The Democratic Watcham'n.
BELLEFO :si T E. PA
The Fire by the See.
There were seven fishers with nets In their
hands,
And they walked and talked by the seaside
sands;
Yet sweet an the sweet dow-tall
The word, they snake, though they !make no
low,
Across the long, dim eentullen flow,
And we know them, one and all—
Aye, know Mont and love them all.
Seven end men in the dayv mf old,
And one wan gentle, and one en. hold,
And they walked with downestet eyen;
The bold was Peter, the gentle wav ,I,olin,
And they were all sad, for the Lord oat gone
And they knew not if be would rice—
Knew not If the dead w mild Tl9O.
The lir.e long night till the moon went out,
In the drowning Cr.ate they twat about,
Beat slow thronKli the rugs their way ,
And the eNlis dropped down with clinging
wet,
And no man drew het en empty net,
And now qVian Om Meek of day—
The great ghel bleak of Motley.
"Cut your nets on the other sole—"
(Twins Jesus speaking across the tide)—
And they east and were dragging hard ,
'Rot that disciple whom Jesus loved,
Cried straightway out, for his heart was
moved
"It in our risen Lord
Our Master and our (lent lh
7 iv t• 1
Then Simon, girding hta flatter a coat,
Went over the Jilts And nun of the Iroqt—
A)tt fir-t of the all Par he ,
Repenting sore the denials pion,
He feared no longer hi+ heart to rant
Likelto the Nen—
Powt,l.Lep in the hungry Melt.
And the others., through the an
in • little ship saint' after hint,
Pragiv WWII' net through Owlish"!
And who, dwi had g , .11011 1.1 the land
'They raw a fire of vindr in the gon,l.
And mlllll limo, ill hints sio aide,
.1 , 8114, the
Ms long, anti long, anti long )11,11.
alnen the rot.) 'whos began to now
o'er the hill. if Italike,
And with eager eyes and lifted hantltt
The sworn fishers saw on the sands
I 100 lire or 'vela by the sea—
-1 in the Mtlt, wild sands by thin sea.
"rk loo k ~g o , yet faith In our souls
Is kindled pis! by that are of eosin
'that strearrleci o'er the mists of the sea
Where Peter, Ord tog ht• fisher's vont.,
Went over the silt and out of the 1,.,at,
To 111118 Vier, - 1, 6 11 . 14 thou 10.4 ,
Vallee over,..l,,,v'st thou Mr
SOUTHERN BIRDS OF PREY
A correspondent of the New York
Run, writing from Columbia, South
Carolina, under dote of April 16, nays:
I have got some lacts about the fitting
up of the State [louse here and kin
dred subjects interesting to South Car
olina tax payers. (len John li. Den
nis, who had the matter in charge, is
disposed to be reticent, but through an
other source I have got at the little bill
of furniture and fixings, and the fig
urea it contains are somewhat startling
It seems that when the job wan first
put up to entitle coat of thin extrava
gant furniture upon the people, it was
intended to confine it simply to the
Assembly Chamber, which,liv the way,
was in rather a dilapidated condition
Speaker Moses took the thing in hand
amid gave an order in writing to Den
nun to contract lor the furniture, at the
same time enjoining upon loin the ne
cessity of strict economy and a whole
some regard for Ow impovenshed con
litton of the pi,lit`r In upholstery
Dennis 19 an artist, or at leant he
thinks he is, and he didn't propose to
throw away his talent upon the niere
decoration of an Assembly Chamber
Ile re -oily I to furnish the whole State
Homo., and for thin purpose he went
to Neu 1 mirk to in cult his brother ar
Mei.sre Nicol & Davidson The
latter firm were not at era.. to a little
job, and of course they did their- tletit.
to scrum It. '•;temroirt Sutphen, mil
Brook], ii, also had a finger in the pie,
and fornished carpets enough at
a yard to fit out evert private house in
Columbus.
In coortie of nine the furniture and
uphoktery arrived, and was pnt. In the
State House I went all over the build
ing a few days ago, and %VIVI enabled
to Judge lor my•teli of the value of tine
articles A plain clock, ~ith it carved
walnut frame, that Benedict would
Inane put lip for ahout "IZIlit), is charged
on Nicol At Davidson's bill at t 485
The clock has lint ran hut a (VW hours
since it was placed over the door of
tine library nun the rotunda. Another
clock of the same kind Pings in the
Assembly Chamber, 71 cost $4. --
worth about
There are about,lttentt small rooms
in the State II oiiht . , known as commie
tee rooms, These are never used ex
cept as Mating places for negro mem•
hers or as cinivenient retreats in which
to enjoy a little game of draw at odd
times while the Legislature is in sea
Rion Into each of these little rooms
General Dennis put a handsome car
pet, a black walnut table, covered with
green cloth (very convenient for pok
er), and walnut chairs by the dozen.
lie purchased for each of these rooms
a large German (not French) plate
mirror, with cheap walnut frame. Nic
of AL Davidson's charge on the bill wax
3,i3 each for these mirrors. What
the per cent. on them is, of course no
one can tell, but certain it is that they
are riot worth one half of the money.
So certain is Governor Scott that
there Is fraud in the purchase of these
mirrors, that he will not allow them to
be placed in the rooms. Lie has or
dered Dennis to send them back to
New York.
In the Assembly room we have a cen
tral chandelier, invoiced by N. & D.
at $3,600. It is a gilt chandelier,with
160 burners, but exceedingly plain.
One thousand dollars would be a very
highprice for it almost anywhere in
New 'York. Mr. Moses sits in front
of a crimson silk reps.curtain, furnish
ed by Stewart Sutphen, of Brooklyn,
at $1,365,and under a gilt cornice bear
ing the palmetto tree and coat of arms,
put up by N. &D. for $865. But the
grossest swindle, and one that excites
more comment and indignation here
than any other part of the whole bill
4 that of the 'cuspidors or jar' spit-
Ins.' They are of French china,
idsomely enamelled, and marked
in gilt 'House of Representatives,
South Carolina.' Chey were invoiced
by N. S; 1). atSOti a dozen, and there
are about 'ten dozen of them.
Gov. Scott says: 'They (the cuspa
(lore) are so thick in there (the IfoiNe)
that the negroes that wear No. four
teens can't put their feet on the floor
without crushing one or two to atoms.'
It is so, there have been nearly forty
broken already in that way. Of coarse,
in a Itgralature like South Carolina's,
it is necessary for the hetilth and con
'nonce of all that abl6tlans should be
frequent.
General Dennis kindly afrorded the
necessary facilities in elegant china en•
anielled toilet Bette, at $65 each. Each
committee (or poker?) room lins one.
But I have neither time nor space to
devote to a more particular enumera
tion of the articles in this huge swin
dle. I have given the prominent ones,
and that is enough to judge by. The
whole bill amounts to $95,500, and it
is safe to say that fully one-half of it
is a fraud.
I was here the night of the adjourn
ment of the Legislature last month,and
saw the machinery in full blast. The
complexion of this wonderful body is
both cutically and politically very
black. In point of intellect, I wouldn't
give much for the Lower House. There
are some smart white in , and one or
two rather intelligent ii roes in it, but
what brains there are so na - 1110W ed up
rascality as to be utterly useless in
framing lawn for the benefit of the
State. The majority of the negroes
are either wholly ignorant field hands,
or ex porters, barbers, or waiters in ho
tels, who can just manage to read and
write Of this latter class is .tones,
who, like the President of the United
Stateri,alwave has a cigar it) his mouth,
lii sessior. or out.
.;ones is a poker-player and a clever
fellow, but he doen't even 1111115 elf de.
ny that he is a great rascal.
Whipper is another. Ile has newr
al ability, but, like some of the planta
tions hereabouts, lie lacks cultivation.
Whipper is a General,and is the broth
er in law of the young and beautiful
Mimics Rollin who 'fixed up the little
claim of $1,600 for Speaker Moses to
sign, just as it it. had tt.liited the Legis•
;attire.' The young and beautiful
Misses Rollin 'called this a school
claim for teaching.'
—A hce Oery
Tome very tunny scenes took place
on adjournment night, which I think
have never been chronicled. As 1 tele
graphed the Sun, the Lower House
was all conlusioriany of the negro
members, and' egret to say several
of the whites, were grossly intoxicated.
The lion. NVarren Wilkes, one of the
members elected on the Reform ticket,
was particularly so, aril behaved in a
scandalous manner. Ile created sonic
amusement, however, by getting up
and singing songs riot very cornplimen•
tare to his colored brethren. For in-
Starlet., he sang the old plantation dit
ties, in which were interspersed choice
allusions to 'toggera' and their smell.
Some of the 1191 Ired ones tried to get
up a laugh at this, what they called
'Mass' Wilkes' fun,' but it didn't fit
% ery well, and if Wilkes haul been so
ber they would have put him out in
continently. Ity the-way, speaking of
Wilkes reminds me of the huge joke
played Upon the country last winter
through his innocent instrumentality
Everybody remembers the Legislative
'Qin in ittee a ppoi nted by the two Ifous
en to visit Washington in February. to
lay before Presiderit tirant the horn
hlr condition of the State, and how
the committee went 411,11 resale l it uu
1.11•11:H1 through the eolnono4 of the
Paler Reporting Tr tbune. The latter
sheet glorified over the fact that 'at
la,t the couniry would learn the truth'
stout affairs in South Carolina, and
pointed et en with pride to the fact that
evon the conservati yes recognized the
danger, for they had put on the visit
ing committee the person of 'the lion
‘Varren Wilkes, the well known con
ser,ative member from Abbeville.' 11l
course if these things were not true the
lion Mr Wilkes would not join the
Radicals of the Committee In their rep
resentations.
The joke of it is that Wilkes was
put on the Committee for effect, and it
had the desired effect. The Radicals
knew that the gentle Warren would re
Karl Ills part of the performance as a
gigantic spree, and true enough lie did-
Ile did not see the President at all
Ills conferees did not mention lu
name, and to all intents and purposes
Wilkes didn't go to Washington at all.
Siiiiikin; 11l the Lower House, while
it is In ! , e.+1,01, is another indecent hab
it that it would he well if Speaker Mos
es would abolish next winter. If there
is no rule made to prevent it one
should be made. In one sense, how
ever, the habit of smoking 'while on
duty,' so to speak,may be useful. They
say that when a member gets up to
make a speech iti opposition to any
scheme or plunder,tr, upon any other
di,tasteful subject, tffe other members
crowd round him with cigars in their
Months, and while pretending to be
deeply interested in what the fellow is
saying, quietly puff cloud after cloud
into his face until he can neither nee
the - Speaker nor get his breath. This
process they call 'choking offs speech,'
'and it certainly is effective. Perhaps
it is this custom that led General Den
His to, provide such handsome recepta
cles for the saliva engendered by such
rapid smoking as is necessary to a
prompt choking off of these streams of
eloquence.
.Alll' said a pious Sunday
school teacher, 'Carolina Jones, what
do you think you would have been
without your good father and moth
er 1"I suppose, mum,' said Carolina,
1 suppose as I should ha' been a !tor
ph an.'
—An attorney, about to finish a
bill of costs, was requested by his cli•
ent, a baker, 'to make it as light as he
could!'
replied tilt. attorney, 'that's
what you may say to your forernan,but
it's not the way 1 make my bread,'
Matrimony Under Difficulties
There is a part of the world fin Cen
tral Asia) where marriages are made
on horseback. A day is set when the
young men who are in want of wives
assemble, and the young lady who is
to be disposed of 19 there with a good
horse. She has her preferences, as
young milieu 110 in other parts of the
world, and gives a signal to the youth
she wishes to capture, so that lie may
know how to rule in order to distance
hro competitors. She is better mount
ed than any of her pursuers, and can
generally manage things so that she
can be picked up by the youth she has
selected. liul if a fellow that she con
ciders a slat is likely to overtake her,
she digs the spurs into her horse and
leaves the entire crowd. s The race is
then declared "on," and another day
is %et for the trial of speed. Some
times, when her papa wants to,get rid
of the girl at all !wards, lie puts her
on a horse that could not out run a
turtle, and thus makes it certain that
somebody will capture sec_,
There is another part of the world
where a young man must take his bride
from a houseful! of old women, who
are armed with whips, and have their
finger nails specially sharpened kir the
occasion. They surround the bride,
and fight the individual %%liowants In
to take Pier away. Ile may push them
aside, but he must riot introduce the
practice of the prize run:, ,0,1 allow
their !flees to collie In 1.01,1;0 . 1 with hi 4
tiNtm. Frequently he ernergeg from the
fray with his elothen pretty }ell torn
Irmo Ills body, while him litre and his
Whole skin has so many marks of
Whips and finger nails as to r e q em bl e
a piece of calico of a fain.) pattern.
For the Rake of the timid t•nuth nt the
United States, it 14 to be hoped that
this marriage ceremony will trot be
come fashionable here.
A friend of mine, who once lived in
lowa, used to tell a story of a wedding
that lie witnessed, where the eeretno.
ny was pert firmed on the same couple
three tones in one night, llr wars
wandering through North lowa 7111,1
Southern Minnesota, on a search for
Umber lie ls, arid was a cco mpa n i e d by
a backwoods adventurer named Prep.
ton. Near the line betwen lowa and
Minnesota they stopped a few weeks at
the house of a settler named Jenkins.
The latter had a buxom daughter, and
WII4 well off for a backwoodsman, and
the situation appeared decidedly favor
able to l're•don. Sa he courted the
daughter, and was polite to the pa
rents; the result was that a wedding
was arrrnged, and all the neighbors
Mr ten miles around t%ere invited.
.lenkinwwas a liberal provider, and
we.blingn were jot very fietient in big
Ifejanl rn a half barrel of
whiskey, and litrrwite and daughter
cooked enough fora small army, so
that nobody would go away hungry
There was a preacher in the neignhor
hood, who had arrived there recently,
and lie wax invited to unite the pair,
Ile tied the knot, and was rewarded
by Preston,who made a mess of the al•
air by lropping a coup'e of silver I,il
lars I'll the punch bowl while trying to
hand them to the parson The bride's
arni:was called into requi.ition to lift
out the cash, which she did with all
the s k ill of a native of Long Island
fishing for "Blue Points" with a pair
of oyster tongs,
For the invited guest the serious
Illtmincsm of the evening hegan with the
supper that followed the wedding sere
I'rrrton took a full khare of
pun, h and straight whiskey before re
Iring to the bridal chamber, which
was reached by a ladder through the
lour of the garret. Mrs. Preston had
been taken there by the bridesmaids
hall an hour earlier, and an soon as
he couple had disapeared there wag
resh assault upon the whiskey.
It leaked not in the course of the
evening that the pareon was not an or
dinned preacher, hilt only one 01 thoqe
nitnigterial fledging~ who have been
"licensed ib exhort" When old lea•
kiwi heard the ruiner. he went for the
exhorter rind extracted from him the
horrible fact that he was not really
tcri,rinite coupler in holy
matrimony, hot lie had officiated on
lIIM iWCR.IOII berauae he had thought
all right, and that nobody would
know the difference. Jenkins tle‘g
around like a boy with a bumble bee
in the leg of bin trolieers, lie kicked
`rt4 milhaptmv echurterout of doorm,and
%eta up he ladder like a monkey
clinibiniWwitidow
'llere, you git up! git up!' henhoat•
ed ; 'you ain't married at all. Git op
thin minute. Get right up and come
low!) puck l'
file voice of Trenton way now heard
to drawl out that he wouldn't get up,
and that if his respected father-in law
did not clear out and mind his business
he would get his nose busted.
Jenkins explained the situation, and
the couple arose. In a few minutes
they came down the ladder, both look
ing very sheepish, and the bride blush
ing like a red wagon. There was a
justice of the peace in the party, and
he performed the ceremony, whichoin
fortunately for Mr. Preston, took his
only remaining silver dollar. There
were more drinks, and then the couple
again ascended the ladder to their bri
dal apartments. Preston muttered, as
he clamed the ladder, that if he ever
found that parson he would hurt his
face, no that his friends could riot
identify him without a magnifying
glass.
Of course the party down stairs, who
were making a night of it, talked over
the peculiarities of the wedding, and
their talk developed the fact that the
justice of the peace lived in lowa,while
the house of Jenkins was 1n... Mintie
sots.. Jenkins was informed of the
situation, and away he went once more
for the ladder. He was louder in his
tones than before, and his first words
met a prom pt sower from Preston.
'Now, look here, old man,' said
Preston, as he bounded out cif bed •,
'there's been fooling enough around
this ladder to night, and if you don't
gut I'll bust yer head.'
He picked up a cow-hide boot as lie
spoke, and advanced menacingly. A
shrill voice from the bed urged him
not to hurt "pa."
'Don't shoot, don't I' said Jenkins,
as he retreated down the ladder, till
his head was level with the garret
floor. There he stopped and explained
the new state of affairs to the enraged
bridegroom, who stood over him with
the boot uplifted, and ready for :a
blow.
Preston accepted the explanation,
and the result was that the couple rose
and dressed and descended the ladder.
Then, with Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins, and
all of the guests who were sober enough
to stand, they walked half a mile down
the road to the lowa line, and entered
the Badger State. There the justice
milted them. 'And this time,'
says lie, as he concluded the ceremony,
'you are married sartin, sure
Voudouiem---Barbarous Superstition
in Loulsana.
We learn from the Ilourna Patriot
of Saturday last that the colored peo
ple of Terreboune are very serirously
afflicted with a belief in Voodooism
and on the previous Tuesday Wash
Morgan, who was suspected of having
condoned Geo. Furbin, only saved his
life by breaking through a crowd of
forty or fifty men who had assembled
to assist and witness his executien, and
hiding himself in the swamp in water
up to his neck for twenty four hours.
From the account given of the affair it
seems that Morgln, who is more intel
ligent t h an most of his race, and de
votes his time to 'ionic and Ms family,
instead of visiting around among his
people, is considered somewhat singu
lar.
on the 17th inst. Morgan, with his
family, visited the plantation of Mee.
sr'. Lapcne & Baron, where among
others he met George Furbin. The
subject of writing coming up in the
course of conversation, Morgan re
marked to Forbin that his little son
could write better than he (Forbin)
could, and, to show with what facility
the child could write, he took a needle
from his vest, and, taking Forbin's
hand, went through, the motion of
writing across it withAt pricking the
'kin Tuesday morning, or arising
Forbin complained that he could not
use his arm. At once the hue and
cry was raised by young and old that
he was voudotted by Morgan.
The same day a party of eight or
ten men, armed with guns and pistols,
went after Morgan, who lives on Mr.
A Leret's plantation. Two went to
his house, the others being concealed
from view, and called for Morgan.
Ile, wife informed the two who called
Morgan to "come out," that her
husband was in bed sick with the fe
ver, and invited w them to take seats on
toe gallery. This they declined and
repeated their demand for Morgan to
come out. Hearing this lie came to
the door, and asked their business.
Ile was told that they wanted him to
come out on the road. At this those
cpagealed came in sight. Seeing so
h many toenail arme ,M
organ retreated
into lion room followed by the crowd,
who commenced an indiscriminate
tiring at him Ile then escaped from
the house and:made to the swamp,but
was pursued, captured, placed in a
cart and taken to the plantation where
it was charged he hail condoned Fur
bin. On the way he asked to be taken
to llounia, where he could be tried if
lie had done anything wrong as the
court was in session. Ills captors
cursed Ilonma, and informed the prie
over that they had a law of their
I n arminn; un the t in mation,he was
locked up, aml lett Gr a short time,
while a crowd aac being assem bled to
aid and abet in his execution. On be
nig bronght out, nod seeing that the
determination WWI to take his life,
Morgan broke from his captors and
succeeded in reaching the swamp,
where he remained, as before stated,
for twenty-four houre. On 'Thursday
morning he appeared before District
Attorney Shelbourn, and made his
statement Six of the parties implica
ted ut this affak have been arranged,
and are to be triedon the charge of as
sault with intent to commit a murder.
The Column Vendome
The Column Vendome, recently
overthrown and destroyed by the in
surgerics in Parrs, stood in the place
Vendome, which wise erected in IflBB,
by Lows XIV., on the site of the ho
tel belonging to the Duke Vendome,
son of Henry IV. The place is octa
gonal an form, 420 by 450 feet. The
buildings bordering on the square are
beautiful, and of Corinthian architec•
lure. In the centre formerly stood en
equestriun statue of Louis XIV.,
which was demolished by the peo.
ple during the first revolution, thy
base only being saved. In 1806
Napoleon I. gave orders for the erec
tion of the triumphal monument,
which has just been hurled to the
ground, in honor of the success of the
French arms. The column was of
Tuscan order, and copied after Tro
jan's Pillar at Rome. Its height was
135 feet ; circumference at the base,
36 feet ; the ,h se was about 21 feet.
high and 20 feet sqintre, arid the col
umn could be ascended by a winding
staircase of 178 steps. The column
was covered by the bas-reliefs in bronze
composed of 276 plates, made out of
1 1 200 pieces of cannon taken from tire
Russians and Austrians, representing
the victories of the French armies ur
the German campaign of 1805. There
were over 2,000 ligues of 3 feet high,
and metal used weighed about 360,000
pounds. The column was surmounted
by a colossal bronze statue of Napo
leon 1., 11 feet high. The one familiar
to the Parisians, with the cooked hat
and military surtout, was taken down
in 1893. The hero appeared, in the
statue that was torn down, in a Roman
toga. The whole cost was about $3OB
- From the summit the best view
of Paris could be obtained.
A. Fashionable Woman's Prayer.
Strengthen mi husband, Mid :y
hie faith and hie money hold out to
the butt.
Draw the lamb's wool of unsuspi
cious twilight over his eyes, that.mi
flirtations may look to him like rioto
us, and that my bills may strengthen
his pride in me.
Bless, oh Fortune, my krimps and
rats and frizzles, aq let thi glory shine
on my paint and polider.
When i walk out before the gaze of
vulgar men, regulate my wiggle, and
add nu grace to my gaiters.
When i bow misea in worship, grant
that i may do it with ravishing ele
gance, and preserve unto the last the
lily white of mi flesh and the taper of
mi fingers.
Destroy mine enemies with Ale gaul
of bitterness, and eat thou up with the
teeth of envy all those who gaze at mi
style.
Save me from wrinkles and fostermi
plumpness.
Fill in both eyes, oh Fortune, with
the plaintive pizon of infatuashun,
that i may lay Out mi victims, the
men, as knumb as images graven.
Let the lily and the rose strive to•
gether on mi cheek, and may mi neck
swim like a goose on the htizzilin of
krystal water.
Enable me, oh Fortune, to wear
shoes still a little smaller, and save MC
from all korne arid blinvons.
Bless Fanny, mi lapdog, and rair
down beeorni3 of destrueshon upon al
who would hurt a hair ov Hector, m
kitten.
Smile, oh Fortune, most sweetly
upon flick, mi kanary, and watch
over, with the fondness ov a mother,
mi two lily white mice with white
eyes.
Enable the poor to shirk for them
selves, and save me from all mission
ary beggars.
Shed the light ov thi countenance on
mi kammel's hair shawl, nni lavender
silk, mi point-lace and mt necklace or
diamonds, and keep the ninths out or
mi sable, i beseech thee, oh Fortune.—
North and South
Oeor F e Francis Train, in one of hie
chain-lightning speeches in Memphis
drew this distinction between the
North and the South :
"You don't call me names here as
they do in the North. There is some
thing about the South which is manly.
They are not afraid to say what they
like. They are no cowards. The
whole system at the North is nothing
but an organized hypocrisy. They
only abstain from doing wrong becatiie
of society—opinion. A religious moth
er cautions her child not to pluck a
flower for fear of the police, and the
saintly lather tells his boy to 'conic in
off the street, my son, play your mar
bles in the back yard ; you know its
Sunday.' Boston has party banks and
pally thieves to run them. They go
about like a lot of megatheriarns, noth
ing modern about them except the itch
they have for pilfering the treasury.
The Pilgrim Fathers were n gigantic
swindle. They threw my great grand
mother overboard for her opinion. I
was born I n Benton mrrclf , hilt it wan
n6t my (milt. A n111.11 ' 14 place of birth
is an accident, depending principally
on where his mother is at the time."
THE Qt,Esrios.—A teacher in a wes
tern county in Canada, w ill le making
his first visit to his 'constituents,' came
into conversation with an eminent Ver
mont lady, who had taken up her reel
Bence in the 'backwoods.' ()I course
the school and lormer teacher came in
for criticism, and the old lady, in
speaking of his predecessor, asked •
`Wa'al, master, what do you think
lie learned the scholars Y'
I couldn't say, ma'am Pray what
lid he teach V
'Wa'al, he told them this ere arth
was round; and what do you think of
such stuff?'
Unwilling to come under the catego
ry of the ignorant, the teacher evasiVe•
ly remarked :
'lt does seem strange, but still there
arc many learned men who teach theme
things.'
'‘Va'al,' sage she, it the eArtli is
round, and goes round, what holds it
up 1'
'Oh Obese learned men say that it
goes round the Hun, and the sun holds
it virlile of attraction '
Tl,c ..!.1 hr li lowtred her specs, and
by v. u .d .•1111111C re/41 , 011.11 , 1
'‘V.. nl, if these high 1 mit , 1
the sun holds up tl %till, I snook:
like to know what ',,,lds the arth up
when the sun t .o . down 7.
[Argo SLatfo• n —'Bo ifou came to
hear me preach last Sunday, did you?'
said a minister to a little boy whom he
net while vieiting at the bowie of one
members. '1 saw you!,tt
church eating in the pew with uncle
and lie lilted the little fellow to his
It nee.
Yes, I went,' said the child, 'and I
never was su tired 111 all my life. I
thought you would never get done
preaching!' and the clear, truthful
eyes were ranted in fall confidence,
while the child's accents seemed weigh.
ed down, with the weariness he had ex
perienced, and so well remembered.
The minister listened in surprise.
'ls that so?' he sa;il. 'Did I preach
too long a sermon?'
'Oh yes,' said the child;
very tired
The minister could not forbear smil
ing at the simplicity and sincerity of
the criticism.
'You come next Sundair,' heetipula
led with the child, 'and I won't preach
eo long, I prorniee you. Will you
come?'
The boy promised.; and the minister
kept his word. The sermon the follow.
ino Sunday was shortened just fifteen
minutes, to the satisfaction of the
whole congregation.
—The trunk transporting eeaeon
is near at hand.
1111/ All Sorts of Paragraphs
___.
The neediewoman's exclamation--
Ahem.
Moantiroo—Tho times when onus
note falls duo.
Was it at a raffle that the man w on
thoipublie oar?
Tho only substitute for goose-quills—
Shoop-pPne.
Delightful ehatitiaement—The waves
boating at your foal
It is no Joke now to say that tha
French havo taken Varig •---
A gentleman caught cold by kissing
a lady's snowy brow.
Tho "Waving •Ilios" are
base-bailers, and dar at th
A spotted adder—The kdoeper
watched by a detective.
fr
The height of a young lady's ambi
tion—Two little feet and a awitch
What. piece of coin is double its vale s
by deducting the half? Halfpenny.
Why is fashion liko a blank ear.
tridgo 7 Because its all powder and pair,
A paradox—do you wish to get lip
with the likrk 7 Then go to bed with it.
•
When n horso's ago is in que.thin, Ira
a generally judged out of his own
south.
A anoldnili lady up town boli,t, of
owning "a certain plant that blooms
every year."
Parrs aro somotirnes publi.lied
ho intoresta of a ring, which gives
hem a circulation,
Thera is a landlord in thin cut' SO
moan and exacting, that he 'lOl9 n rowt
even in a cloud
The higher law—The law of , I,ng
Willa you like when you don't like \‘l,at
you are doing
The farmers enjoy the MleWier Se2l9oh
most of anybody. With theta it is a
perpetual heyday.
In dying, Ituloff put his lined in f ni
pocket. In life he put his hand in other
people's pockets.
An Ohio statesman is described as
"ninety four years old, and has lost
much of the beauty of his youth."
A smart young lady lays her id , .n of
a good home is a place where iicoliw,ibs
and kisses never go together."
Elder Knapp is using the hot weather
as an illustration of the temperature bad
people may expect eternally.
What is the reason a candle won t
burn any long after it gets to the end.
die? Because it burns shorter.
Tho young lady singer who thought
she could make her vole() clear by
straining it, made a gteat.tnistak,!
rs. 'Woodhull's now republic 1, to
be called the Pantarehy, and it 1 , •liq
gosted that she wear 'em herself
"lien and chicken parties," bi
only mothers with babes in their a-te
are invited, aro fashionable in In
It is n Cincinnati paper thafeencien
•
tinusly behoves (loners! Butler ii too
honest fors successful politician.
In Australia, when tho doctor nt i s
person can't hve, he can't, for
friends club him to death to cave
and expenses.:
The propeller and her pilot have O H :,
with other variations , one hag it; whe.l
at the stern, the other has Its turn RI
the wheel.
What Is tho difference between a
plan of a bnttle•fle:d arid a roasted pip•
pin 7 Ono is a war map—and Ow , th , r
a warm apple.
Persons should always dre,s
their figures. A hump-hacked lady I,r
Instance, ought to wear a camel
shaw I.
It is estimated that thorn aro L".",010
threshing machn les in the I 'nw , i
State., without counting the
marms."
A conscript being told that it too
sweet to din for his country, tried to ol
eos() himself on the ground that li' nor•
or liked sweet things.
'Perfect LOVII . is tho Mk of ri 10 '"V
brand of Loulsvillo whisky It 'e.thil•
orates gloriously' and is good form ma
ny tights Its you tako drops of it 'Per
feet love' tricieed
A shopk Poi wr ha% ing ndvrrowd 113
•bwk i.iild under prune co:A, a
oti.erved that it wa, urnpna~l
hl him to do so, ai lan had never
paid anything for it hum •II
A late I.'ine of a weekly paper
1;Ytleall1 .ray - , In the ati.en.
editor., the pa blndiers hale
In .0, tiring the ...pro ices of
to it the paper Ole week.'
At Lincoln, l'enr+vkania, Ow "lb"
dhy, hvl teacher thrnshc,l s b ,, Y,
the boys mother thrashed the teache,
the tesi2hilr's brother pitched in, an.l the
boy's father licked the lot.
The war bet WON) France and l're4.la
eloAed all the gambling saloori4 oi lin
den-Baden for the drat time within the
memory of man. There wai no one
left in the place to gambit.
The New York Tribune hits it eorre-
Plmmient, who, in its own language, 13
going 'through the South ' Prominent
Rndomls have been 'going through' the
South for several years,
Yon can roost in a fifth story elothos
press at Surat°Fa this summer, and I .n-
Joy Ow usual hill of fare at tho table,
for four dollars a day, payahlo to tho
landlord, and hr.lf as rouehmoro or loss,
to the waiters.
Many persons have lately been anx
iously ()slimming tho maps to flnd the
',eat of war.' Fubbs says ho found it
last summer without a map lio di--
covered it by sitting down upon a
wasp's nest in a hay-Bold.
'I was so
A Warsaw reporter saw a war among
the wives and widows of Warsaw, a nd
remarks that of all the welt' we over
saw, we never saw a war like the war
we saw among the wives and widows of
Warsaw.'
Elmira rata are not gifted with a su
perior order of InSeMenet), If reports
are true. They meal ehoo-pogo and stow
them away under the delusion that they
are oats—a notable example of moral
and mental durknoss.
ME