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CAPE MAT CITS, tSlfiC /JEBSEYj.. SATURDAY, MARCH «5, 71K7«, ( WHOLE NUMBER 108a

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. the alt, and that., toretlng far aa . !w"a'ttT tutrtTiZ baifaiag. Tit IHallrai mil mil' 1 1 *al A1o wd. riUO, aad a waitss izrzrxxs =asa it&sszaem ri2£ter&^ contain!.* thrra.ratoa.ta <* tha a ^ ^ half northeait of the Tillage. Twan- ■ ssKmgas ■ no oca can tell The' tt$0T of tha eofaran w fifcfi ufafalg *8* bite of wood, aa ihoiJk'A eaw-'taiO todtatod oat* taUMtigM'tttai) 1 dtoalrafilQfal "Tfnifakl i til tasterials. Mrs. Loooej was sitting ia tortftetoa. Ttoboura dirapprarod eilftnrhll by the magician's weed inllhi iml^il[ if'ir|-,- - r wm foond^ W £ r b^a Stiih'waiMWb? (tad not 1MR HMW *#3*m **M ' were faced oot Id tha praMe, «sadsrtag ntoa* hslylasaly. They were loa hoaaaei which no acuta to* ' bmn.rsoeired.. Ttoy remembered beia« lifted Into the. air, aad, When ' found, ww nearly a quarter of a eilla ' - from where the hooee uaed la ha,bad- . 7WC JUMtflB XAXK±)gtltt, r \ ' ' Probably the moat mutable • mum honea. Ad boar befaee the etorm . zzzta am^Jz : Off. JBereUrt^JwW'thk'heeaoB , not rhk bte horert orerlhe prerailiog , 1 bed wade, aad iaattty mtaatee theee , - ewa. hweee. hWa.hDgy aad hhraeee , ware lifted eixtr fart loto the air. and , • tb. heiraee drepiad d Utit W rode from the fanoer 4fa ef t|i»faMfa"Tfa#. ortuaos aa thee a hage maae of do- , hrta, aad a apecUter aaye that Uw , horaea want up through the centre of ' tbeoelomo, wh I rlioy aroqBd ao awift- , ly that they looked aa If torn lo piocea." . !5S5ffi!trSSS« : Umar twenty feel J«*rt. The lA- , " to tha ootaotary, afafafa la to the Dftth ' weat, there ia a treA, aay atahty fact , I !L^j£disaBB? 1 r thrTIin. Scattered abooUkeee hoVe ' are wane, of aptinUra and aae hlh ' balldlac haa dWtppeand aad ia ito faar bnadnd Ctefhay'ifad, waa carried laggggsa^ ' of tha rtwd, and )M« the Uw of l -*» ***« »U*J f°**,af m II— 1 ^ e-i'-^^rnT^ i • . . T * » SSS^H^SSSB ' ef»]0|8!Ery^3t|2fal^'8r , anpport,waainjB^— hit ilfla a bartor, Uto^wa.' , Cr*totor-1oah^ ' all ^wtbwoe with two Ifaa yooa- road thto* to Ito way. '■ Jiieaili i " SwflA^ ^ i

1 lUIRIIIfalfal llTTu V. he.' «.• -' | l®tnr» CKWAFAax,' ' wJSEJwSwf-.uSefr C : S£*I E23SSTp!£ ; , ahfa.hhd tfatoaU atM^ My aectloo J . ¥ »». Wfi >,"&>■:»*«?- "ffl h : Detrp— A tow— a eeahard of t I nli ill | gpftil trtoUawooy toatoifiaa. . , httai»Oh»— liutofa-'Mfaniiito , ; t*rn altoTbo^, . auuet oorve Wot , t*to— mile Ihattotlnnntopro- , r dneew all in your, n fatto pl country, e , W*> t™~*< cknfcHT •>»« "P, , aad oatalhlly act M fact apart, wiUi a . etaja teaach to which lhay are to ha • ^ * I tatf IHfa^ih^—Utoderap, waU ' ' aaanored, for a (aw yean, and la tha ► earyt* toiagaa, torjw peewto ■ . I ff°1*^,toe *"■*** a 1 m*ieW*liileif5S«E ! I MweeenwuT-M aaiSaa J : ; , riwtiMtfaai'muijneAtem ; ; ; aoatoiot ,t« from fS» to $860. At h e MWBKPhto fchtrba madd pex ,crt of , [■ each jfrypea aa the Concord. If rifbtly ^ E i'H1. " V , . ; aw. jHWWfc- _ J mifafp*a«mac4— tothto ^ Tact that reel crape «rt bat Httte I grown hen for bedinf of liye eteok, ^ . while to Angiaod they would think it i?S3 S*e*£&&T. : , lerma, angar tateta. Wi oonaidar a aninh r«ry "poof fartnef who deee not f : grow cad* ero|n f<* hit cattle, horaea 9 ■* ao^ aheap. A peck or a half buabel I of fitt; orrtef bene, fad to cow. | had than double their Valoe Ic meal. 5 Stih^aE&Si. : ahead np for the ahoep; and hnndreda ^ I eorn, eowtd immediately after the " ! fact hoeing, and bracked in— that ia, msmmKorea ber let you will be able to fc : earrat coed at foll»wa: We mix it , with eaad. then plead H in the arm by . htlM4«}fcJi.:»ie.k * log warm water occarioocily ; and aa toon at it bacioi to germinate we ap read St ^WfoVt Mil AT. aad tVnmed'atoly tow the mixtare, eaad and aU, ' »A$:to»w-«toibwto(toito *** *»; ? grow the carrote art ap. .,:flnw^Hoym. ■& * Itto the beat Uy to aet grape rtoea ' imam •eUtf MI NfaaTMMfa dimate. Ia * I rQ,i^Tt l^p^oil figgr- ^ilili'l ■ ; avU aSSSamr. i a.'uT,.^ « Hcdafnamwaad dto m alow the ■' isw&far tixz: ' oMrah^ta 'alt dtvaegoto. Cram atx to ' w*qmMM„uM ■ ^ tbey an free or alow growara. d ^teSaSRKr'^ ' ' the toat year, waa— ahotod not be 1 : : : f qwwd la Ih&UtoJ banner Ud plow- d ' ad uadar, mttt^: R iy oorerad too 1 ' ^ 1 I MM R (aTme'^i.'for b r to—, twtore It U plowed under. If :iu~=g=.; - ken tha ifasnara cuieCaad grow Uw • &K<aMk * «ae—to ' nfay to a:- > I Pian.au. rather aUmioAte-fmale) or ' I pfatilMo tha pwtAatea • whtoh arytaaow br tbtfr neoll dattjit I — I «erwrt without toA,— >1— » ' . Any.*.*— ,«V, Mrttog.ateaat- "« . «ate rvtttoaa--' w r»» * -.hrra ef ^ ( •jla»3toM«Mto<I Crf phnu.uocld I t hoe iorW wicTU'geod for r / ' V- ■ ' . '

thi» porpoae; and any Uha—Uh eaa r^sirjtr medinm-alxed ones, with Want «nd», ' and you win generally gel throe pallet* to one rooater, aa Ufa egga with " one end .mall and petotod prod ore ' lihe moat cocfca. When a hen baa aet day. the egge ahould be lealed at j ritality . Held them np to the tan, with your hand enciretliof there, aad j all addle onee will allow the light to reflect through than, while the good ' bate will appear dark. Tbta often ' aEowx the eggi of two bee*, eet at the j tome time, to be pat together when eaCngb are found to be addle. , « *fa« TatoiffM. * Frederick Doug lata waa traveling j »ilh a friend of another color In a ( part of the couotry where pnblic ten- , tiinea^ wae bitterly hoetile lo the aa- ! aociaflao of colon. Tbey atopped »t 1 torero and dined together, at which j , pec lade the Tillage, growicr and ' grombllng abbot the atore in The bar- ' roeao. waa imaaediataly dUpoaed to j tnnchief. The bar-room philoaophtrt . •were aadly troubled for the honor ot | their color. "What buaincaa ha t • man to bo travel ing and eating with a ■ — nigger, anyhow ( If he "doesn't | know wbat^a decent, -Weil teach , him." Thi~fcrowd waa, indeed, rcry < hnMeua to give the offender a few ' summary lca&off In decency. They ' ware like dneiiau, dho hare a iodic- - conceit that tbey know what i ia. Dooglaaa alipped out quiet- < \r, and. reluming after a little while, ] he remarked to hia companion, in a , gejod -humored way. that be had .tuai , ae«a a eery alogqlar tight lo the i etable ; and tbe crowd turood to hear 1 whqt It wae. "Vou'II hardly belteye j it," aaid Douglaae, addretalog hta , companion aa if tbert were no one I elae In tbe room, "but I gave my 1 white mare and tout bay horae four J quarts 'of oat* each, aod there th«y [ are, eating aide by tide at quietly and < cdateMedly as if tbey wen of tbe 1 tame color! 'Tie nioet extraordinary !" 1 He did. not laugh nor wink, but made \ hie remark with a timpie aiocerity { waa irieaiatable. There waa a I mpmaot of aDep'cc. Then came the J echo, Human wit bad epoken, and , a human heart aoawceed. "What | cueacd foole we are!'' raid one of the crowd, tenUnUeoely and a laud i [ laugh followed, which aeaUarad like a , buret of sunlight the gathering eiaud i of miechievoue mtooUoB. A. Utile tact had been a hundredfold more effectual ia mehlBg a prejudice than a eeriea of aolomn Ircturea.— Edltijx'i ; aay Chair, in Harpor'e Magaiioa | for April. toUgiaea'Eiietoaa, < ( . She wae a lady named Magrudrr, I aad somewhat strict in reference lo I family morale. Indeed, while Mr. | Mag ruder wad a good man, and' cn- I deavored to diachargw his dpliea at a < parent with 'p&pri«jr,>itWs ricwa i to U> what really raM/.ldH*1 oft<in 1 too counter to tha atom entertained i to the ambject by hit wtfr, and .he i tod spank. These diffbreoon on a I rawtato ipn— ton ajw Utoa daacribed by < a common friend: < j "I called at. Mag ruder > the other i morning on my way doaro town, aad | ra lkaar thom wall,!^ rotared the , aide door without knocking. 1 paa. i allocked to. find Mr.'Magrnder proa- i Irate on tbe floor, while 'Mr*. Megni-i , dor eat on hi. chtslvaad rumpled ! aaooog hia hair aa the bumped hia < head ou (he hoards and eeolded him I jrigngoufly. Ttayypee when I came i ia, and Maunder, to to wiped tbe < blood from hia near, tried to pretend i It ril ooly a Jake. BtoMra. Magru " 'Joka! jake! I ahould think aot. . ' I was giving him a dressing dawn.— ' He wanted to tore family prayers before breakfast, and I was determined jto tore them afterward ; and as lie Threw a Bible at me and bit Mary itone with 'toe hym-book. I touted down on him * iV I cant rak this ho—, lit k»bw why. I«k up | ify. ' bear me, Magrudrr T Ifa more , trouble regu latin' tha piety at thia ; tally than rtraOtW a rew;mlll.- i Mary lane, girt year pa that hymntoitoi'*, . .. t ,-I laft before the axarcraea oegao" —Editor's I»awer. ia Harper's Mag axioe for April. ' ' Wan far the Cawltoenlnl. I . Among the special priaea already ' promised for the Ceatennlal Bahlbi- , ttoh'it PWtedelpWa, are the follow. Kraom thevtorara Oattta Ctab, to ' : ibMxuMtorfrito toraimM4Mh.i | Worn Mesara. B." K. Bliaa A Sous, , , New Trek, for the best display of f potatoes In pecks, fcSC. From the Produce Egel«* of , Philadelpbia, far thohtwt exbifaRwo , ^SaS^LradraftASera, ! Pcilntolpiiisi for' the beta dfajday of neHlilea TIIT1 ^bm Maeere. Peter ilendenon A ErsH-FHE'

■ " ^*TtoeeA^WL$Bffto.^hafoT*.i •. . 17 the wile off A lahonw ou thaaaHroad, ' era aitcorered idurfleraS at Change J wa^er, Warwn^jgwwtV^' ^'fHer 'fioi- 1 baud was sarpected ofth. crime, but ' after at horoaghiwrratigatiou.be waa ' discharged from custody. - Nothing < wto board which jade 'a ' cine to the ' commit^g the deed,unlil late ' lo - February, when the -attention of ' partita In KfoWnrtarMe -was railed to 1 the-fact that t pireon Wid boAxrrea t- ■ ' cd ' iu CteTelaniT «ia#sdd. Willi , tha crime. Tbe. facta which caused i1 tha dewtapmeotof thr- cetme arc aa ' foUdwt; ' " in a house Nh'. fe Chpffeld street, '■ CSarelaad, Ohio, atoaS uamed Joha i Cunningham t« WrjoeltJy bektiag hl» j wife ; he ha. her ,lowo Upou the floor andia about lo iroih her 'faoe with' hia tool, when, lb lertbr, she cried 1 out! ' '. . kB.. . "Doa't, doo% ftw God's txkt ! or , ; you will rp order jpfu m^pdCred , Cunuingh»ra. a lew flaya after waa ' I placed "in quod? rotaboa|ng hie wife. The cry which the wpmap uttered wae i orerheard by ooe Jamee" 0. Duffy, a , who, at toon, to Qtoafagham . left the houae, approach rd'thc Woman aod told her that he had heard the re- I mark aheraadA while Gqflntogham i *A» beatftfj tor. Ile'aiked' her what | it meapU The WooaMhMbared t«r-, , rihly alafmod and refilled to tea.-' She aald ahc hated .Qanqugham and deeply fearedhtm dret wh& ia b|e pre- i eepce did everything W tojtffl tor to. , Finally, after much urfdpg, the made the foliowlngatatemetd- . "My name it Elixabeth Beid,- ' I have lived with John Cun: ' niugham a great faany yetoa.and had , children by him. We hafe njver been married. Sine years age we llTea , opposite lUaton, P«^. la-llaw Jetaey. ' One morninwto^ebrtovi'W®^ Cun- I ningham arose aariy lo the morning i and told we ha wto ' gptng bff, He , inokahatchel M bim ttet lH . cul kindling WOtw wflh,' (h» 0W)I before. He hq(j wor>ied.<iB Iht Stor- 1 ria and Basra Ballraad. . ,H« tome,, . back, in the ernotng lOMtlni very . atrangely. I saw, thai h( haff Wool hia clothing. .1 wto alarmed, ' and asked him what he be#-heqp doing. He aam that , he had beeh < down the road a few miles. KTfcen' j taking hold of me, he told me that Se ] had killed a woman and thrown\her down n little batobwAJ. I saw thai he did not hare the hatchrtwith him. He eald that .to, .had gope Ipto the Cocniugham waa arrested, brought ' thia State and is now In tbe Balriderejall, awflti^g We cdurae af the A BeTleW (q"S#rih.erfor April of Mire Alcou'a fast bqoii containa ilie foUowiog io reganl to "etoug:" Mlm A loot l baa been ao especially condem jed in Kbgfand Oil this score, that it amtoljiopin.toVept^tJ that (cUow-oouuteymen should make cause a matter far latcroatiocal protest . Tar much ofllte eri tin an, -u baaed on that ratrtorflioary theory of our British equates, toat is Itoy alone who nra antllied. -as Faraaui Hugh eays, "•»' make frtuera af En-' glikh.'' Oud wtrflfll ^Wult that a child' a l.uodi. J yrarr Cr'.J mij'1,1 he eulllcd to some voire ia, airaBgioa bit own i vocabulary* hok tbo Uiaory noma atUI to prevail in edme huartert, that aH : n«; An-.rricaniams,' liowrv, r India.1 peoaabie, are alaag. tgari -ail , new. AnAcWut, boweyec Uncouth, are cbWUT 'A g»(M aorcfiqje hn lately , crowed } to A&fiC^PA Amtojdan' ' girl who was playiagxroquet in Eng1 land laatwaaawf "WhhUnakorrid ecralcbl" said aht tntBgnanUy, when b*r toilet <n>te °y^T?W abemieaod toffAta.ir'Sfa.faJ eaM an English cousin, "you should , not nee aueh ehog erpreealont" , "What ahofiH l Wtoldt^ kakerf ' the American.' . .".V/to.i.i'ial't harj J said,*' replied .Ato Bogbeh aaaidan, > after canraaeing her Tocabulary -for a pertbelly nneice^tiodible phresl— I "J*" might lutve "aai2, . " JVh'at a : tataWUtrareA-m.': • rn Al ah ales Stem Ayril. - if Opaoa with an iatemUbg article oa Bir JaobtjcHeyobi(fa'l|terioMob-af the "*ra wherry Glll^'^)qatA^od Tread adrairahie ruprodgctfav °f ttopeioting Itself, which forma the fronlaapiece af moat prominent, perhaps, pre Ctoilye L. Braoo'a article on "Tha EoorJIoyta ' Aator House." .which givaa many . a in using aod palhdtie— dtora a - New-York aawaboy W Ufa, and U i raprtaH^tuyafaRt.M, Wratfi and Frank K. tooehteo'e gapar an the ■ coming Centennial. Eab.baten, or i "AmericaW Birthday Barty," with I fteSra afahortaral btitdiaga, ■ ' Aa for .otodrar ..f How a Geoxiy . tread Ofaed BoiUnt'ld* a narratfae . , which, wBATtaaawUeaqiilnairaitena, - which could teuto-^anactoiiraal ' among tha dwrllera. by the eerat 1 r inland lakra; . nod -.lbe. tortaora.af a 1 ■ jgagsv ts&sS '■ 1 continue their adventurous ionroer 'j^sfitssF53; - ; , of the henadytoatar ^Biitort dtraet." ] , with a picture of the a table -studio, < m&g&j&sff U ' Giria" jam vary ee eat Merew. by H. i i H^ttoAat$aDtalHO>irtyTra»le.'' < gpodthinga. a^th" u we^ni fa 1 BL, — *^.,mteAftrai. i SjBlMIE

'»&?** — * [ Brt Hit tend, fa ac article in Scrihfor Apru ipeake a good word for . i, Moody apd Sankey and their methoda. i bntoeodemna (be ordinary tttoaraot , He sayt:— There fa I tlaaa of eraogelisU who go from i . church to church, of whom moat clergyman are afraid* and their fears thoroughly well grounded. There i : nr{faa,N0e will aay, a strong religious i i tiercel in a chorch. Everything i " karats favorable lo what ia culled I • " tl revival •• Some well roeaniog 1 ' member thinks that if Mr. Badiof • cob hi only come aod help the fatigued .pafcfor, wonderful results would folTbe pastor doct not with to aUnff in foe way— it auapicvoua that to' has unworthy prejudice* against ■ Mf. BoiHow— iriea to uver come them, >'anfl Mr. Bedlow appears. But Mr. Bedlow utterly ignore* tha condition of tbe eberch, and, instead of scoaitifefy apprehending it and adapting hiltoelf to the line ol inflaenec* already in progreae, arrests everything by* an attempt to start anew, and carry on operations by bis own paU-nt metbad. TSe dret movement Is to get the pastor and the pastor's wife and all thh prominent members uj>on their knees, io a eonfeealoo that tbey bays - bebo ail wrong— miserably unfaithful to lheir duties and tbetr trnst This is the first Step, and, of oourse, It establishes Mr. Bed low iu the supreme p-wltibn, which ta precisely what be doeuft essential. The mat bods and cArtroWng influences of the church are uprooted, aod. for the time, Mr. BMloW has everything bl* own way. Sdme are dteguated, some are diebfartened. a grent many are excited, anff the good result*, whatever they may seem lo be, are ephemeral — There ,iPh,v(tq(fV tp\ lfw* * reaction, and in a year the church acknewl- , dires to iteelf that ii ia left in a asndiUoo tbau that in which Mi. Bedlow found it. The minister ' hue bees shaken from his poise, toe church ia dead, and. whatever bapjteoa. Mr. Bedlow, still going through td» process elsewhere, will not be foWted ltore again. (Jesif Wnafolngten. George Waahingtoo waa a oonspicuaua and beautiful instance of a man L who minded bla own butioeaa. bupporattot an iotelligcot person living , io one of the European centers of ciT- > IUxaUod had been asked, about the i year 1770, what man then over thirtj •even years of ago waa moat likely to be the typical greet aod good man of • the modern world! Would he have r aiagladout the Virginia militia officer i at that lime busying himself with the care of hia plantation on the Potomac ' and whateveraoeialdntieaanddeliahta or 'Whatever polite politics were coo- , voaient and appropriate? Tbe strong i point about Washington waa, that the I duty- or the pleasure, the ceremony or i the self sscrifioe that lay in tbe way, r he enjoyed or performed without ' . shirking, and to the very beat of his ii ability. He did not, aa a youth, lis awake o' nights wondering "what he P wauld.be wbenhegrew up to "be a 1 man." When to became a mau he neither imagination nor geniI ns, hut he had sue of the traits ef I genius, namely, ^concentration. He .1 put bis mind upon hla praeenC occu- ;. pation, without looking back or looki ing abend. . He pngiqeered, fought - tbo Indians, rode horseback, wrote i' letters, went fox bunting, attended .' qhmrah, propsapd te yougg women, I conducted campaigns, and coyeroed i to* United States, eacb a the prpper L tiara, and noch with sincerity of puri poena") aasjduity. We do not hear t of his swearing often* but when he r dfa.it was .thoroughly and effectively 1 dose. 1 f be seems npt to have been [ as successful in the matter of matri- • wooial proposals as iu olber occupai lions. w« mutt remember that the . ceotenniallj revived old wlrts' tales l o( trail - et"1 .iadUcrela refusals of Washington by tbe laid old wives , themselves, must be taken with a few ' grains of defsrrojial allowance. -6'crik- ' utr/er ytfil. I lullitr Iter April. The history and - ctoracteristica of i Vale College are sketched by Piot. Bsqrj quite luliy in the leading article ; ot Scribner for April* and the 1 Illustrations, over thirty in number, i cover a good deal of ground. The i fourth paper of Clarence Cook's acnes on furatture, relates to mantle pieces, . corner cupboards, banging shelves, . etc., and is illustrated, as usual — i Two brief papers fa Ibis number art i of special (merest, namely, a revised . translation of the "Diro Ira." by j General Blx; aad a hitherto uopubliabud fatter by Miiusier Everett to ] ; John Quincy ddalae, proponing, fa ■ effect. Uut Spate should mortgage ] Cabs to the United States, aad thus | .rattle a.twxed qaratteo for at least a i hundred years Of "Gabriel Con roy" i there are 6*e cbaplere, certainly not 1 acting In Incident or interest; end . Edward Kvenit Hale's "Philip No- i Friends' ' emuOnaes- under lhe_ , chapter bead* of "Life oo Ito f , Braseoe," aod Stemon af Wan." ras'S®!# i Family in New Tort," aad poems ( by John G. Saxe aad others, oomplete I tbe lint of prose eoatribotione. ] - A laooc other "Toptes" Dr. Hoi- < faad dfartmees "BevlvaU aad Evma celisti. ' • and tbe CHd Oabiarteoatala* I brief essays oo George Washington, i Bible Beading, ete. In Use other , Editorial departments, fc.T, T. I Quinn continue* hiaauggtstioM aa to x :J3 a-Tsar-""*-'

A Fortamcoth baby which rooentJy died waa raaaraed by a father and mother, two grandfathers, aad two grandmothers, three great grandaad three great grandmothers. Upon the death of a Danbury woman, who was a chronic borrower, unfeeling neighbor ofaeerrod i "She won't be buried there a weak before ehell be raiting on the other tenants for their flowers." A Western pspor make* tbe following correction i "In our obituary notice of Mr. yesterday, for the phrase 'He was a neble and plgi headed man,' read 'He was a nobis ; and big-hearted man." Becchcr says: "Etutj man that lores hia country would fain take a . cloak aod go backward and cover the i shame aod sin and sorrow of the ■ miserable spectacle that humiliates : us at borne and makes us a sbame1 stock abroad." He waa alluding te i Belknap, not lo blmtelf at all. In a Saratoga cemetery la a tombstone with the following inscription: "Emma, dau'r of Abraham and Matilda C.. aod wife of Theodore 8., died Aug. 16, 1588, &. 36 years, i leaving five children — married tco I young against her father's will. — i Blngl* women take warning." A country editor oace received the i following. "Dear Sir i I hare looked i carefully aod patiently over your I paper for six mouths for the death of i some individual I was acquainted ' with, but as yet not a single sou! I . care aoytbiog about has dropped off. > You will please lo have my name Tbe envelope makers and printers . assert that the Government loses , $700,960 a year in tbe manufacture of > postal cards, to aay nothing ef the i cost of carrying tbem a* mail matter, i and tbey claim that if tbe Govern - t tnent should sbolish stamped envei lopes, wrappers and postal cards, it . would rave (2.500,000 a year. , The line which divides But Jersey i from West Jersey, culled the Providence lingr-wil! be 300 yean eld an tbe 1st ef July, and one hundred and three days elder than the Declaration . ef indepeadott*. It will bo ta Older > u> celebrate the event by walking - oyer the line, from Egg Harbor to I Carpenter's Poipt, on Ural day. A Colorado paper, .pyyirg of a s recent wind storm, aaya that tha gale F was thickly freckled .with things a strange to tbe eye, things Hying and f dead, that flitted hither and thither, e going and coming, appearing and r disappearing among the rolling hils lows of sket and dust, shingles, c barrels, coal buckets, ashes i nd cini dsrs. fragments of frame houses, - horses, mules aod wagons, while now I and thro a human form scurried b down the gulcb with tbe rush and r roar ol the tempest. , Every ooe moat remark that a • t favorite article of winter clothing Ira I children ia a comforter swathed round a Hie neck. Thia ia a great error; tto a feet aod the wrists are tbe proper i members to keep warm* the bom and s tto throat will harden fate toalthy • indifference to cold; but that muffler, f exchanged for ao extra pair of thick I rocks and knitted gloves, would pre- ■ serve a boy or gtrl really warm aad - well. Bronchitis and sore throat t have declined fifty per rant, since tto b absurd uae of high collars aad twice1 round neckerchiefs went out of fash- , km; and if tbe poor would take better I rare of tbetr children's feet half tto r infantile mortality would disappear. . It only roate two pence to put a piece , of thick fell or cork into Use. bo( torn of a boot or shoe end the difference ia 1 often between that and the doctor'! r bill, svtttt^Dcrbapa. Ibe undertaker'# ) besides. Harper's Hsgaslae Far April. , Harper s Moyori*, for 'April, With , eighty-five illustrations, contains a rich variety or matter, tuitwl to all 1 classes of reader*. > Tb. end or the iSeeood Book of r "Daniel Rereads, " George EUot'e . new novel, U given in this Number. In these chapters the hero of tbe story appears, aad the masterly sketches of hta youthful career ara even more beautiful than tto picture* r PreT kmsly gt ven of the ' 'spoiled cbfld^ Julian Hawthorne's "Garth" is ' continued, and few reader* can resist i the peculiar feseiua tlonv of this re- , markablc novel. A stogy of considerable length, en- > tilled "Uid Gardiston." is contributed by CcnsUncc Fcuimore Woolqou. U ia a Southern afary, aad Ifaflififti Ins . are strongly drawn. Throe excellent short stories are contributed iy Arthur Hastings, Anna C. CGrarev. aod Mary K. Uigbue. . In view of tto Centennial Exposition, soon to be opened te Philadelphia, Mrs. Rebecca Harding exceedingly eatettafafaw oa "Old Philadelphia" will be road everywhere with tha greatest Professor Samuel Lockwoo&<* ' sscsMBSgfepg . curious result* of microscopic investigation. Tto "Fust CcBturv" paper thig mouth, devoted to "Progress of the Fine Arts,'' ia ooi tributed by S. 8. Consul, and ia tlluatrated with sixteen fmtfagwilh that of Johh F. Keneett. hie characteristic alvic^aa atoilnlcd oo '-St. Joholaod," a brauOfal . halite couctived years ago by the Rcv.^r. Mubieoberg, yed now in *QTto* F^li tot* 'Easy Chair, pays a Italy aad appropriate tribute to I Thomas Paine, as tto author of "Common benae," aod to rote, coo- . j aidsrable epmx fa Household Jilt.