Am a£!r«£T~Io« •■OooMfht' •'Saa»fi*htr lose p*!e lip* echo’d the coU

(Mr »<nriri tta *«» oixtea la

rahMbca by ihdi raert, nUrted o«

' _ ""

mate, slop* Sonndij*in hair protector’s ^^Wbat a beonty ohe u." said Major Darrffla, once. '‘PooTHBla lass I I woadar vbo she Is—yours dot, I think, Bt Clara, by Jorcl and I tesrsoons

Utss todaim her." ' ,“s

not gin bar op to anybody in the

A re ^“' “ ale? "” ”‘««k boT,” said DarriDo. Tonta BarWiraoMa- not rich ; whit can yon do with the

'dldt How the fellows would chaff.”

and I will deny myaall to aave •■Edward8t.CIaro.it is a pities that yonr father and m Saadr exclaimed Darrille. ‘'They wonid haw baenprond of their son, -- T ~sat this moment of my friond.” Ohnt I Darrille. 800, hare is _ sassaj^.^

Haler DannWa woU-prorided aaddlo-baea. •• Ten miantea' rest,” be ing .forth preriaian*. one, wake np for — TVs r-“ —

look in the great Sat eyes, which idianged to a annny smile as they

a pretty, ’dainty, ladyUha way which told, as mneh as lier appaaranoa. she wna the child of well-

Kps-S “what is y

“Well, St. Clare, H cartainly <a a strange idea for a young fellow like you to saddle himself with a baby of three 'oor years old. look I shew aaleapi” Faith, eo ahaU I be. Colonel, for It's fifty bouts since I alepta wink. “

“ I wish ho was my son," half mnrmnred the odonel, laying hia hand tenderly on the sleeper's rich olaok looks,

little bright face looked np into 1 the sweat eilwrr roioe "^A^Slldlike^inawer^'bnt ae shm m iU sad pietnre of what aha had bean and what she was now, that it went lik* - to the yoong, te heart. Bt Clare anddenly covered face, but be mastered himwU at one “I cant help it, Darrillo. I at [eat fool where women and children concerned. My poor baby, don't

"Till mamn ad little girl in g^land. and cleared

ing, subtle woman's inatinet has dan» felt that thaw w»»-«ya, a

years,

rith him honr by nonr, Lod irre^til^ oMhe ^ronth, bntthogiri^ - - - r sale him again, and haras she hid has face against Iteilme, if yon < n. Here on tbw yoor infant head was pillowed heart which has never beaten as ea&a;ra. , 5h."a—. S childish worde—nnleaa yon can be Clan'

The b

whisper.

“ f lore yon, Edward, better this I only want to be with yon. Oh,

long four yean P

.or DsrriUe smiled m Colonel Si.

date bronght her in,

I thought it would 1

tat thfa fall.

heart, arid written'^Mre ■Edward's Lon,' instead of ‘ Mamma's Pet

Well, good-night, Darrille," he L " I sn^rpoee we sha'n't see any of T °"* l -H mo, "coloaiel, oartainly, b agar that fellow there will hnlfl child. I never eaw an wake customer in my Ufa." And

Mamma's Pet" pet of the whole few and to Captain St. Claw the very light and core of hie eriateaoe, the very idol of hia life. In vain older and wf gn

“But joo cannot keep ber with yon “loan and most. I can't aflh nd her to England, and aheH do np *' Bat as she grows np f “Oh, time enough to tMwk ao present eho^oan^atoy^arisudl^ rrith 1 dies oouldnt apaw her. ’ 1 lareknow ia a few days.' The little Theodora, aa her protector celled her. perfectly idolired him, and Captain Bt. Claw. Oartainly any jnrklws docile, leas delicate and flae would have been spoiled ; but instead.

rlnffathe thirty-five sharp tarns in “the drop," and the road, just wide enough for the r * " - *

c hotel, however, a have half wild-look, as , 1 as down in a ' ’ w thankful it had “lit.'

Coder this title Mr; Shelley, a -a J-n emrineer, has weantb dome whiah ia likely k to all meohanica, oitber aa an aid ‘ — aa a pleasure. It is pwe&al text-books riens, and aU who i*" 1 * * ehanica and those I ,

salts,;!

It most be pleasant riding over acme f the mountain roads of California.

aeaignn who pate and shrink aa the vehicle dashes wild It down, and aa they ' ' ‘hem, tinder ths very wheels, the yawning chasms that

-r Joseph Whilst anooeasfnl and at Orest Britain, , , f acholarshipa as the re1 for abUlty .displayed bj_woricing- ^ "° “ *te^irtineSo? n d, ‘®* f “ ndostry, and [t books, and oa peel ally th_ workshop appliances were prepared mainly for that'class of readers. "*•- growth of workshops into plaeea science la needed -and appreciated ia well Ulnrinted by toe moat elementary thing is all tools—the standard laegOt Many of the names whleh ■arrive to the present d*y show the srigin of the msssures, t* wb'- 1 - **•“ sw applied. The “paoe," "hand end •■nail" arc exprt meaanw jnst as variblo and uncertain is those of tbe aid laws enacting T three bartey-eon£*ronnd and dry m an inch ; yet it was not until 18M I s stardard yard measure was really cured against teas in England white American standard is of still more cent orgin. When it is remembered **—* — now have Whitworth's millir

, how long employed as oondnoter u “ About seven year*, 6... “ What ^ay have yon received daring “ Eight hundred dollars a year.' '■ Do yon own the house ho. — — Streetf ■■ I do Sir." “Have you other property in rityr “ I ham." ■■ What ia its value f •■ Well, Sir, I oan't tell preoiaelj it is considerable." ' What estimate do yon place upon

Something like tMsproperty wh.

a English G

i834 to secure, can now bo reproduced oy it in unlimited quantity, we havocs fair standard of the advance made in supplying smenoe to meohanica. In other branches 'f mechanics we have shown that a return to the very ildeat shapes may be the best for

e supplies to n

prehistoric antiquity. —

meohanica have not only shown themaelvre useful in their own inventic"*

now largely in use abroad,'

No mecdisnio can fail to be helped in his ambition to become a mast.

by perusing books that gi'

history of the origin ar gradual improvement of the tools 1 tt sees in daily use in his work-

and such reading is of itself adgeo os SS showin« that inventions ■greatest utility often spring Iron

very simple problems in mechanics which none but a workman can appro ciate or folly overcome. The aami lev* of meobanies that leads boys U

luh,, (,

at home, may, by

to $13,000,000, aa the highest possible amount of currency the government could afford to pnt oat: and the Secretary mid that, white he did not expect financial embarrassment in the form it had presented itself, be had, for the bettor credit of the Treasury, been gradually aoeamirifting a large currency balance in order that he might be ready for whatever emergeney No more bonds will be purchase would any more currency be ii than was absolutely ncecasary to pay the expenses of the government, when he would draw on the legal ten- 1 — reserve fund. What was wanted in irreney bnt , protecting against the panic could not to highly commended. In se of bonds be did not adn

forty thouiu

(rife and three children." “ Will yon do me the favor to inform le how yon have been able in seven eats to support yotfr family and aeonrelate a fortune of forty thouaand dolus upon a salary of eight hundred 1" “ I have cot the slightest objection tc newer your question. Colonel 8 , rovided you will suffer me first to proound a few pertinent interrogatories

Very well. Sir, I've o What are they ?"*. ' Will yon, then, be so

“ What, allow me to a inr eatery daring that ti "I auppoee it may k amt $5,000 a year.:’ “ You have a family tc

objeol

support, if I

nght h

propriety of h thought the Departmei ’ did toted on having 1

In the year 1400, Oinevra de AmiCTa, _ Florentine beaaty, married, undo* parental preasnre, a man who had failed towinJM* heart, that she had given to Antonio BondineHL Boon.efterwpnte, the plague broke out In Florence; Ginovra fell ill, apparently snoeambed the malady, and being prononne dead, whs the some day consigned the family tomb. Some one, howev. bad blundered in the matter, for in t.. middle of the nigktJhc entombed bnde woke out of her tiiuoe. Kid badly a. ber living relative* had behaved, found her dead ones still less to her liking,

latest no time in quitting company upon whoso qr'-*"-’ unwillingly '■'■'"‘l'”

through the

swiftly ss he _ _ lowed, Oinevra sought the which she hod so lately

. ... _ lode she had .itruded. Speeding

" ,ec .P''

Nebraska's new tews impose fine* for

* —» by “any person

ana upwards."

as of the ago

ower of s day esotiooai^ figure waiting below, inface be recognized tin the dear departed, he peace, blessed spirit," * dow precipitately^ ^ step, the repulsed wife 1 her father - *— - -

A British regime

in Barmah supeditors, |iruit-

HKU.

The 1

ticket, si

noted I

I adopted a ptetidrm In fa

1 her dismayed parent.

ion oho crawled to an uncle'*, where — - . s door woe indeed opened, bnt only The Icelanders are beginning tc be slammed in her face bythefrighi-! grate quite exton*ive y to the l. ed man, who, in hi* hurry, forgot State*. They are a bright, cleoi en to bios* his ghostly caller. The healthy looking ete*e of people, ol night air penetrating the Dndresa | No '' ’ ‘ *" ‘

npoosnsry. For, the some os

hod been rendered with a snum wiu- 1 — D — -■—- , sue — — renoy balance at this seoaon of the | of the liaple** wanderer, made ber , p i, in , „( the large amount ol reio Tear, the SU.000,000 reserve would 1 tremble and shiver, a* «ke thought ene | mnB0 )„" to bo seen hanging around the lave been considerably rednood. The I had waked to Ufe only to die again in . oomera of the streets re that city. Department has no fear aa to its sbility 1 the creel streeU. " Ah 1" she sighed, I . u IPporte d that- John Bright is *- -* id fully meet every nbh- j " Antonio would not have proved so un- , to the war againot the Ashan—A th,, I kind." teon aud wtU resigiihis position in the

.000 | This thought naturally snggestedjt j Cab ’ inet ftis further prosecuted.

' die if 1 A Mr. Psbst, of Woobingtou, whoso

w “■

temporary expansion will the right of the head of t!

Department whenever, in ■- —1'<—— - ^ r-—-- — >h. nnhlic sacd raoniroa Bnch exnan- I self, and although startled by I— , „„

ghartiy viKon,^radmlyJnquirid^wb*t j p ath,

— ! her shroud away from her fees, Oinevra j b _ n . Go Forward. j exclaimed^ '-1 am no apirit, Aat.nio; | [ 0

yeatotjay—buried a

gallon. When Congress en

President signs a bill that ooo,wu.uw . ‘ —

is the msximnm ss well oaths minimum | was her d—. ^ _.. . . amount of legal tenders thst can bo ago; it would be time enough to sued by the Secretary of the Treasury, he proved like the rest. T 1 - mpornry expansion^ will at^lesst be : l.ing, but hope ren.erve.Hn ^ ^ ^

io7, | Bond inrilTB^omt He op«i«i m |t Sim- ] Es.OOO.

1 did not wish

and Ohio Rail-

“If it is Dot an improper questm what is the amount of your fortune T’J but it is samelhing handsome." " Would yon estimate it at half million doltera, colonel ?" “ That being the fact. Sir, if yon w do me the favor to disclose to me t secret of the process bv which you, ten years, have been able to traasme

salary, I will most cheerfully tell yon how I have managed, by turning an honest penny now and then, to amass the comparatively insignificant amount I have named." " That is all very well," replied the imperturbable vioe-president. ^but you slight difference 1 "between your statui and mine upon the Railroad, it ij-on are responsible to me for stealaooountable to you ^or my transao - ' r of this foot, it now be „ -/to inform yon that yoni services ere po longer required upon oui facetious conductor probably

The Ci

The great, the pressing tour, says the^N—

capturing suppl

S id men

intsud-

•k TV but*,

f the Crop move]

ho decline in Foreign Exobang jlrongeal bills, drawn by the 1 pregnable banking-houses, are KM. So far ms " mercantile hi

drafts of shipp

decline of seven | ordinary gold value.

- ployment upon another road. Would

- it be asking too much for

a letter setting forth ny ability $0 perform

doctor ?"

. If you deeiro it, I certainly have no r objections to giving you a 1 to the effect that I took upon. > most unscrupulous and unblushing ■ knave that has ever disgraced the oainr logue of our employes, and that any > company having anything to dowith you 1 will do morally pertain to be robbed,"

Imports Dorfac the Panic. It will be e surprise to ' says the J/itw For* Timet

that exportation ol our grain and products is usarly impracticable, legitimate current of wealth, ; utterly ceased. Cntil last week fra were rising, and vvcrT ivaiteblo \ crops to Europe; bnttho ^steamers 0? coarse, if allowed to coni this means dissstor to the Amt

Lord

* I Of Lord Mi

ighton adds the followinf list of Sidney Smith by ukoe

sr astouished, delighted lover, r™t roilToverflo-ed with ». for help soon bronchi down * <lood j,/*. ,| op . ' l .rore ^.d‘^ ite heroinc^o Here is the teteat deaorip e teiiderlv tended until she i kiss: " 'Twos night A r 1 . ’ 11.. .l.,„V and ... ! couple stood IU IhO pKe, 00

Then a

nnd like e

the day, oi pointment Efif

.scut-minded stranger, welking track, whore he died in twenty , withont having a scratch upon

.I-.-, u.h—— I — ->kow that ho was hurt s for pterions disap- a conductor was passing through the •, however, hod no in- J crowded car, when ho picked op s flftyng ip hiding, but the „„„[ thinplasWr. Holding it up, he

aved her from | alon^ s^r

droV ° Ui

Rondiuelli

s'enST -- b 7u

iday after they became ...

appeared in public to- j bamla went up and fourteen pona ituedral.to the confusion , — u..,i on t "I ojd.” The conductor |

Uinovra s friends. An ;),o money in his pocket,

nsued, which satisfied ‘ ,, , . .. ___ mo _ r wt ■■ > P . who deetered that the first hue- -ponding ^ ae rfre's of ^ the^K

. —^ Fori Timet, to find ■ss volume of both exports and imports was daring the second week of the panic exceptionally Urge. There was a reduction of $1,000,000 in the amount received at the Custom-house, as oompared with uc corresponding week of tost year, but the value of the import entries was oteee upon $11,000,000, or $3,000,000 above tfie average, and the produce exports reached a little over fc,500,0b0, or about $1,000,000 in excess ol the average. It ia extremely probebio that the next few weeks will show a great falling off in the value of imports, since the influence of the panic has not yet had time to affect the

of rooeipte from foreign all existing indications si

hardly fail

ic value of

,, , , r what appeared In be the crushing disadvantage*

acceptance of dref U, with bills of lading attached, from Western forwarders, to the value of $000,000. This example tells the whole etory. The farmer who does not sell hte crop will not buy ol the retailer, the retailer will not pay the j obber, nor the latter the importer In brief, with hundreds of millions of oonvertiblo wealth on hand, the wheels of trade are clogged, and nnuumbered

evils follow swift behind.

We must ship ourorope to Europe, and largely before the cold season is upon us, or there will be no testing relief. Yesterday's advance in the gold uremium and decline in freights are a isrtisl counterbalance to the fall in ‘ honge. We regard the large

of gold frorn^ England, of

tovei

Ihlteol

which cable advices mob ai

lative

They are sore to be checked i by en advance m the English bonk rate | *- -ny figure, however high, which may found neoeseaiy. The continued ' ' n of gold in thia direction

itirely npo " ‘

poaoingthrough the n , jut: “How much is b thst I do not need. Nature is oont with little, grace with loae; poverty in opinion; vAhliaBaadaaUaoomi— vided, and enough i* as good a* a feast; we are worth what we do not want; our (alone being supplied, what would __ do with marer* The shove — tenee*. which are drifting about,U

u Fk

hod received with her—* ae-1 --j—' Well we may be sure oil true I !«' “ render crop transfers

.rtily rejoiced.

Another Foolish Fellow.

osl Oil Johnny " is the pet name a young soldier named Forrester, stationed at one oi the upper forts near Sioux city. Ho recently fell heir to $25,000, and of the amount a remittance was made to him of $3,000. He got a furlough end wont to Yankton, whore, for the lost three or four weeks, ho has becu imitating to the best of bis ability "Goal Oil Johnny,’’ of Pennsylvania fame. Ho has been making it very interesting for the boys, spending money for their benefit with a prodigal hand. He drinks but little himself, and Is not known to have been intoxicated at any time;' bnt be baa no objection to bis " friends ” getting drank as lord! at his ex Dense, ao often as their constitutions ilTdotight is to drivesfoar-ia-hand, — everybody a ride; and he

Acoordiog to recent Toxsa dispatches, t is very unsafe traveling for Americans on the Mexican border. It i" alleged that outrages of various kinds

_ _ a iw!*d*ys since belle, on the oeeaslon i $200 organ. Perhi

_ be fe...Bated at once. And thus the question of Foreign Exchange becomes the ■tion of the hour, and the problem jh is receiving the grave attention

in greenbacks are looked up in Now You safe deposit companies and banks, • -id the reach of anything but the of the men who control them.

Dr. Livingstone Again. A white man, supposed to be Dr. Livingstone, is said to have been cap. tnred by the natives somewhere on the upper Congo. The story is probable enough, because it was known to be Livingstone's intention to reso Guinea Coast by a ronte pretty e to the on* which this “white seems to have been following. The Congo pursues a comparatively — known ooarss of about 1,000 mile*, we an toft to conjecture the diet which Dr. Livingstone must have L arsed since hia encounter with Stankra. Presuming that ha had jnst crossed the ridge which forms the backbone of Southern Africa, and from which the Zambesi begins IU long southeastern, end the Congo its almost equally long uorthwestera course, ho must have been about3,000 mites distant fromuejmint

day are as old a* the Greeks, and soma . of the popular joke* still older, it is not „ safe to say thst Max Muller cannot find t “Up in a balloon" in the primeval t - " may ha>e been. „

make.

An Englishman in Son Jose got taught in a matrimonial advertisement, ■pent $190 to reliov *

'•owi th* tyranny one

imaginary fa

ed outol tc # ,--- tul oof-

Mgbtf 1-ttera,

her'birthday

liapa tL_ — his regard for le bought a I

which struck hte fancy, for $75o!*anii days later acid them te a Russian mist for $130. Hte $3,000 is nearly o, end when he ha* ran through t he says he is going to settle down in Yankton, buy a livery etoble and become a prudent end decorous citizen. He is in the meantime hoping, through the influence of his ducats, to secure his discharge from the service. He toft for New York to oomptoto busts arrangement* whereby he will rare the balance of his inheritance. Forrester seems to be s right good fel- , and thongh he has been equanderbis money in a reckless way still ho has been doing it in hia sober senses, end says he hue just devoted that $3,000 to celebrating hie emancipation from a ... ... j hardships and privations,

West, and hope hte good resol be maintained, and tbnt hi have tea* frieoda than now.

Danbury Items.

There ia more blue-fishing than

other kind about here.

“How much are those tearful bi by the quart?" asked a maiden White st * ** *

e replies:—'‘Ne’ any time. Tam never bmy— —, I don't have hardly anything to I always like to see my friends.

4uL During Id* speech** _ - - ~ n assumed a peculiar tiontorly graceful pool-S'Si-'TiS I believe, had this habit. Ha ten held hit gold-’ * one hand, white «

A Pino street gentleman wee allowing a stranger over his honse, Saturday. The atrauger noticed a large collection of pot-plants in the dining-room, and said: "Yon seem to have* liking for

“ “Well, yes," admitted the isn, with a alight tings of

aa he expectorated in the direction of the most open pot, “It

taint alwaye handy to hunt np

toon, you know."

Walking on stilts it an operation that culls into play considerable agility, and this was especially the case when they made the footholds of leather. Then when a boy went down ho didn't roll over on his back end burst hte coat, ss they, do now. He wa* merely eplit open lengthways, becan se hi* feet were held, and then elappodogainat this globe ** V?e don't know how it is ,, „ thoee time* a pair of atilt* sally preserved their perpendicotor B a mud-puddle was reached, when they would anddenly and mysteriously

The London Hornet conteins

In our beloved tend

l is in b

worthy t

hands the

fhtened o

and lively skull

our members of tha Lower House of (gross have died since March— messrs. James Brooks, Of New York ; William Whitting, of Musuachusctt*; Wilder D. Foster, of Michigan, and Joseph G. Wilson, of Oregon. Another member, Mr. Ambrose R. Wright, of Georgia, has died since hte election. The charge of the For Publioa that armed United State* soldiers had again invaded Mexico to untrue. When tho steamboat Little Flete stranded on tho Mexican bank of the Bio Grande Army Paymaster Nicholas wse a passenger, with a guard of United 81*tea soldiers who seat*tod ia saving the carqo and guarded it and the paymasters ufter tending it from the wreck.

young people,” said, a Natural History to hi* class,

capacity of' toying jni

thi

ix hundred flniahee the

™ , wha&ieto done with her after thatF’ “Cut ... heed off end sell her fora spring

; bumonizer of thi ind. tending to

idly toward cach_oi

(claimed aa orohin whose

dealt in poultry, t medical man

i great bumi

re kindly i__— . —_ less disposed to crime. He instance* caraiverons animals ss being always the moet fierce and violent, and believes tt if human stomachs could have an caaional reepite by the oensnmptlon fish, the world would be *11 tho bet-

ter for it.

Let libndtt, Paris, seyv that “white (ilk is a highly digestible aliment, od coffee infusion alone te a stimulant _nd a tonlethak aids digestion, the two together form e moet indigestible substance, the tannin In the coffee converting the albumen and eaaeine into a kind ofleather. Otfe aulait, in foot, te onlv leather soup, and hence frequently

solution of tho Mormon • difficulties. He *sy* that ths waters of Salt Lake have been rising for yean, and ere now twenty feet higher then they used to be. They are moreover inclosed by a ridge far above the ’ -led city of the plain, and sooner or the imprisoned water* win break md engulf the modern Sodom end e the Mormon queetion forever, veesel advortiead for Bombay, end

The Taxes newspapers nerry at the expense of a young city nan who bought a line orchard ot two medred annto trees In Steuben county,

of them in order

ed every one of the a supply of cider.

h $40,000. Tha captain ws to take them; Itey toy m

opened, and found to sgajs&ji and reckoned on the ' ol sea, end being utterly i

Ml taking a

destroyed.