Plymouth Democrat, Volume 15, Number 46, Plymouth, Marshall County, 21 July 1870 — Page 1

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POETOT.

WHY IlULD WE WOKtiYf Win hon'n e worry? This lifo Ie not lor? H to to M w-i!pd in ttrdpgr ?.nrl 'e.ir-i ; ill ii I i h Mir-h b be vim's sot Tone enonirh WkwH w :h reason 1 1 rd?ht away Wat. i bir a c twent, wi-h esanags nt half enoneh K;u'v r i f tee n if we rho-v no fear; av. it" ir p- - -r yon, : . e hot to 'atteh rnongh; l'rr-.o, he'une ! .o, tho bore is not heie. y m'-y too often -w'P ririnir ns o"d rr"w : HI v wen here, did we wish th?ro to tat a i .. .. tt ..r? trc fool a'rme borrows Preseal reerte from the rief of tbe pert. Can we now ch nue 1t by wep'n.' nd wh'nin?? What'- Sees t dene. Hiii Ii i''no past recall; II 'v'io the pre?-nt Sufis, in real algg, 1 seksa and vain, I the worse tool ot all. V .nry. the Sad, -vill too o'tfiti be peering-, Cinow nut scared, ihronh the Future's r.i.ht ; dark Whi V.lV u'd r treraWe at wh-o ho 1 fearinef fcoti'd h'r droni'r. till ie with affrk-ht Wait til' they re rel IStäga, ar.it present before ns: If tkftj Mr WOftS tt. we'll c-e for tToin then ; No w the-, "re hn hi 'o.v, too fiirary to b.reut; Far too unreal tosbake thuse. who are ostu. T'mc. w-h the I'r -n - rea1 prior to bo dealing. Tfe it'-, t (i i i v.-y. we MStS inut own ; W h ein Seny rlvri hi.1 N'OOS WM have leclirn? l'a.r'-. ' t '. m.d saguish wiil make themselves known ; i Hrn bat . (Ms 1t too fhort for worry ; Pa-kne-s tr i - "...nine, or all men arc ' ' leep lirirs don't be in a hnn-y To know gr'ef :s prcttn? it will not stay long. THREE SACRED KISSES. I ha v b three ki-c in my 'if-?. o twe t and -arreo unto m? T 1 ' bow. till death dew ro-t on them. My hp- tfha 1 kisskse he. Owe '.; wy gives in cVMfeMi! hour, Bv o.ie who ti.-tit eive another; In nft eai d -'h I still bTmII feel lh it hi', ki of my mother. The serond r-nne1 my lip" 'or ye.trF. r y :ir- piy w H h irt reel'd in bliss A' very ntenn.rv of tie hour Wntii my lips felt younr Love's first Ui . 1 be 'at ki ef the -4ered three M id a I Ike woe wMefe e'er ran move The rearl ot w. ni in it waj prefrod Upon the death ips of my loe. w; .-n lip' have felt the dvin? k!s, ni Ihm ki-M of hnrntti! love, A1 ! ii -e-! the d.-ad the( never more lu k.--:: ig should tßey think to m ve. ,W:'x. IX'inrnwn. MISCELLANEOUS. amid rm WATLUS. Too Bsnaf r-,m"mhfr wHl the W II ley 1 id as plain as though it Vai but yesterday, strancer Did yon live in the same place that yon 'o now fn ' My cabin sto il "tit yonder, near the: bankeftlsf river. You can see the spot G n the doorway here There, near i re tnt luru elm -!, ids." ' I should iave thought that the water . - a a. ' ,i iv q -ept M-ny, slfuiatng as it . ; l the low iTe-uud.' 'I : W( aw ay, stranger, and mv wffe -r-., child wl 1 it- If you have time lokeai it I don't mind telling you the ?tory." ' Plenty of limo. and nothtnir wont.! me hnltor T m tlvir anvions; to ! !.. ,r ntiAM f that ni.rht vcUu-u h-i F re- M f' Xotrh of the mountains with j m kMmiMitiiMMiii I

The Ibfegoing conversation took place ; Uved asaong the nynmtains since I was s one day lat rammer between myself and hUkschild, but had neyer seen anjth og snold settler among the mountains, at li?vC il betöre, and I OOtud not help til okWboae c -fare I had stopped fof a g!a- of v-"' Icariul Hung was ah-ml lO milk, and to rest awhile from my walk. ; nappeu. From one thin? eXHMernlng the moun-! 1 was not more than hah way bark to I m to another we fa'-sed, and I ; fathers, beSore the ram camedos e In ir f.mnd thai there were many incidents rents. It hardy seemed as though it conW which he remembered of much interest to i be night, yei the darkac cuic with it, the loorists, that had, not found their way i !- lml t,in, ,V'H ll f011 into anv of the guid, s or histories of the I ahead, bi! the way I was -oing. In less mmnhitM whfek kttiiin nnt forth At than live muoites, 1 was Wet to tue skin,

v : , me to . w k of the srreat freshet, known Wilfcrf in all the hdl country as the which poetesses a fl wi J, and mo imf.il interest for all the dwellers iu thai region ; and then ensued the coavcrsat 'i which I h;.ve reeorde I as a preface to tbe story which I have reproduced lor t m entertainmenl of my readers: fl wa In ro. andaaa a young samu then, and hl ju-t set up u the a 1 tor saysett I had been married ' i-i ! my w i e h id a baby boy snaae six rnonSha. For the first yar I had Bred with my lather orer the ssounv nder, and then I bossght this piees of hUerrak, nd built a cabin on it, and wimenced a Bis for myself. We hid no ighbora very neat lb- n, the ni?he3t being iOtne tljree miles down the river, whi s across the mountains to f?dhit wf.i a safie further. Ölill tliey in i narst to us, fe.r vie saw them mm li ofteaer than anv one elv Ihere m rer being but a few daws at a time bu; ;ue of us passed back and forth. I worked bar.: the year I built my cabin, an 1 by the opening of the next season I had o a eio.rin made about it, n ad I :rt l Mary, as we sat in the doorway in the early evening, and gw about over .r possessions, used. t think that we were on the hieb, road to prosperity, and looked forward to the time when wo should have one of the best farms lying about an, ti there ws iu all the mountainous ieeion. Of on? thing we were 1 ire, and that was, that the s il could not be beat, and labor only was wau'.eu u n i'-e it brin f rih abundantly. The fir 'ptrt of taat summer, onr crops look-d finely, and gave promise d bundant barest; hot as the : ason Weal on, s drongbl set in, which bdeiair ! to scorch every'bine preen and tender iro,ri ibe fsea ef tho earth. Everyday! th- tan canst up, and went its lie ry round ' without a ci'U 1 to keep its tierce rays from the earth, swd when el la.-t Aawttsf came hs, even tbe Rttle dew that had fall- I en at nfghl was withhold, and the crops, deprived f uda, no longes strove to live, hut turned yellow, sank upon tho rartfe -tnd wither" I away. A large part that I B id planted wenl in this manner, and our clearing presented little tne appearance it bad i iie in the spriug time. Ö'ill, it i . a would e ism soon, there would be eaougs asvod to cirry US fbrnugh the winter, and thai Wis more than ninny would hve. Ost BSCUdfe went on, there came ieru'. Of Tain, but all of them failed. In the rnorj.ing, t.nd Ibrosjgb the early part of the day, ihurh clouds would gather and mm tbg eaawsiits iri the mountains, and we would Idnk Um it must rain, but by aaunj they would all dear away, without as much aa mdng down a feW drops uoon h parebed earth. And so he month wore sway until the morning oi the twenfjr fifth, tne one bel or. thai on which the Moot! name. That day 1 Lad been ovt r tbe mountahsato lather, fbing sSUae work for him, as ho whs nnwt U, and I prfimised to ( SSO back tbe nt morning and cmptctethe job. The sky, as u. ual, had given ehjM of rain, but we put no coußeVmes in St, thinking that we should be d-sapp-dnted. as wo had been a'l along ; tkotieh an old Indian woman, who dwelt In a lodge OO the side of the niountvos, far up the vallev, and who chan. ed alone, ami paused D thi doorway for rest, der eiared tbt we ehoul 1 hare fbe pr- steal atoroa Within two days that we had ever A. n. Hut we put nttk confidence in xv3 for we considered her half eraaed, and had she not been, we thought it was PttV that she could know of wnat was to come. j be nert morning when we arose we thai H hail rained a vmrv Mto h, time during the night ; but the sky . loudslkl not look so threatening M hi v had don- for days previous. VVe nau an early breakf.si, and when it was ever 1 et out over the mountain to dtni ;'s work. Ullieg my wire idm im. n return h a ii d tii it HQ well ne us bei re, ami that a th r was much wor lied ab ut bhw. declared that if was n itning, onJ one of his attacks to whwh i was anahset, aud that he would wem rvertt Mother shook her head, and ' thai he wat right, nnd I went out thy field to work, and did not cme m .Ml - ou U the eatnn Uli neuu. in..A rJT i.. better, lie was much that I must -m1 tie the horse, and go down to t onway to I t r D.cUr Bajrly ; but latntT wuu hcur t., tKij vi't - mn nhj'r dinner. 1 would not went back to my work, and in the course of a -uple of hours, my sister came running

VOLUME XV. out to call mo. Ftotfcef was p;rovip worst; fast, and bft'lßivcu bis consult that I sbovtld lot tbe doctor. I vu not long in QiaUinir ready. The lutrc VSI in the pasturi! d in ut hand, end ii look bill a tew moments to catch it, nrtl throw oti the satlillc and iridic. 1 lost little ÜQ)e iu the house, anil then set out on a switt gallop. I had ten miles to eo over a rou jh road, before reaching the doctor's, and I knew that unless I m ide good tin e, I should not get bark till after nightfall, and then I should have to cross the mountain to my own cabin, which would nrike ne latthome. I bat! prom'sd Mary that I would return, and I knew that she would pass a sleepless nUrht, if I did not, as she had never yet remained alone through the night. Long before I reached Conway, my eyes were fixed apon the clouds vhih letned to be gathering from all directions, and piline IhcnuK Wet upon the nn-untains behind me, until the sky in that direction had the eppearancfl of the deepest mid Dight. They had gatherei then every day for a mnth past, but nothing tike the way they were doing now. Greet black MMeee that leemed to cover the iky, woule roll swiftly along and pile themtelrea npon thoae already rstinir 1 he ri-, and as I often turmd n v head and U itched them, I could not help thinking of what the old Indian womn had s.nid tfe ; day btlore, of the c:rv:at !orm which Wl S Coining. I hun ted on, and reached the doctor's, who l io.md was sick himself, and not able to rule th dial ince he would hare to go that night. 1 detcrihed at near as I could the symptoms of father's complaint, and he h.v d sosae medicine, which he gave me, with dbectloss for naing, and then I went oat aud mouuU'.t my hone to return. The doctor followed me to the door, and we talked for a minnte or two ot the stranaja apie once t the sky to the northward, lie was ot the opinion that a a. we vverj coiui to nave a neavy siorm, and that, according to the looks ol 1 w Ii ! 1 ihovld .ret a no d wetting before I g A , L.e'v to lather's I replied thai 1 woul i be i willing to lake that, if we c add only have j the rain we so m ich needed, and then I ; sei out, leafing 1) na standing la the doorWay, with bis eyes fixed npon the sky. My lace was .'ion towards the mountains, ! and she great mas of clouds piled a vc ti.eill ; and ii almost made me tremble aa t cased upon theai in their blackness, and Watched, the lightning that cv'.ry while darted out inu their iouK little I had - nd she water was dripping ;. -i me in streams. 1 saade good use of the stick I earried, and as the old mare's head was tow'aroi home, I made good lime, and iu the Course of an hour Irom 1 e Uim; it commenced to rain, I lenchwd fsther1 as wet as though I had swan inat dhuuace in ihe river. i found him easier than whi d set out. and rivingmother tue saeujcme i had brought, an 1 hastily eating some öuiser she had prepared for me, i s t out over the mountain lor homes against the advice o! both they declaring that I could uot keep the path, in the storm and darkness. I knew that it would be hard work to do so, lor th rain came down a3 though wi: were going l have another flood ; but 1 had promised Mary that I would come back that night, and 1 meant to make my word good t her, if 1 coukido ho. And then I waa afraid oftkessater. If ft continued to rain sä it waa doiag now, 1 was afraid that rise, and come so near to give her aiaiin, and the water woul l to the cabin, SS to put them in danger. I knew every step across the mountain veil, as I had been over ft many tinted; bo:n ):ie,nt and day; but I found,as began to ascend, that 1 had never undertaken the j b when it was so dark Uciuie. To keep in the path, I had to go slovviy, .sometimes feeling for the tra' k wiih my nanos, wnen my ieei wen at fault, ana a II tln Iin th.. r.'.n wi faltins in 6iich torrents a" 1 had never knoa n before. I came tt a small brook about half way up, which 1 had crossed that morning upon hi dry bed. How it was i loaming torrent, ready to oveill w its Links, and eroee.i with difQcuhy ; but I got ov.r by holding fist to the bush's that grew npon i ither Vide, acd kept on toward the suiuni!', where I knew my greatest difficulty lay, aa il was destitute ol trees, or even bushes Of any sizo, the path leading over the bare rocks, with nothing to guide me in the darkness, and prevent my losing my way. tfhen I at last came out of the weoda npon the rocks, I was completely at a ' Kan ' Still. In v.dn i was thai I tried to see through the darkness, the like of which I had never seen before. Iwa half a mind to turn back to fathers, but the thHhghl of M iry alone with the baby, waiting for me, urged mi: on, and I adranosd blmdly in the rtukhess, trusting In my g "1 bu k to guide me aright. v ck failed one this time, f r by the time I had got down to the woods up m tbe other side, I found that I had wet the ' path, fnd had gol Into a taneb d mass , Of n. . -ii i j ...,,i l.ticlifn throueh w h;eh I eonld hardly force my i . 1 1 1 ' 1 1 Ii -. ( . way. rHill 1 did n t feei lost, for I kn-W that I had only to . !: try way down the nvuot .in to Come. out boss wie re in the saliey Bear my cabin, whirl I eouM soon find, when ones on level ground. Bot it would take me longer to pick my wsy along, and ther would be greater danger ot stumblli g a netting a fad, than though 1 had managt d to ke p the path. But there was t o help for it now, as yen might as well bavo looked for a needle in a buy at afar, as to have searched for if. I hi I got what I thought WHS about half way down the mountain, when I was startled by a terrib!e found that rnmd front tbe mountains to tie- north wanL and which drowned the rush ot the temj pest ntiout me. It was a ruh and roar i nglc i crash of earth and rotks, which made even the ground beneath my feet trendile I knew not then what it could be but I found afterward that it was the first trreat blide which came down near the No h. I knew by the brooks which filled every hollow which I had to cross, that the river must be swo'.b n to many tunes its SMuaJ shm, and that each momenl whs adding new hreasas to it, to cause it to overflow its banks; and this, with the t rrible ; ,imd that had come from the mountains nilh lirillH.'Sl A' last I knew that I must 1"' pretty rell down towards the valley, and esgerlv eased through the trees lor Ihe light I knew Mary would set in ti e window to cubic meto the cabin I knew, nol exact Pw wlicr.- 1 was, but 1 must be somewhere near mv own clearing, I thought, and the ,....iil hpFn ii Irom ny nan. oi n, on the d te I wan nppi oaching n of the river, and 1 r mid a gnat IIViM Hit in.-" m . .1 ur trtk Tioses.-ion ot me that the cabin had already been iWCpt away, and that my loved on.- had been i neuueu in the merciless waters. . . ut:..

At last the foot of the mountain wns reached, and against the dull sky I swold see the outlines of the prent straggliog tr es which had been scitlied by the fire, uid wldch stood leafless about my Clearing. Thfir (had branches creaked be neath tbe fury ot the tempest, making a dismal, moanintr sound, which seemed like an omen of some terrible disaster Impending over the valley. I moved down among thrm, and in a moment found myself to my middle in water, and I sprang back aain, fearing that the next step wotlfd carry nie beyond my depth. Great God ! was the valley Hooded with water, and had my cabin and its loved inmates been swept away? Sick at h n i t, and oppressed w ith this terrible f ar I asked myself the nnestion, as I stood trying to pierce the darkness w hich tilled the valley before me, and to comprehend, the xactanot where I stood Ai iat I decided the latter nnestion by a Study of the dead trees before see, and then moved slowly down the vnUey to brine myself opposite to the spot, where 1 had left my cabin standing in the morning. JnSJt then, to my great joy, a lieht beamed oat through the darkness. For a moment it wavered, and then burned brightly, and 1 knew that SSyel my cabin had not been moved trom th i spot where I had placid it ; but the rays of the light glimmered upon s sea of dark wätet which lay between it and the ipot where I stood, and any moment it might fl st away. 1 wondered why it was that the water was so still, and not the rushing torrent I should have thought it would have been : but this was soon made plain as 1 r- fleet d anon sown down the subject A short distance the Talley Ihe hills came close to the banks of the stream, and here. owhafe to the amount of drift-wood, a jam Lad. been formed which the lorce oi the water bad not yet been able to break, and so had Sowed it back, covering the entire valley. How much loxgtr the drift-wood would bear the strain i' w I impossible to tell, tut it did not, seem as though it would for many minutes, as I Could hear the rush a:ui roar ol it.e. waters ss it battled with it Drum the spot where I Stood. Suddenly a shriek, full of moittd terror, ran over the Watt t My bearl stood still In my breast, for I recognised tbe voice as that of my wife, and I knew tha. some rearfil hunger menaced her and the chiid. Again it was repeated, and I sent back an answering cry. A moment more, and I to 1 mute with horror and dismay. The UqhA ir-i.s moving rfswJjg dsam foflls bottom of Vie deorimg, tebing as plainly as words COUld have done, that the Cabin Was mßotU. ' For a few moments it seemed as though I ware chain' d to the spot when- I St The lieht, as it floated downward, p sesaed a terrible mscinaU n, und I could n t take my eves trom it i I would. I could seem to see Its timbers falling ssunder, and the pale bices of my witc and child sinking into the black, turbulent waters. The horror of that moment I shall never sorget so long as I live Another horrible crash among the mountains, to the northward e sound ss i: a huge cliff had been hurled downward, broke the t rrible inell that b und me to j the spot, jwd roused me to an effort to try i and effect the escape Of my loved ones Another cry of despair which reached me from the cabin, I answered back, though j I doubted if I was beard, tbe cabin was so near to the rushing current of the rives ; and then 1 hurried along the edge of the ch aring, whir!- was the boundary of the lake, toward she m t where the river broke through the hüls and where the jam had been formed which flowed the waters back. Steadily the light glided eWn the waten at the little lam-, and from its motion I Judged that it had n l as yet tl atel Into the current of the river, and I breathed a silent prayer In my heart thai it would not be so, for the I nil hope would I be gone. It the c .bin would but hold b g Iber and keep out of the current of the river, it vouhl 1 odee amo. g trie trees at the ! xrt of the eh airing, v. here I would be rea ly to bear them from it to a place of mi ty. The wsy round to the bank of the river was diffl mil to u I over In the dark pes", but I accomplished it much sooner than I had expected, and by the time the cabin had floated half tbe distance from its site to the spot where 1 n rw st-od. Hut the light w;-.s moving h;s'T now, and in a Very few minutes the fate of the helpless ones would be decided. Uoon the hun piled high In the river, with the foaming waters breaking through and over it, their iiv-s depended. C lid it rtsist the force of the water but a few minutes longer they would be Saved : but did if break, the horce P. w of the waters WOUld bring it into the stream, where it would at once be 1 Dried to pieces. This much I saw and comprehended in the darkness, and you c an Imagine, stranger, with what fearful interesl I watched the hun and the mstapproaching light upon the water. Nearer and nearer came the cabin, and shorter grew the rays of lijht which streaked out between it and the spot where I stood. I called to Mary at the top of my voice, but If any answ r came back it was drowned by the roar of the jam. Two mintrb i more, nnd if it kept ou its course it would glide in among the trees Where I eould reach it and bear them off iu safety. At this moment, when my hart beat liigh with the hope that th y would be spared to me, with a mighty roar and crash tbe hun gave way, and the surging waters madly followed. Is a momenl th cabin ot jrefX the new impulse givi n it, and moved towards the centre of the stream. It was a moment ol fearful sus pense to me. but it w is soon over. IO my great joy it lodged for a Bahsutc sgairi'd, the trees, upon the Lank, and in th it time I had my w ile ano child In my arms, and bad borne them tthe solid e irth. Then their bail bark surecd into the stream, and in s moment after w as torn apart, ami its timbers floated slngl down t he stream. We found a shelter beneath some ovt rhanging rockSWhere we staid until morning, when we made our way ov r the mountain to father's, thankful for the ee oij,f we !iad had from tl; temped., widt h wot. Id not be Lrgi Ut n to our dying oay On the morrow t ime the r.m news from the Notch, and as Mary and 1 Us tental to tbe slorv. we muddere.tl as ve thought of our own peril amid the waters Mu. EAST keeps a hotel, taking both transient and pcrinaistnt boarders, as they may idler. home tune Since he had young married couple among ins guests, who kept up an appearance of ample means, and seemed to have everything I in y wauled, though they had prolong, d tluir nay for Severs! weeks, and the I oidiord had not t illed upon them for any money. At tast some little circumstance . i iirred whit h made I . isj a trifle uneasy I as to the solvent- f of his debtors, and he s ml to his wife, in confidence: "What dh von t Link of Mr. snd Mrs Sharp! They are running up a pretty htrgebUl I suppose he h good for ill hough. M "oh, I I'm. -ss thet. 's no denjn r," r plied Mr-. Liy. "They are all right Isskcdhlni 1. r niont y e-.l erdav. and he paid thirty dollars n't Vo 'tM ' " I'aid you thirty dollars?" " Ve ." A sudden light dawned iiii Me Kisy. " I know where be got it," he cxe aimed: "he borrow d thirty do lara of me yesterday morndi w v . ,1... - I.1 r . . i . I . unr I Ml. IN Kl. AT Ot, tut pvm " duiI on, earneil 4W.0W francs last year.

PLYMOUTH, INDIANA,

From the Sdvaaot (Chicago). The Nor' h rn Tacille Ralimai, Congress, and the Public Lands. AatOira the great commercial movemet ts that charaetcrize aid render notable the present times, probably the ns Bt important, both in amount of capital involved and in the character and extent of anticipated results, is the budding of the Northern Pacific Railroad, with its branches, feeders and connections. The Siu z Canal, constructed under the auspices of the French Government, cost about sixty million dollars. The Union Pacific Rsilroad, extending fin in Omaha to Ogdcn, a distance of 1,039 miles, involved a necessary outlay of perhaps frty million dollars, and the Central Pacific, completing the line from Ogden to Sacramento, 743 miles further, did not co-t morn than an equal amount Tue Northern P tciflc Railroad, controlled by a single corporation, will span the continent ;r m di p water navigation on Lake Stipe n-.r to tide-water on the Columbia River and Pnget Sound a distance f about 1,780 miles; and the branches already projected will iucrease the total length of road-bed to nearly two thousand five hundred miles. The cost of cons' rod ion and rolling-stock will nnt fall far short of one hundred million dollars. I' is the comprehensive design of the projectors of the Northern Pacific, not simply to build a railroad from lake to oo sn, and then wait for results, but to n Ii r n nits c rtsin by (1.) securing fa vorabie connections with the railroad cy stems of the Pacific coast and the Atlantic States, and with the commerce of the Pacific Ocean; (ü.) by constructing a eri s ol i iteral branch roads to the South md North ol i:s main line, which will drain the entire Northwest between latitude i aud Central British Columbia; (8,) and byorganizing such a thorough, wise and humane system of emigration from lö rthern Europe and the thickly peopled portions of our own country as vill a tttle and render speedily productive the vast hell ol fertile lands tributary to the road ami titemliDg acfoat tho continent.. During the years occupied ia its construction the road will give employment t o thousan s of men, and create a large demand for everything that cur people ssajDufacture or ptodoce, it is impofsible th d such sn enterprise, man iged by the sort of men that control this one, should not benefit the whole C tun try, while Bpectally and v.isily benefiting the region known as the Ure-it rYest, This greatest of commercial projects, viewed as a matter of national iinp rt, is entitled to the same hearty sympathy aud confidence that greeted tin drat Pacific Railroad, and the recent ato mpts, In Congress and by a portion of the press, to repr sent the Northern Pacific Company as an Insa'iable devourtr of the publk lands, were as unfair as they were unfounded. A bit. of Pacific Railroil history may be i:' place: Tb Illinois Central was, wc believe, the first railroad to receive a grant of lands directly from the government. Of Ihe wisdom and good results of that initial gr tnt probably no one now entertains i m. wnen the Union and Central Pacific roads were chartered in 1862, two etin-r charters were alto granted one for a Northern, and another for a tfouthern Pacific railroad. Upon the Union and Central Pacific Companies, which proposed o build iluir roads at once, a subsidy of lands and bonds was conferred, more than enough in actual value to build the roads the bonds, however, being In the character s loan. The Northern Pacific, which it was correctly believed, WOtdd tie the second line built, received only a land grant, equal in amount, but fr superior in finality, to that of the Union and Central. The question of s money subsidy or loan to the Northern line was left in abeyance until the time when its construction should be near at hand; and the Southern Pacific was left wiih a bare charter, the state of th1; country then teeming to indicate that many years would elapse before the actual construction of a JSouthern load could be thought of In this way the ir vernnicnt made provision tor three mainlines ef railroad across ihe continent, and felly committed itself, with the hearts1 approval of both poUticol parfsst, to the policy of aiding tne construction of tu se three national highways. Tue motives which lend to Hi s action were obvious enough. 4 ) The Government considered itself under some obligation to assist in opening eommunication net w een the older anil tne newer sections ot the continent, Urns hem thing both and kegelting a closer synapaihy and a better understanding between distant communi ties and the General (government which taxed them and claimed their allegiance. (8.) It was known that in tune d peace the toitk ol our st iuuing army la em ployee! on the Western plains acting as a police between the Indians and the white Settlers, and that a large part of the great i p nse ol maintaining t roops at frontier stations consists of I he excessive coat of transporting nv n and supplies w here there are no railroads. Tue saving of several millions a year In army transpor tation, and the redoubled elllucney ot troops when they can bo rapidly conveyed from point to point, were legitimate reasons nur i standing Government encouragement to railroads built beyond the Settlements (8.) Ihe third and weigh liest of the reasons which influenced Congress to adopt ihe land grant ixdiey was one which appeals even more directly lhaa tbe former two to the common sense f plain people, aud is enough of itself to justify the system, t.t anntssd feats thro oontiiutUoi ft ass of reed. Five years ago the l ulled States Government was proprietor of eleven hundred nfUlfon acres Ol wild lands, lying between the Mississippi and the Pacific coast, not Ineluding tne State public lands of Texas, fuch a deuiaiu is too vast for comprehension, aad only an approximate notion of its magnitude can be obtained by con sidering that it Is equal to thirty fowt ittts lite r:: Nan York; or to two hundred and four States tis Urge as MasnohttSCttS, Of these lands, the government, dm ing the last five years, has been aide to sell, and give away untb r the honieste ul act, h" 1fmi f r oiillou ncrm j ynr. At thai rate the present geemttoa would rem next to no benefit irom the public lands, ami 27Ö years would elapse before tliey would all be taken up, much less tilled. The reason why these lands cannot be given away to actual Sattlers is that they are inaccessible and benoe worthlesa No farmer will agree to live on them for them, mid for the excellenl ream n t hat no lei bm r can afford to. A farm without a market is without ratne, end a aaarket without a ruiirond ia asuaiiy impossible, unuer tmse circum stances the government, through ns aystern of grants, says io responsible corporations, " Build a railroad through these waste lands of mine, rendering them accessible and valuable, and I will give you t n per cent, of tiie lands albt u -l. 1 regard this odor not as a charity or gratuity, for you have BO claim to either, but I consider it a business transaction, in which I shall receive been in tbe enhanced value ol my own lam 1 and the increased area aud ooanUiueacy for taxation, very much more Ueoi this grant is worth to me or to you" 8a B t trim r, owning a submerge 1 taarsh Which if abs. IwHy worthless except for n . nine lroga, and, BOt caring to venture bis own iin ney in the doubtful enterprise of reclaiming it, would gladly give a portion of the wet land itselt to any one who would ditch, underdrain and render productive the whole. The lad that the Uovernmint retains the alternate sections along Äiese Pacific

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roads and nfiers them for sale at f S 50 per acre, is i uffleitnt gnaranty that the railroatl Companies will not hold their lands at an exorbitant figure; snd the fact tin the business and success of the roads will depend very largely upon the rapidity With Wl ich the aeljacent lands arc settled, Is ample warrant that the railroads will not long hold their lands out of the mar ket. S' ll interest and the public good will here- harmonize. The Northern Panne Company, in coming before Congress and asking for the recent legislation, which has iccasioncd so much discussion and misunderstanding, requested four things : (1) That the ori dnal land grrt, voluntarily conferred by Congress six years ago, be made good by permitting the Company to appropriate other public lauds, to compensate for those belonging to the grant, which bad been taken up by settlers and 8pecula'ors; (2) That the short branch road to be constructed from Portland, Oregon, to Puget Sound be entitled to Ihe satin land subsidy as the mam line; (3 ) that the company be permitted to unke the junction of its two western branches at a point further ea-?t than the original charter specified. this in cualer to avoid engineering difficulties in the mountain region; and (4) that sperifie authority be given the company to make a tingle mortgage covering al its property and rk'hts of property. This lat request was made in order to avoid the necessity of making a fresh mortgsge every time a new instalment of land came into the hands of the company by the completion of each twenty-five-mile section of road. Under the legislation recently enacted, Ihe lands of the North Pacific grant will pass under the general mortgage to the bondholders jast as fast as by the completion of successive portions of the road, they pass into the control and ownership ot the company and no faster. The current assertion that the bill authorizes the company to mortgage its lands In advance of the construction of the road, Is w ithout foundation and absurd. The charter provides when and on what conditions the lands ol the grant shail become the pn petty of the company, and the reo ul legislation docs not change tbe charter in this regard, nor authorize tbe company to mortgage that which is not its property. The fact that the application of the Northern Pacific Company for the additional legislation nanud above was preceded nnd followed by the introduction in Congress of a sw arm of petty land grant schemes tor local and Unaginary roads schemes having no merits ami no claims to consideration should not be allowed to prtjadice a great ami genuine enter prise, which the people are really desirous to aid, because it wiil aid them in return. Undoubtedly the country wishes Congress to bmit the application of the lnd sub sidy policy to the three trunk lines of Pacific railroad. Here the line of distinction shml 1 be drawn, and here the nation should put down its foot. L;t the c mtinent bo traversed by a Northern, a Ontral and a Southern Pacific Railroad, opening up the western wildern ss, in three broad belts, to settlement and cu'tnre, travel snd trade; then let local rail roads be built by private enb rprise as fast ar po ulation and business demand them. The land-grant system, as applied to these three main routes, Is common sense and sound ecomoay. Carried to the extreme, and applied to the numberless local cor porations that are clamoring for aid al the doors of Congress, it Is indefensible waste. law Highest flight Tver aha by .uan. The most remarkable balloon ascension on record was made in 1804, by Blot and Quy-Lusaac, In Paris. By this enterprise they endowt d science with a series of new an i Important facts, questionable before that time, as they carried with them a Complete set of suitable apparatus, and, moreover, an unsurpassed knowledge ol observation and experiment. They ssoended to a height of 11 000 feet, and observed that at the height of 8,000 to 9,000 feet the animals lite' had taken with them, in order to observe the ( fleet of the rarefied air and cold upon them, did not appear to suffer any inconvenience. In the rnenntim", the pulses ot the two experimenters were much accelerated : that of Guy LuBSSC, otherwise always slow, 83 beds per minute, was 80; and that of Biot, naturally rapid, 70 beats per minute, was HI. At a height of 11,000 feet a pigeon was liberated ; it dropped down whirling through the air as it it had been stone. The air was too thin, too much ran lied, to enable it to fly. Three weeks later, Quy-Lusaac went up alette, and attained the heighth of gb 000 feet, four and one-sixth miles, or 2,000 feet higher than the top of ChimboraXO Mountain. The barometer was only thirteen inches high, the thermometer H degrees Fahrenheit below the freezine point, while at the surface of the ground it was so degrees. He h ft the con it -yard of the 'onscrv itoire dt Arts et Metier, in Paris, and, after an aerial voyage of six hours, descended near Rouen, one hundred miles distant. The result of this ssceasfon on Qnyliussacs health was very injurious, partially by the want of air for respiration, c anbined with sudden cold, but chiefly by the absence of the acenstomed pressure At the extreme height of 23,000 icet his face and neck were swollen enormously, his eyes protruded from his head, blood ran from his eyelids, nose and ears, and also came from his lungs, by vomiting; In short, his sys tern received a slunk from which he never fully recovered the rest of his life. VisIUng in China. A visit of ceremony is conducted with great politeness. Your card must lie sent on before you by a special herald a " titie-chai " (the Chinese are well up in the fashion of cards, which they have long practiced ) whe should be dispatched in gotxl time to aliow of proper preparation by those who are to receive you. Your rank being stated on your card, you arc received according to it by the gentleman upon whom you call. He conies out a certain distinct, hi proportion to your rank; he bows and you bow, while each says, "Chin chin," aud you are invited In; but at every doorw ay he pauses ami politely proposes you should precede him, which you decline, as podtely ; and at last, alter many protestations, he goes first, with some pretty apology. When the room is entered, ami each is seated, at tendants enter with cups of te ami sweetmeats, and the ciisiomarv C unph meats are passed, beginning w ith ' Qua shingv" "What layout honorable nam :J ' "What is your honorable age ?M and titty questions wloch to us seem half rude and almost insulting; but that euriosity toward an honorable aetpiainlasce is BOt C nsidered at all so-indeed, it would be in a Chinese eejitleman's eves very rude not to make all these inif uiries. The orthodox h ilf hour having passed, and the business (if any) lobe transacted being over, the euest is conducted away towartl the door With the tame ceremony; and if of supaftOf rank to his hot-t, and he wishes to show him great respect and honor, he sees him to kUt sedan ami wiitsashe SSoves away, howinc profoundly, aud exclaiming, " Chin chin !" Whom t'nc returns of the Mmidtr of Corneae rce hi Ijthe Pontifical States, we learn there have tuen exported from tonte in theyiar Ifihn. pictures by the old ma'.vrrs valued at -tn,77 francs; modern oSetorae. 875.0 rams; antique sculp ture, 28,634 ; model n sculpture, 1,o78,Csh francs. Total 9,88441 Irancs,

1870. Buys, Tam following is one of several prise essays from boys and girls, published in (vr Young Welk fi July. It is by Alfred D. Churchill, aired fifteen: In choosing Boys to write upon, I feel that I have an unpopular subject ; but as I am a boy myself, it is one that I have some interest in. Tn the first place, I do not think boys ever have justice done them ; they are never so pretty as giris. consequently they arc not wanted in the parlor ; they are not considered as bright at school, and I will admit that girls are generally ahead in spelling, writing, grammar nnd composition, especially in writing stories and articles for Our Young Folk, but in arithmetic, both mental and Wiitten, and history, especially of wars and conepK Bts, the boys are far ahead. Boys from thirteen to seventeen are much more bashful and d ffident than girls of the same age ; the cirls begin to wear b eg dresses and waterfalls, and then they think and speak so much quicker than boys, that boys knowing just as much and often more, make a poor show beside them. Girls can thump on a piam sll day without annoyance to any one ; but let S b y drum a little on the table, and he is requested to go out of doors; if he wants people to hear hov well he ein whistle "Captain Jenks," be is told it is not gentlemanly to whistle in the house; and if he attempts to dance a double sh-ifhV on the carpet, he is advised to adjourn to the barn as if he cared to do any of th K things without an audience ! If he is a noisy, natural boy, he does cot seem to be wanted anywhere; if he is aquiet, nice little boy. and likes to sit by the fire, an 1 read and draw, anel Iteir his grandma tell stories, and p- rhapshelp a little about the cooking, every time he goes hi the other boys w ill sing out, " Girl boy ! Girl boy !" and pin rags on bis coat, Wnen wc wi re babies in dresses, with our hair in long curls, we were ss pretty as the girls, and netted snd praised, and itad our pictures taki n every two weeks I am often shown "tic of myself taken when I wis two years old, always with the n mark : 44 Could any one believe you ever looked as well as that?" As soon as we are shaken into a pair of pants, have our hair cut. olF, and get our first boots, then the trials of boyhood begin, and we are of more r' importance iu oer own eyes than ever again. The first day at Bchool for a little boy that lias reigned king at home is an event never to be forgotten. I remember very well being dressed in my best, wiih a cap that ha I a tassel on it, and thinking how nice I looked, and ex Meeting to make a favorable impression by my grandeur. When i came near me schoöi-hoase, after walking a mile, a number of the bos came ovo to meet me, and the first thing I knew my pretty cap WS snatched off aad thrown over the fence into a plowed field, I climbed the fence with gnat difficulty, picked it up and pul it on, but no sooner had I gained the ; . than over it went again. When I got it Hie second time I was considerably discouraged, but 1 did not dare to cry, as they would have called me a baby : but there was a very large lump iu my Ihr et, and thin to makeup for their bad eon duel they told me I'd be a man before my mother. M :,. n the teacher Came she WSS Very kind to me and I h it some better, bat still I found myself ol small consequence. I went home at night rather tired, sn 1 was asked if 1 had been a "little man I said, " I dunno." The next thing that I remember thai gave me great delight was my first BU8penders. I took off my coat and sat on ihe gate-post, where passen by could a e nv, an'' when any one came afong I w histled away aud looked as unconscious as possible; but no one noticed mc at all, and I soon retired in disgust. School is the place, alter all, for boys to find out what they are worth; If the are bright and can contribute anything to the general sport or lun, they are always sought after: no matter what dress and position may do for them when they get older, as boys ami with boys they stand on their real merits; it they failed getting proper respect and attention, the fault is in themselves. The brightest scholars are often from the families ot the poor and uneducated, but they are always lo iked up te by those that cannot leara easily. Another great disadvantage nn rjoys oi these days have to contend with is the tendency to drive ahead. They don't Hive time to be boys. I have oben thought b would have been fun to have lived before the fi mh! ; then a boy Stayed a boy a hundred years or so, and twenty years on the multiplication-table would not have been considered a waste of time. Well, I suppose there is no help for it, aud 1 shall soon swing a cane and part my hair in th middle. The Baby. We generally speak of the diamond as the mos! valuable of gems, but thifl is not really the case. The ruby is the most valuable, but it depends for its rarity upon its color. The ruby is the next hardest thing to the diamond. It is found principally in the East. Siam, and Ava, anel Ceylon, afford the most plentiful supplies. In Bnrmah the finding of one of these jewels is made a state event; the grandees of the empire go out to meet it with elephants and all tho irr inih ur of eastern state. There are many shades ot red, but the nust approved, and commanding the highest pric ice, is that ot tne " pigeon s mooo. 1 ne ruby, in common with many other precious stones, bad magical properues attributed to it bv the ancients; indeed, we do not doubt that in the Kast the su perstitious Ideas connected with b are as rile as ever. Our ancestors believed thai it was a peservative against evil thonchts, and that much dreaded thing of old -poison, it kept the wearer sale from all evil spirits, and what w as more, its said Wry p wer was held to be so great that he was mid never to suffer in bodily health. Moreover, it was supposed lo be endowed with a certain occult Intelligence. It was behoved that the gem darkened When danger awaited the per son, and grew bright again w hen the peril had passed away. The k-nir of ourmah, one of whose Utk s is that of lord of the Bubics, has one tin size Of a pigeon's egg. The fulue of these gems goes on it. creasing at a much higher ratio than tint of the diamond. When Its weight is a mach as fonroareta, its value vanes from I'iOO to t'IÖO, a sum more than double thai at the diamond ot the eauie weight.- Stokango, True Heroism. The battle of Aliwal was fought n the oni. .l,.v of . innarv. 1" U ll w is im fet'lll T - " J ' bloodies! in modern bkdory up to that Ume; since then tt has been eclipsed in its raegalnary character by inker man n, hv Soil rino. and by Bsdowa. At one time the Sikh cavalry ha I well nieh cap tnred Sir Harry Smith honst 11, w no was obliged to sinii his position in oonsc queuce At this moment an cfilcer ol his Mail was struck down bj a frsgmentol shell, which shattered hi right tbigh snd hip i int in a bldeOUS manner. Some mea of his troop, seeing him fall, obtained leave to run to his a eistanec, aud in a ff v mtoetes he was on attreteher and being carried to the rear. The men w re fie voted to him, snd they carried him through that dread I nl field of slaughter wiih as much care as if conveying a baby in its cradle. When witnin a short dia

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fanec of the Staff Surgeon's tent, they came upon a privat': of the th rgi ment, lying desperately wounded. Tie poor fellow looked up pitooosly and touched his cap, as he n cognized his ofii err iu agony on the stretcher. Captain C called to the men to halt, and SO raise him up slightly ; leaning over, he soon saw I lie nature of the soldier's wound, which was far Jess dangerous than his own. " Lift mc out," he said ; " I can't move ; you life me out ; that'll do, gently yes, that's broken, too," (as they touched his spine.) " S now carry hm to the doctors ; they can do nothing for me, not too la'e for aim yet just a little more so," (facing the enemy), ' that's it." " But, sir " remonstrated one of tbe men. " Be quick with him, then come back ; I'm not liKtly to have left this," he added, wiih a slight Nhile, Tee men diel as ordered, and depositing he wounded trooper, they went to Captain C , He bsd not, Indeed, left Uiat ; he lay facing the enemy still, and the pi ix fn 1 smile with which he had addressed to them ids last words lingered yet M his face; but his troubles were over; fictoty or defeat we re now alike to him, and he had It it the field of strife lor that peaceful world where dwells the spirits of the just made perfect. The instances of men hopctetsty wounded refmimr to ssonopolbse the doc tr arc by no Bt aus rare : and if a battlefield is sometimes the scene of outrages at which humanity shudde rs, it ooeash natty provides as with Instsnrrs of unsurpassed heroism an i self-sacrifice. Ihe Potter's Bum iter. This story is going the rounds of the newspapt rs h ;re, and is said to point to some circumstances whkb have recently occurred in a Turkbfa town, if not at Constantinople itt if It certain! r i worth telling aa a curious picture of the wild life of Turkish, Arabian, or Asia Minor countries. There was In one ol tne poorest tpiartcrsof Constantinople an old Greek potts r. Although he was a Gitio'ir. ami lived in a purely Moslem neighborhood, he was ryipular because his hont sty was proverbial. Km was a wid ower. He had only one child a daughter, who was marvel utslv bcsutifaL Jl. r mine was II:lle. She was the houst kee p. I dr. i er, maiu ot ah work, and cook ot the hovel in which her lather and ahe Uved. Siie went to the Moslem bourn s to sell to the Turkish women ihr- earthenware her fat her made. W hen she entered ü Ii irem 'twas a festival to all the Inmates; bet presence waa like a sunbeam entering a dungeon. The women woald scream: "Ahl here comes beautiful Melle, the pottera daughter !' Lovely as she was nobody was jeal ms of her, for she did not sunn to be at all proud of her beauty. One day, the Sultan's favorite son tool; it into his head to lonngeabont town. ' He was on horseback, and several babtUl- 1 al companions of his pl-asure were with! loin. Tbe van couriers ran ahead f them, whh silver beaded cane in hand, with which they struck riidit and left, belaboring the pe ople in order to open a pass ige for the Italian it son. .Men, woesi n, children, and old people screamed as they. to;k to thdr heels, Two or three children i fell and came near being trampled ou by the hotsys. Just at this moment Helle i eame out of her father's house. She went ' straight on, bearing on her head a tray ahich contained the earthenware her father had nude. One of the companions of ihe Sultana sen bent toward him, whiapered and point d t the lovely creature, j One f the van couriers, who $was shout to strike her, was petrilisd by adinidriion, j the Uplifted stick fell not, but he gave her S sudden push, aud the tray and its conten.'. a fell from her head and all the earthenware was broken Into shapeless Bragmeats Just at this instant the horse of the Sultan's sou stood iu front f her ; he reined in the horse, looked at the tears which streamed from her eyes, smiled, and rode on. Next day Helle had . disappeared from the neighborhood. The poor old potter ran about everywhere beg ging some inteliirence of his daughter. lie was almost beside himself with crief. A WOm&n Who had witnessed the scene j last described told him what she had men. He Understood tdl its import. He went in Iron? of the palate and stood there all da 1 ... It 3 . f , I luug, usj aiter oay, waiting me nour w neu the Sultan's son i-houki tig on sally forth to lounge through the streets, The hour came. The old potter run to the horse's side and asked the rider lor his daughter No one beared the words exchanged. Suddenly the Sultan son's drew his scTsaiti r, and tin head of the old potter rolled on the ground. As soon ns ihe S iltan's son had passed on some distance, the people pickt d up the corpse and carried it to tbe potter's house A- he had kindred, they placed it iu his shop and there left it. Everybody went to pee it. There was great szcitement in the neighborhood, and such throngs of people stood la front of tbe house ss lo block up the street. The Sultan Id aim If saw tr m a distance these jfTeat timings and arked tin ir origin. IK whs told by the Grand Y der. He at once bunted orders that trumpeters should go through each quarter off theetty and make proclamation that he himself should sec justice done, and the sssassia of the poor potter punished. The i following day he rode down toward tbe j potter's bouse. Bis son was behind Man, An anusual number uf janissaries pur rounded them. Tien waaa larger crowd ! than tiad yet ass mbk d in trout ot the cotter's house. The Sultan ordered the OOrpSe to be brought out of the home nnd placed in the centre of the neighboring square. He bade his sea dismount, st-iml at the corpse's feet and p.ize OU it. The sight was h rnble, for, despite all the pains taken, the corpse was iu a putrid state. The riultau's son stood gasmg on the deraving ma s. U was as pah d ath, and the smile he 1 1 led to force upon his face did bet made his anxiety the more risible. This sc. ne bated for a quarter of aa hour. There was not a word spoken. At the end of lilteen minutes the Sultan drw hs scimeter, and his son's bead rolled on the ground. Ti e Sultan said: M limy them bath together, and Id trumpeters announce throughout all the town thai juStiCS h i h SCSS wrought ah di only is ureal i iwfm ' .'. nation s.itunf.ty rTVeafae CrWarffa How a Spider llniliis Kesti W. ('. Ricnn of Oenevs, Ohit, sends to dgphSsn's Journal tho following account ot bow a spider builds its wi VFbile at work one dar in the field, 1 accidentally destr yed tin- web oi scorn non spider. Curious to know what tbe littb t n ature w ould do in itt great r lUm ity, I made myself io:ntortahlc and await i d results. The spider, n t in tbe least dlshearte'jed by Its loss, Immediatejy com menicd bui'ding another web, l' described a circle not regular, but agree inn w iih the irregularities ot the s ircv of gl iss ou winch it w ai Mannaadau hs veitich- position, llavhag strengthened t ins outi r Hue I e h'cii ni iv be liki aed to the telloeol a carnage, wliulj. by passing around it st vital times, adding ach time a thr ad, it proOl t tied to form the spokes. Ii ascended lo th sprs ' sdeU BS the eir cle, and arcurhtg its ibraadi swung off, slowly de e minor, to the Iowa r edge, w here it fastened the other end. Acet. 1 Ing tins 1 .-I loruie.l hue to attotlt the ecu ire, and fa ti aing its thread, it proceeded again to tbe drcunrferenee. tkus forming another spoke in ihe win el. It contimud this operation until enough spokes were made, then, beginning at tin centre or hub, it passed round and round in en

larginr elrc1?', until it had formed Pom six or eight threads, about owe fourth of an inch apart Thi , I notice.!, was not d me with that care which irk-d its eubsequenl work ; but it was enly inUnded (as I afterward saw) to be a Soctwf s'aydath, atel not a jefiuauent sllir. It now da t d to the outvie ol the web, and commenced to weave in the woof, which was done by passing a thread from spi ke to sooke around the wheel, in diminishing

cire'es, the di v.ar.c? bleen theas bHog determined bv the length of the spider's Had leys, Pu it walked on thi Hut spun at the previous revolution, snd swMed the new thn-ad w ith one of its hind feet, holding it toward the centre as much as possible, and allowing it to run between tarn of ita claws around a ptdb y. A-tt passed over each spoke it would with tail hind foot premtbe aeWly fiwaaed tbswni to it. Um firmly unrttng la. In tata awsse awanner it ybceedesl on nnt 1 it caaie to the stay latba, wben it fell to work, and, in a tw inklini'. tore them away, and so n finished i" work, and ret r d ! t its Q rner toawai tie approach of some bu-kle-s My. Twice during the operation its thread broke, but, not noticing it until it g,t bj the next spoke, ji dkl not rsSraoe it .s'ep3, but baten d it wh're it was, thuü h iving a break. Hearly allot Use webs tht I have eanunmui h ive the sense def t. That which surprisel nie most was the extreme rapidity of Ihn spider's movement. as it w is not probably m re than ten mioutes from the tisse of destroying Iba web before an c r was eosapketau. m I a ' FACTS AMI Ptiüslaufi RCSStA possesses at present bfM.'XSl nacdle tnins. Tnr;na were P3.000 violent dca'hs in England last year. Tnnstn are fire Aaaeiimm convicts in German peni'erd iaries. Tn?HK ar s 13.91 1 draft, and I f-3 living horses in Brooklyn. TnKPK are three hundred and forty existing species ot pi eon. "I SHALL be better presently," were the .ast recorded wnrda ef Ofsariea Dickens. Thk birth -place of President PhWUt recently brought $:!,1 :' SSmtam G DUTAvn P ano, lo t yw- ot I, is the chimpie.n rngpicfcefof Ikuy, El. V. Toe ü 0W mites off r tslread iw THinfis, wfih I qaipilw Whl. engt $rJt.K)0,000. Foutv Foi h thousand women are eraployed as out door laborers in Knghoid. Thk Y. M. ('. A. OhV gobns fmnal employment lor over 5,000 WM n the pis year. Two hundred rod'" of pa'hwiv ha keen explored in the Mimin h cave off Ke-ntuekv. A Yokk S.Ue oc'ouenai ian Ins married a girl ot lfi -younger thau s'iuu of his grandchildren. Bnrwman three md for thoncn-1 I American boys arc studying in L üop CatnoiS and college's. Tmkhf. are in the UnHrd States wurr Vnn'rd newspapers pnbli-hc-1 in loflesgl languages. PuHTnAsTKi Bm btl rhtrouHieH yo jnir ladies hsto I bs rlenve of the Ilostim roHtofllcc ry depattmeut (sanAniLOt's neve, wc are b)ld, WSI pnbBsked in six lengnsggS1 but never paid its npsnkmt SS :t:iy. TiiKStvleof rerlstw ladies' bst? now and one hundred and five years ago SI sal I to be llff tirWL It is said there i danger of tbe t"ial extinction pi slephant-, the hunt rs killing them rX co hu. BsaUTV miles on a bieVUSS in r''ht and hsJf hours has lately been sec anpli I by a gentieaaaa at Dundee. A PniLanm 1111 kaiy proposes to hwiM a memorial church to fjknffge Washington, in vv stmorclsa 1 county, " u TWO chairs, which had one? been the property of Renedict Arnold, were lately s Id for f- 350, at St lehSSS, N. h Over 4 ('ti uasaaan us at the fn S bataW te New kmrk City on the k' srtk. Th-v rpr..c,.t. d a'l a";re?, c s, and conditions of life. Thk machinery used ia the State ! Mim-lin .-.t'-. is rind,' of dning tlie at of more ttun a hundred milium ot" men. sotja buauseas-hrms In I. Ion have ssnnes which make curions eomhimdions Fi nt ft Stmt I, vv rd k Lock, Laasb ;- Hare, and II 'H ind Si Sherry. Pnou thousand tonsof ore were thrown out st a single bhvsl in the Lake Ihspcries irou region the other day. Fifteen SU '. halt kegs of p iwdeT WCte BSS L New Tema was in each a ha' ! condition the other diy that 4,UMI" p of Ice were at i ssaary te re ;, vc the ?uifcttngs of as r unh .ppy ritbsHif. A TAni shocmiker i s i I t- have 'itrcnted boos provided with rollers. in n allow the wearer to mose as horse, ami to st p Imsaedistefj as -t Pnns IKS w i;o pr f-r Kt de l"e id in have their taste enf-h-'d ov smiling ta . .. 1 i ompeii, where imv nave imt l uuhtu over eiiinteen hundred yea' sag. Blt.oh m, a l.ttle kingdom nf 11,39) sanare mnVa, about dec aire of afarytand, -gives a C (intertable support to SWef 11,000,000 neopte, or ab- d .'-dl io thuan mile. Thkuk are Irteoa hundred ami thirlvaina Ineorpnrnted so il tie- In ana pr ov me in Austria; of these eight hundreil and eighty ar iu the city ot icoi a. Thk KB is a mountain in lb' norib of Paul On situate : SO near the An tfcCircte, that trom its summit on a midsummer nicht may be seen the phenomenon of the uiiJnigkl sun. A man in Lyndon, Vt , ins been n bit he! twenty one years, unable to move or bend a single joint hs his body. Er ry joint has been affected by rhewnrslic dlfticuby, and all the bSSSSa appear SS have irowa into one. Thk hirsute eprantdsgc of a yeamgH by in Ncvv Orkans laeone undone th-' ot'.. r day. and when she la cane h ir of her anauortune s string o4 hair several yards lomr was tt ream, eg behind her iu the wind. A K at in a store in Troy, " 1 olrng .,r....M.i ' ,i ;h ,i .e of tin. attracted the j... ... . , . - - - attention id s policemin, who thmkiiic it was a burelar, wau-ucd - veral hours ( r the latter to come out. The rat is now deait. In Queen Va-torii crown therr arc UMS brUlnsnt dhtaaouds, IJ73 r..ssawata, and 147 table ciaenusda, 1 huge rnby, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, 4 small rubies, and 'J77 pi ails a total aftlBn precious stones, TaUmnt are two bnfh I in the I'.xt ( nic Department at Wlend '" I, - .n ployed in Iranslsting the foreign correst'n !ence,and In keeping up lln-sc unts in foreign UuSgnagea. I lu v ar. - n in low languaKCS -tteiunn, French,! iai s . a n ish and Itnshus. Tnr. aamnare snnsber of persans liv- . ... i ... J U in ing in a singe not - m umu e m P. rhu 33, in Paris 35, in Si f an tbuvn Ü, end hi Vtenns K For every Loan inhabitants the an 1 : i satnual m atal IV tn London is 2i in lb rlin '" in Pari 2, in Si. PeasrabSBTg II and in Vienna 40 A w o w ot torty iecently married, at Paris, a widower win sc t;.r t wife was a widow, whose hvsl husBassi wo a wsiower, whoM- tirsl wdi-wms a w id.W. In this bunily Siw the last I7 years, tMs sn cldental marriage of w :d"W and widower hsH constantly l iken place. In the s.aauid week iu .1" ie there were 1 :'.!,'. Ml persons iu receipt f parocbtel nlief in I. "f. Ion, of whom '.vi4; wire IU tbe WQfk bonaaa. aud sW.Ohi were iKit door paupers. This ass an in create of 4,014 apon the numbers in the corTowptm lang pes I sJ al last year. An amhWanl ssefctery of the r.niish anttoaosaical s run, Mr Wilkau, has i .st flubbed a translation of Ho- Chinese J - - . , r. records Of i-omets observed for J ?Wrisw, endme A P Itttn I'his nl i n tinuoiiP Tt gistry el the kind iu esisteie . , and la expected to yield important n .ads In reafn r. Tgjnau is a boy living in Woodsmrd township, Lycoming county, Penn , 17 years ot Hge, who Munds six tuet eight inches high, and weighs ov r two hundred poinds His name.- G urge Wats ter There is also a girt living in M'ddlebury township, Tiwa v, llycaisot - j age, who weighs 400 pounds.