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pi The Farmer Girl's Choice. i H I am only a fanner's girl, 1 H John is only a farmer's lad, 1 ?|j| But somehow, when wo chance to meet, J The very sound of his coming feet 1 Can make my heart so glad ij|| That up to my cheeks the warm blnsh flies, III And he reads his welcome in my eyes. I am only a farmer's girl, Master Tom is the Squire's son, , But, strange to tell, his feet this way Turn often toward the close of day, ! After the chores are done, V When John (he passes the moadow gate) jgS Gives me a scowl, and?will not wait I am only a farmer's, girl, || So what can the Squire want of me ? H My heart is John's ; John knows it well; W But it isn't for me the truth to tell? 1| So bashful a lad is ho!? BO tne ?quiro may come ana me squire may go, But all the answer he'll get is " no!" The Squire praises my hair and eyes ; The Squire says I'm a lady born. What care I for his foolish speech ? Tis John's voioe only my heart can teach To sing like birds at morn. But John is jealous, the foolish boy, And my days are shorn of half their joy. Oh, I am only a farmer's girl, And John ia only a farmer's lad, " But I'd rather be his in his humble lifo Than be a " lady " as Squire's wife, 11 With a restless heart and sad ! But John?bo bashful a boy is he!? Is a long while asking my heart of me. JENISON'S BETWhen the widow Coe married Jason Carter she brought him no money at j all; only a small, stony farm in Noppit, j I that had been her father's and two wild j1 boys of -ten and twelye years', growth. | Jack and Dan were hard subjects for a !1 step-father to role, and Jason Carter j found his hands full. Naturally he was j s quiet, genue, dui peituo?cuu iuuu, ^ his youth he had run away to sea, and 1 for fifteen years had been a common ' sailor, which had pretty well knocked the quiet out of and the persistence into i him, In this time he had learned to ] swear, as a matter of course, though he < had been strictly brought up, and went to church and Sunday school always, i His mother would have cried her eyes < out to hear him talk in this fashion, but. i she never did; his father would have | used the rod, but he alpo was spared the i trouble, for both father and mother had < died before Jason came back, add-when < he found they were gone he never went back to Tolland, but after he got tired of sea-going took to peddling notions ] about the country, and at last married 1 the widow Ooe and settled down in Nop- ] ?e had stopped swearing long ago; under dear old Father Taylor's preaching he had been converted be fcween his last two voyages, and though profanity had become a habit with him, : he had conquered it at last, after years j of patient endeavor, and now was so i gentle, and pleasant, and pious, that : Fhcebe Coe thought her last days would i be her best days. He had come to know the widow Coe from being an old shipmate of her brother, John Wires; who had also left seafiring because he had injured a knee, and because too lame to climb rigging; bo he : et up a small shop in Boston, where he sold tobacco, twine, and other odds and ends; but he had been married and had one son, called Jenison. This boy was about the age of widow Coe's youngest son, for her brother had married soon after she did, while he was sfeOl a sailor; and when Jason Carter began the peddling business, John Wires ?_ had told him to stop when he went /. > through Scran ton and see his sister. 11 ?j iv.:. .. jme cmjuren were ?uuan, auu men iuuier living, -when Jason first saw them, - * and they learned to look for "Uncle Jase" every spring and fall with delight, ^ - , ? for he always brought them marbles, tops, candy, string, and made them bows and lutes, sure passports to a boy's ^ heart. So when their poor drunken father died and the widow found herself left without a penny, she moved over to Noppit to live with her father, and when he died, too, leaving her all he had, the farm from which he had scratched a scanty living, and she found herself alone and helpless, she listened favorably to Jason Carter's prop?al, for - he was tired of his tendering life as she of her loneliness, and married him. The boys were glad, for they loved him, and they never had loved their own father, ^ and Jafcon was as good to them as if they were his own, though a certain thrill of emotion shook him when his baby daughter came, that never had troubled that worn old heart in any emergency of Jack or Dan. But then Celia was a girl; of course that made it different! Jason, when compared with his predecessor, was as mild and pleasant about the house as a spring day after stormy win- i . ter. He became a useful and prominent member in the Noppit church, and nev. er was heard to utter a profane or impatient word. Jack and Dan loved him as much as healthy boys love anything but mischief and meals, and Phcebe was entirely happy. True, they were poor; Jason had a few hundred dollars laid by, but the Noppit farm was too sterile to produce crocs ehoncrh to snDDort the famiiv. so he laid out his little capital, or part of it, in a good breed of sheep,which found abundant living among mullens, hardhack and huckleberry bushes, and proved in due time a profitable investment. For in those days dogs, the curse of New England, were by no means common in the country; there was no reason for keeping them, and farmers had Money and mutton inRtead of hydrophobia and horrors. The wool sold well always and kept the family in socks, for Jason's wife could spin and knit with "wonderful rapidity; the lambs he had not room to raise were sent to Hartford and sold to the butchers, and now and then a fat old wether went to the meatman's cart in the shape of juicy quarters, one'day more of the week was available, and Jenison was put on his mettle, acd laid plans accordingly. They had prayers always before breakfast, and the weather was so warm and the kitchen so Vint fhit. .Tflninon spf. fha nnf,?r rlnnr nnpn Bat the glory of the flock was a big ?black-faced ram, who terrified marauding boys and -intruding vagabonds, and asked no better fun than to eend somebody heels "overhead whenever he had . a chance. Jack and Dan had brought him up from lambhood, but he was no longer a lamb, and of his painstaking education only one trait staid by him, a distinct and aDgry recollection of the rod that had not been spared on his early and somewhat stupid youth. To the day of Billy's death a little stick, shaken before anything, would send him, " head-on," at that luckless object, and the boys often amused themselves by climbing the pine rail fence and dangling a small switch full in Billy's sight against a big post; the result was sudden and severe to Billy, and he might have seriously injured himself if daddy, as the boys called Jason, had not found them at this sport one day and strictly ioruiuucjl lb* uruexbjr i\j au-Luiaio wiw one of the few things that roused his cooler and made him imperative. . Une summer Mrs. Carter received a letter from her brother asking her to take his boy for a few months; his wife j was so feeble that she was going home to her father's with the baby and a young child, and Jenison could not go with her for want of room. Mr. Wires did not -want him in the city with him, at a boarding-house, but was willing to pay hiB board in Noppit; 83 he came. jenison wires was a sharp city-bred boy, with very little faith in anybody's goodness. His father was a pushing, ??. money-making, profane man, and his ^ mother a meek cipher; he himself, at the mature age of fourteen could smokand swear and talk sailor slang glibly, for he had run about the wharves ever since he could run anywhere. Mrs. Car? ter was troubled fend disgusted to find guch a boy on her hands. Jason considered that Providence had sent the lad , (there for his good, and resolved to pray - -lor him as for his own boys, to set him -r>. its good an example as he tried to set * . Jaok and Dan, and to "deal with him," as he expressed it, "with a view to his eternal salvation." The boys thought Jenison was wonderful. He knew to nuch, he had Been so many things; he lad such a pocket-knife, such marbles, such a swagger I But when his first j{ round oath came out Jack and Dan were startled. "Look-a-hero!" said Jack; "don't you i let daddy hear no such talk as that; , he'll tuno ye, ef he does, and no mistake." "Whe-e-ew!" responded Jenison; "I ain't a baby; I guese I'll swear if I want to, for all him; he ain't so pious himself, I bet, but what he rips out sometimes!" "He don't! he don't never!" the boye exclaimed in unison. "H'm! I guess you don't hear him; the old fellow keeps shady before folks, but he use*! to swear like a Botany Bay pirate. I've heerd pa say so!" The boys were shocked into momentary silence; but recovered themselves Boon. "I don't believe it!" said positive Dan. "And if he ever did, he don't now," added reasonable Jack; "he's awful good; he's a professor; he prays in meetin' and to home too, and he don't never scold, nor swear, nor nothin*. Scarce ever he licks a feller; he did give Dan and me one whalin', but he'd oughter hev, that's a fact. Dan he told a thunderin' lie and I backed him up. I tell yo! we was sore for one ' spell, arter he found it out." "Well, I know he used to swear aboard ship. I've heard pa tell more stories about him. They called him 1 4 Still Jase,' to be sure, but when he got riled, the fur flew ! I'll bet my jackknife I can make him swear inside of next week!" "I'll bet my head you can't!" retorted Dan. " I don't know as I want your head for anything, but I'll bet my knife against that cake o-' maple sugar you've , got in the closet, that I'll set Uncle Jase a swearin' before next week's over." f The bovs were so sure that nothing jould make daddy swear, and so pleased with [(their first bet of any importance, ' that they accepted the terms at once, and Jenison began to cudgel his brains for means of tripping up Jason Carter'e tongue. One day he slyly let" down the bars | into a field of clover, getting up before light to do it; the two cows, turned out of the barnyard to nip at the roadside antil Dan or Jack could drive them to pasture, accepted the bait, entered the ulover, and rioted in its fragrant crimson spheres, half killing themselves with j jreedy feeding. Jack found* them half an hour after chores were done, in the i jonditiou that results to cows from j sating green clover, and Uncle Jason j worked over the poor creatures all day, j without a word of impatience, though j he said mare than once: wish I. knew who let down them bars; I'd kinder like to say a word in season to turn." The pins were taken out of the oxyoke and never found, egg-shells strewed the mow, while the family never could have any eggs for their own use, the nests being always empty; the great gray cat's tail was singed to bareness, and her ears snipped, but Uncle Jase never swore or lost his temper; his scythe-snath disappeared, but he borrowed another; the grindstone was soaped, the haycutter broken, hoes and rakes disappeared when wanted, and re? appeared when useless; his razor was mislaid and hopelessly dulled when he found it, and a thousand petty annoyances heaped on him in vain; he only said to his wife, "It does beat all, Phoebe, what's got inter things this week; seems as if I never was so pestered. It ain't in human natur for things to happen so; somebody's doin' on't, I feel to believe; but I declare for't j I can't see into it a mite." Jack and Dan began to triumph; only wide this morning, and stepping out, just as his uncle laid down the Bible, under pretext of scaring an old hen away, the boy opened a Httle side gate into the lot where he had previously driven the old rami laying a train of salt to a big lump on the doorstep, retreated speedily to the kitchen and knelt down next to Mr. Carter, where he had left his chair. Billy had seen the tin pan in Jenison's hand, and knew it meant salt; he followed the train surely to the door, and having begun to nibble the lump heard an earnest and accus tomed voice near by and looked np into the kitchen door. Jason was praying earnestly, and the rest had their eyes closed and heads bent?all bnt Jenison, who was watching Billy from under hiB arm. Ab he saw the ram look in, he picked up a short switch from under his chair, and held it threateningly over his uncle's back. Billy gave one great leap across the floor, charged Uncle Jase in the rear, and sent him sprawling. "Damn that ram 1" he roared, in a voice of thunder. Jack and Dan sprang up at once, drove Billy out and shut the door, but before they could speak their father was j on his knees again, pouring out such earnest, humble confession of the sin he had been betrayed into, such tearful petition for pardon, such heartfelt contrition for a lapse that seemed to him dreadful, after long years of prayer and struggle, that hard and bad as Jenison Wires was, he could not bear it; it was the turning point of the boy's life; he got up from his knees and confessed the whole thing to his uncle, and asked his I fnrtnvftn Asa ? and the other bovs cried heartily. Jason' Carter never forgot that day; it was remembered with humility and thankfulness both; for years after JeniBon told him, with deep feeling, that he had learned then and there to respect religion, and that is the first step toward desiring and obtaining it. Jenison never claimed his bet, but when he went home gave Dan his knife for a remembrance; and years after Deacon Jason Corter was dead and gone, his step-son recalled with affection, reverence and amusement mingled, the only oath they ever heard him speak, and how it was brought about by Jenison's bet.?Roue Terry Cooke, in Sunday Afternoon. Spider Thread. The natural fierceness of spiders prevents their labors from being utilized for tho benefit of mankind. They cannot be bred and kept together. Four or five thousand being distributed in cells, fifty in some, one or two hundred in others, the big ones soon killed and j ate the smaller ones, so that in a short ! time there were scarcely above one or fTrr? in oo/>Vi poll ami tn thin iniVli- I nation of devouring their own species is attributed the scarcity of spiders, when compared with t(ie vast number of eggs they lay. It is also affirmed that the web of 'the spider is inferior in strength and lustre to the silkworm, and produces less of the material fit for use. The thread of the spider's web can only bear a weight of two grains without breaking; and the bag sustains the weight of thirty-six grains. The thread of a silkworm w>ii bear two grams and a half, bo that five threads of the spider ! are necessary to form a cord equal to | that of a silkworm ; and as it would be ; impossible to apply these so closely i together as to avoid leaving any empty ! I space, from which the light would not j be reflected, the lustre would conse- I qupntly be considerably less. Spiders afford less silk than silkworms, the work j of twelve only equaling that of one silk j worm; a pound of silk will require at i least twenty-seven thousand, six hun- j dred and forty-eight spiders. But as j the bags are solely the work of the { females, who spin them to deposit their j arrrra fVkavA mnof VlA If Ark f. ! ~e>e>" ***f ??- c - ?J thousand, two hundred and ninety-six spiders to yield one pound of 6ilk ; and this will apply to the good ones only, the spiders in gardens barely yielding a twelfth part of the silk of the domestic kinds ; two hundred and eighty of them would not produce more than one silkworm, and six hundred and sixty-three thousand, five hundred and fifty-five such spiders would scarcely yield a pound of silk ! From this it will be seen that the manufacture of spider silk is a difficult and most impossible undertaking. There is a wonderful power in the imagination, but it gets weak in the knees when it undertakes to shoulder circus lemonade.? Cincinnati Breakfast Table, I TIMELY TOPICS. A late invention combines an ironingtable, step-ladder and a chair. The exact cost of the construction of the Paris Exposition buildings and grounds is now estimated at 45,300,000 francs, or S9,060,000. Liebig's experiment of curing intemperance by a strictly farinaceous diet, has been tested in twenty-seven cases in this country with very good effect. Professor Riley, the government entomologist, estimates that the annual loss to agriculture in the United States from destructive insects is not less than 8150,000,000. The great middle State streams, like the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio, are being stocked by Professor Baird's fish hatching establishment with millions of shad eggs and California salmon. There was lately a meeting of leading hi" 11* merchants in China to protest against the introduction _ of the telegraph, as they apprehend that it will be injurious to thoir trade. Mrs. Bell, of Oxford, Mich., has not eaten a particle of solid food for twenty years, a cancerous affection of the stomach having made it so painful to her that she has lived on liquids, and still she has done her housework most of the time. It is only within the past six years that the Japanese have attempted to make use of tho petroleum wells existing within their domains. Now several refining establishments are in operation, and the manufacture of kerosene oil has become an important industry. Frederick Hasse graduat3d at the head of his class in a German university, in 1870. He -was heir to S80.000, and ins prospect of a successful career could hardly have been brighter. A few days ago he died in St. Louis, where he had for a year been a porter in a medical college. An appetite for opium killed him. On the recent arrival in Paris of the Shah of Persia,hislsuite comprised fifteen officials and ten servants. Inclufled in the Shah's baggage were thirty-six boxes of gold coins, each containing 824,000. Eighteen men were detailed by the hotel proprietor to watch the baggage, and in addition the chief of police sent twelve men for the purpose. One of Mr. Edison's chief characteristics is said to be a . strong reliance upon himself. In other words, he never gets \l7 U/M-i if TTTOd fo UlBUUUiagCU. nucuiu nuu him to try a diamond-pointed needle for the phonograph, he said, "I intend to, bnt I cannot get the lapidaries in New York to mane just what I want. So I am going to rig up the necessary mechanism and make a diamond-pointed needle myself." In some, parts of China crickets are regularly trained for combat, by beiDg kept in small, earthenware pots, with a nine mouiu uiiu u Liuj uup ui watcij and fed on fish, insects, boiled chestnuts and boiled rice. If they catch cold their health is restored by rations of mosquitoes. At the oricket pit they are matched according to size, weight and color, and a cricket that wins many victories is highly honored, and bnried in a small silver coffin when it dies. The Smithsonian Institution, which has been engaged for more than a quarter of a century in researches into the antiquities of America, and lias during that time published many important memoirs on the subject, is about to issue an exhaustive work on American archreology with numerous illustrations and maps. The institution, therefore, is anxious to collect from eveiy available source whatever is known or can be ascertained by special investigation, of the antiquities of North America, and it invites the co-operation of all interested in the work. Upon the appearance of rolling-chairs at the Paris Exposition nobody could be induced to ride in them. At last an old gentleman, being much entreated and being promised that the trip should copt him nothing, took his seat and was wheeled about. Everybody he met smiled, then laughed, then laughed louder, and presently he had a large surrounding. In disgust he left the chair, and then loana mat a piacaru upon it said that it was " especially use^ ful for elderly and weak persons, particularly for men suffering from the results of overdrinking." Some years ago the experiment of bridging Broadway, New York, for the convenience of foot passengers was tried, and afterwards the bridge was abandoned. Now Paris intends to adopt the bridge plan, and arched gangways will be erected over the boulevards, leading from pavement to pavement. These " passerelles " will form double archec at the meeting of four streets, two bridges crossing one another diagonally m tne very miaaie 01 ine street/, uuc being so connected that the passengers on arriving at the central point maj take any one of the three directions that is to say, may either go straight on or turn at straight angles to the right 01 left. The question whether postal officials have a right, under any circumstances, except by due process of law, to oper letters or sealed packages in the mails, has again been answered in the negative by the Supreme Court of the United States. "Sealed mailed matter,' says the decision, "is as fully guarded from examination and inspection, excepl as to their outward form and weight, as if ihey wero retained by the partiei forwarding them in their own domiciles, The Constitutional guarantee of the right of the people to be Becure againsl unreasonable searches and seizures ex tends to their papers, thus closed againsl inspection, wherever they may be. Nc law of Congress can place in the hands of officials connected with the postal service any authority to invade the secrecy of the sealed packages in the mail.'.' France reckons two braves more. A OTioVt/w? omnnff flic JULLCU1UU ai 1U1UOO 1 uouwu Wiuvug wmv burning ruins of a bouse to save his captain and a clergyman, who were buried beneath the floor in endeavoring to rescue the inmates, The firoman remained tryiug to extricate the captain, but without avail, till the flesh peeled off his hands and face. He haa died from his wounds, has been buried at the nation's expense, and for a montb hiB name will be read out first on the roll-rail of every regiment in the army. Jean Plantier is a pointsman, and a few months ago, in endeavoring to close the gates of a crossing, he was struck down by a goods train, and his arm amputated. Not a soul was within reacb, and aware that an. express train was due, he tied up the bleeding stump, and remained at his post till a station-master, informed by the engine-driver that some accident had occurred, picked up the arm from the rail and succored the hero. William Cullen Bryant's summer residence was at the home of his boyhood, in Cummington, among the hills of western Massachusetts. The farm ie rough, and the_house stands on what is called Zion's Hill. Some 01 tue iann has been made fertile by drainage nnd enriching. Mr. Bryant bought the place about twelve years ngo, and partly rebuilt the old house, which is two stories in height, painted brown, and has a dormered roof. He spent several months of every fall and summer there, and hie /lonnVifava Ktta/3 Ttrifll VniYI HI* Ifl thf? UaUJ^UCOAD JlfOVI UilAi neighborhood. He usually walked several miles to church every Sunday, and almost invariably slept through the sermon. A writer in the Springfield Republican says: "He almost lived out of doors, caring little for the weather, and ready with the axe or pruning knife, or anything that gave hearty exercise. At seventy-five he conld leap into the air, catch at a bough, and swing himself along by it like a very boy, and we presume keooold even later than that. Any one driving or walking in that vicinity as liable to spy (he poet in woodi or \ / field under a broad-brimmed straw, his great Bnowy beard and slender figure attracting the eye among any number of other men; and his tense, -wiry way of walking, as if it were no effort at all, but something purely mechanical, was very peculiar." Steinberg's Goose. A New York paper says: Gustave Schmidt, who is noted for the interest he takes in rifle shooting, entered the saloon of John Lutz, and drew from his pocket a fine revolver which he bad recently purchased, and which he exhib- ? ited with pride to Lutz and to those of his friends who were in the Baloon at the time. Schmidt spoke boastingly of his own powers as a marksman, and offered H to make a bet of ten dollars that he could hit a mark at the other end of the room, j "Do you see that goose," said Lutz, contemptuously, pointing to a fowl that g] could be seen through the open door waddling obout the back yard. "You give me a dollar and I'll let you fire I three shots at her, and if you hit her once you can have her." Schmidt accented the offer, and fired rn from -where he -wan standing, bringing down the goose. A roar of laughter greeted his achievement. He walked I proudly into the yard and took the goose, supposing that the merriment M was at Lutz's expense. As he entered the saloon with the fowl in his hand, the side door of the saloon was thrown violently open and an angry man ran into the saloon. This was Henry Steinberg, the owner of the goose. His first act was d to knock Schmidt down, and his second ii was to explain his reasons for doing. * When Schmidt understood how he had a been taken in, he kicked Lutz down a and demanded the return of his money, n Steinberg in the meantime busying him- bi self in asking both of them to pay for o the goose. The noise attracted the at- tl tention of Officer Wheeler, who entered p the saloon. After some discussion he ti i arrested Lutz on the complaint of r Schmidt, who charged him with obtain- fi incr nns /Jnllnr hv falfifi nratenses: li Schmidt, on the complaint of Lutz, on a ii charge of assault and battery, and Stein- li berg on a similar charge, aiso made by b Schmidt. * h When the prisoners were taken to the f< station-house, and the sergeant* heard n with wondering eyes the various com- ? plaints, he turned to Wheeler and asked o if that were all. "Why, no," was the li answer; " Lutz was selling liquor with- o out a license. Schmid t hasn't a permit to b carry that pistol, and that the other man, o Steinberg, hasn't got any permit from o the Board of Health to keep his goose." t When the prisoners were taken before tl Justice Flammer, in the Essex Market n Police Court, recently, a long investiga- v i tion was held, and the court room was , crowded by the friends of the three s prisoners. Lutz said it was all a joke, v and gave back the dollar, withdrawing t: his charge against Schmidt. The latter,' ' touched by this spirit of conciliation, h withdrew his charcres acrainst Lutz and s i Steinberg, and the owner of the goose t forgave the marksman, when the latter I and the saloon keeper each promised to s pay half tho value of the goose. Their L ! misunderstandings being over, they ex- p pected to be allowed to go. But just 1 then Officer Wheeler and his charges v loomed up like grim Tate. Justice t Flammer required Lutz to give $100 o bail on a charge of violating the excise s law, held Steinberg in the same amount s for keeping geese without a permit and ii fined Schmidt $5 for carrying a pistol b without a permit. p The Tides and the Earth. 8 Tides are caused mainly by the moon, ^ as it were, catching hold of the waters t as tho earth revolves round on its axis.' This must cause friction on the earth, as ^ it revolves, and friction, as every ono knows, causes loss of power. Suppose a wheel with hair round its rim, like a circular brush such ns is used for hair- . brushing by machinery; if this brush be revolving rapidly, and we hold our hand ever so lightly on the hair, so that it is slightly rubbed baokward as the ? wheel revolves, we can understand that the speed of the wheel will be gradually ? diminished, until at last it will bo ^ brought to a standstill, provided that there is no additional power communicated to the wheel by machinery or hand beyond what was given to set it spinning round. Now this is somewhat analo- g i gous to what is happening to the earth i in its rotation. There is reason to supi pose that the action of the tides is slow- . [ ly but surely lessening the speed of the i earth's rotation, and consequently in, creasing the length of the day, and this [ action will continue until the earth re- y . volves on its own axis in the same time flint fV> n mAAn folrac f/v rnrnl rra vr\vi n rl 1 , HUM U Vliu IUVUU bUUUU W AWTVilW * V IVMV? r , the etu-th. Then the earth, instead of being twenty-four hours as now, -will be . about twenty-eight days, and the earth ; wiJl be exposed to the full blaze of the j. s sun for about fourteen days at a time. The change.this will bring about on the c 1 face of the earth can hardly be exagger- J" ) ated. All life, both animal and vegita[ ble, will be destroyed;all water will be r evaporated; the solid rocks will be t j scorched and cracked, and the whole , world reduced to a dreary and barren , wilderness. It. is supposed by some r that the moon has already passed [ through all this, hence its shattered and . , bare-looking surface. That the earth r being so much larger, has more quickly . acted upon the oceans which once were ? [ 1 upon the moon's surface and stopped ? . i almost entirely its revolution round its own axis, thus causing it to have a day ; equal to twenty-eight of our days, and " , the heat of the sun has already done to | it what in future ages it will do to the 1 [ earth.?"Sciencefor All." ? > Combative Utah Ants. c , Among the mnny curiosities of Utah, i , the red and black ant is excelled by t , none. One of those ants, weighing only a one-fourth of a grain, troy, can draw ' four graius, or sixteen times its own t J weight, with appareut ease. As a war- I ' rior, its courage is wonderful. The \ , other day I witnessed an attack of four o ants, one after another, on a green \ [ worm, and each retired from the con- i fact badly wounded, the worm resisting c | the attack vigorously. The wounded T , ants meeting companions," reported their I troubles, and soon seven ants were seen ^ I advanciug in a line of battle on his 6 ' I wormship, when a bard battle tooK a place. The worm made frantic efforts I to relieTe himself, but all in vain. In ' j one minute from the time of the attack, | the worm was lifeless, the ants still a ( I holding to him. I placed them in wrter, F , when to all appearances they became 1 ; lifelesB, but Btiil held their grip on the E worm. I then placed them in the warm a ; rays of the sun for ten minutes, when c , they were all right again, and hauled ^ . their victim off to their hill.?Corre' ftpondcnt Salt Lake Tribune. 0 The Siamese Twhis Outdone. j There is on exhibition in Now York a _ s natural enriosity that far surpasses in J-j j wonfler the celebrated Siamese twins. It q I is a pair of twins, with two heads and ^ i: two pairs of arms, but only a single pair g [ I of legs. The trunks aro joined at the ^ ; ' thighs, the two backbones forming a V, g [ and every part of the children, with the v ; exception of this one freak of nature, is j( j perfect. Their sex is female, and they ^ j are both pretty little babies, not the j( , dwarfed and puny creatures that are ^ ; usually exhibited. They are known as the St. Benoit twins, having been born g I in the Canadian town of that name. The e i parents are both with the children, and ^ i take pride in exhibiting them to the . public. They have ono other child, a . girl of two years, entirely free from i blemish. The parents are twenty-six c years old, their names are Drouni, and n they can BpeaK no .augiiBn. j.ue uuu- i? , dren are about six months old, and give li pverv nromise of crowine to woman- o * * ?j c ? U w > hood. a i n American Organs at the Paris Ex* c , hibition. ?Every American visiting our u . Section will conceive a legitimate pride s; at the well-merited praise whioh he will tl 1 hear from the great European musical o critics who constantly swarm around o Messrs, Mason & Hamlin's Cabinet Or- a i gans, and openly acknowledge that t; nothing in Europe can be compared ' with the Exhaust Bellows and Separate h Vibrators peculiar to American Organs, tl as especially perfected in the Mason & b Hamlin instruments.?Paris (Franoe) <y Register, June 1,1878. tl FOB THE YOUNG PEOPLE. g Little Impatience. It takes so many hours to make a'day! It takes so many days to make a year! My seventh birthday seems so far away, ir And yet my eighth, they say, is nowhere $ near! J The robins' nest out in the cherry-tree C Held four young birds,?naked, and weak ? and small, A month ago!?bo faBt they grew, you see, 0 There's not a robin in the nest at all! S o hey flow, full grown i?and I'm no bigger now tl Than when the nest was built that one can 1 see. ? & ow robins grow bo fast, and girls bo slow, Is very strange indeed, it seems to me. ^ wonder how 'twould seem to be seventeen, j And wear long dresses like my Cousin Sue, c he has a watch,?the prettiest ever seen, 9 And winds it all herself,?as I Bhould do. s'poae I shall be married too, some day, s Ab mamma was. I've seen her veil and ? dress; hoy're in the bureau draw, laid away, fl She's saving them for me to wear, I gue<" ~ ? wonder who I'll have! Not Cousin ' e Nor teasing Clare ! Maybe my cnele Tim. . t ly papa la uie hicubi man i auuw; Bat mamma's very sore ahe oan't spare himl g ?Joy AUison. p Trermnre* from the Deep. 0 "The Beii," says a writer who has a eeply studied the subject, " contains c i it? bosom an exuberance of life, of j rhich no other region of the globe r fiords any idea. Our forests do not fiord an asylum to nearly so many ani- ]j ials as do those of the ocean. For the n ea has its forests, long marine herbs, * r the floating banks of sea-weed which tie waves have detached. If we could lunge our glances into the liquid crys- M al of the Indian ocean, we should see a ealized therein the fairy tales of our in- t! incy. Fantastic shrubs decked with t! iving flowers, the richest colors glow- [j ag everywhere; greens and browns, the p iveliest reds, and the most intense t lues. The sand is sprinkled with sea- o edgehoga and sea-stars, of fantastic arms and varied colors. The sea-ane- ? lones, like great cactus flowers, adorn y he rocks with their crowns, or spread o ver the ocean like a flower-bed of bril- ti iant flowers. The humming-birds of 6 cean, small, gleaming fishes, some * right, with a metallio splendor of blue ^ r vermilion, some with a gilded green i r dazzling silver luster, play around h he coral bushes. Light as spirits of he abyss, the white or blue bells of the * ledqaa float through this enchanted * rorldT" b But if ouif coasts do not present us n uoh a fairy land as this, they yet pro- b id? us with many wonderful and beau- 8 iful things. See, here is an oyster. ? 'Not much beauty here," you say. No, a mt much to wonder at. He does not t eem well placed for happiness, ti houffh without a doubt he has his iovs. & lis life is spent between two heavy, tony plates, with which he can secure ? timself. Those lovely things called t 'earls are, however,his special treasure, ti ?hey are caused by wounds made by p rorms boring the shells and hurting heir bodies. Pearly matter is thrown ut freely on the injured spot, which p oon becomes a pearl of greater or less 2 ize. Or sometimes a grain of sand gets ato the oyster's house and irritates h iim, upon which ho coats it over with ? 1 early matter. * Here is a little crab. It lives, you | ee, in a hard shell. The shell ddea not ? tow, but the crab does, and therefore c ie wants a new shell now and then. 8 Vhen he feels that he must cast off his ? Id shell he first of all gets into some 1 lole, where lie can lie safely while he is B nnrl liaitiiass thfln lift cofis with- t ut food until he is very thin, and his ^ lothes hang about him, as we say. In [ bis state a new Bhell, Boft and elastio, v arms about his body. Then the crab a trnggles and splits his old shell, and i mils his long legs out of his boots. r ^hen he has got safely over this Btrange ? irocess the crab increases rapidly in r ize, and his new suit becomes in a fow a ays as hard as his former one. Here is a star-fish, or asteria, often < ailed the five-finger. Its mouth, you (, ? ee, is in the middle of the under side, [ nd it is a great devourer of small shell- t ish. It is considered so destructive to t ysters, that by old laws, every man was I iable to be punished who did not kill 1 he five-finger when he saw it. And what is this mass of jelly ? It is ^ creature called the medusa, or sealettle. It has received its latter name j lecause it makes your skin smart when , 'ou touch it. While the medusa is J loating, many tentacles or nets may be ! een hanging from its underside. With tiese it catclies food, if you taue a | * aedusa alive, you will find it impossible j o hold it in your fingers. It will divide t 13to parts and fall a shapeless mass. Sometimes these strange animals may bo een below a ship's keel, glowing like ^ rhite-hot cannon balls. t Perhaps the most wonderful crea- 4 ures of all, if we consider their works, i ire the Polypi. These animals are of a ? soft, jelly-like substance, sometimes J haped like a bell or a pill-box. The i iea-anemones, as they are called, belong C o this class. Bound an opening or 8 nouth in the upper side are arranged a * mmber of armB, like the petals of a dally, by moans of which the creature , leizes his prey. The prey is sometimes i [uite as large as the polypi itself, but i t is sucked into the interior and there e leBtroyed; the shell, if there is one, be- ' ng vomited forth afterwards. This ( mimal-flower is fixed on a rock, along t vhich it can slowly crawl. t The polypi form the substances called 4 soral and madrepore. By their means mmense reefs of solid rock, which stem * he mighty waves and form large islands, i ire raised m mm uuuiui. One of the most useful treasures of i he sea is the Sponge. It is believed to 1 >e an animal, but the lowest of all ani- c uals. No feelings have ever yet been liscovered in the sponge, though it has ^ >een pinched and tortured with red-hot , rouB. It is pierced in all directions by c anals, out of which opening streams of * rater are being constantly discharged. 1 it is supposed the creature sucks the l eater into its body by small pores, and e ;ets rid of it when it has drained it of ,11 its nourishing matter. c ^ j t Fabulous Yield of tlie Bonanzas. ! j A San Francisco paper says: Credible !1 uthority estimates the total yield of i r trecious metalB in Peru from. 1630 to i t 803 as 81,232.000,000, of which three ! nines?the Oerro de Pasco, Hualgayoc, a nd Hnantazaya?yielded in round fig- * ires $850,000,000. Nearly two-fifths of his enormous sum was the product of a he Oerro de Pasco mine. But the $340,00,000 yield by this historical mine was he aggregate for a period of 173 years, c Jetweeu 1545 and 1789 the total yield of s 'otosi was $1,000,000,000. The present ield of the 1,000 or more mines in the istrict is less than $2,500,000 annually. J Compared with the product of the ionauzas, these mines, which placed fl Ipain in the front rank of the nations of! a he earth, nnd through which only her j C ;reat military and naval achievements ; * rare possible?these tales of almost fabu- : 4 jus wealth pale into insignificance. Of | be $275,000,000 which the Oomstock ! J, Dde has yielded since its discovery twen- j j y years ago, ?iuu,uuu,uuu una dkbu , u iken alone from the Consolidated Vir- j ii inia and California mines. Nearly | very dollar of this vast amount has been j8 iken out since 1873. 11 ?? 1 Lumps of Lightning. The Indiana State Journal tells this | 6' urioue farm field incident: Recently a : p ian while ploughing near Battle Creek, .11 tich., was startled by a flash of blinding ? ight. It was mid-day, and the sky was tj lear. There were no clouds in Bight, g a i j ? i ? na no report wan ucmu, ou hiuk wmu i ot be attributed to lightning. The ! ? ause of the flash remained a mystery I * ntil a day or two ago, when a close in- ? pection of the neighborhood disolosed f he presence on the ground of a number f fragments believed to be of meteoric ti rigin. They are black on the inside, ? nd of light weight and but little densi- ^ f, resembling cinders from a body a rhich had been subjected to intense si eat. The outside is covered with a 0 rin, glossy coating, probably formed ^ y the melting of the outer surface iu ? DUsequence of friotion while passing ^ irough the atmosphere. n ? I dfc ITJMMARY OF NEWS. Eastern and Middle State* Thirteen buildings were destroyed by a fire t Buffalo, N. Y., entailing a loss of about ICO,000. While soveral of tho boys of the New Yorli uvenile Asylum were playing base ball, James rawley, aged fourteen, was accidentally struck n the hcsd by a bat in the hands of William [amilton, aged twelve, and instantly killed. There was some impediment in the working f the blast furnace of Stephen Bobbins A on s, Philadelphia, and an effort was made tc ool it off, when an arch of fire waa formed ii be furnace, which fell into the water beneath 'he great steam pressure thus formed fatally calded the superintendent, John McChesngy nd badly injured six other men. William E. Gray, who swindled New Yorl ankers and others out of large sums by alter ig the face value of bonds, and then fled t< lurope, where he continued his nefarioui porations. evading justice for a long time rrived in New York the other day in charge o > detective. Tom Ballard, a noted counterfeiter who wai erving a term of thirty years in the Alban; N. Y.) penitentiary for making counterfei Jnited States notes, stabbed himself in variou tarts of the body with a shoemaker's knife, in lioting fatal wounds. At a conference with New York banker lecretary Sherman said that ho would begin b sake specie payments on August 1st, and tha ie had in the treasury 8121,000,000 In gol< xclusively for the purpose? of resumption. The most important changes made recentl; re the removals or uenerai arcnu: iruu vm osition of collector of the poii of Now Tori nd A. B. Cornell from the position of nava fficer of the same city. General Arthur ii ucceeded by General E. A. Merritt and Mr lornell by Colonel S. W. Burt While Congrosi ran in session the President nominated Mr toosevelt for collector but the nomination wai ejected by the 8enate. The following persons have been killed b; ightning recently: Charles P. Oakes, age< ine, near Babylon, N. Y.; Annie Finch, a Iillville, N. J., and Hezekiah Shaler, at Had am, Conn. < The receiver of the suspended Teutonia sav 3ga bank, of Now York, has made a discover rhjch implicates the whole board of trustee' s well as officers of the bank in operations o he most nefarious character. The secretly o ho institution has confessed that he was in thi abit of buying bonds, charging upon thi ooks a higher price than what he aotuall; aid, and dividing the difference among thi rustees. He a]eo confessed that the salarie f the president, treasurer and secretary at om ime were divided into two parts; one part wai aid to those officers while the other was share* mong the trustees. Altogether $29,344 wen bus fraudulently divided. Civil action to re over this amount has been begun, and thi rustees have been put under bail in flO,00< ach. One trustee nas made affidavit that hi eceived money at various times from the sec etary, but supposed it was commissions ti ? 4 * " ii-'-.# -men ne was uuruj uuutiou. xjuu gtoai. u.ority of the ^bank's depositors are people ii .umble circumstances. Dr. W. F. Carver, the phenomenal marksmai rom the Pacific 8lope, has performed the mos ronderftU feat of endurance in rifle ehootinj n record. At the Brooklyn Driving Park hi roke 5,500 glaas balls with a rifle inside of 501 linntes. The feat required great strength anc kill, as the marksman was required to lift i un weighing over ten pounds to his shoulde lore than 6,000 times in the specified time )r. Carver nearly failod in hiB task, owing t< n inflammation iu his eyes which caused in anse suffering, but he persisted in his under iking, and at the close had forty-one minute o spare. The Cincinnati Commercial publishes cro] eports from a large number of places in Ohio ndiana and Kentuoky, which indicate tha here is not only a greater acreage of whea ban in any former year, bnt that the average roduot per acre is larger than ever before. Western and Southern State*. The number of hostile Indians on the war ath in Idaho and Oregon is estimated at abou ,500. Democratic State conventions have beei eld in Michigan and Missouri. In the forme hn Hnk-nf. nnminnffi/l in headed bv Orlando M tarnea for governor, and the platform |adopte< rraigns the Republican party, endorses th 'residential election investigation, declare hat "gold and silver coin are the money of th Jonstitntion, and that all paper currencj honld be convorted into such coin at the wii f the holder," and is "opposed to the furthe orcible reduction of the volume of currency, n Missouri the platform adopted opposes larg tanding armies, declares that while the quee ion who should be President is sottled "tha lecision ought not to preclude a full investiga ion and exposure of all frauds connected wit] hat election and the accountability of all wh rere guiltily concerned," denounces the nation ,1 banking system, says greenbacks should b nade a legal tender, demands the repeal of th esumption act, urges Mississippi river im irovementB, sympathizes with and promise elief to the working classes, and advocates eduction in expenditures of national, Stat ,nd munieipa^governments. A battle has taken place in Northwester )regon between the Indians and General How ,rd's troops, in which the latter were succeef ul, driving the hostiles from one fortiflod poBi ion to another and pushing them so hard tha hey abandoned many of their horses. Th roops had flvo men wounded and about twent torses killed. The loss of the Indians ooul tot be ascertained. At Galesburg, HI.. Mrs. Spanlding, divorce fife of Martin O'Conor, killed him with a r< rolver shot and then wounded herself fatall; Mike Shaw,'We murderer, was hanged < Jilledgeville, Ga., in presence of five thousan >eople, and at Princess Anne, Md., Hirai ?ooke (colored) was hanged for the murder c i colored youth. A gang of about 250 tramps captured a rai oad train in Wisconsin, when the militia an sitizens of Madison came to the rescue, caugl orty-seven of the tramps and dispersed tt est. From (Washington. During the twelve months ended June Si .878, the issues of ordinary postage stamps t he post ofiice department amounted to $19 168,618. as against $18,181,696 for the prece< ng year. The issues of newspaper stamps ij ireased from $1,000,605 to $1,093,845, and tt ssuos of stamped envelopes and wrappers d< ireased from $4,616,932 to $4,605,774. Thei mes of postal cards increased from abont 170 100,000 in number to 200,063,000. The tot amount of increase in the issues for eale to tt rablic was $1,975,169 or 7% per cent., as con rnred with the previous year. General Sherman has called the attention c ill officers of the army to the clause of th irray appropriation bill which declares it sha lot be lawful for any part of the army to t imployed as a posse cmnitatua, or otherwisi 'or the purpose of executing laws. Generi Sherman concludes his orders by directin )fficers not to permit the use of troops undc heir command to aid the civil authorities i he execution of laws, except as provided b he constitution and Congress. The acting secretary of the treasury has ii ined the sixty-first call for the redemption i >-20 bonds of 1865, consols of 1865. The ca s for $5,000,000, of which $2,500,000 are cot >on and $2,500,000 registered bonds. Tt >rincipal and interest will be paid at the treai try on and after the 11th day of October nox md the interest will cease on that day. The national bureau of education hasobtaii id five spacious apartments for tho display c L largo collection of educational articles whic rere presented to the United States at th ilose of the Centennial Exposition by variou oreign governments. The collection contair leariy 4,000 distinct classes of articles, roprc lonting the entire educational apparatus an nethods of nearly every European country, an everal of the 8outh American States. Allegod stupendous frauds have been dif :overed by a Washington commissioner anion he Indian agencies in the vicinity of Yanktot Dakota Territory. A recent investigation hn ed to the discovery of a conspiracy betwee .gents and traders in which vouchers and paj oils were forced and government material use or private gain to a startling extent. Whilo the customs returns have fallen c) omewhat of late, the internal revenue receipt lavo increased largely. Mr. Dodge, statistician of the department o ,griculture, has rosigned. Forolen News. Prince Mian has issued a proclamation de laring the independence of Servia, which wa ecured by the treaty of San Stefano and rati ed by the European congress. Hoedel, who attempted to assassinate thi Jmperor of Germany, lias oeen sentenced u leatb. A telegram from Sydney, New South Waloe tates that two tribes of natives have risei gainst the government on tho island of Nov 'aledonia and massacred 125 whites, includinj romen and children. They have also capture! wo military stations. An official statement announcing the conclu ion of the Anglo-Turkish alliai.ce is publichci a Constantinople. The statement says tha England has engaged t? pay the Porte $750, 00 yoarly. whereas tho presont revenue of thi aland of Cyprus is only $600,000 per annum Nearly all the class juries of tho Paris Expo ition have finished their work and submittec eports -to the group juries; tho latter havi iassed upon the reports thns far presented flaking very few chauges. Nothing is official y known of the result, but it is unofficially tated that the Americans have obtained mori rizes than the citizens of any other countr 1 proportion to the number or exhibitors. It no class all the American exhibitors have ob lined medals; in another all except ono; It ii bought the United 8tates will have five or sh rand prizes and a liberal number of gold med Is. Foreign jurors have expressed much ad liration for the excellence of the articles ir ho American section of tho Exposition. Th< eneral commission has increased tho numbei f gold medals twenty per cent., silver medali arty, and bronze medals sixty per cent. It was believed that a terrible riot woulc ike place in Montreal on the day of the ctle ration hv the Orantremen of the battle of the oyne; and a large military force, consisting ol ve infantry regimenta, one 0017)8 of artillerj nd a troop of cavalry was drawn up ?n the leets in readiness to* quell a conflict. Th( rangemen made preparations to parade, and ieir hall was sarrouuded by an excited crowd, ome of the Orange leaders were arrested bj rder of the mayor, and the rest then con nded not to maroh. One young Orangem&i uned Gilbert left the hall In a carriage to gc to his home, and on the way he waa attacked and terribly beaten. ai Daring an Orange demonstration at Wiahan, ei Scotland, a riot took place, and as swords and e] revolvers were freely used over fifty persons i were more or less seriously injured. " 1 The Berlin peace congress has cloaed its labors. The treaty was signed by all the mem: bers alphabetically, after which Count An- 61 i drassy warnfly eulogized Bismark's presidency. t< l Toe German chancellor responded thanking j l the plenipotentiaries for thoir indulgence. The ,' proceedings terminated with a grand court , dinner in the evening, at which the Grown ! Prince Frederick William congratulated the J statesmen upon the realization of his hopes that ai i the blessings of peace crowned their efforts. ^ , The treaty of peace contains fifty-seven articles. j Its first twelve articles relate to Bulgaria, " which is constituted an autonomatic tributary & ' principality, under the suzeranity of the sul- li tan, with a Christian government and national u 1 militia. These articles further regulate the ' election of the Prince by notables at Tiraova ; | arrange a provisional government previous to R ' his election, and lay the bases of the govorn- " ' ment after his election. Articles thirteen to ^ r twenty-one, inclusively, relate to the new prov- ?, ince called Eastern Roumelia, south of the Bal- ' 9 kans, which is placed under the direct military 7 J and political authority of the sultan, with, howt ever, a Christian governor, and in the condis tions of autonomous administration. Thegover nor is to bo appointed by the porte, with the H assent ef tho powers, for five yews. Article \ a twenty-two fixes the Russian occupation at n 3 nine months from the signature of the treaty at t Berlin. Article twenty-three provides for j Austrian occupation and administration of Bos- * nia and Herzegovina. Articles twenty-four to thirty, inclusively, relate to tho independence g ' U1 lliUUlOU^IU) iiUU^-vuo vv vuukj-uMv ?v?w?v h to Servia : forty to fifty-fonr to Roumania and j , the Danube ; fifty-five and fifty-six to Greece ^ and Crete: and fifty-seven to religions equality v in the Turkish dominions. a There has been a large fire in Thessaly, . Greece. A village was partly burned and the c 3 harvest totally destroyed. d f J i The House Presidential Election Inveatl(a> t tlon. Secretary Sherman has written another letter t to Mr. Potter, in which he again offers to prove t - fraud and) intimidation injthe Louisiana elec- t y tion? Mr. Sherman says in his letter: " In c 3 view of the facts that your committee is now e f engaged in taking further testimony intended f to show that the declarations set forth in the 9 various protests are not true, it seems to me j e that I should be allowed to prove, by additional t f testimony, that these protests are true." In c a closing his letter Mr. Sherman says : "I have j 9 also to state that I am now prepared, at the a a convenience of the committee to submit testi- j s mony here in Washington to repel the charges a 1 against me, and have given to Mr. Shellabarger 1 s a list of witnesses whom I ask may be sub- E - pcenaed." . 0 9 After an extended recess the committee met c ) again in Washington ana proceeaea to mo ex- f 9 amination of witnesses. Senator Kellogg was - called and testified concerning the doings of f j the returning board in 1876 and the condition j - of affairs in Louisiana at that time. Witness ( 1 then stated thatfon the face of the returns the " Tilden electors had a majority but that the re- f j turning board had thrown out enough votes to I (. count in Hayes, and that this was done be- J r came the election in some parishes had not ' 3 been free and fair. After examiniog witnesses ? 3 in regard to appointments made by the Preei- o j dent of Louisiana politicians the committee ~ t adjourned. r When the committee met again the examina- * tion of Mr. Kellogg was continued. Witness was j j questioned further in regard to the Loulsana I . election. He denied that he hadlever requested ; . Anderson to make a forged protest, as was al- j g leged by that witness, and contradicted all the I assertions of Republican fraud made by Ander- I son and Weber. This was the pith of a long " ? and tedious examination, nothing further of ~ importance having been elicited whon the ( * committee adjourned. r 4 Chairman Potter has replied to Seoretary ? ! 0 8herman's last lettor in regard to offering tea- timony concerning intimidation in Louisiana. r Mr. Potter says: "Snould it later appear that ,, the specific acta to which you refer have any ii bearing on thiB conspiracy, or upon the good n t faith of Weber or Anderson, or of the return- ing board in respect of their protests, the com- < a mittee will then consider the practicability of r taking the testimony, and that in contradiction i, . of it, or of permitting you to use instead the a 3 reports of such testimony taken before former I a committees." < s On the third day of his examination Senator J e Kellogg testified further in regard to the J y Louisiana election. Witness bad uo knowledge , il of any telegrams received by the visiting r statesmen from Governor Hayes. He did not " regard Jamos E. Anderson as trustworthy e Witness believed that, with the exception of i- Anderson, all the Louisiana politicians who t had been appointed to Federal office were competent to fill the positions. Witness was also ti examined in regard to the forged Louisiana o Republican election ^certificates, but nothing i. new was elicited, and the committee adjourned e for ten days, to meet in Atlantio City, N. J. I e * ? Exposition Gossip. 6 A Paris correspondent gossips about the Exposition in this style: The world a is losing variety in styles of manufacture' t For instance, the jewelry of England, i [. France, Spain, Austria, Italy, Switzer- 1 ,t land, Belgium, Russia and all the rest c o is very much alike. Shift the whole lot, i y oasA fnr and few would know the difference. A New York jewelry house d here models after the Japanese style. 1 j_ Private factories in Paris are turning j. out oriental beads, charms and amulets ^ by the ton. So quick as one people ind vent a new thing all the rest copy it. n Every European nation here parades its own sewing machines, and has long for- i gotten that America invented them. d" There is very little difference in railway cars and locomotives, in oloths, in lace, ie in silk goods, in calicoes, in ironware, in confectionery, in all sorts of rum, except in giving it different names; in 0, electric telegraphs, in hats, caps and >y shoes, in furs and in soaps. They're all i" monotonously alike. Can't tell them apart. Studied the Russian Annex exhibit for four hours the other day, and a- when through found I had been half the s- time in that of Austria. Only original ?* people here are the Chinese. They *e pack their 4,000 year old fork stick and !. spike-tail ploughs and mortar and pestle grain mills along with them, and are as >f proud of them as the Yankee with the ie last new brass-tipped mower and reaper. 11 They still stick to dried toads and bugs ^ for medicine and are not ashamed to j'] show them, either. They resolutaly cut g loose from progress and would no more >r tolerate a sewing machine than they n would an Independent Bhuddist church. y They're the only conservative people pleft in the world, who will wear gowns )f anil refuse to be coat-tailed and panta11 looned. The Japs fell at the first asi sault and out-Paris Paris in bifurcated 10 and claw-tailed dandyism. I reverence j!" the Chinaman. He will not take his ' cue from us and become a copyist. i , ? Joseph P. Carr was called the hand0 somest young man in St. Louis, and is married tho belle of tho city. But notis withstanding all this he forged a note ' for $5,000, and fled to Chicago. The Markets. 1- K3W TOBE. tj Bocf Cattle? Natty 09 9 Tuxts and Cherokee. 07 @ 1 >X ' Milch Oowe..., 49 00 @80 vA) 8 Hcgj?Live ., 03X@ 03* D Drussed 08 X 81. sop 04 @ CS d Lambf!..... 01 09 Octton?Middling Ufc? 11 - Flour?Wout;'r:i?Good to Oholoo... 4 35 @ 7 r0 State?<Jccd to Choloe 4 2J ? 5 00 8 Buckwheat, per cwt 1 07 @ 1 61 I Wheat?Bed Woatern 1 08 & 1 06 f No.? 3 Milwaukee 91 @113 Byo?State.... 67 ? 67 Earlfly?State 73 @ 74 UarltiyMs't 83 ? 83 Buckwheat 80 @ 80 - Oats?Mixed Woatern..... 31 @ 34 a Oorn?Mixed Weatorn..., 47# . flay, por owi..... 83 (3 63 Straw, per ewt 80 @ 40 Hopt?Good to Prime 10 @ 11 9 Pork?Mesa 10 8 01: 6) > Lard?City Steam.................. u7 (/t, u7 rich -Mackerel, No. 1, new 13 00 ?11 00 " No. 3, now 9 80 @11 00 1 I Dry Ood, per ov?t... #78 @ 4 00 * Herring, 8 ?'od, per box.... 17 @ 17 r Pitroleum?Oro C7Ji A07X Bsflned, 11 j Wool?Oalliorr jflecce :0 @ 27 Toxaa " 13 @ U Australia!) " 89 @ 48 Btite XX 87 @ 40 - Hntvcr?8twe.. 33 @ Su 1 Woatcrr -Cholcu 24 @ 8) t Weetern?Goodt( Prime.. C6 @ 03 Weetern?FlrklDi 07 @ 10 Cheese?State Factory 09 @ 10 State Sklnuuod..., 05>f@ 17V western' .. i<i . Eggs?State and Pennsylvania 10 @ 13)tf 1 BUTVALO. 9 floor... 5 75 ($ 8 25 Wheat?No. 1 Milwaukee 1 10 @ 1 10 ' Corn-Mixed 42 C4 4U ? Oats 39 3 SO ' Bye 60 g 61 3 Barley 76 @ 78 f Barley Malt 65 @ 68.V PHILADELPHIA Beef Osttl??Sxtri, 08tf? C9* ! Sheep 05 (.4 06?< Hogs?Dressed ^ 06'4 Flour?Pennsylvania Extra 5 CO @ 6 50 Whoai?Bed Wwitera....... 9i @ f6 Bye.... 69 @ 60 Co'n?Yellovr 4J 60 Mlxod 41 9 46 Os. -Mixed 81 S 82 Petroleum?Crude........OSi^lSiS'-* Beflnod, 10H' Wool?Colorado...... It1 Q 26 Trim...... ]H $ 'it \ I California 20 $ 25 * BOSTON. I BeM Cattle 08 ? 08fc hhcep............. Cfljtf? ' Hofffl OS ? 05X > Flour?Wleocunln accl SJInneaota.. 4 25 @ 8 60 ) Corn?Mixed,.,., 63 @ 57* i OE!Pm " .i,? .,?, ? ? . 34 @ 8fl Wool?Ohio and Fenn?yiv?nl? XX. 40 @ 42 OftUfornla Fall 18 23 , WATB2TCWV, Kill i ' Beet Poor to Choice 4 9] 9 8 to ' Sheep.... 8 CO O 7 78 ) L 7 00 ^ 9 IJ . . m== A small boy was asked to give an ex- t\ nple of earnestness. He looked both- |] red for a moment, bnt his face brightled like the <'.ow drops glistening on le leaves of tlio rose in early morning ? Via /loli'vared himsfclf of the followim? appy thought: "When you see a boy | igaged on a mince pie till his nose raches the middle plum and his ears rop on the outer crusts, you may know e has got it." A large dead shark was washed ashore t San Francisco, in whose stomach was iscovered a man's leg, the foot of which as inclosed in a heavy shoe with a Dpper toe. This copper toe had cut the ning of the fish's stomach and resulted 1 its death. ,^mm & ? For upwards of thirty years Mrs. WIN8L0 W8 P> OOTHING8YRUP has been used for children M ith never-failing success. It corrects acidity b< f the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulates ?i le bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhoea, Jj hether arising from teething or other causes, d n old and well-tried remedy. 25 cts. a bottle. tl No family should be without a box of Grace's alve. In cases of Cuts, Burns, Scalds, FleBh founds, &c., where a remedy is wanted imlediately, it will be found invaluable. It will (] lso cure Ulcers, Felons, Corns, Chapped lands, Chilblains, old Sores, &c. Young Housekeeper* Ihould not forget that the way to reach a huaisnd's heart is through his stomach. Use )ooley's Y?ast Powder in making biscuits, " read, cakes, rolls, muffins, etc., and they will p ? nice, light, digestible and wholesome. Johnson's Anodyne Liniment will positively u uro chronic diarrhoea of long standing, also & lysentary, cholera morbus, and cholera, used nfnmollr Th?rA ia r>n rAmpriv lennwn ha val table for immediate nee as this old life preerver. One Bingle box of Parsons' Purgative Pills , aken one each night will make more new rich I ilood that ten dollars worth of any liquid ilood purifier now known. Those pills will hange the blood in the entire system in three nonths, taken one a night. The Greatest Dlsfcovery of the Ace la Dr , 'obias' celebrated Venetian Liniment t 30 oars before < tie public, and warranted to a are Diarrhea, Dysentery, , lol^o, and Spasms, taken internally; and Oronp, Ohronle i thenmatii-m, Sore Throats, Guts, Bruises, Old Soree, | nd Paint in the Limbs, Back, and Chest, externally. r t has nerer failed. No family will ever be withont It I fter once (iring it a fair trial. Price, 40 cents. Du. ' 'OBIAS' VENETIAN HORSE LINIMENT, in Pint tottlee, at One 'Dollar, is warranted superior to any ther, or NO PAT, for the oore of Oolie, Oats, Bruises, lid Sores, eto. Sold by all Druggist*. Depot--10 PaA 'la?3. New York. laovnJ'fl BnoKCgUL Tbochks, lorcoogtia and ooias. ITT'N'C! KEVOL.VEKM. Pnoe list tree Addfes 1 J U ll 3 OTeat Western Gun Works. Pittsburg. Fa "iLD BLACK JOE?words and masio for 10 cts., J post-paid. J. OHADSKY, Chatham Centre. N.Y. inflTTQ Papers. Want Agents. Send Stamp. jUUiiJ) L L. FAiBCHHj>,RoIling Prairie, Wis. ] 3TUNNING OFKER-N.Y.(Weekly)Palladium, i " 40 columns. Subscription, 50 cents a year. 10 enta a month on tria1. 1 Oo.lege place. New York. fc mm A DAY to Agentso vn vassing for the Tlrestd ? h/ Visitor, Terms and Outfit Free. At dress W * P. O. VIOKERY AugusU, Maine ' ? ? - ?? ??T_ an; DTtVn's ' IHGAIS^IfiioonF^s: w mUOIll) bargains. BEATTY, Washington, K. J. ?* amttiv k* ingkaham <fe oo.>8 <1 11111/ftP Superior la design. Not equaled llll.n In quality, or u timekeepers. t JlJUlJlVIl Ask your Jeweler for them, o y ? WWMW Agency?g Oortlandt St, N. V. t 1HEJ1. LABORATORY "OF RUTGERS OOL- ? U LEGE.?Summer courses in Analytical Chemistry, y taterminative Mineralogy,and Chemical Investigation, c ulylO to Sept. 10. Address Prof. P. T. AUSTEN, Ph. a .. F. 0. S., New-Brunswick, N. 3. n " TJ IlT71?i O ?The choicest in the world?Importers L ?ji\.k5? prices?Largest Company in America? c taple article?pleases everybody?Trade continually ? lcreasing?Agents wanted everywhere?best induce- r lents?don't waste time?send for Circular to v ROBT WELLS. 43 Vesey St., N.Y., P. O. Box 1387. $10. $20. $50. $100. In rested judiciously In Stocks (Options or Privileges), i a sure road to rapid fortune. Fall details and Official tock Exchange Reports free. Address T. POTTEB TIGHT A CO., Bankers, 35 Wall Street, Wew Yorfc. 510S $25 selling oar FIneArt Novelties In. h*. Intra a A Outfit Free application to | H. Bu FIORD'S SONS. Manufacturing Publishers, 141 to 147 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass. Established nearly fifty years. Uures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Sour Stomach, Sick Headache. GRACE'S SALVE. JONZSYIIXZ Mich., Doo. 27, \S7}.?ifetrri. PoxeUf. I ent you 60 ct?.( or two boxes of Grace's Salve. ,1 bare lad two and have nnod tbem on an nicer on my footman<1 t is almost wolL. Respec'.fnlly yonrs, 0. J. Van Ness. Price 25 cents a box at all druggists, or sent by mail in receipt of 35 cents. Prepared by SETll W. FOWLE ?k SONS, 80 Harrison Ave.. Boston,Mass. ? IMPORTANT 2^" OTIC TH NEW DISCOVERY rtrRR way of making a FORTUNE without k5"the aid of capital or knowledge or business. For Poll particulars, whioh will be Riven uratuitonaly, write J. B. DKLEEUW, 46 Hast SQth St-.NewYork. 900.000 ?crt? taken In fnnr months bjr 85,000 p?opk. Good climate, (oil, water, and building atone, asd good ?odetj. Addrtu, 8. J. Gllmon, Land Com'r, Sallna, Kama*. WHO WANTS A FARM WERE mm PATS THE BEST? FOR SALE. Qfinnnn Acres Rich Farming jUllilJlJIJ LANDS. well located in Mich-gau, UUUJUUU nt from to S8 ner acre, on eaay tnrms of payment. Also, OHfl (inn Acres of Choice Pine /II Dill IIII 1<AM>S in bent Lumber Districts uuujvuu ot-tUlChi*an. XW Send for Illustrated Pamphlet, full of facta. .JH O. M. BARNES, _ Land ComtnUsloiirr, I.nrmlng, flitch A Safe and Reliable Substitute for Qdinllie The only 25 cent ACUE REMEDY I3NT TECZ3 WORLD CURES QriiiEriiiran J a 11H 1 ^1.413 and all MALARIAL DISEASES. lold by all DriiKxIsts. Mailed FREE on reetlpt ofprlc*. Write t? UUNUA3 DICK A CO., 3S Wdoitie Stbiit, New Vouk, for tlielr ten rent book, nulled to tbs reicleri of Uila paper FREE on ?ppllc*tlon. rnnpvsyignxLLAiju bhiu^ KILLS all the ^ room in Botoaic Medicine Co^BuffaJo^N, Y ^ The GREAT REMEDY far OORPULENOE. , ALLAN'S ANTI-FAT ' Is purely vegetable and perfectly harmless. It acta upon the food lu the stomach, preventing Its being converted Into fat. Taken lu accordance with directions, It will reduce fat penon from two to Ore pound* per week. "Corpulence Is not only a disease Itself, but tbo harbinger of others." So wrote Hippocrates two thousand years ago, and what was true then Is none the less so to-dav. Sold by druggists, or sent, l>y express, upop re>, eelptofJl.su. Quarter-dozen $t.OO. Address, > BOTANIC MEDIOINE CO., Proprietor*, Buffalo, X. 3& J " mmmammmmmi IEO. I. KOWEU 4 00, 10 sntnos si. JEW TOIL The Object of Our Establishment cillUte the oonrenient and watematto PU?y 0? *~* irtisements inta?w?p*per* It i? *po? We rinciplee which we ooneeire to be the rvntoaea lor icuria* the best reeultt to the adrertieer. \ We undertake to represent America newspapers. \ at only the newspapers of thedUr of Nw Tork. vnrl . ! all other American cities, Religious, AgricnKoral, id other class ne wipaperi-but alw> the smaUoojip7 Journal*. We reoeire regularly and keep.on flto the lily and weekly newspapers of ere 17 "aeecrl prion lrooghont the land. . * )$ :\ V.; ' ' \ \ i ;L* ; > &.u lonfined Strictly to Newspaper Adveriisinn and to American Newspapers. ' We confine oar traduction* to newspapers, and do ot accept or undertake the management of other Imsoi of adfertising, sach as books, sign-boards, ISj^aAheris^to'onebr&zich of adrertuing we Bib nrselTea muter* of it. We *l*o rutrict our de*linf* to newspapeis pabiahed within the geographic*! limit* of the United tates and Dominion of Canada. rhe Nature of the Service which it is Our Business to Render to the Advertiser. We undertake to maintain an established credit rith ererr newspaper, and have at hand a sohedn;e ot ihsrges for adret ttsing space in its oolomn*; to bo able o quote the rate* to an advertiser who wlabes cm or ' ?T?ral, and to procure the prompt insertion of tho .drertUement without any extra charge for the serrio* endured; which serrioe oonsistsof quoting theprioe, >rinting or writinx at many daplicaUs of the adrertieenect as may be required, forwarding the oopjr far osertion at onr own expense for postage or messenger errice: examining the papers to see that Use adrsr I I foment appear*, when, and Id the wtitner that it tight to; cneckin* each sub*eqoeut iaeae of the adveritement, in each paper, in a book kept for that yw ?te, ana at aO timee subject to the Inapecdonof the dvertiser, and marking plainly in eaoh paper the ad* . ertUement aa it appear*; so that when the advertiser omee (or sends) for the porpoee of havisc the file* exrained, the ere mar light promptly upon his announcejent, without the labor of searching whole paper or !Aff6. If errors or omissions oooor, it is oar daiy to BOUtf, mblishers, at our own expense for labor, postage oe lessenger, and to tee to it that the publisher of the aper actuUlj doee render the specified sarrloe Cor rhioh the advertiser contracted. Our Promise. We promise thoee advertisers who entrust their adertising patronage to our management that we will not-' llow them to be charred.in any instsnoe,aariCrtw han the publishers' sohedule rate*; that we will pronre for them the acceptance of any advjntageoua oiler leflolte!/ mad* to them by any ne??paper pnouaner, rm .drertiBio* agent, or canvasser of reiponsibilitr. We , H ,rn unwilling to do work without a profit, ind never B ifler to do so, yet in conformity with th? promise audi B ibore, we sometimes find it advisable. K rhe System of Arrangement for Newt- R paper Files. H 1 ' ' -* 9 We bare a perfected system for filing newspapers, BB a separate space b?ing accorded to eacn, and libeled with ihe printed name of the paper it ie intended to IgHj ftocommodato. A stranger can place bis band npoa any p.iper ho wishes to eximine with the tame readiness with which h? would tind a word in a dictionary, name in a directory, or a book ii a library cattlofM. The Amount of Money to be Expended. IB Persona who have had littlo experience aa adrertiaeri often have a pretty dear understanding of what they would like to do, but aro entirely i*nor?nt of the pro)**hle cost. WM We hire made out for such a penon ap w tisioit calling for an mreetment of J-V-W * ?,??BB mittfng it for approral found onr HHH a' the magnitude of the exP*2*?' <?v? f,r MDfl^ tniiSl M plate an expenditure axceediwr 8300i or $300. U" i ewe labor would hate been ?*T*d. U ?t th? oo?mtncoment of the nefotiation the HU anted: " How much monejarejou prepared toaeTow to this advertising ?" fflH The Confidence of Our Patrons afl Matter of Prime Importance. HHB It is a matter of prime im^tUnoe to n?. to OutBB our aUt^entaSjout the to to b? done, are to be relied upon, ana w> low HI dealings with our adrertising P^J??^qK ^ ^ basil of mutual confidence and food faith. jHH Our Customers Entitled to Our Bes^H Services. EM u'hom.uflr va *r? Hoinar the adT?rtisilUf' /or individual, or Ann, we consider them entitled f beat servicer If they suKg--st. nsinf a p?per whi' b know to be not the best for the urpose we uirto and^^^H Ktvo the reaions. We often expend a good deal of Uma^HH| for ver/ small advertisers, much more than the pro&t^^^Hg on tneir patronag* wonld warrant; but we are contentj^^HBj a< ' hey entrust to us what tljpy l;avo to disburse, influence in our direction the patronage of their fnend^^^H and acquaintancs. ? .Tn?, u 1/r-g i:xiran jmm >ru , Ten yearn ago Messrs. Geo. P. Roorell <4 Oo., est&b^^^flK liahed their advertising nuency in ?w York Oily. rears ago the* absorbed the business conducted by John Hooper, who was tho first to go iato this kind nt'rpri?o. N' w th?y hive the satisfaction of oon|H^^H rolling- the most extensive and complete adve{tUraj^K|H :onn?ction which ha- ever been secured, and one rould hardly h? possible in any other country bat thia^^^HH They have succeeded in working down a complex busiJ^^BB jess into so thoroughly a systematic method tb*i.^^BHfl :ban?c-* in the newspaper system of America can lotice, while the widest information upon all nt'-reating to advertisers is placed readily at WV^BI Kiaal of the paUic. /jff BEO. P.ROWF' I iaspr I I SB 97