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POETRY. A QUMSTIOM As Annie wis carrying the baby on day, T in? aloft the lump of inaubT, IK-i- to V l'thT n.. mother, no donht To the re of the world a MM lump of hu nt ni v. Sr l c im n'oncr. an 1 wa tbirkl'-t? then, mtybe. F'i 1 as inucii of Annie as he of the baby ! '-.in-t took at the bah !" rried Ann, In a flatter, iiv'.ntr ii lock 'roontl her ftnsrer a twirl; " If I va a man I Know that I couldn't B- k. epin my hard off the dear litde girl Ami S:im wrave a wink a if to y. "maybe in the jjirls I d r'hr hug you than the Saby'." Xiw k' it." h? cried, tili hnsrgin? it closer, It SSOOtB'a dks the rotes the hon.-v-boe :" Sam -:.;, J to obey, and as head came lo- v it er, Tfcv rs essaccS la arb a BsafBalsa of l'p! Ari'l a It ocenrrd. it nv'irht have h -.-n. maybo Th..t rach l-o: a ki-c, j;hb. Ann and the ha'by ! If ' htr,! to v whtt nt V. en wa- the netHer, For the h,iy wm UM oM'y one I CiCHWl there. Ar'l Sata tu-h'fi nr I k h fall BiwWB m m And UsBM! Batwas reii to the root of hi- ha.r; S i t'. , -.. -rim i-th.s yon can at.sw r ;i. may' Old Anal k:-- San; er did both kit tbft taty ? MISCELLANEOUS. ClPTUü HAIIIIELL.S WARD. A THUS WORT. Thikty years ago I was second mate of the Wan IW, lying m the port of Auckland, Ncff Z aland. As we were bound to Jspan the next MSB, lOHlhlBS at the Sandwich Islands, we received on board 3 passen -M a Scotchman, who had been for Mfnal jrmra a MÜnit of the colonies, and Ml only child, a little girl of twelve. David Csnserou hud recently lost bis wife, Who had long been in delicate health ; and. d Mttttjg up all his .'flairs, dcteriuincd im a eh of rt-sidence, with a view of poshing Ids fortune elsewhere. He h id been l B aman in his youth, and was, of eowrse, ab'e to adapt himself easily to Nd MennodalioM as we could offer Li u in a wimler. II.' wai tenderly at I ached t his little d tnghtet, who son he fim a favorite with every one on boird 1 needed not the assurance ot the Strfc ken w id wer to satiety u that Jessie had bed la the hands of an excellent Mother. Sis -was an interesting and in ; Ilgen) child, anil hail made the most of her opportunities in a situation where educational advantages were necessarily Very lituit t d. Thrown Into daily contact with her, as I -as, it was not strange that I found a sir r.g attraction drawing me to her. She ws .1 ad y to me ; fori could not help c mtnming bef, every hour in the day, wi b a tittle sister of mine, about tne same kge, wlio l I had left at home. It was true, Maria wai a bright and pretty child, aad M pr n i rtr-d hnd of nie, her ailir- brotherl siic belieTod ttat Priaai Dar- reil wts the incarnation of all that was yrmdati l noM in manhood. But had aflrthiag of the (piiet aif-refiaiiea to 1 1 ohatSTSd in this child, wli had been 1 irowa s uiudi B pOO her own resources In b Ktk knowledge, as well as in the thou sand little gfacei aad arts required in so- ci iy, ahe w.s, of eotma, the superior of Jesssie OaaMOoa : hoi in strength and Inrot of ehanctef', she might well have been several years the younger. Wh'-nmar the French Book, we en countered a gale of wind which exceeded ia violence- anything which I have ever eaperteneed, before or since, in the Pacific But our li tte pas"engr was q lite at home on ahtph .trd, au 1 appeared to have little 1 ar or uneaHu.-ss. She remained on deck nearly all the time, until the wind and sea increased to such a degree that kef Eaihtf VTSfl compelled, by fears for her . Oty, lo or ier her to keep clvse in the cabin. I be old Warsaw, owing to her ctiff nea&jVfaon very u-Iy sea-b;at in a gale. And on the econd day of the blow, all her storsa canvass having been torn fioin the I itt-ropee, she lay wallowing at the aaerey of the elements. Jt was found q Ute impossible to bend and set any new j st!s, and our situation became really d ln '' r us. Wfl l iv thus for several hours, occa sice tltj shipping the lop of a tea, bat no material damage had been done. Toward eight, we Here favi-red with a lull, and ad v ia ige WM taken of it to set a new miz n itaysnU, that we Bight have some thiag to kt tp her head up to the sea. AÜ hai Ii vrere above the deek at the time ; and I myself was on the miT.Bn atay, halfway up the mainuiat, doing the la t work of bending the sail to its hai ka The halyards and sheet wert si 1 ; ''.y manned, and every one in readi : r the word to ' hoist away." 1 was taat ahosjl To slide down from my ch, w ben a great wail of water cime van mm down wggm us, and I knew, by tbe leenng of th'j ship undwr me, that she won i not rise clear of it. On it came; I lung involuntarily to the stay, hearing eoarnaod cries of "Hold on!" "Look I' r.i" as with a shock that seemed to have driven in the whole broadside of ! ntu stout craft. El eomhed in nearly the whole length of th ship, fore and afr, giving no one lime loeacape, or to do anything but to cling instinctively to the nearest support. Ail below me wa.i a racing gulf of water, ia a h cii men and inanimate objects were . as . a. k pr ' c.scuousiy tiashe'l ari)iu. 1 nai rnoogfa to do to retain my hold where I waa, looking down upon the dreadful sight 1 fell t,:at my fate wu-' be de t kied in another minute or two. It must bei Munom that of my shipmate j, a'ho Were vaialy stretchin? thetr hand.-, toward ni fof mo r, while iiere and thre a cry rang in my ears, breaking the eaanfelese 1 ar .t sea and wind. We were all to di; Ugether, aa heard at; the simple record icheil t.. our names, "Probably found ered at sea." Bat, snivering in every timber of her BBi I'-nt tVtbric. the Varsw rose Lrain tri ll ;i:pliuQt trom wliat seemed hei Jeath straggle with Ihe etesneasta Her hare deck came into view as she shook ht rself fret of burden ; lof nearly all the bulwarks v re swept away on both side, as well as i rything Of a movable nature. Hut not a iiU'iian being was to be seen, as, still dinging in my elevated position, I looked about me. All bad been swallowed up and trone to their final account. I had no time tor sentiment; indeed I think the leading emotion in my mind one of as'onishment at feeling the ship siiil buoyant, for I had no idea that she add ever rise asrain. I slid down to the i eh, and watching my opportunity, d rrd below into the cabin. kv rything w is afloat there; for the companion-way bad been lashed into splinters, and the i had poured down in a ataraet. I st"d in the doorway leading into the after m. dn nchtd and shivering, looking up the now opened hatchway, and won ron' hov long it might be ere I should b ingulfed; f r the next sea that loarded as would probibly fill and water log the already shattcreti hull. " Win re's I ather?" said a tremulous lit tle voice behintl me. UntÜ then I had not thought of the ehild. 1 turned al th- sound, and saw the bright head protruding from the narrow oeninz of a state room door. The bine ev-s 'jri'M unnaturally expanded with wonder and anTtntj' lut there was none of the childish weakneet of fear that Blight have been looked for under the cir cumstances. "Mr. Darrell, where's father?" she re peated. II w eonldj I answer the question ? Oniy byasign to her to keep close within her room, as I moved forward out of her nntre of visi n, that my tell-tale face mi sit be hidden, Po wertem, as regarded any effort I I 1 Id mai:e for safety agun:-t the storm, I awaited the m ment when the ship should I (ngnifbd, with little Jessie and myself. Ibit as if the demon of wrath had been Bav tut ii, sin; now app ared to make better w 1 t bat of it than she had done for hours b. l re. Hope agam revived, and I has tewed to explain our position to the or phvaapd gin. I knew not how to begin, rough M mma hat I wa?, to break the sad intel I renei lo her. But I found it unneces sary 10 speak; she had already guesaed lav troth, in part, and a siügle look in my ltea was snmcWat tor her quick eora prebenaion to take in the rest. 1 the first burst af ?rief, which I puff- re 1 her to indulge unchecked, ahe lie- 1 1 ' -o ,01. , ,u I.r- . 1 m . , . partd to h.k the matter squarely tn the The VOLUME XV. face with a coolness and resolution far be yond her years. " Oo you think we shall be drowned, Mr. Darrell f" she asked. " No," I answered. " At least I have strong bopef that we may be saved. I think the worst of the gale is over, and it wc only don't happen to ship an unfortu nate sea like that which" 'My dear father! He was all that I had f she moaned ; and once more her miracu lous fortitude gave way, and she broke down again. The gale abated at midnight, and though the ship labored terribly in the tumbling swell, for want of canvas to steady her, we IhJpped no nore hf;avy seas. I stayed near my young charge all through the night; for, of course, neither of us could sleep. I promised her that I would ever be as a father to her, and that, come what would, ahe should share my fortunes aud be to me as a sacred legacy. Of course, no such idea as marriage with her had anything to do with what I aid or felt at that time. I was twenty rive years old, and Jessie a child. Betides, I was under promise of marriage to a Voting lady of suitable age. Siie jilted 'ue for another, during my absence but that has nothing to do with my story. With the morning light came the neces ky for effort, and a sense of responsibility new and strange to me. I sounded the well and found only two feet of water in th" ship, this havimr worked down from above. I did not attempt, alone, to puuip her out: but rejoiced in the assurance that I stiM had a tight vessel under me ; tor, had she sunk, I should have had no Impendence beyond such a raft as I could have extemporized. Every boat had been swept away. I loosed and let fa1! the foresail, and suc eeeded in setting it, with the child's as.-i st ance and the power of the Tri fad hi ft Tne spanker I could easily manage with the brails; and these, with the lower staysails, were all the CSAVSJ I intended to make nee of. I could do nothing with the loftier sails without more help. The sun had cone up brightly after the St .rm. and the aspect ot the skies indicated B continuance of tine we-atuer. I took ob servations and shaped my coarse toward the Qervey I-daud3, hoping to make Mangea or Haratonga. I had a good general knowledge of navigation, though I had little practice, and was nnnaed lo anything like responsible control of that department. Or course, I was obliged to be at the hehn most of the time. Hut I soon taught JesaVe, so that she could steer well enough in fair weather, which gave me time to attend to many other matters. But as we could not steer all day and all night, the ship was necessarily left to her own guidance some part of the time. I soon discovered that my knowledge of navigation, though it might tell me w here I was, WOSdd not.enablt meto go where 1 wished. The winds and currents headed me on, so that we were making a urift to the westward ; and it was impossible- to remedy this, unless the ship were manned I so as to be well steered and enabled to j carry all sail Spite of all that the child j and I could do, she must go nearly where , the elements might carry her. We should be more likely to make land somewhere among the Tongas or Fejees than in the direction I had hoped at first. There was no fear of our running short of provisions or water, as we had more on board than we could consume lor years. The weather continued tine, and WC wer? daily drifting into milder lati tudes ; bat no sail could be seen. A dozen times every day I climbed to the mast head, in the vain hope ot descrying a ship, and as often descended to cheer up my little shipmate with the hope of pee ing on to morrow. Thus week after week wore away monotonously, while Jessi-; and I were all the world to each other, and every hour served to fasten the tendrils more firmly about my heart, as she leaned in hr chddiah dependence upon me. I thought how miserable I might have been if entirely alone in such a situation, and in return clung to her, and gave thanks as for a blessing, heav-em-atent. to become a part of my whole future life and being. I do not think 1 could have entertained the thought of ever parting with her. My observations satisfied me that we had passed beyond the latitude of the Tonga and Fe; jee groups witnout having seen them. Tins knowledge was rather a relief to me, for we should most likely have fallen into the power of savage can nibals, who would have shown us no saerey. We could hardly fare worse by drifting on toward the equator, while there was still the possibility of meeting a ship with civilized men on board. At length, on going aloft, as usual, one beautiful morning, tne horizon line along under our lee presented the irregular, broken appearance which I had often seen before, and knew so well. The bunches of tufts of cocoanut trees growing upon vi ry low land were the first objects that OBSae into view, so that, as we neared them, the slender stems seerm d to be routed into the ocean, and to shoot direct ly up from its watery bed. We were setting, by the force of a cur rent, directly toward the island, and there was no possibility of propelling ihe ship away trom it. Hut there was a chance that it might be uninhabited. If so, we could not iand upon it, for we bad no boat, and it was out of the question to think ol managing a raft in the intricate channels ot a coral reef. Hut we had been seen, as it appeared, even before we tind discovered the land. For within an hour Ike triaagulai sails of half a dozen large canoes rose into view, coming rapidly up toward us. To escape with the ship was simply impossible. But it occurred to me that the savages could know nothing of our defenseless COfidJ tion, though the appearance ot the ship, under so little canvas in fine weather, must be strange and suspicious to tbem They would not attempt any foul play with us, if they believed the vessel to be ttiily manned and armed. They had come off to drive a barter trade witii the white m n, as was their usual euatOBL I at once set to work, with the help of the child, who showed a ready compre hension of the situation, to manufacture a crew fbf the vvnuat. Seamen's c lothes were abundant, and in a short time every bandfpfke was rigged up in a motley suit. These were ail stutlvd out into shape, and topped with hats or caps. I disposed t hem in the most natural positions about the decks, in the various parts of the ship, so as to give the whole the most lifelike appearance 1 loaded all the firearms wc had on board, which amounted to only three muskets; and then went aloft to loose the j mainsail, which had never been set since I the gale in which the crew were swept I overboard. I had felt unable, alone, to j control buch an immense sheet of canvas. ' But I must have it ready for use now, in case I should want to give the vessel more headway. While on the mainyard engaged in loos ening it, a sail appeared in sight over the point of the island. Not a canoe one could no, be seen at that distance in range of the trees, but a ship ! My heart leaped at the thought that help and deliverance were within a few miles of me. " Bring up the ensign from the cabin, Jessie!" 1 BhOUted as I let fall the bunt f the mainsail, and hurried down on deck. I caught it from her eager little arms, bent it to the halyards, and run it up half mast, as a signal of distress. I brailed the spanker, while the child put. the helm up, and by the power of the foresail wore the ship around so as V le oa the same tack with the strange vessel. I could not steer the ship directly at her, Plymouth without running the ship ashore; nor could she w ork to windward much against the force of the current. But my hope lay in her sending boats, as soon as tiio on board should see my dig of diatTefs and the strange trim of my sails. I managed to swing the heal yards round, and set the foresail, after a faahion. Hut meanwhile the savages were last closing with aae, and I had not soflcieal confidence in my sham maim n to believe that I could long deceive their sharp ej a I might gain a little time; but the trick must be discovered and I feared it would be before succor could reach me from the strange sVIp. I kept Jenäte at the wheel, steering as much off the wiud as I dared ; but I was fearful of getting embayed, and not hav ing room to clear the point. I let lly the mainsail, and gave it a kind of flying 8Lt. as well as I could. The ship felt this added power at once, aud gathered head way; w-hich I determined she should not lose, for if the barbarians once succeeded in getting on board, it would be too late for.any attempt of boats to rescue us, even if we were not instant' put to death. It wns no time now to think of the question whether I could ever gel the sails in again. I must have the use r.f them now, at once ; and I sprang alolt to loose the top sails. I had only lime to do this and let go the gear, aothat they filled and bagged out in midair; for of course I could not hoist the yards up. The leading canoe was now drawing very near me; ami the ugly-k) k Ing wretches stood standing in silent be wilderment as the ship drove past them. I s.iw by their gestures as they pointed at the handspike men, that they were al ready suspicious; probably from having noticed that they didn't move about. But they rested on their peddles to confer with the next comers, and I had thus gained so much time, while I was doing what I could to push the Warsaw ahead. I knew theefl people well enough to be sure that they would never attack un less all the circumst mces were over whelmingly in their favor. They Would move warily in reconnoitering ; but, as soon as certain of the true state of things, they would make a dashing at tempt to board the shin by force. I had thus shaken off the first canoes, and left them in tbe wake. A stern chase is proverbially a long one, though their canoes would sail much faster than the ship would, under her bags and festoons. But other pursuers were fore-reaching upon me, and fresh reinforcements put ting out trom the shore as we Beared tbe land obliquely. None seemed to care to visit the other ship; but all were attracted by the mysterious maneuvers of mine. A large canoe, which contained one whom I judged to be a leading chief, placed herself in my track. 1 was obliged, necessarily, to pass her so closely, that their suspicions, already aroused by tele graphic signals from their baflled com rades, were rendered certainty. Our real weakness was now undeistood, and al most instantly cummunicated through the whole flotilla. All those which hail been left in the rear gave chase under full power of Bails and paddles; while five or six late arrivals, wno had the advantage of position disposed themselves for board ing the ship on both bows at once. There was no alternative for me but to stand boldly on my course, and I had time, before closing with tbe enemy, to run up in the main rigging and cas.t an anxious glance toward the snip, winch was hugging the wind under all sail, in the endeavor to come to my relief. Bel ter than all, I could see that two boats had left her side and were pulling toward me. But a crisis must come before they couUl arrive on the stae. I sprang on deck again, seized a boarding-knife, a ter rible two edged weapon, w nch would be far more effective at cloe quarters than any tire arms, and took my stand on the fore hatches, where I could jump (piickly to either side. The bulwarks, as betöre stated, had been nearly all swept away by the sea that boarded us. But this circum stane'j was puite as much in my favor as in that of the assailants. I watched the approach of two canoes, which were nearly abreast the tore chains, on each side. It seemed that they would both attack at the same instant. If so, I might be overwhelmed by one party boarding in the rear while I was upsetting the ot tier. I dropped the boarding kn de, and seizing a musket, the only reliable one I had, I took a hasty a'm at the man in the head of one of thecanoes and tired. He dropped his paddle, struck, as I sup pose, In the arm. I was sale on that sii." at present, as the confusion and loss of headway would be sufficient to cause her to lose her chance ot grasping the chain plates. I rushed across the deck just in time to meet the other canoe as she fell alongside. One of my Quaker mariners w'th a hick ory backbone stood couveuienlly at hand. I lifted it and dashed it upon the heads of the savages, felling two ot tbem. Thtff also lost their hold and drifted astern. Hut by this time a third and fourth were almost upon me. I was ready with wea pons on both sides, and now that I was fairly in for it, felt far 'less anxiety than wlM'U the light was only in anticipation. One of tuem made clumsy work ot it, dashing her prow violently against the ship's side, and being thrown adrift on the rebound. But wliile I was observing this the other, on the starboard side, had secured a firm hohl, and two grinning warriors had made good their fooling on the pfamkahear. A rush, with the thought that I V'.s striking for my own HA and that of the Child ; a single sweep of the keen board ing-knife, and tbe two man gled barbarians tell back upon their com rades. 1 was lear ofthat crew by a sin gle cut, dividing their warp of oocoaaut cordage. 1 had received a wound in the side from a spear thrown at me a raggi d cut by a series ol shark's teeth fait 1 hardly felt it then M' an while tne brave little girl had stood at the beta, steering the ship as well asi could have done it myself, and carefully noting my orders, conveyed to her by a wave of my hand. There were Itill two more cinoes ahead, but I led one ot tnem into a trap by directing Jessie to make a broad yaw, and then suddenly bringing the ship back to her former course Taken by surprise, he had no time to get deal from under our bows. The canoe was crashed, and sunk instantly, though it was quite impossible to drown her amphibi ous navigators. Her consort kept out of reach, and fell in abeam of us at a safe dis tance, not daring to make an attack un supported. I felt now comparatively safe, for al though all the canoes astern were steadily gaining upon us, they must approach us at a great disadvantage, and, beddeg, they had lost confidence and prestige ; for, with savages, the lirat surprise is everything. I could now take my stand aft, near my little companion, and could use firearms withde lilx ration. Hut while doing so with deadly effect upon the man whom I supposed to be high chief, as before mentioned, I was startled by a cry from Jessie ; and turning, beheld the ahoeky head of a stalwart savage ris ing into view on the oth:r quarter. He had poised his spear for the act of darting at me, when, quick as thought, the little girl, who let go the helm, slung a billet of wood directly in bis face. He was thrown off his balance and fell backward, while the spear dropped harmlessly in on deck. I was on the spot Ixdore another BM could nlimti un : ai.tl the langer was over. The blWSJH was freshening a little, and the two boats were now plainly in view and fast searing us. I directed Jessie lo keen a little more off, so as to head di rectly lor them ; for 1 had mre sea room PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, now, and felt That I could afford to laugh at the whole bloodthirsty park, who, now in full cry, were hovering in our wake. Tne warps of the two fully-manned whale boats were skillfully thrown up to me, and with those twelve resolute sea men on her deck, the Warsaw might bid defiance to any number of piratical canoes, ThetopeaOi were hoisted at once and everything trimmed. We closed rapidly with the other ship, and I loon had the pleasure of shaking by the hand my former shipmate, Baylies, now in eora mand of the CalypSO, and of presenting my heroic little nontenant, Jwssie. A gang of men were spared sufficient to woi ii the Warsaw, and together the two ships bore away for Sydney. Here the damages were repelrad, a crew shopped, ar.tl the consul put me in charge of her to taki' her home. The little Scotch gfarl, thus ltupon the world, became a member of 1 ur family. My m Aber and Maria wotihl have as ented to any arrangement, If I had sug gt sted it ; but their whole hearts v. ere en listed in the orphan's welfare, when they learned the Whole story of the ad ventures which siie had shared with me. The small sum J money found among her father's effects was carefully applied toward her clothing and education; and bidding her a tender farewell, I left her to follow ap my profession. I made t wo voyages alter this, ri.d at esveta return I found Jessie all that the fondest and most careful guardian could d ire. In all respecte she was equal, in B ne SUpei i r. to my sister ; aud, had they been twins, they could not have loved each Other better. Jessie Was twenty years old at the time I arrived home in command of the Green wich. 1 know n t at wha particular time during that voyage I began to think it was possible that she and I might love ea'h other. I think this feeling cinie Upon me very gradually. Perhaps it may b re been omething in the tme of her letters; for ehe always wrote to me much as a Bister might write to an elder brother; but her letters, on this voyage, were not quite so affectionate as at first. There was a little embarrassment in the manner anil style. Yet this was but natural when I reflected noon it. But it must have been this very change that put me in the way of reflecting. There was, after all, noth ing very awkward or anomalous in our position toward each other. She was simply a member of our family, an adopt ed daughter, as it were, of my mother. But, wishing to support herself, she had lound employment as a teacher, and in sisterJ upon paying her board. This I had learned from iln various letters re ceived ; and, ot course, I admired her in dependent spirit. 1 kept pondering the matter till it form d the chiei subject of my thoughts through many a long night watch. I did not know ol any other woman whom I could love so well I was only thirty-three, even though I Itud been a bearded second mate when bhe was a wee sprite of a child. Atter all, the disparity of age was not so very great, aud perhaps But I could not bear the thought of hav ing her marry me as perhaps she might, it 1 asked her from any feeling of grati tude or obligation. Though I am satisfied since that I wronged her, even in think ing she Blight do so. She had developed into a beautiful woman when we n.it mot sne vn.n de 11 it, ... i of mo as ever, for the tears came into her eyes at sight of me. But she did not, of course, rush into my arms and kiss me with the old chddish abandon. All of which was natural enough, when I came to consider upon it. I took occasion very soon after my ar rival to apeak to my sister, alone, about Jessie. I think I asked if she had any suitor. Antl perhaps I was transparent enough to betray the interest I felt in Maria's answer. At any rate she looked at me very roguishly. "No," said she, "none that I know of. I wish she might have that is, an ac Cepted or an acceptable one. I ilidn't mean to say that no suitors had applied only that she had none now." " Is she so hard to suit, then ?" I asked. 44 Very," said Maria. 44 Yet I think I kn w a man whom she would not re fuse" 44 Indeed ? Who is the favored one?" " You arc the last person who ought to a.-k the question. Go lok in ttie gtsas," she auded, as she rose to leave me. " Hut I am to old Maria." This in spite of having long ago argued myself Into the belief that I was not. 44 To old to look in the glass, do you mean?" aked my sister, innocently. " dhs doesn't think s," mischievously, ar kin. "Stay!" said I, detaining her. and be coming very Imperative and serious all at ne. 41 1 am your brother, Maria. Do not jest or trifle with my feelings." " Not for worlds!" she returned, even more seriously than I my elf had spoken. 44 Neither with ytmrs, Priam, nor with hers, for is she not as my twin sister?" '(), the unreasonable InqniaitiTonoss of man ! To ask a woman how she knows in a ease like this! There, let me go, miw. But, Priam," added the dear girl, turning back, ami striking a tragic atti tude, " thou canst not say did it ! Of course I oouldnt" but I thought I might do it myself, on this hint. And I think I was hardly happier myself than were Maria and our mother, when they h arned that J ssie and I were to sail the voyage of Ufa together. She doesn't, know any better than I do, on the other ham!, at what particular time she found out she loved her old guardian. But we lot It agree that it is of no great conse quence. An Indian llooiauce. Ouack GnnnwoOD writes as follows: At the Land Office, the other day, Mr. Wilson, the Commissioner, who has col lected a remarkably curious and valuable cabinet and museum, showed us a singu lar trophy of Indian warfare a bead- dress of the most frightful and diabolical description. It was oomposed of buffalo boms and skin, adorned with wampum and tinsel, and long, wild tufia of buffalo hair. Depending from it was a tail of in- ordinata length, also tinseled and tufted, with small sleigh bells running all the way uowu it. This unique Hccoutn-ment was once Hie property of Tall Bull, a Cheyenne Chief, who was killed in a fight with the United States Fifth Cavalry and their Pawnee anxOiariea, under General Carr, some time lat rammet. When this chief, who was a gitnintic savage, ; aw that the lay was lost, he put his wife a id child on a pony, antl sent them within t.ar lines, telling them to surnmder to the whites. The Indian 'woman, who was kindly re- ived, said that when her husband told her she must give herself up, she urged him to go with her, but that he covered his ears with his haniis to shut out. her entreaties, and rushed back into the light, which was the last she ever saw of the lamented Tall Bull. He was speedily killed, and these are his remains. In this same engagement, another Cheyenne WO man, young and remarkably handsome, came dashing into our ranks, w ith two children strapped to Imt pony. But bhe did not come to surrenib r. Bhe came like a fighting fury, erased with a long knife, with which she struck frantically right and left. .t last, seeing herself shout to be captured, she mbben to the heart n. 1 one child, th n the other, then herself. ami tu perished- a Medea whom therein no Euripides lo immortalise. I'iiii.hiki.imiia eipecteto have 800,000 dwelling houses in the year THURSDAY, JULY Advantages of Advertising. AJfOKO thorough business men the al vantages of jodicious advertising are well known and practiced. It a man has got a good thing an ar ticle of Bommeree needed by the people, and which he wishes to 1 ispo.se of, let him advertise it by all means. Don't think of waiting for buyers to nuke the discovery themselves. Thousands of per sons who would becoase your customers don't know that they are In v-ant of the ar'dcle until they read your advertisement in the newspapers. They read, and instantly they discover that you l ave precUety what they need, and wonder that they had never thought of the same thing themselves. This por tion of the American pub'ic not only pur Chase your goods, but whether they ex press it or not verbally, in their hearts they axe very grateful to you for having ma1e a part of your knowledge their property. The nineteenth century is a busy one. People have little time to think of any thing except their own immediate busi ness. They want to read and learn as they run. A mm is suffering perhaps from dys pepsia. In his morning paper he sees a remedy advertised ; he don't pause to de hate and argue the point with the pro prietor of the specific, but he proceeds to his druggist, buys and tries. If he has obtained a benefit, he is de lighted snd recommends the medicine to all of his suffering neighbors; thus the advertisement is marching on with an hundred or a thoufland fold velocity. Tne advertising proprietor is getting rich, because he has been wide awak ; made himself known anil felt iu the community ; and the public is thankful, for it hs been benefited. The journalist is happy he has been made the channel of communi cating useful knowledge, and at. the same time you have added a few dunes and dollars to the usually scanty contents of his purs-. For editors, like Methodist pronc:iers, are generally poorly paid. Some business men will say "1 know advert hung is a good thing, but I can't afford to advertise." Better bay you can't afford not to ad vert ise. Who are the men that have become millionaires in this country V Look shout you, and see who they are, what their business and how have they succeeded. The intelligent masses are fkmiliar with their names w ithout my cataloguing th m here. They have made tin ir priueely fortunes by catering to the wants of the f ubiic, end by convincing the public that these wants existed. Kemctnber the Scriptures, and don't place your light under a bushel. Cast your bread upon the waters it'll return. The Press of America is the great medium through v. Inch the people talk to one another. A busiuess man can no more hope to succeed in this age without advertising than he can w ithout eating. The lath r it fool for your stomach the former for your purse. There are various channels of advertising; I have tried them ali, and th nk the newspaper the best, It is reel and re-read by every member of the family, and by all the hired help on Sat urday night ami Sunday. Again, thou sands of families bind up their papers into volumes, and years after .you have ceased paying for the advertisement it will be t,iuii you a Uer.cniu.r..vHii ti,r. wiuitii of the e i'dren grand children and great grand children. .i d v fixer . OuuMe. Fulton's First Steamboat. A coanKsroNOKN r of the Ctawvs Cour atr relates the following story of the "K ate Morgan," the little steamer which for more than a generation has plied on C'ay Uga lake, her owners obeying the behest of the first proprietor to 4,ruu her till she busts: Before the Chancellor Livingstone stemm d the current of the Hudson, yet alter the little Clermont had stirred the quieter w-.ters ot tbe Collect Pond, tin whistle of the Kate Morgan awoke the echoes iu Taughanic (ilen, ami ber paddle-wheel dashed the spray upon Cay;: bridge. There is a bit ot romance attach ing to her name and building. Old General Morgan, of revolutionary fame, had a noble estate on the western bank of the lake, not far trom where the present Wells College now stands. Be tween his only daughter, a lovely girl of 18, ami young Pulton, had long existed a tender attachment, which, however, the poverty aad obscurity of Robert led the Jen:ral severely to frown Upon, Pulton went to New York. He labored long years in perfecting his invention; his day of triumph came, antl th'n he wrote to the stern father, relating his BUCCesa, and asking for the daughter's hand. " Nay," wrote back the Incredulous old soldier, " I'll believe what I see with my own eyes Come you back, scapegrace, to the lake; build and sail a Meamboal past my own iloor, and then, and Dot till then, shall you have my daughter Kate.'1 Need I say that Fulton came Joyfully ba:k; that a steamer was bad! as quickly as circumstances would permit; that sin was launched, and, in due course of time, did triumphantly sail past the General's door! But let me add that, according tn an express stipulation, made by the sly Robert, in case he succeeded, when the Cats Morgan sheered in toward the Gen- 1 s a mm at a stars oocs a small boat v. a- seen pusnmg out, containing the original Kate, in r grim father, and a gentleman in cleri al vestments. They were soon on board, ami there, amid the waving ot lligs, the ringing of bells, and the blowing of whistles, the proud inventor and bis prouder bride were made one A glorious sweep up ami down the lake completed the first bridal tHp by steam ever known in Ibis country. Before we leave this historic bout let ns go below a moment. Here are 1 lie old fashioned engines, inscribed "Trcn: n, ( art wright A Co." They wrrethe first engine builders in the United States, and furnished both Fulton's and Pitch's boats ( art wright was the father of the well known Peter Cartwright, the Western backwoods preacher. Glance BOW at the cabin, tsupholstet ing was furnished by A. T. Stewart, at that time an enterprising young trades man, keeping a little KVen-ny nine ihop in Chambers street Though the lustre t t he goods has long since passed away, thetr durability remains.to attest the b esty and good Judgssent of the young dealer, ami by which be has sincr rism to be the foremost merchant in our coun try. k Valuable Wsualesjt fci Philadelphia TiiKKKissaid tobe a paper m Phila delphia which has one woodcut. It was BBgravcd originally to represent Arthur Spring, but the proprietor lik-d it so much that he determined to keep it on hand, ami run it into the paper whenever an noiiy eie wns huinr. or died, or was elected, or made a speech. And so every tune a portrait was wanted, this woodcut was altered to fit it.. First, the hat was '11 down, then th IK M Chi h d into va rious shapes ; then the eves were souged a little ; then the head was altered ami the cheeks hollowed out II several its best looked like any human being that bad ever existed In this wide world; but thst made no difference, for tbe proprietor alvas i un;; ed it nirht In rv ttmewitb a task iKiiiii' sod a bio.'raphfal sketch, It lets served already for James Bnol as sn, Jeff Davis, Probst, General Grant, Hasan H. Ant h otiy, Mayor Fox, Senator lb veto, Arlemus Wai l, I 11 i' l m 'hi Lion's Den. Wonemore, Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle, KiatOti, A a f 'acker, Democrat II. 1870. ernor Curt in, and a score or two of others. It is somewhat rusty now, the old wood cut is but the owner clings to it with un alterable aff dion, antl the first time any body does any thing alarming, it will pro in again with a new sketch. This won't make so much difference now, because the block is very much worn, and w hen the picture is printed you can't tell, to save your life, whether it was intended for a man's face or for a Study of a m Mslem in the Desert of Sahara. Bost m Neict. mipnUan Firemen. A writer of an interesting article in AV tea fiasr Beams!, upon the habitations of ante, thai describes the extinguishment of a fire in an ant city of the Formi-1 ruft, or wood ants : " It was composed mainly of twigs, straw, and pine Bfticnlss, and swarmed w t'i i;is'ct life. Poking our walking s' Icks into the top of the mound, ami lay ing bar; the upper surface, the formicans, who up till then had been wholly una ware of our presence, becan to under stand that calamity had com" upon them. B. taking themselves, as is their wont, to the care of th1 young, c unt less thousand;, of them suddenly appeared, each arryinL a cocoon much bigger than itself, which it was evidently anxious to deposit in some p' ace out of tbe reach of a danger which, although they could nt compre hend, 'hey knew to be both formidable and Imminent Buch a hurry skurry, such a running to and fro, such a getting up and down stairs, as the sng ays, such a commotion could scarcely hav; been known even at Brussels on the memora ble night of the ball, on the eve of the great battle of Waterloo, when it waa suddenly announced to the officers of the allied armies that the French were ad vancing upon the city when thronged th ctissva with terror riamh. Or whispering wi h white lij, 'The !'o they eoass ! thi-y come 1 "We all !oktl on with interested curiosity, and one of my companions hav ing finished his first cigar, ilrew a box of lucifers from his pocket, and leisurely proceeded to light a second. This done, he carelessly threw tin burning match upon the ant hill. It was an act as cruel as it would have been in Lemuel Gnlli- ver, had that mountainous traveler will fully aet fire to the city of Liliput The b.rmicans were for an instant eon fused, and appeared not to know what to do. But their perplexity was of short dura tion. Iu less than half a minute scores and hundreds of ants rushed upon the biasing beam f r such it must have ap peared iu their eyes and exerting their .strength simultaneously upon it, en deavored to thrust it.trom their city. Many oi them wer.- burned to dea'h in tbe gd lent endeavor, but the survivors, nothing daunted, pressed forward over their d;ad or writhing bodies, as FsToonsmotts that there was bo safety tor those who still lived as long as the avlul combustible was permitted to blaze and Tai'kle in the ml ist oj them. I wTas apprehensive that the whole mound, built as it was ot dry twis, would take fire ; but he mists bad ban upon the mountain and the valley, the air was moist, and the flame of the m itch btfnt upwards. Onwards rushed t resolute firemen, Jscore upon score, hundred upon hundred, till at last they rolled the match over and over, and out of their precincts, charred and blackened, id incapable of further mischief. We '"!- - - '-- f 'Ktii.i nur i ys, and youngest, most thoughtless, and k. fore the most cruel, of our company sug gested that if there were intelligence aud design on the part of the ants in acting as we supposed they had done, there would !) no harm in making a second experi ment. No sooner said than done. Au other match was ignited and thrown opon the heap, and again, precise as on the first occasion, the ants rushed pell nteU upon the blazing intruder, to prevent a conti igration, which, hail it taken firm hold, it would have been impossible for them to extinguish. Again some of the fore most champions oi the public safety lost their limbs, and many more of then; tic ir Lives; and by the mere force and pressure of numbers acting with a common pur pose, the match was extruded betöre much barm had been done. I opposed myself to alh:ro renewal of the experiment, and succeeded in persuading my companions, ah hough not without difficulty, that enough had been tlone for curiosdy und natural bhttory ; that s truly merciful maa a is a s merciful to the smallest a. to the largest of God's creatures; ami that we bad no right, in tbe mere wantonness of scientific observation, to takeaway the life which it was impossible for us to be stow." Charles Dickens. CiiAui.K Di asiaa DteS :t Ha raaWoeoe, Jmi'i Mm. Kent. TsnisSlT. June u, ist', -ert 61 fSBta " Dead, your Majesty. Di ad, my lords snd gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends, of every order. Dead, nun snd women born wttn Heaven ly Compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day." Bleak House, ChapU r '7. " The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion. The fashion that came in with our first gar men's, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, ami the wide firm ament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion Death I , thank God, all who sei it, for ttiat older iaslnon yet of immortality ! And look upon us, angi Is of young children, with regards not quite estranged when the Swill ttrver bears us to the Ocean. Dombey, Ckmpkr IT. "The spirit ot the child, returning, in nocent an 1 radiant, touched tbe oh', man With its band, and beckoned him away. GhiaVS, 3d 'juart'T. " I he st ir had shown him the way To find tbe God of the poor ; and through humility, and sorrow, and forgiveness, he had gone to - Redeemer's rest Heard Times, Baak -i, CUapter t. "A cricket sings upon the hearth, a broken child's toy lies upon the ground, and nothing else remains. ( rick an ( Bmmrik, ('Imp :i. M i fell for my old self as the dead may feel if they ever r vi-dt these sei nes. I was glad to be tenderly remembered, to be gently pitied, not to be quite forgot ten?' iflaSSS House. ChapUyrAä. " From these garish ligh's 1 vanish now tori vermore ;with a heartfelt, grateful, re ppectful and affectionate farewell ami I pray Cod bleas us every oue." Beading, fcensfsw, March (, 1910. " When I die, put m ar me something the t has lovtd the licht and had the SSJ above it always (Hd Curiomitg 8kop, Chapter 71. u Lord, keep my Memory green 1 Haunted Mm, Chapter l. M 4 Now,' he murmured, I am happy.' Be fell into a light slumber, and waking smiled as betöre, then spoke ol beautiful mrdeas. which he said stretched out be tore him, and were filled with figures oi m n, women and atany chuuren, an with lurht noon their faces, then w h s pern! i hat it was liden -and so died. Vo K;.hii, Chapter "died like tt child tint had gone to aieoD.' Cwveriidd, ( hapier .. "and lug in the world not this world. (. not this The world that sets this nisrhl " -.V,.A use, Chapter fid. gone betöre tbe father ; iar beyond tin- twiliL'1,' n. b m. nts ol this woritl high above Its mists and obscurities." Utile l rii, Book 8, hsyjieT 1. " and lay at n.-t. The ROtefBSS still . i m no m irvel now.' 0M 'urivity &hp. Ok ip'n- 71 " It fa mg h-.gh water, he went out with thu HAt,"CipperJldd, Chapter 20. NUMBER 15. fOUTHK' l)KPAKTMET TH K A 'HA B S T J) ' IU BED. UV TUE MTU pi llo.tt.MA AM. Lrrria boys efta pocketa, Little t,yr. with iKitt ;. Link li'!L"u eras l-:-a-3, i i Iter, t'vi-ry INK) I CrwS am ;t.i aw i kwe.y, Won i y.i-.i MMttti boataa! Y"u iuu.-tiii! SWcoTcr How eudi lut.'T looks. A B ha? u Set When a fairy Bright ride ; is a ;om W itb two hMBM t tbe -dile. misht be round (' Ii a piece you would lend ; in a htick-aw SSlauuiiij on cud. 1) f I- has peg In like ni'.dille. tbey -ay sn K nh the bottom away, is like ', Wi li a Mock on one end. (1 II ha a seat That would hold you. depend. i in so 'tratL'h' it won il do for a prop ; ic a crouk With a handle on tcp. J K L is -t;ck Witll a point r-i!cned to It i a roort , It the l uickou hu' know tt. hi" four part-.. M At you quickly may -lo : the porr ic'low! Is made out ol three. ip so round ft weald do for i hoop . is a stick Wuh a top like a loop. to Ihj curly le tou.-i aiitly trying;' is tik-; B, Wr.li tue bottom loop Hying. N () P It s 1 in a -nuke. A.I crooked and dread ; 1- :i po e Willi a bar for a head. it is p'ain. Would make a good swin; is a cltarp As a Ituuibte-beu'e stin'r. VV X asuriat To ho called double-V ; is a rrof. As you plainly cau sec is jn-t formed Like a V ou a stand , is the crookedc.-t z Tatag BBttaa laud : Hnitih and Uni" . - - Idi VMlM I'S SIOKV. UWHBS I was a little girl," began Grandma Hoilis. " What ! " emdaimed Carl, stopping in the mitldle ot a summcsault, and looking at his grandmother with his face upeside .iowti hf1 sn n bis two feet. " 1 was going to tell jou a brry mma When I was a little girl," she said. Carl was on his feet by this time. " I didn't know you ever waa a little gin !" he exciaimed, in a tone of great as lOiiifdiment. "What did you think?" she asked laughing. "Why, I thought you were always Grandma Uollis, he said. " Well 1 wasn't," she r pliid. 44 1 was a girl once, no bigger than your Cousin Janie." " And did y u wear your spe'lat le3 aad your cap then ?" asked Carl; "and was your name Grandma?" "No, indeed," said Ciandina 44 1 looked just like any other little girl, ami my name was Hetty Rice I lived with my lat her and mot tier, just as you do with yours, I had two !der brothers, but no bist r. "Our houbt wa very different fron thi- one. "There were no stoves then, but at one end of the long kitchen there was a great fireplace. It was &o long that great logs would lie across the andirons, ami th bright blaze lighted the whole room in the evening. My brothers aud I often roasted ur apples and chestnuts there. "Over the hre hung a large iron thing eaDed a crane. My mother BSed to hang the teakettle on It, and swing it over the blase, to heat the Water. She boiled meat there too. "I liked to see her lift Ihe kettles, and hang them on the hooks, and then sw ing them ver the tire. 1 often asked her to let ine do it, but she said, 4 No ; you wa;t till you are older and bigger." u One day, my atothcr went to visit a sick neighbor. It was a long way to the sick woman's bouse, though she was our nearest neighbor. So my another left ass at home alone, aud told me not tt) .go Bear the ti . " Rut after she had ir.ne. I thought i Would be a nice lime to play with the crane. I could not find the teakettle or the great dinner-pot, for my Bother had put them sway some where mr - . . - . w bile I was bunting lor lliein, l nap- pened to see a basket ailed With low that my unit her used about her spinning. 1 thought that would, do just as well as the teakettle, and better ; SOT 1 could play that the tow wai a pudding, and 1 was going to boil it. So 1 carried the basket to the fire place, ami, alter a good ileal of trouble, 1 managed to get it hung on the crane. Then 1 swiiiu it ot r the tire. " Rut w dial do you think ? "Instead of Imaging there like the tea kettle or the dinner pot, the basket and the low began to burn up ! , how they did bum ! "And i was frightened half out of say wits, and wondered what my mother WOUld do when she came home aud found it out. 44 1 was miserable enough the rest of the afternoon, 1 can tell you. "By and by my mother esSBS US, and she kisid im', and tin a she began to Smell the burnt tow. " ' W hat have you been doing, HettjT saitl she. " Then I cried as bard as I could, Mad told her all about it. Bhe waaverj sorry, but she punished me, ami 1 knew that I deserved It, 1 never disobeyed her by playing with the cram' again." Carl thought that w-s a pretty good story. He asked his grandmother ever so many questi ma ah ml it, and forgot lo turn another summersault laai nay. hen his papa came home trom tea, ( :irl (dimbed up in his lap, and told him the story. " My gr.tu bna was not always a gran Iina." said he, " but she was a liitle girl. And her mother went a visiting, and told bvr not to gel into the tire, and she did. Ami she p ayed with the crane "Antl she lound her BaOth r s tas in the basktt, and she burnt Yin all up Ami pretty boob bet mother oaaee in, and b iran to snuff no bei nose, and said. 1 ff by, eTHiidina Mollis, what's a burn lag r "And lb My tried, and her mother wbtppeu iter. a in ao I'oitriieii ii . fi i rii'o , wu grandma laughed more than any one else. I hoy ad laughed at (ails story, but Indeed sue couldn't find time that eveuingto do anythiDC but laugh and wipe her spectacles, rail didn't know what to make of it. Youth' Companion. How to Become a Millionaire. Tom thought it looked very smart to carry his money loose in his pocket, and take out Me qmrten with an air which sfod, "I have thousands in my pocket." He always crumpled his bill6into a Khwpe tit for gun wadding, and apf arently took no possible care of his money. It was not that money was so abundant with him. hut he wished others to Mipp8e that it was; that it was quite benath his genius to care for tuch trifling amounts. Do you suppose Tom deceive:! anybody, or made any asm respect him on this ac count? He might make stable Im, s stare occasionally, but all people accustomed to handle money knew at a glance t lint he was pos8'Sd of a very shallow purse and shallower brains. No busim-ss mm ever desires such a hew about Ms retaMiaam nt N gnile- man but would wish .is boy to shun eueh an associate. "Straws tell which way the wind blows;" rind the way a boy takes are of bis money pretty surely foretells his future Ibrtune. Successful businessmen did not cany their money loose in their js.cket when they Were boys, Tlr y were prudent of even tLe pennies. Some one asked Mr Ator, in his ol d age, to tell him the secret of big great success in making money. " Very willingly " satd tbe old gentle- uisn. 'Just draw up your chair, and we will put out the lights, as we can talk just as well in the dark " " (), I see H said the man. " The se cret is unravded. You lucame amillim aire by saving w hat I tiers waste." " Yes, the way to gain a million dollars is to begin by saving t he Cents. They will sonn turn into dimes, and tbe dimes to dollars " If you desire 1 become a millionaire, buy you a good strong pUSBB large enough to hold the pennies, and let frugality fur aiah you a pair ol strings for it. Then with industry and perseverance, you may soon b able to BSSkeagOOd beginning for a comiOTtable (far. fortune. Sefu "V Vie- FAC1 aM fhd BKSa Thrrk are 2,700 beer sa'.oon- in St. Louis. TnatttU TTai te, Ind., claims a popula tion of 20 0-jO. India has a ladies' newspaper, edited by a woman. Pi-smx. punishes h r tlrunkards by making them swt ap the sumsau. A GuattD BLaVU ben nccntly hatched äo ehh'kens at one setting. Visum were hi vented in 1477, and in- troductd into Kurland by C'hudes I.' A pra-ticai. man wants tr make a lager beer vault of the Mammo'h Cave. In the last, eteetaSSj in Washington Territory, fifteen women voted in Thurs ton county. TWJt OensUS hi SO OOSf about six cents a head for all the pi "SOUS enrolled, or kSgfJgy- ;;jo fr the whole. Pkksioknt Ft i i Kit i on, of the Bellows Falls, Versnont, Naiio. al Bank, is M years of age, vet he rides seventeen inilea each day to the bank. TnJUUt is a girl m ar St Paul, Minn., Who, although only twenty years af age, Minpotta, by working a farm, her agui father and mother and an idiot brother. Thk average tlatly c nsutnpt ion of Co 'hituate water in Ih8ton the last year was i u7o, KM ptalloas, bahac an be . re see over the previous year of 30T,233 gallons. A caunaan whith branches out every y-ar ami bears a great buuiKt d small abba jes. eat h about as big as an fnge, is one ol tne aUtVatilons at Los Angel, Cal. Owl of the heap ppers of Paris cir cuities 24",OcP c pies daily, mainly among aackmen, aUUrac-matds, soidiers and farm ers. It is not allowed to discuss politics. In demolishing tbe old Episcopal Church in Newtown, Conn., the BtMf pulpit, whose body hud probably been there a hundred yealU. Cakl. II Wali.on. who recently com mitted suicide in Woodlawn cenu'tery, near BoSSeVA, hit a note dt-cliring that "as t he garden he laid out had been licvast aled by the chfkens of his s in, he bad become ttrd f life, and was going to BBSet his beloved w ife." Thomas ft Thomas, m-wspaper and amsnatine publishers al Boston, paid Söo antl costs the other lay for rej-cinl and destroyed manuscripts ; the Supren e Court ruling thai the manuscripts were the property of the author until the pub lish ra paid for tnem, antl thai ia neglect ing to return them to the author thy became liable for thi i:' value. The t Hi Sal returns recently nt-eived at the Bureau of haasistiea show that thai tonal value of eordeareed milk exported front the port of New York in the t-ir IS!'., was )7l.U.V, of which $21,871 wei I to Bagkusd, $ it M8 i a nail alia, fi 404 to the I'nited States of Columbia, jf ..i7rt to China, $8,11 to BraaiL $M87 to Cuba, tdii'.U to the British UYeal Indies, and fi.77 to the Danmh Wot ladtaSj In.Niw EaghUad th' average amount of milk r pnred to make one pound of eUSUd cheese is 10 pounds ; the pr-niuct of cheese per oow hoes April to Keeuanncc is 400 ponuada , the SVlwaae "oct per pounti for manufacture, including interest on capital, commission, etc , is J 1 , cents, and the net income the past summer has been 15 cents per pound. A Pakis journal txplains the origin of the phrase, to make a jiico. A ttt-rman Protestor, touring in a glass factory, imagines that glass blowing is the rasiert thing in the WOtki Putting the pipe to his bps, be attempis a practical illustra tion 1 the ease w ith which various tonus may be produc d, hut only BUfmesUU in i laborating a flask that is, a fi ir fail ing wholly in any thing more complete. TlTK Pungaio, of Naples, mentions a s'raiikre suicide committed at Gaeta. A sergeant aasaed Comolli, a young man ol i celU.nt conduct, went to the building w In re the artillery is kept, antl lighting a lane d' a loaded cannon, plajil bims It in front. He was blown lit-ral1y SO atoms, his hi ad ami feet alore biung af terwards lound. The cause assigned was, as stated in two letters, one to his laiior and the otic r to his captain, extreme dis like of military lite. a00om i.-so to the Jamestown (N. Y.) Journal, then- bv'S in the town f Har mony, 1'hautauipiA county, a husband aud wile who have not fllf bangcid WOTUS tor twenty one years. In 14H the husband contradicted his better hall barblv la-tore company, anl she threatened that in iefauit of hi tier bahatvier she would aawm sneak to him again. The husttand replied lhat he Wtahed nothing better, and the Wife l ok kim at bis word. They have Continued lo live together in this taciturn taaedoa ever since, ami during the long stb-ncc have bad st-vcral children. Their intercourse i eomtucwal in an Indirect mann r ihrough one of the children, as, for instance, by asking a child at tabaS, "WOI your mother have some mai ' which is atiw i r d in th- same rHin!alout fashion The couple is said to be wealthy, and lo ht ow ners ol a pretty large farm. Fi.okipa is proud ot the possession of a youth Who can handle snakes, scorpions, and centipedes with perfect impunity He I BSakeeneü) and playfellows of the larger j kind ol rattlesnakes, twisting them around : hb, I, ami dallying with their tork-d tongues or twelve ratths. He actually j has oarried amtpsana in his bsnnun, ami wasps and hornets in bis sleeves antl pockets without n ced ing biteor sting. In I the lonelim sa of the grove or forest, or in ! any sc lu ted plane in lesi ed with smtke, in can, by a few talisii.miic worn d around him any number t snakes, whom becan cusnn into periect obedu i e to all his uiamlaU s. He can paUk thaUB up , antl lay bmdownat am given plate, and at blaoblding they 1H remain itn re unul bis return alu r an abM i m -tores ol i.o.tra He BBB lake a rat or a motiw and ao BmatimlaSn it s.. ant that BaezphanMB tvratilsell upon it that it tn comes a . f f . . ta. a. . . .. 1 . -.-S mute mieiliaiil Ior 1B,'"i 1,"l,uli -- , , , . , and may be ttunbled about at pleasure.