stretching, elegantly kept lavras, here almost 
bare with greenness, there covered with shrub¬ 
bery, or dotted with evergreens, or marked out 
with hedges. Just the sort of places children 
would enjoy, rolling and yelling and rejoicing 
over iu their gayest play-times. But they are 
far too trim and neat for that. Like Monument 
Square, with its sign-board which does not say, 
“ Please keep off the grass,” bnt “Five Dollars 
fine for going off the gravelled walks; ” so these, 
proud in their queenly verdure, strongly hint, 
“ Pollute not my sacredness.” I lose everything 
but the keenness of pleasure, for I am riding 
after no dust to-day. The showers of the morn¬ 
ing have run away with it all, and will keep it at 
least till the morrow.—Blessed future! in whose 
close guarded treasure-house so much of what 
we have loved and lost is stored up,—one day to 
hallow U3 even like an eternal crown. 
My ride is over before I know it, and the day¬ 
light vanishes with a few games of croquet in 
the parlor. Then back to the hotel, and the 
next “down train” carries me away from what 
is already only a memory. 0 . von K. 
Written tor Moore’s Rural New-Yorke: 
A BACHELOR’S DRIFTING-. 
THE WORTH OF TIME, 
An old man and a little child 
Together went tfieir way; 
Amid the blossoms of the wild 
The child off paused to play. 
“ Ah I linger not amid the flowers,” 
The gray-haired teacher said, 
“ P° r precious are the passing hours, 
And mourned as soon as fled.'' 
The old aiun took the little child 
And led him by the band. 
Bat still, where’er a blossom smiled, 
The boy would strive to stand. 
“Ah 1 linger not, although the flowers 
To thee a joy may bring. 
They bat remind me of the hours 
I lost la my life's spring,” 
The child went ox—the old man fled; 
But ne’er the boy forgot 
The words that gray-hatred teacher said 
Through all his future lot; 
And wisely are Ms children taught, 
When in some olden rhyme 
He tells them how he first was brought 
To know the worth of time 1 
II.—A Touch at Cleveland. 
There is a very sound piece of advice in a 
certain story-book, which I came across a long 
time ago. It was given to a little boy who was 
going quite a journey all by himself, and yet it is 
applicable to travelers generally, large and 
small. It Is simply this: “keep a quiet mind, 
and do as other people do.” 
“ Keep a quiet mind.” What, when all tho 
stinging troubles, the biting torments, the buz¬ 
zing annoyances of a long journey are surround¬ 
ing one in full force? Why, certainly. There 
is no virtue in not sinning when there is no 
temptation. I have seen a spring, clear, bright 
and sparkling, and yet If yon disturb the mud at 
the bottom ever so little, your clearness is all 
cloudy, your brightness dull, your sparkle dis¬ 
appears with indiguant bubbles. Well, there is 
no necessity for stirring np the dirt. Leave the 
beauty and the purity as God made them. Ah, 
so many rills are there to be kept unsullied, so 
many brooklets unprofaned, so much mnddi- 
nes6 to be covered with the white sand of virtue, 
and the shining pebbles of undefilement. Still, 
oughts go for nothing. 
“Do as other people do?” Well, perhaps 
not. Only sometimes when we know them to 
be older and wiser, and maybe better capable of 
judgment. There never were but a few who 
learned wisdom by experience, and they are all 
dead. 
These and other desultory ideas have been 
lounging around my mental rooms, and mean¬ 
while the promise of the sun has been fulfilled. 
Nature has adjusted her walking dress, and I 
stroll about town. *• 
Up a couple of stair-flights, and I am in the 
rooms of the Library Association. The gentle¬ 
manly librarian hands me a book wherein to 
scratch my uncouth autograph, and gives me a 
fund of information respecting the progress and 
improvement of the “ concern” over which he 
has charge. The books, magazines, newspapers, 
are kept in the neatest shape, and lingering and 
talking, I take up more of another’s time than I 
ought, and make a dash for the door. 
Mr. Fetridge, somewhere in his “Iiand- 
Book for Travelers,” says that one 9 honid be 
posted regarding the points of interest in a place 
before visiting It. I think that depends on circum¬ 
stances. If one becomes a rambler for the pur¬ 
pose of gleaning knowledge theoretical and prac¬ 
tical, it would be quite helpful, 
THE WAS IN EUROPE 
A SELF-MADE MAN 
REMINISCENCES OF A UNITED STATES SENATOR. 
8ome thirty years ago I was in trade with 
Judge H-, in a pleasant village of Vermont, 
^in tho town of 8-. There are two villages in 
the town that are denominated “Upper Hol¬ 
low” and “ Lower Hollow." 
A short distance above Lower Hollow there 
lived a man by the name of Orlando Bunby, a 
blacksmith by trade. He was In the habit of 
using liquor pretty freely, especially about elec¬ 
tion time. About that time there was an excit¬ 
ing election for representatives to the Legisla¬ 
ture, that had just come off, audali were anxious 
to hear the result. Mr. Bunby happened to be 
in the store as Jndge H-- was reading the re¬ 
turns from the different towns. Among the rest 
was that of a town on the west side of the 
Green Mountains, that had elected 8. F-for 
representative. 
“ Is it possible that they have elected him a 
representative?” said Mr. Bunby. “I know 
him like a book. Ho was a poor boy, and used 
to live at my father’s. His father died when he 
was youug, and ills mother being poor, he was 
put to live out with different farmers to earn 
a living. When he lived with my father, he was 
so poor that he was not able to have shoes until 
ho had earned enough to buy a pair. My father 
being a well-to-do farmer, was able to keep me 
In shoes. It Irritated the boy to think he bad no 
shoes. One day my father sent ns to cut Canada 
thistles in the field. I had shoes to protect my 
feet, but poor 8— was barefoot, and tho this¬ 
tles pricked his feet, and I bothered him and 
laughed at him for not having shoes. He got 
excited by my jeers and the sting of the thistles, 
and straightening himself up, he sheok his little- 
fist at me, and said:—“ Orlando Bunby, I shall 
see the day that I shall be able to wear shoes.” 
And so it proved; ho did wear shoes. He ac¬ 
quired an education —a profession—and his 
shoos trod the legislative holla of Vermont; his 
shoes pressed the floor of Congress and the Sen¬ 
ate chamber, and many a time have been in the 
place designated by the Viec-President. They 
were the shoes, of Hon. Solomon Foote, United 
States Senator from Vermont. 
Prominent, and indeed the chief aggressor in 
the war, is Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria. 
He was born August IS, 1830, and waa the old¬ 
est son of the Archduke Francis Charles by the 
Princess Sophia of Bohemia, and a nephew of 
Ferdinand I. He came to the throne in 184S, 
and among the earliest events in his reign, waB 
the Hungarian insurrection under Kossuth, 
which was soon put down. In 1852 an outbreak 
occurred in Milan, which waa also suppressed. 
In the Crimean war, at Solferino, Francis Joseph 
led his troops in person, but wa3 defeated by 
Napoleon and Victor Emmanuel. He married 
in 1854, the daughter of tho Bavarian Duke Max¬ 
imilian Joseph. Though in private character 
he has a good repute, his name is but a synonym 
for cruelty and tyranny in public affairs, and his 
Empire is a leading despotic power. 
King William L of Prussia is a son Frederick 
William III., and was born lu 1817. In 1840 he 
was appointed Governer of Pomerania, and in 
1849 commanded the forces In operation against 
Baden. In 1857 he was created Regent, and on 
the death of the King in 1861, succeeded to the 
throne. His reign has been a stormy one, and 
productive of much domestic strife, and in his 
kingly character, he is but little respected. 
George V., King of Hanover, is the only son 
of the late King Ernest Augustus, third 30 n of 
George III. of Great Britain, and is consequently 
a cousin of Queen Victoria. He was born in 
England in 1819, and succeed his father in 1851. 
He has been blind from his youth, is a man of 
some musical genius and general talent, but un¬ 
popular with his subjects, and has little influ¬ 
ence beyond his dominion. 
John L, King of Saxony, was born in 1801, 
and succeeded his brother Frederick August II., 
in 1854. He Is the youDgeat son of King Maximil¬ 
ian, who died in 1S3S. He is renowned for his 
literary attainments, having published a Ger¬ 
man translation oi Dante’s Dlvlnla Commedia, 
which enjoys the distinction of being the best 
commentary on that poem in any language. 
Ernest II., Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, was 
born 1818, and succeeded his father, Ernest I., 
in 1844. He is an elder brothor of the late 
Prince Albert of England, and is noted for his 
intellectual powers, musical abilities, and scien¬ 
tific taste. 
The Crown Prince of Prussia, husband of 
Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, was bom in 
1831, and is now a Lieutenant General in the 
Prussian army. His brother, Prince Louis of 
Hesse, bom iu 1887, formerly served iu the Prus¬ 
sian army, but is now fighting on the other side. 
The Austrian Archduke Leopold, who com¬ 
mands the blh and 8th corps which were defeat¬ 
ed by the Prussians on the 27th and 28th ult., is 
the son of a grand uncle of the Emperor Fran¬ 
cis Joseph. He was born in 1823, and is a Lieu¬ 
tenant-Field-Marshal in the Austrian service. 
Charles J. Brvdoes, Esq., Managing Direc¬ 
tor oi the Grand Trunk Railway Company of 
Canada, is known personally or by reputation 
to thousands of Rural readers, many of whom 
will readily recognize his striking features and 
manly form as above portrayed. Though yet 
under forty years of age, Mr. B. has acquired 
an enviable distinction, and is a notable example 
of that noble class of self-made men who have 
risen to positions of superior influence, respon¬ 
sibility and Usefulness mainly through their own 
industry and Indomitable energy. The boys and 
young men should especially note his career. 
Charles J. Bridges was bom lu London, 
February, 1827, of parents lo l.ttle more than 
comfortable circumstances, though of very 
respectable lieneage. His father died when 
Charles was two years old, and the decease 
of his mother six years later left him without 
a relative of bis own name. But triends sent 
him to a private academy until he was fifteen, 
when he entered a merchant’s office. A year 
later he obtained a permanent clerkship in the 
Loudon and South-Wes tern Railway Co. He 
wa3 promoted from time to time, and at the age 
of twenty-six occupied the influential position 
of Assistant Secretary. But he aimed higher, 
and in 1852 was appointed Managing Director of 
theGreat Western Railway Co. ofCanada. On his 
departure the London Company presented Mr. 
Bridges with a tea-service of silver, and subse¬ 
quently offered him the position of Secretary — 
a high appreciation of his value as an officer. 
For many years Mr. Bridges conducted the 
affairs of the Great Western Railway with much 
ability, receiving cogent testimonials from the 
London shareholders — who commended “the 
zeal, integrity and judgment which he ha3 uni¬ 
formly displayed”—and in 18bl the employes of 
tho road presented him a magnificent service o 
silver plate as a testimonial of their esteem. Iu 
1861 it was proposed to combine the Great West¬ 
ern and Grand Trunk Railways. During t.lic 
pendency of tho negotiations Mr. Bridges acted 
as Managing Director of both roads, until the 
fail of 1802, when, the bill in Parliament for the 
union of the two lines having failed to jiass, Mr. 
B. resigned his seat us director of the G. W. 
Railway, and continued tho superintendency of 
the Grand Trunk —from which period he has 
contributed mere extensively to its enlargement 
and successful operation than any previous di¬ 
rector. Under his management the Grand Trunk 
has become one of the best railways in North 
America, and is to-day tho grand connecting 
link and medium of transportation between the 
interior and western regions, and the sea coast 
and eastern cities of Canada. Iu the words of 
an old and heavy stockholder — “ Before the ad¬ 
vent of Mr. Bridges as manager, the Grand 
Trunk Railway had not only beeq productive of 
uo gain, but had entailed on its supporters and 
the Province a constant loss. Bnt. when he had 
undertaken its management, all that sort of 
thing was forthwith changed. They had never 
had, and never could have, any man with a great¬ 
er amount of railway talent than the present 
managing director.” 
But if one goes 
simply into the driftingness of quiet enjoyment, 
it is much pleasanter to learn as Tittle as possi¬ 
ble. In finding one’s own way about strange 
localities, more Is seen, more discovered that is 
interesting and sightworthy, than by straight¬ 
forwardly visiting the elephant and the lions. 
And it isn’t best, to ask too many questions. 
There is danger of being taken for an ignoramus, 
and even though one never catch sight of the 
place again, it Is much pleasanter to leave be¬ 
hind the impression of a little common aeuse. 
But I have loitered down to the lake, and am 
sitting on one of many little heaps of stones ly¬ 
ing around. It is by no means a handsome 
neighborhood on either hand: the “sight” is 
just ahead, and I cannot help softly repeating a 
beautiful stanza of George Arnold's— 
“ 0 eea of life, whoso waters heave and roll, 
Ye lave sad wrecks and Joyous youthful forms, 
Ye bring sweet fragrance to the weary soul, 
And chill it with the breath of icy storms: 
Here on the ehorc we smile and woep and pray— 
O waves, eleausc all oar sins from us to-day > ’’ 
Something so far away that It is a mere speck, 
may be a steamboat,—a sailing vessel,—perhaps 
a pleasure-yacht. How long would it take to 
row out there ? In how many throwings could 
I reach the spot, if some one else were to be the 
catcher each time, and we could both stand on 
the water as well as on dry land ? Pshaw! why 
didn’t I think of a spy-glass? But all the an¬ 
swer to my questions, is lost in the murmured 
dashing of the water on the shore. 
Innumerable poets have rung changes beauti¬ 
ful and grand on the bells which chime the mu¬ 
sic of the sea. Now soft with the billowy mo¬ 
tion in which Ocean rocks her cradled children; 
now BOlmenly magnificent with delirious tossing 
and careering at bidding of the majesty of storin'; 
now lulled to quiet by the voices oi the sooth¬ 
ing winds. What if this is only a lake ? What 
if not so much a subject for the poetic or the 
musical ? Ah, there is a glorious epic of a tri¬ 
umphal march, which seems woven from a 
memory that goes back eighteen UuJfcV years, 
to a lake far legs pretending than tlis, away on 
the other side of the world. Perhaps we have 
thought it out, long ago. Only a vision, at 
least, flashed through tempest and darkness, of 
some one walking serenely over dashing waters, 
some one with that face which nainter never 
a large stone bouldet, which serves as a table or 
seat, as may be required. The kitchen utensils 
comprise two or three porringers, a kettle, and 
a few wooden spoons, besides two milking pails, 
\bove tho hearth, which is formed of stones, is 
suspended a little wooden crane that turns on a 
pivot, upou which is hung the great copper 
cauldron that the king of the herd b ought up 
iu triumph on his head Irom the village below, 
and in which the milk is scalded preparatory to 
making it into butter and cheese. There is uo 
lack of ventilation in the dwelling, for around, 
above and between the bare rafters which form 
the walls, the wind and cold air from the gla¬ 
ciers above whistle freely, though this is iu a 
measure tempered by tho warm and fragrant 
breath of the cows, which are closely packed 
every night within the hM.—V/iaiuber*.* Journal. 
Ohio from 1845 to 1848, and is probably well 
qualified, both by education and experience for 
his present position. He was formerly a Whig 
and afterwards a Republican, and voted for Lin¬ 
coln and Johnson lu 1804. Latterly he has been 
very conservative iu his opinions, aud has had 
the credit of preparing the legal part of the 
President’s first veto upon the Freedmen’s Bu¬ 
reau Bill. The country wants an able lawyer in 
the Attorney-General’s office, and the President 
wants a man in political sympathy with himself, 
aud Mr. Stanberry’a appointment answers both 
these requirements. 
FILIAL AFFECTION 
A veteran, worn out iu the service of France, 
was reduced without a pension, although he had 
a wife and three children to share his wretched¬ 
ness. His son was placed at a military academy, 
where he might have enjoyed every comfort; 
lint the strongest persuasions could not indneu 
him to taste anything but coarse bread and water. 
The Duke de Choiseui being informed of the 
circumstance, ordered the boy before him, and 
inquired the reason of liis abstemiousness. The 
boy, with a manly fortitude, replied: 
“ Sir, when I had the honor of being admitted 
to the protection of J;hlsy;oyal institution, my 
father conducted me 
THE IRIDOSCOPE 
M. Moudin of Paris, has added another of 
these ingenious instruments—the iridoscope—by 
the aid of which an individual is able to see all 
that is going on in his own eye. It is simply an 
opaque ehell to cover the eye, pierced in the 
center with a very small hole. On looking 
through steadfastly at the sky, or at any diffused 
light, the observer may watch the tears stream¬ 
ing over the globe, and note the dilation and 
contraction of the iris, and even seo the aqueous 
humor poured in when the eye Is fatigued by a 
long observation. It is needless to say that with 
the aid of this instrument a man can easily find 
out for himself whether he has a cataract or not. 
If he has, he will only see a sort of vail covering 
the luminous disk which is seen by a healthy 
eye. The instrument is certainly simple and 
curious, and will uo doubt excite attention In 
those who are anxious to know more of them¬ 
selves. An “ iridoscope” may be readily extem¬ 
porized by making a hole in the bottom of a pill 
box with a fine needle. 
ENT0MICAL BAROMETERS 
A venerable observer states that spiders are 
the best barometers yet produced. The barom¬ 
eter invented by the scientific, he affirmed, only 
indicated the kind of weather we are to immedi¬ 
ately have: while the 6plder unerringly told the 
characler of the weather for several days in ad¬ 
vance. For instance, if the weather is likely to 
become rainy, windy, or in other respects disa¬ 
greeable, the spiders make short aud firm the 
terminating filaments on which their webs are 
suspended. If, on the contrary, the spiders 
make the terminating filaments or fastenings 
uncommonly long, the weather will continue se¬ 
vere from ten to a dozen days. Spiders usually 
make alterations in their webs once lu twenty- 
four hours. If they are totally indolent, and do 
not even watch for flies, rain will speedily en¬ 
sue. If the spiders stay out upon their nets 
during a shower, and seem actively engaged in 
putting affairs in good condition, It 13 certain 
proof that the rain will prove of short duration, 
and that it will be clear weather for some time. 
If, during stormy weather, the spiders are seeu 
fixing their damaged nests in the evening, it 
certainly indicates that the night will be pleas¬ 
ant, and that the rain is over for the present. 
We came on foot; 
on our journey, our hunger and thirst were re¬ 
lieved by bread and watqp. I was received, my 
father blessed me, and returned to a helpless 
wife aud family. As long as I can remember 
bread, of the blackest kind, with water, has been 
their dally food, aud even that is earned by every 
species of labor that honor does not forbid. To 
this fare, sir, my father is returned; therefore, 
while ho, my mother and sisters, are compelled 
to endure such wretchedness, is it pogsibiel can 
enjoy the bounteous plenty of my gracious 
sovereign!”. 
The duke, deeply affected, gave the boy three 
lonUs d’ors for pocket money, and promised to 
procure the father a pension. The boy begged 
the louts Wore might to sent to his father; 
which, with the patent of his pension, was im¬ 
mediately done. 
The boy was patronized by the duke, and be¬ 
came one of the best officers in the service of 
France. _ 
THE CHALETS OF THE ALPS. 
one with that face which painter 
painted, where divinity was written in every 
outline,—breathing to terrified hearts, “It is I— 
be not afraid.” He is walking on the troubled 
waves of life to-day, but our filmy eyes cannot 
see him. He is hushing the-tumult of the fret¬ 
ting spirit, but our deafened ears cannot hear 
him. Only we feel the coming of the great calm. 
I go back a different way. It Is a shady walk, 
the 6uu only now and then peeping through the 
thick mass of leaves, — playing hide-aud-aeek 
n among the whispering foliage. It is like catch- 
M mg just a sleeve of some golden garment one 
9 spends life grasping after, for we never realize 
J anticipations in this world. Still, we may trust 
■ q iQ tlle coming of the reality, though it never 
ff reach us. There isan old German saying, “ Keep 
'■h true to the dreams of thy youth.” 
I drive out in the afternoon, with a friend to 
gy 6how me the sights and keep me straight. Who 
S tbat onl y oncs lias been behind spirited horses 
v 011 Euclid Avenue, can ever forget it ? The wlde- 
A SIBERIAN WOMAN 
A gentleman who is engaged in the tele¬ 
graphic expedition in Siberia, relates the follow¬ 
ing incident in a letter to a friend in Cincinnati: 
“ I met with a Korak woman of about twenty- 
two years of age on tho great Tundra (marked 
Keran on the map) who drove a team of rain 
deers with a loaded sledge fifty versts in one 
day, and at night slept out in the snow, with no 
covering whatever except the clothing she had 
worn during the day, aud in a temperature of 43 
degrees below zero, or 75 degrees below tho 
freezing point! Think of that, ye effeminate 
ladies of America. That I saw myself, although 
even to me it seems incredible now. I thought 
It an extraordinary thing to sleep in a raindeer 
skin tent out doors in such weather, and I 
should have frozen to death in two hours had I 
She traveled 
Luck and Labor. — Luck is ever waiting for 
something to turn up. 
Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, will 
turn up something. 
Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman 
would bring him news of a legacy. 
Labor turns out at six o’clock, and with busy 
pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of 
a competence. . 
I.uck whines. 
Labor whistles. 
Luck relies on chances. 
Labor, on character. 
Luck slips dowuward to indulgence. 
Labor strides upward, and to independence. 
THE NEW ATTORNEY-GENERAL 
Judge Henry Stanbekrt, the new Attorney- 
General of the United States, is about seveuty 
years old, and Is a resident of Campbell county, 
Kentucky, just opposite Cincinnati, on the south 
bank of the Ohio river. He was bom at Zanes¬ 
ville, O., graduated at the Ohio University, was 
admitted to the bar iu 1824, after seven years’ 
study of his profession, aQd has practiced his 
profession at different places in Ohio, recently 
having hud an office at Cincinnati, though resi¬ 
ding in Kentucky. He wa3 Attorney-General of 
attempted to sleep without it, 
with us driving her own reindeer, aud sleeping 
on the snow every night.” 
