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MARINE NEW Neatly Three Million Bushels of @rain Shipped from Chicago Last Weck by Lake. Detentions to Vesscls Caused hy the Damage to the Welland Canal, : The Late Tompoest, Conl-Cargo Short- sges, and Nautical Notes of Interost, . LAST WEEK'S GRAIN SIIPMENTS BY LAKE. ‘The #hipmenta of crmin from this port by lake for the week ending with Saturday Iset agsregated 2,083,655 bu, The following tables aliow the names of tho vessels and thelr cargoes: asel, [ Tru pton.. snwee Fill Maory et 17, hr Jennle Grainm, 1 oW o, 13 im, 21, i rr Prop kiatoc Frop Travers Lron waver) £ e n 270 L viiaon. 24, e FRIN an gl e 4 , PN T e . Eene G, HL B o ciir E. I, Co ket Comme senr Jelen: sehr Leilea Eehr Lsing Saf. W Na, bt Xo, I, ) Behr 8. 1, Watson, ;40,000 w0 Belie Mant o 210 0 Selir Muaniten Prop Milwanks unlie Trop Buffaio. tia } b dri o0 Bebr North ¢ ape.., | 144) Bedied. 1, MAr e i nr Eelt Ly el A, Law. . liatdirin, aid & Tel Helir 8. 1, Fotieto) schr G, I, Siuan, ., 2 Testel, No. v, Prop W, ENT Trop Davidson Frop Menomine: Prop gyt Ttub Avon l'fl)l‘ k.m ob 1. o Prop Efill Igr m\l‘;' M bron City To ) F1ob At anamlReh Behe Wikl chr o Behrd. A.dioimes Total LX X, by Vessel, Prop Biarucca..,... 16355 Sehir 4. i, ead, ¥rup ket Echr Mears, sLnl Tota Fessel. o by Veasel, reel. . Bty 2 TrupRtrces...v. 10,367 el dainalcn ... V7o Alaska, A iy Vo, narres e Vesurt, Durreps anel, els, : % %0 Prop Chamolain., 0o 200 Prop Avon ir Trowbridge Tup 1) ur 1. A, Richin Frop City Tuledo., Trop oke. o aneeee 8,804 Prop Q. Campboil.... 40l 5 Grand total, Including flour reduced to grain, 2,003,355 bu. THE TEMPIEST ON THOE LOWER LAKES, The ferce tempest that swept over Lakes Erle and Ontario lately caused serloun damato to the Welland Canal, and the flect of thirty or forty ves rels that left this port for Kingston, Oswego, and othier points on Lako Ontario, will no donbt expe- rlence a long delay unless a rapld transfer of thelr graln cargoes can be made by rall on thetr arrival at Port Colborne. A dispatch recclved here yes- terdny stated thntthe danage was so great on tho canal that It would require twe weoks to sepair it, and vessely could not be locked through in the weantime Full reports of the damare done to shipping on the Lower Lakes by the preat storm have been piven in Tur Twinene’s telegraphic columns, ~The damage (6 veus: a8 not proved #o serious ns mizht have veen expected. “The schr George 1ML Waud was_tle ouly vesscl from this port thut was caught in tho big blow on Lake lluron on the Lith lust, Sho waw wrecked at San Deach. and was owned by Nichote & Holliday, the last-named pentleman beiny her Master,” She rated I 135, was built st Buffalo fn 18UU. and was valued ot HLIM)O. 1t §s said sho had vome insurance un her bull. A letter from Capt. Dixon, dated at Port Iuron, stutes that tho schr Norme, gf this port, lort her Jarze auchor and part of herchain, and had ner mizzen sail carried away. The sche E. 1 Dorr, wrecked at Charlotte, N, Y., in the great atorm. was bullt utthis port in 1861, by tue late Jacob W, Lanta’aud wae the fires vemsel constructed by hiny afier leaving Buflae lo. She touned 215, and was vaiued at 34, 300, SHORTAGES ON COAL FREIGHTS. The shortages on coaf cargoes aro altagether fuw frequent, aud vesscl Captains are waklng up to the fact with a view to patting an cnd to them, They knoow by the water-marks very nearly the nnmber of tons on their vosscls; in fact, sume of the wort experienced Masters say Lhey can tell within five ortentons, An fnrtance was shown last veason where & vessel overran sighity tone, the Caplain wsisting upon having the cargo welghad, and recelved the additional freight money on that amount. Yerlerday o Caplain inforneid I'ne Thisusk marine reporter that his bill of Jud- ing called for 10 tons, when in fact he had G0 tons on board, but got (relunt-mongy In accord- snce with the bill of ladiug, the ehlpper yetting Ll vessel [0 tho extent Of twenty tous. {2 not confinedl 1o oue port on the Lower , but includes scveral, Preleht rates on coal g miaerably In nd Lo Lake advautazo of » ves- 1 mag by {onll oa wore coal vhan the bl of ladiug fe made out for ie the moaucit kiud of meanness. — TORT HURON. & [Epectal Dizpatch (o The Tribwenme, Port Munow, Mich., Sept. 15,—~The tag Mock- o Uird arrived down at 7 Jast night with the barge Light-Guard, the lost wreck of steam barye East Baguaw's tow, She was waler-logeed, and-has Ler stern knocked out, and Is sunk below her decks, ler crew, with two women, wers nearly forty-eight hours without food, saud wero badly used up, 'I‘g Light-Guara will 2o ioto the Waul- verine ilry.dock, It w ruinored hors to-night that tho prop Ontario, of tho Nurthwest Transit’ Company, was lost dur- dng tho late storm, but mothing delinito has been leurued, and her loas ia improbable, To the Wastern Ausocialed Press, Pour Huaox, Bept, 15 —Passed up—Props News borg, J. Bertachy, Uity of Montreal, Nehraskn, Commoadore, Lawrence, Alcona ana cotsort, J, K. ¥ay and consort, CoMnverry and baryes; schrs Davld Vance, John Burt, Hegina, Eagle Wing, Monguagon, 8. Yaris, Scoty Lown—Props C. J. Kersh Eimira snd barges, {Mary glo and barges Michigan and uvary . t Tuinchr.l:‘nfl b"gu.xu. O, 'Lean sud barges, A, A. Wind—North; light, ‘Weather—Flue, IIATLD AGROUND, ‘The southesly wind cauded some of the deeply- laden grain craft convlderable troubls before they €ot out of port Salurdsy, the water in tne river faliivg perceptibly and causing several to ground, Yeaterday tho barge Northorner, consors of the Prop lurlbug, with 60,000 bu cora on board, got acround at the mouth of the rivor, opposite Van tehaick's dock, and defied the comuined offorts of seven tuzs Lo got hee off. The Haribut pulicd at Ler, and sho was Qually gottcn off, and aken iu low for Buflalo, Bhe Urew fuuricen foot aud two inches. A vessel drawing fifteen feet was towed Out Baturdsy afternoun without groundivg, The Northeruer also grounded st tho City Blevator be. ure she camo down tha river, and threo Lugs got Bar out of that scrape, i MILWAUKER. 8pecial Dispasch to The Trijtuns, ” Mitwaukee, Sept. 15.—Graln frelghts were fairly active yestcjday, and scverul charters wero wiade at Chicago. quotations, Kogazemepis—Schr Ked, White, and Hiug, wheat at 40; schr 9. Maria Beott, barley a4 %c, To Kilugejon—tchr Amer- lcan, wheat at7yic. ‘Arrived from' beJow—Echrs Nlagars and Jamew Wadu. v /A vpaaking breeso urried a large Scot down the :lfhlu-du. prucipally (row Chicigo, ERIE, - Bpecial (o The Tridune Eax, Ps., Seot). 15.v Arrivals—Scbr Kate Riche Mbl:fl. H‘nfl-lo; bark Paraus, Chicago. Jupsrturca—Pegp Juulsts, Chicago; schr David Wazetagy, cxmx...%‘ e ~ The revenuo-cutier Perry bus gooe to Falrpost, 1 40 pult uff the at: 1, that pofot. A llect of .-gn‘,ft.‘:?' Hro i ats left Lere yoster- 935, 3ud Lo-day nearly all were stosin-boaids NAVIGATION NOTES. CHICAGO, Tha great deet that 1ot thly port for below, $at- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 16, 1878, urday, will make ft liyely for Buffaloand other voets on 14 arrival, dnmes Wanlen, engineer of the stine Prerless, Tas rened from hia gosktion un acconnt of 1 healtn, ‘The exeursion eteamers, which hiad been com- priled to remain in it most of lase week, re- sumed therr tr ay. : Viton will donste $200 ta “The Clicao 0 the yeliow lrv'cr"mm\wn. “The Cleveland Union 1w contry nefdering the low eate of wagen the sailors nave Weeived this eeason, theae donutioux nra very liberal, and the givers are ea- titled to great eredit, ELSEWHERR, & The rate_om corn Immh 'rrluedo to Doffalo was 2¢ Satunioy, ani 3¢ on wheal,, B Ao seventy feet of tho nlon Steamboat Com pany's leased dock nt Buffalo fell in a few days go, carrying with 12100 tons of splzel tron, "I'he prop Nyack in_doing rome lively runnine, She made e run from Clevelant to Nafalo 8 cauple of days snce in thisteen hours and a half, “I'he schr Magyte Thompson arrived at Mllwaukee Fritay with bereentrenuird hroken, and the steam- arge Egyptinn with & broken matn-yafl, "o kel b ham juet been laid at the Unlon Dry. Dacic Coupany‘a yard, " uilalo, for » 'larzo new elght eiter fur the Union camboat Compa- frolut '":" ome witl o 400 feet keal, 57 foct . and 1684 feet nold, e Vibe preachs time the wator in Lake Enperior {elonwer tian ever befare known, nearly twa. feet Dudaw s usunl level, and the traueit stenmers when londed down have, in s couple of instances, toumicd in the main chaunel of 1ho liay at D> uth. At Milwanken Wolf & Davidson have com. menced reuRinng the xtme J A, iz, The wotk 18 under the supervision of Capl, John Blend, and in belng dune by the n-,'-,um inderwriter, by azree. ment with the owners, imitine the rewaie hiil un- der the survey to 85,000, sbonid 1t reach that amoannt, TORT OF CIIICAGO, Thoa following were the arelvalaand actual aaliings Atthingort for the past forty-eight hours ending at 10o'clock fast night: ARBIVALE, nmn‘uu. Urommond, touth Haven, sundries, Ruth rect, FTop Ocran, Montreal, sundries, State streot. chr Johu ¥. Trince, Hiate stieet, p G, 1% Heati, Saugatuck, sundreies, Btat; eet, p Leland, Muskegun, lamber, Twenty-econd sicer, i ra. Murkegon, tumber, Market. E e AL Fon, Jomoer. Market, ne 8. U, And| rusts, ). i 3 mfh:h! Golden lisrvest, Muskegon, Jumber, Mason ‘Swbr City Grand fiaven, Muskegon, lumber, Mason 8l Ataunto, Muskegon, tnmber, Stetson Klip. T5Ton New v, Mupkegon, THiber, fubl sire Bruw Conster, Muskegun, Lice, Dearborn ot reel Hehe Couneatt, Muskenti, ek, Twenty-second street, M. Recion, harines, likht, ftush streety riew, Adatun steect corea U, Kuscl, Erie, liht, iush strcot, 1. 9, vy . Lo llllwll\l§ tate wireet, gLt Ilinots Central, Tosione, Rush pireet. . posts, 'U., B, & Q. Frup Norinan, i andries, Jush Streét, SEuE Willan' omi aven, Inmber, Kush reet. E. P, ftoyre, Dark Pler. posts, Market, 11 Hinektéy, brakes, Jamber, Alarket. Favorte, Métomince, (xlnw tush street, Menvuiiger, Jumnber, Sietson S1Ip. Iumber, statson SIp, i Piop FortaK Henr Anguebinitt, Mitw nukee, Fehr Auventure, Grind Stoue anh ar il FeBr Pinnet, Slenomine. rrup Fayette, Manistee, lusnber, Kicuaon 811D, Id'll: AP, Nicuols, dturgeun Day, lee, Twelfth [iop ismarck, Menominee, towing, North Market 0 STeRE D. L., Fiter, Menominee, lumber, Ktetsar filn, et Marineste, Menobitve, Tubibet, Bietson S1p. schr Bldorady, Senvminee, stetson Stip. fcow Trio, Utilon Fier, wood, ftush stre 1, W hite Lake, lunber, Rusl street, L,eaf, Ludkigion, luuber, Sarker, undries, Ciark atreet. ciourbury. a ahitigo, towlig, Jtusl sirect, o, Tumiber, Hust sty Itioer, [tush strect. s i, ‘guns, lumber, M Alinole Sunsui, Manliiee, Juoiber, 15, Peabeid, Ueonto, lumier, Market, J-rob Geofxe Lpnbar, Muskigon, 0inber, Mafh street, Helir Contest. luskegon, lumber, Van Buren strect. Prop T, W. Eovk, Wilia Lake, tumber, Gas-1ouse ipe Frup Fountatn City, Buffalo, sundrien, Siate strost, Behr A, Mulvey, henosus, light, Uearborn street, ACTUAL BAILIXUN, Bchr Pllot, Maulntee, light, behr Mystic, Munkes £ohir Oame Coc {ndad, O :. Benr Bultvis, rain. Behr LIty of Grand iiaven, Grand Haven, Hghte Saw £ and 15nven, towlug. uskegon, leht, " Benr C, G, J beur (Golien Jin Behr Vetpont, laulitee, it beur W, 1L, Dunham, Manlsice, tght. hear Iver Lawnou, Muskeyun, flhi. Beur Jolin Miuer, ‘turceon Ly, licht. » Behr Antares, Miskegon, lght. fehr Aelite Guraser, u, kraln. Y'rup Messenger, Beoto Haibor. supdries, Prop U, I licath, Saugatuck, suudrles. siehr Antwres, Ludiugson, 1 Behr Clinole, Bi, Jok Belir G e reur Gilhert Knaug, Bofialo, krain. Behr na wisin, Mlwn, Buftaio, i Fenr Mariun DIxvn, K, Jospli, sloné, ebr Lady MeUunaid, KIngstol, i, ser I, A Holmes, Lualngton, light, 4 rat. 'er, Nght, en. aries, iegou. Hght, ket Charies Lultt bice, lighi. ciand, Suskeot, sundrics, Reow Ath Clitin, Pentwater. Tt Kehr Thonas W. Feery, Bu Betie oy uVeu. "Bunalo, Ludlngiou, Hght. A Gconte, Hght. et Athenlas, Pentwater, laht. iche Milwaukee Buite, Maiil re akegot, 1t FIN clon, Heht, stee. Ml auiive, gl Dy Magtatee. fighe, oW chf b o.M Behr Peorla, Tark Nai i 1 chr Mary B! 14 umfnml}.\ eruli. ch, liaht, Suskegon, Tkt drie: LT, niy Lind, South 11 coin Dall, b ialerg iufulo, Lrop Uity o1 Tiaverse, T ‘rop Waverly, linfalo, Prof Hoanoke, 13ulfale, sundries, brup it C. 1 {ulan, Baukatuck, sundrics, Prop Mar; 101 Lijlawster, suudries Mooulight, Dutfalo, aln. » #ebr David Sewart, Nudalo, grafn. telle 1. e, Menvminee, sundrioa, wdruff, Hifno, gxral Cupe, Wuftalo, gratn, seni Mouteaiu, Wutmalo, gra Belr Cappulia, Muskegon, sandries, Helir Samuvld. Tilden, Biffalo, krain et 18 . 1luyes, Duttalo, graiu. 1'7op Antelope, Huffalo, grais. 6 City, sundrics, ndries ex, e s Itl s ll.hl;.'fl rll".. Kelir 3, 1. Mead, Bulfaio, grato. bebr it B, Domeruy, Luffaio, gratn gn:uu. '3 nl;zlm:n. hw-ml:' &rain, el cht M, A Kichillud, baginaw, sun Echir Behuylkill k. vfiu. Kchiz Buteher Bog, Bidalo, grein. Frop Aviite Laurs, Muskegon, iight. Lrop euris Duntar, Muskeyon, ght, SeliF Couteat, Muskegou, Heht. Sehr Mary MoVes, Little Traverse, ght, ehr Fearlea, Manisive, Wuht. felr Lo A Supeot, Ludiogt Sebr Eila Elliuwoud, Wh el bunvenlr, Pentwate Belr Koas Belle, danist " B vlkc“llkli‘(,l;rlrlzll li'l‘m H‘l‘ Mght. delot: Eenr Jubia it Merrill, Meuutines, sundr SCbr Little lielle, Mtanisiee, Hghte ———— A USELESS SUGGESTION, To the Editor of The Trihuns, Creaao, Hept 14.—1 would like a ahort apace in your peber to say & few words upou Politics) FEcouomy und Currcncy. A nation fs but & grest fawily miade up of waiy smaller ones, Every pers wa whal ia weant by *'economy, good went, ete., I & fumily." "All labor, whetlier wental or physical, te so dirscted as to vroduce the greatval und best resulta practical, Everythiog s done at the proper tine and in tho right place, No unnecessary destroying or w age. Tools, machinery, fences, buildingy, wave u’lhc bewt practical materiul for the uses desiyucd for, snd cared for in such manner as to lust s long as pructical. Thesatie principles should form 1be Laalw of sction of the gpeat fapily, or neuon, sl (s devanments of Afe as fuc'av fu practicul o carry them vut. But we every day wee & very wide divergence from these priuciples when there' 18 w0 good resvon for Laving 1L so. A taruer would ol 1nink of making deef by fecdiug wheal, whers |t costs a dav's labor to pra. duce a tushel, whea he could wake as wuch or wiore and belter, with.a bushel of curn enly costing une-third of 8 day’s lanor to produce i, The sate princivle abould buld sy good 1u uational 2 1n individual actipn. Now, what L wishl (0 sugicest o1 tuls time, a4 to pationul ecouomy relalive 10 vur currency. 1 thla: ‘Fhat the United States Treasury becume (he great Lanking-houss of the natin, with its branches In all Wo greal cummercial ceutres, Rud receive on acoosit gola und silver comn, alun’ bullion, and tor all the sllver {ssue Treanury certificates, (o $1 and $1 cerulcates, reducmable atuny Lie, Within say Twenty yeaze, du silver, snd lvo recehablo snda k‘ul-uuunrlor 8l ducy, etc., samo 8s cotn, aud gold to be d o sanio maunct, bul cortificates of from , and redecmiable i, und 8 ten- e a2, aliver, aud tu“\'nu slmifluu- Teceiva. v of U uiliou iu larger awounts a0d also 8 luyal tender. 4 {The preacnt laws suthorizes the Goverament toreceive guld and sifver colw and to issus certificates tlcrefor. These certillcates wre wade redecmable on ‘demand; as* they sbould be, If they were not redecmable until the end twenty years precious few people would deposit aoy gold or silver th the Goverpment, As loug as the ctrtificatos’ ary. redecipuble on de- mand it makes uo ditferencs with the public whether they arp Ep) fo undrlea, Now, the mort ultrs '“'Aand-miney wien' can ralbe o bjection av 1o this uy ta &7 % pold sud shiver basia " s0 much harped upon, . - ', The points a3 to advaniaged are? Fint, the groat nass of the veople preser Yaper doilury for everys day ude to #tiver bues 1of piquy Tcasous, * A man cannot carry &boul his peewdn ten dullurs in silver without **somebow " telliug conddence men sud plekuockets that be le supplicd willi woney. In sLOcL, vur propiv much prefer 88 8 crcaluling niedhiam LIpAE Lo cul, whin (iey Kuow it to be as £afe, Secoud, 1t Wil be a eat aaving 1o tho nation, beet, n the lasa by abrasion nlone i avery large amon aunually. alag by loea in the ueean, reas, lak rivere, fires, Sand oiherwiee, In nli wach en where paper e nsed inidvidenls Jose, bt the ton vaine. Whezeas, when wsinge eoin, all lorecn are A In 0 both the talvianal rod nation, 1 wonll hiave these eoin cerifieaten dremable, an hefore maid, within twenty yeara from their date, s an to how the great pain to the nation by anving the shrasion and other b aser, I any-gond ohjertion can be made 1o the ontline featnres of (hix pian by the wiee feanciers who claim the right to remminte our currency, 1 wonld like to hear from them, Bow. P CURREN'T GOSSIY. THE FPOUR INDIAN, it Lty Dervick. Lo, the poor Indian, whose nntatored mind Sees God In clouds or hears THim in the wind?! Jit4 soul proud Sclence never tanght to stray Far ns the Solar Walk or Milky Way; 'Therefore a rcicntific aborrine 1s romething whith wo never hove to see, Dut, sceing, shall immedistely go And report the same to Mr. Barnum's show, Which witl prove a bigeer attraction than denny Linil and the woolly hioree driven tandem, Or the Cardiff Giant transported Un two freight-cars, with straw intestines Sticking oot of his month and eass. Yet simnter Nature to hix kone has efven, MBehind the clond-ton hill, a humnbler heaven— Rame safer world In depth of woods embesced, Fome happler istand In the watery wanie— As it a pater world than thie conkt be, Where overnment in kind, and liowards flee ¥iom the shadow of an inuisn Ar {f the very Ol Scrateh waa after them With & seven-prunged pitch-fork, And, reaching a telezraph-station, Immediately sent v.ard to the Asrociated Prons That they have caught up with the red demons, And Kkilled reven hundred apa 6fty Sloux, Kluer htindred and seventy-five Comanches, Fonr (housand Piutes, and untold numbera Of Crows, Cherokeea, and Black Feet—amaong The slain being Sitting. Bull, Hole-in-the-Day, Bpotted-Tail, Old Mick-in-the-Mud, And ail of their braves and papoosca. To be, contents his natural demre. 1le arke no aneel's wing, no seraph's fire But fire-water is nin heart's delight, Whether it comes in the form of Bouthon, Roblnsun Lounty, forty-rod, alcohol, squalortls, Ur nitro-glycertie with a stick in it —— TWO REMARKAULE IIKADS, Arie York Heraid, A pbrenologival anatysts of the heads of Ben Butler and Kearney wos given fn a discursive Jecture last evenfuz av 8cfence Flall, Eighth street, by P'rof. P, Grahamn, a man with a Scoteh accent. The room was nearly full, and every #hot given Kearney was hatled with hearty ap- plause. About a duzen pictures of the heads of various {llustricus and notorious people were dispiased on the platform. A disgram sup. posed to lilustrate Kearney’s hiead gave him a forehcad no ligher than an African baboon's, aud a poir of eurs as largre as any averaged slzed donkey’s. His suimal facultics were ruted off 80 08 to cover half the size of his head and put down as oue mass ot, eelflaliness, hatred, cuvy, and jeslous>. The ‘diagrawn suppused to offer some ldea Of the leading Lumps in Dutler's head, showed an appalling Jsck of houesty and veneration; but the Jecturer admired It much more than the other, because ft showed a larger area of brafus, _The foces and lieads Intenaed 1or Butler and Kearney would britige swift con- viction un them it they wore charged fn the flesh Lefore a jury with the erime of murder, ‘The leciurer sald he went Lo Fort Greene last Baturday to sec and ear Kearney, and be touk In o fair dose of his language and a mental pho- togravh of his head and lace, Polnting to the diguram of Kearney, about 14x18. he exclmmed, *“lhut head does not exhibit one inch and & quarter of moral bratn. It Jocks houesty, It 18 too flat too tell the truth, aud you uever find any simgle man who runs duwn others us rogues and Lypocrites hut is 8 rogue and hypo- crite bimscif; and that is because a man knows what Le 18 inwardly, and, baving no acquatnt- ance with society, buheves all society Hke him- eclf. Honest meu belicve 1 the eXistence of other honest wen, but men like Kearney have tou little of the moral faculty to feel its ex- ) istence anywhere clee, Heuveh protect us,' cried the lecturer, guzing In borror at his own drawing, “irom the workluge classes that cun be influenced by such o head as thet! [Ap- plause and laughier.) I you look at the front 01 118 hiead and measure it, you will tind he has oue and three-lourths fuches ot brofn, He hos sbout as much ns a parrot, and he (s fust like a purrot that gets ok a4 number of n%cct\\'u. and throws them out without regard 10 meaning wherever he gets an %p o tunity., ‘lake awny these adjectives fromh hun and he can’t stand on this piatfonn and speuk common senst for five minutes.” The lecturer then twisted the diagrum - around aud displayed anothicr beud which azood for Butler, the top of the lieud apueaning ns big end round as the vot- tomn of an fuyerted washvasiu, 1 have studied Butler’s hicad, and face, and fgure, and all us he sut winkine his cocked eye and emoking b cigar In the Potter Committée und 4 believe he fs exactly what Blaine d nuted him=—s_lumeutable cross between n fox and 4 how. [Lauchter and hlsnen.‘] Hiss If you Iike," continued the Professur, ‘1 won't ‘say because dyuu dJo that you are hoary-headed vam- pires aud blowdsuckers, as Keurncy would say, { yuu havz reasonu on your side thix rostrum s a8 (ree to youus Lo e 10 spesk your mnd.” ‘The Professor liere touk up a pair of catlipers, oud, opeuitye them to their full wadtn, declared that Butler bad all that size of u lack of con- sctentivusucss, and could beall tings toall men fur purposes of scltish sggrandizement, all that of sclEesteem, and ali that love of upprobation undd nequisitiveness. He has a broad, cusuing licad, aud wore bralns thun Kearney.” TRICK BY TWO TRAMPS, Indianupolts News, TFlood and Druce are peripatetle printers, wide- Iy known. They bave a habit of turniug up biere and clsewhbere when least expected, coing without warning, sud depuarting cven as the wind. By @ rare chance they have just been heard from at Dauville, Iil., tramping from Kt, Louls, and headed i thisdirection. ‘They came within view of that city last Bunday, wesry with travel aud sorely hwogered. ‘The rvad they vamno bad been overworked, The erstwhile hos- ntable*iarmer now scta his dog on the wayfar- g man fustead of welcoming him to his faimly, “Turouih this departure frow the cuatows of to fatbers, they walked sud ute not. Thoroughly discouraved at ihelr repeated fallures 1o procure jood, they et concluded to make one Wure trial on this beautitul Bunday mulllhlf. and cautiously entercd the yard of devent farmi-house, peering ahout them to see that Towser did pot come suddenly sround s A SuzARP corner. They kouvcked ou the front door; no respouses AL the side doury no answer. They wenl w, ‘There wus notu soul at home, A e table epread and & wiost substeutlal wieal wos before thew, 1t wos Mkea dream from the Avabian wights. The divuer was, doubtiess, awaitlug the return of the tamlly trons cuurch, The pedestriana lell to, sud their kntves and forks soun suioked with the friction of execu- tion, To aay thul they furea sumptuousty would couvey no ldea of the amount they ats nor the futense sutisfaction with which tbe viaunds were recelved. Al were finishing the fesst a knock twas heard. Bruce, with uupuraliclul clicek, went to the door. Thers stood two otlier tiamps, who asked for souicthing to eat. rare spirit of mischivt, questioned them clascly inregard Lo thelr travels, and finally asked it they would chop woud for their diness. Yhey avswered yes. He then touk thean o w wood- iile tust he had wotied in the rear of the ouse, snd they went to work., brued sod Flood, filing thelr pockets with vicluals, stole out the sido way from the liouse sl wenl to a netghboring hill, whers they bad a full view of the wood-pile snd the totling trampe. Lhere thev gloated over the pleture. To wmaks thelr mwensure of enjoymeutl fun over, the ewner of tbe farin-house with several daughters ond iwo stalwart aops arrived on the sceue, the devasta- on of the divner was discovered, and the two swealivg tramps ot the wowd-vile scized 88 the depredators, All was seen by thetwoon thebill, frouws the arnval of the family to the ignomin. fous expulsion of the wood-cutters, sfiabairhs - PARIS NEWSPAI'ER WIT, Avs York Worid, 1 “if1 should-marry Elizs Janc, sald the prospective soo-in-law, *“Ishouta frankly con- fess one thing in sdvancy; § am. of ruther a basty tewrcer and apt to get mad without caupe.”” “Oh! that’li be all sight,”* blandly re- plicd the dear old lady; *“1sball go and live with you, and I’} sec that you alwayy have caube,"? » , + A very handéome gnd richly-dressed’Tady bad given A peouy to a begear, A mowment later be burried afier her, her, sad gusped nn- plonwgy: % Malame, wadswe 6 cwp® saw you suket me, wud here Lie iy 1o ask you if 1 am 2 beggur aud reverve whus. Save ww ur 1 sbali be'rulring," ot But whal eun 1 sav £ asked Lhe Jady: **‘fell bim [ .Jeus you the mogey laat week til) you cuuld scll your dog, and that you bave just been returning iU “Qu'estws que (4 e donnes 10 Clod trup aainged Yu o trop Jra'cha 1'4 exclalmed ilic ayent de polog, us Ly Tewoved the meadivaut 10 Ly poks. . ®Lg cop, tho policeinan, -¥5(uke, trom efaker— o bystow alms. T Lun in—3 tfm of Pansao urael, meaning **to bu arrcaled." yQu'est-ceque {6 01a dunned, €16~ What a1t thow’ iviug ice? 1t 1a too ttan. Thou art lou freen. ™ The Comminnder of the Fuitbiul waa about to ‘years ngo: Jsthacked to jte cuplors uniform Ws hoate, and o gizantie contract for “loth was ahend, A -contractor presented hitself o the Minteter of War, preysrcd ot Bis tender, S fhow mncla vard 07 satd the Misteter, softly rublang his fnzers sl thumb together. By the beard of Ailah!" saldl e eontractor, who was shartsirhted, *thirty liras delfsered £ 0. b, and may goata detile ‘my grandmother's grave if | make more than five ~ lirae Pmm a yard.” Come acatn toanorrow,” eald the Mindster of War, rather curtly, an the recond contractor prerented himsell, “What do sou charee a yardf" py the Thirty-nine liasums, forty Tiran, which leaves me ff{cen diras a yard profit,” **A-ah 1 gaid the officlal, brizhtening up, *God Is great, Just wait o minute til] I sec this other elave, How much do you want lor your cloth, eht” “Koverelpn lor reptled the third con- tractor, falling upon Wg face, while a wink shot over hin left eye, the slave of thy footstool has somecloth, all wool and warranted not toshirink, which I will Iay upon the altar of iy country for Gty liras a yard.” "*And the profit there- upon,’ eaitd the official in a volce chaoked swith emuotion, “is—7 wlg reventy-five liras yard” YO my goul! O my lumb{" replied the Minfater, *the¢ contraet:is thive,” Aud. clap- bing lius hauds, he bade the Nublan slave who Rppeared go bid his beklekrs begin cartiug sand fur hite new palace, i ——— MRS, HICKS-LORD'S ARBOR. Kew York Bun, A reporter for the Dunclien Jock lately vis- fted Mr. Thomas Lord to inquire why his accom- plished wife, formerly Mrs. Ilickg, had not visited any of the places of fashionable resore this susmer, It had heen told Lo the reporter that Mrs, Lord had made ot hetselt a recluse hfmu-c of disappnintment In the recent mar- riage, **1a it truethat Mrs. Lord {s brokenfin spiriti” agked the reporter of the Hock, *Bless your soul,” sald Mr. Lord, ashe fere- Imric 3 **why, bothof us have heen Inexpressi- iy happy heie all through the sutnmer. . Why, iuu come With me to the rear and see what wo have been mnutually enjoying, forgetful of the outsido world," 2 “Aud then,' the reporter goes on to say, “the spry soclety man of fifty eampaigns con- ducted the Lock's envoy to nscene that fairly bewtldered the ecuses. The extensive rear yard had been comptetely transformed into a perfeet haven of delights all that weaith coutd commaml and art contrive bad been lavished on that upen epace of 50x100 teet, and the whole most thoroughly concealed from the rude gaze of the neighibors by patural srbor vines of all kinds. The interfor of this enchanting retreat was prolific of exotics, tropical: frult plants and flowers In endicss variety, and here and there were fountaius of the richest periumcry n full spray; snd flitting about the place were un- numbered feathoied songsters frum every cliine, that vied with each otlier in sustalpiniz an almost unbroken stream of mclodv, It was, fudeed, o parsdise of odors, muste, and flowers.!? ‘The report o the fleek continuesas ** *1 should cstimate the cost of all this hapolness at nbout F100,000—1f you witl pordon the mercenar: thougrht,’ wos our representative'sfirst rewarlc alter a thorotigh survey, n silence, of the ex- traordiuary * back yard.) 4] shall not say what all this has cost us,’ the envied groum radisutly replicd s * whatever the outlav, it fs cheap. You have, [ presume, Leurd of the mau about to be hanged whooffered o wllifon dollars tor » giass of water just as the Eheriff was giving the 1atal signal to the execus tiuner. Now, that grlosa of water wuz, at thag price, very vheap to the poor wretch=he dhl not hope to hear of & drop in the other world b0 which hie presumed be was golug** &) / HADPT ALLITERATION.” Thuman 8, Coiter (n Puck, LITERAL LOLLIFOP [ / Belligerent, brueque, Lrown-beited bimblerbees, &inging ronorous, sinuous safllng sodr, Wild, wearllers winging, waglu wicked war, Dancing diagonal, darting down degreess / ‘Triumpuant trafiing (rampeters trim treey; Rills, rising riot, rshing, running roar; Tast pecrlces pines, peliuctd pushing, pour, ato; enlarged. cnchanting enee chieerily : content conguern coldeare; Gardene srow ulorioits, ciadioles grandly glows Lazily landward liners Luna‘n Highi, F¥ar flouts flue fracrance, fung fromfawers fale; Men, matching m Lanng meadows wow; Nelfurious, nolay focturnes nurrow niubt, A BHORT NOMANCE FOIL COLKNEYS. Pludelplia 11::itetin, Humphrey Hubbard had heard Rephzibah Thegins bummme hvmns Wilarously, he hav- fug helped Jlephzibnl Bomeward. lfumphre Lunkered hugely, harborine baudsowme Hephs bah heartwlse, e had bigh fuwihorn hede hiding handsome house, hun‘mu-d norees haule iniz Lgrrows, he hoeluz bitls, hicluiug herdsmen, Liewing hemlocks, bucking bemp, harvesting hops, huntine hawks, hnrting hatehing hen Heplizibali, Lelpiul hourekueper, bemmed hand- kerchiets, hoarded huney Initherto hived, heeled hose having holes, tinvaled harpsichord har- monlously; happy Hephziboh! * Her honest homely bopoiuess hit Humplirey heavily, He hovered, handsomely bibited, Iinting humbly Low Iephzibah had harvled his hicurt, Hephzie bal hotiored bis bearty Lomove, Hatlng, how- cver, haphuzard haste, Heplazbouh hune her bewl, haltlng, hemming, hawking, hopiug Humpbrey bad buraless halits —bypocritienl, hesitating Hephzibad ! 1le Leld her hand hope- tnliv, hungelly buwsoring ber, Havpity, Heph- zibuh heeded her Wirsute hero, FHymen hitehed tHumphrey Hubturd-Heplizibah “Hinrvs, he hugeing ber, bapily hysterleu). Hencefortl huevand helped “housewifs hop horruplpes, hoiding hooeynmon boliday, bardly heariug harlequins bowhng hallelujahs, hailing house- warming., Hatbu! Ho! ho IT WAS MUGGINS, Karatoga Letter, I witnesseila scene @ few eveninga nzo which could bo worked {nto 8 negro farce, A young man, well dvssed und wearing n large ¢iamond, was scated on & bench, his urns enclaspiug the supple wast of a beautiful female, . The pair conversed (n whispers, and I took it for granted that they were lovers, perhapa cngaged to Le warred. While the valr were whispering somo sweet nothings to cach other, a conple of middio-aged uuincuen approached, talkang together fo this style: No. ]—*You say you want a wife, Bmith, old hoy, I suppose it must be a younyg one."” |blxn his canpavion in the ribs.) No. 2 (who ls wulnniy Hoston pork-packer) -"'(l)'( course [ do. 1 wish you had s daughier, Nou, I~ [ bave, old bov, and If you can win her ahe is yours, with my blesslng, FEvelyn seemns 1o by In love with Percy Marchioont, son of 8 Fifth avenue banker, bt § will cure hor of shat if you want her, Smith, Ah!thereshe s Buw (puints to pair reated on a beneh); as L hve thut ropue Marchmout is kisse ber,? No, £—* Murchont, what do you mean?? No. 1=* Why, this s Percy” Marchuont, a very wealthy ‘yuunz gentleruan, who is sftting Lealde Evelyn,? No. 2—(8houls) * Mucgina!? ‘Fhe lover jumpa to his fvet, and npon secing the pork-packer beats a retreat. As tha young wign eulls wwsy No, 93 says: * Ho de an employe of mine, Johin'Muggins, ~ e lus charge of the rlclljllcu pige' feet depurtasent,” Ludy faluts, ‘ubleau, TRIOMPIIANT NATURE, Aaceurnemto ((aL) e, . Mrs, L., of San Francisco, & most cstimable, lady, hus been the observed of all obscrvers this season ut Bata Cruz—the udmlration of the gentlemen and envy of th ladics. IHand- somv, graceful, and charming on land, she was perfection in the water, and by her bold aud aplendid swimming furibbed cnjoyaient to hersell wonderment 1o her less accom- plished acqualutances, She wors & tight-fiting batking-suit, which covered hier from head 1o fuot, but fatled te conceal ber Lesutilully molded lHwbs, The wowen esid it wus art— pure art; that under hey buthlug-sult alis con- cealed puds und padding to disguise ber pauciy of churmy, and that ber sstonubing endurunco 10 the water was due to pleaty of vork suullar- ly hidden, Mrs, L. of course heard ot it, sud une duy, instead of riding dowu to the beach m her curriege with ber buthing costume on, as Liad been her customy she resolutely warched duwn Lo the buthiug-lvuses, procured oue of the urdinary light costuines, and trif 1o thy beach tbe cynuswie of all ey hwbs cuallengug, criticlsn, She then swan out 1o the surl & wile, doatlug aud disport- fug hiersel? i the arms of old Neptuve, sud returncd, As a result of ber coup e graco the wouen were dbcomlited, tbo volve ol cuvy sllenced, wud the men raved worse than ever. ' A DEER THAT SHOT NIAUARA. agara Pulle Ga A correspoundent, *W,," whose statement is outitied to full eredence, sendy us the fullowmy accoust ul & pewarkeble cplsode at Niagara About the year 1920 to'T830 thera lived on the “haunder’s’ “Sputlement Road? uboyt Tour miles from thi l-‘um.numu{ Ly the nameof Nnnl,!ll;u ll.nd w;lal;lm—w, i the then |’h-nxu fure ol _tl cighil yrl # young faw Wikt was dutdchticatdy apd "beciue sg wuch t it would follow the ud played with them ame 80 wuch attached w cbildréy luto (he Lotisgy hke s dug. Io thoe {t Lu the teata aud its drifer Liat it would 1 wherever Lhey went, Oueday 3 ‘vriet was L Lalt 16 Lo Zponud, b0 (e miil at the [HRT RN 10 keop comnany, A the mill was ap- proached a hound pave the deer chase, which, for safety, leaped the racemay and rought an anyltm helow the mill, but was [nstantiy awept by the rnshing waters down and over the Amner- fean Falls. soon it was dimovered brlow by rume perrona who had watehed the cruel chinco, and seen }o awim ashorc at the Ferre Landing, und ¢ actoally climbad out upon the roks, where, frum some Injury it had reccived from the fall, or from fright, it soon perished. CITANGE IN COSTUME. The fashion man of London Zruth thus writos in his recent Paris letter about a ekange in costume which gentlemen wiil regret should the praphecy come true: **1 believe there will very goon be qoite a change in the shape of dreas. [ segn grest in- clinatfon to quil the close-fitting fourreaux costumes, and quite expect this autumn to see cither erinoline agsin in full gloryor tome new rubktitute, ns [ am convinced s complete revolution in rortume is roming, / Fashion often Jumoa from ane extreme to the other, It Ia ceriainly nimost an: Impossibilliy to go much furtner in the present style of tioht-Otting costumes: then, agaln, the short round skirts are most unbheenming if made tlose-fitting; so 1 ain decidedly of the oplnlon that dresses will he made very Tullskirted and puffed out, Emoire stvle. Lodlca that are, gs ¢ eay, ben Ju fes, will be gricved and dismayed at m{ prediction 3 mt, as compensation, thin, or rather ‘slender. fadles will ‘be dellghted at the idea of the ’nrlmdnl fixlur'wrd:;‘zrn‘,' et cetera, which the next ashion will bring {n, / it Q Ufl The Empress Jotephine loved the scent of musk. ‘Ihis vindicated Napoleon,—ANevkuk Con- stitution, / A man who aings bass In the cholr Is of course anxlous 05 to whetler a false-set-o! teeth will enable him to change his volce.~Boston Bulletin, ‘When neefultiest ta contiderad, the man who smaokes cizarettes dwindles into insignlficance by the side of the Individual who smokes hams, “ Baby Mine's” sirc bas arrived at thome, and hiad to gret up after the paregorte eleven times the first nk"lg'. ullt: Is go1ng Lack nrross thesca. ast-Tulle, You'd better not go to the falr, kyYIynn down thera wwears he'tt Kitl ye.'' Pat—*And had he begun tightin® of me vefore ye left, sor ! . B / No upe Ins been able to explain why it Is that R man feck that he Is more likely to get up i time In the morning by keeping ™ his watch or clock half an hour tast, The nfushroom scason has opened. You can tell thefn casily, Pick and eaf them. H vou survive, they are mustrooms; i€ they kill you, then they are toadstools. / Mary had a littie lamp, /" “T'was Gled with kerosene, ¢ Bhe blew tieht down the chinney And vaniatied from tho ecene, The other day n visitor surprise:l Richard Grant White sayiug to his baby: Oh-ny, to- u¥, 0 mussy tick-hick his ittle footsy-tootaies aut fwin unay ye banky-wonky, oz e caleh coly-woly an' have ze snuflies” Just then he canght sght of the visitur, and sald tothe Infany: * No, 10, yon must not expose your pedal ex- tremities oy extending them beyond the pro- tecting cover ol the blanxet, or vou will lav our system open {o attocks of catarrkal affece Uous,” And the ustoulshed chila sarieked as thougn some one had winged It with a defective safely-pin.—Burdette. Chinugn Camnereinl Adrertiver, Corn exchange—The chiropodist's fee, "Tis not usually a guod omen to owe men. A finfshed rogue—One at the end of a rope. ‘l\ bad sign—To sign anotlier man’s name to & note. Not butter, but her—The milkmaid, not made of muk. There's & big diffcrence between dinner for nothing and nothing for dinner, A patient is undoubtedly in a very bad way wheu his discase ts ncute and his docior fsn't. ‘The papers speak of anan who lias *turned ;mt wissing.” In other woras, be was found ust. An exchange pratses a very larve ecg, which, it says, was **lald on our table by the Kev. Dr. Bmith." Brother Smith scems to be o layman as well a8 a preacher, ————— VASSAR COLLEGE. To the Editor of Tiw Tritame. Carcago, 8ept. 14,—The Presidency of Vassar Cullege, made vacant by the death of Dr, Ray- tnond, has been filled by the clectivn of the Lev. Samud L. Caldwell, D. D., of Newton Theologieal Seminary, All who know Dr. Caldwell will unite in considering him admiru. Lly adapied to this position. ile Is & man of pood exccutive abllity, and of very broad cult- ure, with an experience well calculated to fit him for the respoosibilitics of this new ofice. At. his graduation from Watervilie College, ho at first devorea himself to teaching; alterwands L entercd tho ministry, and fur mauy yesrs served as pastor of the Baptist Cdurch at’ Ban- eor, and_afterwards of the First Church, Proy dence. Forsome years past be has been Pro- fessor of Rhetoric {n the Newton Theological Beminary, ‘Yo ripe scholarship and sn unusual familiar- ity with Engtish lterature he adds the culturo oi a linlsued gentleman. Few men of our ace quaintance comblne mure perfect dignity, ure Lamity, snd gevlality, To wnarked declsion of character he adda great gentlencas and dehicacy, s0 that he would seew to be especiully udapted to the position to which hie 1s now ealled, The people of Chicaro will regurd Vassar Col- lege with especial fnterest at this time trom the its new Lady Principal has heen ted from our city, amd Luat she 1s 8o Well known und so Lighly esteemed amuonge us, Mra. Hay, widow of the late Ur, C. 1. Ray, assutaes this reaponsible position in the College nt the commencement of the present terns, und uhie takes with ber the highiest eatein and best wishes of & lurge circle of fricods fn Chivazo, ‘The corporation, with its new President, pecd have no donbt of the future prosperity of the College, Vasmar is Indeed an anstitution of which Amcricans may well be prowd. {t s un- duubtedly the finest woinan's educational instl- tutiog uf the world. The extent of fts curncu- fuwof study, the grade of ita scholarship, the compreteucy and atillty of fts Board of ustruce tion, the numner of students In attendunce, the extent of its grounds, the size and style of fts bullding,—sccomwodating nearly ‘nuplla,—- its extensive walks, plencure parks, Juho snd houtluie arraugeinents, its ohservatory, museutns of Natural Sclence, sri-allery, sud Yorary,—m all costing §1,000,000. aud complete {n'every departinent,—iuake Vassar for the education of woinen the Oxtord ol the world, B, Miles on Miles of Clouds of Wingod Ants. Dansrilte (N, 3.), Adrartiver, On the afternoon of Aug. 2 spectaclo was witneased by Dausvillisus ressmbling oue of four years ago o character but ereally excecd- fog 1t in maguitide. Clouds of swall winzed ants blackened the atwosphere i perpemdieniar Etreaky, extemding north and south an uprqn-nl. dlstance of live or six miles, and perpendicular. ly from wear tbe eurth sbout s mile upward, and moved rapidly fiow east towest with the wind from near 4 o'clock until it was too dark to sce thei, s0 that the vast fnsect Hock muse bave been over seventy-tive mites i length, Many ol thew settled down i the villag, ' thickly fpsputs, but wol peatly so thickly as in 1574, The most of then were very small, but wany Wero us larde us o luree ont, and some of those large ones were without wings, the wingy probably baving dropped off. Occuslonally ane of theclouds, a few Teet In thickuvas, would be seen moving rapidly downward as well as while uthers would Keep rlcht on, found no Dansvilllan who recollects sny viher phencinena of the Kind except the ong of 1574, which oceurred Sept. § of that yeur, eurly I the evenu e —— HKelte® Letter to Kellogg, Arws York Tridune. Democratic journals are quoting un anery lets ter wrtten by Licutenant-Commsnder ), C. Rulls, of the usvy, toSesntor Kellogy, on the lub{‘rd ol the distribution of Uoserument aid tothe yellow-tayer sulferers in New Orleans; but by & pogular oversight they peglect to copy the postscript o woich Llcutebsnt-Comewander Kellg says: * 1 bave been olfered- money to go Lefure the Potter Comtnitien snd testity that, o Bherman letter is wll glght aud that yon are 8 spuundrel. ut ot course this omisslon 1s & weie clereal error. Thu newspapers wilh | pramptiy fovrect i, aud the gentlemen of the Potier Committee will take pains to ingulro who tas been trying tosubors witness for thew. Eeo it they dun’te —— e A Now ldes in England. altimore Guseite, ‘There is nothiug to excecd the rapidity with which the Evglish people seles upou @ new lea Me. Kuwht, the wansger of the London o Fouth Coast Raliway, recently made & tour o Iapection over the “rulwuys of Geruwaoy and Aastria. Upon Igs rsturn e stuounced o plavidaug inuovativo, which wes at ouce herald- «d by the London newspapers 88 8 rand aud welcouse novation, 1% wus nothing wore nor Tuss thun the furnhicge of passcugers with feed WALeF BRI 1 SRUNET Wonthe—dl & Lebly 3 y Liy-aganulieLhe Louy, s the Lons aon Teegraph characterized it, was flrst made known in the foliowing official proctiamation: Witha wlewof affording increased comfort to Dascencers travelinz un Uhis railway, the Ditectors bave ordered that during the hot weathet of the rummet and sutumn monthe & snpply of fresh, enid drinking water atiall be ohtainable hy passzngers at ofrtain station on their journey. As & com- mencemert, therefore, of this arringement, the Company'n* refreshment contractor &t Lewer, Horsnam, and Three fridees stations will havo plattorm train attendants provided with a nupoly of leed water, who will, on the rrival of the varlous trains, and_on aoplication to them. serve antto any pessengerin the frain s gines of fcod waterat an sathunized chatge of one penoy per glana, Stephenson {nyented the locomotive in 1214, and the first English railway was opened in 1525, In 1873 we hear of the fotrodaction of & simple system by which travelers on an Knalish ratlway are peruiftted to quench thirst at the fu- slgnificant cost of two cents. This s realiy Pprogress. A TIUNTER'S YARN. How & Ilear Helped f1im Ont of an Ugly Nera; Puttaurg Tetegravh. One day, 8 long time ago, about the time when Jackeon ran for President the frst thoe, verhaps, I was one day huvting upon the ridse between Meadow Run aml Cucumber Ruw, Wwhich tumbles ofl the rocks Just across there. I had known for some titne by the signs that thiere was m uest of culs bears sumewherce in Lhe neighboibood, 8o on that day [ concluded that I would put in iy ttme Auding them, as a party up in Unfontown wanted a pair to send over to lin:!murn to a fricnd who was foud of outlandish pete. You see that ft_was alomg about the 18t of September, and preliy warm at that, and alter waikiug up aml down the myes 1 hegan to get pretty tired. [ was vot so beavy tben as | oo now, and 1id not weigh taore thau a counle of udred pounds. As 1 said, I was a lisrle tired, and s0 un the top of the ridge §sot down by the stde of a siuutli Lhestnut stuinp about twelve or fourteen feet higb, 1 haa't sut there o than u mioues untd I heurd sometiing inside the stump, and soun made out that it was & coupic of cub bears playing withone anutticr. 1 Tooked un all sides of the stiop to thint an ovening, but none was to be scen. ‘fhen § bappened to notice the marks of claws up the side ot the stump, aud 1 understoud it The hule went lu at the top. | set iy cuu nzainst o bush, up ended the branch of & tree, und was rovn 8t the Wp ot the stumty, looking 1y st thy Liru cubs, which were about the size ot full- wrow rat-dor, 1" was so excited that 1 jumped down into the stump and pruvved the cubs. They at first Legan to squeal, and then lurned on e Jor fizits But they were snall euoush to hundie, aud in & mioute or two | lud therr imouthy ted 80 they could not bite, and their fect fuelencd 80 thiey could not seratch. Knew that the old bear would be along pretty soun and make it hot for we (f she found e i the nest, o I swung the youngsters into my buckskiu belt preparatory 1o gesting vut. Getout! Did 1 get oued Lang of fuve! it makes we shiver W thivk of it yet, ] could no 1uore geL oui of thas stuwp than 1 could fiy, ‘Yue bollow was bll-shaped, farger al ths butloin than at the top—s0 large, In lact, thut 1 could ot put my back agaiuat one side aund my feet and hauds acainst the other and crawl up, as rabbits uud othier aulmals climb up inside of Loltow trees. lu o way could 1 get up & foot. There were v sticks juside W belp e up, and 1 made up my wind 1 bad to die certain, - About the time 1 ‘cuime Lo tuis conclusivu § tieard the old bear climubing op the outside ot the siuwp. With vuly tny hunting koife us o means of defeuse, oud fo such cluse quarters, you muy possibly e the state of ty fechiuza ‘The vld beur was not tnore than half a minute, ot the outside, cllmbing up the stup, but it seewed lke o month, ot jeast. 1 thoughit of all wmy slus n dazeu Limes, at least. At jast she reachied the top, but he didn't ecem to suspott iny prescuce at all, s she deliberately turned nmn‘d and began slowly desceuding, tail fore- nust. 1 felt as though my last hour bad cotae, and begun seriousty to think about 1ytng duwe and let the bear Rill e, su 8s 10 et out of Iy nusery as quickly as possible, Suddenly an 1dea struck e, und despair gave way to hobe. 1 drew out my bunting Kutie and slood vn tip toe. When tue bear wis aboat seves fret from the bottom of the kolluw 1 laatenol on bier tail with my leit bana with 8 vise-hke grip, and with my right drove Wy hunitug snile (o the it tuio her baunch, sud at the swwe tiwe yelhng like 8 whole tribe of Lindisus, * Woat did she dot™ rused the whole crowd, who nad heen holding taeir breath. Woat did she uvt Well, you shoutd have scen the pertoriual Bhe didn’t stou 1o se- fleet 0 mumcent, but shot out st the top of the stuwp hkea buliet outol ugun, A har's breadth to the minute. 1 beld on until we struck thie ground, suwe thirty fect from the stop. Then tue ola bewr went fike Hantniug tuto the brusn, amd wus out of efzot in haif usecont. 1 nusa liutle brussed by the fall, but that was ail. took the vubs to Uniontown the next day, und un account of Lhe sdventure 1 ot $5 upiece: for e, xud 1 those ties ¥5 Was 8a goud as $0 Low. ————— Wamen ns School-Tnspectors, The controversy fi the Londou Spectator over the propriety of setting women to fuspect the work ol women teschers is stlll runslug uud Las enlisted Fruuees Power Calie, who this points the arcument wilk a story: A School Board Mistress ™ wriles 1o vour columus that a woman's natire I8 100 small for the work of Judeine, Ry this mietress is not a competent fndee of lier Jndees, of whom obe muye precisely thore des preciatory tuings which are supposed to be po- cullarly pleassnt flattery 10 the ears of uen. Hut why 1» slie 50 auxlous not 1o buve & woman nspector of ber sebool! 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