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(’. 11. WALK tilt & J. IS. ODER,
VOLUME I.
Tell Me* How.
MY R. H. STODDARD.
“ V'*i vow you love mo. dearie?
B>> many a man might vow;
Hut now. before 1 trust you.
SuDPOfc you tell me how?”
” 1 love you ns the wind docs
The beauteous summer rose.”
" I know : he stoops to sn itch a kiss.
And then away he roc**.
No wind’s love f>r me, sir;
I cannot be your rose.”
1 love you as the bee does
The purple meadow clover.”
I know: he drain 1 it ot its sweets.
And then i s day is over.
No bee’s love for me, sir:
I will not be your clover.”
1 love you as a lady doc j
Her wreath of orange flower.”
T know: she only wears it once.
To grace her bridal hour.
No lady’s love for me, sir;
I’m not your orange flower.”
” I love you as a man does
The woman he love 4 best.”
I know : a pretty plaything, she.
To wear upon his breast.
Still if there’s nothing better
1 like man’s love the best.
" So. if you love n&. darling
(Rut do you really, now?),
Here is the kiss 1 promised-
Bocause you tolu me how.”
•
“PIP.”
1 h:iw knocked about a good deal in
my time, and seen many ups and downs; !
(or a man who has led such a nomadic !
life as myself, wouM be a singularly I
lucky person if he never found himself j
minus a. meal or a dollar.
In '54, I was in California and pretty
wealthy, for I had been fortunate in
the dipfunes. In '. r is. i tramped from
Ballarat to Avoca, in Australia, without
a cent in my j ocket, for luck had de
serted me, and I could not hit on a
claim in Victoria that half repaid me
for my labor in working it.
One chilly evening in dune—a winter
month in the southern hemisphere—l
halted, after a long day’s march, at the
door of a littlo shanty near Avoca, over
which was a rudely lettered sign-hoard
indicating it a store.
“You’re welcome, chum, oven if you
haven’t a grain o’ dust or a sixpence in
your pocket; for you don’t look like a
‘ lag,’ and the best of us sees hard times
now and then. Come inside. Is that
your dorg ? Well, lie’s welcome, too,
poor creetur —though lie ain’t noways j
handsome. I like ri man better when •
I see a dorg at his heels, for a feller
ain't had enough to he outlawed if one
of them poor dumb brutes loves him,”
said a bright-eyed, buxom, garrulous
matron, who answered my appeal for
supper and a night’s lodging.
My dog was not one that would have
taken a prize for beauty at any show in
the States. He was a brindled hull
terrier, and iiis pugnacious propensities
had cost him an eye: hut he was true as
steel, and, like most of his breed, was
keen and quick-witted as a human be
ing. I loved rip, for lie stuck to me
through all my misfortunes, and was
almost the only remaining tic that
hound me to the world.
Our kind hostess ushered us into a
small kitchen that was a model of clean
liness, and presently set before me an
abundant supply of succulent viands,
which I ate with avidity.
Neither was old Pip forgotten, lie
came in for a share of the good things,
and received more caresses from i ur
hostess and her two sprightly young
sters than had Aecnjbcstowed upon him
during his lifetime.
“Where’s Maggie, Mrs. Hyatt?"
asked a tall, handsome young man ;
evidently a privileged peivon, for he
entered without knocking.
“She went to Carter's this afternoon,
and hasn’t returned yet. I wish she'd
come hack, tor it's a had road she’s got
to travel. You’d better go to meet her,
Ned. if you are not too tired; for my
old man’s away at the Ovens still.”
“ All right! I’ll go, for I want to see
her,” said the young man, grutliy, as he
took his departure.
“ Maggie is my eldest girl, and Ned
Vance is her sweetheart,” explained
Mrs. Hyatt.
I smoked my pipe, and chatted
familiarly with my hostess until about
ten o'clock, when Vance suddenly en
tered the room, hot and breathless.
“Hasn’t Maggie returned?” he in
quired, excitedly. “She left Carter’s
soon after nightfall, for 1 went all the
way there, thinking to lind her. 1 kept
a sharp lookout for her on mv way
hack, hut, not seeing her, thought we
must have passed each other on the old
Swan diggings, and she would have
arrived here before me. What can
have become of her, 1 wonder?” he
added.
“You haven’t got dime to wonder,
Ned Vance! If you love my girl halt
as much as you profess to, you’ll go
seek her at once ! She’s lost’ her way,
and, maybe, has fallen into one of the
old sinkings on the diggings, tu t a
lantern out of the storeroom, and he
quick about it! lor some of those holes
must he half full of water, after all the
rain that fell last week.”
I volunteered to aid Vauco in the
search tor his sweetheart; so we.set out
together.
It was a bleak, dreary night. A
strong breeze was blowing, and sable
clouds veiled the stars from view.
We searched the Swan diggings care
fully, and more than once were in
danger oi precipitating ourselves into
the deep shafts which gold-seekers had
sunk, and finally abandoned as non
auriferous.
Vance ait lastbecame so excited as ap
parently to lose all control over himself,
ami he wandered backward and ior
ward, from one hole to another, in a
manner usele-s ami absurd.
“ Bet’s try further to the right. It’s
pietty certain the girl isn’t in any of
the holes hereabouts,” 1 said.
But my companion insisted that it
was absolutely impossible that Maggie
could have strayed so far from a road
that she was familiar with, anil would
not allow me to prcceed in the diree
ton 1 indicated.
A bright idea suddenly dtiwntd upon
me, and 1 proceeded to put it into ex
ecution forthwith.
1 quitted Vance, and ran hack to the
store whete I found Mrs. Hyatt crying
bitterly, and evidently much perturbed
at the non-appearance of her eldest
drill
“ II a O you got a pair of old slices he
longing to your daughter?” 1 asked.
*• uf course lots of Vm; lut what |
j do you want with thorn?” sobbed the
| anxious mother.
•• I will show you, if you will bring
j them,” I replied.
Mrs. Hyatt fetched a pair of well
‘ worn gaiters. 1 took them in my hand,
j and called my dog.
“ Find her, Tip, old fellow,” I said, as
1 placed the boots before, him*
lit* sniffed them, raised his own in
! tehigent. eye* to my face, wagged his
i tail, as if to indicate that lit* fully un
i dt Mood what was desired of him, and
walk’ d toward the door.
I followed hint out ; and, with his
I nose close lo the ground, lit* led the
way to the Swan diggings. There he
lost the trail for a while, and seemed
somewhat confused; hut lot suddenly
gave vent to a shrill bark of satisfac
tion. and set oil*on a quick trot exactly
in the direction in which Vance had de
elan d it was useless to search.
! had some difficulty in keeping up
with him, for the ground was rugged
and uneven; hut, at length, he halted
on the brink of a large sinking, and set
up a most piteous howl.
By means of a cord, I lowered the
lantern I carried down into tin* hole,
and by its dim light I was enabled to
■ discern the object of my search lying
! half immerse in water far down at the
bottom of the pit.
heaving the lantern to serve as a
j guide ti the shaft, 1 ran as quickly as
j possible to the nearest shanty, and
told four miners, who were tin* occu
pmts of it, that I requited their ser
vices.
Australian diggers rre naturally im
pulsive and energetic, and those fellows
proved no exception to the rule. They
procured ropes, and started off with me
at once.
The light in tlie lantern I had left to
mark the sinking had, apparently, gone
out, for it was not visible ; but Pip, at a
word from me, conducted us to the
hole, and I prepared to descend at
once. 1 hitch* d a rope under my arms,
and my four companions lowered me
slowly down the shaft.
The water at the bottom was only
about a foot deep, and the girl’s head
had fortunately escaped immersion. I
fastened the rope around my waist, and
j with my disengaged arm held her firm
ly. She was quite unconscious, and 1
hailed the willing hands above to “ hoist
away.”
As they lifted us from the muddy
po;>l, my foot struck against something
light r than a stone. Stooping, 1 picked
out of the water a lantern.
“ She’s not dead, and, I guess, ain’t
much hurt, after all,” said a rough
bearded fellow, feeling the pulse of the
j inanimate girl.
“Mates, there’s been some foul play
iu re. This is the lantern I placed to
mark the sinking, and 1 found it in the
hole. It couldn’t have blown in, for 1
placed it to leeward, and chocked it
light with two pieces of rock. Some
one must have Hung it down, so that
we shouldn't find the hole,” I said.
“Then i believe that the gal was
chucked down, and I know Mattie
Hyatt well, and she is a deal too smart
to have come all this distance from the
right roa*l, which she has passed along
a hundred times, without some one
force*l her,” chimed iu a burly man,
who raised the girl in his lahvart
arms, and carried her toward her
home.
Mrs. Ifyatt was too sensible to allow
emotion to paralyze her actions. She
applied restoratives to her daughter,
and in a short time the sufferer regained
consciousness. She was a veiy pretty
girl, with well cut features, daik eyes,
and hair that was black and glossy as a
raven’s wing.
As soon as she could articulate, she
astonished us all by declaring that
Van -e had endeavored to murder her.
•• I met him near Swan Creek, and we
walked toward home together,” she
said. “We got talking about young
i dim Carter, and, when I said I liked
him, Ned became very angry.
“Seeing he was jealous of dim, l
t*vsed him a little, when he suddenly
knocked me down with a blow of his
list.
“ * I’ll kill you before you shall ever
many that fellow! he cried, clenching
his threat with a terrible oath.
* 4 rim blow was a cruelly severe one.
Smutting with the pain it created, I
called him a coward, and declared
that 1 would never be the wife of any
man who was mean enough to strike a
woman.
“On tliht, lu* caught hold of my
shawl, and though I struggled, suc
ceeded in tying it over my hand. lie
carrie 1 me along some distance, and
then hurled me down the sinking,
where, you found me.
“The water in tin* pit saved me from
being much injured by tin* fall, and I
"as able to uncover my face; but, after
that, I grew dizzy, and don’t remem
ber any inoru.”
A Mattie finished her recital, the
lour miners glanced tit each other, and
then at me. Without saying a word,
we went out together, accompanied by
my dog.
N**xt morning Ned Vance was found
hang.ng by the neck from the limb of
a tree. Whether he committed sui
cide, or met a just retribution at the
hands ot some members of the commu
nity he had outraged, remained a mys
tery, which the authorities did not at
tempt to unravel.
Pip had good times in Avoca after
that night’s work. Mrs. Mattie Carter
eared tor him in his old age ; and 1,
iu*r husband's partner, dug his grave,
when sheer inanition terminated his
career.
Cutting Glass.
may be cut with very hard steel
alnw.-t as well as with a diamond. A
common three cornered Hie which has
he en worn out may betaken and ground
to a three-cornered point, heated red
hot, and plunged into a mixture of
pounded ice and salt. When once more
touched upon the sten * to remove any
>ea!es it i; ready for use. It should be
held and use*l exactly as the common
diamond. The steel becomes not only
very bard but very brittle by this treat
ment.
•' jockey club has been organized at
Petersburg, Menard county, 111,
An Independent Paper—Devoted to Literature. Minim;, Commercial, Agricultural, General and Local News.
FROSTBURG, ALLEGANY COUNTY, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1872.
Current Items,
Lake Michigan is reported to be
thirty five inches lower than usual at
South Haven.
Ho\. Charles Fox Bennett, Premier
of Newfoundland, is dead. •
James Steele died at Helton, Sauk
county, Wis., on the 2Jd ult., at the ex
traordinary age of 11J years. He was
older than the American nation.
Tite remains of McKean Buchanan,
the deceased actor, have been tempora
rily placed in a vault at Evansville, Ind.
They will be removed hereafter to New
York city.
The saloon-keepers of Janesville,
Wis., have voluntarily resolved to keep
their places closed hereafter on Sun
days.
Waltham, Mass., has an elopement
case in which the parties were aged re
spectively seventeen and fourteen. One
is a boy and the other a girl.
A few days since, the Pontiac, K. 1.,
stage, containing six passengers, tum
bled down an embankment forty feet
high. Almost miraculously, all escaped
without serious injury.
In America, one person in every
twenty-five hundred is blind; in Eu
rope, one in every thirteen hundred.
Bartley Rock, a solitary old bachelor,
was found dead in bis cabin in Free
dom, Waseca county, Minn., a few days
since.
The report published recently in the
Minnesota papers of a young man
named Powers being killed by Chip
pewa squaws, turns out to be a rascally
hoax.
Click, who murdered his wife in In
dianapolis, Ind., and then cut his own
throat, has almost entirely recovered.
He confesses having spent four years in
the Alabama penitentiary for murder
ing a woman.
Reports of a most encouraging char
acter are received from the silver
mines on the north shore of Lake Su
perior.
Several stone implements hearing ev
idence of human workmanship have
keen found in San Mateo county, Cali
fornia, imbedded in rock the formation
of which must largely antedate the
period usually assigned as the time of
tiie origin of man.
Mrs. John Oliver, of Poygan, Win
nebago county, Wis., was recently hor
ribly poisoned by the bite of a black
spider. She became swollen and bloat
ed, and at last accounts was in a critical
condition.
The California authorities have pro
vided a pest-house on the eastern side
of the Sierras, which will be the termi
nus of the Pacific railroad for all small
pox patients traveling westward.
Mr. Higiilevman and wife, of Sedalia,
Mo., are sufficiently amused for the
present season. They went to the cir
cus the other day, and found when they
returned that their house had been
robbed of SI,OOO worth of silver and
clothing.
Sad Termination of a Charivari—A
Young Man Shot by Ilis Uncle.
From tho Jacßhou (Mich.) Citizen, April 30.
About a week ago Mr. E. 11. Hal leek,
a farmer living in Parma, and a Miss
Godfrey, residing in the same township,
were married. The lady and gentleman
are both widely known known, and
among their acquaintances count a
number of harum-scarum youths .just
verging on manhood. These acquaint
ances were determined on extending to
Mr. and Mrs. Halleck the couresies
of a charivari. Accordingly a largo
party was formed, which, for nearly a
week, had been endeavoring to find the
whereabouts of the newly-wedded
couple, who, having heard of the pro
posed “ horning,” discreetly kept con
cealed.
East night the boys tracked the pair
to the William Dean farm, three miles
north of Parma, which is at present oc
cupied by Mr. Lewis Brown, tin* hus
band of Mrs. llalleck’s sister. A crowd
was soon collected, who, by aid of horns,
drums, tin pans, etc., soon succeeded in
disgracing themselves and in making
night hideous, in tin* horning party
was a young man named Frank San
ford, whose uncle, Mr. John Snyder,
chanced to be in the house. After en
during the uproar for some time, and
having in vain remonstrated, Mr. Sny
der fired a charge of wadding from a
shot-gun at the boys. Mr. Brown
handed him another, which he (Snyder)
supposed was loaded with a blank
cartridge, but which, in reality, was
loaded with a heavy charge of shot. He
fired it immediately, and to his horror
one of the crowd fell vv unded. He
was picked up and taken to the house,
where Mr. Snyder discovered that it was
his own nephew, young Sanford. A
further examination revealed the fact
that the entire charge had passed
through his left h ind and arm, enter
ing his left breast and piercing his left
lung, inflicting, it is thought, a mortal
wound. Surgical aid was immediately
summoned from Parma, but, our in
formant heard, there was but little hope
of Sanford’s recovery.
Uoiitlagration in Michigan.
The Grand Rapids Democrat has ad
vices from Howard City, of Monday af
ternoon, stilting that a tremendous lire
was then raging there. Tho fire broke
out on Monday morning among the
depot buildings of the Lansing and Lake
Shore railroad, all of which were des
troyed, including the large house. The
forests in the immediate vicinity were
on tire, too, extending down the Grand
Rapids and Indiana railroad as far as
Rockford, while other tires could be
sc en scattered through the woods in the
neighborhood, and-the inhabitants of
Pi**ison, Rockford, and other places
were in serious alarm from this cause.
A steam engine was sent from Grand
Rapids to the assistance of Howard City,
and it remained there until, as the la
test advices show, the flames were
checked in the town. The country,
however, is about a-c dry as last fall, and
s *iious calamities are apprehended from
ih** lip s in the woods, unless rain soon
falls in large quantities.
Farm and (warden.
Sheep Raising in California. —The San
Francisco Bulletin says : There are now
about eight millions of sheep in Cali
fornia. This is an increase of three
millions and twenty* five thousand
since IX(>9. To the number first men
tioned must be added this spring's
lambs, of which about three millions
will be raised. Those figures show the
astonishing rapidity with which sheep
increase here, despite much poor
breeding and crossing, and the most
careless and inhuman system of feed
ing and treatment. The value of the
wool is as great as the increase in the
number of the sheep is rapid. There
are two clippings, the spring and fall.
In good years for feed the spring clip
averages six and the fall four pounds.
Kadi sheep will yield this spring an
average clip of four and a half pounds,
or .‘Ib,OOO,(XX) pounds in all, while the
total wool crop of lasi year was only
about 20,000,(XX) pounds. It is expect
ed that 35 cents per pound will be the
ruling rate. If all the crop sold for
that price we would have a total of
$(>,800,000 for the spring dip alone.
These figures are enormous, consider
ing how cruddy the business of sheep
raising has been followed and its com
parative infancy in California.
To Destroy hire on Cattle. — I have fre
quently noticed inquiries in your paper
for remedies to destroy lice on cit tie.
In this section our cattle are infested
with large, blue lice. They increase on
fat as well as poor cattle, and reduce
either of them to skeletons if they
have sufficient time. I have always
watched for remedies, but 1 have never
found any so good and so cheap as the
one 1 have now, which I semi for the
benefit of those who are unfortunate
enough to have lice on their stock :
For a cow, take nearly a half pail good
soft soap; heat some rain water, and
turn in enough to make it warm, and
stir it well. If the soap is very thick,
it may want a little cold water too; it
must only be thin enough to work in
the hair nicely, 'l ie the creature out
of the wind, in the sun, and apply with
a large paint brush; it vvi’l bite the
animal as well as kill the lice; but it
drys so quickly it does no injury to the
hair nor the animal. Soap is good
medicine for cattle, and if they lick it
off, no harm is done. Repeat the ap
plication again after the nits have
hatched. It takes about three applica
tions for a very lousy animal, there are
so many nits to hatch out.— Harriet
(iARLOCK.
riant More Beans. — If there is always
a cash market for wheat, there is at the
same time a pretty sure cash market
for beans. The lumbering interests of
Minnesota and Wisconsin use large
quantities, as well as the numerous
boys in blue stationed in different parks
of the, Northwest ; besides, beans, as an
article of export, always bring a good
price. The crop is a sure one. The
chief expense is in pulling and harvest
ing. Planting and the cultivation does
not amount to any very great inconve
nience, time or money. They should
be planted in drills two feet apart. One
and a half bushels of seed to the acre
will suffice. The soil should be mel
low, but it don’t matter so much if it is
not so very rich. Never plant the
varieties for a field crop that throw out
vines or runners.— Farmer's Union.
Oiling Harness. —The following recipe
is sent us by A. Tail, of Howard county,
Kansas. He tlrnks it the best he has
over used, and it is so simple that any
one may easily try the experiment:
l ake about half a gallon of oil; put
in a pan or shallow basin, and dip the
harness in, one piece or more at a time ;
then strip the oil off the strap with
your lingers, letting it run back in the
basin ; hang up to dry ; repeat the dip
ping of the harness two or three times,
until it will take no moic oil. A little
lampblack added help* the looks very
much. After the oiling take a rag and
rub off the harness, and you will find
that the hardest leather and the still
est tugs have become very pliable, and
will remain so from one to three years.
You can leave them out in the rain a
dozen times, and you cannot but see
they are as pliable as before the water
touched them. And not only that, but
the rats and mice will never touch
them. If they are dirty it is not neces
sary to clean before oiling.
Raising Goslings. —A writer in the
Massachusetts Ploughman gives the fol
lowing as his method for raising gos
lings: 1 take in the spting of the year
a box and set it in some good place to
make a nest for them. When they be
gin 1 take, the eggs out and put them
in cotton wool and turn them over
twice a week until I set them, wh m I
put thirteen under a goose, and when
they hatch I take them ami put them
in a pen until they are a few days old,
as they are apt to get chilled when so
young. The greatest trouble is getting
turned upon their backs, us they will
die unless turned back. At the age of
four weeks they arc turned out to pas
ture and are no more trouble. Geese
are the most profitable fowl of any
raised. The breed for poultry is the
Bremen goose crossed with a mountain
gander, as the goslings are much larger
bred in that way.
Ail Intruder I’pou Hie l’ope.
The Giornale <fi Roma relates a curious
incident which occured at the Vatican,
three weeks since. A half-crazed lay
school-master, tiouhled with scruples of
conscience, resolved to speak to the
Pope in person, and joiningadeputation
which was entering the palace, succeeded
in passing the sentinel and attendants
at the doo.s. He then concealed him
self, and stayed for the rest of the day
and all night in his hiding-place, and
early in the morning found means of
introducing himself into the chamber
of the Pope, who, on entering from a
dressing-room, discovered the stranger
on bis knees in an attitude of supplica
tion. His Holiness was greatly alarmed,
and pulled bis bell with impatience
until assistance came and relieved him
of the intruder.
A man who has been confined in the
Rhode Island State Prison on a life
sentence since June, ING3, under con
viction of murder, was pardoned last
week, it having been shown that he
was innocent.
The Life of a British Peasant.
In discussing the late strike in War
wickshire, the British Medical Times and
Gazette says : The English agricultural
laborer is entirely a different man in
habits and mode of life from the Eng
lish town laborer, whether mechanic or
manufacturing hand. He is taller, big
ger and stronger, but not so acute and
restless; slower ami less energetic. He
does not consume one-tenth of the ani
mal food that the town operative de
vours. but lie does not drink one
twentieth of alcohol. He may occasion
ally get a little muddled on muddy ale
<>r sour cider, but lie is never incapable
for three days in the week, lie lives in
the open air and is exposed to all
weathers; his clothing is, as a rule, not
insufficient, and his food is chiefly bread,
potatoes, suet dumpling and vegetables,
with a little pork or cheese, but very
rarely butcher’s fresh meat, lie sleeps
probably over a dungheap or near a
cesspool, with his wife and half a dozen
children in the same room, and i very
fortunate if he escape an attack of con
tinued fever once in hiu life. But his
great enemy when he is over fifty is
rheumatism, and this consigns him to
the care of the parish during the lat
decade. Still his existence has its
bright side. He rarely knows what a
headache is. His labor is of the slow,
enduring kind which does not exhaust;
and, if he escape death from continued
fever or accident, he lives beyond three
score years and ten. His children are
healthy, and his wife does not suffer
from “ nerves.” The town operative,
who earns twice as much money, and
v ho could earn three times as much if
he worked all the working days of the
week, dies at fifty, and rarely passes a
year without being an out-patient at a
hospital or getting some medicine from
his club doctor. One of his children has
hip joint disease, and another is blind
with one eye. His wife spends nine
hours a week waiting for the doctor in
the out-patient room of a hospital. He
was a clever, intelligent lad, with a
smattering of education, but after thirty
he got heavier and more stupid, and has
long given up all idea of climbing to a
higher round in the social ladder. * * *
If the farm laborer can be taught to
make some provision for old age, ami to
give his children a better education, and
to spend part of his increased pay on a
more nutritious diet, a higher rate of
wages will make him a happier and a
more energetic man. But if the greater
amount of money current among a rural
population, and the shorter hours of
work, convert the village ale-house into
a gin-palace and bring into the country
the vices of town, it will only necessitate
an increase of cottage hospitals and
county infirmaries.
A Ludicrous Attempt to Commit Suicide.
it is not often that an attempted
suicide has much that is laughable
about it. The other day, it is true, a
silly man in England tried to blow his
brains out by firing a charge of gun
powder into his mouth from the nozzle
of a pair of bellows, with no result be
yond noise and smoke. But this was
nothing to a sight witnessed very lately
at Berne. A young married workman,
father of two children, after performing
all the religious duties of Easter, walked
from the church to the river and threw
himself in. The cold of the river fresh
ened him up, and he swam back to the
shore. But a crowd had now collected,
and, the sight of this producing a reac
tion, he flung himself into the water a
second time. Again he he took to
swimming, and the spectators begged
him to return to his family. An at
tempt was made to get him out, but he
again dived and disappeared. A third
time he came to the surface, and now
the persuasions of the crowd prevailed.
Shivering and exhausted he returned
to the shore and landed, amid shouts
of laughter from all present. What
excuse he made to his wife is not re
ported.
Decrease of American Population.
It is an interesting fact in connection
with the recent census of Great Britain
that the population is steadily increas
ing. notwithstanding the large loss from
emigration. The increase in London,
where the loss from this cause is very
considerable, though perhaps not as
large as in the agricultural regions, is at
the rate of about JO,(XX) per year. This
fact finds its explanation in the superior
health of English women as compared
with the women of this country. This
is attested by the fact that there are on
an average 1,000 more bi.ths than deaths
in London ; while in our cities, at least,
there are more deaths than births. The
difference is attributable to the fact that
the English women take exercise in the
open air every day, and assiduously cul
tivate every healthful habit. This is no
new development, but the lesson which
it teaches cannot be repealed too often.
There is one phase of know nothingism
that is entitled to consideration; it is
that which would teach American illa
tions to cultivate ami transmit health,
that the race may not disappear from
the earth.
It is to be feared that the official
custodians of the past in our larger
citi* s are not always conscientiously
circumspect in binding out the chil
dren that are left in their charge. A
few days ag), the members of a circus
troupe were stopping at a hotel in Troy,
N. Y., when a woman made her ap
pear.) ne on the scene, and demanded
her child. The object of her search
was soon found in the person of a little
girl about 11 years of age, who figured
redundantly on the bills as “Julia, the
nfant female equestrienne,” and who
was in the custody of a man and woman
belongi g to the romp my. The man
explained that he had obtained the
child live years previous from the C'om
urssioners of Charity of New York city,
for the express purpose of educating
her for ciicular equestrianism. The
child was restored to her mother,
though she seemed quite loth to
'cave her parents by adoption. But.
this does not alter the fact that the
officers of the poor have no excuse for
consigning a helpless child to such a
career.
A photographer in Pennsylvania
succeeded in taking somebody’s horse
and buggy and nearly three hundred
dollars. He has started for the West.
African Diamond Fields Kxliuustcd.
The latest intelligence-from the dia
' niond Helds of South Africa is not en
couraging to those who entertain the
idea of seeking fortune in that region.
According to all accounts there is imt
one place at which diggers now cover
their expenses, and that is the Coles
herg Kropje, or New Hush. There
claims h ive reached so high a value
that none hut men of some capital can
afford to purchase them; yet, notwith
standing their high price, they do not
yield near so freely as they did. The
day lor adventurers without means to
make money in the diamond diggings
is past. The proportion of those who
have fuade large sums hy digging dia
monds, even when the fields were at
their best, is small; and numberless
persons have toiled under an African
sun, undergoing all kinds of privations,
from nearly the time of the first dis
eoveries, without making more than a
bare subsistence. The area wit li in
which the gems are found is limited,
and is being rapidly exhausted. The
entire area may lie completely worked
out within a few months; tin* produc
tion may continue a year or two. Un
less new fields are found,of which there
now appears to he little prospect, or the
reported gold discoveries in South
Africa amount to more than present in
dioations warrant, there is likely to be
a general exodus of the diggers before
many months.
Dueling in Franc)'.
At length a duelist has been found
guilty and sent to prison in France.
Justice selected a victim in the person
of tleorge Hibeseo, son of the last
reigning Prince of Walbichia. liis an
tagonist was the Prince de lleauttW
mont, The parties were related hy the
marriage of Ribesco’s brother to a sister
of tlie Prince, and the dissolution of
this marriage by a divorce court led to
thechalienge. Prince dc Reautfremont,
wiio was the challenged party, chose
cavalry sabers. After a few passes, he
received a slight wound, and the sec
onds interfered and would not permit
the affair to proceed. Hibeseo was
soon afterward arrested for “ cutting
and maiming." The usage in such
ca-es lias been for the other party to
appear before the court and say that lie
was the aggressor, thereby securing im
munity to liis antagonist, lmt Heautlre
mont was not iptite up to that standard
of chivalry, and he kept away and let.
the trial go on. Hibeseo was convicted,
and sentenced to fifteen days’ imprison
ment. There is a good ileal of indigna
tion felt at this result, for while French
men have always escaped punishment
for this offense, the court made an ex
ample of a foreigner who fought nobly
for France throughout the late war.
Activity of the Volcano of Kllaucn.
We learn from a gentleman who re
cently visited the volcano of Kilauea,
that during the early part of the pres
ent month great activity had beenshown
in the crater. On the 4th inst., there
wa five tire cones in great activity.
During the night of the 4th an outflow
of lava from one of the cones oe,
eurred, which covered an area of some’
thing like half a mile square. This
eruption took place between the old
South bake and the locality known as
the Middle bake. About lour o’clock
on the afternoon of the tith, our inform
ant crossed tlie lava field at considerable
peril, the heat being intense, tiie fissures
in the crust, disclosing the molten lava
beneath. This new field of lava com
pletely broke up at half-past six o'clock
(hut a short time after our informant
had passed over it), a fountain of lava
sprung up in the center, pouring its
Hery torrents in all directions. All at
tempts to visit the locality of the old
Salt bake were unavailing, owing to the
sulphurous vapors which were quite
Hullbcating. Every appearance at pres
ent seems to indicate that I’ele is (ire
paring lor a grand pyrotechnic display,
such as slio can alone furnish tlie world.
—Honolulu (Hawaii) Gazette, March 20.
A Famous Quack.
Count C'agliostro sold at an enormous
(nice the “ Halm of bile,” and declured
that he had already attained the age of
200 years; and that with the use of
tl is wonderful medicine he wasentire'y
insensible io poison. When descanting
one day aV Strasburg before a large
audience, lie made the statement that
he was invulnerable to poisons. A
physician who was present left the
room jiriv. tely and obtained two pills.
Coming back to the hall where the
Count was haranguing the people, he
approached him and said :
Here, my worthy Count, are two
pills—the one e ntains a mortal poison,
the other is perfectly innocent. Choose
one of them and swallow it, and I cn
g ge to take that which you leave.
This will be considered a decisive proof
of your medical skill, and enable the
public to ascertain the etlicacy of your
extolled elixir."
Cagliostrostruggled with the situat'on,
made many apologies, hut would not
touch the pill. His opponent swallowed
both, and then proved by the apothe
cary that they were simply common
broad.
South Sea Marriages.
The Queensland papers report the
marriage of two South Sea Islanders
with English women, the first mar
riages of the kind which have yet oc
curred. The Indies who have thus
broken through the bonds of custom
are the Misses Harriet Chnrlesworth and
Ann Sims. Tlie former is a native of
Walford, in the county of Essex, and is
aged twenty-five. The hitter is one
year younger, and lSeekington, in
Somersetshire, is entitled to the dis
tinction of being her birthplace. Tlie
bridegrooms are natives of tlie island of
bifu, anil intend to return to their
island home immediately,carrying their
spouses with them. They were Chris
tians before coming to Queensland, and
have a fair knowledge of English. One
of them was able to sign tins marriage
register in a hani(jvritii>g tiiat would
have been creditable to an accom
plished European, and both of them
answered all the questions put to them
by the minister very intelligently, al
though somewhat puzzled at the inter
rogatories respecting tlie i.egrecs of
kindred. Their wives are only late
arrivals in tlie colony.— Pall Mall (Lon
don) Budget.
Editoro and Proprietors.
NUMBER 30.
Trust*
Though tnnsrlod hard life’s knot may be.
And wearily we rue it.
The silent touch of Father Time
Home day will nure undo it.
Then, darling, wait;
Nothing is lute
In the light that shine* forever.
We faint at heart, a friond i* gono;
Wo weep. tr a grave i* filling ;
Wo tremble at sorrows on every side.
At the myriad ways of killing.
Yet., after all.
If a sparrow fall.
Our Lord keepeth count forever.
lie keepeth count. We coipo, we go.
We speculate, toil and falter;
Hut the luciusuro to oaeh. of weal or woo.
(iod only can give or alter.
Then why not say.
From day to day,
“ Thy will bo done forever?”
Why not take life with cheerful trust.
With faith in the strength of weakness.
Doing the best wo can to walk
With courage, yet with meekness.
Lifting the faeo
To catch God’s grace.
That lights the soul forever.
For over and ever, my darling, yes.
Goodness and love are undying ;
Only the troubles and cares of earth
Aro suro in the end to go tlying.
Fleeting as bubbles
Aro cares and troubles.
Anti “ now ” is a speck that tricks us ever,
’Till it flouts anti is lost in the vast ” Forever.”
Varieties.
A curate having been overhauled by
bis Bishop for attending a ball, the
former replied, “My bord, I wore a
mask.” “Oh, well," returned the
Rishop, “ that puts a new face on tlio
affair.”
An old minister asked a woman what
could be done to induce ner husband to
attend church. ‘‘l don't know,” she
replied, “ unless you were to put a pipe
and a jug of whisky in the pew.”
A NF.uRO preacher observed to liis
hearers at the close of hiß sermon as
follows: “My ohstinacious bredern, 1
finds it no more use to preach to you
<hin it am for a grasshopper to wear
kneebuckles.”
The wife of a Welsh minister, John
Evans, asked her husband, “Do you
think we shall know each other in
heaven?” Ho replied, “To lie sure we
shall; do you think we shall he greater
fools there than here?”
A Janesville, Wis , lady wanted to
name her favorite kitten Dolly Varden,
but couldn’t, and so she called him
Thomas Varden. She was bound to bo
in style as near as circumstances would
permit.”
Tiif. Wyoming Journal publishes the
following in its advertising rates: “ Fees
for marriage notices as high ils the
ecstacy and liberality of tlie bridegroom
may prompt.”
The following dialogue occurred re
cently in one of the public schools in
Baltimoro : Teacher to scholar—“ What
gender is mouse?” Scholar-—“ Fem
mine.” Teacher—“ flense to give tlie
masculine gender.” Scholar—“ Rats.”
Colonel (i. was very fat, and being a
bankrupt, was met by one of bis credi
tors with a “ Dow do you do, Colonel?”
“ Pretty well, you see 1 hold my own
yet.” “Yes,” said the other, “and
mine too, to my sorrow.”
“ What do you think is the best thing
in oil here?” said Mahlstick to a friend
as they met at the lunch table after in
specting “ a private collection of paint
ings belonging to a gentleman of New
York.” “ Hcst thing in oil? why the
sardines,” said the interrogated, as he
made a fresh attack on the edibles.
A gentleman whoso daughter had
married a man by the name of Price,
was congratulated by one of his friends,
who remarked : “ 1 am glad to see you
have got a Price for your daughter.”
Tiie simple people living round
Stamford, Conn., weep with pious fer
vor over basswood relics of the Holy
band manufactured at that city.
Mamma— “Now take your medicine
like a good girl, and when you get well
I'll buy you a nice doll.” Sick child—
“ Please, mu, have it a Dolly Varden.”
A young lady wont into a music shop
and asked tlie clerk if lie had “ boving
Eyes.” He replied, “ I’m told so by
the girls.”
The enterprising individual who is
organizing a brass band of twenty wo
men in Cincinnati, says if they learn
half as many airs as they put on, tlie
experiment cannot fail of bring a suc
cess.
A toll-gate keeper in Virginia was
lately brought before a magistrate for
cruelty to bis daughter, occasioned by
her allowing her lover to drive through
the gate free, when“slio had charge of
it. bike one of Sliakspoare’s heroines,
“She never ‘ tolled ’ her love.”
A man out West undertook to play
with a lion at the menagerie the other
day. lie says lie finds it mighty hard
to write with liis left hand, but
that lie misses bis eye more than any
thing else. Ills nose was always a
trouble to him.
A vounu lady seekinga situation, was
interested in an advertisement for
some one to do light housekeeping. So
she wrote to the advertiser asking
where the light house was, and if there
was any way of getting to shore on Sun
days.
A Touching Story.
A touching story of faithful love
conies from Philadelphia. A beautiful
young girl became engaged in Ifitil lo a
gallant officer in the Union army. At
the close of the war he went to Cali
fornia to seek liis fortune. She waited
patiently for his return, feeling confi
dent that he would yet come back to
her. So the years passed ; gray hairs
began to hliow themselves in her brown
tresses; her friends no longer ridiculed
her, but pitied her as a monomaniac,
bast week her fidelity was rewarded.
The lover ot her girlhood returned (rom
Calfornia bronzed and bearded, a mil
lionaire, with a wife and twins.
The first coal ever mined in the
.United States was dug near Richmond,
Va. Bituminous coal was mined there
as early as 1700, and in 1775 was ex
tensively used in the vicinity. Duiing
tiie Revolution a Richmond foundry
employed this coal in making shot and
shell for the use of tlie Continental
forces.