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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. "i 1 1 f'v- 'i A Binde hair of Napoleon L' sold for T) OIT'RN AL Pbicb A LOCAL e'12- noon cotnmuu dttwdiny chUd, thi tongua, TbMX It tpetk no wrong Let no t11 word o'er it; Set tha watch of truth before It That it do po wrong. child, thy tongue Guard, my child, thine eyes Prying li not wise; Let them look on what Is right From all evil turn their tight Prying is not wise. Guard, my child, thine eyes Ouird, my child, thine ear I -Wicked words will sear Let no evil words come in That may cause the soul to sin. Wicked words will sear.

Guard, my child, thine ear I Ear, and eye, and tcpgne, Guard while thoa art yonng For, alas 1 these busy three Can unruly members be. Guard while thou art young, Ears, and eyes, and tongue. THE BLESSING OF TO-DAV. SPRINGVLLLE, N. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 100 at a London fair last month.

In Berlin, the style to' treat the' rirl f.rt trAtairtn.t.iYn lTiatonil rrf avia .4 A farmer at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has a herd of nine elk that he is training and breaking in to farm work. A Chicago paper says that nineteen panoramas of the Chicago fire, and none of them such as a dweller in Chicago can recognize, are on exhibition. The sheriff broke up a baptism on the banks of the Ohio, at Cairo, Baying that At 1 it 1 11 tne water was too coia, ana tnat tne minister persisted he would prosecute him for murder. In Brooklyn, a few days since, a lad was observed standing in front of a dwelling, and supporting a large bulletin board inscribed, "Waiting forfSSJ," the debt ot the iamily tor groceries being thus advertised. A learned Harvard professor has been discoursing before the Woman's Club in Boston on the Nebular Hypothesis.

The Boston Woman's Club must be a jovial organization if regaled at its regular meetings by intellectual banquets of this sort. Devote everything to its proper use, or the consequences may be unpleasant. A young girl out in Illinois who attempted to use sealing wax as a substitute lor chewing gum was poisoned by the Venetian red which it contained, and died from the effects. A young man who formerly drove pie cart in the city of New Haven, but had latterly risen to the position of a driver on a horse railroad, received a letter the other day informing him that his uncle in China had recently died and left him a fortune amounting to A Rochester young lady has sued a photographer of that city for $8,000 damages, because he displayed one of her pictures in front of his place with this playcard attached One half. dozen photographs ordered by this very stylish yeung lady and payment respect fully asked and insultingly refused." A man has been arrested and brought up for trial in Salem, for using profane lauguage in a public place.

To make the offence worse in the eyes of all right-minded persons, the man was on his way to a wedding. We are inclined to think that a law under which all per sons using language that is excessively offensive to decent people could be ar rested and punished would have a salutary effect. The town of Londonderry, N. holds its charter on the condition of giv ing the Governor of the State a peck of potatoes every year, and pays the pen alty ot its corporate existence regularly. It is an old custom derived from the mother country, and though perhaps more honored in the breach than the observance, is kept up as if the welfare of the town and of the Governor's family depended on it.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton relates the following family incident There was no head to mother's family. I remember once my little sister swallowed a leaden bullet. My father, being a timid man, hid his face that he might not witness the sufferings of his child. My mother took her daughter by her heels, and shook the missile from her throat.

If she had waited for the head of the family to have acted, she would have lost her child." There is sometimes a great deal of sig nificance in a simple flag, and nobody can deny that it has a great influence over men's minds. The city physician at Omaha the other day placed a red flag before a house used for reception of small-pox patients. At first quite a crowd gathered at that point and began to get impatient for the auction to begin, but when they learned the real significance of the silken emblem they scattered on the double quick. They claim to have a man down in Roanoke, more hardened than any that has before put in a claim for the prize for wickedness. He whipped his own boy, fourteen years of age, to death for some trifling offence, and then buried him with his own hands, without the formality of a funeral.

He then took his daughter, who he was afraid might expose him, tied her up with ropes, and was about to throw her into the river, when he was interfered with by some meddling neighbors. He is at present restrained of his liberty in the county jail, but is hkely soon to resume the dis cipline ot his tamiiy. We receive from the West continual illustrations of the pluck and determination of that wonderful people. A Zanes-ville paper now tells of a young 'couple so thoroughly determined on matrimony and that without delay, that they drove twenty-three miles in an open wagon when the thermometer marked 17 degrees below zero, to get a certificate. They had their hands, feet, noses, and ears severely nipped by frost, but after thawing out, were success rally united and boldly drove back into the biting cold on the return journey of twenty-three miles.

They ought te find plenty of comfortable sunshine in life hereafter. A Meriden man returning from the club" a few nights ago, got into the wrong house and had just pulled off his boots preparatory to seeking his little bed, when the proprietor appeared, and with some difficulty conducted him home. When they arrived the inebriated individual was still so befogged that he insisted that his friend (who by the way is a strict temperance man), should be put to bed assured him he would never say a word about his being m-tos-ti- cated pointed-ut to him the evils of intemperance depicted the sorrow of his wife if she would ever know of his condition begged him never to touch another drop of liquor, and even went so far as to produce a bill for goods from one of our i merchants, which, he insisted, was a temperance pledge, and with tears urged-his friend, to sign it, promising to stand by him through thick and thin it he would do so. it is needless to say that the temperance man didn't sign." Exchange. Rev.

Mr. Clift, of Mystic Bridge, Con necticut, a well-known fish culturist, has suggested the proprietyjaf taking mea sures to stocx tne waters oi xne juissis-sippi Valley with shad. It is known that the shad, originally peculiar to tfie waters of the Atlantic coast, has within a few years past been introduced into the Altamaha and other tributaries of the Gulf of Mexico, where, it is said, they have multiplied to a considerable extent. No special steps have, we believe, been taken to introduce them into the Mississippi River and it would, therefore, seem eminently, proper that the experiment should be undertaken: The cost of transferring several millions of eggs from the State establishments in Connecticut, New York, or New Jersey would be but trifiing-r-a Jew thousand-dollars, in all probability being sufficient. It is well, known that Mr.

Seth Green transferred successfully a large number of living young trout irom." the Hudson to theacramehtO lassummer, and the much shqrter distance; of 'the journey to the Ohio, Mississippi, and other Western, waters, wouia oe greatly in zavor ox. we experiment. It is, not impossible that an appeal will be made to Congress for, tTv nAAAMB.rv'fnndfi to oarrv mnt this en terprise, as the majority of the State of the Union would be benefitted by a sua-, oessful result. "''ft I I $2. CO rra Akxum.

5 Cests a Copt. NO. 7. his doors one fine afternoon, and went to see the wonderf determined, if pos8i ble, to discover its secret. Fifteen minutes in its company, and this Skillful ma.niTYillaT.nv nfYnmV.

through the veil, and know thero was a Where he was f.nnfn.'ll tuiuuu say, but he knew ho was there, and, seconded by a friend, he raised the terrible cry: "Fire! Fire! One can iudero of tho to-nwr the audience, and of the immediate rush ior tne aoor, but, strange to relate, the automaton, too, partook of the panic, apparently, for the most frightful, noises its uoweis, ana a perlect succession of thumping and kicks, as though "Js uiutut loose irom itseli, while Maelzel stood aghast struck speechless. His surprise, however, was only and was canard tin a catastrophe he had never prepared for staring him in. the face, menacing him with ruin, and demanding an immediate remeay. Recovering his presence of mind, he pushed the automaton quickly behind the screen, and then nmcinp.riori i vtvoo lAX the audience, who, by this time, seeing and smelling no smoke, had begun to think it a false-alarm, but whose attention heretofore had so luckily been occupied with themselves and their means of escape, that they had not minded the antics oi me macnine. The niSG of llis rival.

tJina -rvrm-rxflir met, did no harm, and the field of battle was left in auiet nosseRainTi nf rto oo. light, but Maelzel often said he could af- ioru pay mat man handsomely, for he showed him the onlv defect in hi -ma chine. Gen. Jackson and the Bully. A notorious fellow named "Rpan.

di ed up his horse pistols and said that thev lmgut inuici, Dut tney couldn't arrest him. The Sheriff tried it and was vanquished. Court came on, the criminal docket was called, and the clerk reported xean not taKCn. What's tho matter Y' naVI ,1 era Jackson of the Sheriff. Nothing's the matter, onlv nan't.

nr. rest him," replied the official. Then, by the Eternal, summon the county to help you, and bring him here!" thundered the Judge. The Sheriff gathered up some citizens, and advanced on Bean. The 'latter backed himself up against a house to prevent a rear attack, drew his nistnls.

anri told them to come on. He was a center shot, and to have advanced would have been certain death to some. No on cared to sacrifice his life in giving the A1 i owiers a yiance to maxe a start. The Sheriff reported to Judge Jackson, that Bean could not be taken with out fianri- fice of life. By the Eternal, summon the Cmirt!" thundered the irate Judge; and "the Court" was summoned.

Jud ere Jackson rff rpo1 arms nnrl ad vanced empty-handed and bare-headed upon Bean. His friends tried to restrain him, as he valued his life, but he heeded them not. He kent his fold upon the desperado, walked right up to mm, jerKea nis pistols away, took him by the collar, and. marched him off to jail. The Coarse of True Love.

Constantine Oscar Eugene Mitkie- wiez, a gentleman who has satisfied the reporter of the San Francisco Chronicle that he is the third son of Count John Mitkiewiez, Export Master, General and Counselor of State of the Russian Em pire, has now turned up in the character ot a victim. Me claims to be the affianced husband of a young Massa- cnusetts lady, who is repute! to be heiress in her own right to property val ued at some two millions of dollars, and declares that he is surrounded by a band of blackmailers, who are endeavoring to find some additional means ruining his reputation. About a year ago quite a stir was created in New York fashionable society, by the eccentrici ties" of this same nobleman. He was charged with having stolen a diamond ring trom a young lady, but for reasons best known to the parties concerned, the case never came to trial. The Count de clares the ring was given him as a pledge of affection, and that the charge was trumped up by persons who desired to innict upon him an irreparable injury.

After this experience it appears that he went to Europe, but the love which he bore his American fiancee was so strong that he was compelled to make nineteen trips across the Atlantic to visit her. The father of the heiress, according to his statement, has finally consented to allow the marriage to take place in nine months, and pending the happy event he is trying to kill time by breaking the hearts ot the reigning belles ot San Francisco. Springing Out of Bed. Dr. Hall does not approve of the old doctrine which was formerly instilled into the minds of children that they should spring out of bed the instant they awake in the morning.

He says that up to eighteen years every child should be allowed ten hours' sleep, but time should be allowed to rest in bed, after the sleep is over, until they feel as if thev had rather get up than not. It is a very great mistake for persons, old or young especially children and feeble or sedentary persons to bounce out of bed the moment they wake up all our A -1 1 1 1 1 1 ixiaLiuuttj uuniiK irom it, anu nerueiy jliuh. against it. Fifteen or twenty minutes spent in gradually waking up, after the eyes opened, and vx turning over and stretching the limbs, do as much good as sound sleep, because the operations Set the blood in motion by degrees. tending to equalize the circulation for during sleep the blood tends to stagnation, the heart beats feebly and slow, and to shock the system by bouncing up in an instant and sending the blood in overwhelming 'quantities to the heart, causing it to assume a gallop, where the instant before it was in a creep, is the greatest absurdity.

This instantaneous bounoing out of bed as soon as the' eyes are open will be touowed py weariness long before noon." They have many manly specimens of the better sex in the West. One ot these in Will County;" HLi is endowed with a beard. She was born in Maine, is twen- tv-seven vears old. has shaved for eigh teen years, and now wears a beautiful mustache and chin black as. a ooaL She is married to a Mr.

Jackman, is stout and healthy, intelligent, and, wears told, is not at all ashamed of her whiskers. course she is not. It is a thing to be proud of that she should be thus favored above the rest; of her sex, NEWSPAPER. finally returning to that home at the call of business, he left behind him, the impression that a wedding was to mark his next appearance at the capital, and this impression was made a certainty to society by the widow's frank confession of the charge. In other words the Ten nessean had obtained the lady's promise to marry him when ho should inform her that their Southern home was in readiness for them, and until that happy time they were to sweeten their temporary separation -with letters.

The latter accordingly came and went in tho usual succession tor several maUamftif the end of which term the wrote that his business engagements continued too urgent to allow him leisure for a journey bo far as Washington, and that it Mrs. Putnam would but consent to meet him in Cincinnati and there become his wife, there need be no further delay of their union. Consent ing, the widow went to the Western city with her sister, where tho Southern wooer received them at the Burnett House, and expressed great pleasure at the readiness with which his wish in the matter had been observed. It was noticed, however, by the ladies that his manner betrayed a certain constraint which had not characterized his earlier Washington days, and the widow, being shrewd, experienced woman of the world, was upon her guard for some change in the situation. Sure enough, on the following day, the Tennessean attempted to leave the city in a buggy, by way of Covington, for his own State, and might have made good his escape but for the revelations of a hotel-clerk to whom the suspicious ladies applied for information.

As it was, he had proceeded but a few miles on his journey when his vehicle was overtaken by ono carrying the widow and her sister and, in very shamefacedness, he was impelled to pause at a wayside hotel and render an account of his conduct. Then, to Mrs. Putnam's astonishment and in dignation, he gave as a reason for his flight that he was already a married man, with several children. It had been so pleasant to him in Washington to be regarded as a bachelor that he could n6t summon the self-denial to correct the mistake but in allowing himself to continue the imposition amongst the ladies, he had purposely selected one whose years, experience, and good sense would, he had hoped, preserve both of them from any serious sentimental complication. When, even by his own susceptibility in part, such complication had ensued, he hoped to bring it grad ually to a close by going back to Tennessee and trusting to epistolary vicissitudes.

He thought that the lady would decline meeting him in Cincinnati, but as she had come there was but one honorable course for him to pursue. In fact, concluded he, 1 ve only been reading a novel to you, madam." To which the righteously angry widow reply was, Very well, sir then I shall take the liberty of publishing that novel for you." Having satisfied themselves that the gentleman trom lennessee had told only the truth about himself, the insulted ladies hastened back to Washington and, now, adds the Washington Star, a Knoxviile jury has just given a verdict of $4,000 to Mrs. Putnam and against the Tennessean, in reparation of the latter's breach of marriage promise. As will be observed from the above details, the story is a curious one iiTseveral respects, and pointedly illustrative of current social shams. JV.

T. World. Representation under the Census of 1870. The Apportionment Bill which has just passed Congress provides for 283 Representatives, apportioned as follows Alabama 7 Nebraska 1 Arkansas 4 Nevada 1 4 New Hampshire Connecticut 4 New Jersey 7 Delaware 1 New York 32 Florida 1 North Carolina 8 Georirla 9 Ohio 20 Illinois 19 Oregon 1 Indiana li Pennsylvania 26 Iowa 9 Rhode Island 2 Kansas 8 South Carolina Kentucky 10 Tennessee 9 Louisiana Texas 8 Maine 5 Vermont 2 Maryland 6 Virginia 9 Massachusetts 11 West Virginia 3 Michigan 9 Wisconsin 8 3 6 Total 283 Missouri 13 Seventeen States, namely, Connecti cut, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Iowa, New Jersey, Michigan, Kansas, Maine, Rhode Island, Arkansas and New York, are to receive Representatives on fractions, on an average basis of 102,228 of population while fourteen States, namely, Indiana, Vermont, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, New Hampshire, Tennessee, West Minnesota, South Carolina, California, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, and Virginia, will have fractions aggregating a population of 562,002 unrepresented. Every State is constitutionally entitled to at least one Representative, and accordingly Oregon, with 90,923 population, and Nevada, with 42,491 population, have each assigned to them one member of Congress.

The ratio fixed by the bill is decidedly low, compared with the ratios of former decades. In 1830 the ratio was increased to nineteen per cent. in 1840 it rose to torty-eight per cent. to thirty-two 1850 and thirty-six per cent, in 1860. The present increase is but six per csmt.

from the last decade. The increase of population during the ten years ending with 1870 was about 6,670,000, against about the previous decade. Had the percentage of increase in the ratio of representation been as low as six per cenf. in every decade since since 1820, the Capitol at Washington would not be large enough to accommodate the representatives of the nation. Civil Service Fun.

Pending the uncertainty as to the retroactive effect of the civil service rules, there is considerable quiet fun indulged in by those who. feel so sure of their places that they can venture to treat the matter with pleasantry. with.respect to the amount of school-learning that will be requisite in the department officer to detect a counterfeit' bond, 6r to pass" up-' on the validity of important contracts. A' chief of very prominent department whose opinion I recently asked concern ing the effect of the new rules, very mysteriously a series of questions, which he insisted would remedy all the evils'fds department, and any person responsible to him who should prove in capable giving' satisfactory answers before "three o'clock. January 1.

'would be informed that the government had no further need of his ignorant services. He said, there had been, considerable irregut laritv in the mail service lately in Ar kansas, but that if Mr. Curtis had been a -Kttle earber with his. rules, so tha thesd questions could nave 'been framed sooner, there would not now be a letter lost from Boston, to, the Pacifle. and Propbdstobs.

German girls fairly shed tears when Lina addressed her in her own language. But, John," she cried, the Stanley farm Y' "Is sold, dear. You were right; we will make this homo so lovely, the Stanley farm will nover cost me a sigh. Dr. Greyson and his wile toolc aU the trou ble here, and I have hired two new hands, so as to have a little more leisure." But, John," the little wife said, ear nestly, I do not want you to think I am a tine lady, a doll, to' wear hne clothes, and live in idleness.

I want to be truly a helpmeet to you." So you will be, Lina. God meant no one to be a drone in the busy hive of the world. You are not strong, but you will find plenty to keep you busy in superintending in-door arrangements and directing Gretchen. And in our drives, love, we will see if we can not find some poorer than ourselves to comfort and aid. That will be my thank-offering for your life, my little wife." lhe neighbors stared and wondered.

Comments upon John's folly and improvidence from many lips, and old men, shaking their heads, prophesied ruin for the Reynolds farm. But John was as much astonished as any of them, when, after a few years, he found the farm yielding him a larger income than ever before. I do believe, Lina," he said one day, to a matronly little woman, who was dressing a crowing baby, that your flower-garden last year was worth a thousand dollars to me." John You see it was to get you the in formation about flowers that we first began to take the agricultural paper there I found so many hints, that I be gan to think 1 knew nothing about tarm- mg. uno dook alter another crept into the house, and the time I thought would be wasted, taken from farm work, was spent in reading. Now, look at the labor-saving machines I have bought See the new stock My orchard is going to be the best in the county, too." And my poultry-yard, John It was the papers and magazines that first gave me the idea of a model poultry yard.

What fun we had, John, getting it started Yes, indeed. That New York trip was the best investment I ever made, Lina. I saw so many things there that I recognized as old friends when I met them again in print the threshing-machine, the rotary harrow, the improved plows." "And," said Mrs. Reynolds, mischievously, the Milton watch, the sewing machine, the corals for Johnnie Come, are you ready for your drive As soon as I put on my hat and get the basket of things for Mrs. Goodwin." It beats me, John," said his uncle, one bright day, where you find so much money for tomfoolery, newfangled nonsense, and sallfals for Lina, and yet give so much in charity.

I thought you were crazy to buy that Stanley farm I was once, but I have something botter now than the Stanley farm. I have learned how to manage my antelope." What But to this day John has never explained that riddle to his puzzled relative. Hearth and Home. Women as Smugglers. The Detroit Pott, concerning the amount of smuggling into that city from Canada, says It seems to be a fact that in the transactions of this illegitimate trade" women are the most numerous offenders.

That they are women protects them to a great degree. Unless there is something suspicious in the manner, looks, or actions of the travelling feminines they are not molested. If a lady is seen to cross the intervening waters quite frequently, and without any apparent object, the last trip is apt to prove quite eventual oftentimes. The occasional visitor is, howover, generally successful, and can carry off the few articles she may have obtained. Watching the disembarkation of passengers from any of the ferry-boats, an attentive observer can usually form a tolerably correct opinion as to who have been doing a little trading with Her Majesty's shopkeepers.

Sometimes from the boat will come two or three nicely-dressed young ladies, very demure and innocent-looking. It is so cold that they are obliged to keep their respective hands in their respective muffs. Of course, the keen air is felt considerably in coming from the cabins into the outside world. A sharp, brisk walk is and they hurry up the avenue. Somehow they breathe much freer after passing the Custom House officers.

But then, the air of the cabin has been so very close, you know. An elderly lady, who has compromised matters with her conscience by only buying what she really needs, follows, wishing she was safe at home again, and vowing not to repeat the experiment if she escapes this time. She does not, however, evince as much agitation as she feels, and passes on all right. Several more follow, but whether they have managed to secrete a thousand dollars' worth of valuable laces, or only a few cents' worth of cotton, it is alike difficult to determine. A woman of rather singular appearance in respect to outline of figure is the next passenger.

She had been a frequent one for a week or two, and as she never goes with any companion, or is seen to have any articles that may be smuggled, she is approached by an officer, who whispers something in her ear. It is to the effect that she shall just step into the custom office a minute. She does so, and is then requested to step up stairs, where there is a sort of a Miss Jenkins, who is in the habit of "interviewing" all lady callers. Madame must consent to be searched," this new acquaintance remarks by way of sotting her, called at ease. But Madame deeming it unnecessary, as she would pledge her honor that no purchase had been made in Canada.

But the ceremony must be gone through with at all events a mere mat ter of form oi course, Madame proves, however, to have been a matter of form produced by the storing of the following, articles about her person 'Two pounds of blacktea, one oxgreenV three of raisinv one package of assorted candieBr- one pound of preserved one Also of cit ron, a few, hundred obtained from various receptacles, mostly from the dress sleeves, were; as large and commodious as Ah Sin's. few pounds of canned meats Which ixrere placed in the bustle, and one or two other trifling articles completed the list of the morning's shopping. Pop-corn is a luxury in England firm in Galeaburg, just "Wpped forty barrels of it to London. BLAKELEY MELVEN, VOL. XX.

John Reynolds, coming home to his tea, found lying upon the kitchen floor a little senseless with a faoe like death, and hands that sent a chill to his very heart. The doctor, hastily summoned, looked grave, and advised perfect quiet and rest. A girl was hired, and John tenderly nursed the invalid, but theugh she grew better she was still pale and weak. Take her away awhile," said the doctor, "try change of air. She is overworked." But," said honest, puzzled John, she does nothing but the housework for us two.

She has no child, and our sewing is not much." The doctor looked into the troubled face. You are a good man, John Reynolds, and a strong one," ho said will you let me tell me a few truths Y' Yes. About Lina Y' About Lina. You remember, do you not, the tiny antelope you admired so much in the menagerie we had here last summer r' Certainly," said John, looking more puzzled than ever. Suppose you had" bought that little creature and yoked it with one of your oxen to a cart to do the same work I'd been a fool," said John that little thing couldn't work.

It was just made pretty to look at and to play." "That's it, John. Now I don't think God ever made any woman to look pretty and play, but he made some for the rough work of his world and some for the dainty places, some to cook and scrub, and some to draw men's souls to heaven by gentle loveliness. Your wife is one of the latter. If you were a poor man I would have held my tongue, but you are a rich one. Give your wife a servant let her have books, music, pretty things around her.

Let her rest from toil, and you may keep her by your side. Put her back in her old place, and you may order her tombstone, for she will soon need it. Don't put your antelope beside your oxen, John." I will not Thank you I under stand. Poor, loving, patient heart That's right Take her now for a little pleasure trip, and get back her roses." Lina clapped her hands when John asked her if she would like to spend a week in New York, and really seemed to draw in new life from the very idea. It was delicious fun to see John's wide open eyes as they entered the parlor of the great city hotel, and were shown into the bed-room, whose beauties were quite as bewildering.

lord, and Lina could not repress a cry of delight at the vista of a cosy sitting-room with a piano standing invitingly open. John she said, won't you go in there and shut the door for five minutes, please Y' John obeyed, of course. John, she thought, gratefully refused her nothing now. How lucky I brought some of my old dresses Lina thought. I have not worn them since I was a school-marm Fancy Mrs.

Reynolds scrubbing the floor in this dress John rubbed his eyes and pinched himself as a little figure sailed into the sitting-room, made him a sweeping and went to the piano. Was that the little woman who had worn prints and sun-bonnets so The fair hair was fashionably dressed, and bands of blue velvet looped the golden curls. A dress of blue silk, with softest lace trimmings and ornaments of pearls, had certainly made a fine lady of Lina. The piano was yielding its most bewitching tones to the skilled little fingers, and John's bewilderment was complete when a voice of exquisite sweetness, though not powerful, began to sing. Only one song, full of trills and quavers, and then Lina rushed from the piano into John's arms.

John, darling," she said, hold me fast. Don't let me slip from you Lina he groaned, I was not fit to marry such a dainty bird But I loved you, little one." And I love you, John, rough old John Let me sing again. I am very happy to-day, my husband." But no wonderful trills filled the little room now. In a clear, pure voice, full of expression, Lina sang I know that my Redeemer liveth." Every word fell like hot tears on poor John's heart, until, as the last chord trembled upon the air, Lina turned to him, stretching out her arms: Take me in your arms, John He took her tenderly to the room she had quitted so gayly, and replaced her finery by a white wrapper, whose lace trimmings looked like fairy-work to his unaccustomed eye. Are you tired, love he asked, with a great spasm of terror at his hearjj, as he looked at the white, wasted face.

Yes, very, very tired, but happy, John and with a little sigh of entire content, Lina nestled down against the warm heart whose every throb she knew was all her own. The white lids fell softly over the violet eyes, and -she slept peacefully as a child. Softly, as she rested, the faint pink flush gathered on her fair cheek and a smile crept over her lips, while John, bending over her, lifted his heart in earnest prayer for the life that made his own so bright. Mrs. Reynolds was to experience her share of astonishment during her holiday, and it commenced by the apparition of John the next day in a suit of handsome clothes that well became his manly figure.

There was no foppery, but he looked a gentleman, though he made more than one grimace before he got, as he said, "Well shaken into store clothes." Can I describe that week? What was new tofohn was old, familiar ground to Lina. Central Park was not soon exhausted, and the little guide grew stronger and rosier every day, in John's thoughtful care, that provided plenty of pleasant excitement, but guarded against fatigue. It was early in the afternoon of a sun-, ny day, when the train drew -up at the Scottfield station, and' John handed his wondering wife into a neat little one-horse carriage waiting for them. Auew purchase, dear," he explained. We are to have a drive every afternoon.

Dr. Greyson prescribes it." The house was where it had always been, but Lina rubbed her eyes, and wondered if she had been suddenly carried into'fairy-land. The dull little sitting-room had. been papered, carpeted, curtained, and trans- I formed into A 'cosy The stiff parlor ws very power of Deauty, with a fine piano, the daintiest of furniture, soft muslin curtains, and a carpet covered with bouquets of exquisite flow erf the bed-rooms were carpeted brightly; and rejoiced in cottagffsets, and in the kitchenette most good-natured of tout 17, 1872. The questions are these 1.

How many and what rivers flow into the Caspian Sea 2. At the height of seventy feet what is the temperature of the water thrown by the Great American Geysers iri the valley of the Yellowstone 3. How long is the shadow cast by the rock of Gibraltar, at noon This gentleman- informed me that, as patronage was all going, ho had prepared a key to this set of Questions, which he was ready to sell to all inquiring ap plicants tor as much as possible. This key tell into my possession, and con tains the following official answers It is believed that no "river flows into the Caspian Sea, as it has become dry. The American geysers have stopped throwing hot water.

The rock of Gibraltar has been removed. Washington Cor. Evening Post. The Automaton Chess-Player. A large proportion of our readers have probably seen or heard of the automa ton chess-player which was exhibited throughout the United States some years ago.

To such, and to others, the sub joined reminiscences, which we find in. a late translation irom the French, will oe found interesting Maelzel and Mouret, as partners, were exhibiting at Amsterdam before the king and court. Tho king had an nounced his intention of having a game with the automaton. The day arrived. Maelzel occupied himself with the decorations, to give the greatest eclat possible to the coming contest between the king and tho machine a mere machine, gentlemen!" The exhibition was or dered for 12:30, and as 12 clock sound ed, his accomplice not being in the dressing-room, as was always his custom, Maelzel stepped across the street to the hotel to hurry him up.

Imagine his surprise to find poor Mouret in bed, covered to the nose with the blankets. Goodness gracious What do I see i hat is the matter cries Maelzel. O. IVu got a fever!" coolly replies Aluuret. A fever How so You were all right at breakfast Yes but this has come on since like a clap of thunder." Well, but Why, the king is com ing, man alive greatly excited.

he will have to go back I cool as a cucumber. But what can I tell him Tell him the automaton has got a fever." quit your joking, and get up imperatively. Ah but I can't," decidedly. Why, we have never received more money for any one exhibition." I know but you can give it back. The deuse you say I'll run for a doctor." No that's useless." Why what can I do Is thero no way to break the fever Y' now you talk.

Yes there is a way ono way. 1 ell me the way. Pay me that thou owest well is that all Yes so I will when the soiree is over." No, air I must have it here." Now Y' Before we begin. I want the two thousand francs that were paid you this orning. "All of it?" Just that and no more and no less.

Then I will play, and not till then." Maezel looked the little man in the eye, but determination was written there. This was evidently no time for excuses. He had the money, and his partner knew it, and besides, was only asking what was his due. He looked at his watch it marked. 12:15, and his Majesty, who was known as a model of punctuality, would be there at 12:30.

He took out his pocket-book from his breast-pocket, and counted out the four notes of five hundred francs each, with a groan. lhe cure was marvellous to behold; for, as soon as Mouret's hand closed on the money, he jumped out of bed, full dressed, boots and all The artful dodger had been watching for Maelzel from the window, and when he saw him cross the street had just time -to pop into bed. lhe soiree came off as appointed, and never had the automaton seemed to play with deeper inspiration. The king did not move the pieces himself; he simply counselled his Minister of War, who played tor him, but the coalition was completely routed in two games. lhe defeat, however, was put wholly on the shoulders of the Minister; Had they- won, it would have proba bly been the king who was the victor.

In this same city, a few days atter- ward, ended the travels of the machine in Europe. The partners separated, the best ot mends, and Maelzel began his preparations for a tour of the New World, the details ot which were ably recited in the Chens Journal, formerly edited by Paul Morphy, and published in New York. Schlumberger, a German, and a very strong chess piayer, directed the movements Of the machine, and the secret was undiscovered, except by some boys in Baltimore, who, not having the cash to pay for an admission, climbed upon some sheds overlooking the room in the rear, and were so startled upon the conclusion of the exhibition to see a little man in shirt sleeves hop out of the machine, that they nearly broke their necks in their efforts to get away, and, upon reaching home, repeated what they had seen. These tacts were published by a Haiti- more newspaper, but Maelzel had the good sense to buy its further silence. But their fate was more especially settled by some of the leading daily papers, who took them lip of their own free will, and combated them as the most preposterous ideas evpr put forth, and worthy of the childish minds they came fromy" and the machine continued to be considered the greatest mechanical triumph the world ever saw There Was one thing among the nu merous instructions which Mons.

Maelzel invariably gave his accomplice that deserves remarx. If any one, at any exhibition, should cry Jire; said ne, don you De in ine least bit alarmed. Depend upon me. I will get you out safe if I die in the i Upon this point he was always ex- tremeiy urgent, ana nis reason ror Mjwas In the course of nis travels he had arrived one day at a little town in Ger many, where, a celebrated prestidigita- teur, the Professor Anderson of that day, otaji iri v-i ncr Ki The automaton the 4es- ser humbug, and he, in pique, jealous of the superior power of his riyaV caused nis audiences to become 'i small by degrees and beautifully less" closed Woman in Modern Society. Where there is so much smoke, there certainly must be some fire, and under all this agitation of the rights and wrongs of woman there must be some serious cause.

Without undertaking now to go over the whole "ground of tho subject, we will only look at tho main points in woman's present position in society. nether we like it or not, we must be content to call our ago distinctively democratic, and its ruling ideas are liberty and equality. Whether these ideas are canned out or not, they are in the minds of our people, and of women as well as of men. But what different effects they produce in the two sexes 1 Man is, on the whole, invigorated and elevated by the democratic age. We are generally educated not only in the rudiments of learning, but in some practical business, and our boys for the most part start in life with a fair prospect of taking care of themselves, as well as with a strong ambition to do this.

J. no average American boy prefers any kind of honest work to dishonorable indolence, and our schools and colleges are training our youth more and more to carry their book learning into practical use and manly enterprise. Uur best young men have been willing to boar the trials of the camp, and to rough it in every way on the engineer's survey or the naturalist's exploration. Our modern life exacts this of men, that they should be actually good for something and do something. Is it so with women Does modern society call her down from her aristocratic position or fancy, and train her to be useful? Is any sort of business set before her as the true aim, and are young girls of little or no fortune taught to look to useful industry instead of dainty gentility as the end of their aspiration and effort Quite the contrary, on tho whole, the fact appears to be.

More girls are taught certain useful arts, indeed, than of old, and many are study ing elegant accomplishments that help them to livelihood. But on tho whole the taste of women is less for utility than in the days of our mothers and grand mothers. I he difference between them and men, in that respect, is this. Their tastes and wishes and habits are leveled upward to the standard of the luxurious lady, while the tastes and wishes and habits of men are leveled downward to the standard of the business man. Modern society educates in our girls dainty softness anci indolent exaction, while it encourages in our men practical aims and business thrift.

The mechanic's daughter scorns house-work and in sists upon dressing as nearly as possible after the style of the merchant's wife, and she must have her piano, while the merchant's son may like to tiy his hand at the mechanic bench and begin there his training in architecture. In other words, with girls the democratic passion is to be the fine lady of leisure, while with boys the passion is to be the man of business. Thus tho same spirit of equality that gives softness and inefficiency to girls, gives hardihood and efficiency to boys. Test this distinction by tho- most characteristic" mark of social position we refer to dress. Is it not clear that our democratic habit is leveling: woman's dress upward to the mode of high fashion, while it is leveUng man's dress downward to the simplicity of business? There is no part of our country where the fashion-plates do not regulate the bonnets and dresses of women and even among the peasants of Europe, where, as in the lyroi and Switzerland, certain costumes have been established for ages, and the grandmother's portrait represents the grand-daughter gala at tire, the new modes are showing themselves, and French fashions keep up the prestige no longer held by French bayo nets.

Lvery tarmer daughter has her clothes made according to the prevailing mode with an expensive material and as frequent change as possible, while the boys of the family make little account of the mode, and the coat and hat are made to pass muster for years, until they are worn out. ow this distinctive taet is of great importance both morally and materially. Dress is one of the great powers of our age, and it is remarkable that at present it is as characteristic of woman's subjection as of man's emancipation. In old times the great thing about a man was his clothes, and to be a gentleman implied an enormous outlay in silks, velvet, embroidery, gold and jewels. Now, a true gentleman is sure to be simply clad, and showy costumes are left to brainless fops.

But with women, the case is different and the most intelligent and worthy of the sex readily covet the most costly bonnets and dresses, and wear diamonds and laces that are in themselves a fortune. Their poorer associates envy the elegance that they cannot rival, and sometimes character as well as contentment is the price paid for the aspiration. A single party dress, that is worn but a few times, costs a fashionable woman some. $250, while her husband for less than half the sum, can buy a full dress suit that he can wear tor years. How all this is to end, who knows When is the best spirit of modern times to reach woman and give her a fair sh.

ire in the emancipation in which man so re joices? It is a great' question, and without going far into the matter now, we must be content with saying that, when the true and essential womanhood is brought out and appreciated as true manhood is now appreciated, some relief will appear, and, in the true Republic, the clothes will be secondary and the woman will be primary, and not vice verm, as now. A Washington Bachelor. During the Presidential term of Andrew Johnson, one of the many repre sentatives of society in the President's native State who spent seasons at the national capital was a rather fine-looking old gentleman named Davis, who, while eniovinsr official recognition as an Indian agent, enjoyed, also, the reputation of being a rich bachelor at home. "Disposed to social popularity, and hav ing a particular partiality for the com pany of unmarried the cheery Tennessean allowed rumor to describe his native station as it chose. Jand, iasa consequence, his career in.

Washington society was the enviable- one of what fashionable dowagers call a first-clasa match. lsereralportionless young la dies aspiring to matrimonial establish- ments laid open siege to his heart, and he' was well received in' a number, of sumptuous households but to sur prise of aU observers, he confined his own attentions to a respectable middle- aged widow named Mrs. Putnam, whom he escorted to various sociables, evening and musical entertainments, and, by hia whole manner, designated as the ladv whom he preferred lfoT the partner of his home mTennf ssee.Wen Strange, we never prize the music, Till tho sweet-voicod birds have flown Srrange, that we should slight the violets fill the lovely flowers are gone Strange, that summer skies and sunshine Never seem one-half so fair As when winter's snowy pinions Shake the white down in the air Let us gather up the sunbeams Lying all around our path Lot us keep the and roses. Casting out the thorns and chaff; Let us find oar sweetest comfort In the blessing of the day. With a patient hand removing All the briers from our wav.

JOHN REYNOLDS'S LESSON. BY S. ANNIE FROST. What is the matter, little woman Oaly tired, John." Lina Reynolds looked up as she spoke, to smile bravely into the face bending anxiously over her. Tired, Lina Y' he said, lifting the little figure as he spoke, and taking his wife like a child upon his knee.

What have you been doing to tire you Only the day's work. Don't worry, John," for a shade passed over the kindly face. I don't worry but I can't see what makes you complain so often of being tired. I am sure the housework ain't so much. Other women do it There was just a little fretfulness in John's tone, though he did not mean be unkind.

I know they do. Mrs. Harper has four children, and takes care of them, in addition to housework, besides doing piles of sewing. Perhaps, John, it is because I have not had experience in country work, and don't manage well. I will learn better after a while.

Now, tell me what you did in town." I did quite well. Sold the whole crop of wheat at a good price, and put another installment in the bank for the Stanley farm." Your heart is set on that farm, John." Indeed it is Let me once own that, clear of debt, and I shall be a happy man. It is the best land in the county, and the house is twice as large as this Lina thought of larger floors to scrub, more rooms to clean, and additional work of all kinds, and swallowed a little sigh that nearly escaped her. "John," she said rather timidly, don't you think if you spent part of the money on this house we might be very happy here Spend money on this house cried the astonished John. Why, what on earth ails this house I mean in things for it.

Now, the parlor looks so stiff, and is always shut up. I was thinking if we had a pretty carpet, and some curtains of white muslin or lace, and a set of nice furniture, and and a piano. John if I could have a piano ohn Reynolds looked at his wife as if she had proposed to him to buy up the crown-jewels of Russia. A piano Do you know what a piano costs?" No. Aunt Louise had one, you know, ever since I can remember.

But I think if we had a pretty parlor to rest in the evening, I could play for you, and sing. You never heard me play or sing, John." I have heard you sing, but not lately," said John, rather gloomily. Oh that was just humming around the house. I mean real singing. I have lots of music in my trunk." "But you are only a farmer's wife now, Lina.

I thought you understood when we re married that you were not to have city finery and pleasures." So I did, John. I don't want finery. I don't want any pleasure, but your love, John. Don't scowl up your face so. I am silly to? think of these things at all.

There, kiss me and forget it. I am nicely rested now, and I'll get your tea in ten minutes." ohn put her down with a very tender kiss, and straightway fell into a revery. Lina Rivers had been a district school teacher in Scottfield just four months, when John Reynolds offered her his hand and heart. She was an orphan from infancy, but her father's sister had adopted and educated her in a life of luxury, and died without altering a will -made years before, leaving her entire fortune to a charity asylum. Lina, left alone, had thankfully accepted the position of country school-teacher procured tor ner by some mends, and was thinking life a hard burden, when John came to brighten it.

She gave her whole gentle little heart into his keeping at once, appreciating at their full value his honest, true heart, his frank nature, his sterling good qualities, and looking: with the most profound admiration upon his tall, strong frame and handsome face. It was a perfect love-match, for John fairly worshipped the dainty, refined little beauty he had married. married her, he took her to his home, and, in all ignorance, proceeded to kill her. There was no blame to be laid upon him. Living in the old farm-house where he had spent his entire life, the one ambition of his heart was to own land, stock, barns, and a model farm.

He had seen his mother cook, churn, feed poultry, and drudge all her life all the women he knew did the same, and if Lina made odd mistakes, she put a willing heart into her work, and soon conquered its difficulties. Surely, he thought, it was an easier life to be mistress of his home, with theStanley farm in prospect, than to toil over stupid children in a district school. He had never seen velvet carpets and lace curtains, grand pianos, dainty silks, and other surroundings that were Lina's from babyhood. He had never heard the wonderful music the little white hands, all rough and scarred now, could draw from the ivory keys of an organ or piano, or the clear," pure voice in song. It was an unknown world to John where his wife's memory lingered as she scoured tins, strained milk, and cooked huge dishes for the farm hands.

He would have thought it wicked waste, if not positive insanity, to draw from the bank his hard-earned savings to invest them in beautifying his plain, comfortable home. And Lina lashed her conscience sharply, telling herself she was ungrateful, repining, nd wicked. Was not John tender, true, and loving Where amongst her cify friends was there a heart like his Had she not known he waif only a fanner And so the loving little woman toiled and slaved, undertook tasks beyond her strength, worked early and late, un-tiL just one year after his wedding day,.