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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS. W.MIKSCHALK,f K,li,or> a,ld Proprietors. NEWS OF TEE WEEK, EAST. Tamihnny Hall Las unanimously nominated Win H. Wickham for mayor of New York city. WEST. A dspateh from Darlington, I. TANARUS., October 15tli, way’s, twenty-four lodges of Kio- WBs under Bautanta surrendered to Gen. Neill. Santanta and Big Tree will be held in close confinement as hostages, until further orders. A scouting party from-Fort Louis, operating on the uoith fork of Smoky Ifiil river, report discovering, on the 3d hist., the bodies of three men and a woman, murdered l by the Indians, The parties'killed were from Blue Bulge, Georgia. They were emigrants seeking a location. The woman's skull was crushed, and all the bodies more or less mu tilated. Within the last two weeks eleven persons have been killed by Indians in west ern and southwestern Kansas, and several others are missing, supposed to have met the samefite. The commissioners appointed to in vestigate the facts relative to the recent al leged murder of five Osage Indians by the Kansas militia have submitted a report to the commissioner on Indian affairs. They find that the attack oil these Indians was unprovoked and utterly unjustifiable, and presume that when the attention of the authorities of Kan sas is called to the evidence in the case, they will not hesitate to direct a return of the property captured from these friendly Indians, and it is recommended that in any event the government of the United States should st e that the Osages are reimbursed. Advices to the 2Gth ult. have been received from Gen. Mills’ Indian expedition. Heavy rains and a lack of sufficient trans portation are reported as retarding operations. Trains are kept constantly going to and from Fort Dodge, an advance of over 200 miles, from whence all supplies have to be furnished by wagon over rough and difficult roads. No Indians have been encountered since the at tack of Callahan's train. There are now three columns within supporting distance of each other, operating against the Indians. They are commanded by Gen. Mills, Gen. Davidson and CoU Brice. Nothing has been heard from McKenzie, who is advancing from the south, nor from Buell, who is coming across from New Mexico. SOUTH. Virginia is getting a good number of substantial immigrants. A company in Havanuah is engaged in the manufacture of paper from lice straw. Eighteen hundred and sixty-three im migrants arrived at the port of Galveston dur ing September. Mr. Clemens, mate of the tow-boat Equator, fell overboard throe miles below New Orleans, while the boat was proceeding down the river, and was drowned. Mr. Morgan, a custom-house officer, fell ovorboard from the same boat, ton miles below 1 , and was also drowned. While northern woolen-miils are stopped, those of Georgia are increasing the number of looms and reaping dividends. Columbus has 35,000 spindles, 60 woolen and 870 cotton looms, all built in less than seven years by a city which lost 00,000 hales of cot ton, worth fifteen million dollars, and millions of other property. A dispatch from Fort Worth, Texas, says Gen. Mackenzie, after repelling two at tacks by the Indians on the 2Gth and 27th of September, marched all night of the 27th, and surprised at sunrise the following morning, a few camps of Cheyennes and allies situated in cauyon Sitro lllarce, on Jute river. The troops destroyed over one hundred lodges, and their entire outfit, and captured 1,421 lease sand mules, of which 1,048 were at once killed. The bodies of four Indians were broght in. Our loss was one soldier slightly wounded. Gen. Mackenzie is in pursuit with thirty days’ supplies. A Brownsville special says the organ ization of bandits, to invade Texas, has been partially suspended, on account of high wa ter on this side, and the almost impassable condition of the country. Information has been received from undoubted sources that the plan of operations is to strike a detachment of troops stationed to prevent the crossing of stolen cattle, and then t j murder and rob generally. Gen. Cortinas heads the move ment. People on this side are organizing to defend themselves. The military are in posses sion of the facte and ate on the alert. Mounted man are held ready l to move at short notice. A border war has never been so imminent. FOREIGN. A thousand marines will embark for Cuba from Madrid, November 19. The Brazilian government has issued a loau of §25,000,000 in six per cents. Tire Spanish Republican army has crossed the Ebro and taken the city of La guarda. Monsignor Theodoli, a dignitary of high rank, connected with the Vatican", has been captured near Erasingnon by brigands, who demand the sum off 30,000. The mi ers of West Riding, York shire, England, having refused to consent to a reduction of 20 per cent, in their wages, have been locked out to the number of 6,000. Marshal Bazaine has written to a Ro n>aa journal, II Exereito, declaring that the moment to speak plainly has not yet arrived, but he will tell the truth later, although with reluctance. Sixteen Roman Catholic priests are now in confinement at Coblentz, on the Rhine, for offences against the Prussian ecclesiastical laws, several of them being under sentence of ten months’ imprisonment. The water in the river Nile, at Cairo, has fallen somewhat. The authorities, how ever, continue the work of prevention against overflow. Fully 20.000 people are engaged in strengthening the embankments. Spain has sent a note to France in relation to violations of the frontier by Carlists, making specific charges extending over a period of four years. The note also attention to the good offices of Portugal an! the anomaly presented by liberal France identifying herself with absolutism. Advices from Buenos Ayres state there is the greatest excitement among all classes in consequence of the insurrection. Many per sons are flying the city. Every departing steamer carries away numerous families. All the merchants' steamers are escorted to eea by war ships, as they fear molestation by the insurgent fleet. Advices i'rom Buenos Ayres state that several business firms in that city have sus pended. and a commercial crisis is imminent. The Argentine bank has closed its doors. A body of government troops made an attempt to capture the British steamship Yerba, but the captain of the vessel protested, and they desisted. The vanguard of the lebel force, nndpr command of Ribas, is at Gales Capitol. All mail matter passing through Buenos Ayres post-office is examined. MISCELLANEOUS. Twenty months is the period set for the completion of the Cincinnati and Chatta nooga railroad. The 13th infantry has been ordered to the department of the south. Orders have been issued to I he different district command ers to send them by railroad without delay. The Pacific mail steamship company has began a suit against Richard B. Irwin, agent of the company at Washington during a former administration, to recover .%750.000 wlrcli ho is a legc-d to have appropriated. Treasurer Spinner decides that Ihe pressed# of national bank notes forvarded in good faith for redemption will, if desired, be credited to the 5 per cent. When calls are made upou the national banks to reimburse the treasurer for their notes redeemed, legal notes or drafts payable in such nctes must be eent. Geu. Sheridan was, to-day, notified by the secretary of war, it he could, to spare a regiment of infantry from his command. Applications are constantly reaching the de partment from Alabama, Tennessee and Lou isiana for troops. The secretary says : “If I were required to comply with all the applica tions received, it would bo necessary to largely increase the forces of the army.” The postmaster-general will shortly issue orders organizing a special agency branch of the postal s’rvioe, iimitiug'it gener ally to the detection of frauds and to the in struction of postmasters in their duties, and to secure the prompt transaction of the money order business. He wi 1, however, detail two or more special agents to look into the matter of the local expenses of postoffices through out the count!y, and ascertain why it is that a comparison of the cost of running various large postoffices of free deliver grade shows that the percentage of expenses to receipts is as high as sixty per cent., and in some cases as low as twenty-five per cent. When this iu vestigadpn is completed, it will bo extended to all officers appointed by the president, or all offices in which postmasters receive yearly a compensation of one thousand dollars and upwaids. There is to be extensive removals of postmasters in Texas, but those of Galves ton and Houston will be requested to resign, not on account cf anything wrong in connec tion with their official duties, but on the ground# implying disreputablo conduct out side of them and their unpopularity with citizens. The postmaster-general desires the appointment of Buch officers as will secure his and the public confidence for efficiency and integrity. The Late Earthquake at Antigua. Aeorrespendent writing from Antigua, Guatamala, under date of the Ist, gives an account cf the earthquake there the previous evening. On the 3d of Sep tember, at 8:30 u. M , without previous warning, a strong earthquake shook the ground violently in the direction from west to east. Wave-like undulations on the surface rose and fell at least a foot. The first strong shock lasted from twenty-five to thirty seconds, when the conten s of a large water-tank in the court yard of the hotel wore thrown out. Wild screeches and screams continued even after the early terror had some what subsided, and long after there was the noise of walls falling more or less distant, mingled with the sound of hun dreds of voices chanting hymns for mer cy. Many shocks followed during the night, every one of which gave rise to new alarms and new implorations. It was intensely dark during the continu ance of the shocks. An inspection in the morning showed chat about two dozen inhabited houses were destroyed, causing a loss of thirty two lives. The number of houses dam aged, and which will have to bo taken down, is considerable. Many of the old ruins of 1773 have suffered seriously. During the confusion incident to the earthquake, several men appeared with long knives for the purpose of stealing and mnrde ing, but the political chief of Antigua soon repressed them. All the squares arid courts serve as tempo rary abodes. It will take some time before the pfople of Antigua recover serenity of mind enough to go to sleep iu their totiering houses. At Gnatamala, the capital, slight shocks were felt. The Indians say that three villages at the foot of the volcano Delfuego have been destroyed. Sunlight lor the Sick. Dr. Wm. H. Hammond, in discussing the sanitary influence of light, observes that the effects of deficient light upon the inmates of hospital wards and sick chambers have frequently come under his special notice ; that most physicians know how carefully the attendants upon the sick endeavor to exclude every ray of light from the apartment, and even some members of the profession are sin gularly assiduous in this respect; but that the practice, except to some cases of actual disorder of the brain and oth er parts of the nervous system, is per nicious, admits of no question. During the late civil war Dr. H. visited a camp and hospital in West Virginia, in conse quence of information received that the sickness and mortality there prevailing were unaccountably great, and he made a minute examination into all the cir cumstances connected with the situation of the camp, the food of the men, etc. AmoDg other peculiarities, he found the sick crowded into a small room, from which the light was excluded by blinds of india-rubber cloth. The patients were as effectually bleached as is celery by the earth being heaped up around it"; pale, bloodless, ghost like looking forms, they 6eemed to be searely mortal. Convalescence was, under such circum stances, according to Dr. Hammond, almost impossible, and his belief was that many of the men had died, who, had they been subjected to the opera tion of" the simplest laws of uature, would have recovered. —A r . Y. Tribune. Turkey Making an Arsenal of Herself. People will soon want to know what Turkey intends to do with so much ex plosive material, such quantities of j deadly missiles, such engines of de- j strustion. But it is not in New York j alone that the ferocious Mussulman is i arming himself. The other day the viceroy of Egypt gave the Turkish sul tan an iron-clad, and now his majesty’s mother, the valide sultana, has kindly told the grand vizier that she will her self pay the cost of thirty field-pieces, gun-carriages and all complete, for her son. This present is in addition to twenty other pieces of Krnpp artillery, j which her highness a short time ago good-naturedly gave for the troops. The sultan is also treating himself to a few guns, and the grand vizier has just signed a contract with the local repre sentative of the Krupp foundry at Eisen foi 200 field-pieces for JieTurkxsh army, the cost of the order to be defrayed out of the sultan’s own privy purse. The valide sultana has made it a condition of her little order that the thirty cannon shall be delivered within four months’ time at the latest. If the design is to use this warlike material somebody is likely to get hurt; if not, the imperial treasury is burdened to little purpose. A Paradise for Broken Down Men. A correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle writing, from the Island of Tahiti, says : If a white men is tirsd of civilization and wishes to lay off, then he can come to the South Sea and find some romantic little nook where under the bread-fruit trees, and cccoanut groves and banana-forests, he can 101 l to his heart’s content. But such a man must have lost his grip, lost his hopes, and come to the conclusion that he is a weak and imbecile creature, unable to war with the great seething cauldron called civilization. I find such white men on the islands of these seas, but what wrecks they are. Utterly lost, they lead au aimless life, vegetate rather than lve. They ire most miserable specimens of the European race which have conquered and civilized the earth. As compared with the natives of the South Seas they are inferior, mentally, morally, and physically. When a white man goes to wreck here, the wreck is so complete that there is nothing left of it but a mere shadow. Some people complain about their children being non-observing, but we’d 'ihe to see the guild who tvon’fc observe bow the (emify'piu is cut and. whp gets, the biggest piece. DAS VEILCHEN. reoM aoiiTHE. Lonely and sweet a violet grew The meadow 1 weeds among. One more a rosy shepherd maid, With careless heart and idle tread, Came by, (lame by, The meadow lands and sung. “ All!" said the violet, “ would I were Some stalely garden flower! Then r might gallic re a be, and pressed One little hour to her swoet breast; Ah, me! Ah, me! Only one little hour !•’ On came the rosy shepherd lass With heart that wildly beat. And crushed the violet in the grass, ft only said, “ How sweet! How sweet J” it said with tainting moan, “If I must die, to die alone Tor her, For her— To die at her dear feet.” A .MIRACULOUS CURE. As vre steamed out of sight of the landing I watched Ralph narrowly to see if the familiar landmarks un manned him or brought back the old irremediable trouble. I was glad to find that he wore the usual air of cold ness and reticence that seemed to have quite taken the place of rhe old reck lessness and impulse. His eyes were certain ?y fixed with un usual interest neon the sloping shores of the peninsula; and when a liHle fishing boat dropped her sail in one of the snug little coves near by, and a boatman stepping out disclosed the form of a woman and that of a little child clinging to her gar ments, Ralph turned away, a frown con tracted his forehead, and he put his hand to his head as if to arrest a sharp remembrance there. But he was him self again presently, and began to con trast our glorious harbor with that of Naples. He was reminded of the amus ing incident that occurred during our sojourn there, and as his low, somewhat musical laugh fell upon the evening air, I don’t know what force impelled me to turn my head and look at a wo man standing at the furthest end of the deck. She was leaning against one of the pillars of the boat, {he folds of her dress blown about it by the sea-wind, and her long, slender, ungloved fingers resting caressingly upon the shoulders of a child by her side. Her face was pale, even paler than of old. She appeared not see me; her great luminous eyea seemed conscious of but the one object; but they fell upon Ralph with a gaze magnetic enough to lift him from that camp stool and draw him to her side. With an involuntary shudder I shifted my place to one that made a barrier be tween them; but the power of her glance was potent enough to render him already uneasy. The light gradually faded from his eyes ; his laughter died away ; a melancholy settled on his face like that of the darkness on the reced ing shores, “ Come, Ralph,” I said, “ let’s go be ow a bit, and have a lounge in the cabin; the evening air is chill.” “ I believe it must be,” he replied, “ for I feel a sort of trembling sensation about me. Pray Heaven it isn’t a chill ! It would bo wonderful—now wouldn’t it, Harry ?—if, after escaping the plague in Syria rand the cholera in Russia, I should fall a victim to an American specialty, fever and ague.” “ The best thing in the world for that,” I said, warily beeping my posi tion in front of him, “ is a good dose of brandy and pepper. Let’s go below and get it.'” “ I believe you’ve got a touch of it too,” he said, as we reached the stairs. “You’ve either turned a palish green since I last looked at you, or it’s the re flection of a dismal fancy.” Once reaching the comfortable region below the deck, the glowing from the furnace shedding a sort of heat over the place, and the warm coloring in the furniture shutting out the cold light of the dying day up stairs, the strong dose of brandy dispelling all fear of miasma, Ralph and I disposed of ourselves in a couple of arm chairs in the cabin, and resolved to remain there for the rest of the trip. Ho closed his eyes, and I thought he fell asleep; but, as for me, I never was more wide awake in my life. What wonderful destiny brought that woman here at this moment ’? Bo many years had gone by without a word of communication between them, I began to hope that the gap never would bo filled up, in this world at least. In the other world there might some thing, perhaps, be done for two strug gling, helpless souls; but here, hem med in by circumstances unrelenting and even blameless, there was not even room for complaint. It was not the fault o? Ralph that he loved her. I don’t believe that he knew it himself till it was too late. When lie came down here long ago for that summer vacation, Heavenknows the place had charms enough to allure us. The broad waters of the bay were filled with game for our piscatorial fancy; the beautiful grouping of the clouds, the filtering of sunshine down throng'n the leaves of woods, then un touched by the spoiler, the cloudless, heaven-bright days of a summer on the wave, were filled with food for onr yearning lor the beautiful. If wo had ODly never met Captain Jack! Yet Qaptain Jack alone would have been an unadulterated element of joy. He was as clever, honest, and genial a fellow as ever went in pur.-uit of oysters in these waters or those of Virginia. His fishing smack might well have been called a yacht, it was so handsome and complete. But being the soul of hospi tality, and generous to a fault, he would insist upon our sharing his house and seeing his wife Mary. “If you call the scow handsome, I don’t know what you’ll say to her !” he chuckled, with infinite delight and pride. We said nothing. How he got her, and where, was useless to ask; but had he plung'd to the nether deep and fished up a mermaid, the most beautiful in that wal ery kingdom, had he mounted in a balloon to the stars and picked her oil from one of those bits of fire, had he ransacked the elements themselves for a prodigy of beauty and grace, he could not have gone bevond little May. Jack always called her Mary, but Ralph said she must be called May, because she was the embodiment of spring—of all that was fresh and bright and beau tiful. “ I told you so! ” said Captain Jack, winking and nodding with all his might. The poor fellow seemed hearidy to enjoy the homage we paid to his wife and child—for there was a baby in the boatman’s home, a yellow-haired, blue eyed infant, some such a child as would delight tlii£ eye and heart of a painter. Ralph, unconsciously enough, fell into a habit of loangtogaway the b st part of his time in the house by the shore. And almost any hour in the day one might hear his pleasant voice read ing bits of poetry to May, or oaroling out snatches of song to the child. After a time all this changed ; he grew moody and restless, a shadow fell on the young woman’s face ; and Captain Jack would insist upon my going off with him for hours together—fishing, oystering, up to the market, anywhere and every where, so that it was oat in the open air or on the free glad waters of the bay. Heaven knows I tried to stay at home with them, but Captain Jack would have me go. I was afraid to openly rebel, because —well, because I did not care to breed a devil in that dormant but powerful brain. Thus I was tried, rendered helpless ! l y the honesty and confidence of Jack, i iht um jeeute of May, and the ungov CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1874. ! ernabic passion of Ralph. I became a victim to all these terrible agencies for evil, without being able to think of a plaD for ameliorating them. Suddenly, and without any previous warning, the knot in the tangle b, came imraveled. There was only one way out cf this whirlpool, and Ralph pro posed it himself. He came to me one night, pale as a spectre, and said, in a hoarse whisper, that we mast go at daybreak. “Go?”lsaid. “Go where—to the city ? ” ‘ ‘ To the city—the devil—the farthest ends of the earth ! ” lie cried, raising his hands in a spasm of agony. I said no more, but packed our port manteaus and got to bed, while poor Ralph walked the floor till morning. With the first beam of the sun came the cry of the baby in the adjoining room, and Ralph came over to the bed. “If it hadn’t been for the child—” he said, and paused. “ Well, thank God, thou, for the child, Ralph," I said. “You’ll say so your self some day.” V e were aboard a steamer the next week, bound for the Spanish Main. From thence we set sail for Egypt; and Heaven knows where the restless soul of my comrade had not drawn me. At last he came to me himself. “I’mhomesick, Hal,”he said. “Let’s get back to America.” Useless to descant upon my rapture. I wa3 the most disgusted aud worn out pilgrim that the world had ever seen. There were no perils for us by land or sea till we reached the Kill von Hull. To get to the dear old mansion where abode the dearest old Quaker lady that ever was moved by the spirit to have such a son as Ralph we had to take the river boat. Aud now the sun was set ting over the familiar hills, the waters of the bay all aglow. I had reazon to hope that in an hour more we would be safe. But just then Ralph started to his feet. I had hoped he was asleep ; but there was a slumbering light in his eye that told of brooding and discontent. “Come,” he said; “before the light dies quite away I must have one look at the shore.” “ Ralph,” I oried, “ don’t! I ask it of you!” But he was half-way up the stairs— not the stairs he had descended, the others, the ones that led to May and the child. It was destiny. They stood by the pillar in almost the same atti tude as when I last saw them. Ralph in mounting the last step tum bled forward. “I beg pardon,” he said ; and then remained, with month agape and staring eyes, looking at the woman and the child. She said not a word. It will be re membered that she had seen him be fore. He staggered forward. “May,” he said—“ why, May !” then put his hand I to his head in bewilderment. She still remained speechless ; but her lips trem bled, her hands left the shoulders of her child and unconsciously extended themselves to him. “Yes. yes,”he cried, “oh, come to me !” He drew her to his side, devour ing her with his eyes, while her own fell—fell, filled with tears, under his burning gaze. At that moment there was a cry of terror, a rush forward—too late. The child, who had climbed unnoticed upon the taffrail of the boat, fell overboard into the darkening water. May struggled from the arms of Ralph, and would have thrown herself after th child, but I caught her and held her tight, while Ralph plunged after the boy. Hundreds of people rushed to see; the train stopped on the bridge; a sort of paralysis fell upon all, except one little fishing boat : that one, impelled by powerful strokes, went after swim mer and the child. Once, when the little head—oh, how little it looked upon the big surging wave!—went under, the hands of the boatman seemed stiff with terror; a breathless second of despair followed ; but Ralph was famous at swimming, and now his soul was in it. On he went, cheered by he multitude. Now the little head was seen again, the long curls of yellow hair drifting upon the cold green wave. The tide swept the light weight of the child to the bridge ; and just as it was sinking again, Ralph grasped the little waif, and went under with it himself. Fainting and exhaust ed, battling, all clothed as he was, with the choking waves, he gave way at last, and a huge groan burst from the peo ple. But the boatman was now close at hand, and dropping his oars, sprang into this gulf of blackness that seemed ready to devour them all. But I saw the boatman’s face as it went down, and took heart of grace. I wasn’t a bit surprised when he came up with them both, and floated them with one arm to the boat, while with the other he cleared the waters that seemed not to hinder, even to aid, their old comrade. As the little boat wita its dripping cargo came straight to our steamer, some of tho women sobbed and others laughed with hysteric joy, while many a strong man could scarcely keep back the tear . One emotional fellow near by proposed as a vent to his feel ings that a purse should be raised for the boatmaD. “If it hadn’t been for him the father and child would both have gone under,” he said, carrying his hat around. When they came to me for a contribu tion I refused. Iu the first place, the way to my pocket was obstructed by the fainting form of May, and, besides, it was ridiculous. “ You’d better give the money back again, now that you feel calmer,” I said to the emotional chap. “It don’t look well to pay a man for saving his own child. Besides, he don’t want any money; he’s rich.” “But we mean the boatman.” “So do I.” “ Who in thunder is the other fellow, then, that jumped off the boat here?’’ “ A passenger, that’s all. Why, it’s nothing. You, or I, or any bo y would have done the same thing if we’d have thought of it quick enough.” “ Hum!” was the skeptical remark of this chap, walking off with a hatful of money. Half an hour afterward the little lad was cuddled close to his mother’s heart; Ralph was lying back among the cush ions m the cabin; Captain Jack was elose at hand, buisting all the bottoms off an overcoat that the emotional fellow had insisted his accepting as a mark of his esteem, and looking at May and the child with all his honest soul in his eyes. “ Gracious God !” he said, going over to Ralph, “suppose you hadn’t been aboard !” “And suppose you hadn’t been out with the boat?” said Ralph. “Suppose we look above for a solution to these things ?” I said. We slept that night in onr old quar ters at Captain Jack’s house on the shore. At sunrise the little chap was at his old trick again, anu cried out from his sleep in the adjoining room. Ralph grasped my arm. “Thank God,” he said—“ thank God for the child !” “ I told you so three years ago,” I rejoined. “ I’m cared now, Hal,” said Ralph, “ for once and all.” “ You ought to be, Ralph; it took a miracle to do it.” Db. Mary Walker, who parts her clothes in the middle, is authority for the statement of John Stuart Mill that petticoats are but another name for passivenes3 ; that corsets signify eccr | QtOD, riitl that the trail is embodied I thraldom. THE MOSQUITO. How (he Diminutive Fiend Live# and Propagate* His Species. The name mosquito is indiscriminate ly applied, in this and some other countries, to varions species of Culex or gnat. The term should be restricted to the Culex mosquito ; but the ordinary observer will not, of course, pause to make fine distinctions, and every spe o.es of gnat, troublesome or otherwise, that comes under the popular eve, is carelessly called a mosquito. The fe male guat or mosquito deposits her eggs on the surface of stagnant wattr. We copy a description of this last act of her life from Wood’s “Insects at Home Placing her iront legs on a piece of floating stick, straw, or anything that will support her linv weight, she allows the middte pair of her legs tq rest on the surface of the water, and crosses the hind pair so as to 1 10 k like the capital letter X. She then deposits a rather long and spindle-shaped egg, and places it upright, with the base downward in the angle of the X, Another egg is quickly placed bv the side of the first, and followed by others, all of which are glued together by a cement which is not affected by water. Guided by the crossed legs, the eggs are forced into a boat-lik6 shape, and are then left to float o the surface of the water. These little egg boats are qui e plen tiful in the summer-time, and any num ber can be taken for the purpose of ex perimenting. Their shape very much resembles that of the life-boat now in use, and, like the life-boat, the egg-boat cannot be Bunk, and if capsized rights itself immediately. Even if the con tents of the vessel be poured from a height into the pond the little boats float at once to the surface like so many corks, and each as it rises assumes its proper position. When the larva is ready to leave the egg it pushes off the low r er end, which opens like a little round trap-door, and lets the larva—popularly called “ wrig gler”—out into the water. This wig gler is the oddest little fish imaginable. It has a long body, a large head, and a forked tail, and jumps and jerks through the water with a swift ziz-zag motien. When it needs to breathe, it comes to tho surface and hangs head downward, for its respiratory organs termiuate in a pipe attached to the last segment of the body, and, thrusting this above the water, the air is inhaled through it. Thelarva feeds upon microscopic insects and particles of vegetation and earthy matter, and this is of great service in purifying standing water, which would otherwise breed malarial diseases. So the mosquito is not without its use in the world. Liunteus long ago showed that if two barrels of stagnant water be placed side by side, and one be covered with gauze and the other left exposed, the second will soon be full of wrigglers and emit no rmsavory odors, while the first, secured from the approach of mos quitoes, will shortly become “ rank and smell to heaven.” The wriggler changes its skin three times in the course of a fortnight or three weeks. It then enters the pupa state, and is transformed in both shape and condition. Its body is shortened, rounded, and bent nearly double. In this state it eats nothing, and remains chiefly in repose. It is able to swim, however, by alternately bending and straightening its body. The respiratory openings of the air-tutes are now in the thorax ; consequently it rests with tho head upward at the surface of ihe water. The skin is, at this stage, so thin that the varions members of the insect can be seen through it, as they lie loosely folded together. When the moment comes for the perfect imago to emerge, tho pupa straightens out on the surface of the water, the case splits along the back, and the insect swiftly affcl speed ily draws itself out. It stands for an instant, on the now empty shell, in order to shake out its crumpled wings and allow the veins to fill and swell; then it mounts aloft, to the shrill tune it al ways sings in its flight, and is ready to suck the blood of the first victim it" en counters. The male gnat, which may be distin guished by its feathered antennae, is in offensive. The female alone is armed with a lancet, and, before she stabs, sings about our ears until we are fran tic. Her murderous instrument is com posed of six fine, sharp bristles, inclosed in a cylindrical tube, clothed with min ute feather-like scale , and terminating in a kind of knob. The sting of her wound is caused by a poisonous fluid which is injected through the proboscis. Gnats multiply with great rapidity, and several generations are produced in a single summer. They are attracted by a light, and yet can buzz and stab with out any inconvenience in the dark. The sense of smell is ascribed to them by the entomologist; but it seems, from ordinary observation, to be ex ceedingly blunt. A mosquito will hum, and hum, and hum around one—well, for hours, measuring time by the feel ings—and, either from stupidity or sheer malignity, light here, and light the>e, everywhere but on the flesh right under its nose, and then go probing about with its spear in a perfectly im becile way that is, beyond everything exasperating. No, the insect is a dolt or a demon, else it would, guided by an unerring instinct, dart straight to the right spot and suck it3 fill, and be off about its business. Would it but do so, its visit would bo disarmed of its chief terrors. It is their prolonged blundering—which may be intentional aud a piece of pure diabolism—by which they keep their stinging lance hovering over us, like the sword of Damocles, every instant likely to drop and pierce us, that makes them such odious and intolerable torments. One can bear the severest hurt that comes unexpected, with a certain degree of courage ; but the long-drawn-out horrors of anticipa tion unnerve us, until we writhe in despair. There is scarcely in the range of human experience a more forcible illustration of the impotence of man than that which a single mosquito will afford him when he lies in alnmber. The puny insect, that may be crushed to a shapeless mass with the lightest touch, whose organs are so minute as to be mainly invisible, has in its power to so harass and worry its gigantic enemy, a whole night through, as to craze him nearly. What a bitter mockery to call the son of Adam the lord of creation, when he can be baffled and beaten in a contest with a mosquito ! A Modern Pygmalion. The Paris Droit relates that a man has just died in the Bicetre asylum whose lunacy had a very singular origin. His name was Justin, and he exhibited wax work figures at Montrouge, his gal lery consisting of contemporary celebri ties and great criminals. On a pedestal in the cen're was the picture of a young girl remarkable or her graceful figure and perfect features, her hair falling in long "curls over Her naked shoulders. Justin had named her Eliza, and was so struck with her beauty that he passed hours in contemplating her. She seem ed to him to speak, and her blue eyes, with their long eyelashes, seemed to re spond to his passion. Under the influ ence of this illusion he neglected his business, and for want of a showman to puff it people no longer visiled the gal lery. Poverty succeeded circum stances ; the modern Pygmalion could not separate himself from Eliza. His wife was obliged to sleep on a bare mat tress, aud when she remonstrated he ill-treated her. Irritated at the unjust harshness she ote day destroyed the wex figure. Justin was furious at see ing tjie mmg a bicow- stick lie struck liis wife, and would have killed her had not her cries drawn the neighbors to her assistance. Justin, who had lost his reason, had to be se emed, aud was an inmate of Bicetre for five years, living up to tbs last under the oharm of Eliza, whose image seemed always before him. Grasshopper Surgery. Grace Greenwood, in writing from Colorado, rays it was expected that we should have a fine exhibition of farm and garden products, but “ man pro poses and the grasshopper disposes.” He has disposed of everything green, and now, as though acting on the scrip tural assertion that “all flesh is grass,” has taken to regaling himself on Lis brother hopper. It is shocking to dis cover what remorseless cannibals these small creatures are. If one becomes disabled in the slightest degree, liis friends and relatives rally around him in his extremity, and generally help themselves to whatever is eatable. They generally po first for the brain, as the morsel, cunningly abstrac'ing it from its cells ; and yet he somehow lives on for a time, and hardly seems to miss that rather important organ. The younger ones seem tho most voracious and rnpaoious, but, while they make a fatal charge, stout, grave-looking elders will stand about, watching their old friend’s demise, evidenly speculating as to how he will “ cut up.” They are in no Jiaste, but are always in at the death. The other day I whiled away a half-hour in one of the summer-houses near the springs in watching the pro ceedings of a set of these small ruffians toward a disabled comrade. -He had lost a leg—how I need not state. “Thou canst not say I did it”—though, if for the sake of scientific investiga tion I brought myself to perform that little surgical operation, what harm? It is surprising to see how easily a grasshopper’s leg is detached. It seems alwavs to be a sort of semi-detached member. The creature don’t seem to miud the loss much, and will go on eat ing as though grasshoppers’ legs “grew on every bush.” This one evidently did not realize his misfortune till he was attacked, and found he could neither walk nor fly. How he was beset, to be sure ! First, a brisk young fellow, with the cool, business air of a surgeon, be gan tapping his rather distended stom ach ; another probed him about the joint whence the leg had been removed ; a third set himself to dissect the ampu tated limb. One slim starveling began browsing on the delicate tips of his long wings; then a big bustling old wretch stepped forward and interviewed him, by deliberately boring into his brain ; next a yellow jacket settled on him and stung and sucked here and there, while, to add insult to injury, two spiteful black ants pierced through the joints of his cuirass and worked their way into his vitals. He fought bi’avely—it was astonishing to see how pluekily he stood up against his fierce assailants, like a miniature Moulton. He kicked furiously with his one sound hind leg “ against the pricks” of the wasp. Ho struck out and gesticulated wildly with his arms or fore-legs—his mustache or antenn* bristled with de fiance—but the great congregation of his foes was too much for him. though he did not cease to struggle while any thing remained to struggle with. They did not leave him till he was reduced to the mere shell of a grasshopper. llow to Make a Good Bed. Perhaps some housekeepers would like to know how they can make an in expensive, and at the same time a good and durable bed, or mattress and bolster. I have a bed that will (with good usage) last a lifetime. It is mere ly a tick, the same as for straw, or husks, with openings in the upper side to insert the hand for stirring, and filled with cut paper. Now, reader, do not throw aside the paper with disgust, but, if for nothing but curiosity, finish the artiole, it will do you no harm ; possibly you may be induced to make one. The work of cutting the paper is not such a long job as yon would think. Take any kind of clean paper (except straw paper) and fold it, or roll, so that it can be cut with one clip of the shears, and then cut it; you need not be particuar as to the width, although the narrower it is cut the better. These clippings are like little curls or rings of paper, and lie like feathers, and after using the bed they will not grow fine and dusty, but are clean, and can be stirred as light as when first used. I have heard people who have slept on them say “ they were the best beds they ever slept on.” I prefer them to feathers or common mat tresses ; hair mattresses are nicer, of course, but few of us farm rs’ wives can afford tobny them ; whereas the paper bed we can have without cost, except the work, and that the smallest child you have who can use a pair of shears, will help yon, aud if not kept busy too long at a time, will think it but play. The same material makes nice pillows for lounges, chair cushions, cradle ticks, etc. I have a box to keep waste paper in, which is out of the way, and at tbe same time handier than the rag-bag ; and when it is full, I cut them up into another box and put them into the tick, f use the same ticks that I have used for straw ; wash them and sew up the openings, so they are just large enough for the hand to pass through readily ; three openings are sufficient.— Cor. Cin cinnati Times. Recollections of a Dentist's !hop. Mark Twain, in his new book about Ei gland, tells how he had the tgpthacbe one night in London, and gives some pleasing recollections of the dentist’s shop which he was wont to patronize when he lived in Elmira. He says: “ One night that tooth did jump, and every time it jumped it raised my head off the pillow. How I did lie awake and think about that dentist’s shop in Elmi ra, where I had been under torture so many times of those pretty dental in struments, so polished and so cold ! How I did long to lay my cheek against one—one of those short, thick, heavy, twisted chaps, with the bow-legged, fluted, and curved handles and short hawkt bill jaws ! How I revelled in de light at the thought of having such a thing clutch my ref>actory tooth, and ‘ yank it!’ With what pleasurable emo tions came crowding into my mind the recollections of that dentist and his room and its fixtures—his big easy chair, with the pretty, white-curtained window before it, and the nice, b?g, red glass spittoon to the left, with the hole in the bottom, and the bits of wet cot ton and the bright pieces of gold and streams of blood-stained saliva on the sides. And then the pretty little bureau with the bottles on the top, and the little yellow drawers which no jerks out so gently when seeking for some new and more dedicate instrument of torture. And then the beautiful little round, velvet-covered stand on the gas fixture, covered with the nice drills and pretty files, and the lovely little crow bars with the stained ivory handles, and the long steel crochet needle with which he hunts for new cavities, and the little round pasteboard box full of gold ‘ plugs,’ and the dirty little napkin and t lie rubber ball syringe, and the singu lar smell of his thumb, and all that! Oh, how nice!” They have found in Holcomb valley, California, a mineralogical marvel, a mountain of gold bearing quartz. It is twelve miles from Bear lake, above which it rises 300 feet. The crown of the mountain is said to be a mass of I gold-bearing rock, 85 feet high, 100 | feet wide and about two miles in length. Ifce assays JjaTfc yielded S4O a ton. . WRITING GOOD ENGLISH. I Branch \ot Thoroughly Taught In the Schools. If we were to assert that net one col lego student in four could write half a dozen pages of his own composition in such a manner that any well known print ing establishment would be willing to publish them without alteration, it would doubtless seem to many persons like a very strange statement. We do not make this assertion. Perhaps it would not be true. But if it were made by any one else, we should by no means feel sure enough ot its incorrectness to contradiot it. It is certain that a very large part of our educated youth of both sexes are unable to put their thoughts on paper without numerous inaccuracies. Perhaps the most frequent errors of educated people to writing are those connected with punctuation. Ti at many mistakes of this kind are made is not at all wouderful. There is a good deal of difference of opinion as to what constitutes correctness in this respect. But tho circumstance that it is not al ways easy to determine what point should be used in a particular place is no reason for writing as if punctuation had never bei-n invented. If a man is in doubt whether to wear a light coat or a heavy one on a September day, it does not necessarily follow that he should go in his shirt-sleeves. The diversity of theories in regard to punctuation does not render, for instance, a letter on Sr.v eral independent snbjeets without a single full stop, except tho one at the end, creditable either to the education of the individual who writes it, or to the institution at which he or she has been taught. Another class of errors which must be mentioned is that of mistakes in gram mar. These, it is true, are much less frequent among young people of educa tion than deficiencies in respect to punctuation. Yet there are thousands of such persons, who wonld be highly in’ignant at the charge of writing un grammatical English, to whom a gentle hint that, for instance, the objective case of the pronoun “who” always ends with an m, or a little instruction in regard to the proper use of the aux iliaries “ shall aud “ will," might be of material service. If the more advanced students in some of onr colleges or female semina ries were each to be required to write, without assistance, a letter or a compo sition of any kind, and if then what had been written should be printed without alteration, and distributed among the parents and friends of the authors, it would constitute a species of examination of which, we venture to say, few institutions would be prond. We by no means recommend sucb a test. On the contrary, we should denounce | an attempt of tbe kind as utterly heart- : less and cruel. No instructor could tor j a moment be justified in thus exposing to ridicule his students. But it would be, in some respects, an excellent crite rion if professors and teachers in our higher educational institutions, on pe rusing the compositions toubmited to their inspection, were to ask themselves how these productions wonld look to prtot. And here we would make a sug gestion which may be valuable to some of onr college students who aro indulg ing hopes of distinguishing themselves ; in literature. It is often the case that if these young men were to submit their experiments in writing to the ex amination of some good compositor in a printing office, he would be able to ’ give them valuable instruction which their professor of English literature; would not, and perhaps could not, .im part. At all events, if instruction of this kind is furnished by the professors j in onr colleges, many of the students appear to profit remarkably little by it. — N. Y. Times. Spurgeon on Smoking. Sir. Spurgeon has addressed a letter to the papers on account of it having been stated that on a recent Sunday evening, when a minister in his chapel had condemned smoking, he rose after the sermon, and expressed his dissent from the preacher, aiding that it was possible to “ smoke to the glory of God,” and that he hoped to enjoy a cigar that evening before he went to bed. Mr. Spurgeon says : “I demur altogether, and most positively, to the statement that to smoke tobacco is in itself a rid. It may become so, as any other indiffer ent action may, but as an action it is no sin. Together with hundreds and thou sands of my fellow-christians, I have smoked, and with them I am under the condemnation of living in habitual sin, if certain accusers are to be believed. As I wonld not knowingly live even in the smallest violation of the law of God, and sin in the transgression of the law, I will not own to sin when I am not conscious of it. There is growing up in society a pharisaic system which adds to the commands of God the precepts of men ; to that system I will not yield for an hour. The preeervat on of my liberty may bring upon me the up braidings of many of the good and the sneers of the self-righteous ; but I shall endure both with sincerity so long as I feel clear iu my conscience before God. The expression ‘ smoking to the glory of God’ standing alone ha* an ill sounc, and Ido not justify it; but in the sense in which I employed it I will stand to it. No Christian should do anytbiog in which he cannot glorify God—and this may bo done, according to scripture, to eating and drinking and the common actions of life. When I have found in tense pain relieved, a weary biain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep ob tained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God and have blessed his name ; this is what I meant, and by no means did I use sacred words trifiingly. If through smoking I had lost an hour of my time —if I had stinted my gifts to the poor —if I had rendered my mind lets vig orous—l trust I should seo my fault aud turn from it ; bat. he who charges mo with these things shall have uo an swer but my forgiveness. I am told that my open avowal will lessen my in fluence, and my reply is that if I have gained any influence through being thought different from what I am, I have no wish to retain it. I will do nothing uton the sly, and nothing about which I have a doubt.” An Aide-de-Scamp. An amusing aaecdote is told of a well known French general, who played a conspicuous part in a cavalry charge. This gallant warrior had been severely wounded an his head and a bullet in his thigh. Such an allowance might have satisfied a man of qniet tastes, but was far from sufficient for the fire-eating general. In relating the charge, which lie did at every dinner party, he was in the habit of throwing in half a dozen bayonet thrusts and a couple of stray splinters from a shell, and he invariably appealed for corroboration of his narra tive to an aid-de-camp who had ridden by his side. On one occasion, having imbibed more than his usnal allowance of ’47 Chateau Yquem, he drew a more than usually startling picture of hie riddled and perforated condition. A cannon ball had killed his horse, a dozen sabres had descended at once on his head, a couple of lances had passed through each of his arms, and all the bullets and bayonets of Germany seemed to have given each other a ren dezvous in his body ! “You remember it well, don’t you?” he added, turning to hiß aide de-camp. The well-trained subaltern had suffered long in silence. The bayonets, bullets, laLces, etc., he had got used to by long practice, bat the cannon bail was the last straw that broke tlie camel’s back. “ No, general, I don’t remember it. How could yon expect me to ? You know an well as I do that the very cannon ball that killed your horse strnok ihe breas plate of a cnirassier behind us, and then bounded back and took my heal off!” Size of the Whale. The sperm whale attains a very great size. The measure of a whale in whal ing parlance is indicated by he number of barrels of oil it will make. Ask any old whaling captain of forty years’ ex perienoe how long is the longest sperm whale and he will strive to answer the question by estimating the known pro portions of his ship. “ Let me see. From just forraid of the main swifter, well, say forty-five feet, and you have his eye; allow one -third for the head and yon have seventy-two. Well, now, seventv-two feet is a long wtale ; but I never measured one.” The largest whale we took made 107 barrels. Its length was seventy-nine feet; from the uese to the buncii of the neck, twenty six feet; thence to the hump, twenty nino feet; from hump to tail, seventeen feet; length of tail, sixteen feet six inches ; height at forehead, eleven f* et; width, nine feet six inches ; at junction of tail, seven feet nine inches; lower jaw, sixteen feet long and forty-one inches in circumference at t hick part. It had fifty-one teeth, the heaviest weighing twenty-five ounces Blubber on back, eighteen inches; on side, t welve to fifteen inches, and belly, nine , to ten inches. The hnmp wan two feet above tho level. The case made nine teen barrels ; body, seventy end a half barrels ; junk, fourteen and t half bar- I rel3. Capt. Sullivan, of the James Ar nold, of New Bedford, off New Zea land took in one voyage eight whales that made over 100 barrels each, the largest yielding 137 barrels. The head of this made fifty-three barrel 3, and the case baled twenty-seven ba rels. It was ninety feet long ; the fli kes eigh teen feet, jaw eighteen feet, ease twenty two feet, and forehead thirteen and a half feet high. During the same season and on the same ground, Capt. Vincent, j ship Oneida, of New Bedford, took ten sperm whales, which stowed 1,140 bar rels. Capt. Norton, ship Monk a, of New Bedford, took on the off shore ground a sperm whale that stowed 145 barrels; the dimensions of this mon ster were not taken. The proportions of whales vary much with tho sex and age. The young bulls and the cows are sltnder; the cows are about one-third the size of the bull, when measured by the oil they yield. — Cor. N. Y. Ob server. Venetian Laces. A writer in the Cincinnati Gazette says: “ The history of some of the Venetian laces is curious. Clement VII. gave his neice, Catherine de Medi cis, laces in relief of enormous value, which afterwards became the property of Marv Stuart. During the reign of Louis XIV. the laces necessary for a gentleman’s costume cost $13,000. The pontifical dress worn by Pope Innocent XI. is now exhibited at the exposition at Milan, and also tbe magnificent laces of the Princess Margaret, presented to her on her marriage by the ladios of Venice. The collections of antiquaries give the clearest idea which we can have of the variety aud peculiarities of these laces. It is interesting to see the admiration which these person* feel for their treasures ; they touch them with respect, and show I hem to an inexpert with ecstacy. There is the point d’Espagne, so named because the pattern came from Spain ; point d’ivoire, imita ted from the designs of ivory cuttings ; point de rose, rose pattern ; but all these are made in Venice. Their texture is marvelous, for all these stitches, so fine that they are scarcely visible to the eye, where made by tbe needle in a womau’s fingers. Happily, we may for these things use the past tense, for the fabri cation of a piece would olten occupy years, and sometimes a lifetime. Their price is as extraordinary as their work manship. You may have for SB,OOO a piece of lace four inches wide and long enough to trim an overskirt, and an other piece ftr the bertha, which, al though not the same pattern, will yet agree with it. For SIOO you can have an ugly, large collar of point de rose, which "no modern lady would ca-e about wearing.” A Disastrous Blander. The Memphis cotton exchange, from numerous reports on the cotton crop in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas, estimates that in these states, from the blighting effects of tho recent severe drouth, the aggregate yield will be about forty-five per cent, has than that of last year. This will be a severe loss to the states directly concerned ; but there are still more discouraging facts in this Memphis report, viz.: Hav ing realized advances to the extent of their interests, laborers have abandoned the picking of the cotton in many in stances, and as, in addition to prices of cotton being very low, very little grain or meat has been raised, there is much foreboding as to the future. This de votion of their lands and their capital exclusively to the cultivation of cotton has for many years proved a disastrous blunder to our southern p’anter?. They have depended upon their cotton to sup ply them, not only with all their house hold and fanning utensils and imple ments, their clothing, furniture, etc., but to supply them with provisions, to a great extent, from the northwest, when, for manufactures of all descrip tions and for all the articles of subsis tence of the temperate zone, our cotton states offer facilities and advantages which exist nowhere else in the world. To these important matters of southern reconstruction the attention of southern planters cannot be too earnestly direct ed.— N. Y. Herald. The Strength of Metal>. The experiments of scientists have demonstrated the following ficts re specting the strength of certain mate rials r Gold may be hammered so that it is only one three-hundred-ai d-sixty thousandth of an inch thick. An iron bar would support its own weight if stretched out to a length of 3 miles. A bar of steel was once made which would support its own weight if exten ded to a length of 18| miles. Banker Hill monument might be built more than a mile in height withont ( rushing the stone at its base. When bars of iron are stretched until they break, those which are the strongest increase in length less than the weaker c nos. A piece of wood having the breadth and thickness of three inches, end the length of four feet, if snpporte i at its ends, would be bent one millionth of an inch by a a weight of three pounds placed to the center, and a weight of one-tenth of an ounce would bend it one-seven-millionth of an inch. Texas Cattle Disease. This malady has appeared in tiie west, and is exciting mnch dread among farmers. John Wentworth, it large breeder of short horns, near Chicago, writes to the Prairie Farmer : “ Farm ers want no such cattle brought into their neighborhood when there is no frost. I suffered much from tne disease in 1868. and I could not arrest its rav ages until a heavy frost came, and such is the experience of others. The trade in such cattle is very lucrative and is monopolized by a very few men, besides the owners of stock yards and ra llroads, affording great temptation to violate the law during the term covered by he pro hibition. i VOL. 15-NO. 43. SAYINGS AND DOINGS. They Lave discovered a substitute , for butter in Missouri. It is to put | molasses ou the table-clotb. The New York Pie-Baking company’s 1 factory, the krgest establishment of I the kind in the world, has an invested capital of §150,000. Have a piece ? i According to Miss Lillie Edgerton, 1 the chief end of man is “to serve God, keep out of the penitentiary, make good investments, and have a nne obituary.’ Brigham: Young’s physician feels of the old man’s pulse, tells him to run out his tongue and then shakes his head and remarks : “I dunno—l dun no.” Kate Field says she is conscious that “the man doesn't live who can boast that he has held her hand more than two or three seconds at a time.” No one to love. Sorrowing widow, go to Portugal. It is allowable there to marry after seven weeks of mourning, and we know of nothing more soothing to the lace rated heart than to—than to go to Por tugal. That was a beautiful thought of the poet that “ woman clings to a man like the ivy.” But is it always true ? How many baldheaded men can testify that no woman ever olnng to them like the ivy but what she let go like a grappling iron. Every fashionable women in Paris hangs to her belt an alms bag, a fan, a card-case, a pocket-book, an umbrella, a turnip- watch, a pin-cnshion, some ivory tablets and a little mirror. And the sons of women like these are expected to knock the noneen-e out of Germany some day. Three Highlanders sat by their toddy on a rainy day, and as an Englishman was present they indulged themselves in the idioms of his country. One said, j “ This is the best whisky I never tasted • any more.” The second said, “So did I neither.” The third ooncluded, “ Neither did I too.” Three Beasons. “A cup for hope!” she said. In spring-time, ere the bloom wal I; The crimson wine was poor and cold By her mouth'* richer red. “ A cup for love!” how low. How soft the word*; and all the white Her blush was rippling with a smile, Like summer after enow. *• A cup for memory!” Cold cup that, one must drain alone : While autumn winds are up and moan Across the barren sea. Hope, memory, love, Hope for fair morn, and love for day, And memory for the evening gray And solitary dove. Jerome Bonaparte, the second son of the deceased nephew of the great Napoleon, has been recently admitted to the bar at Baltimore, and his first plea was pronounced an admirable ef fort, full of promise of future distico , tion. He is described as a fine looking I young man of grave aspect, with an ad ; mirably formed head, and a face fall of intellectual expression. L Eternity is a solemn word and a sol emn world. The si ul of man shrinks back with dismay and dread from enter ing that mysterious abode of spirits. 1 And yet all are on their way to eternity, and mnst soon enter it, and enter it alone. But bow little think the gay and ! pleasure loving, who tread so near its dark shores, how soon they mnst launch away on that untried ocean. A Kansas lady, writing of a grasshop per visitation in Marshall connty, savs : “ Next day the cornfields looked like plantations of bayonets. They ate the tops of vegetables, then the roots, leav ing a hole in the ground, In the ab sence of other fruit, we have been counting greatly on the peaches ; the trees are stripped, only the stones left hanging on by the stems.” An American millionaire has given an order to Dresden for a dinner ser vice. It consists of eleven hundred pieces, into which fifty different shades and colors are introduced. The plates and dishes for each course are of differ ent pattern, and in the centre of each plate is an enameled landscape, and on each dish a oopy of some celebrated piece of statuary. The cost is §5,000 gold. Bunyan, the anther of “ Pilgrim’s Progress,” on being cast into prison, made a flute of one of the rails ot the stool belonging to his cell. The keeper often heard sweet music, but oould not trace it, as Banyan on his approach al ways replaced the rail in the stool. The officers searched in vain for the myste rious sounds, but Banyan kept his se cret, and the baffled men were forced to believe them supernatural. There is a large establishment at Kehl, opposite Strasburg, ou the Rhine, where artificial wine is made into which a grape never enters. In the valley of the Rhine and the Palatinate there are hundreds of similar manufactories where this imitation wine is made. The Rhenish and Alsatian wine-growers intend to urge the German R- ichstag to pass a stringent law against the adulteration and falsification of wines. Reports from seventeen cotton facto ries near Angusta have been received, which show that the whol • consumption of the seventeen mills during the past year to Aug. 31, was 19,381 bales of cotton. Daring the last quarter of the year they consumed 5,325 bales. Six of these mills ran to their fnll capacity, and eleven did not. Had all ran to their fnll capacity, they would have consumed 3,053 bales more than the above total indicates. Thought engenders thought. Place one idea upon paper—another will fol low it, and still another, until you have written a page. You cannot fathom your mind. There is a well of though there which has no bottom. The more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful will it be. If you neglect to think for yourself and use other people’s thoughts—giving them utterance only— you will never know what you are capa ble of. At first your ideas may come oat in lumps, homely and shapeless; but no matter, time and perseverance will arrange an polish them. Learn to think, and you will learn to write. The more you think, the better yon will ex press your ideas. It is a curious fact that Paris, with all its love of music and amusements, and its crowds of foreigners, can not support an opera—at least the state is always called npon to furnish subsidies in aid of the Laban and French operas, the Opera Comiqne, and the Lyrique, when it plays. But even with subsi dies, which have been cut down since ! the fall of the empire the business is not always a paying one. Thus, in 1860 he receipts of the Italiens reached 1,200,- i 000 francs, but the expenditure exeeed led them by over £17,000. The singers cost 700,000 francs, the dancers 337 000 francs, the orchestra 137 000 francs, and the other persons employed in the honse 168,000 francs. The way to get credit is to be punc tual ; the way to preserve it is net to use it much. Settle often; have short accounts. Trust no man’s appearance ; appearances are deceitful, perhaps as sumed for the purpose of obtaining credit. Beware of gaudy exteriors; rogues usually dress well. The rich are plain ; trust him, if aDy one, who car ries but little on his back. Never trust him who flies into a passion on being dunned, but make him pay quickly if there be any virtue in the law. When ever you meet a man who is ford of argument, yon will meet one profoundly [ ignorant of the operations cf the human I heart. Mind yonr own affairs. Let all | the errors yon see in others’ mauage j meat suggest correctness in your ovu.