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Then the ■ ■’ sorner, which l e ' rattled on about differefit brands of tobacco, and talked of the weather to her customers, and the kindness which any tale of sor* row told b y vagrants called forth, from her—the many times has her fat little hand went into the drawer for change to be bestowed on some charitable plea—all went to make np the best-tempered, the most motherly and the nicest little wo man you would ever chance to meet. So thought Dr. Ash, who lived next door, and who often went in for a little ping into the shop. He used to say to her, “ My! you must be lonely here. Widow Thorn I ” “ O, not at allj sir, thanking you! she would reply. “ I wonder you never married a si cond time. Widow Thorn I ” ” Well> i tz s a wonder, isn’t it, doc* or? But you see I ’m such a queer old »ody that I guess not many conid fancy Madam, there you must stop I I cannot hear the divine sex disparaged,” returned the doctor. He was, as f say, of the old school. She laughed. “ Can’t i self?” shej “ 2^01 She never speaks agamsfc her self unless she means to flatter herself b>y y contradictoryontradictory disparagem ent w h en c some one is by.” Sir, youou arere y a too plain.” ' ”” I was alwi ,ngh( promised to be a c merry ** flnnd.lTW ” m ; and whi ^ :el ended in lerry “ Good-by.*' Then there wan a baker at the comer. He was a widower, and he nsed to come in of evening for ^ <diat and a cheap ^ id he \'This lonely state is misera ble. Isn’t it?” *‘Do you speak from experience?” asked she. “ Yes; my Maria’s been dead four- it would take so men to Lg,” she said. AJi, ma’am ! lg— the most wonderful of God’s creatures.” ‘ Except Woman,” said she. ‘You’re right, widow! And that’s the reason the Herd meant that should have a wife and. teen years,” i ^ d he. “ I shouldn’t think __ ____ long a time for you men to forget any thing,” she said. “ AJi, ma’a m ! 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Whennotiojeismentioned.itwUl beun- derstood that the sttbseri.ber w ishes to eommeiice with the Number next after the receipt of hit \”ie Amraal Volumes of H ae t cloth binding will bft sent spsuso, providsd tixu frol^bit dollar, for §7 00 qacli, A cornices Set, com- prislns 'fen VoluTneet sent ov, receipt o f <»ash a t tbe per 7 ohr freig h t a t expense o f Subscriptions reoeived for Harper’s Periodi cals only. Newspavara without the ex% th e w idow waa lor for a breath of esh. air, and he would blow away at The Last L ink is Broken! ” till it was a wonder h e did not rupture something and die. He J id not smoke, HOP drius, HOT Obew, But a brilliant idea struck him one day, and over h e went. “ Do you keep paper collars, m^am ?’* h e asked, trem b lingly. “ Yes, sir,” sbe answered, smooth ing her apron down. “ Give me some,” / “ What size?” ** O, any s ize 1 I don’t care.” She looked at Mm. “ D o n ’t yo u know your num b er?” she asked. “ N o , m a’a m ! B u t 1 don’t care “ L u d ! ” she ejaculated. “ Here, sir. Just you take your collar off, and let me measure it.” So he did, and she handed him anoth er. “ That’ll fit you, sir,” she said. Then he tried to put it on, and his hand trembled so that he broke one of the buttonholes. “ N o w i t ’s done, s ir,” said she. “ I ’m afraid I am,” said he. “ S i r ! ” “ I mean I —^I’m afraid ia I ” Then he took up another, and, put of compassion, she said: ‘ ‘ Let me button it for yon. All men are death on buttons a n d buttonholes—I know b y poor Thorn.” Then she fitted on the collar, and the bachelor was ecstatio. As she handed him his change, she said: “ You’re the gentleman that plays such sweet, dreary tones on the horn, aren’t you ?” “ Yes, i play a little. But it’s dread ful lonely playing all by myself.” ‘ * I s n ’t there any o n e w ith fyou ?” she Asked. ‘‘No, I ’m cursed—I ’m a bachelor!” “ Dearyme! that is bad! I ’d ask you over here to play, s ir —” “ O ! ” he interrupted. “ But I ’m afraid tbe doctor next door would come in and ask if any body was hurt,” she continued. “ O ! \ hesaidagau •e not to copy this adeerfisemeni ess order of H arfee & B bgth - A4a?es8 HAHPESA t BEQTHERS, N« w York. Broken,” Bonndnei ' that dnesa held heaven and earth ti Thehe doctoroctor needed a er. T d m the baker was clearly info the grave with his »uu. uuc bachelor used so many paper collars that the little widow ordered as ; of his as she did of all the had in its lot of snuff; smokingLoking himselfimse [is Maria;ria; andnd the b a a tb >r collars fhi many boxes » other sizet put together. - But at last, one night, came the maid-servant from next door, pounding Ui) the Widow Thom, telling her to come in, for the doctor was iH ana didn’t know any body. H a s tily throw ing on her dresg, in she went, and saw him lying there in a state of collapse, with his wig over one eye. “ Ginger and cayenne pepper and brandy! ” ordered tbe Httle wid ow, while she held his head. Then, forcing the fiei^ dose down his-throat, she held him tight, while he spluttered and gasped for breath. “ Whatever is the matter with him?” asked the frightened servant. \ Cucumbers I ” remarked the widow —for she had seen the doctor march home that afternoon with two fine speci mens o f that proverbially cool vegetable in his hand. Then, the doctor becoming better, she went home as cheerful as ever, and slept the dreamless deep of thoizmo- oeut and\ of the fion-dyspepiio. Early fiie next morning the baker call- “ I hear that Dr, Ash was sick last night, that you were in ?” w»i§, he. almost as though he had a right to ask. “ Yes, she answered. “ The girl came for me, and I did the little I could. Poor old . chap 1 It’s a pity he never married. He might have iadl a wife and family around him, instead of poor i t e r a n t servanl^girl, who calls up the neighbors on trifling causes.” you’ll exciuse conspirt Every thing ibearable. ” s profanity. to make his life unbea ___ a the doctor?” O, he’d eaten too freely of ououm- bers.” “ Widow Thorn, you know Y’m ae much alone as he is.” “ Why—bless me, sir—^whatareyou driving at ?” asked she. “ Noth] ling,” he said with a melancholy smile, Ms” pulled a count them, down and shook, her ed as much—and more. m om ent in < Mm go imbers in . ^ ^ wmaow She smoothed her apron head. She expect- lore. Justi at that in came the bachelor from over the way. '“ Is any body sick next door, ma’am ?” he asked. “ Yes, sir. Dr. Ash was taken ill last night. Why?”. “ I was playing * We met, ’twas in a crowd,’ late, feeling miserable, and I saw his servant come here, and saw you go in with her. What ailed him ? ” “ Now, sir, I can’t tell you. I ’m afraid I ’ve been the innocent cause of future agony to the baker at the corner by telling Mm ,* so if you’ll excuse me, ■” y tho doctor was imprudent.” yon know I “ O ! you p l ^ too vigorous, sir,” she said. “ I once knew a gentleman who played the fife l o v e l y b u t he died sud denly, sir, and the doctor who opened him told me he was as clear as a whistle inside, sir—his own, identica/ words: ‘d ^ r as a whistle.’ Every tMng had gone.” “ But, I dare say, he was a married man ?” “ Yes, indeed! A blessed wife, and twins!” “ Ah! That’s the reason. PU never die that way, ma’am—for there’s no one to mourn for me. I’ll keep on blowing till, after awhile, you’ll h e ^ the echoes rolling in- me, and I ’ll piay the same tune twice u t once, and one a bar behind the other.” “ 0 1 goodness gracious me ! ” she said; “ you’d better see a doctor.” Then he shook his head sadly and and went out. ;e sat in the little shop for an hour ore,-writing a long letter. She ink- 3r fingers, said bother ! ” to the for spluttering, folded the letter refolded it s ' ' ‘ i to Dr. Ash’s door, 7 he did, and came home ^ ^ think she was busy for uite a time, as all such Soon in popped the Soon in popped th e doctor, huge bouquet in hia hand. \You have saved my said he. “ Nonsense! smiled in a t h e d w ith a my life, ma’am,” ' she exclaimed!; but she ailed in a pleasant way, too. Then he put the flowers beside her, ;essed her hand, and w e n t to see Vila ' he said, ahiv- lon, when the the way rushed to her. “ Tvedone it, ma'am! “ Lord bless the man ! What have you done ?” I ’ve been imprudent.” ‘How?” rant you to treat ‘*‘ Ton do ? Then wait! I l l mix the dose for yon.” And she did so. She brought it to him, made him take a gulp, and he down immediately on the flo(floor, Tbe wMt [uite the loo] whit was qui about the little widow Now go home,” said she kindly “ go to bed, and let me know to-morrow ’ I feel.” and choking, of a heroMe „ ______ , “ go to bed, and let me know to-mon how you feel.” And, casting a sfran bewildering look at her, he obeyed. Now after it was twilight the little an closed the she on her neat going down sf : from the ontside, >ment, when lop, went to her room, oldfashioned bonnet. locked hen: hoi .o n and up came What’s the matter with pou f ask ed the little widow. “ 0 , mem! he’s took so bad that he can’t speak, and he’s calling for yon all the tim e !” _ ‘ 0 1 I know what’s the mattey with' i. ' Come inside, Jane, and I ’ll send woman: kind Of , the little mixed a tumblerful of a obtain compound. . icnmbers!”cnmbers shehe said;aid “ and lonsequent- Eive-cu ! ” s s the doctor only had two C( liuifco a xteuu lo r leaK o m n g , a a s s a r e you.) She gave the glass to the girl, and went out again and locked the door. “ I hope i t won’t’t hurturt himim! ! ” said th4> won h h ttie Widow. Next day the shop was not The doctor dosed. hop was not -opened. :or tried the door, and found it The baker, rather shaken, came by and looked in in astonishment. The bachelor peered from his window and wondered. But for all that, the little shoplop was closed;losed; andi closed it remained was c a 11 day and night. reakMg in the doo The dock _ ^ _ lg in the door, to see if she were , ill or—dead. The baker second- motion as night approached. But just then the bachelor came over. “ Maybe Bho’s gone away to visit?” Said he. . “ Yea!—on some errand of mercy,** chimed in the doctor. “ She is a capi tal nurse, that J am testify to.” So can I,” said the baker, dubious- ly. “ She never nursed eir!” said the doctor. “ Neither did ahe siou/*\ said the “ S ir ! ” exclaimed the doctor, look ing like thunder. “ SiT i ” exclaimed the baker, look ingM much like thunder as a baker can “ I would have you know, d r ,” said the doctor,'“ that I am. superior to any insplfe which » dottgh-knegder may offer - e ! ” “ Ai mA shq the pw q kind of medicine she gave the doctor.” “ She sent me tba same,” said the. baker. ' Sbe came into my house, and held lead while I took it,” said the doc- He was trimn] return mphai , Then, after much haggling and lUing, they look at the house i „ d agreeing that she would certainly turn by to-morrow, they, took their ways to rheir qnar- »UE 0 agam; jy to-morrow, they. t( t rppective homes. loctor step- lohold ! fo-mortow the good lit tle shop was opened, and the same array o f goods m e t t h e gaze' o f th e passer-by. The little woman was seen up stairs dusting the shutters. She nodded the milkman and to the iceman os usm and a t last the bachelor saw her, over he went, and met the ping off Ms doorstep, /A reyougoingM ,. sir?” asked the doctor. “ Yes ! ” said tho bachelor. ‘.‘Do yoa.snaff?” , “ No, I go for collars.” “ Then we’ll r~ together the; ed map was brawny. The doctor spoke up, though he was a litHe shaken. “ We—I—that is—we should like to iw Thom. fiTT\.” I,” Said the le—^vamosed o u t! ” M’s “ I in, up Stairs^” ; . “ What’sthat you observed?” asked the stranger.' “ Sir, we want the Widow Thorn I boldly exclaimed the doctor. “ And you may keep on wanting that' old lady, gentlemen; but she woi for wanting.” , Then the.pleasant voice of tho litfle’ woma “ Noi self,” neater-Iooking than ever I “-0.1 Widow, good-morning ! ” said the doctor. No more a widow than I am,” chim- range man, laughing, iharley, do behave,” said the ** orAnflorrtciW +. riTT »- person, “ She’s goui id o u t! ” lA ! lor. - “ I saw^her myselfV before I Came yifiHIimx WiXH COfiMlAC. A M o r s e X a t n o r T a c k l e s a B e a s t Worse Xlian Cruisew, Prof. E. H. Tapp, the celebrated American horse tamer, commenced a week ago to tame the Petaluma man eater, and has every day since given public exhibitions of his process and progress in a temporary am p h it h e ^ r e in the rear of the Eecordstabk ■ - intt, e rear o street, oppi however, the <1 Market lies on j losite Seventh. Yesterday, ie man eater changed the pro gramme, and attempted to tame Tapp SO effective a way that Tapp emergi ided, andnd onlynly byy a ; sorely woum With Ms life. S e a o b a miracl whose other name is Norman '^ e i g h h founds,ounds, foal< tmg mm l,8u0 p mandy, France, imported two yet to Illinois, and s u b sequently boug Forman horse a, uuu. brought to this State, and declared by horsemen to be eofthebreethe the finest horse of t breed ever brought to America. Until brought to Ulmois itionall] ho had been an except! mal, but having indif gentle ani- isoreetly and prob- 'fully, 'bitten out a couple of ‘ an Illinois groom, he was so laving m bit! Lois gro< and brutally beaten that, luncan would say, he exper- 3ge of heart, all his latent iitry was developed, and he has ever 0 been the terror of all whom has thrown into his company iced a ohanj deviH ed in the strange man, laughing.' “ Now, Charley, do behave,” s little woman; “ and, gentlemen,” turi in g to the doctor and the bachelor, “ let me introduce Mr, Charley, my hus band I ” , gentlemen Qarried for years and years, he vowed he’d never marry me till he’d been successful in the mines; and he ^as'been now. We were marned yes- terday in Boston- X -wrote him n letter telling Mm I ’d meet Mm there—and here we are I Bat we’ll sell out this lit tle plaoo as' soon as we findaensto- Withont a word the doctor gn the bachelor b y the back of the out, - - :abb^d hurled Mm out, and tumbled Mm over the baker, -who -was coming innocently into the shop; and tho three were down on the pavement, where Mr, Charley licked them up. And when they were igthemsi ................ the doo] picked them up. And when they were dusting themselves he stood for ar min- in thehe doorway,orway, andnd sarang ’t: And if yon ask for tell you then ate in t do a s o u “ And if yon ask for the Widow Thorn, I ’ll tell you there ain’t sich a person! ” and went in and closed the The doctor went home and abused his servant; the baker was seen to take a tumbler -wbioh had held the medicine of two nights before, and ■which belonged to thehe littleittle -widow,widow, andnd dash,ash, i t too a to t l - a d i t t a thousand fragments in the back-yard; and the bachelor ali that day and even ing sat at Ms 4Mrd-stofy window played “ The Lnet X4nk ioBrokcu the\ bassoon, in polka time, with oocsler- ated pMBRg 60 tbd o m jm o£ tlio Insbrament gave out. Thus m&y lanoe^ifia m i Its M o round too-tifuetiog Human Nature, THIEVES IN HOTELS. “ Steal! ” said the old man, in accents intense scorn. “ S t e a l! \Why you find how large a ilHng pubHc are steal the bed- intense scorn. “ Steal! Wtiy, yo )Uld be astonished to find how large proportion of the travel infernal thieves. Th< jrything, m xuui>, wuiui. ry off. Everybody steals soap, lect that and don’t kick. You’d ’e surprised to hear that-— -(anoted ndiana politician) makes a practice of putting the soap into his valise every time he pays Iqs bill. He doesn’t seem to use much of it himself, but I think he takes it home to his children. “ The first thing to be done -when a fellow comes to pay Ms bill is to send a porter np to his room to see if any thing is missing. When a fellow comes down -with his valise in his hand we are unusually suspicious. The only -way to get even with the thieves is to keep a ‘ thief account,’ Whenever anything is missed I charge it up at a fair value, and the next time I catch a thief in the act I lake him pay the entire amount or go u u iy u nj,vu a tuudo h i u io u a u u , a u u m qnired the amount of his bill. The min u t e ! saw him I kneiv that he had stolen something, so I rang the bell and gave irter the wink. 11 and gave the porter the wink. I pottered about the books, while the porter was gone, and I could see lie was getting uneasy* He had a notion to bolt, but. just then ' I saw by valise, you d ----- n tMef,’ says I. He got veryery whitehite about thehe gills,ills, andnd bee g o t v w about t g a b gan to beg. When the valise was open ed, sure enough there was a new bed spread, for which I had paid five dollars. ‘ Bill,’ says I, * bring me the thief ac- and it amounted ‘You pay that,’ He thought it count.* i footed it up, and it to just fiffrv-six dollars. ‘ You just fifly-i Bays I, or was hard t< _ . ings, but on Ihe whole was cheaper than going tiary. Compounding a yes, it did have that comple maybe it nipped a tHef in the bud.” The girls are generally honest, though once in a while we catch one of them. .One time th< go to jaih* He thought it :^r other men’s eteal- concluded it to ^ho peniten- y? Well, have him cuk Yesterday at 5 neces- Mr. sity has thrown into his company. Wooden consigned him to Mr. Tapp to red of thfa sole little foible. 2 o’clock tbe exMbition be- presence o f about 200 specta- progressed until 3}, during 3-the horse had been handled by tbe Professor, driven to buggy, and appeared perfectly tractable. After being nnhitohed he was cross-hobbled by making a stout ropo fast from the fetioofc of his nigh foreleg to that of -hia off hind leg, an arrangement xvMoh per mitted him to trot, but prevented -his galloping, as also Ms kneeling down. The horse stood near the centre of the enclosed circle and the Professor about midway between him and the enclosing Mgh barricade, the horse perfectly sub dued under the eye of the commander. Some person on a seat in the rear of Tapp asked Mm a question, and for one instant Tapp removed Ms eye 'and half his head to answer; Ip tha^m- canght the m anup by the clothes at the small of Ms 'back, shook Mm as a ter rier does a rat, and fiung him through the a ir against the enclosing pknking. Before Tapp could regain his feet the ferocious monster was again upon him, seizing him with his teeth by the left shoulder and endeavoring to tojeel down upon him. This the cross-hobble pre vented Mm from , doing, and the cool Professor, -with his shoulder still in the' grip of the-monster’s jaws, struggled to his feet-and viith his right hand so held the bit as to prevent as far as possible !ul working of the horse’s tors, and which til umed ] the suooessfi The crowd still further retarded th e b ii friends of Tapp called for a gun, but there -was no gun, and -what is re markable in a collection, of 200 Cali fornians, no one had a revolver, or the murderous brute -would have been shot dead instantly. The horse and Tapp coUtinTied fiightm^ half way arotmd. ths ring, Wooden on the seats ontside hampering the former’s efforts -wit: pole. The spectators on the front also did all they^ could man eater’s attention, one the crutch o f a man sitting next her and beating the horse over the head -with it. By the aid o f these distractions Tapp was enabled by degrees to draw his arm through the horse’s jawethehorsa chew- it slipped away from him, until s m to distract the on lady — ' mg fina lallyifc-was entirely ly from him, xmtil -withdrawn. The animal was i calls snbje left arm the fet- enterprising iiao that that enterprising ;ain in what Tapp fondly tion. Last evening the i stable office with trainer was in the stable office friend pouring an odorous liniment Dver bite bandaged arm, and the man eater, -with all Ms evil passions inflamed wifh the taste of blood, was xompMg around hie prison and eagerly reaching np for a mouthful of any timid spectator that ventured near enough to look do-wn on Mm. The people will continue to look forward-with interest to the solution of the problem of whether Tapp -will tame the man eater ox the man eater tame.. Tapp.— N a n JN randsco Chronicle. HOVDINS HOUSE. EobertHondin acquired a comforta ble competence by the exerefee of his amusing arts, and was able to build Mm- self a handsome country-house in the pleasant village of Saint Gervais, near Blois, where he was born. Into this house he introduced a number of curi ous inventions, wMch were not only of great service in the every-day worh of iiis home, but w6^ matters of never- ending wondermen# to the peasantiy round about. The garden gate was sit uated at full four hundred yards from the house, wMoh was Mdden behind towering trees, and could only be reach ed by a -winding path. Nevertheless, the amazed peasant who came to the house found that he had only to raise a little brass hand, not as big as a baby’s, mid let it fall on the forehead of a fan tastic brass head, the rap making but a faint sound, when a real mnshetry of bell-pulling was heard to take place in the remote house, and the of itself. atly the bore the ]t Houdin,” dis- lok its place JUn- itman came, and box made to ro' gate,,! he also set an elec- — -cr,. ,^jjg r0quested t in the foilow- the gate, which 1 18 , “ EobertHi her teo! id the word ' swung ope: brass plate conjurer’s name, appeared, and i whereon was engrave; tree,*’ \When th e pc inserted Ms mail in th ceive it at the g a te trio bell toTringing. -He to put in what he brought in the i ing oi^er; fiirst newspapers, then *E«5 i H o u d in, lying in bed in the morning, with his door locked and Ms blinds down, knew that his morning’s mail would consist of one package (or more, or none) of news papers, ditto of circulars, and exactl; ly s( \When he wanted to post letters hiiMelf he was not obliged to go to the -village -with them. As soon as he heard the postman’s eleotrio bell ringing, the mail- f then that luse to g et letters* He rang for himself, ^ so tc lak. These simple 'Httle contri-^ employedraod though no one posed to be in the least disagreeable to the juggler, their neighbor, their curios ity concerning them jhey were i was dis- serformance was g satisfac- ted torily; the family of Houdin expecteu to see a -visitor coming down the path. But n o : the b i^ began as before, the door-plate changed, etc., and so on again and again, until at last the gardener •walked down to the gate to see what was the matter. To his surprise he fonn one o‘ _ •*■“ „ ^ a the house. 3 you doing?” asked Oh, y e s ; I know ing down ^ the house how it worked. Don’t mini beuim Dame sounding the massacre of the Hu guenots. The night-capped head of the neighbor issued from an upper window, his features aghast -vnth’dismay. “-Mon.Dieu 1” he cried, “ what is the atter? Has anything dreadful hap- “Oh, no,” coolly reiilied the gardener. The bell zings up in your room, I know. I want to see how it works. Don’t mind me.” The gate and the letter-box were not the only parts o f Houdin’s house whose functions were facilitated by the aid of electricity. Sitting in his- study, with bis stable situated fifty yards away, -the juggler nevertheless 'was able to feed Ms horse Mmgelf, and to be sure that an exact portion of rations fell into the manger. All the clocks on the place ’ ■ ” sterioui were regulated b y the m y ^ e r ious current aster had under bis hand at his the master had ■writing-desk. The bri ning flash his reath of the Hght- 'atory was niums, or lot 1een low for the A YANKEE TRICK. Just before the Declaration ol Lide- lendence a yankee peddler started down Ne-w York to sell a lot of bowls and time there was an infernal tree ped dler Stopped -with us, and he had a black satin vest stolen. I paid him five dol lars for it. He described it vary accur ately. There was a yellow spot on the collar^ where he had dropped some acid on it, and Ms name in fidl was written on the leather with which i t was bound at the ^ttom . IL suspecteduspei the girl B ■We watched her for a week or and concluded w e were mistake! when one day a fello-w came in with a black satinL yellow sp( Mary’s si jerked up the of the tree(peddleron vest, and there was a round lofe on the corner. It was sweetheart 1 collared Mm, t vest, and fouiid the name iddlero ■■e ' th leather, owned up that Mary had stolen the vest and gi^en it to Mm. At that time tb<the he got off cheap,” 'en dollars, and ‘Indim a ^oUs to New York to sell a lot of bowls and dishes he had made of maple. Jonathan travelled over the city, asking everybody buy Ms wares, but no one was dis posed to pnrohase- It hi^pened that a British fleet was then lying in the harbor of New York, md Jonathan struck np6n a plan of Belling Ms dishes. Be got a naval uni form; by hook or by crook (for history dosan’t tell where he got it), and strut ting up town one momipg^asked a mef- ohant, if he had any nice woodenwaro, i the commodore wanted a lot for the The merchant replied that he had Hone on hand, but there was some in ttiwn, and if he would send in the after noon he would Supply Mm -with pleasure. “ Y e r y ^ o d ,” said our naval officer, Jonathan now cut for home by tbe shortest route, and he had scarcely doff ed Ms borrowed plumage before down came the merchant, who, seeing- that Jonathan had sold none of his ■wares, offered to take the whole if ho would de duct fifteen per cent., but Jonathan-said he’d be gol-darned if he didn’t take ’em home before he’d take A cent less than Ms first price. The merchant finally paid him down in gold Ms price for the woodenware, wMeh laid on Ms shelves for many a long day thereafter, and Jonathan trot ted home in Mgh glee at the success of his manoeuvre, while , the merchant cursed British officers ever after.-^ Philadelphia. Herald. Qm of _ the World was United Stab of Philadi “ five feet mounted on agate t pacxtyof 10,OOQtroj that the thermometer had not b al lowed to M l ' of a . grounds was endowed with the fairy-like power of transporting any passengei who merely sat doWn upon it across th< gorge, ■when it .traveled back of its own accord to take another person over free of oharge .^—Olive Logan in Harper's Magazi JiiR. PARKER’S EXPEBIBLENI. Mr. Parker, besides being a philan thropist, is a scientist. He is interested in all the discoveries of the modem philosophers, from Polycarp P. Pilly- camp down to those lately assembled at ih-villa. Mr. Parker -reads all the the societies for the I, That, and The learned]ly lotions transactions of all the smeties for _tho Promulgation of This, Other, and discourses learned t Yesterday Mr. Parker read that vamable 1 ^ , suggested a method for the extermina tion of mosquitos. “ Take powder,” said tMs estimable woman, “ and place it in a shovel; close all the doors and windows of your room, and then explode the powder. The concussion will ex-’ terminate all the mosquitos in the apart ment.” •Whi top of bis head, wher< whosehose destmetionestmetion he e boid spot on the lere one of the peste w d h was meditating had ^ablished himself in business. ‘ ‘(^eat gunsl” continued he, “ what a noble idea. So simple, so inexpensive, so easily appUod, No complioatecl CTOfiya- tu3 n e ^ e d ; only a Bhovel, Who is hasn’t a shoi ^ A CAVmKS. XIspSottouiless I Pits and. HXysterions Subterranean Streams Of Sctio- Itarie County, K* IT* It is doubtful if another county in tho Union possesses so many natural curiosi ties as the County of Schoharie, New York. The geological composition .of the county is of the more recent forma tions, limestone strata predominating.* These soft strata, having been subjected for ages to the disintegrating action of the numerous streams of water that abound in^the region, have entirely dte- appeared in many localities, leaving in their places caves miles M extent, steep and narrow flumes that\ lead no ona knows whither, and curiously formed and fathomless openings yawning in the ground. The caverns are all caused by strums, the beginnings and endings of wMch are in many cases among the im penetrable mysteries. There are prob ably a hundred of these great cavities in the county, to explore which no attempt has ever been made, while there are lany others whose interiors are familiar > the more courageous of those living I their neighborhood, and one, at least, lat has a world-wide fame—Howe’s Gave, i n Schoharie To-wnship. Carlisle, Oobleskill and Schoharie iwnships are especially remarkable for these cavernous cuiiosities. T h ere are m any caverns in the -vicini ty of Carlisle, to enter wMeh it is neces sary for the -visitor to ■et l him self down terranean deptL from top to bo itovel, \Yho is and a pound philanthropic invention should have been struck out, in a moment of inspiration, by a woman! O, woman,” said Mr. Parker,’ecstatically, “ in our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please b u t w h e n m o squitos nip tho brow, i fierce, destroying angel thou!” At the (nelusion of this apostrophe to woman, [r. Parker, seizing his shovel in his right hand, pi the attitude ds hea-( of Lib< lerty la b - Enlightening the ■World, shouted “ Tab leau !” M a loud voice. Then he went out and bought two pounds of powder. \When Mr. Parker returned to Ms room he made elaborate preparations. He closed the -windows carefully, and to secure the best results, stuffed cotton in ail the cracks; then he shut all the doors and locked them. After he had these arrai room. T\ him from the top was calm -without; ■windows came the city’s myriad activilies. peripatel and Ms 1 ed like a prophecy. 'The sun shon< brightly, the Mrds e iters of the bi 3tati( ucase, . clu through the closed muffled hum of the it The wail of a >e faintly heard, puddin’” sound- The sun shone sang sweetly, the iced to the fluting of the breeze. WitMn all was silei and expectation. “ Aha!” said Mr. TEE ZirZDEB ZEE, ernment affords e of, I attl ■\7ith tl the present”time to fi,269 fishermen, their ‘wives and fa'mflies. Mr, Fon- as producing chiefly chovies.: Of the form that about 24,000,001 the Znyder Zee boats in 1875, the price of them when sold in the various market to\ms fluctuating to an extraordinary ex tent. At one of these towns the price was at one time as low as 8 cents p er 200 fisM Aud at other times as Mgh aS 7fl. 50o., or 12.50. The anchovies, aS Well as the herrings, arrive periodically in shoals, but at a different time of the year. The prepar- ' 'hem, when caught, gives em- to hundreds of children, the itrails of the flsh bei ment t s and entr i being re while the moved and used as manure, bodies ate put into salt. TMs fishery is also of ate pu t xnt a precarii early eight ions kind. In a good (ounds’ weight year, nearly eight milHonpou have been landed, and in other years take has been no more than 100,000 ----- - — ------ lunds. *Thei >m A b out $2.21 ice accordingly varied a cwt. in 1860 ‘(which I. in 1885, A T exas ’Ww>x>wa T otxs ,-—A young married conple came doivn from _ anche county on horseback last Suni and spent the day in \Waco. Ham jyuuncE )Hng. daintily at a stick of candy, and he Jiungrilyat a half pound of gingerbread. When there was nothing in the show windows to admire she gazed fondly up into Ms eye§i some four feet above her, and he lovingly down into ‘ '■ ■' street cars ended and remounting ok them home r as eyermor- riner* m o d e m G u y Faw k es—^*‘B’death, bodkins, caitiffs, thine hour has come ” (he -was addressing the mosquitos), “ thy sMft shall be a short one. Marry come np, by my haKdom 1” By tMs time the shovel was full of powder, and dropping h is character of conspirator, Mr. Barker rubbed Ms hands cheexMly together, and began to hunt for a match. A t last he found o n e ; he scratched it upon the wall, but before he applied it he thought of a passage from Orpheus. “Just the thing,” said he, “ for a funeral oration. BU give i t to ’em .” Then, keeping onh on the fat mosquitos and the other the m atch, h e said, “ I have placed my hand in the hamper. I have tasted the sacred barley. I have beaten the drum. 1 have said |konox ompax, and it i s finished.’ ” M r. Parker touched the m atch to t h e powder ------- ! ! 1 I 11 It ■was finished, A s th e poHoeman oondueted Mr. Parker through the streets half an hour after th e explosion, th e boys thought the tattooed man had been arrested for getting drunk, to such an extent bad the epidemical administration of powder changed the phflanthxopio countenance o f Idp, Barker. “ ■What h ave you t o say, sir, against the charge of attem p ting t o blow up the city ?” asked the stern sergeant in the station-house. “ I t was a great surprise to—to me, sir,” said Mr. Parker, in a dazed man ner, “ and I have no doubt it waa a sur prise to tbe mosquitos.” “ What can the man mean? Take Mm to the deepest dungeon ’neath—” “ Ef ye‘please, sergeant, I know this gent. ’E is a scientific gent, an’ was a- trying an ixperiment w’en it went off, sir,” The speaker had a box full of on his b ack; it was the man whose !s puddin’” had sounded, like a glass on his Imck; it v “ glass puddin’” hai prophecy, “ Saved !” said Mr. Parker. The peripatetic glazier had a job which t w k him ■’ ’ays • -* • * '■’■\liar to sub- ;hers are -conti'acted in funnel-shaped d in the cave. ;hes 0 deep cav- loise of falling water that is lg through openings in the from localities it is impossi- id knees. In one of these caves of water spouts out of a circular agin the rock, ten feet from the , and some six inches in diameter. It tumbles down the rough side of the cave, a miniature waterfall, and joins the stream that flows through the cavern. TMs curious spouting of water comes, no doubt, from one of the subterranean creeks in the locality, with a bed in th© cavern several feet higher than the one where the the floor, some of the and as round as if tb(ev ! 0 t higher t )ut appears. Another strange feature of these particular un derground r ecesses i s w h a t are called the bottomless pits. These are openings in some of them ten feet across,. l had been made Many of them are mtain water, ■while w and : their (yrinth lies great danger to the explor- . and the grand obstacle in the way of a thorough investigation of the caves. It was in one of these puzzling hour glass caverns that a man named Pool was lost in 1838. \With two companions he-7isited the cave, and lighted by a pine-kn ’ for nearl turn. But he never came back, nor waa anything ever seen or heard of him sgMn. Farmers living in the -vicinity of these surface entrances to caves formerly lost many horses and cattle by their falling into the pits while running in the fields, and now the pits are all inclosed with strong fences. Some of the openings are seventy-five <feet in diameter. In ~ time of freshet the streams running through the underlying channels are fre quently swollen to such proportions that they not only fill the caves, but < for the subterranean freshets hs had to be removed to safer places to es cape flooding. One family living in proximity to a cave of this kind was in 1869 forced to fly to the second story of their house t o escape- the rapid rise of he water from the earth, and were re- aoved froia, their perilous position in ioaia.—Mw^Yor& World, EEUSICAL STONES. A gentlem an of Virgina City, w h o has been taking a look among the old, abEindoned m ines of th e Truckee district, ide a critical examination of the mnsic- moxmtain, o f which, a good de£_. heard som e years ago, when the a were first discovered. Some of miners pitched the mountaiDj led and icovered. Some ( their tynts at the foot o f tain, and were not a little sur- i puzzled at hearing, during hours of the night, tinklii the quiet sounds that seem ed to p ervade the who] iming from they could n< re not unlike atmosphere, con tell where. The sounds were those o f a sm all m u sic box. twigs Ol they fot u three d to finish. HIHX FOR FOYEfiXY-CUESED BELLES* mext door, created a decided sensation. It was not that she was more handsome- attired than the other ladiei ^ a i of death ” that w h e n sh e gyrated in t h e! ; observed to momeni and in the light-b; present, “ dance display r a few 'dance, pair of ter her exasperated female friends next w ^ t z exhibited a pair < ■blue dittoes. An hour later h< crushed beheld these supplemented by furl hose of a delicate chocolate shade. And so it went on until her miserable rivals determined to follow her the next time she disappeared. They traced her to her father’s painlshop in the back yard, where she was discovered; brush in hand, and about ornamenting her nether extremities with a final artistic coat of tight salmon. The exulting spies rushed .back ■with the damaging news, but it waa too late. The men were all too tight to understand, the music had gone home and the Hghts were being p ut out. Thus it is that fraud and duplicity triumph; while honest simplicity walks around ■with a darn on its calf and a hole in its beel .—Nan HranoiSeo JPoai. W. H. TANDEBBrLT is tho largest re ceiver. of interest and dividejads on stocks and bond securities in the United States, if not in the world. The total is estimated at $7,000,000 per annum, of which about $4004000 are from divi dends and interest from the New York Central Bailroad. i a visit iking o f A «EKTiiBiiAN from Bpsten, c to his Mend in the country, speaking of the times, observed that his -wife had lately expended fifty dolhu's for a h abit; his friend replied, “ Here in the country we don’t allow our wives to get into such habita.” - T he Pitisbi monts from of S( that iburg jPost says that the ship- the oil regioa for the month ieptember surpassed every thing in 1 tine that has ever taken place for one montii in the Mstojy of the the slope of the muuui;cuu, . found that this solution would not answer, as the same bushes were found ■erywhere, w h ile th e m u sical sounds sre heard nowhere else on the side of e mountain at the foot of which they are encamped. They spent much about and listening of hours c id the S! a great bed of small.pieces of rock that covered the slope of the mountain. These bitsits of rockock werere foundound to be the lese b of r we f iuite sonorous, and the miners conclud- ) sounds they emitted were caused by tl them. The g ited the n ,e sounds they emu the action of the wind amon| ttleman who recently he went to it ich more of a c than h e had anticipated, tho m ingled tinldings much resembling the sounds of an .^olian harp, and &eqnently at- tainmg a startling degree of loudness and distinctness. The sounds seem to rise and fall, approach and recede, as though caused or governed by the wind. On a close examination it -was found that the small flakes of rock covering the face of the mountain contain a large per cent, of iron. The iron is supposed to be m agnetic, and there appears to be a con stant motion among the chips of it, wMoh appear to cover the ground to th© depth of several feet in many places. )ck seems to the The whole drift of broken rocl ■They>y were Jeau- the bridge, iter. He had a baud ear like a pickle no collar. She had a foot like each other o f the fragments composing th e m a ss i s thought to cause the tinkling sounds, which are so numerous as to m ingle and r ise in to a mngle strong m u sical murmur.—-Nevada Enterprise, How T eet 'IY oobd . - ing on the balustrade looking into the wat like a palm leaf fan, dish, and no collar. She had a fool a centre table and no teeth. They were cooing- He cooed first, and in a tone as gentle and musical as a Kansas zephyr he s a id; “ Nancy, jest es soon es I sell my purtaters I'm goin’ to claim you fur better or fur wus.” Then she cooed, and with the casiomaty shrewdness that women are wont to display in emergen cies, she queried in a soft, sweet mono tone, “ Buck, what are ’taters fetchin’ in the stores now?” And thus did they coo till it got too cool, — Wichita (^Kan.) Herald, ■ _ with 1
