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m \ i mm I FOR HIE Y01NU FOLKS. ?nh Hwr! How tired she wa-.! How ilio starch did persist in sticking to the irons instead of to the clothes! 2>j many of them, too; there really was no sense in Will's wearing so many pairs of en if-, and Nellie four white aprons in one week, when people had to do their ow n work: and Katy thumped the iron oij the unoffending white apron most vigonusiy. Everything was hard. When she lilted the iron, she saw, right in the center of the apron, a great brown scorch. It was not any use, the tears would J iand till her eyes so that she could j not - . ^he would not cry; she would : n ) !>e si? weak. l?ut yet, after she | wijfd'.hem all away, she had to press J tli- li 1. ! iwn hard to keep some more. tr .11. .-.:isi:ia. St he was so tired. i. ii.t in ! been ><> e.'j-y to keep at work ; ali -ln-.d^li that pleasant October ntorn-1 ii:_: w.tdiiug ami wiping dishes, sweep-1 ing, .iti-ti::ir and ironing. And what I made it jn*t a little harder was, that' -i in the next yard, and in full view : i.o.n ihe dining-room door, was Mainie I Smith. dreatnitigaway the live-long morn-! i:i; ia tli.u luxurious hammock, with a ii.-k 't nt poaches beside her, and a book in h'-r h ind? a book which she, Katv, was dying"' to read and hadn't been able to get. T-? l?y sure, she couldn't expect to have tilings come to her just as tiuy did to At.1 nit" Mnitii. whose lather was u millioiiaiie. TJiere was nothing very com-1 ior'ititt in that thought, taken hy itself, j I mi', nieii - and she pressed the tears hack j bravely. There was her mother; how | baid it wa> t'??r her! There she was. com-1 ing down stairs, and Katv knew she was I n ?i able. Oh, dear, those headaches? liow they were wearing on her! "Here. Kitty, Kitty, Kitty-cat,here's ~ I.,..,..- f.\i. vau !" Ai'init l?ol. stvirlinrrl ajvtbvi '?* .* v.?w? "v") into the room. "What! in the dumps again, as 1 live; never saw anything like | it. l>ou't see why von can't l?e like other girls* and, throwiug it into her lap, he was gone. Well that he did not give her time to anv.ver liitu. forcuttiugwords had sprung f to Katy's lips. But never mind?they melted and were gone before she had bait read her letter. Sueh a bright, cluvrv letter it was. It seemed as if a llood of sunshine had burst in upon her, uuril she came to the last part; then the clouds gathered?rain-ciouds this time, and the tears began to come in earnest as she read: "And, now, dear Katy, ws want you to eomo and make us a long, long visit. Wc shall have lots of fun. You must try and stay over tLo holidays, if you can. Write and toll ui when we may look for you. Your loviug friend, BksSIE." Such a bright picture, held up. as it would seem, only to try her. Surely her lot was very hard. It was no use to say a word about it. She had heard her father say. only that morning, that they must be exceedingly careful of expenses, and must try, if nossible, to do without a giri this fall. So she put the letter iu h?r jweket. set the table, and went into the garden to pick some of the grapes lor lunch. How rich and ripe they were! Such beauties, and she hid the largest clusters temptingly aund green leaves for her mother. " How fine your grapes are, this year! Mine ain't been doin' well this year; you see they weren't taken proper care of, last Jail. Simon he was real bad with his rhoutnatiz 'bout that time, and says he, Well, Sarah Ann, 'taint no use in us wm kin'ourselves so hard any more. It ain't likely we'll either of us be here much longer, and if we be, 1 guess we'll Ik' provided for.' That's his way?'taint mine, lie always took things kind o' easy, though:and somehow beseems to have got on just as well." ' You may have all the grapes you want from here, Mrs. Blinks."said Katv, looking up. " A<?. my dear?thank you; no, there's plenty on our vines for ourselves; but I | was just thinkinghow uncommon strange I the workings of things are. Here we are, both alive and well as ordinary, and poor Mis. Wilton lving dead this morn-1 inn. willi her mx little children crying I Around her. ami her hu>ba:id well-nigh ! distracted with grief. It's a heavy | chain* for Annie. child. am! she only just our age. my dear. Let me?ee, ! you? birthday conms in March, and hers i in .1 iilit?three months younger than I you, 1 do declare, and not so strong and | well grown by halt'." "(Mi 1 am >< sorry." sa'*l JCaty, as I soon as she had time to speak. " It was I so sudden and so awful. Mr. Wilton ' always seemed so well." she added j thoughtfully, as they walked back to the house. That's just what I was a-saym'," continued the old woman. " Says I. now there's Mrs. Rivers?speakiii' of your j mother?I shouldn't have been surprised to bear that she was gone 'mostanv time, j OI1U UIWftY:* W MUHT a?'i UV.UV-UW- . look in', and of late she lias been gettiu' j st? muclt worse that everybody has been j remarking it Then, as I said, your j lathes is well ott'beside Mr. Wilton, and , it wouldn't have cotne half so hard on , you as on poor Annie"' There was a great lump in Katy's I throat; she coe'd not speak. But they i were at the -oor. and as Mrs. Blinks stepped in to see if they had heard the news, Katy stole off all by herself for just . a moment's quiet thought. Had she been rebellious anil ungrateful? She j was afraid she had. But she did not 1 rlrr.uni Imw full V'nw fllll nl' li iliru'. j nos-? whs this every-dav life until she saw ; how dark it m'njht become. After that day her heart was lighter. Nothing seemed so hard or wearisome but what t there was some gladness hidden underneath. " 1 say. Kit, here's a letter of yours, I | found down in the grape row," said Rob, ; coming in a week afterwards. " I j thought it was something of mine until I .rr.f riraiit intniJ-umt sivnnw T inal tv-inf to ask a question: Why didn't you make a fuss because you couldn't go?" " Because, Rob, what's the use as long as I know I ought not go.1' " But you wanted to go, I know, or else you're too good to live." ' I'm not a bit good, and at first I did waul to go desperately, but " And then rtic tola hitn what naa ucinea ner, unci sittiug close beside him, asked hitn to forgive her for the times she had been cross and out of patience with him. There were tears in the big boys eyes, as lie turned away so quickly that she might not see. And there were tears in her eyes, too, ! j when, as she dusted the sitting-room ' I next morning, site canie across a new | 1 - ' l..?l ! book (111 1110 lill'IO ? llll' >CIY UUC OliC 1I.1U ! boon wanting, and, looking on the flyleaf, read the words: " To a sister who is not like most girls, because 6he is better tbau most girls.?Rob." Railroads in France and the United States. i Of all the industries and enterprises | undertaken in the United States, there 1 is no one that so conspicuously shows the intelligent energy of our people as the progress that lias been made in the construction of railroads. These modern conveniences for the promotion of interior intercourse have been resorted to by civilized nations in nrooortion to their I enlightened appreciation of the benefits arising from that rapid and cheap intercommunication, which invites the exchange of commodities and the extension of social communion. The Railroad | Gazette uses an official report just made in France on the railroad system in that country, in instituting a comparison of some of its important points with those ! of the system here. In every view the superiority seems to he with us. The ; favorable contrasts in some respects are i ' surprising. XVc quote from the Gazette: [ | The French railroad system, according ! j to the ofiicial report just published, | | produced the following results in 1378 j | compared with 1S77: i 1S73 1ST7 Incr. P.O. I Miles T.-orkcd Hoe. 31 Irt.TSG 13,352 434 3.3 I | Av. worked during year... 13,498 13,053 440 3.4 j ltweipt# ] >er mile 13,013 12,502 450 3.G Throws receipts were: 1S78. 3175,711,733; 1S77, $10-1,155,375; increase, SI 1,70S,358; percent. 7.1. ! 1 France has an ares of 204,000 square! miles, and has 30.000,000 inhabitants; ! and the most thickly peopled part of the ! United Slates, that east of Indiana and i I that north of tbe Ohio and the Potomac j ?New England, the middle States, | | Maryland and Ohio?have 222,000 square j miles, and, by the census of 1S70, 15,-1 i 870,000 inhabitants, and now probably j I 18,500,000; and they now have 25,S0*y j miles of railroad. i" ranee then has one I mile of railroad to 14.S square miles of . territory and 2,620inhabitants; the east- j em United States one mile of road to i 8.06 square miles of area and to 71S inhabitants. There is nearly twice as much land and nearly four times as many people to support a railroad in France, as in the most thickly populated portion of the United States of similar area. The average contribution per square mile of area and per inhabitant to the earnings of the French railroads, was $864 per square mile ($1.85 per acre) and $4.90 per inhabitant. In the United States territory referred to, the earn-1 ings of the roads were $9,128 per mile ! (and so much larger in the aggregate, I from about twice the mileage, than the j earnings of the French roads, though ! nearly a third less per mile); and the j average per square mile of area was ] 81.097 ($1.07 per acre), and $13.17 peri inhabitant?the latter nearly three times! as much as in France, where there are i nearly four times as many people per I mile of road. In the United States, however, a very j large portion of the earnings of the roads i is from traffic coming from beyond this ' district, which is not the case in France. I About one-half of the total earnings of j 80,000 miles of railroads in the United t States go to the roads of the statesj named, having one-third of the total mileage. , The Storms of Life. Dark, angry clouds overspread the ; sky, illumined at intervals by vivid i flashes of lightning; peals of thunder rent the air like the voices of angry gods, while the trees and flowers fell oc- j fore the heavy gusts of wind and rain j like grain before a sickle. The awful grandeur of the scene struck terror to hearts heretofore un-, known to fear. For more than an hour j the storm raged on till it had spent its , fury, when the wind and rain abated, | and" here and there tiny rifts appeared j in tho rlouds. ffrowinsr Iareer ajiil still i larger, till the sun ljroke in glorious effulgence, brightening the face of nature with dazzling brilliancy. Myriads of diamonds hung in the trees and glistened on the grass and flowers Never was sunshine more beautiful. The terrific storm, so fearful in its wrath, had purified and washed the whole earth and decked in the beautiful t jewels which a shower alone can give, i and though in the cast a rain was falling, j it only enhanced the beauty of the ; scene; for the cloud was spanned by a ; beautiful bow?beautiful, not only on account of its lovely combination of I colors, but as a sign of a glorious promise j made by him who rulctn the storm by i his infinite power. TTiimnn life has its storms. Adversity, temptation and sorrow sweep over the : soul, filling it with fear and dread, j But, after a time, tiny rifts of God's : mercy pierce the cloud? around us, and if we in patience wait, the entire sunshine of his love will break in beauty over our heads, and spanning the clouds that are drifting away from us, we shall see the rainbows of precious promise. Wonderful Inventions. There is nothing like inventions in these days. A man out West has invented a medicine which enables deaf people to hear as well as a watch-dog. | The funniest part of the thing is, however, that it has no affect at all upon the aural tube. It so acts that a man hears with his teeth. This is what makes it i charming beyond description, as it; will enable deaf people to go the opera. Of course it will look a little odd to see the auditorium crowded with people whose mouths are wide open, with clothes-pins inserted to keep them from closing. But supjKise a man had artiticial teeth, then how will the audophone work? In that case it will be necessary to get up a machine by which a man can hear with his nails, or with his boot heels. Then again if a man's teeth happen to fall out, would it not be a good idea to have an invention which will enable him to eat with his eyes, or if he should lose a leg would it not be a great boon to him to be enabled to walk on his lungs; or if he should lose his eyes, how nice it would be for him to be able to see and wink at eirlswitli his kidnevs throueh eve-classes. | There is no use talking, Edison ought to I be employed by the government to keep I up a continual How of inventions. MM?AY KEA 1HXU. i* ___ It is often said thai it makes m> diligence what :i 111:111 helieves if he only acts right. Now, while not admitting the truth of tliis. T am ready to say that it makes in> diflerenre what a ntan lie ieves if he does not act right.?f\S. ?S. Times. l>r. Thompson relates that on one occasion he had climbed nearly to the top of a steep mountain, lifting his feet carefully over the projecting rock*, when faintly from below he heard a silvery voice call out. "Take the safe path,father; I'm coming after you." His heart stood still as he realized the danger of his precious boy. If fathers only remembered that the Itoys are indeed coming after them, how differently they would walk! If they drink, or use profane language, they must expect it in the boys. It' they get angry, they will see the same thing in their children. God gives lives into a parent's keeping to be fitted for an endless future. The thought of that fact ought never tohcahsont from a Christian parent's mind.?["Christ-inn Herald. In our Lord Jesus we see the glory of God in the wondrous blending of the attributes. 1'ehold His mercy, for He dies for sinners; but see His justice, for He sils as judge of quick and dead. Observe His immutability, for He is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever; and sec J-lis power, lor ivus voice sjuikc* uoiouiay earth, but also heaven. .See how infinite is his love, for He espouses Ilis chosen ; hut how terrible His wrath, for He consume* His adversaries. All the attributes of Deity are in him ; power that can lull the tempest, and tenderness that can embrace little children. The character of Christ is a wonderful combination ofall perfections making up one perfection; and we see the glory ol" God in the face of Jesus Christ, for this is God's glory, that in flint nothing is excessive and nothing is deficient. He is all that is good and great; in Him is light, and no darkness at all.?f^purgeoii. The story is told of a certain nobleman of Alexandria, who complained bitterly to the bishop of that city of his enemies. While in the midst of his tale the ladl sounded for prayers, an<l bishop and nobleman dropped to their knees, the former leading in the Lord's I>?-oi'A>' oiwl Innvintr fni* tli#? tiiUQ his story untold. Wherr the bishop came to the |?etition, ' Forgive us our trespasses," he stopped suddenly, leaving the otlier to go on alone. The nobleman attempted to continue, hut shirtled by the sound of his own unaccompanied voice and recalled by his companion's silence to the significance of the ]?.'titinn. stammered, ceased praying, and rose from his knees, a hopeless man?until lie afterwards found hope in a better disposition towards his neighlxtr. It is an easy thing to say. ' Forgive us our trespasses" l?v rote; it is difiieult, sometimes, to say it understanding! v. If we stop at this petition until we have taken in the idea of it, how many of us will go on??[Christian Herald. The old style of church will not do the work. We might as well now try to take all the passengers from New York to Buffalo hv stage coach, or all the passengers from Albany to Buffalo by canal boat, or do all the battling in the world with how and arrow, as with theohl.style of church to meet the exigencies of this day. Unless the church in our day will adapt itself to the time it wiU ..become extinct. The people reading nowspa[H*rs and hooks all the week, in alert, picturesque and resounding style, will have no patience with .Sabbath humdrum. We have no objections to hands and surplice and all the paraphanalia of clerical life; hut these things make no impression? make 110 more impression on the great ..f ft,,, nnnnln tlislll tlin nrdillfirv business suit you wear in Wail street. A tailor cannot make a minister. Sonic of the poorest preachers! u car the best clothes and many a backwoodsman has dismount- | etl from the saddle-bags, and in his linen duster preached a sermon that shook earth and heaven with its eloquence. No new Gospel, only the old Gospel in a way suited to the time. No new church, but a church to Ik.' the asylum, the inspiration, the practical sympathy, and the eternal help of the people.?[Talniage. OMERODT'S LOTEB9. BY PIKKBK CART. Too meek hr half was he who cams A wooiiii* imp one morn. For lie thought so Hole of hitnseU I learned to share hi* scoru. At ni;ht I had a puitor, rnin As the rainest in the laud; Aliuo-i lie seemed to condescend lu the utlei of his hand. In one who pressed his suit I missed Outrage and manlv tirida; And how could I think of such a on* As a lev der and a guide. And then thrrleamen worshipper With such undouhtiug trust, That when he knelt he eeemed not worth Uprising front the dust. The nest was never in the wrong, U as not too smooth nor rough; So faultless and so g-ssl was he, That that was fault enough. But one, tiie last of all tha! came, 1 know not bow to paint; No angel do I scout to him? He scarcely calls ui<; saint! lit* hath such sins and weaknesses A- iii.u tiil titan lietall; 11? hath a thousand faults, uud yet I lore him with them all. He never asktsl me yea or nay, N'l.r knelt to llle one hour: Bui tic t.xik my heart and holds my heart With a lover's tender jxjwer. And I bow, as needs I must, and say, In proud humility, Love's might is right, and I yield ?t last To manhood's royalty: An Old Puzzle Rerired. It is said that a gentleman in Paris has offered a prize of 2U,UU0 francs to anyone who will draw the annexed figure with a pencil or pen without lifting either from the paper, or interfering with any line, or portion of a line, previously made. " The thing can be done," and the doer lias only to go to to France, prove liia ability to conquer the puzzle, and take the reward: It ia said that nothing succeeds like T ' A ? 1 ? 8UCCCS3. JUSt put a uvy iu uunjuubuvu with a watermelon, and if he don't suck seed more than success we miss our guess. L. ^ ?avo^ ?*m*1 A tinker waa traveling in a country town; and, having traversed many miles without finding anything to do, he stop- i ped, weary and hungry, at a tavern. Here he got into conversation with a i elazier. to whom he related his troubles. I : The latter sympathized with him deeply, and, telling him he should have a job be fore long, advised hiin to go to his dinner and eat heartily. The tinker took his advice, ate his fill, and when he re- ! turned to the tap-room he was overjoyed i to hear that the landlord required his services to mend a lot of pans and kettles which had suddenly sprung a leak. The ! tinker at once set to work, accomjdished the task, received a liberal sum in payment, and started on his way rejoicing. Upon reaching the outside of the house i he found the glazier, who said: " Well, you see I told you the truth. I procured you a job of work, and how do you think I accomplished it'/" "I am sure 1 cannot tell," replied the , tinker. " I will tell you," rejoined tlie glazier. , " Yo? told me you were weary, hungry, and dinncrless. I knew the landlord was well off and doing a good business; and so I watched the opportunity, and started a leak in every utensil 1 could get hold of" . 1 The tinker, with many thanks and a heart full of gratitude, rcsnmcd his journey. But he had not proceeded many yards before he reached the village i church, when a brilliant idea struck bira ?the glazier had befriended him; he would befriend the glazier. The church, he thought, could aflbrd to bear a slight loss in a good cause; so, taking a position where he could mt be seen, lie riddled every window in the edifice with Btones,and then, highly elated with his exploit, he retraced his steps to notify the glazier that he would speedily have a very important job. " Sir," said lie, " I am happy to inform you that fortune has enabled me to return the kindness I received from you an hour since." "How so?" answered the glazier, pleasantly. " I have broken everv pane of glass in the church," answered the tinker; " and you, of course, will be employed to put them in again." The glazier's jaw fell, and his face assumed a blank expression as he said, in tremulous tone: " You don't mean that, do you?" " Certainly," replied the tinker; " there's not a whole pane of glass in the building. ' One good turn deserves another,' you know." " Yes," answered the glazier in despair; "but, you scoundrel, you have ruined me; for I keep the church windows in riitvoir nxr tlin vnnr " "-I"'*' "J ?~ J Type of Character on Railroad Trains* There are certain general types of character which areob.servable on almost every railroad train, and with which we are so familiar that we pay them little attention. There is the man of. many bundles?a family man of course?who bears in his countenance the painful consciousness of having lost something or forgotten something, and who, in a desperate endeavor to recover a parcel which has slipped down from one arm, scatters upon the car floor an assortment of parcels which escape from the other, and are promptly trodden c.pon by some has^.y wretch behind him. There is the man wlic is always late, and who, dropping breathlessly into a seat after a brief race with the retreating train, wipes his perspiring brow, and recites his neighbor the circumstances of his detention and hurry. There is the nervous woman, who, after having studied all the time-tables, scrutinized the placards on the cars, and harassed the ticket Iia \fr\frr?k r\P inaanitv t\* V11V Ul J her fellow-passengers with shrill and tremulous inquiries as to whether the train runs through to Albany, and whether the car she is in is the right one. Hapless and careworn individual! Small good does the journey do her, for the train has hardly started before she discovers that she has lost her ticket; and it is not until she is well along toward her destination, and has goaded the conductor into a frenzy and herself into tears, that she finds the bit of pasteboard in some unexplored recess of her traveling-bag, where she had placed it for salV-kreping. There is the woman who will have the window open, and the irascible old gentleman immediately behind her who will have it shut. There is the market-woman with gigantic baskets odorous of herring and onions, and other tielicaeies. There is the man who sleeps the sleep of intoxication, and who, yielding only an inarticulate response to the protests of the conductor, and disclosing about his person no trace of a ticket, is presently bundled off by the brakcmcn. And there is the multitudinous infant?weary, wide awake, and vociferous?an object of loathing and detestation to every bachelor in the i Why We Commence Dinner With Soup. ;Sir Henry Thompson. I The rationale of the initial soup has often been discussed; some regard it as calculated to diminish digestive power, on the theory that so much fluid taken at first dilutes the gastric juices. But there appears to be no foundation for this belief. A clear soup, or the fluid constituents of a purer, disappear almost immediately after entering the stomach, and in no war interfere with the gastric juice, which is stored in its appropriate I cells ready fur action. The hnbit of commencing dinner with soup has, without doubt, its origin in the fact that aliment in this fluid form?in fact, ready digested ? soon enters the blood and rapidly refreshes the hungry man, who, after a considerable fast and much activity, sits down with a sense of exhaustion to commence his principal meal. In two or three minutes after he has taken a plate of good warm consomme, the feeling of exhaustion disappears, and irritability gives way to the gradually rising sense of good fellowship with the circle, borne persons aavc me custom of allaying exhaustion with a glass of sherry before food? a gastronomic no leas than a physiological blunder, injuring the stomach and depraving the palate. The soup introduces at once into the system a small installment of of ready-digested food, and saves the short period of time which must be spent by the stomach in deriving some nutriment from solid aliment; as well as indirectly strengthening the organ of digestion itself for its forthcoming duties. UMMWBW? ??? , .SomO'PW }LtiQC$.,-~ **4* The misers of this city, writes the j New York correspondent ol' the Ro-1 y Chester Democ.Kit, have been chiefly ' r among the lower classes. One of the I J most conspicuous of this number, when I 0 asked by u frit ml to use his propertv for j ?; his personal comfort, since his Iieirl ( would only spend it, replied thus: " s f take more pleasure in saving the monev i than they will ever have in using it.5' y Several instances are on record in this c city of destitution and death, in which fl large sums were afterwards found. In r the John Lewis case, the estate is nearly c Bl,000,000. There is also the instance of a "old man Wells," whose heirs recently ^ tried to prove him insane. They failed t in this, and hence the old nn?n is left to J r still increase those accumulations which j ^ must eventually come into their hands. ? One of the latest cases to attract alien- "r tion is that of the rag-picker, Samuel j Leach, who died in a tenement house in j great misery. The coroner found the n corpse the solitary occupant of a miser- j able attic. It might have been buried c by public charity, had not the coroner j began an immediate search. A barrel of t rlirt-v rncT< wliicli stood in the room nrnved I 1 toliavetieen a place of concealment, for t it contained a ouantitv of greenbacks f and specie, and also several greasy bank j books, which had done good service. On n further examination it was discovered v that this chiffonier, who was generally e suppose to be miserably poor, owned two houses. He preferred, however, to live in an attic, as it was a better concealment of bis wealth, which is now estima-1 ted at lo.OfiO. Since this fact is known t a larjie number of relatives have put in c their claims, and when the case was 1 called, five lawyers arose, representing an 1 equal number of contestants. How \ many relatives a dead man has, if he j only leaves an estate. 1 Robbers All Alike. ( [Bo.nton Cotameici.il Bulletin.] i It is an indisputable fact that all the , malefactors who make a profession of robbery are absolutely one like the other, no matter to what category of the < clotli tliev uciong; uicsame passions, mo same needs, the same appetites are the prime causes of their actions. In spite of , the assertions of certain philanthropists, : people very rarely steal in order to eat; three great motives which impel men to stray from the path of rectitude and to , engage in the most culpable actions are women, cards and drink. Exceptions to this rule exist, however, and they have ' been noted. Katinat, who at the time was implicated in the robbery of the , medals of the Koyal Library, a redoubtable caroubleur (one who steals by the aid of false keys), sent home to his ; family the product of what he himself called his expeditions. For one of this J kind you will find ten thousand who have no other end in view than that of satisfying their bnital passions. A thief, " working" m a crowd, steals ] a portemonnaie containing fifty francs; ] he quickly goes to some dram shop of ill i repute, drinks, gambles, and picks up 1 some disorderly creature with whom he ] spends his last centime; a member of < some elegant club cheats at cards and i wins ten thousand francs; he takes to ( supper at the Maison d'Or a woman j tree a la mode, whose father is a coach- i man and whose brother is a convict. < What difference is there between these t two incidents, which occur every day? j None. What difference between these I two men? None; the morality is the j same, the passions are similar; every- i thing is alike except the surroundings. And yet, should the second of these men < nerchance be called upon to form part I t of the jury, which is to pronounce upon i the fate of the first, he will answer ' Yes,' < without hesitation, because, he will say ] to himself (and in good faith, perhaps;, < that it is necessary to make an example < and reassure society. I In the Matter of Ages. j Mr. Walt Whitman, who, although he j is gifted with frosty locks, has not yet j come to sixty years, has been heard to i tell this story of himself: ] I was in a street car in Camden one j day not long ago, when an Irishman i came aboard. He was a middle-aged, respectable looking fellow, but he had been imbibing pretty liberally. He sat down beside me and stared hard. Finally he hitched a little closer and leaned forward to look in my face. I felt ready for some fun, but I never noticed him? just looked as stern and unapproachable as possible. But he nodded, and grinned and hitched again, bringing his face close to my ear, then in a voice husky but loud, he said: " An' an' how ould are ve?'' The passengers smiled, but I never j noticed him?just looked solemnly out at the opposite window. The Irishman thought I was deaf, so he raised his voice and shouted: "An'?how- ould are ye?" "Sir-r-r?" I exclaimed, turning on him fiercely. But he was not to be put down. "How ould are yees?" he fairly veiled right in my ear. If it had happened in a New York horse car everybody would have screamed out laughing; but Philadelphia folks will be proper if they die; so they only smiled behind their handkerchiefs. I turned round to the fellow, and looking as stern as ever I could, said slowly: " I am one hundred and thirty-five!" His under jaw dropped, he sank back in his seat and never spoke again. Changes in Fowling Pieces. (Bnltimora Qiuetu.] " It is quite remarkable," said Senator Itoscoe Conkling, sitting on his front j porch in Utica the other evening cnat- | ting with one of his neighbors, " to note j the changes which are constantly being j made in the construction of fowling ! pieces. When I was a lad I remember j we used to have shotguns with a bore I not larger, I should say, than the end of 1 my thumb. Passing through lihode Island the other day I saw a little rednosed man, evidently going snipe-hunting, who had a double-barreled shotgun, the barrels of which, I should say, from the passing observation that I ootainea, had a diameter fully equal to the crown of my hat." . "ClemI ia dem punking meller?'' ' Wtiv /1pm ain't. nunL-irn- rlom's ni/r? " "Aigs! go' way Clem, you'm steppin on /ax; why, aigs don't kum wia yaller shells." "0 yes, Pompy dem Cfhiney fellers duz up chores aifferen' from us, , an' deir chickens allers draps deir aigi wid' de yelk turned out." * ' ^ ' ^ V /V-%1*' JE "t"* -J' -ffrmr Frwlrflf *h *BffUine. An accident occurred 011 the T. P. & XT .nilntnw til of w ?\f/\t??Klir u-ltli.lllt o >arallel in the history of railroading, in llinois at least?both for its rarity and .bsencc of serious results. As train No. !, engine 13, was in the vicinity of jlasford, 111., going at a speed ot nearly orty miles an hour, a cow suddenly wunded in front of the engine. There ras no warning, whatever the front end ?f the engine passed over the animal, .nd in doing so was lifted clear ort' the ails, and evidently at that time was unloupled from the tender. Going at such i high rate of speed, it continued some wenty yards 011 the ground, tearing it ip and even unrooting a stump in its nad career, and what is very strange, roof, on its wheels until it came to a tandstill, where it stood dear of the nain track. The remainder of the enginennd train :ept the track and ran past the engine .bout a quarter of a mile, when it was trough t to a stop with brakes. The jar if the escaped engine was so slight, that int few passengers were made aware of he accident until told. The engineer, fohn Welch, sat on his seat throughout he affair, a mere spectator of the queer reak of hisengine. Superintendent W. r. Merrill was sitting in the chair car ,nd was greatly surprised when told of rhat had happened. .No one hurt or ivcn scared. Bad for Indianapolis. A friend who attended services at a 'culled church" in Indianapolis, some ,wo months since, gives a ludicrous account of the way things are conducted jy the religiously inclined man and brother. The preacher was more than asually eloquent, impressing upon his tuditors the miraculous power ot Christ to save sinners. " Bar's nothing he can't do," ex? claimed the dusky Wilberforce. "He kin sabe de berry wust of ye, no matter svhat ye've done. When he was here " Here!" interrupted a sable listener; " dus yer mean He was hcre'n Injenapulus?" "Tobe course. Wot yer 'sturbin' de meetin' for, Pete Johnson? To be course Hf> was hnrn in Tnipnnnnlna " "I dusn't blebeit." " Den you lebe de church; we doesn't want no iniiddles here." "I isn'tgwine ter lebe de church, an' I isn't gwine to blebe der blessed Christ ebber come to Injcnapulus; an' now I tells ycr dat I nebber heered it afore, an' witc folks nebber heered it. Witc folks don t blebe it. Dey ain't no such fools. An' dey knew dat jes' es. long es dare wus any odder place to go to, ae blessed Lord udnebbercome to Injenapulus, not much." _ A Scotch Story. A certain minister having become much addicted to drink, his Presbytery dad to interfere and get the minister to sign the pledge. The result was that tne suuuuu miunuu was w;u juuuii lut aim, and lie became so ill that the loctor was sent for. The doctor said he xiust begin to take his toddy again, rhis the minister said lie could not do, is he had taken the pledge. The doctor replied that he might get a bottle or two pjietly, and nobody but theii own selves and the housekeeper would know ( it. " Man," said the minister, " my aousekceper is worse than all the Presbytery put together, so that would not do." , However, it was arranged that the doctor should bring in the whisky and sugar, and that the minister was 10 make up the toddy in the bed-room with the hot water he got for shaving purposes in the morning. The result was the minister got speedily well; and jne day on going out, the doctor said to the minister's housekeeper: "Well, Margaret, your minister is quite himself igain." " There's no doubt of that, sir," she replied; "he's quite well in the body, but there's something gane wrong wi' his upper story." " What's there, Margaret?" asked the doctor. " Weel, sir, I dinna ken, but he asks for shavin' jvatcr six or seven times a day." Tramps in Nevada. The Elko (Xcv.) Independent tells how a gang of tramps attempted to capture the town of Humboldt Wells. Them were about thirty in the gang, who stripped themselves naked and performed war dances before the private residences, to the music of obscene songs. They refused to leave town, and boasted :hat they never had worked, and swore that they never would. The citizens, not enjoying this style of Kentz minstrelsy, organized and drove the merry loafers outside the town limits. The tramps did not go far, and threatened to come back and burn the village. At this the citizens organized a second party, of about twenty-live horsemen, composed partly of raqueros, and, in the language of an eye witness, it was " an interesting sight to see those tramps go tip the hiil to Cedar Pass, hogging for mercy fit every jump." At a meeting held after their return the citizens thoroughly organized a vigilance committee, and notices have been posted on the railroad water tanks and other conspicuous places warning all tramps to hurry on. Mr. Fitzxoodle at Newport: At dinnah?'pon my soul the cook doesn't turn out things at all badly; aw he's* Fwenchmnn- I sat next to Miss Marwy Slocum, the gvurl with the blue eves? *1 - : - flowao-nrw hlnnfta me quue jjmcht uu? ?>?->? She made herself d-d-dMsidly agweeable in twue American style?although I don't think I could explain precisely what style that is. She is said to have a gweat "deal of landed pwoperty and money, and to be verwy anxious to 5nd some Knglish fellaw of good family to entah into matimonial welations with her, in the same inannah that young Paget was captured by an American ?* fnrmop nntwonvmic hg.< gjruil IIUVUV 1^., W .. - ? escaped my memory. The numLah of questions she asked was pwodigious. Perwhaps something had disagweeil with her to excite her interwogative qualities. Was I not tired of Amenvica? How long had Jack and I been heah? Should I conclude to make this cuuntwy my wesidencc? Why didn't I get marwied? Wasn't English society evah so much niceah than the deswiption of arwangement in this countwv'! My weiplies, as a rule, were simply "Aw."?Puck. Act well at the moment, and yoa have performed a good action to all eternity.