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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Geo. P. Howell & Co.;HH
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Tha nhiorf nf flnr Establishm^^^^^BHI9!
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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[
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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
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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.
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! 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 /
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