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. Continued from 1st jaoe. oongratulated Mm upon bis goed fortune and was about to branch forth with a des enption of some of the great benefits that must ensue to the community, when lie suddenly and somewhat uncivilly request ed me to "be silent," and listen to what be had to say. ' ...i t-.-.s-., - He began with some general remarks about the inequality of fortune amongst mankind, and instanced himself as a striking example of the fate of those men, who, according to all the rules of right, ought to be near the top, instead of at the foot of the ladder of fortune. "But," aid he, springing to his feet with impul sive energy, "1 have now the means at my command of risingsuperior to fate, or of inflicting unoalculable ills vpou the whole human race." Looking at him more closely, I thought I could detect in his eye' the gleam - of madness : but I remained silent and awaited further developments. But my I acrutiay, stolen as it was, had beeu de tected, and he replied at once to the ex pression of my face : "No, sir ; I am neither drunk nor a maniac; I am in deep earnest in all that I say; and I am fully prepared by actual experiment, o demonstrate beyond all "doubt ! the truth of all I claim." ! For the first time I noticed that he carried a small portmanteau in his hand; this he placed upon the table, unlocked it, and took out two or three small vol umes, a pamphlet or .two, and a small, square, wide-mouth phial, hermet ically sealed. . I watched hiia with profound carios ity, and took a note of the slightest move ments. Having arranged his books to suit him and placed the phial in a con spicuous position, he drew up his chair very closely to my owd, and uttered in a hissing tone : "I demand one ; million dollars for the contents of ; that bottle ; and you must raise it for me in the" city of San Francisco within one rronth, or scenes too terrible even for the imagina tion to conceive will surely be witnessed by every living human being on the face of the globe." . , , v The tone, the manner, and thftbsurd extravagance of the demand, excite! a faint smile upon my lips, which he ob served, but disdained to notice. My mind was fully made up that I had a maniac to deal . with, and prepared to act accordingly. But I ascertained at once that my inmost thoughts were read ' by the remarkable man before me, and seemed to bo anticipated by him in -ad- "vance of their expression. -''",.-.? "Perhaps, ' said I, "Mr Summerfield, .you would oblige me by 'informing me fully of the grounds of your claim, and .the nature of your discovery ?" - "That is the object of my visit," he treplied. "I chum to have discovered the key which unlocks the constituent gases of water, and frees each from the em brace of the othpr, at a single touch." "lou mean to assert," I rejoined, -"that you can make water burn itself up ?" ; "Nothiug more nor less," 1 e responded, -"except this to insist upon the conse quences of the secret, if my demand be not at once complied with." Then, without pausing for a moment to allow me to mace a suggestion, as 1 -once or twice attempted to do, he pro ceeded iu a dear and deliberate manner, in these words : . '1 need not inform you, sir, that when this earth . was. created it consisted almost wholly of vapor,- which by condensation, finally became water.' "The oceans now occupy more than two thirds of the entire surface of the globe. The continents are mere islands in the midst of the seaa. They are everywhere ocean-bound, and the hyperborean north, is hemmed in by open polar seas. Such as my first proposition. -.-;' My 'Second em braces the constituent elements of water. What is this thing which we call water ? Chemistry, that royal queen of all ., the .sciences, answers readily; 'Water is : but - a... t combination i iwo gases, oxygen ana hydrogen, and in the proportion of eight to one.' In other wordsin order to form neater, fake eight parts of oxygen and one of hydrogen, mix them together, and the result or product is water. You smile, ir, because you very properly think, these iare the elementary principles of science, nd are familiar to the minds of every .-school-boy twelve ; years oi age. Tfes I - but what next? Suppose you take these same gases, and mix them in any other proportion. I care not what, and the in - ttantaneoua result is heat, flame, combus tion of the intensest description. The famous Drummond Light, that few years -ago astonished Europe what is that but the ignited flame of a mixture of oxygen - and hydrogen projected against a small piece of lime ? : What : was harmless as water becomes the most destructive of all objects when decomposed and mixed in any other proportion, f - e Nbw suppose I fling "the contents of this phial into tjbe ? Pacific ocean, what would be the result t Pare you contem plate it for an instant ? I do not say that the entire surface of the sea , would ' in stantaneously bubble up into insitfferaUe flame ;'no, butform the nucleus of a circle, wteicn this phial would be the centre lurid radii of flames would gradually shoot outward, until the blazing circum ference would roll in vast billows of"fire, upon theutmost shores.: Not all the drip ping clouds could extinguish it. Not all the tears of saints and angles could for an instant check its progress. On, and on ward it woold sweep, with the- steady gait of destiny, until the continent would melt with fervent heat, the atmosphere . glare with the continuous conflagration ; and all living creatures, in land, and sea, and air, perish in one universal catas trophe." ' - - - " t ' .Then 'suddenly starring to his feet, Be drew himself up to his full bight, and murmured solemnly, "I foel like a God 1 and I recognize ' my fellow-men but as pigmies .that I spurn beneath my feet L" "Summerfield,'' said I, calmly, "there mast Be some strange error in all J Una. You a.re a self-deluded. ; The. weapon which you claim to wield is on that good God and a beneficent Preator would never intrust to the- keeping got -;. "i. mere ereature. v nat sir I ereate a world as grand and beautiful as this, and hide within its bosom a principle' that at any moment may enwrap it in flames, and sink "Ai yourY - i . f-iarts of our jwunded by1-Water, and .uw is fire in possibility' i "is pure, crence,sf . 'eter. third cSk ; .,,rtffi3. : Are not the k . j. teit with fervent heat ?' s Are notie heavens to be fold ed together like a scroll ?' Are not the rocks to melt, the stars to fall and the moon to be turned into blood ? Is not fire the next grand cyclic consummation of all things here below ? But 1 come fully prepared to answer such objections. Your argument betrays a narrow mind, circumscribed in its orbit,. and shallow in its depth. , 'Tis the common thought of mediocrity. ..... You have read books too much, and studied nature too little. Let me give you a lesson to-day in tho work shop of Omnipotence. Take a stroll with me into the limitless confines of space. and let us observe together some of the scenes transpiring at this very instant arourd us. A moment ago you spoke of the the moon ; what is she but an extin guished world ? You spoke of the sun ; what is he but a "lobe of . flame ? .' But here is the Cosmos of Humboldt. ..Jiead this paragraph." " As he said this he ' placed before, me the Cosmos of Humboldt, and i read as follows : i "Nor do the heavens themselves teach unchangeable permanency in the works of creation. Change is observable- there quite as rapid and complete as in the con fines of our solar system. In the year 1772. one of the small stars in the con stellation Casiopea blazed up ' suddenly into an orb of the first magnitude, grad ually decreased in brilliancy, and finally disappeared from the skiC3. Nor has it ever been visible 6ince that-period ' for single moment, eithtr to the eye or to the telescope. It burned up and was lost in space. - 1 "Humboldt," he added, "has not told ui who set that world on fire !" r "But," resumed he, "I have stil clearer proofs"."- Saying this, he thrust ito my hands tho last London , Quarter?!, and on opening the book at an ; article headed 'The Language of Light," I read, with a feeling akin to awe, the following pass age : ''Further, some stars exhibit changes of complexion in themselves. Sitius, as before stated, was once a ruddy, or rather a fiery-faced orb, but has now forgotten to blush, looks down upon us with a pure, brilliast smile, in which there is no trace either of anger or of shame. On the countenances of others, still more varied traits have tippled, within a much briefer period of time. May not these be due to some physiological revolutions, : general or convulsive, which are iu progress in the particular orb. and which by effect ing -the constitution of its atmosphere, compel the absorption or promote '.the transmission of particular rays ? The sup position appears by no means improbable, especially it we call to tin ad the hvdrogen volcanoes which have been discovered on tho photosphere of the 6nn. fndeed there are a few small stars which afford a spectrum of bright lines instead of dark ones, and this we know denotes a gaseous or vaporized state of things, from which may be interred that sucn.orus are in a different condition from most of their relations. - y: ';'"". '" ' :On the 12th of May, 1SG6, a great conflagration, infinitely larger than that of London or Moscow, Was announced. To use the expression of a distinguished astronomer, a world was found to be on fire I A tar -which till then had shone weakly and 'unobtrusively in the corona ooreoas, Suddenly blazed up into a Inminary of the second magnitude. In the course of three days from its discovery in this new character,- by Birmingham at luan, it bad declined to toe tbird or one-fourth order of brilliancy. In twelve days, dating from; its first appearance in the Irish heavens,- it had sunk, to the eighth rank, and it went on waning u-til the 26th of June, when it ceased to be discernible except through the medium of the telescope. This was a remarkable though certainly not an - unprecedented proceeding on the part of a star ; hut one singular circumstance in its behavior was that, after the lapse of nearly two months it began to blaze up again,.! though not with equal ardor, and after -maintaining its, glow lor a - tew. wccks, ana passing through sundry phases of color, it grad ually paled its fires, and returned to its former insignificance.. " IIow .many years had elapsed since this j, awful conflagra tion actually took place it would be pre sumptuous to guess ; but it must be re membered that news from the heavens, though carried by the fleetest of messen gers, light, reaches U3 long after the event has transpired, and that the same celestial- carrier is still dropping the tidings at each station it reaches in f pace, until it sinks exhausted by the length of its flight. "As the star had suddenly flamed up, was it cot a natural supposition that it had become enwrapped in burping hydro gen, which in consequence of some great convulsion had been liberated in .: prodi gious quantities, and then combining with other elements had set this hapless world on fire ? Iu such a fierce confla gration the combustible gas would soon be -consumed, and the glow would there fore begin to decline, subject, as in this case, to a- second eruption, which, occa sioned the renewedbutburst of light on the 20th of August. . . . "Uy such a castrophe it i not whIy impossible that our own globe may some time be ravaged, lor if a word trorn the Almighty were, to . unloose tor a , tew moments the bonds of affinity which ttotte the elements ' of wa'er. n sint-l, spark would, bring them together with a fury that would kindle the funeral pyre of the human race, and be fatal to the planet and all the works that are there on." ; "Your argument," he. then instantly aaaea, ia oy no means ' a - good one What do weknow of the Supremo Archi teet of the Universe, or of his designs! lie builds op worlds; and then tears them down ?.. lie kindles suns and he extinguishes them. . He. inflames the comet, in one portion' of its orbit, with a heat that no human imagination can con eeive of, and in another subjects the same blazing orb to a cold intenser than that which invests forever the Antartic Pole. AH that -we know-of 1 1 i in we gather through his works. I have shewn you that He barns other worlds, why .,VMB."iaVt this," I rejoined, baseless, profitless speculation. JNot so fast. he answered. And then , rising, he seized the email phial and handing it to mo requested me to open it. ' - confess V did so with some trepida tion. - ' "Now smell it." ' ' 1 did so. i i "What odor do you,perceive ?" "Potassium.''-1 replied, i . - " -"Of courso.H he added, you are famil iar with the chief characteristic of that substance it ignites instantly when brought in contact with water. Within that little elobule of DOtassium I have imbedded a pill of my own composition and discovery, i 'The moment it is liberat ed from the potassium, it commences tne work ot decomposing tne nuid on , wnicn it floats. - The potassium at once ignites the liberated Oxygen, and the connagra tion of this mighty globe is begun." " Yes, said l,'v"begunj it you please, but, your little pill soon ; evaporates ,or sinks,. or melts in the surrounding seas, and your conflagration ends just where it began. "My reply to that suggestion could be made at once ; by simply testing the ex periment on a small scalo or a Jarge one, either. But I, prefer, at present to refute your proposition by an argument drawn from nature herself. It you correctly remember the bret time. 1 had the- pleas ure of seeing you was on the island of Galveston, many; years ago. Do you remember relating to me at that time an incident concerning the. enacts . ot prairie on fire, that - you had yourself witnessed but a lew days previously near the town of Matagorda ? If I recollect correctly you stated that on your return journey from that place you, -passed on the way the charred remains ot two wagon-loads of , cotton and three human beings that the night before had perished the flames ; j that three slaves, the property ot a Mr. liorton, had started a ew day3 before to tarry to market a shipment of eottun; that a norther over took them on the trackless prairie, aud a few . minutes afterwards they were sur prised by beholding a line of rushing But without avail. 1 He began to grow urgent in his demand, and his brow would cloud like -a tempest-ridden sky whenever we approached him on the sub ject. ' finally, ascertaining that no per suasion could sot ten his : heart or toucb his feelings, a sub-committee Was appoint ed to endeavor if possible to raise , the money by subscription. Before taking that step, however, we ascertained oeyona all question that Summerfield was the sole custodian oi ma ureau cctci, u- m he kept no wiitten memorial of tho form ula of his prescription. ne even weni bo far as to offer us a penal bond that his secret should perish with him in case his rUmnmls were complied, witu, The sun-committee suou ..tiuuiuicutcu nmrfc nmnnir the wealthiest citiaens or San Francisco, and by appealing to the torrnrs of a few and tne sympatnies oi all, succeeded in rfs.ing one-half the nmnnnt within the prescriDea periou shalt never forget the wo-begoue faces of naiifiiimia Ktrppt durinsr the month ot rwn.oi- Th outside world and the nowgnancrs snoke most learnedly oi money panic a pressure in business, and the disturbances .,: in guiu iwu. But to the initiated there was an easier solution of the enigma. Tho pale specter of death looked down upon them all, and pointed with its bony anger to the nery tomb of the whole race,; already looming up in the distance before them. Day af ter day I could see the dreadful ravages safety. I asked tho privilege of meditation for one hour, at the hands of the committee, m W 1 t i " - oerore t wouia render a decision either way. 'During that recess, the above ar gumentation occupied my thoughts. The iime expireu ana x again presented my self before them. I did not Am it. requisite to state the grounds of my de. cisionj I briefly signified my assent and made instant preparation to carry the plan into execution. " 1 . , Having passed on the line of tho Pa. cifio Railroad more than once, I was per fectly familiar with all of its windings, gorges and precipices. I selected Cape uorn as tne best adapted to the purpose, and ' the nnWin tnaw h rest. ' ' - Having been fully aeauittcd hv two tribunals of the law. I wake this final appeal to my fellow men throuo-houi the otate, and ask them coofidentlv not to reverse the judgments already pronounc- I am conscious of co guilt ; J feel no remorse: x need no tencntan T?f,r me justice has no terrors and conscience no sting. Let me be judged so'.elv bv the motives which actuated me. and th importance of the end accomplished, and I Bhall pass unscathed both temporal and eternal triouoais. - Leonidas Pahker. ''Now, then, simple question! fire, surging, roariug and advancing like the resistless billows of an ocean swept by -a gale ; '-that theie was no time for escape, and they perisned terribly, iu lighting the devouring element t 'Yes, I recollect the event." I wish a reply to the did the single 'spark. that kindled the conflagration consume the negroes and their charge ? No ? But what did ? Yod reply, of course, that tho spark set the entire prairie on fire ; -that each spear, ot grass added fuel to the flame, and kindled by degrees a confla gration that continued to burn so Iongs it could feed ion fresh material. The pillule in .that! phial is the little spark, the oceans ate the prairies, and the oxygen the fuel upon which the fire is to teed , until the globe ; perishes in inex tinguishable flames. The elementary substances in Ithat small phial recreate themselves ; they are self-generating. and when encjo fairly under way, must necessarily,' sweep : onward,'" Until -: the waters 'in s alii the ' seas are exhausted. There is, however, one great difference between the burning of a prairie and the combustion of an ocean ; the fire in the first spreads - slowly, for the - fuel is difficult to ignite ; iu the last, it flies with tho rapidity of - the wind," fortbe substance consumed is oxygen, the most inflammable agent in nature." Rising from my seat, I went to tho washstand , in the, corner of the apart ment, and drawing a 4 bowl half, full of Spring Valley water, I turned to Sum merfield .aud remarked, "Words are empty,. theories are ideal but facts- are things." " I take you at your word." So saying he approached the bowl, emptied it of nine tenths of its contents, and silently dropped the potassium-coated (ill into the liquid. f "The -'potassium danced around tho edges of the' vessel, fumiag, hissing and blazing," as . it always does, and seemed on ' the poiot of -expiring, when, to my astonishment and alarm a sharp explosiijn took place, and in a second of, time the water was blazing in a red, lurid column half way up. to tho ceiling. I - i . ! ,it i,(ii4 -. "For God's sake," I cried," "extinguish the flames oc we shall set the building on fire!" c:j'.R' 'v-.,,. - ' "Had I dropped the potassium into the bowl as youl prepared it," he quietly rer marked,' ' tlio " building " would" indeed have been consumed." Lower and lower fell the fl(ckering"" flames, paler and paler grew khe. blaze, until finally the fire went out, and I rushed up to see the effests of thf combustion. ; f Not a drop of water 'Temamed in the vessel 1' Astonished . beyond measure at what 1 had Witnessed and terrified aliuast to me verge or insanity, x approaeneu Summerfield and tremblingly inquired, "To? whom, !sir,'is "this tremendous secret known f "fl o myself alone, he respond ed : i, 'and luow answer me a question, is i it worth the money?" .: . ,. : i ... . :: :.: . '..: . It is entire) v unnecessary to relate in detail the subsequent" events "connected with this transaction. I will only add a general statement, showing the results of my negotiations. : Having fully satis fied myself that feummerfield actually held i4 hisj tiands the fate of the whole world with; its millions of human beings, and by . experiment " haviog tested the combustion of sea WateT, with equal facil ity as iresb, 1 next deemed it my duty t call. the. attention of a few of the prin ciple men in San Francisco, to the ex treme importance of Summerfififd'a dis covery, r ' " . '- ' - A loading banker, a bishop, a'chemist, two State University professors, a physi cian, a judge and two Protestant "divines were selected by me" to witness ! the- ex periment on a large scale. " This was done at a ismall saud hill lake, near the seashore, put separated from iby a ridge of lofty mountains, distant not more than ten miles' from San Francisco. Every single drop of water in the pool was burnt up m iesa inau btteee minutes. VVeoext did all that- we onlri tn tinnifv Sum merfield, and endeavo'red to iodiidce him to lower hs priee and brine it within the bounds of a-reasituablj ; Masibils' of this secret horror ; doubly terrible since they dared not divulge it. Still do all that we could, the money could not be obtained. The day preceding the las one given. Summerfield was summoned before the committee, and full informa tion given him of the state of affairs. Ob durate. hard and cruel he still continued Finally a proposition was started that an attempt should be made to raise the other half of the money - in the city lof New York. To this proposal Summerfield ul timately yielded, but with extien.e reluc tance. "lt was agreed in committee that I should accompany him thither, and take with the, in my own possession, evi dences of the sums subscribed here; that a proper appeal should be made to. the leading capitalists, scholars and clergy men of that' metropolis, and that, when the whole amount- was raised, it should be paid over to Summerfield and a bond t-.ikcn from him never to divulge tho se cret to any human being. With this he seemed to. be satished, I left us to prepare for his going the next morning. As soon as he left the apartment, the Bishop arose, and '"deprecated the action that had been. taken aud characterized it as childish, and absurd. He declared that no man was sate one moment, whilst "that diabolical wretch" still lived ; and the only security for uS all, ; was in his imm vdiate extirpation from the face of tho earth, and that no amount of money could seal his lips, or close his hands. It would be no crime, he said, to deprive him of the means of assassinating the whole human family, and that as for him self he was for dooming him to immedi ate death. With a unanimity that was extraordi nary, the entire committee coincided. A great many plans were proposed, discuseed and rejected, having in view the extermination of Summerfield. In them alljhere was the want of proper j caution which would lull the appreheti' ' sions of an enemy; for should he for an instant suspect treachery we knew his nature well enough to be satisfied, that he would waivo all ceremonies and carry his threats into immediate execution. It was finally resolved that the trip::to New York should not be abandoned, ap parently. 'But that we were to 'start out in, . accordance : with the original pro gramme; that during the journey, some proper means should be resorted to - by me to carry out the noal intentions ot tne committee, and that whatever I did would be Sanctioned by them all," and full pro tection both in law and conscience afford ed me in any stage Of the proceeding. - Nothing was wanting but my own con sent, but this was difficult to secure. At the first view, it seemed to be a most horrible and unwarrantable crime to deprive a fellow being of life, under any circumstances ; but,', especially so where, in meeting his fate, no opport unity was to be afforded him for preparation or repentance. -It was a Jong time before 1 could disassociate, in my mind, 'the two ideas of act and intent. My studies had long ago made me perfectly familiar with the doctrine of the civil law, that in ot dcr to constitute guilt, there must be a union of action and intention. Taking the property of another man is not theft. unless, as. the lawyers term it, there in the animus furandi. So in homicide, life iniy be lawfully taken in some in - stance, whilst the deed may be excused in others." The sheriff liangs the felon and dcorivcs mm ot existence vet , no body thiuks of aocusing-the yffeer of mur der. 3 Tho soldier slava his 'enemy, still tho act Li considered heroioal. it does tot thereto! e tallow that human ' lite is fm aacred to be taken 1 awav umhir all A Good Take off. The absurd cock and bull stories which appear from I time to time in the columns of our agri cultural exchanges, of the wonderful do ings and .qualities of remarkable dogs, horses, cattle, etc., are all eclipsed by the following, which we clip from an ex change : "A gentleman of our acquaintance had a Durham cow that gave birth, all at one time, to a two-year old heifer that had no legs at all. Mr. Uke took a five-quarter auger and boied holes where the legs ought to bo, and then drove in the legs of an old United Brethren mourner's bench. He then applied Dr. Stratford's Celebrated Indian Hair Tonic to the legs, which haired them over in one night. and brought out the hoofs most 1 beauti fully. The animal has sineli trotted her mile in 1 :18; aud took the first premium at the Illinois Stato Fair. During the month ot July, sno. suckled six calves allons ot milk every day Josh Bnxisras ok the Goos. The goos. is a grass animal, but oon i cuaw her cud They are good livers, about one acre to the goos is enuff, altho there is some folks who think one goos to 175 acres is nearer right. These two calculations js so tar apart it is difficult to' tell now which will finally win. But i don't think if i had a farm of 175 acres awl paid for, that i would ; sell if for half what it was worth just because it didn't have but one goos on it Gooses stay well, some ot our best biographers says 70 years, and grow tough to the very last. -: I ha la one egg at once, about the size of a 'goos egg in which the ' goslins lie bidd. .. ' --:,-r- - The goslin is the goose's baby.; - " The goos don't suckel his young, but turns "him out to grass on somebody's va cant lot. - Tha seems to lack wisdom, but are generally considered sound on the goos. Tha are good eatio but not good chawin; the reasons v. this remains a profound ee kret to the preseut day. i ' When the.:. femail goos is at work hatchin, she is bard to pleas, she riles clear up from the bottom in a rainnit, and she will fitea yoke of oxen if tha show her the least bit of sas. ' . The goos is excellant ior feathers, which are shed every year by the hand- fui. : ;,: 7: . ; ..; :: -.: ' Tha are '. mostly curious about one thing. -Tha kan hawl j np one -leg into their body, and stand on tuther awl da, and not touch anything with their bands. l take notia thar ain t but - tow men kan do this. NEW ADVEHTISEMENTS. r i 0)EJ-4 and gave ten C H I N A . This is a country where the roses have no fragrance and the women no petticoats; where a laborer has no sabbath aud the magistrate ' no sense of honor : where the roads bear no vehicles and the ships no keels; where old men fly kites ; the needle poiuts to the south, and the sign of being puzzled is to scratch the antipodes ot the head where the place of honor is op the left hand, and the seat of intellect is in the stomach ; where, to take off your hat, is an insolent gesture, and to wear white garments is to put yourself in mourning; which has a literature without an alpha bet, a language without a grammar. A FEW REASONS WHY . . ' the Anion piano i SUFERfCn TO ALL OTKIT.S. J .7- THE ARION PIAJSrO-fOBTB baa GreaW Power tbk mmj oQtet othr Fio-Jfon nans' IT WIM.. 8f AH 1 - ttHB W)HB and in its mechaoicsl ooastrartio K I wan per fect, ud therefore, mere duraWo tha" 7 tMtf" . in th Bnael modera style. . .. The arengement of tbe AgnB; toe manner o tringing,the peouliar form end arr0gBnt ot -- J the Iron frame, "" . ' Supersedes all Others. 7 1HE1 WISD. llie wind is a musician at birth. We extend "a silken thread in the crevice of a window, and the wind finds it and sighs over it, and goes up and down the ssale upon earth to see it there is music in it. : It persuades a tone out of the great bell in the tower, when the sexton is at home and asleep: it makes mourntal harp ot the giant pines, and it does not disdain to try what: sort of whis'le can be made out of the humblest chimney in the world. How it will play upon a great tree till every ; leaf thrills with the note in it ; and , wind up the river that runs at its base for a murmur ing accompanimeiit, And what a melody it sings when it gives a concert with a full choir of the waves of the , sea, and performs an anthem between the two worlds that goes up perhaps to the stars that love music the most and sang it first. .Then how fondly it haunts old ' houses moauing under the eaves, sighing in the halls, opening old doors without fingers and singing a measure of seme sad old song around the fire less and deserted hearth. " ' ' ' ' ' ' " The use of a bart,(wnieb U a part of tke Iron Frame) om line witn tbe heavy steel trincing givee ...... Great Strength Where most needed, and in thie repeet all other . Pihiiui fail. . . ' Thecotitfttctioa of: the WREST PLANK, Into' which the Tuning Pini are tnterted, is ineh tbat it ia impossible for the pini to become loosened, or the Wrwt Plaftlc tteclf to pltt, as ia too often ther ease in etber PianOrFortcs, . - TIIK EXT11AORUINARY EVEN . , NESS, ,: Throughout the entire scale, the excellent Singing: Quality, tbe : . . : I . Length and Purity on Vilratumt All go to prove what we claim, Vnr. ; tbat tb Ar ion ' Piano-Forte It the- Best Instrument Uaeafaotared. 1. f. "Wk Beat the World." Bella French concludes her lecture with this beautiful peroration : "Mark our pro gress, for we beat the world. Our Yan kee race is replenished, not by Yankee mothers; they know a thmjr or two that Eve did not. John CJiioaman, the Dutch, the Scandinavian, or Irishman,, they do all this, the lower work,; for emigration s the true panacea for peopling our be loved America. On, on we go I What next? . The kettle sings our Jullabys, the cradle rocks bv steam, the- baby sucks the Alexandria! ' And women all go lec turing. The dawn of the millenium has come. - - ; riumstances. Ihe pmnt to bo'-consul ered Was thus narrowed down into one urand inquiry, whether fsmuuKiifitdd wa properly to be regarded, as horti i hamam nrufreU the, eneiuv of the human-f fcu. or ttot.-lf be BhoulU justly oe soconswiereu then it would not onlv be -not a crime to kilLJhim. but an act worthy ot the highest eoinmeudatioS. .Who blamed McKenzie tar hansiins Spencer to he yardarm Vt in his case, tbe lives' of only a amall shin's crew were in jeopardy. Who con damned f ompey ior - exierminaiiug pirates from the Adriatic ?. ; Yet in his case, buly a small portion! of -the Roman llepublio was liable to devastation. Who accuses Charlotte Corday of assassination tor stabbing Marut in bis bath ? Still her arm only saved the lives of , a few thousaud revolutionary JPfepfehmetiijAnd to eome down to , nurv -own times, .who heaps accusation upon the. heads of Lin coln, Thomas or Sheridan, or even upon Grant, though marchiag to victory over a crushed rebellion, they deemed it neces sary to wade through , seas ! of human gore f : If society jiaa a right "to defend itself fruus the assaUlta of crimioals, whw at best can oufy destroy a few of its mem bers, why should 1 heaitate when it , w; apparent that the destiny 'of the slobe itself hang in tbe balance ? . If Summei- hold should live and carry out his threat tne wtwie world weuld.feel the shockr. ,ni" aeatn wa ibk only path ' to Poppino Corn. Philadelphia turns out a batch of young doctors every full moon. One of them settled at llavanna. ill., and hutiK out his shingle. Ihe first case he had was ' a boy, who, while shcllin'T ' noncorn, cot a kernel in' his windpipe. The doctor examined the ease carefully, looked at the patient a tomrue, and then told . the father of the bov to build una hot fire. When that ml - . . " was done the doctor told them - to take the bov and bold him over the fire until the kernel got hot enough to "pop out." The old man went up stairs to get his shot gun ; but while he was loading it the doctor escaped. Some years ago a prominent business man of Northampton, Mass., who begnu to sow his wild oats when a boy, and who hasn't got all through yet, attended a colored ball in Market street, in that town. Afier each breakdown he noticed that a well near the the houe by the way a shallow one was resorted to by the men to qui-uch their '"thirst. Uuob served while the dauee was ?'nK on b moved the curb a few feet from the well, ane waited tho result. Presently out came one of the dancers, and plump into the well ho went. Bhwingrnd puffing he came up to the. top anal exclaimed: "13y golly ' who moved dat well since I'se out here last ?" ' ( ; A Ring of aturn Gotse. Popular as well as scientific interest will be ex cited by the announcement that one of tho ; rings of Saturn, with , which the yoimgest students of astronomy are' fa miliar, has disappeared. ' ; The, micsing rina; is the inner oue of the three; hith erto observed, and the astronomer Sturve has beeu watching for years its approach to the body of the planet, upon which it has closed like a belt of semi-trunspai-ent vapor, its' centrifugal ; lore being entirely overcome. " How tiik Swiss Cared for, Boua- liAKt 8 Akmy. 1 hese bwis8 are curious people. ' No ' sooner were the 80,000 t'reuc-h soldiers thrown on their hands than. they seemed instinctively to know how best to provide tor them. In some places the most unclean were first treated with a b;flh of lye or soda, clothing of all kinds, provisions and hospital stores sosad- ly needed at once, all made their appear ance as it by maic instantly. laaies lm mediately opened classes in all barracks tor Kuch as could not read and write, while teachers and professors took- turns in de livering daily lectures on subjects calcu lated to interest the trench or prove use ful to them. . I am quite surprised at the ri-adiness of these people and wonder it it is really their republican institutions that make them alike prepared to a maufO de fend their fatherland and to do good to their neighbors. ' I " muse and ' raise the question, what eountry in Europe has most earned in the war of 187071 the title of '"leader of civilisation" the great monarchies of the continent or our brave and noble little sister republic ensconced among the Alps? - - An exchange says there is a tannery in Uoxbury,; Massachusetts, for the tan uing of alligator's, bides, which, when properly tanned, make an exceedingly tough and elastic quality ot leather, said to be almost impervious to water. The first attempt made to utilize the hides of the rentile. bv makinsi them into leatner for boots, dates' back about fifteen years and was undertaken by two French brothers in. New Orleans who, however did nut make a irood article.' and failed during the war, when the etablishmen was transferred to.Roxbury. Green hides of the alligator were purchased at - New Orleans and all along the coast of Florida all of which find their way to tho , Rox bury taoncry, where they undergo a lon and e'xnensve tannninn process, during; . - e - which they are handled every , week The skins of ' the young animals, onlv, nrc available.' as, after maturity, the hides becomes horny and valueless.. ; : i This is the way a couple of Muscatine sharpers served a giceny from the coun try. , lie stepped mto.a saloon for'Buth warm.' A couple.of dead beats' got up a sham quarrel, and requested him to hold their coats while they fought it out, lntcnainsr, on reclaiming , thei coats, to accuse him of "going "through their pockets, and- then "go through turn, they walked into each other lik wildcats, when they happen d to observ that the coat-holder was nowhere visible. -There was some tall "tunning and i swear ing done, but greeny has , not returned to that vicinity since. ' '-' "Grisl the humorous correpondnt of the Cincinnati Times and VhroHuhtis. now doing up Missouri for that paper. In a letter from Palmyra, Mo,3 he sets off the following t- - - . . - . , "They tell some amusing anecdotes of one oi tbe earliest settlers here. -. He was the first Poiitmaster, If a -man wanted a letter he would be compelled to hunt up the Postmaster, and .would very like ly find him" in a . field nlowinsv On inquiry it there was anything in thePoet Ofiice for him, he Postmaster would stop bis team, sit down on the ground,- and, removing his hat,; take ; bnt the ; letter; deposited there, running thei 'over tosee if there wa one for t"u ' uppticant. -l J declare bwottl4 aometlmes remark. tl:.- P-t-f ifflce U increasing so i snail be compelled to buy bigger hat. RION PIANOS Are used Exclusively in ft-ft. , AMERICAN CONSERVATORIES OF MUSIC of New York city. : The most severe test a p'ano eas reeelve is eoo- stant nse in a Conservatory. , Read The Following: It affords me much plcaure to give you, im these few lines, a very sincere testimonial for tbs Piano c uries of your manufacture. We nave now used tbe "Pateut Ariou Piano" In onr Conserrstories -fora year, and have had a fair opportunity of test- ( ing their durability daring tbat time. The Pianos have been played upon almost constantly, from morning till night, sum! a Piano meet indeed be a good one wben it will bear such constant ue with out showing signa-ef defection. As for remaining in (Mae, It out rivals any Piano known to me. Tbeir peculiar sweetness of ton in tbs treble . (as compared to other Pianos with the ordinary metal agraffe arrange moot V is so striking that I have bad pupils renmrk, while takln g their leWP that although they hae at name ut insy sap-i posed to be one el tho best makes of Pianos, stilt thetrebie was very wirey toned compared with tba. ,' "AR1PN." y. .; . ': - ' Wliat makes them still more desirable ts their uniform volume of tone, which enable an Artist ta perform a composition in its true character.. In total. I caneonarientloasly endorse U thai U claimed by the Avion Piano - Forte Company for their superb iiutrumeot, as I consider them s ' pertor to any other make., Coninratulating yon upon the gsrat sncoesa yo 1 are obtained in tbe msnnfactur of so perfect an . instrument, I remain years, i :. i ... - ''..Very truly, Vireoter. New York, Sopttmbci; 3, 18TQ. ' The Humboldt County (Iowa) Inde pendent says :." We reported that D. AT Dodd's wife had seven pair of twins and two udd children during ten years of married, life r. We wero wrongv Mr Ltdd, just in our office, informs us there were eijjht pairs of twins and three odd ones, nineteen in all reo girls and nine boys ia fourteen years, and tbey are all living.. ' -- 'Ir; iJ:.:-' '' Seven girls in Cincinnati have associ ated themselves into a society, having for its object the investigation of the ante cedents of the wife hunters. Any gir'. having an "offer" may apply to-the soci ety, and in less thsn a eek she will re oeive a historj of her lover, ' from his y 'ut upwards. .Weddings are likely to oe scarce in Cineinnatti. ' 'Yotrsa 'Briie. Lanville, Illinois at 1 1 sb s a married girl wLoe sgo ii w . .ve years and six months. : Ihehusb and is forty. AOEWyS ' WAMTED . W want first class and responsible Agent la every city and town where we bare not already ap pointed tbem. I ; . We Iiaye just Pnltlislted Our annual Illustrated PampMot, which contains k lull deevriitiuu of tbe iDterior construction ot the Patent Ariun Putuo-li'orte, and all the other lead ing Pianos of the priucipal makes; illustrated wit hi . cuts, thus tratiug the Anon with all other Crst clars Pianos, and proving ; ; r ....' t..' ;.'';"!'. : v-'j i' ...'ii.-.:.-. .j) w . -, ' ... . j - ,-, ... ; t .i-'- j- - - ' Our Pianos are superior to any in tbe market. Onr pamphlet eontain engravings of aU tbe dif fereut styles of instrument that w manufacture . giving a full description of each, so tbat a person ran soleet tbe styletbey may desire to order, with -the assurance tbat they will receive just as good s. Piano as if they were in onr wareroom to aeleetit.. We have sold ever Five Tboaaeod Piaoos.many of tbem being shipped great distanc, and we bav. never yet reeekre tbe first complaint. As w gir a written ruarantee with every Piano w masufac-. ture. for five years, the purchaser ran no risk. Dam't nil to mrittfor nur pnwtpkUt wkick mt mmil free, aid mtee yom writs aeaot fpr jre saw (tuiiXtnt.': ' '' . ,":. .5.- -j-... v,---ri N. B. We caution the public from pwrrbsaing a i-benp Piano, wbksb bas recently been pot ia tha market, bearing tbe name "Ariou." All genuine Anon Pianos bear tbe name "Patent Ariou," and. can only be purchased from onr New York Ware rooms, or our authorised Agent throughout tha United States. All kind of Vesical addrbs van. k w.. , C 1 Aa So SS4 Broadway, Kw Tork City.