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The Advertiser. Published eyeyy Thursday by X). 33. I'’ RKTSAf A N . OLD SERIES-VOL. YII-NO. 2. CEDARTOWN, GAJ, MARCH 25, 18S0. Terms: 01.50 per annum, in advance. NEW SERIES—VOL. II-XO. 15. BY THI STREAM. Sweet tangled banks, where ox-eyod daistea grow And scarlet poppies fd.ani; Sweet changing lights that ever come and go Upon the quiet stream! v* ' Once more I pee the flesh of iplendid wings, As dragon flies flit by; Once more for me the small nerlge warbler sings .Beneath a sapphire sky. . Once more I fefel the simple fiesh content I found in stream and soil When golden summers slowly came and went And mine was all their spoil. I lind amid the honeysuckle flowers. And shy forget-me-not, Old boyish memories of lonely Lours, Passed in tins silent spot. Oh. God of natuie, how fcLy kindness keeps e Some changeless things on earth! And he who roams far off and toils and weeps, Comes home to learn their worth. • Gay visions vanish, worldly Bchemes may fail, Hope proves an idle dream, But still the Lloseoma flourish, red and pale. Beside my native stream. A Municipal Nosegay. A royal visit was promised to Mistbo rough, and when the notification to that effect reached the mayor, he summoned the town council to deliberate in the usual way on the sort of festivities that should be pro vided. The occasion of the royal visR was to be the unveiling of a statue erected to Alderman Nobuddy, a departed worthy of the town, and the council soon agreed to furnish a banquet, it-procession with volun teer bande, an adress on illuminated vel lum, and some speeches. Then came the question of gifts. A large album full of photographic views of Mistborough .seemed the most appropriate present; and, of course, there would have to be a bouquet. But who should tender this last offering ? Mr. Mayor Wheeker happened to be the only unmarried member of the corporation, wherefore Alderman Gabbs, who was a facetious fellow aud the father of three buxom daughters, said ’jestingly: “I vote that Wheeker be appointed to select the 1 your goings o act for me, Mrs. Bulberry,” said the mayor, fjpjpjincr as if a weight had been taken off his istyulders. • “Well, We will see about it. I don’t say yes or no, for the present,” replied the Colonel’s wife, nodding pleasantly, and she rushed off, leaving Mistborough’s Mayor ,ra,th<£j: 9p^rwhelmed by a sense of her con- descenwbD. 2 As a matter of fact Mrs. Bulbenrv had her own reasons for acting as adroitly as she had done. Independently of her ambi tion, to be the prettiest person in Mistbo rough. she much desired to^btain a post under, government for her husband, and thought this object might be attained if she could lean for a whole day on the arm of a royal prince and enlist his interest in her behalf by her sweet and plausible chatter. There was uot a better talker in all Mistbo- rough and the whole eountrj r around than Mrs. Bulberry, who, according to her ad mirers, could have charmed a bird out of a tree, op. who, as. her detractors avouched, was equal to fooling a pig out of a potato. So while* Mr. Wheeker was blessing him self at having been extrica|pd from a di lemma, Mrs. j3ulberry-weiit home in tri- urupli ;• but there a&ettef heHiusband. who was not pleased to regard her achievement with favor. Colonel Bulberry was one of those men who can never be brought to see all?at once what is good for them. Ife al ways allowed himself be led in the end; but, before submitting to the guidance.hepibbed. shied and brayed like the most ob3tin&te of four-footed animals. In the present in stance he declared, with a • si rin'ding of oaths which he was much given to employ ing in domestic conversation, that he wodld not, b/George, allow his wife to make a blanked guy of herself in the company of cheesemongering aldermen, blanked if he would. Mrs. Bulberry, who was elated by the results of her diplomacy, answered im patiently by requesting her lord and master not to make a fool of himself. But thte was a fajse move,^forit-neat'off the Colonel in a toivering passion' to mow up Mr. Mayor Wheeker, whose blank nose, he said, he would tweak in the public streets. “1 say, sir*” cried he, accosting this in offensive dignitary,, whom he met taking an afternoon walk in the sunshine. “J say, I’m uot going to let it be said that you’re spoony on my wife.” “I Colonel?” replied the mayor, aston ished and uneasy. “Yes, lir, you’re a bachelor, and a gay dog by all accounts; don’t deny it, tor with the sex are matters of Physical Aspects of the Moon. . . . iUorman Pfthhn i vfmmnvu gentlemen, residents of Waterloo. We College color—Their origin said'he cheery voice °f AldermanGa ^ V ... .r . proceeded through the outer opening to the: , . ., , \\ hat s the mayor been telling_you,, e * WO nderful c*>e*4as beddj di*6v»ed ! main artery and along it to the point where i In looking over college colors one is Is as n ] an >* hold, an extinguished star, 8eems 2? jSTflv with a in ^Pennsylvania, *boUt threaUeurthi of a ! it was first entered. Here is one of the most in-1 rather puzzled that thare is no college with dead aild cold > uninhabited and unmhabita- use of bis vo.ee, answered Da.sy, j ^ t0 g* i e£t ^ t owiird Me^Sde old terestiug things I saw. The mud and loose sufficient patriotism to have adopted the j We. <*nrmffno other pm^se^ timn^to for. sbrusr and a reproacliful look'. , rough’s chief magistrate; who. having fin- ■ Franklin and Mercer road i9hed his first sandwich, was dolefully ■ mile and a quarter Xrnigi v commencing another. i Lake Shores and Michigan ******** “2 1 : “Well, we shall liave to speak for him ! road, Franklin division, near the beautifu then!” proceeded Gabbs, with a wink that j little hamlet of Waterloo; omsetract of J*nd made the girl blush. “We are going to elect j owned by Mr* riam'9$h R- you our Queen of Beauty, Miss Daisy.” ;Jives OQ a f^no uiAhp viemity,- . . f “Oh!” exclaimed Daisy, turning scarlet ] Qn Christmas a party ofcojU miners from red this time. “And when is the royal the mines at Stoneboro, who were having visit to be, Mr. Gabbs?” : a jolly time in the-village, heard of this “Not till three months from now, so j wonderful place, and one of them who Bad there’ll he plefcty of time for you and WO rked in some of the deepest minefftin Wheeker to get talking together about the ! England, laughed at the fears of the rustics bookey.” j and proposed to go and explore it- They “And my opinion is that when you pre- j procured ropes and ladders, and, with a sent the bookey you had better be intro- j few tools anil tlieir miners’ lamps, set put duced to the Princess as Mrs. Wheeker,” |f OJE . the spot. Arriving-on the-ground two opined Puttison. . j of the miners, Jack Henderson and David “It would sound more proper, certain- 1 Davis, made one end of a sucker-rod line, ly,” was all that the bashful mayor could^about five hundred feet long, fast about find to say. their waists, leaving a .space of a few feet “Ah, you are all making fun of me, I between them, and with their tools and suspect,” said Daisy; but her hand trem- l i rtm pg and a supply of oil; started down bled just' a little as she poured out the sher ry with which the gallant town councilors proceeded to drink her health. One lias only to add that it was Mrs. Wheeker who presented the bouquet, but that Mrs. Bulberry, not to be outdone, pre sented another on her own account, got the incline. They proceeded in this way for about two hundred feet in a southerly direction and downward, at an angle.of forty-five degrees, through 'a crooked and very rough passage, whep they came tq^aii obstruction caused by the great number of twmlders which had been thrown in from stones having been removed, a flight of j national colors as its own, and might sup- J nis * t0 eart jj■* M hat are the fac* s, steps are found to have been cut in the pose that red having been discarded, ! 88 far as known ? VV hen we look at the rock, with a raise of about ten inches to the’ Columbia has made use of the blue and j full Moon with the naked eye, we see^that step, connecting with the passage above, j white; but this is not the origin, as we shall These steps are worn in the centre to a; show. Columbia is one of the few col- depth of at least three inches—assuming leges whose colors have a literary origin, * * ” ‘ ,m "~ which is just what should be the origin of that they were originally straight. This would indicate their long use, and suggests the idea that this may have been used for ingress and egress after the mouth was closed up. On either side of this stairway, and eight feet four inches apart, are two columns of stone neatly dressed, and from appearances placed there as supports to the roof. They are each about four by 8ix*feet. All the supports or pillars I saw there were of hewn stone—nowhere has any evidence of timbers been found. Nu merous blocks of hewn stone can be seen scattered through the various parts of the mine, some of them half buried in the everything pertaining to college or college life. In the spring of 1852 (according to the tradition related by the oldest inhabit ant), the two literary societies of Columbia —the Peithologian and the Philolexian— decided to give a joint entertainment in the college and eclipse all other entertainments of a similar nature. Neither wishing to yield to the other the “honor of the flag” which had been bequeathed to them by the founders, and by so doing, to sink its own individuality, and finding that for badges aud tickets all four colors would be too much, a compromise was decided upon, the paste-like bottom. At the intersection of j result of which was that the gold and sil- the main portions these walls or pillais are seen in all the parts I visited. The only tools or implements of any kind found are a number of curious-shapeu wedges made of a metal which, if it is not, closely re sembles copper and is very hard. They are eighteen inches in length and two and a-half .inches in diameter and rounded at the head, flattened toward the centre to Dearly four inches in width, and tapering to a wedge about one-and-a-half inches broad At the small end. ver were discarded, and the blue and white retained. The effect was found to be so good, and the want of a definite color be came at this time so evident, that it was decided to adopt these as the colors of Columbia, and as such they have been ac cepted without question by class after class. For badges and ornamental emblems the blue and white have been merged into the more conventionai blue and silver. The prettiest gill in Mist borough, and she shall trive the bookey.” “I don’t see wliat prettiest has to do with sffcli a matter,’’ remonstrated Alderman Scruffle, a virtuous but morose person, who was the father of four plain virgins. “Well, Wheeker shall select the ugliest girl in the town then,” said the funny Alderman Gabbs, and be winked, laughing at all his brother councilors, one of whom suggested, however, that his worship’s choice be not limited to damsels. “Let us give Wheeker carte Blanchesaid he; “if he 'pitches upon a pretty or an ugly married woman, rather than upon a girl let him have ids own way. He is a fine judge of the sex, is Wheeker.” “What makes you think that, Puttison?” asked the Mayor mildly, for he was a pla cid buil^ut a map, wlio lmd no vory Euan eye for jokes. “Why, because you’ve remained single, ” responded Puttison, amid general merri ment. “Oh, but they say, Wheeker is a bit sweet on the voung woman who sits public notoriety. But I won’t have you dangling after Mrs. Bulberry, mind that.” “Really, Colonel, I don’t understand. Mrs. Bulberry was good enough to say that she would uot mind presenting the bouquet to her Royal Highness, and I thought ” “You thought she was setting her cap at you ; -is that what you was going to say ? Well, I admire your cheek, I do,” bluster ed the Colonel, retreating a step or two, as if to take a better survey of the mayor, who certainly looked no Adonis. “Well, Mr. Saucebox, remember that my name’s Bulberry, and I stand no blanked non sense from anybody. Just get your pas try-cook girl, to give your bouquet; she'll do very well for such work, but my wife won’t. Gojd day to you.” hour’s talk with the Prince, and obtained j above, and were about to give up and *re- his interest on behalf of her husband, who , turn -when they discovered that the gentle was soon afterward sent off to the antipodes j curre nt of air still pressed the flame of their as a colonial governor, while his clfever j j am p 8 in the direction of the surface and wife stayed at lipme* Thus .pacified, the j concluded to make an effort to remove the colonel did not cut off * the Vim m all the*| ^b S ( riictTon 1 , After considerable delay and town councilors and thread them on a string, j labor, they found that a passage still eon- but he -remained uqahakablo in his opinion \ tinned, but raised abruptly for about sixteen that Mr. Wheeker wa^ttgayirtog, too nmgh Heet, ami which had, made^he tmrrier to forward with the sex, and ha Jtold Mrs. the progress of the bouklerethrown in frem Wheeker so at the corporation dinner, jabove. Davis then returned and pr^ec^ccl where, by-tUe-by t lie got tipsy. i a ladder, and was accompanied by several ■ | more of the party, who had* now becolne care of A»hes. | Iioldef. With the assistance df the laii^er, j f u ‘ rt i ier investigation may bring many j the following, presents fewest inaccuracies, (they passed up over a bank or wall of rpc<v j more curiosities to light. Everything visi-! probably arising from the fact of its being ignteen feet high, 8n<l bl e goes to show the great antiquity of the | not quite so fanciful in its nature as most she is not of uniform brightness. Some parts appear less bright than others. Look ed at through a good telescope she presents a wonderful aud imposing sight. The darker spots resolve themselves into valleys or extensive plains; the brighter spots into lofty mountains projecting their sliadows far into the plains below. There are rings of mountains, surrounding wide plains, from the centre of which often shoots up a lofty peak ; we can not only look on them, but into some of them, for they are hollow from top to bottom. One of the finest of these ring mountains with its inclosed cra ter is the spot called Tycho. This moun tain is about 12,000 feet high; the crater is fifty miles wide, and its depth 17,000 feet, the bottom of the crater being about 5,000 feet below the surface of the plain. All over the disk of the Moon are scattered singularly formed cavities, some of them as much as forty miles wide and four miles deep. Her surface indeed presents a scene of wild confusion and terrific ruggedness, differing vastly r in this respect from our planet. More than a thousand of her moun tains have been measured and many of them named, such as Newton, Tycho, Co pernicus, etc., and it is a curious fact that her surface was known before that of our earth, and her mountains measured before colors of Princeton are not, as is often er- wuau oulttll Four of these roneously supposed to be the case, black wedges liave-been found in all, one in the land orange, but orange alone, the black i^ ie same thing was done for our own. One debris at the foot of the stairway and three \ having been added merely for the sake of ^ ll \ esc ? r . ater? ; °^ n ^ d _ n . ne ; at the fall of the coal at the extremity of | contrast, as the orange alone v/ould be too one of the chambers, driven half their | garish. To touch bottom in the traditional length into the coal near the top of the i wells and arrive at the truth in this matter, vein. Two of these have been picked out, is of sufficient interest to pay for the diffi- by the miners aud the other still remains culty. There are many unauthenticated where the mysterious hands that drove it | stories afloat touching the origin of the left off their labors. No other tools of any colors, and even ot the connection of the description have so far been discovered, j college with William of OraDge; of these, NEWS- IN BRIEF. In the disposition of ashes, at least two - r eighteen points should be kept in nurnt, safety and j ffluBd thernHe i V es in a long, irregu(^r- cleanlincss. If the ashes are from wood, I sh . d room ()r spaC e, fifty feet wide aj. iiie no sifting is necessary. They should, “ i widest pomt and at places less than twerfty- possible, be removed from the stove only : 8ye £e( ., wid and upW arda of 150 feet when cold, that no live coals may be in ^ iB which llung an( j glistened count- them. In case tins can not be done, great , le8a ^taWgmitic formations of every imagi- eare should be taken that no tire is dropped ; nabl( , ska aud size . The roof an d sides outlie floor, and in all cases a deep iron | are i; mes , one . The most wonderful thlug pail should he used; with a closely titling | about t , te whole matter wa9 t he finding of cover. Wood ashes should never be put in | a quantity of bituminous coal on one side ble goes to show the great antiquity of the i not quite place. As to who the miners were, or the j of the others. When Belcher, Governor of lapse of time since the work was done, it | the province of New .Tersey at that day, re- is. simply conjecture. The surface of the issued the charter of the college in 1748, he mountain and the country on that side of' named the town and college partly in mem- Big Sandy for several miles would indicate j ory of the House of Orange-Nassau (a to the most casual observer that it had junior branch of the house of Nassau iu- never been occupied since the country has j herited Orange), which conferred many been known to Europeans, the surface material benefits upon himself and his being rough and rocky. What is now sup-; family, and partly from purely patriotic | off from the illuminated part of the disk posed to be the same coal vein, about six | motives, as the name of the great Stadhal- i that there^ts little or no atmosphere on the —We sent last year to Europe 1,500, 000 hides. —The Katahdin irou works have never been so busy as now. —The State of Kentucky paid $10,600 bounty for fox scalps last year. —Palmetto paper manufacturing in Florida Is pronounced a success. —Over a thousand men are chopping logs in the vicinity of Pittsburg, N. H. —it is said there are 40,000.000 acres of public lands in California yet unsur veyed. —Cannes mourns for the Czarina, who spent $2,580,000 during her stay there. —The coal fields ol Alabama are esti mated to contain 52,000,000,000 bushels of coal. —Seven machines in Pittsburg, Pa , produced, last year over 1,065,245 kegs of nails. —Steam and horse ral'roads in this country require 100,000 men to labor on Sunday. —Ohio has a school population of 1,043,320, o! w hom 734,657 are enrolled scholars. —A factory in Oshkosh, Wis., cut up 2,000,800 feet of lumber into matches last year. —There has been no issue of silver five cent and copper two cent pieces since 1872. —Broelon, Mass., shoe shipments are almost four times as great as they were a year ago. —The combined length of the new the locality of an observed phenomenon: railroads projected for 1880 will he which seems to confirm the opinion of j 11.000 miles. Herschel given in 1787, that active volca-j —The militia forces of the United noes still exist on the lunar surface. In | states are put at 117,000 men with October and November of the former year i s,SG9 officers. Linue was obscured by “a whitish, lumi- j —Large quantities of land have been nous cloud,’’which disappeared in Decern-! leased in Potter county Pa., to put her and left the crater distinctly visible down test oil wells. again. The omission of this crater from the maps of Schroettcr and the globes of ltussell, made in 1797, lead to the inference that it had been previously obscured. The latest observations indicate that the old crater has been partly filled up by an erup tion from below. The volcanoes in the Moon, same ori both must once have been blazing stars. It is evident from the absence of sliadiu. —The Penobscot lumbermen antici pate a better business in the spring than for many years past. —Mrs. Chisholm has been promoted to a clerkship in the Treasury Depart ment, with a salary of $1200. —Adelina Patti is reported to have active or extinct, probably had the: been paid $1,009 a night during her en- rigin as those on earth, proving that gagemeiit at Pesth; Xicolini, $690. th'enumber ofTsteucTi ™'fires "that’Tave | irregular-shaped room and ^ of TheTe? i.i^ been ^0"^' for | TeT had been“assodated wiflTthe j Moon, and as tlie-e are no clouds there can resulted from a disregard of this caution is- eviderdl 5 T had been conveyed several years. Several oil wells, without I cause ol freedom, and was, on that accouut j be no water. lienee it follows that the noftSte from 8 °“ e otha : ^ ** u ° C ° al ! success, have been drilled along the stream j greatly esteemedand talked of at a time Moon is uninhabitable by beings like our- visfole^ hra tapin'^l aniter The i^thi 0111 aD y where ln the CaVe ’ “» 1 ? gr<up above and below, hut they were all tinted when the word “liberty” roused every selves. But. does not follow hat it may « Sr which a fragment of live TOal 1 tbe debris a ce , rt ‘ Ur ! T'. f al a9 ! ieS ", i below the level of the coal. Limestone I patriot to action. The selection of the j not he inhabited by intelligent creatures no Varverthan anea wffil keen alive wS 1 burDt eb,y ‘ DCheS thM ? C T? ^ ! has been quarried in several places, hut to j color, orange, was then merely a matter of with organs adapted to their circumstances. " w^7wUl?waSi lhffi <Ss ^ “i 81 a P*? re 9 ,ured 1n ‘ OVU | no great depth. | analogy (aureatum, golden), having no To draw such an inference would be to ’ 0 1 - I the deposit. At the extremity of this room, . One eminent gentleman, Prof. Rugby, of connection with William of Orange. The ‘ quesUon that Divine wisdom, so admirably Allegheny College, has already visited the 1 color chosen by Cornell University has a displayed in the construction of our own nlace and carried away interesting speci-1 very fanciful origin. Founded recently by world and its inhabitants. Assuming there thing astonishing; it has been known to . ( , ,, away from it at ’ right a, gles, last thus for da\s. A pit of stone or brick, wag found another passage or fissure in the and fire-proof, should he provided for keep.- j Bmeirocfc down the sides of which water ing ashes in a convenient, secluded place a , u . ickle( , and extending about fifty or sixty short distance from the house. \\ fill these J f(jet U) the r £ llt hand wilh a gradual precautious there is little danger of thestf ^ ownward slope wUt .n they came to En tires which, When left unheeded, are not her stoppin g place. This time it proved rare m town and country. Besides, ashes t ^ on j y a dozcn {ee , downward, and the are worth twenty-five rents1 a bushel,jmd | ^ hdped them t0 safe footing again. This proved to be another immense are far too valuable to be thrown away. Coal ashes, though not so valuable, should Poor Mr. Wheeker gasped in wonder as j he properly provided for, on tbe ground of me TruchTeirsxvnsmmcTCOT swung on his i neatness, ir for no other reason.' Nothing heel. 11c doubted whether the Colonel was sober. As for the valiant Bulberry, he strode home ; but, as often happened to him, his valor began to ooze away as lie behind neared tllc conjugal dwelling. He felt the counter at Jamme’s the pastry cook’s,” replied Alderman Gabbs with a new wink. “What's her name, Wheeker? Out with it ? she’s too pretty to be ashamed of.” “I really don’t know what you mean,” said poor Wheeker, reddening up to the ridge of his ears. “Oh, we mean Daisy Belfast, who nods . to you every time you pass up High street, ” said Puttison greatly enjoying the mayor s discomfiture. “Why Wheeker, I’ve seen you eating bath-buns at Jamme’s shop at least three times within the past week, and we know' you cant bear pastry, for you never eat any when you uine with one of Unfortunately for Mr. W heeker, it soon trot to be known in the town that lie had been deputed to act as an arbiter pulchera- rura; and many ladies, both single and married, began to pay tlieir courts to him with a view r to being selected for presenting the bouquet. Mr. Wheeker soon began to think that it would be more prudent to offer twenty nosegays to tbe Royal Princess instead of one, in order that nobody might be offended; but bis opinion was not shared by the town council. The mayor was ^exhorted with a pertinacity, half-se rious, half-comical, to do his duty in choos ing the fittest; and he failed to get any as sistance from his brother Councilors, for .each of them, b«ing maryied, felt some de licacy m recommending a lady from inside his family circle or outside of it. There was another roar at this, and Mr. Wheeker looked as guilty as a tom-cat who had been caught near a cream jug. But, in a sum, this mayor was such a good fel low that his brethren were loth to press their jokes too bard on him. Every man, except the morose Scruffle, slapped him on the back in passing out, and bade him do his best in selecting a young .’ady who should do honor to Mistborough. Mr. Wheeker groaned inwardly, for he much disliked this task, which laid upon him a larger responsibility than lie ever cared to assume spontaneously in liis public or private relations. If he could have fur tively voted as to who was the loveliest re presentative of girlhood in Mistborough, he would certainly have given his suffrage to Miss Daisy Belfast; but after this unseemly jesting about the girl he did not dare. Be sides, Mr. Wheeker had not yet made up his mind as to whether he would care to marry Miss Belfast, and he was also by no means sure of that j'oung lady’s sentiments towards himself. In the midst of these perplexities Mr. Wheeker was one Sunday accosted, as he was coming out of church, by Mrs. Bul berry, the comely wife of Colonel Bulberry, a retired military Tartar. This lady was just past the prime of life—say thirty-five —and very vivacious, and the more eager to assert her fascinations, as her looking-glass told her they were on the wane. Rustling through the porch, where Mr. Wheeker was striding in his scarlet robe, and preced ed by his mace bearer (for the mayor used to go to church in state on the first Sunday of each month), Mrs. Bulberry said, with a smile which showed all her pretty teeth: “WqII, Mr. Mayor, have you chosen your Queen of Beauty yet ?” “I almost think I see her before me," answered Mr. Wheeker, stammering a clumsy compliment, to Mrs. Bulberry, with her smart attire, pink cheeks, and sparkling eyes, looking undeniably pretty. * “You’re joking, I suppose,” retorted the lady. “If you want me to give the bou- duet to tli£ piincess it must be a very nice one.” “Oh. it'sball be!” protested the Mayor. “And you must let me play a chief part in all the festivities—receive your guests for you, and all _that — otherwise there would be no fun fn the thing, you know. As you’re a bachelor, you must have a lady to act for you.” “I should feel much obliged if you would that he had put his foot into it. Swagger as he would, he was no match for his wife in tongue warfare: and, presently, when he had to confess what lit? had done, Madam flew into one of those fine rages which make a man wish that he could strike a hole through the floor with his heel and vanish through it. In the upshot the colonel might have been seen on the mor row looking very sheepish as he wended his way toward the town hall, to seek out the mayor and offer him a kind apology. He was quite alive now, poor wretch, to the service which his wife wished to render him m presenting flowers to the princess of the blood. But, to Colonel Bulberry's mortification, Mr. Wheeker had already informed the town council of his previous day’s adven ture ; and it was unanimously decided that the mayor had received an affront which must preclude the Bulberries from taking any part in the municipal festivities, even as guests at the banquet. Tiie mayor, sit ting in his official room at the town hall, conveyed this to the coionel as delicately as possible, and added a propitiatory assurance X, °r barrel, ruimm over in ] brougllt from tbe surface, but were of the j spirit, elaborated ii se nm )e sown r aCt , *•! opinion that it had been brought there from , kittle people, is , w tne snow or grounu, 10 ue s plac(j in the cave —perhaps further jts subtle presence may readily be detected | of the whole vintage, not to speak of the | G f this stran more distressing than to see, as is too of ten the case, a pan of coal ashes in onj place and a box, or barrel, another. These the winds on the snow or ground, tracked into the house at every step. Coal, that is, hard coal, is rarely burned so com pletely that it will not pay to sift the ashes to save the unburned coal contained in them. When the clinkers are picked out of the sifted portion it is quite as valuable as fresh coal. There are various sifters, which allow the sifting to be done without dust, and if the ashes are sifted daily, the task is easy. Coal ashes are of almost no value as manure, but they are useful on heavy soils, just as sand would be to lighten them; they make excellent paths and roads | room, somewhat in the form of a huge let- Sfcr S, very irregular, with *>of5 end ■ and higher than the other. Here more coal was again found. All were impressed place anil carried away interesting speci-1 very fanciful origin. Founded recently by . . ~ mens. Specimens of the stalagmite have j Cornell and named after its founder, the I I° re that the Moon is mliubitated, we will been carried all over the neighborhood, and ! college has through its name given birth to i close gl ance at . 4 m _ the a fine collection are on exhibition in the the adjective cornellian. By some odd j Moon. What a magnificient point from mistake the year-book dropped the final l I which to observe the heavens 1 As there in the name, making it cornelian. The j } s 110 atmosphere, there is no sky. Space The .'vierticai Ant. ! great similarity in sound between cornelian i 9 a blank abyss. As there is no water, and corneleian for cornelian, a species of * l iere i s no vapor, and no cloudy canopy village store. Besides the necessary organs for preserv- * onyx (carneus, fleshy), was the very evi- ever obscures the starry heavens. In the ing all the functions of the body in healthy i dent reason which prompted the adoption ! daytime, as in, the night, are seen stars, gSrereiwp, wc find the am provide*' with s {he co | or cccuelian by ibn University, j shining.points set in Intense bag of irritant spirituous liquor, which at f ; blackness. Tift sun passes am&ngMhem „ pleasure it can eject, to the great annoy-i About champagne. | without extinguishing their light Around with the idea that this coal had not been ; ;l nce of intruders upon its privacy. This i ’ j us eternal silence reigns: no sound is ever ' 1 -• the secret distillery of ! We Americans drink so much champagne . heard; no gentle breeze is ever felt; no called their formic acid, j —it is said that they consume nearly halt j rushing tempest ever awakens the echoes w ^ 4 r w w the whole vintage, not to speak of the , 0 f this strange world. No rain ever falls, down. r So they proceeded to prosecute the j by its peculiar though agreeable perfume, j many imitation which go by the name— ! n0 sunset or twilight tints are ever seen, all ch and at length discovered another i jf the head be held over a nest of Formica I that it may almost be called the national j things are either black or wfflite. according a. precipice, dow*n which they clambered for about twenty feet, and found themselves in a long, narrow tunnel, apparently with- rnjuls 1 out end * ©ither wav. The bottom of this when mi‘xed‘w.Tu eaTth" while"for foe'earth- i ^ closet they are as useful as dried earth. I stlck J' mud >. almost l.ke_ putt}. search and at length discovered anotneri ... . „ passage or split in the rock, near the taper ' rl ,f a which has been disturbed, it will be j drink, at least of the well-to do classes. a3 they are in the light or shadow. As we end of the 8, which led downward, much I immediately appreciated, though it will be [ As not a few of us may never have tasted - only set one side of the Moon, it follows like the opening at the surface, only much j f ound exceedingly difficult to maintain the j the genuine wine, it may be of interest to that only one side of this body sees us. So larger. After pursuing this, which led ; same position loDg with any comfort, so; know something about it historically. As that those who live on the hemisphere through a small room, about forty yards, : P owerful is the emanation. This formic early as the end of the fifth century St. turned from us—if any do live there—must they came sudenly to a halt at tbe edge ot ; ac j ( I has been utilized for the purpose of i Kemi, reputed to be the first Christian King journey into tLe other hemisphere, some of ’ alleviating human pain in the preparation of France, owned large vineyards at Kheims them as far as 1,500 miles, m order to see of chloroform, as the name would tell us, ; and Laou. Toward the middle of the ninth ; t h e ir Moon, our earth. And what a raagnifi- and it is also used in photography. The \ century Bishop Pardulus, of Laon, is men- cen t spectacle the earth must present to . ’ anr j°3 216 i’reight cars, formic acid is sometimes most annoying to j tioned as advising Archbishop Hinemar to the lunarians, through their long night of “ ‘ ’ ‘ the human family, as was the experience ■ take the wine of Epernay tor digestion, fifteen times twenty-four hours duration, of a modern'Gulliver while on his journey j Nobles and princes quailed the juice of the ' Tj xed forever in their sky, appearing to through Norway with a knapsack. Being! grape raised in the Province of Champagne | t h e m fourteen times larger than their globe The end | to the left, it was thought, would lead to —The total coinage of the mints dur ing January reached $9,578,509, of which $2,450,000 were silver dollars. —The late Mr. Buckle determined never to marry until heiiad an income of $15,000 a year. He never married. —The returns by counties where the chief distress exists in Ireland show the number of the sufferers to be 312,370. —The sea is to the land, in round millions of square miles, as one hun dred aud sixty to forty, or as lour to one. —The firstgas ever exhibited in New York was from a lamp erected by the old gas company in 1823, in Franklin Square. —in the Pennsylvania oil region the past month there were 320 wells com pleted, giving a production of 4,800 barrels. —Gov. Holliday, of Virginia, has re fused 5$ie petition to commit the sen tence ®f John E; F&tndexter to one year in jail. —Everybody who ascends Bunker Hill monument counts the steps—295. The ascensions yielded $2,880 in fees during the past year. —A sale by auction #f a tract of land fifty-one by thirty eight miles in area, in Kansas, Is to be made to satisfy a mortgage of $5,000,000. —Mrs. Zaehariah Chandler has been very ill since the death of 1 er hu-band, but is now recovering. Her daughter, Mrs. Hale, is still with her. —The rolling stock of the Union Pa- eifie railroad consists of 179 locomo tives, 166 passenger, baggage and sleep- tlie surface or side of the hill, evidently not overtaken by the shades of night, and wa-; for generations, but it was more like Bur- does us an( j shining with extraordinary —The Commissioners of Allegheny county. Pa., have called for the pay ment of the money subscribed to pay the Pennsylvania Railroad claims. —There were five Sundays in Febru- ri« portineiit. . Terv £ar a ho ve th e level of the stream. in ! ried with his day’s exertions, he stroved to j gundy, having no sparkle, than the chain - 1 s p lendor, she revolves on her axis every . ~ , . , nails pared, and keep paired the * valley The other end led in the oppo-1 find respose within the precincts of a hay pagne of to day. Indeed,_ this wine proper twerty-fonr hours, showing them her conti-1 8 jT> 1824, in reontary, teas, anu^ Keep your yourself. mockery, | nearly below the first room explored, jhimse . _ Toe out, not in. Especially if you are I U11( j e rneath the body of the mountain. A i his effort. The little people, among other | the first person who is identified—it was in u iat t h e }i ()0n presents to the earth. They an employer, you would better turn out | f llr (fi er investigation showed that coal tribes of animated creatures, made his body- 1088—with champagne of our kind. He^g i ier a3 a silver crescent; slowly she f ““' I’onJs \ cropped out all along the line of the canal the object of tlieir attention, which their | was a jolly monk, and the abbey over which passes — w Sk,i n n,rt»r «nrt thmnrfi J. -- ic&pusc w 11 ill u tuc Jticuupto VI c* uaj I J * 1 * * mcnj-ivui uvuio, ouv..»u 6 * | g-.".' i o->, i TIlP npYt fi ..p Sundav Single blessedness is an empty gite directidn and across the line of and | bam. He tried to sleep, and thus refresh was not created until the latter part of the nenlSj se as and islands in perpetual pano- j not n2.r V.nti 19*0 elf for the morrow’s labors. In vain j seventeenth century. Dom Penguon was rama . She exhibits to them the same phases *eoiu<t»v noiotui “ * - • ~ — —The annual blessing of the Neva took place at St. Petersburg on the ISth vour feet than vour hands. ! cropped out all along the line of the canal 1 the object of tlieir attention, which their j was a jolly monk, and the abbey over which passes on t0 her first quarter and through of January, the Emperor and his Keep your face cleanly shaved, and stop , or Eides o{ the cavern, and after a careful I enterprising disposition led them to explore,: he presided depended for revenue upon tbe her gibbous phase to full earth; she again household attetiu ng tne ceremony. there. Don’t shave your customers. examination and measurement the whole by crawling under his clothes and a'l about, tithes awarded by the vinegrowers of the becomes gibbous, and soon again to a cres- —Anson D. Stephenson, a clerk in Don’t talk with your mouth filled with spaC8 appeared to have been filled with his skin. He adds: “Iff had ever doubted: district. He made the earliest experiments, cent . a nd now, before she disappears eu- ; Boston, on several occasionsiDeirienueu . . . food. And there is no call foi your talking : . oal w hi c h had been removed, and the the theory of their irritant acid perspiration, and finally discovered the eiler vescing liq- t j re ] y from our view, we will hasten back a young lady w ho lias ju.-t died ieavm Q of his own that he did not feel offended; ( muc h un der normal conditions. perpendicular sides, which were gray with j this night’scxperience must have convinced ; uid, which he relished greatly. Marquis to hc r, and hid the Moon “Good-night.” MiStephenson property vaiu.u at * u,- Tf a je, left standing. Masses of the fime-jme.” The acid perspiration, instead of de Silleri improved upon the monk’s achieve- — uu0 - stone rock had fallen in several places, | being annoying, is sometimes most benefi- \ ments, and introduced the delicious wine at; A , tis Telephone, over which the party struggled with diffi-! cial to the lords of the creation, for in some many feasts, where it was poured out by cu ty. After proceeding about one bun- cases of sickness its irritant properties act; handsome young women attired as baccha- , , . . . , . ! fh Y j_ cr rear ‘and seven^v-three Indian - --- ’ ’ ’ ’ as a restorative. I have been told by a i nals. At Kheim, near where Dom Per.gnon ; The biggest telephonic invention yet is , tbre6 friend of a well authenticated instance. A i was inspired to make the delicious drink, being hatched by a man lnYorttState^ It renenl Robert E LeehasaDewin missionary in the tropics was interrupted in [ is the largest champagne establishment m a plan for constant td^homc j ^Atex-andria, uai, made but upon this the colonel, as haste to lose his temper. “By George, sir,” cried lie, “am I being trifled with? You first ask my wife to do you a kindness, aud bow you tell me that you are going to put us both in disgrace. Who cares for your disgusting dinner. I should like to know ?” “1—I did not mean to say anything of fensive, ' Colonel, ”■ said the meek mayor, but I understood you to say yesterday that—” ‘ Youarealwaysmisunderstandirglhings, I am blanked if I ever saw such a man for making mischief. 1 suppose you’ll tell me now that my wife is not pretty enougli to act as a flower girl ?” Oh, what an idea' I am sure everybody who has seen Mrs. Bulberry will admit—” None of your blanked compliments,” roaied the colonel. “You’ve a great deal too muc.i soft patter about you to please me. My last word to you is that if my wife docs you the honor to accept the pro posal you made, and if you venture to put a slight upon her, you and your fellow soup swillers in the town council shall give me the reason why, or I’m blanked if I don’t cut off all your ears and thread them on a piece of string for my dog to play with—there!” This terrible threat was not without its effect on Sir. Wheeker, who cowered, and witnessed the gallant officer's exit with the same relief as if he had been a snarling bull-dog. Presently, when the coast seemed clear, Mr. Wheeker sailed forth in quest of his friends, Gabb and Puttison, hut lie could not find them, and so he turned into the shop of Jamme, the pastry cook, under the pretext of taking luncheon, but really to comfort himself a little in tiie society of Miss Daisy Belfast, whose bright, eyes had flashed through the window. Keep your clothing well brushed. If you have no brush, tell your wife how you long for your mother's cookery, and you will have one instanter. See that your collar button is secure be fore you leave home in the morning. Else you will find your choler rising before night. When talking, don't keep fumbling your face as though you were fingering a musi cal instrument. Don’t walk the streets with your cane or umbrella thrust under your arm at right angles with your hotly. The policeman may take you for a cross and take you up. Don’t interrupt a person in liis talk. The natural limit of a man’s life is threescore years and ten, and he can’t go on forever. Never put your knife in your mouth. The mouth is a very poor place to keep a knife in. Apt to make it rusty. Don’t tuck your napkin under your shirt collar. The waiter may think you would steal it. Never say “I won’t,” even if it be your wont to feel that way. Old Cmirches in England. It is a curious fact—a fact which differ ent readers will be disposed to account for in different ways, blit still a fact—that the old, original, Calvinistic churches in this old historical portion of New England are almost all now in the hands of that denomi nation which is furthest removed, in faith, from the early Calvinistic Congregational ism of New England. Not only is the first church in Plymouth Unitarian, and the first church in Dorchester, Unitarian, and the first church in Boston, Unitarian, but when we come to the ancient county of Essex, we find the following oldest 000. —One hundred and thirty Indians were confirmed by Bishop Hare, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, during dred yards from the point where, the coal drift was struck, a measurement showed the vein of coal to be eight feet three inches in thickness, and the walls more clearly defined and regular, At this point remains of masonry were found, and the tunnel or drift divided and ran in different directions. To the right hand seemed the most desirable route aud it was explored first. This room or cham ber is plentifully nung with stalagmite, of his dauntless labors for his Master by a t France. In one vast sub cellar are depos- with countless boils. He was lying help less and aloDe in his hammock, when, be hold, myriads of ants of ferocious aspect approached him, as he thought and feared, with deadly intent. They came nearer and nearer, surrounding him, and swarmed all ner is pienmuuy nung w.m - over ,/je body . but instead of keeping him the most beautiful de “ n P‘ 1 °“ 1 ! down, as the inhabitants of Lilllput did which have been formed y ^ ~ P : Lemuel Gulliver, they assisted him to rise, through the^limestone < for mi n^ for, after anointing the prostrate sufferer Beautiful formations, as if cemen.ea | , dangerous illness, which prostrated him J ited 1,000,000 bottles of the raw wine, and ’ * ' ’ 1 in an other part of the town are some 3,- 000,000 bottles. The wine is treated most delicately, and thousands of men, women and children, very carefully trained, * are employed in the process, to complete which requires three years. The French and English think that champagne grows better another opinion—that the fresher it is, the past. Beautiful formations, as n cemen.ea j wilb a Dro{use gU pply of tlieir irritant acid, more delicious. The cellars in which the into the walls, in many places appear.^ • w j ncb proved to be a remedy suited to his A Sea Visitor. churches in the following oldest settle- Said Miss Daisy coldly to the mayor, as j ments now supporting Unitarian preaching, she helped him to a glass of sherry and a We give them with tne dates of their origin: sandwich; “What’s this I hear, Mr. j First Church, Salem, 1629; First^ Church, would be impossible to describethevarfous ! ^ IGthimspeedUy to tunungs and directions m which the mine• | and assunle h is happy work with for mme it is, has been worked, but all of itude t0 hia God , who had used this ht- ‘tt,“ £ faSESX *£3 | pe^e as his effectual preservers, mountain from the main entry, as the miners style it, The roof of the entry is solid limestone, with here and there great dark rifts overhead, which are probably the entrances to other unexplored caverns as interesting as those already examined and described. The miners and the other three persons agreed among themselves to Keep the matter secret, and did so for a short time, in order that they might purchase the tract of land and reap the benefit of the valuable coal seam; but the story leaked out through the family of one of the par- witb age, even though it may lose its sparkle and brilliancy; but we Americans have wine is stored are cut out of the calcarous cation between an ocean steamer the shore. It would take a column to give the details of the project; it is sufficient to say that it is a sort of reel which lays a kind of cable as the steamer moves along, and when the vessel returns the wire is re wound. It seems rather too much to be lieve that a steamer could start out with over 3,000 miles of insulated wire in a reel that is dragged behind the vessel, aud then on returning from Liverpool wind up the line again without a break, hut everything appears to be possible with the telephone. Tiie shore end of the n ire is connected with found to be nearly dead from cold and hun- . ger, and almost too weak to eat. It had ties. They succeeded, however, in obtain- i beC ome greatly emaciated, and trembled ing a mineral or oil and coal lease of about v ; 0 j endy in endeavoring to swallow, the first three hundred acres, and at once com menced operations. After a careful survey the mouth of tbe ancient mine or drift was located, an entry driven for some distance and the solid limestone encountered. After piercing about one hundred feet of lime reached within a few You think old Mrs. Bulherrv I Gloucester, 1642; First Church, North An-j stone the mine was 1 : woman in Mistborough ?” ’ ! dover, 1645; First Church, Haverhill, 1645; i feet of the survey, wh morsel of meat which was placed in its beak. The owl slowly recovered and is now perfectly well. It is a land bird, and is supposed to have been blown off the coast of Newfoundland by the western gales which bad for some days previous prevailed ^ ^ ^ , there. Finding itself once out at sea it had . ;i" ( 7 hi ri r ' 1 ' and ‘the salmon in the Canadi Probably ceased .making efforts to reach j| rtreaI ®£ ho i d ’ ’ ’ ’ J! ~— rock. Any quantity of Bpurious wine, is [company’s offices in New York; and when sold in France by charging other light wines ! the vessel drops down to Sandy Hook the with carbonic acid gas, and the Germans i wire from the sternmost reel in the shell is have recently succeeded so well in prepar- ! connected there. The vessel starts out to ing Rhenish, Main, Neckar, Meissner and . sea; the wire begins to release itself. When Naumburg after the manner of champagne two hundred miles have been accompiisLo.', that it mav deceive even connoisseurs. an automatic connection releases a leaden ‘ j sinker, weighing five pounds, and this, as ... the vessel aoes on, finds its way to the bed When to strike in Fly-Fi*lilng. At the point/ where the The White Star steamship Celtic, which arrived at New York, from Liverpool, re cently, brought a strange passenger, who had boarded that vessel in mid-ocean A large white owl dropped on one of the for ward spars in an exhausted condition one evening when the vessel was about 800 ,,, .... ...... miles off the coast of Newfoundland. When £fwhich must come to the ex- j work machinery, brought to the deck by a sailor the owl was pert on j y a f ter experience and discipline. | fixing a telegraph We may talk of “the twist of the wrist," j ocean. Much of the finesse of sportsmanship: sinker is attached, the wire is much cannot be taught the novice by written in- j heavier for a distance of two hundred feet structions. There are certain indispensable Thus, at every wo hundred mile.; this points in the successful practice of the art : shell, which is full of autotnaticandelock- of fly-fishing which must come to the ex-; work machinery, releases a sinker thus pert only afttT experience and discipline, fixing a telegraph wire on the bed of the We may talk of “the twist of the wrist,” j ocean. The inventor proposes to ? stahhsh but to make that twist so neatly and ef- j a small printing establishment and issue a fective that each repetition of it means a : little daily sheet on everv ocean «™.ner fish hooked is something which must he plying the seas. Tins right he proposes to learned auite independently of the books. I become the owner of and issue his journal TTerffor instance, is the subject of strik-; called the Ocean Wave, so that no traveler : ; ’ , fishina- for trout or graylin" by the sea will remain for an hourignorant vftcrananglerawL have fished ta n.anv of the world’s doings. Private messages of the best trout streams of theland and m ffi!7ean Tshor” I about T^OtT pi^a" dayTnow —fair »fmon in thfclnadian and shore to midoceam Instantaneous j day’s work is from 800,000 to 1,000 090. and maintain verv different news of disaster can be flashed to the | —The Marchese Grillon, the husband ouu iiiaiu j , , nf latltnrlpiinri Va., where Washington once wor shipped; and every button has been taken from the cushions by curiosity hnnters. —The ex-Euipress Eugenie’s party to Natal, Africa, will consist of one or two ladies of her household. Sir Evelyn and Lady Wood, Mrs. Ronaid Camp bell, the Due de Bassa: o, and Surgeon- Major Scott. —In 1867 42,000,000 head of sheep produced 147,000,000 pounds of wool; in 1877 35,000,000 head produced 208,- 000,000 pounds. This shows a wonder ful improvement in the science of sheep husbandry., —Tne Speaker of the British House of Commons has $20,000 a year, a house rent free, $4,000 of equipment money, 2,000 ounces of silver plate on his elec tion, $500 for stationery each year, and fees amounting to $15,000 a year. —Chicago has eight Reformed Epis copal churches and ten clergymen of that denomination. Christ Church and St. Paul’s, the two principal parishes, each own property worth from $75,000 to $100,000, and are free from debt. —There are fourteen counties ln Pennsylvania free fiom debt. These are Adams, Bradford, Butler, Centre, Columbia, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Luzerne, Mercer, Snyder, Susque hanna, Washington and Westmoreland. —Less than fifty years ago one man could not make over 14 pins h minute; now lie can make more thaa 1,400. Then one girl could stick on papers Wheeker ? th "// t tll o]d - Mrs. : First ’ Church, Beverly, ’ 1667; Second Ited that the whole side of the moimtam, | Theland, and had drifted before the gale, j thewtes o'n'thisTihiL^'one wifi teU you seaport left-and as the point of latitude and j of jfnie. Ristori, is building a mansion Bulherrv ” auswered the 'mayor naively. Church, Marblehead, 1716; East Church, | at some remote period, caused by some , i[g onlj efforts being t0 keep aboTe water . * strikes as soon as he sees the fish i loDgitude is told, and as the other com-; in tbe n e W and yet inctfnplete part of fancying’there was a coufosion of person's. Salem, 1717; First Church, Newhuryport, ; convulsion of nature, had apparently slip- j Tbe bird mugt bave possessed remarkable Love and before he feels the touch. An- panics know the exact position of their | tbe via Nazionaie, Rome, and recently, “But I don't think her so pretty as you, ! 1725. This is a curious list, and it would jped off and slid or suuk downward, and in pQwers of endurance, the officers say, to ’ ’ Miss Belfast ” j be interesting to note how far the same ride : that way effectually sealed up and oblllera- 1 have kcpt up m i ong . The Celtic’s owl, ‘Iiudee-bv acts, not liy words Mr. | obtains in other counties aud parts of New ted the whole existence of the mme and j wh}ch jg now quite tame , measures nearly nsn anu , llel . „ , . .. , - -• ..... ..." * e..-iv_ .i—a vi..... i„ xiuaoaclinsotts. I nerhans left the fissure or crack in ike dye £eet £rom w j ng to wing, and is white - f „ qtpn b : m Our own practice known and followed no serious disaster can bronzes. with the exception of a few small specks of: " s tQ atrike at Eigbt . we a dmit that thereby occur. Other results will be the constant | —Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson has he- dark color. It will probably live for some g gk may be missed and sewed away, which Whceker°” said Daisy, with a toss of her I England. There are, in Massachusetts, j perhaps left tne fissure or crack in the comely bead. “Andi indeed, if you think about forty Unitarian societies which date i rocks first found higlier up. that old colonel’s wife pretty, you’re no: their origin before A._D. 1700, of whtch ' i , The shoulder, ortench, around the side . , „ tne oldest is that of Plymouth, organized ! of the mountain that this immense slide 3 Mr.' Wheeker sighed as he munched his at Leyden in 1602, Some of these arc would cause is plainly visiule. It was sandwich, for he did not know how toutter ’ (1630) Boston, Watertown, Dorchester, what he should.-have liked to say next, ; Roxbury; (1632) Duxbury; (lb.34) Scitu- But just at this moment the door opened, - ate; (163o) Htngham; (1636) Concord, and Gabbs, Puttisoa,and some of the others. Sudbury; (1637) Taunton; (1638) Ded- of the town council walked in laughing. ] ham, Sandwich; (1639) Barnstable, Quin- “Sherry all around, miss, if you please,” jCy; and (1638) Portsmouth, N. H. through the just-finished openiDir, which had been driven from both ends, that your correspondent entered. I reached the spot on a Monday morning about 10.30, ac companied by a Mr. James H. Raymond, his son, a lad of fifteen, two ladies and two time to come on board the vessel which it selected as its home while in mid-ocean. Land birds have rarely been seen so far out at sea. —O^er 1,500 persons are employed in chair making in Gardner, Mass. a turn ing out over |2,000,000 worth annually. Shir rWusfoal the onfvpropermethpd I ships and steamers, a hundred succoring j lB digging the ve.y last spadeful, al- ro wiu unto vou feel the touch of the ships ar steamers can be sent with relief; mo sr, of the foundations, the workmen fishl amHhenf by a movement°as C quick*as I and as the tracks of commerce are now (came upon a large deposit of ancient lightning, fasten him. Our own practice known &h 0 |^te a ^dkiffiIw^y!'^which “ney spTcuTationlfoatcan go on by wire. | pornffthe owner of “Stony Batter.” the perhaps would be captured if given a little more tune; but the number so lost are, we believe, less than the Bcores of misses made by the contrary practice. As a rule, the fly-fisherman cannot strike too quick. We insurance should be happy to have the experience of some of our reader* upon this topic. Criminals afloat can be apprehended; the small estate in the Cumberland Valley inarch of storms be made known; deaths j whereon her uncle, James Buchanan, telenraphed. Cargoes can be bought and! was born. The house in which that sold in transit; contracts be made; marine event took place—a little old log buila- insarance effected—and thus will iife be-, ing-was removed half a century ago, come almost perfectly cosmopolitanized on I and now stands in Mercersburg in ex- every sea and shore. eellent preservation.