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S3E irrsnr batukdat by VAN CLEVK. COLL ALBANY, OREGON. SAU.VU JA5SK SV LVKSTKH. BY EITOKNE J. HAI.I-. 'Twaa on a surr.mer evetung A little wlrleaao. Thit Sarah Jane S Ivester Stood waiting for her n au. She Ss-as a rustic maiden Of -ier.y seventeen; Her hans were plump and ropy, Her face looked rather grevu, ben she as in a dretroy And aenttroental stat, Her favorite amttsenient Was swingu-g ou the ate. The world wa still about lier, The folk had gone to bed, Down ly the gates he listened j IVx Stlah BucklinV tread. 8be clapped her hands together ller lover the descried; He strode np to the gateway And stood (the other side). And Boon, in lender whispers, t They talk d, as lovers do : "fd-1 stars were shining o'er tuAtu, The moou was shining too. At length he popped tht question, She sighed and hung her head, Said she, ' Why ! Selah Buckliu, Jest think what you have said !" ITe drew her nearer to him lie kissed tier rosy cheek, When suddenly she threw him Away, and gave a shriek '. Down on the ground Ik fe re her Tail Selali Bu'.-kiin bowed, - To u tnp " he did bnplare her," From sereamiu' out to loud.' You'll scare Bp all the neighbors, Don't futler, Sarah Jane, I didn't mean ter tet-h ye, I never will again " nt louder yet she shouted, iNor heeded what he said : Ifrom out the bed-room window The old man popjtod his head. . And like a ' Bull of Bashan," He bellowed, ' What's to pay?" Lord knows," said Selsh Kucklin, While Sarah swooned away. He gazed a single mf meat Upon the senseless girl. His heart was in a flutter. His brain was in a whit!. Then on the grass be laid her. And when the tak was dot,e, down the dusky bignway He nimbly i4ctit and run." While from the larm-u.or.so doorway, The old man in despair. With his suspendtrs flying Behind him in the air. Come l tearing " down the pathway To where the young yirl lay. (The sound of Si 'ah' footsteps Had nearly died av ay ). The father knelt beside her, A sudden moan she male ; Said he, " Sal, what's the niatter, What made ye so afraid S" Then amid her tears she murmured, In hysterical alarm i " Ifaanciirtr! -catrrjiiUar, An' he's crai?tin' up iry arm .'" Fireside FriemL SAM'S LUCK. " Oonformd it,'" shontpd Ra sam, tero- cionslv. "My luck again !" Sam was augrv. He had lost the game, and had to pay for the oi lier. Sam and I -were si!t;ng at one of the windows of the cosy little restaurant where we both usually dined, myself in that delightful dolce far niente state which generally accompanies post pran dial digestion, he chewing his scrubby mustache fiercely, and glaring around for some object to vent Lis wrt-.th upon. Samuel is gtneral de'ivtry clerk in the postoffice of our town. He is a sin gle gentleman, aged about thirty, ss honest and good a soul as ever breathed : has a dry way about hm that is quite amusing, and is very fond of giurabling a habit which the vesaafcous duties of his position have quite naturally made him fall into. His particular iorte in this line is-his chronic ill luck, which, by-the-by, I consider wholly imaginary. Glancing casually out of the window, I beheld our mutual friend, Jack O'Bandel, sauntering leisurely by. with hs charming intended. Miss May Moon shine, hanging tenderly to his oral. "Sam !" said I, meditatively. " What is it, George? ' inquired the epistolary apostle. " Just see who is passing by." Sam jerked himself forward and looded. He started. A scowl black as midnight gathered upon his intellectual brow, and in a tone of unmistakable sincerity he ejaculated, ' GoDfound it !" " Sam !" I exclaimed in a tone of mild reproof, " methinks I have heard you ' make that remark bf-fore. " " Just to think." Sam rambled on in a savage soliloquy, "that the insignifi cant secretary of an insurance company, with nothing to recommend him but j his impudence, a pair of bristly and side whiskers and fifteen hundred a j year, should swoop up the only daugh ter of a gouty old fool worth a quarter of a million and all my fault, too !" " Your fault? What do joa mean ? What the deuce have you got to do with Jack's love affair?" " The scoundrel owes his good for tune solely -and entirely to me, and now he walks by without even deigning to bestow a glance upon his benefactor. This ingratitude trnlv is black diabol ical I" "Look here, Sam, you have the night mare you naven t got over the effects utteuii- of your dinner. Or, if such is not the ease, then explain;" " My usual luck !" groaned Sam. " Sam," said I, with awakening ire, "I command thee, elucidate? Wheacj this mvsteiy? Listen, George," said Sam, heaving a deep sigh. " Tis now hut three months since, when ( iiandel and I, after haviug dined and played a game of dominoes at this very table, which I of course, lost, strolled over into the postoffice, I to resume my duties, and ne to purchase a quantity of stamped enuelopes. I stepped . around into my office, Jack waiting at the delivery win dow. I was just on the point ot hand ing him his envelopes, when up stepped tl IttUiCi pcnj juuu(5 lauj, ut 5uicca or eighteen summers, and Jack, with the most unblushing politeness, stood aside and made way for her. t mt 1 ' i A '.' T! a 3 1 I i - ine iiiwo uretiu-ttuu-uuiitr miss in- quired for a registered letter, with fifty dollars inclosed, for Miss May Moon shine I found this at once, and she made an eager grab for it. "Not so fast," said I, keeping the letter safe beyond her reach. Yon must first prove i -'entity. ' " Identity !' she repeated, pretending ; noi to unaersraito., anu assuming an air of consternation " ' Of course !' I exclaimed, with the sharp accent of the official on duty, ' You must prove that you are in reali ty the person for whom the letter is in tended.' " 'Indeed, sir, I really didn't know that.' she protested, in a plaintive tone, I am in the city on a visit, and don't know any one but the M Flimseys, with whom I am stopping, and they have all gone into the countiy to-day. I have just received wprd that my father is laugerouslv ill, and this money is to lefray my expenses home. Do please let me have it, sir !' " Can't do it !' I said, emphatically, Socking the letter up again. 'It's ig linst the rules, which I must stick to. ' "Now she began to whimper, but I remained inflexible, for I was convinced that she was a sly little swiudler. " Noti-, what do I behold to my hor ror ! O'Bandel is endeavoring to con sole her, and while he gives me a ven omous look, ho hauls out his pocket book, and offers her his cash. "' Here, my-dear young lady,' he says, ' I am happy to bo able to offer vou sneeor. iro to your sick iatner at once. He is my card, so that you may know my address.' "She took cash and card without hesitation, and exclaimed, overjoyed : "'A thousand thanks, my dear sir ! Youfehalhear from me soon, depend upon it, Mr !' " With this she vanished. " Welt, I'll be hanged, O'F.amlel, if I thought jon were such a fool !' I said, with commiseration. ' You have been neatly done out of $50. ; " 'You are mistaken, Sam,' he calmlv i rejoined. 'This certainly was a lady !' j "'Bah? I hare such characters to deal with every day of my life. I tell I you, Jack, I know 'em. That was something too thin about the Mc- Flimseys having gone into the country to-day.' 'Shut up, Sam, and give mo my ; envelopes. ' I "'All right, here they are!' Aiul, j as he hurried off, I jelled after him, ' When the genuiue -Miss Moonshine 1 comes for her money letter, I will notify ; you iustuuter. ' : " Several days passed, but the genu ! ine Miss Moonshine did not appear, i and the registered letter remained in the postoffice. My teasing O'Bandel, I whenever we met ntre at dinner, conse ; quentlv grew rather weak. "On the fifth day a letter arrived ' containing fifty dollars, addressed to O'Bandel, and simultaneously the reg- istered letter for Miss Moonshine was I recti! led. My usual luck, by Jupiter ! Jack entered soon after, .demanding his : letter, and saying, sarcastically I "' Po vou require mv identification, Mr. Delivery Clerk?' "'Never mind,' I answered, coolly, 'your ugly insurance mug is sufficient ly well known all over town.' "O'Bandel opened the latter light before my nose, and beside the ioelos ure of the fifty dollars, he received a ! note from Judge Moonshine, thanking j him ill the warmest terms for the great service rendered his daughter, stating . that he had happily recovered, wishing that he could express his gratitude in person to tLeeliiv:dro!is gentleman who, etc., etc. " The matter was now apparently ended forever. Still I could not help feeling that, while I had strictly ful filled my duty, I had, nevertheless, I played a rather unenviable role." " You cannot reproach yourself, however," said I to Sam, "for yon merely enforced the law on which 3011 nave matte atti. "' Precisely what I f aid to myself,' continued Sam. " And, although I feel dissatisfied with this piece of business, yet, in a : irailar case, 1 should actagain exactly as I did then. But, George, let me tell you the. conclusion of the story. By jingo ' there's Jack." Sure enough ; O'Bandel entered the saloon at this moment, and greeted us cordir.Uy. "We were just speaking of you, Jack," said L "Saw you pass v.-ith your lidy-love." " Yes," rejoined Jack, laughing ; "left her down the street, shopping. " "But finish your story, Sam," I sud denly insisted. What story ?' queried Jack. " The history of your love affair," snorted Sam " Pray finish it yourself, as you kuow the details best. I had just reached the point where you got the letter from old Moonshine." " Why not T' said Jack, stroking his auburn side-boards in a self-satisfied sort of way. " The happy always like to speak of their happiness." "All of which yon owe to me, you villain !" affirmed Sam. " True, Sam," said Jack ; " but you knew not what you did. But listen I had just received my money back from vh? lovely unknown " "Lovely unknown!" I exclaimed. " How diff. rently that sounds from ' little bread-and-butter miss ' and ' lit tle swindler. ' " "Did Sam say that?" asked O'Bandel. " Bern ember, Isptke only in the past tense!'' tried Sam hastily. " We:l, let it pass. At any ra'e, sev eral weeks went by, and I had nearly forgotten the little episode. Receiving a couple of weeks' vacation, 1 improved the time by taking a trip to the springs. The day after my arrival, as I was trudg ing up a steep declivity, beneath which was a dark, roeky gully, I heard voices and laughter iu close proximity, and looking up saw a party of ladies and gentlemen about a hundrt d yards above me. They were evidently having lots of fun, and one of them, a young lady in a fleecty, snowy-white dres, ran from the rest to avoid capture, and came flying down the hill right toward me. A shriek of terror from her lips ' suddenly made me awi-e that she would not be able to . 1 , s ........ ,- - - y . ' . m uarger "i uumg . ija.,. .. :l tuto IUC gUUJ. Quick as thought, I leaped forward and caught her trembling form plump in my arms. " While frying to recover breath and self-possession, I noticed her "take a g look at me through her vail, whiclr ?he quickly pushed aside, exclaiming, jovfuily "'Mr. O'Bandel !' "Whoshould it be but the fair stran ger of sweet postoffice memory! You can imagine the questions and answers which followed each other in quick suc cession. " Finally crrasniner mv h arid tinrpserv. edly in hers, she hurried me to the com- pauy, and, before we had fairly reached ! iilGiJl, auv cried, " 'Papa! papa! here is Mr. O'Bandel the man who gave me the money in the ! postoffice. because that rn.lo ,.ioi. 1 -I .. : woman Srive up mv letter wouldn't give up my letter ! rvuae cierK ! ma she ejaculated Sam. say that?" " I am adhering strictly to fact " Jack assured him, and continued : " Papa in stantly approached me, his good face ueammg wicn pleasure, and shook me warmly by the hand, at the same time introducing me to his friends, fine! r.i : latmg ro mem my pnnantnropic action. "Pray, don t mention the trifle?" begged Sam." "Trifie? Thunder! now many others do you suppose would have done the same? 'You must assuredly possess a good and noble heart, ' said her papa to me, ' f or only such have confidence in their fellow creatures." .Well, to make a long story short, I had to remove to their hotel that very day, and through that splendid moonlight evening I ttroll ed about in the gardens with angelic lit tle Maysie hanging to my arm. I went to my room at eleven, but did not sleep ; on the contrary, I again sought the open air. and strolled about alone. By sun risa, I had come to an unutterable de termination. "Before breakfast, 1 met the Judge, who was glowing with kindliness to me, and I inquired about the stats of his health. "'Excellent!" he said, laughing. ' But Maysie slept but very little last night ; I realy can't imag'ine what is the matter with the child.' " My heart beat violently. I told him that I too had slept but poorly, and had therefore come to him. " ' To me ? ' he exclaimed, astonished. ' I am no physician. ' " 'But for me you may lie, dear Judge, for your daughter's picture drove all sleep from my eyelids last night.' "The murder was out. He did not look unfriendly, consequently I gather ed boldness, and began to tell him about my antecedents, my present position, prospects, etc., when suddenly he cut me short, sayiug: 'Oh, bother! don't speak of that. Old Judge Moonshine has enough for his daughter and his daughter's husoand both. You have proven yourself a true-hearted man, and that is the chief thing. I shall never stand iu the way of my daughter's hap piness. You suit me liist rate, and if May will have you, all that I shall have to say then, is, bless you my children.' " 1 don't remember now where I found Maysie, and how it all happened ; but I do know that I escorted a little anjrel to breakfast that morning, who had promised to be my wife. The wed ding takes place two weeks hence, and both of you are invited." "The rude postoffice clerk?" asked Sam, incredulously. " No, that judgment has been coi' rected the f dthful and trustworthy official, whose traditional sternness bef came the bridge to happintss for your humble servant and his beloved bride." S mi and I both were at the wedding, and no one, excepting the happy groom, danced oftener with the blooming little bride than did my morose friend of the poRtL'iliee. Sam still grumbles about hia luck ; but if he couldn't, he wouldn't be happy . A Famous Ilattle-Gronnd. A temperances mass meeting was re cently held on t he ground where occurred the battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, at wnich meeting an address was delivered by Hon. Will Gnmback, ex Lieutenant Governor of Indiana. The following description of the field is furnished by a col respondent : Iu company with a friend, I walked leisurely over theground for the purpose of recalling the history of the celebra ted battle and viewing the spots which once drank up the blood of so many noble men. The battle-ground proper embraces between thirty and forty acres, and is inclosed by an iron fence. It lies on the borders of Burnet's Creek, seven miles rortheast of Lafayette, Ind. Beautiful shade trees are scat tered through it here and there, and a rich gret n turf covers the entire grounds. At one side a large grove oilers protection' from the burning rays of an August sun to a company of ten thousand or more. Above is as pure an atmosphere as any one need desire to breathe. On these grounds, changed but lit tie in appearance from what they were half a centtny or more ago, the army under command of Gen. Hairison encamped on the night of the 6th of November, 1811. Says John B. Dillon, in his "His tory of Indiana :" The army encamped in order of battle. The men were or dered to sleep with their clothes and accoutrements on with their fire arms loaded and their bayonets fixed. It stems, however, that the principal ofti cers of the expedition did r.ot expect that the Indians would, on that night, make an attack. But about two hours before sunrise, on the 7th of November, an attack wan made so suddenly that the Indians were in the camp before many of the men could get out of their tents." Every one who knows anything about the h'istory of the early Indian wars knows how fiercely this noted battle raged, and how many men fell tw rise no more. As I stood on the small piece of elevated ground where, it is said, the Indian prophet encouraged his follow ers by singing a war song, I imagined I could hear the voice s of Cols. Daviess and Owen, cheering on their men also, nntil the fatal bullets did their work. " Near this corner," said my friend " is where the gallant Warrick fell, pierced through the body. He insisted on re maining at the head of his company, although death was stamped on his pallid features." The merry laugh of a few romping girls attracted my attention to another part of the grounds. " Mnjor Daviess fell there." remarked a country gentle man familiar with ihe field, " and a lit tle further that way (pointing north). Col. Owens, of the Eighteenth Ken tucky, received his wound which so soon pro veil fatal." " He;ie is where the men charged," continued the same gentleman, "and right by that tree five Indian chiefs were found dead." There seemed to be scarcely a square foot tf ground within the inclosure that was not marked by some important event which occurred on that memorable day, and I do not wonder the field is visited so often and by so many scores of strange-is. Qiieer Lire-Insurance Suit. The Berkshire Life-insurance Com pany has a curit us suit on its hands, growing out of the peculiar death, last spring, of Mr. S. M. Cooper, a farmer in Stockbridge, Mass. His father nud grandfather had each died a.t the age of 41 years, and he foretold that he should die at the same age. Although appar ently in sound health, he prepared to meet his fate as the date drew near, and, a few days before the time when he expected to die, he went to Pittsfield, had his will made, and, stepping into the insurance office, applied for a 85,000 policy, having already one of a similar amount in a company in another State. He was pronounced sound by the com pany's doctor, paid his premium, and took his policy. The next day, before he reached home, he was taken sick with some kind of fi s, as it was pro nounced, and, being taken home, died soon after, in his 41st year, as he pre die'ed. His administrators, L S. Butler, of Lenox, and C. L. Lynch, of Stockbridge, applied, after due time, to the insurance company for the amount of the policy, but, payment being re fused, they havd brought suit for $10, 000. with A. J. Waterman, of Pittsfield, as counsel. The company hesitate in the payment of the claim because they think the assured in his application and examinatien faded to acquaint them with symptoms of disease which he must have felt, but, if a full investigation of the case shows that Mr. Cooper was perfectly honest in the matter, the mon ey will be wil ingly paid. Something about dogs Fleas, All Sorts. To df.stboy flies Encourage spiders. Cook, the English champion billiard ist, is coming. Fiye misses at Cornell University are practicing rowing. Is Finland the people of a whole vil lage have clubbed together to buy mod ern agricultural implements. Victoria's boy Leopold is to have a salary of $75,000 a year for doing noth ing. Who wouldn't be a prince? Boss Tweed doesn't think the treat ment at the penitentiary very benign. On the contrary he thinks it is 7x9. " Tom, what in the world put matri mony into your head?" "Well, the fact is, I was getting short of shirts." Tiik woman who writes the addresses of her lette rs " catticornered," is' the especial tormentor of postoffice clerks. As a general rule of farming it is good economy to apply the most ma nure to the crop which requires the most labor. The late Dr. Livingstone said there 'was no more majesty about a lion in a forest then there is about a poodle in a parlor. The London 2'inics' dispatch from India says the prospects of the crops are most favorable, notwithstanding the re cent floods. San Fiiaxcisoo is happy in the pos session of a nineteen-year old fairy who kicks the beam, figuratively speaking, at 400 pounds. In round numbers it costs the British people 3,000,000 annually to support the royal family, and one princess yet to ue mamea on, A CnieAoo hackman charged a New Yorker 29 for an hour's work, and rather than have any fuss about it came down to 3. 75. Miss LiUBA Bkdding, " Howard Glyndon " of the New York Mail, was born a deaf mute, bntcan now articulate quite distinctly and not unpleasantly. Cor.onADO it a fine place for speema Hons. A pauper recently escaped from the Poor-House there aiid made 1 300 in land speculations before he cemld be recaptured. " A tx-iriF.NT Ai.T.Y shot" is getting to be altogether too common a heading in our exchanges. How would it work to have some of the shootists accidentally imprisoned or hangtd ? It is not generally known that the system of tran-portaticm by pipes or tubes has for a number of years been in use in France, in conveying beet juice from '.he field to the sugaries. The English papers says that Bellow fell a victim to the severity of the American climate. This is a great libel upon a country where forty millions of people live tilt thev die of old age. Tin: es:imat"d population of Boston, ba-ed on assessors' returns, is 357,254. This includes Charlestown, West Rox bury ,ied Brighton. The same territory had, by the census of 1870, a population of 292,400. A liiTTLF. New Bedford girl, who wanted to get some canceled executive postage stamps, wrote to the President and told him so, and now rejoices over a letter from him, inclosing a full set of uncanceled stamps and his photograph. Helen M. Knowlton & Co. are the editors and publishers of the Worcester (Mass.) Palladium The company is a sister of Miss Helen, and the firm is composed of the daughters cf the found er of the paper, which was established in 1834. Water iBi.sKis'(r between mealsshould be according to thirst. It is a mistake to load a weak stomach with water on the theory that it is a tonic. As a habit j it is well to take a tumb'er or part of one, of pure soft water, after dressing in the morning. j Omaha has a mysterious and ghostly ! "Woman in White." She frequents ! the cemetery, hits the sexton on the back, asks wliere ber children are, and sinks into a grave. She has been fired at twice without effect, and the sexton talks of resigning. A Kentucky wife was altogether too obedient. When her drunken husband ordered her fake a hammer and nail and knock out all his teeth, she seized the implements and cheerfully obeyed. When be got sober he mumbled so in his sweating that it didn't scare her. San Fkax Cisco fishermen capture their fih by exploding uuder water a cartridge of giant powder, which is simply nitro-glycerine with an absorb ent earthy powder. An exchange says that the "concussion kills all the fish within a radius of forty or fifty yards." Laura Bebry fell fainting in the scho d-room at Carson, Nev. , recently. She had within three weeks committed to memory 300 pages of history and 200 of natural philosophy. The night bafore she and a classmate had not gne to bed at all but studied through the night and until nine that morning. That was all the reason she fainted. Among the visitors at Santa Cruz (a California watering place) is a San Francisco lady, the wife of a prominent stock broker, who has madeheree!f con spicuous by wearing a hideous mask of chamois leather. It is said she envel ops herself in leather o si.ve a singu larly beautiful complexion. She is allud ed to in town as the " woman in the yel low mask." An alleged lunatic was consigned to an asylum by his wife and friends. A gentjemin said to a lady who doubted the victim's insanity : " What do you think, madam, of his lying on his back in the barn yard and permitting Ihe hens to feed off his booy ?" " Why, nothing more," responded the lady, " than that liko many other married men, he was henpecked." An anti-tobacconist, in addressing a company of sailors, warned them against chewing and smoking, and de clared that every pipe was bad, how ever moderately it was indulged in. "Avast there," exclaimcel an old salt; " I know a pipe that never hurt any body." "What is it? blandiy asked the lecturer. "A hornpipe?' yelled the old tar, and the lecturer was extin guished in a flood of laughter' Brutal. Kicking is a favorite mode of fighting in the northern counties of England, more particularly in Lanca shire, where, as the poorer classes wear wooden shoes, a vigorous kick will fre quently have fatal consequences. The most strenuous exertions have been made by the authorities to stop the vi cious and cowardly habit, but the pun ishments awarded by the law are not thought to be sufficiently severe to meet the case. Flogging is now proposed as the only remedy, and Parliament is to be petitioned for an act to empower magistrates to award this punishment. The New (laid Field Col. Forsyth's Impressions of the Country. From the Chicago Tribune. The woderful stories about the beau tiful Black Hills conntry and the valua ble gold diggings which it contains are confirmed by Col. Forsyth, of Gen. Sheridan's staff, who reached Chicago yesterday. He, as will be remembered, was with Gen. Custer's expedition, and saw with his own eyes, what he says can be relieel upon. A reporter found him last evening, and interviewed him to this effect : kS.;, Reporter Are the reports about the BlacK Hills true ? Col. Forsyth There is no doubt that there is a great deal of gold there. Reporter What sort of a country is it out that way ? Col. Forsyth It is a series of little valleys, with plenty of good spring-water, fine grass, and a fine growth of pine timber. It is about as fine a grazing country as I have ever seen. Reporter Is it easily accessible ? Col. Forsyth It will be when the Government opens it up. Reporter Are there many ways to get to it "? Col. Forsyth There are several. The best w-ay, 1 think, would be to go through the Red Clpud Agency ; bn yon cannot go. . Repoiter It is said a good many have started. Col. Forsyth It is a mistake. ' It would be impossible for any party to ge through there now except a strong mili tary force. No party of emigrants, armed as they generally are, could do it. Reporter Do the Sioux seem deter mined to keep people at a distance ? Col. Forsyth They do. They claim the cjuntry as their reservation. Reporter L)o vou Vnow whether the Government Cp . ' ..5 moving them or contracting i'..e' bounds of their ter ritory. Col. Forsyth I do not. I have not heard anything about it. Repiif. . Would it pay to do it ? Col. Forsyth Yes ; the opening of the. country is of great national impor tance. Reporter H w far north of the Union Paciiic railroad is it ? Col. Forsyth About 100 miles. That is the best route, as the country is bet ter. But no one will be permitted to go up there. Even if a party suiceedjd iu getting through they could not get pro visions to keep them through the winter, and it would be impossible to maintain ! an open line of communication. Reporter Would it be too cold for j them ? Col. Forsyth I do not think so, but ; the only provisions they could get would be game. Repoi ter 1- that plenty ? Col. Forsyth Yes. Reporter Did you see any of the j gold that.was found among the Hills ? ; Col. Forsyth Yes ; in alluvial wash ! ings. We had two miners with us, and i almost every time they tried they found i paying dirt, and we had very little ! time to prospect, as we were moving all j the time. They thought so niucn of it I that they took claims ; but they will not j be good in law. Reporter Did you come across any j other minerals V Col. Forsyth On the outskirts of the : Hills we found some hematite iron ore, : and also some plumbago. Reporter Did you meet with gold in I more than one locality ? Col. Forsyth In several, and water I which could be made available. The ; gulch diggings discovered wonld pay : now 10 a day per man. Beporter Did you find any fossils ? Col. Forsyth No, but Prof. Grinnell j made a very fine collection of birds. ; We were only on the edge of the mam moth bone-yard, merely skirted it, j being too far north and west. Reporter Was the result of the e x peditios satisfactory ? j Col. Forsyth Yes, very. It is a re ! markably fine county for agricultural ! purposes, and not a mass of granite hills, as was supposed before we started. Another gentleman who was present during the interview stated that he had been amoug the Black Hills and beyond, and had seen 200 specimens of gold which were taken from there. In his opinion, the territory in which gold could be found was 150 miles north and south, and 250 miles east and west. The Temperature of Ihe Ocean. Dr. " Carpenter recently delivere 1 a I lecture before the London Royal Insti I tution, on the "Temperature of the i Ocean," showirg, from the soundings 1 made by the Challenger Expedition, that j the elifference of climate between North : western Europe and the North Ameri can Atlantic seaboard is due not to the course of the Gulf Stream, but to the circulation of the waters of the ocean between the poles and the equator. The shores of Northwestern Europe have the benefit of tue northward movement of the warm superficial" stratum, while the temperature of the American coast is lowered by the surging up against it of deep glacial underflow. The fact, he says, comes out most clearly from the Challenger soundings, which had been suspected by the United Coost Sur veyors that the cold band which separ ates the Gulf Stream from the United States coast is really continuous with the cold strata that lie at some aepth bt-neath the Gulf Stream, and this con tinuity explains the presence of the cold band which was previously wanting ; for, as any flow of water from the equator towaid either pole will tend toward the East in virtue of the excess of easterly momentum it brings from a part of the globe where its rotation was rapid, so any flow of water proceeding from either pole toward theequator will tend toward the west, in virtue of the deficiency of easterly momentum which it derives from a part of the globe where its ro tation was iess rapid. In this urging upward of the. deeper ami colder stra tum lying benenth the Gulf Stream, we have very distinct evidence of its south erly movement. The precisely similar cold band which has been observed by Capt. St. John to separate the Knro Liwo, or warm Japan current, from the coast may be fairly attributed to the same cause. From 1'opular Science Monthly . The proverbial skill of the Chinese in any inelnstrial art and at imitating every European invention, is known to every body ; but it appears that the Hindoos are not behind their neighbors in that kind of enterprise. The native gun manufaetui ers of lud'a would soon out rival the British workmen themselves, if the Government of Calcutta did not think that for political reasons- this was a branch of industry not to be encour aged in the native Indian subjects cf Engl nd. Such was the opinion ex pressed by Lord Mayo, when he was lately shown an Eafleld rifle converted into a Snider. The "job" was done to such perfection that it was difficult to detect the difference between the Gov ernment Sniders and the one manufac tured by the native Salkote blacksmith, though he had himself to make the whole of the brsech piece, including springs. The Practical Man. He sat beside ns in a street-car. He looked over our shoulder at the new copy of tbe Scientific American, which, fresh from the press, was receiv ing our final scrutiny, and requested the loan of the paper for a moment wften we had finished. He glanced at the first page, skimmed over the middle, anil peeped into the inside. " I suppose that paper interests a gTeat many people," he remarked. We modestly signified our assent. " Wa 11, it don't me," he interrupted sharply. " It doetn't take no books or papers to learn me my business, you know. Never learned mithin' from books in my life. Didn't have but a quarter's schoolin', and then I went into the shop. Served my time with old Pete Reynolds of Boston. You know's him mebbe ; dead now. Was his fore man ; now I'm boss of my own works in the city. I'm a practical man, I am. All yer hollergeys and hosserphys may do well enough to write about; but they ain't no sorter use in the shop. They just git inter men's heads and set 'em a thinkin' about other things than their work, and then they git iuventin' and that's the last of 'em. Why, I had a likely young feller, who used to buy that paper and read on it, dinner hour. Sometimes he sticks it up on his lathe, until I stopped that, mighty sudden. Wall, one day I caught him scribblin' with a piece of chalk on a bit of board ; then I know'd the invention fit had got hold of him, and that he was a goner. A few weeks after he comes to the office, and says he : ' Boss, I've got a little ar rangement here that'll make the old lathe do better work,' and he out with one of them reg'lar printed pay tents, and showed me a new attachment for making gearins and such.' ' Wall,' says I, to humor him like, ' sonny,' says I, ' you can go make yer masheen and sit it upon the lathe, if yer wanter.' But the ungrateful villin began to say something about royalty and shop rights, and I told the bookkeeper to pay him right off and let him clear out. Blow me if he didn't go over to Smith's, across the street., and rig his affaii there ; and the first thing I know'd, Smith was turnin' out work at half my prices. Then I had to go find that feller, and pay him his blamed royalty, and a heap it was, too. " Now, there was a good hand just spiled by a-readin' ; if he'd a let that ere paper of yoarn alone he might ha been a good, stiddy man, gitten his s?o a day comfortable and reg'lar. Now they say he's makin' stamps by thou sands, but he's spiled. Won't be worth nuthin' ever for work agin. Where'ud I have been if I'd pegged away at books and noozepapers eh ?" Our practical friend did not wait for an answer, for while we were cogitating a suitable respor.se ho suddenly made a bolt out of the car and rushed down a side street toward a rlilapidated looking edifice, which, we conjec tured, was none other than the " works." Our acquaintance carried off our pa per. He honestly mailed it back to us the other day. We smiled as we saw the thumb marks on all- the pages, and opposite an engraving there was a pen cil note of : "I kno a better plan than this." Perhaps, after all, a latent idea in his brain has been aioused, or has he taken the invention fit ? Should he see this, he will probably scout the idea that our humble efforts have awakened him, for " it doesn't take no papers to learn me my business, you know." Scientific A me.ri.can. How Thimbles Are Made. The manufacture of thimbles is very simple, but singularly interesting. Coin silver is mostly used, and is ob tained by purch sing coin dollars. Hence it happens that the profits of the business are affected instantaneously by all the variations in the nation's greenback promises to pay. The first operation strikes a novice as almost wicked, for it is nothing else than put ting a lot of bright silver dollars, fresh from the mint, into dirty crucibles, and melting them up into solid ingots. These are rolled out to the required thickness, and cut by a stamp into circular pieces of any required size. A solid metal bar of the sizeof the in tended thimble, moved by powerful machinery up and down in a bottomless mold of the outside of the same thim ble, bends the circular disks into the thimble shape as fast as they can be placed under the descending bar. Once in shape, the work of brightening, pol ishing and decorating is done upon a lathe. First, the blank form is fitted upon a rapidly revolving rod. A slight touch of a sharp chisel takes a thin shaving from the end, another does the same on the side, and the third rounds off the rim. A round steel rod, dipped in oil and pressed upon the surface, gives it a lustrous polish. Then a little revolving steel wheel, whose edge is a raised ornament, held agninst the re volving blank, prints that ornament just ontside the rim. A second wheel prints a different ornament around the center, while a third wheel with sharp point3 makes the indentations on the lower half and end of the thimble. The inside is brighte ned and polished in a similar way, the thimble being held in a revolving mold. All that remains to be done is to boil the completed thim bles in soapsuds, to remove the oil, brush them up, and pack them for the trade. The Oldest Man in New fork. A letter from Cuba, N. Y., says : I called on " Father Abner Huutly," who has long resided in this place, and has just passed his 107th birthday. He was i born in Massachusetts, Aug. 5. 1707. I He was 8 years old when the revoln I tionary war began. At the age of 16 he took nis fattier s plac.t m tne conti nental army as substitute. He was 15 years old when the war closed ; was 22 years old when the first President was elected, for whom he voted, and was 32 years old at the death of Washington. He has voted at every Presidential elec tion since. He converses freely and with interest and intelligence on topics that transpired in the last century, and relates minutely events that transpired under his own observation during those times ; on his last hirthdav hi went to Olean, where he celebrated that event at the house of his grand-daughter, with about 50 of his descendants. He rode on horseback, which has always been a favorite sport with him, told stories of his daughter, and entered into the sports of the children. Before he was 100 years old he usually broke a young horse to the saddle every year, and cared little how wild a one. He says now, " The boys are getting notional, and will not allow him to ride young horses," for fear thit he will get hurt. He has not been sick in the past ten years, and never was severely sick. He has been a temperance man in all his manner of life ; social, and naturally looking on the bright side of every thing ; trouble, like medicine, " he has thrown to the dogs. " He is a firm be liever in the Christian religion, and loves to talk about the future as he does about the past. DK.tlON JOKS' KXPKlUKSlKi ARKANSAS COBfKBKSCE- 1874. BT BltF.T UAKTE. Ye'r ritfbl vhn you lay it down, Parson Thet the flifh is wek and a snare; And to keep yer plow iu the furrow When 3-er cattle begins to rare Ain't no sure tiling. And tjetwpei; u The same may be said of prayer! WIit, I etood the jokes, on the river, Of the boys, whu the critters found That IM jined the chureb, and the snicker Thet, mny-le ye mind, went round. The day I sat dow with the urns. m re. In the old camp mectin' ground J . - -.11 -m: n-iiw" -fl I stood all that, and I reekrn I might, t a pinch, stood rr ore For the boys, they represents Baal, And I stands as the Itork 1 1 the Iw, And it seemed like a moral t crimmage Iu holdin' agin thtir jaw. But thar's crosses a Christian gaffers Ah hez'ot got that prepense Things with no moral jurpose, Things ez hez got no sense ; Things ez, somehow, Bto profit Will cover their first txpense. Ez how ! I was jist lajrt-even'n' Addressin' the Throne of Grace, And mother knelt in the corner. Ai d each of the !m)yh In his place--When that sneaking pup of Kezlah's, To Jonathan's cat giv chase ! I never let ou to mind 'em, I never let on to hear, Bnt drove that prayer down the futrow With the cat hidin' under my cheer, And Keziah a w hisperltt" " sic her !" And mother a eayin'' you dare !" I asked for a light for the heathen, To guide on his narer track. With that dog and that cat jest waltzin', And Jonathan's face jeet black, When the pup made a rttsh, and the kitten Dropped down on the small of my back. Yet, I think, with the Luct's assistance, 1 might have continered then. If eettln' her holt, that kitten Iled'ut dropped her claws in me when It somehow reached the Old Adam," And I jumred to my feet with " Amen. So, ye'r right when yoa says it, Parson, That the flesh Is weak -and a snare, And to keep ver plow In the furrow When yer cattle belns-to rare Ain't uo.snre thing. And between ns, I says it's j ist so w ith prayer. Humor. Unmanned by the loss of her hus band " is the new style of indicating a widow's grief. Thousands of poor men are spendic -as much for newspapers as would bt a good mint julep every day. The child when once started in th course of evil conduct is like a Iocoih tive or the wrong track it takes ti switch to get it off. FoomsH fathers who send boys into the country with fowling pieces and pistols are the best friends the under takers have during vacation season. When a fellow talks too long, and there are signs of a coming funeral, it is the correct thing to hand him a card, npon which is inscribed, " Hire a hall." " In point of comfort, though not of safety, the London cab is acknowledged to stand above the wheelbarrow," says the London Echo, which is presumedly competent to judge. " Why do you use paint ? " asked a violinist of his daughter. "For the same reason that you use rosin, papa." "How is that?" "Why, to help me draw my beau." One of the professors asked a student to give him an example of a mixed meta phor. The boy confidently spoke out-: " When my tongue shall forget her cun ning, and my rTght eye cleave to the roof of my mouth." " The elevation of - women ! " ex claimed my Lord Tom Noddy, as he was driving home from Ascot. " Aw if a fella wants to see aw women ele vated, he should see 'em at the waces aw after a good lunch. Don't lay me on the river bank aniul the fragrautflowers, nor where the grass is watered by the earlysummer showers; but put. me in the kitohen range and open wide the damper, and then my vaporous remains can up the chimney acamper. An English clergyman exclaimed in company of his fellow-preachers, "Ah well, there is only one thing in our min istrations more trying to mc thai preaching." "Indeed," they said, "and what may that be?" "Hearing any one else preach, " he replied. A qt'abdian of the poor. Old Mr. Griimmlen "Green peas and new 'taters ! Does your mother know that them sort 'o things leads to the work 'us !" 7o.y " Know ? Course she does. That's why she has 'em now, 'cos she knows she won't get 'em there." John Smith, determining to be un like all other John Smiths, appeared on the Common, lately, in the role of a nat ural curiosity. He had three ears one on each side of his head, and an other, recently nipped from the head of Tim Donovaii, betweenhis teeth. Bos ton Journal. " ' The latest ease of absence of mind is that of a gentleman living in one of the suburbs, who," teeing ah omnibus pass by, hai'e 1 the driver and got in. After riding a part of the way homo he sud denly remembered that he had left his horse and buggy standing at the corner where he just saw the 'bus 1 Db. , entering a military hospital surgery, met Paddy Doyle, the orderly and asked which he considered the mot dangerous of the many cases then i the hospital. "That, sir," said Paddy as with an indicative jerk of his thnm he pointed to where, on the table, lay case of surgical instruments. How doth the little crocodile Improve bis shining tail, -'. And ponr the waters of the Nile Ou every golden scale ! How chetrfuUy It teems tojjrln, How neatly spread-lii riawsr "m-: And welcome the little filies in With gentle, smiling jaws ! Extraordinary Prophecies. A German paper publishes the follow ing : " The prophecies of the Monk Tran quil Wolfgang, died at Munich, 1873. "1874. Strengthening the Spanish republic. Dissatisfaction in France. General armaments in Italy. A new chief of Government in France. Death of Pins IX. "1875. War between Italy aud France. The Italian armies besiege Paris. De feat of the French army. Italian occu pation of Algiers. National plebisci tum in Corsica, Nice, and Savoy, and Corsica incorporated with Italy. Rev olution in Spain, and fall of the Gov ernment.. The pestilence in Russia, Prince Fritz German Emperor. Revo lution in England. " 1877. Communism and famine in France and Spain. European congress in Rome. The new Pope reconciled with Italy. General armament in Europe. France divided into f onr states. Inundations and hurricanes in Italy. Great cold in Germany. 187a A new European congress in Berlin. Death of Queen Victoria. New Government in Spain. The Christians in Turkey are free. Dissatisfaction in Portugal, Poland, and Hungary. Chol era in France. Discovery of a remedy for eholer in Bavaria. -'1879. Great storms m England. Universal peace. General disarma ments. Great discoveries at sea. The Pope reforms the church and suspends the order of tho Jesuits. "1880 to 1890. Peace. The Pope blesses all u sions.