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CAPTCRK OF BCBGOXXK. The following curious satirical effusion m wilt tea and pubbahed shortly after the event it -I lakes to: Here foltowetti the direful fate Of Burgoyne end hia army grot. Who eo proudly did display The terror of despotic away. bia power and pride and many threats Have been brought low by fortunate Oatra. To bend to the Enitsd fttkto. British prisoners by Convention, Foreigner by Contra-ventkm, Toriee sent across the Lake, Burgoyne and his suite, in state, Bwk and wounded, bruised and pounded, Ne'er so much before confounded, f Prisoners of war before Convention, Deserters come with kind intention. They lost at Bennington's great battle, Where Stark's glorious arms did rattle, f WiM In &.nK ....4 fU ' 2,41? 1,1(K1 ia 528 4P0 300 1,220 Taen by bravs Brown, some drunk, some sober. BIsia by higb-famed Herkerman, On both flanks, on rear and van, f Indiana, settlers, butcnere, dravers, 600 413 300 'SLsugu to erowdlarge plains all over, 1 . And those whom grim death did prevent I From fighting against our Continent; And also those who stole away, Lest they down their arms should lay, J Abhorring that obnoxious day whole make fourteen thousand men, Who may not with ms fight sgain. This is a pretty just aoeount Of Burgoyne'a legions' whole amount, Who came across the Northern Lakes To desolate our happy States. Their brass nannona we have got all Fifty -six both great and small ; And ten thousand stand of arms. To prevent all future harms ; Stores and implements complete. Of workmanship exceeding neat; And proper harness, no way scanty. "Among our prisoners there sre Six Generals of f sme most rare; Six members of their Parliament Betuctantly they seem content; Three British Lords, and Lord Belcarraa Who came, our country free to harass, Two Baronets of high extraction Were sorely wounded in the action. 4,413 '14,011 FETCHING AND CARRYING. !' You see," said my great-aunt, ad , dressing; us girls, " it is well nigh thirty ears tbat I followed sewing for a living. X could do tailoring and dressmaking a&id mending and quilting, and such, as well as the best, and so 1 was sent for far and near. Now, suppose I had allowed myself to fetch and carry from house to house whatever I might happen to hear of people's affairs, like some folks, I should have got myself into a muss many's the time. My mother taught me better. Now, Sally, says she, when I first went out to work, be mighty careful how you carry news from bouse to house, or tell what you know of people's private matters, even when it doesn't seem as if it could do the least mite of harm. And she went on to say that some people never liked to have a tailoressor seamstress or even a washer woman around, because some of them are apt to be full of gossip, and to fetch and carry from house to house. Even when there isn't a single thing they are ashamed tot- have known, people like to feel ' that they can keep their private business to themselves. So 'my mother said, and I found it to be exactly so. I thought all the more of it after my mother was dead and gone. Most people seemed to like my way of keeping my self to myself, and again there. were oth- era who acted as if they were really pro voked because they couldn't get any more out of me, and they pestered me to death, hinting, around to see if by putting that, and that together they couldn't make out something without asking-' me outright. There were the two Snuffer girls, Lyddy Ann and Betsy Jane; they wanted to know everybody's business, and were always trying to find out something. And such ridiculous things) now . many, table-cloths the Snowdons used in a week (that was our minister's family), and how much they paid their hired girl a week, and if she ate at the -table with the family. If a stranger came to church with any of the girls, they couldn't listen to the sermon "until they had found out who and what he -was, and the next day they made a toaguiMMs. of" wollri tit information about his family, his property, and . all such. , I always hated to go there to work when any of the girls in Shrewsbury or in the ; towns round were to be married.. They -most generally sent for me to help a spell, and of course I knew pretty much their affairs. But I wasn't going to. tell what the wedding dress was to be, nor' jsist how much it cost a yard, whether they bought it in Boston or Bearer home, nor how many pounds of cake they were goingto make, and all such. The girls said it kind of took the edge off to tell every thing be forehand: they had rather come out new. Well, -when it came time - for Deacon ' Goodman's daughter to be married, there was a greatustir among the girls. ' Ma tildy had lived in Boston considerable with her uncle Joshua, who was rich and lived in a good deal of style, and so the girls all expected that her outfit would be something pretty handsome ; and so it was. Why, her wedding-dress, with her gloves and slippers and little notions, cost well nigh thirty dollars! Matildy said 'herself that aro thought a part of the money ought to be given to the mis sionaries, but then it was a present from her uncle,' and so there was nothing to be said. " I was going there to help about gome matters, and so I happened to say that there would be a great curiosity surwrng the young people to know the particulars of the wedding. . Lawful sakes ! says Mrs. Goodman, do dear, tell them all they want to . know ;' and Matildy said the same, for she wasn't in the least stuck up. They were only waiting for Spring to get home from Oho. . That was a cousin of Matil- ' dy's who was going to stand up with her He was named Aminadab, after his . grandfather; but as people who had known him. from a baby would keep on calling him Minny, and the young men - called him Dab, his folks - concluded to call him by the. last name Spring.. I aid to Mrs. Goodman thai she would missMatildv-waenaha came to go away. - for good. Oh yes, of course ; but she went on to say that she and the deacon might go with tl young folks to Bos ton, and that would make it seem not ma sudden. Matildy was very suixkms to have them go md stay until - az tear xaasKsgivtsss-i t '1fTrT Tr" d that his wife should go, but he said, thai withhia rheumatism andsome chores 1 had to do oa the farm, he thought he had better stay t home and see to things. His wife would hardly agree to this. She aid it would be the first tune they had . been separated for thirty years, and, as the deacon said, the tot fame they ever had a serious- disagreement ; and he laughed as if it was an Tineommon good joke. " ' Well as I left-the deacons with anch a budget of news that I was at hberry to tell, thinks I to myself I shall be qmits a welcome visitor at some bouses I know of. . As it happened, I wa going to work for the Snuffers the very nextday.and so I, should have a chance to make up, in a manner, for be ing so close-mouthed, as they called me, by speaking out for once as free as other folks. iV'-v ' " I trot there the next morning rather i.--ore they expected me. and as I stood ready to knock at the side door I heard my name, and : waited a moment. A window was pea, and as one of the - gila was laying the table ia the kitchen, aad tie otHr out ia the back-room irone tegs, they epeka pretty toad toeach other, and I eoaLi hx every word they said, tliOtr'Th icy Cia't fcsar me knock and fcracj.' Caof them said, Don't tell jaa about Sail Barker's prudence, and her being so mighty conscientious and all that I warrant you she is as glad to poke that great long nose of hers into qiher people's business as anybody, and ib is oiuy uecauae bjuo i b - sue lutes to Keep wings kj uchku. feels so important when she has some great secret that she can keep from eve rybody else t It is the way she takes to pester folks.' And she went on about old maids in a way that was scandalous. But I am not going to repeat it. You may be sure that I felt pretty well riled up, and I had half a mind to go straight home; but I had sent my goose and lap Doard along, for I had a jacket to press off for Reuben- Snuffer, and so I con cluded to put down the old Adam, and go right in. I ought to explain that what set Lyddy Ann out so fierce was that her mother had been taking her to do f er letting out some secrets that had made mischief, and she had held me up as a pattern. Everybody knows that nothing makes some people dislike you more than to have some other people al : ways praising you. Well, I went in and ! sat down to breakfast, and they had a buttermilk cake that Lyddy Ann had made and baked on a board before the fire on purpose for me, because she knew I liked them so much. There are some folks who always like to have you eat their victuals even if they "hate you. I ate it and praised it, though I hadn't so much appetite as common, for I kept thinking abeut my great long nose, and of being called an old maid. " We sat pretty much without speak- ihg for a spell, for the girls mistrusted ! that I overheard them, talk; but before long Betsy Jane gave a little hem to clear her throat, and observed that they must be middling busy down at Deacon Goodman's if Matildy was to be married in a week or two. I said, ' she isn't to be married till spring comes; and I was going on to tell the rest, but they didn't give me time to finish. " Not till spring ! AYhat on earth could that meant' Now what possessed me I couldn't telL I don't pretend to say that I did right; but vou inust re member that it was only halfan hour since I had heard myself nicknamed and called an old maid, just Because I wouldn't tell all I knew. VtfU, ' says I, strange things happen sometimes. You haven't heard that the deacon and his wife have had a disagreement, and are talking of a separation.' Iow, mind, I didn't tell them that I had heard so;. I only said that they hadn't heard it. Of course thev were amazed beyond all ac count. They couldn't say much, but Did I ever ! and 4If that doesn't beat all I ever did hear in my born days !' Their mother wasn't a talking woman, and she asked me if I didn't think there must be some mistake. I said time would show. But the girls said they had noticed for some time how red Mrs. Goodman's eyes had looked, ,i , and now it was an explained. "It wasn't long after, as I sat by a window at work, I spied Liyddv Ann, with a shawl over her head, slipping across from their side gate into Miss Jones and in another half hour I saw one of the Jones girls, with a shawl and cape bonnet, going across the road ; and before dinner I counted half a dozen cape bonnets going hither and yon. 'Well, the long and the short of it was, that by the end of two days there wasn't a man or woman in Shrewsbury that hadn't heard that Deacon Goodman and his wife had had a great quarrel, that Mrs. Goodman had cried her eyes out, and the "fah between Josiah and Ma tilda, was all broken up. Old Deacon Walker was greatly ex ercised in his mind when he found there was no such thing as putting down the rumor, for he was a peaceable man, and he and Deacon Goodman had served the same communion table for many a year. He couldn't bear to go to his brother about such unpleasant business, though he didn't believe the stories. After making it a subject of prayer, he con cluded it was better that the minister should take it in hand, and so to the minister he went. Parson Snowdon didn't believe the stories. It wasn't long since he called at the deacon's, and all was pleasant enough at that time. Still, he hated rumors and he hated mis understandings, and he would go and put a stop to such goings on his parish. So that afternoon the parson's old yellow chaise went jogging and teetering along the road to Xleacon Goodman's house. He hitched his horse, and then rapped at the front door, instead of going to the side porch as usual, and Nancy that was their hired girl supposing that he must have some solemn business, took him into the great solemn parlor, where, I .venture to say, no one of the family sac down-' six times in a year. The deacon was out doing some fall planting. Tn wife brought out his other coat and helped him -spruce up a ' little, and then he went, with a little cough and hem or two, and feeling very stiff, into the great stiff room. -' How d'ye do. Parson Snowdon f Glad to see you. And how is your wife t . The parson and his wife were both pretty smart, and how was the deacon and his wife I Well, both clev erly, except that the deacon's rheuma tism held on in spite of his srood wife's great care of him, and she herself was troubled with weak eyes. . They looked red and watered all the time, and pained her considerable. The parson had no ticed along back that her eyes had looked red. and be was afraid tnat sue was tast ing on, maybe, about losing Matildy. so soon. welu no : it wasn t exactly tnat. for Matildy was going to wait a while till ner cousin fcjpnng got Home, ana tnen. very likely, his wife would go to Boston to stay with her while she set up house keeping. And he told the rest, about her wishing him- to. go with her, and about their, never having been separated since they were married, and he repeat ed his little joke about their never hav ing had tk-dtiasireement before. "'Ine parson s face grew broader and shorter, and presently, as the full light broke in, he brought down bis foot with a stamp, and threw back his head, and laughed, so - long and loud that Nancy declared that if Parson Snow don wasn't a master-hand to laugh, then she di n't know: and Mrs. Goodman ventured to show herself to ask him not to go home without taking along a few notions for his wife. The chaise box was packed with fill sweetings, a pair of chickens, half a pack of doughnuts, and cheese to go with them; and soon the parson, in the best of hxunors, went tee tering bomeward. ; " The whole matter was soon , ex plained, and the stories traced to the Snuffer girts. ...They were dreadfully cut up, and laid the 'whole on my shoulders; but nobody else blamed me; and as for Betsy Jane and Lyddy Ann, they knew it wouldn't: do a mite of good to ke-p put out with me. It was only cutting off their own noses. for they conldn t do' without me, any way. The best of it was when Lyddy Ann came to ne genang ready aa of sudden, to marry "a widower with -five children, and didn't want a soul to know of it till the last minute, especially as she had always declared that she never would rrirry a widower no, not if she had to live an LI maid till the day of her death and the gins would never be done hectoring her! "Now, girls, let me give you one piece of advice; never be telling beforehand who you will or who you won't marry. According to my way of thinking, it is more prudent and more modest to wait uBtilyou are asked. " As for Lyddy Ann, she owned that I was all right in keeping things to myself, and that she had been ' ugly in running out so against me; and she went on to say that she had learned one lesson from me, and one that she should try to in doctrinate her step-children with, and that was, not to fetch and carry from house to house what they might happen to see and hear." Harper's Bazar. Freezing to Death, j Our readers have from time to time, during the past rigorous winter, seen published accounts of many persons be ing frozen to death in the Northern and Northwestern State, of the Union. Sad as these events must always be, yet there are commonly accepted notions relative to' such a death which are entirely erro neous. To be frozen to death many suppose must be a frightful torture, judging of their own experience of the effects of cold. Here we fall into the usual error of thinking that the suffering will- increase with , the energy of the agent, which could' only be the case if the sensibility remained the same. The truth is, intense cold brings on speedy sleep, 'which fascinates the senses ana thus fairly beguiles men out of their lives. , . 1 A case in point will illustrate this. A small party of hunters, accompanied by a Swedish doctor named Menander, in northwestern Alaska, numbering in all nine persons, were lately overtaken by a blinding storm, and remained so long exposed that . five out of the nine per ished, being actually frozen! to1 death, and among them' was the doctor. Dur ing most of the time Menander, knowing well the deceptions of a rigorous climate, cheered on the little party, and, in defi ance of the inevitable lassitude which overcomes people under such circum stances, made the men keep moving. " Whoever sits down will die," he said to his comrades, "and whoever sleeps will perish." The poor doctor spoke as a well-informed and scientific student; but, alas t at the same time he felt as a man, and, in spite- of the remonstrances of those whom he had instructed and alarmed, he was the first to he down and die! This calls to mind the famous retreat of the French army from Moscow, where the warning was repeated thousands of times by the officers to the ; staggering soldiers; but the terrible fascination to stop, if but for one- moment, and . rest, was too powerful to resist in a vast num ber of instances, and whole army corps found a frigid grave upon the surface of the frozen snow. Allison, tne lustonan, relates his own experience as to the cold. Desiring to understand the matter fully, he tried the experiment of sitting down in his open garden when the thermome ter was six degrees below zero, at night, and so quickly did the drowsiness come stealing over nim, tnat lie declared lie wondered how a single man of Napo leon's army, in that awful retreat, had been able to resist the treacherous influ ence. New York Weekly. Gentlemen's Fashions. A writer in the Home Journal says of geatlemen's spring fashions : " The principal novelties for spring wear are in fancy checked suitings of ; wnicn tne Knickerbocker is the leading one. They are made up in the new style of a single breasted thred-buttoned sack-coat,- or two-button morning-coat. In point of novelty the three-button sack-coat has the preference. It is cut of medium length, and shaped so as to define the figure smartly ; the top button is rather high, and the fore part is sufficiently cut away from the third button to display the waistcoat. There are four outside patch pockets, and the coat is always worn with the three buttons buttoned. The sleeve is finished with a single hole and button, and stitched round the bottom to correspond with tne edges. The waistcoat is made single-breasted, with out a collar, cut long, and with four out side patch-pockets, to match the coat. The two-button morning-coat, from fancy suitings, is cut of good length, and made with flaps on the hips and pockets under, and one outside breast-pocket, patch and button, or with a welt. The waistcoat , single-breasted, with a step collar. : Trousers are cut straight and full to the leg, with side-pockets and welt on the side-seams, without any spring at the bottoms, and fall naturally on the boot. For better wear the frock coat is still the leading garment, the principal change being that it is now sometimes made to wear four buttons buttoned. This style, however, is likely to be more popular in yttgiamf, where the climate will better admit of its being worn, than here. They are worn somewhat shorter in the skirt than during the winter, but still of good length. The lapels are cut rather bold and inclined to droop a little as the top, with silk breast facings to the button-holes and edges fiat braided, or plain facings and bound narrow.' A white double-breasted waistcoat is worn with this coat to show above the turnover of the lapel, and the trousers of a medium colored stripe in a neat pattern. : In En gland it is. very general to wear rough cheviot checked trousers with a frock coat, especially for morning wear. . 1 1 .. i Do Sot Eat Raw Eggs. One of the most common prejudices of housewives and mothers is that hard" eggs are difficult to digest, especially the white, and thai the less they are boiled the better they are for weak and dyspep tic scomaens. ine reverse is me case, as there is more danger of raw and soft white of an egg passing through the di gestive apparatus without being really digested than when thoroughly boiled and hard ; in fact then it constitutes a most excellent food for dyspeptics, as ex perience is proving. ' A ' writer in the Medical Journal says : We have seen dyspeptics who have suffered untold tor ments with almost every kind of - food. No liquid could be taken without suffer ing ; bread became a burning add ; meat and milk were solid and liquid fires. We have seen these same sufferers trying to avoid food and drink and even going to the enema syringe for sustenance. And we have seen their torments pass away and their hunger relieved by living upon the white of eggs which had been boiled in bubbling water for thirty minutes. At the end of the week we have given the hard yolk of the egg with the white, and upon this diet alone, without fluid of any kind, we have seen 1 them begin to gam flesh , and strength and refreshing sleep. After weeks of this treatment they have been able, with care, .to begin upon other food." And all this, the writer adds, without taking medicine. He says, what we also have always main tained, thai hard-boiled eggs are not tif so bad as half -boiled ones and ten times as easy to digest as raw eggs ; and we have no doubi thai an animal may be starved to death by eating only the raw white of an egg, for the same reason that dogs have been starved by eating gelatin aloue. Only toothless babies can digest soft food, such as milk. Jan f&ctuter ana Xiuuaer. A Reminiscence of the Early Use of An--, thracite Coal. v A local correspondent of the Pitts burg Commercial writes : -" Anthracite coal was discovered in Pennsylvania soon after the settlement -of the Wyoming Valley, but its first practical use was by Obediah Gose, in his blacksmith shop, in the year 1J68. . In 1791 Philip Ginter discovered anthracite on the Jjehigh. In 1802 Robert Morris,, of Philadelphia, formed a company, and purchased 6,000 acres of the property on which Ginter discovered the coaL The coal company was called The Lehigh Coal Mine.' This company opened the mine, and found the vein to be fifty feet thick, and of the very best quality of coal. The company made every . effort to secure a demaad for the coal, but without suc cess, and having become thoroughly dis gusted with their speculation, leased the 6,000 acres of this mammoth coal field to Messrs. White & Hazard, of Phila delphia, for twenty years, at an annual rental of one ear of corn. Messrs. White & -Hazard tried to use the coal in the blast furnace in 1826, but failed ; the furnaces chilled. In 1831 Neilson con ceived the idea of the hot blast for sav ing fuel, and in 1833 David Thomas adapted the idea of the hot blast and anthracite together. White & Hazard had, previous to this, formed a company and bought the property. In 1839 David Thomas made the use of anthra cite for making pig metal a success, by which the twenty - ears of corn were transferred into $20,000,000. And this is the early history of the great Lehigh coal mines of the ' present day. I re member well the banquet given by Burd Patterson and Nicholas Biddle at Mount Carbon, in 1840, at which time they paid William Lyman, proprietor of the Pio neer Furnace, $5,000, the premium they had offered for the first successful use of anthracite coal as fuel in the blast fur nace. But David Thomas was the lion of the day. , It was he who showed them how to do it, and hale and hearty to-, day, as then, he stands a worthy repre sentative cf science. Long may he hve, and peaceful be bis death, and may the memory of his deeds never be forgotten by Pennsylvania. He is a master me chanic), and I should be pleased to see the Chair ef Mettallurgy in the Me chanics High School of Pennsylvania, marked Thomas." ; . A Sew Postal Burden. The provisions which, at the very end of the recent session of Congress,- Sena tor Hamlin, of Maine, succeeded in foist ing upon an appropriation bill to double the rates of postage upon all matter of third class, usually called " transient," has awakened . intense indignation in every part of the country, and among all classes of people. And this indignation is just, whether viewed in its relation to the provision itself or. to the" way -in which its passage is understood to have been secured. - The new law, while it will increase the profits of the express companies, imposes an onerous burden upon the people, who will demand its repeal at the earliest possible day. It is a law which every cit izen will hate, and which must grow more odious with every day's experience. Even if it had been so worded as to double the rates of postage only upon merchandise, it would still have been odious ; for the express companies could urge no argument in its favor that would not be equally potent if offered to show that the Postoffices should all be abolished and the business of carrying letters and newspapers confided to them selves. The law as it stood before this change was a great accommodation to the people, and well calculated to make the Postoffice Department popular. .The express companies had no legitimate ground of complaint, and Congress should have turned a deaf ear to their insidious pleadings. , That any member of Congress sold his vote we do not af firm, but we do say when a great mon opoly sends its agents to Washington well supplied with monev and succeeds by a trick in getting the legislation it asks for, there is ground for the suspi cion that some of our legislators think less of the public welfare than of their own private interest. Christian unton. Utilities. Camfhok is said to be an antidote strychnine. The fumes of a brimstone match will remove berry stains from a book, paper, or engraving. ; Oxyp of manganese added to the soil in which the hydrangea grows will cause the flowers to turn from pink to parpie, DtjhabtjB colors can be prepared eco nomically, according to the JSnglish Mechanic, by mi ring small portions of sulphate of iron, nitrate of manganese, and nitrate of cobalt, or sulphate of cop per, with a solution ef sulphate of zinc. The mixture is then reduced to dryness, and subjected to sufficient heat to drive off the sulphuric acid. The colors pre pared by this process are greens, grays, punts, and gold. 3 It is suggested thai ice may be easily produced in mad winters by filling suit ably constructed sheet-iron vessels to the depth of about an inch with water, which will soon freeze, even when the tempera ture is but little below 'the freezing point. Bv reoeatinsr the addition of water as the first portions become I frozen, blocks of clearest ice, six inches thick, may be formed during a night and when tile temperature by day is suit able, a single laborer will be able to fill a large ice-house - in a short time. By pouring water winch has been cooled in the vessels nearly to the freezing point over the ie after ' it has been packed, at -rentable intervals, when the tetnpera ture of the air is below the freezing point, a compact mass of ice may be found of more value for use than a much larger quantity loosely packed. Even in winters favorable to the production of ice, the above method may be found the most convenient and- the cheapest for filling ice-houses. ' :- fc Transient Newspaper Postage. The new postal law which is a fair sample of the legislative capacity of the x ortv-third fjosurress ia severely ooi deputed by the daily press of the country. and for two reasons." First, because it imposes an unreasonable tax on transient newspapers. Second, because it affects the daflv press, thereby reducing their sales. Now, we cannot but smile at this lend whine of the daily journals on tne excessive tax- on transient newspapers. It proves that when their ox is gored they have a wonderful sympathy for the public, and an honest sincere contempt for Congressional stupidity. Bat when Concrrees snrrtrised every sane man and woman in the - conn try by making the publishers of newspapers prepay the post age for their subscribers, the daily press "had nothimr to say. Why I Beeas nine-tenths of the daily newspapers are circulated outside the mails are aenv ered bv carriers wid sold by ne wsdealers. The burthen fell almost solely on the weekly press and a very serious burthen it is, especially to those of large eircuhv uon. ivoansoexet tc M) Jt airuM. Niaoaba Faus is to have a daily paper during the summer The -First General Pneumatic Mall Sys tem Opened in Vienna.. On 'Sunday. February " 28, the pneu matic mail system was opened for pub lic use in the city of Vienna, and for the few days of its Working it appears to have been eminently satisfactory. By this method, letters and packages, not xceediner two ounces in weight,' ca be sent from one end of the city to the other a distance of about eight miles in something less than two seconds, so that, adding to this the time necessary for making up packages, assor ing them, and delivering them, the whole is just about an hour.' But this only covers ex treme distances, and managers of this system in Vienna say that in a short time the time , between receipt and delivery will be greatly reduced. In fact, be tween stations only two or . three miles distant from each other, such packages are even now delivered- within twenty minutes after being deposited. Any Postmaster in the city, or. Postmaster- General, who would inaugurate such a reform, in the local mail arrangements of the metropolis, might acchieve immortal fame. As the general Postoffice in . Vi enna is also in the building of the gen eral telegraphic office, powerful steam engines are constantly at work compres sing atmospheric air in a mammoth res ervoir, from which the double system of ' cast-iron- pipes, laid three feet under the surface of the streets, are fed. One sys tem of pipes serves for carrying pack ages, and the other for pushing them ahead in the other direction. At the seven principal stations, in various parts of the city, similar engines are kept at work day and night drawing the air from the pipes and creating a vacuum in iront of the packages, .which are thus more rapidly pressed forward by the expansive force of the compressed air behind them. The sixty sub-stations are connected not only with the two central offices but also with each other by this double system of pipes. The dispatch of each package is announced by telegraph to the office to which it is sent, and to all intervening offices to advise the latter not to stop it on its way. The pipes are six inches in diameter, with a perfectly smooth pol ished inner surface, and the packages are made up in India rubber cylinders, of va rious lengths. The postage on mail mat ter must be prepared at the rate of two kreutzers, one cent, for each half ounce or . fraction, which is evidently much cheaper than- the two cent postage for city letters in this country. This is the first instance of a large city Vienna has about 900,000 inhabitants giving its people such facilities of correspondence at moderate cost. Posture. In standing, the true posture is the up right one with the heels together, or nearly So, and the toes turned out at an angle that is easy, and gives a strong base support, to the body... The arms when not in use should hang evenly, by the side, or be folded on the chest. In sit ting, the spine should be kept straight, and the hips and knees only bent. Sup pose you try stansling in the way I tell you, and, to be sure that you are upright, stand with your heels against the wall of the room. Now if your hips, shoulders, and the back of your head touch the wall, you are upright. Maintain this attitude and go before a large glass and see how straight vou are. Try and get into the habit of maintaining this posture when standing, walking or running ; and after a while it will be easy for you. Now sit-down in your chair as you generally do, sprawled out over half the room, so nobody can get by vou without falling over your feet and legs, and ask your mother mow she would like to have you always take up so much room in the world. ' Then try sitting up-' right, and see how she likes that. Try both ways before the glass and see if you don't like the upright position best. Some people think it a sign of weakness to look much in the glass ; but I should like to have one side of every room, from the floor half-way to tne top, a large mir ror, so people could see their own be havior and attitude in it all the time. I believe they would be ashamed of them-1 selves whenever they saw anything wrong, and learn to do better. One reason why many people are so mean is because they never see themselves. They don t know how badly they do act. A very larse lookuur clas& in their room would help them a good deal. Fancy. for instance, a large bey or girl quarrel ing right before a large mirror. They would laugh themselves into good nature at once, or else go off and hide for shame. Then again, if people could always see themselves in a large mirror they would like their good deportment so well that they would want to repeat it constantly. Bicaiy, aeiormea ana ugiy people never want to look at themselves in the glass. Uprightness of the body is not the only thing to look after. There is an up rightness ef mind that thiTilrs! and acts correctly, thai does what is right, tells the truth, and is kind and tender of the feelings of others. There is a verse in the Bible which every boyjknd girl should remember and practice, and which reads : Mark the perfect man and behold the upright, for the end of thai peace. " Herald of Health. man is Row a Lady Should Sit on a Horse. xno uieai ox a nne norsewoman is erect without being rigid, perfectly square to the front, and, until quite at home in the. saddle, looking religiously between her horse's ears. The shoulders should be perfectly square, but thrown back a little, so as to expand the chest and make ' a hollow waist, -" such as is observed in waltzing," but always flexi ble. On the flexibility of the person above the seat all ; the grace of equestri anism, and on the firmness below all the safety, depend. Nervousness makes both men and women poke their heads iorwaro m stupid tnck in a man, u&. 4 pardonable in s woman. A lady should bend like a willow in a storm, always re turning to an easy yet nearly upright position. This seat should be acquired while the lady's horse is led, first by handV then . with a leading-stick, and finally with a lunging-rein, which will give room for cantering in circles. . But where a pupil ia encumbered with reins, a whip, and directions for guiding a horse, she may be excused for forgetting all about her seat or her position. The arms down to the elbows should hang loosely near but not fixed to the sides, and the hands, in the absence of reins, may rest in front of the waist. , Nkw Yosk Tribune .- ' There is likely to be a good deal of brimstone in the air in Ohio during the next campaign. Gov. Allen, according to the Bepublican journals, indulges in profanity to that extent that it passes out under the door of his room in a blue fog whenever he becomes excited. The Hon. B. F. Wade has always had the reputation of being an expert in the same way, and Mr. John Bobinson, the circus man, whom the Republicans have nominated for Mayor of Cincinnati, is said to use expressions which would knock the "bark off a hick ory tree. Messrs. Moody and Sankey should come home from London and, with Mr Varley, concentrate at once up on Ohio. - Marriageable Ages In Different Conn--.: tries. In Austria the age of discretion, both for males and females, is 14, and unless this age has been reached by both par ties, the marriage is not valid. In llussia 18 for males, and 16 for fe m&XoSs "' ; ' "" ' r In Italy 18 for males, and 15 for fe males.' ' J ' '' In Prussia 18 for. males, and 14 for females. ', ;'' '' . In France 18 for males, and 15 for females. ' ... In Bavaria the rule is different in dif ferent districts; in one being as low as 14 for males, and 12 for females. In Denmark 20 -for males ; io ior females.' ' ' v''-'"' ".- In Greece 14 for males; 12 for females. Tn Hesse-Darmstadt and Baden the consent of parents is necessary to males until their 25th year, and to females until their 21st. ?V ... In Saxe Coburg Gotha the law is some what curious about marriage. The gen eral rule is, that a man cannot marry un til he is 21; .but an exception is some time made, by grant of the government, upon petition, where the parents of the young man are unable, from age or other ' cause, to manage the farm or tneir dusi ness, whatever it may be, and it is deemed that the assistance of a young wo.un will j be useful in the household not, we pre sume exclusively in playing the piano. In the American union marriage is regulated by the different States, al though Congress has assumed to prohibit polygamy. .Not only are the required ages different, but the degrees of rela- j tionship within which marriage is per mitted. In some states - an uncle and niece are allowed by law to marry each I other. The Oldest Congressmen Sow Living. The Hon. Horace Binney, aged 95, of Philadelphia, Pa., was born in that city Jan. 4, 1780. He ' represented Pennsylvania in Congress from leftxi to 1855. - - - ' - The Hon. Willard Hall, of Wilming ton, DeL, was born in Massachusetts, Dec. 24, 1780, thus making him 94 years. He is the oldest in point of service, hav ing served in Congress, from Delaware, from 1817 to 182L The Hon. Artemus Hale, of Bridge- water, Mass., is in his 92d year, having been bom in that State Oct. 20, 1783. He was a member of Congress from Mas sachusetts from 1845 to 1849. The Hon. Perkins King, aged 91, of Cairo, Greene county, N, Y., is a native of Massachusetts, where "he was born Jan. 12, 1784. He represented New York in Congress from 1829 to 1831. The lion. Joseph Johnson, of .Bridge- ! port, W. V., in his 90th year, was born : in Orange county, N. Y-, Dec. 19, 1785. lie represented Virginia in congress from 1823 to 1825, from 1835 to 1841 and 2845 to 1847. The Hon. George GrennelL of Green field, Mass., in his 89th year, was born in that State Dec 25, 1786. He was a mem ber of Congress from Massachusetts from 1829 to 1839. The Hon. Joseph GrinnelL of New Bedford, Mass., in his 87th year, was born in Massachusetts, No. 17, 1788; he was a member of Congress from 184d to 1851. The Hon. Daniel Sturgeon, of Union- town, Pa., in his 86th year, having been born Oct. 27, 1789, was a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1840 to 1851.; , The Source of Salt. The sea depends on the disintegration of rocks on land for salt. Bains wash it and hold it in solution as particlea are liberated by violence, decompositiom, and gradual action of many natoral loroes. AH streamlets and rivers, therefore, are constantly transporting salt to the sea. If there is more than can be held in solu tion, then it accumulates in masses at very deep points.' Thus the salt mines of Poland and the vast horizontal beds of pure salt in Texas, as well as that mountain of rock salt in St. Domingo, were collected at the bottom of ancient seas, which are now dry land remote from water. There are places in Africa where the process of disintegration of salt from the rock is regularly going on, but there is not water power enough to force it on ward to the sea. ' Hence the particles arc spread abroad and mixed with the soil The negroes of Northern' Africa having discovered its distribution where there is no water to dissolve in the ground, leach it. In that way they separate the salt. Salt pervades the earth. It exists in the grasses and most vegetable pro ducts on which animals feed. In that way they derive enough- in most coun tries to meet the demand of their natures. They require as much, as civilized humanity. With them salt is necessary, as with ourselves, for keeping the organs of vision' in good condition. Stop the supply and blindness would ensue. Opposing' Emigration. The Berlin correspondent of the Lon don Times writes: Emigration to Amer ica having very much decreased of late, the Berlin Government, who have long looked with disfavor upon the steady diminution of the nations! resources in volved in the movement, have determined to profit by the present 'opportunity rj stemming tne uae. x ne two principal measures to be adopted are the aismem berment of the immense crown lands of Prussia and the prohibition to enlist em igrants on foreign aoeount at a premium of so much a head. By the former meas ure poor people are to be enabled to ac quire a few acres and a house which they may call their own, the latter step being intended to put a final stop to the bus iness of Brazilian and other foreign agents bent upon luring people into mis ery. -There is no doubt that this deter mination of the Prussian government will shortly begin to bo felt in America and elsewhere; ' , .. -,; ... ; T .: ; A FEBTjjBBAXJrao Danlmry man, who cannot sleep on his back without conjur ing np a series of distressing figures and situations, has hit upon a singularly ef fective plan to prevent getting in thai po sition during the night. The contriv ance consists of a tack driven through a shingle. The shingle is fastened to his back loosely, and when he turns over from his side the tack is driven into his back, and he at once springs into the air and a wattes when he comes down. ; The first night he bounded up a distance of eight feet, and pulled all ths clothes off his wife, but it awoke him almost in stantly. He is getting more used to the sensation now, and rarely jumpa- over mree ieet wncn the tacK strikes him. - ittABsiK JUrrcaKnTj, the popular and versatile actress, will commence an en gagement at McVicfcfix's Chicago Theater on the 19th inst. This little lady first sonationsof "Fanchon, " Little Bare foot," etc, but in her riper years she develops talents of an entirely different wruer, ana tne itocuester democrat pro nounces ner rendition of V Jane Eyre' as nnequaied, the tendereet emotions and the most stormy passions being por trayed with a fidelity to nature that brings tears to the eyes of her auditors. All Sorts. . Despot - acts of Parliament English women , and girls of. tender year continue to labor in the brick fields like-slaves.- . ; ' ' Mb. Forsyth, M. P., says the pros pects of the woman suffrage movement' m ISi'glaaJI wetO" never brighter than they are now. :'i !. - " -r :' Air eminent French physician declares' that the decrease of dyspepsia in France is owing to the; number of apples eaten by the people. . , , ? Bbhtoh, Me'. , enjoys the distinction of being the first town in the United Statea to elect a School Board composed en tirely of women. - Caxjtobmia aspires to bea great cot ton manufacturing State, and hopes to supply China- with cotton goods mere cheaply than England can. Tbkrk is a irtove in use 'now at New town Friend Meeting ' House, Delaware county, N. Y., wluoh bears date of 1715, and is therefor is. its one hundred and sLattieth year, . . , Rev. Johiah Henson, the original Mrs. Stowe's " Uncle Tom " of the fa mous " Cabin," took part in a concert at Boston, recently, singing a plantation melody of his younger days. "J. Ghat Pack with my box five dozen quills." There is nothing remark able about this sentence, only that it im . nearly as short as one can be con struct' and yet contain, all the letters of the al phabet. . GxsoBOiA has shunned the chief diffi culties of usury laws by enacting that as . high as twelve per cent, may be taker by special con tract, while seven is still to be "understood" as the legal rate in ordinary causes. . A short-horned steer was recently butchered in Detroit that weighed 4,109 pounds alive, and yielded 3,000 pounds of dressed beef. This is believed to be ths largest animal ever slaughtered far beef on this continent. ' It was so excessively cold in Jenr salem during the past winter thai far the first time in the present ceneration iee - was formed. The Arabs, having never seen ice before, were sorely puzzled anal could not comprehend why ' water should change into glass." A " Woman's temperance crusade has been started in India. A small band, of ladies in Calcutta have been holding; religions services in the drinking saloons. frequented by sailors' in Bow Bazar. - meeting with but little opposition from the saloon keepers. A tramp in a New Haven lock-up ware. recently overheard describing to a crowd. oi ms oretnren the best places for lodg ings and food between New York and Boston, illustrating his remarks with a . rough chart which he had prepared av the result of hia experiences. On Feb. 28, the pneumatic mail sys tem was opened for public use in the city of Vienna. By this method letters and packages not exceeding two onncesi -in weight can be sent from one end . of the city to the other a distance of about eight miles in" something less:' than two seconds. Thxbb will be about 100 vacancies? among the cads andshipmen at the Naval Academy, to be fitted' at the annual ex amination in June next. Members of the House of Representatives, whose dis tricts are not represented at the Academy are making1 their nominations to the Sec- BSHSl. J V Ml? AVWlJ Frva members of the senior class at Harvard intend forming a party to travel on foot through Ireland. England. Frajje Switzerland, Germany and Italy. . They, propose to start immediately after Com mencement, and be absent about a year. . They will take passage over by steerage., and return by cabin. USpocrasy. - Hipokrasy ia one ov the lowest price! sins in market. Hypokrits, without meaning it, an A without even suspekting it, pay to vir tew one ov the finest komphments she ever receives, for they acknowledge her power and simplicity, when they arrow their wolfish forms m her lambs wool. Hipokrasy ia not only a grate wicked ness, but a dredphull phoohsh one too, for it kosts dubble the time and pashunce to be a cunning nave that it duz to be -honest. , Thare would be a poor excuse, at least -for practicing hipokrasy, if this vile arti fice ever did sukoeed in eskaping detekr shun, but sonar or at last we bav seen-air ovrenny kind brought to grief., .-. .. ... j It iai very rare, if ever, that a crinaoor deceit is buried with its perpetrator, and thare iz hardly enny thing that ix. dishonest which the worid dispizes more and will work harder to dotekt than hi pokrasy. v ttipofarasy, nae impudense. iz a cer tain sign ov weakness, and like impn-. dense, too, iz aSwuss a sorry kowardL These -two moral vagrants are ofteir found in each others company, but az a. general thing hipokrasy iz too mean to world humble, but devilish. Neat to stealing stands hipokrasy. two sins that I don't beleave the devil him self feels proud ov.-oA Billings. - - A Cosy Betreatv A raid was maoe on the illicit distil lers in Southwest Virginia, several weeks: ago, and a number of them captured. One offender, with a romantic turn of" mind, had discovered a commodious cave, through which meandered a crys tal: stream of water. Above it u a largo hollow tree, with a number of large limbs reaching out from, the parent, stem. The. enterprising manufacturer of the ardent spiriia liad managed to eon vert this hollow tree into a chimney , through which the smoke from the dis tillery passed ia indistinct clouds, being; diffused in unnoticed quantities to th limbs and out into the air. He had all the paraphernalia of a first -clans distil lery, and was quietly squeezing the juice from the cereals secluded and apart from the vulgar, prying, meddlesome outrode world, when officious myrmidons of th law interfered with his pestinv. . a-1 m' . , . i. .,- I.,. CiraxocB Pkehomenox. A curiouss phenomenon was noticed during a re cent balloon accent by two experienced French aeronauts of thorough scientific; WWUUUCUM. iO AUMJJUIT1 " Fonvielle. They were able to bear voices from below, and remarks which indicated that the persona in the b&Uoon. were visible to the speakers, although at ihn tinu a riimii obscured the surface of the earth from the view of the aeronauto themselves. This occurrence ia i ex plained by the hypothesi taat a dona may be transparent and opaque at the same timeccording as it may be viewed in different directions. Madams JIacMabox refuses to dre in Paris fashions. "The example of disreputable women, says she, "is not more worthy of imitation in xn&ttern t dress than m raorala.