Western Reserve Chronicle, 1873-07-23

. journey was accomplished in a dog cart, with a fresh horse every five mues, as was needful in view of the terrible state of the roads. They weie mo oaa as to render tne state ment, -mmo, I can't ride, but I ean sit tight in a shay, ''no such very con temptible boaet; but tbe first three miles lay along the great Calcutta road, which is, I believe, the finest iu the world, and runs all the way from Pesbawur to Calcutta. The moment we left this, we were bump- eu, auu oauerea, ana joitea ; now toning through deep sand, now wa ding through a portion of the road which lay under water, and then straining the spring of the dog cart by a sudden jolt over a miniature mud canal, which carried water across from one field to another. Whenever the Instinct of self-preservation left me free to look anywhere but on the road, I took in all the unfamiliar ob objects - jects objects with keen delight Carta made use tne old Koman chariots, with thick, clumsy wheels, drawn by oxen, and surmounted by little "howdahs" made of scarlet cloth, with one or more natives inside in gayly colored turbans and dresses,, sitting cross legged in a cramned rjosition imrjosai- ble to Europeans ; great heavy footed cameis, witn stupid, ill tempered looking laces, one or them with a tiny little one lying in a basket on its mother's back, and followed by another young one, tne most ungain ly creature imaginable, like a badly made ostrich on four legs; patriarchal looking groups of men, women, and children,-driving flocks of bullocks and goals, and looking as Abraham and Isitao might have done. What is this these two long legged natives are carrying between them suspended from a pole? It looks like a scarlet oonoonniere, a sort of bag, the bottom or which la flat and about the size of a 6 o'clock tea table. And It con tains a Hindoo lady, probably on her way to pay a visit, though how that bag can contain her is a mystery to me, unless indeed, she is lying coiled round and round, aa only these little dark skinned daughters can coil themselves, and in this position tney sometimes perform long jour journeys - neys journeys without fatigue. One is disposed at times to suppose tnat their bones must be gristle, and their joints India rubber. - They nev er sit in any position except on tbeir neeis, wnicn seems to anora tnem perfect rest nd it is marvelous to see the rapidity with which they move up and down, their feet touching each other, without putting their hands to the ground all the strain and spring Demg in their backs and Knees. Tne women attracted me most, bv their graceful carriage, their picturesque drapery consisting of a full skirt and a sort of bournous, which passes over tne neaa, almost completely veiling the face. Thpm varv in color, beln? sometimes bright blue, and pink, and yellow, the skirt often bordered with a hem of some other color, often very gaudy, but tbe dark skin harmonizes it all. The most artistic to my mind ia the deep indigo blue, but it is more rare in the Northwest than in South Southern - ern Southern India, where almost all the lower class of women wear it It is pleas pleasant - ant pleasant to watch the easy grace with which thev walk, bearing round red earthen-ware or bright copper water jars on -their heads, steadying their Durden with one well shaped, small wristed dusky arm stretched up to its full length, and covereu almost to the elbow, and sometimes above it with numbers of bracelets. These are sometimes silver, but oftener dated metal nr red and preen lac. I once heard of a school, toe pupils In wbich ;were, trained to walk about with tumblers of cold water on their heads .-land when I saw the firm foot ed, easy grace of these burden bearing women, l regretted tnat tne practice was not .universal. The pale faced race may perhaps pride itself on its superiority in the use of the contents of its head, but these dusky daught daughters - ers daughters of the un certainly out do their more favored sisters in tbe use they make of the outside of theirs. They carry everything on their heads ; jars or water, pioces or cloth, baskets or vegetables, huge ' bundles or sugar cane, fuel, anything and everything, leaving their hands free for any addi additional - tional additional burden. They do not even carry their little black babies In their arms, bnt either balance them astride on their shoulders with their little hands on their mother's head, or elso astride on one hip, encircled with a strong arm. I have seen a woman with four water jars towering on her head and her little baby on her hip, walking along with springy grace, ingling her silver anklets and toe bells as she went If there is any one thing that is carried to exces beyond all others in the West it is the establishement of institutions of learning. Tbe College business is desperately overdone, and nowhere more so than in Ohio, where we have more than a sumclent sup ply for the entire region west or the Allegnanies. The result is, that while a few enjoy a fair degree of prosperity, the greater number have a severe struggle for existence." . The University list, we believe, comprises, Ohio Wesleyan, Delaware; Denni Denni-son, - son, Denni-son, Granville ; Ohio, Athens, ; Mi Miami, - ami, Miami, Oxford ; Otterbein, Westerville; Wooster, Wooster; Capital, Colum Columbus; - bus; Columbus; Baldwin, Berea: Urbana, Ur Ur-bana; - bana; Ur-bana; Wilberforce (colored), Xenia. The Colleges: Oberlin, Oberlin; Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical, Tolumbus; Gambier, Gambier; Western Reserve, Hudson ; Marietta, Marietta ; Antioch, Yellow Springs ; Wittenburg, Springfield; Buchtel, Akron; Hiram, Hiram, Portage coun coun-tv - tv coun-tv ; Heidelburg, Tiffen ; Union, Mt Union, Stark county : Alliance, Alli Alli-aice; - aice; Alli-aice; Franklin, Athens, Harrison county. Of this formidable list, our University stands at the head, both in regard to prominence and prosper prosperity. - ity. prosperity. Oberlin, though tbe number of students - in attendance : is always larje, Is seriously embarrassed in its fin&ucea. Miami University, at Ox Oxford, - ford, Oxford, by a vote of 13 to 0 of tbe Board or Trustees, has been closed. Anti Antioch, - och, Antioch, which opened under most favor favorable - able favorable auspices some years since, with Horace Mann as President has bard work to keep its head above water, and at the recent Commencement graduated a elass of only three, one male and two females. With some half dozen exceptions, the others are in but little better condition, and their outlook for the future is any anything - thing anything but encouraging. Were the whole (number consolidated into three or five, all might attain to emi eminence - nence eminence and prosperity ; but as there is no probability of anything of this kind occuring, the larger number of them must continue weak and sickly affairs while they exist and eventu eventually - ally eventually go to the wall. Delaware Qaz.

Grace Greenwood, in a New York Timet letter has the following caustic review of the speech of the Wisconsin Senator, which cuts clean and deep: Mr. Carpenter's elaborate defsnse or tbe Credit Mobilier affair and th "back nav steal" caused a ripple -of sensation here. Some are of the ODinion that It settles the question of the morality, justice and propriety of those disputed matters conclusively; and so it does on a Carpenter basis. Others say tbe speech Is full of sophis sophistries - tries sophistries and quibbles of a befogging and pettifogging character, and that In its special pleading and dernagogiszn is alike unworthy of an able Jurist and an honeat statesman.- Allow me to supplement your admirable review of this speech by touching on a point or so wnicn you uia not reier to. : v nat strikes me most forcibly in the clever defence, If defence it can be called, which seems more a defiance,: Is the purely mercenary and merchantable view which the eloquent Wisconsin Senator takes of his high position and grave public duties. Honor seems to count for little with him, patriotism far less. According to his estimate, a Unitedtates Senator Is miserably paid even at $7,500, because with the same outlay of ability and energy he might make more at the Bar, or in banking, or railroading. Forensic genius, the divine gift of eloquence, Is a marketa marketable - ble marketable commodity, to be sold to the high highest - est highest bidder. A great theme Inspires it no more than a big fee. He argues upon the assumption that the Senate ia composed exclusively of picked men, whose Intellect, wisdom and culture represent the consummate flower and the perfect fruit of Repub Republican - lican Republican institutions men who could, therefore, command In their various callings and professions tbe highest pay for their executive and oratorical abilities. There may be gentlemen who make social and pecuniary sac sacrifices - rifices sacrifices in coming to tbe Senate ; but I believe there ate very few of thia sort, and these manage to console and re compenae themselves some by an honest old-fashloued sense of utiriot utiriot-ic - ic utiriot-ic service; some by the gayeties aud parades of thecapital ; some by Credit Mobilier and other speculations, and some by a large and lucrative practice in the Sunreme Court for Which they cooly take the time popularly suppos ed to belong by contract m tneir con stituents. Mr. Carpenter states that he eannot rent "a decent lamisned house in Washington for less than $3,000, Now, peoples' Ideas of decen decency - cy decency in architecture and upholstery, vary strangely. I bavo known a Cab Cabinet - inet Cabinet Minister pay a tar more -modest rent than that and yet live not only decently, . but with comfort, the modern conveniences, and something very like elegance and refinement , But to be sure, he was a rare .entle-.1 man, and his surroundings took.' on, decency and dignity . from him. He did not stay long fn offlee. .Really,' luxurious living. liveries, and fine turn-outs are of much less consequence even in Washington, than Jenkins and Jeemea would have us believe. Brains still count here, and character we Etba.; A noble private me still does more for a man than many din dinners, - ners, dinners, and one great speech in the Sen-' ate cheers the heart more than tbe choicest wine. It has a "bouquet" to it that does not vanish With tbe quaffing. The glitter or plate glass ana gilding sneas no giamour over thejudgment or tbe people. Their representative's habits may concern them, bat not hia habitation. ' . Nor do I believe that the voting of even a large increase of pay.lncluding back salary, lor tnemseivea, , wouiu have shocked the public sense of pro pro-nrietv - nrietv pro-nrietv and eoiittv so severely If those gentlemen had not so coolly and un ungenerously - generously ungenerously refused to grant the mod modest - est modest increase asked by the humbler but not less deserving servant oi tne gov- ernment . Many a second class clerk is a man of as good birth and breeding as tbe Senator front Wisconsin, has as refined and gentlemanly tastes, has aa dainty an eye . for dress and upholstery, would like to drive as last horses, and smoke as choice '. cigars, and drink, if drink he must,, as good wines, but he has to content niniseu with his meagre salary and . do bis best to rear hia family decently and spare something lor tne claims oi charity and religion. Not much I fear. If it U hard for a Senator to be a good Christian on to.000 a year, what are a poor ciera's cnancea ior sal vation on $1,400 T By the way , It struck me as odd to hear Mr. Carpenter. In his grand peroration, appeal from .the "sickly morality" that condemned the selfish injustice of the salary vote. and the meicenary greed of the Credit Mobilier nag, to what ne caiiea. 'tne manly and healty virtue of the Mas- i.,nr'.7.K,th ' thl Tii vine author ity from whose lips fell the golden rule, whose hands wielded tbe scourge which drove the money changers from the temple. -

" It wUI probably be nothing new to our readers to say that a wide and anxious interest exists all . through the country, and especially the Mid- J ate buw, uvui.ww uaeu suu steady ineroaso of paralysis, apoplexy, and the various forma of brain and nervous disease. The Springaeld Republican aaye: Vice-President Wuson has passed Into that stage of health which Mr. Chase so long occu occupied - pied occupied paralytio invalid, to whom fife la of the most uncertain duration." On which the Washington, Evening Star comments as follows: . . - -"We noted some time ago the alarming fact that bo many promi prominent - nent prominent men wero-bemgatrlokea down with paralysis) and the case of Vioe Vioe-Prealdent - Prealdent Vioe-Prealdent Wilson; i adds - another to the long list then presented, which embraced the narcea of Chief Jastioo Chaser, Senator Morton, Mr. Colfax, Senator Brownlow, Walt Whitman, Horace Greeley. Ac The cases of prominent publlo men attract- more attention, but physicians aay that paralysis is notably on the increase among all etaase of the American people. - The question risea if it is getting to be a national disease ; and if so, tbe cause or it i'ln France or Paris, where paraly paralysis - sis paralysis is getting to be a familiar disease, the causa has been attributed to a life of excitement the use of absyntho, Ate. . But It will be noticed that tbe larger portion of our paralytica are or temperate and unruffled, lives. Mr. Colfax has always been of temperate habits, and, at the time of his attack, nothing had happened to disturb the sunny tenor of hia life, the Moollier troubles and ax cite ment having come kim l.i., (ioimtnr Wilanala of temperate, regular habits, and nis appearance nas always lnaicaiea oiga health and buoyant spirits. Wait Whitman, a philosopher, in mental and physical habits abstemious, slow m speech, gait, and life generally the picture of rosy, sturdy health- he, too, la stricken down in a moment from hia superb manhood." .... Willing to aid in calling attention to the enormons Increase of paralysis, wo can pot agree with tbe'no special reason"' theory referred to by tbo Washington Star. ; The truth 1, of course, that the cases of all those par parsons, - sons, parsons, in private, on public station, "singled out" ia the midst of appa. rent health for andden attack, are irpnerallv tha result of a aeries of violations .or persistent neglect of physiological law. -Chief Justice Chase was peremptorily warned some years slnca, by his physician,! to re. lievo himaeir from atf strain npon hia physical anil, meBtel,. energise, and was loid be we "like an old; carriage thateould.ro for many a year yet with eare,.upo. a amootb, joaJ. but would soon be destroyed oo a lough one." Vice President Wilson, for four or; five mouth before the last presidential election, subjected him himself, - self, himself, without Intermlfleloay mentally and physically, ton rate or speed and change and a "degree of preeure which ha since had to be paid for, a waa to be expected. Walt Whitman, disre disregarding - garding disregarding medical; caution continued yielding his Iron physique, month af after - ter after month, to the autitiest malaria of the army beepitaLa years ago, and to today - day today ho ia paying the penalty.. Horace Greeley lived such a Ufa that, for fif fifteen - teen fifteen years before hia death, it Is be believed - lieved believed trial he did not know what It was to have a good night's eleepv The ehrfrfBcarrt leaso taught by all the 1 nstancee crentiorjeti m that a while afterward, eomaUmea moDttis, sometimes even years, one stern pen-1 alty will be exacted that good inten inten-tions - tions inten-tions and. high ambition or endeavor ' do not excuse lapses oi tno imupu ta table - ble table lews of health, and that being borne through, fox the time by reserv reserved - ed reserved force, maturity, or strong, will, may prove but a Bad delusion., , . "The subject needs voiumea for its due elucidation: but snoagh is 'above stated to rouse the wader t give it what it most needs tbcoghi for hia or her own cf.-PML Xexiycr. - A Tre ftaner1 norncllmenta upon her good memory a woman who iden identified - tified identified en the street a dress stolen from hr tnnr mnntht aaro.- Considering the frequentchangao in the styles it it was rather singular that aho could keep It in mind.

Republican City, Neb., 1 July, 1873. Ed. Chbosicle: I find in your issue of June 11th, a letter from H. D. Niles, of Gibbon, this State, in which the gentleman has evidently mistaken my intention. I did not in intend - tend intend to cast any reflections upon his letter that, he has written to the Chbovicle ; but what I have eee"h of the Piatt Valley, and from what I can hear of. It, his descriptions are quite correct, and it is a very desirable place to live. , t Hr. Niles In his letter does not claim to have ever seen the Republi Republican - can Republican Valley, and I do not see where gets his authority for the assertion that the soil on the Republican is in inferior - ferior inferior to that of the Piatt; when the contrary is the fact The soil north of the Piatt is good, but the south aide bottom lands are very sandy and the uplands for ten miles south of the river are nothing but aand, and -are worthless, and Sir. Niles Is the first man hat I ever heard of that claimed the Piatt Valley to be even equal to that of the Republican. He also states that the Republican Valley Is verry narrow. I can show Mr. Niles where the Republican Valley is only eight and ten miles wide, and he can cannot - not cannot show me where it is less than two miles wide. Mr. Niles also tells that it will probably be five or six years before we will have a rail road, if the neces- capital be forthcoming. In reply I would say that the necessary capital is ready and that the road will be built within one year. So I am in formed by very good good authority. The agents of the rail road are now in the valley looking after the Interests of the, Is to be, rail road. ' He also informs us that we are out of humanity's reach. In this county there is a settler on every quarter sec section - tion section of the valley, and some of the high Prairie is taken and more of it is being taken, their being no R. R. lands here it is all settled by actual sellers. While on the Piatt River one half the lands are R. R. lands and consequently are not much settled; and I am ' ' Informed by those that claim to know, that we have more settlers on the Republican than there is on the Piatt Valley. Also that we have three towns in Harlan county, that either one of them is twice the size of Gibbon." The gentleman wants to know where I was during the storm of the 13th of April, when half the cattle was killed and many of the horses and mules, and every body scared half to death.'-' Perhaps ' the : storm was dreadful on the Piatt River but I was not writing for tha; part of the country, it was the Republican that I represented. Tet a storm did com mence here on the 13th of April.wind and a little rala in the evening, not enough to mention, and anowed du during - ring during the night continuing three days, and during that very hard s term I hauled and cut my own wood.'. Three of my neighbors were out on a hunt; they drove fifteen miles home with a load of meat, on the worst day. There were several parties from this vicinity oat hunting and camped out during the storm, none of them died nor did they loose any stock. One man here bad about foity head of cattle (half starved) fifteed died, another about two hundred bead, lost fifty-five; Another about twelve hundred head and did not loose any. No cattla died during the storm that were taken care of, and I have heard of none being lost that had enough to eat But half starved cattle would probably have -died anyhow. I think the trouble with Mr. Niles was that he was badly scared. But let ane assure him there Is nothing in this country that will hurt him, and that first class mechanics and profea- aional men are doing well herein the .Republican Valley. But there is plenty of snobs out of employment Aa Mr. Niles tells you, plenty of .money is a good thing in this coun country, - try, country, I shall have to agree with him there and I would say that none but "brave men should come to this coun country - try country with or without money, for there ia a disease in this country . called home-sickness that proves almost fa tal In some cases. But if a man has plenty of grit and a little Yankee

There are men who dispute what they do not understand. Mr. Coyllie Is such a man." When he heard a carpenter aay that there were so many shingle on theroor or hia house De De-canae - canae De-canae the roof contained so many square foet Coviiie doubted the Eg urea, aud when the carpenter went away he determined to test the mat ter try going up on theroor and count ing them. He squeezed throagh the scuttle Coville weighs 230 endthen sat down on the roof and worked hia way carefully and deliberately tow toward - ard toward the gutter. When he got part way down, he heard a sound between him and the shingles, and became aware that there was an Interference, someway, ia hia further locomotion. Ho tried to turn over and crawl back. Dut the obstruction neid him. Then he tried . to move along a little, in hopes that the' trouble would prove oat temporary, . put - an increased sound convinced him tnat ettner a nail or a sliver had hold of hia doth. and that if be would save any of it he must use caution. . Hia folks were in the house, but he could not make them hear, and. besides, be didnt want to attract the attention of the neighbors. ' So he sat there- until af ter dark and thought It would bavo been, an excellent opportunity to have counted the shingles, but be neglect ed to use it His mind appeared to run into other channel . He sat there an hour after dark, seeing no one be could notify of his position. Then he saw two boys approach the gate from the house, and reaching there, atop. It waa light enough for him to nee that one of the two waa his sou, and although he objected to having the other boy knowing of bis misfortune, yet he bad grown tired of holding on to the roor, ana concluded he could bribe the strange boy Into silence. With thia arrangement map- oedout.he took out bis knife, and threw ito that it would strike near to the boys and attract tbeir atten attention. - tion. attention. It struck nearer than he antici pated. :.Ia fact it struck so close as to hit the strange boy on the head and nearly brain mm. as soon as ne re re-recovered - recovered re-recovered his equilibrium, he turned en Cbville'g boy. who. he waa confi dent, had attempted to kill him, and introduced some aatonishment and braise in his face. Then be threw him down, and kicked him in the side and banned him on the head, and drew hint oyer into the cutter and pounded hia legs, and then hauled him back to the walk again and knocked his head against the gate. And all the while the elder (TovUiasatonthe roof and screamed for the police bat otraldn' t get away. - And then Mrs. Gov ill 8 dashed out with a broom, and contributed a few novel features to the affair at the gate, and one of the boarder dashed oat with a doab le-barrel gun, and hearing the enea from the roof, looked up and there espying a figure which was undoubtedly a burg lar, drove a handful of shot Into bis leva. Wkh a bowl ef agony; Coville made a nlunffa to dads the missiiea, ireea mm self from tha nail, lost bis hold to the roof, and went saLlng down tha shisgres w!U awful velocity, both lege spread oat, bis aair.oa and, and hia hands ma making - king making desperate but fruitless efforts to save himself. Be tried to swear, ' bat waa ao fiightened that he lost hi power of apeeeb, and when he passed over tbo edge of the roof, with twenty feet of tin guiler hitched to him,' tbe bcardsr gave him the contents of the other barrel, and then drove into- -the house to load up again. Tbe uaxbrtunsta Coville struck intoa cherry tree, and thence bounded to the (rronad. where he was recognized. nicked dd by the assembled neighbors. and carried into tahouae. A new doer tor ia making good day wagee picking the shot out of his legs. Toe boarder haa trone into the country to spend the summer, and the Junior Coville, haying sequestered a piece of oriea in nis naua naua-k.rrhlnf - k.rrhlnf naua-k.rrhlnf in lavimr low for that other boy, He sara Cat before the calm or another Sabbath rU oc New England there will be another boy In Danbnry who can't woaracap. Zxixttury Aoe.

' The main theater or sounding ope rations has been the Atlantic Ocean which, from its relation to the leading . commercial nations, and for intercon- ' tlnental telegraphic purposes, has ' ' been more carefully surveyed than any other great body of water., Open " from pole to pole, participating In all conditions of climate, communicatin g : ' freely with other seas, and coveriDj 30,000,000 square miles, it is believed to represent general-oceanio eondi- , , i tlons, and to contain depths nearly , if . , , : not quiet, as great as the other ocean basins of the world, although but lit lit-tie - tie lit-tie ia known, It is true, in this respect : - of the Indian, Antartie, Pacific seas. ; . i The general result of- its: soundings ., , would indicate that the average depth, of the Atlantic bed is cot much more ' than 12,000 feet, and there seem to be few-depressions deeperthan 15,00i) or ; ' 20,000 feet a little more than the : height or Mont Blanc. . : , ... . Dr. Thomas sums up the general re- " suits of the Atlantic soundings aa toU " ' fows:-"In the Aretic Se there- is deep water reaching, to : 9,000 feet to -. theweet and southwest of Spitzber Spitzber-gem - gem Spitzber-gem Extending from the coast or v. Norway, and including Iceland, the ', Faroe Islands, Shetland and Orkney, " Great Britain and Ireland, : and the -bed of the North Sea to the coast of :. - r France, there ia a wide plateau, on which the depth rarely reaches 3,000 feet ; bat to the west of Iceland, ' and communicating, doubt'eaa with the : ':' deep water in the Spitzbergen- Sea, a - -' trough 500 miles wide, and, in same . places, nearly 12,000 feet deep, curves. along the coast of Greenland. -This is. the path Of one of the great arctic re- ' turn currents,' "After sloping gradu- ; r ; ally to a depth of 3,000 feet to the west- " ward ef tbe coast oMreland. in lati- 1 tude 52, the bottom: suddenly iipt:u'. 10,00 feet, at the rate of about, , L V.j; , i 19 feet in tbe, 100; and from thia poi at , to within about 203 rnfles of the coast . of Newfoundland when it begins to r:;' r:;'-shoal - shoal r:;'-shoal again, there ia a vast -undulat-"-' ' iug submarine plain, averaging about . , 12,000 feet in deptn below the cur cur-face - face cur-face tbe 'telegraph plateau. ":: . "A valley about 500 miles wldeand - -- with a - mean depth of 15.0UO , feet,' stretchea from off the southwest coast ;, . of Ireland, along the coast of Europe, , , dipping into the Bay of Biscay, past ,' ' . the Strait or moraitar, ana Along me west coast of Africa. Opposite the Capede Verde Islands it seems to' merge into a aiignuy aeeper trouga, . ( which occupies the axis of the South. 1 Atlantic, and passes into the Antartie Sea. A nearly similar valley curves ' around the coast of North America about 12,000 feet in depth, off New- foundland and Labrador, and becom becoming - ing becoming considerably deeper to the south southward, - ward, southward, where it follows the butlina of ' the coast of the State9, and the Baha ' ' ' mas aud Windward Islands, ' and fl- ' naily loins the central itrougn of the nt South Atlantic oil the coast of Brazil, ;: with a depth .of lo,000 feeu" The, - : PvpvXar Science Monthly. . .

' A ctrtain city chap, wlio.to be suffi ciently personal to make our story interesting, we will imagine once lived leas than one hundred miles from Warren, but who now resides in that portion of Minnesota where mosquitoes disturb not the peaceful slumbers of the weary, desiring to en joy a ahort season of rural felicity, determined upon paying his cousin a visit, whos. residence happens to be in a wild,sequestered spot overlooking the tranquil waters of Mosquito Creek. This he accordingly did. Whether the following graphic de description - scription description was written for the purpose of depicting the incidents of this par ticular visit or not, no matter ; it tells the story welL - . - The day of arrival passed pleasantly, and as the time for retiring drew near our country gentleman assigned the "spare room" to his friend, and bid ding him an affectionate good night retired to rest Now the tuneful mos mosquito, - quito, mosquito, whose exclusive possession of the region above mentioned, has been established by a seeming lez loci right, has had his trombone reconstructed, and begins the new season In animat ed style. . Near the small hours of night the slumbers of the country cousin were disturbed by an Incipient earthquake up Btalra, Hastily , don donning - ning donning bis trousers, be proceded . to bis guest's room, from whence the nproar came.-When that unbridled individu individual - al individual went to bed he had thrown open the window to draw uutrameled breath and preserve the idea of his native freedom. The moscuito, scent ing foreign produce from afar, whet whet-tea - tea whet-tea up his knife and fork upon the stone window still and humming a short grace before meat took a chair upon the Minnesotain's nose and tucking nis napain unaei nis cnin, set to work. The sensitive foreigner said an ungentle thlngabout the musi cal bird or nignt ana, springing from his couch, struck a light to meet his unseen adversary face t fate. No sooner baa ne aesonea ' aim tnan with uplifted pillow he arcote upon the wall where eat the patient insect But to no effect, for so qui-kly had the intruder gathered up his traps, and so silently Btole away that the blow was 8 Dent on empty space, two more unsuccessful attempts ipon the poor mosquito's life exaspertted the gentleman and the scene beeune ex exciting. - citing. exciting. ' Blow followed blow in quick succession as the irate victim danced in fantastic pursuit about tht room. Just as he had taken a carefulaim at thAftrtfnl doriper. who -sat iron a panel of the door with a mirthfii twin twinkle - kle twinkle in his eye, enjoying the sport, the Eroprietor of the mansion popptd his ead In and received the whatk in intended - tended intended for the mosquito full ii the face. He laid down unpremeditaiedly and called for the neighbor. Vhen outside reinforcements appeared an entance was effected- into the ioom and a fearful scene of ruin met the gaze of the intruders. The only whole remaining article of furniture wai the bedstead, upon wbich sat the discon solate Minnesotain, picking the fig ments or the lookine-giass out oi nis bare feet and saying terrible thingi. tie was inconsolable, ana next aayne left without offering to pay for the broken furniture.