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A U11 IE ELHOW BOOM.
Gooil frien!, trtn't crowd bo Very tight.
There's foe i enough for two :
Keep in jmt miinl that I have a right
To live an well as yon.
You nrh and tfmg, I poor and weak,
Hut think yoit 1 pre'Aumo,
When only tliis iCMir boon I ask
A little elbow room ?
TU such as you, the rich anil strong,
If you but liavc the will,
ConM give tl.e weak a lift along;
And lu.dp him up the hill.
But no you Jostle, crowd and drive,
Vou storm, and fret and fume ;
Are you the only man alive
Iu. want of elbow room?
But Hutu it is on life's ronnd path.
Self rtcoins the tnl of all;
The idronir will crush the weak to deatH,
The big devour the small.
Far bettor be a rich innn's hound
A valet, serf or griHim
That struggles 'mid the masn around,
When we've no elbow room.
Up heart, my hoy! don't mind the shock;
Up heart and push along!
Yonr skin will grow rough ith knocks.
Your limbs with labor strong;
And tluTc's a hand unseen to aid,
A star to light the gloom;
l"p heart, my boy, nor be afraid.
Strike out for elbow room.
And when yon see amid the throng
A fellow toiler .-lip.
Just give him as you pass along,
A brave and kindly grip;
Let noble deeds, though poor you be,
Your path in life illume,
And with true Christian charity.
Give others elbow room.
WHAT CAME OFMAKING PICKLES.
"Well. Love, mv tvwr chiltL' said .1 d'10-
' a r - - - n
nificd old ccii'.lcman. "I have lxked votir
matters all over, and I must say I see noth
ing but starvation for you and your fami
ly." "Well, father," replied a bright little
o run. 11 of twont v-fi vo voars in a. trnmhlinfr
voice. "I've not the least iilca of stArvinir.
nor of letting my family starve not if Ood
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i.ii:n uiy 11C1L11.
"You were always a brave child, Love,
nt this is a terrible crisis. It would be
ruel in any one to taunt vou now. but re
member that I told you and George that it
was very imprudent lor a man to marry
till he had something ahead for an emer
gency." "I remember, father, that you thought
I .should be wiser to many a man with a
house and store, for whom I did not care,
than to marry George, with $2,000 a year.
But if I had the choice to make over again,
to-day, I should do just as I did then. I
wouidii't chango places with any woman
on earth even now."
"Vou are a faithful wife and a brave lit
tle woman, Love, but '
"iJut what, father V'
"Vou can't live on in this way, child."
"IJut I will live, father, and live well too,
and take care of George and the babies."
"How?" Ay, that was the word that
had been ringing in the heart of this brave
little woman ever since the day that her
husband failed at his desk, and was brought
home apparently dying. She knew that
she could rear the pillars of her domestic
btructure herself, but how ?
"Well, Love, I will do what I can for
you," said the old gentleman, "and and
if it were only for you and the babies, I
should say at once, come home, and be as
welcome there as you were four years ago;
but you know the house is so small, we
haven't room for four in it."
Lovo smiled a sad smile, and then said
leihaps a little provokingly "Four of us
would occupy no more chambers than
three ; the babies are too little to bo away
from us at night. IJut if your house were
twice as large, father, I could not take my
husband's own little home away from him,
now that he is sick. I shall have to de
cide soon and will let you know my plans."
The respectable old gentleman rose up,
and with his handkerchief polished his al
ready shining beaver, kissed Love, patted
the heads of the babies, and turned to go,
saying "Keep up a good heart, child,
and remember the ravens fed Klijah."
"Well I don't want them to feed mo ! I
prefer to feed myself," replied the spunky
litUo woman, who felt it was rather hard
iu her father to discourage her and then
exhort her to "keep up a good heart."
She loved the old man, although he was
tiir and narrow in his views, and never
forgot any slight ollered bis judgment.
She followed him to the door and said
"Good bye, father ; give my love to moth
er," although the real mother, who would
have found room enough in her heart and
home for them all, had been for years iu
tho grave.
It was twilight, and as the old gentleman
was going down tho step, a young man
came up. . ,,
"Ah, good evening, good evening, sa.a
tho stout, good naturod hotel keeper to
uoth, and then added to Love, "Hero I am
on the old borrowing business. My wile
says ehe can't please tho lawyers m court,
since the time you and she changed pickles
and honey. Old Squire Watts called out
the minute he sat down to supper come,
Bruce, borrow omo of that neigbbor
pickles for us.' Them pickles is a stand
ing joke among them. Why can't nobody
in town make pickles and catsup and
chow-chow like yourn ? My wife's a cook
in, iu.9i ,n I.wai1 and meats and
1 Uikw la a-w -r- v v
i pastry and cake, but she ought to 'prentice
herself to you on some things.
Love, who had known Bruce all her life,
smiled and said :
"I will give you ajar with all my heartj
Mr. Bruce, and that won't half pay your
wife for the nice things she has sent to poor
Cleorge. I have my cucumbers already
now to make my next year's pickles, and
I yet have two or three jars left."
"Suppose you make a bargain, Mrs Bart.
I'll buy two barrels f the best Boston
price, if you'll make them for me, and
chow-chow and catsup, too."
Love laughed and the hotel keeper went
with her to get the jftn The old man went
down the street whispering with a sigh
"The Lord knows who's going to feed that
family. I can't do it, for wife says 1 can't,
and she knows everything, most; and Lre
is terrible obstinate."
"Well, the hotel keeper ran back tbe next
moment with his pickle jar, as happy as
some men would have been to find a nugget
bf gold that size, for he had a rival who
kept tho old tavern, and he wanted to keep
nil the lawyers who' came there to hold
court as his customers.
Love had a lorig talk with her husband
that night. The next day an old school
friend, who had always been likb a sister,
came to stop with the sick man and to look
Bftcr the babies, and she went to Boston
ten miles away, in an early train wftti a
neat little basket in her hand. If any one
had been near enough when she put her
little basket on the platform of the depot
with such spirit, ho might have heard her
whisper :
"See if my family starves while I am
alive and in my health !"
The day was lovely, and everybody on
tho streets and on the cars looked cheerfti!
and happy. Of course there were sick, and
lame, and blind, and deaf people, but
heaven was keeping them out of her sight
that day, and bringing before her only
happy grown folks and merry little ones.
The streets looked so clean and the air
seemed so pure that she charged herself
with having often borne false witness
against the beautiful as she ran with tight
heart through Washington, Tremont and
Court streets, and Bowdoin square, first to
a store and then to a hotel. In each place
she asked for the proprietor or the steward
and opened her basket, drew out three lit
tle glass jars of what the hotel keeper at
home had called "your thiugs." In one
minute she told her business, and the ne
cessity that brought her out on it.
Her cheerful face, her prompt manner,
and her well chosen words gained the vic
tory for her. She went back at night pledg
ed to supply home-made pickles, chow
chow, and catsup for three hotels and five
large groceries and she whisjiered as she
mounted the steps of her little home, "I'll
show f.ither whether or not we are going
to starve."
Her cheerful story of success did more
for her poor, disheartened young husband
than a eck of old school pills or four tiny
new school ones could have done. The
Very story of an old woman's poke bonnet,
which was worn one sided in the car to
blind one eye, and of the silly airs of a
silly bride, and of a boy with two guinea
pigs buttoned into his jacket for safe trans
ixntation, really brightened the hope of
life in his heart, and after partaking of a
nice suppe r prepared" by their pretty friend,
he said :
"Now, girls, I feel as if I was going to
get about again, and this is the first time
I have had any hope."
Love kept away from her falhei till she
had visited two market gardens in the out
skirts of the town and engaged a great
supply of cucumbers, onions, pepiers, and
tomatoes, and had brought back the strong
girl she had at first felt obliged to dismiss,
to help her in her new work.
But if you could only have eeen the size
of the old gentleman's eyes, and the stylo
of mouth ho got up, aud heard his exclam
ation :
"Why, Love, you are crazy ! "What
will your mother say 7 You surely forgot
that her first husband was president of
tl,e L National bank, and that I am
cashier of it ! Who ever beard of a bank
officer's daughter making pickles for tav
erns and groceries ?' '
"Who ever heard of a bank officer's
daughter sitting down aud starving when
trouble comes ?" replied the little lady.
"Why don't you teach music ?"
"Because I don't know enough."
"You migbt keop a few very genteel
well, not just boarders, but friends w;ho
don't care to keep house, but who would
pay largely ?"
"Where are they, and wherc's the house
and furniture for them ?"
"O, that's true ; but you might eh ?
or you might eh?" and here his wits
failed him ; there are so few grand things
that people can do in the hope of cheating
others into the belief that they are work
ing for fun rather than from necessity.
But soen the old gentleman added it was
the truest words he ever uttered; "I de
clare, I am afraid to go home, lest it has
reached your mother's cars."
The proud woman soon heard of it, and
she talked angrily about what Mrs. Adams
and Mrs. Col. West, aud purse proud Miss
Allen would say, and she was almost in
clined to think it would be better to give
Love $500 than to be disgraced in society.
"Love wouldn't take any money," re
plied the old man, whose attitude during
tho conversation was that of one caught
in a cutting hailstorm without an umbrella.
"Dreadful independent for anybody
that's penniless," cried the old lady.
Love and her stout helper went to work
at once, and very soon the china closet,
and next the neat little dining-room, were
filled with glass jars through which tiny
green cucumbers and onions and every
thing else nice in that line was peeping)
or, as Love said; "smiling on th family."
The business went on bravely, and in
one year Love's husband, who WftS par
tially restored to health, forsook the bed
and took charge of It, and she went back
to the nursery every good mother's place
When Piovideuce does not call her out of
it.
This ts no pretty fiction to teach young
folks that "where there's a will there's a
way' It is a true story of a brave 15tt'e
woman, and we can tell you the street and
the number of a large store in a certain
City, tot far away, where her enterprising
husband has built up a lnrge business and
made hot a little money.
He says that if Love had never learned
to make pickles, or had been too proud to
make them for others in his dark time, he
should have been iu bis grate five years
ago.
Who thinks less of her for doing it ?
A SiKtnkiriff JUachinei
This is an age of invention and there is
n knowing what a day may bring forth.
Prominent edhcators hate for years ran
sacked their brains and consumed midnight
oil to devise softie method whereby the
youthful student, tb tirchin with thick
soled pantaloons, could be chastised, as
the gravity of his offense might demand,
without inflicting a more severe punish
ment upon the lady teacher's hand than
upon the child. Previous to the invention
of this machine the principals of scboole
have wept to see their assistants go rodnd
With their arms in slings from the effects
of punish'ng pupils. In many cases excel
lent teachers who loved their calling have
been compelled to resign their jiositions
because they had too much on their hands.
The matter has been discussed at the
various institutes, and it has been almost
decided to adopt capita! punishment in
stead of the time-honored taking across
the knee, when tho inventor' of this ma
chine steps in, and, by a simple device,
saves the livesof many valuable youngsters.
The heart of tho inventor was touched by
seeing a frail school-ma'am with her right
hand swelled up to the size of a canvas
ham frorrt agitating a boy who had wicked
ly placed a piece of clapboard inside of his
pants when he knew that the teacher was
on the war-path after him. The teacher
was weeping, and mentally saying she
would run that boy through a threshing
machine before she was done with him.
The idea at once struck the inventor
that a machine could be constructed that
would tan as lt were tho young reprobate,
and. as the result of careful thought and
study the spanking machine was invented.
What a change ! Instead of dreading the
task of punishing scholars and shivering
at tho prospect of blistered hands, the
teacher can enjoy the performance and look
forward to the hour for doing up a day's
spanking with a feeling of pleasure and
gladness, and the frown formerly stereo
typed on the face of the average school
ma'am gives place to an angelicjsmilo.
She scats herself at tho instrument, after
placing the condemned urchins in a row
within reach of the hoisting apparatus or
ice-tongs, aud then smiles, touches the
snatchbrake with her foot, and the doomed
urchin is launched into if not eternity, he
w ill think so before that hand lets up on
him. With a smile playing over her fea
tures she works her tiny feet, the avenging
hand descends, and the old machine works
as though endowed with life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. It will only take
a moment of treading to make any ordi
nary boy sorry ho enlisted, when he can be
dropped, and the next can be snatched. A
whole school can be spanked up in fifteen
minutes, if the teacher is anything of a
treadcr.
Too Thin. A correspondent of the
Courier-Journal aays of the Kentucky wo.
mn ;
"There is nothing they don't know, and
what they don't know they divine. A roan
cannot creep in a little late at night with
out a disturbance and an explanation,
w hich coraes of their training! Even Sly
buck, who is the smartist of 'smart Alecks,'
has learned also the futility of his best
tricks. Tho sick-friend dodge; the all-nigbt-in-the-country
dodge ; the naoeting-of-council
dodge ; coming-home-from-the-market-with-a-brace-of-chickens
dodge; ail
the old shifts and expedients have played
out. The other night he slipped in about
one o'clock, very softly, denuded himself
gently, aud began rocking the cradle by
the bedside, as if he had been awakened
out of a sound sleep by infantile cries. He
had rocked away for five minutes, when
Mary Jane, who had silently observed the
w hole mauocuver, says, 'Come to bed, you
old foul, you ! the baby ain't there !' "
On the skeeter, the beautiful skocter,
filling the air with melodious metro. Un
der our hat, aud tickling our nose, taking
a bite through a hole in our clothes ; in
through the window, opening the door,
coming in myriads and oftentimes more ;
fillinglhe chamber aud singing the sweet
er, ever is found the untiiuig rnuskeeter.
THE DEAD JLL.IVE.
On the 6th of August, in the year 1600,
Wrtt'am riarrison, the steward of a wealthy
lady in Gloucestershire, mysteriously disap
peared, lie had left home in order to col
lect rents'; so, when days and weeks past
without his returning; or anything being
heard of him, suspicions ot robbery and
murder became rife among his friends. Itl
the neighborhood there lived a poor fahiily,
consisting of a mother and two sons Perry
by name of whom the mother bore but an
indifferent character, and one of the sons
was half-witted. It is supposed that the
numerous reports which were in circulation
with regard to liarrisdn unsettled what
brain this poor idiot bad, for he actually
went before a justice of the peace and de
posed to the murder of Harrison by hi
brother while his mother and himself
looked on and afterward joined in robbing
him. On this testimony the three were sr
tested, and, at tbe following assir-es, doubly
indicted for robbery and murder. The
presiding judge, Sir Charles Turner,- re
fused to try them on the inrder indictment
as the body had not been found; they were,
however, arraigned on the charge of rob
bery, and pleaded guilty, on a vague im
pression that their lives would he spared.
While in prison, John (the half-wit) persist
ed in the charge he had made, adding that
his mother and brother had attempted to
poison bim for peachingi At the next as
sizes, Sir Robert ITyde, in consideration of
the non-appearance of Harrison, tried them
for ffmrder. On this trial John retracted
the accusation, declaring that he was mad
when he tnade it, and knew not what he
said. Those were, however, tbe "good old
days" when stealing a penny-loaf, "or tbe
presumption of having stolen a penny-loaf,
was a capital oflenfe in England, and when
"Wretches hanged that jurymen might dine."
The mother and both the sons were sen
tenced to death and died protesting their
innocence.
After these poor victims of ignorance had
lain in the grave for three years the mur
dered Harrison suddenly reappeared on the
?tr;ets of Gloucester! a letter to fMr
Thomas Overbury, he accounted for his
long absence by stating that, on returning
home after the receipt of the rent, he was
set upon by a gang of crimps, who forced
him to the seashore, where they hurried
him on ship-board and carried him off to
Tut key. There they sold him as a slave
to a physician, with wlmm he lived for
nearly two years, when, his master dying,
ho made his escape in a Hamburg vessel
to Lisbon, and was thcuee conveyed to
Fitiglandj
Blame in this instaficc Could not possi
bly attach to the missing steward ; but
what can we think of the heroine of anoth
er story an hfliress whose uncle was at
once her guardian and her heir-at-law?
One day. wheu he was carrecting htr fo
fnime often se, she was heard to say, "Good
uncle, do not kill me," after which she
could not be found ; whereupou the uncle
was committed upon suspicion of murder,
and admonished by the justices ef the as
size to lind out the child by the next as
sizes. Against this time, having failed to
find her, he brought another child like her
in years and person, and appareled like
the missing heiress ; but an examination,
she was found not to be the true child.
Upon these presumptions (which were con
sidered to be as strong as facts that ap
pear ia the broad face of day), he was
found guilty andVexecuted. But the truth
was that the child, having been beaten,
had run away, and afterward, when she
came of age to have her land, appeared
and demanded it, aud was directly proved
to be the true heir.
Nothing is more remarkable in these
ca.scs than the facility with which juries
convicted aud judges coudenined on the
slightest possible grounds of evidence.
One sickens as one reads, for we cannot for
get that, in tho agony of degradation which
accompanies judicial murder, it is far more
terrible than that which leaves reputation
stainless, though it takes life. How much
innocent blood cries to God from scaffolds
which have been erected in the name of
Justice we can never know "till the secrets
of all hearts shall be revealed," aud those
who have condemned shall stand before
that mighty Judge whom no influence cau
corrupt, nor prejudice mislead. Appleton.
noi.v SriRiT Plaxt. There is growing
in tbe garden of W. B. Ludlow, iu this city,
a speciooan of the jreUria alata, or, as it
is commonly known in its native country
(Central America), El Epirito Santo, or
Holy Spirit plant, from the fact that when
the flower is fully open tho fructifying col
umn iu the centre, with its surrounding
anthers and the projecting glands of pollen
mosses, shows a striking resemblance to a
dove, the emblem of the third person in the
holy trinity. The specimen that flowered
in Woodward's garden some two years ago
attracted much attention, and many visit
ors were daily in attendance while it was
in bloom. The specimen here is just throw
ing up its first tlower-stem, and hopes are
entertained that it will be blooming during
the State fair. It is a semi-parasitical plaut
or bulb, growing upon other plants, but not
penetrating their substance nor absorbing
their juices, as is the case with a real par
t&itA.Sftcramento IUcord.
Short-armed beaux w ill be glad to hear
that tight-lacing ia coining in vogue again.
IV ho Should "Go West.'
ADVICE FRO 0E WHO TIAS BfeEN THERE.
Ow'ng to th Stringency of money mat
ters, the consequent lack of business in all
departments, &C., tit., mntfy, it is said, are
rushing to the west w hefe lands are cheap,
and where it is upiosed every one can raise
his own living. Thia in ft word is very plaus
ible, but there are pla-u facts which tbfe
werd docs not convey to the inexoerienccd.
After a residence of years in Jflinr-K aha!
the Territory of Colorado, Mr. P. WtJght
writes to the Philadelphia ledger to give
his ideas of the kind ef person w ho should
"go west." He says:
The laboring man does as well, and gen
erally Bpetikincr, better here than in any
part of the west. 1 he mechanic, a limited
number, may do better, always depending
upon the demand in the western cities. A
run n poasessed of a few thousand can do
much better in the west than here, for the
simple reason that bis money will bring bim
larger returns. To-day money brings two
to three ier Cent, per month, with security
on real estfctej covered by deed of trust and
heavy forfeiture, in case of default of pay
ment at maturity.
Lands may be bought of the railway cor
porations at moderate figures, on live to six
years' time, at a moderate interest f n de
ferred payments. Can homestead fiom 80
to 1(H) acres of the government, at a.cost of
from $18 to $32. AO as fees. Can pre-empt
!0O acres at fium $1.-35 to$2.AP peracre, and
obtain a light by planting trees, and show
ing a bona tide intention to settle aud im
prove the land so settled.
This land is undulating prairie in tvansas
and Colorado, and can be cultivated te ad
vantage only by irrigation. The land lies
generally fret 20 to 40 or more feet above
tbe river level. The streams have a fall of
about seven feet to the mile. It is neces
sary to construct ditches or canals, varying
in length and volume, to water this land,
as it ts connarativcly worthless without
such watering, being a dry sandy loam,
which, with a bountiful supply of the fluid,
yields immense crops of vegetables and
grain that cannot be excelled by the famous
vallelrs of the Nile and theae croj sell
readily at Lome at highly remunerative
prices.
The land is barren of timber. Money is
needed to build your hotiso your fences
to construct your ditches, and to sup!y
your liv'ng for at least one year. All ont
lav no income.
"The ditches cost from $500 to $1,000 per
mile, and vary from 15 to 40 miles in length.
The construction of these and other pub
lic improvements make the colonization
schemes desirable while they afford cheap
transporation the railway companies ma
king redactions for cumbers. The moun
tains and mines aie as uncertain, if not
more so, than the farming land. There be
ing Imt a limited quantity of land that
which lies contiguous to the streams
which can be cultivated, it must rise in
value very rapidly after settlement.
For the invalid and tourist Colorado of
fers the best inducements. I have seeu
cutes effected that seem marvelous. Con
sumption in the incipient stages, dyspepsia,
fever and ague, and all kindred diseases,
yield to its climatic effects. Consumpt i ves
in the latter stages last but a short time in
Colorado.
Stock raising-boTMrs and cattle will bv
conie the great industry of the plains, yield
ing, surely, from 50 to 80 per cent, profit
otdiuarilv. Any person intending to re
move to the Middle Wect Would do well to
Consult parties who are willing to tell the
whole truth concerning the countiy. It is
a dreary desert now, and will be until the
skilled husbandman has reduced it with the
plow, and made the tree and vine to nour
ish, as has been done at the smiling little
towns of Evans and Greeley, about flfty
miles north of Denver.
A IIcmax Machihr. The Paris corres
pondent of tbe Baltimore Gazette writes :
A curious phenomenon can bo witnessed
in the Saint Anthony Hospital. A young
mnti, a singer in a cafe concert, was wound
ed during the war in the head by a ball,
which struck his skull obliquely over the
left ear, cariying away six iuches of the
bone and exposing the brain. He was re
lieved, Hit at the cost of paralysis of his
right side ; this was cured in time, and he
was enabled to resume his usual mode of
life. Some weeks ago his nervous system
became so deranged that he was admitted
into the hospital. Hisattackof the nerves
lasts about thirty hours, during which
time he is a living automaton ; unconsci
ous of surrounding circumstances and in
sensible to all pain. Place him on his feet,
and he walks ; seat him in a chair, put a
pen bctweeu his fingers aud he displays
the want to write, and sk3 for ink and
paper ; supply him with a cigarette paper;
he will senrch for tobacco and will make
tho most jierfect cigarettes. He executes
the movement w ithout any sign of consci
ousness or impatience ; remove the arti
cle twenty times from him, he displays no
anger, but quietly recommences his work.
He can bo made to sing some of his songs
when he is supplied with a pair of white
gloves ami a newspaper for a sheet of
music lie has a ruoiioinania for theft,
for he jockets everything he can lay hold
of, but shows no signs of being discon
tented when tho articles are taken from
hiin.
An Accomviodatino Journalist. A
local editor iu Pc-kin, 111., introduced him
self to the public a few days ago as follows:
"Sensational, distressing details of re
volting murders and shocking suicides re
spectfully solicited. Bible-class presenta
tions ar.d ministerial donation parties will
be 'done1 with promptness and dispatch.
Keno banks and their operators made a
sijeeialty. Accurate reports of Sunday
school anniversaries guaranteed. The lo
cal will cheerfully walk seventeen miles
after Sunday-school to see and report a
prize-fight. Funerals and all other melan
choly occasions written up in a manner to
challenge admiration. Horse-races report
ed in the highest style of the reportorial
art. Domestic brails and conjupil infeli
cities sought for with untiring avidity.
Police Court proceedings and sermons re
ported in a manner well calculated to as
tonish the prisoner, magistrate and preach
er. Prompt paying subscribers and good
advertisers, when stricken with mortal ill
ness, will be cheerfully interviewed, while
lying at dvth's door, with a view to ob
taining obituary items, and the greatest
pleasui-rt will lx; taken in exposing the pri
vate affairs of everybody to the critical
gaze of an interested public."
t'oMf T Mot staIs. The editor of the
Borax Minor (NcvadaA grows enthusiastic
over CVmct Mountain, in California. It is
the great land mark f 5o:itheru Nevada,
and from its crest a clrar v'ew is i.l.taiuid
from the Sierras almost to alt Lake Val
ley. To the north the old Toiyabc range
tower blue and solemn, Castie Peak, the
cliffs of Mono, and old Whitney, the loft
iest of the tieiras, are seen, near a Lost of
lossct heights McGregor. Alula, Silver
Peak; White Pine, Bed Mountain. Tim
ber 1 1 ill and Candaleia. To the south
rises domes and pyramid, and old Kear
sargc Mai.d sentinel over It.deju'tideiico.
Below sleeis the terrible Death Valley to
the so:ith anil southeast. Beyond Cerro
Gordo arc seen Pa nam i tit aud Telescope,
the southern range receding in smoke in
the furthest verge of Death Valley. Of
this view the Miner says :
"Though we haTe looked down nport
Yosemite Valley from both ff its walled
mountain t-ides, and hare seen the Bridal
Veil swaying as a Woof cf silver before the
r.ephyr breeze in the golden beams of the
descending sun; watched the dashing Mood
from Vernal Falls ar.d its colored spray ;
have gazed upward to behold at noonday
the waters if Merced tva.sh down the face
of Nevada Falls a thousand feet, and at
evening have admired the swoop of water
from Yosrniito, poured from its urn on high,
guarded by Sentinel Captain. Thrte Broth
ers, Inspiration. North nnd South Domes,
cliffs, rocks and mountains where clouds
rest yet from Comet Mountain the sweep
of vision is jramh But it is not alone to
the distant we look, Imt the near. To the
west, almost leneath our feet, great chasms
Yawn, deep and fearful, where no human
foot hath trod, dread alid desolate as if
blasted by an earthquake shock and scat
tered by volcanic fires."
A Liteuarv CviuosiTT. A Hungarian
exile, Dr. Galor Naphegyi, residing at
Washington, has just executed a very curi
ous nnd beautiful piere of Chirography in
tended as a letter of condolence to Mrs.
Taylor, relict of the late President. The
whole wotk was done with i-en and ink, on
a sheet of paper 5 feet long by 7 broad. It
contains eighteen poetical inscriptions, in
as many different language find a like
ness of Ccneral Taylor, in which outlines
of the face and whole person are formed
of written portions of the biography and
sentiments of tbe deceased. His hair is
composed of these words, so disjvsed as
at a little distance to apjear q-.irte natur
al: "In the battle field amidst the sound
of cannon, the drums and trumpets, the
hurrahs of the siege, and the sighs of
the wounded, my locks became whitened.'
The eyes, v:.: "My glnrce was ever
forward to the Father iu Heaven, and for
the llepublici"
The nose is composed of tbe fo!?owlftg
words : "I breathed the air of liberty in
any other air I could not exist."
The mouth is composed from bis last
words : "I have always endeavod to do
my duty. I am not afraid to die."
The neck : "Not proud, only in being S
Son of the Republic"
The shoulders : "With pleB'ire I hn0
borue the great duties with which the na
tion has so greatly honored me."
The rest f the pot trait is l:i'ed up in a
similar manner, and a1! ii surrounded by
likenesses of 7ashington, Tell, Frederick
Batbarossa, Alexander the Great, Draco,
and others. The whole is signed by the
President ind members of Ixith Houses of
Congress, and i? to be presented iu the form
of a memento from thetn to the widow cf
General Taylor
llow Mosf.s Axn Pattfi:son Were
FutoHTr.y'KP ttv a Paktvof Hfktf.rs.
A good torr is told by 6omC Sorfth Carr.
lina gentlemen who arrived in Washington
City a day or two ago. It seems that
John J. rattornn, cx-Compt roller Noayle,
and Gov. Moses were out on a ramping
tour near tho Georgia border a few days
ago, and a party of gentlemen were out fox
hunting in the neigh hood having a
merry time. Tlioy made a great noise,
blowing h ns and shouting- tt the dogs,
and the neorofs took fright and ran into
the town Wild with fear. They nqorU-d
that five hundred Geo'rgia Kukhix were
coming to lynch Gov. Moscr atid Senator
Patterson. They told a marvelous story
alMiut the fierceness of the coming klan,
how they were skinning pickauninnies alive
and roasting wenches at the stake, and
playing the devil generally.
Jl'fvs. Patterson, and Ncagle thought
their time had come sure enongh, aud that
they were about to get their just deserts at
the hands of the enraged Georgians, and
they cut and run for the nearest mil'taiy
jost. Here they begged and beseeched
the commandant for an escort, bat the
Colonel cruelly declined to favor thetn. In
tho moment of supreme fear Patterson
shaved off his teard, disguised himself,
and mounting a licet horse fled at John
Gilpin's speed for iufe quarters. He'uever
stopped running until he reached Charles
ton, and then only long enough to make a
few hasty preparations for a long absence,
and came straight through to Washington.
I saw him to-night with a clean shaved
face, looking like he had made a wonder
ful haii breadth escape.
A Prolific Canary. A business man
on Essex street. New York, has a pair of
canary birds that seem to believe in lare
families. The rerord of this worthy pair
for 1ST shows well thus far. On the ith
of January the mother bird commenced u
lay eggs, and iu four days she had four
eggs iu the net ; none of them wvre pro-duoiivc-.
lb- '''"" f February sho
Commenced laying another four, which
were not hatched. On the 25th of March
she laid the first egg of the third four, two
of which produced little birds, which only
lived a few days. On the C?th of April he
began a nest of five egS four of which
became birds. tu tbe "JOth of May she
laid the first of si more eggs, aud rive of
them were hatched. On the 20th of Jf.no
she commenced another batch of five eg-F,
.'our of which were hatched. On the 2 uh.
of July she btau again ar.d laid au egt;
daily for fr-ix u.is, and on these &iie ii suit
Milting. Thus we have a total amount of
thirty-four eggs, ufieen offsprings, thirtr!u
living and seven of theiu singer., and six
egos to b heard from.
If anybody has a single pair of canaries,
that has made a belter aliow Lug, let i hoar
the story.
Once friendless and alone, a Delawr.ro
woman now has a husband and twenty
three children. This shows how ouo truo
ftiLid Ivada to many.
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