COLU -v'VIST CliEVE. ALBANY, OREGON. FllESH TOriCS. Charley one was seen - Thky are beginning to find Rosses again. The last tramping through Germany with a fortune-teller. " Kew's signal" id pronounced. as mif n wr than Spinner's as Spinner's :s worse than everybody's else. If you would become United States Treasurer, I against the name of practice poor writing. will run against very eminent personages isn't careful. He is reported reso lute to probe the corruption to the bot tom, no matter ; who gets hurt in the process. He says, however, that it is the biggest and toughest job he has ever been called to handle." The complex English balloting sys tem, which has been on trial but a year or two, must already be investigated by a Parliamentary committee. Under this system, the voter is given a ticket, with the names of all that: candidates on'it, and stomped with an official stamp ; he retires into a 'stall and marks a cross the candidates for whom he votes. This is the secret bal- Bjsechkr on hash: . "This trial has been like hash to me. You know hash is very good occasionally, but when you " have had it. fifty or sixty days right along it becomes a little tiresome.' A New Yobk. sporting paper states that there are in the United States fif teen i hundred 1 thoroughly ; organized base-ball cluba, having an aggregate membership of over 25,000., - s a cross in- The Solicitor of the Unite 1 States Treasury has decided that internal reve nue officers have authority to examine the checks in uiy bank ;. to asoertain whether they have been stamped as re quired by law. " Another new industry Las been devel oped in Xiondon. A man advertises him self as " Knocker-up and window-tickler from 3 to 7." He wakes heavy sleepers who wish to get up early. "Window tickling is waking without ringing the bells, by means of a long pole, with which he taps on the window pane. lot required in country where many of the voters are tenants and ' dependent shop-keepers, and so liable to inti nida tion, and see ignorant besides. Some of the English Judges have decided that the mark against a man must be in every case, when, the law- only tended to provide that some mark should be affixed. The ballot moreover does not secure general secrecy, and English tradesmen will learn that the independ ent voter cannot be manufactured by any such device. . He must be trained up by popular education, and by the re lief of the mass of the people from their servile dependence on those superior to them in wealth. Hon. EiiKebt Herring, of New York, is the oldest practicing 'lawyer in the world, being now in his: 99th year. ': He was admitted to the bar in 1798, and was a Judge of the Marine Court the year Na poleon became Emperor of France. . Charles O'Conor, now an old and illus trious man, was -a student in his office. Mr. Herring was also Commissioner of " Indian Affairs the first that held the position. - ' ' . :. ." Hkrmank, the famous prestidigita- teur, was recently muted in marriage in New York to an English lady, the cere mony being performed by Mayor "Wick- ham. After the knot had been tied the j clever magician extracted a. roll of bills from the Mayor's pocket-book and, trans ferred it to Col. Pratt's mouth. .The Mayor saw the joke, but warned the -cunning man not to ''play any such tricks on Mrs. Hermann when they went home." POLITICS AKD POLTHCIAXS. This is Beecher's remarkable perora tion to his last Sunday's - sermon :' " He that is holy and loves God f er what He is; he that hath faith, -When he reaches the other life can't be sent to hell. When I come before the . Eternal Judge :and say, all aglow, My Lord, my God !' will He torn and say,; 'Yea were never immersed; go down ! You did not come up the right road ! . I will answer, I love Thee ! " Damn' me if thou cans't V God will say, amid the heavens aflame, Dost thou love! Enter in. Never was there such a falling off in the price of diamonds as there has been in the case of those sent by the Khedive to the Collector of the Port of New York to keep for Minnie Sherman Fitch. When they first came they were regarded as dirt cheap at $400,000, and now the Jeweller' Circular says : ".The esti mates of the value of these jewels have been exaggerations - beyond all ; prece dent, and 840,000 really represents the most liberal valuation that can be put upon them, the number And size of the diamonds are so- -counterbalanced by their off-color.' -1 . London papers state that the death of the late JGL , Ia Baieinan, the well known theatrical manager, was due di rectly to a gust $f pension. fHifl terper was . occasionally I w. perfect hurricane. The night before Jiis death; Mr. Henry .Irving gave a supper, at ' which Bate- Tnan was present,, and the fun waxed so loud that the police interfered This unseemly intrusion stirred Bateman to a frenzy of rage, the effect - of which, was fatal. It was a nervous disorder, for which he was not accountable, and was the more remsiialli ia contrast with the genial dispoEvikia and good temper of the unfortunate victim. Resolotiowb recently reported to the Rhode Island Medical Society contain suggestions that should be observed fby. all teachers, wkether jui-, taat foiate or lsewhere.; Hlliey declared that scholars should not vnirtn the wme position more than half an Irour at a time; that no child should be sdmi A&i. to tie public schools, as now; tfonduc&ad, mfcler seven years of age ; that, tinder twelve years of age, three hours a day, and for twelve and over. Jour hours a day, is e-..n.-;iently long confinement to raes&al cul3re tLat tudy5out of school eLouLI net csm-Jj' be permitted; and that all isaosiiiires to eta illation should be used cautiously, espe cially with girls. Spkabxxo of the recently-discovered frauds in the Poetof" oe '.I?ep rjrtLunt, the Springfield (Ilass.) Mepubllean says " By all accounts, llr. Jewell is pushing 'lungs wi&a a vengeance. Geveral of the guilty clerks have made a clean breas of it, we are toll, end are actively helping ia the work ef invefitijiion. These will no be prosecuted, escaping with suspen sion and dirrAaag.lr The others Mr. Jewell intends to 'put through. i It is ow believed at the department that ere are nearly a hundred of the f raudu ' 16114 oontraots, asd &3 rsyraeiikj to the contractors ta,ve been eiorre-l. pending THE KITTLE FOULS. Fanny's Two Queatlona. f 'Jny, leaning bn my knee,' , wim her questions bothers m " Uncle, yon know everytliiiur All about the linls and been Flowers and grase, and leaves and trees Uncle, yon know everything ! ' " Why do batteronps grow yellow While the violets grow blue T Tell me, ptesse, and tell me tame. There's a dear old fellow J" " Fanny dear, aome things, it may be, " I may know more than a baby ; But why buttercups grow yellow While the violets grows blue, .1 can tfcll no mora than you." ' Fanny raised her shining eyee Up to mine in swift surprise : - I thought you knew everything. Uncle, and I'm sure yon do. If youH only tell me true : Why do rusty brown birds sing Sweetly, whilst bright birds are mute ? 1 Why are all the dull ones honest,' While the gay ones steal the fruit 1 ' Donft you think it quite a pity They osnt be both good and pretty 7" " Older heads than yours, my deary, -Have been puzzled by this query. And may answer as they would ; As for me, why air nd pood On the same bough seldom grow. Really, Fan., I do not know i lifejl- sounivernal """ -""j . :.r. hsw Duuwers on tne twrnklincr crrana rRhAllal Gen. Gabftjslj wants ex-Gov. Hayes to run for Governor of Ohio this fall. Senator BooTh, of California, is visit ing his parents in Terre Haute, Ind. Tee late Senator Bevels, colored, has given up polities and gone into preach ing. Phixkas T. Babnum, Mayor of Bridge port, Connecticut. Admission to Bridge port hereafter, fifty cents; children half price. , Guxxivkb says: " He who causes a blade of grass to grow where none grew before is better than a whole race of politicians." Tice-Pbestoknt Wovson and Fred. Douglass are present at the anti-slavery. people's centennial celebration in Phila delphia, j 'j Ex-Goveukok Ctjrtdi, it is said, will be induced to run for the Governorship of Pennsylvania this fall, on the Demo cratic ticket. Thb Salisbury (Md.) Advertiser nom inates Allen G. Thnrman, of Ohio, for the next President, and Thomas F. Bay ard, of Delaware, for Vice President. The Annapolis Gazette proposes James. Or. .Blaine, , of Maine, for .President, and Alexander B. Hagner, of Annapolis, for "Vice President. Gkh. Garfield savs the postaere in crease was all a mistake, due mainly to the bad practice of allowing important legislation to be crowded into, the last nours of - the session.' - That does not agree with Senator Ramsey's account, nor with the one that Senator TTamlin is reported to have made. Both of the lat ter gentlemen place the uame upon the committee. Mb. Johk Robinson, the circus -man ager, who ran for Mayor, in Cincinnati, the other day, does not seem to be pleased with his first and only experience in politics. On the night of his defeat an audacious reporter had the temerity to call upon him and ask what he thought about it. - When ? they brought the re porter to, and had cleared the brimstone from his eyes and mouth, he said be did not recollect exactly what Mr. Robinson said, but he judged by the energetic manner of his speech and the size and frequency of the oaths that he didn't care to run for office any more. . Eotjbteem members of the House of Representatives of the Forty-fourth Con gress (which meets for the first tune on Monday, December 6th) are still to be elected, as follows: Four in California, which holds its regular election on "Sep tember 1st; Six in Mississippi. which holds its regular election on November 2d; and four at special elections to be called hereafter to fill vacancies caused by the death of .members-elect: Garrett McMillan (Dem.) in the Ninth Georgia district, lames jsurnn&on ( itep. ) in the First Massachusetts district; A. F. Allen (Dem.) in the Thirty-third New York district r F.! S. " Hersey (Rep.) in the Fourth Maine district. Of the 278 Rep resentatives aireaay cnosen liu are lie- puDiicans, J.b7 are democrats, and nine are Independents, ; ; ! ', - , f ,. Gkk. Boynton in a long letter to the Cincinnati Gazette explains the reasons of Gen. Spinner's withdrawal from the Treasury Department. He savs Secreta ry Bristbw, immediately upon taking of- nce, oegan a morougn reorganization ol the : department, making all of the di visions subordinate to and harmonious with himself. . The first trouble with Gen. Spinner occurred when. Mr. Bris- tow out from his report a disauisition on the low rate bond theory, which, whatev er may" have been its merits, did not co incide with the, views set forth bv the Secretary, and consequently would make a oaa appearance in hi report.; ? " 1 ol lowing tins in various ways," the corres pondent continues, ". the old General be gan to feel the 'force that ' was drawing everthing in the department under the control of one mind, and instead , of yielding to this healthy, return, toward first principles, 'the jjrftiang continued and rather increased -between the Treas urer s office and that of the Secretary. jl was cms etate ox amurs, ana not any imputation' 'upon " the absolute honesty and integrity, and the general efficiency of Gen. Spinner, that led. to requesting his resignation. But a point had been reached in Gen. Bristow's work , of reor ganization where, ia Ms opinion, it was necessary to place a new man at the head or the Treasurer's office, and, while he had no unkindly feeling whatever toward Gen. Spinner personally he de- Tom's Adventure. One dismal afternoon, late in the fall, a young boot-black, box in hand, was moping gloomily alonjr the sidewalk. near one of the large library buildings of new xotk. - . From the sky the heavy clouds were weeping a cold. November drizzle. The walks and pavements were slippery with wet, auu uie eaves oi au tne . houses dripped with a chanfreless natter. mMr. that to the boy with nothing to day, seemed likely to keep on forever. ' It had rained steadily for three days, and in all that time Tom. the VwWl,l.v had not had a single "shine." Men did not care to nave tneir boots polished in such weather. He had spent his last cent yesterday for his dinner. Since that he had eaten nothing, and it was evident that he could earn no more money till the weather changed. Tom had reason enough to feel gloomy; He was beginning to think where he could get a broom to sweep the crossings wiux. OB no uiorea siowiy along, m volving this and other plans in his mind to earn a dinner, he came opposite the great library door, and heard some one calling him. He turned, and looting rm the broad stone steps, saw a gray-haired gentleman standing at the entrance of tne library. " Shine, sir?" exclaimed Tom, and he darted straight up the steps. The man smiled, and opened the door wiaer. uome in, my boy," said he, "I want to speak to you." impressed by the kind tone, Tom aasnea on nis cap and walked in. He found himself in a lofty corridor,1 walled with stone. No other there but himself and the mail wKrk fllrtd him. The man shut the door and lnnknd at the boy steadily for a moment, and " You're an honest bov. I think" J ! Tom twisted his cap. and lonlrA1 i?Awn to the little box of tools " in his left hand, and did not reply. ; j - - j. can always teu au iioneet boy when I see one," continued the other. "An nonest boy is shv. and he anrnn't t much. Yes, you're honest. I think- Here, here's something for von." nH iw held out fifty cents. . .. j.om seized it eaererlv. " Th.nlrA sir !" said he, and thrust the money into his poeket. . . . . ' .: . . 'Bieht! An honest bov likna You like money. Therefore you are an honest boy." lhe old irentleman clmnklvl ; on,l looked over his glasses. Tern blushed, but somehow did accept the logic, i j "Ehl blushinorf Well. well. anether siirn. For one to b (mstui anywhere, give fee a boy that blushes. A boy that doesn't blush most likely is a rascal." Tom got redder. I '. Hess queer old peep," thought he. "Now, ' continued the gentleman, in voice. " vou ctva mv nnnm u. shine, and while you're at work I'll talk to you. And the bov unloaded riia ViraaTiaa a-n,1 DiacKinir, and fell to Poliahinir wnth . will, at the same time wondennir what odd customer intended by all this me, and i ll oblige you, ana. we u De nrm friends. Ha, ha, ha ! And the old gentleman patted Tom's bock, and gently pushed him toward the door. " But don't say any thing about this, and don't fail to carry the book to the proper place. Promise to be care ful ;" and the gentleman smiled. - And Tom, whose head was full of ideas, readily replied, "I'll carry it safe, sir." And Tom did so. (The more Tom reflected upon this whole affair, the more thoughtful he be came. He was sharp and keen, and it was hard to deceive him. " -x That nisrht he slept in an old iron boiler that had loin for years on a vacant lot in street, in tnis rent-iree tenement, he and Patsey Regan, another boot black, had contrived to make a bed of hay and shavings, that kept- them quite comfortable when the weather was not severe.. No sooner had Tom and his fellow- lodger curled into their queer kennel for the night, than Tom told Patsey his ad venture, but without exposing his em ployer's name. " The ould villain I exclaimed Patsey. getting up on his elbow. That was pretty nearly what Tom thought. " Me s makin a cat s paw of ye. He a stalin' the buks, and that's a way he has of gettin' 'em home. He don't have 'em bound. That's all blarney." "But he's the President" said Torm xne Jrnsident i u ootner i ue s a dark, or somethin. To think ov him callin' a poor b'y from the strate. and makin' him run the risk! Ye might be tiiis up for doin his. dirty work. O my. I d like to fix him! And, in the heat of his indignation, Patsey gave the side and with his umbrella wanders forth the hyaomthine boy, for whom morn well mignt oreaic and April bloom (Emerson). Now shall we notice how our swift spring heaps the orchards full of bloom and soent (.Lowell), and the maiden May returns with a pretty haste (Barry Corn- wu;. xowuo tne majority of intelli gent people think it better to sport with Amaryllis - in the shade or with the tangles of Newra's hair (Milton) than to creep into some still cavern deep, there to weep and weep and weep (Tennyson). All th se and many otker things do we see , and ' eniov now that Rnrinur hu af X " Broken the icy fetters of the silver streams (Wilkesbarre special dispatch 1. and all nature rejoices that grim-visaged juarcn nas smootned ms frosty pow (Burns and Shakespeare). Spring beau tiful sprinsr I has returned with birds and flowers (original), and' new fashion- aDie styles in bats, bonnets, dresses (ad vertisements), influenzas and catarrhc' and hundreds . of other things - make business lively. New York Herald. PRETZEL'S SELF-ACTING BACK-AC HON HEN-PERSWADEB. any tile p&rties have warned Sir. JeweS that he Thb Worst Xxjtd of Povkbty. One day a lady came in a carriage to ask Coret, the famous French painter, who has just died, for 1,000 francs with which to pay her rent, - " She is well dressed, said the maid who had seen: her. .' " eaa't understand how anybodywith such clothes can borrow money. If I were yon I would refuse." ' "Take that to ner, my child," said the artist, offering a canjc -note zor ma required sum, " and remember that poverty in silk is -the . 1st Paris there are 85,000 school chil dren for whom no educational aooommor dations are provided. his flattery and unusual friendliness. "1 want you to do somethins' for me, said the old gentleman, stooping down and speaking in the same low tone. " I am President of this Library Associa tion, and I am here in the library jnst now to see to some repairs myself. I am very particular about the books, very particular indeed. I am having some of them bound over again, and I want some body to carry them from here to the uwwjjuuer u. j. ve peen looKmar for a good, honest boy to do it, and you're just to my liking. I shall want my boots polished every afternoon at 3 oVlnV and you can come here, and I will let you uuKiuug, uiu m sue same tune give you the book that I wish you to carry to the binders. You can put it right into, your box carefully, and it, will go t mueana dry as an express bundle. xou see ? ; ' ; . x i .. les. sir." said Tom. rnittins OxA lot touches to his customer's boot, I see" ji course you do," said the gentle man, with a lancrh. "Tnn'm shrinf t hw that's he reason. Now. for everw bok that youll carry that way, ITl giv you a quarter of a dollar, and pay you an other Quarter for the " ahina " , Tt 111 de a first-rate bargain for you. ' Ia fact, you can't earn so much anywhere else in Bos? little tune. . It wont be necessary to let anybody see you take the books ; in deed, I think I should be careful not to. ma were you, because people might thmk you had taken them without leave, and that would make trouble. I wouldn't get you into trouble for anything ; not iu uij nana. .; . .. . :.;....).... And the old gentleman shook his head. auu uiu,M9u ion on uae snouiaer. I " When shall I come first, sir 1" I i' . . "G.: well, we can becrm now. - T a little book with me this very moment. Just here a door in the lower part of the hbrary opened, and the speaker waited while some person passed through the entry, Tom thought this sudden si lence was singular, and he instinctively looked up to his companion with i some thing like a stare. - . "Polish a little more on the instep, there," quoth the old gentlemanj in an altered tone. As soon as the outer door was swung to, and they were alone again, he re sumed, " I canlay it in yeur box here, so, with your things, and you can carry it with the cover down, all snug" And slipping a small old leather covered book from his pocket as Tom finished his work he hastily showed the boy how to pack it out of sight. , i There, that's all right. Now, if youll no, stop," he reflected. . r " I wont have you take them to the book-bindery di rectly. You take them to that place," and he gave Tom a card on which was written a certain number and a: certain street. .- i - t - " Yes, sir" said Tom, once more, ' " And to-morrow come again, and you of the old boiler a whack. "And what would you do?" asked Tom. Patsey was for going out and telling tne nrst ponceman. riut lorn was longer-headed, ' He knew that he must have more certain evidence of the old gentleman s dishonesty than he could show yet. The two boys talked over the matter, and finally agreed npon a line of action. Tom appeared the next day at the library promptly at 4 p. m., and waited for his new patron. Presently the old gentleman came down beaming as gra ciously as ever, though Tom thought he appeared just a ntue nervous. He patted Tom on the shoulder again, and at once set him to blackinsr his boots. By the time this was done, he had drawn another book from his pocket, and con cealed it in Tom s box. ,. " Carry it just where you did the other one, my boy, said he, and then he gave him some more money and dismissed him with a compliment for his faithfulness. As Tom . passed out of the door, he made a sign to Patsey, who bv aerreement was sitting on a step not far off, and Pat sey nodded a little, but did not move. At half-past four Patsey did move, for ne saw tne old gentleman whom Tom had described come out of the library alone. He followed him. That nieht 11. A 1 . . . . . . . -V two ooys met again in tne old boiler. uuess we ve got nim, said Tom, "JCe're neht," said Pataev. "T waited fur him two hours, and then he come out and wint to the place where ye was tould to lave the book. And I seed him cut ag'in with the book under his arrnm, and he wint sthraight home, car ryin'it the ould fox !" Pleased witli their success thim tar. the boys laid their plans for to-morrow and fell asleep. To-morrow came, and in the afternoon Tom again repaired to the library with his boot-blacking box. The old gentleman appeared, sniiling, um m Bometmng more oi a nurry than UBUIU. "Mere you are," said he. "Here's the little polisher. Never mind the boots now, but here's the fifty cents, and here's the book. Take it to the same place, and mind and say nothing about He put the book in Tom's box exactly as he had done on the day before. ' And how is business to-day, lad ?" in a joking tone. " How is young Hon esty t How- goes the tuneful brush to day, en i ua, Ha I See him blush "- xou are tne one who ought to blush, sir," said a dignified voice from - Pale as ashes, the terrified old man turned and saw the chief librarian and a policeman enter from a side-room, while Patsey Regan, grinning brought up the rear. , ; ".. "Sir," said the lihnunun W;r.r upon the culprit a look of severity, "you have been detected in a flagrant theft, and we now believe von tn ho tv. nmnn who has been stealing books from this nurary ior tne past . two years. Your apartments must be searched (the old uuu nuucu paier Btui f, andfAtne proofs against you will soon, I fear, be clear and convmcinfir. , These two hnnmt hnwn. ene of wnom you endeavored to make your tooi, nave nad the wit to catch you, mm uibv mum ne rewarded as they de- ivuBunan, taKe nun into cus tody." ; . , - v , - luo" wan ao appeal. The old man wept and begged for forgiveness, but the iiDranan was inexorable. Both Tom and . Patsey felt uncomfortable, but the uiuuibu muenrea tnem. - " xou have done well." said he. "You have been true and faithful to what was rignt, and you deserve praise, too, for the shrewdness of your management. Come, with me;1 and so saytagThe led kuoiu uut ui we nau. : xne old taken away by the officer; but on count of his age, and his: past services . . . . . "umrasi vmen ouoe ne unu urau, in tne iiDrary ne was never tried, though,, of course, be was made to restore au tne books ne had stolen. lorn and Patsey were led into the hbrary, and were not only rewarded for what they had done; but found also in the librarian a warm counselor and true inena.wjouMi Companion. JfygsplanaUona. Efer since de hens come der nliell nut vhich laid der egg, vhich Mister Colum bus demonshtrated mit. dot der world vas round like der deuee. der woman hens haf e been eggshtremely reluckdenlr auout ginng vent to dUen feelings, to der eggstent of more as one leedle egg to der day. Dis ecrestensif prodnekahnn (in dheir esdimation') was all dot could Deen reasonably eggspected from veil reckulated female hen. Yell, in dose days, dot may hafe been an eggcellent conclusions to got too. Shtuh vhile we don'd did vant, at der bresent time, to - demonshdrate dr shapes of der vorld. we hafe no-nmlw u much more uses of ' der embryo of a bird, as did dose fellers in der old dimes, vhen it vas eggspected to gif evidences, und proofs, at der eggspense of a hens rebudaaon und eggoentricities. ' I hafe much svmoadv for Ant rlaaa r.t birds, vhich eggshibit so much of dhem- seives, und vhich lay down, se much more asdhey dook ub. Shdill. in di pooty gwick dime, vhen eferydings vas eggspanding. und ef en nadure idself vas ledding oud der abron shdrincrs of ids gwick snwellinar bodv. dor bn -mit eggodistical und eggsbensif varble und lay, must now bractice eggonomy, but be eggreegious in ids productions like any odder child of nadure.' Dot is eggsentiaL reeepdacle vherein eggs should haf e been segreeted. , Jmt much ashdomshments dot hen vas filled. : She vas dink dot she don t haf e done her duly yoost how, und mordified at der " bossible sarkasemneaa vhich might eggshibit itself in her sister nens, sne, mi tout a single gackle, gwietly docks her seat on der nest again, resolv ing to produce or berish in der addempt. Eggs b Inaations 4 Dimes. It was dhruly a beautiful tine, to saw so much of dot shpirite of determinations embodied in der. f hrame work of a hen. Yoost saw der pigture of dot shicken, und blease to ' told me, did you efer in my life saw so much resignations, so much of dot pure shprnd of oonscien- dious .willingness of duty. VelL I'll yoost baed you tree tollars about it. Vy, such a sight like dot vood make a man go right away gwick off und marry a viddow. It vood make a feller valk around mit a meekness dot vas gharao- derisdio of one who had eot a mudder- by-law dot's so. - Yoost once more, again does der accommodating nTncken produce der embryo, . und once more already der egg dot's full mit meat dhrops dhrough der hatchvay, und again der patentee adds annudder one to der many vat he vas hafe in his hat, by in dustry und berseveranoe, und der pride of dot female shicken. But yoost let it been reckermembered by dose who eggs- wwwU- . 1 .1 Ii. - J - Dot " virtue shtops somedhnes to been a forbearance, und der substance of efen a hen might been layed avay. pooty veil out" So look Eggsberience, der mudder tion. of lnfen- Eggsberience. mav hafe Vwwn Act- mn1- der of some infentions, but der f adder uio liuouuuu vas an A.-eyed rJggyp- "an- riom mm ltcnmnl m n. aiiArairrt. line tnrougn der behind fadders und muauers ot Uarl Pretzel, to eggsamine ' und berfect, und now, after much many 1 years oi eggstremely much doil und I shtudy, he has got der shkience to a I system down, und der hen must do in der fudure vat she don'd did nefer done in uer past lay out so many eggs con- uufcser weignt und sntrength. " Eggsblanation 2 Dimes. Somedimes, vhere it vas so shdill dot you could hear a house fall down vhen eferydings vas so lofely, yoost like der summer sun vhen he soes f oolin round ofer shleeping valleys dook your hen- ui una eommenoe ooeramons. ; liar a Dole cut vas a drue pigture of der insh- drument. Azake one yoost like dot. Ofer you dond got der necessary shickens, dots besser you buy one, for it vas bosi- Don d make a mishdook und crot a rooeh- ter, been f ery careful about dot. or vonr .1 r -l . . . . uiuiB vua xooiea out ; vatcn der ockasion, or radder der tunnel vhere der etrc was eggspected to come down, und been ready mit your hat to intercept der onward course of der frail egg in ids mat flight down der inclined lei el of der tunnel. Id regwtres muchnerf und reshpecktability, good eyesignt una Dieasant Oisn position. to shtand id ; please- reckermember ' der old atferb, vhich said, " faind lady don'd can vin some fair heart, und a " rolling sutone vas uer root ox ail evi:. Eggsblanation Eggs-it. Der demoralized condition of der hen. abofe rebresented, was a - shtriking pig ture of man s inhumanity to shicken. Der batent don'd did cofer " gruel ty to nens, dot clause didn d vas set in der charter to der eombanv. Shdill. dot ' vas more eggsbliciuy demonshdrate dor iuii workings of der patent, und snow oonclusiff effidence of ids bower und shdrength, we shduck it in, on ackound we hafe so much derntory to sell. It vas der early indentions of der batentee to make a hens lay about dnree eggs per aay , comes, on ackound dot it , y aunng der ljenten days dot it vas berfected,' der - orders vas more as a ahendlemans mit dwo hens could fill out. : In any odder season, vhen der demand on eggs vas dull, una for der preservation of der bedigree of der hen, you must not allow der shicken to snaddow" herself mit not more as dwo dozen eggs efery day dimes. Abbli ca tion for derritory und hens must been accompanied mit der usual eggschange, und send some orders in to Carl Pretzel. Chicago, HL People aiid "Things. Franch has had nineteen constitutions since 1793. f :- I', - f'fi i.il ;,.- !,'.. Tom Thtthb is thirty -eight years old, but very small for bis age. In all England, Ireland and Scotland there are only 137 daily papers. Thekk are said to be fifty-eeven womest editing newspapers in this country. A Pbovzpxnob (R. L) firm ha: com pleted a $400 rifle for King Kalakaua. - Tan coal fields of Colorado are larger than the whole area of New England. Gbkat Bbitain has but 150,526 acres . in orchards. Illinois alone has twice as many. ; . Two million fish were hatched last yea by the government at the Michigan State ' Fishery.- . - Briohajc Youwe has been re-elected Prophet, Seer, Revelator, and President of the Mormon community. - , Board at all the 'summer resort hotels " will be materially cheaper than last year, and well may we rejoice. Swedes? has no "a-t'nnl debt, and -its surplus revenue, last year, amount ed to nineteen millions ' of dollars. et'sgo. . .f , Tax latest addition to the umbrella is a pane of glass, inserted in the front breadth,' through which the holder can see bis way. "' '-v.-;, Tax last Boston spelling-match was . bothered with such words as cerises, . ptsymagogtachygraph, giaour, tael, eyot, fichus, euchamy, and demoniacal. Baxttmobk ships 50.000.000 cans of . oysters annually. . and 40.000 ' men - are constantly employed in ' sharpening; oysKtr-jEuives and soldering up the ) CanS. '-'i". IT IS almost hopeless to breed hnrnnsi for fast trotters when there have been, but five horses raised in Kentucky in the last fifteen years that have records as low as2:21.''"' " - - Thxbb are hundreds of warehouses in the best part of New York city without ' tenants, and thousands of houses are oc cupied by people who cannot pay their landlords. v , Two ob three dozen of the Boston. docS tors have been investigating the boy ' murderer, Jesse Pomeroy, and, as a re sult, have ' united in a petition to the Governor to hang him. Fbakk Wajcwobth, the parricide, is having fits and other complaints, and the subject of a pardon for him is again at tracting attention. His mother is a daily visitor to her unfortunate son. , 'Am oak tree near Arensberg, in Prus sia, more than a thousand years old, is about to be cut down by its owner be cause of the inconvenience suffered from the numerous visits of strangers to the ' place.;- . - Ex-Senatob Bkvki. of Mississippi. the first colored citizen admitted to the United States Senate, has become a Doc tor of Divinity, and is an active preacher i of the Methodist Episcopal Church of that State. , , Wm. H. Nkvtes. f tiondon. accused of stealing $40,000 from his employers. started out strange countries for to see j and a detective who went after him cap tured him last week ia Brooklyn, after an 8,000 mile pursuit. : Thb TitusvuTe Courier "savs that tha production of petroleum in Western Pennsylvania during the year 1874 would nil a canal thirty feet wide at the toy, fifteen feet at the bottom, seven feet deep, and over seventy-five miles long. . Ax important : company has been formed in England to import live cattlo from Texas to that country, with a capi tal of 5.000.000, Thev will fa&A 1.500 at a load, and load the ing ships with emigrants at low rates of fare. . ..yt . Orrs of the most horrible reports of moral insanity induced by a belief in tha Bupematural pomes from Pinar Del Rio, in the West Indies. A mother, who sup posed herself to be so directed by spirit- rappingB, lore out ner son s eyes and prepared to tear out her own. This was done in the presence of a circle ' of " women who prayed in a loud voioe whilst the hideous operation was being per formed. ..'.'-., ;)-:' .. Spring. . . " Uf all the seasons spring is the most coquettish. She is like .the Princess who stooped and kissed the sleeping poet under the tree, who still slept on but "reamed a different dream. The earth was hardly conscious that spring had come till yesterday, when blue skies dropped ethereal mildness (Thomson) on ner bosom. , It is indeed the time when the young, the rosy spring gives to the breeze her scented wing (Anacre on) and April ; is garlanded with all the fairest flowers and freshest buds the earth brings forth (Spenoeri. ; Well was ' a observed that like an army defeated the- snow hath retreated (Wordsworth) and that the fields with flowers are decked in : ' every hue (Drummoned), though we must not go' out just yet to pull them. The swallow also brines us the season of vernal delight with his back all of ' sable and belly of white (Annonymousl. and t'hivrw are -daffodils which come before the swallow dares and take the winds of March with beauty (Shakespeare). In the spring a brighter crimson : burns upon the robin's breast (Tennyson), and young man's fancy uguuy turns to tnougnts ol love (XDid). V i' 1 h J Eggsblanation 3 Dimes. ', Hisdory repeads idself in din nomnli. men ted cases, " a gackhn hen vas alvays wui uusmess. A veu-lea female nen vas possess yoost enuff refinement to un dershtand dot havinur accomblishedsome- ttng vhich no odder man could do, it youta onaidie her to crow ofer der result. Now hear vas corned der broviso. Vhen a hen vas become atfised dot she, had added an egg to der census of henology, she,, mit a shweed ahmile on her coun de- nance, sht&nds her shtraight on - her foe tees, on her settee, und calmly views der surroundings of der blace, und, yoost orevious to ner depardure from der scene, she mit more as a barrel of ergotism de- bicted on her feadures, und mit a troat dot vas shuck full mit der .innocent gackle, dhrows one eye sideways indo der . ; Singular Bequest. - An old gentleman named 'March died recently in Charlestown, who was a most eccentric genius. Though possessed of some wealth, he had but ene pleasure that of theater-going. He would econo mize in everything else, but always treated himself to a sight of every new play or actor, good or bad. He left no heirs, and few relatives, and his property was digrjomd of in several aincmlar wave. wm V i . : 11 XUc prmcipfu Irani oi uu wui unmuua for the investment of a sum sufficient to realize 8500 per year dear, which was to - "v ,r l be expended in tneacer ticxets, to oe - CX given away to poor, respectable people I A .y j not over one dollar each to be paid for the tickets. The trustees under the win are otherwise given full authority in the carrying out of this provision, and will to-day perform the first act under it, spending the whole sum allowed.. They have selected the Boston Theater, Mu seum, Globe, and Howard, and will fur nish one hundred and twenty-five tickets to each house for any performance de sired by ther parties receiving tnem.- Boston Herald. Thb Najch America. Jules Maroon contributes , to ; the - Monthly inagaaine fori April, an article " on the oruna of the name America, wmon pre sents a view partly new, in that it seeks to wrest the honor from both Columbus and Yespucius. It claims that the name is itself an American word ; that it comes from the name (Amenc) applied in Nica ragua to the mountain . range between Juuralpa and Xiibertad, being in time spread over the whole of the new world. But there is a familiar feature of his theory that which presents the famous (althonprh unknown to any tn eat fame) old : publisher and bookseller of the YoBges, who had heard the word. Americ used by sailors from the new continent, and thus came ; to apply it in his books to the new country which he helped some of them so poorly to describe. Ths Daily Telegraph, of St. Johns, New Brunswick, gives - the mercantile marine of Canada, at the close of 1874. at e.iKis vessels, at a registered tonnage of 1,158,567, which ia an increase for the year of 151 vessels. Of this number. INova Bootia has 2,785, Quebec 1,837, Wew Brunswick 1.144. , Ontario 821 Prince Edward's Island 312, and British Uoiumuia Co., -.Rubber Cenwst. -: There are several kinds of India rubber cement, i The best known is "marin glue.-" A cheaper eement and one that is highly recommended, is made by cut- ' ting a quantity of pore India rubber, in ' m its natural-state, into small pieces, putting them into a wide-moutied bottle and filling it about half full of the purest benzine; the rubber will swell up almost immediately, and if well lttkn -will in a few days assume the consistency ; oi noney. is tne rubber does not dis solve add more benzine. If. when dis solved, the cement is too thin, add more gum. A piece of rubber one inch in ' diameter will make a pint of cement. This dries in a few minutes, and is very useful in uniting pieces of leather, as it is both elastic and durable. In mend ing rubber goods put a patch of rubber over the place to be mended and cement it on . with the solution, which fastens the patch firmly., , .s ,',- .:';;': ' i"Halr''I)ye8V' ,7"' The Health Reformer, while assertinsr that hair dyes are nearly always unsafe, and it would advise not using them, ad mits that there are cases in which the use of some kind of a dye is desirable. in those in which a portion of tha hair has lost its pigment by disease or accident, while the remainder retains its natural color, or in oases of prema ture whitening of the hair. . For use in. ! such cases it would recommend the per. , manganate of potash. . Prepare a strong solution of the salt by dissolving ten or fifteen grains is. an ounce of water. Apply to the hair with brush, bein? eareful to avoid staining1 the skin. Tk; is reputed to be an excellent dye, far su perior to any oi tne patented mixtures. It gives to the hair, a rich' color &&1 ' luster, and does not injure its texture. ' People Should Eat Mer; Fruit, The Herald of Health, in it- mvMs number, has an article ton mvw; v.i Food," which, the writer thinks, is far too sparingly used by everybody. Ms takes some of the priTWjipai hotels in Kew xotk, anu oorapares m ngures th amount of flesh and fruit consumed every wetX Thus the amount of snimid fooil vrt- sumed at the four principal New YciJe hotels, the Fifth Avenue, Gruna Cc. St.' Nicholas and Windiar in round numbers at aim at 70,0'JJ r,c ,m U per week. These ore the &vre- t wr.. ' . ngures, including fish, tlith, f0W, rr -n and oysters.' The given as 900 pounds, wiih 6i5 fnllona of canned fruit. The writer t.taks tU great disparity m the amount of fra ;t otv tiesh eaten is one of the causes ct uUt yw ftn.1 nhvairl dmni;r... .-,.. ; 97 V ' " " 1 WIfilBfcWWi, ' ..:--,