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J. \V. MAIMIN'. M.MAKTIN. Mtrs. J. 15*. A* / «W. 'Warlin Offer their profess.onal services to the citizens of Brookliavon and Adjoining Vicinity. rjgpserv ices „(• |lotli can he had with out extra charge. sept.2-1 vr. I*. BB. I rafts, SURCEON DENTIST, IlrooKlia von. tliss-. Is p re; it red, with all the latest im jirovcnients, to do work in the heM stale known to the profession, lcnns res son aide, and strictly cash, office corner Moutieello and Jackson streets. Sept. 2-lyr. Strop in a! the office, IlvE COPE, Proprietor, AND WET YOUR WHISTLE. He keeps all kinds of WINES, BE,ANDIES, WHISKIES, ETC Call and see him. . Sep!, lti-tf. John .Virholas Srhivatl, BOOT db SHOE MAIiEH, (cherokee Street,) ■Iroo^hami, ... Miss. Orders solicited, and promptly attend ed to. Satisfaction guaranteed. Sej»t.*2-lyr. Protect Vonr Property! Having received the Aueney ot the PLANTERS’ INSURANCE COMPANY, of Mississippi, I am prepared to take risks on tlwelliliar*, stor. houses, stocks of merehaiicliBt?, i‘te. on tin* most reasonable terms. Office at It. It. N ithers & To,. Railroad Avenue, ltrookhaveil. Miss. Sept. '1 if. U. It. NVITil KIW.\ Sam Zjiffht foot, FASHIONABLE HAIR DRESSER lias opened a sliop under the Court house. where lie is prt pared to do all work in his line. Mis prices Ini' Sha vinr rutting Hair anil Shampooing are re markably low. He solicits the patron age of the public, and guarantees salis !action to all patrons. Sept. 2-1 w. Stern's Hotel. Slniokliuvvn, - - ^li^. JACOIt STKRX, Proprietor. Board Per Day, - - $2 00. Regular and’Transient Hoarders ac commodated by the day, week oruuiith. Sept. 1-tf. * TIa.vtecl!’s I Star and Milliard Saloon. West side Front Street, Itrookhavcn, - - .Hi**. Choice Wines. I.iimors and Cigars on Iiaii71. Attached is a splendid Hilliard Table. Sept. 2-tf. 3231.130 S *11 if. 1 have removed mv SADDLES? SHOP I in l lie Tneliatscli brick store, next door to L. I.ewentlia!. 1 can sell a sad dle and In-idle for JR ■'»); buggy harness, $15011; wagon breeching, per pair. $7 on; riding bridles. $1 50; and all oilier goods low in prooortion. Call and see THUS. CUMING, Sit. MMo Ton IIV/Hf A NEAT BOOT OR SHOES If so give your measure to "Wm. Atoshascn, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, (Adjoining Storm A Son,) Cherokee Street, BROOK HAVEN, MISS., Who is prepared to make the neatest and most fashionable hoots and shoes on the shortest no tice. A PEREECT FIT GUARANTEED. Keeps always on hand for the purpose, the finest and best leather. Sept. 2-tf. Keep 1 *our ; MONEY AT HOME, AND PATHONIZE CHAS. P. BOLIAN, FASHIONABLE TAILOR, RROOKIIA YEN, MISS. He is now prepared to do all kinds of cutting, ■ making ami repairing. A good fit guaranteed. There is no use sending your work from home when you can have it done., as cheap and good | here. Shop in rear of Italy building. Sept. 2-tf. MSrookhtiven - Male Academy, i The next scholastic year <>f this insti tution will open ‘ WEDNEYSDAY, SEPT. 22(1, 1875. i « The year will be divided into two ’ terms ot f> imntlis or 20 weeks each cor i responding to those of Whitworth Col r lege. , EXPENSES FOB FIVE MONTHS, IN ADVANCE: Primary Department.U5 0* * Intermediate. 20 0( Higher ami Classical. tl* Board and Washing will cost. 75IX Incidental, per term. H* Pupils received at any time and chary ed in nil cases to the close of the ciirreu term. M. IS. SHIRK, Sept. 2 Principal. eelftat . The*. .. .4.. .-Id | '' A sea-view from a r - , Which ever to me doth recall Bwoct memories of a far-off land. X brought it with me o’er the sea Many, aye many a year ago, When 1 sought tin: land where liberty Made e’en the poor mini’s heart aglow. With fortune’s smiles 1 have been blest, ] own my houses and my lands, 1 know lliat tho wealth which is the best Js earned by labor’s willing hands. Hut among the dearest things I prizo Is this old pictureou tho wall; It looks at me with loving eyes And tender grace o’erspreads it alk It ’illimls me of a time when we One summer evening rambled, where We saw tlie moonbeams kiss the sea, While the breath of clover filled the air. Toward the land of the lofty pine We saw thegreat ships sailing away, Ami a hope grew in her breast and mine, A hope to reach that land some day. Fulfillment cr<»vned our hope, and wo Have ill that land lived many a y.ear, Our lives have passed most happily. Our eyes liave seldom felt a tear. And now when we review Hie past And many memories recall, The sweetest memory ’round us cast Comes through that picture on the wall. A WOMAN'S HEROISM. Bound home to No’v \ ork trom the Sand wich Islands, the ship Hampton, was bowl ing along through tile Haul lie Ocean, under a cloud of canvas. The crimson rays of the rising sun had tinted the blue, rolling waves, when Bertha Winthrop, one of the passengers, came on deck. She was a lovely girl of eighteen, with 1 1 I • 1 . * ... i. . :.i . .. skin, and perfect features. Nothing could have been more charming than the contour of her well-formed head, balanced on a neck as round and smooth as if sculptured from marble, yet full of life and expression. The supple grace of her whole form, from the sloping shoulders, the lithe, flexi ble waist, down to the small, well-shaped feet, was remarkable, perhaps partially due to her habits of exercise in the open air, not only in walking and riding; but also in swimming. She had been to Honolulu, i it to some relatives, and was now returning home under the escort- of her lover, H ,-i.eii Wel don, a handsome naval officer of twenty three, who ha 1 obtained leave of absence from the o ui, ..n,ter of his vessel, lying oil Maui, Sun; <• i Islands. Bertha w - not at all demonstrative in ui,inner. Some people said she was cold. U, r ca lm s.-lf-poss .union never deserted her She would look with still, clear eyes upon her lover, when lie Vpofcjjf to ifer she seldom blushed, or stood y i>a doxipihg lashes bu ll**. < This at times woundel Herb -i-t’s vanity. Me wondefed if it was possible she did nut care for him, after all. True, her voice had faltered, he had heard the floating of her heart and felt tile* trembling of her hand, when he won from her many months before, the confession that she loved him. liut these signs of affection soon passed sway, and she seemed as.calm at ever. There are some men who can not like such women; there are others who adore them. Bertha was not long on deck when the young officer sought her side. The two conversed. Finally Herbert said, “If we have good weather, we will reach New York in throe months. Then, dear girl, 1 will make you my wife,’’ “Yres, Herbert/’ she answered ia a low, quiet voice. “I think we nra/well matched,’ as it is called/' he went on—“don’t you!'” “Certainly.” she replied, in the same qui et waj'fji slight smile on the pr.-tty lips. “Mine for ever ! My.o-.vn to love, cherish, and protect! Oh, Bertha, you cannot im I a/nue 1U»W ± nmu happy time!” “Oh, yes, I can understand all that!” she replied, calmly, raising her soft clear eyc3, anu looking him steadily, yet not boldly, in the face. A shadow crossed Herbert’s brow. Could she love him, and yet. be so calm ? "Bertha,” he suddenly said, "I wish you would say sometmng—act in some way to let me know that you think as much of me m- I V of youl” t au instant the girl flushed from brow iv t Then she became pale. ibert,” she said, quietly, “you must aover doubt me.” The young man was not satisfied. When Bertha left him, and went into the cabin, without having spoken again, he felt cha grined. The sun had risen, but it was vailed by a hazy vapor. Masses of heavy black clouds were rushing along from the -windward. The ship’s captain was ordering sail to be taken in. Hither and thither about the decks went the active sailors, pulling and hauling on braces, sheets, and clewlines. Then up the rigging they darted to furl the topgallant sails, the fore and mi/.zea topsails, and to close-reef the main. ■ While all the gale came shriekin_. „ ring on the ship. With her lee-rail scooping up the white waters, her shrouds whistling and bending to the gale, her masts swaying and creak ing, her timbers groaning and humming, away she wont, driving through the mad water.-, vailed in a shroud of spray from bow to stem. Amidships, holding on to a pin on the main fife-rail, stood Herbert, watching the men who were furling the jib. Suddenly the ship made a mad plunge; a great torrent of water came sweeping, like a huge, moving waif, over the weather rail. Ere the young ollice: could avoid it by running aft, it struck his form, washing j him overboard like a shot. 'I here was a | slender, half-rotten rope hanging from the j waist, attached to a rail. Herbert seized to is as he went, with ready self-possession, tv r: it around ins waist. i'ho wild mass of w ater swept over and past him; there he was, hanging by tlie end of the rope, about ten yards from the ship’s side. Bertha, who had come on deck just as her lover was swept over the rail, now ran amidships, with pale cheeks - and wild eyes- i calling on the ship's officers to save the j young man. No boat could bo lowered in such a gale. The officers ran to the rail, however, and commenced hauling on the rope, to which the imperiled one, half-hidden by the rag ing, foaming waters and the flying spray, was still clinging. As they continued to haul, an ominous, snapping sound was heard. The strands of the rotten rope were giving away! “He must go!” cried the captain, de spairingly. “No earthly, power can Bave him now ! The rope "ill part ere we get him alongside 1” Nearer—nearer to the ship was the young officer drawn. When he was within five yards of it, the rope held him by only or.e of its strands! This, going round and round, must part in a few seconds. With clasped hands, and eyes gleaming large and bright, Bertha watched Herbert, her lips tightly compressed, as if by the power of her will alone sho would prevent the rope from giving way. The strain upon that one strand was tremendous. It cracked and snapped, but still held. The first mate stood, reaching far out over the rail to be ready to seize Herbert the moment he should be drawn within his Tlia ftorit.nn lvrwl t-itttn 'A. Iwvwllnfi hitch on the end of the main topsail hal liards, thus forming a noose, which he stood ready to throw if the strand should part ero Herbert was pulled to the ship. To throw it now' would probably be at tended with fatal results. The noose would strike the other rope, and not slip down over the young man further than his neck, thus strangling him. Nearer—still nearer ! Bertha could now see her lover looking up from the white, foaming vo h«x. his eyes bright with th. ’ pc ’ saved. Ho was•ojily two yards ti vessel's side. The first mate, lean mg far over from the outside of the ship, to which he had lashed himself, could almost reach him. •‘Thank God ! he is saved!” cried the man, hoarsely, as he made a clutch at Her bert's hair. He had just seized a few threads of those bright lock—lie was endeavoring to obtain a firmer hold, when a loud, snapping sound was heard, as the rope parted ! The man with the noose threw it, but it fell short, dashed aside by a heavy sea, from Herbert, as the ship rushed past him. With a gurgling cry of despair, the young man drifted t•.» leeward ! But not he alone; for Bertha, uho, the moment she saw that the strand must part had quickly fastened the end of the main topgallant halliards about he waist, had sprang bravely into the wild sea, and, striking bravely into the mad waves, as the turns of the rope which she had thrown off the pin slackened, she fast approached her lover. Reaching him, when he was about twen ty yards astern, she threw her white arms about him, and held him firmly, while the men on deck now hauled on the rope. Although half suffocated by the raging waters—although her beautiful waist was compressed hyfhestraiuof the rope upon it, so that she could hardly breathe—yet, with her white teeth firmly set, her large wild eyes gleaming like stirs through the foam, her long wet hair sweeping t.hoyouugman's face, her warm liosom beating against his own, the brave girl still held firmly to her lover, determined to save his life ! At last the two were drawn to the ship’s side and helped aboard, amid the ringing cheers of sailors and officers. Herbert then bore into the cabin the noble girl, who, exhausted by her exer tions, had nearly fainted when she reached the deck. As he hung over her applying restora tives and kissing her again and again, she smiled and said, gently: “Have I not done something at last to prove how much I love you P” “You are a noble girl!” he answered: “and I now understand you. Another woman might have been want to express her feelings to me in passionate language and with burning cheeks; but she would have stood helplessly by and seen me perish. You are one of those glorious crea tures who are demonstrative inaction rather than in speech !” And so he still found her, when, a few months later, he made her his wife. » '- -- An Akron physician tells us of a little Akron boy who come to him and said : “Doctor, I want some ipecac.” “What do you want it for?” “Never mind, just give it to me.” “Who sent you hero?” “No body sent me ; come myself.” “I can’t let you have it unless you tell me what you are going to do with it.” “Well, Doctor, our hired girl haS swallowed a silver quar ter, and she said that if I would give her something that would bring it up I might have it.” THU TKI.KSCOl'K. The principles of the telescope were dis covered by children while playing with spectacles. The theory was afterwards de monstrated by (ialileo, who constructed a telescope magnifying thirty-three times and with which ha made the astronomical discoveries which immortalized his name. In the San Francisco jail is a girl onh sixteen years old. She ii^xcessively sli) anil demure, blushes vd^jjBlooked at bj visitors, and faints wf^mijnkards an brought bleeding and Veiling into tin prison. Her face is - <fe«&M<nd expres sive of retiring mode# *»<t gentleness Her name is Annette Gilllard, and she is awaitingtrial for stabbing a man four times with a big butcher knife, and then smash ing his skull with a brick. •THK COMING AGE. A well knov speaker said in a recent ; Bpeech that the time was coming when wo might communicate instantly with San Francisco without wire or operatoi-. The audience laughed at him. Perhaps his statement is not so extravagant as it seem ed. Had the ordinary work now done by the magnetic telegraph been predicted forty years ago.it would have been received with the same incredulity. The truth is that science, like politics and love, always devel ops in unexpected directions. Modern sci ence is a paradox. Water, which was al ways considered the most incombustible matter in nature, produces the greatest heat known. Watch cprings burn like pitch. The chemist prepares delicate mus lin so that it can be cleansed by fire. Ar- | senic is prescribed for dangerous diseases, j Frozen feet are saved by plunging them in to snow-. Children are told to keep away from iron during a thunder-storm, yet j hardware stoics are never struck by light- i ning. Persons suffering from hydrophobia go into convulsions at the sight of water. A French physician, however, has cured fif ty eases of this malady with hot baths. An editor of a New Vork newspaper lost his 'sight until a surgeon put a knife into his eyeballs, whereupon the man recovered and went about his work. The wildest imagin ation is unable to predict the discoveries of the future. For all we know, families in the next century may puifip fuel from the river, and illuminate their houses with ice and electricity. Iron vessels, properly magnetized, may sail through the air like balloons. An intelligent fanner may turn the soil of a thousand acres in a day. American grain may lie shot into Liverpool and Calcutta through iron pipes laid under the sea. By means of condense! air and cold vapor engines, excursion parties may travel along the lloor of the ocean, sailing past ancient wrecks and mountains of coral. In those coming days our present mode of telegraphy will be classed with the wooden ploughs of Egypt, and the people will look back to steamships and locomotives, as we do bow look back to sail-boats and stage coaches. A MI It At l'1.0 IS I'llKSKKVATIOJf, A writer to the London Times writing from Copenhagen, says: "A Norwegian paper is relating a tale of an almost miraculous preservation. The cap hi i n of the schooner Am izon, of Stavan ger, recently arrived at Bergen with a car go of salt, reports that in passing the Brit ish Channel he had the opportunity of sav ing a British lad of fifteen under very pecu liar circumstances. The Amazon was about i twelve geographical miles from the British shore when the captain thought he observed through his telescope something boating on the water. Ho altered hi- coarse -So as t‘> get nearer, and soon discovered that it was a small boat, in which a lad was lying fast ! asleep. “The shouting from the schooner did not awaken him, b“a when a log was tin-own over inlo the boat ho awoke with a sudden start; an end of a line was thrown to him, and he was just able to fasten it when he swooned and had to be carried on board the vessel. In the boat nothing was fouud but a pail- of oars and a Bible. The lad, when brought back to life and strength by the tender care shown to him, gave the follow ing account of his fate : He was sitting on the shore, reading liis Bible, when some of his companions came down to him and teas ed him with the manner in which he spent liis leisure t iuio. To escape from their ban ter he got into a boat and kept on reading, when suddenly he discovered, to his great dismay, that his persecutors hid cut the line and left his frail boat to the power of the quick running ebb. “He tried to use the oars, but struggled in vain against wind and water, and, as a dense fog set in, he soon lost sight of land. After several hours of alternate struggle and powerless despair he fell asleep, and sleep remained in fact his only comfort against hunger, cold, and the deep pangs of his isolation during the three days and two nights which he had spent in his frail boat when he was at last seen and saved. Un happily, neither the name of the lad nor of the place where his parents live is given, but that will, I suppose, not be difficult to get at when the fact obtains your wide pub licity. The name of the captain of the Am azon is Thompson.” "TICKETS, Silt 1” This was the way it happened. One of the regular attendants at Central Church, is a railroad conductor. He is regular, not so much from any personal inclination for Calvinism, as from the fact that he has a first-rate Presbyterian wife who keeps him in the way he should go. A few Sundays since one of the deacons was absent, and our conductor was requested to pass the plate. Of course he consented. For the first dozen pews everything passed off well. There was a regular financial shower of nickles and dimes, and the railroad man watched sharp, but couldn't see that anybody “got away” without responding. Finally he came to a seat where the occupant was ei ther busted or disinclined, for he shook his head, but made no attempt on his pocket. The conductor looked at him sharply, but no cash appeared. Then he nudged his shoulder, and softly called: “Ticket, sir!’’ Again the man's head wagged horizontally, but the stamps didn’t come, “Pass, then!" whispered the conductor. Still no response. Just a3 the railroad chap was about to call up the firemau and brakeman to help pitch the impecunious worshiper out of doors, the regular deacon came in, and relieved hi» proxy. The conductor says he believes in running a church the same way you would a railroad-train. If a man won’t pay, or hasn't a pass, let him git. IVhat’s the use of a long treatise or the best method of fastening corsets when two or three buttons and perhaps a husband or a sisicr or bo are nil that i> necessary ? SAGACITY or Tint PAIiTlillXIB. Instances of the sagacity of the partridge, woodcock, and other birds have often boon related. But the most sin gulir illustration of the deception practiced by the first of these wily species to protect their young is given by Mr. Henshaw, of the Government Survey west of the one hundredth meridian. While riding through pine woods, a brood of partridges, cont lining the mother and eight or ten of about a week old, w;is come upon so suddenly that tlio feet of the fore most mulealmost trod on them. The young rose, flew a few yards, and, dropping down, were in an instant hid in the underbrush. The mother meanwhile began some very peculiar tactics. Rising up, she fell back again to the ground as if perfectly helpless, and imitated the actions of a wounded bird so successfully that for a moment it was thought she had really been trodden upon. Several of the men, completely deceived, attempted to catch her, but she fluttered away, keeping jii3t out of reach of their hands until they had been enticed ten or twelve yards off, when she rose and was ofT like a bullet. Her tactics had successfully covered the retro it of her young. A NKV/ FUKL. The proposition to supersede coal by the use of carbonic gas extracted from chalk has been subjected to a practical test by its inventor, and with very satisfactory results. Extracted and applied to anthracite, it pro duces a strong flame and heat, and at so slow a rate of combustion that a good tire was maintained for twenty-nine hours in a furnace which heats a church with only fif ty-six pounds of anthracite and an equal quantity of chalk mixed with it during that time. During the last twenty-four hours, moreover, the tire was untouched. Through the aid of this remarkable property of chalk the lignite known as shale may be used foi the production of an illuminating gas to an extent which will appear incredible. Even the coarsest clay of this singular formation is full of gas, and the experiments made in England, though imperfect, show that one taa of this substance, together with a due proportion of chalk, will yield as large an amount of gas as eight tons of ordinary coal. From these tests the inventor argues that London will be warm ‘1 and lighted at a fifty per cent, cheaper rate; th it *1e smoke, dust and other nuisance might be abolished; that every good-siaed country house and every village might be lighted with gas; and the kitchen t.ro, with some slight alteration in the grate, might supply the house with light, Finally, lignite and anthracite la .s would become valuable property, and ehilk would be exported as coal re n'oTv. The English papers say that the prospect seems almost too good to be true. --- ORIGIN OF Tllli GOO UY3IKS. Danchet, the French poet, tells us, re- j speeding the deification of Hymen, that he was a young man of Athens, obscurely bom, but extremely handsome. Falling in love with a young lady of-distinction, hedisguis-J ed himself in a female habit, in order to I get access to her and enjoy the pleasure of her company. Ac he happeued to be one day in this disguise with his mistress and her female companions, celebrating on the seashore the rites of Cores Eleusina, a gang of pirates came upon them by surprise and carried them all oil. The pirates, having conveyed ,tiiem to a distant island, got drunk for joy, and fell asleep. Hymen seized his opportunity, armed the virgins, and dispatched the pir.it i s; after which, leaving the ladies on the island, he went in haste to Athens, where he told his ad venture to all thif^kints, and demanded her he loved in maAjk;e as her ransom. His request was gr ' .1 so fortunate was the marriage, 1 ante of Hymen wits ever aftervviird invoke 1 in all future • nuptials, and iu progress of time thetGreeks enrolled him among their gods. : ■■■■"■-r BEMAKKAISLE A BT ESI AN WELE\ | One of the most remarkable artesians wells of our own time (siys the Garden) is that of Gronelle, in the Paris basin. It was undertaken in 1831, up to which time no successful artesian sinking had reached a greater depth than al>out 1,000 feet. It was calculated that the water-bearing stra tum sought would be reached at a depth of 1,500 feet; but that was not deep enough. The boring continued, with intervals, until 1811, when on tho 2Gth of February, the boring-rod was observed to descend sudden ly several yards. In a few hours the water reached the surface, eventually rushing up with immense violence, mixed with sand and mud. ]3ut the sand and mud soon ceased, leaving a magnificent flow of pure water, which has continued over since. A high tower is erected, and the water rises through pipes with sustained force and vol ume, to the reservoir ai t'uo top, at the rate of fully half a million gallons per day. SINGWLAB MATHEMATICAL FACT. Any number of figures you may wish to multiply by 5 will give the same result if divided by 2—a much quicker operation ; but you must remember to annex a cipher to the answer, whenever therein no remain der, and when there is a remainder, what ever it may be, annex a five to the answer. Multiply M't by five and the answer will be 2,320; dividing tho same number by 2 and you have 232, and; as there 'is no remain der, you add a cipher. Now take 357, and multiply by 5 ; there is 1.785. Divide the same number by 2, and you have 178 and a remainder, you therefore place a 5 at the end of the line, and the result is again 1,785. _ There is no great loss without some small gain. A medical journal pro pounds the query, “Has any physician ever seen or treated a baldhuultd con sumptive ? $he groohlmvcn AdrrrtMnK Rate*. One square, first insertion. $1,50, each siilisuqueut insertion 75 cents. One square one year,415; two square,i one vear. $35. One-fourth column one year tttU; one Iwlf column one year $ID’>. One column one veai $130. I.oeil Notices twenty cents aline. I’oe space occupied l>y a square is on t inch. Marriage notices ami deaths, not ex ceeding six lines, published free. All over six lines charged for at regular ad vertising rates KABLY PBINlINti IN AMKUICA. The Puritans evidently believed that a free press win necessary tc the existence of & free people. Eighteen years after the landing on the bleak coasts of Now Eng land the Pilgrim Fathers established tho first printing press on this side of the At lantic in 1(133, and at Cam bridge in 1(130 the first publication was made by Daye, and was entitled "The Freeman’s Oath.” Daye hail been brought over by Joseph Glover, a rich nonconformist preacher, who also brought with him a stock of printing material. An old sea captain, one William Pierce, edited an almanac in the same year, and in the following the Revs. Weld and Eliot produced “The Psalms Newly Tuned Into Meter,’’ which passed through seven ty editions in one hundred and fourteen years, and w.is also reprinted in England and Scotland. Some other books of a re ligious nature were issued, and in 1041 a book called The Body of Liberty, contain ing one hundred colonial laws, appeared. Daye’s work was full of typographical er rors, hut he was superseded by Samuel Green, mistakenly called the first printer in America, for we find that Daye obtained a grant for three hundred acres of land in Massachusetts for “being the first who set up printing.” Then comes the poems of Ann Bradstreet, wife of the Governor, and several other smaller pious works. In 1053 Eliot printed the catechism ill the Indian langu age, and in 1054 the print ing of all the laws of the court begun. The first American edition of the Bible was is sued in 1(101 and 1(1(53. The first copyright was passed in 1(572, stipulating that no printer should print or sell any more copies than were agreed up on, and paid for by the owner, and the next enactment secured the copyright for seven years. THE SLANG OF THE Slot K EXCHANGE, Gamblers of every gride, says a con temporary, have tlieir slang terms to con vey to the initiated just what they mean ; and however blind it may be to the unini tiated, it is perfectly intelligible to those possessed of the high civilization (?) ne cessary to “manipulate stocks.’’ Four dif ferent forms of contracts are known under the general term of stock privileges. The “put” and "call” are single privileges. A "straddle” and "spread ’ are double privi leges. A “put” is a contract giving the' holder the right of delivering a certain amount of stack w ithin a definite time at a stipulated price. A "call” is exactly the reverse of a “put,” being a contract giving the holder the right of calling for the stock instead of delivering it. A double privi lege is a “put” and "call” on the same stock, in one contract. When a double privilege is drawn at the market pr.ee of the stock, it is called a “straddle,” and costs from two and a half to five per cent, premium. But when drawn at a distance of from one or two and a half por cent, above and bolow the market price, it is' called a "spread,” for which a fixed prem ium of two per cent, is paid. Tile distance from the market at which a “spread” is drawn depends on the elass of stock and* the activity of the m irket. ELEPHANT LAUOKEK3. It would be too long to relate all the uses to which elephants are applied in Burmah. Let us watch them at work among the woodyards where the trunks of tick wood tree, which come flatting down the river, are piled. Every working-elephant is mounted by a driver called a “cornac,” whose prin cipal business is rather to excite the ani mal than to direct it. In the season when the roads are cut, the trunks come down the bar much faster than they can be disposed of in the saw* niLiis, anu vntjjr i«:cuiuuu4M3 iu vaou (juiimr ties all along the banks. It iff necessary, therefore, to drag the trees out of the wa ter and arrange them in piles until such time as they can be cut up. There are on ly three sects of piles, varying with the size of the trees. First au elephant in the water clears the logs from the mass and tinges them one by one upon the river bank. He carefully examines the chaos of logs and proceeds with tusks and trunk to disengage the tree he has selected and which he intends to carry to land. As soon as the tree is placed on the bank another elephant is harnessed to it and drags it to the woodyard, where he leaves it. Two other elephants now come up, and* one of them takes one end of the log upon his trunk and drags it to the pile upon which, in view of its size, it ought to be placed, while his companion assists him by pushing the log with all his might. As soon as they reach the proper pile the first elephant lifts the top of the log upon the j ile, then lie forms a kind of ring around the log with his trunk, while the other with a vigorous blow of his head shoots the log into its place. The intelligence displayed by those animals is almost incredible, and we should scarcely have believed it if we had not seen their movements as described above. A SUICIDAL SCOKPION. The statement that a scorpion, when inven to bay by its enemies and unable to escape, w ill kill itself by a blow from its venomous sting has usually been regarded is lather mythical. A well attested in stance, however, of the suicide of the in insect has lately been published by Hr. de Bellm<me. The write# states that, having captured a scorpion, he converged the rays jf the sun on its back by means of a burn ing glass. The insect became furiously en raged, and finally raised its sting and struck itself, dying within half a minute if terwai-d. While TParis reporter was looking up the particulars of a murder, he got into the •vroi.g a ppartment. and was nearly smoth ered with kisses by an emotional old pair .vlc> mistook him for their returned son, 1 whg had been absent about twenty yean.