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Work in the Good Time Now. The world Is strong w ith a mighty hope 01 a Rood time yot t<? he, And earelnl'y casts the horoscope Of her future destiny; And |>oet and prophet, and priest and sage, Are watching, with noxious oyes, To sec the Ugh* of that promised age On the waiting world arise. Oh, weary and long seems that time to some. Who under lile's burdons bow. For while they wait lor that time to coma They lorget 'tis a good tiine now. Yes, a good time now?tor we cannot say What tin- morrow will bring to view; Uiit we're always sure ol the time to-day. , And the course we must pursue; And no better time is ever sought liv n hmve heart under the sun Than the present hour,with its noblest thought, And the duties to be done; "l it* enough l'or the earlieet soul to see Thert is work to be done, :ind how, For he knows that the good time yet to bo Depend* ou the good time now. There is never a broken iink in the ehuiu. And never a cureless flaw, | For cause and effect, and loss and gaiu. Are true to a changeless law. Now is the time to ?ow the seed For the harvest of luturo years; Now is the time lor a uoble deed, While the need of the work eppear*. You must tarn the braid ol'your liberty By toil ami the sweat ol your brow, And hasten the good time yet to be Bv improving the good time now. 'Tis as blight a sun that shines to-iiay As will shino in the coining time; And truth has as weighty a word to say Through her oracles sublime. There are voices in earth, and air and sky, That tell ol the good time here, And visions that come to faith's clear eye. The weary in heart to cheer. Th;> glorious Iruit on lifo's goodly tree Is ripening on every bough, And the wise in spirit rejoice to see The light ol the good time now. Then tip! nor wait tor jhe promised hour, j Foi the good time now is the host, Ami the soul that uses its gilt ot power Shall bo in the present blest. Whatever the lntare may have in storo, With a will there is ever a way; A?<1 none need burden tlio soul with more Than the duties ot to-day. Then np! with a spirit brave and Iroe, And pat the hand to the plow, Nor wnittor the good lime yet to be, But work in the good time uow. HEPSIBAH KELTRY.j i I MY GRANDMOTHER'S STOUT. j * ! "Well, chili," saii ray grandmother, j brushing nn imaginary specs 01 ausi i from her black silk apron (an especial I vanity of thedeaYpld lady's) and settling j the snow-white kerchief which she wore j pinned about hei neck, "well, child, if J you really want to hear the story of | Hepsibah Keltry, I'll tell it to you, and j tell it to you ,ju>t as my grandmother j told it to me sixty years ago, when I I was your age. "She knew Hepsibah well, and aj proud, high-spirited young woman she j was, too. but with one of the prettiest j laces in the whole country around. * She was old Abijah Keltry's only [ child, and from the time that she came j into the world (quite unexpected-like, j for Abijah hail been married full fifteen i .Yi ars before her arrival) until she was a i "Tnwn voun? wom:in. she was a nerfect jtnp of mischief in his quiet home. "Commands, threats and punishments ' (for Abiiah was a sea-faring man in his j youth, and they are mostly none too gentle in their ways) did no good in her j case. She fairly trampled over her j meek little mother?poor Patience Kel- j try?and met A hi j ah with open detiance ! and rebellion whenever he pul his foot down too heavily. i " My grandmother said that she could remember her well?a tall, slender , girl, with a pale, long face, great flashing \ biue eyes, pretty white teeth, and hair I that \v:^ all in the prettiest crinkles and and wa? all mixed yellow and brown in the sunshine. A pretty girl, grandmother said, but with a temper that , made this other young women a iittie ! why of her always, for she. when achild. j would scratch and bite like a wildcat | when any onecrossed tier will, and, even when she was grown, she had been known to slap Deacon Industry Pea body's oldest girl fuil in the face for say- : ing something that disple:i>?'d her. " The young men, however, liked her hold, bright ways, and more than one hud tried to keep company with her, hut although she would favor them all i hy turns to vex the other young wompn, she would tie herself to none, and very , noon gained thp reputation of a thorough ! coquette, and seemed not ili-pleased 1 with it. "When she was turned nineteen, how- i ever, a stranger came to the town from j a distant part of the country?a wellappeariug, honest young fellow, with 1 gentlemanly, quiet ways, very different l from the manners of the town beaux, i| and Ilepsihah straightway tried to tie 1 . him to her apron-string, as she had the * rest of them; hut she found it no easy i, task. _ \\ * lie was polite and agreeable to,her ; :is he was to ail theother young women, :, but no more so; and so. at last it came ' aooui uiac uepsioan Jierselt was pin ( ir.g and sighing for the first time in her ; liJo. And when this state of tilings ar- 1 ] rived. .John Shepnrd?for that was his j j name?changed around, too, and became ( her devoted admirer. j | So fav so good; and if Ilepsihah had , only kept her temper and her jealousy in ! J check, they would have been married t. that very winter, and cone to he sekeep- j ing in the house that he had hi It next !, her father's on the hill; t)Ut jealousy and evil temper are hard to control, and ( one night, ?it a husking, Hepsibah upset her dish after tliis fashion: : ( " John and she had been as loving as j i two doves all the evening, and every red 1 ( ear that she found he was not slow to take advantage of, and, in fact, he ,. seemed to have eyes for no one else until I, the floor was cleared and the dancing j ] began. Then, having danced with Iter ^wice. he looked around, and seeing little Faith Pulsifer sitting by the wall, i took her out on the lloor. "Hepsibah said never a word, but turned as white as death and walked muu iiit' iiuuai;, auu wnni, suuruy alter. | Fa/tii went in to make peace with her, j she treated her fair little face as she had treated Prudence I'eabody's, and walked oil' home with lehabod Iiartlett for a beau. " of course John Shepard was raving angij u Iit behavior, and, after apolo^i/.m,-; 10 Faith, devoted himself ' to her for the rest of the evening, and, | when the party hrose up, made his best, bow to her before them all, and askpd ka\ e to see her home, which she granted gladly. "Tiic next week there was to be :i grand b;iil in the town-hill?not ; grand according to jour ideas now, my -hiId, but very grand for those times? utid all the young people in town were bu<y preparing ior it, Ilepsibali among the rest. "There was a good deal ol whisper- j ing about her actions at the husking, you may be sure, and everybody was wondering if she and John iiitd made up; nut no one dared to ask her until one lay Martha Hodgkins-a brisk, snapping little oid maitt who was not afraid ot anything?made it her business to irop in at Abijah's, ai d there she found Hepsibah busy making a pink lrock, :vnd singing over her work as nappy :ts a queen. ^ Be ye goinY says Martha. y.i: luursf. savs riepsjoan, YOU didn't think 1 took in this hock to make, did you?' (She was that hateful :hat she had to give poor Patty a. hit j brat sowing for a living). 'Who be ye goin' with?' says Martha. " * That's tolling,' said Ilepsibah; but ifii warrant he'll be the handsomest :oan there. And as John Shepard wag ailed the best-looking fellow in the i)ia;-e, Martha was satisfied who she meant. -The night of the hall came, however. unci John Shepard had not been juar her since the husking. IlepsibaH had made so >>ure that he would come ' around all right that she had refused ivll others who wanted to take her, and so, when the night came she was left out the cold entirely. " Her father whs sick in bed, hei mother was busy tending him, and sc after supper Hepsibah slipped off upstairs, taking with her Judith, the lam( i bound girl, i'roin whom this part of the I story was learned afterward. " Once up-stairs she* slipped off hei i plain town, and Judith dressed her hair, and then she put on the pink frock, and i made Judith do up her high-heeled slippers in a bundle, and then she stood looking at herself in the looking-glass and waiting, until at last the clock struck eight?the hour for the ball to begin?and then she grew deadly whit( ; and turned away. J - > e ??,.1 "' Curse nmi ana ins men iui cw-i. she said, 4 tor lie is making mo the scofi ; of the town.' ; " And then after walking up and j down the floor for a few minutes sh( ! stopped and said: I " I would go to this ball with Satar | himself if he would only come for me, ! I wish with all my heart he would!' " And just then Judith said there was heard a rattling of carriage wheels or the frozen ground and a carriage stopped i at the door. "Hepsibah was down stairs like n flash, with the door opened wide, for it seemed that she thought it was John Shepard himself corneal the last minute, but instead a tall, slender, dark-faced gentleman dressed in black velvet, stepped inside and bowed low before her. :ind outside stood nn elegant coach, ?uch as was never seen in the town before, with two horses steaming in the chill air and tossing their heads impatiently. " ' At your service,' said the gentleman. 'Will you honor me with your company to the ball to-night?' " b'or one instant Hepsibah hesitated, and in that instant her mother's voice called from the bedroom: '"Is that John, Hepsibah, and are you going?' "And then Hepsibah made answer, 'No, it is not John; but I am going. >>>,>( )w>v minlltfi ctlP WAA in t.hp /\iiu ill Ulll/bUVl iUiliUvv WMV .. coach, and Judith was alone. " The ball w:is just opened when Hepsibah arrived, and every one stared when she came walking in with the strange gentleman; but 8lie heeded none until she came to where John Shepard stood with little Faith Pulsifer, and to them she sweptalow, mocking courtesy as she took her place opposite them in the dunce just beginning. "All that evening Hepsibah was the life of the ball. Her words were the gayest, her laugh the merriest, and her step in the dance the lightest of any there; but she never once spoke or looked at John Shepard. and even when she would have touched his hand in the figures, she folded hers tightly before her, and passed him by as though he were the side of a hoUse. And, grandmother said, in spite of her gay ways and words and frequent laughter, when she once met her eyes there was a look in them that made her shudder. "Of course there was whispering nmnnrr th/? vnmiir folks aboilt HeDSibaLl's strange ways and the new-comer whom she liad brought amongst them, but nothing was said openingly, and the ball went merrily on. The stranger, although he had a slight limp, was by all odds the best dancer in the room, and he was so friendly and pleasant in his ways, too, with a word and smile for everyone. " With some of the young men, indeed, he seemed quite like a boon companion from the lirst, and one or two ol the young women, too, seemed to be on quite friendly terms with him directly. But his lowest bows, his brightest smiles, and his most flattering words were all for Hepsibah, and when then went into supper?it was the fiishioy then for the young women to stand back against the wall, and for the young men to serve them gallantly?he made all haste to serve her tirst. " And strange it waj, tnat, although he took from the same dishes as the others?containing only plain cakes and home-raised nuts and apples?the plate lie bore to Hepsibah was loaded down with delicate confections and fruit such as the town had never seen before? great velvet peaches, purple grapes, luscious pears and golden oranges. " Hut Hepsibah would not partake. " * I have a headache,' she said, 4 and may not eat. I pray you,' turning to iiutli i?uisiler, who siuoq near, smu twith me!' And then Faith, .1 ?little timid, silly, trembling thing at best, tearing to anger her, and ciad of anything savoring of reconciliation, stretched out her hand and took a pear, but JohnShcpard interposed. "'You may not eat,' he said,4 lest you have a headache also;' and, somewhat rudely as it seemed, he took the iruit from ner, and throw it in the fireplace, where, shortly, to every one's surprise, it turned red hot, and put the other coals to shame. "Hut. llepsibah only laughed and curled her lip, and passed her plate to the others, but none of them, save only those who seemed most friendly with the strange gentleman, would partake, but those who did pronounced the fruit exceedingly good and sweet, but afterward coniDlained that it left a sting and bitterness behind. "At last the ball was over, and the girls were ali wrapped up and chattering to each other as girls will at parting, and Ilepsibah stood among them, laughing and chattering too, and when the dark gentleman came and told her that the carriage was waiting, she turned kindly to Faith once more. " * The waik is long for you,' she said; 'ride with us, there isa sufficiency of 1 :ii UUU WU Will glilMlJ "vv JVU ij home.' "And Faith delighted at the piospect of a ride, thanked her in her shy way, ind started out with her, when John Shopard, who had been detained by some of the other young men, saw her and came forward with a fare like a lead man's. "Faith,'he said,, laying his strong liand on her arm, 'stay;' and then looking straight into Hepsibah's eyes, he aid, sternly. '(Jo your way, woman, but tins child you take not with you-she goes with me.' And Ilepsibah dropping her head upon her breast, went out into the night. "And that was the last that any one saw of Hepsibah Keltry alive, save ani ?xcept only Judith, the bound girl, and Judith related this: When the ball broke up, Ilepsibah 2aine home in the self-same carriage that she went, and bade farewell to the dark gentleman at the door. "41 shall see you soon again,' she *aid, and then she went up-stairs with TiiHitfi finrl w?u iinrlmsQoH fnr t.h*? nij^Ut and went to bed; but on Judith's preparing to make up her bed on the floor near her as was usua', she i'orbade her. "41 would be alone to-night,1 she said; 'get you gone to the kitchen, but leave the light burning on the table, and good-night.' And so Judith had left her. 4-But in*,the morning?oh, ray child, beware of evil temper, jealousy and hasty vows?in the morning, thejione who went to wake her from hor sleep found her iying in her bed, cold, white and dead, and on one temple a ma' k branded deep into the bon??the mark of a eleven foot!" Words or lYisrtom. It is bettor to wear a poor vost with a royal heart behind it than to wear a royal vest with a beggar's heart inside. The temperate are the most truly luxurious. . liy abstaining from most thinirs it is surprising how many things we enjoy. Ambition often puts men upoh doing the meanest oftices; so eiiuibinir is performed in the same posture while creeping. Nothing is more saddening than an inertectual and proud intercourse with those of whom we expect sympathy and encouragement. Hood books arc to the young mind what t ho wa:*inintf sun and the refreshing ruin of" sj.rim; are to the seeds which linvp lain '<! >] mane in the frosts of winter. Tiiere is nowhere an apology for despondency. Always there is life while life lasts. whi> !i rightly lived, implies a divine s.-tl isfacl ion. Happiness i- ;:kf manna; it is to be gathered in grains and_ enioycd every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated. nor have we to go out. of ourselves into remote places to gather it, since it is rained down at our very doors, or, rather, within them. S > deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive i9 human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and there is no retribution that does not, spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain. FOE THE FAIR SEX. > Fashion Note*. ; The peacock fan train is revived. ' The Spanish lace vail is worn again. | Jet grows more and more fashionable. , i Square trains are no longer fashion- j 1 ; able. [ ! Red stockings will he worn more than i ' j ever. ' The Merveiileuse is the latest large . ' ! lace cravat how. > J The most popular overskirt takes the j name of the TaiHen. ! I More of the front hair is used in mak- i I ! ing the hang locks tliam ever. ! Fancy dress caps remain in vogue for J ' j both morning and evening wear by ma- I ' 1 trons. j j Normandy point grows in favor for j 1 i trimming black velvet dresses and \ i wraps. I i Deep gauntlet euffs, reaching almost ! , | to the elbow, have been revived this ! 1 | season. ; Toile religieuse. or purple cloth, is i, only another name for white French | I bunting. The fashion of wearing large Alsatian i ! bows on the top of the Jiead is on the ' increase. j Embroidered satins are imported by ! ! the yard to combine with plain satin de | ; Lyon or silk. i Gradually reviving fuller-sleeves for j house dresses, especially for grand toi- j lettes, aren ported. The fashion of having the corsage of1 different material from the skirt wil | prevail in the spring. Apple blossoms make lovely flower ! panels for the side garnitures of young j girls' evening dresses. YvThite French buntinir, so fashionable i j at the moment, is nothing more than j i white mouseline de laine. Ornamental darts, arrows and daggers ! are now thrust through the loops and j . braids of elaborate coiffures. Artificial flowers in jardinieres, pots | ; and gilded baskets are used this season 1 for household decorative purposes. The most popular material for full i dress toilet* for very young ladies is j white " toile religieuse." or nun's cloth. In white fabrics the favorite for yc ung I ladies is gauze with silver and <atin ; stripes for draping white tulle ball dresses. i Little children whose hair is very j short, wear it curled in the back and j banged square across the forehead and temples. Dark purple cloth suit has a vest, pan! els and border of gray plush, with a : plush turban trimmed with purple ostrich tips. Yellow marigold, dahlias, hollyhocks, and even sunflowers, appear as corsage bouquets for ladies who affect picturi esque style of dress. j Wator lilies, and occasionally calla lilies, used sparingly, are among the i favorable flowers for ornamenting dia | phanous ball dresses. J For rich black costumes the skirted coat is almost universal and this i3 nearly always enlivened by very large \ and richly colored buttons. . Ropes of blue forget-me-nots, with a | silver cord intertwined, form the decor| ations of many lovely evening toilets | for young girls this season. , ; The purple shades now fashionable Jre not the dark invincible plum colors lately worn, but the blue-purple known formerly as royal or Humboldt purple. Black lace fraises are worn by ladies 1 j ot fair complexion, and the same lace is | plaited around the wrists of thte sleeve, ] and worn without :inv white frills inJ side. i Ix>ng lace jabbots, extending below i the point of the corsaee and buttoned up ! within the bodice at the waist line and , propping out above and below that ! coint. are worn with dressy home toil{ ettes in the evening. For warmth in traveling and for j ! sleighing, hoods with capes that cover I j the head and shoulders are made of j black satin. Bands of blnck fur. in i ; which are snowfl.ikes of white, trims 1 | the front and the cape. Cotu'tiuu: In China. , Ar Phowe, an intelligent Chinese mer- ; ( chant, doing business in Boston, was re- j, i cently interviewed, and gave to the re- ( porter the following account of the way ;, 1 marriages are brought about in China: , ' " There is no such thing as courting 1 j among young people in China. The j: ; bride and bridegroom never see each i other until they are about to become ;: man and wife. Their courtiag is all j( done by their parents. I*C U? suppose . that you have a son and I'*'./daughter of , marriageable age, and we are friends, i ( You tell me you want to get your son j. j married, and ask if I am willing to give j' my daughter to him. I say yes. I have j j seen your son and like him, but you j have not seen my daughter. But you j j i hire a female broker to go and inspect; | my daughter, w hich she does for a con- j sideration. Indeed, this is a regular j l business, and many make a good hvins: ' i out of it. Sh? visits my house, sees and | talks with my daughter, finds that her ( feet are so small that she'can hardly ] ; walk?that absurd custom of deforming j the feet is still very prevalent in China : j , ?and returns and makes a most flatter- - ^ , iug report. Then you and I come to- 11 gether, and I give you a written paper | ^ embodying my consent to the union, i ^ while you, in like manner, signify your , J approval, and give a paper signed by j 1 vou. and the engagement is oomDleted. i. i You then cause a great number of sweet i j cakes to be sent to my daughter from i; your son, and these are given around to i' our friends as an announcement of the ! : betrothal of our daughter. The marriage j itself may not take place for * month, ; six months or a year :ifter the engage- ; ( ment according to agreement. There is ! t no religious ceremony of marriage in j ] China. A friend of the bridegroom's 11 family?usually a man of respectability j t and position?is chosen, who reads the j i marriage ceremony from a lx>ok, which j ] j binds the couple, who, before that time, ' i had been strangers to one another, to j < , live together during life." I ] " Are there not frequent instances of | i ' unhappy marriages in this way?" I j j " No, indeed. On the contrary, such j f 1 marriages are nearly always happy, t t The young couple soon learn to love ( one another, and live in harmony to- 11 gether." j t I " Do men give dowers to their daugh-11 ; ters in marriage?" ;r. I "Quite often; but if a parent dies i : without giving anything to his daugh- j r ters, his property all f*oes to his sons. 11 . The daughters get nothing. The father j ( ; of the newly-wedded young man fur- |? i nishes his house, though if he is poor, . i the father of the bride does sosecretlv. so !; i as not. to expose his poverty. The bride, I s ' however, is expected to furnish her bed- I < ; room and bedding. ' < A Pretty Purse. I c i Now that gold and silver coin are so 1J 1 freely used, the old-fashioned purses are :. ' in demand again, and are considered j1 very elegant gifts. The following is | j easily made and is very pretty: Three 1 bundles of gold beads and two knots y of pure twist are required. Make a chain of sixty-eight stitches, having i ' previously strung the beads. j' First row?A treble crochet into every j} loop, and take up the beads thus: Put. ; 1 the silk over the hook and push up a|! bead; finish the stitch in the usual way. j1 You have thus used two beads to your ,' ' treble. Second row?one treble, one chain; '' every row is alike, but in coming back '1 work into each hole. If preferred use |1 only one bead; that is, put the silk over ;1 vhe needle, draw through the lower ! * loop then through two loops; now pusli < up the bead and draw the silk through j j i the last. Put gold rings and gold tassels, ' or instead of the latter a bunch of gold 1 beads. This makes a long purse. I( Green silk and goiii or steel beads, or i * blue and steel are particularlv admired, j ] The following definition of " treble" 1 < may be of service to some readers: ;r ** Tfeble" is to put the thread over the :f hook and insert the latter into a loop; i draw the thread first through the loop, |' then through two stikches, then atjain . through the last two stitches. timeiy n ora? ' A celebrated author ha? politely said, ' < "No woman is ugly though one may be j j less favored than another." There is < some conswiation to the " less favored" j '< in knowing that good taste in dre?s. ! ] undtlie harmless appliances of the toilet, ! i can in !i great measure compensate for j j want in personal beauty. We desire, 1 however, to warn our readers not to ati tempt to produce by artitieial means : those graces which nature has denied . i them. They will derive no real \dvan; tage in mating dark hair golden, in i ' preparations to render the eyes lustrous, in artificial bloom for the cheeks, nor in abundant use of powder; all these arti- j cles have a rather ghastly effect in the light [of day, and should be left to the stage. It is a part of th*1 profession of the actress to understand and avail herself of all such cosmetics as art places at her disposal; but this < ?es not in any way excuse youns ladies for having recourse to them. Tko best means to preserve the charms of youth are abundant us? of the bath; quiet, regular living; plain, wholesome diet; earsy hours; a proper amount of-exercise in the fresh air, and sufficient of useful occupation both for body and mind. Amlretv Jackson's Marriage. From papers hitherto withheld the story of Andrew Jackson's marriage is now told correctly in the Cincinnati Commcrcinl for the first time. Rachel Donelson, his wife, grew up among the stirring scenes of frontier life, and when vet in her teens married Cant. Louis Robards. Robards treated her so wretchedly that Peyton Short, a Virginia lawyer, wrote to Mrs. Robarda advising her to get a divorce. As was intended, the letter fell into the husband's hands, the ici.'a being to provoke a duel. Instead of fighting the craven husband tried to blackmail Short for money. Mrs. Robards was taken by her husband to Kentucky, where she was placed at a boarding house. Andrew Jackson was a boarder there. He fell in love with Mrs. Robards, and having learned that the Virginia legislature had granted her a divorce, married her. Two years after the marriage he heard, to his horror, that his wife had not been divorced at all. He set to work, however, got the divorce, and in 1794 he was remarried. A Peddler's Love. For a couple of years a young lady belonging to a well-known family in this city has been annoyed by ttie receipt of numerous letters, whose author expressed unbounded admiration for her. These letters were written from various points, and some of them professed to be in answer to missives from the young lady herself. One was received the other day dated "Memphis," and the young lady's brothers, who had been quietly tracing the author, finally found Uieir man in the nersnn of one Jacob Bernsten, a peddler, who happened to be spending the holidays in the city. He was arrested, but investigation showed that the poor fellow was more to be pitied than blamed. He confessed that lie had seen her on the streets, and became infatuated, that he had written the letters in obedience to a resistless impulse. He promised that if rele:ised he would leave Memphis at once and (jive no further annovance. This satistied the family, and the love-lorn peddler departed.?Memphis AvalancJie. Au African Empire. The Paris Figaro has just published a further installment of Count de Semelle's report of his travels in Central Africa. He was highly delighted with the Sultan Aprou, who resides in a fortified city, and who can place in the field 50,[)00 horsemen and 100,00(1 foot soldiers. The greater portion of this force, however, is only armed with bows and arrows, the rest having only flnt muskets. The sultan, says the count, exercises absolute power, and treats travelers with the greatest hospitality. He found his majesty aware that there was another country as powerful and as rich as England?France?and adds: "Besides, Ararou is tired of that English policy which tends to restrain his power, and he is very willing to welcome the French and to facilitate their commercial relations with his people. Before my departure he i"? r? .i? _:J L -1 I ?:ive me a. ietw.*r ior uiv pn;3iurnu ui ; the republic; (the great warrior who had nlmost finished the conquest of Nortli ! Africa.),, and which on my return I j handed to M. (rrevy." The sultan " possesses to a high degree the sentiment of equity, and his empire is ad- I mirably administered." Theft, we are I told, is almost unknown in Nuppe? , probably owing to the matter in which j it is punished. The accused are brought j before the sultan, in presence of the people, and the prisoner found guilty of ' a first offence lias his hand cutoff and j is paraded throush the empire; a second j offense is followed by the gouging oC! the left eye, and the third conviction entails the pain of death without sepul- j Lure. The following anecdote respect-1 ing this well-administered country | makes heavy demands on the reader's ; faith. All the sultan's police come j from a place called Haoussa, and these ] Haous^as parade the empire in small . rlnfnr.lmtanf j 4 4 orrnafin rr ovi nnfl ! inquiring after people afflicted with con- | tagious maladies. When any such are j discovered tUey are seized, put to death, roasted-and|^voured. Such is the example tesdrwd for lepers, which are numerous enough in this part of Africa." In connection with the police the count tells another anecdote, more easily accepted than the hist. The market, he! says, is close to the sultan's palace, and [ forms an immense square, the center of | which is occupied by the police and the , barbers. The reason is that the barbers j if Bidda are as talkative as those of 1 Paris; and that the Haoussas, by keep- j ing their ears open while shaving is ?9- i ing on, acquire plenty of useful informa- j ;ion. There is a wonderful chapter on 1 ;hc lrorse? of the country, some of which j reach the price of $30,000. Sultan kmrou made the count a present of such in animal, and he rode him one day 110 ! rilometres; he galloped four hours at a | itretch, was contented with very sober j are, and only drank once a day, at sun- \ jet. | Hope In I he Charley Koss Case, | There has recently transpired at New j Jrleafis a curious revelation in regard 1 :o the abduction of a boy nearly nine j 7ears a?;o. which, as it ended in the re-1 mion of father and son, irives ground to ! he hope that the Charley Ross mystery [ nay yet be solved in a like manner. The j ?ew Orleans kidnappinir case occurred ! n Juno, 1871, when a hoy eight years j )ld, the eon of ])r. Toro, was stolen by I Mrs. Borne, his step-daughter-in-law, j n order to gel possession of the old man's : iroperty. She carried the hoy away to j St. Landry parish, where she gare him 1 Mr. Evariste Navarre, an estimable ! citizen, .whoadoptedthe waif and raised j lim as his own son. Mr. Navarre was J old that the boy^was an orphan, and j Jiat his name was Julius Poncho. Dr. j roro,>in his anxious search for his boy. ' leglected his nraotiee. spent all his time ; ind all his money, selling the roof over i lis head, the clothe# from his back, and i iven his trinkets, in vain. He barely i saved money enough to provide scanty j ood for himself and a remaining son, j ind for nearly nine years r.cither the ! (kill of the detectives nor the alertness ; )f the father had been keen enough to liscover any trace of the boy. Mrs. 1 Some, though she saw the doctor re- [ luced to poverty by the consequence of I ler crime, looked on with indifference. 1 rhe doctor at last had lost all interest ; n life, and was standing in a little corner ' grocery on Port street, in which locality j le lived when the child was stolen, ! ivhen he was approached by Mr. A. B. i LeBesque, who had just been told that j le was the pai-ent of a son who had been i rid napped. Some conversation ensued,! md the father could with difficulty be i jersuaded that jus Jong search uaci j ?nded. He was told that not only was i lis boy found, but that ho was well and ; lappy; had crown almost to man's es- i .ate, and was in love with a pretty j,irl j ivingabout forty miles from Opelousas, ' vliere Mr. Navarre, his adopted father, I esided. Mr. LeHesque met the young ; nan while on a visit to St. Landry in I Jctober, and he related all that he knew >f his history?thit> he had been stolen Vom New Orleans, where ho had lived ; n Port street with his father, whose j lame was Poncho. He insisted, how- j >ver, that his father was dead, as he had loubtless been told by his abductor, j Mr. LeBesque made inquiries in New Orleans, but misled by the different i uimes, was unsuccessful until he heard >f Dr. Toro, and met him. There was i happy reunion when the son and ather met after their long separation. Dr. Richardson says that the body ihould be in its best physic-nl condition ; it forty years; for thirty years after the jrganization should become more perppt.? jit seventv old ase should begin ind last for fifteen years, when from sightv-tive to one hundred there should >e ripe old age, without disease or pairi. >ut, marked by a ceneraJ subsidence of .he vitnl functions. In this moist unrt variiiblo climate cold* are the rule rather than the exception. Dr. hull Cough Syrup is just the remedy for every one to take when suffering trom a cough, cold or | any throat trouble. f A WEEK'S EVENTS. Eastern and Middle States. Twelve counterfeiters were captured' at Oswego, N. Y., in the act of coining money. Daniel Searles, a negro, was hanged a tew days ago at Owego, N. Y., lor the murder, last June, ol Eldridge Itewey, an old bachelor larmor, the objeot of the crime being robbery. After the body ol the solored man Searles, hanged at Oswego, N. Y., was out down it was sold hy his lather to two doctors lor #15. Taking it home they severed the head Irom the trunk, removed the brain, lound that it weighed iorty-six ounces, and then placed it in a glass jar, which was alterward hermetically sealed. This done they filled the town with bills announcing they would lecture that night on the nature and construction of murderers' brains in general and Seurles' brain in particular. They further proposed to carry the headless corpse through the country and tleliver anatomical lectures in connection with it. While an engine carrying a number of workmen was going down Eighth avenue on the Elevated railroad in New York, it was thrown Irom the track and iell to the ground. Seven men were injured, two or three latally. On the 24th the Fusionist wing ol the Maine legislature ordered a number of question? to be submitted to tho tupreme court. The Republicans having placid a body ot miliiin with a Gatling gun in the State-house, the Fusionist governor, Srmui, issueu a prucmuiution denouncing this action and denying that his followers contemplated a resort to force. A heavy fall in priees for grain canted great excitement in the New York Produco Exchange, and temporarily cripplod one broker. All grades of wheat iell three to five cents a bushel in one day, and during the week prices tell Jrom seven to nine cents. The wnlking mania has caused the death at Newburg, N. Y., ol two young men who over-exorted themselves in their efforts to make big scoreo and wer? taken down with consumption. A loss of 3100,000 was incurrod by the destruction by fire of Stephen F. Whitman & Sons' large confectionery establishment in Philadelphia. The Rev. H. H. Hay den, whose long trial at New Haven for the murder ol Mary Stannard resulted in a disagreement of the jury, has been released Irom jail on a bond ol 85,000. On account ot the disagreement ol the j'jry Mr. Hayden says ho will not go back to the ministry, although the wardens ol his church have asked him to return to them. While in confinement ho wrote an autobiog. raphy ol his life which is to l>e published in lAA/ft 1UI. lit A workshop in tho grounds ot the Kings iounty penitentiary on tho outskirts of Brooklyn was destroyed by flro a few days ago. There were nearly 800 convicts and employees in the bnilding at the time, but no lives were lost. The total loss on building, stock and machinery belonging to the Bay State Shoe and Leather Company, is estimated at $200,0C0. In answer to the questions submitted to it by tho Fnsionist legislature the Maine snpremt court deoided that those questions were not submitted by any legally constituted body, and that the Republican senate and house sitting in the capitol at Augusta were tho only legal legislature oi the State. Governor Van Zandt in bis annnnl messuge j to the Rhode Island general assembly recommends the extension to womon ot the right to vote on school questions, and a prohibitory instead ol the prevailing liquor law. Mrs. Mary B. Lindenrier, a robust woman of torty-soven, living in Philadelphia, died the other day in great agony lrom nydrophobia, having been bitten by a dog six or eight weeks "go- ' The Maine Fnsionist legislature, after a prolonged secret session, held on the day after the adverse decision of the supreme court was published, adjourned until the first Wednesday in August. Regarding tho supreme court decision and his tutnre movements, tho Fusionist contestant lor governor, Maior Smith, snid to a correspondent that it was no more than he expocted; that " as law-abiding citizens we must submit and go to our homes," and that he should never re-enter politics. Concerning the future movements of members ot the f usionist legislature, ft dispatch says that " many of them will go homo not to return to Augusta before August and others will take their seats amODg their Republican brethren; someol the oounted-in mombers will go home, while others will contest the seats of their rivals in the capilol."The story ot the child inmates of ihe Shepherd's Fold in New York, as told during thfl procoedings pending beforo the snpremi court, reveals a terrible story of cruelty anr privation. The little ones testilled that they wore insufficiently fod, made to uo the hardest kind ot work, crnelly beaten and generally illtreated. Their emaciated appeaiunce boi e out their tale of suffering. Western ind Southern States. On the forty-ninth ballot the Democratic legislative caucus at Jackson, Miss., nominated Mr. George to succeed B. K. Rruce as United Suites Senator from Mississippi; and at Now Orleans General R. L. Git won was chosen on the second ballot by the Demo 1 MunAita tr\ Tlnitflfl crauo iu^uiuuvo tauv/uo w/ onvvw. ?? States Senator Kellogg, whose term expires in 1883. By the explosion ot a sugar boiler on a plantation at Baratnrio, La., the engineer and two colored men were killed and thirteen others wounded. At a fire in Cherryvale, Kansas, the Globe printing office was destroyed, and E. S. Henderson, ioreman, and William McLain, another printer, were burned to donth. On the same day a lire at Alton, 111., destroyed the alternoon Telegraph and other property, causing a loss ot $110,000. An exploBion in the boiler-room of the Vench coal mine at Brazil; Ind., killed R. R. Roberts, the owner of the mine, and latally injured William Elder and a blacksmith Darned Jones. Messrs. J. C. Oeorge and R. L. Gib9on, the Democratic candidates, have been elected United States Senators by the Mississippi and Louisiana legislatures respectively. A material train on the Virginia Midland road at Rocktlsh Station, Va!, ran off the track down an embankmei.t ot fltty leet. Condoctor Dabney Wilson and two bmkoinon were killed, Optoin H. D. Lucket and six roi^ Jutiids serii .sly injured and six cars oorn pieiciy vrtcnea. All ?hp prisoners (sixteen in number) in the Groen?burg (Ind.) Jail mado their cscnpo through a hole in the lloor ot the upper cells, and left for parts unknown. *> A New Orleans dispatch says the steamboat" Charmer, with 2,100 bales ot cotton, has beon totally destroyed by Are flttcen mflos above the mouth of the Rod river. Kight liven were lost?two chambermaids, two cooks, two cabin Imys, one fireman and one deck hand. The boat and cargo were valued at gl.'lO.OO'1. A dispatch trom St. Loui9 says that 700 colored emigrant* irom Louisiana and Missis ippi, on their way to the West, arrived in that city daring the past low days. Three hundred colored emigrants were in St. Louis at last accounts, uwuiting aid to enable them to move on. Majors E. A. Burke and H. J. Hcarsey well-known New Orleans journalist?, iought t duel with pistols near that city u few day* ago; but after two rounds bad been llred Jriends interposed and the matter was amicably settled without any harm having been done. During a fit ot insanity Charles Ponder, thirty years oi age, a Methodist preacher ol New Albany, Ind., oommitted suicide by hanging himself. d ? Serious trouble is reported from Shenandoah county, Va , on account of the substitution of colored ior white men by tho proprietors ol Columbia Furnace, near; Edinburg, in that county. Their works have herototorc been almost entirely run by white men, and when colored men wore brought lrom other counties to replace them a collision occurred. Several persons were injured, and Governor Hollidny ordered a company ol militia to the scene ot disturbance. From Washington. The National Woman Sufirnge convention met at Washington a few days ago. Among the resolutions offered was one by Mrs. Saia J. Spencer maintaining that General Grant won his first victory through the military plan and genius ot Anna Ella Carroll, ol Maryland. The IIouho committee on the Yorktown centennial celebration has instructed a subcommittee to dralt a bill appropiiating ?100,000 lor a monumont at Yorktown. The Senate has confirmed the nomination; of James Russell Lowell, ol Mopwichnsetta lormini-ter to Great Britain; John W. Foster ot Indiana, (or minister to Russia; Lurioi Kairchild, of Wisconsin, lor minister to Spain; Philip II. Morgan, of Louisiana, lor ministei to Mexico, and Lewis Richmond, of Rhodt Island, for consul at Ilellast. The nomiuution of Eli H. Murray, ol Kentucky, for governor ot Utah Territory, has been confirmed by the Senate. A Washington dispatch says that daily advices a'e received lrom our minister to Colombia to the effect that tho ngeuts and tiiends ot M. de Lesseps ridicule the probable efforts of this government to iuterieie with his Panama canal project in any way, and defiantly boast that France, either alone or conjointly with other Ettaropean governments, is determined to own and construct the canal, and will lumish abundant means immediately to build it. Among the patents issued at tho patent ofllco a lew days ag'> was one to Thomas A. Kdison lor his electric light. forelfe Newt. About seventy live# have been lost by a colliery explosion at Newcastlo-under-Tyne, Kngland. lne explosion is aunouieu 10 me gaseous nature ot the coal Beam. Shortly , alter it occurred thirty corpses were brought out, a majority ol them being so aisngureu m> to he unrecognizable. After the explosion a lire rimed in the pit with great violence, hindeling the ettorts ol explorera and precluding all hopes ol any oi the victims being rescued alive. Kio Janeiro, Brazil, has been the sceno of a bloo.ly riot, brought about by public opposition to the imposition of a tax, per pasaengi-r, on the street car truffle. A mob which | destroyed the cars and trucks oi the company j was charged upon by a body ot troops. Three ] persons wore killed and thirty wounded, in- j eluding somo policemen and soldiers, before j order was restored and the ears permitted to run. 1 Advices from Panama state that successive shocks of earthquake are reported from Salvador, and that it is generally supposed that the capital, San Salvador, has been leveled to the ground. By a vote of 230 to 10 the Sjranish senate lias passed a bill providing tor the abolishment oi slavery in Cuba. Serious inundations and damage to properly are reported in Holland and Poland. Floods in the Cauoa valley, Central America, have caused a loss exceeding ?1,000,000. Several villages were totally destioyed and a number of lives lost. Cocoa fanners who visited their haciendas in boats, trying to qather their crop, which had been left on the trees, had to go armed in order to protect thomselves against the immense snakes that had been driven down the valley by the lorce of the water. General Grant was cordially received by the Spanish officials on his arrival at Havana, Cuba, and the government palace was placed at his disposal. On the day aftor his arrival a grand official reception was held and a banquet given in liis honor. Terrib e distress prevails at Adrianoplo, Turkey. Fifteen persons were found dead from hunger there in one day. In some cases pieces of wood were found in the mouths cf the corpses. On the twenty-flf th anniversary of the Czar's accession to the imperial throne of Kussia the i>_:Wnloo on/1 f-inrmnn nrineefi related to the Emperor will visit St. Petersburg with their numerous suits. All the G?rman regiments ol which tho Czar is honorary commander will send deputations to St. Petersburg. The event, which takes place March 2, is to be made tho occasion of an extraordinary celebration throughout Russia. The island of Cnba has been visited by an earthquake which shook np the buildings in Havana and creatod great alarm. At San Christobal all tho public buildings were laid in ruins and seventeen members of the eivil guard were injured by falling walls. The Lord Mayor ot Dublin has telegraphed to an American banker that the needs o( the famine-stricken of Ireland grow every day more pressing. A cablo dispatch says the strength of the British forcoe on tho Afghan frontier has been greatly weakened by losses in battle and from sickness. The Czar of Russia will create a ministry of commerce, and has finally resolved to reorganize tho police, placing it also under a separato ministry. The English newspaper at Constantinople has been siwpendal by the Turkish authorities, lor criticising recent honors bestowed upon ihe Turkish minister ot police. Francisco Gonzales, the would-be assassin of King Alfonso, ot Italy, has been adjudged insane by physicians appointed to examine him. . General Garibaldi Has Just Been marnea to Donna Ffance6co at Caprera. Large petroleum wells have been discovered in Hanover, and a dispatch says the existence theie of a basin as large and rich ns the one in Pennsylvania is regarded as beyond donbt by mining experts. Six internationalists have been arrested at Barcelonia, Spain, and a number ot revolutionary papers haye been seized. C9X6BESSIOITAI, SCHMABT. Senate. Messrs. Edmunds and Garland have been appointed members of the board ol visitori, to attend the next annual examination of cadets at the West Point military academy. Mr. Beck has made a speech in opposition to Mr. Bayard's joint resolution lor the withdrawal ot the legnl-tender power of greenbacks. Mr. Morgan olTnred a resolution, which was adopted, calling for information as to what railroad land grants remain incomplete by the lailure ol tno grantees to compjy wuu mo terms, as to'what extent there is u just cause tor declaring their forleiture, and where bona flde conveyances have been made to purchasers, as to what legislation is necessary to secure to such persons their rights. South Alrioan dispatches report that three hundred live* were lost at Lima, Peru, during the revolution, which resulted in the overthrow ot the government and Pirola'fl becoming dictator. Mr. Coke spoke ngninst Mr. Bayard's joint resolution to withdraw the legal-tender power ol greenback*, paying that the greenbacks were tlio most popular money the people ever had. Mr. Morrill, from the committeo on education and labor reported favorably the Senate bill incorporating a national education association to investigate and report upon any educational subject, without compensation, when called upon by any department ol the govern mont to do so. Mr. Garland Irom tho committee on the |u' dietary, reported adversely on the Senate bill to provide that nil persons sentenced to imprisonment by the United States courts shall be confined in the prison of the State wherein thes* were tried and convicted Mr. Gordon has introduced a bill to repay to the State ol Georgia $27,175, money advanced by said State lor the defense of her frontier against the Indiana from 1795 to 1818 Mr. Butler has introduced a bill toauthorize the secretary of war to adjust and settle the accounts between the State ol South Carolina and the United States governmentMr. Bayard made a long speech in favor ol hi* joint resolution withdrawing the legal tender power ot tho greenbacks. Tho resolution* has been repotted mlvorac'y Irom the committee on finance, und .Mr. Bayard spok in support ol Ute views of the minority o tbnt committee. Petition* of ex-soldiera and .sailors for the passage of the Weaver bill to pay such persons tho diff.ronco in value between greenbaoka and gold, were presented by Messis. Pendleton, Inpalls and Cameron. Majority and minority committee reports on the bill lor the relit! ol Goueral Fitz-John Porter have been presented. On tho dny set apart for the dolivery of commentaries on the lile and character ot the lute Senator Chandlor eulogies on the dead Senator wero delivered by Messrs. Ferry, Anthony, Bayard, Blaine, Logan, Morrill, Blair, Cameron and Baldwin. H(U?> Mr. McMahon, from the oommittee on appropriations, reported the bill mitkiux an appropriation lor tho payment of lees of mar. shuts and deputy marshals tor the fiscal year ending Jane 30, 1880. Ordered to be printed rponmmittpd. A resolution ott'erod by Mr. Covert, culling i on the coinmi-^ioncr ol agrieultnre tor inf.tr-j mixtion relative to the sugar beet, was 1 j adopted. ! Majority and minority reports of the com- I miitee on militan nflitirs on the bill lor the j reliel ot Gonera! Fit* John Porter have beor. submitted. Alter Messrs. Gillette, Weaver, Keifer and Whitthorne nad spoken in opposition to the bill requiring the national bunks to retain onehalt ol their reserve in coin, a vote was taken on ordering the third reading of the bill, ant! i the House, by a vote of loS nays to 78 yeas, j refused to make the order?thus killing the I bill. Mr. Mason ha." introduced a bill (by re| quest) tn Incorporate the Cosmo-American Colonization and General Improvement lmreau in the United States. 'J he bill incorporates Thurlow Weed, Cardinal McCloskey and twenty-eight others, as such bureau. The capital stock of which shall bo not less than 5l,0"0l000, and may be increased. And the object ol which is to be the encouraging, pro- I moting and conducting ol emigration from the i overcrowded cities and other districts ol the ' j United Stales, ntid lrom Great Britain and | jothor parts of Europe to the several States , and Territories of the United States needing , | emigrants, and lor oilier humane and com- I | mercial purposes. ; Mr. Kelk-y's motion to suspend the rules I and adopt th^ resolution declaring thoojegoj dating by the President ol a commorcial i I treaty, fixing the ratts of duties, as an iniiuc- i I - in^noi'nn rtt Mia i I U0I1 OI U1U CUIISIUIUUIIII liuu on miiigiv v> j highest prerogative of the House, was carried ! by a vote of 175 yeas to 62 nays?the nccossary i Iwo-thirds. Mr. Manning has introduced a bill to reorganize the supreme court. The bill provides for the increase ot justices of the supremo court to twenty-ono. Mr. Rosa has introduced a bill appointing j General George B. McClellan manner of tho ! National Soldiers' Home for Disabled Volun- j i leers. Mr. Urner has introduced a bill for a monu- i j ment to F. 3. Key, author of the "Star j I Spniifilcd Banner." A bill appropriating $100,00') ior the erec- | tion ol a monument at Vorktown, Va., and I 1 S'20,000 lo enable the committee on tho York- > ! town celebration to make nil tho necessary | j nrrangements (or such a celebration ol the ""- "" "'"i n inivnraHn.? ni the hattle of York- ! town as shall ueflt the historical significance" ! j of the occasion, was reported by Mr. Goode j i and passed. . ! On motion rf Mr. Morse the Senate bill np! propriating &" >,'00 lor the purchase ol a now i | site for the Uiiiu-d States Naval Observatory I | w.is passed, with an amendment providim; I } that it practicable the site shall be 011 an even i j df;;reo ol longitude west ol Greenwich. j Eulogies on the late Senator Chandler w? re ' delivered by Messrs. Newberry, Will am*, 1 i Ilnhbell, Crapo, Brewer, Robeson, Burrow.'*, j j llawlej, Punnell, Stone, Keiler, Conger, ; : Briggs, Barber, Willits and Garfiold. The bill appropriating $4,110 lor the eree- ' I lion ol a monument to General Herkimer, ol : j revolutionary fame, has been passed. Little Franky's mother was very 1 pious, but she was an invalid, and so his auntie, who was also pious, looked j ' after his religious instruction, and let no 1 1 occasion pass to enforce some precept. | 'One day Franky suddenly said: "Oh,, I dear! I wisn I had wings!" This an-' ' gelie aspiration was regarded with great I joy by the two sisters, and they eagerly j asked why he wished for wings. "Oh," said Franky, " I'd fly up into the air 1 ami take Aunt Susan with nie, ana i when I couldn't t;o any higher I'd let her drop." ' Seventeen lawyers arc engaged in a ! suit over the will of an Indianian, who j bonsted shortly before his death that j he had got his affairs into such a shape ' that when he died the lawyers couldn't I make a penny out of his estate. ' All About Pennies. Pennies are scarce and the mint cannot turn them out fast enough to supply the demand. Coins of this denomination are turned out only at the United States mint in this city, and from here the whole country is supplied. The penny is a most important factor in the commerce of the country, much more than most people imagine. The mint is six weeks behind its orders for the supply of these small coins, which is in part owing to the fact that all the available machinery is being used for other nnrnnaAo on/1 Kilt, o omoll noH non hn put to penny making. " Where do all the pennies go?" asked a reporter of a mint official. " Well, the horse car companies take a good part of the supply, but we limit each company to twenty dollars worth per day. Then they are obliged to patch out with three cent pieces, of which th?;y also secure large quantities. But the merchants make the heaviest demands upon us, the great retail dry goods houses taking all they can get, and then crying for more." " Where are pennies not used?" questioned the reporter. " Well, there is no part of the United States hardly where they are not used," was the reply; " but there are some sections where they are strangers, and as rare as gold dollars are here. In the South the penny is almost unknown, the smallest coin being a live-cent piece. Recently, however, there has been some demand for them from merchants in Georgia and Alabama. In the far West there is but little call for the penny, but when one gets to St. Louis, or east of that point, then the penny becomes a familiar friend. Wherever there are six cent fares on the street cars, there is a demand lrom that city for pennies. Now, Louisville seldom, if ever, calls upon us, while Cincinnati is continually crying for the one-cent piece. New York consumes a big lot, and so do the Eastern States. The two-cent piece was a good help to us for a time, but none of them have been coined for ten years, and all that are sent in and redeemed are recoined into one-cent pieces." " It is a somewhat remarkable thing, but such is the fact," continued the of ficial, " that competition in trade induces and increases the demand for pennies. Whenever trade is briskest, then the penny is needed most?that is, retail trade. What the banks take from us, although large, does not fluctuate like the calls from the tradesmen. The Eastern States are the great penny centers, and it is only as the population of the West increases that it wants pennies. The five-cent piece is the standard coin in the West, but the penny is making inroads on it, and great ones, too." ?Philadelphia Record. The Long Lives of Fish. Somes days ago, writes a Washington correspondent, I had occasion to make some inquiry into the age of fish, and was surprised to find they lived so long. Thinking there are others who know as little about the subject as I did, I append a letter I received from Prof. Spencer W. Baird, of the Smithsonian institute, who is also United States fish commissioner. He is the best authority in the world on fish, and this gives his letter its value. He writes: Therw is I believe, authentic evidence to show that carp have attained an age of 200 more 10 a t.Viaf. nrithio ihe last fifty years a pike was living in Russia whose age dated back to the fifteenth century. The fish is said to have been eighteen feet long. This, however, is not considered very reliable. But there is nothing to prevent a tish from living almost indefinitely, as it has no period of maturity, but grows with each year of life. In species like mammals and birds, where there is a limit, a definite term of years is generally the rule. There are now some goldfish herein the aquariums of the United States botanical garden that are fifty years old. A goldfish dealer in Baltimore showed me some goldfish that lie' had kept in his aquarium for thirty years. Near-sightedness in children should be early detected and corrected, not only for the sake of the eyes, but also because poor sight retards tneir mental development and deprives them of the enjoyments which are so keenly appreciated by children. ?Dr. Footers Health Monthly. A Wonder In most of the papers may be seen an announcement of a new rubber boot mado by the Candee Rubber Co., ot New Haven, Ct This notable boot marks a new era in the nianulacture of rubber goods. The boot is willed tho "95 Per Cent. Sterling," to denote its liigu quality, ana m covered oy no less then seven patents, all owned by the Candee Co.! One of the boots split to show its exact character, is on exhibition at the stores, and ehowa an article ot genuine service, that is seemingly indcatrucinble. Tho compony warrants these boots throe months, although there is abundant testimony that the boots will stand six months' hard wear every day. Tho " Candee " is tho largest rubber goods company in the world, and its warrant is equal to a bond. Ono of the patents rolerrcd to covers a binding for the top ot ?he leg, in which are engraved spaces for every day and month in the year, so that the storekeeper can punch out the date of sale, and so fix beyond dispute the duration of thethiee months' warrant. Altogether, it ia the most wonclbrlul boot that lias yet appeared. For ono cent purchase a postal card and send your address to Dr. Santord, 162 Broadway, New York, and receive pamphlets by return mail, from which you can learn whethei your liver is out ot order, and il our, of order, or iu uny way diseased, what is the best thin# in the world to take lor^it. Judge for Yournelf. By sending thirty-live cents, with age,height, color ot eyes and hair, you will receive by return mail a correct photograph ol your future husband or wile, with name and date of marriugfl. Address W. Fox, P. O. Drawer 31, f ultonville, N. Y. "Wanted. Sherman & Co., Marshall, Mich., want ui? ngent in this county at ouce, at a salary ol 3*100 per month and expenses paid. For lull iiurticulurs address as above. Thousands Speak. ?Vegetine is acknowledged and recommended by physicians and apothecaries to bo tho best purifier and cleanser o! tho blood yet discovered, and thousands speuk in its praise who have been restored to health. _* We call the attention of all lovers ol the violin to the advertiooment in this paper ol tho Patent Violin Company, New York. The habit ol running over boots or shoes corrected with Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffeners. Conaumption Cured, An old physician, retired from practice, having had placed Id his bands by an Kant India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure for Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma, and all Throat and Luug Affections, alio a positive and radical cure for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Complaints, after having tested lis wonderful curative powers In thousands of cases, has felt It his duty to mate It known to hlssnfterlng fellows. Actuated by this motive and a desire to relieve human iuflerlng.1 will send free of charge to all who desire It, this recipe, In German, French, or English, with full directions for preparing and using. Sent by mall by addressing with sump, naming this paper. W. W luiii. 149 Powers' Block Koch ester. N. X. THE MARKETS. HEW XOttJC ?vr?^ Kitina ll? ? OQ /A lOt. Calves?State Milk 05 <? 081, Sheep 04.H'(S 06.^ Lambs 06#@ 07 Bogs?Live Oi^Q C5 Dressed 06 C4 0fi>j Floar?Ex. State, good to fancy.... 5 80 @ 7 25 Western, good to fancy 6 84 @ 8 00 Wheat?No. 1 Rod 1 58 @ 1 B8J< While State 1 37 @ 1 40 Rye?State 90X?* 90* Bar! fy?Two-Rowed State 70 @ 70 Corn?Ungraded Western Mixed.... 57 @ Southern Yellow f> ) @ 60 Oats?White Stato 49 ? 61* Mixed Weatern_ 47?*? 48 Hay?Retail grades..., 85 @ 90 Straw?Long Rye, per cwt 90 ? 95 Hops?8tate, 1879..? 30 @ 40 Pork?Mess, .... 12 50 @12 75 Lard?City Steam 7.?0 @7 80 Petroleum?Crude.........07 @07,'f Refined OS Wool?Htate and Penn. II 36 ? 40 Butter?Stato Creamery... 23 ($ 86 Diary 24 ? 27 Western Imitation Creamery 23 9 28 Factory 18 ft 22 Cheese?8tate Factory 10 @ 14 Skims 10 @ 11 Western lStf@ 13^ Kggf?Stare and Peun 18 & lfl>$ Potatoes, Early Rose, State, bbl... 1 60 @176 BUFFALO. Flour?City Ground, No. 1 8prinfj.. 8 60 ? 7 00 Wheat?Bed Wlntor 1 38 0 1 46 Corn?New Western 61Jj Oats?Stat . <3 ft 40 Barley?Two-rowed State 66 (j) 70 BOSTON. Beef Cattle?Live welaht 07 A 07M ! Sheep OS 0 07 Hog 06*? 06?i | Flour?Wisconsin nnd Minn.Pit.,.. 7 75 (4 8 CO Corn?Mixed and Yellow 63 @ 64 i Oats? ExtraWhite 62 @ 64 > Kye?State 05 9 1 00 Wool?Washed Combing & Delanie., 49 @ 63 Unwashed, " " 38 61 41 j BBIQHTOM (MASS ) CATTLE MABKET Beef?Cattle, live weight 07 <& 07X 1 Sheep 05 ? 07 I Lambs 0^c4 07^ I Uoca OG $ CG?$ | PHILADELPHIA. F!onr?Penn. choice and fanoy 6 76 Q 7 00 Wheat?PonD. Bed 1 13 ? 1 43 Amber 1 44 @ 1 44 Rye?State 90 @ 90 Com?State Yellow 08 <$ CHJtf Oats?Mixed 47 3 47 Butter?Creamery extra 32 @ 32X Che?.se?Now York Factory 14 @ 14)< ! Petroleum?Crude P. 07 ?07X Refined 07X . jj TpaTraraPv?; "c; a ' j YB6EHKHI, , Dr. Callier Surprised. Vrgetine Cured His DaugMer. Cixlixbsvillk, Chilton Co.. AU.,) May 15, 787S. f De.ir Sir?My daughter Iim been iffl cted with iiiual catarrh, affection of bladder and kldeys ml la of xcrofnlotu dUibtafa, aud, after having eihanateri lay skill anJ the most emi/ient physicians of Helmo, I at laat resorted to the use of your VEGETINE (without confidence), and, to my great surprise, my daughter haa been restored to health. I write this as a simple act of jostle* and not as an advertising medium. Respectfully, T. E. CALLIER, K. D. Vegetine. -? Worked Like a Charm?Cured Salt Rheum and Erysipelas. 78 CocmT St., Borne, N. T., July 10,1879. MR. H. K. Stztxm* : Dear Sir?One year igo last fall my little boy had a breaking out of erysipelas and salt rheam, his face bring one mattered sore of the worst descriptlon. Noticing your advertisement In the paper*, I purchased two bottle* of the VEOETIXE, and, with the two bottles, my son was curid. I never saw anything like the Vegetlue; it worked like a charm. I have been city watchman at Rome for years. This testimonial is gratuitous. 1 - -1 An Artful Dodge. I once knew an old fellow, Billy W., who confined himself to a particular species of trickery for many years, until, indeed, he retired from active life to take command of a lodging-house of his owrf. He was a little tight-limbed fellow, with a face perfectly innocent of j whisker. Looking at him in bis or- | dinary attire, when the day's work was | over, there was no telling his age, which , might have been anywhere between thirty and sixty lor aught that could be seen. Billy would go out about ten in the morning, dressed in a suit of shabby black, looking the picture of genteel poverty. Getting into a busy quarter he would involve himself in a crowd of rushing vehicles, and tumble under the wheels and the horses' feet as if knocked down. He was little and lithe, and so adroit in this particular performance that he could?and did a thousand times over?go within a hair's breath of destruction without sustaining any more damage than he wanted, as a bleeding nose, a crushed hat and a few rents in his garments These last, it may be remarked, were prepared beforehand, so that a certain number of seams were almost sure to be open on very slight provocation indeed. Billy would be hauled out of his predicament quite exhausted and helpless?a pitiable looking object in fact?and be carried to the nearest tavern. Here he would receive a restorative, und revive when the crowd was thickest to teirsome affecting story of family distress, the thought of which urging him along the streets, oblivious of their perils, had brought about his accident; Sympathybeingthusexcited, a collection would be made, and Billy would limp off, when not sent home in a cab, very much the better of his disaster. Three hours later he would repeat. the performance somewhere else, this time in the guise of an elderly woman; and once again, as night grew dark, in the character of a newsvender, or something of that sort. His " make ups" indeed were infinite, and included all sorts of imitations, from that of the seedy preacher down to the shoeblack and flower girl.?London Standard. Answer This. Did you ever know any person to be ill, without inaction of the stomach, liver or kidneys, or did you ever know one who was well when either was obstructed or inactive; and did you ever know or hear of any case- of the kind that Hop Bitters would not cure P One Box or Six Bottles. ri you are suffering from a combination of liver or kidney diseases, and constipation, do not fail to use the celebrated Kidney-Wort. Itis a dry compound, as easily prepared as a cup of coffee, and in one package is as much medicine as can be bought in six dollar bottles of other kinds. , PggpU t?^ Groop^2? SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS CDA7C0 AVI C COPHSF. I fin fa fa Wiihnwm r~_ ;?v /"av micra vouA / THAT IS JU5T I I jHiviLoua ^ I I WHAT I SHALW rRAZCRSAXt* I won 8.t l-Y. 11Y A I.T. l)Lt (.Kits. ! Aw<!ft.'ttl tin .' ! !>.{ I. t~?F J/O.Xfll at tut Cent nnia -Vic.17.1. FRA7FR liinRinATnB C".- UowYorV rDON'T FAIBi to send stamp Cor the Largest, Handsomest and most complete Catalogue of TYPE, FliES^S, CTTS, Ac., published. LOWEST PEICE8. LAEGEST VARIETY, CAKLETON'S HOUSEHOLD ^ ENCYCLOP/EDIA. The most valuabl* single Book ever printed. A tressury of knowledge. There has never before been published in one volume, so much useful Information on f very subject. B.-autifully illustrated, price S3.SO. A Whole Library In One Volume. __ "1 Sold only by subscription; the easiest TO AGENTS book to sell ever known. Terms, etc. O. VT. OARLKTON t CO, Pnbllahers, N.T. City. y ^ RATTLE borcTVT. EVERYWHERE Kfin""'f"n PHI2ED PETROLEUM IT A fl |1T TTDTT1 JELLY VAullLiijif This VM'ii'lcrfu! substance is acknowledged by vi.j _-.trluiis throughout the tvutM t" In: the I10st remedy disn'vercl f"i- t!i<- ci.re of U'cuuirN. Iturns, Hliwmiatlsm, <kiii DIxmw-. Piles. f'atarrh. Chllldaitpi. In order thai every <.!? may try It. It Is put n|> hi 15 and #5 cent txittlcs lor !?itiw!i<iii| use. ol.uin It fii.tu your ilrusitlst, snU yuu will [in.I it superior to an> yuuUave ever used. ff-a"* VIT/N The K. It. IrtollenBirBGS 9 IS I V liatter Improvement. If flBfllaElllA Patented In Kurope, l.'nited S b xB Bll I IjB st.it.-s und Canadns. Can be a""applied to any Violin without altering Its form or apiwaram-e In tlic Ien*t. Klvlnj,' It the power and sweetness .if the olil Italian Violins now costing many hundreds of ilollars. We will send you O. D. a line .Model. Ktegaiit Tone. ?7; Better tlnlsh, Sto. Improvement put into any Violin sent to us for SSO. Satlsfa' tton^tMrar.lC 'd. Kully endorsed liy August tt'llheimj, Theodore Thoina*. Dr. Leopold. Dumrosch, and all Kreat artists. Send for circular. Address Tht Patent Violin Co., 15 Beaver Street, New York. ngH| IJT The Koran. A cnrlodlty lo fvfry our, and a iicresMlty to till ?tintents of History or Kcllfrlojii TilK KtHtA.N ?)l' MOIIA.MMKI): translated from the Arabic l>y Ucorpe Sale. Formerly puhlislicil a! $2.75: a new. h.iiiitilui neat. rl'.tli-luilli'l nlitiuu: price :? *> coat-, s'lid U t";iis jnr postage. <\tta!o;iienf want ?Un<lar<l ri'inaikal'ly imv in price, witii extra terms to dill's. Say '.vlie 10 you lliis advertisement. Amf.iiic.in IJook Kmuia.sgf, Tribune iiuiidin;.', X. y. Til WEEKLY SUN. A large elKht-pnzP jMjwr of 176 hroail columns will I* scut post-paid to any addresn, one year, for OR8E DOLLAR. Address THE SUN'. K. Y. City. SSS^BEATTYEIMJS tVcw<l>r;;un.?i 1:5 *lnps, Golden Tonkin* KoriN. u orl * '2 nuclU. walnut niso,\rarnt'd<J jenrn,*lnnlX ImckSJJW AriT lbiunoH*Mu if* rau*r/( linolt, 81*13 <?S255? lie'ore Tun liuv Im?miiv f?? vr?|.% u,n. Illn*t mtr<l Nrwapaprr%rnt 5*"r<JO A.li'lr. vs UANIKL J\ llfvATTY, ?a?hin!jton, Sen Jrr*r >: ~ ON 30 DATS'TRIAL.Wo will send our Elcrtm-Yoltnie Holts and other Klcilric Appliances upon trial for 30 days to tho?" aflllctod Willi \iy>"Hi 1>- 'hiit 1/ an i rtitmif.i of a pttfnnl nature. Also ot fie l.ivii, Kl.i'nyr, Klieuinul.sin. I'.iraiyMs, Ac. A ?'irt ciuv juuri'iitnrf no pay. Vnitnic :>n . <?., .fliinilimi, nun. 3 Cactus Roots. $1.25. colorel, Momnln; har.ly plant?, malletl anil redsteieil, Willi li ri tluiis how to^row; beautiful Flower*, rare new s]M'. |r-4 an! elegant. Send In your<ir.ltrsimrlv. Addrc.vi W. intl<?!.*. <t * O., Ccrbnt. Muhavc i'o. tArl?t>na.(naine tins paper.) ADVERTISERS HymMrcsslns CEO. P. ROWELL & CO. 1<) Spritee strict. New York. i:in learn the exact rest of any proposed Sill': of AUVKIU'lSlXli In Auierii.m Newspapers. Vsj-lOO-puue 1'itiuplilet, lOv. JAk young MAX OR OLD, ~~ J i rg * Sh?? jr?wth / ti*jr ? Y Iff t>il4 h ? ??. trU UiflN, ?aJ w| &OB *& ? vmUffi, hu? Mrwl o*ilj SIX ??? t*r U? tEKNteK^v Ur?4i H|?aiik D^nn U?( V 7** f-'-i AUnm. OR. UOKZALKZ. wVA vrx!lr tut im. R?t?^ MM. mm* 1 A!?V? UlI.SKltS by adilir>?ni|r t.HO. ?*. iSOHTIili ?* CO/S .\>?>|?ii?-r Advertising l:i:i-':isi. hi ;-i>hi.v .street. New VorK. ..m_learn the e.N.i. I if bt any line of AUVr.KllSLMi in AuirrUan Xcwsjsijvrs. C<r_I(lii.|)u?e Pamphlet, 10c."C> yOUNC M Eft SSoMoa ? mouth. Every itM'iuatp suarnntceit a paving situation. AtMrtss K. \ alentlnc. .Manager, Jancgvlllf, Wis. f3SMmg5BE&&2@S-. 11' luiia A wen (ftiM Hir W tkrW m Ik A t&iM o/ > y?w? <?i WtMn I T* V) d?j? wtl )tm*l * OOLD f'LA rED ,W 8AMPLR frm for o?lf 23*. *!? * ?r ?* {*. TWm UfMf p*T* "* ' P?4?!?f l+i pMUff. W# firrt do lhi4 * (Kmb AjtmU vuud rywb^. Sj.OO iOR26 CTS. AAAmiSMITITi VALVI OKU AM CO.. M. A <?!! "!' sent for < onls tli.it will satisfy. or money returned. JI. UAKKH, SabUinviI'.e, Pa. Uox rsa. PTIVt! !tev?lv?r?. Citalofc'uc free. Addre* VJT U i\ Croat Western Huu Worm. PlM<bot&Pa. A ) KAi; an i I'M'i!'v* ?< aiieiite. (Jutilt free. <T 6 6 4 A i-it.-xi 1'. 0. VICiCKKV, Aiu-i?tc. Milne. d;77 A WEEK. $i2.?"ir.y?t li m? easily maile. Couth *P' Outfit fret". A idres#Tmuk ? Co., AucutUi, Ma'.d* ' Toast, rei pec tf ally, HOEATIO OBIDLEY. Remarkable Cure of Scrofula* Face, WiB-rmxrriR. Conn., Jan* 19,1379. hi. H. 11. BTZVZNI : Deur Sir?I can testify to the good effect of jroor MEDICINE. My little boy had ? scrofula tore break out on bis head u large a* a quarter of a dollar, and it went down his face from oue ear to the other, under bli neck, and iru one colld bum of aore. Two bottle* of yoar valuable VEGETIWB completely cared him. very reepeotfally, MBS. O. B. THATCHES. Vegetine. prepared bt H. B. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. Vcgetlnc U Bom toy all i>rn?uw. S* : J : J' [ I. ..J .; ; .1 /; V ' I . . , * . | J>VIijr frightened o?er disordered Kidney* M Why endure nerrous or sick headaches! fifl b2 Why liBTO sleepless nights I V ? H Utf. KIDNEY WORT and rejoie* InII I I health. It it a dry, vegetable compound andJM , K| One package will make Ux QU?r 0(1 it of yo'jr Druffv'.st, fie will'drd# ttttfl H for yon. Price, $1.0J.' ' ? T7TLL3,2ICHASDSCU 4 CO., Pnprfltai M ? g Q ('.vuiundpatsptu.) UurlinjtoD, Vt, XTM P-g S SAWINBTHE LOB. KSJgffi Braise uwxiCHlll Is fblljr demonstrated by the number In uae u< the present demand for them. It itm Log* of uy die. Dae man can saw more logs or cord wood fa on* day and MMler than two men can the old way. It will saw a two foot log In threo minutes. Emr Farmer needi one. Township agenL* wauted. Bend for Illustrated Circular nnd Terms. Addreaa W. W. BONTWICH A CO1 178 Elm 8U, ClnelniiAU, Ot . ?? rt-.nr M7 nil** ?r;?, \v w Tift. formerly of St. Loui*, Mo., advertises that he has an infringement suit against us, which is false. We hope to soon bring thisroving Giles, mliat Jill, to justice. Send for particulars. QAPONIFIEP Is the Old Reliable Concentrated Lye, 0 FOR FAMILY SOAP MAKING. Direction* accompany each Can for making Hard, Soft and Tull?'i Soup>qalckly. IT /' , OIL WEIOET jLVD 8TREXQTB. Thf tin *tt Is flooded with (so-called) Concentrated Lyq wblcl adulterated with tail and rosin, and won't mak ***' SA 7E 1/0SKY, AMD BUT TEX SaponTfTIR MADE BY TOE Pen sylvan la Salt JJannfg Co., PHILAP Kli PHI A. HroHGZBSBBgEBBEEllHI M t'two'n Cure lor Coniump- H B ' Ion Is also tho b"T cough mod- H 99 dn*. I)o?<? unall, ?bottle I " M |ar,e. S??ld r;.*where, 'iiol S;I Warrant**: 10 fir?l buyer*. iEk EmmHH AGENTS WANTED %&&&& complete and authentic history of the great tour of 6BAKT AROID i ffOBLD Describes IVc.il F.ntertAlnmcnta, Royal Palaces, Rari Curiosities, Wealth and Wonders of the Indies, China, Japtin, etc. I ff~ A million ptople want It TbU Is the , best chance i>f your life to make money. Beware of * catcli-penny " Imitations. Over9HOpa#c*. Price only S:i. Scud lor ctiulars contiinlUK full description of tiic work and our extra terms to .icents. Xatio.ia:. Pcblhiung Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Tills Clntm-Hotxte ??tabllihed 1805, PENSIONS. Nevr Law. Thousands of Soldiers and heirs entitled Pensions date back to dlschirge or death. Time limited Address*, with tamp, ( KOiittE E. JLEJfON, P. 0. I>rawt-r .tail. Wnshiuifton. I>. C. B. W. PAYNE & SONS, ( ORMN'G, NTT. aV.HTAItJUIMURB 1N4Q, Patent Spark-Arresting Entrine*.mounted and on skids. Vortical Engines with wro't boilers. Eureka Safety powers with Scetional boilers? ran't be exploded. All with Automatic Cut-Offs. Front 8150 to $2,000. m Send for Circular. State where you saw this. i,, nmm Dr. 0. K. Snor.vakirt (the well-Known Aural S'jrjjeo* nf lu.v!liw, l'u.) elves all his time to the treatment oi Deafness ?n l Disease# of the Kar at his office, nh dii.xou has ctven liim a national reputation, cspcclallj on running Kar anil Catarrh. Call or send for hisllttlt Hook on the tor. Its Diseases anil their Treatmentfree 10 nil. Ills large Hour (.IfiO pa am), prto? 94.00. Aililrew l>r. C. K. SHOfc.HAliEB, Aural Unrntnu, Heading, Pa. will ii.w[tlv,.|y euro Ffriiul.' \\ rclcnes?,kt:ch .n Fallltii? .if flu1 V.'omb, Whites, Chronic InMummai .on or t'iivta.v-inof the Womb, Incidental IlcmorrlMKe or l lt>.?lli\^, Painful. Supprosed .tn<l irri-RUlnr Menstraa:lon, An old and rell t!?u* rriiiiviy. .Vv.il post.il i aid for r\ j.,unplilcr, -vlt h treatir.ent, cures and ciTf:n.-ar?.s> f.orii phy.-Vlaus j?:t?t patients, to How f: -i>m- rticiu M. Y. s> -'u by all i)ru,^lst?? 5 : ?tSR?USI!5 AABB#*i4 **?? . - "taocUfitmh "* > w??|T <d*M>TW? M*3h5*W Ml m>? \nTnm i-: :S?w? j.*?ii*? tnr 3 1 (? N J ? ?t ^ *? ' ?? l-wrfc!Jbr ^NtV> **4 ft?*tfr?.W. K* 3 \Z JL f .?? ? ar^'sxu. I. Ufyiri at -JtNO'k * *??.c ^ -T-rfm . , > >! .IKiSKY flatly, mi'l liavc better ?\ \i t" f?xvl, by im.iu- our Keonomlcil Cook w " Hook, l->pi>., l,i)i)0 recipes, l."V. Catalogue free. J. L l'ATTKX a. CO., -17 lUrdoy St., X.Y. nnillSfl Morphine Habit Cared In lO i fi Si? ? B fi fiwi toaodny*. rti?x>ay tlllctired UriURI Du. J. STKPHKNS. Lebanon, UUio._. 4 SK DKHIJCilSTS FO It HALATI! IXB, J\_ for Stomach, Liver and Klood. Large Commission* to Agent*. KALATHLNK CO., :lt> Nassau SI...V wYork CK tn SlVIl P*' a"" "l oia.fii-t wor;: ? IU vptU Addre*s Stisioji k Co., Portluid. JUine. jce a week in y?ur own town. T#nns Jim', i'i ontBi ?00 (r?c. Address Q. Hti.t.rn 4, Co., Portland, M&lsc