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Fo | du | gb == Onfario Reformer, AGENCY. r WM. R. CLIMIE DHOOM i 3 AT THE OFFICE, Y | ---- SIMCOE STREET, OSHAWA, T CONTAINS THE LATEST FOR. i lany. gh Mager i and an instructive Misce! 1.50 VOL. ¢) 1 on y - L1%h and Silent Machines, BB vive right of selling nthe rized t, PUBLISHED VERY FRIDAY MORNING, - . - i. --_ BY -- ------ OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1872. Er ---- E NS $1.00 per annum, in advance ir hai within six months --2.00 if not paid til the end of the year. No paper discontinued until all "oe Artefrages are paid, except at the option of the publisher, and part refusing papers without' paying up will be held responsible for the sub. NO. 24. ~ ! Agents have >t. Cat harines, Ont, call tie market, ay ene R35 With stan, 4 "ie cheap, "We S AND SHogg » Sant i Children', WF 20 Per Cent., SAR | N STOCK RUDHOM, N THA1 THER S ho. whe ay o 'merits of thang Cinselves ds a \ occupied, meas: 1 Maanfacturers of the Cela. | >. Preparations. 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Cottons, Coatings, Poplins, Tweeds, &c. Clothing Made to Order on Short Notice ! MAVOURNEEN. BY FLORENCE HAYWARD, "Goodnight - Mavourneen," at the gate They stood, those lovers twain, She with her pure fair face and eyes, Down-drooping In their sweet surprise, Like violets after rain. "Mavourneen," sft and low he breathed, The odd old tender name, Still gazing at the downeast face, Now radiant with that nameless grace, That joy no words can frame. * Mavourneeq, is it thus we part, Is this our last adieu? Lift your shy eyes and let me read, The answer to the love | plead, Within their depths of blue." "Mavournccn, ofien you have sung That old sw ot song for me; Why art tho. silent, we must part, Mavourneen mine, voice of my heart, Oh, must our parting bel" Foreye.! no, it may be years, Ere we shail meet again, Yet through the years my heart shall cling, To this lust hour, .and memory bring, Swot nfort in my pain." "Go rlnight, Mavourneen, and good-bye, May angels guard thy way, And sorsetimes whisper thoughts of one Who lives for thee and thee alone, Now and for years and aye." HiLLror CorTAGE, Sept. 12th, 1872, $ elections. Thrilling Adventure of Pauline Luces. The Royal Italian opera, Covent garden, closed on Saturday, the 20th inst., with Reyarbour's great master-piece, "L'Etoile du Nord." Talking with a friend about the principal features of the season, I had, naturally, much to say about Madame Pauline Lucca. After a time our conver- sation turned upon her high qualities in private life; her kind-heartedness, affec- tion, generosity and courage. For cool resolution, the following incident, related to me by my friend, cannot well be sur- Madame Pauline Lucca usually resides in the Victoria Strasse, Berlin. -- Last spring, however, she occupied, tem- porarily, at some distance outside the city, a'gartenhaus, or country house, consisting of only a spacious rambling basement story, surrounded by a vermidah. One night, about 10 o'clock, she was sitting there in her bedroom. Her chair was Placed before her toilet table, which was ighted by a wax taper on each side of the glass. Tha two tapers were not sufficient to illuminate the roem very brilliantly, and the further end lay buried in a sort of obscurity. Madame Lucca was busy read- ing some letters concerning engagements, when suddenly she imagined she heard a noise. She looked. round, but seeing nothing, concluded she made a mistake, and resumed the perusal of the lettefs. -- She had forgotten all about the noise when she heard it again. This time, instead of looking round, she happened, without moving her head, merely to raise her eyes to the glass. She beheld reflected in it the face of a man peering cautiously from i Poetry. i | joining chamber. " Murder us!" What for!" "" What for, your ladyship? Why, for your money--for your jewels, to besure; everybody knows you have plenty of them!" The girl might have been unconsciously sharpening, so to speak, the knife by which she and her mistress were doomed to perish. *' What absurdity!" said Madame Lucca, with a forced laugh. As she spoke her eye wandered from the keyhole of the dreaded cupboard to that of an adjoining room. In the latter there was a key.-- Her face flushed, and a smile, as it were, of proud inspiration, lighted it up, though pd for a second. "Jewels," she replied. " Why, every one with a grain of sense must know that I should not bring them about with me as arule. They, of course, are generally safe under lock and key at Berlin. It isa strange thing, though, Editha, that to-day is an exception. - I expected the Countess von Wartenstean to call, and I brought down all the jewels mied to mo at my last visit to St. Petersburgh, to show her" "Your ladyship did? Oh, but suppos- ing a thief----" *" Well, if a thief did know it, he might easily make his fortune!" she observed, interrupting her companion. the jewels!" Mens Lucca glanced at the cupboard; then, rising her voice, she continued: ""Oh! there would be no necessity for murder. The door which leads from the room to the garden is unlocked; I forgot to lock it. A thief would merely have to walk in from the garden and take my jewel case from the table near the window. e might make his escape richer by 60,- QP0 or 70,000 thalers, and never be de- tected. That's better than murdering people; is it not!" "Oh! yes--your ladyshi). And he might get over to England or America." "" Nothing easier," replied Madame Lucca. '" However, that reminds me. I may as well lock the door leading into the en. Run into the dining room.-- ou'll find the key on the table. be long." '" No, your ladyship, I will not; trust me for that," said the girl. '" Edith! Edith! cried Madame Lucca, an instant afterward. "[ have made a mistake. The key is in the baron's study. Pshaw! she does not hear me," she con- tinued, speaking aloud. "'I must go and fetch it myself." With these words she left the room.-- No sooner hadshe done so than the door of the cbpboard cautiously opened. A man put his head out and glanced around. Perceiving no one he darted into the ad- The next instant the door was shut to and locked behind him! But not by him! By Madame Lucca!-- ing. As she was in darkness, she could, without being visible herself, see all that was passing in her bed-chamber. snd dart into the adjoining room. She glided after him with the steadiness of a tigress, and the courage of a heroine. The reader knows what followed. '" Attrappirt!" (*' Caught!") she cried, rushing across the room with the key in her hand. "1 can't find any " began Editha, " By murdering us, and running off with | Do not | When she loft the room, she did not pro- | ceed two paces; she stood outside, listen- | She be- | held the stranger leave his hiding place | AUTUMN CARE OF SHEEP. ely increased de- With the present mutton, and the mand for both wool prospect that in the future sheep husband- is likely to ¢ remunerative to | who will take the trouble to look after their flocks,;every er who can afford it should endeavor to address him- self to the task of improving his flock in some way or another. The days of natives te OUTBAGES IN WALLACE. The Stratford Beacon says:--A reliable correspondent who was an eye-witness of the di ful scenes 8 patputetod in the rear sub-division of Wallace, at the late election, furnishes us with the following Ee Tete is po was to gonnpicuous above all others for acts row yism, one William McDermott, the and nondescripts are now fairl by d, or at least it 1s to be hoped they soon will be. Every sheep owner should establish his flock with a certain definite end in view. If he is so situated that he cannot breed long wools to advantage on his land, he can at least endeavorto secure such a t; of fine or medium wooled sheep as will five remunerative returns for his land and abor, and yet comtjtue to improve in quality. As a genera) thing, our sheep- breeders have aimed 'réther at uoing mutton than wool, hénce most of our flocks represent of the animal, and symmettpof fopm in the car- cass, with adaptability to fa early and rapidly, has been more songht than im- provement in the quality of wool and un- iformity in the wk throughout a flock. We think that without in any way sac- rificing the quality of the sheep as meat producers, much might be .done to im- prove the quality of the fleeces. Thisend | can be attained by taking some care in se- | lecting and using rams possessing fleeces of finer wool and longer staple than the average of the flock. The use of Lincoln rams in flocks having a strong infusion of Leicester blood, would tend greatly to im- prove the quality of the fleeces, by ren- dering the wool softer and more lustrous, while yet increasing the weight of the fleeces and keeping up the size of the car- cass. One thing must be remembered, and | that is that sheep need good care and feed- | ing during the late fall and early winter, at the time when they change from grass to dry feed. 1f neglected at this time, and the growth of their flegces 'checked, they will be very apt to show broken wool at shearing time. What we mean by this, is, that the growth of the wool, receiving | a sudden check from the exposure of the | sheep to wet and cold storms at the be- | ginning of winter, from the temperature | of their bodies being so much reduced, | and in change of diet, being adverse to | them, they will not eat enough to generate | sufficient heat to counteract the effects. of | becoming frequently wet and continue the steady growth of their wool. Hence it is | wellto compel the flock to keep under | cover at nights and during storms; and to | feed them at this time some little grain, such as oats or barley, to stimulate their appetites for the dry feed they have not as yet got accustomed to. It isa very poor policy to let sheep wander about the fields in search of a bite of frozen grass, after the season has become so far advarc- ed that active vegetation has entirely | ceased. They will thrive better if kept to | their yards and allowed, at most, a small field to ron in for exercise during fine days. No class of domestic animals are so readily susceptible of improvement as sheep, and it is easy to keep a flock up to a high standard of excellence by judicious culling out of all inferior animals to go to the butcher, and the use of stock rams each year of higher quality than that of | the year before in some one point or other. + -- on pointed by the Deputy Re- turning Officer, and swom to " the . With his coat off, and his ves rolled u , after the style of celebratéd pug- ilists, this ruffian ay seiohiat threats which it is possible to conceive against all' Jortion who intended to vote for Mr. Red- ord, and repeatedly resorted to acts of violence, being aided in this by other sup- rters of Mr, Daly. When Mr. John cDermbott, the Reeve of Wallacé, who is a sowi to thin Willian McDermott, was ap] to b . Redford's supporters, | in order that he might use some Deion] enough for them." Mr. James Knight, a gentleman who lately lost the use of an arm, came forward to vote for Mr, Redford shortly after the opening of the poll, hé was immediately met by this constable, who very unceremoniously gave him to understand that if he voted for Mr, Red- ford, he (the constable) would break his neck. Mr, Knight being thereby intimi- dated left the poll without voting. Mr. James Leslio afterwards came forward to vote for Mr. Redford, and while the poll clerk was entering his name, and pursuing the other preliminaries prior to asking the elector for which candidate he would vote, Mr. Leslie was pulled back into the midst of the crowd and fearfully beaten, escap- ing only with great difficulty, and being obliged to run at the risk of his life. A Mr. McArthur was cruelly beaten under similar circumstances. r. David Cox, who was driving a team to Mr. Lewis, was taken aside by some of Mr. Daly's friends, and quietly told to personate a Mr. Don- nelly and vote for Mr. Daly; otherwise he would be severely beaten. ~ Mr. Cox being thus intimidated, voted for Daly, having - represented himself ag Mr. Donnelly at the polling booth. Our correspondent states that not a vote was polled for Mr. Reford after 10 o'clock, although, at{least, twenty more votes would have been given for Mr Redford had there been no intim- idation used by Mr. Daly's friends. ---- AP -- PROTECTION FROM LIGHTNING. In almost every example where build- ings having rods upon them are damaged, it will be found that the connections or terminals of the rods are defective. One of the chief defects of lightning rods, as they'are ordinarily put up, is in the ground terminals. The lightning-rod man covers the house with neat looking rods and pdints, sticks. the lower end four or five feet into the ground, nounces the job a good one, receives his money and departs. But a rod thus left is almost as unsafe as it would be if its lower end were enclosed in a glass bottle and rested on the ground. / Ordinary earth is an exceedingly poor conductor of electricity as compared with iron; hence, in order to effect the safe dis- charge of electricity from an iron rod into the earth, the bottom of the rod shoull be , Kentucky editor hbouro io lay hat when he we in rol shade of his broad-brimmed hoy shat the "My son," said a anon of doublh < al, putting' bis hand ou. the rs' u x 2 rosity boos Satan has got hold of " Well," replied the boy, "" [ believe » 5A correspondent i vires "if 'bread the staf of life, what is 3 a" last we got was all we know abouf'it. The word love in 'the Indi is *Schemlendamourtchwager. dy it would sound whispered lady' 'I schom you! A comical verbal be gui hin gu comin hn Solo J (Teme a "No, gentlemen, let them take it; good | M- Grouned in London, > th num- ber being thus described, -- 'She . Wandered Down the Mountain Side,' LOO ied by the Tue assassin still plies his trade vigor- ously in Italy, ing to this statement from -an Italian paper:--*' One: hundred and seventy two persons have been sent to to the Roman hospital since July 1st, to be cured of wounds inflicted by assassin knives." Tukee isa rumor that the company proprietorship of the Mail will dispose of the office and plant to a private ner- ship, and that the Hon. Wm, M will be the editor-in-chief. Offers of stack in the company have been made at a con, 4 ble di t. +4. ty to com- pete with the Gisbe has proved tao much or it. : A Part letter says that it is generall conceded on all sides that Thiers' death would result in civil war in France; that no little disquiet is caused by the ch of the occurrence of such a contingency. -- When the Prince of Wales visited France, Thiers did not treat him cordially, or ime vite him to his house. The Prince is an aristocrat, and Thiers hates aristocracy. -- Great comment has been made on this action of the President. { StiLt at 1T---The great rope walker, Blondin, whose feats at Ni some years since, will be remem , appeared at the Sydesiam crystal , the other day, walking a rope 500 feet long, and 80 féet from the ground, clad in a heavy ar. mor. Although a high wind was blowing, he was daring enough to walk the rope blindfolded, afterwards in a sack, them with his agent on his shoulders, i the whole by cooking an omelette poi on the middle of the rope. Favre or Tue Poraro Cror 1x Exa- LAND. --That misfortunes never come singly is an ada; payer must be at this It is bad enough to have coals, which in Sept., 1871, were . at from four to five dollars the ton, and sold at nine to ten dollars, but in addition to this, the London pap bound wi dark hints as fo the almost entire failure of the potato igi while nows comes up from all of the provinces that the cattle d shows most ming in- crease. "How the diseage - | The Usual Supply of Groceries, Crockery, Horses, | outs cupboard behind her. At first sho fancied she was dreaming. She quietly looked again. No, it was no dream. -- provided with a large conducting surface, so that the electricity may be Qiffused and pass into the earth at many points simul- entering the bed-chamber. But Madame Lucca, pushing her on one side, disappear- ed. Editha looked after her in mute Oshawa. mt for the Inman Line of Steamers | to and from New York and Liverpool. REFER- ENCE~ Messrs. 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Grateful to a generous public for past liberal patronage, I beg most most respectfnlly to announce that on account of Increasing business he has been obliged to enlarge his store almost as large again, and it is filled, Every Shelf, Hole and Corner! With an Exceedingly Choice Assortment of Dry Goods of Every Description, COMPRISING Dress Goods,. Fine English and Canadian Tweeds and Cloths of all kinds, Laces, Mourning Goods, Ties, Shirts, Prints (an excellent assortment) Hosiery, Collars, Boots and Shoes, Rubbers; Trunks. Also; a choice assortment of GROCERIES, §2" SECOND TO NOME FOR QUALITY AND PRICE. @% Call and examine my stock before purchasing elsewhere. CASH PAID FOR SHEEP-SKINS AND WOOL. TAUNTON, April 11, 1872. 53-3m. 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The charges are moderate, the risk nothing, the result unvariable, and the opini- ons of the Press, letters from prominent business men, and the united admission of hundreds of our students are the g and ofc petency offered by this College. SUBJECTS TAUGHT. - Book-keeping--Dby single aud double entry, Spencerian Penm anship, Arithmetic, Correspondence, Commercial Law, Phonography, Telograph- ing, Railroading, Steamboating, Mechanical and Architectural Di:awing, There was the man, whom she now recog- nized as having been formerly in her ser- vice, whence he had been discharged for general bad behaviour. She had also sus- pected him of purloining several objects which she had missed from time to time, but not being certain on this point, she had kept her suspicious to herself. Yes, there he was; there could 'be no mistake about the matter. Madame Lucca's first impulse was to start up and give the alarm. But there was not another habitation within a mile or two, and she recollected that the only person beside herself in the house was her maid, who, though a very good girl, and extremely attached to her mistress, was by no means celebrated for her nerve. The other servants, including the gardener and coachman, had been granted permission to attend a friend's wedding some miles off, and were not to return till the next day. It flashed across her mind that the man, who, as she knew, had been loitering about the neighborhcod for two or three days, had learned that she would be alone, and meant to rob the house, or perhaps murder her, if his pro- ject of robbery could not be executed without the perpetration of the greatest crime. What was to be done! Again she glanced toward the mirror. The eyes were still there, glaring on her through the gloom. All at once she remembered that a revolver belonging to her husband, the Baron von Rhaden, ought to be lying on a shelf in the dining-room, but she was not quite sure. " If it is there, and if I could only get it, she thought, *' I should not mind!" While she was reflecting, a knock was heard on tha door of the room. She saw the man instantly draw back into the cupboard and close it after him. She felt relieved that those two horrible eyes were taken off her; they seemed to pierce her like daggers. { "Come in!" she said. Her maid en- | tered. "1 thought you had gone to bed, my good girl," observed Madame Lucca, in a tone of unconcern. "1 was going, please you ladyship--but I--I--thoughtyou might want something," replied the maid. "1 told you I would be my own femme de chambre to-night. No; only thing I want is to stretch my limbs a little, for they are cram from long sitting." Speaking thus, Madame Lucca arose with an air of admirably acted indifference, and took a turn or two across the room, Junki close to thé cupboard as she did so. he wr Deemed declared she thought she could hear the man breathe in his hiding | lace. He, on his part, might have he: Ju heart beat, she said, when, on looking at the keyhole, she found the key had been removed. She was foiled in her plan, | which had been to lock him in. Su, her presence of mind did not desert her. 'Ah, dear me!" she said, gaping, "I feel very sleepy." oF ¢" Sleepy, your ladyship? I wish I did," replied her maid. "I don't feel sleepy, I'm too frightened!" "" Frightened! What are you frightened | of, you foolish goose! Nonsense!" replied | Madame Lucca. ladyship's pard "Oh! begging your yship's on, it is not a Yow that's just it! How can you be sure that some bosewicht (vil- Presen astonishment, and remained as though rooted to the spot, till her mistress reenter- ed with a revolver in her hand. "Oh! your ladyship; wha-a-a-at's that?" inquired the maid, with a strong present- ment that all was not right, " The baron's revolver, thank goodness! roplied Madame Lucca. "Why 'thant goodness," your lady- ship?' inquired the maid. Madame Lucca pointed to the door.-- Some one on the other side was turning the handle. Editha turned deadly pale, and dropped the lamp she was carrying. -- thy there was a knocking, and a voice exclaimed: 'Open the door direct- ly, or. » The rest was inaudible. Editha's Lucca waited until the girl's first stock of breath was exhausted, and her second not yet arrived; she then said with comic se- verity, " Kditha! if you are not quiet, I will begin by shooting you!" Editha thought, apparently, that her mistress was in earnest, for the poor girl immediately rammed a large portion of the nearest towel in her mouth, and re- stricted herself to swaying to and fro, and sobbing violently. The knocking grew more and more violent, but the door was massive oak and immovable. ? "My friend," cried Madame Lucca, in a loud voice, 'You are caged. The garden door is as tightly fastened as this one, and the window is secured. Do not attempt to open the latter, for I am goin, into'the garden, and the instant that see you try to Sacage, you are a dead man!" Flinging open the door which led to the verandah she went out, followed by Editha, who in her despair had succeeded in pushing more of the towel into her mouth. The noise of a bolt being drawn was heard. "Stand aside, my friend!" said Madame Lucea, *'or you are a dead man!" A sharp report followed, ateomputtiod by the sound of crashing wood and splin- tered glass. ""There, that is one barrel out of six; that is merely to show that I am armed. You had better remain quiet." The visitor also was seeming of this opinion, for he did not renew the attempt. When the servants returned next morn- ning, they found Mme. Lucea quietly reading under the verandah before the win- dow. They were rather surprised, how- ever, at perceiving she had a six-barreled revolver in her hand, and Editha what appeared to be the end of a towel stiking out of her mouth. A few words explain- ed the whole affair, and in about an hour afterward the would-be thief, who, as it was proved, would be ready to turn assassin as well, was safely at the nearest Polizeibureau. y "'Talk of generalship," said my friend, as he concluded his story, " was not the stratagem of the jewels, by which Madame Lucca lured the thief into the room destin- beat it!" ------ te -- Bears are reported to be unusually numerous in the northern part of the county of hastings at present. Lately a large specimen of the black bear entered lian) some : tanghencht -for-nothing wp cupboard. Her blood ran cold; she a RE . Lk a emesis. 1 whl sit | sued by the occupants of the house, leasure- | free and independent. No servile tool, no all night in your ladyship's easy chair." | ly made his way inl rhe " Madame Pauline Lucca glanced at the | vouered |his sweet meal. Reristing all-at- | seeker, ever bore such a cter. The | | pure joys of truth and righteousness never | a garden closely adjoining a farm house i al in the | in one of the back townships, in day light, Jeon eyeing vadad] oh a and seized a bee hive tolerably well stock- | ed with honey. The brute, though pur- a field where he de- | tempts to drive him away from it. screams 'drowned aught else. Madame | ed to be his dungeon, a magnificent idea? | Moltke himself 'never did any thing to | It is one of the great drawbacks to agri- cultural life that time is se valuable and labor so hard and incessant, that few farm- ers, as a general rule, feel like devoting any of their spare gnoments to the culture | of their minds and the enlargement of | their ideas. What little spare time they | may have of an evening, or a rainy day, is | spent at home half asleep by the fire, or perhaps at the nearest corner store discus- sing politics. This is more especially the case with those who, from want of education in their early youth, have the greatest need to ob- tain some extra knowledge in their own calling. Many of these are. men in the humble ranks of farmers who having but little if any capital beyond the inherited or hardly earned acres on which they farm can only manage to get along by dint of the most personal labor. Such wen rarely read, or if they do, they read at random without any object, and seem content to go on in the same . path from year to year without venturing on any other system of culture than what they may have learnt in their early days, before agriculture had obtained the half of her twin sister science to advance her interests. To this class the advantage of social culture by inter- course and exchange of views with those | of their neighbors, who hawe had the bene- | fit of a better education and greater op- | portunities of observation than themselves, | must be exceedingly great; yet how few of these endeavor to realize it, or to ex- tend a helping hand in establishing a " Farmers' Club," where all could meet on a common footing of friendship and social intercourse to Poon matters bearing upon their calling. : The autumn is the time to start a club, and it should be kept up with vigor and increasing intorest until the spring work commences. Every school section should boast of its Rarmers' Club, and the meet- ings can be held two evenings a week at the school-house, or some central place where a large room, well lighted and warm- ed, can be had. It would be of great ad- vantage to the cause of education if the teachers of our common schools, would take an interest in such matters, and en- deavor to organize clubs at which educa- tional; literary, scientific and agricultural subjects could be treated upon, and the rising generation of farmers induced to value the acquisition of knowledge and be- come more progressive in their ideas, -- Many teachers would be able to act as secretaries, and report any very desirable | and practical discussions in such a con- | donsed form as to be worth publication in | the local paper of the neighborhood; | though as a general rule they would ne- | cessarily get rather too discursive to be of | general interest. A small subscription | from each member would enable the Sec- | retary to obtain a copy for the year of | each of the leading icultural papers, | and also a few books bearing on the sci- taneously. The 'y area of underground con- ducting surface for a lightning rod may be obtained in a variety of ways: (1) Ex- tend the rod itself for a considerable dis- tance under-ground, away from the build- ing. (2.) Connect the lower end of the rod with an iron pipe which extends in like manner under-ground. (3.) Provide a trench and supply it with good charcoal well packed, and imbed the rod, for some fistanos from the building, in the char As an electrical conductor, well burned charcoal ranks next to the metals. Metal- lic ores come next to charcoal. © Water and moist earth, which are so frequently recommended as terginals for lightning rods, st of ct attacked in one week, is a mystery: -- " "The di still conti to d in this neighborhood, and remains on the farngs longer than it formerly did. The disease is on fifty-four farms, in all the twenty-one parishes in this district.-- No reason can pigied for ita spread- ing.' Thé} inspectors other districts nearly all write that the disease is spread- ing, and they cannot account for jt. The number of cases in each as fol- lows: Berkeloy, 396; Bristol, 400% Cangp- den, 419; tenham, 006; Cirencester, Glo- 8,811; Dursley, 207; Forest, 173; cester, 878; bury, 1654; Stow, 580; Stroud, 762; Tetbury, 1,285; Wotton- under-Edge, 593." | TaE conceit was well taken out of a dan- her in T ' } are ng the po One of the best protected dwellings that we have heard of is that of Mr. John Knox Smith, an intelligent ish mer- chant residing at Si .. His country house is built on a prominence, upon a bed of iron ore, with which the house light- ning rods are made to communicate. lower ends of the rods thus have a very extensive conducting surface, and the pro- tection afforded is considered ect. -- Thunder-storms and lightning strokes are very frequent, but the house has never been injured. -- Scientific American. -- + ® + A -- ee Artivicial Eves.--A French paper gives a detailed t of the ture of false eyes in Paris, from which the curious fact appears that the average sale Jo yoek of eyes intended for human amount to 400. One of the leading dealers in this article carries on the busi- ness in a saloon of great magnificence; his servant hastbut one eye, and the effect of any of the eyes wanted by customers is conveniently tried in this servant's head, so that the customer can judge very readily as to the ap «it will produce in his own head. The ch is about $10 per eye. For the poor t! are second-hand visual of 8, which have been worn for a time, and exchanged for new ones; they are sold at redufed prices: and quantities ate sent off to India and the Kandwich Islands. ; Cop-visn are curious creatures, if the stories told of them are true. It is said that when caught just before a storm, t times ighing several pounds, are found in their stomachs. It is a popular belief among fishermen that these stones are swallowed for the pur- pose of anchoring_themselves during the ex swell of the sea. ° : A cuniops freak of nature is reported near Cayuga Lake, N. Y. It is an oak! and pine tree growing together, so close- ly connected as to prevent the appearance of one tree, and in fact that they might be so called, for they are so nearly grown to- ether at the root that no division line can | ence of agriculture. ee . | 3 | | AGOOD MORAL CHARACTER. | | ----------. | | There is nothing which adds so much to | the beauty and power of a man as a good | moral character. It is his wealth--his in- | fluence--his life. It dignifies him in every | station, exalts him in every condition and | glorifies him at every period of life. Such 'a character is more to be desired than | everythifig else on earth. It makes a man h | crouching sy t, not seen, and the bark has nearly the ap- pearance of that of pine. Ax English gentleman, an amat dy p on this wise: "Some years ago, a drunken loafer. staggered into a country tavern on the mountains near Sparta, in this State, and asked to stay all night. The landlord re- - fased to admit him, stating that there were four or five Methodist preachers in the house, and he would not have them annoy- ed by him. The weather was very cold, * and the fellow so hard that the landlard Yiolded i condition that he would keep perfectly quiet. su he took his seat the fire, with has ol i on his knees his head in his hands. In this position he sat for an hour, adher- ing to his promise to ' keep quiet." Aj the ers was the Presiding the Sparta district --a sedate, dign old gentiemenlistening attentively to the spouting a conceited, self important, you jronches, Whom; the elder had never m ore. e reacher ; the floor, twirling his : -headed oad : boasting of what Rs oouls do, when-the el- a alud him, Brother, are you mar- *"'Yes, I married one of the Lord's chide. | ' o loafer, who had not » ,mlow- ly raised his head and pide fig "Seo here, stranger, I'll bet you my horse you'll never see your daddy-in-law.'" Tuose surprise parties, somehow, near- ly always turn out unpleasantly. tell about one that came off up in Conr cut recently, which was not fale as joyous as a well-conducted funeral. It was repor- ted of a man and his wife, who hid been married for many years without having any children, that they had at last been made happy by the birth of a daughter, Some of their friends determined to give the man a presentation su ise party. So, about forty persons marc IR house one evening, querying lots of gum-rings, and bibs, and carrying a cradle and what they meant by such co said they were coming in Suietly 4 as not. to) wake the baby. And when ushed floriculturist, has succeeded in raising a purely new species of geranium. It may not prove as valuable as the celebrated black tuliy of tulipomania days, he es. timates its worth at £1,000, hopes to make that sum out of it. The whole plant is pure white--stem, leaves and flowers, -- It looks like wax, and is brightly trans- parent. honor | Ix Japan the marriage ceremony is very A man and a woman wine they said his baby op or " rohey ey is , and to him the Shing, and 10 Joad him up with sooth- ing Pp gum ri until he mad and one of = 1 cr from the same cup, and the thing is done. laborate vorce is not a much more e! gus te., ete. they e Too neat ly Sa never thought helad a daughter, but that from purchasing them elsewhere as- they will be liable to prosecution. We hve «copyrighted thie name of the "ORGANETTE," For our instruments containing this wondrful improvement. Aly manufactufer infringig on this copyright will prosecuted. IMtustrated Catalogues furnished by addresing & W. BELL & CO., Guelh. © What | tions on farmers' stock in Marmora | spring in such a person. If young men | ig ey AR hat y bears and lynxes are common, several | bat Soh how much a good character ai $ . > 8 fied | the: YR give her maid the slightest hint of the real | of the latter class df animale having taken | would dignify and exalt them,. how | With his wife gives her a piece of paper as Amen of an orphan asylum, and state of matters, she felt the girl would go | up their quarters if the mining region. -- | glorious it (would make their , | on which a few characters are traced. " into a fit then and there " g thus bring | Patridges and i are also plenti- | gyen in this|life never should we find them | ing translated, they are about as follows: on a crisis. Scarcely knowing what she | ful, Ale altogeth jattmen may con- | yielding to She groveling and base born 1 nw kee you 2 I Tinks 794 likes other i i - ate themselves on the prospect of a u nature which dest - 344 doing, Madatue Lucia vopliod at a hi season's shooting in the wo | Be ag oye ler. Youcango. Goodee-by.' 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