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4\ Legal Advertisements WIU be inserted nt the following rutes: Sheriff Miles, per tqunrc 13 60 Sheriff’s mortgage tales 6 00 Application for letters of admisiration 6 CO Applioation for letters of guardianship 5 00 Dismission from administration 6 00 Dismiation from gaardianshi^ 6 00 For leave to sell land 4 00 Applioation for homestead 4 00 Notioe to debtors and creditors4 00 Sale of real estate by administrators, executors and guardians, per square 3 50 Sale of perishable property, ten days... 2 00 Estray notioe, thirty days 2 03 AMNOUNCBMKNT.—All bills for advertis ing in this paper are due on the first appear* ance cf the advertisement, when the money is needed. THE BUTLER HERALD. •LET THERE BE LIGHT. Subscription, $1.50 in Advance. Poetical Selections. THI BBBOKSf OF FBAVB. CHARLES U MORSE, There are herose ol petca with spirits m brave As thoss who for freedom or glory have bltd, Though they fought not the rights of a people to 'Nor the gory (1,14 piled with Its bsivest of dead. Heroic the soldier who charge* the wall Where valor and numbers hi* coming await, Or who stands like s reck, though his comrades Acd picturs btfore h’m bt* own threatened fate. And brasher* roar loud on the shipwrecking lea, With soul undespaiilns toll* on to the last. Who, whin dimes rage fiercely in the heart of his ship, And tu bafle-torn itgglng and apart strew the deck, With resolve in hti eyes, and a choer on hi* lip, Climb* the enemy’s side from hi* own helpless Eat theee heroes have many to cheer and supp.it them; Their danger?, thoujh great, will he speed'ly ended, When the eongi of the bard shsll to glory traniport them, ivA theirs be the loVe cf the land they’ve do ll God has drcrced tint for duty they fall, They know the reward of their courage la mi In death, the lau-el will wave o'er their (ell *, And, living, thslr fame with their yearn will endure. fiat grander the valor that hero displays Who battles obmurely with Poverty's woee, With no hope ofrewa d, and no prospect of praise, Nor a cheer from the brave as he charges his foes. Hit cor did M not for an hour or a day •, Single-handed he wars with a pitiless hott; Through years he muat toil, mint echeme and must pray— Every day wield hi* armv-every night bold hi* post. Every meal ho mutt ilgh o'er an ill turnlsher Don the f ahlonlea* dress cf Iho laat araion’ Then be mowed, aa a roldier, by the death dealing ■hell, Ur charge with a shout on the ranks o( your foes; But bo sure you've a soul that can battlo with Ilell Ere you venture a war with l’overly'a woes. Put |natures and glory havo olt had their birth F.om the trouble* that eelhered In fearful array Aa the Titans renewed, when thrown to the cnith, 1 he vigor they'd lost in the provious fray. Dei pair la unmanly- Uod favors the brave; > ri« hoping and ati 1 vlng that merit l he priai. Neither Heaven nor Man will endeavor to anvo The fallen who uuki no < xattlon to rise. Then auiumon, tuy rou), all your Gcd-given po' Andstlsttho occasion your strength to unfrId, As the »un frem the clouds that round It may loser. Weaves its glorious robes ol purple and of gold, Stories and Sketches THE KINO OF THE AIR. Prof. Wise is now quite an old man, being in his seventieth year, though he might easily pass for tixty. In face and general physique, he bears a striking resemblance to General Braxton Bragg, though a trifle larger than the deceased soldier, and evidently possessed of more of the constitutional ireu that giveB longevity. His head is massive, and in front of his ears being especially large, the forehead full and bulging, and the knots indicative of strong per ception unusually prominent. His eyes are deeply sunk, and peer out from the ■baggy brows aa brightly as they did lorty years ago. The remarkable navi igstor of the air, who has made more ascensions than any other man, living or dead, is still an enthusiast in his calling, and entertains, as he has for fifty y#ars, a firm conviction that ballooning, or fly- ing through space, will eventually bs one of the fixed sciences, controlled • by contrivances and principles as relia ble as thore by which vessels unerringly plow the waters of sea and river. In talking to a repotter on this sub ject he said: There U a great field of uufffplored sciences within balloon practice. I have demonstrated that our atmosphere flows around the earth from west to east faster than the earth on its axis. Billions always move eastward when above local currents. Everything in the visible cosmogony moves from west to east. All the plan ets, and the sun with all its train planets and meteors, go that way; and even* the star-driit is eastward, it the observations of Astronomer Proctor are to he trusted, as they surely are. The natural motion ol the univerre from west to east; it is all unitary, all harmony, all supremely exact. I have sailed in the midst of tl e tornado, and about it, in the storm cloud, in the snow storm, July, when it was hot below. My opinion iB that what we cs41 balloons cannot be practically used for correct navigation of the air. They may to some extent, but the shape the vessel precludes the idea of accu rate Balling. The balloon iB a grand drifting machine, and by aid of trade winds could reach almost any pArt of the globe; but air navigation, i scientific rense, will be accomplished fin ally on Iho hi id principle. Latters have recently received from vatious parts of Europe convince me thut the solving VOLUME III. BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1879. NUMBER 14T Subscription Rates. One year $1 W Six months,. 76 Three months Sesapaper Law DeelsltBS. , Any person who takes a paper refolar- from the postoffice—whether directed to name or another's, or whether he has e»b* scribed or not—Is responsible for theamout. 2. If a person order* hiajpeper dlsoontinaed he most pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to send It until payment ifl made, and collect the whole amount, whether "ie paperis taken from the office or not. 3. The courts have deolded that refnainf to take newspapers or periodicals from the postoflee, or removing and leaving them uncalled for is prime fade evidence of in* tentionsl fraud. the problem is not far eff. A sum* scientific id ronauts have writton me concerning a flying machine now being perfected by scientists in Paris, which will doubtless be able to carry cargoes any direction and for any distance, is a mere matter of time in mechanic progress Why should not man iy well as the eagle, the bat, and the squirrel ? Even fish essay this mode of locomotion lor two or three hundred yards." While talking on the subject of the construction of balloons he said: "Bal loons may be made of holler iron, if built large enough. You know it is the battle of cubes and surface. When tl e surface is doubled the cube is quadru pled, and a balloon of four hundred feet diameter made of copper boiler plate will lilt up a man-of-war and sail away with it. With such a balloon, stocked with bombs and other destructivo muni tions of war, think what consternation could be carried into a besieged camp. But the mission of the balloon will be more for scientific explorations. That overshadowing science called meteorology will yet provide its definition in the use the balloon." The Professor's life ambition has been the crossing of the Atlantic in a balloon, and concerning this scheme he said: I must coufees that this is my favorite hobby, as I know the transatlantic voyage will surely and fully demonstrate my eastern current theory; and then it would be a sort of compensatory feather my cap for my long and varied drudgery in professional ballooning. I am still in hopes of finding a generous patron to help me out, or else to get the requisite aid from the rising generation by penny subscriptions." Talking of his own adventures, he said: "I have followed ballooning for forty-two years, and have made four hundred and fifty esrial voyages and several thousand ascensions with the captive balloon. Sjmo of these voyages wore peiilous; but I have been remark ably fortunate in escaping what often Beemed to be cortain doath. 1 have been doused into the middle of Lake Erie, dashed across Long Island Sound in a snow-storm, eometimeB neck deep in salt water; but the wind and water beat me shore. On another occasion I was hurled into Chesapeake bay, but, iako Erie, found refuge in a passing ship. You see, it is the levitating power the balloon that sustains you in the perils. Too much gravitation kills many man and woman, but the ballooning levitations is ever the refuge in diflicul- ties. It will carry you over forests, from tree-top to tree top, and make what seems terrific to the beholder below i pleasant recreation to the skillful navi gator. The moat perilous voyage 1 evei made was the one from St. Louis in 1859. We were up all night and landed in Jefferson county, New York, next day at 2:30 p.m., more scared than hurt, though when we were being da-hed about in Lake Ontario wo thought it was all up with us. During a terrific tornado we were thrown from wave-cap to wave-cap, the balloon being for four hours no longer capable of lifting ub above the water. When wo succeeded in cutting a part of the rigging away the air vessel rose like an arrow, and we shot away at the rate of two miles a min ate, distance of ninety miles, only to be thrown into a wooded declivity, through which we tore for a mile or more like a wild elephant through the brambles. That very tornado destroyed fourteen veesels on the lakes, and many lives were lost in them. We were saved by the levitating power of the ba’loon. In the balloon were O. A. Gager, proprie tor ; John Lamountalne, mronaut; Wm, Hyde, historian ; and myself as director- in-chief.” Of the sensations resulting from s through the air the professor said : have never Seen affected otherwise than pleasantly. As the pressure of air diminishes your system expands. I, man of threescore and ten, and consider ably wrinkled, os any observer can see, always fill out as plump as a youth, and I feel very young then. The pulsation increases, the mind becomes exalted, and a state of ecstasy supervenes. It is a glorious thing for health and highly curative of the blues, and the beet placa in the world to praise God, from whom a ll blessings flow. Few men could go up with suicidal intent and not bave their melancholy removed by the exhi larating effect of the upper air. The balloon will, at not a remote day, be come a sanitarium. The views that entertain an asreanant are grand beyond description. The ranges of vision are not very far, as a general thing; but just after a rain you can see a hundred miles. Then when near the ocean, you can see ships springing up in your horizra as you ascend, as if by magic, proving be yond a doubt the convexity of the earth, which is about eight inches to the mile." Prof. Wise is a native of Lancaster county, Pa., and is of Dutch origin—a fact which can be detected in the slight accent to his voice. His original family name was Weiss, and he descended (rom the same stock from which came Henry A. WUe, of Virginia. The professor and Henry A. Wise were warm friends. When asked by the reporter if he would always remain in the balloon businets, he promptly replied ; *" Yt s, sir; I will MA8QNFC MYSTERIES. l««re tlavalllai or «hn Norreu of Ma sonry. London Truth. Last week I alluded to the Royal Arch degree, and my correspondents now ask me to unvail its mysteries. At the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuch adnezzar, three matter masons were taken into captivity, and on their retnrn to Jerusalem found a tabernacle erected on the old site of the temple. They were told by "Haggai, Joshua and Zerub babel" to clear away the ruins of the old temple. In doing this they came on an old vault, in which certain treasures were discovered. The initiation is a representation of the return of these three master masons. The room in which it takes place has three curtains across it, and at each curtain sits a guardian. At the end of the room sits "the Captain of the Host," and "Haggai, Joshua and ffierubbabel," who are respectively called High Priest,” "King,” and "Scribe." A little in advance of them is the "al tar." After some preliminaries, all kneel before the altar and hold hands. Then they »ay, "Rabboni." After which they rise and give the "grand omnific arch word," in what is termed "three times three." The word is "Jahlublum, Jehovah, God." It is repeated by Bquads of three holding each other in oh peculiar way. Then the candidates are introduced by the officer termed the “Sojourner.” They are led in by a rope, and pass under an arch made by the initiated with their arms, and then over some furniture upset in order to represent a stony road. On this fol lows the oath, which contains the fol lowing clause: "I furthermore pro- miso and swear that I will assist a Com panion Royal Arch Mason when I see him engaged in any difficulty, and will espouse his cause so far as to extricate him from the same whether he be right wrong." And this "under no less penalty than to have my skull smote off and my brains exposed to the scorching rays of the sun." The next step is to represent the "burning of the bush." One of the initiated assumes the part of the Diety and shouts "Moses 1 Moses! After a reply from the candidates, the words "I am that I am" are heard. The candidates are thou dragged into the pre paration-room, and, when brought back, are told that the password is "I am that and they aro invited to help to build the new temple. At each vail through which they are led, the guardian at its door gives them a different password and sign, until at length they find themselves in the pres ence of the king, the priest and the scribe. • The "Sojourner” hands in a piece of metal with the word "Barub- babel" inscribed on it, and the candidates are given tools to clear away the rubbish of the old temple. In a heap of rubbish to which they are now conducted, they find a key-stone, then some squares, and, finally, a box with an inscription on it in cipher. The box is opened; it contains a book of the law, a key to the cipher, Aaron’s rod and a pot of sugar to repre sent manna. The priest explains that this box is the ark of the covenant, and that the inscription on it means: "Dc posited in the year 3000 by Solomon, King of Israel, Hiram, King of Tyre, and Hiram Abiff,” followed by the grani omnific arch word. This word is then given with "three times threethe priest recounts the history of the order, and then the chapter is closed with much the Bame ceremonies as those with which it Is opened. The moral is that the long-lost Master Mason’s word is the Deity in Chaldee, Hebrew and Syriac, and that this word has been discovered owing to its having been found on the ark concealed by Solomon acd the two Hirams, although what harm accrued to the world by its being lost, or what ben efit accrues by its being found, I should imagine that Freemasons would have uorae difficulty in explaining. Scene IV.—The Zulus. The recon, I noisance; the repose of tfhe horsemen ; a soldier's song. All at onca a cry, The ;Zulus!" The Eoglish save themselves ‘(they are hooted at each night by the audience). Toe prince de fends himself courageously, thinking of his mother and of the forester's daughter. He dies. Scene Y.—The return to England, lhe empress, in mourning, kneels before the picture of Napoleon III. The coffin is borne to Chiselburst. (Grand scene of tears.) Suddenly enters the forester’s daughter. " I promised your majesty no more to Bee the prince" she says I have kept my word. But your Majesty will not forbid my saying a last adieu to Louis,?" The empress draws the young girl to her heart, and replies : Now we will unite in prayer." Scarcely bave the empress and the young girl bent tbeir knees when the coffin, by the aid of mechanism like that the nun scene in “ Robert le Diablo,' stands up on end, and through the glass lid the audience sees the body of the prince imperial. This termination of the play produces a "grand emotional effect.” The Prince in a Drama. New York Efsnlng Post. A drama entitled "The Prince Impe rial” is now playing at Posen in Prussia. Scene I. is at ChiBelhurst. Tho prince is thinking of revonge, He talks of the mitrailleuses of Forbach and tho bullets that he picked up on the field of battle. What a chasm between yesterday and to-day 1 A Bonapartist delegation announced. It comeB to ask him to sail from France, and to issue a manifesto to the nation and an appeal to arms in his behalf. But the prince, who loves his country, does not wish to excite a civil war. He refuses. Scene II.— 1 The daughter of the for ester. The prince loves passionately poor young girl. The empress surprises him at a rendezvous. Pathetic scene between the mother and son and the girl. The last named, at the prayer the empress, forbids the prince to come again. The prince, in despair, swears that he will go and kill himself. Scene 111.—The English camp at the Gape. The prince, more in love than ever, wishes ta die. Ho asks the general to lei him make a reconnoisance. Be- ZAck Taylor’s Wrath. New York Tribune. It is related that General Scott'a fa mous letter to Zachary Taylor, announc ing the withdrawal of moBt of the regu lar troops from Taylor’s command to his own, in a prelected movement from Yera Crux toward the capital of Mexico, was received while General Taylor was at supper with his staff near Monterey. The General arked Colonel Biles to read to him. He had just replenished his coffee cup, and was engaged in cooling with his spoon while the reader went on. This appeared to make no furthur impression upon him than that indica ted by a contemptuous "sniff," but as the real import of the letter began to appear his whole manner changed, and he abstractedly dipped the spoon into a bowl of mustard, which sat. upon the table, and stirred it into the coffee. This he repeated until by tho time the read ing of the letter was finished the con tents of the mutard bowl were exhausted. Without saying a word and to Bliss’s as tonishment and horror ho raised the cup to hit lips and gulped down the whole abominable compound. He then broke into an excited and profane harangue, consigning to everlasting damnation every one concerned in the proposed de pletion of his forces, and only ceasing wlien his speech was overtaken with a paroxism of Btuttering, which, with him, usually followed a violent outbreak of temper. The Colonel felt sure that from the amount of mustard he had swal lowed, combined with the intelligence he hod received, it would in allibly sicken him, but nothing uncommon came of it. Ratsbano at that moment," said Bliss, "would, I am convinced, have had no more effect upon him than upon the stomach of Mithridates.” General Pleas- onton, who commanded the General’s escort in Mexico, says that when once thoroughly aroused lie was tho maddest man he ever saw—mad from the crown of h!s hat to tho soles of his boots. MiSHiHsippi River Improvement. . „ . . f or0 mounting his horse ho writes to his be a balloonist as long as I live, and when ,. fnroatar , a 1 quit it X Will go to D.-. LeMoyne’B mothet * nd ,0 the ( 0Te8U,r 9 dau R ht ' :r - quit - crematory for my final exit. (Tremolo accompaniment.) There is one scheme in connection with the improvement of lhe Mississippi and the necessities of cheap transporta tion that can never collapso, and that is the project to improve the land-locked water route reaching from Lake Pont- ckartrain along the gulf c jast to the coast of Florida. This is a natural channel that can be easily improved and made continuous, and that can bg connected with what is known as the inland rou to on the Georgia oast by cutting a com paratively inexpensive bargeway across a portion of Florida. It is a great com mercial thoroughfare designed and par* tially completed by nature, and is the only solution of the problem that is oxiug tho people of the great grain- producing regions of the .west—the problem of cheap transportation. It is a project that commends itself to tho com mon sense of all who will take the trouble to examine the land-locked water-chan nels on tho gulf coast and on the coast of Georgia. It is in every sonso of tho word a national project, and should be taken in hand and completed by the govern ment, thus giving the people of the west and northwest uninterrupted water communication with the Atlantic ports. With the exception of the short barge way necessary to connect the St. Mark’* with tho St. Mary’s river, the entire work is tide-water improvement, and should bo made a great national highway of commerce, free to all. This is the Bort of canal they want in Florida and other, and we do not believe that any private corporation Bbould be allowed to take charge of it. When this great work is completed, as it will be when the peon pie ol the west come to lake reasonable interest in it, grain and other produco chu bo shipped from SL Louis to Bruns wick or Savauuah in unbroken bultt and there transferred to ocean steamers and vessels, but until this is don j the prob lem of cheap transportation will remain unsolved. Summer Beading. Llttlo Uock Hock [Ark.I Ussette. The fire man of Sharp connty is not likely to attract more attention than a phenomenon which has just made its appearance, according to a private letter, in Van Buren county. Some people called it a horse, while others affirm that it is a man. At any rate, nothing in natural history can account for it. Its head has every resemblance of a horse’s, while its body is unmistakably that of a man. When first seen it was standing in a road with its head over a fence, looking ntently at a man plowing in the field. There was something so wild in the ex pression of the supposed horse’s ey and such a snap to his eyelids, producing such a peculiar sound, that the man left his plow and went up to the fence. His surprise and terror at seeing a horse’s head on a man’s shoulders knew no bounds, but his legs did, and, springing away, he ran towards his house. The man»horse, seeing that the plowman " fled" when no mAn-horse purBueth, climed over the fence, walked up to the plow, took up the lines and started the horse. The owner had witnessed this, having stopped. Gathering courage, he went back, slowly and cautiously ap proaching the most peculiar freak of nature he had ever Been. When he had come within a fow yards of the plow the man-horse stopped,turned and remarked: " You seem afraid of me. Approach." The man felt impelled by some unac countable power, and when he was with in a few feet of the man-horse experi. enced a slight sensation in his feet, and- looking down, discovered that instead of feet he had a pair of hoofs. He had evidently exchanged with his horse, for instead of hoofs on the front the horee bad human feet, and Heemed equally as much dissatisfied with them as the did with the hoofs. After performing this piece of magic the man-horse ran away. He has subsequently appeared to several parties, but has not performed any more miracles. It may be necessary to add that the maa to whom the phe nomenon presented the bool is known in the neighborhood as a "Guinea nigger.” His plow-horse has not been seen since that memorable day. The mnn still retains his hoofs, and when last seen was at a blacksmith shop having himself shod. Ho knows them to be the hoofs of his horse, for there are marks on them that render unmistakable recognition. This story, a neighborhood superstition, does not come in a roundabout way, but down the Fort timitli railway, one of the straightest railroads in the south. It will not, however, take its place in a library of Sunday-school fiction. It is stated, and with some degree of truth* that tho old negro, suffering with ele*. phantiasis, became crazy and started the story. Thirty Thousand Mile* a Second, Tho idea of motion must help us con. ceive the idea of space. In no other way can we get an impression of th awful spans of the sky, and t he mon Btrous distances between the sta r s. A scientific lecture suggests the following: To give an idea of relative distances, suppose a voyager through the celestial spaces could travel from the sun to the utmost planet of our system in twenty- four hours. So enormous would be hia celoclty that it would carry him across the Atlantic ocean, from New York to Liverpool, in less than a tenth of second of a clock. Starting from the eun with this velo city, he would cross the inner planets in •apid succession, and the outer ones more slowly, until, at tho end of a single day, he would reach the confines of our sys tem, crossing the orbit of Neptune. But, though he passed eight planets the first day, he would pass none the next for he would have to journey eighteen or twenty years, without diminution of >peed. before he could reach the nearest star, and would then have to j jurney ns far again before he could reach another. rites of that sect. Then he formally went over to the Roman Church, and became an ardent Catholic, never miss ing a mass, and confessing twice a week, This new phase lasted longer than any of its forerunners; bat it terminated eventually with his public profession of the Gieek Orthodox faith, which he adhered to for a year or two. He then made an excursion to European Turkey, and was converted to the doctrines of Islam at Varna, whence he forthwith started as a devout Mussulman upon a pilgrimage to Mecca. On his retnrn from the Holy City, he remained only a few weeks in Czsrnowitz, disappearing thence without telling his friends whith er he was bound. He next turned up in Salt Lake City as a full blown Mor mon. There he became what Mr. Weller designated as "a wictim of con- nubialtybut he soon came back to his native town, where, alter passing through the further religious stages of Sun Wor ship and Buddhism, he died at a ripe old age, having, as he repeatedly stated be fore his death, been actuated, in so fre quently changing his creed, by an earn est desire to become acquainted with every sort of belief influencing human ity, and having satisfied himself that on the whole one was as good as another. A Queer Character. In his amusing periodical, Over Land and S3a, Karl Franzos publishes a brief biographical sketch of a strange old deformed man who died the other day at Czernowitz. This venerable otiginal, on whom Franzos bestows the quaint title of "A Collector of Religions," was born of Jewish parents, his father beiug a wealthy spirit merchant in Galicia, who gave him an excellent education, and died when he wab Btill a youth, leaving him a handsome fortune. Young Rosen heim, who had been an assiduous wor shiper in tho synagogue, begun, shortly after his father’s death, to display free- thinking proclivities, and wab ior some time regarded by hia acquaintances ao an atheist. Ail of a sudden the rumor spread abroad that ho had turned Fio testant; and, eure enough, he became a regular attendant of the Evangelical church iu Caaruowita. From h pleasure trip to Switzerland, which he took a few months later, ho returned a atom and uncompromiaiug Calvinist; and fer three consecutive years ho traveled twice a year to Kiausenburg where there was a Calvinistic congregation, I in order to take part in the religious An Olrt-lashioncd Hanging. Helms (Ala.) Lotter in the Globe-Democrat. Many years ago, in early youth, .1 witnessed the execution of an unfortu nate woman, a slave, for the alleged crime of murder by poison. She was a woman of the pure African type, tall, large and muscular, about thirty years of age. She* had been indicted, tried and found guilty of murder, and, although condemned aud executed, there were many who believed she was inno cent of the crime charged against her. I think it was in the year 1837. The place of execution was in a beautiful wood one : halfmile distant from the jail. With boyish curiosity to see everything, to miss nothing of the terrible scenes of ‘.he day, I hftd obtained special pet mis sion of one of the deputy sheriffs, who was a near neighbor of our family, to take a position immediately in tho rear of the guard. At the appointed hour the unfortunate creature was brought forth from the jail by tbe officers. Immediately in front ot the jail stood a two-wheeled ox-cart, drawn by ati ogle yoke of cattle, freighted by a dressed pine coffin, without stain or varnish. Around the jail front and cart stood, in double file, an armed guard of Bixty soldiers, in full uniform’, with muskets at rest with bayonets fixed. At length the poor woman was placed in this novel death-van, seated upon the coffin, with three deputies by her side and the high sheriff on horse back, with holster and pistol and sash and spur, and sword drawn and flashing first in the rear. The procession moves without noise or confusion, tTent, portentous, ominous. The military preserve order, the martial fife pipes forth in shrillest notes the mournful strain of Adeste Fideles, and the mullled drum moanB out its most melancholy sympathies. It is a procession indeed, a funeral cortege attending an unhappy fellow-mortal to the place of sacrifice and death. There is no noise or shouting, no pushing to the front; all iB decorous silence. The ground is reached, a beautiful woodland, where the lawn is in full verdure, although Decem ber frosts had stripped tho trees of their foliage. There is the gallows, a single beam nay, a single stout green, round pole, either end of it resting iu the fork of a tree, the trees standing some eight or ten feet apart. As the column approaches the fatal spot, the military march to the right and left and lorm a hollow square about tbe gallows. The cart is driven directly under the beam; the convict is made to riso to her feet; the rope is ad justed to distance and securely fastened. The work is done with great quickness. In a moment the arms and legs are con fined, the noose dropped to its place, the black cap drawn down. Now, tho su preme moment is come, and horrible to relat9, and more horrible to look upon; at a signal the great sluggish oxen move forward, and the poor creature, with a shriek which only the death throe can produce, clinging with her feet to tho receding cart, is sent like a human pen dulum pulsating the air in long Arcs and circuits. a roNT-Mumaii eoi. We used to walk together in the twilight, He whispering tender words to sweet and lew. As down the green lsne where the dew wse (alUnr. And through the woodlandi whore the birds were calling, We wandered in thoia hours ao long age. ut now no more we walk in purple gloaming Adown the lanea—my love and I-*h, me; The time is peat (or such romantic routing— He holds the baby while I’m getting tea. We u*ed to sit—with lamp turned low—tegetber, And talk of love and its dlrine eflsots, When nights ware long and wintry wm tbs weather; Far nobler be than knight with knightly feather, And I to him the loveliest ol my sex. Now, oft when wintry wlnde howl round the gable, Immersed in imoke he poure ever gold end stocks, The fact Ignored that ]u*t serosa the table lhe loveliest of her sex alta darning seeks, Oft when arrayed to suit m- hero's fsaey, I tripped to meet him at nla welcome cell, He looked unutterable thlnge-hla dark eyeglowiag In load approval at my outward showing Hi* taste in laces, dr erne*, jewels—ell I Now il perchance we leave the honse together, When friends invite or primsdenne slop, e reins my robes (bought new for the occasien), And tooti the bill-and looks nnntterable things O by-gone days! when seventeen and single, He called me angel aa he pressed my hand; O present time' wherein that sell-saaxe follow To that same angel—grown a trifle yellow— Chlls out, "Matilda, do you understand f’ Ah, yes I 1 understand-on* thing for certain, Love after marriage is s beauteous myth, Which they whs once have passed behind the curtain, Turn up their noees at—disenchanted with! Clipped Paragraphs. Locomotive Longevity. Sclent itto American. Tho iron horse docs not last much longer than the horse of flesh and bones. The ordinary life of a locomotive is thirty yean*, borne of the smaller parts require renewal every six months; the boiler tubes lasts five years and the ctank axles eix years; tires, boilers and fire boxes from eix to pevan years ; the side frames, axles and other partB thirty. An important advantage is that a broken part can be repaired and does not con demn tho whole locomotive to the junk shop, while, when a hoiee breaks a leg, tho whole animal w only worth the flesh, fat and bones, which amount to a very un.ftll sum in thin country, where horse flesh does not find its way to the butcher’s ah ambles. ..The taxes on matches last year amounted to $3,250,000. .. Peppermint is tbe royal perfume ol the Bahdwich Island dignitaries. .. A poor relation is like a fit of the gout, for the oftener be comes the longer he stays, and by and by he will oome to stay all the time. .. The practice ol wearing court-plaster on the face, to add to its beauty, just suits the style of some women, and tbe more court-pltBter they use the betters . .The speech which would be listened to calmly by ten or a dozen persons, will thrill and electrify a multitude, as the jest will set the tables in a roar, which heatd by one man, will scarcely provoke a smile. ..When Madame Celeste first visited this country, and was desirous for a “puff," aa* wrote to an editor requesting him to give her about ten dollars' worth of "humbug." . ."To be rich is to be satisfied with what you have," said Joe HhutUe yes terday as he tugged away at one end of a straw, hi* countenance beaming with satisfaction like that of a millionaire. . .Some old folks are thought eccen tric because they have lived long enough to believe that one-half of the world live and thrive on tbe tomfooleries and follies of the other half. . .The Atlantic City Review says that the "Knickerbocker" dance is the silliest sight one can see outaide of an insane asylum, and that the couples look as if in an evil hour they hod drunk milk on cucumbets. .That was & good, though rather a severe, pun which was made by an Edin burgh student (slid he was not one of the brightest of the class), when he asked, "Why is Profemor .the great est revivalist of the age ?’’ and, on all "giving it up,” said: " Because at the end of every sermon there is a great awakening." ..This is what Robert G. Ingersoll says of tho women: "I tell you women are more prudent than men. I tell you, as a rule, women are more faithful than men—ten times as faithful as men. I never saw a man pursue hiB wife into the very ditch and dust of degradation and take her in his arms. I never saw a man stand at the shore where she has been morally wrecked waiting for the waves to bring back even her corpse to his arms; bat I have seen woman with her white arms lilt man from the mire of degradation, and hold hitn to her bosom as though he were an angel." The Mystery ot the Lakes* There is a mystery about the Ameri can lakes. Lake Erie is only 60 or 70 feet deep, but Lake Ontario is 592 fret deep, 280 feet below the tide level of the ocean, or aa low as most parts of the Gulf of 8t. Lawrence; and the bottoms of Lakes Huron, Michigan and Su« perior, although the surface is much higher, are all from their vast depths on a level with the bottom of Ontario. Now, os the discharge through the river Detroit, after allowing for the probable portion carried off by tho evaporation, does not appear by any means equal to the quantity of water which the three upper lakes receive, it has been inject- ured that a subterranean river may run from Lake Superior, by the Huron, to Lake Ontario. This conjecture is not impossible, and accounts for the singu lar fact that salmon and herring are caught in all the lakes communicating with the St. Lawrence, but no otbera. As the falls of Niagara have always exist*, ed, it would puzzle the naturalist to eay how these fish got into the upper lakos without m me subterranean river ; moreover, any periodical obsttaction of the river would furnish a not improba ble solution of the mysterious flax and rtflax of tbe IfkeK