Plymouth Democrat, Volume 15, Number 12, Plymouth, Marshall County, 25 November 1869 — Page 1

POETRY.

YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT.

BETROTUAL.

BY CARL !PBNCER. C) rrR on- hour of -nch an-hanted licht A nvide :i fniriT daytime- in the sky, Wh-n n th- willow hank vre ?nt that niht, My old-time love and I ! A while we talked o low and tenderly, VW felt the listening trees above un lean; And louder f:ir the eilence seemed to me That fell nt last between. n-r heart lay floating on it qnict thought. Like water Bitot on a traniiuil lake ; And Lore within, unknown necausv bcoo"ht. L-y drcamini; half aw ake. Ah, l.ovc i- lichtest sleeper ever known ! A a hi pi :, and he started plain to view : (Id i- th- heavens neem.-d nr -tory grown. While yet the mon wa- new. And vii. 4i she spoke hcrnnswrr se.-med the while Sweet r for we.'tiie of th- 1 il that told, S 1 1 tnr a ivriMi word within a - nil A diamond tinned with IH. T'ii ii UmmmmI for ii- Um lx'rfi ct century-Sower. Then ted tli- rap and overrun Ukj brim ; And nil the star processional, that hour, Chanted a bridal-hymn. Ah, Time, all after-days may fly away, Snch joy as that thon hast bat once to give, Ai'd Love i- royal from hie crowning-day. Though kin ;domless he live. .MISCELLANEOUS. Ml NEIGHBORS. Like a -ick man': dream?. Varie all shajH-, and mixes all extremes. Khan . In a convalescent state, after a serious illness that had rendered mc wholly incapable of mental exertion, I sat in ray arniehair by Um fire, while on the able near me lay a volume of Eugene Sue's Wandering Jew ; and another containing a portion nt Ike history of Um renowned PaatagnaeL I had mm dreamily turning oref tin1 lesTca of both, and had been much impressed by a ch.-ipter in the one list n;im d, UmI described how Alcofril U (M Rah mis called himself) asenadcd the giant's out -t retched tongue, and thus entering his month, discovered therein a n'v world, the inhabitants of which had Um vairu st actions of everything that passed beyond their owl sphere. " Is 11. t every one in London," I asked myself, "much in the condition of the man who planted cabliages within the precincts of Pantagruel's jaws and only had the faintest knowledge that there was another world illumined by a sun and moon? I have lived at least six years in this mmp, and what do I know of a certain Miss Thugleigh, who fires next door, and of wbose ugly name I should never have heard, hau not a letter, directed to hT, Ven brought to me accidentally by the postman ? She has never left home at :my film- when I have lcen looking out ol the window; she? is never in her garden, which, by the way, is in a most neglected stale. I am only reminded of her existence by an occasional noise. In London audits suburbs, ivc by some rare accident, is not every one in pretty marly the same position as I am with respect to Miss Thm.'leigh f I know rather more of the man who is her next-door neighbor on the other side, and whose name seems to be BahMasworth, for the artist who comes t -have me tells me that he has his hair curled every morning, evidently intending t hohl up a good example before my eyes. Bat knowledge like this is the very reverse of exhausti v.." The pursuit of this foolish train ot thought had caused me to rise from ray ( hair, and I was staring vacantly into the jlass Ol my mantel-piece, when my attention was suddenly arrested by a remarkable phenoaaanon. The movements of the reflected figure did not corraapoad to my own. If I stirred it remained still, or moved in a different manner. The eyes alone, which were fixed on mine, obeyed the ordinary laws of reflection. Presently, my own arms being folded, the figure extended one of its hands. I extended a I aad too, and the figure, slightly inclining forward, grasped it firmly. Instinctively I endeavored to extricate myself, but so far was I from succeeding, that I felt myself pulled towards the glass. The figure, then, was a reality, and a very muscular reality t o, for I could not resist it. Whither was I going? It was soon evident that there was bo gfauu at all, but an aperture in the wall surrounded by a eilt frame, behind which was a room precisely corresponding to my own. The position wac alarming. Mi on I was pulled, ana for a few seconds found myself enveloped in darkness. I seemed conscious of nothing but vacuity, i when suddenly the grasp eased, and I was one j more in the light, seated at a table, opposite to a venerable old lady, Wheat: white hair, neatly parted from the middle ot the ion head, was surmounted by the most respectable of caps. She was absorbed in the perusal of a large book, which lay oper before her. Not knowing how I should be received, I refrained troai interrupting her studies, and took a leisurely survey of the Mem In shape- it was a prism. The ceiling and floor were equilateral triangles, and the nulls were consequently three in number. The table to., was triangular, so were the sc If of the chairs, ach of which had three- leirs, and a huge birdcage containing a vulture, was, in keeping wnh the furniture. Door, window, or fireplace, there was t.one; the only admission to fresh air being afforded by a triangular ventilator, immediately under the ceiling. On the few shelves, which broke the monotony of the walls, were placed some old books, two or three littles, and several knives or rs of Oriental fashion. But the most singular object was a hideous Indian idol, like those that represent the horrible wife of Siva, which stood in a corner, and before which was a prismatic stone, exactly similar in its proportions to the room. " Well, George," said the old lady, suddenly raising her eyes from her book, and looking at me full in the face, "so you have condescended to visit meat last." Though my name is not (ieorge, I felt that I was the person addressed, so I began politely to deny the cendecension. " l'ooh-iiooh : nevermind compliments. Yu arc here, and that is the great matter. I -ee you are rather astonished; but then it's very snug, and quite good enough for a -iinplebody like me." M Unique in its structure at any rate," I said, endeavoring to admire." "I am rather curious to know how one enters it." "Indeed, I wonder at that when you yoiirsclt loiind y.'iir way so readily," she i pin 1, with a slight laugh. I felt mseasjr, for I did not care to deribe my passage through the glass, but Um old lady dil not seem anxious for an plan at ion, since she immediately added, ' It would not do to have a room too easy i access, when things of this sort are flying alxnt." With Umm words, she opened a drawer in her table and took out a printed handbill with the formidable heading, "One Hundred Pounds Reward." This she placed in my baatta and I learned from its contents that a butcher-oy had been n issed by his employers, under circumstances that led to the suspicion of murder, and that the reward was offered for the appreh n i n of the supposed assassins "Luckily he did not live in the neighborhood. Hut on Mi.- whoic it is bettor not to venture beyond beggars and ticket-of-leave men." "Venture what?" I inquired. "Immolation!" was ii. rcnlv. lilt t T r t. . r 9 ,immo- i iaiten I. "Then it U your opinion that the unhappy lxv really murdered .v a s "Really immolated? Of course I do. It weald be very übsi.rd if I thought otherwise, when I performed the sacrifice with my own hands." " Atrocious wretch ! " I began Hoit,y ity !" interposed the old lady. Don t let us lse our tempers." And really when I looked at her calm face, I felt that, wrath was impossible She was some baring lunatic, who owned to crimes she had never committed "I bore the boy no ill-will ;" she proceeded, " he was as well-behaved a lad as one would wish to see. I woukl gladly tare given the preference to a miuchievious little vagabond, who rings my boll regularly every Saturday afternoon, in celebration, I suppt.se, of his halt-holiday; but the butcher boy came handy, and when one can't have what one wants one must take what one can get" - But why mur that is, immolate any-

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VOLUME XV. hotly ?" I inquired, intending to humor her delusion. "That I can easily explain," she replied. You have doubtless heard thta there is in India a secret sect of devotees, who term themselves Thugs." " I have read of that dctcstible fraternity in the Wandering Jew of Eugene Sue," I responded. " Your strong expression, at which I take no offence, shows that you arc not unacquainted with our principles. I am a Thug, and veil the tact by assuming the name of Thugleigh." It struck me that a thicker veil might have been afforded by the name of Smith or Brown, but I dgl not interrupt. 44 1 therefore, on principle," she proceeded, "offer at least once a month a human sacrifice to the Goddess Bowanee, whose elHfi:y you sec in that corner." u I would rather not have known this circumstance," said I. " Indeed, as your society is, as you say, secrect, it seems to nie that you break your mles by making mc vour confidant." " Kot at all," she remarked, smiling. " I .im convinced, that my secret vill not go any further." " You have a high opinion of my discretion," I rejoined, endeavoring to look Haltered. "I have no opinion whatever on the subject," she calmly remarked. " For all I know to the contrary, yon may be the veriest haUerl)ox in the universe. But of this I am sure, that dead men tell no talcs, and I have selected you for the next victim. Now, don't be alarmed. If you do not like it, you shall not suffer any pain." (While talking thus she advanced towards a shelf.) "It would, indeed.be more regular to strangle you with a white scarf, or to slay you with one of these knives; but as you are a victim of a superior order, I can afford to dispense with extreme formalities, and allow you to swallow the contents of the little vial I now place in your hands." " Poison?" I inquired, with horror. Yes," she answered, "and of so efficacious a kind that it will extinguish lite in a moment, without the slightest pain or inconvenience. When you have expired, yonr body will be conveyed through this aperture; through which many ah, how nany ! - have passed before." "With this she touched a spring, whereupon the idol sunk behind the stone, and exhibited a hideous face, painted on the wall, with a wide mouth opening on darkness. Horror gave place to indignation. "This is all very well, madam," said I ; "but if you arc a lunatic, I am not bound on that account to swallow poison, and to be put out of sight like a posted letter." " Resistance is useless," she said, drawing forth a revolver and pointing it full in my face. "This might hurt yon, whereas the vial causes no suffering whatever. You had better choose the latter." I had never realized till that moment the feelings of Fair Rosamond "And when," she proceeded, "the goddess grows impatient, the jaws of her provider are more extended." This was the fact, and I was inspired wit', a sudden resolution. One road of escape was obvious, and, in a tit of desperation, I leaped into the open mouth, head foremost, like a harlequin. Again a few moments of darkness, during which I heard a shriek of female rage, and when this had passed, I found myself in a neat little study, looking at a slim gentleman, trimly dressed, and especially remarkable for the perfect arrangement of hair. He seemed to be rather start led. "Well, James," he said, "you need not have taken me unawares like this, I did not so much as hear you knock." My name is not .l ines; but rejoiced as I was to find myself in a room where the image of Bowanee was not part of the furniture, I did not deem it expedient to correct the error. Indeed, I was beginning to stammer out an apology, when he fortunately prevented me by saying, quickly : " No matter no matter. I am only too happy to show you the successful result of my little experiments." I expressed, in turn, my happiness at the proposed instruction. He proceeded thus: "The neatest discoveries in practical science often, as you are aware, have a j comparatively childish beginning. The steam engine itself was, in its earliest form, I a toy ; and it was by means of a boy 's kite i that 'Franklin drew the electric spark ! from the clouds. I have devoted myself j to bubbles. You smile." I had done j nothing of the sort. " I do not refer to those hollow commercial enterprises which are stigmatized by that name, but to bona fide bubbles, such as urchins are in the habit of blowing from an ordinary tobaccopipe. Just watch me now. So saying, he dipped the bowl of an ordinarypipe intoa small basin of fluid, and, with evident exertion, blew a fair, round bubble, which, when detached, rested upon the table. " Jnst touch that " he said. I did so: the bubble did not burst, bat was as firm as if it had been made of glass. M Now you see the nature of my invention," he continued, smiling with evident satisfaction. " I add to the saponaceous fluid, vulgarly termed soap-and water, an ingredient the nature of which I shall not rcreal, and which has the effect of rendering the bubble permanent. You may dash that bubble against the ground, or strike it with the hammer still it will not break. All you have to avoid is a contact with tire. Observe!" He lighted a lacifer-match, and applied it to the bubble, which, with a report like that of a small cannon, exploded so instantly, that he was throw n to the ground as if stricken by a thunderbolt. However, he rose smiling, and, rubbing the part that had been mos! inconvenienced by the fall, quietly said "There is no occasion to repeal the e.v periment ?" " Decidedly not," was my remark. "There is one point, however, on which I am curious. 1 cannot sufficiently admire the singularity of your discovery, but I am at a loss to perceive its use." " Oh, that I can easily explain," was his reply. " Not only have 1 discovered the ingredient whi h hardens the saponaceous fluid, but I have invented a .method of blowing which enables me to enclose whatever object 1 please within the pre cincts of a bubble. Look here 1 lle4pcnel a i-aoinet, ana showed me a collection of humming-birds, butterflies statuettes, and other object." that are com monly put under glass cases, each enclosed m a hardened bubble. I acknowledged that the invention was admirable. "Yes," he said, " I think it is ; and it will soon go forth to the world as Bubbles worth's patent. Bat I have not come to that yet. Just sit for a few minutes in that chair, while I prepare to astonish you with an application of my principle." I complied with his request, and he slipped behind the chair. Presently I was aware tha?. there was something like a medium between me and the surrounding objects, and, throwing my head brek, per ceived that Mr. Bubblesworth had actually enclosed me in an enormous transparent sphere, streaked with brilliant colors, which resisted my touch as though it had been of iron. I was manifestly a prisoner, but the spherical wall of my prision gradually receeded till it was beyond the reach of my outstretched hands. Soon the gay priflmatic colors that played in tttreaui-s around me began to assume definite nhapes; some of which apparently were di tant from me several miles, while ofthra were in my immediate vicinity. I was standing near a neat whitewashed j cottage in front of which, seated by a

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table, on which stood a foaminp jug, ;was a jolly old gentleman, of the conventional type, wldeh we often find repeated in engravings of the last century as the embodiment of rural felicity in advanced years. To sit alone smoking and drinking all through a whole summer evening, with a fat face that smiled benignantly upon nothing, was long the summit of human bliss in the eyes of many well-meaning artists who wished to contrast the innocent pleasures of the country with the riot and dissipation of the town. "This is an uncommonly pretty country, sir," I observed to the ideal farmer. " Yes, sir, it is," he replied, " though it is so far from the station ; and perhaps for that very reason. Ah, there was no railroads when I was a boy ! " " You came here young?" I asked. "Came here? I was born here, in this very house, and this very day is my eightieth birthday." I instinctively glanced upwards towards the sky, as if to catch the face of Mr. Bubblesworth, to whom I would willingly have referred the doubts that arose in my mind. Uut nothing was above mc save the pure azure. I could address no one but the old gentleman himself. " My question may appear very ignorant, sir," I said, " but what county is this ?" " This," he answered, " is Soapshire, on the borders of Bubblescx. I discovered at once the etymologic.' 1 origin of these strange names; but still i scarcely durst trust my cars. I have heard," I said, " sex." of Shropshire and Middle- I " Have you 1 interrupted the old gentle man ; " that's more than I have. May be you have traveled in foreign parts. However, this is Soapshire, aad if you cross the river you sec yonder, you'll find yourself in Thughamptonshirc." Soapshire Bubblescx Thughamptonshire odd names! Not only was 1 still somehow in the old world, but there was a slight connecting link between me and my immediate neighbors. "Did you ever go to any church in Thughainptonshire?" I asked. " Not very often ; but I have done such a thing," was the reply. " Ha! and in the course of his sermon, did the minister make any mention of of Bowanee f" "No; I can't say as he did leastways, while I was awake. Rut I tell you what. In the churchyard of Thugton, which is the chief market-town, there is a little hill or mound like, which they call BonyBarrow ; and the story goes that a great many butcher boys are buried there who were sacrificed by the Druids, as they call them, in the days of the ancient Britons." " Ha !" I exclaimed, with intense interest. "A very curious thing that barrow. Some men who were digging there some twenty years ago found a stone figure of a woman with a lot of hands, and you may see it now in Thugton Museum. But it is getting dusk. I think I may as well send up mv ti -e-balloon." "Fire balloon?" " Yes ; my great-grandson, who goes to the grammar-school of Thugton cum-Sne, sent me one as a present for my eightieth birthday. You must know that I was born at eight o'clock in the evening, so it was the boy's fancy that I should send it up exactly at that'time, that he might be reminded of the old man at a distance. It is a singular thing that a man who was born at eight o'clock should live to be eighty." I might have told him that, inasmuch as I had encountered many things much more singular, this last marvel was somewhat inelfective ; but as the effect of the lucifer match when applied to the surface of the bubble was present to my mind, I did not care to dispute about trifles. "I think that tire-balloon might be danirerous," I remarked. " Not at all not at all," replied the old gentleman ; "and if it does not set alight a haystack or so, I don't mind on an occa sion like this. 1 may not live to see any other birthday. "That I think exceedingly probable," I remarked, " if you persist in sending up this balloon. "Why, what has that to do with it? You don't suppose I shall set the sky on hre ! (That wits the very thtng I did sup pose.) I have heard of folks setting the river Semaht on hre, but as for the skyho ! ho ! ho !" I shall not describe the preparations made tor the ascent of the fire balloon. The old gentleman unfolded it, lighted the tow in the little basket that hung from it as a car, and, as it siowiy arose, watched it with delight and admiration. Un un it went: and down down went my heart. In the distance it apneared bttlp morn than a snnrk Rancrl t m e Cottage old man trees all were gone. I was sitting in my arm-chair by the fire, and a coal which had just popped out ot the crate lav smoktnc on the hearth. m '' How the Doctor biot Lost in a Snowdrift. Wr think the following story " too good to keep," and, as we promise not to betray the hero's name and place of residence, we hope he will forgive us for telling how he got lost in l snow Horm. It was a pleasant place the home of tht Doctor jnst in the edge of the woods. The house was one of those neat little cottages where one always expects to find comfort, peace and happiness. It ws almctt hidden among the trees, with which tbe ground liad been so lav ishly adorned. Some were so large that vou would think they must be centuries old. The Doctor and his wife lived here alone, with the exception of a boy whom the Doctor had taken to do chores lor him, and to be company for his w ife when he was attending his patients; for although, as I said, he was getting old, the people of the little village near could not have been persuaded to give up their faithful physician. One day it had lcen snowing such a snow storm as vou Western people seldom see. The beautiful white Hakes seemed to vie with each other to sec which should reach its destination soonest, and the sky above seemed one endless sheet ot snow "Well, Mild the Doctor to his wite, as he returned from his round of calls, " I am glad there are not many sick just now, for I think home is the best place lor an old man like me;" and he shwk tbe snow from his great coat and bandet! it to Bruce to haiur 'M. saving that he should not need it any more that night. .1 tint as he had seated himself at the tea table and his wite was pouring out his tea, a loud rap was heard at the door. " It is some belated traveler," decided the Doctor as he arose to open the door, "I want you to go and see my wife, Doctor, said the visitor as he seated him self by the lire. "What! iro ten miles such a night as this? It is impossible." retorted the Doc tor. "I fear she will die. sal the man, "un less you do. I have a man here with Mf and we have shovels ; we will Bee you safe through, if you will go. The amount ot it was, the Doetor went. It is not my purpose to dwell on his ride there; for it was made comparatively easy by the aid of strong arms and shovels; nor of the sick woman, but of his journey home. The snow was still whirling thick and fast as the Doctor tucked himself snugly in his light cutter for the homeward trip, and started off briskly; for Nt llie wns snxious to get home to her warm stable. The D(K or was not very well acquaint fed with the nmmkiliout way he came, and with the darkness and blinding snow he soon lecsme bewildered. So after a wtiils

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thinking he bad ridden farther than the distance to his home, he thought he would trust his horse to get him out of the dilfirnlty, and gave Nellie full liberty to choose her own road ; so, after he had gone on for some time longer, Nellie stopped and whinnied. The Doctor unmuffled a little, and peered around ia the darkness and snow. " Why, Nellie, where arc we ?" he said. "This looks very like Chestnut Ridge; yes, there's the opening in the trees, at the turn of the road on the brow of the hill this must be Chestnut "Ridge eight miles from home. W ell, Ncllie-,Wre may as well camp for the night, for we can't get home." " How lucky that Bruce supplied us well with blankets," soliloquized the Doctor as he unhitched Nellie from the cutter, and fastened one of the blankets on her, and turned her loose to look out for herself. Then spreading a buffalo robe on the snow and turning the cutter up, he wrapped himself m nis blankets, ami crawled into his novel led and was soon sound asleep. His faitluul dot; was very uneasv all night at his master a absence, and bounded out at the first opportunity to look lor him. Finding the cutter in such a novel condition, ho began to bark furiously around it. You can judge of the Doctor's astonish ment, when he came out of his bed room, to lind himself in his own door yard, and Nellie tandinff at the stable door, won dering, no doubt, why she was treated so coolly. Wemem BttwL Tea and Coffee. Takino into account the habits of the for supper and people, tea and eotlee breakfast add to human health and life, if a single cup be taken at either meal, and is never increased in strength, frequency or quantity. It they were mere stimulants. ami were taken thus in moderation and with uniformity, they would, in time, be come either inert, Of the system would be come so habituated to their employment as to remain in the same relative position to them, as it they had never been used ; and consequently, as to themselves, they had better never been need, as they arc so liable to abuse. But science and fact unite in declaring them to be nutritious as well as stimulant; hence they will do a new goml to the lystem every day, to the end of lite, just as bread and traits do ; hence we never get tired. ü either. But the use ot bread and fruits is daily abused by mul titudes, and dispepsia and cholera morbus result ; yet we oucht not to forego their employment on that account, nor should we lorego the use ot tea and coffee be cause their inordinate use gives neuralgies aud other ailments. But the habitual use of tea and coffee. at the last and first nceJe of the day, has another high advantage is productive of incalculable gonI in the way ol averting evils. We will drink at our meals, and if we do not drink these, we will drink what is worse cold water, milk, or alcoholic mix tores. The regular use of these last will lead tbe young to drunkenness; the con siderable employment of simple milk, at meals, by sedentary people by all, except the robust will cither constipate or render Miiious; Wime coi : water, laxKeiy used that is, to the extent of a glass or two at a meal, especially in cold weather attracts to itoeli M much of the heat of the system, in raising said water to the tem perature ot the body (about one hundred degrees) that the process of digestion is arrested ; in the meanwhile, giving rise to a deathly sickness of stomach, to twisting pains, to vomitings, purgings, and even to cramps, to fearful contortions and sud den death ; which things would have been averted, had even the same amount of liquid in the shape of simple hot water been used. But any one knowing these things, and being prejudiced against the use of tea and coffee, vould subject himself to be most unpleasantly stared at and questioned, if not ridiculed, were he to ask tor a cup or glass ot hot water. 15ut as tea and coffee are now universal beverages, are on every table, and everybody is ex pected to take one or the other as a matter of course, they are unwittingly the means of safety and ot lite to multitudes. They save life where a glass of cold water would have destroyed it. So that the use of these beverages it is politic, it is is not merely allowable, a necessity. Baff JourIMS oj Htmth. Quarreling. Tiik tendency to let any dispute drift into a quarrel is very much a matter of habit ; but it is a habit which may be greatly modified, if not wholly cured. Ve should teach ourselves, '.o begin with, that moderation in language and temper is evidence, not of weakness ot character, but ot the reverse. While a dispute is yet in emhryo, modera tion and self-control may remove it; out when it passes Hint tage when it is de1 V. mm vciopen into a quarrel men an nope i setting the matter to rights is at an end. 1 he prudent man will now simply with draw himself from the affair, instead of needlessly embittering himself in ausclcss struggle. Of course it req.iitvs some dis cretion to know when the dispute has reached the point ot being irremediable; and it is at this point that it should be thrown up. C'on&idcratious of false pride should not be allowed to interfere. No matter how just your cause is, there is nothing to be gained by declaiming against the injustice of an obdurate oppo nent, who sees only right on his side. A man ought to study the history and development of former tpaarrelsiu which he has been engaged, in order to see how result less they were, and what an enormous waste of time aud temper they involved. He will see the misunderstanding grow msTf definite, until it reaches that stage at which it is impossihle to remove it without the most heroic abnegation on one side or the other. He will percive that neither ride is willing to take the lead in coming to an arrangcnint. The cause ol dispute becomes, by argument, bigger. Kash disputant is now more confirmed in his notions. I5y and by, they are not so anxious to prove themselves in tin- right as to punish each other for being quarrch some and causing annoyance. The original ground of quarrel is loal sight of in this sense of mutual injury. They are angry with each other became each has ouafreled, and the quarrel is continued out of revenge. 1 low does it end I Time, the great pacifier, smooths down their wrath ; but look at all they have suilVred and Ut in the interim ! It is fortunate, indeed, if cue or the other perceives the obvious lesson, and resolyca thenceforth to abandon any dispute which reaches the Irret rieva bb? and merely n-criininatory stage. The ImpiMtive Traveler. A co'UtESi'ONOKNT relates the following as his own pcirsonsl experience : I left New ork for Albany in no very pleasant mood. (Jelling up for an early train is neither customary nor agreeable with me; the CÖffee waa muddy and the toast abominable. I got into a muss w ilh a hackman alout my fare to the depot, my finger was jammed in the car door, ami a fat man stepped on my toe as I moved to my aeat. My face I knew looked forbidding, ami, though the car was full, the seat beside me was not taken. We had gone psesoani or two stations, wliefl a tall, broad-Hhoul-ib-red, farmer looking fellow got into the car, and without a " ly your leave," or " Is this seat engaged?" down he Hat by ma I g ive hitn u severe look that ought to have annihilated him, but it didn't Thn I looked out of the window, and the

car moved on. By and by my attention was attracted by a gentle touch. " Pleasant day." I gave him to understand, in a curt way, that I didn't care if it was. After a while he reached his long neck out by me and said, yawningly: " Looks as ef we should hev some rain soon." I let the remark pass without reply, determined he should not draw me out. After some miles he again spoke : " Killed a hog last night." "Well, what's that to mc?' I said sharpl'. M Guess how much it weighed." "Oh, don't bother me six hundred pounds." "Guess agin," after a pause. "Well, say a hundred pounds." The challenge to guess had a trifle of interest in it, but in a moment, ashamed of having shown any at all, I thrust my head out of the window, awaiting my sturdy associate's advances. He made none, and after riding some ten or fifteen minutes, I looked round. 1 e was staring out of the window, apparently lost in reflection. " How much did your cussed hog weigh, anyhow ;" I asked, as surly as I could. His face didn't change a muscle, though 1 thought his eye looked a trifle mischievous, as he replied: " Don't know ; we didn't weigh him." Fortunately for my peace of mind, he got out at Hhinedilfe station. Mark Twain in Hayti.

Mahk Twain, of the Bnffido tbeprett, is interesting the readers of his newspaper with a MrTefl of papers upon the various - - - . r i.i v. : ..i. i .... ouuwua o! w,e mu, wi j tises as written jointly by himself and I Prof. D. It. Ford. The present is No. 2 of Th iircnnt 1 N ' ril I the collection, and concerns the writer's imaginary advmtura in Hayti. Mr. Twsm observes casually that the Professor is about to sail from San Francisco to Japan, and, of cour.se, could not run hack lo visit Hayti; yet, as it was manifest that llayii ought to be visited at once, Mr. Twain determined to grapple with the duly single handed, and has, accordingly, "interviewed" the OOttntfy. On landing he entrusts the carriage of his valise to one ot -;m enormous crowd of small negro boys, who assail him for the purpose of extorting money for that service. He is, however, unprepared for the demand, made on his arrival at his hotel, of $tKM), and, as he pathetically observes himself, faints on the spot. We remember that Mr. Artemus Ward, another member of the class of humorists to which Mark Twain belongs, used to have an exceedingly amusiug expression of u fainting in two places" on such occasions. Mr. Twain, on reeoverin his emotion, hands a $1,000 note to the urchin, whom he describes ;is " depending solely on his personal comeliness for attractiveness he lias nothing on but a shirt," and who walks oft" coolly. 31r. Twain intimates to the bystanders that he has $100 change to receive, and demands restitution, whereupon he is told that the people don't think much of a tritle like that in Hayti. He goes out tor a stroll, and after meeting two or three lxalies of soldiers going on to a neighboring battle, comes across a gentleman who announces thai he is proceeding to the top of a hill in io t.Mwv -hood, to take a good place for another battle, whicli lie foelmmro -m o.mc oil" thereabouts shortly. This native observes that he will take it as a considerable favor if Twain will sell him the fieldulass which he carries over his shoulder. I said I did not care particularly to par with it, but still, what would he give ? He said : " 1 am willing to pay $10,000." "What?" M Forty thousand dollars." M My friend, are vou insane ?" He took a package out of a sort of knapsack whicli was slung about him, and deliberatcly counted out forty new and hand some $1,000 Haytien greenbacks. We exchanged. I felt mall and mean thus to take advantage of a lunatic, but then what would you have done 7 I then resumed my journey, with an unusually sneaking expression in my countenance. However, Mr. Twain speedily discovers that the price has been by no means exorbitant, and that other articles are charged for by their possessors in an equal ratio, lie begins to imagine that his intellect must be deranged, and thus describes his sensation : " Stunned and diary, I hurried to my room and threw myself on the bed, almost satisfied that I had lost my reason. I applied tests. 1 repeated the multiplication table without making a mistake. It was plain that my apprehension of numbers was unimpaired. I repeated, 'The boy stood on the burning deck' without a blunder. It was plain that :ny memory was sound. I rend one of Mrs. Brown ing's poems and clearly understood some of it. It was plain that my intellectual faculties were in a condition of even un usual vigor. Then what in the world was the netter! Had I not suddenly (leveloped a monomania a crazine.s. kimt money, only?" While he is engaged in these dismal rellections, a knock comes to Iiis door, and a charming widow enters, who implores his assistance in most moving terms to enable her to rctnrn to America. The insurgents had destroyed her property, and she was left destitute and in debt. The friendly c aptain of a schooner would give her a tree passage, and all her tradesmen were willing to forgive her their debts but two, the butcher and baker, to Whom she owed but small sums. It was to pay these debts that she desired help Groin M. T. He could not miss so small a sum, and I he blessings of the widow and orphan would be on him forever, lie tells lur, much touched, to pack her trunk and he will furnish I he means to pay off the trille she owed. How much would do it f Said the lady : "I am not certain my poor head has been tortured ol late but 1 think that $;o,ooo will " I jumped through the second story window, sash and all. More bTrirhd concerning his senses than ever, he determines to leave forth with, and sends for his liltle bill. It pears. spMark Twain to Kingston House, Dr. To room rest 01 pcftjono) fs,sno T rvinovin- ln;ie 1. room fm T tiadoMiH'ii ItillBttH follow: ti Imiiii Ir" iMtnaiuu 12 pine :ippU-H 10 dozen orangea blxoci irnrn 2 Oaf ket claret 8 MakeM champagne 7 (Ioami Ic-moia 1 pnir boot!" 1 it". .-I, guck i lozn haTMikfrchi.'f. . ." 4.000 JMU si id mi sseo S.ikxi HIM) 2I.IMM HUKJ0 nxoss tS9s,sn ToIhI Two hundred and ninety five thousand four hundred dollars! I rend this bill over deliberately six or . v n time, and I never said a word. Then I said I would step out and get a breath of fresh air. He retreats from the country, leaving this little matter unsettled, and his baggage in t he hands of the landlord. I le hides be tween deck of an Amcrh in packet, and is smuggled out of the country. However, on spruking to the captain, he is informed that Haytien credit lcitig in by no means a prosperous condition, ft in gold will purchase from ft 1,500 to ;a,000 worth of Haytien greenbacks. He concludes: ? I wish I had my valise back again." Ttn HAretr Nttinnl, a .l wMi journal published iu London, rives in siat ot the .lews in the world. There are 0,000,000 Jews in the world, one half of whom live in Europe. America contain 20,000. r

25, 18G9.

FACTS AND FIGURES. ----- IT costs about four hundred dollars to winter an elephant. THERE are 3,377 pensioners on the rolls of the Navy Department. LONDON hairdressers are not allowed to talk to customers unless spoken to. A WEALTHY lawyer in London let his wife starve to death on $1.50 a week. FIFTEEN hundred dogs were executed last season under the Cleveland dog ordinance. THE Michigan Central workshops at Detroit has a chimney 165 feet high, and containing 185,000 bricks. HERE are 188 pupils in the North Carolina Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute, of whom 43 are blind, and 87 deaf and dumb. WHEN the bottom of the Great Eastern was cleaned, fifty thousand gallons of muscles [sic] and other accretions were removed from it. THE Salt Lake Theatre, according to the <Deseret News>, is the only place of amusement that was ever dedicated by a prayer. S. G. HAYES cast in a section of stovepipe, forty years ago, the first "composition roller" ever used in a New Haven printing office. A statistical observer, on a late Sunday morning in London, found but 162 worshippers in fourteen churches, wbose pastors received altogether L7,074 salary. AT a recent medical lecture in Pennsylvania Hospital, at Philadelphia, a class of thirty-nine ladies were present, with 140 male students. A FOG-WHISTLE at Cape Fourchcr, N. S., said to be the most powerful in North America, may be heard l5 miles in calm weather, 5 to 8 in storms, 25 with the wind, and 5 to 8 against the wind. M. RASPAIL, the champion of the Paris workmen, was in youth intended for the Church, but changed his mind to the study of medicine. He has spent ten years iii prison and fifteen in exile. A CORRESPONDENT of the <Massachusetts Ploughman> says: "Covcr your strawberry vines lightly, or you smother them. Pine boughs are just the thing for it; but oak leaves, sea weed, or coarse hay are good. Remember long manure is fatal to them." THE quantity of gold produced in Nova Scotia from the date of the first discovery of the precious metal to the end of 1868, a period of eight years, amounts to 160,000 ounces. The best year was 1867, when the yield amounted to nearly 30,000 ounces. AS EVIDENCE that American ideas are getting foothold in Italy, a correspondent cites the fact that American rocking-chairs are now in high favor, though when first introduced by American families, they were looked upon by the natives as something ridiculous. ONEmillion, two hundred and eleven thousand, one hundred and ninety-three pounds of sea-island cotton, valued at $1,070,736, were exported from the Customs District of Charleston to foreign countries during the year ending the 30th of September, 1869. BISHOP POTTER, of Southern New York, during the fifteen years of his episcopate, has confirmed 41.000 persons, admitted 400 to holy orders, and has traveled upward of 120,000 miles. During this time the diocese has contributed almost $5,000,000 for charitable and church purposes. FRENCH statisticians assert that the mortality among women has decreased 18 1/2 per cent, since corsets went out of fashion, but that brain diseases have increased among them at the fearful rate of 72 3/4 per cent, since chignons and other pyramidical ornaments came into vogue. ELDER SMITH, at Salt Lake City, recently married the widow and two daughters of his brother, and a reporter of the <Tele graph> inquired what relation the children of the two daughters would bear to Smith. Thereupon Smith's son thrashed the reporter, and his curiosity is supposed to be satisfied. SAN FRANCISCO invests in five of its leading hotels, $4,750,000; they produce an annual rental of about $450,000; the people on their pay-rolls number six hundred. The annual income of these hotels exceeds $2,500,000, and their permanent population is about two thousand people. MISS SALLY ROBINSON, of Stratham, N. H., ninety-four years old, is reported to have been the strongest woman ever known in that region. Her weight never much exceeded one hundred and fifteen pounds. In her prime she shouldered barrels of cider with ease. She is still vigorous, and reads without spectacles. DR. WARING, the late friend of the Richmond poor, was followed to the grave by an immense concourse on foot, and one hundred and five carriages. His riding horse was garlanded with flowers, evergreens, and crape, and placed in front of the procession, just in rear of the hearse On the saddle was the inscription, "Our Doctor." His well worn buggy and driv ing horse followed next. A SHORT time ago a close-fisted farmer on the Sandy river, in Maine, died, after devising $1 to his only son. The old gentleman was duly buried in the venerable churchyard, which suffered a terrible washing away by the late flood, and a short time ago his body was found opposite the son's place, having been brought down the river a long distance. When the tender-hearted son was informed of the fact, he made the touching remark: "Probably come back after that dollar!" THE New Orleans <Commercial Bulletin> says that one-third of its present population would be ample to transact its business. "We may assume," it remarks, "that about fifteen thousand of the seventy thousand men are entirely idle, and fifteen thousand more are only nominally employed. Five thousand others are fully employed the year through, and the remaining thirty-five thousand do on an average only about half the labor and business that they could easily do if they could find full employment." How the water proof fabrics are made: "The cloth is first submitted to the action of moderately strong sulphuric acid, the time of such action varying with the natnre of the fabric, but never exceeding two minutes. A thorough washing follows, and when dried the material is ready for use. The action of the acid is to decompose the wool or cotton fibers into a glutinous material, the gum filling up the paces between the threads, and thereby preventing the passage of water. THE Cincinnati <Commercial> says that the Red Stockings have, during the past season, played in fifty-seven match games and three games with picked nines—sixty in all—and have been victorious in every instance. They have traveled from Boston to San Francisco, and have encountered all the famous base ball clubs in the country—East, West, North and South and now retire from the field with an unbroken record of victories—a record unexampled in the history of the game. A WESTERN National Bank, a few days since, sent to the Redemption Bureau of the Treasurer's office at Washington, a package of mutilated currency marked $10,000. The female counter discovered that the package was $980 short. With out leaving her desk she called for the chief of the division, and demanded that the package be counted by two others in her presence. This was done, and her count sustained. She then demanded to be searched, which was complied with, and none of the "old stuff," as it is called, being found, the bank was at once charged with $980 short.

NUMBER 12.

Anecdotes of George IVabody. In pertooal appearance Mr. Peabody ivsemblcd a professional, rather than a business man. Mr. Peabody! great interest in edoestion doubtless partiall' arose from tbe fact that he was taken from school at the early age of eleven years, and was thu deprived of what in that day was known as grammar school instruction. The first money Mr. IVabody earned outside of the small pitcancc he received as a clerk, was for writing ballots for the Federal party in Xcwburvport. This w as before the day of printed votes. When Mr. Iliggs invited Mr. Peabody to lie a partner, the latter said there was one insuperable objection, as he was only IV years of age. This was no objection In the mind of the shrewd merchant, who wanted a young and active assistant. Two gentlemen are living who were friends of Mr. Peabody in boyhood, and who willingly paid his share of the cost of sailing and fishing parties, ten pins, etc , during the war of 1812-14 his excellent company being considered more than an offset lo his lack of funds. Mr. Peabody did not bestow many gifts to relieve individual poverty or distress. He thought that much of the money thucontributed only tended to increase the evil it nought to alleviate. Mr. Peabody whs a beautiful penman. t : . t . i ms miters were usually orut ami very much to the point. Mr. Peabody was strongly opposed to fraud in little matters. The conductor on an Knglish railway once oven -barged him a shilling or fare. He made complaint to the directors and had the man diseharged. " Not," Said he, 44 that I could not afford lo pay the shilling, but the man was cheat Eng many travelers to w hom the swindle would be oppressive." When Mr. Peabody first landed in London he lived very frugally, taking breakfast at his lodgings and dining at a club house. His personal expenses for ten ye ars did not average t'GOO per annum. Mr. Peabody had a very retentive memory, particularly in regard to names and places. He would give the most minute particulars of events that occurred b tween fifty and sixty years ago. Mr. Peabody first appeared in print as the champion of American credit in Eng land, at the time our State securities were depressed on account of the non-payment of interest by Pennsylvania. Essex county, where Mr. Peabody was Isirn, has five public buildings erected by his liberality. They are consecrated to the uses of education, science and religion. Mr. Pealxnly leaves a sister. Mrs. Daniels, formerly Mrs. Kusscll, of Georgetown. He had several nephews and nieces, to all of whom he has been very generous. Mr. Peabody was very fond of singing, Scottish songs being his favorite. The toast Mr. Peabody sent to the Dan vers celebration in 1802 was: M Education A debt due from present to future generations." Mr. Peabody was a good talker: at the table tew nu n were his equal. His idea of a pleasant dinner party was where Um re w as a great deal of talk, and he could take the lead in conversation. The favorite games of Mr. Peabody were backgammon after dinner, and whist in the eveuUig, About a quarter of a century ago Mr. Peabody was so much pleased with an American lady visiting London that he offered her his hand and fortune, which were accepted. Learning a short time atterward that she was already engaged, a fact of which she had kept him in ignorance, he rebuked her lack of sincerity and I broke oil the engagement. Mr. Peabody visited incognito the houses erected by his munificence for the poor of London, to see if those in charge of the charity properly attended to their duties. He asked the wife of the superintendent the name of her child, and was answered, 44 George Peabody." This prompted a present to the infant, which the mother quickly interpreted, and announced to her neighbors the presence of their distinguished benefactor, who irladly took refuge in a cab to be rid of their benedictions. Leticrs by the hundreds wen- daily received by Mr. Peabody of late years. They were first looked over by a secretary and only a few ever reached the eyes of the great banker. He received one of thirty six foolscap pages from a decayed English gentleman who solicited I loan of I few thousand pounds to establish the claims of his family to an estate. Mr. Peabody wrote in reply substantially this : "That you should have written such a letter, would surprise your friends; that I should have read it, would indeed surpri.-c mine." ChL'f Justice Shaw paid Mr. Peabody the compliment of remarking that a bestBen document, written by him, was one of the clearest and most comprehensive papers that had ever been presented" to our Supreme Court. ly temperament, religious training, early education, politieal bias and business connections Mr. Peabody was conservative Several years ago Mr. Peabody selected his grave in the beautiful cemetefj near his native place, called " Harmony (irove." where the remains of many of his kindred are buried. Mr. Peabody always cherished the memory of his mother, to whose comfort he ministered in early life. One w ho knew all the circumstances alluded to them in the following words : "Might we invade the sanctuary of his early home, and the circle of his immediate connections, we could light around the youthful possessor of a few hundred del iurs -the avails of the most severe and un tiring efforts a brighter halo than his legant hospitalities, ins munificent Jona lions, or bis liberal wblic acts now shed over the London banker. Bodon Tramscript. TH for Tat. HJL SaiBLEY Hkooks tells the Ulw$trt)ti I.ontton Ntmt :i rather singular strv of a hit of meanness :nd the appropriate re fengC hu h followed it. When the Prince of Wales lately visited Hull, there was a desiie to ornament, in his honor, the monument in that city eieted to the memory of Wilberfbcoe. Hut tbe ouun w;is lolly and not easily climbed, and it aras hard to lind any one to make the ascent and srieatbe it with flower- snd foliage. The authorities offered a money reward to any man who would accomplish the task. Atter ROBM time, two sailors from one of Her Majest y'sships undertook tbe Job, and performed it well. They applied tor the reward, but Kbs mUal OSmMS feinted to pay it, on the ground that, being servant of th' Queen, it w:is no more than the duty of the sailors to decorate the shall in honor of the Prince. Beer was of feted in lieu of the expected guineas, and the sailors drank it and went their w hv. But during the night before the arrival of tin royal guest, allthe ornanunt was vrn away, by the samestrongand skillful hands that hail carried it aloft. Moreover, a mail ladder, decidedly not an ornament to the column, was left sticking tin re, where no one could get at it. The loyal authorities of Hull could only hope that the Prince did not observe the barrennew and disfigurement of the Wilber-ton-e column, as he passed it. A bcit for divorce has lately been m cessfnl in the Bath courts, in which tin earties separated are seventy year- okl eve lived together forty-seven years, and are the parents of twenty f"ur children

JOHNNY TEARFUL.

They wU-1 h'm .ihnny Tearfn! : A very porrv TSf be hsH , of i.- v.t IxMiur cii'-erfirt. n cri-il " mormen: In-cof iip: II' ii'.iil'- i difi at dinner : With tear cnonL'ti to HI! nip Be never jnvw mncli tluinaar. II.' rn'l in -jnt or nil you -ai'l To keep the tear- from fre.imin--Il- -ri.-l whru b" w.is ul t lwl ; 11' rri'.l wliil- b- win- lr MfiiiitT. Iii SaSeAd cj - ! pajnay -i"' Were dim with urerfloaiiiL': A walking r-how.-r-K-ttli h- wm Thu liwrr lorvv f-T vioi-. They loM him thai 'he moon w.i- ronnd Enoneh - that -' lit m w!in-r : Be ar.-.l tli- kin. -ii- .ill i h- Dniiul By rDi!it easenvaaSaat. at taeefcs-afe lean k . und fact, Tlu'v n' T Jid hi- w.M'- cnrl : Folk vond-r i how tin- 'iu-p- oilil Utl I They trickled down h n'- end. nif kites wer1 nev.-r nmrio t alt ; Of -uro that aade hiuiln?Uw. He cried fr preen. frhihkn fruit Tlii- iggjavattUf fehow. Why. if you only rall' d hi- n: m In U'ar- you mud.' him jump up : It raaRj i a e; feet fhaiw. Tin.' number he could pump up. What ran d hr for the prinL'-tini' d.iye Fo. flown, or tlii- or that bird I Why, when he won' hi - moody ways Kach rolMti. iay. nnd att-bird Fl.-w mp and BWMk it- diny beat, Wliii- srayly humm-1 the M iv k-c ; Anl thi- i?- what the Midi' - K-iid: "I'h'-er up. lv" r up. cry-baby," And now poor -Johnny'- fate I i-inI H-' ro-i- i n-- mornin? early. Aii'i hi iii-cy. Ute u-ii.il thiii Th-p' -tod tie' tear Srapa pearly. II- kit ked. and i-pla-h-l ih'j araSBff round They hroiiL'ht to wa-h hi- face in. Then airetly li olv l ; tbey found One huire tear in the tvs-in! - tjttr o'0 F"!l$. FOX-FIRE. i v f. n. o.. Wnsm I ems bngr, my father was a farmer, and I had tame brothers older than myself. They were full of their pranks and seldom allowed an opportunity to pass unimproved, to play off" some joke on one another. 1 remember nc night while I lay iu rav trundle bed in a lower room, the brother next ;love me went up to Iiis chamber to en to bsi, but presently he hallooed and screamed in great fright, and tame rushing down siairs with all possible speed. The older beys had prepared a fright for him in this wise; One of them bad been plowing th: t day in a stumpy lot, and many decaying roots were brought up by the plow and they SfTltalnriThl the evenimr that many pnCM were phosphorescent Phosphorescence is the quality of emitting litrht without beat. There are many substances that ixis-..-.- this quality, and snong others, decaying fish and wok1. Under favorabl - circumstances they will be nearly as luminous in the d.irk aa live coal. Decayed woo l in thi- condition is commonly called f".i tire. They brought tli ir packets full ol foxtire to the house, and slipped up to his chamber unobserved ; they cut it into suitable pieces and strips, and then arranged them in the form of a skeleton on the top ot his bed. The head was W&Tf lanre, with an enormous mouth aad lrightful teeth : and in general outline the whole resembled the human form. It was a dark night, and brother "William he wn the scared one approachoSl his 1h-1 unBoapcctitigly, and ;s as his wont, without a light. He was naturally rather cowardly in the night, and then in those days we believed in witclu s, gnbhlins and spooks. Younu paeans now a days are more correctly instructed, and scarcely one can be found simple enough to cherish such false anl superstitious notions. Suddenly the ti ry picture lei! upon his sight, as he turned around th" lar:r' chimney to approach his bod. His excited imagination filled out what may have been imperfect in the image, and it seemed to him like a veritable ghost, which he declared it to be upon recovering his speech alter he came down st ii-.s. There was a great uproar in the family for a few minvic VvO "f ManM 5 t.o auvai aal v& plain, and William crept under his comfortables, vexed at himself that he should be (Tightened by so rsmlhar thing as OjjMhn, or joviAv ir.l as we used to call it. If he bad exercised nrtflseaoi ff .:ü.?, he would have prevented the most of his fright, and his subsequent mort ideation. A second thought would have revealed the whole plot to him, but be was to impaSjtaai he could not wait for a second thought. This i i tailing in many people, and all should watch and guard against it. We often hear gir'.s, and even young ladies, shriek as if mortally hurt, from a very slight cans-. This infirmity can be to a great extent controlled bj habit of thought by cultivating self possession presence of mind. We should all try, and that continually, to not be frightened not to be caught off our guard äBMfafaj Psalsr. ihiblreiiN EUfBftta Ai.w ITS My, " yes, sir." " no, sir." " yes, papa." "no," papa," "thank you," "no, thank you," " gocl night,'' "good morning." t'se no slang terms. Clean fat es, clean elm hc, ch in sh.s, and clean finger nails. Indicate goodbretamg. Never leave your chthes alsmt the room. Have a place for ev rything and everything in its place. lbip before cut ering a room, and never leave it with your men to um oonaauaj . Always offer your seat to a lady or old gentleman. Never put your lo t OH cushions, cliairs or tables. Never overlook anyone when reading or writing, nor read Of talk aloud ubile others arc r':ulin. Never talk nor whicr .i meetings or public places, and especially in a private room, where any n is ringassj or pimhnj the piano. Be earelut to injure BO one's f lings by unkind remarks. Never tell tab s, make laces, call names, ridicule the lame, mimic the unfortunate, nor be cruel t insects, buds, or animals. Keep Vour Word. A bov borrowed a tol frm a neighbor promising to return it at night. Before evening he v" s nt away on an errand, ami did not return until late. Before he went, he was told that his brothers t-hould sec the tool returned. Atter he had come home ami gone t 1ml, be nupiircd and found the t)l had not been s nt to its owner. He was much distressed t think his promise was nt kepi, but was per siiadcd to go to sleep and l is early and carry it home. Ity daylight he was up, and nowhere was the tool to le t-mid. Alter a long and fruitless scan h he m t oil" for his neighlHr's in great distress to acknowledge his fault . But how m eat was his surprise to lad the Uol on his neigh tsrV doorstep r Ami then it apfH-and, from the prints of little bare feci on the mud, that the lad had tfot up in his sleep and carried the tool home, and w i nt to lied again hi id knew it not. Of course, a boy who was prompt in his sh-, p was prompt when awake. '.I. '.ived i s,u tcd, and had the confidence of his dm igbbaflL ami was placed in many olliccs t trust and profit. kxr.'io;, A peanut-picker wassmong the new lalor saving mat limes ehdutel at the Virginia State Fair. Hitherto the nuts have been picked OaT the vines by hand; four bushel a da the lair average for a hand, i mi mm who Raised l.ooo bushels required ten hands lor nearly two months to save his crop, ni a cost of fifteen cents per bushel. The top raised n the south side ol .lames river, hotwoea Petersburg and Norfolk, is estimated at 1 mm) bushels a year. To save this nop mould require the lalsu ol i.tHHI hands for two months, at a cost of $'JU0,lM0. The new machine saves much t inn and labor. "Fair exchange is no robbery." The following transact ion ha.- emu ; light in New Fairfield, t one.: ' Two dairymen who use the same spring for thi putp of cooling tlu'ir milk, recently discovi r '1 that their milk aas unproliUbly thin, nnd came to the conclusion lli.it somcltody was robbing them. Tht tin t night Ussy hap jieued at the spring, and each diMovtred, to his utter astonishment, that tue milk was being stolen, and the vautusa being supplied with water by the oth-