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rirnus:iri evfut iitiDTBt COLL. VVT CLKVE, ALBANY, OREGON-. FRESH TOriCS. " The " oanal frauds " continue to be the chief theme of interest and discus- Bion among the politicians of 'York State. An investigation is in progress. Tms is the way the Louisville Courier Journal imprecates a Cincinnati editor who called him a thief : "" May .Eli Per sians attend his funeral, and may cock roaches swarm on his grave." tion of 1867, and in 1869-70 United States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He was formerly a Democrat, but became a Republican and ardent friend of President Lincoln in j86i. .; ... ' Hon. Edwards Pie rrepoxt, the newly --appointed Attorney-General, was one of the leading counsel for the prosecution in the Surratt trial. He is a man of large wealth, and contributed 820,000 to the campaign 'fund at the .last Presidential -election. J :' ' "'' ''' t; Thk press on both sides of the British -.channel is filled with enthusiastic notices of Capt.Paul Boyton's last maritime feat. They regard even his failure as a success ful demonstration of his undertaking to swim across from Dover' to Boulogne, -and as an immense triumph for humanity and science. We have been visited by Princes and -Grand Dukes and a Kanaka King, but we have never had a real Princess among us except the Princess Salm-Salml Now, "however, it is announced that the Prin cess Louise of England, the very much the better half of the "Marquis of Lome, will visit us nest falL . The steamship Nova Scotia," which ar rived at Baltimore from Liverpool last week, reports having passed an immense ice-field which was Bkirted for four hours, and hence must have been from fifty to one hundred miles in length. In this vast field half a dozen vessels were firmly frozen in without any prospect of release until after the ice field should melt. Doubtless these were wlialing and seal ing vessels, and they must have been floating for many weeks, inasmuch as the ice-field unquestionably came from the Artie regions. It is very seldom that ice is met by Liverpool steamers so early in the season as April, and it is evident that from now" until next August ice-fields and icebergs will be unusually abundant in the North Atlantic. POLITICAL MEMORANDA. Prof. KEHAtn,pf the Heidelburg Unij versity, an .eminent", German jurist, 1ms lately published an exhaustive review of the Tilton-Beecher case, in - which be states that it is the conviction of the legal minds of Germany Austria and France that the plaintiff, Til ton, has no case whatever, and expresses surprise that " under the laws of America he should not Lave bees non-suited alter his evidence "We have read of a nervous patient, in the hands of a dentist, dropping dead while losing a tooth, but the case was reversed lately in Hempstead, Texas. "The dentist dropped down lifeless while endeavoring to extract one of a lady's molars. Probably he was so anxious to accomplish fcis task without paining hiB customer j thai he over-Weited" himself, and stirred into deadly activity some morbid condition of his vascular system. The amendment to the Postal laws, smuggled through at the " close of the last Congress for the benefit of the ex press companies, pansr out' immensely for those corporations. , Under the new rate for' third-class mail' matter, the ship ment of bullion from the gold-producing regions to Chicago' and the East will be taken from the mails and transferred to the express companies, who will be able to exact fioin shippers three or four times what it cost them before. Senatob EdsTuitos, ' like Senator Mor rill, has been sick in. Washington. since i Congress adjourned. He is slowly re covering now. '' Cabii Schttrz's German friends in New York gave him a sapper on the evening of the 28th ult., and he sailed for Europe the following day. . The Pottsville (Pa.) Miners' Journal nominates Hon. William D. Kelley as the " Republican and Centennial candi date for President.",- ; -; f The Lower House of the New Hamp shire Legislature is composed of 373 members. It is the largest legislative body in the country, with the exception of the National Congress. Gov. Dingley's determination not to run again for -Governor of Maine has set the Republicans to loo King about lor a candidate. . Gen. Selden Connor, of Au gusta, is spoken of with such unanimity that the choice. seems already settled upon him. Mr. Wendeli) Phtlijps and fifty oth ers have just sent a petition to the Massa chusetts Legislature against the cession of the Hoosac Tunnel to any corporation, on the ground that ; the growth of such organizations of capital, which under take to do public work and contrpl pub-. ho property for their, own advpntage, js dangerous to the public welfare. A srsGunAR election, cop test .occurred ' the other day in Portage City, Wis. The candidates for, Alderman of the Second Ward were the editor of the' village paper and the town druggist. . The edi tor magnanimously voted for his oppo nent, and elected him, the druggist get ting 81 votes put of .16Q. It is under-, stood that the editor flung away ambition for one time only, ' and that, 1 if he! is given a good chance at a fat office, he will not be found committing any fool ishness with his ballot. 1 ..... i . . , .. . . t . f- . Srfi - , '",'' A WaSHiNOTOSt telegram .says 4 " It appears that Judge Pierre pont was the President's third choice for the Attorney- Generalship. Matt Carpenter was his first choice, but Carpenter did not want it. Then he was for giving it to Hen Butler, but Jewell, Fish and Bristow made such a vigorous opposition to' "that idea that he did not even offer it to Ben jamin. Judge Pierrepont was a compro mise man, against whom none of the Cabinet bad any -very vigorous objec tions." , , ,. The Brooklyn scandal is having its effect on the eyes as well as the morals of the public In the Hartford Courant -we find the following : " Dr. Bacon, of New Haven, while in Meriden a few days since, to perform an operation, in all earnestness assured a gentleman that the number of cases of eye diseases he treated was unusually large since the Beecher - trial commenced. In almost every instance the "' patient sat up late night, reading the great trial reports." At a late meeting sin New York of the Directors of the Northern Pacific rail road, a statement waa, m&daj of the lia bilities and assets of the . company. Ac--cording to this exhibit the assets consist of 550 miles of .finished 'road, and over 10,000,000s acres of land, while the lia bilities are; mortgaged bonos,toE the mount ! ht f 130,000,000 j ' stock s to? -U amount of $25,000,000, which was dis tributed as a premium to the bonds, and -a floating debt of less than $700,000, of which $500,000 is due to the Directors of the road. ' t ... i The treaty by "wbich the Sioux In dians hold possession o i the Black Hills was made to secure the Union. Pacific xaflroad frsni jfeetitipn., Thla treaty was 3 negotiated wxUi them f by Gees. Sherman, Harney, Terry, and Augur, and Messrs. J. B. Henderson, Nathaniel C. Taylor, John BJ Sanborn, and Samuel P. Tappan, Commissioners on the part of the TJsited States, at Fort Laramie, Wyoming;;TerritoryoDt tS& 29th apI fol lowing days of Apri? 186$; was ratified by the Senate of the United States Feb. 16, 1869, , and-rw&s proclaimed, by the President on tSbe lfW'69 A Washington dispatch states that there are still remaining in the General Land Office imaeUveredTnearly 300,000 patents for agricultural; landslt Of this number about 75,000 re from Illinois, and quite as many ; from Indiana and MissourL Among them ars patents signed by every President from Monroe to Lineoln. The reasons assigned for the presence of these patents in the Land Office is that mny;land-owners consider their title valid if they have the Twi'a ltm1iftt receipt. This is not the case, and the Land Office frequently cancels these duplicate receipts and issues the patents to new parties. Judge Edwards Peebbkfont, the new wi A-fcni-nnv-General of the United States, was born at North Haven, Conn., in 1817,' was gradnated ai Yale College in 1837, and studied at the New Haven law school. " In 1840-45 he prac ticed law in Columbus. Ohio, and after ward removed to New York -cityi where he has since resided. : Ha was in 1857-60 a Judge of the New York Supreme Court; a member of the Constitutional Conven- , Bora political . parties recognize the fact that Ohio is how the Keystone State so far as politics are concerned, and are organizing fqr a desperate conflict in October of this year. There are now only four States in which October elec tions are held, and of these Ohio is the only one that holds an election in Octo ber oflthis year.? It is therefore, in some sense; the battle ground of the next presidential election. The result will have a powerful influence, not only on the November elections, but may practically decide the contest of 187 b. The contest in the Ninth Georgia Dis trict warms up well. The convention, it will be remembered.' failed .to nominate.' being unable to concentrate a two-thirds vote on anybody. A majority, however. passed a resolution recommending to the favor of . the people a UoL i. is. .Kates, ' who, as the canvass advances, proves to be a most amusing creature, tie is op posed by B. H, Hill, ex-Confederate Senator, a man of great ' influence at the South, "and a born orator. The two can didates have been canvassing together in joint debates. Estes has already com mitted himself to the laughable theorem- . . i - a i .it. . a i 'a . a. ujai i is useless iui line ouuiu m eeuu men of talent "to Congress, because in that case the North would retaliate, and practically things would remain un changed. This comical coniesion oi me diocrity is too much for the patience even of the anti-Hill men, and the ex Confederate promises to soar into Con gress on the wings of his aspiring elo quence. , ., Extraordinary Realism in Art. The story , told of Mrs. 'Elizabeth Thompson's efforts to obtain accuracy in her new picture of a cavairy charge- (that sne bad. a -field: tjoaaen, aqwn ty horses so iheennld; draw the i braised grass) in more than .matched by an old anecdote concerning the origin of Meis- sonier s famous M Ciiargp- oi the (Juiras- siers. J. his story,, wnicn prooaDiy is not true in every respect, is told as fol lows: 'a ' " Tdpaiilt ;Qairassie.sai4, Meis- sonier, ' X must-needs see tnem. iie ac cordingly took, a dozen of this corps to his country bouse, where "they were" re quired to cnarge down cue pars every morning, but the revolution did not. last long, and, before the artist had sketched an outline of the" group, uie gauant fel lows were out of sight. You must f ol lowthem by t train,, said a friend. No sooner said than done; An engineer was summoned, rails were laid down rolling stock purchased, and for several weeks Meissonier accompanied the charge of his models by tram. Uut it was sum mer, and historical accuracy required that the Cuirassiers should dash over snowy ground. Thousands of bushels of flour were then laid down in the park, and the Cuirassiers, as they charged be came enveloped m clouds oi farina. The illusion , was complete; the-; studies adoiirable, and the finished picture sold for millions. 1 The Treacherous Stovepipe.: A very recent case in D anbury ' demonstrates most emphatically that a stovepipe cannot be trusted. The gen tleman who tested it is one of our most affable and intelligent residents. He lias held several town offices and -has twice represented this district in the Legislature.. He moved on Tuesday. He took every care with the pipe. There were seven lengths to one stove, and he hired seven boys to carry them.' As soon as he took down a link a boy Would take it, proceed to the street, and there wait until joined by the next boy' with the succeeding link, each keeping . four, feet back of bis predecessor. Every length was numbered with chalk,- and each boy had a corresponding number- on his hat. Our friend said it was a good deal of trouble, but the saving in the end would amply pay. him, , With each boy armed, they . 'were started ahead to the new house, and he followed behind. -It was an impressive spectacle. The gentleman did not take his eyes from them an instant. He followed them into his new yard and halted them in the order they marched, and had them stand thus until the stove came along and was put in po sition. ' There was no earthly possibility of tlnse links getting mixed, or varying a hair's breadth from the order in which they were taken down. ' When all was ready, the first boy marched up to our friend who stood on a chair alongside the stove, fairly trembling with Susoense. It was the piece which started from the stove, and it went over the cast-iron guard without trouble. Our friend grew calmer, and said cheerily : " Now,' sonny, we 11 have you, to the second boy; 7 " ' He marched up. - tiis piece was taken and confidently applied to the end of the upright link. It did not join. The prominent citizen worked it gently, to one side,' but tnere was no improve ment. Then lie ended it, and made an other trial,-but "with no better success. He looked at the link. It was. chalked No. 2. He looked, down at the expect ant boy, and the same figure was there. The color began to drift away from his face.' He tried them again, but the two lengths would not, affiliate. He got down on the floor, with them, and weaved them to and fro, and changed their ends, and hit them with the poker ; , but "it was no use. .He was very white in. the . face now, and his eyes had a scared look. .He took the lengths into the yard, followed. by the boys,, each, in lus .proper order. They formed about him in .a respectful semi-circle, with the lengths of pipes under their arms. ' He took the hammer and tried to bend in the top of the lower length, and to' bend -out the bottom of the upper length. ;" Then he; put them together again. 'They fitted up better, and he commenced to" hopei1,He got them" so' nicely adjusted that all that seemed necessary "was to' "hit the top length -a gentle tap and drive, it right down. 'He did' hit ; and it' came down cm one side, pinching the first finger of his left hand, and falling - over to the ground. He said ".Gracious " and picked up the length', and 'made another careful attempt. He could get them to match all around excepting about a half inch, and every time lie "attempted to lap that, the other side would fly off, and the same finger would be caught again in about the same place. - Every time that finger was hit the smart increased, and the pain was already becoming madden ing. Jtie- lost his nerve and more and more of his composure. His face got as hot as a stove, his clothing stuck tight to his back' and legs, and bis eyes be came so- dry and hard that it seemed as if they would burst asunder and hurt somebody. But he clinched -his teeth and said nothing. At this - juncture his wife appeared at the back door, and said : '-. : .:.( " Gracious, Joseph, what a ridiculous fuss you are making over a little bit of stovepipe." .. t I That was the last feather ! that was the climax to all the woe ! With a drowning rush all the emotions the ! sharp, bit ter emotions of his heart, came to the surface, and ' with a cry- - like that of wild animal at bay,' he dashed the length of pipe" he- was nolding into the mud, flew at f the Other -with the fury of maniac, and danced around in a perfect eestacy of rage. At the first cry every boy promptly -dropped ' ins length oi pipe, and thro win sr himself over the nearest fence in blind terror, uarted swiftly from sight He hasn t seen them since. , so the experiment; aiuiongn failure, was not really expensive.- Dan- bury.Aew8. ' ..i I ; ! A Reminiscence of Pioneer Times. John Delaney used to tell this story of how Judge Dunn wrought a reform in his court, in the tiusn tunes oi Wiscon sin Territory, with a zest and accent which made it better to listen to than to read in language not his own, though the same in substance : , " When I was a law-student in Mineral Point, in eighteen hundred and forty something, there .was an array of legal talent in Iowa county that would have done honor to any place. There was Mose'Stroritr. Judge Cothre'n., M. M. Jackson, Sam Crawford, Parley Eaton, Frank Dunn, David W. Jones, Gen. W. R. Smith, Cad. Washburn,' and others of less repute.. Among those of light cali bre was a countryman oi mine a regu lar Dogan- who was the best illustration I ever saw of the maxim that small brooks are noisy. . His name was Jimmy Nagle, and a more cheeky, conspicuous, insolent limb of the law never retained " the, Irish brogue." Mr.' Charles Dunn was on the bench ; and out of term time he was, in all respects, one of us in "our feocial relations, and it must be admitted that in those times there was a heavy practice at bars where were dispensed more liquids than law. " And so it came to be a property at ease for the bar in court to address the bench in the same jocular, free-and-easy, familiar style so characteristic of pioneer equality. The tiling was getting intolerable, and it be came manifest to his Honor that an ex ample had to be made of somebody, to impress the bar with the respect an dig nity due tiie court. An opportunity was" soon offered as he well Knew there would be as soon as Jimmy, Nagle, had a case' called." As usual, Jimmy became con temptous, and presently he blurted out : " Charley, ye know full well your ruling is conthrary to law and decency if ye don't know mooch else t" . Whereupon ' Charley" directed the entry of an order summarfly debarring James Nagle from further practice in that circuit. It was a new order of things ; and whilst the bar sat aghast in silence, I tremble for my country and countrymen, as Jimmy gath ered tip his papers, and in a tone of meekness said : "Well, yet Honor, I s'pose it's all right and jest, as I'm in the power of ye, but it strikes me that the court is' domnably imprignated with daig nity all at once !" The-bottom fell out of that court's " daignity" more suddenly than it had been " imprignated," as it joined in the general guffaw, which none of us could suppress. ! -' -'; ' Poor J immy ! we all sympathized with the victim,' even though the bar was well rid of a nuisance. But twas no use ; he was never reinstated ; but his parting malediction became a byword all over the leading region. Wisconsin -State lie glster. ' .."'' ; ' .", A Pimple Killed Him. . - , A dispatch from Bennington to the Troy (Ni Y.) Jrces says : "A week ago yesterday,: 'in the afternoon, Charles Wright, a cutter at G. B. Sibley's tailor ing establishment, discovered a small pimple on Ins lip,- whicn he supposed 'to be a cold sore it grew rapidly; ana be came more painful'. On Monday he sup posed it was a boil, and left work a little earner than usual in the afternoon;" Km Tuesday morning 'he went to his work, but had been in the shop but a short time when he fainted. Mr. Sibley took him to his own house, and desired him to remain till he got well. Fearing he would give the family trouble, Mr. Wright went to the-Stark House on Tuesday evening. - He went to bed and never rose again. ' The swelling rapidly extended to his entire - face. Yesterday morning he died at 7 : 25, less than one week from the time his hp began to pain ' him. The doctors say his disease' was erysipelas, which caused congestion . of the brain. His head is swelled to a monstrous size. He had never been seriously sick before. Mr. Wright was 22 years of age, and a very worthy man." -. ? ' THE LITTLE FOLKS. Helping Papa and Mamma. Planting the corn and potatoes, Helping to scatter the seeds. Feeding the hens and the chiokens, Freeing the garden from weeds, . Driving the ooirs to the pasture. Feeding the horse in the stall We little children are busy ; Sore, there is work for us all, - Helping papa. Spreading the hay in the sunshine. Baking it np when 'tis dry, Picking the apples and peaches Down in the orchard hard by, Picking the grapes in the vineyard ; Gathering nuts in the fall -. We little children are busy ; Yes, there is work for us ah, K- Helping papa. Sweeping, and washing the dishes, t Bringing the wood from the shod. Ironing, sewing and knitting, - Helping to make np the bed ; . - -. Taking good care of the baby, Watching Her lest she should fall Wo little children are busy j , , Or, there is work for us all, . . . "t Helping mamma. . Work makes ub cheerful and happy. Makes us both active and strong ; . Play we enjoy all the better ' When we have labored so long-, Gladly we help our kind parents, Quickly we come at their call.; Children should lure to be busy ; There is work for us all, Helping papa and mamma. children, and became so very much intei-. ested in them, that he decided to have an edition of "The Old Curiosity Shop" printed in raised letters for their use. " Bless their hearts 1 They shall find little Nell in the dark J" he said, .all aglow. And so, in time, my boy was bending over the story, as happy a little fellow as one could wish to see.' . , " 'Did he read it easily I asked. . " 'Oh, yes, quite so!" said the Generak cheerfully. , .'The letters, white as the rest of the page, are raised, and are about an eighth of an inch long.i , Benny runs his finger along the lines one by one, and understands every word. Yon . would think he had eyes in his finger-tips. The sense, of feeling, is very acute, you know when one's sight is gone." ... ; , " I like Dickens more than ever now," said one of the boys, when the school mistress finished her story. . -r .- "And bo do I," said four of the chil dren.i5Vor? f'Jizck in the Julpit,'S St. Nicholas for May. - , . ; A Harmless Dumb Man. , , - Amonji the, novelties in the peniten tiary at Shelby county, Tennessee, has been a dumb convict -who, to the quality of dumbness, added that of idiocy, Quite a curiosity was this man Wylie, and one offering much entertainment to everybody, for his crazy freaks of singing and dancing and making faces were funny m the . extreme. So harmless was ne, though,. and so docile that he was allowed to polish the boots of the, officers of the prison, .- going outside- the wans every morning, toperfona his task.- So, for two .years, Wylie has been one of the; features of . the institution, but . he isn't a special feature any longer. - A few Sun davs aoo came theonnortunity the dumb man had been waiting for. He stole two. coats and a pair of pantaloons and all the money, he could, and was gone. . The country was scoured and Wylie was cap tured again .but he wasn't the same Wylie in most respect, i He was well dressed, fluent of . speech and anything but idiotic, lie. was taken back, but doesn't clean boots now and doesn't attract much sympathy as a poor,' harm lees lunatic iH -:--:v. "-' ' :- The Maw Who Sets His Own Editorials The anion men thonSnt thev h&b had the q hronicle a disarAntage because iiei fron-1 ply imagmep that tha art aien vwuve ox an arts waS one that cool p not qe dracticed novices. They reckonep without their host' howeAer, as' this paragoapq will pjove we never sot typo before to-night, yet We can point drondly to this ehort aa specimen oi clean oatnpoauou. m thing looks so well in the ssck we sJuiost temdied to issue a challenge .to the entive pro Season,' Hereafter we Bhrll set our own edi loriala. WtuhinaUm-Chr&nicIe.' 1,1 This effort of Brother Harlan's at type setting must not be too severely judged. It ' must be remembered that since he first became known as a journalist he has seen a grs-tt deaf of life. lie has been successively a circuit-rider in '' the Meth odis Church, a member of Congress, a United States Senator, and Secretary of the Interior. On returning to his trade and taking up his stick, it is not surpris ing that he finds himself a little rusty. Courage, brother ; patience and perse verance will, in time, restore to yon the r dexterity of former days. Chicago Tri- oune. ' ' - - ' ' The? haVe a new wrinkle ' in Boston for making chickens out of old hens that is. breaking the breast bone; about one and one-half inches from the point where a person feels fox it. r It looked as if it had been done with long'priers by Vwmdincr the bone up. It is very nicefy done, and cannot be discovered until the chicken is dissected. This is no fish story, for I bought them myself ; but I should call it foul play., , Mirth at Meal-Time. i- Evervbodv should plan to have - pleas' ant1 conversation at the table, just as they have good food.. : A' little story-telling it may be of humorous things, anecdotes, etc.: win often stimulate the -joyous ele ments of the mind 'and cause it to act vigorously and healthfully. Think -and say something pleasant.' : Cultivate mirth,' and laugh when anything witty is said. If possible, never at .alone.- Invite a friend of whom you are fond, and try and have a good time, friendship and friendly- intercourse at s the table pro motes the now of animal' spirits and aids digestion. . 1 runic . jof . i a. sulky - churl munching nis meat in a dogged temper. Me will become dyspeptic .Never bring a corroding growl or complaint to the table. Is the pudding' too salt? - Was the bread burnt f ' Do mot mention it especially at the table. Let that pass, though yon need not eat that which may not be palatable or neaithiui, but polite ly decline it. He who j brings the most happiness to the table is the best citizen. Otra revolutionary - fathers used to see tough times. An old; Virginian book tells .how- two of them received fifty lashes each for being I absent from the army roll call, and it speaks: of another who received: 100 lashes for misbeha vior." For one month's pay a soldier in the patriot army received $33,000, but be paid a,uuu a yard lor clotn to mafce a coat, and his buttons cost him $1,500 . An Old Horse., , A correspondent of the Turf,Field' and Farm- writes: I wrote you last year of a living curiosity' - that I saw - at Pittsburgh; and, as 1 predicted, it is still living a'. horse owned by ? Mr. Wm. Smith, of the National' Pipe' Foundry, which is now 47 years old. He uses it for the children to ride, and they have no trouble-with it till spring,' when the grass begins to shoot np its sweet tea drjls. He longs for the green growth," ana ll at onoe feigns lameness, so that he has to be turned out. He has played this trick each successive 'spring for the last six years. ; I don t think there is a horse judge in America who could guesss within thirty -nve years of - nia age even upon a critical examination,' ana ' no knowledge of the circumstanoes. ' Of course - were - are cases of greater lon gevity, but they are rare." - v ; . packing Egjrs to Ship. Mary C. West tells in the .Mobile Henister how to pack eggs for shipment: Wrap each earg by itself in several thicknesses of newspaper, and then pack them nicely in' cotton, being careful to fill the spaces between them. When the eggs are thus nicely packed, the box, if it is not yet full, can be filled with chopped straw or sedge, bnt never with sawdust,' and particularly pine sawdust. xiie turpentine in pine sawaust wouia almost, invariably ruin the eggs for "sit- tinp;" purposes. " ' The lid should never pe nailed on a box intended for "sitting," ; as the jar consequent is apt to injure Crying for the Moon. There was a little girl once who wanted the moon. It was so bright and , large and beautiful that she fairly broke her heart yearning for it. All the toys in the world were , nothing to that round, golden thing that shimmered and shone so ; and sne begged- everybody to get it for her. First her papa,; because he was so tall that if he went out on the roof he could surely reach it. But he declared that the thing . could : not be done,- and advised her , to be contented ,with her doll, a big One . with blue eyes, that opened and shut, and real yellow hair a doll instead of the moon but he did not understand. . She could not make him see that it was the moon she wanted, not a doll. ' , ' . -.: Then she went to her mother.-, Best and dearest mother, who. would do any thing for her. : She was kind. .. She said she remembered wanting the moon her self ; but no one ever got it for her. -It was a beautiful -moon. .If, one had it one could go about lighting up the places where one went, so beautifully; but as it was, it shone very prettily. Could she not look at it, admire it, be content, and nave instead ever so many pieces of brae and pink and yellow silk, and needle, and make some pateh-work or bonnets for her doll. ' 1 " Mamma was very kind, but she did not quite understand either cOh, no. Then tnere was her big brother,- wtio grinned, and teased her; and her big1 sister,' who begged her not to cry, and gave her a great, sweet sugar plum; The moon was not to be had, they said; -but she knew better. ' --' ' . ' That night When she ' went to bed, ehe asked the nurse; old Dinah, whether it was true that she could never, never, never reach the : moon'; and Dinah con sidered, under the red and yellow turban like a email connagrataon, and, after con sideline?, she said: - ! ; -' , -"Well, honey ; reckon you can't reach de moon, - no ways specks uat a im possible ; but I tell ye what ; when dat yar moon gets ready it will come down to you. Yes, chile : de moon will come down to you when it gets ready. So go to sleep,- and don t bother no more." '.- - " ' The little girl was happy, and said her prayers and went to sleep on her little wfute pillow, thinking of the happy time when the moon should come down to her..; ;- -t , Late in the night,' after every one was sleeping, she awoke. The moon had gone behind the nouse, and she ' could see it no longer. ' ' - i . " What if it has come down," she said and she got' up and 1 went to the win dow, pattering softly over the floor in her bare feet so that she awoke no one. Outside of the window lay a little pond, and there on its breast was the reflection of the' moon' she could not : see. The beautiful yellow moon. - it lias come down to me," she said. The moon has come down of its own self;" and she danced for joy. Then knowing a way out out of the house, she crept down, stairs, not .even waiting ior her shoes, and . out into the. cold, still garden, where ;all: the -flowers bloomed and the grass was wet with. dew. She went down the path,' and . opened the gate, and ran down to the pond. Far out in its very center the moon that had come down to her .floated on its back. . . , ; ; .. - - " Come here," said she ;. but the. moon did not come.; : , ".Don't you hear me?" she cried. The moon made no answer, . . . . There 'was nothing for it but to wade out and bring it in. . She tucked her. lit-. tie nightgown up and started -, ' -.. The moon smiled' at hec . She waded in. , Her feet were wet; now ner little knees; bnt she almost .touched the moon. She took, one step more; it was on water, As she went down- she caught at the golden shimmer . with her-, little white hands., ;". r -.j irf-; " Moon, I have got you 1" she cried and then her head was under water. ; ' Somebody - in the house heard .her scream, and came out in a terrible fright: Papa, big and strong, wauced into the water and brought the .little girl out. She was choking with monthfuls of dirty water, - ohe was all over mnd and mire. Oh, her pure white gown, the little baby,: maiden dress, how dirty it wast The tiny feet .were- black as Dinah's, and in the "small dimpled hand, were .clasped two or three long pieces of very rank; lU-smeittng -water weeds, and sne was nearly 'dead; "but as soon as she could teak, this was wnat sne said ! ' " The moon came down to me. and I went to get it ; and then she pulled me down ana axowneu me, ana aixiea me, the nasty, wicked moon. Moral All " the strong-minded little girls that want the moon, beware". You cannot reach her, and if she does come down you'll have to wads through dirty water to get her: ' Your ' feet and your white garments wnt be soiled, and you must touch evil weeds, and perhaps you will be less lucky than our little girl; for no one may come to your rescue, and you niay; be 'quite drowned, not only nartially so. ' by that wicked, treaoher- - 1 - - - , ous moon for whicn yon pine ana speecn- ' ; The Ungrateful Children. ; " t It is justly said that God, parents and teachers can never be repaid for ' the kindness they have bestowed on any one. But alas in this world it goes too often according to the i well-known problem, that a father can easier support six chil dren than six children one father. Here we have Such a narration about a father who, while living, gave all that he owned to his children, and " expected them to support him afterward in Viia old age. sut when ne had lived awhile with his eldest son. the 'son became tired of him, and said : " Father, last night my wife gave birth to a son, and where your arm chair stood the cradle must now stand. Will you not move over to my brother's? He has got more room than I have." ' ' After awhile, the second son also be came tired pf him, and said : r "Father, you always liked a warm room, and I have the headache from it: .would you not like to go to my brother, who is a baker; he can stand it better.'' The father went, and after he had stayed some, time, the third son said ; " In my house we are always running in and out, so you can 'never get your afternoon sleep ; would you .not ' rather go to sister Elmai who lives' outside the ty gate ? , xou will be more quiet with her. The old man looked at the clock and said: '. " Very well, Twill go and try imu live wiui jny uaugmers. .. . j. Women have generally 'a "tenderer heart than men. But, after he , had stayed . a while, ' the daughter became anxious to get rid of him also, and pre-, tended to be very much, afraid whenever her father had to pass down the high stairway, either when going to church or' anywhere else, and sawi: '"At sister Marias you need not go down any steps, as she lives on' the' first floor." . The old man admitted that She "was right, in or der that evervthinar should sro oh 1 Quiet ly and peacefully, and went to 'his sec- When he had staid a oounle of davs. he became a burden to her also, and she gave nun to understand, tnrougn a tmra person, that, her ..house., being .too near the water, was too, damp for a man who. suffered from rheumatism ; . . but , ner sister who was married to the sexton, of St. John's graveyard had a dryer and healthier house. '.- gt-So he went to the ' house of , the People and Things. iPjLtrn, the swimmer, is only 7... ; , , DisBAEm grows jolly as he grows old. -SiiEzvkuess basques are still in vogue. No strawberries or peaches in the West . this year to speak fV i ' '" ''"" ; " - The season for broiling your, neck and catching no fish approaches. Mabteisbtjbgh, N. Y -. has nineteen inhabitants over 80. years old. ; , - . Thbeb hundred thousand immigrants j have moved into Texas since last; October.- ''- ;-.-- j ' '" ' The people of this extravagant country expended 2,841,590 for foreign buttons lass, year. ..; .... ...... -. , .j Give me to write the songs of a nation-' and I care not who does the outdoor ' work; N. Yr World. Judge FrrinKBTOii, of Tilton's counsel, . has bought 600 acres of land near Fair-, fax Court House, Va. , .,. At present there are fifteen States of Europe which recognize horses, donkeys -and mules as legal food. ' . National banks are to be" 'assessed Xor the expense attending the redeeming and ,' -reasserting 61 .their nqtes. ; '... . x Tms is the way an " intelligent comp" Bet up the Halls ' of . the Montezumas : "The Hells of the Monte Games." The Historical Society at Buffalo has , in its possession the tomahawk presented. , to Red Jacket by George Washington. . Nevkb spend any time musing on the . meanness of an enemy. . Better use it thinking of the virtues of your- friends. Ix Russia a commission is to examine ' the expediency of reducing the number ' of holidays enjoyed; by that too happy people. " ' " Mrs. Theodore Tilton- will keen a . summer boarding house at Cornwall, an ; up- Hudson resort, not very far 'from. . Peekskiil. i . . . ,; - ,- . I Daw; .BIiyant, Nelse Seymour, Una- " wbrth and Budworth were once mem bers of the same minstrel organization, and died within sixty days of one an other. 11 " - '7 11 ' - ' -f - A Kentucky coroner has purchased a. silver ball for 'the pupose of presenting. it to the base ball nine -that shall show. the highest death rate at the end of tha . season. ,.... . ;-..-.'-, - .-";; :,. ... (..: A dead Emperor is a costly luxury at ' best. Over' 850,000 worth of valuables, besides quite a handful of widows, were 1 burned in performing the funeral ntes or the late .Emperor of Uhina.' ' ' " " A-wbtteb from one of Gordon's stations in Central Africa, says that both -sexes tinge their hair with a fine red or golden ointment and that magnificent natural , chignons are worn by .the men. ; , ; , In an old curiosity shop in Ninth street; Washington, are a piano formerly ownett ' by Washington at Mount Vernon, a vio- ' lin of lad J-iin coin, and- the sadoi used ini the last "Mexican war by Santa Anna. : -- ''' .-:,)' f ; i-.'mi Capt. J. B. IEaps, the proprietor of the jetty system for the improvement o , , . , i . . i . ... -.-' navigation oi me moum oi tne iuasBia sippi, has engaged the same contractors' who put up the tit. J-iouis bridge to do youngest daughter, Iiaurina. He had the jetty work. , :" ", , staid a very shor line, when' her son ixia now beheved that serious oUseases said to him " Mother told Aunt Hilda, yesterday, that for you there were no better quar ters than such as father was digging in the erraveyard. . When the aged parent heard these cruel words, his heart broke, and he fell back into his arm-chair, and died. ot. John's , graveyard received him, ' and showed more mercy toward him than his six children had shown ; there he can' sleep undisturbed. A Woman's, Seareh for a Medical Ednca- The Concord, (N. H.) Monitor says "Miss, Eva J. Bickford. daughter, of Jerome Bickford, of this city, has shown a degree of perseverance, in procuring a medical - education which is very .rare among either , gentlemen or ladies. In lima she was a member of onr mgn school ia this city, and in 1867 - secured the appointment pf instructor in the. normal , department , of , the school for, contrabands at Wilmington, Del. , where she remained for two-years, xne year 1869 was passed at the Medical School of Philadelphia, where she attended the lectures. o the year. Ueing desirous oi advantages beyond the reach, of ladies in uie meoicaj. scnoois oi our oounirT. uua went to Europe in 1871, : and spent six months at Edinburgh ... Finding; that some of the privileges of , the college , were not to be accorded to persons of. Her sex, she left ,and -went, .".to. Switzer land, where she passed six months in the study of anatomy at Zurich., From' thence she went to Vienna, where her highest aspirations, were fully met,, one of . the first colleges m the world, being open.. in all -its departments, to .ladies. Here she had free access to a hospital, for two and a half .years, in which the number' of patients seldom fell .below 2,000, and:' devoted herself , to all the branches taught in the medical course. giving special attention to obstetrics and diseases of the female sex. , . In this line of study she had live months experience m the lying-in hospital, where the annual number of births exceeds 10,000.". , - ' ' r,-.J ! '; ' ' ' '. . 1 Danger of Protracted Sleep. , should be put on with screws. Postaii Cakds. The invention of these convenient cards is attributed to Professor Emanuel Herman, of Vienna. They were used in England,' Germany, and Switzerland in 1870. in Belgium and Denmark in 1871. and in Norway, Rus sia, and the United States in 1872-73. In some foreien countries a card is at tached on which an answer' niay be re turned. H It is said that tons of postal cards are destroyed in our Deaddetter Office, because people write their mes sage first, and then foreret to address the card. ' To guard against this omission, it is well to make a rule ef addressing the card before writing the message. Charles IHokrns and the BUnd Cliildrn Talking of the pretty school-mistress, them. It reminds me of something I heard her telling her boys and girls one day when they were seated about ner, on the wil low stumps as usuaL;- She said: "Do you remember wen. t, my But here, as in so many other cases', the evil, of deficiency has its counterpart in the evil of' excess. fc Sleep 'protracted' beyond the need 6f repair, and encroach ing habitually upon the hoars Of waking ooaon, unpuisniore ot ibbh tne xmio toons of the brain, ana 'with them all the vital powers, t This observation is as old as the days of Hippocrates and Aretseus, wha severally and - strongly comment upon it. The sleep of infancy, however. and that of old age, do not oome under this - category Of excess. These - are natural oonditions. arinertaininflr to tha respective periods ef life, and to be dealt with as such. In illness, moreover, all ordinary rule and measure of sleep must be. put aside. ; Distinguishing it from coma, there are very! few cases in which it is not an unequivocal good ; and even in comatose state the brain, we believe. gams more irom repose .than from any sruumiu suempra m rouse it into action. j!,atnourgn Jievtew. result from eating fish cured during the , exhaustion which follows the spawning.' season. Among them is a modified form of leprosy and elephantiasis, diseases di rectly traceable to the causes referred to r bqth in Norway and in India. Z, s , ...... , . IiOTjrsyrf.T.whaw had a sensation!- A bnH dog belonging to a prominent citizen at-' tempted to chew a -" spoon" fish-hook ; one of the prongs entered his upper lip, and the other the lower. No one dared' to take it out until chloroform was ad- ministered to the furious animal. - ' A New York man got inside of eighth" . een secret societies, but death "had the ; pass word at every door and .found him! " The Masons managed.' the funeral, tha , Odd Fellows held a service at the grave,,, and the sixteen other societies had tie -privilege of attending in a body.", ' f. Hsnbietta Robinbow, the "veiled mnrderebs," is one of the three women, now in the prisons of New York who will i be affected by the passage of the law for- 41ia 4wmm,i4rCLt4nn T . if A nmasmiM I'M a 9 ('M . fifteen years of good behavior. She is ia the insane asylum at Auburn, " . Two Englishmen in search of sulphur on the island of Dominica, West Indies , have discovered , eight or , ten miles in land, in the crater of an extinct volcano, a boiling lake. It is, half a mile wide, and two miles in . circumference, 'and ' even' at . the, shore the hand cannot be immersed in the water without pain. ,. t ' - - - - '. , - ' ' i. ' The rabbit forms an important article of food in Great Britain and Ireland. ' Large ' numbers are - imported from tke Continent, and it is estimated that 27, 000,000 are annually bred for food. Tb' flesh is; sold at twelve cents (gold) & pound,' which - is fully a third lesa thai -the price of beef and considerably - under that of the choicer portions of the sheep ; The "value of the annual supply is esti-i mated at $7,875,000. ' ' ; 1 i, -V; i ): .- . i i-W."";.:; ; Hundrmds of thousands of chaffinches t and skylarks are annually )uaughteredi along the Dutch eoasta ; and the last autumn- a birdcatoher near , the Uago s caught bo less than .11,000 ohaffinches in the course of six weeks-rand these bird-' catchers may be counted by hundreds, j In Austria, Italy and Spain, matters are worse still ; in those countries not only chaffinches and larks, but even robins;' : nightingales, titmice, wagtails, in fact all ' lands oi small Dirds that may be caught, are brought to the market for food. ' dears, who once visited us in the school rooms? ' ' ' " .- . " Oh yes !" cried the children. " Well, when he took tea with me on that afternoon, he happened to say that his boy had just been reading the ' Old r : Ql,nn .11. - 1 Now, as X knew that the General's only son was " blind, I was not a little puzzled. ' Probably Gen. S- 1 read my feelings in my face, for he added: Did you never hear . of Charles Dickens' visit to the blind asylum where Benny was taught ? He talked with the ' Decrease of Immigration. The immigration statistics for 1874 now made np show a falling off of more than one-third from 1873. The f oflow ing is the comparison : -; From the British Isles. . . ... .i.. 1.59,33 - ., , , Gfrmany 133,141 ,r , j Scsadtnsvis ...i'...-.., 2.83 , Csoada ..-..,". .... UV.lOi All oountripA. . A-- 110' ' The decrease is over ifiO.OOO- but avpti this does not embrace the whole truth ; there was a large emigration from this country back to Europe in 1874 larger1, perhaps, than was ever seen before caused by the scarcity of work and the general depressson of industry. ' 100,42a 5,9-j ;t 14,1 .i ao.iso soutis - Tea Drunkards. Dr; ArKdge, one of the Pottery In spectors of Staffordshire, has put forth a very sensible protest ' against a' very' pernicious custom, which rarely receives sumeient, attention,' either from the med ical profession or the general public. He says that the women of the working classes make tea a principal article of diet instead of an occasional beverage: ' They drink it several times a day,' and the result is a lamentable amount of sickness.' - ."'---' "' ' Tea, in - anything beyond ; moderate auantities,1 is as distinctly a nareotio poison as is opium ' or alcohol. - It is . capable of ruining the digestion, of en feebling and disordering tne iiemi. , tion, 4 and of generally shattering the nerves. " And it must be .remembered that not mefebr is it a question of nar cotic excess, bui the enormons mount of hot water which tea-bibbers ueof Hsa rily drink is exceedingly prejudicial, both 'to digestion and nutrition. In. short, without pretending to place this evil on a par as to general effect with those' caused by alcohohc-diinks -one may well insist that our teetotal reform ers have overlooked, and even to a smaU extent encouraged, a form of animal iv dulgence which is as distinctly sensual- ' extravagant and pernicious as any beer ' drinking or gm-swilling in the worlJ- i