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jnyirosts TitiVMriiA.XT.
A TALE OF. ENGLISH MAIL COACH DATS.
An English gentleman of true John
Bull proportions weighing some eighteen
or twenty stone bad occasion to travel in
summer by stage-coach frem Oxford to
London. The stage carried six inside ;
and our hero engaged two places (as, in
consideration of his size be usually did,)
for himself. The other four seats were
taken by Oxford students. !
These youths, being lighter than our
modern Lambert, reached the stage before .
be did, and each snugly possessed himself j
of a corner peat, leaving a center seat on
each side vacant. The round, good-tem- j
pered faco of John Bull soon after appear- '
ed at the carriage door, and, peering in at .
the vehicle and observing the local arrange- j
ments, its owner said, with a smile, "You
see I am of a pretty comfortable size, gen-
tlemen ; so I have taken two seats. It will
greatly oblige me if one of you will kindly J
move into the opposite seat, so that I may j
be able to enter." j
"My good sir," said a pert young law- j
student, "possession is nine-tenths of the
law. i ou engagea two seats, i nere tuey
are, one on each side. "We engaged one
each, came first, entered regularly into
possession, and our titles to the seats we
occupy are indisputable."
'4I do not dispute your titles," said the
other, "but I trust to your politeness, see
ing how the case stands, to enable me to
pursue my journoy."
"Ob hang politeness," said a hopeful
young scion of some noble house, "I have
a horror of a middle seat, and would not
take one to oblige my grandmother ; it's
ungraceful as well as uncomfortable ; and,
besides, one has do chance of looking at
the pretty girls along tlie road. Good old ;
gentleman, arrange your concerns as you
please ; I stick to my corner." And he
leaned back, yawned, and settled himself
with hopeless composure in his place. j
Our corpulent friend, though a man not
easily discomposed, was somewhat put out
by this unmannerly obstinacy, He turned
to a smart looking youth with a simper on
his face a clerical student who had hith
erto sat in a revery, possibly thinking over
his chances of a rich benefice in the future.
"Will you accommodate me?" he asked,
"this is the last stage that starts for Lon
don to-day, and business of urgent import
ance calls me to town."
"Some temporal affair, no doubt," said
the graceful youth, with mock gravity ;
"some speculation with filthy lucre for its
object. Good father, at your age your
thoughts should turn heavenward, instead
of being confined to the dull, heavy taber
nacle of clay that chains us to earth."
And his companions roared with laughter
at the "d d clever joke."
A glow of indignation just colored the
stranger's cheek ; but be mastered his feel
ings in a moment, and said with much
composure, to the fourth, "Are you also
determined that I shall lore my place ; or
wiH you oblige me by taking a center seat?"
"Ay, do, Tom," said his lordship to the
person addressed ; "he's something in the
way of your profession ; quite a physiologi-
cal curiosity. You ought to accommodate
! him."
"May I be poisoned if I do I" replied the
student of mediciue. "In a dissecting
room ho'd make an excellent subject ; but
in a coach, and this warm weather, too ! j
Old gentleman, if yon will put yourself
under my care, I'll engage in the course
of six weeks, by a judicious course of de
pletives, to 8a ve you hereafter the expense
of a doable seat. But, really, to take a
middle seat rn the month of July is contra
ry to all the rules of hygiene, and a prac
tice to which I bave a professional objec
tion. Ami the htngh was renewed at the old
gentleman's expense.
By this time the patience of coachee, wbo
bad been listening to the fatter part of the
dialogue, was exhausted. "Harkee, gem
men,' said he, "settle the business as you
like ; but it wants just three-quarters of a
minute of twelve, and with the first stroke
of the university clock my horses must be
off. I would not wait three seconds longer
for the king, God bless him. "Twould be
as muoh as my place is worth." And
with that he mouuted his box, took up
the reins, bid tbe hostler shut the door,
and sat with upraised whip, listening for
the expected stroke.
As it sounded from the venerable belfry,
the horses, as if they recognized the signal,
shot off at a full gallop with the four young
rogues, to whom their own rudeness and
our fat friend's dilemma afforded a prolific
theme for merriment during the whole
stage.
Meanwhile the subject of their mirth
hired a postchaise, followed, arid overtook
them at the second change of horses, where
the passengers got out ten minutes for
lunch. As the postchaise drove up to the
inn door, two young chimney-sweeps pass
ed with their bags and brooms and their
well-known cry.
"Come hither, my lads," said tbe corpu
lent gentleman, "what say you to a ride?"
The whites of their eyes enlarged into
still more striking contrast with the dark
shades of the sooty cheeks. "Will you
have a ride, my boys, in the stage-coach?"
"Ees, zur," said the elder, scarcely dar
ing to trust the evidence of his ears.
"Well, then, hostler, open the stage
door. In with you ! And, d'ye hear ? be
sure to take the middle seats ; so, one on
each side."
The guard's horn sounded, and coachee's
voice was heard : "Only one minute aDd
a half more, gen'lemen ; come on !"
They came, bowed laughingly to our
friend of the corporation, and passed on
to the coach. The young lord was the
first to put his foot on the steps. "Why,
how now, coachee ? What confounded
joke is this ? Get out, you rascals, or 111
teach you how to play gentlemen such a
trick again."
"Sit still, my lads ; you are entitled to
your places. My lord, the two middle
seats, through your action and that of
your young friends, are mine, they were
regularly taken and duly paid for. I
choose that two proteges of mine shall oc
cupy them. An English stage coach is
free to every one who behaves quietly, and
I am answerable for their good conduct ;
and so mind and behave, boys ! Your lord
ship has a horror of a middle scat, pray
take the corner one."
''Overreached us, by Jove !" aid the
law student. "We give up the cause, aud
cry you mercy, Mr. Bull?"
"Blythe is my name."
"We cry quits, worthy Mr. Blythe."
"You forget that possession is nine
tenths of the law, my good sir, and that
the title of these lads to their seats is in
disputable ; I have installed them as my
locum tenenUs, if that be good law Latin.
It would be highly unjust to dislodge the
poor youths, and I cannot permit it. You
have your corner."
"Heaven preserve us I" exclaimed the
medical student.
"You are surely not afraid of a black
coat," retorted the other. "Besides we
ought not to suffer our thoughts to
dwell on petty earthly concerns, but to
turn them heavenward."
"I'd rather go through my examination
a second time than to sit by these dirty
devils," groaned the medical student.
"Soot is perfectly wholesome, my young
friend ; and you will not be compelled to
violate a single hygienic rule. The corner
you selected is vacant. Pray get in."
At these words coachee, who had stood
grinning behind, actually cheated into for
getfuluess of time by tlie excellence of the
joke, came forward. "Gentlemen, you
have lost me a minute and a quarter, al
ready. I must drive on without ye, if so
be ye don't like your company."
The students cast rueful glances at each
other, and then crept warily into their re
spective corners. As the hostler shut the
'door he found it impossible to control bis
features. "I'll give you something to
change your cheer, you grinning rascal VT
said the disciple of Esculapius, stretching
out of the window ; but tbe hostler nimbly
evaded the blow.
"My white pantaloons ! cried the lord.
"My beautiful drab surtout !" exclaimed
the the lawyer expectant, "the filtby ras
cals r
The noise of the carriage wheels and the
unrestrained laughter of the spectators
drowned tbe sequel of their lamentations.
At tbe next stage a bargain was struck.
The sweeps were liberated and dismissed
with a gratuity ; the scats shaken and
brushed ; the worthy sons of the universi
ty made up among themselves the expens
es of the post-chaise ; the yoitng doctor
violated for once the rules of hygiene by
taking a middle seat, and all journeyed on
together without further quarrel or grum
ble, except from coachee, who declared
that "to be kept over time a minute and
a quartet at one stage, and only three sec
onds less than three minutes at the next
was enough to try the patience of a saint,
that it was !" ENov. Atlantic Mag.
Pommelling Washington.
George Washington preserved such uni
form dignity that his most intimate friends
dared not take any liberties with him.
But a lady tells the following story from
her own knowledge :
In the heated canvass which followed
Jefferson's nomination for the Presidency,
General Washington's personal intimate
friend, Ligbt-horse Harry Lee, was op
posed for Congress by Colonel Pey
ton. So great was the interest folt by
Washington for Lee, that on election day
he mounted his horse and rode up from
Mount Yernon to Alexandria for the pur
pose of influencing by his presence as
many votes as possible for his friend.
Among the many acquaintances he en
countered was a plasterer who bad been
employed at Mount Vernon. This plaster
er was a small man, dofective, no doubt,
in reverence, and it may well be believed,
somewhat the worse for liquor, early in
the day as it was.
Having saluted tbe Pater Patriae, the
little man proceeded to upbraid him for
his known friendship for Gen. Lee a man
who, in his opinion (the plasterer's), was
not only a Federalist, but an aristocrat t
boot ; whereas Col. Peyton was a Demo
crat, a friend of the people, and especially
of the poor laboring classes.
Nettled by the disparagement of his
personal friend, Washington replied that
the plasterer's preference was the re
sult more of general ignorance on all sub
jects than of any correct knowledge, either
of the character of the respective candi
dates or of the issues involved in the can
vass. The allusion to his want of educa
tion was more than the intoxicated little
man could stand. To the astonishment of
the witnesses, he ripped out an oath and
said .'
"Well, I don't care if I am ignorant ; I
know my rights, anyhow. You fought
for our liberties, and won 'em, aud hang
me if I don't intend to exercise 'em."
Whereupon he delivered a number of
dry blows upon the chest of the august
chieftain. The bystanders made a rush
to tear him in pieces, but Washington,
placing his hand, on the small man's shoul
der, drew him close to him and said :
"He shall not be harmed. I have wound
ed him in the tenderest part of his nature.
He is not to blame for his ignorance, and
it is but natural that he should resent an
allusion to it." So the plasterer went scot
free.
A Big Blow A Ifew Orleans Youth
Blows up a Lung-Tester. The New Or
leans Herald says : A few evenings ago,
while the chief engineer of a lungt ester was
expatiating upon the benefits to be derived
from the free use of his instrument, a ca
daverous individual stepped out of the
crowd' and remarked to bim :
"Mieter, do you think it would help me
any to blow into that can?"
"Yes, sir ; certainly ; it would expand
your chest, give elasticity to your lungs,
and lengthen your life. Why, you'd soon
be able to blow five hundred pounds and
win the five dollar prize."
"Why, does a feller get five dollars when
he blows that many pounds ?"
"Yes, sir ; wouldn't you like to make a
trial ?' with a knowing wink to the crowd.
"I don't care if I do," said Greens,
walking around and planking down a dime
of the greasy shiuplaster soit.
Then taking the mouth-piece in his
hand he made ready. He opened his
mouth until the hole in his face looked
like a dry dock for ocean steamers, and
began to take in wind. The inflation was
like that of the great balloon, but not so
disastrous. The fellow's chest began to
grow and distend until he resembled a
pouter pigeon more than a man, at which
point be put the mouth-piece to his lips
and blew with such force that his eyes
came out and stood around On his cheek
bones to see what was the matter but
that can-top went up like a flash, and the
needle of the indicator spun around like
the button on a country school-house door,
until it stood still at 500 pounds ! The
crowd cheered, and the keeper of the can
paid over the $5 dollars ia stamps, with a
mutter of astonishment. But Greens pock
eted them coolly, and turning to the spec
tators, said :
'Look here, gents, that ain't nothing to
do at all for a man who has been a bugler
in a deaf and dumb asylum for several
years, like me."
Itise TTp, H'illinm Allen.
Ho! all ye "rural roosters,"
Now is your time to crow ;
For Allen's elected Gov
Erner of O-li-i-o!
The Democratic party's dead,
As ajl of you do kaow ;
But a very nimble corpse it proved
To be in O-h-i-o !
And whore's the People's party, prayr
Of Halstead, Hyde & Co.?
That was going to play the devil
With things in O-h-i-o !
The new concern has gone to wreck
They found it was no go ;
And there's nary a new depart
Ureist in O-h-i-o !
So all ye "rural roosters," '
Now is your time to crow ;
There's nobody left but Dem
ocrats in O-h-i-o !
-St. Louis Democrat.
Fa it a stor ies.
A Hartford bricklayer let fall a brick
from a fourth story upon the shoulder of a
man passing beneath. The man paused
for a moment, and then with a voice tremb
ling with emotion, shouted: "ni ! you
dropped a brick." The bricklayer, who
was looking over the edge of the scaffold
to see if the brick was damaged, was
pleased to find that it was not hurt, and
cheerfully answered, "All right, you need
n't mind bringing it up."
In the year 1400, Ginevra de Amiera, a
Florentine beauty, married, under parent
al pressure, a man who bad failed to win
her heart, that she had given to Antonia '
Roudinclli. Soon afterward the plague
broke out in Florence ; Ginevra fell ill, ap- j
parently succumbed to the malady, and,
being pronounced dead, was the same day
consigned to the family tomb. Some one, '
however, bad blundered in the matter, for '
in the middle of the night the entombed
bride woke out of her trance, and badly as
her living relatives had behaved, found her
dead ones still less to her liking, and lost
no time in quitting the silent company
upon whose quietude she had unwittingly
intruded. Speeding through the sleep
wrapped streets as swiftly as her clii ging
cerements allowed. Ginevra sought the
home from which she had so lately been '
borne. Roused from his slumbers by a '
knocking at the door, the disconsolate wid- j
ower of a day cautiously opened an upper
window, and, seeing a shrouded figure
waiting below, in whose upturned face he
recognized the lineaments of the dear de
parted, he cried, "Go in peace, blessed
spirit," aud shut the window precipitately.
With sinking heart and Blackened step, the
repulsed wife made her way to her father's
door, to receive the like benison from her
dismayed parent. Then she crawled on
to an uncle's, where the door was indeed
opened, but only to be slammed in her face ,
by the frightened man, who, in his hurry, ,
forgot even to bless bis ghostly caller. The '
cool night air penetrating the undress of ,
the hapless wanderer, made her tremble '
and shiver, and she thought she had waked
to life only to die again in the cruel streets, j
"Ah !' she sighed, "Antonia would not ,
have proved so unkind." This thought
naturally suggested that it was her duty j
to test his love and courage ; it would be
time enough to die if he proved liko the J
rest. The way was long, but hope re- '
nerved her limbs, and soon Ginevra was
knocking timidly at. Rod'melli's door. He
opened it himself, and, although startled
by the ghastly vision, calmly inquired what
the spirit wanted with him. Throwing
her shroud away from her face, Ginevra
exclaimed : "I am no spirit, Antonio ; I
am that Ginevra you once loved, who was
buried yesterday buried alive !" and fell
senseless into the welcoming arms of her
astonished, delighted lover, whose cries for
help soon brought down his sympathizing
family to hear the wondrous story, and
bear its heroine to bed, to be tenderly tend
ed until she had recovered from the shock j
and was as beautiful as ever again. Then
came the difficulty. Was Ginevra to re
turn 'to thefjman who had buried her, and
shut his door against her, or give herself
to the man who had saved her from a sec- 1
ond death? With such powerful special
pleaders as love and gratitude ou his side,
of course RodiuelU won the day, and a pri
vate marriage made the lovers amends for
i
previous disappointment. They, however, j
bad no intention of keeping iu hiding, but
the very first Sunday after they became 1
man and wife, appeared iu public together
at the cathedral, to the confusion and won
der of Ginevra's friends. An explanation
ensued, which satisfied everybody except
the lady's first husband, who insisted that
nothing but her dying in genuine earnest !
could dissolve the original matrimonial
bond. The case was referred to the bishop,
who, having no precedent to curb his deci
sion, rose superior to technicalities, and
declared that the first husband had forfeit
ed all right to Ginevra, and must pay over
to Rondinelli the dowry he had received
with her a decree which we may be sure
all true lovers in fair Florence heartily re
joiced at. j
This Italian romance of real life has its
counterpart in a French caue eelebrt, but
the Gallic version unfortunately lacks
names and dates; it differs, too, in matters
of detail. Iustead of the lady being a sup-
posed victim of a plague, which in the older
story secured her a hasty interment, she
was supposed to have died of grief at
being wedded against her inclinations ; in- j
stead of coming to life of her own accord, ;
and seeking her lover as a last resource,
the French heroine was taken out of her
grave by her lover, who suspected s-he was j
J not really dead, and resuscitated by his ex
' ertions, fled with him to England. After
living happilv together there for ten years, I
the strangely-united couple ventured to
visit Taris, where the lirst husband, ac;i-
deMally meeting the lady, was struck
her resemblance to his dead wifo, fop
out her abode, and finally claimed her
bi own. When the case came for tn
the second husband did not dispute
fact of identity, but pleaded that his ri
had renounced all claim to the lady by
dering her to be buried, without first in
ing sure that she was dead, and that
would have boen dead aud rutting in ?.
grave if he bald not rescued her. T
court was saved the trouble of deciding t
knotty point, for, seeing th? it was lik
to pronounce against them, tho fond -quietly
slipped out of France, and foi
refuge in "a foreign clime, where their
continued sacred and entire till death c
veyed them to those happy regions w 1. .
love knows no end, aud is confined wit',
no limits."
Of dead-alive ladies brought to conyci"
ness by sacrilegious robbers, covetous
the rings upon their cold fingers, no !
than seven stories, differing but slic
from each other, have been preserved,
one the scene is laid in Halifax ; in ar.
er, in Gloucestershire ; in a third, in S.
ersetshire ; in the fourth, in Drogln
the remaining three being appropriate!1,
as many towns in Germany.
Ring stories bave a a knack of rnnni
in one groove. Herodotus tells us L
Amasis advised Polyciates, as a cha:
against misfortune, to throw away set
gem he especially valued; how, takuig 1
advice, Polycrates wer.tseaward in a br
and cast his favorite ring into the oce
and how, a few days afterward, a fisberr
caught a large fish, so extraordinary :
that he thought it fit only for the royal
ble, and accordingly presented it t
fortunate monarch, who ordered it ?.
dressed for supper ; aud lo ! when the : .
was opened, the surprised cook's aston's'i
eye beheld his master's castaway li
much to that master's delight, but hi-:
viser's dismay ; for when Amasis heari!
the wondeiful event, he immediately "
patched a herald to break his contract
friendship with Polycrates. Jfeelin c-'
dout tbe latter would coir.e to an ill v
"as he prospered in everything, ev t
finding what he had thrown away."
The city cf Glasgow owes the ring h
ing salmon figuring in its armorial Leu
to a legend concerning its patron,
Kentigern, thus told into the "Act" '
torym"1 : "A queen, having forrm
improper attachment to a handsotr..- t
dier, put on his finger a precious -which
her own lord had conferred on h
The king, made aware of the fact, but .
sembling his anger, took an oppoi t
in hunting, w hile the soldier lay asleep
side the Clyde, to snatch eft" the l ing
throw it into the river. Then retuit i
home along with the soldier, he den:a- .
cf the queen the ring he tad given I;
She sent secretly to the soldier for the l i:
which could not be restored. In great t
ror she then dispatched a messenger!.);
the assistance of the holy Kentigern. 1
who knew of the affair before bti'. g
formed of it, went to the river Clyde, ;
having caught a salmon, took from
stomach the missing ring, which he .
to the queen. She joyfully went with
tho king, who, thinking he had w rc:
her, swore he would be revenged upon
accusers; but she, affecting a forgivr
spirit, besought him to pardon them,
she had done. At the same time she c
fesscd her error to Kentigern, and sol -ir
ly vowed to be more careful of her cous
in the future.
In loZd, a merchant and alderman
Newcastle, named Anderson, handling 1
ring as he leaned over the bridge, dnpi
it in the Tyne. Some time after, his -
vant bought a salmon in tho market,
whose stomach the lost ring was foui.
Its value enhanced by tho strange in.'
ery, the ring became an heirloom, and m
in the possession of one of tho aldernii.
descendants some forty years ago.
A similar incident, ending in a sim
way, is recorded to have happened to oi
of the Dukes of Lorraine. Chambci
Journal.
Mark Twain os the Sandwich I
lands. Mr. Twain writes as follows t
the editor of the London Standard :
SrR : In view of the prevailing frenz
concerning the Sandwich Island.-1, and tl
inflamed desire of the public to acquire it
formation concerning them, I have thor.i
it well to tarry yet another week in L
land, aud deliver a lecture upon this ;i
sorbing subject. And lest it be thoutrl
unbecoming in nie, a stianger, to come i
the public rescue at snch a time, ins-U m
of leaving to abler hands a matter of
much moment, I desire to explain that :
do It with the best of motives ami the nirs'
honorable intentions. I do it lecause
am convinced that no one can al'.ay ti..
wholesome excitement as effectually as
can ; and to a'.iay it, and allay it as quick
ly as possible, is surely tho one thing tli.
is absolutely necessary at this juuctnre.
feel and know that I am equal to the tasl:
for I can allay any kind of an excitemen
by lecturing upon it. I bare saved man
communities in this way. I have alw.iy
beeu able to paralyze the public in'.cres . r
any topic that I those to take hold of an
elucidate w ith all my strength.
Hoping that this explanation wi" ho
that if lam seeiuing to intrude I am :
least doing it from a high impulse, I
sir, vour obedient servant
London, October 7,
Mark Twain
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