nmumo n r kiiat by COLL. OX.3E"V3a:. . ALBANY, 3 'WMMttBBBM OREGON. WORLD OF SCIENCE. MEOICUE. wnajLDoirif a r typhoid ram. Dr. Pilcher, Passed Assistant Bur geon in the Navy; says that in from twenty-four to forty-eight hours after the first administration o belladonna in typhoid fever, delirium,, ooma and ,' ubsultus vanish, and are suooeeded by calmness and clearness of the intellect, by natural sleep, and complete control of all the voluntary muscles ; diarrhea Is checked, and healthy and consistent evacuations are established. " ' KltT.T.ATWKKA TO CHECK SWEATING. Dr. Sydney Ringer finds that bella donna or atropia can prevent or check . sweating, whether this be due to ex ternal warmth or to disease. When it is the result of disease the subcutaneous injection, of , one-two-hundredth of a grain of atropia is generally sufficient to arrest it for one night. The dose does not dilate the pupils, but it produces dryness of the fauces. Stramonium has a similar effect. Belladonna also arrests the secretion of the mammary glands. ; ,', ANNUAL DKATH-BATES. ; From the general statistics of civil ised countries it is found that the an nual death-rate per thousand persons, taking all ages, sexes and conditions, is never less than twelve. The number dying in New York city in the last week of July,1874, was at the rate of forty-four out of a thousand; but, taking the year round, the average death-rate of New York city may be set . down at about thirty, showing that three persons die where one ought to; three graves are dug where only one should be ; two persons out of three die prematurely ; would not die if proper care were taken ; and proper care means to live cleanly, eat regularly , work with a ateady industry, and get all the sleep the system will take. PRACTICAL ADVICE in CASS OF POISONING. If possible, have the stomach-pump applie d, then let the patient drink freely and use the stomach-pump again, so as to wash out the poison as muoh as pos sible. If a stomach-pump is not at hand give the patient ground mustard and salt dissolved in water to produce vomitin g. We mention this as these ar ticles are almost always on hand in every house. Then give the white of a few eggs. In regard to speoial anti dotes : For acid poisons give as quickly as possible large draughts of chalk, magnesia, or a cream made of soap and water; for alkaline poisons, such as Bed a, potash, or ammonia, give lemon-juice with water and sugar, and if this cannot be had, give vinegar; olive oil, also, will relieve such cases. For arsenic the hydrated sesquioxid of iron is the special antidote, in doses some thirty times larger than the amount of poison taken ; for baryta give sulphate ef magnesia or soda ; for; antimony or tartar emetic, powdered Peruvian bark or the infusion of the same is the specific antidote. For cor xosive sublimate the hydrated proto - sulphuret of iron is the antidote if ad' ministered within twenty minutes ; if later, give unboiled white of eggs, then warm water. For salts of copper (ver digris, blue vitriol, etc.), sugar and white of eggs. For nitrate of silver the aame.'j For Paris-green (arsenite of copper) peroxid of iron and sugar mixed with: white of egg. For phosphorus, ditto and also lime-water. ' For sul phate of zinc (white vitriol), solution of carbonate of soda, cream, but ter and chalk. For salts of lead nith&rs-a. white and red suerar of lead. Gunlalrd's extract), ' give sulphate of xaagnesia, of potash, or of soda or phos phate of soda ; for lead-poisoring of long standing, iodide - of potassium, five grains three times a day. For opium and morphine, tincture of green m . ' - . - - ; . joeueDore, or, , pmvenaiea ipecacuanna. For pruasio acid diluted ammonia and inhaling it fumes, or carbonate of pot ash with sulphate of iron. For strich nine and nux vomica no antidote known ; rely on stomach-pump and emetics. For poisonous mushrooms take tannic acid. For poison ivy or sumach, paint -with tincture of lobelia or extract of gelaemium. For carbolic acid, olive or almond oil with castor oil or saeharate of limi (made of one part slacked quick lime, third of white sugar, and eight of -water)." For carbonic aeid gas, fresh sir and cold water, friction, artificial respiration.:. For ehlorin gas, fresh air, inhale vapor of ' warm water, wine, ether, or ammonia. For s sting of s wrap or a bee, rub with an onion. For Irises of insects, wash with borax solu tion. ,For ordinary snake bites, wash -with liquid ammonia. For rattlesnake bites, suck or cup the wound so as to extract the poison as much as possible, then give iodide of potassium, four grains ; corrosive sublimate, two grains; -water, a teaspoonf ul ; bromin, five drachms ; ten drops of this mixture in 'two tablespoonfuls of brandy or wine is the dose,,whioh is repeated if alarming arymptoms show themselves. '.Dr. Ham mond testifies in regard to e the reliabil ity of this mixture, as tried on a recent expedition in the Rocky Monntadns. For hydrophobia, no positive antidote laowu as yet ; suck or cup the, bitten part, 'then cut it out all around; and scarify with nitrate of silver. Mr. J.W. Woolaton, of FhOadfeSpUL, reoommends, according to his experience, to give elecampane root well boiled in milk; two days after one and a half ounces ef the same, aud again two days later two ounces. Dr. Garneehan, of New Hark, rtousimeuds the calabar "bean, and all unite in reoommending to pro mote profuse perspiration and ease of mind. MECHANICS AMI) EKQ1SEEBS. TPNNKL T7NDZB NIAGARA FALLS. There is a project talked of for cut ting a tunnel under Niagara Falls. Mr William Wallace, an engineer, who has made a preliminary survey of the Falls, says that no insuperable difficulties, either of a material or financial descrip tion, need be feared. The length of the tunnel proper from shore to shore is about 1,000 yards, while the cuttings on both banks will extend to nearly thrice that distance. Mr. Wallace de clines to give any estimate of the cost of this undertaking. ait explosive fish. A machine of the torpedo class has been constructed for the British navy which will move at a speed of nine knots an hour for three hundred yards, and at a lower' speed for a mile. It will maintain any direction impressed upon it, and it can be launched either from a boat or an iron-clad, by night or by day. In short, it is a kind of ex plosive fish, which, in obedience to its masters, will swim for a mile toward any adversary at which it may be directed, and will strike a dangerous if net a fatal blow. -.' TOBPEDOES AND TORPEDO BOATS. The British government is interest ing itself greatly in regard to torpedoes and torpedo boats. An automatic tor pedo boat, invented by Yon Sckeliha, is now being experimented with, and the inventor claims its superiority to others on the following grounds : "1. The motive power by which my torpedo boat is propelled is gradually generated in the boat itself while running, thereby obviating the necessity of a large reservoir subjected to high pressure, which must of necessity increase the size and weight of the boat, and con sequently render it less manageable. 2. The screw, being apt to foul in nets or rope obstructions, is replaced by a more suitable propeller. 3. The boat carries a battery of twelve heavily charged torpedoes, which, when the boat approaches the enemy, may be discharged one after the other at the will of the operator, by which the chances of success are increased twelve fold. 4. I use a cable' consisting of three wires, by means of which the pro pelling engine is started and stopped, the boat is steered, its course is changed from going ahead to going astern and vice versa, and the torpedoes contained in the battery are started; Although the original cost of my beat is a little in excess of that of other offensive tor pedoes, X venture to say it offers many more chances of success, and that, hav ing succeeded or failed in attick, it still remains under full command' of the operator, and can therefore be used again." ' y TUB JfUWKJBAIi FNSTJOMATXO RAILBOAD. A pneumatic subterraneous railroad. similar to that of which a short section was made under Broadway by way of experiment, is to be constructed in Vienna, not for the transportation of live freight, but of the corpses of de ceased from the city to the cemeteries. From the cellars of centrally located chapels in the city, tunnels, two, three, and four miles long, will run to the different cemeteries outside the city. The tunnels are to be only large enough to pass the coffins lengthwise which will be placed on a small platform-car mov ing on rails, while the blast of air sends the corpses off to the cemetery at a rate of velocity equal to forty or more miles per hour. ( This does away 'with the tedious and time-robbing funeral pro cessions. All the procession that takes place is in the city, from the house to the ohapel ; then, as soon ca the f oneral service is ended, the coffin is lowered down in the cellar by means of in ele vator, the friends go home while the body is labeled for its destination, and goes where the grave is situated. We must confess it takes away much of the poetry of burial, the assembling of the friends around the grave, etc., but then the world is progressing, time is becoming more and more precious, and we can no longer afford to lose time with Blow . funerals ; and if the living , are clamorous for qmck transportation j why not give this privilege to the dead also. ASTttOSOHY. . , J . NEW THSOBT OF COMET TAILS. MV- A. Barthelmy, in France, pub lishes a new -. theory of comet tails, which is ingenious and curious, if very improbable. As the tail, is a gaseous substance of extreme lightness, he con siders it a kind of smoke lighter than the inter-planetary medium, and which for this reason is driven from the sun, as ordinary smoke is driven from the earth, being lighter than our atmos phere, which is attracted more' and drives ' the S smoke . upward. This smoy tail will then incline more and more in proportion to the resistance of the ambient medium, and the greater velocity of the comet itself; it will in crease in " size when nearing the sun and coming in a medium of greater density, which he assumes to be found in approaching - the sun, , : This theory does not account at all for the velocity with which the tail sweeps around in space when the comet in its perihelion passes nearest to the sun. , ; " ANOTKEB XABOS TEXXSOOFX. Governments that build monitors at a oost of a million dollars apiece, and spend a hundred thousand dollars over and over again for experiments with heavy ordnance, think they do much when they appropriate $20,000 or $30,- 000 to an institute of learning, or for the purpose of paying the expense of some scientific expedition: and' no doubt the United States government' thinks it s dangerous precedent to have appropriated $50,000 for the purpose of procuring a twenty-seven inch re- fractor for the astronomical telescope now in course of construction by the Messrs. Clark, of Cambridgeport, Mass. Why should not our government, while spending millions of treasure for war preparations, appropriate a million dol lars for a telescope ? We have the men who can make it ; it is only a question of money; and instead of giving $50, 000, which is a small step in the right direction, we should give twenty' times that amount, another million to build the observatory in Colorado," in the center ef our continent, in the almost rainless region beyond the Mississippi. There is not the least doubt that the discoveries which would be made by our astronomers with such a telescope would place all former discoveries of Herschel, Rosse, and whoever it may be, far in the shade. ; ' " It is encouraging that the 27-inch telescope of Clark is a success. He is now making larger ones. A 'wealthy capitalist of San Francisco has given $700,000 for the construction of an ob servatory and telescope which is to be considerably larger than any . thus far in existence, while au '. expert astrono mer has been sent to Germany to find out where the best glass can be cast for the purpose, so as to have it as perfect as possible, regardless of expense. ' Lastly, we read the report thet a 78 inch telescope has for some time past been in course of manufacture at the Paris observatory. It was oommenoed in 1865 by M. Leon Foncault, but the death ef that savant and the events of 1870 and 1871 interrupted this work, which was subsequently resumed under the direction of M. Wolf. The power of the new instrument will exceed all the largest thus far known ; its length will be 49 feet, and its diameter 6 feet 6 inches, while the dimensions of Her schel's were only 40 by 5 feet. The mirror will be of glass, the surface be ing faced with gold or silver. It will of course be provided with a movable staircase. New York Graphic. j NATURAL HISTORY. HABITS OF CKTACEA. Close observation for years may be required before a single new fact regarding the habits of whales or seals can be obtained. Even to delineate accurately the forms of the larger cetaceans is extremely difficult, for usually only a small section of the middle part of the animal is above the water, and when decomposition causes the body to rise, it has become quite distorted. A consideration of facts such as these will explain how it is that so little has been contributed to the natural history of mammals by practical whalers. j - 1 - BLIND ANIMALS. j 1 A priori, it appears to be evident that for the first development of the senses in animals, it is necessary to be under the influence of the stimulus given by the objects for the I eroeption of which the senses are intended. It may be doubtful if this natural con clusion is absolutely true for all the senses, or can be proved experiment ally ; but certain it is that lor the eye it is correct. Animals developed in caves, under absolute exclusion from daylight, have no eyes. Thus we find that the fish found in the rivers in the Mammoth Cave have only rudiment ary eyes, undeveloped through want of the stimulus of light. We hold that these fishes . are simply derived from the : fish eggs reaching the waters of the cave from Green river outside, which has a direct subterrane ous connection with the Lethe river , in the cave. Such of the embryo that have vitality enough to develop into fishes, notwithstanding the low tem perature of fifty-nine degrees Fahren heit and the absolute darkness, do so, and the result is a single species of fish which differs only from a correspond ing species outside by a difference in color, inferior size, and their rudiment ary eyes. This view is verified by the testimony of the, hotel-keeper at the cave, who states that if caught young and kept in an aquarium exposed to light they after awhile acquire eyes. j : The fishes occasionally thrown up by artesian wells of great depth, of which Grenele, Paris, has given many exam ples, are always eyeless. . The proteus, an animal of the lizard species,' found by Sir Humphrey Davy in an Italian cave, and which' appears to propagate there, is totally eyeless ; while Tomson, who accompanied the cruise of the Challenger, found that while the stalk-eyed crustaceans have well developed, eyes in shallow water. when caught in depths of 1,000 or 2,000 feet they are totally blind. They have still the eye-stalks, but in place of eyes , have rounded calcareous termina tions of them In specimens raised from 3,000 to 4,000 feet deep the eye- stalks have lost their special character, terminating in a strong point, serving evidently another purpose in place of an eye." ' .:'-.ii':s.i-:,-fV;.' A yotjno girl, who had an offer of marriage wnion sue wisned to accept, submitted the matter to her father, who advised her against it, and fortified his opinion with the familiar quotation, " They ; who marry do well, but they who do not do better." "Well, "re sponded the damsel, " I . love to do well; let those do better who can. ' Mb. Fbactc Jones, of . Portsmouth, N. H-. has had his life insured for $200,000. " This is said to be the largest life insurance carried by any individual in New .England, except Charles C. Storrow, of Lawrence, who is insured for $250,000. i Pbxmus Wilson killed his wife in Liberty county, Ga., kst . week, by tripping her up and placing his knees on her, He is ninety years old. and she but a few years his junior. F HOW TOUR BURGLAR WORKS Bis Tools and Bis Obstacles How to GUABD AOATNST THEM. , ' Many people, when they lock their doors at night, have a habit of leaving the s key in the lock, under the im pression that it will prevent any person using a pick or skeleton key to open the door, and so it will. But in this case the thief uses neither of those instru ments.. He introduces into tha key hole a very strong, thougn light for ceps, and, seizing the extremity of the key, opens the door with a single turn of his wrist. Then, if you leave a key in the look, let it be one that does not open the door. ; There is but little difference between the tools of a first-class burglar and those of an honest locksmith, for the latter is often called upon to pick locks and open safes when keys are lost and time is pressing. There are some in struments, of course, such as a dark lantern and a revolver not required by the honest tradesman in his business, that are all important to the professional burglar. A first -class outfit comprises a; dark-lantern, a large pruning-knife, useful in cutting out door-pannels ; i palette-knife, thin and pliant, for open ing windows by insertion between the sashes so as to push back the spring fastening ; a jimmy or small crowbar about a foot in length, and splayed cr crow-footed at one end ; skeleton keys with wards at each end, called " double- enders;" wires to lift lock-tumblers. and a center-pit. This is a complete set of ordinary tools, and may be car ried with ease in a small carpet-bag. Hall door-locks are large, massive and usually take a very large and ap parently complex warded key ; but the burglar is well aware that many of these wards are superfluous. If he wants to make a key for such a lock he cuts out a blank key in tin, one side of which he covers with wax. Wards being simply obstructions fixed in the locks, he has only carefully to insert the blank and turn it gently to receive . an im pression of them on the wax. From this impression a key is easily forged out of strong iron wire. Of course it is much simpler than the original. Sometimes doors are opened with the pick-lock, which acts by working out side the wards, reaching the bolt in that way ; but it requires more dex terity than the other, and is successful only in the hands of the practical thief. .The success of the burglar when operating on warded locks, caused them at length to be discarded from banks and money-houses, in favor of the lever or tumbler-look, and the thief's skeleton keys found themselves bent to no effect in endeavoring to open them. So the locksmith had to be ciroumvented by fresh means, and the jack-in-the-box was invented. Its object was to force the lock off or to rend the case so that the bolts might be drawn back. This was accomplished by inserting a T shaped bolt of iron in the lock, and then, by means of the jack (an adapta tion of the principle of the lever and screw), rending open the lock. This plan was prevented by introducing very small keys, and placing the tumblers, etc. , above the key-hole. Having been defeated for a long while at the safe lock, they at length discovered a new plan, which was to attack the hinges, pressing them off by means of power ful levers. . In this manner the safe of a large firm in London was opened, and an immense quantity of valuables stolen. The firm brought an action against the safemakers who had sold them the safe as thief-proof, to recover damages, and for the defense, the bur glar who had been captured and sen tenced, was placed on the stand, and deposed that there was no safe made that would resist an attack properly made on its hinges. After this trial the safemakers countersunk their hinges, and at the present time we may safely say that the thief has the worst of the i battle. ' . - : (After the lock has been overcome the i burglar has often to remove door-bolts. To do this it is sometimes necessary to out out one of the panels. This used to be effected by means of a fine saw. Now. an instrument, called the panel-cutter is; used. : A strong stem with gimlet point is thrust into the center of the panel. Through this stem slides a cross-bar, carrying at one . extremity a sharp-cutting tool, . which can be ad justed to move at any required radius. At the head of the stem is a double - armed lever, which works the whole machine. This instrument will make a hole in a few, minutes large enough to admit the bursrlar'a arm or the hoHv rf a imall boy, and the door is quickly unfastened. "' The only safeguards ' are to have the door lined with sheet-iron orj studded with nails irregularly dis posed. - : - - Everybody knows that the ' thief sel dom if ever breaks into a house on ' all the particulars concerning which he is not well posted. He knows how many people live in the house, and the-rooms they sleep in, and the hours they retire to rest. Women ' and ' children' watch during the day, and the house-breaker himself by night, and this watch will be! kept up for days and nights until a4 necessary information has been obtained. -.. ' ' The burglars, who generally go in threes, select the time when the police officer hss just passed on his weary round, to commence operations. If you have a watch dog, it is drugged ; if you haves corrupt servant he has been, perhaps, bribed. A mold has been taken of . your house-key ; a panel is removed, or perhaps entrance is effected through the windows opening on your veranda. The burglar, who has pulled oni tnloJc stockings over nis , Doote, moves rapidly ' and without noise. Plate and money are his two great de sires, but he will take almost anj thing rather than go empty-handed. So clev erly managed is the whole affair that the police officer may pass a door out of which a panel has been replaced by a sheet of painted or grained paper, provided for that purpose. Outside a comrade is on guard, and the burglars are careful not to leave the house until the signal that the coast is clear. Im mediately on reaching their quarters the thieves change their clothes. The next thing is to get rid of the plunder, than which nothing is easier if it be plate. Jewels are readily disposed of, but not so profitably for the robbers. San Francisco Call. BISMARCK COJfFRONTIXa HIS ENE MIES. This is how Bismarck looked when his meeting enemies in debate in the German Parliament : " His gigantic frame fairly trembled with passion ; his gray eyes flashed, and his heavy mus tache bristled ; a paper he took up dur ing his first speech, for purpose of ref erence, vibrated visibly in the passion ate grasp of his sinewy hands, and ever and anon his closely-buttoned uniform became tense almost to splitting across his huge chest, as he set back his shoulders and threw up his head, re garding his foes with that implacable glance which never fails to shake the strongest nerves, when he darts it at an object of his hatred or contempt. : In the course of an experience neither brief nor ordinary, I have seen many remarkable men at moments when they have been expected to labor under ex citement of the most vehement descrip tion ; but I have never yet witnessed the consciousness of unbounded power expressed in the physique and bearing of a human being as I saw it in Prince Bismarck. As he stood forward facing the House, the natural sternness of his aspect accented by the natural rigidity of his military tournure, he looked to me like the incarnation of an ungovernable will; like a colossus, unquestionably capable , of bearing upon his mighty shoulders cares and responsiblities that would crush a common mortal into pow der. , OUR PRODUCTIVE GROWTH. Every man must take peculiar pride in contemplating the vastness of the productive industry of the Western States. Its increase is So wonderful that a frequent examination of the fig ures is necessary to its complete com prehension. In the year 1872 the States of Michi gan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Min Besota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, produced, of cereals, 1,029, 000,000 bushels, or about 62 per cent, of all the grain produced in the United States in that year. Of this, ever 156, 000,000 bushels were of wheat,! of which, these States consumed only about 86,000,000, leaving some 70,000, 000 bushels for export from these States. They produced, also, in that year, 700,000,000 bushels of corn. The Western and Northwestern States ship ped to market, the same year, 213,000,- 000 bushels of wheat, of which over 74,400,000 went to foreign countries, over 41,000.000 to trie JNew .England, and the balance to the Gulf States, i The year 1873 saw an increased acre age, and 1874 surpassed all tne preced ing by far, both in the number of hew acres brought under tillage, and in the aggregate yield of most of the cereals, and this in spite of droughts and insect depredations, which in quite extended localities destroyed all vegetation. Prairie Farmer. 1 KAR-RINOS. j An unfortunate child died, not long since, under circumstances which are worthy the attention of women. About three weeks previous to her death the little girl underwent the operation of having her ears pierced with a stocking needle. After the ears were pierced, two ear-rings belonging to her mother were put in them. A few days later a blister came behind one ear ; then i the jaws began to swell ; worse symptoms ensued, and in a few days she died. The medical evidence was to the effect that death resulted from exhaustion consequent upon the intense inflamma tion caused by the piercing of the ears, and the jury rendered a verdict accord ingly. Of course, if women choose to have their ears pierced, it would be impertinence on the part of man to re monstrate against the self-inflicted tor ture ; but there can be no harm in sug gesting that children might be allowed to reach years of discretion before they are called upon to follow the example of their elders and betters in this respect. BOSS TWEED. ' j ' A New York letter says : " So much has been said in the . daily papers of the luxurious surroundings, elegant suppers, and refined living generally, of Wm. M. Tweed, the fallen Tammany chieftain, that the Grand Jury, in mak ing their ' annual tour of inspection on " the Island," asked to be permitted to see for themselves how Tweed was treated, his mode of .life, etc. - They found him living in a little seven-by-nine room, with a strip of rag-carpet in front of the iron .bedstead, a few books on a pine wash stand, and some strips of green cambric tacked up to the white-washed wall. A small, prison barred window looked out upon the ice-bound river and the leafless trees in the distance. . His suit of clothes was the ordinary coarse, pray, prison-garb ; and, on inquiry, he answered them that " he wanted for nothing, made no com plaint, and that they had gtten him quite as low now as they wanted him." What a fall was there I from the proud leadership of old Tammany days, with the millions, the diamonds, the winea, and the profusion of other and happier times ! . . . t .. i AO- VIDENT. A Michigan romance this time. He was a middle-aged gentleman and he was traveling on a railroad in the interior of the Wolverine State. He was pot tly and well-fed in appearance, and the fob which swung from his vest swung clear at the ends, so round and protuberant was that portion of his body which would have been described by Shakes peare as " With fat capon lined." He didn't look sentimental or at all the kind of a man to be easily affected by lovely woman. He looked, in fact, as though a square meal of the particular dish he' liked most would tempt him more than Venus without her girdle on. Some of the Michigan railroads ar3 new affairs, and the one on which this sleek middle-aged man was riding was one of thelatest. The train broke down, and for two or three hours ' the passengers were left . to their own resources for amusement. Time hung heavy with our middle-aged man, and he strolled off to the nearest farm-house, thinking that a better place to wait in than the smoking-car. The hours dragged them selves away, the train was repaired, and the locomotive screeched out a warn ing to the loiterers outside to resume their seats in the cars, but the portly, middle-aged man didn't appear. He saw the train start, evidently, for he stood with a woman on the steps of the farm-house, but he didn't appear at all interested, and he was left behind. The secret of the old gentleman's apathy on the subject of rapid transportation finally came ont in the local paper pub lished in the village close by the scene of the railroad accident. In the farm house where the portly old gentleman stopped he met a woman whom he had not seen for years, but who, when he last saw her, was queen of hearts with him. It was the old story of misunder standing, mutual obstinacy and a broken engagement. The old flame was re kindled in the heart above the portly stomach when the middle-aged man saw his long-lost love, and, as she was a widow, the encounter resulted in a wedding. And a wedding is a better thing than a funeral, for a railroad ac cident to produce. A GHOSTLY RIDER. f In the rural districts of Pennsylvania the peddler is not deemed the nuisance he is in the city, where small merchants of every class weary the door-bell, but is treated as a man and a brother. His wares are looked upon as desirable, and his company is frequently not less ap preciated. It was this feeling of hos pitality toward peddlers which recently put Mr. Esheltaub.of Albany township, in a condition of bewilderment. A traveling peddler called at the house of Mr. Esheltaub, his goods were exam ined, praised, and some of them pur chased, and then the peddler . was invi ted to remain all night. The peddler stayed, and was assigned to a bed in the garret. The family retired as usual, and nothing remarkable occurred until about midnight, when the. farmer was awakened by a terrible commotion in the paddock. The dogs were yelping and barking, and there was a constant sound as of the beating of horsey' feet upon the ground. Mr. Esheltaub and his hired man arose and went to the Lroom ot tne peddler, but found there only the man's pack and clothes and an open window. Then they went forth to find the cause of the mysterious sounds outside and were astonished. In the paddock a horse was rushing wildly up and down, pursued by the dogs, and upon the horse's back was the phantom rider ! Clad all in white, perfectly im movable, with pallid face, and seated firmly upon the crazed horse was a figure which, to the two men who were lookers-on, seemed anything but hu man. Finally, the hired man got his courage up to the sticking point, and waylaying the flying steed, seized the swinging bridle as the herse and rider dashed by. Then came a revelation. The mysterious rider was found to be the peddler, clothed in shirt and draw ers, and in a complete state of somnam bulism. Cold as was the weather, he was in a violent perspiration, and when, finally, with difficulty awakened, found himself tolerably comfortable. Mr. Esheltaub doesn't wast to entertain any more peddlers. He is permanently down on this Godiva business, since his horse has got the heaves. A "ROSE-BUD DIMMER PARTY." j On Christmas Eve, a lady of Knicker bocker lineage, . and. of prominence among the exclusive fashionable of New York, gave a " rose-bud dinner party." A rose-bud dinner party is a compari tively novel entertainment here, and was introduced at Newport three sum mers ago, by Madama.de Noailles, wife of the French Ambassador at Washing ton. The title of the affair is derived from from the fact that the dinner is given in honor of two or more young ladies who have not made their debut in society. It is something of a " com ing out party,", only instead of the guest dancing they eat. On the ooca sion of which we write' four demoiselles were honored four ot the prettiest in all this great oity, according to rumor. Eighteen sat down i to dinner nine ladies (four of them "rose-bud ) and nine gentleman. Delmonioo . provided the meal. It was an elaborate one, and Jenkins, who hired himself to Del' monioo as waiter in order to get an ac count of the , party, swears the bill of his employer, was seventy-five hundred dollars and odd cents. The dining room was transformed ' into a veritable bower of roses, and the whole house was redolent with perfume. There was musio by Lander, and the menu was engraved on blue velvet in letters of gold. The four ' heroines of the hour " were beautifully attired, and were the recipients of oompliments innumerable. TRJt RESULT Or A RAILROAD The dinner was a great success, and fashionables will probably talk about it for nine days to come. New York Zietter. LOOKING FOR THE LEGISLATURE A PlCTUHE That Mat Intebkst oca Embbyo, STATK'KCN. Yesterday noon a man about sixty-five years of ago eameipstafrB",,tfifl, the local room of this paper, jurd ip quired r- " Is this whar the Lfgfslashur is ?" " No, sir," - replied HBFSporter u " the Legislature is in session at Lan sing." Way off there, eh 1" continued the man, as he sat down, laid his cane across the table, and took off his mit tens. . " Yes, trains run twice a day. Pretty good crowd out there by this time." " I don't care about the crowd," said the old man, "I want a law a new law!" t" Eh?" " Yes, Bir, I want a new law suthin' to protect old men like me." "What's the matter how do yon want to be proteote'd?" ' " My name's Horner," replied the man, as he ; slowly Jumbled inside his coat. " My name's" Horner, and I'm an old fooll . What do you think I did three months ago?. -Went and married a girl nineteen years old, and red headed at that ! Yes, went and deeded her a farm, and gin her six hundred dollars cash and married her !" " And do you not live happy ?' ''Happy ! Young man, let me show you suthin' here, look at that!!" And he unrelled-a pieoe of brown paper and displayed" a handfpl of gray hairs, some of which were bloodstained. ---Pulled right out of my scalp only three days ago !" he, wekt on. " And see this 'ere leg !" mm He palled up his pants sod exhibited a black and blue spot just ;, above the shin. "Struck there with a flat-iron !' he explained ;' "-meant to hit .me on the chist and kill me at once, but I dodged. And see here!" V He opened his coat and vest and re vealed the fact that he had no shirt ou, and consequently nothing on which to button a collar: ' "Tore it off'n me two weeks ago 1" he whispered, " and she burned up my other one. . I've bin around4 this way for a fortnight, almost dying by inches !" "Well, she must be a regular wild cat," said the reporter. . "Young man, if . IwaitS sit here and tell ye how that woman conducts, herself ye'd have -fo hold yer ha'r down I" exclaimed the old man, striking his leg. "No one, knowshow she's heaved flat-irons at me, hit me with .clubs, throwed water over me in bed, pulled hair, jawed around and brought my gray hairs in sorrow to rthe grave t. Why, what do you think shev called me this-very morning i "A cundorango, perhaps." " Wuss'n that, boy far,3"ar wuss i she called me an Apollo !" "Possible!" : C " Yes, she did ! Think of that, will ye think of a man of my age, who has always paid his debts and been honest, be in' set down with pirates4" " It's bad !" sighed the reporter, as a long pause ensued. ' '" , . "It's awful the-awfulest kind of awful !" replied Horner. " Xve got to. stand it, but I want a law to protect, other old men. I want a law to f nrbid any man over sixty, from nrttrryin a girl who isn't over twenty." " That might be a wise law,!? " I can't go to Lansin"," he 'went on, " but you kin help me. Put'Tt in your paper git up an excitement .about it. Will you do this ? Look at at me, boy look me all over ! See how I've suffered h See how hot my head is !" " Til help you allXcan." "Do ! Write to him ! Write to him five times a day I In goiii' .home to meet her, and be pounded aiound and sassed and jawed, but if I know you're gettin a law through,- I'll go to the grave feel in good !' And he put on his mittens, took up. his cane, and was gone. Detroit Free Press. ' ' , '-m . Thb English Spakbow. These little foreigners, instead of being satisfied with the great boon that has been con ferred on them by being madenatural-' ized citizens, have had the presumption and indiscretion to wage war against, our native birds almost to extinction. As a consequence ' they hare raised about their little heads a very large hornet's nest of native American feel ing, which bids fair, unless they change their tactics, to lead to their extermina tion. . Already the cry is raised against, them, and we should: not be surprised before long to see their destruction as assiduously prosecuted :s their intro duction and protection was advocated. That they are pugnacious little vaga bonds we can testify to", for immediate-, ly opposite our house is a pigeon cot, and in the trees in the street are. numerous little houses of these 'dimin utive gamecocks. Daily, there is a war between the sparrows" and pigeons for the oats found in the manuie dropped . by horses passing through the street, always resulting in a victory for the. former. No sooner does a pigeon alight and commence feeding than the sparrows, sometimes singly, st other times in a body, go for him. And often the unfortunate pigeon will be followed, by some member of the family more pugnacions than the others to his very oet. Turfr Field ana Farm. A snrouiiABe blindness prevails among -the salmon in York river, which flows, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, so that, the fishermen can .drop down in a birch bark canoe right over the fish, and whip. them out with a gaff.