BY MEYERS HEYS OKD. WHOLE #O. 2776. VOL 33. f *;! ' Select |J oe t v *. A SPANISH ROMANCE.' ®V CK.IXCIfS K. OSr.OOT). ■' ! Bright ft-H iby jnjillijg fit fa t f>isj Auroral tVr>er AlVuraiio l'd. H/edming -or Mora !' ' I a Ilie/icnt stole a youth „ jpn?lv as morning, i .*• • gy tf#s his mien in sooth *i e* i nil of proud-scorning. * -'Sif 1 > J .. / I Bright, wavy locks fell o'er Eyes wildly beaming, Deep the plumeil cap he wore Shadow etl their gleaming. L To his pale cheek there came Hue-, tike The sunset, For his light, fragile frame Thrilled for the onset. j ' i"i ' - >• o.- I | Fiercely In* sword he drew, 1 Bplil vr us his bearing. . V \Vhile on ttie knight he threw 1 Words of wild daring. 1 \ Crying—"Thou craven tiilwe I" \ Dark the knight lowered— J •'H w lu> ill b.ilile halts \ Proves hiio a coward." J|j|k '• Long ha'd he calmly heard j eachdating word <"* bravado. ;<£ that littler name en| ttf lp cif drug. TOKfikwK|w.il sword—a llanie * life air whirling*. sat Proud as his prinpvdy foe, rf " iiatodb s# Jti dai:ger, tufel Springing rti meet jiie blow Sprartg the blight straueer, till ; "J IjllJ; ( s Jloine'-'lrw. Idthe slvef—sndfak! j . ' ' At hi- M lying, - I Tale a- the waning *ar— * • M * s At IV/w is it dy tug !. the **•- - - ■■■■■. :*■ - --ev-a *V * l " e rtack bill the cap and plume, it f Back the bright tresse, — No more her 10-y bloom .Meet. Ins caresses. Sit Lightly her lovely hair Ire floats o'er ills shoulder. To his heart's mad despair Nut bis arms fold her. on •' tin* iia\," he cried, Leniir.i! S( J. I left thee, ray hride! For the false .Mora I i KC tri Then in her wistful eyes, Bpk Blue as you heaven, •' He saw her ouf ari-e, ]{ Sighing ••Forgiven I" II fe But her pale, parted |;ps | V ( Silent I v quiver. , And in Death 1 * dark eciip'e • ' f alls -he forever I Cot. Sad fell thy sunny ray, MeX Has y Aurora, Where Alvarado lay By his Lenora. t- iiTS 5E t oil -TOUCHING THE LOR 3 HAMLET. er tf ( i ,< Matty persons are aware that the slory of; 'Hamlet is taken hum the D.i;iis!i historian Sax i <Jra.umaticus. At the saim* time, few persons c "' have read so itaich as a line of Snvi-Grammai 'ss.-ios lor he wrote in La!in, an i I.is LoU i- * |jo itili i. Kv writing in Lauu, a matt .--wim > uu ) mortality x.t the exp-'iis •of prijui ar:t v What 1 jhe gains an chtrati in he l-s> sin <'\ten-> hi. Nor ire lolios opened at the present <h,v with avid, a] 1 Mv. People like to r-ad in an p;-it<i.io, p| o/'ussibly with l-gs It >rizohtally placed, and t-i ei old a light volume in !h.<j- hands. A folio, |>ol ...... ' fiili s "" 2 * r, * a !n1 - d'-sk, dene- ~v . , at ()|.rr.;t at luxurious indolence. J u.'ler th- sc citum.>Unces, il is probable that ■ persons know exceedingly little.of the 1 ditionary character of Hamlet,and that when ' C y heard him hint to his friendsih.it he is ireeut '-to j-ut an antic disposition*' on, they ! j, j,) V thai the orave pleasantries o| !he tragedy rt , , the { >le COfHeqije|£e of biis voluntary ec-i ' i.cilv. H-nce, at the risls of offending an v'r ' d3 ries by the narration of a (to them) well- j .•'V vote p. n jale 3 we show* to the general reader j 5e •! ede of a lunny person Hamlet really was—that) ;,i in j r Saxo-Graikimaticus be a faithful histoiian. j rovi l , v upon a time—and a very long time ago , ' s, for Hiiric was th<* son ol Hoder, wltoj _, ' " ' J Kaliter. son of the god Odiu-nrOiic- up :rt a 1:i suit vv hen Rurie .••d ov.-r lletimark, the ■et oft nee ol Jutland was governed hy two bmtii -I,n \ • Secrurned Horwendil, slew the King ol \or ol ttie' n s ''igle combat, and presented co iarge a j of Norwegian booty tr> Untie, that the ful monarch bestowed upon hiirj the hand j J ' tl Kit daughter Gerutha. Ol lliis sttange t * nri ■ JJamlet was the result. r " : *' mier ,'hK° the other viceroy, instead of rejoicing dec' ' ' ; brother's good fortune, murdejed him out Thetl ' ''(. r envy, and married Gerutha himself.— these! " '-count ftr this singular proceeding, he ex -7 e will M(o King Ruric, that the deceased was in sales of maltreating his wile to such a de- Chal murder was absolutely ije^ejsary, ofta \<S felieve a most charming ami ii,oli'eii an exceeding disagreeable posi -1 **£ , yptK*iV?B' l,r ' c w ho tenderly loved his t 1 a cl, this explanation perfectly sat-; Drj asa q Affirmed the second marriage. • l,le 'natter blew over ;. but ° H)e boy Hamlet, thinking th?t i/e rrtighl be murdered in his turn, began to feign jfliocv, that he might thus appear too msignifi- j /cant for his uncle's suspicions. He jabbered a great deal of nonsense; he contrived that his j , figure should approach as nearly as possible to : 1 list of i scarecrow, and he smutted over his face, so that his features were scarcely discern- ) ibie. However, when he made certain wooden hooks, and having baked them in the fire, con cealed them carefull v, saving that they were r --, rows for his father's-murderer, the more shrewd j persons ot the court, notwithstanding the laugh ter of the fools, deeenied there was s ur>e "me . thud in his madne.-s," and communicated their doubts to the viceroy. Kengo. therefore, detei mined to watch his njfphew closely ; and, on one occasion when | Hamlet took a ride into the woods wilh some •vouth of his own age, it was expected that his ' f true chai acter would he rev-aled. Rut his los- | fer-brother warned him that he was surrounded j jby spies and- accordingly, to sustain lo> char-; acter foT irrihecili'v, he mounted his horse w-ifh J his head toward the tail Which he used as a fui dle th-ret.y causing much laughter and diver- j sion. Had HamM lived at the end of Hie seven teenth centufv, instead >i floiu Isfiirtg at the j conirnencement of th- year nothing, we should 1 have concluded that tie franked hi-sham charac ter o;; the model ol Charles she Second, as de scribed by that fa mo us epigram, which says : j_tliat tlu- M-rrv Monarch "n-ver sai'l a footi-h Ibing, Ami nev-r <lbt aw ise on<S." Siilfe, while by the e.\ci .s.-ive .-tiipirlily ot his < acts, l;e maintained bis reputation for insanity, lie constant M sjiook the V-IV belief lie W Islieil j to e-tahli-'i fv sa\ nigs of iemarkable shrewd ii e. Tims, on la- occasion ol I tie notable ride . into the wood, a wolf happened to cioss his i , path : "What's that ?" said Hamlet. "A young foal," replied one of the attend- i j ants ; winking, no doubt, at the rest. "Aha," yp; dh ffan l-l, -there are many I stit-f fiiaik at Kengo's couit." fore the siing occiisioU-il ' v this sarcasm had ' quite ceaseo'to tingle, the jiarty arrived at the j sea shore, where the rudder''of a wrecked sfiip j was the first ohj-ct that met their gaze. The gracep .-s vouHis, intending once more to "poke , llieir ('off" at t.'i - demented prince, exclaimed : _! - "Look, writ a tiig knife we haVe ibnrid i" Rut Htup.lrf fetfi''cliH fir a while, and then , said grave 10 ; " (*;j ,i truth Ift" ham must be : large, that a k//e was ti- <:"--• thereby rel|iiiing to the s-a, and possihfy the sa'tness th/feof. Rut, not quieted by tfiis sharp retort, hi- facetious Comrade's prhceech d to -x --• 11,i111 to him hat the sand on Hie shore was j flour, and ihat the pebble- were groats. But Hamlet -ail: "Such four a- that has li-ii ground bv the storm and the white foaming bii- i low-." These jokes ma v not app- ar very brilliant now, fuii tftey made a great sensation in the; v ar nothing, and the court of King Ruric was often convulsed with laughter on hearing of "Hamlet's last." Indeed, there is no doubt that lln,l t and. Yorick were hist • rico!i\ one and the sanie person. How ever, delightful as Hie mad prince's jokes were considered t>v other persons, they were rr it liked bv in- uncle, F'engo, who always suspect ed that some mischief wax bro nling, ami was , defer mined to worm nut hi- nephew's r-.l char acter. He, theie'ore, t>v Hie c luns- l'of a friend feigned to 1-nve the country on - >me urgent ; ; matfer, tliat during fos supposed absence, Ham- ! li t might have in intervi-w -v i!i iii- mother, at winch (tie same friend engage ) • , fie present, unseen. The jn|er\iew tool: place, and IVngn s . fiieitd, according t > pron ise, hid himself under a heap of straw, that constituted an important . ! part of th* furniture of the roval apartment.— i With hi- usual shrewdness, I lam let gne-s- d I here was something wrong in the room, arid to as certain whether fus suspicions v.-re correct, ! danced upon the straw. < lapping Ins hands and crowing like a cock, to t.he great astonishment , of his mother and the infinite annoyance of the listening friends, wlin had !> endure ai! the : weight ol Hie prince's eccentricities. Naturally : enough something began t< move beneath the straw, and lhat something which the reader lll.iv, if lie pleases, call I'olonius—was immedi alelv transfixed by the sword ol Hamlet. (,iueen Geri.tha, shocked at tbi- lieu- inanif -slation of ; madness, began to w, -p aloud, hot Hamlet,; dropping the mask, lead fief a s-v-r- lei (tire on tiie impropriety of her position. His words) seemed to have an < fleet, as, indeed, well they ; might, for they marked b\ a ruffianly coarseoens w hu it could nut !>e exceeded, and of - whifh Shakespeare d i-s not convey the -ligfit j est idea. In the fullest sense of the expressi m. Hamls-t gave his mother a "bit ot his mind, | anil a very unsavory it w a. i Fengo, on his return, mi-sed his friend, for Hamlet had not only killed that most unfortu- I nate of courtiers, but had troiled down bis limbs and thrown them into the fewer to-be devouied : by t lie pigs. This deed tiie prince openly avow ed, but those who heard him merely thought that he was uttering one ol his mad pleasantries, and laujftied as usual. Indeed, at the court of Jut land evei vbotlv seems to have been an a I rant i blockhead, with Hi- single exception of fengo himself. That worthy viceroy would have killed j his nephew without further ado, had he not j feared to offend King Ruric, who as we have net-n, was the lad's maternal grandfather. To i get rid of J} unlet, stratagem was necessary, and ; accordingly the good youth was vent on an em bassy to Britain —a proceeding which, as !)'• was j a reputed maniac, must have been ib-en -d Righ :iv complimentary to the British court. iwo j j Danish muit'eiie-n whom the read r n ay, if he pleases, call Rosehcrantz and Guildenstern wer-, moreover, appointed to accompany him, and secretly carried with them thy turns, we presumeja hit of wood with certain letters carved : upon it, requesting the King <d Britain to put Hamlet to death. It may be observed that, in the days of King Ruric, bits of carved wood j were the approved means for carrying on an V" " • BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25,1857. epistolary correspondence. With all tiie clever- ■ j ru-ss that seems to have been inherent iri the j Jutland Cuit, the two confident ial gentlemen went to sleep one night in Hamlet's presence! with the precious document in one of their pick ets. Of course the pockets were rummaged by | the artful prince, and of course he found the j wooden dispatch, Which lie had no sooner read than he shaved offtljie inscription and carved another, in which he not only named the two j sleepers as the persons to be killed, but also ; : formed a request from Fengo, that the King o! Britain would be kind enough to give his daugli . r r> O j ter to Hamlet for a wife. The policy pursued by Hamlet during his so- 4 journ in Britain was the very iever.se of that ! which he had adopted while he was at home in Jutland. Among the Danes he wished to pass ; or a fool or a madman; bv tiie Britons he wished > [to. bethought a mode! ol wisdom. He first ex- ! j cited the gejieral wonder bv refusing to taste a . ' single morsel, or to drink a single drop at the : | very munificent banquet which the king of ; Britain had provided for his reception. Indeed, Iso much wa> the hospitable monarch surprised Iby in abstinence so unusual in the good old times, that when Hamlet and his at!enclants re tired to their sleeping . apartments he ordered j-one of his servants to listen at the door, apd pick up as much as he could of t'je conversation. Hamlet s attendants, who shared the general ru ! riosity, no sooner fiursd themselves alone with ! him, than thev inquired into 1 fie cause of hj mystei ions "abstinence. He quietly told them that' the bread was stained w ilh bloody 'ha! tiie j drink tasted of iron, am! that the meat smelt I like a buqiaq corpse—all good and .weighty rea sons for noFmakitig a hearty meal. His com panions further asked hint wlrat lie thpuglil f the king and queen of Britain his ,answer i showed thai liis opinion of tfie illustrious pair was not very exalted. The,king, be sajd, had j the eyes of a srf, and as for the que.-n, she be tiayed her slavi-b origin bv three distinct >igns. Now, the king of Britain was natu.rn!'V of a kimfly arl disposition, with'' the STidi ) ti.mal tjnaldicatron of thai fbndable spirit A f j curiosity that in later davs has been s? \ led tji- ; > desire of knowledge. So instead Vif fiyiug ini I a passion when his serr ants informed bigwd 1 H tin let's disresjiectful observatitms. Mi-'dhoiht i they Were worthy of -a Cool and .-eft! CIS impߣ\ ! Reginning with ,the sul ji-ct of litmwr, he..lied vi iere the bread came from, ami fimn t "d, on the authori'v of the court l-ito-r on ..f v. nich 1! v.-A" i- w i-Ihe wMggxn W I\l eil'b i -ij ■ ■!: : which liad been selected bv in-licious iigricullu , lists on account of its excessive t. itilitv.— 1 Glearly, Hamlet was no* so wrong about H-.e I bread ;so the admiring king pursued his in vex- I ligations with reference to the bacon, when it j turned out that the pigs oi the royi.f sly had < ; 011 one occasion, broken !-l-e, and Pasted on 1 the corpse of a malefactor who has! paid the Inst > I penalty o! tiie law. Moreover, in Hie well from • j which the water had been drawn for the supply ! of the royal (able, sundry rusty sword- were > found, and this accounted fir Hie taste of iron, t The fine taste and tile fine nose of Hamlet could ! not be sufficient!v admired by ttie excellent king !of Britain, who was resolved to look into those I : little family mailer* that had been likewise : j touched ujon hv his Danish guest. According- < Iv, lie sent lor his mother, the Queen dowager i j of Britain, and having asked her, v-rv serious ly, why he had tile eves of a Self, received the I : agreeable information that a certain slave, who < had been made p i- merofwar, field a more im- i p >rlant jiosition in the i"\.il pedigree than had < 'generally been imagined. Hamlet was right < again ! He was theref>re personally question*d I jas to the three signs o! slavish origin he had re- I jiiiaiked m tli' 1 behaviors of the queen consort. I ■ Not in the bast daunted, HamM replied, that : in the first place the illustrious ladv was in the I j haliit c>f wearing tlm hood ol her cloak over her < h< ad, contiai v to the usages of what f tat ic calls l "sedt society:'' that in the second place, when 1 -he walk*"' she lucked up her gown by the gir- . die; and that in tiie third place, when after din- j ner -lie us*-d tier tnofh-pick she swallowed the 1 extracted particles of food instead of spitting t ' them out with royal dignity. Oh, happv were the davs when Ruric xvas l king of Denmark, when Fengo was lord lien- i tenant ol Jutland, and when What's his name 1 reigned over this island ! Talent had a chance •' >1 being rewarded then, especially at the Brit- ] i-h court, par from reproving Hamlet for his matchless impertinence, the enlightened king of I Britain was in exstariesat his nrutetiess, and 1 I . • ;at once gave him his daughter in marriage, ' thanking the gods fir sending him such a clever ' son-in-law. That the wedding might not uant its proper solemnity, the fwo attendants w pre I duly hung up the very dav after the ceremony. 1 The advantage which Hamlet took of this latter citcuuistance can scarcely he called handsome. 1 Although he had artfully contrived the destruc tion of his comrades, he pretended to he exces sively enraged at their death, and the king of Britain, who felt great awe a! Danish indigna fi m, gave him, bv way of compensation, a large sum in gold, which the astute Hamlet melted, and poured into two hollow sticks. Afrer he had lived in Britain about a year, lie thought he would like to see his native Jut land once more, so,having asked the king for j leave of absence, and obtained the sanie, he set j off with his two loaded sticks, to visit the "Old I folks at home." The firs-t spectacle that met his eye m the roval paiace, was the celebration iof his funeral, held on the strength of a report ; that he ha<l died in Britain ; and greatly astoun i ded were th'p mourners, when he re-appeared amongst (hem, looking as sillv and Girtv as ; ever. When he was asked what had become of his two companions, he showed the two sticks, j and said. "Here they ore, the pair of them.'"— 1 Of course this reply was set down to the account of the old imbecility, ami caused explosions of laughter, for these Jutlanders were not aware that the sticks contained the worth in bullion of the two executed gentlemen; nor had they reach- I ed the high philosophy of Hamlet, which taught him that a man's money value is, in fact, the J Freedom of Thought and Opinion. • man himself. Neither was it suspected in Denmark, that | tfie funeral ceremonies, which were so strangely | ! interrupted by the safe return of the deceased, qad Iwen contrived bv that very person. Be re Ilamlet had set out for Britain, he had a Sbcond interview with his mother, in the course of which he requested her to pretend, after his ybsence for a year, tfiat she had received news ; jof his death, to perform as much of a funeral a is possible when the corpse is wanting, and to Sang the great hall of the pialace with netted tapestry. By Queen Gerutha, who was of a lemarkahle pliant disposition, all these orders! ifcvere carefully followed, though she knew well -though that she would see her son again at the 'end of a twelvemonth. "Most obstreperous was Hamlet in congratula ting himself on his own happy return. The j ! auar;iity of wine that he procured for the re . fteshmerit of the couiiers was enormous, and he ; added a practical joke to his verbal pleasantries, j dancing about with a drawn sword, that he' flourished in the most reckless fashion, so that all were at their u its' end for fear thev might 1 receive some unlucky gash or thrust. IDs own fingers he reailv did cut, and the couriers took j advantage of the circumstance to fasten the, ; swoid to the scabbard with a nail. Through ail the-- proceedings, a great deal ; of drinking went on, till at last every one ot the ; omineis had fallen from his bench, and was ly ing senseless nn the floor. Hamlet now took from (ii- hiding place the wooden books that had caused so much mirth in early days, removed ■ the net-hangings from the walls, and so fastened them over the t-leepers, bv means of the hooks, that esc ape was impossible. This done, he sirn plv set fire to the palace, arid prope-eriing to ( Fen go's chamber, took down the sword that was hanging over the sleeping king, and hung iifi his own in its place. Great was the consternation of Fengo when he was aw akeii-d fiv a voice that said, in no pleasant tone, "Fengo, vour brave men are burning to ashes, and Hamlet is here to avenge the death of bis father." The first im pulse of Fengo was to reach dou n the suspended , sword,hut as that nnlurkv weapon was fastened to its -heath, it proved a sorry defence against the sharp lilad*' welded by Hamlet, and •'••• fratricide viceroy now received his moduli blow. Now, it was quite possible tfiat Hamlet's con- , duct on this e vent In! night night nut be in ac cordance with the views of Jutland generally, jy prudence that was bis leading virtue h- retired, therefore, to a safe hiding place, ; whence fie could watch the aspect of the politi cal horizon. When the break of dav revealed Urn gloom v spectacle of a palace in ruins arid a heap of half-burned corpses, the early rising part of the population, not seeing anv one who! c in!.:! t> 11 them how it had all J ippened. were not a little puzzled. Sentiments were varied - nr.e w-ere indignant at Hi*' wholesale -laughter, - une wept, while a third partv, which seems to j have been that of the majority, hinted that the; event tube regarded as rather fortunate j than otherwise. On this hint, Hamlet issued from his nook, and made an affecting speech, in ; which he avowed what he had done, gloried that lie had avenged his fatfier's murder; and, in shart, managed matters so well, that a gen- ! era I shout proclaimed him the succesuor ol I'ellgO. When lie was firmlyVstahli-hed in-his prov- ■ inre, HemM fitted up three ships in a most expensive manner, and paid a visit to his father in-law in Britain. His- numerous attendants carried gilded shields, while his own target w as ornamented with a pictorial record of the deeds j he had done. Never had the Britons seen so [ fine a sight. The good king, however, found ! himself in a moral difficult v. He had. it seems, 1 solemnly sworn to Fengo lhat he would avenge his death, it it occurred otherwise than by the' course ol nature, and now Fengo was slam by the peison whom the king esteemed above everybody else in the world.' Hamlet must be got rid of somehow orothn - ; but, if he were put to death i:: 'he palace, the laws of hospital ity would be star 1 eful 1 y violated. It was clear ' that he must be -*-nt somewhere else in order to he killed, and Scotland at last suggested itself for the purpose. Scotland was at this time governed by a maiden Queen, named Herme- > truda, w ho was so fierce, and withal enteitained 1 such a dislike to matrimony, that if a suitor; presented himself, the popping of the question ! was instantly followed by a public execution. 1 Hamlet was to solicit the hand of this ladv for j tl*e King of Britain, who had recently become a widower, arid the Scottish Queen, it was hoped would dispatch him according to precedent.; Thus would Fengo be avenged, and tiie British ' king would be released from his moral diffi culty. However, when Hamlet reached the Scottish court, affairs took a turn which the king of i Britain didn't contemplate. The terrible queen 1 was greatly struck by a picture on Hamlet's j shield, and to'd I'.im in a few words, t hat if lie would woo her on his own account, instead of; courting fiv proxy, she would gladly bestow her j hand opoi) him. The queen was not only fierce j hut fair,and Hamlet's heart had even been sua- , ceptiple to feminine beauty. Therefore, we grieve to 1 elate, he jumped at (be offer, regard less oi the tie in the South ol (be island, and having married the Queen of Scotland, had the consummate assurance to return to the King of Brit ai.) with his new wife, arid a train of young Scots it his heels. Harriet's first wife, the British princess, was a gentle, forgiving creature, who was so delight- ! ed at I * r husband's safe return, that she vowed not on v to love him still, but to love his- second j wife a':so. With these professions she met him , on the raod. bearing in her arms an infant fo which she ha.! lately given birth. At the same j linw l e warned him that her father ihd not en- j teit:iii the. same liberal views on the subject of, family affronts and that he had better be on bis 1 guard against stratagem. \V lien this amiable discourse bail proceeded so far, the old king j came up, embraced Hamlet as if nothing bad ; happened, and invited him to a banquet in the | paiace. Hamlet was nothing loth ; but, as his ! old prudence did not forsake him, he managed i to put on a suit of armor, which was concealed jby his upper garments. Nor did this precati ! tion prove useless, for no sooner did Hamlet make liis appearance at the palace gate, than ' the king flung a spear that would have gone j through the bod}- of the Dane, bad it n ! been* checked try the unexpected obstacle.' Tli" eri ! niyte of the king being thus revealed, Hamlet retreated to the spot where fm had left his Scot tish adherents, fiut was immediately pursued , bv his enemy, ho muted the lull*' force of j Scotsmen, and would have destroyed every man j of them, had ii" not been interrupted by the approach of night. When darkness had set in, HamM did one of those clever things that had justly earned him immortality inthe Danish chronicles. Instead of resting himself,he care fully pick"d up the bodies of the slain, and rais ing some into the perpendicular with the aid of sticks and big stones, while he place ! others on horseback, he made them present a very formi dable appearance. Hence, when the morning i broke and the Britons saw the new force, thev I stood stupidly staring,,wondering whence the , auxiliaries coul J have come. Hamlet was not the man to lose an opportunity : at the h*-ad of the remaining Scotsmen, he charged the gaping Britons, whereupon a general tout ensued, I in which the king was slain, j Matters being thus settled in Britain. HamM returned wih both his wives to Jutland, where he found bin self involved in a constitutional : difficulty. The people had, it is true, raised him to ttie head ofthe provincial government, on the death of Fengo, but then litis post was the gjft of 1 be DanLh crown : and though Ham let's maternal grandfather Ruric, from family considerations, might have been induced lo forego some of his rights that venerable mon arch was no more, arid his successor, H igiet.h. was a person who would not bate an inch of liis privileges. Imb ed, the new king had al ready despoiled Gerutha ol all her possessions, on account of the delinquency of her son. A , war between the king and the irregularly elec ted viceroy resulted irom this false position, but when the two armies came in sight of each oth-r Hamlet, who had several gloomy forebodings, wished to shun tiie contest. At last he yipfd , e.i to the persuasions of his second wife Her metruda, who promised that she would fol low him, and kill herself in the event of iiis j death. -V conflict ensued, in whieh Hamlet was slain, whereupon Hermelruda immediately mar | riej VYigleth, and thus became Queen <. 1 Den mark. LIFE OF A LIO.V Let us sketch the story of a lion's life, begin ning with his marriage, which takes place to wards the end of January. He lias first to seek liis wife, but as the males are more abundant than females, who are often cut off in infancy, it is not rare to find a young lady pestered by < ; the adresses of three or four gallants, who quar rel with the acerbitv of jealous lovers. If one does not succeed in disabling or driving awav the others, madam, impatient and dissatisfied, leads them into tiie presence of an old lion, whom she lias appreciated at a distance. The iovers'tly at him with thetermerity ol vouth and exasperation the old fellow receives them with calm assurance, breaks the neck of the first with his terrible jaws, smashes the leg of the second, and tears out the eye of the third. No sooner is the dav won and the field clear, than the lion tosses his mane in the air, as he roars, and then crouches by the side ofthe ladv, j who, as a reward for his courage, lick-- in ■ wounds caressingly. When two adult lions are the rivals the encounter is more serious. An Arab perched in a tree one night saw a lioness followed by a tawny with a full grown ! inane; she lay down at the foot of a tree, the lion stopped on his path, and seemed to listen. The Arab then heard the distant growling of a iion, which was instantly replied to bv the lioness under the live. This made her husband 1 roar furiously. . , The distant lion was heard approaching, and as he came nearer the lioness roared louder, which seemed to agitate her husband for he marched towards her as if to force her lobe si- | lent, and then sprang hack to bis old post, roar ing defiance at lii-- distant rival. This continued about an hour, when a black ; iion made firs appearance on the plaro. The lioness rose to go towards him, but her husband, ; I guessing i*er intention, hounded towards Itisii- ; val. The two crouched and sprang at * ach 1 other, lolling on the grass in the embrace of death. Their bones cracked, their flesh was r torn, their cries of r age and agonv rent tf*• ■ air, and all this time the lioness crouched, and wag ged her tail slowly in sign of satisfaction. When the combat ended, and both warriors were stretched on the plain, she rose, smelt them, ! satisfied herself that they were dead, arid trot- ' ted off", quite regardless ofthe uncomplimentary epithet which the indignant Arab shouted after her. This, Gerard tells us. is an example of the j conjugal fidelity of my lady ; whereas the lion , never quits his wife, unless forced, and is quite a pattern of conjugal affection. Our lion, then, is married, let us sav. He is the slave of his wife. It is she who aiways lakes precedence : when she stops he stops. On arriving at the douar (the collection, of tents— what we call a'village,') for their supper, she j lies down while he leaps into the in closure-, and 1 brings to her the booty. He watches her while she eats, taking care that 110 one disturbs her; and not till her appetite is satisfied does he j begin bis meal. Tow ards the end of December , they seek an isolated ravine, and there she pre sents her lord with one, two and sometimes ; three puppies, generally one male and one fe ; male. If the reader has ever seen or handled a puppy lion, he will undeistand the idolatry of ! the father and mother. She never quits them for an instant, and he only quits them to bring ; home supper. When they are three months 1 old their weaning commences. The mother accustoms them gradually to it, by absenting . ,<aS" >saw" •MH* TERJIK, E'ER YEAR. NEW SERIES VOL 1, NO. 21. hersejf i'r lunger am! ionger periods, and bring • n - tliem pieces (.i mutton carefully skinned. The father whose habitual d-meanor is grave, be comes fatigued with the frivolous sports of children, and I'M- th- SAKE of tranquility removes his lodging to a distance—within reach, how ever, to render assistance if required. At the age of lour or five months the children follow their mother to the border of the forest, where their lather brings them their supper. At six months old they accompany their father and mother on ail their nocturnal expeditions. From eight lo twelvemonths they learn to attack sheep, goats, and even bulls: but they are so awkward they usually wound ten for one they kill; it is not until they are two years old that they kill a horse or bull at one bite. While their education is thus in progress thev are ten times more ruinous to the Arabs, since the fam ily does not content itself with killing the cat tle requir-,! fir Its own consumption, but kill ing that the children may Jearri how to kill. At three years old the children quit home and set up for themselves, becoming lathers and moth ers in their turn. Their places are occupied by another brood. At eight veais old the lion reaches maturity and livvs to thirty or forty. When adult, he i? a magnificent creature, very different in >jye, a-pect, color and disposition from the lions to be seen in the menageries and zoological gardens—animals taken from the mother's breast bred like rabbits, deprived of the fresh mountain air arid ample nourishment. As an indication of the size attained bv lions in a state ot nature, we may fite the fact mentioned by Gerard, that the strongest man in the caval ry regiment to which he belonged was unable to carry the skin and head of the lion Gerard had killed.— West minuter Review. HONESTY OI ( OUNTRY GIRLS.—An amusing incident look place in one of the large drv goods store- of our citv J short time since. A good-looking, honest-faced country girl came to town wit:, lid 'teilei to (lo a trifle of shop ping. The magnitude - fib store,the piles on piles of goods, the dazzling ariav of articles, the row* of busy clerks, the Hitting cash bo vs. nuite over powered our good friend, who scarcely knew what to do. Her 'felin obstinately refused to go in, bo', loitered about the door. The clerks being'all busy just at the moment, the young ladv w..s obliged 'o remain standing a few moments. At length a dapper fellow with gold watch-chain and flourishing mous tache, came bowing anu smiling up to the blush ing customer with, 'Anybody rvatting on you, madam V The color deepened in her cheeks, as she Imsiated and drew a long breath, till finally, with a nod of her head toward the door, she fal tered out, 'Yes, sir, be is.' DIDN'T KNOW HIS OWN BABV.—A citizen of Jamaica Plain, L. 1., went to answer a ring at the front door, on the request of his wife, where he found nothing but a basket. On the covering being romoved. a beautiful little child appeared, some five months old. The iady screamed, one of the ladv visi tors took up the baby ami found a note pinned to its dress, which charged the gentleman of the house with being its father, and implored him to support it. A rii h scene ensued between the injured wife and the indignant husband, the latter utterly denying all knowledge of the little one and asserting his irnocejjce. The friends interfered, and at last th- wife was induced to forgive t.'ie husband, although hestii! stood to it like a Trojan tnat lie had always been a faithful husband. Finally the lady very roguishly told her husband that it was strange that he should not know bis own child, for it was their mutual offspring, which had just bpen taken from its cradle up stairs by the nurse, fur the very purpose oi play ine the joke. EXQUISITE SENTIMEN . "What esc lamed th- accomplished and fashionable Fitzwiggie to the ■ xquisitely lovely bliss De La Sparrow grass; "what would you be, dearest, if 1 should press the stamp of I n'e upon those sealing-wax lips ?" "J," responded the fairy-like cteature, "should be— stationery !" AUKM felt among the bachelors on account of the decision, by the courts, that a few visits and friendly attentions to a lady might b* construed into an engagement is subsiding, under the following method of protection. Out West, the bachelors provide themsives with cards duly labelled, "Good for this call only !" which are sufficient evidence of no serious intentions. (E^" , "MY DEAR, com' in and go to bed," said the wife of a jolly son ofErin, who had just re turned from the lair, in a decidedly "how come-you-so" state. "You must be "dreadful tired, sure with your long walk of six miles." "Arrah ! get away with vour nonsense," said Pat ; "it wasn't the /./ig/A of the wav, at all that fatigued me—'twas the bread/hat' it." tldP'A conductor ofa night train on one of the rail roads approached a sleepy passenger the other night, and asked him for his check. "Check ' replied the sleepy passenger, half aw ake,"l've stopped a giving of them. ]\lv last Would draw no cash." He must be one olthose chaps who were recently affected by the panic. \ ankee, who had just come from Flor ence, being asked what he had seen and admired, and whether he was not in raptures with the Venus de Medici, replied, "Well, to tell the truth, I don't rare much about these stone gals." T• *" lii EY SAY- said Kerchberg. "It is not true exclaimed Faustina. "What i< not true. Countess ?" asked he in amazemedt. "Whatever begins with 'thev is on the face of it not true." * was never determined until recently who struck Billv Patterson. No one doubts now that he was struck by the panic.
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