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THI YOL. Y. NO. 2< The Wife She who sleeps upon my heart Was the first to win it; She who dreams upon my breast Ever reigns within it She who kisses oft my lips, Wakes their warmest blessing ; % She who rests within my arms Feels the closest pressing. ^ViftoA oV*oil onmft UlUW U3V3 uiau buvov cuiwt w*4*vj Days that may be drearyOther hours shall greet us yet, Hours that may be weary ; Still this heart shall be thy throne, This breast shall be thy pillow; Still these lips shall meet thy own, As billow meeteth billow. Sleep, then, on mine happy heart, Since thy love has won it? Dream then, on my loyal breast, None but thou has done it; And when age our bloom shall change, With its wintry weather May we in the self same grave Sleep and dream together. OLD MONEYBAGS' WILL. A Nurse's Story. It is about ten years ago, wnen i iouowea my calling in Willenhall and Walsall, I was sent for somewhat hastily to attend an old fellow?I cannot call him a gentleman, though he was rich enough?who lived in a solitary square house away from the high road, and was supposed to be dying. I had often seen old Weston, or "old Moneybags," as he was called, walking about and talking to the locksmiths and nailmakers, men and women both ; and it was from one of the latter Amazons, whose head I was plastering up after a free fight with a rival of the hammer, that I had heard what little I knew of him. " Theer goes owd Moneybags after his rents. They say he's a mint of money in th' bank, an' lotso' houses; an' it'll a' fa' "to his gran'chUd, ? a lad no bigger nor eawr Sam. '' She then went on to tell me that Jim Weston had invented a new kind of lock, and, taking out a patent for his invention, had thereby amassed a fortune, and it would all fall to a boy who had put other folk's noses out; though to be sure, who had a better right than his own grandchild ? Jim Weston had turned his back upon his daughter for marrying John Dudley, a Walsall spurmaker, without a penny, just as her father was beginning to make nis way in the world, and thought his money and her pretty face together migut procure her a gentleman for her husband. He set his face against the young couple, and never relented till after she" was a widow, or quite forgave her until he round mue jun sobbing beside bis dead mother's coffin, in & miserable garret, in a grimy neighborhood. Then he buried her grandly, and put a fine monument over her?a sort of broken pillar? taking the boy home to liis house, and engaging masters to give him a good education, of which he had felt the want. There were two people, however, who did not take kindly to the arrangement, and these were Keturah and Job Bromley, his elder sister's son and daughter, who had done their best to wriggle into his good graces; and though he had shown no other marks of favor than getting the latter into an attorney's office (hq was articled on a -?60 stamp) and putting Keturah into a small shop in Walsall, these two looked upon themselves as the rightful heirs to their rich uncle's property, real and personal, and, as it was more than suspected, had kept open the breach between the father and daughter to make assurance doubly sure. He had keen eyes, this old Moneybags?eyes that seemed to search one through. I know I used to think so when after a time he began to stop me and ask me how my parents were getting on; and many a time- -for he was not a bad sort, you must know?he has slipped a couple of half crowns, or even half a sovereign, into my hand, and told me those were the pills heperscribedjrhen he took to the healing art. Then he would chuckle, and ask his grandson how he would like to be a doctor of the same sort when he grew a man, and prescribe silver pills and golden ointment; and when the boy laughed at the conceit he would press the small j hand, and go on his way rejoicing. " If I were to fall sick, Msry " (nobody called , mo 'Mrs. Marbury' near Willenhall, "would you mind coming to nurse me, and see I was not choked off before mv time for the sake of my moneybags?" he asked me one of these times. Of course I said I should be glad to do my best on such an occasion, but I hoped there would be no need of me yet awhile. That was in March, and sure enough tne last week in MajR James Dudley came running to my poor lodgings, white faced and breathless. Mr. Weston had fallen in a fit; would I go back with h?m ? I hold it the duty of a nurse to keep herself i in readiness night or day ; so no more time waR lost than would cairy us over the mile or 60 of dusty road. A few hawthorns scented the air as we approached the house; and a doctor's brougham from Walsall stood at the gate. We found the whole house in confusion, and \ the old man lying on a sofa, breathing heavily, | and speechless ; the doctor feeling his pulse. Before Dr. Hill went away Mr. Weston had recovered so far as to juRtify removal to his own bed and undressing, though he still re^ mained in a critical state. This bed was a heavy and peculiar piece of furniture, evidently built to fit into a recess in the wall of the room opposite to the windows. The door opened on to a square landing, and was one of five, two rooms being on each side, the fifth door opening to a sort of dressingroom, which had a second door opening to the chamber. The next day he was better; and it was quite touching to see how he stroked the head of his attentive grandson, and called him a "good boy,'' and bade him take care to become a < good man also. Th3t night brought into the house his two other relatives, lugubrious in their emotional manifestations. Having once got foothold in their uncle's house, they never left it Keturah, the most obsequious and attentivo of nieces, took the household reins in her hands at once, and had it been politic would, I think, have got rid of me. Job, though long out of his articles, was still a clerk, and tied to the solicitor's office ; but he obtained irequeni leave 01 aosence, ana gave liia dear good uncle the full benefit of it, not much to the sick man's solace. Gradually I perceived they endeavored to warp the invalid's mind against the grandson, and not finding that avail, kept the boy out of the room, saying grandfather wished it; telling the old man the youth was playing, or riding, or reading?anything but caring for a loving relative near death. At last I became s^jsible that the old man was sinking fast, and daily grew more submissive to nis nephew aud niece, who were urging upon him the necessity of making his wiS. His speech was imperfect, but at last he seemed to yield, and from my room, where they thought me asleep, I overheard them suggests a form of will, aud saw him nod assent. This puzzled me, for the terms were all in favor of the orphan grandchild. During that very dav I was startled on entering the room to find the feeble old man out of the bed, and making superhuman efforts to pull it from the recess. I thought his braiu was touched, for his kceu eyes looked into mine, and I heard him say : "Will, will." I got him back into bed. and tried to soothe him. Keturah came up, and he was still moaning : "Will, will." "Dear uncle, Job #111 have it ready this evening." said she, with affected tenderness ; but he looked from her to me, and still said: "Will." It was plain James Weston would not be old Moneybags much longer, and Dr. Hill bade us prepare for the final change. Job Bromley had prepared. That evening I bad gone down Kairs to get my supper, leaving 3 BE r Ketiirah in the room, when the lawyer's clerk came home with a seedy looking companion. The two went up into the sick chamber, and something impelled me to follow. My list slippers were noiseless; I crept into the little dressing-room, the door of which was ajar. I saw a parchment produced, and a pen, and the old man raised to sign. I thought also I heard a distinct "No, no," and then he fell back? dead. "It's no use, Job ; he's gone, and his moneybags with him ; you've left it too late?just like you," cried Keturah, in a temper. There was a blue-bottle fly buzzing in the window- it was in the middle of August. "Stop," said the stranger, "let me catch tnat Diue-ooitie, ana aner some uougmg uc caught it, and for what do you suppose ? He | put the fly in the mouth of the dead man, and j held it shut, saving as be did so: "Now put ; the pen in his hand and guide it, and we can swear he signed it while there was life in him." I shrank with horror as I saw this villainy perpetrated, and the other man's signature , affixed, whilst the fly released went buzzing over the room, and then bells rang, and a great wail went through the house ; but the young one who fled to me for comfort, and sobbed upon my shoulder, was the only true mourner. The funeral came and the* will was read. James Dudley had not been wholly excluded; they had been too cunning for that; but the will set forth that his motner had offended in I her marriage, and that he, James Weston, had taken au oath to disinherit her offspring. The testator, however, left a charge upon his heirs *knd executors, his beloved nephew and niece, to educate his grandson James, and article him to a solicitor, as he himself had been articled, with a small sum for maintenance till the youth was twenty-one, when he was to have ?50, and no more. I told Dr. Hill that I was sure the pen was put in a dead man's hand, but he said it was preposterous, and bade me hold my tongue. I was dismissed, and being myself afraid of any publicity of my own name, I weakly let the matter drop, 'stifling conscience with the thought that it was no business of mine. Then my own cares drove all others out of my mind. I came to London, where I soon got a gOixl connection, and I began to save money. At last it came to my ears that the Bromlevs were purse-proud and arrogant, and bad ncff even fulfilled the provisions of the sham will for poor James Dudley. My conscience stung me ; I felt as if I had been a partner in the fraud to rob the orphan of his patrimony, and i I went to a magistrate for advice. I favp me ft. hearinEr. and then referred me j to a respectable solicitor, who took the matter in hand. To make a long 6tory short, James Dudley was looked up, criminal proceedings were threatened against the Bromleys, a search-warrant obtained, and in the recess behind the bed another will was found, properly drawn up and attested, in which old Aloneybags left to his nephew only the money he had already defrauded him of?as witness several forged checks inclosed with the will. Of course the latter will wo'ild have set this aside, had it been genuine. That it was not was proved by the j abrupt flight of the Bromleys, and the confes- i sion of their fellow conspirator, who was brought to book. A Rich Man and Wife at School. A lady engaged in teaching the rudimental branches to wealthy people of neglected education in New York has been giving some of her experience in a series of articles in the New York Telegram. Among others taught by her j were a wealthy couple, of whom the writer says : But of all the cases of neglected education which were brought witlr'n the range of my personal experience, perhaps the most interesting to me, and the most touching, was that of a nice and matronly woman who appeared at my rooms one day literally blazing with diamonds, with a fifty dollar bonnet on her head, and a twenty hundred dollar i camel's hair shawl on her ample shoulders. Though thus overloaded with ornament the woman was not really vulgar, and after she had talked with me a while I really liked h*r. She made a confidant of me at once ; she told me her simple history and her 6trange position. Fourteen years ago she had been a chambermaid and her husband had been a private coachman, both in the service of the same, family ; they had married, and her husband had taken to his old trade of car- j penter, and from a carpenter he became a builder, and from a builder a millionaire. He was now the fortunate owner of one of the finest houses on avenue, in New York, and his sons and daughters were being educated at the best schools in the country. But up to this date he had enjoyed no spare time to acquire any knowledge save what was absolutely necessary to his business, while his wife had remained as ignorant as at' first. Now the loving and worthy couple began without any false pride to procure it. Without further ado, without the slightest pretense at reserve or mystery, the worthy couple invited me to call that very evening. There I met in a private parlor two people waiting for me, and only two?the wealthy builder and his wife. I found him as .frank and as hearty as I had found her, and before that evening closed I had given my joint pupils their first lesson. They were docile as babes, and there was something dramatic in the contrast between wealth and their ignorance, and something pathetic in the humility with which those successful worldings received instruction. They studied as though they were in a country schoolhouse under the eye of a village pedagogue. I taught them English grammar principally. I also corrected uieir pronunciation, and, I trust, improved their spelling and their penmanship. Above 1 all, I flatter myself that I won their friendship, for I found them friends worth having. A Deaf Elder's Mistake. Some times a laugh will occur in the serious minded congregation of a Connecticut church, as on a recent Sunday. The clergyman desired to call the attention of the congregation to the fact that, it being the last Sunday of the moath, he would administer the rite of baptism to children. Previous to his having entered the pulpit he had received from one of the elders, who was quite deaf, a notice to the effect that as the children would be present that afternoon, and he i had the new Sunday school song books ready for distribution, he would have them there to sell to all wiio desired them. After the service the clergyman begun the notice of the baptismal ser- j vice, thus: "All of those having children and desiring to have them baptized, will bring them this afternoon." At this point the deaf elder, hearing the mention of children, supposed it was something in reference to his books, and rising, said: "All of those having none, and desiring them, will be supplied by me for the sum of twenty-five cents each." Two Brooklyn thieves stole a bottle of cologne. l*he officers soon hod a j scent of them, of course. uAUj AND PORT BEAUFORT, 5 A DETROIT ROMANCE. The Young Lady Who Found it Difficult to Choose Between Two Lovers and Lost Both. ^ '?--L ? A marriage in j^erroit was rcwuuj broken off in the following mysterious manner : The parties are a bookkeeper in a large wholesale house, a clerk or salesman with a firm a few doors away, a young lady of more than ordinary attractions and her parents. The two men were persistent and determined rivals for the hand of the young lady, and her parents were inclined to favor the suit of the bookkeeper, who is about thirty years of age, tolerably good looking, in receipt of a snug salary and with money in the bank. His rival was a young man of twenty-four, quite handsome and stylish, but drawing a small salary and without a penny to his name. The young lady was unable for a long time to choose between the two, and every day increased her bewilderment and uncertainty. The bookkeeper would spend the evening with her at the opera house, and she would seek her pillow with a feeling of tender partiality for the man of columns and figures. But next afternoon she would go out buggy riding with the clerk, and his youth,;good looks and winning ways would turn the scale temporarily in liis favor. Both had proposed and both had received evasive and noncommittal answers. Latterly, however, the bookkeeper seemed to gain in advantage, and becoming more assiduous in his attentions to the cirl and her r>arents, again urged his O A suit and vras accepted. The clerk first learned of liis defeat from the lips of the object of his affections, but did not seem to be cast down by the unwelcome intelligence. He replied mysteriously, in the following words: " What you have told me shows me conclusively that I have failed to gain your heart, and without that I should never seek to marry you, and I now renounce all claim and pretensions to your hand. I have done my best and failed. I wish you to understand that what I am about to tell you is not instigated by spite, revenge or jealousy, but solely by regard for your happiness and future welfare. You can never marry Mr. ! I will prevent that; and I thank God it is in my power to prevent such a marriage." When he had delivered this extraordi nary speech ho took his hat and prepared to leave, but the girl, her curiosity and interest roused to the highest pitch, pressed for an explanation, even holding him by the coat to prevent him from going. But he was immovable. "I am simply doing justice to all, and particularly to you, by preventing this marriage," he said. " Bv revealing the means of prevention of which I am possessed I should be doing an injustice to my fortunate rival, ami I am too proud t^profit by his downfall. He is the last man in the world I would seek to injure. But I am determined he shall not injure you by marrying you." Then he took his leave, and next day he went to the store in which his favored rival was at work. The two adjourned to a quiet corner in the store, from which the voice of the bookkeeper was shortly heard in excited and angry tones. The voice of the clerk was low, cool and calm all through the interview. The other clerks saw papers and copies of old newspapers pass between the two, and finally put away in the pocket of the clerk. After a brief space the bookkeeper's voice sank to a whisper, and a listener got the impression that lie could discern the accents of entreaty. After about an hour's conversation the two separated, the clerk going out and the bookkeeper, with a pallid countenance, returning to his desk. It was observed that he did very little work with his pen during the remainder of the day, and finally left the store in the middle of the afternoon ?? a r?lAft r?f illness. The vouner ladv v" " f""" %/ ~o 1 received a note next day from him, announcing in guarded but delicate terms that the engagement -was broken, and that he would never call at the house or seek her company again. A passage in the letter read: "To marry you would be the sun of my earthly happiness, but a cause, with which you are entirely unconnected and which I cannot reveal, makes such an event impossible." By this stroke the lady loses both of her lorers and is entirely in the dark concerning the cause. Any shrewd reader, however, can make a good, general guess at the heart of the mystery.?Detroit News. How the Russians are Armed. A Paris correspondent says the Russian infantry have two kinds of muskets, some corps having the Berdan rifle, others the Kruka musket. Each man is supposed to go in+o action with sixty rounds of ammunition. It has been recently ordered that a cart, with reserve ammunition, should follow every battalion into the field. A cart carrying a few entrenching tools is attached to each company. The armament of the cavalry is peculiar to Russia. In every corps, witfrthe exception of the dragoons, the first rank are armed with lances and revolvers ; the second rank have Neither lance nor revolver, but a Berdan rifle. The dragoons alone have the Kruka musket. The Cossacks are armed with lance, saber and musket. The men armed with rifles have twenty rounds of ball cartridge ; those armed with revolvers only eighteen rounds. The troops are cool, steady and obedient, and are good marksmen, but rather loose and careless in their drill, except the artillery, the horses of which are good and the movements rapid, though good gunners are scarce. Wonderful Jugglery. Japanese jugglers do some wonderful things. They will take an ordinary pegtop and set it spinning in the air, then catch it in the hand and transfer it to the keen edge of a sword blade, mak ing it traverse from hilt to point, and back again by inclining the weapon, the top spinning all the while. Another feat is performed as follows : They set a top spinning in the air, and then throw the end of the string toward it, causing it to wind itself with the string, the other end being retained in the hand, so that the top returns to the one hand properly wound, and ready to spin again. " Is that clock right over there ?" ask ed a visitor. " Right over there ?" said the boy, 1 'Tain't nowhere elea," FOR1 ROYAL C< f. C., THUKSDAY, An Imperial Joke. It is well known tliat the Emperor Joseph II., of Austria, disliked parade and ostentation and indulged his taste 1 for simple and private habits. One day, when riding out in a small caleche, which he drove himself, and attended only by one servant, he was overtaken by' heavy rain and returned toward Vienna. He was yet at some distance when a person on foot, who was also going in that direction, hearing the noise, turned and made a sign to the driver to stop. The emperor stopped his horse. '' tt* K r\ trno n sir," saia iue imvcici, wuv nao u sergeant, " if it be not too great a liberty, I should be glad of a lift; you have room enough and I should save my uniform, which I put on new this morning." " Let us save the uniform, my brave I fellow,"said Joseph. "Place yourself here. "Where do you come from just now ?" " Ah, ah ! where do I come from ? I come from the house of a gamekeeper, one of my friends, who has just given me a famous breakfast." " What had you, then " Guess." J "Nay! how can I guess? Beef ? soup ? I "Well done; yes, soup, and better than that." " Some saurkraut ?" j The sergeant chuckled, and repeated ; " Better than that." "A breast of veal, then ?" " No, better than that." " Well, then," said the facetious sovereign, " I can guess no longer, I must give it up." "Why, then, a pheasant, my worthy ; a pheasant killed on the preserve of his majesty. What do you think of that, eh ?" cried the sergeant, slapping his unknown companion on the shoulder. "Ah, indeed!" replied he, "killed on the emperor's preserve ! It must have been all the better for that, I'll an swer for it." As they approached the city and the rain continued to fall Joseph asked him where he wished to be set down. The sergeant made his excuses. "No, no," said Joseph. "Your street ?" and at length the sergeant informed his majesty where he lodged and begged to know to whom he was indebted for so many civilities. "Itis now your turn," said Joseph ; "guess." " A military man?I daresay a lieutenant ?" " Better than that," said the monarch. " A captain, then ?" " Better than that." "A colonel ?" " Better than that." He began to open his eyes. " A general, than ?" " Perhaps better still." "What, the dickeus?" said the poor sergeant, shrinking into a corner of the oaleche. " Can you be a field marshal ?" He feigned a grave voice and said : "Something better still." " Ach ! it is the emperor." " Himself," said Joseph, unbuttoning his plain coat and showing his decorations. The poor fellow in an agony entreated the emperor to let him alight. "No, no; not yet," said Joseph. "After having eaten my pheasant you would be too lucky if you got rid of me so easily; I shall certainly see you to your quarters." And thus continuing to amuse himself he drove him to them, after promising to forgive the sergeant for having made a poaching meal at the imperial expense. Tinlfaii f'nmi fobs for Dinner. An amusing story is told, of which it is averred that no less au important personage than the late George Peabodv, the celebrated American banker, was the hero. It appears that Mr. Peabody, while in England, had invited three Englishmen to meet two Americans at dinner, and on this occasion, having received as a gift ten ears of green corn, determined to renew the recollections of his youth, astonish his English and please his American guests by having it served up in the well-known American style. Accordingly, at a proper time, plates of butter and salt were placed before each guest, and the banker, with something of an air of mystery, announced that he was now about to treat his guests to a well-known and delicious American dish of food, cooked in the , American manner. It would be no novelty to his American guests, but the Englishmen must watch how it was disposed of by them, and follow their example and manner of disposing of it. Then, at a signal, enter a stately butler bearing a large covered dish, which he deposited solemnly before Mr. Peabody. In a moment more, in obedience to the banker's nod, he whisked off the cover, and there, before the astonished guests, was displayed a pile of ten boiled corn cobs! The banker gazed for an instant in li<-M-rnr nnr) dismav. and then found voice to demand an explanation, which was finally reached when the cook was summoued?a fellow who had never be-1 fore seen an ear of Jndian corp in his life ?who replied that he had followed his master's directions to "strip off all the outside before boiling," which he had done most faithfully, not only husks, as was intended, but kernels also, so that the banker had only what is in America the mute evidence of the feast to indi-1 cate what were his good intentions to his guests.?Curtis Guild in Abroad Again. Reducing His Rent. In passing over the New York Central and Hudson River railroad a few days ago, a correspondent learned this fact, creditable in the highest degree to Mr. William H. Vandcrbilt, president of the company. At one of the eating-houses owned by the company the lessee was paying $6,000 a year rent. Mr. Vanderbilt said to him: " If you will give up J'our bar, cease the sale of intoxicating iquor, I will reduce the rent to $1,500." The lessee at once accepted the liberal offer of Mr. Yanderbilt. This act of the president of this great line of travel and traffic is evidence of the faith that he has in sober conductors and engineers, and that he is disposed not to put temptation in their wav. This is a contribution by Mr. Yanderbilt of $4,500 a year to tfie cause of sobriety, v | T T OMMEROIAL. JUNE 7, 1877. A Remarkable Kingfisher. 1 The Illustrated News, of Adelaide, Australia, gives the following particulars of this interesting bird : " The laughing jackass is almost too well known to need descripti on. From his peculiar scream- J ing laugh, not unlike the bray of a J donkey, he lias obtained the name of the , laughing jackass.' He is eighteen . " 1 t ?11 3 I inches long, with a poweriui dui, uuu . j feeds indiscriminately on any animal of ^ suitable size. His appearance and ex- ^ traordinary note are familiar to the in- , habitants of every country village. Indeed, he frequently extends his researches into the neighborhood of towns, ^ occasionally taking up his abode for life ( in some healthy suburb, and punctually 1 entertaining the inhabitants thereof, J morning and evening, with a succession 1 1 of those singular sounds which have ' I rendered his name famous. Although a 1 j kingfisher, he never procures his food from the water, after the orthodox < fashion of kingfishers, but has more the < habits of a bird of prey. Sitting motion- i less among the lower branches of some 1 1 tall gura tree unnoticed, and apparently i ! half asleep, he waits, like Micawber, for J A? -? ci? J j?1? _:iv_ . somettrug to turn up. ouuucuy, nnu| out noise, he drops off his bough and i flies direct to a certain spot, whence he i soon returns, bearing in his leak a lizard, a small snake, or perhaps a rat. His acuteness of sight is extraordinary. From his elevated post he seems to miss ( nothing, and discerns his prey in swamps and crevices of rocks at a distance that , is perfectly astounding. The laughing ( jackass has the advantage of being able , to live on almost anything that presents . itself; hence he is always in good condi- , tion, and apparently in good humor. { He seems, indeed,?to pass his life in self- , congratulations; and when four or five j meet and unite their voices, and they invariably do, morning and evening, the noise would, suggest the idea that a party ( of demons had broken loose and were rejoicing over some piece of successful j mischief. But in spite of his careless, I happy life, the laughing jackass has his J peculiar duty, and he performs it con- 1 scientiously. Snake killing is his spe- 1 cialty : lizards, frogs, beetles, small 1 birds, rats, etc., are his usual food. In fact, nothing comes amiss to him; let a snake appeal* upon the scene, and the j laughing jackass recognizes his quarry Korw ViPHitfttinc. he makes ?L XI V T V* Q| straight for it, his agitation being observable by the quivering crest feathers. 1 With some caution, he swoops back- 1 wards and forwards, seeking an oppor- 1 tunity to seize the reptile. The snake, 1 with head erect, ready to strike, keeps ' on the alert. The excitement continues 1 for some time till the bird finally settles down, close by, on the ground. But all his stolid heavy appearance is gone. His wings and tail quiver with agitation < and eagerness. Fullv alive to the dangerous character of his opponent, he i keeps at a safe distance. Flitting round, his head just out of reach, he continues to annoy it, till becoming exhausted, the snake affords him the opportunity lie is seeking. With the rapidity of lightning the bird descends upon his prey, then , rises in the air, bearing with him the captured snake, neatly held just behind the head, in such a position as to render I Tiisinf? until he 1w f .. ?c has attained a considerable height, he , directs his flight to a more open part of , the country, then suddenly backing in the air, he drops the reptile, following it down and reaching the ground almost at the same time. Stunned and bruised, the unfortunate snake is in no condition to renew the contest, and is very soon ' dispatched and eaten by its victorious enemy." The Tortoise as a Weather Prophet. The tortoise is a safe weather prophet. 1 M. Bouchard, in a paper read before the 1 French Academy of Science at its recent 1 session, described the precautions taken by tortoises against cold weather. Their 1 instinct tells them in the milder seasons ' when the thermometer is likely to fall to ' freezing point; and, toward the end of 1 autumn, warns them also of the approach J of winter. In both cases they take pre- 1 cautions to screen themselves from cold, 1 and by carefully observing them M. 1 Bouchard has for years been enabled to J' regulate his hothouse. At the end of ; autumn, when the winter threatens to be 1 severe, tortoises creep deep into the ] earth, so as to conceal themselves com- I pletely from view. If, on the contrary, ( the winter promises to be mild, they 1 scarcely go down an inch or two, just 1 enough to protect the openings of their : shells. Once when the thermometer | ^ U ^a nottt fKa ana biouu ht illlj x' I ^ lie Drt TT VUV/ IVi iviuvw creep into the ground, and that very night the glass fell to twenty-eight F. Another time, the mercury being at 110 F. in the sun, one of the tortoises hid himself. On the following morning there : was hoar frost. I Gen. Sherman on Neutrality. The St. Louis Republican says that i not long since a resident of that city, j who was a major in the army during the i war, wrote to the Turkish minister, Ar- < istarchi Bey, offering his services in the | war with Russia, and referring to Gen. ] Sherman for testimony as to his qualities, j should a recommendation be required. \ He also wrote to Gen. Sherman at Wash- j ington, stating the case, asking- the gen- ] eral to reply as he might deem just to j any inquiries made of him. The St. ] Louis gentleman received from Gen. Sherman the following: Headquarters Army of the United ) , States, > , Washington, D. C., May 4th, 1877. ) Rear Sir:?Yours of May 1st is re- 1 ceived. It will not do for any person in ^ the service of the United States to ad- * vise anybody to enter the service of a ! nation at war. We must be neutral. rp .ml 1 tt ' ??anv f ' JL I III J j JUU1 11 IVUUy W. T. Sherman, General. A Guide to Beauty. "The most perfect human beauty/' says Flaxmnn, "is that most free fjom I deformity either of body or mind, and may be therefore defined?' the most perfect soul in the most perfect body.' " The body must be animated by a soul in which benevolence, temperance, fortitude aud all other moral virtues preside, unclouded by vice. Nothing more destroys the very traces of beauty than brutal ferocitv, revenge, hypocrisy or p.ny oihef of the malignant paseionsi RIBT $2.00 per FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. In the Household. Vienna Coffee.?Leach the coffee, allowing to each person a tablespoonful )f ground coffee, and one extra for the jot; then to one quart of cream, put into i pitcher and set in boiling water, allow ;he white of one egg beaten to a froth; ;hen add three tablespoonfuls of cold m'llr irt fliA floret and mix it well, then remove the cream when hot from the ire, and add the egg, stirring it briskly tor a few seconds; then serve. Neuralgia in the Head.?Have a lannel cap made to fasten .under the jhin; wear three nights; let three nights pass; then put on again if necessary. For neuralgia in the eyebrows, bind a drip of flannel around the head; rub the teeth with equal parts of salt and alum, pulverized, on a soft, wee bit of linen. Sauce fob Steaks and Stews.?For me quart, cut into dice, one carrot, two mions, one head of celery, and two turnips; fry lightly in a small quantity of butter; stir, to prevent burning; add sufficient of brown sauce to make the required quantity; boil slowly until the vegetables are done; put in a pinch of sugar, a little pepper and salt, and it is St to serve. Cleaning Black Lace.?Wash it in jkimmed milk ; do not rub, but constantly squeeze it softly. When it seems dean, take it out and put it into a little sleanjmilk, also skimmed, give it another squeeze, and lay it out directly on sheets of stout paper; touch it every here and there with the Angers to draw out the scollops and edges, lay the sheets of paper over the lace, and a heavy weight over all till dry. If loid on any thing soft, the moisture is absorbed, and the lace will not be so new looking. Fish Cakes.?Take one pint bowlful of salt codfish picked up very fine, and two pint bowlfuls of whole raw peeled pototoes; put together into cold water, and boil until the potatoes are thoroughly cooked. Remove from the fire and drain off all the water; mash with a potato masher; add a piece of butter the Bize of an egg, two well beaten eggs ; pepper and salt to taste. Mix well, and fry in hot lard, butter or drippings. Do not freshen the fish before boiling. These cakes meet with much favor when ever made. Cold Water Sponge Cake.?Three eggs, beat ten minutes; one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, beat five minutes; one cupful of flour, one spoonful of cream of tartar, beat one minute; one half cupful of cold water, one half spoonful of saleratus, one cupful of flour, a little salt, beat one minute. Graham Bread.?To make Graham bread, to each quart of flour take a heaped teaspoonful of saleratus, adding salt and a little molasses or sugar, with a sufficient quantity of sour milk to make the dough. We consider it very much better to steam an hour or two, and then put it in the pven to brown over. Meat Balls.?Chop the meat fine, as for sausages, then miT a small quantity of crumbs of bread and a seasoning of mcce, pepper, cloves and salt, all well pounded; mix these with an egg, and make the mass into balls the size of a goose egg. Roll them in bread crumbs and egg, and fry them a light brown ; dish them up with a gravy, flavored with walnut catsup. Rhnbarb. That there is a great demand for rhubarb is very apparent from the immense quantity which during the winter and spring months finds its way into all our large markets. Yet, strange to say, this plant does not usually get that space and attention in the garden which it deserves. It is often put in some out-' of-the-way corner, and consequently does not grow well. Rhubarb is very easily cultivated, and the produce will, in a good deep rich 6oil and under liberal treatment, be very considerable. It can be propagated either by seed or by division of'the roots. When the former method is selected, sow in the spring, in a seed bed, in drills one. foot apart. Cultivate well during the season, and in the autumn or following spring the roots 3hould be transplanted in good rich soil, from three to four feet apart. It will be fit for use about the third spring from sowing. The most expeditious mode to procure a supply is to plant roots already grown, which will come into use immediately. The smaller growing varieties 9hould be planted in rows of from two to three feet apart, and the larger growing sorts in rows from three to four feet apart. Farmers can, at a light expense, having plenty of fermenting material, have this valuable vegetable fit for use two months before it is ready for pulling in the open ground, by forcing it. No vegetable is more easily forced than rhubarb. It can be forced in the open ground by putting old tubs, boxes or pots over "the crowns, and surrounding them with fermenting, material; or the roots may be taken up and planted close together on a bed of fermenting materials in any out-buildings, or under a temporary structure which any handy man with a few stack bars ana a few spare boards can soon contrive. Boots that have been forced should be divided and planted in properly prepared ground; in this way a young flourishing plantation is regularly kept up. Among the popular varieties is the Victoria, which is large and fine for cooking ; also the Linnaeus, large, tender and very fine. Flower Bed*. To cultivate flowering plants to the best advantage requires as much care in the selection and preparation of the soil is any other crop. No one would expect to grow a crop of cabbages in soil jverrun by the roots of trees and shaded xmtinually by their dense ^foliage; yet how often do we observe flowers placed in just such circumstances producing a few meager flowers, and dying just as soon as there comes a hot, sunny day. Most flowerincr plants blossom on the point of branches, and, therefore, to procure a continuance of flowers there should be a continued and vigorous growth. Select an open exposure where he sun will have free access to, the slants, dig the ground very deep, and Iress heavily with thoroughly decomposed manure, so that the roots may lave some supporting resort when the mrface moisture fails. A small circular >r oval bed ten or twelve feet in dfaine;er, properly prepared and planted with lower* pots, will produce a eentin JNE Annm Single Copy 5 Cents. ued mass of flowers even in the direst summers. In arranging the plants there is much room for taste, and very striking combinations may be secured. Items of Interest. Temper is a good thing. Keep it. An n;i riiHr man r<?<vmtlv diedof love. but it was love for whisky. General Sevenyearitch would be the man to bring the Russians up to the scratch. Among the late important State events in Europe are the deaths of Bismarck's dog and the sultan's cat Wliv should doctors be less liable* to be sick on the ocean ? Because they are more used to see sickness. Certain ladies in Rhode Island are taking steps to establish a home for prisoners whose terms have expired. The supply train of the Russian invading army consists of 14,600 wagons and a large number of locomotives and railroad cars. A prominent citizen in Alameda, Cal., while leading a fractious cow by a rope recently, had his thumb pulled off at the first joint. The Chinese women don't chew gum in public, but it is fashionable for them to eat pieces of dry codfish. Women must keep her jaws at work. As neutrals, we can't, it is true, extend to either Russia or Turkey our hand. But either one of them can have all they want of our arms. The Boston Commercial Bulletin suggests that Crazy Horse, when inveigled into the garments of civilization, have his name changed to Clothes Horse. At a late marriage the bride walked over a mat. stretched from the door to the altar railing, fashioned 01 evergreens, and filled in by lilies, roses and violets. There are several ways of killing grasshoppers, but none more reliable than that of tying their tails together and permitting them to jump themselves in two. The sour oranges of Florida, fruit which grows indigenously and most abundantly in that strange peninsula, have at last'been utilized in tne manufacture of marmalade. " Biddy," inquired a country gentleman of his servant girl, " is there much water in the cistern?" "It is full on the bottom, sir, but there's none at all on the top," was the reply. The Great Eastern, the enormous vessel that has thus far proved an unprofitable curiosity, is to be trans-. formed into a huge floating refrigerator, and used in the conveyance of American meat to England. An thonv Allison, a Confederate soldier, who lost track of his family during the war while he was confined in a Northern prison, and has been looking for them ever since, found them the other day at Rising Fawn, Tenn. Two San Francisco doctors recently called in to attend a conference oyer a man supposed to be in the last extremity, violently quarreled and finally caned each other. The patient laughed, perspiration was induced, and he recovered. She and he had been married two months, and she was sewing, while he was hanging his legs over the side of the chair. Then said she: "I'm sewing; you go out and take in a nip and I'll take in another tuck." For a while it was nip and tuck. Some cows have a singular antipathy to woman. A Connecticut dairy maid recently attempted to milk an Alderney; there was a sudden movement, then a ' - M * * 3 viblent tumult, then a cusneveiea ana ' fugitive female, and the cow has been coughing up bits of ribbon and whalebone ever since. During a performance of "Othello" at the Prince of Wales Theater, Birmingham, England, reccntlv, in the lost act, when Othello, in wild despair, is in the act of taking his wife's life, an old lady in the pit, carried away by her emotions, broke the stillness and force of the tragic scene by making a dash toward the stage, exclaiming: "Ob, you wretch I" A Well Posted Lad. History never jumps over Detroit There are too many old battle grounds around here for the historian to get past without at least a few paragraphs. The fight at Blooay Bun has been widely read of, and strangers often ask to have the locality pointed out One day a man, who dropped off a street car at the Jefferson avenue bridge to look around and let memory cany him back to Indian days, felt anxious to know how the fight came to be called Bloody Run. By-and-bye a boy came slamming along and the stranger beckoned to him and asked: "Sonny, is this Bloody Bun ?" "You are'bloody right it is," was the rejoinder. " Right around here is where the British troops were, is it ?" "Yes, sir; and down in the gully there were the bloody Ifijuns." "And they fought?" ' 'Bloody sure. They didn't come here to play, you bet!" "Was there much loss?" "A bloody big one." "Can you tell me," continued the stranger, looking around, "why they call it Bloody Bun ?" "Voa air? 'cos when them soldiers found there were ten Injuns to one white man, they iun so bloody fast that you can find old boot heels around here yet."?Detroit Free Frets, The Wrong Kind of Oil. An Auburn, Me., lady recently invited a select company to take tea, and " laid herself out on a cake for their entertainment. But after one taste each guest declined to indulge fnrther, and when _ the la-ly herself tasted the cake she was surprised to find it unpalatable. The articles entering into the composition of the cake were examined in turn and found all right, the stove was taken dovn and found in perfect order, and the matter seemed likely to remain enshrouded in complete mystery, when a dose of cil of lemon given to her sick son during the night revealed the fact that her sewing machine oil had been mistakenly put in the lemon oil bottle and mixed carefully into the cake,