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Georgia Home Journal. By J. KNOWLES and SON. VOLUME 5. CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. The peach crop in Delaware will be enormous this year, aud the shippers art puzzled how to get it all to market. Many farms in Maine, it is said, can It bought for less than the cost ol the buildings and fences upon them. In Germany there arc fewer railway accidents than in any other country which i<ossesses a considerable railway system. Whatever else may be said against the Chinese, no one can truthfully say that he ever saw one who parted his hair in the middle. V t’Akty of twenty-eight Chinese naval c ulets are now on their way to J’aris and Ixmdon, where they will pass a course ol instruction in the naval academics. .V >lnoLl.At: case of death by lightning recently occurred at the Thames gold field, New Zealand, where a man was killed at the bottom of a shaft live hun dred feetdeeo. /V Motm-iT.oof barrel in w hich clothes ran l>e safely stored is a late invention. Hut this leaves the moth at largo. What is wanted is a barrel in which the moths can l>c kept, and thus have the clothes at largo- Professor A. Jaeof.ii, professor ol Hebrew in the southern Baptist theo logical semin try at Greenville, youth Carolina, has resigned bis jiosition and connected himself with the Episcopal church. Mr. Jaeger was formerly an Is raelite. The Chicago Journal thinks it is this way in Turkey : If lie is a Jew, the Christians kill him. If lie is a Chris tian,The Mohammedans slay him ; and if he is a Mohammedan, the Greek church people come over and chop hint up into hash. As extraordinary discovery of ancient coins has just I icon made on the Montranc estate, a few miles from Cupare l‘'ife, in Scotland, the properly of Mr. Allan Gil more. In draining a portion of land the laborers struck on what ap|>eared to be a l.K)wlder,butHiibsc<]iiently was discovered to he a pot. A stone was lirnily wedged into its mouth, and on being removed it. was found that the vessel was tilled with coins, the total number of pieces being 0,000. Most of them have the ap pearance of a well-worn six-|teucc, a few are of the size of a florin, though not quite so thick, and a small number are about the size of a shilling. They are all silver, and, so far as has been ascertained, of the twelfth, thirteenth ond fourteenth ceuluries. It is supposed they were used in the reigns of Hubert 11., Hubert 111., and David 11., and have lain in the earth more tliau three hundred years. THE VENUS or MILO. The report that one of the missing arms of this famous statue had been dis covered is followed by the assurance of Gen. Meredith Head, the American charge d’ affairs at Athens, that both arms have been found on the island of Milo within a distance of less than thirty feet from where the statue itself was taken in 1820. For the benefit of those who will b_' ready to greet this announce ment with head shakings, and even deris ion and cries of fraud, Gen. Read says: The arms are exquisitely modeled. One holds a kind of disc or shield. The work manship and the locality compel even the skeptical to acknowledge the authen ticity ol these wonderful relies. 'The lest of the matter will I* to forward the arms to the Louvre in Paris, where the mullilated statue has been standing since 1834, waiting for the rest of her, and for the solution of the mystery that hangs over her lovely head ever since she came to the light of the modern world. Those lost arms have been the theme of more wild speculation among artists and connoisseurs than the lost tribe of Israel has been to theologians. Kach has had his notion about the peculiar |>osi tion in which the body of the statue re quired them to lie placed. There will lie great curiosity to see who, or whether anybody, has hit right. The arms were also needed to clear up the meaning and even the name of the statue, for while the general supjiosition has been that it was a Venus, and by Praxiteles, or least a copy of that master’s work, others have denied that it was a Venus at all. Our countryman, W. J. Htillmau, an artist and a very competent judge of art, trained by long experience on classic ground, lias given his opiuion that the work is really a statue of Minerva, and he presents some very plausible reasons in suppurL of that conclusion. It is barely possible that, in these days of more ingenuity than genius, when Raphaels are manufactured so as to deceive the very elect in art, and ancient manuscripts of any required stage of decay can be produced to 0.-der, these long lost arms of the Venus of Milo, when brought to their appropriate place, maybe found to be humbugs; but let us hope not. When image breakers of all kinds are abroad, let us trust that at least one single instance of "reconstruc tion’’ will cheer the hearts of artists and connoisseurs. In France the discovery of the lost arma was regarded as an event of so much importance that the secretary ol the fine arts issued an official bulletin. --Bottom Journal, it HA SS. The row in praisM tor its beaming face, The lily tor saintly whiteness ; We lore this bloom for its languid grace. Aiul that for its airy lightness. We say of the oak : •* How grand oi girth !” Of the willow we say : “ How slender!” And yet to the soft grass, clothing earth. How slight is the praise we render! Hut the grass knows weJl, in her secret heart, How we loTe her cool green raiment; So she plays in silence her lovely part, And cares not at all for payment. Each yer her buttercups ned and drowse. With sun and dew bumming over; Each year she pleases the greedy cows With oceans of honeyed clover! Each year on the earth’s wide breast she waves, From spring until Mcak November ; And theu—she remembers so many graves That no one else will remember ! And while she serves us, with goodness mule. In return for such sweet dealings, W* tread her eaiclcssly underfoot- Yet we never wound her feelings! Hero’s a lesson that he who runs may read Though 1 fear but lew have won it-- Hie l*ent reward of a kindly deed Is the knowledge of having done it! —Hit far Faucett, in Sf. \ii hvtas. HUMAN BATTERIES. I'.’jr fieri turn Is that Hire Heiaavkahte Kv s u Its, It ban been known for some time that the human body becomes much charged with electricity in the altitudes and ex ceedingly dry atmosphere of the high plateau between the Sierra Nevada and Rocky mountains, but it has heretofore lieen unknown that such accumulated electricity is a cause of great danger to persons handling exploders. Two very serious and sad accidents have hap pened within a few months at the mouth of the Sut.ro tunnel, both through the sudden and apparently unaccountable discharge of a number of exploders in the exploder house. In the first ease, Henry L. Foreman, formerly connected with the signal service bureau at Washington, a gentleman of scholarly attainments, a good mathematician and astronomer, was engaged in examining some of these exploders when two hun liuudred went off, completely destroying his eyesight and otherwise seriously in juring him. These exploders ars large copper gun-caps, an inch and a sixteenth in length and three-sixteenths of ail inch in diameter, and most kinds are charged with fulminate of mercury. Two insulated gutta-percha wires con nect with each cap, through which the electric prk is scut (after they are placed in cartridges of the different com binations of nitro glycerine) which sets off the cap, and the concussion caused thereby explodes the powder. 'The sec ond accident referred to happened but a few weeks ago in the same (dace ami probably in the same manner, by which Thomas Coombs lost his left hand and part of his arm. He was engaged in forming ten exploders into a coil around his hand, when suddenly they went off, shattering that member in so fear ful a manner that it had to he amputated. These sad occurrences leu Mr. Sutro to at once institute sonic careful ex periments, for lie was strongly im pressed with the belief that it was body electricity, and not concussion, which had caused these explosions. Elec tric exploders made by different parties were taken, one after the other, and placed in a strong wooden box in Mr. Sutro’s parlor. This room is covered with a heavy Brussels carpet, walking over which tciises the human body to liesjieedily charged with electricity. Mr. Hancock, the chief blaster, assisted in the experiments, and held the wires while Mr. Sutro walked round the room two or three times with slippers, sliding his feet gently over the carpet. After doing thin lie approached the end of one of the wires with his forefinger, and in stantaneously a loud report was heard, the exploder having been discharged. This first experiment was with one of the San Francisco giant powder company’s exploders. Now one of the Eleelrica- Construction company’s was tried, with out effecting its discharge. Next one of George M. Mowbray’s, of North Adams, Mass.; which did not go eff on the first trial, but it did on the second with a very loud report. After this another of the giant exploders was tried, which went off by the time Mr. Sntro’s forefin ger had reached within two or three inches from the end of the wire. These experiments have eiearly estab lished the fact that exploders may be set off by electricity accumulated in the hu man body, and the men about the tunnel were at once informed of the fact. In structions were also issued for handling them hereafter, and a sheet-iron plate in the floor o' the exploder-house, to which is connected a wire reaching into the water flowing from the tunnel. The men in handling exploders now stand on this iron plate, and have in structions to wet their boots before enter ing, and to put on India-rubber gloves before touching the exploders. If these precautions are properly carried out there will he no danger of explosions hereafter. Any electricity accumulated in the hu man body will at once be carried off through the iron plate, while the rubber gloves, being nonconductors, form an additional protection. No accidents from the explosions have occurred inside the tunnel, for, since the place is very wet, no electricity can be retained in the body. But little doubt exists that both Mr. Foreman and Mr. Coombs have met with their misfortunes in the manner indicated. —Autro (Nee. ) Independent. GREENESBORO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE *22. I KG. EXCITING Al) VENTVKE WITH I’OI.AR HEARS. Three of, the crew ol the steamship Intrepid, Captain Sou tar, had a very ex citing adventure at the Greenland seal fishery this season. During the time that their .vessel was fast beset among the ice, three of the crew—Thomas Royal. Wolverhampton ; James Winter, Peterhead; and William Mulligan, Dundee —set out one day to pay a visit to the ship Perseverance, of Peterhead, which lay apparently about four miles distant. After walking about a couple of miles it was seen that the distance lie tween the two ships had been misjudged, anil that in reality they were six miles apart, ami the dangerous nature of the journey began to dawn upon the seamen when they realized bow far they were from any vessel, and that tiicir sealing clubs were the only weapons with which they were armed. When they canto to realize the real distance they begun to deliberate whether it w’ould not lie the best course to return to their ship. One of the trio insisted on milking the jour ney, while the others were of the opinion that they should give up [the attempt. In the midst of the debate an unwelcome visitor came upon the scene in the shape of a she bear, with one of her cubs, and as she was fast coming tip between th e men and their ship, the only chance o esca|ie was to run on in the hope of reach ing the Perseverance, a distance of about four milea. When the men look to their heels the bear quickened her pace, and in a short time was close upon the sail ors. To attempt ui face the animal with their clubs was useless, and accordingly one by one the men took off portions of their clothing and threw them down on the ice. It this ivav the progress of the liear was retarded, as Bruin stopped to sniff and tear at each of the articles as she came up to them. By this means the men were enabled to keep a little ahead for about a couple of miles, by which time, however, they had parted with most of their clothing, one of them having nothing but his p'ants, a cravat and a woollen shirt upon him. He had retained possession of his club, and, fastening his cravat to the end of the weapon, lie waved it as a signal of dis tress, and fortunately the attention id the Perseverance was attracted w t-Wq perilous position of the three seamen. Several of the crew of the Perseverance immediately set out, armed with guns, and, after running about a mile, they came up lo the three men just in time to save them, as they had almost no clothing left, and were quite exhausted with the chase. The bear and her cub were so close behind that the rescuers had no difficulty in despatching them with several bullets. The following morning the three sailors returned to the Intrepid. They were escorted part ol f lic way by a number of the crew of the Perseverance, and the male bear having been seen in the vicinity, apparently on the lock out for the she bear and cub, lie was likewise killed. The most of the men’s clothes and their sea boots, were picked up, all more or less torn. The three men had been kindly treated on board the Perseverance and supplied with clothing, so that they suffered no had effects from their exposure and ex citing adventure.— Banubc ( Scotland ) A ilverlUer. THE rASSIOXH THAT INDUCE OIS EAHI:. The passions which act mostscverly on physical life are anger, fear, hatred and grief. The other passions are compara tively innocuous. What is called the passion of love is not injurious until it lapses into grief and anxiety; on the contrary, it sustains the physical power. What is called ambition is of itself blame less; for ambition, when it exists purely, is a nobility lifting its owner entirely from himself into the exalted service of mankind. It injures when, stimulating a man to strenuous efforts after some great object, it leads him to the perlbrm ance of someexcessive mental or physical labor, and to the consequences that fol low such effort. The passion called av arice, according to general experience, tends rather to the preservation of the body than to its deterioriation. The avaricious man, who seems to the lux urious'world to be debarring himself of all the luxuries of the world, and to be exposing himself to the fangs of poverty, is generally placing himself in the pre cise conditions favorable hi a long and healthy existence. By his economy he is saving himself from all the worry inci dent to penury, by liis caution he is screening himself from all the risks inci dent to speculation, or the attempt to amass wealth by hazardous means; by his regularity of hours and perfect appro priation of the sunlight in preference to artificial illumination, he rests and works in periods that precisely accord with the periodicy of nature; by his abstemious ness of living, he takes just enough to live, which is precisely the right thing to do, according to the natural law. Thus, in almost every particular, he goes on his way, freer than other men from the external causes of all the induced diseases, and better protected than most men from the worst consequences of those diseases which spring from causes that are uncontrollable. Devoted to the General Welfare of the PeoDle. R A EELIXa FOR FREEDOM. We translate from a German sketch of American travel the subjoined account of an incident alleged to have occurred on a Mississippi steamboat a short time before the war: 1 ascended the Mississippi, says the writer, on a steamer on board of which were Judge J and General K , of Pennsylvania, with both of whom I was slightly acquainted. “ A hard set, these Natchez men,” said the captain, who - met us on the cabin stairs. “There’s some of them playintra high gHine. How men can be such lools I could never see !” “ I-et’s go down and look on lor awhile,” suggested the judge. In the saloon we found fouruien seated at a table, around which a crowd of spectators were gathered. The four were the “ heavy players.” The game was poker, and the money changed hands rapidly. We had not been looking on long when one of the players, a middle-aged man, whom I learned was a cotton planter, bet his last dollar against the hand ol one qf his an tagonists. The latter showed four kings, while he had only four queens, lie was “cleaned out,” and rose as though he W’erc going to leave the table. “Arc you broke, colonel?” asked one of the men. “ Dead !” was the laconic reply. “ Never mind ; I’ll lend you.” “ No; 1 can make a raise, 1 reckon— here, Pomp?” “ Here, massa !” responded tin old ne gro, as lie emerged from one corner of the saloon. “ Bring that girl and her youngster here, that I bought in Natchez. Wait a few minutes, gentlemen, I’ll raise some money.” The old negro went oil his errand and soon returned with the girl and her youngster. The “girl” proved to lie a stately mulatto woman about thirty-five years old. Her “ youngster” was a fine, intelligent looking boy eleven or twelve years old, whose complexion showed him to Ist much more nearly allied to the white race than to the black.” “ Here, gentlemen,” said the planter, as they entered, “ you sec 1 the girl and her boy-two as tine triggers' M yiAi cun find anywhere, r paid eight hundred dollars for them yesterday.in Natchez. Who will give me six hundred dollars for them ?” “ Will you sell them separate?” asked someone. “ No, can’t do it; I promised not to. The girl swears f she’ll t-aks her life if she’s separated from her boy, and the old master said that he was sure slic'd keen her word. But don’t yon all Hee that Hie gill is worth more than J ask for both ol them? Come, who’lljgive me six. hundred for both ?” The planter waited a moment lor a re ply, and then said: "Well, I must have some money. Come, what say you to a raffle—thirty chances at twenty dollars a chance? Out. with your cash, genllentcn. The first on the list lias the first' 'row*' ” ' This proposition created a decided stir among all present. Tlio Ifetfeeiplayers at the table led off by it iking three chances each. Their example was fol lowed by the spectators, add twenty chances were taken as rapidly as the planter could write down Up'names and take the money. was a slight pause. The planter himself now took two chances, and li was followed by his three fellow players, who each took one chance more, j finally, three more chances were takes by the sjiecta lors, when the planter eyed out : “ Two more chances, p iilleiiieii; who will have them ? ” General K whiskered something in Judge .1 ’near, anil (.ben went to the table and laid two teuolollar gold pieces on it. < “ Name, sir, please.” r “ Never mind theiianlf. I?ut it down (or the woman—” j 4*. * “ Eh—what! for llu/yrl herself ?” “Yes, certainly; ly< give her a chance.” “All right: One (f>r Ninette. And now—” L, ' “ That’s for the foy,” said Judge J—, quietly, as be lad twenty dollars on the table. “Good! bravo! fcr&vo I” cried the planter awd severaluojfjhe bystanders. “ One for Tornmv, wbi'h makes the thirty. Now,gentletieri, let’s see whom luck favors.” The dice were brought and the throw ing liegan. Each chance entitled the holder to three throws. Tbirty-six was the highest thrown un til the holder of the eleventh chance threw. He scored forty-two. Then a less number was thrown until number twenty-one scored forty-nine. The excitement irow became intense. Forty-nine was hard to bent; tne highest throw jxjssible beilig nine sixes—sixty four. * Again and rattled in the box, until it can*e"\o number twenty nine. -w. “ Come, your turn now!” As the poor woman came forward, her hands crossed and pressed convulsively against her breast, it was truly painful to witness her agnation. “ Won’t the gentleman that took the chance for me please throw?” she asked in a low, tremulous tone. “No; let your boy throw,” replied the general, “perhaps lie may have more luck than I.” “ Come, Tom,” said the planter. Tom came forward and picked up the liox. The woman pressed her lips firmly together, and clasped her hands as if in prayer. The boy trembled like an aspen leaf, but shook the dice and threw— three! For a moment he stared at the dice as though he could not lielieve his eyes; then he put down the Ihix and stepped back, pale and dejected. “Come, Tommy, throw again,” urged the planter. “It’s no use, master; 1 couldn’t throw forty-nine now." “True, true! But you have your own chance. Throw that.” “Certainly,” said Judge T—, “that one was your mother's. Now, throw for yourself, on the chance 1 gave you. Have a stout heart, my boy, and may heaven smile upon you.” Again the boy returned to the table and took up the Ihix. He pressed his lips together and did his best to control his trembling limbs, Not a sound was heard in the saloon hut the rattling of the dice. For a moment every man seemed to hold his breath. “Two lives and a six—sixteen!” said the planter, putting down the number, while a murmur ol' satisfaction ran through the crowd. One of the bystanders gathered tip the dice and put them in the Ihix, and the boy threw again. “Two sixes and a five—seventeen !’ The excitement now knew no bounds, j and the “bravos” resounded on every band. 'I he boy, as he took up the box to throw for third and last time, was as nearly colorless as it was possible lor ! him to be with his yellow skin. Out rolled the dice, and up came three sixes, which made fifty-one. “Tommy, my boy, I congratulate you !” cried the planter. “You are your own and your mothe r’s master. Fill up the necessarw papers, captain and 1 will sign them, 'phese gentlemen will lie the witnesses!” I will not /lUciiijil. to dcscril.o scene that followed. In the general sat isfaction, one of the roughest-looking men in the crowd proposedasuliscriplion for the freed negroes. The proposition was received with such favor, that in less than five minutes fifty dollarswcrc col lected. — Ajtjiklon’a Journal. WORK OF FIENDS. An Atlenipl lo tlreek a Train ami Shout the. Train V/jiciahi. As the txpress train on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad, late Atlantic and I’acitic, readied a point one mile and a half west of Wooden station, one hundred and fifteen miles hxmi St. Louis, Inst night, the kind of obstruction on the in stantly applied the air not quickly enough, for when reaching the sjHit. where the obstruction was, thq. engine mid baggage the track and hundred mid forty Samuel Richardson; fireman, and l)r. E. L. At kinson, who were on the engine, were killed instantly, and Frank Gaton, engineer, so badly wounded that lie died in two hours. Cnton and Atkinson lived at Pacific City. The latter was the physician of the railroad company and was riding on the engine with Ca'ton, who was a personal liieild. Richardson lived at Pierce City. Conductor Wilson was i . the rear car at the time. The air brake wa> applied immediately. He rail forward and found the engine and baggage car down theienibankment. He started at once for the engine, and on the way heard a pistol shot, and a ball passed through his bat. Several other shots were tired and the passengers say they saw five men standing near wffio'werc revealed by the flashes from the'pistols, hut' noboby was hit. Two baHs passed through the bag gage car, and although two express mes sengers and the baggageman were in the car neither of them was hit or hurt by the accident. On examining the track it was found that the fishbars connecting the rails on both sides of the track had been unjointed and the ends of the rails moved so that the train would run down the embankment. A monkey wrench, * iron pick and claw bar also were fdlind on the track. This, in connection with shots fired and the men seen, left no doubts in the mind of the conductor ami passengers that a diabolical scheme had been planned to run the whole train down the embankment and rob the ex press and plunder the passengers; that it was not carried out may be explained by the fact that the night was intensely dark ; that it rained heavily and that the train was running at a speed ol ten miles :tn hour, which prevented any of. the passenger cars from leaving the track. No clue to the prc|ietrators of th fiendish act. The locomotive was capsized and badly wrecked— tit. Louis Thru’*. Thk remains of Mrs. Madison, u sister of Patrick Henry, lie in an almost un marked grave at Bowling Green, Ky. TERMS: $2.00 Per Annum, in Advance. THE AIT EUR lORNAVO. Rote It .Ipproaehetl lit. lftn.tn.tl Ttttrn o Mt. Carmel. 111. The natural phenomena that presaged the fearful storm were as grand and awe-inspiring as was the demonstration of its awful power. Due west of the little city, at a distance of several miles, is a forest which skirts the prairie that stretches thence to the town. Nestled amid the undulations of the ridges, the inhabitants of the doomed town watched the gathering of the tornado with no 1 fear at first. In the west a bank ol clouds began to form, first on the edge of the horizon, and then grew with magical swiftness, crecpiug up against ; the skv, which it presently totally I covered with its terrible frown. Blacker and blacker it grew, and onward it rushed with frightful velocity, the face of the cloud dark and the edge fringed with fantastic wreaths of vapor, whirled into a thousand varying forms as the awful and death dealing tenqiest swept over the lace of the smiling country. Although it was daylight, a dusk almost like that of twilight fell upon the little city and the smiling fields and blooming plains t hat girded its flourishing borders. Then fear fell upon the inhabitants, who began to think where safety might lie found. The school building, which was thronged with children, was in the path of the tempest, and the little ones, frightened by the appalling spectacle of flic galloping storm, begged leave to fly to their homes. They were all huddled on the ground floor, except a few who could not be restrained, where a s|iecial Providence appeared [to work out their safety. With the lightning speed of a race horse the tempest came onward aud leaping over the wood # that skirted the praire, rushed upon the ground and swept toward the city with the un earthly shriek of a fiend. The residence of Dr. Harvey, midway between the forest and the city, sitting fair upon the level plain, fell shattered before the fearful blast, which a moment Inter fell upon the doomed city aud .iite in habitants. \ With an awful crash the inrnndo swept through the streets with Vi con tinuous noise like the explosion of bomb shells. So frightful was its velocity and so vast and irresistible its force that the buildings of the town shivered before it like sand, and fell as if crushed by the weight of an omnipotent hand. Enor mous substances weighing hundreds of ]H>unds were lifted upon the wings of the wild wind and borne fosward like dead leaves upon an autumn gust. Walls crumbled like sand and went prone upon the earth, and massive buildings erected to stand the test of years, sank under its Jorce and left scarce a trace of their pres ence upon the devastated earth. This lasted but a moment, an awful moment, pregnant with the fell harvest of death and destruction, and the fright ened and awe-inspired people, who had beared the crash of their homes and looked upon the relentless tempest which, like an infuriate monster, seized upon the fair village and toro its beauty from, “♦he face could, scarce y realize, the truth that their senses bore tes timony to. This horrified amazement and stupor lasted lint for a moment. Fol lowing in the wake of the tornado came a torrent of rain—tears which Heaven seemed to shed over the desolation'll had wrought,and with which the pitiless flames that began to leap from the ruins was partly quenched. Then thunder crashed and lightning flashed front the sombre, sky and fed upon the homes the wind had spared. —Evansville Journal. THE vitors. The rains of the past two days were much needed, hut there is fear that there will now be too much of it. The crops in the south arc "now reported encourag ing, and that prospects north are gratify ing, and were it not for southern Cali fornia there would bean unbroken array ol good liar *t promises all over the country. The grasshoppers and the jxitato bug are not so formidable as was feared, and the farmers have almost for gotten to grumble. The probability is presented that the United States will raise a greater amount of food, cotton and wool this year, and get mOre mouey for it than in any year before, and we can not ask more than to realize that probability. —Memphis Appeal. WILH HOES /.V CALI FORMA. Wild hogs abound in the tule lands of San Joaquin, California. They were doubtless originally propagated from do mestic stock that have escaped into the jungle, and liecome as wild as the famous game infesting the Black Forest, the hunting of which affords so much pleas ure to the German nobility. They live and thrive on the succulent roots to be found in the tules, but are exceedingly shy. and it is only by accident that one catches a glimpse of them, as they in stinctively avoid the haunts of men. They are trapped and caught occasionally in an ingenious manner by the ttlle farmers, who build sinail but very strong corrals or pens on their stamping grounds | 'or this purpose. NUMBER 25. GRAVE AND GAY. Motherhooit. All atMHit the dreamy h*>ua€ * Flit* a punlream, noftlj bright. (toldlocka with treasea light Dancing, topping up and down ; 11, aweet heavens! tor such miun In and out where all is still, Sound sray tones in shout and son;:: Dimpled cheeks, laughs loud and iougj From pure merriment within ; Fun and she ate near ot Kin.; and down the \uiet room, In the garden, on the stair, I’uliy-llps is everywhere; < 'haltering a*<'hifdhm>d will, Duly when in mischief, Mill. ‘Mamma” this, and "Mamma” that, •‘Tant 1?" "Tan 1?” all lli* hours, Fvcs like stars ami breath llkellos-rrs. Husy little hands and feet ; Dod maces motherhood so aweel. /At'Tree in The. (*vMrn llvtr. ..When n man begins to find fruit with other people he may wel! be advised to Umk for evil in bis own heart and life. .. “ Wliat lino of business do you think I had liest adopt?” asked a young as pirant for the stage of the “ leading mail.” “ Well,” said the old stager, gazing critically at the youth’s elegant costume, “ I should say the clothes line would suit you best.” —Boston Commercial Butte, in. ..“ I fell you, sir,” said I)r. one morning, lo the village apothecary, “ I tell you, sit, the vox jtopuli should not, must not, be disregarded.” “ What, Doctor!” exclaimed the apothecary, rubbing his hands, “ you don’t say that’s broken out in town, too, has it? Isjrd help us! wliat unhealthy times these are! ” ..“A lover ” writes us: “ (Suppose I see a young Indy home from church, aud the night is dark and rainy, and upon arriving at her house she darts through the door without saying as much as ‘good-night,’ lcavingme standing out side—what would you advise me to do in such a case ? ” You had lietler Btart for home immediately, if you have an urn brella. Under no circumstance should you stand on the steps ol the youuglady’s house all night. It would be preferable to crawl into the nearest friendly store box, and await for day-light to appear or the rain to disappear. NoiritJasu UrraUK > < I tin ELIZA i.\ A SCRAI’E. *' The good hsari of Ann F.liza Young got that lady into an unpleasant predica ment the other day. She was on her way to Kalamazoo, Mich., and, having travelled quite a distance, was very tired. At Hudson, Mich., when the train stop ped, Mrs. Young was resting her hqpd on some of her baggage as she was read ing away at the half-dozen periodicals obtained from the train newsboy, so she did not notice the conductor passing from the front to the rear of the car with a strange-looking man. It being the last ear, the conductor was taking the man to the Wick end to let him off. as he lacked the “wherewithal.” The con ductor bad put him off, when the man asked jiermission to make a request of the passengers. Permission was given, and the strange-lookiug man boarded the train and called out in a very excited manner: “.My wife is a little insane, blie is trying to get away from me. Her .baggage is checked through to Kalama zoo, and I have not sufficient mouev to me off unless I obtain it. Will any gen tloman here give me enough to see me through? I have friends in Kalamazoo, bo I can refund the money when I reach there.'’ Mrs. Young’s heart was touched, and she furnished money enough to carry the man on to White Pigeon. The “ in sane wife” directly appeared, and hurst into tears. It was evident that if either was insane the man was. The woman had determined to desert him, for he bad on the previous evening drawn a knife on her and threatened her life. He was a worthless, shiftless fellow with a very bad temper. “The last I saw of Mrs. Young,” says a correspondent of the Inter-Ocean, “she was taking the un fortunate woman to dinner at While Pigeon, while the crazy husband wart begging Irom the crowd for aid with which to follow his runaway bride to Kalamazoo.” i'jOX'T KILO JiMOR EH - LEO HOUSES ANY MORE. It is now argued that it is unnecessary to kill broken-legged horses; and a point in case is stated : Twelve weeks ago, the right hind leg was broken of Mr. William’s valuable and favorite marc, in Utica, by a kick from another horse. The fracture was half way between the fetlock and the gambrel joints, and was complete. A veterinary surgeon under took to set the leg. A canvas sling was arranged, and the mare suspended in i in such a way that she could occasionally rest upon her uninjured limbs. The fractured leg was then set, bound with" hickory and leather splints, with a heavy leather boot outside of all. The mare did well, and never missed a meal. After three weeks a plaster of Paris bandage was substituted, and in seven weeks “ Nellie’' was walking around the stable. There was no sign of the fractur^, and it is thought that she will keep her 2:40 gait.—A. F. Tribnne. The five months of the present year have been notably prolific of Berious fires. Insurance companies claim that the loss to them thus far has been double the loss for the same time during 187*1.