The Democratic Watchman. BELLE' ONTF, FA THE WEDDING RING. The sky was flooded with sunshine And blud—as blue as the deep— Their white wings folded together, The clouds wore fallen asleep. The sir harps of the forest Were tuned to the Round of a maim And their distant itAmic touched me With a thrill of infinite calm. She good In her bridal whlteneas, A lily pure and pale, The gold other ringleta'shlolng Through the foist of her Holding veil And her lover, etrong and stately, In the pride of his gracious youth, With a voice both deep end louder, Plighted hie manhood,e truth. Ileput tile ringon her finger— A band of virgin gold, Broad and heavy it - bound her, Ma to have and to hold. May Itnever change to a fetter, "'reeking her heart to wear , May It he as dear as her mother's-- ' Is her mother's earnest prayer They breve gone their way together, And I nit in the slimmer night Alone, with the thougitte of twenty That flit through the soft neyonllght um turning on my linger My own dear wedding ring, And the memory's of a brodimo To the narrow circlet cling, It in not no broud as my daughter'n, And the yearn have worn it thin, But it clamped two 'learnt together Ito blonned bond Ulan— Hearts thnt.idit knit the closer Through life in woe or weal— Thai, present, were el or log And, absent, were eier lent IFNI yearn ftll back like a curtain. Ind my hunband comes 0114, mule And I nee hi. formln the moonlight— I hear his hand at the door. I feel him touch on my forehead; It falls like a seal of rest And my heart forgets it was tired, As I lean my head on his breast —Errhomp MOTHER'S KISSES. A kiPP when I wake In the morning' A kiPs when I go to bell, A kips when I burn my fingerm, A kips when I bump my bead. A alto when my bath In ot er, A alma when Illy bath beam. My mamma is full of ail...K. As full as nurse is of pills. A kiss when I play with my rash A kips when I pull her hair, She covered MO Or Yr with k latma The day I fell from the stair A kilts when I give her trouble, A loss when Igi•o her Joy , There'll nothing like mamma's kievee To her own little baby boy —Exchange THE LEPERS OF THE PACIFIC A Terrible Story of Leprosy In the Sandwich Islands--The Chamber of Horrors ■nd the Dance of Death. !Sandwich Inland., rorreppon.lenct+ of the San Francisco Bulletin J After a few days of very quiet life in lialuin, I began to look with no little curiosity toward a low pennedila to the westward, on the north coast Moloakai It is the hone of the lepers A swift and fortunately smooth sail under the shadow of stupendous cliffs, that make beautiful and terrible this side of the is land, brought one safely to the shore , there, watching its chance, the canoe plunged in upon the beach, over the breakers that render landing in this neighborhood very unsafe and often im possible The peninsula, perhaps three miles broad, 'Treading a NM plc of miles into the sea, is so completely isolated that you could hardly imagine a more appropriate and secure retreat lip the issir vietims of leprosy At his home, if he have any worthy of the nano, he mufeur less regarded with suspicion, or treated with reserve. Many of the na tives are quite afraid of the contagion ; I believe the disease is generally consul. tired as contagious. Hero he is Letter cared for than ho could be elsewhere ; his Gard, chairing and shaper, are cer tainties, they were peradventures be fore " klabT, Till WOltia." Forty y2ars ago, a foreigner who visited the islands communicated this nar,t horrible of diseases, to a nett ve wo nin,"did from them have sprung the seeds that even at this late day can hard ly be eradicated. Y. very inland in the kingd.in is haunted with the miserable V ietilll3, so terribly branded that no ar tii le under heaven can mask their de formity. Silently, but with deadly cer tainty, he is attacked by slow degree., and almost uncoils. iomly surrendeis his faculties to the ty really of the plague A. the doctor and I were tra‘eling, na tives came to us, thorn time to time, re porting supposed,cases of leprosy larthis or that valley. They were at once sent for, and usually made their appearance after a little hesitation. They dread lie ing carried from their homes, fearing A 01111! sort of imprisonment A few Whom the &whir senrfor Were riot to he found, having been secreted by their friends, who could not bepersuaded to confess any knowledge of their wherea bouts. • tine leper was 111110.0 d for about six months, and was still at liberty, his immediate relative keeping him conceal ed, and running the risk of inflection rather than give him up to the authori ties. At this time he 61 shunned by man and ridiculed by not a few. =IR It may be one of the instincts of our nature to laugh at deformity, but fortu nately civilization refines away this bar barian.. The natives are at least natur al—as natural as children. To them any sort of deformity is a constant source of merriment. As rude one day thro' a small village, our attention was at tracted by a swarm of children, appa rently just out of school. They were gathered about 4 yohng girl who stood like a statue in their midst; her ebfit" resting upon her breast, her hunds hid den in the folds of her coarse gown.— As we drew nearer, the children turned from her to us, calling our attention to her In a most heartlesAnanner, holding up her hadila and pointing to her feet .with boisterous - shouts of laughter. The doctor quieted their unseemly mirth, and taking the poor child's hondli, found the angers quite destitute of flesh, and• her feet in a pitiful condition, She was an undoubted leper, and her melancholy state was the occasion of the strange scene we witnessed. A. boy with a cross ed eye or a turned foot is generally brought out and oxhibited to the Haoli with the greates4nction, as one would show a double-headed chicken, or a eat with two fails: 'Usually the unhappy creatures are named from their deform ities, as "Cock-eye," or" Crooked-toe." TIM LAZAR HOLM& I was the guest of a most amiable couple, Mr. and Mrs. Walsh, who have charge of the 284 lepers now in the set . - tlement. I found mine host living in a little cottage, surrounded by the various hospital wards, dormitories and smaller buildings, in fact, right in the midst of the pestilende. Here, seldom meeting with foreigners, whose curiosity is gen orally not equal to their caution, corn - tinually at the mercy of the multitude around them ; themselves, possible vic tims of the same terrible malady, pa tient, long suffering, merciful, their life is indeed worthy of all praise. Mr. Walsh showed us through the hospitals, four fair-sized buildings of one room each, with plenty of windows, and for tunately plenty of sea air almost always blowing over the place. A YEW FACTS. It is almost like misfortune added to misfortune that the leprosy is not more swift in its work of destruction. One may live fifteen or twenty years, grow ing slowly but surely worse the whole time. The following brief statistics made some time since at the settlement show the number of cases in proportion to their standing. Of 171 lepers-2 eases were of 15 years standing, n of 14 years, 2 of 13 years, 7 of 12 years, 9 of 10 years, 7 of 9 years, 82 of 8 years, 94 of Ito 3 years, 15 under 1 year In some instances it seems to have been hereditary, but not always. The young est leper now at the settlement is about six years of age, and there is one old man * supposd to be in his eightieth year The settlement was established in Janu ary, 1866. Since that time 365 lepers have been cared for by the Government ; of these, 84 have died, not a large pro portion when you consider that some among them had been lepers ten or twelve years Lads between the ages of 12 and 15, girls from 15 to 18, seem to be the worst cases Afterward the symptoms are, in a measure modified, and the patient gradually passes away.• So far, no relief has been found in this part of the world ; mineral and vegetable pharmaney have been exhausted in the vain hope of discovering some check to she progress of the disease. Its first symptoms are almost imperceptible; it is therefore difficult to pronounce upon some of them. To avid errors a tem porary retreat is eshindished at Hono lulu, called I=l Here all doubtful MACS are attended to, and the patient has nothing further to do hut wait for further develope inentsisuA'as a thickening of the lobe of the ear, swelling of the hands and feet, paralysis of the arms end fingers, ulceration, &c. There is a deadly look in the eye which can hardly be mistak en With all than dreadful signals Of doom there is ml pain The senses are benunied, and most fortunatuly so As soon as it becomes certain that the pa tient is really a leper, he is sent it Once and for ever to the asylum at Molokia, where he is housekl and served with a fair allowance of eatables per day while all his little grievances are attended to in a gentle though firm way. HIE I 11.51111 EN 111/RlMltti We enter the room Mats spread VI all sides are covered by about a dozen Ilfbsm recumld•nt figures, among the worst of the cases A fetid Iklor, faint but perceptible, prevades the apartment We heard hard, hoarse breathing, harsh whispers and deep sighs from those who can never again speak with their old tones Thu Jet ay of the vocal organs Is almost the last stage of the plague, and scents the most terrible of all The patient is usually by this time one arias 111 corruption. Wiiat faces are turned to us as we grope 1111104 the half con genius sufferers i—mccs that look just as though they had been hacked twenty , times across with a broad-a:, and each gash healing had left a horrid seam Ears , wollea t.ll twice their tatorid size, raw-looking and bloody, while the enor mous lobes, hanging nearly ro t hi. shoul der, ooze with a siekening pus There are those with nostrils silowly withering away, some with no nasal at all; only un ulcerous cavity remains, too abomi nable to be thought of for it moment.-- Fingers grow shurp at the ends, slsugh ing the skin, shedding the joints one by ore• This man stir. lay hold ~f and re move 11 I. 4•0 without any sensati, W hat is it that trot paralyzes the bl./11.11- Nothing but death itself, grasping the vitals. The) me but hull alive, these lepers, and carry their ow'❑ Infections corpse about with them tine old wen, sating in a uutb , , u harrow strip of cloth about the loins, is el werod from head to foot with large, hard swell ings There is not vacancy enough be tween his thousand-and-one GA) hil locks to la) the tip of >our finger Yet he is unconscious of any 1/11111 whales or He turns a ghastly grin—upon us, as 110 eAnibils a new mound just mak lug its appearance on one Aide or Which is likely no crowd out is few of the older oiled. The poor wretch looks. more like a horned toad, polished down II little, than a plan and brother. THE PAW KR UK pjtATH , It is proof enough of their indifference of the future as well as their content ment with the present, to find that once upon a time these decaying remnants of humanity deliberately gave a grand ball at the hospital. There was a general cleaning out of disabled patients and a brushing up of finery, while the ball it self WWI the great topic of conversation. Two or three young fellows who had a few fingers left began to pick oika tune or two on native flutes made of InTrnboo Though rather melancholy In tone, they were certainly not inappropriate to the occasion. The old, young and middle aged took a few quick Mime in a dark corner, getting their stiffened joints lim ber again, and so familiarizing their un graceful forms with the hollow mockery of the waltz. Night V141:10 at last the lamps named in thal death chamber of the lazar itonse: The wheezing N'oloo6, no lover musical, the thilMing of half paralyzed limbs over the bare floor, the wild sea moaning in the night, all ten ded to make the scene most unearthly. The flutes began their shrill, dolorous piping; there was rushing to and fro of mid figures. A blccding, half-blind leper seized on another of the accursed beings, snatching her, as it went, from her grave, in all her loathsorne clay, he dines' her into the intoxicating whirl of the dance. Naturally excitable, heat ed with exertion, intoxicated with the very odor of death that pervaded. the hall of the revelers, the mad crowd swayed and reeled through the unholy hours. Finally satisfied with the very bitterness of their unnatural Joy, they called for the grim(' hatural Hula-Aula as a filling close; in the thick' atmos phere of smoking and half-extinguished lamp, they fed on the voluptuous aban donment of the maddened dance, till passioe itself feinted with eximution.— Was it not the dance of &lath ? ME "The sky Is etauded, the rook P ore bore The eproy of the tempest Is white in air , The wind's are inn with the WWI es sit piny And I shall not tempt the men to-day. "The trail is narrow, the wood I" dint ; The panther eling, to the tingling Ihnh. And:the (lon's whelps are abroad to piny— And 1 'than not Join the (italic to-day " But the phlp Palled palely o‘er the nea, And the hnntet a came from the einem Inglee And the town that a as 1,1111111,1 upon a reek Wan pwallowed tip In the earthquake clunk —on et fah.: .114,nflibl. Dyspepsle---A New Cure --- lip In a Ba loon The balloon ascension made from Memphis by Captain S. D. 'chomp., and Professor lir,ookm wai4 a failure, so far as testing the inechanieal attach ment Was eobeerned. The manage ment of the balloon itsell was+ bad, and the gentlemen seem to have been kepi( busy in tires eating it frchni, mount mg too high or coming down too low. The highest attitude reached was ides en thousand six hundred and severity feet. Some of the phenomena arid results of this ascension, as observed by Captain Thompson, are interesting. In him ac count of it, he mays: "Among the otherlibenomena obser veil, I might mention that the balloon, .ascending, always assumed a whirl ing motion front right to left, n bile, in descending, it us hided from left to right, and when the barometer iniheated nn equipoise, it remained stationary, turn. mg in neither direction. Fr..:a this ersation, lam satisfied that latitude and longitude can be calculated in a balloon at night les means of nit-lineal wrstrumente. We took with us 4 matches, all English levers, and in good order. At the heightoftwo miles twool them stop ped, while the other two continued to run.. The pocket compass which Dr: Bell furnished me , and which was a very delicate instrument, became COM• pletidy depolarized, and his since been gradually regaining its plarit), though at is still worthless. "The elfect of the ascension oil my own system is remarkable, and er) in teresting to me as a matter of specula tion. As soon as I returned to Memphis uty trends remarked that I looked much more ruddy in the lace than before. I can scarcely get enough to eat. I c , at twice as much as I 111 , 1 before, and with the keen relish of a child. I, attribute this to Clie expansion of the veins and cells in the body in the rarilied air, whereby the fluids of the bislx circulate a all greater treedom Prot. Wise was a continued di spe due beltire he be gan ballooning, but thie effected a corn plete and radical cure. Froth the great change produce list•ii own sy stem, should not liewate to recommend a hal loon vo age lor wit one twittering from a doairdered .donoteli or liver, warrant mg that it will do more good than a whole barrel of Ijostetter.s Bitters.- —Novel is capons were lately used by hUelnillll and aile, in Trenton, N. Y., in a quarrel a bile at ten. 'flit. stung into a piu , sion by the sharp and bitter Moline of his wile, first picked up a boy and flung him at her; but this novel missile, alter flying howling through the air like it screaming shell, brought up agdonst the state, and ex ploded in tt feries of terrific yells. The man then snatched up another child and hurled tt at him wit.. This one struck ntilt it dull thud against the wall, and the uproar became dreadful. The father was then about to seize the baby, when the titre, ttbu had been somewhat astonished at these extraor dinary proceediugs, picked up it coGe. pot filled with the be% crag, hot from the slot e, and hurled it with I+u sure an non an so vigorous an arm as to Ming the infuriate man m the floor and to terms at one and the same time. The club dren fortunately %err not seriounis hurt. —Florence is described in a letter writ ten there as a slow place. 'Flue legend stlys that Florence %Rs 1011111 1111011 a field %dillies, by rebigees from persecu tun'. al,,int fifteen hundred years before the 4'hriswu► era. The letter in ques tion says the poppy is a fitter extionent or her present, state. For It S tell of sleep is ulsm her politics, her religion, her induittr . l., Ler modern art. t The tint cer lies asleep urn his load ; the li itekm ter nods upon a bench outside his little shop in the drowsy morning. The, writer has seen a bare-foot boy enjhy• ing his siesta stretched upon the pays :tient of a crowded thoroughfare, nail another throw dos.n his cap for a pil low in the imblicstrect; with that care less grace whiclifielongs to the Italian people, as his mole prOttartaion for a minkflatidatither. —A telegram line been ree.eived at Girard, Erie county, announcing that Charles White, the lion tanner, travel ing with Thayer's Menagerie, was actually eaten up, by the lions, on Fri day night in a small town in Michigan. - In is maid to have been struck on the shoulder by the same lion, that came. so near killing him at ' Roche**, knocked down, and the others,..et once on him, and hetbre they could be beaten off had torn him to pieces and devoured the greatest portion of hid body. Fierce Fight--Two Women Engage in Bloody Combat in Tennessee.-One of them Killed. Within seven miles of Dresden, in Weekly county. Tenn.,-lives an exten sive planter named Gobert. He has one son, a lad of about twenty, with long flaxen hair and cowhide boots °Elbert employs several colored people - to work kis land. Among thosb employed were two yellowish girls, ofrather prepossess ing appearance. YonngGobert became familiar with both, to, whom he gave slighttokens of his peculiar regard, from time to time, but managed to keep each in thedark with regard tahiainteroourse with the other until last week. An accident led to a full knowledge of his faithlessness, and both girls be. came violently enraged, not so much, however, against the betrayer as against each other. At first Hwy had it slight fight; some hair was torn up by the roots, and cuts about the face given on both aides, but the young gallant parted them before any serious damage wits done. The lire of jealousy, however, raged in the bosoms of the two girls to such an extent - that they ,silently and mutually resolved each to be the death of the other. On Friday, when the. family had gone to Dresden to do business, the girls met in the yard, one an out door servant, and the other an in door servaitt. Both were armed with heavy sticks. The battle began at once. Ac. cording to the testimony ofthe surviving lady, the contest boded fifteen minutes, during which they frequently clinched, knocked each other down, rolled over, bit and scratched terrifically. Some times the sticks would be dropped for lisucnttintz, and presently resumed again. 'I he sun ivor, Jane, has an arm broken, an ear bit oft', half her hair gone, and four or five contusions about the head and shoulders, and face scratched all over. The other girl, Kate, up to the moment of recei v rig the fatal stroke, appeared to have the best of the fight, as she bears no evidence of rough hand. ling, save a blackened eye and the loss of two front teeth, which were rammed down her throat By, the point of the enemy's stick. I nimecliately that Jane's arm was broken at the elbow, she grasped her stick in the left hand, and, getting a clear and open stroke, swung her weapon round, and came home on Kate's neck u ith such force that the girl dropped down, and never uttered a cry nor 11101'141 ri luu b—her neck was broken. Jane took to tlieit at once, 1111,1 keeping in the worsts as much as possible, did not stop until she tell exhausted, about seven miles from the scene of conflict, near Westley's farm house, where she was picked up by a colored employee of the latter establish. ment. When the family canre home they found Kate cold and stilt' in the yard where the fight took place, with every indication of a karful battle having been fought. The Amazonian duelist was brought to Deesdeu, where she confessed the whole thing. Young Hobert has been put under arrest. The girl is in Cilalr of a physician, who says that her injuries may prove fatal.—Nash ville How to Lengthen Life I. C i dt i I a t e an Nimble temper; many a man Ilan fallen (Nail in a tit of pansinn. 2. Eat regularly, not over three times da), and nothing between meals. a. 1171) to bed at regular hours. Get up as soon as put wake of yourself, and do not sleep in the day time, at lemst not longer than ten minutes be fore 1101111. 4. Work Itlwaym by the day, and not by the job. 5. Stop Niorking before you are tern 11111(.11 tired out —before you are "fag Red out. - fr. l'ultilate it generous and aecom• int.dating temper 7. Neer cr.... a bridge before you (-owe to it thip 14 ill save halt the trou ble. of lite. s. Never eat when oil arc not bun gr drink %%11(.11 t rnr are not tlurr•ty •Ir. Let your appetite aiwaym come on invited. 10. Cool otl in a place greatly warm. er than the one in which you ha% e been mkereising k this simple -ule would prevent Incurable siekn CMS, and save millionn of liVe.4 every year. 11. Neer resist a call ut nature for a I+lllgle I'_'. Ne‘er allow tourself to he chill. ed "through and through ;" it is this which destroys PO many every year. in a lea days sickness trout pneumonia, eallt tl, byk collie, lung le% et or intittina. lion 4,1 the lungs. 13. NVlittstte%er drinks no liquid. at 'nett's a ill add years of pleasurithle ex. istenee to 'hilt. Of cold or warm drinks the former are the most perni cious . drinks at. locals induce peistuis to eat mutt than !het ot-lierwise Ite any one can terift Ly e‘periinent and It is execs la eating which devas tates the hind with sickuct-s, sulk:ring and detail. 14. After fitly years 01 age, it not a day laborer, and sedentary person after forty, should eatlat twice a 'day, in the morning and tour in the afternoon i per suns can soon accustom themselves to a se% emlonir interval between eating, thtnl giving the tdoninch rest : every' or gall without adetplate rent will "give out itrentatarely.— Hui C a Journal of 111111 M. —Among the clerks in the dead.let• ter office, says the Press, is a brother or Amos Kendall, ulio appointed hint A% hile he nits Postmaster (federal ip Jackson's Cabinet, more than thirty years ago. Amos lictidall is now north over a million of dollars. His brother still enjoys his tnelve hundred dollar clerkship, and has never gotten beyond thst point. His story in a les son Mr the young men who so eagerly strive alter tiovernment appgiutments. Ninetymine times out: of a hundred n clerkship is a curse to a'young man, if there is any tiring in him. - 7 A debating lux:4oV had under eon sideratjon the question, " Is ic wrong to cheat a lawyer?" The decision ar rived at was, " No, but impossible." Quaint—Married en Chemise— When and Wherefore. n England, flow early Slimes until the present, a notion has prevailed that if a man married a woman in her shift only, he was not, liable to any debts Which she might have contracted. This was a vulgar error, founded probably on the legal intigini that a husband is liable to his wife% debts, because he, upon marriage, acquired an absolute interest in her personal estate—the un learned deduction being that if the wire bad no estate the husband would not incur any liabilit.y The register bodks of a village in Wilts, under date 0f1715, contain en entry of a marriage of a wo man "in her smock, without any clothes or heath-gear on." At Ulcomb, in Kent, in 1725, a woman was married in her chemise. At Whitehaven, in 176 f), a woman stripped herself to her shill in the church, and in that condition she stood at the altar and was married. In Lincolnshire, between 1838 anti 1834,a woman was married enveloped only in a sheet. And not' many years-Pack a sit filar marriage took place. The clergyman finding nothing in the rub ric about the woman's dress, thought he could not refuse to marry her in her chemise only. At Kirtomin Lindsey there was s popular belief that the i'VQ. man must be actually nude when she left her residence for that oilier intend ed husband, in order to relieve him front her debts; and a case of this kind occurred. A woman left her house from a bed-room on in state of nudity, and put on her clothes as she stool upon the top of the ladder by which she neemnplislied her descent. The notion ofa marriage in a chemise was prevalent at Cottenhant, in Cam bridgeshire, recently. FIVE CENTS WORTII Oasxcr. PEEL —A man from the e 48fed live cents in I fart ford, mi., in the nrehase of an orange, and pre paratoy to getting himself outside it, threw the peel on the sidewalk. n after, a young VTOIIIOOI came al ng, slipped upon the peel, and fell, en king her leg. The woman was to have been married the next day, but wasn't. The man who was to mart.) tier had come from St. Paul, Minn., and was obliged to return on account of business, to await the recovery of the girl. on his way back he unfortunately took a train on the Erie Railroad, which ran Mr the track, and his iihoulderblade was - broken, forcing him to stop at Dunkirk for re pairs. On getting Wick to St. Paul he town! RAU his forced absence had upset a business arrangement which he had expected to complete, at a pecuniary kiss to 0r55,000. Meantime the in jured girTmuttered a relapse, tvluch so enfeetrlVlT Ler health - that her marriage wa.B delnA.ed, Which had a bail effect on the young man, and he finally broke the engagement and married it widow in Minnesota with four small children. This so worked upon the mind of the girl that she is now in the insane Hospital at Middletown, Connecticut. Iler'lather, outraged by the conduct of the young man, brought a suit for breach of pmmime, and has just recovered ten thousand dollars. The anxiety and ex bense of the whole affair thus far have een enormous, as anybody can see. Sun ilar cases are likely to occur, so long its people:will persist in thron mg orange lied around loose. —ln Richmond is a negro who, eighteen years ago, bought his freedom of his master, and, working hard, early and late, soon was able to buy his w Ile has been prospering since, and he torowtt 1613444444 livery stable alt.! Inick, stand in the state, and is said to be worth .$50,00. His old master, when Lee evacuated Richmond, was worth hall a million dollars. Thous ands upon thousands were destroyed by tire, money went this way and that, and not long niter he came back to Richmond, broken in spirit, ruined in property and tired of his troublesome life. His old slave found him, took him to his house, gave hint the best medi cal skill that mom.% could buy and every luxury. Presently the old man died, peacefully and happily: fiis fun eral wits a large and expensive one, and he was borne to it lot in the ceme tery paid for by his obi slave, who also Laid fir the funeral outlay. Over him was raised a handsome monument, prod for with the negro s money. The widow of tbli deceased slave ow tier hu es in a house presented by the negro, who also supplies her with every comfort. YOI NO Mw , Y. \V tvrErf.—A lady writer tinder doe liendttig, hits off the wen 118 10110W8 "A woman wants you. I.n't forget her. iton't wait to be rich •if you do, ten to one you are not tit to he married. Marry while you are young and struggle up together. But nit ,young roan, the woman don't want you it site is to dry ide her afreetiona with a cigar, spittoon or whiaky jug, Neither does she want you if you don't take care of her and the little "alter thoughts" which are sure to' follow. Neither dues she want you simply Rteanse you are a man, the definition of which is too apt to he an animal that wears bifurcated garments on his lower limbs, a quarter section of s.ove pipe on ltia head, swears like a pirate, and is given to filthy practice generally. She. wants you for a com panion, a helpmate—she wants you to have learned to regulate your appetite and passions ;in sljort the image of Plod, not the likeness of a beast." —A. man whp lately sued a lady for breaelr of promise was offered $2OO to settle. "What!" he cried, "two hun dred dollars !or ruined hopes, a shatter ed mind, a blasted lite, and a bleeding heartr, Two hundred dollars for all this! Nev'r, never! Make it three, and it'd a bargain." —AColorano miner wrote the follow illk coloblie AKA hopeflil le4ter to his true love : "Leven years is rather long to Icon IN gal, but ile have you yit, Cate." All Sorts of Paragraphs. Greely'a umbrella Is forty-two years —God cures and the doctor takes the —Santa Anna is to return to Staten Island soon. s —The Crown Prince of Prussia wears paper collars. —Victor Emanuel's abdication is looked for by Italians. —An entire jury of Smiths was re. eently impanneled in Sheffield, England, - • —A joyous smile adds an hour to one'f life, a heartfelt laugh a day ; a grin, n o t a moment. —A Linn Francisco runaway caliplo hired a tug-bout and were married out in the harbor. —One dollar i 8 the prico which a fear. less youth in Missouri asks fur biting off a rattlesnake's head. —A San Francisco tobacconist, e i., l making 1,000 fine cigars, each tipped with gold, as a present for Grant. --A picture of despair—a pig reach ing through a , hole in \a fence to get a cabbage that lies a few inches beyond his roach. lle performing "L'Africaine" at Htockholm, the ship was made to rock so naturally that the prima donna b o . eanio sea sick. —The Duke of Hamilton, rmgenie', cousin, has boon outlawed from the Tuillories. His latest sensation was de lirium tremors. —Wliy are young Indies at the break. ing up of a party like an arrow 7 Be_ cause they can't go oil without a beau end are quiver until they can get or e —ln Cork, Ireland, a sheirt time ap, the crier of the court endeavored t o clear it by exclaiming, "All ye Lark_ ,guardsthat isn't lawyers, lave the court." A couple in Savannah met for the fir•it time on Friday last, courted Saturday, were 'engaged" Sunday, and married on Monday. The groom is seventy-live and the bride fifteen. —Miss Sarah T. Lovell, who died on the 16th at Bangor, Maine, at 73, bad been 36 years in bed with conatimption, and suceetxled in surviving a whole fam ily, none of whom, herself excepted, Cad the disease. —A little boy in giving an neeount to )119 brother of the Garden of F,don,••lod "The Lord Inn& a gardener and put bird in the gaklen to take care of it, and to see that nobody hurt anything or pasted hills on the trees." • —The Mayor of Mobile recently mar ried a colored couple. After the cere nuiny, the husband said, "Massa Caleb,^s you have forgotten eomething." "What is it, Aaron V naked Mayor. "Why you ain't bussed do bride." —Mrs. Mary Perkins and her two daughters were drowned in a will pond in the town of Wondisluoit, N. Y . the other day. They were riding by when their horse took fright and backed tilt., the water, where it was sortie twill) feet deep. —The poet Longfellow, at a party in Boston, asked a French gentleman. Whi, happened to be present., why he maned so sad and unhappy at that moment To which the latUir replied, "Me very mash dissatisfy Ito just hear dat ray fadere be dead I" —ln a divorce case in Indiana, a let ter front the defendant was read, in which she said that she was unable to is present, but she begged the court for God's sake and her sake to let her hu, band have the decree, and the court granted her request. —Fourteen old "girl( assembled nt a party at Saxton's river the other day, found that their united age wa. 2,043 years The oldest, who was Hl, in being inN tel to ride home in the evrnm, after the party, resented the imputation, and said "she'd rather walk." —lt ii not 1111 uncommon comito,l, againq a newspaper that it liton't lif enough. But a brother editor repert: this objection, made to part by it gossip-luting lady • .tI like your paper very much ; I have only_one obj..cuon to it—it hrten't deathe enough " —Among the old litwx and regulation , which formerly exiated in M as,achu• by-Law in the town of S, d ilate, that one must not smoke a pip , during Divine aervice but might he initted to delay going to church if he had a champ to shoot an Indian —Stroke the buck of a cll with one hand, and at tilfraatnc time touch the top of your head with the f otinzer of the other hand, and you will reeeße an electric shoek equal to that from the lint• teries of n telegraph office The ~xpert• ment is worth tryijilif —Exchange —Corns —an exehange gives the fol lowing as a sure curs for corm , "Olio teaspoonful of tar, 01113 Of Coal , . brown sugar, and cum of saltpetre Thy whole to be warmed together Sprml it on kid leather the size of the corns, and in two days they will ho drawn out '' —During the late hurricane at Ship man, two MOD wore blown over OW hundred yards inn% lodged in apple trees, without sustaining any material damage A calf eight months old was hkewase transported into a large !opt _ tree, end hundred feet distant rom where it waif quietly and peaceably grazing A Venerable Printer.—W. L. Burry, Esq., of the Lebanon (Tenn.) Ilertild, aged eightyrnitte years, le the oldest printer in America. Ho sets his ten thousand ems from sun to sun, end bundles hie composing stick with s' much ease and accuracy as whom he 0 4 the obituary notice of tieorgo Washing" ton, —I n 1860 the then Prince Regent, now King of Prussia, told ono of hie conli' clouts that there was ono member of the Prussian diplomatic corps whose very Hildahe hated. This unfortunate diplo matist was none other that' Otto von Bismarck, who Is now Prime Minister under the man who then so sinoorely hated him. —A kind physician, living near Bos ton, wishing to smooth the last hours of a poor woman whom ho was attend ing, asked her if thoro was anything that he could do for her before she died. The poor soul,. looking up, replied: — "I/odor, I have always (bought that I would like to have - a glass butter dish before I died I"
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