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W ™ . ”in“t HALK,} E ‘ li,or - nud Proprietors. NEWS OF THE WEEK EAST. Udderzook was hanged at West Ches ter, Fa., on the 12tli inst. Ho made no confession. Just before the black cap was drawn over his face, he sai l to the attending clergyman : “ All I have to say is, I am a sin ner saved by grace and I am accepted of God.’ The managers of St. John’s Guild say that at least ten thousand men and women are out of employment in New York city, and that whole familes are without the necessities of life. Hundreds gather at the Guild doors daily clamoring for food, and the treasury of the Guild, even to its reserve fund, is ex hausted. WEST. The Detroit board of inspectors find that the propellor Brooklyn, which exploded a few weeks since, killing pome twenty people, was at the time carrying 100 pounds of steam, when her certificate allowed onl^fcO. A dispatch from Camp Sully, Indian Territory, dated November 7, tells a story of a fight on McClellan creek the previous day, botween twenty-eight men of the Bth cavalry under Captain H. F. Farnsworth, and one hundred Cheyennes. The United States troops lost one killed and four wounded. The Indians’ loss was fifteen killed. Over 30,000 people witnessed the great running race at San Francisco on the 1 tth inst. The contest was mainlv between Katie Pease and Thad Stevens, the former winning in two straight heats. Time, 7:4.1X, The friends of Thad Sthvous were greatly disappointed. On the first heat the horses got off well together. Thad Stevens took tlio first three miles, closely pushed by Katie Feaso. Tne last mile was won by the latter. Time, Stevens was held by his driver on the last mile, and came in about four lengths behind. After the first heat Alpha was withdrawn, lame. It was roported that Stevens also was lame. At the close of the second heat the race was the most exciting over witnessed there. Joe Daniels was dis tanced in the last heat. The field barely saved themselves. Henry was 2d, Hardwood 3d, Thad 4th, Hocking sth. Just before the race Katie Poaso sold at SI,OOO, Thad Stevens for $320, and the field for $320. The hackers of Thad Stevens were confident that, if he was nor shut out on the first heat, he would win the rare. Over SIOO,OOO changed hands on the result. There were many eastern turfmen on the ground, some of whom were betting on Thad Stevens. Tesi and twenty dollars were paid along the course for favor able positions for occupants of the carriages. The grounds presented a magnificent spec tacle, eclipsing that cf the groat running race of last year. Before the race, Katie Pease sold at 210 to 500 on Thad Stevens, Joe Daniels third choice. SOUTH. The health of Gen. John C. Breckin rilge does not improve. The yellow fever has disappeard from Charleston since the late cold weather. The New Orleans mint is being made roady for coining monov, if congress makes the necessary appropriation. Anew line of steamers has been es tablished in Baltimore, to trade between that port and Port Royal, South Carolina. An * ntire train of cars passed over M. Ij. Duke, machinist, at Dallas, Texaß, the other day. He was trying to climb the caboose. Little Rock claims to be the cradle of female education in Arkansas, because the first female college in the state has been opened there. A man at Huntington,'West Virginia, claims that, some strollers left with him the veritable Charlie JRoss, of Philadelphia, and demands $5,000 for him. T. T. Bracks, late president of the Merchants’ national bank of Petersburg, Va., is on trial on the charge of embezzling from throe to four hundred thousand dollars. The M obile and Montgomery railroad was sold last week by order of the chancery ciurt. It was bought by the first mortgage bondholders, for $3,022,000. This saves the state from all loss. E. S. Ramsey, of Helena, Arkansas, shot himself at the Worsham house, Memphis, Tenn., last week, the ball entering just below the heart, ir dieting a fatal wound. A tela gr im to his father t&ys : “ I have been driven fr in home, and, maddened, shall commit sui cide. God help mo iu the name of Jesus.” Lawrence Mathews, an old citizen of Overton county, Tennessee, was struck by lightning about noon on the 11th, and in stantly killed. He hid just finished his din ner and passed into an adjoining room. The lightning set fire to the liouso hut the family suoceoded in extinguishing it. A colored man named Gordon, living near Moarphis, was shot and killed by Dr. White, near Commerce, Mississippi, recently. Gordon had stolen a shot-gun from Dr. White, for which he had boen picking cotton. The doctor, attempting t,o regain the gun, was fired upon by Gordon, and, returning the fire, killed Gordon instantly. White was tried and ac quitted. At Salisbury, N, C., two negroes en tered the house of an'old man, supposed to have a large sum of money on hand, for the purp se of robbing him on the morning of the 12th inst., and when he refused to give up his money, one negro fired, the shot taking ef fect in the old man's mouth, hut glancing, made only a flesh wound. The old gentleman’s wife, aged 50, attacking the negro with a spade, the first blow penetrated his brain and killed him. FOREIGN. The government of Saxony has for bidden the practice of cremation. For eorne years past there has been an annual emigration of 30,000 persons from Italy. Garibaldi has been elected deputy to the Italian assembly from two separate dis tricts. The annual number of persons con victed of serious crimes in EQglaud shows a steady diminution. The Russian Government’has sent orders for the speedy completion of the for tress on the Khivan frontiers. Recent statistics show that the whole number of farmers in France is 7,333,259, of whom 5,875,945 are land proprietors. Although owning and controlling the land t< -jttanh, Sir Stafford Northcote says tbe Bri'iJPjjfoverument has no notion of in vesting in cables. A telegram from Paris says, the im pression there, in favorable to Don Carlos, is that his < ause is ut terly ruined and his situation hopeless. An order has been promulgated in Strasburg by the German authorities that henceforth infants must receive no names which do not appear in the German calendar. Marshal Bazaiue, who sailed from Southampton on the ninth instant, branded ,at Lisbon. It is understood]that his destina tion is Madrid, where he intends to reside as a private individual. The Glaloss says that the government has resolved to introduce a system of com pulsory elementary education. A trial is to be made at St. Petersburg of the Berlin sys tem, and it is thought that now schools will be opened by the 15th inst.j The latest advices from Khiva say there is compl-t anarchy there. The Turko mans refuse to obey the Khan, who summoned his council, which declared that the Kivan autonomy was a Action, and that the aid of Russia was indispensable. The loss of the Carlists in the en gagements near Iruu, were heavy. They suc ceeded in carrying off their guns. It is be lieved they will retreat to patella, The gov- THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS. eminent has received intelligence that Gen eral Lazenna has entered Iran. The results of the late international conference at Brussels form the subject of fresh negotiations between some of the gov ernments represented thereat. Russia asks that the conclusions of the conference be em bodied in a regular treaty between the nations whose representatives signed the agreement. Disraeli has been re-elected rector of the University of Glasgow, by 700 votes against 500 for Emerson. The conservative students protested against the election of Emerson because he was a foreigner, and the liberals against the choice of Disraeli because of the undue influence in his favor by the professors of the university. The Prussian court of Ratisbon re cently fined the archbishop of Olmutz, Austria, for illegally appointing priests in the Prussian part of his diocese. The Austrian govern ment refused to surrender the archbishop on the demand of the Prussian authorities for his extradition. The court lias accordingly issued a warrant against him, and confiscated all of his revenues and estates in Prussia. Liverpool is experimenting with a new cure for drunkenness. The plan sug gested by Mr. Gladstone, is to publish the names of those who were seen in public drank. Every Monday morning a list of the public drunkards is published in all the daily papers, giving the names and occupations of the transgressors in fud. Riots have recently occurred at sev eral points in Poland, on account of Ihe forci ble introduction, by lire ’government, of church reform and the appointment of priests by the imperial authority. The newly-ap pointed priests have been maltreated by mobs. The local governments, at the points of dis turbance, have been reinforced by troops from Warsaw and a number of rioters have been arrested. An unusually heavy earthquake was felt in Chili on the 26th ult., about twelve minutes after midnight. Its duration was about thirty seconds, and the direction from east to west. Much alarm’was caused in Val paraiso and Santiago. All the public clocks stopped, and the walls of some of the churches and houses were split. The shock was followed by an increase of the thermome ter of two and two-tonth degrees. Voseels at anchor felt it severely. During the week slight tremors were felt. The London Daily Telegram repeats the report of a Socialist conspiracy in Russia, and adds that three thousand persons, in eluding many ladies, have been arrested. A commission has been appointed to investigate the conspiracy, the', exact object of which is still unknown. Several persons of exalted rank are said to be implicated. A vast amount of money seems to have been at the disposal of the conspirators. The arrests since the discovery of the plot have been so numerous that a perfect reign of terror exists in St. Petersburg. It was proposed that the police should search every house in a single night. The Alsatians are grumbling more and more because their German rulers insist upon making thorn feel in every way that they are conquerors. At Strasburg it was lately ordered that newly born children must henceforth receive no names which do not ap pear in the German calendar. A citizen wished to name his daughter Blanche, but had to substitute Mathikle. Foruond, Carlos and Suzette have had to give way to Ferdinand, Karl and Susanna. The girls at school were in the habit of ornamenting their desks ac cording to their own fancies ; now they have to draw i heir figures and arrange their colors according to law. The Alsatians don’t like so much Germau in theirs, and are driven to an attitude of passive resistance. MISCELLANEOUS. The Evening Post says, if the Pacific mail steamship company do not give the tea and silk business to the Pacific railroads, the latter will arrange with a line of English steamers to China and Japan. The American express company’s messenger, on the Toronto branch of the Great Western railroad, was robbed last week by five masked robbers. The amount of money lost is supposed to he $12,000 or $15,000. .The solicitor of the treasury has formally demanded of tlio treasurer of the Union Pacific railroad company the five per cent, of the net earnings of the road from November, 1869, to October 31, 1874, making $1,040,056 to be paid within the next sixty days. The third assistant postmaster-gen eral. in liis annual report, estimates the pro portion of washed stamps used again in pay ment of postago at 5 per cent, of the value of all stamps sold each year, causing an an nual loss of a million dollars to the revenues of the department. Postmaster General Jewell emphati cally disclaims intending to recommend any ncroase in the present rates of postage. On the contrary, he thinks postago should be re. duced, whenever it should be found possible to materially diminish the expenditures for carrying the mails, without depriving the pub lic of existing futilities. m A Galveston News special from Brownsville, gives an account of a raid on Los Almos which causes some excitement. This decides the question as to 1 the existence of organized bands in Mexico to invade Texas. Los Almos is about one liundrc and miles from the Rio Grando. It has three or four stores and a good many inhabitants. Mr. McGovern, the custom-house master, is recently from Edinburg, and says that a party of raiders were in Hidalbo county about five days ago. They had bales of calico, etc., on their horsrs. They crossed the Rio Grande between Edin burg and Ringgold barracks, nearly a hundred miles below Guerro. They were from Mata moras and other towns on the lower Rio Grande, and not from Guerro. Ricardo Flora is stealing cotton from this side. More than two weeks since a herder of Celaya & Dona laya was captured by a band of robbers. They tied his hands behind him. his feet under his horse’s belly, and turned the horse 1 rose. After grazing around twelve hours, the horse went to a ranche and the poor man was re leased. The marauders collected the cattle and drove them into Mexico. This occurred about twelve miles south of Brownsville. Subterrantau Fisliss. In boring artesian wells in the desert of Sahara very small fishes, resembling the white-bait, not uufrequently occur, which inhabit the waters of the subter ranean bed of tbo desert. They are identical with a species from the waters of Biskra. The male differs from the female in being transversely barred, so that some authors have regarded it as a distinct species. The eyes are well formed, although these fishes live a part of the time in obsennty. It seems that as far back as 1849 the governor of the oases of Thebes and Gaibe, in Egypt, stated that an artesian well,-about- 105 feat deep, which ha had cleaned out, furnished for his table fishes which probably came from the Nile, as the sand which be had brought up from this artesian well was identical with that of this river. In the Sahara, as in Egypt, these fishes were carried away by the waters, which filtered away into the soil down to tha subterranean sheet into which the artesian wells opeD. Gervais claims to have established the fact that these subterranean fishe6 are essentially fl aviatile, and that some like them are found in the rivers of Senegal and Mo zambique, of Syria and Egypt, of the Iberian peninsula, and even America. Their fossil representatives are not found in deposits of marine origin, and all that we know occur iu lacustrine forma tions. The existence of these fishes can no', then, serve as an argument for the former presence of the waters of the Mediterranean on the soil of the north of Africa. — Harper'e. THE MOTHER’S CALL. BY MRS. CORNIE LAWS ST. JOHN. An afcPd mother, sitting in the twilight of an au tnmn evening, weeps at the thought that her chil dren, who have gone out from her home into the busy world, can reltirn to her no more in the sweet ness, purity, and beauty of youth. Come hack to my arms little children! Back through the fields brown and still, Where your footsteps went out in life’s morning, To the great world far over the hill. Come back o’e r the fields lying sodden And dim, in the chill autumn rain; For my starving heart waiteth to fold you To my bosom again and again.? The mist from the lowlands npriseth To the sad, starless fields of the sky; Come! for the pathway is fading, And the evening shades fast multiply. But bring your pure hearts of the morning, Lay down your dark burden of years, And come to me, only as children. With your child-hymns, and laughter, and tears. Come back from the world, straying children ! Pack in your innocence sweet, With the hand of vonr Maker yet on you, And the May flowers under your feet. My arms to the dim, faded meadows, a For your forms stretch in hungering quosr; Beturn, like the swallows of summer, Again to your desolate nest. Come back in your robes white and guiltless. Your dimple?, and soft shining hair— O, come in that marvelous beauty Which only the innocent wear. Dear circle of evanished faces! Turn back th rough the twilight of years, And gladden, with one blissful moment, These heavy eyes laden with tears. My empty arms fold but your shadows. And the path which your sinless feet wore, That cleft the sweet heart of the meadows, Dies ont in the mist of the moor. My motherhood’s crown drops its jewels, My bosom i inching and bare, Or your childhood I hold but one token, One tress of j onr bright baby-hair. THE KAISER FREDERICK. Virginia Peal was a clerk inf the great store of Pink & Plodding. She stood im the lace department, and displayed and measured till her little body ached every night. Pink k Plodding flour ished in a brick and plate-glass blccfe, kept a score or two of salespeople and runners, and draped all the fashionable world. Their spring and fall “op°n ings” disturbed square miles of feminine hearts (and purses), and in any season their counters were throfiged. Virginia thought herself fortunate at first to be taken into Pink A Plodding’s establish ment. But we are ungrateful beings who tire of our blessings. She came to the city a lone creature, with noth ing to advance her except a letter to the rector of St. Paul’s. The rector of St. Paul’s kindly recommended her to Mr. Plodding, who wanted a young woman behind his lace-counter just then, and Mr. Plodding took her. There she stood day a r ter day, spread ing fabrics, hunting unheard-of pat terns, and going through violent gym nastics for hurried customers, who, per haps, piled the counters with tangles up to their chins, and went away leav ing the shop girl nothing but trouble. She was not quite a pretty child ; she had a great deal of dark brown hair, and swift, dark eyes, and baby hands ; when she came to work in the morning she was flushed and fresh, as sleep and youth will make the heaviest laden of us all; but, as her day-sands slipped, so slipped her bloom till night drove her, haggard and old-faced, to her home less boarding-place. To be sure, she saw the world. It flowed constantly past her, loved to hurry and vex her, and shook its leisure, its plenteous hap piness and full purse, always in her face. Virginia had no companions among her fellow clerks. They consisted of fluffy young women and correctlv-got ten-np men. Girls who hnng variegated hair round their skulls, and who told you a thing was “ vur poorty,” or “ ehawming,” or “ delaightful.” Men of that cut-and-dry appearance which a life behind a counter gives a family mau. To be sure, above all stood Miss Blum, the cashier, v. hose mouth shut like an oyster-shell, and snapped so when it was forced to unclose that you wouldn’t pry at it often. But she was not of the lower earth, earthly. The girls dis liked Virginia ; they considered her an upstart; her reserved ways were “airs;” and, altogether, she wasn’t “ their style;” they snubbed her. The cut and-dry men were so occupied between the rushes of business and mental at tempts to stretch their salaries around the year that they forget this fatherless daughter in their midst. Mr. Plodding was a leathery old fel low, who worked his human machines hard, and looked well to their opera tions. The flesh and blood, and soul part of them, he had nothing to do with. Different wa3 Mr. Pink—that elegant being ! He wib a gentleman ; mercliant, whose father had set him up in busi ness, and who did the fast-horse driving of the establishment, leaving it to old Plodding to do the fast-bargain driving. Mr. Pink seldom entered the store, but he delighted in sending a flutter before him when he did enter. He scattered compliments, and silly, patronizing speeches, right and left. When Mr. Pink saw Virginia he fixed his eyes on her and promised to amuse himself with that little girl. But he never got on with her at all. Respectful towards him, yet she held herself so much above him that his boasted shots fell below her feet. The serene shop-girl declined flirtation with that fasekating being. She was so lonely. Her boarding place was a chill resort, where “board ers” were boxed in small rooms, fed sparingly and solemnly, and told the price of every article of food while it was between their teeth, by that severe winow, Mrs. Stump, who surveyed her victims from the head of a loDg table. Here, agaiD, people were negative to Virginia. Not many recreations were there for her. She seldom saw a play or heard music. A city in wealth of resources rolled around her, and she stood, like Tantalus, unable to command them, There was nothing for her, she told her self again and again, but to stand in that store, pay her earnings to the boarding-house keeper, and keep the tread-mill going till she died. Often this unhelped child grew des perate, and, when she came home of nights, she threw herself upon the floor, and beat her tired, bursting head against the wall. It was foolishness, to be sure, but- the foolishness of a human being in mental agony was what drew out the tenderest compassion from One who once sojourned on the earth. “If I had someone !” cried Virginia, “just somebody ! A friend !” It did not strike her to say lover. Lovers she might have found among the youths who frequented Mrs. Stamp’s, and looked upon Virginia with some favor, But in none of these could she find her friend. Many young girls have passed through snchi experi ence in a big, lonely city, and have taken the husk’ which chance threw them, or, worst of all, have been goaded by maddening heartache down the dark road of ruin. She was so young to be all forsaken and lost in the big world ! She wondered, bitterly, why she had been created at all! The gift of life comes to so many of us wrong side out. We pull it this way and that; but we shall find the design, the beauty and the glory of it, if we’re patient. Some are to find the meaning of life in love ; some in splendid work; and a happy few in heroic deeds reserved to them which will echo down the centuries. Never mind, Dearie-down-in-the-mud! Just pull away. You’re f ure to come out dry and high, if you keep a good heart and stiff lip. One night, as Viiginia leaned against the window, looking at the heavy sky, she heard a violin. The sound was famt; but, as she listened, it grew till it filled all her sense of bearing. It talked to her like an angel. Hex heart swelled. She leaned towards the darkness from which it spoke, strained after it. Its CARTERS VILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25. 1874. sweetness, its pathos, its compass can not be described. She took no thought of the hand upon it. She loved that violin. Through hours she listened, leaning over the window-sill, feeling the city’s breath in her face, but the breath of heaven in her heart. She thought about it all next day, and waited impatiently for the next evening. Night by night it talked to her, becom ing a part of her existence. If it ne glected her, she was restless and fretted. When it did its best, she paid it distant tribute by clapping her hands and whis pering in eestacy, “Oh, you darling old fiddle! I do love you ! You’ve got a soul! I wish it was a person! ’ She ofted added : “ I wish it could be a friend to me.” Suddenly the music stopped. She listened night after night, but all the hours were silent. “Jast like everything I take to lov ing !” cried Virginia, passionately. “I think I shall die!” wailed Vir ginia, in a woman’s intense undertone, as she drrgged through the dusk one evening. “I know I shall die if some thing don’t eomfort me pretty soon! Oh, I’d like to steal a baby ! Why isn’t some foundling dropped into my lap ? I shall forget all the pretty ways my own brother Jamie had before he died, and I shall just mummy, like Miss Blum. Oh, I wish a baby’d bo los f , and I’d find it! ” Midsummer-night, you know, is a night on which every wish spoken is granted. It being midsummer night, therefore at the next corner Virginia did find a lost baby. It was a quaint, pretty child, dressed in clothing of a foreign cut. One little shoe was on one little foot, but the other little shoe was clutched in fat hands. Frightened, but brave, was this baby; crying and quivering, but looking straight ahead, and mopping its face with its petticoats. “ What is it, dear?” asked Virginia, stooping to the little head. “ Papa !” said the child, bursting into a wail; “vo ist eh ?” “ She’s so frightened ! Are you lost?” “ Papa !” “ Come with me,” begered the girl, winning on the convulsed face, and get ting power over her wail. “You’ll come with me, won’t you !” She led it along. “ What’s your name.” “ Wooise !” “ Louise, is it ? Ah, she’s so tired ! Come up on my shoulders, pet; I’ll carry you.” She got Louise into her arms and flitted like a thief. She knew that to report her find at once to the police would be to have the child taken from her and placed in the station house. She would wait and send a message. So she flew past Mrs. Stump, who admitted her to a dark hall, and darted up stairs. Virginia opened the shutters, threw her hat from her, and sat down in a rocking-chair, snuggling the child. The child had large blue eyes, curly blonde and an unmistakable German face. She held Virginia’s neck with confi dence, and watched all Virginia’s mo tions with discerning eyes. “Louise!” cried the girl, and here she stopped to squeeze and kiss the child’s breath Jaalf away. “ Oh, it’s so long since Jamie went out of his sister’s arms. Oh, you bonnie darling ! Do you understand me when I talk ?’’ Louise shook her head and then nod ded it. She was learning two lan guages, and often Jgrew confused be tween the two. “Do you understand this?” Vir ginia framed the plump face with her hands and kissed it again. I Oa, love you so, baby!” “ Bist du mamma ?” inquired Louise, lifting an interrogating finger and plac ing it on Virginia’s chin. The girl laughed ont merrily. Her dismal little room echoed. That room was astonished ; to the sound of sob bing it was accustomed, but against laughter it set its ghastly face and lifted its ghostly voice. “No, I’ra not mamma,” replied Vir ginia, “but I’ll tell you who I am. Put your so. Now say ‘darling Jeanie!’ ” Louise made an effort to do as re quested, but these were two big words. She clucked at them, broke down, and stuck her tongue ont confusion. Virginia laughed again, and cuddled the little thing on her neck. “But where is mamma?” she asked; “who is mamma ? She’ll miss you, won’t she ?” “ Himmel!” uttered Louise with an effort, “gone!” “ Is she dead ?” low and tenderly. “Yah,” replied Louise, greatly re lieved at being comprehended, “gone dead.” “Laws sakes !” bawled Mrs. Stump, who made towels au excuse for march ing upon a citadal where she heard such unwonted sounds of reveliy. “ Whose young one is that? What on earth are you doing with it ?” “She was lost on the streets,” ex plained Virginia ; “ I found her.” “Lost a purpose, I expect. You’d better send her round to the station and have her owners looked up, if she’s got any. 1 ain’t going to feed no vagrants. “Don’i trouble yourself, madam!” fired up this sweet-tempered young wo man instantly. “ I know very well that feeding people is not your forte ; and, be assured, I shall take all proper steps for finding he ‘owners.’” Mrs. Stump opened her mouth like a howitzer, and was going to plump a telling ball, when the door-bell startled her back into her “ respectable board ing-house keeper” demeanor. She went down and answered the bell. Virginia’s thread of talk with Louise was broken ; she listened apprehensively to the voices below. “Lost, madam!” exclaimed a man’s voice, deep and full of foreign gu'ter als ; “ a little child. W’ile I been gone. Was gone tw i weeks. The nurse, she careless—she lets mine kind out of her eye—a man tells me she vas on this sthreet!” “ Papa !” fluttered Louise, pricking up her ears. “ Oh, papa !” Virginia carried her to the head of the stairs. She saw below an alert man, bronzed, but blue-eved and fair haired like his child, dressed in travel er’s gray, and holding a violin-case un der his arm. This he dropped as Louise reached her arms and screamed for him; he dashed up stairs, met them midway, and took the child out of Virginia’s arms. “I thought I had lost thae! Bless thee ! Ah. this fraulein has been kind to thee. Hast thanked her ?” “Yah, ich-ich habe sii gekuszt!” blundered baby, eagerly. “ That was well !” As he grew calm er his English came more smoothly. “Fraulein, belief me, I am grateful !” “It was nothing,” replied Virginia with filling eyes ; “ I hate to have von take her away ; there are no children here. I was so glad to find her.” “ Ach !” his face brightened like a sun fully unclouded. “ She shall come oft! Shall you not, Louise, and see the young lady who saved you from danger ou the street? We lodge just three squares—round the corner.” He felt eagerly in all his pockets, and final ly produced a ca and case, from which he took a card to present to Virginia. She read thereon, in German characters, “ Friederich Kaiser.” The rest she could not translate, but scented from it something about a professor and Mu nich. “ My name is Virginia Real,” sfye told him, timidly, feeling a little afraid of the professor and Munich. Frederick Kaiser lifted his hat with the arm not occupied with his little girl, and bowed with respect. “You have dons service to me, Miss Real. Can I do no little pleasure to you ? ’ “ I wonder,” murmured Virginia, “is it you whom I have beard playing on the violin so much? Oh, it was so beautiful! Iso much love to hear it!” Frederick Kaiser now hastened to get down stairs, to set his baby on her feet, and to take up his violin-case. “ Here he is ! Cremona ! I haf played him all my life. You love it, hah? Good ! You shall hear him oft. Shall I have the privilege to come and play him for you at your leisure?” He looked up enthusiastically to Virginia, who nestled on the steps, her lips pressed like a child’s. “ Oh, if you please ! Oh, I’ll be so glad !” she breathed, “Such doings!” muttered Mrs. Stump, who, having stepped out of the hall, had left the door ajar. “That man’s a widower, and I’ll bet she know ed it. I can see clear through it now— this pickin’ up babies on the straets and foundlin’ ’em !” “ I will come!” said Herr Kaiser, picking up daughter and violin, and bowing himself out of the street door. “ And the youngling shall come. Good day, fraulein.” According to his word he came. And having come once, he came again, evi dently enjoying the odor and sanotity of Mrs. Stump’s snuffy parlor. While Virginia held Louise he played all his favorite music, watching her ap preciative face with kindling eye. Some times, between his music-bursts, he told her about his early days, his Hei delburg life and student foot-tours, Louise’s mother, his dark days, his coming to America to better bad for tune, his playing in orchestras and teaching, while searching for a suitable position. Thus he formed ties with her, and surrounded her with Learty friend ship. Virginia knew her friends had come. Light luve may come and it may go ; men and women join hands every day, but few women find in those who woo them the perfectly responsive friend. From making formal calls with his collar set precisely, Louise and the vio lin in arms, he went on to running in with sudden and pretty pleasures for Virginia. Ho would take Louise and her to ride, that they might see some refreshing spot outside the dusty city. Or he tucked her under his arm and took her to concerts, where he placed her where he could see her from his chair ; and then he played, always turn ing his eager, boy-like face toward her for his triumphs. Perhaps on Sundays he called to take her with him to the church of father land, where he worshiped. Virginia sat in this place and crowded tears back. It was all so quaint and sweet, and like some memory of a life she must have lived on another pianet, it touched her with such a sense of at homeness. Thus Frederick Kai§er made her more and more his friend. “ Kaiser !” she once laughed softly to herself ; “ that’s emperor ! Frederick, emperor ! He a just splendid, and it suits him.” So, under her breath, she took to reversing his name, and calling him Kaiser Frederick. Said the Kaiser Frederick to Virginia one day, in the beginning of the au tumu, “ I am going away ! ” He told his plans. “ Ach ! thy face grows long. But it is on a business journey. See! A chair—a professorship—do they call him so ?—is maybe mine! I will go and see. Perhaps i shall come back with good tidings.” Virginia carried her life without him a week, she missed the Kaiser so; and cried once on her arms so empty of Louise—for he took the child with him. On Saturday night she came home from the store, glad to feel to-morrow’s rest meeting her. It was her birthday, but no one had celebrated it. She had given it little thonght herself. Mrs. Stump met her with a package she said had been left for Miss Real early in the afternoon, and which bore unmistakable marks of having been pried into. Within locked doors Virginia cut the cord, and found that the Kaiser blessed his little friend on her birthday, and begged her acceptance of this volume— his favorite Schiller. It was a nice birthday! thought Virginia. She did not feel too tired to dress for dinner, and to put a late rose in her hair. Just as gas was lighted, Mrs. Stump’s door-bell was nearly rooted oat of the basement. The Kaiser was at the door, and eager to see Miss Real. The moment Miss Real dawned upon his vision he flew out of his chair and ran to take her hands. “It is mine! lam now in good posi tion ! I will teach my art and German letters to an institution! Ach, you are glad! ” He stopped and studied her face. “Bat lam not until yon tell me you will go too. So good—so true ! I will take such care of thee—and thou shalt have Louise. Thou wast my friend—can’st trust me all?” “Would another be a better husband foi thee? ” continued the Kaiser, blanch ing at her hesitation. “Oh, no 1” replied Virginia, looking up shyly. “ I like you! ” sho admitted in her quiet, bashful way. “ How good that is 1 ’ cried the Kai ser, impriuting the betrothal kiss on her forehead. “Sweetheart, lam thy own! ” “And now I will bring my young ling?” So he dashed out of the house and returned in a few moments with Lonise under one arm and his violin case under the other. Virginia sat through hours that even ing (ah ! she remembered them all her life), holding Louise upon her bosom, listening to the violin, which uttered its masterpieces, and watching with indes cribable satisfaction that most satisfac tory man in the world—her Kaiser Frederick. Tlie Transit of Venus Expedition. The question may be asked why so much pains snould be taken to measure the distance of the sun, and whether it makes any difference to mankind what orbit Venus describes. Scientific in vestigators never inquire of what use knowledge is ; they leave its practical application to others. But a very little consideration will show that astronomy has, in a merely utilitarian wav, paid the world manifold for all the labor spent in learning it. Did it never oc cur to the reader that it is to Kelper, Newton, and their successors that we owe the means of navigating the ocean in safety? When a ship is out of eight of land there is no way of de termining her position except by obser vations of tne heavenly bodies. But observations could not be used for this purpose unless the laws of motion of those bodies had been discovered and taught by mathematicians and astrono mers. A striking example of this is fresh in the memory of all. A year and a half ago the spendid steamer City of Washington sailed on her usual voy age across the ooeau, but constant cloudy weather prevented observations to determine her position. In conse quence, she was wrecked on the coast of Nova Scotia, and the loss of more property than would pay for all the expenses of observing the transit of Venus paid the forfeit for failure to make the necessary observations. A large portion of the labors of astrono mers is devoted to fixing the positions of the stars and planets with continu ally increasing accuracy, and the ob servations we have been describing are one step in this work,— Harper’s, There is a good deal of sympathy felt .or the duke of Edinburg in eon seqneuce of a remark of his Maria, that if he had the heart of a man iu his bosom be wouldn’t expect her to sit up all night alone with a colicky baby. SARDINES. How They are Caught and Prepared for market. The sardine fishery, with all ita at tendant industrial activities, is one of the important business features of the coast of France. There are indica tions, however, that these toothsome little fish are either becoming scarce or else less easily caught than aforetime ; for the yield grows less every year, both in the aggregate Quantity obtained and the average caught per boat. The fish ery is prosecuted from April to Octo ber, and furnishes employment to some 20,000 sailors, with their 3,840 boats, on the water, and some 13,000 men, women and children on land, in preparing the fish for market. Every year shows a diminution in the catch and advance in the price. This is shown by a table, recently published, which gives the figures of the sardine fishery for the past thirty years, and exhibits the an nual decline in quantity caught and the corresponding advance in market price. Whereas, from 1840 to 1849, the aver age catch per boat was 835,600 fish, and i heir price about one dollar per 1,000, the catch last year averaged only 65,- 000 fish per boat, and the price has mounted up to some eight dollars and a half per 1,000 fi=b. It is, therefore, quite probable that, unless some change soon comes, sardines will take their place among epicurean rarities, and will command that peculiar respect which, while so numerously and cheap ly procured, they have failed to compel. The preparation of sardines for mar ket is quite an interesting performance, and is mostly done by women and chil dren who leave country homes to spend the “ sardine season” on the coast. These do all the handling c f the fish from the time they leave the boats un til they are ready to be finally soldered up in their boxes. They work ten hours a day, as a rule, and may do as much overwork as they choose, at from three to four and a half cents an hour. They usnally make sixteen hours a day’s work, and- as they are free to eat as many sardines as they want (although expected to “ find themselves” in all other respects), they generally manage to make enough during the sardine sea son to keep their families through the winter. They sleep in an outhouse of the shanty description, and supply their own beds and do all, their own house keeping. The condition precedent—“ first catch your fish ” —having been complied with, the sardines are taken to the workshop, where they are at once salted, which is done by throwing into each basket a few handfuls of rock salt, and shaking the basket so that the salt shall reach every fish. Then they are spread out npon tables covered with zinc and left there three or four hours, to allow all liquid to drain off. Next they are decapitated and deprived of their insides by means of sharp knives, which are made to operate with wonderfnl dexterity in the hands of these female and infantile experts. Washing with sea water is the next process, after which the fish are placed tails up, in a wire basket of 200 sardines capacity, which is hung up in the open air for several hours, until its contents are dried. Frying comes next in order, and this is done, not in their own fat, of which the fish have no su perabundance, but in the best kind of olive oil, in pans each just large enough to hold one of the wire baskets. Here they simmer in the boiling oil from five to ten minutes by testing they are found to be cooked. This testing con sists in taking out a fish and breaking it in two, when, if it is white and the backbone quickly detaches itself, the fish is considered cooked and the bas ket is taking from the pan. After cooking, the baskets of fish are taken away and hung just over a zinc table for three or four hours, where they drip until perfectly dry, and are then placed before the women who do the packing. This is the only handling they get after being stood up to dry as previously described. They are now taken ont of the baskets one by one and laid in the boxes, literally sardine fash ioD, and are overflowed with pure, fresh olive oil. As the fish absorb a portion of the oil, there is no stinting of the deluge they receive. The boxes then pass to the hands of the solderer, who operates with an iron kept hot by a gas burner “in its midst,” connected by a rubber tube with the gas pipes, and having befere him a table so arranged as to revolve and save time in manipu lating the boxep. The process of sold ering is swift and systematic, a single revolution of the iron completing the job. A final touch is the depositing of the boxes, 800 or 1,000 at once, in a vat, where they are made to boil ten or fif teen minutes. After this they are put away for a day or two in a room, in or der to see if any fermentation is likely to take place, and then they nre taken to a room knee-deep with saw-dust, whera a swarm of girls are ready to rub them with sawdust until all the oil is wiped off and the boxes are as bright as can be. Then they go to the packing room, and thereafter to the place ap pointed for all good sardines. The rerils of Csing.Paris Green. In a paper read before the American Academy of Science, last week, Prof. Le Conte expressed the following rather startling views : I call attention to the extensive use ef Paris or Schweinfurth green for destroy ing insects injurious to agriculture. Paris green is a mixture of arsenite and acetate of copper, and in the result of certain empirical experiments has been recommended as destructive to the Col orado potato beetle, and, in fact, as a univeisal remedy against injurious in sects which appear in masses. Now arsenic and copper are poisons which act with equal energy upon plants and animals. The material, though diffused upon the leaves of the plat ts to be pro tected, which are incapable of absorb ing it, is speedily carried into the soil, and if used annually it is merely a mat ter of time how mmy years will elapse before the soil is poisoned so as to pre vent the growth of all vegetation. The chemical possibilities which may result in the poisoning of the vegetation raised from the soil I will leave to be developed by my colleagues. I solemnly protest against the loose manner in which, on the recommendation of persons who have observed only the effects of these poisons upon the insect pests to which their attention has been directed, a most dangerous material has been placed in the hands of a large mass of uneducated men. The manufacture of this poison has increased to a fearful extent. A friend, residing in one of the great agri cultural centers of the west, writes that the druggists of his town order it by the ton. The ravages of the Colorado potato beetle, which has been the chief cause of the use of Paris green in agri culture, commenced in the west many years ago, and its extension at a regular rate was predicted by entomologists. The prediction has been verified almost to a year. Now, it was within the powir of the government, through a properly 1 organized scientific bureau for the protection of agriculture, to have the subject investigated by a com mission and recommend proper meas ures to be adopted. The use of metallic poisons would not be one of them, but human labor, properly compensated and intelligently employed, might have been one of the agents employed to avert a national calamity snch as has come upon ns. An interesting discussion followed the reading of this paper. All the members who took part in it approved Dr. Le Conte’s views as to the danger of using Paris green. Prof. Silliman had heard of several instances of loss of hnman life from carelessness in its use for kill ing cockroaches. Prof. Alexander said that there were well-established cases where its employment as a coloring matter, for wall paper, had resalted in poisoning persons who were affected after only half an hour spent in the rooms hnng with such paper. Dr. Mitchell referred to a number of cases of poisoning by this substance. It might be that the soil in whioh it was strewn imparted a poisoning influence to plants before refusing to yield its product, and that the plants so affected acted injuriously upon the human sys tem. Dr. Le Conte sharply criticised the agricultural bureau at Washington for failing to investigate this subject The use of strychnine in fields to kill crow? was referred to by another mem ber, who thought that this most inde scrutible of poisons might affect the vegetation. Spectra of the Planets. The German scientist, Herr Vogel, has been making a series of very inter esting researches in regard to the spec tra of the planets. He says : “ Mer cury he finds to give a spectrum m'osl in accordance with that of the sun, and that some bands which are produced by the action of our atmosphere belong to that planet. Venus likewise shows bands like those of our atmosphere. In Uranus numerous lines of the solar spectrum are recognizable, but in the least refrangible parts are a few bands which are like the absorption bands of oui atmosphere, and which indicate the presence of water vapor in considerable quantity. In the red of the Mars spec trum, between lines C and B, are bands apparently occasioned by the planet’s atmosphere, but which are too faint to be measured with accuracy. The plane toid Vesta gave a weak spectrum, with a liue identified with Fraunhofer’s line F, and two bauds, one corresponding with position of C-line of solar spec trum and the other with a telluric group. So far as an opinion may be formed of an object so difficult, Vesta may be presumed to be surrounded with its atmosphere. Flora gave a weak con tinuous spectrum, in which the colors could scarcely be distinguished. Jupi ter’s spectrum lines correspond for the most part with those of the sun, out show certain special bands, particularly in the most refrangible parts ; a dark band in the red being very noticeable. There are also lines and bands like those of the earth’s atmosphere. The gaseous envelope of Jupiter acts on the sun-' light like our atmosphere, and the pres ence of water vapor may be concluded. The band in red indicates the presence of something not in our atmosphere,'or perhaps a different mixture, but with the different pressure and temperature belonging to Jupiter, a different absorp tive spectrum would be obtained. The dark parts of Jupitor do not give a dis tiot spectrum, but indicate greater in fluence, as if they were situated deep in the planet’s atmosphere. Saturn, be sides showing a certain correspondence with the solar spectrum, exhibits special bands in the red and orange, which cor respond with our telluric bands, except one intense band where the wave length is 618.2 mill. Mm. The blue and violet rays suffer similar absorption in passing through the Saturnian atmos phere, which is especially noticeable in the speotrnm of the dark equatorial belts. The Saturn spectrum corres ponds most completely with that of Ju piter ; the ring spectrum is faint, and the characteristic band in the red is wanting, or feebly seen, from which it would appear that the ring has either no atmosphere or one of small height and destiny. The spectrum of Uranus was found too weak for easy recognition of Fraunhofer’s lines, but Herr Vogel gives several wave lengths as indicating the position of banks, and considers the presence of an atmosphere to be estab lished. One band (wave length 618 mill. Mm.) fairly coincides with similar bands in Jupiter and Saturn. The faint spectraobtained from Neptune was characterized by one dark absorp tion band, and it is probably identical with the spectrum of Uranus.” Treasurer Spinner’s Report. Treasurer Spinner’s annual statement shows that the receipts for the year, ending June 30, 1874, show a decrease, compared with the previous year, in customs, caused by the panic, of $24,- 985,689, and in internal revenue, occa sioned by recent changes in the law, of $11,335,529. The expenditures, exclu sive of those on account of the public debt, have been decreased $1,869,652. Commendable, he says, as this retrench ment is, it is believed it will bo still greater at the end of the current year. Spinner says the labor required in his office has increased. The reduction in the number of female employes, and the reduction of the salaries of those remaining, under the act of congress at last session, has been a source of incon venience to the department, and of dis tress to poor widows and children. The treasurer asks legislation to re strain the issue of circulating notes other than are authorized by acts of congress, making the same a misde meanor, punishable by fine or impriron ment, or both. This evil is mainly at the south, in some localities of which almost the only circulating medium consists of local issues by mnnicipali t es and manufacturing companies. He suggests an amendment to the law, attaching a penalty for non-pav ment within the prescribed term of the amount due from any national bank, of an additional sum at the rate of one per cent, per month, upon the amount due and unpaid, the same to be retained from the next interest due on its stock held in trust for the redemption of the circulating notes. As to nation *1 bank note redemption, he thinks no further delay will occur, though the redemption agency is still without sufficient help. Notice will soon be sent to the banks advising them of the amounts charged to their re demption fund to reimburse the treasu ry for the charges for transportation and cost of assorting notes. The charges will be in proportion to the number of notes redeemed rather than their value. It is also recommended that the comptroller of the currency, with the concurrence of the secretary of the treasury, be empowered to appoint a special agent to examine the affairs of hanks neglecting to keep up their 5 per cent, redemption fund, and on his re port, if warranted, to place such banks in the hands of a receiver. Electricity Tor Toothache. A Paris journal states that Dr. Bou chard, of that city, finds the use of elec trioity very efficient in cases of severe toothache, a perfect cure, even where the teeth are greatly decayed, being not unfrequently obtained, and tempo rary relief almost invariably ensuing. In numerous instances, where allevia tion at first was of short duration, the effect became more and more marked, and lasted longer as the treatment was repeated. The method pursued by Dr. Bouchard in applying the electricity is to place the positive pole of the current on the cheek opposite the diseased tooth and the negative upon the antero lateral portion of the neck, and to avoid ulcerations the electrodes are made very large, and their place frequently changed. The application is continued about half an hour, a 1 though relief is frequently experienced in ten to fifteen minutes. A battery of about tec ele meots is used. DARING ROBBERY. A Sate Full o* Money Stolen Bef>re the Watchman'! Kyes. Cincinnati Enquirer, Nov. 16. One of the Ixildest and most im indent robberries of these times of brazei/crime was perpeti ated at the office of the American express oompany in this city yesterday afternoon, in the full blaze of day, and iu part right under the eyes of the unsuspecting day watchman of that office. During the afternoon a man by the name of James Munrce, an ex messenger of the American exprei s com pany, was in the office conversin g with the day watchman. Daring this time a stranger of good address, who seemed to know the messenger, came in and en gaged in conversation. He took a “ shine” to the watchmaD, and soon en gaged him in marking for cigars, in the meantime engaging him in convei sation —in short., entertaining and aimsing him more than strangers are w >nt to do. He grew upon the day watchman, and in marking for the cigars enjoyed a run of luck that was remarkable. The fates were against the watchman, but the pleasant company of the stranger compensated for his ill run of luck. After a considerable’season of enjoy ment their amusement was intermp ted by the arrival of an express wagon oont aining two men, who alighted and brought in a trunk, which 4hey said they war ted to send off by express. The watchman ceased marking for cigars and attended to the trunk. This done, the pi ;asant stranger proposed that the watchman should go across the street and get he cigars. He assented and went, leaving the agreeable stranger, the expres 3 mes senger and the two newly arrived men in the office. What transpired during his absence he did not, of oonrse, see ; but it be came very apparent before the time for the Chicago train to start out last even ing. Wnat they did was to transfer the messenger’s iron safe, filled and locked for the Chicago run, containing from $40,000 to $50,000, intc the old trunks and shut it up. When the watchman jeturned he found that the ex-messenger had left, and that his friend who blandly took his cigars and the two other strangers were waiting. The two proprietor of the trunk told him that they had trade a mistake, that the American was not the office they wanted, it was the Ad ams, and immediately picked up the trunk, lugged it into the express and drove away, the winner of the cigars taking his departure at the same t me. When the time to gather up for the Chicago run came around there was a commotion in that office. The whole thing became as luminous as the foun tain of light to the troubled and cha grined watchman. The officers of the company gathered up all the detectives in the city, and sent them out to thtow, if possible, the toils around the robbers. George Black, one of the men who carried the trunk out, and the son of a lawyer in this city, has been arrested. The trunk that contained the chest was carried out right before the office watch man and two of the Metropolitan police who happened to be in the office at the time. It is now stated on good author ity that this same trick was attempted in that office without success. The Altitude at Which Man Can Live. There has been a great deal of dis cussion, says Chambers’ Journal, as to the altitude at which human beings can exist, and Mr. Glaisher himself can tell us as much about it as anybody. In July, 1872, he and Mr. Coxwell as cended in a balloon to the enormous height of 38,000 feet. Previous to the start Mr. Glaisher’s pluse stood at sev enty-six beats a minute, Coxwell’s at seventy-four. At 17,000 feet the ptlse of the former was at eightv-four, that of the Latter at one hundred. At 19,000 feet Glaisher’s hands and lips were quite blue, but not his face. At 21,000 feet he heard his heart beating, and his breathing became oppressed ; at 29,000 feet ho became senseless; notwithsta ld ing which the aeronaut, in the interest of science, went np another 8,000 fr et, till he could no longer raise his hands, and had to pull the strings of the valve with his teeth. Aeronauts who have to make no exertions have, of course, a great advantage over members of :he Alpine club and those who trust their legs; even at 13,000 feet, these climb ers feel very uncomfortable, more so on the Alps, it seems, than elsewhere. At the monastery of St. Bernard, 8,117 feet high, the monks become asthma ;ic, and are compelled frequently to descend into the valley of the Rhone for —any- thing but a breath of fresh air ; and at the end of ten years’ service are obliged to give up tiirir high living end come down to their usual level. At -lie same time in South America there ire towns, such as Potosi, placed as higt as Mount Blanc, the inhabitants of wh ch feel no inconvenience. The highest in habited spot in the world is, however, the Buddhist cloister of Hanle, in Thibet, where twenty-one priests 1 ve at an altitude of 16,000 feet. The brothers Schlsginsweit, when they ex plored the glaciers of the Ibi Gamin in the same country, encamped at 21,(00 feet, the highest altitude at which a European ever passed the night. Even at the top of Mont Blanc Professor Tyndall’s guides found it very nnplesis ant to do this, though the professor himself did not confess to feeling so bad as they. The highest mountain in the world is Mount Everest (Himalaya), 29,003 feet, and the oondor has bean seen “ winging the blue air,” 500 feet higher. The air, by-the-by, is nit “bine,” or else, as De Saussure pointed out, “ the distant mountains which are covered with snow would appear blue also,” its apparent color being due to the reflection of light. What light cm do and does is marvelons ; and not the least is its power of attraction to hu manity. Condition of the Iron Trade. The latent reports of the iron moul ders’ onion thus summarize the present condition of their trade: New Yoi k city very dull. At Troy, Albany, Rochester, Syracuse, Peekskill. Hud son, Brooklyn. Little Falls, Auburn, Dunkirk and Utica, very dull and no prospects of improvement. In Phila delphia, Pittsburg and Meadville, “not good,” and “no improvement,” is tbe report. At New Haven and Norwich the report is, “trade poor.” All the Ohio branches —Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, and elsewhere—the report in, “trade very dull,” and “was never worse.” From Indianapolis, Louisville and St, Louis it is, “ very bad,” “no work,” and “ trade dull.” At Detroit, Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Grand Rapids, Bay City, Bacine, it is, “ dull” and “trade poor.” From Chicago, Peoiie and Springfield, the report, “only tol erable,” and a “ great many idle.’ From all the southern unions—Balti more, Richmond, Chattanooga, Mem phis, Wheeling, Savannah, Columbus, (Ga.,) Water Valley, (Miss.,) Mobile and Peteisburg, the reports are “very dull,” “trade slow,” “uo work,” ’’tired of feeding and lodging tramp* in search of work,” “trade slack,” etc. So also from Salt. Lake City and Vir ginia City the same comes. In a few places the trade is reported as fair, and in a very few as good, but in all cases moulders are warned against risking the expense of a trip to these places, as there is no prospect of steady improve ment. London, it is estimated, has 150 rail way stations within her limitß. Seven hundred trains daily pass the Clapham Junction, and a single railway, the Me tropolitan, carried last year 43,000,000 passengers. VOL. 15-NO. 48, SAYINGS AND DOINGS. Thebe is never a scarcity of the small potato crop. Where to go when short of money— go to work. The Japanese make a strong string of pap>er, and we have seen a very good oord of wood —but not lately. When a man saves his cigar money to bny his wife a new bonnet and the chi dren new shoes, it indicates a sp>ell of sunshine. Mr. Smibkins says he has been mar ried sixteen years, and all the income they have had to live on has been in come-patibiiity. Olive Logan pjoises a rolling-pin on the end of her thumb and demands to know who first uttered that expression, “Logan’s man Sykes.” Poltoamt cannot be very unpopular ameng the woman of Utah, when 10,000 of them vote'to sustain it, as they did at the last congressional e’ection. The prevalent superstition that to spill salt is unlucky, arises from the well known legend that Judas, the be trayer, spilled the salt at the “lastsup per. Girls, as you value your lives, don’t get up and get breakfast in the morn ing. A young lady attempted it one day last week, and was burned to death. Show this to’your mothers. Ecbope is discussing the oelebration of one more centennial. This is the centennial of the px>tato, or of its in troduction to European tables. Al though the potato, went to Europe much more than a hundred years ago, its introduction to the table of Louis XVL, by Parmertier, in 1774, is the date counted as the beginning of its history beyond the water. Charles H. Webb, one of the most amnsing men on the planet, dedicates his forthcoming book “To the Bald headed, that noble and shining Army of Martyrs.” Entertaining the idea that “ loss of hair is caused by loss of sleep,” be offers them his books as an intellect ual ptoppy, believing (to nse his own words) that in its wake shall follow “tired nature’s hair restorer, balmy sleep!” The police boundaries of London cover 576 square miles and a population of 4,000,000 inhabitants. Here are gathered more Jews than there are in Palestine, more Scotch than there are in Edinburgh, more Irish than there are in Dublin, more Roman Catholics than there are in Rome, and there is a great variety in the languages spoken. There is a birth in London every five minntes, and a death every eight min utes. Pity the poor Celestials. They are to learn French after Ollendorf’s sys tem ; and so now, no doubt, the young Mongolians are studying in their Ollen dorf’s snch passages as this : “ Have yon the old horse of vonr dead grand mother?” “No, I have not the old horse of my dead grandmother, but I have the small squirrel of my old step father.” As “ Ollendorf” seems based npon the principle of using phraseL chiefly to be met with in insane asy lums, we presume the above is a fair specimen of the exercises ‘‘boned” by young John Chinaman. England’s marriage statistics have been analyzed to show the probabilities of marriage for women at different ages. Supposing the sum of a woman’s chan oes of marriage to be one hundred, she exhansts between the ages of fifteen and twenty years, fourteen and a half chances. If she lives unmarried from twenty to twenty-five, fifty-two more of her chances have vanished into thin air. If she remains unmarried for five more years, she will turn thirty with only fif teen and a half chances ont of her hun dred left. After thirty-five, she has eleven and a half chances, and at this point the statistician gave up his calcu lation, except that he assures ns that after a woman has lived unmarried sixty years she still has the tenth of a chance of getting married out of the hundred with which she is snppiosed to have started life. Gray Eyes. The gray eye is peculiar to the eye of women. And here we meet with a va riety enough to puzzle Solomon him self. We will pass over in silence the sharp, the shrewdish, the spiteful, the cold and the wild gray eye ; every one has seen them—too ofteD, perhaps. But then, again, there are others beau tiful enough to drive one wild, and it is only them which we mean. There is the dark, sleepy, almond-shapjed gray eye, with long' black lashes—-it goes with the rarest face on earth —that Sultana-like beauty of jet-black hair, and a complexion that is neither dark nor fair—almost a cream color, if the trnth must be told—and soft and rich a8 the leaf of the calla Ethiopian itself. Directly opposite to this is the calm, clean, gray eye—the eye that reasons, when this only feels. It looks you quietly in the face ; it views you kindly, but, alas ! disappointedly ; passion rare ly lights it, and love takes the steady blaze of friendship, when he tries to hide within. The owner of that eye is upright, conscientious, and pitying his fellow-men, even while at a loss to un derstand their vagaries. It is the eye for a kind and t considerate physician, and for a conscientious lawyer (if such a man there be), for a worthy village pastor, for a friend as faithful as any hnman being can be. Last of the gray eyes comes the most mischievous; a soft eye with a large pupil, that contracts and dilates with a word, a thought, or a flash of feeling ; an eye that laughs, that sighs almost, that has its sunlight, its moonbeams, and its storms; a wonderful eye, that wins you whether yon would or not, and holds yon even after it has cast you off. No matter whether the faoe be fair or not, no matter if the features are irreg ular and complexion varying, the eye holds yon captive, and then laughs at your chains. The Boys in Bed. Whoever has lifted the curtains of boys’ alcoves, soon after their inmates have gone to bed, and has looked lov ingly in, has seen a pretty sight. Gen erally their faces are laying most rest fully, with hand under cheek, and in many cases look strangely younger than when awake, and often very infan tile, as if some trick of older expression, which they had been taught to wear by day, had been dropped the moment the young ambitions will has lost control. The lids lie shut over bright, busy eyes; the air is gently and evenly fanned by ooming and going breaths; there is a little crooked mound in the bed ; along the bed’s foot, or on a chair beside, are the day clothes, sometimes neatly folded, sometimes hnddled off in a hurry; bulging with balls, or, in the lesser fellows, marbles; stained with the earth of many fields where wood chuck have been trapped, or perhaps torn with the roughness of trees on which squirrels have been sought; per haps wet and mired with the smooth black or gray mud from marshes, or the oozy banks of streams, where musk rats have been tracked. Under the bed’s foot lies the shoes—one on its side - with the gray and white socks, now creased and soiled, thrown across them ; and there, in their little cells, squared in the great mass of night, heedless how tbe earth whirls away with them or how the world goes, who is thinking of them or what is doing at home, the bnsitet pieople in the world are resting for tbe morrow, —Ixnvcll s Anatomy Blade,"