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it . HIGGKR TWHr. . . , • i O. GORDO* , ; Right hard work while it last--dat'^jjl| Wurrranin* backer all day long-- «~ Hizry g"t* in yer back. you know, *%' *- 8peshlj dem what aint so strong. •« I TDat's my ft* ; but it serins ter nie la* paid for it all when it eouies ter dis: My long-stem pipe, little Jake on my knee, A*' my pocket chock fuli o' nigger-twia. Corn-cob? Yes, sir. It aint »o fit As itt 'hogany-oolored one o' yon Bat I gits as much out o' dis o' mill As dc fines' one you ever did own. De juice all dries in de cob, you seeW Pat's de philos'phy o' pipes like di8|| An' a reed-root stem is de stem for aw» An' de sweetes' backer is nigger-twta*. Dem dar's cur'ns things, sho nnff-- Dem little splinters what lights jes so; Hit dey heads whar dc box iB rough A sort n' hard, an' away dey go ! i never liked 'cm. It seemed ter me D« devil'8 in 'em some way. An die ta Jes as good an' as true, yon see: A red-hot coal on de nigger-twis'. Wouldn' I like a cigar ? you say. Vo, Bir, I thank yon. Ise tried dem Different, sir, as de night f'om day, Pur apart as a cuss an' pra'r;. Hasn't no strength, it seems ter me; Can't >>egin ter eompar' wid dla; Nothin' onder de sun can be Sweet u a cob, an' some nigger-twia'. Xo-dat nnther! Well, I'il declar'! Dot is de beatenes' lee seed yet! What is de name dac you call dat ar? ^ Say it please 1 Cigarette? Little Jake what sets on my knee M torn up his nose at a thing like Ise gwine ter teach him to do like me. ' touck dc comfort f'om nigger-twis . Yes, dat's * fac'. 'TV* a lux'ry, sho, Backer is, whatever you say- Seems like I never wants nothin' mo* 'Oeptin' ter set down here, dis way- Take little Jake up on my knee-- Have me a corn-cob pipe like dis, Wid * stem as long as f'om you to me. An' ft pocket chock full o' nigger-twis'. 1 Mlftus'l Monthly for Snrrmber. HER OATH. The 11th of October, 1810, was a wild night, a night of cloud-wrack and pale, intermittent moonlight. The high west­ erly wind seemed like a demon let loose •over sea and land. In cities houses were mnroofed and chimney-pots fell with the sound of thunder. On seas, full of hurry and confusion, ships staggered blindly, with far more chance of going down than of making port. Through -forests the wind roared and raved in its fierce on rushing. One could hear great tree boughs snapped short from the Areas and hurled about in great fury. At seven o'clock in the evening a post- carriage, with smoking post-horses and shouting post-boys, drew up before the principal inn at Deal. The carriage was occupied by two persons, a man and a woman, who, having heard that they could obtain a good night's shelter, dis­ mounted. Seen by the bright light of the iin parlor, the two travelers showed a strange contrast. The woman, or girl KK&ter--for she oould not have been aaore than twenty--presented a striking type of village beauty. She was tall and straight, with a firm, shapely figure. She had brown hair, thick and curling. 'There was a wistful look ia the dark, deep eyes, whose abundant lashes fell on rounded, warmly-tinted cheeks. The lips, ripe and red, might have excused any man for longing to kiss them. Her companion, who was at least ten years older, was evidently in a very dif­ ferent position of life. He must have had good blood in his veins; at least you would have guessed it from tbe long slen­ der fingers terminating in the exquisite .. filbert-shaped nails. ' He was tall and slightly-fashioned. The face would have been called a handsome one, but it was too pale and too delicate in outline to suggest the idea of complete manly beauty. " Well, Mary, my darting,*' he said, holding the girl in his arms, " how do you think you shall like being Mrs. Oldworth, and a painter's wife ? Would Su rather have stayed only a farmer's tighter ?" " I suppose I could have remained so had I wished; or I could have been a farmer's wife. There were plenty of lads who wanted me. There was Bob Turner, son of one of the richest farm­ ers in Kent, and Tom Miller, who fought •~?oe Martin because I walked home from * church one Sunday evening with Joe, when I had promised to walk with Tom." •"And you prefer me to Bob, Joe, *" Tam ?" returned the man. "Yes, or why should I have married JOT?" He drew her head down upon his shoulder, smoothing lovingly her soft brown hair. They had the room to themselves; and so wrapped up were in each other that they failed to notice a face from outside, which, jpressed close against the blindlf ss win­ dow, was watching them with bright, ^strained, sinister eyes. But, when the £irl, changing her position, did catch sight of the face, the blood suddenly for­ sook her cheeks and lips, and, uttering * short, sharp cry, she hid her face age.in on her husband's shoulder. " Oh, my God, it cannot be !" she ex­ claimed. "We are watched, Arthur. Don't you see?' But the face had vanished, and so Oldworth replied quietly: j J ( M y darling, I see nothing. It was a nervous fancy;" adding, as she was shivering in his arms : "The long, f.>windy drive has beeri too much for you; have taken a chill." " Yes, I think I have. Let us go." Oldworth was about to ring the bell, --when a door opened and closed, and a ymn came up to where they were stand­ ing--a man about the middle height, drat powerfully built. His face, beaten bv wind and tanned by sun. was one ghich, having seen, you would not easily rget: The eyes, which looked straight it at you, from under the heavy, over- ing brows, had in them a strange *and~indescribable fascination. He was a man, you could tell, who meant to have liiii own way--a sort of mastiff, danger- 1'fftP when roused. I have come to offer my congratula­ tions," he said, addressing himself to Old worth's wife, and holding out his kud, which she did not Appear to see. »*l5iftve heard all about it from the post­ boys--all about the grand wedding dowll at Farmer Grant's this morning. It is lucky my meeting you here. I was on my way to give you important news, I have brought from over sea with [t's not a night when a man travels "further than he needs. But I can't say .jmtpiseem glad to see an old acquainfc- " My friend," put in Oldworth, "this .Jadv is my wife. She has had a long and ^nlEgl&lig drive, and is to-night quite un­ lit for conversation; but, to-morrow, be­ fore resuming our journey, she will, I am sure, be happy to exchange the warmest wishes with you." Oldworth had spoken in a tone of sweet patronage, but the other man never looked in his direction, only saying to Mary, " That's your choice, is it ? Why, he looks as if a breath of wind would blow him away. But you must hear my news alone. Get rid of hjmt will you-- or must I ?" "One word," exclaimed Oldworth, the oolor rising in his face, though he strove to control his voice. " You come from a journey, the night is stormy, and this is your excuse for having drunk too freely; but, if you cannot be­ have yourself, it will be my duty to have, you removed/' t " Look here," returned the other, fixing now for the first time his eyes upon Oldworth's face. " My name's Mark Shaw. I am first mate of the ship Annie, brought to Dover harbor last night. I am no more drunk than you are, and when you say I am you know that you are telling a lie. You call yourself a fine gentleman; well, in the matter of words, you beat me; but you wouldn't like to have a go-in with me. No! she wouldn't like it You wouldn't care to go sprawling at her feet; the floors here are dusty. Keep a civil tongue in your head, and I have no wish to interfere with you." His large, strong hands were clenched, but they hung down heavily. " The sooner you go, von know." he went on, " the better it will be for all three." "Yes, do go, dear," exclaimed Mary, with an assumption of gayety in ner voice. "Whatever you do, don'tquar­ rel. Mark is rough and violent, I know; but he may have news which I ought to hear. Of oourse I shall tell you every­ thing." " I will leave you, then, for ten min­ utes," said Oldworth, addressing him­ self to Mark. " Not, you understand, on account of your threats, but because a gentleman will allow no brawl to take slace before a lady, and I see nothing ess than this would satisfy yon. At the end of ten minutes I shall return." Oldworth glanced at his watch, and left the room. The door closed after him, and the two were together. Mark folded his arms, and fixed his eyes on the girl's face. Under that keen and pitiless scrutiny she writhed and winced as in some great physical pain. The wind shrieked round the inn; the wood fire on the hearth crackled and sputtered, the red flames leaped up fitfully; a cart lumbered near on the dark road, and drew up ponderously at the inn door. At length Mary broke the silence: " For God's sake, speak," she said. " Do you wish to kill me by just look­ ing at me? " "I wish I could," he rejoined. "I should like to sea you dying inch by inch under my eyes, without touching you. You are the right sort of girl, aren't you? for a man to have loved, be­ fore, indeed, he was a man--nothing but a small boy, who went miles after the least thing you wished for, and who only left you when he was a man ter get mon­ ey enough to build a home for you. You're the right sort of girl to have trusted and believed in--to have prayed for night and day. Why, in some of our great storms I have done what I never did till then. I haye prayed, 4 God save me, for if I go down and don't come back any more, how will that girl I know of far off in Kent bear it? If1 she knew that Mark would never come again to take her in his arms and kiss her any more, why, it would just break her heart or send her mad.' And all the time you were making love to this fine gentleman--this creature that looks more like a sick girl than a man ! Why, if I were to strike the thing friendly like on the shoulder it would go down under my hand like a nine-pin, and howl for pain ! Did you hear any rumor of the ship being lost ?" " No," said she. " You hadn't that excuse then ! Do you love him ?" " I fancied I did." " Have you any excuse ?" "No, only mother and father were failing, and he said he would do every­ thing for them, and make me a lady, and take me to places 1 wanted to see so much. And every one said it would be such a fine thing for me; and they made me proud* and that washow it hap­ pened/' " Are you ashamed of, yourselt ?" he questioned. "Yes." " Do you despise yourself ?" "Yes." " Do you hate yourself as you deserve to be hated ?" " Yes, God knows I do." , "Well," he replied, "the strange thing is that I, who ought to hate jou, ought to scorn and spurn you, love you just as madly as ever. Polly ! Polly! I can't bear it! For God's sake, come to me, my darling !" For a moment she stood irresolute; then, with a low cry, she flung her arms round his neck, and dropped against his heart. He strained her close to him, kissiDg her with long, passionate kisses, calling her with a hundred endearing names, seeming to forget everything save the fact that she was in his arms again after their cruel separation. At length, with a sudden revulsion of feel­ ing, he thrust her from him almost roughly, saying in a voice that jarred with suppressed passion, "Have you forgot­ ten your oath--the oath you swore to me that last night, under the moonlight, when we stood together in your father's garden ?" She cowered against the wall, shrink­ ing from his eyes, as a child from the hand which has stricken it. "I forget nothing," she moaned. "Say that oath over, then," he ex­ claimed, holding her hands in his, as in a vise. "Spare me this," she cried. " What have you done that I should spare you ?" he retorted almost brutally. "Come, I have a fancy to hear that oath, and hear it I will. I can prompt you with it." And then, as one speaking in a trance, she spoke: " If ever during your absence I let any man touch my lips, or willingly listen to any words of love, or become, in the least word, thought, or deed, un­ faithful, may I be slain, soul and body, so help me God !" " That's the oath you made and broke, then !" he exclaimed, still holding her hands, still looking at her face with his keen, pitiless eyes. "On, Mark J she cried, "I love you, and only you. It is not too late yet. To-morrow let us fly together." " No, we can't get out of it like that," he rejoined. "I don't know that I've much conscience; or it may be that I have a good deal in my own way. Where two folks love each other they make their own laws, is what I think. What's right to them is right, and wfcat's wrong is wrong; but this man, your hus­ band, I'd toss him over, as in rough weather we've tossed overboard far more precious cargo to save the ship, I am not what men call pious either. 'I don't live different on Sundays to what I do other days, and I'm not particular about going to church when I'm ashore, buc I am a bit superstitious. I believe in a God, and if your oath meant any thing, it meant everything. If you'd made a blunder, married this man, loving me all the time, and just said, simple and childlike, 'Mark, I am sorry. Forgive me,' I'd have taken you back to my heart, and thought nothing hard of you. But we can't get away from this oath. What sort of God would He be who would let His name be taken and sworn by just to make a fine sound? .No, we can't escape it. Don't you know wt> can't ? Wasn't it for this, just to meet you here, that the ship came back three months before the time she was due ? Do just as I tell you ;" and he would have taken her in his arms again, hut at that moment the door opened and Old- worth came in. " I told you I should be goneten min­ utes," he said, "and I have been twelve. Come, Mary; your room is ready. Wish your friend good-night." "It strikes me," observed Mark, '• she's not as anxious for that as you would have her. You've come back too soon; we haven't done our talk yet; we've a fancy to finish it on the shore." "A fancy which you must most cer­ tainly resign," replied Oldworth, forc­ ing a smile, though he was white as death, and his hands and lips were quiv­ ering. "Mary, my dear, are you coming ?" " No. she isn't," put in Mark. " Do you think she'd rest without knotting my news? I tell you again, you came back too soon. Five minutes' walk and talk on the shore, and then it will all be over." "Yes. Then it will all be over, dear," said Mary, going to her husband. "You don't want to grieve me, do you? he answered. "Come, Mary." " No. I must go to the shore first," she replied. " Indeed, I should like it. It is such strange news Mark has for me that it makes my head throb and burn, and the night air might cool it." 1 " You will tell me everything ?" said Oldworth. " Yes, everything," she answered. " Well, of course I shall oome with you." "As you like," ejaculated Mark, who during this brief dialogue had been waiting with a look of sullen impatience on his face. So those three went out into the night. The white, panic-stricken moon seemed to be flying through the sky, followed by great masses of cloud. As these three came to the shore you could hard­ ly tell which was the louder, the wind's voice or the sea's. The spirits of the ocean and the storm seemed to be hold­ ing some wild revel. The huge, black, foam-crested waves came with the sound of thunder against the land, and the hissing spray, blown up like smoke, dashed in the faces of the two men and the woman. When they were fairly on the beach Mark turned to Oldworth, and said in a voice that was quite audi­ ble through the sound of ,wind and waves :. " Look here, now; I'll be frank and above-board with you. I loved this girl a long time ago ; we were playmates to­ gether ; and it's rough on me that she should love you better. Come, now, don't be greedy; let us have five min­ utes to ourselves to say good-by in, and then I will never again cross your path or hers. This I swear." Oldworth turned to his wife. " Do you wish it ?" he aslipd. She murmured faintly, " Yes. it will be better, I suppose." So he held her with his arm fo* a minute while he kissed her lips loving­ ly ; then he let her go and walked aside, turning his back to the sea. The moon was hurrying through the heavens, and all around Oldworth the night shook and clamored. At times he seemed to hear footsteps coming and going near him, and at times he seemed to hear a sound of singing through the storm, but these were only sick fancies. He waited five minutes; he waited ten; then he turned and went nearer the sea, but his eyes could not discover that for which they were looting. „ "Mary!" he called at the top of his voice. "Mary, my 'darling, where are you ?" But there came no answer to hi* frail. Wind and sea laughed him to driftpn, and overhead the moon fled faster than ever between the great spaces of black cloud. Oldworth searched the beach in all directions ; then hp went to its extrem­ ity, where two sailors were lounging together. " Have you seen a man and a woman pass up this way?" he inquired. "We saw you and another man go down with a girl some minutes back," replied one of the sailors. "They cer­ tainly have not come up this way. Now I think of it, they can't have got round any other way, because the tide is high up over the rocks." "Why, you must be drunk, Bill, to talk like that," cried the second sailor. "Don't you know the gentleman was married to her to-day ?" Then he turned to Oldworth: "Never mind him, sir, they've only gone higher up. I'll be bound we'll find them fast enough. What might the man's name be ?" " How in Heaven's name should that help you?" returned Oldworth desper­ ately. "The man's name was Mark Shaw, and he was a sailor." " Mark, Mark! Why, that's our mate!" cried beth men together. "Well, we'll do all we can." And they went down to the sea, and while Oldworth stood, feel­ ing that the horror which he suspected could not really be, and wondering what he should do next, the men returned bearing something with them. " It's a woman's hat, sir," said the sec­ ond sailor, the one who had reproved his companion for what he deemed his incon­ siderate speech. "But don't you take on, sir ; more hats than one get blown • away this weather. " " Thank you. I know the hat," re­ turned Oldworth, with awful quiet in his voice. Then he turned from them. " Take my arm, won't you, sir said the sailor who had last spoken, observ­ ing that Oldworth seemed hardly able to control his steps. This sailar was known on the Annie as ".Tim th© pigeon-hearted." "Thank you," rejoined Oldworth, taking the man's hand. "I know vou mean well, and I shall not forget you. You re a sailor. Is there any boat, do you think, that could follow and find them ? Can they be all the way down yet ? Down at the very bottom of the sea ? Why, I thought just now I heard her laugh. Don't you think she might have run p«>«t us ? I shall find her again some day. Not to-night, perhaps, but some day." He pressed his hand to his forehead as if trying to collect his thoughts ; then a cry, which those who heard will never forget, broke from his lips and rang through the storm. High up it went, far away over the wind. The dead must have heard it. Then he fell senseless to the ground. " The sailors, good-hearted men both, bore Oldworth back on their shoulders to the inn. Medical aid was procured, but all that night he raved de­ liriously. Very early the next morning, in the first low light, the bodies of a man and woman, clasped in one another's arms, were washed ashore. Two sailors identified the man's body as that of their first mate, Mark Shaw, of the schooner Annie. William Grant, a farmer in Kent, swore to the woman's body as be- i»g that of his daughter, who had been married only the day before. The two had decent burial, side by side. Old- worth lived, but reason never returned to him. " He is a troublesome patient, and a dangerous one," say his keepers, " whenever the wind is high and wester­ ly."--Philip. Bourke Marston, in No­ vember Galaxy. Serious Disorders. Among the numerous forms of dis­ eases which prevail in this country nerv­ ous exhaustion occupies a conspicuous place, and the subject in its various forms has been recently discussed in an able manner in the Medical Record by Dr. George M. Beard. Speaking of the future of these diseases in this country, he finds reason to think that they tend to disappear. Among the prominent causes now operating to impede the in­ crease of nervousness among the people of this country, he enumerates the fol­ lowing : A higher and better mode of living, a more bountiful use of nutritious food, and indulgence in recreation. The increase of a large leisure class exerts a beneficial influence on national health. The tendency to diminish the increase of families strengthens the feeling of social responsibility, as well as giving a more favorable chance of success in the strug­ gle for existence. The declining influ­ ence of the terrors of the dogmatic the­ ology has relieved the general mind of a heavy burden. It is shown that we have sensibly increased in weight during the last quarter of a century. Both men and women now enjoy a much higher average of health than formerly, and a marked improvement in physical beauty is everywhere discernible. Nervous dys­ pepsia is rapidly disappearing,. and has lost in a great degree the intractable character it formerly possessed. The various forms of asthenopia, so common in colleges and seminaries a few years ago, are now comparatively rare. There is also reason to believe that hay fever and inebriety may at no distant day reach their maximum and decline. The increased longevity of the brain-workers is an indication of a favorable state of national health. All these forcep and in­ fluences tend to modify and increase that greatest blessing of civilization--good ealth.--New York Graphic. The Lone Star State. Texas, says the St. Louid Republican, is the most stupendous suocess in America. California is nothing to it. It is an empire as large as all France, and capable of more varied productions than France and Germany put together. Cotton, sugar, coffee, tea, wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, tobacco, oranges, lem­ ons, bananas, flax, hemp, apples, peaches, figs, rice, etc., etc., are as easily grown in Texas as white beans are in Kansas. Besides this, cattle ex­ ist by the millions, sheep thrive splen­ didly, and hogs grow as rapidly and freely as dog fennel in Illinois. Texas can sustain a population of 50,000,000, and do it well. At present she is sparse­ ly peopled, but the tide of emigration is setting toward her strong and steady. Her cheap lands, salubrious Climate, rich soil, vast herds of cheap cattle, and the independence and freedom involved in the pursuit of this fascinating and special industry make Texas the great point of attraction to-day. Cattle- growing in Texas is as sure a source of wealth as any human being can devise, and it is an occupation which is open to even the most limited intellect, and to men of the very simplest attainment. It is a business also which cannot be overdone. The world eats millions of pounds of beef each day. Franoe alone consumes 40,000,000 pounds daily; and if meat can be placed in reach of all the poor in the world its consumption will be greatly increased. Subterranean Telegraphy. Entire success is claimed for the en­ terprise of subterranean telegraphy in Germany. The wires between Berlin and Halle have been in use for twelve months, and their conducting power has increased, no fault having yet been de­ tected in the insulation. ' The line is formed by a cable of seven thin copper wires twisted together so as to be a single conductor ; they are cased in In­ dia-rubber, and laid in a trench which is dug and afterward filled in by a steam excavator. The trdhch dug by this ma­ chine is unifotm ; it is one metre deep and half a metre wide. The work in ordinary soil is said to go forward with great expedition, and underground wires will soon be laid between all the ohief cities. Abolition of Pension Agents. An effort will be made this winter to induce Congress to abolish the office of Pension Agent and provide for the pay­ ment of pensions by check directly from the treasury of the United States. The Committee on Pensions in the Senate has already been instructed to inquire into the expediency of abolishing that office. WOCHEN IN INDIA. Their Miserable Uvea from the Cradl* to the Grave. A. writer in CasaelVs Magazine, Lon­ don, draws a dark picturc of the social condition of women in India : " There can be no more interesting object of be­ nevolent enterprise than the improve­ ment of the social condition of the women of India. The estimation in which the native Indian woman is held is well known by Englishmen--how she is compelled to undergo every kind of manual work at the command of her husband, while the lord and master en­ joys his life to the utmost---worked for, waited on and looked up to by his wife and slave. The wretched existence of these women has been described pretty clearly in a single sentence; «She is unwelcomedat her birth, untaught in her childhood, enslaved when married, accursed as a widow, and often unla- mented at her death.' Lady Anna Gore- liangton has been recently visiting In­ dia, and has taken much pains to ao- quaint herself with the manners and customs of the natives, especially in the South of India. Indian children, sh6 informs us, are married at 8 years of age. Native fathers consider it a dis­ grace to have single girls in the family: and endeavor to get them married in childhood; but, when Married, they do not always go at once to their husbands' homes. Although but little money is laid out in clothes or education, the marriages are very expensive, as there is a great deal of feasting; indeed, many families have been impoverished for years by the expense of marriages. In­ fanticide is not so prevalent now as it was a few years ago, and Governri ent has done a great deal to put it dowu The marriages are generally arrange > by the old women, who go from family to family to discover suitable matches The men in India are, to a great extent, ruled by the women, who are very con­ servative, and have decided objections to any improvement in their customs. The lower-class women work very hard, pulling stone rollers, cutting grass, and helping their husbands in brick-laying. Widows are treated by the natives very badly. Their clothes and jewels are taken from them, and they are made as miserable as possible. • Nothing,' says Lady Anna Gore-Langton, ' is more painful than to see the vacant, hopeless, melancholy faces of the adult women ; and nothing is wanted more than lady doctors, who might save Indian women much suffering.' Sir Salar Jung exerted himself some time back to secure a lady doctor for India. He had to send to America for one, and she has now a large practice among the native women." Society in Poland. The Pole is proud and dressy; he will not carry bundles; he does not go out to walk without his cane; he must have his watch-fob, gloves and beaver. Walk in Saxony Garden about 1 o'clock of a summer Sunday, or " Under the Limes" at about 6, and you will see more fine- mannered, elegantly-attired people than in any other city of its size in the world. The coats and dresses fit to perfection; the hats and bonnets are the latest im­ portations ; the smiles and salutations could not be surpassed by people ac­ customed all their lives to go to court. But the women are the fundamental charm. I remember in particular one young lady at the Saxony Garden prom­ enade who passed me several times, ac­ companied by two young men whom I supposed to be her brothers. She was graceful, lithe, erect and tall, a superb creature, with mobile lips, lustrous eyes, and a full, broad forehead.--Letter from Warsaw. The New Minister to England. John Welsh is a native of Philadel­ phia, and is 72 years of age. He has been many years a member of a large house in the India trade, importing for others on commission, but not on their own acccount. They pay a heavy amount of dnties into the Custom House, perhaps more than any other firm in this city. Mr. Welsh is best known as the President of the Centennial Board of Finance, and to his efforts Philadel- phians largely attribute the success of the great exhibition. His services were recognized by a subscription of $50,000 for a testimonial from his fellow-citizens, and this testimonial, at his suggestion, took the shape of the John Welsh Pro­ fessorship in the University of Pennsyl­ vania. He is a prominent member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and is one of the founders and largest contrib­ utors to the Protestant Episcopal Hos­ pital in this city.--Philadelphia Letter. Exterminating the Squirrels. The California farmers, who have been greatly annoyed by the depredor tions of myriads of squirrels, are being relieved by a man who seems to be a legitimate successor of the Pied Piper. His stock in trade is a poisonous pellet, sugar-covered with something which he lias discovered to be especially attract­ ive to fche squirrel tribe, and he under­ takes to rid farms of all the squirrels at so much an acre. He has been very suc­ cessful, and wherever he has distributed his patent pills the dead squirrels lie in heaps. A Power to Supersede Steam. Mr. Wm. Wall work, who died afew days ago at London, Eng., completed an in­ vention just before his death which he styled " a new new power to supersede steam." Subsequently the machine was tested, and, it is reported, partially justi­ fies what the deceased said it would do. Its power, he said, was unlimited, and it blew off air at a pressure of forty pounds. The machine is now being patented. It is very simple of construction; it emits no smoke, having no fire; works noise­ lessly, and, it is claimed, will do the work of a fifty-horse-power engine. Driven to Insanity by Base-Ball. Samuel Lindsay, a prominent base­ ball player of Catskill, N. Y., has been placed in the Insane Hospital at Pough- keepsie. Lindsay was a catcher ; a red- hot ball had been sent in by the pitcher, and the striker had tipped it just enough to throw it out of its course, and the man behind the bat was struck on the forehead. He was insensible for several days, but .attempted, after a fortnight's illness, to return to his work. Subse­ quently he manifested symptoms of in­ sanity, and it became necessary to keep him manacled and strapped.. SHEKP are being shipped from Mexico through Texas to St. Louis and Chicago. SUBVIVAL OF THkJ FITTEST. BX C. P. CBAMOK. ** 5̂1®" tiie fittest lives," I hear « corthern breeze oi tboO«Mr _o Nwure s heart the strong are dear; me weak must pui unloved, QUoigbt." , And yet. In undertone*, a Voice v«n^^Jh!i"?y8: , "°h ehUd of earth, ' your heart's beet choice. Shall stand with God lor what they're worSu" 'Tis not the stronp alone Hurvlve* • >, ; Uii Truth, Beauty, Virtue, scattered' - i In humble soil, bear noble lives Whose fruits forever must abide. Time's buildings tie not all of atone • With frailest fibers Nature spina * Her living webs from zone to cone. And what is lost she daily wina. I fain would think, amid the strife Between realities and forms, • Slight gifts may claim perennial life 'Mid slow decay and sudden storms. This tuft of silver hairs I loose From open windows to the breeze, Some bird of spring perchanoe may uae To build her nest in yonder trees. . These pictures, painted with an art Surpassed by younger sight and "Mi', May pass into some friendly neart, 8ome room with Nature's smiles may *1' These leaves of light and earnest rhyme Dropped on the windy world, though Ion Neglected now, some future time May weave into its nest of song. -Atlantic Monthly for November. . PITH AMD POIHT. JOINT occupation--Carving. RULING classes--Schoolmtasers. HOTELI-KEEPERS are people we have to put up with." "THIS," thought a boy while being trounced by his fond papa, " is very like a whale." A BTUTTEBING Professor fays: " The Dog Star is no star at all. It is a p-p-p- pup-planet. "No, MA'AM," said a grocer to an ap- pl cant for credit, " I wouldn't even trust my own feelings." THE man who sees a friend running after him nowadays thinks whether he owes him anything before he says "Good morning." _ SEVEN-EIGHTHS of the entire popula­ tion of America are in debt to each other. Well, indeed may our people be called the sturdy owemanry.--Hawk-Eye. A SHOPKEEPER of great experience says that however talkative clerks may be during %e day, they are always ready to shut up at night. "THE single-scull race!" exclaimed an old lady as she laid down her morn­ ing paper, " I didn't know as they had discovered a race with double skulls!" OLD gent to boy (who is smoking the end of a cigar he has picked up)--" Ugh, for shame, throw the nasty thing away." Boy--" What! for you to pick up and smoke, eh ? I knows yer!" A TRAMP callecl at a house on West Hill, the other day, and asked for some­ thing to eat. He was so thin, he said, that when lie had a pain he couldn't tell whether it was a touch of the colic or the backache. --Hawk-Eye. IT is admitted on all sides that busi­ ness is much better now than it was at this period last year, and yet there is less bustle seen on our prinoipal streets than was exhibited a year ago. Fashion is to blame for this. A BACKWOODSMAN, on hearing an East­ ern Bishop preach a sermon in a fron­ tier church without a manuscript, said: "He is the first of them fine fellers that I have ever seen, that could shoot with­ out a rest." SHE chuckled and was much amused; A pun--she showed it in her face; " Having," she said, " the past perused, I Cleopatra's needle traced-- Why, Tom, it probably was used To hem old Pompey's pillar-case." --Graphic. THAT Georgia negro preacher was both frank and shrewd who remarked to his flock: "We have a collection to make this morning, and, for the glory pf heaven, whichever of you stole Mr. Smith's sheep, don't put anything on the plate." A COUNTRY couple, newly married, stopped at a hotel, and the bridegroom called for some wine. When asked what kind of wine he would have, he re­ plied: "We,want that kind of wine where the corks pop out and the liquoJp boils up like soap-suds." " I WAS born in Bath," said a dirty*- looking customer, as he harangued a crowd at a political meeting, "and I lpve my native place." " You don't look as if you had ever been there since," said one of his hearers, as he proceeded to laud an opposition candidate. THESE are Puck's Autumn Thoughts : Autumn man get drunk? Autumn mule kick ? Autumn monkey marry ? Autumn maiden kiss ? Autumn musician muzish T Ought 'em ? A I»ADY in general conversation, by in­ geniously cooking her dates, was reduc­ ing her age to an astonishing limit. Her daughter, whose partly French blood had bromght her a keen wit, interposed with the remonstrance, " At least, leave nine months between our ages, mam­ ma !" " IT is social death," says a fashiona­ ble magazine, "when it becomes known that a young man wears corsets." This is as' it should be, too. It's all very well for an enterprising young man to wear corsets for a day or two, just to become ah expert with them, but to wear them as a practice is miserable. WHEN you see a young fellow who a year ago used to step up and order lager for the crowd with the utmost sang froid patiently trundling , a baby carriage along the street on Sunday afternoon, and looking chapfallen in his last season's hat, don't it speak volumes for the reforming influence of woman's so* ciety?--Puck. A CLERGYMAN was preparing his dis­ course for Sunday, stopping occa­ sionally to review what he had writ­ ten, and to erase that which he disap­ proved, when he was accosted by his little son, who numbered but five sum­ mers : " Father, does God tell you what to preach?" "Certainly, my child." " Then what makes you scratch it out? " A COMMON TAIiE. Down dropped the pipe, the elbow fell, The good wife scolded free. And the misfit joints they wrought a spell That raised old Cain with me. v I pounded them in, I pried them out, But hear, oh man and brother ! Both ends of every joint of pipe Were bigger than the other. Oh ! never again while life may last Will I be found so green, However may howl the wintry blast, To fool with a stove, 1 ween. --Bttrlintfton Hawk-Eyt*