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Turn to cold, gray mist and vapor Ere ever we reach the height. The mountains wear crowns of glory Only when seen from afar; And the tails lose all their whiteness Inside of the harbor bar. Stately and fair is th vessel . That comes not near 'ir beach; Stately and jrnnu tile mountain Whose height we never may reach. Oh! Distance, thou dear enchanter, Still hold in thy magic veil The glory of far-off mountains. The gleam of the far-off sail! Record of the Tear. The Song of Islam. He sang not the song of strife With Amr El Kais, vowed To the cymbal clash, and the loud Fierce clangor of battle proud; Of the javelin's steely flight, Of the flashing of spear and sword, Of the wine that moveth aright In the wine-cup freely poured. He sang not of what men praise, Of how men suffer, or grieve, Of the little dust that we raise, Of the little dust we leave; Of the moving caravan, Or the camel's patient march, Or the skies' umnoving arch, He sang not the sung of man! He sang of the light that breaks When the thunder cloud is riven, He sang of the life that wakes To a call that coineth from Heaven; Of a Voice in the desert heard. Of a cry at the midnight hour, Of a strength that wuiteth a word Of the biding of ancient power. He sang of the life that takes Its sleep in the arms of death. Of the d.iwn through the dusk that breaks That the darkness comiuereth. He sang of the light that sleeps And burns in the hidden gem. He sang of the light that leaps And flames in the diadem. He sang of the flowering rod. Of the almonds blossoming, He sang of the seed in the clod, A dark unlovely thing. He sang of the blade through the sod. That cleaves at the breath of spring. He sang to the ear of (iod. He sang the song ef a King! Doha Grec.vwell. Kill Walker's Wife. Some one knocked at the door. It was a wild night, the snow falling drear ily around, the air. dying away and theu coming in swift twirls down the chimney, bringing with it a burden of suow which hissed as it touched the roaring fire. Quietness within. A comely matron was Bitting alone by the hearth, mending a child's frock. The three little pairs of shoes lying to dry before the flame told that the quiet was only a temporary peace, to be broken after the little brains were recuperated by sleep. Sitting there atone, the woman heard a knock at the door. Hurriedly rising, she unlocked the door and-opened it. A man's voice said : "Do Bill Walker's wife live here?" "Yes," she answered, "I am she. What do you want with me?" "Lass, may I come in? I have news from Bill." "From Bill. Come in, sailor, for the lore of Heaven, and tell me what you know." Out of the wintry darkness, into the light and heat of the pungent wood fire, stepped a big, brawny fellow, dressed in the rough garb of a common sailor. He shook the snow from him, and looked down into the little woman's face in close inquiry. She returned the look with a startled expression as of one bewildered; and then a new look came into her face, as of comprehension. "Sit by the tire, you must be chilled," she 6aid to him. "I am that. Bill Walker's wife. Are ye all alone?" "No," she said, pointing to the three pairs of little shoes. The man looked at them, and drew his hand roughly across his eyes. "Now, s&i lor," said she, "what's your news?" "Bill Walker's wife, I can't tell ye much just now. Ye must bear wp me. I'm but a rough sailor, and don't hardly know how to commence my yarn." "Oh, its a yarn, is it? Well, wait till I put some wood on the lire, then com mence." She suited the action to the word, sat down on a low stool in the red light from the blazing tire, and took up her work. "Now I am ready," said she. The man seemed a little confused. "Ain't you a little nervous?" he asked. "I was a little afraid before you come in. Now I'm steady like." "Bill Walker's wife, I've that to tell ye which'll not make you easy in your mind Bill's beeD gone three year. When did ye hear from him last?" "Five months ago. He was sailing by Madagascar, and he hadn't time to write much." "Lass," said the man, solemnly, "ye'll not hear from Bill in a hurry again." "I expect not. There aiu't much use of hia writing, seeing I can't never an swer his letters, as I don't know if they'll find him." "Lass, he'll never write to you again!" "That's a pity, for Bill he likes me, I know." The man looked at her in astonishment. "Bill Walker's wife, now I'll com mence my yarn." "Ye know five months ago Bill sailed around Madagascar. I was along o' Bill. Him and me was fast chums. Whatsomever he done, that done I. Wheresomever he went, there went I. When he writ to ye, I saw that ere letter When he thought o' ye I knew that ere thought. But thare's a storm at sea, lass ! There's storms as make ye think ' home, and all that's near and dear, which seems to be rightin wp the sea, which uprises to butfet it wp mad waves. There's storms as makes even a sailor's heart quiet, while his lips cuss and cuss at the work he's tryin' to do. Who knew more 'bout storms nor Bill an me? We fol It-red the sea for nigh twenty year, and never separated. I can't tell ye all, for ye'll feel bad." "No, I won't, sailor. I like to heir je talk. It sounds like old times. "Old times, l.-ss?" , . . - "j "les, wnen Bill used to sit t hoi e and tell his awful yarns, and try and make me swallow them. lou see I never be lieve all I hear." "Ye don't think that I am deceivin' ye, do ye?" "Of course not. sailor. I don't think anything like that. Go on, now." "Well, there come a storm one day The skinner comes to us and says he 'Lads, it's all up wp us unless we git out in ten minutes.' 'But,' says Bill, 'where'll we go? " 'Anywhere we can says the skipper, says he. "Ye seel can't talk like a book, and I jis tell you how it were. The ship had sprung a leak. In fact, the w hole side was stove in on a rock, and the pumps was no use, and we was goin down, and oh! Bill Walker's wife yer husband wouldn t forsake that ship! "That's right in him," she said, "I would not have a man who would forsake his work w hen it got troublesome." "Well but, lass, Bill was aboard till the very last. He wouldn t g . lie got all the others olf and there he staid, look ing towards home, and thinking of you and the babies." "Good for Bill!" her pleasant eyes sparkling with tears. "But why don t ye get excited ( Dion t ye care for Bill?" "Oh! I'll get all that alter a while." "But didn't ye care for Bill?" "Now look here, sailor! You knew Bill you say, so well, and you don't know that? Didn't Bill ever know of the many weary times when I sat here alone in the night when the snow was falling and the wind screaming, and the little ones tucked in bed? Didn't Bill ever know that such times my heart left those pretty tilings and went lar over the cruel sea hunting for him? Didn't he know how I clung to every hope to every dream of him to every prayer for his good that I learned over and over again ? And how I used to g to the little children's crib when the wind grew stronger and strong er, and the storm became wild and awful, and how I waked them up from their happy sleep, crying: 'Babies! babies! wake with mammy, and pray for daddy on the wild, wild seas!' And how I have fixed their little hands together, and we four would kneel down, and, though they only knew one prayer, 'Our Father! yet they said it after me, and I knew that God understood they were praying for their poor, storm-tossed daddy far out at sea, and that He would listen aud have pity? "Didn't Bill ever know how I counted days, then weeks, then months, and at last years, longing for him, waiting for him always true to hiio in word and thought? and how I loved all sailors, anil pitied the lonely men who came to port here without a friend in the world but me! For I've gone to them and I've said: 'llo, lads! I'm Bill Walker's wife, and him a sailor faraway. Let me help you if I can. Ami if you are sick and lonesome, come to me.' How often Ihis little room has been tilled with sea-faring man, who caine for comfort and the little kindnesses I could do for them! and how they kissed the children for they said they were a sailor's babies, and they loved them for the sake of their own lit tle ones many miles oil. How often have I got tears from these men, and blessings, till I have gone down to the wharf, and taken the children with me, and we've stood and seen them olf, and I've made the little ones wave their hands to the men, and the men have called: Three cheers tor Hill Walker's wife! and Gd take care of her and the babies!' And oh, sailor, I've done all this for love of Bill, and don't you think he would have liked to know it?" and she wiped her eyes on the little frock she was mending. The man looked at her, was silent tor a moment, and then went on "Yes. he knew it, lass. He thought it for a truth. Now comes the awful part o' my yarn." "Yes, sailor." "Well, now, don't cry out, and don't flop down Bill will never come home again !" She never said a word, but smiled up into his face. "Why won't he come home again?" she asked. "Because he's drowned," he replied. "I don't believe it, sailor." "But I was with him all o' the time." "Then why wasn't you drowned, too? If you were so much with him, why wasn't you drowned?" "Well, because I washed ashore. But poor Bill has gone." "Well, if that is so, I might as well make up my mind, to be a widow." "Why don't you get excited, widder?" asked the man, aghast. "I'll get all that after a while." "But Bill is drowned." "I can't help that, so there! Now, sailor, I can't live all alone, so I must get married." "Married? Why, woman, yer husband ain't cold yet." "I can't wait till I'm cold, because he ain't." "But don't yer love him?" "It would be wrong to love a dead man, and marry a live one." "Who will have yer for a wife, seeing yer didu t care for Bill?" "You will, sailor! I know you will." "Bill Walker's widder I won't, I thought too much o him for to like the woman as '11 slight his memory." "Sailor, you shall have me l" "I'll leave the house now." "Sailor, I'll lock the door. You shan't leave the room till you say you'll have me for your lawful wife." "That I'll never do. And, woman ! you are a bail lot, that's what ye are a bad, ungodly creature; and I pity poor Bill from the bottom of my heart that I do. And I don't believe as these babies ever thought of him more than ye did." "Of course they didn't, sailor of course they didn't." "Whose babies are they?. Who's their father?" "You are, sailor!" And then he felt a woman's arms thrown around his neck, and r kisses ii d N"i -"in'r on his fa , aud h" liquid it woman's voice crying: "Babies! children! wake up and come to mammy, for daddy's home daddy's home! and he tried to make mammy be lieve he was some one else. Oh, Bill! oh. Bill! I knew you all the time, and could hardly keep from kissing you while you told the yarn !" And the children came running in, stockingless, and in their nightgowns, and were caught together with their mother to Bill Walker's breast, and that's all! Eating Hats. In reply to a question in the "Month" for January, in this journal, regarding the edibility of rats, we have been favored by a clergyman in the west of England with tiie following: "In the year lSJI-o, I was on board ship at Port Louis in the Mauritious, when it was found necessary to smoke the hold out, to get rid of the rats that infested the ship. Three hundred anil ninety rats were found suffocated round the tires. A French third-mate who was on board proposed to cook, aud actually did cook, some of the finest of them. These I tasted, and indeed ate of them. Chiefly the hind legs were eaten. They were exceedingly white, delicate, and tender, and as far as I remember put me in mind of chicken, with a slight flavor of game about it. They had been well nourished, aud were plump and in good condition. I would not object to eat them perfectly prepared, and should re gard such food as a great boon after salt-junk and pickled pork of six years' storing. If I am not mistaken, the Frenchman fried them, after carefully cleaning. I think it possible that the sulphur which had been used for smoking the ship may have helped to give a slightly modified flavor to them; but it was not sulhcient to be at all disagree able." Another correspondent kindly writes as follows: "S nie forty years ago, my late husband had a pie m.tde of rats, itnd 1 think live or six gentlemen dined with him and enjoyed it very much. The rats Were caught in a barn where the wheat w as just thrashed, so that they were very nice ami tender from their feuding." Edinboro' Journnl. An Imi-euious Woman. Fifty years ago, II ll.iud II ousu was the favorite re sort of the most brilliant men in England. Lord Holland was an invalid, but an ac complished gentleman, and a delightful host. Lady Holland was noted equally for her elegant entertainments aud her imperious will. She gave orders to no blemen and the leaders of Parliament as if she were directing her own servants, and it was the fashion to obey her. Few declined her invitations, and fewer ven tured to oppose her will. She was more of a queeu than Caroline on the throne. Occasionally, when her temper was ln- tolerable.there was an orgauized rebellion. Lord Macaulav tells ot one instance. fliere was not a person at table to whom she was not rude; and none of us were in clined to submit. IJogers sneered; Syd ney Smith made merciless sport of her; Tom Moore looked excessively imperti nent; and I treated her with what I meant to be coldest civility." But this queen of society, ruling the first men in England with a high hand. was a veritable coward in small matters. "The last time I was there," says Macau- lay, "she was frightened out ot her wits by the thunder. She closed all the shut ters, drew all the curtains, and ordered candles in broad daylight, to keep out the lightning. On Saturday she was in a terrible taking about the cholera; talked of nothing else, and refused to eat any ice, lccause somelxdy said that ice was bad for the cholera. Cur.vrEitTK.vvKL.. One excellent ef fect of the Ceiiteunial begins to show it self in the feeling on the part of the rail- roa. Is that they can do better by them selves at the present reduced rates of fares than by returning to the former ones. They find that the existing lower rates have greatly increased travel and consequently their own protits. Thev see plainly enough that it is by puttTng down the rates that thousands and tens of thousands have been induced to pat ronize them who would otherwise nave stayed at home. And of course they feel reluctant to return to the old stand ard of rates. Abundant business and assured dividends being the objects of their pursuit, and seeing just how they are to be secured, they have little incli nation to go back to old rates. And moreover, as this is the day for reducing prices for everything, there is no good reason why the railroads should be ex empt from the prevailing rule. Besides this, they must wish to be in the fashion. Mat. Ploughman. A sriORT time since, a lady took pas sage in the cars on the Cincinnati, Ham ilton and Dayton It iilro;id. She put her ticket in her dress pocket, where she had several other articles, and seating herself, became earnestly engaged in conversation with a friend. The conductor soon came around for the tickets. When he came to this lady, she drew from her pocket what she supposed to be the ticket, and with out looking at it, offered it to the con ductor, and continued talking; but after extending it for a short time, and he not taking it. she looked up, and discovered that she was offering the conductor a fin tooth comb. Smokiko is a very expensive habit. About Food. A correspondent of the Scientific Farm.' er gives the following sensible advice to farmers about exercising a little common sense in feeding themselves. The stomach is, however, largely the key to health; for it is through this or gan that all the nutriment of the system must pass, and all the force taken with the food must Iks transferred. We must therefore consider thj demands of a healthy stomach. This organ becomes habituated to a system. It secretes the fluid which in part disorganizes the food and digests. Now, so long as this organ is in order, man apppr-r to get t!e best of his surroundings. So long as the facility to digest is present, ill health need scarce ly be feared. How important, then, to guard this important organ against dam age! What the farmer requires is regu lar meals, ami that slowness of eating which allows the food to be masticated before being swallowed. He must guard against surfeit, lceause he works at times hard, and hard work on an overloaded stomach is shown by experience to be in jurious; yet he must eat abundantly, n this respect, as in the work on his farm, he should use common sense. Then as to the character of the fxd. Let him avoid the habit of tea drinking or water drinking in excess at meals. If he must drink largely, let him take other times. Eat plain or rich food, but in moderation. A swallow of meat, and a whole pie is scarcely as healthful or as nourishing as a swallow of pie, and a large chunk of meat. It is not so much what we cat which is injurious, as the manner and proportion ; and a little common sense here also will go a great way. It is only necessary for the family to think, to in crease the comforts of life; it is but nec essary to apply thought to produce most radical improvement in the family aud without. The thinking farmer should Ie the rule; and when once the rule, we need fear but little but that he will take his projer place in the community; hon oring and being honored, healthful aud contented. PitESEiiVED Peaks. Cut the pears in half and takeout the cores. Place them over the lire and boil them in a little wa ter rntil they are just soft enough for a fork to penetrate them. Take them out and place them on a dish to drain. To each pound of fruit allow a ound of loaf-sugar; add the sugar to the water in which the pears were boiled; put in the fruit with the rind and juice of a fresh lemon. Boil the pears gently for fifteen or twenty minutes; take them out of the syrup, lay them oifa broad dish until cold ; then place them carefully in glass j trs. Boil the syrup until thick enough, pour it over the fruit hot, and seal up. Api-i.e Pie. Sprinkle "A" oatmeal on barley Graham one-eighth of an inch thick on a well-oiled pie-dish, heap upon it carefully the cut-apples, sweeten, if necessary, and pour over the whole evenly as much water as there was meal sprinkled on a dish. Then level the surface by spreading over it some stewed apple, and over this spread very thinly a batter made like gem-batter, only thinner, using about equal quantities of meal and water. Let this spread to the edge of the dish, then put in a good oven and bake half an hour, or until the apples are tender. Serve warm or cold. Plum Pkeseiives. Plum may be pre serve! nice with the skins on or off. If on, they should bs pricked at the top and bottom with a large nee lie. It you take them off turn boiling water over them. Prepare a syrup of a pound of sugar for each pound of plums, lay in your fruit to simmer, not to lxil; let them remain in a scalding state until soaked through. at least two hours. Then skim out and boil the liquor down ab nit an hour. It must be thick to keep well. The flavor will be much improved by lxiling in the syiup half a pint of the kernels cracked. Gkape Jeixt. Take the grapes when ripe, put them over the fire iu a preserv ing kettle, stir with a woolen spoon until all have burst, and the juice flows freely from them; strain through a thin towel; measure, then return the juice to the tire, boil thirty minutes, add three-quarters of a pound of loaf-sugar to each pint of juice, let it boil up, take on any scum that may rise. Pour into glasses; when cold, seal up. Mii.k Cake. One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one cup sweet skim milk, one teaspoonlul soda, and a little seasoning. This makes a very nice cake, and very convenient, especially when eggs are scarce. QncK PiiEscmrTfONs. Prof. Wilder, of Cornell University, gives these short rules for action in case of accident: for dust in the eyes avoid rubbing, dash cold water in them; remove cinders, etc., with the round point of a lead pencil. Ke move insects from the ear by tepid water; never put a hard instrument into the ear. If any artery be cut, compress it above the wound; if a vein is cut, compress it lelow. If choked, go upon all fours and cough. For slight burns, dip the part in cold water; if the skin be destroyed, cover with varnish. For apop'.cxy, raise the head and body; for faiutness, lay the person flat. Dysentery. I have known dysentery in its worst form to le cured, after other medicines had failed, by drinking wheat flour stirred in water, in quantity of about half a tumbler of water, made to the consistency of cream with the flour. It may be advisable to add a pinch of salt, or the flour may be eaten in its dry state. The same effect is produced in cases of chronic diarrhoea. Ccke ron Hiccough. One drop of essential oil of cinnamon on a small lump of sugar, which must be kept in the mouth until dissolved and then gently swallowed. Anothkk. A teaspoonful of vinegar will generally give immediate relief in the most obstinate hiccough. Earache. Take a bit of cotton bat ting, put upon it a pinch of black pep per, gather it up and tie-it, dip in sweet oil and insert into the ear. Put a flannel bandage over the head and keep it warm. It will give immediate relief. A Dalmatian Detective. One of the most remarkable of the London police is Druskowitz. No one looking at the short, blonde-mustached and rather dandified young man would suspect him of being the cleverest of detectives. He is about thirty-four years old, but looks less. His father was a Dalmatian. He himself speaks any number of languages, and is thus nearly always sent abroad where any case occurs in a non-English speaking country need ing the services of an English detective. In London bis special work is among the foreigners, who go there as fugitives from justice. It is generally found that kueli persons betake themselves to special lo calities. Usually they lie hiding for a few days, but they soon find it impossible to remain iu-doors any longer; and so, having shaved off their beards, if they had one, or putting on a false beard if they had formerly shaved, and wearing a wig and siectacles, they sally forth at night, and, being iu want of amusement, they betake themselves to the Alhambia. That is a favorite resort of foreigners in London, and Druskowitz is therefore a frequent visitor there. He appears much interested by the erformance, but his thoughts are elsewhere. He is watching some one individual in the audience, fol lows him when he leaves, tracks him to his hiding plate and then sets to work to find out who he is. Woe to the man who really is a criminal if Druskowitz lie on his trail. There is little chance for him. Druskowitz has an extraordinary moral influence over criminals; it is something like that of a rattlesnake upon the bird. He carries no arms, yet he does not fear to go up to an armed and desperate man and arrest him; and, though armed aud desperate, he suc cumbs. Druskowitz was engaged nine years ago in a remarkable case. In 18GG Vital Douat, a Bordeaux wine merchant, went to Paris and insured his life for a sum equal to '3,000. Shortly afterward he went to London in order to escape the consequences of a fraudulent bankruptcy. Some time later his wife, clad in widow's weeds, presented herself at the insurance ollice with the necessary legal document attesting her husband's death. There was nothing suspicious in the pa pers. Nevertheless, the company deter mined to make some inquiries before handing over the amount. of insurance. Druskowitz was called in and ascertained that on December 1, I860, some one named Bernandi had called at the re gistrar's office in Plalstow and registered the death of Douat, and it was entered as due to heart disease. Druskowitz found out the undertaker who had con ducted the funeral, and learned that every thing had been properly ordered and paid for, and that the funeral had been per formed at Leytonstonc by the Catholic priest. One thing seemed strange. The colli u had not been sent to any private house, but direct to the cemetery. Further inquiry failed to discover any doctor of the name attached to certificate of death. The next ntep was to obtain an order for exhumation, and the colli n being opened there was found, not the body of Vital Douat, but a block of lead. Further inquiry elicited the fact that D tuat had been present at his own fun eral and afterwards gone to America, whence he supplied his wife with the documents intended for the insurance company. Some time afterwards he re turned to Europe, went to Antwerp, bought a ship, sent her to sea with a lot of rubbish, and having previously insured her for a large sum, had her burned. Arrested ami brought to trial, he was visited by Druskowitz, who felt sure that this was the man he wanted. Dou it was found guilty and condemned to impris onment with hard labor, but the French Government claimed him under an ex tradition treaty, and he was tried on the charge of fraudulent bankruptcy, found guilty, and sentenced to penal servitude for a comparatively short period. Wht Presides r Linolx Joked. Story-telling, joking, repn tee are often moral safety-valves. An incident is men tioned about Mr. Lincoln which shows why that distinguished man so often in dulged in humorous stories. The inci dent took place iu the daik hours of the war in 18(3 03. A member of Congress and a friend, who.it is said, was not given to this kind of pastime, aud was especially in an anxious state of mind about the business in hand, called on the President at the Executive Mansion. Mr. Lincoln began by nar rating some trifling incident, which the member thought inconsistent with the great disaster which had just occurred, and which was weighing on the spirits of the visitor; and, instead of listening calmly, kindly and respectfully, as most would and did, to the President, he rose and remarked to him rudely "I did not coma here this morning to hear stories; it is too serious a time," and prepared to leave; when, instead of re senting the rudeness, the smile on the President's face immediately disappeared, and he exclaimed "Sit down, please. I respect you as an earnest and sincere man. You cannot be more anxious than I am all the time; but I say tfl you that, were I not occa sionally to give vent to my feelings in this way, I shoulddie In a certain college in Virginia there was a youth named D , who invari ably used thewW and thir taught him in infancy by his negro nurse. Professor p. tried hard to cure him of this habit, but was himself addicted to the no less vulgar habit of using pint for point and jine for join. One day the pro fessor, seeing D very inattentive, said, "Mr. D , please read where Mr. C left off." "I didn't see ichar he left off, sir," said the incorrigible D . "I did not say vhar lie left off," said the professor, "but perhaps I can tell you uihert he left off." "All right, sir," iaid D "show me the pint, and I'll fin in." Although the clock strikes every hoar, the "bands' work twenty -four hours a day without complaint. The African Pigmies at Rome. A correspondent of the New York J 'out writes as follows: I have recei"ed some accounts of the African pigmies who are now receiving an education in Italy, which no doubt will interest jktsoiis who remcmler the accurate descripton made of tlw'in by Bayard lay lor when they were urt cap tured, three years ago. The Engluli Geographical S.iclety then asserted that they were incapable of instruction, and that they were not much superior to orang outangs; but the experience of the last three year has proved that they me intelligent, affectionate and grateful. They already swak Italian with elegance aud clearness of enunciation, and read ami write with facility. Their hand writing is good, and their thought are expressed in their written composition with clearness and simplicity, and with wonderful originality. They alo read Latin with comprehension and intelli gence. The eldest, Tibo Tukuba, stud'es arithmetic, ami add, subtracts and mul tiplies mentally, lie aIo has a passion ate love for music, and from hearing the lessons on the piano given to others is able to repeat them by ear. The Countess Miniscalchi, under whose care the king has placed them, will have him instructed in music. She has placed both children under the tuition ot an excellent teacher and his wife, who spares no pains to de velop their intellectual faculties. Great patience was required to teach the little savages. Signora Scarabello taught them on the Froebel tiystem, by means of ob jects w hich they could see and touch, and also by appealing to the appetites with sweetmeats or fruits. Counting on the fingers or out of an arithmetic is a very dif ferent thing fioui enumerating apples and oranges which are to be transferred to the pupil's keeping, or sugar plums which are destined to disappear in his own pocket, aud her method has succeed ed admirably with these children. In order lo discover to what part of Africa the tribe belonged, she has showed them pictures of the animals of tropical re gions. They recognized the tiger, goaf, serpent and ostrich, but had never seen a horse in their native regions. At the sight of a picture of a tiger, Tibo related that iu his country the animal is chased, and its raw flesh, still bleeding, euteu w ith relish by the tribe. In one of these chases his village was attacked by a hos tile tribe, which stole his mother, killed and ate her. The Akkas were habtized in the H m:in Catholic church at Verona, the certificate saying that they were of unknown birth and under the patronage of Victor Emmanuel. They have grown a little f-incc their arrival in Italy, but are still unmistakably of a dwarfed race. The elder is of a mild and sensitive dis position, frank, noble, pitient and re llfctivc, and has readily yielded to the ell'ects of civtliz itiou. The younger still retains, something of his original savage nature, an 1 is less expansive, but yet very affectionate and grateful to his benefactors. The Wrong Man. Mistakes will occur iu a hospital as well as in the best regulated family. Iu iU lustration of this remark, there is an Inci dent which occurred in the hospital at tached to an almshouse in Philadelphia. It seems, us we learn from the Jiallet in of that city, the nurse reported that a man iu one of the wards bad lain insensible for twenty-four hours. The doctor, judging that the man should be aroused at once, directed that a galvanic battery should be applied until he awoke. 1 he assistants went to the hospital with the battery, while the nurse stopped for a few moments in the laundiy. When they reached the m in's bedside they placed the battery on the floor.and baring the patient's ankle, they wrapped the wire around it. When everything was ready they turned on the current full head. A second later the prostrate form of the patient bounded about four feet in the air, and, as it came down upon the bod, a second shock sent it up again, the patient meantime ex claiming : "Yow-wow-wow I Oh, mnrder-r-r-r! Oil! Oh! Thunder and lightning! Mnr-der-r r-rl Yow-wow-wow! Another one of them'll kill me! O, merciful powers! Don't do that again." When he came down the fourth time the doctors turned off the current with the rem aik that they guessed that would be enough. Then one of them ask id the patient how he felt, and attempted to feel his pulse. But the patient, furious with rage, said "You scoundrel! what do you mean by hitching that thing to me in that manner, say?" "Now, Imj calm," said the doctor; "it's all right; you'll be better directly." "But it isn't all right. I've a mind to knock your head off for blowing m up with that infernal machine. What d'you do it for, anyway?" "My friend, don't excite yourself," said the doctor. "You've been in a very bad way, and we ran the current through you to bring you back to life." "Bring me back to life? Why, you must be crazy I Back to life? I was no more dead than you were." "Now, keep cm1. You have been un conscious for twenty-four hours. Nar-coti-Mioning, no doubt. We have saved you from an early grave. It was tho closest shave I ever saw. It was, upon my honor." "Well, well, if this don't beat all! You took me for the man In ward 49. Why, I'm oue of the keepers of the asylum, and I lay down on this bed for a nap. The fellow you're after is over yonder. An early gravel Well. now. I have heard of foolishness in my life, but this takes the rag right off. And I give you warn in' that if you come around with yer ap paratus again, tryin' experiments on me, 1 11 make it warm work for you." The doctors moved off in search of the right man. It appears that the miners knew better about the Black Hills than the geologists. The latter reported no gold in paying quantities, yet a thousand ounces were brought to Cheyenne by the Black HilU coach on its last trip. How General Washington Got Ilia C lot hen. At the time of which I write, Ocorgs Washington was thirty-one years of age. He was a tall, well-proportioned young man, of fine appearance, great physical strength, and fond of athletic exercise, lie had everything which money could buy, but, better still, ho possessed thoso qualities which make a true-hearted, noble and loyal man,. and which cannot bo purchased at any price. Every one on Ids plantation loved and honored him His household was a very large one, and comprised among its inmates a chief steward, an overseer, oid a great number of colored servants. In addition to those, the number of slaves employed on his plantation, with their families, constituted, quite a colony by themselves. At this time the rebellion of tho Col onies had not taken place. The inhabit ants of the different settlements were loyal adherent of King George III, Tho mother country supplied the American, colonist with all tho luxuries and many of tho necessaries of life. In return, tho colonists sent back, iu the British ship, tho product of their soil tobacco and grain. Cotton at that timo had not been cultivated, and tho find export of that article to Great Britain did not occur until tho year 1770. There were no means of weaving cloth in tho Colonics, save as it could be done by small hand-looms. Everything of that nature came from Loudon. The London merchants found Wash ington a good customer, and no doubt did their best to supply all hi wants. Hiio was particular in ordering his sun plies, ho was equally particular to ship tho best productions of hi plantation to foreign port. So favorably was tho Mount Vernon flour known, that when ever a cargo of that brand arrived in for eign ports, It was passed without Inspec tion a high compliment to the Integrity of Washington. Twico a year Washing ton sent hi orders for clothing, and other necessary articles for hi family, to lit agent in London, Messrs, Hobcrt Cary & Co. To show how very particular ho was in all his dealing, it i an historical fact that ho required ids agent to forward tho bills specifying eac h article purchased of different tradesmen on hi account, and these ho carefully copied into a book, ami also transcribed verbatim tho receipts In full of every person to w hom his money was paid. The following letter Is still preserved by a gentleman in London. It was writ ten iu 17GJ, from Mount Vernon, and en closed were strips of brown paper fast ened together, and marked vjth letters and figure lu V anhingtoii s own hand writing: Virginia, 20ih of April, KM. Mil. I.vwiiENris: U.i pluiim'u to send tut a genteel Mite of i'lo;tlli, mail (J of nuperllno broudilotli, lundsoini'ly chosen. 1 ulinuld huve enclosed you my iii"auie, but In a gen eral way ttn-y uic eu badly taken here that I am lonviiucd It wotiM tie of very little sur. vice. I would, therefore, liuvu you takn uieaMircof a uentlcui tn who wear wi ll-uindo cloath of the following nl.i', to wit ; Mix li:t t hiifli and proportionately uiaJe, if anything r.uli'-r len.ler tlmu thick for a peraon of that hi;; tit, with pretty long arm and tliltfli. You will lake cure to tnako the hreechc longer tliun (lioe you sent I nu last; and I would liavu you keep tliu measure of tho clo.ilh you now make by you, and If uny alteration U required In my next, it shall bo pointed out. Mr. Cary will pay your bill, and 1 sin, sir, your ohedient servant. Go. Washinotok, S'nlf.-For vour further lrnvcrnment und knowledge of my size, I havu sent tho n. closed; und you mintt obscrvu y'from y coat end No. 1 unit No. :t Is y stzu over V breast ' und hips; No. y belly; No. 4, round y arms; und from y breeches end to No. a is for wuiMihana ; ft, thick ofy tliljfli; c, upper 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 -1 1 1 e ; ii, kiice-ii.uu! ; t, lor Jeujftu ol breechek. Therefore if you taUu measure of a person of about mix feet hlh, of this big- in s, l liniiK. you cau l go unn. lou must take notice that enclosed I y exact size, without any allowance for earns, &c, lio. Washington'. Doubtless If wo could find Washington'! household accounts for tho year 170 J, wo should see recorded therein tho receipt of tlii "suto of cloatln," with full descrip tion of tlieni, and tho price paid therefor. Possibly they may be tho very same ones Kpoken of in Irwin's History of Washing ton, where Is recorded, am ng the orders sent hi London agent: "A riding-frock j i i it. ii. i oi naiidsomo orao-coiorei uroaucioin. with plain double-gilt buttons, a riding waistcoat of su pel lino scarlet cloth, witli gold lace, with button liko thoso of tho coat, and a blue surtout coat." Whether wo can "put this and that together," and believe them to bo the same, i of little consequence. We know that Washington wa always scrupulous ly well attired, and that all hi "super lino" clothe came from England, and the re fore wo conclude that Mr. Lawrence was able to And a man "six feet high, of correct bigness," and ono "who wore well made cloath." N. Pcrkint, in tit. A icholai. CoilN rOH TUB Poo It IN ENGLAND. Tho Loudon Pall M all Gatttf says: The enormous import of wheat from the United States into till country, and tho probability that it will increase rather than diminish in time to come, lead us to reflect how it happens that Indian corn, which is so largely consumed in various forms by all classes in America, fails to find favor with Englishmen at home. Iu some way maizo iscertaintly to be preferred to wheat; and those who have once acquired tho taste for it ou tho other side of the Atlantic certainly miss tlio Indian corn on their return. We sup pose, however, that there Is little hope that our working classes will ever take to thi cheap, wholcsomo and nutritiou9 food. The mere fact that it i cheap, operates in some measure against its adoption. There is nothing, perhaps, in an Englishman's nature so stupid as his dislike to have it supposed that he is content with cheap food. And Indian corn is very cheap. TnET4oagood many things nearly right ia England, after all. Benjamin Bhirry, of 81 ford, has been sentenced to three months' hard labor for plucking a live fowl, and at the Norwich petty ses sions aoother man was sentenced to a month's hard labor for cutting off acat'i tail piecemeal. I r I- m