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K KTY TEAKS AOtt.^, - <#ii *"• , (few wondrous are the changes, Jim, _llinoe forty years ago, m When gain wore woolen dresses, ilB, Ami l">yn wore pauts of tow ; <• lllien shoe* wc-re made of calf sftta* And BOCUS of homespun wool, aid children did a half day's work , i' B«fore the hour of sohooL <?)Hk took mmie lcRBoBS, Jim, Iihc i-pinning vvlicf], jfcfti) practiced lute ami early, Jim, On the spindle swift, and reel ; Hfce boys would ride bareback to mill, A dozen miles or so, ted hurry off before 'twas day, Bonif forty years ago. vlke peoole rode to meeting, Jim, Tin sleds iut-toads of sieighs, ABil waeons rode as easy. Jim. As buboes now-a-days: And oxen answered well for teain», Though now they'd l>e too slow, for people lived uot hilf so fas \ gome forty years ago. Ob, well do I remember. Jim, That Wilson's patent stove, V £hat lather bought and paid for, Jim, In clith our gals had wove; And how the neighbors wondered, Jim, When we got the thing to go ! T%ey said 'twould burst and kill lis all. Some forty years ago. Yee, everything is different, Jim, From what it usei1 to wag, For men are always tampering, Jim, /With GKHJ'H great natural laws ; Bat what on earth we're coming to-- Does anybody know? For everything has changed-so much Since forty years ago. " Why 111" said Mftllory, lazily. "Oh, I have an engagement at that her head a see the ootar hour," she replied, bending little; that he might not si THE NICK OF TIME, Of ail arrant flirts, Alice Truesdell bore tlie palm; and' of all desperate lov­ ers, Dr. Fowle. Of course there were other lovers at the young lady's com­ mand, or she could not have flirted; but ail her flirtation seemed to be directed solely to the end of vexing this single lover, whose grave, quiet, repressed de­ meanor never let her exactly know whether he were a lover or not, and drove h,er first to some action that almost betrayed her own feelings, ana then to one that should give the lie to that betrayal, and set everything at loose ends again. l ou could hardly say why Miss Trues­ dell had so many suitors. She was not so very good--that is, she was as good as most people, but not a jot better; she was not pretty--at least, not till she laughed and showed her white teeth, and a dimple deep as love ever nestled in, «r till she lifted her great gray eyes and let you see how lustrous they were under that trick of dropping lids. No, it could not have been her beauty that was the charm; it was voice, smile, face, figure, all together; her personality, gay spirits, teasing moods, sweet ways; her infinite variety, that attracted everybody coming within its sphere. She sang a little, she danced a little; whatever she did she did well: and so, of course, she flirted to perfection, and played off one lover against another as prettily, the lookers on might think, as a juggler tosses his golden balls. But what did the lovers think of it ? One of them thought very poorly of it, and was determined to bring Miss Alice to close quarters in small time, not in the least aware that all the others had made exactly the same determination, and had found that to determine was one thing and to do was another. Man might propose, but Miss Alice must diapose; and Miss Alice--as, indeed, they each and all fondly hoped--was a match for any of them. If she danced with Greg­ ory, just as Gregory felt encouraged and began to whisper the burning words, she dropped her tan with a glance at Mal- lory, who darted to restore it, and was detained with thanks and gay words and replies just long enough to make it im­ possible for Gregory to take up the thread where she had broken it. If she walked with Dr. Fowlc, it was only after she had allowed Mr. Bolles to know that die would be strolling in that direction, where she was always so pleased to meet him when he came up breathlessly, and found the doctor muttering anathemas between his teeth--invocations to Escu- lapius, she called them. But Dr. Fowle was not a man you could put off forever when he once made *p his mind to a thing, and so Miss Alice began to learn. And when, one night as he bade her good-by, Mallory and the rest being there, he told her, in a grave but authoritative under-tone, quite unlike that of the usual lover, that he ".viclicd to see her, next morning, at 11 •o'clock, if fahe fold wanted to deny . him, she could hot.v But, to ielLihe truth, •abe did not exactly want to. The young man had seemed ao incompetent, and so stupid, that evening ; Netty Armitage had seemed so frivolous, they had, each in turn, came in and interrupted the doctor when he was telling her such fairy-like tales of recent discoveries in science; she had shrugged her shoulders •at them till the situation struck her ridiculously, and then she had laughed with the merriest of them, and pouted at the doctor. But now, as he was go­ ing, she slipped her hand in his arm •and sauntered down the lawn with him. 'The night was a night in June, when, if ever, nights are perfect; the air was laden with the breath of honeysuckle -and mock orange ; the winds that curled «ound them seemed to come fiom dis­ tant lands of everlastirg bloom, so sweet they were; and the stars hung their lamps through the clear dark close above the thick tree-tups. She fancied, <that night, that life was too delicieus a thing to be induced in freely, and she murmurs! something of the fancy with half akugh. " There are times when we ail feel that life is more that we de­ serve, he answered. " Tomorrow--it may be-- Shall I feel the same myself to-morrow, or will fate--" She laughed uneasily. « \*ou nmatn't me riddles," she cried. «' At 11, to morrow, then," he said Wt ng his hat. ' " At 11, to morrow." And she went back to the house, wishing it were 11 •tomorrow, now; and then, in a gay ireak, as she heard the hall clock strike, «he ran down the hall and set the hands forward an hour. "Bring him the r'eker," she whispered--"bring him quicker," and went back to the others. They were talking of the flags and bulrushes that grew by Lender's Lake, a sheet of water in the neighboring woods, and she was eager to hear the de­ tails of the direction there, for she shared the popular frenzy ragiag just Chen for bulrushes, and thought of all tilings she should like some great bunch­ ed of the soft brown velvety things in lbs vases, to-morrow. 441 believe, if I rose early," she said. mig sreepingup. " I am at your service," he said. "Wrayou oome along, Netty f" she asked. > " 5 o'clock, in the xnoruiug, aiiu on foot - Not a step. That hour in the after­ noon, behind a pair of bays, would suit j me very well." Young Vary thought it ' would suit liim, too." "Very well, Mr. Mallory. If you will come at 8, to-morrow, I shall have my bulrushes and be back in good season," " We'll not fail," said Mallory. "And to that end, I assure this company that it is the witching hour of night, when the sweetest sound the ear can hear is the slamming of the big house door." And wi*h that they all departed. As 8 Vclock in the morning came, Miss Alii e, with her shears hanging at her side, r^d her hat tied on, was look­ ing up and down the road impatiently. She quite forgot her freak with the old clock, the night before. "It is a very indecorous way to serve me," she cried. " Ten minutes past eight! And I shall not wait another moment. I will have my bulrushes, Mallory or no Mallory. And if I am a little late, I don't care ; it will seem as though a body were not so very anxious; and I don't know--I'm afraid--I'm really afraid I was gushing, last night, and I do so despise a gusher! And he may only want--may only want to engage me to watch with old Miss Steeres, the night she takes ether for that operation !" And thereat the little body was off for Lender's Lake, with a precious wmall idea of the exact wherea­ bouts of that pretty sheet. "I've a tongue in my head, I suppose," said she. As Miss Alice continued, her ideas grew still less. She feared she would lose her way, and not be back at all; she wished she nad waited for Mallory; but she plodded oj| after her best sense of locality, tore ner gown with briers, lost her vail, broke her parasol, came near breaking her ankle, and at 11 o'clock by her watch sat down and cried--hot, bit­ ten by flies, tired out, and lost. When she had finished crying, she looked up, and there, glistening double through her tears, lay Lender's Lake, blue as sapphire, in the ^hollow of the hills. Her courage came back at once. If she could not keep her appointment, she could show by the bulrushes that she had intended to. She forgot fatigue, and was off for the edge of the lake, not so easily reached, after all, and, with a triumphant handful of the brown velvet wands and of great blue flags, was pres­ ently homeward bound, having found the highway, and staying only to ask at the door of a litt}e hut for a cup of water. Nobody answered her rap; the door was open--she pushed it wider and peeped; but started back at the sound of a groan, and a quick, sharp sob, a per­ fect storm of sobs. A moment Miss Alice hesitated; but she was no coward where pain was concerned; she took heart of grace and walked in, and found the brown old berry-woman with her little boy, her grandchild, bleeding to death in her arms. "Oh," she exclaimed, "I never knew you lived here. What is the matter? How did he do it?" " With the ax! with the ax I just now!" cried the woman. " And I can'4 Stop it, and I'm all alone, and I can't leave him, and he'll die--oh, he'll die J" "Oh, no, no!"'said Alice. "What haveyoudone? Only cold water ? Let me see. Lay him down. Get a towel for she remembered still her school les­ sons in physiology. And, before the woman knew what had happened, Alice had rigged a tourniquet with the handle of a hair-brush, and was checking in some degree the flow of blood with which tMfe boy's vitality was ebbing. " Now don't let it slip, and I'll run and find the doctor, if I drop. Perhaps some team will overtake me. Don't despair--the child shan't die and she kissed the brown old woman, and plunged out, eager as though it were her own little, brother. I know just where the doctor is," she called back. She knew nothing of the kind ; she only knew where he had been. " She's gone to Lender's Lake with Mr. Mal­ lory," Aunt Huldah had said, looking 111 .J *> ij. wljhO -}i-d, >i a i that her looking •would excuse the culprit --" for bulrushes, I heard them say." The doctor's ejaculation would have horrified Aunt Huldah if she had heard it; but, bidding her good-morning, he had turned about, determined to have nothing raore to do with Miss Alice Truesdell. And then a sort of a rage had flashed up and swept over him, and he vowed to himself that he would re­ duce the little rebel, and sprang int^ his chaise and urged his horse to a run. And that was the way it chanced that, less than ten minutes after Alice left the hut, she saw something rolling up the highway enveloped in as thick a cloud as ever an ancient god traveled in ; and he saw a little object flyiug down to meet him, curls and ribbons streaming be­ hind. disheveled to the last decree, and with only breath enough left to say, as he leaped from the chaise : " Don't stop ! He's dying! Back there--the hut!" Dr. Fowle did stop, long enough to take the little body and lift her into the chaise, and spring up beside her. "Who's dying?" said he, sternly-- " Mallory V "Mallory!" gasped Miss Alice, in amazement, " And if it was," she said, the old spirit uppermost, as soon as she coiild speak again for her scalded lungs and throat, " what would you do?" " Let him die !" exclaimed the doctor. "It would be nothing to me if you did," she sail, touching the horse with the whip herself. •* But you would be indictable at common law. "Nothing to you! What did you mean, then? Who'o dying?" " Mallorj--to my knowledge, that is. I haven't seen him, to-day. A child here in the woods.-' i doctor urged the horse himself, bending forward, his gaze fixed before him, and not uttering another syllable. Aren t you ever going to speak to me_ again ?" said Alice at last. " I meant to be back at 11." He turned and saw the tears just ready lie j[1^aze<1 perhaps they extinguished the flame Df his wrath about her, and the tears were being crowded back by kisses. " Aren't you glad I put the dock for­ ward ? Aren't you glad I came out here for bulrushes?" whispered Alice, as they suddenly drew up at the little hut. " Oh, God bless you, doctor, and God bless her !" cried the voice of the old woman from within. " He's alive yet, and you've come in the niok of timo f" Harper's Bazar. The Black Hills--Rose-Colored State­ ments. An old citizen, Mr. Peter McKay, is in the Black Hills, and gives the Chey­ enne Leader the following result of an interview : Custer City now nnmbers forty houses, and new ones are daily going up. Hillyo, where there was not so much as a founda­ tion on the 5th of January, numbered thirty finished houses on the 22d ; and there were logs sufficient for seventy more on the ground and ready on the last named date. But for the fact that large numbers of people are waiting for the arrival of saw mills, the number of houses up would be much greater. There aro fully 1,000 men nojr in the Hills, and the arrivals number from 25 to 100 per day, nearly all from Chey­ enne. Mr. McKay states that he has taken pains to ascertain why, with so much talk about the richness of the new mines, so little gold has been actually taken out, and he finds it due to the fact that the miners now in the Hills have been rush­ ing hither and thither, fairly dazed by the daily recurring reports of new dis­ coveries "over on the next creek," and that the real work has not yet begun on this account, although there have been no poor-paying prospects reported as yet. Every man he met was satisfied and happy, and old gulch miners from the Pacific slope expressed themselves to the effect that the country was good enough for them, and they proposed to stay right there. He brought with him very fine samples of dust and nuggets from the newest discoveries, on Dead- wood and Whitewood Creeks, which, though very dark in color, is fine, being worth $21 per ounce. McKay considers the country the finest he ever saw--a perfect paradise, to use his own language--and proposes returning at once, taking his wife and family with him. He states that there is no finer lumber region ih the whole country, the trees being from 1 to 4 feet in diameter, the forests of vast extent, and easy of access for saw mills. Com­ mon lumber can be sold at $20 per 1,000 with big profit to the mill men. Pleasant weather prevailed up to Jan. 18, when a light snow fell, since which the weather has been good. Mr. McKay made the return trip in three days with a horse team, and had no bad weather until reaching the North Platte, when a severe wind-storm was experienced. Mother with Sleepless Babe. The Herald of Health contains the following question and answer^ How is a mother with a restless babe to obtain that sleep you advise ? I have not slept more than four hours a night for the past year. I am losing flesh, and am nearly broken down. Answer.--Find out the cause of the sleeplessness of the babe and remove it. If you cannot do this, then get some one to help you, and take your sleep. If you don% thtr&MJ- sequences will be serious. No doubt the child has been wrongly managed in some way. Young babies ought to pass the first months of their lives in the country, for its stillness no less than its fresh air. But where silence is not to be commanded, baby may be soothed by folding a soft napkin, wet with warm­ ish water, tightly over the top of its head, its eyes and ears. It is the best way to put nervous r babies asleep; we have tried it hundreds of times. A fine towel would be wet and laid over its head, the ends twisted a little till it made a sort of skull-cap, and though baby sometimes iought against being blind­ folded in this way, live minutes usually sent him off into deep and blissful slum­ ber. The compress cooled the little, feverish brain, deadened sound in his ears, and shut out everything that took his attention, so that sleep took him un­ aware. Teething babies find this very comforting, for their heads are always hot, and there is f^ver beating in the oxteiies each side. §J eould be there and back before 11. A Phrase Explained. It is gratifying to know thai there has been less actual profanity uttered in this country than has been generally sup­ posed. A paragraph explaining the phrase *'not worth a tinker's dam," pip- voked some one to make a request for an explanation of another phrase, "not worth a continental dam." This phrase, as well as the other, now appears not to be profane. A correspondent of the St. Louis Re­ publican says that the continental cur­ rency, which in '76 had Income very much depreciated, becam^ mueh more so when the British introduced a very good counterfeit of it. After the war the currency was called in by act of Congress, the Government desiring to pay the honest debts contracted in the name of the people. Accordingly hold­ ers of continental money returned it to the Treasury, when it was sorted and credit given for the genuine.. On the counterfeit notes was stamped the word " Dam," a contraction of the Latin dam- natus (condemned). Hence the force of the expression 41 not worth a continental "dam," for if a genuine continental note was worth but little, a continental 41 dam," or counterfeit note, must have been worth-less. than Alice did-theTe^ nToZntTie reins were under his feet, his arms were The Battle of ffew Orleans. There are those still alive in New Or­ leans who remember what anxiety filled all hearts in the city just sixty-one years ago, while the roar of battle mignt be distinctly heard here from the field of Chalmette. It has been told so often it is, perhaps, unnecessary to repeat now the well-known story of that famous day. The operations of the enemy against the city were begun Dec. 14, 1814, when Gen. Keane landed with the vanguard of the British troops at a point nine miles below the city. A week later, Gen. Jackson, with an inferior force, attached him and gained so decided an advantage that all further aggressive movements were delayed until the 7th of the month following, though Gen. Jackson again attacked the foe on the first day of the year 1815, again with success. On Jan. 6, the enemy was reinforced, and their entire army then amounted to 14,000 effective and well-equipped men. The British authorities estimate their force at 8,000, and plaoe Gen. Jackson's as high as 25,000. The American commander's line of de­ fense on the left bank was a mile long, defended by 12 guns and 3,200 men, with 800 more conveniently posted near by. It was a very strong position against a foe attacking directly in front, but it would have been difficult, if not impos­ sible, to hold it against an artillery fire from the right bank. Gen. Jackson had provided against that emergency by post­ ing there several batteries, manned by seamen and supported by Kentucky militia. That was in reality the key erf the position, and the British eventually carried it, but not until the defeat of Pakenham on the left bank. The signal defeat of the enemy was entirely due to the precipitancy of their commander in ordering the attack. Accustomed to carry the most difficult positions in the Peninsular war and in France by direct assauit, the veteran British troops moved steadily on the American works with the greatest coolness and courage ; but our little army of backwoodsmen received them with a fire concentrated, accurate, and deadly beyond parallel. Gen. Paken­ ham was killed, Gen. Gibbs mortally, and Gen. Keane severely, wounded. The rank and file fe)l by scores and hun­ dreds at every volley. So great was the security of the American forces that they only lost seven men killed and six wounded, while the British lost 2,000, killed, wounded, and prisoners. The treaty of Ghent had been concluded two weeks prior to the battle, but it has been thought that had the city fallen into the hands of the enemy they would have in­ sisted upon retaining it upon the ground that the treaty by which Louisiana was ceded to us in 1803 was void, France having no proper claim to the territory which she sold.--New Orleans Pica­ yune. Voudonlsm. The Supreme Court of Tennessee re­ cently reviewed a murder case which in­ volved the subject of voudouism, the parties having been nr-groes. Ephraim Patterson was arraigned for the murder of Jack Holland. The defense was that Patterson had been led to the committal of the deed by Holland's having not only 44 voudoued" the prisoner, conjured his sister, and brought about her seduction by a third party ; that Holland had re­ peatedly used charms and devices having a tendency to bring himself and sister to misfortune or some dire evil in the way of diseases and all sorts of affliction of the body ; that Holland had attempted, through these means, to hold sovereign sway upon himself and sister, and he had" killed Holland to dissipate the charm by which he had been so firmly bound. Railway Fares to the Centennial. The general ticK.ec agenut of the rail­ roads axe progressing in their arrange­ ments for the prospective increase of travel during the coming summer. All the usual round-trip tickets that are is­ sued every year will include opportuni­ ties for visiting Philadelphia and the Centennial. The reduction will be twenty five per cent, from all points in the country east of Omaha. The Paciilc Railroads are not participating in this movement, and having the monopoly of travel to and from the Pacific, very little liberality is expected in that quarter. If they should join in the arrangement it will greatly increase the travel both to and from all parts of the Pacific Coast. The present arrangement is to issue tickets good for thirty days, and extend the time for the sale of round trip tick­ ets from May 10 to Oct. 31. Passengers will be permitted to stop over at all places on the route except within a cer­ tain distance from Philadelphia which properly includes local travel. The dif­ ference in fare between New York and Philadelphia on round trip tickets east­ ward or westward is fixed at one dollar only. For; instance, the fare between Chicago and Philadelphia and return will be $32, while from Chicago to New York and return it will be $83. The four trunk lines will have a building on the grounds, which will be a model rail­ road station, to be used as an American tourist ticket office, and to be managed by the companies in concert. It is un­ derstood that trains will be started be­ tween New York and Philadelphia evesy twenty minutes during ten hours of the day, besides ample night trains with sleeping cars. All the railroads here­ abouts and to the East and West are adding to the number of their cars and locomotives in order to be prepared in time for the rush. The only exception known of here is the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the inactivity of that sturdy competitor for travel and freight to and from the West is a matter of sur­ prise to all who have paid any attention to the subject.--Philadelphia Corre­ spond!. nee Baltimore American. Mr. Booth's Southern Engagement* Edwin Booth is paid $600 per night. His contract is for fifty nights, and for that period he receives $30,000. When Mr. Ford went to him to make the con­ tract, he proposed to give him what he (Booth) thought he could make in New York. Booth told him that hn could make $600 per night there. Mr. Ford offered him that much, and a bargain was made. Every night's performance costs the manager of this company $1,000. One of the terms of this contract is, that Mr. Booth is never to do any night travel, and never to leave a stopping place be­ fore 11 o'clock in the day, unless he chooses to do so. Notwithstanding his heavy expenses, Mr. Ford calculates upon shaking $3,000 or $4,000 clear money during his Southern tour. Mr. Booth never plays in Washington pity, and never on Friday nights*--Charlotte Observer. Two Boys Sent 1,200 Miles by Express. Two boys named respectively Willie C. and Lewis H. Temple, the former twelve and the latter ten years old, were recently sent by the Adams Express Company, at Washington, Delaware, to Fernandiina, Florida. They were regu­ larly labled with a tag tied to their cloth' ing, and rent as live freight, though al­ lowed the privilege of riding in the pas­ senger car next to the express. Their father, Samuel Temple, was engaged in the lumber trade at Fernandina and has been suddenly attacked with a severe ill­ ness, from which he was not expeeted to recover. Being anxious to see his two Utile boys before he died, he telegraphed to have them sent by express. The dis­ tance is 1,200 miles and the cost of ex- pressage $103. The boys reached their destination twenty-four hours after their father's death. DYNAMITE EARTHQUAKE. The Diabolical Plot of an Exasperated Traveler. . The river editor came in the other day with a rather troubled air and said he'd S *- * 1 • -- J. • f v _ _J__ ' £ J. JU81 IWCU iu a B WJiJ f Ox truth of which he'd no doubt, and which was of such a character as to set his hair on end. The hair of a river editor--a man accustomed to dangers by field and flood, one intimate with all the mysteries of levees, and familiar with all the spir­ its of the vasty deep--doesn't stand on end on every light occasion, and so his explanation of the mysteries was listened to with interest. He said that he was in his own room, sitting at his desk, and pegging away manfully at a description of a steamboat clerk's new diamond breastpin, when the door opened sudden­ ly and a stranger made his appearance. The individual who had come in unan­ nounced, was a tall, cadaverous looking individual, clad in a suit of clothes that had once been better, and wearing upon his face an expression of the most pro­ found and deeply-seated melancholy. He came forward in a shambling way, took a chair, pulled out a tattered hand­ kerchief and mopped his face, and then inquired, in a sepulchral voice, if he had found the river editor. He was answered in the affirmative, when he cast a glance around as if to note the presence of listeners, hitched his chair a little closer to the astonished river editor, and began: "Ive come up here to see yer, young man, and tell yer some­ thing " I've been carrying on my mind for goin' on twenty-one years now. It won't take long ter get through with the story, for I'll put the peth of it in a few words. You remember, don't yer, how, along in the spring of 1854, there was a steamboat started from here for New Orleans, with a big load of truck, but not many passengers, that was never heard of again ? They waited for her in New Orleans, and they looked for her from St. Louis, but they never heard of her, and concluded she must have burst her biler and scuttled or burned, though no sign of the wreck was evor seen, not so much as a gang-plank. There wasn't, as I said, hardly any passengers, so there wasn't a great deal of fuss made over the loss, and the underwriters acted very handsome in the matter. Well, young man, that vessel didn't burst her biler, nor she didn't burn, and what I came here for is to tell what did become of her. I'd traveled a good deal on that boat, back and forth, and I'd had a good deal of trouble on board her too. I alters carried some baggage, and the porter on that boat was just as the baggage-men on the railroad. I never made a trip that the fellow didn't smash my trunk into slivers, and I got mighty disgusted at last. I J2, Jili the jpOrtCij ja ««t the Captain and mate and everybody else, but it didn't seem to make any difference, for my trunk got smashed every trip. I brooded over it until I couldn't aleep. I got so mad and made up my mind finally I'd get even with that boat or burst. It was a long time before I hit on a plan to fix 'em, but at last I thought of it. I got two big trunks, and then I bought 150 pounds of this damite, isn'i it ?--what d'yer call it ?--"the Stuff*they use in blastki', you know. I put 75 pounds of the stuff in each trunk, with lots of gun cotton piled around it inside. Then I got a nigger to carry the trunks on board the boat very carefully, and put them with the rest of the baggage, f bought a ticket for that trip, but didn't go on board the boat when she started. I calculated there'd be some excitement on the trip when the porter got to smashing my trunk as usual. The boat left at night, and I went to bed expecting to read in the morning paper about the burning of a boat down the river, but I didn't find it. There was a big account of an earth­ quake somewhere between here and Cairo which shook the hull country and threw over all the fences, but that was all. The boat wasn't heard from, as I said before. For two or three years af­ ter that, whenever any of the farmers down the river wanted any kin dim' all they did was to go out in the fields and pick up splinters, but no one ever knew where them splinters ever came from. I knowed, though; they was the splinters of that boat. That's the hull story, and I feel better now I've got it off my mind." Then the cadaverous man got up and shuffled slowly out, and the startled river editor came in and told of what he had heard. He hasn't slept well since the occurrence--the river editor hasn't--for he says he believes the old fellow's story to be true, though he doesn't recollect the name of the missing steamboat.--Cincinnati Q-azette. Hotel Clerks as Diamond Brokers. A Chicago correspondent reveals the hotel clerk of the Northern cities in a new character--that of a diamond broker. Of the business done by .them in that city he say. : 4'At our four great hotels--the Palmer, Grand Pacific, Tremont and Sherman-- the value of diamonds sold by clerks and their rotunda brokers exceeds $11)0,000 annually. Aside from these palaces we have fully a dozen other hotels, each as fine as( the average American hotel, and at one of these alone, the Matteson, the chief clerk sold $30,000 of diamonds in 1874 to my personal knowledge. 44 The Chicago hotel clerk diamond trade must amount to $200,000 annually. Most of the clerks here who have held exceptionably good positions for a term of years are rich, possessing their own establishments and fast horses. 1 have one in mind--John Hickory--now re­ tired, who was night clerk for Gage Bros. & Rice for nearly twenty years in their different houses, who is to-day worth $150,000. It will be seen that, aside from the 'tips' for gilt-edged rooms, passes to the theaters, which are un- blushingly sold with regular tickets, traffic in stolen or discounted railroad tickets, and hush money from parties traveling on the European plan, the boss hotel clerk is the man to bend your ver­ tebrae to." AN enterprising Chinaman of Gold Hill, Nev., recently mounted the follow­ ing sign, handsomely painted, on his newly-established wash-house : " Ah, Charlie; washing done dam cheap." Virtuous public opinion soon obliged him to take down the sign and put up one with less Scripture in it. two. One place, one root, one name, their ID daily sacrament they break Together, and together take Perpetual counsel, such an n*e has fed Tbe habit of, in words which make Nolle. For courtesy's sweet sake, And pity's, one brave heart, whose joy 1m vm Smiles ever, answering words which wak* But. wenrinens ; Mdw nil its ache, Ita hopeless aehe, its longing and its dnlt z Strong as a martyr at the stake Renounoimr sp!f; strivin" The pangs of thirst on bitter hysaop red vinegar! oh brave, strong hearts ( God sets aU days, all hours apart Wjr cometh at His hour appointed. TOQETHKB. Wo touch, no eight, no Bound; wide o«ntinents And seas clasp nands to separate , Them from each other now. Too late ! Triumphant love has leagued the element* To do their will. Hath light a mate For swiftness ? Can it overweight The air ? Or doth the sun know acddezitef The light, the air, the sun inviolate For them, do constant keep and state Message of their ineffable oontents, And raptures each in each. So great K Their bliss in loving, even fate, In parting them, hath found no instrumento Whose bitter pain insatiate ' ' Can kill it, or their faith abate In presence of Love's hourly sacraments. Pith and Point. A FiiOirBisHixa business--Ornamental penmanship. A CODNDEB-IKKITATION--Going shop­ ping with your wife. WHEN are eyes not eyes ? When the Mind makes them water. THE Graphic wants to know if the gods of soft weather is Thor. WHAT Sort of attention does one usual­ ly meet with at hotels ? Inn-attention. ALWAYS laugh at your own jokes ; if you want anything well done, do it your­ self. A CARGO of tea and molasses has been confiscated while trying to get into Bal­ timore syrup-tea-tiously. AN Irishman says that " fish will live twice as long if killed by a blow op the head when caught, as when left to die gradually." COOK (come after situation)--" By the bye mum, is there a rink in your neigh­ borhood ? For I shouldn't like to give up my skating!" A tramp lately asked a lady for mon­ ey. She offered him food. " Gracious!" was his observation, "do yon think I can eat all the time ?" LITTLE five-year-old, after shopping with her mother at leading dry-goods stores, remarked, " Seems to me there are a good many boys named ' Cash.'" " PUTS and calls " may be properly defined thus : You put your money in the hands of a broker for the purpose of speculation and call for the profits in vain. A PHILOLOGIST has discovered that what ailed Roderick Dhuwas not a uncommon' malady, then known by the name of James Fitz James, but since corrupted into Jim-James. " How much to take me to the cathe­ dral?" asked a tourist just arrived in Dublin of a hackman. "Weil," said Pat, " the meanest man I ever took gave me three shillings." THE Indianapolis Court-House has cost less than the original estimates. It is believed that the contractor desires to murder some one, and takes this means of establishing the " insanity dodge." . "As THIS is your first offense," said a magistrate to a prisoner, " I'm disposed to let you off." " Don*t do it," pleaded - the culprit. " I've been goin' to study for a preacher more'n two year, and I won't never begin till I'm locked up." ONE of three gentlemen in a pew in church Sunday attempted to build a pyramid of silk hats in the aisle. A lady came along and her skirts upset the structure, whereupon a wicked little boy in the pew behind audibly said : " Set 'm up again." AND now the Alfonsist troops are con­ centrating, and it looks blue for the Car- lists. Isabella--with her gingham um- ber-ella--is seen coming over the Pyr­ enees to join her son. The " umbrella " is to aid him in his reign, of course. Therrfis no other news from Spain. COL. HENRY GILDERSLEEVE, the fa­ mous rifleman, has becomd a terror to evildoers in his new position of Judge of the Court of General Sessions. He sends up guilty men for terms of eighteen years out of a possible twenty. He is enongh to bring tears to a bull's eye. A LADY gave a dramatic recitation at Wellsboro, Pa., recently, and among other recitations gave "Sam Weller'a Valentine," from "Pickwick." In his criticism of her performance, the digni­ fied editor advis9s her to discard all such pieces as this, taken from "the slang literature of the day." " WE are going to give a stunner," said Mrs. Mushroom to Mr. Grace Church Brown, " and if, instead of giv­ ing numbers to the coachmen, Mr. Brown, you will call out the names of the guests as loud as you can, those dis­ agreeable people across the street will see we move in as good society as they do."--New York Mail. THE GOTTRD AND THE PALM. •'How old art thou?" said the garrulous gourd. As o'er the palm tree's'crest it poured Its spreading leaves and tendrils fine, And hung a-bloom in the morning-shine. " A hundred years !" the palm tree sighed; " And I," the saucy gourd replied, " Am at the most a hundred hours, And overtop thee in the bowers." Through all the palm-tree'a leaves there ' A tremor of self-content. " I live my life," it whispering said: " Sec what I see, and count the dead. And every year, of all I've known, A gourd above my head has grown, And made a boast like thine, to-day; Yet hero I stand--but where are they?" Veterans. The venerable Peter Cooper, whowaa bora in 1791, and is now consequently 85 years of age, delivered a speech at a public meeting a few evenings ago. in the institute which he founded. William Cullen Bryant, who was born in Iff94, and is now in the 82d year of his age, also made a public speech a few even­ ings since, in one of our public halls. I'hen another ancient citizen, John A. Dix, now 78 years old, made a speech in one of the Fifth avenue churches. All these old gentlemen seem to be in sound condition, physically and mentally, each of them evidently feeling an active in­ terest in public questions. Mr. Bryant spoke in behalf of a philanthropic so­ ciety ; Gen. Dix in advocacy of certain political and social changes ; and Mr. Cooper set forth his financial views at a w»rkingmen's meeting.--New York Sun. COAL dealers call this a hard winter