STAR OF THE CAPE

•1*200 yud. which > ”ni»n oonld' crowd "ito hii watch fob or pocket-book. Iho foreign reaident population of

• of tbs fiity-fonr yonng i id cad eta at Weal Point

d during the peat wt* twenty-two pa&aed the examina

~ere admitted.,

A peach orchard in Maryland contain! 1,013 acrea. At the height of the peat aeaeoa, 600 handa were employed in picking, paring, and '— **-- fruit, and the daily work 000 baaketa, or30,000,

valuable and beantif ul o there, and when any of you ■■ -Tend a few honra plei itably, I will give yi

And for all time y

here. I ehall enjoy your aociety a over yon may favor me, and II fe will do her beat to emu And now, my friends, a

ibscription from

Tom Gardiner frankly answered,—

“ No, Panl, I, for one, am satisfied.

Tour enjoyment is the beet." And the other two gave assent.

And never again did the yonng men speak slightingly of Pan! BntnalL They visited him often after that, and " in oath his roof they learned lessons ui life that were to profit them in the

codling time.

abont 4,-

this State a

5 and doesn't mean to. He began with a 1 capital of 1800, and, by strict attention 1 to bosinces and economical living, haa

' i creased it to 1805.

An Indianapolis husband notifies all persons nut to let my wife, M is, have morphine," and in an app iz says, as a particular favor, that his friends will not let him have any intoxicating drinks of sny kind, unless prescribed by a physieian. sbody is responsible for the story ■—— becoming of sleeping oorseta, for the purpose of „ ibeir figures good. If this is true, American ladies will not ha so

few years hence,

sea nymph, whose father a livelihood by plowing the ny deep, was asked if she knew the net of the seasons #f the year. The K ' 1 readily replied, “Tee, there are ir—the mackerel season, C

the herring e<

" The M^etcra shall provide ter the teaaDMsadMpfMrtef a thorough and rfl

togJaEXgljunStaJIf iSTwmg X l^hscwe'tLanaiaberof |wmiparegn

Morgan, of Princeton, visited Woe tern Indians, by direction -* the Dels wares oonferred o, they said, had -‘lity ar* — chief. ite volution ary War his enthusiastic admirers dubbed him a saint, and he was established under the name of Bt. _ '.the patron saint of An was inserted in some •■rated

r. Or

numerous society of his votaries

first of May in

ar“~i

,f Philadelphia, their ith books' tails, and

lendeome rural place t town, which they oalled the wtffmun, when after a long tali, or Indian speech, had been delivered, and tb galnmet of peace and friendship ha been dnly smoked, they spent the da in festivity and mirth. After dinnei Indian danoea were performed on th freon in front of the wigwam, the oali mat was again smoked, and the eon panv separated. Binoe that time, Phi adeipbia. New York, and perhaps sonu other plaoee, have had their Tammany BooietiSTTammany Halls, etc. In these meetings their soeietiee make w_» — ogg Jgu,* (a Imitating the Innnner of doing business, as well

ciety has been an active faction of

Utical party, and exists nowhere but in

the oity of New York, where

i civilisation, Four-

Prom the life of the late Chief h oa Chare is taken the following lets rittan by Mr. Chare to Jay Cooks. “ * * * Yon informed tee two _. me weeks ago that yon had purchased » shares of Philadelphia and Erie dhoad stock for me. At that ti— * ae eipectiuK means of payment

term in Ohio, and would d to bold the stock for ale, however, lies not;

and I have, therefore,!

bean able to make payment."

“This morning I have yonre of yee-

Sd^-^s “ *■»

gires a profit of •4,200

A keen, satirical light shot Into the grey eyjK, and with almost a laugh, she “I dpn’t know ss there’s any law against s man's bnying e »i"~ •• nwants to. Yon needn't

ornrit,”

"Then yon will sell him

"I.did not say so."

Bet yon meant it—yon Implied H r

" No. The word was prompt and decisive, and the tone had a dash of

bittarnaas is it. “Tnat '

and bronght np oa this fi I was, and here ha will do his work,

id live and die—same as I shall."

She sat down again as she said this, id the dootor, still leaning on the ire, eonld hear the spft oheel, oh eel, . leel-will-oheei, as the milk streamed

into the pail, fore

of Misa Fntnam'i “S'." .......

ealm, active, eaff-, would be among sick people, especially children, whose mothers were generally

dom the voice of kith or kin was there, and new a little chjM pUyed round her door. Musing thus, he did “Ot natioe that the pail was full nnbl the straight, lithe figure stood before

e thought how Invaluable sachi

I" l »»g yonr pardon, Mias P I hope I have not offended yon.' "No, “she answered, "I do a e easily: bnt," and her voioe grew bitter than before, “ I am not in the habit of raising stock to tall, and I hardly think it would pay. at my time life. »o take np the br^ BTliteuSe she had t>

h her

milk, with a sharp rjng against th tom of the pail, and to this tone the dodos walked away, Uilnk W Tt- —« oalling to see ftrand it down with scarlet

gSaa.st a fool I am," she said, n • to keep that lawy little Bnl his head off while that r eeds him. He is a good m e drag of a set of shiftless n * kept him poor, bnl Ign nobody ew knew him to tefnse to b apereou In trouble. He was klnf father;" her eyes aoftened aa "longht of the long and weary illn nKiistSiaais ■ ’ is always aervine/' and hsved this coneJnsion, Miss Pot-

Handsome fortune. And is the foree of habit thal ing I leave home, go to a room where I — beggars eking my cross when I go back to my n my usual dress, and reti of Farepa*Bou. I. have recently heard some tonehing details connected with the lest boon of — ao3’*spiriU daring the days that immediately preoeded her death, and one day, she not only rehearsed the whole of " Lohengrin," bnt also entertained come com- ' " That nigh t her child

delirious, wildly aoenslag hi >1 VI uaving caused the death of h ild by imprudence and over-exertio d in that stete she oonUnned till fa

d is'sadly 'broki and spirits by l rti he i a no» «

iKS,

" Be saved by yon I Bather a thonland deaths 1 Yon have killed Lniz, jsve killed my father, and now yon would save mol Never I Bnt, before throwing myself into these flames, lighted by yonr m'nrderons hands, I would tell yon, brigand, wretch, menster, that I corse you I 1 ' And she dlsP Kis is the civil war in Spain !

Tory Good Pay.

Dickens lived at the rate of $50,000 perdumm. He expended mnoh money " traveling. He was fond of ooatly, - ■’ — it displsv. He left

le of *400 000. His

to the

ways show very badly to . travelers —ong the line. Often the smouldering flames, partially —' *—* principally a atifl „ and creep along for days, glacier like, bnt none the less surely because leisurely, until, striking some favorable tract, itspreada,

railroad track set

miles in their n prevented fire is incalculable. Bee him the little beginnings stamped ont by the regular watchers of those having property along the line, many chance

great loss, and thoi

■ in forming _ —,, to travel during the t-odrirtg?

rongh the leading cities «ir G.._. Britain, be is said to be totally indifferent and spiritless, possessing scarce • shadow jif histoid busings energy remember the grand farewell performance of the Parepa-Boea troupe in

New York;- the crowded hoi overwhelming enthusiasm, the

A Gennlae Cpaa. The old tradition of the Upas tree, lasting all vegetation within reach of s influence, has had a wide range found ready belief. Bnt it is i 1 1 that the barm comes not fi but from gas of

from Bartlett Springs there is what died the.Oae Spring. Thisisorobebly the greatest oorioalt* of tbs ■ tains. Tbo water is ioaiold, bnt bling and foaming aa if it boiled; and the greatest wonder is the inevitable deatrnotion of life produced by inhaling the gas. No living thine u te be found within a circuit of one hundred yuda near this spring. The very birds, destructive properties by bolding it a faw feet above the water. It stretched ’ ' ' i two minotee. It will kill a being in twenty minutes. We aver it five minutes, whan a

ISfiT-fiS, realized

_ *100,000; fata last pi “ readings," in England, bronght in *25,000 ; each of. hit longer stories yielded from $75,000 to *100.000 on publication. He derived, in addition, s large eontinnons income fror ‘ L - oonstant sale of bia works. Hi . periodicals (" Household Words " and •• All the Year Round "1 yielded a clear profit of *20,000 per annum, with very little trouble to himself. The "OhristBtories," published in many

roporty ah itingnishn

orchard, through which the trains ran, when ss the cars came along lie stopped in idle onrioeity to gsso at them. As they dashed by he saw a live coal fly from the locomotive, and almost immediately s flame hurst from the dry grass among which the fragment fell. Wlieth,

coal hsd been carelessly ' a.-— (aOs

profit, i

them r 260,000, which, s cents on seoh copy, *7,600; and so high — that one American pcblfshcr paid him *5,000 for a abort and indiflhrant story, merely because, poor though it was, it bore bis name. Bo, too, Dickens was most extravagantly paid for two very inferior teles, or rather sketches, entitled, "George Silverman's Explanation" and !’A Holiday Romance,^ published In two Boston magazines. His SfMgL Mindl«L M thu *2,500,000, which is probably twice os mnoh ea Walter Scott made during his brilliant wonderfully saoeeaafol career. question aa to Dickens might be—what did he do with all this money f

A Eureka (Osh) paper s, first appearance in Eureka the other night, and he introduced himself as • Cemetery Bam,' gave the perHoniara of his receiving the patronymic, end stated that ha was from Pioehe, —lea ‘gun-fighter, 1 am' - ’ " “ — we -any who doubled e evening, and by din’ nor—seoh applied.es turonaistances islanded—he snoeeeded in lading mac If with nectar ere the midnight ■nr. Then ho girded uphtr— * dared Ms dcterminslion rpee factory, bnt in ctims might know wl honor of being ' ss?r~Sr-.

the fragment

— — —ai pad bean carol from the eab-sldo or had the ash-pan, and had been

sideways by the motion of the ear, no eonld not tell. However, by the aid of faii'boys he managed to nip the flame then and there, after a few vards only had been burned over. Had it spread, not only would the orchard. have been destroyed, bnt the woods snrronnding it msst hare become ignited at some

Tlctor Hugo’s Love for the Outcast, Victor Hugo's activity was really re markable. In 1832. barely three yean if ter “Hernanl," ho had completed two other dramas, one of which wae tc

aside by official prevision, not unbacked by public disapproval, and yet its reoest revival st the Porte Baint Martin was looked for with more interest than Its production hsd been.. The plot is well-known : Triboulet, the ehapeleas buffoon of Faneis L of Fmuoe, encouraged him in his lawless invasions of private life, and ealogiles his oorrapt habits; an old man, St VsUier, father of Diane Do Poitiers, upbraids King with the sedaction of his dan„_ ter ; Triboulet, who hsss dsnghter too, seoflk st his grief ; and by a jnat retribntion,what haa happened to Bt Vallier strikes him like a owrae for his cynicism—the “ Boi gal ant ” robs him -* *■'- dsnghter Blanche, who dies mar in an ambnsh prepared by bar lather for the King. It is easy to see bow fertile this texture is in thrilling dramatic situations ; and although seme of the eeenea, arising ont of these altos'' are nneemth and savage, the f mental idea of the play is not mol moral or repulsive than that of ' rion." Victor Hugo,moreover,tlir out the development 61 "Le s'em nse," (an antithetic title of A meaning), betrays that immense passion for all that Is disgraced 1 prejudice, and human injn I haa ever been diteernable i

iwellow our words, and selfish." ■1 Britnall’s cheek, i Up ; but the emowaa quickly snbdned, and s quiet smile broke over his handsome face. " Elucidate," he said, with a nod. " Why yon ongkt to nndcretand,” replied Gardiner. "I ehall nnderatand better when yon have explained, Tom." “Well, Panl you have disappointed * Ton refuse to ]>••• lost clubs—" "I find riding enough behind I—, horses, and exercise enongh inhealthiei ways than rowing—at least for me." "Bnt yon drive yourhoraes, and yet, won t enter thorn on onr coarse. " I purchased my horses for the comfort of myself and wife, not for sport." “ Yon won't pay a dollar toward onr

sappers."

" I don'tcat them.”

"And yon refused point black to sub-

scribe to onr club."

"I don't belong to tbs (dub." " But we voted yon in unammonaly." " Not by my roqneaWhowever." "It makee no odds I'anL Yon can't creep ont of that small hole. Yon have disappointed nr in every way.’’ Pant Btitnall reflected for a brief space, and finally hb'ic&eed np, with a pleasant smile, and said,— * "Boys, I think I understand yon. My carriage is aronnd at the blacksmith's, where I have left It to have a tire tightened. There is room for yon three to ride. Will you go with me ont to mv place and lunch? Ifyonwilldo so, I will try to oonviuoe yon that I am innooentof the ehargeyon bring against me. If, when yon have heard my de-

Whon he bonght of the President do Drosses the chateau in whieh he lived, it wee found that in th< of the land thete was co . belonging to a farmer named Jol Panissot, who went ~ ' his property. The been warned that, right or

raigned at the tribunal of Gex, defended by a lawyer doubtless - *- the plain-

tbsn his

the disputed laud.

itermined to appeal

agree to subscribe five hundred dollars to yonr olnb. Will you oome?" They bad nothing particnlar to do, and, moreover, they were really onrions

they turned from the highway into a winding carriage-path, flanked with magnificent shade tree#, and soon drew np before a cottage of exceeding gnoe and architect oral beanty. * ‘ sent np its ail very jot of tor upon the lawn, and it were two marble nymphs, Voitell spoke of the fountain, Tom and George declared it was b

ik It help* U re." seidPa.

they left tt

taining staffed birds and rare speoiof minerals ; chaste and beautiful ottas in marble and in parTrif, and choice old paintings in hi'-'uome frames, upon the walls. There were a writing and reading-table, and easymy snuggery," Paul said ; I take solid comfort. The profitably spent borne cheerful

deem mone

1 — purpose, be conceived the plan to ajiply to ' ' oordingly went to V ■and asked for an interview, whieh

accord ed.

"Ah, is it you, Panissot? What

"Myoo

beg yon to lend me t

enough to proeeoute my appeal I court of Dijon from the sentence

nonneed at Gex."

" What, do yon think that I shall fight me, with rods to ohaatiae “Yes, Monsieur Voltaire, man like yon, whose works are fall of generous^ senlimenta^will^ nnderatand " But, Panissot, yon are attacking Yon doubtless prefer jnstioe to a small bit of land, which adds nothing to yom " ‘ • • • ■ ■ lessens my property

which honored hi

language o' request, si

o his

oarried to the tri-

bunal of INJon, was lost by Voltaire, who was obliged to grant to Panissot the land he claimed. When the latter came to return the sum borrowed, Voltaire said to him, "Keep it, it will serve to pay the expounds of the *—* trial st Gex, which yon nnjnstly l

Tangkt to Hide. In the first lesson the'boy or girl should not he allowed to take hold of the bridle at alb A good example in ‘•'ll respect ia presented by' th* -

ridera - —iildren, boyi and girls, comic their aerie* of equestrian edneauon at abont ten yean of age, under tire instruction of a strict, sometime* a very aevere teacher. I have had the advantage st the Agrionltnral Hall of

ea of fe haute ecoie. The — e of eonree tanght to ny by balance. The lessons ^in^ the circus ring, on s pony times a soft pad is need, ■ the animal is bare-backed her oa##, until the pupils ar lead, they an not allowed _^ bridle. The pony la fastened down

. that it can only canter slowly, while the teacher restrains the pony with a Inuging-reln. and urges it ' necessary with a driving whip, eliild, whether boy or girl, eomm by riding astride, is tanght to ait upright, easy poaition, jnat like tb* Greek equestrian atatnaa in the Greek " i - the Crystal Palsoe, with th. well thrown hack, < • • • i each knee, or with —™ over the breast, ik of' bolding on by the ning forward over the poi Pestm.—Paste that wil keep unchanged in warm weather ma; be m%de In the following manner : Pa a teaspoon!nl of powdered alnm in tw qnarte of water, and let it boiL Mix u pint of flonr amoothly into a pint of - and stir it into Iheboiling r con: inning the bmling and til tire flow is cooked, and is-dear, Like starch. Add to half a tasspoonful of easanIhremgh a win gtna* or perforated strainrr, and bottle in wide most

pounding of ih

oure of dyspepsia was tl good joke the other day

ih for the

they had done to

ea. " Do yon knead yonr •I—I couldn't get dong without it I” responded the other, in the last stage of astonishment. Vermin are now gathering their harvest, and making neats for the winter. Get rid of the dogs and encourage cats aronnd the buildings. Feed them regularly, and they will hunt with doable vigor. Open np sli hiding plsora to the light, ami have paaaages aronnd and under the bins in the granary, where eats esn get in and ont. Place tin caps on , a of the corn critic. Rats, although sagacious, may be vanquished

too crowded to admit e\ __ sitting on his handle. Being tired end sleepy, he contrived, by skillful mancnaveiing, to get close to the partition whioh divided th* carvisge Into two compartments, and lean his weary hack against that friendly support. Here he slumbered nnessily for some time ; at length, to the great astonishment of the other inmates of Itire compartment, he bounded into their midst, exclaiming, “ I am' stabbed I" As the party had all been aa quiet and orderly aa possible, this seemed incredible; bnt the train having stopped at a station, the poor tailor wasted ont upon the platform by his .fellow-passengers, who, to their. great consternation, diaoovered that he was indeed bleeding profusely from a small wound in the back. Meanwhile, a hole of similar aise and abape waa found by the railway aervanta in the partition 'against whieh he had leaned, while, from the partmenton the other aide of it --- dragged, with blandied lips and starting eyes the author of the mnr- * ittack, still bolding the fatal -a gimlet. The quart assassin c be a carpenter, who had no

that than of beguiling is journey by the exer-

■e intention th

- may not b* without Never frighten children; i *•—a- np in -*

. id what lightning 1*. or thunder, or take any notice of either in their preaeiwe. It ia one of the most painful things in the world to see a child run to hide iiaelf'from a thnnder storm, and In nearly all eaaea where it does so, some one has blundered. Never attempt to control a child by making it believe that something terrible will happen to it, •• Bogie" will catch it, or the " black man " will oome for it, or terrible spectre or other will ih Those children who have been shat an in dark rooms as a pnnish-

the rffecta of in life. It ia ■re cling^to the

engrafted into them, and an firmly ‘ in cannot dislcdge them.

lel and nnwiae; gtoya them is simply unfit fc

1 night, bn a Sunday, a fire broke ont at Joy farm, near Denham, in England. Font wheat rleke, valued et £900, standing close together in a field, were completely destroyed. While the risks were burning, a man named Bleokwrll, living st D, nbsm, on examining a line of fine new wheat rleks, standing parallel w h those bnrning, 1 a middle-aged man ooucealed lieone of them. Believing him to be re detained ntm until a employed an the farm hen admitted tnat ho ilaeka. Upon being

fonnd da. incendiary, he -

sr of men oarried him by tire .red feet, and thrust his head into a burning rick. He screamed ont loadI of the police, be would have eriowdy if not fatally burnt. Hu had b.eu tied behind him, and a ' had been obtained for the purpose of patting Mm on the top of a bnrning rick; as it was, ha nemved a