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WHKN i w i N I UY M. ri.iii. nil DAD. Wli'U 1 ot : b l'ln uli "Id l.i.lll 1:.W ; Ijuok af, Um Kir mnm my l,r ,w : ' i u t XlBM Iiirr.'wi il tli. in tlun . My Unit It Wnt ami my ryM an- dun j f haa planed MstaftTOT v. rv llUih, And pull d "Ut liiiwt of M habr, Hut if life lia r.-in-bid DaaafBbat, I'm not t aid in r-iu' Btbi r U l.i n 1 wi nt ItHBf w.tb dad. , wuiild each of ua nbnuldf r but part of tbr lead, Vml ji Hilly Urt aloiiK tin- Md It. 1 1 iiul'n wan Um Ii Tiit uliarr. Oik oi the illui- aluiit a mil. , lVCI 1 im adOW, MfOM u nti!. , M.il ill. ii t rr aliiioi-t tin n . 1 ' U ll lnk, 1 run M .t alill, ' Tin Umaay tiunk mnl tin old Kray mill. Whi n- 1 wi iit HmIuhu witli dad. Wi' would waiub r aWnit tii a little l ai-.' l'o find lb i-'7.ii Mt, Hhadiint plaiv, Iti'turi- wa wi nt to work. riiPli dad WOOld arriuiK' Inn rodaad I""". n I t. 11 BM jiiht tnw to MMMf uuue Whoa tin nli beau to jrk. it l ... i .ill. I fi l l us 1 uaad to thru: It Um iUvm OOaJd only cOfM bOCl 1 gag 1 BOOl oshiiiK with dad I W. MBMfl I hiHikn with HjM Ml ,,t- rtini atatid oiircilfrHOU thr Iwuk to wait I An. I err it thr llli would l-.t--. Soinrt'in- h tin y would only t.tk. I ION, An H Hi. ttMMMM tin rr Mini " " But oouldnt m ocrtaltt Qtutoi . Th. r. waa one old perch that l nm&toW Would alwaya loo al Uk Um Bad iw, WIuii I MM MTlwW "aa. Mid ko o nniird till tin' - in wax baib, gad tin rooming hernia wow all i by, Ami the rillaffi oloak Mruok oM . i am bunsnr. '." " 1 """i'1 "a-v ii fet'i ghra Um Brtf eaaacc to piay I'lilil ( ur ItiOoh i" donn." Oh, DOthtag BM rv r last 1 oaweol Aa UM l'iy MMdwicbl - i oaad t I rat Whrii 1 wi ut liKhiiiK With 'la-1. Thru dud and I would l.r on th' r.i 4ml wait for thr baal 't tin day to lax ; HO hi-pl'V 1 Mod to f n 1 1 An. I what v ililrrf ul MOftM lM WOttld ttU Jo Uio a:." ;' boy that lm hMPOd n wrll, Aiti-r oar raiddy tot ul : Ami how 1 wciuld MWtlf VMM 10 lux fide To hrur ot the world so bl Mid widr, Whni I w. nt tih;nx with .'lad. PM I Mtf fly lllMMJ to r v.tv wot i : lad then tnyfi im n of whom i bMird Hon 1 longed to play a sari I what wondi rf ni dreMM of the ftttarceMBA, h it VUiOM Of w. alth MU) an bOBOVt I nuiuo, j o niv boywh h art ! Thl rr fa no dr.-aiii lil..- the Old drraiu, rheN fa no str- am like Ibaol I Mr.-aiu When i wi nt ftabiag with dad. 'Hi. n bacli inla to our iort w'd o, u '. ti - i till thr lUMot'i crhMoa Kl0'' if up the l nir day ; i iii u .! i irotu i rail to bm, "Jim, well Nop ; Cu. bnakef is lull to th tt ry top ; Jl"'. UttM M MK on OUT way." There MTt m wayi Mk the old ways, There bn m daye l i i - the old day Whoa i w nt ftahmg with dad. Than WI t ik our way through tbi :. a l w land, Mid I olnag Mtifhl t. hi arlttu d baBd, Am happy u l ootdd i'. Ami whi n thr o.d hollar rain. ,ti -Hir Mui'.. ii m old faiv jr. w ' lrilit Ax h looked dow n at BM, And no om itnlhii m be need to atulle : and, oh, it., nix iueh long, t-wwh Miici' I wTnt tithing w:th dl L II i way. 'way back in thr wmry jrtBM Thai with a.-hiiiK h. art Mnd falllag t 'ara I w.it 'bed dad go away. !!. . . d head lay on my bn tM Whea the angi fa eaUed him l;.u.o to n t II r vv.i-1 Id to way, and I diitf a nOTe iMatb Um r ry aod That nr. i oyiak f et 00 Oft) B trod Whm I want frrh'wg with dad. I'll' WOfld hux givOB BM WI alt h and i:lac, Fnlslled my dreMue of an fa Bored Batui , An.i now I md weak and old; Tin- land ix BiM win ri vrr I 1'U : an oatoh my Bah with a xiH. r ho.'l; ; i my daya are afatnoat told. ; Mheered by thr lova i child or wife, w would tnand thr end of my lonely Ufa Where l want gabing wttfa dad, Uniba jirr weary, my eyea ar. dim : I teU them to lay me eloee by him V B BO i r I ii in. to die ; An i ildi by tide, it will be my wiah, That lb. by tbe atream where Ihoy m. d to bxb, Th. v will i I Um old Men H . '!.'... by him I wnnld ttka to be, Buried beneath thr old oak-m v tx re I aal and fiahi .1 with dad. -Barn Wkl. IN BUSINESS Hoi US. i; .-. poor head that oannot bear a wine." said the young man. glee F x heads can bear it In busineee hours," wag the reply. 44 So take friends advice, Howard, ami let the wine alone." The last speaker was past the ou ridian f life. H had g care-worn face, and deep, thoughtful eyes. If you studied hni countenance when in repose, you read in many of its lines a record of die tappointmeni end heartaohe. The other vva a handaome young man, with clear, OOOfideni eyes and a self-poised nir. lou s;.vv that lie had iaith in hinisclf- wan hopeful and strong, and meant to ,-, :.. to tin- race of life. 44 Why do yon say in business hours, VI'. CiarkSfMl t" inquired the young ni" .. - h" held the wine m ar his lips. 41 Be suae SUOCSSS in business requires i ci g headj and no head is as clear af tei ;. glass of w ine IS taken oa it was be Tore." ICr, Clarkson said this so gran hr and .. .. Mfely that his companion was stm k bj Em manner, and felt that he moke from painful experience. He stood irresolute for a moment, and then set i. ow n the uutasted glgSS of wine. "Right, my young friend!" There was g tone of safe-faction in Mr. fjbirks. ll'l voice. "Iii4," said Howard, as he moved oack from a table coven d with the dain- 'iest refreshments and the choicest wines -surrounded by beauty and fashion 4 1 see many of our successful business net: here, and they gre taking wine i.- iv, At a bridal reception no one itan r !ase" 'The occasion does not lessen the badger," Mr. CSarkaon gaswatfed, 'Some ne n who go away from here this ssrnifig will be poorer by nightfall than when b j oame. ' " h Ins nllgnofl of trade and specula tioi:, !ss and gain come to some men every cLgy, tj the natural course of thini -. ssid Howard " Bui 1 menu pOOrsr for the wine dtaank bere,' replied Mr. Clarkson. 44 1 sec men m this room who have large business interests of their own and oth- j era 4o manage; interests that require the OOOiesI idgment and the moat careful tbonght They will hurry away from bars ::. I little while, and go ba.-k to tlieir offices, their stores and their count 'ng room?! to take up the work they in- armit I for a brief hour. Do you , ttttnk tin-y will be as clear headed as Is--fore .- as well fitted to grapple with the ; issues that demand their highest ability I WUJ tin wine thev fake he a help or a Undsancsl 1 could tell you it Htory," ulded Mr. Clarkson, after a pause, "so full of warning that its hBSSOU would hardly fail to lmjuess you deejily. Kilt tins is neither the time nor the place." " Will you make the time and place naked Howard, whose interest ami curi Hitv were both fullv awalamsd. nrea." When and where .'" I I beat home this . nine, and vdW u- hteny too Mt jroa, i It IW Btrtvt. 1 . , n "ThhQg you. 1 thai oafftgJnlj Thai kwo men ggfiaWilecL j nag itw- or.l xv. mil. ViUil wl.V Ml'. Cluiksoll M.MlM i ... .. i..,.it. t,..l iii iv KiMH'iiil com-i-rn for I him. Wlmt had battD Maid about thr a - . I .. a.iilnl l.v ilrillL- tlall,rir ol (i dllllMlUK ii'" -y lui. n il in his m liimilii'HH lit. in-. thou-htH, gad Ibi now bt poaUMftd it tin- BaOgg itH Hignilicaiu'.' glWW gnoo him. Qj , .. evening b -all l upon Mr. Gkurk Hon gJ bg ha.l pWMnhWHl. MOatd to s. c you, niv youn fricml," wan the kiml exoeting oe rooetred. "I Itiiaw voiir father vi arH airo, ami thiTt' are many things in my memory at turn that I recall with pleasure. He was a true men, Mr. Howard, and the world is . . . . ui. " ... ! ,.,-, un iw u- ua .B ;i was hid i i ii . speaK iih l oui mis moriuu. i miin almost say it was a voice of wiirnin from your father through me." " I 'cannot but feel n little surpriseil at this," sniil HownrdL frankly. "My fa-iln-r need wine, 1 hnwe often geen him take :t gttMg at his own fagble when he had company. lb Het it before his gueete, end partook of it on inch oooe sions. At inv sister's wedding r p toon, which ooonrred dm Ing big lifetime, wine wee nerved as at the reoeption this morning. A shadow pegged ov. r Mr. Clarksou's lace. After a little ailenoe be replied: 44 1 know all this. And your father never need wine to excess di,I not care much for it was only in accord with a social habit. And yet, temperate uh he WMi you gre poorer to-day by many thousamls of doDen than you would have been if he had not taken a few glasses of wine at your sister's wadding reoeption!'1 You cannot mean what you say, Mr. GlarkeOn!" the young man exclaimed, bii face finaliing and paling by turns. 44 It is true, my young fi ieml," he an swered. 44 And I, too, was hurt beyond n eovcrv by DM wine I drank in health to the bride on thai occasion. It was in business hours, and it robbed my mind of the clear sight needed at a time when to blonder was next to ruin." 44I am more surprised than I can ex press." v:im the voting man's remark. ,4Mv father hurt bv wine! It seems impossible. Are you verv sure about thlg thing, &Ir. Clarkson f 44 1 cannot be mistaken, 'lln' recep tions of disaster ere out very deep." 4 Will you tell me the whole story ?" 44 It is still fresh in my memory. It seems an event of yesterday. 1 had an engagement to meet your father alter the reception. The Lake Superior op pet mining fever ww then at its height. JfoUT father was a cool, clear-headed man, and generally kept aloof from goheines of money making not connected with legitimate trad.-. It so happened that one of your restless, over sangnine men, who are always on the lookout for gome scheme by which money can be made more rapidly than in competitive mercantile or manufacturing opt rations, had made a visit to the Ontonagon re gion, ami, in company with a county surveyor prospected for a mine. Ac cording to his repreeentattori they had discovered one of the richest deposits in ' th) whole Lake Superior region, and held the secret of its location. He had Oom e out I'.ast to organize a company, and had yet only talked to a few eapi- , talists, WOO had arranged to meet him at 1 o'clock on the day I have referred to, in order to get g full development of lus ! plans. 44 Neither your father nor I felt much ' interest in the matter. We bad little faith in mining speculations, haying geen more money leal in them than gained, by a thousand per ami. But we had been so strongly pressed to attend this meet ing that we were constrained to be pres- i ant. ''From the wedding reception, Hushed with wine we had each taken three or four glasses, and our heads were not ' verv strong -we wi nt to this meeting to hear about the marvelloualy rich deposit of almost virgin copper discovered som where 00 the range of the gff at Mil'.ae Hota conglomerate belt. MapH and plans were spread oeiore us; specimens of copper were exhibited ; cost of land, and the particulars ol working mines, and the money needed for development Ket forth in eloquent detail. 44 1 saw thai your father, in whose face wa.s an unwonted glow, and in whose eves shone an unusual brightness, was becoming much interested, and foremost in making inquiries and getting at taots and figures. His ordinary coolness and reserve were gone. He bad permitted himself to come under the magnetism of the plausible individual who wished to draw as into Us scheme of fortune making, and was o mpletely carried away by his representations, 44 1, too, saw golden visions, uml when your father said, 4 Gentlemen, I mean to go into this thing,' I was the first to re spond, 4 S do ,' Our example was in feotlOOS, We had the reputation of be ing prudent, far-seeing men; and the ta.-t that we saw money in an undevel oped OOpper mine had a strong influence upon those present, none of whom had the remotest suspicion that our judg ment was obscured and our viniou dis torted by wine. 44 Tin re were ten individuals present nt that meeting. Under your father's lead ami mine, the preliminary organi zation of a joint stock company WSS made, and a committee appointed to procure a charter. The capital w:ih to be two hundred and fifty thooaand dol lars, divided into five thousand shares at fiftV dollars each, the money to le paid in by installments as OOfldoa. As shown by full estimates and the results accom plished in leading mines, not fifty thous and dollars would have to be expi Qded before paying returns were obtained, The stock would then rise to par, c m linTndifIg Sfty dollars a share for ten paid in. xour father Headed tbe subscription, putting his Qgme OOWn for two tlionssnd ".hares. Hi. fgith and Siamnle were potenl with ma, and I followed with a thousand more. In a few minutes the whole subscription was full, and we had a compact organization of ten men, two ot whom, your lather and 1, laid the controlling influence ; our proportion of ' shares being three filths of the whole Dumber. It WSS Voted to pay in at Ones two dollars I share, or b-n thousand dol- ISTS, ii: ordet f- make 1 QStOl payment 011 the land, and to get funds for beginning immediately the work of opening the min . The charter would come aud the ( rjompgjij r,rH::i.iitiiii prootud iii Am . iiir.st1, " I wrnt away fnmi thut nui'iiupf ftwl int? Ktruntft'ly. Ou Roinji to my store, I remeuabec Hitting down at my dggji Rgafl n.stin.r niv lioii.l brtwiM a niv IhuiJh. trv- 1 q. q tlnrik just wh.-r.' 1 w.ih ami what I 1 II 1 I 1 4 . I mui IMU'lf lioillf,'. I ri-iiifiunri iiviiik n niTHi'lf oh tin-i xciUMimnt umlrr which I ! had been lahorinK OOOaed down ami my btain goi olennr, Hnre I been dream- tng or neHBg the fool f ' 1 wan doing n I mndwitoij nuifltgliag bnrineni HmM rr-' quirt-il oggajfu working. My fMkpttgJ, I while Hullk'h-ut to eiiHuro huc-hh, was i not larL'H. and needed to be well tared' for ami ngJldled jmlu iously. 1 eoukl n,,t take two thoiiHaml dolkn away from ' jt without deranging hit enleulati!uH and 1 iaj . i . ' . iimiuiiB, m some , egree, my operauo.. , J''1' i"u IM'W"."1 unxiiH io A, 1 1 l 1- A - 1 I iniiusiimi nam n aaooa, aa pai v, ; of fifty dollars each and might be called on io pay .iMHrssmenis u. uie iun um miiu. , I felt the cold sweat on my forehead. I said to myself, 4 What came over me I must have lost my getfcggg !' Then it Hashed into my thoughts that the wine t drank at your sister's reception had been the evil Inflnenoe which led me astray tbe blinding power that obscured my imhrment. I was startled at the revela- lu,n stertled end aehnmed. ' Bui there wius no going back upon what I had done. I had entered into an honorable contract, and OOtild not, with out loss of business standing, refuse to liiret its requirements. Hour lather oeme to gee me Late in the afternoon to Ik oyer the new mining enterpriee. I saw that his line enthusiasm v.as gone and he did not fail to observe that in re- , 1'e.rin.r to the confer product his mind rested more upon the work that had to be done than on the splendid result.s to be ' btained, 44 lb- was not sure that the sruigniin individual who had led us into th BCb.6m6 was the OOOl, reliable man we needed for t he management of our atl'airs f-t - X A X - in the mining region. His calm, strong, practical mind wag going over the wholl ground in sober earnest ; and it wa.s plain that the rosy hues which had ho pleaaed our eyes g few hours befi ire were fading fast away. " Bui he was not one to look back after once putting his hands to any work. lie was sensitive and proud, and more willing to face an enemy and dare I loss than to acknowledge a mistake, Under the inflnenoe of his unwonted enthu siasm he had drawn number of capi talists and men of business into a mining enterprise, and be felt pledged to the work of its success. 41 At an early day our charter was in band, when tin election of offioerg wan held, and your father made President of the company. The care and work, the anxieties and disappointments he en dured for the next year or two, in his effort! to manage the atl'airs of the com pany broke his spirits and impaired his health. Money was poured into the mine like water into sand ; assessment alter gggeesment was made until each shareholder had paid in thirty dollars a share. 44 It was impossible for me to take thirty thousand dollars out of my busi ness without destroying it; so I was forced to sell half of my stock at a loss of fifty cents on the dollar. I carried the balance at a crippling cost. Bui your father paid at each assessment, un til he had sixty thousand dollars locked UU in certificates, that commanded no dividends, and had ceased to be ipioted at sny price in tbe toek market. 44 1 will not detail the experience we had in copper mining. It was a con tinued scries of disappointments from tin-time the ground was broken until the work wag abandoned. Ore was found, but m , r in paying quantities. What was sent to market paid us about a mill a pound for a dollar expended in pi. 'curing it. Our superintendent, Whose calls for money was incessant, al ways wrote in the most glowing terms. EVery indication was good. We were odM wllirh ., r Zpauton had struck sureiv approaching one ol the orreat in that region, and the moment we reached it, our stock would go up to, and far beyond, par. Hut tic lode was never found. At the end of a year and a half ; the mine was abandoned. 44 1 shall never forget the meeting of directors at which we voted to stop work. Your father, who presided at the meet ing, sat in the chair more like a statue than a living man. At its close I walked with him. F?e was not inclined to talk. I saw that he was deeply mortified end evidently much troubled. He had put sixty thousand dollars into this bubble, ami it had burst. The land, for which ' WO paid twenty thousand, would not sell ' for enough to meet the claims that still - t i against the company. So all was I gone. 44 As we paused at I comer of the street where our ways parted he said, with much bitterness j 4 4 4 To think of my being such a fool ! , T cannot account for it except on the i hypothesis ol temporary insanity. In less than an hour after I put By name down for two thousand shares of that ac cursed stock, I knew that I had eom- mitted the greatest blunder of my life, and nothing but a morbid sense of mer cantile honor kept BM from repudiating the whole thing. If I had OOM so I would have saved myself and others from these cruel losses and disappoint ments.' 4 4 4 I have long since divined the cause of both your folly and mine,' I replied. ' 4 4 4 You have !' 44 He spoke with a nervous throb in his voice. The color deepened ill bJl face. Be looked at me with something like startled suspicion in his eyes. 4 Wine is a mocker, 1 said. 4 4 4 Wine : What has wine to do with a oopper mim mpany f be asked. " it bad mora to do with this one, 1 imagine, than vu suspected tie looked at me steadilt for s mo tnelif or tun 1 miw his countenance change. As his eves fell slowly to the ground, I deep sigh parted his lips, rUwwl mn-ninmrhm awU an Inttftanl afterward, and strode away He understood m " Trouble never comes alone. With sixtv thousand dollars taken out of vow father's business, and ne-irlv twentv thousand out of mine, wa were both m peri. To reach port we must have a smooth sen ami favoring winds. Hut We had neither. There came a sudden panic in fnianoia circles; banks reduced then- Unes of discount, and rates of in- forest ent ui to ruinous titnires. Trade gympathized and fell OSX W'uk liou.mH Im'iui to toMgfl iiml (town, ami b1roiio r OgaM lo gkkOW gaflM I i.t kroabto, I sirnii.,1, god rfritVHj iud hfid on with faMpgggjia agyggyw Imt vumiy. Aiy oonts wtnt mulrr " 1 kiww that your fnthfr was goreW , frioplnl ; ami wln-n I thoulit of him it : . . i 1 I i Ik i.,,l..', in I..'., I.. ii. .,,.. Lh maa I " ... uw i,j nij own komsh of danger. Om- lnv, in oiuw H'K largo aimti.m houw, I huw hint Ht4-p forth nd gggnd for moim-nt looking be ' wildered nl ggilaiid. eroagnd omt I to Hm him and mud : M 'Qood morning, Mr. Howard., Nothing wrong, I hoj..' " Kuin ! That ie all he amaaaaaaaA. wit.li a torrHl Htli;im-HK. 44 4 Oh, uo !' I returmnl. 4 Not ho bad uh that !' 1It, (lrmf hirt nrm in llU(l we he iWHik,.tl !kWnf. Aftnr a iittl( whUe " ()K(i hi T)iw, Htt,lu,T thiin Ul.liVV ,, , y frienT ; th n...S(. ,. k1(, f(H( w,,ii T() sav,, mv. self, 1 fore- l a sale 01 my property on Walnut street, and it hits just been -.truck down at a little over half what I would have taken for it a month ago! Ami that BkOang ruin ! The sum to be gg Oeiwed will not meet my wants, and I shall be forced to suspend after all with assets end resources diminished by the amount lost in this disastrous sale 44 ' And all this,' I could not help gaj ing, witJi bitter emphasis, 4 comes as the result of a glass or two of wine taken in business hours !' 44 He caught my arm with a sudden grip, There was ;t wild, deeperate, half angry look in his face, it went off "f wit, ami nis ungers as siowiy iviaxe.i lh,'ir ,loM UP mJ :irm- i r i li. .i -1 i i 44 We parted without another word, and the subject was in ver referred to again. Your father went through his painful ordeal and came out with a small remnant of property after paying hj.s debts. I lost everything, and h:;ve been a poor man ever since. He was moder- ately successful in new business enter prises. At his death he left an estate worth at least a hundred thousand den ial's less khan it would have been if he had not ta.st-d wine in hnfrinneg hours." How the Brats hoppers Fly. A correspondent of the St. Louis .' nub lioatlt who has been observing the habits of the grasshoppi r in the Interior of Missouri, describes ieir method of taking flight as follows: " Grasshoppers, to say the least of them, gre queer insects. They muster iii force ut regular hours, then depart, and this programme has been followed without variation in that vicinity for the past three or tour days. Between 1030 and 11 o'clock a. m. they congregate in swarms, oftentimes covering from one quarter to half an acre or more. They now begin maneuvering for a good start, and in order to gain .an altitude tly against the wind in a zigzag manner. Large swarms goon reach a gn at height, where they mingle with other swarms, and thus in vast pyramids pass away to the northeast. Yesterday those at the highest point went in a northwesterly direction, it being observed they were Oarried along with the wind's force. No accurate conception could be made of their height. Shielding the eve with an umbrella from the sun, tin y appear one vast snowfall, traveling at the rate of ten miles an hour. From the space of 100 feet above ground to an altitude beyond correct demonstration, they appear in myriads, althoughii wasclearly observed the larger part attained the Upper CUT rent. Heginning their flight in swarms, they maintain the same order through out. For minutes the sun's light is al most shielded, when for a time none arc observed, again to be followed by mill ions more of the tiny pests. 44 At a low altitude, barely passing tops of tall trees, thousands of 'hoppers lly in a venturesome way, unable to ob tain proper height, in a few days, how ever, they gain sullicieut strength, and then form a part of the departing multi tude, and so the llight keeps up. Thi eve grows weary with upward watol but the moving hosts form a panorama in the heavens on which the toiling hus bandman gazes with unspeakable joy. At noon the procession had reached its grandest proportions. The voracious pests pour forth in one exhaustless swarm, their tiny, bright wings glisten ing in the sunlight. A hawk, sailing at its usual height, was far below the most venturesome. Toward 2 o'clock they decrease in numbers. Swarms grow perceptibly less, and soon a fsw strag glers alone are visible, slowly following the line of march. Another half hour and all have paSSSd for the day." A Ship with Wings ami PasMlag, Mr, Micajah Dyer, of I nion county, hivs recently Obtained 8 patent for an gp paratus for navigating the air. T!i machine is an ingenious one, containing principles 1 ntiivlv new to aeronauts, and winch the patentee confidently believes have solve, i the knotty problem of air navigation. The body of tharnaoldns in shape resembles that of nn eagle, and is intended to be propelled by different kinds of devices, wings ami paddle wheels, both to be siniultan. ously op erated through the knstromentality of mechanism nonnested with the driving powi r. In operating the machinery, the wings receive an upward and downward motion, in the manner of the wings of a bird, their outer ends yielding as they are raised, but opening out, and then remaining rigid while being d. pressed. The winora. if .Wre.i may be set at an angle bo to propel forward as wall its to raise the machine in the air. The paddle wheels are intended to be used for pto polling the machine in the same way mat g Veeeel is propelled on water. An in strument answering to g rudder 1-; at tsahed for guiding themsohine, A bad- loon is to be used for elevating the 44 liv ing ship," after which it is to be guided and controlled at the pleasure of its oc cupants. Mr. Dyer lias been studying the subject of air navigation for thirty years, uu.l has tried rahoOS experiments during that time, all of which failed until lie adopted his present plan. He took an eairle for his model . ami ... ... gtrrsrtsd his machine to Imitate his pat tern BJ nearly as possible. Whatever may be the fate of Mr. Dyer's patent he himself has the most unshaken faith in its sm-cess, and is ready, aw soon as the machine can be constructed, to board the shin and commit l.imcol 4.. U WiadLGalnenHlle (Go.) Eagle. ELBM1KT1 OF DFM ia ( HON. Tlie rrrn.'li KIixmIn iiml OIIiit DflMaSeiW ' A iSlMOte lloloi aunt ot l it. anil U i.li- ' peeaal DeeaSaeSlea el Property. The good! which oaOSSd such wide spread devastation in th South and Bast of this country In the arly spring seem o have been repeated in the South of France with additional destructive sf foots, ceasing an nnpgeesslantad 1hs of life and destruction of property in many of the towns aid Tillages along the river Garonne, This rifer, which take its ( rise in the Pyrenees, near the Spanish frontier, is ftooded nearly iv ry soring i by the melting of the inonntain icv and. snow, but this m the first time that it , has aaaassoned any serious disaster by its oTerllow, showing that the winter must have been marked by excessive rigor in Fram-, us it was in this conn try. The principal scene of disaster 1 seems to have been st Toulouse, a citv j Of 190,000 people, situated OB the (hi-' ronne, at the confluence of its branches, lbs Lsneand the Arriege, Tin-citv is I principally built upon the right bank. ' A portion of it occupies an island in the : river, and the remainder, known a.s the St. Cyprien quarter, in which the destruction w;us great, st, is built on the left bank. In this quarter th.- ravages of the flood Were so terrible that it has' been found necessary to dsstrov it by bombardment, so ,(s 'to prevent banger from the crumbling, falling walla left standing after the hood. In this quar tar about :',im people w. re drowned, and in the whole city ".Mill persons perished and 2,600 houses were swept away. The whole LOSS Oi life in tin- Yaliey of the ( I .num.- is stated at 8.000, and' the destruction of property at sixty or seven , ty millions of dollars I At Verdun, win-re the river gepan into five streams within the town, tin loSS Of life was also large. At Treuioul- I let, on the AJTiege, one of the branches, but live houses were left standing out of , 400. At Moiasao, 17i houses were de stroyed. In the district of Psix, two Villages were entirely destroyed, and great damage was also done at Bognen de Bigorre and Agen, the river rising iv.) feet at the latter plgoe. The total loSSOf ' life is m.w set at 8,000. The flood seems 1 to have spent its force at Bordeaux, without occasioning any lerioos oatas- trophe at this important citv. The win- d disaster is in the 1 department of i Haute (tannine at the base ot tin- Pyre- ' nees, and, as the industries of this de partment are mainly agricultural, Ton louse Detngtbe only manufacturing point of any importance, the Buffering is in t use. All the crone were deatrnved. and thousands of people, 30,000 in" tie-1 environs of Toulouse alone, SN without ' the means of subsistence. The French I 1 pie and the government have come Iiobly to the relief of the sulh rers, but i inasmuch as an appeal has already been ' roads to England for help, it shows that the catastrophe has involved an extent of suffering beyond the ability of home be- nevolenoe alone to alleviate. The disas ters during the month of June were not confined to France. Four days after the French flood, terrible inundations oc curred in Bohemia, Bforavia, Oorinthia, Beriat, and the Tyrol, not destroying as many lives BS in Y ranee, but drowning thousands of cattle sod ruining tin- crops in several districts. The day after theSS inundations, a thunder-storm struck the eity of Uuda, in Pesth, sooompanied by ' an unprecedented fall of hail, which covered tie- houses ami hills with ice two , f" t thick. The goods were unloosed ', ' am! numerous torrents swept through the city with such a fury that man and vehicles and everything movable were ' swept into the river. It is estimated that 800 people were drowned and loo people killed bv the falling walls. By a curious coincidence, on the same day a fearful tempest broke upon the Chilian OOSSt, destroying numerous vessels and sixty lives, and a cyclone struck Hong Kong, wrecking hundreds of vessels and junks, and killing over 100 people. There seems to have been a general ad I vanes all along the line of the elements of destruction, the world over, during . the month of June. Floods, cyclones, hail and thunder-storms, tidal waves, earthqoakes, and volcanoes united their destructive efforts in ev-ry part of the globe, i xcept Africa, and resulted in el terrible holocaust of life and wide Spread destruction of property. It is probable i that in this month of June, which has , just closed, nearly SO, 000 lives have bean lost by these destructive agenci- s alone. The damage to property it is impossible to estimate, Chicaffo IWositsc. Miraculous Fish. A Constantinople correspondent says j 44 En a Greek church we were shown s ime miraculous fish, as they were called. In a marble basin we saw some small speci mens of tie- finny tribe, said to be of the extreme age of 1,400 yean entirely too old for cooking porposes, even though we Were not disposed to be too particular as to a century or two. The story about them is to the effect that when the Turks w ere besieging Constan tinople some Romans wen- cooking fish, when some one told them that the city was in danger of being: captured. The Romans replied that when the bsfa jumped OQI of the pan into the water then Constantinople would fall. Where upon the half-fried fisfa jumped into the water, the Turks jumped into the city, and 1 lumped to the conclusion that the Story of (he old brown and white fish was the largest humbug entertained by the Holy Orthodox (ireek Church. Si.vr.s Jnkian MunuWUNN to 15k Hanoi 1 . Colonel lion, limit, who has' just returned to St. ,ouis from tin- Itali an Territory, says that twenty-seven murder cases have just been disposed of by the United States District Court, at Port Smith, Ark., before which all tin criminal busim H from the Indian na tions comes. Out of this number, there m re eight OOnvictkmi for murder in the fust degree. BOVOD of those coii ictei I, In eluding two isiys, one 17 and the other 19 yean Old, w ill be hanged on the Bd of September next. The eighth one, a ocgro, was UUsd after conviction, while attempting to escape from his guard. Much outlawry prevails in the Indian Territory, ami tan persons have been killed at Fort Smith within a few months. DunOU'S sister lives in Tan's where she heepaa boardtog laonaa. BrigsoU HfW uiha Lor. Tin: WtiltilWI vtoi.F. (liOil'hru.-.l fr.rai lh.- SiliiiikU ' Vriartc) UT JOHN . aAXK.' A W.ilf not in thi- W ant alarm- I To in- t a SSafiM r I iiuti nnarne-. Aiiar.-..! dun in a effll wa w aii, "Tail rue aow, m fi ad, i aaajTi rear truly 1 w.aiul I'ga t" BW a Why aralfaa ij uirn ar- haw aol I k. . im r.'a"n, I pTOfc -t. Wh; 7. .u nhouia dm-in m Htl. li a l'-t n- fl.- t a hit. ami, "ii in BafL goal iu y .ar im.- m inont alnril, M; km y.-n uk.1 aol la ha I -I'l l-r.it. rt- you from li- - t an. I OUM ; Ami gaarda y alas, m y.iir ! . . ... m . !. -.U'i nHmgmt I M i law ar poti-ut t. aaf Taa atiaaSaaf f Um -ii aw ; N..r uJ yu gkal ill.- lat "Irrm, . r.u.iii by thm -'uiit' r . haiaa 1 of liruiKi, too, my f.t i nirr To work -lia kamra- a rcaSi '-nr. " - KiioukIi '" Um Mht phord raid, " f'.n"iii Too lonrf Ia aaard ttwt - 1 1 -tuff ; HuppoM your boaatfal warda wi r hraa, Wa owa ii" gratltada Io you : iraal UmI fou r-- aaaaa aaafa raad, ' ! la TBntly im ire than fOV latatad Ami, Jndgiag by Uiat tunplc i -t. Y.'.i ra bat .1 aiohad Wolf, at i a) ; Mort oTir, H la jilamly tTM No good in Ufa y"ii aa? do : "I ih alaar, iy araal fooiaalf hava aid, You're K'kmI for naught Ull yu an iUvl !" mteati. Boa many BOB an i'm l w it. -. banafactkma oaU Io nuad Tin- Im uiNtrel Wi'lt : -who 1.. e r ,'iv A thought t" Moray whttt Um y two, Hut aft. r ! ath, ly lin Hy i l :i: -, Soim um, fill piirMNW! may advance ; No 'luniks la gaaaa -waoaa ttvtakg will Dallgated but la dotag ill ! Wit ami Humor. An air of Importance One's hist breath. OnuMdM should bo seen to, not herded. ''!!. What soup areQuaksri most fond off Peace sou). Whi n sweet oil is put into a ca.stor, does it become castor oil I Why is a penny-a lim r like a hard Judge! -Because he abhors short scu te nees. "Bah," said John Etenry's hopeful to a boy who wanted to whip him, 44yoU couldn't lick a postage stamp." Ths Oarawni recently caught a man, bathed him in petroleum, applied a lighted match to him, end danced by the light thereof. They had no personal grudge against him. A Scotch peddler completely oowed an irascible Welshman, who insisted on fighting him in an inn kitchen, by going down on his knees and imploring pardon for having killed two nu n already, and being about t kill gnothsr. " M Or out of the way ! what are you good fort" Mid a cross old man to a bright eyed urchin, who happened to stand In his way. Tin- little fellow, as he stepped one side, replied very gently, "They make men out of such things .us WS are." Tin: lawyers of New York wanted to give Judge Pierrepont a public dinner. lb- declined. Such things, he laid, were a mis-steak for public men beef-ore tin y had been tried, and the times were out of joint for soup-pci tluities. JffsSOtlH . publiotm, A SrNDAY SCHOOL prodigy, having listened to a discourse on the necessity of offering a firm front to the evil DM, said he could not light the old genth--man himself - he was not his size; but if lie had any young ones, he'd knock the life out of them ;us K)On ;us lie would bricks. How a Boston delinquent justifies himself : "The pluintilt in this case was insolent. He insisted on loud whistling in my office. My fingers slipped down between Ins coat collar and his necktie like chain lightning, and I let him waltz out of my office like a .Inly zephyr. I await your Honor's sentence." Das ii 1 1 v. s.i bota "" graofcna i tttf day 1 laugn in'- wihi t.i at . ,. v.iy My acataaU yowag bain t.i jia Dot faaaji little baby, a am tani Shot oa&M a UtUa iffhiaallt Dot4a vhofl di r rlndj rlad will eiawl Biglil in it. Uttta -t'liiiH.-h rliiuaii, u..t'.M te.i had foe gov beta. Iff bulla my iiomi- mui hlofea n.y hair, And gvawla nu' i if i r .'v-i-ii win M, Dad aoblobbara row toI an i euro? li.it .w my Hi-lnnall yminx liahy. Amiin I my baad Afg Httta nrtn Vsi -i ii. pn i via in ao aloe aad warn ob, mar rtbar aavi r eoaaa bobm hi nu To dot m'liuiall Itttta baby! A pamh.v, the w idowed father of which has been somewhat afflicted with an In termeddling of uproarious sisters-in-law, has a six-year-old girl that has a "faculty1 of prayer." A few evenings since she enumerated the objects of her supplica tions as follows: 44 (iod bh ss papa ami my governess, and my sisters and broth er, and my uncle Sam and my aunt Georgia, and my twin cousins, and cous in Julia, and all mv relations, except Maur and Jane and Ealen (the obnoxious aunts), and tin- less you have to do with them the better it will be for you." An ancient .Turkey leaned over a Clay street gate yesterday and called to the dusky proprietor of a cabin: 11 Bee heah, Henry, isn't yon about ready to pay me da! two bits ;" " HaTen'1 nufftn to pay w id," was t'ne reply, 44 You borro'ed dat money a wh lc y ar ago, H my," Continued the old man. 44 Can't help dat can't pay." " Benry, I belieres you don't Want to pay; I believes you is dishonest, ami I nebber ash rot h- money agin; I'll leave de lord to collect it !" -'Shoo'" exclaimed Henry, greatly interested g at om-e, 41 You hasn't any more money to lend on dons terms, has ye .'" - ExCfUUIfft . Happy livery Iay. Sidney Smith cut the following from a m w .paper and preserved it for him self : 44 When you rise jn the morning, form the resolution to make the day a happy one to a fellow creature. js easily done j a left off garment to the man who Dasds it ; a kind word to the sorrowful : an encouraging expression to the striving trifles in themselves a.s light as airwill do ut Isast for the twenty four hours. And if you are young, depend upon it, it will tell when you are old ; and if yon are old, res! M sured it will semi yon gently and happi ly down the) stream ol time to eternity. I'.y the most simple arithmetical sum, lK)k at the result. If you send one per son away happily through the day, that is three hundred and sixt live H the course of n year. And suppose you live forty years only after you commence that course of medicine, you have made 14,600 persons happy at all events for a time.