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MixoR Tories.

( Jaxe fr. Swiskhf.i.m, the belligerent critic of everything and champion of the ehemiloon, carefully inspected the steamer on which she went to England and sends back the following terrifying news : " The entire inside of a ship is a ma?s of light pine boards as dry as they can be kept, and most of them saturated and thickly coated with oil and paint and varnish." MiKfi Mt'LOCK mentions four professional pursuits in which women can now support themselves in England teaching, painting or sculpture, literature, and public entertainment. In America we have added the medical profession to the list, as has been done also in France. The University of Michigan and some other institutions graduate a few lawyers also each year. Quite a sensation has been caused in Belgium by the extremely rare occurrence of a fatal duel there. Each of the combatants was to fire two shots; Lieutenant M., attached to the War Office at Brussels, fired his first shot in the air ; Captain II., of the Fourteenth Regiment of the Line, fired twice and missed his antagonist, who thereupon lodged his second bullet in his adversary's heart, and gave himself up to the authorities. Near Poughkeep-ie, New York, is a cottonwood or swamp poplar tree, recently felled, which measured one hundred and twenty-five feet in height, six feet two inches in diameter two feet from the ground, where it was cutoff; four feet and six inches in diameter thirty feet from the ground, and each of its larger limbs was a large tree in itself. Its rings show it to have been only sixtylive years old, ami the person by whom it was transplanted is said to be now livintr. Front Red lliver to the coast, and from the Sabine to the uttermost parts of Western Texas, the crops are splendid. A gentlemen who has been making a tour through Eastern and Northern Texas says that everything in the crop line looks luxuriant, and in Middle Texas he had seen a field of oats that was expected to average a hundred bushels to the acre. Western Texas speaks of herself as being blessed with line crop prosects, and our coast countries, with the richest soil on e;irth, are covered with cotton, caue and corn of such appearance as to almost insure an unusual yield. THF.nn: appears to be a Turkish unpleasantness in Jerusalem. The haoghty Turk is bullying the Christian population and barricading has commenced. The population in Jerusalem is about twenty thousand, and the Turks only number six thousand, the Jews eight thousand, anil the Christians the balance. The 1'asha who resides there is subject to the Governor-General of Syria. It would seem within the range of possibility for the Christians and Jews to unite and administer a severe flogging to the Musselmans ; in fact, there never was a better time for a revolution, as Sultan Murad has his hands full with the formidable rebellion in European Turkey. A ccrious character lately died at Nice. This was the Count Eugenio Spitalieri di Cessole, for a time the pupil and afterwards the intimate friend of Paganini. lie entertained so great an admiration for the violinist that he treasured up sis a precious relic a bow with which the "King of the Fiddle" executed in Vienna some of his most curious fantasias. In 1863 a rich Englishman, we are informed, offered the Count four hundred pounds for the bow, but he refused. In 1865, the same rich Englishman, according to the same undoubted authority, offered him twice as much. The Count refused. Afterhis death it was found that he had bequeathed the bow to Verdi. Ax accident, described as being of " a rather alarming character," occurred lately at Mor.kbridge Ironworks, in England. It seems that disused cannons are purchased by the company to which the ironworks belong for the purpose of being melted down. One of these superannuated engines of war having been put into the refinery it showed its displeasure by " going off" with a noise like thunder. It contained, in fact, no fewer than four balls, each weighing about ten pounds, and its explosion under these circumstances was, however inconvenient, not altogether inexcusable. The gun having been placed in the furnace perpendicularly the charge ascended to a great, neignt, wo oi me d&us, piercing and remaining in a large brick chimney about thirty yards distant. Fortunately no one was hurt by Cue salute the old cannon thus fired in its own honor on the occasion of its obsequies, but there is no saying what mischief it might not have caused had it "spit forth its iron indignation" horizontally instead of perpendicularly. As the millennium gradually develops itself a vast number of superfluous cannon will, no doubt, be utilized for affectionate purposes, and it would really be advisable, as a matter of prudence, to examine them thoroughly before melting them down in furnaces, as otherwise the inauguration of universal peace will probably be attended by no small amountof danger and death. Do not be troubled because you have no great virtues. God made a million npires of grass where he made one tree. 1 he earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forest-, but grass. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because neither a saint nor a hero. you are Some California strawberries are to be exhibited at the CVntennial. They are said to le of such dimensions as that it may be necessary to taJw down some of the fence in order to get them safely into the grounds. The Italians say that " she ia beauti Jul whom you think beautiful."

A little mound of parth alone, With matted, stunted erass n'ererotrn, A lonnly haunt in graveyard plot, By every former friend forgot ; Vet stranger steps I ctaihl but choose Slay i.y that grave, not knowing whe? What neel of sculptured stone to tell Who slept beneath, was sleeping well? What need to know the sleeper's name? To us or hiiu t was all the same ! J.ife's story still I eould pursue, Beside this grave, not knowing whose ! " Dust to dust ! the end of earth, The end of dreams our life jrives t-irth ; The summing up of all our fame. Was here, a wound without a name ! A matted sod, a lonely sot. By grieving friends al last forgot ! Not knowing whose, what worth to me Hi name, his age, or history ? id earth resound om-e with his crime, Or mayhap with his deeds sublime ; What lioots sim e o'er him hangs the pall Oblivion weaves and spreads for nil ? One of the millions gone lefore, Whose steps are wa.-hed from oil' time's shore ; A matted sod the only trace That's left as landmark to his race, Where'er like me one comes to muse Beside bis grave, not knowing whose !

LIFE AND FORTUNE LOST OX A 11 ACE COURSE. A London correspondent, speaking of the Derby race, and remarking that many strange stories could be told of it, gives a very imperfect view of one of those same stories which is almost tragic in its meaning. The facts of the case, which that correspondent attempts to describe, are somewhat as follows : In the latter part of the year 1866 the Lady Elizabeth Paget became engaged to the Marquis of Hastings. The young Marquis was a roue of the weakest type. His father, the old Marquis, had died while his heir was low down in the years ot his minority, leaving an estate reputed to be worth about .40.000 or annum, or $200,000 in gold. During the six or seven years of the minority of the young Marquis the income of the estate had been carefully husbanded by the trustees appointed under the will of his father, aud wheu he came of age iu 18i5, iu spite of the princely allowance given him during his collegiate course, there was still an apparent balance of savings to his credit of something over 200,000. Unfortunately, however, for thislightpated young nobleman, he made, while at the university, the acquaintance of one of those sharks of civilized life, who, in the inscrutable wisdom of Providence, are permitted to exist. This man's name was Padwick, nominally a Iondon lawyer, really a money-lender of the type whom Thackeray has portrayed in the character of Sherrick, in " Pendennis." Padwick loved profit, and did not care how it was made, provided he was always on the safe side of the law. Young Hastings loved sport, and did not care whence or at what exorbitant rate of interest he obtained the money to pay for it. Padwick had no difficulty iu supplying the means for the simple young Marquis to gratify his tastes aud his tastes, besides the tsste lor horse-racing, also ran to opera dancers and prima iionne The only thing that Pad wick wanted was the signature of the Marquis aud a certain three or four hundred per cent, interest, and whatever money he required was forthcoming. A royal time the young man held at Oxford, and an equally royal bill he had to pay when he came f rom Alma Mater with an " honorary degree," a degree which is given to peers and the sons of peers, and which is called "honorary," as Cuthbert Lode puts it, to distinguish it from the " honorable " decree that is won by hard study. When the young noble came of age, his accounts were settled up by the clerks aud accountants of the amiable Padwick, and it was found that not only had the reserve of 200,000 disappeared, but the annual rent-roll of 40,000 was somewhat " dipped," as the English phrase it. In other words, the prodigal had spent the savings of his minority, aud Padwick held further obligations on the estate to a very considerable amount. Nothing daunted, however, the young scapegrace, believing his resources still illimitable, started out on a new career of dissipation on the very night of the day on which he, in Westminster Abbey, was formally invested with the insignia of his rank, and became in fact, as he had bwen iuname, the representative of the proud race who claimed their lineage from the first Earl who was ennobled by William of Normandy after the battle of Hastings, in the year 106G. The distinction his ancestor of eight hundred years agone had succeeded in achieving in fight, the degenerate scion sought to win on the turf. He had always been a lover of horses and horse racing, and he vainly thought he could capture the blue ribbon of the Derby aud, at the same time, replace the vast fortune he had spent, in one single hot-headed venture. His stable of thoroughbreds throughout his collegiate career had been a marvel to his fellow students, if student be not a misnomer under the circumstances. He had lavished vast sums of money on the purchase of unborn colts, and had paid as high as ten thousand guineas for a yearling filly which came from the breeding stables of ir Joseph Hawley, who, with " Blue Gown," had won the Derby, and, with "Blink Bonnie," both the Derby aud the Oaks in 1865 and 1866. That ten thousand guinea specu lation in 1877 proved the ruin of himself, bis estate, and his lite. In the meantime the young peer, as though his other f jlliesha'd not been sufficient for one man, fell in love, aud fell in love with the Lady Elizabeth Paget, wno, fcomewnat ms senior in years, was not a whit behind him in sporting propensities. She could take or give the odds on any race as weil as the best man at Taitersall's, and would enforce payment of her winnings as strenuously as her brother, Lord Alfred Paget, who was, a year or two later, First Lord of the Admiralty. The Paget family, both in war and in social life, for two generations, had been noteworthy in the history of England for being reckless of money or life, the women light o' love, and both men and women for havinsr a special turn of mind for play. This Lady Elizabeth, with whom the luckless Marquisof Hastings became enamored, was, at that lime, engaged to marry a Mr. Chaplin, a member ot the firm of Chaplin & Home, which bears a similar relation to the commerce of North Britain as that which Wells, Fargo & Co. does to the United States. Chaplin was rich, and a sportsman. He owned race horses, and ran thern to win, and Chaplin had a fidm acluile$& Capt. Machell, a retired officer of dragoons, who knew a little more about the management of horses and how to win with them than even his friend Chaplin. In December, 1806, the flighty Lady Elizabeth Paget and Mr. Chaplin were to have been wedded, but just on the eve of the projected marriage, the night, before it was to have been consummated, the Lady Elizabeth bolted with her enamored Marquis by the Dover train to Paris, where they were married at the British Embassy the next day. Chaplin

was naturally mad, and sousb.1 revenge. The mare for which the Marquis had paid ten thousand guineas had won the Champagne stakes at Doncaster the September before, and she was a prominent favorite for the Derby, which was to be ruu in the following May. Chaplin also had a horse entered for the same race, a horse named Hermit, and Capt. Machell was superintending the training of the animal at a quiet training-ground in Yorkshire. Machell trie4 the horse thoroughly, but quietly, and came to certain conclusions concerning his running capacity, which conclusions were mentioned to no ear but that of his patron and friend, Mr. Chaplin. The horse was believed by both men to be a good one, and to be capable of winning, or at least "getting a place," if only that dangerous Lady Elizabeth were out of the way. And here, perhaps, it will be as well to explain what is understood in English turf parlance as getting a place. In all races where more than two or three horses run. the rule is for the second horse to obtain a share of the principal prize, while the third saves the money which its owner has had to pay at the time of entering it for the race. Thus, the three first horses are said to be "placed," or to "get a place," and a favorite mode of betting is to stake a certain sum of money on a horse to win, and another similar sum on his being placed. The general rule of the odds is, that in backing a horse for a place only one-fourth the odds are given. That is to, say, that if the current betting be eight to one against a particular horse winning, the odds against his being either first, second or third will be two to one. Captain Machell and Mr. Chaplin,

confident as they were in the prowess of their horse, were far too shrewd to show this confidence by openly putting their money up on him, and on the morning of the race he was still ranked as an "outsider," forty to one being offered against him. The Marquisof llastiugs, on the other hand, was not only certain that Lady Elizabeth would wiu, but backed her to win to an enormous amount, and continued his operations till on the day of the race he and the friends of the mare had to bet three to two on her winning iu order to get any money on her. The wildest excitement that has ever, perhaps, been seen on any race course, prevailed on that Wednesday in May, 1807, which was to witness the total ruin of one of the finest fortunes in England. The day was miserably wet and gloomy, and the mud in the approaches of the course ankle deep, but at least half a million people were out at Epson to see the race. The " Hill," the grand stand and fifty other stands were crowded wiui representatives of the fashion and beauty of England's capital, while along each side of the coarse from the famous Tattenham corner, stretched a double half mile of densely packed members of the lower stratum of English society. There were twenty-seven horses in the field, and great difficulty was experienced in securing a fair start, no little of the difficulty beitg experienced by the vicious temper of the favorite, who had been groomed to perfection, and had been led from the saddling paddock amid a crowd of enthusiastic admirers, while Hermit waa shaggy, unkempt and slovenly in appearance, somewhat undersized, and looking very little like a thoroughbred In a high condition of training. Finally a fair start was obtained, and the hoofs of twenty-seven of the choicest horses of England beat thunder out of the turf as they sped over Epsom Downs and disappeared in the bottom land bevond " Ilie Mm." Soon the struggling mass of many colored jockey jackets could be distinguished rising to view amid the gorse brush on the opposite side of the course. Telescopes and field-glasses were brought into requisition, and the universal cry was, " Where is the Lady?" The answer was soon found ; she was in the ruck in the rear well up, but still in the rear. " Ah," said her backers," Fordham (the rider) knows what he is about," and a sigh of relief passed around, while the idea gained ground that he was saving the mare's strength for the straight rushin. But those hopes speedily died out ; and when the turn was reached, at Tattenham corner, generally the deciding point for " a place " in all Derby races, the cry went up, " She's nowhere !" It proved to be so, for wheu the leading dozen horses passed the judges' stand the despised outsider, Hermit, was first, and Lady Elizabeth walked into the weighing paddock. Then there was a scene which utterly baffles description. Curses both loud and deep rent the air, and a throng of welt-dressed men, and women too, crowded on to the turf and into the "ring," yelling their imprecations on everybody and everything that could by any possibility have been supposed to have brought about the disastrous result. The book-makers all save one looked serene, for this class of gentry conduct their business on certain mathematically calculated plans, and to them it does not amount to the value of a rush which side wins or looses. They hold the age under every possible circumstance, and are serenely indifferent to facts which bring ruin and disgrace on thousands. The one exception was a certain Mr. Steele, who had the unfortunateMarquis's name on his books for an enormous sum, and who, on settling day, which was the following Friday, posted the Marquis of Hastings as a defaulter. The total losses incurred by the noble noodle on the occasion have been variously estimated at from 100,000 to 120,000 sterling, and that, taken in connection with his already " dipped " revenue and known untrustworthy habits, ruined him. On the Friday when he was posted, he wa-i ordered out of the " King," to which any plebeian can obtain admission on payment of a guinea, by Steel, the bookmaker, who had been a carpenter working fordaily wages ia Brighton, and who had hardly sufficient education to write his own name. The disgrace, coupled with his dissipated habits, brought the foolish young Marquis to his grave, and a few months later a quiet f uneral, at which not half a dozen people were present, wound up the earthly career of the last of the direct line of one of" the oldest families in the United Kingdom. Chaplin, as before indicated, did not bet much on his horse certainly he did not win more than was sufficient to pay the expenses of the race. But he had secured a deep and lasting revenge, and won the highest honor of tho turf at one stroke. He is now a member of Parliament, and looked upon as one of the most useful business men in the House, his services being continually sought for committee work. Machell took a little care of himself on the day, and invested about 1,000 (85,000) in backing! lermi t at odds of forty to one, and consequently cleared some, f 200,000 by the day's adventure. It was stated at the time that the reason why Lady Elizabeth broke down

so completely was well known to Captain Machell, and that he had caused certain drugs, known to horsemen, to be administered to the mare on the night preceding the race; but these statements were never substantiated, and iu the absence of positive evidence should hardly be believed. But the fact remains, that the light conduct of one high-born woman was the immediate means of bringing about the ruin and death of the representativeof one of the proudest families in England.

The Philosopher autl the Ghost. When was the first ghost story told? At what period in the world's infancy did the mind of man first feel the dread delight, the awful attraction, which modern skepticism has deprived r.sailof except children and village lasses? We confess we cannot tell. Aud instead of collecting scattered fragments from antiquity, we subjoin a translation of a ghost ptory, perfect aud complete, of the respectable age of eighteen centuries, which so terrified the calm philosopher Pliny, of Christmas-hating reputation, that he wrote to his friend Sura, the consul, to ask whether it could be true. So exactly does this story correspond in all the ghostly elements to authentic narratives which inundate the waste-paper baskets of magazine editorsevery Christmas, that we cannot think it the first attempt of the invention in this direction. Poets must have lived before Homer, and dealers in the supernatural must havt traded on man's love for the marvelous long before the time of Pliny's informant. We meet with ghosts in the "Iliad," and iEschylus twice introduces them on the stage. Indeed, the belief iu their appearance naturally arises from the idea that, until a man was decently buried, old Charon would not convey his soul across the slimy Styx, but left it to squeak and gibber on this side the stream. Hence it was considered a greater crime at Athens to leave a parent unburied than to allow him to starve to death. And that beautiful play of Sophocles, in which Antigone suffers death rather than leave her brother's corp-e unburied, had a far , greater charm iu Pagan Athens than it can have in Christian countries. But j we are digressing. Here is the promised j story, from the twenty-seventh book of Pliny the younger: j " There was at Athens a house, large ' and spacious, but with a bad name. In the silence of the night there was wont to be heard iu it the rattling of iron, and, if you listened more attentively, the clash of chains, first at a distance, then hard by. Presently there appeared a ghost an old man, lean and squalid, with long beard and rough hair. He car ried fetters on his legs and gyves on his wrists, shaking them as he walked. Hence every night was spent in wateful terror by the inhabitants. Sickness followed vigils, and death sickness. For even during the daytime, though the phantom had departed, the recollection of it clung to them, aud the terror lasted longer than that which caused it. Accordingly the house was deseitcd, condemned to solitude, and entirely given up to the specter. It was advertised, nevertheless, to be let or sold, in case any one, not knowing the circumstances, should be willing to purchase. " Atheuodrous, the philosopher, came to Athens, read the notice, asked the terms, and,, having his suspicions roused by the low price, made inquiries, aud heard the whole story. So far from shrinking, he took the house all the more eagerly. "When evening drew near, he orders his couch to be placed in the front room, calls for a writing tablet and a light, dismisses all his attendants, and devotes his attention eyes, head aud hands to writing, lest his mind, being employed, should conjure up fancied sights and sounds. " At first there was the silence of night deep as elsewhere; then the clash of iron and the rattling of chains. He neither raised his eyes nor relaxed his pen, but fixed his attention upon his work. The click grew louder, came nearer, and sounded, now at the door, now within tlie room. lie iooks up, sees and recognizes the specter described. It stood and beckoned with its hand, as if calling him. He made a sign with Lis finger for it to wait a little, and again settled down to his tablets. It rattled its chains at his head as he wrote. He looked up again, making the same sign I as before, and without f urther delay took the candle andfol'owed. It walked with slow step, as if weighed with the chains. After turning into the court-yard of the house, it suddenly slipped into the earth and disappeared. He piled some weeds and leaves to mark the spot, and the next day, going to the magistrates, advised them to order the place to be excavated. A skeleton was found, the flesh all wasted away by putrefaction, and the bare bones bound in fetters and chains. It was taken up and publicly buried, and after that the house was no more troubled.' Carelessness. There are some sorts of carelessness which are nothing short of hardihood. Playing with firearms is one of them. There seem always to be in the world a fixed or very slightly variable number of fools who imagine all guns to be unloaded, and who think it a pleasing and harmless pastime to point them to people in a jocular manner and go through the motions of firing. About so many are killed every year in this maimer. If the guns went off at the breech and killed the fools behind them, nobody would complain. But this never happens nor does tlie recoil knock tbem over ouen enough to attord society any satisfaction. Something like a year ago a worthy and respected gentleman was shot through the heart by a man who was playfully fingering a revolver, and it is not many months since a youth a dozen or fifteen years old, by way of wooing a little amusement from a dull forenoon, pointed an old firearm which he had rummaged out .of some household locker, at bis little sister, and shot her cleverly through the body. Another and quite an extensively prevailing shape of folly is that of going sportively through the ceremonial of marriage. Every now aud then we read of provincial young meu aud their sweetnearts who have been tied together with a genuine knot when they were only xrofaning a ritual. This is not absolutely a fatal affair, but the incon veniences and embarrassments arising from it must at once be observable. A New Jersey editor lost his best cold pen and holder a few days ago, After making a thorough search all over the ofuce, and accusing a dozen tramps with ihs theft, he happened to remember where he la-t placed it, and bending down the top ol ins ear, discovered no less than fourteen penholders of various styles which he had lost during the past two years. Words tell what you should be ; deeds tell what you are.

General Washington's Pet .Marjorie. ikrilner for July contains- a delightful chronicle of the good old limes in J Virginia one hunt red years ago, from the pen of Mr". Constance Cary ll.irri- j

s-ou, ana entitled A Little Centenuial ) Lady." The little Centennial lady is Mis, Sally Fairfax, llev. (and Lord) i Brvan Fairfax six-vM,ldV Kmr(ir ' John Brown's "Pet Marjorie," she is perhaps one of the quaintest little mortals in literature. She was "great friends" with Washington, and becomes in forashare of attention in her journal, part of which is produced in Mrs. Harrison's sketch. There are also some interesting pictures and a quite authentic accountof a love affair on the part of Washington. Miss Sally was the greataunt of the writer of the article. We quote from the journal : "on friday the 3 of January papa went, to H.ilo. Washington's and came home.' aga; r 'the iext Wednesday which wau'ibe "' - " On frl-iay the S of january that rile man adam at night kild a poor cat of rage because she eat a bite of meat out of his hand and scrached it. o vile wrech of new negrows if he was mine I woud cut him to pieces a son of a guu a nice regrow he should be kild himself by rites." In this vivid outburst of Sally's wrath, one is reminded of Pet Marjorie aud her turkey that " did not give a single dam." And then the offender was a " new negro," (. e., not born upon the estate,) which, in itself, was a term of opprobrium. " on monday the 6th of January which was old C mass day in the afternoon it set to snowing and mowed till the snowwas above ancle-deep and then it held up but the snow lasted upon the ground at least a week and then there came another snow as deep. " ou thursday the 2.1 of January margerry went to Washington an brought oil the things in ready done on thursday the 9th of the same month I think she was a great while about them a wole week if you will believe me reader. " on riday the 10th of january in the morning came here danny genens overseer for tall' and taff weut away accordingly poor tall I pitty him indeed reader." Of "tars" offenses and "tad's" punishment, we shall ever be left in ignorance ; but, of one thing we are sure, that a tear pure as the recording angel's was dropped for him that " 10th of january." "Ou Safer day the 11th of january papa measured me on the right hand of the door as you come out of the Chamber." The Chamber ! This does not present a very clear image, perhaps, except to the understanding of a dyed-in-the-wool Virginian. Thus has always been designated the bed-room of the mistress, iuau old Virginia home. This room, generally situated upon the ground-floor, was broad, spacious, motherly, exquisitely neat. Here was the great in .illegally bed shrouded in spotless dimitv. with the flisrht of steps leading up to it ; here the huge fire-place blazing welcome, and the brass andirons and split basket of pine nots upou the hearth-side. Before the fire stood the chintz-clad easy-chair, behind which cowered little impish shapes of black children brought up fordaily training in the useful arts. Here sat the mistress for a stated period e Very day ; here she held levees of her people, who came in from the quarter, one by one, dropping courtesies and courtly bows, offering for sale their eggs and butter, detailing grievances, each with a story to tell of some bodily ailment or " misery," without which no colored person of good standing in those days was ever found. A corner cupboard, situated somewhere near the ceiling, behind the chimneypiece, generally contained a stock of good old-fashioned medicines; castor oil that was castor oil, odoriferous rhubarb, calomel by the pound for the applicants were very rigid in exacting the proper degree of strength to their do?e. In the chamber pronounced, if you please, with the broadest ot a s (chaaaiber; centered all the hundred little family cares and interests; and, except at times when the mysteries of birth and death closed the portals, it was apt to be the most charming, inviting spot about the mansion. I can picture Miss Sally, standing on tip-toe to be measured, anil the pencil marks that were never rubbed out. Will the Wife Vote With the Husband I lloston Advertiser. 3 Woman suffrage hasbeeu recommended to the " respectful consideration " of Republican voters by the National Republican Convention, and in this connection some facts from the recorded voting in the National Grange will be interesting to both the friends and opponents of feminine ballotting. A standingobjection to the chauge proposed is that married women will vote with their husbands, and that the unmarried will be influenced by the opinions of their masculine friends. The trouble has been to sustain the assertion by facts, but atice the wives of members of the grange are entitled to the ballot by their relation to their husbands, the difficulty is partially removed. From the different divisions of the National Grange statistics have been gathered showing the votes of the husband and wife on several different measures. Thus we find that, with one wedded pair, the two voted as one nineteen t'mes, and ouly iu four cases did the vine tear itselt from the oak and vote against him. In the following couplets of figures the first represents the number ot tunes the husband and wife agreed iu their voting on different measures, and the second represents the number ot times tlie husband thought he knew better than his wife and would not vote as she did (or the other wav, just as you choose to put it) : 12, 5 ; 11, 0; 4, 0; -'0,0; 1, 0; 10,1; 21, 0; 10, 0 ; 14. 0 ; '., 1 ; S, 2 ; 17, 0 ; 10, 0 ; 20, 1 ; 2'2, 0: 10, 1 ; 15, 7; 15, 3; IS. 0; 13, 2; 17, 2; 13,0; 13, 2; 10, 1, and 18,0. Total voted together, oOS times; disagreed, S( times. No doubt there waa a great variety of masculine stupidity joined with feminine intelligence, and the Wifely subordination to the will of lord and master was not as complete as iu the patriarch ic age. Statistics are not given as to division of labor in the families represented, but it ia possible that, if the clew were put in the hands of a Democratic Congressional investigating committee, we should find the original parties of whom the story fella where the wife did the plowing and mowing while the husband baked, churned and tended the children. A ooohe that was not a goose The Elizabeth Journal tells of one that, be ing thrown between the tracks by a passing railread train the other day, remained perfectly still until the whole train had p;--ed over it, and then got tip

and waiKeu on in gaiety.

Centennial Cuttings. The Philadelphia Inquirer m.tt- that the Corliss engine has a some'O .i remarkable history. Mr. George H. Cr-

liss was a dry gu merchant in ideuce, 11. I. He invented a cut5 machine by which the surplus pwtr in I n r s,eu,.lruui , ' Satisfied after perfecting his apparatus. i he offered his invention to the neiehlxri ing manufacturer. They said they would f t like to have it but Could not purchase. j He said they might take it and pay him ; I only what they saved in coal, biUr, etc., j j during five years. The result proved j j that he had made an excellent bargain, and he is now a millionaire. : I " Fay." who reports the Exhibition for 1 t the IxRiisviile Cuurier-Jtuirntl. is not fa- j vorable to the female cht?f of the Woman's ComaiiVtoo. " I Lave," says ! " Fay," ' refrained from any mention of the slight put uim Mrs. Grant by j Mrs. Gi';!espie on the opening day at j Philadelphia. I hojed there was some mistake. I have inquired and learn that the Empress and Mrs. Grant were ' together. Mrs. Gillespie invited the j former to enter the Woman's Building, , and did not extend the invitation to the wife of the President. Such ill-breeding j and imprudence cannot be to severely j and publicly reprimanded. From the j first Mrs. Gillespie Las acted as though j the Centennial was her own personal j property, and that she was at liberty to vent her private piques and spites as she would in her owu narrow sphere. She is a woman of great talent, energy, and executive ab'.ity, but P, did not take long for those who had business with her to find out that she was dictatorial and disagreeable. Writing from Italy a contributor to the Philadelphia Tttfjrah says that it is very amusing to see the effect on Italians when Centennial topics are introduced into conversation. They shake their heads and shrug their shoulders, and it is ouly after severe "pumping" that their real opinion can be disentangled from the " Ahs?" and "Ohs:" and other mysterious ejaculatory sounds. The good Italians, not enterprising themselves, could feel a sort of amiable pity for a people who carry out an undertaking on such a gigantic scale and in such huge proportions, for they cannot and will not believe that the country will recover from the expenditure, and then, why do the Americans give themselves so much trouble' Triumphal processions and congratulatory banquets aud addresses will he only a few among the numerous expressions" of joy at the safe return to Italy of those adventurous natives who have crossed the ocean. We have an instance of the inability of Florentines themselves to manage Centennial matters in the late Christofori centenary. A Female Mason. The portrait of the Hon. Mrs. Aidworth, second daughter of Arthur St. Leger, Viscount Doiieraile, still adorns the walls of the grand lodge-room in Dublin, and is pointed to with pride by transatlantic Irish Masons as that of the l only female who was ever initiated into Ancient aud Accepted Freemasonary. The narration of the circumstances ot her initiation is given in the following language by a Masonic authority. Lord' Doneraiie, Mrs. Aid worth's father, who was a very zealous Mason, held a warrant (No. 150) in his own hands, and occasionally opened lodge at Doneraiie house, in the County Cork, his sous and intimate friends in the neighborhood assisting. It appears that previous to the initiation of a gentleman to the first steps of Masonnry, Mrs. Aidworth, who was theu a young girl, happened to be in an apartment adjoining the M)in at the time undergoing some repair and attention. Amongst other things the wall was considerably reduced iu one part for the purpose of" making a saloou. The young lady having distinctly heard the voices, aud prompted by the curiosity natural to all to see -oaiewhat of this mystery so long and so secretly locked up from public view, had the courage, with her scissors, to pick a brick from the wall, and actually wit-,w,-.,.l ti,. Mwf.i! -m,l i,i vtrt. r.ts cpre-I mony throu-.-h the two first steps. Curb j osity gratified, fear at once took pos- ( sion or her mind; and those who under- j stand this passage will know what the . feelings must be'of any person who could I have the same opportunity of unlawfully , behoidiiur that cereraonv : let them ! jud ge what must be the leeaug ol a vounar jiirl. IU ir.;r discovered while the oonciudinf oart of the seeond step was part ot still performing, in the fir-t paroxysm of rage and alarm 'tis said her death was resolved ou, fcut that at the moving and earnest supplicatioa of her younger brother her life was spared, on condition of her going through the two steps she had already seen. This she agreed to, aud they conducted the beautiful and terrified young creature through those trials, which are sometimes more than even enough for masculine resolution, little thinking they were taking into the bosom of the craft a member that would afterwards re flect a luster on the annals of Masonary. Uranite in Shirts. ; Letter in tlie London Monetary Uz-.'Ue.'' - I was walking along the canal banks in the town of Bolton a short time ago aud my attention was called to a barue load of a pearly white substance. On examination it proved to be china clay, and in my innocence 1 a.-ked w here the porcelain works were located, as I take great interest in such manufact ures. My inquiry was received with loud laughter, and I was informed the kaolin was consigned to Messrs. , a well known firm ol cotton spinners. Aprojio of this little incident, and somewhat of a commentary thereon, a gentleman who professes to be ultra religious told me the other day that an eight-pound shirting now never contains more than six pounds of cotton, and on my asking him if he traded in this fashion he piously replied, " We must go with the stream." Perhaps the machiniMes fsewinir machines) are not aware that the frequent breaking of their needles s mainly caused by the resistance and friction of this mineral adulteration, which is found in abundance in almost alt the cotton they sew. Geologists tell us that china clay is de composed granite; no wonder, then, that it should be, gritty and break needles. It also makes eminently unhealthy the occupation of the mill hands, a fact which I recommend to the special attention of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children. Manchester, Manchester, this . china clay adulteration will be thy death ! It is a mistake to assume that because the Philadelphia Exposition is closed on Sunday there are no places of interest open. The majority of the churches, if not all, will be oiien for service through the summer. The Mercantile Library, the Zoological Garden, and the Academy of Fine Art will not close their doors. The liquor saloons wilt atso remain

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A ' ( a i in i' i ' : i 3 j a l - ar oi . ai.d vti'.h t v -. I I do in l.i , t ... i .' i i.iei t i' e. ! ie 1f -r! td! - !. m r Th. 1 are a f ( )' 1 b i ..t . I ie ; " -' ! urjr. lrivt n'.i lit.!--., . ' i i : L i I ve co- -i .i Ts, -v. '. f- w .' I" i it bllA li.' at I I't-s. .b-i.i .'.sf-, .; ) t' e r .in' i r . 1 o'v.fiv- i" . in." i---. 1 w!ti ; I always decline. Ail of us have a little f peck of f.sht uti derr.eath our ' pewee and iirl wili t man,'" just a speck for (evolution and great emergencies ?' that we should not submit io I tro-Mfn quite flat by the first heavy l.e U I aj:rre.-(..r that came along. A coquet! wotsM have triuntj Ue! in such a captive as Petrarch. He had a gay and captivating exterior ; hi complexion was fait; opnrklia Idue tr and ready smile. 1 le is Very ni on the subject of his own. caxc.'iiibry, a::J tells us iiow c;iU".ku-!y Le r 1 to turn the corner of a ttett l ?t the wind should When disorder Petrarch fcw elaborate curls! walked the 'treets Avignon the women smiled, and said, i ' There goes the lover of lnu ra. ' i The impression which Dante left on i those who bt-hcld him was far different. : When years of persecution and exile t a '.led to the natural j-tenme--!"; his countenance the deep lines '. ft by grief, he happened to be at Verona . where, since the publication of the Infrrnri, he was well known. Pa.-ing one day by a porUcn where sevrrai women were seated, one of them whispered, with a look of awe, 1K,i yu see that man ".' That is he who g- v dwn t hell whenever hr p! a-- and "omsgs m tidings of the sini.cr- Kiow! ' Ay; , indeed," replied her companion, " v ry likely. Sec how hi- face i- scarred with fire, and blackened with .-moke, and . ho a- his hair and beard have been j curled in the flame-1" In the art of elegant ;ure, sn the art of wise trifling, we are sadly deficient. We are bred to bu-ino-s, tempered to hih cci.-monl-. We hardlv know what to do with tran quillity. We long to make silence t.sik and stir up quietness till we get a glow upon it. We are forever planning siiihthing for vacation amusements. It is riding, rowing, picnics r s.iine excursion with its fringe and frill oi excitement. We want n fnen.l r two in our solitude to t.iko off its solitariness. There seems to be no such thing as exquisite enjoyment, in simple conscious- . r.ess of existence. The great titeaU'r is open; its scenes are shifted every ln.ur : its actors are in numerable ; it orchestra full and tuneful, but men still yawn and stretch and wish they had .-omething 1 tO do. Profit of Tex an Cattle-Raising. , .; Ii,.nt-ii i T- " '- u-r. ; t The profits arisintr from the invest ment of mt.nev in pasturing stock in i this recion are enormous. Mr. Alfred , Smith, a prominent citizen of Austin, Texas, whom I met in the Indian Nation on his way home from a trip to New ( York, informed me that at the che of the war he invested $2.8lki in horses. By I judicious sales from the large number o! ' horses this amount purchased, ami by I the shrewd investment of the m;iey thus ; realized in the purchase of other horso. and by the natural increa-e of his :..;'k 1 he is now the owner of four thousand head. How much besides he made in cattle, sheep, and land he did nut intbnn me, but when in Austin I v.r.- informed by a prominent banker that "Mid, Smith "had realized half a million by, his faith in the stock pa-turage oft Western Texas, Sheep raising is said to , be a source of surer profit than either j horses or cattle. The sheep range of Western Texas are unsurpassed. It is almost impossible for any ersn who goes into the sheep business iu Western :IV-:!s with a little capital Pi keep irt-.ni getting rich. A groat many of the capitalisH of Eastern Texas buy a few thousj aud sheep on the frontier when mesquiti grass can be had, and then give tlwni in rfmrt'e to some t artv ho perstmalsv attends to them, who pays all the espenses, and takes half the jttws fMlitj ior his pay. Mr. Wiliiaai Kelleher, ot At;.-tin, a prominent sheepraiser, iunruied me that he had made an annua! profit of from thirty to forty per trmiim on the amount invested. lo understand i::c enormous Fi,.iy made m sheop-rat: irg in tins section it oitlv necetv-arv to state that one man can j take care of aud properly j thousand sheep. Taking in' attend two into considera tion accidents, disea-e, etc., me sueep double themselves every three years. No feed is required during the winter except the mes juit-rr.i-s so plentiful!) a Horded, and the genial and mild climatt precludes the necessity of Lousing during the same period. But while this country is marvelously adapted for grazing, it "is also a fine agricultural country. A Fast Train. There is an American sfory of respectable antiquity which tells how a fast ...: -.j,i tlm iti.iin.? rf if rwn .irrti!s and catne to utter grief, the sound of the J warning whistle arriving after the col ; lision. 'The driver was killed, and lb1 ' stnrv eni'fil with the word. " roor ftl low!" be was dead when biscurses reached him." As curi.uis, sr.d much more cer . . . . . . . . 1 - txutHy true, is its i.tci urai i.vi. ;i " is struck bv lightning he does not see the fl.i.-h. We do not know whether it i . . i ,t, ,..,,(', t,-: mis oei'u uusi t-n iu.i .-mi . . ..... i will happen to the first man Li..cd ly 1! e ciirhtv-one ton gun; within .1 11 .h. f 11 c muzzle, he will not heart!-- .t l.rel. The velocity of sound i-s 1.132 ft t tier second. The muzzle velocity ot the I "t 1 of the eighty-one-ton gun i iboi.t l.JoJ feet per second. This of co'ir-e r.i; . Vy j dimininishes, but the aver.me f r m distance would le greater than that of 1 the sound. Iti fart, as thi s'i..t .-r,t its whistle along with it, on- yu.i.M 1 e. r the whistle of the shot bi'i.-e he ir. g the expl.-ion of the gun. Some curious observations might be made vu.b n r 1 to this latter twint as to de at n.-'..c effect of jontid emitted by a l-rdy t-.iiel-in faster than the found, lhe 01 v other example we have is the lightning flash, producing the irregular r.ni of t'.e thunder. 1 It ia to be hoped that, n uh a" t'.e modern improvement., a mode, will be discovered of genii. g tid of L re- ; :or 1. is too bad that a poor wretch ai If punished for stealing your pockct-hat dSierchief or gloves, and that no puni-hment can be inflicted on thoe who steal your time, and with it your temper and patience, as well as the bright thought that might have entered your mind (like the Irishman who lo-t his fortune befnre he bad got if), but were frightened away by the bore. We look at death through the cheap glazed windows of the t'.et-h, and believe him the monster which, the flawed aud cracked glass represents him.

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