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THE TRIBUNE ^ A " ' ^ '** ,C" J ????> R , V0p- U,^N(). 18. BEAUFORT, S. C., MARCH 22, 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM The Evening Hearthstone. Gladly now w? gatheY round it. For the toiling day is done, And the gay a'.id solemn twilight Follows down the golden sun. Shadows lengthen on the pavement, Stalk like giants through the gloom, Wander past the dusky casement. Creep around the fire-lit room. RDraw the curtain, close the abutters, Place the slippers by the fro ; Though the rude wind loudly mutters, What care we for wind sprite's ire? What care we for outward soemiug ? Fickle fortune's frown or smile ? If around ns love is beaming, Love can human ills beguile. 'Neath the cottage roof* and palace, Prom the peasant to the king, All are quaffing from life's chalice Babbles that enchantment bring. Grates are frlnwini* mini" From the lips wo lovs the beet; , Oh, the Joy, the bliss of knowing J There ere hearts whereon to rest! Hearts that throb with eager gladness? t Hearts that echo to otrr own? t While grim care and haunting sadness I Mingle ne'er in look or tone. ] Care may tread the halls of daylight, l Sadness haunt the midnight honr, 1 But the woird and witohing twilight l Brings the glowing hearthstone's dower. I " Altar of our holiest feelings ! Childhood s well-remembered shrine! ' Spirit yearnings?soul revealings? 1 Wreaths immortal round thee twine! ' The Battle of Germtovn. i ? . ! A STORY OF THE REVOLUTION- ? ART WAR 1 ( ? c M wnlil- y uv gborob l.ippahd. 1 That rifle! blaze, flashing through the ] mist, is the first shot of the battle daj | of German town. And that dead man, ] flung along the porch in all the ghastlineas of bit (Men deatli-^-cold and stiff there, while his sister awakes from her ^ sinless sleep to jxray for him, three thousand miles i)tiraj-7-i8 the first dead man i of that day of horror ! They break from the folds of the mist, ^ the men of Brandywine?foot soldiers and troopers oome thundering up the Q hill. God of Battles, what a scene 1 ^ The whole road, further than the eye could soe, further than the ear could D hear, crowded by armed men, hurrying ^ over Chestnut hill, hurrying along the ^ valley between Chestnut hill and Monet r Airy, sweeping up the hill of Allen's t house, rushing onward in one dense t column, with'the tall farm of Sullivan at r their ahead, -whilh the war shout of fl Anthony Wayne is' borne along by the ^ morning breeze. There, "rising from j rank to rank, speeding fK>m battalion to battalion, from column to column, a form of majesty sweeps by, mounted on ? a steed of iron gray, waving encourage- j J mens to tne men, wiido every lip repeats 8 the whisper, and every heart beats at * the sound, echoed like a word of magic 8 along the lines: " There he rides?how 0 grandly his form towers in the mist; it's r Washington?it's Washington 1" and the c whole army take up the sound?" It is 8 Washington!" 11 The descent was like the path of a ? hnrricane. The light of the breaking ? day, streaming dimly through mist and " gloom, fell over the forma of the patriot Mad as they swept down the hill, every I man with his musket ready for the 1 charge, every trooper with his sword 1 drawn, every eye fixed upon the shroud i of mist in front of their path, in the 1 vain effort to gaze upon the position of the advance post, of the enemy a mile 1 . below, every heart throbbing wildly < with the excitement of the coming contest, and all prepared for the keen en- ( counter?the fight, hand to hand, foot < to foot, the charge of death, and the sweeping hail of the iron cannon ball 1 and the leaden ballet. 1 Sullivan's men have passed, they are i down the hill, and you see tiiem below? t rank after rank disaDoearinir in the nail f of the enveloping * mist. Here they ? oome?a band brave and true, a band f with f carred faces and sunbnmt visages, ? with ruste?l muskets and tattered ap- I Kal, yet with true hearts and stout c ds. These are the men of Paoli! t And there, riding in their midst, as a though his steed and himself were but c one animul?so well he backs that steed, so like is the battle fever of horse, with the waving mane and glaring eye, to the wild rage that stamps the warrior's face ?-there in the midst of the Men of Pftoli, rides their leader?Mad Anthony Wayne! . ' ' And then his voice-^-how it rings out upon the morning air,, rising above the oMtter of arms and the'lramp of steeds, rising in a mighty shQut: "On, bovs, OH ! In a moment we'll have them. On, comrades, on?and r?m?tnh?r Paoli I And then comes the bend with the \ 'gallant Frenchman at their head; the brave Conway, brave though unfortu- . nate, also rushing wildly on, in the train ] of the hunt. Your eve sickens as yon gase over file after die of brave men, i with mean apparel and meaner arms, 1 some half clad, others well nigh bare j foot, yet treading gayly over the flinty groimd; some with fragments of a coat : on their backs, others without powering , for their heads, all marked by wounds, i w all thinned by hanger and disease, yet i every man of them is firm, every hand la true, as it olutches the musket with an eager grasp. - , , The band of Pulaski sweeps past, lc auger for the hunt of death, and as they u spur their steeds forward, a terrible sonfusion arises far ahead. g; There .is flashing of strange' fli^s w through the folds of mist, lifting the d: snow-white pall for a moment?there is tl rolling of musketry, rattling like Ihe si thunderbolt ere it strikes?there is the ai tramp of hurrying legions, the far-off ai shout of the oharging Continentals, and o the yells and shouts of the surprised foe- h men. w Sullivan is upon the eamp of the ene- ft my, upon them with the terror of ball tl uid bayonet. They rush from their can aon, they form hastily across the road, ^ in front of their baggage, each red- n soated trooper seeks his steed, each ^ footman grasps his musket, and tlip loud voioe of Musgrave, echoiug wildly oj ilong the line of crimson attire and ^ Sashing bayonets, is heard above all >ther sounds : "Form?lads, form?fall in there?to ^ four arms, lads, to your arms. Form, wmrades, form!" ^ _ In vain his shouting, in vain the haste ^ >f his men rnshing from their beds, ^ nto the very_path of the advancing Con mentals ! The men of bullivan are jf ipon them ! They sweep on with ono ^ ?old front?the forum -ef the troopers, al nonnted on their war steeds looming rhrongh the mist, as With sword np- -s raised, and battle shont pealing to the ft ikies, they lead on the charge of death! n, " On?boys?on "?rihgs the voioe of ai Mfkl Anthony?" on?comrades?on? cj ind remember Paoli!" t " Charge!" sounds the voice of Washngton, shrieking along the line, like ho voioe of a mighty spirit?" upon ;hem?over them !" Conway re-echoes he sound, Sullivan has already made 1 he air ring with his shout, and now Pnl- ? iski takes up the cry?" Fonvarts? ^ mtdmrn?Fantrwrts f3 The British face the bayonets of the ^ nlvancing Amotions, but in vain. Each >old backwoodsman sands his volley of loath along the British line, and then y slabbing his musket, rushes wildly for- jr vard, beating the reu-ooat to the sod _ vith a blow that oaunotbe stayed. The j Sritish troopers rush forward iu the al :hargo, bnt ere haliipbedistanoe between ham and the American host is measured, tr dad Anthony comes thundering on, M vith his legion of iron, and as his war p Jaout swells on the sir, the red-ooets are Iriven back by the hurricane force of his harge, the ground hi strewn with the _ tying, and toe red hoofs of the horse r&mple madly over the face* of the p lead- ' ti The fire of the infantrv. snreadinc a heeted flame through the folds of mist, ights up the scene. The never ceasing lang of sword against sword, the low ^ nattered shriek of the fallen, vainly Q rying to stop the flow of blood, the did yell of the soldier, gazing madly 0j ound as he reoeivea his death woand, 8j he shoat of the oharge, and the invol- a latary cry of " quarter," all furnish a Q ausic most dread and horrible, as thoagh ? ,n infernal band were urging on the rork of slaughter, with their uotes of C( leudish mockery. u, The form of Washington is in the oi tenter of the fight, the battle glare Bc ighting up his face of majesty; the tt tulwart form of Wayne is seen riding litlier and thither, waving a dripping vi iword in his good right hand; the figure C if Pulaski, dark as the form of au earth- fc iven spirit of some German story, breaks o! in your eye, as enveloped in mist, he fc eems rushing everywhere at the same ni loinent, fighting in all points of the w ontest, hurrying his men onward, and v< [riving the affrighted British before lim with the terror of his charge. w And Ool. Musgrage?where is he? fc le shouts the chargo to his men, he ]e lurries hither and thither, hi shouts till w is is hoarse, he fights till his person is th ed with the blood of his own men, slain m >efore his very eyes, bnt all in vain ! He shouts the word of retreat along en lis line: "Away, my men, away to at 3hew's house?away !" ai The retreat commences, and then, in- cl leed, the hunt of death is up in good w earnest. The British wheel dowu the German- r< ?wn road, they turn their backs to their Bi 'oe.i, they flee wildly toward German- 01 own, leaving their dead and dying in heir wake; man and horse, they flee, w ome scattering their arms by the road- Bt tide, others, weakened by loss of blood, e< eebly endeavoring to join the retreat, ind then falling dead in the path of the l0 ratsuers, who with one bold front, with 01 >ne firm step rush after the British in fc heir flight, ride down the fleeing ranks, at aid scatter death along the hurrying H tolumns. ai And in the very van of pursuit, his tr all form seen by every soldier, rode H George Washington, his mind strained si o a pitch of agony, as the crisis of the ol ontest approached, and by bis side rode Had Antnonv Wavne. now Mad Anthonv fc deed, for his whole appearance was a ! hanged, liia oye seemed tamed to a w ;hing of living flame, his faoe was be- 8] grimed with powder, his sword was red B ?rith blood, and his battle-shont rang h leroer on the air: si ' Over them boys?upon them?over h them, and remember Paoli I" 'NowWayne, now," shonted Wash- tl gton?"one charge more and we o1 have them 1" d: ' Forwarts ? brndern ? forwarts I" ai shonted Palaaki, as his iron band oame ft thundering on?"Forwarts?for Wash- no ington?forwarts!" 1? Ttie British leader wheeled his steed d for a moment, and gazed npon his pur- a] mere. All around was bloodshed, gloom tl and death; mist and smoke above; flame h around, and mangled oorses below, st With 6ne hoarse snout, he again bade a his men make for Chew's house, and 1< again the dying scattered along the path >oked np, and beheld the British sweepig madly down the road. The vanguard of the pursuers had [lined the upper end of Chew's wall, hen the remnant of the British force Lsappeared in the fog; file after file of le crimson -coated British were lost to ght in the mist, and in the very heat id flush of the chaso, the American rmy was brought to a halt in front of how's wall, each soldier falling back on is comrade with a sudden movement, hile the offioers gazed on each other's ices in vain inquiry for the cause of lis unexpected delay. Tho fog gathered in donse folds over le heads of the soldiers, thioker and lore dense it gathered every instant; le enemy was lost to sight in tho direcon of Chew's lawn, ana a fearful pause [ silence, from the din and tumult of loodshed, ensued for a single moment Bending from his steed in front of the ate that led into Chew's lawn, Washigton gazed round upon the faces of his -aff, who circled him on every side, ith every horse recoiling on his aunches from the sudden effect of the alt. Washington was about to speak as he >aned from his steed, with his sword alf lowered in the misty air, he was bout to speak, and ask the meaning of lis sndden disappearance of the Brith, when a lurid flash lifted up the fog om the lawn, and the thunder of lusketry boomed along the air, echoingnong tne nooks and corners of the anient houses on the opposite side of the ;reet. Auothcr moment, and a soldier with loe all crimsoned with blood and darkled by battle smoke, rushed through le group clustering around the horse T Washington, and in a hurried voice anounoed that the remnant of the British regiment had thrown themselves ito the substantial stone mansion ou le left, and seemed determined to make ood a desperate defense. "What say you, gentlemen," cried Tsshlngton ; "shall we press onward ito the town, and attack the main body f the enemy at onoe, or shall we first rivo the enemy from their stronghold, b this mansion on our left?" The answer of Wayne was short and ) the point. " Onward !"?he shonted, id his sword rose in the air; all droping with blood?"onward into the iwn?our soldiers are warmed with the mse?onward, and with another blow e have them!" And the gallant Hamilton, the braves ickering, the gifted Marshall, eehoed le cry?"Onward"?while the hoarse lout of Pulaski rang out in the air : Forwarts?brudern?Forwarts!" " It is against every rule of military lienoe," exclaimed General Knox, whose linion in council was ever valuable wiUi Washington; "it is against every rule E military science, to leave a fortified ;r mghold in the rear of an advancing rmy. Let us first reduce the mansion n our left, and tlipn move forward into le center of the town 1" ' There was another moment of solemn inncil ; the older officers of the staff aited in opinion with Knox, and with ae quick anxious glance aronnd the :ene of fog and mist, Washington gave ic orders to storm the house. And at the word, while a steady ilnme of flame was flashing from hew's house, e ery window pouring >rth its blaze, glaring over the wreath f mist, the Continentals, horse and >ot, formed across the road, to the orth of the house, eager for the signul hich would bid them advance into the ?ry jaws of death. All was ready, for the storm. Here ere men with firebrands, ready to rusli i rward under the cover of the first voly of musketry and fire the honse ; hero ere long lines of soldiers grasping leir gnns with a quick nervous moveent, one foot advanced in the act of >ringing forward; yonder were the muoniers, their pieces loaded, the linock in the hand of one soldier, while lother stood ready with the next iarA e of ammunition; on every side as intense suspense and expectation. At this moment, when everything was sady for the storm of death, an expreson of the most intense thought passed irer the impenetrable countenance of Washington. Every line of his features as marked by thought, his lips were ernly compressed, and his eyes gather1 a strange fire. He turned to the east, and bent one ng anxious look over the white folds f mist, as though he would pierce the ig with his glance, and gaze upon the Ivoncing columns of Greene and bophen. He inclined his head to one d? of his steed, and listened for the amp of their war horses, but in vaiu. .e turned toward German town ; all was lent in that direction, the main body f the enemy were not yet in motion. Aud then, in a calm voice, he asked ?r an offioer who would consent to bear flag of truoe to the enemy. A young ja gaiiant omcer of Liee's rangers rrang from bis horse ; his name Lieut, mith ; he assumed the snow white flag, eld sacred by all nations, and with a ngle glance at tho Continental array, e advanced to Chew's house. In a moment he was lost to sight amid le folds of the fog, and his way lay rer the green lawn for some two hnnred yards. All was still and silent round him. Tradition states that the re from the house oeased for a molent, while Muagrave's band were simtly maturing their plan of desperate efense. The young soldier advanced long his lonely path, speeding through le bosom of the fog, all objects lost to is sight, save the green verdure of the >d, yet unstained Dy. blood, and here ad there the trunk of a giant tree x>ming blackly through the mist. The outline of a noble mansion began to dawn on his eye, first the Bloping roof, then the massive chimneys, then the front of the edifice, and then its windows, all crowded with soldiers in their crimson attire, whiskered face appearing above face, with grisly musket and glittering bayonet, thrust out mpon the air, while with fierce glances the hirelings looked forth into the bosom of that fearful mist, which still, like a death shroud for millions, hnng over the lawn, and over the chimneys of the house. The young officer camo steadily on, and now he stood some thirty paces from the house, waving his white flag qb high, and then with an even stop he tulvanced toward the hall door. Ho advanced, but he never reached the hall door. He was within the scope of the British soldiers' vision; 1 hey could have almost touched him with an extended flag staff, when the loud word of eommand rang through the house, a volley of fire blazed from every window, and the whole American army saw tho fog lifted from the surface of the lawn, like a vast curtain from the scenes of a magnificent theater. Slowly and heavily that curtain uprose, and a hail stdrm of bullets whistled across the plain, when the soldiers of tho Continental host looked for their messenger of peace. They beheld a gallant form in front of the mansion. He seemed making an , effort to advance, and then he tottered to and fro, and his white flag disappeared for a moment; and the next instant he foil down like a heavy weight upon the sod, aud a hand trembling with the Enlse of death was raised abovo his _ead, waving a white flag in the air. That flag was stained with hlood; it was the wnrm blood flowing from tho young Virginian's heart. Along the whole American line there raDg one wild yell of horror. Old men raised their muskets on high, while the tears gathered in their eyes; tho young soldiers all moved forward with one sudden step; a wild light blazed in the eve of Washington; Wayne waved his dripping sword on high; Pulaski raised his proud form in the stirrups, and gave one meaning glance to his men; and then, through every rank and file, through every column and solid square, rang the terrible words of command, and high above all oth-r sounds was heart! the voice of Washington: "Charge, for your oountry and for vengeance?charge!" The Breakfast Hour. The philosophy of breakfast seems to be a perplexing one. According to some theories it is best to take a light nip just after waking, and sit down to a substantial meal after a lapse of two or three hours. The Sanitary Record (English) sanctions our American custom of a substantial meal soon after rising. Let a healthy man really " break " his "fast" with a substantial meal, and not break his breakfast with irritating little .pips or slops beforehand. After the stomach has at its leisure emptied itself, dnring sleep, of its contents, and sent them to repair the worn tissues and exhausted nerve force, and the blood has been ventilated and purified by washing aud dressing with the window open, then is the time when the most perfect of all nutritive articles, farinaceous food, can be consumed in largest quantities with advantago. Butter also, and fat and sugar, troublesome customers to weak digestions, are then easily coped with, and contribute their invaluable aid to performing the duties of the day. For example, many persons can drink milk to a fair and useful amount at breakfast, with whom it disagrees at other hours. And the widely advertised "breakfast bacon " by its name warns the consumer against indulgence later on in the day. Cafe au lait and sweet, creamy tea are to many men poisonous in the afternoon, though in the prime of the morning they are a wholesome beverage to the same individuals. Let the vigor, good humor, and refreshment, then felt by a healthy man, be utilized without delay in eating a hearty moil immediately after ho is dressed, and not fritted away in the frivolities of other occupations. Let not reading. writiner or business?mns culnr, political, or economical?exhaust the nervous system. The newspaper and letters should not be opened, preferably not delivered, till the appetite is thoroughly appeased. flow they tfather Cocoanuts. (Jocoannt forests of thousands of acres aro spread over the plain back of Ualle, in Coylon. The trees run up without knot or limb from thirty to eighty feet to the branches that bear the fruit. A matured tree is only about one foot to one foot ami a half in circumference at the base, and it maintains nearly this sizo all the way up. How is the fruit gathered at such a height ? The coolies climb these trees like squirrels : they place a ropo around the legs near the ankles, so as to hold - them in position around the tree, and then without spur or other artificial lielpi they olimb up with astonishing oelerity, gather the fruit and drop it on the ground. A single tree produces about a dozen pocoanuts, and the coolie liarvester is allowed one for gathering the frait of each tree. These cocoanut forests aro really beautiful, presenting symmetrical growth, graceful proportions and charming shade. Tho fruit itself with the inclosed milk affords healthful food and oooling drink ; it is a source of considerable revenue from export ; tho fiber of the shell is largely utilized for the manufacture of cloth and rope. Next to coffee, tho coccannt is the most important and valuable product of this island. A Spring' (torment. The blouse basque is a tasteful auc simple garment, to which an air*of nov olty is given by adding the blouse front and belt. To do this the basque is first made complete in every part, except that the standing collar is not sewed oh, This basque, says the Bazar, has long side forms behind, w.th seams begin ning on the shoulders and extending tc the end of the basque, without added fullness on the tournnre. To prevent this back from looking too plain, a past of the material is sowed into the side form seams and tied low down on the middle seam in a loose long-looped bow, The fronts have two darts, are buttoned from the throat to the waist, and fal open below the waist. A wide belt ol four upturned folds of the silk begins it the seams under the arms, and is fasten ed by three small buttons and button holes. The blouse fronts are thei made of two straight pieces of the drest material long enough to reach from th( throat to the belt, and each about twt and a half fingers wide for busts of ordi nary size. The sides are plaiuly finished with a half-inch hem done in blind stitches. The upper part is shaped onl to fit the neck, is gathered and tastec to the neck, extending back to the shoulder seam. The aides are not Bowed to tho basque, but are left quite Ropa rate; the front parts lap sufficiently tc conceal the buttons of the basque be neath, and appear as one straight gath ercd piece. The lower end is straight and after being drawn up with gatheri to a much smaller space than the top, is bound, and the binding is tuckec away out of sight under tho belt. Th< effect of this simple blouse front is tc give a full and graceful roundness tc the bust, and also to add a very pretty tr i uimiii g. On cashmere dresses trimmed with silk tho blouse is of silk. On silk dresses it is of the dress silk, or else ol the velvet, lace, or tulle used for trim ming. The standing collar is then add ed, and the waist is completed. Very girlish dresses made with the blouse front dispense with a collar of the drest goods, and have instead a narrow standing gathered ruffle of the materia) around the neck, and above this the lace frill or linen collar appears. The plain coat sleoves have a cuff headed by bllia folds. Crowding Children. <( Dnnio " ouira ?V?A '/UIKAH? rxl-1 children should bo before they go to school, and is there any danger in crowding them; if so, what is it? According to Froeb.-l, a child should begin to go to kindergarten when two and one-kali years old. At seven he begins his studies. In most, if not all the States, children of four years are considered old enough to go to school, but every parent should be the judge of his child's school age. Some children learn to rdhd as they learn to talk; others are very slow in developing any taste for letters. The great danger to the little ones in sending them to school comes from close, bad air, constrained and unnatural positions, and enforced quietness. The menta! and physical elasticity of childhood is greatly impaired by rigid and coutinuous routine. Growth is the first law of childhood, and neither mind nor body should be so constrained that expansion in any normal direction is rendered difficult. At three years of age John Stuart Mill began the study of Greek, bnt he studied at home, a .d had no inflexible rules of position and deportment to observe. The military drill observable in some schools looks well on parade, but it makes more automatons flton nnniiioua X4- in ??/>* ** <1 ? tUnl viiwu j^cuiuoco. xi in vcity ixosiittuic tiiilt children should learn to read at an early age, in order that they may h ave the infinite resource of books at command. If they can learn this at the mother's knee, and then have a supply of juvenile books to feed their growing hunger for knowledge, this will be better than mere scholastic drill. How they were Fooled. Some years ago, when Dr. Hayes had returned from his first Arctic exploring expedition, a poster appeared one morning at every prominent placo in a town in the interior of Pennsylvania announcing: "A free lecture in Republican hall on Thursday evening, seven o'clock, April 1st, 18?, by Dr. Hayes, the great Arctic exploror. All are invited." Long before the appointed hour the hall was crowded, and the audience on the alert to catch a glimpse of the great mau who was to give them a great intellectual treat all for nothing. They waited and watched anxiously for over an hour, and then sent for the manager of the entertainment, but he couldn't be found anywhere. At length some one proposed to get up a collection to raise funds to induce the doctor to come over from the hotel; but no one seconded the motion. Meanwhile, at the outside of a window at the far end of the hall, gradually arose a placard with the words: " April Fools," in large, blaok letters. For a time this was unperoeived by the vast audience, but they haven't heard Dr. Hayes to this day. The KKASON.?unarles 11. onoe asked a body of Havana why it was that a live fiali placed in a bucket of water did nol increase its weight, whereon when a dead fish was placed therein it became heavi er. Many were the learned theorist pnt forward to acoonnt for the alleged fact, and it was not till some one more shrewd than the rest proposed that the experiment be tried that it was found that the phenomenon under disoussior had no existence exoept in the imagina tion of the witty monarch. A Nursery Rhyme for 187<>. [ Ilock-a-by baby, on tho treotop ! - When the wind blows the cradle will rock. 1 But the cradle of liberty ncvor will fall, fc Though the boughs do wave and the tree is so b tall. , It's a simplo contrivance, dear, having a spring, > That will hold you and rock you. as safe as a I king ; k You can see the whole world as your oyeB grow L strong? The wonderful world that's beeu growing so * long, I That is wiser, my dear, and braver and truer I Eaoh year as it grows. '.Of this wo'ro sure ; f And this is w by babies, in all times and lands, L Frolic and crow and toss up their hands. Faets and Fancies. i ) " Marriage," said an unfortunate liua) band, " ia tho churchyard of love. > " But you men," said his wife, aro the . gravediggers." hnililpra orn nnKinn "" W .1? > .?vy ^umug T *OUU|JVU I contrivances, intended to divide and t turn aside the descending snow on Virl git-ia City houses. | An advertisement iu a rural nowspa^ per iu England announces that "a grand pianoforte will be exchanged for three ' or four small pigs." The uncle of young Hathaway, who was recently lynched at Plainville, ' Minn., is about to sue Wabasha county for 810,000 damngep. [ The National Guard of the State of 5 New Jersey propose a few weeks' en> campmunt, during the mmmer, on the > Centennial grounds in Philadelphia. ' The State authorities of Kansas, in an I effort to exterminate tho grasshopper, l offer a bounty of 85 a bushel for their E eggs and 81 a bushel for young insects. Some Jersey City schoolgirls attacked " a loafer who insulted them, and beat him with their sachels until he was obligod ! to call upon a policeman for protection. ' The son of an earl is in jail at Buffalo L for attempting to defraud a hotel keeper. ( It doesn't seem that the son of an earl is , smarter at the business tlian any one AIoa Every foot of space allotted to the Dominion at the Philadelphia exhibition is occupied, the number of Canadian exhibitors having exceeded all expectal tions. 1 " Patrick, where's the whisky I gave you to clean the window with ?" "Och, ! master, I just drank it ; and I thought if 1 I breathed on the gloss it would be all 1 the same." A tramp was recently sentenced to two years iu the house of correction for refusing to saw wood at the North Andover (Mass.) almshouse, in payment for lodging and breakfast. Boston is fifty-four years old. The city was incorporated in 1822, one hundrod and sevonty years after the incorporation was first mooted, and one hundred aud thirteen after the first failure to incorporate it. The brig P. M. Tinkor, of Norfolk, Va., was recently attacked by a swordfish, which drove its sword through the copper sheathing and a four-inch plank and some six inches into the timbers, causing a serious leak. Official reports show a substantial docrease in the number of deaths from intemperance in England of late years. Iu 1850 the number was 863, and in 1873, the latest ye; r for which reports have been issued, the total was 777. Judge Chester D. Krum, one of the Babcook counsel, was mayor of Alton during the Loyejoy riots. He was famous at the time for having begun a speech to the howling fanties with the address : " Gentlemen of the mob." Utah last year produced agricultura and horticultural products valued at $5,503,461 ; the animals and their products were worth $7,861,891, and the product of her mechanical and manufacturing industries aggregated $5,509,741, in all $18,935,103. The habit of opium smoking in the Chinese dens at Virginia City, Nev., is becoming so common among tho white people that mauy of tho older pupils in tho public schools are l>eginning to fre, qnent these places, and a loud call is made to have them closed by law. i An old farmer said to his sons: " Boys, don't you ever spekeilate, or i wait for somethin' to turn up. You might just as well go and sit down on a i stone in the middle of a modder with a pail twixt your legs, and wait for a cow to book up to you to be milked." A iady died recently at Exeter, England, of an over doso of chloral, which ' constituted tho active part of a patont 1 medicine. The solution oontained twen1 ty-live grains to the teaspoonful, a most 1 unusual strength, and yet was sold with out intimation of the danger attending 1 its use. A young minister, somewhat distinguished for self-conceit, having failed : disastrously before a crowded audience, | was thus addressed by an aged brother : ' "If you had gone into that pulpit, feeling as you now do on coming out of that piupit, VUU wuuiu Iiavn mn, uu iXJUllUg out of that pulpit, as you did when you went up into that pulpit." When elected President of the United States, Washington was fifty-seven years of age ; John Adams was sixty-two ; Jefferson, fifty-four ; Madison, sixty; Monroe, fifty-nine; John Qniney Adams, fifty eight ; Jackson, sixty-one ; Van Burcn, fifty-four ; Harrison, sixty seven ; Taylor, sixty-four ; Polk, fortynine ; Pieroe, forty-eight; Buchanan, - sixty-five; Lincolh, fifty-one ; Grant, forty-six.