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LObY AND FOCKX). ir am old cominrroB. , la the journal of Lib That oouotad yaan deep Of dart tbatwa Ubor ' Ana night tlutt w sleep, Turn wa io tlie column, ' ( ' Clot written and crasa'd, ( whar glimmer the raeord ; Tl "J--onud"nd tha ".oil." r ' ' Found-love true and tender, ' Well-lruited for are, v To eount with the jeweli No money can buy. Found our eourare to battle 'Uainit trrowi of fate; Found eomelhing that's rarel) - Found courage to wait. ' Found etrctchea of meadow Where aweet waU-ra glide. With doejier wood-atiadows Wherein to abide Found tide-gathered trewurtj Adrift on the aand, From ihl that nine Bailing, ' Camo Bailing to laud. And what are the Inum To call and to count? How many their number, Uow grout their amount? Loet beautiful childhood: Aht check cherry red, Iteet softly and aileut 'Hid yeeternlgnt's dead. Loat bone for new brightness My pathway to eruae, Loat faith, jutt a little, Alai for the lota! Loat nay, I count novcr Aa"loat"th'eI miu, For they only bare hidden In that world frvm tbii. Loat days weak and (die, Loat lima to do good, Loat bearti true and tender, ' Friend! mieundcnilood; Loet iatienoe through trial, " Loat charity awool, To scatter air roiea Kound Error'! fruil feet. But look you, 0 aearcher, Let other thing! go: Uaat found in the journey A robe whito aa nnowT limit pluckod from the criinion That Calvary knew A 1'earl that ia prineloaa, A Word that ia true? Haul hut any bunion Like Christian of old, Any wculrtiene or folly Outlived or off rollod? So, counting un Iomci, Ood give in to find Bumegain undorneath thum, Homo treamirea enahrined. from Ihi N. Y. Ialutr. Air And Exorcise for Cows. Tho following comprises extract from an address dollvorcd Mora tho Amori can Dairymon's Association at Uio lust annual mooting by Trof. I. T. Roberts: For tho last ton to twonty years, from pross and roittrum havo gone forth argu ments and flguroa without nnnibor to prove tho economy of warm stables. This is well, and great good has boon accom plished. Enterprising farmorsnre quick to nee and adopt anything now that gives promise of good results. Warm stables, thoir good sonso taught thom, would give hotter results than cold ono. Immedi ately now barns woro built with low, warm basomonU, and their entire Bidos wore frequontly of stono. Tho jock screws liftod up many old barns, and low, warm stables wore placed undorneath. It ia no unoomnion thing to hoar mou ro mark with apparent priilo, that it never frooMi in thoirBtablosevonin thoooldost weather. While all thin baa boon going on, but littlo or nothing has I won said as to the amount and quality of the air to bo sup plied to tho oattlo in thoir improved sta bles. Seeing the groat injury dona to aomo of onr valuablo broods of animals by go ing to eitromoN in dill'erent directions, I have noted with much solicitude tho re sults of hot stublos and oloso oonlliioiiient. Hot stables aud biul air do not always go togothor, but tlioy nsuulJy do, and I have boon at soma pains tit imthnv font. ia. urcs, and dooth rules of various herds in Now York and somo iu Iowa. I ahull withhold all names of tho herds roforrod to, as I ean soo no possiblo gooil in mak ing thom public.' One milk dairy thul I have visited at least a hundred times iu the lost few voars, contained , in 1877, eighteen cows. They wore kopt in a wooden building abovo ground, sixty foot loug by sixtoou foet wide with seven-foot ceilings. Tho hay was kopt in tho loft provontimr any faeapo of air In thai direction except through a small hay scuttle. Tho walls ......... i:.... i i" ... i . .. .i "'" iiuuu uu iuu iiiHuiu, ami mo space between the innor and outer walls com piously tilled with straw. Four Huiall windows oliotit two foet square and four-foot door, constituted the soli openings; at night those worn usually uumiu. it mattered tiuio now Oolit it was out-sido, it was always abovo frooaing inside. Tho honl was liberally fed, and wen cared lor, ami yet on an average nearly two cows per year succumbed to tuberculosis, and no wonder, for they hud but six thousand seven hundred and sovonty-throo cubic foot of air space, o three hundred and soventy-throo cubic icei por cow. xniagiue seventeen men sleeping and living for twonty-thrco hours out of twenty-four in a room ton by twelve foot with niuo-foot coiling huu jvn got, noma corn-opium 01 Uio un healthy condition that surrounded thi herd. lo years since the herd was piaoca in quarters giving about fou tames tuo air space per animal that they luruiuriTj uio resuu is mat not singlo animid hai boon allliouvl since A Herd of valnabla ahortliorns with which I am well acquainted, some five or aix years since were kept iu warm, closo rumim, u.i luuercniosia was so common mat the owner of the cattle became siarraea; wen no might Ih, for not only were aomo mature animals diseased, but also qnita a ior cent, of tho young ma uhi m curonio uiarruica more or is severely, lie now keeps the hoifer. in a woll-iirotooted, opt.n shed; tlie cows are turned out about eight hours dailrs ami me Darn is thoroughly ired; tho stables in which tho young calves are aopi is now enlarge! and bettor ventil latod, and the result is uniformly healthy 1.- ' T .... tuur ;an wnrij 1 matie a TlSlt to a gut-edge butter dairy in county. Twenty-six animals, mostly grade Jer seys, wore occupying a new aUble, forty by twenty fonr, with six feet eight inch ceiling. This gsTe two hundred and forty-three cubic feet air space per cow. Every animal, when lod out for our in spec tj on, was taken with what appeared 1 to be a severe attack of the ague, thontrh it wm only moderate winter weathor. The stable was above grouna, ana not very warm, the air damp and insufferably foul. Allowing that a oow requires six times as much air space aa a man, and hiking this stable, where eocii oow Lad two hundred and forty-six cubic foet of air space, as a basis from which to figure, it would be equivalent to confining twenty-two jnen in a room ton by twelve loot. Another law-incut barn visited this winter wss&HxW feet, celling 8 foet 14,000 cubio feci. This would give to the tlnrty-six cows kept in it SM cubic feet air space per head, or one-half as much air space as is allowed a British soldier. There were six windows in this bsrn, 1x3 feet, and one duo a, all closed Another barn that had boon built at an expense of some &HO00, had in the boso- nient, which was lHxJJxo feet, sr rangoments for fifty-seven cows. This would give bi'i cubio foet air space per auiiimi. une enure sum oos no opening whetover: the other sides had six small windows and three doors, all closed. inougii tins stable nsd more air space por animal man tuo one previously mon tioned, yot the air was more foul. This points to a fact of Urn overlooked ; that a large building is far more diiHonlt to properly ventilate than a small one, Homo of our advanced dairymen got quite excited over the brutality of stan chions, but soom to entirely forgot the weightier matter of pure air, and permit their cuttlo to be kept in a stable that ex cludes the air about as eflcctlvoly as an ordinary farm house; 47-48 of the time with an allowance of one-third as much oxygen as is required by a man, whon uiey snouia nave about aix times as much; or, in othnr words, tlie homcno pathio dose of 1-18 of a nominal (indoor sunpiy is allowed mora, ttix hundred cubic foet is allowed a British soldier in permanent barracks, 400 cubic foet in woodon but, 1200 cubio foot in hospitals at uomo, iuuu cudio ioet in mo tropics. Our boat horso stables have from 1200 to 1 100 cubic foot per horso, with all possi b'e appliances for ventilation. Lut the cow that furnishos the food for ourselves and child ron isconflnod in room with her- voiding, with doors and windows tightly closed for twelve oonsocutive hours, and with an allowance of from ono-fourth to one one-eighth of tho proper amount of air. Woro it not for the air that penetrates even stone and brick walls and through the few cracks, the animals would not survive a single night. Is it not possible to have evon largo stables modorately warm and sup plied with sir that is at least moderately pure? Perhaps ninety out of evory Hundred tttalilcs are well ventilated; most of thom too well, and tho cry of warmer stables that has boon ringing in onr oars for the lunt few years will havo to be re peated many times without doubt; but un iu aii progressive movements, there is danger of overdoing this warm "boom;" tor cold stables with healthy animals are far better than warm ones with diseased animals. I have purposoly loft out dofailed statements as to the time required in some of these warm, tight stablos pro vided tho air wero pure whon the cattle werg pun II It lor It to UOOOIllO I0U1 011(1 loaded with noxious gases, because no accuruto stntomeut cun be given; but we nave enongu data Horn roliable sources to warrant us in making somo general statements, which may be briefly stuted as follows For evory pound of livo weight at least one cubio foot of air space should be al lowed, end tho air should bo changed throo times per hour. The cracks aud small openings loft in buildings will no coiuplmii much of this chango, but in tightly-constructed buildings it is well to nisKo provisions lor tho introduction end oscajio of at least two thousand oubic feet of air for each animal por hour, l ure should be tuken that no strong unms arc created; nut it as almost im possible to veutilute uroporlv nnd avoid them, whom buildings hove on two or inreo sides a lioavyjjank of earth resting ugninst tho basement wall. Thoro are two wave to got ventilation nnd light in these basement structures; the Uist aud better is to construct tho building on a higher level, so that fair sized windows may bo placed in all sides; tho other and more expensive one is to build amplo areas around tho w indows, or a retaining wall from two to threo foet from tho basement wall. I notice the lattor method has been used in two cr three lino barns that have been built the past summer. I nave spoken frequently of windows as voutilutors, bocause by them tho in gress and egress of air is secured, and at the same time light is provided. A win dow with upper and lower sash, nnulo sua uttod as carelessly as they usually nro iur uarus, uiougn Closed, permits tho jmsxugo of quite a volume of air, nnd if a board about one foot wido is fastened across both the bottom ami top, and ono kiihu raised ana mo other lowered a little, wb have about as good a ventilator as can oe constructed. ('radically speaking, no amouut of care can prevent tlie ait from becoming somewhat vitiated, nor cau any amount tu enro in vouuiauon or loodmg bo sub stitutod for a modorate amount of oxer ciso iu tho open air. It would seem al most luperHuouB to recemmend moderate exercise as a promoter of health, vigor, longevity aud digtstion. Did not some of uio U'aohers I have referred to nhriMt in teaching by precept aud practice just the opposite? and Uvanso "judirmont is not executed speedily, they appear to think it will be postponed indefinitely. Tie np uu ifiiKo vo uim one 01 our limns, in a few weeks it Incomes uartiallv mr.il. yaed aud much weakeuod. We tie no our cows for months, yet wonder that inoy anort and die of consumption. Pnr air aud exerciso w ill 'not totally banifth hsease from our herds, but in primitive times when they had an abundance of botn diseases were far less frequent and fatal. I would not bv auv means rntnrn tothobltuk baro-yard, aud strowstaok; woiuu, oy luioingonce and fore- UlOllRlil, stUdV to DfOV dt) not on warm stables but healthy ones; aud while aim ing to secure a large flow of milk, I would not do it at tlie exnensA nf tl animal or its future offspring. LLEAIOR'tf LESSOR Bhe sat paring peaches for fc-a, on the porcn at me stua oi the old Carlton farm-house, ia Welhtville, a smart little country village in Weitorn Fonnsvl vania, that was trying to make itself into a town. A ncotly dressed and pleasant faced girl at eighteen, was loanor Moroe Carlton. A girl, moreover, who should have boon contented with lior lot. as the only child of a kindhearted widow, and the betrothed bride of the finest vounir. man in WellsvUle. But Eleanor was not content. She had not yet learned the sweetness of homely. domestic things, she did not yet know how blossed she was in having won the true love of a noble man. As she sat over her peaches she mode a pretty picture. A durk-faced, rouiantic-Iookinar young gentleman, with grout block eyes and a heavy moustache, leaned over the irar- den gate, and looked at her, admiringly. Eleanor looked up. Iior crav eves caught that glance, her pink cheeks deep ened into rose color. The strsngor lifted his hat respectfully, and passed on. Eleanor s eves followed him. lie turn ed into the Widow Fearing's trarden walk. and wont np to the honse with an assured step. "Jt must be Cousin Kecinald. lust ar rived from Brazil, of whom the l'eariiid's have hod so much to say of late," thought Eleanor. Jessy Fearing had crown cloouent in describing his "dark, mysterious beauty," as she called it. Eleanor had laughed at her, at tho time; but now she owned socretlv that "tho half had not been told her. ' ltcelnald Fearing cer tainly was magnificently handsome. And what a strange glance ho had hxod upon hor! "How would life seem, mused Eleanor, "if one had a lover like that- gallant, picturcsquo, full of romance and lootry instead of Iludolph Hoisinger?" At that moment a tall, strongly-built young fellow of twenty-two, whoso blue eyes and goldon hair, and frank, blonde face, betrayed his Gorman parentage. came round the cornor of the house. tlo was in his shirt sleeves. He fanned himself with his straw hat. as ho sut down on the step at Eloanor's feet, and stole a handful of quartered peaches from the dish beside her. "Nelly, the basket-ulcnio is to be at Mrs. Fearing's next," he said, "to intro duce that cousin of theirs to all of us. you know, it is next Wednesday after noon. How early can you be ready t 11 don't kno w 1" stammorod Eleanor. "I don't think I care to go." Indeed, sho did not. Go there, to be introduced to the ownor of those eyes, and to bo known to him, through good natured gossip, five moments later, as Rudolph Heisinger's "intendod!" Iludolph lookod astonishod, and also very miudi disappointed. "Why won tyou go?" he askod. And when sho made some bnngling ex cuse, far worse than silence would havo boon, an ugly frown camo over his good natured faco. "I can't understand you, of Into," ho said, impatiently. "What is wrong?" "Evorythinir I" said Eleanor, suddonlv plucking up spirit. "Don't you think we have made a great mistake? I am fond of you very fond; but I doubt if I love you well enough to marry you, Ru dolph 1" "You didn' say so threo mouths auo." sunt me young man. rising to his feet. and looking very polo and stern. "And now tnat l have looked forward to it so long now that I have altered the whole house to suit you now that our wedding- day is fixed, and all the noighbors know it to say that you don't love me now! You are a cruel, heartless flirt. Eleanor Morno! and whatever happens tome, after this, will bo all your fault, romom bor I" He was gone I Ho had loft hor in auger loft hor for ever, no doubt 1 Eleanor folt an odd. painful contrac tion of her hoart a4 she watchod him striding down the rond that lod to tho Hoisinger meadows. Are you there, alone in vonr clow: Eleanor?" called ont a youug girl's voice. .uay we come in t Iiogiuald does so summer "toilet," that cast all the mus line and ginghams of the belles of Vt ells, villa Aftmi l.tlv into the shade. Tt u Ilia, nnuain Greta Hoisinger, the rlanod.tir nf a rieh oitv morohont. Eleun nr wbji told bv hor izirl frionds, who watched her curiously to see how she bore Rudolph's desertion. They knew noth Mr 01 tue "lovers qnarrel," and supposed that the supe rior fascinations of tlie city beauty had ... m i -it lured the young man irom uis am-guuma for s time. Itndolnh certainly appeared to be cn tirely dovoted to his fair charge so mnoh so, indeed, that he failed to see Eleanor when she passed near thom, with a bevy of cirls on hor way to the woodland lake. Bhe bit hor lii and the color flushed into her check and the light into her eyes. Bhe was superbly beautiful, in hor wounded love and prido. And ever be side her, with his handsome dark faco, and his graceful foreign ways, was Reginald Fearing. Bhe had, at least, won that one triumph over hor city rival Reginald had neither eyes nor thoughts for any one except herself. They stood on the bank of the lake, while a party emtarked in the flat bottomed boat on an expedition after wator-lilios. Buddonly a terrible crash sounded through tho foiest, and a woman's shriek pealed through the air. Jossy Fearing came running np to thom. Bhe looked faint and pale. "Go, run bring a doctor, Reginald!" she gaspod. "The great swing has fullon. and Rudolph was in it. He saved his cousin, but he looks as if he was dead. Fly, Reginald, as fast as yon can go, to the villago, and bring a doc tor here." With a wild cry of love and fear, Eleanor darted through the forest, and fell on hor knees by Rudolph. Bho caught him in her arms; she would let no one come near him. "It is all my fault!" she sobbed aloud "If he dies without forgiving me, I shall dio tuor The blue eyes opened and looked at hor lovingly through all their pain. "I do forgive you and I love yon!" he whisperod, as he bent hor hot face down on ins. And the city cousin stayed for the wod ding, which took place as soon as Ru dolph's broken arm was strong enough. Then she went home for the winter sea son. But young Mrs. Hoisingor did not envy her. Sho had learned at least, to be content. Charlie Boss. Man. Son. to hia father, who baa ukA.1 Mm where he is in his class now: "OM I've got a mnoh better place than I had last Quarter." "Indeed! Well, whom are vou?" "I'm fourteenth." Four teenth! laxv bones! Yon wer ; last term. Do vou call that a place?" "Yea, air. It's nearer tha atovt." wish to soo von!" It was Jossy Fearing and hor hand some oousin, Eleanor hastened to invite them in. But tho evening seemed strancolv cold. and silent, nnd dismal, to her. ltoghuld roaring hud been an cxten- sivo traveler, yet sho only thought him egotistical, wuen no related story aftor story of tho wonders that he had seen in foreign hinds. Ho was disposed to admire her; but she gave him no onooumgemont. Sho scarcely listened to his compliments. Bhe thought him silly when ho laughed or smiled, and all over and through their conversation the sick thought throbbed tho while. "Rudolph has loft mo! Rudolph will come no moro!" At last hor guests loft her. when ten was over, and Eleanor went to hor own room, and looked at the moon until she wept herself to sleep, bhe said to herself, that sho would snroly bog Rudolph's pardon, whon he came again. But Rudolph did not appear on the next afternoon. Another sun rose, brightoued and set, but still no tidings of him. But tho third day. Eleanor was nearly ill. Only her priilo koot hor from poinir to Rudolph's home. N hy had she been bo foolish aa to let a romaiitio fancy part them? Now that sho had lost liiui, she found, to hor own great astonishment, that hor whole neart was his. And not that hor davs were all of an guili. and her nights were one Ion dream of pain now, at last, site learned mat mo everyday, uneventful life which Tho average woight of an adult man is 110 It i s. li oz. Tho average weight of a skeleton is about 14 It)?. Number of bones, 240. Tho skeloton measures one inch less than tho hoight of the living man. The average weight of tho brain of a man ia V, tts.; of a woman 2 Ihs. 11 oz. The brain of a man exeeeds twice that of any other animal. Tho average height of an Englishman is 5 ft. 9 in.; of a Frenchman. 5 ft. 4 in.: or a ueigian, i tt. b'l in. The average woight of an Englishman is iou ins.; of a f renchman, IjG tt and of a Belgian, 140 ft. a. The average nuinbor of tooth is 32. a man Dronmes a tout times in a minute, or 1200 times in an hour. A man breathes about 18 pints of sir in a minute, or upwards of 7 hogsheads in a day. A man gives off 4.08 percent, carbonic gas of tho air he respires; respires 10.000 onuio loot oi carrnnio acid gas in 24 hours; oonsumos . 607 cubio feet of oxygen in 24 hours, qnal to 125 cubio inches oi common air. A man annually contributes to vegcta won in ins. oi carbon. The averago of tho pulse in infancy is 120 per minnto; in manhood, 80; at 80 years, (0. The pnlse of females is more irequent than thut of males. The weight of the circulating blood is about 28 ihs. The hoart beats 75 times in a minute; scnus nearly iu its. of blood through tho veins and artories each beat; mokes four beats while wo breathe onco. 010 Ifis. or 1 hogshead li pints of oiood pass through tho hoart in one hour. 12,000 lbs. or 21 hogsheads 4 gallons. or 10,782; pints pass through the heart in 1 limira 1000 oz. of blood pass through the kid' iievs in ono nour. 174,000,000 holes or cells are in tho lungs, which would cover a surface ;!0 times greater than tho human body. At seven o'clock of tho morning of January 20th, the massive gates of tho Philadelphia Penitentiary swung open, and a man of medium height, with dark hair and a hiskors, emerged carrying a bundle. Casting a furtive glance around ha walked down the street, and entering a restaurant, colled for something to cot. He was very particular in cuoosing un meal, ami frequently oonsultod tuo inu of fare before he could make np ins mind. Of all the loungers in the saloon none recognized in the stoop-shouldered and retiring stranger, William a. wesi- ervelt, who, on October Jd, 18u, was scntouced to sevon years' imprisonment on the charge of conspiracy to kidnop and imprison Charlie Ross and extort ransom money from his family. Subse quently he was met by a person who recognized him, and over a social cigar, Westervolt recounted the story of his connection with tho famous abduction case and the manner in which he was arrested in this city. "I tell you," said he, "I have just come forth from a liv ing death; for, although I was treated with the utmost kindness up above.thore are no words to describe the frightful experience a man goes through there.' As he spoke his dork eye flushed and his whole frame tremblod with excitement. Do I think Charlie Ross is dead ? said he, in answer to a qnostion. "Why should I ? I have nevor hoard of his death, and neither have you. If the people who hod him were enabled to keep him for several months without be ing discovorod, why couldn't they have kopt him for years just as safely ? Why, he might be in one of the foundling asylums in New York City, and who would be tho wiser? The police have nover searched these, and if they did thoy might not find him." Westorvelt was dismissed from the New York police force in 1874. Said he: "After that I came on to Philadelphia, and lived in the same house with William Moshor, who had married my sister, and a young man named Joe Douglass. I sold gas burners, which I received from a New lork factory. Moshor peddled moth powdor, and Douglass did nothing.' I tried to get any kind of work, but failed, and went back to New York. Finally Superintendent Walling, of the police, got mo a position as conductor on an Eighth Avenue car. Xhis was in September, 1874, and Charlie Ross was stolon in the early part of July, the same year. When I was in New York in August, 1874, Superintendent Walling sent for me and told me he had lniorma tion that Bill Moshor and Joe Douglass had stolon the boy. It appears that Gil Meshcr, Bill's brother, who has since died, called on Walling and told him that some time previously he and Bill had had a conversation on the subject of kidnapping some rich man's son. ami he believed from the circumstances of the case that were published that thoy were connected with it. Gil was on bad tonus with his brother, on account of a robbery at Freehold, N. J., in which they participated and had a quarrel over the spoils. Gil told on Bill and the latter was arrested, but escaped and came to Philadelphia, where he lived under the name of Henderson. Walling wonted to know where he lived and everything about him, nnd 1 told him and helped him to work up the case. Detectives were sent over here from New "My uod," she exchuniod. "that a mother should live to see four of her h i i i fc....t. - -1 u- loveu vuya iu autu pioue. The olhoiala wore kind and tender to the atllicted ones, but thoy had at lust to nse force in separating the mother from her sons and induced her to leave theni after a visit of three or four hours. Mrs. Urocnwade is a woman of tot over 50 years in appearance, well Juan. nercd,' strong-minded and intelligent- uui muii n-uiiui j naiiotuuu wug mort than hor mother's heart could boar no moved and sho gavo vent to hor shamo in a mouuor inore anccting than was ever before witnessed within the prison walls. She left for.her Kentucky home taking her daughter-in-law and children with her. Thore in ono moro son who will doubt loss nover disgraco his name for he is minister of tho gospel in good standing. One of tlie convicts is in the prison hog! pital. . . The Locust's Lair. York, and thoy found everything just as I told them." "Why were they not arrested ?'' was asked. "Well, that I never knew. Anyhow, they both come to New York, and were not molested. On December 14, 1874, Judge Van Brunt's honse, at Bay Ridge, Long Island, was broken into, and Moshor and Douglass, the burglars, fell mortally wounded. Mosher died in a few miuutes, but Douglass lingered for somo timo, and made a sort of confession, in which he said thut thoy were the ab ductors of Charlie Ross, and Walling had them at last, or something like that." 8 Westorvelt was then ariestod and tried as an accomplice, and sent to tho peni tentiary, although he claims ho was in nocent. Said ho to-day: "I shall now try to investigate a clue to the abduction that has nover been properly worked nn. If Mosher and Douglass did steul the boy there must have been a third person ...1 . . . . 1. , 1 . 1 4 huu wiun cure oi mm, ana i nave my suspicions. W estorvelt probablv knows more about the case than any other man." Four Song In Trlsou. Longtellow's Residency. One of the saddest scenes ever wit nessed in tho Missouri penitentiary trans pired a short timo since. A mother met four of her sons wearing tho striped suits as convicts within its walls. Their names and crimes, as recorded on the penitentiary rolls, are: James a wodo, aged 30 years; ten years for rob bory; received last Nov. 30th. I.nt.1...i- Green wadn. niroil on. the houses which he robhprv Ami lniv.nw tj..i.: i . , . r ii ....... ..j icvikiuiiiiKe ... --" irao iuo ufBcuwuue, agea to: seven vwm tnr rouuery ami larceny. Uenry Mr. Longfellow's stately dwelling, israigo uouse, occupied, as every one kuows, by Washington at the Biege of jpoBion j-iuis, said the poot, laugh ingly, to some visitors, "is tho Load' quarters, and occupied hindquarters") has yielded more to the prevailing suburban-villa style of its noighbors than Elmwood or Shady Hill. It is fitting enough that it should, since by reason of its distinguished owner's aooessiDiiity, his constant and varied hospitality, and his social position", it forms, perhaps, tho strongest connecting link between soeioty and literature in or aoout uoston. Uhedoys follow in some thing like a continuous levee at this old colonial mansion, whose heavy bra door knocker is plied (or moro often gazed at by a deteriorating generation, in ignorance as to tlie niodo of handling it) by a long stream of pilgrims of high and low degree, drawn by reverence, or e unosiij or me wwn for literary advice lint across tho street a piece of pasture land with some cows munching among the clover and buttercuda, and a vista of the sliding Charlea and Brighton mea dows beyond upon which tho poot can look from behind his magnificent lilaa wl"o' MftfUTtnn . . . . ' 1 was entirely in thn mm i grieved him to the heart," she thought. "Surely be cannot think I am nnwnm. anly if I go to him and say that I am sorry 1" She waited eagerly for tlie day of the basket picuic. Something tol.l U tw she was sure to meet him there. And she did meet him t Tint .).. i Rudolph Heiainger was not alone ! On his arm leaned a freah. hriohL.t fairy-Lke creature, with a wonderful Magazine, Gov. Long, of Massachusetts, has al most as many engagements as General Grant. The Boston Journal says: "The Governor had a busy day on Wednesday. He Was occupied all thn fnrannnn .il. state house duties, spoke at Medford in the afternoon, in the' evening he orated at wode, aged 20: ten vears for rol.l ' J nun luivciljr. The fathor and mother of these men me in jenorson, near Mount Sterling, Ky.; keep a hotel there, and am fnW ably well-to-do in life. Four or fiv years ago tue elder brother camo to Mis souri and bought a farm near Butler, in iat08 county. The youngor brothers ionowed soon after, and the four liro together on the place, the oldest being married. Neighbors looked upon them as people of means and respectable For two or uiree years all sorts of dovilment was perpetrated in and about TWio. Persons were waylaid and robbed by masked men. Mails were rifled, burglar ies were committed, and hogs stolen. At length suspicion centered on the Green wades, and thev were wateho.1 lv and citizens, and at last caught "dead to rights." Mail pouches, cut open and rifled, were found in the cellar, and other on their premises. Con- '. and tlipr am ..ri landed in the penitentiary. Atu.a'! stated the mother, hearing her sons were in trouble, posted in haste to Bates county, only to learn that they had all been convicted of crimes and Akn the State Prison. With her daughter-in-law and the latter 'a two children she reached Jefferson City and ceeded to the penitentiary. Th .me with her sons was terribly affecting, and the it ia asserted Deputy Warden Bradbury East Boston, and wound up later by some mciT wurua to me i&io aiumni &t th Revere He probably finUhed the day by to 7i tranalatiag a few passages from Homer I m mood. 7 mtlt A Washington dispatch of tho 27th ult. says: The periodical visitation of loousui will take place this year. rrof. Riloy, of the entomological 'commission, in an interview to bepublishod in Tho Post to-morrow, says there ore two broods of locusts. One apjiears every thirteen years, and the othor every seventeen yearn. By a coincidence both broods are to appear together this year, but not in the same localities. "In what localities9" was askod. "Tho seventeen year locusts," the pro lessor replied, "will be particularly plentiful in Marquotto and Groon Lake counties, Wisconsin, and may also ap pear in the western part of North Caro lina, in northeast Ohio, and a few in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and Westchester county, Now York. They win aiso uh aouuuuut ia tue neign Dor hood of Wheeling, and will probably extend down into Maryland, Virginia, and the District. Of this, however, I am not quito sure. The thirteon-year brood will in all probability appear in southern Illinois, throughout Missouri, with the exception of the northwestern corner, in Louisiana, Arkansas, Indian Territory, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ala bama, Georgia, and North and South Carolina." "What is the difference between these tw broods?" "Do you moan in appearance? Very little, and one is very apt to confound thom." "Are loonsts to be depended npon as recurring at regular periodicals?" "Yes, sir. Observations extending for more than two hundred years prove that they never fail. The earliest appearance of tho periodical cicada, or locusts, so far as wo have any record, occurred at Plymouth, Mass., in the year 1034. Each seventeenth year they have appeared without fail. The naturalist calculates as confidently on the future appearance of the locust in a given month in a given year for all time to come as the astrono mer does an eclipse or a transit on some particular day, and he may go back to the time when none but savage men dwelt on this continent and feel confi dent that the woods of New Jersey rattled with the hoarse cry of this insect in me month oi June, seven years after the birth of Christ, jnst as they did in June, 1877." "Where does the locust roside, so to speak, during his absence from the face of the earth?" "He is then under the earth, in the shape of a worm, living on tho sap of young rootlots. In following these they penetrate very deep into the ground, sometimes going as far down as ten or twolve feet. The season for their an- pearance and disappearance differs some what with the latitude, though not so materially as one would suppose. They appear a littlo earlier in the sonth than in the north; but the lasthnlf of May can be set down as tho period during which they emerge from the ground in many parts of the country, which they gener ally leave by the 4th of July. As is the case with a great many other insects, tha males make their appearance several days bofore the females, and also disap pear sooner. Honco in the latter part of the cicada soason, though the woods are still full of females, tho song of but very few males will be heard." "Do not the females sing?" "No. Musical organs are possessed only by the males." "How is the musio produced?" io ruuiiug noiso is pro duced by a system of muscles in the lowor part of tho body, which work on drums under the wings, by alternately tightening and loosening tliem. The general noise on approaching an infested wood is a compromise be tween that of a distant thrashing-machine and a distant frog-pond; that which they make when disturbed, mimics a nest of young snakes or youug birds under similar circumstances a sort of scream. They can also produoo a chir. somewhat like that of a cricket, und a rv jouu, sunn screech, prolonged for fifteen or twenty seconds, and gradually increasing in force, and then decreasing.'' ' As Early-Day Mail Route. From 1833 to 1846 the mails for this county from the East were brought over the National road to Indianapolis. From thence it was taken to Strawtown, where it was taken by Thomas Stackhonse to Marion. This was the "short out," and mail under five or six weeks old was re garded as red-hot. Strawtown in those days was an important place, and for years afterward guideboords could be seen all over the country at tho cross roads indicating how for it was to Straw town. The road now rwnm'a.i tha Liberty pike was known, and is yet known as the Strawtown road. Straw town is in Hamilton county, and has from thirty to forty inliabitants. Manon (Ind.) Chronicle. A MfBDEBOCS LujiATTP man who attempted to kill u.i .Un, he mot on the street in Neuchatel about a month ago has been acquitted on the pound of insanity. It seems that he had a severe attack of typhoid fever a few years ago, and since his recovery has shown signs of mental rii-. has imagined that he has been pursued by enemies, in order to avoid whom he has continued to move about from place to place. Another idea he had was thaf his persecutors carried white handker chiefs in their hands, which they could nseaa a weapon aminnt tim the handkerchief which the iady carried in her hand which prompted him to make uobu. lOTiss limes.