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1878. ? TWO DOLLARS A YEAR ? " . " ' NO. 1. ======== ||er 5^ am ^ajctte. i. O., OOTOBia m F.P. fcH. E.BEABD, To CMIMf?B4cRtl. All oominuutcattuui Mr tbte paper should be K ?o*j*uted toy the mum of fee suthor, aot wm HurUjr for publication, but at an evidence of good falthoa the part of the writer. Write only on one side of UMp*p*r. B? particularly careful la giving name* and dates to have the tetters plain and dl?-' ' ' , a The G;uwri^j^ Job Printhiq IinnupntMt ttuui m; otter g?w l? IoumWIhUmm tloa of Job Prtkttac, Mk m Fftoiphteta, B1U Htito, IMtor Ml Not* Haftfe, U' rortw. Po d#M?. dwlw, H?d BUk. *uU VUitto?MMt A.<UrmC*r<la, )M?MQM?h MM. work deoi !n BraMtyM, BtMHtltab ' Tb? publlo nut rMMfetmr that lUtwtU ?!??*? Wo do work *i ? oUw nHtCwttia towytwM. W* kwp cooiUtUjr oo hand tt* PifmutdUMUlatoire. v THE WASHER AT THE WELL. . , A iMtOJUJMmO. *"1 . (t f i Nlfrh a K-aguu to tho c??tlo Still ; Tie* I *4 1 boum* the b?U from the old clock-tower. Now, Urate outre, for the stretch up the hill, Then Just a gallop of half au hour. If air au hour, and hone and rent t la the watching for him on the oriel stair, Or cradllug the ba\>e ou her sllkeu breast In the hush of the drowsy chamber there T llola I steady, good Bounlbelle t Beared at the wind, or the owlet's flighty He 1 what stirs by the Waahlnjg Wellf - Who goes there at the dead of night r Over the stream lielow the slope, '? ? * Where the women wash their webe at noon, ? form like atUadow seems to grope. Doubtful under the doubtful moon. tiood mother, your task Is late and lone. Ail goes wall at the castle y say I Mot a word speaks the withered crone, Gray aa a ghost In the moonlight gray. Stone-still over the running stream, Uteadlly, swiftly, round and rouud, Plying her web through gloom aud gleam, ' Out and in, with never a sound Never * sound save tho blasted oak llmtshakee lu the wind, aud Ute bubbling well ; This la no face of the peasauWolk I? With the alga of the crues be bars Ute spell. Slowly, slowly she torus about t Oh the creeping horror that chokes his breath ?s slowly she draws the Uneu out, And fashions Its folds In guise of death Long and loose, like a winding-sheet 1 Mo sharp he pulls at the bridle- rein The mare ? lauds straight on her trembling feet Before she cowers to the k rouud again. How he knows, with a shudder of dread, The O host of the Well be has looked upon Washing the shroud for some one dead Home one dear to him, dead aud goue : Well and washer aud funeral-pall Swim under his sight lu pale edlpee. The good tiod send that the shroud be small !? He bltee the words lu his bloodless lips. Over the lonely moer alone, fraying a prayer for the dearest life, Stifling a cry for the dead unkuown, Child or wife i Is It cblld or wife r Over the threshold and up the stair, * Aud Into the hush of the deathly room, To a motionless form In the midnight there Under the tapers' glimmering gloom | And the babe on her bosom? child aud wife I Child aud wife I and h|s Journey done. < ** Hark ! overhead, with a sullen strife, 'Me bell In tke old clock-tower booms? On* f Katk POtham ohuood. CHANG-HOW AND ANARKY. "Grot Beetle I" A dismayed silence whllo Anarky, our 009k? black as night, eyes set square in her head, that head set level on her stout blaok shoulders ? walked around the Chinese yauth my husband had brought home as a& experiment in our doinestlo life around the Chinese youth with his wiry frame and Insinuating stoop of the shoulders, and a smile of neutral tint ly ing placid but wary on his butY counte nance. "Lordy-mussy 1" quoth Anarky. An other vehement, aggressive pause on her part, a silence observant and self-defen aiva An hla ?? XT *???,? ? **?_? ?? i | J?E2? lis headt Ah1 mattcrwid iu eyes, sot crank-sided right 'glhit its nose, kickln' up der heels, plntln' ebry way tor Sunday? one en* tiv um ez sharp as a 'nittlnVneedle, an' tudder en' ez roun* ez a marble t" Chang-how sent one eye skirmishing in my . direction# and the other toward Anarky, and the same deprecatory yet wary smile rested like moonlight on his placid face. "That will do, Anarky, M said I. "1 ' wish you to understand that this is to be your. Ibl low -servant. You will 000k and wash aa usual. Chang-how will attend in the dinlng-rpom, and do 1 don't know yet exactly What else ; but I wish you to be kind to him, remembering that he la . a hi ranger In a strange land, Also, I will have further remarks 'on his personal appearance." Silenced by authority, but unmoved by my eloquenoe, Anarky made another tour oi Inspection ? silently raised the end of Chang-how's queue, disgustedly let it fell, and went to the door. There sho stopped'and looked at him again. "Good Lord t" said she under her breath by way of oartlng salute. Tho look of mild unooncern that had routed on Chang how's features was rip pled by a quaint, cunning smile, and tor the first time he cast a quick glanoe fall at her, then stood again with fouled hands, calm, submissive, apparently unobser vant. roiling me antagonism timt Htm likely to exist between them, I myself showed Chang-how Mid hi* bundle to the room he was to oooupy, And In a short time he emerged clad in * neat white jacket, his queue defUy bound around his head, ready lor buslhesa. The fellow was exceedingly bright and quick, and, though he never seemed to be "takln' notes," nothing escaped his ob servation. lie learned our Ways in an in* oredlbly short time, and when those ways did hot come in conflict with any habit previously formed hcadapted himself to them at once s but woeio any pet notion that interfered with Chang's preconceived ideas I That notion had to go to the wail. However, that has nothing to do here. Whether Ohanghow had been "takin' notes" wail a debatable point. but that somebody Kwas taking everything takible on the premises soon became a self evident proposition ; and this was uncomfortable for more re4sons than one. [?; J|r. Smith and I almost quarrelled about It. He would not believo it to be Ohang how, and 1 was determined it should not bo Anarky. Held he, "Anarky Is taking ad vnntAge of the popular Idea that the Chinese are invariably din ? " "Now, who ever heard anything llko that?" I Interrupted. "What does An^ arky know about the popular Idea con cerning the Chinese t About as muoh as 1 should know If vou were totAlk to me aliout the Teutanto Idiom for moz/.<itlntcd 'phonetics." V"!, ? "You have convinced me, my dear, that Chang-how la tho guilty party ; but the idea 1 meant to convey before you knocked me down wHh those big words ?was this? that Anarky knowing what people think of the Chinese, Indulges her dishonest yearnings, believing we shall suppose the thief to be Chang-how." '?But I know it Hn'i Anarky, bacausfr Anarky always had a blundering, awk ward, above -board way of stealing that ' made It only taking things, and she was always getting caught ; and Chang h<f* always manages not to be found out. An<f I know it Is Ohang how ; I know it by tnat. It shows he Is used to ltH Mr. Smith laughed. "It does I and I know It U Chang-how sod It i$n't Anarky/' ? . Then Mr. Smith laughed again, and w? dining-room servant, you remember): "?v)v one epoonee no oome homee." "llow you mean, Chang-bow ? Where spoonoo got" "All no light: all longee. Spoonee go 'way : I no mid him." "Ob, but you must find them, ChaDg how. How many got" "Four spoonee." "But they arc solid silver I You really muBt And them." "You tell where lookee, I go lookee." ,4I am sure I don't know were you axe to look. And two forks were mining lust week!" ^ ? fflrw I stared reflectively at a June' bug on the window-sill. Chang-how stood with folded hands and drooping shoulders, a scnipliio calm upon his features, as of one who had stood upon the burning deck wlion all but ho had tied. Evidently he had done his duty. I was so - Impressed with this fact, and that the res ot the table then, Chang-how. Mr. Smith will have?to tell us what to do when he cornea home.'' Exit Chang. Enter Anarky : "MIb' Maud, how many bank'chers you sent out dls week Y" '?Twenty -three, I believe." "An' now I ain't got but nlneteon. YouseudutY How many sockB for Alas' Jim?" "Six or seven, I suppose. Why?" "You see dat again Y Ain't hut fo' par lefl Ef I don't beat him, slioze I'm a nigger I" ? "Your Mas' Jimt" I asked, smiling. Taln't nobody but dat yaller vaimlnt dat's stcalln' roun' de lot ?Lor* ! Lor' i ef I Jes* could ootch him i" Anarky, while wo are talking about it, I? I really wish you would manage a little better about the biscuit and? well, the eggs, and ? and a good many little things of the kind. I am sure we have an abundance of everything, and it mor tifies me exceedingly not to have it at ta ble. Haven't you and Chang everything you want, and as muchf" "We gets more'n 'nuff. An' what goes outen de kitchen gees correc*. Whar dey lands 'tween dar an* de dln'-room don't 1 nobody'1 know but dat yaller dorg. I misses things oornBtant-? things dat I ain't took my eyes off 'em, 'oep' tor wink ; an', bless do Lord I while I wor a wlnkln' de lard done took to its heels or de flour now m iiewea away." ? " Tho next evening, when Chang brought in support Anarky walked by lib side In solemn state, empty handed, dignified, watch l\il. He appeared totally uncon scious of his escort, and I -made no re mark ; bat Mr. Smith seat him into the hall on an errand, and during hifl absence Anarky rose to explain : "Which you sec all dem bisklt, Mis' Maud?" . Ye* ; I am glad we are gutting ull right again, Anarky." "Well, I got dat many rpo' in do ub'n now? Jea' like I use ter hub ?fo' dat ? " Here an appalling idea seemed to strike her. ' War dat Chow-chow nigger Y ' she. exclaimed, and made a dash toward ^ie dow. reached it Chaurt-ht v^SSW.Chaug wheeled around on his pin stern surprl) Site turned to us, 4rembllng with ex citement: "Well, ef dat ain't de beat inest trick et ebber I 'seed I Think dat yaller houn' ain't stole de bisklt oaten de ub'n ? An', 'fo' Qord I I didn't know ho'd been out o' here long 'nufffor a dog to snap at a fly I ? Ef you afot't do oudal sliusest? She Btopj>cd and glared at him with the despairing, silent venom of one who felt herself a pauper in w<pds, a ver bal fkilure, a Wretched oreaiuro who in thO supremo hour of trial was proving herself the wrong person in the wrong 1 Chang-how's hands were iolded, and his eyes rested dreamily op . tho floor. Kvldontly, he was conumtedly rolling tea* leaves in his native land. Buspioiously regarding the abnormal appearance of Chartg-how's neat yrhlte Jacket, 1 forbore to ' rebuke my sable favorite but Mr. Bmlth, Pot having ob served the little protuberances which had , attracted my attention toward his more | delicately-tinted protege, said with de cislon, "Go to tike kitchen, Anarky. and send In BUpper or bring It yourselff^nd make haste about it," Anarky turned again to Chang-how and fixed her great black eyes on him In silence. Then she sounded a note of solemn warning : "Lord 1 Lord t Shang hal I" said she, "ef ebber I <loe? ootch you out an' out, ef ebber 1 dtot git a good square holt dp you, I'll far you ail to pieces I Yo' mammy won't want what'il be left uv von. W iwnn't tv> ?*.,r oerrvin v "Shut upee I to much Jawee," said Chang-how benignly, and dreamed again of his native land. But for three days nothing waa missing In Anarky's opart mont, and so for Chang-how escaped with unbroken bonee. On the evening of the fourth day I re ceived a letter announcing the coming of visitors, and It unfortunately occurred to me that Chang-how might assist Anarky In the laundry, thus ?fiordlng her an op portunity for greater display Ik the? dullf nary department; so I called him tip: "You washerman, Chang how?" "Oh yes, I washee all light," said Chang, "You help Anarky Iron to-day I give you more money." "All light I How muclieeT" "One dollar." ' "Two dollar." ?lOne dollar." "No washeeone dollar," said Chang. "No washee at all, then." ?'One dollar ap." "Nora dollar and a half: I get other washee." "Mollcan man no washee ap.." 4 Oh yee. Mellcan woman Suit me." "AH light I I washeeone dollar." "Very well. As soon, then, as you leave the dining-room go to the laundry. And, Chang, no make cook oroee." "Cbok to much talkoe : oookon hud 'Well, you no make oookeo crowi per haps I ?We you more money. ' **AH light i How muehee?" IE2PW ' w Going to the laundry, I Mid to Anarky,. "C5hang-how will aMl*tyou In the Ironing to-day. ho that you can got through quickly and ?how my flrtendi some. of your l>eat oooktng, Anarky. I do hope?" "What Bhang-doodle know 'bout 1'unln?" aaked Anarky nulklly. "Oh, he known ever to much." ?ald I with oheerfUl (kith ; "and I do hope yon will try to get on nicely with him thl* time. You know what the Bible aaya about brothers dwelling together In unity, and all thatt" "Chang-Jaw ain't none o' ray brudder, an* I ain't none o' hls'n," restated An you -will only be Chang-how's Ions enough to mtithrough with the Ironing, I will give you almost anything you want. "Gimme a nigger all day long," said Anarky i "I fa'rly hates a Chinee an' a Orrlsher." "Try it to-day, though, Anarky, for my sake, said I persuasively ; and Bhe con sented, though sulkily enough. Hearing ChanK-how coming, I seated myself on the stairway leading into the laundry, curious to see how they would work together. i Anarky pointed authoritatively to a heap of dried linen. "Sprinkle dem ar cloze," said she to Chang. "I'm gwine out in de yard to git what's on de line." While Bhe was gone, Cluing- how, as is the manner of hla people, filled his mouth with water, and was blowing It, In a fine spray over the linen when Anarky ap peared In the doorway, a basket of clothes ' on her head, her knuckles on her hips., As she caught sight of Chang-how moist ening the linen with water from his mouth she stopped : she staggered, her basket fell to the floor, and, stooping down, Bhe threw her hands above her head, then bnpight them down again with a violent slap on her knees. Good Lor' I come down," sahlshe, "an' look at dat yaller houn' a-spKtlirv^iU'/Ml8' Maud's cloze. ? I got you now I Can't nobody blame me fur beatln' you 'botit dat.}' Then she flew at him, and wj it was I 8he, black, brawny,' of tmrrtftn.,^ physical power ? he, lithe, sinewy, supple as a pnntlier. It waq a. spectacle 1 First one, thon the other, seemed to have the advantage. She would catch him In her powerful grasp, and, lifting him off his feet, swing him in the air as if about to ?lam him to his final resting-place, when by some inexplicable manceuvrehe would, writhe from between her Angers or wrig gle himself to the back of her n^ck and mash her nose flat against her breast as If bent on suffocating ber or breaking her I neck. In a moment she would reach back with both hands and pull him over her head very muoh as men doff a shirt, i Likely as not, Chang came down with his I queue halfway up her arm and had her knee on his breast. ' "Good for you, An? I I mean, aren't you ashamed of yourtelff Stop 1 Mr Heaven's sake, stop! You might kill him," As well have spoken to thp winds. And as they became *more terribly In earnest I began to scream for help "Stop, Anarkv I (Murder I murder I)? Sere, Chang, take the poker.,, (ijfu? ? ? ? r? der !) Great Heaven 1 don t hither with it I Stop, Chang-hew 1 (Mur-r d ? r / Oh, mercy I somebody come !) -?Here, Anarky, take ? the pota-(Mur? dr-e ? r? rtJ? ,to-masher and don't "111 ( M?u ? r? der I? kill him with h. jp iPttere'a V (Murder I ? FLro ! fixe -t This brought the neighbors .>*a<t<tii8r.) n ilghbors' children, and their neighbors I id their neighbors' children, and . Kplls pigtail ailelsure, and IS-. , how often ho had sinned And gone un wiilpt of Justice, and now, in the hotlr of I peace and tho act of duty, retribution hid deliberately sought him out, and found him and disposed of him as afore told. . . It seems that Anarky went quietly enough to the magistrate, who gave her the choloe between going to Jail and de positing Ave dollars as security for her ap pearance next morning for examination. Not having flvo dollars to deposit, she was allowed an hour In which to seek >me ono who would go ball for hor. ./'At nome one who would go ball for her. /'At tho end of that timo she returned to the* office panting, exhausted, wiping the. per spiration from hor face with her bluri|(/K>t tob apron apron. 'Who is going bail for yod V feho was asked. Calmly turning down the sleeves that had been rolled above hor shining black elt>ows, she replied With contempt. "I ain't been arter no baiU I dun been home an* finish boatln'. fie fltee outen dat yaller houn*. Dat all de hall 1 wants 1 Whloh head a-sticklnvto It, bin' de chiek'n coop at Mas' Jim!#. Now kyar me to Jail ppf; lemme res'. I boun' ho don't spit on no ra?Tolo?./go,?,,h,?^^ ,.rj ,t:|A A TtjHILLINfl tyTQRY. The folTcf^hib jnoident actually oc curred on b&tfTof a Hritish frigate, and was comfaunlcatcd to the writer, several years ago,, to ad old man-of war's man: rl A timid boy, abouWpyUen years of hesitated to go afyt/friit by tike, u'h orders, was forolwSUtfn the rigging, and then a ixgRMraln's was oommanded to lasmjAjtite dog until he learned to run aloft, poor fellow's legs and arms trem he grasped the shrouds, he on<flQ he prayed the inhuman captain fof Ckoq's sake to have mercy on him; but all in vain. The boatswain's mate was ordered to lay on harder, and harder, regardless of the boy's piercing screams, which made even Veteran scafnen turn from the brutal soene with disgust. .His clothes were rent from his back, the Mood followed the lash, and still the tyi-ant roared out, "I Ay on, boatswain'* matel" With one wild soream he sprang from under the lash, and bounded up the rigging with amaslng rapidity. | doubled tlys flittock rl ' passed up the topmast rigging fifith undiminii nea the unrattled ro' ? Krched himself like a bird alongside of o pennant which streamed from the masthead. Here he pftuied, looking fearlessly upon tho deck below. An hands came up to see hOn-z-hlj. cjrles and cruol treatment had already en listed their sympathy, and, If possible, had tnceased their haired of the cap The monster was smiling compla-# oentlV at the success of his experiment:* he was ono of those tyrants who boasted that tho cat, properly applied, could mfcke men do anything. Btlll he was apprehensive that,, the boy? mig^t cto? stroy <hlmsd1f, and the cltcumfetanoes be usod against him at the Admiralty, whure he knew representations ol his cruelty hsd already been made. The men gaxed In silence, looking first at the boy. and thon at the oaptatn, who was seated near the taffrall. They dared not to be seen speaking to one another? it was a flogging offence; even at night spies paused undor their ham the fli JhlW tnado ?6, the ship That night, while the undressing, he was seised 1 and dragged to the bridal fair lady, on me," said "but do not scream, or I ; Look on me. 1 Aid within my i a i devil, who Rights in oruoll merciless flond W?o has foourge :back?; of 'hundreds m< ruffian who ha* vriftM OWof mj SOP i, J Md him wlthlta tfie gra ?tain was ao throat . "Look, death, at the 'very moment his black soul thought itself within, tho reach or & lv Joy almost within your reach?then n, bed; brit the manWljrho killed him amst 3aE&m9s lady stated at thetiuAiftd many years ,aft0rwardH(.that tWDEek of the ma niac was so sndcHNifoV silent that she zss m pressure of the captain's body bont over the edge ofthe bjft. Joe held his ?victim around the ne#c with the right hand, and turned hlOpJ|6m side to sidfc as easily as If Hfo h*A been a child, while the foreflngev&nd thum of the left hand ginspea nr own throat was pale and deathlike, his eye* started but were motionless and every woti he uttered seemed ftp issue from the very depths of his soil. The captain % looks wore ttrHblefSyond deseriptiql ? death left the impose of ferocity upon his darkened flfttures. How the maniac entered or /left tho room she was she wlthfW,Tfcu an hour claimed before she could mutter courage to call for help: but she thanked Qod, when tho .<* PjfcMnV .qfuoUctAfaoter became geti* orally known ashofcfthat she had be$n rescued from hW alliauoe. ? /xmdon Afautitcal Maycuinif - f ?? <? ? ACTIVITY NOT ENEMY. There are eotn 4 men wfcoee (Mlureto MWetf Jqrllfe Ufa problem toother, MVeftirto theth selves. They are in duntnaas, prudent and eoonbtfiloal;?& aftor a long life of striving, old hgv Hud# oompflp activity fhr en things ewertth! supposed thai they would he their fortunes that ralsdlrocfl activity. Thj oeed le like al Were al BP it fcfcijwta ttkitbe mark,?et Wire a waste of powder. So In the great ie of life, wnafc a man does muM be s to count, or It might almost as have been left uuaono. Every knows some one in his circle of friends, who. though always active, has this want of energy. The distemper, if we may call it such, exhibits Itself in various ways. In some cases the man has ngerely an executive capacity when he should have a dl recti ve one; in other language, he makes a capital cldrk lor himself, when he ought to do thinking of the business. In other cases what Is done is not done either at the right time or In the right way. Energy, correctly understood, Is Uvityproportioned to the end. ac ARGUING WITH A KING. J sojourned lot the beautiful Queen of the Mite la r, Stockholm, a. lew weeks last ?Ummer. : One day I took a trip across the i little channel, which separates the city from that splendid place of recrea ation, Djurgarden, a park where suoh lights of genius as Bejlhian, Ltdner, Kjollgren, and otherl? all clustering around that dilettante King, Gustavus HI.? 80 tow.jri&rs ago? ware wont to spend their leisure hours in taking a social glass) which, by Ae way, was the absolute ruin of the, in *U respects, immoderate tragic poet Bengt Lidner. Here the quick-witted Bellman Impro vised both words and music to a num ber of his popular lays, and here stands his bust. Well, In company with a mend, I went over to the Garden of An imals (Djur&ardon) In a little steamboat, took a long stroll about the magnificent place, admiring Its tplendid wallas, -its " roads, its grand trees, its fragrant bracing air. A very attractive :lng restaurant was too tempting a1 e to pms by on a hot day, so lu we stepped, ordering some refreshments, and were waited upon by a beautiful and polite young lady, who could speak a little broken English. After a while two other gentlemen entered, one of whom attracted my attention on ac count of his great neight and distin guished air. They, also ordered refresh ments, meanwhile keeping up a Very animated conversation. Suddenly the tall man turned around and fixed his ddurlc eyes on mo. '.??? '? ? . -1/ ?"* 44 Are you an Englishman, sir V" he asked with a strong Swedish accont. 41 No, sir ; lama cltisen of the United States." uAh! Is that so? I heard you speak English. Well, so much the belter. K ftlways admired the United rower? glad to hear you say so," Wif a monarchy like Sw& uld hardly expect to hear \U Mulf of the Gw$3e , w*cept It be from the working i; but even they seem to be going an her now on acoouot of the * lch have prevailed for thelaet few y? .~.u with apparent difficulty,) r ? what I have always expeoted, , in nature is the same the wofta, and a working man stands As and Is as muoh respected g leave to differ with Lerelcalled for another1 bottle of olaret, Inviting the two strangers to partake* which they ac cepted with thanks. Besumlng the conversation, I expressed my innate hatred to the monarchical system, pointing out and vehemently de nouncing, among other things, the en ormous salaries which the over-bur dened people had to pay those parasites of Bocfety called Kings, Queens, Dukes and Princesses i how the system created an absurd, imaginary distinction be tween the rulers ' and the ruled, de grading the people in their own self esteem, and lalsely exalting the 44royal family. ?? I also emphasised with con siderable vigor the extravaganoe and licentiousness so common among said personage*, referring to the cases of Catharine II., of BUssia: Louis XV. , of France, andOharles X v., of Sweden, i as instances. The latter's request or | Parliament to grant a dower of 200,000 crowns to his daughter, Louisa, at her marriage with a Danish Prince, some nine years ago. while the country suf fered from fkmlne, and the poor Swedes In America were sending relief across the ocean, I stamped as an act of In fernal shamelessness, reciting a stansa of the scathing Satire which Edward Axoh, a Swedish writer, had on that occasion addressed to Charles X V. After listening to my arguments a few moments more, tflke two strangers bade me adieu, the tall one remarking : "I should be glad to see you again and resume the conversation with you. For the present my business calls me away/' 44Doyou know that tall gentleman?" I asked the watter girl, after they had led. The girl smiled. "Indeed I do, sir. He is Oscar II., King of Sweden."? Correspondence Chicago Inter* Ocean, THE flRF.AT WALL OF CHINA. - The great wall of China was measured in many places by Mr. Unthank, an American engineer, lately engaged In a survey for a Chinese railway. His mtfMuftments give a height of eighteen feet and a width on the top of fifteen feet. Ev#$r few hundred yards there Is a tower fwe^ty-four feet square and from twenty to twenty-five feet high. Thfc foundation of the wall is of Holid granite. Mr. Onthank brought with him a brick from the wall, wiiioh is StippoAd to have been made two hun dred years before the time of Christ. In building this ImmntiHu stone fenoe to keep out the Tartars, the builders neVer attempted to avoid mountains or ohasms to save expense. For thirteen hundred mile* the wall goes over plain and mountain, ibid every foot of tho foundation is in solid granite, and the rest of the structure Is solid masonry. In some place* Ihe wall Is built up smooth against ttVn bank, or oaiions, or precipices, where there Is a sheer descent of a tifcnisaud feet. Small stroams are arehW over, but on the larger streams thb wall rutin to the water's edge, and a tower Is built on each nlde. On the top of the wall there are breastworks, defences facing In and out, so that the defending forces can pais from one tower to another without being exptoed to the enemy from either sldo. To calculate the time of building, ot the cost of this wall, is beyond human skill. So far as the magnitude of the work Is con cerned. it surpasses everything in ancient or mmlern times of which there is any trace. The Pyramids of Egypt are nothing compared to it. ROCKY MOUNTAIN ANIMALS. - There has been on exhibition at the New York Aquarium a collection of trained animals, the performances of which indicate a degree of intelligence which is very remarkablel There are ten Broncho horses, a number of doge and a pair of Kooky Mountain goats, all of which possess accomplishments sufficient to till up a long and interest ing programme. It is stated that the horses were wild upon the plaius three years ago. and consequently that dur ing this brief period their education has been effected. In beginning the performance the whole ten are first in troduced, and at the word of command they perform various military evolu tions. such as marching in line abreast, in columns of fours, by the Hanks, etc., both at common and quick time. A handkerchief given to one is passed to ,the next and so on from mouth to k mouth of the ten ; any one horse called by name steps forward, and Anally the act is closed by one o{ the number who goes to each of his comrades iu turn, and, crowding him out of the line, wishes him with hiB nose as a signal for exit. Each horse is then introduced in turn to exhibit his special accom plishments. One walks up and to the middle of a balanced board, and there by moving his fore feet oscillates the plank, accommodating every muscle of the body to the movement. Finally he . retires to one end of the board, bearing | that extremity down and leaving the other high in air. A second horse now called in puts his nose over the elevated end of the plank,* forces it down until he can plant his fore hoofs on it, and then mounts thereon. The curious ?||ht is theu presented of two horses at the respective ends of the 44 teeter," gravely swinging eaoh other up and down. The difficulty of teaching all this to an animal so careful as to step ping on inseoure supports as the horse ?is, can well be imagined. Perhaps the most remarkable feats accomplished on the board, which is quite narrow, are the turning around of a horse (who stands direotly over the ?Mctunyand is oowpelled while turning to balance himself with .reat care), aful.the roll ing of, a ban el over the whole length of the plank. Trainers * fifltf that it is an exceedingly troublesome undertak ing to get a horse to do anything with . his front hoofs whioh Involves raising them to any height, but hove the arnqMuJ plants both hoofs on a barrel And rolls it up one side of the balanced board. Then, as the latter swings over; the horse catches the barrel with, the rear . side of his hoofs, and walks down the; steep iuoline holding the barrel back,.; There are several tricks conixhomy per formed by trained horses in; circuses which these animals execute with re- j marka^le readiness and accuracy^ One his hii^i leg, or around that of- aSoWier ] horse ; a third jumps, over a gate, then turns uudpnUsa string whichnres a piafcol attached to its surcingle ; a fourth waltzes In excellent time to music : tihd a tilth, a magnificent cream-cOlored animal, accomplishes an' -astonishing leap over a slit-foot gate , and four horses placed side by side against it. The exhibition of the horses Is followed by that of a troupe of dogs, one of which exhibits considerable skill as a rider on a pad saddle. It leaps over banners and through paper hoops, and finally springs upon a platform under which the horse passes? Then as the horse returns at a gallop around* the ring the dog springs from the platform back upon the saddle. The eagerness of the dog in watching for the return of the horse, and its prompt retrial in case of failure, seem to show that it takes actual pleasure iu its perform ances. a ne troop 01 trained uogs appear to belong to no particular breed ? a fact somewliat extraordinary, as trainers usually prefer to teach the intelligent French poodle. The performance opens With roll-call, each dbg answering to its name by a sharp bark. One animal then dances, two dance on their hind legs and seat themselves human fashion in small chairs, and others jump the rope.. The most curious trick is one in which all participate. At the word of thq, trainer oue of the animals takes oil its collar with its forepaws. As the collar falls upon the ground a little dog etuis forward, seizes it and scam pers away. Another animal pursues him, regains the collar and puts it on. The trainer then asks, " What ought to be done to a dog that steals ? " No sooner are these words uttered than two jump upon ohairs, to which up rights having large hooks at their upper extremities are secured. The third dog picks up a oross-bar in his mouth, car ries It to the two on the chairs, and tliese lift it up aud insert it on the hooks. The trainer meanwhile slips a noose over the' Binall thief's head, and another dog grasps the end of the rope and drags the culprit to the gallows. The problem then Is how to got the rope over the oross-bar with the -rope in bur mouth. The hangman then pulls cord, aud lifts the struggling vic tim Into the air, keeps him up for a few uihlutes, and lowers iiim apjmrently dead. A wagon is now brought in, aud the hanged dog placed in front. Immediately one large dog places him self between?the shafts, two inore seat themselves upright on the seats, aud another two nusli the vehicle from be hind, aud with tho exit of tho latter . this littlo melodrama, which Is played through without a word from the trainer or any other help thau tho am x Ing of the noose, terminates. The accomplishments of the Kooky Mountain goats ? large white animals with enormous horns ? are the more ourious, when the stupid, phlegmatic nature of the brute is remembered. Yet they leap upon the backs of horses, ride around the ring at full gallop, and are not displaced even when the horses take flying leaps over high fences. One of the goats omulates the dog In leap ing upon and from a platform ; but the solemn manner in which this is done, and the pertinacity with which the ffoat refuses to jump down until the horse is placed in what he considers exactly tlio proper position beneath him, are very ludicrous. A remarkable act performed by both goats Is circling from one horse to another while at a full gallop. The horses run side by side, and the goat on one places his fore feet on one pad and hind feet on the other ; the other goat does the same. Then" they follow each other in a circle, passing from horse to horse and back again. r-z sis-t STORM AND HEAT PHENOMENA. The Mississippi Valley has always been subject to hurricanes. Their tracks are traceable in every State from Ohio to the Black IIllls, and from the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexloo, through riven forests aud desolated villages. But this year will be long remembered for the great numl)er and terrible char acter of its storms. It has produced moro of them than the preceding teu years, and with a frightful loss or life and property. Aud now. directly after these great slonnH, which should have cooled and puritled the air, comes the equally startling phenomena of heat, the intensity of which has not been he fore experienced by the oldest settlers. The number of people struck down by this cause in the citv of St. Ix>uis since hist Friday must fiavo been three or four hundred ? a third of them fataily. Doubtless there occurred other hun dreds of cases in the smaller towns and in the harvest flelds, not reported; for the high temperature extends as far up the Missouri Valley as fe*. Joseph aud Omaha, and from Southern llliuois to Chicago, where a range of 01 degrees on Monday caused three cases of sun stroke. the lake Influence being over come by the heated atmosphere upon the land. These heated spells are com monly, in the Western Slates, followed by great storms of wind and rain, dis astrous to iho crops outstanding. The corn crop has already suffered from this cause, and if it should be repeated agaiu, many millions of dollars would nut cover the losses of the farmers. California aud the region between the Sierra aud the Kocky Mountains are happily exempt 'from these fearftil phenomena. \Ne have never heard of a well-authenti cated case of sun-stroke in this State, nor of a wind stroug enough to destroy a well-oonstructed building. Yet it is not unusual for the meroury to rise as high as 112 degrees in the shade in the foot hills, and 100 to 108 degrees at Sacra mento and MarysvllU). . In June, 1860, from the effects of a slrocoo then blow lug this way from the Colorado desert, ,the thermometer marked 122 degrees at Knight's Ferry, Stanislaus couuty, and 133 degrees In the shade at various places In San ? Bernardino and Santa Barbara counties. In the' era of active plttoer mining 110 to 114 degrees In the shade was not at all uncommon. Yet .In this intense 'heat (suoh Is the purity aftd freedom of our atmosphere from malaria and humidity) thousands oi miners worked in the sun all day long Without prostration or suffering. ? San .Francisco Chronicle. SINGING IN THE FAMILY. Cultivate singing in the family gin when the T fotir? oldi The mother sang, br memory, and teao! ones; mi k f* the sin^llar oom*6j -- ?.-^eets, and ainldthe splendor the drives In a pqpk, some little thing I? XP/ SffSiiP tbecool the ?.v V.W IU1U, >uv WVI, Baling, but} I shady tree by the Uttlfe achoolhouse ? | and the next instant we almost see again the ruddy cheeks, the smiling mcos, and the merry eyes of the school mate#, Home gray-beaded now, mo?t "lie mouldering in the grave.'' And uthe sonfc your niother sang" springs unbidden to the lips, and soothes and sweetens ail these memories. ' At othor times, amid the crushing mishaps of business, a men/ ditty of the olden time popa,up its little head, breaks in upon the ugly train of thought, throws the mind into another channel*, light breaks in firOin behind the clouds in the sky, and new courage is given to us. The honest man goetf singing to his work, and when the day's labor is (lone, his tools laid aside, and he is on his way home, where wife ana ohlld, and tidy table, and ?cheerfbl fireside await him, he can not b\lt whistle or sing. MARRIAGE. Perhaps nothing shows the existence of the Divine idea in marriage so much as its incomprehensible mystery, which all those who enter it, save the most frivolous and thoughtless, are obliged to recognize, feeling themselves as much surrounded oy it an if they lived among the great, primeval agencies that llrst sot the world going ? for to all it seems as strange as if they were the first and only ones, and they wore at a loss to explain it or ponetrate the meaning of the deep and sacred enigma. They understood a mother's iove for the flesh of her flesh in her children, a child's love for the visible provideuce of its father: but who is to comprehend the love of tliehusbiind, who, arrived at maturity, with all his prejudices formed, ills course marked out, meets one who, in scarcely more than an In stant, becomes more to him lhan father or mother, sister or bother, or all the world ? In short, on whose presonce the happiness of the world hinges? And who shall comprehend the devotion of the wife, who, if need were, would die for her husband? ? A Cincinnati man is roaponsible for the following : Some years ago at the funeral of a friend, I wan Heated in ? a carriage with a person who in face carried all tho habiliment* of woe. 1 wan not aware he was acquainted with the deceased. I became iuquisltlvo. Hays I. "Are you a relation ?" "No." "A mend?" "No." In Yankee fa?hlon, I said, "VVhy attond his fu neral. and look so sad Y" He naid, "In fact, I am troubled with dyspepsia. My doctor advised mo to ride. I am too poor to hire a carriage, and there for** ride free to funerals." A cheerful situation for a dyspeptic, we should ? Some of thewe Ixiautifnl evening a man with a wiited-eollar and a sprink 1(h1 coat will mutter an old fashioned bit of profanity between hit tooth ; lie will scud swiftly Across the street ; he will pick ut> the boy that In manipulat ing the Hide- walk hose', he will twist bin head around five time* ; ho will jam bin head into a crack in the fence and kick his whole body through after It, and then that l>oy will learn that It is not right nor safe to glue his eyes into the top of a tree while he sprink les the stroote, the sidowalks and the citizens, indiscriminately and impar , tiailr. Mind, we do not advocate the reckless, extraagent or wanton killlti$v of boys but these aro revolutionary times and ihe temper of a down trod don people is restleao and unsafe. ? Jiaxnfceye. "7 %'ttrieiies. ? Always look on the bright side of everything. ? >\hat pupil is most to be pitied? ? The pupil or the eye, because it is al ways under the lash. ? When the world lias once got hold of a lie. it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. ? Austria has forbidden the circula tion within her territory of all German socialistic newspapers. ? The German army is to use the telephone. It is to be esj>ociaLly ser viceable on the outposts. ? Georgia has 2390 miles of railroad completed and in operation, or about one mile of road to 488 inhabitants. ? The Sultan of Turkey is obliged to have 305 suits of clothes in a year; he never wears the same garments twice. ? Life is a state of embryo, a pre paration for life. A man is not com pletely boru uutil he has passed through death. ? An Ottawa (Can.) Alderman was attacked by a bear. The Alderman re covered from the tight, the bear it was that died. ? Heaven exercises men with trials, holds in its hands the issue* of things, and determines men's lot according to their conduct. ? None are more apparently valiant than the coward when freed from dan ger. What is lost in reality finds a supply in assumption. ? Prince Bismarck is becoming very corpulent. When weighed recently at Klssongen, in Germany, he pulled up two hundred and forty pounds. ^ ? German and Austrian law forbids the sale of dead llsh. The are/ brought from the sea and rlvfeTv; in' tanks and are killed after being sold. ? There is a proposition to found a new conservatory in Paris for declina tion and for teaching actors and ic rtresses, separating this branch from that of the musical profession. ? Opinion should guide in public af fairs. not feeling. Opinion is grounded on circumstances, on observation, and on reileotion. Feeling acts from im pulse, which sees but half. ? Frances Alice Flintoff, the Califor nia Giantess, is dead. She was forty four, Btood six feet six Inches, was a native of New York, and had travelled with Lee, & Marshall'^ Circus. . , / ? The sale of Marshal Baaaine's his "Escape from Fort St. V Is ihterdlcted In France. v. A lad of considerable looal celebrity drowning. ?Mrs. Fanny Washington. Finch, th?>fcreat-fcrand-nieCe of Washlngtoii, and supposed to be. his nearest Uvlftg relative. Is keeping a boarding house in Washington, and has recently had her furnlturo attached by a landlord for ' rant* ? A Hartford (Conn.) liiwy or, as signed to defend a thief at the Superiqr Court in 1873, received then no pay for his services, but has Just received from N ew Zealand a letter from the thief asking for his definite address in order to pay him. ' ; a ? Mr. Lockyer, the English astrono mer, while staying at Lake View, near Buffalo, witnessed a water-spout. It was of remarkable dimensions and very complete. It traversed about two miles of Lake Erie before bursting, and was in full view all tho time. ?Dr. J. 8. Myer, of Virginia City,, Nevada, has rediscovered a lost Egyp tian art. Ho tempers copper tools x6' a more lasting cutting euge man steel, tools will hold, similar to that the copper implements with which the stone for the Pyramids wua out. ? A now species of tea shrub resem bling that which grows in China, has been discovered in Armenia* near Tre biscond. The peasants pick the leaves and dry them in the sun, and large quantities have been sent to , Persia, ... where the new product is highly predated. , ! Mr. lleuben Peterson, of Duxbury, i Mass.. aged 87 years, and wife, aged 84,. f have been married sixty yearn : have had seven children, four sons and three 1 daughters ; ulso twelve grandohlldren and nine great-grandchildren, and no death has ever occurred among their ' descendants. 1 ? > ; >1 ? Tiro little follows found a loaded revolver on a window Hill In a house In il Chester county, and one of them began snapping It at the other. Two cham bers were not loaded, but the third con- 1 tainud a bullet, which was seat Into;!) tho fleshy part of one of the lad's ariua, , Inflicting a painful wound. ? ' ? They are at this moment the un- '! precedented numlier of thirty-three' '? ironclads In cominission In thejRritish -ii navy, Ijesldes many uuarmored frigates and corvettes of recent construction!-^- ' Of the ironclads in commission four- > teen are in tho Mediterranean with ( k Admirals Hornby and l<ord John Ha^. .vj ? One of Gilbert Htuart's Portraits of Washington has beon presented to , the Maryland Historical Hociety. It- w was originally palute<l for the latu (Jolot *u mon Ktting, of Baltimore, and was ; given to the Hoclety by his daughter, ' , who was nresent on a number of oobo* *'?* sions while the artist was performing }<?) his work. < < .i )!.. i >1 ? A project is afoot for the thorough: u and systematic exploration of the an ti<H?lties of the Euphrates Valley, it is proposed to organize an expedition t to leavo England during next spring, the funds for which are to be raised by 1 contributions. the Government haVlng ?? refused its aid. Tho organization for ,j the carrying out of the scheme is to be , on the model of the J'aleetlne ExplOfa* tlon Fund. . ? A summary account of Dr. Bchlle manii's recent excavations at Olympia says that the monitor of marble object* found during the last three Winter's is 1M)4 ; of bronzes, 3734 j of terracottas, ? 1H)1 ; of Inscriptions, 420, and of coins, 1270. All the more Important ruins Iwtve boen photographed, and the third volume of the official account Is almut ^ "to appear. An exhibition of all the * casts taken will shortly be opened In | Berlin. tie m