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by trnmy80m. I - - f IJ- ' 'JL'IIB WlMltflimB WMI 11 1 ? Far over bumruit and lawn, Tho lono^glow anjhtong roar, j|A a**. I I *4?*at hSra AbJUkl tCTrSoil I 11 f i But thou wort Mluul Iu heaven? Above thou glided tho star. Ua?t thou noTofeo.'tWrAur, "Ol CiKA C That standout hlnh aix>vo all ? "I am tho,voice or tho peak, c , . ,, I roar a^ra\o$| 1>\ )\ \\ A thousand voices r. o To north, south, cast and west j'i T I 1 rn r Thoy Ieavo tho heights and aro IroubleB,1 * And moau and Blub to tholr rost. Tho fleldsfhro falrbesidn4h?mLX TV ?TO C% Tho chuslmit towersiuinVliuoio; V it?vj But thoy?thoy fool tho deHlro of tho do*t>; Fall?and follow their doom. The. rseepIhaVt^ownr cmllin heJgllt,* f \. I /'? , And t hu !n,t;;lif has poweron tho deep; .?Theyararalff^torjovraiBhaiovrwyH Vittt" > Ami Hint again Into sleep. Not raieed f'>r over nml over, But when their cyolo la o'er, , _ Tlio valley, tho voice, |he peak, (hr)star? ' ft Pass, ami aro found rib laore.H. ? 3 1 Tho peak is high, and jluwh'd , -?<?* i At Iii? hlgKrud With Buu'rlno lire; .'. < The puak is hl(;h, and tho stars aro high, i ? And tho thought of a mau Is hi eher. _. ' , . , ? .fTS / 1 * ' ) V? I t I < A voice below l:ie voice. And a height bvyoiid-tho height: ... Our bearing not hearing,1 ' : And our Boeing is not sight. ' Tim voice niitl tho peak, '" i , ''' Far into heaven wifluiraWA ;'<'.' s Tho lono glow and long roar. Green rushing from1 tbo rosy thrones of . dawn. A MARRIAGE ON SPECULATION. Translated from, tho French., c jr ^ The French entered Amsterdam the .20th of January, 1815. The soldiers stabked itheir .arms on the pavement, and waited anxiously lor their billets for quarters. . Despite the severity of the weather,, the oitizens turned out in large num bers to welcome and admire the veto runs in thoir rags. There was a general rejoicing .throughout the oity, which for the most part was illuminated. At the extreme end of the town there, was a Bingle house, whoso dark; forbidding aspect was in strong contrast to tho bril liant appearance of the neighboring buildings. It was the residence of the rich merchant Meistor Woerdon. He was completely absorbed in his commer cial operations, and neither know nor oared to know what was going on in the political world ; and, then, ho was too familiar with the rules of economy to think of squandering candles on an illu mination. , " At this; moment, when" all was joy ] and enthusiasm throughout Amsterdam, Meister Woerden sat quietly in his big arm-chair beside the fire. On the table there was a little brass lamp, a mug of beer, and a big clay pipe. On the other I side of tho fire sat an old maid-servant, ' whose rotundity betrayed her Flomish origin. She was occupied in shoving back the coals that had fallen out on tho hearth, when there came a loud knock at the street-door. "Who can that be? Go and see," I said tho old merchant to the maid, who ] had risen to her feet. A few moments later a stalwart young man entered the room. Ho threw | off his mantle and approached the fire. " Good evening, father," said he. "How? Is it yon, William? I did not oxpect yon back so soon." "lieft Brook this morning, but tho roads havo been made so bad by the army-trains that wo havo beon the wholo day on tho way." " Well, did you seo Van Elburg?" " Yes," said tho young man, Boating himself before tho firo ; " Moistor van Elburg consents to tho marriage, but he adhor.es to his determination to givo his daughter a dowry of only four thousand ducats." " Well, then, ho may koop his daugh ter and his dowry," replied Woerden, with a frown; "But, father?" " Not a word, my son ! At your ago we havo no moro sense than to sacrifice every thing for love, and to dospiso . riohoB." " But nerr van Elburg is tho riohest merchant in Holland, and what ho does not givo now will bo ours at his death." "Nousotiho!" repliod Moistor Woor don. "Am I, too, not sick? Listen, my sou. You will soon follow mo in my liuainoHH. Never forgot thoso two rules; never give* moro than you rooeive, and novor furthor another man's interest to the detriment of your own. Guided by thoHC principles, ono will bottor his con dition in marriago as well as in trade." "But, fathor?" "Not another word, my son?not an other word !" William knew his fathor too well to say any thing more, but ho could not avoid evinoing Iub disploasure by Iiis manner. To this, howevof, tho old man paid no attention ; he calmly filled his pipo, lighted it, and boganto smoke. Again there was a loud rap at the street-door, while at the same time the dogs began to bark. "Aha!" said Meister Woerden, " it must bo a stranger, or the dogs wouldn't bark so. Go and see who it is, William." The young man wont to the window. "It is one of the militia horsomon," said William. "A militia horseman! What oan he want?" At this moment the maid-servant en tered and handed Woerden a letter. Ho oarefnlly examined tho seal. "From tho provisional government," said he. His hand trembled as ho hastily open ed tho lotter and read it, but suddenly tho old tradesman's faco lighted up with a joyous expression us ho cried : " Good?good ! I accept." Tho letter contained an order for four hundrod thousand horrings for tho <?my. to.be delivored within ? month. '" WUllany' onod the old man, havo .a oamkal thongty. lJoj* woi?? marry Vau Elburg'a daughter^anddiave, a hamluomo dowry with her?" I would; butr-"1, the#?8!fteAt ldp hol, morrow morning, early." MThOitttjXtHnip^fir. at aunrise, father and eon were on tho high-road from Am8tordam.JbovBrpek, iwhioh thoy reaelv. I od a?iVmXd^VSffney repairod unV'1 mediately to tho roaidonoe of Van El ibiufff, who, when ho saw them enter, cried out:. ^ fcttpu ' to Wolar_ |(5eS^Ha^j^3l^S?om tho jtSJcz V0U8T In my oase, yon aro woloomb." "No, I flee from nobody, xou itnbw 1 have nothing to do with politics. I I come to propose a -gopd^ -^peculation | to ^fcgea* Wba?twifcf" > j , ? [** I havo au^ordor from the govoJriP moat for foncj hundred thousand bjor- 1 rings, to bo deliverod wiihiu a month. Oan you furnish me with that number ih, saylhroe^woeltstl' "At whatr prioi ? " j , 'rTea fldrfnr) d thbusnnd.? 1 ; ) " Ten florins ! Yes, I will furnish .them.? : ?? Ih ??' [ " Very woll, and now to dinner ; I, :nn Imlf famished.' i At iDie* table tfeTw?I; talk of anothor matter." Woordon introduced the snbjoot of] tho marriage, but Van Elburg could not be persuadod to increase tho dowry he had offored^"give',hiff--danghtor t to the amount of a single stiver. Thoy nevertheless 'decided that tbo wedding fmdtild take' place that day next we ok. j The following day, Woordon and his son retured home.' 'Hardly4 had thoy* left Broek when tho young man asked : "Then, father, yori have changed yohrmind?" ' f ? "How so?" "Havo yon not de?idwVt? accept tho,, dowry offered by Moistor Van Elburg ?." | " Let mo manage the matter in my own way, my son, and ask no ques tions." / ? v.; ^ When tho wedding-day came, W?hr den and Iiis son(.returned to Broek. Van Elburg received them kindly, but he was so flurried and nervous that William feared he had some bad news for them. His father, however, had no snob misgivings ; the old .-fox know too .well the cause of his colleague's dis turbed manner. 1} Whatis the ?matter, .Meister .Van Elburg?" he' asked, with .a sardonic amilo.--?-*-<< Yon aeom to be worried about oomo thing." \ "Ah, my friend, I am greatly embar rassed. I must speak with yon." "Whatis it? Havo yon changed your mind with regard to the marriage. Speak frankly ; it is not too late." "No no; it is another matter en tirely." " Well, then, let us first proceed with the wedding-ceremony. Afterward I shall be quite at your service." The company, therefore, repaired to a neighboring church, and in a few min utes the young people were husband and wife. When they returned to the house, Van Elburg asked Woerden to go with him into his private room. "My friend." began Van Elburg, when he had carefully- olosed the door, " in aooordanoo with our agrcomeht, I should within two ?weeks from now de livor to yon four hundred thousand herrings. Thus far, however, I have* not boon ablo to prooure a singlo one. There aro none in the market; thoy have been all bonght up." " Oertainly thoy havo, I bought them up mysolf," replied Woordon, smiling. "But?but?how about my con tract?" stammered Van Elburg. " Yon will fulfill it. Listen, friend Van Elburg : you will somo day loavo your daughter a handsomo fortune ; I shall leave my son at least as much ; it is therefore unnecessary to discuss their future. This, however, is not truo of tho present. I shall soon give my en tire business to my son, "while you give your daughter only four thousand du cats. I could not oppose the wishes of tho youngpooplo ; but when! consented to tiioir union, I determined to compel you to do your duty toward thorn. With this object in viow. I contracted with yen for four huuilrod thousand herrings, at ton florins a thousand, al though I thon hud all tho herrings iu tho markot. Now in order to comply with tho terms of your agreomont, you must buy from mo, and my price is fifty florins a thousand ; you havo, t here fore, only to pay over to me tho sum of six toon thousand florins, and wo shall be square." While Meister Woerdon was arriving at this mercantile deduction, Van El burp; regained his wonted equanimity. " I Bee, I see," said he," you aro a clever tradesman. I am fairly caught, and must bide tho conseqenooV Their conference ended, and tho two merchants rejoined the wedding-com pany, as though nothing unusual had occurred between them. A week hjf or, Van Embury went to Amstrrdam, ostensibly to see nis daugh ter. Now the tableB wore turned, " Ah, meister, oried Woerden, on seeing his oolloagno from Brook, " I am in a terrible dilemma. The time is ap Eronohing when I must deliver the four nndred thousand herrings, and not a oask oan I And to put them in I" "That does not surprise me," an swered Van Elburg* smiling; "you bought np all my herrings, and I bought up all your casks." ?Tn view of tho provalenco of birds on ladies' hats, this sonson, wouldn't somo milliner make a fortuno by put tibg on the brim of a hat a wholo poul try yard, with a Jiorso looking nt it through a stable window? We charge nothing ttjr the suggestion, ~~?* .1- ? 'J '.L y.L J i <. l-Tr ? Robert 'Owen';} dream hoy: become 'reality in tho Now Forest, wlicro an' elderly " lady of wealth ana position Si .nmiiromMciar about 18ft men soidrwo-; %etfwhnTeNaiem fw8 af oomMmflitj, Thoy-bo^ajH tn&ty^ono'i acVcs, donated for tho mom par |/Jtffrthe lady, and, as, <cTatseB,-uMl werofvory willing- to-accept dh' lbffer which /assured l to them easy^ tames and full st?muohs.i Thc'pHnoiple oil 'which tlio loomrrinnity is .based in that rich and poor w?ko shall givo up fill thoypossoss for tho common behoofs yt?S?0?SttWr<I>d8^ sur prising as that may,;scorn, havo- joined the community and complied with this, condition. <vNo money ia used except as moans of buying fiom tho outer world what Mio fstaa will'not supply, and, an. the farm jn noii suuloio'ntly productive to feed the community, it seems ov id out that thrJ w^tritT?i'iniHtm'' ara lining jjp HiQir*I capital; A the great principles of liberty,: oqnolityi and. fraternity'are in. force in this earthly paradise, yetVfchey' are Bubordinato to another principle, that of obedi6noo."j The " mother, as tho patroness ?i.tbViuatitutiottMH called,, is supreme, and her bidding ' must be done in all ' thirig?:11 -She1 assigns the tasks and labors' of ithe day, and)at her magi? word the whilom. tailor must b o como ia cobblern,and,.fijbp cobbler, the purvoyor of meal. It willj?o'readily;' icen^hatthiB government will occasion a jiro?i?ns uoal(?f3 troubftTwhon the lady growy old and childish. Tkoilow ers, the sowiug, tue washing, tho house* keeping and cooking are assigned to different departments of the Sisters, and everything at; present goes like clock-work. All the women, young and old, are dressed in plain bodice, short skirt and trousers, which generally are becoming to them. ? The hair floats at tyilh down tha^ book. The . men, dress witli tho greatest plainness and neat ness, and music is the ohief art and rearoatloh ?T the! community, whioh, it should be said, holds no new or "ad vanced" notions on the marriage ques tion, and, therefore, is not regarded by; the neighbors as immoral and objections able/' 3^ ' ? 1 An Intoreatiiig Event. ?:"Weall remember that a thrill of an guish ran up and down, the spinal col-, nmn ?f tlib American people when a certain announcement was made soon after tho marriage .of-.Edinbnrg. to .th?. czarina. We all know how the daughters of Columbia arose as one man and in dignantly cast back the foul allegation into the teeth of tho ailegator, whoover lie or she might be. Now, howoverj we have the pleasure to annonnoe that it is all right. England is not absolutely starving for lack of royal family, but will probably be inclined to woloome this Anglb-Oossack little stranger, as Mrs. Edinburg's papa is rich ana care less, and will be very .likely to come down with something handsome on the occasion. It is interesting to know also that the ohorub has. been born, if not with a silver spoon in its month, at least with half a dozen in the cupboard, and will not be absolutely destitute of a mug. This is from reliable authority. Edinburg from this time will have to givo up his lodge-meetings and private smokes in the olub snuggery and con duct himself as beeometh the father} of a family and tho sire of a second-hand Romanoff. Tha czarina is reporto I to bo a great stickler for, the proprieties of lifo, liko Viotoriu, and between them both the outlook for Edinburg is not so festive as it might bo. However, there is one comfort, his mother-in-law can't stay, with him forevor, whioh will at least take from him tho tomptation to follow tho Romanoff example and put a little cold pizon in his old lady's tea pot.? bt.^Louia Republican. '- ,!>. Detroit Court Proceedings. "You aro a sailor, arn't yon?" in quired his honor, as tho prisonor hung to the railing and stood on one leg. "Ych, I sail," ho answered. "How about this jotting drunk?" "Ik that tho charge?" " Yos sir." " I thought it was stealing chickens," said the pris oner, hoaving a sigh of rolief. Thoy found him lying on tho wharf, tho cool .breezes of au autumn evening toying with hia raven looks, and his legs bang ing grroefully over a lump of Brier Hill coal. Ho didn't want to "come along," and tried to kick tho officer bo low the belt and do murder. He said ho wanted to go and bo an angel; that the'soft breezo was whispering to him to cast off this shell called life and fly to the stars, and tho ofllcer had to trun dle him down hero in a hand-cart. "What did the soft broezossoom to say?" inquired his honor. " I don't romom ber much about it," roplied tho pris onor, glancing around in an uneasy manner. "Did they seem to say ?five dollars or thirty days?'" asked tho court. The prisoner was undecided, and Bijah put the fatal ohalk-mark on his back and led him away.?Free Prcsfi. _ The Thirty-five Ton Steam Hammer. Tho great steam hammer lately built for the royal gun factories, at Wool wiob, has been successfully erected and Bet to work. Being mueh the largest piece of meohi nism of its kind in the world, considerable interest attaohea to its performance. Tho weight of the falling portion is nearly forty toiiH, and its forco of impact is groatly increased by tho use of steam to drive it down from the top, tho anguim ntation being estimated to equal tho forco represented by allowing tho hammor to fall of its own weight, from a height of eighty feet, It has been allowed a striking fall olMteen feet three inches. The ham mer' is (orty^flvo feet' high, and oovOre, with its nupports, a baao of about 120 square feet? . Its- weight iia about COO ton?, ubovo the ground, ?nd tho iron nitl^d0 fir' *,; the . fdundation bolbw will woig??G5 tons,; : The Siu^ey'oV' :ihe Torty-ninth Far 1;*r:;:; . :allpl. . 'The^Wrkf?f^i?Afttmg the boundary line between tho United States and tho British North American Possessions has lieon completed, and tho American sur veying? jfrarfiv/ has arrived at St. Paul. Major Twimngi .and his men were ac companied Fort Buford by two com panies' of infantry, acting as escort. Ho reports thiiy ' thb British commission Started fori i'embina overland on their way .to Canada.; Tho joint work bo t'wobn tho iTpitod States and England of marking thofUbuudary. line between the United StatSi -..and British Amerioa on tho -11?tlx pHrallod of north latitude 'wk-j cdc:t?i?fed Istc in tho season of tlB7JL lint. ninety-ono miloo woro run ,that season./^ Last year tho work was 'resumed, ana 408 miles woro run, whea <jh? survey was Suspended again. The party resuntad their labors once more lost sUmmOrsfJeaving St. Paul in June. Since thoylwyo run U60 miles of sur vey,' and on'|$?ptom.ber lBt thoy reached the monument whioh marked tho west ern terminus of tho old survey on tho summit of tfle Hooky mountains, thus fomplotin^tllo ontire boundary line from! tho liako of tho Woods to tho summit of. two Rooky mountains, a dis tanceof18?Kmj[e8.- Along this entire distaneb ?U*t?veragb intervals of three miles the lino is marked by stone pyra mids, ten iotjt at the base and six feet higli. T??&or? no points in conten tion betwoo&?e' \Britiah and American government , but a year will be required for the engineers to Work up their notes before making thoir report. Mai. Twining will remain in St. Paul a week or two, when he will prooeod to Wash ington, whero he will establish his office ntid finish Ibis report.! He will proba bly, return 4o St. Paul next season to. superintend planting iron monuments at Intervals'of a mile along that portion of tho lino between Minnesota and Manitoba. Iconoclasm. Don Quixote took a tilt at the wind mills, but. the editor of the Courier Journal charges church steeples. He asks : Why-mot abolish tho church ?steoploR? -in fnere any part, of a build ing so useless aa a steeple? It con neither bo constructed nor kept in re pair without great danger to human life, and it dosen't look well after the best can be done for it has been done. As if heaven itself were protesting against the folly of this unsightly heap, scarcely a thunder-storm passes over the country whioh does not hurl its bolts against some church steeple. During a storm this summer in New Jersey, a steeple was struok three times in succession. The other day lightning struck the steeple of a church in Ohio, and nine women in the church were prostrated, five of whom may never re cover. Why should wo set up targets for tho lightning ? Even if the road to heaven really lies through the atmos phere, we have surer guides to it than church spires. Wo .vould be gainers by building our ohurohes on modest plans. Tho story of the tower of Babol is quite enough to show that heaven is brought no nearer by building high in the air. The Salmon Catch. Salmon fishing on the Lower Colum bia river, Oregon, baa boen unusually successful this season. Tho best part of tho season is from April to August; this year tho largest number of salmon was taken in July. The thirteen can ning establishments on the river did not take lens than an average of 15,000 every night in tho month. During the season about 1,000,000 salmon were caught, i nob averaging, whon dressed, sixteen pounds. About 750,000 of these wore canned, tho remainder suited and bar reled. Every ono who has eaten salmon, Eroporly canned, kuows that it is nice, ut probably fow know tho fact that from tho timo the salmon is caught un til- it is roady for market it passos through tweuty-seveu hands; the can in whioh tho salmon was put employs ten men in tho process of making ; tho oaso in which the cans aro packed em ploys in tho manufacture five men, ma Ic ing in all forty-two persons necessary in a regular establishment to preparo a eau of salmon, from the catching the fish until it is roady for shipment. It is no unusual mattor for one of tho large canneries to preparo for market 25,000 one-pound onus in a day. The Writer of St. Elmo. A Mobile letter in the Inter-Ocean says of the author of "St. Elmo:" "She is Mrs. Wilson, now, and lives in a beautiful little chat eau in the suburbs. Hor husband is a banker of wealth and influence, and she is a plain, unassum ing lady, about thirty-five years old, I should think. From her appenranoe ono would not imagino sho had wres tled wiih OonfuoiuB, the ^Sanskrit phil osophers and the ancient&Grseks. Im agine a tall, slender lady, of dark com plexion, black hair, and oyes of an in different color, features plain but full of animation and intelligence, and man ners that aro at onco ?nobstrusive and attraotive, and you have this Do Staol of tho south. Sho is soon but little in Booioty, and soldom ontortains any but intimate friends ; but tho poor know hor woll, and tho hospitals and institutions for tho homeless and friendless find in her a local Florenoo Nightingale." The Home of Jefferson. A correspondent of the Washington Ohroniole who has lately made a pil grimage to Montieello, onco tho home of Thomas Jefferson, thus describes the mansion in .which tho great statesman: dwelt: It is a two-Btory main building and wings, tho former projecting front and roar in immense porticoes; of solid stone, the center oMhe building. being capped with a plain but ill-lighted domo: On the ceiling of the front portico is a large compass dial, and immediately over the main door there is set in the wall a large dock, with dials showing inside and out, and thore is now exhibi ted a ladder made by Jefferson himself, and with which ha wound up the time hooper at stated periods by the weights suspended from pulleys on tho walls of either side. Tho main entrance really consists af three double glass doors,:all of which can be romoved, and you enter a vestibule, octagonal in shape, and puss immediately into a parlor of the same shape. The two apartments, havo in laid floors of walnut, mahogany and cherry, which have yet to bo surpassed by any work of tho kind in this country. Although they were in constant use ' in Jofferson's days, as he always had I lots of company, and have been used since, and are still, by picnic and danoing par ties, they are not warped nor injured in the least, and need, apparently, only soap and water to restore them to their original glossy appearance. There are two small dining-rooms, one in each wing, the rest of tho building being cut up into l small and badly-lighted bed rooms. Ventilation seems to havo been buried beneath every other considera tion, as there is no room in the- house through which there could. be gained, a direct' air current. Tho beds, even, are sot in recesses of alcoves in the .walls, to form which space and rooms are sacrificed, and the stairways, one in each wing, are so constructed, and of suoh scant bend that their descent would be perilous in the daytime without a lan tern. A covered way, which is 'ein rather a dilapidated condition, leads from either wing to his library and'of fice respectively, and an underground passage, through 1 which he made his escape from Col. Carleton and the Brit ish cavalry, in shown to visitors. There is suspended in the vestibule. , a four light lantern, but beyond the Old gig body, in whioh itissaidho used to ride to Oharlotteaville, there is not an article of, furniture or curiosity in the house.' Tl 1 o janitor or keeper of. the premises is a* white man named, Thomas Wheeler, who lives in the eas t'wi n g. He was tho o vorece r for Commodore Levy, the last, tenant of the entire mansion,and as the property is now in litigation ho remains in Charge by sufferance, sustaining himsolf by what he can make off tho farm and the collections (twenty-five cents each) whioh he demands from visitors. Does Prohibition Prohibit? Figures won't lie, and, as they won't, figures make a very startling exhibit with referenoe to the working of tem perance legislation. Maine, for in stance, has a law forbiding the sale and manufacture of liquor. This law has been in If jroo. twenty-three yearn. In that time Portland has increased in population less thau 50 per cent., while the number of places whore drunkards are made has increased over 200 per cent. Bangor, with 15,000 inhabitants, has 300 saloons, bo that every fifty of the inhabitants have a saloon to t hem selves. Massachusetts has a prohibi tory liquor law. In 1856 the number of persons arrested in Boston for drun kenness was 6,780, and in 1870. tho number was 18,670. In his ofiloial re port for 1871 the chief of pol ice shows tho number of men made drunk during the year; as follows : Nunibe.r of hotols, 7G ; drunkcm men_ 57 GrocorioB, 1,425; drunken men. 1,425 ]tor-rooms, 1,125; (Iranken mon. 0,425 Jug-roomti, 327; drunken mon. 3,511 Total.11,418 As compared with other cities, the New York ?Sun says of Boston, that while it has an average of one arrest for dmnkonness in ovory 16 of her inhabi tants, Providence has one in 22; Now York has one in 27 ; San Francisco has eno in 29 ; Louisville has ono in 29; 1 lochest er has ono in 31 ; Washington hau ono in 32 ; Detroit has one in 34; St. Louis hau one in 42; Cleveland has one in 42 ; Brooklyn has one in 64 ; Cin cinnati has ono in 83. If it were the habit of temperance-reformers to stop and think at all, suoh facts and figures as these ought to convince them of the folly of any prohibitory legislation in the matter of what a man shall drink ; and that, instead of advancing the cause of temperance, they are really ad vancing the cause of intemporanoe.? Chicago Tribune_ Railway Accident in England, There is an impression that English railway traveling is safer than our own. The British companies are required, under a penalty of ?20 for each omis sion, to report every case of accident. The ofiloial returns thus arrived at gives 773 as killed last year, and 1,171 as injured. Private inquiries made by Mr. Bass, M. P., show that on certain sections of certain railways the ascer tained number of accidents is far in ex cess of the official report. On the as sumption that these sections are fair samples of tho rest of tho lines, strik ing an average, the whole number of dnathfl appears as 1,200 and of injuries 27,000. The offloinls of the board of trado nro oallod upon to ascertain the truth. _ ?Tho Shakers of New York number Ieighty less than two years ago, and thoy've got to throw away their singlo boadstoads or become an oxtinot sect. FACTS AND FANCIES. ?The naturally sluggish man never gets thoroughly aroused [until the time cornea to write his raothor-in-lnw'n opi taph. ?"Hew many people,''(says Jeremy Taylor, "are busy in this world gather ing together a, handful of. thorns to hit upon.' ' ?So man can read about- ail these burglaries without n determination; to have his wife sleep on the front side;of tho bed. ?An Indiana woman says if they have ;to wash and iron in her.von, sho hepos they'll let her remain in Indiana for all time to come. -^A commission1 of Ioelanders is; about to visit Alaska,, to inquire into the pro spects for the settlement of a colony of their countrymen in that territory, ?An old man in Alabama has a tree near his house overhanging the road which he wishes to cut, but is-compell ed to keep it standing for fear it should kill-a candidate for congress ?when it falls.: ?An excited railway man who shouts into tbe cars tho h?mo of the. station, and who hears a great deal of complaint because tho names are called indistinct ly, wants to know if tbe public expects tenors at forty dollars a montb. ?An excited railway man, who nhonts into the cars the names of the .station, and who hears a great deal of complaint because tho names are called indistinct ly, wants to know if the public, oxpeuta tenors at forty dollars a month. , t- p ?Tho British museum recently .be came possessed of a jacinth, a precious stone of exceeding rarity. The speci men is no larger than a pea, and, says the London Times, "flashes and glows with a ? lustre, whioh seem1 to denote the!presence of fire and flame." .It coat $3,500. . , ? . . ..Jj: - ?Seeds and fruit-cuttings in packages bs large as four pounds - now -' pass through the mails and i post-offices at a comparatively low rato of postage, j A bushel .of' orchard grar i-seed weighs fourteen pounds, Which may be mailed in four packages for t- .i r jy-two cento to any part of the United States. , . ?A new toy, lately" patented, consists of a figure <A '?? a dandy with' a^' bigar holder in his montb. In tho pedestal there is a small bellows, operated by clock-work and spring/' A small' cigar is lighted and placed in tho bolder, and :jvhen the spring.set in .moli?u.tbe dandy puffs away as natural" as life un tilthe cigar is oonnumeC: "; ?A strange man, who wanted to go on tho train, but missed it, walked np and down the depot in a nigh state of excitement, berating himself and every one else. "I know just what my wife will say 1" he exclaimed, as he walked up and down. "When that train gits thar and she won't see me, she'll git right up and jttmo over chair* and smash crockery and swear I'm , off on another drunk 1" ?A Chicago description of Fred Grant: "Among the throng, alter having exchanged salutations with his parental relations, mingled a stolid looking, sullen-faced young man, With a faint attempt at a mustache, and cold, lifeless eyes, an ungainly figure, an? no redeeming feature, upon whom eves were occasionally cast, and persons fre quently addressed as Col. Fredj Grant, 'the happy man.'" ?" Six things," says Hamilton, "aro requisite to create a home. Integrity must bs the architect, and. tidiness the upholsterer. It must be warmed by af feotion, and lighted with dheerfnlness, and industry must be the ventilator, renewing the atmosphere, and bringing in fresh salubrity day by day, while over all, ad a protecting glory and can opy, nothing will suffice except. the blessing of God." ?At a teachers' institute in Scettville, Ky., the question arose, "Why is it that a pig may drink a bucket fnll of slop and then be placed in the same bnoket and not fill it?" The teachers having all failed to give any satisfactory solution, tho question was referred to ('apt. Gib Mulligan, who at once ren dered his decision that there must have boon a leak about the pig. There was no further discussion. ?A great many of tho stores in Paris are dedicated to some one or to some thing real or imaginary. One sees such signs as "To the Good Dovil,"."Te the Poor Dovil," "To the Infant Jesus," "To tho Gray Overcoat," "To the Madonna," "To the Americans," "To the Universe," "To the Poor James," etc The stores for the sale of miscellaneous merchandise are now more generally closed on Sundays than they were four years ago. ?How comfortable for a young wife to feel that her husband is a bountiful Jirovider, and that she will never want or the necessaries of life, A newly married man waa recently directed by his wife to order some yeast, and not having a very well denned idea of the article, he told the baker to send up three dollars' worth. At nine o'clock next morning three men might have been seen tugging a cask of yeast np the front steps of that man's house. ?On the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railway fourteepa wood burning engines have been recently con verted into coal-burners, at a cost of $100 for eaoh engine; and the differ ence in the cost of tho two fuels, wood and cool, is said to be $5 a day for each engine; this without considering the time and labor SAvod in handling them. In July, the coal-burners ran trains at a cost of 8J cents por mile, against wood burning engines at a cost of 81-10 cents per mile?a saving whioh alone would make a fair dividend on some roads.