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THE MOPEBN BELLE.
The daughter sits in the parlor,
And rocks her easy chair,
She's clad in her silks and satins,
And jewels are in her hair;
She winks and giggles and simpers,
And simpers, and giggles and winks,
And though she talks but little,
'Tis vastly more than she thinks.
Her father g►es clad in his russet,
And ragged and seedy at that ;
His coats are all out at the elbow—.
Ile wears a most shocking bad hat,
He's hoarding and saving his shillings, .
So catkfully day by day,
While 'she on the beaux and poodles,
is throwing it all away.
She lies a-bed in the morning
Till nearly the hour of noon ;
Then comes down snapping and snarling,
ilecause she was called so soon.
Iler hair is still in the papers,
Ikr cheeks'stil dabbled with paint—
Remains of her last night's blushes,
Before she intended to faint.
She dotes upon men unshaven,
And men with "flowing hair,"
She's eloquent over moustaches,
roe y give such a ficireign air,
She talks of Italian music,
And falls in love with the moon, •
And though a mouse should meet her,
Ste sinks away in a swoon.
lEke• feet are so very tittle,
Her hands so very white,
ler jewels so very heavy,
And her head so very light.
Her color is made of cosmetics,
Thoqgh this she will never own :
Her body made mostly of , cotton, ,
Liar, heart is made ;Ally of stone !
She fails in love with a fellow, • '
Vho_ struts with a foreign air;
Ne marries her for her money
She marries him for his hair;
One of.the very best matches—
Both are well mated in lik.!
She's got a fool for a husband,
And he's got a fool for a wife!
,b'elect
THE TELL-TALE VISION.
‘‘,IIIURDER -WILL OUT."
"Vs the kind of a night for a ghostly and
tnysteriotts story, and if you will listen pa
tiently, Irvill tell you. one which took place
wilt/Lee thirty years ago, away up yonder
on the bleak moors of .Issynt., across thi,
Sutherland bills_ Barren moorlauds, and
gray sterile heaches, with flinty sands ; troops
f forlorn pines along the hill sides, where
the red deer keeps his wards ; rents of blue
sea sprinkled with groen desolate islands-7-a
"God-forgotten land," as Sidney Smith would
:say. Thirtyyears ago,however,the monotonous
lives (k" the simple islanders were rudely dis
turbed by one of thoue.startling crimes which
seem to belong more peculiarly to an advanced
and complicated civilization. The case still
-figures in the criminal records as the Assynt
murder, and presents many features of curious i
and picturesque interest
• John McDonald, a well known itinerant
pedlar, had, one dreary winter evening about
this time of the
_year, attended a rustic wed
ding and merry making at the "farm town"
of Assynt, where, amongithe fair damsels as
sembled, he had contrived considerably to
lighten his pack. No one had observed him
leave, and fur a month- afterwards nothing
was heard of his movements, His absence
excited no surpriseemong the country people,
as it was supposed that he had gone to visit
his relations, who lived in Buss-shire. They,
_however, ignorant of his movements, and see
ing him Only at distant, intervals, were, of
cuutse, not troubled at his customary absence,
and the pedlar might have been away much
longer before any suspicions could have been
excited. But exactly four weeks after the
iestivities at Assynt, a farm servant, passing
a deep and precipitous turn on the mountain
_road_tch lel lie*. between- the_farm-town_and
the ,Clachan of Assynt, observed, by the im
perfect dawn-light, a bundle floating upon the
water, then unusually low and clear.. A rude
raft was constructed, and -with its aid the
neighbors dragged the corrupted body of a
human being to the shore. Though much de
composed, all who were - present, immediately
recognized the body of the inksing pedlar.—
The cluthes were the sang which he had worn
:::4t. : ,... l . tplibfitalt.___ ,:t.:lit.fliter
ft F4O ffehsp4pei----beboieZ to I.iteisfiltiVe, 1r.0e41 aediNi‘4l &e.
when last seen, but the pockets had been
carefully turned out and rifled, and notbingof
any value was found on the corpse.
Notwithstanding these suspicious appear
ances, the simple people, among whom a
murder had never been committed, concluded
that the unfortunate man had fallen at! . ciden
_tally into the tarn. So confirmed were they
in this opinion, that they at once buried the
_body, and John McDonald and the tragedy con
nected with him was in a fair way of being
forgotten. The parish minister,howe ver, bad
accidentally learned of the discovery, , and he
forthwith forwarded information to the proper
authorities. The sheriff of the county and
the public prosecutor immediately came down
to the district, and commenced a searching
investigation:
i Under the guidance oC John Cameron, the
schoolmaster, who was recommended to them
by the minister as a skillful and'tru - sty per
son, on whom perfect reliance could be placed,
r and accompanied by the medical men of the
island, the sheriff'visited the spot where Mc-
Donald's body had been buried. It was dis
interred-in his presence, and on examination,
several deep wounds were discovered on the .
baek of the head, any one of which, the doctors
reported, would have been sufficient to cause
his death. Coupled with the fact that the
clothes had been plundered no reasonable
doubt could remain that a murder had been
committed. It was well• known in the island
that il.l6Donald, who had made considerable
money; carried his fortune
.on his back,
banks and stock being unknOwn institutions
to these primitive people. But fur many
'days all the ingenuity of the law was baffled
. to obtain any trace of the murderer. No one
had been seen with McDonald after he left
Assynt ; no article of any kind. could be iden
tified as hie property. The search appeared
fruitless. Several murders, however, Fad
been recently committed in the northern
.counties; they had remained unpunished; it
was, therefore, .a matter of much public im
portance that in this case an example should
be made: The sheriff established himself
.en permanence at a. roadside hostel in the
vi
cinity, and announced his determination to
examine every resident in the island.
During these investigations the sheriff was
invariably accompanied by Cameron, who,
through his acquaintance with the Gallic
tongue, and his knowledge ef the inhabitants.
proved of great assistance as an interpreter.
• One morning, however, the sheriff went down
to the district Post Office alone, Cameron be
ing for the first time absent. During de
sultory conversation, the post master inciden
tally stated that soon after the date of the
murder he had given change for a £lO Bank
of England note to a person who he did
not think should have had sd much money
in his possession. Who was this ? John
Cameron, the schoolmaster. Cameron was
sent for, was asked how he had come to have
the money in question, and peremptorily de
nied any knowledge of the transaction. Ills
statement, though made without apparent
embarrassment, excited suspicion, and he was
arrested, charged with the murder.
For some time, however, no facts appeared
to confirm the .suspicion. Cameron's house,
which stood on a hill side by itself, was
minutely searched, but none of the pedlate
property was found in it. His sister, who
lived with him, was evidently perfectly igno
rant and innocent. She was a young and
pretty girl, and, for her station in life, intelli
gent and cultivated. When told of the charge,
she indignantly refused to believe that her
brother was guilty, and in deep distress fol
lowed him to prison. One or two casual inci
dents, however, to which she alluded, proved
of unhappy importance on the trial. Even
then; however, though well aware of the fatal
effect of her answers, she spoke fearlessly and
truthfully—with Spartan-like honesty meting
out her brother's doom. A fearful dilemma,
indeed—one where even falsehood cannot be
rigorously judged, but where stern and rigid
truth cannot be too highly esteemed. A noble
Highland heroine, with her bloodless lips
and white, tearless face—all honor to the
gentle womanhood that is yet too noble in its
maiden honesty for a lie !
Cameron, though - unable to account satis
factorily for the money, was on the point of
being liberated, Nrliell a singular incident oc
curred.. A workman, McLeod by name, had
on three successive occasions, dreamed that
he had seen Cameron follow McDonald to the
water-side, strike him a number of heavy
bloWs with a hammer, rifle his pack, cast the
body into the tarn, and conceal the articles he
had taken in a cairn near his own house: 'The
story was soon bruited about, and the dream
er was brought before the sheriff. So strong
and vivid, he said, was his recollection of the
incidents of the dream, that he could under
take to point out to the criminal officer the
exact_ stones_under_w_h ich_the_property_Avar
concealed. They went together, and ultimate
ly discovered the articles in question conceal
ed under several large stones, which McLeod
declared exactly resembled those impressed
on his memory. here was an important fact
to begin with—the property of the murdered
man found in the immediate proximity of
Cameron's own house. Nest day another
liuk was obtained. 1 week ur two previous
GETTYSI3ISII,G, PENNSYLVANIA: MONDAY, FEB. 23, 1557.
to his apprehension, Cameron walked one
rainy morning to the other side of the island,
got wet, and at a country inn obtained from
the landlady a pair of stockings, leaving his
own behind to be dried. These' were now
produced,and after some hesitation, a cotter's
wife declared that, from a peculiarity in the
work, she could depose that they were of her
own making; and added, that the day before
his disappearance, the pedlar had bought two
pairs from'her for her own use. That now
produced was one of them; the other was
disetivered in Cameron's house. A variety
of similar circumstances gradually came out ;
and after considerable delay, occasioned by
the difficulties of the case, Cameron was
brought to trial.
The trial took place at Inverness. It
from ten o'clock on the first morning of the
assize,. till the same hour next day—twenty
four consecutive hours, during which time
judge, jury, and spectators, sat uninterrupt
edly. The prime interest to the superstitious
Highlanders lay in the mysterious fact of the
vision, and the seer was an object of special
interest when ho appeared in the witness-box.
He suffered a severe cross examination from
the prisoner's cotinsel; without the substan
tial value of his evidence being affected. No
one who heard his exambiution Could doubt
Chat he was stating what was actually true
no one could believe (and this, of course, was
the object of the cross examination) that he
himself was the criminal, or in any way im
plicated. It was a protracted and difficult
case of circumstantial evidence. The candies
(gas Was not in those days) which had lighted
them in their vigil through the long autumn
night were extinguished, and the sun was
high in heaven when the jury returned into
court, finding the prisoner guilty, as libelled.
The verdict had been recorded, and sentence
of death pronounced, when Cameron (who pre
servedthroughout the trial the most profound
composure) rose, and with the utmost solemni
ty and calmness, called God to witness that he
was a murdered man. '
The sheriff—to whose exertions tho suc
cess of the prosecution was mainly to be attri
buted—was making his way to . his hotel
through the excited
: crowd, when a message
came to him from' Cameron, requesting to see
hith. When he reached the cell, Cameron,
who still manifested the same complete com
posure, at once said, "I um - new going to tell
you what I hare never breathed-,to mortal
man : the verdict was quite right.::4 did the
deed!" lie then made a full' and detailed
confession, relating the whole story with per
fect frankness—a demeanor he preserved till
his execution. The murder, he said, was
committed on the. night of the Assynt wed
ding. He had. seen McDonald leave ; had
followed him unobserved ; had made up to
him, and walked along with him to the tarn ;
then, with a heavy hammer which he wascar
rying home, he had struck him several blows
from behind, and, after rifling the corpse,
had thrown it into the , water. For some
weeks it had remainsd at the bottom—at
least, he could see nothing of it, and he. had
gone once or twice every week to look for it.
The evidence of McLeod surprised and star
tled him. The property had been hidden the
same night—a dark, wet, misty "night—im
mediately on his return home ; and it was
impossible, he thought, that McLeod, with
whom he was merely acquainted, could have
come by his informat ion in any natural way :
The fact is curious, and may furnish a problem
for those who are curious. in psychological
mysteries. The murder had, of course, been
the main topic of interest in the island for
many weeks—it had no doubt, become strong
ly impressed on McLeod's imagination ; some
slight link of fact, a word ur gesture,
materi
alsexisted ; and out of those inchoate materi
als the story might gradually shape itself into
a form not unlike the tiectual, because a natu
ral and logical arrangement of the whole - facts'
known or surmised at the time. And, going
on with the story to its close, the dream would
accompany the murderer after the commission
of the crime, depict his horror and contrition,
his frantic desire to put away from him any
evidence of the accursed deed which lay heavy
on his soul. The place where he concealed
the property was one that he would naturally
select—out of his own house, indeed, but not
so distant from it but that the articles might
be easily recovered after the first dread had
been subdued. People who have disen
chanted the unseen, and wlAonsider a man's
muscle the best part of him, will probably
explain the mystery in some such way. "The
light of common day" has become too strong
for the supernatural.
The Minister's Reply.—ln olden times a
custom prevailed in New England to elect at
town meeting, the mau last married, as hog
constable. in a certain town, an aged minis
ter became a widower, and found it conven
ient to marry again. Shortly after he was
waited on by a committee, who informed him
that he had been appointed an officer of the
town, and they had taken the opportunity to
inform him thus early of his new office. He
replie , l; "Gentlemen, it is no new office at all;
for, titotr,Ot I have; been called the Shepherd of
this flock, ppreeive I have been nothing but
a hoy ecinztleile these forty ;p:(1(.3."
"TRUTU IS 3IIGIITY, AND WILL PREVAIL."
Anecdote of President Pierce.
"Helen Beverly," one of the Boston Trans
cript's corps of entertaining correspondents,
tells the following incident, as of recent occur
rence at Washington
The President has - a pet saddle horse, very
spirited and vivacious, to which ho has often
given the spur by way of control. One after
noon in last October, after dining almost
wholly upon a favorite dish of 'Oysters, mau
gre his repeated attacks of illness from the
indulgence of shell-fish dinners, he mounted
his prancing steed and rode out from the cap
itol some six or seven miles, "solitary and
'alone," which repetition the devotees of-the
Pathfinder would perhaps deem peculiarly ap
plicable just now, find after the lapse of half
an hour or so ho began the eiperionee of a
dizzy head, with nausea and fidlingeyesight.
Sliding down from his saddle he crept to the
roadside, with his sinking strength, where he
lay blind, helpless and deathly cold. Ills
horse trotted away masterless towards the
city, and our President felt that he 'was loft
there to (lie. A cold numbness seemed to
creep over all his limbs, and with but the
sense to hear left him he recognized the steps
of his faithful animal returning close to his
side, but unattended, and of course a volunta
ry watcher' of the fallen rider.
The affectionate creature placed himself in
various positions, as if trying the - convenience
of his master for remounting, Jual finding all
in vain, took his station directly above the
prostrate form, transversely, as it would seem
thus to protect and shed down warmth upon
the incapable being beneath. With an effort
fur life the President raised his stiffened fin
gers and placed them under the shoulders or
forelegs of the horse, where warmth was
found, which slowly diffused itself over' his
frame, and grathially he felt himself able to
move ; the now docile animal, turning around
and around, so as best' to afford means for an
ascent to the saddle, which, with much diffi
culty, was at last effected, and riding carefully
back to the Capitol, he said to his horse, call
ing him by name, •'ever shall a spur goad
your side again."
lerin a sutsll country town, located in the
vicinity of' the junction of the Chenango with
the Susquehanna river, there is a church iu
which the singing bad, to use their own
phrase, "ran conipletely (low ." It lia,l been
led for many yours by ono of the deacons,
whose voice and musical 'rowers had 'been
gradually "giVing out." One evening ea an
occasion of interest, the clergyman gave out
the hymn, which was sung even worse than
usual, 'the deacon leading off. Upon its con
clusion, the minister arose and requested
Brother
could not conscientiously pray after such sing
ing.—The deacon very composedly pitched to
another tune,—and it was again performed,
with manifestly a little improvement upon the
first time. The clergyman said 1.0 more, but
proceeded with his prayer. Ile had finished.
and, taken the book' to. give out the second
hymn, when he.was interrupted by deacon
gravely getting up, and saying, in a
voice audible to the whole congregation:—
"Will Mr. please make another prayer?
It will be impossible for am to sing aft er such
praying as that."—lininkctbucker, '
'Mrs. Dr. Harriet K. llont says :
That beautiful, graceful accomplishment of
dancing, so perverted by late hours and the
indecency of fashionable attire, has outraged
many sensible people, and led them to de
pr:ve the young of one of the most simple
and healthful enjoyments, because it has been
abused. Fur.myself, I can testify nut_uuly_ to
its healthful, but to its recuperative power.
The fortieth, hay the fiftieth year of my age'
found me enjoying this life cheering exercise.
It should be one of the best and earliest alllllbe^
ments.
Dancing is a healthful,lieautiful, graceful
recreation, and is riot responsible fur the
abases luxury has thrown around it. The
vulgarism and excitements of the ball-room
have nu more to do with the simple enjoy
ment of the dance, than the rich wines and
sumptuous banquets of the gourmand in whom
they induce diseases, ha-I-a-to-4o witlrtire tem
perate repasts that satisfy the natural wants of
the body. • -
W-Nubudy seems to have heard of that
chap at Aberdeen, Miss., who just came home
from a year's absence iu Nicaragua: Ott his
way up from the landiug he met quite a num
ber of ladies. After hissing his sister, &e.;
"Pray," said he, "are all the girls in ,Aber
deeu married? I met Miss A.—" "Why,
brother, Miss . A— isn't married." "Nut
married I Nor Miss 13—? nor Miss C—?
nor Miss,"--"Oh, psbaw I brother," said Sis,
just beginning to catch the idea, "that's noth
ing but hoops."
_tar In 1801, New. England, through her
Representatives, voted thirty-five consecutive
times for a traitor to lci:r country—Aaron
Thirr—against that old patriaieli of Democra
cy- and true Government, Thomas Jefferson.
The same New England, in' 1656, under the
lead of some of the same men, and guvern
ed by the same sectional views, voted for
John C. Fremont and again:A Jau►es Bu
eh anan.
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An Elephant Summoning his Worshippers
to Prayers.—The Paris Moniteur gives the fol
lowing account of the religious practices of the
Siamese :--"The dominant religion of the in
habitants is Buddhism, accompanied by var
ious practices. They worship white elephants
which are found in large numbers in the for
ests of the South. One of these animals which
is considered the representative of Buddha on
earth, possesses a very handsome temple and
palace at Bangkok. The French sailors in
the vessels that accompanied M. do Montig
ny were Admitted as a special ism o.• to
visit this mysterious dwelling, and were ac
companied by the chief of the priests. The
animal always appears to understand the sa
cred character which has been conferred on
hint by the ignorance of the population, as he
ifr of extraordinary gravity and dignity.
Above his knees are large golden rings en
crusted with precious stones, and his head is
Ornamented with a magnificent diadem . of
pearls and diamonds of great price. Every
morning, at' daybreak, ho appears at the
threshold of his temple, and gives the signs of
prayer by raising to the sky his trunk, which
is covered with gilding. So true is hie in
stinct that be never misses the ceremony."
Reren,qe qf a Chinaman —A shop-keeper
in the California digging employed a John
Chinaman, whom he had once ill-treated, to
paint him a sign in Chinese characters, in or
der to get custom from the "long-tails." But
when' the sign Ivas put up fur the expected
customers; although many .approached the
placard and read it, all without exception
passed by with broad grins on their faces.—
Sespeeting that' all was not right, ho took
down the mysterious sign, and endeavored to
obtain a • translation I This ho found a' diik
(tufty in getting, every Chinaman to whoth he
showed it refusing to satisfy him, and merely
answering with a grin. At -length by the
offei.of a bribe, he arrived at the secret. The
enticing advertisement, on being rendered in
to English, W{l,B; as nearly as posSible, as fol
lows :—"Buy nothing hero, shopkeeper d--au
rogue !"
"Only Me."—.l. lady, had; two, children—
both girls. The. elder was a fair child; the
younger a beauty, and the mother's pet.--Tier
whole love was centered .in it. The elder
was neglected, while "Sweet" (the pet name
of the younger) received every attention'that
love could bestow. One day after a severe ill-,
uess, the mother was sitting in the parlor,
when she heard a childish step on the stairs,
and her thoughts. where _instantly with the fa
vorite. "Is that you, Sweet t" she inquired.
"No, mamma," Was the sad and: touching re
ply," it isn't Sweet ;'-it's only Inc)." The
mother's heart smote her, and from that hoar
"only nie," was restored to an equal place in
her affections. .
Xte - A couple of gentlemen who wore noted
for their boldness in "elongating veracity,"
were one day taking a stroll together and in
sensibly entered upon a contest of exaggera
tion. As a clincher, one of them pointed to a
distant steeoe, and commenced descanting
upon the color of a lly which he said ho could
"plainly see crawling up the spire !" The
other shaded his eyes and gazed sharply to
wards the spot indicated, for a few moments,
and then said : "Ali, I can't see the insect, but
I know it is there, fur I can hear it step I"
The Way of the Transyressor is Hard.—We
are told by a gentleman just from Schuylkill
county, that the wife of oneof the Democratic
traitors, who voted fur Cameron, said "she
would rather have seen hor husband brought
home a corpse that to have heard of his-base
conduct." The indignation was *so great,
that hii3 children wore compelled to leave
school on account. of the jeers of their school
mates. Truly, the way of tho transgressor
IS hard.
Delicate and Willy.—Queen Elizabeth, ad
miring the elegance of the Marquis Villa de
Medina, a Spanish nobleman, complimented
him on it, begging at the same time to know
who possessed the heart of Su accomplished a
cavalier? ‘, 4 llla,datin," said he, "a lover. risks
too much on such an occitsion ;. but your
majesty's will is law. Excuse me, however,
if I fear to intim her, but request your Majes
ty's acceptance of her portrait." Ile bent
her a iooking-g/uss.
liEf - A pert lawyer in the South, lately in
sulted the Judge, who fined him $5O. Ile re
peated the insult, and the Judge doubled the
fine ;he tried it again, and lie trebled it. IT;
nally, he asked permission to go !mine. "What
for ?" asked the Judge. "To buy your hon
or's paper at ten per cent., to pay my fine."
xtEr•The mother of the Rothschilds lived at
Frankfort, and was taken sick at 98 years of
age. She said she was sure to live to 100, as
nothing belonging to the house of Rothschild
xnust - go tie/ouGpar. She - did;huwevcri-for-she
died at 99.1. - -
A While Deer.—The Cleveland Ledger says,
that a perfectly white deer was shot in the
northern part of that State, a few days ago.
Query.—What is that if you take the whole
away, there will be some left?
Whuleztome.
TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR
Parallel
BEFORE ELECTION.
`•'That Kansas will
be doomed to Slavery,
if the Buchanan Do
mocracy are trium
phant, is sure as there
is a God in lleaven."—'
'New York Tribune.
Another Border /bean 'Outrage.—The fol
lowing appears in the Kansas City Enter-
prise:
During the past fortnight, at the American
Hotel in Kansas City, (MOO the greatest out
rage ever committed upon the 'friends of free
dom' was perpetrated, and we call upon the
whole.fraternity of shriekere to assist us in,
giving expression to our 'burning indigna
tion. In Missouri, in a hotel kept by a bor
der :ruffian, 'Gov.' Chas. Robinson and Gen.,
Samuel C. Pomeroy, the free state leaders,
Col, li, T. Tittis, and Maj. , Jeff . . Buford, of
the 'bloody ruffians,' eat down at the same ta
ble, ate together in peace, and. pledged each
other's health iii the choicest Reidsiek.
Whether this result is to' he attributed to the
presidential election, the pacific efforts of Gov.
Geary, or the murderous propensities of the
people of Missouri, we leave for„Greely or
some other philosopher to determine. Wo
simply record the fact.
how to Wash Flannel.- , -Some washerwo
men possess quite a knack in wg flannel,
so as to prevent it galling. It hi notthe soap
suds, nor rinsing water that thicken up flan
nel in washing, but the rubbing of it. Cloth
is fulled by being '‘Peunced and jounced," in
the stocks of the fulling mill 'nth' soapsuds.
The, action of rubbing flannel on the wash
board is just the , seine ee that of 'the fulling
mill. Flannel, therefore, should always ,bo
w i ashed in very strong soapsuds, rhich will
remove the dirt and grease; by' iqUeeziug,
better than hard rubbing' - will in 'milk seal':
suds. It should also be ritnied oat `efihe son,
in warm water, and never in -Cold, as the
the fibres of the wool do not shrink up us
much in warm water after coming out of the
warm soapsuds. Great care, should be taken
to rinse thesuap completely ontof the flannel.
This advice will apply. to the washing of
blankets, the same ae it does to the washing
of 11ana—S*704 . 11c AtiteriOa:
Ccmcentratecl..Tea.—A paragraph has been
travelling the rounds _till it has become an
antiquity, that a dentist, , Dr. John Burdell, of
New York, boiled down a pound of Yound Hy -
eon, from a quart to a - pint when ten drops
killed a rabbit. Boiled'to a gill, when ten
drops kill€d a cat in a few. minutes. So
would catnip, sage, mint; and half a dozen
other harmlesS articles, prepared in the snore
. „
way, , The expe;imont is no . , more, proof of
the poisonous prOperties ,of tea, than, that
pettehei3 are destructive of life because they
contain prussic acid, which, concentrated, is
ono of the most deadly of poisons, but the
most harmlek s .and. agreeable, of flavors as di
luted, by nature in,the delicious fruit,--.Medi
cal IVorld.
Seiu."Will you have a Daily Siang" said a
news-boy to Mrs. Partington.
"Will I have a daily Bonl Why, you little
scapegrace.' How dare you insinuate against
a, lone woman froth homer No, indeed, I
guess I won't have a daily aop I—My . poor
dead man usedlo complain most awfully when
I presented him a yearly von I A daily son - ,
indeed! Begone, you little upstart imp I"
And the old woman called for the turkey-taii
fan to keep her from swooning:,
sarThe head clerk of, ii large mercantile
house was bragging rather largely of the,
amount of business done, by his -"firm."
"You may judge of its extent," said he, "when
I tell you that the quills - of our correspond.-
enee only, cost two thousand dollars a year!"
"Pooh I" said the clerk of another house who
was sitting by :—"what is that to our corres
pondence, when I save four thousand dollars
a year in ink, trom merely omitting ,to dot
the Ps."
sqi-Jin elephant once nearly killed an Irish
man for an insult offered to his trunk: Paddy,
in explanation.of his temerity, said it was im
possible to resist a nose you could pull with
both hands.
Crooked.—From Knomville, Tennessee, to
Canton is, 25 miles by land, and 125 miles by.
the Tennessee river.
An Early Toper.-13ill, is your father. an
early riser?" "Guess you'd think so. Ile is
drunk every morning before six o'clock—if
I'm not mistaken, that takes down your old
man."
gee -Dr. Johnson'compared plaintiff and de
fendant in an action at law, to two men' duck
ing their heads in a bucket, and daring each
other to remain the longest under water.
fiee-The cost of imported cigars entered at
the Custom House in one day, recently, was
$4.1,496. Brandy stood next on the list, the
amount being $25,509. Guns came next—
sl2,lo9.
-'7Z-Clut you say "boots without spurs"
throo. times ill succession ?=-Boots, boots,
boots.
NO. 22
Columns.
AFTER ELECTION.
"That lansas is to
become a Free State,
seems to be the gener
-3t belief through Out
the Free States."—New
York Tribune.