The'Democratic Watchman.
1112
LLEroNrE, , PA
HOW THE GATES GAFF AJAR
AN ITALIAN LEGEND
'Was whisporeti one morning In Monsen
Ilow the little ehild.angol May,
In the shade al the groat white portal, •
Hot sorrowing night and day.
now olu' Maid to the stately warden—
Ile of the l«•,y and lair—
.o, angel, sw/et angel. I pray you,
Set the heaultiful gates ajar,
Only a little, pray yon,
it Bet 06 bee LIMt gates ajar
' I ean hear my mother weeping ;
8110 in lonely; she eknnot 8 "
A glimmer of light In the darkneas
IV bore the gates stint after me
Oh I turn inn the key, sweat angel,
'l•he splendor will shine MO 111 r "
Rut the warden answered " I dare not
Set the beautiful glut- , ajar •'
Spike low /111111111),Ner011 • " I dare not
Sot the beautiful gales ajar I"
Then up rose Mary the blettnotl,
Swoet Mary. kluthei of ;
Her hantl on lho htieJ 01 the ungpl
6110 6dd, 101.1 her touch outlived.
'ruined Wes 010 key 111 the prtal,
riniring the goblet, her ,
Anti lot fit.thn little chilli . % angora
Stood, the beautiful pH.; Marl
hrthe Itlt le eltiltbangef4 tine,era
Stood Ike Itealit 11111 gale.. War I
And thin key for nn further lifting,
To rn ble4sed Son shall be Olen,"
Find Mary, Mother of ieniift—
I enderest heart in Ilea, en
Nom, 111,11 r a 11/111 eyed 1111 , 1111
But may eau•ll the glory nhir, ,
S1111111.11(1 , 11111111 I,n - 11011,1111 bomom
Are the kepi of the Galen
hid in the rietir I liri4eft hone ln,
Anti tho,gater forevrr ajar '
RETURNED
/11011%8
The 14' Ind INN hhtling nut of door,—
The wind hay nothing el.e to I to—
The %Inter rain a torrent pour*--
Rut whit Ett that to oto or you,
iilir We arP )101144.4i And red and warm
wu lin ye all our heart oleelre
but woe to wretches In the Atom,
Who have not house, nor tooth nor fin" I
"fen winters now Millet) Sara left
The home that sheltered early years—
Our only child I our hearts bereft,
g ehl/IdiloArlief In sighs and tears,
longer teas, no loner sighs,
And time her healed that wound of woo
But where the t dinin'emcdin Ben,
%to never knew—nnty never know.
The wind im wh e.tttt out of &arm,
The rime Ithei 0 the door-porch creak;
The winter rain a torrent ponrn—
IA ten' that a woman'. chriek
Open the door' Come wretch in pain I
A aMI worn wanderer through thn Haat—
Hid], wife! .he'll never weep again ,
The wronged one find, her home at last:
(iunrd foe January
THE LAST OF THE STUARTS
lIY CIJARLES PICKENS
The world is full of pretenders. We
are all pretenders, More or less. But
it is nut of such pretenders as these
that 1 write-110T of real pretenders to
thrones, which they or their ancestors
have rightfully or wronguilly forfeited,
but of the spans pretenders to great
historical names, that in all ages, and
in all countries, start up, whenever a
great heritage is mysteriously vacant,
- or an anClent family has no accredited
representative. Ito these pretenders
in any case behere in their own claims?
Or are they all swindlers arid adven
toners 7 For insulate, did all or any
ol t ht. hall dozen people, French, tier
roan. American and English, who with
in the last sixty or screwy rears hare
pretended to be Louis XVII., the pour
child who perished in prison under the
' , rata) treatment of the cobbler who
hail charge of him, really lbelieved
It.ntself to he what be asserted? Were
they all impostors -Augustan Meyer in
'England, Bev. Eleazer
A I..vrien, iii all the rest ot them—on
inners
1,110,% i g themselves to be such !
(0. did one or tiro more net iiyon burr
c conviction that he reallt was the
per,iin lie represented himself to be ?
lit all the handsome iunrtg fellows in
highland garb, 11,1,111111ng to he lineal
surf legitimate descendants nt Kmg
James tit Scotland, fisheye in
their royal pedigee ; or did they play
the 'art to get money out of it and
gnin consideration by it; or out of the
love of hoaxing. or because in hie
they really knew no other part they
could play 80 ' well 7 Without venture
to assert that not one of the many
claimants to he the real Louis XVII ,
or the legitimate represeatative of
Prince Charles Edward Stuart, may
Love been it true man, it !nay without
mom of kindly charity b 4 admitted,
that those among them why were ttt
rogues must have been attire or lens
fools; to other words crazy. Perhaps
this is the (simple explanation of the
fart that so many of mach characters.
appeared. Madness often takes this
form.
It happened that five or six years
ago I made the acquaintance of a re
snarl:able old gentleman, or rather, the
remarkable old gentlliman made my
acquaintance, and confided to me the
rseciet of his hirtli, parentage, educa
tion and very modest ',retentions. Ile
was a very high personage, according
to his story : but did not aim at high
fortunes, or at anything, in fact. except
to be let alone. I .vas at the time
temporarily resident in a great arid
populous city ofthe New World, which
its inhabi tants called Gotham, arid
which I r . hall call Gotham lierit What
took me to Gotham I need not tell.
finlike it to say that I was very well
known:in the city, and had the annoy
ance--perhaps, if all the truth were
known, it was the honor—of being of
ten attacked in the columns of more
than one of the Gothamite journals.
In short, I was for the time being the
best abused Englishman in Gotham;
and my name and business were fami
liar to thousands of people of whom I
knew nothing nor cared to know any
thing. -It was a hot, a vary hot., day
in July, when there walked into my
office, entirely unannounced, a venera
ble gentleman with long white hair,
and a countenance so full of dignity
and nobility of expression that it 9uild
have excited attention anywhere. He
was very careful to shut the door be.
bind him, and seeing a young man
in the room with me, he asked (look•
ing very etuipieiouely around him)
whether ho could speak to me in pri•
cute. It was a time when men's politi
cal passions were violently excited, rind
it esPecially behooved rite to be on me
guard, lest the Gothamite journals, in
their attacks . on me with pen and ink,
should inspire some lunatic or some
ruffian with the happy idea of attack•
ing me with a revolver. But this man
WIN co old and so pleasant looking
that I had no other teat trom him than
that he had conic to . whCcille Sonic
dollars from my pocket. So I led him
into my inner sanctum and asked him
to sit down, arid tell we his name and
business. Ile sat down, but not be
fore making sure t hat t deicir • w 101
cloAed. I could not help gazing at him
rather more earnestly than was quite
consistent with good manners, by rea
son of his striking resemblance to the
statute of Charles 11., •in Edinglairg,
which had long been familiar to my
memory, and of the Very joiettireelpie
character of his noble head and fore.
head. Ile was clad in rt suit of home
spun Mire : wore very thick-soled shoes,
that (lid not appear to have been black
ened for many n day ; and had vets
nonlieally turned up the ends of his
trousers to prevent their contact with
the mud. Ile carried a serviceable
blackthorn stick in his hard hand: a
harrl that bore the undoubted marks
of manual 'drudger ; be had a gold
chain of antique fashion, hanging from
the antique Mb, now so seldom . seen ;
arid had altogether the,iiir of a well-to
do limner in a rough country, where
people are accustomed to loud a (irk,
and are not partlenhurlr nice, either in
Irene or manners.
"My name, - lie mod, "iu of ticr cruise
quenee. Mt , real IMMO Ido not care
to call myself danger in it.
Lot I not known tO Illy neigh bunt Ili
Mr.—"(let lIP Nan Blank )
"%Veil, Mr. Blank, tx there anything
I can do for yOu
"Much," he replied ; "but, I must
warn you, that to to me a service is to
incur danger, very great ranger; { and
you shall not incur it, until you know
who I eon. Shall I tell you, or are you
arra] I?"
"Von may tell me, and I am not
afraid," I replied, beginning to feel ad
ditional interest inAly mysterious si
or.
"I will go right into the matter at
once," he Raid. "I;ook at me. I am
the ron of Charles Edward Stuart, who
wits lawtill King of England, Scotland
and Ireland, and was commonly and
nojii.tly called the pretender; a man
who never pretended to be what he was
not, or to the possession of anything
Lut Lin °wit—
I certainly did start when Mr. 'Mink
uttered these words; even if I did riot
rub my eyes to he quite certain that I
was not asleep and dreaming. Being
quite certain that I was awake, I look•
eit incredulous, and replied :
"Surely, Mr. Blank, you can not be
the son ofa man who died nearly eighty
years ago?"
"Why not?" he inquired. "Reside,
it is not nearly so long ago since my
father died I"
"Ile 'lied, " I rejoined, "somewhere
nhout the year 1788, being then, if nir
memory does not deceive me, he was
born, I think, in 17207"
"lie was," replied Mr. Blank; "yoit
are quite right as to his birth, ging.
wrong an to his death. The truth is,
be wan the subject of such persp.t e nt
and cold blooded pek.secution on the
part of the British GoYeentnest that a
fake story of his death was circulated
in 1788, and he emigrated to the Ni
World, in order to pass 111 peace the re
tit:under (Mr Blank, being an s Aineri
can, said 'the balance') of such days
as it !ight please I ea‘en to allot to
him Ile settled in the rude and thin
ley peopled region of Western New
York, on the slope ot the Adirondack
mountains,and purchased a farm which
I now occupy. Shall Igo on with illy.
stop ?'
"liy all meaner'
"Ile was alotle and hearty man at
that idine f aral remained hale and hear
ty lor 1111111 y years allerward ; so bale
and hearty, that in the year 1798, be
mg (hen turned se‘enty eigh', and hav
ing lived in A merioa for ten years, he
marrics.a young woman of Scottish ex
tracttnn ; not very young, (she was
two and thirty at the tone,),. and very
beautiful. The marriage was a happy
one. Three children were horn to my
father before he died. Ile kept his se
cret. Even his wire did not know who
he was, except that his real mune was
Stewart."
"And how (lid you come to know it,
Mr. Stewart"—correcting ntylutlt, 1 mud
d'M r. Blank'/"
"By my lather's will, bequeathing to
me certain documents, in which I knout
all the Troots of the story I have told
you."
"A very extraordinary story," said I.
"Hut not NO extraordinary as true,"
added he very sharply and perctnpton•
ly.
"Do the documents exist 1"
"They do."
"Will you show them to me?"
"Upon conditions," maid he, very
slowly; "if your courage does not fail
you when you, know what the condi
tions are."
"Before we go any further," said I,
you tell me for what reason you
have chosen me to be your confident?"
"Because r am persecuted by the
British Government as my father was
belbre me. Because I have no joy in
my life. Because lam beset by spies.
Because I go in.,danger of poison or a
shot-from a revdlver. Because I think
that you have the means of causing all
this persection to cease."
"1 ?lly, Mr. Stuart, you over
rate my importance. Supposing this
persecution to be real, and not imag
inary, I have-no more power to help
you than the man in the moon has.
You say you have documents to prove
your case. Ifs°, I can only express
my firm belief that if your documents
be genuine, you have only to bring
them to the notice of the British Gov
ernnpent, and that Government, if per
suaded that you are what you repro
sent yourself to be, and as your docu•
tents, you any, will prove, will not
only cease to persecute you—if eter
tiwy did perr‘eeute you=but r in conmid•
eration of your being the heir and rep
ret.entative or Charles Edward Stuart,
will mettle on you n very handsome pen.
eion."
The old gentleman shook his bead.
"I ilou'V a ttinnt a pension ; I have a farm
of my n,,and aqi quite independent
of ally inniis lava, or the favor of any
GoverunierTh 'I want nothing rut to
he let :done. • Let Ine eat and drink
oh, ut fear Of poison ; let nie 'turn a
corner It it hunt risk of a pistol or blud•
gem]; let me sink down into (lie com
mon herd of common men, and be at
penosYmThat is all I ask ; I want no
pension - , 110 money, no reepgnition, no
ninthing, from anybody. Peace, and
pedce nlone ; that is all. Atod to }on,
sit, he added. suddenly, I owe an apol
ogy for bat nag intruded upon you. It
will be known in a week to the Court
and (kit eminent of Queen Victoria
that you Lute recyived and spoken 10
Inv. You will Nc at marked man, sir,
depend upon it, upless go forth•
it oh and denoimce me. You luny de•
nounco youllike; I give you tall
and free permission.
-That would be gross treachery, Mr.
Stuart," replied 1, "and 1 shall not de.
nonnee you. But if yon have in your
po,sessum the doCMrni•nts you speak of,
I should be glad to see them."
"Yon shall see them this day week,"
he said, "and witl4V luil. Mind,
want nothing hut to prove to ton that
ant what I say I Ji!a ;and that when
convinced of the fuel. you hill exercise
)our intlinince with the British tiov
eminent ty hate me left in peace. You
are About to say t h at you have no in.
Ilutisce ? 1 hate my own opinions on
that subject. You can say for me what
may for myself—l am no trio.
tor, no oil riper, nothing but a poor,
forlorn, last remnant of a once royal
and pottertul race, who asks nothing
lint a grate, and quiet journey toward
it." •
31r. Blank, true to his appointment,
brought me the documents on the day
he had fixed. The gtincipal one was
a certificate of marriage—it appeared
to me duly signal and in all tespects
authentic—between Mr. Charles Ed
uard Stuart, of the State of New York
and a certain lady of the same State,
m October, 1795. Next to this
was the certificate of baptism of Char
lee Edward Stuart, dated November,
1799 a third document purported to
he it license from the State of New
York to Mr. Stuart, granting him, on
payment of certain fees, the permission
to be. /henceforward known as Mr.
'There was nothing further of
any entimeguenee.
suppose I looked dissatisfied. At
all events, I said to Mr. Stuart that 1
had go doubt his father was married
at the tune specified, and that his name
was Charles Edward extuart.
"Well?" he inquired, somewhat tri•
urn rhantly.
"Well," I replied, not at all tri
umphantly, "but what of that? I, my
self, have 'known ow° people named
Charles Edward Stalin, and neither of
them churned descent from the royal
family on littt. account."
"th cotiqie not," said Mr. Blank,
"they noel have been impostors if
they Mid, because they would have
usnrped n position that belonged to me
old% There may be a thousand l'hur
les F..livard Stuarts in the world, for
that matter ; but there is only one Of
them the descendant of kiMgs, and that
Jr the man who stands beton. you "
"Mr. Stuart, or Mr. Blank," I re
plied, "there is one link wa,uilpg I_ll
your golden chum, and that in a\y..4"
important one. The link which proven
your lather to be the son of Jamem the
Second, no called ; the roan who fought
And hint the battle of Culloden."
ncredulons as St. Thomas!" he ex- .
claimed ; and then folding up his pi
perm suddenly, and putting them car
Inn) Into an old and well worn pocket
hook, he added, "I have lost my time,
and you have lost yours! I beg your
pardon for having intruded myself up
on von. You are well put of rue.
flail you believed my claim, and MO:
you taken any steps In my behalf with
the unnurping (lovernment of the "wee,
wee Ciennan lairdie" that came Iron'
Hanover to sit In the seat of a better
Mall than himself, you ought have been
a ruined, andyou certainly would hp':
been a :narked man. You have flail
a narrow escape. (Moil morning
Ile wan gone before I could say a
word to detain hon. When I went to
the door to make an ellort to ltruig lion
back and put him ui a better humor,
I heard bin bitavy steps on the stairs,
and the clump of him thick cudgel as
he descended. I never saw or beard
of him more.
have often wondered what put the
notion into this old gentleman's head ;
whether he were crazed on that score
and on 110 other; and whether his un•
iloulited resemblance to the published
portrait of Charles I 1., and the remark
able profile on the crown pieces of that
reign, added to the strange coincidence
anrded by his name,' first gave him
the idea, which was to color the whole
course of his life, and infuse the little
drop of poisonous gall into a cup of ex
perience, that might otherwise have
been sis eet. I think he believed his
own story. Arid it is just possible that
as much may be said of a great many
other pretenders of past and present
Ames, who have gone through life bur
denod with a heavy delusion, and mean
Mg no harm —All the Year Round.
—The Detroit Free Press con•
taius this melancholy announcement:
"Washawfampantovenm poos,a chief of
the Arizona Indians, is dead. Poor
Waehawfampantoveumpoo I There
are ''no Washawfampantoreeumpoos
left who possess the good heart of
this Washawfampantoveumpoo."
—"Why don't you trade with me ?"
aeked a close-fisted dealer the other
&Inv, The reply was characteristic :
"You have never asked me to. I have
looked through the town paper for an
invitation, in the shape of an adver•
Aisement, and limit,' 'lone. 1 11 , 1er po
where f ant not iiii 1. •
" FINIS."
Hero our paths dlvergo forever—
Parting now can give no pain,
Fare thee well and if we never
('hence to meet In life again;
Someday, mark me, distill remember—
When youth's roses scattered lie,
In thy Ine's cold, bleak December—
Him you spurned In days gone by.
Go thy way I Thy amile bewitching
May ensnare some other snain,
But the hand, once burnt while touching
Never 7 plays with fire" ngsin
Fare thee well! thou hsvt ileeelied 1110—
Well Indeed did'st net lhy part,
Ghee !trusted and believed thee—
Now least thee froto my heart.
A Radical Editor
The Turf, Field and ,Fdrui does up
GroaGE WILKES, editor of the Wi/keJ
Spirit, a rampant radical iiiiisirting pa•
per, in the following style:
" Unrike the famous author of pod
fished epigrams, the second Sampson is
an editor and not a popular orator.—
Ile opened his infant eves on the earth,
Heaven knows lido, when or where,—
l le grew to manhood, loving Gov. Sew
aril much because he refused to par
don a yonthful indiscretion. For a
while ho male his home on the Paci•
fie coast, teaching, the adventurous
men of that golden land the value of
law and order; winning immortality
as the ft.iend and heir of the murdered
Broderick, and then returning to New
York with the spoils of friendship to
establish a sportiAg piper, gaining
fresh laurels by driving the genial Wil
liam 'l'. Porter, a ruil i ted 'Ann, into the
grave. Since then he, has :figured at
many a prize fight, he has heerr,. an
honored guest of St. James without the
knowledge of the Queen; assisted in
carrying out a tremendous war by
speculating in substitutes, has furnish
ed the Government and Congress with
ideas of prhetical importance; has be
come h moral censor; has purified an .I
elevated the turf; has ably represem
led American character abroad ; hiss
demonstrated the generosity of his
nature by riding through the
streets of Paris in an open carriage
with the Menken ; has grown merry
at the courtezan's wipe table and then
has 'Shown his gratitude to the 'proles
sion' by making it the subject of a sen
sational newspaper article. Recently
he has amused himself by slaughtering
the entire English nation; Queen and
all, and has knocked the Harvard Four
on the head, simply because they had
the manliness to confess that they had
been fairly beaten in the late interna
tional match on the Thames.
`` his ambition - ii boundlem Like
new
-
new worlds to conquer._ Icaving killed
off everybody of importance with his
sledge hammer critisisms, he now de
signs, with a single stroke of his pen,
to wipe out of existence the Turf, Field
'and Farm. We are extremely eetAsi•
tive, and it is not to be presumed that
we can 'withstand these ferocious at
tacks. Alreatlf we are wounded to the
heart, and have written to Mr. Conner,
the 'able Maurius,' to prepare our
obituary, or, if we have not time to
get cut a first class obituary, to at
least furnish us with a brief but touch
ing, epitaph."
To Consumptives Everywhere
A vorrespondent ul a Georgia paper
writes as follows:
"flaying seen much suffering, from
consumption, and knowing that thous
ands of dollars are yearly spent by in
alidn (raiding fur their health, and
on medicines and physicians, we pro
pose a simple recipe by which patients
may become their own physicians, am(
it not too tar gone, will guarantee a
perfect cure if made and regularly taken
according to directions. Ile mgredi
meats are hoarhound, mullen and mo
lasses, ingredients that are within
reach of all, the mullet] growing rvild
in every field, the hoarhound 1t) every
garden, and the molasses"can be had
at any grocery. The directions for
making are, to take a large handful of
huarliouud and boil as strong a tea as
can possibly be made. Take up and
then boil an equal amount of mullen
in the *Mint way. Take a teacupful
each of the tea of mullen and hoar
hound, mixed together in a snitallle
vessel ; then ado a cupful of molasses
and stew to a syrup—the quicker the
better. Take a tablespoonful three
times a day. Be particular in follow
ing direction~ as to making, and also
as to taking it, and we shall guarantee
relierin all cases not too far advanced
The writer does riot claim this recipe
as original with himseltmbut has re
commended it in ninny canes %till good
result. As die ingredients are com
mon and easily obtained, it is not best
to make more than a quart at a' time,
particularly in warm weather, as the
fresher it in the better effect will he pro
duced. Papers of the country will con.
fer a blessing,on this, alas I too numer
ous clatts.—north, south, east and west
—by publishing the above recipe."
KISSING WITII AN APPETITE.—There
was a certain religious society, one of
whose peculiarities was to greet each
other with a kiss at their meetings.
Among them was a young man and a
very pretty girl, "whose lips." probe.
lily, as the poet has it, "were like
strawberries all smothered in cream,"
and when they met, they of course ea
luted each other with the regeneration
kiss.
After some weeks at one of the usual
meetings a staid and venerable brother
remarked:
"That while they regarded kissing
as very proper, it had been observed
by him, as well as by some of the ven
erable and unmarried sisters present,
that the young brother and sister when
they met were in the habit of kissing
with rather too much appetite, and
they thought with such young people
who were not always considerate of the
feelings of thelnkidln sisters, that here
after 'the accostomed saltation might
very properly be omitted, else it might
create unpleasant feelings in the socie
tl
(;,)t) liv , •th and relgnutai
Hair Blanohing from Fright
The question of human hair blanch
ing in a -single night from the effects of
fear or great trouble has recently been
investigated by Dr. Austin Flint, an
experienced writer on physiology. This
gentleman does not consider the cases
of Henry IV., of France, Marie An
toinette or Sir Thomas Moore, sufficient.
ly well defined by th'e historians to he
entirely dependent upon, but scientific
observations recently made by Drs.
Laudois and Lolimer, two German
Physicians, show that a hen of hair
of jet or golden hue may be silvered in
It few hours by the action of fear upon
the fierves and brain. The 'patient
was a compositor, hair light, and blue
eyes, who was brought to a hospital in
Leipsic, suffering with tre
!liens. Ile was in great terror when
approached by any person, imagining
that lie was made of thin glass, liable
to be smashed to atoms by the slight
est tonal Laudanum was admmis
tered. and after asleep of twelve hours'
duration, he was well enough to sib up.
About thirty hours after this his. hair
and beard began to turn gray so rapid
ly as to completely as toll WI physicians,
patient and friends. The whitenhss in
this instance 110 trot result from the
fletence of coloring matter, as is the
case with old people, but from the pro
seat t of minute air bubbles in the hair,
and it was only by rellt , eted light that,
/le hair seemed gray ; by transmitted
Olt it seemed as dark as elm
nwientific eyes would not notice
this, and the hair certainly seemed to
be perfectly white, for it rein:toted so
at the patient's discharge two months
. er. Another similar case, lately re
ported to the Royal Society by Mr.
Erasmus Wilson, showing the same
kind of change in a microscopical ex
RIM nation. I't this connection we find
a report in the Arehires de Physiologic.
by the celebrated French surgeon, Dr.
Brown Sequard, a curious observation
on himself, which may be easily- re-
Feated by others. Finding four white'
airs on one cheek arid several on the
other, iu a dark' beard, he carefully
plucked them, and two day• later he
Munil two such hairs on one side and
three on the ocber, ull white from end
to end. Tifis was repeated se%eral
times, with-the same result, and he eon
eludes that there is no doubt otthe,cus.
sibility of "a tery rapid tratimMrnintion
(probably in less than one night) of
black hairs into white."
Signifloonoo of q Wink
gp i it Anntionnsr,
man, a wit, and a gentleman. Ztr-
Ron ni offended at what he Ha's, and
many a hearty laugh.has been provok
ed by his sayings. lie was recelifty
engaged in he sale of ‘eueragle house
hold furniture and fixings. He had
just got to "going, going, and a half
going," when he saw a smiling con rite.
nonce, on agricultural shoulders, wink
at him.
A wink is as good as a nod ton blind
fnirsie or a sharp-sighted auctioneer, so
Smith winked. and the mnn %1 inked,
and Smith kept "going, going," with a
lot of stove pipes, glassuitre, carpets,
ots, and perfumery, and finally this
lot was knocked minim n.
-To ~h().” ?.• said Smith, gazing at
the FAiiiting stranger.
'• \Vho?" th)llv,l"ettid the stranger,
don't kiim%
, •wll% pin, sir," said Smith.
n \Vito, ii '''
"Yet.; von bid on the lot - said Smith.
"Me? ilung Inc it' I did!" i4isiste,l
the stranger.
"Why, did von not wink, and keep
winking''' . asked Smith. .
*Wliiktrig I Well, I and o did
roil at me: I thought :ALIA was
hug 114 11111(11 /14 10 Sll% 1:611 dark.
Mirk this h'it of mull:and
I winked an much a 4 to war, he
II:Ulf:ea If rou tlllll . t minter. - - Du fi tun
herald.
PLAYER:3 i .P , tirely "telling
tales out of mehool — to print the
‘vbieli use find in AfISH I,ogan'ti
new book, ..Behind the Scene:':—
The stage arts of iniike-up are 80 con
fusing to our perception. (lint many a
young man passes for It tottering vete.
ran, tool vice ret ,a.
The lollowing ages of well•known
players will be found ; retty correct,
Bncktitone. 67 ; Mrs..lohn Drew, 45;
A. W. Fenno, 55 ; John (01bort, 60;
Joe Jellerson, ; Mrs. Fanny Kim
ble, SY; John Lester Wallock, 49 ;
win Forrest. 1;3; Macieady, 76 ; Mum.
doch. 57; Mrs. Lander, 43; Mrs. Eliza
Logan Wood„ 39 ; Mrs. Prior, 42; J. B,
Roberts, 50i Mrs. Skerrett, 52; Wit.
ham \Vivre , 52; Bartn7
45; W. J. 1. lorence, 35; L. L. Doyen
port, 48; Mrs. Mowatt, 41 ;J. 11. lluck•
ett, 69 , Mrs: Farrel), 49 ; John Brough
an, 5.1 ; Laura Keene, 46; Miss Rich
tugs, 40 ; Helen Fatten, 52; McKean
Buchanan, 51 ; Fanny Filmier, 76; Geo.
Vanden hal, 54 ; Dion Bouncicatilt,ps;
Mrs. Dion Bonin:wank (Agnes Hobert
son), 37; Itfisci Lotto, 21 ; Maggie
Mitchell, 3:5 1 1 Kate Bateniati, 29; F.
S. Chanirau, 4q.
--The South Carolina Legislature ail.
journe4 the other day to see Joh ii Rob.
'noon's' circus. A 'notion to that abet
was made by Mr. De Large, the colored
les,der in the House, in these words :
"Mr Speaker, de circus hab arroyo,
and darefore I moves dat we adjourn ;"
which was done..
---A sign in front of a fashionable
store in Brooklyn states that "Dubin
brestod jakets" can bo bought there.
Evidently spelling isn't fashionable at
that store.
--A chap in Cincinnati was engaged
to two girls, and married one. The dis
carded miss values her blighted affec
tions at $20,000, and has en toted suit for
damages.
--The fire bolls of Pittsburgh were
tolled on the day of Stanton's funeral.
Was there u lire anywhere? or did
went a (hop of water "to cool
a Imo-Hied lvtigtv. '
All is of Paragraphs
—A two legged colt Is'lllescosa lion in
Chiengo.
—Divorce is called "Chicago NW" iq
New York.
—A nig in Chicago wants a whits
housekeeper,
—John Smith wits drunk in Louisville
the other day.
—Solnebody gavo Grant a present of
a coon the other day.
—Josh Billings is . recovoAng from his
illness. It's a boy.
—Galena has GOO eases of measles,
Why ain't Grant them
—Japan,. 18 Shipping Bilk worms to
Franco by way of thcajnited Stab%
—A man in Virginia has married his
father's widow—his own stop-mother•
—The Empress Eugenie has 0 pot
monkey. The monkey has the ineasleA.
—Darkey marketers are furuoliin g
Albany with skinned cats for rabhib,
-111 New Yorkers changed their
pbu•es of residence last year, by suicide.
—The first civilized word dint Chinn.
mew lear . neel in this country wit, damn.
' lfrawn stopped roarrliiug on
long enough to got drunk in Iktr"it.
-3lno”n, (loorgin, hasn't ev..n ono
small piece of coal to warm itiodf with.
—4 fi , liow who has hiom m•i• Grant
sa y s he ha+ ono strong brioith.
young man of land, who
!In rider ed 11, young lady, had to pay t: 4 5,-
000 for it.
—IV isoinsin like a
torch-light procession marching dawn
tho tilt oat.
—The latest dodge with butter is to
make the rolls hollow 1111,11111 thin with
-Water.
—A counts , in lowa iR to 1w gold out
by the Sheritl to pity uts Aubscripthm to
11 railrinul.
--A Baltimore papa ( - lined it young
man who courted his ditughter without
his permission. - -
Texas, having had enough
circus, culls for an organ grinder, with a
monkey.
—Wien may al ways be
have their ears bored for juwelry, but
nut by stupid men.
.--Bostvik is inirititures over.a fi'lllllllll
jig dancer Whose -“feet twinklmu like stars
of e.vone rig."
lot of feelilo.m qrong
old women up in Boston have start.
eel a right's paper.
—The King of Sweden lot 4 written
nn odr. A-gn-atinany King. are eapw
blu of writing, ow 4 •
—Joe. Honker fe regaining his health.
Whii.l4 dealers arc holding for'a rise
in the market.
—Tho, Daniel Webster homestead
farm, in Franklin, N. 11., was sold ,t6a
other day for $115,000.
—Gold is declining ; but wo havent
beard of it having declined about
fun to
—Ncw Yotk spends $70,000: per
week on amusements. Paris goes $06,-
0(0 for the,sittnu purpose.
—The real estate in Richmond is set
down as worth $25,000,000; personal
property $10,000,000
—Hank!, has rev ned to Boston lin
didn't make a+ quick woo as wlen
the Shenandoah alley.
—A qnm 11 , 111 Up 111 a balloon, at At
lanta, The thin:; collapsed and let
%Ito down 'n a briar putt la
—A :it Louis man wants a dkoree be
cause his Wire used Hove powders'' to
per , iiiiult. him to marry her.
—Bo , t I I is holding religion , . meetings
at a theatre, in order that the Mindy
hat a theatre in like.
- -Noah but turned up ntl editor of
R'a•hington neaspaper Ile ought to
make a good marine reporter
--A ('nu•innati woman ;ins tried
times to suicide It, but .otnn duneu al
ways brings her back I. life.
--A pig was killed in Hurtford lately,
ai!h a double bladder, one being tilled
with air, like that of iu Ilsh.
—Mrs Coors of Indiana wants it di
vorce because her husband's temper
doesn't suit her. Of course she'll get
it
Grine/Lurk/a is the name of a
Nlui.treal newspaper. It professtri to bo
tunny, but no body would discover it if
they were not told.
-000 marriages in Itlonttromery, Al
abama, lust year, which rut $1,00) in
the pocket of the men who issues li
censes
—New York has a lawyer named
Burdseye. In arguing he is supposed to
give the court a birds-eye view or his ea
ses.
—Cleveland shows its apt.reciation of
its horse rail' onds by tin owing: whisky
bottles at the heads of the conductors.
—There are always more marriges in
May than In any other month—proba
bly because that is the mn-ling sea
son.
--The Chicago 'Pima thinks it la
great misfortune that the Radicals
Poiled a good tanner to make a bad
resident.
- - 1 11110'ain Stowe, is stow-e-cal. • She
beard all the abuse her dirty scandal haa
called forth and cooly pockets the
dimes.
--•California has sent n band of negro
iitins.trels over to Chinn, to give the Ce
,/dstlals "Shot Fly ": and a breakdown.
--Ili Ho, Clines° carpet-bagger, is a
Sacramento Radical. At least we think
he is a Radical, as he is accused of steal
ing.
---The heads of the African M. E.
Church South, repudiate any connection
with the M. E. Church North. What
ails Pomp? .
---A"loyal" man in Pittsfield, Mas
sachusetts, beat a child to death last
week, for eating a piece of cake given it
by a playmate.
--Alaska has bad D 2 first ball of the
season: There were Some roses and
somo nogroses present: The
,claneing
was Toshio."
---Boston has dominion over 9,978
acres of land--Boston Advertiser. Oh I
is that all? We thought it was over
the whole country.