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9 - 1 ORIGINAL DEFECTIVE so.u of the: flail.. BY J. T. TEOWBaiDGE, In the aututnB, when the hollows AH are filled with flying leaves, And the colonics of swallows Quit the quaintly stuccoed eaves. And a silver mantle glistens Over ail the misty vale, Sits the little wife and listens To the beating of the flail. To the pounding of the flail By her cradle situ and listens To the napping of the Sail. p The bright summer days are over, And her eye no longer sees The red bloom upon the clover. The deep greeu upon the trees ; Buethed the songs of finch and robin, With the whittle of the quail ; Cut who hears the mellow throbbing of the thunder of the flail. The low thunder of the flail Through thp amber air the throbbing And reverberating flail . In the ham the stout young thresher I Stooping stands with : mled-up sleeves Beating out his golden treasure From the ripped and rustling sheave; O'u. was ever knight m ar:;ir Warrior a!l in shining mail Uaif handsome as her farmer As he plien the flying flail. As he wields the flashing flail The bare-throated, brown young farmer. As he swings the sounding flail? All the hopes that saw the sowing, AH th sweet desire of gain, All the joy that watched the growing And the yeliowin of the grain, And the love that went to woo her, And the faith that shall not fail All are Kpeakiog softly to her Iu the pulses of tue flail, Of the palpitating flail Pat aud Future wuisper to her In the muic of the flail. In its crib their babe is sleeping, And the sunshine from the door AH the afternoon is creeping Slowly round upon the fluor; And the shadows soon will darken. And the daylight Boon must pale, When the wife no more shall hearkon To the tramping of the flail, To the dancing of the flail When her heart no more shall hearken To the footfall of the flail. And the babe shall gron- and strengthen, Be a maiden, be a wife, While the moving shadows lengthen Hound the dial of their life; Theirs the trust of f rind and neighbor, And an age serene aud hale. When machines shall do the labor Of the stout arm and the flail, Of the stout heart and the flail Great machines perform the labor Of the good old-fashioned flail. But when, blessed among women And when, honored among men, They look around them, can the brimming Of their utmost wishes then Give them hap tineas completer? And can ease aud wealth avail Xo make any music sweeter Than the poumiimr of the flail? Oh, the sounding of the flail ! Never music can be sweeter Than the heating of the flail ! Harper Magazine. THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN. " But, Uncle Royal, I am certain he will reform," said Hero Lewis. " He has promised me." Uncle Royal looked down with a sort of mild, sublime pity from the height of. his six feet two, upon his pretty niece, as he stroked her silky hair softly. " My poor Hero," said he, " what is the word of a drunkard worth ?" " Oh, uncle, don't use that cruel word. Don't call him a drunkard 1" cried th girl, shrinking back as if from a blow. "I hardly know what other word is applicable to kirn, Hero. Kb, he will never reform. And, child, I'd rather see you in your grave than married to a man who drinks." " He has promised," pleaded the girl, her eyes shining like blue, wistful stars. " Uncle ought 1 not to give him another chance ?" He shook his head : " My common sense, Hero, says No." ' I hate common sense !" flashed out Hero. " People always talk about com mon sense when they mean to be cold and hard and cruel. I love Harry Riv ers, and I mean to marry him, in spite of the carping, sneering world." And Hero went away through the golden waving of the ears of ripening rye, her blue ribbon fluttering like pen nons in the breeze. Uccle Royal looked after her with a countenance of misgiving. " Like all other girls," he said, "she is determined to have her own way. Well, if she will wreck herself, can't help it." find out for myself whether whether he is to be trusted or not." The Miners' Arms, at the corner oi three roads, was all alight as she ap- proaehed it, and from the wide open casements she could hear the uproar ious chorus of a drinking soijg, me clink of glasses, and that harsh sound , . . i tin.: of besotted laugtitar. am mimg a trail of scarlet-leaved woodbines wkich formed a natural curtain to one of the windows, Hero Lewis peeped in. With sinking heart ana a enm sensa tion of despair she saw Harry ravers rise staggering to his feet with a brim ming glass in his hand, and propose some hiceoughai toast, wmuu naio ceived with noisy applause by the riotous assemblage. Hero did not wait to hear more. Dropping the woodbines once more, she hurried away with a white, set face. " God help me ! God be merciful to me!" she murmured. "For the idol whom I worshipped has fallen to the ground !" ,Tnst at that moment the far-off whistle of a train smote tnrougn tue snence oi the night a sudden, ghastly possibility took possession of Hero's heart. "The midnight express!" she mut tered to herself. "And he dead drunk in that bar-room." Hurrying down the steep ravine, heed less of scratching briers and cruelly piercing thorns that rent her dress and drew blood from her tender skin, sho spraDg like a wild deer down the de clivity, scarcely ever pausing for breath until she had reached the iron track in the valley below, where a side-rail marked the intersecting cour&e of a lit tle freight road that led away toward the north. At six every morning and evening the freight train passed over the road-bed, and it was among Harry Rivers' most important duties to turn the switch that connected this branch road with the main track, after the freight train had gone by. Had he remembered to do so to-night ? Or was the lone: and heavily laden ex press from the West even now sweeping onward to its certain doom of death and destruction ? Hero knelt to feel of the track. Her deadly doubt had too much foundation in fact the switch had not been altered since the freight train came up at o'clock. A chill dew beaded over her forehead, a sinking sensation struck to her heart. What was she to do ? Were she gifted with the flying footsteps of Mercury's self, she could not get to the Miners' Arms in time to avert the impending catastrophe. And even sup posing that she could, was Marry Rivers in a condition to comprehend what was said to him ? And with a bitter groan, rising up from the depths of her heart, she realized all the hor rors which have their beginning and end in the wine cup. Suddenly a gleam of hope shot athwart her brain. She knew where the switch key was kept she remem bered having once seen Harry slip it under a projecting ledge of rock upon a sort of natural shelf, secure from dew, rain or tempest, just beyond where she stood. What if she herself should attempt to save the lives of the doomed passengers every instant coming nearer to their fate ! The idea and to act upon it were telegraphed almost simultane ously from brain to hand. Snatching the key from its resting place, she stooped in the faint starlight now be ginning to glimmer through the break ing clouds, and strove with every force of her weak woman's strength, to move your " Do you expect Harrv to-night ?" Miss Ermima Lewis was what the world irreverently terms an old maid, but she was quite young enough at heart to sympathize in the love affairs of the siBter fifteen years her junior, to whom she had always stood in the place of a motner, ana sne too had a soft spot in her heart for handsome, dissipated Harry Rivers. She spoke from the window, while Hero was leaning over the gate, a light scarlet shawl thrown across her shoulders. "He said he would come," was the half-hesitating answer. "It is getting late and cold," said Jirmima. " .Better come in to the tire You know as well as I do that throat isn't strong." " I'll come in a minute," said Hero, "They were telling me down at the Corneas this afternoon, said Erminia, speaking with an effort, " that the rail road company are going to discharge him from their employment. Hero turned sharply around. " To discharge him? What for?" "For habitual intoxication. They saj it is not a safe thing to employ a man who who is not always himself. " It is a slander, cried Hero, hotly "It is the work of some base villain who wants the post himself. " "Very probably," said Erminia, sad ly. "Only, Hero don't be vexed with me, darling but they say Harry has fallen in with that set of men from the mines, and is getting into worse habits than ever ! Hero turned her face away. " Have you only evil things to tell me. Erminia." "J. would that they were good, for your sake, sister ! But the air is grow inar chill ; we shall nave rain, uad you not better come in ?" By and by. Don't tease me, Er minia !' And Erminia comprehending that at times solitude is the best medicine for a mind diseased, said nothing more, and closing the casement, sat down to her needlework, by the light of a lamp. At eleven o'clock, punctually, she went to bed, after having ascertained by a peep through the window, that Hero was still leaning on the gate, all alone in the autumn darkness, with red leaves raining down around her, and the melancholy cry of an owl in the distant woods lending an additional tinge of mournfulness to the night and the stillness. "She'll come in when she is ready," thought Erminia. " I don't like to as sert any authority over her when she is in one of these moods, " No sooner did Hero perceive, by the disappearance of the light from her sis ter's window, that Erminia had sought her pillow, than, softly gliding through the gate, she hurried down the road with the scarlet shawl drawn tightly over her head. " I will not be so deceived and put off," she murmured to herself. " I will the iron rails. God be thanked I They stirred they grated in their sockets and, even at the moment in which the faery red eye of the, approaching express train blazed in the foggy distance. Hero dragged the switch into its proper place. let. even tnen she could scarcely be lieve that it was right, as with the key dangling by her side she leaned pant ing against the rocks until, with a shriek like that of some fire-throated demon of Avemus, the train swept by, a dizzying succession of lighted win dows, and darkness and silence again settled down over all. Hero Lewis neither fainted nor wept. She was not of the material that shriek- ers and swooners are made of. She knew that she had saved all the lives upon that express train ; she knew that she had averted a great crime from Harry Rivers' soul, and that was enough for her. As she climbed the hillside a few minutes later, she met Harry Rivers staggering down the road. She stopped him peremptorily. Marry, where are you going ? " Don't get in my way, lass, for Heaven's sake," he cried, in a thick, uncertain voice. " It's the midnight express. I I ain't quite certain about the switch ! " "The midnight express passed by fif teen or twenty minutes ago," said Hero, firmly. " I heard the whistle ! " " Are you sure ?" " Quite sure." " Then God have mercy on my soul ! " cried Rivers, fairly sobered at last by the shock. "You need have no fears," said Hero, coldly. " 7 was there, turned the switch ! " " Youf" " Yes, I. I had seen you do it. I knew where the kev was kept." "Hero ! " cried Rivers, with a. strolls' sob in his throat, "you are my guardian angel ! Hero, you are a woman among a thousand. Kiss me, my darling ! " "Never again, Harry Rivers ! " she answered, shrinking from him. " This night has opened my eyes. Hereafter we are the merest strangers to one an other." So she left him, scarcely believing the evidence of his own senses. The next day his formal dismissal from the service of the railroad com pany came, and he accepted it without a protest. He knew how dark a record would have lain against his name had Hero chosen to speak, and he dared not hazard a remonstrance. As for Hero herself, she never saw him again. "My girl," said Uncle Royal, "you are worthy of your name. And believe me, yon never could have respected Harry Rivers as a wife should respect her husband." " I know it, uncle," she said, softly. But always within the depths of her own soul she kept the secret of the Mid night Express Train. ministerial functions. We have had recently several letters asking that the Register give an outline of this famous case of the past, public interest having been renewed in it by the case of Henry Ward Beecher. In a recent number of the St. Louis Republican we find a re view of it, which we give, supposing it to be accurate and true. The Republican, in its summary of the firBt of the Onderdonk case, says it is a mistake to characterize these two cases as identical or parallel, the fact being that no allegation was ever pre fered against the Bishop certainly not in ay official form or from any respon sible source of the crime of adultery. Nevertheless the accusations brought against this distinguished dignitary, and the ecclesiastical trial which follow ed, produced one of the most profound sensations that ever agitated the public mind ; and it is no exaggeration in say ing that the House of Bishops, as the Court of Judicature in this case, com prised at that time many of the most eminent prelates that have ever adorned the Episcopal Church in America, such men os Chase, Doane, Hopkins, Brown- ell, Delancey, Meade, Kemper, Mcll vaine while the legal conduct of the trial before this weighty tribunal, was in the hands of Ogden, Ketcham and Graham, comprising an array of pro fessional talent and oratory almost in capable of being surpassed. Bishop Onderdonk himself, learned, venerable, eminent, was widely known in both hemispheres a man who for many years had been conspicuously identified with the interests of theology and religion one who had partaken, almost without measure, of the respect and honors of the community who had risen to the highest rank in the church of which, for so many years he had been a leading minister whose charac ter was regarded as without a stain or blemish. The exposure, therefore, of this great prelate's alleged immoral practices fell like a thunderbolt upon every ear. Unintimidated, the Bishop met and fought his accusers at every point, and from first to last, with un yielding combativeness. Though showH ing, in his pulpit ministrations, no ap proach to the vehemence and boldness of the .Brooklyn preacher, the .Bishop exhibited in this crisis far more moral nerve and prowess than have character ized the course of JVlr. Beecher during the last three or four months, not to say years. This courageous grit in Bishop Onderdonk had a memorable illustration during the sitting of the New York Diocesan Convention in 1843, when he denied the right of any mem ber of the convention to enter a protest against any portion of the Episcopal address. He said : " I sit here in the double right 9t President of the Convention and Bishop of the Diocese. I will never allow a paper of this character .to come before this house, or to go on the jour nal of its proceedings. I shall be happy to receive any communication which the clergy or laitv of any diocese mav hand to ma in my individual capacity, but I cannot allow such a document as has just been read to go upon the minutes, or be made a matter of discus sion. The Standing Committee are my only legal advisers, and their counsel I shall always be happy to receive. In support of this de cision, I throw myself upon this convention : upon both the clergy aud laity of the Diocese, and if they fail to sustain me I throw mvself upon a Higher Power, aud will yield the prin ciple onlv with my life." It will readily be supposed that one capable of these utterances, under the circumstances and before such an as sembly, would not tamely submit to charges of immorality and indecency. The remarkable fact appeared, on the trial of the Bishop, that none but ministers and communicants in the Episcopal Churoh were witnesses against him, and prominent among these was the wife of Kev. Ulement Butler, and her testimony was perhaps the most damaging to the accused of any brought forward, though, as is alleged in the Beecher-Tilton transac tion, the offense was committed years previous to the time of its publicity. The occasion was the ordination of Mr. Butler to the priesthood by Bishop Onderdonk, or rather while the party. consisting of Mr. and Mrs. B. and the Bishop, were being conveyed in a car riage on the journey to Syracuse, N. i., the place of the intended ceremony. The statement of the lady is, in sub stance, that, as night and darkness came on, the .Bishop, with whom she was sitting on the back seat, and whose breath she had observed was tainted with spirit, became unusually talkative, much ol the time, however, so indis tinct in his speech as scarcelv to be understood. He now put his arm once and again around her waist, drawing her toward him. She removed his hand each time, and regarded him as not himself, owing to his use of wine. The Bishop persisted in putting his arm around her, and raising his hand so as to press her bosom, she rose and with drew the arm from behind her, and, re moving the hand to his knee, said to him in a raised tone of voice with a view of bringing him to himself and to attract Mr. Butler's attention, who sat in front : testimony before this solemn court of inquisition produced a profound im pression. Among other things in the testimony of the witness was this : "When we were in our chamber alone, my wife told me that the Bishop had put his arm around her, drawing her forcibly to him, and thrust his hand within her dress, so that it was ou her naked bosom, that she indignantly threw it from her, that ho repeated it, when she again threw it off angrily, and nothing prevented her from screaming out, instantly, but the fact that my little nephew was by my side, and that, through his agency, the mat tor would then be made public, and she dragged into distressing notoriety. After she had thus indignantly thrown his hand off several times, the Bishop in a most indecent manner returned his hand to her body, and attempted further and grosser indignities." Evidence of this disgusting nature accumulated abundantly against the accused, nor did the most rigid scrutiny and protracted cross-examination sensi bly weaken its reliability in the opinion of the court, a majority of whom found him guilty of most of the specifications made in the presentment, and he was sentenced to suspension from all ecclesi astical and ministerial functions. The defense of the respondent was conducted with signal ability, and. during the trial, as well as through all the varied ana exciting events wnicn followed, the eminent prelate had the confidence and support of a powerful party throughout his great diocese, ac cepting unqualifiedly his protestations of entire innocence of impure or un chaste intention. In mitigation of the sentence to be pronounced upon him, the Bishop urged that, as the acts im puted to him were not of that decisive character as to be safe matters of ju dicial cognizance, so neither were they, in number or kind, proofs of habitual impurity ; that habitual impurity of thought, such as fo con demn a man morally, may exist without showing itself in gross crimes, but it surely could not be proved to exist by six or seven acts, not amounting to for bidden crimes, and separated, some of them, by intervals of years. EffortB were repeatedly made, in after years, to remove the sentence of sus pension and restore the Bishop to his Episcopate, but these gave rise to bitter animosities and partisanship, and were never effectual. He lived in seclusion during the remainder of his life, some sixteen years, almost the last words uttered by him, on his death-bed, being a solemn denial of the crimes for which he was condemned. All Sorts. boasts of 2,000 oyster of Shooting a Stuffed Squirrel. There is in the neighborhood Ridgewood an old gentleman who was once a Nimrod among the hunters. He could shoot out a squirrel's eye from the top of the tallest hickory, nine shots out of ten. Indeed there was no limit to his skill. He has been renew ing the sports of his youth for the past few weeks, but as squirrels were scare.?, and his eyesight was dim, his game-bag was not well filled on his return home. He has a mischievous rascal for a grandson, who would ever play pranks on him, and as he was meandering through the woods day before yester day, the youngster got into the path before him and perched a stuffed squir rel on the limb of a tree, tying it fast. As the old man came near, the young ster showed himself and called atten tion to the squirrel. The old man looked. "Sure enough, there is a squirrel," he remarked. "Be still; I'll fetch him," And taking careful aim he pulled the trigger. When the smoke blew away there sat the squirrel, with his tail over his back, not in the least disturbed. The old man loaded his gun with great care and blazed away again. The squirrel stood, this fire with as much equanimity a3 the first, only his tail seemed to be broken and had fallen over his side The old man was nonplused. He did not, how ever, see his grandson, who was rolling in convulsions of laughter behind a con- warmed Baxtmore boats. Noah's ark was 547 English feet long, 91 broad, and 51 high. President MacMahos, like President Grant, refuses to make speeches. Reasonably good race-horse drivers are paid S500 a month. Let us turn horse-drivers. Op the eight pounds of meat and drink that the average man consumes daily, at least five pounds are given out through the skin. The manufacture of the 81-ton gun at the Royal Gun Factories in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, Eng., is slow ly progressing. It excites great in terest. The cotton crop of this year is esti mated at-4,170,388 bales. Tnis is larger than any crop since 1861, with the single exception of the crop ol 1870, which reached 4,347,006 bales. In Texas justice is sometimes almost as quick as lynch law. A man named Ulythe committed murder on June lb, was arrested June 18 ; indicted June 24; found guilty, June 29 ; sentenced July 4 ; hanged, August 7. United States Treasurer Spinner lately received a letter from Bristol, Vt., inclosing a certificate of deposit for 35,000 willed by H. F. Day, de ceased, to the United States, to assist in liquidating the national debt. The last fraud in the way of adulter ation is the putting of salt into ale in order to create thirst for some. A fine of 32 4s. was recently imposed upon a beer-seller in London for putting 250 grains of salt in every gallon of beer. The following are the number of let ters in the alphabet of different nations : English, 26 ; French, 25 ; Italian, 20 ; Spanish, 27 ; German, 26 ; Slavonic, 42 ; Russian, 36 ; Latin, 22 ; Greek, 24 ; He brew, 22 ; Arabic, 28 ; Persian, 31 ; Turkish, 28 ; Sanskrit, 44 ; Chinese radical characters, 214. The present crown of Great Britain was constructed in 1838 with jewels taken from old crowns and others fur nished by command of the Queen. It contains four large pear-shaped pearls, 273 small pearls, 147 table diamonds. 1,273 rose diamonds, 1,363 brilliant dia monds, 5 rubies, 11 emeralds and 17 sapphires. Silkworms eggs are now sent from Japan to Italy and France by the way of the United States, on the Pacific railroad. Japan exports over four mil lion dollars' worth annually. Hitherto they have been shipped by the Red Sea route, but that has been abandoned on account of the heat of the climate and the time required in transportation. Thimbles are made from coin silver, hence the business is much affected by financial variations. The dollars are melted, rolled into the required thick ness, and cut into circular pieces of the required size. The disks are then mnirlAf flrnnnd n hnr nnrl t.liA nirloa art j welded. The polishing, decorating, and indentions are done upon a lathe. Some of our cotemporaries have been misled into saying, since the death of Gen. Foster, that Gen. Doubleday is the only survivor of Fort Sumter. The truth is there are four officers left of that famous command. They are : Maj. Gen. J. C. Davis; Maj.-Gen. S. W. Crawford, Maj.-Gen. Doubleday, and Gen. Seymour. There were originally ten officers in the work, six of whom are dead. Austro-Hungarian Polar Discoveries. To Austrian enterprise belongs the honor of having discovered the most northern land yet reached by polar ex Ieditions. The narrative of the adven turers on the Tegetthoff, an related in a telegram from Capt. Payer to the New Freie Press, is full of history to all who have followed the interest'of Arc tic explorations. Capt.. Payer and Lieut. Weyprecht have secured for j,ucuibcivhb ana lor Austria a permanent lease ot lame. In leavincr Rremn t,.., 13, 1872, their expectations appear to have been limited to the hope of ex ploring the coast of Northern Siberia and did not include th i reaching much higher latitude. Count Wilczec conveyed to them some stores and provisions in his yacht while they were off the coast of Nova Zembla, and left them there on the following August piuviojuucu iui iijuree years, irom that time till their return nothing was heard from them, except in the negative evi dence of Capt. Isaksen, a Norwegian fisherman,' who satisfied himself, by cir cumnavigating the northern extremity of Nova Zembla without finding traces of them, that the explorers had depart- ea tnence. During two years they continued to make the Tegetthoff their home two winters in which the night was seven months long. In the summer of 1873, they made desperate endeavors to free their ice-bound vessel, but their work of sawing and blasting met no success. Carried onward by the ice-pack, in the la 11 they were unexpectedly conveyed to the shores of a mountainous country 200 nautical miles north of Nova Zembla. They spent the winter of 1873-74 at a distance of three miles from this land, without any harbor, in lat. 79 deg. 51 min. N. , long. 59 deg. E. Between March 9 and May 4 of the present ysar, they made the series of excursions on sledges over this moun tainous country which have so redound ed to their credit ; these extended' from 79 deg. 54 min. to above 83 deg. The new-found country was named in honor of the Emperor, Francis-Joseph, Land. Its longitudinal development is at least 15 deg. , and from the highest mountain tops they were unable to peceive any boundary. It is principally a plateau, the height being 5,000 feet ; the most elevated portion visited was in lat. 82 deg. 5 min. The difficulties encoun tered in crossing the glaciers and broken ice are represented as extreme. The most northerly point, in lat. 83 deg., was named Cape "Vienna. Life in those dreary solitudes was not attractive ; they failed to find any con siderable amount of game, and vegeta tion was exceedingly scanty. Even in the sound adjoining, driftwood was scarce and only icebergs were abund ant. The mountains consist of dolor ite certainly not a cheerful mineral. The temperature during the sledge ex cursions fell to 58 deg. Fah. below zero, and on the vessel to 51 deg. The ice lifted their vessel, and she became un seaworthy. On May 20 they at length resolved to abandon her, and began a journey of 96 days in boats and sledges that was?fnll of danger. At 70 miles from the North Cape Nassau, in lat. 77 deg. 40 min., they left the pack-ice forever behind them, and on Aug. 15 were skirting along the coast of Nova Zembla in the open sea. But the day of their deliverance was at hand. On Aug. 24 they hailed the little Russian schooner Nikolaj, Capt. Feodor Boro nin, which safely landed them atVar doe, on the Norwegian ccast. Catastrophe. John Smith isn't hit) modest kind of a mar, . ; to being mentioned in the ; will account for the fat i that cognomen. Mr. Bnnt a North Hill damsel, : id rine sentiment in fully They are dual honey, don't . , but he's a n ould object apera, which That we use fa is sweet on that saccba 6 iprocated. .e molasses, twain sugur, duet BOrgJaum and two lozenges. The maidox; ia a notable housewife, given to need!t- cushions and authority en h.ewing machines. The time is drawing nigh for the consum mation of their union, nr: her enter prising fingers have been very busy with the needle. Last Friday evening was his regular night fo filing, and when he rang the door bell Sarmmtha held iu her hand a needle cushion, from which she was about to select one of those useful bnfc acute implements. Recognizing the tintinnabulation, sho hastily threw the cushion on the lounge, wnere it feu wrong suit; nj and points up, and hoxriec Adolphun was cordially usberedinto the room. Afl he drew the maiden to hi? gether they sut down or Just one-twentieth ol . reached that lounge he He bounced upward aw j shot out of a mortar wi :.r giant powder, and when : the floor he made a faat'.: ooth hands for a ilat sac- emery that adhered to his pulled it off, but no'o ana then, trlcncinc- oamantha, shot out of the ;oor, grabbed" uiH nat, ana as rapidly . s ossiblo made uis wiy nomewarJ. There his room mate assisted him to pick out the needles. At last acooui te they had found all the " sharps," but i vper of " betweens" was still lacking, and half an ounce of the Wst, ' .' r.lled eyes.' The darning medio has been discov ered, and measures are l;-iiig taking tc extract it. Unless the old ladv had yu.ru in ii, at tue timo o for darning stockings, little difficulty. Meantime Samantha Adolphus doesn't eome has .eads down : to the door. greeted and : sr r. brief stop ; t ids lieu CO i the lounge. . ond after he -ei i it again. be had been . a charge of ;e landed oj?. 0 grasp with stuffed with T-trson. He without an effort. r u. ,T,ef ully at the disaster, will be Accordixq to the Mohammedans, Abraham began ear-piercing. In one of Sarah's jealous fits respecting Hagar, she declared she would not rest until she had dipped her hands in Hagar's blood. In order to quiet Sarah,. and venient log. m naa Decome w&rmeu enable her to rcJeem her promise with- up to the sport., and thought oi notning t furtj,ei. UI)Setting her household. THE CASE OF BISHOP ONDERDONK. Reference has not nnfreqnently been made during the last three months, in connection with Mr. Beecher's position, to the celebrated case of the Right Rev. Dr. Onderdonk, which some thirty years ago excited such universal attention, he being then Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, and who, though arraigned on charges to which he gave explicit, comprehensive and solemn de nial, was by his peers adjudged guilty of most of the offenses specified in the presentment, and suspended from all 14 Bit-hops hands are eacred in mv even, and those are particularly so, because they have been laid upon the heads of many I love in confirmation, and about to be laid upon my husband's head in ordination.'" To this remark, it appears, the Bishop made but slight response, aad for a little tic.e let her alone. It was not long, however, before he suddenly and violently brought his hand upon her bosom, pressing and claspang it. Hor rified at this, she struck his band with ail her force, which caused him to with draw it, but he immediately grasped her leg in the most indelicate manner, on which Mrs. Butler sprang forward to her husband, telling him that she could no longer sit with the isishop. The re mainder of the journey she sat, some times on her husband's knee, and some times on a carpet bag at his feet. This statement of the Bishop s conduct re ceived corroboration from Mr. Butler. and there appeared to be no doubt that (Jnuerdouk was intoxicated at the time he being accustomed to the frequent use of wine and brandy. Mrs. Butler's health was seriossly "affected by the shock to her mind and feelintrs pro duced by such an -experience, being sub sequently confined to her bed for several weefcs. Another and very similar instance as was charged, eeeurred while Onder donk, the Rev. Mr. Beare, and a young woman were traveling in a public stage uvua jii tu uucn, iiie xHsnop and the lady occupying the back seat. During this ride, as was alleged, he put his arm around her body, and took other indecent liberties with her per son, the latter, with a view to escape from his rudeness, leaving the stage before reaching her destination. He also took such liberties, at different times and places, with various other ladies of high respectability in the parishes which he officially visitsd, in some cases while riding in their com pany, and in others at their homes, bnt in no instance, perhaps, more con spicuously than with the wife of the Rev. Mr. Beare, the improprieties being committed during the day on which the. rite of confirmation by the Bishop in Boare's parish took place. Beare's else but fetching that squirrel. The third shot cut the cord that bound the squirrel to the tree, and he fell, not with the usual heavy thud so well known to sportsmen, but bouncing several feet into the air. This roup.ed the old man's suspicions, and going up to it, he found the true nature of the sell. His change of position brought him in full view of b affectionate grandson, who was tearing up the ground m his eflow to laugh without making : noise. A lealizmg sense ol the position crept over "the old man. He cast his eyes on the ground ; they fell upon a piece of shingle, which he picked up, and, approaching the con vulsed boy unawares, he anectionateiy fanned him a couple of times on the seat of his breeches. This brought the youngster to a perpendicular, and he took to his heels, thereby stopping more loving demonstrations. The boy is just 10 years old, and his grand father declares he will at some time be President of the United States. He now has most unbounded faith in the abilities of that boy. Max Adeler. Almost a King. There lately died in Allegheny, Pa., an old man, who, the Pittsburgh Com mercial says, had at one time, accord ing to his own account and the facts that can be ascertained concerning his history, strong aspirations to a throne in Europe. His name was John William Leskar, and his age 67 years. He had been in this country fourteen years, and in Allegheny thirteen years. He came from Saxony, where, according to ac counts, he was a man of great weaith and high position. A revolutionary movement was started, and Leskar placed himself at the head of it. Had the movement succeeded, he was to have been placed on the Saxon throne. The revolution was a failure, and the throne did without Leskar. Worse than this, his estate was confiscated, and he became an exile. He came to this country, and accepted the exciting career of barber in Allegheny City. A day or two since he became ill, and he died in such poverty that the authori ties had to bury him. Leskar has a brother and a son now in Saxony.. The brother is a man of great wealtK, and the son, it is said, is attached to the court of the present ruler. It is stated that the influence of friends could have saved Leskar from exile and his property from confiscation, but he would not permit such influence to be used. Neither would he, in later years, permit his brother or his scm to do any thing in his behalf. psetting Abraham pierced Hagar's ears, and drew rings through them. From that time earrings became the fashion. Toothache. The researches made by Dr. Sillin, one of the most experienced of Euro pean dentists, have led him to the opinion that commoa or acute tooth ache proceeds from causes but little considered or understood. In the cen ter of every tooth, he says, there is a cavity corresponding in shape to that of the tooth itself, and into this cavity passes through a minute aperture at the end of each root a branch of nerve, an artery, and a vein ; and when, either by mechanical injury or decay, this cavity becomes exposed to tha air's action, the blood thickens or coagu lates to an extent beyond the capacity of the vein to remove in the natural way ; inflammation ensues, and com mences, at first slightly ; more blood is pumped in at every pulse of the heart, through the branch of the artery, and, the hard material of which the tooth is formed being unyielding, a pressrae is set up on the walls of the cavity and its contents, including the nerve. The pressure is mcreased at every pulse with great precision, causing intense and hourly increasing pain c jmmonly Perils of Old Age. An old man is like an old wagon ; with light loading and careful usage it will last for years ; but one heavy load or sudden strain will break it and ruin it forever. So many people reaeii the age of fifty or sixty, or seventy, measurably iree from most of the pains and infirmities of age, cheery in heart and sound in health, ripe in wisdom and experience, with sympathies mellowed by age, and with reasonable prospects land oppor tunities for continued usefulness in the world for a considerable lime. Let such persona be thankful, but let thera also be careful. An old constitution Is like an old bone broken with ease, winded with difficulty. A young tree bends to the gale, an old one suaps and falls before the blast. A single hard lift, an hour of her.ting work, an evening of exposure to. Tain or damp, a, severe chill, an ex cess of food, the unusual indulgence oi an appetite or passion, a sudden nt oi anger, an improper dose ot meaicme any of these or other similar things, mav out off a valuable life m an hour, and leave the fair hopes of enjoyment and usefulness but a shapeless wreck. tell why asre. ami exhausted her extlhe.-iner in nnr. chasing a new supply ci needles.)!. Moines Register. The Curse of Scotland. A few evenings before the battle of Cul loden, there were gathered iu the apart ments of the Pretender.at Inverness, a few of his friends, for the purr Be of playing cards. In the course cf the evening the nine of diamond-) be., ug to the pack with which they weie playing was lost. On the night after the battle, which resulted bo disastri. :i sly for th" rebel army, the Duke cf Cumberland entered Inverness, end, aa was his in variable custom, took up his quarter.s in the apartments which had so recent ly been occupied by Prince Charles Ed ward. On the followinL- morning, a scout brought in word that a small por tion of tho rebel army had taken shelter in a deep gorge among tt.-. mountains The Duke at once directe." an officer tc take a number of mer.. surround the party, and put every man to death who was found in arms. Tht- officer, reluc tant to execute this inhi3tn;j. order, and perhaps fearful of after consequences, declined to take the command without a written order. The Duke looked round the room for a piece of yj er on which to write the order, whe some one picked up the lost card, end presented it to the Duke, who wret- his order on the back of it, and hau-.leti it to thc officer. The soldiers derurted on then errand of butchery, and so well did they execute the Duke s comm mds, that not one of the devoted band of Highlanders escaped death. Henee i t is that the nine of diamonds is called the curse ot Scotland. known as acute very general but that arising from root and socket. Danger from Bee Stings. The sting of a bee prevents, more than any other thing, the advance of bee culture. Old bee-keepers laugh at this, but it is no light matter. Death often results from a bee-sting. I was assisting a friend to hive a swarni once in July. It was a very hot day. We omt them hived : but just as we were leaving, a bee stung my friend on the toothache. Another 1 temnle. I nulled out the sting, and we less pain'-al kind is 1 went on into the house. inflaninir .tion of the Tn five minutes the effects of the sting were fearful. He broke out in little pimples all over the body, and said he felt as though a miHion needles were running into him. We were nl armed and sent for a doctor. The doctor came and succeeded in over coming the poison, but it was some time before he felt himself again. We at tributed this curious effect to the state of his health, and the heat he was in at tho same time. ww" m-juuitim. A Snake in a Railway Car. A letter from Genesee to the Syraens (N. Y.) Standard, undor date ot' Sept.. '24, relates the following : " Yesterday, on the train on the Erie railway, whicb runs from Rochester to Danville, ant? reaches here at 10 a. m., a most singular circumstance-occurred. When the tram was about three miles from this village, the passengers in one of the coaches were alarmed by the singular actions of a lady who gave her name as Mary P. Khoades, of Adrian, .Alien., ana a rela tive of the Rev. C. T. Seibt, of Olean.. N. Y. She was leaning over a seat; uttering the most piercing cres. A gentleman rushed to ner ana asiieii tne trouble. She made no answer, but continued to scream the louder. When the train reached this village she was helped into the waiting-room, and a gentleman present procured a glass of brandy, which being given to the lady, she appeared to recover some. A lady standing near at this juncture gavu scream, and pointing to the head of Miss Rhoades, fainted, un examina tion a large striped snake was observed coiled around the chignon oi tne iaay. How it came there wan a mystery, anu only explained by the theory that it had . . . . l f . 3 L , - got. into tne car ami iou& mui;o unc -the cushions of the car-seat. Miss Rhoades stated pho. felt tsomctlnng up her head, but only give vent to hex. feelings in screams, and until it was taken off aid not nersen Know wnai tue matter was. The snake was killed, and affair produced no little excitenasnt faw the time. Use of Thermor Jeters. The differences in th ordinary mete orological observation A are not much owing to the thermo meter a3 a general thing, as to the wa- A of a pTOper care m observation. To ascertain the true temperature of tae atm0sphere the in strument shou id never be kung again8t the walls of ; A building, as the heat ab- of several V j 7? A '"n,u' t of a drees depending on the . , . . . beioncing to a family in tbuTde ' Stir" tKe .U8' ald tstow, pa , met f fate recently, "',7' exposed to Stm or wind, as " I, tbe foliowing manner : The little o?? ,ionfromre int?raa hgitf ?lho wis eleven months old, had o t jo building. TB6 ieBt place is uir S F" w? J w . W wbioh bad a de- the shade of otu-.u cover or tea. "e" ZKa. affftv fr , iWSJUM. '..,.iiHt o i slat Donom. iu . ""J w.iuiuis. """r"1""-" dmrt ti each to the loot tnd. e xne lact t the air may bti-t rost or in motion. nofc affect thV temper ature. To Attain the heaTf the di rect rays . the. sUn. the istrument BUUUIU Of black an the sun Manu- The Pineapple. Columbus found the pus japve on the. island .of Guadaloupe 3 u 1498. The Japanese cultivated it j ai-lv fts 1589i aud it i supposed t Aa its was fksfc brought to Europe frpBt Java. It would seem that t' fruit was trans planted from Sor xk Ameca to Asia and Africa, for iv 4 it -was carried to Bengal and bf from that country. It thrived in ftrzil. and. according tc Humboldt, r mTH . .. in the forests of the Orinoc , It is a' extensively cultivated iu Mexico f down to the Isthmus of Darien, They spoil very easily, and somer banner tne vovase to A wild-oat thai had destroyed thirty four chickens belonging to a gentleman in St. Louis iwas recently caught in a trap. It was found to be of the cat species, with a flat head, short ear? wide month, and its body, which w f of a grayish yellow color, had bl s! stripes running from the sides like t" ok of a tiger. Its tail was about - oose long and was also striped. The j loot length of the animal was abo' whole feet, and its weight abor at three pounds. x fttteen There is iron enouch in forty-two men to make Jteblood of of twenty-four pounds. a plowshare . nMrorpifl with'ai atvat of lamp- .1 nfirtftfe'd to the' direct rays of fcn a -shelteteU''je. Western jittcturer. RemovlBg'it'case Spots. i 'taking out grease trom ciotuig Yor1 1 4 other Atlantic ports, ,ih benzole or terpentine, people geu arrilry make tho mistake of wetting tho eloth with the turpentine and then rub bing it with a sponge or piece oi ciowi. In this way tne ia is ubsuiycu, yi . spread "ever a greater space anu m aoi removea. xn ueuzuio BuiPoai annrates and the fat covers a greater uurf ace than before. The only way to remdve a grease spot is to place sort bTotting paper beneath and on top 'of the spot, which is to be first thoroughly saturated witn tne oenzoie zia men tween the last "slat and the toot-board there was awsace cf almost lour mcnes. tv hw became 'restless during its sleep and rolled from Kie head oi tn4 Deo. to tne ioot,anu isi3ouy xkix ucinc an the slat and the footboard, its head not going through. Ttec chi n rested 'jn the slat. It i8"suppos3d sb e lived after the f&U about forty five minutes. From the floor tb' the roottom of the bed was fourteen arid"oa.e-httlf inches, bo that her feet rested on the floor, whioh no doubt prolonged her life and sufferings. When its "m6ther went to take if up, she found her darling babe dt ad. New the wl oJe cexgo of a wbb1 spoiled. It is c .mWS oood trio if three-quarters. of tbeearois in good condition when thJ VMM! arrives. This depands not only upom the length of the voyage, bu also, outfcebad weather experienced thun der howers being partieularlv e stmotive to them. She Frog. " T)r max a phroc, nsi. fact -tail. A' Habot public bequest has been lost by the use of one word for another. Ur. TfcTToT. who in New Bedford, for that his f,w... two vears ago. left 8150,000 to tAh1iflb a charitable lnswuuyu nAnnle. on condition daughter died " without heirs, mean St is contended, " without ime though the daughter well-pressed. The fat is then ?Je, CrVnd the bulk of the property rrm7heTloThg. , Inow-goestothelatter's relation-. k...a wnr. aev'ral phrogs but 2 ra: rrn nhrmr onst. and M WU7 brot up by his respeckted porients eoidingtotbe weigh in which a good phrogortergo. They tort him to sques. owe! he sanoke so musical they tort him to jump, and they tort him to refleck how be wuz only a tadpowel onst, and hadn't orter look down upon them as wna notbink but tadpowels yet. The hoam of this youthful phrog wuz a sweet hoam, indeed. The bottom of the ditch in which he resided with hi parients was puffeekly lively ; the wur rems in it were large, and the snaika wuz remarkable small. What more could a phrog desire?" " W