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OLl GRIMES' HEX. BT J. M. 8ABBOST. At last that speckled hen has gone, That ben of hens the bast. . . B le died without a sigh or groan While in her downy neat. Through summers' heat and winters anow. For ten long years she lay. At morn and eve, old Ortmaa an tne. But none the Sabbath day. -.-.- She had a neat behind the door All neatly lined with hay ; Her back waa brown and speckled or With spots inclined to gray. When e'er the rain came pelting don. Or thunders dreadful roar. She hid herself in Grimes' hat Until the storm waa o'er. Tho' fonrteen years of age, almost, auu hjusaxi young ana Bare, And, like Job's tarkey, she eonld boast ,,One feather In her tail. She never deigned the bem-yard bean Hia face to look upon But loved that one whose long shrill crow Waa heard at early dawn. An aged cock, who dVt had told Hia descent with a aigh. From one that cried when he was old. His master did deny. When poor old speckle closed her eye, He jumped the fence and cried, fie bid the poultry all good-by And then laid down and died. FROM THE WAYSIDE. A. Life-Sketch. Dr. Silas Walsh one day sat in hia mce reading a very mterestinir book. It waa a part of his business, this read ing;, lor tue book was of a science within the scope of his profession. He was comparatively a young man, and had the reputation of being an excellent physi cian. While he read some one rai?g his office-bell. He laid aside his book, and went to the door," and when he saw what was upon the stepping-stone he was in dignant It was a racved. dirtv bov. known in Emsworth as Hammer Jim " -ragged and dirty, and with the vileness of the alum upon him a boy vicious and pro fane, against whom every other boy in town was warned a boy who was called a thief and a villain, whom no effort of the overseers had been able to reclaim. and who seemed to care for nothing but to make people afraid of him. His true name, as the overseers had it, was James Ammerton. About his father nobody in Emsworth had ever known. His mother had died an inmate of the Poor-House. Un the present occasion, Jim's face was not only dirty, but it was bloody ; and there was blood upon his grimed and raneroa garments. '- Please, sir, won't you fix my head f I've got a hurt." "What kind of a hurt? asked the doctor. " I'm af eared it's bad, sir," said the boy, sobbingly. " One o Mr. Dunn's men hit me with a rock. Oh !" " What did he hifryou for ? "I donno, sir." "Yes, you do know. What did he throw the stone at you for f " " Why, sir, I was a-pick'n up an apple raider one of his trees. Dr. Walsh would not touch the boy's head with his fingers. There was no only a scalp-wound, and that the blood had ceased to now. " Go home," he said, " and let your folks wash your head, and put on a clean "g,"- " Please, sir, I hain't got no home, and X nam t got no tolas." " You stop somewhere, don't you V it T L 41. - 1 XI don't kick me out." "WelL my boy, you are not going to die from this. Go and get somebody to wash your head; or, go' and wash it yourself and then tie your handker chief on." " Please, sir, I hain't got no " " Hold up, - my boy. I haven't got time to waste. You won't suffer if you go as you are."- And with this Dr. Silas Walsh closed the door and returned to his book. He had not meant to be unkind ; but, really, he had not thought that there was any need of 'professional service on his part ; and, certainly, he did not want that bad boy in his office. But Dr. Walsh .had not been alone " cognizant of the. boy's visit. There had been a witness at an upper window. The doctor's wife had seen and heard. She was a woman. ' She was not strong, and resolute, and dignified, like her husband. Her heart was not only tender, but it was used to aching. She had no chil dren living ; but there were two little mounds in the church-yard which told her of angels in heaven that could call her Mother ! Acting upon her impulse, as she waa very apt to act, she slipped down, and called the boy in, by the back way, to the - -wash-room. He came in, rags, dirt and all, wondering what was wanted. The sweet voice that had called him had not frightened him. He came in, and stood looking at .Mary Walsh, and as he looked his sobbing ceased. "Sit down, my boy." . ' He sat down. .- , - . " If I will help you, will you try to be good?" " I can't be good." , wny iioi. . ' " 'Cause I can't.. Taint in me.' Every body says so." " But you can try ?" , .,..., "I donno." -" If I should.help you, you would be willing to try, to please me ? "Yes 'm, I should, certain. " -. - Mrs. Walsh brought a basin of water, and A soft sponge, and with tender hand she washed the boy's head and face. -Then," with a pair of scissors, she clipped away the hair from the wonn d curling, handsome hair and found it not a bad one. She brought piece of -sticking-plaster, which- she fixed upon jt, rand then she brushed the hair back from the full brow, and looked into the boy's face not a bad face not an evil face. Shutting out the rags and the dirt, it was really a handsome face. . " What is your name my boy ?' " " " Hammer Jim. ma'am ; and sometimes Bagged , Jim.": , . " " , -" I mean how i were you christened ?" , "W'ich, m?" ion t yon enow wiwi umuo juu parents gave you ?" . , . "O ye-es. It's down on the seers books, mum, as James Ammerton. " " Well, James, the hurt on your head is not a bad one, and if you are careful hot to rub off the plaster it -will very . soon heal up. Are you hungry!" 'Vvv- " Please, ma'am, I haven't eat nothing to-day." , . Mrs. Walsh brought out some bread and butter, and a cup of milk, and al lowed the boy to sit there in the wash room and eat. . And while he eat she Wfif-.hfl him nni-wrarW unntlff fiVerV .feature. Surely, if the science of physi ognomy, which her husband studied so much, and with such faith, was reliable, this boy ought to have grand capacities. Onoe more, shutting out the rags and the filth, and only observing the hair, now glossing and waving, from her dexterous manipulations, over a shapely head, and marking the face, with its eyes of lus trous gray, and the perfect nose, and the mouth like a cupid's bow, and the chin strong, without being unseemly -seeing this without the dregs, and the boy was handsome Mrs. Walsh, thinking of the little mounds in the church-yard, praying to God that she might be yet a happy mother and if a boy was to bless ner maternity, ane could not osk that ne should be handsomer than she believed she could make this bov. Jim nnished eating, and stood up. "James," said the little woman for she was a little woman, and a perfect picture of a loving and lovable little woman " James, when you are hungry, and have nothing to eat, if you will come to tins door, X will feed you. X don t want you to go hungry.' " X should liKe to come, ma am. "And. if I feed you when you are hungry, will you not try to be good for my sake ?" The boy hung his head, and consid ered. Some might have wondered that he did not answer at onoe, as a gra eful boy ought ; but Mrs. Walsh saw deeper than that. The lad was considering how he might answer safely and truth fully. " If they'd let me be good, ma'am, but they won't," he said, at length. " Will you try all you can ?" " Yes, m I'll try all I can." Mrs. Walsh gave the lad a small parcel of food iu a paper, and patted his curly head. The boy had not yet shed a tear since the pain of the wound had been assuaged. Some might have thought that he was not grateful ; but the little woman could see the gratitude in the deeper light of the eye. The old crust was not broken enough yet for tears. Afterward Mrs. Walsh told her hus band what she had done, and he laughed at her. " Do you think, Mary, that your kind ness can help that ragged waif 1" "I do not think it will hurt him, Silas." It was not the first time that Mrs. Walsh had delivered answers to the erudite doctor which effectually estopped discussion. After that Jim came often to the wash room door, and was fed ; and he came cleaner and more orderly with each suc ceeding visit. At length Mrs. Walsh was informed that a friend was going away into the far Western country to take up land, and make a frontier farm. The thought occurred to her that this might be a good opportunity for James Ammerton. She saw her friend, and brought Jim to his notice, and the re sult was, that the boy went away with the emigrant adventurers. - And she heard from her friend a year later that he liked the boy very much. Two years later the emigrant wrote that Jim was a treasure. And Mrs Walsh showed the letter to her husband ; and he smiled and kissed his little wife, and said he was glad. And he had another source of gladness. Upon her bosom his little wife bore a robus, healthy boy their own son who gave promise to life and happiness in the time to come. The years sped on, and James Ammer ton dropped out from the life which Mary Walsh knew. The last she heard was five years after he went away from Emsworth, and Jim had started out for the golden mountains on his own account, to commence in earnest his own life battle. But there was a joy and a pride in the little woman's life which held its place, and grew and strengthened. Her boy, whom they called Philip, grew to be a youth of great promise a bright, kind hearted, good boy, whom everybody loved ; and none loved him more than did his parents. In fact, they worshiped him ; or, at least, his mother did. At the age of seventeen Philip Walsh en tered college, and at the age of twenty- one he graduated with honor ;' but the , long and severe study had taxed his sys tem, and he entered upon the stage of manhood not quite so strong in body as he should have been. His mother saw it, and was anxious. His father saw it, and decided that he should have recrea tion and recuperation . before he entered into active business. Dr. Walsh, was not pecuniarily able to send his son off on expensive travel, .but he found op portunity for his engagement upon the staff of an exploring expedition, which would combine healthful recreation with an equally healthful occupation. - The expedition was bound for the Western wilderness, and we need not tell of the parting between the mother and her beloved son. She kissed him, and blessed him ; and then hung upon his neck with' more kisses and blessings, and then went away to her chamber and cried. ' , Philip wrote home often while on his way out ; and he wrote after he had reached the - wilderness. His accounts were glowing, and his health was improv ing. Three months of forest life, and forest labor, of which Philip wrote in a letter that had to be borne more than a hundred miles to the nearest post, and then followed months Ot silence. Where was Philip ? Why did he not write ? One day Dr. .Walsh came home pale and faint, with a newspaper crushed and crumpled in his hand. .Not immediately, but .by and by, he was forced to let his wife read what he had seen in that paper. She read, and fainted like one mortally stricken.' It was a paper from a far Western city, and it told of the sad fate of the explor ing party under charge "of CoL John Beauchampe, how ' they had been at tacked by an overpowering party of In dians,' and how those not massacred had been carried away captive. ' '" " Poor " little woman 1 . Poor, ; Doctor Walsh t But the mother suffered most. Her head, already taking on its crown of silver, was bowed in blinding agony, and her heart : was well-nigh ' broken. The joy was gone out from her life, and thick darkness was round about her. And so passed half J a. year. One day the postman left a letter at the door. The hand of the superscription was, fa miliar. Mrs. Walsh tore it open, and glanced her eyes over its contents. O, joy! O, rapture! Her boy lived! was well I and was on his way home to her! ' When Dr. Walsh entered the room he found his wife fainting, with the. letter clutched in her nerveless grasp., By and by, when the first great' surge had passed, husband and wife sat down and read the letter, understanding!. . ' Thank God, J I found a true friend, or, I should say, a true friend found me," wrote Philip, after he had told of his safety," and of his whereabouts. J " But for the coming of this friend I should have died ere this. He heard of me by name, and learned whence I came, and when : he knew that I was from Ems worth, and was the son of Silas and Mary Walsh, he bent all his energies to my release. He spent thousands of dol lars in enlisting and equipping men for the work, and with his own hand he struck down my savage captor, and took me henceforth tinder his care and pro tection.' God bless him! And be you ready, both, to bless him, for he is com ing home with me." iw.-'f:,,-.;; wj Upon their bended knees that night the rejoicing parents thanked God for all his goodness, and called down blessings upon the head of the unknown preserver of their darling. And, in time, radiant and strong, their Philip came home to themcame home a bold and educated man, fitted for the battle of life came : home knowing enough of life's vicissitudes, and pre pared to appreciate its blessings. And with Philip came a man of middle-age a strong, frank-faced, hands some man, with gray eyes and curling hair. ' . i " This," said the son, when he 'had been released from his mother's raptur ous embrace, " is my preserver. Do you not know him?" , j The Doctor looked, and shook; his head. He did not know. j But the little woman observed more keenly. Upon her the light broke over poweringly. " Is it, she whispered, putting forth her hands " is it -James Ammrkton?" " Yes," said the man a stranger now no more "I am James Ammerton! And I thank God who has given me op portunity thus to show how gratefully I remember all your kindness to me, my more than mother 1" :. And he held her hands, and pressed them to his lips, and blessed her again and again, telling her, with streaming eyes, that she, of all the world, had lift 1 ed him up and saved him ! That evening Mrs. Walsh, sitting by 1 her husband's side, and holding one of ms nanus, saui to mm : "Once upon a time a pebble was kicked about in the waste of sand. A lapidary saw it, and picked it up, and when he had brushed away the dirt from its surface, he applied his chisel, and broke through the crust, and behold a diamond, pure and bright I" New York JsCdger. Had to Pay. A number of persons assembled at the depot of the New York, New Haven and iiartiord Kailroad Company, about wuiU o'clock yesterday morning, to see Presi dent Grant and his party on the occasion of their departure for Boston,' Concord and Lexington to attend the centennial anniversary as - the latter place. Presi dent Grant, Vice-President Wilson, Sec retary Robeson, of the Navy Department; uen. JjelKnap, Secretary 01 War; Secre tary Delano, of 'the Interior; Ex-Gov. Jewell, Postmaster General; Gen. 'Bab cock,' President Grant's Private Secre tary, and the Chief of Staff of Gov. Gaston, of Massachusetts, reached the depot a few minutes before 10 o'clock. and not being aware of the injunction placed upon the New York, New Haven and Hartford . Railroad Company, re straining the officers from issuing free passes to the Presidential party. Presi dent, Grant, escorted by Gov. Gaston's Chief of Staff, proceeded to the door of exit to the cars, little dreaming of an impediment to their progress. ; The doorkeeper, pursuant to instructions from headquarters, politely informed them that it would be necessary to pro cure tickets before passing to tne cars. As, the party consisted of teu persons. I the payment of $60 was unexpectedly cauea ior; whereupon tne representative of Gov. Gaston manifested in , plain terms his indignation in regard, to the affair, and expressed his views in regard to what he considered a gross insult to the chief magistrate of the nation, who was left standing in an unenviable pota tion near the door of exit, while the tickets were being obtained, probably occuovinsr from five to ten minutes. Mr. hshop made his appearance in tne . - .... office about tne same time, and ex plained how he had been precluded from extending to the Presidential party the usual courtesies over the road. JSeio York Times. A Duel on Horseback. The Myd (California) Independent has the following: Quite a chivalrous epi sode occurred at Bound Valley on Wed nesday last. As the matter was to have been judicially investigated at. ag rine yesterday, we will await that report be fore giving full particulars. A row hjul taken place between XV XJ. Xjeww and W. T. WiswalL at the ranch of the former, all about some bogs. As no sat isfactory solution of the difficulty could be attained by a war of words and lists, Wis wall, retired irom the neia 01 action with the avowed intention, of coming back better prepared for business. He did so, reappearing a short time , after, armed with a six-shooter. . Lie wis, armed with a -shot-gun, mounted his war-horse and sallied forth to meet him. Maneuver ing a short tme for position, both parties opened lire. Xjewia shot did no good, but Wiswall's took effect in .the neck of his -opponent's horse, cutting the bridle rein at the same time, together rendering .hins-unmanagaple. lut the Jjewis ban ner still floated defiantly to. the breeze. and continued to do so, even after a shet from the enemy had taken effect near, the sciatic plexus, or that portion of the body nearest the eantla of the saddle.- This was unpleasant, but not sufficient to pre vent the wounded men. then dismounted. from firing another broadside, with the effect of bringing the action to a dose, the enemy drawing off, but still unharm ed. It was a well contested little tourna ment, and this system for settling bog difficulties may become quite popular. Liewis wound is ' quite severe, but not considered particularly-dangerous. Novel Devise for Transmitting Power. Upon the ceiling, or in some eonven ient place, are hung two cast-iron disks, or hemispheres, securely clamped 'to gether. Between the two is an elastic diaphragm having a piston secured to the center. 'X'he piston passes tnrougn hole in the lower disk, and is geared to crank, or a short piece of shafting. From each disk extends a common rubber tube. These are united at any convenient dis tance with a small air-tight cylinder with a piston. On applying power, the dia- -phragm is driven rapidly up and down, and the air above and below it is alter nately compressed and rarefied, : - This impulse passes, with little loss by fric tion, through the pipes, and the piston in the cylinder is alternately sucked up and driven down. As there is two pipes, the movement is reciprocal, and the pis ton moves with nearly the. same drawer, and at a speed ,. corresponding with the movement of the diaphram. There is no exhaust, no discharge, and no .new sup ply of air. iwen a leak does no jiarm, excetit to waste the oower. and the cylin der will work in whatever position it is placed, so long as the pipes are clear. This device has been 'used in cutting cloth in a wholesale clothing house, and it is said to work satisfactory. 'erTuer for May. CaxiOKraK Gas tw a New Bjs&atiox. During the late cholera epidemic in Vi enna, a new remedy, called camphorein, was used with great success in the hos pitals. It is prepared simply .by passing chlorine gas Into pure turpentine oil tin til saturated: it gives a thick, heavy, oily fluid, of brown color, with a strong smell of chlorine. This vr freed from muriatic acid by washing with water. : The reme dy is applied by placing a portion in flat vessel and holding it to the patient to inhale. xsrCtecwe. A hah exhales carbonic acid gas. ' daily 140 gallons of The Death Bate Great Increase Dur ing tne I'asi lear. "Prom facts collected by medical men in all parts of the world it appears that a sudden and heavy increase of the death rate among adults marked the winter of 1874-5. In the Southern states 01 this Union and in Northern Europe the same disclosures are made by the records of vital statistics. They all agree in the main parts of their reports, and declare that unprecedented changes from the normal state of the weather occurred dnrhur the past cold months. The weather was 'cold and moist. That com bination produced pulmonary disease and pneumonia. At the same time it made the class of ailments ' extremely difficult to1 cure. Diphtheria was also prevalent in an unusual degree. In some sections it amounieu iu &u epidemic, ana scores of people were carried off by it in a short tune. Dr. Harris, Begistrar of Vital Statistics in New York, reports that in that city the total percentage of deaths wiH be from 12 to 15 per cent, additional, and in special classes of diseases most fatal the ratio has been doubled.' In reference to diphtheria the reports from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Ijondon, liver pool, Dublin, Vienna and Hamburg show that the ravages have been wide spread and fatal. Paris has a lower per cent, of deaths from this malady. This is accounted for by the excellent sanitary regulations m lorce in tne xrencn capi tal, and the rigid manner in which they carried out bv special omoers ap pointed . for that purpose. The physi cians say that persons m ' the constant habit of taking strong liquors are in great danger from diphtheria. ' In these persons the mucous membrane of the throat is weakened to a iatai extent, ana, as a matter of course, cannot resist the double assault of a cold atmosphere, and that heavily laden with moisture. In this section the weather is unusually try ing upon people from the 1st of January to the 1st of April. One storm followed another in rapia succession, uiu w uiuni places the transition was se sudden as to produce consequences 01 a very unpleas ant if not fatal character. No attention to clothing could prevent the action of the damp, rasping air upon the throat and lungs, and hence the increase in this i family of complaints. - Among those who were compelled to live in damp houses and go half clad the ratio of mortality was of necessity greater. The winter of 1835-6 was marked with heavy mortality rates, but hot so heavy as those of 1874- 5, which are now being presented to the world in the shape of regular-collected vital statistics. Pittaburgh Commer cial. Twenty Thousand a lear Sot Enough to Harry un. Says a New York paper: New York is crowded with rich unmarried men, afraid of the expense of supporting these gilded outtermes. xnere is a oacneior at tue Sixth Avenue Hotel whose income is $20,000 a year, and still he says he can't afford to get married. He's a proud fel low, and says as a single man he can have the best horses, best room, and best box at the opera. " If I should get married," he said, " I should have to stint myself or overdraw my income." " How is that?" asked a friend. "WelL now, come into the parlor,' and 111 show you. You see, ladies are extravagant now-a-days. They dress bo much more than in Europe. I mean, they don t wear rich diamonds like the women of Florence and Milan, but they wear such rich dresses, laces, shawls, and . furs. Now, I m proud, and I should not want ' my wife outdressed, so I have to keep out of the marriage business. Uo you that lady there t" he said, pointing to a fashionable caller. " Yes. " " Well, she has on a $400 panmered, wattaned, poi onaised, brown, gros grain dress, and I wear a $60 coat. She wears a $1,200 camel's hair shawL and a 500 set of sa ble, while I wear a $70 overcoat. She wears a $70 bonnet, while I wear an $8 hat. She wears $200 worth of point ap plique and pom t anguille, while I wear a $6 shirt. Her shoes cost $16, mine $12. Her ordinary morning jewelry, which is changed every year, not counting dia monds, ; cost $400, mine oost $30. " WelL how does it foot uo f " Why. the clothes she has on cost $2,225,' and mine -cost $206. and that is only one of her dozen outfits, while I only have say three. "Xhe tact is,'" said- he, growing earnest, " I couldn't begin to live in a brows-stone front 'with that woman, and keep up appearances to match carriages, church, dinners, opera and sea-side, for $20,000. I'd have to become a second rate man, and live in an eighteen-foot house, or withdraw over to Second ave nue, and that I II be hanged if 1 do I and he Shuig his fist down into a nice silk hat in the exoess of his eagerness. : ' ' Cooperation' In England. The co-operative societies of England have recently held their annual congress, which was presided over" by Prof, chor oid Rogers of Oxford, and it is apparent that co-operation is making much more headway in England than in this country. Both in trade and in produc tion', many of the co-operative societies are doing a thriving business at a good profit.. Co-operative stores in the manu facturing districts of Iancashire accu mulate profits of one or two million dol lars in a few years. The Scottish whole sale co operative 1 company had cleared $70,000 in the past year. These stores buy and sell at the market rates and di vide the" profits among the stockholders, instead of selling at a -nominal profit. Perhaps the most extensive operation of the principle was reported from Oldham, in which town the 'co-operative societies had a membership of; 12,000; some of these were building' societies and had built and sold to artisans at cost price 800 cottages ; others were doing an an nual business of $1,500,000 in flour ; others were in retail trade, and, others still were in cotton manufacture, there being BO co-operative mills with a capital of $18,000,000. : .The Manchester Equi table Co-operative Society was estab lished fourteen years ago, and it has di vided meantime, besides good dividends, $240,000 in bonuses. . The statistics of the societies in Great Britain show that they " now 'number more than .400,000 members and divide ' annually in profits $37,000,000. Here is work for our Sov ereigns and Grangers-to aim at. , A Queer Case, The Gainesville (Texas) Sun publishes the following singular, but doubtless true story : " Last Saturday two men named Henson and Johnson while, here both became slightly under the influence of liquor. While going home they got into a dispute, in which Henson called Johnson a liar. Johnson instantly seized his Spencer .rifle, which hung to the horn of his saddle, and shot Henson, the bul let entering through the top of the hip bone, passing neatly through ' the body and lodging in the other side. Henson rode on for a few steps and fell from his horse. Johnson was at once stricken with remorse, and wept piteously over his victim. He then turned to go, when Henson gave him his horse as being the beet to get away on, and told him to go to Mexico. The two men then bade each other an affectionate farewell, and John- son left. Henson was carried home that : evening, where ne nas since ueen lying in a very critical condition, although some hopes are entertained of his recov ery. Tue two men had been fast friends for years." Combined Ice-Boat and Fire Engine. Messrs. Creighton, of Abo, Finland, have built and engined a remarkable little craft for the Bussian government. She is 82 feet long, 14 feet beam, and draws 6 feet. She is fitted with a pair of ordinary high pressure engines with 13-inch cylinders, and 18-inch stroke. To fit her for discharging the duties of a fire engine she is provided with two steam pumps, double-acting, with steam cylinders 8-inch stroke and 9-inch diam eter, while the pumps are 4-inch diam eter. The steam presssure is 60 pounds. The vessel is specially intended -to mMTifain communication between the island of Cronstadt and the main land. For a considerable portion of the winter the ice will carry any weight that can be put on it, but in the spriLg and autumn the ice, though too strong to prevent the use of ordinary .boats, will not carry horses or sleighs. During the prevalence of westerly winds the ice, though broken Up, becomes densely packed. The ice boat is built of unusual strength, her skin being of 7-16-in. and J-in. best boiler plates, double riveted throughout, her frames being of correspoding strength. In work she is driven straight at the ice, on which the bow runs .until her weight breaks down a- large mass, While at the same time fifty - sailors roll her to keep her free from accumulations of ice on her sides, and this rolling is kept Up all the time she is under way. She often sticks fast, nevertheless, and has to back one hundred yards or so be fore she goes at the ice again with a rush. Some idea of the difficulties of this nav igation in winter may "be gathered . by the fact that while in summer the pas sage is done by steamer in thirty min utes, the ice-boat is often seven hours in making it, Engineer. Big Words. . - A citizen of Baltimore has been hunt ing up some big words, and publishes them in the American for the benefit of the getters-up of spelling matches. , The first word offered is said to be the longest word in the English language, used often in old plays, and placed in the mouth of Costard, the clown in " xxive s xjaoor Liost," act V., scene l:, " Hononficabih tudinitatibns." The next in Pilgrima of the Rhine, by Bulwer, " Amoronthologosphorus." The next from Rabelais, " Antiperica tametananaparbeugedamphio - Bibration estoor decautium. " The next is the name of an officer now in Madrid, Don Juan Nepomuoeno de Burionagonatorecagageazcoecu The next is a town in the Isle of Mull, " Drimtdhvrickhillichatteii." The next, " Jungefrauenzimmerdurch schwindsuchttoedlungsgegenverien. " "Nitrophenylenediamine"and "Poly phraaticontmomimegalundulation," are two words that recently appeared in the London Times and Star. " SankashtachatartMvratodyapana." " Swapandhaksharimanamanta-astora." The names of two productions of San scrit literature. ' 'lpadotemachosolachosegaleokraiiio leiphanodrimupotrimmatokkshlepi kossu phopliatoperiserrtlsktruonopteg kepblok- lgkktpeleiolagoossiralobaphetiaganopter ugon." This last word is the largest in any language. It may be found in tha 44 Ek klesiazousai " of Aristophenes, a very excellent comedy, and placed in the mouth of one of the actors. It consists of 169 letters, and makes seventy-seven syllables, and must have created some laughter when spoken. Some aetors of the present day would hardly risk it. The .lrap..Pitot,, Spring has come and the txaiip looks longingly Westward; 'for festivity and E hinder. A tramp by profession now 1 New York, has been so often swinging through the circle that it is said he an now set type handsomely for the Chero kee -Nation's paper; while a Philadelphia tramp H known as having set many thou sand ems in an old Dutch' settlement in Ohio, where especially fine gin is dis tilled which pays no tax and is certainly in respect to price, "the poor man s friend." Fun, isn't it? A characteristic tramp is he of the festive nature, who walks into a town tired, hungry, solemn, sober and penniless; poor but respecta ble; shabby, but very skillful; shoeless, but with a good understanding;- all but -hatless, with a remarkable idea-box. He applies for work. "Sober?" "Ya." " Know your business?" Yes." " Been here before?"' " No." Got any recom mendations?" "Ixrts of 'em." AD right, go to work." Sedately -and calmly he labors until he gets his two weeks pay; then comes a change to the spirit of his dream. He gathereth together the ether devotees at the Tslirhie of Bacchus, and not only -incapacitates himself for further 'work, out demoralizes and all but para lyzes for a time the entire printing in terests of the town. Then it is that editors end : proprietors and boys and girls have to get out the paper, as the festive tramp having done all the damage he can, moves for new worlds to conquer. In this way a tramp will bring destruc tion on a half-dozen offices, and smash more temperance pledges in two 'weeks than are signed in a year. American Newspaper Reporter. . Tae Age of Paper. ' , - We read of the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, as marking the eras in the progress of civilization among mankind, and it is now suggested tnat a suitable designation of the present era is the Paper Age. When we consider what an immense amount of paper is used ev ery day, on which is printed the news of the previous twenty-four hours, also the many articles that are -made of this ma terial, it must be acknowledged that paper is pre-eminently characteristic of this period-of history - ; ,!:;w-fS " . " From a light -fan to a heavy ear-wheel, the greatest variety of things is now made paper. The manufacture of paper col lars, paper boxes for various purposes, and of envelopes, is especially extensive, and important. , In Germany alone, it is calculated that nearly a thousand mil lions of envelopes' are " manufactured yearly, and, curiously enough, the intro duction of postal cards has not caused a diminution of the number. One of the most recent applications of paper, is for the construction of small ' casks or bar rels. , These are made in a cylindrical form, of straw papr, "so pressed and glued together as to be extremely hard. These barrels are said to be much supe rior to wooden ones, being at the same time lighter, more durable, and cheaper. Youth' .Companion . - ; At a spelling-match in Tennessee a young man - was requested to spell rhapsody. " Say it again," said he ; the pronoun cer hurled it at him again, and the young man hurled it bock, mangled, mutilated, bleeding, as follows : W-r-a-pwrap, s-oso. d-ydy, wrapsody." " The Staff of life. . Two thousand years ago Hippocrates, the " father of medicine, who depended for more on correct diet and general regi men both for the prevention and removal of disease, than he did on. medicine, par-1 ticularly commended the. unbolted wheat meal for bread. : - The ancient wrestlers, who were trained for great, boilily power, ate only the coarse wheaten meal -bread-to preserve the strength' of their' limbs. Pliny tells us that the Spartans, during the period when they were most remark able for bodily vigor and personal powers,, knew no other bread for three hundred years., , '. ; Near the close of the last century, when England and France were waging war . with each other, : the British Parliment passed a law, to take effect for two years, that the army at home should be supplied with bread made from un bolted wheat meal, solely for the purpose of making the wheat-go as far as possible. At first the soldiers were exceedingly dis pleased with this kind of bread and re- ', fused to eat it, , but after two or three weeks they preferredit to fine flour broad. The, result of the experiment was that the health of - soldiers improved so much and so manifestly in the course of a few months that the officers .' and . physicians of the army publicly declared tha$ the soldiers were never before so healthy and robust, and that diseases of many kinds had almost entirely disappeared from the army. For a-while the use of this bread was almost universal in public institutions and in private families,, and it was pro nounced by the civic physicians by far the most , healthy bread that could.be eaten. The testimony of sea-captains and whalemen is equally : in favor of wheaten bread. " The coarser my ship bread is, the healthier is my crew, said a very intelligent sea-captain of over 30 years experience. The inhabitants of Westphalia, who ore a hardy and robust people, capable of enduring the greatest fatigues, are a living testimony to the salutary effects of this sort of bread ; and it is remarkable that they ore very seldom attacked by acute fevers and those other diseases which -arise from bad humors, In fact the laboring class throughout Europe, Asia and Africa use bread made of the whole grain ; happily for them they cannot afford to buy fine flour. The most intelligent class of people in our large cities have bread made of unbolted wheat oh their tables every day, and depend upon it ; but in country places the idea prevails that it is cheap and. coarse, and that to feed a guest on Graham bread would be inhoepitality. Nothing can be further from the truth. Our first-class hotels have regularly on their bills of fare '.' cracked wheat," " hommihy." " oatmeal mush ;" and some advanced teachers of hygiene are beginning; to hope that the reign of fine flour is passing away. . ,. In preparing articles of food from the whole wheat, very much of their palata bleness depends on the manner in which they are compounded. Bread of unbolt ed nour should be molded soft and baked quite hard. It may be raised just as bread of fine flour is raised, with yeast, with sour .milk and soda, with yeast pow der, or, best of alL most palatable and nutritious, be mixed with milk and water in equal proportions and baked in" " gem pans" in a very hot oven. . This is the most wholesome' form in which wheat can be -made into bread. New -York Tribune. ' ..--..,-. -.' s. j. Have Drauikards any Rigfcts which Sober . Ben are Bimad to Respect! ' ,, The report on " Inebriate Asylums or Hospitals," by the Chaicman of the Mas Bachaaette Board of Health, , Henry X Bowditch, M. "D, contains the following argument in faanof depriving drunk ards of their civil right : ' . , , XJruafcards, it they be inveterate- m keb? fcita, shoold be deprived of mU civil righjte, in the same manner that tihe Kiipt, use msane,1wie .ngn, 1 criminal, ne deprived of their . rigikts. , -1 think' tfaat the law should allow any one to complain of the habitual drank ami, and on stuUcs- ent proof being given at the truth at sae allegation before the proper court, said oourt should decree jvjl rights to be held in aleyenoe untU a radical cure bp effected, , The best interest of. the State eems to me, even in prmciple, not onfy to allow of this proeeedare. but absolute ly to require it as a means 01 self defense. if the' B public is -. to. oaatinue in a state of purity. .. I believe the period will ar rive when, to be drunk, even in private. will be deemed a misdemeanor, and to appear in public hia state of intoxication Will justly be considered one of the great- eat of Crimea against the good order of the State. Any one public exhibition pf this co mutton of mind will then be con sidered satisfactory evidence (unless valid proof be procured to the contrary) of habitual drunKenness, ana as such will render the offender amenable to those highest penal tie which the State can in flict For example, for one offense in public I think that such a parson should not be allowed to vote or exercise . his civil rights for at least six months, and for a lowger time on a repetition of the offense. . This punishment mar seem ab surd to some and be opposed Dy others ' as wholly tmjast for the amount of injury done the State. $ fi3me earnest defenders of the rights of man will say that the er ror of once being ' intoxicated in public would not deserve so serious a depriva tion, as that of the right to act generally as. a man in civil life. -There may also be Others' who,, from ,ihe way in which Uiey use their own rights, will think that the deprivation of civil rights from a drunk ard will have but little force towards hia cure. ; A man. who-will lie in the gutter ilrunk is regardless of shame, and what cares he for civil rights ? I admit this argument as of some weight as to the ef ficiency of the punishment, but deny the plea of its injustice,- . . .:- . . 1 i.-- flow to Make Sachets or Scent-Bags. Various powders, eto., placed in silk bags or ornamental -envelepes- are agree able to smell of, and also economical for imparting a pleasing - odor to linen and clothes as they are packed away in draw ers, for they prevent motha. - i v For" heliotrope powder take. half , a pound 6f- orris root, one-quarter pound of ground rose leaves, two Ounces pow dered tonquin bean, one- ounce .'vanilla bean, one-half drachm ' grain musk,-' two drops attar of almonds; mix it all by sifting through a fine sieve, v This is one of the best sachets ever made, and per fumes table-cloths, sheets, pillow-cases, and towels delicioaslyv c " ' ' For lavender powder take one pound of powdered lavender, one-quarter pound gum1 benzoin, and onerquarter of an ounoe of attar of lavender. w- For patchouli, use one-half a pound of patchouli ground fine, and a very little of attar patchouli. This herb is often sold in its natural state as imparted, and is tied up in half-pound bundles. t Sandal wood sachet powder is good, and consists of the wood ground fine. Cedar wood, when ground, forms a body for other powders, and will keep moths at a distanee. i Dried fennel, when ground, is also used for seen t-bugs, and ground nutmeg is liked for this purpose. A. uttlb peppermint is better than brandy when there is, any trouble with your " true inwardness. All Sorts. The harvesting of barley has begm . in Southern California. Of the 221,042 teachers in this coun try, 127,713 are women. Bto Cow, one of the sub-chiefs of thet Arapahoe tribe of Indians stands sevenr. feet high i his moccasins. ' Thk grasshopper ia to be utilized by squeezing, straining and selling him as a- lubricator. Okb hundred and five Cardinals have? been buried by the present Pope. Fifty five are stijl oa hand and five in reserve. Dow't locate your gr andfather "in the? ' front rank' in the Con cord and Lexinjr- toa fight. . ' That was the one that re treated. '"',' A mbpioaii practitioner in Boston tes tified that he "attended a portion of m boy who was cut np in a mowing iaa ehiae." -..'. ... '.- . JbhtjAWP. too, will have her centenary fever in August. Dublin will rejoice in the fact- that, one hundred years ago, Daniel O'Connell was born. Thzbb is a man in the penitentiary at Michigan City who was sent there for black-mailing John C. New, the sew Treasurer of the United States. Thb number of emigrants westward, bound at the present season is unprece dented. There , have left Omaha, Ne braska, since March 1st, 9,300. . Tjawrkhcb, the silk smuggler, who' fled the country, is held at Queenstowni for extradition. His operations in then smuggling hne exceeded $1,000,000. American students who are becoming' affected after the fashion of the English,, find full scope for their silliness in talk ing of the coming Saratog-ah regat-ah."" A mas weighing 145 pounds contains; 116 pounds of water. In a perfectly dryr atmosphere he would exhale this throngln his lungs and skin, and turn into a mum- my- . i In the. coarse of a . case brought FjinmanueL the Ixmdqn jeweler, it waor shown that he charged $20,000 for a. necklace which wae valued by a Parin jeweler at STjCOOl ." i ' ; Gkrmast's military forces, including; those of Bavaria, comprise at this mo ment 31,830. officers, 1,329,600 men,. 314,970 horses, 2,700 field, and 820 siege. pieces or cannon. ,: A fabkeb named Ziegler, n Micliigaxi is famous for'good sense and great wealth. Some one asked him the outer day how he made his money.' "By minding myj own business," was the reply. , . The editor of the Savannah JVeuwftas reasoned the thing out to its conclnsvnu- . He says: f We cannot possibly , returrra rejected manuscripts; indeed, we won't : undertake to return borrowed money."" A party of Sioux Indians stole a pat- - ent ice-cream freezer, supposing it to be- a hand-organ, and their " big medicine ' man " turned the crank a week before he---would confess his inability to get music-' outi.pf it;, - ; ;;. ,,: . ... . There is a man in Butts county.Sa., . who has sixty living grandchildren, and .'-tweanty-two dead, thirty-nine living great grandchildren, and who lost aiao grand Bona, two sons, and one son-in-law in the-i late war. t i ,-t.,'. tJroH a medium-sized man, presenting;. to the surface 2,000 square inches, the fnrna nf !V) fW) -rvnnrwla Wn nro nni: conscious of th because the air within . us presses outward with equal force. Da. Ewaia, of the Prussian Statistical Bureau, estimates that there are 150,000 -stationery engines in the world, with an aggregate- of about 3,500,000 horse pow er; 50,000 locomotives, with an aggregate of . lp,0O0Q horse-power; and 54255 opeaa'sfeaWrs x ,,Vt ' A oil chap Hi Tennessee aged 90," re eentiy married a sweet young miss aged . 8L -' Bdea unequal marriages generally -r torn out badly, and this is no exception' to the rnleJ The old man is now con- -sutoed with jealousy of a young and I frisky cuss of 83, who has been hanging z aroana latery. Tins physiologists who assert that it is- impossible for a man to live a hundred' years, will have to surrender. The Count Waldeck, of Paris, is now one hundred and nine years old, and lively,, at that. Possibly the fact that he draws? a pension from the French governmear has Something to do with his tenacity.. Pensioners are proverbially tough ones.. ,At a recent spelling match at Box bury twos' brothers' took the prizes; at North bbro, Mass., a mother and her son were the victors; at Haverhill, a brother and sister j and at Philadelphia two sis ters were the lost to go down all eff which, seems to, show that the ait off spelling correctly is a species of heredi tary genius, as well as other accomplish ments, "t " ' ' j " . . - A CmcAOo'-'pbet, upon hearing that. KilBSOn was about to erect cow fthtd upon her Peoria lota, has burst forth into the following verse: "Christine, Chris tine, thy milking do the mora and eve;. between, -and aot oy tue aim religions light of the fitful kerosene; lor the cow- may piunge, ana we ihujm f--, nuui tho fire'-tkwid ride the gale, and shriek. the knell of the burning town in the glow of the molten paii t"; A Katnral Mathematician. - ! Mr. ' Edward H. Ooureey, of F&iey Nedk, was born in 1796, and is now,ra sequentJy, eighty-one years of age,'. Mr. Coursey is a remarkable man. Figurem-. are mere playthings for-hinu He can solve the most difficult problem, and haw yet to find a sum he cannot get the cor rect answer to. His talent for figures i entirely natural, - never having' attended. mtifth as a year in his life. He .does his sums, not "by any arithmetical rules, but by rales of his own, but si ways' gets the correct answer. ' He has; made too,- somewhat of a reputation, and receives' sums through the mail front almost every State in the Union, which. -he works and answers by maiL Ho in. quite notorious, also, for the difficult urns he puts to others, and particularly the school Blasters, whom he especial ly delights to puzzle. ' His latest is as fof- -lows "A former having twelve ditehetr -to cut, of different lengths, employ four men to Co the work. To the first he -agrees to pay $1 per rod ; to the second $125 per yard ; to the third $1.7S per -rod, and to the fourth $3.18 per rod- . When they finish the ditches and come to be paid off, each man receives- the name amount of - money for eachi dSteb- -How many rods did each soon cut in 1 each ditch ; how much money did e&c&r man receive for- each ditch ; how long; was each ditch, and how mnch did it cost? per rod to have the ditches' cut I "- Centerville McL) Observer. r -.A J9 UDULUVCJ ' J Highness, the Prince of Wale, will fx to India next winter, a country which, though forming a magnificent part of the- xiiunil empire?, una uwcx . wbi .iuk;jb. by a scion of the royal house.