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Major. H. 0.' Harklns, late risht.of ? way-man for the Tide Water Pipe Line S ACompny, rently~had an adventure in - Lawrenoe county, Pennsylvania whien he wW not forget until some days go aroutgd, at least. What befell Major larkins while in, that vicinity is as here. in related. The Major's business called him to Coaltown,-a village, as most of thereaders of the Guardian are aware, - which is situated in Neshannock town ship, about four miles north of this city. The Major started on foot to transact th2s business, and while proceeding along the road alfout two miles from Now Castle, lie wms somewhat startled by hearing a ihgular Duzzli,g sound to his rear. He turned, and, to his great astonishment, saw a large golden eaglo approaching him rapidly in the roadway. The birc\byd1ts actions, clearly showed that its intentions were anything but of a friendly nature. The Major was un armed, and as the eagle bore down on him, still cbitting the buzzing sound, he began to think that his situation was far from a pleasant one. When the bird got near him, and ita formidable look ing beak and talons showed that it was able to reduce the average man to mince moat, the Major, in sheer desperation proceeded to kick with all the strength of' his lower limbs, This action, instead of frightening his featherod aissailant, only seemed to increase its ire, for the eagle proceeded to insert its beak in one of his legs, following up this warlike demonstration by using its talons with great energy and bloody execution in the same neighborhood. After a brief, though desperate strugg)o, the Major succeededin txtricating himself from the clutches of the huge bird. His blood was up, and while his anger was at white heat at the thought of the scratch es and contusions ho had received in the affray, he resolved to be tho aggressive party in the fight. He retreated a few paces, and seized a dead branch of a tree, which was conveniently lying near by. Armcd in this mnnner lie swooped (town on tho caglo. The bird was over flowing with pluck, and resolutely stood its ground. A sharp fight ensued in which the man used his club, and the bird of freedom its talons and beak. For twenty minutes d(id they battle in this way,.the Major having somewhat the worst of the fight. He might have abandoned the contest had not he been reinforced by a strango dog. The ca nine pitched into the fight wita great gusto, but the eaglo's beak and claws seemed to be everywhere, and the hair, hide and flesh fairly flow from the dog's back, and that animal, with his l ail be tween his legs, was about to seek an ignominious flight for soni place where he cauld lick his wounds in peace, when a boy and another dog caio upon tile gory field. Th . attacking party, now nmbermng four, adtvaned in a body upon the eagle, and another desperate fight took p~lace. The recent reinforce -. ments however, were toto muchl for the plucky eagle, ann it was finially exhaus ted in its contest uigainst otids, andit was downed, fighting to the last. The Ma jor and the boy tied the eagle's feet to gether and fastened its beak so that it could i.e longer use it. Th'e Major, bleetding from :nany wounds received im the fray, then started with his captive for the Fountain flouse, this city, at which place he was stop~ping. While en route lie met a woman in a wagon who informed him that the cagle was the property of a young mani who re sided about11 four mniles from Now Oas tIe, antd that it had been sont him as a p~resenlt from an uncle who lived in the WVest. She expressed a wilinguess to return the eagle lo its owner, itiand Iie was allowed to do so. flail Arp aft ndsl eet, l'tuttoc e. For sonme time past I have been antici pating a big frolic for nie and the child-en, - btr my sweet potfatoes were very fine, andt so the other day we got an early breakfast and set in for the day. 1t took the plow bcy an hour or so to clean off the vines for a start, and I helped himn with a four prong lice when the plow got too fuil to carry. '1lhe~n mae andl the three little boys undertook to pick tip as fast as the plow turnmd 'em out. I was to gIve a quarter to the chapl wvho fountd the buimest potato, which I soon found was badI pl)Iicy for it made 'em ruan over anti skip a good muany hittle ones andl ii kept me buiy picking upl what they had left. Tl'uo frolic was Splen.i did for half a (lay and I enjoyedi seeing the big ones roll uip to iho suiriace almost as much as I did when a boy, but after'. din ne r I didn't feel nxuch like going back, but i had to go, and I went and stuck to it until might und wo bunched 'em in little piles and covered 'emi up with the vines, and the next diay we went at it agai, but Ididn't go wIth the same alacrity, and t4mc boys got tired of hunting for the biggest one and one of 'em took the headache and "4' laid dlown in the shade, anid I thought he might have tuverworked hinmself andi~ sent him to the hoUse to rest, and in fifteen minutes he was setting the (log on a cat up a tree and having a bulty me. We onmly counted an 8 (lay andt a ha1t to clese out the job, and we worked hard iand fauth. ful, and it tooR us three whole (lays, and~ Inever saw the like of p~otatnes on an sco 2 of giroumnd, andl towards the heel of the last day, which was yesterday, I was so tired of teeing 'emi roil uout and 1>ieking 'nm up 1 wouldn't, have (lug another patch if anybody had give tt to nye. Trho last day's digging was among the yarns, and the milky gluc that run tint of 'emt got so thick on my hand? I had to soak and - rub and serape 'em for an hour to get it off, and It ain't ali off yet, and miy hiigers - looked huke they used to when I had been hulling walnuts all day Saturday. But I believe In potatoes and take comfort In having plenty of 'em during the winter, and I have always felt a feeling of pr'do and o.,ntidence In our sunny hBouth, be cause we could r-se to perfectioni four 'A things that the Yankees can't, anti these - are cotton and cowpe and hlernuda grass - and' potatoes. .When our tarmers learn bOW to raise these thinge to perfectton, we can defy the world and the flesh, anti mighty nigh keep the old devil at a rcs pectable distance. 1, used to take nine tailors to make a san. Now one good tailor, a shoe. askrand a babrcan make what is e.I110 society man, 014 Esta' wloa tlog 1tm. "Sptialdng about paying taxes," said a man who had perhaps ben performing that pleasant dutv, "reminds me of an old fellow, a sort of hermit, who lived' where I did in a small town Ia New faImpsbire, and it he wasn't the out-and-outest ohap for avoiding the demands of the State,then I'm mistaken." "Why dIdn't they soil him out P' "Because they couldn't uet hoid of the property. - No, it wasn't air castles, and he didn't live in a balloon, but on solid property, and every time the tax.collector came around in New Hampshire, Ezra and his property were in lassachueetts." "Oh, I see. fie had the State line on wheels, and shoved it about to suit." "Not exactly, but he had his property fixed so that he could shift it anywhere ho wanted. It was nothing more or less than a floating island made up of bog and stuff, and for a good many years it blew about the pond, until finally the old chap put up a h'it on it, kept a cow, chickens and ducks, and had a regular floating farm. But one day he heard the assessor was coming, so he cast off the moorings that lie had rigged to the island, and be fore the next day the wind had carried him over the State line that ran through the pond Into Massachusetts, and when titie collector went out in a skiff the old bog skipper, as they called him, actually threatened to have him arrested for trying to collect taxes of a neighbor State. lie anchored the island on the Massachusetts side until the selectmen got after him there and for several years he dodged back and forth, and didn't pay a cent en his four acres. But finally they put up a job on him, and two assessors, one from each State, went out in skiff, the Island being anchored in the unddle ot the lake. The old man said he was ready to'pay, only ie wanted it just right, ss he lived in both States-the house was in one State and the barn in the other. The colhectors got so mixed tp trying to straighten it,'tnat they had to take it into court. Anyway, I don't think the old man's taxes are square yet." "A similar case might happen at another place in New EGngland," said one of the group of listeners. "On Lake Mlenomen auk there is an island that tor a long time wias called the mysterioui islanmi. It be longed to the town of Winclieden. Mass., contained about six acres,anm was covered With trees about thirty feet or more high. Sonie of the people declared they had seen tte island move years ago, but they weie generally lauched at, until one morning they found it gone, and now it Is, or was a short time ag ) over the State line in haw Hampshire, nearly three miles fromi where it at first stood. It was originally bog held together by roots, a([ the water had gradually undermined It until a good sharp breeze took the trees as sails and away it went. "aiany lakes have suiilar islands, even in streams fllected by tide. ''hey are found anchored by roots, rising and fall ing with the water, and swinging by their vegetable cables. Sonic of tile European lakes have such islands that are list d for pastuuage, and they often carry the islund population to great distances. ''Dtrinw the great, flood in tle Missis sippi in 1874 vast floating islands were formed in the river and carried far out into the Gulf stream. One that a vessel rain into three hundred miles ]rom the delta was over an acre in extent and popu lated with a great varieiy of snakes, frog.', and turtles, besides a numnbur of land ani muals that had souijht protecition there from the i ising waters, onily to be swept, cut to sea. The geographicil distribution of life, it will be seen, depenids iiuch uiponi these float. ' ihod-a fact proved by coinpairiing ib ',abitants of is'ands miles apar'. Sevei I year ago a large snlake was picketd up oft the Bermiuda islandis cinging to a tioating islad that without dlonut haid comeu fromt the Amaz n. Milles of cordage lloat, out of' the great rivers in the samie way cat ry nig seeds ia ndl even aninials f ar around the circuit of thu At lantic. The same is true of the Ganges. Great rafts, popuIlated withI animals, troom the iiterior, have been found by vessels over 200 miles fromi the niouthi of the river. "Thie great miass o1 seaweed, occupying an nirea of many thousandt Iquare imines in the Atlantic, better known as the Bargasso seis a vast island inhabited by a launa entirely dlifferent from that of the suc rounding waters, and all the animals are In somne way pecu.laurly audapted or- mloth fiedl to their surrounding.. aimnilar tracts occur in various paris (f ihe world, otten so thick that the pa~ssage 01 vessels tnrough theni is seriously imipededt.'' "WeVlJ, I declare,''said the first speaker. "'(lin old Ezra's floating farm wasni' such a very singuilar ting al ter all: but I reckon hie iniade an origun~d use of it." Friau inuotihern Ilaly. Whlile in an out.ol.the-way part of Southern Italy, a morning's ramble to the landing place, where the boats (dischargedi ilheir fish, was a constant0 source of interest. and amutsemeni: and when (lie nets were shauken to free thiem from seaweed, curious marime treasures were oftent exp~osedi to view. Returning to the ipriitive muarket close to the beach, consisting of a few large tubs tIdled with sea- waler. in which (lie live tish were kept, anid heaps of small fish in bamkets, of the most, brillant colors -blue, green and( crimison-(on the ground might be seenx a suin-lish,, over 100 pounds in weint, shaped lhke a hiall-moon, of a ?Iuhi gray, ox- cyed, with long pointul (do1 sal andi abdominal fIns projecting on either slide, liie boys testing Its lioriy jaws withi a stick, wich it bit viciously, although out o1 the water some tinme. Close at hand wete several triangular elongated inussei shells with the fish,about a yard in length. In one of the tubs were cutleilah, really beautiful mz their transparency, floating gently on the surface. Tlhe other t~ut, were fillied witht~ otopni, lively and1( full grown, their long arnis felhng ten'lerhy over tine cidies, sonie writhmng horribly, andI others quietly reposing, their arni coiled at, their sides, exposing the dread suckcrs in every fold, the body in sthape and color resembling a large, rough co(c0a nt, with evil, protruding, observant eyes, looking straight, to (lie front, at ttie samne (imie vigoroubly discharginig water lroii (lie pair of blow- p'ipes like a steami pump~J dhurling their short and (itilck respirations. When a parcihaser arrives anrd mxakes a selectioii, tie vendor adroitly seizes the fish by the neck, the arms twiusting in all directions, it is dropped into the scales, and, If appro' ed of, (no salesmuaii gives it a twist, almiost turnhing it, insuile out, kill ing or disabling it, in a moment. Tlhe octopus is eaten with gusto in Southerni Ital); but to sec a mess of chopped full grown octopus served with tomato sauce is really trying. When very small thie octoptis is used as a garni~h for fish, and when fried crisp it might be muistakon for macaroni. Tneo oc (opus has a strong beak like a parrot, and is especially fondi of crabs, it is often caught by tying crabs to a strIng and drop ping them on the clear uravel h'ottomi where ihey are quickly &eIzedl by the octopus, who holds on steadily; meanwhile he is steadily drawn into the boat. They are also found atangled in net. HM A6T ON FaMs.-Farailre are won to tink that miasm is mostly confined t< oIttR and large tillages, and that countr air it pute and farm houses neceisary healthful; but whoever has carefully in spected the premises of the average farme has found abundant occasion for the lov fevers which are the scourge of the coun, try as well as the city. In the first place, all farmers should'look well to their cel: Jars. In too many of them will be founc rotten apples, cabbages, turip, onions etc. In some will be found old brIae,witl pieces of decayed meat, sending forth tui odor, when the cover of the barrel is takei off, vile enough to wrench the stomach of a pig. In pthers there will be musty oldei barrels, possibly vinegar casks, In whicli the vinegar has passed the putrefactive stage, aiseminating the spores of decay and death, not only through the uppew part of the Louse, but even escaping through the cellar windows and polluting the outdoor air. Decaying wood generates one of tht most subtle of poisons, because the odor is not particularly offensive, totten tiin, her in the cellars and mouldy wood oi chips In the wood house till the air witi spores. which. breathed by a person In the full vigor of health, may be thrown oft with impunity; but Inhaled by one whose blood is low may find a congenial seed bed and generate disease. Under the eider and vInegar barrels, and around potatc bins, may often be found old timbers and boards that are full of dry rot, ready t( propagate itself wherever the rotted parti cles way find a lodgment. In the well, ala) rotten wood Is a subtle poison, mort dangerous than a decomposing toad. a the latter makes his presence known,while lew tastes are so keen as to detect the prese once of decaying wood. Probably the most prolifle sonrce of disease around our larm houses is the cess pool into which pas the kitchen antj chamber slops. In the cities and largi villages these are carried off in the sewers, but seldom does a farm house have any systui of sewerage. The slops are tor often thrown out of the kitchen door, ant Jett to generate vile odors on the surface ol the ground. To keep the air of the collat and around the honi . pure and sweet, wi have never lound anything more econoni cal, pleasant and efficacious than a fre< eprinkling, ts occasiou may deiand, ol dry, air-siaked lime. Chiarido of Ihm it a greater abtorbent of vile o(tors, but thi itself is otrensive to most oltactory nerves, and Is also quito expensive. Comioi lime is cheap, and It scattered freely in ti cellar and wherever there are impurities will render the air sweet and wholesome, even in the nliost decomlpos.ing dog dtays. IT is ot nCCecssary in this ago of th< world for the farmer to risc in the middh of tihe night and begin his work. Tbih getting up so early in the morning is : rtlic of barbarisn. It has made hundredi of thousands of young curse the bwiness. There is no need of getting tip at three oi four ('clock in the winter morning. Tit taritier who persists In dragiging his wit( and cilkiren from their beds ought to b( vielted by a iiionary. It Is timeenougl to iise alter the sun has set thie exaiple. For what purpose do goun get up? To feetd the catth? Why not leed them more the night boorm? It is a waste or lire. Ill the Wki timies they used to get up about i o'clock in the irorning, and gone to wor long before the suu had risen with "'heal. lng upon his wmng,"' antd as a just punish mient, they all hatd the ague; as they oughi to have it now. Th'ie inn who cannut get a living luponi liliuots soil without rising befure dayiighmt oughat to starve. Eight hours a day as enough for any farmer tc wordt except, in harvet timie. When yoti rise at four' atel inork till dark, what it ide worth? (Oi what n' e iall the 11: pbrovedi machinery unless it tenits to give the farmer a lit tie inure iure? WVhat it harvesting niow, coiinredt with what ii was in the old tue? Tlnk o1 the days a] reapitig, of cradling, of 'akmng and bini:iing amnd mowing. Think ot' thrneshinig witi lie hlail and winnuwing with tihe witnd. Andi now thinit of the reapers and mutiowera tihe binders and~ threshing machine u, the ')lows antI culvators, upon which the( tarmer rIdes protected from the sun. If withi all these advantages, .vou cannot gel a living wvithout rising in tihe tmiddic of th( night, go Iuto somec other business. Toil should net rob yomr faily ol sleep. Sleeg is the bes', miedicine in the world, There is no such thitg as healthu without sleep. sleep until you are thior')ughly res ed ant restored. When you wor'k, work. and when you get through take0 a good, long and rot reshiing sleep. TnEi a r.AOK W ALMT.--The usal mode of propagating the black walnut is b planting thme nuts. For ibis purpose the best nuts should be selectedl, andl, wathout allowing themi to become (try, should be placedi ini 11a era of mioist, sandi and kept in a cool plaice until early mn spnring;theni they shoul be sown or planted, so as to be covered about two menehis in (depthi. If the ints ae planted vwhere the trees are to standi, It is said, the best and( tallest trees are obtamined, but if first ratsedl in dursery rows and trnLsplantted, they will come sooner ituto bearing. A c~Oni'PulamENT of tihe Biaeksmith atnd Whleeiwrigit, says: ''l'he best remne dy I have eveer i oundl for horses clicking or striking their hind shoes against the for ward ones Is to pitlt on hIgh toe calks and low htels on the hiud shoes. If tng broth. cr smiths air elnersiuts Concerninig this rteedy, I mudvise themi to tty it aind b~e convinced. lix carul abtout, permnitttng cattle to (rink from ditchets, or 1mrm poos In wIch thyare accustomedi to' stand, or' In which their dlr(ppings are deposited. Stuch im pure wvattr is not, onuly liauble to injuie the the health ol' the tlck, titt is also a fear luii cause of ilualarial antd 'yphold fever aaonig those who use imilk prodluct trom cows thus waitercetd FAIIM LADt'I.-l~ader a well piatimed s-ystem, i t woulom not be meeressary to make any marked inerease of working force on the average imi i atiny staron of the year if full aivantagc isa takeni of the improved laain ahineiy innit can now be read~ily obtainmed ltir a variety of purposes. In the cases where it is not possible to secure an exact uniformity ini the distributioni of hie bor It will be best to amake as close an a proximat ion to it as possible. IMA~N dairymen practice milking their cows steaily without allowing the anul 11nals to go dry. Thecy feed heavily on corn necal andl oil cake until the milk fath. when the cow Is replacedl by a fresh one. A dlairymian who keeps one hundred and~ and ilty cows saya such a practice is mio:e p~rofitable than to lose the time between their goinig diry and coing. CHAReOAt. pulverized and mixed with water is highly reconmmened~ for relieving cattle suffering from any derangement of the stomach, such as bloat, hovon, etc. Iii Kansas one shepherd and a dog do the work for 3,000 head of sheop duafog the snmmer season. 7'7 IPrAiNmvzom Ad~e Note.--i a W tng-PAU thre large onions, and t tlm a 6900 or two of fat baoon cut up Into small pieces; the .onions must be fried a dark brown, but take care not to burn them; when they are a nic9 4olor, tel0 the pan from the fire, ad' stir into it a teaspoonful of carry pwdei, four tablespoonfuls of peas. Hour, and half a teaspoonful of salt; stir these well together, and continue stir ring until the mixture becomes smooth; moisten it from time to time with a little hot water or stock, and go on in this way uutil the frying-pan will hold no more; then turn the contents into a stowpan, adding in all about three pints of stock, including that which has al ready been put in. Chop up two large apples, add them to the soup, and let .all boil well togethek until the apples have disappeared or melted into the soup. This will require occasional stir ring while boning; should it become too thick, add a little more stock, and boil up once more, if not thick enough, go on boiling until it has been reduced to the proper consistency; it shout be thick enough to stick to the spoon. E ARTHENWANE IN Cooxix.-The fla vor of food baked or boiled in earthen. ware is Laid by those who have made the experiment to be far superior to that of vegetable or animal food cooked in the same way in iron vessels for the reason that iron is a conductor of heat., while earthenware is a non-conductor; consequently, Jod cooked in the latter is rarely ever burned, the degree (-f heat not varying perceptibly during the process of cooking, thus preserving the flavo of What Is cooked as well as uni formity throughout the substance of the meat, vegetables or grains, until the pro cess -f cooking is completed. ' So carth enwa.e takes the premium, as it deserves to, and those who have found out how much better they can do their cooking in these vessels than in ironware, give pots and kettles a cold shoulder olten. POoKET -BOOES.-Warm one quart of now milk, add one cup of butter or lard four tablespoons of sugar, and two woll' beaten eggs; stir in flour oLough to make a moderately stiff spongo, a(d a small cup of yeast, and set in a warm place to rise, which will take three or four hours; then mix in flour enough to make a soft dough, and let rise again. When well risen, dissolvo a lump of seda size of a bean in a spoon of milk, work it into the dough, and roll into sheets QUe-half inc iu thickness; sproad with thin layer of butter, cut into squares, and fold over, pocket-book shape; put on tins or in pans to riso for 'a little while, when they will be fit for the oven. In summer the sponge can be made up in the morning, and riso in time to make for tea. In1 cool weather it is best to set it over night. LIMITS BUiJED IN BLEEPING ItOOMS. -It is well to remember that a burning lamp, gas or other, is taking oxygou from the air of a sleeping room, and adding to the stale and exhausted con dition of the air. People who are afraid to sleep in a room with growing plants, and who yet composedly shut them selves up until morning with a low burning gais-light. shiould listen to Pro fessaor Goodalo, of Mssachusetts, wvho says that it, take~ aulbout 500 plants to gave out as much carbonate acid as one tapor does-in other wvords, one burning 0 u,dlle reducu. the froshness of the air as muah as aesmall g roon-houso in one's bed room. Stus'rrrvrs von Burra.-A lady who is a famous housekeeper recommends an economical plan for making cakes without butter, which may be of use to our readers who have a dread of -'mar garine," Take a piece of fat pork, melt it down and strain it through a piece of coarse thin muslin. Set it aside until it isi cold. Jt is then white and firm and may be usedi like butter in any kind of cake. In p)oundc-eake she assures uia it is delicious, hlotLssB POUND~ CAxE.--Take one cup of sugar and one cup of butter and bieaat to a cream; add three-quarters cup of molasses; two eggs well beaten; one cup of sweet milk; one teaspooniful of best soda, dissolved in the milk; into four cups of tartar. Stir all togethier, then add~ a teaeupfuall of raisins, woll dredged with flour; a teacupful of cur rants, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon; 01n4 of cloves, and a wineglass of old brandy if you choose. This will make two round leaven. RAmnTs. -Eabbits, which are in the beat condition In midwinter, may be fricasseed like chicken, in white or brown sauce. To make a pie, first stew till tender and make like chicken p~ie. To roast, stuff with a dressing made of bread-crumbs, chopped salt pork, thyme, onion, pepper and salt; sew up; slices of salt pork, add a little water in the pan and baste often, S3erved with mashed potatoes and currant jelly. hlAYONNAIsE OF (JAUL'FLOWhR.-put some cauliflowers into just enough boil ing water to cover them; add a little salt and butter to the water. When cooked, lot them become co1(d; then sea son them with a marinade of a little salt and pepper, and one spoonful of oil. Let them remain for an hour, When ready to serve pile them on a dish to a point, then mask them with a-mayon niaise sauce. Sumx WOnus. -Au Italian has discoy cIed that the hatching of silk worm eggs may be hastened by friction. The pro cess consists essentialy in brushing the eggs vigorously for ten or twelve min utes with a moderately hard brush, made preferably of coarse grass. In less than fifteen days the eggs thus treatedl will hatch out, with a product as huealthy as that obtamned in the usual way. TinE WARMING Foons.-.Buckwheat amdi .Indian meal are the two blankets of the breakfast table. Either as mush er griddle enkes, these have more warmth in them, as food, than wheat bread., BUnwisn STorrns.-To preserve ca outchouc stoppers and tubing they should be kept in a cosed jar, in which a vessel containing petroleum Is placed. Catoutchouc stoppers which have become hard may be softened by exposura to the vapor of carbon bisuhphido. YEAST. -Good yeast can ho kept mi excellent conditionm if it is twice 'well washed with ice-cold hard spring water and then dried and well pressed. This mass is afterward to be wolf mixed with malt dust and stored in closed jars in ice cellars To destroy black-heads, wash the'faco thoroughly at night with top id water and rub briskly with a Turkish towel; then apply a mixture of cue onc of liquor of pottassa and two onnces o cologine. The coach roAd is a harrow 91d roa where two earts'domn Mrdly pM onh! another, with Ja1'h' banke and sharp. turns, and it *. hauiuntd. There is a spectral coach that is said 'to frequent ts appalling -land. Who the restless spirit may be, none can tell, or how a long he has been traveling about In Jils! weird conveyance, but'that he has been long a wanderer in his, coach, which ever and anon appears among us, none would be so;persevere'a to .question. Indeed, the phantom coach travels far and wide through Norfolk, and stops at t people's houses in the dead of night. An unseen hand lets down the steps, the horses clamp th*eir bits and snQrt, the carriage door is- slammed, and the thing moves oil: but when people pro- b pare to let in the unexpected visitor with .kindly weicoino-lol there is noth iug. The coach has gone,-There are a dozen living men who most positively alfirm that they have had a visit from the coab. On one occasion, my in formant., who lived in a lonely old farm-house, saw the 1ash of coach 1mps, and heard the champing of the bits. He opened his bedroom window I and called out, but, receiving no an- t swer, lie wont down to the front door. c The night was calm and still, the stars E were sbi'ing; but thora was neither a voice, nor any that auswered, nor any E that regarded. a No harm scns to come to such as e receive these nocturnal visits, but it is I the prevalent belief that the occupant I of the coach is condomped to walk like 0 the Wanderiug Jew. Presumably he I wiould prefer to ride on in his chariot t uudisturud. But no. He is turned out to pace'tlie oarth, which preodvent uro ho li polluted with some ghastly t crime, mtz walk he must until the coach cones to pick him up at some appointed spt. Then it is thought that he has another term of "vehicular traffic." A coachy Sisyphus, condemned to everlasting alterations of being drop ped and picked up again by an infe.nal chariot, with snoxting horses and flash ing lamps, must have a very, very hard time of it. This dreadful equipage seems to have som connection with an old house, the traces of which were ob literated when the railroad invaded us. it is a curious feature of the story that the high-road along which the mail used to travel in the good old times, passed at som distance from the haunted way, which a certainly called the coact-road some generations back, an--l I have a suspicion that the fact that no phantom having been seen t of late on the coach-road itself-though a they tell me it has been seen by "scores t of 'oU" elseweore--may be accounted a for; it is a maatt.r of history that soup thirty years ago the presout Lord Da&c, ley orovo a carriago and tour along the coach-road, and, to tho amazomont and perplexity of mankind, did not perish in the attempt. SiIco theU the gnostly t Automedon. ahaMied at being so 4naum festly outdano, hats retired from this part of the scene of his formner clia rioteering, k b.airin ruoi44,m. When, after a three days' struggle with the Rsws, the ravines, the precipices of the l'ass of Hemuedli, during which guns, wagons, tents, even much ammunition had to be abandoned, Skobeleff's tired column emergedi on the valley of Tiundza and came facc to face with Vessel Pasha's army, which ha~d just victoriously driven back Hiadetsky's and attrzky's ccluumei, General 8kobeleff rode along the ulue iuforming his a men that thure was no retreat--all that I wvas left t) themi was den'h, glory, or alter a pause--shaine. ' Death or glory!" [ was the cry, wvith loud huzzas for their C loved and devoted leader, and right nobly C did they vindicate their choice. Mlany instances of hits consumatel courage and 0 ecolness in dainger arc already well known E to readers in Western Europe. Let mie add one or two. On the day befois the E assauilt on the Green tiill redoubt at Picv- 0 a, .1 was with him on a vine covered g rid1 which commnanded a view of the il Turkish position. Skabeleff was making a pr~ parat ions for the assault. tic had from a personal inspection made a plan of the r surroundling groundM, and was, quite In b view of the enemy, miakinst a series of "' sketches of the exact points and of the ' ground leading tj them, which were to be d the objects of attack by occt oi his batal- i' ions. The Trurks opened lire; at first the shells were t:hort; then they flew overhead It but suddenly two shrieked unpleasantly a near. One burst within a few yards of a wnere Saobeleff was sittinig on a camp a utool drawing, and lhe and the paper were 0 covered with the friable soll of the vine- LI yard. Without a word or a wince he d simply shook the soil off the paper and a finished the preparation of his plans, or dering his staff, when he observed that 0 the fire continued exact, to find cover un der a sloping banik some twenty yards off. y At the battle of 8enova-and I refer to P this cngrgemuent frtquently because the tI aetails of it are almo.t wholly unknown in i England-Skobeleff, mounted on hiu white a charger, went out alone to reconnoiter the " TIurkish position. Of course lie was the a mark for a pretty hot fusillade from both a infantry and artillery. Suddenly a shell Ii appeared to striiie the ground raghit be- a neath his charwter and exploded. Tihous- E anda thought that his temerity had at last "~ bro'ught the death lie seemed to court. P But when the smoke cleared .away the m white charger was observed plunging gal- "' lamtly onward, and his rider, unharmed, h Boon afterward, rejoined his own troops. 1 Skobeleff told me that when the shell ex- r ploded he was almost suffocated with the iuiphurous smoke, and that for a moment t Lae actually believed his hour had conic. ai '1 he plunging of his horse, as it were, Is iwoke him from the shock, and( lie was (I ible to finsh his survey unnerged It a wouldi be wearisome to mulitipiy instances )f li s epes or his during. New Orders. p The Synod of the Catholic Church (I f this country held its sittings in St. I'atrick's Cathedral, New York, and Eg whose dlelib~eration~s came to a close on the 9th of last month, issued decrees o which art' now in the hands of the d printer and will be published about the b Liiddlo ot this month, Tney arc not to do sent to Romie for ratihication, as has beon supp~osed, for they relate to mat- c kers of morals and not of faith, and bherefore (10 not require Roman reifica' hi Jlon. Those most iutoresting to the ol public are a decree forbidding priests ,y to attend drainatio or operatic per- et [ormances in theatres, one forbihkling liorical attendance at race courses and y ano making the wearing of the rabba V4 r Roman collar obiigatory upon priests. le I'here is also a decree prohibitnig the se 150 of flowers at funerals, except .in the e asao of young ohildreni, wvheie they a nay be appropriately usedl as typifying m ~he innooencoe and purity of the ucad. yj one of the deerei deal wih the tc Some tioie 161o00 WiHam atontau, oreman of the -Gunnell- minG, (oletad6 tarted out tot Sabbath's spoftiatid tedthed lammoth'Par; rathier 'early. BSepre he ad gone flfty yards . he lieard P lght LOIS to hils left, and, qulokIy tutamg round, he diicovered a lark feba Vo'il nd and a.well-grown cub. - She :eemed o be hesitating for tle . momenu whi9t o give fight or not,. The mother.oftli ub were not ove; twenty yards froai th iunter,and-his decIsod was. naade' up a' flash- He would kill the old :6' and. ake the chances of the yoqnger ruaning way. is rifl wqp *t his .shoulder in an, hant, but as his finger, toched the trig. ro the bear made a lunge at him and the iall Went wide of its niark, missing. the, i w infuriated animal entirely.,. He threw ls gun aside and jerked from its sheath a rng hunting knife. Unfortunately for im 'the bear caught the hand'in whibh the nife was clutdhed as it was oier with im; but the hear saemed anxious to get ecr victim around the neok and give him death hug, so she Yeltased. the hand and ot her paws on both shoulders. Parenteau loing all that he could to keep out of her =brace. In the meantime, lie was apply ug the knife with all the desperation of a man who knew tilat he was ii the very lutches of a terrible death. The bear ;ave him a terrible slap in the facd, lacer tiag the flesh and almost blinding him. ho was now fairly howling with a pain, a the nife would sink up to the hilt at very thrust. In the struggle Pareateau elit his left thigh give way or leavinig its ocket. and he know that the struggle otild not last much longer. The pain and ss of blood were tolling on him rapidly, ut he determined to sell his life as dearly a possible. Whenever an opportunity (ered he buried his trusty knife in the ody of the bear, who showed .pome signs of weakening. His left knee cap also re elved a terribly injui, and he was al uost crazed witu plauu Finally he -saw n opportunity to drive hie knife , home oehind the left shoulder of his enemy, and he loosened her hold. bihe stood over tim for a moment, with the blood gushing rom eighteen wounds, and then falling ver on her side, expired. It was some aoments before Parenteau could gather ip strength enough to even try' to move. le presented the appearance of having oeen through a slaughter house. lie was inable to pick up or carry his gun, but inding a stick close by, he ]lobbied and rawled - along until the saw mill was cached, sonie two miles distant. Phil 'arenteau, a brother of the wounded man, tas arrived from Alaiaotth Park. He ays that his brother's injuries are much aore serious than at first reported. The wear got his head in her mouth and aotu fly chewed on it for a few momuents. The iridge of the nose was literally crushed ,ud shattered into siaall particles of bone. L Cavity was created through which the rails of the throat can be plaialy seen. chere is a deep incision between the headl ,axi the termination o' the spinal columu, ,d the scalp is lacerated and shockingly orn in i iniuer of piaces. Thai Crown of Thornm. At the harbor mouth of the little Not an SeaDort stands a loftly crucifix, high ip against the sunrise and the sunset; the igure carved realistically enough, with yes gazing over the sea, watching since lame innmmemria! the outgoing ships. It m the last pictuie on the e~ies of the fieher men as they sail away to n3rthern lati udes for their hard, cheerless labor of the fewfoundland coast, and the first high andmnark that greets those of them wvho eturn; for the trail vessels that venture hither, sometimes no tidings conie again, ud on those vessels 8ailing in, often some 'cice fails to answer when the women tream out to welcome thbenm rom the ier-head. i'ar here there is a widow's ress in every young wife's wedding hest. It was well thought to set I1, there, in who so mystically maindedi as the sai r, ever face to face Withi the mystery anad iajesty of naturei A good thought for ieee simple minds to asaociate with the ayen of. their home when they start, as no of them 11nely expressed it, into the reat waters to see the glory of God. 8o stands there, and the rough sea winds iake it, andr the sea swallows rest on the rms of the cross, and at times the spray uins over the three white figures at the aoe. A little while ago they built a ~affolding around it, and I saw that they 'ere regliding the crown of thorns. To. ty there was a great stir in the little From the old church, a mile up the iis nd valley, a long procession passed ong the hillside road, and down Ste slop. ug streets to the port. Many children, I in white, and music and many banners many colors, camne winding ~on b'elow to great gray ciff1a; little boys in sailors' re, Carrying a model ship;then the ban sr of our Lady, borne by uhe virgins of te towa; soumething p~athetic there also d wrinkled faces, two of them yet ressed in ihe Vitgin white among the >ung girls, aiid a coarse jest in the crowd irhaps. Tihe sea had never brought teir lovers home, yet they lollowed, uough their yearly prayers had littie railed. Then then the choriaters slog. gen old brass trumpet to gave volume > the soud; then the priests with cross id candle; so along to t he Calyary at the mrbor myuth. Trney ar'e ranged round it a w-the priests and choristers below, the uhorinen and their banner in front, the hite children in a wider ring, and all the. sople of the little town around. On oi~e de the giant ,ii if; on the other the calm a, witn its ittle sails driftimt~ down the tIr h:>rion. Sioue one has crowned the air Madonna witht a crown of white >see. A young pries Is preaching at the 'ot of the cross. A few of the boys, in seir festive dress, have broken away, ad, climbing the steep grass hank that ains against the cihffs, are running races >wn it; but theu crowd is attentive, silent; few women crying. Ryduui chaipe. This edifice where worshipped the et WVordsworth, is undergoing vari is alterations, made necessary by the ~y rot, which Lad eaten through every ist and plank, and the narrowness of te pews, wvhieh almost precluded the seibility of kneeling. The mocumbent the parish writes to one of the Len in newspap~ers thait it in ii ped a suita oe chancol may be built in plaee of tahe ~esenat recess wvhiech serves for one, d \vlii "hase often proved mfost in. >nlvenienit wheat there has been more an one efliciafiang clergyman." He pce that contributions in aid of tis >ject willi be made by the public out. tie of Rydail. "On account of the lebrity of thlit little plc, he says, rs being intimately conineoted with me of England a greatest mn, i uture to ask you, by printing tisf 'ter, to gi~ve futrthier publicity to our home thanw you have already done, the hope that some of your readlers ay be mndueed, to subscribe toward aking *the worshipping placo of ordsworth and Arnold 'lessn a oonkast a the natural beauty of its surroun4 e ga than it ha. hathnl been," IAA. through her voluomes of Rimeognoee, Ontsf a*u bLp~omat 17fe pkr. ouiarly gloomy one was told to her by Princess Beuss, the niece of its heroine,, Qi1eei Thorsa.i+, of j3avri*W. - . ppears that In 20 g ,arian rpl ?py,; .bro Iia fra tih of the .appearanoe of 4 black lady bof6rO aby 'death ;'jnt as in the, PriS8: rpyal f16i" q wute lady i speen.' '0t' evening' Iben Ter's was hittldg*ith her' bt er, -oh the eve dif her :departure for Munich when het lady-in.'waiting came iut9 her majqsty's room, and asked whether she was going to give an audience . becaisp , tiugli size,, the lady-n-wai4Wng, 444 not been apprised of that intention, la was waiting in the ante'oni.' The uceu, mnch astonished, said she had no'iioli tion of seeing any'ono that evening, as she vqoant to start very ,early the next mor IIng for Munich and w)shed to re tire to rest in good time. Her majesty then asked her brother to go aud'hee the lady in question, and require what she wanted. ,On entering tho ante-room he saw the figure dressed in black, sittng*; but as he approached, it disappeared, so ho came back to the Queen and said, *E8 ist schr unheindich, es muss die Schwarzo Prau geween ecyn.' (it is very uznoauny, but it must have ueen the black lady.) -Thze next iporuwg at 6 o'clock the Queen started for Munich. As she was leaving Aschaffenburg, she told her chaplain shehad left vAzious petitions on her writing table, which she wished him to atteud to, and. as soon as the carriage drove off he weint to get the papers, and there, standing by tho Queen's table, was agaiii the same figure, dressed in black. That evening, after the cattellan and his w fo had re tired to rebt, they were surprised at hearmig the great bell of the castle toll. The key of the bell-tower was hanging up as uisual'in their room; but they noted the .hour, and at that moment Queen Theresa.died Munich of cholera, which seized her on her arrival in the town at 6 o'clock pm., and carried-her off in a few hours. A mystical anecdote about Napleon III is given on the au thority of Lady Bloomillold's relative, Lord Normandy. Lie was at the Elysdo one day, when lib saw the Eaiperor con-* versing with Ban Giaconio. Thy bec koned to him to approach, and then Napoleon said that lie wais rewinding San Giacoinuo i a curious interview they had wun young men, with a omuinain - bulist, He added that she preUicted three things; "That . should be some time in prison, thr ii reign over an eu piXA, and lastly that I blould die a vio, lent death" "Deux de ces choscs sont arrivece" he said, "S'autre arrivera." Lady Isloomfield tells among her other picturesque tales a curious story of Harriet Hosmer, who declared that the spirit of her Italian servant appealed and Spoke to her at the moment of the girl's death in another quarter of Rome. Rather To teanH.4t. At a very relreshing season of revival in one of the largo railroad centres, not long ago, one of the pastors announced that lie would devote an evening to the boys connected with the roads, inviting them all to be present, and promising something that would be of inte~rest to them. The night cameoaround, andl the lads were on hand. Perhips they did not take much stock in emotional ro. ligion, but they were prepared to pay respecttul attention to anything that might bc said. "Ring the bell !" exclaimed the minister, plunging into his theme with out further introduction, hoping to please his auditors he continuedl itefr ence to their avocation. "Toot, toot toot I Away we go I" and lhe began to hop up and down and stagger around the stage. Bis imitation of car muotion~ was infectious, and the men bobbed around on their seats. "We are plunging along at 60 mile's an hour I" he roared. The audience said nothing but looked at each other with raised eyebrow~s. "There is nothing b'etween us and death 1" contmnued the clergyman. "It is ai station to wich we are all nound I Look out I Ha I That switch wvas open I Now we are bound to eternul perdition ! There is no help for us I We are-' But all lie could see were assorted izes of legs disappearing through doors and windows. Thiere was but one maui left in the audience, and he was scrowv ing of an imaginary brake with all his strength. "My friend-," coimmenced the pas tor. 'Jump, you dog gouec jackass I" roared the solitary brakeman. "If we've cut the switch and heil's ahead, you want to jun p 1" "iut you, my brotnuer, but you--I" exclaimed the clergy man, hoping to im prove the opporua.uty and impress one~ emotional soul. "Never mind mec I" yelled the brake man, setting his foot firmly and crouch mng over the wheel. "Never mind me!" I've been brakeman on this road for 21 yearn, and J.'m willig to lay off'in hell for a little rest I Jump, you infernal jackass, unless you're twed of prechl meg I" Referring to the ocasion subsequent. Ly, the clergymnan solemnly afllrmied that he had made his last effort at a realastic ermnon. Inriebtedness~ ei an E-nulIi Earl. The Earl of Aylesford is one of those arIstocratic young gentlemen who pos sess a wonderful tacility for running into debt. On the 28th of November last his allairs came up before the Court of Bankruptcy in London, wvhen it ap peaired that he owed ?200,000 to the E~agle Insurance Company, ?69,000 to his lawyer, ?16,004) to Lord hastings, and about ?I4,00Q0 to tradesmen. 'The matter was brought biefore the House of Lords and a, special act, obtaijned and trustees ahpomtedl to take charge of the property, amounting to ?750,000, to re aelve the rents and raise money topa the debts. Th'e Enar4 then started for this country ont a short shootinx tour till Dhristmas. Meantime an impatient wime mnerchant lied a petitioni in bank uptcy, alleging that his eustomner de p'arted from the r4,ahn to dlefeint and' lelay his creditors, and obtainedl an >rder appolinting a receiver. 1t appeared ,bat last year the giros income of the istates was ?25,000, but thbro was no hing avail able for the unsecured-oredi ors at present. Mr. Registrar liasit lieharged tue receiver appointed under he oition, Jui fj , robiaiity 'thin riceohared ib w~e uierchan, re such as to al Ibwt of his watiting a ear for his mnoneyailthout serious laimage to the protst and loss account. Enn gentle hint: Youan lady (sudden v startang)---.."My good less I" 'Young vete~ (ate .,stayer).-Whuat's the