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He inritea a ahare ofpobllc *o can render fall tatialkclion te ••loon to onTirglotoittwt.two OTTOEOMI. STINGER’S fews Agency, •I 7, STREET b,blA»k books, 30NFECTI0N ARIES (TOBACCO, BINGEEAT VAJUBTY BUT OK aiHD. r> & co- "■ ■ . JACK & GO.. vottJojxmmA fUUm, jaei JO* ”) THE PMEOiPAL d 4 04W to«^/W>e#loo. SB— PEACT?CAL “gbr ; pn^Mtnuco. %r*, djils. to LICEn> «rCjß*Ug ;jwrjp >!«L?P£i2' *«*> PfS- •i f - /.a 'L 4 fe) :4'z McCBUM & dern, VOL- 7. ' THE ALTOONA TRIBUNE. s- »• *»b lurunou. ***’ p»y»W«i | »»»ri* b ly in »dT*nce,) $1,40. I’ll-P'” iincoutiaaed «t the «xpir»tlon of tb« time f ,i,l lot fCEMH or 4»tIBTUUO. 1 iuswlkm 2 do. 3 do. llie , » “ * '«H $ M , S line.) 60 75 1 00 0j« ..l u “ re ' ,\ 6 .. ) 100 140 200 t*» " >J4 , 140 J 2 00 240 Ts rec il(W ' w( *t»and lew t**»n three months, 24 cents pit *1“"" * ,,r e * c *’ in *’ r g months. 6 months. 1 yew . .$ 150 (3 00 t 5 00 . 2 50 4 00 7 On . 400 600 10 00 . 600 800 12 00 . AOO 10 00 14 00 . 10 00 14 00 20 00 Su line* orl#M T*o “ tuf«« “ Pour “ Sir»« lmuu -:r —i* oo 0“’ inutrawr" »■>*> Itaecßtore NoUeM - br»h. 1*«, »h». .qu« M , 600 urMt •| ,1 J > n>tl narked with the number of i “ wr ‘ lla t!T«ir.r."ll be continued till forbid and charged ac f<^ io . s mi mllices fl*re cents per line for every Insertion. ;±r;.r n^";*»d.ng P len lines fifty cent, a eqna e lock hospital vJuTiiSd A RKIfCGIS FROM QUACKKRY Only Place Where a Cure Can be Obtained. , [vR. JOHNSON has discovered the I m»l Certain, Speedy and only KBectoal Remedy ip ' i. 4 fir all Private DUraias. eakuesa of.the Back or the Kidneys and or him . Discharges* Irapotencv, Genera! Debility. Law Bpirit “~ of l l'.a .iwtiuu of the Heart. Timidity. Trembling.. of Sight or Giddiness Dtsease of the He id. Nose or 8k in. Affection, of the lover. Lunge. Stom- Lh or n .'el»-lh.«e Terrible disorder* .rising from the “aliur* Habits of Yonth-thoso secern ami solitary prac- r alrt m ' intAl to theii victims than the song of feyrens to u7yase., blighting their moat brilliant or anticipations, rendering marriage .Ac., impose!- ble, v YOUNG MEN t. D ecuJlv, who hate become the victims of Solitary Vice. itiTuielaful amrde.tuctive habit which anmwhy -weep i» >a untimely giave thmwand. of Yoomt Men of the moat -Italtoi talent, and brilliant intellect, who niight otUer '.h. have eufranced liatening Senate, with t'-e thunder of eloquence, or waked to ecta.y the living lyre, may call «itk toll coufldence MARRIAGE. ■ UjrrieJ Psnons, or Vouiik Men cotemplatlnß marriage, Ming aware of pliy.lcal weakness, organic debility. .lefor mitv, sc., speedily cured. _ j Ue who place* himself under th* care of I>r. J. may re- j ligwadv eunfids In hi* honor a* a geuileman. aud confi- j dfiutlv rely upon hi-* skill ns a physician. ' ORGANIC WEAKNESS I Immediately Cured, aud full \ laor Restored. : ; Taii Distressing Affection—which renders Life miserable | uurriage impossible—is the penalty paid by the , victims of improper indulgences. Young pern* ns are to j aM to commit «ces es from uot being awai e of the-dread fol consequences that may ensue. Now.,who that under* ; iUq U the subject will pretend to deny that the power Cl pro:raati-m is lo*t sooner by tho-e falling into improper kbits than by the prudent? Besides being deprived the pleasure* of healthy offspring, the most senops and de> (tractive symptoms to both body and mind arise. The system become* Deranged, the Physical and .Mental Func tions Weakened. Los- of Procreative Power, Nervous Irr tsbililv. Dysp-pda, Palpitation df the Heart, Indigestion Constitutional Debility, h Wasting of the Frame, Cough. Consumption. Decay and Death. OFFICE. NO. 7 SOUTH FREDERICK STREET, Lefi hand side going from Baltimore street, a few doors from the corner. Fail not to’observe name and number Letter-* must be paid and contain a stamp. The Doc tor's Diplomas hang in bis office A CURE WARRANTED IN TWO GAYS. „Vo Mercury or JVtweoru VruffS. N OR. JOHNSON. n . Member of the Royal College'of Surgeons, London, Grad Bste from one of the most eminent Colleges in the Dnltoa Sibles, and the greater part of whose life- has been spent in tip hospitals of London, Paris, Philadelphia anti else •here, has effected some of the most astonishing cure* that wer<uorer known; many troubled with ringing in Un heal and eirs when asleep, great nervousness, being ijarmed at tudden sou ids, bashful ness, with frequent Washing, attended sometimes with derangement of mini? w«ro cared immediately. TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE- Dr. J. addresses all those who have injured themselves by Improper indulgence and solitary habits, which rnlii both body and mind, unfitting them for either business*. Uudy. society or marriage. Taut are some of the sad and melancholy effects pro duced by early habits of youth, vlx: Weakness of th» Back and Limbs, Paine in the Head, Dlmtess of Sight beat of Muscular Power, Palpitation of the Heart. Dy«- p*psy, Nervous Irritability, Derangement , of the Diges tive Functions, General Debility, Symptoms of Consump Uon.Ac. . • MtSTAU.I.—The fearful effects of the mind are mnehto be dreaded—L ws of Memorv, Confusion of Weas, De preiiiuii of spirits, Kvil-Porvbodings. Aversion to Society ieK-Distravt, Love of Solitude, Timidity, ic., are some .of the evil* produced. • Tbocswds of persons of pU ages can now judge what Is the cause of their declining health, losing their vigor, be coming weak, pale; nervous and emaciated, having a sin gular appearance abenttbe eyes,oough and symptoms bi consumption. i YOUNG MEN Who hare lulu red themrelrea by a certain practice in dulged in when alone, a habit frequently l«rnea froni ceil companions. or at school, the effect* of which are algluly felt- e'en when asleep, anil if not cured render. Bandage Irapoaiblc, and destroy! both mind and body ikonld apply immediately. What a uitythat a young man. the hope of his country, the darling of h!» parent*, should be snatched from all proa pecta and enjoyment* of lift, by the consequence o! deflating from the path of nature, and indulging ins cert tin aecret habit. Such persons near, before contem plating . . MARRIAGE, s reflect that a sound mind anil body are the most necessary reqnisites'to promote cunbabUl happiness. Irdeed, with* out these, the journey through life becomes* weary pli* grimiga; the prospect hourly darken* to the view; the mind becomes shadowed with despair and filled with the melancholy reflection that the happiness ot another be* comes blighted with our own. DISEASE OF IMPRUDENCE. When the misguided and imprudent rotary of P[** s 5f e finds that he Ua* Imbibed the eeed* of thl*' painful,die* •ase, it too often happen* that an 111-tlraed *en*e of shame, or dread of discovery, deter* him from applying to tho»e *h>, from educathm and respectability, can alone be friend him. delaying till the constitutional symptoms of this horrid disease make their appearance, such a* nicer* tel sore throat, diseased noae, nocturnal pain s in the head and limbs, dimness of sight, deafness, node* on the snip' j-boaes and arms, blotches on the head, fkco and extremi ties, progressing with frightful rapidity, till at last the palate of the month or the bones of the pose fall in, and the victim of this awful disease become* a horrid object o| frvmjlwratlon, til! death pats a period to his dreadful iQfferings, by sending hlm t-* that. Undiscovered Country from whence no traveller returns.” ; : . It !• a mdancholg ftcl that thousand* fall victims, to this terrible disease, owing to the'uitskillfulnes* of igno red pretenders, who, by the use of that Deadly Ifiregry. rain the constitution and make the residua of We miserable. „ STRANGERS , "rut not your lives, 'W health to the care of the nuiny 'Votuni94 and WortbicM Pretenders, destitute of kuowi* name or character, wh * copy Dr Johnson’* adter* lament*, or stylo ln the newspapers, re£u* Educated Physicians. incapable of Curing, th**y keep 7»Q trifling month 'after month, taking their filthy and M*onouj compounds, or a* long as the smallest fee cat b* obtained, and in despair, leave you With ruined health to sigh over your galling disappointment, pr. Jdm<ton is Ae only Physician advertising. Hl« credential ordiplomas always hang lo hU office.;; Ills remedies or treatment are unknown to all o*hf rs- Pftpuedfnm alifo spent lu the great hospitals of Kurope. toe first lu the country and a morn extensive Private Pine he* than other Physician in the world. INDORSEMENT OF THE PRESS, . the nxiuy thousands cured at this institution, year after 7«sr. and the nameron* liu|M>rtant Surgical operations bv Jubuntba. by the reporters of the ' ® uu *” ** Clipper," and many oih»r papers, notices" of which hwe appeared again and again before the public, hendet his standing as a gentlemen of character and re •pottilbllUy, Is a sufficient guarantee to the afflicted. SKIN.DISEASES SPEEDILY CURED. . J*o leUrra rwceived miles* post-pul** vui containing a itS’npto be med on the reply Persons wntlogshonld shite p * rtwn of tvlvertUcment describing symptoms i < ? rWM welting shbnld be pnitkolnr In directing tbeir IHisrs to this Institution. in the following manner: _- fOHH M.JOHH9TOM. M. 0., <Uttw Mtlmora link Bmpttal'Hiu’iU ®heke feetrg. The tell-tale eye it eloquent, \ld mirth or anger** sodden flash; But far more meaning it it* glance Wh«n lore peepe outbe Death the lath. In vain the half averted brow— The thought to bide but doth reveal, Ami downcast look, and crimson glow, Do bot betray and pot conceal. The lipe may more in studied:phrase, . And words Well chosen feign surprise; But ere by speech the heart U hid, The truth is sjmken by the eyes! Think then as welt tohide theday, Whose opening beams the shadows move. As in the eye to qneucb the ray That speaks, nnbld, Thi Daw* op Lots! 26 00 40 00 1 TS jfcbrt Private Joel Smapes, of a hardworking, tough-sinewed regiment of Vermont vol unteers, was a good shot and a smart sol dier. He found great satisfaction in picket duty, and hardly came in after a day’s ex ercise in that branch of military without having a report to make to his superior officer of some new work discovered, some cjnversation overheard, some little chance circumstances perceived, that might be of use in gaining an advantage over the enemy Joel was a long, lank, yellow-haired f ellow, not very soldierly in speech or bear ing, but of infinitely more ■ service than many of our snug dapper,, well-looking city * soldiers. He was frightfully sun burned, and his face, coarse-featured and demure, suggested good humor and endur ance, more than courage and discipline.— But there was a twinkle about his small, grey eyes, which enlivened: them despite their scanty and characterless white lashes, and impressed the closer sort of observer with a wholesome respect for his courage and intelligence. His nasal voice and drawl, his round shoulders and flat, build, could not shake this respect so long as one kept those clear, cool, far-seeing eyes in sight; and Joel’s Comrades prophesied that he had only to behave himself, and keep on his own way, to gain a pair of epualettes one fine dayi He openly declared Jhat ' manual labor on the earthworks was distasteful to him ; and his officers, knowing His value at picket duty, evinced enough consideration for him to keep him at the service. The position that he liked best was on the slope of a hill, opposite; a similar slope occupied by a sentinel of the Confederates. This last was quite a high bit of ground whence one plight See a great deal that was going on about the batteries further down. Joel believed; that the sentinel there stationed learned more than was well for our side. He accordingly haxrassed and annoyed every one that showed his head on thfe hill-side opposite, and left several adventurous fellows stretched on the turf, one after another, i as a reward for their temerity.' Jt .was nearly a quarter of a mile off but, as I have said, the long Vermonter was a good shot, and it became really dangerous for the enemy’s pickets to show themselves at all nearlheir dangerous hill side. They soon learned; their lesson, and very soon acted upon vit. Joel, sauntering down his path one fine afternoon, heard a sharp report, and felt the wind of a rifle ball that came wonder fully near his head. Turning quickly, he saw the smoke floating up from a little pile pf fresh earth oti the hill opposite.— The enemy had dug a pit wherein the sen tinel could sit at ease, : and expose his head and arms only when he fired. Private Smapes hastened with praiseworthy pru dence to get out of; sight, among some cedars, and watched soma time before quite fixing the location pf the foeman again. Finally discovering the fresh earth once more, and imagining tliat he saw a hat just above it, lie took a shot in the di rection. Up pegged a tall sentinel, bare headed, and returned the flip instantly.—. He had only been trying the old trick of . putting his hat on a .ramrod. , T , “This'll never dew,” soliloquized Joel. “That cuss has got tew good a berth over yonder. I’ll just hape ter rout them out.” -The other sentinel’s fleath-warrant was in some sort signed from that moment. The crafty Vennontei’s; brain was at work on the probkmofdipodging his man thenceforth. " : THE DAWN OF LOVE. LOVE AMP POLITICS. Wbo could love a &ce*h woman t Half a deyil, scare* half hamao,— A real rara avis, Bed, White, K-d upon her-bonnet, Screeching some rebellious sonuet— Or yelling for Jeff Dati*. If with such I were united,' k Or to her my vows had plighted. 1 would break the fetter; Never yield a tame concession, But from her I’d claim secession To the very letter. I am certain I should barm her. For like Scotia’s poet farmer, I would cure-the evil, ' If 1 had to beat and bang her,- Give her poison, drpwn, or hang her, Or whip her like the <ievil. THE PICKET’S EXTBE. ALTOONA, PA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1862. So long as Joel kept quiet, so did his antagonist; but it was presumable that he could not see the batteries in process of construction, without exposing himself, for the earth taken from the pit was care fully piled upon the side toward Joel. From the thicket at the fool of the two hills, however, a shot could be got length ways of the trench, and behind this trifling breastwork. To gain the thicket, then, without being too visible on the barren slope, was Joel’s idea. The next day, private Smapes toolc with him a long piece of stout twine and a re volver, when he went out on picket duty It was not yet daylight, but the gray and indistinct light of dawn had begun to pale in the east. The sentinel, as soon as the guard passed along, hastened to drive a smooth stake in the ground, and to rest his musket over a fork in a cedar tree in front of the stake, the muzzle of the weapon pointing in the. direction of the pit on the further slope. He then cocked the piece and fastening one end of his cord to the trigger, began stealthily crawling down the hill on his hands and knees, playing out the line as he went. It was a hazardous experiment, (or the thicket, when he had gained it, was very sparse and so near to the point that the Confederate sentry, had he suspected Joel’s presence there, could have hardly failed to hit him. Qcu. Lying down, however, the Vermonter awaited sunrise, and as the shadows faded away in the mist of morning, he saw the light gleam upon a bayonet peering from the trench on the hillside. “ Now tor to make him show his pictur!” said Joel to himself. He pulled the string carefully at first, till it was drawn tight, then an extra tug fired the musket from the cedars above. He had not calculated wrongly. As soon as the rifleman in the pit heard this matinal salutation from the enemy over opposite, as he supposed, he raised himself up to return fire, and brought his head and shoulders plainly into sight. The next instant he went heels over iiead into the trench again, with a bullet from the unerring Colt straight through the side of his head. “ The darned fool!” said private Smapes, “didn’t he know a fellow might shoot off a gun without having hold of it ?” The Confederate pickets decided there after that this position was too exposed to be profitably occupied. Wellington’s Strategy —On a cer tain occasion during Wellington’s cam paign on tlie Pyrennese, that “ Great Cap tain” being displeased with the dispositions Gen. Picton had made for receiving the assault of Marshal Soult, who menaced him in front ordered the plan Jo be en tirely changed. But the difficulty was to delay the attack of the French until the change could be effected. This the “Iron Duke” accomplished in person, in the fol lowing manner. Doffing his cocked hat and waving it in the air he rode furiously to ffie head of a regiment, as if about to order a charge. Thereupon arose a tre menduous cheer from the men, which was taken up by corps after corps, until it re verberated along the whole extent of Pic ton’s line. As the roar died away, Wel lington was heard to remark, musingly, as if addressing himself—" Soult is a skilful but cautious commander, and will not at tack in tore® until he has ascertained the meaning of these cheers. This will give time for the sixth division to come up and we shall beat him.” It turned out as an ticipated. Soult, naturally enough, sup posed these tremenduous shouts announced the arrival of large reinforcements, and did not attack until too late. Had he struck at the right moment he would have won an easy victory ; as it was, he met a bloody repulse. This was strategy. Not the strategy of books, but the strategy of genius, engendered and executed in the same moment. A Petrified Man.— According to, the Territorial Enterprise, a petrified man was found some time ago in the mountains south of Gravelly Ford. Every limb and feature of the stony piummy was perfect, not even excepting the left leg, which had evidently been a wooden one during the lifetime of the owner, which lifetime, by the way, came to a close about a century ago in the opinion of a savan who has ex amined the defunct. , The Enterprise adds: The people of the neighborhood volun teered to bury the poor unfortunate, and were even anxious to do so, but it was discovered when they attempted to remove him that the water which had dripped upon him for ages from the crag above had coursed down his back and deposited a limestone sediment under him, which had glued him to the bedrock upon which he sat as with a cement of a4amaut, and Judge S. refused to allow the charitable citizens to blast him from his position. 47* Prentice says Lot’s wife would be worth sjsventy-five cents a pound in the yntlmra confederacy. [independent in everything.] It is about twenty years since one of the members of the present Cabinet was n member of Congress from a distant west ern State. He had his usual right of des ignating a single candidate fur admission to the West Point Military Academy. The applications made to him for a va cancy which then existed were not many, hut among them was a letter from a bo} of sixteen or seventeen years of age, who. without any accompanying recommenda tions or references, asked the appointment for himself. The member dismissed th( appeal from his' mind, with perliaps a pas sing thought of the forwardness and impu dence of the stripling who could aspire to such a place on no other grounds than hi; own desire to get a good education at the public expense. But happening a short time afterward; to'be in the little village whence the lettei was mailed, the incident was recalled tt his memory, and he thought he would beguile the few hours of leisure that lu had, by looking up the ambitious youth. He made his way by dint of much inquiry, to a small tailor-shop on the outskirts o', the town, and when he was admitted at the door he found a lad sitting cross-legged upon the tailor’s bench, mending a rent in an old pair of pantaloons. But this lad had another occupation beside hi; manual toil. Near by, on a small block of wood, rested a book of abstruse science, to which he turned his eyes whenever they could be transferred from the work in his hands. The member accosted him by the name given in the letter, and the lad replied “I am the person.” ‘‘You wish, then, to be appointed a cadet at West Point?” “I do,” he rejoined.— “ Why?” asked the Congressman. cause,” answered the tailor youth, “ I feel that I was bom for something better than mending old clothes." The member talked further with him, and was so pleased with his frankness, his spirit, and the rare in telligence he evinced, that he procured him the appointment. The member is now Secretary Smith, of Indiana, and the youth, Gen. Burnside. Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Potomac. We should not be surprised if that boy—an excellent specimen of our northern mudsills—were destined to hoist the American flag to its old place on the Capitol at Richmond.;— jV. Y. Eve. Post. Qdeek Manifestations OFCiiARiTy.— Dr Peet, an lowa gentleman, writing to a friend at Des Moines, relates the follow ing : ‘•ln Chicago I had a plesant proof of the value of a great city. A sudden call had been made from Minnesota for the immediate relief for the 30,000 men. women and children made homeless and destitute by the Indian raid. The clergy of the city took the matter in hand, called for help from the pulpits, and the next two or three days they were kept busy in packing mountains of every conceivable thing in use in domestic life. I was sit ting with the Rector of the Trinity Church, in his splendid edifice, and great packages were constantly coming in, which were opened and disposed of in huge boxes of pine wood for transportation. I observed in one large bundle a package of corsets and remarked ‘ that they would hardly be needed,’ but the Rector said ‘ somebody may be glad to get them, put them in.’— The sexton amusinglyLgave them a place in a huge box, sayingas he pressed them down, in his Yorkshire dialect, ‘ No ’oops be coom in as yet. ” Going to Rest.— Did you ever know a child, though half dead with play, who was willing logo to bed? How they will wink, open their poor eyes, and stare about, and linger round the bright lamps, and plead for a reprieve, “just a little longer, just five or ten minutes!” Time will cure them of that soon enough, poor things, so don’t try to teach them the les son now. Let them “ sit up,” before the eyil days come when sleep is the most coveted boon on earth j when they dread nothing so much as waking to a new day, and its repetition of weary struggles with wrong and wrong doers, lighted by glimpses of sunshine so few and so tran sient. Crowd into the children’s insect life all the happiness you can, that they may have that at least, to look back upon, when they have no longer the wish or the power to “ sit up.” How a. Modest Man was Mistaken. —The Syracuse Standard says; In Low ell, at a lecture a few evenings, a gentle man, the most modest of his sex, and no less polite than modest, was setting in a pew rather remote | from the light. *A pretty lady sat next to him. Looking at tjie floor during the lecture, be espied what lie thought was the lady’s handkerchief, the lace trimmed edge just visible under Her dress. Turning to his pew matc be gallantly whispered, “You have dropped «-A good story is told of one of our your handkerchief, madam!" before she country who was directed to could reply, he proceeded to pick it up. serve an execution. He was-told that HpjTor! he bad sejised of her the property to be levied consisted of three pet— ski» t, and did not discover his mis heifers, and alter taking charge of them he j take until the top of a gaiter bpot stared must endorse a return describing the prop- j him in the face, and the faint sound of a erty. With a view to be entirely correct, laugh just nipped in| the bud by the appli and not finding “ aul heifers,” he specified ! cation of a real handkerchief, warned him as follows: *• I went to level on 3 hellers, lof his mistake. Moral—Don’t attempt to but they warnt aul heffers only won wars i pick up anything with lace to it before a shee heffer, and the other wars a raeoly ; you know what it is. . i bull ami the other wars a bully moul.” j —£ 49* Why will Americans have j more cause to remember the letter S than any other in the alphabet! Because it is the beginning of Secession and the end of Jeff Davis. ' .1# . ;; fST Somebody has written a book on “The art of making people happy with out money.” We are in an excellent condition to be experimented upon. 1 INTEEESTINO ANECDOTE. IHE SIMPLE PAITH OP A CHILD. A Paris , paper relates the following touching incident :—ln one.of the narrow ■streets near the Marchee St; Honore re sides a poor working family who have lately been laboring under great distress. The wife has been for sometime ill, and the husband has just met with an accident which has prevented him from following his usual occupation, so. that his family »f five children often suffer from hunger. Among the children was a little intelli gent girl/who every-day attended the char ity school, but who has lately been obliged to stop at home to attend, as best she could, to her little brothers. She. had been taught at school that those in distress jught to address themselves to God, iind the idea entered her mind that if she sent a.letter to God relief would follow. She therefore got a pen, ink and paper and wrote the letter asking for health for her parents and bread for herself and broth ers. Thinking that the poor box which -he had seen in the church of St Beech was the letter box of God, she took the opportunity of stealing quietly out of the room and running off to the church.— While looking round <to see that no one was near, an elderly lady noticed hei movements, and thinking that she was at mine mischief, stopped her and inquired what she was doing. After some hesita tion she confessed the object of her visit to the church, and showed the letter." The. Indy took it and promised the child that -he would take care that it should reach its destination, asking at the same time to what address the answer must be sent, which the child gave, and returned home with a light heart. On the following morning, on opening the door of the room, she found a large basket filled with differ ent articles of wearing apparel, sugar, money, &c., the whole packed up with a lirection card, on which was written Answer of the good God.” Some hours .liter a medical man also came; to give idvice. O' A Frenchman stopped a ■ lad in the street to make inquiries of his wherea bouts. “ Mon fren, what is ze. name of zis street ?” “ Well, who said ’twan’t ?” “ What you call zis street?” “ O’course we do,” “ Pardonnez ! I have not ze name vot you call him.” “ Yes. Watts we call it.” “ How yon (all ze name of zis street?” “ Watts street, I told yer.” “ Zis street.” “ Watts street old feller ; and don’t yer go ter make game o’me.” “ Sarce men du ! I ask you one, two, tree several times, often, vill you tell me ze name of ze dam street—eh!” “ Watts street, I tole yer. Yer drunk, han’t yer l i” “ Mon leetle fren, vere you lif eh 1” “ In Vandam street.” “Eh bine! You Ihe in von dam 1 street, and ou is von dam fool—by dam!” An Epitaph. —lt is stated that Tom Moore, one night while stopping at an inn in Scotland, was continually troubled by the landlady with the request that he would write her epitaph. Accordingly at night he gave impromptu as follows: “ Good Susan Blake, hi royal State, Arrived at last kt; her Master’s gate,” and promising to finish it in the morning. The good lady was in trans ports at the inscription, and treated Mr. Moore with every possible attention. In the morning he was about leaving, when the lady reminded hint that he had not fin ished the epitaph. “ That’s so,” said he, and immediately added- “But Peter met her with a club, And knocked her back to Beelzebub!” It is said that Mr, Moore’s horses were in motion just as he had finished the last line. s EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. THE WALLED i^TTK The wonderful Walled is situated in the centre part of Wright county, lowa. I'he shape of the lake is oval. It is about two miles in length and one wide, in the widest part, comprising an area of some 2000 acres. The wall enclosing this area is over six miles in length, and is built or composed of stone varying in size from boulders of two tons weight down to unall pebbles, and is intermixed with '•arth. The top of the wall is uniform in height above the all parts, which makes its height to vary on the land side according to the unevenness of the coun try from two to twelve feet in height. In the highest part the wall measures from ten to twelve feet thick at the base, and irom four to six at the top, inclining each way outward and inward There is no outlet, but the lake frequently rises and Sows over the wall. The lake at the leepest part is about ten feet in depth, and (bounds with large and fine fish, sucTT as pike, pickeral, bass, perch, &c. The wa ter is as clear as crystal, and there is no bubbling or agitation to indifete any large spring or feeders. Wild fowl of all kinds ire plenty upon its bosom. At the north end are two small groves of about ten acres each, no timber being near. It has the appearance of having been walled up° by human hands, and i looks like a huge fortress, yet there are no rocks in that vi cinity for miles around. There are no visible signs of the lake, being the, result of vulcanic action; the be.l being perfectly smooth and the border of regular form. The lake is seventeen miles from Boon river on the west, eight miles from the lowa un the east, and about one hundred miles from Cedar Rapids. It is one of the greatest wonders of the West, and has al ready been visited by hundreds of curios ity seekers. , Smart. — A gentleman, one evening, \yas seated near a lovely woman, when t|ie company around him were proposing conundrums to each other. Turning to liis companion, he said: “ Why is a lady unlike a mirror V “ gave it up.” " Because,” said the rude fellow, “a mir ror reflects without speaking, a lady speaks without reflecting.” “ And why are you unlike a mirror?” asked the lady. He could not tell.— Because a mirror is smooth and polished, and you are rough and unpolished.” The gentleman owned that there was one lady who did not speak without re flecting and casting reflections. A Good Joke.—“ Now remember,” said an officer to an Irish soldier, when the Colonel asks you what battery you are in tell him battery I. Now don't forget. “No, be jabbers, I won’t forgit,” said Pat. The Colonel met him a day or two afterwards, and asked him what the Cap tain told him to say, when, Pat stepped up to the Colonel, and without saying a word, gave him a blow in the eye. “What do you mean T” shouted the Colonel, in no good humor, on being struck by an Irish soldier. “Faith, an’ the Captain tonld ine to batter yer eye, if ye asked me sich a question,” said the terrified Irishman, fhe Colonel, of course, took the joke. W" A story is told of a doctor in Ver mont. The doctor kept missing his wood, and set watch. As was expected, it proved to be the work of a poor neighbor, who soon appeared, and carefully culling out all dry wood, started off with an arm full. The doctor hastily gathered up an arm-full of green wood and followed, tug ging as fast as he could, and just as the man threw down bis arm-full the doctor lid the same, exclaiming: “There, you must burn green wood part of the time; I have to,” and departed, leaving the thief ta his own reflections. • W" “My dear madam, can you give me a glass of grog ?” asked a fatigued traveler in Arkansas, as he entered a cabin on the roadside. “ I ain’t got a drop, stranger,” replied the woman. “ But a gentleman told me .that you had a barrel” “ Why, good gracious,” replied the wo man, “ what do you reckon one barrel of whiskey is to me and my w hen we are out of milk 1” - The traveler sloped. Wet. the Powdeb.—Two Irishmen in a recent engagement were gallantly stand ing by their gun, tiring in quick succession, when one touching the piece, noticed that it was very hot. •* Arrah! Mike, the cannon is gettin’ hot; we’d better stop firin’ a little.” “Divil a bit,” replied Mike; “ jist dip the cartridges in the river afore yees an’ kape it cool.” c ‘‘Matchless misery,” is defined as hanng a cigar, and nothing to light it with. thoughts are best; man wa« Goffs first thought; woman his second. NO. 44-
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