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The Comlorter draws Dearest when the soul For comfort pleads, And so we find the path of pain and loss To Jesus lends. — Mr*. 8. L. Hmvell. S—The' Red Flag at Ho. 54. (Mrs. Gray to Mrs. Thompson.) Cousin Ned from California, Nevada, New Mexico, and all other places be yond the Rocky mountains, bos been paying us a visit. You know just whal a jolly good soul Ned always was. and he iB just as jolly now—as why should he not be, with an income of six or seven thousand George's diminished head. He is handsomer than ever, too—the same merry brown eyei and chestnut hair; but, in addition, an appearance, an nir so altogethei distingue that our neighbors all S o to their windows to gaze aftei 1m. Well, do you know, the mo he appeared I set my heart on him for our dear old friend Adelaide, who shall not waste her sweetness on the desert air if I qpn help it. You know I always had a fancy for matohmaking, though, to confess the truth, I have never yet scored a success in that line; my two predestined affinities always fly off at a tangent just as I flatter myself It is un fait accompli. (You will per ceive I havo not forgotten quite all the French we learned together at the River side seminary, notwithstanding my years of devotion to pies and puddings. I will keep a little of it out of respect for the memory of poor Mademoiselle Laurent who worked so hard to drill if into me). But Adelaide and Ned have been cor responding a year or two; bespeaks ol her with groat respect—as how could he otherwise, of nyurseP—iind, T f ha- fon ily hoped tMt his missi V> the East may have more relatioi.-^So the affairs of the heart than to mining stocks, as he pretends. Well, soon after his arrival three weeks ago, Ned and I were sitting in dining-room alone; the children had started lor schdol, and George had kissed me and gone downtown, after an hour's talk with Ned about ranches, and burros, and gulches, and canons. Now that I was alone with our visitor the conversation turn, bordering on in pursuance of the idea uppermost in my mind, I told him I thought it mysterious, providential, that he had not fallen a victim to Borne bonanza princess, or somo bewitbing senorita with no dower but her beauty. " Aud by the w av," I went on, " what was ever the trouble between you and the captain's daughter?" You remember of oourse, Julia, how muoh we hoard at the time about that affair—how during the war I used to read to you, even' during study hours, the letters I had received from brother Jim, stationed at Fortress Monroe, giving the details, in Jim's rather satirical style, of tbe Berious flirtation rogress between Lieutenant Ned, ompany C, and Captain Darring ton'B pretty daughter, of the regulars? And afterward, how some way a shadow came between them—nobody could tell bow, only thnt Ned was hasty, and had exaggerated ideas of a man's prerogatives, perhaps, and Miss Darrington proud and shy? So it was forgotten. And now this Bame lieutenant, after üair-breadUi escapes from shot and shell, and scalping Apaches, sat there in an easy chair by my Baltimore heater and actually turned pale because I mentioned the "captain's daughter!" Love is indeed la grande passion. He had nothing to communioate, however; bade me consider that we were always great fools a' 'enty-one, and likely at that time tc eight in a trap, or, on the other b throw our chancos of happiness a, just as it chanced to be ; he became silent, and I had not the heart to rally him as he sat there watching the floating smoke of his cigar with a far-off look in his eyes—knowing as I did that he had gone back fifteen years, and that be was walking the moonlight beach with « Lottie Darrington, while the if the regiment played In the dis tance. From the sublime to the ridiculous— it is always my fate, dear Julia. Bar ney, the factotum of the neighborhood, tapned at the window, and as I raised the sash, "A folne morning, mum," said he; " there's a red flag < 54, and I thought I'd be tell ye. Tis a foine house, and a foine leddy, more's the pity." You see Barney knows my weakness, and he had seen me a tew days before an ani mated bidder at an auction in tbe neighborhood. "Thank you, Barney; I think I'll be on hand," I replied, dos ing the window. "A foine leddtt^| often met ber-^^H plainly and tastef^H with two charmEBI house seemed the atx comfort, so far as the a year? Beside that my eighteen hundred hide 1)0111 es its meut Mu took a confidential the sentimental, and in out at Number after cornin' to tbe sure ; I had Lfaoed woman, Ressed, walking children. Her de of peace and passer-by could judge, and what could nave compelled the breaking up ol so cosy an establish ment? At all events I would not stop to speculate—it was possible here was mv opportunity to secure a handsome sideboard at a bargain. As I wished to be on band in time to look through the house before the sale began, I asked Ned to have the goodness to excuse me for an hour or so. "Oh, I will go with you, Mrs. Too ales," said he stairs for his . quite gayly. and ran up hat and cane. So off we went to No. 64, where th* flaming flag announced the desecration of household gods. We were admitted by tbe man in charge olM.ll » gale ; and such a charming abodef^fot a down right curiosity shop, the effect ot deco rative art run mad, but such taste and uiStnuity everywhere visible. People Jrlth shrewd, hard faces, boarding house keepers, "second-hand men,' 1 typing the engravings and pretty water colors on the parlor wall, running their greasy Ungers over the keys of the piano, turning chairs topsy-turvy, and shaking tables to see how firm on their Jegs they mieht bo. In tho ixiy window was a large stand ol beautiful thriity plahtsoi which I resolved to carry oil' at least half. The two floors above were neat and pleasant; but it was the second story back that wrung my heart. It was tho nursery. Toys and personal ar ticles had of course been removed, but there was a pretty little bed beside th« large one, and two cunning little rock ing-chair».'«The windows looked ont on a pleasant garden, and liera was sit ting old Mrs. Wiggan, with whom I had a little acquaintance. "Such a charming house," said I, " is it not a pity to break up this pretty nestP Do you know tho family?" " Poor Mrs. Graham ! She lived here with her children so comfortably and happily, two or three lodgers on her upper floor, until a few months ago she lost everything by the failure of a banking-house. She in the city ; has struggled on, tried to get boarders, but the location is too re mote ; she sees do way but to givo it up, place her children with friends in the country, and try to earn a liveli hood by painting. She iBsaid to be an excellent artist, though I'm no judge myself. These are all her own pictures, I believe. She is shut up lu the back parlor; everything taken out of it but a chair. 1 saw her a few minutes ago. Tho tear were running down her cheeks, but there sho sat, bravely stitching on her children's winter clothes, sewing on the last button, and mending the last stocking—poor thing. Thero are the little innocents at play now in the yard." Mrs. Wiggan herself (although she had an eye on tho best chamber set) wiped away a good generous tear ; my eyes were dim, and I would gladly at that moment have relinquished the best bargain in sideboards. Ned, too, the dear old fellow, looked awfully sorry, us he gazed meditatively out of the window where the bright-eyed little girl and tho boy with fair long curls were loading dirt into a tiny cart with a miniature shovel. From the flooi above came the sharp ring of the auc tioneer's voice : "How much, how muchP Six dol lars, did you say seven P Six dollars, seven dollars—gone at seven !" The auctioneer descended with his followers into the front chamber. Be fore I knew it Ned was there, and in his impetuous way was bidding imWashion to astonish the second-hand men. He swept everything before hire; Mrs "Vv lgganj to be sure, stood him a little contest on the " set," and I laughed te see her glare at him, while he was so absorbed that several punches with my parasol had no effect whatever. " Was there insanity in his family?" I asked myself. By the time we reached the parlor the second-hand men tad slunk away, the boarding-house keepers looked aghast. I made a brave stand for the Bideboard, but it Was of no avail; and indeed most of us sat down leaving Ned and the auctioneer to themselves. Ë no relatives - very article from the second floor down was purchased that morning by the distin guished stranger. This amusing turn of affairB rather confirmed my Dopes in regard to Ade laide; of course, thought I, he cannot rid himself entirely of those old recol lections ; but he knows very well the sterling worth of Adelaide, and wbat a charming, intelligent, devoted wife she will make. All bad gone but Ned, myself and the auctioneer. The latter knocked at the door of the back parlor. " Come in," said a voice, and tbe burly man swung the doors aside. The mother was mak ing on effort to rise, but the little fellow with the fair curls was clingling so olosely about iter neck that she could not readily free herself. Ab she arose and came forward we saw the traces oi tears, the paleness of her face, the trem ulousness of her whole form. From Ned, who was standing just be hind me, I suddenly heard the words: "My God! is it possible?" and turning saw him with a face most indescribable in expression. Of course there was no doubt about his being out of his mind— too much auction had made him mad. Tbe auctioneer, after opening tbe doors, bad been called suddenly away, and we threo now stood there—those two gaz ing at each other, and I at both. " Edwin!" at last said Mrs. Graham; "Edwin!" with a voice and smile so sweet and sad that I did not wonder at what followed. Ned's ashen face suddenly flushed all over. " Lottie !" he cried, stretching his arms toward her, "Lottie, my be loved, have I found you again ?" and he clasped her to his heart. ■» The queerest termination to an auc tion! 1 have seer, many in my capacity of housewife, but never one like this. Mrs. Graham was the "captain's daugh ter." and the generous imnnlse of t*'° honest Californian had restored his olti sweetheart her home—yes, and the heart of her faithful lover. " Mamma." said the little fellow, shyly, " is this gentleman the auctioneer, and will he take away all our pretty things?" " No, my darling," said Ned, lifting the child far above his head, and then witifiiisown lips, "all your pretty things will lemain, you and mamma too." "And you, too ?" said Bertie, oordially. "I like you." And so these two, idler years of sep aration, were brought together again. And in suoh an odd manner, too! I couldn't help thinking how differently 1 should have managed It, had I been writing a story instead of acting a part in reallife. I should have found Mrs. Graham first, and sympathiziDgly won her to tell me the Btory of her troubles. Of course she would have mentioned Ned, and of course I should have seen at a glance that Bhe loved him still. And then I should have been the good gel to bring them together, and merit and receive their life-long thanks, and instead of that, here was Barney acting the part ofthe angel without knowing it, and my one a cnancefor a romantic adventure spoiled forever. It was shameful—abominable, and then my plans for Adelaide and Ned. ot course it was olear they never could succeed now. And yet I felt delighted. 1 went home leaving Ned at No. 64. In in the round cheek to the level What a heaver y change for Mrs. Graham) How ifforent from that of the morning.lookWThc sunlight ol this afternoon. Her I tine intact.—her little ones safely near- -ilie prospect of the lonely garret fade l away like a fright ful dream. And Red, lmppy as a clam, for having remembered the widow and the fatherless. I had them all to dinner that night. Mrs -i "afjam is charming, I will say it eves it Adelaide dies an old maid. There will tie a Vedding soon at No. 54. I have ahead .received as a prosent a sideboard much pandsomer than Graham's. Bar- y will be provided for, and we shalli bless the day that Cousin Ned wen'-to the auction and bought up the ej?Jre establishment— including a widely and two children not on the list. It is time for Mrs. .. leak after the din _ ,_ J.auat write to you tins'-,'tttlF roman of my humdrum life. As ever you ' old chum, —Ehrich's Quarta rig. Emma. Badgering a Witness. The oourt and jury, as well os thi spectators, generally enjoy the seen« when a lawyer, hpm attempt to badgei or browbeat a witness,conics off second, best in the encounter. A correspondent recalls an amusinxdiu-ident of this sort which happened t few years ago in at Albany court-room. The plaintiff, y ho was a lady, was called to tastily. iShe got on very well, and made a favoijtble impression on th« jury under the guidance of her counsel. Hon. LynXin Ticiiain, until the oppos ing counsel, Hon. Henry Smith, sub jected herto a shirp cross-examination This so oonfused jer that she becam* faint, and fcUto ti e floor In a swoon. Of course this xeited general sym pathy in the am icnce, and Mr. Smith saw that his oaso looked badly. An expedient 'suggested itself by which to make the swooning appeal like a piece of stufe trickery, and thui destroy sympathylor her. The lady's faoe in swooning lad turned purple red, and this faot suggtrtcd the new line of attack. The next witness was a middle aged lady. The o unse i asked : " Did you see the plaintiff faint a short time ago?" " Yes, sir," " People turn pile when they faint, don't they ?" A great sensation in the court, and an evident confusion Of witness. But in a moment, she aniwered: "No, not always." ' "Did you ever hear of a case of faint ing where the partj did not turn pale?" "Yes, sir." " Did you ever "Yes, sir." "When?" " About a year ago. "Where was it s ." " In this city." , By this time the excitement was se intense that everybody listened anx iously for the reply. It came promptly, with a twinkle in the witness' eye, and a quiver on her lip, os if from suppresed humor : " 'Twos a negro, sir." Peal after peal of laughter shook the court-room, in whicli the venerable judge joined. Mr. Smith lost his case, not to say temper. tr such a case?" - Dynastie Trees in China. The Chinese are accustomed to as sociate the fortunes of their reigning families with tho fives of trees, and eaeli dynasty has a special tree dedi cated to it. The duration of the dynasty is held to be Indissolubly bound up with the existence of the tree, and Inspection is frequently made of the latter in order to ascertain from its con dition the prospect before the sovereign. The appearance of the tree Is expected to furnish incontestable proof of tbe true stale of the empire. It is impossi ble to assign an origin to this super stition, which is of great antiquity; but, to go no further back than the fifteenth century, Yungloh, the third of the Ming rulers, planted a fir tree, which endured until the overthrow 250 years afterward of his descendants by the Manchus. Tho story is told that Hwan-Tsung, the iast Ming emperor, hung himself on this very tree, after having killed his wives and children, rather than submit to the victorious Manchu general, Taitsong. This tree, known as the wry-neeked fir, was then chained up by the order ot Chuntch, the first emperor of the existing im perial line, and although fallen to ground, its remains with the clian around them are still shown. As if in revenge for the unfortunate Mings, the popular fancy has evolved another superstition out of Chuntohe's act, and it now passes as a carrent belief that if the chnin were to bp removed from the fallen trunk some terrible catastrophe would haDpen to tbs Manchus. The Tsing dynasty is also not without its own peculiar- tree, which was planted by Chuntrao in the courtyard of a temple at Tan-chcssu, near Pekin. So long as tbis tree exists, so long, it is asserted, will tbe Uanohus remain su preme; and there are those who con tend that the future belote the ruler nmy be divined from its condition. The latest accounts are that this tree— which is of the wt|ite-nut species, and which lias already attained the respeot able age of two centuries and a quarter —shiws most striking signs of renewed vitality, and as tbis happens to coincide with the state of the Chinese empire, Œ ' ,r credulity is being ill.. so far con Words of Wisdom. Better face a danger once than be al ways in fear. A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as the body. If the olock oi the tongue be not set by the dial of the heart, it will not right. The hardest trial to your heart is to attempt to bear a rival's failure with out weak triumph. They that do nothing are in the readiest way to do that which is worse than nothing. Those who givo not till they die, show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer. Innocence is a flower which withers when touched, but blooms not again, though watered with tears. go The rentals of grass land In England this year show a considerable increase, while those of corn land show a corre sponding decrease. V No Pension Wanted. He didn't look a bit like a patriot as he stood rubbing his back oh a cornel wall,but it isn't everybody who can tells patriot at first sight. They were talk ing about pensions, and all at once he woke up and said : " Was I in tbe army? Toubetlwas 1 Didn't I have charge of one of the big gur.s in the trenches at Yorktown? Didn't t stand in the mud all day and sleep in a pond all night, and wasn't it that whicli twisted my legs out of shape with the rheumatics? And yet havel applied for a pension? Has any on« seen me insidiously stretching forth s hand to grab at the vitals ot this dis tressed country. Not a stretch—not a grab !" No one had anything to say, and presently he went on : " In the army—humph! the day at Malvern Hill? Who killed seventeen of the enemy with his own hand? Who was decorated with six teen medals and a cross by General McClellan? And yet does any assassin chargeme with making midnight visits to pension agents to swear that the hard ships of the tented flold bave left me with only one lung and no liver at all ? Hang a soldier who wouldn't sacrifice his liver for his glorious country He burned up five or six match vain effort to light the stump ot a cigai and then growled out : "I may look seedy now, but who led the Second corps at Fair Oaks? Who captured three flags from the enemy with his own hand? Who was shot in four places and lcupfor dead? And yet do I go whining around after the finan cial vitals of this glorious republio? Not a whine! When I reach out my hand and ask Uncle Sam to come down, it will bo when I have forgotten the teachings of a patriotic mother and the bravery of a veteran father!" "Were you wounded?" inquired one of the group. " Was I? oh, no! I didn't get hit sev enteen different times in three years 1 I am not carrying half an acre of scars down to my grave to attest my devotion my country! And yet what man dares charge me with a desire to skulk into the bam and rob the treasury cow of her feed—the feed she needs for her daily existence?" "Won't you show us some of your soars?" inquired two or three at once. "No, sir! I never show 'em except at reunions! There is no reunion here. This is simply a gathering of two bum mers, a politician, a lame man and a soldier who has been In forty-six dif ferent battles, received seventeen wounds and doesn't want a pension. Y ou wouldn't know the scar of a cannon ball from that of an old wood-Baw. and yon'd go off and say I got run through a threshing machine ! I am now going inside to drink alone to the prosperity of this great and glorious Union, and it won't do any of you an around the door !"—Free Who saved !" es in a to d to stand mi (7*'" Going to a Fire. One of tho most exciting sights a stranger can witness in the lower part of New York is tho fire department re sponding to an alarm of lire in the day time. A representative ef the Fireman't Journal describes a scene familiar to all our citizens, but one that many of oui readers have probably never witnessed. We chanced to be in Broadway a day or two since, says the writer, when the street was crowded witli vehicles of all kinds, and the sidewalks with a regu lar procession of pedestt 'ans. Suddenly gong of an approaching steamer :ded with its, sharp, sudden and hi soun continuous jingle; there was a rush ol teams to clear the center of the street, and a rush of policemeh to aid the drivers in getting theft vehicles against the curb : theu came a fireman running for dear life, shouting "c'oar the road," and right behind him cams the steamer, the horses on the gallop, and a cloud of ■moke issuing from the smoke- stack a moment, and Bhe was gone. Then came a hook and ladder truck, with sounding gong, horses on the jump, and the mem bers of the company clinging to their precarious perches on top. Next came the salvage corps, gong sounding, horses running, and the men urging them as if their lives depended on their speed. It was an exciting event, lasting but a moment, bdt quickening to the pulse of the laziest on-looker. Thousands of persons had stopped to catch a glimpse of the passing firemen, and for over a mile Broadway was jammed with vehi cles and pedestrians, all ot whom had turned out to make room for the fire men, on whose speed might depend the property and lives of some of our citi zens. To a stranger the sight must have been a thrilling one, and impressed him witli the efficiency of our fire depart ment. We know that to our soldiers the heavy rumble of the apparatus seemed like the movement of artillery to the front and to presage an impending battle. And so it was a battle—a fight betwoen the trained firemen and au enemy as old as the earth or the heavens, and one that has scourged mankind since time was. Bread ssd Heat. M . Scheurer-Kestner has discovered the remarkable fact that the fermenta tion of bread oauses the complete diges tion of meat. He found that a beef steak cut into small pieces, and mixed with flour and veast disappeared en tirely during the process of panification, its nutritive principles becoming in corporated with the bread. The meat would also appear capable of preserva tion for an indefinite period in its new state, for loaves of meat-bread made in 1873 were submitted to the French Academy of Soience, when not a trace of worms or moldiness was observable, At the beginning of his experiments, M. Scheurer-Kestner us;d raw meat, but the meat-bread bad a disagreeable sour taste, which was avoided by cook ing the meat for an hour with sufficient water to afterward moisten the flour. The meat must be carefully deprived of fat. and only liavo sufficient salt to bring out the flavor, as salt, by aborb ing the moisture from tbe air, would tend to spoil tbe broad. Tbe propor tion of meat to flour should not exceed one-half, so as to insure complete diges tion. Bread made with a suitable pro portion of veal is said to furnish excel lent soup for the sick and wounded. We are sowing seeds of truth or error, of dishonesty or integrity, every day we live and everywhere we go, that will take root in somebody's life. If Georgo Eliot is married she . ill please manifest it by rising.— Ex. And kindling the Are.— Atlantic Monthly. The New York Reporter. A reporter's life is not a happy one, He is the slave of duty at all hours ol the day and night. To-day he is here, to-morrow there. On Monday he may he among thieves and murderers, on Tuesday among politicians and states men, and on Wednesday among ladies and gentlemen. He may be even among all three on the same day. I remember acold, raw morning in February when I had to get up long before daylight and make a breakfast out of Oliver Hitch cock's coffee aud cakes and run for a train. Thataltemoon I found myself on board of a large European steamer, which had stranded high and dry on the New Jersey sands. I shared th tain's dinner while the waves came dashing against the vessel's side with a force that threatened to make us fovid for sea worms at any moment. I came back wet and weary tliat niglit. but there was no rest for me yet,! To Dclmonico's I must go, os soor I could change my clothing, and parU- 0 ,)of agreat banquet. Such is the life of a newspaper reporter. He knows not at any time where he will take his next meal. He often is sent from a wedding to a funeral, or from a ball in the Academy to a murder at the Five Points. Like an army on the march, he must always have his baggage pre pared, for at live minutes' notice ho may be sent several hundred miles where shirt-collars and handkerchiefs arc un known. Ho may be sent to scour the bay for missing Jersey Bhantios, or Long Island woods for mysteriously disap pearing personages. Not only must the reporter be able to tell an interesting story, but he must also, i f he wants to earn his salt, have a knowledge of the world and possess that tact and discretion which comes of sucli knowledge. Youngmcnfresh fromsome inland college, who come to New York nowspaper oflioes under the impression that reporting til something that they can do if they cannot do anything else, are quiokly undeceived. One half of the news which is printed in the local columns every morning is obtained from people who do not care to furnish it, and who havo to be "run down" very often with its much skill as the most cunning of foxes. And for all thisjthe reporter is paid but little more titan the average mechanic. It may surprise some of you to learn that tie gets even that much, but he does if he is good for anything. That good ones get no more is mainly due to the fact that there are so many bad ones competing with them. Yet with all the drawbacks of long and irregular hours, inadequate remun eration and "assignments" that arcoftcu uncongenial, there is a charm about n reporter's life which all who have ever been members of the profession must acknowledge. There is a romance con nected with it which does not entirely die out of even the older members who now keep to it because they have been spoilt for anything else. The new genera tion of metropolitan reporters, whicli Uiilbr conkiScntbly from th J old, is kept to its work probably more By this flavor of the adventurous than any thing else. The Bohemian spirit of poetry ana beer lias almost died out and the ranks are recruited from a class which has loss of the literary and more of the "be up and doing" spirit about it. They want an active life and they find it here. Asthey grow older, however, they become more straight in their desires end there are consequently constant droppings out. Either they work their way into editorial chairs or they go into some other profession or business and their places are filled by new-comers, who, nowadays, are generally graduates of the leading colleges. So thon, here is To the trulhlul reporter Who never prints but whet he onghter; An example sublime Of the men ot his time. —George 0. Clement m e cap the Warm Weather Diet. The first warm days are fruitful of complaints about the failure of appetite. Breakfasts are no longer relished ; din ners afford but*n languid interest, and suppers*seem superfluous. Only vigor ous workers out of doors, or young peo ple who are so blessed as not yet to have made the acquaintance of their stomachs, come to the table with a real zest for food. And it is no wonder, considering how few people have yet learned the art of altering their diet to suit their own conditions and the state ot the season. The spring appetite fails and ought to fail, before ham and eggs or a great piece of steak, on these enervating first warm mornings of the year. Rich soups, heavy meats and all stimulating and blood making articles of diet, that met a real want in the nipping and eager air of winter, are as much out of place now as the furs and ulsters. And yet many a Ï ierson who would think it a sign of unacy to dress in the December style in May, does not appear to sec r.ny incon O in eating in the December fashion and coal create heat, and thick clothing and tight {bouses preserve it for the conn.-it ' ihe body in winter. Yet men who know enough to dump their furnaces, open the windows and lay oft their overcoats on the advent of spring, are stupid enough to keep on stocking their stomach at full blast and oonsider themselves " ou t-of-sorts" and ill if nature resents the abuse. It is time to let up on the cold weather diet—especially for persons doomed to live indoors. A mold of well-oooked oatmeal, served cold with cream and sugar, with two or three oranges and a cup of coffee, makes an adequate and appetizing breakfast. All fruits and vegetables attainable fit in well at this season. The many preparations of tho small grains afford a variety which it Is well to study. Milk and eggs and fish contain all the needed food-eiemcnts for a diet of a month or two, with such sugar and starch as tho housewife com bines in toothsome light puddings or other desserts. Whether we eat to live or live to eat, we ought to be rational enough to dispense witli food when not hungry and to lempl r nther than force the appetite .— G idea Rule. Frederic Chilcott, of St. Thomas, an engineer on the Great Western railroad, was a hero. He died a fearlul death on that road on a recent Sunday morning. A switch was left open at Simcoe and freight No. 31 was coming toward De troit. Chilcott could have saved him self by jumpiBg off but he stood at hie place. Although he reversed the engine he could not prevent the catastrophe and tho next moment there was a pile of ears heaped in wild confusion around the overturned engine. The mass of splinters took fire and although the fire companies of the town tried to save the doomed man their efforts were in vain. He was cremated at his post and when his charred body was lifted wrecked locomotive his blackened hand Btill grasped the reversing lever. fr om th > EATÜS or ADVERTISING 76V«nt*. One Inch, Insertion, " " each subsequent Insertion, - 25 •* Yearly advertisement*»« t-$4.00 per Inch. ITEMS OF GENERAI, INTEREST. " If I have ever used any unkind words, Hannah," said Mr. Smiley, re ly, "I take them all baeje." I suppose you want to use them over again," was the not very sooth ing reply.—New Haven Register. Mettrai " Yes ; Tom Larry, repairer of telegraph lines for the Sioux City and Dakota railroad, exhibits an odd job of the lightning'a work. It is a piece of tele graph wire, first melted completely in two, and then twisted and soldered to gether again. At Omaha a curious freak was re cently performed by the wind. Flor ence and Willow lakes, north of the city, were blown nearly dry, the wind scooping out the water. The ground near the lakes was covered with dead fishes which were blown out of the water. The Southern cow pea has a very rapid growth. In ninety days it reaches a dense mass of loliage, which destroys other vegetations, and protects the soil from the rays of the sun. Turned un m der in August a crop ol these peas is 'believed to equal a two-year-old clover "s a food fertilizer. Milton married the daughter of a country squire, and lived with her but a short time. He was an austere liter ary recluse, while she was a rosy, romp ing country lass, who could not endure the restraint placed upon her, so they separated. Subsequently, however, she returned, and they lived tolerably happy together. Lyman Beecher, on returning home from church one Sabbath, said'that he had done very poorly. Said one of .his boys: "Wliy, father, I thought sou were never in better trim; you fust shouted it out to 'em." "Aye, aye, re plied Mr Beecher, "that's it exactly; when I'm not prepared I always holler at the top of my voice." A French statist has come to the con clusion, after a very laborious examina tion of the number of deaths from rail way accidents In all parts of the world, that if a person were to live continually in a railway carriage and spend all his time in traveling, the chances in favor oi his dying from railway accident would not occur until he was 960 years old. A young woman ran wildly into a St. Louis police station, and said that rats were killing three babies in a cer tain house. Officers were dispatched to save the infants; buta physician, who was called in to sec the woman, dis covered at once that she was Buffering from delirium tremens, as a conse quence of celebrating her eighteenth birthday unwisely. John Howard, the great philanthro pist, married his nurse. She wasalto gether beneath him in social life and intellectual capacity, and besides she was fifty-two years old while he was but twenty-five. He wouldn't take 'No" for an answer, and they were married and lived happily until she died, which occurred two years after ward. » The iron workers of England inolud« 140.000 laborers in furnaces and forges, 169.000 in the manufacture of machin ery, 6,600 in steel works, 48,000 in ship building, and about 200,000 in varioui branches of iron and steel manufac ture, milking about 670,000 in all. Th< mining population is about 630,000, and the laborers in cotton mills abou' • 00 , 000 . A fond mother wants to learn some way to tell how her son will turn out. That's easily done. If he's wanted to go out and weed the garden, he wilt turn out slowly and reluctantly and bo two hours dressing. If he's called to see a circus procession go by he'll probably turn out quick and hurt him Belf trying to come downstairs and put a boot on at the same time.— Lowell. Bun. Postmaster General Maynard's last duty as minister to Turkey was not of an agreeable nature. He was obliged to sit ns sole judge in tho case of a natural ized AUiCriean citizen accused of mur dering a Turkish pasha bv poison. The man was found guilty and sentenced to death. This is the nrst instance where an American minister has been called upon by virtue of his official position to try a murder case. .. Bulgaria is a nioe kind of a place to A resident says that when three or lour aimed Bulgarians meet an unarmed Turk alone, they generally cut off his head; and when three or four Turka meet a Bulgarian under similar circumstances, they generally out off his head. When the Turk loses his head the case is ended, but when the dead garian is found there is an inquiry, •ks are arrested and examined, and encouraged to speak the truth by the application of red-hot irons to the soles of their feet. live in. Bui Tur A Brilliant Vagrant. A letter was received at the Allegheny poor board office several days ago ask ing information in regard to an aged and insane tramp who had been arrested at Butler, and whose case was before the poor authorities of that county. He stated that he came from Pittsburg. Nothing was known about him at the egheny office, but later it has been found out that he was at one time, about thirty-five or forty years ago, a lawyer of no little ability, a polished and eloquent speaker, and a member of tbe State con stitutional convention of 1837. He was also a politician of some note and took an active part in the campaign which resulted U the election of President Pierce, and received as his reward the position of United States minister to the kingdom of Sardinia. Here he served with no little ability until suddenly he became insane, and while out of his mind oommitted some acts which neces sitated 1rs immediate recall. He was brought back to this country, and re turned again to this eity, where he at tempted to re-establish his legal prac tice, taking up an office in tnc Burke building on Fifth avenue. But the story ot his insanity had preoeded him, and he was regarded with universal distrust. Among other things he tried to recover a large amount ior tuition from a former student in his office, and made great efforts to reopen old cases in which he had acted as counsel. He finally drifted out of view and latterly has been com pletely lost sight of bv those of his old colleagues who are still practicing.— PiUeburg Telegraph. 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