Plymouth Democrat, Volume 15, Number 22, Plymouth, Marshall County, 3 February 1870 — Page 1

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WORK AND THINK. H. Mwri. four- and anvils ringing. njaBfag mwd day long. I?i rt.-i j.-toiK i. Toice are !ingin 'I'lirilty Labr iron ong. I rum a thousand fly wheels hounding, Frnm a thon?and hnmming looms. N'irht and duv the not' ar- sounding Thronen the misty fact'ry rom. I. i-rcn r workmen, to their play TVn-' advice in every clink: Still they're nirir still they're saving Wbüst you labor, learn to MM F Ehiafe what power lies within von. Kor what triumphs y mr- formed. IT. in aid of bone and rteew, lUarts by emulation wanned. I:'h!y thonirN ve won ami cherish. Wh r shall hold v;ir spirits down ? H Ml hall rr.ike your high hope erih ? Why shall ye and P'ortune frown? yon wi -h for protit. planre t Thirst at Learning's fount to drink ? rave ye honor, fame or treSMfe! Yc the Aerius hive work ar. 1 think ! T fa '.' but not MOf afBvBUJ Lik; the horse from dav to day ; Think : hut not alone of giring Health for clf. or soul for pav '. Tlcnk ! Oh. 1m- mkMmi no longer Toil in i; iit for daily rood. Think 1 'twill make yon fre-her. "tronirer; Link v.u la the Kraal ami irood ! TlHMMjM exaiuand lightens labor. Thought forbirt the soul to sink ' Self raapecl and law for rtgBbur. Mark tli- m.'n who work-and ihinkl Think f aad let thf thought new -rrve youTliink 01 men who've gone befor : Li n lag BMtrouAuime to serve you ! Year's rh p.ch they've plodded o'er ! Kreoiiom BfMa and w ins her charter With the sword of thought -th" aeal Tnraay can find no ipiiirtHr In Ike rink- of UUttkiag men. T .link ' for thought' a waud of power ram to make oppression shrink ': Orsssys, th-'ti. the prtrion aawei Me it wield it w..rk und think! Ilold yonr heads up, toiling brothers ; M -ng-t if at it ne'er forj ir. I.ibor. for ourselves and others, for man a noble lot. Nobler r ir. cad holier. BtcBar, Thun vain luxury -sn claim. If but al and w,rth inspire. And true greatness be our aim. Toner ;o eorapaae thi is siveii Power that form- the strongest link Tw ixt an nariffht man and ITeaven. His noblest power the power to think!

MISCELLANEOUS. CENTREPOLE BILL. I F. BR riAHT. Ir 'frizzle. 1 unmistakably that night not in straightforward rain, but. in sneaking gusts that glanced down the neck and ti the sleeve. I pulled on my coat and splashed out to Um nie, to see if it were fast against wandering cattle. The lights in the house gleamed dimly through the t, m it the wet had reached them, too. Etch oW Dun. who followed me gingerly out trom th- porch, shook his shaggy coat, aad sniffed his diagusL at the weather. Satisfied thai 1 was. right, I was about returning to shelter, when from around the corner of the fence came the sound of horses' feet, and a heavy wagon sucking and groining up the incline. A low, prolonged growl from the dog greeted the . j b am, and I waited for a moment to See who could be traveling at such a tune and in such a sorry storm. There soon came abreast of the gate a huge wagon, drawn by six mules which I could through th fog. Attracted by the ?ire in my pipe, which I had succeeded in keeping alight, and the increased gro wlintrofthedog.it stopped, and after the brake rattled down, a hoarse voice jam ill : " Whoa there, June 1 I say, stranger, how tar is it to town ?" To Los Angeles? Ten miles." 14 That's a party outlook for me. Ten mi1 ' Is this a tavern ?" 44 No.M Ten miles to town ! "Waal, stranger, 1 gtu lU stake oat here to-night. Them animuiei is too beat to do that. Where's yer water r" It's all around yon to-night! but you an turn your mules into the corral, and bring your blankets before the fire. It's loo wet to stay out here." " Waal. Fee seen was nights nor this, ml I'm eeninast waterproof; but since v ire pnm&ri1 I'll turn out these critters and jine ye in a shake. Git up. here, you old mutans ciona guvmeni mule: That ar' Black JJc-; is the omarest animule I ever see." It required but little time to unhitch his team, and I opened the gate, and in the Us ! creatures came gaunt and worn. With moth-eaten tails dripping with wet, and generally cast down, as amies are when their kicking days are past. Though these was a prospect for them of fodder and corn, not the ghost of a trot appeared, but they meandered slowly into the yard, where oar own horses crowded together und r the shed and gazed inhospitably at i ne new-comers. " Have you had any supper?" l inquired of the teamster, as he came into the house with his blankets. I Waal, bow you mention it, I rayther think not, and I do feel a heap hungry." It d to get him a cold bite and a fl iss of toddy, and BS he whipped out his short, black pipe, and moved up to the fire, he began to thaw mentally, as I saw from the gladness in his eye, and physically, as the steam from Iiis clothes attested. I was alone that night, aud glud to have company. I had a good view of mv truest now; a short, thick set man, with shock of a beard, bronzed face, where Heotrid be seen, and sharp, gray y s. A soldier's coat, much too large for him, was his upper garment, the oniy anparent additional vesture being a pair of immense borts. ' I like thai liquor o' yours," he said after a time. M It kstcvs as it goes down. How long mout you have lived here tn M inly a year. I answered. Between the wreaths of curling smoke he n inned asa closely, aad again inquired : " Where mout ye hail from ?" "A great distance lrom here from Maine." "From Maine? You don't say so I I'm from them parts myself. It seems kind 'o good to HBcet a fellow-nationer in a furrin land. How's all the folks down in Maine " " About as Banal, I fancy. Bat how did you set out here?" "I've made a long trip of it, you bet snn . 1 1 . it you oon i want to turn in, i n tell von all about it. It kind 'o drops the tailboard out of a teller s feeltns to strike a man from the same dee-trict." Assiinnir him that I should enjoy his confidence and his -tory having mixed "another stiff 'un to takeout thai last patch of eofcr he related as follows : " The first of it was me and the old man had a nrrhnmsgr not fight i n i m t1 . mi ml yc, fur I wouldn't have hurt a hair of the old man's head, not for gold; but I wa peky tired of farmin' and plowin' ano nog Kinin anu sucn like, anfi was a bound for to goto sea. It's cams, a fellow never knows the right side of his mellon lill it's to lat" ; but that's the way with all on us; and knockin' about in the world just pulls the husks off the cob, and shows v wnai s wnai. nowsomu ver, seem as h'w I was hankerin1 to en away, anl as 'Melia I'ritchard hal marrie! that city chap, a . the old man said I shouldn't go. I was mote deternUneder than ever. There was a circus cming almg t.. our town, and me and the other boys WSJ kinder handy helpin' water the horses and doin' chores fat the men and We got into the show. It was the fut time I eeef BBS a cirrus, and the band, and the rid' rs and Ihn beautiful woman on a cal i o horse, was tx much for me, partiekly af ter I whs let in to the f,ivin' Skeleton and the lsl Lady. So I made up my mind to run eel with this show, and I marches up to the boss and asked him if he would Inke BSe, 'What can you do?' says he. ' Anythin.' says I; 'mostly drive.' ' Well,' says lie, 4 I want a boy to drive the wagon with tin centrepole, and I'll try you.' And I left the old BOnse and all ten years ago, and I've never seen em sence." Tin- thinking man paused I moment, and then proceeded: "It was Dan Hire's Ci revsand you know it was a god show but it was hard lines for me, and the bsantifnl woman didn't look so beaut i ful every time I see her afrTwa:d, and we roughed it all the while, and I shouldn't have stuck to it, if we hadn't been travclin' Wert. I thought if I went fur enough I might get to Californy. where the gold was growia. How about that gold?" A grim, peculiar smile flitted across a quarter eetion of hivface, and ending in a sneer lost itself in his shaggy beard. ' I did leave the business for a while, and was some years in Canaday and Wis

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volume xv consin, but I always hankered after the show, and COKM back to it. There was thrc. of us chums; and, very sing'ler, we WI I all name1 Pill, and they gave us names to know us apart. I was Centre pole Bill, 'cause I drove that wagon ; there was Canvas Bill, as drove that wagon: and Stubby BUI, rs was a general hand. We traveled and traveled until we got to Mound City, in Ioway ; and there Stubby was knifed for something or other in a row, and died. He and I didn't go cahoots so much as Canvas and me, but we missed him for all o' that. We see some bubbly life off and on, we did; and if I was a joungster I'd rather set up in any profession but a circtts driver, but a man can't always have his 'drathers. Leastwise if he could, p'r'aps he wouldn't be no better otr." "We got to Iowav, as I was say in,' and the boss was mighty teary one night. lie had a swivel-eye, and was hot when he was drunk ; and he give us partickler diviltry, which no man hankers fur it he don't deserve it, which we didn't ; and that night Canvas comas to me, and says he. 'Centrepole, I hain't a goin' to sling this cart any more.' And 1 Bays to him, 'Why?' 'No man,' says he, 'can drive over me with sharp-corked horses.' Which I knew then he meant to leave the show, and was bound to jine him any way. And he says to me, 'There's an old pard of mine here, and he says as how there's a Ouv'mtnt train goiV to start from I hnaha next week, and we can get a job there to go out to the Injun country., ' Well, Canvas,' says I, kinder slowly like, 'if you goes, I goes.' 'All right,' says he. I couldn't help wishin' 'twas somers else than the Injun country, for I had heeld them critters Avas üghtnin' to tight, and ate up the dead 'uns. It's all well enough to stay at home and talk about it ; but when it comes to going, it's a horse of another color." "You teamsters have a strange, wandering life. How do you manage to live so :-" " Most fellers as romes out here to work or drive has run away from the East for robbin' or murders. And they ran't stay in no one place: it hunts them all the time, and they must keep ngoin'. But I never did no such thing. Have you ever been in the Injun country v "Never in my life; but I have often wished to." " You had better stow that, gsdkeep out of it. It's tempt in' PaovklenCC and many red devils to go there. Bat as I was savin', we squared up with the bosf which there wasn't much comin' to us, as there always i, for we was just like sailors, and never had a dollar in the donnage-bos and it lout take much drinkin' and dancin' and poker to clean a feller out. But we got away from there, and got to Omaha the best we could there wasn't any railroads in them days and Canvas and me wasn't long in hirin' out ter drive; for some O1 them Gor'menl sojers partiekly them as has dirty uniforms has a buggered smart eye to pick out a feller as knows his bi, and they see at onet as how Canvas and me saveyed bosses tip to the handle which it was true, though I say it, for Canvas and me had saveyed bosses ever sence he was knee high to a snipe and some o' them drivers didnt know no more about bosses than a dog does the price of hymn books " "What made you aud Canvas sucii friends !'' " Waal, you seo, we had paddled together, and was made to go in double harness. Don": you know that Natur' in ikes everything in pairs ? And some men gits married which I never could sence that city chap carried off 'Melia, and which is resky, anyhow, 'cause one or t'other is bound to kick over the pole or bust the breechin' : but there's some as gets to pards, and them's better nor man and wife. And old Canvas, he onst saved my life when I was attached by a cuehreslinger in UniCBgo, which 1 sometimes think he didn't night ter, as I hain't been watfa much to nobody." "But," said I, "there's always some thing for a man 1o do, if he only knows it." And the teamster drained h:s glass, and answered : " You're right, there, but it's lucky if any body can find it out, it he onst gits down. like. ion am t a getting tired, till . 1 BOM . - arc ye r l n go tnrougii tiie rest like the Ten ( ommandments through a Sunday School." " Bv no meansj it interests me very much.'" " Waal, we started on our trip, and was bound for Arizona; twenty eight wagons. four amb'lances, and two companies of cavalry a right smart line of us. It ain't very interesting goin over the Plains; nothin but sage-brush and jackass rub bits, and deer, and such vermin. And the deserts where we had to drag alone hubdeep, in the sand, water forty miles apart, and no grass nor nothin in some o' them nights I used to wish to gK home Bgin, But Canvas and me was goin' to git gold, and go back rich ami sei; the old folks but which it can never be. Canvas and me dene the best we could. We didn't see many Injuns fust along; onst in a while a few would hang around behind us, or we would see one or two skurrying up a canon. After we got well away from the settlements, they tried to stampede the cattle ; but we was prepared lor tliem, and they didnl get but. a few. V. wasn't pleasant for a man to be thinkin1 of Injuns all the time, and many a night a- Pre been on guard I thought I see a big 'an under every bush. My old mother ased to read in the Scrip tur' about 'roarin' lions' and 'seekin to devour,1 but that book don't s;iy nothin' 'boat Ticket, which is very sing'lar, it it makes for to show us how to go. P'r'aps the fellers as wrote it never was in Arizona, and I often thought as how Cod left that country out of his day book, as bein' ' no account leastwise, p'r'aps thai was the place where the devil squatted when he was jerked out o' the gardin, as gran'ther ased to tell on. " I guess I'll ile up a little ; it runs rayther heavy to-night," said he, as he rilled himself another glass, and continued : " We camped out one night at the jaw ol a canon, ate our suppers, and Canvas and me was on guard together, in the early watch. We used to dm et at the end of the walk, and stop a bit and talk. But WC had a good look out all the while. It was very lark, and every one was asleep. Bye and bye, Canvas, says he ' ( 'enter, I'm going up to the spring to get a drink.' The spring was about a hundred yards up the gulch, among the bi:shes. 'Well,' says I, 'don't be long, and if you . anything, yell.' An1 oft he went, whistlin' sop ly like to hisselt j and I stepped away again. He was gone a long time longer than he had any onghl to, and though 1 hadn't heerd any nois.-, I was kind 0 narvous, as we never knowed how many Injins might be doggin' us. At last, I couldn't stand it DO longer, and 1 put for the wagons, and waked up Jim Bruce, which was outside, and Hill WeRt, and I says to 'em as how lafiTBl had been geSM lOO long, and would they go along o' me to look arter him ; which they did bein' goo1 feller- and never hard to do a good turn, wirtiely, for me and Canvas, which had often helped them shoe their team when the blacksmith was sick ; and we went up to the spring together. Von couldn't see a wink, and we darsent take a light tor tln ni thieves to shoot us by, and WS soltly crawh-d up to the spring. There was a big cottonwood growiu' just aside of it, and we ran agin' thin, ami bit Homething siuin' like, leanin' against the trunk. 'Can fas,' says I, 'Canvas, my boy, is that you?' Aud he never made me no reply, but kept a (uiet as a skull

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on a tombstone. 'Jim Bruce,' says I, ' just scratch for a lantern ; there's soinethin' wrong.' I felt of the body, and there was a wet, sticky stream upon it. ' Canvas,' say I, ' what is the matter ?' and no word. Jim soon fetched a light, and there was Canvas, stone dead, pinned to the tree by seven arrows. And the thieves bad cut off his hands and put them in his pockets, and cut off his ears and fastened them on his forehead !" Oh ! what a vengeful glitter shone in his eye ! " Young man, they say when a woman loses her first young un, it breaks her, and as how a lion robled of her cubs is crazy ; but may you never feel as I did when I saw Canvas him as had been my pard; had sot by the same fire, and drank out of the same dipper, and shared Iiis last terbacker with me when 1 saw old Canvas, out up like a sheep, and dead forever from me. Ten thousand devils was tuggin' at my heart, and I sank, with a yell, down by his dead side." The emotion of the stranger almost overpowered him, as he recalled these agony-days of the pa9t. They told me afterward that my yell roused the camp and they came rushing out to the spring; but I didn't know it then. I was stunned like, and never knew what happened. When morning came, they buried Canvas near where he died. They didn't leave no mound to draw the Injuns; but on that ground I knelt and cried. I don't look as if I could cry, but I did then. 'Canvas,' says I, 'old pard, you're gone 1 You was thirty-four years old. Bo help me Cod, I'll kill an Injun for every year if yours, till I wipe out the score !' They took me away, and for four weeks I was laid in a fever, which nighly malt: me pass in my cheeks; but I didn't for I could't die until I'd kept my word with Canvas. " Young man," he continued, after a pause, " I left that train at Tucson ; and sence that time I've been roarain.' i have come in this trip to get a little money, and I'm goin' back. D'ye see this knife?" He pulled out from his belt a huge, broa.d knife, with a wide handle, and handed it to me. In the wood I saw thirteen holes as if bored with gimlets. " You seee them holes? Beery one is a Fache. It's my account book, aud every Injun I kill, in goes a hole. I've got a good many more to make lore I do as 1 said to Canvas; but I'm goin' back, and p'r'aps I may meet Canvas some lay, it I keep my word, which the preacher says is the right way." What room there was here for a homily Ofl human vengeance! But I could not give it. " We'll, you've kindly heard my story, anil you're from Maine: thank ye for both. I'm going to turn in." And with this rough good night, he rolled himself in his blankets, and the regular breathings soon showed him to be asleep. I had but fitful slumbers until early morning, when the teamster roused me to take his leave, and he disappeared. Nearly a year after my connection with the mines took me to Tucson ; and while I wai there, a scouting party came in with a badly wounded man who WSS with them not a soldier, but one who was always eager for an Indian tight ami further than this, nothing was known of him. Out ol curiosity, I went in w ith the surgeon to see him; and there lay Centrepole Bill. He recognized no one, "but kept in a deep stupor, bleeding from internal wounds that could not be stanched. " He was an awful fighter," said the Doctor, " and he has done nothing but follow the scouts." " Doctor," said I, "I know that man." And as he watched, I told his story. We sat there several hours, and at last the struggle came. The dying man raising himself on the p diet, looked fixedly at the ceiling, and in a hoarse voice, said : " There's a show a Canvas " and he fell back, dead. I looked, afterward, in his belt, and found two knives, and in each of the handles there were Seventeen holes. These keepsakes of the man I begged, and have them to this day. Oventind Monthly. a -a OS Nitro-Glycerine. NrTBO-OLYCEBlKB is a combination of glycerine (the sweet principle of animal fat) and nitric and sulphuric acids. The j process Of manufacture is very simple. Take, for instance, one pound of glycerine : and ten pounds of the acids ami place them in a proper vessel. The sulphuric add operates on the rest of the mass, extracts ail aqueous matter, while the nitre sinks to the bottom at the vessel, and joins with the glycerine whose destiny carries i there at once. The result is an oleaginous substance, not unlike castor oil in color, but rather more thick, which, on being washed ami thoroughly cleansed from such particles of sulphuric acid as may have remained, is nitro glycerine. ; Nitro glycerine strikes in all directions ! when it explodes ; but the greatest Ibrce is always turned toward that point offer- j ing the greatest resistance. Thus, if you should explode a mass of the "oil" (which is " short " for nitro glycerine) In the cen ter of an empty room, the great force of the explosion would be downward, in the direction if the floor. A cartridge submerged, and having for its base a rock, would act most forcibly on the rock, although it would also displace the water. In removing the obstructions at Hell Gate, it was intended to use nitro-gly crine, in the form of what is known as silioious powder; but as it was lowered in a fro.en condition, the experiment was a failure. At some future day, there is no doubt that tliis explosive, which is thirteen times more powerful than gunpowder, and is, moreover, capable of being exploded at the bottom of the sea, if need be, will be used in this great work. Although nitro glycerine has been in use for so short a time, it has already been use1 with great success in war. In 1864, luring the war of the Austrians and I'russiane against the Danes, a detachment of three hundred Danish troops retreated to Alsen, a town near which a great battle had just been fought, and were besieged by 20,000 of the allied trxps. Hut the Danish engineers had undermined all of the approaches to the tswn with nitro glycerine, the town and the mines being connected by electric wires, and the immense force was kept at bay for three days. In the Mussian war. the nitro glycerine torpedoes kept the French and Kngliah ships out of the harbor ot Cronstadt. These torpedoes were 10 Construct ed as to explode either by concussion or elect ri ify, and it would have been a bold sailor who would dan to approach a barbae so gUaededL Experiments have frequentiy been made to see if nitro glycerine could not lie made available as the ex plosive power for shells, tint little SUOCess has been attained. It has been found that t lie heat and concussion cause1 the sensitive oil to explode before the shell had left the mouth of the cannon. Experiments wen tried with " cushioned " shells those containing some soft substance be tween the nitro glycerine aud the iron but this also failed. Notwithstanding the discouragements which have beset the introduction ol the BOW explosive, it has persistently worked its way into favor with practical nu n, mid there is now earcely a large public work in t his country where it is not used As time progresses, inventive minds will de vise even more ingenious method of useine it than those now in vogue, aud it is safe to predict that within a short period, gunpowder will be force1 to give way to this more potent rival. Rtchange.

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FACTS AND FIGURES, Vermont has 523 physicians. St. PlUHMnH has 10,800 cab drivers. TnJBBB are only two bachelors in the New York Legislature. Therk are scvent' papers in America called the Tc'egraph. Tue Massachusetts savings banks gained 17,000,000 in deposits last'year. TnR christening cake of the Prince of Wales' new baby weighed sixty-live pounds. At a marriage lately consummated at Ottawa, Canada, $2,000 were donated to the poor. A MTTI..E girl six years old was found drunk in the streets of l'aterson, N. J., the other night. Raii.koads in South Carolina have reduced their fare to immigrants to ore cent a mile. A hot f.Tj-keeper in Evans, Cal., was shot dead by a boarder for not preserving him a seat at the first table. Dunum the summer months the consumption of lager-beer in the city of New York is estimated at 40,000 kegs. Evkkv day a dove visits a fruit stand in Boston, lights upon the shoulder of one of the attendants, and is fed and petted. Xo citien of Japan can leave that country without giving bonds that he will return at the time specified. Oct of 392 Ohio divorce cases granted last, year, the custody of the children in suits was given to the mother. Tu k Salt Lake Reporter knows of one Mormon family that has burled one hundred and forty-eight children. The trade organizations in New York city number eighty-eight, with a membership of 0,500. They have in bank about $00,000. The editor of the London JSnafal 3fettngtr argues that the opening of the Sue Canal portends the restoration of Palestine to the Jews. At Hudson, New York, a disappointed bride recovered fifty dollars of the fellow, as payment tat letter paper and stamps used up in two years. The New York Association for the Pre vention of Gambling expended $18,150 1 last rear. Thev closed '..'.JO gamming ! , houses during that period. A okxtlkmam in Petersburg, Va., the other day, for a wager, ate one gallon ol fresh oysters, minus the shells and liquor, at one sitting. An old lady at Windsor, England, was laved from burning to death by her pet parrot, who, seeing her in flames, called out to her sleeping son, " Harry, get up!" TUB Philadelphia Mercantile Library now contains over 50,000 volumes. Last year 4,354 were added to it. The average is ie per day during the year was 4SI. At the Metropolitan cattle show, recently held at, London, England, the superiority of American Implements in lightness and beauty wui unanimously admitted. Ai.fais St. Martin', whose side was shot away in 1822, in such a manner as t expose the action of the digestive organs to the surgeon's eye, is still alive and well in Cavendish, Yt. York, M., was the first city chartered in this country. Now it is a country village of 8 K) voters. Its name was first A.ganmnticui then the city of Gorges or Qeorgina, then York. Henrv Ward BnxcHKB commenced preaching thirty four years ago, in a West ern town, for Bl50 a year, during which period he raised his own vegetables and tended his own pigs. The "small sewing machine" which some rascal in New York sends to those people who respond to his advertisement by inclosing him 1, is a shoemaker's awi, worth about 15 cents There is a man in New Hampshire who persuaded a dealer to let him have a barrel ol Hour tor fo.7ofora poor blind man, and then compelled the poor blind man to pay him $10 for it, besides $1 for taking it to his house. In Boston it Is the fashion to have " Dickens parties.'' The invite1 assemble as they would at any other party, and listen to reading, by a choice reader, from Bo.'s works. After the reading come coffee and dancing. The statistics of the Cumberland (Maryland) coal region for the year 1800 shows that during that period l,iS2,G7'.i tons of coal were mined an increase of 552,226 tons over 180a The aggregate production of the mines lrom 1842 to I860, inclu sive, amounts to 14,835,986 tons. At the Iowa State Fair of 18"i0 a man received through mistake four dollars more than he was entitled to. He moved to Pennsylvania, and endured the gnaw'tis of conscience till the Christmas of ISO!), when he remitted the amount to the Society, minus the interest, because "the mistake was the society! and not his." The bust of Senator Sumner, which was ordered and paid for by Hon. A. A. Lawrence and other Boston citizens, has been placed in the niche on the east side of Doric Hall. It was accepted by the Legislature of lS!i0 in behalf of the people if Massachusetts. Georoe Akknsiu ho, the New York printer who has accepted the challenge of George Barber, of Cincinnati, for the championship of the "use" and $1,000, some time ago set np in seven days, workins seven hours per dav. 101.500 cms. an average of about 2,071 ems an hour. A WBOUOrtT iron ehimnov. 196 fed hieb and 0 feet inches in diameter, has just been erected In Pittsburg. Another is to be put up, 275 feet high. The first was riveted together in a horizontal position, and then lifted to the perpendicular by a ran'. The other will be mad: upright. The plates will be rivited by means of a scaffolding running up inside. The report of the veterinary surgeon of the New Orleans A CarroUton Railroad shows that horses are very much superior to mules for drawing cars. On the average of the past three years there have been 25 per cent, of strained shoulders among the mule to I per cent, among the horses, and 1") per cent, of strained haunches among the former to per cent among the latter. A Crt.KMAN paper gives an account ol a traagC incident which occurred lately an the occasion of a marriage before the eivil authorities in Algeria. The official required the consent of the mother, and asked if she were present A loud bass voice answered, " Yes." The Mayor look cd up and saw a tall Didier before him. "That is well," he said: "lot the mother come Ben her consent and signature are necessary." To the astonishment of all present, the aoldier approached the Mayor with long strides, saluted in military fashion, and said: "You ask for the mother of the bride; she stands before you. Very well, sir." roolied the May or, "then stand back. lean take no proxy ; 1 m the mother, I toll ust sec the mother you!" "And I repeat," rejoined the soldier, fore you. My nariu that she stands be is .Maria L. I have luen thirty -six years in the service; 1 have been ihrotigh several campaigns, an1 obtained the rank of Bcrgcant ; here are my papers, t he permission to wear uni form, and my nomination i Bcsgeanl Major." The Mayor carefully examined the documents and found them perfectly correct, and completed the marriage of the bridal pair; the mother blessing them o fervently with her deep bass voice that all present were more startled than touched.

How to Re Handsome.

Most people like to be handsome. Nobody denies the great power any person may have who has a good face, and who attract you by good looks, even before a word has been spoken. And we see all sorts of devices in men and women to improve their good looks paints and washes, and all kinds of cosmetics, including a plentiful annointing with dirty hair oil. Now, not every one can have good features. They are as Cod made them ; but almost any one can look well, especially with good health. It is hard to give ndes in a very short space, but in brief these will do. Keep clean wash freely and universally with cold water. All the skin wants is leave to act freely, ami it will take care ol itself. Its thousands of air holes must not be plugged up. Kat regularly and simply. The stomach can no more work all the time, night and day, than a horse ; it must have regular work and regular rest. Goo1 teeth are a help to good looks. Brush them with a sofl brush, especially at night. Go to bed with the teeth clean. Of course, to have white teeth, it is needful to let tobacco alone. Any powder or wash for the teeth should be very simple. Acids ma- whiten the teeth, but they take off the enamel or injure it. Sleep in a cool room, in pure air. No one can leave a clean skin who breathes bad air. But more than all, in order to look well wake up the mind and soul. When the mind is awake, the dull, sleepy look passes away from the eyes. I do not know that the brain expands, but it seems to. Think, read not trashy novels, but books that have something in them. Talk with people who know sometuing; hear lectures and learn by them. This is one of the effects of good preaching. A man thinks and works, and tells us the result. And if we listen, and hear, and understand, the mind and soul are worked. If the spiritual nature is aroused, so much the better. We have seen a plain face really glorified by the love of God and man which shone through it. Let us grow handsome. Hen say they cant afford books, and sometimes they don't even pav for their newspaper. In that case, it does thom little pood they must reel so mean while reading it. But men can afford what they really choose. If all the money spent in self-indulgence, in hurtful indulgence, were spent in books, and self improvement, we could see a change. Men would grow handsome, and women, too. The soul would shine out through the rea We were not meant to be mere animals. Let us have books, and read them, and sermons, and heed them. Hcc&th Befirmer. One Week from my IMaree. BY i sii MLUKOS. Monday Had suckers for breakfast Suckers and sassidges are the '2 luxurysov life ; the other luxury is easy boots. Tuesday Awoke with a splendid bed ake, caused by drinking too much water the evening previously and goin to bed at nine o'clock precisely. Breakfasted on the butt end of a sassidge and felt like a dorg Wednesday Rekolected of askiag a man la hTtaat rv If beans pras a sun- kror in his parts. He said they wuz "as sertain as a revolver." Etenekted on the danger of carrying concelcd weepins. Rekolekted agin ov bein in Xu Hamshire durin a severe ano storm, and innocently enough remarked that 1 never see enny thing like it, and wax told by one ov the barroom boarders that it warn't nothin; he bed seen it fall over a thousand feet. 44 What V" sed I, " a thousand feet on the level?1 "Xo," sed he, 44 but a thousand feet from on high." I refleckted how easy it wax for sum folks to lie and tell the truth at the same time. Thursday Rekolekted once more ov bein on Red river, in Arkinsaw.and Benin a large piece of frame work by the side of the road; Inquired ov a private citien who was leadin a blind raid by 1 ov his ears, what the frame work mought be. He sed it was "a big tidle, and took -l yok ov oxen to draw the bow, and they had tu haw and gee to change the tune." Reflected on that passage in the poet which es "man is fearfully and wonderfully made ;" and thort the remark might apply to fidles in Arkinsaw without spiling the remark. Friday Yi.ited my washwoman and blowed her up for sewing raffles and tuks on the bottom if my drawers. She was thunderstruk at first, but explained the mystery by saying she had sent me. by mistake, a pair that belonged to . 1 blushed like biled lobsters, and told her she must be more keerful about such things; I might have bin ruined for life. Saturday Writ this diaree for the week from inemry, and I am satisfied I've got a good memry. Reflekted upon the vanity of human wishes, reflekted how often I'd wished to be rie i, and how seldom my wishes had bin gratified. Ilesolved in the future not to wish for ennything until 1 had it o weeks and see how I liked it. Two Clever Sailors. In a small old town built on the sea shore, there use1 to live two sailors, named .Jack and doe. They were great friends, and had on- boat between them, and went out fishing together. They were both strong, end brave, and sun burnt. They both like1 rum, and both wore loose trousers. Ami so they could never make out which was the most (lever. 44 1 know the best way to cook mackerel, and herring, and sole.1 said Jack. " So do I. And I know the best way to sell them," said Joe "So do I." answered Jack. 44 And I know the best way to catch them." 44 So do I," answered Joe ; " but what is the use of all this when we have not got any ropes for our acts? 44 If we had time we could make some, said .lack. 44 If we had money, we could buy some, said Joe. 44 If we kMW where, we could borrow some, said Jack. 44 If we knew when', we could Pteal sonic," said Joe. Just then the bells ol the church on the hill began tolling for evening prayer. "They ring those bells with ropes." said Jack. 44 And the ropes are very good," said Joe. Jack began to smile Joe begau to hmgh. "Shall we go to church, mate, tonight J" asked Jadt " And shall we slay there till the last?" asked Joe. Up the hill went I he two sailors. They topped in church till the prayers were all vor and everybody had gone home. " Xow is our time," said Jack. 41 It is our turn now," said Joe. Off they went to the tower where the bells wen- hung. Here they found two long, strong, thick ropes. 44 1 nc for me," cried Jack. " And one for ore." cried Joe. Up the ropes olmibod the two clover sailors, like a couple of monkeys. " I'm up at the lop," said Jack. 44 And so am I," said Joe Jack pulled out knife from his pocket. So did Joe. Lick I sin k I went .lack's knife He ill through the rope over his head, and down he fell and cracked his pate on the atones at I he bottom. " ( h, crickee !" groaned Jack at hv b I loan. 44 who could have thought of that?" "What a stupid-head you are," cried

1870. Joe, at the top. "You should hove done as I do." With these words he cut the rope close under his feet. Down it fell, and left him hanging by his two hands at the top. " Oh, crickce !" cried Joe, at the top; " who could have thought of thatl" "What a stupid-head yon are," groaned Jack. " You will have to hang there till morning." And so he did, and made his arms so stiff that he could not move them for a week. It was a sad night for the two clever sailors. They cried, and groaned, and prayed, ami said bad words till morning. Then Jack went off to the hospital, and Joe was taken off to prison. L0N(i EMG1CMEUXTK. Ik you should happen to discuss with elderly and experienced ladies the subject of Long Engagements, you will find that they will shake their heads steadily aud at once pronounce an unequivocal verdict of disapprobation. Like the celebrated colonial judge, they are perhaps not so happy in their argumentation as in their decision, but they fall beck upon their verdict as characterized by the most Impregnable wisdom. If you come to investigate their reasons, they candidly avow themselves empirics; their opinion is merely a generalization of limited individual experiences. It will be found, however, that the British mother's reasons generally resolve themselves into two; first, they say that If an engagement is indefinitely prolonged the laughter's health is apt to stiller very greatly ; and next they say that the long engagement has an inherent tendency to disintegration that it is apt to resolve and come to not nine. Thesumeet is a matter of considerable practical importance, and mav repay an attempt at elucidation. Of course extreme instances are to be avoided. But these instances should be avoided both on the one side or on the ither. Sometimes a very brief is worse than a very long engagement. Most, peo ple nave iieani in their time some queer atones ol verv short engagements. I re member the case of a gentleman who was going out as a missionary. I do not think that he was going ni freien among the savages, but rather, l should think, to some district where Eurooenns can live very comfortably despite the surrounding prevalent neatlienum. 1 believe that it i an understood principle, for reasons easily intelligible, that a missionary is best mar ried. This gentleman had neglected, how ever, to the very last, to provide himself with such a necessary adjunct to his labors. He was taking tea with a nice family, and he announced that he had to depart for the lvist the day after the morrow, and iho the unsatisfactory State of his personal w . a arrangements, a young laay who was present rather liked him as an individual, ind greatly sympathized with him as :i missionary, i ne result, wmcn may instated in an abridge! form, simply was that the young iady who saw him one day married him the next, and sailed away with him to India on the third. We do not wish to bode ill for this interesting young couple, but we are sure that B terrific paper might be written on hasty marriages. Now let me give a case in point on the other side of the question. Several long engaaenaentl of a truly venerable cl ..razter have conic to my knowledge. There as a man in Australia who was engaged to a lady in hmglaml tor twenty years. flic lady pleaded that she could not leave her mother. I wonder, by the way, whether she had ever asked her mother. I am not sure that young ladies always fully understand their mothers on these points. The gentleman allowed the plea, and a languid, semi -Platonic correspond ence went on. One tine morning the gentleman was surprised by a letter from his ancient lnen!, informing Bun that her mother was now departed tins life and that she was ready to come out and marry him. This was rather a serious demand to make upon a middle-aged man while cracking his egg at breakfast. But he considered that he had given his acceptance, and did not fail to honor the draft in the most business like way. Here is another case of a quem long engagement character. A clergyman was walking in a beautiful park to note a famous castle and the surrounding landscape. At a sudden turn of the walk he met a lady, whose face, though somewhat changed by time, he remembered well. It was that of a lady to whom the parson had been engaged twenty years before. They had loved each other greatly then, but, according to their notions of living, there did not appear the most forlorn chance of a union. Under these circum stances the lovers agreed that they would postpone matten indefinitely, and that each should be considered at liberty. The lady went out to India as a speculation, and dropped into a good thing. The gentleman stock with pertinacity to his curacy, and remained on the same spot for the whole twenty years. Then, after suck a long parting, they at last met again, in this accidental way, in the great "show" park. She was a widow, with an only child, rich, and WB3 handsome still. Walking slowly beneath the swinging chestnut boughs, they discussed old friends, old times. And then the parson said that he proposed t forgot those past twenty years, to erase them, as if they had never been, and to re vert once more to the old lays of their engagement. And the lady said, in mild phrases meaning much, that she had no objection. And the long engagement revived in the form of a very short one. It may be said that we are looking upon the subject in an empiric way, citing opposite instances and not laying down a principle. It would be easy to make a wide-sweeping generalization if we could inly see our wiiy to it. But the subject must be taken in cases, ami the cases must be decided on their merits. It is ambled for that noble science of casuistry, which, one- diligently pursued both by Romanist and Puritan, seems now relegated into the region Of ethical curiosities. The only general consent on the subject is that adopted by mothers, who look upon long engagements with an ill-disguised aversion ; and when they take you into their confidence and tell you how vexed and anxious they are about their girls, and 1 .. I 1 t . 1 i MM ri t 1 11 IT I I . 1 II 1 I 1 ! I enlarge on iii.it ui.i'iimuft ......v . , Which is a kind of shadow to long engage incuts, it is difficult not to sympathize with their troubles and be persuaded by their rhetoric A great deal of sal ire is lavished unon worldly mothers. But in this so-CBIiea wonuuneaa guwi mothers are often unworldly and unselfish. They only want to know tor certain what is really for the true goznl of their girls, and they will be sure to do it. There is generally a considerable amount of poetic interest about a young engaged pair. But in a long engagement they frequently discount their raptures at a long dale and with a heavy sacrifice. Among friends and in the family the smile of interest at the outset is exchanged for the smile of pity in the UvJOC, A girl feels irritated and indignant when she knows that the is pitied. There is often some amonnl of affectation about an engaged irl which is sometimes amusing, ami BUnetimeS absurd. She is apt to retire, like I stricken deer, to some lonely ghtde in the drawing roosa, where she considers m ncral socist raere Intrusion, sad au mip. except the "object,'' as mere non , atitiea She w ilf exemplify thai aelttenm m which tn num cases oui of ten belongs to love Mer own home will have lor her rabordinate ami decreasing interest She will lose the fresh love ol nature and the keenness ef her zest for study. Her mind will be obviously unsettled. Her

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girlhood seems vanished, and a premature womanhood sets in. If there is any constitutional weakness in her system now is the time to look out for its manifestation. You will detect a COUgh, S hectic flush, B weakness in the back, what Mr. Robertson in his "School " calls "a floating, or a fainting, or a sinking, or a swimming." Perhaps a marriage is patched up, when the young people are not a whit better prepared to marry than they were years ago, and perhaps with a disturbing feeling that some of the best years of life have been unwisely spent in I loDg delay that has nothing to show for itself. i There is no doubt but a wise mother will seek to take a daughter from such an eminently unsatisfact ry condition of affairs. She is not to be thought bard and worldly, if, with a prescient eye, she detects possible entangleaaeata and strategically guards against them. She has a 1 well grounded aversion and objection to the Impecunious detrimental, if the mischief is really done we advise her to make the best of things. . are by no means crtain, even if we put oum he- into a very hard and worldly attitude, that the rough-and-ready method of getting rid of an injudicions engagement by the simple process of breaking it ill "is really the best The principle is that if girls cannot form lone engagements without upsetting themselves in this sort of way, 90 far u possible they ought to be kept from forming long engageaaettts. The demurrer will be that the young lady who bean this set of circumstances so ill must be a pale, colorless, thin, unsubstantial character. The rejoinder is, that youug ladies, although we will not apply to thCTu such unci il adjectives, do, as a rule, bear ill the trial of long engagements. Perhaps they would also bear ill the trials of wifehood and motherhood, especially in a chronic state of impecuniosity. It may be allowed, also, that there an; some bright, elastic natures, on whom a long engagement has a positively invigorating effect. The bnly of exceptions which they furnish indicates the i .vrerue difficulty of laying down any general law on the subject. If we night venture to frame a generalization of any sort, we should say thai the l-ng engagement, which has such an OH Settling effect on the lady, has frequently R settling -ffed on the BUUL It makes and keeps him simple, and steady, and earnest. If the lover is worth having, the lover," one would almost think, would be worth waiting for. The mother of course myt thai the long engagement affords such a hazard that it will be broken off, and her daughter, after wasting her best years and bet feelings, may be jilted. Perhaps, however, it is an inaccurate use of language to say that what is earliest is best. The argument merely cuts in a different way also, that it may often save a girl from an unworthy marriage. There is certainly a constant possibility ofabreakoff, when the betrothal is not, as in Germany, a solemn ceremony of the highest publicity. There are certain people to whom an engagement of marriage would be altogether forbidden it some sanction were not given to the long engagement. The curate in the church, the lieutenant in the army, the clerk in the bank, such amiable, domestic, well-educated, well-man nered young people would make such satisfactory husbands, if only that vulgar clement or filthy lucre existed in sollte Mit force Strange that the mineral substances of gold and silver should make such a difference to immortal souls! But they, too, are God's creatures as well as those who can afford to keep a gig. They may say that they fall in love and become engaged, not because they keen a banking account, but on the simple ultimate ground that they are human beings. We think that it would be difficult to resist this plea as a matter of legitimate argument. But a man cannot be both hare and harrier. Ile cannot take broad human ground in one direction and narrow conventional ground in another direct ion. He should not make an engagement indefiuitely long on the plea that be is the creature ot civilisation. If he makes the kind of engagement which is long, he should resolve that it shall not be pro-lot,--(1 beyond certain date. Although the ladies, with their graceful impetuosity, my that six months is quite long enough, yet we think that the Roman law was probably unite fair in permitting a term of two years. After that, let the pair, it the pair have mad- up their minds that, for them, rnarrisge is the supreme earthly good, gel married at any risk. Let them emigrate, keep a school, live in an attic, work with their hands, go without sugar and butter, let the lady make the bed and lay the table loth, and the gentleSBBB answer the boll and black his own boo;.-. Having made their log-house in the backwoods of social life in their youth, they will probably shake down into some good thing before they have finished, ttul if they are people who fear Mr-. Grundy, and who are nothing if they are not genteel, they are hardly entitled to the danger OUS luxury of a long engagement. The chief terrors thai for the parent birds surround along engagement arises from the wretchedly mistaken views of marriage that prevail among the majority ot women. Any on', we think, who attempts to lake a wide and impartial view of life would find it extremely difficult to give a clear, unwavering Bote in favor cither of marriage or celibacy. When the chances are so evenly balanced, we cannot imagine why there should be such morbid anxiety on either side. We often think that a woman ot liberal, renneu tsstct, fond of lif-', Of society, of intellect nal pursuits, makes a disastrous exchange when she surrounds herself with multitudinous cares of life. Even if we t&ke the extreme CBM of tBOM who must do something for their own livelihood If they do not marry, there are still undoubtedly discoverable equivalents or consolation. Mothers and daughters, for the most part, attach an exaggerated Importance to marriage. Tlicyregard it as an end in-itselt insUal of being, as it really is, a moans to an end. Marriage hi not life, but the accident of life Whether married or unmarried, whether enirmied or not engaged, tlic ac ti ve or the spiritual side of religion, intelleCtual pursuits, social and family claims, the ties of friendship and relationship, the elevation and development of oae'i nature, will make up the main substance of a wi- and good woman's lite. Marriage. per a ought nol to be BsceBrary for usefulness or happiness, and certainly could not alone cooler them. When these le neflceal energies an present, either state may DC taken M (id may 1 nd. ami even a lone engagement may be cheerfully borne, without the risk of either ridicule or conipa- sion. 7V' PiceuUUg Barnen. A I.I MlCKOi s scene took place at the Tuilleries on Christinas eve. There was to be a children's party tor the friends of the PrifiOfl Imperial, and a very tine peohnen ot the Christmas tree. All was ready, and the Prince thought he should like to see the tree; so hfl entered the room, and lol he found an uninvited guest already there a favorite monkey belonging to some one in the palace ha1 got into Um room, treat od himself to al the prises, eaten all the M goodies, and, finally, having set nre to the tree, was sitting down enjoying the fun. A i ka. v woman in Paris has delivered herself up to the police authorities, do daring that she was an accomplice of T raupmann in a series of crimes far more horrible than the Pantin tragedy.

LITTLE CHILDREN

Thamk God Tor little children When our kie are cold and sray. They steal as runhinc in our h artf. And charm onr cares away. I almost think the ancrels. Who tend life's garden" fair. Dropdown the sweet, wild Mwuew That bloom around ua here. It seems a breath of heaven Konnd many a cradle lies. And every little baby Brinuaa blesinir from the ki. How a Lad Wheeled Himself iilo For tune and Influence. At a meeting of the stockholder of a prrminotit railway corporation, recently held in this city, there were present two gentlemen, both well up in years, asm, however, considerably the senior of .be other. In talking of old times gone by, the younger gentleman called tin sttel tion of his frienilc and told a pheasant little story which should be rad with profit by every poor, industrious and Striving hm. We use his own langupge : Nearly half a century ago, gentlemen, I was put upm the wntin to make my living. I was stout, v dling and able, considering my then tender years, and sceun I a place in a hardware store to do all kinK of chores required. I was paid seventy five dollars perycBf fbf say boyish services. One lay, after 1 had boon at work th' months or more, my friend there, Mr I; , who holde his age remarkably well, cam" into the store and bought a large bill ol hovels and kMgBj rsalTOH and pan-, buckets, scrapers and scuttles, ff,r he SI -to be married next day, and was inxiptybsg his household in advance, as was the groom's custom in those days. Th articlewere packed on the bnifonj and made a load sufficiently heavy for a young muV. But, more willing than able, I started I :'. proud that 1 could move such s mass on the wheelbarrow. I got on remarkably well till 1 struck the mud road, now Seventh avenue, laadlag t my friend house. There I toiled and tugged, and tugged and toiled, but could not budge the loa 1 up the hill, the wheel going itfl full half diameter in tie mul every time I would try to propel forward. Finally t good-natured Irishman pacsing by with a dray took my barrow, self and all OB his vehicle, and in consideration of my promise to pay him a 4 bit' landed me at my de-tina'ion. I counted the articles carefully as 1 deUvei them, and with my empty barrow trudged my way back, whistling with gh i over my triumph over difficulty. Some weeks after I paid the Irishman the 'bit,' aud never got it back from my empioyeri Mr. B , I am sure, would have remsmer ated me, but be never befSfB board this story, so if he is inclined he can compromise "the debt by sending me a bnshel of bis rare ripe peaches next fall Hut to the moral A merchant had witnessed my struggles.and how zealously I lahafed t deliver that load af hardware; he even watched me to the house and saw me count each piece as I handed it in the doorway, lie sent for BM next day, asked my name, told cie he had a reward for my indust I y and cheerfulness under difficulty, in the shape of a five hundred dollar clerkship in his extensive establishment. I accepted, ssul now, after nearly a half Ceitury has passed, I look back and say I wheeled myself into all I own, for that reward of perseverance wis my grand stepping stone to fortune.'' The speaker was a very wealthy bank r, a man of influence and position, and one uuiversally respected for many good qualities of head and heart. Boys, take a moral from this little story and be willing and industrious. You do not know how many eyes arc upon you to dienofUt whether you are sluggish and careless, or industrious and willing, or how many there are who, if you are moral and worthy, will give you a stepping stone t' wealth and position. Pittsburgh (J ' How Alick Shot the Panther I ah cuin to t U yo i a rw sUwy CBM children I knew when 1 lived In Texas. Alick was ten yuan aid, Maty was eight, and little BttS was only four. They had lost their father and rssrthcr, but had a big brother Frank, an1 the Beat sister in the world, Gallic; aud BBS took tatst as good care of them as their own dear mother could have done. They lived far off in Western Texas, an the edge of a wide prairie. Do you know what a prairie is? Just think how it would look it you could see nothin : on either side of yoa but one great held t waving grass and leautiful flowers r Babing; away, away, far away as Where the blue sky seems to bend down and (touch it. That is a prairie. Well, In other Frank's fields wen .-m the prairie; but the log house far wasch Uhry lived was in the edge of the wemb that bordered it. The trees were not such as you know about. They wer' live-oaks, which stay green all winter ; pecans, which bear the nicest nuts; dogwood, with largo white flowers: holly, with glossy leases and bright-red bsfnSB; BSm, best of all, tiostately magnolia, which is almost ton grand to talk about in a small magainc like this. There was a great magnolia grow lag by a spring not far trom the house; and t Iowas the place where the cnildrcn liked liest to play. One bright Saturday afternoon, Uaey had gone to th' spring as usual, to have i nice time, and BUme was busy making a jacket for Alick, when suddenly the little lioy cam rushing into the house, end seized his brother's gun which tfBOd in the corner. "O Alick f cried Bailie, u how often must you lie told not to tauch that gun .'' '4 Can't help it this thSM, sister S dlic : there is a big panther up in our tree, and I'm bound to shoot him."' M But when' are Mary and F.ttn 44 Oh! they ar' down there looking him right in the eye. so that he liny ml S -tl tiil I get back." Ho was running with all his might M he spoke. PoorSallie! her heart seemed to stand still; but i w is no time to Mat, She 'aught up the horn with which she used to call Frank to dinner, and blew a blast which she knew he would aadei stand to mean Banpsr. Then she wr on the door in large letters, 4 7 Um B n f, fuick ;" and followed Alick w ith all the Med that love and fear could lend her. The hoy reached the spot a little In fore her. Whew she came in is:ht, there n M the frightful lica! stretched out on a Bough of the tree, growling low, and looking down with fiery yes at the 'utile girla who stood hand in hand gazing steadily up at him, and never thinking of tin danger. Bang, went the gun, and the pHiithzr fell to the ground. Presently Frank arrived. Sallic bad sunk down at the loot of the tree, clasp ing the little girls. Alick stood looking at bis pri.c : and you may be sure he got ph nty of nrSSBt ' was uiu '"' M'4' again leave his sisters aione in nie tö keep guard over a anthei.- 7 .1. W. M Mt-n i who first discovered gold in California, 1 Sutter's mill, is now living at Kelscy'i Pigging. Kl l)orado county. He is upward of R year- ol Igi . and fal SO reduced in ekcsunBBUBOM that, though feeble, he in comp lied to w.xk foe his board and clothes, not bafcjf able lo earn more. In order to render BBW Wth stantial aid in his declining v US it li proposed that the miners of California take up a collection, limiting t he Bsbscrip tion to fifty cents each, and present it to him. - -. w -n TnR New Yrk VuBVOSl 0i that when the Idea of learning 1 by note was first InfjeSBSBSd into N fl Bnsj land, somet hing more than 1h yearssgo, it was strongly opposed on religious grounds. It WUS regarded n nothing irsa than Popery in disguise. The New Ens land Chrontdf put it in this form It the singing of songs bv rule Is alios the next thing will be toprsj by r d r reach by rule, and then comes l'op t lie town of Itralntrcc. sever mem bers of the church were IpofJed because they advocated einging by note Tub first iron building v i seen ii America was eroded in Boston in IBs