The Demltt*lt.Watchman.' BELLEFONTE, PA FIRST AND LAST. I= It le long ago In the days that are paid, When life wag young and my blood !lowed fast, And mydreamt were of wealth and of early fame, When I thought to win me a golden name, That I loved a being to me more fair Than the viewleen forma of the upper air. Older 1n years was she than I, But ehl the glance of her Itietrous eye Wee brighter to me than the light that lives In the noon-oay beam which the warm sun RiVOS ; Sn Willy a young man's fancyploys ,Round the woman he loves hMa early days. Heir of a golden shade had !Me— llen. more golden by gir to me Than the golden hue of the goidenest wine; Ohl she was something half divine— Face and figure and eyes ma hair, Ah, never was queen on a throne more fair. A jewelled crown for her stately head, Belot"'ant &monde and rubles red. With pearls of the Orient, milky white, And opals Ailed with a lurid li ht. Turkia andjasper, she would have worn Had I bee 6 Hie heir le t k ingdom born. But the love which I cherished is long since t he the wtiman I lowed le long sire,wed. And other loves in any heart found room to bud and Wesson sod.k indly bloom; For love, like a flower, epilogs up anew In the place where the old one lived and grew. Time has been gentle and God has bee% good, And a 'dower motion Is In the blood: • And the hair which was once an black u night. To-day with the:frosts of age In white, As I sit and think of the Denied P.M. When life was young and the blood flowed fist. And my heart Is filled with • gentler love, Which nestles within it like a dove, For the child who climbs to my knee this . And p d r.ites and laughs in her childish was, 41.1. she presses to mine her locks of gold— 'The IBM 10,41 on earth'of a man grown old., Gossip About Napoleon, Eugenie sad Abe Priaoe tonsorial—Their Present Personal Appearanoo. The Emperor, Empress and Prince Imperial, now that the weather is fine, drive out nearly every day along the Champs El7sees and thellois. Fa. miliar as their appearrnce is to the public the streets are always lined when it is known they are to pass. The Prince is an interesting looking little fellow, with an expression of sad ness in his face that may be the herald of his coming doom, He is in better health than he has been, but is still suffering from bodily infirmities. His mother dotes on him. One can see her heart is centered in her only son, for her eyes are always on him. Louis Napoleon may be dying of forty or fifty mortal diseases with which the news papers are oonstantly.supplying him, but judging by his appearance, they don't butt Kim much. He is very common-place in nem blance, his eye dull and his face perfect ly impassive . He might well he mis taken for a Hebrew clothes-dealer of long experience, who, having turned his attention to governing a great coun• try, had resolved to make his intentions inscrutable. He reminds you 01 one of Chain's caricaturea, with great body, and his short little legs thit seem inca pable of supporting the weight that has been so unnaturally thrust upon them. I do not believe he is unpopu lar with the French people, who are bound to have • certain amount of political discontent, whether a Napo leon or a Nero reigns over :heir. Louis may he a supreme egotist, but he loves France; has certainly done much for his country and for Paris. He has made the -most attractive city in the world. He arnuees the people,. and has added to the glory of the na tiori. What more do Frenchmen need, and what more will they ask ? Eugenie is showing traces °lleum-- it may be of sorrow—and she is repair ing them by artifisial meant!. She is not so pretty as she has been, but she is very elegant, distingue in her manner and entourage. Her face sometimes seems Tfimipid, hut it lights up when she is moved, as if her heart had caught fire. Her mouth and chin are beauti ful, and in her deep eves are unfathom able emotions. She has tragedy and comedy in her nature, and is capable of heroic things, I am confident. She will do them, I believe, if the occasion comes to her, and, live in the future history 'of France with Jean d'Arc, Charlotte Corday, and Madome Roland. Eugenie is much loved by the people, though the scandal is still kept up that her husband' is not the father Of her child. They may. like her all tbe bet ter for tbst - possibility. They.neould be moat unjust not to forgive in her what they are forced to condemn in themselves. She is much altered from what she was. She has gone through the three stages of French woman hood—gallantry, learning and devotion. As the Couptess de Teba, she was de cidedly fast. Atter marriage, ehe grew to be a Las him, though little was said of it. Now she is extremely religious, and daily becoming more so.—Maria Correspondence CAicago Tribune. KNQWING WlllOll TO K loc.— The late Col McClung, of Mississippi, once got into sedispute in the office of the Pren tiss House at Vicksbnrg, with a rowdy, when' to end the matter without delay, he took the rowdy by the "nap of the neck," led him to the door and kicked "him into the street. The kicked picked hitaseif up, walked away, and here the matter ended. Some weeks after, McClung was in New Orleans, and when walking up St. Charles street saw the fellow ht had kicked out xd" the Prentiss House kicking a Kitblrd . party out et a drinking saloon McClung walked up to his old ac ljuaintanee, once"kicked but bow kicker, autd alter scanning him closely, said: "Look here, my line fellow, are you not the man I kicked out the Pren tiss Souse the other dpyr "Softly, softly, Cone y )," repliedtbe 'rowdy, taking him by the ann, "don't mention it—l'm the man—but—you and I know whotrrto ktekr , --4 Hard Case. 4 fewereeksliC l 4 thislown, a wo. in wea l committed to jail, convicted of be murder of her husband. She h w e a w s O y .i is 1 ' /Pi 4 . in, . • r.. , gravated c . f , r killed him ie e o e roma. 31 .• .v rOl - sal, the has nd WM ai* k kind man, indulgent, to his fami ly as far as his circumstances would pern4s and that he was ruled by his termagant wife, the "ugl lest piece of flesh at large r " one man stud. What could be said m pritisemf Lim and dispraise of her was said, so quick is Iptuf4r.4,44 l Path.Y to change from the living to the dead. "The Goon men do, lives titer them— The svn. Is Interred with their bones." I visited the murderess in jail. She was the most abject creature I ever saw, wearing a hunted look, as of one driven here and there by some aveng ing fate, which she neither understood nor battled. She is either crazy or foolish, I said, glancing at the eye, for this alone gave sign of life--the head had stupid written all over it—the eye said fear or cunning. 1 talked with her, and from her fragmentary , history, incoherently told, 1 gathered a few facts. Her married life had been one uninterrupted eeriest of wrongs. "He used me like a dog" she kept repenting, half audit*. "I didn't go to do it, but he used nie like a dog"—this was the refrain. "tie pounded my baby till it was black—he kicked my children he I starved me most, when I was sick. He kicked me belime my baby was born ,• see he e, where the smelling ist—l could have got along with hint if he haden't hurt my baby—he used me like a dog, but I didn't go to do it." • • I tried to rouse her to a sense of her guilt; tried to show her how she should have gone away from him, and court. plained of him to proper authorities. 'lt was throwing words away. If there was ever moral consciousness it seem• ed dead beyond resurrection. Once she cried far her baby, but it was the wail of maternal instinct. I said, when you go into court tell your story—ae-you told it to me, and I think the men•jury will see that b■g abuses make demons or slaves of the beet of us. Mhe looked at me with a hopek-se look—`•[ want to nee iffy baby—l'd rather be hung—l don't want•to talk to the men." I could do nothing more for her; ehe would not be tried by her peers. Wo manly syiupathy might surround her, while she was in prison—in the court room the forlorn being Mood alone. Men would, plead for her, 'and men would plead against her; men would silt and mum up theevidence, and men would acquit or condemn. What earthly fate awaited her we shallnever know. Death holdi the me , cret. She hung herself one night, was taken down in the morning, and with out having her face washed, or her soiled clothes changed, was laid in a rough coffin and burled. Not a friend or relative was sent for, the baby she cried to see, the children for whose sake ehe committed the deed she said), will never know aught of her blind life, and its dismal close. She did wrong, but ehe had suffered wrong. Am ahe lived tio mhe died, and the a heriltand coroner buried her, "like a dog." Mr. ■uokle's Law of Average The late Mr. e lluckle, in his intro duction to the Iristory of Civilixntwn in England," somewhat startled the world by announcing a theory of aver age which- he applied to all human .setionn, and from which he argued that we might forecast the future. It vies philosophy teaching -by mails ties.. In such a space of time there would be so many forgeries, anew, murders. Not only this, but ihe me:- (tern would repeat themselves in the manner of their perpetration ; just the same number be by poison, by the pis tol, by the bludgeon, ke. If in any three months of 1820, mix none had killed their fathers, the like number of case* of parricide, _with a certain increase for the inert/sae of population, would occur in the same three months of I IMO. We are under the operation of a law seemingly beyond our control or recogn i lion. This extraordinary theory has seem ingly just received a striking email-- 'nation in the Registrar General's re port of accidents in the streets of Lou don. For many yearn pant it has been observed that for first nineteen weeks of the year just seventyfour persons have been killed by being run over in the -public thoroughfares. It anti therefore expected, from the unfailing law of aver age, that the same number would be killed for the first nineteen weeks in 1869. On the Bth day of May, after the lapse ofeighteen weeks, the number of fatal accidents of this kind should have been seventy, but it fell four short of that number. Obvionely, then, the law ()leverage must fail, or thenoctdente for the week ending the 15th of May must be doubled. Curiously enough for the seven days from the Bth to the Ifitli,efgA/ persons were actually killed instead of foar, and thus the seventy four victims demanded by the merci less arithmetic were fully made up. This was Certainly odd. The deduc• tion from it would seem to be that when accidents or crimes are in arrears, the public should he notified, in order that, by increased'eaution or vigilance, the expected disasters may be avoided. We take precautionary measures against Unusual peril, which we can confidently anticipate ; we give addi• tional props to buildings which are - No undergo an unaccustomed strain, and double a police force when immenee crowds of people are to be brought to. , gether. Should there not also be re doubled care and watchfulness against periods which the law of average teaches us will be more than ordinari ly fatal —h cost just 8208 to try a negro at Columbus, Georgia, for stealing a chicken valued at 37 cents. Mathes.lith DrqdMed -Jo I Hit . ilikiod... We make the folloging extra from n article, contribute!' to Apo* taiilte 1 rem ., PI ~ 1 ' '441 w neOlt of th e /Orli* or e earth 'and' O f r *eC 11 ft Reve ati . he'alitro w nittlled Ilthe civ. his w' d k Ilion o the data fur. i his d its in the NM life reukon the date of the flood from the dates found in the 6th chapter or Genesis. We learn from this chapter that Adam lived, before his eon Seth was born, 134 years ; Seth lived, before hie eon Enos wits born, 105 years; Enos lived, before his eon Cainaan was born, 00 years coins n lived, befbre his son Mahalatml was born, 70 years ; Malialahul lived, before his son Jared' was born, 65 3 ears ; Jared lived before his S'on Enoch was born, 162 years ; Enoch lived, be. fore his son Methuselah 687 was born, 95 years; Methuselah lived before his son Lamed' wax born, TB7 years ; La meth lived before his son Noah was born, 182 years; Noah, hence was born Anna Mundi 1056. in Genesis, 7th chapter, 6th verse, we are infortned that Noah was 600 years old - Witen the flood of water was upon the earth. Add 600 years his age to 1056, the date of his birth, and we have 1656, the'date of the flood. We learn from 37th verse, sth chapter of Genesis, that "all the days of Methuse lah were 969 years and ho died." By reference to the foregoing table it will be seen that Methuselah was born Anno Mundi 687; add his age 969 to 687, the date of his birth, and we have 1656, the time "when the flood of waters w as upon the earth." The conclusion is as certain its figures, that the oldest man wits drowned for his wickedness. —Tire Ocertand Mon( lily given sonic interesting particidars of the pe culiarities of Ch Mae funerals. The re ligious notions controlling them arc credited to a period anterior to Budilali or Tau, and they occur on the 4th of April. his believed that the gates of hell are then opened and that the spirits have a month's holiday. The surviv ing relatives prepare for their coming with presents and gayety. One bun dred and twenty.six hogs baked whole, chickens, duck, fish, pastry fruit and wine, rice, candles and spices were p r o. vided by the Orientals at the last ghost ly visit from their celestial and purga torial guests. The fourteenth day of the seventh month is annually set apart as a festival for vagrant, pauper and orphan spirits. —A western paper is responsible fur the following: It is said that a cup of coffee is a cure barometer, if 3ou allow the sugar to drop to the bottom of a cup rend watch the bubbles arise without disturbing the c,offoa. If the bubbles collect in the middle,the weather will be flee; if they adhere to the cur, forming a ring, it will be rainy , and if the bub bles separate witptut assuming any fixed position, changeable weather may bees ',feted. —Commorore Vanderbilt went into the Union I)epbt at Troy the other day, and asked when the next train would leave for New York. An employee, not reoognizing the old gentleman, an swered in a careless manner, hut was rather surprised and enlightened by the rejoinder: " I can't wait for that train-, send down and get me a special loco motive and car." The Commodore start• ed for New York soon afterward in cone any with the Hon. John leforriw sey. —A boy tamed Henry Johnson, liv• ing in litichigan,chtubod into an apple• tree, back of a farmer's house, the other night, and imitated the hooting of an owl so accurately that the farmer rushed out and put nine buckshot into him. It is said that Henry' has riot hooted since. —" Wonder% will never cease." e:o thinks old Mr. John Wonder, of Rut. land, Vt.,•who, although the father of eleven children, wan on the 30th ult., presented with two small Cemale \%'on• dears and a boy Wonder, that made old Mr. Wonder wonder what /MIN coming next. —A little Ito) met h is Sabbath itchool teal:her o and innocently naked her if to Kay "cofferdam" was %wearing. She replied, "no 11/7 dear—what makes you ask that question ?" His wer was, "1 Paw an old cow down the street )(eider, she was nearly choked to death, mad I thought she would notrer-datti head oft —When Napoleon I. escaped front Elba the Purim Moniteur thee chroni cled him progrivis : "The antlinopoplitt• giet" has escaped—the "Cornicanogre" hag landed—the "tiger" its °online— the "'monster" has slept at Grenoble— the "usurper" ham been seen in the en v irons of Paris—" Bonaparte" /avant:ea toward, hut will never enter the capi tal—" Napoleon will be under our rai..• part to-morrow—the "Emperor" has arrived nit Fontainebleau—and bit4tly, his "Intperial Majesty" entered the Tuileries,ou the 31at of March, in the midst oritis faithful mithjecte." A French lady of rank has sun.' for a divorce from her husband ou the ground of ill-treatment, 441 d desertion. One of the most merlons Items laid to the charge of thedefendant is that when he returned from the Mexican cam paign, instead of flying at once to Pau, where his wife pas staying, hesent her the following telegram r "Where are my shirts P I can't find them." All Pau noon became aware of the laconic dispatch, and the Princess could not leave her house without being asked what she had done with her humbapd's linen. —A nian in Benton., Maine, who had not seen his eon for eight years, and supposed him dead, discovered him in one of the circus gymntAlsts who visited that town a few days ehlce. HIE OLD STORY. "The Alla are get and the breast le up, Aed the ramie turned (or a northern sea; Klee nt&c 'and Aug , Me a row Tbat pu I ever be true to met" . 4 1 kler h and lilt i: , lptill Vive c ge is hen ' bait me, le d 0,41* corn death-. • rII Inc • e yntt son . *bailie trt Sighyt are Itfen l• . eP. loi In to ihe frozen throuds ; A Mee burns hot throtigh hte dreams of home, AO his heart goeth south through the flying cloud". The maiden laughs by the garden gate— ' Lune of love are the seeneet o'er, Klaaaa fail on her lips bud hAit. And the woria `{app ea it went beforc. • • —,isippincors Arnon.thte Sunday In Holland A correspondent from the city of Hague says: • Let not the American or English traveler who carries the me-. presaible "Murray" under his arm be misled by his "guide, philosopher and friend" into a belief that the Dutch are strict observers of the sabbath. They are not one whit more rigid than the Parisians, and though they are for the most part Preshyterian Calvinists, they are no more like the Presbyterians of North Britain than the climate of Hob land is like that of Siatn. As for the performances t 4 th i "Cafes Chantants" of Amsterdam, the are more grossly indecent than Ilnyt ling I ever saw in my life. Thanks to the "Grand I t hich• ease de Gerolstein," we have all of late been more or lees initiated into my steriee of the can cani but still thedress of the t . rdinary actress or dansenes is of that ideal kind that refus t es to suggest the actualities of every day life. Now, one of the chief attractiotts at one of the Amsterdam cafes is a young lady from Berlin, who sings in }rent!' an extremely "fast" song, and who by dextrous movement of her drapery con trives to exhibit to the spectators those usually hidden articles of apparel which belong to the normal French wardrobe of this half of the nineteenth century. —The venerable Thurlow Weed, whose health was so feeble last year and whose demise has been looked for by many for a long time, was one of Mr Raymond's pall-hearers. How little did the departed journalist realize, when accounts of Mr Weed's failing health reached us from beyond the sea last year, that the latter would live to be one of the mourners at his tomb. Mx Raymond, hie political disciple and follower, would undoubtedly have been one of Mr Weed's pall-hearers had he lived. But how true it is that the Des troyer not unfre)luently cuts down those who have a promise of long life I efo.e them, and passel, by others long linger ing on the borders of the grave. —The inhabitants of Boniestfir,•anys a Freurh paper, were greatly astonish ed one morning, not long since, to nee floating from the summit of the spire of Saint-Michael a colored flag, raid to he a piece of a curtain, on which wan drawn a hefirt pierced by an arrow, and underneath were the words "bib erte, Paix." The spire is about 375 feet in Ii eight, and extremely difficult of accent. What interest or fantasy could have induced any man to per. form such a feat at night puzzles every one. Two workmen have been employ ed to get down the banner. —A schoolmaster a in Lancaster coup ty public school was drilling a class SDI& youngsters in arithmetic. He said to them : "11l cut an apple in two what will the parts be ?" "Halves! was the answer. "If I cut the halves in two what would you call the parts !"Quar ten! I" "II I cut the quarters in two what would the parts be?" (iinani• inously), "snits l" NEVER TRAVELED.—A story Is told of au old lady who lived near Roches ter, a ho had never seen or traveled on a railroad. Wanting to go on a visit to a small town a short distahce from the city, she thought she would try one of die pesky things. She went to the ticket office, carrying her reticule on one arm and an old fashioned rock ing chair on the other. She bought her ticket, walked out on the platform, Pot down her rocking chair, sat down in it, took out her knitting, arid went. to work clilligently. Steadily she rock ed and worked, trains coming in or leaving as the car time came round.— The 'old lady made 150 attempt to get on the ears, but kept knitting. The day drew to a close, and night came on. The last train was starting, Millen the depot master went up and asked her it she was going "Yen sir," replied the lady. "Hadn't you better go on board and secure a seatrsuid the depot master. "'llanKyon sir," I'm very comforta• ble," rep ired the elderly dame. The train len. The master came round again. "Madam, I shall have to disturb you it is late; he trains have all left, and we must close the depot. Shall I send you to a hotel 7" "Well r exclaimed the old lady, drop ping her knitting and holding up her hands "ain't the thing going to move ? Here I brought lay chair from home no an to have a merit, on which now pelfky man couldn't squeeze hininelf I've set here all day waitin' for the thing to go, and here I've had all my trouble for nothing. I thought it was a long time moving. I declare that these here railroads is the biggest nuisance and humbug us ever was!" and the oid lady, with a bag on one arm and rocking chair in the other, gave a tons of her head and walked off hr high indigna tion. (411XEN VICTORIA has reached her fiftieth birtintay. What a remarkable life this monarch has led wince the death of her husband I Although half a century old, she still •maintains her conjugal love—so uncommon among the great—in its earliest fire and purity. She is a remarkable - maniple of the tenacity of woman's love when centered upon a worthy. abject. Du 001004!. The Afristatr traveller, w , He, in an African village, journey. had tit. ... quiet to b e reps ,consider aep "t ' .y ~ ' old Wen of th} t sod key . ' wil that he shoo reniOn 'th th '',. Early one 'inOru * lia.ivaef e urpr '. •to see be tweenomx mid ven '.ndred young ,women of the trl ' niirah up and from I a circle around MM. Au old man, who appeard th be the orator ? stated 1 thatas they *jelled to ha .e lum stay witlt . ..them they had brought their yoditre women to hini so that he might I choose a wife. The sable beauties ap peared quite willing to make hitu hap. py, and so expressed them/ern. Du Chaillu was concerned, but declined accepting, stating that as' he was a good spirit, he did not want to make all the others unhappy by' choosing but one. The old men withdrew at this poser, and consultenogether. At length the orator of the occasion appeared and said : 4 "We / have seen it, Aguize (spirit), you Spoke what was true. If you took one the rest will be unhappy. Take thorn all." Du Chaillu travelled the "next morn THE FORCE OF AN EXAMPLE-A 117221 I=l A m'olher•lohster with her daughter Conversing near their native water, Am:1'1.10801y watching, as oho talked, The style la which the latter walked, Rebuked her for her awkard way Of locomotion. Te 11 me, pray," The matron scolded, "why Instead Of backward you don't go ahead? Such Awkiirdoesx t—( course you know 'Tin not the preper way to go: Slum, folks of sense you thus will shock. And make yourself a laugh ing stock I" - -What!" said the child, "do you suppose I don't know how my mother goes? titian 1 adopt the plan you say. While all the rest go rother way? I really haven't got the face To change the custom of my race; It need not put you Ins passion, I merely mean to be In fashion; And. haying learned the way from you, I'll walk—asi other lobsters do I" I=3 To fix a good or evil ecurse, Example is of potent force; And they who wish the young to teach Must even practice what they preach I K [WM 111 r KILKOSICNE Terrible Death.—On the morning of the fifth of July, about the hour of six o'clock, the citizens of New Hope were startled by a tremendous explosion, louder even than that of a cannon, which was dis tinctly heard miles away. The Bud. den shock wax found to have emanated from the house of .James Bulger, and resulted in the terrible and sudden death of his little daughter, an inter coding girl, under the following sad anrt painful circumstances. Soon alter com• ing down stairs, she commenced pre. partitions as usual for getting break hurt, arid started to kindle a fire in the rate. In doing so, she had collected sonic light wood nod shavings, poured over them a small quantity of kerosene, the betterto kindle Cfie fire; and was in the act of lighting a watch, with the can of kerosene still held in one hand, when quick,er then lightning flash, the gas issued from the mouth of the can ignited by the striking of the match— an instantaneous explosion followed— arid the unfortunate victini of . her own folly was enshrouded in learfnlibuoz. A younger sister, who was standing in the room at the time, but fortunately some distance oil; immediately ran out and sounded en alarm to her mother who was some yenta away from the house. At this moment, upon first hearing the cries of terror, a heroic lit= tle lad, whose name we regret nut hav ing, save that he was the son of Owen Markey ,living opposite, jumped into the canal and swam across,•and with the assistance of some others, tore the half consumed clothing from the body of the unfortunate girl. She was so bad ly hurried that she died in about an hour after the accident. Upon exam ination it was found that she had in haled the burning gas, which had reduc ed the interior of her chest to a crisp. —Deylestoreri Dertweral. —There in a blithesome maiden that lives next door to me her eyes as black as midnight, and as handsome as can be; her cheeks are full of dim. plea, and red us any rose; and then, this love of mine, too, has got a Roman noel: I I asked her if she'd have me, (that was the% other night.):and this was the reply, filen& : ''Why, Jim my, you are tight I" Says I, "I know I have, love, aboard a little wine, but that is not the question—will you, or not, be miner And then she put her face, friends, as near mine as nbe conic], rind with the nweeteat smile, friends, nut,' simply that she would—escort me to the door if was ready to depart. And this in the way the girl next door declined my hand arid heart. —At a recent Sabbath school concert, in a suburban church, the ordinance of baptism was administered. The clergyman in charge expressed grati fication that the occasion offered him so good an opportunity to explain to the children the nature of the service. Itv wag of illustration_he said : "in Ohl Testament times, Mood was'ofler ed as an atoning sacrifice, hence it was spoken of an a purifier but what is used as an emblem of purity now-a-daye 7 — what element conveys the idise of per fect cleanliness 7" A moment's silence,. and then a dozen little voices squeaked out—"Sortp!" —The ruling passion was recently exhibited in a remarkable instiller, on the occasion ora funeral. An old lady had loot her liusbaxtd, and on the day of the funeral her neighbors were Pome• what tardy in appearing at the soleni• "Nabby," said she, "hand me my knitting ; I might as well be taking a fewritclies white the gathering is taking place." During the recent freeheti n COnneet tient, a Waterbury edito telegraphed another at the scene of action, "Setid me full particulars of the flocxl.l' The answer came, "You will find them io Genesis." All *orb of Parypraphs. ~..40f the richleak nothing. —To the poor owe nothing. Bere wells make gadding boube wives. —There are ten Indians to ono Rug. elan in Al. Ike. —Miseissippi expecte a $40,000,000 cotton crop this season. —Employment is nature's Physician and Is essential to human happiness. , —lt is to live twice, when you can enjoy the recollectiOns 'CI your former life. —Tho ladies are moving to introduce Chinese servant girls into the Eastern shies. —There is, perhaps, no mechanism equal to that of a beer pump in its pow. er of elevating the masses. —An emigrant train, consisting of a man, his wife and four children, all bare. foot, is Walking through Ohio on the way Whit. • •-Prince Artluitli to occupy apart. monk' t )tdntreal " only a little super. for to those usually allowed officers of hie rank." —" I go through my work," an the needle said to the boy. "But not till you are hard pushed," as the idle boy said to the needle. —Able-bodied Chinamen work in China for about two dollars a month, ■nd aro glad to got that. They aro com ing here to try their luck as farm hands. —A singular mirage was seen recent ly on Lake Ontario. Tholihore of Can ada was visible, buildings loomed up, and vessels appeared Failing keel upper most. —The difference between the Ameri• can and African wilderness is rep:Tern. led to be that in ono you are surrounded by black bears, and in tho other by bare black", —Letter sent by an affectionate daugb. ter to her father in a logging-carm " Father, dear fether„kome home." lie. ply—" When the spring time comes, gentle Annie." —They that deny a God, destroy man's nobility ; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts of his body ; and if he be not of kin to Gal by his spirit, be is an ignoble creature. —A. woman, arrested for throwtng pail of slop into the street, was kept five days in a New York cell because a po• lice captain and a police judge didn't happen to be on speaking terms. A PRXTTT SIMILE.-AR bees bred no poison, though they suck the deedh. est juices, so the noble mind, though forced to drink the cup of misery, can yield but generdus thoughts and noble deeds. —The world Is on the tiptoe of expec teflon. The Boston Journal says: 80. ton has a surprise in store for the I wry pie, which will eclipse even the Peace Jubilee. It may take twcryears to per. feet It." —lt is reported that • young lady out West, who recently received an unrt , cedentol large verdict in a breach of promise ease, has engaged herself to eleven of the twelve jurymen vim gave her the money. —The heavens are • point from the pen of God's perfection ; the world is rosebud frem the bower of his beauty , the sun is a spark from the light of llu wisdom: and the sky a bubble on the sea of Ms power. —A boy having complained to his father that. mu bad thrown the Bible at him, and hurt him on the head, the father replied : " Well you are the first person of my family on whom the Bible hos ever made the least impheeion." —A Pennsylvanian signing himself " Honesty," sends four hundred dollars to the Treasury Department, as apart of his Income tax, which he wishes to pas that way in preferences to having the Nil amount of his Moons° published in the county paper. 'Don't you think my eyes look yule killing this utorning 7" said a dandy to a smart girl, and he twisted hie leaden visionaries in a moat cruel and lamin ating manner- "They remind me," said the damsel, "of a codfish dying of a toothache," —A vagrant called at a house on a Sunday, and begged for 601111: cider. The lady refused to give him any, and he re minded her of the oft-quoted remark that she " might entertain an angel una wares. " Yes," said she, " but angels don't go about drinking cider on Sun days.' —The Mechanics' National Bank at Trenton, had to suspend business for the day on Tuesday, because the safe could not be opened. The maker of the eafa sent his best workman to open ft, but he did notsuoceexl. A continued plying of crowbars and sitxigea finally broke it °OM —The people of Bourbon county, Ky, are raising it fund for the purchase of it home for Jefferson Davis in that his na tive State. A gentleman of Louisville hat offered, if $60,000 or more shall be subscribed to the fund, to give a splen did building site for a house, with ten acres attached, within four miles of Louisville. —The library of Congress has recent ly acquired a valuable addition of books in the Hpanish language, largely vela- tang to America, many of which funned a portion of what Is known as the Max lrollpin library, recently sold at Leipsic. The library now contains 180,000 vol• abovt 2,000 of which have beeu added within the past sixty days. —LindleyMurray of grammar renown, is said to have resided for the space of two-and-twenty years in ono front par+ for without once going out, attended upon by a kindly old maid, enamored of his principles and hie preterpluperfects, living chiefly on boiled mutton and tur nips, and solacing himself in the. inter vals of conjugating verb; by grinding barrel organ. • —A novel marriage took place in Lawrence, Kansas, recently. The lady had jug come on from Scotland to meet the gentleman, who resides near that city, The parties had never met be fore. She had never eeen the man whom she had' sailed across the ocean ~and come out to,Kanees to meet, and to marry, in obedience to a betrothal made by the parents in the old coun- try.
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