned, and the number of bushels per acre must be looked for in stead. I here is certainly less profit in plowing fifty acres to raise 1,000 bush els of grain than in plowing but twen- ty-nve to grow the same amount, and trusting to good seasons for fair crops will not be thought of by the improved farmer. A rich and well cultivated soil will usually make fair returns in what we call bad or unfavorable seas ons. What the farmer on a poor soil would call a good season never comes, Breeding Swiss. The secret of sue. cess in breeding swine and all other do mestic animals, consist in taking proper care of them always, having :be young come at tne most suitable season, and keeping them always improving by the closest attention to cleanliness and regularity in feeding. Kefuse apples may be profitably fed to pigs and store nogs, also perishable vegetables which are likely to go to loss by being kept later in the season. Arrangements should be made to have hogs in proper conditton for fattening early in the fall, so that they can be sold or slaught ered before the rigors of winter com mence. Breeding sows require special attention at all times. One very common habit or practice we observe both iu the city and in the country among the rural population is that of yelling sharply at horses before cart, wagon, omnibus or buggy, with that of suddenly and violently jerking the rains, supplementing it with sharp shrieks of the voice, provided they may make an untoward movement a habit we deem no less reprehensible than de testable, and one that should be at once corrected and abandoned forever. Gen tleness and kindness will be found not only the wiser and better, but the more humane and eneetive course in accom plishing the end desired. Ihaton Cnt tirator. Farm Wagons. The first requsite in care of farm wagons is to keep them under shelter always when not in use. The most convenient arrangement for this is a shed in which to drive, and from which there is a door Into the horse stable. It Is better for all wheeled vehicles to stand upon the grouud rather than on a floor of wood. It is said that by soaking beet. pars- Dip, carrot and turnip seed in warm water before planting, they will be made to germinate sooner. SCIENTIFIC. The Triukhng of the Star. The scintillation of stai s. and its close con nection with the changes of weather, has, as is known, much interested Humboldt. Arago, Kaemtz, Secchi, and many others; and recently it has also been the subject of valuable spectro scopic researches by M. ltespigbi, M. Mootigny, who some time ago inves tigated scintillation in relation to the special characteristics of the light of different stars, publishes in the Bulletin of the Belgian VAeademy, No. 8, an elaborate report upon his researches into the connection existing between scintillations and various meteorologi cal elements. The chief results, arriv ed at after a discussion of 1,W0 observ ations made on ZSU days on 70 different stars, are as follows : The intensity of scintillation (measured by a special ap paratas. the scintillometre) increases invariably with the occurence or ap proach of rainy weather, and with the increase of tension of vapor in the air on one side, and the increase of pres sure and decrease of temporal are on the other: The iutinence of the two former factors being far more sensible than the combined influence of the two lat ter. The scintillation, which is on an average stronger during winter than during summer, increases with the ar rival of moist weather at all seasons. It increases also not only on rainy days but one or two days before, decreasing immediately alter the rain has ceased. Moreover, the intensity of scintillation increases during strong winds, and with the approach of barometric de pressions, or bonrraqite, the increase being most pronounced when the de pression passes uear to the observer, It then largely exceeds the average in crease corresponding to rainy days: and the influence of great movements in the atmosphere totally counteracts the contrary influence of a lowering of pressure. M. .Montigny is thus cor rect in saying that a continued inves tigation of scintillation would be of great service, not only for the previs ion of weather, but also for the gener al study of meteorology, attorning a very useful means for the exploration of the higher regions of the atmos phere. Mature. Microiconic Detection -Wool and Hair. The lAmerican Naturalist fur nishes some interesting facta on this subject. The United Sttates Treasury Department has admitted calf hair goods free from duties levied on those composed in part of wool ; and evi dence having been furnished that seme fabrics, claimed as made of bair, contained more or less wool, a com mission was appointed, in which Dr. J. G. Hunt, the well known niicroscopist. was associated, for the examination ot these fabrics. The possibility of dis tinguishing in manufactured mixture the hair ot the cow and calf and that of the sheep has been denied by some microscopists, especially as these fab rics vary on different parts of the same animal. The commission has, however, been able to classify and distinguish them, Wooly hairs have no pith, and no preeeptible taper. Their mean diameter varies from a five hundredth to the thousandth part of an inch. At irregular intervals they have one-sided spiral thickenings, causing the wool to curl. They occur on sheep, camels, goats, and llamas; and many other animals have a portion of these wooly hairs. Un the other hand, straight hairs are shorter, thicker at base, and tapering. The pith is a large part. The scales on the outside, of which there are twenty to forty in a hun dredth part of an inch, lie smoothly. In wool they project more or less, and are from fifteen to thirty to the hun dredth part of an inch. With these and other distinctions before them, the commission found, by first bleaching the colored fibres in mineral acids, and then mounting them in glycerin, and by using high powers that in a few samples there was no wool ; in a larger proportion there was a small quantity ; in a very large number of samples there was from live to ten per cent, as well as a much larger proportion : aud in one case it was dillimlt to find five per cent of genuine cow hair. J..,v. Cnrrrte.l into r.nmt.- Few ihtsous are aware that veritable Egyp- tnm mummies are ground up into paints, lint in this country and in Europe mummies are nsed for this pur pose the asphaltnm with which they are impregnated being of a quality superior to that which ran elsewhere be obtained, and producing a peculiar brownish tint when made into paint, which is prized by distinguished at tints both of this ami other countries. The ancient Egyptians, when they nut away their dead wrapped in clot lies saturated with asphaltum, budded, as it were, better than they knew, and could never have realized the fact that ages after they had I teen laid in the tombs and pyramids along the Nile their dust would be used in painting pictures in a world then undiscovered and by artists whose languages were to them unknown. That a portion of one ot the I'haraohs, or a I'liotiphar, or even of the historic Mrs. I'otiphar, may even now be on the canvas ot Vernet; a Millais, or a Church, who may question T Thin Sheet of Iron. An English pa per says: "v, e have heard ot iron as thin as paper, bnt have just bad a packet ot specimen iron sheets brought to onr ot'iice. not half as thick as the sheet this is printed on ; that is this paper is 0.001 inch in thickness while the iron sheets we have received are 0.0015 inch thick, or only three-eighths of the thickness ot the paper. At the same time, the iron sheets are so tough as to be torn with difficulty, and so flexible as to bend with almost the fa cility of ordinary printing paper, these wonderful specimens of iron were made from the rough pig up to she rolled sheets, a means having been discovered of rolling such infinitesi- nially thin sheets in numbers without their sticking together." A Fortune in Toothpick. It seems that it was not the invention of the woouen toothpick, iter $r, that netted the inventor 'i0,ooo. but the idea of making the toothpicks out of soft, brit tle wood. It is said that, when first brought ont, the toothpicks were made of hard fibrous wood; butthe inventor soon found that this wonld not pay, as the picks lasted too long, aud be went to pine. It now takes four sound picks to get the broken end ot one out from between the teeth ; and it is the latter discovery that is said to have realized the inventor his fortune. The United State Slate Trade. It was not many veais ago when all the skates used in the I'nited States came from abroad, chiellv from Germanv. and the German skate importation was a lucrative branch of trade. Of late this has almost entirely ceased. The Americans make their own skates now. aud, oddly enough, the announcement is made that one of their leading skate factories, the Northampton Skate Com pany, in Massachusetts is tilling oiders tor nickel-plated skates to be sent to Germany. Ironmonger. A block of iron about 21 inches lonir by 11 inches square, flat at the bottom aud drawn out for a handle with a wooden end, like a soldering iron, is an excellent implement for removing old and hard putty from sashes. When hot (not red hot) the iron is placed against and passed slowly over the fiutty, which becomes stiffened by the teat and is rendered easily detachable from the wood Sion to neon Combustion of Charcoal. The late Mr. Braid wood, superinten dent of the Ixmdon Fire Brigade, Eng land, remarks that lamublack and charcoal, when the smallest quantity of oil gains access to them, are more imrlammable than sawdust and the ani mal textiles, and 6bould not be admit ted among ships1 stores. A Stcit inventor envelopes the driv ing axle of a locomotive in roila of in sulated copper wire, and by the pas sage of an electric current converts the heels into powerful magnets, with increased adhesion to the rails. Nomt Valuable Remedies, Always at Hand, and Cheap. One ot. oil worm wood to one pint alcohol better than wormwood herbs and vinegar steeped together, as it is always ready when wanted, and is more easily applied and more penetrating. It is one of the best remedies for sprains bruises and lame ness. In man er beast. 1 had a horse "Drained its ankle by stepping on a rolling stone; it had to go on three feet for a week, ana was In great pain. I went to using wormwood and alcohol, and in two weeks the horse was well. A neighbor had a horse got kicked. by a horse getting loose in the stable that nad lust been snarpiy snoa (it was in winter). He sent for a farrier, who cut off the ragged edges where it was kicked, for the big muscle ol the hip was almost cut off in some places. The farrier said it was ruined, there was no help for It. They went to using alcohol and wormwood, taking a syringe to syringe It into the wound twice a day and washed the wound three or four times a week with Castile soap, and no other remedy, and in two months the horse was able to work, and as well as ever, only the scar. Fresh cow dung applied-as a poultice win iemove tne worst case of lnnam mation, by one or two applications. It is the best when just dropped, but if you can t get it so, warm some that is fresh over the fire. My foot and ankle were swollen and Inflamed with in flammatory rheumatism. I could not let it down, but had to keep it laid up in a chair. It was so painful I couldn't sleep or rest. About eight o'clock In the evening they put on a poultice of cow dung, warm, and In twenty min utes 1 was sound asleep, and slept sound all night, a thing I had not doue for three days and nights, only a few minutes at a time. In the morning my foot and ankle was white as chalk, and looked as if it had been parboiled, the Inflammanation and swelling all gone, could put on a boot and walk without pain. American Jiural Home. Frctt Cake. One pound of butter, the same of good brown sugar, one pint of molasses and eggs ; beat separately and very light; add one teaspoonful each of salt, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, nutmeg and mace, one pint of good brandy or whiskey : now stir in flour enough to make it about as stiff as batter dough, then put in two pounds of raisins, one pound of currents, one pound of citron, sliced very thin, and one heaping teaspoonful of soda dis solved in a little cold water; then stir in flour until it is about as stiff as can be stirred with a spoon; this will make three good-sized loaves, which should be baked In a slow oven about two and a half hours, if this cake Is put in a stone jar, or in some damp place, and papers wet in brandy put between each loaf, it will keep for years; age im proves it. A correspondent of the Emjlitk Me chanic gives the following recipe for bag-marking ink, the permanency of which he says is perfect, even when bags filled with chemical manures have been in rain and sunshine over ten days: Boil 1 B. of logwood chips in 1 gallon of water at boiling point teu minutes, then stir in the eighth of an ounce of bichromate of potash, and boll this ten minutes longer, then aU, when cold, i H. of common gum, previously dissolved, and stir well in. This wiil flow well from the en, and will mark bags with either the stencil plate or block. The cost of above ink is about 6d. (12 cts.) per gallon. Vol-au-Vext. This is simply a pud ding dish, lined with rich puff-paste. niieu witn pieces or stale oread, then covered with the paste, and delicately baked. 1 hen remove the top crust and the bread, fill with rich meat, minced and highly seasoned ; replace the cover of the paste, and serve as a side dish for dinner, or, egg over the top crust, sprinkle with sugar and pounded sweet etKiwinlq ttCTVtv pulling tfltto MM? vVea , then remove the cover of paste and the bread, and fill with jam, or preserve of any kind, and serve a a dessert. Maccaroons. Beat up finely four ounces blanched almonds In a mortar (three ounces sweet, one of bitter al monds) with the whites of four eggs, till very light and creamy; then mix in one pound powdered sugar, gradu ally, all the time beating and stirring with the pestle. This will be a still batter. Put it in small, round cakes on a sheet of white paper. When baking watch closely, as they are apt to burn. When man ted for the table lightly wet the paper and the iiiaccaroons will come off easily. Fricassed Tomatoes. Place the to matoes in a stone jar, and put it in a steamer. When they are tender, beat them to a pulp and put into a stew-pan with a little onion (which has been minced and stewed in butter until it is tender), a seasoning of pepper and salt. and some chopped parsley ; simmer the mixture for a few minutes, and serve it very hot. It is good either alone or served Iu the dish with chops, or other meat, sausages, or fish of any kind. Chicken Fricassee. Take three onions, one eschalot, two cloves of garlic, one bunch of parsley, one of car rot, all to be chopped separately ; pepper and salt, in a sauce-pan put one- quarter of a pound of butter, and brown with the above; when done, take two chickens, cut up, pour in beef stock to cover, cook slowly for one hour, then pour in a large glass of sherry. Add the yolks of two eggs, and a large table spoon iui oi nour to tnicken. Tomato Catsup. Cut ripe tomatoes in thin slices, and put them in a tin vessel, with salt between each layer, boil moderately half an hour, strain through a hair sieve, and to every gallon of the liquor add three roots of horse-radish, an onion sliced, with cloves, grated nutmeg, an ounce of black pepper, a red pepper pop. and an ounce of allspice; boil well, and add a pint of vinegar to tne ganon; it is then ready for bottling. Sweet Potato Pie. Boil the potatoes : peel and slice them. Put a layer in the baking dish, either with or without pastry. Dot it over with butter, sprinkle witn sugar and allspice, or any other seasoning you may prefer. Proceed in this way until the dish or plate is full: men pour over tne top milk or cream until the pieces are well soaked. Then bake slowly and regularly till done. QciNt-ft Dole-Mah. Pare and core whole a half-dozen quinces: fill the hollow with nicely chopped raw beef: a little salt; boil in as little water as is convenient until the quinces are per- iectiy tenner; then add a teacun of mo lasses and small p'ece of butter; boil ten minutes longer, and serve with roast beef, vegetables, &c. Pe-Lap. Put a cud of rice Into boil ing-hot salted water, (only salt enough for seasoning;) when it is tender drain through a colander; dash cold water over it quickly; when well drained serve ou a platter and pour melted butter over it: the cold water separates the grains ol rice, so that they lie up iignt and loose. Shrewsbury Cakes. One pound of flour, one pound sugar, half a pound of butter, three eggs, two spoonfuls dow- dered cinnamon. Mix the butter and flour, add sugar and cinnamon. Mix to a paste with the eggs, roll out thin : cut with a tea biscuit cutter. Rich and most delicious. Charcoal has been discovered to be sure cure for burns. By laying a small piece of cold charcoal upon the burn the pain subsides immediately. By leaving the charcoal on one hour the wound Is healed, as has been de monstrated on several occasions. tmoiocft. The Mas with the Brooms. One of the old men who go from house to house selling two shilling brooms Is a very fine old man, and he has odd streaks running through him. He doesn't seek to enter the house by the front door, but softly and quietly slides around to the side door to greet the servant girl . 'No brooms to-day, she calls out as she opens the door. 'Ah, mv dear, but I have no brooms to sell. I have a love letter for you.' She pricks up her ears at that, swings open the door, and he walks in and sits down. Ah why ah!' he ejaculates as he feels in his pockets for the letter. Ah, 1 now remember, the gentleman w going to hand it to me, but decided to mail it, fearing that 1 might deliver it to the wrong lady.' What sort of a looking man V she asks. Ah, Katy dear, you rogue you ! J ust as if he wasn't a perfect gent, witn a diamond pin, gold watch, lots of money? But you are worthy of him, my dear, worthy or any gent.' 'I don't know any such man,' she mused, but that old chap strikes in : Ah, you beautiful deceiver! Of course you will not let on to me, but I know a thing or two. He ought to be proud of you, for a finer race is not in Detroit. And such beautiful hair ! and such rosy lips ! and such a form ! Why, if you were only an inch taller I should be lieve you are the Empress Eugenie!' Oh, go long!' replied the pleasant girl, trying hard to blush. If she is cross-eyed, stoop-shouldered, freckled- faced and pug-nosed his flattery pleases her all the more, and the firmer rs her belief that he is telling nothing but the truth. 'So, I don't care about selling these brooms,' he remarks, picking up the dozen, "lou are ot course acquainted with all the aristocratic families on Fortstreetr To be sure you are. And you must know all the nicest folks on Lafavette. Woodward and Jefferson avenues, because they call here on your ariatnerarif miiilreM.' The girl won't commit herself, and he goes on : This forenoon, while I was selling a dozen brooms to that high-toned Mrs. , on Woodward avenue, she asked me as a great favor to call on your dear missus, who is one of her warmest friends. I said I would, and with one of her sweetest smiles she added ; 'and do not neglect to see that dear, darling girl in the kitchen, whose beauty is only equalled by her modesty and cul ture,' Oh! pshaw! replies the girl, her eyes sparkling like stars. More than that she said, but I have not time to relate It. I called at her re quest, and here I am. You might see the missus and bring her reply. My dealings are entirely with the aristo cracy, and I shall be happy to put the name of this family upon my book. The girl goes in, represents the need of new brooms in the strongest possible light and a sale Is instantly anecteti. And now, my darling.' says the old man, as he Is ready to depart, 'that love letter will probably reach you to-day. It doubtless contains a proposal of mar riage. You will accept, a diamond ring will be forwarded, and your home and fireside will fairly howl with joy for ever more good day.' After days of patient waiting for 'that letter,' the girl slowly but cer tainly concludes that the old man is a horse thief ami a liar, and she stops try ing to look like the Empress Eugenie or anybody else. Ax Irishman, being a little fuddled, was asked what was his religions belief. "Is it me belafe ye'd be asking about?" said he. "It's the same as the widdy Brady. I owe her twelve shillings for whisky, and she belaves I'll uiver pay her, and faith that's my belafe too." "More Tkoibi.e on the Mexican Border," reads Mrs. Jones. "How I y. j mm uiiicn. a ucer iiitii such a bother as I did with the Grecian border ol my last dress, and a -Mexican border must be much more troublesome." As a clambake was recently embark. ing for Palmer's Island a gentleman on the wharf observed that the Jennie was not large enough to accommodate all "No," was replied by another; "proba bly some win go by another eon veuience. "Ah!" said she, with a little sigh "don't you think this the loveliest weather in the world for a wedding, George !" "Minnie," said George, "did you hear Senator I'oolittle. He's a fine speaker, I tell you." i ou never catch a lie cominarout of my mouth," said a man notorious for his untruthfulness. "No." retorted bystander, "lies fly out of vour mouth so last nobody can catch them." An editor says : "We have received a basket of fine grapes from our friend , for which he will please accept our compliments, some of which are nearly an inch in diameter." A young ladt refused to attend cnurcn because her new hat had not been sent home. "I hate the devil and all his works," she said, "but I hate an old fashioned bonnet more." "Don't you think you have a preju dice against the prisoner?" asked i lawyer of a witness. "Very likely,' was the reply, "I have caught him steal ing two or three times." Ki'stic: "Good-bye, Betty, we bees going for good !" ISetti: "Then mind thee don't miss the way. It be the furst uine mee s ever been on that road. I'm .1. : i.f . , . ' llllllklll . .benjamin I-kankli.v evinced his rugged honesty even in boyhood, and never had to get out of a watermelon patch faster than an active dog could UI IVC II1U1. A Wao, having married a young lady by the name of Church, sars he h..,a on- joyed more happiness since he joined , I. A ft. I. .1 1 . . . . . . " viiurtu iiiau ue ever uid in his lite ceiore. "What kind of coffee do von call thw Mrs. Smith?" "That Is the vertr her oi mo, jr. J ones. ' "certainly, madam ; . w .... J - mere is no uouut a Rout the rye, oh :" HAT is the worst side of naval warfare?" asked a school teacher. The broadside." renlled rh hnr in iu ' - j ... ... u.H.-a eai. ue went un neaa. When half a dozen people are to d ine upon a quarter of lamb, what's the proper time for dinner ? Why, a quarter ueiwre six, oi course. It is estimated that the number n1 ladies who cannot pass a looking-glass without glancing into it averages about iweive to every dozen. Considerate father "You should eat graham bread, my son ; It makes none. ' responsive vouth "H'ui. I'm iHMii an voiies now." . it k A WHWKT dealer in Buffalo. Xew York, heads his advertisements: "The greatest boon to man, is woman whisky next." Mrs. Partlnotox wishes the fimi,kic to appeal to all churches to establish a fund for superaniniated and Indignant clergy. The young man who was filled with emotion had no room for his dinner. Domestic magazines Wives who blow up their husbands. . . A man of see-Jute tendencies the chronologist Com. Adc. What do young 1 ladies look for in church? The Hims. TOCTH'S C0tC. Yotxu I'KorLKS Care of Tut selves. Now perhaps yoa will ty this is a dismal and unnecessary ser mon to preach to young peoPie, tliey have their fathers and mothers to take care of them ; tbey don't take of themselves. Very true; Jtothen and mothers cannot be IjW. T" their children; fathers nd.n,otJ1l cannot always make their chil dren remember and obey their.f're5. tions; more than all. itwW hard to make children realize that great importance thatthev should keep kll the laws of health. I know when I was a little girl, when people me, "You must not do thus and thus, for if yon do, yojwiU take cold." I used to think, "Who cares for a little cold, supposing I do catch one r And when 1 waa shut hp in the honse ifor several days with a bad JJ and suffered horrible pain, I never re proached myself. I thought that sore throats must come now . whether or no, and that 1 ituk ray turn. But now I have learned that if no law of health were ever broken, we need never have .day's illness, might grow old in entire freedom from suttering, and gradually ,"',P last, instead of dying terrible deaths from disease ; and I am all the while wishing that I bad known it when i waa young. If I had known it, I U teU yoa what I should have done. I would Lave just tried the experiment at any rate, of never doing a single thing which could by any possibility get any one of the instruments of my body out of order. 1 wish I could see some boy or girl try it yet; never to sit up late at night ; never to have a close bad air in the room ; never to sit with wet feet; never to wet them, if it were possible to help it ; never to go out in cold weather without being properly wrap ped np ; never to go out of a hot room intnarnlil nut-door air without throw ing some extra wrap on: never to eat or drink an unwholesome thing ; never to touch tea, orcotlee, oreauuy, or pie crust ; never to let a day pass without f i..jt t t-r nuul honrs or exercise in the orven air: never to read a word byt twilight, nor in the cars; never to let the sun be shut out of rooms. This is a pretty long list of "nevers," bnt "never" is the only word that con quers. "Once in a while" is the very watch-word of temptation and defeat. I do believe that the"once-in-a-while things have ruined more bodies, and more souia too, than all the other things put together. Moreover, the "never" way is easy, and the "once-in-a-wbile" way is hard. After you have once made ud vour mind "never"' to do a certain thiug. that is the end of it, if ion ant a sensible tierson. But if you only say, "This is a bad habit," or "This is a dangerous indulgence; I will be a little on my guard and not do it too often," you have put yourseii in the most uncomforable of all positions; the temptation will knock at your door twenty times a day, and you will have to be fighting the same old battle over and over again as loug as you live. This is especially true in regard to the matter of which I have been speaking to you, the care of the body. When you have once laid down to yourself the laws yon mean to keep, the things you will "uerer" do, then your life ar ranges itself in a system at once, and you are not interrupted aud htndred as the undecided people are, by wonder ing what is best, or safe, or whole some, or too unwholesome at different times. St. MichoUis. For Charlie's Sakk. The otlice door o-ned softly, and a stranger in poor, soiled soldier clothes walked in. The man who sat at the desk was a lawyer a judge and be was very busy over the papers of a pending suit. It was in the days of the civil war. The st i anger bad borne his share of the suffering that was in the land. He had been wounded in battle; and, weak aud emaciated, be was on his wav back to his native State and town. But the busy judge scarcely raised bis eyes to look at him. The poor soldier had taken off his cap, aud s'ood feeling confusedly in bis pockets. "I i.wm..- 1 dnl !, m m lctl-l fnt yon, sir.'' The judge took no notice of the timid, hesitating words. He was very busy, and be was conscious only of a feeling of annoyance that a stranger should break in upon bis time. The confused nervous search in the pockets continued, anil the judge grew still more annoyed. He was a humane man ; but he bad resjionded to so many soldiers' applications already and be was so very busy just now. The stranger came nearer and reached ont a thin hand. A letter, grimy and pocket-worn, lay on the desk, addressed to the judge? "I have no time to attend to such." But the impatient sentence was check ed on the good man's lips. The hand writing on the letter was the hand writing of his son. He opeued the letter and read : "Dear Father: The bearer of this is a soldier discharged from the hos pital. He is goiDg home to die. Assist him in any way yon can, for Charlie's sake." And then Judge A. forgot bow very busy he waa. His heart went out toward the poor sick soldier, aud "for Charlie's sake," his own holdier-boy far away, be loaded him with gifts, and acts of kindness, and lodged linn till be could send biiu on his way rejoicing. His Incautious .Kf.makk. A Chi cago grocer and his family took dinner with one of bis patrons a few days since. 1 his is very nice chicken." observed the grocer, as he discussed a piece of the leading dish on the table. "Very nice Spring chicken. I should iudire ." "That shows what kind of a judge you are, broke in the irrepressible youngster of the household. "Mother says that chicken is the toughest old rooster she ever seen in all her born days, aii' she bought it from you, too! " The rest of the meal iuukmI .fV in silence, but soon after the guests had goiie away an atmospheric disturbance arose m that house which shook it from roof to limmlitrnn 7.,.,.. Journal. "Mv son," said a gind mother to ber young hopeful, "did you wish vour teacher a Happy New Veart" "Xo, ma am," responded the boy. "Will, ujr uu i "uecanse, sam the youth. She is n t happy unless she's whinrtinv some of us boys, aud 1 was afraid if I wished her happiness she'd go for me." 1X1 IRIM; Mind (reading "It u heie, ma, 'His remains were taken to their last resting olaee.' Vhv !, thr say 'hia remains,' was'nt he all theref Enullratlns C'wwreli. Humility has this eonsolHtmn- It finds that the greatest minds had the least conceit; that Shaksnearn h.. down from the imperial height of his intellect to oe taugut by a clown to be informed by a milkmaid: that s mips In his celebrated voyage in search of knowledge, with his perpetual ques tions concerning the causa of tl.i,., found that knowledge in a workman's shop which he could not find amongst the schools of th' professors or philoso phers; that Newton compared himself ti a 1 1 i 1 . 1 , : , - v....... " n, iiuj iuk ou me sea shore, had picked up a shell here and a stone there, and thought them pretty but knew of them no more. Th l...ni of steel Is worn smooth ami tiiui.i when it has passed through th or. of an ostrich. The most conceited young prig who ever lived will find his level when brought to the t . 1.1 r. , . jMuyraeia. JS Depth. Avoid the coin nan ion who !at . everything! Such people disparage by some ludicrous association, all objects which are presented to their thoughts and thereby render themselves incapa-' bleof any emotion which can either elevate or soften tbem; they brine upon their moral beine- an iT.n. more withering; than the blasts of the jtedtol Bel - jiWaSWtfEjWJr have an Intuitive knowledge o cinal Dlanta; but that IntelUgei. have an IntuiUve knowledge of medi n"T0. . . h, that Intelligent being, r ram ' .a ii'-'w c.ln" . .;r r.l-ed less trust In h eatTn the magical skill. Theirrformance in this line was re markable, and their rustic pat.enU had wry faith in It. The most commonly SuT diseases in Serbia are consnmption and congestion of the lungs. '1 be Maple remedy for the latter ailment Utoad- mffir to the F III grown on the same bough. If after faUng these appies, which are VVi to hive some mysterious connection with the Trinity, the patient feels no better, then, but not un men, mo - woman adopts more vigorous ""-ures. The unfortunate invaiiu u " .n,i hia stomach, the wise woman scatters salt over him, and marches around bim mumbling cabalistic words. This seems to be a mnu oi m i and would indicate a belief that the Ill ness is caused by witchcraft or demonia cal possession. London Standard. The population of Pern Is 2,720,735. This la said to show a large decrease, which is attributed to earthquakes, dis eases, civil war, and brandy, ei..!cially the latter. e. r. itsakfl'i Bitter Wine ol Iron. Th:s trulv valuable tonie has hetn so tho roughly tested by all classes of the comma, nity that it is now deemed indispensable as a Tome medicine. costs dm umo, fies the blood and gives tone to the stomach renovates the system and prolongs life. Everybody should kave it. For the cure of Weak Stomach. General J Debility, Indigestion, Diseases of the Stom- aca, ana xor ail casea rruirii'; m hjuiv. This wine includes the most agreeable and efficient Salt of Iron we possess Citrate of Magnetic Oxide, combined with the most energetic of vegetable tonics Yellow Peru vian Bark. Do you want someth'ng to strengthen you? Do yoa want a good appetite? Do you want to get rid of nervousness ? Do yoa want energy ? Do yoa want to sleep well ? Do yoa want to build up your constitu tion T Do yoa want to feel well ? Do you want a brisk and vigorou feeling If yoa do, try KUN KEL'S lilTTER WINE OP IRON. I only ask a trial of this valuable tonic. Beware of counterfeits, as Kunkel's U t ter Wins of Iron is the only sure and effec tual remedy in the known world for the per manent cure of 1yspepsia and Debility, and as there are a number of imitations offered to the public, I would cantion the commu nity to purchase none but the genuine arti cle, manufactured by E. F. Kuukel, and having his stamp on ihe cork of every bot tle. The very fact that others are atiempt ing to imitate this valuable remedy, proves its worth, and speaks volnmes in its favor. Get the genuine. E. F. Kunkel's. Sold ouly in $1 bottles. Sold by Drug gists and dealers everywhere. E. F. Ku . kel, Proprietor. 2'j1) North Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Tap Worn Kenaovefl Alive. Head and all complete in two honrs, Xo fee till head passes. Seat, pin and Stomach Worms removed bv lr. Krx kel, Xorth Xinth St.. Philadelphia. Ia. Send for circular, or a-k your druggist for a bottle of Kcxkf.l's Worm Svm'P. It never fails. Trice, $!.. Schktck's. Ptlmoxic Stecp, for thb Curk of Consumption-, Couous asd Colds. The great virtue of this medicine is that It ripens the matter and throws It out of the system, purities the blood, and thus effects a cure. hcHKxes's Sea Weed Toxic," for the Cl'RK OF lYsrEPSIA, IXDIOESTIOX, Ac. The Tonic produces a healthy action of the stomach, creating an appetite, forming chyle, and curing the most ob stinate cases of Indigestion. SCHEXCK'S MaVPRAKE VlLIJf, FOR THE Ccke of Liver Complaint Ac. These Tills are alterative, and produce a healthy action of the liver, without the least danger, as they are free from calomel, and yet more efficacious in re storing a healthy action of the liver. These remedies are a certain cure for Consumption, as the Pulmonic Syrup ripens the matter and purities the blood. The Mandrake Pills act upon the liver, create a healthy bile, and remove all diseases of the liver, often a cause of Consumption. The Sea Weed Tonic gives tone and strength to the stomach, makes a good digestion, and enables the organs to form good blood; and thus creates a healthy circulation of healthy blood. The combined action of these medicines, as thus explained, w ill cure every case of Consumption, if taken in time, and the ue of the mediciues per severed in. Dr. Schenek Is professionally at Ms principle office, corner Sixth and Arch Sts., Philadelphia, every Monday, where all letters for advice must be addressed. Wlatar'a Balaam ar valid Cherry. The frreat remedy for Consumption. This well-known remedy in off.-red to the public, sanctioned by the exoeri- enceof over forty years; and when re sorted to in eason. seldom fails to effect a speedy cure of Coughs, Colds, Croup, Bronchi:is,Iiitluenz:i, Whooping Cough, Hoarseness. Pains or Soreness in the Chest or Side. Bleeding at the I.uns, Liver Complaint, etc. Beware of Coun terfeits! 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