I 
political curtain which I had neither*sought nor 
expected. 
On the whole, Molly is an interesting girl, 
and I like to hear talk. 
Coming to a deep stream, she said, “ How I 
wish it was summer so that 1 could go bare¬ 
foot !” 
“ Do you go barefoot V” I said. 
» Oh, yes/’ said she; “ it is as much as I can 
do to wear shoos on Sunday ! And, she added, 
“ I do love the water so dearly.” 
She then told me of a pond “away down by 
the old mill,” which she said was “ such a nice 
place to go swimming.” She said she often went 
there in summer, and that she could beat every 
one around in swimming—could swim on her 
motionless on the water, iffcc. Once 
caiictcc 
LITTLE ROSEE 
Written for Moore’s P.nral New-Yorker. 
ORGIA-LIFE in the pine woods 
Rosir, my posy, 
You're weary, you’re dozy; 
Sit upon grandmamma's knee. 
Songs will I sing you, 
Sweet sleep to bring yon ; 
Cuddle up cozy with me. 
I will sing ditties 
Of birds and of kitties— 
The “ Song of the Well,” to begin ; 
How young Johnnie Stout 
Pulled pussy-cat ont 
When Johnnie Green let her fait in 
Of timid Miss Muflit, 
Who fled from the tufflt, 
Of Bobby, who sailed on the sea; 
Of Jack and his Gill; 
Of the mouse at the mill: 
And baby that rocked on the tree. 
Ilosie, my Rosie, 
As sweet as a posy— 
Ah! now Bhe is coming, I see, 
ShiVpy and dozy, 
To cuddle up cozy, 
And hush-a-by baby with me. 
[The Nursery. 
We tiud the greatest difficulty here iu getting 
the thing we need— whether family supplies, do¬ 
mestic animals, implements, or seed for plant¬ 
ing; and this being our first year among the 
pine hills, we have everything to procure. 
Among other things, we wanted some sweet 
potatoes of a particular kind for planting, and 
y r J. being temporarily disabled by an accident 
!o his loot, and Tom and Bill (our freedmeu) 
being busy with the planting and not to be 
THE YOUNG BEAVER. 
A colony of beavers selected a beautiful spot 
on a clear stream, called Silver Creek, to build 
themselves a habitation. Without waiting for 
any orders, and without any wrangling about 
whoso place was the best, they gnawed down 
sonic young trees and laid the foundation for a 
dam. With that skill for which they arc so re¬ 
markable, they built it so that it would protect 
them from water, and from their foes. When 
it was completed, they were delighted with it, 
and paddled round Joyously in the pond above, 
expressing their pleasure to each other in true 
beaver style. 
In tbis colony there was one young beaver by 
I the name of Flat-Tall. HI* father, whose name 
MONTANA 
An old resident of Atchison, Missouri, writes 
most enthusiastically of Montana Territory. He 
6avs; _“I am satisfied that within two years 
the extensive and fertile valleys ot the territory 
will supply our population with the produets of 
the soil now brought from the States. As a 
Btock-raislng country, it certainly surpasses the 
best stock country known to me. Stock thrives 
summer and winter, without grain or provender, 
even in winter. The diggings will yield the 
coming season, more than twice the amount of 
gold of any previous season; whilst iu addition, 
manv quartz mills aud smelters will be in suc¬ 
cessful operation. Indeed, many mills are now 
in successful operation, not one of which, known 
to me, fails to more than meet the expectations 
of the owners. The climate is well adapted to 
persons afflicted with pulmonary affections. 
as soon as lie saw mo danger coining, whuuui 
waiting till the damage had become too great 
to repair. 
But his son, tills young fellow, Flat-Tail, was 
a sorry fellow. As long as old Mud-Dauber 
lived, he did pretty well, betas soon us ills fath¬ 
er died, Flat-Tail set up for somebody groat. 
Whenever any one questioned his pretentions, 
he always replied: 
“ I’m Mud-Dauber’s son. I belong to the best 
I blood in the colony.” 
Ho utterly refused to gnaw or build. lie was 
meant for something better, he said. 
And so one day in autumn, when the beavers 
were going out in search of food tor winter use, 
us Flat-Tail was good for nothing else, they set 
him to mind the dam. After they, had started, 
Flat-Tail’s uncle, old Mr. Weblbot, returned 
buck and told his nephew to be very watchful, 
as there had been o great rain on the head waters 
of Silver Creek, and he was afraid there would 
be a flood. 
“ Be very careful,” sad Webfoot, “ about the 
email leaks.” 
u pahaw,” said Flat-Tail, “ who are you talk¬ 
ing to? I’m Mud Dauber’s son, and do you 
STATUE Of COMMERCE, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, 
VARIED INDUSTRY 
A help to higher culture an© character. 
No country in the world is so well adapted to 
tiiat varied labor and skill which grow with, and 
help Increase civilization aud freedom, as ours. 
Rich in abundant aud varied products—rivers 
and lakes, natural highways far inland, water¬ 
power in every State, steam and skill to use it, 
everywhere, all combine to bring producer and 
consumer side by side. 
A farmer iu New York or Wisconsin, for in¬ 
stance, raises wool. A waterfall Is heard from his 
door, or the puff of a steam engine, cutting lum¬ 
ber from the adjacent forest; but his wool is 
taken to the seaboard, and the cloth lie wears, 
and the tools he uses, brought from some work- 
Stephen B. Guion, a native of New York, 
now a leading Liverpool merchant, ot the 
American firm of Guion & Co., in that city, has 
presented to the Central Park Commissioners 
the Statue of Commerce, of which our illustra¬ 
tion shows the gigantic size and symmetrical 
proportions. It was on exhibition at l’aris, and 
was highly commended as a work of art. The 
cost, in gold at Paris, was $20,000, and it is now 
at the Park. 
Thu3 this gentleman testifies his remembrance 
of his native city, by placing in the people's Park, 
a beautiful statue, open to the sight of all. 
He was a tall, spare man, with gray hair and 
eyebrows, and very sharp eyes, such as look 
right through one. Most persons would have 
shrunk before the gaze he gave me, but I was 
on urgeut business and not to be turned aside. 
He had more customers than potatoes, and could 
sell me noue. 
After looking at me awhile, he said, “ I reckon 
you are Mrs. J.” 
I said “ Yes, elr.” 
He invited me iu, and I found the familyfruilt- 
iug before a large wood lire, burning in an enor¬ 
mous U re-place. There was the mother and three 
daughters, sitting with their backs to the Are, 
and all wore suu-bonuets and woolen mitts, aud 
were busily at work. 
Alter the compliments of the day, I bethought 
myself of several other things wo were in need 
of—a cow, a dog, and last aud least, too, a cat, 
and made inquiries. I was made welcome to a 
cat, which, with a deal of trouble and meicin/j, I 
succeeded in carrying home in the sack brought 
for the potatoes I did not get. I was rather sick 
of my bargain, and inclined to agree with Jose, 
who gave her opinion that “ the cat waa no 
count, no how, if you have to hold her all the 
while.!” 
It was now too late to go to the Irishman’s 
that evening, so we came home, resolved to 
“ try again.” 
The next day we renewed our “pursuit of 
potatoes under difficulties.” At the post-office 
Mr. A. kindly directed us to a house where he 
said there lived a “young lady” who would 
show us the way. 
I found the young lady, who would go if her 
mother was willing. Her mother wasn’t wil¬ 
ling ; but, Anally relenting, gave a sort of half- 
consent, and Molly set out with us. 
Molly was a “character'.” She was a tall 
girl of eighteen, with the clayey complexion so 
LUXEMBURG-WHERE IS IT! 
less value than the extra fare-mechanics, farmers, 
and often gentlemen of position and character, 
but of democratic habits and feelings. It is said 
they pay well. Mechanics in London, &c., com¬ 
mute their daily ride of a few miles for less than 
a cent per mile. 
INTERMARRIAGE OF COUSINS. 
A Michigan correspondent asks for copies of 
the Rural in 1868, with an article on the above 
subject. We cannot send them. The Commis¬ 
sioners of the Kentucky Institution lor the Ed¬ 
ucation and Training of Feeble-minded Children, 
have just made a report to the Legislature. 
They add their testimony to the abundant evi¬ 
dence already collected by physicians and phi¬ 
lanthropists, that a large percentage of deaf 
mutcB and of the blind, a limited percentage ol 
lunatics, and no doubt a much larger one than 
We cannot have the best farming until we have 
the best manufacturing, in varied forms and ma¬ 
terials, each an indispensable help to the growth 
and perfectness of the other. 
Give us both, and the blending of these varied 
experiences and vocations, the meeting and 
mingling of these many life currents, tinged and 
shaped by such wide mastery of man over Na¬ 
ture’s forces and materials, is full ol benefit. It 
is civilization, culture, wealth of soul as well as 
purse. To the farmer it is increase of the pro¬ 
duct of his acres, economy of exchange, work 
of hand or lira in for whatever gilt of power, or 
character, his children may possess, instant and 
constant call for a variety of labor, and all the 
while the thrill of inventive genius pnlsiug 
through the serene quiet of his life in the fields, 
saviug it from all narrowness aud stagnation, 
that he may more enjoy Nature’s beauty, and 
the better make her forces serve him. 
The Prussians refuse and pour iu troops and 
supplies. The German feeling against the trans¬ 
fer of this historic old fortress is strong, and 
besides it is of great importance as a key to the 
regions on either side. 
Thus is fanned the flame of a great war, which, 
however, at last accounts, may be subdued by 
compromise, but the war feeling is still very 
strong both in France and Germany. 
HOW TO MAKE NEAT’S-FOOT OIL 
The hoofs are chopped oil - , and the other por- 
craeked and boiled thoroughly. From 
neat’s-f'oot 
tions are 
the surface of this boiled mass, pure 
oil is skimmed, which is nnsupassed by any 
other oleaginous matter for harness, shoes, &c. 
After the oil is taken oil - , the water is strained, 
to take from St any fatty particles that remain, 
and then it is boiled again, until, upon trying, it 
is found to settle Into a stiff jelly. It is then 
poured into flat-bottomed dishes, aud, when 
cold, cut into suitable-sized pices. It hardens 
in ft few days, and then you will have a very line 
article of glue, free from impurities of any kind. 
By taking a portion of this glutinous substance 
before it becomes too thick, aud brushing it over 
pieces of silk, you have just as much court-plas¬ 
ter as you desire, inodorous, tenacious, and en¬ 
tirely free from those poisonous qualities which 
tariff they are obliged to adopt. In Great cause (as much of the article to be sold by apoth- 
Britain this is not the case. "Wealthy persons ecar ics does) inflamation, when applied to 
there and on the Continent, travel on trains at scratches, cuts and sores, 
high price, say six cents—aud exclusive aeeom- - 
modations. A plan for converting Springfield muskets 
All English roads are obliged to run one train iuto breech-loaders, more effective than the 
a day at a penny a mile—two cents. These see- Prussian needle gun, at small cost, and also 
ond class are slower than express trains, and models of new breech-loaders, are before a spe- 
crluolino expansion, a dark calico &un-bonnct 
that covered her face, and half-mitts. I observed 
she hud a small stick, one cad of which she had 
chewed tiil it was like a brush, aud that she 
kept up a continual squirting and spitting. I 
had my suspicions, but was not sure ol - the 
cause. Wo walked on briskly, talking of almost 
everything. She kept on spitting, and at every 
spring and stream would stop to drink. At last 
the wind blew tier breath in my face, and with 
it—what do you think? — the odor of bad to¬ 
bacco I 
She was a “ snuff dipper” and chewed. Both 
" dipping” and chewing are common here among 
the women. They have a box or bottle of snuff, 
into which they dip their chewed stick and rub 
it on their teeth. When they cau get chewing 
tobacco they prefer that. 
She was, I found, really our country po^t-mis- 
tress. The people wanted a post-office, but no 
man could be found who could or would take 
the oath; so they got her to go to town and be 
sworn in before the proper officer, with the un¬ 
derstanding that Mr. A. should attend to the 
business for her. This was a peep behind the 
The Locomotive. — >\e quote the touowmg 
eloquent passage from ait address delivered by 
the Rev. Justin D. Fulton:-“In the night 
time, as in the dao, the iron horses rattle on their 
iron way. it is a luxury to listen to the chime 
of those mighty chronometers. We hear the 
beat of great pendulums swinging through their 
iron arcs - East and West — Boston and Chica- 
go_iurther to the westward still goes the train— 
Swinging through the forest, 
Rattling over ridges. 
Shooting under arches, 
Rumbling over bridges, 
Whizzing through the mountains, 
Buzzing through the vale. 
through the golden gate to the 
shore His efforts were of no avail, and had not 
the rest of the silver Creek beaver family come 
along at that time, their home and their win¬ 
ter’s stock of provisions would alike have been 
destroyed. Next day there was much beaver 
laughter over Flat-Tail’s repairs on the strong 
side ot the dam, and the name that before had 
been a credit to him was turned iuto a reproach, 
for, from that day the beavers called biui In de¬ 
rision, “ Mud-Dauber’s sou, the best blood in 
the colony.” 
Don’t neglect a danger because it is small; 
don’t boast of what your father did; and don’t 
be too conceited to receive good advice.— Little 
Corporal. __ __ __ 
Let us only think of achieving the present 
day well; and when to-morrow shall have ar¬ 
rived, it too will be called to-day, and then we 
COST OF RAILROAD TRAVEL IN EUROPE 
and pushing on 
shores of the blue Pacific, 
