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MY HEART CANITE'EB GROW OLD. BY MBS. NANNIE BTEELEiMOOBt There ia a beauty in all nature, That lives and glows for me A tint of Heaven's own colors, In everything I see A sketch of heavenly grandeur, Touched by a hand divine, That sheds its ho'iest radiance Upon this heart of mine. Each loved flower that sheds its fragrance In garden, field or grove The grand old trees that spread their boughs To shade the path I rovo Song-birds that merrily carol A happy, gladsome strain, Awaken in this heart of mine The joys of youth again. The mirthful gieams of youth's bright eyes, That sparkle with delight, Illuminate its hidden depths With their reflecting light: And the silvery peals ofalaughter That ring upon the air Vibrate along its corridors, To find an echo there. When the sounds of music over My soul in rapture pour, And I hear my gay heart dancing, As in the days of yore, Keeping time with the glad measure Of each enlhoning strain They tell mejoyfully tell me My heart is young again. But there a power unseen, unheard, That reigns o'er all supreme That sweepJ each cloud of care away, And bids hope's Bunlight gleam A joyous King that smiling rules Within this glad domain 'Tie love that sits enthroned therein And sings the gladdest strain. Years, of joy and sadness mingling, This form with age may bow And Old Father Time's great plowshare Leave furrows on my brow Threads of silver may be woven With these bright locks of gold But while love singshis songB to me My heart can ne'er grow old. COBIHTH, Miss. SAVED BY A WHISTLE. The afternoon was drawing to a close. Huge clouds loomed threateningly in ihe west, and the wind swept about the -old inn with fitful wails. It would evi dently prove to be a wild, stormy night already the waves of the little cove that made in form the bay had put on their white caps in anticipation of a frolic. The inn had formerly been used for the accommodation of travelers but, at the time our story opens, it had been gradually falling to ruin, and people Seldom or never stopped there. The inmates were an 'old woman, knoftm as Granny Crane, a colored man who attended to the chores, and a young orphan girl of 18 whom granny had taken from the poorhouse years before. This girl, Elfie Darke, was standing on the porch, shading her face with one hand' and looking anxiously over the water. Her eyes were large and abso lutely startling in their wild, dark beau ty, with long curling lashes, and deli cately-arched brows. The scornful curv ing mouth was red like Southern wine. The head was daintily poised the nose small and straight the foot slender and arched like an Arab's. Far below her waist swept the jetty hair in a silken waving mass. She was a most exquisite creature, notwithstanding the rough caress of fie salt breeze had browned her cheek and the small hand that shad ed those wonderful eyes. A brown skirt of some woolen material fell to her an kles. She wore a short jacket of scarlet flannel, and a scart of the same color was thrown over her head. Suddenly a harsh, croaking noise sounded from the house Come m, gal! What are ye stand ing there for, and the cold wind blowing over one Elfie uttered an impatient exclama tion, but did not move, and the wrink led old crone crept to the door and looked over the girl's shoulder. "Ah, ha! That's what troubles, is it? No wonderand yer lover the only smuggler of 'em at home. I suppose they'd give a good round sum to get himeh, gal?" "Hush!" said Elfie, imperiously, as she turned on Granny Crane. "Don't you dare to betray him I" The old woman chuckled, and, shak ing her head, hobbled back to the house without speaking. Elfie looked after her with a troubled expression on her beautiful face, and then turned her gaze seaward once more. A vessel lay at anchor just outside the cove. Elfie knew it well enough it was the Government cutter in pursuit of smugglers. Elfie was thinking of her bold, handsome lover, and her heart beat strong and feverishly while she considered the chance of his escape. He was coming to see her that night. She would wait nothing could be done at present, for she knew not where to find him. The night closed blackly the rain came down in drenching floods, when Granny Crane, wrapped in a long cloak, sallied forth, passing just outride the door a stalwart figure that approached the house fiom the crazy old barn where he had fastened his horse. Going ter stay the evening with the gal?" she called after him. "Yes," came back to her in a bold, free Voice, and they passed on, he to the house, and she into the night, which grew blacker and wilder. "Ye are a fine lad, Kolf Stuart, but ye'll not spend the evening with Elfie. The Government hounds'll track ye ere long." The old woman pulled her hood over her wrinkled face and hurried on. Straight to the beach she went, and ar rived there just in time to see a number of dark figiues leaping from a boat The men regarded curiously the weird figure that quickly approached them. "Mayhap tho gentleman would be glad to know the whereabouts of a smuggler?" "Yes, my good woman That is what brings us here," said one, who appeared to be the leader. "Have you any in formation to give us She hesitated a moment, and looked at them craftily froftf under her heavy brows. I am a poor old woman" she began. *&* Here the man drew a roll of bills from his breast, and counted a part of them into her eager fingers. Now, then, tell us all you know." Yoa must follow the beach Up until you. reach the road," she said "then cross the grove of pines at the right, and you will see the inn. In the front room you will find the Captain of the band, with his sweetheart." A murmur of satisfaction arose from the men, and the leader, compelling granny tb follow, strode on across the beach. & Inside the old inn, Elfi rfud hetfoVer were talking earneiHyVS ****ing. "You must go &< Bolt The uu-i. cutter lays just outside the cove," the girl said, nervously. I thought yon would see her." I have been out of town all day and it's too dark to-night to see any thing. Come, lassie, fly with me. We will never return. This is no life for you. When you are my wife, sweet heart, silks and jewels'll be none too fine for you. Come away, and we'll have a home of our own that is grand and beau tiful, with no granny to grumble and find fault." She loved this daring fellow, in spite of his lawless deeds. Indeed, she knew no better class of men, for most of her life had been spent among the smugglers on the coast. She laid her cheek on his arm, while he bent to receive her an swer. Before she could speak, the heavy oaken door was thrown open, and the men from the cutter filed swiftly into the room. "You may as well surrender, my man," said the leader, throwing open his cloak and revealing the navy blue, with its glittering buttons. The young outlaw stood like a stag at bay. In the confusion Elfie had slipped from his arms, and out of the door. He was very glad of thatshe was out of danger. For an instant there was a dead si lence, and then, as the leader took one step forward, Kolf drew a pair of revolv ers from his pockets, leveled them at the men, and shouted with a reckless ring in his voice, while his face gleamed whitely from its frame of careless wav ing hair: Come onall of ye Only give me a fair chance, and come one at a time His tall, magnificently-built figure towered a full half a head above the others, and his gleaming eves were full of desperate resolve but he looked into the barrels of six loaded pistols, and the men were determined to capture their prize. Surrender, or we will fire!" At that moment a clear, sweet whistle rang above the wailing of the storm and tumult in the small room. Rolf quick ear recognized it. Elfie had learned it from his own lips, and had often helped him from danger by that call. While the men hesitated, and in voluntarily glanced over their shoulders to ascertain if possible from whence the sound came, the young smuggler, with a wild hurrah, and a blessing in his heart for Elfie, leaped upon the first of the bluecoats, and, knocking the pistol from his hand, made another spring for the door. But a sharp report rang out, and he felt a stinging sensation in his right arm another bullet severed a lock of his hair. Turning, he took aim with the revolver in his left hand and fired one of the cutter's men uttered a sharp cry, and throwingjup his arms fell to the floor. Another pistol met the bold fel low at the door, but he struck it up with his weapon and rushed out into the night, with two or three bullets whist ling about his ears. Again that clear whistle came to him, and, following the sound, he reached the corner of the inn, where he found Elfie waiting with his horse. "Bless you, my girl!" he murmured. With one leap he was upon the ani mal's back. He bent from the saddle and held out one hand. Will you come, sweetheart Without a pause she caught his hand and swung herself up before him. There was a word to the horse, a reck less, defiant shout sent back at their pursuers, and they were gone in the deep blackness of the night. No Use for tfuards. In the spring of 1865, when Shcri jdan's cavalry moved up the Shenan jdoah Valley to have a last wrestle "With Early's troopers, a halt was made by a portion of the Union lorco near "Wrynesboro. Guards were thrown out to protect property, and amon others the house ol a lone and aged widow received such protection. Two dismounted cavalrymen were station ed at the front door and it was half an hour or so before any stir in or around the house gavo token that it was inhabited. Then the widow limped to the door on a crutch and called one of the guards to her and asked: "What are you doing here?" "We are guards Jo protect you and your property" wis tho reply. "Well, you needn't tool away any time here. Early he come and he took our hay. Then Shcridau he coma aud ho took our corn. Then Mosby he stole our hams and 'taters. Then .Sheridan took our flour aud cider. 'Then Early run off our horses. All I 'had lcit this morning was an old sick Imule aud meal enough for one hoe cake. The mule he died two hours ago, and I've just eaten the last of the cake, and it you can find anything worth guarding around hero you can have it and tote it off." "But some of the soldiers may dis turb you." "I guess not," she said, as she point ed'to th6 spot where the cannon-ball had torn through the house. "Tbc day that hole was shot through there I was rocking and siugiug the 'Pil grim's Hope,' and 1 didn't miss a rocK nor drop a note. I don't hardly think one brigade ot horse-sojers can disturb me very much. You'll obleege me by joggiu' along l" CJiambers' Journal tells us: ''Lud- low stieet, a very unsavory quarter of New York, is inhabited chiefly, if not wholly, by Poles. They are the cat meat purveyors of that city, hunting the streets at night to capture cats for sausage. Three ot them especially de vote themselves to getting, feeding and breeding cats for tho table. The cats captured are caielully ex miined. Those in good plight are at once kill ed. The otheis are fattened. When kept in a yard, the walls are smeared with something so obnoxious to the feline nature, that no cat will pass it. A recent visitor to a Ludlow street yard says: 'It presented a most amus ing spectacle. About one hundred cats of all sizes, colors, aud ages, were sleeping, eating, quarreling, and cat erwauling all grades being represent ed, from tho handsome Angora aud Maltese to the homely backyard Tom. When considered fit for eating the cats are sold to small butchers,who make a specialty of cat sausage.^ The delicacy has a yeady sale, which, is ever increas Those Vho indulge in it declare cat meat superior fc any rabbit.'" ft J^- Justice S. J. Field as a Duellist. During Mr. Field's legislative days in the California legislature the mem bers were little else than walking ar senals. Two-thirds of them carried either bowie-knives or pistols. Some flourished both. When a member en tered the house he unstrapped his re volvers and laid them on his desk. It was done with as little concern as hanging up a hat, and it excited nei ther surprise nor comment. There was a hot debate over 'the proposed impeachment of Judge Turner. At the conclusion of Mr. Field's argument, B. F. Moore, of Tuolumne, arose to reply. He opened his drawer, cocked .his revolvers and laid them on his 4esk. Then he launched himself on a isea of vituperation. Mr. Field was handled without gloves. The most .offensive epithets were used, and the speaker openly declared himself re sponsible for his language at any time and place. Mr. Field answered Mr. Moore's arguments, but made no allu sions to his personal remarks. After the adjournment, however, he asked S. A. Merrit to bear a note to Mr. Moore, idemanding an apology or satisfaction. Mr. Merrit refused, through fear of being disqualified for office. Mr. Richardson, another member, also de clined. Happening into the senate chamber, the jurist saw a stone-cutter seated at his desk, writing. He was David C. Broderick, president of the state senate. They were bowing ac quaintances. "Why, judge, you don't look well," said Broderick. "What's the matter?" 'Well, I don't feel well," Field re sponded. "I don't seem to have a friend in the world." "What worries you?"' inquired the stonecutter. The jurist gavo the particulars of Moore's assault upon his character, and said that, at all hazards, he was deter mined to call him to account. "Well, I'll be your friend," Broder ick replied. "Write your note I will deliver it.'' The jurist wrote the note at an ad joining desk, and Broderick placed it in Moore's hands. The latter gentle man crawfished. He said that he expected to be a candidate for congress and that he could not accept a chal lenge because that act would disqual. ify him. "I have no objection to a street fight, however," he added. Tho stonecutter replied that a street fight was not the thing among gentlemen, but if Moore could do no belter he should be accomodated. He forthwith named time and place, and Moore Eour, romised to be on hand. Within an however, he changed his mind. He informed Broderick that the Hon. Dairy Baldwin Avould act as his friend and deliver a reply to the note of Mr. Field. Broderick called upon Drury Bald win, and asked for a reply to the note. Baldwin replied that his pi in had made up his mind to drop the matter. "Then," said the stonecutter, "as soon as the house meets, Mr. Field will rise in his seat and repeat Mr, Moore's language as to his responsibil ty. Ho will state that respect for tho dignity of the house prevented him from replying to the attack in terms that it deserved when it was made, and, alter detailing Moore's refusal to give him satisfaction, he will denounce him as a liar and a coward." "Then," said Drury Baldwin, "Judge Field will be sbot'in his seat." "In that case," rejoined Broderick, "others will be shot in their seats." At the opening of the house, Mr. Field took his scat at his desk as usual Broderick was seated near him, with eight or nine personal friends, all arm ed to the teeth and ready for any emergency. When the journal was read both Field and Moore sprang to their feet, and shouted, "Mr. Speaker I" That officer recognized "the gentleman from Tuolumne," and Field resumed his seat. Moore read a written apol ogy, full, ample and satisfactory. Fashions for Debutants. Very young ladies, when first ap pearing in society should be dressed for these occasions in very fresh and simple toilets. Tho graceful, slender figure at that ago admits of certain styles which can only then be used. An example of the fashion is the "robe a la vierge" and the "corsage a l'enfant" which consist of a blouse with a belt and small shoulder-pieces. The "jeune mar tyre" stylo is a kind of Grecian tight-sitting tunique, form ing two peplum points in fact all styles are resorted to for this purpose which are suited to very young wo men. After the age of twenty years ladies have many more privileges, and are then allowed to wear what are really young ladies' styles. It is much to be regretted that the very youthful fashion above described is not retained for a longer time. This distinction is much more observed by Parisian than by American ladies, the latter allowing young girls al most as costly toilets as should be worn by those more advanced in years. It cannot, however, be too strongly impressed upon a young lady's mind that the greatest "charm of her toilet consists in its youthful and simple character. A most admirable stvle is the "Agnes Sorel" poiut, or the "Diane de Poitiers'' waist, with puffings on the top of the arm these are tar pref erable to the "habit marquise" or the cuirass with paniers, which are more appropriate for young married ladies. Post. A Mortgage. In the whole range of sacred and profane literature, perhaps there is nothing recorded which has such stay ing properties as a good mortgage. tA mortgage can be depended upon to stick closer than a brother. It has a mission to perform which never lets up Day after day it is right there, nor does the slightest tendency to slumber impair its vigor in the night. Night and day, on the Sabbath and at holiday times, without a moment's time for rest or recreation, the biting offspring of its existenceinterest -gdes on. The may change, days into weeksseason weeks into months to be swallowediig. in the .gray man of advancing years," but 'the mortgage stands up in sleepless vigilance, with ethejnteresta perennial stream, cease- jlessly running on. Like ahuge night :mare eating out the sleep of somo restless slumberer, the unpaid mort gage rears up its gaunt front in per petual torment to the miserable wight who is held in its pitiless clutch. It holds the poor victim iu the relentless grasp of a giant not one hour of re creation not a moment's evasion of its hideous presence. A genial savage of pnollifying aspect while the interest as paid the very devil of destruction Trfhen the payments fail. POPULAR SCIENCE. The electric light is being fitted to alldepartments of the British museum. The temporary fittings made to exper iment with have been removed. "Tonic glycerine*' consists of 1,300 grammes of pure glycerine, 90 drops of tincture of iodine, and 30 centi grammes of iodide of potassium. It is a good substitute for cod-liver oil, and the dose is a tablespoonful a quar ter of an hour before each meal. It is important iu workshop mani pulation to remember, that, if a piece of cast steel be made red-hot and quenched in cold water, it will be come longer, but, it the same opera tion be performed on a piece of wrought iron, it will become shorter. It seems that the original inventor of the glue, glycerine, and water pro cess of copying letters, which has been extensively introduced within the past few years, has obtained in this country a patent for his device, dated May 18,18S0. He obtained a patent in Germany two years ago. A very favorable report of testsof Mr. Edison's dynamo machine and electric lamp is published in the June num ber of the American Journal of Sci ence. The experimenters were Profs. Bracket and Young. A horse-power was found capable of maintaining 10.2 lamps of 10.7 candles each. An infusion of about a pound of quassia chips to eight gallons of water has been found very useful in prevent ing blight in peach-trees and vines. If some of the infusion is put upon the hands and, face after washing there will be very little inconvenience felt during the day from the attacks of mosquitoes, gnats, or other insect pests. Bromine is likely to go into exten siveuse as a disinfectant, now that it can be had in a solid form, or, more strict ly speaking, as a compound which readily yields tho bromine, and which can be easily transported. A Prus sian chemist has hit upon the happy idea of causing bromine to be absorbed by silicious marl or the shells of in fusoria, which has jbeeu employed to take up nitro-glycerine in order to make dynamite. This is an easy way of detecting the purity or adulter ition of a sample of wine: Dip a small sponge into the wine to be tested. Place the spon2e then in a saucer, the bottompf which is covered with a small quantity of water. If the iwino is pure, it will take from a quarter to a half an hour before the water in the saucer becomes colored, but it the wine is not pure, the coloring of the water takes place immediately. The Druggist's Circular says that a mass resembling India-rubber, and a soluble in linseed oil, may be prepared by heating in an iron kettle, which should be only half filled, ten pounds of sulphur and twenty pounds of rape seed oil, Avith constant stirring until the sulphur is melted and the mass be gins to swell, when it is poured into a mold dusted with some kind of pow der, and allowc I to harden. Linseed oil may be used instead of the rape seed oil, but then the quantity of sul phur must be reduced. A recent report on injurious insects states that the popular idea that grubs arc killed by extreme cold is not borne out by facts. An examination of tho larvae and pupse that had been fully exposed to the influence of frost show ed that they were uninjured even when the earth containing them was frozen so hard that the mass had to be broken with a hammer. Frost, then, instead of diminishing the number ot insect pests, has a tendency just the other way. For, not only does tho frozen can a fiord a sale retreat to the giubstrom the attack of bird*, but excessive and piolouged cold proves fatal to tho biuls themselves. Hours and Minutes. Why is one hour divided into sixty minutes? and each minute again into sixty seconds? Why not divided our time as we do our mouey,-tens, count ing ten, or fifty, or one hundred min utes to an hour. This question was asked by an intelligent boy a few days since and the answer given him may both interest and instruct other young people. The answer is this We have sixty divisions on the dials of our clocks and watches, because the old Greek astronomer, Hipparchus, who lived in the second century before Christ, accepted the Babylonian sys tem of reckoning time, that system be ing sexigesimal. The Babylonians "\ei acquainted with the decimal sj stem but for common and practi cal purposes, they counted by sossi and sari, the sossos, representing six ty, and the saros, sixty times sixty, is thirty-six hundred. From Hippar chus, that mode of reckoning found its way into the works ol Ptolemy, about 150 A. D., and hence was car ried down the stream ot science and civilization, and loiiud the way to our dial plaies ol oui clocks ana waiciuw. AN old gentleman living a short dis tance out of Portland, Me., recently had on exhibition two ingenious pieces of mechanism. One was a steam barken tdne and one a steam bark, built on a scale of one-eighth of an inch to the foot They were framed, planked and bolted exactly like a large ship. Each plank was bolted and riveted with bolts made from a pin, hammered out to about the size of a horse hair. They had wooden blocks, rope-strapped, the rig ging was twisted silk, made in exact im itation of hemp rope, and everything, about them was made after" the same style. The" geritteman who made them said he had taken *GA working days to complete them. "Made of Paper." We have so long cherished a well founded prejudice against paper, says the Paper Woi*ld, as a flimsy and un substantial substance, that we are sur prised at% its recent utilization iu many ways where strength and dura bility are" the more important requis- ites.- Many articles, if we learned that they were made entirely or in part from paper, immediately lost fa vor in our eyes, and we looked at them askance. When the soles of our shoes soon wore out the fact was often at tributed to the use, by the unscrupu lous maker, of shoddy strips of paner in the place of inside* layers of double leather, and this is'only a single illus tration among many that might be given to show to what miserable, if not despicable, uses paper has been put. The daily tearing up of news papers and light wrapping paper for tho purpose of doing up {parcels has also done much to impress us with the fragility of the frequently handled material. It was natural that we had come to regard paper as a cheap and reliable substance. As a consequence, we cannot readily conceive of the successful application of paper where great strength, tenaci ty to withstand powerful strains and durability are required of it. But the one process of compression, enor mous in its power, gives all these highly desirable constituents to a sol id compact substance, which, although harder than wood and taking, to some extent, the place of iron, is form ed of the same material that makes the fragile newspaper sheet. Paper car wheels are successfully manufactured and used, paper bricks are becoming desirable as a building mateiial. Prof. Green, of the Troy Polytechnic Institution, has erected a great revolving dome whose light frame-work is covered with hard en during papier mache only one-sixth of an inch thick. Paper lias been suc cessfully employed as an anti-louliug sheathing for iron vessels and in other things almost as unexpected. It must be observed in connection with paper, however employed, that it possesses two very mamiest advantages lightness and cheapnessand when compressed into a solid substance it is a so as hard and durable as several othcivstiongnnd more costly mateiials. No one A ill hesitate to employ paper instead oi iion in any construction, provided that the former can be shown to be suffiicicntly strong, for its light ness and cheapness aic most important considerations in its favor. The range and mutability ot paper are remark able. The same material that forms the delicate valentine enters into the stalwart car wheel that sustains the weight of tons and endures a constant fnction as it glides along the iron rails. Accoidhig as paper may be pre pared, it lanks among the most fragile or the stoutest substances. Harder than wood and impeivious to water. Just think of it! How people fifty yeais ago would have been surprised at such accomplish ments. But being established facts, they are lraught with great signifi cance. They have enlaiged the possi bilities of parjer wonderfully. They have opened a wide field for expcri* n.cut and invention. Paper is des tined to take the place of many sub stances that will be found inferior to it, while its application in numerous undeveloped ways, wherein nothing else can be used, may be confidently expected. The uses of paper have within a short time expanded wonderfully. In the shop windows may be seen quaint and curious articles of Japan ese manufacturepaper napkins, pa per plates, paper sun-shades, toys, etc., etc., aitides liagile, and articles im peivious to heat and waterall of pa per. Its capabilities are limitless, and the langc ot invention has still a wide field. Skillful Bribery. A subtle kind of electioneering strategem was practiced successfully by Cochrane, the gallant Dundoimld, when he first resolved on getting into Parliament. He had come home from one of his cruises with a good deal of prize money. Knowing that to obtain a seat in Parliament it would be nec essary to canvass the entire borough, after the manner of British practice, and make personal appeals to the vo ters, involving an endless amount of money, and a great deal of time and perseverance, besides, per'nps a fruit less campaign in the end, he resolved to accomplish his purpose by finesse and ingenuity. He stood for lloni tou, and announced that he would not bribe. It is almost needless to say that he was not elected. He had, in deed, but few voters. When the con test was over he sent for the few who had voted for him, declared that they must not suffer for their political in tegrity and rewarded their virtues by giving them each twice as much as they would have got if they had sold their votes. Not long afterward there was a new vacancy and another elec tion. Cochrane stood again, and an nounced as he did before, that he would not give any bribes. This an nouncement did not deter even the most venal from rushing to the poll fca* Cochrane. Of course, when tke.elec tion was over aud he was most tri umphantly placet^at the head of the poll, those ^g^fd^ie over to his side eipecfed^|Mdue reward of double'pay& JrV^rrajffi them hinted as much. Tho hera coldly explained that he had rewarded the faithiul few who had stood by him while he Was unpopular, but the chosen favorite of a constituency had only to congrat ulate them all on their common suc cess. Candidates pay immense sums amounting to thousands of pounds to secure an election in England, aud the practice has become well defined. THE editor of the London Garden, in answer to an inquiry, says that ripe strawberries can be had the year round, and that there is no difficulty about their production every day of the year, only quality must be left out of consid eration from October to February, for without sunshine, under ^he most fayor .able conditions, the fruit is insipid, and that it is hardly worth while to incur great expense for strawberries that are only good to look*fc ITEMS OF INTEREST. (pleased i**!* The oldest living graduate of Har irard college is said to be Joseph Head, who was graduated in 1804. The increase of the Roman Catholic population in this country in the last twenty years has beou about 3,800,000 that of priests has been 3,754 that of ichurches and chapels, 4,022. The gain jin priests and churches still continues. At the termination of Anton Ru binstein's last concert in Moscow, the patrician beauties Of that city carried the platform by storm, and devoured the great pianist's bauds with fervent kisses, to his manifest embarrassment and confusion. Miss Sarah Martin, a Cherokee girl, wrote a letter to Rev. L. Moody. The letter was shown to a wealthy friend ,of Rev. Moody, who was "so well with it that he placed $1,000 at the disposal of Mr. Moodv for the continuation of Miss Martin's educa tion. S. A. Bemis, an old citizen of Bos ton, whose father was the first person to announce, by ringing the church, bells, tho British advance on Lexing-*v ton and Concord on the night preced ing the memorable 19th of April, 1775, offers to give a new bell to the OUv South church in Boston in exchan for the old one. The new "compromise" metals of1 which so much was heard a few months ago are to have a trial at the mint. The director of the mint is to have coined four hundred specimen^ each of the "stella," the metric silvei' dollar, and the "goloid" dollar. These are specimens of a reform coinage re* commended by Alexander H. Stephen^ and invented by Hubbell, of PkiladeLg phia. At Scarlettstowu, Pa., a young man tried to prevent his father from chas4 Using a little girl, when father ancf son clinched in a hard tussle for mus cular supremacy. The pugilists roll!! ed into a mill-race and fought in tho water for some minutes, Having end-* ed the struggle at last, the lather packed up a tew duds and left for the West. The son also packed his trunk and left tor unknown parts. The Gciman war maneuvers this autumn will include the massing of some twenty thousand cavalry behind Se ttle Rhineland frontier, with intent to experiment practically on the rapidi ty with which the frontier hue can be u, covered and held in force by this arm, i!^ pending the arrival of infantry, to re pel invasion. The test will be exhaus tive, including tno marching, feeding and disposition of the troops, as if un der the stimulus of au actual emergen cy. Joaquin Miller who has recently revisited California, says that the so cial decadence and "business dry rot'' $1 in San Francisco arc vei marked, aud Tl that nothing ever happened halt so disastrous to the Pacific States as the IV building ot the Pacific railroad that the road became at once a sort of si- Sf phon, which let in a stream of,weak and worthless people, and gave "the* brave young States" there all the van ities aud vices of the East, with none 'Vi of their virtues. & A town in Arizona is called Toomb- IX stone. The story goes that two young men, brothers, when about to start from Tuosor on a prospecting tour into the Dragoon Mountains Sonora, wcic aclYisecl to give u^ the undertake ing, if they persisted rhcy would" find neither mine nor fortunes, but their "tombstones" instead. The boys' 'bravely bade good-bye to their friends) though warned that they would never pome back alive. The prospectors went off, and following a blind ^ail made their camp On looking about they saw a ledge of ore cropping out sever al feet, alt niaikcd and rich with prec ious pietale. 'VYc have found our tombstones/' they exclaimed, and no I other nanio would do to designate the camp, Tho lo.vn has adopted the name, which, if not poetical or classi cal, is certainly original. At Tiflis some Jews from Koutais weic on trial charged with using Cnrrstian blood in their Passover ccr eaionics, and with killing a little girl for that puipo^c. Altera six-hours'tl trial they were acquitted. The Pub lic Prosecutor, feeling the absurdity of the chirgvi, declined to deliver the usual speecii lor the prosecution. A lady in Lowell, Mass., created quite a sensation among her friends, and caused some vexation to herself, on coming out of church one morning, by opening her umbrella and shower ing herself and those near her with peanuts shells, which mischievous children had placed in it. Rome spends $200,000 on its public schools, of which ten years ago it had none at all. The Romans now evince great alacrity in attending the schools, and the latter arc entirely inadequate to the demand of the population. THEKE are in Germany twenty-one universities, with nearly 2,000 profess ors. In each university there are classes in the five principal faculties of theology, law, medicine, philosophy and letters. A writer on the subject notes that the^most popular faculty is philoso phy, which includes mathematics, save at Strasbourg, where it is a different faculty. James Oliver, of Oliver's Grove, III., is 93 years old. He gave his wife a farm for consenting to a divorce, as he desired to get a young wife in her rjlace but the new wife asked and obtained $30,000 in money, I i 4 MRS. CROSS (Georgfe Eliot) has sep arated hersell entirely from her past life. Before her marriage with Mr. Cross she destroyed every scrap of cloth ing or ornament that belonged to her life with Mr. Lewes. Her trousseau was a very large one. She wore, at the wedding, white silk and orange flowers. She will live in a new house in Chelsea, overlooking the* Thames, and furnished throughout with new furniture. The population of Montreal, if the corporation official statement are cor rect, is less by 4,000 than it was a short time ago. There are many hundreds of houses unoccupied to-day in Mon treal, where five or six years ago jit ^was almost impossible to find a house waiting for a tenant, and the rents and values of property are lower than they1 were even a year or two ago. i *f