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^ss att " ̂ r f f®w=^T : t'4 I tm OLD CliOCK. "it matoo( the g«M»*qr hour*, * teoli In moments tod, ilfllwlMiMpNI ttan momenta as they flaw, • , %,jPip îHB Of the dead, • ? *' iff«ll*ftea on thee tteels> irtwr. <i;..-.. greet the &ppolnted.tNH 'o?JgB22S£xI*'- <*,.. -• * 'liifiiiiiiiiliTiii - -imiigr *».;/ -.. ' jy> tww-^nea, ; lifts iAbsT^-' hour. Measure and pastime, grief and can. Have heard thee chime come change Of M; While Hie dull ear of cold despair..,̂ Has heard, but marked thee not. v, ; * MS • 'P 2nd then art silent now, and still, While fbund thy mystic dial runi . the legend of min'a hours--thon l̂ ill, $ •:§t t At tfeeWi he darks the sun-- r . • . - - v f \ ,t y-.. "" '. • " Those rolling suns--those rolling suns, " Sfca.' • Unohrohicieu by both., go on; .. Though still each comments as it sneiV Till than* brief day ba done. . ̂ ** • V*a> heart, too, like thy face ! on It Is of g: i" r Records of passing hours may stand, But Ftaiid unmarked by movement fit, . Bjr chimes or pointing hand. . ' " " jit O, dial! art thou raised on high t ' v' To speak reproach for life's abusa?. Or Mw to eAsmr hope th« U|f ;• , Or tell Time's future u«eT , - «M future! Thou has n'*twfet to fit with it J The solemn past alon#. .. Zathnt whereon thy comments go, , «5wk-' ¥ • : • • ¥i tlftfBtBM' Y«S at least to me * '15 tBfcus plainly, thus, thy monl stands--.". 'Good deeds mark hours! Let not life he ' i#d wittmk tends. AMOS« WILD BEASTS. • Jbawe been scalped by a leopard, __ " by bears, knocked * galley west' , elephants, had my whiskers pulled by a vicious monkev, been clawed by a tiger, had my shoulder smashed by IwiD, ̂ and a score of times been kicked tislfway aoroes the street by an uglv .,"'-#10061, and yet I am alive to tell of it. f "" »ch were the words of the great lion w and wild beast king,j Charley te, to the writer, who applied to him certain information regarding the la&nner of training ferocious animals for public performances. u " Weill, haven't you got some notable instances of interference between you And death or harm which you can chalk mp -to the credit of some of your ani- ./iHfcf" • ' . c *c Certainly I hare. My pet lioness fHeee* has saved my life many times by AezTgood teeth and claws, Several times I have felt that my time had come the noble girl sprang to the rescue id given me another chance." Is she the only one to whom you a debt of gratitude in that yr&y ? ̂"No; but I once had a Mon that I Italtod ' Jimmy,' who made a. savage at- Irflft*-- me when I was performing be- Kpcti the audience. He seized me by the shoulder, ribs and arm of my right side, jnd threw me to the bottom of the cage VM mm i . 11' "7"j, uim jgUiiisJLZs ujk> «MV Itousdes as £mt as he could. Although bis claws had been clipped, and his teeth Jiatf some difficulty in entering my twammg, he yet wm breaking my tones in Une style. I made as good a jlght as I could with my left hand, in Whi&'l had a whip, and the men oot- 'giffo hnwiAfi with iron bars and spikes as «oan astlaey could, but they would all have been too late had it not been for ilfioie.' She had been lying on her belly fly asleep, though the sequel that she had been watching pretty closely. When she „ . things had gone about far |Sbong£ she gave one sharp, vicious ^zowi, and leaped from her shelf like a thunderbolt. She seized Jimmy by the $eck, and shook him as a terrier would rat till he yelled for mercy. I was Ultadly maulod, but I took my whip in my "y hand and went through the rest of performance. I made Jimmy go through all his tricks--mounting on my .jKck, standing on his hind legs, and all ^pe rest of it. Bose stood by and tpfttehed him. She noted every motion, stood ready to take hold of Ww w,*w jJ11 case °* necJessity." S îow did Jimmy welcome yont" 2* was enough to see me-- 4tort of animals have little power to ^•nnaeaber spites 01 injuries." ' ,**pjnt don t they remember' their keep-S.ii'rPJ11 •ifMSkiafier Loag .absences \ iuiu tLn^-ia'wLui,- had -mp animpis-recognize after s.11 ateenoe of Esrcrsl moaths. •^yftey would hear my voice and footstep Maud i*>mo tabbing up against the side of glhei cage and put their paws out between JJthe bars. Strange to say, they do not -iknow a man by his features, but by his Sdress and more particularly his voice. «slf I should go into my cages with *|« strange suit of cloilies, and should not |jj speak, they wouldn't know me, and iten to one the beasts would try to do me la mischief. But let me put on the ?! eptuigled dress again, or let them hear % my voice, and all would be right." This conversation led to some talk «. about how these fierce brutes are brought ̂under the subjection of man. Mr. White was? willing to impart information, and some of the results of his many years of ^-perience are given belo^: Animals taken full grown from th« [ woods and jungles are generally much 'e easily trained than those that have born in captivity and brought up _ the human hand or by the mothers ,, in the cage. These latter, or " pet" ani- : A malf, nearly always acquire many tricks ** and^maaners which they have to unlearn •4, before they can be properly taught. \" Then, too, their constant familiarity from §early cubhood with mankind tends great­ly to divest them of that fear of tlie hu- Bam animal which is the first essential in al Hit** educati°n to proper subjection. On ,t\ W «ther hand, those beasts that are k tWoaght up so as to know no sentiment '•^MSfek-jear, soon learn that their ill-temper not he. tolerated for a moment, and a fit of sulks only brings heavy pun- idpQyenl. ' " « Tbe &rst great agent in taming wild '• fmftat* just token from their native for- I est# is partial starvation. They are kept 31 without food until thev are both weak- ® r oned m starength and subdued in temper f| aad fierceness. Food is then given them ̂by degrees, always by the same person until they learn to recognize man. As soon as expedient, their claws are cut BO olosely that their power of miahief is iwajrly d<Q0trojed from these weapons ; |£ey ana t^en muzzled, and liaving be'en imMietttly accustomed to the presence oC ihe |toeper, they are then exercised in - <»ie at a time. The slightest sign of viciousness is instantly punished by a sharp blow, until tte animal learns to know the whip and to understand the word of oonanaad. The same routine Jg etmoed in' the case of lions, tigers, panthers, leopards, and all dlher Inimali of Hie oat kind, which ttttrt ever be controlled by fear, and must be constantly watched lest their iKaoherous natures break out. Tn t6s,ch frt jusip thrciujh s hoop, a piece of meat is suspended in such a manner as to be only aoo#8«ibl e by a leap through tbe ring--after a few repetitions tb«* animalsooniearosto con­ nect tiie ideas of food and the ring and the act of leaping, and will soon make the leap and be content to wait for the reward. It will be noticed that a cage of performing animals is always fed dur­ ing or immediately after their exhibition. The nose is the most vulnerable spot. A sharp blow on the nose with a whip will give a lion or tiger exquisite pain, when a hit with a sledge-hammer be­ tween the eyes he wouldn't mind at all. Next to the nose, the paws are the most sensitive portions of the frame. It is often asserted that red-hot irons are used in training animals for public Sffformances. This is all a mistake. ot irons are only resorted to when a keeper has been seized and is in immi­ nent danger, and hot irons chance to be near. Sometimes they are used to sep­ arate two large lions or tigers which are fighting and cannot be driven apart iu any other way. Long bars of iron or steel, heated toifed heat in a forge, are pressed against the jaws and, teeth of two fighting brutes. For a time each imagines that the unwonted pain comes from his adversary, but a few minutes serve to convince both that some power more potent is at work, and they quickly return to milder duties. A lesson of hot irons seldom has to be repeated more than once a year. Of those animals seen in an ordinary performing cage, the hardest to train is the black leopard. This animal is treach­ erous, and always liable to break out in open insubordination. Thus it will be seen that both in the training and the performing of caged animals, and in the keeping them in sub­ jection at all times, the one element of fear is all that is mainly relied on. Only thus can they be managed with even tolerable safety, and no matter how care­ fully managed, they will, in, some sud­ den, inexplicable fit of ill-temper, attack a keeper whose daily companion they have been for years. Despite a oommonly-reoeived opinion to the contrary, baste--the larger felines at all events--do not seem to possess the means of communicating to each other any acquired knowledge. Each one has to be taught separately. The others tell him nothing. • Among certain of the smaller amnHdH this fact does not hold, as may appear in the sequel. A full-grown, lion, not less than six or ten years old, if properly trained for the public, is worth $10,000. , A lioness perhaps a little morej on arseotint of the possibility of her bringing into the world a family of cubs. f • A tiger trained is worth aboafe...». . £<0QO A tigiesw trained is worth about... ......... 7,000 A leopard trained is worth about * '• WM A panther, not trained, will bring, aqoMrd« lag to age and size .100® 200 Training adds to the value about if 400 A black leopard, very rare, the one nor at Barnttm's being the only trained Mm a the business at present, is worth 1,000 Hie last few years have dissipated certain ideas formerly universally prev­ alent about certain animals which were notably the hyena, zebra, rhinoceros, gnu, or horned hcrse, and one Or t wo of the minor animals not usually consid­ ered worthy the trouble of training. The first, and indeed we believe the only rhinoceros tamed, was broken by Dan Rice, when he waa a circus propri­ etor. He broko the unwieldy brute to ran around the ring backwards and for­ wards, being always controlled by a long ring-rein fastened to an iron ring in his nose. This was all the sulky beast could be compelled to do. He would learn no trick, and was always dangerous. The first hyena ever trained, or whose supposed fierce nature was overcome so as to submit to being handled by man, was one which was experimented on in 1854 by Charles White in Brooklyn. He was five or six years old, fall-grown, and as full of vice as all of his grave- robbing fraternity are reported to be. The first time the daring trainer ven- shape and his great weight and tendency ~ -- f i y O O u l u u 6 b r o u g h t * t o Mr. xl' do a&^be jumps and rollingfc-ov« uul other feats of sgility in which the <fo* •o much excels. The most that to quired of him, however, is to climb poles and postal to pass around a tin oap fenr pennies, to go through various semi- military maneuvers with a stick ih imita­ tion of "a gun, and occasionally to take narr in a dmnlnfav) ftparritlg match, in which, slow as he is, he is certain to win. Sometimes poor bruin will perform a peculiar slow series of steps, which ia called a dance, and a well trained bear will even waltz with his master. Beyond the rough training elephants receive in the countries where they are caught, which teaches'them to mind the words of the keeper, and to submit to its necessary bonds, it has to undergo a special education to enable it to go through its nj»ny triek» in the uroa$l arena of the circus. Being more intelli­ gent than a dog, as tractable as a horse, as full of pride and vanity as a woman, and quite as willing to learn as his mas­ ter is to have him, his teaching is a mat­ ter of but short time. He learns by imi­ tation, and will adopt a new trick from seeing another animal perform it fan more readily than a dog yrfiLrrtffptp York Mercery. A ' " "J.-.. .* i' * ; him, mouth wide open, tasks protnid ing, screaming like an angry horse. It was evidently to be a sharp fight between the man ana the brute. Mr. White, with a huge club in his hands, awaited tbe coming of the amiable Mr. H. As soon as Mr. H. got near enough, Mr. White prostrated him with the club. This was repeated again and again, till at length he needed no more club, and from this time was as docile as any untrained animal, and needed no more and no severer correction than does a young lion or leopard. One large show in London had several hyenas trained to do tricks--they were performed by a stalwart negro, who, among other feats, fastened an iron belt around his waist, upon which were a number of hooks arranged like those we see in butcher's shop. On these steel hooks were stuck pieces of raw and bloody meat, which the animals were permitted to take off with their teeth when they had done their tricks. Their performances were similar to those of other animals, consisting of various leaps over the keeper's back, over bara, through rings, and over banners, to­ gether with taking part in sundry pos­ turing and grouping, of which the man is always the central figure. Zebras have been so often broken to harness within the past ten or a dozen years, that the old notion of their un­ tamable nature has about faded out of recollection. It is by no means uncom­ mon to see zebras driven about the ring in harness by circus managers. Tbe gnu, or horned horse, formerly thought to be the unicorn of the Bihle, is another of the so-called untamable. He has, however, been subdued to about the same extent as Dan Bice's rhinoceros --that is, simply to leading, and that, too, with the greatest precaution. Bears, those which are so tame as to walk the street comparatively unguarded, with the organ grinders, are easily taught. Bruin is simply a great, good-natured pig, rather disinclined to active exertion of all sorts. Having a particularly sen­ sitive spot in the instance of his nose, lie is comparatively easy to manage. His intelligence is nearly equal to that of the dog, and were it not for his unwieldly Frightful Suicide. ' A . RalKmni* nanor n> MAont the following account of the frigtit- ful suicide of a love-sick, man in that city: Mount Vernon place, and in feot the whole city, as soon as it was noised around, was startled this after­ noon by the announcement that a man had been dashed from the parapet of the Washington monument to the ground below, a distance of nearly 150 feet. A more desperate deed could hardly be imagined, the mere thought of which is calculated to curdle the blood in one's veins. About half-past 3 o'clock in the afternoon, a heavy thud as of something falling over his head, was Heard by the young man who had charge of the door of the monument, and going out to ascer­ tain the cause he discovered on the top of the marble base a shapeless mass of human flesh and bones; The front of the base of the monument and the pave­ ment were bespattered with blood and brains. A crowd soon gathered, but so shocking was the spectacle that it was some time before any step was taken to report the horrible affair to the propt r authorities. Coroner Walker held an inquest, the jury returning a formal ver­ dict. The only article found on the body was the following note, written in lead pencil, on a scrap of paper : Now, Miss Cobb, I leave tliee in these words, hoping to hear from you. Fare thee wall, Still forever, still forever fare thee well. Even though unforgiven, never against thee shall my heart rebel. There was nothing to indicate who the unfortunate man was. He looked to be about 30 years of age, and was genteely but plainly dressed. The keeper of the monument recognized the deceased as the same man woo, during the morning, had visited the place; and iuw supposi­ tion is that his courage failed him men, and he returned again to carry out his design, if it was a case of suicide. A lady 'and gentleman were going up to the tcip of the monument just as the desper­ ate descent was being made from the outside. The lady, not knowing of the occurrence, looked over the parapet and saw the body lying below, and was so startled at the ghastly sight that she fainted and fell into the arm#of th* gen­ tleman accompanying Vi«r Mr. F«uist,; a bricklayer, happened to be passing along the street and was a witness of the fearful fall, a sight, he Bays, he will not likely forget as long as he lives. Every bone in the unfortunate man's body was broken and the back part of his skull, from the terrible manner in which it was crushed, is supposed to have been the first part that struck the stone work. The monument was erected fifty years ago, the shaft being the highest iî the , ; - "•••* News from the Far East. By the arrival of the steamer Colorado i&t San Francisco, we get the following interesting budget of news from China and Japan: Hostile feeling h$s been manifested by the Chinese in the north for some months, and seems to be extending, venting itself in the mobbing of lor eigueta when ior.ity olicrs. The steamer Gwalioi broke down 160 miles from Hong Kong, was unable to nail, ?.nd drifted down to Hainan, where she anchored. A boat, sent in charge of the second officer to Macao for assist­ ance, was overhauled and robbed by pi­ rates on the way, but was allowed to proceed, and eventually reached her des­ tination. ' In Japan, a sharp earthquake shock was felt at Nigasaki on the 25th. A heavy typhoon visited Kobe on the 9th. Several prosecutions have taken place under the new press law. The government is actively construct­ ing new roads. Rumors as to the visit of the Mikndn tto England are said to be premature. Notes of hand, payable on demand, having been issued by Mr. Blakeston, of Hakodadij their circulation has been forbidden by the government. The Coreans are still reported as dis­ inclined to enter into diplomatic rela­ tions with Japan. One alleged reason is the adoption by the Japanese of Eu­ ropean clothing. The Russian Commission for the ex­ change of Saghalian having arrived, it is expected the matter will shortly be con­ cluded. ' Torture will, it is said, be very shortly abolished in the Japanese courts. The Tokashama mines are gradually being extended and worked under the foreign system. WAR OH THE BANKS. The Oemoermtlc Programs**, as Mapp*d ORt by One ot Those Wise WMhiDRton Correspondent*. Among the important questions bound to occupy a considerable aiww of the attention of th ̂Democratic Mouse of Representatives, says the Washington correspondent; of the Chicago 2ttHs0i* Is the status of the national banks. An examination oi the omci&i record ot Congress, since the war, shows that, in the last ten years, a remarkably smsll proportion of Democratic votes have |>een cast on any question affecting the currency which could, by implication even, be considered as favoring the na­ tional bank system in any respect. There is scarcely a leading Democratic politi­ cian, in or out of Congress, who has not taken the occasion, whenever offered, to •lanonnce the national banks as a mo­ nopoly. Such men as Senator Bayard have never remitted in the effort to re­ move the restrictions placed upon State banks. This opposition to the national bank system does not involve at all the question of inflation, for upon it botn hard and soft-money Democrats are very generally united. It is expected that before many weeks of the next session have passed an onslaught on the ̂ latronsl banks will be actively inaugurated in the House, and the best informed politicians here expect to see b.inks ; w feature of the National Democratic Congress. Whatever adverse action to the banks may be taken would, as a mat­ ter of course, be entirely inoperative while a Republican President and a Re­ publican Senate remain in power. In addition to this, it is not certain, even if the Democrats had entire possession of the government, whether they would agree on the details of legislation con­ cerning the finances which would have to admitting the power to cede, the u/t «l raroCmŝ WM invalid, £orit»op«ra«ion was aside to depend on its acceptance by a majority of the voters ot Atoxandria, thus to delegate its power, and that snob del egation was void. It is understood that should the Supreme Court determine the retrocession unconstitutional, the formal announcement of the decision will be postponed until snch antian i<t talwn it# Congress as will avoid all trouble in re­ gard to conflicting jurisdictions, and will make valid all aete done in pursuance of the State law while Alexandria remained a portion of Virginia. , ' ' \ THE PRESS. ? ' mmm RKUTOOHKKT. OM> Aunty Stewart turned her hun­ dred and eleventh birthday a few days since at Liberty, Ind., and toddled around tunong her neighbors smoking her pipe as though nothing had hap­ pened. She recollects seeing G. W. when he crossed the Delaware, and hap­ pened to be in Yorktown when Com- wallie surrendered. She is as spry as a grasshopper, and will go to the Centen­ nial next year if nothing happens and the weather is pleasant; but no one can bet on a woman at 111. follow, necessarily a wiping out of the present system. The soft-money Demo­ crats have always pressed for the substi­ tution of greenbacks for national bank notes. The hard-money Democrats are willing to compel the banks to withdraw their notes, but they are inflexibly op­ posed to any further issues of green­ backs. So far as taking away the privil­ ege of Issuing notes is concerned, it is a question whether the banks will care very much about it; but the rag-money people will certainly hold on to the bank­ notes if they can't get greenbacks for them. The great probability is, there­ fore, that the national banks will, even in the event of entire Democratic success, not be materially interfered with, at leaat for a long time to come. They don't ap­ peal to be satisfied with this, but show evident alarm by the decided manner in which their influence and their money is always arrayed against Democratic candi­ dates, as much in the East as in the West. If the bank circulation was en­ tirely withdrawn, the whole labor of re­ sumption would fall upon the govern­ ment. / A SIMPLE stone is to commemorate the spot at Ems where, in July, 1870, the German Emperor told the French Am­ bassador, Benedetti, to go about his business. Th® f'ow'Hffan ef WorfrtjU«mciu Mr. Edward Young, Chief of the Bu­ reau of Statistics, has published the concluding portion of his special report on labor in Europe and America, and it comes to us in a very interesting pam­ phlet of a hundred pages. The infor­ mation furnished by the work is most valuable and interesting, but the tables are so extended that it is difficult to con­ dense any of them into the limits of a newspaper article. Only a few general fact# can be given. The average of wrtMrthen's waares in the United excluding the Pacific coast, ia as follows, varying greatly, of course, according to locality:' Farm laborers .91.20 Common laborers 1.36 Female domestics (withboard) .46 Blacksmiths 2.79 Masons and bricklayers 3.33 Cabinetmakers 1.82 Coopers 2.61 Carpenters 2.69 Painters.. - "2.66 Plasterers,.... 3.14 Shoemakeirs ..;.... 2.25 Stonecutters.... 3.26 Tailors 2.57 The average weekly expenses of work­ men and their families in the New En­ gland States run from $8.23 to $13; in the Middle States from $9.62 to $15; in .the Western States from $7.97 to $23.59; in the Southern States from $8.15 to $11.80. One verv interesting table is that showing vtne yearlv expenditures and earnings of 124 skilled workmen in the State of Mffrne^usettr-fer the ycr.r-i?74-. We extract from each of the most prom­ inent trades one as an example, choosing for this purpose the person receiving about the average wages; No. 1, Bricklayer--Earnings, $810; expenses, $810; has four rooms in hooae; pays $204 rent; five persona in family; has parlor and piano. No. 2, Carpenter--Earnings, $720; has f&ur rooms; pays 4100 rent; four in family; has parlor and organ; total expenses, $720. No. 3. Mason--Earnings, $800; five persons in family; occupies five rooms, all carpeted; pays $192 rent; has parlor and piano; total ex­ penses, $778.45. No. 4, Painter--Earnings, $818; five rooms, all carpeted; rent $175; has parlor; four in family; total expenses. $770.09. No. 5, Shoemaker--Earnings, $561; four rooms; rent, $150; parlor; four in family; ex­ penses, $561. No. 6, Blacksmith--Earnings, $797; five rooms; rent, $132; five in family; parlor; total expenses, $797. No. 7, Machinist--Earnings, $720; five rooms; ront, $150; four in family; parlor and piano; expenses, $720. No. 8, Cabinetmaker-- Earnings, $880; four rooms; rent, $192; four in family; parlor and piano; expanses, $820.82. Nearly all these, and thev are a fair average of the whole 124, nave sewing machines, and a large proportion of them are regular attendants at church. The rent paid runs from $50 to $400 per y*- , An Interesting Case. An interesting suit, involving some old political history, is soon to be tried at Washington. The retrocession suit, in­ volving the validity of the act of Con­ gress of 1846, retroceding the town and county of Alexandria to Virginia, is »n the calendar of the Supreme Court of the United States, and will be reached about the middle of January. Phillips, who had paid taxes under protest to Payne, the State Collector, sues Payne to receive back the tax-money on the ground that the State of Virginia has no right to col­ lect taxes in Alexandria. The case was decided, as a matter of form, in the Su­ preme Court of the District of Columbia, against the plaintiff, in order that an ap­ peal might be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States. The grounds on which the plaintiff proceeds are: First, that Congress had no power to ~ e the cession, and, second, that even Brie# History of American Journalism, by George Alfred Townsend. American journalism is 185 years old; next year it will be older than our Na­ tional Centennial by 86 years. The head of the press WM Benjamin Harris, of Boston. His paper was entitled Publick Occurrences. Franklin 's brother, surly James, came in second, and afterward fourth. In 1722 Benjamin became a live editor, and considering his times he was the greatest editor humanity has produced. Inborn* period such a man would be avast advance upon any known editor. How he found so much leisure . . . . . . . f o r s o c i a l a n d p o l i t i c a l l i f e a n d s c i e n c e ! opposition to^the ia a We look ̂8ympathy upon tne Jriiiiacteiphia editor 01 tne present day when we remember Frank­ lin---his library, his hospital, his streets and railroads, his fire buckets and his kite. And yet the old rascal had an ille­ gitimate son and married the grass- widow of a tinker, and he was the great- great-great- grandfather of Dick Irwin, who lobbied the Pacific Mail subsidy through Congress. New York journalism began six years after Philadelphia and thirty-five years after Boston. Wm. Bradford, at the age of 70, started the New York Gazette, in 1725, under Gov. Fletcher's patronage, and so virtuous was the business in those days that he lived to 92. Go over the Trinity churchyard and see his grave­ stone, itself 123 years old, and reflect that if the old chap had lived in these days" he would have been called a politi­ cal stipendiary and his paper a kitchen organ. The fourth city to have a press was Annapoliss Md., in 1727, and the fifth Newport, in 1732, James Franklin, before referred to, founding it. The first newspaper in the South was published at Charleston, 1731, five years be­ fore Virginia had a press at Williamsburg. Connecticut had a newspaper at New Haven in 1755, Del­ aware one at Wilmington in 1761, New Jersey the first in 1777. There were forty-three papers in America at the date King George acknowledged our in­ dependence. The first regular daily in America was issued in 1784 by Franklin's grandson, Bache--the Philadelphia Ad­ vertiser. The next year New York had a daily issued by Childs (not G. W.), -also called the Advertiser. The first Western daily paper w the Cincinnati Gazette, issued in i827, after twenty-one years of hebdomadal existence. The St. Louis Republican followed in 1828. The Charleston Courier, started by a Massachusetts Yankee more than seventy years ago, disposed of itef files in 150 volumes last year for the sum of $2,250 --a remarkably low price, as there is no duplicate of them. Albany had her first dauy in 1824, the News. The New York daily press of the present day dates as follows: Sun, 1833; Herald, 1835; Trib­ une, 1841; Times, 1851; World, 1859. The great names in journalism are Frank­ lin, Gales, Bryant, Greeley, Morse and Hoe. There are about 550 daily news­ papers in America now, with a combined circulation of less than 3t000,000, or one newspaper to every twelve souls. No country in the world approaches this standard of circulation; no other form of government could stimulate it. The press owes everything to the republic; the republic tfco often gets scant encour­ agement from the press. To-day in France the editors are petitioning the government for liberty; in San Francisco the editors are outraging the distin­ guished dead. Rochefort is banished to New Caledonia, but men like Story live without challenge while challenging everything. A Word for the Women. erago woman, educated- in- the better class of schools in this country, is a bet­ ter scholar, and a more capable and ac­ complished person, than the average col­ lege graduate of the other sex. What we want is cheaper schools of equal ex­ cellence. The farmer's boy goes to col­ lege, finds cheap tuition, wins a scholar­ ship perhaps, boards in commons, earns money during vacation, and gets through, while his sister stays at home, because the only places where she can get an equal education are expensive beyond her means. There is no college that needs to be so richly endowed as a wo­ man's college. Women are not men, quarrel with that fact as we may, and they cannot get along so cheaply and with such helpfulness as men while going through the processes of their education. If we are to have women's colleges, we must have well-paid professors, philo­ sophical apparatus, cabinets, collections, art-galleries, laboratories, and they must be provided for by private munificence. Provision should be made for the poor, so that high education shall come with­ in the reach of all. There is not a wo­ man's college, or an advanced public in­ stitution for the education of women that is not to-day in need of large en­ dowments. - for the purpose of bringing its advantages within tne reach of those whose means are small. Now we commend this matter particu­ larly to rich women. There are many, scattered up and down the country, who are wondering what they shall do with their money when, and even before, they die. To all these we beg the privilege of commending this great object. Let the boys alone. They have been pretty well taken care of already, and the men will look after them. It is for you, as women wishing well to your sex, and anxious for its elevation in all possible ways, to endow these institutions that are springing up about the countrv in its in­ terest, so that the poor shall have an equal chance with the rich. You can greatly help to give the young women of all classes as good a chance as their brothers enjoy, and you can hardly claim a great deal of womanly feeling if you do not do it--Dr. J, Q, Holland, in Scribner for October. BT JOHN O. SAX% OMwatfane-the'uU) iakU •tiM nliatt-gBilnl and 1 Rl- ">•- kr'-S1!; *° ***** <l<*£ey cried • Poor Bodge had better spared the c«fci money lost. At iMt, mien he was on the brink t? k® <$»aoed to think " It might be wise--although HwashSl-- T-j name some suitable reward: ll And so he bade the bellman say # f A good fat pig Should be the Jy Of him who found the said estrkv Atthto, the crlei-a ̂ Who dearly loved * merry jest-- Took off his hat, politely bowed, • -j-iiftv * .; /: * ^ ' - M, .. •;.? vr • { . / , V ! "Wi,*- , " "• . 1? wV r- >• .,/» And thus addressed the gapinTw ̂s " If any person here to-day Will, wm his sftcidu honor, say That never yet his heart inclined In loving wise iow'rd womankind, •••sS' •*"' *> I promise to aocord • r,. good fat pig as his reward P * " „ 1 H, - At this, a coxcomb sn the crowd, V - Inquick response, exclaimedalouAsFjg: " The pig is mine ! in all my life « " - ^ I never loved maid, widow, wife, : '•• • Or aught that wears a petticoat;' ;" k' Now, if you please, I'll take the shoeM" ' 44 Here, Hodge /" the bellman cried, Mlook (Seizing the dandy by the ear) Bring on your pig--the ass is found! » '•> . ̂ Andu ere you have aim safe and saaaA ill!---lit! ••--J lgL!-J55gg ' Pith and Point. ~ ̂ DON'T gamble, young man, don'tgum- ble with time. " MKN who go out for a "latkM^more often make it a "swallow." V BEFORE slates were used people multi­ plied on the face of tbe earth. ON the track c/the milky way--Follow­ ing the cow to the barnyard. QUBBY--Did history ever produce a' rasher man than Friar Bacon? WHY is the sun like a good loaf f Because it's light when it rises. A VEBs-A-niiE genius--The author of "When this Old Hat was New." Aiaii honest men will bear watching. It is the rascals who cannot stand it IT is odd that the lamp-post with its lamp taken away is a lamp lighter. ' IN Northern Michigan the lumber­ men shute their logs out of Rifle river. SMITH & BKOWH stopped payment, and were called a pair of suspend­ ers. WHY cannot a temperance man kiss a Jewess f He has sworn not to taste jew- lips. ABOUT the best three physicians known are said to be Drs. Diet, Quiet, and Mer­ ry-man. WHY is a boy having his ears boxed like a prisoner in manacles? Because he is handcuffed." ON a quarrelsome couple : Ugly and old and cross, both he and die; so much alike, 'tis strange they don't agree. SUBJECTS- for discussion by debating dubs " Was Noah justified in taking with him into the ark the two parent mosquitoes?" DOTTING.--The editor of a newspaper says that he never dotted an I but once in his life, and that was in a fight with a contemporary. A CORRESPONDENT of Western paper having described the Ohio as a " sickly stream," the editor appended the re­ mark : "That's so--it is confined to its bed." Euai$fe--"Come,1 sit down oh the shelly shore, and hear the mighty ocean roar." Amelia--" I can't sit down, you silly goose, because I'd burst my pin- back loose." A HACK horse fell down on Gratioi avenue yesterday, and among the crowd which gathered were several negroes, one of whom sought to boss the job of getting the equine up again. He was doing a good deal of talking, when a Mend and brother walked up and com­ menced : " See heah, who is you ?" "I is Stephen Baker; sah," was the dignified reply. "And was you in de war?" " War ? war ?" " Yes, sah, was you in de war?" "No, sah." "Well, den, what business have you got bossin" 'round here ? You jess stand back an' let somebody wot's been in de war do de talkin'. Now, den, folks, lift up on dat hoss an* keep cl'ar of his hind heels I" The one who w?.̂ not in the war meekly oat 1I0WS4 on the • Dctroi*. JVeelVww. A Spunky Hon* The San Francisco Post says Mr. Stir­ ling, the sexton, of Cavalry Church, is the possessor of a remarkable hen, and relates the following incident in the life of that sagacious fowl. She brought out a brood of chickens the other day, which event created considerable excitement and festivity in a colony of rats, who at once commenced a system of plunder, contenting themselves with a chick and a half for dinner daily. The hen stood this massacre of the innocents tor a day or two, but yesterday morning, as a sleek rat skulked along in the neighborhood of a chicken which was carelessly trifling with a crust of breed, the wrath, of the mother was aroused. She flew at the rat, caught him by the back, and carry­ ing the robber to a tub lull of water, dropped him into it with a revengeful "cluck." The rat was drowned, and the brood has since been free ttom. tits raids of surviving rodents. The Indian Problem. The savages on the Sioux Indian Res­ ervation, says the Chicago Journal„ wilL. discover soon that they have much ofw fended the kind hand at Washington which has for so many years supplied their every need. These Indians would not listen to the proposition of the gov­ ernment for a new treaty, neither treat the Commission with proper respect. The immediate result of this conduct will be a thorough overhauling of Indian matters, and the introduction of a firmer course of action toward the unreasonable reds. As a first step, the acting Secre­ tary of the Interior has sent dispatches to all the agents on the Sioux Reserva­ tion, imperatively orderirg them not to issue any more annuities to the tribe nnt.il the Indians come in and undergo a new counting and registering. The lati­ tude heretofore granted the Indians in this respect has been of much profit to them, but they have forfeited ail claims to mild treatment, and must expect to get along on strict "stick measure'* hereafter.