, rcBusmm Kvmtr ihtoat by COLL. VAN CLEVK. ALBANY, I I - OREGON. THE LITTLE FOLKS. Whit'i m Boy IJke 1 Like a Mp, like a sprite. Like a goose, like an eel, Like a top, like m kite. Like an owl, like a wheel, Like the wind, like a snsil, Like a knife, like a crow, Like a thorn, like a flU, Like a bawk, like a doe. Like the ees, like a weed, - Like a watch, like the ion, Like a cloud, like a seed, Like a book, like a gun. Like a smile, like a tree. Like a lamb, like the moon, Like a bud, like a bee, , Like a burr, like a tune. Like a colt, ok a whip, Like a mouse, like a mill, lake a bill, like a ship, Like a jay, like a rill, Like a shower, bke a eat.. Like a frog, like a joy. Like a ball, like a bat, Most of all like a boy. How at Schoolboy Got a Coning Mr. Philip G. Ilemerton, , who seems to be a genius, has tried his hand at a story of boy-life,' and, if his work may be judged by the specimen which we quote, has succeeded in writing some thing wonderfully fresh, faithful and " taking." It may not be invidious to assume that James Wade, the hero of the following episode, was, in fact, Mr. Hamerton himself. The whole chapter is too long for our limits ; but we give the best parts of it. Dr. Templeman has occasion to punish James Wade, and introduces him into his study. " I have no doubt that James Wade remembers that study just now where ever he may be, and, if he lives to ex treme old age, I have no doubt that he will remember it still. He will always retain a vivid impression of the mahog any table, covered with morocco leath er, the large, heavy easy-chair, the book-cases in recesses on each side the fire-place, the small marble bust of Ctesar on the chimney-piece, and the large bow-window that looked out upon one of the quietest streets in Bram bleby. - I : i In one of the corners of the room was a folding-screen. Wade remembers the screen, too, very likely. - It had some Chinese figures pasted on it by some female relatives of the Doc tor's. - - " Dr. Templeman began by removing his gown, which he laid on the easy chair. Next he removed his coat, and appeared in his shirt-sleeves. As is the case with all powerfully-built men, the Doctor looked stronger and stronger s he divested himself of coverings. His -gown gave him a gentle academic ap pearance, and made you think of his mental culture and attainments, but if you had seen him as Wade did, in his shirt-sleeves, your first thought would .have been, I should not like that man to give me a blow with his fist.' " He put his hand behind the screen with the Chinese figures, and drew from thence a cane, which he examined -carefully. The result of his examina tion did not appear to be quite satis factory, for he put the cane back and rang the belL When the servant came, he took a shilling out of his pocket, and said, 'Go and buy me a new cane at the saddler's, and tell him I want a par ticularly good one this time. He knows the sort' Then to Mr. Wade, 'Pray, take a seat, Mr. Wade ; I am sorry to have kept you standing.' "They waited so a quarter of an hour, the Doctor seated in his easy -chair, tranquilly reading the newspaper. Wade seated on the corner of one of the other chairs with full leisure to meditate -on what was going to happen. He was not keenly sensible to rebuke, and would have been difficult to make him suffer morally, by any public disgrace, but he did not like pain at all, and had not much courage to endure. Had the Doctor simply lectured him, and called him a thief or a swindler before the whole school, he would have borne it easily enough, and eaten his dinner after it as heartily as ever, but this new cane was a different matter. " At length he heard the step of the servant on the stair. She tapped at the -door, and entered with the new instru ment of torture. " On sroiiiK out, she cast a glance and; a smile at- Wade, which he perceived to his displeasure. But he had little time to think of any body but the doctor. "The newspaper was now cast aside, and a fearful smile illuminated , the Head Master's features,' as he grasped the cane and examined it, v 'This will do !' he said grimly. The fact is, he deeply enjoyed the infliction of capital punishment upon delinquents. It was capital exercise, and his muscles en joyed exercise, and, besides that, his moral sense was satisfied by the idea that a sinner got his deserts. "Shall I describe Wade's punish ment in all its details. No, I prefer to pass over it rapdidly, not bnjoying these -quite so much as Dr. Templeman did. The infliction most have been very sharp, for the howls of the victim were audible all over the house.' j The Doc tor worked himself np into a steadily increasing fury, the cane-strokes be came sharper and sharper, till at lcjih Wade could endure it no longer, but ' opened the door , and rushed into the dining-room, where there was a long table laid for the boys dinner. v "Ever body knows how difficult it is to catch a boy when he has got a table between him -arid his pursuer. One boy may possibly catch another under such Circumstances, but a man, es pecially a bnky man, could never catch a boy with such an advantage in his favor. Wade perceived this at once, and made the best possible use of the table, which was a broad one as well as a long , one ; and the Doctor, who ran this way and that till he was out pi breath, could no more get at his victim than if the Thames flowed between ttiem. He occasionally attempted a stroke across the table, but never once hit Wade ; all he did was to upset and break two or three of his own glasses, which did not add to his good humor. "The boy began to reflect, however, that his enesay would probably soon call for assistance ; and, although one man cannot catch a boy with a long table to defend him, it is as easy as pos sible for two men to do so. Therefore, Wade first contrived to lead the Doctor to that side of the table which was op posite the door of the room, and, when he himself was close to the door, he suddenly bolted, slamming it after him. In an instant he was in the playground, though he had to descend a staircase and open two other doors, but he took care to shut these also. Suddenly a bright idea entered Wade's brain, under the influence of his excite ment. There was a large copper in the wash-house to boil linen in, a fixture, built round with brick, and having a fireplace under it. The copper had also a wooden lid. What if he were to get into the copper? Would it be big enough to hold him ? The Doctor was now within a few yards of - the wash house, and if the copper was to be tried at all it must be tried at once. There was water in it two feet deep, but this did not prevent Wade getting into the copper and carefully drawing the lid over his head. An instant after, the Doctor was in the wash-house, followed by two of the servants. "I heard a noise in this place just now!' said Dr. .Templeman. "'He must be here! But, though he and the servants sought with the very great est care, they found no Wade ; for it never occurred to them to lift up the lid of his hiding-place. " About 3 in the afternoon the housekeeper and scullery-maid entered the wash-house together. Patty,' said the housekeeper, 'just you make a fire under the copper, while I sort the linen.' ' Must I put any water in the cop per ?' Patty inquired. " 'No, not a drop. It's a more than half full already, and if you were to put in any more it would take too long to heat. " Wade heard Patty busy herself about lighting the fire. Water and metal are both excellent conductors of sound, and every scratch of the shovel and poker came up magnified in his ears. ' Well, this is pleasant ! he thought, now I am to be boiled like a lobster ! However, on reflection, it oocurred to him that it would be quite time enough to get out of the copper when the heat should become rather too much of a good thing. Certainly it would be a good thing in moderation, as a relief from the terrible cold that had become almost past endurance. The first sensation of increasing warmth was a luxury to James Wade, ana tne luxury Decame more and more agreeable as it grew more distinctly perceptible. At length it reached such a point that it was positively delightful. Lake summer succeeding to a wintry spring, it bathed him in a genial warmth all the more heartily apprecia ted for the wretched cold that had pre ceded it. But the state of perfect bliss, if ever it is attained by mortals, is well known to be a very transient state, soon succeeded by troubles and miseries of some sort - or another. He was now in tne run comfort ol an Jtng- lish July, but he would not re main there long. ' He resembled the passengers on board a vessel bound for the antipodes, which gets every hour near to the Torrid Zone. But it is amazing what an amount of heat the human body is capable of supporting when it is brought it by slow degrees. Wade in his present position was a re markable example of this, and, if any scientific person had been present with a thermometer, who knows but James Wade might have become an interest ing subject of discussion by the Boyal Society or some other learned body ? 'The heat was still bearable, but only just bearable. Wade was almost suffocated by the steam, and the per spiration ran from his face like the dropping well at Knaresborough. At length he came to the uttermost limit of human endurance. ' I can bear this no longer,' he thought, I must get out. " Patty was just putting another shov elful of coals into the fire, when the lid of the copper ' suddenly stirred, then slipped over the edge of the copper, and fell to the ground with a loud noise. Her amazement at this unex pected phenomenon was much increased when Mr. James Wade jumped out ot his bath and stood erect on the floor of the wash-house, streaming like a das sical river-god. j i "Patty screamed, and would no doubt have fainted if she had belonged to polite society and had nerves, but the housekeeper did neither the one nor the other. She only smiled. " I thought you'd come but at last, said the housekeeper, gand ? now you mun go straight to bed, and 111 bring ye a treacle possett, which is more nor ye deserve.'" " Mother, mother, what shall I say if I have been a bad boy ?" "You should not stop to ask ques tions, my son, while you are saying your prayers," replied his mother. " But, mother, I have been bad ; what shall I say?" " Ask God to forgive you ; but you should say your prayers all through when yon begin, without stopping." His question was answered, 'he rever ently folded his hands, and closing his eyes continued : "And will God forgive me for killing a hoptoad with a big stick, and throw ing it down a big hole ? Amen." Children of a larger growth will do well to copy. CALIFORNIA'S BENEFACTOR. A most unusual auction sale was the one held in San Franciseo early in the week, at which over $2,000,000 worth of the vast estate of the benevolent and tatill-living James lack, Esq., was dis posed of, in oraer to secure money for charitable purposes. The property sold was given into the hands of trustees last July, with the understanding that it should be early converted into money, and that the money should be used or held in trust for purposes enumerated in a will made at that time. The pur poses specified in the will are of a re markable nature. Seven hundred thou sand dollars are to be devoted to the construction of a powerful telescope to be erected on the borders of Lake Ta li oe, or elsewhere in California, the in strument to be superior to and more powerful than any other ever made. This is to be constructed forthwith. Three hundred thousand dollars are to be used in the endowment of an edu cational institution to be known as "The California School of Mechanical Arts," to be open to all students, male or female, born in the State. Two hun dred and fifty thousand dollars are to be used in erecting a suitable mon ment to the progress of California, and $iou,uuu to do Honor in tne snape of a monument to Francis Scott Key, the author of the patriotic poem, the '"Star Spangled Banner." One hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars are to be spent in giving free baths to San Fran cisco, and 100,000 for establishing a Home for Homeless Old Ladies. Other gifts of smaller sums are set apart for various charities, the noble giver re taining only about $25,000 for himself and his family. Any property that may be left after ful filing the conditions of the trust is set apart for various educa tional purposes in the State. The benefactor, James Lick, is a na tive of Pennsylvania, and; made his money first by piano-making, and lat terly by the rise of real estate in San Francisco. AGRICULTURAL, AMERICAN BEEF IN ENGLAND. English papers mention the arrival at Liverpool of 270 head of cattle from America, by steamer, to be disposed of in the Liverpool market. The appear ance of the cattle is spoken of as excel lent ; they weighed from 1,800 to 2,000 lbs., and realized from 17 to 29 each. The Liverpool butchers are anxious to encourage the trade, and it is contem plated to run a steamer to Gal way, which would be a saving of time on the voyage. . SHEEP IN GERMANY. , In the Practical Magazine of Au gust, Dr. F. Springmuhl gives some statistics pn the production of wool in Germany, from which we learn that there are 29,000,000 sheep in that coun try, 14,000,000 of which are merinos, 7,000,000 of English and other foreign breeds, and 8,000,000 of native sheep. Part of the wool is exported to other countries, and the remainder manufac tured, principally in Silesia, Saxony and Brandenburg. DULL MOWING-KNIVES increase the draft of the machine more than is imagined. At a trial of reapers by the American Institute, at Pough keepsie, it was found by a careful dyna mometer test that the draft of each machine was nearly one-third greater when the knives were dull, and in this test the knives were only moderately dull, having been used to mow only one acre. It is important therefore to keep the knives sharp. : Any one can prove the truth of this statement by himself trying a sharp and then a dull scythe. He will declare that there is even more than one-third difference. A MONSTER IN A CANADIAN MI VSR. On Friday last, as Mr. R. Young, ac companied by two young ladies, was rowing in a boat on the Ottawa, a little below the mouth of the'' Madawaska, he saw what appeared to be a ledge of rocks standing out of the water. Never having observed anything of the kind in the same place before, though famil iar with the spot, he was curious to ascertain what it' was. On approaching the object for this purpose, it began to move, its progress being Sinuous and wavy, like that of a huge serpent, while the water along its course was splashed about in a way that seemed truly alarm ing, the wake it left behind being like that caused by an ordinary steamer. The monster, for such it seemed, was about fifteen feet long, and at its lar gest girth appeared to be about the size of a common butter firkin. Mr.-Young, who had his rifle along, would have fired at the creature had it not been for the young ladies, who became terrified, causing him at once to give up the pur suit. Since the appearance of this mysterious visitant, 'many stories of huge snakes and other monsters that have from time to time been seen in the Ottawa have been revived. Mr. Carmichael, of the Calumet, tells of a snake which he saw killed there, about forty years ago, which measured nine feet in length and had a mane. An other report speaks of - a snake thirteen feet long, killed some years ago at Por-tage-du-Fort. Meanwhile speculation is rife as to the nature of the creature seen by Mr, Young, but as yet no one has been able to give a satisfactory ac count of it. Arnprior (Out.) Review. ? JPreddjr'a Prayer. ' A bright-eyed boy of four years was saying his prayers the other night to his mother, and withTus hands folded and eyes closed, he sweetly said : " Now I lay me dewn to slcsp, -',--. I pray the lord my soul to keep ; If should dls before I wake, ' v I pray the fjord my soul to take, God bleu p4pa, mamma, and" , He stopped all at once, opened his eyes, and exclaimed : A few evenings since some ladies be longing to a church in Allegheny City had a private meetingin the vestry-room. If they had gone away when their con ference was over, either home or to some neighboring saloon, as men would have done,' they would have met with no such . melancholy accident as befell them. But no they had to go spook ing around the church in the dark, try ing to frighten each other, and then they were caught in a trap. The jani- tress, thiirtfmg they had gone home, locked tfp and left. Here was a situa tion. Twenty ladies locked no in a church for the night, and no knowing how ' much longer, and everything ghostly around them ! They raised their sweet voices far above the conver sation pitch, but the concert had no visible effect outside. In the meantime what would husbands and fathers think? One young lady about mid night managed to crawl out of a flue like a chimney-sweep, and raised an alarm, which brought the sexton with his keys. It is worthy of remark that not one of those good women thought of prayer as a means f deliverance, al though the place ought to have sug gested it. They just screamed for some man to come and help them. The buzz-saw hasn't been coming up to the scratch lately, and the kerosene can's lethargy is condemned by every I journalist. FINE AND COABSB HAT. Producers are sometimes puzzled to know why city buyers generally ask for coarse, well-matured hay in preference to the more tender, and, in reality, re nutritious kinds. The Live Stock Journal thus enlightens th6m : " City men feed hay for a different purpose than the farmer. The farmer feeds it for its nutriment and as a principal food, while the city man regards grain as the cheapest food, and only gives sufficient hay to make bulk in the stomach, and for the purpose of health. Coarse, well-matured timothy serves this purpose better than the early cut and fine grasses. They do not desire such hay as will tempt the horses to eat too much' of it. Straw would answer this purpose, if cut and mixed with the grain, about as. well. But farmers should be content with this practice of the city customer, for it enables them to sell their poorest hay for the best price, and to retain the best quality for home consumption." FBODIGIOUS. An English gardener writes that from one pound of seed potatoes of the kind known as the Vermont Beauty, he raised 234 pounds, all sound, fair sized potatoes, averaging 14 ounces each. W. Brown & Son, of Derby, says tbe Vermont Beauty is an exception to American potatoes, as they feel confi dent a better cooking potato was never grown, being beautifully white, per fectly dry and mealy. One of the tubers which they grew the past season weighed three pounds two ounces, and two and a half pounds of seed yielded 198 pounds of crop. ' THE. CHBSTBJs W H I TIM. A. Hyde, in the New York Times, dis cussing white hogs, says : " Discard ing the black breeds altogether, we commenced on the Chester Whites, as there is no mistake that some of this breed, if it can be called a breed, are fine animals. They are hardy and large, feed well, and furnish a large amount of pork for the food consumed. They cannot, however, bex called thor oughbreds. The pigs are not certain to inherit the good form and other qualities of the boar and sow, and there is a great want of uniformity in the same litter. Some are good and others not worth raising. They are also too long in coming to maturity. We want pig-pork, not old hog pork. A pig that is ready for the shambles at nine months is more palatable and more economical than one that we must wait upon for twice this length of time." THISTLES, What if the Canada thistle, scorned, hacked at, hoed up, plowed down, poisoned, despitefully belabored by million tongues and pens, should, after all, prove to be, as it were, a veritable angel in disguise, and rise in judgment to prick in vital parts the army of ob tuse husbandmen who failed to recog nize its merits ? Yet if may be. It is possible there is more in it and of it than is dreamed of in our agricultural philosophy. Only a little while ago we had the report that a farmer in New Zealand had discovered that, no crop is better to prepare the surface for grass than one of thistles ; that they will kill the ferns, clean the soil, and in three years die out themselves, leaving the land in the best condition. - And now a farmer in Canada claims that a heavy crop of thistles turned under is in point of fact more Valuable than clover to prepare the -ground for wheat. iV. Y. Tribune. DECOMPOSITION OF EGGS. According to Mr. William Thompson, of Manchester, the decomposition of eggs may be brought about by any one of three different agencies., The first, which he terms " putrid cell," is gener ated from the yelk, this swelling and absorbing or mixing entirely with the white, and ending with a true putrif ac tion, -i , The Becond is that of the vibrio, the germs of which (floating as they do through the atmosphere), when settling on the moist surface of an egg, readily penetrate into it, and set in motion the tmtref active condition : but when the shell is dry such penetration is impos sible. The third is a fungus decom position, in which the spores penetrate within the shell as before, sending fila ments through the egg and converting tne white into the consistency of strong jelly, the filaments being some times so abundant as to cause the whole contents to resemble a hard- boiled egg. DOMESTIC RECIPES. Cobn Meal Pie Cbtjst. For squash or custard pies. Butter , the plates. Sprinkle meal over. Fill as usual-f-pass the thumb around the edge to push the meal to the liquid. This makes a per fect crust. Cbisped Potatoes. Boil potatoes till about half cooked, then peel and bake or crisp them in a hot oven. Buns. Mir one pound and a half of dried flour, one quarter of a pound of sugar, melt six ounces of butter in a little warm milk, a spoonful of yeast, half a pound of currants, washed and dried ; mix the whole in a light dough, keep it warm till it rises. . ; Indian Pudding Extba Good. Two teacups of corn meal, ! half a cup of superfine flour, one cup of sirup, half a teaspoon of salt. ' Scald three quarts of milk and stir into the above. Let it stand half an hour stir it again. . Bake quickly until it boils, then slowly about two hours. Fetjit ' Cobn Cakes. Put a pint , of whortleberries in a bowL add a teacup f ol of sugar, one pint of corn meal and a large tablespoonf ul of fine flour, wet with boiling water. Bake in cakes about one-half an inch thiok on a grid die or in an oven twenty minutes. For nice apple cakes use sweet and tart apples chopped, instead of berries. Apple Jelly. Uut your apples in quarters (do not pare or core them), dip each quarter into clear water, and put them into a jar to cook in the oven until quite tender ; then strain the juice as usual, and boil with a pound of sugar to pint of juice. The most delicious jelly will be the result, with the full pure flavor of the apples heightened by the cores having been left in, and not spoilt by the objectionable addition of lemon-peel and juice. Stewed apples. .feel and core six apples, put the cores and parings into a quart of water, and simmer gently, Strain off, and pour the liquid over the apples, adding the juice of half a lemon, and three ounces of white sugar. Boil gently till the apples are quite tender, then turn out into a basin, and beat up with a fork, gradually adding about a teacupful of cream. When the whole is about the consistency ot cream, pile np in a glass dish, and put away in a cool place. Whipped cream or the whites of eggs, well whisked, may be put over the top before serving. THE KENT VCKT ANTI-D HELLING DECISION. The decision of the Kentucky State Board of Canvassers in the case of Capt. Thos. Lu Jones, elected Clerk of the Court of Appeals last August, is highly creditable to the integrity of the board and advantageous to the cause of good morals. Jones, who is a Demo crat, and a very popular one-armed ex- confederate, was chosen Clerk of the Court of Appeals over Cochrane, Repub lican, by a majority of over forty thou sand. Several years ago he had a diffi culty with a fellow-townsman, which led to a challenge from his adversary. This challenge was not formally ac cepted, though it was virtually, for the preliminaries for the fight were ar ranged by Jones' second with Jones' approval. After the election of August last, Cochrane, the defeated candidate, claimed the certificate of election on the ground that Jones was disqualified for the office, because of his acceptance of a challenge to fight a duel. Jones re lied on the fact that he had carefully avoided a formal acceptance as his jus tification. The board of canvassers. however, though all Democrats and friends of Jones, take the adverse view, and decide not to give the certificate to him. They refuse it to Cochrane, also, for the very good reason that he was not elected. It is probable that the dis appointed Clerk elect will ask he Court of Appeals for a mandamus against -the board, in which case their action will be exhaustively reviewed by the highest State tribunal. - STYLE IN AFRICA . Who would suppose that a wild Afri can, whose only dress is a piece of skin, would trouble himself about fashions ? To be sure, he feels no interest in the style of coats or hats, but he is just as much absorbed in the great business of adorning himself as though he followed the fashions of Paris. Curious styles he has too, as a German traveler has lately told us. To begin with, the hair is the object of his greatest care. Its training be gins in the cradle, or would if he had a cradle, when it is tortured into some extraordinary form, and kept there by means of gum-arabic and ashes, till af ter long years it will retain the shape of itself. Sometimes it is like a cooks comb, and sometimes like a fan. One ppor baby's hair will be trained so that in time it will stand up in rolls over the head, like the ridges on a melon, while another's is taught to stand out like the rays of the sun, as usually repre sented in pictures. With some Africans, part of it hangs down in long, regular braids or twists, and the rest is laid up in monstrous puffs on each side of the head. But the drollest one of all is made to look like the glory around the head of a saint in pictures. The hair is taken in single locks, stretched out to its fullest length, and fastened at the ends to a hoop. The hoop is held in place by strong wires, and its edges or namented with small shells. The ef iect is very comical. In most of these wonderf uFarrange- ments the hair is parted in the middle (I wonder if our young gentlemen im ported . that style from Africa), and is kept in place by plenty of gum and ashes, or clay. . All this elaborate hair-dressing is on the heads of the men. The women of the country wear their hair in the sim plest manner, perhaps for the reason that the wife does the cooking, culti vates the land, adorns the body of her husband with paint, and dresses his hair, which must be enough to keep her time well occupied. His hair once dressed, this African dandy turns his mind to the further decoration of his body. First he subs his shining skin with a mixture of grease and ashes, or powdered wood of red color, puts on his scanty garment, made of the skin of some animal, or of bark. occasionally trimmed with the long black tail of a monkey or other animal, and then he is ready for his ornaments. Across his forehead, just under the edge of his hair, like a fringe, he hangs a string of teeth. They may be teeth of dogs or other ani mal, or if he is a great warrior, of his human victims. Next he adorns his breast with an or nament made of ivory, cut to resemble lions' teeth,' and spread out in star- shape. Around his neck he hangs sev eral necklaces made of strips of skin cut from the hippopotamus, and finishes up with paint in various styles : dots, or stripes, or zigzags, squares like checker-board," or marbled all over. St. Nicholas. - s TOBACCO. , V v The sons published In your paper of October 16th, under the head of " Nicotian," beginning Tobacco is an Indian weed," recalls an earlier, and, as I beliera, the original ver sion, familiar to me for thirty years or more.' Its terse qoaintness la almost destroyed in the feeblo amplification given by your Western correspondent. It dates, I think, from the seventeenth century, and runs thus: This Indian weed, now wither'd quite. Too" green at noon, cut down at night,' " Shows thy decay ; 1 All flesh is hay J.' '' Thus think, and smoke tobsooo. - ; The pipe, so lily-like and weak, . ... Does thus thy mortal state bespeak, -, . , Thou art er'n such, i ' Gone with a touch . Thus think, and smoke tobaooo. . . And when ths smoke ascends on high, . Then thou beholdst the Tanity Of worldly stuff, f jOoae with puff . Thus think, and smoke tobaooo. And seestthe ashes cast away ; 1 Then to thyself thou maytct say, Thatftothedust ' Betorn thou must Thus think, and smoke tobaooo. And when the pipe grows foul within, I Think on thy soul defil'd within, For then the fire It does require ' Thus think, and smoks tobacco. ' K. Y. Evening Pott. bare- Fortune's changes are well illustrated in a town in the western part of Massa chusetts. A few years since a house, not noticeable for its excellence and sur reundings, situated in a retired street, was the abode of a man who endeavored to eke out a sustenance in boot-mak ing. The world seemed to use him hard. He never appeared to have a sufficiency of food or money. How he lived was a source of wonderment to his neighbors. To-day the same gen tleman anves ms span oi oays, owns a nice and pleasantly-located residence, and has all he can do in the practice of his profession, viz., that of a clairvoy ant doctor. His house is full of pa tients, and has become a medical insti tute of no mere local repute. The number of remarkable cures is many, and the tide of - prosperity seems to fa vor him. Fortune sometimes recoils. Here is an instance : A young lady who used to grace the fashionable par lors of the place, and preside at a $700 piano with becoming dignity, now mod estly waits on the table at one of the large hotels, and occasionally surprises the guests with a remarkable perform ance on the piano when music is wanted for a hop. The late money corner ex plains the secret. ; - Flakes of gold in your writing paper will indicate that t came from the' Val ley Mills in Holyoke, wnete a workman dropped his watch into the rag-grinding machine and it was instantly powdered. A REMARKABLE ADVENTURE. About five weeks ago a son of Dr. W. H. Eldridge, of this district, suddenly disappeared, and was not heard from until last Saturday. The boy says that on the evening of October 19, as he was leaving the apothecary store on Bunker Hill street, where he was em ployed, he was approached by a man who informed him that a fire was raging in the vicinity of Chelsea bridge, and asked him to go down and see it. Ar riving at the bridge no fire was to be seen, and when just on the point of re turning he was seized around the neck by the man, who choked him until he became unconscious, robbed him, and then threw him over the railing into the waters of the Mystic. The chill which the plunge into the river gave to his system restored him so that he was able .to attempt to save himself. The tide was running out, and he, "being a skillful swimmer, kept from drowning, and floated down the stream until op posite East Boston, where a friendly spar, which was floating in the water, came near to him, and gaining this he floated out to sea. He subsequently became unconscious, and when he ral lied again he was out of sight of land, still clinging to the log. After remain ing in the water nineteen hours, he was rescued by a brig bound for Greenland, and as he did not care to visit that country he was placed on board an English steamer, the name of which he states was the Norman, and carried to Liverpool. He improved the first op portunity to return home in the steamer Smyrna, whioh arrived at this port last Saturday. Boston Globe. DIED A T HIS POST. A story is told of an engineer on the Union Paoifio railroad who ran a race with at the rate of forty miles an hour. and won by five seconds. He was driving the passenger train west, and was taken suddenly and seriously ill. He seemed to be aware that death was near, yet the train must reach Cheyenne before he could be relieved. That was the end of his route. He increased the speed of the engine and ran for life. Forty miles an hour saved his distance. He reached Cheyenne ahead of time, and when the engineer who was to re lieve him stepped aboard the engine he faintly gasped : " Take the engine ; I'm ready to die now." In five seconds he was a corpse. If death had stepped aboard before the other engineer, what would have been the consequence to the passengers? Bat they did not see the grim specter ' running the engine, like a phantom train. It was a very close shave, and is a frightf al instance of a man remaining at the post of duty just long enough. VARIETIES. A bootless enterprise Going fOOt."'- , . The chasm that swallows up Sarcasm. . V Mi Sunday evening mail" is what she calls him in Detroit. To cube deafness Tell a many you've come to pay him money. Young folks grow most when in love. It increases their sighs wonderfully. Thebb are various "stations in life, but the least desirable is a police station. Bachelobio exclamation : " A lass ! Maidenly exclamation : " Ah, men !' You may brag as you please of the red, red rose. But redder, by far, is an Omaha nose. . A toung lady (at thepostoffice : " If I don't get a letter by this mail, I want to know what he was doing Sunday, that's all." A builder, when returning thanks to those who drank his health, modestly observed that he was " more fitted for the scaffold than public speaking. It is related of Poussin that, being: shown a picture by a person of rank, he remarked : " You only want a little pov erty, sir, to make you a good painter. Gbacb Gbeenwood doesn't believe in liquor as a beverage, but she says there is something pleasant in drinking just enough wine to make one feel at peace) with all the world. "Vsx some man slaps me on der shoulder und says : ' I vas glad to hear you vas so veil,' und den sticks pehindV my back his fingers to his nose, I hex my opinion of dat veller. As old lady, on hearing that a young1 friend had lost his place on account of a misdemeanor, exclaimed, "Miss De meanor I Lost his place on account of Miss-Demeanor! Well, well, I'm afraid It's too true that there's alius a woman at the bottom of a man's difficulties." SAWS BT OUB OWN SAWTXB.' Empty tubs by ths noise of their ring tell thetaT - state, 1 Empty heads by their wordy,' dogmatical prate ; Empty Jars are prepared any wares to reosdTe, Empty nunda any folly or tale to believe ; -Corn perks np its bead when tis empty of grain. And conceit makes the idle pragmatic and rain; Empty houses are places for Termin to breed in , Empty brains for suggestions of Satan to seed in; Empty rooms are so oold that they give ua chill. Empty hearts are so selfish they sympathy US ; Empty sacks cannot long stiff and upright remain; Nor long undetervezs their credit maintain. TBEDEFA XTLTIN& MIS80 XJRI GRAN OX TREASURER. " A St. Iiouis letter to the Chicago Inter- Ocean says : 'The startling fact was published a number of days ago that the Treasurer of the Missouri State Grange, Mr. Quisenberry, was a de faulter to the extent of the entire amount in the treasury at that. time. viz., $20,000. Quisenberry has been making determined efforts to secure to the grange the amount for which he was unable to aocount, and it is now understood that the organization is properly secured. The following notice has been published : To the Grangers of Missouri : On account of the recently published no tices in regard to tb6 condition of the treasury of the Missouri State Orange, it becomes our duty to inform the Patrons of IfiaMuri.tbat while all ths money belonging to the treasury is not at Dreamt avaJImhla. wo ham unnriiiM (real and personal) for more than the amount.; due, whioh we believe to be sufficient to pre vent any lose. We earnestly hope that Patron will not accept tbe many rumors now being; circulated as true, but await the reception of the Executive Committee's circular, when the facts will be given. '1. Ji. axjurw, Master Missouri State Grange. R. 3. BOAOHZB, Chairman of the Executive Committee. '-. - W. M. Fbick, Member Executira Committee. ' Much bitterness is expressed against Quisenberry by the farmers of the State, i It is conceded by leading: Grangers that the exposures o earning their Treasurer have injured the order and very much crippled its power for usefulness in the future. The fourth of a man-ter. -A quarter-mas- i ENTERPRISE. The New York Arcadian, a literary and dramatic weekly of orignality and ability, has changed its shape. It has oome out in a piotoral garb, with cuts from pencil as well as pen. Its lists of artists is as follows: " Our heads will be drawn by Heade, our pleasing faces by Smilie, ugly ones by Guy, chignons by Blaoklock, conflagrations . by Burns, rivers by Poole, places of wor ship by Church, fairies by Fay, provisions by Baker, interiors by Hart, cupboards by Old Hubbard, snow storms by Frost Johnson, bucolics by Swain, woods by Deforest, meadows by Field, sheriffs by Marshall, feathered songsters by Martin, metals by Nicoll, games by Piquet, weapons by Sword, tricks by Wiles and our donkeys by DeHaas.'