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Two mother! lifting prayer, unto one God, In alien language and on hostile god. Two maiilen. wailing, In a different tongue, The gory maH. of llcnt men among. T wo monarch. oonoh'J In Indolent repo.e, Reaping ambition by their subject.' thro... Fooi, that hav. never done each other 111; Friend, whose .ole nnlon 1. the aim to kill. Banner olutch'd fieroe the death grasp of the brave A tatter'd rag that glorified the grave. Far-rolling .moke above a vulture plain; Artillery piled on rampart, of the .lain. Mature .writhed round in one dote erinison .hroud; lllark speechlessness of the low thunder-cloud. The field, until'd, the rlrh Heaven, raining dearth; Weed. In the garden; weeping by the hearth. ii. Mow, in the Land of Bh.dc, two mother, met, Mourning, embracing with une.ngulned feet. Two maiden, claap one urn that doth encloae The ..he. of their lover., who were foe.. Two king. In .ilenoe meet in .Hence part Tbey find, too late, they bav. a human heart. Matlon. of lain, whose armies won or lo.t, Mingle their shades : Death hold, no hostile ghost. Their records ah. II instruct, with heartfelt moan, Their .on. to combat with life'. 111. .lone. Nation., who strove to ws.te each other's lands, Turn .word, to ploughshare, for their common h.nd. Oh, misery I before that day can come, War-flenda may thrust their fangs In many a borne. HALF AN HOUR OF AGONY. . MR. TUUMBLEDIIIK 8 TEBRIBLK PREDICA MENT. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Jasper Tlmoibledirk, wbo is forty-three years old aud unmarried, dashed into our sanctum and evolved a remark, the in tensity of which fuirly made our blood curdle. And when he completed the remark, which was neither very long nor remarkably complicated, he picked up a dictionary, hurled it at the proof reaier with great asperity, and before that good natured and greatly abused angel of the editorial staff could recover from his emotion aud get his umbrella Mr. Thumbledirk was gone. lie dashed out of the doo", missed tke stairway and stepped down the elevator, falling a dis tance of three stories, but he was too mtd and excited to get hurt, and we heard him rushing away down the alley, yelling aud swearing till he was out of sight aud hearing. As he is usually a very severe man, of habitual reserve, very particular and guarded in his lan guage, we were amazed not only at his words, for which his excited manner af forded not the slightest explanation. During the day, however, wo became possessed of certain faots which may give the reader some clew to the causes of this worthy and respectable citizen's violeut and disrespectful manner and language. It appears that about two o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Thumbledirk drop ped in at the Union depot to ask some questions relative to the arrival and de parture of trains, and while passing through the ladies' waiting room, he was accosted by a lady acquaintance who was (oing east on the T. P. & W. at half-past two. She wished to go .up town to make some little purchases, but didn't want to take her baby out in the rain. Would Mr. Thumbledirk please hold it for her until she came back f She wouldn't be gone more than five minutes, and little Ernest was just as good as an angel, and beside, he was sound asleep. Mr. Thumbledirk, with a strange flut ter of his feelings, lied, and said he would be only too delighted. Then he took the baby, and the ticket agent, who has two, knew by the manner in which the man took the baby and looked anxiously from one end of it to the other to see which end the head was on, that he had never handled a human baby before in all his life, and promptly closed his win dows to shut out' the trouble that he knew was on the eve of an eruption. Mr. Thumbledirk is a very tall, dig nified man. lie was rather annoyed as the mother disappeared through ' the door to observe that all the women in the waiting-room were intently re garding him with various expressions, curiosity predominating. He sat down and bfeut his arms at the elbows until they resembled in shape two letters V's, with the baby lying neck and heels in the angle at the elbows, and he looked, and he felt that he looked, like the hide ous pictures of Moloch in the old Sunday-school book. Mr. Thumbledirk felt keenly that he was an object of curiosity and illy re pressed mirth to the women around him. Now a dignified man does not enjoy be ing a laughing stock for any body, and it is especially humiliating for him to feel that he appears ridiculous in the eyes of women. This feeling is intensified when the man is a bachelor, and knows he is a little awkward and ill at ease 'in the presence of women, anyhow. So, as he gazed upon the face of the quiet, sleep ing infant, he mode an insane effort to appear perfectly easy, and to create the impression that he was an old mar ried man, and the father of twenty-six children, he disengaged one arm, and chucked the baby under the chin. About such a chuck that you always feel like giving a boy with a "putty blower" or a "pea shooter." It knocked '"V the little rose-bud of a mouth shut so quick and close the baby couldn't catch jts breath for three minutes, and Mr. Thumbledirk thought, with a strange, terrible sinking of the heart, that it was just possible he might have overdone the thing. A short, young woman in a kilt skirt and a pretty face, sitting di reotiy opposite mm, said, "Uhr in a mild kind of a shriek, and then giggled; a tall, thin woman in a black bombazine dress and a gray shawl, and an angular woman in a calico dress and a sun bon net, gasped, "Whyl" in a startled duet. a fat woman with a small herd of child ren and a market basket, shouted. "Weill" and then immediately clapped her plump hands over her mouth as though the exclamation hod been startl ed from her, and a tall, raw-boned woman who wore horned spectacles and talked bass, said, "The poor Iambi" in such sepulchral tones that everybody eise laughed, and Mr. Thumbledirk. who didn't just exactly know whether sue meant him or the babv. blushed Bcarlet and felt his face grow so hot that he smelt his hair. And his soul was filled with such gloomy forebodings that all the future looked dark to him. The baby opened its blue eyes wider than any man who never owned ft baby would nave believed it' possible, and stared at Mr. Thumbledirk with an ex pression of alarm, and a general lack of connuenoe that boded a distressing want of harmony in all farther proceedings. Mr. Thumbledirk viewing these signs of carelessness with inward alarm, con ceived the happy idea that the baby needed a change of position. So he stood it upon its feet. It is unnecessary to tell any mother of a family that by the execution of this apparently very simple movement, the unhappy man had every thread of that baby's clothes underits arms and around its neck in an instant. A general but suppressed giggle went around the room. Mr. Thumbledirk blushed, redder and hotter than ever, and the astonished baby, after one horrified look at its strange guardian, whimpered uneasily. Mr. Thumbledirk, not daring to risk the sound of his own voice, would have danced the baby up and down, but its lit tle legs bent themselves into such ap palling crescents the first time he let the cherub's weight upon them, that the wretched man knew in his heart of hearts that he had forever and eternally most hopelessly " bowed " them, and felt that he could never again look a bow-legged man in the face without a spasm of remorse. As for meeting the father of this beautiful boy, whose life bo had blighted with a pair of crooked legs never, he would face death itself first. And in coming years whenever tie met this boy waddling to school on a pair of legs like ice-tongs, he weald gnze upon them as his own guilty work, and would tremble lest the wrath of the avenging gods should fall apon him. Alarmed at the gloomy shadows which these distressing thoughts cast over Mr. Thumbledirk's face the baby drew itself up into a knot and wailed. Mr. Thumbledirk balanced it carefully on his hands and dandled it, for all the world as he would " heft " a watermelon. Instantly the baby straightened itself out with such alarming celerity that the tortured dry nurse caught it by the heeh just in time to sava it from falling to the floor. "He'll kill that child yet," said the gloomy woman who talked bass, and Mr. Thumbledirk felt the blood curdle in cold waves in his veins. By this time the baby was screaming like a calliope, and the noise added inexpressibly to Mr. Tumbledirk's confusion and dis tress. He would have trotted the baby on his knee, but the attempt occasioned too much comment. The fat woman with the market basket said: "Oh-h, the little dear I" And the short, pretty woman snapped her eyes and said. "Oh-h-h ! how cruel ! And the woman in the black bomba zine, and the woman in the sun bonnet said: "Oh-h-h ! just look at him !" And the woman who talked bass said, in her most sepulchral and penetrating accents: "The man's a fooL" And the baby itself, utterly ignoring the fact that Mr. JThumbledirk was labor ing in its own interests, threw all the obstruction it could in the way cf furth er proceedings by alternately straight ening itself out into an abnormal con dition of such appalling rigidity, that Mr. Thnmblekirk was obliged to hold its head tightly in one hand aud its heels in the other, and then suddenly doub ling itself np into so small a knot that the poor man had to hold his two hands close together, like a bowl, and hold the baby as he would a pint of sand, and these transitions from one extreme to the other were made with such startling rapidity and appalling suddenness, that Mr. Thumbledirk had to be constantly on the alert, and his arms ached so, and he exhibited such signs of fatigue and dis tress that the depot policeman looked in to say to him that if he was tired out, he would send in a section hand or the steam shovel to give him a spell. It seemed to Mr. Thumbledirk that he never heard so much noise come from so small a baby in his life. The more he turned it around and tossed it about the more its cloak and dress, and skirts and things became entangled around its neck, and now and then the mass of drapery would get over the baby's face and stifle its cries for a second, but the noise would come out stronger than ever when the tossing little hands would tear away the obstruction. And the louder the baby screamed the faster the vigor ous, fat legs flew, kicking in every di rection, like crazy fly-wheels with the rim off. Sometimes Mr. Thumbledirk made as high as a hundred and eighty grabs a minute at those legs and never touched one of them, lie was hot, blind and wild with terror and confu sion. Once he tried to sing to the baby, but when he quavered out a " Hootcby, pootchy, puddin' and pie," the women laughed, all but the gloomy woman who talked buss she sniffled , and he stopped. He gave the baby his pearl-handled knife, and the innocent threw it into the stove. He gave it his gold watch, and it dashed it on the floor. He gave it his emerald scarf-pin, and the baby put it into its mouth. The pretty woman screamed. The sad woman in the bombazine shrieked. The angular woman in the sun-bonnet yelled, "Ob, mercy on ns 1'' The fat woman with the market-basket called wildly for a doctor. The gloomy woman who talked bass shouted hoarsely: " He's killed it 1" And Mr. Thumbledirk hooked his finger into that child's mouth and choked it until its face was purple and block, trying to find that pin. And Mr. Thum bledirk couldn't hear even the chattering woman. It beat the air with its clenched fists, and thrashed and kicked with its fat bare legs, and wailed and howled and choked and screamed and doubled up and straightened out until Mr. Thumbledirk, steeling bis nerves to the awful effort, clasped the screaming baby in his arms and rose to his feet. He was going to go out and throw himself and the baby under the first train that came along. The baby's mother sprang in through the door like an angel of mercy. She took the baby in her arms and with one slight motion of one hand, hod its raiment straightened out so exquisite ly smooth there wasn't a wrinkle in it. The baby lay in her arms as placid, quiet, flexible, graceful and contented as a dream of Paradise. The mother thanked Mr. Thumbledirk for the agony and torture he had endur ed so patiently for her. This was the way she thanked him. She did not look at him. She looked straight out the window with a stony glare, and said, in tones that made the thermometer shiver: " Mr. Thnmbledirk isn't a very good nurse, is he, babyf" All the women smiled, except the gloomy woman who talked bass. She nodded approvingly. The baby looked up into Mr. Thum bledirk's face and laughed aloud. What Mr. Thumbledirk said when he dashed in at the sanctum last evening was this: "By the avenging daughters of Night, the everlasting, snake-haired Erynnes, the terror-haunted shades never knew the horrors that haunt the soul of a sen sible single man that tries to take care of some other fool s howling, squalling. squirming .baby I" Burlington Hawk- eye. . Sunlight. It is a familiar fact that a potato-vine growing in a dark cellar is white, puny, and without strength. It would be al most precisely the same with a child confined to a dark room. It is also well known that light is somehow essential to health, and that simple sunshine is the best medicine in many diseases. But it is not known how the hygienic effect is exerted, though ther is reason to believe the effect is mainly due, not to the color rays, but to the actinio the invisible rays that paint the pio ture in the photograph, and penetrate to the seed beneath the sod and quicken its germ. Some experiments, "however, recently E resented to the English Royal Society, ave a bearing on the solution of the question. They prove that the pres. ence of light, but especially of direct sunshine, prevents the development of the microscopic fungi which are associ ated with putrefaction and decay. When there are germs already present in a liquid, it destroys them, and perfectly preserves a putrescible fluid in which they have not yet been developed. While this preservative quality is most powerful in the direct rays of the Bun. it also exists in diffused light. The hygiene of light will doubtless sometime be fully understood. Mean while we know enough to make it a sin against health not to let the sun have freest admission to all onr dwellings. He Was Correct "Broke down, did you f" queried a Gratiot avenue wagonmaker yesterday, as a farmer's team hitched to the front wheels of a wagon halted at his door. " Mashed by the cars, was the brief reply. " Train struck you, eh ? " Well, kinder. I hod on a load of fence-posts, and when I reached the crossing the train was right at hand. I put the whip ou to Sarah, and I gave Bill a yank on the lines, and then I fig gered on my chances. I'm a whole four- hoss team on mental arithmetic, I am, and I want a minute calkelating that that air locomotive would strike the off hind wheel of my wagon. Bill reared up, Sarah shied, and the engine tooted over four "hundred times a minute, but I had them Aggers right down fine." " The engme ran into your wagon, did it?" "Of course it did struck that hind wheel exactly as I calkelated, lifted .me lust as high as I calkelated, landed them horses aud fence-posts where I calkel ated, and now I calkelate that you want about twenty dollars to repair the busts on this vehicle I" He was right on that, too. Nothing like arithmetic. Detroit Free Pre. A correspondent writes from Parma, "There's always something to charm the eye, delight the ear and stir the soul in Italy. The introduction of the scrub bing brush would make it a paradise." A German Onion Market. 1 am sure you can not guess what sort of a thing a Zwiebel-markt is. The word means onion-market, and I will tell you about one which I saw in a German city. I was awakened very early one October morning by the rumble of heavy carts under my window, and drawing aside the curtain, I looked out upon the great square all alive with a busy crowd of men, women and children. There were huge canvas-covered carts, drawn bv oxen ; great lumbering wagons, with a horse and cow, or a pair of droll little donkeys, harnessed together ; dogs and goats were tackled to small wagons that rattled along over the cobble-stones, while the drivers' whips were cracking like hundreds of torpedoes, and everv cirt, large and small, was heaped with onions. Where had tlaey all come from, for it was barely sunrise then ? While eating breakfast, which I took an hour earlier than usual that morning, I asked my landlady about it, and she told me that it was Zwiebel-markt, and would con tinue three or four days. It is really the season when the harvest is gath ered, and the farmers come to town to sell their country produce ; but instead cf making it a mere stupid time of traffic, they turn it into a grand holiday. The town puts on its gala attire, the shops are bright with all manner of glittering things ; street musicians draw around them crowds of happy peasants, who stand and listen in open-mouthed delight ; Punch and Judy shows, dancing bears, trained bears, trained dogs and talking birds, are all to be found in tents or booths at every corner. So, you see, it is not by any means made np entirely of onions. As I walked through the streets I found that there were all sorts of veg etables, such as we see in our markets at home at Thanksgiving time ; but an air of beauty was given to the whole by the tasteful arrangement of the various articles. Bright yellow carrots, with their delicate foliage, contrasted with white cauliflower and the crisp, curling leaves of red cabbage ; turnips, large and small, were arranged in fan tastio heaps, their green leaves still bright ; and strings of shining onions were piled on the ground in gigantic pyramids, a great deal taller than any man. The peasants take great delight in this holiday season. Whole families come together, and camp out during the night just beyond the city limits, returning each morning before sunrise to their places of sale. The largest collections of fruit and vegetables are left under the care of a guard at night, but the smaller wares, such as poultry, eggs, butter, cheese, nuts, grapes, etc., are packed into the same carts which brought them to the town, and carried off by their owners to the place of t ; encampment. Q olden Hours. Prince Murat. A despatch from London announces the death of Prince Lucien Charles Francois Napoleon Murat. He was the youngest son of Joachim Murat, a cele brated French General and King of Na ples (1808), his mother being Caroline Marie Annonaade Napoleon, sister of .Napoleon I. He was born in Milan. May 16, 1803, and after living near his mother until 1824, he went to Spain, where, on the suspicion of being on a treasonable- errand, he was arrested and thrown into prison. After his liberation he came to the United States and mar ried a Miss Fraser, his wife earning a support by teaching, lie returned to France in 1848, and was elected to the constituent and legislative assemblies. He was envoy extraordinary and minis ter plenipotentiary to Turin in 1849, and became senator on January 25, 1852. In 1853 he received the title of prince of the imperial family. In 18G0, when the Bourbons were expelled from Naples, Murat put forth his claims, to the throne of the Two Sioilies, but at the instance of Napoleon III. he soon publicly dis claimed his intentions. In 1871 he was with Bozoine in Metz, and when the city capitulated he was made prisoner. His eldest son, Joseph Joachim Napoleon, born in Paris July 21, 1834, has been since 1866 colonel in the French army, and in April, 1872, obtained leave to serve four years in the Swedish army. An Intelligent Hippopotamus, A famous naturalist says that animals have much more capacity to understand human speech than is generally sup posed. The Hindoos invariably talk to their elephants, and it is amazing how much the latter comprehend. The Arabs, he says, govern their camels with a few cries, and his associates in the African desert were always amused whenever he addressed a remark to the big dromedary who was his property for two months; yet at the end of that time the beast evidently knew the meaning of a number of simple sentences. "Some years ago, seeing the hippopotamus in a menagerie looking very stolid and de jected, I spoke to him in English, but he did not even open his eyes. Then I went to the opposite corner of the cage, and said in Arabio, 'I know you; come here to me.' He instantly turned his head toward me: I repeated the words, and thereupon lie came to the corner where I was standing, pressed his huge, ungainly head against the bars of the cage, and looked in my faoe with a touch of delight while I stroked his muzzle. I have two or three times found a lion who recognized the same language, and the expression of his eves for an instant seemed positively human. All animals seem to nave the home in stinct implanted in them, and languish in captivity." ISDI1N rOET-KING. Who nullt a ftlrusnlflrrnt Tower for the Worship of an Unknown Deity. We find this in a letter from the city of Mexico : I am going to tell you of a trip to the mountain of Tezjosingo, famous in Aztec days as being the pleas ure garden and retreat of the Indian poet-king, Nezahuacoyolt. From Tex coco the trip is wildly picturesque and grandly beautiful. The curiously con structed bath of Nezahuacoyolt is cut from a solid block of granite overhang ing the brow of the hill. The rock has a smooth surface several yards square, and dropping from its center is a circular basin some three or four feet deep and a dozen or more in circumference. Out of one side is out a Beat for the acoom modation of the bather, while rising from the surface a little bock is another having a perfect chair form, with a rest on one side for the arm. Protecting the outer side of this is a wall a part of the same rock into which Beats have been cut, and various little niches in the form of miniature steps, which might have been used by the old Indian mon arch as receptacles for his toilet para phernalia. ' Following along the still well-pre served path, we came to a chamber cut into the Bide of the hills, now unroofed and in ruins, the floor being strewn with debris. At the end of this vaulted chamber was a raised platform a foot in height and several feet square, hewn from soljd rock, and on either corner, bock of this, were niches chiseled out, with fragments of cement still clinging to their sides. We have sinoe learned that between these, above the platform, there still remained at the beginning of the present century a large calendar stone, which was later destroyed by the neighboring Indians in search of treas ure. This curious work must have cost its builders a vast deal of labor. Separating himself from the cares of His kingdom, Nezahuacovolt came for retirement to this beautiful mountain, art1 Vi ay a f ah f.iTYiAa nvarv flav frw "iff ? days, on bended knees, he offered prayer and incense to the all-powerful god. hidden and unknown. It is said that in answer to these earnest petitions a vision appeoredto one of his servants in at tendance, directing him to go at once to his master with the comforting assurance that the unseen god had been pleased to accept his prayers and offerings, and would avenge him by the hands of his son, Axoquatzin, a boy of only seventeen years. The king could not accept the supernatural viBion which was, however, fulfilled. Nezahuacoyolt, upon hearing of the fulfillment of what he hod consid ered a false prophecy, retired in humili ation to the garden of his palace, and kneeling on the ground gave thanks to the unknown god for his signal benefits, promising to build a temple to his honor, to abstain from idolatrous wor ship and human sacrifices and to alone acknowledge the supremacy of the un known god. In compliance with his vow, he built a tower nine stones high, the interior of which he garnished with gold and precious stones, and the ex terior he covered with block cement, embellished with stars. The workman ship was of the most expensive order. in this superb tower were stationed men, whose duty it was, at certain hours of the day, to strike upon plates of fine metal, at the sound of which the mon arch fell upon his knees in prayer. Words of Wisdom. It requires strength and courage to swim against the stream, while any dead fish can float with it. Insult not misery, neither deride in firmity, nor ridicule deformity; the fir6t is inhuman, thesecond shows folly, and the third pride. " The true pleasures of temperance, and the many benefits that follow sobriety, cannot be imagined by those who live dissipated lives. In the moral as in the physical world, the violent is never the lasting; the tree forced to unnatural luxuriance of bloom bears it and dies. Bad habits are the thistles of the heart, and every indulgence of them is a seed from which will come forth a new crop of rank weeds. No species of falsehood is more fre quent than flattery; to which the coward is betrayed by fear, the dependent by interest, and the friend by tenderness. The great art of conversation consists in not wounding or humiliating any one, in speaking only of things that we know, in conversing with others only on subjects which may interest them. No great man or woman has ever been reared to great usefulness and lasting distinction who was unschooled by ad versity. Noble deeds are never done in the calm sunshine of summer's light. Imaginary evils soon beoome real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees some thing like a face on the wall or wainscot, can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agree ing with what he fancied. Men know how thunder and lightning come from the clouds in summer, and they want to thunder and lighten some times themselves; but it is better that the contents of the clouds should drop down in gentle rains, and make some thing grow, than that there should be flashing and resounding in the heaven, and that the oak shonld be crushed to Eieces which has been growing for a undred years; and it is better, not that men should produce a great racket in the world, and work destruction round about them, but that they should create happiness among their fellow men. Items of Interest. Iowa has 890 newspapers. Disturbing the grave Making a sober man laugh. They have ladies' smoking cars on Peruvian railroads. The Most Unpopular Petty Officer in the Army Corporal punishment. An editor offers a reward of five dol lars for the best treatise on " now to make out-door life attractive to the mos quito." What is the difference between the Prince of Wales and a jet of water? The Prince is heir to the throne, and the jet is thrown to the air. " The moon is always just the same," he said languidly, " and vet I always find some new beauty in it. " It's just so with the circus," she responded. He took the hint and bought tickets for two. The unequal length of the lower limbs sometimes observed in man can be more readily detected when the man is lying down on the floor than when he is stand ing up. Experienced tailors assert that this aberration accounts for some mis fits in trousers. First Law Pill " Gad, Jones, a most curious question has arisen lately. There's a man in Newton, and the law's such that they can't bury him I" Se cond Law Pill (earnestly) " Very as tounding, to be Bure I Why how on earth can that be ?" First L. P. (de risively) " Why, he isn't dead yet 1" A huge snake of the garter species was lately killed in Atchison, Kansas, and on being opened a female quail was found inside. The quail was also cut open and three eggs were taken from her and placed under a hen. In a short time two of the eggs hatched young quails, who were as lively and healthy as any others are, but hod defective heads, as they were shaped and had the appearance of a snake, being entirely destitute of feathers. MATED AND REMATKD. A tear stood In her eye of blue, She .aid, " Oh, what would Edwin do Were Angelina fated To quit this happy world and die?" His quivering lip. made qoiok reply, " I'll get you, love, cremated." On rosy lips a pout waa seen, ' What will you do yourself, I mean?" Bright eyes hi. answer waited. When from bin heart resistless came The answer 'twas almost the same, "I'll get myself rematecL" John Burdette has a new dog, and in a spirit of malicious daring, has named him "Mister." And every time he waves his hand at the canine and shouts in savoge tones, " Go home, Mister, or I'll land a brick at ye!" every mau on the street rolls up his sleeves and waltz es up to the auditor and wants to know "who he's a talk in' to, and what ho means by it ?" And the result is the boy is on fighting terms with half the men in Burlington. Hawkeye. Near Waterloo Station in Georgia a ground-hog lately carried off a child from the hut of John Keeshnn, a laborer on the railroad tracks, and, carrying it to a hole in a tree, deposited it there and covered it with leaves, and, return ing to tho hut, attempted to drag aw ay some of the child's clothing, when Mrs. Keeshan entered the room and chased it out, and, on following it to the tree for the purpose, of getting the clothes back,, was rejoiced to discover her lost child snugly ensconsed in the hollow. A BONO WITHOUT AN E. The letter E is used more than any other letter in the English alphabet. Each of the following verses contains every letter of the alphabet except E A jovial swain should not complain Of any buxom fair Who mocks his pain, and thinks it gain To quia his awkward air. Quixotic boys who look for joys Quixotic hazards run ; A lass annoys with trivial toys. Opposing man for fun. A jovial swain may rack his brain, And tax his f aucy's might ; To quiz is vain, for 'tis most plain That what I say is right. George Mitchell went on a frolic in Antioch, Cal., on the evening before the day appointed for his wedding, and in the morning his convivial companion was found murdered. Suspicion rested on Mitchell, and he was placed on trial. The girl to whom he was to have been married sat at his side in the court room. and her sympathy and grief were so at tractively exhibited that the Judge, in his charge, warned the jurors not to per mit themselves to be influenced by her. They acquitted Mitchell, however, and it is impossible to determine by the meagre reports whether the verdict waa caused by the evidence or by the girl. The pair were married immediately in the court room. During the war between Augustus Cujsar and Maro Antony, when all the world stood woudering and uncertain which way fortune would incline her self, a pcor man at Rome, in order to be Crepared for making, in either event, a old hit for his own advancement, had recourse to the following ingenious ex pedient : He applied himself to the train ing of two crows with such diligeuce that he brought them the length of pro nouueing, with gre it distinctness, the one a salutation to Csesar, and the other a salutation to Antony. When Augustus returned conqueror, tho man went out to meet him with the erow suited to the occasion, perched on his fiHt, and every now and then it kept exclaiming, "Salve, Ccr-tar, Victor Imptrtor .'" ("Hail, Ctosar, Conqueror and Emperor I") Au gustus, greatly struck and delight with so novel a circumstance, pure! the bird of the man for a sum ' nifK'iiiN'lv r'--'' 1 1 ;,,t i' '
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