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L it. rj» DEPOT A T SClIEyECTAD Y. rtohhiiJhbvoV primer»l. It* (hirerthg board* and it* framrwork, Yellow with auAin farmrul* liegrtmed, jret distinct in the twilight. Stand like • tramp at old, with croaking* muI and asthmatic; Stand a* a toper doth xtand, with tromhling tor want of a E'aiuifnl; 4 Load it their great exultation the deep-Toired ‘ neighboriug cities Speak, and In (Ooent* aarcastic derideSchcuec- tady’* depot. Thi* is the depot pritnevsl ; bnt where arc Uie hearti Miat beneath it Leaped like the roc, as they beard the toot ot ' ’ Ha engine ? Wheie are the gablc-roofod house s, Die olden home* of the Dntchmen? Men who«e live* glided on like trains on the track of the Central, Glirl<d like steam car* iin|w llod by the genii of railroads Waste arc those pleasant bonu s anti the Dutch men forever departed! Scattered, a* are the pledged word* of the rail road chief* of the Central— (Promued, writ down, torn up, and toned in the dr*place). Naught bat the depot remain* of the gable- e roofed eitr of Dorp. Still elands the depot primers!; but under the ■hade of it* doorways l‘*s*ee a new generation, with new-fashioned bonnets and hat* on. Only a few of the Dutchmen remain, and oft- times they gather And speak of the ghost* of the promises tha’ nightly stalk through this building. In the baggageman's room the sumrliers and checkers still labor; The agent* of ticket* still smile from out their old quarters; Maidene and men still meet and part'neath Me arches. flaring and wondering, and ofttime* telling its •lory, While in their great exnltatlnn the deep-voiced neighboring cites Bpeak, and in accents sarcastic, deride Schenec tady’s depot. S. M. II. LITTLE FRECKLE FACE. Nearly everybody in the neip;lil>nrliood tlrepiacd Littlo Freckle Face. Hho was vicious and (liaiionent. Whenever any depredation waa committed, or any tri fling article leftont of doors was iniflaiiig, Little Freekle Face was at onco sus pected. No one know her right name. She waa found on the roadside after n pary of immigrants had passed along. When asked concerning her name, she made some childish reply which no one could nnderatautL A poor blacksmith took her home with Hm, and partly ow ing to hie limited rosowrees—having lieen hard mu in iiiuiiug n«ni< s eulhciont for hia own children—and partly on aeconnt of the innumerable freckles which the child wore like a speckled mask, she was called Little Fn“okle Face. The black smith'a wife, at whose instance the waif had fonnd a home, sneh ns it was, soon died and her own children were taken by numerous relatives leaving Littlo Freekle Face with the “son of the forgo.” He parted from his children Without regret, and ho would gladly have given up Little Freekle Face, but no one who was willing to take her could be found. F noared for and never more than half-clothed, the child grew to be eight or nine years old. 8ho was sent tAuchool, but she was soon driven away on account of the sad. havoc she rroat(>d among the dinner bucket*. This was borne with until the teacher found his turnip greens lfl>erally sprinkled with sand. Ho knew immediately who had committed the outrage, and declaring that ho oonld stand great imposition,- but that no one, male or female, could receive instruction from him after “tampering” with his greens, a dish of which he was particularly fond, com manded Littlo Freckle Face to go away and never to come bock again. Tbare waa but one human l>ebig for whom Little Freckle-Faco had any love, and that was a very small boy in short dresses, the son of the school master. She would stand for hours at the yard fence and amuse him, bat she was not allowed to cross the fence, and even any oommonioation whatever with the £ttlc fellow was forbidden. “I want yon to go away from bercand leave say child alone," said the school master, one day when ho came home from school and found Little Freckle Face at the fence. "Mister, I won’t hurt him,” she said, “But I don't want you to talk to him. feu are too bad.” “I ain’t bad to him. I love him.” "‘And another thing I want you to understand, X don't want you to steal any more frnit and bring it hero to him. Go on away now, and if I catch yon poking around my house again I shall he se riously tempted to whip you." She turned away, weeping, and catch ing np a stone she was about to throw it at the school-master, but suddenly drop ping it the said : “If I wasn’t afraid of hitting Willie I’d throw it at you. Yon are as mean as a dog, that's what yon are. How can I be good like everybody else, when I’m picked on all the time ? I wish I was dead." “Never mind what you wish. Move on away. 1 ’ Tha next day Little Freekle Face, de- sjwte the threat of the school-master, stood at the fence and began talking to the boy who was playing, inside the yard. “West'sthat you’ve got?" she asked, arid as the boy held up,a match she added: ^ • '“Ob, throw that away. Jfou might bprnyouraelf up with it.’*"' Tha child huurhad and ulavfnliv struck tils match on thenbottom of his shoe. In a moment his little dress was on fire, and with a shriek and a strange agility, liMla Freekle Face climbed the fence, seised the boy and tore his' clothes from him, but her own clothing, a miserable oottdta dress, took ftn » and in a moment Severn! man sod the achool-maater, who ~ to be neor, raa to her aaeist- They took her into kid her on e bed. Her ■ «> tidfr burned could 1^4 ses, h«l when she heard, thetoboot-' humiliating rejoinder. master speak, she raised hfw hands and exolaimeu: “Oh, you won’t whip me, will you ?” “ No, my God I ” wae all the school mauler could niter. The doctor came, bnt he said that he could not ba ef any service. “ She can not live bnt a few hours," he said "‘u'uL 1 f V r *>‘ ,r wool?-",, ,. * w She lias no people, said some one. “ She wo* fonnd on the roadside after an immigrant wagon bad passed.” " Whore ? ” asked tbs school-master. “ A few miles from here She was too young to toil her name. Wo afterward heard that she waa ntolcn near Smith field.” Tlio school-master and his wife stared at eaeh other in speecldess horror. “ Hlje w as fonnd years before you came to the neighborhood. x Why, what is the matter?” . “ Great God," exclaimed the school miTstcr, “she is my daughter. We al- ways thoupbt she was drowned, bnt the mystery is now explained. May the Lord in heaven forgive—” “ Is the little boy hurt?” asked the dy ing girl. “No, my darling,” said the school- THE LIME-KILN' (MB. / VORBW *r WUNROm VROMRARADINR iiali m master, while Ins wile with a’sob buried her face in the bed clothes. Little Freckle Face started. "Who called me darling? I have heard other people called that, but no one ever called me darling before.” “My dear child, I am yonr father, and here is your mother. Wo did not know it till now. You were stolen from u«,«h*u you wore a little child.” “When I ran away and played by the river, she said in a soft voice, and not even the ravages of the fire could hide I ho peaceful expression that settled on her face. “God will love a little girl I hat was etol« from her mother,” she said. "I have heard about Him, bnt I don’t know whether He knows me or not, hut if he is good to'lhe girls that had good clothes and Munebody to love whnt they wasn't afraid to love, Ho will bo good to mo for Ho will feel sorry-7-” Hhe was dead. The father nnd mother have never re covered from the effects of their girl’s death, and as a constant reminder of her- sad life, this epitaph is inscribed oh her tomb; “Litilf. FiiSi ki.k Face, I UsfisKn"* 1 is Line, hot Loved IS I>r.ATII.”' ’ —Arkansaw Traveler. The Cliestnnt. The chestnut tree is valuable tor sev eral .purposes, says a newspaper writer, and now that there is considerable in terest arising in the planting of timber, it may bo worth while to learn something of this tret*. Hy reference to the mar ket reports of lumber, it will be found that chestnut timber is worth $40 per 1,000 feet. Counting the sawing at $4 to $0 per 1,000 feet, it leaves the value of an ordinary-sized chestnut tree to lie alKiut £18, allowing only 500 feet of tim ber to each one. As it is eaa^ for forty trees to grow upon an acre, winch would liriiig them 33 feet apart, an aero of fairly-grown chestnut timber would l>e worth, sUiudiiig, $720, for the limbs and tops alone W( uld be worth for firewood as much as the cost of felling and*iaw- ing the tree, and the $720 would repre sent the actual value of the logs. Bnt this is not the whole, hy any means. A chestnut tree begins to bear at the age of 8 years, and every year will pay in its fruit the interest on the land at the rate of $200 per acre at seven per cent in terest. The nuts just now are worth glO per bushel. They ore scarce and high tlii* year, but the average pricols quite $3 per bushel. Allowing half a peck, only to a tree properly attended to and , growing in groves at a distance of 33 feet apart, this would give five bushels per acre and a yearly income of $15 without cost more than picking up the nuts. By a little care in killing off the chestnut moth, which injures the fruit by tlejiositing its eggs in iVand producing the worms which bore the fruit, a higher price oonld bo procured for the unta, for which there is an extensive demand. 80 that the tree will liogin 5 to pay a yearly income after eight years, and this will gradually increase as the tree groww larger and will finally yield a handsome sum of money when but 20 years old. If intended to Ik* out at that time they may bo planted 20 feet apart, ami a hundred trees may he grown upon an acre. No replanting is necessary. Tlie trees sprout trom the stump very freely, and a considerable sum may lie made after five or six years from the poles which con be thinned oat Is there any more valuable tree than this for the farmer who has land out of culti vation to plant for profit ? What Brother UarAcer he* te So} AhMM the I.***! Prefeeslee. ■ j p tfnmi tli* petMt Free Pr***.1 “A few months tyo I hgd occasion to Wer to de lawyeja,” -begjn Brother Gardner as he oaff^ t!#' meeting to order. “I now wiidt -W >Bfer to ’em again. Tn de Ink* ttftfNr^lftonths dor’ has bin mo’ shootiiiV sfebbin’, throafr cuttin’, rohbin’and tBlovfu’ in dia kaa* try dan any one li»r taw fur ym btAef i Who am primarily ,|o Idamo fur die state of sooiety ? Du laVycrs. “A young mad am shot down in cold blood in Detroit ^ Dor’ am no clue to de murderer. Ettery, editor, merchant, linker, tailor, Shoemaker an* laborin’ tmwHn de city am anxiously wonderin’ if the murderer will be arrested. Ebery lawyer in the dty am anxiously wonder in’ how de fiend kin be cleared in oase he am arrested. “A policeman am shot down by a thief on de street De one who fires de' shot escapes, bnt a companion am ar rested. While de police am anxious to hold him until some clue kin be ob tained. de lawyers am anxious to'get him out for de sake of a paltry fee. '‘Let a man plan a murder an’ he plans de ohances of bein’ cleared of de chmrge by a lawyer: It was - a lawyer who first cooked up de plea of -insanity. It am de lawyer who pleads kleptoma nia, softenin’ of de brain, fits, frenzy, an’ any odder excuse to soften crime. Do lawyer who hasn’t a repntashun fnr heatin’ de law am no good. Let it be- known dat he am successful in clearin’ criminals an’ his office am thronged. “What does a bank casbier reason when he robs? Why, dat his lawyer kin make a settlement for half de plunder. “What does a merchant reason when he tries to beat his creditors ? Why, dat his lawyer will see him frew. “What does a trusted official reason when he pockets tie people’s cash? Why, dat a tenth of his stenlin’s will pay a lawyer to prove him innocent. “De lawyer takps de statute books of his State an* sots down to diskiver loop holes. It isn’t how he kin enforce de law, but how ho kin evade it. It isn’t how he kin see justice done to an honest feller-citizen, but how ho kin turn a vil lain hack inter society. “Dar* am not a law on do statute hooks of Michigan which a lawyer did uot help to make. Kin you say dar’ am a single law which de lawyers can nof break. “Pass a law to keep de Bablmth day holy an’ de lawyer will try to break it. Pass a law to elevate de moral standin’ of any class, an’ he lawyer wifi begin to study to see bow it kin l>c evaded. A ten dollar bill will buy him to fight de cause of do widow and the orphan. He defends the grave-robber wid twice de zeal that he displays in defendin' a civil ukshuu. Ebery cosh of murder, arson an’ robbery am so much cash for de law yers. The day has come when mo’ money kin be made by a burglar dan by a whosesnle grocer, an’ widout much mo’ risk. Eliery new batch of lawyers turned loose on de kentry am a bid fnr a new batch of crimiyals, an’ some of you will lib to see de day when it will be safer to lie a criminal dau it will be to pursue an honest business.’’ J- WHAT BHHTK HAY DO. A Mterr •! BmU Lift la a Larft* CUjr* +Alocfas cf Hie jegraiathm and brutal ity of men who drink a great deal of liquor are so numerous that the tender- eat heart beoomee more or leoa callous to them. Occasionally, however, there is jicard or read a narrative that gives point to all that reformers have ever said about the cone of rum. Such a story is published in the New York papers. A man of respectable birth, a husband and lathe#, is said not to have ]i^1* Mbejr.d»l in jix joar4; his family has frequently been on the verge of starvation whenever his wife was una ble to earn food. and. he has, to obtain money with whkh te buy rum, beaten the woman whom he had sworn to love, cherish and protect Finally, while his wife was in the severest physical stress to which woman is subject, the drunk ard, with a cruel taunt, threw himself upon the bed and body of the sufferer. Within a moment or two a little stranger came into the world and died. The brutal husband bus since been com mi t- ed to prison for ftis rnoniha, hot his punishment will not undo any of the harm he has inflicted upon his wif%. and children. .Compared with such a brute aJpiroJerM tfpms a petty offender. Sudden death would be a delightful substitute Jor the prolonged agony that tlrnrixsWls* fafltfHei MflWor “This is the mote extraordinary and inhuman Case that ne bean brought be fore me dnring my entire career as a Police Magistrate," said JostioB Morgan, as he looked at the 'prisoner. “The charge against you is only for being drunk and disorderly. On this I will fine you $10, but I will also hold you in the sum of $1,000 to keep the peace for six montlis, in default of which you go to the Island for six months. There is just where you belong, and by right ought to.have been tent long ago, and lam very sorry that the law prevents mo from sending you there for a longer period. This is the most brutal outrage I ever hoard, of. ’’ “I am glad he has been sent away to the Island,” the brute’s wife said. “He cannot harm me now or injure my children. I have lived in constant ter ror of my life for years past, but now it is over and I can rest. Drink has made him insane, I know, and I wish he might be sent where he could be 1 rented for that fearful malady. My friends will try to obtain a separation for me, and I des ; rc it, for I cannot live with him any longer. Little hy little ho has gone dowr, until now no one respect* us, and I and my children are forever disgraced. His people have demo all they could fur him, but it was of no use. He lost one position of trust after another, until now he cannot obtain work anywhere. •> I Lave kept starvation from the door for ns all until I was taken sick, but now I don’t know what will become of us." THE PANAMA CANAL AttfcBICAN JUMUNU ABOUT TO BE. OIN WOBK. rroarMs te Bloat. -Maehlaes la Fal Pike County Folks. Love and the Mails. A LIFE-LOXO Dr.DAUOn. •'No, I’m obliged to yon, I d.m’t liink,” replied Judge Gibbous, of Lnu- suder, Pa., in the barn om < f the Girard douse. “ I am sixty-three years old and nave never used tobacco in any form, lever have tasted malt or spirituous tquors, never have been at a horse raco or attended a circus or a theatre." “ Yours has been an exemplary life, judge.” “Well, I don’t know that it has," con- .inued the judge, sadly. “ I am, after ill, no better than other men; for the past fortj-eight years I have been the 1 bjeot slave to one ungovernable appo site. This indjjgenoe has gained such al *olnte controT of me that I cannot exist four or five boon without gratify- i»g it, In the streets, at churflh, during family prayers, it torments mo. I strug gle against it. I resolve and re-resolve to break it off, but I am weak—very weak—and finally yield. I cannot go half a day without it. No, I darer t travel where I can’t obtain it. It ia killing me. Twenty years ago I weighed 220 pounds. Now I wei^h 120l It is destroying my lile, slowly but sorely. J ef The Memphis Avalanche tells this little story; A pretty little romance waa outlined, .before Judge Hammond on his recent trip to Jaekson, where ho held court for about a week. It illus trates the fact that young love ia usually blind, and that the lover of tender years is really a very daring fellow, who fan sir, Cies himself like Joey B- “Sly,^ devilish sly.” A handsome nnd high- spirited young fellow named J. T. Wil iams has a very pretty sweetheart liv ing near Jackson, to whom he wished to scud a handsome boquet. The choicest flowers in the field were secured by him, and a feagtaut. tfad beautiful bouquet, such as would awakes the ten- derest emotions in a young girl's breast^ was the result. He sent the bouquet through the mails ns merchandise or -fourth-class matter;-but, alas 1 he made one fatal mistake. Concealed among the roses he placed a note, which was written in a way not intended for any eyes but those of the young- bufy. Tha flowers of course pesAed through tha hands of a Satanic poatmaator. Notn- rally he was attracted by their' beauty and hi* senses were lulled by their deli cious odor. While bo was eriticaliy ex amining Flora’s beautiful oflerings he noticed the end of the letter peeping out from its bed of roses. He pulled it from its hiding plaoe, opened U and de voured its contents. Now, instead ef keeping the secret with himself, that diabolical United States official forgot the romance of his youth and the care lessness of love's young dreaifi,.and«aw nothing in the oiroumstaaoes but a vio lation of the postal laws, which provide that no writing of any kind shall be **inj .with merchandise. Accordingly ke liai young Williams arrested, and while Judge Hammoud was in Jackson the trial came off. It is said that the hand some Federal Judge, who ia not without a touch of romance in his composition, had a hard time wrestling with the judi cial problem before hira, This was something novel in the law, nd all Ate native sympathies were wit^Mte bey. Williams pleaded, gwlty, andtete Judge picked out the very lowest floe pro* scribed by the statute, namely #10, and m posed it This is the firft instance on record of a lover bavihe ta pay a fine for concealing a letter m •'bouquet Young Williams said he paying postage or the ten deOan fine, but he disliked in tensely to lures hi* letter reed. The ores wsuMd great in- terete in Jackson, sad Hie general aenti- , ment there was that Prusidaut Arthur “Mnah and nulk , ”wafi thc solemnaad j lHlg ht to bounce Hut! postmaster in. rtantly. * W.ftt form does tnis deadly dissipa tion taka?” asked the reporter, in amass ment, prepared for an appalling confes sion. A Milford, Pa., correspondent qf Hie New York Sun, writing of (be arrebt ferry Greening, charged with Giootiug Annie Cheovcr, gives the following inci dents in the career of the prisoner w ho can’t write his name. During the first draft made for -sol diers in the war of the rebellion old Jerry Greening was drafted. The nnbev- of the fact was served upon him and ex plained. His reply jsaa that if the gov ernment wanted him Tl would have to come and take him. He barricaded his house and prepared to defend himself. Soldiers were sent to arrest him, and he opened fire upon tliem. He "held the tort” for several days, but was finally surprised by a corporal’s guard and taken prisoner. He was taken to Phila delphia, and would have suffered the full penalty of notary law but for the interference of am influential citizen of Philadelphia, Alltel Cuthbert, Esq. He was a gentleman who had enjoyed the hospitality of Greening’s honsc on visi!s to Pike county, and, having great iuilu- cBoe "with the amreriimeht, he secured Greening’s pardon and release. An idea may be had of the character of old Jerry Greening from astory which he relates himself with great gusto. A few years ago he sad young Jerry were banting shingle Decs along the Rattle snake Creek, nnd the latter came to a hollow treo whieit he thought was in habited by a coon. Ho began tapping it with his ax, and suddenly a large bear crawled out of tha hollow plaoe and showed fight Young Jerry raised his *x to strike the liter, and 01d| Jerry in terfered oa behalf of the boor because it bad a valuable akin, and if the ax was used the skin might be mined! But Young Jerry got in one blow with the back port of the ax on the bear’s head, which felled the animal to the ground.. Old Jerry then took the ax, and stood by while the “boy" fought the bear on the ground with bis fists and heavy boots. His cries for the ax were of no avail, for the old man said ho wouldn’t risk the spoiling ot the skin. The bear and Young Jerry Anally rolled down a steep hill, and the bear struck against a tree at the bottom and was so stunned that Young Jerry soon finished it A The progress of the work on the Pan ama Canal te shown by the folk)wing stoteibent:— “The total length ot the eanal te seventy-four kilometres, from Hie Atlan tic to its mouth in the Pacific, at the islands Naas and Flamenco. It te di vided into twelve sections, the most im portant of which are those of Colon, Gorgona, Obispo, Emperador, Oulebra, and Pandso. These united sections em ploy daily thirty fleam excavators, forty looomotivea and 800 tip wagons. There are 90,000,000 cubic feet to be ex cavated. The grand cutting, abont two-thirds of which has already been excavated, is the cutting between Obispo and Paraiao. The force employed upon the work is npward of ten thousand men, and the excavation up to the 15th. of October amounted to 2,600,000 cubic metres. During these latter months of the bad season the excavations have amounted to aliout 350,000 metres per mouth. This figure will be quintupled during the fine season, which commences in December, and next year mostly all the necessary machinery will be at work, and the ex cavations will amount to 4,000,000 metres pej month. The working force will be augmented,' and will form a total of 15,000 men., At Colon the pert works are nearly complete. The Terra Plein, with the breakwater, destined to lessen the effect of the heavy sens at the entranoe of the canal, is finished. An entire town has appeared there with a collection of work shops, warehonses, and connecting rail ways for the reception and distribution of the material. The earth for the Terre Plein was taken from Monkey Hill, where a great cutting has been specially opened with the object of filling np the lagoons at the bottom of the Bay of Colon to improve the sanitary condition. The first of the 120-horso power ma chines between Colon and Gatun, a dis tance of nine kilometres, is in full blast and is able to excavate the enormous quantity of 6,000 metres per diem, to be paid at the rate of one franc per fifty cubic metres. The Pacific opening be tween tbo month of the Rio Grande nnd Paraiao is contracted for by the Frauco- Amcricau Trading Company. The first machine of the American system will commence work in a few days and will be suplemented by others, which will be necessary to finish this part of the canal in two yean as a max imum from Oatnn to Bahia Soldado. On the Atlantic side the company are working two machines, famishing a minimum of 4,000 cnbio metres per diem. HE UEYITA11LE 1XVE\TOR. He rinsin'* 1 he Very Lite Out *1 Ills I’nllrnt Pssr Wile.' nut oak thres^sard monte i Ib WaoMngton, ijteL “Washington,” place where they ’■Why, do you i New York? II • ia a monte or man was igtervtevad said h* “is the ma know how they man IflMB his bunoa Joint Umm fire hiteBBt makteSrow polio* lor Then they must have the protection ot the detec tires sad police ?” interjected the reporter. ■ “Ob, ym do bfltioeee with theni^gnd^hey fCM« rowd and get their whack." “Bappoee the man who te fleeced oompfaitee to the pgttoe, after befaic or- rested, that ha has been swindled aaXtt his money, whte AhcB-?" He don’t get any sympathy for being that’s ate# father, or the relative who gives lier away, to precede the bridemaids; the bride is in her turn preceded by two small boys, who walk np the aisle with slow step and important air, a> if say ing, “Make way for the bride.” These little fellows are dressed in Con- ^ Jinental suits of black velvet, with long no *~_ ^ ut ^ ^ tch you what white satin embroidered waistcoats, with * ** J 00 ^olf interest in embroidered mnslin or loco collars, ne88 - r-l!hilSdc!j>h<a OalU knee-breeches, long black silk stockings, and pumps with glittering buckles. They stand at the head of the wist e dur- n sw iog the ceremony, and os. the bride de ecends from the chancel they turn with the precision of soldiers, and march be fore her down the aisle, thus forming a diversion for the audience, which is a re lief to the bride. _ Another caprice is that of having an uneven number of bridemaids, either three or five, having' the odd one con sidered as maid-of-honor, and this maid » i ' walks alone to tho altar just in front of the bride, and assists her during the ceremony in taking care of her book or bouquet, and with her glove if she re moves it, or in opening a finger of th& glove to receive the wedding ring. White brocaded velvet forms part of moat bridal dresses this season, but is often confined to the front and side breadths, while the basque front and priucesse back with its flowing train is of sheeny satin. A vertugadin puff of satin, with many loops and forked end* of white satin ribbon, te a handsome’ finish for (he top of the velvet breadths, while thickly clustered loops resting on lace are acrcM the foot. Bridemaids will wear short dresses, and white China crepe, ottoman silt, and embroidered mull are the favorite ma terials for these. Golden brown bonnets of sheer orape, drawn on cords and trimmed with a white panache and aigrette, were recently worn by the four bridemaids at a Grace Church wedding and the gloves.were Suede kid of lighter brown or tan shade. At another pretty wedding the maids wore whits lace poke bonnets with Titian red velvet poffii on the edge, and a rosette of the velvet with an aigrette in the centre for trim ming. Ushers are again wearing white scarfs, and these are usually adorned with a pin given by the groom; glovfes arti not worn by ushers, nor are they seen on gentlemen when in full evening dress. . - ACilg «b I arrived te Barlett, D. T., about the middle of Hm afternoon of a beautiful day, says a newspaper correspondent. I found acme stir and activity, among the people of the city, bnt it seemed to be the excitement incident to the emi gration of S dty on wheels. The people generally had abandoned all hope of the city, and moved their houses bodily to Devil’s Lake and other places. The houses were first lifted on to large lim iters of sufficient rise sad strength to bear the weight of tee house. These timbers were then suspended under two monstrous freight wagons on either side of the building; four large horses or oxen were then bitched to the wagon on each ride, and, the road to Devil’s Lake being across a smooth prairie, the teams were able to move along easily with a fair-sised building. Some of them,with the teams attached, presented to my mind sights most mag nificent. Itwas th&flmttime that I hud ever seen a city moving on wheels. I had aeen people moving on a large scale in their so-called “prairie-schooner*,” but the sight waa tame compared with this. I thought of a remark I once heard to the effect th,nt “the approach of a train of cars drawn by a powerful engine was a magnificent sight to be hold,’’ and I thought to myself a road lined with two-story honaee, moving to the music of the steady tread of teams of eight powerful oxen, was a right equally magnificent. And snch was the ate of the once prond city of Bartlelt. Black Furs. ■Saeques of Persian lamb-skin, of flos sy black closely curled fleece, Harper’s liazar tells ns, are made in the shape of seal skin saeques, partly fitted, double- breasted, and without borders. This fnr is too tender to be used for tight- fitting jackets; It will, however, be very fashionable for pelerines, capes, cape, mnffs, and above all for trimming cloth dresses and cloaks. -The Astrakhan skins are also closely curled, but have less silky lustre than the Persian just noted. Russian lamb-skin has very long wavy fleece, with more Instrethan Astra khan; all these fnrs find their best use as trimmings, not for black garments alone, but also for colored cloths, espec ially for green a>ol blue cloth suits; they may be only two incbes Wtde. of they may be six inches in width, and they cost from $2.50 to $12 a yard, according to their quality and width. Black fox fnr is well known lor its long telky fleece, and will be much used in capes, collars, muffs, and trimmings, and there are qnrintly shaped turbans of this fur with merely a round crown for tho Foundation, and the long fleece falling -over its edge as a brim. Three inches on tho pt It is a good width for this fur when used as a trimming. Black mar- ’ten is still in great favor, as it is now thoroughly deodorized, and is one of the strongest furs; it is used in capes, col lars, and muffs, and as a border for 4ome of the finest seal or velvet cloaks. The Thick Russian bare is the prettiest inexpensive fur border, as it may be had in narrow widths at #1,10 ft yard, and there are warm and useful capes of this fnr for #6 .00, and mnffs to match for S3.50. well,.* saufBilly Birch, speaking of the mini, strel who died in jail it Canajoh*ne\ lately. “He was a fine bah jo player and a good singer years ago, and we em ployed him while toi_ waca st^Na585 op him. Biade a improved feroacjway, New York,-*) mkde it impossible t He hod tnlem, * good deal of hia teumoea, 1 “Lew B New York in ay last. Autumn Weddings. Parisian brides do uot wear gloves dnring the wedding ceremony. Harper’s liazar tells us, and there is a feeling here, especially among High ! Churcli brides, that it is more reverential to ap proach the altar witnoilt gloves. A prayer-book covered with ivory or wile pearl is carried by the bride instead of a bouquet. Another innovation in wed- ^ Yo»x reporter applied to the ding processions is for the bride and hew J*oP r *tor ot his paper for an advance in - - - - -*• wages. “Let mo see," said the proprie tor. “What is yonr salary?’.’ “Ten dollars a week,” replied the reporter. "Well,” replied Uie proprietor, “ten dol- Jars a week is not very much, but the recent redaction to two cents will pre clude the possibility of an advance just I can do. the bnsi- etixg Roots ix WnrrxB.—Para- jnred by hard teoeteag; all othsn. ba stored fog tea winter, and assJJoteat supply of the hardy kinds should also be taken tip. If tbe cellar te not too warn. • supply for the present use may, be kept in boxea, or -barrels, and covered • with earth, to prevent shrivelling. . “It is all very well to talk abont work ing for the heathen," said one, as the ladies put up their sewing, “but I’d like to have some one tell me what I am to do with my husband,” a “What is the matter with him ?” asked a sympathetic old lady. 1! William te a good man,” non tinned the first, waving her glasses in an argu mentative way, “bnt William will in vent. He goes ronrd from morning till night, and I have no peace or comfort. I didn’t object when ho invented a fire escape, but 1 did remo:istrate when hq wantea me to crawl out of the window one night last winter to see how tt worked. Then he originated a lock for the door that wouldn’t open from mid night until morning, so os to keep burg lars out. The first time he tried it he caught his coat tail in it, and I had to walk around him with a pan of hot coals all night to keep him from freezing.’* “Why didn't ne take his coat off?" “I wanted him to, bnt he stood around till the thing opened itself, trying to in vent some way of unfastening it. That’s William's trouble. He will invent. A little while ago he got up a cabinet bedstead that wonld shut and open without hand ling. It went by clockwork. William got into it and up it went. Bless your heart, be stayed in there from Saturday afternoon till Sunday night, when it flew E arn! disclosed William with the 1 and specifications of a patent wash bowl that would tip over when it got so full. The result was that I lost all my rings and breastpins down the waste pipe. Then he made a crutch for a man that canid also be used as an opera glass. Whenever the man leaned on it np it went,*and when he put it to bis eye to find William, it flew out into a crutch and almost broke the top of his head off. Once he invented a rope ladJer-to be worn as a guard chain and lengthened out with a spring. He put it round his neck, but the spring cot loose and turned it into a ladder ana almost choked him to death. Then he invented a patent boot heel to crack nuts with, bnt he mashed his thumb with it and gave it np. Why, be has a wash tub fall of in- Tsntians. One of them ia a prayer bock that always opens at the right place. We tried it one morning at oharob, but that the sexton took WilLam by the colter and told him to leave jite fire en gines at home when he came to worship. The other day I saw him going up the street with e model of a grain elava tor sticking out of his hip pocket, and he ia fixing np an improved shot tower te cor bedroom." fast appearance In ady Speacer,-“»n» the Bowery te Jane aw wa« bor* in Oooperetowu for ty-two yeate ago, and ctenote NewTfora in 1861. jtBMBR pc#!* ’ wb« heard him when he. was banjo soloist at Henry Wood’s minsttel.H at No, 614 Broadway, there is but one opinion. Ho was the beet banjo ptejer in tliB oouMry. Ho could draw wonderful mUsic from the banjo up to the last. But if you hired him ou Saturday fpr a Monday evening engngemeilt in New York, he was aa likely to bo in Pittsburgh on Mond y as hero." , , . “1 remember,” ^aid an actor, “that when Lew Brimmer was with tne San Franciscos, Backus was summoned to Rochester by the sudi^u illuetH of a rel ative, and Bernard said; *Mr, Brimmer, I want yoh to play the end.’ ‘I came hereto “plunketv* r (pick the banjo), Lew answered. ‘Well,’ Bernard says, ■this is a ease of “must,’’ and yon have got to play the cud.’ Ik rehearsed in splendid sliaije, but at 7j ^clock iu tbe evening be had not appeared. Bernard sent all over for him. 'At 7:50 o’clock he came stumbling in, peculiarly jolly. There was no time for a change, and they knew he had good nerve, so he went ou with the rest, but be was too hilarious for the stock jokes, and, Ijc- rides that,Tic wnsTh "’Backus clothes, which would go twice around him, and was the most ludicrous object you can imagine. ‘Now the trouble begins,’ he said, ns they took their scuts, and Hint bronght the house down. The Fan Franciscos have that phrase yet at the top of their bills. ‘How do yon feel, Mr. Brimmer?’ Wambold-said. T feel like a hired man,’ Brimmer replied, and his comical apjioaranoo, and the absence of Backus, made tl c remark so aprojHW that the house wen! w ild. But his pl*y with tho San Franciscos wns short. One night he went out to sing ‘Old Zip Coon’ in a frightful condition. Wnm- bold tried to call him olf tho stage, bnt he wouldn’t come. Then they rang the curtain down.. Before he went homo that night they handed him his envelop") with a notice of hifl discharge. Uo looked at it and tore it up. On Monday he was on hand for rehearsal ns usual. Birch looked at Wambold and Wambol I looked at Backus, ‘Hasn't lie got his notice ?’Wambold snidT -‘Of course he haa/lBackus replied, T saw Billy writ ing it. Well, give him another week and then we’ll serve the notice on him.’ When the second nofTco was served he tore it np and came on again on Monday as before. The partners called him in again and told him ho must know _h<> was discharged. ‘Do yon mean this?’ lie said. ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘Well, a joke’s a joke,’with great eaniestiies«, ‘bnHf you do that again, I’ll quit.’” “I got acquainted with him and hi-* homely stub-tailed dog iu California,” said a variety actor. “The dog used to go with tho boys when they went out for a time. When the dog was intoxi cated he wonld go off and hide himself until ho was.sober.” “1 was with him in Massachusetts," said another, “traveling wiih a provin cial company, when he came that joke on Mie young—English actor. There were not many dressing rooms, mid the young Englishman was dressing behind the wood front with which tho stage* was set. Just ns the fellow was in the midst of his toilet, standing with his back to the audience, Brimmer blew the whistle and the slides were run buck. The audience cheered tremendously, but the olidoB were hurried together again. The Englishman hail never looked aronud or noticed anything. • “ ‘Excuse me,’ he s ud to Brimmer a moment afterward, ibut that fellow that was just on made a mighty good hit.’" “John Toppin, treasurer of Harry Miner's new theatre, of New York.” srid another. **faact « characteristic ex/ perienee two or three years ago with Brimmer. He found him on a tramp iu Connecticut, took him to a hotel, reno vated him, and brought him to New York. Toppin hired a theatre for u benefit for Lew, and finally sold the whole house. On the day of the perform ance Brimmer began drinking, and when evening came was in an awful condition. Aa he saw the crowds press ing into tlie theatre he said- to an **«- quaiutanee. ‘J. hope they Tl have a g<*«d time.’ An hour after he took a trai.i for the West. It wa- two afterward that Toppin found him in a wretched plight wanning himself behind a stove in Sandy Spencer’s ‘Live andiLet L’ve,’ and fixed him up again.” Slavery. Tho pleasing notion tliat there is no such thing as slavery in England^ re marks the London Trulh, is rather rudely shaken by an extraordinary story which was told tlm other day in the Croydon Police Court. A lodging house keeper applied for a summons agamst one of the lodgers for touteumticklly ill treating a little negro boy, whoso screams she had often heard through the floor. Tha boy had l>cen purchased in Africa as a seevunt. ami when the la ly remonstrated with her lodger for his cruelly, he replied: ‘ Oh I he te only a colored child; nnd. bosidca, he belongs to my brother,” The landlady’s inter- ferenee seemed to have been visited on the little boy, who had his wrists tied together, and was hung up to a hook on the wall of the room. WOULDHT BB HTTW OVER. Ttfftt tbe calf looae,” demanded a white man of a negro who had invaded his premtees. "Wbte are yon doing here, anyhow? I’ll have yon arrested for trying to steal that mill, you ras- cal. “Whose tryin’ ter steal a call?*’ “You are, and 111 hav« you sent to prison.” “I ain’t been tryin’ ter steal a cili boss. Yislody while I was a walkin’ along de street out dar. dat ole cow. slipped up on me an’ hooked me an tore my clothes wid her horns. I tola her I was gwine ter hab ’venge, an’ jea* now I oomeober heah an’ ootch her eslf ter make her sorry fur de way she had treated iso. I won’t study in’ ’boat steal- QaIT SEmfl Ia—4^11 M , ,, . w . t4 nw r um tnsme w?il yw. 1 amt a gwte# ter let nooow run ober me. —-Arkantat Traveler. on A COBXBTHT iU ABBOOte WM string rhe hand by a hornet while ho was play- - - Ins cornet in ehamh loot Sunday. A .ccdu rose np and thsaknd tho hornet Jloeton