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It was the worst snow storm of the season, and as it still continued and blew furiously, promised to be the greatest in the memory of the olt-quo ted oldest inhabitant. Of course the railroads were ail block ed up, but none quite so badly as the one upon which our hero, Mr. Richard Tuodlemao, had started for his home in Millikinville. He had taken the express train for W at four o'clock that afternoon, and at ten o'clock that evening the train bad come to a dead stop opposite the village of Unibagog, just at the en trance to a lone, deep cut that was packed full of snow, and had got to be shoveled out, as no engine could force its way through it. As this would necessitate a delay of several hours, the majority of the pas sengers left the train and went to the hotel in the village, where they took supper, and those who were not in too great a hurry to reach their various destinations engaged rooms for the night. Among the latter was our hero, who shortly after supper, bade the agreea ble young widow, whose acquaintance be had made on the cars—having occu pied the same seat with her—good night, and retired to the apartment as signed him. Now if the reader supposes that our mutual friend, Dick Toodleman, was in love with the charming widow, why, all I can say is, that the reader don't know anything about Mr. Toodleman or his affairs; for the fact is, oar hero was terribly in love with another wo man. Her name was Adelaide Tirrel, and she lived in Millikinville. She was the only daughter of her father, who, by the way, was a widower and rich, oh ! so rich. Miss Tirrel was extravagantly fond of our Dick. She lavished her young affections upon him as freely as those old Greeks and Trojans used to pour their wine around in their libations to the gods. This was as it should be. I like to see a young woman affectionate; but Mr. Tirrel wasn't of my way of think ing. He didn't love Dick Toodleman any to speak of, and he objected very strongly to his daughter entwining her affections around the image of any voung man who didn't suit him. That was the way with old Mr. Tirrel; and a very bad way it was, I think ; don't you ? Perhaps you didn't know that Dick was a lawyer? Well, he was, and a first rute lawyer too, although he had n't a great many clients. He was too young to have made a very great for tune ; and it was principally upon ac count of his lack of fortune that Mr. Tirrel s'o strongly objected to him for a son-in-law. Dick had been living in Millikinville about five years at this time, and for the past three years he had been entire ly devoted to the pretty Adelaide. Her father didn't pay much atten tion to Dick's frequent visits to his house at first, and when he did begin to suspect what the young fellow was up to it was too late. She loved him ; and you know that when a young woman does get to loving a fellow one might as well try to quench fire with kerosene as to smother love by any contrivance yet invented. But Mr. Tirrel had a very different opinion in regard to these matters. He tried the old way. He went to Mr. Toodleman and told him that his daugh ter was not for him. 'No, Richard Toodleman,' said he, 'you can't take any stock in this fami ly, not if I know myself; and conse quently you will oblige me by discon tinuing your visits to my house. When Ido want you I'll send for yon.' And with that, the old gentleman bustled out of the office, and went home to give his daughter a lecture on the same subject. The lovers met clandestinely after that, as lovers generally do under Buch circumstances, aud, although they saw no possibility of the paternal Tirrel re lenting, they continued to love each other as fondly as ever, and lived in the hope of something turning up to their advantage. As to the charming widow (she had introduced herself as Mrs. Gildad, from New York city) whom Dick had en countered on his way from W , where he had been attending court, the only part she plays in this story she played that night at the Umbagog House while our hero was reposing ii the arms of Morpheus, and dreamiDg of the fair Adelaide. Mrs. Qildad had told Dick that she was very anxious to reach her journey's end, and so, instead of taking a room at the hotel, she remained in the parlor with a number of other passengers, un til the train was once more ready to go on, when she departed, and our hero never saw her again. I said that Mrs. Gildad remained in the hotel parlor; but she must have absented herself from that apartment for a short time during the night, for when Mr. Toodleman arose the next morning perhaps you can imagine his surprise, when, instead of finding his clothes upon the chair where he had left them, he found a full suit of female attire, which he recognized at once as the property of the charming Mrs. Gil dad. Our Lero took it all in at a glanee. He knew now why that lady had been so anxious to go on She was evident ly running away from the officers of the law, and fearing that the telegraph might warn the police at the other end of the route, she had taken this means of disguising herself. Mr. Toodleman looked at the gar ments, and asked himself what be should do. His first thought was to ring the bell, call up the landlord, ex plain the situation, and send out for a new suit of clothes; but he objected very much to being looked upon in the light of a victim. Then he didn't want the affair to get into the papers, for then his legal friends would be sure to hear of it, and there would be no end of the joke at bis expense. And then, again, his beloved Adelaide would sure ly learn of it. 'No, no, it wouldn't do,' he said to j 1 himself. 'I wouldn't have Adelaide ; know of this for the world; and her father—oh, wouldn't it be nuts to him! With such a foundation, how easily the old man could concoct a story, or at least give his opinion regarding the I real facts of the case, in such a way as to ruin my character in her eyes forev er. No, it won't do.' j Mr. Toodleman sighed, surveyed himself in the mirror for one moment, as if to take a farewell look at bis mother's only son, and then reluctant ly began to attire himself in Mrs. Gil dad's apparel. For a wonder, that lady's gray trav eling dress fitted him remarkable well; but that was easily accounted for by the fact that she had probably taken his clothes in preference to those of any other guest because they fitted her. 'I don't look bad,' cried Dick, once more surveying himself in the glass af ter dressing. 'Luckily, the Dickens' Fascination Fledgedly, my face is as smooth as a girl's; and my hair—why I can part it in the middle just so,' suiting the ac tion to the words, 'with a little-quirl up-what-d'ye-call-um on each side, and who the deuce would ever suspect that this was Richard Toodleman ? Why, even Adelaide would not know me.' In truth, our Dick would make a re markable handsome woman ; and it is really a wonder that he did not like Narcissus, fall in love with bis own image reflected in the mirror. Fortunately, his pocket-book and watch which he bad placed under his pillow, before retiring, had not been molested, as Mrs. Gildad had probably been too anxious to secure a perfect disguise to run any further risk than was necessary to obtain that alone. And now Dick having completed his toilet, rang the bell and called for the clerk. The clerk came, and Dick aßked for his bill, and expressed the wish that a carriage might be called to convey him to the depot. 'All right,' said Mr. Snodgrass, al though he didn't look as if he thought it was all right by any means, for he was perfectly sure he had booked a gentleman for that room the night be fore, and how the deuce it happened that he found a woman there was a question that be couldn't answer to bis satisfaction at all. 'All right,' repeated the clerk, 'I sup pose you'll have breakfast before you go, ma'am ?' 'No, I have hardly time to reach the train now,' repeated Dick, in the soft est voice he could assume. 'My bill if you please ' 'Ah, yes, your name is'— 'Mrs. Richard Toodleman.' 'Oh, I remember.' Rut he didn't; and name only confused him more, for it was Richard Toodleman on the book, and he could have sworn five minutes before that he had seen a gentleman write it. After another pause, in which he was vainly trying to clear his puzzled brain, he retired in great bewilder ment, knocking over two chairs in his exit, while attempting to keep his eyes on Dick's face and get out of the room by the sense of feeling alone. But the clerk was as much puzzled as ever, when, after paying his bill, our hero left the house for the railroad station, and all the forenoon be was asking himself bow it was possible that he could put a gentleman into a room at night, and find no one but a lady there in the morning. 'Dang it! this thing isn't all right,' muttered Mr. Snodgrass. 'I dont like the looks ot it. There's a mystery about this affair, and I must get to the bottom of it.' But, meantime Mr. Toodleman had reached the station, got abroad the cars, and was sweeping toward Milli kinville. 'ls this seat engaged, ma'am. Dick looked up to find a corpulent, red-faced, white-haired old gentleman smiling dowu at him in a paternally affectionate way, who, having attract ed his attention, repeated hLs question. 'No, sir, I am traveling alone,' an swered Dick, at the same time remark ing to himself in the language of Jen nie Wren, 'I know your tricks and your manners.' The corpulent gentlemaD crowded down into the seat, in such a way as to face his companion, remarking as he did so on the sevority of the late storm. 'Yes, I was detained at Umbagog on account of it,' said Dick. 'Ah; indeed !.1 remember at W fearing that I .-should not be able to get home before to-day, even if I had made the attempt. Are you traveling far ?' 'No, sir.' 'Mighty reserved,' thought the old gentleman, but decidedly good look ing.' 'What an old fool!' thought, Dick, 'I believe he's going to make Jove tome;' aud he jammed his handker chief into his mouth for fear of laugh ing in the old boy's face. 'Ahem—l—it strikes me, ma'am, that I've met you somewhere before,' remarked the corpulent gentleman, with one of his roost effective smiles.' 'And your face looks very familiar to me,' replied Dick. 'There's a roguish twinkle in her eyes, but, oh, how modestly she blush es,' thought the old g-entleman, as he handed his card to our hero. Dick read the card. 'l've heard of you very often, sir.' 'Yes, I am pretty well known in this vicinity,' returned the old gentle man, swelling up li ke the frog in the fable. 'And your name, ma'am?—strange I cant think of it. I'm sure we've met before, for I reme'juber your face per fectly well. In it is altogether too beautiful to be> easily forgotten.' Dick blushed modestly and came very near swallowing his handkerchief in attempting to smother a snicker. 'Yes, we havo met before, sir.' 'Ah, I knew we had, and your im age was indelibly impressed upon my memory. And! pray what might I call you.' 'Lulu,' whijipered Dick. 'What a sweet name, but rone too swoet for ita beautiful owner.' 'l'm afraijl you flatter me.' BUTLER. PA., WEDNESDAY; AUGUST 31.1831 'Oh, no, upon my honor, Lulu. Ex cuse me for calling you by your chris tian name, for I don't know your sur name.' 'lt is Ferguson. You don't think that very sweet ?' 'Perhaps not; but thanks to your sex and beauty you could easily change it,' murmured the old gentleman, as he took Dick's hand in his, and gave it a gentle squeeze. 'O, sir, jou shouldn't do that,' whispered Mr. Toodleman, covering his face with one hand to conceal his blushes 'How coy she is, thought the old gentleman. 'l'd give a ten dollar bill for a kiss.' Just then the train passed under a bridge, and this aged admirer of female beauty snatched a kiss. Dick gave a scream. 'Hush, you'll attract attention, my dear.' 'I hope your intentions are honora ble, sir,' whispered Dick. 'Can you doubt it ?' 'But you men are so wicked. I hope you are not a married man.' 'I am a widower, Lulu—excuse me, but let me call you so ; I am contem plating matrimony.' 'Then you'll have to ask my pa ' 'Oh, Ferguson?' 'Miss. Ferguson.' 'Oh, yes, to be sure. Where did you say you resided ?' Dick was writing rapidly on the back of one of his business cards, and the train was just stopping at the Mil likinville station. 'I must leave you here, sir,' said Dick, rising. 'Eh ? you Btop here. Why, so do I. But—but, why, you don't live here?' 'Yes, good-bye, sir. Here is my card, Mr. Tirrel. When you want an other kiss, please call at my office.' The next moment Dick stepped out on the platform, while the corpulent gentleman sank back in his seat with a groan, with his small b'ack eyes fixed upon Richard Toodleman's card. 'Done for,' he muttered. Then he turned the card over, and read as follows: 'lf you want to keep this little affair to ourselves—particularly the kissing you had better let me hear from you as soon as possible. DICK. The stout gentleman tore the card into threads, and went tearing out of the car like a madman, muttering curs es loud and deep, as he hurried along toward his office. An hour later, our hero, once more in his proper habiliments, received the following note from the hands of Mr. Tirrel's office boy : MR. RICHARD TOODLEMAN : Dear Sir—lf you want my daughter for a wife please take her at once. As lam suddenly called to the west upon busi ness of importance, I shall probably not be able to attend the wedding. Don't defer it on my account. Marry her at once, and be happy, and keep your mouth shut. TIRREL. That was enough for Mr. Toodleman. He spent that evening with bis dear Adelaide, who had been informed by ber father that the blockade was re moved, and that her lover might sail into port and carry off the prize at his leisure. 'But how funny,'said she, 'that fath er should relent.' 'Not at all,my dear,' replied Dick. And so they were married in a quiet manner during Mr. Tirrel's absence, and the happiest couple I know of to day in all Millikinville, is Dick Too dleman and his handsome wife. As for Mr. Tirrel, though still a great admirer of the female sex, he is very careful how he makes love to pretty young ladies on the cars; but he is still on the lookout for a young and handsome wife. Mrs Gildad, who as Dick afterwards learned, was a noted confidence woman whom the police were exceedingly anx ious to interview, managed to escape the lynx-eyed officers of the law, much to the chagrin of Mr. Snodgrass, who biauied himself very much for not act ing upon his suspicions, and having her arrested, on the morning after the great storm. THE ARTIC WIN TER. Lieutenant Schwatka, the Arctic ex plorer, gives some interesting facts in regard to the character and duration of the Arctic winter. He says : "The generally received opinion that the Arctic winter, especially in the higher latitudes, is a lone', dreary one of perfect opaque darkness is not strict ly correct. In latitude 83° 20' 20" N., the highest point ever reached by man, there are 4 hours &nd 42 minutes of twilight on December 22, the shortest day in the year in the Northern Hem isphere. In latitude 82° 27' N., the highest point where white men have wintered, there are 6 hours and 2 min utes in the shortest day, and 328 geo graphical miles from that point must yet be attained before the true Pluton ic zone, or that one in which there is no twilight whatsoever, even upon the shortest day of the year, can be said to have been entered by man. Of course, about the beginning and ending of this twilight it is very feeble and easily ex tinguished by even the slightest mists; but nevertheless, it exists, and is very appreciable on clear, cold days, or nights, properly speaking. The North Pole itself is only shrouded in perfect blackness from November 13 to Janu ary 29, a period of 77 days. Suppos ing that the sun has set (supposing a circumpolar sea or body of water un limited to vision) on September 24, not to rise until March 18 for that particu lar point, giving a period of about 50 days of uniformly varying twilight, the Pole has about 188 days of contin uous daylight, 100 days of varying twilight, and 77 of perfect inky dark ness (save when the moon has a north ern declination) in the period of a typi cal year. During the period of a little over four days the sun shines continu ously on both the North and South ploles at the same time, owing to re fraction, parallax, semi-diameter, and dip o'f the Mor# lumber will be floated down the Kennebec this year than ever be i fore, the amount being estimated at 14ojo<)0,000 to 160,000,000 feet. IS CONSUMPTION CONTA GIOUS* If our medical journals were to an nounce the steady approach to this country—say from China—of an ill-un derstood, painful and usually fatal mal ady, which if once established among us" would certainly kill half a million of our citizens every year and ultimate ly carry off one in every five of the en tire population, it is safe to presume that the announcement would not be calmly received. As one man, physi cians not less strenuously than laymen, we should demand the most rigorous quarantine against tbe infected coun try. No effort would be accounted too heroic, no precaution too costly, to shield our country from so disastrous an invasion And if there were any doubt as to the specific nature of the threatened plague or ol the mode of its transmission or inception, neither our medical and sanitary societies nor the government would rest until competent commissions were sent to investigate the matter. It would be accounted criminal indifference on the part of medical and sanitary authorities to neglect to make a concerted and persist ent effort to discover the causes and conditions of the plague, and how to protect the community from its rava ges or to cure its victims when attack ed. Would the urgency of the case be di minished in any respect by the circum stance that the supposed invasion had already become a fact accomplished ? At first thought any one would re ply: 'Not in the least; rather tbe con trary ; for the evil in the latter case would be actual, not threatened merely, and tbe loss or saving of half a million lives a year is a matter of the gravest national importance. Yet it is a sin gular fact that while we should be thrown into a panic if half a million lives were threatened by a new disease, we accept as inevitable, almost with indifference, the certain killing of that number of people every year by an old and familiar.malady. And our medi cal authorities tell us, without a twinge of professional pride, that they really do not know positively how consump tion is induced and transmitted, or whether it is communicable from the sick to the well or not; and worse yet, they confess without blushing that they do not contemplate any special or general effort to have such momentous questions critically investigated ! When half a million of discontented natives of Europe throng to our shores in a single year we do not fail to ap preciate the importance of the gain, both immediate and prospective. When a larger number of our own citizens are cut off untimelv by a disease which, while it destroys them, transmits a legacy of sickness and too often early death to their descendants, we mourn our individual losses, but make no ade quate effort to put an end to the na tional loss by urging or aiding the sci entific determination of its conditions, causes and remedies. Already one in every five of our population dies of con sumption, and the indications are that the conditions of our civilization tend to increase the death rate from this cause. If the disease is infectious, as many believe, the multiplication of cas es may sooner or later reach a point— if its progress is unchecked—at which a perpetuation of our race and the civ ilization developed by it will become impossible. Other races and civiliza tions have disappeared, leaving no ex planation of the secret of their decline. Others, we have good reasons for be lieving, have been exterminated by plagues peculiar to them, developed in all probability by something peculiar to their modes of living. That there is any imminent danger of so disastrous a result to our race and civilization from the increase of con sumption no one but an alarmist would suppose; still it remains an impending possibility, more especially if there is any error in the common belief that the disease is not contagious or infectious. In the current issue of the Scientific American supplement a valuable sum mary of evidence supporting tbe posi tion that tbe virus of consumption is specific and communicable is presented by Dr. Cogshall, of Michigan. The evidence is fuller and more cogent than popularly believed ; and while it must be admitted that many cases of sup posed communication of the disease may be due not to any transmission of virus but to similarity of unsanitary surroundings and family customs on the part of related victims, there is still sufficient evidence that the direct communication of tuberculosis is fol lowed by pulmonary consumption to justify not only exceeding care in tbe intercourse of the healthy with con sumptive patients and rigorous sanita tion in connection with all cases of the disease, but a special reinvestigation of the natural history of consumption by the medical profession. The suggestions which Dr. Cogshall makes touching tho measures best cal culated to prevent the ravages of con sumption, and his remarks with regard to the superior efficiency of hygienic treatment over medication, will be found worthy of thoughtful attention. _ The postition he takes with regard to the curability of consumption, even in advanced cases, through improved nu trition and a judicious hygiene to the exclusion of all nostrums and so-called consumptive cures is decidedly hope ful ; and we believe that the most of our physicians will measurably agree with him. We wish wo could be so well assured of their desire to investi gate anew and thoroughly the question of the cominunicability of the virus of the disease.— Scientific American. [Klgin, (111.) Daily Leader.] The subjoined opinion, we preceivc, is by J. A. Daniels, Esq., of Messrs. Stogdill & Daniels, attoneys, La Crosse, Wis., and and appear in the La Crosse Chronicle: Sometime since, I was attacked with pain in and below one of my knee joints. A few applications of St. Jacobs Oil quieted the pain and relieved the inflamation. I regard it as a valuable medicine. Sitting Bull has named one of his daughters "The War is Over." For headache, sick headache, take Peruna. THE PRESER VA TION OF EGGS. ! The question, "How can eggs be preserved for market?" just now en gages the attention of many of our readers. The following will prove of timely interest to many. In the cominir "liming" process a tight barrel is half filled with cold wat er, into which is stirred slacked lime and salt iu the proportion of about one half pound each for every pail or buck et ot water. Some dealers use no salt, and others add a small quantity of □iter—one quarter pound to the half barrel of pickle. Into this tbe eggs, which must be perfectly fresh and sound, are let down w : th a dish, when they settle to the bottom, small end down. The eggs displuce the liquid, so thet when the barrel is full of eggs it is also full of the pickle. Eggs thus pickled, if kept in a cool place, will or dinarily keep good for several months. Long storage in this liquid, however, is apt to make the shells brittle and im part a limy taste to their contents. This may be in a great measure avoid ed by anointing the egg all over with lard before putting in the pickle. Eggs thus prepared are said to keep perfect ly for six months or more when stored in a cool cellar. A much better meth od of storing eggs is the following: Having selected perfectly fresh eggs, put them a dozen or more at a time, into a small willow basket, and im merse this for five seconds in boiling water containing about five pounds of common brown sugar per gallon of water. Place the eggs immediately after on trays to dry. The scalding water causes the formation of a thin skin of hard albumen next to the inner surface of the shell, the sugar effectual ly closing all the pores of the latter. The cool eggs are then packed, small end down, in an, intimate mixture of one measure of good charcoal, finely powdered, and two measures of dry bran. Eggs thus stored have been found perfectly fresh and unaltered after six months. A French authority gives the follow ing: Melt four ounces of clear bees wax in a porcelain dish over a gentle fire and stir in eight ounces ot olive oil. Let the resulting solution of wax in oil cool somewhat, then dip the fresh eggs one by one into it so as to coat every part of the shell. A momentary dip is suffiqient, all excess of the mix ture being wiped off with acotton cloth. The oil is absorbed in the shell, the wax hermetically closing all the pores. It is claimed that eggs thus treated and packed away in powdered char coal in a cool place have been found after two years as fresh and palatable as when newly laid. Paraffine, which melts to a thin liquid at a temperature below the boil ing of water, and has the advantage of being odorless, tasteless, harmless, and cheap, can bo advantageously substi tuted for the wax and oil, and used in a similar manner. Thus coated and put into the lime pickle the eggs may be safely stored for many months; in charcoal, under favorable circumstances, for a year or more. Dry salt is frequently recommended as a good preservative packing for stored egtrs, but practical experience has shown that salt alone is but little better than dry bran, especially if stor ed in a damp place or exposed to hu mid air. A mixture of eight measures of bran with one of powdered quicklime makes an excellent packing for eggs in trans portation. Water glaßS—silicate of soda—has recently been used in Germany for ren dering the of eggs non-porous. A small quantity of the clear sirupy solution is smeared over the entire sur face of the shell. On drying a thin, hard, glassy film remains, which serves as an admirable protection and substi tute for wax, oil, gums, etc. Eggs thus coaled and stored in charcoal powder or a mixture of charcoal and bran would keep a very long time. In storing eggs in charcoal the lat tec should be fresh and perfectly dry. If the eggs are not stored when per fectly fresh they will not keep under any circumstances. A broken egg stored with sound ones will sometimes endanger the whole lot. In packing, the small end of the egg should be placed downward ; if iu charcoal or other powper they must be packed so that the shell of one egg does not touch that of another, interspaces being filled with the powder. Under all circumstances stored eggs should lie kept in as cool a place as possible. Frequent change of temper ature must also be avoided. CENSUS OF GREAT BRITAIN. On the night of April 4 the popula tion of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, including tbe is lands in British waters (tho Isle of Man and the Channel Islands), togeth er with tbe army and navy and mer chant seamen abroad, was found to be 35,246,502, an increase of 4,147,236 as compared with the census returns of 1871. The females exceed the males by a little over 700,00 U. The percent age of population for England,'was 69:8; for Wales, 3:8 ; for Scotland, 10:6 ; for Ireland, 14:6. The remainder, I:2* per cent., was distributed between the Isle of Man (0:2), tbe Channel Islands (0:3), and the army, navy and seamen abroad (0:7) The density of population in England and Wales is 440 to the square mile. The greatest density is iu the mining and manufacturing couuties. Lancan shire has over 1,700 to thepquare mile, and Middlesex (outside of London), 1,364. Six counties in England and one in Wales have over 500 to the square mile. London has 486,286 houses and a population of 3,814,571, having increased over half a million in the past ten years. The density of population in London is n0w[32,326 to the square mile. Liverpool ranks next LondonJ]in England, with a population over 550,- 000 ; Birmingham has over 400,000; Manchester and Leeds each exceed 300,000; Sheffield and Bristol have over 200,000 Inhabitants each. Curi ously the population of Manchester has fallen off 10,000 since tbe census of 1871. _ BAD OUTLOOK FOR PEACH ES. In tbe old peach growing section of Newcastle county, Del., there are ab solutely no peaches whatever. In a county which, in previous years, pro duced upward of 2,000,000 baskets, and shipped upward of 100 car loads a day, there will not be more than one car load to be shipped on any one day during the entire season and perhaps 1,000 baskets will be all that will be grown there. It is even doubtful if from tbe entire State of Delaware there will be a single daily shipment of one full car load of really ripe peaches. There will be, it is claimed, 10,000 baskets of peaches grown in Sussex county, iu the neighborhood of Lewes. Our correspondent, however, could find no one there who expected any more good peaches that they would need lor family use. There are a good many natural or ungrafted peach trees in this section which may furuish a good many peaches for the market, but even adding this natural and uncultivated crop in estimating, it is exceeding doubtful if there will be half of the 10,- 000 baskets looked for. There will be a few peaches and some good ones shipped from Worcester county, Md., but most of them will come in next week, as they are of the Hall aud Troth varieties. A drive of upward of forty miles through this country did not reveal half a dozen trees that were anything like full, while many thous and of trees were seen without a peach on them. In fact, if there any quantity of peaches at all in the penin sula, they are to be found in Kent, Queen Ann and Cecil counties, Md., over near the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. But those who a few weeks ago belieyed tnat they would have a good supply of peaches realize now that they will raise but a small crop. Thousands of the young peaches have already fallen to the ground, victims of the curculio stings, aud of those which remain no good peaches cau be expect ed, as in all probability they will all be stung aud permaturely ripened. The orchard belonging to Mr. Taylor, in Monmouth county, N. J., which was mentioned by the Times two months ago as a phenomenon, being the only orchard for Jmiles around giv ing any prospects for a croD, is report ed as still full of young fruit aud in a healthy condition, and its owner is calculating upon a crop of several thousand baskets. A great many permaturely ripened peaches are com ing to the market from the Hudson river counties, which proveß that the trees arc very much diseasedf but every one interested in the cultivation of peaches in that section asserts that there will be a large crop of fiue peach es there.— N. Y. Times. WHAT SHE SAW IN CHURCH. Ho staid at home and she went to church, after dinner he asked her: "What was the text, May ?" "Oh, something, somewhere in Gen erations; I have forgotten the chapter and verse. Mrs. Ilight sat right be fore me with a Mother Hubbard bonnet on. How could I hear anything when I could not even see the minister? I wouldn't have worn such a looking thing to church if I had to have gone bareheaded." "How did vou like the new minis er ?" "Oh, he's splendid! and Kate Dartin was there in a Spanish lace cape that never cost less than SSO; and they can't pay their butcher bills, and I'd wear cotton lace or go without any first. "Did he say anything about the new mission fund ?" "No, and the Jones girls were all rigged out in their yellow silks made over; you would have died laughing to have seen them. Such taste as these girls have; and the minister gave out that the Dorcas Society will meet at Sister Jones' residence—the old poky place." "It seems you didn't hear much of the sermon." "Well, I'm sure it's better to go to church, if you don't hear the sermon, than to stay at home and read the papers ; and oh, Harry! the new minis ter has a lovely voice; it nearly puts me to sleep; and did I tell you that the Rich's aro homo from Europe, and Mrs. Rich had a teal camel's hair shawl on, and it didn't look like any thing on her." A long silence, during which Harrv thought of several things, and his wife was busy contemplating the sky or view, then she sundenly exclaimed: "There! I knew I'd forgot to tell you something. Would you believe it, Harry, the fringe on Mrs. Jones' para sol was an inch deeper than mine and twice as heavy! Oh, dear! what a world of trouble this is!" RE A SONS ~~FOR ~DRESSING PLAINLY ON THE LORD'S DAY. 1. It would lessen the burden of many who find it hard to maintain their places in society 2. It would lessen the force of the temptations which often lead men to barter honor and honesty for display. 3. If there was less style in dress at church, people in moderate circum stances would be more inclined to at tend. 4. Universal moderation in dress at church would improve the worship by the removal of many wandering thoughts. 5. It would enable all elasses of people to attend church better in un favorable weather. 6. It would lessen, on the part of rich, the temptations of vanity. 7. It would lesson, on the part of the poor, the temptations to bo envi ous and malicious. 8. It would save valuable time on the Lord's day. 9. It would relieve our means of a serious pressure, and thus enable us to do more for good enterprise. Jefferson Davis and wife sailed from New Orleans for Liverpool Saturday. They are after their daughter who is being educated abroad. ADVERTISING KATES. One square, one insertion, 41 ; each subs* ueut insertion, SO cents. l'eirly advertisement oxceeding one-fourth of a column, |5 p«r inch Figure wurk double these rate*; addition* charges where weekly or monthly changes are made. Local advertisements 10 cents per line for fiot insertion, and 5 cents per line for each additional insertion. Marriages and deaths pub lished free of charge. Obituary notices charged an advertisements, and payable' when handed in Auditors' Notices. 14 : Executors' and Adminis Irators' Notices. <3 each; Estray, Caution ans Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten lines, each. From the fact that the CITIZKH is the oldes* established and most extensively circulated Re publican newspaper in Butler connty, (a Repub lican county) it must be apparent' to business men that it is the medium they should use in advertising their business. NO. 40 A GIRL OF OBIT. Crawling 400 Feet Across a Railroad Bridge at Night and Through a Tempest to Save a Train from H'reci - . Ou last Wednesday night, says the Ogdeu (Iowa) Reporter of July 15, when O'Neil, Donahue and Olmstead weut dowu to death, a noble girl, but 15 years of age, was watching and praying for those whose duty called them out over the railroad in tbe fear ful storm. Kate Shelly, whose fath er was killed on the railroad some years ago, lives with her mother just on the east side of the river, and near ly opposite where the engine made the fearful plunge and Donahue and Olm stead lost their lives. Miss Shelly and her mother beard the crash and, realiz ing what had happened, Kate took a lantern, aud, amid the hurricane of wind, the deluge of water, the inces sant glare of the lightning, and peal upon peal of thunder, left ber home and started for the wreck Her light soon went out, but she felt her way through the woods and fallen timbers to the edge of the dashing waters that covered the drowned men. She could hear, above the roar of the tempest, the voice of Wood, the engineer, who had caught in a tree top. She know that the express, with its load of pas sengers, was nearly due, and none to warn them of their danger. She, a young girl, was the only living being who could prevent on awful catastro phe. The telegraph office at Moingona or Boone, was the only place where she could notify the officers To Boone was five miles over hills and through the woods, and before she could get there the express would have passed. To Moingona was only a mile, but be tween there and Moingona was the Des Moines river, ten or fifteen feet above its natural height, and to cross this she must pass over the railroad bridge, fifty feet above the rushing waters. She must cross the bridge 400 feet long with nothing but the ties and rails, the wind blowing a gale, and tbe foaming, seething, muddy waters beneath. Not oue man in a thousand but would have shrunk from such a task. Not one man iu five hun dred would have gone over at any price, or under any circumstances. But this brave, noble girl, with the nerve of a giant, gathered about her ber flowing skirts, and on hand and knees crawled over tbe long, weary bridge. Tie after tie was passed. It was time for the express train to come dashing over the bridge, and to hurl her down to death amid the dark and muddy waters of the roaring, rushing river. The blood from her lacerated knees has stained her dress, but sho does not falter. She reaches tbe shore, and the remaining half-mile she flies, almost, to the telegraph office. Breath less, and in broken acceDts, she tells her tale of death and destruction, and faints in the arms of the bystanders. Tbe wires were set at work and a more horrible disaster averted. 1 THE COOK SUBSCRIPTION. When Murat Halstead, of the Cin cinnati Commercial started the collec tion of one-cent subscriptions for the purpose of paying the fine of Charles A. Cook, an ex-soldier (of Ohio), for slapping the mouth of one Morrison, who expressed the wish that Garfield -might die, he had no idea, probably, that it would require pages of newspa pers to chronicle the names of subscri bers. Since the first announcement fully one hundred thousand persons have sent their one-cent contributions to the news paper offices in the various cities where the indignation of the peo ple has taken that form of expression. In Cincinnati alone nearly sixty thou sand persons have subscribed, while in Cleveland, Columbus and Pittsburgh the subscriptions will aggregate not less than fifteen thousand. The sub scriptions to the Cook fund at the Evening Neion office up to noon yester day aggregate 2,867 cents, and the cop pers continue to come in at the rate of about 500 dally.— Phila. News. A VALUABLE TABLE. The following is a valuable house wife's table, by which persons not hav ing scales and weights at hand may readily measure the article wanted to form any receipt without the trouble of weighing, allowance being made for any extraordinary dryness or moisture of the article weighed or measured : Wheat Hour, 1 pound is 1 quart. Indian meal, 1 pound 2 ounces are I quart. Butter when soft, 1 pound is 1 quart. Loaf sugar, broken, 1 pound is 1 quart. White sugar, powdered, 1 pound 1 ounce are 1 quart. Eight eggs arc 1 pound. A common tumbler holds half a pint. A tea cup is one gill. A large wine-glass is one gill. Forty drops are equal to a teaspoon ful. OUR FLAG. The following concerning our flag will be information to some. Every body knows it at sight, yet but few know its dimensions or composition: "The garrison flag is the National flap. It is made of bunting, 36 feet fly, and 20 feet hoist, in thirteen horizon tal stripes of equal breadth, alternating red white and blue beginning with red. In tbe|upper quarter next the staff, is the Union, composed of a number of white stars, equal to the number of States, one-third the length of the flag, ex tending to the lower edge of the fourth red stripe from the top. The storm flag is 20x10 ; the recruit ing flag nine feet, nine inches by four feet four inches. Tho regimental flag is six feet six inches fly and six feet deep on the staff. As there aro 38 Suites in the Union there should be the same number of stars on the flag. The first law of nature is self-preser vation ; but to do it she needs Peruna. Maud S. trotted a mile in two min utes and ten and one-fourth seconds at > Rochester, N. Y. t on Wednesday last, the fastcß on record, beating her Pitts burgh time one-fourth of a second.