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CAltltlhiK'S ADDKF.SS
To the Patron* of the Bedford Inquirer.
KIND PATRON*:—
What a vhried world is this; full of trouble, foil of
blpi—
Eraneeceet—fleeting—changing, fixing up and
disarranging.
Who would think a year baa past since, dear
frtends. Fsaw you'last?
But 'tis a fact and as he fere, I come tripping to
your door.
a ripping. skipping to your door,
At I've so often done of yore,
*'.ra ko<w tha' I'm a jolly lad, and to sec you I
am glad.
How have you been since last we parted? Ilare
you always been light hearted?
Or have yoO had gdme care and Sorrow, if so, I
hope they vani.-hed on the morrow;
Be like me as I come singing with a voice so light
son© ringing
Tripping, skipping to your door,
. As Fre so often done of yore.
Well, what*# the news? come tell tne all— all the
the news both great and smalt.
Who is dead and who is married? Who'# active
been and who has tarried?
Where i# Johnnie Kipp and Sadie, and you know
that other lady;
Tell me do in whispers sly, for id* "news * #'• f-"id
7 1 -
Tripping, skipping to your door,
As I ve so often done of yore.
What ot the fashions, while I'm on it? What i#
the present style of bonnet?
l)o ladies wear that "'hope forlorn" yclept the
"patch" that once waa worn?
Or have they donned the friendly Hood, or real
bonnet# as they should?
I hope no one I stylo my friend has caught that
r awful "Grecian Bend."
Limping, primping by your door,
Silly fool and nothing mre.
But on this theme no longer prate, let's talk about
"affairs of Statu."
They say that Grant has been elected—but this,
no doubt, you have detected.
And Seym ur has, poor luckless elf, been snugly
"laid upon the shelf."
Election day and long before the Cops did tell us
we'd Seymour—
Seymour! Sej'mour! they loud did roar,
In hideous howl# about your door.
We're eeen it MOW, most joyous tight, the people
rose up in their might.
And down to deep oblivion send- the man who
called the rioters *my friends."
They would not live 'neath rebel rule with drunk
en Blair to pluy the fo d:
They paid that war and strife must cease, and
painted on their banners PJRACB
Peace! Peace! the Ku-kiux Klan
Must now succumb to the coining man !
Where's Andy Johnson? What of him? I doubt
* not he feels rather slim.
Back ! back again to old Tennessee like a sneak
ing bound he will have to flee,
With Bourbon to slake when he gets dry, but
never more will bis hang high.
Goodbye! Andy, your race is run, your course
is finished, y.ur work is done
Full of evil, go to the—gras*.
We rejoice you've met your level.
The Cops have "dried up" on "high taxes * —the
reason is they've no axes
Now t grind—the election'# over and they, alas,
are not in clover.
On Reconstruction they got mixed, bat that's a
fact that now is fixed.
And ''the bonds"—Oh ! gore vexation ! will now
escape that "equal taxation."
So it goes: we've trod their toes.
And they've no balm to heal their woes.
But, of this or that, I've said enough, I fear my
rhyme* are rather rough.
But of one thing I've yet to p*k, and this I'll
do in spirit
On many a l've l've got to sup, because for CASH
l am "hard up."
Ap a **"Z? hU - 1 #ln * m y heart is sore, as I come
to J ,,nr door
A r, f'ping, skipping to.vnnr J
Somebody has said that money ii brain*, if a man's
gut that all else be gains;
If he ha.s btains and got no cash, poor devil, he's
all knocked to smash.
Then give me some money to fill my head: you'll
not regret it when you re dearl,
.And should it give me better sense, with better
veree I 11 recompense
When next I trip unto your door
As now I've done and heretofare.
CABBIES BUT.
KKIHEHY AT ELECTIONS.
THE great quadrennial contest is over, and .
the most important offices in the gift of the -
nation have been filled for another term. Of
course the usual amount of corruption has
been practised, which partisans of either j
party would have us believe has been con
fined to their adversaries. Many, doubt
less, seeing the venality of a certain class of
our voters, have, in heart-sickness, almost
doubted of the sufficiency of virtue and in
telligence in large masses of people for self
government ; and, possibly, have been led
to question the wisdom of a Republican form
of government. It may be instructive to
such, and of some interest to all, to see bow
the franchise has worked in England in time
past—even when it was much uiorc re
stricted than at present. A writer in Caneds
Magazine gives some curious and interes
ting facts on the subject, a few of which we
quote :
"Ever since the Hanoverian succession,
more or less venality has pervaded our elec
toral system. But for a long time it was
rather the people's representatives than the
people themselves who were the offending
parties. Members of Parliament, from the
beginning of Walpole's administration to the
beginning of Mr. Pitt's, were not ashamed
to sell themselves for hard cash ; and the
bargain was transacted on a regular system,
and almost without secrecy. Sir Robert
Walpole, it is said, u-ed to settle the busi
ness at his Parliamentary dinners, when
every man's price was found underneath his
plate. . . . Some years afterwards, an offiee
was opeoed at Whitehall for the open aud
shameless purchase of Parliamentary sup
port. . . . But during the whole of this
period, and, indeed, for many years after
ward, what we now mean by bribery was,
comparatively speaking, unknown. . . .
The voters received fixed sums from the
patrons of boroughs at each election; but
this money was paid quite openly, and was
never regarded as a bribe. It had come to
be looked on as a prescriptive right; and
more than once, when the system began to
be discontinued, members have been threat
ened with actions for non fulfilment of what
the voter tohught their legal obligations.
. . . At St. Albans, in 1851, it was reported
that the giving of head-money appeared to
have been general as far back a- the com
missioners could trace. Before the Reform
ict, 'there was a known and settled price
given to voters.' It was done indiscrim
inately by both parties, openly, and iu the
face of day; and a voter would have con
sidered himself defrauded if he had not been
paid. It was tbe custom of the agents of
the respective candidates to take round a
bag at noonday, go from honse to house in
the daytime, and pay these guineas. Many
respectable tradesmen have been known to
take these guineas, who would have been
shocked at the imputation of having been
bribed. . . . The enormous expense of elec
tions in former times arose partly from tbe
BEDFORD, PA., FR - DA V, JAN. 1, 1869.
system ol treating, which, in some cases.
Was protracted for a month, and partly from
the cost of conveying voters to tbe poll,
which, in counties with only one polling
place, must have been gigantic. An elec
tion for Yorkshire, before the Refoim B;il,
cost one hundred and fifty thousand pounds,
without a contest. Bribery was a very
small item in the sunt total. . . .
"The report of tbe committee which SBt
on the Sunbury petition is one of the most
amusing of the whole number, and presents
us with some striking examples of that re
markable shortness of memory and singular
bluntness of perception which, in obedience
to some physical law BOt yet discovered, is
generated by the atmosphere of elections.
... It was shown in that inquiry that a
gentleman of position in the town sat in a
room at a hotel, before a largo table, em
ployed during the whole of tbe polling-day
in making out 'tickets,' and as fatas vottsrs
who had polled for the right mcu were
brought into the room and vouched for,
iht-y each received one of these t -l;ef?
-'fltku-Clh tUiffi, these deserving men then
crossed tbe market-place to another hotel,
where another gentleman was stationed be
fore another table, and as each man pre
sented bis ticket he received in return four
sovereigns from the 'gentleman.' But hire
was shown the singular and morbific chir
acter of the atmosphere to which we have
already referred. The gentleman who made
out the tickets, though hs issued nearly two
hundred, and all the recipients were bis
leilow-townsmen, could not remember the
name of a single one of them' He re
membered the names of eighty voters who
had not received tickets, but of the two
hundred whose names he had written down
himself, not one. But this remarkable
affection of the memory was more than
equalled by the temporary loss of reason
with which the same unhappy gentleman
was seized on the same occasion. Being
asked what he thought would be done with
these tickets, he replied that he 'couldn't
imagine,' nor did he recover the use of his
faculties as loug as tbe commissioners were
setting.
"In other cases, one observes a kind of
morbid anxiety not to exceed the truth —a
laborious moderation of statement deserving
of the utmost honor, rather than oblivious
ness or dullness. A tradesman iu the town,
who had recommended the formation of a
fund for electioneering purposes, was asked
how it was spent. He did not know. Mas
it u.-c-d to buy voters ? Well, be really could
not say. It might have been; it was 'fea.-ible
to .suppose it was,' but he should not like to
speak positively. Similarly, a canvasser for
one of the parties, who had referred a very
exacting voter to the agent, when requested
to state with what design he so referred him,
said with no design in particular; tbe agent
would take the business off his hands.
What would the agent do? He had not the
slightest idea. Would he buy the man's
vote? He could not say. He might, per
haps, but it was a 'mere supposition.' And
so on with witness after witness. . . .
"But, after all. Derham. the funniest
bribery came out after the general election
of IM9. . . . Wakefield appears to have
been nearly as bad as St. Albans. In this
instance the bribery was of the most whole
sale and unguarded character. The evidence
is very amusing. Money there was called
sugar; and the reception of it, having your
hand scratched. . . . One John Jackson
had his hand scratched with thirty pounds,
worth of the luscious artiele; but as thirty
five had been promised, the only effect was
to lose his vote and convert him into an
active enemy at the same time. . . . These
miscarriages of injustice were not infre
quent.
CAMEOS FROM ENGLISH HISTORY.
This very intcrestitg book has been pre
pared by its gifted author for the u>e of
children, in the intermediate age, too old to
take an interest in the historic stories writ
ten for children, and too young to derive
benefit from the ponderous historic works
written for mature minds. It has been her
design to take cither individual characters
or events bearing on English history, and
work them out as fully as materials permit,
so that each, taken by itself, might form an
individual cameo, or gem in full relief, and
thus become impressed upon tbe mind.
The sketches begin in the mingled realms of
tradition and history; but the authentic is
sufficiently distinguished from the doubtful,
and the author has been quite successful in
her endeavor to "put together a series of
pictures of persons and events, so as to
arrest the attention, aud give some in
dividuality and distinctness to the recollec
tion. by gathering together details at the
most memorable moments A few pas
sages will be read with interest, and will
give a correct impression of the character of
the volume:
"When William of Normandy, afterward
called the Conquerer, was about twenty, a
dangerous conspiracy was formed against
him by his cousin, Guy of Burgundy, and a
number of his chief vassals, who intended
to seize hiui at his hunting lodge at Valo
gues, put him to death, and raise Guy to
the dukedom.
"The conspirators met at Bayeux, the
day before their intended treachery, and,
whilst dining there, called in to arnuse them
a halfwitted man, named Gillos, and the
plot was, inadvertently, mentiontd in his
presence. The Duke when passing through
the town, had shown the poor man some
kindness, and no sooner did he understand
the intended treachery, than he left the hall
and set off for Valogues, where he arrived
just before midnight, and, finding all gone
to rest, began to batter the door with a stick
shouting for the Duke. At first, William
could not believe the story, but Gillor seem
ed so much in earnest, that he deemed it
advisable to go and see what had given rise
to the report, and, muffling himself iu a
cloak, ran downstairs, himself Addled his
horse, and rode toward Bayeux. Before he
had gone far, he heard the trampling of
horses and clanking of weapons, and, con
cealing himself among .he trees, saw that
the poor fool's information was perfectly
correct, for the whole bandof traitors passed
by exactly as they had been described.
Upon this, he changed his course, and
turned toward ibc coast in the direction of
Falaiae, bis birth-place, and the town most
devoted to his interests* * * * William
safely arrived at Fa'aise, and, in memory of
his escape, ks said to have Caused his path
to be tiaced out by a rai.-ed bank of tartb,
part of which is still in existence."
Thomas a Beeket, at the age of thirty
i eigt l years, was appointed Lard Chancellor
by Ge young king, Henry 11., to whom he
wag not ouly an able and a sale adviser, but
a gt .lial companion; and often, "when busi
!i: -a was doae, they used to play together
I liko.twn fchooifellows."
'lit mu-t have been a curious seene in the
; hk'il; of Chancellor Becket, when, at the
; rias'f meal, earls and barons sat round bis
i tal>, ntid knigl ts and nobles crowded so
| thi lly at the others that the benches were
| not sufficient, and the floor was daily strewn
| wild hay or straw in winter, or in summer
i with green boughs, that those who sat on it
[ might not soil their robes. Gold and silver
jdi-hes,atid goblets and the richest wines,
; were provided, and the choicest, most CO.-tly
| viands were purchased at any price by his
i servants for these entertainments: they once
| iijjve a hundred shillings for a di-h of eels,
j Bui the Chancellor seldom touched these
Ldelicacies, living on the plainest fare, as he
(%at io his place as the host, answering the
Sledges of his guests, amusing them with
and providing minstrelsy and
sports of all kinds for their re-creation. Often
tke. King would ride into the hall, in the
midst of the gay crowd seated on the floor,
throw him>elf off his hofse, leap over the
1 table, and join in the mirth.
"These rich feasts afforded afterward
plentiful alms for the poor, who were never
forgotten in the height of Becket's magnifi
cence, and the widow and the oppressed
never failed to find a protector iu the Chan
cellor.
"His house was full of yonng squires and
pages, the sons of the nobility, who placed
th-.'tn there as tbe best school of knighthood;
and among them was the King's own son,
Henry, who had been made his pupil.
"The King seems to have been apt to
laugh at Becket for his strict life and over
flowing charity. One very cold day, as they
wrre riding, they met an old man in a thin
ragged coat,
'"Poor old man!" said Henry, would it
net be a charity to give him a good warm
cloak ?
'"lt would indeed,' said Becket, 'you had
better keep the matter in mind.'
'"No, no, it is you that shall have the
credit of this great act of charity,*" said
Henry, laughing. Tla! old man, should
you not like this nice warm cloak ? and
with those words he began to pull at the
scarlet and gray mantle which the Chancel
lor wore. Bucket struggled for it, arid in
this rough sport they were both nearly pull
ed off their horses, till the clasp gave way,
and the King triumphantly tossed his prize
to tke astonished old man."
THE FLOATING CITY.
\ -.nice, queen city of the Adriatic, has
been immortalized in song, and its streets
of water, alive with gliding gondolas, and
gay willt revelry, are familiar to all. But,
though less known, not less worthy of note
is the capital city of Siam. of which a trav
eller thus discourses in the Springfield Union:
"One of the most wonderful cities in the
world is Bankok. Did you ever witness
such a sight in your life? On either s'de of
lar streets and alleys, extending as far a- the
eye can reach, are upward of 70,000 neat
little houses, eseh house floating ou a com
pact raft of band >os, and the whole inter
mediate -pace of the river presents to our
astonished gaze one dense mass of ships,
junks and boats, of every conceivable shape,
color and size. A- we glide among these,
we occasionally encounter a stray house bro
ken loose from its moorings, and hurrying
down the stream with the tide antid the up
roar and -hout* of inhabitants and all the
spectators. We also notice that all the front
row of honses are neatly painted shops, in
which various tempting commodities are
exposed for sale; behind these again, at
equal distances, rise the lofty, elegant porce
lain towers of the various temples. On our
right-hand side, as far as we can see, are
three stately pillars, erected to the memory
of three defunct kings celebrated for some
act of valor aud justice, and a little beyond
these, looming like a line-of-battle ship,
among o lot of cockle-shells, rises the strag
gling and not very elegant palace of the
king, where his Siamese majesty, with ever
so many wives and children resides.
■'Now, be careful Low you step out ofthe
boat into the balcony of the floating house,
for it will recede to the force of your eflort
to mount, and if you are not aware of this,
you will lose your balance and fad into the
river. Now we are safely transhipped, for
we cannot as yet say landed; but we now
form an item, though a very srnail one, of
the va?t population of the city ol Bankok.
"Every house has a canoe attached to it,
and no nation detests walking so much as
the Siamese; at the same time they are ex
pert swimmers, and both men and women
begin to acquire this very necessary art at
a very early ago. Without :t man runs a
momentary r;.A of being drowned, as, when
a canoe upsets, none of the passers-by ever
think it necessary to lend any aid, suppos
ing them fully adequate to the task ot saving
their own lives. Canoes are being hourly
up-ct, owing to the vast concourse of vessels
and boats plying to and fro; and owing to
this negligence or carelessness in rendering
assistance, a Mr. Benbam, an American
missionary, 10.-t his life some twelve years
ago, having ttpset his canoe when it was
just getting dusk, and no one deeming it
necessary to stop and pick the poor man
up."
MIRRORS IN TT 1 v HOUSE.— How many n
! parent has found in his child the glass for
; his own vices! Ilaj py. indeed, if any one
| Lc so wise as to see the ret 1 ction before it is
! too late for both l.h. tlf and child!
A laboring man who was extremely ad
] dieted to swearing was one day at work with
: a yoke 1' oxen near his honse. '1 lie oxen
not working to suit him. he began to w hip
; them severely, at the same time uttering
volleys of blasphemous oaths. Tbe oxen,
breaking loose from their harness, ran away;
: while the man, iu a passion, pur-ued them,
aud coming up with them at the house, be
gan to whip them again and to swear as hor
rible as before. His little boy, who wasjust
old enough to talk, began to prattle his pro
fane oaths after'him. No sooner did the
father hear this, than his feelings were pow
erfuily wrought upon. He paused l'or a
moment, dtopped his whip, and sat down
and wept bitterly. A flood of keeu reflec
i tions at once rushed upon his conscience,
which produced such an effect that be found
peace where forgiveness can only he had—at
the footstool of Merey.
He who says what he likes, often hears
what he does not like.
A NOTABLE DINNER PARTY.
Blackwood** Magazine gives an account
of a dinner party forty years ago, which was
remarkable for the accidental conjunction of
three men who in after years rose to high
places in the English government. Of the
fourth guest, we can only conjecture that he
is tbe writer of the article, and that pro
priety keeps him silent concerning his own
acbievments:
"When Mr, Disraeli launched his first
tale, and found it to be a great success,
Lord Lytton, then Mr. Edward Lytton
Bulwer, had achieved the proud place as a
novelist which he has ever since retained.
The aspirant for literary distinction had
loug admired at a distance the renown of
his senior; and, encouraged by the reception
which his own maiden effort had been re
ceived, he did what young authors under
.•■imilar circumstances are apt to do—he sent
t > Mr. Bulwer a copy of Vivian Grey, wri
ting, at the same time, an apologetic note,
and giving reason for the liberty be had
taken. The letter, with its accompanying
gift, were at once acknowledged, and Mr.
Disraeli was requested to name a day for
dining with their recipient, ft happened
that Mr. Disraeli had arranged for quitting
England on the day but one after receiving
this invitation. He wrote to say so, and
the morrow was fixed for the symbosium.
Four gentlemen sat down at Mr Bulwer's
table on that occasion—one being, of course
the host; another, Mr. Disraeli; the third, a
man shy but evidently intelligent—for,
though he said comparatively little, his re
marks, as often as he haiarded them, were
keenly to the purpose; the fourth, a private
friend of the host, need not be- specified.
"It was an evening not to be forgotten,
because then, as now, both Lord Lytton and
Mr. Disraeli shone in conversation. The
party broke up about midnight, and the host
and his friend were left alone together. Af
ter discussing Disraeli, the question was put:
'Who is your silent guest ?' 'He is one of
:bc ablest men I know,' was the reply. 'He
was my contemporary at college. He is now
a barrister, and, mark my words, he will at
tain the highest honors cf his profession.
His name is Coekburn.' Tbe climax to this
little bit of domestic history or gossip is
wry remarkable. The two brilliant novel
ists and the lawyer, who dined to
gether some forty or more years ago, com
paratively obscure men, have all risen to po
sitions of eminence in the 6tate. Mr. Cock
burn is Lord Chief Justice of England, Mr.
Bulwer, after serving as Secretary of State
for the Colonies, has become a peer of the
realm, and Mr. Disraeli, on more than one
precious occasion Chancellor of the Exche
quer and leader ofthe Ilouse of Commons,
is now First Lord of the Treasury."
THE MYSTERY OF EDITING.
The world at large doe 3 not understand
the mysteriea of a uewspaper; and as in a
watch the hands, that are seen are but the
passive instruments of the springs, which
are never seen, so in a newspaper the most
worthy causes of its prosperity are often
IfrrCtn 1 mncn 1 nic' -jorpvi uWhtr-mMftke
enterprise, the vigilance, and the watchful
fidelity of the publisher? \l ho pauses to
think how much of the pleasure of reading
is derived from the skill and care of the
printer? We feel the blemishes of printing
if they exLt, but seldom observe the ex
cellences.
We cat a hearty dinner, but do not think
ofthe farmer that raises the material thereof,
or the cook that prepares tnem with infinite
pains and skill. But a cook of vegetables,
meat, pastry, and infinite bon-bons has a
paradisaical offiee in comparison with an ed
itor. Before him pass all the exchange
newspapers. He is to know all their con
tents, to mark for other eyes the inattar that
requires attention. His scissors are to be
alert, and clip with incessant industry all
the little items that together form so large
an interest in the news department. He
passes in review, each week every, State in
the Union, through the newspaper lens.
He looks acros the ocean and sees strange
land*, and, following the sun, he searches
all around the world for material. It will
require but one second for the reader to
take in what two hours' searoh produced.
By him are read the manuscripts that swarm
the office like flics in July. It is his frown
that dooms them. It is his hand that con
den-es a whole page into a line. It is his
discreet sternness that restricts sentimental
obituaries; and gives poets a twig on which
to sit and sing their first lays.
And the power behind the throne in
newspapers, as in higher places, is some
times as important as the throne itself. Cor
respondents, occasional or regular, stand in
awe at the silent power which has the last
glance at an artiele, and may send it lorth
in glory or humility. And, in short, as the
health of the body depends upon a good
digestion, so the health of a newspaper de
pends upon that vigorous digestion which
goes on by means ot the editor.
Ought they not to be honored? And
since little fame attends them, they should
at least have their creature comforts multi
plied.—!//. N' Beer her.
ALL A SETTING.
Old farmer Gruff was one morning a tug
ging away with all his might and main at a
barrel of apples, which he was endeavoring
to get up the cellar stairs, and calling to the j
top of his voice for one of his boys to lend j
a helping hand, but in vain. When be had, ;
after an infinite amount of sweating, aceom- j
plished the task, and just when they were j
not needed, of course they made their ap
jiearance: i
"Where have you been and what have
you been about, I'd like to know; couldn't j
you hear me call?" inquired the farmer, in
an angry tone, addressing the eldest. j
"Out in tbe shopsittin' the saw," replied
the youth.
"And vou, Dick'.'"
"Out in the barn sittin' the hen."
"And you sir?"
"Up in Granny's room sittin' the clock.'
"And you, young rnau?"
"Up in the garret, sittin' the trap "
"And now. Master Fred, where have you
been sittin?" asked the old farmer of his ,
youngest progeny, the asperity of his temper |
being somewhat softened by this amusing ■
catalogue of answers. "Come, let s bear! j
"On the doorstep, sittin' still," replied ;
young hopeful, seriou.-iy.
"A remarkable set, I must confess, add
ed the amused sire, dispersing the grinning
group with a wave of his hand.
MANY kings make their subjects beggars,
but Christ makes his subjects kings.
VOL. 42: NO. I-
TUE FATE OF THE APOSTLES.
All the apostles were assaulted by the en
emies of their Master. They were called
to seal their doctrines with their blood, and
nobly did they bear the trial. Schumacher
says:
"St. Matthew suffered martyrdom by be
ing slain with a sword at a distant city of
Ethiopia.
"St. Mark expired at Alexandria, after
being cruelly dragged through the streets of
that city.
"St. Luke was banged upon an olive tree
iu the classic land of Greece.
"St. John was put in a chaldron of boil
ing oil, but escaped death in a miraculous
manner, and was afterwards banished to I'at
mos.
"St. Peter was crucified at Roma, with
bis head downward.
"St. James the Greater was beheaded at
Jerusalem.
"St. James the Less was thrown from a
lofty pinnacle of tbe temple, and then beat
en to death with a fuller's club.
"St. Bartholomew was flayed alive.
"St. Andrew was bound to a cross, whence
he preached to his persecutors until he died.
"St. Thomas was run through the body
with a lance at Caromandel. in the East In
dies.
"St. Jude was shot to death with arrows.
"St Matthias was first stoned ahd then
beheaded.
"St. Barnabas of the Gentiles was stoned
to death by the Jews at Salonica.
"St. Paul, after various tortures and per
secutions, was at length beheaded at Rome,
by the Emperor Nero."
Such was the fate of the aiiostles, accord
ing to traditional statements; and though
we cannot authenticate them all, we, at
least, know that the hatred of the world to
these men and their teachings was sufficient
to render the accounts not very improbable.
A CRITIC OITWITTED.— Hiram Power?,
the famous sculptor, will visit his native
country the coming summer, it is stated,
and spend seme months with his relatives in
Cincinnati. lie is a native of that city, and
lived there for many years, having first
shown his genius by making some excellent
wax figures for Dorfeuifs Museum, a well
known place of amusement in the West at
that time. Among other figures, he made
one of Alexander Drake, a popnlar come
dian in that section thirty years ago. Some
of Powers' friends were so much pleased
with his work that they invited the Queen
City journalists to look at it. among them
one notorious for his bypercriticism, and
believed to be something of a pretender
withal. The particular critic came in the
evening, when the museum was dimly light
ed, and took his position before the glass
case. After gazing at the figure very in
tantly for five minutes, he said to Powers,
who was at his elbow: "There are some
good points about this, Hiram; but it has
some extraordinary defects. The nose is
too long entirely, and the mouth has a
queer twi.-t. One arm is longer than the
jod-oii.M XVfu'c<uisirvJcoo.4" ffej**.rnc"tr\vsJ.
It would be utterly impossible. I don't see
Iliram how you could have made such a
blunder." Powers laughed, and inquired
of the figure: "What do you think of it,
Drake?" The figure immediately stepped
out of the case, and bursting iuto a loud
laugh, said: "I think the position pretty
natural, myself.' The critic did not hear
the last of the jest to his dying day, and
never afterwards spoke to the facetious
sculptor.
WORRIED TO DEATH.— This is a very
common expression with a metaphorical
meaning; but many a time, alas! it is liter-1
ally true, especially so with the overeensi-1
tive —the too high-strung. But it is often
an unnecessary result, arising from idleness,
giving time to brood over trifles, or from the
wicked and weak minded hermit of getting
into a worry about trifling things. I once
knew a lady to cry because it rained before
she could have some work finished around
her splendid city mansion. All of us should
accustom ourselves to take things by their
smooth handle, remembering that it has
been wisely said: "The chief siieret of com
fort lies in not suffering trifles to vex one,
and in prudently cultivating an overgrowth
of small pleasures, since rery great ones are
let on long leases. — Hall's Journal of
Health.
"WHEN the day begins to go up to heav
en at night," says one, "it does not spread a j
pair of wings and fly alolt like a bind, but it
just climbs softly up a ladder. It sets its I
red saodal on the shrub you have watered,
and then it steps to the tree we sit under, and
thence to the ridge of the roof, to the chim
ney, and from the chimney to the tall elm.
from the tall elm to the church spire, and
then to the cloud, and then to the threshold
of heaven; and thus from round to crimson
round you can see it go as though it walked
upon red roses. And so with the light
which streams through a purified ami con
secrated knowledge. The rays rise upward
as they lead onward, and the more of truth
we find the purer will seem the splendors of
that throne whence flow ail the unshadowed
glories of eternal day."
THE RAINING THEE. —The island of Fter
ro is one of the largest in the Canary group,
and it has received its name on account of
its iron-bound soil, through which no river
or stream flows. It has also but very few
wells, and these not very good. But the
great Preserver and Sustainer of all, reme
dies this inconvenience in away so extraor
dinary that man will be forced to acknowl
edge that he gives in this an undeniable de
monstration of his wonderful goodness. In
the midst of the bland there grows a tree,
the leaves of which are long and narrow, and
continue in coo taut verdure winter and sum
mer, and the branches are eovered with a
cloud which is never dispelled, but, resolv
ing itself into a moisture, causes to fall from
its leaves a very clear water in such abund
ance that cisterns placed at its foot to receive
it are never empty.
CHLORINE GAS is now used in toughen
ing and refimng gold, by being passed
through the melted metal, which is eovered
with a layer of borax. After a few hours
all the silver piesent is converted into chlo
i ride of silver which floats on the surface
and may be poured off still liquid when the
i gold has become aoiid. The borax prevents
the loss of silver by absorption of volatiliza
; tion. The gold attains, by this process, a
; linenness of 993 parts in 1.000; the locs is
) about the same as in the usual methods.
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W>may be wiser in oar generation than ,
those of olden times regarding the manner
of punieb iug offence* and misdemeanors;
but oar ancestor* had some very correct
notions, and believed those wbo willfully
trifled with the public health should be dealt
with severely- In 1211 a London baker waa
arrested for selling putrid bread; and a man
and woman suffered the punishment of the
pillory for celling bread made ot bad mate
rials and deficient in weight. Soma years
later a certain dealer waa sentenced to be >
put upon the pillory, and two putrid beef
carcasses to be burned under him for ex
posing the said caroaseos for sale. Simi
lar instances are numerous among the old
records of London. In the tune of Henry
V. the adulteration of wines and the sale
of false wines were punished by the pillory.
THE BIBLE. —lt is the book of Laws, to
show the right and wrong. It is the book
of Wisdom, and makes the foolish wise. _
It is the book of Truth, which detects all
human eriora. It is the book of life, which
shows bow to avoid everlasting death. It
COD tains the most authentic and entertain
ing History ever published. It is a perfect
book of Divinity. It is a book of Bio
graphy. It is a book of Travels. His a boot of
voyages. It is the best eonveuant ever
made, thebestever written. It is the young
man's best companion. It is the schoolboy's
best instructor. It is the learned man's
masterpiece. It is the ignorant man's die
tiooary. It promises an eternal reward to
the faithful and believing.
THE champion eater of the United States
is named Josiah Plumb. A few days ago he
entered a restaurant in Hudson, N. Y. f and
offered to eat all that any one would pay for.
The challeoge having been accepted, he dis ■
posed of the following articles: Ten pieces
of apple pie, six corn cakes, a quarter of a
pound of crackers, six cups of peanuts, thirty
pickled clams, four lemons, an ounce of
candy, and two bowls of clam soup. He
then drank six tumblers of water, and offer
ed to eat a hundred raw oystera. Some
doubted his ability to accomplish the feat,
but no one was willing to pay for the oysters,
and so he went off grumbling that he wasn't
half foil. _
A SEVERE HIT. —A cotemporary relates
that a lady who advocated dancing, said to
an aged minister of another denomination :
'•Well, Mr. N., with all your objections to
dancing, you will be obliged to admit that it
is not half so bad as to be in another room,
at an evening party, drinking or playing
cards, or perhaps slandering one's neighbors. *
Mr. N. replied- "I candidly confess, as you
say, that it is not half as bad as either of
these, and if the members of yowr church
are obliged to drink, gamble, dander their
neighbors or dance, I say, by all means,
dance —or, which is better, stay at homo,
As for ours, we are not obliged to do either."
TH French expedition to the North Pols,
which has been IO long talked of, is at length
expenses —twenty thousand lraacs —aaa oetU
collected by M. Gun tare Lambert. Thia
gentleman is now at Cherbourg, Franca
superintending the equipment of his vessel'
significantly christened La Foi, and will sail
early ia the spring upon his advantuxoua
voyage. t t
GOP regulates the movements of con
science, and God allows of no apology for
sin. He can forgive it; he can forget it; he
can blot it out as a cloud and a thick cloud;
he can bury it in the depths of the sea; he
can carry it away so that no more mention
shall be made of it; but he never, no, never,
can excuse it
AMONG the gifts to a new married pair at
a town in New Jersey, was a broom sent to
the lady, accompanied with the following
sentiment:
"This trifling gift accept from me.
Its use I would commend,
In sunshine use the brushy part.
In storms the other end." rn "
IT was a touching answer of a Cbristaia
sailor, when asked why he remained so caba
in a fearful storm, when the sea seemed
ready to devour the skip. He was notaure
rhat he could swim; but he safß, "Though
I sink, I shall but drop into my Father's
hand, for He holds all these waters there."
TRI'E repentance consists in the heart
being broken for sin, and broken frxtm sin.
' Some often repent, yet never reform; they
resemble a man traveling a dangerous path
who frequently starts and stops, but never
turns back. _
As imaginative Iri&man gave utterance
to this lamentation m "I returned to the
halls of my fathers by night, and found
them in ruins! 1 cried out aloud, 'My
fathers, where are they Y And eoho res
ponded. 'ls that you, Patrick McCarthy
A LADY asked her little girl, on returning
from church, if she remembered the teat.
"Oh, yes!" said shn; "it wne this: The
ladies' sewing society will meet at Mrs. Mo-
Cracken's house on Monday evening next."
PREFER solid sense to wit. never study to
be diverting w : thont being usefta); let no jest b
intrude upon your good manners, nor say
anything that may offend modesty or heed- 1
iessly hurt the footings of another.
AWFUL EFFECTS OF GROWING OLD
In an obituary notion of an old citia-n, an
Ohio papeT says: "Ho was honest and • T
dustrieus until enfeebled by disease and
age." ■ ■ 4
your great Physician heal you in his
own way. Only follow his directions, and
take the medicines which be prescribes, and
then quietly leave the result with him.
BISHOP BEVTHDOE has truly and itrariug
ly said: "Who knows but the saltation of
ten thousand immortal sonb may depend on
the education of a child ?"
WE overlook our own faults ou account of
our merits, and other 1 s merits on account of
their faults. ><.,.,£ a.->s-j- s-uw-n---
WHETHER the world moves forward or
backward, the movement party call the mo
tion progress.
THERE is no religion without morality,
: though there may be muck morality without
1 any religion. _ ' • •
i PfCENTtd'E says that gtaq was the chief
> consideration at th<j creation. W omaft was
a "aide issue," jiv* s'wdHrt®