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Tim TRIBUNE. \ <>],. I.?SO. :j!). I5E.UTORT, S. 0.. Al"(i(ST 18. 187"). ?2.50 PER ANN DM. Woolsej's Fall. ^arewoll, a long farowoll, to all ray groatnonn Tins is tlio state of man ; to-day lio puts forth Tlio toiulor loaves of liopo ; to-raorrovr blosHOD1H, And hoars lira blushing honors thick upon him : Tlio third d&ycomes a frost, a killing frost ; And?when bo thinks, good easy man, full surely Jlis greatness j* a ripening nips his root. And then ho falls, as 1 do. I have ventured, I,iko litllo wanton hoys that swim on bladdors, This many summers in a sea of glory ; L5ut far beyond inv depth ; my high-blown pfido At length broke under mo ; and now has left nm, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that ninst forever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, 1 hate ye : i luoi iny iii-urt now opened. O, liow wretched [ Its that poor uiaii that liangd on princes' favors ! There id, betwixt that binilc wo would aapiro to, Tli-tr sswev! aspect of princes, and tlicir ruin, More pangs and fo.ira than wars or women have, And when ho f d!.*, ho falls liko I.ueifor, N> tor to hope again. ?Shokrspntri. r.vriruiNt; the cutter. At the time <>f which xvo write there wns sta inlet on Tucker's bench, Now Jersey, called Urigantino inlet. In 1800 this was closed up, and the sea formed another inlet, v. hicli exists to this day. There was no Tuekertowu then. It was the (iaunt farm at that time. The only settlement then was what was known as the " Middlo-of-the-Shore," extending on each side of what was called Andrews' mill creek, the property origimdly bolonging to Jacob Andrews, who settled there in the lust your of the sixtoentli century ami who had a mill. There were not a great many people; but they did u great business in lumber and cypress shingles, wli eh they sent principally to New York and the West India Islands. During the Revolution the place was a rendezvous for American privateers, and these little sea hornets annoyed the British shipping so much that 1111 expedition was organized, with the Zebra and other ships of war, to break up the " den." There were several privateers lying there at the time; but they were warned by an express from General Washington, and escaped before the British came. Washington sent a force under Pulaski to meet the invaders; but they did not arrive until the enemy had done all the mischief. Part of Pulaski's men reached Osboru's island, and there their picket guard v^is surprised and massacred by the enemy. The invader did not escape without loss. In getting out the Zebra grounded, and her own people burned her, to prevent her capture by the Americans. There was one privateer that the enemy managed to take as she was coming in?the Saucy Jack. She was Baltimore built, very fast, and armed wifli n luiwr iliidiliuiii lwinn.l.ii' rP1w? .*.1 ? 'O ' * All* il\l" miriil ni:uli- her :i tender t<> tlie flag-ship, added a couple of ten pound carronades to her armament, ami put a crow of eighteen men ami a midshipman aboard, commanded by a master's mate. She became ii regular nuisance to the place, sailing in every now and then, exploring the harbor, levying contributions of soft tack, vegetables and chickens, and then sailing out. Th" people would have liked to take her ; Imt while the squadron was so near the place the heavy private armed vessels avoided it. There was a (Quaker who lived not far from the ben eh by the name of Ephraim Lippincott. lie had the reputation of being a Tory in sympathy, principally because his son Obed, having engaged in one or two skirmishes with British foraging parties, had been disowned and reprimanded for violating the peace principles of Friends. When the British parties visited there they always met with a warm welcome. Hut Ephraim was 110 Tory, after all?only a prudent man, who tried to sail as close to the wind as possible. Obed, though lie bad j been disowned, was always sure of quarters at home when lie chose to go ; and lie went there just after the last visit of the commander of the Sea Wasp, as the Saucy Jack bad been rechristened by her captors. The father met liim indifferently, but after dinner called him out to the barn. " Obed," la; Haiti, "I suppose thee's consorting with the Ilidgwavs and the Willetts boys juul such itllc, disloyal follows, as usual." " Well, father, I go with them occasionally, as tlice knows; but they're very honorable, hardworking young men and good company." " I wouldn't wonder; if thee know and tin y knew, that the Sea Wasp is coming back next Wednesday, they'd try to capture her. They're wicked enough." "Shouldn't wonder, father," said Obod, senteiitiously. " Hut 1 don't see how they could do it." " I've noticed that the master of the vessel always anchors right by the swamp, wlicro the beach shelves oil* j suddenly, and within a few yards of shore." " So I perceive." "Now, if there were bloodthirsty and j wioivou mon, wno nan urains 10 Keep their bad purposes, juul know that aim is coming 011 Wednesday afternoon, ami know that tlioy an- >iii|-f to tthoud's ami round about to forage, and would leave the schooner weak-handed, they might ? t hey are just bad enough?they might leave a couple of stout boats in among the reeds in the. creek there the night before," 41 They might, bitlmr." " They might go down armed :it tho same timo, with enough to eat nil day, and lie there; and next morning, when the men came aalioro and got out of eight over the sandhills to Slioud's, they might, if they were as resolute as they are bad, take that vessel." " They might, as thee says; and I have a notion they'll try." "They may, Olied; but if they do I hope they'll use peaceable means. If they do try, as thee thinks they will, don't thee go with them. 1 tut if thee will, and tlieo's a headstrong boy, thee j must go unarmed. Don't thee dare to , take that rifle that thy Uncle Sam J brought from Virginia and that hangs | up in the garret, with a horn full of powder and a pouch full of bullets and patches. I caution thee to let it alone." "Certainly, father; just as thee says." There were a dozen young men in the settlement, staunch Whigs?some fishermen ami all accustomed to the sea?who followed Obed's lead on all occasions. He summoned them quietly to meet him on Wednesdliy night, secretly, at the bench; and in the meanwhile lie secured a couple of stout boats, with oars, and hid tliem away in the place indicated. On Wednesday afternoon near night- | fall the cutter came in and anchored, but no one came ashore. They kept a good watch; but the night was very dark and their observation could not extend very far. Obed and his friends made their way through the swamp to the boats, ! and lay there quietly all night. Next morning at daylight there was a whistle heard from the cutter, and two boats were let down, into which there j tumbled, to the great delight of the concealed Whigs, fourteen men, armed with j cutlasses and muskets, with the master's j mate and midshipman eonnnanJing in I separate boats. This would leave the boatswain, three men, and a boy on board. Obed kept watch, the others lying close down, and saw the boats laud. They all disembarked, leaving the boats in charge of two men and not sending them back. They evidently intended to return in a short while, and uo time was to be lost. So soon as the main parfy had disappeared behind the sand hills Obed ami Willetts, covering the two men who were seated on the bows of the boat", where they were drawn up on the beach, tired. One of the men fell mortally wounded, and tho other dead. Obed and Willetts floundered through the marsh to wliorc the men lay, ami, with- j out paying any attention to tin- wounded man, quickly stove holes in the bottoms of the boats, while the rest of the men rowed into sight. One of their own bo its took them on board and they made for the cutter. lint the people on the cutter were not idle meanwhile. They disengaged a carrouade, ran it out of a port-hole, and prepared to lire. The boats, l?y previous understanding, separated, one circling north and the other south, and the shot missed both. before another gun could be aimed the cutter was boarded at bow and stern. The noiso of the liring caused the main party to retrace their steps, ami ! they came back in a hurry to the landing place, where they found their boats unlit for use?not, however, until they had pushed them oil', and the water poured in 01 them. Willetts, in the mean while, after the prisoners were secured, ran to the magazine, brought up some grape and canister, loaded the Long Tom, and trailed it directly upon the party in the water. The shot from that and one of the earronades did fearful execution, and the few survivors that were uuwoumied ran up the beach to the nearest house, where they sheltered themselves and ultimately surrendered. Five had been killed outright and eight severely wounded, three of them mortally. The cutter had been won; but to keep it was another matter. There was no crew to man it, even if it could be got to sea tbrough the squadron. As soon as the news of its capture was known, or wh.-n some time had elapsed after its HIMI UVU, I/Iifiu nuillU i M* JMnvcrilll IHKUS crows sent for it, perhaps one of 11 ?csmaller vessels. So, after consultation, it was agreed to cut the rigging, remove the masts, and sink the vessel in the deepest hole in the harhor, to lie raised on a suitable opportunity. This was soon done, after taking the movable property ashore, previously tilling the barrels of the Long Tom and earrona !es with all the melted beeswax that could be had in the neighborhood and then storing them in the hold. Then the prisoners were carried ofF by their captors. In three days a British force came, as had been expected, and they made tilings lively. They burned down a number of farmhouses, Lippincott's among the number ; but the inhabitants, except those of known loyal sentiments, kept uta respectable distance from harm, t Kverv boat upon the beach for miles the British destroyed. lu about a year's time Obed, Willetts, and some of the rest came back, got up a crew, raised the cutter, and found her in good order. The cannons were rusted some on the outside, but the beeswax ha I preserved the inside sm iotli. They remastcd and rigged her, cut the wasp figurehead oft", replaced it by the rudely carved figure of a snake, reehristcned lif?r Knf fh?r f?ml iitio iloi'L night got off l?? sea with Ik r, having obtained letters of marque, and ran down to the West I in lira, wln-re tln-y took ample revenge for tho burning of tin* Middle-of-tho-Shore. In fact, with the prizes they took, tho master and crew shared quite a small fortune at the close of the war. Tho llattler was disarmed when peace came and embarked in quieter lm-iness, carrying shingles and pine hoards along the coast for many years.?The Indrjtuulcnt. The Foreman. The duties of the foreman are (li the busy housewife's work) never doi If he is alive to the interests of his e plovers, he is not the lust man in t factory in the morning, neither is he 1 tirst one out at night. To him bcloi the duty of knowing that every ope tive is at his work in the morning, him belongs the duty of knowing tl every operative renders unto his c ployer a just and equitable day's lab To him belongs the duty of knowi that every operative perforins his w< to standard perfection. To him beloi the duty of arbitrating justly and fai between employer and employed, r not unfit quently does it become incu bent upon him to settle various i putes between operatives; in fact, In or must be, as nearly us possible, an c nipresent- f'lrlofuni. Ho knows of the little domestic troubles of his sub dinutes, and has to advise and sugg means of bringing about (amicablv) marital relations of mora than one thoso umlor his control; not suflieioii burdened with his mm troubles, he i ries the troubles ami secrets of suboi nates securely locked within his o breast, if any of the operatives in department meet with reverses, lio is tirst one appealed to; he is the first add his name to the subscription list a certain amount; no matter whether is prepared or uot, he must, to prev calumny, subscribe. Thus we mij speak of him on this subject for yei and till volumes without end, and tl not tinish this portion of our story. All employers or factors arc not pi tieal men. in such cases, the suecesf the manufacturing portion of the In ness de\olves wholly upon the forem Not only is he held strictly aeconnta for tho superiority of the work, but must ever tire liis never resting brail] producing fresh novelties; novel! which will bring the work to a gren state of perfection, and novelties wh will cheapen the production, with lessening the wages of the operativ If it becomes necessary to reduce for to the foreman belongs the uiipleas task of saying: " We will have to i pense with your services." If a red tion of wages be determined upon, foreman becomes the agent for prou gating the same, and if lie is not j; sessed of the necessary amount of t and eloquence to present the same such a phase as to prevent the imuw ate withdrawal of a part or the whoh the operatives employed, his fate anathema.??V*/V ntijic Aincrirtin. Self-Made Men. " Ihirloigh " writes to the llos .ft tii ra/f f Vc.w Vi irk iniinv i hp self-educated, self-made?of whom ; city might he proud. 1 called upon < <>f these the other day. It was " Un .Tolm," as he is culled. John L. Ste enson is the great street car huildei that city. He is now over sixty; as h and vigorous as when he was thirl under-sized, stocky, robust and clieri a mechanic of the James Harper seln lie makes cars for the world. No nnt can compete or undersell him. Whil was talking with him he was makiiij contract for cars for Hombay. Twi cars were ready for Liverpool. Otli were on the wagon for London. Allot lot were for Australia, Norway, Aust: St. Petersburg and also-America : over our boundless continent. Livern cars are double-deckers. But Americ won't ride in theiu. All Lnglish i have the windows fastened down i they can't be sold unless they ; Tln se cars the English cannot ma though they have had the patterns years. Nor can that wonderful nut make a rubber-car spring. All are mi \ ... At.. L*i I .. 1 * in 11 .>11. Diri'Ui'inuii Minp.s no i. He delivers nil his work in Now Yc Mi it'll nation, company or man wliotni for a c.'.r, pays for it in Now York, contract is taken unless the contra* has a hanker in New York who will ] for the fiir when it is done. Mr. Ste enson builds nine cars a week. He titke an order and have n car ready ship in four days. Each car costs ?1,(! gold. Mr. Stephenson is an ild-ti Methodist. For half a century lie been a member of one church. T1 he is a leader of the choir, leader of Sunday-school, a chus 1-a ler, a man great wealth ami of open-handed lil ality. J lis children ami grand-child are in the trade with him, ami all li to begin where he began, on the low round of tlie ladder. A New Way. The Chicago Tours knows of a way which the country can be saved, says: Suppose, without disfran'his any one, we give two vot< s to every i who possesses certain educational qu lieations, two to every man who poss, es a certain amount of taxable propc without tin- educational qualilicatioi How then Tho poor ami ignor voter would still possess sufficient j>??] cat power for his own protection, lai good deal less power for mischief tl he now wields. This, or something I it, may become possible some day, wl the evils of equal and universal vot become more glaring and intolora than they now are. A family in Clinton, California, lit veil that some of their enemies in neighborhood turned themselves i eats and annoyed them. Acting nj this theory one of tlx' sons shot at a < and, missing it, tried to kill a snspec neighbor. He and the rest of the fan were arrested, and in court they sw with apparent sincerity to their hnlli nation. They will probably bo scut an insane asylum. ? SFUTEUKAXEAX LIFE. )(> A ISiulu ail in llir I'nilrrwroiinil IU- Worlil i?l n \c? York llnlrl. In' ftevs tin1 Xrw York .Sun : Dick, the j ho ratcatcher, was engaged t<> clean the IRS j kitchen, cellars, meat house, wine, bread, j in- | and bar rooms of a Broadway hotel after i To i midnight on Saturday. Underground lint i in a large hotel is a world by itself. | in- j The kitchen is one hundred feet long by ! or. j twenty broad. The tloor is of brick. 1 ing Tlire--longtablcscxtenditsentirelength. ! rk , Shelves, cupboards, and dresses hide I igs j the walls. Almost endless rows of dishes, ] rly shining pots, pans,and enormous boilers 1 nid are tasp fully arranged according to size j nil- at the end of the room. A forty foot li?- | range and a vast furnace, hugging ovens ( i in | and bakeries, are red with roaring tires | in- inside. The French cook stands in his | all well starched white apr< n and cap, j or- 1 silently watching his assistants. Several est j dainty dishes are being prepared. To j the ( each of these he give . his attention. of Here he pours in drops from several lit-I itly tie bottles; there a handful of Hour; j ar- here a cupful of cream ; there a spoon- I 'di- ful of butter, livery dish lie tastes, and [ wn as it is done, he catches the put or pan, ! his , mill ill ft IV iimitiis its >>iiiit?ntii tutu I the | tun ens <>r plates. At a quarter to twelve i 1 to | lu? l?ids !:is assistants to prepare to ("Iran | for , up. At midnight a major ilonio doho seem Ist>' tin* kitchen ami shouts, " Put [ rut out the lights. The cook goes around ?ht I his kit <'li' 11, sees that everything is in its us, ! place, turns down the gas, ami then all ien i is still. j Dick the Ilat ami his assistant take ac- j possession of the lower regions. Dick i of lights his hull's eye lantern, examines his isi- long iron pinchers, closely scrutinizes an. 1 his canvas hag, puts on a pair of light hie | slippers, ami strips for work. The rats he j are e\iilently busy, as they arc hearil i in | from far ami near. Dick has studied :ies | their routes. Hefore going to work he iter | carefully removes every obstacle in his ich way as silently as he can. Then he ntout ters a call squeal, like that of a rat. is. Again, I >ick squeals louder and with "Co, more assurance. This time he is auant swered from the bread room, where a lis- hundred barrels of Hour and hundreds ue- of loaves are packed. the Dick had previously thrown open all ml- j the doors. Like a cat he springs for?os | ward in the darkness ; his strong light act : danci s with extraordinary rapidity along ! in t the walls, door s, and ceilings. The j 'di- i sharp, piercing cry of a rat in pain an I ; of | nounces Dick's csipture. His assistant | is I opens the bag, and a great rat is thrown I in. The assistant shakes the bag several times and the rat is quiet. A weak, yet ; shrill squeak is heard, and Dick brings out at the end of his largo nippers a ; poor little mouse. Hat ami mouse aro n put into the bag. Dick pauses a mou~ : ment, and again gives a call squeal, 1 which lie says the rats understand to i >lie . ... ,, " . i.... ,i.i.i .i . mean an is suic. ouucieuiy ill' mrows 1 j ' i the dazzling light u]>.?n a slii'lf. There, | j ' crouched ami seemingly paralyzed, i.-. a V | monster rat. It does not stir, but looks j".? straight at the light. It is unable to \ ' move. Its largo blark eyes are distinct' ly seen, while it still holds the broad in !? ' its mouth that it was eating. Upon it lo!.' I >iek springs, and his nippers seize it. I *' T ie rat utters a piercing squeal, the bag ; i is opened, and it is thrown in. ? The rats in the bread rt om have taken l' ! the alarm. Diek darts out and as the 1 j bright ray dances up and down, lie runs, Im'l stops, stands erect, crouches, listens, J u"l squeals, darts forward, and the light ' " runs along pipes, behind barrels, under | ^ boards, into holes. At one moment he | il1^ is in the icy chill of the great meat room, , "" with its pounds of beef and mutton, and | its hundreds of chickens, ami then in | y ' the grocery ; the wine room ; the larder; ! the store room; the coal room; the "!n garbage room; back again into the u ' kitchen, and at two o'clock the bag couj tains fifty rats. doS I No ! The Interior of Africa. *"1. 1 CV>1. Long, in describing his recent ''l'N journey to the interior of Africa, and ' i the vicinity of the land of the pigmies, i r:'M thus describes the hardships he under- I . ' I went : To cross Atinour is a fearful | 1 1 ' undertaking, I assure you. For one ( hundred and fifty miles the route, , ,':l' though painful, is in close proximity to the river, and thus we have water for ; j two hundred miles. Leaving Abon 1 1 '' Ilnnied, where the river den ribesa great " '~ ( ai westward, we are obliged to cross a | 1011 ; bleak, barren sea of sand, -o sulVnctiug :,N'> t and hot that thethernioiiieti r will searce' | ly register the heat, (ireat simoons or | lihamseens blow with roaring sounds j their hot hreath, and cause your skin to j crack like parchment. On all sides a I sea of sand, bordered only by delusive ' m mirages that lead many to their death ; It f,,r there is no well or water (save one, infi> half-way, like F.psom salts, and nolle l,aJl but camels may drink it) : then we have ah i water for eight days, carried mi camels' ss- i iMl<.ks in goat skins. The camel, a pa 'rt.V tient, hard working animal, without ,s which it would he impossible to cross ant i (j,,. desert, still has not the extraordi''ti navy p.owers attributed to him, and is t :l water-proof only for two or three days, '!aM , dying on the fourth. Thousands thus perish, and the road for the whole dis(l??ll i 1 A lanec snow.h 11 \ to ton carcasses it>r every in? mile, bleached bones that indicate tin* bio deadly route. Aihl to this the fearful1 see-saw movement. A forced march is necessary, ami day ami night, with oojl(V easionnl nans ami stops for the parties 1)OSO ?' eating black bread and onions nju and drinking of nearly putrid water?all )))n this may not give you the slightest con at : option tlitss march, ted lily A Kentueky woman writes to the i ore N'tntimi'x ,/ottnial to say that "the lei dawn of freedom for women here is Ixv to gun," because "many wives arc demanding stated incomes from their husbands." FROM KITCIIEX TO 1IALL. A IMi)ln<!?'l|iliin Mrrvnm Ulr! lii-i-omen nn Irinli llt-lrc-H. A Philadelphia paper says : Patrick UafVerty is dead. Patrick breathed his last away off in one of tho northern counties of Ireland. Now the death of Patrick didn't startle tho civilized world in general one-third as much as it did tho immediate neighborhood of 3,197 ltidge avenue in particular. Ilero resides tho famous Dibbs family, composed in tho main of Mr. and Mrs. Dibbs and a Miss Margaret Kall'erty. The latter is, or ( nuiiii ?an iiiiiu rriM'iinj, it tiuinea- j tic in the Dibbs household. Sho had youth on her Hide, and her arm was as well developed as the limbs of a lion. Mr. Dibbs saw beneath her bronzed features all of her true worth, and when she told him in her own simple, orphan-like way that she was a stranger in a strange land, that she liadu't any friends and hadn't any " spondoolix," his heart was touched, for lio knew she'd be handy about the house, and was sure to know how to boil his corned beef and eabbage. So Margaret, after Mr. Dibbs had consulted his wife, beeamo as one of the family, and at once, entered upon her household duties. This happened three years ago, and one day last week found the once dejected immigrant alive and kicking in Dibbs' kitchen. Iler face was as bright as a new tin pan, and you could see your likeness from a distaneo of live feet in the glistening beauty of her dnrk brown eyes. Kleveii o'clock had struck, and she was just in the act of taking up the potatoes for dinuer when Mr. Dibbs, all aglow with incitement, handed Margaret a letter from California. It was the lirst line from anybody the peor girl had ever received, and her enthusiasm was so great that slio dropped the "murpheys," dish and all. Her excitement was beyond control ; she couldn't hold the letter steady enough to read it, and so asked Mr. Dibbs to become her secretary. The kind old gentleman consented, and while Margaret sobbed and laughed outright at inconsistent intervals, read to her the following astonishing epistle : c? Ti -r 1 oas i kaja'isco, iluiy 1u. My Dear Sisteh : I liavo just received a letter from the parish priest of St. 1 Uiilget's Abbey, who informs mo that our undo Patrick is denil, ami has left an estate of ?00,000. Wo are his nearest of kin, ami consequently as rich as blazes. I'll write ye agin. Hopin' this thuls you as it leaves me, I remain your darling brother, Timothy IIaffehty. At the conclusion of Mr. Dibbs' reading, Margaret didn't faint, but sprang to her feet and rushed up stairs, vowing she'll cooked the last dinner for the Dibbs family. Mr. Dibbs immediately informed his wife of the intelligence, and the two worthy people eamo to the conclusion that to adopt Miss ltaderty would be a humane thing under the circumstances. They accordingly adopted her, and Miss Margaret, feeling somewhat elated over the circumstance, resolved to be known henceforth as Miss Margaret llalVerty-Dibbs. To the reporter Miss Margaret wouldn't exhibit herself, which refusal, of course, was M iss Margaret's prerogative ; while Mr. Dibbs looked on the inquisitive individual as he would have done upon a suitor for the youug lady's hand. He was communicative enough, however, to make known the fact that Margaret had live brothers, and that the fortune would be divided among them?"pro ratter," said Air. Dibbs; "in other words, accordin' to lor." Plucky Little Children. A circumstance that happened in Chicago shows that two children at least liot'o nu.r.i ilfitt /\i><1?nnmr ^ their years. They are the children of a we'll known business man who resides on East Piersou street, anil their ages are seven and ten respectively. Their father had left the house on the morning in question for his placo of business about eight o'clock, leaving the children together, the oldest being in her teens. This latter was in the rear part of the house somewhere, when the two young ones went into the parlor, and came upon a man who was stealthily walking across the tloor towards the mantel, evidently searching for something. The elder of the two at once, nothing daunted, went np to him and, taking him by the arm, asked him what he wanted. The man grutlly muttered that he wanted "gold," whereupon the child said they had none for him, and told him to leave, lie said then that if he couldn't get gold that he wanted a girl, and, without showing an inclination to leave, sat down upon the sofa. The smaller child ran into the rear part of uic House, seized u broom, ami camo in witli it pel! moll, while the other child ran to the hallway and called to lierfather, pretending la? was in the house. The intruder, fearing In- would be ejected J rather forcibly, if not arrested, at once made his way out of the house, tho children running after him, and the little one in particular giving him a parting tap with her broomstick. The man had found the front door open, andhadgone in to help himself without any ceremony, probably also knowing that tho head of the family was absent. At Atlanta, (la., last autumn, a negro built a coop, six foot by seven, into which he put a dozon partridges, tho ground being tirst covered with grass. I luring tho winter they thrived, in tho spring they mated, laid eggs and hatched out several broods of young, and tho negro now has about sixty young partridges, all doing well. Tliey are tamo, healthy, and seem to bo oontcntod, X. Items of Interest. The Roman Catholic clergy of Troy are determinedly trying to stop round dancing at Irish picnics. Query for naturalists?If a bird in tho hand is worth two in tho bush, is a molo on tho face worth two in the ground ? Tho Sicilians, of late so sharply overhauled, assert that there is as much brigandage in tho streets of New York as in their own island. Fifty thousands Fijians are said, on the best authority, to have perished since tho present epidemic of measles began in tho Fiji Islands. A mosquito, buzzing around where a young lady was singing : " Come to mo in beautiful dreams," said ho woidd? provided there was no bar. Tho Niagara Register says that dogs have been sent over the falls without sustaining serious injury. Now suppose ? you experiment with liackmen. Theio is no place like home. Fallacious. If your home be in a row of houses, it is probable that tho homes of vour neighbors will be like votirs. A young man in Philadelphia went out rowing in a skeleton boat, a few days since, and strapped himself to it. The boat capsized and ho was drowned. The sultan has eight hundred wives, and devotes to his own and their use ?2,000,000 out of tho ?7,000,000 that constitutes the whole income of tho Turkish empire. Danbnry, Conn., has just welcomed the "return, through executive clemency, of one of its oldest inhabitants, who lias passed over forty years of his life in prison for horse stealing. When a boy falls and peels tho skin off his nose, the first thing he does is to get up and yell. When a girl tumbles and hurts herself badly, the first thing she does is to get up and look at her dress. Another indication that economy is in fashion is furnished by a Saratoga shoemaker, who, surrounded by piles of old boots, slippers and shoes, remarked: " I never saw so much cobblin* in Saratoga before." Agassiz was accustomed to toll his pupils to kill a fish as soon as taken from the water, because the flesh of the fish that die as soon as taken from tho water is much better than that of those that suffer before dying. A Denver boy pulled the bung out of a beer barrel and stuck in his thumb ; the barrel rolled over and broke tho thumb so badly that it had to bo amputated ; and tho father of tho boy sued the owner of tho barrel for $5,000. A Georgia farmer has raised from one grain of wheat one hundred and ninetyone stalks and one hundred and ninety heads. Tho largest head has ono hundred and eighty-five grains. This is tho most remarkable reproduction on record. Tho old superstitious idea tliat tho hand of a dead man is a talisman against evil, once prevalent among Southern negroes, seems not to have died out. A vault in Greenvillo, Miss., was recently broken open and a hand cut from a corpse. The Patrons of Husbandry of Indiana li!>vn rr>uf>ltTOil flint tlinv will not hnv eer tniu agricultural implements, for the very reason that the manufacturers refuse to recognize the grange agents, and will only sell through the old established agents. California ?s giving fresh evidence of the antiquity of man. Sawn logs that might have been worked at by the man of the Calavaras skull have just been dug out 1,800 feet from the mouth of the South Fork tunnel, and 800 below the surface. A man was recently discharged from the Herks coiuity (Pa.) prison, where ho had been serving a term of thirty days for vagrancy, who is only thirty-eight years of age, and has been iu twentyseven different jails, spent twenty years of his life in them and learned tivo trades. At Halifax, N. S., a circus has fallen into the hands or bailiffs. A firm of printers seized several of its effects for debt, among the rest a fierce lion. Iheyr aunounce that they are going to put this animal to use in collecting bills of refractory patrons. In a caso lately tried in a Philadelphia court, the presiding judge instructed . tho jury that the act of killing by one whose mind, from extremo intoxication, was incapable of forming a deliberate intention, could not be held as murder in tho first degree. A mother and father are trying to force their daughter torn *Ty. Daughter [ (loquitur)?" There are many reasons why I don't want to marry him. In the I first plows ho is too hideous and stupid." Mother (with dignity)?" Stephanie, did I not marry your father?" Whoever has had occasion to find out what high prices aro charged by dentists in Paris will appriciate this story : A lady went to ono of the fraternity to have a tooth extracted. He did the work in a moment, and she gave him ten franca. He looked at it in disgust. "Is this for my servant ?" he said. "I^o. air, she answered, "it is for both of yon 1" The Esquimaux have an ingenious way of killing boars. They sharpen tho ends of a pieoo of whalebone, a foot or moro long, then bend it doable, and wrap it closely in fat meat, whioh is exposed to the air till it freezes. Those treacliorons pellets arc thrown to the bear, which bolts them wholo. They thaw in his sotmaoh, the bontwhalebono straightens, and the sharp points pieroo his vitals whenever he attempts to nftove.