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May: BmHRMmH^Q, no, fcBBBEm^H^^Braiall not escape mo bo! B!?IM^^LiOve will not forever wait ; Roses fade when gathered late. Fio, for shame, Sir Malcontent! How can time be better spent Than in wooing V I would wed When the clover blossoms rod, w When tue air is full of bliss. And tho sunshine like a kiss. If you're good I grant a boon : Yon shall have me, sir, in June. Nay, nay, nay, Girls for once should have their way ! If you love me wait till June ; liosebuds wither picked too soon. ?E. C. Sledman. THE ROMANCE OF A POSTAGE STAMP. I breathed more freely after it was over. It was a temptation resisted?but I felt better after haviug done it. As I was assorting the letters preparatory to puttiug them in the mail bag for New Vnrlr aha liiffnv fnwfiil nr? o>1 <1 conf o jealous shock through me that sent my heart throbbing and my brain swimming with a sudden dizziness. I might have expected to have seen it there, but not the less did it affect me when I did see it? "Joseph Noma, India Dock,New York " ?that was the address?and I knew that it was his. I had a dear little note in that same hand writing next to my heart I then?a few graceful words thauking me for a book 1 had sent her?a little note xhat I had read over countless times, J anfl kissed it often, wondering would it displease her to know how fondly I cherished it. I thrust the hateful letter out of my sight, and leaning my head ou the table, lived over again the hopes, the fears, the wretchedness of the last twenty-four hours. v The day before, while distributing the mail matter, I came across a letter addressed to myself, and on opening it I learned that through the generosity of a distant relative, whose name I bore, I JLiau uecu itll iu WUUUI urn uu iuuuunuv.i; j of $2,00CL What a change a few strokes i of a pea cad made?tracsforming Karl | B*rgmann, postmaster of a secluded | f Connecticut village, into Karl Hergmaun j the possessor of a competence, well invested, yielding a certain income ! And how before my good fortune I had thought of Annie Merrill as one separated from me by my poor circumstances, ray salary barely supporting my mother and myself, and how could I ask any woman i to^hare my poverty. Now that burden of poverty was most unexpectedly lifted from me, I felt at liberty to tell her the i hopes I nefter dared to entertain till now. What would her answer bo? That I would lenrn that very night. In the same mail with my letter was one addressed to her, postmarked New York. Her correspondence all passed through K my hands, but I had never seen that writing before. That was no weak 9 wavering, feminine style. It was large, clear, decisive, the writing of a selfkm possessed man. Who could the writer I? Annie's uncle, Dr. Merrill, had j ,le correspondents in New York. But j s letter was the first that had come to ' r since she c-anie orphaned from the *at city a year before, and had been eived intohn-unele's heart and home. jtotfr?r th"onp:hts pnt the qnestion of Blotter out of my mind. I sent by a jjsenger a few hnrried lines to my ither to prepare her for onr good forie, and then counted the hours that ijld pass before I could ofter my instance to Annie encumbered with its ips?or. When I reached home I tnd her there before me. My mother 0 had taken her into her favor from k. ? rst, her sweetness and orphaned i nation proving a passport to her heart, Ifl lent for Annie to communicate the | fifgewa to her. She was strangely ite T thought, and there was a troubled klln her blue eyes I never saw there ore. In fact, after awhile a subdued Line stole over us all. Annie's disiatseemed to impart itself to us. T 1 thinking how I could venture to tell all my hopes, and my mother, truess1 Vhat my thoughts were, left us tofier; most of the eveniuer, but my nCf^iled me. It was only wheu I was ! Ikinp home with Annie to Dr. Mer- ' 'ftthat I found courage to speak. She me on by saying that I must not. Bjtlfom her silence that she did not | nee in the happy change in my pros ifciut no one could be more sincere t her' congratulations than herself. I i tp6f?d that my prod fortune would be | oelef:s to me unh.sa I could share it! b the girl I loved. J At girl yon lov jr she repeated, , nfitiiingly. felt her hand tremble on my arm. The girl T love,"I answered, in tones j t she might have interpreted, but : Bdto do so. Bbeiought to be a happy woman," | 'continued. "May I ask if I know j 'If fou know her !" I cried. "If you ' her! 0, who could she be but , m i KgfiK iSfiewew tier liana quicmy a way irom ?j&SH v* arm and stood quite still heforo me. fgB "Me! 0, did yon say me ?" Asd fcfcen I saw the moonlight falling mSBpO her face, and it was not the faco of a Ij^RtfrlahfoIng with happy confusion when j j^^Kfbe hears the story of his love from the mbKdkui whom she prefers. Jt was pale and : in^Eihocked, and then she hid it from me in | jaHHSgjir hands and hnrstinto tears. OTggRWXxMafrd no other answer. I knew my ; cry, dear!" said I, <-I never thought von knew," she went on, SwHobbiafffr, "I thought my uncle might BaaBfcave told you. I am to marry Mr. NorI*gOt a letter from him to day. O! Bw^BrSh? 8tietched out her little hands jM&Hppferinffly. I took them in mine, and SgwHBKkawed tjiem?they were sacred to me; belonged to another, and I kissed while my heart was breaking. ajjaBy*'Forgerp you ! my darling!" I said, istftHlla jforgive you if you killed me, I SB&Hpuk, Don't grieve, Annie, I will try n _l i i IB parte u ai uur unuic ? wiuiuuii an af. I vent home to the j twdhri^c.irt that I knew would suffer i ma^gbut whose tender sympathy ft Ujflipld me in this hour of bitter j h?fieit|dfty I sent off my resignation ! iVaahinpton, for my mother and I j ?d to 1 eave the village where we | passtt^iso many quiet years. It was | he afloniooa of the same day that letter of which I had spoken, that I 'knefr war for my rival, attracted my ; Bthm; "jl took it up reluctantly?I j I wonl^ as readily have touched a cnous enake?and was just about to postmark on when I saw that i stamp upon it, instead of being a ol one, was a revenue stamp, and jhe letter, instead of speeding off on ' ? of love to New York, must be ! &ned to the dead letter office in Eragtoi^ With a thrill of savage | ghfc I flnjjg it into the box appropri- j reaihajfeeenfion of such castawavs Ient on with my evening's work. | that, work I went on mechanically, j ay thoughts were not agreeably ! yed. That then was the answer | nSlsea^e which she had received, r fthotfM be long br-fore he would ?get ii too late perhaps for an exskm; fbr misunderstandings be?lo?M had often arisen from a I jfecanse than the non-arrival of an Hlettfr. I pictured him waiting &$hg {nr the letter that would not ifjfct^hf, poor girl, bow her tender fronft^e tortured by bis imagined ft when no answer would be forthShe, I knew, wonld suffer in f, and I fondly lioped that he j do tho same. Ho i locked the aud waited for the messenger ?g|&gmflh-Y it to the station. The express B^BBsBdasa in an honr and a half. And struggle began in my heart. The Dw|era|^Kpiped letter seemed to look re' at me from thr box into which jt, and seemed to whisper to me thai one little^aetfof mine conld send it unimpeded on its mission. No one, I "believe, unless he was in my situation, actuated by the same de| pairing, selfishly hopeful feelings that ! were overmastering me, could understand what a base impulse I conquered when at last, after an hour's temptation, I took that letter from its resting place, substituted a postage stamp for the revenue one, opened the mail bag and let it go. Then after it was done some hot tears rushed to my eyes. It was my last hope, and I could not help iudulg-1 ing some weakness over its grave. The next mail from New York arrived three days after. I had the poor satisfaction of seeing the results of my good action in a letter in the handwriting of my rival, addressed to Annie, making its unwished for appearance, as I knew it would, and shortly after Dr. Merrill took it away with him as he called for his mail. Loungers came in anil out of the office and went away finding mo little disposed for conversation. Nothing yet was known in the village of my acquisition, so I was spared the pain of listening to congratulations that I was in no mood to bear. When I went homo that evening I was surprised to find ray i mother absent, ami still more surprised when on openiug a note she had ioft for me, I learned that sh6 was with Annie at I)r. Merrill's, and that I wan to follow her there. Hopeless as I felt, the prospects of seeing Annie again pi?.raised me onlv a painful pleasure, but still the thought of being near her had n sweet and sad fascination that I could not resist. When I reached the doctor's I 1 found himself and my mother seated in : his office, so iuteut on the moves of a ^ knight's gambit, that a mere nod on my j pntrnnce showed their consciousness of my arrival.* Anuie was not there; I found her in the parlor standing upon 1 the hearth rug, the glow of the firelight I shining on her golden hair and a glow of eager, happy expectation in her look j that was new to her sweet face. "I am so glad to see you," she said, | I giving me her hand. "I have been im- j patient for your coming?and I will tell ' you why. There is a question I want i you to 'aufiwer. It perplexes me, and 1 somehow I think I can look to you for j its solution. You remember a letter I received in the early part of the week ?" | She hesitated and cast down her eyes, j "I have too good a reason ever to for- j get it," I answered bitterly. I saw her face flush. She went on. " I answered that letter the next day. It was of vital importance to me that it should go then as there would be no other mail for several days. I was troubled when I wrote it, and stamped it at ray uncle's desk while the messenger was waiting to take it to the office. T fouud, too late, that I had mis-stamped it. I have been utterly wretched for tho ijast few days on account of that mis- j take. I knew too well what the fate of i my letter would be. Judge theu how j relieved I felt when my uucle brought I me this taking from the mantelpiece j the letter that had come that morning, j "If it escaped your keen observation] how did my letter pass the eyes of the ! 5Tew York officials undetected? This is j my question." . I Her eyes searched my face. I took her hands in my own. "Annie," said I, "I believe I could j make no one understand what it cost my jealous heart to rectify that mistake, but I did it. I knew it must be an answer to that letter that you spoke of a few nights ago. It ought to prove to you how unselfishly I love you, my darling, T i.nclomrui/1 if nnd Rpr>t. if nn ifa VT UCU JL iww?mwv? -ww , way to him. I never thought you would ! find it out. I did it to spare you a mo- i ment's uneasiness. If the man you love j cares for you as much as I do, he will j make your life a happy one." "How can I repay your generosity ?" i she said in a voice tremulous with feeling. " You could not have acted better ! if you ha: a peep at the contents of that | letter. But your reward may be claimed j when you read this." She handed me the letter and glided out of the room. I took it over to the . shaded lamp and read the following: "Dear Annie?When beside your father's dying bed we entered into an ) engagement of marriage; I felt as he ! did, that the interests of the firm of j which he and I were partners woul l be : best sustained by our union. I wrote to you notifying yon of my j readiness to fulfill my part of tho agree- i j. ? 4.^ I ineut, illlU ICljUCOl/llig JUU tv "5 w I return with mo on Saturday as my wife. You say to me that I must not come. There is but ouo explanation in this refusal, and that is that you have seen some one who pleases you better :han j your humble servant. It is but natural, ! child: I cannot blame you. The young : should mate with the young, and I am ' too much your senior to expect co :wake , in your youthful heart feelings that have long been lifeless in my own. , I release you from a promise tnat I am now aware was made by you uuder the pressure of the 'sad cirenmsteacos. | B. t this fact can never affect the fatherly : regard I have ever entertained for the 1 only child of my dear old friend '' I read no further. Hero was my reward. And how nearly I had lost it by the desire of gratifying an ungenerous impulse. Annie has since assured mo that had Joseph Norris arrivod on the day designated, so great was her awo of : her father's old partner, that she never i wduld have had tho courage to contend ! against her destiny. Indeed, the cir- | cumstanco of haviug made the error she j did in mis-stamping the letter, seemed ! to lier troubled mind significant of a ' deep meaning, und that oven beyond the ! grave her father sought to control her actions. Annie did not return to the parlor. I found her seated in the doctor's office apparently interested in tho game which jnRt at tho mom -nt of my entrance he brought to a victorious conclusion. " Chock?" "Mate," I cried, finishing the word j for him, and catching Annie in my | arms, heedless of the astonishment of j the elderly pair. I demanded my reward. Well, Joseph Norris, grey-haired, common-place and undemonstrative, came to Grenwell to other nuptials than his own. He gave away my dear one with the best of grace, and after the marriage congratulated me on my admission into the firm. My ignorance of his meaning was so apparent, that with a grim smile he enlightened me. With my bride I acquired the half interest in nu East India firm in New York and Calcutta. If Annie had chosen to appear as au orphan, dependent on the bounty of her uncle, she had the aftersatisfaction of knowing that the lore she won was offered to herpelf alone, and not to the colden store that attracts so many suitors. " My dearest," I sometimes say to ber, " who would think that in a great measure wQowe our happiness to a little ! postage stamp ?" Words of Wisdom. He only employs his passion who can ; make no use of his reason. j Great talkers resemblo those musicians who, in their airs, prefer noise to harmony. The wraith of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by now nine. Affections are the feet of the mind, arid therefore set a -watch over them, i lest they make her miscarry. . j Riches would be little esteemed if they did not furnish vanity with the pleasure of having what others have not. The chief properties of wisdom are to be mindful of things past, careful of things present, provident of thing* to come. The narrow-minded ask, Is this one of onr tribe, or is lie a stranger ? But j to those who are of a noble dispori'ion , the whole world is but one family. The best means to learn our faults is to tell others of theirs ; they 'will be too proud to be alone in their defeats, and j will seek them in us and reveal them to j us. A man who is not able to make a bow ' to his own conscience in the morning, is ! hardly in a condition to respectfully 1 salute the rest of the world daring the i day. Very few people go into an argument | m order to discover the truth of the j matter. They waut to hold their own j and rout the enemy. Hence, the general i loss of temper. ' I FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE. A Summer Sermon. Just as tired as they can bo! Eobhv and dolly and May make three, And overhead, Just under tho shed, That Uttlo brown bird makes four, you see. "Such a horrid old rainy day! 1 What can we ever find to play, Pont in the house Like a trapped-up mouse! | It'b just too bad!" whimpered little May. " 'Tbe earth ia tho Lord's,' I've heard her Bay And, whether tbe sky bo blue or gray, Whether it snow, Or whether it blow, i Hasn't the Lord a right to his way ? I "Think, you children who grumble so, I Who sends down tho rain on the earth below, And don't forget, Whenover you fret, Tho Father sent it, and He must know." I "Foolish childien," tho red rose said, j As she popped in tho window her shining head. "Look at me, Don't you see, Br.t for rain I were withered and dead V" I 'Ob ' of conrse," said Robin Adair, ! 'So'iool-days are always bright and fair; It's always so, I'd havo vor. kno And Saturdays rain's too much to bear !" I '-Hash, little boy!" tho sparrow uaid, i 1-Yom his porch on the beam over Robby'B head, "I'm only a bird, 13ut I've often heard What your mother out of her Bible read. Foolish children, who eat the grain, And fret at tho soft sweet Summer rain, Which tickles the roots Of tho com and fruits, And bids them blossom and bear again." . "Wicked and foolish !" sang bird and roso, "When oven the meanest weedling knows It's only tho rain? The Heaven-Bent rainThat brings new life to each thing that grows.' "Wicked and.foolish V" sighed little May; "llobby, let'B go away and play! Never again, At the Summer rain. Will I fret anil grumble the live-long day !" Feeding Ulioittx in China. The carpenter who has been making our new book-case says he wants to go to his home for a few days?some work is awaiting him there; the Chinese writer says he wishes to go?there is a message to be sent in the direction of his village, he can carry it, and, being at leisure, can spend a few days with his family; our house boy says he, also, must go?his "rnuddar" has been sick, is now "more better," and he must go and see her. And so the carpenter andlthe wi iter have gone, and the boy is going; but it seems so strange, their all asking to go at the same time, that I suspect that at least novf nf fliom tiarl aomfi lintiVlfl rAftnnn fnv it, and, when I remind myself that it is now the last of August, that it is the time of the full mooD, aud that last night our Chinese neighbors were going about out of doors carrying bowls of boiled rice, aud that in front of the houses in the stre<? near by were little fires with those tnin, filmy ash-flakes that remain from burned paper scattered about them, I feel sure that I have guessed the reason, and that it is a wish to celebrate at their homes the Festival of Burning Clothes, and the Friendless Ghost's Feast. The Chinese thiuk that perrons after they, are dead need the same things as when they are alive, and that if they are not supplied with them they can revenge themselves upon the people in this world, bringing them ill-health or bad luck in business. This being the case, of course Deoole trv to keep the ghosts of their relations in as comfortable and quiet a state as they can. If a father should die, his friends, while he remained unburied, would every day put a dish of rice and, perhaps a basin of water, by his coffin, so that his ghost might eat and wash. Afterwards, they would at times carry food and drink to his grave, or place it before : he wooden tablet, which, to honor him, would be set up in his house. To supply him with clothes and money, or anything else ho might need, like a house, a boat or a chair, paper imitations of these things would be made and burned, after which it would be thought the ;jhost could make use of them. Fifteen days at this season of the year are considered the most lucky time for making these offerings. Large quantities of clot'ies and other paper articles are then sold, and there is a great burning of them all over the country. Besides these well-to-do family ghosts, them is another cla s of whom people aro dreadfully afraid. These are the spirits of very wicked men, and of childless persons who have left nobody behind them in this world to care for tuem. xney ure snpposeu iu uu wimderiug about in a most forlorn condition and to be able to (lo a great deal of mischief. "To put them in good humor, and to induce them to keep out of the way of the living, a feast is rnado for them every summer. For several years past, this feast has been given in an open plot of ground just outside onr yard and under our sitting-room windows, so that I have often seen it, though I am obliged to say I have never spied auy ghosts coming to eat of it. Every year the ceremouies are the same. Early in the day four tall poles are planted in the ground about a dozen feet apart, and so placed as to mark a square; about twenty feet from the ground a wooden floor is built between the poles. A few men who stand upon this platform direct everything. Usually, one or two of them seem to be priests; once, I recognized the leader as an expert juggler whoso tricks I had witnessed only a short time before. A part of the feast has been made ready beforehand and is at once arranged on the platform. At two corners are placed ornamented cones, six or eight feet high, which, I suppose, it is expected will appear to the ghosts to be solid cakes, but which are, in reality, only bamboo frames, thinly plastered over with a mixture of flour and sugar; besides these are green oranges, other fresh fruit, and articles of different kinds. Soon, offerings of food begin to come in from the neighborhood, and are drawn np by ropes to the platform; these are, mostly, baskets of boiled rice, onrl liOTTO a Kit nf TPnnd 11 rorl paper stuck in the middle of the rice. I suppose the giver's name is upon the paper, and after the feast the baskets seem to be restored to the persons who brought them; the rice can then betaken away, and eaten at home. At length the platform is well laden with food, which remains exposed in the sun and wind for soveral hour*, during which time a gre >t noise is kept up with gongs and other musical instruments, partly, 1 suppose, like a dinner bell tp call ghosts, and partly to amuse the war. ?v?/l Ur.TTn -mlm rrofliav in nn in for* _ mcu axiu uyyo n*u/ ^inunv/4 m mu ested crowd arouud the platform. Late in the afternoon the head men begin to distribute the feast. The bas! eta of food are carefully lowered; the calces are broken up, and the pieces, with the oranges and other fruits, are fluug hither and thither among the crowd, who scramble merrily after them, some-times half a dozen rushing after tho s: me fragment, and now and then a man trying to clamber up the poles to secure a portion before it falls. When the stage is cleared the crowd disperses, and tl e Ghosts' Feast is ended. In rliis region the people are very poor, but in a large and rich community thir ioBtivity would be kept with splendoi even, and with much cost. Lust year, a part of the wooden frameword foil, and one man was injured. I " " ~l/l ? tmr ^ unis may uiu.nu mo uiu ^iuuuu ?ee: i nnlncky to the Chinese, and lead them to seek a new place for this year's feast. L'n* hope they will do so, for to have a f.i fc of the mo6t wicked and unhappy {. i :osts asked to dinner under one's windows, is not, after all so amusing ns it itf noisy and sadly foolish. Gentleman; "I say, waiter, I've just crocked this egg. Look a* it" Waiter; "Don't look very nice ab that end, sir, I muBt say. Try the othe*," / Old Clothes. I It is -wonderful what an amount of adaptability there is in old clothes, and j, how readilv they consent to be made over, brushed up, washed, sponged, dyed, or otherwise rejuvenated, till it would almost require an expert to tell fi that they wero not new. A cunning <3 hand can indeed make a very presentable b garment from two old ones; and who 0, of us that has bestowed some ancient n article upon our washer or herb woman, tl but is more or less amazed to see to -what a good account she turns it, how fairly it ti rewards her pains, and what a lesson ^ drops from the folds of this bit of castoff clothing? If there are sermons in t< stones, old clothes preach to us, some- 0 times, as well. There is a charm, per- Bi haps, in wearing them which those who tJ mako haste to put on new ones fail to fi recognize; there is always the certain c, pleasure of saving the new ones ; at 8] least the surety that no accident of the j: day can greatly afflict us; that we are J not obliged to move in deference to our attire ; that we can ramble in the woods d without anxiety ; that neither sun nor n rum cuu aisturu our tranquiiiLy ; mat u, n careless or awkward neighbor at table c has 110 a]arm for us. In our old clothes d we can romp with" the children, and little tl fingers where bread and molasses yet linger have no terrors for us. If we 7 need to transplant our flowers, to weed D the garden bed, to pick the peas for n dinner, how plainly precept and example tl point to the old clothes! how comfort- n able we are in them ! It is the old shoe ti that never pinches or squeaks, the old tl gown that never interrupts digestion or b peace of mind, the old glove that has u shaped itself to the hand, the old cloak 8] that advertises our approach to our 81 neignoors, ana gives tnem nonce 10 H1 change the baby's apron and set the d room to rights, the old hat that is not t] afraid to be caught in a shower. They tl have adapted themselves to our require- h ments ; they suit us, as nothing new e: was ever known to do. " If you have o any enterprise before you, try it in your b old clothes," says tho sago of Walden n Woods; yet such is the common preju- n dice against them, that a stranger thus t< apparelled would fall under some sus- b picion among us ; being in possession o of no other data from which to infer her p social and mental position, we should 8 naturally accept .'the antiquity of her n clothes as a certificate of inferiority. ? At the same time, this fact in no way ^ diminishes the ability of old clothes to a confer a happy-go-lucky mood upon the c, wearer, who is not obliged to mind his 8 p's and q's for fear of raffling his plum- a age.?Bazar. d Cl Burning oat the Snakes. ^ We find the following in a late issue of si the Quincy (111.) Whig: On Sunday d evening McDade's ice house was e burned, and hundreds of snakes wiggled t< and crawled out and ran for the bay, creating a continuous splash, as'one after o another of the reptiles went headlong b into the -water. The snakes seemed to b come from every nook and corner of tie ? building, and writhing in agony from si the intense heat, instinctively made for tl the bay direct, and maimed and burned fi as many of them were they plunged in si promiscuously, throwing great volumes ti of water high into the air. p The watchman at ono of the other ice fi houses says that when he first saw the ci flames they enveloped nearly the entire A building. It had been accidentally set t] on fire by tramps, several of whom were a subsequently found lying near the ruins si fast asleep. One of these very graphic- si ally describes the rush of snakes from It the burning building. Oat of the door- ti wftv. through the roof, throuch dense e volumes of smoke, they came by scores, ^ large snakes and small, of almost every ri species known to this latitude, their eyes h extended and their forked tongues dart- ti ing defiance at the blaze, they actually tl raced through the air to a place of safe- 8 ty. They hissed with madness, and w pounded the earth with their tails in w fury, and seemed to screech in agony, e: The number of them seemed to be end- ^ less, until the whole structure was so t< far consumed that no moro could escape, fi Great rattlesnakes, blow snakes, moc- si casins, garter snakes, and water snakes a were huddled and hustled together as a they came forth apparently born of the si flames. Wild with rage and tossing f< venom into the tire, which seemed only 'I to increase its volume, they coiled on n the ground with arched necks ready to a strike the foe that approached them. 11 Some of them even seemed to stand on o the edgo of the ice house as if bidding tl defiance to the devouring elements, and to lick up the flames with their tongues, fl before giving up what had been their a home. Some of the snakes took refuge t] in a lorrvn m'lrt Inmlwr nftnr t.VlPl if?fi 1 Louse. p The houso was built with three p boards, by which a vacant space was e made in the siding, creating an air n chamber, and it is supposed that the il snakes had taken possession of this for a t< home. The tramps who endeavored to n stay in the ice house on Sunday night a probably discovered some of the snakes ri and attempted to smoke them out, but n the effort resulted in the destruction of ri the building. ci Gambling in Chicago. & A Chicago correspondent writes: I h strolled iuto the Tivoli, a beer garden, ci restaurant, lunch-room, and ladies' re- 01 sort combined. A huge fountain played r< in the centte, gold fish swam in a minia- d ture lake, song birds made melody, and ^ from the walls there hung some of Bier- &< stadt's choicest paintings. Over a door I saw painted "Pool-room," and journalistic curiosity prompted me to enter. The walls were covered with blackboards, on which were placed rows of i1 figures and cabalistic signs. In the 0' centre of tho floor, seated on benches, | A were about a hundred young men in- $ tently listening to a man in his shirt tl sleeves, who, with a long wand in his hand, was evidently delivering a scien- P1 tific lecture, using the figures on tho M blackboard as an illustration. In one r? corner of the room a telegraph was at w work, and messages received by the ^ operator were constantly being handed 81 to tho " professor." The students were each furnished with note books, and tl occasionally addressed themselves to the P( learned man, allowing tlio deep interest ? they took in the subject of the lecture. Had I made a mistake ? Was this a university established for the intellectual development of clerks and salesmen? Nothing of the kind. The faro banks in ,T< the city had at last been broken up, the h bunko rooms were closed, and the voices tl of the "capper" and the " steerer" si were heard no more in the land. But hi inventive genius devised this scheme, tl Those present were betting on every- tb thing in the sporting world. There was re a baseball match in progress in Indianapolis, and pools were being sold on the tl eighth inning. There were trotting m matches at East Saginaw, a billiard bl match between Slosson and Sexton in New York, a boat race between Harvard of and Yale, horse races in Eoglaud, wrest- p< ling matches on the Pacific coast, and on in oil nf fViouA mnnpv wn?s rOuinchicr Vifmfls. In the steady click of the telegraph was ir heard, and the professor with his wand s< was talking glibly in a jargon which, to ei the uninitiated, was as unintelligible as sr Sanscrit or Choctaw. in Owl Soup. ir Dr. Jarvis, in tho army in Texas, had si a prank played on him by his brother vi officers. They forged handbills and posted notices all about the country, ct that Dr. Jarvis would pay cash on d'e- hi livery for owl-heads. Presently people fc bout the cantonments bogau to bring tl in owl-heads, which the doctor, suspecting the joke, quietly bought up. The doctor was the butt of constan1 ridicule, of course, and could hear allusions to T owl-heads at all times and in all quar- oi ters. After a few days, the doctor con- se eluded, ns a kind of quietus to buy off *ai his merciless fellow-officers, to give a them a supper, which he provided for jn them in magniBcent style. One of the " AAMvooo troq o ontin otul o rflrtf Boup. Unable to repress an allusion to ju the standing joke, a young officer asked the doctor, with a knowing leer, " if the g( soup they had been eating was not owl scup?" "Well," replied the doctor, coolly, "it ain't anything else.!" And sure enough, from the bottom of the R soup-tureen, he ladled up some plump owl-heads, bills and all. "Gentlemen," ai said tlje doctor, " we quit even. Your hi bills are receipted." n< UERMANY'S "PEOPLE'S BANKS." g ltcrestlnjr Dencrlptlon of the Rritcm under which Money la Loaned to Poor PeopleCo-operative Financiering. It ia now twenty-four years since the mi rst people's bank was founded in the terman" empire. Within that period, rief enough for the accomplishment of p iich an innovation, and notwithstandlg the shocks of commercial crises, and th le dangers resulting from inexperience nd ill-will, these institutions have at- t* lined the prodigious development 0< rhich we are about to indicate. When the first bank which undertook > advance money to workingmen was rganized by Schultze-Delitsch, in a |] mall German town, the precise type of ie institution was not yet definitely w xed, and to this day details vary ac- ga ording to local circumstances and the 41 pecific wants of different societies. w tnt the principle is everywhere the same. . 'his consists in the association of the ^ iboring class, in a given town or rural bt istrict, with the object of providing ot loney for those members who have *r eed of it,. There is no systematic exIusion of rich men, but the bulk of the Wl eposits is furnished by workingmen ti( iiemselves, or those who, in Germany, u ro called small folks?die Kleinen ?[ m _ i in tU jGUie, iO UeCOLUfc) u lucmuci, xu io ij, lerely requisite to pay in as fee for ad- ^ littance the 6um of thirty-eight cents, lien an annual duo of six cents and a pi lonthly duo of five cents. These con- tfc ributions, which obviously are within R lie power of the most straitened, may o augmented at will in order to make k{ p the sooner the so-called boni, or ?fi bare, which constitutes its owner a { tockliolder. Up to that time, the in- oi bitution acts as a savings bank for the ic epositor, but the boni of sixteen lalers, or twelve dollars, once reached no member receives dividends, or, if ot e cboose, leaves them in the bank to nlurge his interest. From the moment f admission, however, a depositor may ^ orrow from the bank a sum whose ai linimum is four dollars, and whose laximum is $750. The loan is guaran- te jed by the signature of one other mem- ? er, and interest is charged at the rate bj f five per cent, per annum, while you ai ay a quarter of one per cent, for an in- bl uranco fund. The loan is for three j" lonths, but renewable every quarter ^ dth the consent of the endorser, in in rhich case the last named charge is bj gain collected, thus raising to six per th " 1-1- 1 ?/ ne ent. Dne wnoie annual gam J.1ULU i/iic ? am lent.. From this revenue are payble the expenses of administration, ividends to members, and interest on c< apital borrowed from outside parties <1< 'bile a certain share is devoted to a reerve fund. We should add that no enorser is required in case the sum loan- r d does not exceed the borrower's in- oe' jrest in the bank. 0i The regular deposits of members- are u: f course too small to permit a people's ank to make from the outset conaiderale advances. For that reason it has recrarso to outside capital, which it easily ecures at three or four per cent, upon le corporate guarantee of its members, Si k> doubt tbis facility has proved a ?] Durcfi of peril to some of these institu- 0 ions, which forgot to maintain a due roportion between their borrowed ? mils and their reserve, and several at ases of bankruptcy occurred after the tii .ustrian financial crisis of 1873. Since lien a rule has been laid down that the 111 mount borrowed by these establishments Imll rink pTflAAd the double of their re erve. At once to facilitate and regu- t; ite the inflow of outside capital, a Cen- tii ral Bank of Credit for Labor was found- at d in 1863. The capital stock, which ras originally 3200,000, has been since j* lised to $2,350,000, and all the shares ave been taken by the local institu m Ions. By the side of this central bank 0i acre is also a general agency, of which chultze-Delitflch is president, and di rhose mission is to start new associations, tl 'bile it knits more closely those that ?r sist-,to serve as their legal exponent to- ' ard the State and private persons, and QJ 3 publish their annual statistics. So r ir, two-thirds of the popular banking tt jcieties have profited by the advantage tl ccruing from this species of common ction, which in no way trammels their j~' elf-government, but only binds them to jrward a yearly statement of account. 'ho willingness of these institutions to fC o<inorni7o fho nf r?nnnRrted oner- G lions is likewise manifest in the gronp- ol ]g of banks belonging to a single State " r district, there being no less than gl liirty-one of these provincial clusters. Its fruits are indeed astonishing. The w rst people's bank was founded in 1853. ki nd twenty-two years afterward not less lian 2,763 were in operation, of which r? , 72G were assigned to the German emiro, and the remainder to Austria. At resent the aggregate number is said to vi xceed 3.000. In the same period the <x umber of members entitled to the privege of discount had increased from 175 bi j about a million and a half. Some 41 otion of the scope of the financial transctions may be gathered from the sports of the central agency, bnt inasrnch as only a part of the banks are u spresented, the figures cited will of lj anrse fall much below the reality. In 01 859 the eighty societies which forward- Dl il their statements to Schultze-Delitsch ad assured their 19,000 members a ^ irculation of capital exceeding $3,000,- ^ 00 in the shape of advances made or c< mewed during the year, and they had one this without any borrowed funds ai ortli mentioning. Ten years later the 01 ^cumulations of 735 institutions mounted to 810,000,000, with which ^ sources, supplemented by $30,000,000 f borrpwed capital, they had made or mewed advances to more than 300,000 idividuals of sums aggregating $135,- fc 30,000. Passing to the year 1875 we di nd that 815 banks, with deposits of 22,500,000, and with rather more than iree times that amount of borrowed gj ipital did a business in discounting the tiper of their associates which repre- ci mted upward of $370,000,000. As cc ;gards the distribution of customers, u e note that out of some 300,000 specied in one report, about 80,000 were " nail farmers and agricultural laborers; early 130,000 were artisans, while less J ian 50,000 were professional men, and ai arsons not strictly belonging to the N' orking clasB.?New York Sun. or ?? mmm' ? e\r Blowing the Bellows. During the journey of the Emperor re :ifieph II. to Italy, one of the wheels of B< ie couch broke down on the road, so t" lat it was with difficulty he reached a ~ nail village at a short distance. On is arrival there his majesty got out at tit ie door of the only blacksmith's shop ro ie town afforded, and desired him to >pair the wheel'without delay. " That I would do willingly," replied wi ie smith, " but it being holiday, all my tu en are at church; the very boy who !ows the bellows is not at home." " Au excellent method then presents 8u ' warming oneself," replied the em- th sror, preserving his incognito; and he ti? ^mediately set about blowing the bel- P? ws, while the blacksmith forged the fn on. The wheel being repaired, six lu )ls were demanded for the job; but th6 th rtMAvnv rtftno oi-r /Inno UJSUW4. ?<* %-? OlA UllVHIAl, - ~-~w- Q, nith returned tliem to the traveler, any- ^ 8 ' cr "Sir, you have made a mistake, and th [stead of six sols, you have given me A) x piecea of gold which no one in the ?P llage can change." " Change them when and where you br in," said the emperor, stepping into ^ is carriage; "an emperor should pay w< >r such a pleasure as that of blowing dc le bellows." Ni He Wanted Taney. ? Several years before Chief Justice aney's death the government printing h< fice at Washington had occasion to tea snd him some proof slips of an importit decision, and they were entrusted to pE printer boy, who appeared at the ^ Ldge'a office and before the judge with: to Is Taney in ?" of "I presume you wish to see the chief istice of'the United States ?" ^ " I don't care a cuss abont him. I've ^ )t Borne proofs for Tar>ey." " I am the Hon. Roger B. Taney." Bh " You're Taney, aren't you ?" ne "I am not, fellow, i am the Hon. p' oger B. Taney." 1,1 "Then the proofs are not for you," . id the unceremonious mef senger would ive cone off with them if the judge had >t admitted himself to be Tanoy simply, I wl ^ ?? IUMMARY OF NEWS, j Eastern and Middle 8tate0 James Lally, a prosperous young New York j Brchant, committed suicide by shooting him- ( If in the head. The only cause assigned for e act is melancholia, brought on by frequent { Ins in the head. James Gordon Bennett returned to New York ' e other day. He has been abroad eyer since e duel with Frederick May in Delaware. The three-mile, eight-oared boat race be- 1 'een freshmen crews of Harvard and Cornell I >lleges, rowed on Owasco Lake, N. Y., was 1 jn by Cornell by four boat lengths, the time i ling a little over seventeen minutes. i A fire in Kitanning, Pa., destroyed buildings 1 id other property to the extent of about .00,000. At the nnw State Insane Asylum, at North arren, Fa., a scaffold containing eight men kTe way, precipitating them on a mass of iron 1 id stone. Enos Bees had his back broken < td the others were all Beverley injured. j The great heat wave which had been travel- ] g orer the Western States, causing a degree 1 neat in some sections that had nerer before j ten experienced and resulting in a large loss ' life by sunstroke, reached the Middle States 1 id caused a great deal of suffering and dis- ] imfort. In New York city the thermometer ' ached 97 in the shade. Out-door business , is generally suspended. Thirty-five prostra- ' sns from the heat ocourred, ana the suffering uong the tenement house population of the ( ty was much increased. Towards night a i innder storm brought temporary relief, i broughout the Eastern and Middle States the lermomoter ranged from 90 to 106 degrees. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was elected esident of the|thirteenth annual convention of 10 Women's Suffrage convention, in sesBion at 1 Chester, N. Y. i Andrew J. Kerwin, a New York bnilder, has 1 ten adjudged a bankrupt. His liabilities are 1 itimated at over $2,000,000, with small assets. Robert W. Greeve died the other night at his | ,rm, in South Kingston, R. I., in consequence ' being bitten by a sheep-killing dog on the ith of April last. Sixty-four cases of sunstroke?nine of which 1 sre fatal?occurred in New York city the 1 her day. i A bridge over the Erie railroad near Port ] irvia, N. Y., gave way suddenly, procipitating i ur ladies who were standing on it to the . ack, a distance of twenty feet, and injuring 1 four, one of them fatally. The recent hot weather has been followed by \ rrific storms throughout the Eastern and : iddle States. At Northampton tli9 exhibition i lilding, grand stand, sheds, and fences were own down, causing a damage of about $8,000. . t Middletown, N. Y., a church steeple was own down, several houses were unroofed id many trees uprooted. At Albany, N. Y.f : ie storm raged furiously, leaving a scene of , ijn and desolation in its track. Sixteen buildgs were destroyed, many trees were struck 7 lightning and sevoral car horses were killed, ! ie damage done reaching $100,000. At Glouister, Mass., & house was etruok by lightning id two of the inmates?Julia McPhee ana rs. George Byers?were killed. Five other >uses were also struck by lightning. At uncord, n. n.. uie csnauacK nouso was istroyod by lightning, entailing a Msa of JO,000. The Boston Belting Company, of Boston, is suspended payments, its treasurer, John Tappan, having used the credit of the oonirn for private speculation to the extent of ror $500,000. Tappan conveyed a large nouot of property to the company to make >od the loss. The liabilities of the corporaDn are given at $839,000; nominal assets, 180,000, and notes payable, $628,000. Western and Southern States. A. J. Honing, president of the Chicago aalz Zeiiung Publishing Co., has failed for rer $100,000, with assets of $60,000, the most ! which i* considered worthless. Remarkably hot weather has prevailed in jrtionB of the West, particularly In St. Louis, here the doaths from sunstroke in one day nounted to fifty-four, aud business was parully suspended. Many physicians were proBated, and the Buffering among all classes was tense. The boiler of Starbuck 4 DaviB' planing ill b at Barnesville. Ohio, exploded with such rrific force as to be beard for miles around, be building caught fire, but was speedily exaguished. Four men were killed outright, id five others were terribly mangled. A monument to Stephen A. Douglass has sen unveiled in Chicago. Owing to the exeme heat the exercises were brief. A. G. Gantley, clerk of the oommittee of comeroe of the presont Congress, committed snide by ahooting at Avondale, Ohio. General Miles has had a fight with the Liana in Oregon. After a stubborn resistance ie hostiles were driven off in confusion seval miles, leaving five killed and a large num?r wounded. Two soldiers were wounded. A mixed accommodation and freight train, 1 the Indiana division of the Pan Handle ailroad, when near Monticello, Ind., crashed irongh a bridge over the Tippecano river; and ie locomotive and twenty-two cars plunged to the river, and were completely wrecked, be passengers had a miraculous escape. The ridge tender and engineer were killed. The Colorado Democrats, in State convenon at Pueblo, nominated W. A. H. Loveland ir governor and Thomas M. Patterson for ongrcss. Tho platform demands free coinage ! silver, repeal of the resumption act, and the ibstitution of greenbacks for national bank 3tes; the House presidential election investiition is approved. Sam Bass, the notorions Texas desperado, ho recently addod to his numerous crimes by lling a deputy sheriff near Galveston, hat' sen captured by a squad of Saite troops after tceiving a fatal wound. The Texas Democratic State convention was eld in Austin. On tho nineteenth ballot for jvernor the vote Btood: Hubbard, 890; Dene, 613. Necessary to a choice, 1,002. The mvention then adjourned. The busineBB portion of the town of Catlettsarg, Ky, comprising several blocks of Btores id residences, was totally destroyed by fire, msing a loss eetimatod at $200,000, upon hich there is little insurance. A boiler attached to a threshing machine on le farm of Benjamin Wessell, near Belleville, J., exploded, instantly killing two men,mortal wounding two and severely injuring three iheis. The accident was charged to carelossdss or inefficiency of the engineer. Twenty thousand people were present at a ildiera' reunion in Nowark, Ohio. The Preeisnt, Attorney-General Doyens, Oeneral 8herian and Qovernor Bishop took part in the sremonies. L. D. Atchison, a balloonist, while making i ascension at Elmwood, 111., fell a distance C 200 feet and was instantly killei. General Mackenzie, with 800 United States oops has again crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico, in pursuit of cattle thieves and raiders. From Washington. There is to be an additional reduction in the tree and salaries of employes of the Intorior jpartment. The secretary of the treasury has issued the xty-second call for the redemption of 6-20 rods of 1865, ooniuis of 1805. The call is for 5,000,000. The exact amount of the award to American aimants by the joint American and Mexican mmission is $-1,025,622, to be distributed nong about 180 persons. ProfeiBor Riley, the entomologist of the agcultural department, left Washington a short me ago for Now York, to study the habits of i insect which is reported to be committing rious ravages on the juniper or red cedar id other forest trees in central and western ew York. The President has removed Postmaster Park, of Now Orleans?a brother-in-law of Genal B. F. Butler?and has appointed G. 8. idger to tho placo. According to a communication recently ceived at the navy department, James Gordon 3nnett contemplates sending another expedijn to the North Pole?by way of Spitzbergen using his celebrated yacht Dauntless for the irpose. < A. B. Levisee, one of the Louisiana presidenil electors, has been appointed United States venue agent Foreign News. , Tho Earls of Beaconsfleld and Salisbury were irmly welcomod in England upon their re- j rn from the Berlin peace congress. The pier 1 Dover was crowded with people, and Lord 1 jaconufiold was presented with an address by 1 e mayor, congratulating him on his great j ccesa at the Barlin congress. In London j o utreets through which the two plenipoten- | ?? nw* mn nnn i ople, while the windows along the route I ire Allied with spectators. Flags were proRely displayed, the vast assemblage cheered stilv and the national anthem was sung. As , e carriage containing Lord BeaconsQeld with i jrd and Lady Salisbury drovo along the West rand, there was one continuous cheer, and owors of bouquets by hundreds from the owd and the nouses. The crowd followed 1 e carriage, cheering and throwing flowers. ; his residence Lord BeaconsQeld made a eech, thanking the assemblage for his recep- < >n. The obsequies of Queen Morcedes were celentpd in the Church of San Francisco, Madrid, 1 th great poiip. Forty thousand persons jre present, including the ambkssadors, presi- j ints of the chambers, and the entiro court. ( iuo bishops assisted at the requiem masu. ( The village of Lenk, Switzerland, having ' population of 2,500, has been almost entirely J istroyed by fire. ] Lord BeaconsQeld made a speech in the j ouse of Lords, in the presence of a large f .thering. He commented on the treaty of i irlin. and contendo 1 that England had im- 1 trted renewed vitality to Turkey by tho urge ho pursued at Berlin. He said that his ilicy in regard to Asiatic Turkey was intended save that country from falliug into the hands Russia. Afterwards there was a stormy sne in tho House, in consequence of Lord 1 Jisbury dcnyiny the accuracy of a statement ?/lo h? Ts\rA TWhr T>io WniiHo A/Hnnmnd confusion. Tho Irish team of riflemen won the Elcho ] ield at Wimblodon, the English team coming ] xt and the Scotch last. The Bcore was: ] ?land, 1,610; England, 1,5(30; Scotland, < 552. < Watkins, an agricoltnral laborer, with his fe and throe children, have been murdered, th revolting accessories, at Llaugibby, near j iwport, Wales. A Spanish sailor, on a tramp, i 10 was arrested at Newport, is believed to M 1 lie murderer. The mtlrdcr was oommittec 'or plunder. Hazard A Caldecott, London wool brokers, lave failed for $250,000. France has suggested a joint protest of the powers, at Constantinople, against Tnfkiel mtrages in Thesaaly. Queen Victoria has oonferred the Order 01 ;he Garter on Lord Beaoonsfield. rbe Home Presidential Election Investigation. The Bab- committee at New Orleans, of which Mr. Stenger is ohairman, has granted th< request of Secretary Sherman to be permittee a summon ninety-three witnesses to prow ntimidation in the Feliciana parishes. Mr, itenger Bays the sab-committee will give the fullest opportunity for the taking of testimony An Ingenious Mother. A lady of our acquaintance once lamented to us an ill advised attacbmenl 3n the part of her daughter, who hac good expectations, and whose affeotiom bad been won by an adventurer. Th< mother had remonstrated against th< folly of the eugagement, and had finally refused to allow the wedding to tak( place so long as the girl was under age. rhe young lady was obstinate by nature and her tenacity was strengthened b] opposition. She avowed her intentior af waiting patiently till she was of age, and then of giving her hand to hei affianced. A year's delay did not seen bo have undermined her attachment and in another six months she would b? of age and her own mistrepd. . Undei aur advice the mother changed nor cne, and appeared to make the best of th< bad business. Since Captain meanl to be her son-in-law, she said she would do what she could to make things pleas ant. She asked him to dinner, and ap peared to have fully accepted the engage ment. If by any chance the daughter danced a round dance with any but he] affianced the mother shook her head. I she danced twice with any other pentle man, the mother would say affection' ately, " My dear, do you think Captaii would like that ? When I waa en gaged to your father, I never thoughi of dancing more than once in an even ing with any one else I" She kept ai eye on all in-coming and out-going let ters and would say, " My dear, you hay* not written to Captain for the las two days I When I was engaged to you father, I used to write to him every da; of the week." Or, "Captain wrofe to you yesterday, my dear, and I per ceive that you have not yet answered him; men do not l.ke to be treated witl neglect." The girl got irritable unde the incessant spurring into her engage ment; the mother followed up her advan tage by offering her admonition audibl; in the presence of other female friend of the daughter. This put the finishini stroke to the engagement; the gilt a] mwa nflP Mia onncerbread when ODDOSi tion was changed to incitement. Tw months before she came of age she wrot to Captain and told him that he feelings had changed toward him. Th mother affected to be deeply scandalized this settled the girl's determination, an the captain never darkened the door again.?London Examiner. A Steam Balloon. Another invention, whioh is occupj ing the scientific world of Paris, is th Gnglielmini steam balloon. If the ea periments answer the inventor's hope this balloon will be one of the wonder of this age of wonders. The inventio; is based on eight points: 1. Ascensio] power. 2. Translative horizontal am diagonal power. 3. Safety again e accidents. 4. Direction from one poin to another given point. 5. The materia employed in the construction of serin steamboats. 6. Perfectly aerial archi tecture. 7. The disposition of the as centive power. 8. TTie manoeuvres oi board and the degree of temperature o aerostat. The gas employed is hydrogen i 1 disposed ID l/WBiVt) glUUCB Juotcttu ui uuc Once in the air, the boat, which i oblong like a ship, is moved on by tw steam engines placed underneath th heel. Thus is cuts the air like othe boats cut the sea. With an engine c fifteen horse-power thirty metres an made in a second. The acting manoeu vres consist in passing the excess o hydrogen in the globes into others re served expressly for the guidance of th< boat, and then repassing them into thei: first globes, according to the descent o: ascent which may be required. Where the People Live. Only a small portion of them liv in America. According to the latec figures, the entire population of th whole American continent is but a trifl over eighty-five and a half million while the Russian empire alone contain eighty-six and a hail minions, id population of Africa is nearly two hui dred millions ; of Europe, over thre hundred and nine millions ; while Asif the cradle of the human race, has ti enormous number of 824,548,500 inhab tants. The entire population of tli globe is 1,423,816,800. It is estimate that two thousand human beings di every hour. At that rate it would tat a century to depopulate the whole eartl But it is estimated about twenty-thr( hundred human beings are born eve: hour, which makes up the loss, ar gives a net gain of over two and a ha millions a year.?Mechanic. Lighthouses were erected by all ai cient commercial people, and calk Tors, or pillars, as "those of Hercule near Gibraltar; that of Pharos, at Ale: andria, 550 feet high, and visible foi? two miles; the Colossus, at Rhodes; th Pharos, of Messina, etc. Mago, a Carthagenian, wrote twent] eight large Volumes on farming, and t? Boman Senate ordered it translate into Latin for the use of the Boma people. Dooley'* Yeast Powder. This trnly unrivaled baking powder stands o its morits alone; and because of its perfect pi rity and excellence, and from the fact tni every package is strictly full weight, the pe< Ele have adopted it in their households, an ave the utmost confidence in it. It alwaj does the work effectually, goes much furth< in use, and makes better and more wholesom and nutritious biscuits, bread, rolls, muffin cakes and paBtry than any other powder in tb country. The Markets. WWW XOBK. Beef Cattle?Natlv 09 @ 101 Toxatand Cherokee. 07 0 10J Mi]oh 4? 00 080 30 Dogs?Uvo 01H@ 0-1J Dreesod 01 @ 08 Sheep 01*0 CtJ Lambs C6K0 08j Cotton?Middling 11 0 11 Floui^-Wefltern?Good to Choice... 1 88 0 7 CO State?Fair to Oholoe 1 23 0 8 00 Bnck wheat, per owt 1 07 0 1 60 Wheat?Bed Western 1 It 0 1 133 No.? 3 Milwaukee 1 05 0 1 C8 Bye?State..... 68 0 66 Barley?State 73 0 H) BarleyMalt......................... 66 0 88 Buckwheat 80 0 80 Data?Mixed Western 31 0 31) Oorn?Mixed Western 11 0 18 Bay, per cwt 11 0 43 Straw, per owt,.... SO 0 10 flops?Good to Prime 10 0 13 Pork?Mees 10 10 011 60 rvirri?City Steam.. 07 0 07 (fish -Mackerel, No. 1, now 11 00 @16 00 " No. 3, new 9 80 @11 CO Dry Cod, per owt...,. 8 78 0 1 (0 Horring, 8 ?'ed, per box.... 18 0 38 Petroleum?Orn 07X007,* BeSned, 11 (Vool?Califorr ifleeoe 20 0 27 Texaa " 18 0 D Australian " ... 89 0 16 State XX 14 0 14 Cutier?State,.., il 0 20 Weeterr-Oholoe . .... 14 0 2) Wostern?itood t( Prime.. 06s<3 C8J Woatorn?Flrkinj C6 0 08 3heese?State Fuetory 09 9 111 fltato Skimmed...... O5.H0 07 Western*..... ........ O6M0 f'H Eg i ?Stato and Pennsylvania. .... 18 @ 11 BUTTALO. Floor . 5 76 0 8 25 Wheat?No. 1 Mllwankee 1 10 0 1 10 Torn?Mixed,.... 41 0 42 3ato 79 0 80 lye (8 0 88 Barley 70 0 0) Barley Malt 10 0 90 PHILADELPHIA, Beef Cattle?Kitra . . 19 0 C91 Sheep CS 0 085 Jorb?Droeacd M 0 Ofli Flour?Pennsylvania Extra 8 CO 0 5 80 Wheat?Red Wcotern 9 > 0. Sfi iye..., . 89 0 80 3o-n?Yellow...* 49 0 80 Mixed 44 0 45 )ai ?Mixed 81 0 82 ?etro!enm?Orcde O8!{0I8*{ Beflnod, 10S. Wool?Colorado.... 1^ 0 26* Texai 18 0 S3 California 30 $ 25 BOSTOH. 3rsf Cattle 08 8 08) 3h??p 0C*(? 07) loga 91 ? 05) ?lour?Wisconsin and Minnesota.. <36 @ 3 50 3orn?Mixed.... 53 0 67) HU? " 34 ? M tfool?Ohio and Pennsylvania XX. 40 9 43 California Fall 18 ? 25 WATXBTOWH, MASS Bsef Cattle?Poor to Qholos 4 9o (# 5 #0 ihtep....... BOO (4 7 75 Lt ...M. ... >...m? 7 00 9 8 5J ! I For qpwards of thirty years Mrs. WINSLOWS SOOTHING BYBUP has been mod for children with never falling success. It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind oolic, regulates the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhoea, 3 whether arising from teething or other causes. ' An old and well-tried remedy. 26 cts, a bottle. t Surest Tranqnlllzer of thA Nerteh Tbo surest tranquilizers of the nerves is a meJicine which remedies their supersensitiv#. ness by inv'-^rating them. Over-tension of .he nerves altfu^-weakens them. What they need, then, is a tonic, not a sedative. The latter is only useful when there is intense , mental excitement and an immediate neces: sity exists for producing quietude of the brain. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters restores tranquil! ityofthe nerves by endowing them with the vigor requisite to bear, without being jarred ' or disturbed unheal thfully, the ordinary impressions produced through tbo media of eight, hearing and reflection. Nay, it does more than this,?it enables them to sustain a ' degreo of tension from mental application ' which they would be totally unable to endure I without its assistance. Such at least is the irI resistible conclusion to be drawn from the testij mony of business and professional men, litt?ateurs, clergymen, and others who have tested 5 | the fortifying and reparative influence of this r celeoratea tome ana nervine. } We have a list of a thousand country weekj lies, in which we can insert a one-inoh advertisement one year for two dollars and a quarter a paper, or for the same price we can insert 1 fifty-two reading notices (a new one every , week), averaging seven lines each. For list of papers and other particulars, address Heals & t Fobteb, 10 Spruce Street, New York. > Wobtiit a Place uf Eveet Family.?Grace's ' Salve is now firmly established as the beat remr edy in use for the immediate relief of Cutfl, Burns, Sprains, Wounds, FelonB, Ulcers, Ac. i It should bo kept in every house. We know of no way that we can benefit our . readers more than by calling attention to John. son's Anodyne Liniment. It is the oldest and most valuable patent medicine in the world. " Everybody should keep it in the house. It will cheek diarrhoea and dysentery in one hour. r ( If the fountain is pure the streams will be puro also. So with tho blood. If that be pure the health is established. Parsons' Purgative ' Pills make new rich blood, and taken one a 1 night will change the blood in the entire syB. tem in three months. l ?? v The Greatest Discovery of the Ame la Dt j roblM' oelebrated Venetian Liniment! 80 years Man the pablio, and warranted to oure Diarrhea, Dysentery, Oolio, and 8pasms. taken internally; and Oronp, Chronic 2 Rheumatism, Sore Throat*, Oat*, Braise*, Old Sons, t and Pains in the Limbs, Baok, and Ohest, externally, r It has new (ailed. No family will erer be without it a after once giria* it a fair trial. Price, 40 oecta. Da, Q TOBIAS' VENETIAN HOBSE LINIMENT, in Pinl Bottles, at One Dollar, is warranted superior Co anj '* other, or NO PAT, for ths ears of Oolio Oats, Bralsss I Old Sores, eto. Sold by all Drooista. Depot?10 Pari ^ Place, New York. * BaowWs BaoiioHm Thochks. for oonghs and oolds, . mO MAKE MONEY, set circulars Day Bro'i X 800 Antomnttc Incnbator, Baltimore, Md, ^ fLTTWfl RKVOI.VKHH. Price List free. Addrta S IX U IN O Great Western Pan Works, Plttsbnnt. Pa, i OHGilSSa _ A mm A DAY to Agents oanTasainc for the Flreelds 0 Ti / Visitor. Terms and Outfit Free. Address e P. O. VIOKBRY, Augusta, Maine, 1 lm T BBQ * llLLliiio st^cYn"a^io.?q" V/ tJmE vsm # * AffTTfl E. IN GRAHAM Sc CO.'fell I 11111/|1 Superior in design. Not equaled - - -Mm in nnalitv. or as timekeepers. II Ulill l| |l A?k" job Jeweler for them 6 Age no??8 Oortlandt St. N. Y g CHAPMAN'S CHOLERA SYRUP 0 Ourea Dysentery, Diarrhoea and Sammer OompUinti 8 of Children. Price 50c. GKOROK MOORE, Propria q tor. Great Falls, W. H. 8old by *11 Dragging. 2 $10. $20. $50. $100. * In retted judiciously in Stooks (Options or Pnvilecee), ,t la a aors road to rapid lortune. Fall detail* and OfloUl , Stock Exchange Reports free. Address T. POTT KB t WIGHT A 00.. H.--1 era, 35 Wail 8treat. New York. ^ TT? A C ?The choicest in the world?Importer! 1 X JQi ijL io prices? Largest Company in America? staple article?pleases everybody?'Trade oontinull] ! increasing?Agents wan tod rerywhero?best induoe menU? don't waste time?send tor OiroaUr to " BOBT WKLLS. 43 Vesey 8t.. W. Y.. P. O. Box W7. f $102 325 selling^far Fin?Art Novelties 1 Catalogue A Outfit Free application tc ' J. H. mjFFORD'8 SONS, Manufacturing Publisher* S 141 to 147 Franklin Street, Boston. Mass. Established nearly fifty years. e jHBHHSSHHHHfflH r I V BMW 1 f I y HpflnfliiH a I k A Vifl - Cures Dyspepsia, IndigestioD 3 Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, : GRACE'S SALVE. Jonibville, Mioh., Doo. 27,1887.?ifeuri. Fovlei: ] sent you SO cts. for two boxes of Grace'* Salve. I hart had two and have used them on an nicer on my foot^aoi c it ia almost well. Kespectmiiy yours, u. j. yajhim Price if 5 cents a box at all dnurgists, or sent by mai 6 on receipt of 3d cents. Prepared by 8ETH W e FOWLE & WO MM, 86 Ha rrfcon Are.. Boston.Mass f HPWTOQfTTHtM lath# bat part of the tuw rt.onn.ooo U scrts for ule. Vor a copr of the "Kansas Padflo llomestead," addrcu S. J. Oilmort, Land Com'i, 8aUat( Kansas. 6 oaEMMi IUbUUJU^UyUMBMUAAi<0 J A Safe and Kellabie Substitute for Quia ne it The only 25 cent AGUE REMEDY . i ? *; A XN THig WORLD CURES ? 111 i^X'i i|"j || ?i r6 and all HALABIAL DISEASES. laid by sll Drdfittsu. lUilod FREE 00 recslpt of price. Writ# to DDNUAS DICK A CO., 41 Wuorrsa STaaar. N<JV? Yoas, for thtlr ten <: ? Look, mailsd to tba readnrs <J f- thlspapsr FREE OQ ipclfest.?!* d FLV mi n r7*0 ,iaLt Gimt Hymitr. 0 r00m " B otan 1c ^Vtedicine Co^, Buffalo,N Y * FOR $750 tf We will insert a one-inch advertisement, thirty or ^ times, in one thoasand American weekly newspapers Advertisement may appear threo months every week, oi every other woek six months. HALF INCH FOR 8423 FOUR I.INEH FOR 8280 THREE LINE* FOR 8225 For cash payment entirely in advance, five per cent, discount. No extra charge for making and sending cats. For catalogue of papers and other informatio ladJres BEALS & FOSTER, * 10 Spruce Street, New York. Who Wants Machinery? Wo have for sale over 1,200 new and second-hand 4 machines at prices far uelow their true value, compna in* SAWOI1LL and GENERAL WOOD. WORKING 3IACHINERYof every description, i i'ortnblc nnd Stntionnry HTEAM ENGINES i nnd BOILERS from 1-2 to GOO It. p., WATER WHEELS, GRIST MILL MACHINERY, MACHINISTS' nnd liliACKSilllTHM1 TOOLS of every variety, Pl'.llPS, FIRE APl'A. It ATI'S, COTTON nnd WOOLEN MA CII INERY, BELTING, CIRCULAR SAWS, SHAFTING, PULLEYS, etc., etc., all fnllj " described in oar printed List No. 17, with prices annexed,which we will mail to the address of any party desiring machinery upon receipt of stamp. Stite plainly just what machine or machines you art | In want of, and don't bay until you have carefully reac ? oar list of the greatest bnrRains ever onerea in toe w?j < of new and second-hand machine*. Low special freight i abb obtained for our customnrs to any section of th< United States or G-inala. Address < S. F. FORSAITH & CO., Machinists and General Machine Dealers, MANCHESTER, N. H. y. B.?Village and Town Firo F.ngines, Hom Carriages. Ladder Trucks and Fire Equipments a apeciaity, B?ud for Fixe Engine circulars. m WH Geo. P. Howell & Co.;HH ' WmBR H HS9 . . BmHEE Tha nhiorf nf flnr Establishm^^^^^BHI9! I IIW VUJVW* VI w^._.? Oar Newspaper Advertising Barean, Ha 10 St, New Tore, is an establishment intended to the convenient and sjiterostic placing of silienbe BGBH9E mente in new*papers. It is conducted upon the prnoi- I plee which we conoeire to be the right oaee for seey- H^H| ingthe beet reenlte to the advertiser. OKHHHH We undertoke to repreeent Awrian newspepers.net E H only the newspaper* of the citr of New York, end of til IHSflB other American oitiee, Religions, Agricultural and ^H||H other claas newspapers?bat also the small 0000117 |H Journals. We receive regularly end keep on file Um daily and weekly newspapers of every rtescripiiw throne boat (he land. Confined Strictly to Newspaper Advertlsing and to American SKflfl Newspapers. We confine oar transactions to newspapers, and |B not accept or undertake the management of oUMC H| classes of advertising, such as books, signboards, poetem, or job printing. By adhering to ooe branch of advertising we sake onmplvaa master of it. We also restrict onr dealings to a newspaper ikumium within the geographical limits of the United States ud Dominion of Canada. B[ m The Nature of the Service which it is - HH Our Business fo Render to the Advertiser. 1MB We undertake to maintain an eetaMishawl credit wOh ere 17 newspaper, and hav? at hand a soMwh *t charge* for advertising space in its columns; to be abio I to Quote the rate* to an advertiser who wishes one or several, and to procure the prompt Insertion of the advertisement without an/ extra charge for tb? sunlet H M 1 rendered; whichservioe oonsists of quoting Use pnoe priming or writingas many duplicates of the advertiser t ment as oaf be required, forwarding the oopjr for MH ' insertion at our own oxpense for postage or inwswgsc ' service; eiaminlng the paper* to see that the adveca y\ fifiHH i Hi 1 BW ^K^?'"^??ESiiSSiiSJSia; HH meet, without the Uborof ?e?rchW whok peper or jjHjfl "^ff^srror or ominloni oooor.it Uonr tint# to notify . > pnbJUhere, ?t our own expenee for Ubar. porten ?r meesenjer, end to eee to it th?t tb^bU?j?<* tt? BflH , paper ectuelly doe* render the spooified MTtiM for which the adTGrtiier contract**!. Our Promise, Weptwntoe thoeo ed*erti?er? whoentru*!MOBS ?rfH?inmnttTOOMW to OPT management th*t WO WUl not |U| How them to bo oher*ed. in nj intU^MiT iwi MM >.?iVw the publishers' tonedule r*tee;th*t wewflJ yn, cure for them the ecoepUnoe of ?nj edr?nt??eoo* off* KM ? definitely nude to them by any newtpaper poblliher, ? advertising agent, or ?anvaaaer of responsibility. w% HB are unwilfing to do work wlthoqt ? profit, end oeter oiler to do to, yet In conformity with the promiee med* fljSfl ahnre. we eometima* find it Mrisiole. The System of Arrangement for News- . HB paper Files. |9 We hare * perfect ajstem for filiac newspapers, a KM) pirate space teisx ?coorded to Mob,?aa Ubelled SH with the printed name or the paper it is intended to ? snoomraodate. A stranger can place his hand npon amy W paper be wishes to examine with the same readiness H with whioh he would find a word in a dictionary, a name 9 in directory, or a book in a library catalogue. i The Amount of Money to be Expended. Person! who have had little experience u advertisers often have a pr.tty clear understanding of what they would Nke to do, bat are entirely ignorant of Uie probable cost. We have made oat for suoh a pert on a plan of adver. tising calling for an investment of 16,000, and on submitting it for approval found oar easterner dismayed atth? magnitude of the expense, he not having contemplated an expenditure exceeding 1200 or (300. In inch a case labor would have been saved, if at the commencement of the negotiation the question bid been asked: " How much money are jou prepared to devote to this advertising?" The Confidence of Our Patrons a Matter of Prime Importance. It is a matter of prime importance to as, for the , purpose of maintaining oar influence with publishers, that it shall come to be understood among them that our statements aboat the advertising to be done, or not * - ? ? ?? nnnn ?nd tothis end oar W DO UUUO, OIO w uu iaiiux MK dealing with oar advertising patrons matt be mpon a basis of mataal confldonce and good faith. | ?? ! Our Customers Entitled to Our Bes r Services. Whenever wo are doing the advertising for any in - "? ? *1 a? fcn onr bnafc dividual, or nrm. wo _ tervices. If they suggest using a paper which we know to be not th? best for tbo purrnse, we say go and give the reasons. We oft?n expend a good do il of tiir.i for very small advortisers, much more than the profi-s ou . tbeir patronage would warrant; but we are conteut. as tbey entrust to us whit they have to disperse, and influence In our direction the patronage of their friends i and acquaintances. Extrast from A"?ic York " Tim??," Juxe IS, 1875. Ten years ago Messrs. Geo. P. Rowell & Co., established their advertising agency in Nrw York Citr. Fit# yenn ago tney absorbed the business conducted by Mr. John Hooper, who was the first to go into this kind of enterprise. Now tboy barn the satisfaction of controlling the most extensive and complete advertising connection which has ever been secured, and one which would hardly be possib'e in any other country hot tbis. | They have succeeded in working down a complex businessinto so thoroughly a systematic method that iia change in the newspaper system of America can escape i notice, wtltle *n? wiaeao mronnnuoa upon >u wy ? intereating to ujvertisera is placed reidilyat the dig| posa.1 of the public. - Geo. P. Rowell & Co.. i 10 Spruce St., i New York. NIHU 30 / t