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TOM'S S70BY. \ Di d you ever hear of my oriental ad renturc ?\ said Tom , perching himseli up on tliu countin g-bouse desk. \ Your oriental adventure?\ asked Ned amazed. \ Well , it' s worth hea ring, \ said Tom , '• if it did happen to me. It was when 1 was in Damascus , a mere attache of a grave di p lomatic party, a boy of twenty , whu mi g ht a s well have been lelt at home , 1 suppose. \ \I should My ji , \ sa id Ned. \Wh en yon belonged to a diplomatic part y, and we re in Damascus. You —well V \ I was in a bazaar , \ said Tom. \En g- lishmen always hunt bazaars when they are in Dama scus. \ \Oh , \ said Nod , \do they ?\ \ I had b ought clarar cases and smoking caps and tobacco tags , and all \sor ts of ihings , \ said Tom. \I ba d slippers and t- enrfs and a shawl for my mother , and a patment ol red nilk and gold thread of which I did not know the name. And I was buying a p ipe of oriental style , with a long stem , and a .va tor bottle for the smoke to pass through , when a great pull y bag of black silk which enveloped u lady paused near -uu., and squatted down hefoj o the shop 01 ' a youn g jewel merchant , for the purpose of examining his bracelets,. '' Only the eyes of this fi gure were visi- ble , bu t they were bl acker and more beau- t iful than those of any heroine of the Arabian Nights ' En tertainments , and t h e y lit on me once , twice , three times , and sen t a sensation throug h my hear t to which it was ha ppily as yet a stranger. \ Iti . 'hind tlio fi gure stood the less care - fully vailed poison uf an old female servant. S unn* jiray hair stnigglcd over a wrinkled I' orelie-'l . and the vail < n levenled the upp er part of her high nose. She was the guardian of the youn g beauty probably. That it. was a young beauty thus hid under the silken balloon I had no doubt. It was like an oriental talc. \The jewel merch ant was busy with his wares. Tho merchant of hubbta-bubblc s with his and my money. No one hut the old woman saw the beauty make me a lit- tl e sign with lier exquisite hand ; but she did it. The sign nacWd to say, l Wait. \ F wai ted. \ What I wai ted for I hardly knew. I unders tood the custom * of the country well enough to be nware that I could not speak to this rt nmiel , or b o addres s ed b y her , in the open streets ; but T un'leratooil youn g women well.enough to know tlmr somethin g was in «torc for mo in the way ol nn adventure. My repertoire ol gesture is not hu ge. No Englishman ' s Is. I n od- ded n ' Yes. ' It sufficed. As she went uwuy , guarded b y her old attendan t , she repented the motion. '\ Wait, 'i t said again. \ « Yes , ' rep lied my nod. \ Them vni « a coffee-house close »t hand , open to the street like nil the other shops. Thern , with mv hubble-bubbles Jn ray linnn , I squatted on n cushion , nnd sipped and smoked. I also ate something. It mn , \ Imvo been the conserve of pomegran- ates wi tho ut popper , of which wo road in the Arab ian Nights , It was nwoott It melted on the palate. Ft. left behind a delieliiH * taste and (ragraucu . It was ori- ental to the Inst de gree. 'Near me , one smoked something Rtron vsor tha n tobacco —nn supeth p erhaps —tlui t sen t him , by nnd b y, into n strange M>rt of shvp, his oves half opened , his linnri * dropped on their backs , half shut , a gainst the cushion * , tb« pi|>« s till between his li ps , \Within the coflop- sbort , a story-toller throw down n little flat basket for con- tribu tion* , nnd be gnn his narrative with , •In the name of Allnh !' * \It was nbout th • genii i but I lind lit- Ho comprehensio n of the talc , my know- ledge ol the Inngnii gc lining so poor , \ In its mtd *t I saw a figure pr.s n—pau se -make u sign tome, '• It was tlio old woman , tlio servant of inv mysterious benut y. I Hung a coin to Tlie ntti ry- lDtlor , nnd followed her. '•She wont on for a Jong while , until I liennii 10 i|,;,.l: that «lio would neve r apeak • o mi* l Imtnt las t id;? paused under tli o clindow ol tlio blank whito-plnstor wall* of » home In a quiet part of the city, nnd Ji'drtcnly lotting down n long wisp o f gray hin t' , took from It n lottor—a little oiookod thing written on bri g ht paper , and drenched w th perfume . \Ito 'c it open. It was written in ii j eer English. \'la little Eng lish know , ' it begaii. 'My m/. -clicr she Engli sh. Most beauti- ful ! I wail for you. Come. ' \ ''Whfi i she said ' most beautiful , ' did she iiieura you?\ asked Dick , in anvize. '' Y es, \' sa id Tom , \ of course. * : \Wliat do t!>e gentlemen look ' .ike th ere 7\ asked Dick. ''' Where .shall T 50 V I asked of th<? old woman. • \She ben!.onod. A gain I followed. Wc walked '.n , she going before , I follo w- in g, until sDe pau sed before a white-p !as tered wall , in which was a narrow door. Unbickiuu thi s she. motioned mo to entci . nnd almost treading on my heels in hei naste , instnutly sli pped mi after me and re- looked it. \1 found myself in the most beautiful garden imagination can dep ict. A fountain p layed in the center , and flowers of tin. mo*t gorgeous colors bloomed in the sp len did vases and urns that surrounded it. Heyond it was a rose arbor. Obeying the old woman ' s motions , 1 entered the door of this fragrant retreat. \ On the instant , two beautiful arms ivere cast about my neck , and a voice like that of a nightingale softl y breathed these wo rds : \ ' Oh , Imw l ong I have waited (01 you , joy of uiy soul !' \ It was tho g irl whom I had seer, at the bazaar. 1 knew her eyes »; \ .d he r u»i>'J * at once , and I knew also that 1 had met i'iy fate. I loved her on the instam as well as she seemed to love me. \ \ Krother ,\ said Dick. \ I \uii 't make you understand tint deli- cious emotion , \ said Tom , si g nin g. ''TIht c we sat together , talking as lovers who had been parted lor yean. She slioocd n ring upon my finger. 1 gave her one from mine. 1 vowed to hear her away to the land where lovers weienot the slaves , th ey wetc there , nnd she promised to meet me at tlie little, garden gate at midnight, wl-c n in disguise. I w<»ul( > . convey her to a place of safety, procure the protection of our \ouu nul , with whom I was intimately nr quainted , and marry her that very ni g ht . '\ \ Going it fas t , \ said Dick. Tom si g hed. '' Suddenl y, as we sat there. \ said he , \ the old woman rushed into the arbor. S he whispered a word to my beaiuitul lady-l ove , who wrung her hands in terror. \ \'Fl y for y our life !' she said. \If Allah spares my life , I will mee t. you a t the gate ut midnight. If not , adieu until we r. i ^et in Paradise. \ \ Ther. the old woman seized me bv the arm , hurried me to the gate , pushed int- ent , an d locked it behind inc. \ The garden vanished. I saw my love no more. I sat bewildered upon a ' • • ough s tone bench. It had been like a story of the Ara b ian Ni g h ts thus far. How would it end ? I knew not. \ Don ' t ask me what I did wit a mj self dur ing the remaining hours of the d.iy^ I kn ow nothing of them . \ A t midnight I sat upou the stane huiica again , clad in a coarse oriental dress , nut w ith a pistol hidden beneath it. 1 hud re solved rather to die than to allow h er to be torn Iroin me. It was love ah first sig ht that I felt , int years rmdd not liav e made it stronger. \ 1 wai ted. The moon arose tound and yell ow in the sky. The feathery heads ol' th- d-ite palms seemed to nod to me. X strange bird uttered a shrill cry. A do g barked. I heard steps within the gaiden. and shrank back into the shadow. Tht y wore noi the steps ui women. As I lia tbnv . u sue im te opened , an I lour black slave , bearin g a burden , emerged tboie- from. A a tlio moonlight fell upon them , 7 saw tha t Uiey held the *id-> s of a gr o ut sack. \ They inarch ed uwoy toward the river. As I wat ched them, dreading I -know not wha t , the old woman , w ith her ;iair dis- hevelled , rus hed out of -ihe gnvden , and wrin ging her hands , pointed after them. '\ Won t hns linpreiie t ' ?' I shrieked. \ She t hre w into my h. - .nds a littl e note , the counterpart of the. one I had received tha t dny, \I tore it open and read these words ; '\ Adieu ! the Cali p h bi\» discovered nil. I was hi.s wife, 'f bo hue ol >\n unfai thful wif . ' in this land is to be sewed »p in a bag of lime , and cas t into the river, Adieu , forever. Naida. \ Wi th n wild shriek T rushed after the retreating slaves , anil—awoke. \ \Eh /\ said Ned; \ nvcAo ?\ \ Yos , \ snid Tom. \ Tha t wad when I was down wi th that bud ' . ' ever three years ago , and Sam, hfld been showing me a Turkish pipe , and my black-haired cou sin Belle had rend m« to -loop with tho ' Howudji in Syria ; ' »nd out of those throe things , an oriental pipe , a pre tty bumette and nn exquisi te book , my nd von euro in Damascus with tho beau tiful maiden wns boru. \ __ Sditobb a Oash , — Suppose Bomo . colfl morninp r you Hliould go into a neighbor ' s Uohho nnd find him busy nt work on , his wlnilowH , spvitfehing away, anil should iwk him what ho was up to , and he uliould reply : \ Why, I urn trying to removo tho frost; but as fast 113 I got it off one Hqu t iro it enmos on nnnthur , \ would you not wiy, \ Why, man , I*» t your window \ nlono , nnd kindle your fl ro , and 1I10 frost will Rjon oorao off, \ And have yon not seen people who try to break off their bud habits , ono after another , without avail ? Wnl l , llioy are like Mm man whr trifut to sorutoh tho frost from his wIii'Iowh. Jjot tho flro ol lovo of Giui '»ud nmii, kindled at tho nltar ot p ruy m. burn in tho < r hearts , and bad habits will hoou molt a m\y. —S:ho ol- <iay Vi»Uur , The p-un of dying must be distin- gui shed fro m the ;>ain of the previous disease for which life ebbs , and sensibil- ity decli nes. As death is the final ex- tinction of cor poreal feelings , so numb- ne ss increases as death cor-iea on. The prostration ol disease , like heal tt . * u] f:i ti gue. engenders a growing stupor— a sens ation of subsiding softl y into a covet- ed r epose. The transition resembles '• •j eat mi ght be seen in these lofty moun- tains , wh ose sides exhibiting every cli- uiale in regular gradation , vegetation luxuriates at their base , and dwindles in ' •h e nea r approach to the regions of s.iow till its feeblest manifestation is re- pressed b y th e cold. The so called ngony can never be more formidable than when the brain is the last to go , aud tho mind preserves to the end n rational cognizance of the state of the body. Yet persons thus situated commonly attest that there are few things in life less painful than the close. \ If I h a d strength enough to hold a pan , \ said William Hunter , \I would write how easy and deli g htful it is to die. \ \If thi s be d yin g, \ said the niece of Newton , of Olney, ' it is a pleasant thing to die ; \ \ the very expression , \ adds her uncle , \ which another friend of mine made use- of on her death bed a few years ago. \ The same words have often been ut tered under similar circum stances , which are onl y varied b y the name of the speaker. \ I f this be d ying, \ said Lad y Gloreney, \it is the ea siest thing im- aginable. \ \ I . thought that dying had beeu more difficult , \ s aid Louis XVI. \I did n ot suppose it was so sweet to • lie , \ said Fi-ancis S aurez , the Spanish theologian. Au agreeable surprise was the prevailing sentiment with them . all. l'hey expected the stream to terminate in the dash of the torrent , and they found it was losing itself in the gentles t c urrents. The wb^le of the faculties seem sometimes concentrated on the placid enjoyment. The day Author Murph y died he ke pt repeating from Pope : \ Taught lialr by reason , half by mere decay, To welcome death , and calmly pass away . \ Nor do es the cal m partake of the sensi - ti ve n ess of sickness. There was a swell in Hie s<ia th e day Collingwood breathed h is las t upon the element which had been the scene of his glory. Captain Thomas expressed a fear that he wn s dis- turbed b y the tossing of the ship. \No Thomas , \ he rep lied , \ I am now in a state where nothin g in this world can disturb ran more. I am dy ing; and am sure it must be cons olatory to you, and till who Jove mo , to see how comfor tabl y I urn coming to my end, '' — Bonk of Dui/ s. A. Dispute With a '- Doctor. —Many other anecdotes could he tol d of the wv-un tric and talented Peter Cart - wri pnt the venerable -Methodist clergy - man who lately died , nnd there is one too good to let pa ss. Ho once bad n dis- put e with a doctor relative to religion The doctor said he wanted honest and unequiv ocal answers to a ' .ew - que stions. \ Did you ever hour reli gion ?\ \ No. \ \ Did you over smell religion ?\ \No. \ \ Did y ou ever tiute religion ?\ \ No , \ \ Did you over feel religion V' \ Yes.\ \ Now then , \ said tho doctor , with ap- parent triump h , \Ihuve proved beyond a doubt , b y four respect a ble witnesses , that reli gion is not semi , hoard , smellod or tasted , and but one solitary witness , foel i jip, has testified that it is tin experi- mental fact. The wei ght of evidence is overwhelming, and you must give up, \ Oartwri ght asked , •' Did you ever soo a pain ?\ \ No, \ \Did you over hoar n pain ?\ ,, No, \ \Did yon ever smel l n pain ?\ \ No. \ \ Did you ever taste a pain ?\ \ No, \ \ Did you over foci 0 pniu V\ \ Certainly, I did , sir. \ Tho doctor and his family woro converted. A Knowin g SnEitp, —In a slaughter house in one at our cities*, a pat nUoop has boon trained so that on tho arriv e ! of a fresh (look this sheep goes oil meekly to moot tho now oomtrh , uml then , taking tho load , makes directly for tho slaughter pon tho poor dupos follow- ing. Tho decuy sheep thon slips out by 11 soorot door , nnd ropoats tho operati o n an arrival of tho uoxt victims, She saves ranch labor of driving to hor owner nnd iter own mutton, bnt sho destroys all tho romance of tho lamb character. A oountry morohtvnt won t to Chicago a few days ago to purchase a bill of goods, Tho last that was hoard of him ho wiih in his room , surrounded by seven- toon drummers , who had crawled thr ough tho tr uuRom. while nn oner aotio repor ter was below stairs pumping tho dork mr tho ago of tho unfortunate man, and tho pr obable oiruun ' isUraeo u of his family, The Fain of Death. How attentively , and wit h what pruri - ent eagerness , the fair sex adorn them- selves otter the fashion of the day. The grea t er th * absurdity of dress , the more g i ganti c the innovation , and the greater con spicuou37<ess involved , the niore fei vent the desire to adopt it. Ont and all follow with a rapidity as incredible as amazin g. Soould the adoption of the dress have a ludic roUS\en \ ect , verily the more precise its observance. Compare the dress of a young lady nowadays with that of one twenty years ago. What a remarkable change! Bonnets as now worn are simp l y strips ol ribbon , bristling with variegated flowers and a rtificial ornaments , devoid of use. If it were not lor the abundant profusion ot hair with which the fair ladies arc favored , we are disposed to think that their liability to take col d would be con- siderably increa ^ea , as the article upon which they bes tow the title of bonnet is a most inadequ ate cohering for the head. Of course we are a'rare there are wheelb w ithin wheels. In like mannner there is hair beneath ban —or some other materis! to represent it—though it is not at all necessary the former should have beeu p lanted , nourished and perfected upon the same cranium as the latter. The rule is the reverse. Perhaps the internal substi- tute obv iates the necessit3* of conforming with usage and wearing a covering to the head , as for hats , they are not made to wea. upon the head but upon the ha ir. Siz e is immaterial. In some instances they are affixed upon the hair in a nearl y perpendicula r position. Perhaps we are in error. It may be the shape of the lady ' s head which involves the unnatura l position in which the ornament is placed. The absurdities exhibited by ladies in their sty le of d ress is apparently ill imitable , nothing is too outragci ^is to appear in if it be auth orized by fashion . — Tinsley ' s Magazine. As Experiment with a Bi -FJjE. — Alexander Haramil , of Silver City, per- fo rmed a most ingenious experiment with a United States breech-J oadin g rifle with which he had previousl y been practisin g by firing at a target. It a ppears that he in some manner got two se ts of cart ridges into the gun , and dis- covering this to be the situation , he did not care to fire off the double charge. Having duly studied over the matter , he took the gun to a blacksmith ' s shop, screwed the barrel fast in a vice , and then o pening the breech , be p icked out all the powder til! he came to the lower hall. Then ho heated an iron rod red hot and with it commenced to melt tho ball out. By frequentl y heatin g the rod he succeeded admira bly till he iiiulW a hole clear through the bal l nnd touched the powder of the cartrid ge b eyond , when there was a sharp and un- expected exp losion. It shot both ways , one bnll going out nt the muzzle and the other at the roar. The boll which came out at the rear t ook but a small piece out of Aleok> cheek , and Dr. Kir- b y has every confidence that the poultice in which Mr , Aleck' s head is now bound up will draw out tho ounce or two of powder blown into his face. ViPBiis. —Th e Ind ian Daily Nexcii eites the following statement of Dr. Short of Madras : \Allow me to record a most interesting occurrence that took place in my house. A Ruael' s viper that I have had for seven weeks , being the same that I exhibited at tho recent lec- tures at tho medical college on the 24th o f Juno last , aud following days, meas- uring three and a hal f foot in length , has produced thirty-nine young. Each little one measur es eigh t and a half inches in length , and one out of those about six hours old , in nn experiment , killed a young partridge weighing nine and a half tolah in tun seconds. This pr oves how very prolific (hose deadly snakes are , and whon tho young are put together they will oxeood tho mother nearly eight timos In length , • I am glad to add tho mamma and babies arc doing nicely. \ Ciiem * Food. —Three pounds of flour in said t o con 'nin ns ' muob nutriment ns nine pounds of roast boof. A pint of white henna , woifthlng one pound contains as much ns throe pounds and a half of ronst boof. A pound of common! go*\ us far as a pound of flonr . If corn and whont woro ground, and tho wholo prodn ot , bran nnd all , woro mndo into bro nd , fifteen por cent, of nutriment would ho saved , and much gr eater honlthfulnon s soonrod , Of all ar- ti cles that enn bo oaten , tho ahoapest arc broad, butter , malnsaiis , hcani i , and rice , —• tho cheapne ss being ra ted by th~ amount of nutriment contained , compared with tho coat, Followin g the FuUon. XurafBeture * of the United State i. The tabulation ot the statistics of man- ufactures of the United States for the year ending June 1 , 1870 , as r etained at the ninth census , h as just been comp leted at the Census Office. The number of estab- lishments is 252 , 148 ; nuc , k er of steam engines, 40 , 191 , with a horse-power of 1 , - 215 , 711 ; number of water-wheels , 51 , 017 with a horse-power of 1 , 130 , 416. The avera ge uumbdr of hands employed durin g tne year was 2 , 053 , 988 , of whom 1 , 615 , - 594 were males above sixteen years of age , 323 , 7 63 females above fifteen , and 114 , 026 children and growth. The amount of capital invested was 82 , 118 , 257 , 0 59, of wages paid $575 , 621 , 598. Th e value of materials consumed was 82 , 488 , 291 , 952 , of products $4 , 232 , 625 , 892. Of this produc- tion $13 , 040 , 644 is returned from Alabama. $185 , 410 from Arizona , $4 , 629 , 234 from Arkansas , 866 , 594 , 556 from California , ?:: , - 852 , 820 from Colorad o , 81 61 , 065 , 747 bom Connecticut , $17 8 , 570 from Dakota , $1C, - 791 , 382 from Delaware , 89 , 292 , 173 from the District of Columbia , $4 , 685 , 403 from Florida. 8931 , 196 , 115 from Georg ia , 81 , - 047 , 62j from Idaho , 8205 , 620 .672 h-m Illi nois , 8108 , 617 , 278 from Indiana , 846 , - 534 , 322 from Iowa , 811 , 775 , 823 from Kan- sas , 854 , 625 , 809 from Kentucky, 824 , 161 , - C05 from Louisiana , 879 , 497 , 521 from Maine , 76 , 593 , 613 from Maryland , 855 3 , - 912 , 568 fro m Massachusetts , 118 , 394 , 076 from Michi gan , 23 , 110 , 700 fr om Minnesota , 8 , 154 , 758 from Mississi pp i , 200 , 213 , 429 from Missouri , 2 , 494 , 511 f rom Montana , 5 , 738 , 511 from Nebraska , 15 , 870 , 539 from Nevada , 71 , 038 , 24 9 from New Hampshire , 169 , 237 , 722 from New Jersey 1 , 489 , 868 from New Mexico , 785 , 134 , 651 from New York , 1 , 921 , 327 from North Carolina , 269 , 713 , 613 trom Ohio , 6 , 877 , 35$ f rom Oregon , 712 , 187 , 941 from Pennsy lva nia. 111 , 481 , 354 from Rhode Islar. -: , 985 , 898 from South Carolina , 34 , 362 , 626 f ru.n Ten- nessee , 11 , 517 , 302 from Texas , 2 , 343 , 019 from Utah , 32 , 184 , 606 from Vermont , 38 , - 364 , 822 from Virginia , 2 , 8P1 , 052 from Washin gton Territory , 24, 113 , 051 from West Virginia , 77 , 214 , 326 from Wisconsin , 765 , 424 from W y oming. A New Sense. —When passing along a s treet I can distinguish shops from private houses , and even point out tho doors ai'd window *? &c , and j this whether the doors be shut or open. When a window con- si sts of one entire sheet of glass, it is more difficult to discover than one composed of a number of small pane s. From this it would ap pear that a glass is a bad conduc- rorot sensation , or at any ra te of the sensa- tion specially connec ted with this sense. When objects bel ow the face are i-ercoived , » ,be sensati on seems to come in an oblique line from the objec t to the upper part , of tho face. While walking with a friend in F orest Lane , S t ra t ford , I said , pointin g to a fence which sepaia ted tho road from a field , \ Those rails ar f no t quite as high as my shoulder , \ Ho looked at them and said they wore higher. We , howev er , measured , and found them abou t three inches lower than my shoulder. A t the time of making tbi.i observati on I was about four fee t from the rail s. Certainl y in this instance facial percep tion was more accurate than sight. When the lower part of n fence is brickwork , and the up- per part mils , the fact can be detected , nnd the line whore the two mee t easil y perceiv ed. Irre gularities in height and projection s , and indentation * in walls , can also bo discove red, A similar sense be- long s to some part of tho animal creation , nnd especially to bats , which have been known to lly about a room without strik- ing again st anything after the cruel ex- perimen t bos been made of extracting theiroyo s. - -Levu ' » Tllln dncttunit tht Mind, Good rou this Datb Only, —Tho Railway ticket agents aro bothering their brains over tho question whether passen- gers may \lay over \ and resume their journey at pleasure , or whether , when thoy have onco qnittod tho oars , they have forfeited thol r tickets for tlio rem ainder of tholr Jonrnoy. Tho cour ts have already decided that a man who buys a ticket , as it woro between Boston and Now York , hns tho undoubted right to stop at any p ' .aoo on tho rond and to resume his Jonr- noy at his lei«uro , without bnylng another ticket , The logond , \Good for thla date only, \ has no value in tho oyoa of any p&vo rail way officials , and tho law has de- cided that any notion taken by nominators with a view to enforcing tho implied con- tract is illegal. Tlioro tho matter should bo allowed to rest , The public aro satis- fied so to loavo it , and the rallwoy com- pantos ought not to complain. If a man buy a ticket for Beaton , .mrt tho company receive 'the money for It , thoro la no rea- son why thoy should rofuso to carry liitn thither , or wb ; thoy nhonld wish to force him to do it to unit tholr convenience instead 01 bin own. It is proposed to tux dogs in Selma , Ala. , to pay the city debt. A cow bus been poisoned b y eating peach leaves in Alexandria. In the di strict of Ruhr , Bel gium , not one illi terate miner can be found. The rinderpest has appeared among the cuttle in Linc olnshire , Eu glund. A m an is not like a chicken ; the older he gets, the tenderer ho becomes. All the young lmlie.i please note ! Bears are causing a ^reat deal of trou- ble amon g the Wisconsin farmers. They are getting numerous and bold. Coal is hi gher now in London than it h as been lief.-re for fort y years. In 1851 the pric- was about one half what i t is now , A St. Tiouis rat recentl y made a com- fortable bed out of one thousand five hund rea dollars government six per cent bands. A London gentleman , Mr. Thomas Holme , has bequeathed to the British societ y for tbe prevention of cruel ty to anim als fifty-five thousand dollars. A Nevada paper tells of a herd of stock cat til . - , numbering 4,600 , which passed throu g h a town out there bound to Cali- fornia , havin g been driven from Texas. If you desire to m easure an exact acre , within a s qua re , you must form a square of 20 9 feet ou each side. An acre con- tains 4 , 810 square yards , aud a square mile contain s 640 square acres. Sinc e the occupation 01 Aletz b y the German troops the emi gration from that p lace bn s been so heavy nnd continuous that th e population it now said to be but one-tbird of what it was before ihe war. P apa — \I' m sorry to hear , my dear boy, you have failed again in obtain- in g a prize this quarter. You must be ve ry woouen-headed. \ Dear Boy— \Yes , pa , I' m afraid I' m. a chi p of the old block. \ Tbe Commissioner of Internal Revenue bos decided that certificates 01 naturali- zation issued b y the United States or State courts are not such cert ificates as require stamps under the Internal Rev- enue laws , aud are therefore exemp t fj om th e stamp tax. When John Adams was ninety years of a ge he was asked how he kept the vigor of his faculties u p to that age. He re- p lied : \ By constan tly -: mploying them. The wind of an old man is like an old horse ; if you would get any work out of it y oa mudt work it all the time. 1 ' In the United States District Court at Boston , Horace S. Rusncll retra cted the p lea of not guilty and pleaded guilty to abstracting letters from the Charleston Po st-office. He was sentenced to two yeurs ' s imprisonment in jail at Northam p- ton. Tbe amount embezzled in this case was only 812. The national debts of the principal nati ons of Mm enrth , we believe , now rank ab out as follows : The United States , 82 , 453 , 559. 000 ; England , 83 , 758- 420 , 0(10 ; France , 82 , 613 , 600 , 000; Russia , 81 , 280 , 000 , 000 ; Austria , 81 , 210 , 000 , 000 ; Ital y, 81 , 094 , 040 , 000 ; Spain , 8793 , 760- 0 00; Prussia , §325 , 500 , 000 ; Canada , 872 , 600 , 000 ; Switzerland , «774 , - .l 00. A man walks per hour , 3 miks ; a. hocse trots , per hour , 7 miles ; a horse runs , per hour , 2 0 miles ; a steamboat runs , por hour , 18 miles ; a vessel sails , por hour , 10 miles ; rivers run , slow , per hour , 4 miles ; rivers run , ra p id , per hour , 7 miles ; un ordinary wind blows , per hour , 7 miles ; n storm moves , per hour , 86 mil es ; 11 hurricane moves , per hour , 8 0 miles ; a rifle-ball moves , por hour , 1 , 0 00 mile ' s; sound moves , Cor hour , 74 3 miles ; l^ght flies , per our , 192 , 000 miles ; electricit y ' moves , per hour , 288, 0 00 miles. Fish . —Mr. Livingstone , a-Government Commissi oner , is en gaged in California in taking and packing Salmon spawn for the purpose of stocking rivers in the Atlantic Sta tes, IIo is now on tho McCloud River a t a point of about 25 miles above its confluence wi th Pitt Rivor , in Shasta county. He takes from , 50 , 000 to 100 , 000 salmon spawn s day. The salmon aro very abundant at thin point and in all tho larger n fll iionts of the Sacramento River, Tho salmon are easily cau ght and \ stripped , \ nnd some aro returned to tho rivor , a few bein g retain ed for food. The eggs aro placed in boxes or vats , the wood of which has (l i st boon charred so th at tho water may not bo tainted b y the boards , The egg* «w« ^ 1 ^ >\ then© vats for several days , with clear water running over thorn , during which tlmo such as aro worthless aro separated nnd thrown away and tho remainder aro carefully packed in Inyor a of wot moss , boxed and otherwise made ready for shipment , Ikiuakb. — Tho Pi-l' t o Indiana aro a practical people. One of their modlcino mon nnid that whon ho died , if tho Indians would cut Itlm to pieces tho pieces would unite again Immediately, and ho would a «oond Into tlio heavens In a cloud of ninoko. This was too mnoh for Indian curiosity to stand , nnd a bystander din- pato hod tlio doctor with a blow of his knlfo. Tho body was than out to piocoa , hut , much to the disgust of all present ,tho remains oi tho poor wretch refused to move , and woro loft on the ground an food for tho wolvoa , Brevltiei. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY , at SOTT -VHOLD , L.. I. TERMS : $1.00 a Year. L. F. TERRY , Publi s her %\v; %mx t\xt. i i JOB PRINTING ! 1 1 Done at Short Notice and at prices that defy coinpetition. ¦ - j tinrr r-Hpondi -nte am! Canvassers wanted in ev- e ry village. I The vespe r bello were nng i nR sweet In the sult ry Summer wea ' .hc r , (Vhftii tiiey cliiabi id tlie mo unt with tired feet To k neel anil to pray togc-tner - . 1 . •> kneel anil to p ray where the tender skies Ile ut low to the pine tree a ' sighing ; With o nl y heave n to hear their cries , A ud heaven to make replying. \ Onr hearts , O fat her! arc one , \ thoy said , \ FJut we go two ways to-morrow: And life will linge r , and lovers will wed , A 'kI what can we beg or borrow Of ea rth or heaven to bridge the years- D re a rier than dreariest night is— Lyi ng bet ween the Valley of Tears A nd the city where fl.y delight is ?\ Over thc-i r cold , c rosft 'd pal ms alight St ruck sharp through a coal-black shadow : And Hilenc c^ a->t of the day nor nig ht A nd tweets noi , \>f moor nor meadow , Folded the m fast , vdiil* . 1 voice sun g clear Fro m the soi.l of Ihe sil very arches : \ l'hey are trne kji 'V.crk who feel no fear ; God knoweth how ha rrl the march li-!\ Onl y a dimming of ^clie nt o\ca , A i- miling of li ps that quiver. A nd blue behind them the mountain lirrs- - Blu e before them —ihe river. Burdens fo r both of them—battles f-u- each , And th o wild and the wearying weather ; B ut—fur ther away—a Paradise b^ach A nd two ways winding together. They Two.
